skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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Does this mean I have to buy a new textbook! BUT they are so expensive!!!
Faster life insurance payouts on the way
Why Facebook's New Vision is Good for Google+
The 2011 Digital 100: Most Valuable Startups
What IP addresses are they coming from? I find it easy to spot spammers on my site because they all come from the same subnet of IP addresses, in China.
Anyway, unless they're 100% specific and relevant, they're probably spam.
So you honestly never saw the benefit in having video on the web thanks to Flash? Remember that even today HTML 5 video is not fully supported.
Wait, wasn't it Eddie Cue who said "Fuck the channels"?
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What disparaging remarks? I'm only stating exactly how Objective-C looks. It is a syntax I happen to like, too. Not sure how you thought otherwise.

Yes, when calling Objective-C, it compiles to C. But since the article talks about the idea of moving away from Objective-C, the only thing that matters is how source code currently is. The millions of Cocoa-dependent projects aren't using just C functions (even if they're compatible), their API calls follow Objective-C style. So, it is those calls that need to transition. It's not impossible, but it would be inelegant to move those API calls to a language that is significantly different than Objective-C style.

[Just so you know, I've been programming for over 20 years. I have years of experience with Objective-C on both Mac and iOS and dozens of projects under my belt, both for companies and open-source. I have used many different programming languages and know their strengths and styles very well. But you're right, you would not be hiring me...because I would definitely choose not to work for you.]
The Temptation
Slideshare here for those having trouble with the Dropbox-hosted version: http://www.slideshare.net/pcwalton/rust-all-hands-winter-201...
> regardless of the posted speed limit, driving at a speed lower than the rate at which traffic is flowing should be a primary offense

One gets tailgated often enough for driving "only" 10 mph over the speed limit. I can only begin to imagine the extremes to which such a short-sighted rule would lead.
It's called impartial news, possible only as a public service
How to test if they are motivated.
> Police departments do have to pay their officers salaries.

When discussing traffic, why is this even brought up? It's like the point of the law goes from protecting you to finding ways to screw you. I'm not saying abolish speed limits, I'm asking why the police even have a say against traffic engineers on a matter like this. Their inability to turn revenue should be their problem to solve...not everyone else's.
I have taught several people with Asperger's Syndrome over the years, and a few more with ASD of more or less severity. Many have had problems getting into employment here (UK). Some work in Libraries classifying (not customer facing), others work in highly structured aspects of IT. This is a really nice initiative.
Interview with Lala and Color founder Bill Nguyen
I absolutely love this project and I really hope that the momentum that it has found will be preserved. Anything that helps the web to become a marketplace, especially for labor will have a huge impact in the long run.
Thanks a bunch. I'm amazed that the intros/project is averaging so high, too. I'm actually thinking of trying out some kind of VIP thing, where you could pay a few bucks a month to get the email a few hours early.
Police departments do have to pay their officers salaries

Yes, but it isn't ethical or good for society to do so by making a law just so that people will break it and get fined. Tying police pay to enforcement actions at any level will result in overzealous enforcement instead of the objectivity we should want from our police.

You're also implying that raising the speed limit in the case being discussed would lead to a higher rate of crashes or injuries but you haven't provided any evidence for that claim. The author did provide evidence showing the opposite.
You want cruel? I hate private signup/invite sites. It's either ready or it's not and if it's not I'm probably not coming back, ever, no matter what the excuse.
I don't think he cares he was clearly just trolling.
I'm thrilled to hear that. It's been really interesting to watch, and even though I only have a week of data to play with, I'm fairly certain there's something bigger at play here. Just a matter of tuning the product, continuing to grow on both sides, and start to figure out how to solve the biggest issue right now, which is helping people make sense of the tons of intros they get.
It's the only way they come out looking competent, so I guess that's what they're running with.

I don't see how Leo would go rogue... he was clearly a fall guy and he might have been ok with it.
more importantly, how can i disable the Facebook timeline. this thing is awful
StackMob isn't using Riak at the moment. Still building out features that use it.
It's one of those things that you kind of know to be true, but then it startles you when feel its impact on your own work over a long period of time. Thanks, BTW.
Facebook wants to know what your reading...
Ask HN: What's the best way to punish startup employees?
This is what we do at Crittercism:
http://blog.crittercism.com/why-your-awesome-startup-should-work-at-critt
Excellent filter. I've been doing this for a while, and it's like Kryptonite for timewasters.
Germany has such an offense, and drivers there are very strict about lane discipline. It does improve traffic flow under certain conditions.

Germany also has sections of highway with no speed limit that rather suddenly run in to sections with a fairly low speed limit. The result can be a standing wave in traffic, often leading to complete stoppages on the autobahnen. The fact that many of their highways don't have enough lanes for the volume of traffic doesn't help either.
One of the problems I had was that the link to learn more about a project sends the email. I was curious, and there wasn't much (immediate) explanation of what the consequences of the link were, so I clicked.

Yes, one of the pages that's linked in the sent email is to the guidelines saying "don't click unless you're actually interested", but the consequences of clicking links isn't explained before the project list is presented.

(In much of the web, links don't have side effects. Things that do are typically buttons. Maybe this is a design issue?)

EDIT: Grammar, clarity.
If all climate research was as honest as this it might be harder to put a spin on it.
Penn State researchers identify virus that kills breast cancer cells
"For Windows customers, Microsoft is using the Windows Certification program to ensure that systems shipping with Windows 8 have secure boot enabled by default, that firmware not allow <b>programmatic control</b> of secure boot (to prevent malware from disabling security policies in firmware), and that OEMs prevent unauthorized attempts at updating firmware that could compromise system integrity."

So an OEM can still be "Windows Certified" if they allow manual disabling of secure boot.
You're right -- it was a big issue for folks, which is why I ended up scrapping it in lieu of the new process:

- you get the project email and click "learn more"
- that takes you to a page w/ details and an "i'm interested" button
- clicking that button tells the project owner
- the project owner then chooses to initiate contact further (which is why it's helpful to have a URL on your account.)
- that is what sends the first email

It was intended to both cut down on project owner email overload as well as fix the confusion around what exactly happens.

Also, I plan to let folks attach a blurb of text as to -why- they're interested in a project. Should be an interesting experiment.
Julian Assange: 'I am – like all hackers – a little bit autistic'
If the SafeInt authors (Microsoft Corporation) can't avoid integer overflow bugs, then who can?

btw, the SafeInt3.hpp header file is almost 7000 LOC (including comments)!
You do realize that 8 of the 14 board members were only here since 2010, right?

So they've pretty much reshaped the board in the past year or so already... I'm not sure a 2nd "reboot/reshuffle" will do much.
Exactly my thoughts. Whitman only has experience managing a business that was dominant in their area and due to first-comer advantage, basically had virtually no other companies that could come close to their effective monopoly position.

Yet - as you said, Ebay survived rather than succeeded. HP is a whole different kettle of fish - beset by rabid competitors on all side and without any significant advantages over any of them. At this stage, Whitman seems a really poor choice who will be immediately out of her depth in running HP.
I agree with you. I'm only commenting on his unhappiness that the autobiography ended up not going in the direction that he wanted. We'll have to see how this plays out in terms of what copyright and contractual terms were breached. But if this were a case of a writer working on this memoir with him, and the writer deciding that Assange was whitewashing important events in his career, then this would be the kind of "leak" that would seemingly fall under the kind that Wikileaks feels morally compelled to make.

Assange is not merely a private figure any more. The content that would make up his autobiography is of large political importance, given his significant accomplishments.

That said, if it turns out the writer ran with the memoir to turn it into a seedy tale of Assange's personal characteristics, then I completely empathize with him. I'm guessing the truth is somewhere in between.
Study: one in 10 UK kids under age 10 have an iPhone
Hahaha... I should really be shouting this out...

If you are doing big numbers... sign up for Paypal in the UK. 1.4% for UK transactions and 1.9% for other currencies/countries. You need to be doing a considerable amount per month but you are basically getting wholesale rates with Paypal processing for nothing extra. Google matches the lowest rate but foreign transactions are 2.4%.

Just be careful for Paypal's conversion fees. They are 2.5%. You can avoid them by adding foreign bank accounts.

Dealing with Paypal is not for everyone. That is why I don't use them anymore. Got a more suitable service with another provider but it is not a service that most people would be able to use.
Fakegirlfriend.co
1. Database, database, database
2. Database
3. It's probably your database unless you're doing something CPU or disk intensive, for example resizing and prettifying pictures, rendering a 3d image, etc. Realize that these days looping a few thousand times is trivial.
4. It's your database

Starting with fault tolerance, speed, unit testing, code abstraction, etc. is starting at the wrong point. 90% of performance problems are at the database level.

What's most likely wrong with performance in a webapp:

1. No/bad indexes/missing foreign keys on your db
2. Stupid joins
3. You're doing stupidly complicated things in an ORM
4. You're doing complicated things in the DB instead of loading a large chunk into memory and doing calculations or aggregations in code. Simple DB queries are a lot faster than you think they are. Complicated ones are a lot longer than you think they'll be. There are weird gotchas in DBs like using a function in a where or select clause will cause a massive performance hit.
5. You're not caching into memory or something like memcached things that changes infrequently but are queried regularly. Memcached is actually overkill most of the time. Actually think about how much memory storing X would take compared to how much memory your machine has. Be surprised at how insignificant it is these days.
6. 1-5 are especially true if you're using Mysql - It's great and all, but all the other big DBs piss all over it for out of the box performance. You have to give it some love. I expect some dissent here. They're wrong. MS SQL is a shit ton better at handling a poorly designed db/db queries out of the box than mysql. I can't stress this enough.

tl;dr Start looking at your database performance before anything else.
As I understand it (I haven't learned to drive myself), when overtaking, you generally want a fairly large acceleration / speed differential to minimise the time you're actually passing the other car. Exceptionally so on 2-lane roads where you're effectively driving into oncoming traffic.

I don't know what constitutes a 'reasonable' differential though.
"Well, actually, no, officer, I wasn't speeding. You see, while you clocked me at 90mph [c] between toll booths [atoms], once you factor in time at the booth, you'll see that I am actually driving much more slowly."
I love how this is progressing. One bit of feedback, I would love to see more legitimately "tiny" projects become available-- most of those sent out every week are $500-$2000 and require multiple week commitments. If there's a market for smaller projects or libraries that need work in the $100-$500 range, I would snap up those in my spare time. Obviously those kinds of projects have to exist first to be listed, so not much of a feature suggestion so much as a general desire :)
You sure do know how to craft your link baits.
Final draft of "new" Net Neutrality filed w/FCC
Aussie start-up Roboinvest makes CNNMoney pitching final
You bring up some really good points. I also agree that NaCl is not ideal. In my opinion plain text transmission of data is essential for the web, which would allow things like Google to keep working regardless of the "language" being used, whether it be HTML or Markdown, etc.

Having thought about it more, I think the real issue here is standards. All these other problems are a function of that in my opinion. The problem with standard stagnation and lack of competitiveness, whether it be missing features or hardware access, is not a coincidence in my opinion. This isn't some rut we are currently in that if we work hard enough we'll get out of. Instead, I think that the structurally process itself is predisposed to it. 5 years from now, the web will just have a new set of technologies that its behind native on. In other words, the way things are headed, the web can never be cutting edge. And sure, there will always be things that work well on the web, but I would personally like a cutting edge web.

Additionally, I'd like to add that as I stated in the article, I have discussed these thoughts with Joe on more than one occasion, and even had him look this over beforehand to make sure I wasn't putting words in his mouth. I don't think I was apologizing for Joe, I just think this is a really complex situation where the same analysis can take different shapes.
This is like the HP Board saying - sorry we meant to shoot ourselves in the left foot not the right one proceeds to shoot itself.
TechStars boosts start-up support after $24m funding round
I dunno, I just enabled it and I'm liking it.

I'm wondering why my events are visible to the public though.
The guidelines sensibly mention to use a contract. Does tinyproj have anything to assist there? I've used 99designs once before and it was good that they took care of the contract between designer and client.
Twitter swoops for social analytics start-up Julpan
Something close to this happened a while ago with an actress impersonating a founder with some totally ridiculous idea. It took quite a few of the people in the audience until approximately midway into the presentation before their bs meters went off. I wished I remembered the occasion. I will do some searching.
A tangent: I allow G+ to auto-upload the pictures and short videos that I take with my Droid. Since I spend a little time deleting all but my favorite pictures and videos, this will eventually be a good private timeline (private because auto-uploaded material is not public until you share it).

If someone spent a few minutes a day also annotating pictures and videos then this would be a good resource for remembering the past.

Hopefully Google Takeout exporting facility will soon also provide download ZIPs for auto-upload materials.
Maternity workout clothes should really be trendy
and so it begins :)
Hip-Checked, the ClusterF*ck of HP's Board
>Gasoline consumption does, in fact, increase non-linearly with speed at highway speeds. Police departments do have to pay their officers salaries.

Neither of these constitute even a slight approach to a justification for lowering the speed limit to give people more tickets. If someone wants to spend their money on gasoline, that's their prerogative.
It made strategic sense if they were hoping to make a couple billion dollars on their investment.
Bad dependencies and code rot
The mother of one of my friends works with the Zooniverse[1] project, a citizen science effort. She was saying that one of their biggest problems is how to distribute their data to the public. I naïvely suggested BitTorrent, figuring the sets were in the 10s of gigabytes at most. She laughed and said that that wasn't a great way to distribute terabytes of data every few weeks.

[1]: http://www.zooniverse.org/
Database Write Optimization: Myths, Comparison, Clarifications
See also the previous post "Windows 8 OEM specs may block Linux booting" - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3020459
Gowalla doing less checkin, more content (more yelp than Foursquare?)
Yes. I've always thought the proper way to enforce penalties like traffic fines would be to literally destroy the offender's money. Then no specific entity benefits from the punishment; the gain is widely spread out by making everyone else's dollars very slightly more valuable.
Erik Needs a Shirt
Http://whatisfashions.com/
watch this
From this post, written by Microsoft:

> Microsoft does not mandate or control the settings on PC firmware that control or enable secured boot from any operating system other than Windows
Good call on single threaded language bridging. Multithreading in XPCOM was either bad or worse depending on the phase of the moon. I almost had an important project tank because XPCOM "out" parameters (unfortunately used internally whenever a method had a return value) were not thread-safe. We ended up using a different threading library and only making synchronous XPCOM calls.
"The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws. Who wants a nation of law-abiding citizens? What's there in that for anyone? But just pass the kind of laws that can neither be observed nor enforced or objectively interpreted – and you create a nation of law-breakers – and then you cash in on guilt." --Ayn Rand
This game is amazing with the Wii remote.
StumbleUpon shutting down photo blogs, themes, group.
Thoughts?
I can't speak for anyone else, but I use the following rules of thumb to monitor my participation in traffic:

1. If you have more car-lengths of empty lane in front of you than you do cars backed up behind you, you're impeding the flow of traffic.

2. If you have no room in front of you and some asshole is tailgating you, he's an asshole.

Exceptions apply, of course — they're only rules of thumb, after all — but they've served me well enough.
A solved problem in the Netherlands? What payment processor do you recommend?

The options I have looked at in the Netherlands all seem really bad or run on ancient technology. You can't even get Paypal Payments Pro, Amazon payments or google checkout. You can't get Braintree or any of the other web 2.0 payment processors.

Ogone looks sort of OK, but I don't know of any others.
Yes. eBay is a textbook natural monopoly, because buyers want the best selection and sellers want as many buyers as possible to find their stuff. All she had to do at eBay was not screw it up -- which is something, but not the same thing at all as the task she now faces at HP.
Actually yes. Working on this over the next few weeks. If it works as expected it will be a few clicks and out comes a contract.
Smalltalk Best Practices in Ruby
Buzzwords are also a way to use "standard" concepts, but 99% of the times annoying.
Seems very similar to http://erly.com, a startup that just launched a couple weeks ago. The difference is that Facebook builds an automatic timeline from your data and erly you have to import everything manually from Facebook.
I get tailgated a lot for driving 70 in a 55. It's Rt 2 outside of Boston.
The impact of a terminal
Poster only mentions two platforms(EdgeLib and Marmalade) does anyone know of others?
Yes, sorry for reading you backwards.

However I maintain that EBS has it's place in a wide range of applications where raw I/O performance isn't the main concern (e.g. archival).
Ask HN: Implications of faster than light speed travel?
What are the major things that need to be rethought if this is in fact possible?
There's a prize for the best answer here: http://zombal.com/zomb/scientific-question/implications-for-...
Yeah, blogs are great for discussing edge cases and the like with people who already know the topic, that books don't have room to cover.

And of course, neither books nor blogs nor language references, etc. substitute for actually sitting down and programming something challenging. But they can help reduce the amount of initial time wasted on trial and error, get you using the language idiomatically, and get you up to speed on language-specific best-practices faster.
I knew this guy in college who would tell us he was sending and receiving texts to/from "hot chicks" he was trying "to get with" or that he had already "gotten with." Another friend later found out he was actually sending texts to his bank and his bank was texting back his balances. Sad.

I guess my point is that there is a market for stuff like this.
Could you give examples of macros-by-example, as the presentation puts it? I'm not sure how those would work in a non-Lispy context.
Sounds like Focus from Vinge's A Deepness In The Sky
The much more important question is, how does one get a million users. Most startups never figure that out. Focus on that, scale later.
Ticket revenue does not, in general, go to the police department, it goes to the municipality (although the police department is a good chunk of the municipal budget).

There was one case a few years back where a police department stopped writing tickets because the town didn't approve their pay increase. When the town sued they said, "Nobody's speeding!"
Probably, but not necessarily. They're dead in the water on the consumer side, but enterprise can be turned around. I'd heard tell they were working on some uber-high-end scientific and government hardware, too, and maybe that becomes their cash cow eventually. Government contracting has certainly been kind to other hardware companies in the past.

They might be able to pull out of the race to the bottom / razor-thin-margins that is the non-Apple PC market, build up a high-end image doing cutting-edge industrial hardware, then (possibly) reconsider a consumer relaunch as a high-end, high-margin brand.
Buying Your First Home
A minimal SBT build file for Twitter's Finagle project