skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The opinions are what set it apart. I'm one who, when new to a topic, can quickly end up in a deer-in-the-headlights state if faced with a large number of competing approaches. I spend too much time flip-flopping and second guessing until I build some history with whatever it is I'm working on.

The Two Scoops approach is: we're two Django developers with a lot of experience, and here's our approach that has been successful which you can use. They go so far as to say, "you may hear about x/y/z, but here's why you can safely ignore that in almost all cases..." Works very well for me.
You Suck. The Coffee Pot Told Me.
Right. -0 == 0. The existence of a "-0" is a property of the underlying representation. The mathematical properties don't know about the sign bit, per se.
I quite like this idea and it brings us closer to the concept of a digitally fingerprinted will. Which I'd much prefer to the one that is stored in my solicitors filing cabinet, somewhere.
They're pretty good at letting you export everything you store with google.

http://www.dataliberation.org/
How do you know you haven't already? It's not that they walk with "ASPERGER" painted on their backs.
Why do you think people should be? There is value to anonymity, just not to Google. Therefore they are trying to eliminate it.
Ditto, and even if I had the option of turning my camera off, it would still make me paranoid, no less be sort of awkward that I was able to see everyone but they couldn't see me. Cams are more intrusive than my actual office setup is, which negates why I enjoy working at home in the first place.
We should stop this limited-precision dyadic nonsense and go back to first principles.

Natural := Zero | Succ of Natural

Integer := Positive of Natural | Negative of Natural
## Negative(0) |=> error in constructor

Rational := {num:Integer, denom:Integer}
## denom <= 0 || gcd(num, denom) != 1 |=> error in const.

Real := (Rational, () => Real)
## Lazy Cauchy Sequence-- user is responsible for convergence.

Complex := {re:Real, im:Real}

Quaternion := {re: Real, i:Real, j:Real, k:Real}

Octonion := ... ## NOW we can use FP because octonions
## are non-associative anyway!

Example usage (still pseudocode):

$ realMath.sqrt(Positive(Succ(Succ(Zero)))
-> (Rational{num = Positive(Succ(Succ(Zero)))
denom = Positive(Succ(Zero))},
#<fn () => Real@f73d>) ## function produces (3/2, fn)

## Of course, with a proper type system, we'd never let sqrt return a Real! Sorry.
## It should be List[Complex], like so.

$ realMath.sqrt(Negative(Succ(Zero))
-> Cons(Complex{re = (Rational{num = Positive(Zero),
denom = Positive(Succ(Zero))},
#<fn ...>,
im = (Rational{num = Negative(Succ(Zero)),
denom = Positive(Succ(Zero))},
#<fn ...>)},
Cons(Complex{...}, ## The other root...
Nil))
Like everything in the physical life, it's all about degrees. As a matter of fact, people with a high ASQ (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autism_Spectrum_Quotient) are very common in software industry.

There is even an online test

http://psychology-tools.com/autism-spectrum-quotient/

I scored one point less than the minimum to be considered in the Asperger spectrum, and I hadn't had any "symptom" in my infancy, so I wouldn't be surprise if you already had hired an Aspie without knowing.
The coin is a commitment to the serial number. Specifically the coin is g^s * h ^ r where g and h are generators of a group where the discrete log problem is hard, s is the serial number and r is some random number known only to the minter. If you only reveal the serial number and not the randomness, there is no way to know which coin it came from. In fact for any coin c there exists an r' such that c=g^s h^r'. As such, if you only know the serial number and not random r, it is equally likely to be any coin.

The zero knowledge proof ensures no one learns r.
This type of behavior is commendable. Cheers Rackspace.
And yet, noone's forked the GIMP just to change it's name. ("A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"...) Those other examples of forks you gave are also examples where a quorum of the major contributors chose a different path; whereas, in this case, the major contributors chose the name.
Mothers, especially those of young children, tend to be legitimaly, significantly busier than most of the other people.
Don’t Blame Windows 8 for All PC Sales Woes
Thanks for the ideas, voidlogic. We do want to capture server statistics and have that as an issue in Github [1]. I am particularly interested in capturing CPU and I/O utilization because in spot checks, we've observed some frameworks do not fully saturate the 8 HT cores on our i7 hardware, suggesting lock or resource contention.

As for a variety of other hardware and VM environments, the data would be interesting. Related: we plan to migrate the charts and tables to a stand-alone page. Right now, the blog entries are hard-coded to fetch two specific results.json files for rendering the charts/tables. But when we build a stand-alone page, I would like to enhance the script to allow selection of one or two results.json files from a menu for comparing side-by-side. And to your point, the community could then contribute their own results files. Imagine being able to compare EC2 large vs xlarge or vs Xeon E5s or ...

Right now, as you noticed, the latency is only displayed at 256 concurrency. I'll make a note to myself to include a chart for latency versus concurrency when we move to a stand-alone page [2].

[1] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/10...

[2] https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/issues/14...
We're working on it: http://juju.ubuntu.com

Here's a simple example with rails, you can do the same with node or django apps:
http://www.jorgecastro.org/2012/11/16/deploying-your-rails-a...
Nothing makes me want to become a rackspace customer more than posts like this. I adore integrity.
A Java library for fetching and verifying Brazilian addresses
StickyGram – Convert your Instagram pictures into portable magnets
Article has great points, but I must remind everyone of the unbelievably rapid pace the city is already being developed. Business in SOMA, let alone its status as an extension of the Valley itself, practically didn't exist 15 years ago; the real estate boom saw a huge number of affordable(ish) apartments turned into crazy-expensive condos that can sit vacant for months before a purchase, and the real estate bubble never popped on single-family homes in the more appealing neighborhoods. This has a nearly immeasurable effect on its demographics and tax base that the city can hardly keep up with. It also wouldn't hurt if resources were allocated for construction projects to be much more accelerated. I don't understand why large-building construction takes 3x as long in this city as others (and no, its not just permits/redtape).

Is more, and rapid, development critical today? Sure, maybe. Do I support it? Yes.

But its complicated...
Exploring the forgotten urban underground
Ask HN: How to handle great producer, bad cultural fit?
I work at a small startup. We have a guy, Dick, who is incredibly
inflexible and socially tone deaf. Pull requests can last all day as he basically
browbeats the submitter into rewriting the code the same way Dick himself would write it.
When someone doesn't understand something he's talking about, his method of explanation
is to simply repeat himself more aggressively. It's stressful to work with the guy.

On the plus side, he is technically very strong and cares a lot about the quality of
the codebase. He is great at explaining the reasoning
behind his very strongly held opinions (which, IMO, usually are the best approaches
to things). When talking with him one-on-one, he's actually a very nice guy who clearly
doesn't realize how he's coming off. Unfortunately, repeated conversations calling
attention to the issue haven't changed his behavior. He thinks he's simply misunderstood.

I'm at a loss. He unquestionably adds a lot of technical value to the team, but just
isn't fun to be around. We are small enough that losing him would have a very measurable
impact on productivity.
> Otherwise I have to do too much refactoring every time I change a function's name or signature.

It's 2013. Your editor of choice can do this for you.
> There is nothing Google Glass does that my smartphone already can't.

Did the iPad have features the iPhone didn't? It seems to be doing ok for being a different form factor for iOS. There may be arguments for the usefulness of Glass but I don't think this is it.
Great idea and what a fun way to read through commit messages

http://starlogs.net/#discourse/discourse

Also fun :)
I think that he actually has a little more than gut feeling here:

> about half the users under 10 are also over 90

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5537050
Reply to myself: If you're an Android dev, sorry I've never rated your apps, left comments or gotten ahold of you!

The Play Store REQUIRES a fully activated real-name Google+ Account to rate apps and leave feedback, so I've been wholly unable to communicate with the dozens and dozens of apps that request feedback.

Sorry friends. Blame Google!
Software development is a created process, like writing fiction. Imagine a fiction writer doing a 60 hour (or hell, even a 40 hour) work week to try and get more work done. It just won't work, certainly not long term.
Seems like a cop out, like you're blaming the public, sure some people don't care. What about the ones that do? Or all the people that vote? How can you engage, make them care, ect.
How the Banner Ad Was Born
The "effective" part is a measurement of the retention. In my case, we're talking about 95-98%.

I don't understand why people are so scornful of speed reading :\
Not sure what's more ridiculous - that you took the time to skew a perfectly reasonable poll, or that you expected anyone to understand your tortuous logic in doing so.

Just because you personally don't like coffee doesn't mean you should go out of your way to defecate in someone else's mug.
Bureaucracy thrives on classification. If something does not fit in a pigeonhole, it will either be pounded until it does fit or discarded as useless.
I'd forgotten the fonts were small, because I've had them magnified on this page for so long. I'm only old according to Peter Townshend.
NoSQL Benchmark Compares Aerospike, Cassandra, Couchbase and MongoDB
The visualization is great but the color coding is a bit strange. Wouldn't it make more sense to use green for low latency, yellow for medium and red for high?
EA's Origin has similar problems, it's pretty easy to social engineer someone's account (tech support will reset your password and your secret security question) and then they can buy a bunch of games before you notice.

Apparently the security hole was that you just needed to provide the email and birthdate to the tech support, then they'd go ahead and reset your info.

At least there's no way to transfer the goods onto another account like there is on Steam (yet).

The worst part about all this is when you ask the tech support how your password got reset, they always say it's your fault (you got a virus, keylogger, etc) and never that it's theirs (social engineering, database lost, etc). Guess you gotta keep face.
So I've only been playing around for a few minutes and have decided I actually quite like it for its simplicity.

However, I have a bit of feedback:

* I don't really like the tasks jumping to the bottom once I set them as complete
* A strikethrough on complete tasks would be nicer than just dark grey font

* The backlog doesn't function as I'd expect. The number seems to refer to the total number of incomplete tasks across the whole project, but clicking it takes me to the index. I'd expect the backlog to be any tasks which haven't been assigned to a goal (sort of like the index is now), then a separate function to show all incomplete tasks across the index and goals

* After adding a milestone and selecting it, I have no idea how to get back to the normal project view with the goals and tasks I have already added, except going back to the workspace view then back into the project

* Oh, looks like I click Backlog to get back from a milestone. The backlog feature now makes a little more sense. Maybe it would be better to have the Backlog link close to or on the milestone bar?
If IPR for screen-rotation ends up with nullifying the patent, can organizations like EFF start doing that pro-actively for other ridiculous patents like One-Click-Buy and Swipe-to-Unlock? Or does the patent-holder have to be proven as a troll?
Looks great, will buy. This is not a criticism of this book: does anyone have a hack to add syntax highlighting to any of the ebook formats? I understand why colored syntax highlighting isn't provided in paper formats, but I don't understand why publishers don't use it in ebooks on programming.
As long as you’re prepared to wait while the computer tries to figure out which branch to take on "if (a != 0)”, without knowing if it will ever make a decision =)
I'm not over 80, and I didn't answer falsely. I DO however kind of wish the font size were larger. I guess I can make a custom stylesheet for that, though.
This is relevant:

Simon Baron-Cohen Autistic Spectrum Test

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYys7rhRcDU
Transforming JavaScript Arrays with Array#map
I mostly hate San Francisco, but I don't think there would be any serious negatives (except displacing renters, predominately poor and minority, and SRO residents, which could if politically needed be addressed by other forms of assistance and resettlement) by completely redeveloping the TL, Bayview, and HP as high-density, and the Mission heavy rail corridor as at least the original 8 story plan.

The current Mission Bay and South Beach stuff seems to have gone really well.

Leaving Haight, Noe, etc. with the Victorian character would probably be enough to preserve SF's historical features.

I'm not really sure about increasing density in "suburban" SF (Sunset, Richmond) -- it's already 2-3 story apartment buildings and townhomes, so the next jump is up to 5 or so, and it's not very well served with transit now.
On the topic, this is quite an interesting TED talk given by Drew Curtis.

"You need to know that the average patent troll defense costs $2M and takes 18 months... when you win."

Drew Curtis: How I Beat a Patent Troll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_lb3D7Ay-M
I'm a sperg. I'm getting better. Meditation, vipassana. It uncramps your soul, unravels deep habits of attention, or something. It's miraculous.

Anybody here relate?
I'm not in Sweden but changing the locale to sweden doesn't show Feb 30: LC_ALL=sv_SE.UTF-8 cal 2 1712
DDoS cripples Bitcoin exchange Mt. Gox after trading resumes
Instead of lobbying, or fighting policy (the old way) hack together a crowdsourced version of a future San Francisco,and let the people chose how they want the city to look 400 years from now.

Something similar to the Manhattan Project, in New York, but instead of looking back 400 years, look forward 400 years.

The Manhattan Project, gives a mapped 400 year history of New York. One can watch the TED below.

Source:
http://welikia.org/
http://www.ted.com/speakers/eric_sanderson.html
http://www.ted.com/talks/eric_sanderson_pictures_new_york_be...
"IPRs can be risky and costly. We know this IPR will cost us more than the $75,000 that Rotatable wanted to extort from us. But we are not just fighting for us; we are fighting for all the app developers who are also in the line of fire."

Clearly the patent system is defective and needs to be fixed radically (or patents entirely eliminated in the software space, which I personally believe is preferable).

Nevertheless the above suggests a possibility for a shorter-term fix. If companies could proactively band together in some kind of association to fund IPRs for every single troll attack, spreading out the costs of the IPR amongst the member companies, it would seem that this would make life for the trolls much harder. Indeed, simply listing your company membership in such an association on your website might be sufficient to ward them off, same as sticking alarm decals on car windows wards off many would-be car thieves.
Haha, it's like "How not to write commit logs, THE MOVIE"
OpenSSL's license imposes additional restrictions which are not compatible with the GPL. Thus, if you release code under the GPL but want to allow people to link it with OpenSSL, you need to provide an exception.

There's an article covering the topic with much more nuance at https://lwn.net/Articles/428111/
But that's not really the same at all. There is a huge difference between not voting and voting with "don't want to disclose". The former is unusable as a data point, while the latter is something that can be analyzed and discussed.
How IBM is working with Masters to provide immersive digital experience to fans
So who is TechNet? It's not really fair to cherry-pick from their members when writing a story like this. So let's take a look:

http://www.technet.org/leaders/member-companies/

A headline "Tech group representing AT&T, Palantir backs CISPA" isn't good copy. But that could have been the headline. The "Executive Council" (which seems to be the part of the organization that draws the focus on Google and Yahoo) also contains people from Oracle, Microsoft, and VeriSign. And one thing that council doesn't do is sign off on every letter the group sends out (or, probably, every point in the policy platform it espouses).

I doubt without knowing exactly that Google's official position is anti-CISPA and that this group doesn't speak for them because they don't actually control what it says. But I've been surprised in the past.

Perhaps, though, people should read this and think "hey, Google ought to put some pressure on the lobbying groups they participate in not to be stupid/evil/whatever." And perhaps if a few Google executives express that they're upset that their names were used in conjunction with something they don't support, they can rein in groups that want to claim the mantle of "the tech industry".
They didn't just click in the < 10 and > 90 sections which, yes, were obviously not useful. They clicked everywhere else too, putting noise into the other fields.

I get to decide this isn't interesting because I'm half of the discussion. And I'm telling you, this is boring.
How to use Relative Layout in Android
I don't either (Chromium 25)
Can you explain why the city getting more tax revenue and its demographics becoming more affluent are a problem for it to keep up with?
Since you can use their last key click to determine if they're AFK, idle or active the way many chat/IRC apps work today, is it feasible (assuming they're using a smart phone), to use an app to determine if the user is using the phone capacity of that device and relay that via an icon in the chat? That way you're able to use the existing technology to figure out if they're there without needing to visually prying on them.
Kernighan's lever, the secret to becoming a better programmer
Is Social Media Worthless?
For single precision floats: adding 2^-25 (2^25 times) won't get you to 1 since the fraction is only represented by 23 bits...
Freelancers: any wishes? Please comment
My team and I have been working as freelancers for over 10 years now, and we have now formed a startup to create a software that will help the workflow of the freelancers. There is a little teaser video on www.powerlancer.com which can give you an idea on what we are working on.

Our goal is to build a software that can help the freelancers in every aspect of their work, help them become much more productive and save them a lot of time.

However we are very curious about your opinion and feedback! What are the main challenges you face as a freelancer? What do you think is holding you back the most? Is it finding new clients? Or dealing with the current ones? Not getting payed on time (or at all) after the job has been done? Or is it something else?

We want to create a software that really makes the life of the freelancers easier, so any feedback is much appreciated!

Thanks!
The problem with this is that you're thinking that these symptoms define aspergers. They don't - they're just symptoms, resulting out of other issues which you (and everyone else) can't see.

Just like every other medical and mental disorder, just because you have some of the symptoms doesn't mean that you have the actual condition. Jeff Foxworthy has a great joke about this - seeing a program on a disease, his wife says "I have everyone of these symptoms! I've got it..." To which he responds "No, you do not have testicular cancer!"

If you don't have aspergers, great! I'm happy for you; there are many things about being NT that I wish I had as well. But at the same time, don't classify aspergers as not being a real problem just because you share some symptoms without the underlying cause.
Without a doubt, one of the most honourable deeds that a company can do for the rest of the world. The courage and altruism displayed by Rackspace should serve as a reminder to any company:

We cannot afford to let patent trolls win.
As a temporary hack, could a performer shine really bright near-infrared lamps at the crowd? The cameras would show a white screen and nothing else.

I know Apple has a patent on a coded "don't tape this" signal via infrared and people could obviously bypass this trick with an IR filter on their cameras, but it seems like something worth experimenting with.
Top reason is documentation. So future readers can read about your intent and understand how the code functions. "Knowing your code works" is just validation that your documentation is true to what the code says, which is one reason why we prefer testing to comments.
There is no "real thing". Now you'll never be happy until you know you're filling as many execution units as possible, or that your loop targets align on cache boundaries, or that you stuff as many ops as possible across the likely-to-be-in-DRAM loads. Then you'll learn Verilog and start worrying about starvation issues in your own pipelines. Then you'll get distracted by a coffeescript REST app and worry about getting your MongoDB replication set up robustly.

It's all good. Some people are happy in a single niche, some never are.
Limiting marketing to less than that $1 billion that was spend on research makes no sense.

Perhaps; even if true, the fact is that drug companies claim they need patents (and other protections, both explicit and implied) to be able to recoup their R&D costs. If their R&D costs are swamped by their advertising costs, perhaps the problem isn't the cost of R&D, but mismanagement? I mean, honestly, it's not like they are producing luxury items. These companies are supposedly making a product that sells itself because their customers will die without it. To add to all that, arguments can (and have) been made that pharmaceutical advertising is a negative input to society by unduly influencing prescribers.
My second downvote I think.
A hack for adding it sounds like such a clever idea! I'd love that.
Winklevoss twins claim to have amassed $11m in Bitcoin
I agree, I wrote "good riddance" in the other thread as well.
They are nothing short of scam artists.
Well said. An ecosystem where paid promotion is the only path to reach the top of the charts incentivizes (even requires) the developers to become as aggressive as possible in terms of monetization, which often sucks for users and user experience.
No!

Why more density? What will that accomplish?

There are a lot of cities that could use the business.

The other side of the Bay. Stockton.

Stop cramming people into a closed space, it will result in a miserable and still expensive place.
"IPRs can be risky and costly. We know this IPR will cost us more than the $75,000 that Rotatable wanted to extort from us. "

Would love to have the breakdown of where the legal fees are going to file the inter parties review. To me seems like several hundred hours of legal work involved. (75000/400 approx.)

http://www.uspto.gov/aia_implementation/bpai.jsp#heading-1

(Wondering also whether the IPR stays any legal proceedings that have started or prevents any legal proceedings.)