skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If you wish to keep slaves, you must have all kinds of guards. The cheapest way to have guards is to have the slaves pay taxes to finance their own guards. To fool the slaves, you tell them that they are not slaves and that they have Freedom. You tell them they need Law and Order to protect them against bad slaves. Then you tell them to elect a Government. Give them Freedom to vote and they will vote for their own guards and pay their salary. They will then believe they are Free persons. Then give them money to earn, count and spend and they will be too busy to notice the slavery they are in."
-Alexander Warbucks
Don't forget escrow. For anyone that's taking money from one party, taking a cut and then sending the remainder to someone else, escrow is a very handy feature!
To her credit, she probably has the toughest and most scrutinized job in the technology industry right now. Every action she takes will have hoards of supporters and nay-sayers. Kudos to her for actually being bold and ignoring the noise.
I (clojure hobbyist) play around with it regularly but IMHO it's not really ready for prime time yet.
Responding from a French point of view, so that might not match Brazil (but does match Germany): you can not tie a material product with an immaterial one, if you do not also sell the material product as a stand alone.

You cannot sell a car with an insurance if you don't sell the car alone.

You cannot sell a phone with a plan if you don't sell the phone alone (see: iPhone 1 release in Europe).

You cannot sell a computer with an OS license if you don't sell the computer alone (you're not buying the disk, but the license to use the software on it).
Well, duh. You aren't responsible for users getting rootkits installed on their computer. Obviously you would find it useless.
False. I pay my coworker back for lunch with bitcoin.
But "When Science Does Good" doesn't sell papers... ;)
Check out my previous post: http://www.chris-granger.com/2013/01/24/the-ide-as-data/
But not soon enough for the 32-bit unsigned NTP wraparound.

(It's funny how 32 bits is about 70 years more than 31 bits, and the "31-bit epoch" started 70 years after the "32-bit epoch.")
One question has been left off the quiz:

"The purpose of this quiz is to:

1. Expose the visitor to as many advertisements as possible, by showing only one question per page: ⌧

Choose one answer from the above list."
>Does it get a free pass because it's not a monopoly?

That would not be unprecedented. Part of the US anti-trust code says you cannot tie one product to a monopoly product. It's one of the reasons MS lost their anti-trust case vs the US DOJ back in the 90s, illegally tying secondary products to their Windows monopoly.

That might not directly apply in this case, not sure, but to answer your question, yes being a monopoly or not does effect how anti-trust laws are applied to you.
The design is gorgeous. A few observations:

1. When I upload a requirements.txt file, let me just pick 5 packages from the file instead of telling me I have to upgrade to use it.

2. Why is Django listed as the old version 1.3.7 in my dash?

3. You have a Twitter account, but there appears to be no link on your website that I could spot.
I can see that working at a very small company where all of the employees are good friends and spend a lot of time together.

But I'm hard pressed to think of anything that would make me leave a company faster than having all of my coworkers brats running around all day.

A lot of people feel uncomfortable having stranger's children around them.
How do you know if you're in this situation or if you simply haven't been able to get the exposure you need?
Opera has stated publicly that they will be using all of Chromium (which would include LocalStorage, V8, etc), not just WebKit per se.
Thanks for the feedback, we're *nix shop so I only tested it in browser shots to be honest (shame on me).

I'll fire up a VM, check it out and try to find a good fallback or alternative for Windows.
Belltown isn't even remotely as bad as Pioneer Square.
In addition to node-webkit, I believe the app code itself is written in ClojureScript (a compile-to-js dialect of Clojure.)
The big stacks of money she's being paid, and the enormous golden handshake she'll receive even if she runs Yahoo! into the ground, probably help with that.
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I have completely the opposite opinion. Clojure is not as widely used as some other languages. Python springs to mind; I know it was part of the Kickstarter pledge.

Support for compiled languages would be nice, although I realise this is difficult.
fact is people have kids & that's just life. If M wants to make Yahoo a more attractive place to work & get the most from her employees then build a dam child-care facility on site / at the office so that every employee can use it - take care of your employees common life requirements so that they are free to focus on building the best products & not about what time they need to leave to beat the traffic & pick up the kids.
Already posted: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5284832
This is so well thought-out and I think your advice is bang on. Thanks for posting!
We're calling people nasty names for making their employees come to work now? Wow.
True -- it's a rather bland, predictable title. And it over-uses that already overused word "science".
As contrast goes up, reading rate goes up. There are hundreds of studies to that effect.

As someone who does read a lot of research about design and usability issues, I am always sceptical of people who write things like "There are hundreds of studies to that effect" yet don't cite a single one. If it were really as simple as you claim, we would all be reading white or yellow text on black screens and no-one would get headaches because their monitor was set too bright.

If you really do believe in looking at empirical data, you might like to read some of the research into how excessive contrast can exacerbate negative conditions, such as the "shaking" effect seen particularly by dyslexics or the "halo" effect seen particularly by older readers.
That is exactly why this makes me so happy. :) There are already tons of good tools for Python.
Second, it's Geoffrey, not Gregory Hinton.
Will this allow me to control my drone?
I scoured the KQED archives, but I can't find a definite match. This show from 2005 might be it, but I'm not sure:

"Hope on the Street" http://www.kqed.org/w/hope/

btw, I must note that was impressed at how much old web content KQED has archived!
> "Is it a foregone conclusion that others can't bring a baby to work?"

That was also my thought but I looked at the original article too [1]. It seems that this is (currently) a perk that she made for herself (with her own money) and that the situation is unchanged for Yahoo employees.

"Yahoo ... offers the typical Dependent Day Care Flexible Spending Account, where staff can pay 'dependent care expenses, such as day care or after-school care, with pre-tax dollars.'"

Doesn't mean that it couldn't change for all employees, but I can imagine the costs would be significant.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20130225/survey-says-despite-yahoo-ban...

Edit: I should state that I made an implicit assumption that this is a private/personal daycare facility near the Yahoo buildings.
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I just meant that experienced parents would recognize, and try to stem, the narcissistic potential of an idea that would encourage rebellion in their children.
you're doing an terrible job explaining your beliefs. you come across as mostly incoherent with an ideological obsession with "unobtrusiveness". to me that sounds like an indicator of a barely contained case of not-invented-here syndrome.

maybe you can explain your language more explicitly and help alleviate the bad impression I (and others) have got from your posts. what is a "serious" web platform? how is django less appropriate for "serious" web platforms than Flask or Pyramid? can you give an example of something breaking due to django "funny business"? it would help if you gave a real example. i've seen people complain about this alot but i've never seen an example of it causing any more problems than an annoyed developer having to do it django style instead of whatever way he/she wanted to (due to ideology).
> Apparatus for disseminating a series of episodes represented by media files via the Internet as said episodes become available.

Just wondering what the qualifications are for working in the USPTO are. Do you have to be fully cut off from the modern world and be strongly against innovation?

How is it even possible to patent such fundamental concepts? I bet they would approve a patent for "A system for transferring audio to the ears via vibrations in the surrounding air (sound waves)" AKA speakers. Then you could sue not just the podcasters, but the listeners too.
Sounds like a typical daycare and the costs associated with that no?
Why do I feel like I've never read about Yahoo's CEO before it was Marissa Mayer? Is it because she's a woman?
Leo segment starts at 14:45
I feel like I stumbled into a stuffy country club to find this guy sitting cross-legged in a leather chair with a monocle and a cigar. After a long diatribe about how he wouldn't be caught dead in my jeans and t-shirt attire, he decides to relate his feelings on B&N.

The smugness is palpable, although I'm catching some points and have issues with others, I'm not allowed to speak until he's said his peace. At one point, I'm told that since I didn't ask a question when he mention "value network", I'm immediately told I know nothing about it and therefore required to listen to him site a book I've already read.

Finally when it is all over and done, when I finally have a moment to parlay my rebuttal, I let him know he's missing a number of points and confusing some issues. But instead of listening and countering, he waves his hand and stamps out his cigar. And as he walks away mutters "Arsehole" in that under-your-breath manner that is still loud and obviously intended for you to hear.

As I turn back, I see that a card has been placed on my chair. It informs me who this monocled figure was that felt the need to not simply inform, but belittle me and my opinions. Then on the back is inscribed, "But of course you already knew who I was..."

Although, it's true I don't fully subscribe to his points. The way this piece was written made me feel I wasn't allowed to have a dissenting thought. It's like he went out of his way to deny you your critical thinking, and therefore difficult to take seriously. Just my couple cents...
Rather than assuming, why don't you check out their website (linked somewhere else in this topic)?

As for chaining up heat pipes... not really sure how to respond to that.
According to Paul Fussell's Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, aversion to profanity is a middle class thing. The upper class[1] do not use euphemisms for profanity or obscenity. Fussell wrote that Jilly Cooper reported "I once overheard my son regaling his friends: 'Mummy says pardon is a much worse word than fuck.'"

I doubt that many members of the upper class (see Fussell's book for a definition of upper class, it is roughly the tastes of "old money" but not dependent upon actual wealth) read Hacker News. It is likely that those who do not object to obscenities such as the word "fuck" are more socially liberal freethinkers who dislike formality. Those who do object are likely to be members of the middle class who believe (foolishly) that in censoring profanities and vulgarities, they are emulating the upper class.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Class-Through-American-Status-System/d...
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Small price to pay for the continuation of the species.

Quit your whining. Maybe they should build a nursery for the single men, too.
True, but can you show me any fair measurement of effort that would support weapons innovation being the world's main priority right now?
Thanks, I'll repost this in Ask HN. apologies for the double post
Interesting, I know that in Brazil the same law applies even if both products are immaterial. For example, it was common for nightclubs here to give you an option of charging less (or nothing at all) for the entrance into the nightclub if you spent a certain amount of money in drinks or whatever else they sold inside. This was also prohibited by the same law since it was tying two separate "products". Wikipedia article (in portuguese) on this law cites that even ( http://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Venda_casada ).
If you are done with the obvious optimizations, at some point you spend half a day to gain 50 ms on the backend. And that's a good day. If you are able to achieve 25 ms on the frontend in half an hour, it's worth considering. E.g. Font Awesome [1] is very popular, but the selector performance is horrible.

[1] http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
I love these updates, the tool is looking more awesome every day.

I'm wondering if there's a roadmap for Light Table's release, specifically if there's a point where the code will be available? I have a programming language in progress and I'm interested in potentially hacking LT to support the language. It seems like it would be a good fit.
This is a horrible criticism: Marissa Mayer is the CEO of Yahoo. She can do whatever the hell she wants.
Note: This isn't a personal-gold-plated-one-baby-only daycare. There is nowhere in the article stating this daycare can't be used by all employees.
I think it would be a neat high-school-level science experiment to find some plant that reproduces quickly, and then put it in a bell jar with ever-decreasing levels of air pressure to try and force natural selection to make something that can survive at very low pressures. (Edit: You won't approach Mars-level pressures with these experiments.)

At the college level, I've read papers about inserting specific genes into plants to increase their hardiness with thin atmospheres.
Security features that are off by default don't provide much security.

Yes, as I understand it, if you remove the Microsoft key but leave secure boot on, it will refuse to boot Windows. So long as it's on, it will only boot an OS signed with a key it trusts. If you turn it off, it will try to boot whatever's on the disk.
re-read the parent comment, I think you're both actually in agreement.
patio11 has good advice on this: https://training.kalzumeus.com/newsletters/archive/consultin...
I didn't think of that, I agree this is more likely the explanation.
More than just large, it's gaseous and thus unrelatable. People see grainy images of some dark object breaking up over Jupiter, but they can't wrap their head around what that is- what does an impact on a gaseous planet even look like? Mars, on the other hand, is much more visceral to people. We have pictures from the ground- and it looks like [places on] Earth.
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I believe Adobe's Reader has more support 'extensions' to PDF (e.g. embedding flash or javascript) than Apple, and that these things are often attack vectors. Preview should be immune to these.

Aside from that it's mostly market share - they're different code bases, so they'd need different attacks. There is a chance of buffer overflow issues in the font decoding, image decoding, certificate processing, etc. But outside of iOS, few people have made the effort to attack non-adobe PDF Readers.

Something like Chrome or Firefox is likely to be the most secure choice. Firefox's PDF reader is written in javascript, and I believe chrome's is sitting in a process that can't do anything to your machine. But I tend to just use Preview for stuff I've downloaded, because it's fast and I like the UI.
I've read a lot of outrage about this, particularly around the hypocrisy of having a nursery while forcing others to come into the office with no comparable perk.

Problem for me is, I actually don't think there's any moral imperative for Yahoo to make life easier for working parents or people who have some need to telecommute. It may make good business sense - Richard Branson certainly seems to think it does, but that's not a moral issue, it's a strategic one. If good employees who have options no longer wish to work for yahoo, they will leave.

I do think Yahoo managed this poorly from a PR perspective. I think it would have been wiser to announce Yahoo's plans to make the campus a perfect place to be, with everything a working parent could want. Play up the daycare, gym, dry cleaning. If they're not doing this, start a plan or two and make a big deal about it. I'm speaking cynically here, this is about managing the press. I'd rather it were sincere, of course, but this is PR we're talking about.
Will you happily pay $20k if you know that someone else, billing by the hour for the same quality of work, will cost you $10k?
How are you highlighting the matching characters in the fuzzy search results?

http://www.chris-granger.com/images/030/navigate.png

It looks like the same method I'm using in emacs/ido, which is to turn "la/clj" into

"(l).*?(a).*?(/).*?(c).*?(l).*?(j).*?"

I've found this technique gives inferior results to whatever SublimeText is doing. For example, in your hits with "langs", such as "lt/objs/langs/js.cljs" I think "lt/objs/langs/js.cljs" is more intuitive than the result you give of "lt/objs/langs/js.cljs". (Sorry for the hard to read italics)

For another example, on a search of "completions" I think your technique will highlight "hacks-completions" as "hacks-completions" instead of "hacks-completions".

Does anyone know if there's an easy way to modify the regex (not LightTable) and get the user-friendly results of Sublime Text?
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One advantage of a dedicated e-ink device is the lack of distraction. I go to bed with my iPad and end up checking email, browsing the web, playing a game. I go to bed with my kindle, and I actually get some reading done. The Paperwhite also works great in the dark.
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>I clicked your links and I read your description but I don't get how they are tied together. For example, how does your opening sentence have anything to do with the Google Docs links?

I would have posted a link to the live search engine, but as the OP says it "folded" after a year, so I did the next best thing and gave links to 2 screen shots of example search results pages. Sorry, I just do not understand why the description of my search engine leaves you lost, especially to the point you feel the description and actual screen shots are not tied together - the only difference between the description and screen shots is that because they are screen shots you do not have the benefit of continuing to scroll down and have infinite results populate, also most of the results are not favicons but custom uploaded logos (but I mention that function in the OP).

>are you trying to offer a more visual display for the favicon next to the search results? Is that your "differentiator" I assume? I'm just so lost here.

As the links show, my results display the favicon only - no text based results.

>EDIT: No one wants a "web search engine that displays results as an infinite list of favicons by default." People might want to view the favicon next to the search results but no one wants an "infinite list of favicons by default."

I asked for insight, but ouch. Did I shut it down for lack of traction? Yes, but starting from day 1 I had over 10,000 queries/day so I would not say "no one wants".

Besides I can build a search engine right now that people do want, that does not mean anyone will jump ship from Google for it. For example, I know from posts on HN that people have been waiting for years for Google to permit infinite results (see: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4875463) instead of x results per page, so in minutes I could create a Google API search engine that provides identical results to Google and offers infinite results on the first page - but do you know how many people will use it? None, and for anyone who thinks it is as easy as building something people want, then test your theory now and build the infinite Google search engine that people on HN have posted about and see if building something people want actually gets people using your engine instead of Google.

Disclosure: I know you commented on the post I linked above about infinite scrolling, specifically that you do not like infinite scrolling for web search but you like it for image searches - a reply comment to yours was another HN user saying they prefer the infinate scroll feature of DuckDuckGo but find the actual Google results to be better quality.
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Maybe, but what if indie games are less susceptible to piracy than blockbuster games.

There are really just massive statistical hurdles to overcome with this type of analysis.

You could prove that indie games with strict DRM will perform differently than indie games without strict DRM, but extrapolating that to feature, blockbuster games is problematic.
Why should a select or join lock a database? Surely no database lets one query starve another of IO or CPU?
Thanks. I like the analogy.
It's b/c 99% of that stuff is noise not signal, and degrades the information quality here. There are plenty of places on the net to get your fix of humour and endelessly repeated memes, we don't need it here too.
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Ask HN: why so many code schools/bootcamps?
why have coding schools proliferated recently?

Does it signify higher industry demand for entry level trainees or higher worker demand for training?

I wonder because they don't seem to offer good value for money, yet they seem to be booming.

Apologies for the double post.had posted this to News which is not the right place for it
I look at this latest story and think about it in context when Yahoo switched their employees to iPhones and Androids, which was well received as I understand it. Other perks put in place also helped boost the morale of the rank-and-file a little bit. But it appears she thinks about morale and vibe as quantifiable, something that can be managed relative to the available morale quotient that she can tap.

If this is part of an overall strategy, Mayer looks like someone who only knows how to manage things on paper using spreadsheets. I'm sure she's trying to replicate many of the successful approaches she took at Google, but Google and Yahoo are not the same.

This nursery story just adds to my impression of her that she's tone-deaf to how her actions affect the organization.
She paid for it right out of her own pocket... would there have been equal outrage if she had instead hired a nanny? What about if she had just put her kid in a regular daycare?
Not saying it's good or bad, but when people hear that demand for BTC is increasing, the natural assumption is that it is attracting lots of new participants. What seems to be happening instead is that the people who have already surmounted the hurdles involved in becoming users are responding to the positive press recently by doubling and tripling down on their bets. The stats don't indicate a large wave of new users - yet.
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*sad panda* @hzr The switch to WebKit unfortunately means
that Opera Dragonfly is no more.

https://twitter.com/runeh/status/301616059729969152

And yes, it is/was an amazing tool. My favourite web inspector by a mile.
I think that its just the common problem that people who are angered by something are more likely to respond than people who like it.