skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Devil's advocate counter-point:

Is there any point to not bruteforcing it? While you twiddle bits, I can throw money on hardware and get my product out on the market. Then, when times are more stable, I can worry about optimizations.

Also, since I haven't done any twiddling yet, there is likely to be a lot of low hanging fruit. I was going to need that hardware anyway if I was to grow. Now I can have a period of time where my savings allow me to slow down on buying more hardware.
Flash has been in a separate process (plugin-container) for ages.
However, using this approach, when something goes wrong (as inevitably will happen with all machines, mechanical or digital) my reaction would most likely be be to look down at the problem, scratch my head, then walk my ass to the bike shop.

You could just learn to maintain/repair the store bike, which has after all been designed to work by someone, and probably does most of the time. I've ridden bikes for years and only replaced things as they wear. Not that there's anything wrong with building your bike from scratch, but it's not an automatic guarantee of superiority.
Sharding will lead to an even much higher power bill.
I'm no expert, but I believe that by issuing common stock traded in a public exchange, employees and current common stock holders will be more easily able to sell their stocks, thereby making these people more liquid.

It could have advantages in hiring, where now, people can actually realize the value by selling their options/stock.
Stop trolling this feminist garbage.
I have a service business, and one of my clients is a used records, books, cds, dvds, etc. We do a lot of trade work (instead of cash). The wife and I have a room we call "the library" - all of the shelves are mostly overstuffed (double-stacked and two-deep).

Also, while working at the client after hours, they showed me how to open the security cases so I can sample whatever audio I want on the store system - Makes the environment much nicer.
"Everybody does it," is not consistent with the way Apple has branded itself, e.g. "magical," "nothing else is an iPhone," "think different" and "here's to the..."

In stories about Foxconn, people see a dichotomy between the images of children reading Winnie the Pooh and the sausage factory behind the iPad.

Other companies don't receive the flack in large part because the have not marketed their brands by implying their products are as wholesome as mother's milk.

"Everybody does it" doesn't make it right.
This is exactly what I'm looking for. (i did send Shereef an email when he posted on HN for this).

Joeadmo: do you think someone can get trained and land a job in 8 weeks?
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I constantly switch between using two external monitors through my docking station, using my TV through HDMI, or just the internal display. I don't even have an xorg.conf file. The defaults are perfectly fine and RandR does the job of changing outputs while X is running.

I have a T420 with Intel graphics.
But, as I've pleaded previously, if we force them to shut down the Internet to control the flow of information, everyone will know. If there is an ability to shut off communities selectively, that would be hard to detect.

Although Twitter says they will provide removal requests to the Chilling Effects site, I remain skeptical. If nothing else, this seems akin to the increasingly mandated "protest areas" in the U.S. and elsewhere that are well, or thoroughly, removed from the events being protested.
The founders and everyone else with current equity in Facebook need a liquidity event. They are all collectively sitting on $100 Billion worth of value but right now the only way for them to see anything from that value is to collect their share of the profits (if Facebook is even distributing profits as opposed to rolling them into future growth spending). The IPO gives them a chance to actually collect some cash for the value of their shares and live like the millionaires their tax returns say they should be.
Yes, salient risks seem more threatening than they actually are, but for a similar reason, invisible risks are more threatening than they seem. Which is why the future does not look as bright as this article is claiming.

In the last year or so I have become interested in the study of existential risks -- low-probability events which could extinguish humanity as we know it. Things like catastrophic nuclear war, biotechnology or nanotechnology overrun, artificial intelligence overrun, supervolcano explosions and asteroid impacts. There are few people researching these things, despite the huge potential downside to not researching them, because the risks aren't things that our amygdala responds to.

If you're interested in this stuff, there's much work to be done - check out the Lifeboat Foundation, Singularity Institute and Future of Humanity Institute.
For all the focus on the negative, what about the fact that millions of people are being lifted up out of abject poverty?

Even a long-hours factory job with some safety risks could be better than facing starvation. Not saying conditions couldn't be improved, but, just to think about the situation in the bigger picture.
thanks, looking for free options at this point
This seems to be easily bypassed even if you dynamically generate the shapes.
It's one thing for MU to say there are no guarantees that you won't lose your file, it's another for the FBI to say that they've taken them and won't give them back.

They're not lost. They're not gone. The FBI has them and they could give them back if they wanted to. I'm not saying they will, just that they could.
Not if you factor in the time investments.
Every year hundreds of people do literally walk across the country on trails such as the Continental Divide Trail and the Pacific Crest Trail.
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The most low level line workers are paid 1750+200+(100~800)+OT=more than ￥2500/month that's $13 a day.

So you think wrong.

The problem are hazardous working condition and excessive over-time, in the end of course repetitive jobs that have no way up.
How is this true anymore with secondary markets? Surely the founders and first employees are all rich by now.
Facebook Filing For IPO As Early As Wednesday
I have no relevant experience in the matter, but I really don't see why not. If I was unattached and able to relocate, I personally jump on this kind of opportunity.
I don't feel that they'll ever die either. It'll just be another Gamecube period that they're entering.

Their indy catalog pales in comparison to their competitor's catalogs. Not to mention the pricing sucks in general
"Everybody does it" is not a compelling argument to ignore an issue like this (e.g. American slavery, etc.).

Apple may be singled out because the contrast of the scandal and their lofty position as market leader makes for a compelling story.

And it seems odd that for someone who calls for a non-political HN chooses to so fierily push his/her own political views.
Download tarball, unpack, run `makepkg`, run `pacman -U <pkg>.tar.gz`. It's all here: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/AUR#Installing_packages
IMHO you'd have been better off dragging them to small claims court.

You'd have received a bigger settlement AND it would cost Sky more if they'd bothered sending a representative.
The SEC requires private companies that have more than 500 shareholders to file basically the same paperwork/disclosures that a public company has to. FB is probably nearing (or over) the 500 shareholder limit.

Since they are going to go through most of the downside involved with an IPO anyways, they might as well get some cash too.

Plus, share/option holders (employees, investors, etc) are probably clamoring for liquidity. It's great if you own a hundred million dollars of FB stock on paper - but it's even better if you have the option to sell and diversify your holdings.
I can't write all over the pages of an ebook the way I can a print book. That, unfortunately, makes them almost completely useless to me and many others.
Geoff was one of my favorite partners at YC, so awesome to see him come on full time. He has this intensity that really gets to the root of a problem, I learnt a lot from him.

Congrats Geoff and YC!
In a recent project I examined the alternatives and ended up using re2c (http://re2c.org/).

re2c's advantage over flex is that it is easy to embed within existing code, as opposed to a generated yylex function that your code must interface with.

re2c's advantage over a hand-written lexer is that it can be a more succinct description of the fundamental rules you're implementing and the generated code (table-driven, optionally using computed gotos) is faster.

The result for switching my project was maybe 5% faster (and that was in switching from code that was hand-written to even use a lookup table in a particularly tight loop), but most importantly the result is much easier to read and modify.
My understanding is that the IPO is because of the 500 shareholder rule:
http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/facebook-and-the-500-...
Startups will probably subsidize all your inventory if you get some traction, and make it easy for them. You're an advertising platform, the AdSense of high-value torsos.
I bought a copy on audio tape and listen to it every couple of months. I find "pooh-tao" (as my wife and I call it) very entertaining.

And easier to pick up at any point in the work than Castaneda, Hitchens, Socrates, etc. Good for driving background audio, in my opinion...
Well, there are no graphics cards except AMD and NVIDIA (for Intel doesn't make discrete cards). And someone's a GPGPU developer who develops for various bleeding-edge Radeons and Teslas.
What would the world look like if Facebook IPOs and Apple immediately buys them out with their horde of cash?
To misquote the elders: If you have a bookshop and use a cafe to solve a problem, now you have two problems.

Good article from 2005 on opening a coffee shop, also from Slate: http://www.slate.com/articles/life/a_fine_whine/2005/12/bitt...
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Aren't there laws concerning the return of seized property? Or are those inapplicable here? If they had seized a storage company, would the customers not have been able to get their stuff out of the storage sheds?
The Pi Manifesto - No, really, pi is right
I agree that there probably is a sharp distinction between people who can keep very rigid rules in their head, and project forwards to anticipate what will happen, and lastly also reason backwards from a desired state to figure out the necessary instructions.

The question is whether this can be taught. When I read the study I see another possible conclusion; that we haven't sufficiently prepared everyone for the basic reality of computing -- that this is about arbitrary machine rules, and how to think about them.

Some of us may come into the world having that 'mechanistic' worldview, or perhaps some early experiences teach it to some earlier than others.

But we're evolved to deal with organic environments. Where precise definition and full knowledge aren't possible, so instead we have fuzzier categories and flexible responses. Where everything intelligent in the environment can be negotiated with, using empathy. In programming 101 you have to abandon that mindset.
That is correct - the authors themselves failed to replicate the results. I kept some notes over the years (saw this OP in 2006); from http://www.gwern.net/Notes#the-camel-has-two-humps

...replications of the test have had issues; from http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV78Bornat.pdf:

> "We now report that after six experiments, involving more than 500 students at six institutions in three countries, the predictive effect of our test has failed to live up to that early promise.”

And http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/SD_PPIG_2009...

> “A test was designed that apparently examined a student’s knowledge of assignment and sequence before a first course in programming but in fact was designed to capture their reasoning strategies. An experiment found two distinct populations of students: one could build and consistently apply a mental model of program execution; the other appeared either unable to build a model or to apply one consistently. The first group performed very much better in their end-of-course examination than the second in terms of success or failure. The test does not very accurately predict levels of performance, but by combining the result of six replications of the experiment, five in UK and one in Australia. We show that consistency does have a strong effect on success in early learning to program but background programming experience, on the other hand, has little or no effect.”
Except in the case of performatives!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Performative_utterance
>I see this largely as a failure of education. You see this issue in many areas and much earlier on like teaching mathematics. In schools there tends to be one method used and that method doesn't suit everybody.

Good thing professional educators are almost as observant as you in regard to teaching.

http://lmgtfy.com/?q=differentiated+instruction

I really love how HN conceit lets people post about entire industries as if those people just have no clue what they are doing. And not only do people here hold those pompous and generally ignorant positions, but other people support them!
Considering CNBC on the TV near my desk just said Facebook is going to be valued between $75 billion and $100 billion, I would say Apple is not going to make that acquisition.
Typically, the number of shares available on the public market at IPO time won't give anyone a controlling share- even if they bought all of the available shares.
Cograts Todd and team! Looks like some solid improvements in this release.

I am the co-founder of Codiqa (http://codiqa.com), and we are building tools and services to make jQuery Mobile development easier and faster. We are really excited about the project and hope we can help contribute to its success.
Do you feel tired waking up at 6AM? For some reason, I feel very tired waking up at that hour these days. I use to wake up at 6AM for nearly 2 years because of commuting.

What are you doing with your time in the morning? Usually no one else is up and around.
When I woke up early I found that I could always workout and never have to trade exercising with other activities in the evenings.
I recommend RailsInstaller as well for Windows users. It is straightforward to set up and I've had no issues so far using it.

When I get more experience in Rails though, I'll probably switch over to using a Mac.
There are often restrictive covenants on employee's wrt what they can sell of their vested stock when a company is private.

The largest secondary market (secondaryMarket) allows the company to list the terms of who, how and when their stock can be traded.
Wouldn't happen. You can't just make huge purchases on the stock market. They'd have to iceberg that over such a long time I could never imagine it, and even then it would definitely get noticed. They'd have to do a heck of a lot of paperwork too, it would need a lot of scrutiny.
Understand Design or Fail
Munging and Visualizing Data with R
Wouldn't increasing the success rate by 30-60% pay for itself? If that much of the class fails out after the first course, that's tuition lost for the remainder of the courses, is it not?
> The example of "mental model of assignment" is ridiculous. a=b can mean whatever. It means something totally different to a mathematician than a programmer. Say:

That's why the first group (the predicted to be successful group) is defined as forming a consistent mental model and not necessarily the correct one:

> 44% of students formed a consistent mental model of how assignment works (even if incorrect!)
> Is this supposed to be impressive?

It's just plain cool for someone that's interested in computer technology. I like to see this type of picture for all of my interests: people's amazing home theaters, people's really nice guitars, etc. Sure, it's just money that pays for this stuff, so it's not necessarily impressive in an intellectual sense. It's just cool.

> Anyone can brute-force it.

Not exactly. It's tough to increase server hardware any faster than polynomially over time, but most networks tend to go through exponential phases of growth when they scale. Also, diminishing returns and bottlenecking can often kill attempts to scale a network by just throwing more of the same hardware at the problem.
Well, this seems to be about used bookstores, given the talk about buying books from the public and giving stuff away for free. So the pricing will be good.

Also, a LOT of books are bought as gifts, and gifts books are usually bought by browsing.
for the lazy

tweets - https://twitter.com/search?q=facebook+ipo

google results for past 24 hrs - https://www.google.com/search?q=facebook%20ipo&tbs=qdr:d
I don't know the details myself, but I would take that interview with a grain of salt: http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2009/02/a-note-about-sa...
doesn't seem to work too well in this: http://i.imgur.com/bCLVN.png
Looking for source code management system with xCode? 
We're looking for a simple(preferably free) service to manage our source code. We're also looking at the option of just hosting it on our local machines also for the time being. We're looking for safe/secure method of backing it up and a small # of users can access it.
This is basically a turf-war between wifi (802.11) and cellular (802.22) people. I think this announcement was to pre-empt 802.22 from taking over tv white-space band and making it popular, because there is a TV-whitespace standard being developed (802.11ah) from the 802.11 folks (aka wifi folks) but is a couple of years away from production.
It'll be interesting to see what Facebook employees do once the IPO goes through. There must be a good number that want to break off and do their own thing, but are sitting on stock they don't want to lose. It'll be interesting to see what ideas/startups they come up with.

Didn't the same happen when Google IPO'd?
writing gold: about a third of the way through the paper, "This article is supposed to be a review of a book called The Access Principle by John Willinsky (MIT Press, 2006)"
Do You Love This Thing?
I don't know why the poster linked directly to the form, I suspect this is your site, and you're using this as a promotion, or to test the market.

I had no idea what I clicked on, or why I was taken to the form, so of course I wasn't going to just fill it out.

You claim to be able to get a 'massive amount of early adopters', but you're going to have to prove that. Your example of Wuiper isn't strong enough for me, it is a site I've never heard of. Also, you hide the important stats after ALL the text about what you did, etc. Impress me, then I'll look further. Don't start with an explanation of what it was, what you did, etc. etc. it's too long.

Overall, your site could really use some design work. There is no excuse for a site to look like that when so many great templates are available.
These last two quarters are the only ones in Nintendo's long history in which they haven't made a profit. Nintendo does rake in cash from all directions. They're a very successful company and they have an excellent business model.

Sega going 3rd party was their only option other then to go bankrupt. The situation is not comparable.
But Twitter is too.
Even in that case, I am not aware of many instances where a developer being part of an acquisition helped him significantly in acquiring a VP position at a start-up.

Any start-up worth their salt is very deliberate in hiring. Now, if you don't care about where you are working and are merely chasing titles, I'd argue you can get a VP position without needing to be part of an acquisition.
FWIW I remember having a hard time understanding equations when I first learned them in algebra. I remember that most of the class argued with the teacher about it. Eventually I was able to grok it, of course, but the average person doesn't get much beyond algebra.

Also, assignment is rather strange concept relative to math education. I don't remember any test where we had to create an algorithm. Variables where things you solved for, not tools.
I would assume for the benefit of the last round of investors and employees.
> "defendants deny infringement but they do not advance a case of independent design".

Which is funny, because after the people pulled up a bunch of other photos that were pretty similar, the plaintiff said they'd never seen them before and the judge simply took them at their word. While he didn't consider item 71 for some reason, it's probably the main thing that undercut any way for them to claim theirs was original.

Apparently, if nobody knew where they got the idea from, it would've been okay?
SF-Better than the valley? I've heard more expense and dirtier--though I have no idea if that is true???

I have thought of just moving and it's encouraging to here from someone who did it. I've lived abroad twice now (I'm 33, so I kind of know what to expect.

Thanks for the link...I'll use it for sure.

oh yeah...What made you move? (career or other)
Redditors create 'Redditors Without Borders' in response to a donation post
I don't think the same is true for everything, but I do think this is the case in a fair bit of Math classrooms. I've tutored both a friend (same age) and his his younger sister (5 years younger) and they both struggled with the same exact concepts. Granted, you could say it was genetics, but after some creative examples, they were able to better their skills. It looked to me as a direct failure to truly "teach" Math in the 6-7th grade level of their elementary school district.
Firefox was pretty much static after that point, adding important features (such as contenteditable), but not pushing the envelope much in terms of interface.

Pushing the envelope in terms of interface is a really tricky thing to do. Each time you do it, there's a huge user outcry, and it does turn some users away or stops them from upgrading. I don't think the Firefox feature announced here will be much different.

People like things to stay the way the are used to. Unless there's a huge change and they can see how dropping their old habits all at once is somehow an advantage.

Gradually adopting improved versions of the most sensible Chrome features might sound like sound engineering, but due to these dynamics I really wonder if its a survivable strategy in the long run.

There were some UX mockups posted a while ago that looked far more ambitious. That's more like it.
Probably we won't have that chance. Thanks anyway. YC still rocks.
IPO is inevitable but timing is not right, groupon, zynga, LinkedIn, pandora are all trading at very low valuations and so is investor sentiment
Well, you can't YET. It's not especially difficult from a technical side.
This would make a great blog post. Thanks for the info.
I did a presentation on a game I made at Geoloqi that talks about the Fusion IO drives and why I think local hardware with SSD is the best solution for persistent data stores right now: http://www.slideshare.net/KyleDrake/building-mapattack
It's in a secure datacentre surrounded by millions and millions of dollars of other equipment (some of it ours), it should be OK :)
Can the CPU(s) address 512GB of RAM? If so, what operating system/OS configuration can handle that?
Twitter is censoring users at the behest of their governments. They don't have to. How long do you think it would continue to be illegal to mention Naziism in Germany if Twitter, Facebook, Google, et al, decided to boycott the entire country? If Hollywood can play governments like evil marionettes, the vastly richer internet giants ought to be able to pull off a simple boycott for good.

That they aren't says a lot to me. Their priorities are revenue, regardless of their stated abhorrence of censorship.
They probably have to wait a bit before selling their shares. So you won't see an exodus until probably a year or two down the road.