skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Especially since a quick Google will confirm that police officers often end up taking an unexpected retirement after complaints that they didn't pay for their sex.

For example, http://boston.com/metrodesk/2013/03/29/boston-detective-arre...
I had a lot of problems when I tried to use the Surface RT for that use case. Here was my review: http://ozar.me/2012/10/why-im-returning-my-microsoft-surface...
Arrgh. Title is total link bait. There is no news about SMTP here. The linked blog post is whining about XMPP, which is not being disabled. Apparently the author is a user of "XMPP Federation" (the ability to link XMPP servers together a-la IRC), which is also not being disabled. But apparently it might be someday, as the new Hangouts stuff won't support it.

So how did we get form "can't talk to your Hangout via an XMPP client" to "Google will disable SMTP"? Really folks, this site used to be better about this stuff...
Comparison fail.

What Google's been saying from 3 years while dragging it's feet is that Windows Phone does not have enough users to make an app for, but now their claim is that so many people are using the Microsoft Youtube App for Windows Phone that it's hurting the content creators. Huh? Why can't they monetize them by making an app and show twice as many ads in it just to spite WP users? No, they won't. They want to disadvantage Windows Phone compared to Android. Vimeo has had a Windows Phone app from a long time, and Google' can't afford to make one? And you believe them?

Why don't they come out with the real reason then, like Apple, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft, Skype, do about closing down things and eat up the bad press? Why beat around the bush and play delay tactics and hide behind facts? Oh, they want to protect their clean image of being "open" and "do no evil". This is a ploy by Microsoft to force Google to tell the public exactly why they refuse to make a Youtube app and even ban Microsoft from doing so.

How can Windows Phone have so few users that use YouTube that it's not worth monetizing and have so many users that use Microsoft's new app that it's hurting Google and content creator revenue? Why not agree to allow MS to show Google ads and make money since they don't have to spend the money to create the app but can take the profits?
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>I think programming is bound to drop more specific syntax and become increasingly like natural language

Why do you think that? Programming has never been like writing in a natural language, nor would it be useful for it to be. Natural language is inherently filled with subtleties and imprecision, both of which are anathema to the typical process of programming. When I write something for the computer to consume then I want to be able to know with 100% certainty what it is going to do, the probablistic parsers typically used for NLP couldn't guarantee that.
I am a bit surprised this happened. While working until 11PM every day is mentally frustrating, I am curious as to the physical toll it actually takes on your body. Said differently, is there a difference between being awake until 11PM every night and being at the office? I've watched analysts and associates in investment banking keep up this schedule for years at a time...

Now, if you told me he was getting in at 9 and leaving at 5 every day for 6 weeks, this would make sense and I can see how this would be problematic for Ogilvy. With what we have in this article, I think he suffered from a heart condition.
Agree, even though in this case the login screen is quite nicely designed. Login screens are a barrier like a locked door where you have to go into your pocket and find the key. Not pleasant psychologically.
What I mean is that since Goodstein's theorem is provably true for the naturals, but is not a consequence of the Peano axioms, then the definition of the naturals used to demonstrate Goodstein's must be strictly stronger than the Peano axioms themselves. I was wondering what this definition might be.

I'm familiar with the distinction between formalism and Platonism, although I still haven't made my mind up yet :)
Should be fixed now, thanks.
I still can't see myself ever wearing one of these. It's cool and all and I would love to write some custom apps for it, but its just not there yet aesthetically.
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It would probably be possible to make the extension use the system's installation of python if available instead of the one embedded with Sublime, but that would require some coding.
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I hadn't considered just how radically different a quantum computer would look. That is really something else, like the gauss gun from Half Life.
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Columbine had a major effect on the way US schools deal with violence, threats or even just weird kids.

9/11 had a profound effect on how the US deals with terrorism, threats of terrorism or even just brown people.

Certainly not the first, but probably the events with the most lasting effects.
Will Stringer get a two column/three pane view (e.g., similar to Mail.app, NetNewsWire) any time soon?
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It will be interesting to see what happens if rumored watches show up from larger companies. If that happens, I think Pebble is done. I have one, I like it (but I don't "love it!"). Pebble has demonstrated trouble with coordinating all of the moving pieces, from manufacturing to software and firmware. I don't fault them, it's a tough job, but their window is shrinking. At the moment they have yet to fulfill all of their Kickstarter backers, and I just don't see that happening until at least July.

Those 600 "apps" the article mentions? They're just watch faces (and a few small games, I guess). Those were built with an alpha version of the watch face SDK, with the warning that your watch could be bricked if you install any of those 600 "apps". A real SDK with two-way communication with the watch is nowhere to be seen.

Maybe that $15 million will allow them to get cracking on getting that SDK out the door. Without some real dev support, allowing them some real traction, I suspect they will suffer the same fate as Microsoft's SPOT watch.
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Pick your poison: mobile messaging will be fragmented, expensive, or locked-in
You're arguing pretty hard here. I'm not with the FAA, so it's not "my" safety culture you're arguing against. I actually don't have a strong opinion on this matter (I'm an EE PhD, but without particular expertise in RF; I don't feel qualified to have a strong opinion on RF effects across all commercial airliners).

OTOH, I do have some insight into aeronautical safety, and I'm trying to present that viewpoint, which is clearly lacking in this comment thread.
Isn't the fundamental problem that you spent 24/7 coding rather than "not having a real job" ?
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I've recently started going bouldering (indoor climbing without ropes) and it's pretty perfect for this stuff. You turn up to a room full of people all with different skill levels, it's very social, very non-hierarchical, talking to strangers is normalised.

Imagine a gym where 80% of the people are sitting on the floor relaxing at at given time (this is forced on you by the nature of the activity.) It's perfectly suited to geeks because its non competitive, you simply measure your own improvement, and there's a strong culture of peer learning. The other nice thing is that there will always be routes which will challenge you regardless of your fitness level, build etc.

It's apparently the new cool sport, so I'm guessing SV denizens will be spoilt for choice with regards to venues. Give it a shot, and remember to moisturise your hands between sessions :)
Good question! I might have, time will tell.
It wasn't just Google changing their rankings (to manually put their own results ahead of competitors), they were also scraping data from these competitors and displaying it as their own, which they continued to do after the FTC told them to stop.

Here's a good summary of some of Google's questionable practices around search (disclaimer: I wrote this for a class in college): http://thechronicle.github.io/blog/2012/06/01/dont-be-evil/
How about an "action" to let me archive/delete a message with just one click without opening it?
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I enjoy the site and the app looks nicely designed, but the boys vs. girls thing isn't interesting to me. Is this an app to find places to hook up with people? I don't generally judge cities, venues etc by the attractiveness of the people and an app for doing that should probably be aimed at a fairly specific demographic -- probably a similar demographic to OkCupid's.
What you miss is that I can source a dozen qualified PHP candidates in ten minutes just by searching my inbox for e-mails from recruiters I haven't yet deleted, that already know these things, and that charges substantially less than equivalently skilled candidates in a lot of the languages we both might agree are more elegant, if I'd even find those candidates - contrary to PHP, I don't have recruiters beating down my door to place candidates that are skilled in Ruby, and when I've helped friends find candidates for Ruby work, it's always far harder, and they end up paying a lot.

I detest PHP from a language writers standpoint. Programming language design is a hobby of mine, and I am a real snob about programming languages from a personal preference point of view, and PHP certainly does not measure up.

But I don't let my pet ideas about what a programming language should be like stop me from doing my job, which is to ensure we have an environment and team where we can get projects in on time and on budget with a staff that is both skilled enough and cost effective enough to keep us profitable. Is it possible to do this with Ruby? Sure. But the dynamics are very different, and the potential customers tend to be quite different.

I've written web services in a number of languages, including C and C++, and been responsible for systems in a mix of PHP and Perl that handled ~$50 million worth of card payments and invoicing, and I've developed Ruby based systems and hybrid PHP - Ruby - C++ stacks. When I can justify picking Ruby, I do, because I love the language. But I refuse to pick Ruby just because I personally like it and it has a higher coolness factor in the face of economics where it doesn't make sense, such as when there's installed bases or teams that are already skilled at PHP. It'd be irresponsible.
I think that you are absolutely right, even though we want to focus first on the 5-star rating of people and then we plan to offer a way to choose up to three pre-defined tags (as you rightly said hip, dive, etc.) to elaborate your rating of the place.

Sorry for the "Time Square" error, we use Foursquare venues and weren't paying attention, we will fix that.

We will also rethink our landing page in order to make it easier to understand what we do.

Thanks for the feedback ! :)
Changelog here:

http://hg.python.org/cpython/file/ab05e7dd2788/Misc/NEWS
You can even determine whether a scout is about to hit a sandman ball at you vs. when he has a normal bat out just by the slight difference in stance.

I've never had an issue with hats confusing what class I'm approaching.
> The MBA 11" is 19.2mm thick

No, it’s not: “Height: 0.11-0.68 inch (0.3-1.7 cm)” http://www.apple.com/macbookair/specs.html

The body has a wedge shape, on average 10mm thick: http://imgur.com/Ung7IQ3

> It gets the same run time per charge.

No, it doesn’t. The Surface Pro gets 3,75 hours of battery life. http://www.engadget.com/2013/02/05/microsoft-surface-pro-rev...
Hopefully in about a week or so Package Control 2 should be going beta. It includes a bunch of features to make publishing packages easier, proper ST3/2 support, better proxy handling on Windows and a new snazzy website to improve package discovery.

This should make it much easier to upgrade to ST3 since there won't be all sorts of manual steps to get community-built packages working.
Exactly this. I actually like the Modern stuff. The interface has some flaws (lack of a notification bar) but overall, the experience is good and interacting with apps is fine. The issue comes when you switch to the desktop and try to work with it as a touch interface.

One example was at launch, Chrome's build didn't work well with touch. If you touched a dialog, the on-screen keyboard would not come up automatically. Scrolling with your finger was near impossible unless you flicked up first... which made no sense. The desktop side of Chrome has gotten better, but I'm not sure who to praise for that.
The most important thing for a CEO to do is make sure that Bullshit never intrudes on the technical work. That usually means he or she not only needs to be a "10x" hustler, but also requires coming with the resources to get started on real work already in hand.

That's something we struggle with, as technical people. We want to believe that "what makes a good CEO" is meritocratic, but it's largely about contacts. Can this guy get us to full salary on an idea alone, so we can build something? Same for college presidents; they aren't hired for the work they can do, but for the contacts they can bring in to the university.

See, part of being a CEO is bridging the gap between the meritocracy we wish to create (because we won't be able to compete if people are already playing political games at <10 people) and the connections-based non-meritocracy of Bullshitland outside. Freedom (or meritocracy, in our case) turns out not to be free, and the CEO's job is to make it happen because most talented people come from the working and middle classes (this isn't a dig against higher classes; it's just that the lower classes are much larger) and have zero in the way of such resources.

That requires an extremely rare combination:

1. Comes with the resources (i.e. funding, contacts) already in hand.

2. Not arrogant about it. The problem is that people who have such resources are usually such dicks about it that they become sources of Bullshit, rather than being able to protect others against it.
Where exactly do you find time to do all that?
Many standalone recievers are just that- completely standalone. They just spit out a string of coordinates and other information on configurable intervals.
> For the record, this is not just Google. Facebook, twitter and others need to step up as well.
Or else what? To what benefit? Do they need to step up or would you just prefer if they provided customer service?
They are trying to grab more of the market by making Apple/Microsoft suffer (mostly Microsoft), welcome to the world of business. Good for them.
Pebble is in the land grab stage right now. Their primary advantage being that they are the first mover.

Their #1 priority is to win the hearts and minds of their users.

A successful kickstarter campaign is a good start but to create "raving fans" they need to be hyper focused in getting you to love the product. To adore it. Otherwise competition will rip them to shreds.

So those of you that have a Pebble? How do you like it? Is it everything you hoped for?
That's interesting. How does he work around the high-DPI resolution problems when connecting an external display? I'm assuming he's using one - when you say "a docking station as good in practice as anything on the market", that usually means an external display.
The just released the two-way SDK today.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/597507018/pebble-e-paper...
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I believe my company has purchased somewhere around $100k+ from Newegg by this point. I would suggest not always buying on price and look at what the company is offering... and one of those things has been always eggcellent (ha-ha) customer service. Also, they're not Amazon. They have that going for them as well.
We have many technically cleaner solutions, but in the real world other factors, such as ability to quickly hire sufficient number of reasonably priced developers, often means a lot more than technical purity.

A sane engineer considers the full pictures before picking a solution rather than pick their pet languages just because it's nice and clean.
The original worry was not over that the evidence of her actions might be used against her, it was that they might be used without the context, presumably by an algorithm or a mindless HR drone.

If you go through the trouble of hiring someone, you'll have the context. I can't immediately think of a job where it'd reasonable count against her, but it's not inconceivable that a such could exist - and if it did, she'd be wrong to withhold it.
That is very sad indeed if true. Isn't Microsoft trying to break into the ad business as well? I thought I saw something like that in some Surface Apps.
"It's dead, Jim."

But thank you. Regardless of its Y Combinator status, I continue to find Scribd a burdensome and annoying intermediary.
I am not 100% certain I understand the difference between XMPP support and XMPP federation support. I assume though if they are dropping the support to route between chat providers than my websites' Zopim chat widget that I use for live support will no longer be able to talk with my Google Talk and thus I will no longer be able to text chat with customers on my websites through my Android-based smart phone. If so, that's a real bummer.
A big part of the Metro nightmare is that the built in apps (other than the core shell) suck.

For instance, Metro lacks a file chooser where you can easily find files anywhere in your system. If the Metro interface had a good file chooser, you wouldn't have to drop out to use the file desktop chooser to find a file on any filesystem.

If Windows 8.1 adds a good file chooser and if Microsoft addresses a few specific problems like that, life in Metro could get much better.

I hope Microsoft can get its branding straight -- I find it weird that I click on a music file across the network and it pops up in a pretty Metro app with the tag line "Xbox Music". There's also some thing (which has never quite worked for me) called "Xbox Games" which I'm not sure will do anything for me if I don't own an Xbox.

Or is everything that runs Windows 8 an "Xbox" of some kind? And how come I see tiles for all kinds of music except for the music that I've got in my own collection?
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Yeah, I don't see any reason why is wouldn't, either. But on my statement, the chip transactions I had didn't list the merchant name or category (this was with AMEX), just some gobbledygook terminal number and a generic "Withdrawl".

It could be the way the merchant was set up, or maybe it's not done that way anymore, but I still don't see the point at this time.
For what conceivable purpose would you want to compare average thickness? I own an SP; it does not get 3.75 hours of battery life no matter what I do with it, and I could pull out a dozen review links to say that as well. Why are you trying so hard to make it look worse than it is?
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That is a trivial example - it easily pops out of the data with a pure freq co-occurrence measurement BUT as I said freq is only a starting point. LSI and co generate far more interesting graphs and can be mined in many ways.
We believe that when a place is crowded with what you think are cool people, it may very well be a cool place as well.

We do not target single people specifically but groups of friends. We think that friends who use the app together can have a lot of fun. The range of age is from 13 up to 35, even though the idea comes from a 45 year-old man. :)
"Startup times are drastically faster" - is that 1 millisecond as opposed to 2?
Should be fixed, thanks for the feedback!
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Change from the judiciary takes years and is usually piecemeal at best. And small wins like this undercut the urgency for legislative action. Ugh.
I think it takes quite a bit of hard work to establish connections too.
Has anyone used ST3 with Rails development? The code inspection/method navigation feature has me intrigued. I'm wondering how functional it is compared to Rubymine's capabilities.

Sadly since there's no demo/trial for st3, I can't try for myself.
I'm honestly surprised by that. How long until a VP at Google decides it should be pulled to align with the company strategy? I'm betting dollars to doughnuts that we won't see a youtube app in the next Xbox for these very reasons.
Here's my off the cuff reaction: Announce the cessation of all police, fire, etc. support for them, and see what happens. Oh, and be sure to publish the warehouse locations, while you're at it.
The moment I need to bring the power cord and adaptor with me, portability goes to "desktop replacement" levels.

People who work on the go need their 8h+ battery life, the more the merrier.
And, considering that it is coming from the world's largest software company, good software as well. It is surprising (although... not really) that Apple was able to ship a mobile version of their iWork suite for the first gen iPad, but Microsoft could not do so for the first gen of their own tablet.
For anyone who thinks death from overwork merits scare quotes: I really, really can't recommend becoming a salaryman, but it would change your mind.
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Please excuse my ignorance if I should know this already, but nowhere in the article does it explain what makes the author an authority on this particular topic. Perhaps a couple of previous experiences with different types of CEOs, some of which worked vs some of which didn't?
This is really awesome, so awesome that I'd like to pay for it!
I’m not sure what was happening with his MD file extension, but I don’t think it could be what he thought it was. Windows 8 has only one unified set of file type associations – there’s no concept of desktop versus “Metro” there. Probably the app just didn’t register for that extension?
I haven't read http://www.dwavesys.com/en/dev-tutorial-intro.html yet, but this also looks interesting.
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Two things:

(a) The money YC is giving isn't intended to solve capex problems like this. It's meant to make the first couple months of getting a minimal offering viable for small early teams. In the YC model, if the problem your business solves involves significant capex costs, you use YC to match your company with a next round of investors to handle that problem.

(b) The reality is that you do get enough money to fund a .NET stack when you get into YC, because YC comes with an assurance of immediate follow-on convertible note investment.

Neither of these two points makes .NET a better choice for early-stage startups than Rails or Django or PHP; Microsoft has to smooth over the expense problem with programs like Bizspark.
Fantastic piece! This should be required reading in all high school (or earlier) together with pg's essay "How to Make Wealth" (http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html):

Kids know, without knowing they know, that they can create wealth. If you need to give someone a present and don't have any money, you make one. But kids are so bad at making things that they consider home-made presents to be a distinct, inferior, sort of thing to store-bought ones-- a mere expression of the proverbial thought that counts. And indeed, the lumpy ashtrays we made for our parents did not have much of a resale market.

As he points out, most everyone loses this innate understanding of creating wealth, making stuff, as they grow older. This guy has rediscovered it.

Oc course, this would have been impossible without the enabler of shared space, so we should have more of these.