skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if there would be a way to have the Shenzhen/Hong Kong tech ecosystem while also having acceptable air quality. Hong Kong is probably my favorite city in the world, but the air is really bad (not quite as bad as Beijing or old Mexico City, but bad). I assume a lot of the pollution is due to less value-added industries and primary electrical power generation (using coal), which aren't really essential to a tech area -- you could run HVDC to send power from far away, or go nuclear. EV vs. ICE would move a lot of the transportation pollution away, and domestic needs could be more electrified (I think rural China still uses a lot of wood/coal burning domestically, which is bad for both indoor air quality and, in aggregate, pollution.)
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One way to I've been thinking about technology is how easily the outcome of a war between our current year and a prior year in the same country would turn out. For instance, could the U.S. of 2013 easily defeat the U.S. of 1993. I know for a fact that the U.S of 1960 would make short work of the U.S. of 1940. I think the U.S. of 1973 would give the U.S. of 1993 much more of a problem, however.
You cannot afford to hire anything but the best for tech roles
At the moment, the second fastest Xeon E3 (of those with integrated graphics) is $15 cheaper than the equivalent i7. They're not price-competitive with the i5s (which lack HyperThreading), but the E3 processors have been very competitive with the i7s since their introduction. The only downside is they don't get put on sale the way the overclockable consumer parts do, and they aren't widely known.
I believe you mean "effect", right?
This really worries me as an American. We're losing the entire culture of hands on production. Fry's and Maker Faire is great, but it's a drop in the bucket compared to this sort of thriving community.

I think the US needs its own Free Trade Zone. Let's put it on the US / Mexico border, allow anyone to take up work there. Promise 0% taxes for a decade and put up no trade barriers at all. Maybe that would bring some of this production back home.
Murder was the wrong word. I'm not a lawyer. I doubt it was premeditated. The fact remains that someone is dead, and the kid won't face any legal consequences and it was this ASA who made that decision. See the relevance? She can be as tough as she wants to and in the case of this curious 16 year old, she decided that trying her as an adult and bringing felony charges would be adequate. That's not right.
Now if we can only get semi-stable, long-term graphics driver support for Linux to be able to play these games. I think there may be light at the end of that tunnel, since hardware vendors seem to be providing more support for Linux now.
Yet another reason to lament the lack of decent mouse driver support in GNU/Linux. As long as I have to relearn how to move my mouse in order to play a game, I'm going to keep a Windows box handy for games.
And all my productivity evaporating.
The article is talking about Hua Qiang Bei, hardly the whole city of ShenZhen. It's what you might call a mall, surrounded by a modest shopping district.

That's like witnessing other parts of Shenzhen and concluding it's all about hipster kids with effeminate anime haircuts, shopping, video games, and HK tourists. Lots and lots of Hong Kong tourists.
I got robbed on a train just as I was about to get off at shenzhen once, it was in broad daylight and the train was full of people. Lost my phone. My biggest mistake was carrying a huge bag carelessly.

Keep your valuables hidden, keep a look out for suspicious people and look them in the eye.
I'd normally agree, but I think the vilification of chemistry is a subject of interest to at least the general "nerd" community. Another example in the same theme: http://science.slashdot.org/story/07/10/31/2256206/anti-terr...
By the traditional definitions, you have the lower class (proletariat), middle class (bourgeoisie), and upper class (aristocracy). People who work for someone else--in exchange for a wage meted out by that someone else--are lower class, no matter how high-up they are in their particular organization. Business owners (though this includes freelancers) form the middle class. People who have enough power to control the rules by which capital is allocated in the economy (and thereby basically have unlimited wealth, in a sense) are upper class. This used to be royalty, and those who could afford to spend all day bowing and scraping to them; in the modern day, it's congress, and the leaders of the industries who can afford to lobby them.

Interestingly, this class structure has been "rediscovered" in modern-day discourse, in the form of the MacLeod corporate hierarchy. It's harder to recognize within the context of a single corporation, but when you analyze, say, all of Silicon Valley in those terms (http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/tag/vcistan/), the class-structure leaps right out.
How long before Steam for Android? And Portal for Android?
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We wouldn't be having this conversation had this prosecutor made a different decision.
Thanks! Yes I am also impressed by how relatively easy this is to implement at the machine level. One thing I meant to do for that article but didn't get to is implement each of those algorithms in assembly directly and see if the C/C++ solution would compile into the optimal machine code (or something equally efficient).

In assembly you have the luxury of no undefined or implementation-defined behavior. This makes things a lot easier, since you can count on things like two's complement. In assembly these checks are probably as easy as (untested):

will_u64_overflow_u32:
; If any of the high 32 bits are set.
shr rdi, 32
setne al
ret

will_u64_overflow_i32:
; If any of the high 33 bits are set.
shr rdi, 33
setne al
ret

will_i64_overflow_i32
; If the high 32 bits are other than all 0 or all 1.
shr rdi, 32
add edi, 1
cmp edi, 1
seta al
ret

I'm not sure if these are exactly right, but I think the right answers are about this simple. Any of these could also be written simply in C/C++ also, the main difference is just that in assembly you can make machine-specific assumptions (like two's complement) since you're already doing something machine-specific.
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Great, would love any feedback. We're mainly targeting enterprises. I'll check out iKnode.
It's not a matter of when it was released, but that it's an indication that Valve is porting its Source engine to Linux. It looks like Future Valve games are going to be released on all three platforms simultaneously, which is a pretty big win for Linux.
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How about Google spend some
time fixing font rendering in Chrome on Windows? Firefox has nailed it but Chrome hasn't. Some web fonts are unreadable.
Relevant:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School-to-prison_pipeline
Google hires a “Chief Game Designer” for its “Android Play Studio”
I don't even know where you'd go in Chicago to pick up a private jet, and we're the third largest metro area in the country. Can you tell me more about the lifestyle support workers who can't afford to live near rich people here?

The fact is that SF and, to a lesser but still significant extent NYC, are hobbled in this respect by geography.
Well then, you are wrong and you are going to rot in hell for that sin as I told.
Well steam is already on android, just no games
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Like everyone else, I don't think this should result in a felony. But (apparently) unlike everyone else, I don't think it's particularly appropriate to build a small bomb at school, and I am pretty skeptical of the "I was just doing a science experiment" explanation.

I mean, when I was a kid we used to shoot stuff (with a pellet gun) and blow stuff up (with fireworks) because shooting stuff and blowing stuff up was cool. But we didn't try to pretend we were "doing science", and we were smart enough to do it in my backyard, not at school.
All that'll happen then is a lot of corporate headquarters move there from delaware.
Not sure you really read my post. I never claimed Japan was an easy country in which to integrate (on the contrary).
I'm convinced Phil is the puppet master behind all of the productivity in South Park(Slurp).
> “But I’m also going to try to talk to the guy at Facebook,” she said in the living room of her tidy two-room trailer, adding that she had read that the company’s chief executive, Mark Zuckerberg, had recently established a political action committee for immigration reform. “He’s trying to help immigrants, and immigrants are here.”

I'm not sure if she's being sarcastic. I'm pretty sure Zuckerberg doesn't care about the immigrants in her trailer park. He cares about increasing the pool of skilled technical works, which would bring his costs down.
I don't think so:

"how will that impact X"
vs "how will that affect X"
Well, things are getting a little crowded at 1209 North Orange.
Certainly! SML/NJ was a research platform first and high-performance/implementation second.

Defunctorization helps, but from talking with Matthew Fluet, most of the perf comes from the combination of monomorphization and whole-program compilation. You get to avoid all the hackery involved with trying to mix essential inlining (e.g., map, foldl) with separate compilation and the somewhat unpredictable performance that results when a user accidentally writes their own map function but puts it in a separate source file without magical incantations for the inliner.

Also, we're working to get the rights for the definition back from MIT press so we can both push out a free PDF version and update the bugs. There are several corner cases that Harper, Tofte, and MacQueen consider mistakes in the '97 version of the definition, but haven't really taken the time to push out an updated definition, after the ML2000 effort went nowhere. Follow up with me offline (contact info in my profile) if you're morbidly curious.
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That crashed firefox on my macbook pro even faster than I thought it would.
> Again the point is: simply sitting around being rich isn't intrinsically harmful to the lower and middle classes.

Fair. I've long held the opinion that, within reason, "less" income inequality is better than "more". However, your statement is accurate.
It depends on the specific case, since impact is used as both a noun and verb, while affect and effect in this sense are typically used as a verb and a noun respectively. In his two examples, one would be replaced with affect and one would be replaced with effect.
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Das keyboard, nothing beats that 80's IBM style and mechanical push distance, so light on the fingers you barley even have to push down.
Right now, they have an app with which you can view Steam profiles and text chat.

I'm excited for the eventual Steam Apk Store and Steam Games for Android.
"The images don't even have alt tags on them, Web Developer common sense rule #1 — Always put alt tags on images"
I think you mean 'alt attribute'. Alternative text is provided via an attribute on an img's tag, not as a tag in its own right.
In SF, I blame the high cost of living on misguided building over-regulation. If you have rising demand and a fixed supply of a good with inelastic demand, soon enough only the rich will be able to afford it.
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Interestingly, I was in Taipei a few weeks ago and I noticed there was a marked decrease in computers for sale. After chatting with a guy that grew up there, he said that when he was in school everyone was into EE and hardware. Now the tables have turned and everyone's into graphic design and a lot of the stores that used to be geeky havens are now selling stuff about design tools. Moving up the food chain, I guess.
Sounds about right to me. I'm not sure if "old money" could be applied when the money is gone, but I wouldn't rule it out.
I don't think it matters that Alexa works. What does matter is finding publicly accessible leading indicators of startup success.

Maybe those are watching the browsing behavior of experts in a field. Maybe it's watching for twitter references. Maybe it's sitting outside a company's office watching foot traffic. Maybe it's looking for who sponsors conferences. I don't really care what the indicators are; what I care about is that someone cares about finding them, and is diligent and intelligent enough to find them.
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http://www.chicagotraveler.com/attractions/palwaukee-airport...

Next flight leaves...whenever you want it to.
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Do they think their customers are stupid and will forget the incident?

Yes. They have done it before and people on here still recommend them with a straight face. It honestly confuses me that people care so little about security.
So you think it would be better to be a business? I feel like Asana does a lot of that very well.
As befits the culture, the answer is: yes, but it's private, and if you don't already know about it, you can't join.
The thing is, computers have dedicated hardware to deal with binary numbers. Compared to using strings (or other representations), they allow you to do math 100-1000 times faster (probably even more). When you actually start programming, you start getting used to these limits, and realise that for 90% of programs they don't matter. If your program ever did reach those limits, there are libraries you can switch to to get around it, which use alternate representations. But these can get quite slow, and hard to use.

So in summary, the best description is "performance".
Yup, I've been waiting for Dota2 on Linux steam for a few months now (getting the game to work via Wine & an ATI graphics card was one of the first things I spent hours figuring out after getting my linux box! http://www.hkmurakami.com/blog/2013/022_dota2_linux.html)
>>I don't think it matters that Alexa works.

It matters when it's used to handwave dismiss a valid argument and followed by "so don’t even try that line on me".
They are proud of what they're doing. Please, let people share their ideas and implementations. It's okay to rehash "older" concepts and present them to new audiences (who may not have been exposed to them).

If this isn't new to you, contribute to the conversation with additional examples or insight.

An oldie (but goodie) was on the front page today: http://www.thingist.com/item/4372/. There might be some valuable & relevant lessons to glean.
The psychological|mental|logistical externalities that come with taking on debt usually render this strategy invalid.
I was about to donate a toe.
Probably because your statement didn't include any rationale for your disagreement, and specifically didn't address his direct claim, which is that each of these was better than the alternative at their genesis. In disruption as described by Christensen, a market is being overserved by an incumbent relative to the needs of buyers, and the disruptor offers a somewhat worse product at a dramatically lower price, not a BETTER product. Google was superior to Yahoo along every dimension. Uber was a dramatically better experience than a taxi, and was also MORE EXPENSIVE.
There's also http://luvit.io/, a nodejs core (libuv) but with LuaJIT2
Extremely well said. It's not anti-intellectual to point out that tuition rates have vastly outpaced cost of living and inflation markers, and that ROI on undergraduate degrees are dropping like a rock.
I think may be referring to products such as:
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-naga-epic

"System Requirements
PC or Mac with USB port
Windows® 8/ Windows® 7 / Windows Vista® / Windows® XP (32-bit)/ Mac OS X (v10.6-10.8)"

I enjoy the ability to fully utilize my right hand and minimize the amount of movement I do to and from the mouse, both for work and general computing.

Depending upon what you want from your mouse ( in the case of the naga, do you want custom binding of macros to buttons beyond a numeric keypad? => if so you need the driver support :( )

A good alternative that I use on my linux machines is:
http://www.razerzone.com/gaming-mice/razer-lachesis/

Which has its own memory to retain macros(can be a pain to load, I have typically used windows VMs w/ drivers :/)
I can't imagine being able to walk up to the engineer who built the part and being able to ask them questions directly. No 4 day waiting period between ordering parts. Great piece guys!
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Ask HN: What format do developers want design instructions?
I spoke with a Facebook UIE who said all their designers can code to some extent but they actively discourage their designers from writing code. Any prototypes are built with the understanding that they will be re-built by a UIE.

There are hoards of wireframing tools coming out which allow you to export your work as HTML/CSS. I can't imagine this code being in any way useful?

So, do developers just want Photoshop files? Do you want working prototypes that you can rebuild? Or do you want to work alongside the designers, implementing their designs as you go?
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Generally it is because sites only show you the seed once; you can't get them to give you the seed again. You can just write down the seed or enter it into multiple devices if you know this when you set it up initially, though.
I play games at 1600cpi with a specific mouse with no acceleration. Even with the supposed fixes that disable acceleration in GNU/Linux, I don't get the same cursor response with my mouse that I would in Windows. In addition, my mouse's cpi can only be set to 1600 in software. This is especially problematic as I tend to play games where mouse accuracy is very important.
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Or we need to make China play fair. Implement similar environmental regulations, worker safety regulations, etc.
Having been to similar buildings/stores (though not quite the size of the Shenzhen ones) in Shanghai, it's very easy to spend hours upon hours browsing the crowded aisles. That's definitely one of the primary things I missed moving back to the states. Well, that and real Chinese food.
I left Linode after 5 years of being a customer because I can no longer trust them. I let the first issue slide as I thought they would learn and communicate better to their customer base but the second incident has shown they learned nothing.

Security issues will happen with any provider it is all in how a provider communicates and remediates those issues. Linode has shown it will not communicate thoroughly and does not talk about any remediation so why would you trust a company like that with your data?

The last incident was extremely sad for me because I thought I was using a company that I had a good relationship with. I could care less that CC details were lost as CCs are easily replaceable and protected against fraudulent use. What they lost was my trust which is far more valuable that my credit card number.
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Since you like Sublime and like Chrome, you'll probably also like the Sublime Web Inspector plugin. http://sokolovstas.github.io/SublimeWebInspector/
Of course; implementation of the idea is whitelist: allow used ports default policy deny all
Please explain why you think reality is inherently better than a virtual reality. edit: By the way, I get the sense that you think this is a grim future. I do too, but I think this is irrational.
It my understanding that they were being somewhat turned off by windows 8, but I could be mistaken.
There already was another comment pointing out that one could kill the process from another tty.
It is available, they just haven't changed the store page to say it is yet.
keeping around food i dont want to eat isnt going to help
Havermeyer was a lead bombardier who never missed.

Yossarian was a lead bombardier who had been demoted because he no longer gave a damn whether he missed or not.

He had decided to live forever or die in the attempt, and his only mission each time he went up was to come down alive.
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Now they're doing it over USB and Serial and WiFi. You're being too hard on us younglings.
I imagine this is going to be dealt with harshly. The government is very protective of tourists.

Immediately after the 2011 earthquake, a member of my party was crossing a bridge. This annoyed some soldiers who began pelting him with rocks. One of our guides demanded that the soldiers stop trying to kill his client and got punched out.

When the situation cooled down, the soldiers explained that they weren't sure if the bridge was stable after the quake. Go figure.

The solider who threw a punch was fined at least a month's wages. I wouldn't be at all surprised if these guys didn't see employment on Everest again.
"The vast majority of Googlers view you as a nutter, especially following your revelation a few days ago that you are thinking about killing people who ostensibly gave you bad references.

I don't know what you're talking about."

He's talking about this:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5625659

"Yes, I have taken aim at Google's management. If you are an engineer, you aren't in this fight and you should stay out, because I never did have any problem with you."

I think the reason many Googlers speak up against you is because of basic empathy: we see a group of people being unfairly maligned, and it's not right or ethical to keep secret and let that happen. It's somewhat unfortunate that the response of many of them has been to malign you, but you have to understand that your perception of the company is very different from many other insiders' perception of the company. Yes, it's quite possible you drew a bad manager; they do exist, even at Google. But you paint with an awfully broad brush, making grandiose proclamations about how the company is rotten to the core and run by sociopaths that should be shot, and I and many other Googlers just don't see it.

My manager(s) worked his ass off so that I and his other reports could have an environment where we're free to innovate, free to work on things that interest us, and free to accomplish things. A lot of mid-level managers burn out because of it, eventually getting fed up with having to reconcile so many different constraints and getting zero credit for it. My VPs also seem to usually make good decisions: I disagree with them sometimes (okay, often), but I can usually see the rationale behind them and the market realities that are driving them to those decisions.

Those decisions don't always go my way - I had 3 projects canceled within a span of 6 months in late 2010, and I just had my year-long research project canceled when 2 weeks before I'd been led to believe it was a long-term investment - but when I take a step back and look at the organizational forces, I can usually see how those really were the best decisions for the organization. Sometimes you can have a technically awesome solution that when you try to scale up to a team and bring to the real world, just doesn't work.
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No it doesn't.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiple_document_interface