skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
TLDR summary: An alternative point of view written by a shareholder with a substantial financial stake in people believing that Groupon has a future.

This guy trusts the same CFO whose staggering negligence and/or incompetence has resulted in massive harm to Groupon's capital structure and reputation and which has led to SEC investigations into the company's accounting and reporting.

This guy trusts the same chief counsel that let the CEO violate a well-known "silent period" rule that almost threw the entire IPO off the rails, that let the CFO ignore the most basic financial controls, that let Groupon get into legal troubles in multiple countries...

Yeah, this is another fine piece of opinion from TC.
Totally agree with this. Identity has its place online, for sure, but I would definitely like the option to be an anon and still participate in discussions online.

As it is I refuse to link my social accounts to any new web/mobile apps and always opt for an email sign up if one is available. Sadly this has kept me away from some good apps (canv.as beta, turntable.fm, and a few more) but oh well. Life went on before whatever app I am missing out on.
"Realized that my friends will forever make fun of me if I stay on PHP"

That was lame.

"Considered Cake as well, but went with CodeIgniter mainly because I had friends that had used it"

Can you see a pattern here?
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The company is pretty focused at this point on the discussions that internet users are having online, which may happen in blogs (and their comments) and social news/link-sharing sites. We're especially aiming to be a platform for emerging social sites.
On flights I've been on recently, they declared a fasten-seatbelts-and-stay-seated order in the cabin when one of the pilots stepped out to use the restroom. There was also a flight attendant standing guard outside.
He also wrote a nice piece in 2004, back when he still worked in the AAA part of the game industry, on what makes modern games hard to engineer cleanly and with small teams: http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=971590
It's the same concept, but it's very different in practice. For example, adding a field with a default value in postgres will lock the table during the migration, which may be killer. If you use postgres for big data sets, what you'll end up implementing for your migrations looks a lot like what schemaless gives you for free.
This book almost reads itself. Will never forget it.
From the article:

"I tend to be more critical of things before I’ve tried them, but I did try CoffeeScript to see what all the hype was about. It was nice, but it’s not worth it."

Apparently another blogger wrote that on his blog, and seems pretty even-handed with 'It's okay but not for me.'

The OP's response is "Stop whining and give it another chance." because clearly if someone tries CoffeeScript and says "Thanks, but no thanks." they're not smart enough to think on their own and should STFU and try CoffeeScript again.
That process sounds more like "implementing schemaless in SQL" than "implementing schema in NoSQL".
I think you come close to saying something very important but don't quite explicitly say it so I will.

CoffeeScript is a proxy war between JavaScript and Ruby developers. That's the whole "controversy" over CoffeeScript, to semicolon or not to semicolon, and everything in between.

JavaScript developers feel threatened by the influx of Ruby developers into their space and Ruby developers want to turn JavaScript into Ruby and get rid of those ghastly curly braces that cause them to have a panic attack.

Let's call a spade a spade.
I don't think Id got most of the money, or any sustainable advantage from making the first networked first person shooters, but that's not the point. First mover gets to change the world. That was true for Id, Xerox, AT&T, etc.
Will The Need For Tech Talent Become Obsolete?
Netflix to Open Source Army of Cloud Monkeys
There is money there to secure the servers, and the owner (albeit contested) of that money is happy for it to be used to preserve the data. If they just bought the bloody servers with the money, then if Kim loses, the studios then get a solid global distribution platform to play with.
It would require split-second coordination among a group of terrorists sitting in the first few rows to take advantage of this before the crew becomes alert and closes the door. And even that opportunity is easily removed (if it isn't already) with a simple curtain preventing passengers from seeing the cockpit door.

In any case, 9/11 was only possible because passengers had been previously instructed to passively cooperate with hijackings. Before the end of that day, they were ready to fight to the death instead.
I sure wish I could get a mortgage for a house I obviously can't afford and then not have to pay it back.

It doesn't teach the person getting the mortgage anything about how to properly manage their money and not get in this sort of situation again.

They will just do it again in the future, but with something like credit card debt. This is a huge disservice to their economy.

I also wonder who has to pay for this. If it's the bankers, then it's a scary thing. It means the government pretty much has control over the companies/banks there. If not, then it's coming out of the taxpayer's
How an Android app could transmit your personal data without any permissions
Blow himself is the most pretentious jerkoff in the world.

I'm curious, care to elaborate?
Yep, 5 minutes to download a very dithered .gif of Elle Macpherson in a wet t-shirt. Good memories. Also noticable that computers back then were usable at night with their black backgrounds.
There are real health concerns about changing the ph by adding ammonia as well as the actual safety of pink slime bacteria wise.

The meat they use for it was thrown away before the ammonia process because it often comes from the edges of the animal and bacteria has had more of a chance to take root (I assume from more oxygen being available?). And the USDA decided that the ammonia process was so full proof that they didn't need to test the meat but some independent testing of meat with pink slime has shown higher levels of bacteria than is acceptable in some cases.

This is a real issue not just a emotional knee jerk reaction. We NEED to study our food processes and their effects on human health before we approve them for use. And I mean real studies not half-assed ones funded and ran by the company selling the product due to the obvious conflict of interest.

Consumers should have the right to know what is in the food they purchase and our governments need to do a better job at giving us that right.
Mandatory link to Jason Scott's awesome documentary on BBS's: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com/
This is really hard to say without knowing what exactly you mean by going the startup route and what exactly it is you want. There are companies that are profitable, have a small company mentality, have exciting challenges, but are certainly not startups any more. They don't have the same urgency, but a lot of that urgency comes from the high risk inherent in just being a startup.

Chances are you'll have to make compromises. Find out the most important things to you and figure out how to get there while balancing other considerations, like the amount of risk you can actually take.
CISPA is flawed but doesn't have most of the provisions that SOPA contained. I wish the folks agitating against it would at least read the bill. (The other pending cyberintelligence bills are probably better than CISPA, though.)
In the short term, Adobe Air provides you with the shortest time to get you product to market, but I agree that it should/cannot be a longterm solution, anything short of writing you app in native code IMHO is making yourself held hostage to these runtime environments and their quirks.
First New Concentration Camps in Europe Set to Sprout on Greek Soil :
Seems to be better. Ah! The game is very addicting.
'Microsoft’s UK head admitted today that no cloud data is safe from the Patriot Act — and Microsoft will hand it over to U.S. authorities.' (2011): https://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/microsoft-admits-patr...
Are we talking about applications, or webpages? Of course an application written in javascript won't work without, that is a given. That's not the problem though, its static webpages (or what could be). If I get to a website with visible content (mainly text, or images), but isn't fully functional without javascript, I probably won't enable it. If I see one where I can't see content, I'll probably enable javascript there as well, but it depends if I want to read it.

Good examples of some problems I've seen are Twitter taking several seconds to load content, even when the javascript is cached (somehow facebook does it fast enough). You even have a webpage like this "http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/internals/howbrowsers...? that seems laggy when scrolling with js.
I think the cultural shift of younger religious folks towards tolerance and liberalism is more a testament to the values of humans changing religion to serve their needs as opposed to a divine creator dictating aprior moral tenants that never change. I think the US is going through more of a cultural shift brought on by the 1960/70s than a fundamental belief/disbelief in creation/evolution.

Does anyone else find it curious that Atheists who disavow organized beliefs end up codifying their own belief system into organizations such as the "insert atheist group here" which act as defacto church for nonbelievers. I am still waiting for Nietzsche's superman to deliver a new morality for the end of the Christian epoch. I guess I will have to wait a while for that to happen...
I think that this is true no matter what field you are in. Income is important and it is very hard to change course in life when you have a family and other financial obligations but it is worth it. A happy person makes a much better partner then someone who is frustrated and depressed.
"You can't help but feel embarrassed for Oracle" on copyright claims
Very nice. Thank you for this one!
> It's hard to start with a technical ability and find a startup opportunity. That is how we decided to start Quantcast - we had a spreadsheet of business ideas that might leverage our technical backgrounds. But it's a difficult path.

Really interesting point. I am much in the same boat as you, I am interest in working on highly technical, mostly systems related challenges.

However, I know that the goal of a company is to generate return for their shareholder. At the mean time, startup is a lot of hard, thankless, and grungy work (that makes tooling around with autoconf seem fun by comparison): unless you're genuinely passionate about the problem(s) you're solving, it isn't worth it.

So until a deeply technical idea strikes me, I'll hold off on taking that jump.
Well not PHP, that's for certain. A much as people bash on perl, it's actually quite useful for shell scripts that need a bit more power, so if you write a lot of shell scripts, I would recommend that. Although be warned, it isn't just a programming language, it's a way of life and while it's fairly easy to start with it, it's not as easy to get to the point where perl becomes really valuable, there are a lot of things to memorize.

Haskell is a different beast entirely. It is great for writing big applications because they will be very efficient, and have a sound code base that is easily understandable and extensible. It's also great for smaller things and can be a lot of fun to write. It's also makes you stand out from the crowd and look smarter; there's a certain respect for haskellers, whether it's justified or not.

Of course, haskell isn't that easy to learn. For those with no experience programming, it's no more difficult than learning with some other language, but if you know other languages, you will need to unlearn a lot, which is hard.

I would recommend haskell if you want to take on a big project or want to learn a lot along the way that you can carry over to other languages.

But I would definitely recommend one of python, ruby or javascript for the kinds of things you said you wanted to do.

I said no PHP because the only thing going for PHP is it's good documentation. PHP is bad in terms of language design, there are a lot of inconsistencies which get confusing. It's standard library is a mess, and a lot of PHP programmers are just pro copy-pasters.

Ruby, Python and javascript fill a similar niche as PHP and are all relatively easy to learn, easy to use and have nice communities. If you want to lean more on the scripting side, I would recommend ruby, if you want to do more of web programming, javascript, and if you want to do some other programming, python.
Bezos Talks Innovation In The Publishing Space
At the risk of being rude: this is dumb.

Think about the implications here. Why should Apple get into payments? A business they have no expertise in, that is nothing like any business they have expertise in, and that is only barely tangentially related to products they make?

More so, payments is all wrong for apple. Payments is about boring stuff like consistency, robustness, and low overhead. That's not what Apple is about. Apple is about melding good quality software with compelling aesthetics and design. Because software construction is very difficult to merge well with aesthetics and design they have a key advantage over many of their competitors. And they use that advantage to make products that people are hugely enthusiastic about and willing to pay high prices to purchase, providing high profit margins to Apple. This is precisely the opposite of what's needed for payments. Apple would need to dumb a huge amount of money to develop a payments system, and it would need to grow a very anti-Apple sort of team within Apple to be able to be competitive. The chances that they'd screw it up and lose their investment are high. The chances that they'd ruin their brand and cause a diminution of their core business is also high (imagine if people thought about the Apple brand the way people think about Paypal, or Bank of America).

In short, this idea makes no more sense than saying that Apple should run a nationwide chain of taco trucks.
Love it! Super addicting. My only complaint with these types of games is that I always feel like people are cheating.

But at least it makes me feel better about how bad I am at these word games ;)
A little off topic (and the last game I played obsessively was quake so please excuse me if what I'm about to ask is stupid, I'm a little out of touch!), but... why don't Valve have much of a footprint in the mobile game space? Considering what they have done with steam in terms of a distribution platform, it strikes me as odd that they haven't gotten in to the mobile game world e.g. something like a hybrid app store/steam platform but exclusively for mobile game content. Or have I missed something and they are actually engaging with the mobile/smartphone platform?
I put "no" in parenthesis specifically for this reason.

Someone gave my wife and I advice early on to avoid explicitly saying no to our children when they were very little. It was very, very good advice.
This gets interesting with recent lawsuit against Apple.
Right on -- I've found I have to use 3-4 different browsers for normal, everyday usage, because it seriously creeps me out when, for example, I open a YouTube video for my daughter in the wrong browser, and the banner at the top reminds me that "this YouTube account is managed by [my employer]", if I happened to use the "work" browser that needs to be signed into my work Google Apps account.

I'm not even sure that my employer has any access to my YouTube history. I'm sure he's not interested anyway. BUT whenever I pick the wrong browser and see that banner I feel invaded. So, there's a browser that's work-only, and has all of the cookies for that identity only. And it's not my default, so to open work URLs sometimes I have to cut & paste.

I used to get the same cold water shock whenever I visited a random site and saw the Facebook like button with "0 of your friends like this!" I don't WANT to know what sites my Facebook "friends" visit and/or like. I don't want all of THEM looking over my shoulder either, or Facebook looking over my shoulder either, for that matter. I don't get that shock anymore -- Facebook has its own browser entirely, and its cookies are aggressively deleted from other browsers (and "aggressive" is needed; it's hard to keep them off!). This fix also cut down my Facebook usage from multiple visits a day to maybe once a fortnight, but so it goes.

Same recoil whenever yet another site asks me to link the to Facebook (or link up all of my "friends"). Even Skype keeps prompting me.

I'm quite sure there are friends who can't find me on this or that site, even though I have an account, because I give every site different email addresses when I sign up. I have never, ever heard from a friend that this inconvenienced them (that my primary email seems to be registered nowhere).

There should be a third button, after "Connect to Facebook" and "No thanks; not yet", that simply says "FUCK no", and maybe a registry I can join so they can all stop asking me.

Er... strike the registry idea, though. What email address would I put?
Impossible, the game is perfect
OpenID lets you create an identity that spans multiple sites. There's absolutely nothing preventing you from creating multiple OpenIDs, so I don't see what your problem is with it.
Actually, I don't do Facebook comments, I don't like the idea of having things that I post linked to my facebook profile.
I agree. Everything I've read about them just seems so weird and fascinating, especially since it seems like they could introduce something completely unexpected with the ad-hoc way the teams are organized. Valve doing R&D on wearable computing just because someone felt like doing it is mind-blowing to me.
Noise is a problem. I'm not sure whether Apple wants to compromise on that.
Come now, let's don't make zed have yet another hissy fit. You are not allowed to disagree with him, lest he find your home address and post it to twitter.
I work at Kiip, and I can confirm that our "non-durable purely in-memory solution" is Redis.
Thanks! Can you explain what the advantages are, briefly? For me, the major advantage would be easy NAT traversal, but I don't know if that can be done. I'm a bit confused by the whole thing, does this mean I now need to install a firewall on the machines behind the NAT? Do the services (e.g. SSH) need to also listen on the ipv6 adapter?
Diablo 3 Given Official Release Date
Linkbait title. The author would have to be a moron to make such a suggestion with a straight face. Not worth the read.
I'm just wondering how someone can have an online experience such that when they come across a website that allows anon comments, they are so taken aback that they write an entire blog post.

Not that I don't agree with her sentiment. I do. I guess it's even more refreshing to hear her POV when her experience of the internet seems naïve.

It's too bad we don't hear why she's decided to keep Disqus after coming to her conclusions.
though I'm there with you in spirit, clearly there need be some kind of national oversight. airlines are too "big a deal" to fail in the way you describe.
We are using Mongo in ec2 and raid10 with 6 ebs drives out performs ephemeral disks when the dataset won't fit in RAM in a raw upsert scenario (our actual data, loading in historical data). The use if mmap and relying on the OS to page in/out the appropriate portions is painful, particularly because we end up with a lot of moves (padding factor varies between 1.8 and 1.9 and because of our dataset, using a large field on insert and clearing in update was less performant than upserts and moves).

There's really two knobs to turn on Mongo, RAM and disk speed. Our particular cluster doesn't have enough RAM for the dataset to fit in memory, but could double its performance (or more) if each key range was mmapped individually rather than the entire datastore the shard is responsible for just because of how the OS manages pages. We haven't broken down to implement it yet, but with the performance vs. cost tradeoffs, we may have to pretty soon.
Heh. Does kickstarter take donations in kind?
The Unicode Consortium manages the process of defining the unicode standard. Various committees are formed, composed of representatives from whatever other standards bodies are interested and from companies with a stake in the standard.

I learned the answer after reading a great talk (in blog post form) about the ever-growing unicode character set: http://www.reigndesign.com/blog/love-hotels-and-unicode/
Indeed. Perhaps this is the primary reason why Go was invented.
I must've caught a window where it worked. I recall it was always the mobile version of Facebook, and it couldn't detect the browser. May be one of the differences between lynx and links2.
So the filters aren't what really make it special, they just make it easier to take a cool photo on an otherwise limited camera. Most people are actually hooked once they get a few likes, from friends (or randoms if you hashtag your photos).
An introduction to the JavaScript Module Pattern
I'd also try posting on 4chan's /tg/ (traditional games) board. Lots of table-top gamers there.
100,000 Lines of Assembly Language
I wanted to reduce the amount of time that officers spent searching for low-risk objects, but politics intervened at every turn.... And despite the radically reduced risk that knives and box cutters presented in the post-9/11 world, allowing them back on board was considered too emotionally charged for the American public.

Ugh. Was that true? What if the TSA had announced they had determined that knives and lighters no longer posed a significant risk? It might have helped the American psyche a little bit to hear the government reassuring people instead of stoking their fears. It sucks that all our confidence-building Bush-giving-us-our-mojo-back demonstrations of "strength" were military operations in foreign countries thousands of miles away, while at home citizens were taught to be afraid of pocket knives and nail clippers.
Yeah what we're seeing from the data is folks are passionate about the brands they love (alcohol especially).

The score is influenced by positive mentions of that brand. Brands are lower on the list because they have less % of positive mentions than other brands.
Who usually pays the ongoing costs in cases like this? IE: If a business was seized due to illegal activity and the building closed during the investigation who usually pays the rent during this time?
Those are artificial human languages...
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3838757
Dup: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3834203
You know what else Apple went out of their way to add? The ability for a web developer to disable the zooming feature!

Implementing a complete specification isn't "going out of your way", it's very much in your way. It's also not saying you endorse every feature therein. (From a quick search, this appears to be a part of CSS specifications: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css-device-adapt/#the-lsquouser-zoom... ). Creating features from scratch is going out of your way. And creating features which allow you to zoom in on any site feels like a strong endoresement that zooming in is generally useful.

Take a look at Twitter's Bootstrap. It has a variety of different responsive design levels, not just one at 320px. Great example of how a design can fit many different devices.

More sites aren't designed well than sites which are designed well. I'd rather put my moment by momnent usability of something ahead of the designer's musing about what "should be more usable" any day. And the abuse of such a thing is to disable zoom for the designer's sense of aesthetics over the user's sense of usability, and I suggest that happens much more than the designer using it to increase usability. And that's a trade-off I dislike having to deal with.
Good suggestions. I'm on it. Thanks.