skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nothing wrong with trying to make money. It's not like she is scamming her readers
haha, I had no idea "source" and '.' were the same! It all gets a little bit clearer, one step at time....
Adam said that an HDCP-stripper can generate a key on-the-fly, thereby making it impossible to revoke. Does such a device exist? It was my understanding that all HDCP-stripper available were using static keys (which have to be reprogrammed by the end-user with a new key in the event the key is revoked).
The author is generalizing about people in general without any basis to do so. As usual, the plural of anecdote isn't data.

I find driving is the most revealing activity. It is a window into the driver's personality like no other. This article says much about the author. And that's all it says.

" . . . my theory is that motorists hate cyclists because they offend the moral order. Driving is a very moral activity – there are rules of the road, both legal and informal, and there are good and bad drivers."
Punishment should be proportional to the crime. When you do graffiti on the side of a Burger King, it's a few hundred dollars and two man-days to clean it off. In proportion, the fine should be 2-3x that cost, and maybe 2-3 days in county jail for the offenders.

With the economy of internet scale, that ramps up fairly quickly. How many people saw that vandalism? With your local McDonalds, it's probably a few hundred, a thousand on the outside. How many people follow @BurgerKing? It's probably more on the order of millions. Even using a logarithmic scale, there's an arguement to be made for months in prison. The cost of the offsetting advertising campaign? Who knows; They say "There's no such thing as bad publicity", but certainly some money is going to be spent cleaning up this mess; Probably again 2-3 orders of magnitude more than the cleanup of the local franchise.
x | 0 as declaring int. +x as declaring float. Math.imul to multiply integers. seriously???!!! It took me roughly half an hour to decide whether it's an elaborate joke or an actual idea.

Also javascript (without introducing new concepts) is not low level enough to write down everything you might need (have fun implementing 64bit integer operations with overflow for example).
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As an experienced cyclist, cars don't follow the rules of the road either. The last time I got hit by a car on my bicycle, it was because they didn't use a turn signal and made a quick right-hand turn without looking.
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They didn't decide to do the right thing, they decided to do the wrong thing and backtracked. They've hurt their branding. They announced they were watering down their product. That hurts the image of 'high class'. To call this a PR move is to be blind to the enormous amount of backlash that has occurred due to the announcement.
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And how do you get less bad code? Magic dust or process? My money would be on the latter, as in http://www.fastcompany.com/28121/they-write-right-stuff.
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pg already answered that recently:

We're moving to Posthaven.

From this conversation: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5229120
This sounds somewhat specious. What are you doing with the large or numerous set of files? How big or how many files are we talking about?
Actually it's because so many cyclists break the rules that do apply to them: running red lights, cycling on the pavement (sidewalk), and so on. And this is why pedestrians often feel the same animosity towards cyclists that drivers do.
Well luckily you don't have to write it. Use a compiler that can generate it for you. It's not really designed for humans.
One important suggestion (if any of the team members are watching this story): I just signed up for site and received my password in plain text in an email. Please don't do this.
This seems to be overthinking things. I'm both a driver and a cyclist, and I still find myself enraged at cyclists when I drive. There's a simple reason: cyclists slow you down.

Drivers loathe anything that slows them down. Cyclists, pedestrians, horse carriages, even other cars. It's nothing to do with the moral order, it's "Get the hell out of my way!"
You assume all users are equally valuable to Google: if there were to be a market in which Opera had significant marketshare but Google had little, then those users would be far more valuable to Google than, say, an American using Firefox.

To quote the 4Q12 report:

"Opera’s monetization strategy for its desktop browser revolves
predominantly around search. Google is Opera’s global search
partner and provides the majority of desktop monetization. This
global partnership is supplemented by local search partnerships
in certain markets, such as Russia, Japan, and China, where
Opera works with Yandex, Yahoo! Japan and Baidu, respective-
ly. In addition, Opera has signed up e-commerce players such
as Amazon.com (USA, Germany, Japan), Booking.com (64
countries), and Ozon (Russia) to further enhance ARPU."

"Desktop Consumer" made 16MUSD in the last quarter: that's ~64MUSD annually. Of course, that won't be all the Google revenue (as there's also the default browser on other platforms), but gives a reasonable baseline figure.
That's excellent news! Having explored the workarounds, involving additional layers of deployment stack and / or manual compilation, I'll be delighted when this gets released and package managed.
>> I never understood why Musk went so hard after Broder from the start

I would chalk it up to a combination of ego, thin skin and impulsiveness.

Had he came back with a much more measured rebuttal (think OXO vs Quirky), this story likely would have died earlier.
Working from home I tend to just write out my thoughts on a piece of paper. It works perfectly.
The account is suspended now. Here's what it looked like:

Before: http://archive.is/Fg9Ss

After: http://archive.is/BsLQe
We don't want to make it easier to add DRM. The more painful it is, the better.
Vulva.
People allowed to themselves to be annoyed, and I often find that rage towards cyclist is based on impatience. People get enraged in the same way behind a slow driver. It's hard to both pass a cyclist safely and be 100% sure you will be safe as well. Its the same anxiety people get when passing on a broken yellow line, only with the cyclist you're usually forced into that zone of discomfort rather than choosing it.
It's a very bad target for compilers too. Guys should just get their stuff together and write a reasonable bytecode format for browsers that is fast to read and verify. Would also save quite a bit of transfer.

PS. If intel told me to do such crap in their architecture manuals, I would be the last user of PPC out there. I suggest reading them, or JVM bytecode spec to see what is a good compiler target.
Plivo. SIP.
I agree, I don't have a problem with affiliate ads but if the article in question is a gushingly positive review without any negatives mentioned and they are using an affiliate link then I tend to question the motivation behind writing it. I also will then look for a review that doesn't contain an affiliate id or one that covers the pros and cons giving a full review instead of an advertisement disguised as a review.
I don't get this at all.

So she has a site full of affiliate links because (holy crap) she wants to make some cash. Is OP mad about this? If so, meh, get a life.

So she says her site is 100% ad free. It is. Affiliate links aren't "ads" in any definition a reader would have unless it is somehow immoral to make a living.

So she asks for donations in order to keep ads off her site while at the same time employing affiliate links. I missed the part where there is a law about having multiple sources of income, and so did the company you most likely work for. Would you be happier if she put this entire thing behind a paywall?

I really don't understand the logic behind the critique. She provides a service, if you like the service, you get to consume it completely without payment. Now you're bitching because you've found out that she has found a way to continue to offer this service to you for free?

The beauty about "reviews" is that if you don't like them - for whatever reason - you stop listening. It's irrelevant whether the person is paid or not for a favourable review if you actually like the end product and agree with the review!

The entire idea of "immorality of paid reviews" screams of teenage "your band sold out because lots of people like you".
Oh this is bullshit. Anybody who gets mad because they have to move their foot two inches off the pedal while sitting on a padded chair inside of 4000 pounds of metal is just an asshole.
I was really thinking about mobile in terms of hw acceleration and risks/benefits. See comments below.

Don't disagree that WebGL is faster at times, and more useful, just still a bit immature. And I started working on it about 2 years ago so I know WebGL has matured greatly in a short period of time, but until it reaches a mobile browser I still see it as a bit too early.

Then again you could take those same shaders from a WebGL program and port the game/logic to iOS and so that may be an inherent benefit I am missing out on.

I do understand it's a bit of a mixed bag :)
That's not really the job of newspapers.

Newspapers are supposed to accurately and impartially report the news. Op-Ed work needs to be clearly marked as such.

Now, it would be fair to say that the Automotive section, specifically the reviews, contains a fair bit more opinion than the rest of the paper, but there needs to be clear distinction. Going by the headline and the way the article was written, this clearly isn't the case. It was reported as news...as in it was about the car and neglected the fine personal detail that a review would have. It turns out though that the story here is more about Broder and how he drove the car. The way he drove it was more important than anything he reported about the car - it's not news.

Broder writes other stories for the NYT that are genuine news. It's shocking to me that the current editorial format of the NYT allows crap like that to be published in the same venue.

I'm basically saying that if this weren't written by an NYT staff reporter, it would have been an Op-Ed (or similarly labeled) if they allowed it for publication at all. They should not have.
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We use google mail for our business, so no. At some point I'd like it to be, but everyone here seems to really like Gmail's interface. We do at least back up all our email just in case though using gmvault (http://gmvault.org/).
"Mr. Draper several years ago developed some Internet-security equipment and started a company. Some clients were interested, but the company foundered when one of its executives, a fellow raver, made off with much of the money from investors, say Mr. Draper and another executive, John Johnson."

I remember back in 2001, seeing Draper speak at University of Illinois about his "CrunchBox" security appliance. I got the vibe that he was just repackaging some open source software on it and putting his name on it.

I never really heard anything more about it after that talk, though - I guess this explained what happened.
Maybe post color is based on some get_text_post_color method that applies to self posts and comments, where the color depends on comment karma. Given that self posts like the OP are votable as if they were a normal link post, their comment karma value is probably 0.
Well, the problem for me is this: the cyclist is in my lane. I have to swerve dangerously into the other lane to avoid hitting them. I do not want to hit them.

Either I slow down to 15 mph or I commit dangerous driving. Neither option is really good. If there is a bike lane and they are using it, yay. I am happy. If there is a bike lane and they aren't using it (instead being in my lane), I am pretty torqued.
Yes, but you only have to double a megabyte 30 times to get a terabyte. That's a better perspective to take when dealing with exponential growth. Of course, the genome and the brain are different things, but the point remains that if you believe this will have an exponential growth, being far away from solving it is exactly where you expect us to be right now. And even now, we do have quite good computational models for certain small parts of the brain.
I disagree. It's much more complicated than that. Virtually every single car on the road breaks a giant number of laws every day. I walk/metro/bus to work, and I see an average of 20-50 law-breaking drivers every day.

Drivers aren't hating cyclists because one group breaks the rules, as if the other doesn't.
On occasion, I'll write a question on stackoverflow and re-read it a few times before hitting submit just in case I get that eureka moment. I think I've written way more non-submitted questions than submitted questions.
Female co-founder (not CEO): can this be an obstacle for investors' decision?
We're a team of three founders (plus one non-founder) recently applied to YCombinator. One of us is a young woman (web designer) and she thinks we're better off not listing her as a co-founder.

There are many articles and interviews saying that VCs welcome female startup CEOs, but it's unclear about female co-founders (not CEO). It's perceived that in general women are more emotional, so does that throw up red flags to some investors, since they may consider it a higher risk that the team could split up?
Porting games becomes much more difficult when thing's are running on a different architecture.
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I don't think the article captures quite what "obsessive" means when you're talking about Captain Crunch.

This does.

http://www.webcrunchers.com/stories/esq-art.html
Going back to the original point -- given how the whole trip turned out, Broder should have mentioned the side-trip to Manhattan, etc. -- anything possible to show where he may have gone wrong.

That said, Broder has an additional problem which is of being fair to the reader versus Tesla. He shouldn't grade Tesla on a curve. Bear in mind, the point isn't to make sure Tesla is treated fairly, but to make sure readers don't find themselves waiting for a flatbed truck in a blizzard.

Imagine how this would have gone with Top Gear doing it, all on video (quite likely including recording the conversations with tech support).

Going back to the public editor's piece: when was the last time you read a manual for anything? I have sometimes resorted to a manual as a last resort, but not when I have instant access to human tech support.
That is very noble of you.
Thanks I didn't see that
Mr. Broder stated that he unplugged his car and departed on a 61-mile leg of his journey with the car telling him it had 32 miles of charge remaining. So the answer to your snarky question is "no".
A good way to measure CPU performance in a CPU-agnositic way (not sure if thats the right phrase to use) is instruction-count. you would have to disregard things like cache when looking at instruction count, which is probably bad, but it serves as a good CPU measure.
My suspicion is that this model will prevent you from attracting the very best reps, but that you'll be able to get a disproportionately high share of above average reps, and that your turn over will be a lot lower.

In any case, it's much easier to try this model and then add in commissions later on than to do the reverse.
>Broder reached out to Tesla on multiple occasions during the trip asking for advice when oddities happened

That's what struck me the most, relative to how little attention it got. How many other people would have needed to call into a car company's customer service (and that many times!) to finish a simple test drive?

"Mommy, should I charge it all the way at the supercharger station?"

"Mommy it only reads 32 miles, will it last twice that?"

There are a hundred people more competent and deserving of such an opportunity than someone who doesn't even know the current state of vehicle logging tech.
It's amazing: I could not care less.
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Yeah, that's the position of Google's NativeClient project. But it's not backwards compatible with older browsers, which is the reason for doing this how they are. asm.js will run in any browser supporting JS already, and will be faster in browsers supporting the optimizations. It's not perfect, but it works now.
Take it up with your legislature. In the states I've lived, bikes == cars with a few extra restrictions, so they're just following the law.
Amazing? for anyone who has read Polya's "how to solve it" (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It), that is hardly surprising.

If you don't understand your problem, you can't make a plan. If you can't make a plan, you can't execute it.

Another interesting lesson from that book is that one should spend time on evaluation (how did this come about? Could We have fixed this sooner? How are we going to prevent it in the future?)
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No particular reason. I just didn't see anything compelling that chiliproject offered over redmine and redmine had greater adoption.
You do understand that most drivers also break those same rules. With any means of transportation people will take the shortcut to go faster. It's also significantly more difficult for a cyclist to come to a full stop than a driver.
The sidewalk thing varies by municipality (at least in my state), but I get your point.
> most of the bad decisions and inaccuracies can be attributed to advice that Tesla gave Broder.

Yeah, if you let him get away with being scientifically illiterate.

> you should read the original article

EDIT: You litter your comments with these off-hand remarks that imply things about other's positions which aren't true.

> I am arguing against your implicit assertion that NYT is at fault at each point of divergence between NYT's and Tesla's account.

What, is putting words in other's mouths the modus operandi now? I'm not saying that. I'm saying that Broder isn't sufficiently competent at curbing his own bias, knowing how to do empirical reporting, and making sensible technical decisions in the field to do a car review. He tried to get it right? Making inadequate efforts at getting at the truth isn't an acceptable level of performance from a national news media outlet. It's basically, "Hey, we tried. Be satisfied with our truthiness."
In Australia, Maker's Mark lowered the proof a while ago. The bottle I have in my pantry is 40% (80 proof). Not to mention, bottles run ~$40 (1 AUD ~= 1 USD), so I suspect the branding/marketing considerations are different.
> 2) He behaved in accordance with the advice he was given.

And you know this how? Musk says very directly that Broder did not behave in accordance with the advice he was given. You were present for this exchange and you know what the truth is? Or you just imagine it to be so?
Define "lied". Not having clear documentation or you not understanding 100% how their back end system is implemented does not mean they were lying.
If Tesla does what other automakers do - i.e., provide expenses paid review junkets where you get to drive a fast car on a private track at high speeds - I think a lot of automotive writers would take that opportunity.
I wish these guys would just go away, they should be using their time to change the world, not troll it. half the shit they do is completely pointless. Sure it may bring some notice to public but honestly it dies down just as fast as it gets put up.
Whats your metric for "bad"? It seems like complaining about ELF format or the different assembly formats used by assemblers. Ok, there is no goto/jmp but apart from that its just a different assembly syntax which happens to also support expressions and not just diadic/triadic instructions.

This is not a green field solution - which would require alignment from all browser vendors, but instead an attempt to explore within the confines of what already runs today.
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The theory is that everything in stock is a great proposition, and you will get the best item in your budget. They aren't going to negotiate on price.
Curiously, that episode was on TV where I live just an hour ago.
Did Burger King do something to piss people off, or is this just random vandalism?
As I wrote (review my response):

"It's a he-said-she-said right now and everyone sides with the car CEO rather than the journalist."

Tesla didn't deny that Broder reached out, and still hasn't produced the call logs. If I were in Musk's situation I would publicly ask Broder if it was ok with him to reveal the call logs and then release it.
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Either I slow down to 15 mph or I commit dangerous driving.

Tough call, considering the average speed on surface streets in most towns/cities is about 20mph or less.
I really dislike the use of the word "hacker" as it is used by most people. It's just semantics, but it makes me sad that when most people think hacker, they think these types of activities.
It does have that feature after you authorise your primary blog.
You can post to secondary blogs
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I agree 100%. Well behaved, traffic law-abiding cyclists don't seem to get materially less grief from drivers than scofflaws. Moreover, the event that triggers a response (honking, yelling) from a motorist is almost always behavior that slows the motorist down rather than some perceived slight against the moral order.
The problem with applying that logic to internet-related crimes is that it's impossible to measure the number of people affected.

Your hypothetical '2-3 orders of magnitude' is spurious reasoning as well, the effect this unfortunate event had on the brand is also impossible to measure.

I'm not denying that the punishment should be proportional to the crime but by what proportion should we calculate against? The total number of followers that @burkerking has? That number multiplied by the number of fraudulent tweets?

Nobody should go to jail for 'tarnishing' some marketing material.
It would be a syntax error. . . unless you add syntax for it.

As far as it being a bug waiting to happen, C already has plenty of traps like that - '=' vs '==', '&' vs '&&', and so on.

In terms of grammatical clarity, I shouldn't think it would be any more confusing than any other operators that have both unary and binary versions. By my count C already has three of those: '-', '&', '*'. The latter two are even examples where the unary meaning and the binary meaning are wholly unrelated.

Besides, it's a way of using + that is already well-established in everyday idiom. And there are semantically-related uses for + that are already well-established in computer languages, too - the Kleene +, for example, should be familiar to everybody.

In terms of how it would work for the grammar I realize this would be somewhat of a departure since it's repurposing a symbol that's normally an operator to be used in a manner that would be more like a keyword according to C syntax. . . but I think that's a detail that should be much more interesting to standards committees than it is to people who primarily just use the language. And in terms of the human factor I submit that it's much more workable than taking a word from the English language and repurposing it to mean something that's more-or-less the opposite of what it means in English.
If I just had to move my foot it wouldn't be a problem. But now I'm responsible for maneuvering a ton or more of metal down a road without killing anyone, and I'd appreciate it if you didn't make that more difficult than it already is.
What it takes to get great after you've got good.
Sweet or dry, maybe, but red and white taste the same in blind tests. (Not that there is anything wrong with wanting a color coordinated meal.)
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