skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> If a friend of mine left a dinner saying, "I'm sorry, this behavior is not acceptable to me and I can't stay," that would make me seriously reconsider my position.

Because you're rational. Someone who doubles down on a comment about someone's tits being her weather helm for success after being lightly called on it is not rational. You can't put yourself in this guy's shoes, because you aren't that guy. I've dealt with this kind of person before, directly, with significant results.

I, personally, would make a joke at your expense after you're gone and get the rest of the table back on my side. Because I swim in the middle of this moral compass. Something like: "wonder what got under his skin, sorry about the scene, there, guys;" bam, I just got the table back on my side and now you're the idiot. I know this because I've been in this exact situation after I offended someone into leaving my company. Next thing said was "yeah, he's been testy lately, maybe he needs some time alone". We completely forgot about my poor remark that shoved him away in the first place. As much as you'd like to believe you've "sent a message" to me and the other people at the table, we've really said "what a dork" and moved on with our lives with minimal interruption.

Weak people are going to do two things in that scenario: (a) not follow you from the table when you "make your stand" by fleeing, because they're not sure about it, and (b) instantly flop back to wondering what the hell is wrong with you after an ever-so-gentle shove from the original offender in your absence.

Emotional manipulation is comically easy, and after you've worked with typical Silicon Valley types for 10+ years, this is a pretty consistent roadmap.

> Best scenario is when you call the person out on their remarks and they apologize.

I don't understand what you're saying here. I'm positing that you should call the person out on the remarks and demand apology. You say the same thing in this sentence, then spend the rest of your comment explaining how I'm wrong. Making him leave is the last step of my escalation path, which I laid out in the linked comment, which it seems like you didn't read.
>At its core, karma is the idea of cause and effect. Actions have consequences. This is entirely consistent with much of what we think we know about the world.

At its core, a unicorn is a mammal. A warm-blooded animal which nurses its young. This is entirely consistent with much of what we think we know about the world.
What are your terms on that bet?

My take on it is that it's a mistake to think it's a currency. It has a lot more in common with gold, but without the heavy lifting.
Great program that I've been using so far!
If I was lucky enough to be in your situation I'd cash out my ~650usd and call it a day. I wouldn't feel remotely bad about it even if bitcoin kept going up. At this point it was a sound investment that paid out well.
I love this! Simple, and can create meaningful and lasting connections.

I am using it as a way to tell the story my sister and her fiancee, as I am officiating their wedding. I have been struggling with what to say for months, and finally, by assembling the family's stories here and using this as a framework, I am starting to make some headway.

Thank you Storyworth team, this is truly something meaningful and beautiful that you have created here.
Microsoft VP: We're Not Giving Up on Windows RT
The Mozilla/Rust/Servo developers talked about why they continue developing Rust and not considering Go for the job. It has absolutely nothing to do with a turf war because Mozilla is actually using Go for some server side things. But one major reason for not using it to implement Servo (the next-gen browser engine) is the mandatory GC. For a lowlevel performance and memory critical application such as a browser engine you don't want a GC.
While I was still studying there, I volunteered for my alma mater's open day.

Pretty much every teenage boy told me his ambition was to make games. To them I said "study as much maths as your school will teach", which led to crestfallen faces.

To their parents I said "the games industry is terrible, but ours is a general computer science degree. Your boy will be able to get an entry-level job at any software firm".

The girls who came through seemed to be more interested in software as a professional career. It was an interesting contrast.
Sorry, that sounds awesome, but I don't think I can commit the time or have the expertise to be very useful ... but please see the other replies to my comment! It sounds like http://opentaxsolver.sourceforge.net/ attempts to address this problem!
"I'm not interested in doing that."
That looks awesome!

What I would really like (in my vision of a perfect world) is that companies would be required to issue W-2s and similar forms already in this text format. But anyway OpenTaxSolver looks really cool and thanks for the link!
Wouldn't a keylogger watch you open your online wallet too, and therefore provide the criminal access to your online wallet as well?
That's the general consensus, yeah. AAA gets lots of press, but it is not a direct reflection of quality: as has been mentioned, the large budget also includes marketing $$$.

AAA also refers sometimes to overall production values, which tends to mean amount of features and coverage of areas of experience: story, cinematics, voiceover, variety, realism, etc. Without a AAA budget you can't afford all of that and must focus on doing one or two things right and ignore the rest. This plethora of features can sometimes be mistaken for 'quality'.
Great blog post (as usual from Priceonomics). I'm sure many people (myself included) would become Jellyfish Art customers once Alex can nail the lower price point.
They have no choice in the matter, unless Apple starts allowing other engines on their phones.
What's the question about your field that you dread being asked?
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The most efficient way of trading cards...
It's the JIT for JavaScript that's disabled. I've never seen an official statement on it but I've read that it's that the security model in iOS does not allow compiling code and then executing it, but Mobile Safari gets a unique bypass for this security. Other apps which merely embed a UIWebView are stuck with interpreted JavaScript.
Were you thinking of this? http://www.conceptart.org/showthread.php?t=870
Visibility is one part of the problem. 50k requests/min is only ~833/s. The reality is that a single dyno should be able to more than handle that sort of load, especially if it is a simple app. People are doing 10k connections on a single laptop, 833s should be a piece of cake. So, yes, visibility is a big issue here because you have no idea if you need 10, 11, 12 or 20 dyno's to serve 50k requests/min. You just guess and when you guess wrong, it ends up with cascading failure of H12's and other issues. Never mind that very few apps have a steady stream of traffic and most have big dips depending on the time of day and HN popularity... and now we are back to the auto scaling discussion.

Another key part of your statement is 'with very little variation'. The code pretty much can't be doing anything other than serving up some static content because as soon as anything that requires any sort of IO or cpu will instantly throw the system into H12 hell. Yes, a CDN will take load off your Heroku dyno's because god forbid that your dyno actually do anything itself. Except that you forget that not all apps are webapps and in my case, there is no reason to add a CDN when I'm just serving requests and responses to an iphone app.

The other part of the problem is being able to actually do something about it. I've tried anywhere between 50 and 300 dynos (yes we got that number increased). If we could just throw money at the problem that would be one thing, but nothing was able to resolve the H12's that we see and our paid support contract was no help either.

"If you're running a blog that serves 600 rpm / 10 reqs/sec off of two dynos, you don't need to sweat it."

Once again, we are back at the same conclusion... don't use Heroku if you want to run a production system.
Not only Rasterman. They seem to have hired a lot of Enlightenment developers.
I'd consider 45K a success in your case. By thousands I meant single digit thousands (in the 1K-5K range), not tens or hundreds of thousands. For some teams or individual creators with very low costs of living that's enough to sustain development, but at that point we're talking about living on less than minimum wage...
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Tracking Sensors Invade the Workplace
Though the problem space is already partitioned for you, to some extent, on a per-game basis.

Have you written anything on it?
Are you worried that you don't possess the ability to give off the body language of leadership and that eventually there will be a scramble to be the "alpha figure" and have control of the startup?

In terms of the "alpha figure", it's generally not good to have someone that thinks they can have control of the project on the team. Teams should be about having complete and total trust in the other members of the team, and the feeling of "where all in this together" is what pushes the team to succeed.

If you're worried about your ability to show leadership body language, you could start by making a conscious effort to make eye contact with you talk to for the duration of the conversation. This will be uncomfortable, but will force you to push your bounds of how you act and give you confidence to make other changes.

After that, watch Deep Space Nine and mimic everything Sisko does :)
Is Apple Doomed Without a New Product?
Opera on iOS is actually Opera Mini, which doesn't run a rendering engine on the device at all.

And no, Apple does not allow other rendering engines so much. Specifically, they do not allow anything that can execute code that is not distributed with the app. So for example, no JS engine that's allowed to run scripts that don't ship with the app, period (even without a JIT).
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> And what print with any meaning at all would not "be a thought" in ordinary parlance?

Exactly my point.
And now for your obligatory bucket of cold water:

http://scienceblogs.com/startswithabang/2013/04/03/itll-take...

TLDR: "Based on what AMS has presented, there is nothing to suggest that they have detected any evidence whatsoever for particle dark matter.... Calling it misleading is generous, because I personally believe it is deceitful, and it’s a deceit that I even anticipated a few weeks ago."
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I thought most of it is KDE's?
On the upside, free to play allows you to try out the game before fully investing on it. On the downside, if it's good enough, you will probably be milked more than the typical $60 retail in DLCs and in game items.

I personally don't buy games at launch anymore. I just wait for it to go on sale on Steam.
Ditto. The safety is just too attractive to pass up.
Prototype of collaborative editing in KDE Text Editor component
Ha. Try robots. 60 years and still no progress :p
From my limited experience writing simple crappy 3D engines and using pre-built engines such as Torque. You don't need much math knowledge at all.

* If you actually writing an engine, maybe some linear algebra, calculus. OpenGL/DirectX provides quite a bit of this out of the box. Yes you need to develop some special skills but nothing amazing.

* AI in games is generally heavily scripted. There is some use of common AI ideas in RTS games, for example Monte-Carlo Markov Chains was used in Dark Reign (I think Unreal tournament 2k4 did this as well). It's nothing fancy, most AI in games could be written by someone that took an undergraduate AI class. Writing AI is more about understanding the players expectation of the game.

* Pathfinding is also heavily scripted. In many cases they will just define tracks for NPCs to move on, the NPCs will move to the nearest track and then follow it to their destination.

>There are much fewer programmers working on game logic and many more resources devoted to graphics, physics, pathfinding, AI, tools, and so on.

Many game companies are using an out of the box engine, the jobs are in scripting the game which is primarily game logic and backend stuff, just really boring game logic.
Thank you! I tweeted this link earlier and had originally copied the "was", then realized it sounded wrong and corrected it.
The elements of a great customer support reply (and an example)
I know a lot of people who have for profit degrees. I can't think of even one that's not stuck in a dead end low paying job, constantly complaining on social media about how they can't seem to find a job that will put their "talent" to use.

It's like they have no idea that for profit degrees are a great way to get your resume auto-chucked in the trash. (Good luck trying to talk to them about it though. Oh boy...)
I propose that we sail away from this debate in the ship of Theseus.
What about supply and demand? Do you mean salaries shouldn't be determined by supply and demand, or demand "should" be higher?

Time-behavior + value-creation vs. value-capture.

Market demand for science R&D is pretty much nil. Basic research requires some kind of altruistic/passive funding (government, universities).

Market demand for the technologies that come out of basic research, decades later, is nearly infinite.

No one is going to pay, on the market, $150,000 per year for a biologist to analyze some weird protein. But when that work results in a cure for several common cancers, 20 years later, I'd say it's paid itself off by several orders of magnitude.
If it's not a currency it shouldn't act like one.

My terms are: if I win, you pay me a (worthless) Bitcoin. If you win, I owe you a stupid amount of money.

It's meant to indicate my disregard for Bitcoin's chances of success.
I was all worried about this being the beginning of a proprietary browser, Google owning both a majority of user services and a majority of their browser tech stack. Both hidden in some proprietary garden.

Then I stopped sucking and looked up stuff from the article.

Blink is a part of the chromium project, and is equivalently open[fn:0]. So that means it's equivalent to any other open source fork.

Mailing list drama, duplicating technical work, etc will happen but hopefully this will contribute to having even more high quality open web implementations available.

[fn:0] http://www.chromium.org/blink/developer-faq#TOC-Is-this-goin...
OTS: Open-Source Tax Solver
I agree. I mined bitcoins for a few months early on (2010). I ended up with about 100 of them. I didn't transfer the wallet when I reformatted the drive a year later because I had completely forgotten about BTC.

My loss isn't $10,000, because there's no way I would have held on this long. Realistically, I probably would have sold them once they were 5 USD / BTC.
Check out the Chrome Web Store. There are several tab management extensions. One's a quick tab list with a search box.
Note that with this derivation, if accept the assumptions (which obviously do not always hold), then all there is to 'viral' growth are three numbers, the current number of customers y(0), the eventual number of customers b, and the constant k. This situation holds also in the case of some customers leaving and never coming back (just by some adjustments in b and k).

For k, might fit to past data. For given y(0) and b, all k does is adjust how fast the curve rises to the asymptote. So basically all we are doing is interpolating between y(0) and b.

Otherwise, all viral curves are the same.

So, an advantage of my derivation is a simple, explicit equation for a fairly general solution.

The article has a comment claiming that biology addresses a similar problem and gets a 'logistic' curve. The comment didn't say just what was meant by a logistic curve, but I suspect that my solution here is an example. If so, then here we have an 'axiomatic' derivation of the logistic curve.

It is true that the growth of some products, e.g., TV sets, look to the eye very much like one of the curves from my solution for selected values of y(0), b, and k.

Could also make a Markov assumption: So, assume that get new customers (and, if wish, lose old customers) at some 'rates' and, thus, get a continuous time, discrete state space Markov process. Then as is well known the solution is a matrix exponential. Could evaluate the matrix exponential or just use Monte Carlo to generate a few thousand sample paths. Then could put some confidence limits on the deterministic solution.

Since no one guessed the war story, the startup was FedEx, the SVP was Mike Basch, the CEO, of course, was Fred Smith, the person who called on the phone was Roger Frock, and the investor was General Dynamics. The arithmetic was courtesy of an HP-35. So, HP might run an ad saying how they saved FedEx!
Mozilla JavaScript Supercharges Gaming Code In Browser
Opera's rendering was never the worst thing about it. The thing I always hated about it was its clunky bizarre UI.
Indeed. You do not have a responsibility to take care of your social circle, so dinner is expendable. Your kids, on the other hand...
If this market isn't being manipulated then I'm a monekey's uncle. I've been watching it on and off all afternoon, and I keep seeing it move rationally (ie price changes are a function of the size of the trade) and then irrationally (sudden discontinuities on tiny trades). For example, I just watched it decline from ~126 to 115 over a few minutes, and then suddenly jump up by +10 on a 0.03 BTC trade. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the efect of lag here, but it looks shady as heck.

Edit: Also, spreads of over 10% among different markets? Yeesh.
"If it exists, it can be measured."

So the new tarantula they discovered yesterday didn't exist until it had been measured?

Regarding the rest of your claim - I certainly do not become uncomfortable when religion enters the picture - I was a philosophy major, have experimented with the practice of a variety of religions, etc.

I seek truth, for myself and others. A prematurely closed mind strikes me as an obstacle to this endeavor. So I spoke up. Perhaps that was a mistake?

Regardless, I think we understand each other - you believe you know that karma is no more plausibly real than unicorns or leprechauns. I believe that this claim is unfounded. You think that this makes me insane/irrational. Have I got it right?
"It’s easy to forget this today, but there was no such idea as open source software before 1998; the concept’s seeming contemporary coherence is the result of clever manipulation and marketing."

Okay, even after reading and re-reading that, and the paragraphs around it for context, I still want to go "wat."
She needs to clarify there was no such term as "Open Source", not no such idea.
Tell HN: eBay Partner Network is revising their revenue share as of April 15
This is going public on the EPN blog on Friday, but high-volume publishers are getting a bit of a heads-up. The account rep didn't say anything about keeping it private though, so I'm sharing in case any other publishers want to get a head start on revisions.

Basically eBay in general is making a big push toward attracting new and infrequent users to the site.[1] EPN is changing their incentive structure to match that, increasing revenue share for traffic from new/infrequent eBay users, and decreasing it for other traffic. Assuming traffic sent from publishers remains unchanged, this will result in a significant overall reduction in the amount being paid out. (For us it's 40%; I expect that's on the high end of the range since most of your users already have eBay accounts, but it gives you a ballpark.) They optimistically state that if publishers manage to drive an increased number of new and infrequent users, overall payments may instead increase, but that remains to be seen.<p>As mentioned, this will apparently be up on the EPN blog on Friday, and the changes will take effect April 15. So if there's some way you can make your EPN displays more appealing to new or infrequent eBay users, you may want to give it a try.

On the plus side, they are also apparently planning to significantly improve the reporting tools, adding more details on what goes into the Quality Click Pricing calculation, as well as more granularity on the type of users being sent for each campaign, which will hopefully help publishers optimize for this new pricing scheme.

Again, I have no affiliation with eBay aside from being a member of the eBay Partner Network (their affiliate program).

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5413300
Where can I buy .ar domains?
I am in the United States and I am having trouble finding a registrar that allows the purchase of one-off .ar domains.
It's totally a personal preference. I'm more of a ruby guy, I have friends that are more python people. Try both and see what fits you better.
Yes. If you are trying to teach children "correct" grammar rules that they will go home and unlearn because their peers speak a different grammar, you are getting teaching very wrong and you should do it differently. As has been reiterated exhaustively in these comments, that does not mean you do not teach them SAE. It means you teach it so they actually learn it.

Don't take this the wrong way, but highlighting "your" vs. "you're" indicates you really don't understand what we're talking about here. That is a difference of orthography, of spelling, which is completely unintuitive and frankly stupid to speakers of dialects in which those words are pronounced exactly the same way. Any native speaker, however perfect you consider their English, must be taught spelling by rote. All English is "broken" in that regard. (Did you know there are languages where there is no such thing as a spelling bee, because there is exactly one possible way to spell any word?)

But we're not talking about that. We're talking about people who go home every day and speak a real language, one just as proper, correct, consistent, coherent as your own. Just different. Your insistence that your language is "proper" because it is the language used in formal speech by the rich and powerful is, yes, incredibly unaware of your privilege.

And your calling that "silly" is, o irony, quite ignorant. Did you read the article? Did you read these comments? Did you go on Wikipedia and look up AAVE? Southern American English? Appalachian English? These are not broken forms of English, these are forms of English you do not speak. This is all completely uncontroversial among people who study the use of language scientifically.
Would be great if you could also add links to audible, I'm always looking for hacker recommended audiobooks
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Between gameplay programming and tools, a significant portion of the programming staff of a AAA game will not be overwhelmingly mathematically inclined. That's only one of many outright lies in this article.
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Evgeny Morozov, while a talented writer, is a curmudgeon. To me, he reads like the lovechild of Dvorak and Ann Coulter, with none of the finesse ;)