skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
While I agree with your ideals in general, I don't think TPB is a paragon we should uphold. TPB is not like "Robin Hood" at all. Have you seen the extremely deceptive ads on each torrent page that looks like the actual download button? The real download button is a small hyperlink, but they are clearly trying to deceive people into downloading whatever malware is linked. It's more like the rich stealing from the rich and poor in this case.
Color was a completely reasonable investment, great team, ceo, vision. The failure wasn't the fact that they invested, its the check size. The guys at Sequoia should have said, great - love the idea, here's a $1M seed, make it happen. Produce a product we'll follow on with $5M, show traction, then you get the big round to scale.

A big round up front has the appeal to avoid the need to waste a product ceo's time of fundraising round after round. I think the big learning from the color investment is that a big round sets expectations unreasonably high. The press made a field day out of it as a sign of a bubble. The hindsight learning is big upfront rounds don't make sense, iterative investment that maps to the iterative learning of the company makes the most sense.
Indians cannot buy-watch-use digital content legally or easily.

Therefore, Indians do not buy digital content as often as their US counterparts who are able to legally and easily.
The main joke here being that PUE < 1 is impossible by definition, by the way.
No, this post is the best kind of sales pitch. Instead of pitching his product, he uses it to create value for his clients. I found it an excellent read.
I wonder how much of that $41 million is left.
Yeah, but you have to know first that the app exists. This way, they're using the downloads to reach the top of the app sales/downloads list. Probably, most of the people that are looking for free apps, aren't going to purchase anything, so they're not lost sales but good PR.

I wonder what happens if they change from free to paid, do they stay on the most downloaded paid apps list or the stats reset...
Found Android!
https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35.898541,-81.5479...
Updating link, but I didn't test it on 10.7.
That seems better reasoned - you could expand on it and explain why this is a problem, how it should be avoided, how language packages should be integrated with system packages, etc. That would make for very interesting reading.

I'm wondering if a 'new' age of sysadmin is coming along that will basically build a vm-image of an application node, with the OS built using chef/puppet/etc, so that the host packages are as few as possible. Just a thought.
This should be fixed, I forgot that AppleScript will open application if it's not running.
It didn't test well:

http://digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk/2012/10/03/why-weve-chan...
Does it render websites like every other browser, or am I, as a front end developer, going to have to keep adding <!--[if IE10]>, <!--[if IE9]> etc to catch their quirks?
I've used SBCL quite a bit, and only dabbled with others, but I have no complaints about it in particular. It's amazing in what it's able to do, certainly.
That reminds me of the recursive elevator sign:
http://www.thescrabbled.com/posts/66891-The-Recursive-Escala...
Calcium reveals connections between neurons
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I was referring to posting in this thread generally, not that specific comment. Elsewhere in this thread I can be found defending /r/creepshots and questioning the harm caused by the subreddit.

I wouldn't want these opinions attached to my real life identity, not because I don't stand by them, but because people are fucking crazy.

I know there are people out there who would harass me relentlessly simply for saying /r/creepshots was harmless, no matter how much truth there is in the statement.
Sadly, that's not how the patent system is setup in the US. It rewards companies who try to file as many patents as possible and see if they can get those patents granted. It falls on the USPTO to validate and grant those patents.

As the USPTO is underfunded and understaffed, a lot of possibly invalid patents are granted.
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A market has a bid and an ask. They are bidding for you. If the bid is several deep, its not illigitimate to introduce this information into the discussion. But a few considerations:

> Right Time, Right Place

> Relevance, Comparability

> Don't Bluff

Right time is only when it will make a difference. Upfront is not the right time. The right time is when there is an actual/reasonable offer put forth with a flaw or other "bridgeble" gap, that if it were "at market" would be a non-issue. The other offer is evidence of "where the market is at". This is completely fair use.

Relevance and comparability, though, mean that you should not pretend an offer for X is the market for Y. If you do this (on purpose or unwittingly), not only will it most likely not work, you may raise some eybrows. Classic example is using a comp from one market (like, from SF) in another market (midwest), or between job-titles, or whatever. If you are truly deciding between a career in X and Y, you need to be very careful about this.

Lastly, be very careful unless you are willing to walk from the table. If you are 100% OK with taking the other job, for example. Alternatively, if the point you are negotiating is a definitive deal killer (ie, it will make you walk away) then again, it makes sense to consider bringing what you have to help get a deal done. This will give the other party some ammo to use internally to overcome a barrier, which is in both of your interests, etc.
I did not apply through an agency.
Just follow the instructions I linked to above and you should be fine.
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I just don't understand why Microsoft have to invent their own, closed source version of every wheel out there. We already have SpiderMonkey, V8, WebKit, Gecko and they're all open source - why not just use and contribute to those? Why should I be interested in "Chakra" if it's a black box?
You are making a mistake equating calling out hypocrisy with the implication of incorrectness. Nobody is saying he's wrong--they are pointing out hypocrisy.

Listen, I don't care whether Bezos is correct. I know what's right and I don't need to hear Bezos confirming it.

He has transgressed and left a lasting scar in the tech industry. Amazon's "one-click patent" is a household word for "dirty" and "predatory" in the tech world. Bezos needs to at the very least express regret. Better yet, he needs to denounce his earlier one-click patent as absurd, and then license it freely to everyone. Actions speak louder than words.

This is why people are so dismissive of his arguments. He is right, but many of us will never take him seriously.
Thanks a ton for your thoughts and i'm really happy the tool helped you find an opening! To your points:

-I just added a mobile filter (includes all mobile dev) so take a look! hope this helps.

-highlighting filtered words is an awesome idea and it's now on my list.

-Obviously there are still some bugs in the geo-locating and scroll stuff - where are you located?

-I'd love to hear more about what kind of jobs you're looking for and why the opening you found was useful so I can understand how to make the tool better. If you have a second to respond here I'd really appreciate it, or you can tweet/email me @orrenkt/orrenkt at gmail
The 'sharp edges' sign came from a Fark PhotoShop contest many years ago.
This is good, I guess?

I have never understood (even when I was a Windows user) why they locked most of their browser upgrades to the OS. This is perhaps the greatest reason why their market share falls every year.
Crazy, this Mac app is 99% Webkit
you can do this on heap with byte[] using Unsafe.arrayBaseOffset and getInt(Object, long), putInt(Object, long, int) and friends
But you are talking more about key/value model. Which I see as a different use case to document model.

And PostgreSQL HSTORE seems like a bit of a hack to me. It has a ridiculously complex syntax and still not sure how it handles querying other data types e.g. dates.
Yep, it's there, forgot to allow scripts (I use NoScript) before using Firebug to check the scripts! Doh!!
It's surprising that they only went with 2 cloud providers. I would assume they probably have other dormant VM's set up just waiting to be activated.
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IE9 and 10 are rendering my canvas test suite faster than Chrome dev or canary.

I just ran the tests again:

Chrome Canary: 809 tests in 15.714 seconds

IE10: 809 tests in 11.383 seconds

FF16: 809 tests in 26.768 seconds (wtf? this used to be on par with chrome, might be a gpu option I disabled)

edit: Firefox times were off because I apparently had disabled GPU ever since this bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774387

Unfortunately the Firefox canvas bug is still there for non-gpu users. Both FF and Chrome have ignored nearly all non-security canvas bugs that I've filed :(
This would be a great story about 3 years ago
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I'm curious - do you support the removal of /r/jailbait and /r/creepshots? If so, do you really think Reddit harbors no other horrible stuff? If not, do you really think that letting those subreddits exist is a reasonable price to pay for "free speech"?
I like the fact that they had helpline phone numbers before and after the report.

The Werther effect is real and is probably a factor in a few suicides each year.
>Sure, some part of it is due to the fact that they cannot buy-watch-use this material either due to them being delay for years or because they require Credit Cards while most Indians have a Debit Card but that is a very small percentage of the entire sales loss.

You believe that this is some part of it. I believe that this is ALL of it. If media companies made it easier for people to get access to media easily and for a reasonable price, piracy will all but disappear.
I strongly disagree that there is anything misleading about discussing compromising- but- ostensibly- lawful photos of teenagers posted to Reddit by trolls, and submit as evidence the fact that you can't even write a comment about whether such photos were present without proceeding to justify those photos, as you did here ("Besides, there was nothing wrong with most of the content on /r/jailbait either").

Unfortunately, I do agree with you that the only reason anything actually happened on Reddit is that it hit the media, and the admins just want to avoid the wrong kind of media attention. It's unfortunate because there is a more important reason to ban subreddits like that: they exist in order to milk amusement from harm.
As mentioned in the thread, mostly because at this point it's a massive block of battle-tested code. That's not something one scraps and rewrites lightly, and "because I like a different language" counts as rewriting it lightly. The advantages of Lisp do not outweigh the disadvantages of a scrap-and-rewrite.

A kernel with a goal of Linux compatibility is another matter entirely: something in Common Lisp or Go or Rust or some other language could make for a very interesting project. But if someone were to design a kernel from the ground up with this goal in mind, the internals would probably not look all that much like those of Linux. Whether or not that's a good thing is left as an exercise for the reader.
When I play by a game, I use all the rules to my advantage even if I support a change to some of those rules. If I could legally vote twice because I had a college degree, I would -- even though I would support repealing such a rule. Here, we see AMZN maximizing shareholder value (which it MUST do,) and wee see Jeff Bezos suggest that some of the common rules of the game aren't optimal.

Think of the Buffet position on taxes -- he is going to pay as little as he has to, but he wishes everybody in his peer group paid more. He could just give his money to the government, but that is a categorically different action from lobbying for a systematic change.
I don't think it would dry up completely, but the flood of original content would turn into a slow trickle.

Once your real life identity is attached to anything you post, so many topics go off limits. You can no longer talk about your job, your education, your friends, your health, religion, politics, etc.

You can no longer talk about people behind their backs, or embellish stories for entertainment value.

You can no longer post a funny cat picture, or share a cool video, for fear of how it might change people's perception of you as a person.

The list of topics that end up off limits goes on and on.
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Sorry, but I have to call bullshit on the headline. There is, in fact, only ONE Stormtrooper pictured. Not plural "Stormtroopers". ;)

Vader must have made budget cuts.
IMO, I think it's a solution in search of a problem. Hence the reason why you need to come up with a compelling value proposition.
I'm a RoR beginner with a little know-how from other languages like PHP and think you should also include some other interesting parts like Stackoverflow, GitHub, Heroku etc. There is plenty of stuff out there with no real description for a programming-beginner. In my early days I have search for a long time a good description for what a gem is.
And this is only one example, lol.
I work at Google.
Although it's not an option for most sites, I don't think DNS is an issue for TPB. They can just register a new domain name and publicize it, and the word will get out pretty quickly.
Yes, it wasn't entirely clear to me what the ratio was, but I think I get it now.
Technically i's c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts on windows. And it's hidden by default too.
Color: We Are Not Shutting Down
>For the most part it is encouraging people to consume something for free they should have paid for.

You act as though people's consumption of media is this black hole, this void that feeds but produces nothing of value. It can't be further from the truth. People actively market the things they listen to and enjoy. They remix and create new content. They integrate it into their culture and social networks (both the virtual and meatspace ones).

This is value creation at its finest, and yet no dollar amount is placed on it (yet).
I don't quite follow you here.

You're dragging /r/jailbait into the discussion because you think it adds weight to your argument. I'm saying it is no only irrelevant to the current discussion, but even if it were relevant, there was nothing 'wrong' with /r/jailbait.

/r/creepshots and /r/jailbait are completely different animals.
Wow! That happened to me - I thought it was a fluke. When I thought I broke my foot, I had it x-rayed, and they gave me a burned CD. I put it in my mac and noticed it was autorun.exe, and the images themselves were not readily available. I wonder how much they have to pay the x-ray machine folks for that awesome software vs. exporting a bunch of PNGs?
SBCL is perhaps the fastest open-source implementation of Common Lisp. It has incredible developers and a rich set of implementation-specific functionality. SBCL's "home platform" is Linux, but it runs on Linux, *BSD, Mac, and Windows (32-bit only for Windows at present). SBCL's native code compiler rivals C/C++ for speed when properly hinted. SBCL also has the highest-quality integration with emacs (via SLIME) and Vim (via slimv). The developers seem to expect that you will use SBCL with an editor, so the command-line REPL doesn't even have readline support. ITA Software uses SBCL to run all or most of QPX, the search engine behind sites like Orbitz and Expedia. SBCL does its own memory management and likes a large heap. Standalone executable size is large (20+MB) because it includes the compiler. SBCL is derived from CMUCL and thus has a 32-years-mature lineage and is very stable and performs very well. SBCL has excellent threading , Unicode, and 64-bit support.

CLISP is another implementation that is interpteted (i.e. not native-compiled like SBCL i.e. slower in most cases). It has a somewhat nicer REPL and debugger out of the box, and super-fast bignum support. I believe CLISP is what pg used to create Viaweb.

There is also Clozure Common Lisp (predating and not to be confused with Clojure). CCL is well integrated with Cocoa on the OS X platform and seems to be moving in the direction of ARM suport (iOS support in the future?). I have the impression that CCL may be more popular with OS X users, but I have yet to find reason to use it over SBCL on Linux.

ECL (Embedded Common Lisp) is an implementation that translates to C and uses gcc for compilation. ECL builds the tiniest executables (a couple hundred K or less) and is perhaps well-suited both as an extension language and for embedded platforms. ECL does not seem to support all of the libraries I've tried with it, but it supports enough of Common Lisp to be a viable platform for those who require its strengths.
Came here to say this. Haven't been back to try it yet either. Hopefully this postmortem post gets some of those folks to remember the service, try again, and have it work.

UPDATE: I was able to successfully run the emulator without a problem today. It's very impressive IMO and can see why they received so many sign-ups.
I suppose my original comment was not clear. I meant the reddit community, not Reddit, the company. I think the Reddit admins are being reasonably consistent (or at least trying to be).

Banning the article that doxxes the guy is following their rule. Banning all of Gawker is something very different. It's a way for reddit's moderators to punish Gawker for "contempt of reddit".

by not having any kind of release valve beyond a shit storm, they're bringing them on

Very concise, insightful way of putting it!
Every packet passing to Tor is passed through a few hosts, this effectiviely multiplies the traffic, so with your throughput you'll be hogging everyone out.
Fixing a few (mostly mobile) bugs and trying my damndest to market http://flapcast.com -- A web app for streaming and sharing your podcasts.
oh no he didnt!
That email felt weird, didn't look like an email you'd send to employees to tell them you were shutting down.
I have recently joined Microsoft and on my work PC I am happily using IE 10 for a while (evenings, I am a Safari OS X and Chrome user). It just works great, does not over consume memory and resources, provides a seamless experience as good as competitors. frankly, lack of plugins issue still exists, though. IE is no longer a pain in the ass for developers. My blog (html5, responsive CSS) works just fine on IE.

Disclosure: these are not my employer's opinions, only mine.
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Even Microsoft can't work with IE6. It really is incredible how almost a decade of stagnation and bad ideas, as well as poor corporate policies, hurt the web and IE for so long.
> This represents a rare (AFAICR) failure for Sequoia.

??? Too numerous to remember. My favorite is still WebVan: $200M flushed down the toilet.
>but they're certainly not paying the poor.

How so? A lot of the stuff on TPB would be too expensive for the lowest class of working Americans and much more so for most of the rest of the world. It's true that the TPB are profiting out of it (though they are offering a service and covering a market in their own right) but you make it seem like the users are getting nothing out of it. That's blatantly false. A significant part of the 3rd world's technological infrastructure is built on pirated software.
Yeah, but in 5 years, how good will this "good" be? We'll still be dealing with it when that time comes.
Should startups have passive income sources?
I look forward to Bezos matching his words with actions.

It's pretty well known that Amazon's lobbying in DC is entirely focused on preventing Amazon from having to pay state sales taxes. Bezos has never lifted a finger to help any other tech cause -- note that Bezos didn't co-sign the open letter on SOPA from tech CEO's[1], and that Amazon didn't co-sign the company letter[2], for example.

If he does become active on this, that's great. But given his history I'd be shocked if he put real resources behind it. And until he does it will just be empty words.

[1] http://venturebeat.com/2011/12/14/tech-execs-anti-sopa-lette...

[2] http://www.protectinnovation.com/downloads/letter.pdf
Isn't he a little short for a storm trooper?
Venturebeat pointed out that "Color as a company still has plenty of cash in the bank."

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/more-trouble-for-color-sha...
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Color as a company still has plenty of cash in the bank, which means we’re likely to see another product from it before long.

Sounds like cluelessness on the part of the reporter: You don't have a board meeting involving the words "shut down" and then decide it was really "pivot" after the fact.

The money will first go to any bondholders/accounts-payable, then the remainder back to the investors.
Storing Anki decks in Dropbox helps make it more portable. There's also an online sync service you can use.
I am working on Airball - http://airball.in - an elegant dribbble viewer built with Backbone.js.

I am also trying to make a Titanium desktop app out of it.
Rewording of VentureBeat's article.

http://venturebeat.com/2012/10/17/more-trouble-for-color-sha...
Did anybody else notice the RoombaMaster error thrown when you have a Flash debug build?

TypeError: Error #1009: Cannot access a property or method of a null object reference.
at cityblock.flash.flash10.feature.roomba.controls::ElevatorControl/handleNewConfig()
at cityblock.flash.flash10.feature.roomba.controls::ElevatorControl()
at cityblock.flash.flash10.feature.roomba::RoombaMaster()
at cityblock.flash.flash10.feature.roomba::RoombaModule/constructRoombaMaster()
at cityblock.flash.flash10.feature.roomba::RoombaStub/handleLoadComplete()

If that's an easter egg then they really went deep :)
You would need to have been storing cdrs as well as cars for it to be considered valid prior art.
Really? Windows 8 is yet to be released, and Microsoft is already delaying product releases for Windows 7. I am already on Win 8, but if I was a Win 7 user, I would be pretty pissed. And going by their track record, in two years they are going to drop support for Win 7 altogether in Internet Explorer and other applications like Windows Movie Maker.
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Reddit is a private business corporate entity, and not a legislative body of the government, but this back-and-forth about what is allowed on Reddit and what is not illustrates a famous saying about how laws are made: "The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr., The Common Law (1881), p. 1.

On my part, I decided not to get a second username on Reddit after being a very early adopted on Reddit, when there was a foul-up of the user database such that my user account data was lost. I figured a service that could foul up something like that (MSN did the same, years ago) was not ready for prime time, so I have never re-upped. I've never liked the immature, overly long rewritten titles on submissions, or most of the other juvenile behavior seen on Reddit. Yeah, I know, everyone would simply tell me to go look for a good subreddit. I tried that a few times, but decided that the subreddits also have their culture dragged down, even when they are about interesting topics and include thoughtful participants, by the general culture on Reddit. Rather than look for a subreddit, I try to invest in making Hacker News a better community. That works for me.
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