skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article describes how these kids are all using free services, and that they won't use the ones that costs money. So I'd say that if you have any business model besides "Ads, ads, glorious ads on our user-generated content!", I think teenagers are probably going to pass by your service, however good it may be.
There's tons of rape going on in the good ol' US of A. Why not fix it here? then we can go ahead and be a shining example for other countries to follow.
I noticed that coincidentally maybe to this, google news has stopped nagging me to save to the home screen with an annoying nag.

I'd like to say I would boycott a site for its a noting nag screens but I don't think that's a very mature way to handle it and all it hurts is me.

For me the most annoying thing is that sometimes I already do have the app and there's no good hand off. For example, I have the yelp app, but when google takes me to a yelp review and the nag screen says install the app, I would expect it to transition my current page view to th app equivalent. Sadly this is not the case. Ditto for LinkedIn
Actually - it's not.

I've said it multiple times in this thread - you get what you pay for. The 433MHz (not Mhz) gear is non-mesh. If you don't currently have home automation I wouldn't expect someone to realize how much of a key this is to a reliable and useful system. But, go ahead - try running more than a dozen 433MHz devices on a controller - it's going to be unreliable and have restrictions based on proximity to the controller which will depend on the NinjaBlocks RF design as well of each of the individual plugs RF design. For $3, I bet it's stellar!

#dontsayididnttellyou
Amazon has a 90 day exclusivity contract for books. But to be frank the gain in revenue would probably be never enough to make it viable.

The best way for Apple to achieve the outcome of attracting the best apps is to deliver the best Platform, which is increasingly questionable.
Democracies (republics) are flawed because the citizens control stops at the voting booth. Platform policies politicians get elected on are non binding. They don't legally have to follow through with anything they said to get elected. Once elected the only test for the politician (in legal bounds) is to get elected again in 4-6yrs.

Politicians know that they can win elections on allegiance to parties, platitudes and sound bites.

This creates a detachment where the political system is no longer based on data and real results of improvement of the citizens life or the countries well being - and turns into a game of marketing and party cheerleading.
They can buy itunes gift cards from stores and do in app purchases ;)
I'm assuming you made a thinko there; as written your comment says you were forced to move because living got too inexpensive.
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Sure, but I still have to design for random segfaults on memory writes. I guess I could write to all newly allocated pages and get a little more assurance that the allocation worked. I could still be whacked by a deduplicator, though unique writes would help.
They don't tell you that you also get rid of the alcohol. Try blending it for a few minutes.
That proves absolutely nothing. You talk as though you have a clue about search relevancy, but that's clearly not the case.
My guess: most people on HN don't have basic C competency.
Are there really "tons of rape" in the United States? Are they really as bad or as systemic as the gang rapes occuring in India?
This, so much this. I think Gawker is one who does it - if you change from the mobile version to desktop version you lose the page you were on.
Beyond the Brain
I'm trying to say we were not visually prepared for this, and that getting designers and coders to work on a weekend is not something fun. I see your sarcasm and get it, but really it's out of place.
I don't think Font Awesome is the default web font packaged with Twitter Bootstrap, which uses Glyphicons.
Chuck,

did you actually read the post or your position is to say that Social Networks like Facebook and Google+ have reached a point of evolution beyond which not much can happen? In particular that world can't be disrupted?

It's not because you are making money today that you'll be making money in 12 months.
Most teams I've seen have at least one person willing to bite the bullet voluntarily. Perhaps they don't celebrate Christmas, or they want to do a favor to their team, or they'd prefer to take vacation at a different time. I have volunteered to be on call during Christmas in the past specifically because it is Christmas: other than rare events like this, it's the quietest time of the year. I get a relaxed week of work while everyone else is out, and can then use my vacation on a normal workweek instead. Some managers also give makeup vacation time for people who go on call during the holidays.
I agree but we get way worse don't we?
example : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4745713
And the comments so far are interesting.
Tell that to downtown Vancouver, BC:

https://www.google.com/search?tbm=isch&q=vancouver%2Cbc
> Booting Linux on these devices would involve finding a flaw in the firmware and using that to run arbitrary code

Considering there hasn't been a major console (including xbox) that's been immune from crackers running arbitrary code, I'm pretty confident that we'll be seeing linux running on the surface at some point. Unfortunately the article's title is probably accurate; It's probably going to be too difficult for someone who's not a very-motivated linux fan to do it.

It's a shame too, when I first saw the surface my initial reaction was "Holy crap, if I can wipe it and put Arch on it it's the perfect mobile laptop replacement, I'll buy it for sure". Oh well, guess I'll have to wait to see how easy the jailbreak is.
Yes:

> According to United States Department of Justice document Criminal Victimization in the United States, ... 1 of 6 U.S. women and 1 of 33 U.S. men have experienced an attempted or completed rape.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#United_States
Facebook used to solve this (at least for college students) with class listings. That was a really killer feature for a large part of their user base that got axed when they launched the app platform and expected an app to take its place. Problem is, of course, 50 apps took its place and none of them won.
I'm not suggesting that cancelling the mandatory long form survey caused these alleged issues. I'm asserting that the way to fix them is not to further erode the ability of the government to collect and analyze data, as is happening under the current government. Further, I'd have more confidence in the ability of government to address these issues if this government hadn't made it very clear that it views statisticians and fact checkers as the enemy.
ah, i use firefox as my browser on android, which may also be mitigating some of this. Anybody who uses an alternate browser on iOS want to let us know what your experience is with the nag screens?
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I use Facebook as the "universal directory" if I don't have contact details for someone, which is the infuriating part. If I need to contact someone I don't have a phone number or some IM contact for, I go to Facebook and look there.

A great analogy would be phone books. I've not found a person who actually likes getting or using them, but they were the best place to find someone's phone number if all you had was a name and a bit of an address.
>>Shell was implicated as having leaned on the Nigerian government to get rid of this troublemaker which they promptly did.

I can't find that in the Wikipedia article? Can you?

I wrote: "If Shell was involved (why would they murder internationally known critics -- the resulting sh-t storm is obvious) -- was any higher up Shell people involved?"

That was just not enough to condemn Shell in a court of justice.

Two witnesses much later claimed Shell people helped buy their perjury. They could have lied or where it really Shell layers. E.g. did they get the promised jobs?

>>I purposefully selected something that should clearly register as an outrage on your spectrum and the only thing you bring up to defend it is that it wasn't 'today'.

Where did I write it wasn't an outrage?! I wrote that I couldn't see proof in the WP article that Shell was in on it. (See above.)

I wrote "Any of the tyrants worth his own weight in human ears have done worse than most any corporation since 1995." So I have not denied company misbehaviour, which of course is rampant where companies can get away with it, same as with all human organisations.

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I've mostly quoted what you commented on as answer to what you claimed. That do say something.

>>And no, I don't limit my criticism to corporations but if you look back a bit then you'll notice that this thread started about corporations so that is the topic.

I started my previous comment "You just ignored 90+% of what I wrote as answers to your strange opinions. Sigh... OK."

Enough, you lack defense for what I brought up -- your strange positions of judging (just) western society over the last 600 years by the present moral code.

If you insist on changing the subject to the exact content of wikipedia re an irrelevant old killing in Nigeria and claim I don't think corporate murder is an outrage -- don't complain if it is called trolling.

Edit: If you have a coherent point in what you wrote re western society's unique guilt over the last 600 years because we have corporations, please tell me. (It seems you went from (1) a general point to (2) your personal history to (3) that corporations can do bad stuff (which no one will argue against.))

Edit 2: Clarity
In memoriam: the beloved products we lost in 2012
Asher Wolf's Website Cracked after Sexism Rant [direct link, has sound]
Does San Mateo county (home of daly city, san bruno, south SF, milbrae, colma, etc) have such development restrictions too?
There are definitely more rape in the USA than in many other developed countries.
It's not an antitrust concern, n But those sort of deals, unless you are talking BIG developers,means additional expense for very limited benefits. Company A promises to make it's app exclusive to iOS... that means enforcement, monitoring other markets etc. For less money. And the marginal benefits in increased individual customer numbers probably isn't worth it. How many more people would buy an iPhone if Angry Birds was an iOS exclusive? Is the money you would make from them ofset not just by the lost revenue, but the uses that that revenue could be put (additional advertising, increased resources for developers, etc).

If Apple sees a company that it wants to make exclusive, it's better off just acquiring it. And that's just what it does. In fact, I expect to see at least a few companies that make goverement or enterprise software for iOS to be acquired in the coming year, because locking in institutional customers to a single platform IS a moneymaker.
I use 20 mana to cast revive.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuromancer
and probably not even then.
You are absolutely correct. However, Font Awesome might be the most frequently used set of icons with TB.
Screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/lQepv.png
Warning: may cause seizures. The link is directly to the cracked site, not to a descriptive article.
I think when you run out of physical memory & swap, there's a bigger issue at that point. Or that's what the designers of overcommit decided.
How is this relevant at all? Not that the article is great but how is rape in country X relevant to a horrific incident in country Y? Or is this supposed to make the shit that happens in a savage third world country better just cause it happens here?
A lot of US banks still want 18-year olds or a parental guarantee.

US banks love overage fees (making credit card interest rates an amazing bargain). Plus there is the liability of checks/ACH which can cause overdrafts.
My theory is that organizational politics are what's driving many media companies to push their 'app' over their website.

Building native apps means that new people with new training need to be hired, a new team with a new manager needs to be formed. And once the budget is there for the new shiny; it must be spent, to do otherwise would be wasteful!

Never underestimate the power of a bureaucracy to make things more complex so that actors on the inside can justify their existence.
This really isn't hacker news.
This is noble and all, but remind me why this belongs on HackerNews?
While not contesting the assertion, one should be careful to note what denotes 'rape' in different countries, and the divergence from de jure and de facto. It's not interpreted or recorded the same way in all places. Even in the US what constitutes rape today may not coincide 100% with that it constituted 50 years ago.

For a starker contrast compare say Romania with Sweden. Which one might one theoretically feel safer in, in which one might one feel psychologically safer, in which one would one be physically safer?
> You have to remember that San Francisco is a prime earthquake zone. I'm not sure how many rich people would want to live in what is essentially a death trap if a major earthquake (which is supposedly long overdue) were to strike California.

Have you seen what Tokyo looks like?

http://i.imgur.com/a4GQL.jpg

Don't give me that bullshit.
The landlords can see more money, so they're likely trying to maximize profits.
Fox News' 9 Craziest Things Said in 2012
Chrome on iOS I still get the nag screens. Sadly.
beeswithmachineguns is my mainstay, but siege is also a really good tool
Nobody's broken the AppleTV v3 yet, despite v2s going for well above original sale price on Ebay due to their hackability. Sometimes the difficulty/payoff ratio isn't sufficient for anyone to find a flaw.

(Or maybe everyone who could produce a jailbreak for the v3s is engaged in a lucrative business selling v2s on Ebay)
Delegating lots of tasks frequently doesn't equate to good delegation. In fact it's bad - it's highly inefficient.

I think micro-managing often implies a lack of trust where you're not sure an employee will 'do the right thing' to resolve a customer issue.

Really with a team you should be constantly letting them take more responsibility & resolving unusual instances together, this means you never have to repeat instructions for the same task twice. Continue long enough & you are only pulled into the loop for the odd anomaly.

I think this way of working builds great morale within a customer service team. The best managers remove obstacles for their team which enables them to provide awesome service.

Sometimes, simply asking your team "what common tasks are we're duplicating brain power on?" "where can I give you more responsibility?"

You may find the answers you get are really simple to implement, like "allow me to issue refunds under $10 as I ask you 10x per week for this"

Sure, maybe you get them to keep a refund log & you review it weekly but it shows that with good performance they'll create a role where they are free to use their initiative without fear of being punished.

If you create a culture where they continually look to you for instruction they are never going to step outside of that. An efficient support team needs to be lead by example.
Also Sandy was no longer strictly just a storm of tropical origin, but had combined with an arctic storm front, producing a hybrid storm, referred to as a "frankenstorm" initially though this was considered not a sufficiently serious term, hence the adoption of the term "superstorm".

http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/comment.html?en...

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-201_162-57540360/hurricane-sandy...
Lot's of cameras can capture more than 8 bpc too, but there's no point in displaying them that way. The reason it's useful is that it reduces loss of quality when manipulating the colors in the images.
"India, a rising economic power and the world’s largest democracy, can never reach its full potential if half its population lives in fear of unspeakable violence."

I think this sentence about sums up most of the reasons I can't take mainstream American media seriously.
Do you know how supply and demand works? Profit maximization occurs within the context of supply and demand. Please study some basic economics before commenting further.
> One anecdote can't offer any real insight.

First of all, it can if it leads you to further investigation.

Second, perhaps instead of only offering unhelpful criticism why don't you share what you see so we may all gain from a larger sample size?
CodeSense: Implementing Methods
their Mod_Pagespeed service

mod_pagespeed is an open source Apache module, not a service. Google also runs PageSpeed Service, an optimizing proxy. Both support automatic conversion to progressive jpeg.

SPDY does as well, translating jpegs that are over
10K to progressive by default

The author has SPDY and mod_pagespeed confused; this is a mod_pagespeed feature.

(I work at Google on ngx_pagespeed.)
I keep saying, about marriage equality mostly, that minority rights should not be put to majority vote. That doesn't diminish how happy I was when my fellow Washington State voters approved same sex marriage last month.
Mmm, tell that to all the people who bought Motorola phones and told me off when I warned against it with the same logic. "It will be broken soon enough". To this day, it is not possible to boot alternative kernels on many moto devices, save for some sort of rebooter with kexec or because an engineering bootloader (signed of course) was leaked or it's one of the handful of devices that the Motorola unlock tool supports.

I'd love to be wrong, I promise you, but if MS has done their homework right and looked at what others have done, it ought to be close to possible. (Also note that the primary way of compromising the Xbox these days requires electrically glitching hardware. I suppose something similar could be devised for a targeted ARM device but it seems less likly given the cost/benefit that mjg referenced).
Part of the stated problem was "and the city only allows high rises in SoMa" I was under the impression SoMa was the only place where you could build high-rises and didn't think the restrictions were very tight.

Also, I don't think if someone demolished a lower-class apartment in SoMa they will do anything but build the highest cost apartments (If your options were to build apartments that cost $1500/mo for locals or $3500/mo for new tech employees, which would you build?) and push those lower income people out, which is basically the problem we are discussing, so no, I don't agree with the above assertion. Sounds good in theory, wouldn't work that way in practice.
It's fairly common European cities to be anti-height in the city center for reasons that seem somewhat similar to SF's, though seems less common elsewhere. Some of it is a reaction (sometimes overreaction) to tall modernist housing blocks which nobody really liked. That and other things led to a preference for "human-scale" 5-7-story mid-rises. Another factor is a desire for light to be able to hit streets and parks in the "common areas" in the city center. A common compromise is to have a mid-rise historical center, but high-rises a bit outside of it, connected to good transit, e.g. central Paris banned skyscrapers after the Tour Montparnasse was so badly received, but there are skyscrapers a short distance away in the "new downtown" area of La Défense. An SF version of that might be to keep central SF mid-rise, but allow high-rise towers near the BART/Caltrain stations in Oakland, Daly City, and Burlingame.

The Bay Area's problem is that nobody wants the high-rises: putting them in the center or putting them near transit a bit outside the center would both work, but everyone, except to some extent Oakland, is anti-development, so they go nowhere. Heck, Palo Alto won't even allow mid-rise apartments near the Palo Alto Caltrain, so you actually have people "reverse commuting" from SF down to Stanford, because as crazy as living in SF is, trying to live in downtown Palo Alto is even crazier. A few livable, urbanized downtowns on the peninsula might siphon off some of the demand in SF, not solving the problem, but at least reducing it.

Other problems that seem like they exacerbate SF's problems: 1) poor intracity transit, e.g. lack of an east-west subway, concentrates demand in a handful of eastern districts; and 2) large areas of the city are not even mid-rise, but full of two-story houses (partly historical, partly anti-development, partly related to #1).
According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics

In 2010, police reported a rate of 27.3 per 100,000 people in USA. According to that document, in India it is 1.8 for 100,000 people. However, very few people report rape in India. It could be 5% or even less than that. Taking this into account the true numbers in India could be higher than in the US. While higher, it may not be order of magnitude worse or systemic than other countries.

The much bigger problem is the slow justice system and very low conviction rates.
haha good call, thanks for noticing.
You're right, the article is wrong. If integer_array is an array of ints or a pointer to an int, then integer_array[5000] is equivalent to

*(integer_array + 5000), not

*(integer_array + (5000 * 4)),

since pointer arithmetic in C automatically adjusts for the size of an array element.
We should go ahead and merge gnome and kde while we're at it.
>SF has plenty of opportunities to build upward, but as long as SF insists on being anti-development and anti-height, the housing supply problem is going to continue.

Bingo. This: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... is good further reading if you're interested in the issue.

I think we've now gotten to such an absurd place in coastal city building markets that more people are interested in learning about the fundamental forces at work. Matt Yglesias, who wrote the linked article above, is fond of pointing out that we can use complex, advanced technologies like elevators and steel to greatly ameliorate housing affordability problems.
While we're talking about Microwave UX .. what is "High, Medium, Low"?? My current microwave is 1200W. My first was 800W.

A 1200W microwave should have settings 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200 and an 800W microwave would be missing the 100W and 1200W settings.

That way, my mac-n-cheese would say "Cook on 1000W for 5 minutes" and it would work on EVERY microwave.
How much did you pay for gengo.com and how much did you pay the broker to act as the go between?
Not true. While the "domain of keys" format is implemented through a list of tuples, the compressed row/column/diagonal storage data types, which are the formats used in popular matrix algebra/solver packages, are implemented as three arrays.

The data structure scheme you've described is only used in a single application: populating a sparse matrix. Then, in any application where a minimum amount of efficiency is required, that data is converted to one of the formats I've mentioned before, and no format you've described is actually used beyond that corner case.
The irritating part is that, even if I decide I want the app, I still have to use the website to see the particular piece of content I was linked to. Most sites just tell you to get their app, they don't deep link into the app when you do have it.
How about a Boycott of computer devices that you cannot install an alternative OS on like Linux?

This new Firmware is designed to keep Malware off PCs, but it also keeps competition to Windows off PCs as well. Time for another DOJ investigation of Microsoft for locking out competition?