skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the mix of introverts vs. extroverts is relevant, too. Generally, extroverts are energized by being around people, while introverts need some mental downtime to recharge their batteries. And at least for me, downtime is hard to come by while in the office.
Nice looking website, but don't you think it's a bit weird to use a LinkedIn profile for dating? LinkedIn is like the one place on the internet where you have to act professional. I don't even like it when my personal life overlaps with LinkedIn so I Can't even begin to imagine myself feeling comfortable using it for dating.
> rid the world of C++

Why? If you don't like it don't use it. There are enough people who are happy with C++ because it perfectly fits their domain.
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Thanks, that was very informative.
Certainly for many of MIT's professors teaching is not a priority, but you can't get tenure if you're not an adequate teacher. I also witnessed no cheating when I attended; as you note, it's self-correcting behavior for typical MIT majors.

Harvard's something of a special case in that they're notorious for not promoting from within; that is, Harvard tries to hire the very best in the world they can recruit to be full professors, and assistant, associate, whatever their lower levels are hired with the understanding Harvard's not going to grant them tenure. (I'm sure there are exceptions to this generalization, but that what I've been told is the pattern, at least in their Arts and Sciences unit).

I wouldn't expect stellar teaching to be common in such an environment, and my Harvard friends seldom if ever raved about the quality of teaching.
Thicker and stronger is about the pull-tab.

Smaller is about cost. They save a bit (say $3 per 1,000 as per link I posted elsewhere) by making the top 1/4 inch smaller.

Over 70 million cans a day that's some cash.
The honesty and empathy that he demonstrated in his memo to employees sure impressed me.
This may be well the first time in my life I'm able to see a bug in Google Search.
It's pretty easy to call someone a martyr and leave it at that. Neither you nor I really know Bradley Manning. For someone who's not really a journalist, knowing exactly what a more "targeted" leak would entail is not exactly instinct.

He's pleading guilty to releasing the information, so if you want to argue he's guilty of aiding the enemy based on what he released, I'm happy to hear it. But so far, there's no evidence that he wanted to be caught.

You're trying to extrapolate character judgments from a series of online conversations between him and one individual, and the charges against him. Meanwhile, ignoring his own stated motives or things like the opinions of people who know him more intimately. It's just not convincing.
Cool, thanks.. faith in humanity restored.

I am in the bad habit of reading HN on my old phone (CM7). The comments load much quicker than the articles, and sometimes they lead me astray.
It's not been poorly tested, it's just not designed to run on case-sensitive HFS+. It's unreasonable to expect a developer to test their software on every possible configuration, especially as something as fundamental as changing the configuration of the file system.
I like to think about that too. Like I notice that there's a groove in the latch for a bathroom stall; an engineer decided to put that there, but for what reason?
Ask HN: What's the proper way to contact an HN admin?
I have an account issue and would like to contact an HN admin. What's the proper way to contact an HN admin?
Want To Build A $1B Consumer Company? Long-Haul Founders, Don’t Fear Incumbents
Why? Case Sensitive file systems are a truly ridiculous idea. I can't imagine anything more annoying than having README and Readme being two different, independent files...
Thanks :) LinkedIn is just an authentication mechanism for us make sure that the user is a working professional. We don't post anything on your LinkedIn profile.
I didn't know much about perf (https://perf.wiki.kernel.org) before watching this talk. I had no idea that perf supported dynamic tracing in the kernel (around minute 40/slide 57). I'm definitely going to play around with it more this weekend.

I always enjoy Brenden's talks. He really knows his stuff.
There is nuclear energy transformations inside planets that creates lots of energy:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2011/jul/19/radioac...
From the home page:

Our group and our events are not for non-Asians.

From the signup page:

What nationality are you? (YOU MUST BE ASIAN)

How is this remotely acceptable? I have participated in many "ethnic" groups, but I've never seen one restrict membership to any ethnic group(s).
AAA high quality video game engines are always writern in C/C++

Video games are one of the domains where C++ will always tend to be THE standard choice, indispensible when creating engines.
The $6B from Google was real

Unless Google would have to agreed to a $6 Billion fee in the event of not being allowed to buy them, it wasn't, there was speculation that it may be blocked by the DOJ. Imagine being in limbo for 18 months or so when you need to grow. They took a chance and lost. Or some of them lost, execs did sell a bunch of stock
Anybody would understand you, but there is a difference. Using the word "none" doesn't help explain, so change that to "me".

"200 students are better than me" means that there are 200 all of which are better than me, it's not grouping them together, just counting them. "200 students is better than me" would mean that as a collective they are better than me, but I might well be better than each of them individually.
Heh, but Winer's one year as a research fellow at the Law School, which is a distinct part of the Harvard "empire", doesn't quite put him in the same league as a young Henry Kissinger.
It is pretty exciting to think about possibilities

* Jail break this cable, if this has some OS, use instead of raspberry Pi
* is Apple bringing Android ADK style interfaces
Green House for Orphanage
Their logo has no space, nor does their web address. People typing in "stack overflow" I bet are not looking for the web site. I'm sure google analytics for stackoverflow.com could tell us if it was true.
Also, the internet has gotten bigger, so the possibilities for cracks or errors have widened greatly.

That being said, I do think this specific failure has no reasonable explanation. No matter how I think about it, or look at it, the only explanation I can come up with is essentially: "What percentage of people would need to see a wrong version of a search result before it is reported" or "How long would it take us to fix a knowingly wrong result".
My understanding (which I heard from a pretty reliable source at the time) is that this deal was baked (both sides agreeing), but broke down because the Groupon board insisted on a guarantee from Google that it would close over anti-trust objections, and Google wouldn't give that term.

Background: in a typical acquisition, closing is subject to HSR anti-trust approval. If the government doesn't approve, then the deal breaks up. This means that the target company is taking a risk that after announcing the deal (and being paralyzed in a post-signing/pre-closing period that could last several months), the deal could be broken up and the target company could be left holding the bag and forced to get back on an independent path. Which is pretty rough.

In this case, Groupon wanted Google to go long the anti-trust risk -> in other words, Google would have to divest the asset if the government killed the deal.

I think (not sure) Google had given this term up on the AdMob deal, but believed that it couldn't do it again on the Groupon acquisition (which would have been the biggest deal Google had ever done), or it would have set a precedent that every other company would have insisted on going forward in M&A discussions.
I also ported zxcvbn to python for those of you looking to integrate it into things that don't have javascript support (a native app or something--that was the original motivation for it).

https://github.com/rpearl/python-zxcvbn/

I am a bit slow at pulling patches (sorry, I just get super busy) but I do get to it eventually.
I don't think this is necessarily about replacing stuff like the keyboard and mouse though. If you look at where touch and gesture-based interfaces have really made inroads it isn't the traditional computer power-user, it's been casual use (including gaming). Just because we still have good use cases for keyboard + mouse doesn't mean the impact of good touch based displays hasn't been enormous. I don't think it's out of the question that other interfaces that overcome some of the issues with touch will come to prevalence in the near future.
I find it incredible how one many seems to be driving such a change in the future of our planet. Considering people have apparently been putting time and money in to this for decades, why are we not seeing more attempts like this? Is it because it's not considered lucrative enough for the capitalist market? Or is Elon just a very good at convincing us (me) he's breaking new ground?
So it sounds like if you don't encrypt text within your note, it is stored with no encryption at all.
Ask HN: is it really hard to start a US business from Europe?
Hi guys,

I've been working on a startup for the previous months. The original plan was to launch it worldwide, but unfortunately (or maybe it's a good thing to start small) this wasn't possible due to legal implications. I've decided that I will launch my product in the US only for the time being (until I figure out a way to bypass the European laws that prohibit what I'm doing). The reason that my product is allowed in the US is because the US has the First sale doctrine.

My question is: is it better for me to start a company in my own country (The Netherlands) or should I start a company in the US (LLC, Delaware) and still work from The Netherlands? I keep hearing that it is very difficult for non-US companies to get a foothold in the US because Americans would rather do business with American companies, but I don't know if this is true or just prejudice.

Thanks.
I find it very practical. The best solar panels are 40% efficient, they are very very expensive today but it is a real possibility that someone someway could get this level of efficiency in the future cheaply.

You get over 1000W/m2 of sun radiation so you could get over 400W/m2.

probably it does not look like much but given that plants are 1% efficient, and most radiation escapes earth it really is. You could absorb sun's energy and then use that energy to grow plants!! in a much more efficient way(inside buildings, under the surface).
'Smartest' in what way? Is there a standout characteristic he has that other founders should emulate?
Well, I hope he will! Probably with different peers and surely with different problems. But that would be my goal.
Sure, the "into the office" part can change. But I also hope he can change in a range of 20 years, without having the need to be inflexible to what he claim as a preference in the past.

Actually, this statement sounded so out of purpose, that I am having a second thought that I maybe have lost something here.
I remember having seen "stack overflow" when I naïvely tried to allocate a 5MB array on the stack in Visual C++ 2010.
Me too!

I absolutely learned a ton from it ... I hope other Postgres fans didn't just walk away.
1) Bitcoins are easily transferable (P2P)

2) Bitcoin transactions are irreversible

3) No third party is involved for the essential transaction (in this case the exchange of Bitcoin(s) for a ticket)

If you use Bitcoins as a method of transporting money you can cash them out as soon as you get them (which is within a few minutes) and getting Bitcoins isn't as hard as people make it out to be.
JS data binding: Respond to change with Object.observe
A good spot to learn precisely how and why you are wrong: http://winemaking.jackkeller.net/
Micropublishing is about more than just The Magazine
Possibly.
But look at the prevalence of voice-driven command support in mobile devices. Once machines get better at determining context and things like proper nouns we'll see where that goes.

It'll be interesting to see what happens to the keyboard when voice processing gets good enough that we can do purely voice-driven programming for the majority of what we need.
Its silly to criticize them for rates under 20% since many people sign up just to see what it's like without actually planning on finishing it. What would be more relevant is to see what percent of serious committed students finish a course. E.g. what percent of students who pay for a course end up finishing it?
Yes, I think so, though that is harder to judge from a conversation.
Ok - apologies, I must have misread it.

It's just to me - discussing Soviet attempts at gamification without mentioning things like the law I described or placement of peasants back into serfdom (after they had been granted freedom 60 years earlier) is akin to discussing whether Nazi train schedules were effective.
you mean like at Google. oh wait.
I like the idea of electric cars, but their dirty secret is not the CO2 from power plants - it's the batteries. They're full of deadly toxins and they don't last very long. What happens to these batteries when they're no longer useful???
I'm still banking on battery technology improving to the point that this disadvantage is far less hazardous to the environment.
Actually don't use UUIDs.

We use something very similar to what Instagram does with Postgres : http://instagram-engineering.tumblr.com/post/10853187575/sha...

This allows far greater flexibility with regard to sharding and scale. Bigint with a function generated nextval will sustain up to 9223372036854775807. If you need more than that, your next option is Numeric, but I don't think we'll exhaust bigint any time soon.
i can't see your email address. What your email address?
Fentimans' sounds awesome. I've had a lot of other cane sodas like Boylan's. My kids and I used to raid Bevmo's soda aisle once a week to try new things. That gets expensive though. Passover Coke is nice and cheap by comparison. I never thought about making my own. Maybe I'll give it a try.
Probably my Lenovo Thinkpad, seeing as you can really only get them online. At least were I live.
The only special thing about programming is that you can do it remotely far more easily than, for example, chemical engineering or landscaping (on the downside, a lot of people do; the barrier to entry is low, so we get a lot of bad software). In all other respects, everything you've said applies equally to those and a million other jobs.
"If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com."

http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
>But surely for anything Google sees as a redirect, the redirect target should be the canonical URL?

That would only be the case for a 301 redirect.
"For Evernote's consumer product, the current encryption algorithms are chosen more for exportability under the Commerce Department rather than strength, since our software permits the encryption of arbitrary user data with no escrow."

I guess Evernote's been around for a while, but wasn't it way back in 2010 that the BIS allowed simple self service registration and annual self classification of almost all "mass market" use of crypto?

http://www.bis.doc.gov/encryption/summary.htm
The glass bottle, cork, label, etc do not grow on the vine.
My favorite solution to this problem is a thing the OKCupid developers made called IcedCoffeeScript http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/
Yeah, right. He just wants pollution moved from rich areas, where traffic density is located, to poor areas, where power generating stations are located.
You must have overlooked my examples. It is routine, after a man rapes a woman, for people to ask things like "What was she wearing?" or "Why was she at that party?" or to say things like "Well, after all, she has a reputation for being 'loose'" or "Goes to show that a young woman shouldn't be out so late alone." (The example questions in my previous comment are also very common, and illustrate the "can't win" situation that women wind up in.)

It may not be immediately obvious that those questions boil down to "making excuses for rapists", but if you sit and think about it for five minutes it's a hard conclusion to avoid. The focus routinely shifts away from "that man did something awful" and toward "that woman made some mistakes".
Yeah, this is an entirely valid criticism. It was more of a nitpicky point that they weren't flipping to HTTPS automatically, but from a practical standpoint it's no more secure if they did since they lack HSTS.

Struck it from the post.
Apple to reportedly launch ‘iPhone 5S’ and cheaper iPhone in August
Does it really matter what happens to Best Buy?
You are, of course, absolutely correct.

What is needed to redirect efforts in useful directions is a manner of decision-making and reward within our society that trumps economic rationalism based upon paper-profits and a complete disregard for other factors (human rights, environmental protection, etc.).

How we are going to get there is a question worth working on. I posted yesterday on my perceptions of how we are, albeit slowly, marching towards achieving this. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5308525
Yahoo Mail circling the drain?
I've commented several times on HN how the web needs a revenue model that's not spammy or scammy, and I always mention I'm glad to pay Yahoo $20/year for their Yahoo Plus mail. I get a decent mail service, I don't see any ads on it, it works with my iPhone, and I don't think they're as savvy as Google about collecting all my data.

So of course, just yesterday, they disappeared my wife's Yahoo Plus account. It started with an error message about the account being deactivated due to user request or inactivity, she was then taken to a screen to re-activate the account and than taken to a freshly initialized mail account. All her emails and folders are gone, the only thing left is a "Welcome to Yahoo" message. This is the email account that she uses every day, where her business emails are forwarded, where she stores her archives, and which is not due for renewal for another 6 months. What makes me think it's some form of error is that her 400+ contacts are unaffected.

And that's when we found out Yahoo has no customer service. She filed an incident ticket, they told her to call account verification, and after 30 minutes on hold, they said they couldn't help, but to reopen the ticket. In the meantime, the emails to and from support are disappearing from the "new" account.

Forums and social media are full of user complains about deactivated yahoo mail accounts, and some users claim to have lost their contacts as well. There is a group discussing this problem at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Y-Mail/

But I don't see any media stories about this. Yahoo is all over the news with their new CEO trying to turn things around, but their mail service that was rock solid for 15 years just gave up the ghost and their technical support is out to lunch. So, is anybody else having issues with it, or are we just the last people using Yahoo mail?
I love that Wednesday's twist tie color is a complete mystery even with the assembled resources of the internet.
This is the kind of thing I want an infographic for.

Someone should design a small set, each in monochrome, to fit on A4 / Letter size paper, with simple explanation and example sentences.
On the horizon: T-Mobile with no contract
I always wondered about offices with "loneliness rooms". Not to sleep, or meditate, but to work. Some place where anyone can go if he/she don't want to be around other people.
A mix of open spaces and discreet rooms, where you can go and people won't even notice you are going there.
I wouldn't even put doors in there, not to be mistaken to a place where you hide. Just a very small room, with no space for hanging around, just one chair and desk.
Thinking more about it, maybe open, gardened spaces, but with lonely chair-desks, which disposal and landacape shows it is suposed to be distant of eveything (so it isn't so claustrophobic as the first scenario I imagined)
Does Erlang do something special to make C++ interfacing easy? Any info/links would be appreciated - I have only found info about calling C-exported code with ports.
Could it also be that many people will sign up in order to get access to certain materials, but then not end up completing all of the assignments/exams?

I don't have any experience with MOOC's, so I'm curious as to how these peer graded systems work and why they result in lower completion rates.
Student busted for selling wayward drone online
There's a qualitative difference somewhere there. I'd still prefer the river crossing to come top, but recognise that's just me.
You're absolutely right, and it's important to keep raising this point and engaging with the part of your awareness that recognises that there is nothing good about coke and many other products and businesses.

Businesses and the people that work for them need to engage with their consciences, and stop doing work that causes harm, such as producing or marketing a food product with catastrophic effects to human health.

In response to some other comments: 'because I need to earn money' is not a reason to do work that causes harm to other people, 'because i am well off' is not a reason to not challenge what you perceive as harmful.
I have a feeling that if Apple wants to get back into servers they'll do it with an ARM-based product sometime in the next two or three years. There's not much room for them in x86, and they've clearly abandoned existing customers. But with ARM they can start fresh and leverage a lot of what they've put behind iOS devices.
>I'm pretty sure that if they had a good reason, any number of advanced economies could get it together enough to produce the cans themselves.

It's not just the metal, it's the ingredients of the flavouring. Coca leaves don't grow everywhere (although, sure, you could put the plant in a greenhouse).
I would guess this (if true) was from 2008 on the release of the iPhone 3G - based on the fact that the Black MacBook was discontinued in October 2008 (per wikipedia). It could have been 2007 for the original iPhone, but the lines for the 3G were more prevalent.
Natural grapes make wine on their own. In fact, most creatures produce ethanol through one or another pathway.
Interesting in what that might say about job candidates who have actually completed a number of MOOCs. That would put them in the top 10% or so by that measure, for whatever that's worth. It at least says something about their ability to start something and finish it.
His lawyer already did describe his confinement I believe. So there was probably no need. Not sure about the second part but maybe he is barred from that somehow.
How is this kind of data acquired? I suppose we don't know precisely who the 1% guy is, right?
I wish I could upvote this more.

Look at the terrible touch-driven applications and you'll probably find that a goodly number of them assume the same sort of interaction paradigm that you'd find with a keyboard and mouse. The excellent touch applications have made good use of the fact that you have more than one finger and that you can perform gestures with them, that fingers get in the way of stuff, and that you don't want to have to tap multiple times to get something to happen (whether that's finding a file or so on).

It'll take a shift in thinking to make post-touch effective (whether that's gesture, vision tracking, thought etc). If we think about a computer as being a desktop with folders on it, or an 80x24 terminal then we're looking at it the wrong way (an extension of the "if you see a stylus they blew it" principle I guess).
I didn't mean "smart" in a way different than it's ordinarily used.
I disagree. There is another possibility: LibreOffice is good enough. I (used) to have relatively simplistic needs for spreadsheet and word processing tools, and in that sense, LibreOffice and MS Office were virtually indistinguishable.