skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's more of a standard method you can employ on any Linux operating system regardless of documentation. But I get it, it's frustrating when you don't know how to use your computer.
I got stock options in exchange for sweat as a consultant in what is now a NASDAQ listed company. Great deal, which netted about a 10x profit over the money Id have been paid. Of course, not without it's risks, but as a freelancer I feel my risk was limited.
And yet here I am, not stopping.

I probably have some ulterior motive for reading, rather than really doing it in order to be qualified for that startup idea I have.

But I won't know that until the next article gets upvoted that tells me my mental state in one sentence!
Like someone mentioned above, I do not think it "hurt" them. I think it limited them a little. Think about what it was like before the iPhone came to Verizon. There were a lot of people praying that it would because they simply would/could not make the switch to AT&T. That limited the reach of the iPhone a little. Not everybody is willing to switch their provider just for one phone.
What I'm trying to say is that "peanut butter" on a label really means "peanut butter or poison". The only question is how many 9's we put on our certainty of it being peanut butter instead of poison. But it's never 100%.

Eventually, if peanut butter remains popular, someone will be killed by poisonous peanut butter. The argument I'm trying to make is that this doesn't necessary mean heads should roll when it happens. 99.99999999% certainty of poison-free peanut butter is good enough. And it remains good enough even when the 0.00000001% comes up and someone dies.

That doesn't make the death any less tragic. But it does mean the peanut butter producer isn't liable just because it happened.
I don't think this is an off-day for me. I also don't think my age is relevant to whether or not he thinks my posts are drivel :)
Exactly which feature do you think can't be had by Windows developers for free?

I suppose you could argue that "oh, with Apple I get it all in one package..." Big deal. You also have to buy an overpriced PC to run OS X and you can't even run the OS in a virtual machine via a hyper-visor.
Think of all the companies with successful exits in the last 15 years, or companies that are not public but whose shares can be sold in private markets like SharesPost. Depending on the size of the company, each exit event probably generated between 1 and several hundred (in the case of Google) multi-millionaires. I'm sure a non-trivial fraction of those people read HN.
All-sky map shows magnetic fields of Milky Way with high precision
>In nature stability

or at least in somewhat understandable models beyond simple linear ones:

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/StrangeAttractor.html
Follow up: i've probably written enough...
Yes, but the article that this article references is about graphene:

http://www.nature.com/news/graphene-spun-into-metre-long-fib...

"Zhen Xu and Chao Gao at Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, China, have achieved just that. They have used an industrial process called wet spinning to turn an aqueous solution of graphene oxide — a modified form of graphene that is easier to dissolve — into fibres that are tens of metres long. A final chemical reduction treatment turns the long strings of graphene oxide back into graphene."

So the final result is graphene, despite what the extreme tech article states.
Ahh, you're right. I took a look at the PDFs and the blue circle indicates emergency access routes.
> (my own .NET code is on GH too)

Where?
Yeah. I had one like that but have really never heard of it happening anywhere else.
Totally true... took me about that amount of time with the help of google :)

James you did well not telling the name, it's good to see that there are still a bunch of people out there with strong ethics. However is a shame what happened to you but the world takes many turns and sometimes people realize about mistakes when is too late. You will see and laugh.

Cheers,
Rifgraf is a fire-and-forget web service for displaying graphs
Fab Nabs Big Round
A Rant of an engineering student from India.
Jabra bluetooth headsets
In the world of headsets Jabra Headsets are very much famous because of its high quality and everlasting sound. It was 1st purchased by the GN Corporation in 2000. Now they have amalgamated as the most trust worthy worldwide provider of hand free communication gadgets.
It's not really used colloquially in the US either - if someone says "Happy Holidays" to you, it's because someone in charge of them told them they aren't allowed to say "Merry Christmas".

(Standard disclaimers about anecdotes and data apply.)
Soon Zynga employees might want an option which says "$n but our ceo threatened to fire me if I didn't give $n*50% back".
It will be held in non-interest generating accounts until it can be released. Srsly, this is financial services and there's the odd regulation or two that everyone - including PayPal - have to follow.

They can't 'steal' the money - when accounts are locked they either hold onto it for six months or require you to keep a minimum balance. This is how they mitigate their massive risk profile.

Their customer services are entirely worthless, it's true, but I suspect that anyone coming to 'disrupt' PayPal will struggle with many of the same issues because they're caused by fundamental risk issues with online payments.
>And I don't think a company that develop's open source should be able to place ads on it, as to me, that is still 'selling' the software.

Free speech, not free beer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gratis_versus_libre
This response doesn't respond to the claim that download.com is bundling other software as well (the original nmap post referred specifically to VLC). This response claims that wrapping nmap was a "mistake", should we conclude that wrapping other software was therefore deliberate?
When I want to jump into a new interest, I usually spend a chunk of time at the beginning watching videos or grazing thru a manual.

Even if I don't "get" everything yet -- knowing that Final Cut can do "X, Y, Z" and it's somewhere in the middle of the manual -- can be useful in removing some of the early frustration in the learning process.
Micro SD cards have that effect on me. You can actually buy them and they are already unbelievably small.

Even crazier: My cheap $100 dumbphone came with one of those cards and I didn’t even know about it. In today’s world stuff like that is a commodity.
Flipboard - now available for iPhone
Mysterious Planet-Size Object Spotted Near Mercury
To Pay or Not to Pay Technical Debt
Thank god for that - however Microsoft was pretty open for its time, as being a pure software company and letting computer makers to bundle your OS was the exception, not the norm.
> It staggers me that so much prevailing thought still leans towards the idea of complex, highly connected systems as inherently stable, with their natural state as equilibrium.

I think it's more that

1. Systems that spin irreversibly out of equilibrium usually fall apart and so are not observed; and

2. For a long time, there was a dearth of mathematical tools for dealing with complex or chaotic systems.

Most attacks on economists about believing in this or that $obviously_ridiculous_belief are strawmen, giving credit neither for the subtleties of the actual concepts nor the self-awareness of economists themselves.
"I really never got why I would write one language in another language"

The terser the syntax, the less room for error in comparison to its more verbose counterpart.

"just to then use some tool to translate it (and if it gets a little complicated have to manually fix translation problems afterwards)"

If you're manually fixing compiled code, you are doing it wrong.
There have been several comments on here lately that make me realize how few people actually understand how equity works in startups. I mean, if people are shocked to learn about preferred stock, what would they think about participating preferred?!?

I guess this is really something you only learn when you are the one signing the financing docs.
So are they saying they only intended to bundle the crapware with closed source software, or am I misunderstanding?
These are decisions best made on a case by case basis, but the doctrines we lay out for deciding which case falls where affect how willing to take or not takes risks a society becomes. And most of the biggest advancements in human society came through enormous risk, so I for one think we should not encourage society to be too risk adverse.

On a case by case basis, we invariably decide who to blame by determing who accepted responsibility, perhaps implicitly. We don't place blame on individuals for the betterment of society because we know intuitively that that is unfair. So, we may decide e.g. to make cannons illegal, but we wouldn't decide to make Bob's cannon illegal, and throw Bob in jail after the fact. Likewise, we wouldn't decide to let Bob off the hook for blowing holes in people's houses because we like cannons and want to see more of them around.

(And I'm aware that we routinely fail to adhere to this principle, no need for examples, but it is what we strive for).
What does Debian have to do with update-motd? As far as I know Debian does not do anything particularly funky with the motd. On my Debian testing computer it is a symlink to /var/run/motd which is a static file generated at boot.

This specific instance of pointless complexity seems to be almost only the work of of Ubuntu.
I had the pleasure of meeting brewster through a free event I was putting on some time ago. He is a remarkably generous man, in all senses of the word. Donation sent.
Reminds me of the BBC's "How to make a news broadcast":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YtGSXMuWMR4
Not trolling at all. Some of us have the opinion that you have to be a fool to work at a startup.
Interestingly enough, this was the same approach that worked for me in school.

In college, I always felt that I couldn't start my math homework until I'd read the chapter thoroughly. It wasn't til my last year/year and a half that I realized, the best way to learn upper division math was to dive right into solving the hard problems, referencing back as needed.
Python has been doing this for awhile, hasn't it?
Curtis basically falls for the animistic fallacy: that all events are caused by conscious agents. This is the same pathway that leads to both religion and conspiracy theorists.
Now I have to ask: who are the bad guys in C# world?
Always split test
I second the advice to go to Berkeley.

I am a university professor and so have hopped around from place to place (undergrad, grad, postdoc, faculty) and have seen that different universities are very different from each other.

At some places you are held to high standards. At some places you are not. Moreover, the most important thing you can do is to be around intelligent and motivated people, and the best schools offer this.

My math students at Stanford got a much better education from me than my math students where I am now. Consider what variable I have just controlled for... and you will understand why I'm suggesting you go somewhere top-notch if you can.
Rob Conery is teasing. And Rob Connery, not Phil Haack does the "This Developer's Life" Podcast. Hence the joke. If Anders Hejlsberg replied, the thread would be complete.
they say it is an image processing artefact.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6...

After having already watched 6.5 seasons of TNG on Netflix i believe them that it isn't a cloaked Klingon warbird (because the warbird is smaller that the ship in the image :)
That the AI can always get out of the box is a very strong claim.

But it's not necessary. The only claim necessary is that the AI can convince some humans to let it out of the box, and we cannot identify a priori which humans will and will not let it out, thus we cannot guarantee we'll keep it in the box. That's a much weaker claim, but proves the same general point and is much easier to argue.
Though the time I spend here on HN is both enjoyable and educational, a
few months ago I ran an interesting test. For each article I read, I
wrote down a one line entry on a piece of paper noting the site and
basic gist of the article. The next day, before I was "allowed" to read
any more articles on HN, I sat down with the blank side of said piece of
paper from yesterday, and wrote down the articles I remembered.

I hate to admit it, but my retention rate was just miserable, probably
less than 50%. Sure, remembering stuff "cold" on the next day is
different than remembering an association during a conversation (e.g.
"Ya, I read something about 'X' the other day."), but it was enough to
make me wonder if my educational entertainment reading was time well
spent, or time wasted?

Everyone needs breaks, and it's fun to keep up with what's going on in
the world, but I might be better off doing something else...
It was on a couple of months ago, and I cannot seem to find it online either - err. It was a housing piece (boom town / gold rush angle). So, the town is ugly, it is what the report was about. Spend every second giving me the feel of the place of the story and not one second on the irrelevant.

// as a UND graduate I find NDSU's choices to be poor :)
Having everything integrated into one consistent package is the reason to use an IDE.

iOS device emulation and Unix excepted, everything is sort of available from other sources, but, then, how much money would the time to assemble, learn and operate your duct-tape software development stack be worth?
No, like a cruise missile.

Fired out of a cannon.
This is exactly what I had always assumed, but felt like I couldn't rely on much of conventional wisdom in an argument like this.
At a certain point, it's no longer reading to gain more knowledge, it's about procrastination.

Doing takes work, it requires making decisions, it requires critical thinking. Reading helps you delay this with an activity you can justify to yourself as being helpful in the long run.

However at a certain point, you've delayed too long and the time investment you've sunk into reading has been way too much for what you're getting out of it, compared to the act of doing and producing something and/or learning from experience.

(Edit: spacing)
"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested" -Bacon

Unfortunately, most of what's out there on the blogs are only meant to be tasted...if that. Direct experience is valuable, but direct experience guided by an informed authority can be even more valuable.
Both. Trade exists across invisible lines, even when the owners of the invisible lines forcibly try to prevent them.
If the purpose of your research was only to establish that there's a (nontrivial) "risk" of someone curing cancer (as Yudkowsky was trying to establish that there's a risk of an AI talking itself out of a sandbox), then yes, that would be sufficient, assuming the patients actually went into remission with higher than usual frequency after your interventions (as Yudkowsky's subjects unboxed the AI with higher than usual frequency).
That founder number changes quite a bit if there was investment capital involved, whereas the employee percentages stay about the same.
Anyone know what the experience is like moving from the free tier to the premium one? Do they redeploy the app and then do a seamless DNS switchover, or is there down time, etc?
Indeed, some USB drives are actually just micro SD adapters.

http://halytech.imgur.com/usb_secret
When presented the opportunity you chose to take a dig at Daft Punk, but not the fauxhawk? Some things I will never understand...
How is figuring out what your customers actually respond to unprofessional?
You should be downvoted for it, and it's sad that you haven't thus far.

Worthless market share? Zero profit? Such emotionally-driven hubris has no place on HN.
I really wish Mailgun.net was a nicer website. It's terrible of me, but I just can't take Mailgun seriously with such an.... amateur website, I just can't accept that it's a legitimate company. Postmark on the other hand (and mailchimp etc.) have really nice websites, it makes me want to use them.
I'm not sure I'm quite on the "flash is dead" bandwagon just yet much as I would love to see it replaced with something more standard. I agree that it will decline but it's death will be a slow and agonizing one.

If I was back in 2007 and had to build a rich GUI interface that would work with IE6 as well as modern browsers I can't really think of any other option but to either use flash/flex or severely restrict your expectations. As it is now there is still a fair few things that cannot be done well (webcams etc) with standard HTML/JS (especially if you are not running a super uptodate browser).

The problem with these technologies is that feasibility is really in the hands of a minority of big corporations (MSFT/Apple etc) who are the gatekeepers and make decisions about the platform, they problem is that they often work in secret.

Let's face it , the biggest reason behind the "death of flash" is that apple announced they would not support it on their newer tablet and phone devices. If this hadn't happened plenty of people would still be merrily writing flex code for the web.

The problem with the secrecy that these corporations work on their products with is that developers literally have no idea what will happen, if Apple had made a friendly warning to web devs saying "hey, trust us you should really stop using flash if you want to work with our devices" a year before they ipad came out there would be less people having problems.

Let's say hypothetically that Microsoft suddenly came out next year and announced that (for example) they were going to trash all support for .NET across all platforms for windows 8 onwards (including server) and had decided that everything should be written in python if it wanted to run on their OS, no exceptions.

Obviously lots of python devs would rejoice with the headstart they had, but firms that had invested significant time and money intro creating large apps with big codebases in .NET etc would be completely screwed. Obviously Microsoft generally don't pull shit like that (quite as much) but Apple would be more likely to do that kind of massive change and they are gaining market share..
> You have the source, but the Maven model used by the whole Java ecosystem for distribution/management of packages doesn't work like that.

Oh, I don't know about that. Clojure does this; shipping source is default, and shipping bytecode is only done in cases of certain Java interop forms.

But Maven has a notion of "classifiers" that seem to be a good fit for this. I've seen them used to specify things like "this is the JDK 1.4-compatible version", so I wonder why Scala library authors haven't used them to publish the same artifact compiled against multiple versions of Scala.
Transcript from the office of every Android OEM’s CEO
Or perhaps he considers it to be the lesser enemy of his mortal enemy?
Or you can use a database where join performance isn't pathological, and scale out by adding read slaves.

Caching is hard. Caching as an automated 'layer' is much harder. If it were possible to cache in a general way databases would do it already. Adding a 'caching layer' is opening a gate into hell. The things is, at first it will be fine. Thousands of engineer hours and hundreds of subtle bugs later, you'll (if you're wise) realize that opening that door let out many demons, you just didn't have the eyes to see them at the time.

"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." -- Phil Karlton
Oh, where to start.

- BMI is a poor measure of obesity. Among other things, bone and muscle are both significantly denser than fat. People, including children, with thicker bones and/or more muscle will have higher BMI regardless of fatness. So it's at best a poor proxy for fatness, not the One True Measurement that so many people use it for.

- BMI is an especially poor measure for children. The ideal BMI (to the extent that means anything) varies according to developmental stage. Which is why you'll get tables and graphs for BMI that are indexed by age---except that age and developmental stage are themselves only roughly correlated, and a child at an earlier or later stage than is typical for their age will not be well-described by such a chart, and the "ideal BMI" that the chart lists for that child's age will actually be a non-ideal BMI for that child.

- BMI percentile is an even poorer measure, because it provides only a comparison against the population; if the population is skinny, even a high percentile might not be overweight, and if the population is fat, even a low percentile might be overweight. And that's modulo all the concerns in the previous two paragraphs.

- Even after taking all of that into account, we still have the problem that our conventional idea of "overweight" meaning "more weight/fat than is healthy" is likely inaccurate, in that some amount of certain kinds of fat actually make one healthier, and (as cited elsewhere in this thread) people who fall into the range often called "slightly overweight" actually live longer.

So evaluating kids' health (or their parents' assessment thereof) with reference to their BMI percentage is fraught in four different ways with inherent, systemic problems.
Hackers hit supermarket self-checkout lanes, steal money from shoppers
Ruby On REST: Introducing the Representer Pattern
Sure, I should have expressed myself better - I added a clarifying paragraph about that.
While we're in beta I am still lead building and establishing connections with people who would post jobs. Launch is soon though, at which point you may be able to view (but not apply for) jobs when you're not a member.
E. I used it for 5 months before switching to IntelliJ. Code completion isn't worth using in Eclipse on large projects, it often took an entire second to show up. Partial building happens on every save, which seems like a nice idea, but on android it has to rebuild a substantial part on every deploy anyways, so it doesn't speed anything up. Often times the building would cause the UI to simply lock up. The debugger would often crash on breakpoints, windows would reset themselves and jump around, and when you modify files outside of eclipse, it would take multiple refreshes before it picked it up. Add that to no native support for color schemes (they're laggy at best with the Eclipse Color Theme plugin) and an insanely slow load time, and you wonder how this software has lasted so long. Switching to IntelliJ has not only made me significantly more productive (30% additional maybe?), but in general I feel less frustrated at work.
There's something fundamentally broken in Eclipse. I used it for 5 months before switching to IntelliJ. Code completion isn't worth using in Eclipse on large projects, it often took an entire second to show up. Partial building happens on every save, which seems like a nice idea, but on android it has to rebuild a substantial part on every deploy anyways, so it doesn't speed anything up. Often times the building would cause the UI to simply lock up. The debugger would often crash on breakpoints, windows would reset themselves and jump around, and when you modify files outside of eclipse, it would take multiple refreshes before it picked it up. Add that to no native support for color schemes (they're laggy at best with the Eclipse Color Theme plugin) and an insanely slow load time, and you wonder how this software has lasted so long. Switching to IntelliJ has not only made me significantly more productive (30% additional maybe?), but in general I feel less frustrated at work.
That wasn't there before, I'm almost positive.
I was going to have a go at that as well, (mainly the word, seriously, who says fauk-hawke?) but I thought that'd be laying it on a bit thick.

The whole 'wacky french house' thing has been done better.

http://soundcloud.com/para-one/canblaster-clockworks-para-on...

http://soundcloud.com/panteros666/panteros666-javelin-o