skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In this case, Btrfs has not invented anything new. Hashed directories are a standard technique used in all modern filesystems, including Ext3/4 or XFS. It would be interesting if someone tried to get hash collisions in them with modern hardware.
New Hampshire Cops Use Taser On Woman Buying Too Many iPhones
They should partner with http://printstagr.am/ and make money off their users.
While I do agree that Microsoft probably needs to change their direction a bit (I'm not fan of Windows 8, but then, I'm a Linux user so that speaks for itself), I don't completely agree with your assertion.

First, think about what you said. "Excel and Word are the only things keeping them alive."

That's a generalization. Yes, Office is most certainly their cash cow, and generates tons of revenue from businesses and enterprise in general (to say nothing about higher education and government). But guess what? Office users will (generally) have Windows installed, particularly in larger enterprises. So, using one almost guarantees using the other.

I think it also ignores Microsoft's gaming division (think Xbox et al). So, no, I don't think MS is quite as badly done for as some may think. Focusing on Windows and Windows' success (or failure) exclusively is to ignore the rest of the picture.

I do agree that they may need to reconsider what path they're on (they've been doing some soul-searching to that end) but on the other hand, it's equally important to remember that Microsoft enjoys a lot of momentum in the marketplace, most especially with big business and many governments. Could Windows 8 change that? Maybe. Heck, it might even hurt them down the road. But terms like "vendor lock-in" exist for a reason, and I believe MS has previously done a fantastic job at illustrating why. The death of Windows won't be sudden, and it certainly won't be proclaimed first by Goldman Sachs.
> What I mean is that it is hard to find women that actually WANT to live a life of sacrifice, living for the family, instead of living to themselves.

Well, in most of the western world women had no choice in the past but to take on those roles, regardless if they wanted to or not. That we see women rejecting this kind of role because they have more choices is a good thing. I'm sure there's plenty of folks out there that still want that lifestyle, but there should be no default assumption of that being the suitable gender role for women.

> "Hell no, the kid can stay in the creche, or watching TV with the babysitter, I must work."

If someone wants to do this and has the means to do so, is there a problem? Sure it might not match what you want with your life, but that just means that person isn't the parental partner for you.
Yeah, it's a pretty ludicrous statement. When was the last time Marc Adreessen had to pay a bribe?
Has anyone mentioned the Ninja Turtle sheets that come with a rental? Nothing says Hacker like a night with Donatello!
I get that every time i use an iphone. Feels like the "Web 2.0" era or some shitty flash-game where everything consists of rounded corners and gradients. The sms-view really makes me cringe.

Not in line with apples otherwise timeless designs at all.
Google gets a break on FTC probe, but not out of the woods yet
> Given that you appear to be disagreeing with the vast majority of climatoligists on this topic

Huh? I'm quite sure the overwhelming majority agree with me.

> I'm wondering if you could share your credentials and/or cite the source of your theory that the data does not point to global warming?

The people spouting about global warming are the same clowns who were wringing their hands about global cooling in the 70s. The moment I hear warming or cooling the only word that bubbles up in my mind is idiot.

It's global climate change.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling
Time to buy the domain websitehidden.com.
Jammie Thomas Takes Constitutional Argument To SCOTUS
Storytree releases SimplePrints iOS App
Somewhat OT, but I suppose I brought it up in my comment.

Can you clarify your question? Are you referring to "you" as in AirBNB or "you" as in the host/owner of the apartment? And by "me" do you mean yourself as a host or yourself as an AirBNB user/guest?

Who do you think owes you a check and for what risk exactly?
> Good thing those people were not around when the computer was invented.

That's a trope that's misapplied here. These people aren't just fighting "progress" in some vague sense. They're fighting something that disrupts their arrangement with the City of New York. And this isn't same sweet-heart, back-room arrangement. Cabs are a basic part of the transportation infrastructure in the city. More than half of households in New York don't have a car (75% in Manhattan). It's also one of the top tourist destinations in the country. The city regulates cab companies heavily, and in return for things like requiring them to serve riders regardless of destination, it gives them certain protections from competition. Cab companies in the city are basically like public utility companies.

Uber is not subject to these regulations. The cab drivers are entirely justified in pushing back to force a discussion on how Uber should fit into this semi-public/semi-private transportation system.
I print handwriting. I use a Wacom-enabled digital notebook for taking notes in class because it syncs with Evernote which means I can study anywhere from any device. I take handwritten notes on it, and print them if I need to distribute something I wrote/drew.

I don't know if that's how this person did it, but that's one way it's possible.
Which version of the Maps app are you using?

I don't see these blurred pixels on my phone, but note that this kind of rendering can also happen with a vector based map: The application has to convert the vector information to a bitmap anyway, for a given zoom level. When zooming in, it is possible that the app shows a zoomed-in version of this bitmap while it is generating a new one in the background.

By the way, it is not necessary to answer every single comment with a link to your screenshot. It is annoying to see the same thing repeated 5 times when reading the thread.
more and more companies are stripping their desktop framewoks for native code on mobile. Mozilla ditched XUL for native in mobile ff a while back because of performance too. Android already has so many layers.

wonder what B2G perf will be like. excited.
My wife won't watch the kid or work (productively). She does online tutoring "work" for effectively ~$3/hour about 5 hours a day while daycare costs ~$7/hour.

I can think of very few choices more important in life than who you marry and bear offspring with. Sadly in my case, none of her habits became visible until well after we had married and had a child.
At least it wasn't the Mars Rover!
Now Google "Jim Clark," and reflect upon possible scenarios under which Netscape was born and Andreesen's role therein. Opsware had the benefit of the already-successful, a privilege of the Fundamental Attribution Error, which is the mechanism of VC that he has the ability to use in his current endeavors, while also making use of the other engine of venture capital: connections.
I sat next to someone in my marketing class a few years back who wrote all of his notes backwards. He was left-handed, and wrote English in reverse.
Trust relationships of intermediate SSL certificate authorities
Wouldn't the pre-ZIP code address look something like
Chicago 37, Ill?
“What a Year in Linux” Video Celebrates Success
And take a new photo with the toilet seat down, for God's sake.
Way to go guys!
_Known_ bugs is the key part of his point.
Hey Zeljko,

Thanks so much for leaving feedback - really appreciate it. It helps a lot, and thanks so much for your kind words as well. Just out of curiosity, why would you prefer sass and haml? Have you tried stylus and jade? If not, you should give them a shot!

You're definitely right that there are a lot of alternatives - I just think roots is the best. If there are any other features that you can see as helpful, by all means let me know and I'd love to try to integrate them!
As with anything, there is an enormous online discussion forum dedicated to fountain pens:

http://www.fountainpennetwork.com/forum/

You should find anything you need there. Just try not to get ink on your shirt.
Western democracies join together and defend Internet freedom.
Woisio launches public beta with a US wide Music, Video and Blog Challenge
woisio is your TV, radio and magazines glued together where people pick what's on.

Its mission is to resolve the couch potato compatibility issues in the online media release 0.1 developed by you know who.
All this chart shows in an increase in the number of single mother households over time, particularly starting in the 1960s/1970s, in the United States. Whether or not you see that as sad depends on what you know of the living conditions women experienced in the time before that, conditions which gave rise the 2nd wave feminist movements. Suffice it to say the same underlying social and gender disparities existed prior to the increased occurrence of divorce and US society was not more stable or better off before that increase.
> What worries me is that essentially content-creators can't use Reddit without becoming a part of Reddit's community and 'paying their dues' as it is.
> Reddit's mods and users have banned or severely punished even major newspapers who wanted to just post their articles on Reddit, and not become Redditors themselves.

A lot of those content creators toe the line between marketing their content on Reddit, and spamming it.

I have a moderately high karma on Reddit, and sometimes get private messages asking me to help people get submissions upvoted in r/politics, and other subreddits. It almost always sounds shady, and I almost always reply with the same thing - post quality content relevant to the subreddit with good titles.

Newspapers trying to post content to reddit without "paying their dues" is like trying to get free advertising. If you have to pay for ads with money, what's wrong with paying for reddit views with "dues" and becoming part of the community?
Thank you! Yeah, you can absolutely use plain js. You can just drop a plain js file in there and delete the coffeescript - everything should still compile perfectly.
Why Apple Drops Features & How to Deal With it
> If a compiler can't automatically eliminate tail calls, that's either a design flaw or a bug

You may know this already, but my understanding is that Clojure opts to not automatically eliminate tail calls in order to use Java calling conventions, which I imagine simplifies or eases interop. I'm not defending this decision, as I don't have much of an opinion on it, but to call it a design flaw or a bug seems a bit disingenuous as there is definitely a tradeoff to be made.
What I didn't like this article was that it was so full of self-congratulation and completely bereft of any mention of serious problems visible on the horizon. Unbounded self-assurance is the doorway to destructive optimism.

There are many things to be concerned about, ecologically and economically. But if excessive optimism leads people to believe that these problems are only being made up by "doom-sayers" and "chicken littles" (like, say, the few who predicted serious fallout from the real estate derivatives market), then nothing will be done about them. Causing pain and suffering which could otherwise have been avoided or reduced.

Fortunately, there are serious people doing serious work to address potential risks. Articles like this one are primarily aimed at simple-minded people who can't really understand the hard questions, and need a certain amount of fluffy encouragement to keep them getting up in the morning.
1. Facebook is a for profit company.

2. Facebook probably wants to seek a direct monetary ROI on Instagram.

3. Facebook may or may not have figured out that strategy. Either way, not revealing those details is an indication of nothing beyond standard business practice.

4. Some users don't like ads, which is evident by the popularity of ad blocking tools.

5. Some users don't mind ads, some even click on them, which is evident by the revenue ads generate.

What part of this article brings anything new to the table that we haven't known for months/years?
It looks practically the same as dropbox & basecamp homepages to me, to use other examples of massive behemoths in the new wave of successful startups.

To me, it certainly doesn't look un-trust worthy and is better than 99.99% of home pages. What do you consider a 'trusted company' look? Be interesting to link some examples! Always fascinating to see how massively taste makes a difference. I don't want to put words into your mouth, but is Salesforce's homepage a trusted company look?

I'm not even a github fanboy, I think their interface still needs a lot of work and has a lot of massive annoyances (e.g. showing commit messages next to files and folders, bloody awful UX choice IMO, so confusing). And I still don't get the point of the command bar/search uselessness. Google searches github a lot better than they do thanks. And Reddit. And Hacker News. And Stackoverflow. So much wasted programming time making useless search systems, so annoying the Chrome bizarrely tries to actually use those search systems.
How To Double Your Leads Using Craigslist
Man-made? More like man-triggered:

"The Zipingpu reservoir’s apparent triggering of the Wenchuan earthquake is an unprecedented case of reservoir-induced seismicity that presents huge challenges for scientific theory."

There is way too little potential energy in that reservoir to cause an earthquake on that scale.
That's extremely uncharitable. The major difference that you gloss over is that one has tools to stop fork bombs, but there are no tools to stop this kind of attack.

This attack can easily be used to disrupt systems. I can imagine every naive implementation of file upload out there being vulnerable to this. When the system goes to delete old uploaded files, it halts.

I'm not sure how "making deletes take a long time" is not a DoS attack.
I found the thesis of this essay to be a foregone conclusion.

We know that math is a universal language that, as far as we know, is capable of describing every phenomenon in the universe. And while Computer Science (if you can even call it a science) has had a storied history with mathematics it's not unusual to me to see maths used as a tool rather than the foundation of study. It's the same in many other fields such as physics, engineering, chemistry and so on -- mathematics is a useful tool and nothing more. In Computer Science mathematics is a useful language for discovering and discussing the properties and consequences of algorithms and their computation.

It stands to reason then that if one increases ones knowledge of mathematics then one will have a larger vocabulary to work with in their area of study. If you're studying physics then the more math you know the more complex phenomenon you will be able to model and discuss. In Computer Science you will be able to find efficient applications and optimizations of various algorithms and model physical and ephemeral phenomenon with more rigour and precision.

However there is a maximum lower bound on the amount of mathematical knowledge required in order to effectively practice programming. That is where I think the meme, "you don't need to know math," comes from in our field. More often than not the primary concern of a software developer is to balance two primary concerns: "does it work as it is expected to?" and "can another human being understand and maintain this?" Having a broader understanding of mathematics will certainly open your horizons but there's only so much you need to know to get by. Most of your "work-a-day" programming won't involve much math at all and is primarily concerned with APIs and implementation issues.

I personally believe that Computer Science certainly needs more rigour and mathematics should be stressed a little harder in our curriculum. However in a "hacker" culture rigour is the least of your concerns. The hacker is a pragmatic creature and heavily leans towards asking the question, "Does it work?" more often than, "is this the right way to do it?" See the "New Jersey" school of development (or "Worse is Better" philosophy). As a field I think we'd benefit from a stronger approach to rigour. We are currently mired in a populist culture that constantly re-invents the wheel every decade or so. It'd be nice if we had a common literature and history from which to draw upon as part of our standard curriculum.

Interesting article... but I don't think the treatment of lispers is quite fair. :p
Don't forget Cyberdyne Robotics!
http://www.cyberdyne.jp/english/
Does anyone have a reference for how much trolls tend to pay inventors for their patents?

Trolls get a bad rap, and I'm opposed to trolling as opposed to licensing to manufacturers, but they're one possible form of middleman between inventors and infringers.

One major point of a patent is to compensate the inventor for doing something smart. If the trolls are "non-practicing", then they must have acquired their patent from an inventor. How much are inventors getting paid?
I expected to see (theonion.com) at the end of this title after reading it.
Steve Jobs’ Unfortunate Contribution to Product Development
I couldn't agree more... it's wholly unclear what the purpose of the rubber is. Presumably it protects against vibration eh
I've heard they've axed that rule, but generically speaking in business nothing is set in stone. Most app developers just aren't in a position to negotiate.
Acing the App Store Approval, Part 1: Understanding the Nitty Gritty
It is also the name of a band, a work of narrative history, and a widely used botanical nourishment framework.
I was also fooled by the title :) In fact I was hoping for something a little different. What I wanted was something that intercepted my attachment(s) stored them in the cloud and then passed a link embedded in the email. That way I could send overly large attachments to folks who have limits on what size they can retrieve via email. Anyone reading this have suggested work arounds?
Apple rolls out new status page for Services, Stores and iCloud
Yes, I belive I understood you. I think apparently I haven't been clear. You are part of the natural order, the same as that tree growing outside my window. Part of what being human is, is to have a sense of what is just. As a result, that sense we all share of what is just is also part of the natural order not a fictional arbitrary construct. Determining that a mother that eats her infant out of spite is an evil act is indeed as fully natural as the growth of the tree towards the sun.

There are constructed, "positive" laws obviously. That it is wrong to jaywalk for example. That it is wrong to torture living creatures to cause pain (and for those creatures with temporal understanding, suffering) on the other hand is not. The latter flows from or is immanent in nature and is an example of natural law. It governs even the behavior of non-humans. Deviations from the natural order have consequences.

Some Eastern cultures raise this cause and effect relationship to the level of a force no less powerful or useful than gravitation for explaining the world (karma for example). In Western cultures, this recognition of the natural order forms the basis of many legal systems. The concept of natural right or natural law in fact is what the Declaration of Independence and the US Constitution are founded upon.

There is a long history of the subject if you want to learn more as I obviously have done a bad job of explaining. The work of contemporary jurists like John Finnis [0] at Oxford might be worthwhile.

[0]: Natural Law and Natural Rights (Oxford University Press, 1997)
Perhaps this is for the safety of the occupants. If they get thrown out of their harness they don't bang against a metal/concrete wall but a little softer material. Though why this is not even softer material I don't understand.
Is this really a bad thing? Is it better that people stay in marriages they do not want to be a part of rather than be free to separate? Staying in a failed marriage is not necessarily better for kids and may in fact be worse than getting a divorce.

Marriage rates are falling in some countries and places, but that really depends more on the specifics of where you are. In the US, there are a variety of reasons why people are getting married at slower rates these days, but it doesn't really matter how often people get married anyway.

> Also the marriage rates are plummeting too (and although the co-habitation rates are rising, it is not rising fast enough to compensate).

Compensate for what exactly?
Wait, do you guys pay to live there as part of Homes for Hackers? Or is it free for you, and you're renting out the last room at a $1500/month profit?
There's actually quite a few good people in the world. They are just less noticeable than assholes, because they don't stick out as much.
Finally, that old homepage was an abomination.
Which ones? (I'm one of the dudes who made it.)

Everything that's on the USV "Investments page" should be on the timeline. http://www.usv.com/investments/

There are a few cases in which companies pivoted, so we just listed the new thing (i.e. Hashable to YieldMo)
I made it my specific goal not to have this as a bootstrap alternate - there's already boostrap and foundation - why do we need more? In addition, I'm very much against using classes to dry up your css. You should be using mixins or extends to build object-oriented css - that's the principle that roots css is built upon.

Rather than catering to non-developers, I like to encourage people to learn more about development so they can write clean code and make beautiful sites. If that means less adoption, so be it - at least I won't be polluting the web with poorly built sites : )

That being said, this is open source, so if that's something you want to work on, you are more than welcome!
It says $500/month on the annoucement
I definitely agree with most points the author makes. One quote that comes to mine, "The best programmers understand completely what they are doing". I paraphrased. It becomes a whole other issue as well when you get past development and go into maintenance mode. What if a django dev gets a bug that cannot be fixed in the framework?

This is one reason why I am reluctant to introduce SASS or LESS to our dev staff because most still do not understand the principles of CSS.
Insane comment ;)

There were quite a few stupid people saying things were impossible before. Don't worry, let your children worry is a sure recipe for failure. There are so many possible huge problems with AI, including an unfriendly one.

During human history the technology has played a huge role in determining the structure of societies. When the modern killing devices are cheap - bronze swords in Ancient Greece and Rome, muskets in per-revolutionary US and France - there is a lot of individual freedom, as the elite is incapable of ignoring the will of the masses. On the other hand when those devices are extremely expensive - knight armor in European Dark Ages - there is absolute control in the hands of a very few. Modern AI driven drones and robots are extremely anti-democratic, they allow a small elite to employ a few expert button pushers to destroy any kind of opposition. With CCTV, Facebook, WireTrap, Internet monitoring and logging, etc. your children will stand no chance to change the Orwellian future your stupidity has doomed them to.