skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As Google's product offerings evolve, the cost/benefit of providing customer service scales too. Providing personal support to customers who use search isn't scalable because Google makes fractions of a penny per interaction from these customers. Customer support for things like Google Fiber, Google Wallet, and Adwords is a whole different ballgame in terms of the amount of money Google makes on the average user so it is likely that there's enough margin there to actual scale customer support along with the growth of the userbase.
"Advertising is so close to lying" - that is a very limited view on marketing which plays an essential role in any business. It's more about seduction than about lying.

Seeing advertising as a lie is a black and white (true/false, all/nothing) view of things. Viewing the world under this lens will make you most often frustrated and bitter. The world if not black or white, it's full of colors.
He's also making a 'Dont' mess with us.' statement. I don't see anything wrong about he said. He's proud for what he did not just because it's his job but also for righteous reason.
It also partly depends on how often you switch jobs that require you to learn a new programming language. So far in my career I've had to learn new languages quite often, esp. on hacked-together projects with 3+ languages. It's not just learning the syntax but also the common idioms. Still, I'm pretty sure at least more than 50% of the time was using the language and not learning it, so the original statement stands.
Visuals and animations are infinitely easier to get "looking right" when you can modify parameters directly in a running app via REPL. That's possible with RubyMotion. In particular, check out https://github.com/rubymotion/sugarcube#repl-view-adjustment... .
Thanks for the report, I've sent up the Bat-Signal for our @atnnn (our Homebrew expert) to sort this out.
AWS Redshift: How Amazon Changed The Game
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The word fascism just has no clear concept behind it. It's a hodgepodge of historical movements and political ideas. It's impossible for it to not cause confusion.
Other sites doing something badly does not mean it shouldn't be done.

You're making the generalization that this app will also do it wrong, and maybe that's likely, but I think it's too pessimistic.

If every single application everywhere rolls it's own auth every time, you're going to have 10 auths (which according to security advice should be seperate) to remember.

regardless of implementation the idea of unifying (or even semi-combining) login is not a bad/not worthwhile idea
Android malware attack spreads via e-mail
Nope, operations on a single document are atomic, but not on multiple documents. MongoDB works the same way.

AFAIK, the only NoSQL DB with support for multi-doc transactions is HyperDex [0].

[0] - http://hyperdex.org/
Apparently standing desks can hurt too
Why is this needed in the markup? The autocomplete attribute is plenty. Everything else is just how the browser handles that attribute...

http://css-tricks.com/snippets/html/autocomplete-off/
Chrome-only. Firefox works but some code shows up in the window. Safari doesn't work at all.
http://fir.sh/projects/jsnes/

It doesn't seem entirely stable though.
How do you differentiate yourselves from OurSpot or Gigwalk, or any other such tasking services?
Exercise, fun, finding out what it is possible to do, etc.
Actually there is already a better submission for this https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5717647
I missed that part, thanks. I still feel like it could be abusable.
When I got dropped into crafting newsletters, I made the mistake of not looking into what different clients support only to find that my beautiful CSS buttons and the majority of the formatting was completely useless.

I agree a standard set of HTML and CSS for email would be a huge benefit.

It was only afterwards that I started noticing most beautiful emails are just sliced images displayed within tables. Thats right, tables.
What happened to it? It's still around. People still write programs that do one thing and do it well. You're welcome to use them.

Are you implying that there ever was a time when all programs did only one thing and did it well? Which era was that?
It worked for me in FF20.
Tried it. It was alright. Still felt like a chore, but I suppose you're right that it was probably a smarter choice of chore.
How do you find Enterprisey clients that let you work remotely?

Is it also word of mouth like most regular enterprise work or do you make yourself heard in some specific communities?
Ex-animator, now doing comics, here.

My experience has always been that "figure drawing" refers to sitting down in front of a live model, probably a naked one, and drawing them. You'll see people referring to drawing from pictures of naked people as figure drawing as well.

Diaz only uses the term once, at the beginning of this article:

"Figure drawing is a pivotal tool to any artist, but being able to effectively render humans and creatures is only part of the equation. Even if your draftsmanship is solid, you won’t get far if your designs are uninteresting."

By this, I think he is saying "it is very very important to be able to draw models from life and to know a ton of anatomy - but that's not what I'm here to talk about. I'm here to talk about character design." Which he then proceeds to do for the remainder of the article. (And I will strongly agree that a good foundation in life drawing will serve any cartoonist well, no matter how stylized their work is!)

In my experience, the most common usage of the term "figure drawing" in the fields of comics and animation is "man I'm getting rusty, I really should get some figure drawing in again but I am so BUSY."
1Password allows one to autofill credit card, address and other fields as well, you know. I use that almost as frequently as the passwords.
This is one of those times one regrets going to IT instead of EE. I can make sense of 10% of it.
That's not how contract law works. There are lots of laws relating to contracts that are, at least ostensibly, there to stop abuses of power from one party over another.
Hmm, my (admittedly naive) idea would be to render several shots of the product from different quasi-random angles and look at the final entropy/contrastiness of the image to find the most interesting one (the one that captures most detail).
Trying it out now and it seems pretty awesome. Does anyone know of a great tutorial about connecting a new RubyMotion app to an existing ruby app?
Speaking as a sometimes-introvert, it's very, very easy to go travelling and not meet anyone.
Works perfectly for me on Safari 6.
True, but significantly faster global optimization of multimode functions by any means turns out to be pretty useful for exactly the types of ML problems that are stretching the limits of current hardware. This seems like a promising first step towards technology that could be really useful if it comes anywhere close to doing what it claims.
Have you ever tried making a drano bomb?

It's dangerous because its possible to lose some digits if you hold the thing in your hand too long, but if someone were intentionally trying to lose a finger that way, they would find it more difficult than they imagined.
I see and I understand. Not to worry. It looked lime some weird misunderstanding since the beginning.
Quantum annealing is a real thing. Probably could make for some pretty fast optimization. What's the problem?
This is a flashier look at the TrackingPoint "linux" rifle from a while back.

However there is an interesting comment from a ex-military pro-gun control talking head

"Where we have mental health issues, where we have children that are disassociated from society early on, when we have terrorists who have political cards to play, we have to restrict weapons that make them more efficient in terrorizing the population," Frandsen says.

It is apparently too easy to become an instant sniper.

I suppose thats important if hitting the right target as opposed to any target is the point.
As Cheng points out, by fighting these trolls, they make themselves a more frightening target for future infringement lawsuits, so to some extent you have to find a way to take that into account. You're spending more now, but you'll save in the long run.
I thought the Big Mac agreement expired and wasn't renewed.
Going after increasingly smaller companies also means attempting to get increasingly smaller amounts of money from a larger number of defendants. Eventually this will become untenable, at least for larger operations like Alcatel-Lucent, because there is still an overhead of running such an operation.
Thank you for the comment, I was more curious about how to meet people in San Francisco and avoiding online dating, especially if you work in the start-up scene where you usually work with a smaller team of people secluded away from others (i.e. small professional circle). Just to be clear, I don't work 9-9 every single day, sorry I wasn't more clear. Just most weekdays and we do have a launch looming. I am guilty of being a workaholic. The startup is actually quite flex where I work, so we can go have longer lunches, run errands during the day, work from home, etc. My team goes out to party and let our hair down on weekends as well. I didn't join the startup blindly, I'm still young and have the passion to put a lot of energy in something I really believe in. Actually, truth be told, I wake up really excited about what I'm doing and I didn't have this feeling compared to my 9-6 job. But I agree I have to stay disciplined and that's the hard part. But like you said, it's definitely worth a shot. It's not a sustainable lifestyle as it is for the long run. It's easy to just put all of your energy into one thing. It seems like a lot of people I've met so far in San Francisco also have the same problem. Even those who would work for Facebook or Google.
They are both compiled and built on top of LLVM. RubyMotion is a fork of MacRuby, not a different design.
Sounds like a health-tech startup that's offering innovative dialysis products.
A tale of a support team – when Scrum leads to Kanban
Unlike an HTML form, this could show up in the notifications drawer on Android.

I for one think it would be pretty sweet if I could just tap a notification to (for example) verify my email address & archive the message, rather than involving a browser!
Quantum computing and operations research
"incredible amounts of customer goodwill"

It gives them goodwill the question is how much and what is the amount of sales increase? Hackers tend to overestimate the importance of things like this and not take into account those in flyover country or people who aren't aware of things like this. Besides publicity gain isn't a reason to pursue a strategy like this. That's not a gamble that makes sense.

"easy targets by patent trolls. It could end up saving them millions."

Companies have used similar strategies against legal predators for the longest time. Nothing new about doing that. Yet many companies led by responsible legal teams and management also settle and move on. This is not clear cut by any means.
worked in IE10 as well (still can't log in to HN using chrome...odd)
The SMS thing? It's basically just an Android app (gtalksms [1]). But I wanted a private encrypted network to control it from (I actually go further and then hook the XMPP server into bitlbee which is an IRC server for IM clients. So now I can control my phone, Twitter, Facebook Chat and Windows Messenger all from Irssi.

[1] http://code.google.com/p/gtalksms/
I wonder if this could be fixed by displaying SSL certificate status next to email titles. Much like browsers do for websites. This way before you open or at least before you click anything in the email you can see the validity of the sender.
What is the hardest part/ thing about being poor in America?
"but take Facebook"

...

PLEASE!

:-D

(with apologies to Henny Youngman -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henny_Youngman)
hey, I think you misunderstood, please see my comment above.
The good and bad of freelancing
OrientDB also has multi-document transactions, I believe.
"Completely Redesigned"? Sounds to me that software will never really scale without starting from scratch at some point. Why always something like this would require a complete overhaul of the existing design?
LDS is top of my toolbox for finding domains along with:

http://instantdomainsearch.com - for quick searches

http://www.domainhole.com - for expired domains

and sometimes http://www.wordoid.com for coming up with random words (increasingly a waste of time)
I agree that I'd like to have the chance to get really good in a language that I use for a long time. (As long as it's enjoyable, e.g. I wouldn't want to be stuck in VB forever.) At one point I worked almost entirely in Java (up until around Java 1.5). Another few years it was mostly PHP. But since then it's been a bit of everything.

Useful lessons from learning:
- Javascript -> Callback passing for an asynchronous computing paradigm. Object-array duality and prototype-based inheritance.
- Ruby -> Rubyists often like to be clever with chaining several functions on one line to do something succinctly. This is kinda like functional programming (operations like map, inject, fold, etc.) but just one small piece of it. Ruby also has lots of metaprogramming magic to make DSLs, but that can bite you really bad when you have to debug RoR GEMs.
If I remember correctly when you press power and there is no cartridge, then the power button flashes ;) Great work!
The argentinian official CPI is totally messed up, and it's been years with all argentinians knowing that.

In the US, the inflation is so close to 0 that the index can be manipulated without rising as much suspicion.
Man Flies Drone Near Seattle Residence
I don't understand the appeal of Glass.

The solution that it's trying to solve, which is at-a-glance information, just seems far, far better executed by projects such as Pebble.

With Pebble, there's a clear distinction when your attention is taken away from something and when it isn't. With Glass, that distinction is blurred so drastically, that it's impossible to ascertain whether or not an accident in any circumstance was related to Glass or if it was just distraction.

If someone was riding a bike, and checked their "smartwatch" (hate this term), it's obvious that they're doing it, and they'll know that they can't continue to look at it, otherwise they'll crash. But with Glass, if they look at Glass, they're obviously distracted too, but will they stop looking at the prism, or will they continue because it's transparent and affords a false sense of security?
this is amazing! nice work
Hi, I implemented secondary indexes in RethinkDb.

This was an intentional choice we made for a couple of reasons. The most pragmatic one was that we don't have an optimizer and we thought that secondary indexes could still be useful to a lot of people without one. And we've found it's always better to ship early and get feedback sooner rather than later.

Another reason though is we're not totally sure we're sold on the state of the art of query optimizers. From what we've seen they can introduce a number of non intuitive behaviors and it can be hard to tell which operations will use which index. Query optimizers are nice when they work correctly but they don't always work correctly so for the first release of secondary indexes we opted to make something that had very clear precise semantics and then build on it. We will eventually have a query optimizer but it's a big problem and we don't just want to implement what others have because we think we can do better.
YMMV.

I've used it in South Africa, Mozambique, Botswana and Namibia, and was very impressed. Little tracks that hardly qualify as a road are there, and reliable. The other big deal in that part of the world is that both maps and navigation are 100% functional when offline.
Have you ever learned another language, or lived in another country for an extended period of time?

Often when people say 'travel' they mean immerse yourself in another culture. One of the deepest learning experiences you can have that forever changes your view of the world and your own culture.

You may have already had that. But if you haven't, understand that travel is as varied a thing as reading. There is a vast difference between War and Peace and a blog post.
Apple Releases iTunes 11.0.3 (Screenshot Comparison of new Features)
If you knew inhaling anthrax powder would kill you, why did you suggest it in the first place?

To be fair, it wouldn't kill all of us to do such an experiment. Not that anyone would think it was a good idea either way. So even assuming the other comment was telling you to "kill yourself" is dishonest on your part.
Applescript forms an interesting counter-point to your argument - it attempted to use something as close to natural language as possible. As a result it is verbose, complex to debug, and difficult to guess at the syntax as applications often use slightly different concepts for the same things. It's never been a popular language with programmers, and has only seen more widespread use by non-programmers when it was hidden from sight with Automator.

In contrast many (but not all) of the popular languages to program in today are as simple as possible (Ruby, Python, Go, etc...), and have a tightly controlled syntax and limited keywords, partly inspired by the example of Lisp. They may allow constructing simple sentences with verbs (functions) and nouns (variables), but they are carefully limited in the sentences and syntax they allow, and often don't require any UI other than a plain text editor. They certainly don't require NLP or AI and I can't see any move in that direction.
Here's how to make travel fun: you know those things that you do on a daily basis that you're comfortable doing? Do other things.

Go to Las Vegas and stay up all night playing poker. The people you meet at a poker table in the middle of the night will blow you away. Go to New Orleans for Mardi Gras and stay up all night wandering the streets. Stay right on Bourbon Street and soak in all the city has to offer. Go to Amsterdam and stay in the middle of the red light district. I'm not into either of the two things that are legal in Amsterdam but illegal in the U.S. but what an unbelievable experience to see that city.

Be the person that has an opportunity to experience something fun and takes it every time. I'm married with 3 kids now and I have no regrets about being "tied down with a family" like some of my friends have. There will be a time that you will have no freedom and no free time to do these things; do them now or you and your future family will probably regret it.

EDIT: Oops - nevermind. Dude ninja-deleted his comment that basically said that he wants to travel and have fun but he just doesn't know how to do it.
> People shouldn't have to work below market rate (or for free, as they often do) to implement their own ideas.

I think this is the crux of what you are struggling with. A VC investing in your business is not hiring you as an employee. If you have an idea you want to implement as a business, that's on you. The VC is offering money in return for equity in hopes of generating capital for the fund's investors. The person managing that investment for the fund is paid a salary based on their ability to do that.

Conversely, you as a founder of a business are compensated based on your own success. Taking investment is not an indicator of success. Investment money is to grow the business faster than it could on its own. Revenue, and more importantly profit, are where you see your own success. The large exit for many funded startups is also more commonly heard about success indiactor, because solid monthly margins aren't a) usually reported for private companies and b) don't make very interesting news, where as a big sale usually is/does.

Starting and owning a business is an entirely different world from being an employee, and never should you apply the principles of one to the other.
I think the index says that with 6 pesos a person can be fed, not a family. Still ridiculous, but less.
Elements of a 360 Degree Customer View
Varies by the day.

Dicke is a perpetual candidate.
> It sounds like you've made your mind up about how the world works and that's fine, but I think you'd be missing out on some great experiences by not doing at least a little travelling.

I have travelled but I don't see what great experience I was missing out on. Could you give some examples of yours so when I try it again I'll know what to look for?

> I've also had several months off doing nothing but relax and I can tell you none of them were as productive (for ideas) as travelling was.

That is worthwhile and I will note it for the future. Having been out of work for 3 months last year I can agree with that.

> Part of it is meeting people with different views on the world means they present you with unique problems you would never have thought of alone.

Ah, but that feels kind of like a work-problem to solve. An agreeable problem but it's the kind of thing I do often. Besides, it's not like people in that country don't have programmers and need some american to come save them.
x100. Plus, I'll believe the government can regulate good customer service into companies the day I don't dread going to the DMV.
It makes joins possible without going through mapreduce.

This is pure gold https://twitter.com/shit_hn_says material :)
Thank God for Newegg having a backbone to stand up for what is right. Let the market deliver to them their just rewards - customer loyalty and increased profits!
+1, a good approach could be to still make users able to specify manually what index to use even when the optimizer will be available. Sometimes humans just know better.
You just made my general point in a specific use case. Anyone (individuals, groups of individuals, corporate entities...) should have freedom to voice against laws they don't like.
http://www.secureworks.com/cyber-threat-intelligence/threats...

The original study.
Btw how many users, actually allow sideloading?
"In addition, because the application does not originate from the official Google Play app store, a user has to enable the "Unknown Sources (Allow installation of non-Market applications)" option in the Security settings."
I doubt it. There's still money to be made shaking people down for IP.
The link was to the wrong version, initially. The "completely redesigned" referred to the entirety of iTunes 11, not the minor update.
The problem isn't that the government won't be able to collect taxes. The problem is it can't print bitcoins to cover the difference between what it collects in taxes and what it spends.
"Full CSS Nintendo NES" is a bit of a linkbait title. However, it's still kind of amazing, because despite knowing that CSS is not Turing complete, I still clicked on it hoping for an emulation. Which effectively means that I identified it as bait and then chose to eat it anyway.

Other than that it's a neat demo.
Startup Stories: SendGrid shares its passion for fixing email [video]
I had to compare parallel GoL in Java, C and Haskell on 24 cores for school
I would like to point out/plug an alternative to hg subrepos:

http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/GuestrepoExtension

I was part of the team that came up with it and I am inordinately proud of it. :-)
Really good point. People always say 20's is when life happens. But it's pulling me in both directions, either you enjoy your 20's by enjoying life (i.e. more focused on social life) or you heed the advice of older successful businessmen who say you should sow during your 20's and reap later on.
A map of the world, colored by racial tolerance