skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also don't like to delete old context, because a late email could eventually get forwarded to a new party, in which case having the complete context is an advantage.

A proper mail client will be fully capable of forwarding the full thread (or any relevant portion) to another user. Whose proper email client will be capable of interpreting the attachment as threaded email and displaying it properly.
Saying that every software project in a specific domain should use the same codebase is madness.
People are free to do what they want. No moral obligation - just freedom.

But if by any chance I found that I had this same mutation and could take advantage of their fix, I would be interested.

If you found out say your son had the same mutation, wouldn't you be interested as well? Please note we are not taking about East Whateveria or how West Whateveria might gloat about not having this mutation. We are just talking about how oneday we might have the freedom to take such a decision for ourselves.

Because it's all about freedom, and unfortunately without having the scientific know-how it's pointless to speculate about what we might do.

This is why I support such initiatives- it will offer more possibilities, possibilities that we can only dream about now.
Well, I'm not particularly familiar with DRM apart from not liking it. What exactly does flash do that makes the DRM-loving lawyers consider it acceptable? From my point of view the kind of control offered by HTTPS and normal browser authentication is enough but the MPAA and RIAA (or the BBC, for that matter) clearly don't agree.
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So... does this preclude enjoying this sort of speed-boost on *BSD (I care about NetBSD specifically).
IE8 is at least a version behind, if not two when you consider Windows 8.
Indeed. I make iPhone/iPad games that are somewhat aimed at seniors, and there is essentially zero point in my following the usual paths of hoping for reviews from gaming or iOS blogs that seniors don't even know exist.

Word of mouth is my savior :-)
It might be worth it to tell people what it is.

From what I can see, it's a (currently?) predominantly Bollywood-leaning clone of Letterboxd.com.

Unsure what "Street Talk" is, or why it's named that way.
Might be? How much more evidence would be needed? The planet can probably sustain less than a billion people long term at a first-world standard of living.
Smartphones too. I top-post from my iPhone, bottom-post everywhere else.
I am just enabling.
For me it's not the "what". Its the "who".
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In cringely.com a couple of years ago he posted about this company: Maverick Software [1]

That is providing technical support services from Minnesota Mankato.

This provides nice alternative to outsourcing.
By setting up technical support centers in inexpensive regions of the us.

[1] http://www.cringely.com/2010/08/24/little-geeks-on-the-prair...
Google is based in Europe. When you as a European create an account with you enter into an agreement with the European subsidiary of that company.
I found it a bit annoying that the "Alert!" dialogs in the beginning looked like a window but didn't work like one whatsoever (couldn't minimize, close, maximize, or move around). Probably shouldn't make something look like a well-known UI if it doesn't behave like that UI, especially to the point where familiar buttons don't work.
Are you a fan of Ayn Rand? (I am.) Just curious, as she insists on not calling a concept by a name (word) already taken by something else, which is what you're alleging in this case.

Tangentially, I think it may actually be appropriate to use "universe" to refer to a cosmological phenomenon (as modern physicists do), and "existence" to refer to the metaphysical phenomenon you are describing. I guess I'd have to research the etymology of "universe" before I could take a more definitive stand.
Good points, but I think the other (maybe bigger) issue here is one of perception. Yes, they may nail this particular problem, but will customers trust their handling of the next issue?

Heroku's offering is based on instilling confidence in customers that it will just plain do what is advertised without the pain. The story here is that customers experienced additional pain not only because they used Heroku's service, but also because of Heroku's failure to address real customer concerns for so long.
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Competition in open source is not bad. It is actually needed. People can fork WebKit but they might not able to change it dramatically if it's not in favor of Google, Apple and Nokia.

I can't think about a case that WebKit "bosses" won't like a change from another party, but that might happen. We need competition for implementations. What we don't need is double standards for the web.

Microsoft proposed and standardized CSS grids which is awesome, but Google and Apple for some reason do not implement it in WebKit. Microsoft will not do that too. Both ends are enjoying the situation. Pulse.com works great in IE10 because of CSS grids. Microsoft can put their "work best in IE" logo on their website again. Webkit seems don't care much about CSS grids because they think flex-box is the solution.

This is the problem. We have companies making and implementing new standards for their use without caring for the rest of web.
shrug I will always bottom-post when context matters and always top-post when I expect the reader to know the context implicitly. And I will never read an email chain that requires me to start from the bottom and work my way up.
I agree that inline replies, when taken to the extreme that you illustrate, are more asinine than they are useful. Personally, I tend to reply to a paragraph or two at a time, a style which doesn't, in my opinion, have the same "you idiot" rhetorical feel. It's just easier to read and understand than a giant block of text responding to several unrelated points, followed by a giant untrimmed quote. Not all bottom posting/inline quoting is of the holier-than-thou nature. :)
So you're equally as likely to pursue the electro-chemical-rush-called-love with anyone who can get you off? I didn't think so.

Let's try this again. What's to figure out? It's past time for people like this guy to "figure out" that some people are born with an affinity for their own gender, they're perfectly happy that way, and there is nothing wrong with them, period.

His comment about "what a painful way to live" is remarkably illuminating thing for him to say...and disturbing. He deserves to be roundly criticized for it.
It was surmountable in gcc's case, but still took lots of resources (which clang has). It might not be surmountable in other cases, and even if it is it raises the bar quite a lot for new competitors.
When I started, there was no web. The historical context is quite a bit broader, and it helps to understand what the state of the technology was.

When the browser war was fought (and won):

- Netscape Navigator was actually a pretty terrible piece of software. I dare say they deserved to lose. Towards the end, most Mac users were running IE5 -- it was a better browser (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_for_Mac).

- There was diminishing market interest in supporting alternatives to Windows because non-windows marketshare (Mac OS X, UNIX workstations) was plummeting. This allowed Microsoft embrace-and-extend to succeed.

- The web development field was nascent at best. Similar to how many web developers are moving into the mobile space today (and bringing their ideas of how to write apps with them), you had Windows-centric enterprises migrating towards writing web sites (not apps!) and bringing their ideas of how to do so with them.

I very much doubt that the web browser war would happen again in quite the same way. Between the availability of open-source browser stacks, the genuine viability of multiple platforms and vendors (iOS, Android, Mac OS X, Windows, and even Linux), and the established web development community (which would have to be co-opted), I don't think it would be quite so easy for someone like Google to 'win' a browser war and then stagnate indefinitely.
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I agree with your sentiments but the BBC do region code and encrypt their DVD's I know this because I have (legally) ripped several BBC DVD's that I own.
I hope you didn't take my comment literally. Or look that much into it at all. Interesting.
I'd be really disappointed if someone added one level and started selling a zip file of the application to enterprises for $400 a pop.

That being said, I've heard the GNU license is sometimes too prohibitive (albeit no definitive examples). If you know licenses at all, I'd love some advice
Sure its polemical but that doesnt exclude it from being journalism.

Yes it does. I have read numerous Taibbi articles where he has only given half the salient facts to the reader, or omitted vital information in order to make the story more dramatic. He's right quite frequently but he consistently, and possibly deliberately, poisons the well of discourse.
Thanks for sharing and good example of knowing the source of funds.

To clarify, Yuri Milner was not an investor in the company referenced.
The premise still applies in this case. If a student consistently has poor performance in piano and you can attribute that to lack of motivation, then that would be the bug (contrast with the notion that the student is stupid or bad at piano). If you can fix that one bug, you stand to gain a whole range of performance improvements.
But upsetting the constructivists is the whole point! (That is: what's so cute about that proof is that it tells you that there's a solution to irrational^irrational=rational, and that it's one of two things, but it doesn't tell you which. Also, I think it's a little shorter and more elegant than using sqrt(10)^log10(4). Don't you?)
I think you are confused about how courts work.
If you did this, the judge would just say "sucks to be you", and move on.
Definitely more what I had in mind
If everyone were switching to Gecko, that would be horrible for the web - it would be a monoculture.

If just Opera switched to it, that would be bad - loss of one implementation is almost always bad - but it would at least maintain some non-WebKit market share in mobile. So less bad but still quite bad.

So yes, I am guessing that Mozilla folks would say it would be negative (I would).
That's also not what I said. You have a reading comprehension problem.
Which utterly breaks for those who read the thread on a text-only mailer (e.g.: mutt).
Reading Taibbi as someone in finance is like watching Bravo's Silicon Valley for much of HN. It's hyperbolically relatable in a way that makes you laugh but simultaneously grimace-inducing as you realise how mis-informative it is to someone without prior knowledge.

Take HSBC. Yes, it is a cock up of grand proportions to allow Iranian money anywhere close to your American subsidiary. And yes, everyone involved in the Libor scandal should go to jail (as I expect many of them will).

Then one notices that this was largely trade financing for buyers in India, Greece, and South Korea. HSBC, like Standard Chartered, grew out of a tradition of giving a great deal of independence to country offices. Sort of like IBM. This increases flexibility but makes miscommunication more likely. Anti-money laundering is hard and margin compression at banks has thinned compliance teams. Financing terrorism suddenly becomes something more banal - a zealous banker shifting records around for a client he may have known from pre-revolutionary days (Iran was a U.S. ally until the 1979 revolution).

Does this excuse the behaviour? No. But it certainly dulls my pitchfork. Just as I avoid Fox News to stay abreast of American politics I would encourage you to seek out sources chasing understanding. Then again, a good outrage isn't a cheap good either :).
Noticed the Pocket extension for Chrome started doing that recently. If you open the extensions page there is an options link for the Pocket plugin. In there it has a few sites it appends the links to that you can enable/disable
The big difference is that nobody insisted that ARM stay instruction-level compatible with x86.
So in this scenario, what is the “decryption module” likely to be? Software you download? Software that comes with the OS? Hardware baked into the chip or motherboard?

What would prevent determined users from reading, and publishing, any “secret” keys used by such a decryption module? I'm assuming the answer is nothing, since this seems to have happened with every DRM scheme that has been tried.
Couldn't disagree more. As a craftsman, you are fundamentally not in the same business as Ikea, any more than Ferrari is in the same business as Hyundai.

While you can find people who are willing to pay 10x Ikea for your wares, they're few and far between, and aren't likely to be repeat customers if the products are sturdy enough.

Again, that falls into the "not even wrong" category. First of all, you sell at 20x-50x Ikea, not 10x. People at that end of the market are socially gregarious, wealthy, often into conspicuous consumption... and they always have friends just like them.
Yea, it is unfortunate Netscape 5 "Mariner" was cancelled.
OK. I see. Thanks for pointing out.
I use (and highly recommend) IP Messenger for this style of auto-discovery of other systems on your LAN and message/file transfer:

http://ipmsg.org/index.html.en (For Windows)

http://ishwt.net/en/software/ipmsg/ (For Mac)
The home button problem is fairly common and it is usually due to gunk/corrosion hampering the underlying connections.

There's an easy, tool-free fix:
Liberally spray the home button with some Deoxit [which can be found at a RadioShack or on Amazon]. Then press the home button several times to ensure that the solution fully saturates the underlying connection. Wipe off the excess and let your phone sit for a while. Your home button should work wonderfully after that.
Have you thought about having a remote staff? Then you aren't limited by geography.

That's what Support.com and Sutherland do.

Or maybe you work for one of these companies and are looking for where to best target your ads for Craigslist? :)
You do have a point, but I wonder what's behind that 'love in math' you're talking about. I tend to think that curiosity is the only basic character trait needed to fall in love with something as basic as math, grammar, music or physics. However, the way this kind of love is triggered doesn't necessarily correspond to how it is taught in lower classes. At least when I went to primary school in the 90ies, 'math' was really just numerical algorithms (which are IMO not at the root of what math is, it's just one sub field). What can it be applied to in our daily lives? (considering someone doesn't take a higher math education) Knowing the price total in supermarkets, that's about it.

Couldn't we include symbolic math at a much earlier age? Children enjoy the building block properties of Legos starting at age 7 I'd say. How about we give them basic problem solving tools in math at age 10? I think we need to bring the potential feeling of achievement with mathematical tools to a much lower age. That could be geometry or color theory or basic physics (calculations with distance, velocity and time as an example).
It is only one data point among many, I admit, and it would be unfair to characterize someone's expertise based solely on their choice of email quoting style. But in my (completely anecdotal) experience, there is more often than not a correlation between the two. Maybe it's just the email discussion lists that I frequent, where bottom posting tends to be the norm, and top-posted messages mostly come from people who could have answered their own question had they bothered to spend 30 seconds on Google before going to the mailing list.
What SLA did they explicitly fail to deliver on such that they should offer a rebate?
If it's easy to pirate, then Joe Bloggs rents a movie, copies it and shares it with all his mates at work. They know him, so they trust that they're not getting viruses, and they're not worried about being caught, because they're just copying it off a USB stick. A couple of them pass it on to some other friends. Or at least, that's what the content producers think will happen.

DRM drives people to pirate websites instead of that, with the associated risks of dodgy downloads and being tracked. Additionally, the content producers can apply pressure to search engines, domain registrars and ad providers to keep the site on the back foot, so links will break. Faced with that, at least some of Joe's friends will cough up to get their movies legally. Especially now that content providers are finally starting to get the idea of providing content cheaply and conveniently.
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Maybe you're missing the point that this is a great brand evangelism story.

They are putting their money where their mouth is: they bought the car, they are doing the drive, and they are inviting everyone to see them do it live.
I don't know how we got from pg worship to the benefits of being a YC alumnus. Those are well known at this point and YC has essentially gone from being a plucky outsider to part of the valley establishment.

I'm sure somebody somewhere is writing breathless blog posts about how to get into Stanford.
I love SmartGit. It runs on Mac OS X, Windows and Linux.

http://www.syntevo.com/smartgithg/index.html
well, the exploit is linked ;-)
The key thing when working with engineers is to give them a problem to solve - but don't tell them how to solve it. As a programmer I relish the challenge of problem solving. But I hate being told how to think.

In this case I was part of a scrum team at a large company. Some product manager/project manager/engineering manager already broke things up into user stories. Those user stories were further broken down into tasks. The tasks were then evenly divided amongst all the engineers. Each engineer didn’t have much of a say in it.

This is definitely a management mistake that I've been on both sides of. Getting everyone involved during with architectural process accomplishes several things: 1) Everyone comes away with a bird's-eye view of the project. 2) Everyone has input into the decision making process. When done properly no one feels out of the loop or under another's direct control.

Some might call this slave work. It was the most unproductive time of my life. I spent an hour at the gym every day. Another hour eating lunch. Several hours surfing the internet. I was really bored sitting under the fluorescent lighting. It felt like a chore to write code.

I can understand this attitude, but only up to a point - as a professional programmer you should be able to handle an assigned problem, figure it out and complete it. Instead of taking a long lunch take a few minutes to talk to your boss and voice your concerns. There's no excuse for half-assing it.
The evolutionary psychologist Franz Herbert had written a piece about Chinese eugenics some time back

http://www.edge.org/response-detail/23838
Stuff like this is amazing. I am so happy I switched out of comp-sci freshman year of college, and took a 10 year break from programming to study math and physics. I think if I had stuck with comp-sci there is a big chance I would hate computers, and always wish I had gone into science. Now that I am back to programming all the time it feels like I am a kid again, and I don't have a regret in the world. My career might be slightly fucked, but the joy of knowing this kind of stuff, and still loving computers makes it worth it.
Just because you don't romanticize Singapore, does not mean you do romanticize San Francisco. I personally only romanticize Switzerland.

(This is turning into Libertarian bingo.)
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Yes - (1) and (4) are extremely unlikely, though (2) and (3) are certainly plausible :)

More specifically, this study may publish some marginal results about genetics of extreme IQ, but any single effect will likely be so small that nothing actionable will come from it.

If (4) is the goal, I suspect they'll have much more success exploring drugs and other cognitive enhancements. What genetics can do is help inform how to discover those drugs - ie. what genes should you study.

(Shameless plug: if you like genetics and writing python, drop me an email if you want to work on studies like this!)
I know we use Angular with RequireJS in a few of our apps. We require in all of our libraries (jQuery, Bootstrap and Angular) before creating the application module.

We haven't found speed to be a problem yet. We used to use CanJS, and I can tell you that handling the same amount of data, Angular is faster, even with fairly complicated filters in place.

I do agree that Angular requires you to let go of the "jQuery way" of approaching DOM manipulation, which throws jQuery-coders for a loop. It's a downside not to be able to plop in a jQuery plugin. Then again, considering some of the plugins I've encountered, that might not be a complete loss. Also, the Angular-UI team is doing a heck of a job of replicating the most common plugins as Angular native directives.
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I use a simple well-known SaaS accounting tool, but this is neat. I am particularly impressed that ledger makes sure to follow double-entry principles.

(Accountants of my acquaintance would quibble that this is book-keeping, not accounting, but let's just leave them outside with this year's tax handbooks).

Does ledger allow you to annotate things such as stock accounting method?
It takes ~2 hours to play the film, you can't make any noise in the room during that time, and the resulting picture and sound quality will be terrible unless you've got very expensive recording equipment. Content producers would love to get to the point where that's the only way to 'copy' films.
I can imagine that Google or the Yellow Pages can be a bit of a confusing mess for older types. What if people could gift their parents access to a simple service directory with trustworthy agents who picked from, and made arrangements with, quality suppliers? Like a virtual assistant but who specialised in things like getting a reliable plumber around, or helping in the garden, or even just calling for a chat, etc.
"You don't have to understand DI to use it. I know I didn't."

LOL...me neither. I also don't get how someone could do anything beyond "Hello World" and not use DI as it seems to be pretty integral to how Angular works.
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> People are free to do what they want. No moral obligation - just freedom.

You assume that, I don't. At least not for enormous numbers of humans past and present.