skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I think we've lost track of that in the USA and particularly Silicon Valley (or maybe we never had it.)

I think you're right about SV being focused on scaling ideas at the cost of losing the quirkiness of something small. But, rather ironically, I find that most of the smaller restaurants in SF seem to lack that special quality that can make mom-n-pop shops so great. Unlike the little udon shops you mentioned from Japan, these small businesses in SF seem to be focused purely on scraping by; I rarely find a place that seems like a hidden gem. (Maybe I'm spoiled; used to live in NY and the food options there are drastically better. Often I would stumble upon tiny restaurants that would be fantastic.)

I don't even know if I have a point to all of this, I guess I'm just saying that restaurants in San Francisco do charge high-end prices, but often offer middle-of-the-road quality.
This is an interesting consideration with expedition/adventure team size. There is a tradeoff with redundancy (someone will have a spare x) that keeps the group moving, and the increasing liklihood of somone haveing a problem at any given time. You need to minimize the latter, b/c not just its slower/more comlex, but it eliminates the redundancy (your 1 spare is now used gone, but larger group still to worry about, etc). This is often why an ideal team size is 2, not 8-10.
What happened to the "More" link on saved stories? I can only see the first page.
I'm reading and like 'The C++ Standard Library: A Tutorial and Reference (2nd Edition)' and 'C++ Concurrency in Action: Practical Multithreading'. Both cover C++11. So far the concurrency book's examples compile in VS2012.
> the difference is that back then much fewer people were aware that internet exists

That's pretty much the point. In the time that Facebook got big, hundreds of millions of people were beginning to use the internet to socialize for the first time. They didn't have to unlearn how Friendfeed worked, or abandon their contacts on Myspace, because they had never used these services. It was all new and Facebook snapped them up.

There aren't hundreds of millions more for the next social network to snap up. In the developed world, the internet is done growing. Every North American or European who is ever going to use the internet already does. Everyone who would be interested in using a social network is already on Facebook.

Not literally everyone (we all know a few people who aren't on Facebook), but close enough that the trick they pulled off can't be repeated.
Short term:

I am not a commodity trader.

Long term:

If you believe bitcoin have a higher probability of being a widespread currency than the probability of bitcoin losing total confidence, than it would make sense to move some of your wealth into it.

Otherwise, if you think bitcoin is never going to become a big player and end up going all the way down to zero, you don't put your wealth in it. Maybe you could even bet someone that bitcoin is going to become a bunch of useless binary code.
Those aren't right. There should be an abs() around each trigonometric function.
I really think these tile widgets are not useful or easy to understand for an average user.

Apple has it right: iOS is just an app launcher, and there is just one tier of apps, none of this widget-y stuff.

I will note that small read-only changes can be beneficial to the user (calendar shows current day in icon), but I wouldn't dare make someone try and interact with that.
A very special interview (North Pole IT Operations)
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FYI Its not 1 GBps it 1Gbps!
That core is considerably faster but I don't know about its graphics if it has any.
http://linuxmafia.com/faq/Devtools/parable-of-the-languages....
payment is very inconvenient.

That's why a free payment system (without state control) should be given the top priority.
This "responsive programming environment" you speak of has been around for a really long time. Don't expect sliders and colorpickers to do cool stuff, but this should be a good jumping off point for you to start learning from: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3305164/how-to-modify-mem...
This is off topic, but if your website requires Javascript for me to read a text article, fuck you.
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I read your "As if we lived in a halcyon utopia prior to that..." paragraph as implicitly denying alternatives to the status-quo of modern society. Apologies if this was not your intent; in any case, in that paragraph you have done essentially to Assange's views what I did with my comment to yours. Haha :) May we all live long and prosper; peace amongst all.
All kinds of organizations and people build infrastructure; churches and companies also promulgate laws and provide dispute-resolution forums. What distinguishes the state from other organizations that perform similar tasks is that the state holds a monopoly on (legitimate) violence. This is not a "narrow and immature" point of view; this is the normal definition. Quoting Wikipedia:

The most commonly used definition is Max Weber's,[6][7][8][9][10] which describes the state as a compulsory political organization with a centralized government that maintains a monopoly of the legitimate use of force within a certain territory.
Yeah, it's not so much a moral argument as that I'm willing to pay ~10 seconds and up to $20 (and ideally, $10) for a book.
It's incomplete reporting without the JRE heap, inlining, GC and other options used and some kind of residency and median memory usage data. Also, warmups, hardware and OS (Windows seems to frequently produce interesting results. (I haven't seen a GC testbench for java like dons' gc-tune pkg for haskell, but that would be a great tool
The NSA doesn't use code it can't crack...

AES is broken on-the-fly now.

Even if information is encrypted. They now just store EVERYTHING indefinitely until they can crack it.

Makes you wonder if in the future, when they crack your encrypted content if your grandchildren will get a visit...

The nazi's did that kind of thing too...
Alpha Colony fails to meet Kickstarter funding goal by $28
Thanks, I'm plenty aware of gdb and debuggers:) (ex-google software engineer, etc etc) Go watch the video. Bret presents a very cogent vision for a dramatic improvement on most of today's standard engineering/design tools.
Yup, that's the one I was looking for. Thanks!
It is interesting that this preface has been extracted and hosted on Cryptome. Given the history of Cryptome and Wikileaks; and having had the opportunity back in 2009 to ask Assange in person about his views of Cryptome, I am no doubt his eyebrows would raise as well. I wonder if John Young posted it himself or it was submitted. IIRC part of Assange's concerns around Cryptome were some well reasoned arguments around editorial and source protection policy.
Aw, if I'd known about this I would have kicked in. I guess publicity and outreach is a problem with Kickstarter campaigns as much as anything else.
Absolutely an attention whore.

A few people took on the risk of giving him a treasure trove of stolen documents (the VAST majority of which did had zero positive impact in being released), and he turned it into a soapbox.
We built this in less than 24hours at angelhack.

It's using mechanical turk to present real humans both versions and ask them to answer the question asked by selecting one of the images. It should be a good second opinion but obviously it's not comparable to an actual A/B test on a live website. At that price, you probably can't get cheaper feedback. Considering what average CPCs are for Facebook and Google, this is a pretty good deal.
GW 2: join the fight to guard your home
Part of what makes Reddit so good at what it does is that it doesn't try to be more social. By assigning very few pixels to users and making signup easy, the focus stays on the content of the discussion.

The idea of subreddits applies more generally. One piece of software, one account, many communities with different foci and norms. A more social forum could do the same thing.
Unless you can fix how payment and financing works, it is extremely hard to sell or buy a car online.

This is why carwoo - as it is today - is doomed. Even after you have a deal, you still need to negotiate financing terms and that's when sales tactics come in. The same car can have many prices depending on which bank you choose, apr, etc.

People who pays cash for used cars are the minority.

Explaining why the same car can have many prices: Dealers also make money from banks. They get paid a small percentage of the loan presumed profit, the larger the profit (longer loans) the better. Dealers use that margin to negotiate.
Here's a talk by Gates where he explains it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6w0K5FIgsU
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That's unfortunate as I was trying to get an r-studio like experience.
There have been no charges laid against Julian Assange

Isn't this because he refuses to undergo questioning? As I understood it, the laws under which he is to be charged prohibit laying charges against him until they question him. So in this case, to say he has not been charged is devoid of meaning.
I'm not denying alternatives to it; I'm pointing out that absent a state people still employ violence to assert things like land and property rights, and usually in a more direct and short-term fashion at that.
Funding goals for (all KS I've contributed to) are bare, bare minimums. Better to miss by $28, than make it by $28.
Your story reminds of a girl I dated in college. Her and her sister were #2 and #3 in their HS. They were straight A students in college. People assumed they were just 'smart' and they obviously were not stupid, but what they didn't tell people was just how much they studied. 24 hour study sessions were common. Multiple egg timers around the house they shared going off at all hours during exam time.

I was someone who had it easy in HS and almost failed out of college because I simple didn't know how to study. Watching these two taught me the level of effort required to really do well.
Methinks it happens in automobiles too. And higher end/larger electronic items.

It comes down to
1)logistical costs, i.e. the cost of shipping a final product v/s shipping parts of the product.
2) Safety/damage rates of the items thus transported
3) Speed of transportation in either formats

With the see-sawing of freight rates, Mr. Cook might be tweaking on the cost benefit analysis.
It's nice to learn C, then learn C++98, then learn C++11, stick with it for 5 years and still find that the language has 8379483 quirks you've never heard of.

Bjarne vouches for abstractions. Everyone does. What does Bjarne + standards commitee do? Make old stuff useless, yet make sure the user has to deal with it. Make new stuff so the language becomes more complex. Why do we want abstractions again? Because we want to get rid of useless stuff and make things simple instead of make them complex! What does C++11 do? It goes to the wrong direction. Very, very nice.

When will we have something simple instead?
What good does this do? Should I go into bankruptcy insulating my house with aerogel to protect against severe climate change?

If the weather gets hot or there is a drought, environmentalist scientists tell the media that problem is global warming caused by humans. If the weather gets colder, environmentalist scientists tell the media that problem is climate change caused by humans.

If it gets really damn cold outside, or really damn hot, then we need to make good insulation cheaper. Whining about it doesn't do a damn bit of good.
Look at this way. If there was enough interest out there, this wouldn't have been a problem.
I believe his point is that taken to its logical conclusion, states are able to do all of the things that they do because there is inevitably the consequence of violence for non-compliance. All of your examples result in violence for disobedience: destroying infrastructure, breaking laws, ignoring subpeonas. A core idea is that property ownership requires the threat of violence to work; don't pay your rent but don't move out and the sheriff will show up sooner or later. Do you have an example of something a state does that is not actually supported by its power to wield violence?
There is an "ending soon" filter on Kickstarter, but no "almost funded" option. They should consider adding that in the future.
Somewhar off-topic, but interesting: you can buy some really complicated-looking radio gear. For those of you out there who love stuff with a lot of switches, check out this ICOM radio.

http://www.universal-radio.com/catalog/widerxvr/0095.html

I have no idea what it does -- I'm assuming it's very similar to my son's ham radio -- but it sure looks cool. Hobbies this complex have always been intriguing to me.
Okay, that's good to know. Thanks for checking it out. I am looking for a solution to make it less annoying.
I zoom almost all the time on a 24" monitor even more when reading on a tablet.
Actually, I've read somewhere that a really low percentage of projects are substantially overfunded.
How can you not get yourself (OK, maybe there are validation checks) or a single friend to cover the last $28?
All your comments about practical values of C++ are good. But I would like to point to something else: C++ is a smart, deep language. I mean this in a sense that genuinely brilliant people get real intellectual satisfaction from inventing and discovering C++ idioms and techniques. To me C++ templates rival aspects of Haskell in the sheer expressiveness of a beautifully simple concept.
They're still releasing some Maemo phones, afaik, no?

All in all, being a Microsoft hater or not, I believe it was a good move, though. Symbian was an old messy pile, and Maemo was just... bad.
For the best companies, the MVP will be like the tip of an iceberg. A small, innocous thing that is visible. But will large mass/depth to the idea. Like IBM negotiaing will Bill Gates on DOS. So, yes there is something to this...most articles don't capture the founders deeper insights (if it exists), and often thats intentional (strategic disclosure).
No reason that can't happen too, but the current web repl is more of a proof-of-concept.
Pony up $28 yourself, get $50,000. What were they thinking?
who the heck is Notch?
I agree that the behavior Hysterix provides is a Good Thing, but I'm not convinced that packaging up this behavior into a separate library and open source project is architecturally elegant. Instead, the base-level web services client library should provide this functionality. I'm wary of adding too many modules and too many dependencies to a system.
I would join.
Well, I found both of these interesting so thanks OP.
I'm interested to hear how the Chilean ecosystem has changed as a result. Since I don't live in Chile, I don't have much visibility into that. Can you share your experience?
Was not in the valley; actually in the midwest.

And this was entirely in the context of a startup.
Thanks - you expressed the uneasy feeling I had more eloquently than I could have. Between the library's architecture, the (IMHO) architectural inversion, and the (let's be honest) stilted writing style in the documentation, this project gives me an "I'm just out of college" feeling, which in turn usually makes me run like hell.
Asperger is now autism.
Let me guess: Treating autism pays more?
At least you still can't add custom HTML to your profile. That was, beyond a doubt, the worst part of MySpace.
Was only in the context of a startup.
I bet this guy would have amassed far more funds if his pledge texts hadn't been so uninvitingly big. Kickstarter should really offer a best practices on this: 1) make it simple and easy to understand each level--make your levels cumulative best as you can and then simply say "plus all previous tiers." 2) don't waste your first level on a $1 "get mentioned" reward--you're just sacrificing your above-the-fold real state with something that, from most projects I've seen, doesn't amount to a single decent level pledge (i.e. all those $1 added together make up something like twenty bucks).

Drumming up interest is as much about marketing as it is about content.
I did something similar as a weekend project, haven't checked-up on it in a while but it seems to still work: http://const.it/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240529...

The original idea was just to provide a consistent link which would fallback to a cache when necessary and back to the original content for reddit/hn type traffic. Then it made sense to do some paywall busting and readability functionality on top of it and those features overshadowed the original concerns.
> a hidden record of who you aspired to be, as you became who you are now instead.

Substitute "public" for "hidden", and that line could describe most social media these days.
TLDR: P ≠ NP
Facebook "ordered friends"
Looks like in the final second, they were still $828 short, but someone chipped in $800... Weird.
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>Looks like in the final second, they were still $828 short, but someone chipped in $800... Weird.
Can we bring back hn office hours?
Studying a small amount of economics will also give you this perspective, far more cheaply. (My GF is an economist.)
Started riding motorbikes. I never knew such fun could be had.
When I started coding professionally in 1996 C++ was the go-to language for all kinds of applications, many of which didn't require the speed or low-level control of C++ at all. Predictably, this resulted in a lot of over-budget and buggy apps written by people that didn't understand what they were doing.

Since then a lot of higher level languages and frameworks have whittled down C++'s domain to what it is actually good for, and that's a good thing.

But I write high-performance realtime audio software and C++ is really the only language that makes that possible while maintaining a sane level of abstraction.
I doubt that this is happening due to a direct profit motive. Way more likely that this is simply an effort to save face after all the foxconn drama.
Amazon has strict rules about sending yourself money through Amazon payments. Visa/Mastercard see it as an illegal cash advance, or money laundering. They could step into the gray area and pay someone cash to back their project, or promise to repay them later. If I were in this situation, I feel confident that I could call someone and ask for a $28 pledge. A post on Reddit or HN would have done the trick most likely.
They must not have been watching the final hour of the kickstarter.
I'm saying that governments may be sincere in their motives with censorship, and not betray their motives, but other mechanisms may still pervert and corrupt the implementation.

Don't mistake me for someone in favour of filters.
To be fair, the "big money" jobs aren't so much at Google, Facebook or Microsoft as they are at little hedge funds and prop trading shops. I haven't spent much time looking at the hiring thread this month, but I did see Two Sigma there, so there are some "big money" jobs on this "hipster forum" :).
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You might find this interesting: http://page.mi.fu-berlin.de/prechelt/Biblio/jccpprtTR.pdf

"For all program aspects investigated, the performance variability due to different programmers (as described by the bad/good ratios) is on average about as large or even larger than the variability due to different languages."

But I still wouldn't discourage people from learning C and C++. They're not magical fast code juice, but being able to work closer to the machine when it does make sense is obviously better than not being able to. All of the good programmers I know personally can work in at least one of the two.

Besides, people deciding to learn C and C++ just might become good enough to beat the machine after all.
> We started a change.org petition. Not entirely sure
> what it'll do to help

"nothing"?
You know, the title of the article is "Never mind talent, practice, practice, practice."

I really think that this ability to doggedly focus, practice, and maintain this level of effort is, itself, a talent.

I mean, I can't study for 10 minutes straight, much less 10 hours. It's certainly a talent I wish I had.
The ui looks terrible. Basically android, with left and right swipe widgets, and this is somehow revolutionary. Yawn
Yes, I believe mental illness is underdiagnosed, and that illness (or "predisposition" to illness) that is asymptomatic normally can be dangerously symptomatic in the presence of cannabis.

Like you, I have firsthand experience with friends who have had this problem. I also know enough people who have had this experience with their friends to be fairly confident that this is a common problem.
All other platforms but for Linux have much more user-hostile leaderships - and Linux is user-hostile for different, more incidental reasons. The only platform with hope for the user is Android, and it's not clear how it's going to play out in the long term, whether rooting will be tolerated or clamped down upon when in the presence of DRM.
Show HN: Startup docu teaser #02: Steve Huffman (Reddit / Hipmunk)
If all (or even a significant fraction) of your net worth is in Bitcoin, then you are indeed a commodity trader; you're just dealing in a particularly silly commodity.
This is material from a 2h interview with Steve Huffman, http://www.hipmunk.com/ It consists of scenes that I probably won't use in the docu but wanted to share with folks anyway.

Blog about the docu: http://startup-dna.tumblr.com/
Twitter: twitter.com/@startup_dna

The docu is about startups, venture capital, programming and education. I'm bootstrapping this out of my own pocket and it's my first documentary. My ambition is to make this film as authentic and 3-dimensional as possible. I'm showing accomplished entrepreneurs and underdogs who just started their businesses side by side and capture their insights about startups on screen. If you have ideas for people I should interview and can provide intros as well, please post their names below so readers can upvote candidates they would like to see. Feedback is much appreciated. Thank you!
Not really what I was expecting...
"I find it unimaginable that any team can work itself into such a good position and then blow it away over seemingly petty issues."

Why are you calling them petty?

Do you find divorce similarly unimaginable? Most co-founders know each other less well than most newlyweds and spend way more time together.
I think the point is that the web platform should be able to do all these things natively.

Right now, the implementations aren't perfect - and cross-browser support is definitely lacking. But ultimately, I think it's hard to argue that the end goal of having this stuff baked in to HTML and JS is better than relying on a proprietary 3rd-party plugin.
Project gets $49,972 out of $50,000 goal.
Creator says "clearly there simply isn't that much interest in building the kind of game I envisioned."

o.O;
I believe it was within the last few seconds. Still, if he was that close it'd of made sense to get a friend to back $100
Ah, that makes sense. I'm pretty out of date for anything post DoD/RZR, which was 2001.
Speaking from personal experience, that talent itself can also be developed and improved. It's not easy, and can definitely take awhile.

'The Art of Learning' by Josh Waitzkin could be a good start for someone who wants to improve in this area.

Of course, one could also learn how to make their study technique more effective so they don't need to spend 10 hours. See 'Your Memory: How It Works and How To Improve It' by Higbee for that.
You must not live in a house with 512kbps upstream.

Doing a full system backup to, say, S3 would take literally weeks. And my cable connection's downstream bandwidth is so small it's unusable while uploading (20mbps otherwise). I physically cannot backup my hard drive to the cloud over the Internet; all I have is an external hdd in the same room. I would love the offsite storage capability of a service like this.