skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I totally agree with this. I am a quant working at a bank writing trading strategies in C++. I have a colleague in "Infrastructure" (they call it) who sits two desks away from me and he writes C++ code that loads my code and runs it on a massive grid, does load balancing, interfacing and all kinds of cool stuff.

Yet he's in a "cost-center" and I'm in a revenue-center when, basically, without his work my code would be as useful as European politicians right now. This is insane but that's the sign of organizations that have hierarchies misaligned with what generates value for them. Basically, such organizations haven't figured out how to assign such "hidden" value a number while in my case it's simple to judge the value generated. (Actually, sometimes the ones in power are too afraid to admit they'd be useless without these guys).

Think about it, a programmer can very well exist without BAs/PMS etc but BAs/PMs can't exist without programmers.
Works probably for you but unfortunately that's not how millions of buyers get theirs.
It get's back to case law. But false advertising is a

'means of advertisement other than labeling, which is misleading in a material respect; and in determining whether an advertisement is misleading, there shall be taken into account (among other things) not only representations made or suggested by statement, word, design, device, sound, or any combination thereof, but also the extent to which the advertisement fails to reveal facts material in the light of such representations or material with respect to consequences which may result from the use of the commodity to which the advertisement relates under the conditions prescribed in said advertisement, or under such conditions as are customary or usual.

The net result of this basically means if your selling a burger, you must show a picture of a burger using the materials you use to make a burger. But, you don't need to use the same methods.
If Matthew Inman wrote anything with the specific intention of goading anonymous Internet users into committing torts or crimes against Carreon, then Inman could have real problems.

I don't believe at all that that's Inman's intent.
Ahh, I see. Well, kudos for improving your life. Keep it up! :)
For ruby apps there's: https://github.com/Mange/roadie
I first heard this (or an adaptation) on the CBC podcast Wiretap:
http://www.cbc.ca/wiretap/episode/2012/05/04/hell-is-other-p...

I'd recommend it if you enjoyed reading this, it often carries features of a similar calibre.
Thanks guys. Will post the list soon. Stay tuned!
Further, the burger press used in store, is usually pushed on a bit by the employees to cook the burger faster, but also flattening it a bit, and getting rid of some more juices that make up volume.
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I'm having a difficult time getting past the image that the author wants startups to sit around a campfire and hold hands chanting "we're all in this together". That is not the reality of business. Today it seems that the entrepreneurial spirit is being watered down, because it is considered "ok" to create a service with no monetization strategy or goal and simply hope for an acquisition. I believe competition breeds innovation as well as better businesses. It isn't about startup vs startup, it's about business vs business. Personally, I'm not building a company to see how many "friends" I can make (and subsequently share random thoughts and photos with). That being said, I do agree with the author's sentiment that in business relationships, just as in personal relationships, we have the opportunity/choice to do the right thing even when it doesn't necessarily make the most business sense.
I was with you right up until you called everyone who doesn't do it your way a retard.
You've probably heard this a lot lately, but:

"everything Stallman said was true"...and now it's happening on a huge scale.
This is the problem with "check in X times and get this deal" type of specials. There's no good way to check the integrity of a check in, by design.
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That's likely a glimpse of our future, since it's been tried so many times in the past, but I wish we could implement something a little more automated, decentralized and less prone to human failures than a single professional ruling body with permanent expulsion for "delinquents".

Maybe Github could offer a service to sign your software, free for open source, and pay for closed. They might run some kind of automated testing on your source for deviant behavior and to ensure quality, sign it, and revoke its keys if verified complaints are submitted. If the author is found to have malicious intent, then Github could ban him/revoke all his keys, and maybe a competitor could choose to sign his software instead, possibly one specializing in high-risk customers.
Why? There is a Manifest file where you specify the features your application is using. I would imagine that if you leave out the new, hardware dependent stuff it should run just fine?
You can do something similar already by opting out from supporting phones with constrained RAM. Those applications are then made unavailable to certain devices in the marketplace. I admit that there has been no mention of this how it's supposed to look like with regards to WP 7.8/8 so it needs some clarification.
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Valve Picks Up Steam With Influence From Larabel
Somewhere, Jason Scott is laughing. Probably in the middle of petabytes of storage at the Archive.org World Headquarters.

http://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=GeoCities

http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/2298
How Missile Tracking Cameras Are Remaking The NBA
>> For the record, I have already graduated college (with a major in math and economics).

Oh, the undergrad bit wasn't in any way meant as an ad hominem or the like. Apologies if it came across as such.

>> I do think that being readable by a larger audience is an advantage, all else being equal, to being readable by a smaller audience.

I don't necessarily disagree with this statement, all I am pointing out is that there are limits to how wide an audience a given paper can address. Specifically in more abstract papers (e.g. philosophical papers) is a profound knowledge important, especially in the history of thought and the foundations of our modern philosophy, together with the objections raised along the way. To give just one example, if you want to actually talk about something as abstract as postmodernism (an internet favourite, as shown also by xkcd etc.), you will need to know about its genesis, about its criticism of structuralism, modernism, idealism, society, art as an institution, the avant-garde movements etc. All I am saying is while addressing a wider audience is an admirable goal, it becomes harder and harder to achieve the higher the paper's complexity.

>> In an experimental paper, sure, the abstract is written last.

Coming from a non-experimental background, I still don't know anyone writing their abstract first. First comes an interest, an idea, something one doesn't understand, believes to understand, something one finds irritating, interesting etc. Then one keeps digging deeper, looking at other people's work and interpretation while simultaneously structuring one's ideas, arguments and problems. The abstract of a paper -- in my opinion -- can only be given after this process of sorting and structuring, of testing, evaluating and discarding is over. So I would like to disagree that a philosophical paper is the result of a vastly different thought process in terms of structure and argumentation.
That's not strictly true.

Full moderators are elected... but high-rep users take on a ton of moderation tasks.
I've spent a lot of time learning about the decision to dropping atomic bombs on Japan, and it is quite nuanced. I'm still not 100% sure if it was the correct course of action, given the information available at the time.

First, any attempt at an invasion of mainland Japan would have likely resulted in horrendous casualties for both sides - and it is almost certain that civilian casualties would have been substantially higher in the event of an invasion.

To counter that point, it is unlikely that an invasion would have been required to secure a surrender, and American insistence on unconditional surrender was a factor in prolonging the war with Japan.

Third, there is at least some merit to the idea that dropping the bombs wasn't just meant to scare the Japanese - it was also meant to demonstrate their power to the USSR.

Incidentally, it is pretty clear that Truman and other Allied leaders saw the Japanese as being sub-human in some ways[1]. How much of this came from societal factors and how much of it came from experiences of the absolutely brutal Pacific campaign battles is debatable, but it is certainly unfair to lay it all at the feet of Disney.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debate_over_the_atomic_bombings...
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I would have to disagree. I don't think they ever make claims about the amount of space the burger takes up. They claim it's a 1/4 lb burger. How thick it is seems irrelevant as long as they started out with a 1/4 lb of meat.
Ask HN: What touch interactions are possible on mobile Safari?
I am about to embark on designing an animated web app, and I couldn't find a good repo of possible and impossible interactions on an iPad browser. Links anybody?
It's not like this is the first time McDonald's has openly addressed this either. I remember seeing a bit on this process with cooperation from the company when I was a kid (say 20 years ago). The technique hasn't changed at all (it's basically the same clip really, less photoshop more hand touchup in the old school one being the prime differences)
As people use tablets for more and more tasks & as tablets get more and more powerful, we'll see different input devices for them. The keyboard is just the obvious beginning of this...
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It's shown diagonally. Watch the video, the presenter mentions this.
I don't even understand why people in USA go to McDonalds etc. I mean, if you want good burgers, USA is the paradise for them. E.g. while visiting Berkeley, one random burger joint called Bongo Burger was better than any burger I've eaten in Europe.

I don't know how is it in smaller cities, but I would guess an American should know what's a good burger and what's complete rubbish.
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So, I figured I'd sign up with a throwaway.

Spoiler alert: it's like instagram for places.

(I think. It's incredibly hard to tell, and I could be completely wrong. All I know is that I can share some pictures as postcards, or something.)
You would do well to consider the very real possibility that it is in fact you who is misguided, and not the rest of the world. You come off sounding childish when you refuse to even consider the possibility that you are simply misinterpreting the purpose and conclusion of the study. The only reason most people can think of to explain your behaviour is that you have an axe to grind and just want to shoot down anything that paints static typing as a positive thing.
Can athletes perform well on a vegan diet?
I always laugh when people question why others make more than them. Standard salary for mid-level journalists is around $27k a year. Teachers are around $35k. I don't know about other careers, but there's always somebody making less than you.
This is not a question of whether I am able to do that I am totally able of doing it, I just don't want to, because I am questioning whether this is necessary.
Just a point about this discussion point - just because a situation is worse elsewhere doesn't make it acceptable in tech.

I agree that sometimes it goes a little overboard. But there are also genuine moments when sexist bullshit should be called out for what it is. I don't know anything about the "gallery" tweet, but you need to consider a wide contextual impact of things you say and do, especially when it comes to minority groups. Having a gallery of people involved in the conference is fine, but why bring attractiveness into it? Why not just say "interesting" or "talented" instead? It strikes me as just being a bit thoughtless of the promoters, really.
Scala's type system can handle this as it support type safe duck typing.
Low level vulnerabilities are indeed something that need to be addressed - such vulns are a real (and growing) threat and by their very nature are incredibly hard to deal with. It's a shame countermeasures are taking this manifestation, however.
There's no need to be rude. Everyone has different experiences. Not everyone is assertive or has the opportunity to learn to be assertive. Especially when social expectation is against them.
Thank you! That is great to hear!

Ah the three person system! You can really understand a lot of this by digging into it, so you are thinking along the right track! If you like we can have a chat by phone. Otherwise I think I can answer a lot of your questions and others by writing a post on the three person example, so you could wait for that too.

But a brief answer:
1) Whether each gets one vote depends on the LLC. It should outlined in the operating agreement. (Our company is considering adopting a voting system that actually equalizes ownership and control, a surprisingly hard thing to engineer! but once you've decided on it you can just amend the operating agreement.)
2) Lets say that is true, each of the three people gets one vote. Then you are right that they each have equal power, but if memory serves it actually amounts to 50%, not 33%. (un-intuitive right!)Meaning each person has a deciding/swing vote in half of the 8 possible outcomes.
This hopefully one of many future congratulations to the Zapier team. Great job guys!
offtopic: Ok how can one make an empty comment?
Hindsight is always 20-20.

We can only speculate at this point, but if we take a look at the timeline for the browser wars, we get some interesting insight.

From the mid 90's through 2000, we had Netscape as a serious source of competition for MS. MS released IE 1-6 between 1995 and 2001. That's 5 versions inside 6 years. Netscape was bought out by AOL in 1998, thus ending the need for MS to continue improving IE6. Now, there were other browsers at that time, as Netscape opensourced the browser code and gave it to Mozilla, but they all failed to achieve traction. Throughout the 5 year period of IE stagnation, Mozilla had the time to start the war machine up again and start pushing out new code. MS knew that FF was coming, and they knew the feature set that FF supported. The answer to this was IE7 in 2005, however it was pretty much too little too late. FF2.0 was released in 2006, only about a half year after IE7. It had all the same features (plus a few additional) but guess what? It had an intuitive UI and worked well, unlike the MS counterpart that still reeked of R&D stagnation. Not to say that MS didn't do good things for the web, just that, without another company to light the fire under their ass, they failed to innovate. And that's pretty much where we are now: Microsoft is trying to build a browser that actually works (IE9 isn't a total failure), and Google/ Mozilla keep them on their toes. It's a win win for the consumer.
Microsoft's investment in Apple wasn't mere charity, if we're to believe this anecdote: http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/03/01/steve-job...

Things like the iPhone weren't going to come from Microsoft. Rather than beating them in the desktop market, which Apple still hasn't done, it won on a different battlefield.
Sorry, I was not aware that C3 had been at that stage. Kudos for C3.
I used to work in an assembly line in a factory. Other than the minimum legally mandated breaks, all the line workers stood in one place.
I don't think this is entirely correct. If you write in Native (C/C++) then true, it won't run on WP7. But if you write in C#/Xaml you could have targeted your app to WP7 and I believe it will run on both WP7 and WP8 -- of course this will preclude you from using whatever now hardware capabilities in WP8 only.

I think the Native C/C++ is the right move though. The "easy to port to IOS/Android" point is important, and I think going forward that would/should be the model for web development, unless Webapp is sufficient for your purpose, or that you're willing to develop your app in 3 languages (ObjC, Java, C/C#).

That said, I'm sad that my (otherwise very nice) Lumia 800 is getting the WP6.5 treatment.
This has to be a first for Microsoft. I know my first instinct is to say, "how crappy of them?" But they should have done this with Windows 10 years ago.
MS does not have significant enough marketshare in ARM devices to trigger antitrust case.
If the food is incidental (just in a TV show or something) it's going to be faked stuff, sprayed with lacquer, for the lights.

If the food is the product being advertised, it must be real.

There's probably a really interesting product placement grey line where the advertiser can argue that placement of a beautiful, fake burger in a scene should not be regulated under the "must be real" guidelines.
The question they were asked was "why?" not "how?"
s/BIOS/UEFI/

Yes, that is exactly what it means.
This is a very culturally biased view of what "professional" means. You would probably get a different response if you were to go outside America. (this is more an argument against the "no exceptions" part of your point above)
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Should/can Funny Junk fire Carreon at this point for his foolish behavior? If they do so, how much does Carreon's own cases depend on his relationship with Funny Junk, and what are the consequences? If I were FJ I would be pretty pissed, because Carreon is using FJ's case for his own personal benefit, and in so doing is dragging his client's name into a potential second shitstorm above and beyond the first one they already signed up for. I'm curious how that relationship will pan out, and what alternatives are available to each party.
Yeah, there was a kids' documentary made about fast-food photography a few years back. Basically they will just use a skillet to surface cook (brown) the outside of the patty to avoid the shrinkage that occurs when you grill a burger (lots of water and fat drip out and evaporate). This sort of answers the parent's question too. It's definitely not safe to eat.

IIRC, in the Burger King ads they heat thin metal strips and use them to sear lines into the patty, giving the "flame-grilled" illusion without having to cook and shrink the patty.
I read Dan's book, Predictably Irrational, which has been an incredible eye-opener on human behaviour.

I no longer get worked up by people's useless habits or our susceptibility to marketing. I am also better able to understand my own issues and better equipped to address them.

Thanks for this video!
Nodejs vs Ruby/Rails for backend API
Why I'm Doing It All Wrong
I think it is obvious by now that tablets without the real keyboards are actually just the reading and entertainment devices. They are not a "serious" stuff by any means. Same goes for smart phones. So it all depends on the target market.

If we look at the landscape, we can see that we have practically adopted tablets as an add-on device over TVs. Sure we're reading conveniently without flipping hard pages but is there a significant and life changing gain? You can use your phones as a GPS so you don't get lost. Big deal. It's not like people never ensured that they have directions before heading out to unknown locations. What else have we achieved via these handheld computer devices? We can take pictures and videos so we don't have to carry additional cameras or camcorders. Is that a gain? We can ask the camera manufacturers. What else is there?
X11: 1987.
Still works in 2012.
You can do some deep knee bends without leaving your cubicle. There's no need to run laps around the office every 20 minutes.

My concern is that you'd be breaking away from your task every 20 minutes, which isn't conducive to many kinds of work.
"To be on the offensive" means "attacking something" or "being aggressive towards something", not that the person who is "on the offensive" offends somebody in the sense that that somebody's feelings are hurt - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/go+on+the+offensive .

It's arguable whether or not a PM should be that aggressive, but I'd say his expression made sense.
Get me, still waiting over here for a relevant quote from the paper. I've given mine. Where are yours?
When I tried a standing desk, my feet were the main pain issue, even with shoes made for workers who stand a lot, and a cushioned mat.

I also found it harder to concentrate.
I suppose it depends what happens next, because as it downloads what you play, he may not notice a cloud outage even if he listens to his music
Thank you everyone for the Up votes and the conversation! We reached six or seven on HN on the same say Seth Godin sent out a blog post mentioning how unlikely it is to reach the front page of HN. That was a treat!

I'd love to keep it going, but its late here (I'm traveling in Holland at the moment). So I think what I'll do is work on a post to try to address the most common questions and get back tomorrow.

As a HN newbie I would appreciate advice on whether it is better to post this in the comments, or start a new post.
The problem was that Microsoft introduced proprietary extensions to standard HTML that would only work properly in IE. They first tried to create a monopoly on browser market share. By bundling IE with Windows 98 as the default browser, they succeeded in gaining 90%+ of marketshare just by default, which pretty much destroyed Netscape overnight. Then, they started to release proprietary extensions to HTML like ActiveX that conveniently would only run on a Windows computer running IE.

If they would have succeeded in this strategy, we would have a rich web experience with "web 2.0" applications, however, the protocols would all be proprietary and you would only be able to access them on an x86 computer running Windows and IE. Their strategy of embrace and extend was hugely successful, and you can see the aftermath all around you. Look at the extraordinary lengths developers have to take to support older versions of IE. Up until the justice department rulings in the early part of the 2000s Microsoft was still making subtle tweaks to try and break standard IETF protocols. They had a willful disregard for RFCs and always tried to add Microsoft only extensions on top.

The article is interesting in that he highlights the end result is that innovation trumps monopoly, however, he ignores the damage this caused to both users and entire companies that were literally wiped out by these anti-competitive practices. WordPerfect, Novell, Netscape, and countless other innovative companies were extinguished by this.
Potential: an x86-64 assembler as a Haskell DSL
Much Ado About the MS Surface is Puzzling
It could very well be the same size patty, just nearly uncooked.
Economics seems to always have an answer for declining natural resources... Planetary Resources wants to mine rare earths from asteroids by the end of this decade.