skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
His company is geared towards a clear mission which is very motivational to the engineers and managers in team. When a company drives towards a goal with a fanatical zeal, nothing else matters than achieving the milestones. Motivation towards achieving breakthrough achievements will mask the tendency which creates underperformance.

It would be wrong to compare it with any other traditional big company. The structures built around traditional big business work because of some reasons.

Once they achieve the goals of easier space flight and mission to mars and when it become easier or less motivational, probably they will face similar issues like most companies. But i don't this Musk cares a damn about that ... and he shouldn't
This is amazing! It's everything a visualization should be: simple, to the point, interactive.
I've been there and it hurts. I started working as a software dev at the end of my first year. Bottom line, I chose the non-research route. I stuck to classes only with one big exit project to validate my Masters. Other than that, 4 hours a night and taking full advantage of weekends. Good luck
"Paying for Google Apps expecting support is a crazy idea"

Got it.

You're paying for the service, not always the support. The margins on the former are much better, and thus they probably don't stress about losing those more expensive customers that feel entitled to support.
Congratulations.

I'm going to echo the more pleasant half of HN and say don't let anybody dismiss your accomplishment. Shipping is all that really matters and shipping is hard.
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If you use the buttons at the top, you can in effect zoom the chart to see how it plays out.
Use a native HN app.
Yea, people see what they are interested in. At the same time, I am really stoked by what I am learning as the Ruby Community "remembers" classic OO design.

Here are a few recent examples hinting that the Ruby community is moving on from "Fat models and skinny controllers" to the beginnings of really teaching each other about classic OO...

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1115-gogaruco2012-go-ahead-m...

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1233-aloharuby2012-refactori...

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1112-gogaruco2012-sugar-free...

http://www.confreaks.com/videos/1133-scrc2012-thinking-in-ob...
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A few comparables:

My training list (need a better name for that) gets between 40 and 60% or so per mailing, long term average is 50%.

BCC typically gets about 40% on its "monthly" emails, although those are more like "semi-annually" these days -- didn't even send the Halloween one this year.

Clients' numbers are clients' numbers but, anecdotally, if you could wave a magic wand and get 40% from their lists they are interested in what you are selling and would like to subscribe to your newsletter.
Earl Sweatshirt fan creates new way to download.
Twl's connect to free content.
Well, watfiv was kind after my fortran career, so I cant clarify from there.
Yesh, I'm trying to intentionally seed HN with machine learning, robotics, immortality tech (focused ultrasound, radiosurgery) to break the web filter bubble. PG and his crew should be getting into the AI/biomed bubble.
It was done in Kobold2D, a version of Cocos2D that's also free.
Jeff Han: Simultaneous pen + touch is the future of productivity apps
SkimThat is kinda neat. I too have made a (unfortunately unpopular) website, more of a wiki in my case, based on the idea of hiding details: http://www.bookvoid.com

I think it would be nice in SkimThat if the news summaries could be made visible without navigating to a new page (That's how I do it in Bookvoid). Readers would only need to go to the new page if they wanted to see the comments or source.
My Chinese cards (ICBC and Bank of Shanghai) charged nothing even remotely close to these fees when I used them in Taiwan, HK or Singapore. None of them had visa or mastercard logos though. They were on the UnionPay (银联). Similarly when I used my Taiwanese card (Fubon I think) in the US, I was only charged 70NT (~$2USD) for using an ATM as long as I could find a US ATM that didn't charge me.

In short, my experience has been that East Asian banks don't rip you off with exorbitant fees. They have terrible wait times and truckloads of annoying paperwork to do anything, but they're very restrained about fees.
Git config push.default matching
What's the best way to check your text to see if it will set off spam filters?
You're the coolest 15 year old. Email me (profile) when you upload, I'd love to check it out.
I can insist on engaging with my tools as an unfettered human being and still have so much remaining to learn that I need to triage. If there's a problem here, it isn't mine, and insults are not going to get Shen more traction. It won't be the first tool passed over for being needlessly hacker-hostile.
I think if you stop thinking of it as "switching to metro" you might be happier. In your example you're just opening the start screen, where you select Visual Studio, which opens in the desktop because that's its native environment. At no point are you "switching", or rather I don't think you need to conceptualize it that way.
Designer eager to become Developer
I have put together a few web pages (html,css,jQuery) but am very new to Web Development. I have only done front-end design. I am comfortable with Linux but don't know Apache or MySQL but am in the process of learning Rails as my framework. Will learning Rails be better then learning a LAMP stack for getting a website online? Or am I comparing apples and oranges? And what would be some different hosting options for each?
If I'm parsing this right, you're saying women's social status is mostly based on looks (you say it's better around then) and less so on (cay) career, whereas men's social status is less based on looks, and more on career.

Exactly.

I'm just a principled person, and want to fight this!

You're fighting against millions of years of evolution. Speeches aren't going to do it, very advanced biotech might.
Ditto. I'm no fan of the paper, but they're doing things practically every week which are ahead of everyone else in the industry.
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You're wrong.

The Tesla Roadster was a modified Lotus Elise with off the shelf components combined with an off the shelf electric engine and a container of common laptop batteries all coordinated with on board software. They used this base to design the Model S. Giant leaps or explosive growth are only called as such by naive people who weren't watching the thing being painstakingly set up over many years. Everything is a slow burn - there are no explosions - only ignorance and inattention.

Furthermore the design occurred mostly in simulations in a gradual, agglomerative, iterative fashion just like most software. It's why they can bring out cars so quickly nowadays.

Your argument is the same as the creationists. Everything is iterative evolution. There are no leaps of faith, miracles or gods - just directed random evolution.
Electronic Frontier Foundation - No Copyrights on APIs
Which Way Is This GIF Spinning?
Ever since I updated to Windows 8 on launch day, I've only been on the "Start Screen" once. I never used the start button in the first place and I don't really miss it in Win 8. The performance seems a bit better, boot times are much better and no more of the Aero gloss.

If you use Visual Studio that frequently, why not pin it to your taskbar?

Why not use something like Launchy if you terribly miss the start button?
One example of the first one:

http://mikehadlow.blogspot.jp/2010/03/functional-dependency-...
It's spinning left, then right.
I actually think this is an fair comparison, but not for every lawyer. There are plenty of lawyers I know who spend most of their time trying to end the war entirely.

I'd say 99.9% of lawyers give the other 0.1% of us a bad name.
just as if I knew that I lived in an area where a certain race commits more crime, it would be racist of me to cross the street if I saw a person of that race coming

Suppose through a sequence of unfortunate events you find yourself needing to walk through a bad section of town. You have your choice of two roads. Down one road you see a group of 5 young men of a race that commits crimes significantly higher than average. Down the other road there's a group of 5 middle-aged women of a race that commits crimes less than average. Is it acceptable to be racist, sexist, and ageist in this scenario?
PG and his crew are guaranteed to be far outside the AI/biomed bubble. You need to talk to the Chinese soon, Bubba. Try Goertzel.
Damn, I wish I lived in one of the states that gets to choose our president.
Agree. Idea of having "reactive" documents came up in another HN thread recently, and this seems to be an implementation of such. Very cool.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4715978
if you're my kid, I encourage you learn more STEM, doing game is just evil and a waste of time.
In fact, the cleverest and most productive ones have tended to be more socially successful, not less.

Sure. Lacking social skills certainly doesn't help you in tech; it just hurts you less than in most other fields.
Does anyone know if I should be as scared as I am that there are 5 paths to tie? Is that the norm in a presidential election? because it sounds crazy.
FYI that's not a bell curve. It looks much more lognormal or Beta to me (or even Weibull or Gamma could fit it, if you didn't care about how meaningful the parameters were, or wanted to get creative in interpreting them).

If you go with Beta, Weibull, or Gamma distributions, mean and standard deviation are the wrong vocabulary to use. Obviously you can't tell just by looking at the plot, but it's an easy test to show definitively if it's normally distributed or not. The difference here is meaningful, depending on how much you want to read into the distribution of open rates.
This was built during Twilio's hackathon. It was built and live within 5 hours. Not sure if there's a whole lot in the way of infrastructure built out. However, it's a great start!
Deferreds in Twisted make it easy to chain asynchronous code with error handling together:

def parseData(data):
return doManyFancyThingsWith(data)

def parsedAsyncResult():
return asyncResult().addCallback(parseData)

def callback(data):
print 'Parsed data:', data
def errback(err):
print 'Oh no, something went wrong!'
parsedAsyncResult().addCallbacks(callback, errback)

If an error is raised by either asyncResult() or parseData(), it will be caught by the errback function, even though parsedAsyncResult() didn't explicitly do anything to pass errors along.
Oh that's a great one, cheers!

I'm also quite fond of http://icomoon.io/ - There's a lot of decent free fonts but the real beauty is that you can add your own icons and create a custom font with just the ones you need!
Show HN: My HTML5 Multiplayer Space Game, ShootR
Trust me you do not want. Watching TV or the radio is impossible without being inundated.

It's time to switch to popular vote and end this gaming of the system.
>Language wars bore me

The Haskell vs. everything else language war really is important though. All the languages you mention are basically the same thing with slightly different syntax or a slightly different runtime environment. Haskell, on the other hand, revolutionizes the way you approach code. Or at least it did for me.
Don't forget people who may have * installed UserScripts / GreaseMonkey scripts * Browser plugins other than Google Toolbar which may send stuff to the big G * (Self-)modded browsers which send out stuff to wherever...the list goes on and on indeed.

Best thing to do to keep a site secret:
* Don't host it on the internet (d'uh)
* Hide behind a portal page and have that and your server weed out misconfigured / hijacked browsers before any can proceed to your real secret site (also see web cloaking).
I'm not convinced. 100% original research.
I was talking about the variety of games available on PS1 rather than simply which system had more top10 games, which is highly subjective. The PS1 hand thousands of games available and if you were into imports you could get your hands on japanese gems as well, literally quadrupling the games available for the system. There was no other system like it (the closest in that regard being the Saturn). The N64 never reached that kind of "standard" status and therefore the offering and third party support was limited at best. As to whether the N64 was a more powerful system, yeah, it may have been, but on consoles we all know that software makes the different more than hardware.

There's a clear reason why the N64 sold way less than the PS1: it was just a much better deal to get a PS1 if you wanted to play lots of different games. The market is not stupid :)
The Twitter Spelling Test Quiz from The Oatmeal
They're pretty low likelihood events. Wikipedia appears to have a pretty solid writeup of the electoral college system (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_College_(United_State... ) which includes the various mechanisms states use to select their electors.

The vast majority of the states are winner-take-all, which presumably reduces but doesn't eliminate the possible ways to split 538 down the middle, but some states either only have a single electoral vote or use mechanisms which can divide their electoral votes between the candidates.

So, yeah, every election has this chance. Probably isn't going to happen though. This is conjecture, but I'd hazard a guess that a Bush v. Gore style dispute over a single large state which holds the balance of the election is way more likely than an actual numerical tie where the House would choose the president and the Senate the VP.
I used to refer to this in some conversations as the "permission to be less than perfect", but "permission to suck" is crisper :)

The "permission to suck" pill needs to be taken along with the "desire to improve" pill. In other words, pay less attention to your current state and more to the trajectory - i.e. where you're heading. If the heading is right, then it is only a matter of time before you reach an arbitrary benchmark of your choosing.
It may actually happen in our lifetime.

The small states would never allow such a change to the constitution. (A presidential voter in Wyoming has almost 4 times the vote of a Californian.) But the big states may have found a work around: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstat...

In short, the states that agree to the compact agree to proportion all of their electoral votes to the winner of the popular vote. (For example, if Romney wins the national popular vote, CA would give Romney all of CA's electoral votes.) The compact will only kick in once the states that have ratified it have 270 electoral votes (enough to win). It's already about halfway there at 132.

How crazy would it be to see campaigning in California and New York?
They provide pretty good tools already. If you leverage their API and S3 you can migrate AMI's and EBS's across regions quite effectively. Could the tools get better, yes. But it's not as hard as it is often made out to be.
+1. I guess the blog is more about: you have a great ambition, but try solve a small problem first and see if people are interested. Then grow it.
(not necessarily the offending process)

It's terrible about this with PostgreSQL. The OOM Killer tends to thump the postmaster, not the offending backend.
That depends on what you mean "more memory than you have". If it's more physical RAM than is currently available, not necessarily a problem - some other processes can be pushed out of RAM into swap. If it's more than that, some pages can be discarded because they're backed by binaries on disk. If it's more than that, some processes can be killed. If it's more than that, really bad things happen.

The problem is that there's no good way to differentiate between a process that merely wants more VM that it'll never touch and a process that wants actual RAM. In theory, every fork() should double your VM requirements - in practice, almost all are immediately followed by an exec() and the previous allocations are irrelevant. Do you fail fork() because you can't guarantee you can back every modified page in the new process? If not, why should you fail malloc() because you can't guarantee you can back it? There's no correct answer, and Linux lets you control which answer you want via /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory .
At 14, I was busy playing soccer. I didn't get to computers and coding till I was 17-18, when my brother bought a PC. So jealous of you guys who build such awesome stuff at this age ! Way to go..!
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Yeah I'm not so sure. If Haskell is so great why isn't it dominating? Where are the Haskell phones, apps, services etc?

Don't get me wrong - I enjoy it. But I've learned a few things throughout my life. First, the one true crowd is always wrong. Two, if it's so good - use it, and prove it.

A lot of functional stuff is a ton of gushing talk - but no product walk.

When Haskell runs on billions of devices or serves trillions of pages or produces trillions in revenue call me. Otherwise, I'll just keep shipping with my lame proven product producing languages.

Functional languages have so far been all talk and no walk.
Every time I join the YouTube HTML5 trial it gets silently turned off and videos start playing in Flash again a week or two later. Does that happen to anyone else?
Ask HN: what's your favorite PHP Function name?
This question sounds like crazy right? Just humor me :)

What is your preferred name of all the PHP Built-in function?

Disclosure: doing a study!
How to Tweet Responsibly During a Breaking-News Event
Yes if you call "not doing anything worthwhile and just playing around the whole day" as bragging, then I'll brag a bit too :)

But..agree with your observation. Humans stay humans..!
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I(Ryan Cheu) was on the team that made this if anyone has questions!

Most of my work was on implementing the actual calculations for relativistic effects.

It was coded in Unity Game engine in C# mostly. The hard calculations are actually all calculated in a shader written in Cg (mostly just C) so they're on the graphics card.
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A purely popular vote system has its own flaws. In particular, national elections would be reduced to politicians catering to voters in a few high-density regions rather than attempting to appeal to a geographically dispersed electorate.
Ever considered organizing a startup weekend?
Obama's going to win. The only reason you hear pundits talking about it is because they get paid to talk about it. The media controls the messaging these days, not the candidates or the people, and it's in the media's interest to maintain as close a race as possible until the bitter end.

That's why even the most partisan pundits, even when everything's in their candidate's favor, keep claiming that "this is such a close race".

TBH the only way Romney is going to be contentious is through voter suppression, and that's been so heavily exposed in critical areas that it's not going to have any effect as long as the justice system holds its ground.

removes tinfoil hat

(BUT EVERYONE PLEASE VOTE IF YOU ARE ABLE, IT'S CRUCIALLY IMPORTANT NO MATTER WHERE YOU LIVE)
I don't get it. It's a photo. Can you elaborate on what I'm looking at?
Yes, Like IntegerFloatAdding. If a programming language needs a pattern for adding an integer and a float, well, you have to call this pattern something. Until such a language is made, we can forget about "IntegerFloatAdding Pattern".
I must admit that I did think that malloc would use VM if necessary hence giving a potentially "unlimited" address space

There's no distinction between "VM" and non "VM" as far as malloc is concerned. From the perspective of the process, it's one big, flat address space. It's always "virtual", because the values of the pointers do not necessarily equal the physical layout of the memory that is directly backed by RAM.
Remember this? http://www.gizmodo.com.au/2012/05/adobes-photoshop-security-...

They left Photo CS 5.5 users twisting in the wind, recommending customers pay to upgrade their one-year-old software to CS 6.

I don't know if it was the external pressure or a slow in-house process, but it took them a month to release a fix for CS 5.5 users: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb12-11.ht...
It's instantaneous. There's no answer in physics for what should happen when you change the speed of light because that simply just can't happen. Therefore we didn't bother doing something like prorogation at the speed of light.

We don't do gravity calculations, along with a few other things because we didn't have time and they make the other effects hard to see.

In the future I would have liked to continue with the project and implement some of this though.
It had to be written in C# in the Unity Engine so it's kinda slow. The other issue was that I had no access to the culling system besides just turning it off so every object in the scene is rendered every frame.

I think the limitation would be on the GPU side, or at least it was on the system I was testing on.
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Well that's officially one of the most annoying services I've ever attempted to use.
There are other voting systems that should yield less catering to the extremes: http://zesty.ca/voting/sim/
GhostShell releases 2.5 million Russian government accounts
ARM software development gets a major boost
Wait... wat.

I have to copy some characters, and then type them into some form. But I can't type them. I have to click on things in a really awkward interface. And then there are the popups, and how it's hilariously unresponsive, meaning it doesn't work on the only devices this interface would make sense on.

I'm not ragging on you for the fun of it, I'm basically wanting some background on why you went down this path? Are you always going to stick to 3 characters? You've not used case, but you do have a few digits, but that's still only ~47k unique values.
This project is in its early stages but was ultimately developed to showcase some of the capabilities of Microsoft's Asp.Net SignalR.

Most of all it's open source: https://github.com/NTaylorMullen/ShootR so feel free to pick it apart as you will.

A SS to let you see what it's like: http://i.imgur.com/9XrX0.png.
Can anybody recommend a way to avoid Callback Hell in Objective-C?
A couple hidden features: 1. You can option-click on any of the buttons to see the transition in super slo-mo. (This was mainly for debugging, but it's fun to see how the transitions work in more detail.) 2. You can double-click on any part of the tree, and it will zoom in by one level.

Also, we did a variation that used state-level probabilities to weight the tree. This gave a sense not just of the logical possibilities, but of the likelihood of each, which I liked. However, the FiveThirtyEight state-level probabilities are not fully independent, so you can't multiply them together to compute conditional probabilities. Perhaps next election!
The goal we were given at the start of the summer was just to create a tech demo, the team tried to make a game out of it as much as possible though. The original plan was to release a tech demo at the end of the summer and then make a game with it after, the after part hasn't started yet though, and I'm not sure if it will.
This is correct, doing away with API copyright all together is only solution.
The base domain is http://signalrshootr.cloudapp.net/. We simply registered a better domain name for it..... You can still reach it from the original domain. You'll see it's the same server.
I believe it breaks if you don't have a lot of memory on your GPU. Never got around to fixing that.
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