skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first engineer we hired got the job even though he us still in school for exactly that reason. He had a hardware assignment to build a bios: he built a real OS on top of that with a compliler just to finalize it in his mind.

Make sure that story comes through on your resume.
What are the picks and shovels of the digital Gold Rush?
Do you have any evidence what so ever that stacks up against the evidence, witness accounts, and even German records of the killings?

There's a vast difference between the atomic bombings and the Holocaust. That difference is purpose. The Holocaust was perpetrated against people who didn't really do anything, either on an individual level or a group level. By contrast, the atomic bombs were dropped on a country which had been waging a brutal war of aggression for a decade, and they were dropped in an attempt to avoid a brutal invasion. I don't think people realize what Operation Downfall would have been like. We're talking tens of millions of Japanese casualties, including civilians (in prior invasions like Okinawa, civilians committed mass suicide rather than be conquered) and millions of Allied casualties. We ordered 500K Purple Hearts for that operation, and we're still using that stockpile 65 years later.
Sorry, I should have split that out more clearly.

Google's dev process for building updates is right. They rapidly iterate to generate new updates and versions of Android. It's arguably better than iOS now, but w/ a far worse app ecosystem, IMO.

BUT Google falls down the same way WP7 does... too many phones to support. The process of getting updates to all of these different phones is painful, but Google and MS differ here too -- and this difference, while maybe cosmetic, is important.

Since Google drops source and OEMs pick it up, Google has moved the update responsibility to the OEMs. Nobody screams at Google because the Samsung Galaxys took a long time to update. It was Samsung's issue.

MS OTOH owns the update process. They get the blame for not supporting all the phones.

The end result for MS is a double whammy since they may not be able to move as quickly as Google (since Google can just drop source, and each OEM needs to get it working with their device and skin) AND Microsoft gets the blame for being slow.
The Americanization of Mental Illness (and the export of western madnesses)
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I got a real scare when I seen this and it wasnt immediately obvious it was a joke, phew
Could you then give me a common use where a loss not noticeable to the human eye is, in fact, important?
The real issue here is the the Times is just trying to find a way to pay for their nice big NYC downtown tower. That and other typical newspaper-related overhead, which used to be well within their operating budget, before the internet.

The newspaper industry is the dying industry of our time, and desperation set in a while ago. The NYT took a bit longer to appear desperate because of it's generally more loyal readerbase and large coffers, while most small dailies & weeklies have either drastically reduced overhead or completely packed up already.
Not all the decisions we're made by them, you'd probably also have to thank Yahoo and a bunch of other companies for refusing to buy them.

I can only imagine how Yahoo would have destroyed that company.
I too am willing to pay for relevance, but not for news as they are filled with the same stories, spin, stupid opinions and not nearly enough stories that actually matter (when was the last time the nytimes destroyed a politicians who had done something illegal?) are wetted by experts (witness the current comments about the neuclear stuff in Japan where very little is actually know but everybody is writing about it) and completely free of spin.

Fix those issues and I pay.
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You can get free digital access if you have any form of home delivery. I can get weekday delivery for $14.80 for 4 weeks, or Sunday delivery for $15 for 4 weeks. That gets you the full $35 digital product. I'll probably get the Sunday times delivered.
I'm excited about this program. Hopefully it will bring a lot more smart entrepreneurs and developers into the edu-tech space. It's definitely an industry that's in need of good talent, innovation, and creative problem solving.

Quizlet.com (Alan Louie, one of this program's founders, is an advisor) is looking for a few great people to join the small team in SF. If you have an interest in edu-tech (or just working on a web product that's helping millions of students study already), please get in touch. Email phil@[thedomain] or http://quizlet.com/jobs/
So wait, the grumble is that they extracted function signatures from a header file? What a non-event.
That's how PR works. Thanks for buying into it so the rest of us have to hear about even more of it. Do you know why Jobs killed it off? Maybe he found out the organizations they were giving to were scams and lost faith in it. Judging a company based on how concerned they are with PR seems just a bit naive.
A session cookie is a cookie that is sent without an explicit expiration time, and is explicitly specified to be so in the standards.
We can't say too much about the company except that it will be a twyst on what you are used to.

Visit us at http://twy.st and sign up we will let you know what we can as soon as possible though.
"The SFC received a default judgment [PDF] against Westinghouse in July for $90,000 in damages and $50,000 to cover costs of the suit."

https://lwn.net/Articles/409303/
Seems like a major security risk to put your email address into a form for a site that gives no indication of what it is. Pass.
I believe the white glossy circle is referring to that glossy shine on top of icons, much like the app icons you usually see on an iPhone/iPod.

For instance: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ikoka/3660963620/
If someone says: "That’s impossible;" You should understand it as: "According to my very limited experience and narrow understanding of reality, that’s very unlikely."

- Paul Buchheit
Cost of delivery has gone to near 0 when amortized, but this is more expensive than some of their dead tree subscriptions.

I know paper isn't as expensive as some might think, but most people see that as real value. By stripping that away and keeping the price the same, I think many people are going to feel ripped off by comparison.
I am at a complete loss as to why no one like Google, or a consortium of smaller embedded system developers or users, have not made a BSD based system available as an alternative to Linux based systems.

Linux has some desktop advantages in terms of package management and perhaps consumer hardware support, but none of these matter to someone seeking an OS for a phone or a TV or a microwave oven and so on.
You have to start using the words "risk" and "maintenance cost" when talking to managers then.

The main drawback to the solution you describe is not the "two days to develop", but doubling or tripling the complexity of that part of the application. It will be a pain to support and enhance in the future.

Manager: "Is it possible?"
You: "Yes it can be done, but you're basically making this application twice a complicated for this one feature. This makes deployment and support more complex, and if anything ever goes wrong, it will take a lot longer to even find the problem. If we ever want to upgrade the underlying software, this could break."
The answer to that question should be always "nothing!" You have chosen examples in jest, to show how some assertions are unbelievable/silly; but other assertions, that you or I might find almost as silly are taken seriously (or were taken so until recently), e.g. "Do blacks/women/(other stigmatized group) have equal intelligence as man?", "Should we kill/neuter people with serious psychological illness", "Should we perform lobotomies".

Lack of discussion is never a good sign.
Why Are 98% Of Your Visitors Not Signing Up For Your Site?
tcl info var and a dict can do closure like constructs. 8.5.

8.6 has a really cool oo interface. http://tcl.activestate.com/cgi-bin/tct/tip/257.html

i do not know lisp, yet i heard tcl is like lisp without the strong type checking.
Show HN: I have managed to keep this brand new for more than a decade.
I sold another on eBay some years ago for $75 selling it as a piece of history :)
We are a startup. We need to get enough people interested to be able to have a successful launch. We have no intention of using your email for anything but our launch. If you use gmail, you can add a "+twyst" and know it is from us and block us easily.
I meant after the IPO is done. :)
I really like this. Any plans for an API so I can pull my data onto my own interfaces/webpages?
April 1st.

Something tells me no ones trying to get anyone to change their minds.
>The issue at hand is whether or not the Angry Birds Android port constitutes a derived work of the kernel (a pretty strained case, IMHO, given that it's a straightforward port of a game from another non-linux platform). If it is, then it can only be distributed under the GPL -- that is, it'd have to be pulled from the market. At no point does it get removed from its owner's control.

The FSF states that if any program links against GPL licensed libraries, it is a derivative work, and therefore needs to be under GPL as well. The LGPL was created specifically to allow linking by code from other licenses.

While the Angry Birds code still belongs to the Angry Birds developers. However, if Google is guilty of a GPL violation, and are unable to get a LGPL licensed wrapper around the code, Angry Birds for Android may need to be distributed under the GPL to avoid a violation.

Most likely, Google will find a way to make an LGPL wrapper, and this entire issue won't matter.
It's a rhetorical bit of three card monte. Note that he seamlessly shifts from pursuing an absolute of bug-free software and instead offers some techniques for reducing bugs, which the manager deems more expensive than the gains they'd offer. Then he conflates "would be better" with "bug-free software" in a bit of snark at the end, and you can almost hear the eye-roll from the manager.
Peter Norvig on Bloomberg West today, 3/17
Peter Norvig, director of research at Google, will be interviewed today on Bloomberg West at 3PM Pacific/6PM Eastern--see the web page for details and video.

Bloomberg West, a new show on Bloomberg TV, is produced out of Pier 3 in San Francisco. It looks a lot like a video digest of Hacker News, focusing on tech issues and entrepreneurship. (PG was interviewed the other day, for example.)
How JavaScript & HTML5 Are Remaking the Web
Because they can't compete with Craigslist, which is free.
"[…] in reality, bigger companies move slower. I don't really think this is a good excuse - if policies and processes mean it takes 5 months to release an update, then the policies and processes need improving. If a big company can't work as efficiently as a small company, then the big company should act as smaller companies."

This seems really naive to me. If Microsoft could just "act as smaller companies" on directive, they wouldn't be in the mess they're in.

Of course, on the other side, a MS employee simply stating that big companies move slower like it's an unchangeable law of nature gives a little insight into the problem as well.
Nice one! You should feel good - it's what open-source is all about: solving your problems and contributing back to help everyone else.
Google’s the Largest Torrent Search Engine, isoHunt Tells Court
I did admit the joke is trite.
The thing I'm scared of is being Zynga and asking people to share every little thing and to congratulate others when they get good grades.
To help the app spread, I need to implement something social such as sharing grades, but I'm going to be careful as to not go too far.
Management ahold be making those decisions based on ROI. That implies they are responsible for understanding the value the change will bring and you are responsible for educating on the costs. I would respond to the "It's impossible?" question with "Is it worth seven man days of work, a potential for tricky-to-find bugs because we adding a square peg to a round whole which will increase maintenance costs, and the opportunities lost by me not working on something else for those seven man days?"

I've worked at few places that have done the real analysis to know the answer to that, but very few even consider it.
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Pretty much all recent functional languages deal with oo programming by using multimethods and namespaces. This takes care of the problem you're talking about in a beyer way than most oo languages.
Agreed, a form of intellectual vaccination, if you will. And as with vaccination, it will fail for some (or lead to wrong beliefs) but in general will be very beneficial for the society at large.

Note that what really turned the public against McCarthy in his communist witch hunt was to experience first hand his vileness: "Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?"
> I love how you can only open one tab at a time, thus focusing your efforts. Multi-tab browsing is the devil!

Just seeing someone refer to IE6 as "tabbed", albeit single-tabbed, made me realize how far we've come.
This is just a case of poor communication, people talking past each other. There's a big difference between the following two questions:

1. Can the proposed idea be implemented as stated?

2. Does the proposed idea degrade gracefully, i.e., will an imperfectly achieved solution provide significant benefit?

The answer to #1 is almost always "No" because the simplest way to state an idea, the normal way to refer to an idea in conversation, implies that it will work perfectly in all cases. For instance, "bug free software" is impossible in practice, but if you achieve nearly bug free software, you'll have much less buggy software than your competitors.

You can't talk sensibly about any idea without explicitly moving on to question #2 and talking about costs versus benefits. Will one bad data point in the Shop Control Application cause an accident that costs ten times as much as the efficiency gained? Will the value of "bug free software" be negated by a single bug in a release? If your boss is still talking in absolute terms about question #1, then you need to move him to question #2 by explicitly talking about what the benefits of an imperfect solution are. In your mind, it may be obviously implicit in your proposal that there will be cracks in the system, but you can't blame your boss for taking your proposal for "bug free software" literally unless you explicitly address how an imperfect solution will be useful.
> The patent was in an unrelated field.

For some meanings if "unrelated field", using the same idea is not infringement but a new invention. It's called "novel application" or somesuch.

Check with a competent patent attorney.
Modded to 0 and never answered. I'll take that as a confirmation.
Great follow-up and appreciate the deep analysis with graphs. I am curious how you measure the Mobi Safari load times. Is there a tool (xcode?) to do this?
So as some of these comments suggest, yes, perhaps we need to actually teach people how to recognize outright stupid ideas even if it seems obvious to you and me.
There's only negligible value in yet more anecdotes framed to reinforce the "coders awesome, managers stupid" stereotype.
>too much

Gutsy to ask for a bunch of HN emails when you have karma=1 and provide an iota of information.
Why is it $15 for a smartphone subscription, but $27.99 for a Kindle subscription that some days even doesn't include all the articles from print?
this framework opens up more possibilities. I'm planning to use it with flask for my web
Given that I read the Times on my iPhone, iPad, and computer, I can subscribe for $35 a month, or apparently I can subscribe to 7 day delivery, which includes all of the above, for $22 a month and throw the paper away when it arrives each day.

Clearly their pricing policy is off by an order of magnitude. Paying $35 a year for everything makes sense. Paying $35 a month, given economics and the market for online subscriptions, is nuts.
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Thanks, good to know. That gives me a little hope that at least they don't have a philosophically backwards position with respect to update frequrency.
Mostly I think it's more a cultural quirk of some European countries and I don't really care all that much. What bothers me more is stuff like this: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2014271060_b...
Yeah, my reaction was "gee, thanks". It's started counting for us and I've just burned two reading about the damned paywall.

I paid for TimeSelect before, but I'm not sure I'd pay again: I just don't read enough from the Times to justify the cost. If I find that I need more, then I'll happily pay it (and it looks like it'll be pay-as-you-go).
It is with equal trepidation and excitement that I look forward to the IPO of Facebook and Groupon. Following LinkedIn is also going to be interesting.
Don't Be Nice; Be Helpful
The Times announced digital subscriptions today. Good move.
The pricing - backwards as all hell.
NYTimes.com + Smartphone = $15/month
NYTimes.com + Tablet = $20/month
NYTimes.com + Tablet + Smartphone = $35/month (WHAT?)

First, how does one differentiate the value add between a smart phone and a tablet enough to charge the sum of those parts, not an incremental addition?

Two, if you go with the cheapest print option (weekday) at $14.80 a month delivered to your house, you get all access across all devices.

As one of my friends noted: how could they not look around and be inspired by digital companies that have millions of users on a few dollars a month on drip....but no. They still think of themselves as a print provider. Name another service we pay $15 bucks a month to access from our smartphone.

This seems like a print centric decision.
DealBook and Digital Subscriptions
Not really, I guess it really varies. I'm from the other side of the border, Portugal, the banks are pretty much the same as in Spain (well, they are almost all Spanish by now).
It's ironic that a joke about Einstein has to be explained.
I unloaded on the New York Times in a comment about 2 days ago, but I have to say that I'm pleasantly surprised by this approach.

It allows them continue to make ad revenue as well as get subscription money from people who really like their service (unless I'm not understanding it clearly).

The only thing I'd suggest is prominently displaying a counter for the user saying 'you have x pages left before you must subscribe to access this site' or something like that .. that way they're not taken by surprise when they can't access a story any more.
Edward Naughton, a prominent IP litigator, said in his Huffington Post article on this that he's skeptical of Google's approach because he believes the header material they copied is likely copyrightable. If it's copyrightable, it can't just be relicensed by third parties.

During all those years that Linux has been around, no one other than Google has tried to take this kind of material from the original kernel headers and publish it under any license other than the GPL. And no one has tried to do an alternative glibc. I guess what someone would do is take glibc and fork it on LGPL terms.
One can easily believe "X is good." without believing "X is what everyone should do in all situations." So to, one can believe "it would be better in numerous important ways if everyone did Z all the time." without believing "it would be better in all situations on all important measures if one more person did Z." You are advocating we judge others using a simplistic abstraction of what principles are. Good rhetoric perhaps, but not good thinking.

Put another way, it is untrue to think that principles can only be beliefs without conditionals.
I looked into bloom filters after someone commented as such on my last post. I guess the possibility of false positives makes me a bit jumpy. I realize that it can be reduced with larger data structures but that prospect doesn't make me terribly excited (and having an as-close-to-zero-as-possible error rate would seem to create a significantly large data structure in the end - at least one that doesn't seem to provide much benefit over gzip compression). Although, please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - if this does provide a tangible benefit with virtually no errors then I'd be very open to using this technique.
The Humane Interface. I think its nerdiness would suit a developer. Learning lots as a interface designer.
I agree with this and would like to add that a culture of frequent re-orgs just brings out a different form of the Peter Principle. Instead of regular people getting promoted to their level of incompetence, the organization now optimizes for politicians getting promoted to their level of incompetence. I've seen my current and former employers lose extremely good engineers because they felt they'd been screwed over by bosses who were optimizing their careers to take advantage of the next re-org.

You can't really prevent politics from rearing its ugly head in a large organization, but the best you can do is make sure that you hire extremely competent, honest and straightforward employees and treat them absolutely fairly. One of my bosses had a really great rule for making decisions on new hires. Besides being technically competent, committed and stuff like that, you need to ask yourself whether you'd like to have dinner with this person every single week. If the answer is no, you probably shouldn't be hiring that person.
That's very true! The trick is to enter a cafe and ask for a bottle of water while taking the chance to ask "oh, by the way, where's the restroom?"
I'll take a chance for twyst.
Google Upgrades Digital Tool Set for Non-Profits
Also, his search in the Bing box in IE 9 caught me by surprise.
That is quite impressive. How long do you believe it took you to accomplish that? You said a term, when did you start, and when was it due?
Those people were probably laughing as they did so.
Broadband TV, Connected and OTT TV Revenue to Rise to $3 billion by 2014
Understanding the Social Mindset of the Internet
Wait, Who Am I Meeting Now? Noteleaf Won't Let You Forget
I don't think it's fair to pin this on disruptions in attitudes towards advertising. The much bigger factor is that they're an industry that once had and was structured around having a near-monopoly on mass information distribution (diluted by radio and TV). Now they suddenly find that they don't even have a majority hold on that anymore, and have lost almost all of their leverage with people that want to advertise things, and it's a problem that's been getting worse.
A little pretentious, but it's a great news to see that sometimes, ads seller are thinking about optimizations (I'm looking at you, flash banner ads)
The Times announced digital subscriptions today. Good move.
The pricing - backwards as all hell.

NYTimes.com + Smartphone = $15/month
NYTimes.com + Tablet = $20/month
NYTimes.com + Tablet + Smartphone = $35/month (WHAT?)

First, how does one differentiate the value add between a smart phone and a tablet enough to charge the sum of those parts, not an incremental addition?

Two, if you go with the cheapest print option (weekday) at $14.80 a month delivered to your house, you get all access across all devices.
As one of my friends noted: how could they not look around and be inspired by digital companies that have millions of users on a few dollars a month on drip....but no. They still think of themselves as a print provider. Name another service we pay $15 bucks a month to access from our smartphone.

This seems like a print centric decision.
Is anything really necessary?