skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Did you read the same article as I did? Nothing they are doing seems that extreme and looks to have actually helped their product - other than possibly reading the PG articles which I think most people should do anyways. I'm pretty sure using the CrunchBase API (such an underrated tool) didn't take long to figure out either, as Eric isn't much of a slouch.

Disclaimer: Current Austinite and fan/friend of Forecast.
Ooh, I wish Readable would add this. I typically only use Readable for long articles. When reading part-way through, leaving, and coming back, it's a pain to locate the paragraph where you left off.
So instead of the original third party destroying your privacy, you hand control to another third party? What measures are being put into place to stop them from doing what the original third party did?

Also: what's to stop someone like Facebook from banning these sort of links?
This CoralCDN link works: http://haighteration.com.nyud.net/2012/04/inside-aarons-apar...
Emacs lisp continuous delivery
Got any sources for that? I'm interested in reading that research.

Couple anecdotes:
I work in a semi rural neighborhood that's 2km from a regional airport (a bit off to the side of the approach path). I work right next to a window and haven't once heard an airplane go by. Now, this might be due to our shielded glass and white noise generators in the ceiling, but that's not bad.

Second anecdote, there was an airport downtown on the water that was re-opening with an airline running Bombardier Q400s (Porter Airlines at Billy Bishop). There was a group of protesters that were claiming that the noise would ruin the quiet of a nearby spit. So on the launch day, before the sun rose, they gathered at the spit to protest. Unfortunately for them, they missed the first flight as their talking had drowned it out.

Maybe it's just because I lived next to the railroad tracks for 20 years, but I say, bring on the jets.
"... Perhaps the most intriguing pillar of Kleiner's work, developed by partner John Doerr, is what he has dubbed the Kleiner keiretsu. He uses the Japanese word keiretsu to mean a network of companies that share experiences, insights, knowledge and information – partly by relying on Kleiner partners as the agents who dart from one company to another, spreading insights and contacts along the way. ..."

@curiousoffice made this link b/w YC now & KP of the 90's. [0] There are many differences though, the key one being the costs to enter the market is much lower & the technology is much cheaper.

[0] https://twitter.com/#!/curiousoffice/status/1876722729522462...
Out of curiosity, do you happen to have a published account of Eich's reasoning on supporting Prop 8?

Or are you just, you know, being as irrationally intolerant as the people who gaybash?
Uber Simplifies Sign Up Process: Just Hold Up Your Credit Card
The thing is I'm finding cold emails aren't generally well received, if they are even answered at all.

I'm confident there is at least one YC alum who would respond to your cold email. Stop assuming you can't solve this problem, and solve it.
Memory consumption is important because it has a significant effect on performance and crash rate. The effects vary greatly depending on your hardware. You're right that people focus too much on raw memory measurements themselves. There are many time/space trade-offs.
Finding good solution to a given problem is what most of the engineers do day-to-day at work.

Real entrepreneurs identify opportunities (problems) and provide solution. Remember, a problem well stated is a problem half solved.
Private "cloud" services seem to be very much part of the zeitgeist. http://freedomboxfoundation.org/ is probably the most well known, with Justin Frankel's WASTE (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WASTE) being one of the earliest. I researched the technical challenges of making these kinds of systems practical and wrote some findings at http://carcaddar.blogspot.ca/search/label/ClearSky

For everything to work as well as Facebook does today in a fully decentralized manner, there still needs to be a lot of research done in zero-knowledge password proofs and shared public key systems. The most relevant work I've found in those particular fields is http://ai.stanford.edu/~xb/pkc09/index.html
That's equivalent to citing studies showing that women are indeed weaker when it comes to math or computer programming.

The counter argument then is that it is because of society that they are weaker. The same could be argued here: it is because of society's conditioning of men that they can't think straight when around attractive women.
Priv.ly, Y U NO USE GPG?
The real question I struggle with is related to this. Quite simply, what use is a million bucks just sitting in the bank? Once you've got your retirement, mortgage and rainy day fund covered, money you never use is a piece of your life you traded away for... nothing.

So I guess what you could say is, if you grow to a million in net worth because you have a booming business with great returns, that's wonderful. But I wonder if getting to a million (or whatever number) over a lifetime by simply saving every possible dime is simply wasted opportunity.
There were a lot of things that were good about EVE (it's been about 4 years since I played).

Examples would be:
The Economy.
Ship Configuration System.
The Artstyle.
The security model.
The unforgivingness (made you think carefully before you acted).

The problem was just that the combat always felt a bit bland and favored players with the biggest ISK supply and XP. So in reality you needed to be part of a huge corp and wait for months for skill training to be competitive.
I guess 1 BTC to ~$4.5 CAD [1] is considered a failure to some. Based on the average volume of 10K BTC a week, that's $45,000 CAD exchanging hands a week. Not mind blowing, but certainly not a failure, I would say.

[1] Average price from https://www.cavirtex.com/home
I personally didn't think that any of the situations I described should be illegal, but I suppose it really says something about our society when I can picture people being okay with corporations knowing everything about them.
depending on how the warrant is worded and what specific law enforcement branch and what specific division within that branch is doing the investigation, there won't even be an investigation.

do you really think the white collar crimes unit for the fbi is really going to even notice, let alone pass on info regarding a low level drug deal that they catch as part of their multimillion dollar investigation?
Sure, but even in those cases the saving has to win back the overall cost of the runtime profiling and dynamic compilation. The crossover point seems to be high enough in the graph that it's not reached very often in practice - especially since, as you say, programmers tend to learn early on that hoisting conditions out of inner loops Makes Code Faster.
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I'm a Mozilla employee and started MemShrink. I also write about it regularly: http://blog.mozilla.com/nnethercote/category/memshrink/.

MemShrink has been running since June 2011 and there have been many improvements in Firefox's memory consumption since then; these have shown up in Firefox 7, 8, 9, 10 and 11.
That's good news: I think with more than one platform the advantages of a web-based approach really become apparent.
Jessica Mah of InDinero (& thoughts on ageism)
full page cache link: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3...
It sounds like you don't respect his opinions as valid. There is no room for dissent. Fire everyone who doesn't agree with me on this issue, for I have declared them intolerant! They are guilty of thoughtcrime, really.

How totalitarian of you.

(Disclaimer. No judgement is issued here in the issue proper.)

Postscript:
Oooh! I know what would work. An INQUISITION. Go find everyone who contributes to political causes we don't like, and force them to recant or be tortured^Wfired. Nobody expects the Californian inquisition!
Wah?

I use GPG to encrypt data all the time. For example all backups I do are via http://duplicity.nongnu.org/ (its also super convenient)

Additionally all emails that are GPG encrypted are stored that way with all the mail clients I know of (that is, they just keep the mail the way it is,decryption is in volatile memory only). So yes storage is encrypted too!

Yes it also means search only works on sender/subject. Eventually you can have an index that is GPG encrypted and works once decrypted, no technical issue here.
Agree with your analysis, but OP used the original title from Aviation Week.
Mountain View is the second most expensive city in the country? I wonder where LA and Chicago rank...
Typekit now accepts Adobe IDs
He won't stop viruses, but will those viruses be made illegal in UE?
Wow... I can't think of any reason for the practice except to facilitate discrimination on the basis of looks. Assuming it has been attacked on that basis, I wonder what the justification for continuing it is.

P.S. Apparently I trust HN too much to give me the best article about the topic. The article in The Economist would have been a much better submission.
hey thanks for posting this, I'm about to start wellbutrin this month myself
Apparently both with-photo and without-photo are common in Israel, where the study was conducted.

If that theory was true, I would expect attractive males and attractive females both to be discriminated against.
No love for the Canadarm :)?
That was my first thought. It would be hard to relax when you know that everything you do may be recorded... The bad joke I just made? My attempt at dancing? Expressing your feelings on a bad day? A date gone wrong?

With social networks and internet, managing one's "online identity" and privacy is increasingly important. Everything you say online might be stored and retrieved later. It's hard enough when you are an adult. But what about kid/teenn, who is still trying to find his identity, and might say things that he regrets later on?

What happens when real life is logged?
New York Skateboard
An enum is a type of comment that can be enforced by the compiler and is likely less typing than adding /* regular comments */.
What noise levels current airliners generate? We can then have a better idea of how noisy these new airliners would be.
What problems? Memory consumption has been trending downwards for over a year now. Have you tried Firefox lately?

As for the linking issue, that's a shortcoming in MSVC. Chrome hit the same issue earlier than Firefox did, and switched to a 64-bit linker as a result. Web browsers contain enormous amounts of code because they support enormous amounts of functionality. The code size has only a moderate bearing on the amount of memory consumed at runtime.

If you're seeing Firefox using half a GB to display a couple of static pages something is wrong. Likely causes are a busted profile or leaky add-ons.
I loaded my Jeep into a shipping container and had it shipped from Colon (Panama) to Cartagena (Colombia). I flew.

I documented the whole process in great detail so others can do the same: http://theroadchoseme.com/shipping-across-the-darien-gap-pt-...
I shudder to think how much of the Firefox's reputation for slowness comes from busted profiles :(
Budget Airline Announces $35 Fee For CARRY ON bags
I might disagree with you on that. I am not a GroupOn FAN but if that was their real intention, they would have sold the company to Google long back for $6 bn.
Yeah, I was wondering how many people DON'T use a browser to read their email. How does Privly work for them? Or why wouldn't they just use GPG.
Google is not just about data collection, though data collection does help improve products (think distributed spam filtering). Most Google products exist because someone at Google thought people would like them. Making money is good, but not a primary concern. It seems crazy from the outside, but really, developers at Google are not sitting around trying to figure out how to build a huge and scary profile about you. We just want to play with fun things.

(Yes, that generates a lot of data, and we do use a lot of that data for things that might not thrill you, like targeting ads. But ultimately, a lot of companies know a lot about you, and few try to be as transparent about it as Google does. At least you can stop giving Google data. Try to opt out of the credit reporting system.)
Here's what I can do in Android that I can't do in iOS:

* develop an app on my own machine - you can't develop iOS on anything but AAPL hardware, android dev can be done on the big 3.

* without having to pay anything - how much does dev license in iOS cost? don't need to pay for android SDK and tools

* without having to jump through any loops to distribute it - I can just pack up the .apk and email it to you, provide a dropbox public link (when I used to use k9mail, I got my updates at http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/downloads/list rather than the android app store), or put it up in my own app store for it (look at amazon app store, or http://f-droid.org/, or that adult themed one that came out some time ago).
Is he bad at coding?

He has programmed a number of games from scratch in very short time periods without using a bunch of pre-existing tools etc.

He is obviously very much a generalist and has done everything from 2d/3d graphics , networking , gameplay handling , AI and now CPU emulation. I would imagine most AAA developers will at some point find a niche and stick to doing that.

Not to mention building minecraft which is a non trivial programming exercise in terms of managing and rendering thousands upon thousands of blocks which can all potentially be re-arranged.

Perhaps he is not John Carmack but I would be confident he is at least as good as 90% of the programmers working in the game industry.
I know that in Morocco for instance, a potential employer would wanna know if a woman puts the veil (not niqab, veil only covers the hair) or not, eventually preferring women who don't.
Code to ignore voting rings would be very interesting - I would imagine the way to do it might be to occasionally do some kind of maximum flow analysis on the graph between users (with arcs between u_i and u_j representing the proportion of upvotes for user u_j by user u_i as a proportion of u_i's total upvotes). Users with a high maximum flow between them could be considered part of the voting ring. The trouble is that this would be very computationally expensive, even to do offline - and the cost of storing a matrix of size n^2 for n users might be prohibitive.

I was curious about what Hacker News does so looked at the code from the Arc tarball.

I found this:
(def biased-voter (i vote) nil)

I presume this is a case of security by obscurity and the live Hacker News site has a non-public definition of biased-voter to stop people working around it?

Or are you referring to the code that guards (++ (karma i!by) (case dir up 1 down -1)) (on lines 1368 to 1370)?
Canada Commends Facebook’s Privacy Progress
I started R'ing TFA and thought the title of the post was just editorialising, until I got to this:

"The proposal also targets tools used to commit offences: the production or sale of devices such as computer programs designed for cyber-attacks, or which find a computer password by which an information system can be accessed, would constitute criminal offences."

I've known numerous sysadmins who regularly run a password cracker over their login database, so that they can warn people who have weak passwords. This helps out the individuals concerned and increases the overall security of the system, yet it looks like this would become a criminal offence as a result of this bill.
You could come up with a similar list for just about any big corporation. A few of these really don't prove your point though, because you're comparing them to services that are also copies of something else.

iPad = Nokia N800
Facebook = Myspace, Friendster
IE/Firefox = Mosaic
MS Office = Lotus

I suspect that if we really put time into this, we could come up with examples of things the others might be considered copies of. Good artists copy, great artists steal.
Are there really so few women in the discipline that running across a reference to an attractive female astrophysicist likely means it's the same one you're thinking of?
First, while cars are depreciating assets, the depreciation curve is a decaying exponential. This means that while the first year you go into the red, after 3-4 years you are back around the black again.

Second, interest free loans are practically better than spare cash. How do you know your parent didn't have $35,000 in spare cash, but wisely took the interest-free loan to leverage himself? You certainly cannot dismiss the possibility, as the poster must at least have respectable credit and/or income to qualify.

Third, your parent was merely making an observation on interest-free loans, which was pertinent to the parent of said post. Where do you fit in, criticizing his/her financial decisions and telling them what they should be doing with their money?

(My first two cars cost a total sum of $1200)
More anecdotes, but, I lived 1 1/2 miles perpendicular to the most frequent runway of an airport. If you were outside, you could hear every plane take off and it disturbed an otherwise perfect place to live. However, with zero noise considerations in building, couldn't hear a thing inside. On the other hand, I now live within 2 miles of a medium sized metro area and the normal sound of traffic is louder than the planes were. So while I never took db readings, environment is going to play a huge impact, but even minimal insulation will make it inaudible.
True, but there's no information on the display modes or the framebuffer format.
That part struck me as embellished writing (or perhaps the tour guide exaggerated that point). I hardly know a thing about the sensitivity of explosive weapons, but consider the importance the Soviets placed on secrecy. If there was such a danger, I can't imagine them working so hard to construct the place in near-total obscurity, and subsequently relegating the safety of up to six submarines and up to 3000 people to the accuracy of a single hair.

Although, having looked it up now, hair-tension hygrometers could be a bit more accurate than what I initially guessed, though there are more accurate alternatives.
Royal Canadian Mint’s “MintChip” To Officially Digitize Cash
Ask HN: What jobs allow you to build products while you work?
A fire fighter dispatcher said that he had most of the day to write (he was an author).

So I'm asking Hacker News: what are the best jobs if you want to have free time at the computer to code, write, and create?
it was hard for a lot of guys to think with 100% efficiency in her presence.

Do other men really think this way? If so, then I carry a considerable advantage over my peers who are afflicted with diminished mental capacity in the presence of an attractive woman.

I'm a heterosexual male in my mid 20s and attractive women do not phase me at all. After my brain acknowledges the presence of an attractive woman, it simply moves on to the next thing. So what if she is attractive? If you care to take a few passing glances at her... ok, then what? Are you going to stare at her all day? Why? That isn't boring? She's just a woman; one of billions who qualify for the subjective title of "attractive". I just don't understand.
Or start one. I helped start the Open Rights Group. We worked out that you could fund a single person's salary from monthly donations of around 1000 people. This was before Kickstarter or the current generation of equivalents, but we got a 1000 people to pledge using PledgeBank (http://www.pledgebank.com/) (which works anywhere). It was enough to get started.

It makes a difference. You could do it tomorrow. Anyone here could. Even if it's just a sideline to your business ideas, it'll help ensure that your business exists in a world you want to live in.
Just an FYI, but that wiring is way out of code.

Edit: The reason I bring this up is because if it starts a fire no insurance is going to cover the lose. You'll be out of pocket big time in an apartment.
This concept encompasses both hosted ciphertext (on some other network) and host page ciphertext. There are use cases to both, and development of the server/network does not inhibit the development of the extensions. The road map has a set of priorities, but in the end development will proceed with the passions of Privly's contributors.
Paper and in-app purchases
Passion First
UKash works like that. I don't know implementation details, but you get a number that has some sum of money associated with it and you give that number to the other party and they give you back a new number with change.
I want to know what it actually does and what it actually looks like at this point in time. How about a video of that?
Possibly, although most guys don't seem to be particularly in tune with which other guys are attractive.
We use something similar at the office. We have chat for all employees based on google talk, but it is encrypted before it's sent to Google's servers and decrypted after receipt.
Project Glass Looks as Promising as Microsoft's Vision of the Tablet in 2001...
Another example of business cluelessness, they're not flexing their patent muscles.

It's worth noting that Google's prospectus [1] as filed with the SEC says that Google will always pursue long-term opportunities even if they hurt Google in the short term. Patents are an example here; Google could sue all of its "competitors" out of existence today, but would that really benefit Google in the long term? Would you work at Google if they were the company that put every tech startup out of business with "method for computing the sum of two integer" patents? Probably not. So aggressive patent lawsuits are not what Google's shareholders want. And doing what the shareholders want is not exactly "business cluelessness" :)

[1] http://www.buec.udel.edu/pollacks/Acct351/handouts/SEC%20For...
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There are differences between males and females in pretty much every species on earth, I don't think you can ascribe "society" to every gender. As a man, natural instincts to flirt with the attractive women can get you a sexual harassment charge - when women do it to attractive men it's fine with everyone. Some part of the man's brain is going towards stopping his natural instincts which can lower work performance.
Simulating a Loaded Dice in a Constant Time
The big step up is that you don't need to take these glasses out of your pocket every time you want to use them. Phones can't really serve as an "extension of the self" because you don't walk around with them in your hand all the time.

Using "always on" eye-devices would allow them to become second nature. Name/face/voice association would be automatic, looking up a word definition would be accessing slow memory instead of an annoying context-switch. A lot of the difference is not in that you can do something with these glasses, it's that you will.
One nice thing about D3 is their selector engine supports the SVG namespace across all the browsers. Whereas Jquery has to be monkey patched and you're stuck at v1.6.1.
Hey guys. If you're interesting in discussing this, head on over to #0x10c-dev on Freenode!
Reminds me of this:

JERRY: (To Kramer and Morty) What is this about?

KRAMER: I'm completely changing the configuration of the apartment. You're not gonna believe it when you see it. A whole new lifestyle.

JERRY: What are you doing?

KRAMER: Levels.

JERRY: Levels?

KRAMER: Yeah, I'm getting rid of all my furniture. All of it. And I'm going to build these different levels, with steps, and it'll all be carpeted with a lot of pillows. You know, like ancient Egypt.