skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You are changing your tune on me. Your original statement was that homogeneous teams are more efficient (greatly increased productivity, according to you). Your new argument is that homogeneous teams would be more efficient if they were more efficient, and you posit a sarcastic challenge for me to disagree with you on that. Well, I can't. If something is more better, then by golly, it's more better. You win, sir.

Edit. You say: the post I replied to was saying "look, if only 4% of OSS developers are female then clearly that indicates some problem." I've re-read the post that you replied to, and it neither said, nor implied anything of the sort.
First - how old are you? If you're more than 8 or 9 and aren't already writing code, there's a good chance you're not a 'hard core hacker'

How daft.
thanks xb95, it took a minute to take effect, but issue is now fixed.
And so your remedy, when your landlord, who has promised you an apartment for a year at a specified price, is to move apartments, and then spend 2 years chasing them in court?

Incidentally: I sued a landlord once a few years ago over a very simple issue (they unlawfully withheld my security deposit) and did not pull "2 years" out of my butt.
Is Viidya supposed to stand for knowledge (as in Sanskrit) or is it just a play on words video-ya?
Surprisingly, my workman friend seems to hear about stuff on FARK just as fast as I hear about stuff on reddit.
Things that everyone seems to be forgetting

* Apple makes thin, light, durable products. Reduce > Recycle.

* Raw materials are a small amount of the embodied energy in electronics. The microchips themselves constitute many times the embodied energy. Again, reduce > recycle.

* As others have pointed out, Apple didn't do this because any of their newly-released products weren't eligible.

Putting it all together, Apple did this to send a message to EPEAT: "Disassembly isn't the end-all be-all of green." Looks like EPEAT caved.
But it has the menu bar in the window, not on the menu bar. Yes, I know that it's just a web app container, but that's...strange.
Gatekeeper is not nearly as bad for small developers, though. Unless Microsoft has started offering, as part of a $99 MSDN subscription, the ability to generate a signed certificate that doesn't expire for five years automatically from inside Visual Studio as soon as you've signed in with your Microsoft ID.

The problem with Microsoft's strategy has always been the reliance on companies like VeriSign for whom recurring revenue from certificate renewal is a primary revenue source. And when I've had to deal with VeriSign for code-signing certificates in the past, it's easily cost more than $99 in time ("I'm sorry for the delay, but could you please fax that to us again, only this time, on official company letterhead?").
Doesn't seem too difficult to get a 'free' license and pay the occupancy tax. I've stayed in various beach rentals along the California coast for 2 weeks at a time and have been charged occupancy tax.

http://www.co.monterey.ca.us/taxcollector/TOT.html
I love this. It's always nice to see PHP being implemented on new platforms (we already have it to some degree running on C++, on JVM, on .NET, now on PyPy). Sadly most of those projects don't really make it to a production-ready state :/

In any case, keep up the work!
Well, I have less respect for Apple now, and still none for Greenpeace.
How do you know that online learners are struggling? Is this article prompted by experience, or research?
I wonder if protecting people from bad neighbours is really the intent here.

It looks more like they are trying to shut the short-term rental business down, to please the large hotel business.
Municipalities aren't making this unlawful. Running unregulated unlicensed undocumented hotels has been illegal for decades.

What you're asking is for people to engage in activism to overturn statutes and codes that every major city already has on the books. What statutes and codes do you propose to replace them with?
Oh, I absolutely agree. I think it is great.

My comment was with regards to the grandparent post that claimed he had to purchase a new replacement--complaining it was wasteful.

My point was that he very likely got a refurb, and then related my refurb replacement story.

Sorry for not being clear.
A lot of my other opinions have already been brought up so I won't restate them, but I further don't understand why you didn't use KickStarter? I dont know enough about your funding system to trust it with my money or info. KS has built a reputation and I trust I won't be charged in case the project goes under (not to mention you miss out on any network effects).
> Personal insecurity seeing that certain individuals are successful and praised for it as well as insecurity that their philosophy of "success is all due to luck" is in jeopardy.

Nope, that's not it. I don't feel insecure due to other people's successes, and I don't believe for one second that either Steve Jobs' or Elon Musk's or Richard Branson's or Jesus' successes where in any way due to luck. They deserved the majority of their success. Sure, not without some stepping on some people's feet or making some enemies or doing some unethical things or by standing on the shoulders of the work that thousands of people have done for them.

But luck didn't have much to do with any of these stories, and I certainly don't have a philosophy of "success is all due to luck". Still, well put :)
As of right now, 3:16 PM PDT, I can still connect to (one of) your Postgres databases.

# psql --host=ec2-23-21-85-231.compute-1.amazonaws.com --port=5432 -U ruwdncbzdkulsh dc6jnvg2ce8qim
Password for user ruwdncbzdkulsh:
psql (9.1.4)
SSL connection (cipher: DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA, bits: 256)
Type "help" for help.

dc6jnvg2ce8qim=> SELECT NOW();
now
-------------------------------
2012-07-13 22:17:51.821052+00
(1 row)
I'm not so sure. The network effect here is to have all apps sharing one messaging fabric. The value of access to that fabric should go up as the network grows, and the costs of moving a message should stay low. Things fall apart if one or two apps start to dominate the fabric, but if that's true the open fabric wasn't needed in the first place.

I'm not predicting success here, I'm not even sure what the exact product is beyond a general idea of a twitter-gone-the-API route.

I'm in favor of the project. We'll all learn from it and I admire his moxie in trying it. I'm getting out my credit now to give it a $ upvote.
I don't understand how this helps ISPs. If they aren't also cable TV providers, what incentive do they have to cut off customers? Forwarding C&D emails can't be that expensive, can it?
From the page:

"Why aren't you using Kickstarter?

We wish we could, we <3 Kickstarter. Unfortunately, the Kickstarter Terms Of Service explicitly prohibits raising money for this kind of service. "
While I wouldn't try to tell someone how they'll feel after they have children (especially with 100% accuracy), I can say that as a parent of two small children, I wouldn't like to see a constant stream of new people constantly coming and going from the apartment across the hall. I've lived in a flat with a shared back yard, and my kids knew the people who lived below us. I knew them well and became friends with them, and I do find the notion that my kids would have been safer around a steady stream of strangers kind of absurd. I wouldn't have wanted a new group of people I don't know hanging out in the backyard where my kids play every weekend.

I personally feel that short term rentals work very well in some places, but they can be very disruptive to neighborhoods as well. I guess it comes down to whether you feel that the preservation of the residential nature of a neighborhood is a legitimate reason to regulate. As you can probably tell from the way I set this up, I do.
It's very different to use the PyPy toolchain that is to run on JVM or .NET. It does not reuse any bit of the Python VM, but uses RPython as the implementation language. You don't share bytecode, you don't share objectmodel. You share the garbage collector and you generate the JIT for your language (unlike reusing the existing one).
How would you know if you were buying raw or pasteurized milk if there were no food labelling regulations obligating people to label it accordingly?
Almost everyone seems to be a Keynesian now, hence quantitative easing but I'm not sure they all take that description.

There are a number of different branches that do claim Keynes' legacy including New Keynesians, and Post Keynesians. The Post Keynesians seem to be least accepted by the mainstream but perhaps best aligned with reality.
No, don't do that. The current order is fine. I want to see the algorithm's effect when compared to the old algorithm.
1 in 4 homes [EDIT: mortgages] are underwater.[1]

If the goal by which we make neighborhood/city wide planning decisions is the ability to "look after" one's property, I propose homeowners are clearly more socially derelict and likely to ignore the community.

[only partially sarcastic]

1. http://nationalmortgageprofessional.com/news30381/nearly-24-...
I work for Parse.ly who helped push out some of the data for the article. Fark.com was #15 on the list, above Digg, but below Reddit.
In windows 8 the smartscreen filter is part if the OS and not just IE. Even if you download unsigned code with another browser, trying to run it will result in the same nasty warnings.
As one of the authors of Happy, your post got me very interested.
We wrote the paper over a year ago, we used a version of PyPy from back then. It's possible that we get a bigger speedup with a newer PyPy.

It's interesting that you mention the advanced features. I looked at Hippy and the most interesting JIT feature Hippy uses is _virtualizable2_, which virtualizes all function locals and unboxes them. We tried using it ourselves, but it forces each function to have a static list of variables and no dynamic variable accesses (like $$x). It looks like Hippy falls back to the regular implementation for dynamic variable accesses, where the entire list is stored in a dictionary. Now I'm wondering how much this happens in real-world code, we assumed it does happen enough times.

Also, I'm working on posting a publicly-available version of the paper. I'll post a link when I do that.
There are more Windows Mobile users than WP7 users (more than double)
Diablo 3 Players Donating to Charities
The growth of micro-transactions and virtual economies is fueling gaming-for-charity.
I'd love to see their detailed maps of Casinos worldwide --what mazes.
German security experts find major flaw in credit card terminals
While that is nice to know, it still smells of Raketeering to me.

"that is some nice software you have there, would be a shame if users thought it was dangerous"

"pay a little money to one of these approved companies and that warning will go away"

If MS was serious about this only being for security they could issue the certificates for free and prove me wrong.

On the other hand, why is it that about 20% of users click past BOTH of these EXTREEMLY scary warnings? Don't they read them at all?
For those without showdead one, hamburglar's comment:

Yeah, and in fact the fact that it looks crisper can be misleading. You can't rely on a detail that a method like this infers from the low resolution image. Look at the green tiles on the kitchen floor in the 6th example. The "Our SR Result" image looks fantastic, but it's obvious that it's false, because the tiles end up misshapen and unevenly spaced. You really wouldn't want to convict someone of murder based on this type of enhancement.
Completely self-serving - but I do see my project playing into this space. http://knowitapp.com
Glad to hear seam carving took off. It looked like the most amazing thing when it was introduced.
True, and yet what if there's an opening for the other model? And what if the opening grows as the market matures? It's worth a fresh try, every few years.

Ad-supported mass-market audiovisual entertainment dominated for decades... but there's still a growing niche for audience-paid ad-unencumbered alternatives: Pandora, satellite radio, ITunes, NetFlix.
Condo = unit owners own fractional interests in the shared areas (including the building and land).

Co-op = the cooperative owns the shared areas; the members own shares in the coooperative entity.

Both = the entity (HOA/cooperative) pays for the maintenance/other costs of the shared areas. Co-ops collect the money for these expenses through monthly dues and yearly assessments. I do not know how co-ops collect for these expenses.

My unit is a condo; I fractionally own portions of the building and land. My condo pays for the expenses associated with the common areas through monthly dues and yearly assessments.
NFC is going to get a whole lot more interesting as this develops: http://spectrum.ieee.org/semiconductors/memory/a-memristor-t...

Again, I keep hoping I'm wrong and that there are other RFID/NFC contact-less asymmetric encryption options out there that I'm unaware of (please tell me!), but after buying some encrypted tags and finding out that they're still vulnerable to some easy attacks I lost short term interest.

(Of course active<->active NFC is still interesting. I invision a future house with a secret NFC panel that does asym auth with my phone to unlock itself with a batman style swing-open door).

I've been watching and tinkering with NFC for sometime. It gets boring quickly because you can't have cheap fobs that are secure yet because there's no way to do assymmetric encryption without an active NFC (with power).

Thus, your "car openers" that use NFC fobs are open to be cloned, and in fact was just recently a source of BMW theft. With the ability to have RNGs and assymmetric encryption, you can have usable, secure fobs.
Dont forget:
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That's nice, but you can't eat dignity. :P
I know that's why I mentioned High Point, NC :) Everyone ignored it there even though everyone was doing it.
I love this idea, but the only reason I can come up with that you need half a million dollars to do it is that it's a pivot, and not a bootstrapped enterprise.

If GitHub is being used as the example in this line of argument, then why not follow their lead and build something people need and raise money later? Wouldn't you then be even more likely to convince hackers — the primary community you're trying to serve?
Last I checked, you didn't even need the $99 Mac Developer program to get a signing certificate. You just needed an Apple Developer Id. The $99 program allows you to submit apps to the app store and gives you access to pre-release binaries, etc.
Optimisation lessons learned (part 2)
I don't think Hilton, Hyatt, Wyndham or Marriott give a shit about Airbnb; they do a full Airbnb valuation of real revenue every other quarter, and the market they service isn't "random places to stay", it's "hotel rooms".

The preponderance of evidence available to message board nerds like us suggests strongly to me that enforcement of these laws is being driven by real complaints.
Ouya faces challenges on its way to transforming the console industry
If this fails, I think it will be because the video is of one dude talking the whole time without any media at all on what the actual product will be.

That said, I hope it succeeds and I'll be contributing some of my hard-earned cash.
Follow up on part 1: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4209642
The fact that they are buying a PC from best buy says it all really...
Yes, I'm also interested what would happen with the current App.net product. It was a good rival of http://www.apptlantis.com
This makes sense. Why can't we have something similar for web applications? Maybe browsers could add a new API to enable it? They definitely could.

I get that a lot of people think that the web is becoming obsolete or whatever, but I think they are wrong. Yes, its nice to have a native look and feel or certain native features, but its not nice to have to make four different versions of the same application implemented in different platforms. That just doesn't make sense.

The web as a platform seems to have obvious advantages, but there is some stuff missing that makes it fall short of native applications. I think that doesn't have to be the case.

I think that 1) web browser teams have to work even harder to make the web as platform a reality, taking notice of a few particular problems, and 2) native application developers should stop being so enthusiastic about reinventing the wheel with multiple implementations.

As far as the problems that web browser teams need to be more aware of:

* HTML5 (mobile) applications need to install and launch just as easily as native applications. The current efforts to enable this go just far enough to fool a lot of people into thinking that their HTML5 application is "just like" a native app, when it isn't. They need an installer that is just as easy as mobile, a listing in an app store, and a launch button on a home page or app listing page.

* HTML5 (mobile) applications need to have the same API/device features available.

Maybe its just an impossible dream. Maybe technology will never make sense or stop being so wasteful and re-inventy as long as it is being driven by people in this 'culture'. Because I guess people want to waste time and money reimplementing the wheel or an app.

I guess that's the part about technology that I will never really be comfortable with, the part where it intersects with people and their 'values' and 'decision making'.

The other impediment, aside from individuals and values etc., is just the fact that there is a strong 'economic' incentive to ensure that the web as platform does not become truly compatible and match native platforms in terms of capability. Native platform (OS) vendors have to assume that could very possibly lead to significant drops in sales.

I think that this is the central challenge that human society has in regards to all sorts of technology, not just information technology: how to build systems that have leading edge capability and are compatible while at the same time allowing for localization, specialization, free evolution, robustness and diverse approaches to common problems.

I think that eventually we will agree on some common semantic models that are above the programming language/platform/hardware/engineering level, externally describe our systems and implement lower levels based on those terms. Of course we also need a technology and process to mediate the collaborative and competitive evolution of these higher-level knowledgebases.
The simplification of writing join queries where the primary key relationships are obvious also has the nice side effect of meaning that if you change relationships between entities (for example from 1-to-many to many-to-many the code won't have to be changed.

At any rate what I'm saying really is that reducing the amount of keystrokes writing and maintaining joins is the only part of SQL where I see there can be significant gains in productivity through automation of the task.

Most ORMs implement where clauses, from clauses, aggregate functions, grouping, having, etc. etc. etc. ie. they wind up basically re-implementing SQL and abstracting it so that your previous knowledge of SQL is basically obsoleted and in order to debug problems or create complex queries you either have to switch entirely to SQL (in which case you lose all query building functionality) or map in your head the SQL you want to achieve, to the arbitrary syntax provided by the ORM software.
The video should start @ 3:00 exactly. It's a great pitch and gets me interested, THEN I'll listen to why you're building it, not the other way around.

"I've been inspired to build exactly the service that I want manifested. And that service is called App.net and this video is announcing this project... what is actually is is a real time feed and API, and rather than being a free and add supported service with no clear business model, we are actually going to be paid, and the reason I am so optimistic with a paid opportunity is that it aligns the incentives... etc. etc"
So if you were looking for a babysitter, would you prefer someone randomly selected on airbnb by your downstairs neighbor to someone you've vetted yourself?
For me, that just clears the data the application uses, not the app itself.
Is there a reason you don't offer deblurring as SAAS? I have a photo I'd happily pay to have deblurred, but I use a Mac.
That may actually be the best time for geeks, since this will be one of the last things people read before they go home, turn the chair in front of the computer and start hacking.

And what do geeks like to hack on? New, exciting projects.
They do what they say they do at a decent price. However, their web interface sucks. Absolutely and completely sucks.
I'd love to hear how this isn't grounds for a product disparagement lawsuit. Are any attorneys familiar with SmartScreen Filter?

A couple of relevant points that may be overlooked:

1) Signing your code, even with an expensive class-3 Authenticode certificate from Verisign that allows you to sign kernel drivers, is no guarantee that IE will not accuse you of distributing potential malware.

2) Contrary to various postings by Microsoft, there appears to be no avenue for appealing IE's poor judgement calls. This happened to me a few months ago -- again, with a signed .exe -- and all of the links on microsoft.com that I followed to submit my download to a whitelist went nowhere useful.

3) Mentioned in the article but worth emphasizing: the ridiculous "This application is not commonly downloaded" criterion almost seems designed to penalize smaller vendors who release frequent updates.

This SmartScreen bullshit is one of those cases where if you're not outraged, you're either not paying attention, or you're profiting from the scam somehow.
Digg failed because they took every web 2.0 trend and implemented it about as poorly as possible for version 4.0.
me@my_server$ useradd -G director glenjohn

glenjohn@my_server$ vi .forward

:a

glenjohn@fabrikam.com

:wq

And there are at least a few other ways to do that. But you certainly don't have to be an admin to specify an alternate email address.
>it still smells of Raketeering to me.

Congratulations - you have been enlightened to the state of PKI as it stands today. (I.e. a complete fucking scam).
Oh, hey!

Your analysis is accurate. Actually, one of the features we're preparing to launch is sharing/collaboration/groups, which will allow data in Simperium to flow across users the same way it currently flows across devices. But you're right in that having more ways to perform queries outside of a known data set would be useful too.
Better subject: "How not testing my website with all browsers, even IE, and ignoring metrics for months cost me dearly"
My post wasn't very clear. I'm sorry.

His problem has been solved. The way he solved it is the great user experience I mentioned.

Bringing BrowserID into that already solved scenario is no different to bringing anything else into it - be that OpenID, ADFS, OAuth, hand-rolled...

The fact that BrowserID takes a few lines of JavaScript to implement does not prove it's security. You're talking about consuming an identity system - I'm talking about trusting one.
Lol. Most harm to anyone, regardless of age, is caused by friends and family, but that is primarily because friends and family have the most opporunities.

If strangers were afforded equal access to your children, the numbers would not be so favorable. Having strangers around does not make your kids safer. At best, your kinds would be just as safe around strangers. At worst, they would be exposed to far more risk.