skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
For the past couple of months I've lived without iPhone (with Prompt and Textastic) or phone for that matter (except for the occasional Skype call). I've tried to restrict my development and general Web usage to ~2 hours a day. I recall bumping into a colleague at around 3-4a.m. We had a smoke and then he got called away to do tech support on some web app he had been contractually obligated to support.

Given experiences like that, and my previous work schedule: In the meantime, I've played in the park; re-learned futball to where I can perform advanced, intensive dribbling; re-experienced my long distance running regimen with old friends; progressively mastered the track bike (in complex traffic scenarios, track standing, skid stops, heel stops, etc.); re-organized my thoughts in ordinary language philosophy, contemporary neuroscience, quantum mechanics, Wittgenstein and Spinoza; I've begun a semi-daily writing activity; longboarding; road tripping; skipping stones; befriending animals; etc.

These are the activities which contrast with $ pip install -r reqs.txt or reading another API or vim or bash scripting.

But what else have I noticed?

Daily I sit underneath the Texas sun, and watch. I watch people use these devices. I see IE everywhere and hours upon hours of people fumbling with that. Or texting. Playing some app or Twitter.

It's beautiful, as I sit under the sun, silent. It upsets me how so many able bodies opt for such narrowly prescribed lifestyle.

This argument often turns into ad hominem or red herring involving luddites, Amish, throwbacks, vintagers, etc.. But this text-based lifestyle is a choice too, you know, regardless of how "technologically savvy" or "liberated" or "autonomous" or "anonymous" one is.
A real serendipity engine. Absolutely great, thank you. I'm finding tons of interesting products and ideas by searching the most banal things :)
"...there is a good chance you’ve caught a virus and your doctor might prescribe some antibiotics to fight an infection"

I'd hope not, since antibiotics do nothing for viruses.
Probably short. At least in the python world, Bitbucket was very popular until recently - and maybe still so.
The only way you'll know if you're likely to be a good match with someone is if you spend time coding, etc. with them. Hackdays are a good place to do that.

Starting a company with someone you've not worked with before is like getting married to someone you've never dated before.
Wasn't is stuck on Java (the language 1.1)? Any Java developers who came in at 1.2, 1.3 or 1.4 would have had to re/un-learn how to do certain things they took for granted.
Thanks. Are you covering ember in the talk? Never used it but really excited about it :)
Amazon's tablet now holds > 50% of the Android tablet market, which makes them a major mobile player too. The article was written around a headline, instead of around facts, and actual statistics and trends.
What are some differences between the two products? Why did one win over the other?
I've watched Gosling's various comments about Android over the years, and it really does sound like a case of sour grapes: Google saw success where Gosling's creation saw overwhelming failure (it is simply incredible for Gosling to actually denigrate Android -- which by and large is incredibly common across thousands of devices -- with the disaster that was J2ME).
I'd rather see people try to improve our tools than not. And yes, the academic argument against it is "we're hampered by our languages".

So we are. Nobody proposed not working on new languages. But even if there was an entirely new language that made for fantastic IDEs (cough Smalltalk ;), we have an insanely large existing code base in "legacy" languages.

Until those are ported to those new languages (and I have a few piles of FORTRAN and COBOL code to say "that ain't gonna happen, ever"), any improvement in our tooling is progress.

Yes, we'd all like a silver bullet that makes us 2x more productive. Until we have that, I propose we tackle our problems on all fronts, not just a single one.

(For the record, I'm extremely skeptical about those new IDEs and their success. We'll see what happens. I'll still throw a bit of money at it, just because I think any kind of work on new tooling will result in new insights)
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I think it depends on the job market you're in. In the US and Europe an open-source profile is expected, but over here in Hong Kong its fairly uncommon. The good ones have either flown away to the US, or already been snatched up.

But, as Alex says, once we've sifted through CVs to find the best and invited them to interview, the paper doesn't matter anymore. Human interaction, pair programming, whatever, it's all more important than what's written on a piece of paper.
Congrats to Michael and co.

The success that Socialcam is enjoying makes me laugh - given the amazing hard-work the justin.tv team put in for years hustling, building, learning to deal with crazy unbelievable challenges, it just feels right that they do well now. How could it be any other way? These guys are unstoppable forces of nature at this point.

Luckily they seem to be nice and down to earth as well. So congrats on making it this far, even though I'm sure it's only a small preview of what's to come.
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right, that's what I labeled the password-derived encryption use case. Great to do the XKCD mechanism, and if you follow the link in that article you'll see that we're working on maximizing the key stretching we can do based on passwords:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Identity/CryptoIdeas/01-PBKDF-scryp...

But unless you have a crazy long passphrase, you're not going to get 128 bits, let alone 256.
I thought that this attitude was sufficiently funny that I decided to put it into a Philosoraptor image, which I think is reasonably appropriate: http://drostie.org/before_lolcats.jpg
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Write a check to the treasury anytime you like and stop telling the rest of us how we should spend our money.

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In the case of least significant to most significant, that means you need more nodes, because the position of the current digit is another piece of state you also have to keep track of.
Open a new tab and click the arrow on the right or click "Apps" at the bottom of the screen.
As killer as it is, it says it's a beta and it has known bugs on the page. Use with caution.
It would be interesting to see how these ideas apply to other non-technical industries/professions.
This questions seems to come up every time there's an article on HN about the general trend of "Github is the new resume" and I really don't think it's that important, so I wouldn't worry about it. If a company asked you to send them a "Github URL" and you replied that you use Mercurial more, so all your code is on Bitbucket, and here's the URL, and then the company said they weren't interested in Mercurial users, would you really want to work there? (I think Bitbucket hosts Git now anyway so this is almost moot)

I can imagine a clueless recruiter doing that, but an engineer? There's no excuse for it, and I just don't think it's happening. I could be wrong of course, this is just speculation. Honestly, even if you sent a link to a SourceForge SVN or CVS repo (I guess that would be like emailing from a Hotmail address?) you might stand out because still relatively few resumes come attached with a portfolio.
A great start of a blog post. Though I have to say I was hoping for more once I reached the end! Are there any other pieces on this topic that all of us trying to start a company run into?
Probably for the same reason that marketing done in a foreign language with poor translations or literal translations of idioms is received poorly: it identifies you as an outsider and may evoke shades of exploitation.
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I'm not a big fan of this development. There's a lot of software developers out there who work on projects for their employers that can't be open sourced. It also places those who lack free time to hack on code in their off hours (perhaps due to kids) at a disadvantage.

For students, it is not clear that the code they generate is their property so posting it on github is legally dangerous. I've also had professors say posting code is cheating.
Just in: Flight computer aborted rocket hold down firing. Anomaly addressed. Cycling systems to countdown

Might not be long now?
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Very cool and so close to being useful. Until you can use certs and use them safely it isn't very useful though.
Can you provide some context, please?
I better start forking.
Another vote for vundle. Not having to manage git submodules is a nice change from pathogen.
In the UK you need to prove beyond reasonable doubt to get a criminal conviction. Balance of probabilities is just for civil cases I believe.

I would think though that it could be seen as advertising child pornography if you provided the links that were all to child porn or that the links were labeled as child porn.
It's useful to keep in mind McCluhan's adage "the medium is the message". It's the way a new medium influences culture in and of itself that has the greatest impact on us, not the content it carries.

Perhaps a better analogy for the Internet would be the printing press, but either way, it was arguably the ubiquity, accessibility and automation of electric power that changed society the most. Similarly, the fact that we can whip our phones out and query Wikipedia over a lunch discussion to settle a bet is much more revolutionary than the content of the article, or even the breadth of Wikipedia itself.
Can we adjust the title since the amount is unknown?
I totally agree. The overall concept and definition of "meme" is something that diffuses through a culture, but that's pretty broad within itself.

Sure, internet memes at first began as popular images that were spread across the entire internet, but what's wrong with taking a picture of your friends and slapping some text on it to joke around with them on Facebook?

I don't think there's a problem with calling these internet memes; I just think that the term "internet meme" has evolved to consist of the macro memes that you see used all over the internet and the micro memes you will soon see created of you and your friends.

Memekit.com and BuddyMeme.com sure sound better than Slapfunnyinsidejokesonpicturesofyourfriends.com
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The keychain is really great for convenience, though it is dependent on the iOS passcode. Users are free to setup their phones without one, use a weak pin, etc. It's exceedingly rare to see an iOS user with a strong multi-character passphrase. For enhanced security there is really no substitue for a suitably long/strong passphrase.

With regard to the second point, one added benefit of SQLCipher over a roll-your-own solution is that SQLCipher automatically applies PBKDF2 derivation. It handles most of the security under the hood so that the application doesn't need to worry about it.
In addition to max depth there is also a max files setting to adjust.
I'd like it if cars had a warning system for when you open the street-side door, as well.

I know far too many people who have gotten broken bones by having someone open their door unexpectedly into the bike lane.
The answer provided is not a valid solution to the equations. The actual answer is -2/3, not 2/3 as listed.
far far safer. Even the best driver sneezes. AI drivers, even if basically not great drivers, are uniform and predictable.

Also, i think they'll be heavily weighted towards "safety" and not "excitement". They might drive slower, and stop more often than strictly required, but not causing lawsuits must be priority 1
Author is the founder of http://aurametrix.com/. It is based on users inputting their data.
I believe there's also omnibox completion on app names (though maybe you have to use it a few times first)
I think it was Milton Friendman who pointed out that other than transportation, communication and medicine the increasing standard of living had almost exclusively benefitted those who weren't rich -- and had benefitted those who were in the bottom of that society the most.

You don't need indoor plumbing once you have servants; You don't need read-to-eat dinners when you have cooks and you don't need a dish-washer or vacuum-cleaner when you have maids.

This even goes to entertainment. When you can afford to hire a musician you don't need a music player.
Heh -- Good way to flip it around.
I don't know that this really rises to the level of a "killer" app. Serious ssh users are, of course, already quite happy with their terminal emulators and use platforms that support them natively. I find it very hard to believe (though I'm willing to be surprised) a chrome extension is going to present me with the performance, platform integration, or keyboard navigability I get and demand from gnome-terminal. I'd probably be happy using it from friends machines, etc...

What this will do, however, is hopefully end for good the mess of "How do I expose a command line application to my windows-using friends such that they aren't confused and won't hate me.". And there's a whole lot of value to that.
https://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=10150270651335766

That's a discussion of it from back in August. It started prior to that. And before that Facebook redid its existing responsible disclosure policy (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/12/knowledge-power-facebo... | From December 2010).
The only J2ME API that I've used is GPS, and it was far more fragmented and unreliable than any Android implementation that I've seen.

(also, Android has a compatibility test system/process)
I love my nook. This makes me uncomfortable. Somehow MS buying into it makes me worry about its long term survivability.
Shane Battier and Ashton Kutcher. Interesting. I feel like there's a joke here...
Thank you for putting into words exactly what frustrates me about the legal system! You've exactly captured how I find myself reasoning about the law, and now that it's so explicit, I see that that's clearly wrong.

This is similar to an epiphany I had when reading a blog post explaining intellectual property through an analogy of the "color" of a portion of code. How intention and legal action shape the color, whereas software people tend to think only of the actual bits that represent it. Why independently coming up with an arrangement of bits could be fine while possessing that exact same arrangement from a different source is not. (It's the color of those bits.)

I just tried searching around but unfortunately could not find that post. I'd like to reread it. Anyone know what I'm talking about and have a link to it?
>> For students, it is not clear that the code they generate is their property

Honest question, who's code would it be then?
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You left out one of my faves. Parent / child tables (ie tabular inheritance). Makes time series stuff so much nicer as pruning over time can be performed with truncate as opposed to "delete from".
I guess it depends on how much time you have to listen. Based on the evidence on display in HN comment threads, I think on average most programmers' opinions on the law are probably a little bit better-informed than those of a Starbucks barista, but not enough so that I'd give somebody's opinion deference just because he knew C++.

Most programmers' opinions on the law (like most people in general) fall into one of two categories: fundamentally mistaken (e.g. "sharing an encrypted file can't be copyright infringement because they didn't copyright the encrypted form") or merely indignant. That's not to say a programmer can't be well-informed, but just that it's hubris to think that programming knowledge alone can give you some keen insight into the law without actually studying the law.

On the other hand, I definitely stop and read when I see something by, say, grellas — because I know what he'll have to say is very likely to be the result of study and careful analysis.

(And for the record, I don't pretend to know a lot about most aspects of the law. I'm not trying to act high and mighty here. And that's why I feel so apprehensive about blindly trusting programmers about this sort of thing — I know how much I don't know.)
The entire thing is a problem because you can pay for your insurance, but only through your company right?

Why the fuck doesn't congress fix that then?
There is a little bit of misunderstanding sometimes when people discuss "inflation". To some, if not most people, inflation means increasing prices. To others, it means increase in the money supply, which eventually may cause rising prices after some latency, especially if the growth rate of the economy doesn't keep up with the increase in money supply.

I have no idea whether "rising price inflation" has been underreported, especially by design, by the government. I would concede that there are political and bottom line reasons (e.g, minimize increases in salaries/benefits tied to COLA), but again, if this is happening, IMO it is probably more just institutional slouch than a top-secret directive from the Federal Reserve bunker.

Overall, I don't have an informed opinion what the facts of the matter are wrt to underreported inflation - I only have anecdotal evidence.

OTOH, it is pretty clear that "money supply inflation" has increased dramatically in the past few years due to the various policies associated with the bailout.

Whether this will cause "rising price inflation" remains to be seen - there is always latency between money supply increase and rising prices. In the bailout policies case, the latency is pretty large, as the bulk of the money went to securing "toxic" assets and so forth rather than directly into the consumer economy.

The overhang of this increase in money supply/government debt naturally constitutes rising price pressure, but again, how much is anyone's guess, as there are deflationary pressures as well (falling asset prices, and such).
Next article will be titled "GitHub is dangerous". Just like in a resume, a candidate can easily embellish. Of course you can't trust what someone claims to know. You must verify it.
"And yet I remain stunned that the same freaks who say they want a flexible work force, ya know, that whole "free market" thang, actively oppose the single biggest enabler to a mobile work force, universal health insurance."

I'm stunned that people that hate monopolies seem to be fine with a government-run one. In all cases, innovation stops and quality declines because nobody really has a choice.

When you can assure me this won't happen, I might start supporting universal health care.

I can barely trust the bloated and inefficient government to run un-important things..I sure as hell can't trust them to run something as important as health care.
"The tech world" started in 1994?
Some blog entry called this the dark matter of software industry. Hundredts and thousands of developers, working away at hard problems without showing off online at every opportunity, because they are busy solving problems.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean much. He could not have keept his house (which he got so cheap he had to rebuild most of it over the years) and he would still be out of a job.
Beyond that, you must trust the author, since Chrome may auto-update the extension to a future version that could steal credentials.
In terms of analgesic potential anyway - http://jpet.aspetjournals.org/content/136/1/43

Orally, Heroin has a bioavailability of between ~25% and ~65%, depending on dose and tolerance, whereas Morphine has a bioavailability of 20-40%, making Heroin the more efficient of the pair.
this is insanely awesome. as it stands right now, yes its "just ssh". But open up the developer toolbar and you'll notice this thing is rendering HTML inside of webkit. It doesn't take a genius to see this is a few baby steps from making it possible to render arbitrary graphics in the shell. edit: I might go out on a limb here and say this project is something that is going to be looked at as a real inflection point a few years from now.
I love that analogy and want to vote you up... but I don't agree with what you're saying XD
Brilliant idea.

I do think that the memetrain has been overused. I saw it used for Student Government Association promotions at my university. HOWEVER, it is a true statement that plenty of memeworthy moments are documented in my photos.
If all the sensors involved in the self-driving aspects are recording (a la an airplane's black box), re-creating a given automobile crash will probably aid insurance claims more than hinder them. It will allow the parties involved to accurately place fault - be it failure of the AI, unexpected circumstances (tree falls down, non-AI car sideswipes, etc) and so forth.
Paste that link into your favourite (up to date) torrent client.
* it is not clear that the code they generate is their property*

Could you expand on this?

When you create something, barring some exception such as when you create it as a an employee, you own it. In certain cases, if the code is exactly implementing a narrow problem from a book there might be a question of it being a derivative work of the textbook itself, but when that is true it is probably not something worth publishing anyway. The other case would be that it is a shared copyright if the professor or another student significantly assited, which is fairly common in some grad work.

But the simple status of "student" does not change the rights to your own work. I have known more than one student to go on to publish work that is only a cleaned up version of an assignment and I have heard of others going on to start entire companies based on work they did as a student.
We value web page connectivity more than its content.

That's pretty much precisely how PageRank (in its original form) changed web search. At the time, at least, it worked because we were really bad at automatically analyzing content, and the connectivity signal provided better results.
> "I find the scale you chose to be interesting"

To be fair, part of that is just American society. It's acceptable to complain about crap work and low pay. Whereas celebrating your awesome job and high pay is seen as uncouth. [1]

So whenever you tally up public statements about jobs, you should expect it to be tilted toward the negative.

In this case, I was trying to restrict it to people I've known whose attitudes changed while doing essentially the same job at the same place. But you know how anecdotes go...

[1] The same goes for many aspects of American life. When things go well you're expected to keep quiet in deference to those who haven't had such good fortune.

Hence "Fuck my life" and "white people problems" are memes. But there are no comparable analogues.

Amusingly, the only time Americans generally acknowledge that there's lots of complaining and little celebrating, is in the context of complaining about the complaining. (e.g. "Everything is Great and No-one is Happy")
A lot of what I have worked on is closed source so lately I have been looking through all of my old files/hard drives looking for code to post to github.
Either A) it is so old that it's a mess.
Or B) it's from some personal project that I plan on keeping closed source.

However like it or not you need to build up your github account.