skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I haven't seen anyone say it, but I can tell you that the experience of entering the US as a US citizen is only marginally better.

Leaving/entering the US is something I avoid at all costs. Sad but true.
Undefeated
I wrote one in brainfuck++ some years ago: https://github.com/billiob/bfb
Brainfuck++ adds opening/closing/reading/writing to files/sockets with 6 new operators.
The whole code in a single file is there:
https://github.com/billiob/bfb/blob/master/code.bfpp
Beyond Founder/Product Market Fit
"implies understanding of someone's situation on an emotional level, not just a rational level."

You've identified the difference between sympathy and empathy. OK, fine. I have plenty of sympathy, but no empathy in this situation. I deeply understand that this must suck for people who don't have a choice.

All I'm saying is that it's absolutely ridiculous to cry over the fact that somebody else's superior forced them to work late/hard one night. The original author should not feel any culpability for that. If there's any emotion I'd share here, it would be anger at those superiors, not a sense of guilt.

"It comes off as extremely douchey to tell people [...] that they can always say no."

The person I replied to was talking about a different person and suggested that person went the extra mile, hoping for some repeat business. That is absolutely optional. I have no idea if the delivery people in the original story had a choice, but I wasn't speaking about them.
It was one the main motto of Ada. Ada is very easy to read (to be honest, it is less true since Ada95) but when I do not use it during a long time, I forget how to write in Ada.
> very real chance that the mistaken opinion of a border guard would cost you job and your ability to enter the USA for many years.

I'm not sure I understand. If you are granted full legal rights to work, live, and breath in the US by the US border patrol organization (i.e. you have a visa), then there is zero reason a border guard can "mistakenly" not let you in. They can certainly "question" your ability, but that doesn't mean they have any right to immediately deport you without due process. Can you cite a source of this actually happening?
Seems to me your example is like a bank storing things in a secure locked vault, then leaving the key in the vault door at all times. It's technically accurate to say the valuables are stored in a locked vault - but the actual security level is no better than being stored in an unlocked vault.

In other words, what is technically correct doesn't convey an accurate impression.

If you're dealing with a bank that keeps their vault key in their vault door, or a member of the public choosing a bank, they might not have the nuanced understanding of security to understand the problem if you use too much technical jargon.
Especially as most of this demand is absorbed by hydro and pumped storage in the Scottish highlands.
"Some might prefer Canada or the US, but it would likely be generally equivalent. In those cases, I guess I don't see the reason why controls are still strict"

Well, are they? Border control at US/Canada seems to be more for everybody else rather than Canadians/Americans.

Most people are 'waved' through. Except for the need of a work permit, I'd say it's pretty non existent.

Of course in the EU this is much better
HTML6: The Spec That Brings Us Freedom
You've been awake for 30 hours. You are far from peak efficiency. Sleep.
Wow: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_Photoshop#CS2

The Standard Edition included:

Adobe Bridge (Since CS2)
Adobe Illustrator
Adobe InDesign
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Version Cue
Design guide and training resources

The Premium Edition also included:

Adobe Acrobat Professional (Version 8 in CS2.3)
Adobe Dreamweaver (Since CS2.3)
Adobe GoLive
It's like that joke about a Belarusian referendum ballot:

Do you not object for the president to remain in power indefinitely?

[ ] No, I don't object
[ ] Yes, I don't object
Remember that determining when something on TV ends is not that simple. Most will leave when the credits show. And for football when people leave could actually depend on which teams play and which team wins. E.g. if England wins I bet the spike will be delayed. Teaching an AI this seems unnecessary compared to just having a human do this.
With your formulation, a site can get itself off of the offender list by not sending certain emails. Yet in most of the password data breaches we've seen in the last year, the email was not actually the method by which the stored credentials were leaked. A simple web search https://www.google.com/q=plain+text+password+breach shows that plaintext (or improper hashing) of database-stored credentials is probably a more common factor.

Your formulation is "precise, short, and easily understandable" but it's also wrong. You're making the mistake of measuring the thing that's easiest to measure rather that the thing that's most important to improve.
Is it from Cosmopolitan or Maxim? GQ?
The myth that a company only has a goal to make money for its shareholders is wrong. Or to do only what they desire for that matter.

http://hbr.org/2010/04/the-myth-of-shareholder-capitalism/ar...

I'll extract the money quote:

Oddly, no previous management research has looked at what the legal literature says about the topic, so we conducted a systematic analysis of a century’s worth of legal theory and precedent. It turns out that the law provides a surprisingly clear answer: Shareholders do not own the corporation, which is an autonomous legal person. What’s more, when directors go against shareholder wishes—even when a loss in value is documented—courts side with directors the vast majority of the time. Shareholders seem to get this. They’ve tried to unseat directors through lawsuits just 24 times in large corporations over the past 20 years; they’ve succeeded only eight times. In short, directors are to a great extent autonomous.
The problem is that these studies are narrow and only look at a handful of the aspects of consumption.

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

> Short term side effects such as headache, nausea, and anxiety have been shown as symptoms of mild caffeine consumption.

When assessing the health impact of a drug, it is important to look at the whole picture.

Amp is indeed neurotoxic, though the exact effect is a little nuanced and dose-dependent.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15019431

> In addition to the social, cultural and indirect medical complications of amphetamine analog abuse, this class of drugs is also known to have the potential to damage brain monoaminergic cells directly.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17606768

> In early studies, high doses of amphetamine, comparable to amounts used by addicts, were shown to damage dopaminergic pathways. More recent studies, using therapeutic regimens, appear contradictory. One paradigm shows significant decreases in striatal dopamine and transporter density after oral administration of "therapeutic" doses in primates. Another shows morphological evidence of "trophic" dendritic growth in the brains of adult and juvenile rats given systemic injections mimicking "therapeutic" treatment. Imaging studies of ADHD-diagnosed individuals show an increase in striatal dopamine transporter availability that may be reduced by methylphenidate treatment.

I did not claim that caffeine and modafinil are neurotoxic, just amphetamine.
I'm actually a photographer and I like the over-the-top HDR shots (even the example linked). It really depends on personal taste, and what it is you're after.

A lot of people dismiss them because they're "unrealistic" (which they obviously are) but I ask you is an oil painting unrealistic? For example this:

http://snapzlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Oil-Painting...

Clearly that is a painting, but if exactly the same picture was acquired using HDR everyone would dismiss it as being terrible?

My point is that you can use HDR to get realistic looking pictures, but you can also use HDR for "artistic" reasons, like painting using your camera. A lot of photographers are dismissive of the latter because they want to pretend photography is a practical rather than artistic endeavour.
With a little help of Python and the Tumblr API, here's a (dirty) list of the domains: http://paste.debian.net/222440/
I wrote a post last night and "saved it" so that I'll continue to work on it later. Its non-existent now. So, drafts don't exist? What does the "save" button do then?
I did not advocate staying away from them but using them sporadically as opposed to regularly:

> Stay away from the above, unless taken very occasionally
Modafinil has too many side effects to be considered nootropic. It is a cognitive enhancer.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modafinil#Side_effects
I'm not a haskell user, but I did recently try to install a haskell project on my Debian Squeeze host:

$ sudo apt-get install ghc6 cabal-install
$ sudo cabal update
$ sudo cabal install hakyll

That failed with an error of the form "installing XX version YY requires FOO version BAR". That gave me zero help in completing the installation, and so I gave up.

FWIW: https://github.com/skx/static-site-generators
Nvidia announces its own gaming device 'Shield' at CES
Well then StarCraft II is a good target since the version coming in 2013 is basically an upgrade to the game that went out mid-2011. So it's an already proven and well-understood technology, easier to port; just like the Source engine games for Valve.
The number of cores is not "drivel", and it's also not new. This kind of information is absolutely standard fare when talking about GPUs nowadays.

See for instance the (huge) tables at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Nvidia_graphics_p..., under the "Config core" column you can see each model's configuration of cores.

You can see that the idea that a GPU has several types of core, and various amount of each, goes back 5+ years.
So how do you reply to the argument that "people certainly like iOS devices that are locked-down, often citing the absence of malware and other non-conforming apps"?
I would pay for access to course notes that have guarunteed permanence. Because if I ever want to look up an algorithm I learned, and I remember "oh, I remember that from that one class," I typically look back through my course notes. It'd be awesome to have those notes permanently, without my having to write them up. I know for my school's intro sequence, we post the notes online, but each year the notes change a little, and, if the course is in progress, or just about to start, then only the notes for the course up to the point it's at are available.
How are the access times compared to a traditional setup? I imagine that it's not too bad as google has some serious hardware behind their effort.
> The effort to create and maintain a "secure" one-off credential storage system seems like a waste given the availability of well-tested, accepted methods of credential hashing and storage.

I disagree, because what seems safe today might be unsafe tomorrow or in 10 years. Does anyone still remember Unix versions without a shadow passwd file? I do ... But why do we use that even today when modern Linux installations use SHA variants by default?
My thoughts exactly. Back in the day I thought MS was evil. Now, the things happening in the "consumer computing" almost make me see those Windows times as a paradise of openness.
This advice by an indirect indicator, but the Raspberry Pi folks seem to be using http://www.mythic-beasts.com/
Beyond Founder-Product-Market Fit
Forexprofitseeker 2013
It's a set of slides about HTML5 written in HTML5. The slides not working properly on mobile devices with no fallback for non-webkit browsers show that the developers are either

a. Lazy
b. Incompetent, or
c. Used proprietary webkit technology,

none of which will inspire much confidence in the actual contents of slides (which I can't read anyway, since I'm on Opera Mobile)
And it'll still be there. But if you know what you're doing you won't have to read it to select the right option to move forward.
The big promise of linux was that it would commoditize the OS market, and this is exactly what happened. It is indeed a victory for linux that everybody who wants to build their own OS starts with the linux kernel. The OS can move out of the way, because it should have never been in the spotlight in the first place (this was a larval phase of the personal computing market.)

The upside should be that everybody contributes back into the global pool of source code, and that even people who would never buy a chromebook benefit by google's source contributions. I don't know how that works out in practice though.
Create multi-platform desktop apps with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript
Yeah... We're working on a "proper" site (with proper API). It will be up soon, but it's taking its time :(
Having a valid visa does not entitle you to the entry to the US. The border official can deny you entry for any reason.
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I like 'begging' more than 'raising'. The question is not just there but highlighted in neon.
PHP offers a lot of choice.

You can use it rather nicely, but it also allows you to write some really awful code. Admittedly, it does not do much to help you write good (=understandable, maintainable) code.

This post is rather interesting in terms of using the good parts of PHP:

http://fabien.potencier.org/article/64/php-is-much-better-th...

I have been using the author's PHP framework for 2 years now and have experienced huge improvements in the quality of the code I write simply by being exposed to his example. He basically uses a lot of objects but very little inheritance. He also is religious about the DRY principle.
But I could also use just Google Apps on a Windows or Apple machine. Because I use Windows I don't have to buy Windows apps.

Your argument seems to be that "it is better as it doesn't allow me to buy OS-specific apps so I can't get tied in"? I might be misunderstanding.
Android gaming is going to boom this year I think. The market is primed for mobile gaming to take off into more graphically intensive game territory, and the industry has been getting sized up for years.

And this is the Android gaming device. A controller that doesn't require a usb port or finnicky wifi / bluetooth. So that is its killer feature.
Couldn't agree more. If the behaviour or outcome of a function depends on the current time, then the current time is an input to that function. Inputs to functions should be declared explicitly as arguments where possible.

The existence of Time.now and the fact that it's possible to stub this method are not in themselves a good enough justification for excluding the current time from the list of explicit inputs. The length of the list of a function's inputs is one of the indicators of whether a function has too many disparate inputs and therefore too many responsibilities. Obscuring this number is likely to lead to more cluttered code.

In DHH's example, Time.now should be called somewhere higher up the call stack where its return value doesn't matter to the outcome of the function in which it resides. It should look like this:

def publish!(time)
self.update published_at: time
end

That way the inputs are clear. It also happens to mean that you can test it without requiring the linguistic flexibility provided by Ruby, but that doesn't mean that testability in inflexible languages is the only reason why it's the right thing to do.
The volume slider on the BBC player goes to 11. Brilliant.
I agree completely. I don't understand why companies provide better support over Twitter (it is a bad idea as far as I can tell - they just have generally lousy customer service and for some reason change for Twitter, to some degree).

The foolish response of relying on non-sustainable heroic efforts by employees to provide customer service is feeble. But the customer is not responsible for stupid management actions. Now customers can be unreasonable and if you are doing that it makes sense to me to feel some culpability for the outcome of your bad behavior (even if others had to enable the bad outcome too). Just based on the post it does seem to me the request was unreasonable.

It is true, sadly, both customers and employees suffer from very bad systems management has put in place for customer support.
You have to have some limitations, it's not like every Android device can do NEON.
Gtk HTML5 backend update
Electrical cars with "smart" chargers. The chargers will have two settings. Express (high price, uninterrupted charging), and Economy (low price, maybe even free (fixed cost), charging controlled by the power grid, "full by the next morning").

This is has been the dream/vision of the power companies in Denmark for at least a decade. It is usually brought up when the government pressure them to generate more power from wind. Current level is 20%, goal is 50% by 2020.

Even 20% is more than is practical in isolation, but we export peak production to Germany, Norway, and Sweden. The two later have hydropower production (and no earthquakes), which can be lowered when cheap Danish excess wind power is available. Not sure that can be scaled to 50%, especially as Germany has similar plans.
Well, 5 cpu cores, one is invisible to the OS though.
Noones treating this as a definitive source of truth. It's a fun way to gamify our bug squashing efforts.
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"Even the most skilled Linux users have had things break on them"

I had Windows giving me more breaking problems than Linux, by far. All my windows machines broke after months of intense work and had to re install them, even win7. The most stable has been my macs through.

"Maybe you're a genius and can fix these problems right away, but not everybody is like you."

Well, I'm not a genius but I have a secret. When I buy a machine I look for good compatibility with Linux inside. It works great. You save lots of work in the future with such simple things. Now it is even simpler to choose hardware that works great with Linux.
My experience in the EU is that, even for EU citizens, the UK and (a somewhat distance second) Spain can be quite intrusive. For the rest of the EU and Switzerland, they almost never ask anything.

But I definitely agree that China seems to be the "easiest" in this sense. No questions at all. :)
Now that is nice!
Can't wait to see that chip in the Nexus 7 2 or however they brand it. Or maybe the Nexus 10 2? A15 cores are such a noticeable boost over A9.

I'm really hoping once this thing gets benchmarked that Nvidia finally hits it out of the park on the graphics side, for being the foremost GPU company of the last decade they sure screwed up ULP Geforce with 7000 series gpus from a decade ago. I think these are Kepler cores, and they have proven themselves fantastic on the desktop.
I am on the verge of breaking ground on a large-scale corporate project in which WPF/XAML is the tech of choice for UI. I have received criticism for even suggesting that HTML5 is "up to the job" but I feel like this completely validates my point.
it has google hangout, though, right?
Both the BBC and ITV are regional, with a core national schedule but lots of opt-outs. Most news broadcasts will be followed by a regional news programme. BBC Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland regularly opt-out of the main schedule to show locally-produced programmes.
Why would it matter to users what kernel is being run?

The great thing about Chromebook running Linux is that more work is put into Linux kernel, Linux harware supporting and Linux software support.

Linux is not GNU. Locked down devices were explicitly allowed when kernel devs opted to keep GPLv2 instead of moving to v3. They don't care about openness of devices but about the source code.
Just stumbled across this yesterday, that I think does the same thing on the web: http://worldc.am/
Some people put a cordless electrical kettle on a gas stove, and melt the bottom and damage the kettle. Seriously, I've seen this happen a number of times, I've almost done it myself.
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If you want to make a flash mob big enough to do that you would need to post the information publicly. Then I think there's a good chance of word getting back to National Grid who could then plan for it. The only thing they wouldn't know then is the size of the demand.
Well put! Another reason to grab the time once and distribute it is that you typically don't want the passage of time during processing to affect results, that is, you want your system to perceive "atomic" time.

Would suck if half your update is December 31st 23:59, and the other half January 1st, 00:00.
I didn't see many people order Macbook from Amazon while they can do it directly from Apple Store.
Microsoft's aching Windows 8 hangover
I switched to decaffeinated coffee a couple of years ago (why?[1]). I was drinking about 250mg worth of caffeine a day before I stopped. I had a week of bad headaches, interrupted sleep, night sweats and crankiness and I was done. It's not nice but it's only a week or so. I avoided taking painkillers to mask the symptoms as some contain caffeine (especially the "Express" versions) to speed up the body's metabolism and get them into the bloodstream quicker; suffering the full symptoms also serves as a reminder of why I was doing it.

Decaf still contains some caffeine, so my 5 cups a day are probably still giving me ~25mg or so of caffeine. I drink it because I like the taste of coffee although I'm considering giving it up completely. I'm not a coffee snob and I'm happy with the taste of instant coffee.

25mg is still less caffeine than is contained in a single can of Coke (36mg).

Years ago I stopped eating chocolate and drinking soda for both dental and health reasons (I want to avoid the increased risk of Type II Diabetes from large intakes of sugary drinks).

I still, once a week maybe, have a non-decaf coffee if decaf isn't available, but I try to limit myself to one that day as I do notice the buzz from having a full strength coffee again.

1. Primary driver was in preparation for some long distance cycling where I'd be getting <10 hours (in total) sleep[2] over 4 days. I needed caffeine to have its old effect of giving me a temporary boost in case I was a few hours from somewhere where I could comfortably get some sleep[3]. Secondary driver was that it's a pernicious drug that I wanted to drop any dependency on.

2. I cope with sleep deprivation very well, indeed I coped a lot better with lack of sleep than a lot of other people on the event. Having children is good training for sleep deprivation (or at least not getting more than 3 hours sleep in a single stretch).

3. My planned naps (one or two hours a day) staved off most of the problems but I did get caught out a couple of times. One was at night and so I loaded up with coffee (many locals along the route set up roadside stalls giving out free coffee and food to riders) to keep myself awake for the three hours to the next control where I slept; the other was during the day when it was nice and sunny so I had an hour long nap on some grass by the road side.
Because 50% of typical users will choose one of the top 10,000 most-common passwords and no practical amount of work factor will save them if the hashes become known.
I don't know why they say it's unique to Britain. I've visited a hydro station in South Africa a few times where they've shown me that surge, and South Africans have fewer television channels to choose from.
http://xkcd.com/356/