skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are they the best developers, and if so how do you measure that?

> Great programmers use vim or emacs
This another form of No True Scotsman, and not a valid argument.

> because the imagery in their mind is far more powerful than anything an IDE could display

How do you know, and how do you measure this? Surely, you would admit that Vi and Emacs are better than pen and paper, or punch cards, right? So does it not follow that Vi and Emacs could be improved upon? Or are they the pinnacle of inputting instructions into a computer? If they are which one is better? Why? How do we measure that?
OMG. Rome terminal 5 (I think) is the worst. Good luck even finding a seat, because each gate only has a handful of them even for large international flights, forcing almost everyone to stand or sit on the floor. The idea seems to be to force you to walk around through the maze of Gucci, Bulgari, etc. stores cluttering the terminal until you pass out on the floor clutching a oversized Toblerone.
After seeing a popular indie game developer connect directly to MySQL from his game [1] - nothing surprises me anymore.

[1] http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?noseen=0&thr...
That's true, but it's also true that labor is a party as well, as are many NGOs.

If you think about it, it's not very practical to craft a trade agreement with no input from industry. You just want to be very selective about which industries get to provide input and when.

The "democratic safeguard" part of this process should occur at the end, when unfair or broken trade agreements are unceremoniously rejected by legislatures. If legislatures did their jobs, the incentives to manipulate trade agreements would vanish: it would be a whole lot of time and effort spent for nothing.
people want to ala carte their entertainment even today and many will do it even it cost them more.
I think that number being high, if anything, demonstrates that they don't currently need to provide monetary compensation.
I'd say it's more like they turned off the game after the opening cut scene. This doesn't really qualify as a fumblebrag because they didn't actually start.

They assume that funding was in the bag already, that the product would get built on time (or at all) and that even 1 person would sign up. Maybe they would, maybe they wouldn't.

They were right about one thing though, the timing was fortunate that it was squashed just a little past the idea stage.
Very few people.
Maybe the project can take inspiration from projects that use run tests for each pull request, before merging.
I've added some thoughts on how to be a good villain to the wiki:
https://github.com/enomic/enomic/wiki

Rule #1 is to stay covert
on OSX I use Spectacle, a simple window management tool, which would allow you to put a window in the top left, right, etc corners. Ubuntu - IIRC - has it by default, but it may depend on packages / window managers. Windows probably has something similar too; windows+left/right does a thing at least in windows 7, that much I remember.

I never really bother though, too much effort. I like things to stay front and center. With XCode, even a 27 inch cinema display doesn't give you enough screen real estate (assistant editor, all sidebars, etc)
So they want to buy a DVR, pay for a DVR OS, pay for a DVR browser, pay for a DVR movie store, and then finally pay for a movie to rent on the DVR?
How old are you? The social unrest is going to come way before people are walled off in ghettoes. If, like me, you are a programmer earning 6 figures, you may not feel rich,but you are certainly perceived that way by the increasing number who are struggling.
Reminds me of

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fountains_of_Paradise
In my world this is mostly irrelevant. I use GDocs for word processing and spreadsheets. For presentations it's Prezi. (Disclaimer: I work for Prezi.)
I remembered when Facebook first debuted and people were slowly migrating away from MySpace and LiveJournal. Facebook did have a blogging feature which I used, but then Facebook starting hiding useful old features (Notes, Events, Photos, Groups, etc) as they focused more on status updates and I quickly stopped blogging with Notes.

Funny to see Facebook come full circle on so many bad decisions made during their "copy Twitter, make everything public" phase.
All too easy!

Relativity tells us that disturbances in the pole cannot move faster than the speed of light. Therefore the time it takes to find out that your pole hit something is O(n), since the location of the tallest element will be on average halfway down your line.

Of course, there's the much more obvious problem that "arrange the sticks in a line" requires manipulating each stick, and is thus O(n)!
"Along the way, we learned an enormous amount about building a startup, pitching potential investors, and things such as cap tables, term sheets, Series A rounds, company valuation. It felt like a real-world MBA crash course."

You learned everything about building a startup except building a profitable, sustainable business. Everything else is secondary.
I think, we all should tip to buy a vacuum book scanner for Mr Scott, if he shall decide to digitize manuals. You won't believe how useful this library will be for the folks in the field.
Reminds me of when my dad and his colleagues researched a radical new technique to create solar sells at minuscule costs. In the end the physics proved the hypothesis would never work, which was like putting a sign at the start of a road labeled "DEAD END." No sense getting our hopes up until the science backs up the theory.
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I agree. The reason game guides make money at all is because they have shops like Gamestop pushing those guides with every purchase. Not many a gamer is going to pay even $5 for a video guide they have to watch the entirety of if they just want to know how to do X thing when that's freely available in multiple forms elsewhere. For specific things gamefaqs and achievement guide videos are already a well established free "product".

A business is not just "people want X." It has to at least fit the "ENOUGH people want X and are willing to pay for it or are valuable enough as users in order to be sold to advertisers." The morality of that can be debated to death and isn't very interesting, but the reality of it is something we seem to miss a lot.
The one thing I don't like about this article (and indeed, much of the discourse around the Pocket integration) is its characterization of the Pocket integration itself. It calls it an “opt-out non-removable [extension]”. The truth is that you can easily disable it just as you can easily disable many other things that Firefox includes by-default. In fact, if you use Classic Theme Restorer (I use it not because I dislike australis, but because I really do not want a navigation toolbar), it has an option baked in to disable Pocket along with webrtc, et al.

Admittedly, I suppose it would be nice if Firefox actually packaged Pocket as a real extension that could be removed from the Extensions menu, but they have already integrated several things without using that schema.

I still use firefox, just with more and more things disabled, because none of the other browsers out there even come close to having what I need in a GUI browser (though, I would note that I'm evermore tempted to abandon GUI browsing altogether).

Either way, the write-up is great, and everything in the article other than that one characterization (which rubbed me a bit the wrong way in the wake of all the fevered discussions around the Pocket Integration) was a truly enjoyable read. Not to mention, it's great that the Pocket devs fixed things quickly; that's always a plus!
After kicking and screaming for a while, I do find the law degree interesting.
I think this issue is a turning point in many hackers' lives.
I feel much better now. Thanks for all the help and support you guys showed.
Especially thank you for making me realize that nothing is lost by not majoring in comp-sci. It was really an existential paradox for me.
Fair Tax eliminates the income tax though, which would take care of that completely.
Droidcon NYC: 22% women speakers
Or the 1:1 ratio (=square) screen Eizo had / has; I wouldn't mind that. But ATM with my 16:9 and 16:10 screens (work / home), I don't actually need more vertical real estate.
Asked myself this question more than once...
How do I remove Candy Crush Saga from Windows 10?
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Packaging in packaging: dh-virtualenv (2014)
I'd prefer to simulate this with dots on a screen rather than with planes ;-)
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Does not support the hardware offloading though, so you're not getting the advertised processing speed.
It wasn't the Google who killed the startup, it was the OP. YouTube is already a threat to gaming video services, even without a specialized offering. Still, Twitch took off.

If YouTube was going to be YouTube of gaming, then OP could have been Vimeo of gaming. I mean seriously, if Vimeo could be a profitable enterprise with a free, good enough YouTube, then so could them.

I'm not sure about other people, but events like these are usually more telling of myself than the deterrent. Almost every idea would have extreme challenges on the way. If I was the OP I would conclude that Google brought out my own insecurity about the product to surface. Nobody gives up on the castle they want to live in.

EDIT: The irony here is that he seems to have forgotten how YouTube was successful despite Google Video.
That IP for the metadata is internal to Amazons AWS. Under normal circumstances it isn't exposed to the outside network. Because Pocket is remembering URLs and fetching them for us, it leaks it's own private network in the responses.
> One doesn't usually read the whole thing to learn how to play the game in the most efficient way (unless it's competitive or has complexity on the level of a programming language, like Minecraft).
I'm not sure about game guides, but:

1) Walkthroughs are absolutely not the only type of guide that GameFAQs houses. It has never been only walkthroughs, even from its very early beginnings. The easiest example of this is Fighting games, which will have in-depth strategy and gameplay guides made specifically for each player.

2) GameFAQs has had a forum for ages, which also has this as the primary topic of discussion. It was in fact the first forum that I ever participated in as a young child, along with some #IRC channels.

> I'm unaware of twitch streamers or youtubers who primarily teach how to play a game. Can you point out examples of those? I'm really curious.

You're being facetious. Do you not know how to Google as well? I'm really serious. :edit:In the offchance you aren't feigning ignorance[0]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/user/OneHiveRaids
You don't give up, don't you? As far as I know, my salary is based on slightly less than 30.5 days per month. Anyway, that was not my point and I don't care about that.

You are not addressing my real argument, which maybe originally I did not articulate in a way that you understood. Which is that in the proposed calendar, unless special arrangements are made, at some point people will have to wait 37 days for their salary and will only get ~30 days' salary at that moment. That is the thing that's currently not much of a problem. Whether that gets resolved by reducing the salary over the normal months by a small percentage and introducing an extra payment for that week, or by spreading out the payments over a 30/31-day schedule that ignores the new official months (which I think would be confusing and complicated), or by some other method, I'm fine with that. I did not say I wanted extra money, but it needs to be spread out evenly over the year.
This reminds me of the story of Blizzard seeing Dominion Storm at E3 in 1996. After seeing the demo, they felt like they should kill Starcraft because of how much "better" Ion Storm's demo was than their own.

Turns out is was mostly smoke and mirrors, and Blizzard made an exceptional game because of it.

http://www.codeofhonor.com/blog/starcraft-orcs-in-space-go-d...
Votes are supposed to be anonymous to prevent retaliation or coercion from strong-arming elections. Logging each vote in a robust way is difficult to impossible to do without breaking the anonymity. If you have a time or sequence number on the vote outside monitoring could match votes to people.

Also ATMs are easier to secure physically because they don't have to be particularly portable. Most units are built into buildings and those that are not are placed once and not moved for years. Compare this to EVMs that have to be moved into place and removed again over a day or two because most voting places are used for that day only then revert to some other purpose.
The 1k intro winner was also done in JS:

http://archive.assembly.org/2015/1k-intro/blck4777-by-p01-ri...
No. It may have been smart to let this idea go, but "Google entered the space" is not generally a good reason to give up.

For niche products, small companies are often in a surprisingly good position to compete with Google (or pretty much any giant company).

Advantages small companies have:

* Much easier to change feature/function/benefit and packaging to adapt to the market

* Not competing with revenue from 1000 other internal projects for staffing

* Similarly: can sustain a business with tiny beachhead markets that Google can't waste time capturing

It seems like people immediately realize that Google can own tiny markets (obviously, if you can own the whole market, you should be able to capture any subset of it), but don't realize that in practice Google won't capture small niches, because it's irrational for them to deploy engineers to earn $10 when those same engineers can be deployed to earn $100 somewhere else.

Also: just because you have all the resources of Google doesn't mean you're going to stick the landing on every project you start. On niche products, it's not only possible but actually kind of likely that you can out-execute Google.

That doesn't make live gaming videos a great new startup idea. Just be careful of the logic that says "Google entered a space and so now it's dead".
A Peach of a deal: Seattle lunch delivery service lands $8M in funding
Gaborone, Botswana -> Johannesburg, South Africa.

The year is 2001. I'm fresh out of varsity with a computer science degree and I'm stuck doing copywriting work for an ad agency because there is no semblance of an IT industry in Botswana (still isn't)

I answer a software developer ad in a popular South African newspaper (for some odd reason we used to get them in Botswana too) but slyly leave out my current residential status.

I get an email requesting me to come for an interview in TWO DAYS.

I beg my folks for some cash, hop on a plane and attend the interview, which goes well. The guy interviewing me then says, well, when would you be able to start if we offered you the job. At this point I take a huge gulp and explain that I would have to wait until I get a work permit, which would require the company to submit a substantial amount of paperwork to the department of home affairs, along with processing fees etc etc.

It's only at this point that the interviewer looks flabbergasted that I had flown in from another country just to interview for an entry level position.

Anywho, for whatever strange reason (I suspect they were impressed with my commitment) they went along with it and I was only able to join them some 8 months later after all the paper work was processed.

The company shut down a year later.
This "I didn't know this was happening" excuse doesn't cut it. You don't know because you don't look. As long as you are getting the results you want it doesn't matter if you're demanding people to come back the day after a miscarriage. Listen to any interview with Jack Welch and he'll tell you how accountability of work culture comes straight from the top, and how HR reviews are designed not to ask the right questions. As a random example, there's a huge difference between asking "have you been illegally treated in any way" and "have you been immorally treated". Little changes like that make survey results wildly different, and if management wants they can make employee's say a labor shop is a great place to work.
Huge discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10037157 (2227 points, 7 days ago, 565 comments)
If the choice is testable, you can write a test case for it. B and C don't work because they break the test case; A is required.

If the choice isn't testable in any way, it's not worth commenting on.

In general, in many programs we can find algorithms that could be replaced by better ones (such that no test cases break). There is no need to explain why that is the case; all the various possible reasons for that are obvious, and it doesn't matter which ones of them are true.
Grandfathered in lucrative government contracts.
12 slices pizza:

1649 Calories

64% carbs22% fat14% (58 g) protein

12 slices Pizzax
Critics underestimated the productivity of organic farming
First women graduate from Ranger school
A great point, which I haven't heard anywhere else in this discussion. We the job hunters have the ability to bend the job to our expectation before we start. It's a negotiation, it's an uncomfortable conversation, sure, but it will absolutely pay off no matter what happens in the end. As a bonus, I believe that one gains respect when one speaks up at a job interview and demands what they need to be successful.

Also, this works for every job, everywhere. Very wise advice.
The light cone only matters if you actually move. The accepted idioms from relativity don't apply here.

I think we are just not talking about the same "warp" drive. The version that doesn't violate causality works like this. You are not allowed to accelerate( using normal rockets ) to near c velocity and then warp to a stop to some distant location. This would cause problems. Instead you will end up there with all of your accumulated velocity before the warp. Then you have to come to a stop the same way you accelerated.

In other words, warp will change your location but not your velocity in spacetime.
Some Thoughts on Productivity and the Fed
I opened a co-working space in Seattle [1] last year and closed it down in the same year. I had spent time in several other coworking spaces and was enthusiastic enough to try my hand at it. To bits of caution here:

1) As the owner of a coworking space, your primary function is to be a landlord. You will spend much more time than you like thinking about deposits, pricing, payments, turnover, etc.

2) Building a community is incredibly hard. Harder than most people realize.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20140406200827/http://devlocal.i...?
Fears of financial instability keep demand for banknotes strong
>I have always wondered if Linus was a bit for friendly, would the Linux community have gotten a lot more mainstream faster?

I don't think it would have made a difference. *BSD has never really become mainstream unless you count Apple, which I don't. I think the main barrier to Linux success on the desktop is the fact that in my life I've rarely seen advertisements for Linux, while Apple and Microsoft seem to be everywhere.

I think if a Linux distro had a huge advertising campaign it could actually snag a sizable portion of the desktop market.
How Facebook's Open Source Stack Undermines the Open Web
Human Intelligence Has Declined Since Victorian Era, Research Suggests
65535 * 256 gives 16776960 ... so this is a single C class network.
The qualms I have with this dialogue are the same as before, because CloudFlare has little to no idea how they are going to handle this. JGC tweeted me about how 'Oh, we get so much benefit from LuaJIT being FOSS" but here we have CloudFlare walling LuaJIT into it's own entity on GitHub where I predict commit bits will be few and far between.

More than that, I don't think there has been enough narrative between Mike and the 'new LuaJIT crew' (CF) to determine how the project should be structured. In this thread, agentzh had a fantastic idea to vet somebody through Mike, someone the community knows can be trusted and also is somewhat familiar with the LuaJIT internals, and that person could serve as a canary between the project and CF.

I write a fair bit of Lua for game scripting, and I've even made a few bucks here and there helping folks with their custom plugin ideas etc, but I've never touched C before. Well, when the previous announcement was made, I immediately Amazon'd some C books, which I plan to devour in my free time. At which point I'll be learning Rust, and reimplementing LuaJIT in Rust, and hopefully convince Mozilla to host the git, such that it will be protected from FOSS corruption.

My worst fear is CF taking this project into the shadows, developing it closed-source (which they absolutely have a right to do) and not sharing their insights with the community.

I think everybody with any kind of invested interest in LuaJIT needs to be gearing up right now, such that we can do our parts to keep this project alive.
nginx - uwsqi - postgresql (again, for all three)

> I am personally learning naught right now.

Naught - is that a language or a library?
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You're right, it does sound like they mean it's a forecast. But predicting that kind of revenue (and so specific) when you don't have any revenue at all sounds a bit odd. What's it based on, if not an actual curve of growing revenue?
Check out this video (which I made some time ago), which shows the presentation UI from an application perspective (here a document authoring system) and as a bonus, the application integrates Zmacs (the Emacs of the Lisp Machine)...

https://vimeo.com/83886950

Think of the Documentation Examiner a version of Emacs Info. Think of Concordia as a version of an Emacs buffer editing documentation records. The listener a version of the Slime listener. You can also a short glimpse of the graphics editor, IIRC.
If that's the case, they should be getting a nice tax deduction for the donation, right?
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It's probably more like breathing.
Though they have little in common besides "O-P-E-N" in their name, it's worth noting that OpenWRT works on a lot of Ubiquiti products, too.
Yes. I like it much more than a dual monitor setup.
I also tried 4K monitors and at 27" it's just too small for my eyes. I need to scale up everything anyways so I am essentially getting a 27" 1440p with smoother fonts and more image retention issues.
More screen space on the other hand is real and useful right away.
I disagree.

There is a good reason why we don't use e.g. Tiny C to discuss C performance vs other languages.
SS7 flaw allows hackers to spy on every conversation
very cool. I'm constantly jealous of what you folks have in clojure land.
In certain cases I use target blank myself, but there is some thought in UX design that its often better to let the user decide how to open a link for themselves.
Possess the invention doesn't mean to actually use the invention. Just to fully understand the invention. As opposed to just envisioning an invention in broad strokes. The invention just has to be ready to be used, but that doesn't necessarily mean practically.
Awesome. I read the whole thing without reading the name of the author, so I got to read the whole story without knowing it was written by Ian Murdock
The entire piece also assumes a very naive view of evolution and sexual selection, in that the author views fitness as purely a matter of parental genetics.

Of course, that's false on its face. The social environment surrounding offspring plays a powerful role in the likelihood of survival of offspring.

And that opens the door to myriad new evolutionary pressures that could explain any number of human behaviours, including monogamy (which reduces intrasexual competition).
I see, so just a really tall launch pad?
How many different HR departments?
I dig Sea-Tac's rocking chairs: http://i.imgur.com/mRjp4s8.jpg