skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The raw quantity of quality content on reddit is staggering. It just requires a little effort on your part to actually make an account and subscribe to good subreddits.
SLip - a Lisp system in JavaScript
It doesn't. Watch this, or read the description if you can't get it where you are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Mirror_%28TV_series%29#3....
Ultimately he's making a pretty big claim about Google's future here that isn't grounded in reality. This is the same sort of talk that crowned Microsoft the tablet king over a decade ago while reality waited for Apple to actually build a consumer viable version.

Whether it's the usual suspects like Google, MS and Apple who we know are already spending R&D here or a new entrant like Instagram which came out of nowhere with a handful of user friendly features, or some China anointed alternative it should be obvious that it's way to early to start counting chickens.
In the end doing things count. For all the reasons you'll find in the recurring "Why you should quit school and start a startup in SV". You can't do the kind of investments he's been doing without the experience and network that comes with staying "in the game" for a long time.
You don't set your standards very high do you?

I've worked on kit that is never upgraded or rebooted. It's active 24/7 for 365 days a year and is expected to work for 30 years.

I epxect the same thing from a normal computer, epecially considering the engineering budget is larger for them.
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It is only depressing if you don't know how to drop and add sub-reddits. Or maybe if you don't know math, and have no idea what the greatest common denominator is, or why people most often say lowest when they mean greatest.

The front page of reddit is a humanity GCD which means it is pretty darn low or shallow if you will. Unsubscribe from it. I also recommend unsubscribing from pics, politics, wtf, and yes even funny. Then add sub-reddits you are interested in, askscience is a good one.
Morgan Stanley CEO On Facebook IPO: Blame Nasdaq, We Did Nothing Wrong
It's crazy when people think we evolved from something. The DNA is our source code and God is the programmer!
If you're talking about the report that batista referenced - I haven't seen it. 50% never clicking on an ad even once suggests that ad clickers are still a pretty extreme minority.

I'm pretty sure that I could have been counted as a clicker in that study - I'm sure I accidentally clicked on an ad at least once when I was on facebook.
I think that reddit needs SUPER-REDDITS - sub-reddit grouping.

I want to be able to categorize large swaths of reddit into variou buckets and see that page.

e.g. have a technology super-reddit, which includes /r/technology, /r/gadgets, /r/programming, etc.. etc.. etc..

And things like F712U, aww, pics, etc can be in other categories and I can ignore them.

Right now there are so many /r/ that we need some larger buckets to be able to consume them better.
Iranian CERT Takes Center Stage With Flame
I'm not talking about one particular belief system, just organized religions that have religious doctrines or bibles that contradict themselves, contain logical impossibilities, or scientific inaccuracies. That covers most of the mainstream religions, but I'm sure you could gerrymander your own personal belief system to avoid my definition. I don't claim they're identical, just that they're wrong because it's logically impossible to be true. And my point is that there are some programmers who understand logic and should be able to think their way out of believing logically impossible dogmas, but they don't, because they're mentally compartmentalized and intellectually dishonest.

Brendan Eich for example should be smart and logical enough to figure out that gay people marrying don't effect his own marriage or harm society. Yet he gave $1000 to the Proposition 8 campaign which successfully overturned the right to gay marriage in California, so his money had a negative effect on real people's lives. And that rightfully pissed off a lot of his co-workers and community.

As Tom Morris writes: http://www.tumblr.com/tagged/proposition-8?before=1333669269

"Brendan Eich’s actions are homophobic and disappointing.

Want to know why it is disappointing? Frankly, I expect more from techie programmer types. Being bullied mercilessly for being a spotty, out-of-shape loser who prefers Star Trek to sports usually helps instill some solidarity. As the Jargon File puts it: “Hackerdom easily tolerates a much wider range of sexual and lifestyle variation than the mainstream culture.” You have to be reasonably intelligent to do well in the programming game, and usually people become pretty critical and questioning and skeptical in the process, and outgrow the bigotry (even if they do occasionally have social awkwardness and cluelessness).

It is disappointing when that doesn’t turn out to be as true as one thought."
> Facebook levels of load would be a great problem to have. Until then, who cares?

Good question, why did he bring it up? As others pointed out, it doesn't even make sense: your data store is where you have to scale, not the language itself.

> Doubtful, but this isn't even a good point. Working software is the important deliverable.

Hmm. I thought the goal was working and maintainable software?

> You missed the point. Writing a web app with a language that's basically tied to the web makes sense. It's not the most important point, but it isn't 'nonsense'.

No, it makes sense to choose the most powerful language. A language that's "basically tied to the web" means that you can't use it to do other things when your business needs change.

> He said as much in that point.

No, he said that php makes it less easy to screw up, which is simply not true. What if, late at night, I call mysql_escape_string (because, hey, the name makes sense!) instead of mysql_real_escape_string? Type systems make it harder to screw up. Poorly named escape functions, ridiculous type coercion, and a gigantic global namespace do not.

> Did you bother reading and thinking about the article, or just trip over your own drool racing to the comments section? I'm just going to stop here.

They see me trollin', they hatin'.
> Traditional operating systems such as Linux and windows are 100% dead when non volatile memory comes along in force

Seems like you were talking about a lot more than just one particular facet of filesystems when you made the futurist proclamation above.
I do. I believe the fundamental issue is one of user experience. I think if you force the user to make an affirmative decision to pay every time they want to read an article, a huge number will not bother, even if the cost is negligible. Especially since there will probably be 5 other news sources who are "summarizing" the same content for free, with ads.
Digg pulled down ridiculously high amounts of user engagement for a long while, which given everyone's ridiculously short attention spans is impressive.

Plus he had one of the most recognised podcasts with actual large sponsors. And a successful investment record. He seems to try engage with the community at large as well.

He does alright essentially, and has a decent reputation amongst start ups.
No, deciding not to hire good programmers means that your codebase will be unmaintainable.

Next time, maybe try reading the thread before commenting? Here's the discussion up to this point:

OP: "If the event that my new ventures grow and I need to hire on more programmers I do not need the best and brightest to get the job done."

tych0: "Sure, but your code will also suck and be hard to maintain."

Domenic_S: "Doubtful, but this isn't even a good point. Working software is the important deliverable."

argv_empty: "An unmaintainable codebase makes it hard to deliver working software in the future."

You: "So programming in PHP means that your code base will be unmaintainable?"
Elder has different meanings in different denominations, and isn't unique to Protestants (it is, however, mostly Christian). Specifically, in the Mormon church, it's quite different.
Do you really think it's appropriate to compare a 2-days-to-make chat feature with self-driving vehicles and clothes with computers in them?
I would agree with this only to a point. Sometimes there is a wall that you run into that you can't make over by yourself. The little hint, nudge, or push in the right direction can open up understanding that maybe wasn't attainable alone.
Which just brings it full circle one more time: the Russians would know this and thus be incentivized to plant misleading stories.
This might be legal, scraping is a gray area. There is no way that reelbox is going to persist if they get a strongly worded letter though, so the legality really doesn't matter.
That may be the first time I've ever heard anyone wax nostalgic for the Blackberry camera. Wonder if there's already an iPhone app for that.
> There is pretty much no reason to use any filesystem APIs or filesystem any more. You just keep your data in the process address space

The Windows NT kernel is primarily a filesystem-backed address space for committed RAM. Originally you actually had to have a pagefile at least as large as physical RAM. Except for nonpageable kernel structures, all the program accessible RAM was part of a memory-mapped file. [[EDIT: There's plenty of text from Microsoft that implies this, (e.g. "you should set the size of the paging file to the same size as your system RAM plus 12 MB...because Windows NT requires "backing storage" for everything it keeps in RAM") however, offline discussions have convinced me that it was never strictly true.]]

This was back when drive capacity was "more larger" than RAM capacity and disk bandwith was "less slower". The kernel has evolved away from this design a bit, but it did bring a certain purity. For example the filesytem cache and virtual memory paging system could be largely the same thing.

> You just keep your data in the process address space - its just not going to go anywhere. Just make a data segment persistent across processes and you can survive restarts.

This more or less what happens when the kernel bluescreens and the page file was at least as large as RAM. It makes debugging kernel crashes easier. (Spare me the Windows jokes please I'm not advocating for it, just saying this part of it that no one ever sees had a relatively elegant design opposite to what crazy futurist rant suggests.)
But you're the one claiming an absolute with your original futurist prediction. Finding a counterexample doesn't detract from my argument that the filesystem API and its notion of hierarchical resource identification and management is extremely useful regardless of the storage.

Ie, current operating systems won't die and filesystem or filesystem-like APIs won't be going anywhere for a long long time.
What does "cultural icon" mean? Is the Segway a cultural icon even though only ~30,000 of them exist? Pretty much everyone knows what it is but most people have not benefited from them. I would be willing to take this bet if we determine some objective criteria.
Have you tried 1Password? Its automatic form filler usually works quite well.
How to Evaluate a Startup Marketing Role
The decision to buy can definitely be irrational, but that can cut both ways. Buyers might decide against purchasing even when the product is clearly affordable.

Consider the Facebook social reader apps like the Washington Post. If you click through from your Facebook news feed, you need to authorize the app to read the article. It's a one-button form, it's totally free, and you could revoke the app whenever you want. And yet, a huge percentage of people cancel out of it.

Would I pay 5 cents to read a NYTimes article from Hacker News? Maybe yes, maybe no, depends on the article. The point is that I would be forced into my "purchase mindset" every time.
Man, Stross is so full of bullshit nowadays.
Ask HN: Do you put your Git repositories in Dropbox?
I like that I have a backup of things I'm not ready to commit yet and also being able to switch between desktop / laptop and continuing where I left off.

However, lately I've seen some weird Dropbox conflicts with Git's index.

Is storing your repos in Dropbox a good or bad idea?
How to defer external javascripts to improve website speed
it really is amusing but i think is the server's fault :)
Wouldn't this be much more significant if the effects were found to last longer than, say, 3 days? I was actually under the impression that ketamine and psychedelics had been shown in the past to do just that.
Well, there hasn't been a major upset in the PC paradigm in 35 years :) Really, I agree with that bit-- marketing the thing would be a nightmare. But whether it's the first company to try it or the tenth, at some point the utility benefits will become too great for users to ignore.

> DRAM is hardly transparent already, c.f. three levels of cache on the die of modern CPUs

Keep in mind I'm talking about interface, not implementation. My code might care about cache misses, but my users have no reason to (except in the very, very aggregate). We leak a user-facing distinction between storage and memory because the difference is too significant to pretend it doesn't exist.
Video on the Flame Malware in the Chalk Talk / Khan Academy style
Summary of what is known about the Flame / Flamer / Skywiper malware done in a chalk talk style similar to Khan Academy.

Description from the YouTube page:
This video, with Sourcefire Chief Scientist Zulfikar Ramzan, provides a high-level description of the Flame (AKA Flamer, sKyWIPer) malware toolkit that appears to be a state-sponsored cyberweapon. Flame has similarities to other threats like Duqu and Stuxnet, but primarily functions as an infostealer.
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Love is often illogical too.
I learned today that for data analysis they still stick with SQL (and some fancy MapReduce stuff underneath)
But again, Google did all that stuff too (almost 1:1, even -- remember that G+ is a facebook clone). And somehow they also found time to make self driving cars, a first tier mobile operating system, ChromsOS, a Dropbox clone, these ridiculous glasses, etc...

Facebook just looks pretty lame in comparison, sorry.
marketing alone? yeah, right.

edit: Adding a hard drive, making it easier to use than the competition, itunes store, app store. None of that had anything to do with it?
Site seems down :/
"LOL. It's the only formally proven, mathematically correct representation and querying of data sets."

Someone led you down the garden path.

There is absolutely no proof that RDBMS is objectively correct in any meaningful sense whatsoever. Did someone invent an arbitrary standard to measure it by, and then prove that it met that standard? Sure. But that's a far cry from a claim that RDBMS's are somehow "formally proven." That's just pure mathematical silliness and marketing propaganda.
Kenyan designs chip in sole of shoe to charge the wearer’s cell phone
This is an incredibly compelling rumor. Facebook buying RIM would revitalize both companies and would signal a huge shift in Facebook's strategy.

However, I don't know if Facebook is mature enough yet to jump into the mobile patent shark tank.
Newbie guide to testing AMD Backbone Modules
I've had this happen before with xmonad.

It turned out I had a memory leak in my configuration file :(
You certainly have a different idea of fun than I do.
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There's a large and growing number of casual users who've dealt with or watched a friend or family member deal with fraudulent charges.

I think a sufficiently streamlined phone app and pitch could net quite a few. Say, demonstrating the feature by showing someone making an Amazon purchase and then getting a phone notification to approve the charge and approving with a simple PIN entry.[1]

[1] Said notification ideally showing merchant, amount, scan location, warnings if it's a card not present transaction, etc.
Google isn't a search company, it's an AI/ML company.
Aaron Sorkin on Steve Jobs and Creativity in an Age of Distraction
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Author here: You're right that it's a big claim, and I think it requires a lot of imagination & even some suspension of disbelief. It's safer to be skeptical.

But specifically re: competition of all shapes & sizes, I do think that two of Google's long-term investments give it a pretty strong position:

1. Google Maps & Street View, which together comprise an amazingly detailed model of the real world. There are alternatives like OpenStreetMap of course, but there's a lot more going on in those products than just navigation.

2. The technology embedded in the self-driving car. I mean, a system that can interpret a live feed of the chaotic world around it and make important decisions based on what it sees? It doesn't feel to me like you can Instagram your way into that capability. (But, I don't know: maybe it's more commodified than I realize.)
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From the OP: http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/technical-trading-iss...

An equally interesting read. NASDAQ had some technical flubs, but blaming NASDAQ for FB losing 25%+ of its value in one week is ludicrous.
One might think about the paradigm shift when hard disks became so cheap that tape drives no longer made sense.

• Tape drives still make sense, to some people that store insanely large data sets with extremely infrequent (or never) access.

• I do not mourn my tape based backups for a single instant when using my rsync based backups. Life is good.

• Despite tape being dead for most of us, we all know a program called "tar". We still make tape archives, just on other storage.

The paradigm survives on virtual tapes because it is a useful cognitive model. Sure I could make a block file be a virtual disk and put a filesystem in it and send you the files that way, but you'd rather have a good old "tape" archive.

Likewise, disk filesystems are not going to go away if disks go away. They are too useful for reasoning about problems.

Scratch the surface of an iPad. It is full of files, yet empty of disks. Go to Linux, land of speciation, try to find a persistent storage system for flash memory which does not treat it as a disk. You will find some filesystems optimized for flash, but you will come up (nearly) lacking for a completely new way of looking at storage.

Persistent full speed RAM should be enough of a change to spawn that new thing, but I'll bet people keep the "real" copy in a filesystem for a long time. When that alpha particle corrupts a bit and trashes your clever RAM based data structure, what are you going to do? I'll reload from my file.
So wait, you're morally against giving money to a charity but you're perfectly okay with betting his charity against your free money? Honestly curious.

Also - implementation and day-to-day use don't have to be perfect for it to be a game-changer/overnight success/cultural icon. As evidenced by... Well, pretty much every piece of successful consumer electronics ever made that has gone through multiple generations/revisions.
Many are very critical, and many are not proprietary. Databases and web frameworks are two that come to mind immediately, yet people seem to choose those based on the number of blog posts about them. And almost all APIs are vulnerable to reimplementation. With Parse's API, it would theoretically be possible for another project to implement an identical interface to their backend, and allow you to simply change one LoC in your application to change the provider of your BaaS.
The fact that it's based on set theory is utterly irrelevant. The question is: what is the best database from an engineering perspective? It has never been proven that RDBMS's are the best in any respect whatsoever in this sense.

It's irrelevant that you can concoct an arbitrary mathematical theory and then create a system to match. You must also prove that that theory is the most relevant and important way of looking at the data for the given problem at hand. RDBMS theory doesn't even bother trying to worry about the real world.
A cool thing you could do with this is adding a javascript function in the file that automatically submits a story when this button is included. That would really elevate it from a link with some styling to something that's really useful.
The biggest problem with NoSQL (whatever that may mean) is that there is no formal framework to reason about NoSQL in a uniform manner as opposed to SQL systems and bare data structures where strong formalisms exist that can give hard results on costs.
IMHO, this is because NoSQL is a "conceptual bag" in which anything is thrown that doesn't have a SQL interpreter in it. That has many contradictions.

E.g. Google App Engine's GQL, Facebook's FQL and Yahoo YQL not to mention Hive all have a very SQL like syntax.
So what about all this is NoSQL ? SELECT, WHERE and FROM are OK in a NoSQL database?

Dig further and you'll find that these are all "No-Join" data bases and it's the badly scaling cost of the Join operation that gave SQL a bad name and the NoSQL community a bad category name.

Bottom line there needs to be a unifying formalism to talk about NoSQL as a category. Which ("Tada Boom!") gives me a seque and a pun to refer to a paper published in the IEEE about using Category Theory to describe NoSQL.

I will critique it elsewhere, but suffice it to say that if I have to do a PhD in Pure Math to design a database it's a non-starter. (Aside I have a "PhD" in Pure Math - everything but thesis)

So anyhoo bottom line -
Missing: a formal framework to reason about databases that don't use SQL or Joins.

Without that it is not even possible to decide what is the membership criterion for something to be called NoSQL, especially when NoSQL is defined as
"Not Only SQL"
= SQL UNION ~SQL
= the whole Fing universe.

So NoSQL is a label that has no ability to make logical distinctions. And NoSQL as a grab bag of technologies has no formal way to reason about it.

To make any sense this needs to be fixed, before any arguments about this are even worth having.

[My creds: 20+ years in the DB world as developer, architect, instructor; including 4+ yrs in the NoSQL business, including one year as emp #2 and VP of BizDev at CouchOne, and including lead developer of a project that used CouchDB in an National Science Foundation funded project back in 2008/2009 (slashdotted and survived) and currently using Couch, Mongo, NodeJS in various projects]
Connecting people and giving them a new way to communicate with each other is a big waste to society? Facebook has fundamentally changed the idea of the weak tie for many people. If that's a waste, then I don't really know what else is meaningful in life.
Hello everyone, it´s not a big thing, just a little css designed button that you might want to use or modify.
So what, in the future you're relying on everyone to magically start coding well?
Fair point. Although, I'd wonder if it's right that video is inherently a stream, and not that that's a limitation imposed by storage speeds. I might only want to watch video front-to-back, but (without knowing much about encoding) I could easily imagine that my experience might be improved by my computer having random access.
His analysis and conclusion seem sound.

Apple TV is ready for apps, and it would likely involve a range of partnerships with HBO, Showtime. High quality, reliable streaming to your iPhone, iPad, and TV is a desirable market for paid subscribers and advertising both.
Why Evernote's Android & iOS Apps Compete With Each Other
Um.

Boston Dynamics? DEKA!?

Yeah, maybe the east coast doesn't have social networks for cats, or iPhone apps for taking pictures of your food, but to say that they "don't get" startups is stupid linkbait.
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Hey Michael, I think that already exists via the hnlike.com Button. However, transferring the Facebook Like logics to the self-selected HN Community had been critically discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2934178

That´s why I thought about embedding a button as a link only.