skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your argument is weird. The fact that people are not just good or bad but in between is exactly why I said the jurors felt bad giving this verdict. They saw Gupta as someone who has been close to good most of his life (he was at McKinsey for 40 years without a single blemish on his record!). And then you somehow invert the your own point and say that you should not feel sorry for Gupta because he is apparently evil like Hitler? And none of your points make me personally feel anything good about Hitler. Compare that with Gupta's life and tell me seriously if that is a fair comparison:

- orphaned at 18 with very little money
- studied hard and ranked 15th in the entire country and got admitted to IIT
- Got an MBA from Harvard
- Worked at McKinsey till 2011 making to the the post of Managing Director (the first MD of McKinsey from outside US)
- [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajat_Gupta#Philanthropy]

See this Bloomberg article which pretty much says something similar - http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-06-15/in-gupta-jurors-saw....

But I sense that we are different people, so arguing further with you will be moot.
BSON in that case?
We think, that OS, written in simple interpreted language, like python, allows us to dominate desktop operating systems market.

Python is simple and nice. Our user will be able to easy modify any part of OS without compiling souce code. This is the real Open Source Freedom!
I'm making a cathedral v bazaar argument. Openness itself is of little benefit to end users, but open systems have a potential for distributed evolution that's lacking in centrally planned systems

I'm not predicting that Wordpress will supersede Facebook, but I do predict that something will eventually. Of all the alternatives known to me, Wordpress is a fascinating suggestion.
I see we are continuing the tradition of shoe-horning WordPress into roles it was not designed for.
Yeah, Lenovo's using 8GBx2, but even so, it's a very heavy markup. Newegg wants about $125 for such sticks[1]. It'd be about $85 for 4GBx4[2] if that is in fact what Apple's using

I also just navigated the labyrinth that is HP.com and looked at pricing on the 15" Envy (15t-3000 series specifically). The base model comes with 6GB and it costs $315 to go to 16GB (8GBx2)[3].

So, Apple's pricing really doesn't seem bad at all.

[1]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226...
[2]: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820226...
[3]: No direct link possible apparently.
Today's embedded is not tomorrow's embedded.

In 10 years your sunglasses will have more compute power and memory than today's smartphone .
glue's expensive
I use a plugin in firefox (my default browser) called leechblock [https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/leechblock/] and use a inspirational block page with links to my personal projects.

]The beauty of this plugin lies in the ability to configure time zones. You can say - block <insert your site here> after 1min, every six hours.

I am sure there is an equivalent in chrome.
For a lot of developers, the how of making software can be as important as the what of making software. I've worked on casual games, bug trackers, retail signage databases, public outreach platforms, streaming media servers, and lolcat captioners.

And you know what? It's all about the same. It comes down to things like being respected, challenged, engaged, and working with people you like being around.

If Spolsky were to go slumming it and open an office in my town, I would be first in line to apply to work on FogBugz, and I don't care about the fancy chairs.
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Indeed, I should step up my English skills
Alternative interpretation: Bret Taylor just wants to do his own thing now and this is not indicative of executive morale at Facebook.
Audio editor app written using the Web Audio API
I saw your comment about the word "evil" and how you are using it after I wrote my reply to you. That all sins are equally evil is not something I believe.
As I understand it, Emacs was originally a text editor.
I tried it, but I heard only a single 1/2 second sound randomly in the track (different spot each time). I tried all three decoders mp3 and flac made that sound, alac was totally silent.

Firefox 12.0 on Linux. I have noscript and flashblock installed but I set noscript to allow all.

Also, some runs I would get a time number for the length (a negative number - I assume it's supposed to be that way?) and sometimes it would be 0:00.
You might want to take a look at:

http://www.tdpf.org.uk/blueprint%20download.htm

"After the War on Drugs:
Blueprint for Regulation"
Everyone is an API Evangelist in an API-Driven Company
The project appears to be setup by employees of "NASA Ames Research Center working on alternative methods of public outreach for space science" which sounds pretty authentic.

Discover magazine is putting up a $1500 prize to the best application designed to run on this project.

Finally this project also announces a company producing an arduino spectrometer shield, which may be more exciting than the satellite.
26 y/o here with RSI-related issues as well. I constantly wonder how my +30 y/o co-workers with less ergonomically set-up workstations than I have are able to survive.

I am also jealous! :(
I don't buy it. The traditional cycle, if Apple had a new technology first, is Apple releases it, wait a year and everybody else can do it just as well and probably cheaper. You can get Android handsets whose specs are better than the iPhone 4 in every way except the screen.

If a manufacturer could out do the iPhone 4, iPad or MBP screen, they would have. Especially since they are traditionally spec driven.
lol, its as if this came from some movie where a some new up and coming fighter unknowingly messes with a retried but still sharp ex-champion, and instantly gets his ass handed to him.
I agree with you that the DMCA isn't powerful enough to protect copyright in certain circumstances. Unfortunately, the DMCA is also too powerful and is routinely used haphazardly and for censorship.

In other words, copyright law is incompatible with the Internet.
Hi, as the guy behind the game concept, I am thrilled to read all these comments and discussions. For those interested I can explain how I thought of this game and which goals we try to reach with it. First of all, the game is a direct translation of my view of math. Abstract objects, relations between them, and playing around with it. Obviously there is no One mathematics. Each of us we have our own subjective understanding of it.
Secondly, I have three kids, and I want the best for them. Mathematics can be used to understand better our world and can give access to better decisions. The earlier, the better. That means I d like them to learn K-12 math as soon as they can get it. And they could get everything now, if we had the right tools. Just to say that I make sure that the games we create transfer to useful knowledge. I am not here to sell another game, I am here to make children learn.
Third, first we teach how to solve equations and then, how to set up equations.
4. Our goal is to make players think and learn. For example, players have to figure out themselves how to solve an equation with x in denominator. I think we are the only ressource that let a kid find out that by herself. School has no time to let kids spend time on high level thinking...
5. most importantly, this game is about discovery learning. Trial and error. The only reason there are texts, is that parents feel unease with textless discovery games. Children and parents learn completely differently. So imagine what a teacher does to our poor kids (i am myself a teacher, so i try to replace myself...). She cant test her teaching as we tested our game... how can you be better without feedbacks?
6. no teacher will be able to beat this game. Because of feedbacks, discovery mechanisms, beautiful symbols, tests etc.. players solve 200 equations in 1,5 hours without any prerequisite... and explanations. This game avoid many pitfalls that communication with words create when explaining algebra. Teaching algebra from arithmetic, concrete to abstract is to my mind crazy. It s an unecessary step.
This game is the result of a thinking process where I sat as a big hairy goal to teach K-12 math in less than 20 hours. It is obvious that to do that, we have to think very differently. For example none has noticed that the equation is set up in two dimensions. The game seems simple and obvious and it is easy to start discussing the effect of it. It was pretty complex to make it that simple.... Make complex things simple without oversimplifying, that s the point to discuss to progress in learning science. That s what the game is about. And i hope it inspires many to work with it.
I am not familiar with hackermonthly but they seem to "reprint" material that was popular on HN. Is all that content actually correctly licensed to be used in that way? Just wondering how those logistics are working... contacting all the individual authors, working out the terms &c.
I've been saying since the start: It's somewhat obvious that Google+ Hangouts has the potential to become the internet equivalent of Microsoft's Xbox Live Party system. As they begin to flesh out their platform, Hangouts could be a very cool and very popular real-time group coordination system used by many web products.
"At the end of the day, a lawsuit against TheOatmeal in this situation is just a really bad idea"

My favourite line.
Can someone compare this with buying an equivalent amount of Apple stock at the time and seeing which gave a better return?
Do it, because without IE7 or at least IE8 support this will barely get used.
I dislike propriety SDD connectors mainly. Full disk encryption and backup are even more musts.

I enjoyed migrating foolishly unbacked up data from a laptop with a dead [Insert failed component that's not the drive] by popping the 2.5" drive into an external enclosure. Now I have to give my drive to somebody else? Or use iCloud.

Tough sell to me
"where you find a good business person who wants to partner up"

My first question would be to ask you where you are located? Not sure if you want to reveal a specific city or not. Where you are matters.

"The business people I am in contact with are already busy with their own things."

True. Which is why you need to be somewhere where there is a chance of meeting people who are in between, recently graduated etc. There is also the possibility of someone who is employed full time starting to help and give advice on the side. When/if the venture takes off they would feel more secure in leaving their permanent job.

"it seems like a good business person will always be busy doing their own businesses, as that is what business people do."

You only need to find one person (it's like getting married). There are of course compatibility issues as well to consider.

"have much interest in building it if I'm also going to be responsible for selling it."

If you build it and it makes sense from a business perspective and have a prototype you can attract that one or two people you need. With just an idea of course you can't. Care to elaborate on the idea at all?
I found their software engineering to be much more advanced than their submarines.

Care to go on?
Let me add some nuance here: We have the "business" offering from Comcast. It was the only offering that had 100MBit/s when we signed up. With the "business" offering, you are forced to use the "business" modem.

The modem is made by SMC. It is a full firewall/gateway. Unfortunately, the software on it is not very stable. For about 4-5 months, we worked with Comcast customer support to resolve this. They tried many different things to fix the issue, without success. My conclusion was that the software on the SMC modem just crashes once a day or so, and then hangs.

Eventually, I convinced them to let us use the "simple" residential Motorola modem. That has worked much better. It still crashes every 1-2 weeks, but that's almost acceptable.
I was going to suggest the name "Jazz.js" because it is a music term that contains the letters J (from JavaScript) and A (from Audio). :) But I see that there is already a project called Jazz.js (a Node.js template engine).

I was then going to suggest the name "Jade.js" (JavaScript Audio Decoders Encoders), but I see that there is already a project called Jade.js (yet another Node.js template engine).
Probably because you used the back button after visiting the site. Nothing personal.
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The ratio of moonshine to legit alcohol sold is tiny though.
With Hacker Monthly, I believe all authors are contacted and for permission. I think compensation is even provided, perhaps in the form of a free subscription?
Tech press misses Google/Amazon name grab
Ask HN: Are there any advantages to being underpaid?
As a web developer I always wanted to quit my job because most web developers I know (in my area) got twice my salary. But I think that it is just wrong, I've only been here as the sole technical guy (sysad,webdev,tech support) for 2 months, so I feel that I am not giving the job enough chance. What does HN think?
Recently I saw a post that quoted

Derive your self-worth from the process not the output.

The first you control, code quality, integrity, professional communication with team mates etc. The second is not entirely within your control and should not lead to anxiety.

Anyway, I would want to hire someone like that - more intrinsically motivated, than someone who is focused on building Facebook for dogs for an IPO.

I would pay good money, but not expect commitment to the mission, just commitment to intrinsically good code and practises.

That's my take
Quick thought experiment...

Same addict in two societies.

Society 1) Drugs are regulated in pretty much the same ways they are in the US, and because of this prices are high. The addict may have a family or maybe not, but has bills to pay. He spends all his money on drugs leading to neglect of his bills. He gets arrested and is now unable to hold down a job. This leads into other problems after he gets out of legal trouble. He now has to steal to obtain the drugs.

Society 2) Drugs are largely decriminalized and cheap enough that a days supply for any addict don't break the bank. He doesn't lose his job because of legal ramifications and he just spends all his free time doing cocaine. He doesn't have to steal to obtain the drugs.
One of the articles points is that violence is used because there are no other means to settle disputes. In a legal atmosphere, the legal system could be used instead of violence.

In additional, legalization would cause prices to crash because the risk would drop significantly. Even so, in a legal environment there would still be a black market because regulations would still impose restrictions, but it would be more like teenagers paying homeless guys to buy beer and cigarettes.
You would be very very surprised at how common this is. Lots of people leave 50% thru vesting; it can be remarkably demoralizing if you're of the entrepreneurial mindset to work for four years in a large organization.
I've blogged about our workflow: http://blog.hackermonthly.com/making-hacker-monthly.html
Yep, that sounds normal. It uses about 12% CPU for Pulse and 12% for Chrome (this is a Core 2 Quad).
Thanks, fixed. =) Try again: http://nginx.org/patches/spdy/
patch.spdy-36.txt or later revision.
Hm, I admit I didn't realize :) Thanks for your advice!

The in-app purchase would tie the app very tightly to the MAS, and I'm not sure if that is a good thing. I'm not sure yet how to best proceed.
Apple charges 54% more for replacing a 90% larger battery than the Macbook Air. More news at it comes.
""Bug tracking and PM" is not compelling to you"

Not to answer someone else but I think what the parent means is that it's not original, unique, or greatly improving on whatever is already out there. (Is it?)

I mean it's kind of meat and potatoes addressing a problem that has been addressed and maybe doing it better.

Let me state that while I can program I am certainly not a programmer. But from my perspective it seems that Fog Creek, while a great company is not the place that a world class programmer would go to work on world class software. I mean this as no disrespect to Joel (who I admire greatly) or what he has done.

Using an analogy if you want to be in law enforcement are you going to work for the local big city police department or try to work for the secret service or the FBI?
This was often done in the past via "Christmas Letters," or other annual (or semi-annual) letters. A family would write a one- or two-page letter detailing their major life events and experiences since their last letter, and send it to friends and family they haven't seen or talked to much.

Sending them is a good way to keep in touch with people you wouldn't normally, and receiving them is nice because you can feel like you've never fallen out of communication with your family, even if the Christmas Letters are the only kind you get.
The problem isn't gangs; it's gang violence. Making their crimes less stringently punished (reducing the paranoia within their ranks) as well as doing more to restrict the flow of arms from the United States (a better use of funds than incarcerating college potheads) seems a more sensible experiment to try before full legalisation.

Consider the negative externalities of cocaine use (much higher than marijuana's); the healthcare implications and effects on worker productivity are costs that would need to be covered by a heavy tax. That, in turn, would make smuggling profitable.

Legalising cocaine would cause its price to plummet. This would cut into cartels' profits but also spur demand. I'm not sure if I want to walk around the street with people high on bath salts and cocaine. Perhaps in a highly controlled environment? That still leaves a profitable opening for illegal distribution.

For Mexico it makes sense to decriminalise; the United States would bear the cost of use while it could potentially build a viable industry in cocaine processing. It makes similar sense for the US to pressure Mexico to do otherwise up to the expected public cost of higher cocaine use in America.
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Kidnapping is not nearly as scalable an operation as drug trafficking.
You are much more practical than I am Chris. Looking at what humans, motivated by gold, did to the Sierras I'd have to concur it would be far simpler to do it your way.
The article clearly pointed out that corruption is the biggest contributor to the continued survival of the cartels. If, somehow, we were able to make everyone in law enforcement and the government honest, then the cartels would find it significantly harder, if not practically impossible, to do smuggle their goods.

It does seem like the war on drugs could be fought more by addressing those that are supposed to be fighting it and removing corruption. Perhaps huge pay increases and bonuses for turning in people that attempt to bribe?
I haven't had an idea that Haskell's GL bindings were that nice.
Don't forget he still has to pay for the stocks.
It depends on what the markup is. You can't have taxes that equal current costs. If that was the case the market would largely stay the same.
I'm usually not among the grammar police, but leading right off the bat with "Us developers" instead of "We developers" stuck out quite a bit. Also, the fuzzy timestamp has a duplicated "about".

Nothing against the actual content of the page, though. Nice to see both minimalist and elaborate styles represented.
Perhaps, but shutting down teen access shifts potential liability from the company to the lying children.
"Admittedly, the battery in the MacBook Pro is more powerful than the Air's: Apple rated the former at 95 watt-hours (Whr), meaning that it can produce one watt of power for 95 hours, or, say, 5 watts of power for 19 hours. The 13-in. MacBook Air's battery, on the other hand, is rated at 50 Whr."

Not that a 90% increase in battery capacity should have any impact on the replacement cost or anything...
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This reminds me of a fictional story on HN a few months back. The author presented a case where he wakes up and his app goes viral. Investors flood his voicemail and he's suddenly making millions. However, something tragic happens with his app and all the investor pull their support.

Does anyone else remember this story and have the link?
The new version of skype is in the official repositories. Just installed it and it looks good so far.
...and if US users can grow their own, legally, in their backyards, then that bribery money goes away.
> Anyone who feels like they want to pile on and get some free money out of FJ can now point to their works being online and sue

Probably they didn't expect TO to draw attention to it, but didn't they have this exact same exposure before?

Wait a minute, wasn't Megaupload talking about filing some kind of lawsuits against content owners right before they were raided?

> The Oatmeal has come out with vastly more positive press

Oh absolutely. I didn't say anything about press TO might have received or that FJ had received anything but tons of negative press for it.

But FJ needed press and they got it. The question is in what ways is FJ actually worse off for having it been negative press which they received?
Good to see scum-bags like Rajat are being put behind bars where they belong.
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How to hire a developer that doesn't suck
Devops is the buzzword on everyone's lips. But there is some truth to the hype. Ops that can understand the demands of building products, and devs that understand the trials of keeping systems running. That makes one happy family!
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The drug trade provides a great way for three letter agencies to transport money, men, and materiel around different parts of the world.

For example, the recently deceased Jon P. Roberts of Cocaine Cowboys infamy (great book, btw) is alleged to have become a CIA asset in his later years, after he was captured and removed from the cocaine importing business.
So it's hilarious when companies like Geico or whatever post ads on Stack Overflow Careers 2.0 saying they only accept "rock stars"... Because we all know that's where all the hot shots flock to...
I got the last good macbook--the first 13-inch unibody, with a trivially replaceable battery and hard drive. Wish Apple would've kept that design around, it's fantastic.
Surely sir! http://github.com/mozilla/x-tag/
It would be fun to see someone do a blog on "Lessons from Eve that can be applied to entrepreneurship."
The point isn't that established players are immortal. It is that the role of open v closed in that usurpation process is negligible.

Closed systems overturn open systems just as much as the other way around (or closed v closed or open v open). Very few people outside hacker culture care whether what they use is open or closed.
Isn't this called cocaine?
Could you try and see if any of the demos at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API#Working_Audio_Data_D... work?

If so, could you please add a github issue at https://github.com/ofmlabs/aurora.js/issues with some more information about your OS/Sound Server so we can replicate the issue?

(The negative number on the right is the time remaining)
I'm going to work on it this weekend!
Craigslist! I got a huge 10x4 ft one for $80 for our office. Probably would have costed over 300 new. The struggle was bringing it back.

Buying a new one is extremely expensive!

Here is a good one: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/for/3073429940.html
An interesting point. What's the marginal manufacturing cost of a macbook battery cell?
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