skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand why actors don't negotiate on observables like total box office receipts rather than numbers that can be gamed. That said I'm going to be purely speculative and venture a guess:

I'm suspicious that actors and actresses actually are not that interested (as a group, I'm sure there are plenty of exceptions) in getting paid from residuals and actually prefer to get a big check rather than a smaller check with bigger payments later. I think philosophically though they feel entitled to an equity stake, after all how much of the success of a blockbuster movie is due to the stars that are in it i.e. they bring significant brand value. So they deserve a fractional share, but don't necessarily want to get paid that way for risk and time preference reasons. So we get a mutually agreed upon fiction where the actors get a big check AND a huge chunk of the profits which in practice will be zero since we'll account away the profit, yet we still respect the enormously significant contribution of stars to blockbuster pictures by giving them an imaginary equity stake. It seems that actors and actresses tend to act less like capitalists and more like star employees and so in practice their compensations looks more like what you'd expect from the latter than the former.
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Case in point, Valve/Steam got it right: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/114391-Valves-Gabe...
Feudal lords were the state. They created and enforced laws, in a form that is quite recognizable to us today: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magna_Carta (this is an 800 year old document created in feudal England). Our system of property law can be recognizably traced back to laws of feudal England more than a thousand years old.

What you're thinking of is more along the lines of a warlord in a stateless place. Such a warlord would have a lot of relative wealth, but because such a society would produce very little wealth, would not be wealthy in absolute terms.

People who have a billion dollars wealth of wealth, in absolute terms, only exist in this country because you have 300 million people working in a highly organized system of divided labor. Without a state you'd have a society of peasant farmers and hunter-gatherers that had a fraction of the population (how many hunter-gatherers can you support in a territory of a size a single warlord can reasonably defend?) and produced a minuscule fraction of the wealth. The state enables, in a very fundamental way, the social concert of action that creates the wealth that billionaires reap.
I bet it's the cost factor. I know tons of people in the developing world that don't always have electricity, but they have smart phones.
I personally, have been waiting centuries for our robotic overlords to improve the runtime performance of lisp. Now I can wait some more!
Yes, because you don't even have to be using the computer to acquire new malware -- if Windows isn't patched and you don't have a properly configured firewall in front of the system. Simply browsing the web with fully patched Windows behind a firewall is a risk as well.

Among other things, I review orders for an advertising service, 20-30 a day. Some of these orders are purposely placed to advertise sites with malicious code that installs malware. My fully patched Windows 7 system behind a firewall, running antivirus and the latest Google Chrome, gets infected with something or other on a regular basis -- at least once a month -- without me ever downloading any files.

Last week it was one of those fake antivirus programs that terminates all your real antivirus programs and pops up a window saying you're infected and need to upgrade for $29.99 every 20 seconds.

That one was probably a Java plugin vulnerability.
I've just started working on full-featured Lisp in javascript over the past few weeks: https://github.com/jlongster/outlet

It will compile to js and lua, and I'm focusing on writing games with it. I can attest that writing a Lisp compiler is really fun and shockingly simple in some places.

Current features I'm working on: http://jlongster.com/2012/01/16/outlet-gets-a-personality.ht...
I don't understand. Wouldn't LEGO Minecraft just be...LEGO?
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Oye, no joke. I get more mail for former residents of my home than I do for me. We have filled out the form to stop delivering that mail. Didn't work. We have called the mail annex the carriers leave from. Didn't work. We have left the carriers a friggin note. Didn't work. Also, my sister-in-law just sent us something she made for my daughter, which USPS promptly lost and did nothing to attempt to find. Granted she didn't add delivery confirmation on the package, but should I really have to pay extra to make sure my package will actually get there? If that is the case, raise the price of stamps to cover it.
To make things easier, you can use node-fibers (https://github.com/laverdet/node-fibers) to structure your asynchronous code with coroutines or, if you are feeling less adventurous, async (https://github.com/caolan/async) is an excellent helper library for common asynchronous code patterns and it works on the client-side as well.
> Things like Subjective logic are similar to the way humans establish trust in real life and search engines could improve their results by using it.

Trust in real life is broken. Google Search (1999 version) was a HUGE IMPROVEMENT over the "it's who you know" way of doing things that had always existed. Suddenly, you didn't have to know a guy who knew a guy who had a bike to find information about something.

It seems completely crazy to me that we would want to go back to the old way of doing things. I use Google to find out about things my friends don't know (if they did, I'd have asked them).
Declarative constraint based programming in this fashion might be nice but that doesn't make the "traditional" way borked.

Furthermore I think the author dismisses the performance problem too easily. The code examples don't give any indication of the algorithmic complexity. I suppose I could determine it, possibly quite easily, if I understood how the compiler works but why would I want to know that?

I expect that this abstraction will make debugging performance problems a nightmare or it will leak the information. I will have to change perspective from "what" to "how" quite frequently which would distract me from my real goal.

I hope to be proven wrong though, this does look interesting.
Funny. extremetech uses at least 9 different pieces of tracking software on their page reported by ghostery
penisland.com
therapistfinder.com
whorepresents.com
:)
I like Kris Zyp's promises and use them a lot:

https://github.com/kriszyp/promised-io
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I like the dictionaries have get() method tip; So you dont have to worry about unwanted exceptions in code. Then just check for the None case.
For me it's not so much that it's not always accurate but more than it always make my computer soooo slow. And also, that I don't believe in antivirus.. Precaution is everything; One you've got the virus, unless it's a trivial or unoffensive one, better to format.
Correct, the semantics are simply nothing at all. :)
Relevant ads outed a gay teen on Facebook: http://unicornbooty.com/blog/2012/01/11/gay-teen-inadvertent...

Maybe not widespread, but definitely not entirely hypothetical.
If you have ever used any payforit service to pay for goods, the intermediary you went through will at the very least have your MSISDN hashed and most likely in the clear (depends on your mobile network operator)

List of the Payforit intermediaries
http://www.payforit.org/
Can you put vacuum in a bottle in any more real sense than you can put darkness in a bottle, or cold, or dry?
Kiwi is fun because Facebook would never do a 4sq or Instagram connect for their timeline.
From http://rachelbythebay.com/w/2012/01/16/replyall/ ("Start an electronic food fight to spot the dumb ones"): "I suspect this person was performing a masterful troll (...)"

This may be too charitable, though.
Activations would still be disimilar to sales because Apple profits both from the sale of the hardware, but if I remember correctly, they also are cut part of the recurring contract revenue (please correct me if I'm wrong).

I'm not sure how Google ends up making their money off Android (other than it allowing them a much-need and very good-sized footprint in the mobile market). While they might get some cut of the phone contract, they don't get the profit from the hardware side, which like most Apple devices is very profitable.
I read the overview but I'm still not clear on why/how I would use this.

What other existing frameworks would I use this instead of?
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This is a very interesting project. I'll have to dig deeper into it soon.
I'm not proposing that you buy my system - I'm asking what's wrong with my design for the core mechanic.

And you've genuinely offered no substantive critiques. Sounds like the core mechanic is gold, then.

If there's nothing wrong with the core mechanic, I should be able to buy a commercial system built on it, and know that it has all of the inherent strengths and weaknesses of my core mechanic. And possibly more weaknesses, inherent in the implementation of any security system.
DNSSEC validation is part of chrome;

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/16/dnssecchrome.html

DNSSEC is about end-to-end authenticity for DNS data, and one of those ends is the user application, so it's understandable that a burden of responsibility would shift towards it. TSIG is about transport security, it's not about data authenticity, I wouldn't describe it as an alternative - it is complementary to DNSSEC.

If DNSSEC succeeds, then doubtless there will be some successful in-application libraries and APIs for performing this - and those state machines won't be something we all have to worry about. But yes, it does shift the work-load.
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In the end I think much of the power lies with the studios, as they have more capital, and are closer to the customer. Blockbusters can easily create stars, but stars usually cannot - without major studio backing - create blockbusters.
"I’m almost 21, and I’ve been programming for over a decade now"
The last statement kind of bugs me:

"Given a choice, all other things equal, I will always hire someone who truly cares about the product over someone who treats it like a job."

This quote was after a comment about some people who have families and other things going on. If you can find someone who is head first into your product, that's fine. But those interests can and should change after a while.

Someone who has a family and responsibilities can be dependable. An employee that is frenetically brilliant can burn out quickly. A team of balanced, stable, dependable people can be counted on to keep working towards a goal. This is vitally important when your young company is striving to survive and take on/create a market.
I've been unemployed for the last six months and while I could last longer by using my retirement savings I'm not sure it would be a good decision.

I personally would not go into retirement for an asset that is underwater and that is most assuredly going to go underwater further. It is almost universally agreed among economist that have not been cheerleading for the past 5 years that inflation is coming, when it does house prices will decline further. That coupled with the mortgage fraud crisis means that housing recovery is a long way off.

Rationally looking at the situation you are below zero, putting your retirement into it, compounds the problem because you are not elevating the sinking asset while you are depleting hard cash. It's the old don't throw good money after bad.

I believe in honoring your debts but I also want to be pragmatic

We each have to come to grips with what we find acceptable, some things to remember though are that you may have paid into mortgage insurance, to insure the home from a default. Some people see that as a ethical out, after-all if you paid into it you secured the bank from the event, you should be entitled to utilize it. Others find it ethically agreeable that the banks where bailed out with public money, and therefore the public has the right to in-turn ease the burden on themselves, it is the moral hazard argument that people raised in bailing out the banks. That if we did so, it would give people the ethical right to opt out of being the one holding the bag. It is a moral hazard but I do see both sides of the argument. For me personally I believe we are a civilization of people first, I know at this particular time we sometimes don't act like it, but my personal ethics are people are the most important. As such I believe no person should be asked to personally bear the brunt of any socitial issue, if an issue is causing suffering, which I consider financial hardship to be, then I think that we as a society should support them remedying that situation, even if it contributes to the problem. What we can't have is a class of entities like the banks who are able to pass the burden and then citizens, who are then expected to grin and bare it. To do so asks members of our society who have the least resources, to suffer for the common good. Personally I think we are long past the moral arguments of walking away, either by short sale or foreclosure. Asking homeowners to bare the cost of propping up the inflated housing market, when we did not do so with the banks is unethical in my world view. We as Americans seem to hold a double standard on issues like this, where companies are given a free pass, but yet the citizens are held to a code of honor. It leaves the population ripe for exploitation, by creating two distinct sets of rules.
What I learned from 50+ mock interviews?

That 50+ is too many mock interviews
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Does this include so-called verbatim search? http://insidesearch.blogspot.com/2011/11/search-using-your-t...

I don't use it but I'm curious to know if the problems you're encountering also happen with this new feature.
Yes, Google bought Motorola to protect itself from patent war.

...Which is why Google is now attempting to shut down a competitors product lines using patents.

Wait, what?

I stand by my post. This is straight up bullshit, just like the rest of the industry. Google is no better than Apple or Microsoft or anyone else. Do no evil has become Do the status quo.
I rarely use ifs and whiles using javascript.. There are better, higher level libraries that take care of it for you. As a bonus, some of them let you make it * paralleled* with the same syntax. Obviously, when you switch to a new language, you need to learn their new paradigms / designs.
A great example of the kind of styles Enyo uses:

http://enyojs.com/samples/stylematters/

Seriously beautiful. Next chance I get, I'm going to get to grips with Enyo- it looks fantastic.
Thank you. It's people like you who are steadily paying for my kids' college education. :)

I don't blame you for being frustrated with my responses, but it's my experience that detailed critiques of random crypto schemes on message boards are counterproductive; the designer just "yes, but"'s the critique until all the low-hanging fruit is picked (each of which was a devastating flaw in their original scheme), and the conversation ends with a no- less- fatally- flawed system and a designer who is perversely more confident.
I'm sure that's correct.

Sure, you can take jar file compiled using JDK's javac (actually, most android apps are compiled using JDK's javac), but you can't run it on device. You have to run it through dx tool, which combines all class and jar files and converts them into dex file. With different instructions than JVM.
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Enyo 2 [...] doesn’t yet include a UI package, but features a tight, cross-platform core that will serve as the foundation for future Enyo development, supporting libraries and add-ons of all kinds.

Honestly, I'd wait until they have a UI framework and see if it compares to Bootstrap. The core certainly enables more organized, JS-focused code. Probably good for large web apps.
My grandfather had stomach cancer in the 1960s, when he was in his 40s. He was very fortunate that it was detected quickly and removed successfully. He ended up dying of a heart attack in his 70s.

Nobody lives forever, but some people do survive cancer.
Yeah; that line struck me as well. Does this mean we're borrowing these particles from the future? Hopefully not from the past...? Also, wouldn't this qualify as a machine that outputs more energy than it uses?
The last time I checked their SDK license, it let you use their JavaScript VM for the dynamic code (unless this changed recently):

===>
3.3.2 An Application may not itself install or launch other executable code by any
means, including without limitation through the use of a plug-in architecture, calling other
frameworks, other APIs or otherwise. No interpreted code may be downloaded and used in
an Application except for code that is interpreted and run by Apple's Published APIs and builtin
interpreter(s).
<===

So the argument that they ban any interpreted code is hypocritical. They ban competing browsers through banning JavaScript VMs.
Its a good mobile development framework.

It would likely compete with things like Sencha Touch, jQuery Mobile, Jo, and other frameworks targeted at building mobile and hybrid applications.
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Yes, same study I believe

The differential was actually "commonly used tasks" and "more rarely used tasks" (which includes new users). The study did not define how to tell which task was which very well.

So yes, cutting a line of text, faster via the keyboard, but capitalizing every first word? Very likely, the mouse has the edge.
He seems to have forgotten lambda, without which you can't really write anything more interesting than the examples that are given.
Also, notice these lines

Now that I saw the true power of education, there is no turning back. It's like a drug. I've just peeked through a window into an entire new world, and I am determined to helpbring education to everyon there.
Due to the code of practice in the UK the mobile network operators do at share "over 18 yes/no" with some sites

You can read more

http://www.aimelink.org/docs/UK_MNO_Age_Verification_Procedu...
Shameless Self Promotion. Here are two version of the LISP interpreter in JavaScript that I wrote:

1. Direct port of Peter Norvig's version in Python:

https://bitbucket.org/sainamdar/lisp2js/

2. Separate Syntactic Analysis from Execution:

https://bitbucket.org/sainamdar/lisp2js2/
this argument is RETARDED. Just log out if you dont want personalized results. All these people writing articles are paid PR Shills for FB or Twitter or someone.
See also: Heist, a feature-rich implementation of Scheme in Ruby: https://github.com/jcoglan/heist
I didn't say the industry doesn't care. But, the business model relies on detecting as much as possible and shoving that in your face to get more bookings. I have no doubt you take false positives very seriously at an engineering level.

However, the bottom line impact of a false positive on some indie software has to be negligible.
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http://code.google.com/p/support/issues/detail?id=1829

You might want to start that issue. Helps express a desire for the feature.
I was referring to the mailbox that each and every residence and place of business has, regardless of their proximity and population density.

FedEx and UPS have service centers, but nowhere near as many as post offices and neither run widespread residential routes for pickup.
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What? It’s necessary context. I started programming early because it’s interesting. It has taken many years of hard work to get to where I am, to develop the skills and opinions I have. Don’t think I’m gloating, because there is nothing whatever to gloat about.
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No, a single feature that exploits DNSSEC validation is part of Chrome.

Securing DNS with "end-to-end authenticity for DNS data" is like securing the web by signing every individual web page.
I'll be happy to put on my tinfoil hat and tell you what I think is really going on.

The USPS does a lot more than ship packages and letters. They are also the government's mass printer. That VA letter and social security check probably wasn't printed in a Virginia suburb, but at one of the regional USPS printing offices. They also handle very high security items, not just to you, but between government agencies under conditions that would make the warden of a maximum security prison blush. The term "going postal" isn't about some guy at your local post office flipping out over the number of people waiting to get their packages weighed, but about some guy who has spent decades wondering if the guy standing next to him is a postal inspector just itching to see him screw up.

To put it another way, they offset a lot of other agencies costs (at least in overhead). I'm certainly not saying it would be better or worse if all of this were handled by the private sector, but I will say it would require a lot of restructuring and make someone a huge pile of cash. Still, it is going to happen sooner or later. Politically it is just too sweet.
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I have early stage tech startup in Seattle, USA with handful of transactions. How much would it typically cost to file tax?
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It is reliable if the address that's on the piece of mail is where it was sent to. The issue then is whoever's maintaining the address and paying to postage for sending it there.

Also mail forwarding's worked pretty well for me. Just fill the info online or drop the card in the mail.
node-canvas [0], node.js, and processing.js are a very powerful combination for allowing designers to implement server-side image filters.

[0]: https://github.com/LearnBoost/node-canvas
No, there is an optimized Javascript interpreter only in safari, then there is the UIWebView control which you can use a less-optimized javascript interpreter in your app.

http://www.quora.com/JavaScript/Why-has-Apple-limited-the-Ni...

Here is the why:
http://daringfireball.net/2011/03/nitro_ios_43

>It’s a trade-off. Most OSes allow marking memory pages as executable for performance reasons. iOS disallows it for security reasons. If you allow for pages of memory to be escalated from writable to executable (even if you require the page be made permanently read-only first), then you are enabling the execution of unsigned native code. It breaks the chain of trust. Allowing remote code to execute locally turns every locally exploitable security flaw into a remotely exploitable one.
Webmonkey is still around? I don't think I've seen a link to that place in 10 years...

http://web.archive.org/web/20010530061801/http://hotwired.ly...
I thought this was his example of lambda:

l.eval [:label, :second, [:quote, [:lambda, [:x], [:car, [:cdr, :x]]]]]

No?
There's already a branch of CoffeeScript, called Iced CoffeeScript (http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/), that does this. The example in the post would look like:

for blogPostId in recentBlogPostIds
await asynchronousDB.getBlogPostById blogPostId, defer(err, post)
templating.render post

Though you still can't simply return the result — you'd have to use a continuation — but it does make it simple enough to use CPS in general.
Even the example using lambda?
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