skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Would've been great if the author had contacted Elise to discuss the article.

Of course content should be used legally, but IFLS has grown so quickly that I think it's fair to defend Elise as having made an honest mistake, or simply not considering the issue until now.

Instead, Alex comes off as overly bitter, utterly failing to advance the cause of a "mutually beneficial relationship". Presumably in the pursuit of blog impressions.
Unless you're a founder, startups do not pay out
When I was living in Tokyo, I used to go eat at a mexican restaurant in Yotsuya where a fellow Houston-ite was the chef. She'd always give me a couple of free cervezas and maybe a discount. I'm white and she is mexican, but since she knew we were both from Houston she gave me a discount. I accepted it and never thought anything of it, and before I read your post, I would have been surprised if anyone would have.
With intrinsics, you don't have to think about register naming. You still might count registers to avoid spills (and check the assembly to make sure), but there is less of a mental context switch than writing straight assembly.
I used to think that, until I read this:
http://www.zerohedge.com/content/zero-hedge-conflictsfull-di...

In particular:

| The reality is, critical readers should read analytic
| posts and the rest of Zero Hedge* with the blanket
| assumption that the author is totally "conflicted."
| (Phrased more logically, that the author stands to
| benefit from being right--imagine that).

* Replace "Zero Hedge" with "News Site", "Blog", etc.
Tim Cook teases 'exciting new product category' and 'more surprises' in the fall
Read "Software Estimation: Demystifying the Black Art" by Steve McConnell [1].

[1] http://www.stevemcconnell.com/est.htm
These aren't simple extensions of good faith though - that would be more like wearing a pin "I believe in science!", which is a-ok.

The problem arises when people share untrue information out of the notion that they're spreading science. Comprehension is indeed expensive and scarce, which means recognizing the borders of your own knowledge and the start of your own ignorance is extremely important. Pseudoscientific drivel has no place anywhere.
Exactly my thought. I mean of course its not his fault, and I appreciate his confidence but the ad should be very easy to understand for the audience. I am not a native english speaker, and have an accent. If I were to make a video for my startup (and didn't have the budget for an actor), I would ask a friend to act.
"The convenience of custom commands like /etc/init.d/nginx configtest to check my nginx configuration syntax without affecting the running nginx service is useful enough to keep me from migrating my nginx daemonization to Upstart."

Needing to run "nginx -t" instead of "/etc/init.d/nginx configtest" seems like a minor tradeoff for the benefits Upstart provides. It's even shorter to type!
>As long as all you care about is x86/x86_64/PowerPC (and probably ARM as well), then you can trust that the compiler is going to generate code which copies the first two bytes of x into the memory occupied by y.

That's the thing that haberman is trying to tell you, you can't trust that any more, even with architectures you think you know. What you said was true about 10 years ago, but things have changed. Go read about "-fno-strict-aliasing" [1].

[1] http://thiemonagel.de/2010/01/no-strict-aliasing/
Ignorance is fine -- it is an unfortunate fact that nobody can learn it all. But to think that one is "engaging" in science -- I suppose most fans of the Page think they're somehow engaging in it (anecdotal) -- is, well, wrong.

As much as I'd like it to be true, looking at a bunch of .gifs about quantum mechanics and astrophysics plastered with white majuscules does little for one's understanding of science. In other words, IFLS is to the scientific community as r/atheism is to the religious-sceptics community (not the best analogy...).
My Best Mistake: I Could Have Launched Google Drive in 2006
Well, I was actually referring to Sigurson Cohen, but I take your correction because I had thought that Simon was Sacha's brother.
If you pledge an amount, the cash goes off every week... no need to remember anything.
I've run into this problem and I've gotten much better at estimating. Solution? You should schedule your sprints exactly by degree of difficulty (in descending, not ascending, order). During my design phase I focus on what the hardest problems are and always schedule my sprints to do them first. If you've abstracted away your planned functionality well enough you should be able to isolate that problem and go there first, no matter how much other functionality is intertwined with the feature. That way as you go further along in the project it gets easier, not harder, to meet your deadline.
There be dragons. The following program prints 10 on gcc 4.6.3, x86-64:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdint.h>

void f(uint32_t *x, uint16_t *y) {
*x = 5;
printf("%d\n", *y);
}

int main() {
uint32_t x = 10;
f(&x, (uint16_t*)&x);
}
>int8, int16, int32, int64 are all explicit and force the compiler (and the hardware) to obey the wishes of the programmer.

At least in C99, the compiler doesn't need to support exact-width integer types.

>People make much ado about the fact that "a byte isn't necessarily 8 bits"

Well, POSIX.1-2004 requires that CHAR_BIT == 8.
Alvy Brooks is not a YC startup, and we didn't ask them to do this. But it was cool with me, since they're donating the proceeds to Watsi. And the poster looks good.
That also suggests there is a natural ratio, something I for one don't believe. I do agree with part of what you are saying though - the work done in colleges and in the hiring space needs to reflect some sort of existing ratio of people who are qualified and interested at that point. However, I believe there is also significant work to be done to investigate any such natural ratio and fight against it if it comes from any sort of societal assumptions, as I believe it does.
I think what he was getting at is that you shouldn't overvalue the initial launch of the product and trying to get it "perfect". It's a lot more important to be persistent/ routine in promoting your product and then slowly fine-tuning your software to what the target audience really cares about.

I had the same sort of realization for my own project (Shodan). Early on in the project, I would try to figure out when the best times are to make announcements, how posting to social sites should be staggered, what day of the week it's best to post on Twitter etc. But it just sets you up for unnecessary disappointment, and instead it's better imo to just constantly release information. Occasionally, something will stick and you'll get the burst of traffic/ attention that you were looking for originally.
You can auto load with a number of third party tools. Early on, I had a Perl uploader that would space things out during the day to keep a steady stream of new files posting. That shot me into Explore top 500 frequently. These days I like FlickStacker on iOS and FlickrExport on OSX. I just post sets when I'm done with triage.

http://ipont.jubilo.ca/ip/flickstackr/

http://connectedflow.com/flickrexport/

I like Everpix too, fun to see what it comes up with for its "moments". Cool idea.
> who were called to be the first programmers of ENIAC.

Interestingly, Ada Lovelace, also a woman, is considered the first programmer. She wrote a program to compute the calculate "a sequence of Bernoulli numbers with [Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine]." [1]

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ada_lovelace
There's nothing wrong with my math. It's still profit margin (25%) times revenue ($400) equals profit ($100). You're confusing a different concept with what I'm writing about.

25% x $400 = $100
tl;dr - Don't let your hopes get out of control.

> We [snip] ended up with 11,000 downloads and 6000 sign-ups for our first day. Not exactly the day we expected.

It's hard to have sympathy for this. Admittedly they had lots of resources put behind them leading up to their big launch, but convincing 6,000 people to convert on day one of product availability isn't something to scoff at. What am I missing here?
Hi StavrosK, I'm one of the developers.

I don't know if this was clear from the homepage but we're targeting site owners. Many sites use mailto links because they don't want to go through the hassle of setting up a contact form. We're just trying to make that easier to do.

Edit: Thanks for the feedback. We can absolutely show the actual email address and even include a real mailto link inside the widget incase the users prefer that. We'll be implementing that right away.
What are the upsides to living in LA?
I run a popular fan page on Facebook, and if I know who the artist/author is, I will credit them. If I don't know who they are I say "artist: ?" and someone will always send a message to let me know who the artist/author is.

I too, sell t-shirts (through TeeSpring) and my latest experiment was quite successful - I found some designs on another t-shirt site that I quite liked the look of, emailed the artist and said I'd pay them $1.50 for every t-shirt I sold. They agreed, and sent me the images. I sold heaps, the artist made extra money and my fans were happy.
Interesting. I think ultimately user control is what you want here. For example, Trello offers a choice between Instant, Hourly, and Never.

For now Meldium uses a heuristic to batch so if only one event occurs then you still get the subject line brevity that you mention.
In terms of mangling, it reorders your vector operations, which can drastically hurt performance.

Do any production compilers schedule instructions to maximize superscalar performance?
It's not just a point of view, it's backed up by studies. Did you actually read the article? Plenty of grizzled veterans back this up anecdotally also.
How to configure MongoDB to log to PaperTrailApp on Amazon Web Services
I see dubious comments here. Data answers questions. Is there data to show that mailtos are annoying or that Squaresend is stickier than mailtos?
I'm surprised these guys haven't been sued by Microsoft yet. I think the founder himself worked on a similar project at MSFT called Hekaton and moved out. Atleast that is what I heard from a couple of devs he tried to recruit out of sql. I'd advise startups to be weary of jumping ship.
If I was in charge, I'd have fired the customer by now.

Some people don't know what bad business is. I find myself worrying less and less about the experience level of developers I have to work with and worrying more about the experience level of clients as clients.
Google buys Wavii for $30 million, mirroring Yahoo's deal
The tech behind Glass is amazing, and I'll probably end up owning one, or something like it. But Google is showing how completely disconnected they are from social reality outside of Silicon Valley: most people are still just getting comfortable with smartphones, and resenting their capacity for distracting their friends. Add in the fact that you never know if you're being recorded, and that the source of distraction is on the person's face, all the time and you've got a recipe for the worst brand awareness campaign ever.

I think the product is likely to find successful niches among hardcore nerds, security personnel, the military, maybe even medicine. It's cool and probably useful for all sorts of things. But most of society is going to draw a sharp line and hate this technology for at least a generation. (I'm probably too out of touch to predict what the kids will think.)
If I were in that situation, this by itself would be enough to make me do a chargeback.

Possibly over-reacting, but I hate it when people use underhanded tactics like this, and I'd be ok with losing my other games just to spite them.

Sadly, I don't own any EA games, so I can't do this.
I don't get this, why would anybody use this if a web contact form can be easily setup by any CMS nowadays?

I actually changed my contact form to a mailto link for some of my sites, unless the form requires complex input using a form builder.
I think we should relax about the idea that most people post inaccurate facts when they're cheering science.

Seems to me that a lot of the point of 'cheering science' is lost when you're posting inaccurate facts.

Can you even call it science any more?
Assuming the industry is 80% men and 20% women, and that the kind of genitalia you have doesn't affect your intelligence or proficiency in CS, and that the best, most proficient people should be speakers on panels... doesn't that mean that panels should be, on average, about 80% men and 20% women?

Anything more than that is over representation of women. This is just misandry I'm reading here.
If you like 'set autochdir', then you should try this plugin https://github.com/amiorin/vim-project
I am actively turned off when I click a "Contact Us" link and I'm taken to a form rather than seeing a new email pop up. Most of the time decide not to contact that business and look for one I can contact immediately via email only going back to the original business as a last resort.
> Do you think Outfyts will make online shopping better and simpler?

I don't know. It looks very slick. I'm just unsure whether many people actually buy outfits as a whole.

> Do you think you would use this service?

Probably not, I don't buy my outfits all in one go.

On the other hand the ability to quickly compare a variety of different combinations of things with your scrolling mechanism is a plus. I might buy a skirt because I can see it goes well with a variety of tops similar to the ones I already have. You might want the ability to stick things in the basket individually to cater for people who like to mix and match in that way.

> Imagine the one thing that you wish you could change about shopping online. Is there anyway that Outfyts can solve it?

I'm never entirely sure that something's going to fit. If I could just enter my measurements on one site and it could handle the working out for me, that would be good.

> [Polyvore] Do you like it more than Outfyts? Whats better, whats worse?

No, I don't like it more. The main thing that's worse is that it doesn't run properly in my browser (Opera). Firing up IE however....

Making me load the next page to see the next set of clothes is annoying.

Having the filters for tops and so on as tags that I have to manually take off rather than just being able to click a larger button to return to the root of the interface is non-intuitive. I may like a top and want to compare it with one of the skirts I've been looking at very quickly and then go back to the jeans I was just looking at and see them with another top. The ability to jump back and forth between different categories like that isn't really there for them.

It does let you sort by price and by colour. Which is nice.

Considering its drag and drop nature, it should let you dress up a doll - or an outline or something like that so that there's something visual to put the clothes onto. Not having the outfits all in the same scale so that you have to drag about resizing the things by hand is tiresome.
The antidote is to put a memory barrier in between the assignment and the printf.

*x = 5;
__sync_synchronize();
printf("%d\n", *y);

http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc-4.1.1/gcc/Atomic-Builtins....

The reason this example is fundamentally different from my example is because mine doesn't create two objects that point to the same memory. In such situations, memory barriers are necessary. Also, your program won't work on different platforms due to endianness.
I think everyone is clear that you're marketing this towards site owners. What OPs are saying is that, from the customer point of view, they'd prefer mailto links.

The customers of site owners (OP) are saying that they'd prefer if the site owners not implement this form.

I think that you're argument about how the mailto link is bad, is bad. You could argue that a mailto link should be added in addition to your product. The classic example is to have the email address lit up with a mailto link and a form just below it.
I don't see the relation between my criticism and your being on HN for ages, but you make a fair point. Sorry about that.
Looks very nice. But how stable is the Xcode plugin API these days?

BTW, what's the connection between the name "Alcatraz" and the idea of a package manager for Xcode plugins? Try as I might, I can't see one. I don't know why all open source projects need an arbitrary name these days - I would have simply called it "Xcode Package Manager". I don't mean this as criticism: I am just baffled by this phenomenon, and just a little bit concerned that we're going to run out of memorable names if every single niche project needs one.
wait.. what? Lulzsec died when Sabu turned snitch years ago. Who is this Australian and why is the article confusing the real "Lulzsec" with this random Australian guys antics.
When I was a kid my mother "decided" I was allergic to milk, and so I wasn't allowed to drink any. Milk ended up being one of my favourite things, in no small part because it wasn't something I could have whenever I wanted.

Maybe it's the same here :) Because you can only sometimes play it you feel compelled to because who knows when it might go down again?

Just a thought.
Hey waterapp, no, it was pretty clear from the homepage and the grandparent's comment. It's a useful product for people who want a contact form they don't have to manage (it'll make many static sites more useful), I just wish more people would just use mailto links.

Feature request: Don't hide the email address in the link, so I can right-click copy it, and add a small "email us with your email client" link at the bottom with an actual mailto. This way, we get the best of both worlds.
Full disclosure: I work for Counsyl. (In fact, if you watch the video at the bottom of the article, I'm the second speaker.)

The cool thing (well, one of many) about Counsyl is that there are a lot more things going on than pure biology and bioinformatics. Making genomics truly accessible is a software challenge that goes way beyond bioinformatics. There's obviously statistics, machine learning, and robotics running the lab; however, even more problems are pure engineering tasks. For example:

- How do you design the UI/UX around presenting data on 100 genes which can cause severe illness, but which most doctors (let alone patients) have never heard of?

- How do you efficiently accept orders from clinics across the nation, using a mix of web, paper, and EMR (electronic medical records) systems? (For bonus credit: deal with EMRs shipping fresh today on Windows 3.1. For double bonus credit: figure out how to bypass that ancient cruft and bring clinics into the 21st century.)

- How do you bill insurance companies when it can be opaque to even find out which insurance company pays for a given patient's procedures?

- How can you share data with the scientific community in as open a way as possible, without compromising patient privacy?

There's a huge amount of work to be done, so if you're interested in helping out, give us a look: https://www.counsyl.com/jobs/.
It's like asking why do women dominate nursing and teaching jobs? Is it sexism? Is it because men are incapable of doing the jobs?

How come there's no big outcry to equalize nursing so that men are 50% of the field? How about teaching, women also dominate that field.

Women outnumber men 2 to 1 in high school teaching. They account for 85% of all primary school teachers.

No outcries to equalize those numbers?

Must be sexism in high school teacher hiring.

Must be sexism in nursing hiring.

Must be sexism in primary school hiring.

Oh wait, there could be other explanations.
Dropcam CEO's Beef with Brogramming, Late Nights, and Free Dinners
Strange. I have not seen one positive review of this post and yet it made it to the top 5 on the HN homepage. Does that seem suspicious to anyone else?

Edit: up to #3 now. Who's upvoting this if everyone commenting is critical of it?
TL;DR:

# Myths

1. that DRM doesn’t work; that it exists to protect creators, but since it is easily cracked and can be worked around, it is largely ineffective and irrelevant

2. that DRM in HTML5 is a necessary compromise to finally bring an end to the proliferation of proprietary browser plugins such as Adobe Flash Player and Micrisoft Silverlight

3. that the web needs DRM in HTML5 in order for Hollywood and other media giants to finally start giving the Web priority over delivering media over traditional means

# Reality

1. DRM is not about protecting copyright. That is a straw man. DRM is about limiting the functionality of devices and selling features back in the form of services. (https://plus.google.com/107429617152575897589/posts/iPmatxBY...)

2. DRM in HTML5 doesn’t obviate proprietary browser plug-ins, it encourages them.
(https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/03/defend-open-web-keep-d...)

3. The Web doesn’t need big media; big media needs the Web.
(http://blogs.computerworlduk.com/open-enterprise/2013/02/bbc...)

# So sign the petition

http://www.defectivebydesign.org/no-drm-in-html5
It's pretty obvious if you are not paying attention to your surroundings while using Glass, your eyes shift up (you have to to see the screen) and it's clear you've zoned out.

"what is the user looking at on their screen, are they present, or distracted? Are they here and paying attention? Are they publishing this online right now? Or later?" is a made up problem. The other issues brought up may be entirely valid, but this one isn't.
You need decentralized security. Consolidating power to fewer and fewer people, governments, departments makes it easier for a single person to obtain a position of trust and abuse the entire system. This is why we should repeal the 17th amendment. It's easier (and less expensive) to persuade the populace and buy an election (and buy a Senator) than it is to persuade numerous state legislatures and buy numerous state legislatures. Swing and buy 51 elections and buy 51 senators or try to influence and swing 26 state legislatures consisting of hundreds of people in order to achieve the same results. Consolidation of power is a bad thing.
I think two things after reading this. First, I wonder, do men generally experience more positive reinforcement for the acquisition of skills, particularly ones requiring high intelligence, all their lives?

Second, I have never been asked to participate on a panel. Taken further, I've never felt welcome at any conference in this industry. For the most part, I assumed this was unique to me, especially since I wouldn't really enjoy this activity.

Oh, and another thing: I am lesser than no one. I've always believed that. It galls me to be treated this way, but I haven't the slightest idea what I'm supposed to do when it happens.
Really? I've been submitting my blog posts (infrequent as they may be) here since the beginning. I didn't know it was frowned upon, my bad.
I can't be the only one that absolutely despises infinitely scrolling lists, right?
Haha thanks. I forgot about that ... fun times.
Unirest, restitution for the unicorn library debacle
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The answer is simple -- each tab has its own separate history, and a newly created tab has no history.

In tab 1, you might have a long history of earlier sites. If you create a new tab 2 by any of several means from tab 1, the new tab has no history until you create one, a separate one for that tab.

This is generally regarded as a "good thing" -- it means you can have separate histories for different purposes in different tabs.

I am sure that, if a new tab inherited the history of its parent tab, someone would complain that that made no sense. And they would be right.

> (One hack that I've learned to avoid this problem in desktop Chrome is to duplicate the tab, then click a link regularly. This preserves the back history.)

All that does is create a history starting with the original URL that opened the tab. Just as you would expect.

It's as though each tab is a separate browser incarnation -- and that's by intent.