skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you try to compare something to bottom (undefined), your program will crash. Try it.
As the article explicitly states, CO2 levels are still rising globally.
He's obviously new here, so why not cut him a break.

luckylemon, it's true that there's a guideline regarding blog posts that link to other material. You can see of the guidelines by following the link at the bottom of the page [1]. Thanks for contributing something you feel is interesting.

[1]http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Yes. Lots of people here are engineers, and I wouldn't threaten an engineer like that, or as an engineer tolerate such a threat.

But this is management. You have different responsibilities. If being told to shape up or get fired makes you upset, don't go into management.
I had thought about that possibility, or the possibility that the conversation that he wrote isn't exactly as it went. But I think that the conversation that he decided to write in the article is a reflection of his own mental processes. That is actually more telling about how he sees his manager than an actual conversation would be.

If, in the actual conversation, the manager tried to explain his point of view and the author instead made the manager out to be a buffoon in his story, I think it's indicative that he either (1) doesn't listen well (and therefor didn't recall what the manager said) or (2) doesn't respect his managers.
I finished E-Myth Revisited years back ... I'm now on E-Myth Mastery ... many of the concepts of his books requires practical experience, otherwise you might struggle to visualize his concepts ...

Following his concepts in the first book i had successfully created a small and profitable company now with about 8 employees ... i'm hoping to learn the skills required to bring my company to the next level! IPO, MNC, Big Corp, etc.
And this is a good development? Institutionalized credit is merely a market-based mechanism for the gradual erosion of freedom. It brings economic gain in the short term, as people are able to step outside the prejudices restricting their informal local credit. However for the long term, just take a look at the debt treadmill most everyone in the US is on.

(idk why you're being downvoted; you're correct)
Hate to keep taking issue with your comments, but they are pattently wrong. Using a study of atomic bomb studies and an anti-nuke web site do not constitute science.

Studies Ive read, completely contradict your statements
(http://ehp03.niehs.nih.gov/article/fetchArticle.action?artic...) for one. There are others, and I am sure that I will not be convincing you, but I didn't want your voice to be the only one on the issue here.
No, there is no difference. Behind every occupation lies a human with dignity, just like you.
More comments from one year ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2132591
This article is spot on in pointing out that search advertising is more valuable and more effective than display advertising, and that Facebook will most likely never be a major player in search. However the rest of the things this article is getting at is bogus, much like most of the talk I hear regarding Facebook's monetization.

While speculating about the crapiness of Facebook's ads system and bringing up numbers like phenomenally low click thru rates compared to search, people seem to forget that display, interruption based online ads work. Facebook can also do it better than almost anyone because of the 'interest' and 'likes' data they have. And I don't believe they are even using retargeting yet but that's another conversation for whether or not it's even possible for them.

Basically what I'm trying to say is you can't compare search ads (Google) to display ads (Banner ads, Facebook, basically everything else) by just stating the difference between the two. Such a comparison must be done scientifically through case studies or experiments. Don't bring up Facebook's average click thru rate in such a debate without mentioning that the billion dollar display ads industry (which has no end in sight) has the same low click through rates. Would it be nice for Facebook to know what you want? Yes it would be amazing, but that's not possible, and that's not a problem. They already know what you like, and it makes for a great (self-serve) display advertising experience. I'm not saying what they should do to make more money because I don't know, I'm just saying that their current ads system is not the problem.
Or Horowitz sees himself as a Swashbuckling Captain of Industry, so it's been fictionalized to better illustrate his internal conception of what a Swashbuckling Captain of Industry should sound like.
we have the same point: why should he take a morally superior position and not mislead the public? this is what the documentary is about.
How Instacart (YC S12) Hacked YC
"it can also be used to offer hundreds of millions their greatest chance at inclusion and a prosperous life."

This would be hilarious if it weren't so tragic.

The banks are SO well known for their unselfish altruism. After all, they have pretty much raped the first world, and indebted generations to come. How lucky the Indian masses are, to be the latest objects of their, uh, generosity ?
What happened before? Go documentation was already claiming gdb was the debugger to use.
Thanks for the feedback, just changed the header link so it takes you to VoiceGem.

The permission remembering has to be set by the user, and we found the simple Allow screen to be more friendly than the one with the remember box. Thanks for the feedback!
Do you not fly enough to have lounge access?
...the other trouble with sociopaths, is that they have no trouble making untrue statements: you shouldn't trust (because you simply can't) the exposure maps.

The German Embassy didn't either: they knew better by themselves.
Automated Vehicles Will Change How We Work – Driverless Cars (Part 3/6)
AFAIK, if we stopped increasing CO2 levels tomorrow, temperatures would continue to rise for a couple decades, as it takes a while for the climate to reach equilibrium after the change to the system.
How One Defective Social Media Campaign Spawned Millions in Overcharges
You can call it more "robust", "strict" or a number of other words that more precisely reflect the GPL role and goals.
This is a really nice, fun way to teach javascript. The internet is full of cats, so the possibilities are endless as far as the future articles are concerned. I've shared this with my friend who wanted to learn javascript (and also happens to be a total cat nut (just like me)).
Radiation is radiation; its not homeopathic.

Radioactive isotopes are one source of radiation, insolation and cosmic background radiation are others. In this case the OP was referring specifically to maximum radiation exposure levels as defined by some big-"I" international organization.
Plus, if it's airside at an airport, everyone's ID has been checked and a lot of video exists, plus there's a pretty high bar to entry (buying a plane ticket), so the riff-raff is likely not there.
can't make an omelette...
I'm no zealot, but arguably it's always time for an open alternative to any service or product.
Are you seriously trying to argue with a physics professor using an Adam Curtis documentary? Get outta here....
This is also the reason the self extractors are so easy. A zip file doesn't care what is at the beginning of the file so you can prepend anything you want.

Note that streaming is pointless for the examples you give. You definitely want the content signed and integrity checked, and you can't do that until the whole thing is downloaded. If you did decide to start extracting before you have the whole thing then you'd need to ensure no race conditions or avenues of attack from malicious payloads.

On a related tale, back when I worked on WAN optimizers I looked at Windows Explorer showing the contents of a zip file (folder view). Writing SMB/CIFS requests by hand it was possible to do so using 5 requests (which means 5 round trips). Explorer in Windows XP used 1,500 requests and Explorer in Vista used 3,000!
Nobody says that display ads don't work, of course they do. The point is that they don't justify Facebook's hype or valuation. It's a matter of numbers, and it's perfectly fair to compare both. There's a reason Google is by far the most valuable company in the online advertising industry.
Phenylketonuria, for one, though that's not contagious, and prevents one from eating all protein.
As I get older I start thinking that Machiavelli and Sun Tzu are too popular in the business world for their own good, bordering on poison.
The headline, while certainly nice to hear, doesn't fully capture the reality that this is not all good news (while the use of "cleaner" fuels is). Global warming has caused our winters to be warmer, which reduces energy demand (and thus emissions) from the most demanding time of year.

From the source of the article: http://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=7350

"However, CO2 emissions during January-March 2012 were low due to a combination of three factors:
A mild winter that reduced household heating demand and therefore energy use
A decline in coal-fired electricity generation, due largely to historically low natural gas prices
Reduced gasoline demand"
This was cool. But while the title says "a rare look inside" I wonder how rare this really is? When something is rare or unusual many times it ends up first on a major news show where it can gain from mainstream publicity and influence. Specifically coming to mind in the US is "60 Minutes" which frequently airs never before seen or extremely rarely seen things (and interviews) and is given access because of their exclusivity and established brand. Everybody uses facebook so things like this would be of interest to a national news audience. I'd venture to say that giving gigaom access is hardly rare.

As an example:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57345302/a-rare-look-a...

And of course there was this back in January of 2012:

http://www.intelfreepress.com/news/a-peek-inside-facebooks-o...
Exactly the quote that came to my mind too. Sometimes you need to be somewhat absolute and idealistic. I feel sorry for India.
If someone flagged it that would explain that behavior. Flagging counts as a large number of downvotes in ranking algorithm.
Someone probably flagged the story. That can make it jump down really fast.
Exactly. No doubt the scam that is Grameen Bank will be licking their chops.

Microcredit or Macrowelfare: The Myth of Grameen
https://mises.org/daily/2375
Right, but the criticism I'm reading here is entirely to do with what he thinks "proper management" is. The only saving grace in this whole thing is the possibility that he did paraphrase the meeting and that it did go much more nicely. Why someone would take an event like that and portray it like was done here belies Hanlon.
Over 15K people were killed in the quake and tsunami. On the scale of "badness", ~200 projected cases is not a scale tipper. Not to trivialize the additional projected cancer risks, just to put it in perspective.
I'm not sure whether OP thinks this is a good thing or not, but I certainly hope not. Being universally trackable by government is one of the most evil things I can think of right now. Once this starts, we know what's coming in a few years - an RFID in every person (or similar, possibly more advanced technology). Say goodbye to individual freedom.
Identi.ca is not the alternative; it is a site which runs software called StatusNet.

This is like saying Wordpress.com is the alternative to Blogger. The alternative is the software which runs the site.

Most importantly, this software needs to speak a standardized protocol. Luckily, this protocol exists -- it is called OStatus.
OK, will do in future. Thanks for pointing me to the rule.
Resilient 'SMSZombie' Infects 500,000 Android Users in China
OStatus.
It's the usual advice when you're living in places where you don't meet (if ever) ticks. I rarely get tick bites where I live (once or twice a year), but in 2005 during our summer vacation we had to remove 10 to 20 ticks from every member of the family, every day, for two weeks. In these areas when you ask the pharmacy what to do, they just tell you to use a special tick remover and disinfectant... people there can't live getting antibiotics all year round.

Apparently, woodlands where there are lots of deer and/or sheep grazing around are infested with ticks. There's nothing much you can do.
> I don't mean to be snarky

Then please don't and try to refrain from posting :)

The rest of us haven't seen it yet and there are a few photos of the non open compute servers too. It's also perfectly fine to post older articles and stories here because they are often interesting to the HN community and make for good discussion.
I got a blank recording from this, and then when I tried to send it to you it failed and said the message couldn't be sent anyway.

Some kind of indicator of audio levels is going to be important so users can at least see that it's working properly. Not sure what's up with it not sending, probably an easier fix on your end.
Two things.

1) Well firstly you dont need to be passionate about something very specific. For example you can be passionate about making great websites that people love to use and thats it. Edison was passionate about inventing things (apparently also patenting them) for example.

2) I think brainstorming to think about what ideas you're passionate about is a great logical misstep( which I am also guilty of in the past). Rather, think about the things that people need and are willing to pay for and maybe ask yourself if you are really impassionate enough to not get into that market/business. (Ex: CRM Software is a booming market, yet I am too impassionate about that market to even consider getting into it.)
Show HN: My web+mobile app - Travel memories;collaborative,safe,easy
A mobile+web app that helps you(+other trip members) capture travel memories (collaboratively) and share a beautiful experience safely & quickly.

http://blog.banjarey.com/2012/08/what-are-we-building-in-5-points/

1 - Works on-the-go - never miss a checkin, a photo, video or an activity that you did.

2 - Built for groups - Everyone collaborates on building the entire trip experience.

3 - Privacy. Easy sharing. Trip members can share with anyone - only that particular trip member's items are viewable.

Appreciate and Questions, Comments, feedback
Would there be a way to easily publish the good (or bad) testimonies from your users to put on your landing page? That might be something that entices people to install it on their sites?

Alternatively, you could make this for mobile sites, so instead of having to type feedback on small keyboards, you can do it by voice! And then you can try to transcribe it either using natural language processing (only if you're up for it), or farm it out to 3+ people for transcription, and cross check each copy for accuracy.

And then if this can go to whatever system people use for CRM, I think that's be pretty neat, esp for mobile!
Oh, thanks for the explanation, I see. Still, I would love the one that flagged it to explain what was in the story to flag... I really can't see what reason would it be to flag it. And I am not whining, I would really like to understand so next time I don't make the same mistakes. Still, the upvoting count was unchanged, if it was downvoted it did not show in the count. Well, thanks, living and learning.
New Blizzard WoW Password Dump?
I like this concept. Obviously not the most exciting thing to watch, but observing the thought process of another team valuable. I just have the audio going in a hidden tab at the moment.
listen to Seaborg.
I wasn't speaking of a difference in basic humanity, I was speaking of a difference in skill level and options. I also wasn't trying to justify treating anyone poorly, but when your job takes a minimum of skills and you are easily replaceable then, realistically, you have less bargaining power than someone with a much higher skill level or cost of replacement. It would be nice if everyone treated everyone with basic respect and dignity, but on lower wage jobs (trust me, I have held a number of those prior to my going to college, which I did later in life than most peers) you are more easily replaceable because the skills necessary for the job are easily acquirable by most anyone. That translates into less understanding/leeway from a management perspective. This shouldn't be license for management to be a dick, but it does mean that things like getting written-up/disciplined for being 20 minutes late is the norm, whereas in my experience in the tech field being 'late' doesn't even make sense since there aren't really set hours (the presumption is you will get your work done by some deadline, regardless of what hours you choose to work in order to accomplish that). The idea that someone who expects to be treated like a competent adult is being a 'prima donna' is just a strawman insult used by management, likely due to insecurity which drives the need to try and pull power trips to 'show who's in charge'.
I have never understood the desire or need for these. Why not tackle whatever problems are in the way of what you are trying to make? I guess some people like them for their own sake, but I haven't ever felt that way.
Ask HN: How did your first startup's launch go?
What did you do on the launch day? How did you hack the press? How many people signed up?

Share your thoughts and experience! Thanks!
That's the troubling part. Even when Ben came to know that Tim was not conducting 1:1s, his first instinct should be to know why 1:1s were not happening. He could've asked Steve or even Tim. Maybe Tim had a different way of knowing and talking to his employees, maybe he figured out a better mechanism to connect with his employees. Wouldn't Ben want to know about it?
How to pitch your indie game to Sony
Indiana has seen a quiet whirlwind of education reform
So many gems in this one.

> One area in desperate need of disruption is the delivery of government services.

Seeing disruptive describe a bureaucratic process is tickling.

> Over time, systematic corruption and mismanagement have bred bad data, false information and outright fraud ... Poor laborers and migrant workers, in particular, are forced to travel far from their homes to collect their wages and benefits, having to dole out bribes to predatory middlemen along the way.

So now we're empowering a corrupt monopoly with biometric intelligence on every citizen in the country. What could possibly go wrong..
How about we just use XMPP. You know, the currently existing, extensible, email address syntax using distributed messaging platform?

Why does nobody seem to think of this?
They capture data at about half a trillion "fps". Then they repeat this over and over and combine the data - as the light from just one exposure is too weak.
It's still a pretty valid book:

"Work on your business, not in your business"

the problems are the same - technology can help you solve them, but fundamentally it's an issue of how to scale up in terms of people. Here's another one:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B004IYISQW/?tag=dedasys-20

with a cute story, but the concepts are pretty similar.

Rob Walling also covers this, briefly and more to the point in Start Small, Stay Small:

http://www.amazon.com/dp/B003YH9MMI/?tag=dedasys-20

Which is also full of real, practical advice for people doing small software businesses.
true, but xrange(1,101) is so tiny, who cares!
Catholic Church bankruptcies shed light on finances and mismanagement
>Radiation is radiation

No. It is not. There is alpha, gamma, beta+ and beta-. And there is a huge difference. And how healthy it is strongly depends on the area of you body that is exposed. If Your skin is exposed to alpha radiation it can be as harmless as a sunburn (it's a matter of the dosis). If you get alpha radiator into your bloodstream that's a whole different story at the same dosis.
We do have a sound level meter. If that didn't move for you, it probably means we didn't get any sound input from your microphone.

As for the sending, we are investigating it right now. I think the recipient email address was malformed; just pushed out a fix, hopefully that'll do.
> Being able to function in the face of people making negative comments about you on the Internet is one of the basic survival skills of the 21st century.

While this is true, it does not justify overly negative comments. I'm reminded of hecklers who yell at stand-up comedians that they should be able to deal with heckling if they're on stage; they might be correct, but they're still being a jackass.
Statistics on Sampling 500 Beers
The entire first session on Youtube:
http://youtu.be/o6yaSLipeWg
I don't think his/her issue was with the fact that this has been posted before or that it's "old", the article certainly isn't, but with the fact that the article is describing going into this datacenter as a rare experience. Apparently, it's not a very rare experience, and calling it so only serves to sensationalize the title.
If You Cannot Eat Them, Anthropomorphize Them
Thanks for your feedback. We are working on an iOS integration right now.
There aren't lower carbon dioxide levels, we're just adding less every year than we were before. Also this is just in the US, other countries are adding more than they have before (China is building a lot of new coal fired electric plants for example).
That would kind of be a security problem, you can hear fire alarms or smell smoke.

But I like the idea.
So a number of things. With LLVM, Objective-C has become way stricter and picky about types. To get away with calling a random method on an object ObjC knows doesn't have it, you have to explicitly cast it. This was necessary to ensure ARC would work correctly. Although, yeah, in the dictionary example it just returns an id so its up to you to type it correctly.

That being said, that doesn't have much to do with what I'm talking about because here I'm referring specifically to NSValue -> primitive type conversion. Just about every compiler is super picky about this. Try doing this in Xcode:

void * p;
int x = p;

It will get angry, it knows p is a pointer and you want an int. Couple this with Xcode also knowing whether something is just id or actually an NSValue, and you can then do this:

id something = [object returnIdSoYouDontWhatItReallyIs];
int somethingAsInt = something; // error, something can't be converted to int

However, here it should be fine:

NSValue * something = [object returnsSomethingMysterious];
int somethingAsInt = something; // OK, replace with something.intValue

Of course, you'd probably want some sort of explicit unboxing operator (to match the explicit boxing operator @()), because sometimes you do want to do crazy things like cast a id to an int. Maybe something like: @^()
As a native of Oregon, the mention of "Prineville" and "Data Center" in the same sentence always makes my mind reel a little bit. It's a ways away from much of anything, and was previously known for 1) cows and 2) Les Schwab Tires (which moved to Bend pretty much as soon as possible after Les passed away).
I didn't flag it. I wouldn't have flagged this.

However, if I were to guess why someone would, it is leaning towards falling foul of the "If they'd cover it on TV news, it's probably off-topic" and its possible someone was fed up of seeing Assange on the front page.

I wouldn't worry too much about it though.
A small side note, as a vegetarian, in a part of the world where that's not normal, I love muslims. You can walking drunk to any muslim run food-place late a night a tell them that I don't like their menu because I don't eat meat and they will make something vegetarian. Muslims understand that there might be something that you won't eat for one reason or another.
"Off-Topic: Most stories about politics, or crime, or sports, unless they're evidence of some interesting new phenomenon."
Thanks! fast fix...