skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If those programs (the second level of programs) are compiled with the go compiler too, then they will also be caught (and sacked.)
Making int 32-bit or 64-bit depending upon the bitness of the current arch is one of the few Go language decisions I disagree with, primarily because it causes confusion with CGo since int in C/C++ (while technically compiler-specific) is, in practice, always 32-bits even on 64-bit platforms.

People writing CGo code can avoid this easy enough by understanding the issue and using C.int where they want C style ints, but I've run into more than a handful of examples of actual code in the wild using CGo that has issues because it expected 'int' in Go to be the same size as 'int' in C, which it will be if the arch is 32-bit, but won't be if the arch is 64-bit. eg:

https://github.com/visualfc/go-ui/issues/11

IMO the right call would be just go with what C does and treat both int and int32 as 32-bit ints, int64 exists if you need it, but having 'int' size be different between C/C++ and Go on the same arch violates principal of least surprise, IMO.
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>if any government involvement

There's the lynchpin right there. It's not just any government involvement. CCTV is a state-run broadcaster which is notorious for having its content directly controlled by the Chinese government. This isn't "sometimes the Chinese government leans on CCTV"; it's "the Chinese government exerts continuous editorial control over the content on CCTV."

> I see lots of other things that might be a result of government involvement, but those things have plausible mundane motives as well. So I'm hesitant to identify them as definitive proof of a government plot.

There seems to be some confusion about what constitutes "evidence". Evidence does not have to be definitive proof. The mere utterance of a statement on CCTV is evidence that that statement aligns with China's political goals. Add that to a whole bunch of weird shenanigans, like the weibo censorship thing, and you have a pretty suggestive picture.
No. Neither.

You're worrying too much. Stop worrying too much.

Are you going to force every potential employee to sign an NDA because you're afraid they'll tell others? Are you going to avoid explaining to people at meetups what your company does? Etc. etc.

What about the chance that a big company is going to copy what you do after you launch? All startups must be screwed then (sarcasm). Etc. etc.
The difference here is that the subsidy is explicit and optional and limited in time.
Here's my idea. I suspect TurboTax would lobby against it as well.

Tax reform.

Woah. I mean make it simple enough that there isn't any need for tax specialists, because it's just not that involved. Then filing takes seconds for most people, audits are trivial, costs go down for everyone, and most importantly, companies that shouldn't exist die (H&R Block, TurboTax, the many law firms that help major corporations exploit tax loopholes). Win win win win?

sigh. Never gonna happen.
Eclipse is pretty quick to pivot. They've been getting better PHP ability. They're working on getting better Scala integration. Erlide exists now and doesn't suck. They're getting better with JS. And for most of these there are competing teams trying to solve the same problem better/faster.

Java as the base seems to help by making it cross platform. So I can learn it in Windows and transition to a client with Linux and be minimally impacted.

Now what will make Eclipse go down is another Juno. 100 year software has to be solid and performent. Juno bungled this. They've gotten better, but it's still a black eye.
Hi cagenut, I'm a dev @ LinkedIn and I have regularly pushed services close to 30gb of heap, which serve close to 10k qps. After that it does get wonky, but I'm surprised you're having trouble getting it that far.

Mind emailing me your config? You should be using a CMS collector. -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC. Also try reducing CMSInitiatingOccupancyFraction until things stabilize. I've never had to drop it below 70%. Finally, ALWAYS make sure Xmx and Xms have the same value so the JVM doesn't try to resize itself.
I love suits, and looking sharp. I have been told that I'm the best dressed man in my IT department, and I dress down for work. Then again, best dressed man in IT is almost certainly damning with faint praise.

Then again, I don't like the idea of having to wear a particular set of clothes for a job. I like suits, but I'd get sick of them if I wore them every day. So, to me the fact that a company has a relaxed enough culture to allow employees to wear what they like is a very positive signal, even though I will tend to dress formally on most occasions.
Isn’t it the hardest? After all, society’s expectation towards straight white males are usually the highest in terms of income and work put in – just imagine you tried to find a spouse providing decent income to you. Would you rather embark on such an adventure as a straight white male or as an Asian woman?
Plenty of people say "oh I called it" after the fact. "I knew it was going to be big."

I wanted to publish my list publicly (esp. given YC W13 Demo Day) so I can publicly see my performance over time. No cheating and calling it after the fact. Trust me, if I had access to money to invest, I'd keep this list to myself and put my money where my mouth is.
From the UNL page, under "Plastic trash bags for food storage":

"The use of plastic trash bags for food storage or cooking is not recommended by USDA '... because they are not food grade plastic and chemicals from them may leach into the food.'"

From Glad themselves:
"We do not recommend using Glad Trash bags for food storage."

To each their own, of course. I'm happy to use zip-top bags for low-temp cooking (they are food-safe after all), but garbage bags will be reserved for use in the garbage can.
Depends on the area and country. Some small non public companies that I'd consider start up have had to file reports.
I'd say it is more important than all of those, save writing. Both writing and the idea of mechanical computation represent fundamental leaps in human development. They change what we are, not just the comfort in which we live.
Things I would suggest differently are to use a settings directory and have a settings/base.py then a settings/development.py settings/local.py settings/production.py, and check all of these into git. Then put an environment variable export DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE=yourapp.settings.local into your postactivate script.

There was a Django best practises book that has this stuff in it.

Also use Fabric instead of make, and have a separate project (installable as a Python module) that has your "common" Fabric commands for deployment stuff.

If you are on Linux, never ever ever do "sudo pip". Use your package manager for system packages.
Ziploc bags are food-safe, up to something like 85C. I would not count on off-brand bags being food safe when heated.
Ask HN: How can I read old blogs?  What happens when Google Reader shuts down?
I'm interested in finding a convenient way to read through the old archives of a blog, especially when the blog's website may no longer exist. This introduces a number of issues, especially in light of the upcoming Google Reader shutdown.

1. How can one reliably compile a feed for an old blog's archive, since the normal RSS feed only contains the last 10 or 20 posts? (See [1] for an old buggy solution using Google Reader.)

2. The Internet Archive should maintain most of the information somewhere, in principle, right? Will the accessibility of old blogs take a large hit when Google Reader shuts down?

3. How can I read through old blog posts in a nice way that allows me to check off what I've read, mark good posts, and browse more easily than by slowly-loading pages which show all the posts in a month? (See [2] and [3] for inconclusive discussion on the Web Apps Stack Exchange. Note: I asked [3] in 2010.)

In my utopia, all closed blogs are eternally associated with a unique RSS or Atom feed that can be dropped into a reader, allowing the user to browse it just like a current blog. Closed blogs are like books, and recommending a closed blog to a friend is as easy as giving them the relevent RSS feed.

Does this already exist?

[1] http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2007/06/reconstruct-feeds-history-using-google.html

[2] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/5810/how-can-i-re-read-an-rss-feed-from-the-beginning

[3] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/6194/whats-the-best-way-to-read-through-the-archives-of-a-blog
New tech accelerator aims to help USC student start-ups flourish
I like Kenji, but he's wrong about osmosis. Specifically, this claim "Moreover, if you soak a turkey in a ridiculously concentrated brine (I tested turkey in a 35% salt solution), according to the osmosis theory, it should dry out even more." is completely wrong.

Osmosis works not only for water, but for the solutes themselves. Water doesn't just (or even initially) move into the cells: salt, in fact, is what initially osmotes into the cells (they have membrane pumps for equalizing sodium concentration across the cell boundary), and then water follows, in order to equalize overall solute concentration. That's why you see the turkey take on water even when placed in a concentrated brine.
Every Known YC-Funded Company Since 2005 (Includes YC W13)
Are you using redactor.js for the WYSIWYG editor ?
The video actually threw me off. My cursor was right there, very confused for a sec - imo it's not separated enough from the rest of the experience for it to be entirely helpful, felt like more of a distraction. Just my $.02, cool site outside of that one small thing!
Pushed a fix - should work in IE10 as well now.
Completely free to pay off the phone subsidy that you aren't even using. It's like buying your phone twice.
Virgin actually uses Sprint's network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virgin_Mobile_USA
Ten bucks says his organization, Americans for Tax Reform, gets money from Intuit, HR Block, or another similar company. Of course, we'll never know because 501(c)(4)s aren't required to disclose their backers.
Autoenv is pretty pointless because you can assign a "project dir" to a virtualenv (and also postactivate scripts).

So I can just do workon myproject and be instantly transported to the right place with the right environment.
I will be updating this throughout the day as company pitches from Demo Day start showing up on TechCrunch and elsewhere.
I think T-Mo will be fine - they are still offering subsidization for customers who want it, and it's no more expensive than the competition.
Browser games is definitely close to the top of my to-do list
He says the cost at the end of the video: $3800 with a 3-year ROI.

Hopefully it will be possible to fix the UI issues.
Ask HN: Looking for a reasonable coder, where to look?
I'm in need of a, reasonable, coder to develop a website for me. It's a bit like a social network, but a bit like BleacherReport.

I don't have too much experience in development right now, so I'd love it if you guys could point me in the right direction to look for a freelancer.

jonah.kaner[at]gmail[dot]com and replies to this thread will work.

Thanks!
another similar plugin: https://github.com/bigspotteddog/ScrollToFixed
Do these cell pumps work even when the cell is dead? I was under the impression that ATP was required for that.
I've paid penalties for an IRS mistake. I submitted my returns, and the IRS said "We found a mistake, here's $300 more than what you thought we were going to refund you!".

A few months later I got another message from the IRS. "You made a mistake and got $300 too much! Pay us back + interest."

Didn't feel like fighting it because I heard that can go south easily, especially for such a tiny amount, so I paid it back with the interest.
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Of course I have, English is not my native language and all of my code and all of my comments are in English. I frown upon people who write comments in my own language in the code, I see it as not professional.

And insist on using English, because most programming languages are in English. It is defacto standard for programming and computers in general, and I am not discussing it - it's just how it is. Therefore selling a commercial product and providing documentation only in Japanese is a massive oversight on Sony's part.
That's definitely Redactor.
For the past three years I have filed my taxes myself, and every single time I make a mistake +- $100 or so, the IRS sends a correction, I fill out more paperwork and send payment / receive refund.

Y'all know this is inefficient. I spend at least 20 hours of work filing my taxes each year, and as a fairly intelligent citizen I always make a mistake anyway.
Here in Michigan we have the Secretary of State's Office http://www.michigan.gov/sos/

Service wise they do a pretty good job. They've spent the past decade or so beefing up their online and automated services. In most cases you don't even need to go to an actual office if you're dealing with a license or plate renewal.
Napster was created in 1999.
Yahoo didn't buy the technology, they purchased the talent. Talent that knows how to reach an audience. You can always get high quality engineers to figure out the rest...
Google Wallet: https://www.google.com/wallet/

window.chrome.loadTimes().wasFetchedViaSpdy
Lawsuit -> Hostile acquisition -> Patent weaponization -> More lawsuits.
My use case for Facebook is keeping in touch with friends and family abroad: most of my family, college friends, coworker friends, etc... are now spread around the globe.

We have a private group for my family, and I aggresively filter people and software from my feed.

It works really well to keep "connected" and know what they're up to, but I do try to call semi-regularly. It's hard on me since I can't afford to visit them :( .

I probably should do a heavy culling of old classmates, but Facebook hardly shows me photos of their babies anyways :) .
Ah yes you are right!

I should have mentioned that in my original post. I do tend to talk about my idea with everyone. It helps to weed out poor ideas and germinate new ones.

My question really was literally to do with a direct competitor getting an insight into my business plan while I was in the middle of building the MVP.

I think you are right in that i should stop worrying though :)

Also: I got a message from another mate in YC. He said that it's mostly the guys that are close with YC that do a lot of the screening so less worrying ahoy!
Yeah I thought about that. I figured a small percentage of people would be using linux so not that many people would get confused.
Show HN: Capyon Semantic Personalized Website
First time to explain our project. Please give us advice, thanks!

http://igg.me/at/capyon

This is a link to our indiegogo campaign. We have not posted our website yet.
But at only 1 million downloads, they've paid $30 per download. If they were mostly interested in the traction, that would seem quite excessive to me.
Actually I prefer to have only one settings file and configure everything else with environment variables. For me this is more clean.

Make is generally installed on most systems, therfore I prefer it over fabric - but the idea is the same.

I disagree about sudo pip on Linux, e.g. python-virtualenv wasn't updated for a long time in Ubuntu. Therefore, I still recommend getting the newest with pip. You coud apt-get python-pip, but most other things I would get from pip.
Red state, blue state 2012: iOS vs Android in the USA
Humble Mobile Bundle for Android
I'm seeing adds for cabelas.com but not for amazon.
What does “expressiveness” via LOC per commit measure in practice?
"The TSM Average column is the Trailing Six Month Average. It is calculated in this way:

(ending_value/starting_value)^(1/num_periods-1)-1."

This is actually the formula for compound monthly growth rate, a modification of the commonly used compound annual growth rate (CAGR), with an extra -1 thrown in after num_periods. The correct formula for compound growth is:

(ending_value / starting_value) ^ (1 / num_periods) - 1

The T6m average is the arithmetic average of, surprise, the last six months:

T6m(x) = 1/6 * sum(x[1], x[2],..., x[6])

where x is a vector of the last 6 months' data (sales, users, etc.). The T6m average will be in the same unit as the monthly figures, not percentages.
Show HN: Evernote powered website/blogging platform
We built this 2 months ago, but put a new landing page on it, added some features, and made it publicly available without requiring an invite.
He's not quite correct in saying "most", but they do give bad advice a large amount of the time.

http://www.nbcnews.com/id/7492730#.UVHtJBkuF7c

I would agree with your statement about politics and whatnot.

As for "sole source"; yes, you can have anyone prepare your taxes but the IRS still says yes or no to what they were provided. If the IRS decides that your preparer was wrong then that's where it might get interesting. I read it as saying there are possible issues with having one agency having both judgement and collection powers. It's much like the complaint lately about prosecutor offices benefiting from seizure laws leading to obvious abuses, such as the attempted hotel seizure in NY I believe.
Oh I like that word. I get that a lot. But In this case I think it is more of a management speak thing. Engagement as the act of 'active participation' as opposed to "passivity" or having things happen around you without either encouraging or challenging them.
My first reaction was that this was a play by yahoo to get in on the newsreader market. There's been a lot of fanfare about google abandoning its RSS reader so obviously this is a big market, one to which Google doesn't think RSS is the answer. So what is the answer? I don't think anyone knows but it seems to me like yahoo is taking a bet on summly. Plus it's a great opportunity to capitalise on the press and general sentiment of the whole Google RSS story. And finally Marissa is new, and a lot of people are probably pointing their eyes at her to see if she can turn around yahoo; and what better way to do that than to win a game of chess against Google?

Edit: and if Marissa does get a lot of faith from investors, which she will if one of her first moves is a victory against google, then her reputation will undoubtedly rise. And how much is the reputation of a CEO worth at a multi billion dollar company? I think a lot more than $30M. Just look at Apple's recent stock movement.
Not the op, but my guess is people weren't glued to their smartphone all the time like they seem to be these days. In '97, '98 I met a large group of folks at a diner they and I both frequented. They just started chatting with me and we hit it off and I started hanging with them.

These days, if the diner even allowed them to hang out and drink coffee for hours on end, they'd be nose deep in mobile FB or whatever zombification they prefer - rather than have "deep" and interesting in-person conversations.
Just getting a database error at the moment - so perhaps some sort of update might be appropriate ;)

hell is popularity.
You get problems when the employees cannot interpret the rules correctly, though. For example, proof of residency can be utility bill from the last 60 days, OR a DC property tax bill, and they reject a current DC property tax bill that wasn't issued in the last 60 days.
French are 'taught to be gloomy by their culture'
Why is it okay to turn something that had no business being extended beyond the bounds of PyCon to a worldwide public forum (Twitter) before even giving the organizers of PyCon a chance to handle the situation?
In the plan the article outlines, you pay T-Mobile $20 a month for 24 months to pay off the phone. On one hand it is better because because you can leave anytime and the cots are clear, but on the other, it looks a lot like a two year subsidized plan.
"If the population size is 140 then a 'sample' of 140 gives you a complete description."

That would not be what we think of as a sample, but rather a census.

"If the population size is 1.4e10 then a non-random sample of 140 is going to give very low confidence."

If the sample is non-random then the conclusions are unreliable, regardless of the population size.

I don't understand most of the rest of your comment, except as angry sputtering designed to avoid having to correct yourself. As to my playing 20 questions, since I can not imagine in general how the population size could be relevant to statistical conclusions drawn from a random sample, I was wondering if those who imply the opposite could explain it to me. Because it seems obvious that if you want to measure the salinity of the ocean, you can scoop up a cup of water from it and analyse that. You don't have to use a different size cup for different size oceans, or even know how big your ocean is. But if I'm missing something, I'd love to learn what it is.
Re-imagining the mobile use case
> The iPhone 4S and iPhone 4 will obviously not work on LTE, but they will function on T-Mobile's "4G" HSPA+ network.

I've been using my unlocked European iPhone 4 for 2 years at T-mobile now because it's the only GSM carrier that has reasonable plans. But while my plan includes unlimited data (awesome) I have a slow EDGE connection 90% of the time (not so awesome). There are some spots (Concord, San Jose) where I magically can get 3G but never in SF or any of the other areas I frequently am. So, I'm wondering if this statement is accurate and something's going to change in their coverage.
"..1.3.x is usable for production anyway (though might break some 3rd party modules due to API changes introduced from time to time)" -- nginx dev team lead at http://mailman.nginx.org/pipermail/nginx/2013-February/03755...
There's a reason I work for an employer where the actual dress code is "yes, you must wear clothes." If my boss has an important meeting, he might put on his really good hoodie that day.

I realize that in many workplace situations it's naive to think "I should be judged on my performance and not my appearance." I just choose to work somewhere that isn't the case.

The psychological factors (e.g. dressing sharp makes you feel better) are certainly valid. If you like wearing nice clothes, by all means. If you work somewhere where your boss dresses up or wears Prada or whatever, and everyone else wears business casual, then you might want to conform a bit if you want to get ahead (or else be deliberately different, but understand the effect it will have).

But let's not pretend it has anything to do with being a "grownup".
Indeed. This is where I agree with to that the article is a bit weak. It overstates the problem of repeated hashing and doesn't explain how bcrypt solves that problem at all. It makes it sound like a completely different and magical solution rather than repeated hashing with collision mitigation.

It's more a case of "hey, here's a potential problem you might not have thought of, here's an algorithm that addresses it."
Desura has nearly zero barrier to entry, provided your game actually works: http://www.moddb.com/tutorials/publishing-on-desura
It's hard to break the mental model of subsidies. As an example:

Last month my wife dropped her old phone and it broke, and I got her a Nexus 4 for $299 and we signed up for simplemobile (which is a Tmobile MVNO) for about $90 a month for the both of us.

Our previous bill from Tmo was $130 a month, a full $40 more AND on contract. Since it took a few days to wait for the Nexus she was asking "Why don't we just go to the store and get the free phones instead? Why spend all this money on a fancy phone?"

I'm glad tmo is doing this, but I think they will need to market it in such a way that it is obvious to consumers that they will save money in the long run.
I think the first spaced-learning algorithm was actually SuperMemo, developed by Piotr Wozniak. The rest just copy his algorithm.