skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think one of the best things employers can do to show that they respect their employees is to invert the decision making and control structure in the organization. Similarly to what Agile/XP did for the software development sector. Instead of having managers and CxOs make all the decisions, allow the people closest to the situation, with all the facts, make the decision and be responsible for that decision. Create small teams that are self organizing and imbue those teams with the power to truly own and produce the solution to the problems that they face and are trying to solve.

I personally feel that the main problem with organizations and employee happiness and retention is the current system of command and control where all employees are assumed to be idiots that need to be micro-managed. How is anyone suppose to be happy in that kind of environment? Work should not be an extension of school where we store and manage people in order to keep them out of trouble until they are old enough to retire. No, work should be a place where people want to go because they know that they own a little bit of that business and are really responsible for its success and/or failure.
What about if your door is open and you're talking loudly to your friend on speakerphone with the volume way up? Do I have to plug my ears when I walk past?
It's all a short-squeeze. Today's trading has little to do with actual valuation.
Hi hn. I've been on a health kick lately and been using my fitbit more and more to help me be consistent about my physical activity. I wanted more information out of my fitbit data, so I built StepStats to scratch that itch. Happy to hear suggestions and feedback as I'll be making additions/improvements over time.
The Filtered Network
Why its better to pretend you don't know anything about computers
I was involved in some work done many years ago.

The principle road tracking was to look for any sets of lines that moved in parallel. The primitive hardware was a series of horizontal line scan cameras aimed at increasing distances in front of the car and a simple sideways shift+correlation to decide which direction.

This way that tracked not just white lines, but tire tracks, kerbs, road wear, roadside barriers etc. The main problem we had was on a clean unmarked newly laid road surface that was perfectly uniform.

There is a highway I commute on daily which has been undergoing roadworks for the last 3years and has so many painted out lines, repairs, temporary markings, filled in trenches etc that in the rain I have no idea where the lanes are.
Can you find this video? I'm very interested.
OpenResty ships with LuaJIT 2.0 beta. You have to add a ./configure parameter to get it to use it, but it works well, yes.

As to bytecode...I think it probably does end up more compact than compiled C++, and it seems like it would have properties that would allow it to compress more tightly, but I don't have any numbers on that.

I tend to strip the source and compress and encrypt it; I could convert it to bytecode first, but the last time I tried that it ended up bigger than the compressed text.

>Android C++/NDK by itself counts as a niche? That's kind of surprising! I would have thought a profitable niche would have to be a bit more specialized by now... I guess the NDK hasn't been out all that long.

A lot of "Android" developers are actually Java developers who are trying to cash in on mobile. Serious game developers almost all use the NDK, but serious game developers are in high demand (myself included). So yes, NDK is itself a niche, in that the number of jobs seems to exceed the number of developers available.

On the other hand, by being able to do games in NDK I'm even better off, but just being good at NDK development is pretty powerful. Keep in mind that you also have to deal with Java and the Android stack -- you can't do everything in the NDK. So you need to be someone good at C++ who also can get around in Java.
> I often see groups of farmers, homeowners, small business owners, or whatever forming groups to lobby congress for their own benefit.

And how successful are they, compared to corporations? The problem is that by lobbying clout making a difference, corporations are thousands of times more effective than the number of people they represent.

(And it's usually an accepted deduction for them, unlike most other groups)

> Likewise, when a person devotes some small fraction of their resources to tax avoidance and a corporation devotes the same fraction, the corporation's results are going to be much more impressive and complex than the persons. But I'm not sure that's a reason to condemn the one and not the other.

The answer you're going to get as a person if you do that (especially if you get creative with multinational tricks) is "I'm not sure I'll be able to defend that in court. And if I can't, you're going to jail". However, if you do it as a corporation, the worst you'd do is to pay back taxes (perhaps with some small penalty). Sarbanes Oxley theoretically makes the CEO personally liable, but I haven't heard of a case where one was prosecuted that wasn't downright fraud.

Do you know of any case in which a corporate executive faced personal liability for creative tax planning? I do know cases where persons creatively planning their own taxes faced such liability. And I think that makes it good enough reason to single out one and not the other.
Maybe the algorithm detected a voting ring. Did you ask your friends to vote up the link?
I think the moderators have greater control over content than the ranking algorithm.
I've actually met the head of the BPI, and he's as mad in person as he appears in print. For once I completely believe these quotes were not made up by the journalist interviewing him.
Gizmodo Facelift
What's the point? The two example native components don't seem to do anything that HTML5 can't do just as easily/effectively. Do they somehow get you better performance/responsiveness on Android/iOS by not going through the browser stack?
Great points.

I like the idea of term limits if only to help prevent corruption. But perhaps that solution is best left up to the contractual accountability. However, I do feel that complacency and the "good ole boys club" plays a negative role in the leadership, which limiting terms might help to prevent.

But not to stray too far away from my initial point, "like a business" merely means efficient. "Here's my money, please put it to good use" isn't something I think many people with the correct information feel is truly being honored. And why that isn't being discussed more is interesting to me.
Object literals don't require you to duplicate any code:

function getObject(val1, val2) {
return {
foo: val1,
bar: function() {
return val2;
}
};
}
The funny thing is, I'm not sure it would be that different.

I'm being tongue-in-cheek. That is, the effectiveness of the medicines would be very different, but the actual substances available in some way would barely be different.

With the exception of marijuana, almost every drug with medicinal use is either available medically in some form or unavailable, but with very related 'cousins' readily available.

Marijuana is available as Marinol - it just doesn't work, because it's synthesized without the full set of ~70 cannabinoids. MDMA isn't available (outside of very restricted research), but it's closely related to methamphetamine, which is available with a prescription. (People are often surprised to hear that one). GHB is available with a prescription. Heroin is really just a synthesized and concentrated form of morphine (available with prescription), and peyote is available for some religious ceremonies. [Psilocybin is not, but oddly enough, I believe mushroom spores are legal, even though the mushrooms are not (because the spores don't contain any psylocybin - I believe this may depend on your jurisdiction, though, and as always, IANAL.).]

So what's the end result? We've criminalized drugs not based on their underlying chemistry - there is almost no Schedule I drug that doesn't have a closely related (and oftentimes identical!) counterpart in Schedules II-IV or not scheduled at all.

If I were the conspiracy-theory type, I'd say that this is a way of saying that drugs can only be useful if a pharmaceutical company is profiting off of it. Though I'm inclined to side with Hanlon's razor on this one - that's not really how it came about historically, even if 'Big Pharma' does benefit off of it now. I don't really care - I just wish we'd start drafting laws based on science, not fear.
People do it because it's two fewer keystrokes.
IIRC, Microsoft has said WP8 will be based on the same core as Windows 8, so, whatever the tablet runs, will be a successor of WP7.
The comment was for aspirin daily. So dose dependent is definitely a big thought here.
That's a fascinating experiment. I just tried 30 days without the internet (at home). But I still used it in cafes, whereas Paul is disconnecting completely.

I think he's going to find many little points of friction that he wasn't expecting. So many non-internet exchanges now end with "sure, send me an email" or "Sure, just go to our website and..." The infrastructure to serve non-web users still exists, but it's fading.

I personally decided to go back to the internet. I'm doing an online course with Udacity; cafe bandwidth didn't cut it.

If I were just doing writing, I actually would go without a home internet connection. It's a much more productive system if your work doesn't require access. But my work now does, and there was too much friction.

If I were doing technology writing, like Paul...well, I'd love to know how this turns out.
Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade.

In a March 8, 2007 e-mail to Schwartz about working with Google on licensing or partnering with Sun on Java, Sun's co-founder and chairman, Scott McNealy, characterized the relationship with Google at the time: "The Google thing is really a pain. They are immune to copyright laws, good citizenship, they dont share. They dont even call back."

"It's really hard to tell what their intentions are with Android. They put this thing out there, and you've got lots of people picking it up. The big attraction seems to be the zero on the price tag. But everybody I've talked to who is building an Android phone or whatever, they're all going in and they're just hacking on it. And so all these Android phones are going to be incompatible.
Until Mark Pincus wins a Turing Award for Farmville, it's probably not fair to compare the two.
I think the fact is that we are in debt so far that we can barely afford to pay the interest payments. Now, there are two ways out of it. We can pay our debts, or we can dissolve the government, in which case, our debtors will hold the american people (and not the government) responsible. If you want to see what mountains of debt will do to a country, just look at Haiti. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_debt_of_Haiti

Apple, Microsoft, and Google should pay their fair share. Unless I can claim all my income in Ireland, and store all my cash in Barbados, they shouldn't be able to do it either.
What youre espousing only works on the individual level, not on the societal level. ie when you turn down a crappy job, there will always be someone who will take it.
I've written out the Regex for divisibility by 3 before, it's a bit of a beast. I've had a blog post half-finished for ages where I talked about just this thing, but I never got around to actually computing the re for divisibility by 7. Maybe this will provide the impetus...
The Library of Utopia: Digital Public Library of America
It's probably more about preventing new users. If a non-technical friend asks me where to find torrents/download tv shows/etc I'll tell them TPB over a private tracker.
Quick test on a text field in chrome on my Galaxy Nexus shows the same behavior listed above: two spaces automatically ends the sentence with a period, but two carriage returns does not.
Gosling said that Sun was "wronged" by Google and that Oracle is right to sue Google for the way it used Java code in Android.

Just because Sun didn't have patent suits in our genetic code doesn't mean we didn't feel wronged. While I have differences with Oracle, in this case they are in the right. Google totally slimed Sun. We were all really disturbed, even Jonathan: he just decided to put on a happy face and tried to turn lemons into lemonade.

In a March 8, 2007 e-mail to Schwartz about working with Google on licensing or partnering with Sun on Java, Sun's co-founder and chairman, Scott McNealy, characterized the relationship with Google at the time: "The Google thing is really a pain. They are immune to copyright laws, good citizenship, they dont share. They dont even call back."

"It's really hard to tell what their intentions are with Android. They put this thing out there, and you've got lots of people picking it up. The big attraction seems to be the zero on the price tag. But everybody I've talked to who is building an Android phone or whatever, they're all going in and they're just hacking on it. And so all these Android phones are going to be incompatible.

"One of the reasons that we charge license fees is because we've got organizations of people that do compatibility testing and actual negotiating amongst the different handset makers so that things like GPS APIs look the same. And what's going on in the Android world is there's kind of no adult in charge. And all these handset manufacturers are doing whatever they damn well please. Which means that it's just going to be randomness. It could be let a thousand flowers bloom, but it also could be a dog's breakfast. And I guess having been around the track a few times, it feels like it's going to be more of a dog's breakfast."
The best looking sports brand and identity ever? Quite possibly.
Maybe he should ditch electricity and plumbing too? I mean, if you're going to figure out how this one technology has infested your soul, why not go all the way?

I'm sure there are some Amish* communities that would take you in and let you hammer some nails while you get back to your non-technological inner being.

* That's always what they seem to do in movies to the point of being a cliche.
It's far, far too generous to just forgive them and write off their problems as being an inevitable result of Google's scale - their scale makes support expensive, not impossible. Support is a problem plenty of giant companies have figured out already even if they do it poorly.

As for the 'who' ... doesn't really matter whether it's Google or someone else that fixes whatever problems but historically it's not in their DNA to care about individual users so it feels quite natural to assume they'd be replaced rather than repaired.
In that case, you can use the appropriate XML format for the structured document content, then store than in a JSON string. Most of the time the "structured document content" you're sending over AJAX is HTML or SVG, and the browser can still handle parsing and validating it.
You know what might disappear in the next 5 years? Forbes.
If there's a marked decrease in cancer, associated with a mild increase in gastro-whatever bleeding, then it's probably a good trade-off.
As a bicyclist, I echo your hopes and concerns. I'll also add a hope that the most common car-bike accidents (right- and left-hooking) are tested for extensively, as they require a bit more math and foresight than simply recognizing that I'm there.
Agreed. To be fair, though, the USC does not apply to civil claims.
xml-rpc was a classic Winer format and like RSS it shared the same limited interest in cleaning up oversights. Not handling unicode was simply lazy - the support was there in XML so it took effort to disable a native feature. Similarly, date encoding is a solved problem for almost all applications: use ISO 8601.

This is not to say that there are areas where complexity will creep in or that some people haven't learned from the failure of SOAP (or CORBA before it) but simply that for the vast majority of cases the problems just aren't that hard unless we choose to make them hard.
DHH answers his askolo questions
Ah I doubt that will happen.
"We will never have Web 3.0, because the Web’s dead."

I think that sums up this article.
I noted five years back that YC in its early years seemed like School of Rock: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5954

Now that the tech and investing world has changed, YC seems more like Motown Records. It's worth pointing out that in its early days, Motown used to release records on Chess and other labels, but at some point it naturally just made sense for Motown to become its own label.
I know it's getting tricky to tell but, in theory at least, 18 USC shouldn't apply to the UK.
Unfortunately, this works poorly (using WinPhone on HTC Radar). It's not "buggy", it just has little of the usability/interaction of actual Metro. The styling is nice, though.

I think something pretty close to Metro should be achievable. Perhaps jQ Mobile can be updated to better accomodate the use cases.
You can change the size of the allocation on the fly, and just keep writing bytes as you go. Pages aren't alloc'd on disk until they're touched. When you hit the end of the file, you call a final resize to trim off the virtual bytes at the end.

You can see an example of the technique here: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/File-Size.... (scroll to the bottom).
Awesome, I'll have to take a look at how that works. I've gotten it to work with quickfix (set switchbuf=useopen), but still have no idea how to get vim to do that for ctags.
Have insurance companies figured out how accidents, tickets and liability are being handled?

If there is anything I've learned in my career it is that building systems that are 100% completely error-free is pie in the sky thinking even in moderately controlled environments. Suffice it to say, I will be a very late adopter although I think the efforts are very exciting.
Hacker News Inspired Tees
I read "pills" as referring to other Aspirin-class medications (OTC NSAIDs and/or pain relievers), such as Naproxen Sodium, Paracetamol and Ibuprofen.

A pill, after all, is just a transport mechanism. It's the substance of the pill that determines side effects and risk. For example, you don't often hear about multivitamins causing stomach bleeding.
Microsoft just paid B&N $300M to ensure that Android continues to fragment. B&N now has the resources to really take Android forward in whatever direction it wants.

And how does that "fragment" Android? I am seriously curious because honestly your comment is so astonishingly bizarre that I cannot even fathom how you tried to make that batch of lemonade.

The fact that the Nook has Android under it is perfectly irrelevant (even less so than the Kindle Fire). B&N can go off and do whatever they want (including switching to Windows 8, BeOS, or WebOS), but it has absolutely zero impact on Android.

EDIT: Really? Sorry I'm not going to temper the language because the parent's "Yeah, we win!" argument is so asinine that it beggars belief. Microsoft brutally lost their assault on B&N, and now is paying them (very, very handsomely). To try to spin this as some master stroke of genius is total absurdist theater.
Facebook, probably, but I doubt Google. They are no Apple when it comes to building new business models and money-making products, but I don't see anything that could kill Google in the next 5 years.

Facebook on the other hand - I'm noticing a (slow) trend of people getting bored with it. I don't think people are bored with Google searches. Plus, as a company Facebook is much more vulnerable - a lot less money, a one-hit product with nothing else outside the social network to show for themselves. Yes, both use advertising, but that's a business model, not a product/service. It's like arguing Apple only makes money from selling hardware. Google has multiple products/services that use advertising. Facebook has one.
very interesting hack. thanks for doing it
The feeling of helplessness in this economy is probably a big part of the problem. In 2005, someone could feel like they had the option to switch employers, and routinely make that choice to stay. Now, that option is probably not available to most people, and perhaps they feel like they're under the gun.
I spent 20 years without Internet. I'll give it up when you pry my unlimited-3G iPad from my cold dead fingers. (Until then, I'll be figuring out how to have it surgically implanted.)
So eloquently yet so powerful
The overall comparison ends up being: Command-T is more of a pain to get setup, but is faster. CtrlP is easier to get setup, but is slower.
Keeping up with the Joneses is the real poison.
Microsoft Slowly Backing Away From CISPA Support; Worries About Privacy Issues
Would this help solve the ITA Software "luck sevens" puzzle? (http://www.itasoftware.com/careers/puzzle_archive.html) I never understood how to do that one except by brute force.

"Write a program to compute the sum of all the integers between 1 and 10^11 both divisible by seven and, when the decimal digits are reversed, are still divisible by seven."
No, which is why both the UK and the US adopted "contributory infringement" torts. (It's fuzzier in the UK.)
I'm going to wager that, while not perfect, AI drivers may well be safer for motorcyclists than the average human driver, and probably quite a bit more predictable.
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people still google 'britney spears torrent'?

in any case, the whole copyright infringement thing is really trivial. As soon as you disable one method (here's to you Napster), new ones are only going to pop up. If the authorities were serious about cracking down on IP infringements, they'd revamp copyright law to reflect current technology and culture. -.-
The US government does a lot of different things most of which hard hard to compare with equivalent private sector work. Still, Social Security and Medicare are huge and have reasonable private sector comparisons.

Social Security Administration overhead ~1% http://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/admin.html
Compared to 401k http://www.perfectswindle.com/?p=109 vs ~20% of 401k payouts go to administrative overhead.

Medicare vs. Private insurance http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2009/07/administ...

PS: You can argue that SS should include IRS overhead, but you need to reach into a lot of other government programs or argue they should run 401k style programs to close that gap. Medicare pays less in overhead and less for the actual procedures there is some arguments in relation to work done, but they are are not obviously worse.
Is this a serious suggestion? It reads like you're mocking him, which is pretty uncalled for, but I can't be sure.
Better coverage on Endgadget: http://www.engadget.com/2012/04/20/cadillac-super-cruise/

But it leaves me deeply suspicious. Having some insight into what it took the team at Google to get theirs to work I find that unless GM starts with that team, and their patent portfolio, this will be be a longer term thing. I'd put money on a self driving car from someone before 2020 but 2015 seems a bit early.

In spite of Google's fudging the delicate bits (see my comment on the drive thru non-experience) they have done a tremendous amount of work that a car company would be hard pressed to duplicate quickly. That and Lidar or their functional equivalent systems are still darn expensive.

That being said, I think it is AWESOME that we've got a major car company putting this stake firmly in the ground. If nothing else it will motivate a response from the others.