skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I maintain that to work well at abstraction level N, you need a good conceptual understanding of abstraction level N - 1. All abstractions leak, and you need to be able to handle it.
Err. You say "exactly wrong" then agree with him. You've both made statements favoring the use of what actually exists.
The press wikileaks was getting before Assange emerged from behind the curtain was far better than it is now. They seemed poised to become the reuters/AP of primary source data. Now that seems almost impossible.
MIT creates cloth that listens
Items like this will always be a never ending battle. Each time one side has to update their technology to stop something from the other they normally must gain more authority from the other. In the case of Facebook that will be asking for more rights into each website that wants to use the 'Like' button and with the recent privacy issues this will just kick the hornets nest all over again.
I don't know why you've been down voted, I was thinking exactly the same as you.
Agreed. Also, there's a cost to not being an early adopter: your life is finite and you're missing out on having that thing for that fraction of your life. Not to say that there's no wisdom in eschewing new designs for a bit, of course; just that everything in life comes with both costs and benefits.
May I be the first to suggest calling it either "Rheya" or "Kelvin"?
Perhaps they figured that having X number of people dislike you was better than having those same people never know who you are. I still think the whole "dying platform" thing was taken a bit far. The implication when I read it was that some of these platforms were dying platforms, not all of them.
Don't even wait, Next3 is stable. Out of efficient snapshots, other ZFS goodies are easily covered with lvm, etc.
Wow, this is awesome!!!

Thank you gtani, is this yours? If it is, it would be nice to use bigger fonts.

Thanks!
But did they make you want to buy Old Spice? Exactly :)
There are two types of ambitious people:

1. Those who suck up to those who can help them out (superiors), even if they have nothing in common with them.

2. Those who work and collaborate with their friends. No matter how much less it pays than the alternatives.

Its my belief that the former have more financial success earlier, but aren't as happy as the latter, who have little financial success early on, but also wind up more financially successful than the former camp.

When you stick with your cronies, you are happier and more successful.
I don't think you have anything to worry about virtualbox, virtualization and cloud computing are now instrumental to growth. Oracle did not have a comprehensive strategy. With VirtualBox it gives them a jump start on building a roadmap to one. The other two, yeah they are in trouble. I was worried about Netbeans and Glassfish before the acquisition because it is the most rapid way to develop in Java and the best solution out there in the latest class of IDE / server run-time combos. They just released new versions so I am starting to feel some relief on that one. I got bit on OpenSolaris and OpenSSO I used both of them extensively and they killed both pretty quickly.
You're right. Good enough now?
this. feels like a terrible landing page (but if it works, it works)

etacts - might wanna do a "review my startup" post and get some feedback.
This is why PHP's strtotime is pretty much my favorite function OF ALL TIME. If I were to marry a programming construct, I would definitely court strtotime. Oh man...
I hope you understand that fission was the first time we have ever created energy. All other forms are just scavenging it from the sun.

Nuclear fusion is unlikely but nuclear fission has been proven over the last 60 years and as Bernard Cohen lays out, could provide us with enough energy for millions of years (http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html).
Spain overtakes US with world's biggest solar power station
This is pretty disingenuous. Brooks tries to jump on the new fascination with small businesses but only does it in order to carry the same water for the same old people (who are, to use his own terminology, the princes). Most of the new regulation he argues against will not affect start-ups and small businesses but will mostly affect the large banks.

In reality what hurts the grinds most presently is that the middle class is beaten down and ordinary people do not have much income. Small businesses usually do not have access to the enterprise markets and usually have to rely on ordinary people to be their consumers. And ordinary people are poor and are cutting all discretionary spending. This is what hurts most of all.
I don't know. Some fancy cars are pretty awesome. Just sayin'
I like OpenSolaris too much to be comfortable with the Oracle takeover. It's a very nice OS, with very cool technologies (ZFS, Crossbow) and it would be a shame if it became too... Oraclized.
Why wait? FreeBSD has support for ZFS now as well as a great package system.
Fedora is adding LLVM-based compiler for D
I know it's not really a feedback.. but how did you do make that awesome video with the hand that click?

For the APP, I don't think I would really use it honestly, however, it seems a powerful tool for writers and correctors. It's also a good tool for cross-word (which you may add more features in that direction since a lot of people might like this). Finally, it's a good "Look how my ipAd is cool" app to show to family, teachers, etc. (But that, I mean, people that don't have ipad and don't understand why it's cool, but by giving them something they use (dictionary), they can understand why people like ipad).
Ergonomic laptop design concept
Even using your definition being "socially adept" is an advantage. If you lack social skills, often you can make up with technical skills; but a person having both is better off.
This removes a lot of flexibility, which is the whole point of date format strings. "31st" doesn't give you the choice to print just the number, or the number and its ordinal suffix ("-st," "-rd," etc.). Also, preferably "Friday" should stand for the day, not the week. :)
The official RedBull site has a list of ingredients for all product lines[1]. I am fond of the sugar-free version myself, although it can't be any better for you.

[1] http://www.redbull.com/cs/Satellite/en_INT/Products/Red-Bull...
Well I don't know if Twitter is screwing this up or if the account's been hacked somehow, but the twitter page is currently showing raw JSON instead of a formatted page...

http://i.imgur.com/Mmm8t.png
http://twitter.com/OldSpice
Of course this example is contrived:

my @array;
# $#array : number of @array elements
say $#array ; # print -1
$array[10]=3;
say $#array; # print 10

But it is quite common to populate an array, then delete some elements in it for instance.
The kinds of lists that barrkel are talking about are what I call hooked-in lists as opposed to the container style lists seen in the STL. That is, objects that already existed are linked together through fields inside the object themselves. Since you're probably already operating on the object, it's not quite as bad for cache performance as the container style lists. Further, since the objects already exist, the memory allocation overhead is minimal. All objects of that type need an extra pointer, but there's no allocation required to add something to the list.

This is how the Linux kernel maintains just about everything. It's also how I've implemented lists inside of an allocator: http://github.com/scotts/streamflow/blob/master/streamflow.h...
This may be a stupid question but, how does the countdown prevent click jacking and the like?

Thanks in advance for any answer.
Along the same lines, but real-time animated for different data characteristics:

http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/
I've heard this approach described as a failure continuation, and it's a good approach. It's much easier to do in a language that allows for easy creation of closures. Such a system wouldn't be impossible to construct in C++; you could create an ErrorHandlers object that is passed as the last argument of every method and contains instances of some kind of "RestartCase" object. But I cringe at the amount of boilerplate that would be required to support such an approach.
Bain Capital Ventures Launches "Innovation Center" for Entrepreneurs
If the OGC head is a problem, this, certainly, solves it.

Oracle can easily make a new OGC the following day and name whoever they are comfortable with (or whoever they think will help OpenSolaris get developed in the right direction.
Only if you're comfortable never learning it.
Dodging the point that often you don't have a bottleneck reducible to a few slow inner loops is more specious.
Who should I have on my TechCrunch.tv "Speaking of..." show and why?
Partial loop unrolling in JavaScript
Great programming quotes
In both cases you're selecting to improve the chances for your offspring.
Some things I have been observing can be explained by that. I believe this gotcha is being actively circumvented.
Another alternative explanation: Pregnant women/teens who don't want to carry the baby to term.
reference counting != "manual garbage collection"
Damn. Never got you here for BarCamp. Maybe BigOmaha next year?
Maybe its for the best. I'm not a big fan of autotools, but proliferation of semi-compatible UNIXes was the reason behind this mess. I'd be absolutely happy with just Linux/BSD/Macs to worry about.
It is, but that approach is a way of avoiding developing skill in photography, and instead putting effort into being a better editor.

I don't shoot rapid-fire except when I'm shooting motion.

The most skilled photographers generally don't shoot that many frames. An example is when I'm using my 4x5; it takes 15 minutes to get the framing and focus exactly right, and it costs a couple of dollars to get each $2 sheet of film processed. You can bet that I'm very careful with my shots!
Its especially bad because of the way profile pages are organized. When you're viewing your own profile wall posts and status updates float to the top, while Likes, new friends, and other such ambient updates are further down. However, other people see the Like front and center on their News Feed.

I noticed this after several friends were liking "10 WORST construction mistakes", or similar. I asked several about it, and none of them had any idea it had happened.
Deerhoof, Bassnectar, Girls, and Nodzzz are a few just off the top of my head. A lot of great stuff happening in Oakland, as well. The Anticon collective, etc.

There are lots of bars and venues, but I recommend checking out Bottom of the Hill in Potrero -- their shows tend to be cheap and they feature local talent a lot.

I get your point: SF isn't the top dog when it comes to music, but honestly... you can find local music no matter where you are, as long as you look for it. And if you don't look for it, all the local bands you're not going to see are just going to move to Brooklyn (or wherever else is cool that year) along with everyone else.
So this is by the guy who ran Northern Rock into the wall. Strangely enough I'm pretty tempted to consider whatever he says to be complete baloney, and himself as a dangerous maniac.
It rhymes because it's a mnemonic and since we got quizzed on it about a million times I still remember it 25 years later. Seems like a good list to me.
Completely seconded.
Open Core Is Bad For You
This article got submitted too:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1512766
It would seem by your definition they're not designers. The fact that they know "tons of JS" would imply they have at least knowledge of basic programming concepts, which is something I would not want, nor expect a web designer to know.

The muddle of knowledge that's expected of SV designers, and other designers in general is a result of the fragmented and confused state the web was/is in, IMO. Frankly, with the current toolsets available, there's no reason a web designer should have to focus on anything other than their design, and pass that off to someone that's skilled in the programming aspect to get their vision functioning. Personally I'd rather hire someone along those lines, rather than a jack-of-all trades.
I guess there's some question of what "FU money" and "rich" means to you. Does it mean never working again? Does it mean working but not having to worry about your salary (for example, opening up careers like teaching that you might not have considered because of poor pay)? Does it mean being able to buy or do anything you want?

Your answers to this are going to affect how much money is "FU money" for you.

If it means not having to work, you might also consider why you need to live in Silicon Valley. It's not a particularly great place to live other than the job opportunities, and a million dollar house there costs a fraction of that in most of the rest of the country.
One of the things that has come out of some of the workshops I run is that even "design" is so broad that "designers" can't know everything about design, either; we have to specialize into visual design, testing, print, web, etc.

What is important is having the theoretical/academic basis for all of them, because it can greatly inform your decisions about your work and let you pull from a wider swath of experience.

I don't think you should have to be a graphic designer in order to be a web developer. You probably shouldn't be (and I find myself increasingly disliking generalists). But you should understand the principles of design, and know what goes into making a graphic work, and how designers communicate and the vocabulary, just as you should know the same sort of things on the back-end for the operating system, hardware and network environment your software is deployed on.
I strive to be a good friend, though of course time management means that I can't devote the same amount of energy to every acquaintance.

A lot of programmer-types aren't very sociable (as the stereotype goes), and I often hear a lot of us lament, "I never know what to say!"

It's funny that people with social awkwardness say that, because "knowing what to say" is actually only a secondary tool for me. People generally find me easy to talk to, and I enjoy meeting and talking with every kind of person. I have found that the most important skill for making friends is not knowing what to say, but knowing when to listen (hint: often).

It has to do not only with your conversational style, but also your demeanor. Be a little romantic about it. If you have an "open heart," as the Dalai Lama describes it, people will feel comfortable talking to you honestly. And if you subsequently listen to what they are saying, you will build a connection with them, even if it is fleeting or tenuous. It can last for as long as it takes to look a barista in the eye and say "Thank you, have a nice day," or it can last for a lifetime.

In my experience, it's always worth it.

After listening, the next most important skill to hone for being sociable is releasing fears of being judged. If you never say anything, no one will ever laugh at you for being wrong, but you will have two problems: You won't make any friends, and you'll never find out if you're wrong!

Sometimes I feel like "fear of being wrong" is an insidiously common reason for having fewer friends. The more people who you talk meaningfully with on a regular basis, the more likely it is that someone will disagree with you. Our culture seems to train us to avoid this, because being wrong is seen as... well, wrong! So maybe some people avoid socializing because they're afraid people will reject their ideas, or their personality, or even their very soul! But, I try to seek out people who disagree with me, because they are more likely to offer new perspectives that make me think and improve my ideas, even if their arguments come from a different foundation.

As for social fearfulness, it should be eked away at whenever possible. Even though my coworkers, friends, acquaintances and loved ones widely regard me as a "friendly guy," I still get nervous sometimes, especially at parties where I don't know many people. In these situations, I have had the best results by staying vigilant, and forcing myself to engage other people in small ways until I feel more comfortable: Smiling, saying hello, asking "How are you" and listening carefully to their response. Sometimes I won't feel more comfortable all night, and that's okay. It's a constant process--there is no "socially adept" Shangri-Lah where you'll never feel embarrassed again.
How ironic: just yesterday email was dying in tech media and today it seems that an email blogging company has taken on obsoleting web-based blog publishing :)

Seriously, nobody needs to die here: we're not at war! :)
I watched this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSQU3T9Lc5g&feature=chann... and had a sudden desire to hack a mobile phone into machine gun/butter knife :)
"This shows some pretty neat "out-of-the-box" thinking about photography."

Not really, it's just an extension of burst mode, which a LOT of photographers used as a crutch -- and continue to use as a crutch.

Burst mode has value, but a lot of photographers who haven't bothered to learn how to see think that it's a way to avoid the effort of learning, and as such abuse it.
The community around it is not sufficient. The license prevents borrowing code from Linux. It can, however, borrow BSD code.

But not even that would be enough to keep it alive and evolving.
Yeah, I guess I wouldn't wear either. I find the US market for men's fragrances is pretty dreadful compared to my original native UK.

It's basically Axe or Old Spice here, where as in UK the equivalent of Walgreens, Boots, stocks those brands but also slightly more expensive Ted Baker, French Connection, and a number of others.

I guess I'm getting off topic, though I'm totally shocked I got down-voted so much for my original comment. Perhaps Old Spice is an American thing.
OMG these are genius and an idea whose time has come. Marketing to a generation of people who have been marketed to tears, breath of fresh air.
Paypal oftentimes defaults to your non-credit card account. I have to click several buttons to reset it to credit. Then, it asks me if I'm sure I want to pay with a credit card. One time, I swore I chose credit, and my debit was charged. It was likely my fault, technically, but I'm sure I was swayed by designers.
My latest thought was to make a bluetooth transmitter which would help me locate my cat using my Android. :)
I don't read portuguese, but it looks like its a gossip aggregator? Would be interested to know how you juiced a wordpress blog about handmade crafts to bring in $500/mo.
I'm using Mac OS X, FreeBSD, and Linux -- whichever is the best choice given the hardware and legal constraints.
How Standard is FaceTime on the iPhone? Packet Capture Verification
This is why I hate marketing. Wouldn't you prefer it if your wife bought the best product rather than the best marketed product?

In this instance perhaps the fragrance she preferred the smell of the best?
I use the Original Scent body wash, and I always crack up at "If your grandfather hadn't worn this, you wouldn't be here" line.
I don't care about the marketing, but learning about easy import from a custom WP installation got me to finally switch. Would I have heard about that if it weren't for the drama? Maybe.
Profiling would be far more informative than even the most spammily verbose of loggers, too.
For those who didn't make it past the first page, this one's new on me and became an instant favourite:

You can stand on the shoulders of giants OR a big enough pile of dwarfs, works either way.
Oh, sure. Have your first meetup after I just lived there for 3 years and then relocated to SF :)

Seriously though, this is good news. RTP is a great place to live, and the cost of living is much much lower than out west. RTP is long overdue for a much needed infusion of startup culture. There are plenty of smart people living there working for Big Corps (just as I did), but the network and money for startups just isn't in place quiet yet. I would love to see it thrive there one day.
> "i'll learn it more when people figure out how to use it" ... is that fair?

No, because you could be learning that today and get a head start on your own future that way. It's not that hard to understand and once you've seen how the clock ticks from the inside it becomes a lot easier to build other clocks.

Lists vs resize-able arrays is a very old debate, both have their places, it all depends on the problem you're trying to solve which one is the most appropriate. If you code your stuff in a not too stupid way (say using a macro for your accesses) it's trivial to replace one approach with the other in case you're not sure which one will perform better.

Lists work well when they're short and you use a an array of pointers to the beginnings of your lists and maintain a 'tail' pointer for fast insertion in case inserts are frequent. If you use resize-able arrays you probably want to allocate a bunch of entries in one go, roughly doubling the size of your array every time you need to increase the size. That seems to waste a lot of memory, but since it is heap memory (allocated using brk) it (usually) won't be mapped to real memory until you use it, so the overhead is smaller than it seems.

I hope that's correct and clear :)
I agree with what you are saying to a certain degree, but following on your same line of thought, evolutionary psychology and what not - back in the cave-human age, cave-women look for security in a cave-man; this doesn't necessarily have to be money, but a sense of the cave-man's gravitas to inspire confidence and take care of shit when shit hits the fan.

Counter-example to your thesis that women only want money: Musician's that only gets gigs in dive bars, firefighters that receive a municipal-level salary, and tons of bro's you would see at "bro-bars" with no financial prospect but a rabid enthusiasm for alcohol, local sports & Amerrrica.

I'm not saying women aren't superficial. They are just as superficial as men except that they lie about their intentions to preserve their ego for themselves and to others. But that's no reason for men to be resigned about it. There's nothing more sad than a man who accepts the superficial reality of society and proceeds to go about "nest-building" and "peacocking" to attract a superficial trophy wife, and give up his freedom and personal goals in return.

The system is easily hackable and I dare say, men are justified to hack the system as the whole mating-seeking thing is based on deception and dis-ingenuity. And there are tons of literature available online and in print about PUA for anyone who cares to explore that route.
> the reuters/AP of ...

Unintentional irony? Both of those organizations' reputations have become quite tarnished. They are certainly not contemporary bastions of fair-handed transparency -- witness Reuters' photo manipulation and AP's quote-whoring.
Just signed up for the gmx.com email account an dits is realy cool, stylish, you can also adjust themes. Design doesn't seem to be an issue here.
Pretty dirty if YC did indeed remove an article criticizing one of their start-ups. Maybe it was the right move short term, but that kind of crap does the site and YC long term harm. Can a moderator confirm or deny:

"The debate was heated even further when posts discussing the issue were deleted from the popular news discussion forum, Hacker News. Some accused moderators of the forum - part of Y Combinator, a startup incubator from which Posterous graduated - of intentionally removing the anti-Posterous discussions."
That's a threat?!

Larry Ellison: "Uh, sure, we'll get right back to you on that."

[Larry alt-tabs back to his word processor with a draft of his Solaris Developer Trial licensing plan: foree for 30 days followed by a $9000-per-seat licensing fee]
Revealing Japan's Low-Tech Belly
I'm not sure if this is even possible to fix, given the same-origin policy on iframes. Facebook can't tell where the iframe is placed on the page, and I don't think they can tell if it's 'position:absolute'd. It's a tough problem.