skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What aspect of the wording makes the request to change from "purchase/buy" to "license" not well-supported by the facts? The way I read the petition, such requirements would be in place only for products that incorporate DRM, not for any type of software whatsoever.
It's pretty ridiculous to call Ubuntu a "buggy Windows or OSX clone".
Very impressive what you built in such a small timeframe. Keep it up!
For a small company it doesn't really matter so much, probably whichever one the Unix sysadmin has more experience with. I have two VPSs which both run Debian.

For a large company with dozens to hundreds of servers, you generally want RHEL (or SLES). Usually you're running RHEL (or sometimes SLES) on Dell or HP servers.

If your servers are having stability problems (or if it is a decided company policy), you want to keep the kernel and packages up to date with all the latest security and other patches for your OS version. You also want to keep the server firmware up to date. So if there's a crash you can tell Red Hat and HP, or Red Hat and Dell (or Suse and HP etc.) that you're running a fully patched server with updated firmware. Of course, you want the kernel to try to dump core before it goes down.

As your servers go from dozens to hundreds to thousands, you will tend to see more and more crashes. At a company with a few servers, you might see a server crash every few weeks or months, at a company with thousands or tens of thousands of servers, you often see more than one server crash a day. You want to look for patterns - if, say, machines with a certain host bus adapter keep crashing, and the core dump seems to point to that, it's something you want to be aware of.
That's a great theory, except they've continued to review it.

http://www.roadandtrack.com/car-reviews/road-tests/road-test...

http://money.cnn.com/2013/02/15/autos/tesla-model-s-lessons/

http://www.edmunds.com/tesla/model-s/2013/long-term-road-tes...
> For the purposes for which asm.js is intended, the code may as well not be running at all, and users will be driven to upgrade their browser.

That isn't true. Consider photo filters: you may want to have a photo filter written in asm.js for maximum performance on browsers that support it, but degrades to a suboptimal, but usable, experience on browsers that don't support it. Likewise, consider an asm.js-compiled mobile game: you may want it to be playable on desktops too, whose browsers generally contain enough horsepower to run JS-compiled mobile games at full speed even without special support for asm.js.

There are plenty of use cases in which "slower but backwards compatible" is extremely desirable. AAA games are not everything.

> If you really want to support backwards compatibility, then make it a secondary target, not the primary one that you saddle yourself with for all time.

Again, it's not worth forcing Web developers to compile multiple binaries, when the main difference here is how you parse the bytecode.

> asm.js is competing with native, and they're starting out with an intentional disadvantage.

PNaCl is starting out with the same disadvantage as asm.js, modulo surface syntax. In fact, asm.js arguably has an advantage over PNaCl. Starting from the JS AST that must be constructed by every browser anyway, the asm.js verifier is a mere 1,216 lines. For comparison, LLVM's BitcodeReader is over 3,000 lines. LLVM's Verifier is over 2,000.
Also in the article, Goldman Sachs notes that these documents are a decade old. How could you trust (or even care about) a document from that long ago?
Honestly, as a European, that sums up pretty much the preconceptions we have about Americans: throat jumpy. If it accurately reflects American culture is another story, but I gotta say American media is not really helping the case - as isn't Mr. Musk here.

That being said, I - and most of my acquaintances - still love American culture - the kind of 'just do it'(TM) attitude, shown as well by Elon here - the stunts he's pulling with three high risk industrial companies at the same time is pretty much unthinkable in 'the old world'. And I'm not sure, but maybe his aggressive stance, the ability to sort of indoctrinate himself with his vision, might actually be needed to push through these grand projects. It's not unlike what we've known from Steve Jobs, really. Most people would agree that he was quite an ass - but by god he was an influential one.
Is there a reason more companies don't do what Google did and simply sell the initial shares by dutch auction? Even without the perverse incentives, I can't see any possible advantage to hiring a wall street bank to guess a price and allocate it to only a fraction of the market.
Cambia is a serif, while Calibiri is a sans. How is it mixed up?
"It'll be "fast enough", which is what you're claiming for asm.js's backwards compatibility mode, and PNaCL is a whole heck of a lot faster than that."

I haven't seen PNaCl benchmarks. Have you?

It is true that the compilers for asm.js are more immature than LLVM at this time, but there's nothing stopping asm.js from reaching that level.

Again, it's just syntax. You're complaining about the fact that the code is delivered in a backwards compatible surface syntax and extrapolating that to unfounded assumptions that it must be slow. It's really an absurd claim.
Looks great. I'd love to give it a go but I don't own an iDevice. Are there plans to release to other platforms such as Android?
Seriously, this is a huge non story. Its not like they were downloading academic journal articles.
Presumably: Rasmus got the precedence wrong when he wrote the parser, and it's way too late to fix it now.
I understand. I also understand that what you are talking about took place nearly two hundred and fifty years ago. Believe it or not, even 250 years ago men could hardly plan or predict just five years into the future. So, please, let's stop granting them superhuman powers and intellect.

Things move faster today. We can't wait another fifty years to fix the patent system, have reasonable gun control and stop fucking with the rest of the world with senseless wars. Does it really have to take fifty years for these things to be resolved?
'Open' has very little to do with anything Google does
Out of curiosity, in such a scheme, who can authorize the transfer? Is it a court? In which jurisdictions? Bitcoin is meant as a decentralized scheme, and I can't think of how a "decentralized" and "forced transfer" are compatible, except if a majority of servers in the Bitcoin network agree on it.
I think that you confused wealth with money. pg's article you quoted makes this distinction pretty clearly:

If you want to create wealth, it will help to understand what it is. Wealth is not the same thing as money. [3] Wealth is as old as human history. Far older, in fact; ants have wealth. Money is a comparatively recent invention.

Wealth is the fundamental thing. Wealth is stuff we want: food, clothes, houses, cars, gadgets, travel to interesting places, and so on. You can have wealth without having money. If you had a magic machine that could on command make you a car or cook you dinner or do your laundry, or do anything else you wanted, you wouldn't need money. Whereas if you were in the middle of Antarctica, where there is nothing to buy, it wouldn't matter how much money you had.

Later there's an example of creating wealth:

Suppose you own a beat-up old car. Instead of sitting on your butt next summer, you could spend the time restoring your car to pristine condition. In doing so you create wealth. The world is-- and you specifically are-- one pristine old car the richer. And not just in some metaphorical way. If you sell your car, you'll get more for it.
While I'm not an IIT alum, this call to arms is relevant for all of us, the readers of HN. We are (grossly generalizing here) a fortunate group with the choice that we can make our communities better with our work.
Fraternity boys yearning to become programmers, and socially inept nerds?
Interestingly, they actually made the conscious decision to leave analytics to others - it is clearly explained in the quadrants here: https://dev.twitter.com/blog/changes-coming-to-twitter-api

I just hope that they'll stick to this announcement, as I'm building my hashtagify.me based on that...
Reminiscent of the github argument that everything but the secret sauce should be open sourced: http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth...

Of course, they are also saying what is convenient for them.
Please get it right: Libertarian. The right wing thinks I am a godless monster and the left wing knows my numbers are correct but still rejects me because they need to pander to the ignorant masses in order to stay in power.
* Namecheap[1] for domain name

* Route 53[2] for DNS

* Jekyll[3] for managing content

* S3[4] for hosting

I do all my development on my Macbook Pro, with vim. Then I use s3cmd[5] to push the static files up to S3.

[1] - http://www.namecheap.com/

[2] - http://aws.amazon.com/route53/

[3] - https://github.com/mojombo/jekyll

[4] - http://aws.amazon.com/s3/

[5] - http://s3tools.org/s3cmd
You can be Einstein in one thing and dumb as a rock on another :)

In the end, he is the CEO of a public company, he should hire a professional to deal with this. The bottom line is that Tesla batteries do drain on the cold and Musk keeps reminding people.
Stop Corporate Takeover of New Internet Names
Upvoted because I'm in nearly exactly the same position as you (not that that helps your situation -- I do have my heart set on Portland however). I graduated in December with a bachelors in computer science after a somewhat checkered 9-year relationship with higher education. In addition to throwing myself to the mercy of the up-and-coming MOOC revolution to fill in some wide-open gaps in knowledge I feel like my undergraduate education completely failed to address, I also have several ideas I've been kicking around for side projects that interest me and I want to start working on. My impression from your website is that you are very motivated and accomplished for someone lacking in a formal technical education (I'm guessing) and work experience. Have you tried applying to entry-level positions at companies in your target area with cover letters expanding on what you've written in this post?
S-crit.com has been on beta testing for one week so far, your thoughts?
What do you mean that "Broder did get it right"?

I thought Broder lied about how fast he was going for the whole trip.
Thanks! That didn't even cross my mind, to use the emulator :-)
Huh.

It seems to me that the lower left quadrant is worth an incredible amount of money, but maybe I'm just wrong. It's been known ot happen.
Ask HN: What is your personal computer setup?
Mac, Linux, Windows or anything else.

Software:

The apps you use and(maybe) mention what purpose you use it for and in what way use it.

Any scripts(or some OS settings) that you use a lot and in a generic way to make life on your computer(and even outside of it) easier.

Or anything else you feel like sharing, sth that helps others.

Hardware:

What hardware you use other than the laptop, CPU etc. Something like external hard disk or maybe speakers. Components like a time capsule etc.
Do you also think Jonathan Swift had a taste for Irish children?
Because whether a product has DRM or not has absolutely no effect on the license, the way you purchase it, or the rights you do or do not get. DRM only enforces the license.
On a similar theme: "Voted Compensation" - http://thinkinghard.com/ip/PublicGood.html

Basically, a government/taxation-funded prize scheme, where everyone gets to vote on who should get prizes. Like nationalized crowd-funding, but strictly after-the-fact (unlike Kickstarter, which is very much before-the-fact).
Show HN: Motion.js
Why would a company agree to be "IPO'd" for such a low price? Doesn't the company and its shareholders need to accept some blame here?

Fair enough that the bankers may have nefarious intent and they shouldn't get away with it but agreeing to such a shitty deal out of ignorance is pretty stupid.
Yes

It's a pain, but I don't trust this "Mother's Maiden name" invention.

Problem is remembering this (and some offline systems have it as well, oh well)

So if you think I'm going to put the actual name there you're wrong. Maybe not +@sfghh#54$=24 but something different.
To think that the media would boycott talking about this car would require a pretty deep misunderstanding of the incentives at play and the structure of the media.
And buying is not a term exclusive to transferable goods!

buy
/bī/
Verb
Obtain in exchange for payment

You can obtain a non-transferable license in exchange for payment. You can buy a non-transferable license.
I thought this was an interesting point: According to Wikipedia[1],

> Franklin did not propose DST; like ancient Rome, 18th-century Europe did not keep precise schedules.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time
"Creating a bias [...] results in an overall lower skill level"

Yes, but again, that is meant a only a temporary solution; as something that will correct the abnormal situation we have now and then will go away.

"You're basically telling multiple generations of men that it's okay for them to be discriminated against for their entire life due to something that their fathers or grandfathers did"

Isn't that ok? Every single time I think about this issue I feel guilty as hell just for being male. Every time I see a cultural norm that discriminates women I feel a bit responsible for it - and these bits accumulate quickly. I'm ready to be discriminated against to some extent if it's going to help; it's not because I want someone to make effort in my place but because I know that my effort alone is not sufficient.

Also, multiple generations is not that long a time. Twenty, maybe thirty years and it would be over - society evolves quite fast nowadays, we don't need to wait for centuries - like women had to.
Drv.io - the lost feature
Beware SXSW Networking Syndrome
It's different because people around them are more likely to react as though not being good at CS is an expected outcome of their identity: http://xkcd.com/385/
Here's some context behind the essay:

http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/franklin.html
Show HN: Crushify: discover mutual crushes
It goes towards their incentive to under price the IPO. If the incentive a decade old is the same as it is today, I doubt that things would be different.
Why are Elon's defenders hung up on this? It's a red herring. The car performed terribly in cold weather. That's the point. Elon accused Broder of faking the review and it's been clear that was the distraction he wanted from the beginning.
I think networking is pretty important. Almost everything I have today I owe to connections I established with other people, either accidentally (over IRC, forums, etc) or intentionally, at a conference or local event. In a few specific cases, I established these connections by emailing someone to offer to buy them coffee after we had only corresponded via twitter or email.

The author calling these interactions meaningless rings hollow to me, though I can imagine how in his position, perhaps all his interactions with strangers are meaningless because they only want money.

I will agree with the premise that 'networking events' seem to be a waste of time, though. While you can have some interesting conversations at them, I can't think of a single lasting relationship I've forged with a peer at a networking-focused event, despite a lot of effort spent attempting to 'convert' the interaction into an ongoing conversation, so to speak. I still think trade conventions and parties and events like SuperHappyDevHouse can be incredibly valuable if you approach them in the right mindset, though.

To give a concrete example, I specialize in game development. Recently I was coworking with a client and we were trying to come up with possible solutions to a tough problem. We were stumped, so we pulled up footage of similar titles on youtube to try and understand how they had solved the problem. At some point during this process, it occurred to us: Why not just ask one of the people who wrote one of the games that tackled the same problems? So, a few minutes later we had looked up the credits from a game that came out back in 1992, and contacted the programmers on facebook. A half an hour later, one of them responded. An hour later we were talking with him on Skype and he answered our questions in 5 minutes - telling us exactly how to solve our problem!
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Why can't companies do a slow rolling IPO? So say you sell 1M shares on day 1 at $20 which is what your underwriters price you at. Then 2M shares on day 2 at market price. Then 4M on day 3 and 8M on day 4 etc.
I just guess that they think they can make much more money in the upper-right quadrant...
Link to original article:

Google admits its VP8/WebM codec infringes MPEG H.264 patents

http://appleinsider.com/articles/13/03/07/google-admits-its-...
FYI, the comment directly above is all quoted from someone who might have had more experience on the subject matter than anyone in this thread - Albert Einstein.

Touché
Speaking of twitter API, is there any efficient way of getting just the single latest tweet from all the users someone follows?
After watching Starfire[0], I came to the conclusion that computer voice commands were another form of mystery meat navigation[1], with the added issue of interrupting the people around me. I have used it on my phone a few times, because the button surface area is small, but that's about it.

[0] http://asktog.com/starfire/

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mystery_meat_navigation
Depends on what you mean by "say"; if you mean gender I think is true. But if you consider people who like just one music genre and can stay motivated and loyal only because of that then you don't have too much say about who will be your fans, if you like trash metal it doesn't matter if you have a PHD from Harvard and your social circle is mostly composed by honored students, because the genre you may appel to a very wide range of people for which you have little to none control (unless you are wealthy and can create your own music label, gigs scenary and location, publicity and media exposure in general.
Networking benefits actually depend on the context of how you network. For example, assume you are a new Startup and are actively seeking funding/investment, you run into an investor, greet him with a smile and a hello, and give him your card, and the next day, he lazily gives a brief glance at all the cards he's collected and somehow finds yours a little different. He Googles your start up and he finds it interesting and he decides on investing in your startup, and then bang, your networking has paid off. However, this is only a very optimistic situation, and needn't necessarily workout for the majority.

Apart from the indirect marketing, networking can also help you create familiarity - For example, it's much better to say "Hey Investor X, remember me? We met at Event Y and we had a drink together?" than saying "Hey Investor X, I don't know who the fuck you are, but I just want your money.." (in a very subtle way, ofcourse)

Forget investors, you actually get to know a lot of Designers, programmers, artists, etc. etc. if you attend these networking events, which in my opinion is one of the best perks you can get.

However, I wouldn't talk in favor of SXSW though, because of it's expensive tickets. I would suggest you go to eventbrite[1], find some interesting meetups happening in your place (which usually have an entry fee anywhere between FREE to <$50) and mingle with a lot of people, as actually it will definitely pay off in the end - Either you will find some potential beta-testers, or someone to join your startup or someone to fund it. Worst case scenario, even if you don't find a co-founder/designer/teammate/investor, you now know 10 atleast different new people which is better when compared to rather sitting at home and doing nothing/coding alone.

This is my opinion about Networking in general and not just at SXSW.

[1]http://eventbrite.com
This is usually for fairly pathetic reasons - in my experience many of the java libraries used for banking are low quality and have hard coded "C:\" paths and other insanities.
Hardware:

MacBook Pro, 2011, 4 GB RAM, 250 GB HDD.

Operating System:

Dual Boot Mac OS X Mountain Lion & Ubuntu Linux 12.10

Software (by purpose):

OS X: BBEdit, Emacs, WebStorm, Microsoft Office 2011, Adobe CS6, WriteRoom, MarsEdit, Chrome, Firefox.

Linux: Emacs, Eclipse, LibreOffice, Gimp, --, Chrome, Firefox.

Languages used for development:

JavaScript, Python, Ruby, Lisp (Clojure, Common Lisp), C++. Meaning to study Java, not motivated enough to yet.
It all depends on your risk profile as to whether this type of authentication is sufficient. Sites doing anything remotely involving money are at greater risk of being hit therefore their security needs to account for this. Putting passwords on the internet which is equivalent to having details you use for authentication in public records, would be a bit silly.

I don't buy the argument that a security system you need to lie on is not a good one. Security is an onion, it comes with many layers you can't assure a third party service easily so you've got to add layers to that onion, even if that means being a liar.

That said security is also a trade off with the lowest common denominator - user.
It seems to me that the problem is that you're using an undefined function (when there are flags to stop this), not casting.
On Kinetic Typography and How It Moves Us 
Do you know those goodie bags they give to all the nominees at the Oscars? Probably not, unless you were nominated. In which case, well done! But we thought we should follow this tradition and come up with our very own kinetic typography goodies bag. When you’ll rummage through you’ll find tutorials, inspiring videos, and inspired reads.
Actually they also noted that it helps with easier mapping. By including the logical shard ID in the ID, they don't need to keep a giant index of IDs-to-shards to figure out which machine an ID lives on. Just a tiny mapping of logical to physical shards, which every app server instance can cache in memory.

One less moving part at the expense of wedding yourself to a prepartitioned logical shard scheme, I guess. (I wonder how painful it would be to rebucket data into a different logical shard should the need arise...)
Most people aren't even aware that they could be experiencing the web ad-free. It just never even occurs to them that should a thing could be possible.
-Wall -Wextra -Werror
PCI-DSS compliance on Heroku?
Since AWS is PCI DSS compliant already, does that mean Heroku is too?