skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The tax breaks and special treatment chase states to compete with each other. It's a race to the bottom. It becomes a question of which state is willing to make its citizens sacrifice the most. It is sort like a feudal society.
If you didn't look into it yet, it hardly indicates you know nothing about business. Randomly picking companies to examine further is a perfectly reasonable way of trying to find investments (and what stops you following the crowd).

In my OPINION GoPro's problem is that they haven't diversified in any significant way. Here's a list of products GoPro sells: GoPros (and accessories). That's it.

But this area has hardly been standing still. We've seen drone-cameras take off, including the ingenius ones which follow you (e.g. Lily), we've seen those throw-up 360 degree cameras, smaller versions (e.g. Mokacam), and a near constant stream of less expensive generics which do 90% of what a GoPro can do (and can even use GoPro's accessories).

GoPro had a MASSIVE market lead and still does, but they're squandered much of it on reproducing the same product over and over until the market is saturated.
The development of the Seaport/Fort Point area in Boston in the last 5-10 years is pretty crazy. My wife worked for John Hancock down there when we first started dating about a decade ago and there was nothing down there. Now I got to visit her at her job down there and I get lost half the time with all the new construction that is going up.

Regarding GE the only people this will really impact is the smaller tech companies as I'm sure it'll jack up the office rents even more.
Just on the off chance that anyone else reading this new yorker article clicked on the link to the Buccaneers.pdf file and also found that it 404'd:

Archive.org have a mirror:

http://web.archive.org/web/20081218012123/http://history.byu...
Worth taking a look at the WSJ short interest tables, where GoPro has been for a while: http://online.wsj.com/mdc/public/page/2_3062-nasdaqshort-hig...
Steps to build and scale a culture that go way beyond ping pong
Are you sure of that? Isn't the answer to your question the Catalan numbers, for which this case the answer is 4862?
Who does the "swarm" have this weekend? Are you gonna let it ride??
> What did the average person do with a 1985 computer? There was no internet and they were thousands of times less powerful.

I don't know if this comment should make me feel really old, or if kids today are just totally clueless.
http://www.html-tidy.org/documentation/#part_what
It might not even be that small as it opens up a view possibilities that are not that easy with V8/C++, like using the Engine from Rust or other languages that only provide a C FFI.
> It's not useful as a reference,

I would argue the opposite... When I needed to read about the different approaches on how to shuffle a deck for a card game TAOCP was there for me. When I needed to investigate different approaches for string comparison algorithms, TAOCP was there for me. When I didn't understand what was the deal and why was so hard to implement a random number generator, TAOCP was there too.

Anytime that I needed a reference for a core CS algorithm or data structure, TAOCP worked very well as a reference for me. It feels like the Britannica Encyclopedia for CS.
Not true. The rules aren't as generous as you think. Banks in the US have been covering more than they are legally required.

But what about outside the US?

Also this requires someone to religiously check the credit card statements, there is a time limit in which to report fraudulent transactions. (FYI: this is why I still get paper statements -- to remind myself to check)
The key word the OP mentioned is only:

Here is his example account:

https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=grisanik

All submissions are from one domain, and there are barely any comments.
I don't think there's an issue with OpenBSD adoption.

OpenBSD attracts the type of users they want to support I imagine. Leave it to someone else to push the "Year of *nix desktop" agenda.
Well, consider regulatory capture. In such an environment your view is incorrect. I believe we are in such an environment.
I've got a mixed edition used set. More hours of entertainment than I'll ever get to.
Part of the challenge is that PasS platforms have quite a bit of vendor lock in.

I can foresee the growth of do-it-yourself PaaS, built on Docker, Kubernetes, etc.
Isn't the X part the number 10?

So it would be Mac OS XI :)
> Some countries do not consider employment a right to total ownership of an employee

This isn't about "owning" an employee, this is about owning the equipment which an employee uses against it's explicit purpose (to conduct business).

I don't think many would have an issue with an employee stepping out for a few minutes to handle a personal call. But many would have an issue with an employee phoning friends and chatting during regular business hours instead of doing their work.

The guy in the original story was chatting with friends while at work over MSN Messenger... instead of working.

> And of course in several EU countries you'd be staring down a possible severe consequences for breach of privacy

That's not true in this case. If you have a policy that prohibits personal use of company equipment, and another policy which states clearly all communications are recorded for business purposes, and it's signed by the employee, then it's really cut and dry.
Thankfully it's rather trivial to do.
It's easy to dismiss the contents of their personal email and social media as irrelevant but surely they represent possible attack vectors for extortion or worse.
Sure thing! The service pivots around machines as it's core pilar. On a more fundamental level, we consider a machine to be the set of unique packages tracked together. So for your case, you'd spin up a pilot, run the script, then post the data to us. Since it's a new machine, we'll issue it a UUID, and track billing against that UUID. If you change the packages on a machine? That's a-okay! We'll use the same UUID, and bill accordingly :). When it's time to sunset a machine, use our soon to be released API to remove it, and billing stops!

To be totally honest, we're still working out all the wrinkles of how billing would work, what's fair to users, and how to track your usage, so feedback is greatly appreciated!
To be fair I don't think any of the cheaper knock-off products come anywhere close to the quality that GoPro produces, both in terms of solidness and image quality?
Probably to fix a pretty obvious loophole:

* Obtain degree

* Turn down all jobs for 6 months

* Get refunded, then get a job.
If you think your submissions are being killed unfairly, there is a contact link at the bottom of the page where you can discuss it with the staff. Be sure to mention your actual account to them and not the one you appear to have created just to make vague complaints.
Nvidia blames Apple for GPU bug that breaks Chrome’s incognito mode
Thanks, interesting. These both look helpful. Wonder if I've missed anything else important.
Needs to be faster to keep my attention
I think it's safe to invoke Betteridge's Law here.

Anyone working in this space can tell you that's still the age-old discussion: Wether it was mainframes vs. microcomputers, containers vs. VM's, microservices vs. monolithic applications. Sometimes a particular architecture was preferred, sometimes the other. And none have gone away for good, and none have taken up the market completely. Essentially, the answer depends on your requirements (And the world just isn't binary).

The only thing that's for sure is that distributed systems are here to stay – but how you call the various abstraction layers forming them up really doesn't matter. All that really changes (currently) is the size of the market, or the shares therein.

Some of you might remember that we did the 'cloud' before it was called as such, and while the terms I/P/SaaS weren't known under this moniker, it was already in use.
Is there any indication we will? I really hope so! I enjoyed the AJE content and thought AJA was pretty terrible. It really sucked that they cut off people in the USA from watching AJE everywhere.
This entire thing just could be the most crazy @#$%^&* thing I've ever heard.
Yes ... stages variable : [8, 10, 12, 15, 20, 28, 36]
I'm not saying GoPro is doing this, but many companies will list open positions online in order to collect applications to have on hand, even though they aren't hiring.
It's also probably a fad. There's only so many times filming yourself skiing is compelling.

Faddy product + long term displacement by random Chinese companies for 1/8 price == fail.
What if you watch through a vpn?
main lesson - for a new generation of what would at first look seems like OLTP business, the OLTP pieces like transactional triggers and transactional indexes aren't a requirement anymore. I.e. those requirements seems to go the same way - south - as the transactional consistency of search indexes had went several years ago.
It depends.

It's getting easier to assemble scalable we application out of IaaS offerings. OTOH, writing against, say, Google App Engine is not as simple as writing for Django or Flask. It's, however, educational.
I'm not convinced a wealthy buyer couldn't put together something like HuffPo and get a wider audience for less money.
The subsidy gives GE a competitive advantage over their competition on every contract they bid on, every hire they offer a salary to, every item they sell on the open market.

GE can operate below the margin a fairly competing company operates at, forcing them out of business. The government picked a winner and created losers.
One complaint: "Nanodegree" is awful branding.

"Nano" implies "really small." So am I too understand that this degree will get me a really, really, really tiny bit of knowledge about the subject?

I think using the traditional term "certificate" is a better bet. It's also an easier thing to sell employers since they're already familiar with that language.
Sure we had them.

Carrying them to someone's place and spend the afternoon playing / coding. :)
As someone who lives in a place where minimum wage is ~4 USD/day -> ~120 USD/month. Hell yeah!
I've read Finnegans Wake and view it as almost entirely a waste of time. Maybe that marks me a philistine, but I put a whole lot of effort into the book - reading books about it, listening to two different versions on tape - and it did pretty much nothing for me.

And to the original question, I consider TAOCP probably not worth the time and effort to read in detail. It has a lot of interesting stuff if you have infinite time, but very little that I've found practical to me. I've read enough of TAOCP to get two Knuth reward checks but can't motivate myself to read more than a fraction of it.
Forget SXSW, apps need to prepare for the Holidays
Agreed, who doesn't bring there laptop/phone chargers anywhere where the intend to have even medium usage (airport, car trip, study session , etc).
This is probably because evolution operates on a genetic systematic basis, rewarded by external outputs. Capacity for rational thought is a side effect of this process, and does not necessarily proceed from first principles like much of economics would prefer.
According to the Guardian [0] Obama's phone is specially hardened by the NSA, so maybe not necessarily?

[0] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/28/which-phon...
A good portion of my undergrad CS program used excerpts from TAOCP. So yeah - there's good stuff in there, but maybe it wasn't what you personally wanted. If you've been in industry for a long time, then sure - you've probably developed expertise in areas that TAOCP doesn't cover. But if you are looking for a rigorous, broad, academic base then it is pretty solid.
One day is kind of a sweet spot. Pick it up, go do your daily business, come home and plug it in to recharge, you're good. The chargers live at home unless you'll be gone for more than a day.

More would certainly be nice but smaller/cuter/more powerful generally makes for a better reason to upgrade. Especially when you can just grab a battery you can throw in the bottom of your purse and use to recharge the phone a few times if you really need more juice.
> "but even just looking at actual computer science stuff, the field is expanding rapidly."

Is it though?

Hash tables - 1953, Red-Black trees 1972, Quicksort 1959, etc...
> regulatory capture ... I believe we are in such an environment

I think we'll have to disagree on this. I don't see any signs or evidence that Boston politicians are cozying up with GE executives for kick-backs and what-not.
There are opportunity costs to even joining a startup (the possibility for your job not to exist in a few months, the need to relocate to SF as opposed to a more affordable place or even taking a job near you) that dissuade people who aren't already independently wealthy or otherwise financially privileged (for example, being a Harvard alum with rich parents who can bail you out if necessary).

Starting a startup as a working-class person with the requisite technology skills? Good fucking luck.
So, you forgo 6 months salary, in order to get $3-4k tuition back. I guess if you didn't want to work anyways...
In truth it is an extremely difficult book to read due to its experimental writing style. See for yourself:

https://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/j/joyce/james/j8f/complete.ht...
It's trivial to do when you know which binary to replace (and you have the source code available).

But it's probably not so trivial to hunt down every single old binary on every system. There's also a continuous risk that you may receive old binaries from third parties in the future.

For example, gitlab has started to ship a component written in Go in recent versions. Things like these are easy to forget about.
Look at Knuth's future book plans, and consider all the things he's not putting in them that are current. He's also revisited the books some, and plans to do so again in the future.

I don't mean to take away from the books - they're beautiful and full of a lot of timeless knowledge. There's just something that seems a bit ... I can't even find a word for it ... about the endeavor.
It's far worse than that. It is more like paying programmers for every bug they write a line of code to address. You can bet that every fix for an existing bug would create at least two new bugs. They would call such bugs "side effects" and give you six page handouts and convince everyone that "side effects" are just a necessary evil and less worse than just living with the bugs being fixed by the buggy lines of code introducing the "side effects."
Just curious:

If I would like to write a native extension for a possible Chakra powered node.js, which methods would then be possible?

- Use V8 C++ API
- Use Chakra extension API
- Use NAN
- All of those?

And in your port are Nodes inbuilt native functions (like the libuv based IO functions) still using V8 APIs which are mapped to Chakra by this shim or are they reimplemented directly on top of Chakra APIs?
It was actually just posted yesterday on HN:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/01/12/how-t...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10890736
Did your parents?
to take things in their own direction

And there is evidence that this is true. Node itself has had to make major changes to it's own code to account for unilateral V8 changes, and node really has had no choice but to suck it up and make corresponding changes. They could fork V8, but it's not likely since Google is always going to be able to throw more resources at it.
I personally do find a smart phone 100 times more useful, but that depends on what you use it for. A modern smartphone contains so many different sensors, combined with high-speed mobile access to the information and processing power of the intent that it has a pretty amazing range of capabilities (even if most of those are rarely used).
Eh, for one thing, ideology in journalism can be just as much what you choose to report on as how you report on it. You could find right-wingers who will complain at you all day about how CNN/NBC/whoever spend virtually no time reporting on things which make the current Administration look bad and lots of time reporting on things which make their opponents look bad, and it'll be hard to say they're wrong.

I doubt it's possible for the news to be truly non-ideological for this, and many other, reasons. The best one can hope for is a news organization that is a) straightforward and open about its political viewpoint and b) reports in a sober and accurate manner with a minimum of flinging partisan red meat around. There are a fair number of American news sources that are a), but b) is much harder to come by, especially on television. Given this, I can understand why some Americans flock to the BBC or Al Jazeera or whoever, even if I personally despise their editorial positions.
Is your apple display an actual Cinema display or one of the newer Thunderbolt displays?

I've noticed some issues with the USB hub that is built into the Thunderbolt display whereby for some reason it doesn't enumerate correctly every 40 - 50 plug/unplug cycles while using my MBPr at work. It only happens when the Apple keyboard is plugged into the display, with alternate keyboards it doesn't happen.

So I personally feel like it is an issue with the Apple keyboard.
That makes no sense. GoPro is an actual business, not a dotcom bubble stock. Fucked Company specialized in covering the rapid collapse of dotcoms with no business model.

They've been solidly profitable the last four quarters, and the three years before that - $220 million in net income over that time. They have $500m in cash and zero debt.

How bright is their future? That's a great debate to have. And that's an entirely different question than: are or were they a real business, and will they still be around in a year (obvious answer: yes).
Thanks a lot for the feedback!!! :D

Now for your questions...

Web designers are the target market. Since last week I have been mailing web design blogs, bloggers, etc. Standard promo stuff.

moebius.io uses conventional HTML+CSS code written by me, I still have not completely finished the functionality for the video and form elements. You can be sure as soon as I have those fledged out (mid-summer, couple of months prior to releasing beta) the home page will be published with the app.

If you have any more questions I'll be happy to answer them!
GoPro had been in trouble for a while. The rumor is they've saturated their niche. They also pushed back the release of the 5 which also hurt sales. And with Sony and others entering the market GoPro will have a tough time. I also think some people are putting too much faith in the stone.
Ooh and their session didn't pan out quite like they expected.
It's great work. Constructive criticism can make it even better.
Why?

Is it wrong for boot camps to do that?

I am genuinely asking since I'm not familiar with that. What exactly goes on and why is it bad?
It's worse than that, I think. They had some code that expects input in a certain format, they wanted it to accept input in a variety of other formats, and category theory was apparently necessary to come up with the idea of a format converter from each new format to the original format. Extremely basic. Trying to pretend it's a CT application is just pretentious in the extreme.
Me and my mates are big users of GoPro cameras. We use them for spearfishing, kitesurfing, surfing and filming our kids at the beach.

GoPro seem to be going towards smaller cameras (good) higher res (who cares - the camera lens is crap and fogs and is covered in water drops 90% of the time) and drones (who cares)

What we want is more data overlaid on the video or perhaps stored along with the video stream. Things like, depth, altitude, speed, G-force, GPS. From a random user.

[edit] I guess you guys may not be aware of Woo and Xensor which are gadgets you clip to your kiteboard, these measure GPS, jump height, speed etc. These are not sync'd to the video (they are different gadgets) but someone needs to make this work somehow. Not sure how they measure jump height in amongst the waves... it's all pretty neat.
Aside, how come anything remotely questioning of Microsoft when there's an announcement is met with downvotes?

I don't think it is. However, I'll downvote criticism that isn't actually based on anything other than "well, you know, it's Microsoft so they won't", "remember extend, embrace, extinguish?" or "M$", etc. etc.

Criticism with actual backing is fine.
They're almost all standard CMOS camera sensors, so depending on what you're wanting to do (action images, streaming video, etc.) you should compare on those features.
It verifies that the beginning of a file is mp4 format. I'm actually running go 1.6 which does have the mp4 sniffing enabled.
IMHO (as a user, but one that you'll often find in the new-queue) what is critical here that

a) none of these got any user engagement (ok, some got an upvote or two and a single one actually managed to attract a comment)

b) despite this, there is a constant stream of several submissions per week

c) the user didn't comment on other articles, but just "dropped off" their content

EDIT: regarding the last edit: I don't care for Musk-news either, but if it is not spammed and not duplicate I have no reason to flag it, and apparently enough people care to upvote it. I upvote if people submit something cool they made. Others do as well, the stuff many people find cool rises. "I just added a tiny boring feature to my boring app", not so much.
I've read the first volume. I do not have a math-heavy background. Knuth's dry humor is great. The scope and effort put into the books are astounding.

I did not learn much of practical use for my day-to-day programming. Sadly, I will probably never read the other two volumes in my boxed set. They look great on the shelf.

The MIX assembly language was my least favorite aspect of the book - and I ENJOY creating and tinkering with toy virtual machines.

MMIX (MIX's modern RISC successor) will probably be a lot nicer.

Perhaps assembly languages are essential to demonstrate the concepts properly. And I understand the arguments against using a popular low-level language such as C. But it sure would have been nice to have a simple and readable pseudo-language for the examples rather than MIX!
It's not the 800 but the other things that those 800 bring and represent.

What do you propose to do? Forbid them from moving to MA, forbid MA from attracting employers? Maybe just allow them to move to Geneva or Dublin.
I was moved by GE's patriotism when they realized they would have to dredge the PCB pollution dumped in the Hudson River -- then promptly lobbied for a retroactive tax cut to fund it.
We run applications for dozens of clients across several different language stacks on Heroku. Our entire (rapidly expanding) business depends on it. If we had to maintain those instances ourselves, it would require a full time dev ops employee, if not multiple. We've side-stepped the requirement for any dedicated devops staff by relying on Heroku's automation for this. So I really do not see how PaaS is even remotely close to dead. Those companies probably don't release glitzy PR bragging about their success (like most VC-funded companies trying to generate hype) because they don't need to - the money just keeps rolling in. If I start seeing PaaS companies vanishing inexplicably then I'll start to wonder.
Who does the swarm have for the eventual Super Bowl winner?
If you know of a low cost alternative which has good image quality, please let me know -- in particular for low light conditions.
What gives you the impression that I'm "disturbed"?