skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Making  safe for historians
Namechk: Check if a Name is Available for Social Networks or URL
Venture Math 101
Really ineffective performance measurement standards and incentives. When there is no reward for going above and beyond or penalty for simply coasting by, you're essentially creating a haven for shitty employees.
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I got binders...
You know I initially typed out a long comment agreeing with you.. I was sure there was a lurking variable in that plot, but I looked up the study and sure enough, about half are strictly caffeine related. Which makes their lines a touch misleading in my option, because in the entire other half of the data, caffeine is just one more point in a cocktail of alcohol and narcotics. So including them in the plot is a bit strange.

So, there are quite a few caffeine only emergency visits, but if we're just going on caffeine issues, there's not enough in the study to see if there's really such a significant uptick in recent years for purely caffeine related issues.

Also, note that a large portion of the visits simply list "adverse effects," not "misuse" (which I would interpret as over consumption). So who knows whether or not these are high doses, or simply people who happen to roll the short end of the stick in regards to caffeine tolerance.
I presume you can think of it as this legendary engineer does what would take a normal engineer 3 years to do, each day.
I have a side project that provides hosted bots: http://getinstabot.com. I don't think there's much interest, though.
Why Can Some Kids Handle Pressure While Others Fall Apart?
Learn to quiet your mind not by denying but by embracing what's going on. You can become an observer in your own head instead of being caught up by discoursive thoughts… see them as weather.

My #1 go-to recommendation is the AUDIO book (not the written version) of When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron. Don't worry if you're not going through what sounds like a crisis… the audiobook is accessible for even minor issues, like "being a human."

http://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Fall-Apart-Difficult/dp/15...
Learn to quiet your mind not by denying but by embracing what's going on. You can become an observer in your own head. My #1 go-to recommendation is the AUDIO book (not the written version) of When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron. Don't worry if you're not going through what sounds like a crisis… the audiobook is accessible for even minor issues, like "being a human."

http://www.amazon.com/When-Things-Fall-Apart-Difficult/dp/15...
Sounds awfully like "I'm only gonna do this if I get enough publicity out of it".
You mean the Windows 8 Store?
I guess someone needs to have the money to go to court over it.
How about a "Save the Space Marines" kickstarter to pay for legal costs on your case and future cases involving obsurd legal allegations stifling science fiction writers?
This supports the only browser thats ruining the Internet. Oh well. It looks nice though.
I used to love KDE, but they lost me and all the other users where I worked when they stopped supporting NFS home directories. Kmail was one of KDE's greatest assets, and now we are stuck with thunderbird on XFCE.

KDE claimed to be "Enterprise Ready" once ( http://www.kde.org/announcements/announce-2.2.php ), but silently went back on that when they forced the usage of the terrible akonadi and nepomuk with even the most basic components. I don't know of an enterprise setup that doesn't have NFS home directories by default, so I guess KDE is no longer ready for the enterprise?
is it really different than why people go to McDonalds or any other type of resturaunt? Because they expect a certain result which is why I can see Coke going to this extent. The just have many more variables to deal with than their soda products.
>Maybe it's too hard to admit people just don't care much about it.

Or maybe people who might be interested have already left HN in disgust over a bunch of fanboys and zealots flagged stories that don't fit their worldview, just like it happened to this article too as predicted which is sitting on the 3rd page now although it should be on the front page.
Anyone else seeing the error: "Download was not a CRX"
>I've read if not shelf-meters then certainly shelf-decimeters of SF with plenty of marines in them, none being of the Warhammer variety.

I've read at least a shelf-meter of books involving 40K space marines. As the article alludes, 40K space marines are called Adeptus Astartes or simply Astartes.

This is one of things that makes this such a jackass move. Their own, licensed writing would seem to acknowledge "space marine" as generic.
The third paragraph reads "Out of the box Topaz is extremely fast." This is most definitely selling its speed.
I'm far more likely to go find my laptop than I am to tolerate a different, and so far in 100% of cases inferior, experience on my phone or tablet.
Hi to be clear, this is project undetaken by me (Alex) independently, it wasn't funded out of the PyPy funds or anything like that. There were 3 primary motivations:

a) Because it's fun

b) To prove RPython is a great platform

c) To mess with people's heads, it's crazy!
When considering pricing for software, it's important to consider more than just the initial sale. It needs to be a comprehensive view of customer lifetime value.

One of the critical things in my current business is the upgrade path for customers. We have many customers who start with one license but quickly scale to 5, then 25, then 50 and beyond.

Having a lower price point to get people into your product can be a very effective strategy if there is a clear upgrade strategy for each customer.
Bitbucket and github's bug trackers are pretty nice. No, they aren't as subtle as bugzilla, but I like them.

Speaking for myself, I make a personal point of pride of responding to every bug that shows up on my bug trackers. Not that it's very high traffic at all. :-)
Three Types of Social Sharers Your App Should Enable
Couldn't you do PROGRA~1 for "Program Files" or PROGRA~2 for "Program Files (x86)"?
Reasons to Be Suspicious of Buyouts Led by Management
Write CSS like you're in the future with Stylus
Aliens came out in 1986. I don't know how much more common you need to be than that.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090605/

I'd personally been using the term since growing up watching Star Blazers cartoons in the 70s.
Rap Genius, I'd love to work with you.
CARFAX, Columbia, MO (no remotes)

CARFAX provides trusted information that helps millions of people buy and sell used cars with more confidence. At CARFAX, we’re at our best when we’re growing, and we believe the same is true of the people who work here. That’s why we invest in the growth of our employees and offer rewarding, creative, fast-paced work, as well as many other opportunities to challenge you.

Why you want to work for Carfax:
- Your high energy, entrepreneurial spirit will be appreciated

- You work well in an environment that is chaotic at times

- Team dynamics are important to you

- You are comfortable being yourself at work

- You thoroughly know and have created useful projects in a high-level language such as Java, Groovy, Ruby or Python

- You particularly like technologies whose names start with 'G' ( our main stack involves Groovy, Gradle, Grails and Git)

- You've got a solid knowledge of at least a few of the following: HTML5, CSS3, Javascript/CoffeScript/jQuery, Web Standards, MVC architectures, RESTful/Service Oriented Architectures, Spring, Oracle, Mongo, RabbitMQ, Continuous Integration, TDD.

- We love messing with the latest and greatest technologies and will send you to conferences/training to find out more about the state of the art

- We promote a teaching environment even when it requires us to slow down

- Personal Dev time every Friday afternoon, work on your own projects, many devs here own/run productive side projects

- Agile/XP flows through our veins, we are meta about this probably to a fault. We pair program, use TDD, and we frequently review agile concepts and their application to our work flow

- Comfortable work/life balance, excellent benefits, competitive salary and bonus program

- We like to have FUN at work -- lots of events and team building (zombie paintball, annual paper airplane contest, musical chairs competitions for extra vacation days, theme dinners, SWAG, parties, the list goes on and on...)

We want developers that are comfortable learning new technologies and really diving deep into optimizing our existing stack. If you can be a top notch contributor on our team then please apply at http://jobvite.com/m?3YUpHfwI and we'll get back to you as fast as we can
Genetics play a role. I had 23 and Me sequence my DNA two years ago and one of the things they check for is caffeine tolerance. I don't have it. I can drink a 20oz Mountain Dew for lunch (11:30 AM) and it will keep me awake till at least 10:30 PM if not 11 or 12 or even later, without fail. Some people do not metabolize it. Often, I'll get jitters after a single cup of coffee. I restrict my caffeine intake because of this.
The "Clear All" button is not working for me.
We're they "space marines" or "colonial marines?"
I was also expecting something different, but I like the overall tone of "Women are welcome here, and they're welcome to speak." I think a lot of tech companies get the first one right, but they don't know how to communicate the second point. With study after study showing that women speak less when surrounded by men, promoting the event woman-to-woman sends a powerful message.
> One of our goals at Dev Bootcamp Chicago is to change the ratio of women in software development: we want a 1:1 ratio in our cohorts.

Why?

That's a serious question.

My hobbies include writing, blacksmithing, cooking, and ceramics.

In writing, around half the people are women.

In blacksmithing perhaps 3% are women.

In cooking probably 90% of the blogs I read and people who take classes are women.

In ceramics it's again 90% female.

I have absolutely no desire to increase the percentage of women blacksmiths...and I have absolutely no desire to decrease the percentage of women pot throwers.

Why should I want to change these?

Why do you want to change the ratio in web development?
When Doctors and Patients Are Facebook Friends
All my Gmail notfications are 43 years old. I'm in europe so maybe it can't handle the 24h time format?

Apart from that it's really great! Would love to see some common forums supported (but that would be tricky as you would need access to many different domains).
I get this error on Chrome 26.0.1403.0: "Could not install package: 'COULD_NOT_GET_TEMP_DIRECTORY'"
I did a "Clear All" and the notifications just disappeared from the extension, my Gmail mails are still unread.
Startup-advising robot dino Fake Grimlock moves to books
If anything, predictions based on the innovator's dilemma were wrong: http://daringfireball.net/2012/07/iphone_disruption_five_yea...

I think disruptive innovation is a very useful concept, but this just goes to show how hard it is to apply a priori.
That doesn't make it unfair to JRuby, it just means JRuby will probably lose that benchmark. :)
There are platforms like CrossRider[1] or trigger.io[2] that allow you to deploy cross-browser add-ons, should be easy to port to since it's already in javascript.

[1] http://crossrider.com/
[2] http://docs.trigger.io/en/v1.4/modules/browser/index.html
What you just wrote is exactly what I've been telling people about every new "Python" implementation for the last 3 years. Believe me, I understand this argument completely, that's why I made sure we had all the hard bits (monkey patching core classes, eval, etc.) before I released this.
It's a bit difficult to argue with his premise with the 'tech journalists of note' have made the argument for him.
We have to change the culture of science to do better research
I believe you're correct on the official name. I would make a case that most people thought of them as Space Marines though.
I'm not share I really share in those same fears.

If the code does what you want of it, you have saved considerable time not having to write it yourself. If it proves to have bugs/compatibility problems in the future, then you can fix those issues, just as you would have to do if you had written it yourself. It is rather unlikely that your attempt at the problem will yield any better results over the long haul, so maintenance is a fact of life either way.

If a project is actively maintained by someone else, that is just an extra sweet bonus.
I had 49 notifications upon installing it (my inbox has ~200 unread e-mails), maybe that triggered a bug. I disabled Gmail an it works now.
In order to eliminate the potential bias of startup time I run similar test in many iterations. Here's what I got:

$ time ruby -e "10000.times { puts 'hello world' }" > /dev/null
real 0m0.102s
user 0m0.096s
sys 0m0.005s

and

$ time ./topaz -e "10000.times { puts 'hello world' }" > /dev/null
real 0m0.098s
user 0m0.071s
sys 0m0.026s

Any idea why I don't see such big difference?
Castration? I don't know, whatever they do on "plain vanilla" exchanges/brokerages that allow shorting.

Although there were recent scandals about people shorting shares that didn't exist, and when they would have reaped a profit, they were told there was no record of the shares, "but we can reverse the transaction if you like".
Even Google iOS views don't seem nearly as polished as those used by Apple. Any idea how to find out what's going on?
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Also:

>Be comforted, that in the face of all irridity and disillusionment, and despite the changing fortunes of time, there is always a big future in computer maintenance.
Pain points we've run into:

* OAuth redirect_uri is locked to a single domain. No test.example.com/staging.example.com for testing - you need to create a new app for a testing/staging environment.

* Max of five apps in an account (see above) - we're having to register an Instagram account per app so we can create dev/test versions of the app.

* Can't grant access to other devs for an account.

* Access to the commenting API is whitelist based. API gives an e-mail address, which never responds. Trying to use the API returns JSON with a bitly link to a Google form, which also never responds. We've been waiting some time for them to respond with a yay/nay on comment whitelisting.

* Docs say you should respect privacy setting of photos, but API doesn't tell you which photos are private anywhere.

* The Google Group seems to be a place feedback/bug reports go to die.
Porting KWin to XCB: making C usable through RAII
Holy crap now I'm even more confused. I just want to know if stop loss orders will or will not execute during a flash crash, when the crash price trades below the stop loss price and their is sufficient volume to eat through all the standing orders.

Yes they will trade.
No they will not trade (if they will not, then I'd be curious to know why, which perhaps has been explained above.)

EDIT: Rereading your comment above again, you seem to be of the belief that it will execute - which was the entire point of my argument. People talk as if HFT has no downsides, this to me seems like a clear downside. And saying "well just don't use stop loss orders, or use stop limit orders" isn't a valid counterpoint. A stop limit can still execute, the problem is when the stock dips down for a two minutes and then returns to where it was, but now you no longer hold the stock.
Clear all will just hide all notifications from Chime. Marking them as read is too undo-able, we wouldn't want users to accidentally mark a ton of important emails as read.

Perhaps we should change it to "Hide All"...
Fair enough, I missed that. Thanks.
The libc one uses is orthogonal to the compiler, modulo support for any language extensions the libc might use. LLVM supports glibc just fine, and will use it by default on Linux systems.

That said, whether GHC can make more use of glibc's TSX support (as opposed to generating TSX instructions itself) than any arbitrary C program depends on any impedance mismatch that may exist between the elided lock wrappers and GHC's own STM semantics. No idea if GHC has a way to reason about libc-managed locks.
There are already a few other language implementations on PyPy.

For e.g.

- Javascript | https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-js

- Smalltalk | https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-smalltalk

- Schema | https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-scheme

- Io | https://bitbucket.org/pypy/lang-io
Well anecdotal story, one of my side businesses is in selling direct-downloads to zipped content (ala megauploads). We doubled our prices so we're now twice as expensive as any direct competitor and sales went up, not down.

I think in many cases prices act as a signalling factor as to quality.
Curious to know too... Even an estimate of when will be good :-)
Yep, that was the passage that Nelson Mandela gave to Francois Pienaar before the final, not Invictus. I'm not sure why Eastwood chose to use the latter poem instead.
The overhead of starting the interpreter must be longer that executing the loop.
"Ballpark favorite Cracker Jack will soon come as Cracker Jack’d—2-oz packages of the familiar candy-coated kernels jammed, in certain flavors, with 70 mg of caffeine from coffee."

WTF?
I actually thought about mentioning that article. I think it is important to point out that someone who outlines a theory as broad as disruptive innovation is not always the best person to apply it in every situation. I think he made a mistake when he chose the competitive frame for the iPhone to be all cell phones. I think the right competitive frame is smart phones. That makes all the difference in the assessment.
I've actually found that having instant notifications about events on distracting sites keeps me from checking those distracting sites and coming across other distractions on them. Net win.
Um, a CEO should champion a direction and a vision much less than an implementation. The job of the CEO is to make sure everybody can do their job, the bills are paid, the company grows, etc. To run the company, not to build the tech stack.

Also, responsive design is fine, but it's not perfect by any means. It adds cost, it adds complexity, and it isn't always the best interface to reach the end users.

There is upside to responsive design, but it's not magic and it shouldn't be touted as some kind of panacea to all things.
Wasn't Google a 'minor twist' on existing search engines?
Wasn't Facebook a 'minor twist' on existing social networks?

The value difference is huge between poor execution and stellar execution on a solid concept. So just because another company has a mediocre product in a space, is it not worth creating a much better and improved version?
is OkCupid really liked enough that their new product will get everybody to link it to Facebook without them talking about what it is their application does?
Women can bring different skills to the table; for example, they tend to possess more developed language skills and to be far more engaged in social media. Women are also more likely than men to talk through problems. Those seem like valuable skills, especially in a money-strapped startup environment where everyone wears several hats.
"100% free and fully open source."

I can't find any link for the source code.
I can relate with your frustration. Sometimes it's important to you, and just having something exist is awesome. But sometimes it's not so important, and I was going through my life fine without it, and seeing the project made me try it out[1]. Then one can feel sucked in if it mis-sets expectations.

Perhaps if both hackers and users took some pains to set expectations and investigate codebases in advance (respectively), there'd be less frustration all around. I've been on both sides of this divide.

[1] Yesterday's fuzzy-autocompleter for vim is an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5169062. I don't really consider autocomplete to be that useful (mild payoff in small codebases; being laggy 1% of the time negates all benefit), but it still seemed cool enough to be worth trying out. I was self-aware that it might lead to frustration (because it did a good job setting expectations), but to its credit the documentation was excellent.
Never outsource your core
Ask HN: Computer Curriculum for Grades 9-12
I have been asked by a local private school to help come up with a computer curriculum for their students grade 9-12. (ages 14 -18)
The school wants to make sure that every student graduates with enough computer knowledge for College/Work. The kids come into the school with a wide variety of backgrounds. Some have no typing skills and minimal interactions with any software other at all other than Word, while others have can touch type, have worked with Photoshop, and sometimes even some basic web editing.

Here are my current thoughts:
9th Grade: Touch Typing, Internet research(for you own problems), Basic computer concepts, what is an OS, what are the different hardware parts. What do different computer specs mean. How to purchase a computer

10th Grade: Word, Publisher (more importantly I think, Word vs. Publisher), Excel, and Access (again excel vs. Access),
(I use the Microsoft Office names, but I probably will make a point of not using the Microsoft version of these products.)

11th Grade: How the internet works, maybe basic html/css

12th Grade: Light programming, maybe javascript, possibly using codeacademy or codehs.com

These are minimum for each grades, not what the students who want to learn more will be offered.

I would really appreciate some input from the HN community.
The important question... Can I bundle an Ask toolbar with my package?
Obligatory SVG-Edit link.

http://svg-edit.googlecode.com/svn/branches/2.6/editor/svg-e...

Very handy online tool for vector drawing.
Is source code available? I couldn't find a link. Without the source, claims of privacy and security are very suspect.
The idea behind TSX was originally called speculative lock elision, and comes from this MICRO 2001 paper [1]. The paper provides a more coherent motivation of SLE/TSX than the Intel marketing literature, and contains some concrete (simulated) performance results.

[1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~rajwar/papers/micro01.pdf
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Ascend W1 costs $300, so Microsoft is subsidising 50% of the phone. Not sure how that is not considered as price dumping.
Also, the 4Afrika website looks like a typical short-lived Microsoft marketing initiative.
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Amazing Responsive Wordpress theme. Thanks to Marcos Fernández Villauriz @themeyourself.
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callcc?
Carmack: Supporting Linux isn't worth the hassle at the moment
I'll appreciate any criticism and advice.
Many times there exists the feeling that quitting your job makes you a traitor. Making employees feel indispensable feeds into the traitor concept, making them less inclined to leave. We hired a manager at one of my previous jobs who during a meeting literally told us to never mention any former employees!

Contracting, though I've never done it, sounds like a much healthier relationship between employer and employee. It does have it's own negative aspects though. I wish full-time jobs weren't such adversarial relationships where you're either with us or you're against us, if you quit.