skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Awesome!

I've been following the development of C++0x from the side-lines and had recently come across an excuse to get back into C++ (developing games).

I recently wrote about using smart-pointers to wrap resources acquired from C libraries. I was able to load textures that I could freely share through-out a tonne of procedural code and know that there would be no memory leaks. Having such implicit run-time support goes against the C philosophy but I think that with smart-pointers there is finally a good defence for breaking that rule.

http://agentultra.com/sdl-and-modern-c-plus-plus-images.html
yeah and that's why some programming activities were outsourced to lower wage countries (low end of the 'range' you refer to) a while ago - and still is.
It doesn't literally apply to just the color of the car. A black car is a luxury car, compare it to first class vs coach in airlines
> You can certainly be cured of cancer.

Oncologists never use the word "cure". They know better -- unless they're frauds, they say you're is remission.

> The problem is there isn't really any way to know for sure.

And that's why.
Something to consider when reading all the doom'n'gloom climate change stuff today.

Things change, including change.
What Google Reader Could Learn From The Veronica Mars Kickstarter
An optimist and a pessimist have a debate.

The optimist says, "We live in the best of all possible worlds!"

The pessimist says, "Yeah!"

Both declare victory.
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I have a lot to say about it because I'm very interested in law, as well as theories and philosophy of law. I feel these offer some important context that is otherwise missing from these discussions, and that many people are unaware of. I'm not trying to swamp your point, though.
They aren't just vocal; more importantly, people listen to them. They are the people that get products across chasms, so when Google encourages them to look elsewhere, they are encouraging many more people to look elsewhere, too.

The big question, which TFA states but provides no evidence for, is whether pushing these influencers away from Reader also pushes them away from other services, too.

My personal opinion is, by itself, no; but if you make Reader the frosting on a cake of discontinued products, it just might. Now, the general unease of "Will this thing I care about get terminated next spring?" becomes a much stronger fear, because it is tied to the personal emotions of Reader being killed.
I'm calling him out for his douchebag double-speak hipster talk. Is he too cool to say "send"? Vacuous style over substance.
In the UK taxis are black as well.
I actually liked the visualization till I saw Google Glass at the bottom. IMO there was no need to do that.
I think it would be best if empty dictionary was {:} and empty set was {}. Of course, it would be insane to make this change.
No. This is something you have to stop.

Speaking from experience I know it is hard not to define yourself by the people around you, but it's deadly.

What helped (and continues to help) me is this question: Do you want to be that person?

As in, "do you want to be the person who sits in the office chatting and surfing facebook all day? or do you want to be the person who other people look to to get things done?"

The point is, look at yourself from outside. Decide how you want to act (for me, thinking about how I want to be perceived helps here). Then make it happen. Stop waiting for the people around you to make you into the person you want to be.
Could the hacker news post title at the least remove the word "straight"?
Dropbox Acquired Orchestra, Continues Value Strategy
This benchmark provides some interesting data, but would have been far more useful if they had provided more details. There are many unanswered questions here:

How even is a comparison when GCE hardly has any customers sharing the same physical host and network at this stage? It's rather interesting that EC2 read I/O performance was higher despite this consideration.

What will happen when you start sharing a physical host on GCE with many other customers? Will you all still get 157 MB per second disk write throughput simultaneously?

What type of instances were used (and were they EC2's first generation or second generation instances?). Given the fact that they are looking at ephemeral disk performance it's probably a 1st generation instance.

I see no mention of EC2 EBS provisioned IOPs. If performance was a goal then surely having guaranteed provisioned I/O should have been considered? Does GCE even have that feature? Surely IOPS are more important than sequential I/O for most tasks?

When benchmarking EBS I/O were EBS-optimized instances selected?

Why no mention of EC2 cross region AMI copy? Also GCE is currently in the US only. EC2 is on 5 different continents currently.

What are the costs of the instances (using reserved instance pricing for EC2)?
‘Look At What Is Getting Shut Down’
Of course, if you do switch and become invested in Google's technology, they'll probably just shut it down.
Very Cool! I want the jet powered scooter,
I love that they brought him from a location he had permission to film to a location he didn't have permission to film so they could tell him to stop filming.
If they want to use a star system, this is the way to go.
Go – Writing markdown
Hash tags done, blocking dev access to API done... is it just me or is FB trying to be next Twitter?
El anti-móvil, el teléfono que solo sirve
Looks very interesting. I like that it's a desktop app!
No, it would require absolutely no effort to call it an "Open Graph" if it were that closed.
Every time I think I'm finally going to stop hearing the term tiger mom, it shows up again...
Thanks! I'm glad I could make you laugh.
I'm not that great at html but I do know markdown, so...
here you go: http://straighteranswers.com.s3-website-us-east-1.amazonaws....

whenever gandi gets around to it, http://straighteranswers.com will point there too
That's just semantics. Of course they don't want to give you false hope, but that's not the same thing as saying you can't be cured.
> No. Companies tend to do really weird[1] things to avoid taxes.

Sure, but a large tech company buying a small tech company is hardly a "really weird thing."
They seemed to do a lot of inserting of laser discs and paying money for 200 year old music.

Ito likes one symphony so much that Bill records the whole piece on a laser disc, telling the cable company to bill his bank account for the recording, and gives it to Ito as a gift.

In today's 2013, Bill's cable company is unlikely to allow the burning of discs, even at a price. If it does, it will be against the license agreement to give one as a gift. When Ito takes the disc back to Tokyo, it won't work due to region locking DRM.

Or maybe I'm too cynical. Ito can just pull up the info on the recording and torrent it himself from TPB.
If we're going to plump for prescient John Brunner books Shockwave Rider was a better book; and may have been closer to the mark in some respects. And I think the protagonist of that book would be someone most HN readers could identify with, the super smart genius trying hard to outrace disaster and remain human at the same time.
I love language wars. It makes it very easy to identify people you dont want to work with.
Can any startup accept me as a volunteer for three days?
Hey startup founders! I'd like to volunteer for your startup either in office or remotely for 3 days. I live in Vancouver Canada, and I'm currently a university student at SFU; so when I can't commute, I'll work for you at home.

I do web development, including design and programming (HTML, CSS, JS, Ruby on Rails). And I also play music and have performed in numerous contests and competitions (live looping; beatbox and guitar).

Email me at zhao6518[at]gmail.com if you are interested.

Thanks!
I've used Car2go a lot and would like to see it in SF, but the tighter parking situation in SF worries me. It's annoying when you're paying by the minute and you have to drive around for 30 minutes looking for parking.
Do you doubt it's going to happen?
Have you ever been in a taxi? The above is what I expect from Uber. I only hope to make it to my destination alive in the average taxi.
It's really easy when you are intelligent and your core competency is in high demand to view the entire world through rose colored lenses. You have so many choices of where to work that you are treated pretty good on the whole.

A lot of people are not so lucky. Let's not pretend that they have the same advantages and opportunities as we do. When they organize to try to raise awareness that they feel they are being treated unreasonably, let's not pretend like they are somehow evil.

We are a bunch of humans living together on this tiny blue dot. We are entitled to be treated with the respect that any human deserves. Please, try to have a little bit of perspective outside your own experience. There is a whole world of people whose circumstances are far different from anything you can imagine.
Question: Does this mean NSLs are now subject to FOIA requests?
Very useful. And a really neat execution of a webpage. Was pleasantly surprised on how the elements shift as the page is resized.
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Japanese are incredibly xenophobic, it makes more financial sense just to import housekeepers from the Philippines or Indonesia, but many don't like the idea of that so they'll develop household robots instead (lucky for us!). Also, the rise of China set manufacturing robots back by about 10 or 15 years; we are just now beginning to recover.
So you are the reason I e-mailed the Discovery channel telling them that I will stop watching if 20% of the screen is tweets like, "Get the gold."
I think it actually started with (A) the DOJ filing a action to compel the company to comply with the national security letter. Then (B) the company replied requesting the letter be invalidated on First Amendment (compulsory non-disclosure of the NSL) and statutory grounds. Then (C) the DOJ files another motion showing why they need the information and asking for the court to force the company to comply with the NSL while the case is pending so they can pursue their investigation.

The court ended up ruling that the non-disclosure provision violated the First Amendment and invalidated the NSL law as a whole.

I think the only law the DOJ was accusing Credo of violating was 18 USC § 2709[1] which requires carriers to turn over subscriber information and prohibits certain disclosure.

But you're correct that the Government argued that the court did not have jurisdiction to rule on the constitutionality of the law. This was because Credo brought its action under a statute that gives a court limited authority to modify or revoke the NSL. However, the court found the constitutional challenge was a necessary part of Credo's claim and allowed it.

1. http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2709
Cool, how do you see this comparing to CS193p?
...he can do a lot less than he could in 1955.

Such as summary execution of Americans considered to be "terrorists?"
Everyone is entitled to some basic level of human decency in their interactions with others; our society relies on this. And we are also entitled to draw attention, in any legal manner we choose, to a situation where we feel that we are not being treated appropriately. Freedom of speech and freedom of assembly is there for a reason, and it's not automatically evil just because you don't agree with the ends.
I find it interesting that as recent as 25 years ago they were still suggesting that we would used advanced technology to print off a newspaper instead of read it off a screen.

A lot of even older future predictions contained the same thing. It must not have been until the web come along and got widespread adoption that people got it.
> But I know people who default to 3-stars (average)

You'd think they would be normalizing that data against that users average ratings, rather than as a raw score.

For eg. is this rating plus or minus this users average rating.
Oh I see, thanks. "s=<>" is less ugly than "s={@}" but, obviously, is inconsistent with "s={1, 2, 3}".
The OP talks about the trap of the small task, where he put off doing something that should have been menial for so long, that when something small went wrong, it's effect was disproportionate. There is also the danger of focusing only on the small tasks, and take much pride in ticking off a huge to-do list. Perhaps it could be better to step back and think of a more efficient way that would reduce the amount of work required. It may not feel like it, but you are being more productive.

This is a great post, and I (like many others here) wish I had considered this when I first started off. I think improving personal productivity is a force multiplier. If you are more productive, you can help your team members to be more productive. You could roll your sleeves up and tackle the "grinding" task that is stopping everybody else from progressing.
When will NaCL join them?
Not that surprising, after all most the newspaper agencies still don't get it.
Wouldn't it lead to the same problem of a lack of consistency?

dict: {}
list: []
tuple: ()
set: {-}
Rethinking the command line prompt
That ain't orthogonality, this is orthogonality:

dict() = {}
set() = <>
tuple() = ()
list() = []

(btw, does anyone actually use `<>` as `!=`?)
Along the same lines, I liked the part about the husband trying to phone his wife and not reaching her (she wasn't at work or at home) but hooks up to his networked fridge and gets an inventory remotely.

Totally underestimates telecommunications, but grossly overestimates standard fridge technology. :-) (though my parents do have a Samsung fridge that can tweet for some reason).
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My English dictionary (Collins) has:
to drop (vb-16 transitive) "to send or post".
I was hoping this would be an article about a real Google Graveyard...not for people! but for code. What do large companies like Google do when they kill projects? Surely they don't just rm -rf * the entire machine and repurpose it - do projects like this get archived, and if so, who maintains those archives and why?
Only now I realised they shut down Google Code Search. I tried searching something in an Open Source project recently. The search box on Google Code was still there, but it always returned 0 results... It's quite annoying when they just remove a feature and the only way you find out is by browsing Hacker News.
I'm not a Linus worshipper, but I don't think you're giving him enough credit. Even given a locked down platform, I don't think Young Torvalds would have been satisfied with a "pretty cool Facebook app". Granted, there aren't a lot of people who can just go write a kernel under any circumstances.
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Digital DJ licensing
it's like securities you know , nothing "secure" about it.
micromanaging your productivity sure seems like a good way to increase your productivity :\
This is their Home Page before the announcement:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:isF-gM4...
Which brings up the quesion... would it be legal if GPS tracking devices were embedded into government issued license plates?
The Death of the Hollywood Special Effects Industry
Relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-nsU_DaIZE
Cells require less oxygen at lower temperatures (metabolism slows down), so a cold brain could cope better with lower blood oxygen levels.
You're right on trusting the core developers, but "for a reason" type arguments are not the way to do things. I love Python because it's so practical and manages to stop codebases from devolving into overengineered incomprehensible messes, but I hate tons lots of things about it, and more generally I hate its "worse is better" approach (http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html) to many things (because for Guido, if "worse" is "simpler to explain and implement", he always chooses it, always implementation simplicity over nice "interface" features and also over "interface" consistency... I almost want to shoot the man when I read arguments like http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=147358 coming from a very smart person like him). OP's complaint is valid imho, consistency is f important, because small inconsistencies pile up and make a language harder to learn (yeah, you don't notice them once they're in your "muscle memory", but "learnability" is important for a language and this is why I like Python and I hope it doesn't lose this quality by slowly accreting inconsistencies). Hopefully his blogpost is a message that reaches Guido and the core developers and nudges them even a little bit towards a better path!
Further, and tangentially, the idea that I have to remove my shoes prior to boarding a commercial airliner, without any (I've never hijacked a plane before) probable cause, in the same airport that I once carried weapons through while in the service of the US Army, is a definite affront to my sensibilities, especially as a loyal American.

Just because a small group of predominantly Saudi Arabian nationals hijacked some planes doesn't mean that I'm going to do so.

There were hijackers back in the 1970's, but no one was subjected to such indignities as we are now.
Before anyone mentions "the shoe bomber," how about "the underwear bomber?" Following the shoe removal logic, the next step is strip searches of all passengers prior to boarding, right?
Someone might have some explosive underwear!
/sarcasm
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Not before Dart, I guess.
Freedom of speech and assembly have nothing to do with this. And they're not freedom from repercussions by private actors, but merely freedom from government force.

I personally think tactics like these are counterproductive and that it'd be better to handle it internally.
Who do you think will buy your product? Go and talk to them. Its simple. You dont know who they are? Do some research around the web to find who uses similar products, and get in touch with these people through forums, email, tweets, etc.

Note that there is no hack around this. You have to go looking for people. End of story.
Reading all the comments here is giving me a throbbing, phantom pain in my chest. D:
>You say that as if $60 million would be any less absurd?

Well, if you are used to McDonalds salaries it might be a lot of cash.

But in the world of startup acquisitions it's neither here, nor there.

It depends on the strategic vision for the app.

For perspective, an iPhone $1 dollar game can make $20 million dollar per year if it's on the top ten. And even in the top 50 it can still make a sweet million per year (or more).

For a popular top-five paid app, the sky's the limit. Especially if it can also migrate to the Mac, Android, and even Windows (which Dropbox does cover).
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-3000/2007-April/0066...

http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-ideas/2008-January/0...
Stanford University have been running a very good course for a few years now, and it's freely available on iTunes[1]

I'd also recommend the free tutorials[2] and the more in depth ebooks[3] at Ray Wenderlich's site (the content is far better than the site's design would have you believe).

Whatever you learn, make sure it covers iOS6 and is ARC based, the older tutorials are very dated and will only confuse.

Now, if someone could point me in the direction of some really good Android tutorials…

[1]http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs193p/cgi-bin/drupal/

[2]http://www.raywenderlich.com/tutorials

[3]http://www.raywenderlich.com/store
Seems to me like drones should be treated the same as thermal imaging cameras, which the Supreme Court ruled required a warrant (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States) because they're not in use by the general public, and thus there's a reasonable expectation of privacy. But it was a 5-4 decision, and I guess drones might come into use by the general public, so who knows.
Except if, uhhh, they have made too many assumption on Gmail features being available, so that from the backend to the UI layer, it needs a good, over-through, rewrite to work with anything more standard.
Whenever it happens or not, I don't think it was necessary to add a product that hasn't died yet to the graveyard.
It comes of people stopping too soon when asking "why?" From the perspective of 1988 it would seem relatively unreasonable to read an entire newspaper on a monitor. And one might easily imagine a future where the contents of a newspaper could be available digitally without re-examining that conclusion. A monitor then was low-resolution, had poor color reproduction, was stationary and heavy (being CRT based), and was an expensive shared family resource. Of course today displays can be cheap, lightweight, thin, portable, and high resolution, so some of the advantages of print fade away.

It's funny, in 1988 Star Trek: The Next Generation was running, and they had handheld and tablet computers, but few people in 1988 thought we would have such things in a mere 25 years instead of in the far future.
Obama campaigned on closing Guantanamo[1], restoring habeas corpus for "enemy combatants"[2], abolishing military commissions for detainees[3], etc.

Moreover, as an Illinois state Senator, one of Obama's signature accomplishments was a reform in how prisoners were interrogated.[4]

Obama made less specific pledges about reducing the state secrets privileges. You can check out how surprised some judges were when, one month into his presidency, the Obama administration continued the Bush-era position that extraordinary rendition was too sensitive to even discuss in court.[5]

We can argue about how much his promises mattered to his getting elected. And I agree that his rhetoric interpreted wishfully by his supporters. But even with all that, there's no question there's been a real about-face once he took office.

[1] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...

[2] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...

[3] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/obameter/pr...

[4] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01...

[5] http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/10/us/10torture.html?_r=2&...;
imagine that the "chaos" you are adding to the implementation is actually subtracted from its "interface" and consequently from all code that will be written thereon... sometimes you need to "add complexity"/"destroy order" to create more order at a higher level :)
all of this (I think) is Larry Page in action. for a long time there was no clear strategy with Schmidt. "products" would pop up everywhere with no clear relationship. now Larry is cutting the wild growth. while it hurts some people I think in general it will strengthen Google.

> Oh, and I’m pissed with Google Reader going away. I used it 3-10 times a day to consume about 100+ feeds.

look, if you want to have a more effective RSS reading habit, use rss2email http://www.allthingsrss.com/rss2email/ and plug into the power of email-filtering. you don't even have to go to some "reader" to get updated.
So if it's not about spam, what is it about? Trying to get everyone to use Google Talk? Do enough people use other Jabber servers to have the tiniest effect on Google's business?
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