skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen auto Amazon affiliate links on stack exchange sites and always thought it was a brilliant and non-bothersome way to monetize user generated content. With all this Pinterest/Skimlinks attention I realized that some people apparently don't think this is so brilliant, so I wondered what SE users thought about it and found this:

http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/26964/auto-inserting...

Looks like Jeff didn't "ask permission" beforehand but was explicit and open about the decision, and seemed to get a pretty positive reaction.
Makefiles are only simple if you are only supporting a single operating system, and a few build configurations.
So...what, exactly? "This thing wants to use your contacts." It's a social network. It can be expected to want to use your contacts. It has no bearing on how Apple is supposed to avoid letting Path package up your contacts and send them to Path's servers.
"Burton looks like so many large, smoking men whom you'd see in a British pub"

What a ridiculous stereotype.
If the heat pulses only toggle the state of the nano-islands, then it makes little practical sense to speak of 'write speed,' since you'll have to determine the current state of the bits (that is, you'll have to read them) before you attempt to write them.
Reading self help materials has been one of the major turning points in my life.

Without self-help materials I would still have been a somewhat gifted kid but also a total mess of a human being. Thanks to self help I am becoming more and more self-realized every day.

I am not going to downvote you, because I am genuinely curious what you have against Ferriss. Care to tell me more?
The right likes to scream about this phenomenon in civil service. The left likes to scream about it in the private sector.

Incredibly good point... it's the same phenomenon.

We need -- collectively -- in all spheres -- to take a good look at some people and start asking questions like "what exactly is it that you do here? what value do you create that is commensurate with your salary?"

In government this has to happen at the management or political level. In the private sector this needs to happen via shareholder pressure. If shareholders had a brain, they would start agitating for long-term merit-based CEO pay.
uhm,no.. for example the tech behind ajax was created out of thin air??
It's hard to understand from this blog post what the problem is. Can someone summarize the complaint beyond "Amazon was willing to republish some out-of-print books that other publishers weren't!"
I think history tends to be written by the winners when it comes to entrepreneurship. It's a lot harder- and a lot more luck involved- than many would admit.
A while ago, I was playing with a Playbook tablet... opened up their app store, and the top free and paid apps were a pair of games both called "Fruit and Ninja". (Not Fruit Ninja.) All kinds of classy.
"...trolling community..."

I'm out.
It is more about self-help that anything else, and the people who swear by it use it as an argument of why it is such a crappy personal finance book. But then they promote it as a personal finance book. Nice loop there.
Except that the App industry is not a direct profit maker for Apple at all. It is an ecosystem that boosts hardware sales. What matters is not the number of apps or the cash handed out to developers, it is end-user happiness. That's what leads to such seemingly incoherent decisions.

Anecdotally, the apps with good ratings that I saw in the App Store charts have never been rip-offs.
I feel it should be mentioned that the whole thing was very much an assault on online anonymity.

Which is kinda ironic, given that this guy apparently just doesn't care, despite knowing that his name and face are going to be broadcast on primetime BBC1.
Why on earth would anyone buy a data transfer protocol, especially one where the developers feel they need to put "TM" on every instance of its name?

Anyone remember the history of Zmodem? The wikipedia article doesn't mention it, but there were fewer implementations for fewer OSes than could have been, due to weird-beard legalistic threats. How would "faspTM" be any different?

Besides that, "fasping" sounds like some bad Sci-Fi euphemism for "shining the shaft".
Strangely, qualified engineers and security experts keep turning down the consumer-facing support jobs.
Apple Requires Retina Screenshots From iOS Devs
What if he's making a moneyball-type play and doesn't even know it?

High-level Microsoft engineers are fairly valued or slightly overvalued by the job market as a whole. When hiring for a startup, he should be looking for undervalued assets. If he can make a convincing case to his stakeholders that high-level Microsoft engineers are not a good fit, maybe he can gain an advantage over other startups.
interesting, thanks (sorry for misunderstanding slightly). possibly related / useful in future - did you notice that neo4j's licence terms changed a while back? i can't remember the details, but i had avoided it in the past because of licensing and remember that the change seemed to be an improvement.
Half-true. os.File is not multiplexed, so if there are multiple concurrent blocking reads, each of them will consume an OS thread until it completes. net.Conn, on the other hand, uses polling so only one OS thread is necessary. Technically speaking, this is a feature of the standard library and not the runtime system.
They pulled "Temple Jump" because it received too much negative press coverage. However, "Eclipsecraft" and all the other scam games by "Top Best Adult Entertainment" are still available...
Not being familiar with privacy laws in the UK, did he have to sign a release to have his face shown on that program? If so I fail to see how its effectively shaming someone if they willingly submit to be filmed.
A fellow hacker news member bullrico has thought about this issue and created quite a cool solution: http://impressar.io

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3518376
That's pretty interesting. WebKit-based browsers currently have about 30% of desktop browser market share, and basically all of the mobile browser share (iOS, Android, BlackBerry, Nokia, but not Windows Phone).

Combined with Firefox's 25%, that's a clear lead for open source. On the web, open source has always had the lead in infrastructure, but it's only recently started winning on the end-user side as well.

It seems like browsers on TVs will be won by OSS before it's even started. The new Panasonic and Samsung TVs are going to be using WebKit. The Google TVs are a done deal. The PS3's browser is apparently WebKit too. Much like mobile, the only holdout is Microsoft with the XBox.

I guess I'm beginning to wonder, why even bother keeping Internet Explorer closed? At this point everyone else is competing on UI while sharing core code and utterly winning while doing it. I can't even imagine how much time and money Microsoft is spending trying to keep up with the thousand eyes and hands of its competition, all just to maintain feature-parity, without even thinking of competing in UI or otherwise innovating. This is Microsoft v World, a tough fight even without all their competitors cooperating. As is, it's utterly unwinnable.
Forecasting popularity of blog posts on the social web
Physicists 'record' magnetic breakthrough
Hm... My bad, then. Could you possibly point me to another resource so that I could get more informed? All I ever read was either affiliate marketing (which has certain value, but the better the product, the less it's needed) and the internet "get-rich-from-your-couch" schemes which are very... appalling.
or reading "The Intelligent Investor" by Graham - Who is the guy that taught Warren Buffet every thing he knows.
A Performance Test List For Your New Website
Haircut..? Is this some meme I don't know?
Pretty cool way to create links
Much of the time, the trick is to avoid tripping the primate anti-cheating instincts. "We are doing X." "Oh, okay then."
It was a documentary investigating online bullying. Not a 'news' story of the day.
You can't get 5-to-1 leverage on stocks or other such passive investments.

Not exactly true. Derivatives have significant leverage, often times way more than 5-to-1.
How many gallons of gasoline would it take to charge an iPhone?
Commenting on this particular troll is probably beneath the majority of us.

However, on a general note, I think it is important to realize that every text message you send, every cell phone conversation you have, every post to the CNN forum you make, every tweet you send ... is directly attributable to your IP whether you use your own name or not. With Facebook and Google tracking everything you do, whether you are logged in or not, I would go one step further, and say all of these things are directly attributable to you personally.

I would strongly urge young people to really think about what they are putting out there. Consider this, the military was doing the equivalent of credit checks for sensitive positions during the 60s. Now you need a credit check to do ANYTHING, even things that don't require credit. How long before an internet and phone background check is standard in the background checks organizations do before offering jobs?

I can tell you the military is doing this sort of screening right now for sensitive positions, but at least you are confronted about it. It still basically ends your career, but they will give you a chance to explain your posts. In the private sector in the future, they will just deep six your application and you won't know what happened. Or they'll let you in at entry level, maybe, and subsequently you'll start running up against an invisible barrier as you try to advance beyond the first or second layer of management. Or you will find resistance to you advancing into management at all.

Also be mindful, it can affect more than your professional life. Think about what the background checks for apartments will look like in the 2020s. Or what 'dating sites' will be like in the 2020s.

Please consider your future before you make comments on ... say ... Hurricane Katrina ... that might be misconstrued. Or post an opinion on ... say ... American soldiers in Afghanistan ... that could be taken out of context and viewed in a negative light.

All that said, the absolute best defense against these sorts of situations is just not to be a douche, which isn't very hard. If a guy or girl is dead...leave them in peace. If you can't say something nice...just don't comment.
A few years ago I had an absolutely horrible experience with a vendor. Horrible to the point where we had to hire lawyers and PIs to find out what the hell was really happening, and get some compensation for the horror.

I remember most of the details of the asset and criminal background checks that we got from the PI. I even remember who they had bounced checks too. I remember the amount of the settlement, and how long it took to collect.

But I don't remember any of their names without pulling up the paperwork.
If packet timing or sizing gives away the protocol, then it seems to me that one could re-rig it to mimic the timing and sizing of another protocol.
It's free, though... what's the problem?
Traackr’s migration from HBase to MongoDB
Ah, OK, that makes more sense. Still...
There's definitely a lot of examples of non-entrepreneurs being happy and content with life. The message from RDPD I've mentioned is not about success in personal life, but financial success. And yes, there's tons of examples of businesses failing, nobody said it was easy, etc.

Another of Kiyosaki's arguments that I agree with on this matter is that sure, you can become very rich and successful doctor/lawyer/athlete/movie star. But that path requires outstanding talent, athletic skills, intelligence, etc. For an "average" person that doesn't possess any of those, and is not born into wealth, business is the best way to financial success.
The Missing Digit Trick 
Ask a friend to secretly write down ANY number (at least four digits long). e.g. 78341

Ask the friend to add up the digits... e.g. 7+8+3+4+1 = 23
... and then subtract the answer from the first number. e.g. 78341 - 23 = 78318

Your friend then crosses out ONE digit from the answer. (It can be any digit except a zero) e.g. 7x318

Your friend then reads out what digits are left .e.g. 7-3-1-8
Even though you haven't seen any numbers, you can say what the missing digit is! EIGHT

THE SECRET
This great trick relies on the power of 9. How?
http://mathema-tricks.blogspot.com/
I agree. Marcelo is a moron for turning down this guy. Although we don't run the MS stack, my startup would kill to have a guy like this to join.

It is completely laughable to me that this guy has to do a side project to prove he is worthy of a startup. Just have a few beers with him and talk over the problems you are working on and see if he has good ideas on how to solve them. If he does, you've got a hire. If he really needs hand holding (and seriously does an award winning guy like this need hand holding???) then say it isnt a good fit.
The quote I always remember from the book goes something like, "The average dad, also the poor dad, tells their children to work hard in school and get a steady job in a good company. The rich dad tells their children to start a company."
You are missing the point - the number of Microsoft employees who worked on those 3 projects, or any 3 projects, in the past 10 years is likely very low, considering the thousands of other projects active in the same timeframe.
So .. we form a mob and lynch them?

If I forget my 'ignore them' position for a second: Either they do violate the law or they don't. If they do, the law is responsible here, not you/we. If they don't, it's a rather weird idea to hunt them down and blackmail them to stop that behavior or you're telling the employer/his wife/his mom about those Facebook posts.

Let's focus on improvements to moderation systems and teach people around us that they shouldn't take random posts on the internet serious.
Autonomous cars will cause traffic jams to worsen as the burden of driving becomes much less. More people will be playing xbox gladly sitting in traffic in a town with 50 million other people in a 50 mile radius. if we could get rid of traffic lights, that would be another story.
The resolution is finally getting good. I just wish they could make a fold-out, large real estate screen so I could get real work done.
There are companies out there still sloshing thru waterfalls. They don't know any other way.

But really can you teach me how to breath if I am not already stressed out.? Agile is overkill. Its like teaching Object orientation. How many people still consult the GoF book or talk about patterns? The Java guys are already spent, exhausted.

The buzz industry and book industry are good at making companies and teams feel guilty of ignorance, and help lower their self-esteem.

If you can develop and bolster your common sense, and especially surround yourself with a community that resists bull-shit, buzz-words and fluff-talk, you will be in good shape without needs of all sorts of gurus.

I've been agile all along, my style was agile - but I don't need a brand or a buzzword ninja to help me come to that realization.

Drown out the noise and be more self-aware, and reflective. Buzzwords will only slow you down. "People just love to play with words"...
The observation about nobody wasting time in Star Trek made me think of the Culture - where 99.9999% of the human population are effectively doing nothing other than "wasting time" - having a jolly good time along the way, of course.

Then I saw a comment that explains it:

"Star Trek and the Federation actually depict a Space Amish splinter group from the Culture."
In general terms, the key difference between a 'nice' group and a 'mean' group is the degree to whether the hierarchy in the group is obviously correct.

In the linux kernel, there is a clear hierarchy that is pretty close to being obviously correct. Linux obviously deserves to be the leader, and position/status is very clearly linked to a persons contributions to the greater good of the project.

On single person projects, the hierarchy is also trivially clear, obvious, correct and unassailable.

Many group projects fail the "clear hierarchy" test, often because they try to eliminate the hierarchy for some sort of ideals. But humans being human there is always some sort of hierarchy, so establishment of the hierarchy is informal and ongoing.

Of course, "informal and ongoing" is a lot better than 'wrong' which is the case with many clear hierarchies. This is why the idealism vis a vis trying to prevent hierarchies exists in the first place.

The obvious correctness of the hierarchy is one huge advantage small companies have over large companies and non-profits.
The Neo4j community edition is now free and licensed under GPL (http://neo4j.org/download/), and they are working on an Enterprise license that is free for startups (https://groups.google.com/d/msg/gremlin-users/kw9N6xYb6l4/uH...).

There is also a Neo4j Heroku Add On (http://addons.heroku.com/neo4j) that is currently free for developers.
Honestly, I think what you saw on Warrior Forum is pretty representative of the grand majority of info products floating around there on Internet Marketing. The good ones are few and far between, primarily because anybody can claim to be an expert. There's no barrier to entry.

When I refer to Internet Marketing as my profession, I don't mean slinging info products in the form of a pyramid scheme. I simply mean working with brands to sell and promote their products online. Big brands though, brands you've probably actually heard of, with legit products that have nothing to do with the Internet! Unfortunately, Warrior Forum is a circle jerk driven by gurus who actually know very little about marketing brands online. They only market their own crappy products.
They're not doing that, making a genuine clone and undercutting the competition is 100% okay (unless you're one of those pesky PIPA-supporting types)

What these guys are doing is generally making a 20minute game such as pong and including a gallery of, say, Minecraft screenshots in the app. They then market the app in such a way that's designed to trick users into thinking they're purchasing Minecraft, when they're actually just purchasing a gallery of Minecraft screenshots.

Case in point:
http://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/eclipsecraft/id492415390?mt=8
Programming without a call stack?
I think you need to be a lot more specific in what you're talking about with regard to civil service salaries.

I've actually been on municipal boards negotiating with unions and the salaries definitely were not going up more than inflation. But the amount we were spending on employees was in fact skyrocketing.

You know why? Health insurance. Any study showing you one number and omitting the fact that none of that increase actually goes into employees' pockets is lying to you.
Not just you. I facepalmed at "...and possibly illegal".
Not a meme, it's a common euphemism for taking less than the full amount on a payment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haircut_(finance)

For example, "The bondholders will have to agree to take a large haircut in order for the Greek debt restructuring agreement to go through."
I recall a study some years back on Australian CEO's of public companies and they found a negative relationship between pay and company performance.

I tried to find the article to no avail. This article says no relationship between pay/performance but mentions many previous studies have found a negative correlation: http://www.sef.hku.hk/upload/faculty/42/officer-remuneration...
> Bad programmers.. went through quite a few of them, mostly contracted. Some even from big named universities with very impressive looking resumes

This is baffling to me. We hired some graduates from big named universities and I am constantly amazed at their incompetence. Now they don't lack enthusiasm and are good talkers but not great doers.

We also hurried and hired because we had large contracts coming up and management has slipped and fell into the trap of "well one experience programmer left, we can hire 3 graduates to replace him for about the same salary!". I don't mind that we grow and train our own but these are not a replacement for a experienced engineers.
Plausible, but the Aubrey/Maturin LARP seems even more likely.
It is a metaphor. A cute title to catch your attention.
Path's Loudest Investor (Arrington) says "Delete The User Data"
There is a public interest defence...
Add non-profits to this list. The same mechanisms are in place, and executive compensation in non-profits is routinely compared to that in "a company of similar size".
This article, and the Florian Mueller source, both seem to be making the case that Apple's proposed solution is morally superior. In fact, like many things related to patents and standards it just seems to be tailored to the interests of the large incumbent firms. In this case limiting fees to component prices so high margin producers like Apple don't have to pay more. It's the same game as capping yearly H.264 fees so big players pay less per unit.

Standards shouldn't be allowed to have patents on them period. That's the core issue that leads to this political bickering. Standards get their power from being standard and everybody using them, not from being technically advanced. Patents are all about profiting by stopping people from using the technology unless they pay. There's a fundamental disconnect there.
Incitement to racial hatred is against the law in the UK; you can do prison time for it.
They also wore more hats. Or the market was different, or they weren't dealing with labor shortages, or their predecessors set the stage differently, or inflation has increased 580% since 1970....

It's not possible to tease out the cause and effect.

Fortunately there is an easier way to figure it out; if the businesses are hiring idiots, at far to much money the easy way to tell they are doing it is their stock price will plummet and they will go out of business.
Berkshire Hathaway Letters - Better than my Business Degree
There aren't enough engineers in this world to oversee all potential dangers and errors.
I wish I could upvote your comments more than once. It's interesting that this forum that celebrates taking extreme (financial) risks in exchange for possibly great (financial) reward has a hard time with NASA scientists, engineers, and astronauts taking calculated risks. 100% safety is not a productive strategy.
Build Something, Build Anything
For Hackers (or others) who don't understand the business side of businesses and investments, I strongly urge you to read through all of Buffett's Letters. For further reading, google the Buffett Partnership letters.

These will provide a solid framework for making business decisions and investments in the future, and in my opinion, provide a better education than a business degree.
I recommend Felix Dennis' book "How to get Rich" as a good alternative to Rich Dad Poor Dad. Felix doesn't sugar coat his advice, he points out the sacrifice that will typically be involved in getting rich if that's what you want.
Re: Why Markets Tip To One Platform (or Not)
Researchers studied the possible reasons why some marketplaces tip and others don't. They hypothesize that "horizontal" markets are the key driver. I think it's a function of the difficulty of publishing to multiple platforms.
After the Columbia disaster, I confess I was a bit shocked the heat shield was never examined in orbit to assess the damage that that could occur during launch. Would it be that hard to do?
The difference is that LuaJIT would be tracing your interpreter, while PyPy tries to trace the user's program while it is being traced by your interpreter. Interpreter's loop is usually quite unpredictable and is therefore not the best candidate for tracing JIT optimization. PyPy, on the other hand, (IIRC) allows you to denote which variables belong to the interpreter and which belong to the user program, and so the traces would only guard on the user variables.
Xbox doesn't currently have a browser at all.
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