skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, fair enough; that's pretty different from "SpaceX [as a whole] is fantasy" (much more reasonable).

As far as financial issues, SpaceX is pretty hugely successful with commercial launch as it is (even more so with the new NASA deal announced this morning); but, worst case financial scenario (as the inside joke goes), "Hey Congress, we're about to send a manned spacecraft to Mars, and some country's flag is going in with them...".

As far as technical issues, I can't really subscribe to the idea that the team hasn't accounted for or will inevitably fail to account for some massive unknown/unforeseen/insurmountable blocker on the road to Mars. It's certainly possible, but there really isn't any fundamentally unique problem (that I can see) in a manned mission to Mars which hasn't already been solved in some form in the past.
I wouldn't advise this guy putting money into facebook just yet. A stock's price is supposed to reflect all information pertaining to a company (including a lock-up expiration). However, as with Groupon and LinkedIn, the price before their lock-ups expired didn't correctly reflect the value of the stock with all the 'unlocked' shares flooding the market.

I speculate that facebook's price will continue to go down post lock-up. Insiders aren't ignoring the poor news or outlook and I think they'll sell for more reasons than those. That's not necessarily because these insiders don't trust their company. They may have to pay off expensive things (maybe a nice home?) they bought when the company IPO'd and can't risk the uncertainty of facebook's future value. Also, if you ask any investor, they'll tell you that diversifying your portfolio is important.

Another interesting thing to think about are tax implications. I know a lot of facebook insiders were happy that their IPO was pre-July because otherwise, the lock-up would have crossed into 2013. This is when taxes on capital gains are expected to rise and it can cost them a lot of money.

I'm curious to see the performance of the stock in the coming months. Especially with the uncertainty of growth, possible tax increases, and the implications of the lock-up expiry, this will be an interesting journey for facebook.
Having actually played these games (particularly Cyber Knights which is an absolutely brilliant CyberPunk/ShadowRun tribute), I support these developers. I was highly skeptical when I first played the Star Traders game because the website wasn't the greatest, but after having played the games, I went and downloaded all their other stuff as well. I can see how it would be easy to dismiss them, but the algorithm is just wrong in this case.
If you don't get paid what you're worth, time to change jobs.

The trap is to run around in their maze, looking for their cheese. You have no real control in that situation, and its time to switch jobs.

Your first job in any situation is to improve your skills, find satisfaction and get real work done. Failing any of those, everybody loses.
Facebook data mining tool for election campaigns
Microsoft's Surface pricing dilemma
E.G. this article. The author takes an authentic issue (managers concerned about work from home abuse) and frames it by adding bunch of distracting BS. I'm not saying framing is bad, but it's inherently manipulative.
Me: PLAY "l16ecececececececececececececececececececececececec"

My dad: * runs out to answer the "telephone" *

Me: * trollface
Electromagnetic Field, a Hacker/Maker Camp for the UK - Hack a Day
Friday 31st August – Sunday 2nd September 2012 in the UK. "There will be people talking about everything from genetic modification to electronics, blacksmithing to high-energy physics, reverse engineering to lock picking, crocheting to carpentry, and quadcopters to beer brewing. Events and activities will run throughout the day and into the evening, everything else (chats, debates, impromptu circus performances, orbital laser launches) will run as long as your collective energy lasts."
This was my first gaming system.

Outside of the hours and hours of fun it provided (which everyone can relate to their first gaming system), I can blame it for introducing one thing: Piracy.

Buying games never crossed my mind. You copied them from friends, and that was normal and accepted. My parents didn't understand that it was, technically, stealing. They actively promoted it. I had 5 or 6 friends who also had C64s, and I don't remember anyone buying any games...ever. One of my friend's fathers had thousands of games, in dozens of "disk boxes", with every title printed out in a 2 inch binder so you could locate it.

Pretty bad, in hindsight. And yet, the software industry survived. Who knew?
Have you tried to hire a competent MySQL DBA recently?
Finding Nano - Getting Dojo Under 4KB
This makes no sense at all:

"Before Zuck and co. created all of this mess, the platform was simply the desktop."

I had to stop reading and post this here because your assertion is not based on facts.

The deskop had nothing to do with Facebook and vice-versa.

More later if I feel interested.
Honest question to help me decide if I pay to subscribe: are there ads in this magazine like just about every other magazine I've ever seen?

Are there ads in the PDF version?
"Cons: If a thread crashes, the entire process goes down."

I wrote this thing called Celluloid and I can assure you this isn't true. Ruby has "abort_on_exception" for threads, but the default is most assuredly false.

"Good luck debugging concurrency bugs."

Good luck debugging concurrency bugs in a callback-driven system!
Office Slacking 9 - Free Online Games
You've already stated why we don't do it. Many people (men and women) choose not to have children. So if you're a CEO and you say "I don't want to work 80 hour a week", they could easily replace you with someone who says "I'll do it!".

And do you know what? That's life. It's no different than any other choice. Plenty of people who don't have children don't want to put in 80 hrs per week at their job. Should we accomodate them as well?
Personal experience/anecdote:

"Mind the gap"

This theme used a horrible, mis-applied term and metaphor from a different culture, while asking employees to make up for management's shortcoming not long after going public and buying a bunch of speculative, non-performing crap.

Further, it had the smell of outside management consultants (and "business-speak").

The employee-induced subtext: GTFO, before the doors close.

--

P.S. I didn't think the second, "improved" example memo in the OP was better than the first. Very wordy, without really laying out the problem It feels as if it is talking all around the issue. When I read something like that, I start looking for the other shoe (that is sure to drop).
Why? Because as a society we're not interested in confronting the problems with male gender roles when they affect men, only when they affect women. So you'll occasionally see someone poking at the edge of the problem when they realise (for instance) that men being pressured into 80-hour workweeks means women are forced to look after kids, or that women can't rise as high in the ranks as men, but that's it. Often they'll just end up trying to patch the symptoms whilst ignoring the underlying problem, for instance by trying to lower demands on female executives and employees compared to their male counterparts.
Google to Sell Millions of Nexus 7 Units Before Year’s End
You've written what I was planning on posting. This is classic data aggregation and analysis. while Big Data is a trendy term, I see and perceive nothing in it that qualifies as even a particularly large set, much less what most see as Big Data.
Yes, yes, yes. My friend regularly pulls his Macbook Air off of the coach, table, desk via the L-magsafe.

I've owned two MBPs and a MBA (long stories) in the last two years. T-magsafe -> L-magsafe -> back to the new thin T-magsafe. The T-magsafe annoys me in that it's harder to use in my lap, but it's vastly superior in the reasons I like it: it keeps me from ruining my laptop and/or the female power adapter slot.

I recently acquired a Samsung Series 9 by fortune and am horrified at how the AC bit goes in the side and is already incredibly flimsy. On non-Magsafe laptops, you have the same issue, it's just that instead of disconnecting, it's ruining the internal AC adapter bit. It's annoying as all-get-out when it breaks, especially if it's out of warranty and you don't know how to use a soldering iron.
The thing he doesn't seem to touch on is the fact that the barriers to being a good parent and the barriers to being a successful professional are different, and different per gender.

The only thing he claims is preventing men from being good parents are societal expectations. Which I agree should be different. But, still, any man, myself included, could decide to become a stay-at-home dad and successfully raise children to the best of their abilities, and nothing could stop that.

And that's substantively different from what can prevent women from being successful in the professional world. That success can be halted by tangible external forces, like institutional sexism.
"More importantly, when content is cross posted where and how do I want to interact/process this?"

Agree with your frustration but you know, you are yourself creating this frustration by cross-posting your blog content to HN? You have comment facility, you have sharing facility, and you manually submitted your blog post here at HN. This all negates what you attempting to say. Hope you see the irony.
I haven't really had any problems with my Magsafe 2 connector.

I was upgrading from an older Macbook that used the older T-shaped Magsafe, I never owned any of the L shaped ones.
A bit off topic, but is it just me or is the quality of comments on public G+ posts is absolutely terrible? Within a few hours there has been more than 100 replies. Most are inane, rude, of the useless “great post!” type, or just plain old spam. I could only manage to glean about 8 or 9 insightful replies.

Is this something intrinsic to G+? Is it a function of the author's popularity? The discussions here are normally much more sensible, but I would expect HN's readership to have a fairly similar demographic to that of Rob Pike's G+ subscribers.
This is a very unimpressive article. I am surprised to see Colin link to it.

In particular, while the paper the article references in a short part between the history lesson is important, it does not actually change things much.

It rules out those who think that the wave function is a distribution over an underlying reality but it does not affect those who believe that there is no hidden reality. So called Quantum Bayesians (imo the clearest not necessarily best framework). Nor does it affect the Many Worlders who think the wave function is real, and no hidden variables. Non Local Hidden Variable Theories with real wave functions are still acceptable. So things are no where near as clear cut settled as the article would have you think.

And even for those who believe the wave function is an epistemic tool for an underlying reality, they can still abandon Bell's framework using exotic escape routes like "retro causality". See Matt Leifler's blog for more on that: http://mattleifer.info/2011/11/20/can-the-quantum-state-be-i...

For a better explanation of the paper see:

http://mattleifer.info/2012/02/26/quantum-times-article-on-t...

http://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=822
Just an FYI: This is known as thread-jacking, and it is looked down upon here on HN. I would suggest you post in 'Ask HN' if you want feedback.
David Pogue can speak for himself. I find the new magsafe to be a lot better than the old, if only because the sideways design sucked (it's harder to rotate into place when plugging in, harder to take out, and places extra strain on the connection between the wire and the plug).
If I might turn this around, some men don't. What makes them different than those who do? I think the answer is "they are willing to be seen as less than manly."

We can not both live balanced lives and keep the prestige and power we are used to. We, as individuals, must give up our illusions that we are better than others because we manage more people or make more money or get more funding. Instead, we much know we are good enough and choose for ourselves how to distribute our short time on earth.

Men can't have it all: we must give up "man" as our primary identity in order to find our more-satisfying "self".
Dablooms - the bloom filter library bitly uses in its fight against spam
RFS = Request for Startups, which is an allusion to RFC = Request for Comments (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Request_for_Comments)
To me, the real difference is knowing why. If you don't tell me why, I'm going to assume the worst. And history has shown that at least one of my co-workers will, too, and he or she will go around to everyone else and talk about these fears. Since they can't be countered (co-workers don't have any information about the situation), the fears will fester and rot until someone finally does explain the situation.

In most companies, that explanation never comes. After you've been there a few years, you've got an insane backlog of things you're still worried about. You'll probably have forgotten most of them at any given time, but it just takes a small trigger to bring it back to active memory.

That's the real morale killer.
I have one of the new retina MBP's and have had no such issues. In fact I've been a bit surprised at how hard it holds at times.
I'm sorry, but I'm confused. Is the new MagSafe connector exactly the same as the connector two generations back? I have a white plastic MacBook and the connector looks like the first photo.
"I have no experience with writing for C64"
^^^^^^^^ ???

it is simpler. it's not as intuitive, because youre putting it in relation to your current experiences. your current experiences make it easy for you to understand ror. but now imagine you wanna change something in the actual ror stack. how simple does that become? not that simple anymore is it?

if you come from a different background and you look at functional programming languages you might say wow that's difficult. but similarly a guy that's only written functional code and looks at ror might say wow you're an idiot.

i hope you get the drift. it's just subjectivity youre talking about.
The point is that there is, in essence, no point. That's the same as the point of working on a Bonzai tree.

Well, if there is truthfully no point, you could replace working on an ancient computer with actually working on a Bonzai tree, or a rock garden, etc.

But I would assume you meant more "There is no point, aside from gaining an appreciate for how machines worked in an older, more basic form" heh.
Alexey Navalny's cyber-crusade against Russian corruption
I really thought where this comment was going was

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The wise elders back then tried to warn us that if you learned to program with BASIC it would take years (if ever) to unlearn those bad habits, but we ignored them. The result is thousands upon thousands of programmers, and the creation of every interesting company from google to iD. That's not a bug, it's a feature.
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weird...
Completely agree. Facebook paved the way for this bullshit. If they would charge $1/month they would beat Facebook's revenue/user rate and could skip the advertising headaches and the pressure to be slimy.
Well then you are just awesome. For anyone who has been using various source-control systems for many years, its commands are not intuitive, and cause unnecessary friction. Unfortunately, as elsewhere in life, the best tech does not always win, at least in the short-term.
Which is a miscommunication, if the CEO is not actually open to such discussion or criticism.
Same here. I'm curious if maybe some of the early manufacturing runs perhaps had weaker magnets?
Given that both Apple and Google are notorious for not talking to anybody, even the devs they're making money on, I'm not sure what you see as the alternative. If a journalist can only get one side of the story, I think they should print it.
Of course the second email sounds better: it's an entirely different message.

Email #1 says: "If you want to work from home, ask for permission with an explanation."

Email #2 says: "If you want to work from home, let us know when."

Email #1 demands that you ask permission. That's what kills the culture. Most managers are going to approve 99% of the time anyway, so skip the power trip. The message of email #2 doesn't mean you lose the ability to deny either.
To clarify, I wasn't so much thinking of continents drifting relative to each other, rather something like the Earth's crust slipping on the molten mantle so that the continents all moved together from equator to pole and vice versa. I remember hearing some potential evidence for this (but don't have any links to hand).
It's slightly wider and thinner than the old white plastic MacBook connector.
If by "lawyered away" you mean decades of having multi-million dollar trademark infringement judgments levied against Apple Computer before they capitulated and purchased the trademark from Apple Corps for an estimated half billion dollars, then yes... I guess they did lawyer away the trademark.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer
There are some activities that always needs to be taken care of in time. Such as customer support. I wonder how do they do those tasks. If there are no excepted level of work, some tasks might go undone.
If someone confusing a style of software UI with a retail store is unlikely, confusing it with a Pokemon is even more unlikely.
I’ve read a lot of software engineering research[1], because I’m interested in being as productive as possible, but SE research reminds me of a lot of empirical economics from the 70s. People were (and still are) trying to figure out what can be done for developing countries. Back then, researchers more much more likely to try to figure out what methods were the absolute best, period. Now, people are much more likely to acknowledge that there’s path dependence, and that something that works in one context may be completely useless in another context.

It’s rare to see serious empirical work in SE that’s up the same standards as empirical work in modern economics (either an RCT, or a good pseudo-experiment from a clever instrumental variable), and when you do, there’s little to no discussion of how generalizable the work is. There’s often a paragraph about how the study may not generalize, which seems to be enough to satisfy peer reviewers, but isn’t nearly enough to figure out if the methodology under test has any applicability whatsoever to your setting.

[1] if you're curious, and want to look up what's in vougue, the premier SE conferences are ICSE and FSE
It's thinner than the old MagSafe connectors, but has the same T-Shape as the "two generations back" connector you're referring to.
I've noticed the same phenomenon (knowing tons of people on Facebook--to be clear, just "normal people" I knew from college--with ludicrous handles on Facebook). It thereby really bugs me when people hold up Facebook as an example of why real name policies are good, or claim that forcing real names is ok because Facebook set a precedent, when it is fairly clear that Facebook doesn't really care.
>The multi-year standdowns after the shuttle accidents and being dependent on Russia for astronaut transportation are both pretty highly undesirable, to say the least.

Meh, the time from Apollo to shuttle was 7 years I think. We survived just fine. I just hate the idea that we're draining the budgets of good space missions because of our obsession with basic human transport to LEO, which we can buy from the Russians. The heavy rockets and their accompanying capsules are interesting because they can out of LEO, but I hate that we're blowing hundreds of millions on things that will never, ever fly thanks to congressional input and defense cronyism. The Dream Chaser should never, ever been part of this. I wonder how many good robotic missions or telescopes that boondoggle has cost us. Heck, the Dream Chaser is LEO only, which is a shortsighted waste of resources.

Orion/SLS as a main with Dragon/Falcon as a commercial backup is more than enough. Elon Musk isn't going away anytime soon.
I realize I'm coming at this from a different angle than a lot of other HNers, but for me this is good science gone wrong.

Dairy cows are some of the most mistreated and unhealthy animals in the agriculture system. This push for efficiency has created a large group of animals with very little genetic diversity. They are kept on a stream of antibiotics because one bad outbreak can take down the entire group. They often develop mastitis and cancer is common by the they are 5 or 6 ("retirement age") due to poor nutrition, over-milking, and living conditions.

This kind of science really excites me, but the applications are almost always depressing and we should absolutely not be lauding squeezing out every last "inefficiency" in an animal based industry.
I hope someone creates a version of that game for Google Glass. Or a Glass parody video acting out similar poses.
it won't vanish in a puff of smoke. but i have a feeling it will turn into the new internet explorer 6 of the web at some point
Please don't take this as a snarky comment, because it isn't.

Aren't you concern about your limited role in raising your children? I don't know what your situation is like, but I know professional couples who use daycare and maybe spend an hour or two a day with their child. For the other 14 hrs, someone else is rasing their child. This includes teaching them values, connecting emotionally, etc.

If I were in this situation I'd be worried about how well connected I would be with my child in the future.
Tangent: I'm grumpy that Eclipse IDE uses the file names .project and .classpath. So they're hidden by default. Requiring special treatment.

Their content is XML. What's wrong with project.xml and classpath.xml?
>One way to cure this symptom of patriarchy is to try to stop being a 'troglodyte' as you put it.

"Patriarchy?" Cultural Marxism went out in the 1970s. "Troglodyte?" As a metaphor for a man who works and takes care of his wife and children?

"Ignorant?" No one is "ignorant" of cultural Marxist screeds about "sexism" and "patriarchy." Plenty of people are quite knowledgeable on these issues, but simply reject your kind's often-strange morality and attempts to remake society to conform to bizarre sociological notions from the last century.

Really, burning bras is so last century. Get with the times.
I totally agree with Carmack. Why the hell crap technologies dominate all the time? HTML5 and JavaScript is the most disgusting thing I've experienced in my 20 years game programming history.

"Nobody pretends that the next AAA-title will be written in JavaScript. The community understands that it's magnitudes slower than native code"

Obviously no. Most web standard adbocates insist that all software will and should be web based. They must be criticized.
> The PHP files where the content and the system are one and the same (hand written pages not using a packaged CMS) aren't part of "the vast majority of hacks" category.

Speaking from experience, this is simply not true. There are automated scanners in the wild which will attempt to detect and exploit common vulnerabilities in simple PHP templating systems and CMSes. One frequently exploited vulnerability is in applications which use URLs of the form:

index.php?page=foobar

With supporting code along the lines of:

$page = $_GET["page"]; /* if register_globals isn't set */
include("pages/$page.html");

Until relatively recently, when PHP started rejecting filenames with embedded null bytes, code like this was vulnerable to input such as:

index.php?page=../../../../../../proc/self/environ%00

Applications like this are relatively easy to detect in an automated fashion, and were for a time being exploited on a very large scale.
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