skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, you're right, thanks for the explanation. I was thinking of the iterated 2-person case, but I guess the logic is the same there (you can spin in the beginning of every round, of course).
> As for quora, well they are run by people who wants to make the world a worse place to be, so no surprise there.

I actually quite like Quora. Any particular reason for the hate?
GitHub's SSL Certificate Has Problem
How a nation of junkies went cold turkey
Why shouldn't the borrower shoulder most of the risk? If we shift risk to the lender then they will simply stop lending. Then people will complain how they can't get a loan to go to college.
I turned it on for a ~75k page and regret it. Does someone know if it can be disabled? I did not find anything in the settings.
> How will readers who do not already agree w/ him become convinced?

Because it's getting blatantly obvious for those who are not lucky enough to be part of us, technologist beneficiaries (so over-represented on this site)?
So, that's why even third-party programs are consistent with things like "Ctrl + N" to start a new document?

Sorry, that's an Windows standard and it didn't even start with Windows.
> When I switched to Android I discovered it is strongly tied to Google

This is a common misconception. It is very easy to replace Google apps commonly found on Android phones (such as Gmail, Google Maps, Google Talk, etc.) with non-Google apps. If Google's services start to get shitty, manufacturers will simply replace it with alternatives. For example, in China, where Android phones are popular but Google services are largely inaccessible (due to the government censorship rather than anything that is Google's fault, but the situation is sufficiently similar to Google losing its edge), Android phones come with Baidu as their default search engine. There was even a phone released on Verizon that had Bing as its default search engine (Microsoft probably paid Verizon a ton of money for that).
Why does their population growth have to be a negative? They are currently as big as China, which will have the biggest economy in the world within a decade. They should invest in the population and rise to the top.
In Vancouver a restaurant has a token program that seems to be working well.

http://saveonmeats.ca/sandwich-token-program/
At least we have such headline in 2013
To be fair to him, I believe he's quite an able programmer. His team won a facial recognition competition some years back. Their algorithm was (ironically considering his mysterianism) heavily inspired by the human brain.
"Died"? Second Life has a booming economy and a consistent 50,000-60,000 concurrent user count. Many of us still enjoy it; the only thing that "died" was the unsustainable media hype.
Funny, I have rarely felt that choosing to do a startup was glorified. Quite the opposite, every structure of social pressure seems aligned towards traditional careers.

I should also mention, having failed several times, that I was more employable afterwards because of the skills I had developed. For every Instagram, there are a 1000 founders that didn't make it but are now highly coveted by every major tech company.
Is it bad that this article still makes me want to have one of these?
Unemployable is not wholly in your hands because burnout is not at all in your hands, as evidenced by the startup culture that expects and rewards long hours even though they know how unproductive and unsustainable that is. Burn out is just another way of saying "major depressive disorder" or some other mental illness. It is not glorious and it's only in your control if you never start down that road.

Is it possible to create a startup and working normal hours while still having tight deadlines? Sure. Accountants do it for startups all the time. Why can't founders or developers? Likely because they're spending too much time working long and late, getting done in 4 hours at 2am what they could have accomplished in half an hour at 2pm. It is possible, but I have yet to see it happen.
I don't think anyone said anything about money, and "status" is such a vague term that it can be used to describe any concerns.
Words, words, and more empty words!

> But the likes of Bharat Forge and Mahindra & Mahindra prefer to employ sophisticated machinery rather than abundant labour.

Surely, it employs labour. Why does the author claim that machines are preferred over labour? What does he compare it with? Where are the numbers?

> At the other end of the spectrum are innumerable tinpot workshops, employing handfuls of people and outdated methods.

Sure, there are such workshops. Everywhere.

> What India lacks is a Mittelstand of midsized, labour-hungry firms.

Anything to back up this claim? How does India compare to other countries on this front? Where is the data? Where is the analysis?

> These include India’s notorious labour laws which, on paper, prevent factories firing anyone without the state’s permission.

Is this really true? What Act/Article Number should I be looking at?

My impression of the article is that it is a tale /
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, /
Signifying nothing.
Have you read The Innovator's Dilemma and its followup The Innovator's Solution?

I'm pretty sure that Kodak was one of the cases discussed. If not, it deserved to be because it was a classic example of the perverse incentives that destroy incumbents.

Kodak realized the future. Kodak invented it. But their film business dominated from a revenue perspective. At every point where they had to make a resource allocation decision, the fact that film was the cash cow gave people from that division weight, and nobody in other departments really wanted to kill that sacred cow.

When Canon decided to not depend on Kodak, they were not just doing that because they wanted to be independent, but also because they recognized that Kodak's priorities didn't match theirs. I wouldn't be surprised if the design advantages that Canon had were not there in part because they didn't have any internal politics around protecting a legacy cash cow.
Pissing trolls like you off, one at a time.
What a great reflection on the Internet.
They don't. Did you know that Android is more susceptible to malware than XP is though?

There are ways to protect business computers from the Big Bad Internet too. Can you think of any? I certainly can...
I love the word "obstreperous". You learn something new every day.
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Kodak made the first digital camera in 1975. It's pretty amazing to compare it to current cameras, since it's about the size of a bowling ball and took 23 seconds to record a 0.01 megapixel picture onto a cassette tape. http://www.retrothing.com/2008/05/kodaks-first-di.html
which book would you recommend?

he's austrian right... are there better or worse translators for his books?
What? What "goal posts"? Jesus.. not everything is a nerd war to prove something right/wrong. I have no emotional investment in the outcome.

I guess the only solution is to tag my comments "Hey this is a casual conversational comment" or else people read too much into the wording.
Apple has 80,000 employees. as for indirects... http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation/
Actually, I'm kind of wrong -- but kind of right. Pg. 80 says "You are the source of our anti-fragility" in regards to entrepreneurs. Basically it's lots of small fragililities which tend to create anti-fragility - hundreds of entrepreneurs trying to create businesses and failing over and over again, causes economic growth.

If you are able to live cheaply, and learn a lot doing something risky, you are being anti-fragile.
They were arrested, infiltrated, and attacked at multiple locations, over many months. They keep coming back, too, but that doesn't make the news. Right now, they're doing this thing called the Rolling Jubilee.

Also, hundreds of local OWS support protests and encampments happened, and they got raided, pepper sprayed, etc. just like NYC. Many of them are also persisting and fighting. One such group is Occupy Fights Foreclosures, which fights illegal foreclosures.

What is destroying the OWS image is the media, which actively ignores OWS. For some reason, they'll give a dozen TEA party people news coverage, but a larger (but still small) OWS protest doesn't get reporters.
Congrats! You'll now find your crazy, brave, audacious career choice to be fairly commonplace here in the Bay Area. It feels wonderful.

Ping me directly--I'd be happy to help you get settled here.
"[M]ulti GPUs may not have existed when XP was released"

The NT kernel had been shipping for about 10 years by the time XP was released. Windows NT 3.5 and earlier didn't have any kernel-level graphics (though they did have kernel-level drivers); kernel-level GDI came in NT 4 (1995-1996) for performance.

Windows NT was also used by some graphics workstation vendors like Intergraph and SGI, whom I presume did support multiple GPUs like most workstation vendors did.

Macs also had actual GPUs (not just frame buffers, but real QuickDraw accelerators) and supported multiple GPUs in the late 1980s - on System 6!

All it really takes is a reasonable display abstraction model/API, and an ability for that to interface reasonably with hardware drivers. Seems Linux could've handled that too - and it wouldn't surprise me if it did, at least theoretically.

I didn't follow Linux's initial development as 386BSD had already come out. I do remember the first accelerated X11 for 386BSD supporting some card with a number like 911. I don't recall that it required explicit kernel support, other than perhaps a bunch of ioctl calls or something like that.
I propose an annual International Date Format day, so twice a year we can give consideration to this issue.
I just went through college and I can say for a vast majority of students it's a sweet fantasy world of partying and fun paired with 2-3 nights of marathon study sessions before midterms and finals.

Then we see articles saying "Well we need more science and engineering students in our colleges because that's where the jobs are too."

Perhaps the non engineering students aren't getting jobs because they just breezed through 4 years of fun while expecting a reward and a career at the end.
Nice tear down of a planted story. Regular people were not the intended audience of this hit piece.
That's not a buzz word. It's a word with an explicit definition.
To get it in real time you most likely have to pay someone who is already collecting said data (Don't know who) or write software yourself and pay people to install it.

Is there any particular type of data you are looking for? Or is it simply anon user x went to page y on domain z
for starters you can't read more than one reply without installing their app. want more reasons for hate?
thats not a high user count. look at Wow or other popular MMOs. I bet the role playing stuff in Garrys Mod has more players.
Ask HN: Porting an X11 App to Mac
A friend of mine uses a gesture-based app on Linux and I'd like to port it to OS X. The code is open-sourced and available on Github but I have no idea where to start.

Got some tips, articles that could point me in the right direction?
Setting a static div width should not be undefined behavior for developers. It creates a situation where, if a mobile browser breaks the layout of a site in order to wrap text, the developer then has to go back and create a workaround for a single browser.
Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy reads like a play by play of what is happening. Read it, then look at what people like Graham, Thiel, and Andreesen say.
The cert chain is valid for me
Beta testers still required for new social website
What are the names of those funds?
New Orleans Mother's Day parade shootings
Orrrr the non sinister explanation, that few use it any more.
I have the impression that the landmass of India is insufficient to sustain its population. Let's say the food supply is managed perfectly (it isn't) and no one is going hungry. How about the fact that 60% of the population does not have access to reliable electricity? How about the fact that most big cities have scheduled power-cuts (mostly in summer) for 2-6 hours each day? Energy needs are just the tip of this iceberg. I think of India's population as one of the most significant factors in keeping the country poor and underdeveloped.
60 accidents + 30 murders EVERY.DAY.HERE.
Consider the security risks that any other CPA would be under:

1. Non-Google POP3/IMAP accounts

2. Any off-site backup service they happen to use

3. Any company that services their computer and thus has physical access to it

4. Their home/office network security

5. Their home/office physical security

6. Their IT guy's access to the data

7. Malware/virus risks

How many CPAs have properly implemented strong encryption on their email and local storage?

Tin-foil hat brigade aside - is Google Docs really in a different league to all of these other potential threats to client privacy?
As someone actively looking for a new job, I am getting severely frustrated by the number of corporate Web sites that now have an 'apply online' function that requires me to deconstruct my carefully-crafted CV into pieces that fit the un-formattable boxes on the web form. It took me over an hour to complete an application today. I suppose it gauges the candidates' genuine interest in the job though.

On a side note - darn fine IT Manager looking for a new home on the UK South coast - I'll email a CV - just don't point me towards a web form!
Most likely you.
My $56k/month Android sales figures and why its still great to build mobile apps
SaveAllTheTime: Git Commit Helper for Visual Studio
SGI, Sun, HP, even NeXT supported multiple displays, frame buffers, and GPUs.

You could put 2 or 3 NeXTdimension cards in a NeXT Turbo Cube, for example - each with its own i860 running Display PostScript and something like 32MB of RAM - and use a display attached to each.

And the other workstation vendors had even fancier graphics subsystems and options. You could get real time stereo (LCD shutter) 3D with full Z-buffer and overlay planes for UI use (requiring a few dozen MB of VRAM) for the cost of a sports car. And with some systems use several at once.

Find some old copies of UNIX World or Personal Workstation or BYTE from the era...
Ewor hopes to change the social networking with some of the project’s innovations.

What are these innovations? All I see in Ewor is copy of Facebook.
This recalled a childhood memory. When I was extremely young my first words were 'mum' and I used to refer that for thirst. So mum meant 'give me water' and since mother used to be around, she was the one to provide it. Or it could be that mother taught me to associate 'mum' with water as that was the word I could pronounce first. Hmm..
> Libertarian fiscal policy and lax government regulation is mostly to blame.

Not only is this claim entirely unsubstantiated, it's wrong in quite a few ways.

1) In the U.S. we have not had libertarian fiscal policy in the slightest.
2) We have plenty of regulations in most areas.
3) Even if we did lack regulations or have libertarian policy, this couldn't explain the shift that has happened.

A much more compelling and less baseless argument would be one presented by one of my Econ professors Enrico Moretti in his book The New Geography of Jobs. His argument essentially is that the way in which the U.S. economy has shifted away from manufacturing and toward technological innovation has resulted in a declining middle class and an increase in inequality. As globalization has set in, manufacturing has left the U.S. and with it traditional middle class jobs. On the other hand, technology has been booming, creating cities with a huge amount of wealth. So now we're left with poor, has-been cities like Detroit on one hand, and cities like SF on the other.

I suppose you could argue that not imposing huge tariffs and not being incredibly protectionist in order to protect manufacturing jobs is "libertarian". But these sorts of "lax" policies also have support from most economists, and for good reason. So I don't really know what you're arguing for.
Minix wasn't released in 1992, the first version was from 1987.
I thought that sounded familiar..

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1402241/
I think so too. I wonder how they got knocked out of my trusted CA list though. This is odd.
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The English translations have been around a long time and are fine.

His most known and discussed work is "Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy".

IMO the core of his relevance to Startups and economic growth is his early book "The Theory of Economic Development", which he wrote in his mid-20's at the turn of the century... but wasn't translated until 1934.

Drucker puts Schumpeter in context to Keynes:
http://druckersociety.at/index.php/peterdruckerhome/texts/mo...

(though keep in mind this essay was written in the early 80s when depressions were nowhere in sight; Keynes has proven pretty relevant)
> separate games with common avatar and spanning community

You described Club Penguin: http://mashable.com/2011/12/13/club-penguin-disney/

I'm not sure the common avatar is a prequisite, though. Steam doesn't have one, but Valve tries to build its social aspects into the games as deep as possible.
Anonymous MSFT developer admits Linux is faster than Windows
Apple's horrible maps, part 3
Can a vegetarian eat meat if it's grown in lab a dish?
Language-aware completion is called "omni completion" and triggered with <C-x><C-o>. <C-n> does keyword completion which is much dumber than its sibling but works.
There isn't as such, but there is things like WebGL which is more akin to the traditional style of programming 3D graphics (eg turing complete C-derived language rather than an XML-styled markup language).

I used to love VRML though. In fact back in the 90s I built a whole web site in VRML. Sadly it's problems ran much deeper than bandwidth and it's syntax. VRML suffered from the same issues that HTML did back then; every client rendered the document slightly differently. Plus VRML was a victim of being too premature as back in the 90s a hardware 3D accelerator was a thing of luxury - rather than now when even the modest onboard chipsets are relatively powerful. So most PCs just didn't have the horsepower to really take advantage of the 3D websites.

The weird thing is, despite it's problems - of which were many - I actually do miss VRML. It was fun and felt really futuristic. And while I don't want to take anything away from the developers who port cool demos to WebGL, the whole concept of virtual worlds has lost the same magic as it had in the 90s when people were building such things with no idea where the journey would take them (I guess like the decade before when I first got into micro computers and had no idea where that journey would lead me).
What internet radio station is "access[ing] your camera[,] shoot[ing] fucking video or pictures and run[ing] them through analysis" to "adjust its playlist" and ads "based on who it sees"? For that matter, what app is doing anything remotely close to this?
First thing you might be missing: there are probably a pile of folks on hacker news who don't have money. Students. People who have invested their life savings in their startup. People who work part time and see the world in the rest of their time. People who are spending their money on making sure their mum gets treatment for cancer. For these folks, getting the most out of the kit they can afford is important. And yes, thats a condescending statement aimed at you, but its not more condescending than "why don't you drop a couple grand on this problem?"

Second thing you might be missing: computers have marched forward in spec, yet most of us don't need tons of power in any dimension of the spec. My cheap chromebook ($200 or so) has 2G of ram. I went though uni with about of order of magnitude less ram, and was happy. The 16G ssd it ships with is sufficient for anything that isn't movies, music or photos. The ssd probably has more iops than 2005 era hard drives :). So the chromebook is low powered compared to the desktops of today, but its pretty powerful compared, to, for example, the computers google or facebook used to get off the ground.

Third thing: cloud compute. If I find myself needing thousands of hours of cpu time, I can get that on EC2 or similar. And its cheaper for everyone to rent cpu time when needed on a server in a well cooled warehouse somewhere where power is cheap, rather than have idle cpus connected up to city power grids.

I own a cheap chromebook (and I'm amused by you saying cheap in a negative way :)), and its fine for what it is. Its slim. Its not as sexy* as your mother, but hey. It has a debian chroot with all the normal tools on it. I don't worry about it being damaged or lost as much as I would if it was 5x as expensive. If I spent the money on a macbook air, I'd be buying a machine to run chrome and a terminal window, and all I'd be getting for my extra 800 dollars would be a nicer screen and track pad.

* I do wonder about people who describe computers as sexy.
I have a lot of mixed feelings about developments like this. On one hand, I'll tell people that food for me is about quality and flavor. I'm not opposed to pink slime for what it is, but because it just makes for a poor result. I'm in favor of this on a sustainability level, but very opposed on a quality level—not consistency and reliable textures and taste, but that sort of unquantifiable property that things exude when they just feel right. That's quality and it's just not going to come from a lab, in my opinion. Meat isn't just about texture and a taste, it's about /terroir/. Meat can be raised sustainably and humanely, it just isn't as appealing to your local food conglomerate looking to work on economies of scale. We can all eat /better/, live /better/ and be /better/ without all the trade-offs if we'll put a little more thought into our lives and a have a little more moderation of consumption. Oh, and waste less.
Apparently the iPad manual states that as such. Not a discovery, though apparently no one reads the manuals. Not really news.... All magnets can be problematic.

"iPad has magnets along the left edge of the device and on the right side of the front glass, which may interfere with pacemakers, defibrillators, or other medical devices. The iPad Smart Cover and iPad Smart Case also contain magnets. Maintain at least 6 inches (approximately 15 cm) of separation between your pacemaker or defibrillator and iPad, the iPad Smart Cover, or the iPad Smart Case."
I fail to see how filling out $2000 in paperwork will stop you from getting screws mixed up. Because that's what the cost was, apparently. Not the actual equipment.
That's kind of a facile question -- it obviously depends on the reason why they're vegetarian.
Add audio APIs to that list. If you want to do anything with noise control, echo cancellers or gain control it's a whole world of pain - in my experience HTC phones are particularly bad in this area - your experience may differ, depending on what type of app you develop.
I think also minecraft abstracts the detail, allowing you to use more imagination.
Depends on the reason you're vegetarian. If it's for ethical reasons, then they probably would. If it's for health reasons, then probably not. If it's for environmental reasons, then it would depend on the environmental impact of in vitro meat.
I'm impressed: it reveals how talented the French-English translator of Astérix is.
It seems awfully close-minded to be dismissing the whole idea of eating lab-grown meat due to some ineffable "quality" before you've actually even tried it.
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It depends on their reason for being vegetarian. Some think meat is unethical, those probably could. Others think it's healthier not to eat meat, those would probably pass. A friend of mine is allergic to most animal proteins - she probably won't want to eat that stuff either.