skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can think of many other explanations. For instance, someone who does not plan on living in the U.S. for the rest of his or her life could say something like that. Someone who makes what every engineer in SV makes and therefor does not need credit at all could say something like that.

Personally, I think it's a terrible idea. It's a much better plan to work together a couple decades of good borrowing history without paying much interest and then get unsecured loans totaling hundreds of thousands of dollars and cash out.
Ah, this brings back memories of the old "If Detroit designed cars like Microsoft designed software" jokes of the late 90s...

I once had the opportunity to chat with Woz. Somehow we got on the subject of cars and he told me that he had a Toyota and a Mercedes. He explained that the Toyota had all the latest and greatest technology. More features than you could shake a stick at, so to speak. But! To cram in all those features, the engineers had a monumental task. The end result was that you, as the driver, were forced to adapt to the car.

On the other hand, he told me, while the Mercedes had less features you could tell that the first thing the designers had drawn in, when sketching out the design, was the driver.
>On his Twitter account, CTO Luis Corrona continues taunting Anonymous after the facts.

And when it comes to anon, taunting them is quite possibly the dumbest fucking thing you can do. They're just feeding the fire and possibly getting further attacks set up.

Don't feed the troll!
Too be fair, zynga is a parasite on facebooks infrastructure.

I believe Zynga provides more of Facebook's profits than any other company.

Zynga could easily argue that Facebook is a parasite by profiting from all the people who want to play Zynga's games.
When the house is burning, some are dumb enough to pour gas on it.
Speaking about prevention (for the specific case of the like button), I have privoxy (1) setup to disable fb plugins with rules like these:

{+block{Facebook "like" and similar tracking URLs.}}
www.facebook.com/(extern|plugins)/(login_status|like(box)?|activity|fan)\.php

{+block{Stupid facebook xd_proxy.php.}}
http://static.ak.fbcdn.net/connect/xd_proxy.php.*

The second one also removes an annoyance I see from time to time when I bypass the proxy which makes the page request again and again that xd_proxy.php file.

If I really want to like something, I disable the proxy and reload the page. I use Proxy SwitchySharp (2) for chrome to do the setup for me in pages I visit often.

1: http://www.privoxy.org/
2: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dpplabbmogkhghncfb...
It's not neglected, it's just hard and a lot of projects failed. But there are many papers on the subject in the last 10 years. Also parallel is a vague term, it can mean multicore, SIMD, GPU and clusters. All different, with a unique set of tradeoffs.
Only works on Mac OS X in its current form, as it uses embedded AppleScript.
MIT admissions available on Pi Day at Tau Time
Good Summary on How Prototypes Work in JS
Both your questions are answered in the FAQ, linked at the bottom of every page on HN.

http://ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html
Why do you need technology to teach writing? Many of us learned writing when the only electricity in the classroom powered the lights.

Educational Luddism shouldn't favor subjects.
Here, I'd wager: http://www.mbusa.com/mercedes/vehicles/model?class=S&mod...

Edit: Skip to the "Audio & Entertainment" section to see how you can have modern technology without the confusion. Especially check out the "SPLITVIEW front-seat entertainment system". A screen that can show separate views to the driver and front seat passenger? Yes, please!
Is this satire? I'm a legitimately confused here. The getting started was about hypermedia and API discovery schemes but didn't say what I could even use the API for.
Attn Browser and phone makers: Please, please support the new HTML5 input types
What's wrong with Kony 2012 and Facebook Activism
Actually (and annoyingly) in many vehicles the controls are disabled while the vehicle is in motion. This is very inconvenient when you have a passenger trying to operate the console (such as input destination or do other actions) but the car won't let you because you're not completely stopped.
One car manufacturer even uses a slogan like "for today's connected youth". It's frightening.
Here’s a prediction: the next iPhone will simply be “The new iPhone”.
> you're kidding me right? Obviously you filter your queries to the closest node.

Smart aleck doesn't suit you.

Obviously, you can use standard DOM methods (e.g. gEBTN, gEBCN) with the "closest node" as well.

And, assuming you mean an element node, you just bought yourself a world of hurt. jQuery and the like will use the Selectors API (e.g. QSA) when it suits them, and due to their disagreement with the specs, element nodes don't suit them. Some scripted query engines (e.g. YUI) ignore the disagreement, favoring wrong answers fast over right ones slower.

When the libraries use their own query code, performance and compatibility go right down the toilet.

In other words, use QSA with the document node, unless you want to relearn how queries work.

> Having css3 query support in legacy browsers is awesome.

Except that you don't have anything close to that (assuming you are using one of the "popular" libraries). And, even if you did, would you really want to send that crap to an iPhone?

Only way to do it efficiently is to load the library inside conditional comments and use QSA for everything else. That is assuming you can find a query engine that actually works as expected in IE 6/7.

>> massive speed losses from parsing
> Nobody is searching the entire dom for matching nodes.

Parsing selectors is parsing selectors, regardless of how they will be used. One element or the entire DOM; it doesn't make a bit of difference.

> The single biggest performance killer... far more important than tree traversal is event overhead. As long as you think long and hard before applying a new event handler (and use delegation whenever possible) you'll be fine even with those 'Frankenstein' queries hehe :P

Again, event delegation is unrelated to queries. It's silly to assume you can use wasteful queries with impunity as long as you don't attach too many listeners.

Oh, but wait, jQuery tangles up queries and event delegation with its "Live" feature. So you are screwed either way. :(

And those "Frankenstein queries" are the exact opposite of self-documenting code (something most jQuery proponents/marketers get backwards).
Thanks for the screenshots. I have to say, both before and after look pretty horrendous.

The "before" screenshot is plagued with Fitt's Law and Hick's Law violations. The "after" fixes some problems, but there are still far too many items for a driver to quickly acquire their target, and the opportunity for mode errors are off the charts.
The amount of attention required to use this system while driving is a genuine danger to others on the road.
"The WORST thing is that: G+ app searched all my mobile and ext-sdcard, got all my personal photos stored in mobile, and uploaded them onto the Internet without my permission."

If true, that is pretty disgusting. Especially if it made them publicly viewable, or even just by friends. This kind of thing has to be opt-in.
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Research Team Says Communication Technologies Could Now Be 1,000 Times Faster
Unigine Releases New Heaven For Linux
It doesn't need to have conferred advantage on anybody in the past - it could just be our incredibly complex social behaviors having a tendency to misfire in some circumstances.
Encouraging Senate Bill S. 1933 and what it means for startups
I like to use PPMd (via 7zip) for large volumes of text, but it seems to only be single-threaded, which is a shame. It cuts a good 30% again off the size of the .xml.bz2's that Wikipedia provides.
Dude, hornbaker, you're a mensch. I love it when people do stuff like this.
To be fair, he says "Don’t read too many tech blogs."
Vintage VT100 terminal computing…with a Beaglebone
I'm not really sure I understand this. Was there some kind of bad translation? Instant Upload explains what it is and asks if you want to upload photos to the internet to a private album where you can then selectively share them without uploading.
No it's not rational to assume a language isn't worth learning due to how some people act in fact it's ignorant. You use a tool due to it's merit not due to presumption of how everyone acts.
Wow, "casually dressed" is the nicest thing I've heard anyone say about a McD's customer in a long time!
1. Though it is preselected, you can not use the app without explicitly clicking in a screen that tells you what it is and how to turn it off.

2. It does not scan your sdcard/storage.

3. It uploads to a private album. Sharing with Anyone is a manual process.

Appears this might be a language barrier thing. I assume the text is expressed in the user's native language? Maybe it's an issue to take up with the carrier in terms of charges.
No they are not viewable by anybody except you. Plus he did opt-in on the screen (mentioned in the post) he didn't read properly, here's a screenshot: http://zagg-blog.s3.amazonaws.com/community/blog/wp-content/...

It has a picture of a photo, it has the word upload several times, it tells you it goes to a private album, it tells you it will cost money and it does not do the uploading unless you open the app and press continue (just installing is not enough)
I got it at 500 a couple months ago.
IMHO

1) Time to jump

As long as you ask question "when should I do it", you are not ready. From my own experience,when you feel it, you know it is right time. That "feel" is a natural conclusion of a lot thinking, researching, preparing and prototyping. It is like you need to eat when you are hungry -- you will not ask "when should I eat"

2) Freelancing

Start something takes a lot of time and effort. Freelancing may take your time and energy away. I did that trying to start something on the side, which I considered a mistake.

BTW, are you hands on developer, or development manager?
$300k for developer sounds high to me -- maybe you are super-star developer...
It seems to me like medicine has had trouble saying "I don't know" since the beginning. Throughout the ages we've had "default" diagnoses to fall back on when we couldn't figure out anything else better. And we don't seem to learn. Medicine should be conducted solely on the basis of evidence: in lieu of a clinically proven, statistically sound diagnostic test, the default should be, "I'm sorry, but I don't know" and a referral to a higher specialist.

I suppose we always want to feel like we can do something (and who knows, maybe the psychological counseling here will help), but ultimately it's not falsifiable. Maybe they'd have spontaneously resolved anyway? Or maybe it's truly a new disease. What is absolutely true, though, is that the human body, and especially the brain, are mindblowingly complex and can do crazy things. We barely understand even the most well known neurological disorders. But this speculation-based post hoc rationalizing is just bad medicine.

As an aside, I wonder if health insurance has limited the diagnostic work up on these girls or if the publicity ensured they were taken care of there. A full neuro imaging suite and chemical workup is easily over $100k in the US.
Quick book recommendation if you want to read descriptions of dozens of incidents from around the world of groups of girls around the same age that go to the same school or belong to the same convent going through the exact same thing while their parents and community leaders demand answers from the government and blame pollution, demons, or witchcraft.

OUTBREAK! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior by Hilary Evans and Robert Bartholomew.

This type of thing seems to potentially happen in any group, but these group Tourette's-like symptoms are particularly frequent in institutionalized young girls under stress. If this case is typical, we'll eventually find out that the girl who started twitching first was a fairly popular or influential girl within the group and has a troubled personal history, or even actually was having some sort of seizure condition that nobody was aware of. You'll be able to connect her to every other girl because they either saw her or heard about her before showing symptoms themselves.

http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=37

The authors' stated goal in compiling the book was as a reference for studying whatever it is about people that makes this happen. Pretty great bedtime reading.
It isn't true. Literally the first dialog you get when starting the G+ app for the first time asks you if you want to sync current and future images to G+. I believe it's the dialog from the article that said "1. Wifi 2. Wifi+3G 3. Never", which he mentions hitting Wifi+3G without reading what it says.

Also, it uploads all of the things it does sync to a private folder. No one but you can see them until you share them.
Not sure what anecdotal evidence you're leaning on to prop up that argument. My mother used to work herself to the bone even with a cold.
Right and you have to test at least one browser that ranks below your expectations, else you wouldn't know if your feature detection/testing was working.

Granted, the typical Web developer will simply announce they don't care about any browsers deemed inferior (or unknown to them) at the time. History has shown that such carelessness leads to sites that are more likely to break in future (unknown to them at the time of development) browsers.

Often the expected outcome for IE 5 is a static page.
That sounds weird. Toyota generally waits for a technology to become mainstream before using it. They also work with very few suppliers (mainly Denso). Mercedes on the other hand usually have the latest tech. They used a fully graphical instrument cluster years before anyone else. I think Woz' comment has more to do with the cultural differences of Japan and Germany, than technology.
I'd be very surprised if a system like that doesn't check a signature before applying an update.
Would job hunting on smartphone possible?
The "average" person is confused by things that are new and different. Making them learn a thousand different UIs just so "designers" can show off their artistic inabilities is one of the worst crimes perpetrated by the web.
I am an attorney (and as far as I can tell, the author is not one, so take his "analysis" with a pillar of salt). This is not legal advice though.

With respect to the following paragraph:

"So, if you snap an awesome photograph, upload it to your blog, and someone pins it, that person is either (1) claiming exclusive ownership of it; or (2) giving Pinterest your consent to reproduce it (and you just thought you were being flattered)."

Actually, no. You can't transfer a right you don't have. All rights to a work are vested in the author of a protected work; only the author can consent to any of the activities protected by copyright.

It's just like selling a house you don't own. First, you're committing fraud if you falsely represent that you have the right to sell it; and second, the actual owner isn't bound by anything you have done (the deed doesn't go to the putative buyer).
We care mostly about the founders.

Timing matters for $2 million. It matters for $500k if you're unknown, but possibly not if you're not.
New iPad.
U.S. and Canada Seed Stage Tech Accelerators
Dupe: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3675090

Anyways, It will be interesting to see if Anonymous can actually survive the recent Fed strike. Without some sort of a leadership, Anon will descend into chaos due to infighting.

The signs are there even in this attack. Have a look at the press release. Typically, Anonymous press releases are written in hyperbolic, but grammatically correct English. This one seems to written be written by a shabby teenager.
Readability, Instapaper, My Hypocrisy, and Trust
Some people try to pool local commits into larger, less frequent pushes and pulls so the number of push/pulls is perhaps less relevant than their cumulative size. But pushes/pulls will never correspond well with user involvement because people use github for all kinds of scenarios. For instance, I might be developing branches that I don't want to push or pull to github yet--maybe I don't even intend to ever make them public. However, I may still want people to clone from my github repo and report issues to me.

The amount of time between someone getting an email from github and re-activating their account is probably the best metric github will ever have on users' attachment to their accounts.
Click and drag (Google Calendar does it) would be cool. The click-twice-to-select-range isn't necessarily automatically intuitive.
Your startup is not a special snowflake. Your buttons and menus and checkboxes work just like everybody else's. Your buttons can look just like everyone else's buttons. You know what your users will say? "Oh! It works just like X, I know X, this is easy!".
I normally use Livereload, but this inspired me to whip up this Alfred (http://alfredapp.com) extension - https://github.com/brickattack/Chrome_Reload.alfredextension

If you map it to a global hotkey, you're not limited to using it in any one program.
Looks nice. Any plans to integrate a time picker?
Best Performance Upgrades for a Laptop ~ A to Z searchs
Penetration testing is the common answer, though that job description can also be a bit of a euphemism.

It is also worth noting that breaking into the computer of a foreign national that is located overseas is often not a crime in the united states, or is at least considered very difficult to prosecute if it doesn't involve fraud, financial transfers or a few other hot buttons.
U.S. warns Apple, Publishers. alleging collusion over e-book pricing
It's a little known fact that you can easily make these kind of keyboard shortcuts globally by making a Service. Here's how to make a global service that reloads the browser:

1. Open Automator
2. Select Service
3. Search for run Applescript
4. Copy and paste one of the following Applescripts
5. Change the Service receives selected drop down list to "No input"
6. Save the service (Automator will ask you what to name it)

You can then find the service under "Services" inside the Application's Menu.

You can also assign it to a global shortcut by:

1. Open the Keyboard section in System Preferences
2. Find your service under the Services list
3. Click the service to reveal the Add Shortcut button
4. Type the shortcut (Like Command+Ctrl+R)

Applescript for Safari:

on run
tell application "Safari"
do JavaScript "window.location.reload()" in current tab of window 1
activate
end tell
end run

Applescript for Chrome:

on run
tell application "Google Chrome" to tell the active tab of its first window
reload
end tell
tell application "Google Chrome" to activate
end run
Microsoft Flight is jolly good, all things considered.
Playing Games For The Good Of Humanity, With Phylo
Thing is, they could be doing random, unknown acts of kindness and you'd still be complaining they want the spotlght. Since they aren't publicized, you wouldn't know if they did.

But yeah, this backlash is pretty childish on both ends.
I wonder, if somebody took the same optimization approach (cache-line size optimization) to the tree/hash/etc. data-structures and applied them to matrices, would they be inspired to call them Bobby Tables?

http://xkcd.com/327/ in case you don't get the reference.
Three Monitoring Tenants
I have mixed feelings about this. Apple certainly brought competition to the market. Amazon was reputedly leveraging it's other profits to sell books at a loss in an attempt to corner the market. Seems pretty anti-competitive to me.

However Apple's "most favored nation" clause is something I find extremely distasteful. That seems to me to be a hinderance to the whole concept of free markets.
The iPad is outselling PC
Infosec jobs that pay $1.2MM a year? The only people making close to that are the blackhats - and not many of them.
At a similar event at Qawa Primary School on the Fijian island of Vanau Levu, the girls were cured by:

"[...]a Hindu priest (pandit) who asked the Hindu elephant god for help in appeasing the disturbed spirits of [an accidentally partially bulldozed sacred pool near the school playground] during a public Om Shanti ceremony."

from: OUTBREAK! The Encyclopedia of Extraordinary Social Behavior by Hilary Evans and Robert Bartholomew.

http://www.anomalistbooks.com/book.cfm?id=37

I think the key is to be very solemn and convincing, and to either honestly believe you're effecting a cure, or never let on that you're bullshitting.
Many people have commented saying that their primary concern with Bootstrap (or what holds them back from liking it) is the default styles. There's a lot being done to combat the wave of bland Bootstrap deployments and not everyone chooses to go vanilla.

You can try:

- Bootswatch, free color schemes: http://bootswatch.com/

- Lavish, a way to apply colors extracted from images: http://lavishbootstrap.com/

- WrapBootstrap, a marketplace for premium Bootstrap themes: http://wrapbootstrap.com/ [shameless plug]

Check out Built With Bootstrap for great examples of sites that are thinking outside the default styles: http://builtwithbootstrap.com/
Next time, before they taunt, they should think about setting up a honeypot. I mean, might as well try to get something out of the deal.
Pinterest and Tumblr are by far the worse offenders when it comes to sharing content from other providers as its not 100% clear, or sometimes elusive, on how visitor can view the original content. Its as if these sites are cutting content providers out of the loop which is like throwing out the baby with the bathwater. They are essentially going to injure the entire ecosystem of sharing if they keep up with these practices (http://www.sv411.com/index.php/2012/02/pinterest-gets-caught...).

What's worse is that these shady sharing practices have begun to support a broader ecosystem of image finding scavengers such as http://www.whattopin.com (see below).

Here is a support ticket we received today at Fotoblur which illustrates the problems we are seeing (a bit of broken English but you get the picture):

"I am user the http://www.fotoblur.com/portfolio/agnieszkabalut?p=1&id=...
Another user Elinka used my photo art- senza titolo2 by Agnieszka Balut.......
(via Elinka) in the web-site http://www.whattopin.com/topic/photography/?id=283634 - Printerest (commercial use)

and in the
http://elinka.tumblr.com/post/18734723798/senza-titolo2-by-a... without my permission.

All my images are protected by Copyright (reproduction and printing). All images on these are the exclusive property of Agnieszka Balut and protected by the Copyright . Therefore prohibited the publication and reproduction without written permission from Agnieszka Balut. Any violation will be prosecuted."

As you can see, this type of sharing confuses people. We usually explain "fair use" to them but they really don't care. They feel they have rights and they want action taken. I can fully understand why Flickr blocked Pinterest if they have been getting the complaints such as we've seen. In the end the burden falls on the image owner and what ends up happening is they have to chase down every site owner whose members improperly post their content. They then lose faith in participating at all because of their inability to control their content.