skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s a shame people are so averse to paying for anything online. For $2-4 a month, they could ultimately get a much better experience on a social network over the long term. Mind you, people spend lots of time, sometimes hours a day, on these networks. You’d think they wouldn’t mind a small fee for them considering how much people pay for cable, Netflix, etc.
Awesome, love getting the details on these things given my own experiences w/PR and how timing specific press opportunities can be.

Would make an interesting follow-up to understand how they pitched TC / how the DropBox timing impacted publication (if at all). Either way thanks for responding.
One of the areas where Germany has and always will be different from the US is in their motoring culture.

Drivers license Cost

15 $

1400 EU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4itwh8C4kn8

National Max Highway speed

US 65

GERMANY none*

*I know, its not everywhere or all the time, but go once, and its pure bliss, cruising around ~100mph just feels right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_autobahns#Speed_limits
That requires a whopping 3 lines of trivial css, what are you talking about?
With Lion, I got only about 2 hours...then went back to SL. Now with the upgrade, I seem to be back in the 3.5 hour range.
Hero? Is he really doing anything special or is he just doing cool things with the government's money, and would they have survived without the cash injection? Surely its harder to bootstrap a business, those guys should be called heros.
>"I don't see how this harms Facebook in any way"

When an advertiser buys a Facebook ad, he is able to narrow down the target audience based on demographic information. Facebook then tells the advertiser the "reach" of that ad. So, if I want to advertise to Males between the ages of 18 and 24, from the UK, who like Ford, Facebook will tell me how many people my ad can reach. That's what you pay for. As an advertiser I will have historical advertising figures to calculate the ROI on this ad.

But what happens when many of the accounts I'm "reaching" aren't really male, aren't really between the ages of 18 and 24, aren't really from the UK and are owned by people who don't really like Ford? My ROI is skewed. I'm wasting money.

It bears repeating: as a Facebook user, you are not the customer. The advertiser is the customer. Users are not harmed by fake accounts, but advertisers are. If your cat Fluffy has an account, and is listed as a male, someone, somewhere is paying to advertise to him. Same goes for Bobone, Bobtwo, Bobthree and all the other accounts you've created to "add friends" in Farmville.

That's how Facebook is harmed by this.
You could go to Toronto to see...Toronto.
I think I like the CSS Hat model better because it generates the code that I then have complete control over. First, that can be helpful when learning the language. Second, it's really nice because of its tweakability. If the CSS Hat dev's decided to implement a stroke as a border, but I know it would look better as a layered drop shadow, then I can make that adjustment. If there are any other quirks or bugs, I can fix them with the resultant code. With the pixate model, I can't do that, as far as I understand (please correct me if I'm wrong!!).
Appcelerator (creators of Titanium) supports Pixate by becoming first corporate sponsor.

http://developer.appcelerator.com/blog/2012/08/join-us-in-su...
I don't think Planetary Resources has any chance without major breakthroughs in launch and propulsion.
Why does a thread-based application have to use shared objects? Any other parallel models can use shared objects and have the same problem.
I had 4gb up until I upgraded to ML. After 2-3 days on ML I noticed my free memory was around 300mb. I upgraded to 16gb for $65(cheap Komputerbay ram from amazon.com). An 8gb upgrade is ~45 for crucial 1.35V ram. I think its worth it.
Exactly. It is the same as the problem with robotic cars.

Cars with human drivers kill thousands, but nobody blinks. The day a robotic car kills a single person, all the news networks will have a field day.
The problem is that OS X appears to favor swapping over evicting file caches. This ends up creating a situation where no matter how much physical RAM you add to your system, you still end up seeing frequent swap-induced beach balls.
Sorry but Valve has been on a smear campaign to slow Windows 8 adoption for one reason, Microsoft will own the store and the keys. So I'm immediately skeptical of any information they put out there. A lot of their grumpy comments sound very similar to Sierra Games of the 80s and 90s that resisted the jump to Windows from DOS.

I do think this push into Linux is great for making Linux a richer platform overall. This way, everyone wins in that case, but I still do not see it an overly successful monetary venture.

If Windows 8 is a failure, people will either stay with what they know (Windows 7/XP) or continue to defect to OS X. Microsoft doing what they always do, will see where they need to improve, and continue to iterate and push out a more polished Windows 9.
Why is that significant? Is there going to be a story every time the stock price changes about which historical company
Facebook is now worth more or less than?
Anyone else getting an invalid certificate from Moscow on this site?
I get a soapy sponge and scrub it off. I don't know what I need a sink for anyway. I don't want to get it as wet as it would if I ran it under the faucet. (Then I sanitize with vinegar/water and then coat with mineral oil. Cooking for engineers skips the sanitizing step and glosses over the oil.)
I wouldn't be surprised if Google has tried this.

Remember their short-lived QR code-based logon system?

http://www.theverge.com/2012/1/17/2714263/google-experiment-...

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/igeneration/googles-qr-code-log-in...
Thanks I have looked through this already. I even used the snippet to use itsdangerous module which seems more secure. But how do I tie all that in a session ? More importantly, client side or server side?
> If I asked you how long it would take you to write a program to sum a list of 1,000 numbers that varied from 0 to 20000 after reading them from a file, I'm sure you could give me an answer that would be very accurate on the time frame of days.

Is a console utility sufficient, or do you need a GUI?

Is the file we're reading in a specific location, or do we need to be able to specify the location at execution?

If using a GUI, can the user type the path, or do we need to provide a specific file picker UI?

What platforms is the utility expected to run on?

Can we assume that the file is in the format we expect, or do we need to perform any validations?

If we find that the file is invalid, what action should we take?

Does the output of the tool need to be machine readable?

Yes, I'm being a bit silly, but that's kind of the point. Even those of us who know how hard the problem is often oversimplify matters. That's the root of the challenge, and the reason that even seemingly simple projects are difficult to estimate accurately.

To compound this problem, you'll often find that the customer will answer the set of questions you propose differently on the first day than they do two weeks in to the project. "The situation is fluid", so to speak. All of this adds up to a lot of uncertainty in the estimating process.
We need time estimates so we can have an idea of what something will cost. If the estimate is too high, maybe we don't have time to build X, but we can can build Y instead because it takes less time.

Planning with no idea of how long something will take is higher risk. If your estimate is that it will take a week, I'll be OK. If you estimate 4 months, I worry because a lot more can go wrong in that 4 months, so now I have to think about contingencies for handling those problems.

My first job out of college did not estimate anything as far as I could see. We started projects, and they were done when they were done. If they took too long, we'd put them on hold and do something else. Of course, it meant that we couldn't do any advance marketing or pre-sales, because no one knew when project X was scheduled to be ready, so we probably lost a lot of sales. But there was no sales estimates, so no one knew that either...
Murder is unethical, but when you're at war..
Gentlemen, this is the Pentagon. Make war, not love.
Thanks for that. It is definitely something I will work on! Thanks to the HN community for the feedback.
I thought they were locked up until 6 months after the IPO?
Why Twitter’s Co-Founders Are Betting Big On A Vegan Meat Startup
OpenGL is faster than DirectX because the pipeline is shorter/faster/more efficient/etc. i.e. it's not due to texture copying, worse memory addressing, driver issues, programmer error, etc.
It isn't. Techcrunch just needs to keep their homepage moving and it must be a slow morning.
In my case, it's ironic that I feel lethargic right after breaking fast (probably due to digestive system kicking in), while the rest of the day is a breezy peacefulness.
It's weird to see the ACLU and the senate Republicans teaming up to block this against the senate Democrats. Positions on executive power completely switch with the party of the Presidency.
Yes, one can use intermittent fasting to lose weight, but weight-loss usually only kicks in after 2-3 weeks.

Citation needed. I personally know people who've lost weight long term with quite brief periods of intermittent fasting.
You guys might honestly think that it is easier to put a large US city in a state rather than pinpoint it on a map.

I don't think most foreigners would agree.

My interest in America isn't in any way related to my interest of the states within America...
Analyst calls Microsoft’s Surface tablet the next Zune
That's why there's conflict. The 'moral' rules of fair play were not consistently enforced (information withheld), or you could just say not even consistently prioritized (likelihood of getting caught varied).
I am highly skeptical of this being a software glitch and here is why: I have been working for banks' brokerage and capital markets groups for years and the amount of checks and reviews processes that they have put in place is just incredible. One does not simply deploy a new software into production without there being several small pilot runs, staging tests etc. etc. There are committees with onerous questionnaires and test results compiled by QA that need to be documented and approved before a new deployment is approved. Therefore I don't see this being a software issue. If the checks were not in place then it seems that the management was lax in safeguarding its capital.
When we're all dead from a massive missile attack, you can blame porn
I only meant it in contrast to whole-memory STM, which has had a lot of problems in the literature not being slow as a dog. I blanked on the term, and I welcome the correction...
if fb has been successfully integrated into habit then people would pay to maintain habit.
Perhaps I am very skeptical and cynical, but I am having trouble seeing this work.

I like the concept, I like what your vision is for it, and I like the example video you've done.

Problem? Video is incredibly expensive to host and serve, and even more difficult to monetize. What are your plans around that? A paid app? Advertisements? Magic?

Trying to keep an open mind, and I wish you the best of luck regardless!
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I think it's cool that they are trying to make things easier for webdev engineers to pick up iOS programming. However there is one thing that I don't understand with this, Phonegap, etc.. Objective C is not that hard to learn.

The syntax is very close to C (superset of C) which in turn a bunch of other languages are very close to so it's reasonable to assume that most engineers are familiar with the basic syntax. Aside from the day or two? it would take to get comfortable with the Objective C syntax everything else is learning to deal with Apple's frameworks which you are still going to have to come to grips with even if you're using Ruby.
If someone just starting runs into an issue there is a 99% chance it has been answered on Stack Overflow or a tutorial out on the interweb, that's a vast timesaver that you won't be able to tap into with Ruby Motion.

In recent years Apple has made great strides in making Objective C even more easy to pick up/write with ARC, better auto completion, documentation, samples etc.. Modern iOS/Objective C is orders of magnitude easier to work with then it was in the dark ages of the App Store when I first started.

Disclaimer: I'm a iOS engineer, so I may be a bit biased, however I do love Ruby/Rails.
5 Things About Cannabis The Media Doesn’t Want You To Know
A lawyer is paid on time & material so they don't care.

Sometimes if you are lucky you are paid like that or as a retainer.
Microsoft's market cap grew slowly compared to Facebook, so even if you joined the company 5 years after the IPO there was still a lot of headroom in the stock. But once it hit $200 billion (or whatever they top end was), potential new hires started wondering what the upside was. It's not likely to become a trillion dollar company, so you're looking at a max multiple of 4-5. But back when it was at $20 billion it was a little easier to drink the koolaid and imagine a higher multiple.
> But if I were to have a living hero, it'd be Elon Musk.

I do have a living hero, and he is Elon Musk.

Has anyone noticed the parallels with Schwarzenegger, and the differences?

When Arnold was a young athlete, someone asked him "so what do you want to do with your life?" He said: "I'd like to be a bodybuilding world champion. Then I'd like to become an actor. Then I'd like to do politics."

He nailed every single one of those goals. But please notice those are the ultimate goals of the individual ego (more precisely, of the male ego): physical power, fame, money, and political power. He's basically Conan in real life.

Now, Elon Musk also made a list of the most important issues to solve - the ones most important for the planet, for humanity as a whole, not for the little individual ego. We need a clean environment, we need energy, and we need to put some of our eggs in another basket.

And then he went on knocking them off the list one by one. First PayPal, to achieve financial independence. Then Tesla Motors (good for the environment), Solar City (energy), and SpaceX (Mars colonization). And he's willing to risk his own life to achieve those goals.

I've no doubt, Elon Musk is up there among the greatest. If he makes it to Mars, one day kids will learn his name from the history books.
If it helps, I bet his ex-wife disagrees. :-)

I'm a Musk fanboy myself, but there's always someone with a different opinion.
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We're looking to bring Rails and iOS developers on the team. We're a small, flat company and this is a fantastic opportunity to join a great team trying to conquer one of the largest markets in the US.

If you think Freedom Freight would be the perfect fit, send an email with your info to sean@freedomfreightusa.com
Why your story point estimations are too low
Give your phone number once to Authy and then to every app that wants to use Authy.
The cynical view is that having two standards, one consumer and one pro, lets graphics companies ship the same chips, but charge 10x as much for the pro version with a couple driver tweaks. If the consumer games were written against the pro standard (requiring pro support in the consumer cards), how would they justify the pro line?
California state and local municipalities make judgements off forecasts of tax revenues from the dot com boom and housing boom.

I'm interested at what the relationship is like at that level. Is there a Facebook staffer that communicates regularly with state congress staffers? Is there tit for tats going on?
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One of the issues with article, and perhaps a difficulty with this dialog, is that "estimate" is being used in two senses - "how much work is involved?" and "when will it be done?" (See my top level response to the article for the distinction between billable time and calendar time.)

This confusion is obvious from the first rule in the article's chart - 30 seconds is billable time, one hour is calendar time. The chart translates one into the other (my second estimating scenario).

The argument that accurate estimates of programming time are impossible is a cop out because other creative activities are not only able to produce them but have a tradition of doing so...Michelangelo finished the Cistine Chapel before he died, Einstein had a magical year, and Forest Gump met its production schedule more or less.

Then again, nobody involved was likely naive enough to think that any scheduled task would only take 30 seconds.
Even with a couple of weeks the risk of the estimate being wrong is high.
This simply isn't true. A number of years ago with the introduction of DirectX 10, Autodesk began transitioning several mainstay products to exclusive DirectX use under Windows (see http://archicad-talk.graphisoft.com/files/autodesk_inventor_...) Morevoer, Autodesk has moved to using a modern, unified renderer for a large number of their products. There may be other CAD companies "holding up" the "monstrosity" of dated OpenGL versions, but Autodesk is not that company. In all likelihood, the issues lies not with the CAD companies, but with their clients that refuse to upgrade their legacy applications of 10-15+ years age.
Women in Tech: Taking the Investment Risk
3 months for some people: http://blogs.marketwatch.com/thetell/2012/05/17/facebook-sho...

Also, once your options have vested, nothing to stop you leaving before the lock-up expires.
I don't want another token application.

I already have FOUR two-factor-auth apps on my phone, each with multiple tokens:

Google

RSA

Blizzard

SWTOR

If I can add all the above tokens into your app, I would consider using it. Otherwise... well, good luck with that.
List of where to watch the Mars Rover Landing online
While the Kinect was sold to the public as a video gaming peripheral, it was an extremely inexpensive LIDAR with impressive capabilities for the time (2 years ago).

From an economic standpoint, it was most successful in selling a boatload of units. However, from a game enthusiast's view, I see it as a stepping stone to something bigger, like the LEAP.

At this point, the Kinect is dated. The LEAP comes out Q4 of this year and is vastly superior (from what I've seen).
Where can I see a list of all the unrelated riders added to this cybersecurity act? I heard utah senator was trying to get a ban on abortion in there.
What i want is github for all these sneaky slithery little laws that make it through the house and senate onto the books. It's so bad now, I don't even know what the law is, it's changing back and forth so fast. It's making everyone a criminal, even retroactively!

Drugs.. Legal! Illegal!
Abortion.. Legal! Illegal!
Copying a floppy, owning a lobster, downloading a file, braiding hair without a license, filming a cop.

I don't know american law and I live here.
And that has happened on numerous occasions. The number of Hezbollah fronts that have been stopped in just Houston alone saved a large number of lives by disrupting financing mechanisms that facilitate illicit materiél aquisitions. But the tin foil hat crowd would prefer to fixate on missteps. There was plenty of bad stuff the US (and Brits) did in WWII, but cracking Enigma codes saved potentially millions of lives. I don't know who would argue that working on the Enigma project was harming the worl, except maybe Germans at the time. The intel world is very ambiguous. It a person can't deal with ambiguity, then they'd be better off staying out of the intel community.
To quote from another interview with him:

"It would be cool to be born on Earth, and die on Mars." (of old age, I assume)
Toronto is in Ontario. I did mention Ontario. Look, Canada is a wonderful place to visit. I'm going there at the end of August. But if you're a Canadian and you've already been to BC, QB, and ON ... there's not much else to see. Correct me if I'm wrong.
Unlimited plans have already been done away with by everyone except Sprint. What's at issue here is them charging extra for data bought by the byte.

I believe that you should be able to purchase data and share it amongst as many devices as you want (a small activation fee per cellular device may be acceptable, but nothing of the sort should exist for tethering, since there is no perceptible difference for the carriers) . This is how it works for wired internet, and I don't see why wireless should be any different (with the exception of any wireless specific network management, but that's not at issue here).
you have to use a valid token at least one time(via sms or authy app) to validate your account.
that's explained in the docs: http://docs.authy.com/#section-12
What on earth are you talking about?

Market makers gamble on their ability to set spreads that will produce a profit.

They're using code to generate spreads, execute head fakes and stuff quotes to their advantage. They're "players" as much as anyone.
I am just wondering, what is the end-goal here? What is the best case scenario where you could have unlimited users creating whatever content you want? What does that look like?

Cause I'm not getting it at the moment. It kind of looks like Reddit for ADD kids.
Dredging up my knowledge from OS class, there are three sections of memory for a (Von Neumann architecture) program: the data section (also called the program section), the stack, and the heap.

The data section is the actual compiled bits of the program: the machine instructions themselves. The stack and heap are memory used by the program at run-time.

Completely separate from that, on a Linux system, there is the VFS buffer-cache system. When you write to a "file", you are actually writing to VFS buffer cache memory, and the OS then flushes that dirty page of VFS cache to disk, at which point the write is committed.

Your description of page-outs sounds as though you are describing the operation of the VFS buffer cache flushing its dirty pages to disk.

In my college education (1998 to 2003), we used the terms swap-out and page-out interchangeably.

However, I have heard some people make the distinction of using page-outs/ins to specifically refer to just the data section of an app being written to / read from disk, with term swap-outs/ins referring to the same operation on the stack and heap.

But I've never encountered the term "page-outs" being used to refer to dirty file-backed storage pages being flushed to disk. Is this an old-school hacker thing? Or did I misunderstand and create a straw man?
Not in our case; we're a wholly-owned subsidiary, but not integrated with our parent company. Our sibling company on the west coast, iSEC Partners, has been operating independently under NCC for several years.

We work a little bit like small record labels.

The changes that will happen include "we're hiring more people" and "we get to share research with sibling companies".