skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That clinical term would be narcissistic personality disorder: he's more concerned with appearances (doing what investors say) than outcomes (does he actually want to do it). That is: the reality of what he does matters oh-so-much less than what other people think of it.

Do you think this guy would publicly admit to having sex with another guy if he couldn't disclaim responsibility to his investors? But hold on:

>A reminder for others: shareholders don't dictate what's tabled. We can only vote on what's proposed, the implication being that K5M is fine with either outcome.

His friend's words. Here's Wired: "Feeling the weight of investor expectations, Merrill spent a drunken night “fooling around” with him. "

Note that I'm not saying he's bisexual; I'm not a mind-reader. I'm just pointing out the obvious difference between who made the decision in the story and who made it in reality.

So everyone is wondering how this will end, here's your answer:

http://thelastpsychiatrist.com/2009/04/the_near_death_of_a_s...
I guess it is a good thing we are finally migrating away from Cake :/
And just for the record I have a few flagship apps in the app store with millions of active users

Source please.

because your toolset is from yesterday and their's is from tomorrow

This is why I don't believe your first point without sources to verify. Eclipse+Android SDK is hardly from tomorrow. Windows 8 possibly. What else does that leave? Nada.
I see. If that's the case, it seems they are doing a good job ;-)
I have a couple of name servers I've inherited since starting my job. How would I go about testing these servers to see if they're set up correctly (obviously I'm not interested in the forged UDP packets side of things, only testing to make sure that recursive look ups are disabled).
> This already exists, so whatever objections you have must have already been surmounted.

There's a huge difference between some fly-by-night operations working in this model already existing and a company the size of Wal-Mart taking it on.

Additionally there's a huge difference between a person coming in daily as a contract employee and a company like Wal-Mart recruiting its customers at the checkout.

The difference is lawsuits and liability when something bad happens. If it's a small company there's not so much assets to go after. If it's Wal-Mart the ambulance chasers will come out of the woodwork.
That worked out so well when they banned copyright infringement.
If others didn't take direct action [on their own back] this could well have been the 'biggest DDoS attack in known [and unknown] history'. Cloudflare would have melted. Yes 300GBs is a lot of traffic, especially if it is all aimed at you and you do not have the capacity.

To say 300GBs can slow the Internet down and almost break it is laughable, sensationalist FUD and spun by Cloudflare.

Cloudflare have zero control over what comes out of ISPs networks, in the end it was down to the ISPs to mitigate these attacks.
> Brightness Slider for reducing screen brightness.

I was going to write a little rant about how this should be possible without 3rd party software. Researching a bit, I found that Apple has restored the ⌥+⇧ modifier for volume as well as for brightness (if that was even there before).

So no need to install this; adjust brightness with ⌥+⇧+☼ instead!

http://apple.stackexchange.com/questions/19146/is-fine-volum...

Edit: Trying it out, it seems the actual brightness level has the same minimum as before, even when the setting is at 1/4 of a square. It only works for values higher than one square. :(
Show HN: Workout planner
The price chart looks a lot like the transaction volume chart, which is usually how I make my guesses as to whether we're in a bubble or not - increase in price without similar increase in usage = bubble. That said, it's anyone's call.
Yet when Google spent only a few months developing the first Dart, and then released it to the public, and has been iterating on it for 2 years in full public view, and it still isn't even in Chrome nightlies (yet asm.js has already been dumped into Firefox nightlies) the same criticism was leveled at Google from Mozilla.

I think Mozilla would get a lot more benefit if people stop with the juvenile "You're going down!" adversarial mentality. If someone from the Dart or NaCL team had tweeted "2013 is the year NaCL and Dart destroy Javascript!" imagine the uproar. This is about exploring the solution space for solving technical challenges related to maximizing performance, helping developer productivity, and strengthening the Web, and there are many potential solutions. (I for one don't see the "Web" as Javascript, I see it as HTTP, URL, 'drive-by', indexability, transparency, platform independence and location independence. HTML, CSS, and JS are just particular concrete embodiments of those principles, but 30 years from now, they could be implemented in a radically different way)

I think asm.js is great for a slice of game genres, and I fully support it. The cheerleading and politics just isn't needed, let the code, benchmarks, and game demos speak for themselves.
Certainly anyone managing 100 corporate desktops will be deploying a customized image to those machines, rather than using a distro's default installer on each one. In which case, it still doesn't matter what the OS defaults are.
We’ve been working off personal assumptions and need to get external feedback, so we appreciate any comments on everything from the landing page to the tools themselves.

I found that when it comes to workouts I have a set plan that I follow, but other trackers are limited to tracking <= today and don’t handle > today very well, so my friends and I are building this web workout planner, with mobile apps to come.

The way it works is you create a workout plan, with however many days you want, then put it on your calendar (ex: recurring weekly). Each day, all the scheduled exercises are given to you in a list that you check off. It lets you change fields if you deviate (or add stuff if you’re ambitious), but for the most part when we’re in the gym we just focus on completing the workout.

In the backend, activities are isolated from their plan as soon as you start tracking so you can deviate from the plan without affecting goals or update the plan without affecting history.

We also gave the workout planner Google doc like collaboration / sharing capabilities, although right now you won’t see changes made by others at the same time until you refresh.

Thanks in advance.
You don't sound like a skeptic, but a simple denier. Being a skeptic doesn't mean you automatically disbelieve the consensus - it means you question it and investigate yourself.

Richard Muller was a skeptic, then he got a lot of money from the Koch Brothers to rip apart climate science and upon closer inspection he found everything checks out.

http://www.businessinsider.com/koch-brothers-funded-study-pr...

Your justification (a simple repetition of right-wing talking points) only serves to showcase your lack of reasoning.
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And why do we think of ourselves as being superior to other past species?

On superiority: other species don't have a conceptual view of the world. Every other species can't read and understand your argument, let alone refute it. This has ramifications on a political level: In order to have individual rights, you have to be capable of understanding what individual rights are. Imagine the ridiculous spectacle of taking a bear to court for mauling another animal, or a person.

What it comes down to is this: I want to live. Not just to metabolize and take up space like other animals do, but to live a full human life. That means having a huge impact on animals, no matter what I do (short of suicide). Even if I didn't eat meat, there are plenty of things that are crucial for human life (everything from agriculture to medical progress to displacing animals to make way for cities and factories). The choice is clear: either humans are first, or they don't live distinctly human lives at all.

I am a human being, and I take pride in that fact. Because I am a human being, I can create art, write software, further our knowledge of the world through science, enjoy literature, and a whole host of other things that no member of any other species (currently known) will ever do.
its all fun and games until people really start cashing out.
I think there's a good argument for it being broken:

1) Core Data objects are not NSObject objects. You can't treat them remotely like normal objects: https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Cocoa/...

2) Core Data requires making your model mutable, and spreading dependencies on Core Data's abnormal objects throughout your entire code base.

3) Since the abnormal objects are spread throughout your code, and they're tied to non-thread-safe NSManagedObjectContexts, concurrency becomes rather difficult. You have to deal with multiple managed object contexts becoming out-of-sync across threads. Most people just give up and perform expensive operations like -save on the main thread.

4) Core Data merges the concepts of your on-disk model with your in-memory model, despite the fact that the two problem domains have very different requirements in terms of API design, data longevity, relational design, etc. This leads to code that is neither a clean in-memory model, nor a clean on-disk model.

5) Since Core Data objects are abnormal objects, one must produce a considerable amount of boilerplate just to define new model objects. What time you save upfront using a GUI to design your original model, you spend 10-fold in maintaining the code to support it, and in being handicapped by the contraints Core Data places on your code.

6) NSPredicate is awful. It's a brain-dead query language that often make it impossible to cleanly normalize your data store. Aggregate operations are expensive and often require O(n) cost, the query language is poorly documented and poorly specified.

Core Data is a very poorly fit abstraction, but it probably works well enough for simple use-cases. Once you move into concurrency, complex/large models, aggregate operations/projections across your data, or have to deal with it failing, it falls over.

After using it myself for a large project and struggling with all of these issues (and more), and watching another team do the same on their own project, I'd never make use of it again. SQL (via sqlite) is a far better abstraction for managing on-disk data, especially when doing so in a highly concurrent application where one can rely on SQLite's transaction support.
They're using Play 2.1 with Java, without using futures for database queries. Not sure how representative of real usage that would be, though.
Whats a simple way to confirm by test your DNS server isn't doing recursion?
If people like that particular feature of the other OS, why not imitate it? There were also themes for Metacity (Gnome 2.x window manager) looking like Windows XP floating around – if people like that sort of thing…

You still get plenty of diversity and ‘improving’ even though some elements are borrowed sometimes.
This comment[1] from two weeks ago is insightful:

I am very intrigued by Bitcoin. It has all the signs.
Paradigm shift, hackers love it, yet it's derided as
a toy. Just like microcomputers.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5402513
> but I did want to get a sense of peoples opinions and advice

You have to realize HN is a very public place with an audience from extremely diverse places. You can guarantee someone from SpaceX has already laid eyes on your website and this thread.
Six months of free same-day delivery, but what's the value of my purchasing data to Google? Shouldn't testers be compensated for that, or does that fall under the altruistic "Google needs your help?" Am I to think of Google as just another buddy who needs a lift to the bus station?
Nature doesn't respond to conditions. Evolution isn't a process of intentions; such that we can state: "nature intends" for such-and-such a species to exist/thrive/die, except for the intervention of unnatural events.

Nature is conditions, and man is a part of the equation.
$5 or less. Not a very brandable or recognizable name.
Bubbles will pop and tend to revert to mean. The question for Bitcoin is, what's the mean? $1B is small potatoes in today's global economy. If the total market value for BTC is closer to $100B or more, then this is only the beginning of the upslope.
The HOPE scholarship, if you're referring to the one in Georgia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HOPE_Scholarship) is still alive. I went to school, getting full tuition plus a book and fee stipend for my undergraduate degree. Eligibility became more difficult sometime after I graduated, but it's still around.
The name choice seems bizarre to me. It's like a portmanteau of Fedora and Ubuntu, yet has very few of the features of Ubuntu. Judging by the default GUI, Facintosh seems more appropriate.
You seem to have bought into the marketing, as an owner of a Nexus 4 I am unfamiliar with the "UX annoyances" that you are referring to. Could you be specific?
Would you like to share your thought process, proof or sources? Or is simply disagreeing sufficiently satisfying for you? Elsewhere in this thread, you seem to be making the same point that you're now disagreeing with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5455642

Here's another quote that makes me think he seriously only gave himself nonvoting shares:

“shareholders don't dictate what's tabled. We can only vote on what's proposed, the implication being that K5M is fine with either outcome.”
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Please give me feedback on my startup. I'd like to hear your thoughts on how I can monetize this or improve upon it. Thanks!
> he sad history of anti-poverty programs like AFDC

Right, but that's a more specific point than what you made and the distinction is important. You said "when people get money they have more children"..this is demonstrably false when talking in general.

The reality is, when you give people money in certain ways it becomes an incentive to have more children. On this we are in complete agreement. This does not hold as on overall trend though. It's perfectly possible to spend money on subsidies or programs which have the opposite effect.

> There's a difference between schooling and education.

There is, but in this context it's just splitting hairs.

> Your remark applies to schooling.

Not so.

> Education is free.

That's true, but meaningless in practical terms. The level of education is not going to spontaneously raise itself. It's true that some people could start providing education of their own accord, in fact many already do. However to have a real effect you need to organize and disseminate information, etc...all much easier with money.
There are genetic qualities which are passed on silently and only expressed after certain situations occur. If this were not the case there would be only heterosexual people.

Most people who seem stupid are only stupid because they lack what equally capable, but perceived as gifted or intelligent, people have. Most people have much the same genetic wetware capabilities - brain damaged people an exception - the biggest biological differences between most people are in hormones, and changes in hormones are largely a product of environment and can be changed just as knowledge can be changed. A human's potential is able to be expressed with an abundance of knowledge and the lack of enforced ideology. Allow people reference, perspective, and freedom and they will seem like smarter people than whose without. The sooner people have the best situation the better but it is never too old for someone to get smart.
Thanks for the feedback. So far the questions are mostly about what it's like to apply, interview, and work at a company. We'll let companies answer what they want to. The purpose is to make information about jobs more transparent. There are numerous questions that could help a job seeker / candidate (and thus an employer) that aren't harmful to anyone. Maybe they'll answer those, we'll see.
I don't understand this point:

"The Pledge remains in force for the life of the patents, even if we transfer them."

I realize Google can claim whatever they want, but I don't see how they enforce this pledge for other entities which inherit their patents. How does the pledge actually bind (at a legal level) entities which inherit the patents?
Arch has moved on to systemd these days, if that changes anything for you.
By comparison to other companies that have offered a blanket promise to not sue Open Source software over any patents, a promise that only covers a vanishingly small subset of a company's patents seems woefully inadequate.
What would be much more interesting than "peak responses per second," which is a weird metric to begin with, is the actual histogram of sampled throughputs. Or at the very least a box-and-whisker plot (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Box_plot).

Most folks who have run Rails at scale, for example, find that the untuned garbage collector in MRI (Ruby's default interpreter) introduces a large amount of variance, for example.
Funny enough that SO link was the same one I got my misinformation from as the top answer pointed to CGI benchmarks.

Thanks for the correction though, but that still doesn't answer my original question: how does Plack compare with mod_perl?
I wish vim was a little bit more "international" because some commands that involves {,^,[ combined with ctrl are tricky to trigger on non-us keymaps and don't feel as natural as `yy`. Some obvious keys that only need 1 keystroke for an US user requires a combination of alt-gr or something for french users. Soon I'll be remapping my keyboard for coding but I also need those é,à,ç,è :)
The way they manage startups, yes. It's however very difficult to ideate so many (which these guys don't), but giving shape to a couple of ideas and managing them independently like these guys do is not impossible it seems.
There's an interesting spike in bitcoin value everyday when Europe wakes up. This does look like a bubble but at the end of the day, as long as the rest of the world currencies keep people nervous, bitcoin will gain wider adoption.
Anyone know if there is a good bitcoin futures/options market with good liquidity?

The vol on this asset class is out of this world and given that it's so new, pricing on these things must be so out of wack that it'll be good to exploit.

Only if there's a good futures exchange like Mt.Gox that's very very authoritative.

And also important for the bitcoin infrastructure, that way merchants will take bitcoins for less risk since they can hedge it against dollar or euro's. A big money potential out there. Some one please take the idea and build one so everyone can profit.
You need to have someone edit your copy. 'Your Motivation Statement' is a huge jumble. I know you're excited but calmly examine why you want to work for SpaceX and then, when you're done, get someone good at editing to read it through for you and rip it apart.

This is a first draft, that's why he said it was half-assed.

Your final version shouldn't have any obvious mistakes at all. You're applying to work for a SPACESHIP company. Details are incredibly important.

example: "Each section of this website will start with a TL;DR to summarize the content of that page. Fell free to have a look around!"

TL;FR, Fell, and !. You're writing something that should actually be fairly formal. Don't use exclamation points. Fell is a typo. There should be no spelling errors or typos. TL;DR was covered.

Not trying to break you down, just trying to tell you this shit really matters.
Cyprus just announced they would be taxing peoples bank accounts, the EU said that was a fair resolution for the banking crisis and other nations (greece, ireland, spain and italy) could see similar action to cope with the bank problems. Adoption as a currency has been ocurring for a while, reddit, mega, bitmit etc, adoption for investment has been ongoing, adoption out of fear of state controlled banks is another viable reasonf or adoption but harder to quantify. So there is a reason behind the price surge we are currently seeing but it is difficult to label because it is about individuals adopting it for use and not big corporations.
Here's the crux of the argument - all the resources (time, money, energy, social costs, possible wars etc) that would be spent adjusting to climate change could instead be spent on productive uses.

The costs of being energy efficient today outweight the possible risks from having to pay for the consequences.
I still don't understand why Nokia are trolling Google so hard on this stuff.
The thing that makes me apprehensive about Bitcoin is that the majority of people that are buying in are buying in as speculators (edit: the people I've seen discuss Bitcoin), they're buying in because they think in a year or so the coins will be worth $1,000 each and they'll get to cash out, reddit is full of people labelling themselves Bitcoin millionaires. There's a disincentive to spend Bitcoins at the moment while the price is rising so much, if I spent 1 Bitcoin today buying something that costs $90 and in a week Bitcoins are worth $150 each, haven't I just wasted earning potential?

I haven't seen a single discussion of Bitcoin as a currency, it's always an investment. I asked someone a few days ago about how much is actually being spent and they linked me to a list of transactions but they all seemed to be either SatoshiDice or really low amounts, are there any statistics on who is actually spending Bitcoins on products and/or services unrelated to Bitcoins? I saw reddit mentioned that the volume of Bitcoin transactions they have (on reddit gold) is so low they're losing money and that's a site that has a big community of Bitcoin users / supporters.
What does kodowa do?
I really don't understand.
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Come on Bitcoin-Central (or whoever) - hurry up and implement IBAN numbers so I can buy some in Europe!
At the same time I am seeing a lot of adoption. Especially in international markets.
You can always switch to a US keyboard layout when coding, that's what I do and it makes me faster.
That's a lot of money. What is this $1 billion being used for? Is this money just circulating for the sake of making more money, or is it being used to buy goods and services?
Who needs bookmarks when the worthwhile posts keep turning up again and again!

I'm not complaining though. Learning Vim beyond the surface level is fun and the more you know the more fun working with Vim becomes.
Exactly. IANAL, but from what I've heard from people who are, the basic premise behind these kind of pledges is Estoppel[1]. The basic gist of it, as I understand it, is that you can't go around screaming something in public and treating it as the truth ("anybody can use this patent and we won't sue you") and then later come back and contradict that ("you are violating our patent, pay up"). IOW, promises, made publicly like this, do count for something, even if there's no explicit contract.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel
asm.js is, at its heart, nothing more than a compiler hint. It tells the runtime that the JavaScript you're writing in this function follows some conventions that happen to be easy to optimize, but it's still JavaScript code. A browser that doesn't support asm.js will pause for a few nanoseconds to wonder what the heck that strange string at the start of the function is, then go on to execute the JavaScript code the same way it always does, with the same result as if it had known what asm.js is.
+Well maintained and supported, good software.