skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Huge companies are interesting. I think Google is closer to fox now. It closed down quite many products and focused on several (search, android, docs).

Maybe Fox/Hedgehog caregorization is not applicable to such huge companies. Most likely there are departments and products where foxes are in charge and vise versa.
Great Post - JFDI - Just Fucking Do it!

BTW - any plans to expand on http://arrival.io/ to other products (just electronics?)
> As for president's apparent inability to change laws - give me a break. He's the leader of the major US party who just won the elections, he controls the Senate, he has wide range of supporters in the press, he can successfully solicit billions in donations - and he's absolutely powerless to do any effort towards fixing this little thing? Somehow I have hard time believing it.

Sure he's not powerless to change it. But it's a little issue that doesn't matter to more than a few people, so he's not going to use his time or political capital to do the legwork himself. What he's doing is giving you the thumbs-up to proceed on the issue yourself.

This statement is something you can take to your house representative and go: "look, the President supports this!" You can petition the FCC to exert pressure. You can get some of those 100,000 people who signed the petition to call their Congress-people. And you can tell them, "hey, the President has gone on the record as supporting this.". To a Congress-person it suggests that it might be worth someone's time to draft up a bill and score some easy points. It gives you something to build a coalition around. That's huge.
"Many longer names will be distracting, and make the code harder to read."

Do you have any source for this? I really can't imagine this happening, seriously.

"You write bad code."

I see, it's one of those days when you just have to be a dick to someone. Ok, no problem, moving on...

To reiterate without needless things involved: can you prove that a) words between 1 and 6 letters of length are significantly harder to read for higher letter counts and b) having longer names, regardless of a, is not beneficial at all? If you can - please do.
In Robert Heinlein's novel Time for the Stars, a non-profit organization called the Long Range Foundation ("LRF") funds expensive, long-term projects for the benefit of mankind that won't show results for decades or centuries. Some of these projects turn out to be hugely profitable, but because profit isn’t in the organization’s charter, all this money has to be funneled into other longer-term and even more outrageous projects.
hmm, I think some different, unrelated issues are getting conflated here.

- Your feed is determined by edgeRank, just like your google results are (let's say for the sake of simplicity) determined by pageRank

- You can switch your feed to 'most recent' which ignores edgeRank, and simply displays posts in reverse chronological order, like FB used to, like tumblr does, twitter did (not sure about twitter right now), etc.

- Yes, facebook defaults to the former setting, but that probably makes sense, right?

- That "reach 15% of fans" number, I believe, is a result of edgeRank functioning correctly. Obviously even if everyone got reverse chronological feeds, your update would STILL only be seen by a small percentage of users because it would be pushed down by more recent posts, right? So whether the user saw it would be based on whether you posted it right before the user checks their feed, and would just incent everyone to spam facebook updates like crazy,(which is how tumblr is right now) ... am I missing something here about that stat?

- Yeah, I guess maybe in both Google's and Facebook's case there are conflicting goals but I am not sure it is a conflict of interest. It is their business to make that newsfeeed (or Google's search results) as relevant as possible so you use their service.

- The dubious thing about Facebook's method is the promoted posts are not as clearly delineated from the feed as Google's adword results are. That, in my opinion, is the controversial thing here. Not making a clear distinction between advertising content and "normal" content.

- Ryan Holiday is a marketing genius whose primary tactic to to try to generate controversy, so, I think this article should be evaluated within that context.
Slightly tangential, but does anyone know of a good tutorial/explanation of real-life functional programming in designing apps? For example, building a fully AJAX-enabled, MVC-style web app in a functional manner?

I still really want to get "into" functional programming, but all the tutorials I find seem to be awfully mathematically-oriented or theoretical. For me to really "grok" it as it might apply to my life, I'm still trying to get how to combine it with webapps or CRUD-type apps. Even back-end would be fine -- how to write a web server written "functionally", that retrieved data from a database and turned it into JSON format, for example.
Interesting that they broke it down into only two types of particles: moshing and not-moshing. In my experience there should be a third particle for the "border guards" -- the people who help keep the shape of the pit and actively push people back in (as opposed to a non-mosher particle which merely absorbs hits).
Here is a better translation of the later:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2013/02/26/inenglish/1361883380_492...

Tried to submit the article, but it seems to have disappeared misteriously.
re: Unity - agree. Although I was initially skeptical, now I like it, and it makes more sense in the context of ubuntu on tablets.
I think most users do want Twitter-like 100% visibility. And, at least when they first signed up (for those who signed up more than a year ago), they thought they were getting that. I think that the typical user has just given up on trying to keep up with and compensate the every-changing features and have settled for what they get and/or moved on to something else.
Hey, on the marketing team at Fab. Yes, we use Sailthru and thus can track which emails users open over a given period of time. Sailthru has a decent api however this operation was actually done manually with a bulk pull of data from Sailthru and then a query to the database on our end. In the future we'll probably automate this, though for right now our dev cycles are too precious :)
A loss-leader strategy would be if the cell company was actually selling the phones at these discounted prices; they are not. They're only offered as a bundle with a contract.
"This is a fundamental misunderstanding of Ubuntu's raison d'etre, which is to bring Free (libre) software to the world."

Here's my marketing campaign, sad as it is, its the best possible spin:

"Hey world, I've got something new for you, its incompatible with everything and doesn't work with anything and can't actually do anything you want, but, hey, its new so it must be better and it does a bunch of stuff that nobody outside the dev community cares about. Oh and we "had" to take some stuff away like network transparency which is awesome, err, I mean ignore the man behind the curtain and someday VNC might work, oh and every dev who's finally gotten used to the existing weird design will have to retrain. Other than that trust me its awesome you better switch now. And by switch, I really mean it since it'll be incompatible with everything else ever written." How could anyone not drop their entire legacy installed base of hardware and software and training and switch, I mean its got transparent animated dancing robots which no one can do without, and its got electrolytes that plants crave!

I'm sorry I just can't do any better given bad news.
'index' just isn't meaningful. Use actual meaning or use shorthand. Don't waste verbosity.
Did I read that correctly, there is no plan to build GTK+ bindings - they are going to qt based dekstop applications?

Or do they expect gnome to port to mir? Unless they already worked that out it doesn't seem too likely as this amounts to a direct shot at them.

If Ubuntu is suddenly not going to have any gtk applications available it is going to be a very foreign environment to lots of its current users.
the photons "reflected" back would appear at specific locations around the edge of the MACHO, so you'd see expect to see something with Sun-like spectra at that radial location. lots of image processing would be required to un-warp the collected image.
Ask HN: What do you think of web-based vulnerability scanners?
Our small (but growing) startup thinks we've grown to a stage where we could start becoming a target. Rather than using tools like MetaSploit it seems a lot simpler to outsource this work to a 3rd-party solution like TinFoil Security, ArmorHub or perhaps McAfee Vulnerability Assessment SaaS. Has anyone used any of these or similar services? How do they compare? How effective are they? Any alternative suggestions?
Emacs.js
The stupidity of computers
Parsoid: Wikipedia's new Node.JS engine to roundtrip legacy data with HTML5
If the best example of current US performance relative to other developed countries you can think of is "killed fewer people than other protagonists in last century's World Wars" (which is essentially what your cited stats show) you may as well not bother.

n.b. I'm sure Rummel would grudgingly admit that the US is far worse than any other developed country for committing acts of "democide" this century. In fact it's probably the only metric in which a sane person could argue the US might have performed worse than North Korea in recent years.
How has that not gone viral?! I had to stifle several laughs so my boss didn't look at me funny. Plus, how can you go wrong with a dollar a month? That won't even buy you a cup of coffee in Sydney.
I first read this on New Scientist a couple of weeks ago.

Link here: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729055.700-mosh-pit-....

It mentions that the physics studied here could have practical applications in emergency planning. Answering questions like, "How does a chaotic crowd behave in an emergency?".
Google could probably implement this with Youtube. Their automated translations are a start, but if viewers could edit the transcripts as the video plays, they could come up with good transcriptions very quickly.
Thanks! Probably not, there aren't really any other products I get that excited about, and I like the idea of keeping it very niche.
Your Blog Content is Broken. Fix It.
######### We need Borg efficiency!!

SAR - We need fast driver development using safe and automatic "Template-Based" build systems.
There is a lot GNU/Linux can learn from Embedded Systems development.
I considered editing my topmost comment to say something along the lines: "Edit: warning, this is not entirely true, read the posts below".

Now I'm just going to tell my mum I'm in the LA Times.
Thanks for your advice! Can I stay in touch with you in case I have some more (short) questions?
You keep putting up strawmen.

Show me the desktop Linux equivalent of Android, not Cyanogenmod. It doesn't exist - and you can measure that failure with any number of metrics.

If Ubuntu can achieve that type of success and protect the freedom of users with the GPL (instead of the permissive BSD model for hardware makers) then we will have accomplished something in the world.
Thanks very much for the ideas. Well, you're right that the demand for resources isn't infinite, but it's certainly been growing exponentially, and it's already big enough to produce a host of negative side effects. All in all it's a very long way from total resource use reducing due to successful decoupling, even as efficiency has increased. Take energy for instance. http://gailtheactuary.files.wordpress.com/2012/03/world-ener...
I'm not trying to attack the goal of decoupling or the means of techno-fixes. I'm a fan of technology. I'm saying that on their own, techno-fixes are insufficient to deliver reduction in overall resource use.
The sanitation example you mention is interesting. I'm not sure land as a resource works in nearly the same way as resources flowing through the economy like energy, water, metals etc. I'll have to consult an economist.
The first thing he would probably learn is that it's not just heavy metal fans, and that they aren't "smashing their heads together."
Don't forget the natural variability of said border guards who might, should their favorite song enter the scenario, join the moshing group.
Suffice to say that I have friends who are first-generation immigrants from South Korea, Ghana, Japan, Mexico, and Italy, and none of them are as reactionary about racial slurs as your average white American.

Reacting differently to racial slurs is quite different from not giving "a rat's ass about political correctness".

Don't bet about things you don't understand. You and I could live next door to each other and have totally different experiences; many of my neighbors are Somali and they'd certainly have mixed interpretations.

Exactly. So how do you know how minorities feel about political correctness? Are you basing this on what you've been told? How large is your sample size? How do you correct for people (your first generation immigrant friends) telling you precisely what you want to hear?

You should take your own advice and not pretend to know how every member of a diverse group may react to your choice of words.
Apple value falls below $400bn, as Warren Buffett says 'ignore critics'
Akamai will talk to you and even put you on the non-ghetto maps ('b') for $3k/month.

You just have to know who to talk to.

Cloudflare is for people who don't care what CDNs actually do. There are much better choices (EdgeCast is great, CDNetworks is decent, etc) for most people between the $200/m and $10000/m range anyway.

Anyone paying Cloudflare $3k/month is not doing their homework.
That is exactly the problem. The author talks about the photons that get turned 180 but the reality of the situation would be similar to seeing our sun reflected in a piece of glass a few thousand light years out (no need for a MACHO). The reflection is there but so is all the background noise, so just like trying to look the reflection on a clear piece of glass, the light mixing would be killer.
Retina MBP fan issue related to Sandisk SSDs
Japan Is Going to Restart Its Nuclear Power Plants
> CoffeeScript includes a (very) simple build system similar to Make and Rake.

Arrrrrrrrrrrgggggghhhh.....

Why do people insist on doing this feature creep nonsense? Just stop! The world doesn't need another build system. The fact that you personally don't understand make (or cmake, or autotools, or rake, or scons, or ant, or...) is not a good excuse for inflicting another one of these things on the rest of us.

Yes, I'm sure it meets the needs of the coffeescript project nicely. But what introducing it has actually done in build a brand new barrier to those who want to work on coffeescript. You're ghettoizing your project with this nonsense.

Also: just for the record, those "cakefile" examples look awful to me; modulo language syntax, it looks just like scons. Everyone who has ever tried to use it for something serious hates scons.
I get why you'd say that about SpaceX, but why is Tesla in that category?
You my friend, is crazy! :)
From the discussion on google+ by the wayland developers [1], it looks like that the reasons given by canonical are quite poor.

[1] https://plus.google.com/100409717163242445476/posts/jDq6BAgd...
>"reinstate the rule of law".....are you kidding me, right now?

I mean....ok...I get that the process by which laws are made and passed can seem corrupt at times.....but come on.....this is just straight hyperbole and cynicism.

If you are complaining about America, why don't you move to a third world country - where we don't have basic things like election campaign laws that politicians have to disclose donors.

It's so easy to complain about what you have...when you have no idea what others have to live with on a daily basis.
Making the travel site people want, even if it’s impossible
Someone's css is all broken right now
...yeah, it's almost easy to forget that there still are wealthy developed countries without socialized healthcare :)
The phrase "Un-fucking-believable" here was extremely jarring, especially since "fucking" was in the original text! Very interesting.
And when the government opens up its deep pockets, even on reasonable problems (like "low-pollution energy") you get results like Solyndra... or worse, because it's more about chasing government money than coming up with any results.
I've been using Unix in some form or another since maybe 1986. It is an enormously effective lever. But the grody cruft isn't getting better -- there's an upper boundary on how happy I can be using it, but it's an aesthetic and not a technical one.

Partly this is nostalgia, and partly it's diminishing marginal returns. Nothing that happens to me is going to be as jarring a leap into the future as sitting down in front of a PC RT was, and I guess that's sad.
Solving big problems means taking big risks. Most businesses would rather do less risky things that bring in the revenue sooner than risk spending large sums of money on projects that could only bring in money years down the road. Exceptions exist (Microsoft Research comes to mind) but for the most part, businesses focus on their short-term profits, and leave research to universities and governments.

This is only a problem if the government is failing to fund research adequately. The point of government grants is to pay for riskier research. There are limits to what governments will fund, and unfortunately there are "research topics du jour," but I do not really expect companies to go wild with shareholder money. The free market is not going to cure cancer, and that is fine because the free market is not the only way to pay for research.
Embrace extend extinguish.

Wait until the only way to run FF / Chrome / 3-d accelerated video driver / vi / emacs / something else thats "critical" is to switch to Mir. After all its free, all you have to do is abandon everything else. What could go wrong?

Simply don't use it is like telling people to take up a new hobby once theirs has been destroyed. But I don't want to take up a new hobby and I like this one. Sorry, no, someone else has decided to destroy it, so don't complain or try to work around the damage just select a new hobby. Hey, you look like a technical type of person, sorry about the death of free software and all that, but I bet you'd like Ham Radio or maybe advanced model railroading? ...
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That also has nothing to do with the "military-industrial complex"

In order for that to fit the analogy, AT&T would have to have lobbied the government to create that so it could profit from it.
"Access to socialized healthcare is a similar factor."

Having lived in both Canada and the U.S. for many years, I'm curious why I've met so many more entrepreneurial and succcessful people in the big cities in America versus my extensive time in Canada. I figured having basic healthcare for all would make it significantly easier to jump ship from a job and start ones own business.
With respect to IE 10 performance, Microsoft only has to worry about one platform (debate-ably two if you want to talk about Win8 on ARM).

| I fear the loss of competition because of what
| that means for innovation. It entrenches "good
| enough," and I hate that.

Being Open Source gives us a leg-up over the IE monoculture era. People with the willingness can improve it; fork it if necessary.
Moose Suite version 4.7 released
Moose is a platform for software and data analysis.
It is an open source project since 1996. It is supported by several research groups around the world, and it is increasingly adopted in industrial projects.

It offers multiple services ranging from importing and parsing data, to modeling, to measuring, querying, mining, and to building interactive and visual analysis tools.

What is new:
• Integration of the Roassal visualization engine
• New PetitParser browser with integrated refactorings
• Improved Glamorous Toolkit for Pharo including the Glamorous Inspector and Debugger
• Several features in Glamour including Watcher support (similar to OS X preview)
• Significant improvements in FAMIX
• Improved external VerveineJ parser for Java

Read the MooseBook! http://www.themoosebook.org/book
LG acquires webOS from HP
You see, the mosh pit is like formation of planets, the heavier and more hardcore elements will gravitate near to the melted center and the light and meek will quickly shy away from it.

At the least in the moshpits I see in small gigs here in Brazil, the ones at the edge of the pit will generally be walling the melted elements because staying at the edge pushing the weirdos back to the pit is just as fun as being there ;p
This isn't new, CoffeeScript has included this for a while.

One thing to keep in mind is that Cake is tiny, the complete source shouldn't take more than a minute or 2 to read and understand[1] and is a nice example of CoffeeScript style.

[1]: http://coffeescript.org/documentation/docs/cake.html
The Layman doesn't want a desktop at all; they want a smartphone or a tablet. Want to drive mass adoption of Linux? Write a killer app for Android.

The folks who do want desktops, want those desktops to run software like MS Office or Adobe CS. If Linux can't do that, it does not matter how shiny it is.
true, and that's exactly what I was doing. rsync and then run puppet apply. that's just a lot of grinding if you only made one little typo.

and I see here I have capfiles and a system to bootstrap a new server. way too much stuff for this scale. (4 servers)
Minneapolis is one of the most PC places on the planet.
FCC begins trial of Google white spaces database
Depends on the app. Emacs can survive and re-attach later. A single emacs session can be connected to multiple X (and tty) sessions at a time. I use this all day, my emacs session runs for weeks or months between restarts and I just connect/disconnect to X servers or ttys as needed.
Those big problem attacking businesses are out there, they're just often too busy to write blog posts about it! :)

That said, I'm one of those grad school dropouts who's stumbled into the whole trying to bootstrap a hard problems only business.

Its a lot of work! I'm lucky that my family is based in NYC so that I can reduce my living costs plus do hard problems only consulting part time while spending the rest of my time working on building my tech products @Wellposed.

There are uncountably many high value problems you can try to build an interesting business around. Just look at any Specialized / niche high value industry and ask "can we build better tools and how valuable would those be?". You should choose a domain where you'd enjoy talking with/getting to know potential customers personally. if there are other folks attacking the same question domain+combo, ideally they should be smart folks you respect who are solving the problem with a different combination of tradeoffs so that the products are complementary rather than substitutes. Oh, and you should be OK with building a satisfactory product taking at least a year of hard work, constant learning , and feeling stupid because you keep on seeing better ways to do every thing.

Or at least that's sort of the meta pattern behind how I'm operating at Wellposed. Its hard work, I get to feel stupid in the always learning more sort of way, and its the most fun I've ever had.

I'll find out towards the middle / end of this year if my ideas and process bear out on my first hard problem domain. I'm terrified and excited. Either I'll quickly be trying to figure out a sane hiring process, or I'll be job hunting with an interesting engineering and consulting portfolio accumulated over the preceding year, and I don't know which outcome is more likely!

That said, entrepreneurship is hard work and gets in the way of spending focused time on engineering. Good thing I'm a tad extroverted.
This song will cause the fans on a rMBP early 2013 to scream like a jet engine
QuiCumule - When Dataviz meets democracy [FR]