skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No. They're offering you the games at whatever price you can afford, you're allowed to take them up on their generosity! If I were you, I'd pay the minimum $0.01, use the torrents to minimize their costs, and increase the amount you're paying later.
It's two cyclop smiley faces on top of each other.
Until work in theoretical physics yields practical or verifiable results, I am content to consider it fantasy rather than reality. Not to denigrate those who spend their time on such matters, and the social considerations those people have for their peers might make such pursuits somewhat practical for them, but you cannot expect a randomly selected person to consider such knowledge a part of their reality until it has substantial implications for them.

And we do agree that reality is subjective; it's just that if a facet of reality is only perceived by a small fraction of the population, its value is insignificant to most. The value of reality is in its adoption as a foundation for communication.
A shakiness adjustment is a great idea, like high-contrast mode in the OS UI. Adroid Chrome does this, it zooms in when you click on a link near another link, and makes you reclick on theink you want.
Apple -a beloved public fetish - and its patent wins have paved the way for the attack of the patent empires and rogue states, in broader public opinion. Forget abolishing patents, I would expect more litigations and monetization attempts from software patent holders and a more proprietary, closed world for a decade or so; till the heritage of the "new Apple" erodes.

++@betterth Because Apple is more positively perceived by media, lawmakers and general public in comparison to unnamed companies which are quickly named as "trolls", Apple's patent wins created more sympathy towards patents. By "paved the way" I just mean that, in public opinion, patents are justified, because people think "Apple deserves to sue others, so patents must be good".
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The irony is that Netflix has depended upon the "Linux ecosystem" for its technical existence.

They're better than some, but spend a few years in real "corporate" environments, and you'll experience first hand a surfeit of such "taking, not giving" attitudes.

If Netflix is merely the middleman, I nonetheless increasingly am coming to view them as an enabler of some very selfish people, people inhibiting and destructing our society in the pursuit of their own self-interests.
Unfortunately, restrictions and bureaucracy tend to just favor lawyers who can charge higher to dig through it.
Oops - I missed that in my research. Yes, I agree this sentence is misleading; I'll update the text later on today. I suppose it's only true that Lisp (specifically Scheme) was the first widely used implementation of closures.
Anyone remember how much Yahoo paid for it's initial stake in Alibaba?
Beat me to it, nice :)

But why do you use that keyboard combination over the default option+space?

EDIT: Ugh, nevermind - brain fart, my apologies for the slight odor...
Great, thanks a lot, following up via email.
From their site[1]:

About

PersonalWeb owns 15 fundamental pending and issued patents and a sophisticated Natural Language Processing Engine used in developing its products and services[2].

All of it is full of similar gems.

[1]: http://www.personalweb.com/About.html

[2]: Products as: https://www.studypods.com/ ...
If you haven't done JVM stuff before, it's probably best to start with the terribly unfashionable Java 1.6. All of the other JVM languages tend to use its library to large extent and are using a VM which was developed for Java first, so it's good to be familiar with the underlying landscape before exploring the different riffs on it.

After that, if you want to switch to another JVM language, do it, but you should have a much clearer reason than "I want to use an alternative JVM language". Something about that language should grab you. Personally, I think Groovy's great for perl-type work where you'd like to just clack something out in a terminal rather than starting up a new project in eclipse. Clojure is an actual LISP for real functional programming. Scala (IMO, no offense) is a pile of academic features that sound great in theory. Jruby is ruby.
>Please define 'real business'. What does a company need to have to be a 'real' business? Users? Revenue? Profits? A product that at least some people are willing to pay money for?

Revenue and eventually profits. Even if "url shortening" is a "real business", it still is in the very far outskirts of "businesness". A very marginal value adding service, that exists solely because of some very marginal deficiencies of other services. Even Twitter has trouble monetizing, a "url shortening service" 100 times more so.

>even URL shortening stops being straightforward once you expand from n = 1 to n = 10,000,000.

I fail to see how. Even a simple setup can handle 10,000,000 shortened urls with aplomb. And url shortening is the most sharding friendly use case you can get, ie linear scaling is trivial in a url shortening service.

>You may not think Hilary's qualified to talk about the details of Yahoo's particular advertising model, but don't extend that into what's bordering on an ad-hominem attack against a very legitimate startup, as well as a key figure at said startup.

Well, she may or may not be qualified. I just pointed out that the page the parent pointed to as proof of her competence on the matter doesn't _prove_ her qualifications at all.
Perhaps a style guide should just be encoded into the compiler.
my thoughts exactly. The only group I could think of is LessWrong but that's a different main topic and can hardly be called superseding HN.
Does anyone else find 4 lines of error checking (log and panic) boiler plate code for every line of functional code a bit tedious?
If a client ever approached me without having some sort of direction or plan or strategy in mind, I would never work for them. I want clients who know what they want, who I can partner with and provide appropriate guidance and input, and who will fight me if and when I make a decision that doesn't align with their goals (though, obviously I do my research and work to avoid such a situation).
So, this is it? To not have regrets, do whatever you feel like doing?

I'd have to disagree. I know lots of people that went this route and ended up regreting how they screwed up their lifes.

What is hard about life is that what you want is not always clear cut. Sometimes you do things that you think you want, but then time passes and you change your mind. When what you've done is something unimportant, that's ok, but other times those things have a huge impact on your future. That's when you start regreting doing everything you wanted.

There is no such thing as "do this" and you wont have regrets. That's just a romantic idea.
Google Patent for Pseudonyms in Social Networks
A question mark in the title of an article usually indicates that the opposite can be assumed true. This article is no exception; the author makes the conclusion that HTML5 is not going anywhere and alongside native apps it will still be a big part of Facebook's tool chest.
I actually think it will work better as a "private family network". All it would take is one person to start it, then email family members and tell them to add whatever info they can. There is a viral effect to it.

Each family member that joins will see themselves as the "center" node, with branches connecting them to their closest relatives.

The software should be smart enough to connect each member intelligently. So let's say you enter your grandmother's information, the software will ask: mother's side or father's side. then will create an empty node for your parents, and link it through them to your grandmother. (make sense?).

Anyway, there's a bunch of cool things you can do with it.
Yeah I wanted to try it out too but never got an invite. I'll probably just forget about this site in a few hours.

You should let more people try it even if it means stumbling upon a few bugs than to turn away people who are genuinely interested in trying.
> Are you saying that Scientists can't have questionable motives, methods, and data that should be closely examined when what they're both doing has such a big impact on our world, but corporations do?

No. I'm saying "Read their papers."
I would like to see Ulterior Reference Counting, or age-based hybrid GC for both.

http://www.powershow.com/view/14655a-MGM5M/Ulterior_Referenc...
You think someone hasn't done this already?
It's interesting to see that Linux users ($8.92) on average donate around 40% more than everyone else ($5.36). Also, Windows users are cheaper than Mac users.

This is from the average donation amounts on the page.
Kickstarter could change their fee model to better align their interests with backers. For example, they could choose to not take their fee until the project creator has delivered on their project. This gives the Kickstarter team more of an incentive to vet the quality of projects and their creators.
Do any of these services have the ability to optimize packaging of goods?

Say you sell physical goods. A customer buys multiple items. They each have known shipping dimensions.

The question is: How do you consolidate the shipment into one or more boxes in order to optimize for minimum shipping costs?

Keep in mind that minimum shipping costs could also include the cost of shipping supplies as well as packaging and handling labor.

The most basic problem is fitting n packages of m[i] dimensions into the available stock of standard boxes and pick the arrangement that provides the least postage cost.
Re #3, Google Plus actually has this.

If you schedule an event, and then click into Party Mode, your pictures go into an album shared with all the other attendees.
Also, true story re internet camp: http://i.imgur.com/bjKtu.jpg
Things are already complex enough to the point where even a very good lawyer barely grasps how things work. The latest example is the Redhat scenario. They hit Redhat, Redhat swings pack with a GPL violation. I guarantee you that the GPL never came up in conversation when they were considering suing Redhat.

We just need to make things even more complex until lawyers absolutely cannot predict the outcome of litigation. At that point enforcing patents can become a dangerous proposition.
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Tell: Free karma is not the way
ghost moderation fosters self-regard, and voting up should cost you something, namely some of your own karma, and voting down ought to cost you triple, as it does in reality. i vote to reset the whole system, adjusted for some meaningful metric, perhaps those you list -- the way that real karma does!
Stamps.com uses SOAP and is terrible. I would love a nice Json/REST based shipping API.
>Perhaps Go or D can fill that role

Aha! A question I can answer. This one will be easy:

No and No.

In fact, I can go one stronger than that.

Never and never (although they really hoped).

Go is a general-purpose language, it competes more close with Java and Python, but mostly Python and Ruby.

D is just in an awkward place that has been occupied by Java and C#.

Neither are even remotely viable for serious systems work, although they'd work fine for network services.
There are regrets for both "not doing" and "doing" things. As long as you are aware of any choices, you ll have regrets. It is inevitable.

PS: I expect someone to rant about "why regrets are indeed good, and are falsely blamed."
Nope. (Granted, this is possible if the domain name resgitrant designates an open resolver as authoritative but almost no one does that. The reasons should be obvious.)

How much time have you devoted to learning how DNS works?
I don't have mockups, it's just something I've been thinking about, but have left on the backburner for so long, I know I'll never get around to it. But it could potentially be of help to so many people, that I don't want to keep the idea for myself.

If you're really serious, I can help with it. I specialize in product development and marketing. I know how to get PR, have attracted millions of visitors to web sites, so I think if this thing is built, I can get good publicity for it.
That was interesting, thank you for linking to it.

At first he seemed to be reacting more to Odersky's book than to the language. I wonder if he had first opened "Scala For The Impatient" how his reaction would be different.

Then he takes the odd tack of complaining about arcana in the Scala typesystem, and then suggests Haskell as a solution.

I get the impression that his love of dynamic typing had his mind made up before he even approached it.
Annoying as hell, that's what you get when you don't support exceptions.
Would the world be a better place if git and github did not exist

No, but certain people think they would be richer. Unfortunately the idea of increasing general wealth through the expansion of the commons is one that also makes the same people scared shitless, even if they themselves benefit. If you view the economy as a zero sum game, which might hold true, but only if you include the entire universe in your economic model, then you can only do better if others do worse. So those who hold that as a principle cannot even conceive of the idea that things like git being available might just be better for everyone as they genuinely believe that a gain by the majority is a loss to themselves.
I think they are both wrong about it. What the argument boils down to is that the limitations of C prevent you from using things that might lead you astray. That's not an argument for or against C++ it's just an argument against large languages in general and an argument for programmer discipline in specific. It might work for Linus if he reimplements C++ features in a better way but it does not help all users and doesn't help all the time. Do we honestly believe a beginning programmer will be better off reimplementing std::vector or just using a fixed array instead?

If I remember correctly somewhere further down in that particular Linus rant he was saying that you can look at a call site and tell what's going on, the same argument the poster here is making, but do we honestly believe Linus never uses function pointers? And the argument about the name of the function giving us a rough estimate of the overhead does not sound valid to me.

As a C programmer and former C++ programmer I can see a valid argument hidden in these types of posts but I think we'd be better off with a little less attitude and a little more useful guidelines.
>batista, I often find myself nodding in agreement when reading your posts on HN -- especially when you take a contrarian position.

A, thanks. I mostly take a contrarian position when I comment, because at things I already agree with I don't feel the need to comment on (yeah, have the silly urge to correct "someone wrong on the internet" as my motivation).

>This is not helpful at all. Does nobody at Google ever get a calendar request to their phone? The only way for me to respond to such a request is either to get to my computer and open it in web mail, or call back and ask what time the meeting is.

Yes, that's a perfect example of what the article SHOULD BE talking about (far better than the examples in the article). With those kinds of things, I agree, you tend to see neglect like this in all apps.

I just disagree with the particular examples given in the original article, which are far more complex and bug-like, and most of all with the notion of the article that because of those bugs (syncing, FCP crashing, etc) "everything is broken".

Some of the "layers of shit" (e.g, a pet peeve of mine, the traditional UNIX application installation directories and standards such as /usr/bin etc instead of self-contained, versioned, app directories) have historical reasons, and not necessarily incompetence, and it's very difficult to remove them without major financial and time investment.
Die with no regret? How about live with no regret?

After all, even if you're immortal, there may things you do and did do that you regret.
I do most of my domestic flying on Delta, which has in flight Wifi (via Gogo) available on most (if not all) of their aircraft. The quality is really hit or miss. I've had flights where the connection was good enough to download large files (debugging symbols from Microsoft) and have one way Skype sessions (me typing, the other person with audio/video). I've also had flights where I could barely check my email. I'm not sure if it's the route flown or the other passengers using the connection or what, but the highly variable quality is annoying.
Troll-Squash - Opscotch is creating an opinion page without trolls
I sometimes use these functions when rapidly prototyping. I can store one or more base colors, and then calculate other shades of colors relative to the base. This makes changing the site's color scheme a matter of changing just the base color(s).

Of course, once I've settled on final colors, I may go in and tweak all of the shades with exact values.
First paragraph: "In Part 1, we looked at the code of two web services that implement an authentication web service. One written in Java, and one written in Go. It’s time to beat up on them a little bit."

http://boundary.com/blog/2012/09/13/comparing-go-and-java/
best feature github has added in the last year.
The Art of Being Unreasonable by Eli Broad
It's the $10 croissant and coffee when all the other coffee shops are selling $3 ones. It better be a damn good croissant for the extra money.
Bootstrap creator here.

* .navbar is for positioning/sizing.

* .navbar-inner is required for the gradient because `overflow: visible;` is not respected by IE when `filter` is present.

* .container is for centering the content within the navbar

No idea what .navbar-content is—that's not part of the Bootstrap navbar component. We also use a `ul.nav`, not `div.nav`.

So, close to the core, but not 100%.
Just trying to think through the issues at different levels of abstraction. Not sure i have the answers. But just some thoughts.

Consider a situtuation where you don't know the productivity of X and its subject to 25x variance, a project manager is unlikely to structure a project to allow for 25x variance as acceptable. He's eaither at risk of sandbagging or falling massively short. And so upsetting other parts of the business. So, he needs to have more like a 50% [edit: I like chuck's 3x also] plus or minus understanding of what he can deliver. So, its really hard to pay 25x when you are going to constrain his performance to 1.5x. Likewise, its hard to restructure your projects for 25x as the expected case, unless you have really good data. But, most of the data will be 1.5x ceiling (if he is maxing performance under the previous example). So, its still a leap of faith to restructure projects around 25x expected performance from 1.5x data (order of magnitude jump).

But, for a founder this is not so constrained. There it is a lot easlier to structure your work at your peak capacity. With equity, you will benefit from the performance, etc. But this is true wether or not you are an engineer or whatever else expertise. So, one theory might be that the top employees are the ones that allow the founders to do precisely that -- franchise players that allow strategy to be developed around a 10x or 25x performance envelope--but for the market to be efficient, two things need to happen. There needs to be reliable data of 25x performance, and there need to be jobs that can be structured around this expectation. Without upsetting the apple cart of exectution with the rest of the biz guys (marketing/bd/sales/ etc).

And bridging those gaps in the data is the hard part about talent search. And why people will pay a bit for it.

edits.
Luckily I own the patent on the business model of suing for infringing overly broad software patents.

I want 10 billion from the folks suing Rackspace for patent infringement, for infringing my patent, of suing for patent infringement.
And stress is not just about demanding experiences. It's about whether they are balanced with (personally meaningful and experienced, not externally defined) satisfying rewards / rewarding experiences.

Sufficient stress may overwhelm any reward. But lesser stress with no reward may still be a problem, especially as a chronic condition.

P.S. I'm not finding a better word than "reward", but I mean it in terms of positive experience, not a "check" or service plaque or the like, and not necessarily or even preferentially part of of the work experience itself. (It might be family, friends, and the ability to pursue personal interests sufficiently.)
Or an automatic re-examination on litigation.
Yes, a person who approaches matters of the heart with the brain of an economist is generally considered pretty cold-blooded.

Not to say that 'normal' people don't ever do such things, but they are often confined to desperate situations (war zones, disaster zones, economic depression, etc).
Exactly. Expressiveness refers to the realm of problems a language can idiomatically address, not the number of ways a particular unit of logic can be equivalently written. If that were true, you could simply add any synonym for "if" ("when", "whenever", "assuming", "given" etc) to a language and claim the most "expressive" language.
How is your example a language thing? Would a JITed language improve the locality of the m_numLoadedAssets variable? I'm not quite sure I get it.
Hahaha. What did the friends get?

Asking my wife what I do is still a source of amusement.
I never understood why these were there, I mean you can't even see anything except some circle at that resolution.
Nutt also wrote a pretty solid book about the data on the harms of various drugs (legal and illegal), and how best to reduce that harm as a society.

http://www.amazon.com/Drugs-Without-Hot-David-Nutt/dp/190686...

edit: Economist review of said book: http://www.economist.com/node/21560223
I was hoping to read some real details instead of a simple paragraph and this tool. My opinion is that if you're a startup and you hire some people that don't get a share in the company, you're going to have to likely pay them a decent salary and not make promises of wealth one day. You'll also have to pay them more than you plan on paying yourself even if you're more qualified since you are getting more out of it if it succeeds.

I worked for someone that started a small company (we were 2), I was simply a contractor/employee. The problem was and why I left was that he treated me as an equal in terms of responsibility even tho I had no stake in the company.
Pharmaceuticals definitely seem to be an exception, since the time + cost of developing a drug (years + billions of dollars) is so staggeringly large compared to the cost of manufacturing / copying. So maybe there needs to be a special type of patent that only applies to drugs and treatments for medical conditions.

Going up one level though - how much has society truly benefitted from the billions (trillions?) of dollars that have been spent on developing new drugs? This is admittedly a field I know very little about, but to what extent are improvements in quality of life / life expectancy in the U.S. in the past 40 years due to new drugs, vs better diet, exercise, reductions in smoking, better emergency medicine, occupational safety regulations, safer cars, etc?
I guess I'm doing something wrong according to this tool! I recently moved to the bay area and as a software engineer (I'd say level 4-5 on this tool) I'm earning nowhere near the numbers this tool is showing. No equity either...

Are these numbers a true reflection of the compensation levels?
Also, his rebuttal doesn't defend the inclusion of those language features in the first place. If you simply "shouldn't" use a particular feature (e.g. if at the end of an expression), why should it be in the language at all? It shouldn't, ergo the language is nonsense, which was the original claim.