skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find it sort of amusing that Google is interested in the ".lol" TLD, especially when the post is authored by Vint Cerf. While I have my doubts about how much of an impact the new TLDs will make in the domain market, it's nice to see things shaking up a bit. Almost like the discovery of a new continent in the real world, with only rich people being able to get to it their fancy helicopters.

Also makes me wonder if this trend continues and leads to a TLD-less type of keyword DNS system at some point, where typing "facebook" in the address/awesome bar takes me directly to Facebook (versus some intermediate search page).
For me, the best unobtrusive reality-check, by far, has been checking gravity. Just by quickly changing my weight in a chair or rolling up a bit on the balls of my feet, I can see if my weight is there or I start to float a bit.

Checking global light level control (light switches) is, like you say, not unobtrusive. But I've tested, with moderate success, using more subtle lighting features. Window blinds, for example, typically have far more subtle shades of light and shadowing than gets rendered in my dream worlds. Paying a few seconds of focused attention to a window or lamp shade doesn't stand out in most social situations.
No definitely not. A full memory fence surrounds lock/unlock.
> Soyuz uses rockets to slow its decent

That's how they land tanks. Parachutes first, and then one second before the impact boosters go off and slow the cargo down for a soft touchdown.
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Exactly. In fact, I look at companies as Candidate hoppers. In the US, it is employment at will which means they can fire me anytime (except a few circumstances which could land them in legal trouble). So nothing wrong being a job hopper in today's market. But until you stay at one company, give them your best. Do not be married. May be if there were pension plans anymore. May be if their really was something known as job security. It is a myth.
To be fair, there were people in NASA's crafts. National heroes even. They sent out pretty lean teams to capture the SRBs for the Shuttle (which are much larger than the Dragon capsule):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cWR_MHkuBMU

Also, carriers weren't used. Destroyers were (they're a lot more nimble) and we have a bunch chugging around doing exercises at any given point so that's probably a fairly cost effective method.
Financial Times's Facebook valuation calculator
This, IMO, is the best Humble Bundle they've released, by far.
This is also what experience is for. It teaches you the probability that you will need the abstraction in the future. As a beginner, you should err on the side of YAGNI; as an expert, you probably already know what to do.
Government austerity is holding back the USA economy
Unless your time is worth more than triple the going rate for a good iOS programmer on oDesk (>$25), you should spend some time (hours, not months) learning the basic fundamentals of programming for iOS, even if you don't know anything yet.

Without that knowledge, your contractors will put out something far worse than what you want, simply because you don't know how to ask for it in language they understand. It'll also take much longer for them to complete it, and cost you a lot more.

Better to pay them to clean up your errors as you make them than for you to pay someone else to clean theirs up.
I did find it interesting that they got through that whole article without using the words "blocked" or "censorship". However, your read of this is completely off-base.

Reading between the lines: "Since we moved to Hong Kong and stopped filtering search, the Chinese government is just cutting off internet connections that are seen searching for sensitive terms; here's a workaround that will give you advance warning, so you can rework your search phrasing."
> The problem with the actual charges, from what I read, is that the emails show that MegaUpload was trying to do the absolute minimum necceesary to comply with the DMCA

I'd change that to "trying to do the absolute minimum necessary to APPEAR to comply with the DMCA, if the request was from a party that had enough legal resources to make trouble".

If they had one copy of your file stored without authorization on their servers, but it was accessible through, say, 5 different URLs, their response to a DMCA takedown request was to make the specific URL you knew about invalid, but to leave the file up and leave the rest of the URLs working. That's why I say "appear" to comply.

When they were first shutdown, there were first person reports here on HN from small developers who had their takedown requests ignored, which is why I suspect that you had to be someone reasonably big for them to even bother to try to appear to comply.
Google to re-brand Product Search and eliminate free merchant listings
> The question posed was "how do they differ?" not "how important is that difference?"

And the question arose from the claim that the formally taught and self-taught programmers take different approaches in general. It goes without saying that a problem that can be solved effectively using a trie will be approached in 2 different ways by someone who knows tries and someone who does not. The claim made in the OP was broad, and I am saying about 80% of the time, an auto-didact and a CS person will solve it the same way. Claiming that because sometimes a CS person can use insights which the non-cs guy doesn't have doesn't equate to different approaches.
Network transmit time is almost irrelevant. It takes orders of magnitude more time to call the kernel, copy data, and reschedule after the operation completes than the wiretime.

This paradox was the impetus behind Infiniband, virtual adapters, and a host of other paradigm changes that never caught on.
The Justice Department Appears to Be Losing the Battle Against Megaupload
The interesting article kindly submitted here builds its argument on this observation: "Yet Facebook is still the world's largest social media site with more than 900 million users. And most importantly: Many of those people still visit the site each and every day, regardless of grumbling from cynics or short-term price fluctuations." The structure of the article's rationale for being bullish on Facebook is all keyed to this. So I read the article carefully to see if there would be any mention at all of AOL, the previous company about which comparable claims were made. In the living memory of many people who used and have now left AOL (like me), the author doesn't even bring up AOL as an example. I'm sure that committed, loyal users who see their friends every day on an online network can nonetheless choose to leave that network--I've seen it done.

I agree with the author that Facebook's imposition of a "house style" on user profile pages was a huge advantage of Facebook over MySpace. That spared Facebook from being butt-ugly on most pages, and probably also reduces server load at scale. That Facebook is international is also a strength of Facebook--I have Facebook friends in several other countries, and I interact with them now more than I ever have before since we went off to separate countries. But to this day China is blocking Facebook, and other countries still have the technical means to restrict use of Facebook.

But user count isn't the key issue for a business. Revenue and eventually earnings (profits) are the key issues. All of my interactions on Facebook don't monetize Facebook. Facebook is under governmental supervision both in the United States and in the EU about how it uses user-supplied data to monetize. I read Facebook pages with AdBlock and F. B. Purity installed--I find Facebook disgusting when I view it on other computers. I can't think of any way that Facebook can monetize my share of the load on its servers without turning me off, and many of my friends think the same way. We are happy to free-ride on the gullibility of Facebook's investors (what consumer doesn't like a good deal?) but if Facebook seriously figures out how to monetize its full user base in a way that provides positive return on investment for Facebook's investors, that is likely to be through corporate behavior that turns off Facebook's users and drives them away. It's been done before, and I expect it will happen again.
If I eat before bed I experience the same thing. Didn't start happening till my senior year in college. Freaky, but fun.
This thread is from three days ago. That's ancient history on this forum. It is page 2 of my own comments. So I only know you replied to me because of the service you are dissing.

I had left another remark elsewhere in this discussion then deleted it because I didn't feel well and decided the less said by me, the better. I still don't feel well and for that reason was simply going to not reply.

My deleted remark was to the effect that HN has a business purpose for Y Combinator in that it is used as part of their applicant screening process. However, it is not something drectly monetized and is a side project and free service. A lot of the issues here are known issues and have been known a long time. But fixing them is not a high priority for the people who run the site, thus the community copes as bet it can. This thread is an example of one of the coping mechanisms employed by the community.

Paul Graham has better things to do than worry about your ungrateful critisms. Frankly, so do I. I am getting well from a deadly medical condition which has left me deeply in debt and homeless. I need to be trying to figure out how to get traffic and monetize my websites, not coddling some spoiled hypercritical noob (dwj's account is currently 21 hours old and this is their second comment).
Lobster isn't bad, it's just overused at the moment. I might instead say that Lobster is the new Gotham, which has been overused as a header font since Obama used it in his 2008 presidential campaign (see http://flip-design.blogspot.com/2011/01/gotham-most-overused...).
Just got this. Wow. Superbrothers and LIMBO just have straight-up 32-bit or 64-bit .deb packages. (Or tarballs.) So easy.

If only all software distribution was done as flawlessly as the Humble Bundle. Spectacular.
Well, if you take attitude, then you'd have to reject all science because it relies on induction.
One of the reasons they back down on China was because they could not compete with Baidu. It's not just the ethical 'I won't censor my results' (which in my own view, is a good thing).

I'm not sure how their decision went, but I assume that they did their research first to see if their changes would really drop their marketplace share too much. I'm not sure if China will block Google... if they do I don't think it would be much different than Google censuring their own results (the censored content would not be accessible). When people try to go to Google they would notice it's censored too.
"The No. 1 challenge for tech startups in Austin and around the country is hiring critical engineering talent," Baer said. "We are going to bring the best talent here for all these events we will be having."

That seems like something of a leap of faith, especially if "these events" are the same ones mentioned earlier in the article, i.e., they're geared toward "entrepreneurs". Why would an engineer be interested in that sort of content unless he or she were trying to launch their own company? And if they're trying to launch their own business, of course, they're not likely to be looking for a job. Sounds like another echo chamber where business people congratulate each other on Austin's awesome tech community while avoiding doing anything, you know, technical.
It's possible google stores the finite list of bad queries in JS and has the user's browser do the comparison client-side.
The way they give you another game for paying more than average (therefore increasing the average at the same time) is simply genius!

Buying a few bundles for gifts woohoo!
Maybe they are blocking POST requests too with those terms? It's not that they cannot access them on POST requests.
This seems very appropriate:

"On small step for man; one giant leap for mankind" -Neil Armstrong

This truly marks the start of a new era.
So this is how FB came to that price for Instagram
Limbo and Superbrothers are worth it alone.
Since I already own 4 of the 5, so I'll pass on this Bundle.

Also check out the discounted indie games at http://www.becausewemay.com while its on until tomorrow.
Conversely: if you can do something with a branch that's correctly predicted 90% of the time it'll be just as fast as 10 non-branching ops.

Branch prediction is a tool like any other - don't neglect it when it can help you.
You are on your own for parking...but there are lots near the Omni available for rent starting around $50 / mo. I believe most of the people working there now rent spaces in the St David's lot a couple blocks away. I personally live downtown and so I'll walk or ride my bike there.
I would just like to thank the OP and the Atlantic for including a tl;dr section, is this becoming standard practice in our 140 character world?
Polls.io Updates
I told Eric Goldstein (Clipmarks.com) a long time ago that you should run the website like a head editor of a newspaper and not let everyone show whatever they're clipping on the front page of the site.

Curation based service sites have a front face which makes or breaks the adoption by those who pass by.

If you let your front face show whatever the heck people are clipping (for the sake of democracy and due to popular vote counts, a la Digg), you are letting the perception of your site go to garbage.

The perception Pinterest generated proves my point.

A visitor should be able to tell what kind of audience hangs out at such curation sites. Pinterest generated a perception of design, aesthetic, shopping etc. Its front page is well curated with a goal. Clipboard doesn't give that impression, and nor does any such clones of Pinterest.

I am not defending Pinterest over others (I don't use Pinterest), but people need to realize what they're missing when they run en mass after a successful formula.

There are so many such Pinterest-look alike sites showing up lately and besides copying the front page design, none seems to be offering anything of substance, or a reason for anyone to anchor their curations.
I will add my comment to say that I've played most of these games, and they're all spectacular. Limbo is great, Amnesia is terrifying (to the point that I'm too scared to continue it), and I enjoyed Bastion very much too (I finished it).

I'm not one to game a lot, but these are so convenient (I run Linux so I rarely reboot into Windows just for a game), very casual, so you can just play one level and return to whatever you were doing, and just overall great games.
First in depth video interview of Tim Cook as Apple CEO
with all due respect, I say bananas.

"good" domain names are not terribly difficult to come by. Good branding, can be though. Hulu, Google, Yahoo, Comcast are all fairly meaningless words, until they were branded as such. It may be true that for someone that can't afford the buy a ~$100-$5000 domain from a broker may have to look/think harder to find a suitable domain, it is not THAT hard.

Country codes showed us that average users don't want other TLDs, unless they are domain hacks and can be spoken easily (.ly, .it, etc). They almost always prefer the .com, unless they can get a translated version using their own country code (google.tld, etc).

This is purely to raise money for ICANN. I understand they need money, and I understand they can do this, it just feels...bleh.
Speaking of Blue Origin, if anybody is interested in working for us, we're hiring :)

http://www.blueorigin.com/careers/careers.html
Samsung Galaxy S2 vs Galaxy S3. Fight
WebGL powered real-time hillshading on 2.5D map
You can clip almost arbitrary parts of web pages. See http://clipboard.com/gary/boards/examples for a whole bunch. This makes a big difference because instead of simply having pretty pictures of food, you can save actual recipes and search over ingredients. You'll probably find http://clipboard.com/category/Programming interesting as well.
.lol ? I wonder what other TLDs they went for in this category?
Out of interest, is that using https://github.com/jhollingworth/bootstrap-wysihtml5?
As the maker of the app, I can assure you that the app is not doing any such thing.

It is just loading the page in a simple iOS webview.The social icons that you see come out when you press the button in the centre and go back in when you press it again.

Also I really liked that article :)
2kB over 1Gbps is actually 16ns (i guess they round up to 20)
Prompting the user seems like a bad thing for an automated test to do!

The whole point of automating tests is so you can run them unattended: at install time, or under a continuous integration system after code check-ins, or for git pickaxe to find which change caused a bug, or whenever else you want to confirm that a whole lot of code still works as intended.
What would you consider to be simple? Paying for a developer to come up with a plan and then find someone else to execute it might be more complicated and costly than just going with one pricier developer. Would you be able to provide samples of what your going for (change the idea, obviously, provide links to sample apps, etc)?
From the article:

"Why is hiring so tough? Because talented people don’t need you anymore. They don’t need the benefits because they know if worse comes to worse, they will find a comfy job. The options are there for them, therefore the risk of starting their own company isn’t an all or nothing deal."

While this has been true for years, I think, more than ever, talented and driven people are realizing that a comfy career isn't an aspiration but a fallback.
This is absolutely true. I had the opportunity to complain about this once to a big name Hollywood producer, and he told me that the rule of thumb that most movie makers use is, "If we don't know the difference, our audience won't either."

Occasionally they hire experts to be sure they get it right, but that is more the exception than the rule, and mostly happens when a feeling of realism is considered important for the part.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Korean_Air_Lines_Flight_007
I would imagine that the internet, Facebook and constant connectivity to friends and colleagues has helped perpetuate this phenomena.

20 years ago you would occasionally here about someone who got a raise or promotion, relatively speaking. Nowadays you are connected and aware of what all your friends are doing and how they are moving on up in life. That easy ability to compare yourself with others:

e.g. "I graduated with Bob and I know I'm as good as him, if not better. Why aren't are moving up as quickly as him? Maybe I should demand a raise or look elsewhere for work if they don't appreciate me like Bob's employer appreciates him"

We today are also far more aware of when friends and colleagues change jobs so people perceive that changing jobs is a frequent occurrence and therefore change jobs more often, which then furthers the perception of job changing frequency in others. It's a virtuous or vicious cycle depending on what side you're on.
Complex Systems: A Survey
Hey James,

This is John at Customer.io here. We are absolutely using your work. It was a joy to use.

Thanks so much!
I spent a minute before clicking that link trying to figure out wtf it meant.

All I could think of was how serving lobster to your employees is considered the new comic sans. An interesting world to think about, if I may say so.
Yes, you can. I've even used lucid dreaming for practicing motor skills. By the time you can achieve lucid dreaming on demand, you have near perfect dream recall, so this is especially useful.
"One in every five page views on the Internet is a Facebook page. If you think the Internet is valuable, then you implicitly think Facebook is valuable, too."

Holy logical fallacy, Batman.
Google+ Events leaks out through Google Calendar
In general, discounted cashflow means "if you will get $100 in 1 month i.e. future cashflow, what will be it be worth today i.e. discounted to today i.e. present value which should be little less than $100"
PostgreSQL on AWS
Research In Motion has been working on this, but with BB10. They are already hooking up their blackberries with the auto. BB10 is a RTOS, but if anyone here knows the compatibility, if any, with Linux please spill the beans.
They come out when you press the red + button and go back in when you press it again!
Even without the video of the presentation, I found the slides conveyed a lot of wisdom about how to approach running databases on AWS.
Apps and zooming and reflowing text are just workarounds. I don’t want an app, I want a decent website that can render on a smaller screen. Not hard.
Chinatown Bus Companies Shut Down in Federal Safety Sweep
It's not Linux but somewhat related: the Always Innovating HDMI dongle. They were talking about a price point of $80 for Android 4.0 on a dongle that plugs into your tv HDMI slot.

Any idea where these will be available?

Would it be possible to make a DIY version of this (it doesn't have to be as small or as attractively packaged, just that it would be great to have those functionality now). Would make a fantastic hardware/software hacker project.

Edit - link: http://www.engadget.com/2012/03/01/always-innovating-hdmi-an...
Oh, nothing wrong with induction. Just with waffling around.
Upvote for the term "candidate hoppers". That word should enter the vernacular.

The one thing I particularly like about the startup world is this rare focus on hiring the best and creating an environment that shows you value employees. One of the easiest ways to determine whether a company is a candidate hopper is to see how the quality of life is at the company. If it is low, it means that they aren't trying hard enough in general to try to keep people around.
What a Soyuz landing looks like:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4XVhoezrzM

If you believe SpaceX's concept videos they're gonna do it without parachutes. I have no idea why, though. Parachutes are good. Perhaps they're just thinking ahead, because they want an all-purpose capsule that can land on the Moon just as well as the Earth.
What classes or groups would you want to see in this space?

I'm guessing many of the existing tech oriented groups (Austin on Rails, Austin.rb, et al) will start meeting there. Many of these groups already met at the OtherInbox offices on the 8th floor. OIB is moving up to this new space—so it's natural that those groups will move up as well.

There are also several (albeit more business-focused) groups like Refresh Austin and Lean Startup Circle that have held meetings at Buffalo Billiards. That space is not really conducive to meetings of any sort (it's loud, dirty, and has few outlets) so I'm guessing those groups will move two blocks to the new space as well.
"I swear, reading through these posts is super frustrating. It's like everyone who can't/hasn't lucid dreamt before is actively discouraging others from trying it because they're jealous/scared or something."

I think you're reading too much into my post that just isn't there. Jealousy? Fear? Give me a break. The assertion that I can't, or haven't, had a lucid dream before? False on both counts. "Actively discouraging others from trying it?" Again, no. Not at all.

Let's stay away from ad hominems in this discussion, please. They don't advance the dialogue in any meaningful way.
> When I want to make a pizza, I want to walk up to the oven, turn a dial to 425, done.

My problem is that, when I want to make a pizza, I'm usually at work. What I'd like to do is put a pizza in the oven in the morning. Then, the oven starts itself in the evening so that, when I get home, my pizza is already waiting for me. If work runs late, I just send the oven a text and it delays the cooking.

The knob should still be there, on the off chance that I'm home, but I'd be nice to have more than one interface.