skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why is it 76% and not 77%? And why not 75%? What about 79%? Do you have the slightest bit of evidence that exactly 76% of the women need to work, but not 77% or 78% of the women? You can not justify the statement "They have to work" unless 100% of them are working. (Or you could take the alternate route and simply define working as necessary, which is how some economists will occasionally treat the phrase "at the margin". But at that point, you are not saying much, other than "76% of the women need to work because that is how I have defined the word 'need' in my model.")
"Silicon Valley's Early Days"?

"Finally Surface".

What an unimpressive group of photos.

In reverse order here are the dates. Only two of Steve I think there were more of Adobe:

1998

1990

1997

1994

1988

1989

1987

1988

1993

1988

1991

1992

1986

1987

1986 s

1992

1986

1988 s

That title would make you think this is some significant find and centered around Steve and the Valley.
Fantastic! One UI issue: When i zoom in on an area, and click a location, it automatically loads the video. I'd much rather see the project "popup" on the map and then have the option to see the video.
Why is this even on the front page?
There are direct parallels between mechanical systems, electrical circuits, and plumbing systems. Three totally different systems can be modeled by the same exact equations!
Make sure to read the actual details from David Schuetz's – @DarthNull – blog post (the dude who did the digging):

http://intrepidusgroup.com/insight/2012/09/tracking-udid-src...
Now that's another story !

Kudos to Mr. Schuetz who went through all these UDID to find out what seems to be the truth, for once.
No. The early iPods used a hard drive, the later ones used flash for storage. The iPod was not the first device to provide a hard disk for large storage; look up the Personal Jukebox and the Creative NOMAD.

(I know it came post-iPod, but I loved my Creative NOMAD Zen Xtra. 60 GB drive and it would play all day on a charge, no trouble (wish my Android phone could pull that off))
> One of the issues there facing is that hstore is a string => string map, so a conversion from json to that will be lossy

Or the insertion/conversion routine can assert that the JSON object is a string:string mapping only.
> I'd have to imagine most PC gamer's setups are like this. But for a PC hooked up to a TV is not the same unless you are using a surround sound system of some type.

My Xbox 360 along with the 3rd party fans sounded like a leaf blower. You don't need a good surround system, you just need to turn the volume up on your TV or get a cheap sound bar. With PC's it's even cheaper to get a 2.1 speaker system that does the job for like $20.

> But that's PC gamers though, I see your point about your 360. Your example is basically what I'm saying, I don't think many people would care for that very much.

People still care but many either tolerate it or work around it based on the games.
A grand wielder of words dies.
I use Trello for this. I have a board with a few lists, each with a different category of idea on it. When I get a new idea, I add a card for it. As I develop the idea, I add to the card.

At some point I either archive the card out, or I setup a new board/list/card elsewhere to actually pursue the idea.
That would be great. If somebody has old mirrors, please let me know or mention it here.
Rizzoma allows communication within a certain context permitting a chat to instantly become a document where topics of a discussion organized into branches of mind-map diagram and minor details are collapsed to avoid distraction.

Because we all know a person who's said to us at one point or another "I wish I had a way to have a chat instantly become a document where topics of discussion are organized into branches of a mind-map diagram."
Thanks for the suggestion. Look for it in a future version!
Liked it! Although the image of the model is horribly cut out, especially on the left of his head. Its the very first thing I saw and it screams "amateurish" at me. Not that the site as a whole is amateurish, just that bit! Also the photo looks washed out and a bit fuzzy. His expression is a bit bored and/or confrontational too.
This is a fail:

No XXL sizes in a store for hackers?!?

Nice design, though!
What makes you believe that legalizing drugs would automatically cause the cartels to stop doing what they do? Instead of being smugglers they'll be tax evaders; they won't stop overnight, if at all. In general, in poorer countries there will always be an incentive to get rich by illegal means, simply because there's not much else.

Also, you could hypothesize that, conversely, the subs builders would re-purpose them for more nefarious ends if the drug smuggling incentive is taken away.
It would be valuable for me.

We have a product that relies heavily on Parse. The model is a white labeled solution. We currently have a potential client that wants to host everything and we are kind of stuck with Parse. I could simply charge more if there was a customer hosted solution.
Guilty. We took a few shortcuts to get it done in our timeframe (4 days). We will of course be replacing this ASAP (we were originally going to use AA hence this image).

Just wanted to get the first version out there and pick up feedback.
> By that yardstick, most textbooks and eyeglasses are not free. I can't improve a textbook .... I can't put my improved sunglasses on the market (even if it was non-profit).

Yes you can - the product in that case is physical, not digital. You can certainly turn the pages of a book into an origami creation and sell that on a secondary market if that's what you want to do. You can sell modified copies of physical products to your heart's content.
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You're right - it's pretty ingenious:

1) At first I thought it was like SMS numberpad entry, but it looks like they're chorded - with the combination of the directional and number you could enter keys pretty fast.

2) It's geared to gamers and anyone comfortable with a console gamepad will pick this up quickly.

3) Strategically, it could push consoles (specifically Steam-powered ones) as the best interface with which to enter text in a TV environment. In particular, it seems potentially better than Boxee's controller keyboard or the iOS Remote app's soft-keyboard, leave alone any console key-entry system to date.

If they haven''t patented this method, it'd be nice to see some implementation of it show up in XBMC / Plex / etc.
People have been predicting the all-virtual office for decades. To paraphrase an old joke: It's the organization of the future, and perhaps it always will be.

It is certainly possible to work remotely from your VC. But you are conceding an advantage to competing teams who are working next door to the VC, for whom the cost of an additional in-person demo is a couple of extra blocks of walking during lunch hour.
There is however a big difference between Lawyer A: "I see I made a sincere mistake and apologize."

And Lawyer B: "Our machine gun takedown software fuzzy matches anything approaching our artist's name, or any track by him, doesn't examine the content, but just issue blanket takedowns by script."
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Regarding speed, you really need to read this essay that John Lawrence Aspden wrote, "Clojure Faster than Machine Code?" He walks through several experiments in which he figures out how to optimize Clojure for the JVM. Finally, he writes a macro that expands his code into code that adds type hints to all of the vars, and with the help of the type hints the JVM goes blazing fast.

He concludes:

" And so I wonder:

This technique strikes me as very general, and very useful. All sorts of
things can be represented as lookups in tables.

This whole program took me one short day to write, and the whole time I was
doing things that I've never done before, just going by intuition. Once
you've got the hang of it, it's easy.

I think that the program should be as fast as the equivalent java program
would be, although I haven't got around to actually testing that, so I may
have dropped the ball somewhere.

In any case, it's probably possible to generate code like this that does run
as fast as whatever the fastest Java implementation actually is.

The JVM is widely thought to be around the same speed as native machine code
or optimized C.

I'm absolutely sure that I'm not able to write the equivalent program in
Java, C, or assembler without code-generation.

The code generation would be very very very much harder in Java, C or
assembler.

And so I wonder, is Clojure the fastest computer language in the world?"

http://www.learningclojure.com/2010/09/clojure-faster-than-m...
> The reason you think this guy is using std::list incorrectly is because you're not thinking about his requirements.

The reasoning and requirements for him using intrusive lists was quite clear to me. The remaining article that starts at "Using intrusive lists" I found quite interesting and insightful.

My entire argument is against his evidence backing up statements like, "If you’re a programmer who uses the C++ STL std::list, you’re doing it wrong." It's unfair to improperly use std::list, compare it to a better solution, and then make a sweeping generalization. That's just outrageous.
Fascinating data presented there, but sometimes it's hard to see through the sarcasm to the point he's trying to make.
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Once the database can start receiving and returning json, then you can treat it as a webservice and not have the client involved in SQL. I think this is huge.
Both this and the parent post should be more specific, as pre-lambda, pre-TPL threading in C# was not too much different from standard Java threads. Long-standing language support for events and delegates put C# slightly ahead of Java at the start, but only in the last few years has C# left Java in the dust.
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Accept that. It looks a damn sight better on a light background, but we changed it to dark gray hours before launch. The image will be replaced shortly so I'll sort out my cutting skills then ;)
So from what I gather, the UDID's leaked all belong to people who have downloaded an app that Blue Toad has either created or published content through. Does this seem correct? I doubt they have 1+ million publishers.
Electromagnetism will be tough without a good understanding of the physics first, I think. The quantum mechanics is surprising approachable though. Simulation of a quantum computer is a neat project, especially if written in a way to implement various quantum algorithms.
So true.

That's why I consider this the most brilliant bit of Wikipedia's policies: "If a rule prevents you from improving Wikipedia, ignore it." -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Ignore_all_rules

There's a great discussion of that here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:What_%22Ignore_all_ru...

Last time this blew up on HN, some of the principals of SO turned up here, as did a bunch of mods. They were mostly unable to discuss the issues in terms of serving the audience; they just kept falling back on The Rules. An attitude, I'm sure, which quickly drove off anybody with common sense. So now they have achieved glorious groupthink: everybody they normally talk to agrees with them about The Rules.
Maybe it depends if you have a car. Runners, cyclists, people who go by train, people who travel to Europe, technical people all use km. I wouldn't have ever thought of using miles on a website...
I think you're bluffing. For someone with normal human intuitions, the reward curve of startup investing should be counterintuitive, because it's very different from all the reward curves that were available in the ancestral environment.
Honestly, if they can just get TF2 running on an Android phone with HDMI output at over 30FPS, I'd be happy.
This doesn't necessarily rule out the FBI as the Anonymous's source, but it does cast a lot of doubt on their story.
That's fair. It's not very useful to me, but if you work at JPL I can see why you would still use it.
Before going to med school I was a Navy officer and my first deployment was counter-drug ops. We got a tour of the Columbian collection of recovered smuggling vehicles. This is definitely more advanced than anything I saw or heard about. I'm not sure our VBSS teams (1) would even be able to board such a vessel, assuming ROTHR (2, 3) ever found it, which I can't imagine it would.

I also did some in-class papers on subs in college. This strikes me as more advanced in many ways than John Holland's original designs.(4)

---

(1) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visit,_board,_search,_and_seizu...

(2) http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/systems/an-tps-71.htm

(3) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Over-the-horizon_radar

(4) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Holland_(SS-1)
While I would agree with you normally, that's actually not the best route to take for attacks that have a certain amount of credibility. It's important to get out in front of it and debunk it.

That's why Obama always has people that break down the blatant lies that come from the right's attack.

Having a journalist write a scathing piece on the motives of an email that commented on Google Ventures, without detailing the connection with that blogger and Google Ventures speaks volumes about where the piece is coming from.

As far as I am concerned, VentureBeat is fully discredited. How can I trust what they say again?

Sure, everybody makes mistakes....but this is inexcusable.

It's the same way I look at Fox. I can't take Fox seriously, because they are so blatantly partisan, it's ridiculous. The same applies to MSNBC...so it's not a partisan statement.

The lack of disclosure, on a piece like this, is disconcerting.
There are/were plans to make some that would fit over existing prescription glasses, though, I think.
So Blue Toad doesn't feel it's their responsibility to contact the people they exposed? The individual publishers assumed the risk of working with Blue Toad so they are partially responsible, but Blue Toad isn't going out of their way to make people feel sorry for them.
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User interface design is a very important feature, as were other usability differences like Firewire for transferring tracks from your computer to your device quickly.

Specs like being able to play FLAC, and minor differences in capacity per dollar, and often higher quality DACs did not matter as much as the design that made it easier to use.

It is also worth remembering that competing devices addressed the problem of a large library with search, while the iPod instead used an active matrix LCD combined with a large scroll wheel to quickly navigate the hierarchy of artists <- albums <- tracks.

I had a Creative Nomad before the first generation iPod, and even though the Nomad had larger capacity, it immediately seemed like junk in comparison.

We get stats from phone companies that complain about how much more iPhone users use their data plans, and I suspect that if had similar data for iPod we would find that users simply used their devices to listen to music more than users of competing devices.

Stylish ads may have been a large part of publicizing them, but it was the complete change in interface design that made people actually use them regardless of whether they enjoy gadgets for their own sake.
Isn't the browser a native app on every platform? So obviously a native app can do all the things that you say it can't do.

Could this discussion not degenerate into FUD and mudslinging, please?
What's old is new again. This is similar set of wearable fashion shows held about a decade ago by Charmed:
http://www.jarrellpair.com/wearable-technology-fashion-shows...
But it's by a top fashion designer!
The analysis found a 98 percent correlation between the two datasets.
"That's 100 percent confidence level, it's our data," DeHart said.

The numbers don't quite add up. Having said that, the hackers may have removed their device data, this might be (some of) the 2% missing data.
And it has a fantastic soundtrack: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-PCUVlfaVU, picks up nicely two minutes in with the staccato brass punctuating key changes.
Indeed, but the OP is foreign and I have noticed that people from many countries hate old houses, eg Polish friends of mine think we are weird living in old places. Rather glad we haven't knocked London down and turned it into Barratt homes myself.
I started doing something like this in paper notebooks in the early '90s. The main difference is that my notebooks keep all of my notes. This makes the review process a lot more tedious. Maybe it is time to start a new notebook for ideas, and keep that separate from the "note" books.

Edit: one advantage of the paper process over the various software / cloud solutions is that I can still read those ancient notes. Love the cloud for business, but it is tough to beat ink and bound paper for personal records that you want to keep for a long time. An added bonus is that you can occasionally entertain visions of holding a bonfire of your old notes and starting fresh.
The future of The Blog
Do you have a point to make? What is it?
Where did I make a sweeping generalization? I definitely where the author made some!
You may assume too much here. The code may simply assume a colour table has been populated along the way. There might not even be a check for there being no global colour table or frame colour table.
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We like those old houses. We do not consider them shit. The entire character of the city comes from its history embodied in its buildings. Most of the new homes are total shit, and won't last nearly as long as the old stuff.
I was really hoping this was going to be a way to get a t-shirt that has the perfect cut and fit, which is difficult to do. I'd pay real money for a site that guided me on how to get accurate measurements of all the key areas which then enabled them to create perfect, custom-fit basic t-shirts in a wide variety of colors and styles. Heck.. even just white crew-necks.
One thing that has become standard practice for me is to have any "contact us" forms or error reporting pages automatically include all of this information when sending messages. I also generally record persist the browser information on important "events" such as registration and login, so I can refer to it if I need it later.

You don't need it most of the time, but it saves so much time to not have to bother asking for it.
Clojure is slower than Java in general, but strives to provide you the tools that you need to write code "as fast as java" when you need it, eg. via type hints (to avoid the need for reflection).

Clojure's interop with Java is also different from most JVM languages in that it never wraps Java's native types. This means it can't eg. treat java Maps as functions like it does with clojure maps, but on the upside... there are no wrappers. :P

Metaprogramming in Clojure is done via a CL-esque defmacro system. In addition to lists, vectors, maps and sets all have useful evaluation semantics, and are commonly used in DSLs. I actually prefer it to CL because you have more basic elements to work with.
what does '\x auto' do?
Incredible contrast to the following:

Another theory on the “FBI” UDID leak

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4484547

http://www.marco.org/2012/09/06/udid-theory
I don't see where it does either - until Blue Toad publishes information about the breach. But even then, as part of the breach investigation, that data may well have been provided to the FBI. That's one purpose of the NCFTA, AFAIK, to serve as a conduit during breach. I think it's irresponsible for journalists to say conclusively that one organization or other never touched the file when they don't have proof either way.

My original theory was that some ad service provider, analytics company, or app developer was working with the FBI on an investigation/attack and overzealously shared their customer's details (bad, bad--also horrific the amount of personal data collected, if Antisec's description of the original data set is true); but it could also follow that they were breached, hackers were circulating their database dump, and it was part of evidence in their investigation.
It's clear from the subtitle of the blog ("Game design, game programming, deployment automation and more"), the title of the specific blog post, ("Avoiding game crashes related to linked lists"), and the very next paragraph of your quotation ("Based on watching the successes and failures of programmers writing games like Starcraft and Guild Wars...") that the author is talking about a very specific technique applied to a very specific sort of programming, and yet you're still complaining that he is making "a sweeping generalization"?

Stop wasting your time and ours arguing about an interpretation of his words the author never intended. Such literalistic argument-making serves only to mislead and misdirect, and it contributes nothing to the conversation.
Crysis was used as the example.

Otherwise, what you say is perfectly reasonable and quite true. But comparing a phone with a computer running Crysis doesn't seem quite right.

What I want to know is what's stopping people from doing this now? Wouldn't most tablets, and probably phones, have something in place to connect video to a TV? HDMI would be nice but I'd imagine a proprietary cable of some sort?
As well as the usual "that's not how statistics works"
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I also wonder whether it's possible to detect whether Flash is actually enabled.

You should be able to try to actually do something with a tiny embedded flash application and have that flip a "yes, flash is really on" bit.
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This is especially brilliant in this situation because it would make the OP's website invaluable for over the phone debugging - the (unfortunate) situation in which it is most likely to be used. Numeral lists are anathema to phonecalls.

Great suggestion.
You can query and index json columns using plv8. http://lanyrd.com/coverage/?speakers=leinweber&topics=js... has more details.
Your site at least works. aboutmybrowser.com failed with two of my devices with a generic message. Your site works perfectly.

Well done!
Love this post! Great overview of marketing and communities in open source.

Jason
I remember Sneakers being painful to watch. Great drama, technically painful.
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I concur in all the above. The application is responsive, powerful, and well designed.
Very nice and simple, I like it. Thanks for answering the questions over there, always curious about the inner workings of such things.
Why would that be helpful? I'd want arrays, hashes, integers, etc.
It's been a while since I last spent much time with Java, but to my knowledge it's still missing:

- User-defined value types

- Lambdas

- An equivalent to LINQ (and PLINQ)

- Language-level support for asynchronous programming

- True generics (Java's implementation is essentially syntactic sugar on good old-fashioned typecasting.)

- Extension methods

- Late binding
I can't even begin to count the times where I was unable to resolve a support problem because I didn't know the client browser's... font support?

Yeah, woeful indeed.
Thanks for the feedback, I think you're right.
Sorry, couldn't help myself ;) I really like how straightforward the UI/ordering process is. Very impressive for only 4 days work.