skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>The world might as well have ended today.

According to a new interpretation of the Mayan calendars today is just the beginning of a new era. I'd say hitting a billion YouTube views today could count as a new era for the world. One where a billion views is possible, ergo the Mayans were right.
Agreed. If I participated in that network of sympathy, I might have learned of the planned 'moment'. I would have participated.

I believe, since their ability to 'spread the word' was limited they resorted to recruiting folks to aid in hijacking unsuspecting folk into their emotional event.

Effectiveness: around zero I would think. The moment was over before I could figure out what was going on. Then: resentment.
While I can see this being of use to a certain type of person, the twitter-only login is a pretty big limitation. Please stop doing that.
I absolutely agree — vi knowledge is essential, and I don't have it yet. Don't capitulate and let others be like me.
I doubt there's too much of a learning curve as the new API is pretty similar to Joda Time:
http://blog.joda.org/2009/11/why-jsr-310-isn-joda-time_4941....
They mine purchase data. Any store with a "customer rewards" card does as well.
Here's a fantastic detailed explanation of the geometry and what's going on with each visual element of the picture, from Slate:

http://mobile.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2012/12/20/satur...
I, somewhat ashamedly, will confess: I was actually irritated by the overlay. I've shared in the grieving...that had to happen sooner than now for me. I have a young child in elementary school, so this has been a big part of my life recently.

But I want to do it on my terms. I don't want some asshole telling me I must pray, or support and argue about gun control, or 'Like' a picture of an out-of-work marine who is hanging out in the school parking lot today.

I can appreciate the gestures, I just don't like the coercion.
Is your netbook powerful enough to run games?
A whole lot of glue-job VMs just became unnecessary.
If everyone agreed on what the fix is, you might be right. But since they don't, and it will likely result in political fighting, it's probably not appropriate to tie it to a moment of silence.
>> anyone using Instagram should have known that a change was coming and accepted that risk from the outset

The ability to perceive a business agenda should not be pre-requisite to use any kind of service that is being offered. Even if the service is free to the user and it implies that the business must get revenue somehow, most people don't get that, and it doesn't mean it's alright to take advantage of them.

Lots of people are ignorant, have low education or are plain naive. They are easy to manipulate, fool and con. Doing so is fine then?
Which inaccessible people are available on Gramicon? None? Oh, okay... moving along.
"They raised a substantial round, and then were purchased by another company that had itself just raised billions of dollars. They didn't need money."

How dare those investors demand a return on their investment!!
I'm really happy about this because now I won't have to hear about it anymore crossing fingers.
Programmer in Queretaro :) I don't think WP is good for this project - albeit flexible, but you will spend more time hacking it to your spec instead of starting from the ground up.

For a beginner - PHP/MYSQL. A giant community with free tools to help you get started.
Google starts watching what you do off the Internet too
"Now, the business is doing well"

That is what matters to the decision makers in any business at the end of the day. So if that is the case, you might not be able to convince the management. Sure, your points are valid and I have the same frustration at work many times but understand that management doesn't care about proper unit testing etc. unless it impacts the business. As someone else pointed out, if you have critical production bugs frequently causing loss (specifically monetary), then you have a solid case to argue to change the process.

Not to say that you should just suck it up. I think it is worth to try and do things the best way but just keep in mind that you should not expect management to just do it because it is the right way to do it. So keep expectations low but keep trying as well.
What the Lean Startup Movement Can Learn from Steve Jobs
Oops, it just passed T minus 0 and now the counter's counting down from 24 hours again.
Direct link to the link from the Hacker News homepage overlay (provided by a third-party service):

http://www.causes.com/causes/807161-stand-with-sandy-hook/ac...

Submission of that (almost simultaneously with this submission here) for HN discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4952794
Kind of anti-climactic finish when the counter passed 1 billion and the timer simply reset to 23 hours 59 minutes 59 seconds.
Tell that to folks murdered over political reasons.
I think the punchline here is that it is a Sisyphean task to find (or expect) a "free" web service that doesn't already profit from user submitted content.

I don't think it is making light of people who are annoyed/boycotting... It is making light of the line of thought that companies we give our data to (for free) are ever going to use it for what we want them to, and not what they want to (make money).

This comic is saying that if we care about the rights to our work, don't give the work to anyone.
the NYTimes is a failing operation desperately grabbing at any approach that may bring in readers. this story, with its complexity of mixed media, disrupted the story and made it hard to follow. fortunately, i use tools that strip the text and allow me to read it as one continuous whole. let the story tell the story. quit trying to be hip or 'trending'.
I really like the similar suggestion.

I am not sure of the "Lets be friends" in red text in the bottom of the search. The social buttons might be enough. Besides cleaning up the layout, its really good.
Wpxtreme
While I do find this image visually appealing, and appreciate its technical merit, I find it a bit unreal looking. Maybe it's a bit two-dimensional.

I prefer the more three-dimensional looking images like http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/cassini/multimedia/pia1462....
>> Rights to our own creations should not be taken so lightly.

Just like possession of our belongings should not be taken lightly, which is why nobody would actually put all their stuff in Chad's garage. People have already taken the rights to their creations lightly by posting them on a free service.
There has to be a way to find business model that involves showing respect for your users and the content they're creating, while still making money on ads, offers, etc.

I agree with the first part but not the second. What if the best way to show respect for your users is not to pester them with ads and offers, but to let them pay you directly for the value you are giving them?
> a specific legislative agenda

I don't know. Seen from outside, the gun control issue do not seem to belong to the "political agenda" layer, along who's next for presidential or the latest political sex scandal.

From the outside view, gun control belong to the common sense layer, near "he who stole someone else's money will go to jail" and "tanks are not allowed on highways".

It should even not be called "gun control", but "lethal weapon for sale at the next block".

I hope US citizen are aware they are very different from most other countries in this regard. They may ask themselves if this specificity is an improvement over other laws, and then should be evangelized abroad. Or maybe it is an aberation? Or maybe it is some "cultural exception" (a la Chinese) and then, justified by what specifical traits?
Radio Roundabout 2012
For me this was really disturbing. I was digging in an old thread, because I often use HN for research on specific topics, and suddenly it popped in my browser and I had no idea what was going on. It did not feel like _me_ controlling my laptop at that moment ...
This interview with Steve and Andrew should give you more details into the process, and links to similar projects done in the past: http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/12/new-york-t...
> Also it hijacked my Back button on my browser, had to kill the page, lost my browse context so I resent it for that too.

Right-/long-click your back button (depending on your browser) to get the local history. Then choose one page before NYT.
Like I said in the very post you replied to, I am not suggesting he is abusing it now. I am suggesting he draws a salary and expenses normal business expenses, but is saying otherwise.
For your delight and delectation, here's a link:

http://brbl-zoom.library.yale.edu/viewer/1006200

For reference, a simple Google search found it in about 30 seconds.
That's not a new interpretation. It just hasn't got the same airtime because it's not as interesting. I heard this interpretation from a Mexican/Mayan 5 years ago. It's happened before in the Mayan calendar too. It just restarts again if I remember correctly.
IOS 6.0.2 suspected of draining batteries
Managing Global Locks with Redis and Node.js
How is this any better than just editing static files in your desktop? This just mimics the basic create/edit/delete functionality that your OS already gives you, but then you have to give up your code editor, version control, and pretty much every other development tool...
If it takes a discussion with people taking opposing viewpoints, let's get started. Now.
Most excellent!

Can't wait until this is expanded to include the other frameworks that are missing.
Ditto for me. It is the unlimited free private repos that initially drew me to Bitbucket, however, I am now happily paying the $10 per month for multiple members of the team (7 of them) for the company account.

Using Github the way we would like (multiple repos) would put us in the $50 per month bracket, which seems excessive.

Bitbucket, for our use case, has the perfect price point.
Assuming you have one handy that is statically built against the the right libraries for the right architecture and the right OS, and assuming the machine (and network) is in a state where you can get at the place where the binary is stored. But that is a lot of assumptions and I would rather just take the time learn the basics of vi rather than hope that all those assumptions always happen to be true.
>Without going bough all the receipts, you can't.

Right, which is why claiming auditors, etc support the claim is farcical. Wikimedia financials only say "salaries" and "expenses", it isn't broken down per person.

>But can you see any auditors or board members denying the claim?

I don't know that they are even aware of the claim.
Admittedly, I don't write much C/C++ anymore, but for a recent project, I need to use C. I decided to try clang instead of gcc. When clang showed me exactly what the source (via colors and indicators) of my compilation error I immediately knew that clang is the way forward.
I hate moments of silence. If we were to say nothing every time there is a tragedy in the world we'd never speak up about how to fix atrocities and organize ourselves to avoid them in the future.
New? According to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picture_clause, such types date back to 1957.

05 PLAYCOUNT PIC 999,999,999 USAGE IS DISPLAY.

probably is the way to declare a PlayCount in Cobol. More info at http://www.3480-3590-data-conversion.com/article-reading-cob....
Any significant reasons on why bitbucket is so behind github? I mean, "open source projects are in github" might be an answer but my question is "why are open source projects in github and not in bitbucket?".
Cool!

But I wonder why reasonable people would ever write a page to hijack 'Back'. Annoys me every time.
Delightful, thanks!
Probably a good idea for designers and other people who wouldn't touch a shell script for this. Although that customer base might need a more hoity-toity name than "servus"… (bussibussi.io?)
Most things that happen in the 'real world' happen at the same local time regardless of government meddling with timezones. Microsoft had a really hard time fixing everyone's meeting times the other year, when the US decided to move the DST switchover date by a few weeks; if Exchange had stored symbolic timezones rather than numeric then nothing need have changed.

If something's scheduled for the future, either it should be scheduled absolutely (with direct reference to UTC) or with reference to its location (with a symbolic timezone). Numerical timezones are dangerous, because they look like they provide enough information but they don't.

Incidentally, please use Olson-style location-based TZ symbols, rather than three-letter zone names. The three-letter names aren't nearly as helpful when resolving DST changes.
The fact that they're good at figuring out what people want is not to be understated. That's not common, and most startups fail because they don't produce something people want and will pay for. All the technical muscle in the world can't overcome that. I've worked in two startups (one failed, one was too sleazy to even discuss) and did excellent technical work at both, but that didn't matter in the end because of executive problems. If your "business guys" are good at finding customers, figuring out what they want, and delivering it, that's a major asset.

Here's what you need. Get a VP-level title so you can hire people better than you and not push yourself down, because that's what will happen if you don't have a title. At this stage of the company, titles mean nothing, but at 40 employees, they will.

Now find at least one technical person who's better than you and try to recruit him. He'll be your mentor. He'll possibly want a title once he learns that you have one. That's fine. Make sure the founders are willing to make him VP as well, so you're equals. (You don't want to be the boss of someone better than you, so mandate that the people you hire answer directly to founders/the board).
The thing that seems different about IV is that they try really hard to not seem like a patent troll.

I find it a little insulting, at least the other trolls are pretty straightforward about it and don't try to pretend they're coming up with inventions or advancing science.
Jigsaw 101: How to Use the Orbital-Action Setting
Rate my startup.
Can you accept the fact, however, that this is not about you?
You are misinformed. There may or may not be DRM according to the teardowns. There is certainly a bit of silicon which has a minimal DRM capability, but it may have come along for the ride. If there is DRM, it is not enforced. There are knockoff connectors out there.

The connector electronics are there to allow higher current charging by allocating more pins to power transfer when they are not needed for data and to allow as yet undeveloped higher speed protocols to operate on the same connector.

If there is DRM I can see Apple's point. When you destroy an iPhone with a cheap charger that fails, it costs Apple money to replace it. If you attempt to reverse engineer the connector, you will be wrong. The future capabilities are not present for observation. You will probably create a device that behaves improperly for future protocols. Will you destroy that future device by pulling -5V on a low voltage differential data line?
boo fucking hoo.
Yes.

http://llvm.org/releases/download.html#3.2
Also, it's got to be a pretty old stock photo, given that in the background you've got an ABI 373 DNA sequencer connected to what looks like a Mac II.

Being a relic of the very early 90s, the only thing the 373's good for now is taking apart on YouTube and playing with the laser:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_CdHkDVDRk
But please not on Hacker News. Thanks.
I think "replica" isn't the best word...
NY/NJ: Rainy and windy. Should we worry ?
Exactly. Especially when you are a one-man team, there is no use for any of GitHub's social features for private repos.
How is it that when it comes to copying corporate owned assets like music the debate is always on how its not theft as the core product remains. Yet now that we are talking about user submitted content that view does not hold.
The counter just passed 1 billion and now the time left is "23 hours 47 minutes 14 seconds"
They didn't need money...

-- Huh?

They don't need money. The need to return money to investors.

Big difference.

Here, they are having a garage sale (of other people's stuff) to pay the mortgage on the house they luxuriously live in. Of course, they bought the supplies and furnishings for their house with money from investors. That's why they are trying to steal what is in the garage ans sell it on ebay to marketers/ =D
20 Must-Have Apps for That Tablet Under the Tree
I read Into Thin Air, about the 1996 account by a reporter who was with the crew that lost 4 members. After poking around I saw someone saying the Sherpas will kick bodies in the crevasses and they wash out in the Spring. Sad, but with a rate of 1:4 before 1996, then 1:7 after on death ratios its gotten much better. However, it takes money/balls/stupidity to climb that thing.
Or. You could get in touch with top VC folks by donating to their charity through oneleap.to.

http://oneleap.to/featured/investors
The reason why this is something I don't support is that they are promoting a very specific gun control agenda, which seems to have been essentially randomly generated (or cynically politically generated), vs. either aimed at the specific problem in Sandy Hook or the statistically prevalent causes/factors of gun violence.

Saying "we need to do something about gun violence" is a much less overtly political message than "we must adopt these specific 3 policy items."

If they wanted to deal with Sandy Hook in specific, enhancing the mental health bars on getting weapons, enhancing safe storage, etc. would be most effective with the least cost. After that, banning semiautomatic rifles and handguns, but this would require constitutional changes. Armed security at schools would be another approach (being endorsed by Senator Boxer).

For Aurora, mental health bars, possibly waiting periods, and possibly preempting local gun free zones would be the specific policy remedy with the least cost; banning semiautomatic pistols and handguns would be the intrusive but effective solution (via constitutional amendment).

For spree killings in general, the low hanging fruit is consensual agreement by the media to not dramatize the killers -- don't ever mention their names, similar to how suicide bombers are handled in Israel. It's not the media/video games/etc. in general, it is specifically how the media treat these incidents.

If they want to deal with statistically prevalent gun violence, they should focus on handguns (80-90%) and the drug war. Rifles and shotguns are essentially irrelevant to that. Domestic violence is another issue, and there have been really strong changes in the past 10 years to address that (confiscating guns over even misdemeanor DV convictions, unless you're the Sheriff of San Francisco.)

Suicide is the other big issue around gun deaths, which I'm not sure you can really address through regulation, but better mental health access would probably be the best solution.

There should be a discussion of what the aims of legislation are (reducing gun crime overall, reducing specific types of crime), and then pick and promote measures which will actually accomplish those.

As far as I can tell, this was just a bunch of things a few mayors (Bloomberg, specifically) already wanted (interstate transport, 100% background check for all sales), and then the magazine ban randomly thrown in.

There is some really low hanging fruit which virtually everyone would support (100% checks on all transfers, mental health bars for getting guns, enhanced penalties for crimes at the federal level involving guns, and per-state changes to gun crime laws).
The Dharma, the Interconnected Mind and the Future of the Enterprise
Longer life expectancy, more years of disease
Some videos here have that too, but this one hasn't. Thanks for the article; we have Buma doing similar stuff.
Whether the doctor was wearing a lab coat or not also affects the placebo effect. It makes sugar pills work better!
At some point, someone will just brute-force these.
Google: How much is too big?
Two Decades On, Why Are We Still Stuck With Uniques And Pageviews?
Read the actual, complete release notes here:

LLVM, http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/docs/ReleaseNotes.html

Clang: http://llvm.org/releases/3.2/docs/ClangReleaseNotes.html

The project has recently moved to Sphinx, and the transition was only completed after branching for 3.2. It looks like the release notes have gotten out of sync and need to be merged, which is a little more work than usual. The link from the homepage points to docs that are always generated from trunk, so it only has old, incomplete notes.
thanks. glad u liked it
I think that's my biggest hangup with this. There was never a "Well, we're thinking about doing this with your photos, but we were wondering if you valued the service enough to pay for it instead?"

There would have still been outrage, but people pay to get rid of ads on services all the time.. particularly if they want to continue a streamlined experience. If not, they can tolerate the ads. But using my photos as ads? If I opt-in, sure. But I don't want that by default. I'd rather see something irrelevant than have my likeness potentially supporting a business I don't want to.
Well that was unexpected, hit 1 billion and the site started redirecting to porn sites.
I would recommend amending the title - it's a little vague, and led me to expect research papers about social media, not research papers shared via social media.
I think it's fair to say that GitHub grabbed the lead because it was at the time much better than the competition. Now that they are the incumbent, network effect is going to win out for a long time.
Red Hat Revenue Up Over 20% and Linux is Stronger Than Ever
So it hits 1 billion and I get redirected to an adult "dating" site, interesting....
I think his been hacked...
Careful, this currently redirects me to some NSFW site.
Watch out, the site now redirects to something shady.

It also messed up as soon as it hit 10⁹ views, saying it would hit 10⁹ views in 23 hours, 59 minutes etc.
Yeah I just saw that too. How lame! I expected something much more... I don't know... professional I guess. Or at least interesting.

I suppose it's possible the site was hacked. Let's hope that's the case and that we all haven't been intentionally duped by the creator.
HTC Ready to Fail: Preps Windows RT Tablets to Compete with iPads
Looks like the domain got hijacked.
Abort, abort! porn site.
It went largely unnoticed, but one of the biggest changes of the November Android NDK release was the addition of LLVM/clang to the toolchain. This was primarily added to reduce issues when cross-compiling iOS apps to Android.
Okay so, let's accept for a moment that people who put stuff in Chad's garage were being dumb.

How does that, in any way, justify Chad selling your stuff?

Whether or not people were smart trusting Instagram in the first place is an entirely separate issue from Instagram's new TOS.