skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Your world would eliminate people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates."

You've got to be kidding. Do you know nothing about the history of software?

"If people had understood how patents would be granted when most of today’s ideas were invented, and had taken out patents, the industry would be at a complete standstill today."--Bill Gates
ESA announces the Summer of Code In Space 2012
Sebastian Thrun (Udacity, self-driving cars, etc) AMA on reddit Saturday
Voyager 1 this close to leaving solar system
I don't understand why people are worried. Every time you use a loyalty card in a supermarket your data is tracked, analyzed, and you're served up personalized ads in the form of the coupons that print out when you ring up. Every time you send an email in gmail, it's searched for keywords and targeted ads are served up to you. Every time you use your Macy's card your purchases are tracked and you get personalized coupons in your inbox.

I have never heard an argument against Facebook/Google/whatever that was any deeper than "But but but MAH PRIVACY!" Privacy was kaput when the first phone book was printed.
Thanks! I think I’m going to go retro hipster and along with vinyl records and polaroid photographs, I’ll spend more time talking to human beings in person.

Whoa.
Wow, lots of progress with C++11 support.

http://gcc.gnu.org/gcc-4.7/changes.html
Yeah, but I was able to see my submission while logged in, as if nothing happened.
I think it shows that "Works best with X" can easily turn into "Works best with Y" and nobody is better at that game than Microsoft. Almost nobody can stay in business once Microsoft decides to destroy you by bundling a copycat product for free with their monopoly OS. But still it was shortsighted of Netscape to:

a) Try to get the web hooked on nonstandard behavior such as lenient parsing.

b) Charge money for the browser.
Not only like IP addresses but also like the path part of the URL.

Interestingly, Tim Berners-Lee now thinks the same: http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#etc
After reading that previously on HN, I tried and sadly had to type both word.
Happy birthday man -- hope the next 50 years are as good and better to you as this 50 was.
For those interested there's also a Rails equivalent post at - http://schneems.com/post/19298469372/you-got-nosql-in-my-pos...
Am I the only one who thinks that self medication is a stupid idea ? I mean if you play with your own brain you can't really be able to made objective "observations".

My conclusion, don't do it unless you need it!
my exact point is: don't judge too early.

btw: the freedombox (https://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/) is one possible market from my pov
Also clustering around time, opportunity are common. "Outliers" talks about this.
Pi3D
One exciting thing about this: the entire model of reCaptcha (at least the text ones; I assume the audio ones are similar) is to make people do useful work when solving captchas by having them complete tasks that they consider too hard for computers to do well (in the text reCaptcha case, OCR). If someone writes software that can defeat the captcha, it does mean the security model is broken, but it also means the state of OCR technology (or audio recognition or whatever) has been advanced, and the digitization of books that had previously required human intervention can now be accomplished by automated means. In other words, spammers are incidentally creating the tools to expand the scope of digital human knowledge. Win-win, really.
...how many users are you seeing on IE 5? IE 6, even? It sounds like a waste of time.
Except once you have enought tabs Chrome starts putting multiple tabs in a single process. The cutoff seems to be somewhere in the low double digits. And at that point, you can in fact start running out of address space (not to be confused with running out of memory) without too much trouble, especially because system libraries on 64-bit OSes have a tendency to be mmap-happy, since they think they have lots of address space to work with.
If anyone wants to experience hacks and mods and have a Xbox, just try Call of duty 4 or 5 (world at war). The developers kind of abandon the older games once the new ones are out, so the modders move in.

Dave
According to my limited experience (small tools such as a process monitor linking to libproc) it is astonishingly easy and convenient to call C code from Go: no need to write bindings, as Cgo allows to access C symbols directly from Go. I would be interested in what are the difficulties when dealing with larger projects.

For illustration, here's how I call the openproc() function from libproc:

import (
/*
#cgo LDFLAGS: -lproc
#include <proc/readproc.h>

PROCTAB* my_openproc(int flags) { return openproc(flags); }
*/
"C"
)

func parse_procs() {
proc := C.my_openproc(C.PROC_FILLUSR | C.PROC_FILLCOM | C.PROC_FILLSTAT)
...
}

This illustrates one issue I found with Cgo: calling functions with variable number of arguments is not supported. I had to define a new C function "my_openproc" with a fixed number of arguments, which you can see in the metadata of the import statement. It also includes the compiler and Cgo directives that make editing a Makefile unnecessary. The code for the whole tool is contained in one Go file.
No, skiing was awesome, and we were, frankly, some of the pioneers (it only worked on some keyboards, I had to buy a new one). I'm talking about the aiming scripts and when guys started walking through walls. Most of the base servers were later patched, but for a while they were hard to find.
Question I wonder is: Iceland is tiny. Like TINY tiny kind of tiny. Their National GDP is $12.57 billion USD. America spends about $20.2 billion a year on air condition in Afghanistan.

The point being -- the world economy can (and did) withstand the default and destruction of the Icelandic finance system.

Could it have survived the default and destruction of the American finance system? Or would our incredibly interlinked, globalized finance system bring down the world economy with it?
I suppose it's the way your brain maps it internally. To me, it makes sense to have the most granular things first, as those become what's important.

To use physical addresses as an example, say I'm delivering a letter (I'm delivering this letter end-to-end by myself in this hypothetical scenario). Once I know the country, I don't need to check that information again. Once I'm down at the city level, that then becomes useless information, and so on.

I'll grant that prepending "www" on every site doesn't make a great deal of sense, but when the "World Wide Web" came into existence as such, it made slightly more sense on the surface.
Silly publicity stunt, obviously. But the heartening thing I'm taking away from this is that it isn't an Internet Explorer 6 tax.
> Children have no sense of it

I think such naturalistic arguments don't hold up. Children have no sense of many things - they don't see dangers in stepping onto a street without looking, and they don't see dangers in giving up their privacy. If they don't value it, should we not protect their privacy?

Children and some small societies often don't have a strong sense of property rights either - yet would you argue from that that a more complex society still doesn't require property rights?
Business lunches and executive retreats?
Any advice on good papers to read about identifying voting rings?
Okay, then I don't like how she refers to people as inventory, but how the sentence would parse that way also; seeing how it's close to an interesting truth, instead of some blurb only advertisers would care about. HN doesn't stand for Ho News, does it. So there.
What if HSBC owned bank.com? Would Barclays or Citi be happy to have their sites running on an HSBC-owned subdomain?

No, they'd simply use something else. That's why something like .movie or .book will never become any some of de facto authoritative TLD; there are too many other options for those who feel shut out.
Intel dismisses ‘x86 tax’, sees no future for ARM or any of its competitors
TechStars NYC Spring 2012 Demo Day Companies
This is a tricky question and you have to be very careful in how you read answers here.

First, not enough developers have a 5 or 10 year relationship with one code base.

Second, you will find many people here who think it's normal to throw away everything and recode everything, every few years. This is because they work on startups, temporary codebases.

A business is an established business model, warts and all. It has found a way to make money, and along the way the codebase to do it will probably look less than ideal.

The world of an established business is one of refactoring code. when 10 year old code makes money, it's valuable in any form, unfortunately. Mix this with management who don't understand software being in the custom software development field for themselves and it's a recipe for interesting times.

Third, remember you're there to make it better. You won't be able to explain things to anyone in any particular detail. You'll have to learn to manage your managers to get enough breathing room and time to start improving things, if you see fit.

As for the pay, it sucks. If this is your first programming gig, remember you can pick the city or the position, never both. If you can commit to learning to solve unreasonable problems for a year in a very controlled experiment, you will grow 3 to 5 years professionally.

Programming isn't for everyone, especially being the guy who can sort out messes really well.. It's a skill that pays handsomely with a track record in place.
that may or may not be a problem (a kind of moral hazard) depending on your perspective but it's not an argument about devaluation vs piecemeal austerity, it's a separate issue. maybe that video explains it but i didn't have patience for more than a couple minutes of it. do you have a written argument?
Lawyer attacking The Oatmeal shocked by big mean Internet’s reaction
UK Supreme Court Dismisses Assange Appeal Bid
I wonder what kind of company this is, e.g. media, marketing, finance, tech, etc. If you're not in a tech company - or sometimes even if you are - you're usually considered a cost center instead of a value provider. This would explain why the company is paying badly, why there's more maintenance than new development opportunities, and the overall managerial direction of trying to squeeze every ounce of productivity out of the poor poster.

I'm sure the poster could eke out a salary bump if she were to complain about her workload and state her responsibilities and accomplishments. Doubtful that her responsibilities would change though, and more likely management would ask for more in return.
I agree with scott on most things but he only looks at what happens not how it happend.

Iceland acctually said (around 2001 I would have too look) that they will bailout there banks unlimted. They acctually tried to bail out there banks but faild, because knowbody was dumb enougth do currency swaps with them.

They would have been hit so hard if they would have made that garantee (there banks where so badly overleveriged its unbelivable).

The inflation they produced whas just because they tried to bail out with krona, it was not smart NGDP targeting that Scott would want.

They did good by accident but we can learn from it anyway.

What Im not sure about is if the default of the country itself was necessey if they would have helped the banks and other special intresst.
FCC plans to free up spectrum to goose mobile health innovation
I like to follow a bunch of local startup entrepreneurs on twitter, especially if they tweet good links and content.

Also follow a bunch of CEO's / leaders of startups in your industry, and any "celebrity" techies like Mark Cuban, Kevin Rose, maybe a few VCs too.

Makes for really great daily flipboard reading.
Better how?

It would just be more realistic (but nobody would notice the extra realism).

On the downside, it would suck lots of battery by using the camera when not needed.
With practice and decent eyes. Once your eyes go downhill, it is amazing how much changes.

Most software developers are under 40 and therefore have little to no appreciation for what happens to people's eyes after they are past 40.
EAT24 – Restaurant in Your Pocket
The application for iOS-devices called Eat24 Order Food Delivery & Takeout can interest all eat-fanciers and people who simply like to have a good time in a jolly crowd and in the atmosphere favorable for good communication.
Its a free market. If amazon acts like a clown with .author, authors won't use it. If they abuse their position once it is actually influential, they can be sued and have their right to registrant revoked.

simple as that.

I don't understand your Chicago argument. No one is forcing anyone to use .author, .book, or anything else. It is one of hundreds (and soon to possibly be thousands) of available TLDs.

This just seems like a steaming pile of FUD
I suspect your estimate is off by a few orders of magnitude. Unless Kogan's user base is larger than the total population of Earth (I know you're out there), then even one of them from the DoD would represent 0.000000014%.
> Am I the only one who thinks that self medication is a stupid idea ?

Actually, it's a really common position. I used to be extremely conservative about all medicine. One day, I just changed position and figured, "My basic natural-born configuration isn't sacred; 'I' am a product of my internal but also lots of external factors; I can shape both internal and external factors, including nutrition, media, supplements, medicines, technology, culture, location, etc." And after that, a lot of things changed for me. But, I fully understand the position since I used to share it, and I think there's something to it.

Vigorous physical exercise, time in nature, proper hydration, and a clean diet does more for performance and clarity of thought than any medicines or supplements I've found anyways.
http://xkcd.com/810/
Win-win, really. :)
U.S. Govt. Equates Megaupload to Bank Robbers
Am I the only one who doesn't like this feature?
My understanding is that sampling the gyroscope that frequently is a battery killer (e.g: the reason those REM Sleep alarm clocks will suck down 90% of your battery in 8 hours)...

Over the course of a day this is probably a fairly significant amount of battery power wasted on eye candy...
My understanding is that the static linking is a temporary measure to keep things simple and let them focus on getting the language stable. Dynamic linking will come later.
I'm glad he covers the commonjs / amd issue. We use a commonjs implementation as well, but it feels like more and more libraries are going to amd. Like soundcloud, the amd approach just isn't ideal when you get to a certain number of components. Seeing that they convert to amd on the fly, and use almond for production is really interesting.
Infographic on how to create an infographic
Skype 4.0 for Linux
Don't forget the debtors that aren't the government, the vast majority of the population.

The dollar has been absurdly overvalued for a long time, destroying our exports and causing us to import excessively, leading to trade deficits and more debt.

Not that savers won't be hurt unfairly, but they will be hurt even more by the accumulation of capacity loss caused by the lost potential output of austerity philosophies. Unless they are retired, and don't plan to participate anymore - then they're just screwed. Unless we decide not to eviscerate Social Security and Medicare, that is.

The most important thing is not to have people who want to work sitting idly, especially people who are newly entering the workforce. This destroys the future more than debt ever could. We either need to lower nominal wages or devalue the currency to the same effect - or let massive unemployment become the new normal. Good luck lowering nominal wages: It's really a choice between the last two options.

I'm not sure what the conservative saver horde expects will happen to its savings over the long term if interest rates stay at 0% or negative indefinitely. Maybe pour all of their money into something else dumb like dotcoms or real estate and become the whiners of tomorrow?
Crocodoc is profitable and growing fast. Hiring dev, sales, and bizdev.
Voeding: de geneeskracht van de granaatappel TODIO.NL
Anyone else having issues with iGoogle? I had it working in 11.6 by identifying as IE, since it would just show a blank page when identifying as Opera/Firefox.

Now, with 12.0, identifying as Opera/Firefox still shows a blank page and identifying as IE just shows the widget headers and no feeds.
My chief worry over Go at the moment isn't that is has GC (for the most part), but that the GC it does have is relatively dumb.
What Advice Would You Give to a CSS Beginner?
Agreed. General concept is great but selling these TLDs to the highest bidder, idiotic. I can't believe this even got past the 'drawing board'. This needs to be protested in the same way GoDaddy was.
Joosy future: avoid JS MVC transport boilerplate with tighter Rails integration
A two hour film, on six or seven reels costs about $75-100 to ship. Larger release films are usually shipped to and from Technicolor, so there are two shippings per venue. Smaller release, independent films, the distributor usually has one venue shipping to the next, thereby halving then number of ships.

Film today is printed on mylar which isn't very flammable, prior to mylar, acetate was used (also known as safety film) and also wasn't flammable. Nitrate was discontinued in the 30's-40's and that was the scary stuff.
yeah. The thing about google though is that you can just sign out of your google accounts and they dont track you, I believe. Facebook -- nope. We're with you all the time !!!
Are the audio versions sourced from recordings that need transcription as the visual versions are sourced from scanned documents? I assumed that was just to improve access.

If not, then it isn't useful work, really.
Where is that "Lightweight Languages mailing list"? Google only gives me obsolete stuff.
You mean "Veeger", right?
I visit Hacker News everyday and read nearly every one of your articles that shows up on this site. I know it will be a thoughtful and original read. Happy birthday Reginald!
WooCommerce + Mijireh - Fully PCI Compliant WordPress store
Is there an API available so one could use eve on their website/app?
Happy Birthday.

At what point do you think you went from "posting essays online" to being a "blogger"?
It was ll1-discuss. It was a good list but I think it's gone now.
Would savers be better off if the banks they invested their money in collapsed, or if pensioners saw the government cut their pensions because it could no longer pay them? When a small country sees a big sector in their economy collapse like Iceland and their banking sector, there's going to be pain no matter which way you slice it. What the route Iceland has chosen does is spread the pain evenly between retirees who see their savings lose value and workers who see their paychecks love value. And you avoid the mass unemployment you tend to get through other methods, which further decreases the size of the real economy in a sub-critical positive feedback loop.
But I disagree that it's almost impossible to tell the difference. The BBC is an extremely different company in many fundamental ways.

I think that if we were to consider the BBC as a signal of Fascism, then the term loses all meaning because even the states criticized by Mussolini had state controlled companies, from the what he called supercapitalists to the socialists.
Happy Birthday. Wishing you many more healthy and productive years.
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That is a weak workaround. There real solution is to fully recognize that information is power, and to have a separation of powers similar to the three powers of Montesquieu's. Hardware companies should no be allowed to make or sell or control software. Software companies should not be allowed to produce, sell or control hardware*

One problem is that if that weren't allowed, we'd probably never have the app in the first place...

The app was made for THAT platform, for THAT store and for THAT hardware product.

Now, one can assume but we would have gotten something like the iPhone eventually anyway, but if you see what the hardware-first companies were shipping at the time of the iPhone's launch, that might have taken 5-10 more years.

I don't mean it could only happen by Apple: just that it could only happen by a process of building things where hardware+software are given equal importance, and ONE entity calls the shots for both.
I've been using http://rbpad.charlie.bz/ quite extensively. It's great.
I don't think that's true. Google gives more value to .gov and .edu domains, for example.
Quantum Cryptography Outperformed By Classical Technique
Acctually it is very, very unlickly that the American finance system would have blown. Everytime the US has bailed out banks unter the premis 'to big to fail' later analysis has shown that the impact would have been much smaller.

There is a book about that: "Too Big to Fail: The Hazards of Bank Bailouts"

http://www.amazon.com/Too-Big-Fail-Hazards-Bailouts/dp/08157...

or maybe better for most people a podcast with the auther:

http://www.econtalk.org/archives/2009/10/gary_stern_on_t.htm...

It was acctually the feds intervention (paying banks to hold reserves) not the fall of leeman that froze the holesale lending market.
Thats cool; I've been wanting to add the selector to choose your runtime (rubinius), but couldn't get it on Heroku (yet).
Please provide evidence for overvaluation of the USD.
Ember.js FTW !
When I started, news aggregators hadn’t reached a tipping point. There was Slashdot and some other stuff, but the vast majority of people subscribed to RSS feeds.

I posted a few essays and shared the links, but I didn’t have a “readership” until I had an RSS feed and people could subscribe. So I consider myself to have started blogging when there was an RSS feed.

(A few years back I abandoned that, as I felt that the best way to reach people was via aggregators like HN and Twitter.)
They probably wouldn't bother trying to guess.

And I honestly don't see that as a bad thing.

I rarely guess domain names. If I don't know the address, I search it. I expect most normal people search it even if they do know the address.
Is anyone going to the DC DjangoCon in September (I think)?

I'm excited to attend my first one.
> Once people and companies got over their hang-ups - renaming it "open source" and just making it clear that this was not some kind of anti-commercial endeavour definitely helped - things just kind of exploded.

I can't help but notice that this is what ESR said when he critiqued RMS for being a fanatic, and most people in the comments were pretty critical of ESR. I guess Linus at least agrees with him.

(I realize this might sound like an "Argument from Authority", and you'd be right, but we all know Linus is an authority for a reason, and I'm not saying he's right because he's an authority, I'm merely saying he agrees with ESR, which should at least be some kind of signal.)
I've been reading these articles for at least ten years now as Voyager has crossed various different "edge of the solar system" boundaries.

There's still a fair few people working on Voyager, and they don't have much to do now except stare at slightly different types of vacuum, so they feel the need to issue a press release every couple of years.
Good question, but I think the important thing to reduce moral hazard is that the bank's investors or creditors take it on the nose, not that we allow the bank itself to collapse. Still, it is a more complicated question for the US than for Iceland.
But which Paris? Paris, France? Paris, Texas? Paris Hilton? There are a lot of things named Paris. Who gets to decide? Few cities have unique names, so it's better to be specific. There's already a http://www.paris.fr, and US states have subdomains assigned under .us (and often regional subdomains under those)