skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$856 bn, to be precise. Meaning Apple will have to appreciate by an additional ~38% before it actually takes the record.
Chumby is an interesting case, and a sad one. I think Chumby has a lot in common with much larger companies such as Nintendo, RIM, and HP, in that their business model was demolished by the iOS steamroller that they didn't see coming.

Unlike those other companies, Chumby didn't have the cash or the product-line diversity to put up any kind of a fight. If they had survived, they'd eventually find themselves running Android on commodity hardware, just like everyone else at the low end of the market for consumer gadgets is eventually going to have to.
I can see the bikes on GT campus from my desk all day. As someone who likes to ride a bike I think the idea is neat, but I wonder who actually uses them..? Maybe they do well, but it seems they just sit there all day.

Plus are people supposed to carry a helmet around or just forgo brain protection?
Also, likely annoying as hell for Apple lawyers. I don't think they want retina to become a generic word for high DPI displays, so I'm happy whenever I see it become one.
Unshuffled cards a costly headache for Atlantic City casinos
Listening to Complainers Is Bad for Your Brain
I think this is incorrect in a number of ways:

* The Swedish High Court held specifically that Assange cannot be charged at this stage of the process; under Swedish law, with a domestic arrest warrant issued, he must first be arrested and face his prosecutor.

* The Swedish High Court specifically considered the videoconference option, which is not required under the ECHR, and, at the level of the High Court and consistant with the demands of the prosecution, rejected it: he needs to be questioned in person, and, depending on his responses to questioning, the Swedish may need to employ physical forensic science (as they would in any rape case).

* Swedish law requires the Prosecutor General to evaluate extradition requests on a case-by-case basis; under Swedish law, the government cannot offer Assange a blanket protection from extradition to the US. Incidentally, if this type of promise is common, I'd point out that the examples of it seem to have eluded the press; can you provide any yourself?

Most of these issues are helpfully excerpted by the author of this particular column from the Swedish High Court opinion upholding the EAW. You don't even have to search for it, or read the whole opinion.
And if he's actually found innocent or guilty with serious evidences ? Will you also come back and say that you are sorry ?
Stop Screwing Around And Just Ship It
False, tacos. Everybody loves tacos.
RSF is not saying that. Your argument is innumerate and, in suggesting that "I'm not saying the US and Ecuador are comparable, RSF is, and I'll take their word over yours", illogical.
Up to about 7 meters (23ft)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curiosity_rover#Chemistry_and_C...
Design fail: quick, what number do you call if you just got raped?
Intellectually lazy? That's a mighty big term for someone like you.

Further it's utterly astonishing that you would equate writing clear and non-ambiguous code rather than nebulous code of uncertain purpose -- like the example Chromium code you linked -- is "intellectual laziness". That you hold good coding as deficient compared to lazy commenting is hardly surprising given your comments.
I'm not saying we search for those who have the same views, I'm saying we search for those whose quirks won't be a problem down the road. For example, I'm non-religious, and I have dated extremely religious people (i.e. she attended church every day). Surprisingly, it wasn't an issue at all.
The sad part is that on the consumer side, we are still paying what we were paying in 2005, for roughly the same amount of bandwidth. If consumer-side speeds kept a similar pace, either the costs should be halving every 18 months (modulo a certain fixed infrastructure cost), or the speeds should be doubling every 18 months at the same price point.

Google Fiber is a great first step, but I think the only long-term viable solution is to have Municipal Fiber (in dense cities like SF and NY). There is no reason why we (I live in SF) should not have access to the same speeds as folks in Seoul and Tokyo, at similar prices.

There's a nascent effort in SF to bring Municipal Fiber to the City (I am just a mailing list subscriber): http://sffiber.info/ It could sure use some love.
I did guess the same. Are we both affected the same way by those cognitive biases?
I stick to my guns and do my best to warn others

"NARRATOR: Sir John Maddox, later editor of Nature for two decades, shows how Franklin's contribution was obscured by Watson and Crick with a single guarded sentence.

SIR JOHN MADDOX: They say, "We have been stimulated by a general knowledge of her work." But in fact, they had particular knowledge of her work. And I, as an editor, would have smelled a rat at that."
I think it's a great idea, especially in lieu of a paywall, but I honestly can't think of that many websites that have paywalls. Maybe I just avoid them naturally?

It also seems like this could be useful for free versions of iOS apps, as advertisement replacements (or supplements.)
Yes. It looks like slightly less than 2% vs. slightly less than 1%. The statwing dataset for companies shows 80 companies with an average of 2.38 founders, meaning there are 190 founders in the batch. So I think it's 3 39-year-old-founders vs 1 each at nearby ages.
How to break into Silicon Valley
Same here. I guess it couldn't handle the onslaught of HN.

UPDATE: It is working but it is sloooow. Getting hammered, I guess.
To be honest, most people will never ship something by themselves their entire career. Also, most people will ship something that they think is crappy but it turns out it's the next big thing.

So, kudos for trying. Keep it up!
I would be more interested in "how". Chrome updates automatically. So how does he/she avoid auto update?
Failing to document code is to the detriment of future maintainers. Anyone that claims their code is clear and ambiguous without comments is lying to everyone, including themselves, as a means to justify their intellectual laziness.

"I don't need to comment" is really "I don't want to document my work because that's boring and I'm much too smart to need to do that".

You're not that smart. If you were, you'd realize just how dumb everyone is, and thus, just how necessary comments are.
I am going to answer to my self as a way to answer all the comments at the same time.

What I am rescuing from the article is the ability to learn beyond looking for what is the minimum that needs to be learned; the attitude of "I need to learn this, so I'll stretch my self" as opposed to "I don't need to learn this!, I can learn the least possible!, it is only useful up to this point! I have never used beyond the basics!". If this is your attitude, then good for you, but as an employer, I am not going to choose the employee that it is just looking for the minimum to learn to get by. And that attitude is the difference between a code monkey and professionalism.

This is disturbing to me because today the resistance is towards "math", tomorrow will be towards "C#" ("why do I have to learn that if I can easily scaffold in ruby?" multiple technical reasons, but the one that hit the most for programmer that are not living in their mom's basements is: Because I sign your paycheck), and the day after it would be something else. In general it reflects a problem with learning.

My comment does not goes towards math exclusively, but towards the ability to enjoy learning, and that is a color of the character.

The comments of I don't need to learn this or that (math, or whatever else) tells me more about who you are than engaging in what is the level of math that you need to learn.

Of course some egos will feel offended and call me and my high horse... then again...
This is the weak link imo. The entire premise is that variance in developer preferences of environments is what leads to problems, but editors are where preferences tend to vary the most. If you're an open enough shop to not standardize systems, your devs sure aren't all going to want to be locked into the same editor.

In fact I'd guess most devs would be willing to sacrifice environment choice for editor choice if it came to that.
Anatomy of a Celebrity Tweet: CTR & Other Statistics
Ask HN: Records of news shows closed captions
Does anyone know of a way to get full records of news shows (NBC/FOX?etc) closed caption data? I was working on some fact checking stuff in my free time and was thinking how awesome it would be if I had access to those records to search through.

Thanks for any help!
> or thought you were buying an actual Rolex

He said Knock-off, not counterfeit. A knock-off looks like the original but does not falsely advertise itself as actually being the original.
The 10,000 hour thing is about mastery. Is someone who spent ten weeks learning about organic chemistry able to operate on the same level as someone who has been working in the field for decades? I suspect the answer is no.

Anyone can learn how to play golf in just a few minutes, but what does it take to become a PGA-level player? The theory is that it only takes 10,000 hours of focused practice and it is currently being put to the test: http://thedanplan.com/
Hmm, browser specs + errors? I have it running in production for about 400+ developers and no one has filed a bug, yet. Thanks for the heads up!
...or the number of non-technical people using Google search has grown in the same time period.
Agree that it doesn't prove anything.

Disagree that 50% should be considered a good success rate though.
From my understanding of ARM architecture, ARM cores cannot process heavy data loads in a power-efficient manner, making TDP under heavy server conditions prohibitively high. Am I right about this? I've never tried making an ARM server of my own.
I've seen you mentioning some variant of "put a man on the moon" several times in this thread, apparently referring to the cathedral-like project to do so, along with several comments along the lines of "Microsoft software isn't a cathedral because it's designed to create a monopoly market, not software".

Unfortunately, those statements seem to be contradictory; the United States ran the Apollo program for national pride, to cow the Soviets, not out of some grand desire to visit the moon. The science done by Apollo was secondary, and if you believe exploring space was a primary goal, you are going to have a hard time with the question, "why haven't we done it lately?"
Isn't this just a fancy ad? A lot of sites already have lightbox Javascript popups (that AdBlock can't block?) that acts as ads or gateways to getting your email address.
OnLive reveals new details of restructuring (assignment to creditors)
Being from Wimberley, I can attest- it is rather difficult to get things done. I've still got a year or so left before I'm free. Glad to see our CS dept has some presence somewhere, eh?
Moreover, why is this article here at all? I appreciated it, but I've also flagged the submission. It has nothing to do with hacking or startups or technology. There are many other, more appropriate sites for discussing politics, crime, and current events.
The point of the article is not to argue valuation. Rather, it's about the negotiation that happens between both sides' bankers to make sure their respective clients are getting the best deal structure.

In my opinion the writer is one of the best at detailing corporate deals and making the complexities of investment banking easily understandable for the general public.
Wow... App.net has been funded for what... a week? And already people are pulling out both the Gender Card and the Race Card. sigh
Sweden is a huge country with very low population density and one of its neighbors is Russia, a formidable military power. This means it is very dependent on the US for its security, and more likely to be vulnerable to explicit or implicit pressure from the US than an island nation of 60 million people that is also a nuclear power.

I'm convinced this is also the case with Australia, which is why they're so unwilling to stand up for Assange.
It's another way of "liking" the comment or voting it up. The user is essentially saying "I agree with this".

People sometimes flag such comments because:

1) The upvote mechanism was created for 'this' purpose.

2) These types of comments don't necessarily add much value to the threads and the community at large is very protective and self-governing in terms of maintaining the integrity of the site.

... Personally, I don't care. I'm sure I've 'this'd comments before in one form or another.
Could always use one of those USB Ethernet adapters.
Best Buy has its own house brands like Dynex and Rocketfish so they have some experience working with outsourced product development but I think there's a bigger opportunity to transform the Best Buy experience. The biggest strengths of BB is that they're a well known brand with supplier connections with every major CE company in the business along with a large network of stores which in many cases are positioned in very good areas with high visibility and good accessibility. On the downside, they have a reputation for having poor customer service and the appearance of having incompetent workers turns a lot of high value customers off. Here's what I would do if I were Best Buy:

1) Trim the workforce and focus on service - Your biggest asset is that when anything goes wrong, just come back into Best Buy and you'll take care of it. This is not easy for online channels to replicate especially when shipping costs continue to rise and it's a hassle to box and ship a 60" LCD TV back.

2) Move away from a SKU focused experience - Given most of Best Buy's customers are probably in the middle-America, slightly older, demographic, I'm surprised that they just put things on shelves and expect people to know how to pick/find the right item. This forces people to rely on the Blue Shirts which in many cases results in a negative experience (see Louis CK show about Blue Shirts). Instead, I would transform the store into an Ikea showroom like experience where people SEE, EXPERIENCE, PLAY with all of the technology and see how it's applied in real life. This would also reduce the number of salespeople you need milling around.

3) Reduce SKUs - BB is never going to have as many SKUs as Amazon so I would focus on carrying a more curated set of products at a few logical price points. This could lead to easier support and help the Blue Shirts develop more expertise since they don't have to know hundreds of products.
Police apprehend immgration officer for robbery
Modder turns mechanical keyboard into Rasberry Pi-powered computer
Huh ? Where ? I've seen one intent to show it's untrue (in this thread) and honestly the arguments where bogus.

I don't know Swedish law at all. But actually in French law (my domain of study) in a criminal case assigned to a "Juge d'instruction" (who acts more or less like a prosecutor), no indictment ("mise en examen") is possible without a physical presentation to the "Juge d'Instruction".

So I know of at least One other set of laws where the idea that someone cannot be charged without a formal presentation to the "prosecutor" is a fact, so it's not unthinkable that the Swedish law can be similar in that matter. And you will need more than : "No it's not true" to convince me that three consecutives Courts including a High Court made a mistake on this point.

Edit about your edit : I think that your argument of authority is invalidated by the presence of three decisions by UK courts that took their decisions after hearing counsels and legal experts on both sides of the question.
This has been done to death in the incentive based affiliate marketing world for some years now.

The quality of data that will be generated from these surveys is going to be extremely poor and I would be interested in seeing how they're able to sustain advertisers (market researchers).
I wish there were an English word for Baazaar; we used to have the word Market but now that word means aggregate demand IE the job market not the fish market.

Also I wish we could understand "Cathedral vs Bazaar" as an analogy and stop comparing Notre Dame Cathedral and Istanbul Rug Market in this thread.

"Rug Market" software = I recompile my kernel to upgrade = Debian

"Cathedral" software = the central planning organization sell me my OS upgrade = everything Apple

It should be obvious that Cathedral development can guarantee higher quality. Critical systems get written in ADA and VLISP and run on QNX. You would be insane to to try to deploy a critical system in C++/Ruby on Debian, and, depending on the circumstances, you might get arrested if you tried.

"Rug Market" however can scale to larger codebase sizes, because "Cathedral" costs more per line of code. So "Rug Market" wins, when software correctness doesn't really matter.
Huh? No, Cathedral in the sense that:

Everyone brings whatever they've got, and the anointed master architects sift through it, determine the best course of action, redirect known-bad avenues of exploration and possibly anoint new master architects from the best of the candidates.
http://momentjs.com/ is a much better library than datejs. It's maintained, tested, smaller?, deals much better with internationalization/custom date formats. I'd recommend it to anyone looking for a JS date library.
Mutually Assured Destruction & Google/Motorola vs. Apple
Samsung copied a lot of stuff from Apple and improved them to levels Apple had never gone to before.

Could you elaborate? You linked to a reasonably long review. What parts of that review are you trying to refer to? I ask because this is the first time I've ever heard this claim.
I also like to Google everything, even individual words or proper names I already know the meaning of, just because I can. I use the Google Dictionary Extension for Chrome. Just double-click anything on the web and it pops up. Pretty awesome stuff.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mgijmajocgfcbeboac...
Well the work being judged here is the marketing effort, not the engineering work.
> The ratio of autoconf to non-autoconf programs on my system is probably 10:1, but the ratio of build problems is something like 1:20.

I guess you're running Linux, right? I'd be VERY interested to see this ratio if you ran Solaris.
Trend Microscan reports ureddit.com and it's favicon.ico as suspicious.

URL Blocked

The URL that you are attempting to access is a potential security risk. Trend Micro OfficeScan has blocked this URL in keeping with network security policy.
URL:	http://ureddit.com/
Risk Level:	Dangerous
Details:	Verified fraud page or threat source
Agreed, the FIRST place they put their Safe Helpline number is about half way down the page in a block of text. That number should be in the header.

It looks like they are trying to steer people to using the online system for chatting with their "Get Live Help Now" CTA bubble but it might be under the "page fold" for some resolutions.
The startup I consider joining is not building an ERP system itself, but rather something that will need to get the data from an ERP system. So I am trying to get a sense of the field before I sign up, not even really knowing which question to ask...

My concern is that if the ERP schemas turn out to be sufficiently diverse in practice, the startup might end with high per-user implementation cost, effectively turning into a consultancy.
The implications of this are fascinating to me. I'm really, really interested in how Comcast is going to figure out how to make sure the US never sees this technology widely deployed.
If this thread is annoying you enough that you become more of a jerk immediately after being called out on it, you should probably just chill out for a bit.
Just out of curiosity, what made you think you would find the raw data on the client?
Nobody is apologizing to anybody for discussing an issue on HN. This subthread is silly.
MacAffee thinks it's ok

http://www.siteadvisor.com/sites/ureddit.com
The Last Programming Language (A talk by Uncle Bob Martin)
>If it takes you 10,000 hours to learn the BASICS of organic chemistry,

Disclaimer: I had to put in something akin to a 1,000:1 hour ratio type effort to learn stuff like that.
Sorry about that. We're flooded with user sign ups. I just emailed you.
Never had your girlfriend wake you up with a blowjob?
If it's contrary to agreement in whole or in part, it's not consensual.

That's quite a statement to make as if it's universal. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_by_deception

>The crime—known in Tennessee and California as rape by fraud[1]—is only recognised in few jurisdictions; in all others the definition of rape actually involves lack of consent at the time of intercourse.

Even if they agreed to sex based on lies, they still agreed to it. It's an awful behavior but I don't think it should be given the title of 'rape'. No one is being forced upon, whether through physical or psychological means.
Oh, that's right, I forgot about the European Convention on Human Rights, I was too distracted by Sweden's consitent breaking of the rules by performing extraordinary renditions on Americas behalf.

But yeah, your probably right, there's no way Sweden will break the rules this time.
Google Maps Beta uses WebGL
It's also linked from the front page of Reddit via the official blog.
That is quite a leap of logic based on a single correlation.
Ecuador is trying (a) to piss off the US and (b) to rally political support within Ecuador based on a phony issue, so as to avoid attention to Ecuador's very real problems with repression.

The idea that Ecuador (of all countries) would be taking a principaled stand against repression is actually the one that beggars belief, based on the recent history of the Correa administration.
Apple overtakes Microsoft as most valuable company ever
Apple overtakes Microsoft as most valuable stock of all time
Introducing mu4e: an Emacs front-end for mu (maildir-utils)
Compiling and linking a library for XLC/C++ v7.0:

http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/comphelp/v7v91/inde...
Yep, the leap of logic is pretty straight forward. "Open source means anyone can contribute? HOLY SHIT THAT MEANS THEY CAN CONTRIBUTE A VIRUS"
The CSS pixel is defined as an angular measurement.

http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/syndata.html#length-units

http://inamidst.com/stuff/notes/csspx
I think this is probably a problem more with new developers vs seasoned developers. I've noticed that configurations woes plague people who haven't got to a point where they have already configured their environments to their liking tens of times. i can get a machine configured for development use in a few hours and be productive the next day. Why? Because I have a repo of all my latest dotfiles including my vim plugins and configs. I also have a list of software I need to download the moment I use a new machine in my 1Password notes. Lastly I have another note with all the stuff I usually change in OSX and Linux. I've even been thinking lately about make it even more streamlined by having scripts actually do all my work.

To get up to speed with my developing environment, I just need to sync a couple of dropbox folders on my dev machine, checkout my repos, or bring a usb (if not allowed to dropbox sync my stuff, in which case I'd really consider getting a job where I'm not limited by stupid policies that make little sense for developers) with my latest configs. Lastly I might spend a day configuring the companies environment architecture (svn I'm looking at you), but even in the worst situations this things are generally trivial.

For a developer, his machine should be free to configure to his liking as long as security constraints are taken into account. If the developer can't be up and running with his environment in a few days, he's either not experienced enough or the IT department utterly sucks. Generally, it's the first option.
The onslaught from Reddit is probably more lethal than HN.