skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Another example of how patents harm innovation and in particular open-source software: years of video codec innovation by Google and On2 are now being pirated by Nokia using these patent threats. Note that many of the countries where they claim to have been granted patents do not, in theory, allow software patents at all.
That's because, largely, they benefited from the work done prior to their gaining power (nation-wide new infrastructure, etc) and failed to reinvest in the same. Instead, we've seen an epidemic of deferred maintenance and a lack of capital projects. Of course everything is falling apart now!

This is not unlike managers who come in, strip R&D budgets, point to big profits and split before the inevitable crash. All they did was milk the cash-cow. It really is a well established phenomenon.
I wonder how long it will be before camera-smashing takes off as a political hobby. I know there are already a few groups in Russia doing it.
No answer would be prudent without knowing and understanding more facts about the product you refer to. But do test them. I have tested things that looked like they would not work (and did).
As a designer, the thing you have to understand about this site before you can release yourself and find enlightenment, is that the client loves this site. They're thrilled. I'll bet they had a big "debut", put it up on the giant screen, and the congregation clapped enthusiastically.

When you can internalize this fact, without it troubling your soul, you are ready, Grasshopper.
Fourscore is a better fit, true. I'd disagree with nineteen though. French has fourteen, fifteen, sixteen, but then switches to a more awkward construction for 17-19. Fourscore and sixteen transitions to fourscore and ten and seven / fourscore and tenty seven.

(Note: Not saying it's awkward in an absolute sense, but in the context of a base-twenty system that method of constructing 17-19 fits badly)
Please be civil and don't make threats. I flagged your comment.
FAA Tower Closures Interactive Map
Is it just me or are Jacob Kaplan Moss and Jesse Noller always at the center of some Python drama queen storm? In some sense it is almost like Ayn Rand traveled to the future and based the collectivists in Fountain Head on these two guys.
Hi Garry (& Posthaven team),

So I've used Livejournal, Dreamwidth, Tumblr, and Posterous before, maybe a few other blogging services. LJ has disintegrated due to $xyz politics, Dreamwidth is pretty awesome but very small, Tumblr is looking for $$$, and Posterous is, well, you know.

So I regret to say that I do not look forward to using Posthaven. I instead plan to write my own content system that is git & markdown driven that renders out to my own site, paid for by me. You see, I do not trust content hosting anymore without significant reason to believe they won't drop me into a hole because $business-reason. Perhaps if Posthaven is still a going concern in 5 years and fully self-owned/IPO'd, then I will consider it a reasonable place to put time into. I guess I've just gotten burnt and my crispyness is starting to show.

I do wish you the best of luck, and I hope that Posthaven is a long-term stable business.

Regards,
Paul
I like their subscription music service (Many labels are not available though). But this patent troll stance makes me feel that nokia is being used to fight unnecessary rivalries.
Exploiting 64-bit Linux like a boss
>the families to whom $400 was a lot of money would not, in any sane progressively-taxed system, be expected to pay that $400. the people to whom $400 was pocket change would.

but then it wouldn't be $400 per family...
I can identify with having too many places to check to see what's going on - we ended up building something to solve the problem. We wanted to bring info from source control, support tickets, servers/monitoring/PaaS, continuous integration and a bunch of other things into one place so we could see what's going on (and also we wanted a really simple red/orange/green status view of everything in the context of the apps we are writing and deploying).

We put out a Beta version recently and are keen for people to have a look and provide feedback - check it out at appsecute.com

We're thinking we should also be outputting info to tools like HipChat, IRC and maybe even Skype, for those who are already heavily invested in a chat system. Again we're keen to see what people think...
You are either lying or stupid, and I can't tell which.
edit: To those who would downvote me LOOK AT THE POST he is referring to. What is your problem with actually reading things?
I have alot of experience with backbone, and I would highly recommend it to anyone.

Why would anyone pick ember over backbone?
1a. Just out of curiosity, what's wrong with "open plan"?
Please don't put words in my mouth. I will happily stand by any and every thing I've said here, but I feel no need to defend strawmen and intentional misinterpretations.

Better yet, just go back to Slashdot and do your trolling there.
I shouldnt need a compelling reason to work some place.

I - need a job, presumably they need someone with my skillset, now obvious, there are soft skill concerns, do I match the culture, is it going the direction I feel my career ought to go? Other then that, it should be pretty simple.
Apple adds ‘in-app purchase’ warning to freemium apps
Circular Gallifreyan
Caveat: Working Hard in Australia - might be considered "Lazy and fat" in another country.

40 hour work weeks is hardly "Working extremely hard"
This is cool. At one point I worked at a startup where they hired a guy who interviewed well but froze up constantly when pairing — sort of the opposite of this story — who consequently didn't work out. Seems like pairing-as-interview would solve both that problem and the freezing-up-at-whiteboard problem.

I admit to being sufficiently extraverted and borderline autistic myself that I don't have a good understanding of why people find his "part 1" interviews stressful and freeze up. I mean, it's just talking to hackers, right? I like talking to hackers. Who doesn't like talking to hackers? But I guess standing up and talking in front of a bunch of people, or being grilled to see what you understand and what you don't, is a lot more stressful for most people than it is for me.
I'm not sure where I'd place my trust. The CurveZMQ is based on CurveCP, which was designed by CJ Bernstein. CJB is a well known and generally well-regarded cypto expert, so that gives him substantial points.

However, CurveZMQ drops a number of CurveCP features that are deemed unimportant in the context of the ZMQ environment (to do with session handling in UDP). Maybe that's fine ... maybe it's not. Software in general has the annoying characteristic of spooky second-order effects appearing from "totally unrelated" local changes; in security those second-order effects are quickly found and exploited.

Meanwhile the Salt Stack guys seem to have stitched together some common crypto primitives into something workable, but ... again, I'm unclear about that. There are so many ways to fuck up a crypto protocol -- I recently spent three months iterating one and the final design was as far from the original as oranges from unicorns.

One of the beauties of sticking with TLS, for all its inconvenience at times, it that is under constant scrutiny.

Security is one area where Linus's Law really does seem to apply.
You do realize that your logic is largely flawed.

You can never make a joke that isn't offensive to at least one person somewhere one way or another, unless you give up joking altogether. You said it yourself "every single person has something that they are sensitive about". It could be as legitimately rightful as sexist jokes.. or as unrightful as joking about anything else entirely, maybe my mother was run over by a bus driver.. does that mean that you cannot joke about bus drivers next to me?.. Well actually yes, but only "if" you knew of my particular situation and in this case he did not.

The general rules of decency dictate that you steer away from the generally offensive jokes in your respective crowd and the joke he made was not such, it was if anything something that fits that crowd perfectly.
I for one had no idea what it was supposed to mean outside the tech lingo but unlike her I was not in a PyCon conference.
The employers I've worked at, since about 2002, have had a large pool to pick from, and those looking for a job have gotten less and less of a cut of profits and their benefits have been cut back, fairly consistently (relative to inflation, etc.)

People are still afraid of losing their job. Some people have been under-employed for a long time, now, and are settling for jobs they previously left in distaste. A lot of people feel stuck.

Let me try to rephrase it - there are entrepreneurs, there are people who will accept a lot of risk... and then there are people who feel they cannot move, have a low tolerance for the imagined future pain of being unemployed, worry about the housing market, worry about losing insurance... and when they are unemployed, they stand in line to try to distinguish themselves to the large companies that are nearby, so they can get a stable job.

Heck, I know people with advanced degrees in their fields who have accepted Internships just to have a paycheck.

There's no lack of smart people who will work hard at a stable job, and consider themselves lucky to get an offer for the positions at the companies I've worked at.

If you accept candidates who are not citizens (H-1B), I find it hard to believe that ANY of you have a hard time finding candidates. If you're open to telecommuting, especially.
Which 'massive wealth' are you referring to?
Decentralized peer to peer currency exchanges might be possible:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD4L7xDNCmA&t=24m57s

https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Ripple_currency_exchange
No they did not claim to have all the patents, nor do I expect Google made this assumption (there's a never ending list!), but the timing is very curious. What does Nokia really want out of this if they are not interested in licensing under any circumstances?

This is not the first time Nokia did this. IIRC, they also threatened Ogg when it was being proposed as the mandatory codec for the <video> element.

Certain companies that have large installed bases of H264 hardware certainly have a vested interested in seeing H264 as the mandatory WebRTC codec.
Yay! We use padrino. Yay!
Are you sure he wasn't talking about type 2?
Same here in Finland. I have my phone number entered in "Phone Numbers" section but still see no two-factor authentication option. Besides, the Addresses form is buggy, won't let me save (keeps asking save/discard confirmation forever).
SCO worked out pretty well for Microsoft the first time. Years of distraction from a dead company, they got to pay off David Boise in return for his dropping the anti-trust case, and nobody successfully followed the money trail back to Microsoft in any way that mattered.

Why wouldn't they try to do it again?
Boss: We've predicted you're going to leave, so you're fired.

Analysts: See, they're no longer employed! Another successful prediction for the algorithm!
When I saw this, I got a little freaked out. I pulled up this same page for a different reason today :-) I thought nkurz was snooping my logs :-)

At any rate, hopefully, one day soon. We will move away from the x86 and its legacy. While some people believe that architecture at this level doesn't matter... and they are mostly right... the x86 is still ugly.
Very cool link. Stack architectures faded a while ago, but I think most of that was just the huge divide in cpu to memory performance. I think there is a niche in parallelism for simpler, stack based CPU again.
It's amazing how at least some fields of science have been able to exponentially improve their experimental methodology, thanks to present-day social networks.

Milgram's 1967 small world experiment that introduced the "6 degrees of separation" term consisted of 300 people trying to send physical letters to 1 target, this stock broker in Boston. 80% of the letters never reached the target, and of the ones that reached, the average number of hops was 6.

Fast forward to 2008. A summer intern at Microsoft Research attempts to re-do this experiment. He constructs a graph with 180 million nodes and 1.3 billion undirected edges using MSN Messenger data, and finds the average path length between users to be 6.6. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/horvitz/leskov...
First reported by Samuel Clay (conesus on HN) from NewsBlur: https://jira.mongodb.org/browse/SERVER-9059
Alice and Bob in Cipherspace
this seem dangerous.
Doesn't the Obama care insurance penalty basically do this? Companies are forced to either spend $10000 per employee like they do do now to give them coverage or pay a $2000 fine to the government. The beauty of this is that part time workers are exempt from the fine so most companies will just hire 25% more people and make everyone only work 30 hours.

Unemployment is basically solved in 2014. Under employment on the other hand...
This seems to be Google SOP for big data sets like this, and for the most part it works okay. The other obvious similarity is Maps. Pull what data you can from easily available sources, and then crowdsource the details or inaccuracies.

http://www.google.com/mapmaker
Hm, I thought ~ 5 hour interview process wasn't uncommon?
Pragmatic Lua Basics in 30 Minutes
The Salt Stack guys basically did OpenSSL over UDP. I totally agree about the difficulties involved and most importantly Linus' Law, which is why I think working with the Salt Stack guys is a good idea: their code has been audited for security by a number of other parties.
er, Python and PyPy are not in the same ballpark, so I'm not sure what you're talking about.
I've really loved using Backbone myself, and have very limited (simple, sample apps) with Ember. Ember comes with stronger conventions than backbone, giving one a fuller out-of-the-box application, which for some people and projects is more preferable.

I think, like many people have said, they're each intended for different use cases.
Lawyers: Firing of Adria Richards hard to defend in court
Someone should tell Adria Richards about this.
Agreed. I think it says a lot about Tom Dale and co., and have been really impressed with their responses in aggregate – it's probably been a long week for the Ember team.
Do you mean, what would their reaction would be upon recognizing where those names came from? My reaction, in order, was (1) ugh, gross; (2) whoever named the service were being douchey idiots; (3) how much I dislike this aspect of the porn generation; (4) I would not feel comfortable using that software.
Some guy just lost his job you know. Yes he's a member of a majority and yes majority members have an easier time in their field on average than the minorities in it. But that doesn't change the fact that he suffered real harm and he has three kids to feed. Your flippancy is chilling.
The design of the app isn't bad, but the implementation is worthless. I don't know if he's responsible, but the slide away panel has inspired a lot of imitation as a design pattern.
Appreciation for plain text
It's easy enough to sort by create_ts; updated again! The most recent thread for google.com is still pretty old. I'm kind of surprised that these multiple threads don't get automerged when the second and following people try to resubmit.
The Myth of Focus
Buy it.

You can try to get bloggers and press but in my experience you get spikes of traffic and what you want is predictable and consistent traffic which you can run tests against. Getting 3k signups in one day from TechCrunch isn't terribly valuable, IMO.

You can buy it fairly cheap from Ads on Google, Twitter or Facebook. Try them all and see which work best for you. I prefer Google/Twitter. This is both consistent and reproducible.

Consider getting your first 10,000 users as more of a learning experience of what the hell you think you're building and what your customers think you've built.
That train of thought is known as the lump of labour fallacy.

What you propose would reduce output; if it was optimal for firms to hire the unemployed, in place of those already employed, then they would do so - unless they are prevented from doing so by labour legislation, which doesn't seem to be the case the U.S.

That the unemployed are not hired might make sense when there are costs to hiring and training a new worker, which don't exist for a worker already in place. On an aggregate level, this policy would increase the cost of labour, and consequently reduce its demand, so less overall would be employed (though the rate of employment would probably stay about constant because you reduced the denominator by reducing the labour force).

Probably a better explanation here: http://www.economist.com/economics-a-to-z/l#node-21529454
Man, I'd honestly find example 2 more stressful than example 1. Is pair programming really something that programmers find useful? Should I develop this skill more? I've barely had to do it at all at my jobs, and when I have, it was difficult for me because I couldn't get into my usual flow. Even with an extra pair of eyes and hands, I felt like I was working at 50% efficiency.

I guess I should read up on concurrency. :)
I used to use GrubHub all the time when I lived in Chicago and always had a good experience with them. Since I've moved there aren't very many restaurants using these types of services where I live now, but I would definitely use a similar service if it had decent adoption locally.
I myself have asked a candidate why he wanted to work for [my employer] in a position of some responsibility, and been unimpressed by the reply "well, it's a job." I had no idea this was a commonplace response.

It's good that you recognize from their feedback where you went wrong, but it's bad that you don't understand why "I just want a job" is a poor answer. Your cynicism about "Cubicle Dream" also doesn't sit well. (Not trying to be harsh - I know exactly where you're coming from, having been there myself.)

Here's a secret: in the workplace, unlike school, attitude trumps raw ability. Every single time.

Think about what you really want. Maybe read Ask The Headhunter.

Good luck.
AWS comes into its own for these kinds of use cases - make a lightweight autoscaling events API on Elastic Beanstalk pumping events into DynamoDB coupled with a bunch of workers running at the EC2 spot price sorting and processing these into a traditional RDBMS = massively horizontally scalable events handling for pennies an hour.
I've had both kind of interviews before, and the latter made me want to work for the company so much more. Ever since that interview, it's how I conduct my interviews now -- no more whiteboards or pointless algorithm questions, I just bring in my laptop and we work on something together.
I'm sure the author already knows the facts of life, and was merely sharing his lament of those facts. But for the benefit of anyone who doesn't know, especially kids:

This is not a viable way to get paid.

1. Do something you enjoy

2. Collect payment

This is a viable way to get paid.

1. Select a person or group that has money

2. Figure out what they are willing to pay for

3. Do that thing

4. If you haven't received payment, return to step 1
Unless a person has a first hand account, this is nothing to discuss about. I have personally meet many successful CEOs or top ranking women in the valley. Geneder or Origin are not an issue unless you make them. All that matters is what ideas you have got and how you implement them.
Ask HN: Does it feel good to be smart?
Does being smart comes with bigger responsibility and do you feel stressful of being really smart (as a developer maybe)?

I've never understand enough math to play with hardcore computer science (although I've love to and I tried) and I assume people feel very happier when they're good at what they want to do.
Is it too far fetched to wonder if Nokia is fighting on behalf of MS? In the end Nokias CEO comes from MS, Nokia is very dependant on MS nowadays and MS has a strong interest in H264, is a member of MPEG-LA and earns money from every H264 license?

All that software patent bullshit needs to stop, already, it's sickening!! It's the <video> tag discussion all over again. Why can't we have royalty-free, free-for-all codecs in an OPEN worldwide standard?! Because stupid companies like Nokia, MS or Apple are NOT acting on behalf of the users but on behalf of their own income.

And don't start with "but h264 has so much better quality!" No normal person could tell the difference between a proper vp8 encoded FullHD youtube video and a h264 one, it's not like there are glaring differences!
Okay, thanks for explaining, I better understand your position. For myself, I don't believe A -> S or !A -> !S. I also don't believe O -> S or !O -> !S. People will get offended over the silliest things, and conversely victims of abuse will also deny that any was done to them. I also don't believe D, in that I don't think she was intentionally lying about being offended in order to manipulate the situation. I'm not sure that H suggests D, unless you mean emotionally dishonest, which of course I believe. She did fabricate the bit about forking being sexual, but I thought that was more jumping to conclusions than lying. But, I do understand your position insofar as if A implies S, then H matters.

It does seem to me that when you say A is evidence for S, even though your diagram only has S -> A, that you're just affirming the consequent. That is, given P -> Q and Q, claiming P is true.

So, my position is, she's a hypocrite, she got offended, obvious character flaws, etc. But whether or not there was sexism can only be determined by looking at both sides of the description of events that we have. For the most part, it seems people are saying that it isn't sexism, and that it would have to be specifically degrading to women.

I don't think the flying saucer analogy applies, because nobody is disputing the events that took place, people are only disputing whether there was sexism, i.e. what the meaning of the events was. To me it's more like, crazy person sees something fly overhead, claims it was a flying saucer and the beginning of an alien invasion, and proceeds to escalate the situation, when everyone else who looks at the data after the fact says it was just a plane.

At any rate, barring a conversion one way or the other to the truth of A -> S and !A -> !S, I think this is at a standstill, but it was an interesting discussion, so thanks.
Using your analogy, let's say someone worked in the factory for a year before they were replaced by the robot. Are they entitled to completely stop working and earn that same salary for the next few decades? A year?
I'm surprised that the article didn't touch on differences in childhood mortality rates. The theory proposed has always made a lot of sense to me. However, I would expect any reporting on the topic to consider the extent to which the allergy-sufferers amongst us (such as myself) made it through childhood because of better early childhood medical care, thus skewing the later-in-life allergies and autoimmune disease stats downwards.
Not really. It feels more like building a house, or putting together some kind of machine.
Do you know what Cards Against Humanity is? The moderator puts out a prompt card like "Santa ran out of coal, so this Christmas he is stuffing bad kid's stockings with __________". And then other players anonymously submit cards to fill in the blank with words on them like "AIDS", "A starving African child", "Michael Jackson", "White Privilege", "Anal Beads", "the Holocaust" and etc. The idea is to hit every awful thing you could possibly say. People find this funny because it has all the jokes you can't make in it because they are so horrible. Sort of like dead baby jokes.

I would assume I could joke about a dongle with such a person.