skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know this is about sales, so this might not be too helpful but...

IIRC, patio11 used a voice actor that he found on fiverr to create the MVP for appointmentreminder.org.
Well some of the argument here is that it is scammy to ask for donations when not revealing the other sources of income the site brings you.
I was almost sure it was Anonymous! ... Are you in Anonymous, pg? :D
They'll be using chromium to some extend, that doesn't mean it's going to be a chromium browser that's exactly like Chrome, Yandex, Torch, SRWare and what have you. That is what you seem to imply.

As you probably know "some stuff on top of that" is rather broad in Opera's case, assuming they keep current functionality. If they have business sense they'll also want to keep their 300 million users, I doubt they'll do that by killing their product and making an Opera branded Chromium instead.

http://my.opera.com/ODIN/blog/300-million-users-and-move-to-...

It states that for the user, it's going to be the same browser. It also states Opera extensions will keep working, so at the very least we know they'll be making something not as chrome as the other chromium browsers.
EBay’s Pinterest-Like, New Personalized Home Page Experience Rolls Out Tomorrow
The difference is between solicited and unsolicited paid promotions. Popova thinks there's an obvious difference which goes without saying. Bleymaier thinks there's no difference and therefore attacked Popova for being morally bankrupt.

Sound about right?
See also "Virtualenv's bin/activate is Doing It Wrong": https://gist.github.com/datagrok/2199506

The activate/deactivate magic is responsible for some real nastiness in deployment scripts, and total confusion for beginners who are thrown by the statefulness. Virtualenvwrapper makes the situation even worse by hiding the virtual environments away.

By far the easiest way to use virtualenv is to forget about activation completely, and directly reference the binary you want to use. For example, rather than typing:

source env/bin/activate
python myprogram.py

Just run

env/bin/python myprogram.py

It's an extra few characters on every command, but it's worth it to totally remove the magic.
This sounds like a discussion of Deliberate Practice by someone who's never heard of Deliberate Practice.
"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Practice_(learning_method)#Deli...
This story doesn't sound too surprising, as these kind of scumbags are out there, but it would be helpful to know the names of those involved.

For example, Carl Freer or Rich Jenkins of Gizmondo/GetFugu/Serge fame. see http://carlfreerscam.wordpress.com/.

Sadly, if these folks put as much effort into building a real company as they did their criminal enterprises, they might actually achieve legitimate success and not have to run from the FBI.
I hate to say that, but after reading the article I get the bad feeling that you're not really hyped about joining Zynga.

It's a great company doing great products.

You say that you realized doing a startup was not doing what you love. I fear you are unconsciously doing the same mistake - doing something you don't love, because in your own words:

"I'll be honest: I realize that Zynga is no Charity: Water. I'm not going to be improving someone's everyday life like Dropbox (students, teams, everyone), Instacart (everyone), Amicus (nonprofits), or Gumroad (content creators). But ..." no buts.

Social gaming may be less ambitious but they do it perfectly and that alone makes it a worthy goal.

Love it or leave it.

EDIT: with your reply I think I now better understand your move. I was just worried- we sometimes do the same mistakes. I'm very grateful to friends who have avoided me doing the same mistake too many times :-)
Better Conditional Validations in Rails
So who actually takes a five minute shower?

Mine consistently take 10 or 15.

(Weather or not it would be better to take a bath or take a shower is one of those questions that I'd like to know the answer to but don't care enough to research.)
I don't understand why bicycles are allowed to drive on roads alongside cars. It is such an obvious hazard for the bikers. Fender benders happen all the time, but what happens when one person is behind the wheel of a mamoth SUV and the other is on a bicycle? It's horrific to think about. Joggers aren't allowed to run on roads, why are bikers?
Man, that sure looks like an easy way to send all of your communications from 1 spot. Looks great, good job!
Well, the point I take away from Taibbi is that a big bank like HSBC can do things that are (a) criminal and (b) bad for us (US, developed world economy) and they won't be forced to change their ways, even after they are caught, repeatedly. I don't see anything in what you say that disagrees with that. What you say just amounts to "it is their business model." So they have a business model that encourages, or possibly requires, criminal behavior, and this appears to be effectively OK with regulators...

Regarding your point about "giving a great deal of independence to country offices." Why do these country offices need to belong to HSBC? Why do people bank with offices of HSBC rather than local banks? I'm fairly sure that these local offices provide essential connections to the larger financial network -- for example to move funds from African countries to the Gulf countries. But regulators do not, for example, require HSBC to divest itself of any of these country offices which abuse their independence -- which seems like a rather mild sanction under the circumstances, and likely to greatly mitigate the issues.
Almost all of the top-quality bourbon brands in the US are owned by large distilling concerns. Beam, Inc. isn't an epithet in the whisky world. Go look: think of a top-tier bourbon you like, and trace back its ownership. It's not an indie-friendly market.

I'm also not entirely sure how your logic works here. How does reducing the proof on Makers help Skinnygirl Pre-mixed Processed Cocktail Beverage Product in any way? Those products are presumably already marketed to capture profits for markets that don't care about quality.

I buy Beam's explanation of why they did this. They pivoted Makers as a global brand, and in foreign markets (like Australia) were already marketing the product at a lower proof. They were unexpectedly successful, and one sane response to shortage was to unify the product line around the foreign proof.

Obviously, Makers has always controlled the final proof of its product. Bourbons sold cask-strength are sold that way in part because it allows the distiller's customers to buy less water and more booze. The final proof Makers tried to choose wasn't an unusual one for bourbon, either.
My point was more that poaching rhinos does not really happen in US territory, and the FCC is an American agency with no international authority that I am aware of.
Being depressed by this is a bit like being depressed by pop because you think only classical music is music.
He's not stopping anyone from doing better art.
I wouldn't be into his art particularly but neither am I into the sort of paintings you see in national galleries either.
Really it wouldn't surprise me if he turned around one day and said the whole thing was a big joke.
He practically does just that here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6syZr_me_Bg
Another Russian boy killed by American adopters in Texas
Yeah, I've even seen pop-unders on shady sites whose entire purpose seems to be to set Amazon affiliate cookies in the hope of making money off unrelated Amazon purchases.
Now he is ;)
Surely if you created a physics virtual machine and loaded an image with all of the atoms and electrons in place.. you'd simulate the brain. I imagine it would take a lot of computational power, but it's not 'never'

Unless we're talking about souls here or something
It's not google. This one is based on http://cartodb.com/, however the argument is still valid
Not with our current technology, I agree

But saying the problem can't be solved ever seems dead wrong to me.

We humans excel at understanding and replicating what nature did - then at improving it.

Once we clearly understand how memories are stored, if they can be read and written that'll be half of the problem : accessing the data.

If the theory about memory being encoded in the microtubules is right, imagine some nanomachines that could read it from a "live" human - by broadcasting radio waves, or emitting photons (we started doing that for proteins with antibodies glued to radioactive markets, then we improved and glued them luciferase, now we do multiple colors and IIRC it's being experimented for DNA), whatever.

Now imagine other nanomachines that could rearrange the microtubules to match that - voila, you've got Matrix-style "uploading" of knowledge once we understand how the memory bits interact with eachother, how they can be accessed by the subject. Maybe it's like a SQL database fk/pk - we don't know. But something must exist to allow it. When we figure it out, there is no reason why it couldn't be done too.

My own predictions : after we confirm how memories are stored, if we have nanotechnologies to create nanomachines, we will start reading memories just like we did with DNA and proteins.

It will take a while, we will only have a read-only access at first- and with many bugs just like how introns and TATA boxes could be mysterious initially - but we will understand in the end, and that will be half of the problem solved.

Downloading will require additional advances in computer technology (at least faster cpus, in 3d instead of 2d to get more interconnections and raw computing power, and maybe some integration of processing and memory to match how neurons work), but it does not seem far-fetched to me.
Knight Foundation regrets paying Lehrer speaking fee
use CHECK constraints to prevent invalid data patterns when possible.
Right! I'm all for sharing the road. In fact when people are illegally stopped in the bike lane I'm not enraged or infuriated at them, even if I have to slow down or come to a complete stop behind them to wait for traffic to pass so it's safe to go around. But unlike you apparently I also don't assume their behavior is motivated by egoism!
sorry, but this is another population density map
They did not offer everybody to move to a different department. They did offer a that to a lot of us, but not to everyone. Most of those of us left were offered severance packages (which were said to be voluntary, but AFAICT most of the people who got offered one in the first round took it).
This reply from Google explains why they use Mercator. http://productforums.google.com/d/msg/maps/A2ygEJ5eG-o/KbZr_... Not sure if it's really satisfactory, but at least there's a reason.
We use voices.com for videos, etc. $100 for a ton of work. Well worth it! The guy who is the voice for Esurance did a lot of work for us.
Well I meant both how much and what type (as in direct, referral, organic search engine, paid search engine, etc).

23% would be unbelievable for direct traffic like the blog in question has, but less so for search engine traffic (if you have links to what people were searching about they are many many times more likely to both click and convert than if they are just on their daily read through).

He/she could also have meant 23% conversion as reported through Amazon which means 23% of the people who clicked ended up purchasing, also a much more believable number.
I get the point of Math.imul, but it seems at odds with the idea of asm.js being backward compatible. I guess it's easy enough to provide a polyfill (MDN even provides one), but that seems rather inelegant.
Observe the differences between Managed C++ and C++/CLI to see how poorly this approach works in practice.
Assumption is the mother of all screw ups.

Even if you think that the code that creates and modifies your data will not put it in some undesired state, the code that uses this data should assume that the data may be in all undesired states you can dream up and should do its best not to do something seriously bad when that happens (like landing in endless loop/recursion or executing possibly user provided strings).
I'd agree with you about internal links, but not external links. I'd argue that anyone reading HN uses tabs anyways.
>DRM drives people to pirate websites instead of that, with the associated risks of dodgy downloads and being tracked.

Even forgetting that the DRM is totally broken so Joe can still about as easily do the same thing by just downloading some software, it still doesn't seem like the effort is worth the candle. It isn't Joe's friends who have to go to the pirate website, it's just Joe, who can still distribute it to his friends thereafter. Or for that matter, Joe's buddy who is more savvy than Joe and so gets the movie from the pirates and checks it for viruses and gives it to fifteen Joes who each give it to fifteen work buddies.

The fact is that if people want to pirate stuff, they can. Thinking you can stop that is just a fantasy. It's more important that you not make people think you're a jerk by suing and jailing everyone and imposing DRM on them, so that they're more interested in giving you money, than it is to maybe make it ever so slightly more inconvenient for pirates. I me honestly -- the DRM creates more inconvenience for the people who are paying you than it does for the pirates. Weigh one against the other and you don't get a net increase in sales.
Yep, you need multiple IP addresses and other tricks to create over 64K connections to a single backend: http://www.metabrew.com/article/a-million-user-comet-applica...

One workaround that comes to mind is to have each backend listen on multiple ports.
I agree (obviously).
"Nobody really knows what the Bourne shell's grammar is. Even examination of the source code is little help."

— Tom Duff

Not exactly the same situation, considering that compilers work.
Github seems to hire new people once or twice a week, yet their jobs page lists 1 or 2 openings at most and the last one, enterprise support eng was there for a long time. I'm curious how does that work?
In the sense that all bourbon distillers control the final ABV of their product (cask-strength bourbons being swung the opposite direction, bottled at undrinkably high ABVs so customers can dilute them to taste), the term "watered down" is both strictly true and not very descriptive.

Lots of bourbon is sold at 80 proof.
So keep internal links (to discussions, etc) as default and external links as _blank.

Problem solved.
When I work from home (and I did it exclusively for 8 months of last year) I ended up talking to my wife (my 1 yo daughter wouldn't stand still for long enough).

My wife is a social worker by training, so it was pretty rare (though not unheard of) for her to be able to give me real input, but over the years I've trained her well enough to follow most of what I'm saying and nod at the right points :)
Diablo in JavaScript
Is the HHH even still a thing? I'd been to a few parties there back in the day and knew a few of the folks that lived there but haven't heard mention of it in years.
"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."

Your statement stems from an attack by Musk. What makes you think that a journalist would be more biased than the CEO of a car companies with billions of dollars at stake?

Your stalwart defense of Musk belies your inability to think objectively. My stance is as it was when I first saw the situation: the only way to resolve this is to reveal the phone logs. It's a he-said-she-said (that's something else I've pointed out multiple times) and somehow HN deems Musk (not a party to the conversation) more credible than the journalist asked to test drive without asking for the key information that would resolve this matter
Even in an aggregator site like HN?
While mitigating in a law suit, I would not rely on a image as an copyright license. It doesn't actually say what content is covered by it (every link? css? javascript? images? ...). Wikipedia describe it as something like CC0, but is unsourcesed and thus nothing I would rely on for legal advice.
Using the Chromium framework doesn't mean that you are using the actual final Chromium UI. The CEO himself said they're building a new UI.
Haha funny guy. I know all the tricks, I just hate having to use them on sites like this.
You are misunderstanding what "using Chromium means." As I replied to cpeterso:

Using the Chromium framework doesn't mean that you are using the actual final Chromium UI. The CEO himself said they're building a new UI.

Differentiation doesn't take place in the browser engine. It take splace in the UI. Most people have no idea which engine they are using, and they don't care.
Lulz. Thanks for the helpful feedback.
typically, if you're operating upon a particular comment, you've gotten there by traversing to it from the parent. Ensuring that traversals don't encounter cycles is easy, keep hold of a hashtable (or a set) of comment ids as you traverse. As the traversal encounters a comment, its id is added to the hash, and as you complete traversal of each comment, the id is removed. If you encounter an id that's already in the set, assertion failed - or better yet, log the condition and then cease the traversal. That way everything keeps running and the error is visible in the logs.

If the code is organized (as it should be) such that all functions which require traversal of hierarchical comments pull this from a single function, then the hash check only need be applied in that one place in the code, where it need not be visible anywhere else.
Affiliate links are advertisements, the best kind, they have a call to action "buy this" and a built in tracking mechanism. When you watch CSI on television and they drink pepsi (not coke, not generic cola) that creates a link in your brain that the 'cool kids' on CSI drink pepsi, and a billion studies have shown that this influences peoples choice when they are sitting in the soda aisle at the store buying soft drinks.

She writes a blog, it has loyal readers, she recommends things. People who click on her recommendations and buy them sends her money. Similar studies have shown that when the amount of 'reward' you get from your actions is easily tied to those actions, you modify your actions to maximize your reward, even without thinking consciously about it.

That is why journalists try to put an impermeable wall between the money they are paid, and what they write. They are no more incented to write good things than they are bad things, they are more likely to write the truth as they see it.

She is on record as preaching independence for financial gain, and yet has set up her blog such that she can shade her words to increase or decrease the financial return. So she lies. Probably to herself as much as anyone else, I mean most folks don't start out trying to lose their integrity, it happens slowly over time.

One day she will wake up, reading a column she wrote with a glowing take on a complete piece of crap book with a high resale price because her declining readership is returning less and less money and her need to pump up the sales to cover her bills that just won't go away.

This has caused nervous breakdowns in people, when the fiction they have carefully woven inside their own head to cover their journey down the road into hell suddenly breaks down. Athletes who "don't do steroids" but that one time they needed a bit of HGH to heal up in time for the All Star break or get ready for spring training, a way to just be more of themselves during the post season, not cheating right? They would be this strong/healthy/whatever with regular workouts and physical therapy but the timing is just off, it's not cheating it's just dealing with the schedule that is imposed. The financial trader who just needs a bit more focus on this one day and decides to pop an Adderall or truck driver that does a bit of cocaine to get through just this month's deliveries.

If it were a new story, it might be interesting but it isn't. Its a sad story. It ends badly. And this article gives as good a narrative as any about how these stories start.
Sure, that would be an interesting conversation to have. But that's not what anyone's doing. Complaining that asm.js piggybacks off JavaScript instead of being a bytecode for which no interpreters currently exist — which is what you and fijal seem to be doing — is not "talking about what would be the best way to do that."

In case you've forgotten, your suggestion in the other thread was literally just "a standardized VM in the browser." When I tried to get you to elaborate on what that meant in practical terms, you couldn't explain how it would be any different from what we have with asm.js except that you want a bytecode syntax for the input instead of the syntax asm.js uses.

If you want to talk about practical ways we might move beyond JavaScript someday, feel free. I think that's an interesting topic. That's why I think it's unfortunate that so far, people just seem to be complaining that asm.js doesn't involve bytecode.

Personally, I think asm.js is an important step in the direction of a post-JavaScript world. It moves us away from dependence on JavaScript by helping to better enable alternative languages in the browser.
Have you by any chance taken a look at the Wilson score? It's a modification of the typical Bayesian ranking that functions much better with small samples.
Only if it's something you can replicate exactly for each run of the benchmark.
We could simulate but we'd still have problems with understanding it. Even understanding neural networks we train ourselves is very hard to impossible at our current level of enlightenment.
Not really.

Note the large number of strikes in the Sahara desert (and Antarctica, as someone else noted).

There are at least two things going on here, probably more:

1) Population density
2) Ease of finding the meteorite or crater (this is easier in barren areas with relatively homogeneous terrain, like the desert and Antartica).
First of all, because it's the law.

It's the law because, as dangerous as roads usually are, it's better for everyone if cyclists are on the road.

If cyclists are on the sidewalk, it's similar to the way that cars are to bikes: much faster, larger, and more dangerous. And pedestrians don't have anywhere else to go, so putting bikes there doesn't make a ton of sense.

If cyclists are on the road, there's already an entire set of rules for how vehicles are supposed to operate and interact. And cyclists aren't allowed on roads where it's _truly_ dangerous for them, like expressways.
I actually hover my hand over my command key while I'm browsing the web; it's not a trick, so much as a tip, it's part of my default behavior on the web.
Yeah well, find me one current employee who isn't afraid for their dear life to openly comment on working there without using an anonymous/throwaway account.

That demonstrates a workplace of fear.
The sane reason why there are no ugly people in Hollywood, no one wants to see that shit
Strange how my karma takes a nosedive because I contradict the "evil Opera is doomed" thing...
Though I agree with much of your comment, I think you're missing the timing a bit. I don't think it is the transition team specifically that is the issue, but rather the leadership did not recognize where the market was going, or didn't think the market was big enough to dedicate the right resources. Big mistake. They shouldn't have been responding to Apple and Android, they should have been leading it all.

This is probably a good example of the innovators dilemma in action.

I also disagree that Android is the 'true successor to Windows Mobile'. Sure it is somewhat more open than WP, but I don't think openness is what is a key part of Android's success.
Bingo. In order to report meteorite strikes, there must be 1) people to report them and 2) some institution to track them. If anything, it looks pretty evenly distributed after adjusting for 1 and 2.
Unless that work was already done and available to you (lxml).