skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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While reading this I got to thinking about the nature of those whom 3D Printing appeals too. <end-of-awkward-sentence/> I've a friend with a 3D printer (sorry don't remember which) and he and I have talked about it quite a bit. So putting those two input streams together with my own predilections, I conclude that the primary successful target is a hacker. I've not know any hacker who allowed the annoying bits between she or he and their goal to get in the way. Indeed in my own case those bits are just problems to be solved and I seem to be at least partially in it for the kick that comes from creating solutions. That said, I get to have access to my friends machine for free---in fact I don't even need to have hands on, he likes the idea of building things as both prototype and actual (read it works) product such that he just needs the specs or possibly a 3D file to input to the machine :) Long story short, this is just something new to hack on!
I re-read Cryptonomicon over vacation, and I agree with your recommendation.

I would also check out Quicksilver - there are significant tie-ins to Cryptonomicon. I've enjoyed it so far.
This must be my favourite (worst) argument ever:

“Cost doesn’t matter at all if you don’t put the ball into orbit," said Lockheed’s Stevens, who is retiring as chief executive [officer]...

Effectively trying to rationalise doubling costs of every project as "necessary". He thinks this will win him credit in any industry?
While I agree that you will die, the rest is claptrap. There's nothing religious about the singularity.

We are most definitely not hard wired for religion. It's a mythology that preceded the scientific era. In a thousand years or less it will be laughed off like the talking donkey nonsense. We're not hard wired at all...
[...] It does that because, most likely, it is a gymnosperm, a fruitless tree. Its seeds are ovules not enclosed inside an ovary, which means that it does not need to yield fruit.

Sorry for the diversion: it was a question in today's Trivial Pursuit.
My favorite movies of the year:

1. Moonrise Kingdom

2. Beasts of the Southern Wild

3. Argo

4. Life of Pi

5. Amour (Only NY and LA for now)

6. Monsieur Lazhar
Here are my suggestions. Have fun :)
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4966023
Well, it's there[1] and a bunch of people seem to have seen it. Expedia has replied to posts made by others after this one but they seem to be ignoring this.

[1] https://www.facebook.com/naptown/posts/295460857241207
Clearly Steve Jobs understood the customer unlike anyone at Apple currently does.
"Ruby Sparks"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1839492/

worth mentioning "The Campaign" and "Paranorman"
Flagged? Seems to me it's pretty tough to get around the mpg arguments. Likewise, the wear on engines is well known in the marine environment -- which is not all that different from driving on PNW roads in the winter. Most of our cars ran fine on E0, and I'm not at all sure what you're concerned about in terms of pre-ignition or dual flame-front events (my car, like most, was designed to run on 87 octane).
Yes I noticed that too and immediately started to godel:
"how many of the wrongnesses the author believes are wrong are really right ..."
Ultimately isn't the way around something like this is VPN services and encrypting your email? Or is it more than that at this point?
Is stunted development a good thing?
Why everyone should start using Mind Mapping
What An Underperforming Conversion Funnel Looks Like: A Case Study
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The speed tests don't require correcting mistakes by backspacing like the accuracy ones.

I like Klavaro, but it has a couple of annoying bugs. One is the text entry box doesn't actually follow quite what you are typing.
They have cloudfoundry.com which I believe will eventually be their 'service' and the .org is the open-source project.

I can't think of any direct implications for them with this as it's essentially what Redhat is doing (as you pointed out). Basically the big thing with Cloud Foundry is it fully integrates with Openstack and similar whereas OpenShift is mostly meant for RHEL products.
The article claims that hibernation files are vulnerable when using Truecrypt, but according to the release notes from version 7, July 19 2010:

"As Windows XP and Windows 2003 do not provide any API for encryption of hibernation files, TrueCrypt has to modify undocumented components of Windows XP/2003 in order to allow users to encrypt hibernation files. Therefore, TrueCrypt cannot guarantee that Windows XP/2003 hibernation files will always be encrypted. Therefore, if you use Windows XP/2003 and want the hibernation file to be safely encrypted, we strongly recommend that you upgrade to Windows Vista or later and to TrueCrypt 7.0 or later. For more information, see the section Hibernation File. "

http://www.truecrypt.org/docs/?s=version-history
YouTube is a profit center for Google, VP8 is a delivery mechanism for YouTube. Google has already taken over the online video market with their purchase of YouTube, I doubt that sacrificing YouTube for a bigger share of the codec pie is really worth it to Google.

Instead they can play the long game. VP8 support can make its way into browsers and hardware, and by funding alternative codecs (increasing supply) they can keep the licensing costs for H.264 and its successors down. It's easy to speculate that if H.264 were the only game in town it would probably be more expensive.

I don't know what you mean by "battle of attrition". Current state of affairs is that we have some good, free codecs; some better, inexpensive codecs; and improvements are on the horizon in licensing, software support, hardware acceleration, and codec sophistication.
Putting keywords in meta tags hasn't helped your site rank in Google for many years. Because so many sites abused it, they no longer use it in their algorithm.
http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/keywords-meta-tag-in-web-searc...
Reading and Writing a File in Javascript for Win 8 Apps
oops; sorry, I upvoted this based on the first couple seconds.
How do you define more enjoyable? Have you even tried GNU typist?
This sandbox was definitely the pain point. There was no ability to test properly so it was effectively launch and then test live like mad. Just a mess really. A lot of documentation fell short as well.
>In common application that means using disk storage is less efficient that storing it in a database on an other server, since it usually keeps almost everything in memory.

Depends on the usage pattern. Database servers generally have more memory than end user machines, but not proportionally more: A database serving a million users won't have a million times more memory. (This matters primarily when each user stores unique or low popularity data, otherwise the shared database has the advantage.) Moreover, data stored "on disk" on user machines will, with modern long-uptime large-memory desktops (and before long mobile devices), have a high probability of having the data cached and retrieved from memory rather than disk.

Thus, if the data is accessed a relatively short period of time after it is written (i.e. within a few hours), storing it locally on disk may be faster. (And storing it nominally on disk even though it's all cached may be preferable to storing it in strictly memory either because some minority of users have insufficient memory to store all necessary data in memory, or because the data should survive a loss of power or other program termination.)

Edit: It's also worth pointing out that latency isn't the sole performance criterion. Local disk generally has more bandwidth than network. If you're bandwidth constrained (either at either endpoint, the database or the user device), or either is getting charged by the byte for network access, that can be an important consideration.
As someone with his not yet successful company, I am against 1-year cliffs. I believe in the 6-month cliff and am considering dropping it to 3 months.

When I make a poor hiring decision, I usually know within 2-3 months. A shorter cliff forces me to evaluate new-hires faster. No one needs 1 year to determine if a new hire was a good fit.
How would that solve this issue? I don’t understand. This seems unrelated.

Do you honestly want to tell me that first creating an account for the kids and then creating an separate account (you do not plan to use) just to get purchased apps on there is in any way, shape or form a simpler solution?

Yes, Apple should support multiple accounts, but that’s unrelated to this problem.
How many books did you read in 2012?
... Are you serious?

Go watch Primer.
> The front line of science is a messy place; a mostly wrong messy place

Reading the article, the most interesting aspect was the concept of a "half-life" of knowledge. This, of course, applies not just to the front lines, but also to the rear guard.

By definition, a new idea that proves to work well obsoletes an old one that didn't work quite as well.
Cloud Atlas was the best one I saw this year.
"asdf lkj;" brings back memories of the tutorial I used to learn how to type with, on an actual typewriter.
Hey nichodges -- I'd love a beta account for kindred.it. I've been seriously wanting something like that ever since I got a Kindle a few years ago and am completely amazed that what Amazon offers in terms of highlight management is so extremely poor. I'm also curious about the tech under it.
It's possible to use an account that's set up for both iCloud and iTunes for iTunes-only stuff on the kids' devices. The account should just not be used to sign into iCloud on those devices.
Be Productive with Surface
The Intouchables
I've heard some the music from that movie, and it's really good. Haven't seen the actual movie yet though.
You do not need an iCloud account to set up a device. I also don’t think it’s necessary for kids to be honest.
The original post is inaccurate. It is possible to share an iTunes (App Store) account without sharing an iCloud account.
A few years ago I made a (non-interactive) visualization similar to this, that made its way to hackernews [1]. It puts this on a linear scale, so you can get a feel for the baffling difference between your most local caches and your hard drive:

http://i.imgur.com/X1Hi1.gif

Note: This is a huge gif, zoom in to the top.

[1] HN discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=702713
They don't care about the satellites either. They care about the relationships. What they're buying and how much it actually costs is irrelevant compared to who they award the contract to. The big contracts really do have to get awarded to the right people or reelection becomes impossible.
Yeh, Looper was quite terrible.
Linux has the wizardpen driver that is supposed to work with UC Logic digitizers.

http://www.xpd259.co.uk/2011/04/wizardpen-graphics-tablet-an...
What time travel movies have you seen? Looper is definitely among the dumbest of the ones I've seen. It seems fairly obvious that the writers were unaware of or never once considered any of the interesting paradoxes of time travel, the chiefest among them being the grandfather paradox. No time was spent exploring anything related to the mechanics or implication of time travel, except for a moment to tell the audience that it's complicated and not to worry about it. One scene in particular, with a man falling apart, shows an impressive lack of understanding of and commitment to any specific model of time travel. After seeing the movie, I was awestruck at the critical reviews which call it an "idea movie."
The military censor must not forbid publication unless there is a clear threat to national security. Of course, that sounds how it should work in theory, but, perhaps surprisingly, it seems to work this way in practice, too, at least judging by the amount of damaging material published that causes much embarrassment to military officials, even leading to their resignation on occasion.

Obviously, people try to cover up potentially damaging information, but when they get caught -- they get caught. And sometimes, some idiot tries to mess with the press. It seems to me that in this case that someone probably thought that since it's only a blogger they might be able to pressure him into revealing his sources.

But seriously, I had a hard time finding any mention of this in the Israeli press, which would normally love this kind of scandal. Exposing government malpractice, corruption and general idiocy is the national sport in Israel. Every Israeli reporter is imbued with the ambition of someday bringing down a government official -- the higher the better -- or, best case scenario, the entire administration. And I'm saying this as a former Israeli reporter. This case, though, is just small potatoes.
1. "59 Seconds"
http://amzn.to/12DMx27

A good no-nonsense self-help book. Outlines set of strategies for dealing with challenging situations in everyday life, touching on areas such as Parenting, Career, Dating. Author also looks into common misconceptions about how we function and which mental tricks are efficient and which are not so much.

2. "Start Small, Stay Small: - A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup"
http://amzn.to/12DMzHt

I actually have a blog post on it here - http://blog.nimblegecko.com/when-your-drugs-wear-off/ - in short it's a book for developers that focuses on how to start building an online product, with heavy emphasis on market, and marketing. It also addresses some of the common mistakes we, as developers, tend to make when conceiving and carrying out the execution of an idea.

3. "The Startup Owner's Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company "
ebook - http://amzn.to/V3BxWq
dead tree book - http://amzn.to/12DNfwd

This is classic, really. What was interesting for me in particular is the types of markets that a startup launches to - new market, resegmenting an existing market (low-end, high-end, specific features), clone market, and all of the limitations/dangers/expectations/growth profiles that choice of marketing strategy entails.

4. "Core Transformation: Reaching the wellspring within"
http://amzn.to/Vw5nAR

Not that I've only read this book in 2012, but I keep returning to it - that's probably one of not too many truly life changing books for me. It contains very simple, yet very efficient reframing exercise (think NLP) that helps to uncover the true motivations behind behaviours that you don't like in yourself, and change those for good, yet in a completely unexpected and never predictable ways.
If you have the time, I've seen people finish objects using bondo or some other materials and you can end up with a nice looking object with a good finish. Strength on the other hand seems to be as much art as it is science, printing objects in the right direction and picking the right settings to get it to go the way you need it. I've not had a chance to make any real molds myself, how well does it end up working for the finish aspect also?
My favorites this year were Looper, Chronicle and The Amazing Spider-man.

I also really liked Prometheus when it came out, and I feel vindicated that after initially being panned, its ratings (rotten tomatoes) continually went up and leveled out at about 72% for both critics and users.

The blockbusters let me down, with the exception of Avengers (which I though was fantastic) The Dark Night Rises, Skyfall, The Bourne Legacy, and MIB III were average.

End Of Watch. Dredd. Argo all come highly recommended by friends and well reviewed on rotten tomatoes, but I did not get to see them this year.

Going to see Django tonight.
Oh come on microsoft. Besides the asthetic BS there is nothing that the metro UI has to offer. I have personally used the windows 8 tablets and quite frankly it is more of a hassle than a feature. Please, please ... do something that is actually useful.
change your pic
Same here. We also have clients who have started to use dropbox for file sharing with us. This is giving the legal department heartburn...
I read Daniel Suarez's new book, "Kill Decision". I was expecting it to be a continuation of "Demon" and "Freedom", but it was a completely new storyline.

I liked "Kill Decision" a lot, and I can highly recommend it.
Neighborhood Watch was hilarious.
>Besides the asthetic BS there is nothing that the metro UI has to offer

The Windows Desktop is not very helpful when used with your fingers.
I think one important latency is left out here...

Latency to screen display: approximately 70ms (between 3 and 4 display frames on a typical LCD).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Display_lag

Obviously, you only have 1 display latency in your pipeline but it's still typically the biggest single latency.
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Suppose someone (highly qualified, not from the startup world however) can tweak your marketing message for a couple of weeks (i.e. work on your startup for 80-150 hours intensively) and as a direct consquence get you an audience of millions, because your message is now awesome. This person doensn't care about startups.

Say you are pre-money. How should you pay for this person's time?

You would think, if this person can really work for two weeks and give you a company that is worth seeding at a high valuation (due to traction), which also becomes a good signal and thereafter with the company's fantastic traction, money, and engaged audience, it has fantastic growth prospects - but without these two weeks will simply languish as another "project" - then a two percent stake with no cliff whatsoever is a no-brainer.
As an undergraduate at a top tier CS school, I have seen a lot of companies boast about these vesting schemes. Honestly, I don't think most new grads consider them due to the 1 year cliff. Most people I talk to will say "Well, if I want to leave, the new signing bonus/RSU package will just make up for the lost RSUs."

What really hurts companies is the drawn out exponential vesting periods. I believe Amazon does a package that is 15% after the first year, 40% after the second, 75% after the third, and 100% after four. Maybe my numbers are off, but you are rarely going to get new grads to commit to four years, even with that scheme. I'll take my 25% at another company after a year and move on.

Anyways, the work/experience/location/culture/salary is usually more of a factor than the vesting schedule.
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You rejected Looper because of an "impressive lack of understanding of and commitment to any specific model of time travel"?

Wow. Do you hate the Harry Potter movies for not understanding magic? A movie can be smart without explicitly laying out the axioms of its magical McGuffin.
And the "War on Terror" isn't exactly to calm people's fears either.
I am using elasticsearch.org + mongodb river to do full text search. And it supports Chinese!
Very nice! Thank you!

I just got word that Lester will be on CNN tomorrow (Wednesday) morning at 8:45am eastern (5:45am pacific) so set your DVR!
I agree with you to a degree on employee abuse, disregarding that corporations have policies in place regulating access to their networks, as well as monitoring for Internet use outside work-related activities. Perhaps these studios are incompetent in administration of their networks. The obvious problem is the futile efforts by the MPAA and the RIAA to "fight" piracy.
I just watched "Les Miserables" and I thought it was great.

I'm usually mostly a Sci-fi and action adventure fan, and I didn't have high expectations, but it was one of the best movies I've seen this year. I think it deserves to win several Academy Awards.
If there is only one thing I wished someone had told me when I started out it would be not to include grants as part of your compensation calculations. It is rare that they'll ever be worth a dime and even rarer that getting a little less/more will make any real difference. I'm assuming we're not talking about public companies here or ones obviously on an ipo track (very short list).

They are like getting a portion of your money in lottery tickets - sure there is a minimal real value to them, but the only rational way to use them in planning is to value them at zero.

Rank and file grants are only about retention. If you are bitching and moaning about a cliff and your finances you really misunderstand how business works here.

But that's very understandable - silicon valley thrives on misleading the young and energetic on this very topic.
Why would I want to treat new-grads better than experienced folks? And why would I want to incentivize somebody who doesn't like it after 3 months to stay for 4 months?

The 1 year cliff prevents disinterested parties from holding equity in my company and helps me retain people who have become important over time during that first year.

You're proposing improving my retention of lesser experienced people with lower bus factors in my organization. That seems backwards...
I just sent an email. Thank you for informing me of this opportunity.
I would be interested, but it seems like I would need to already have a team, is this true?
Maybe this is why people associate bootleg alcohol with danger these days. Of course, it doesn't surprise me they did this in the 30s. We also used to have involuntary sterilization here.
tl;dr: The scenario described by the OP is now less likely to occur. Since October, individual Dropbox users are encouraged to create separate accounts when invited to a Team and warned that Teams admins will have control over the account.

I am going to be blunt here and just say it: the 'Team admins will have control over the account' part is completely stupid and not well thought through.

Becoming part of a team should be about sharing data. Not about handing over accounts.
I actually found this quite useful today. A rare case where I needed to translate the Wordpress post decoding function to get the rendered HTML form from a post into Python. Soon pelican's importer will be better able to preserve content from Wordpress blogs.
You have violated the TOS by linking to the TOS.
You are making an awful lot of assumptions of the way we think and what we believe with absolutely no evidence to back it up other than this is what you think we think.

Maybe you should look at the stats on charitable giving and come back to this discussion. For a prominent example, Romney gave 4 million to charity last year. Meanwhile, Joe Biden gave less than half of what I did, while making 1/8 of what he did. < 4k if I remember correctly. If you insist I'll look it up but I'm just on mobile.

I know this is anecdotal, but the stats across the board show huge discrepancies. Liberals want to force everyone to be taxed more, conservatives actually give their money to help people.
I've always found such systems intolerably difficult to debug. Is there an option for 1,000 lines of imperative non-spaghetti?

I've found that keeping the bulk of UI code in one place is the key to keeping these things manageable. Ideally, each widget's handler should do little more than affect whatever data it needs to affect, then call another function that updates all widgets' states according to the latest data.

For stateful sequences of events (e.g., mouse drags) the rx-style approach is a bit more compelling. Imperative code for that stuff is always ugly. But you still seem to have the same problem of debuggability if you use rx, and backing out of a state looks like it might be a bit of a chore.

Call me a Philistine, call me a barbarian...
There's nothing nonsensical about it. It's a well established political reality, and has been widely discussed for more than fifty years.
1000 nanoseconds is only "approximately" equal to 1 microsecond?
This doesn't make sense to me. He's saying that he'd rather have the linux virtual desktops behaviour than OSX one. Why would he want what you wrote?
Except now any time they want to download something, they'll need your password.

In the end, I just ended up giving my kids their own accounts across the board.
That's seems like a useful understanding.