skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only we could harness cynicism to power our cities!

There isn't room for a third platform. Android and iOS can force developers to use Java or Objective-C through sheer numbers, but no other platform has that sway. If you look at the market today, every single player is pushing to make HTML5 a first-class target for application development: Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, RIM, Canonical, etc. Apple's original plan for the iPhone was only Web apps.

The Web, in all of its glorious kludgyness, is going to win on mobile the same way it did on the desktop. Firefox OS is just one small part of that overwhelming trend.
שבע פרות רזות באות לסטארט-אפ השמן.
Well if WebRTC came out of Google, then by God it must not be the Open Web.
I'm for open-sourcing all ancient books and give humanity access to it. NO COPYRIGHT can be held on ancient books, the authors have died hundreds of years ago. The "holy" church and their banksters should open access for scanners to all their book too.

"Saving ancient books and manuscripts from Al-Qaeda"? What the heck?? I don't know how Al-Qaeda ticks, but I remember having read that soldier troops from the us and other countries ripped and/or bombed the museums and archives, during the many wars.
37 YC Companies have valuations of or been sold for at least $40 Million
> Two strawmen battle it out to see who will become the One. True. Scotsman.

Thanks, this is going in my "keepers" file ;)
Textual criticism is about two thousand years old. It isn't new and it doesn't have any new surprises that haven't been debunked. It certainly isn't "helping to reduce fundamentalist tendencies among Christians".
> I first heard it here on HN that one can earn $400+/h with a legal job!

You can bill $400. Large firms bill even more.

Lawyers have fat overheads, though. Nice office, staff, subscriptions to law publishing services, travel and so on.

Plus the big firms pound their fresh staff into the dirt. Bill, bill, bill or get fired. It's not a healthy profession.
The people who regurgitate shallow, flip bumper sticker slogans in the place of anything resembling facts or analysis.
The Guardian — Firestorm: The story of the bushfire at Dunalley
But why both? I'm not interested in pissing contests over who has the biggest number. What good does more money do me, if it costs me happiness?
How the Facebook Developer Platform Has Changed How We Use the Web
My android 4.1 tablet can't show the gradient...
Forget you knew this and get back to your life. Did we learn nothing from Weev? Do you think your competitor might like seeing you in federal prison? All it takes is one jerk at your competitor's company (or any of their investors) to call in the feds.
I'm not the only one who feels frustrated by these "news" articles based on rumors that a popular service might be changing, of all things, their UI?

If it changes, we'll see it when it changes. No need to talk about it before hand.
It's news because we only just found out about it. If we'd known about it for the last 12 years, sure, it would be silly to report it as news. But I'm not comfortable with the implication that if something can be swept under the carpet for a couple of years, then meh, it's no longer interesting or important when it comes to light.
A nice article, I have been trying to learn more about javascript recently, and the section about "this" reminded me about a nice moment I had while tring to learn.
I used to get confused about how the "this" binding worked in javascript. My moment of clarity came when I tried to do something like this:

someObject.someFunc = anotherObject.someOtherFunc;

Doing this kind of thing didnt work with the conceptual model of "this" I had from my years of C# where functions are bound to objects.
Then I realised that ofcourse the object referred to by "this" would have to change, how else would it be implemented when you have first-class functions that can be passed around freely without a lexically captured "this"?

Now I see as "this" more of an attempt to keep familiar syntax than something that fits with the semantics of the language. It really seems more of a call-context.
What is Debian missing and why is it Ubuntu's fault that it isn't in Debian?
Finally it becomes the respect it deserves. I hope the project will receive more respect and openness by those damn hardware manufacturers.

Keeping hardware artificially closed, needs an end.
Sorry for my naivete but what the range for founder-level equity?
Who will win the game platform war?
I am volunteering my time to build the site and manage the tech, payment processing, etc. Thanks for the note, I'll pass it on.
Mozilla is hiring! Mozilla has offices in 8 countries and hires many remote workers.

http://careers.mozilla.org/
Making Sense Of The Internet Of Things
I had demand for that and I'm so happy this got real!!
How is my statement "moving the goalpost"? I'm not moving any goalpost; I never claimed at any point that JS microbenchmarks were a good indicator of overall browser performance.

At a time when JS execution was a larger part of browser workloads (and the implementation techniques of JS engines were extremely simple compared to what was known to be possible for dynamic languages) JS microbenchmarks were a better proxy for whole browser peformance, although they weren't great at that point either. Today, all popular browsers have relatively decent JS engines and differences on microbenchmarks just don't reflect total browser performance as much as they did in the past.
How Hackers Stole $45 Million in Two Days
Photographing "Bullet Time" With Pin Hole Cameras
This is far from a new thing. In 1979 the Supreme Court decided (Smith v. Maryland) that pen registers and tap and trace devices did not require a warrant. The basis is that you have no expectation of privacy because a reasonable person knows that the phone company itself is privilege to details such as calling party, receiving party, time, and duration.

The 2001 PATRIOT ACT clarified the Pen Register Act, extending this privilege to internet communications.
Can you describe what we're about to click or include just the src or screenshot?
Do you have any suggestions for internet problems or projects that could use more attention? The question of "web versus internet" seems pedantic at first, but it is a thought-provoking. Privacy tools like Tor come to mind.
Metadata can be very valuable for all sorts of operations though. Should we really reject its use out of hand? Can we not simply establish guidelines for how it must be obfuscated?
The Power Of Data Exhaust
...restricting calories improves life span...

I suspect that your knowledge on this topic has hit its expiry date.

You are probably thinking of the various studies relating to rats and mice. However the correlation failed when we went to monkeys, and there is no reason to believe that it works in humans. See http://www.nature.com/news/calorie-restriction-falters-in-th... for verification of that.
Ember.js Hello World (based on Tom Dale's Tutorial)
It might be something to do with me not enabling the A20 line, I'm not sure if QEMU starts with it disabled or not.
I'm following this:
http://www.dividendgrowthinvestor.com/

Hopefully it works. As I don't really have 2 chances at this.
Is This Kickstarter Project the Future of Blogging?
Who needs investors Why many startups should bootstrap instead
How will you spend your 11 years?
.ar.com -> com.ar
The State of Dart [Dart 1.0 in Summer, next: VM in Chrome]
It seems that any problem with Firefox results in this user-blaming. How often is one obligated to reset one's profile? If extensions make the browser slow and unstable, do you expect users never to install any? Mozilla seems to have a real problem hearing criticism about its browser. But when you push it back on the user, the truth is that a lot of people aren't going to accept that blame. They're just going to ditch your browser for something which doesn't create this sort of problem with completely normal, average usage.
Is Google building my dream email product? Maybe
YC chooses >=10%
Some things to take into account:

* Might be IP-based banning?

* Banned domains?

* Banned username-styles?

* Might be in the middle of a new-account surge?
Where are you finding these worthy politicians? I've never seen one who was both worth supporting and had any chance of winning. I can't tell if I'm just really picky, in a bad area, not paying attention, or what.
The thing with every unit of a currency being trackable is it attacks the root of modern banking. There is no excuse for fractional reserve banking if the fungibility excuse is nullified by the ability to track every unit.
Show HN: Bitcoin Bleep - Bitcoin Price in an iOS Badge
We built this to embrace the invisible interface philosophy. We hope you find it handy.
US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for us to deploy rootkits
Yes, but within that base it's significant. Just as within other bases the corresponding number would be significant.

This is important because if you operate a system universally with the same base, the significant number begins to take on an objective importance intra-system.

Stated another way, it's mathematical semantics, the same as arguing an idea is not significant because you can express it in a multitude of different languages, each having an arbitrary words.

Developing via Django (Python) or Rails (Ruby) is similarly predisposed to making one think it's all relative, but when you look closely, the framework doesn't matter at all - there are universal abstractions inherent in web development.

The representation is arbitrary and insignificant, what is significant is what the number or word represents, and what you can do by unraveling it.
Yes, but the other number will have a similar number of digits in whatever base you choose. More precisely, the number of digits will be multiplied by ln(10)/ln(base) for both numbers.
>I'm not sure this is true. There is lots of sage advice out there pointing out what seems obvious to older, more jaded folks, which is that unless you are an actual founder, you'll probably not make too much money even on a successful exit. The information is certainly out there. It is mentioned on HN a lot.

What are you disagreeing with? I said that people know that startups don't on average pay more than big companies.

Most people I know who have considered the start-up option want the start-up experience for its own sake, not because they expect big financial gains.
> Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax Media) is a more credible news source IMO.

What?! Surely you don't mean scoop.co.nz?
Herald on Sunday is a different newspaper. Herald > Stuff > Herald on Sunday in terms of trashiness.
Protip: don't make your background image so monstrously large. It's close to 700kb alone :-)
Adobe: Please stop.
I think it was in Halliday and Resnick. I remember doing it in my high school physics class. We used the 3rd edition of that book, which was from 1979.
This seems more common then I thought, because the same thing happened to me in high school. Most teachers thought I was an idiot because I never completed a single homework assignment despite getting high marks on their exams. They held me back in mathematics and wouldn't allow me to enter any honors or AP classes. After many long arguments with the guidance counselor I was able to enter AP Chemistry and AP Computer Science which I passed both with A's. It seemed the only teachers who though I wasn't and idiot at that school were those two AP teachers, go figure.
Or to classify edible berries better.
If you don't have any real blocks, try Algodoo (www.algodoo.com). A fun (phun) physics program that is now free.
There's a 'the side' when working at an investment bank? I thought you guys pulled silly-nuts hours and had no spare time. The IB guys I read about constantly lament forgetting that they can't have a social life on weeknights when they get called in at crazy hours to fix up some higher-up's whim.
I find short term goals and check list help me focus. I like the feeling for completing something, and I can often get on a roll of checking things off the list. Also, in terms of coding I like to try and write what I need, even if I know it isn't optimal or complete; I usually figure out the solution midway through.
That last statement is wildly speculative. More likely is that it's because some key genes are present on the X chromosome but not on the Y chromosome. The same reason colour blindness is much more prevalent in males.
Limited gamut is far more of a problem than resolution. There huge swaths of human-visible color that can't even be approximated/dithered on a modern display.

The faint differences within the gamut don't bother anyone unless you stare and stare and stare.
> You can only asm.js'fy a normal Lua interpreter which is up to 64x slower than LuaJIT on benchmarks

Yes, LuaJIT is fast, but even their own numbers are nowhere near 64x being the mean or median,

http://luajit.org/performance_x86.html

Furthermore, these are microbenchmarks. Large codebases might paint a different picture.

I am also not sure why LuaJIT is the most interesting comparison. Yes, LuaJIT is a work of art, but even normal Lua is quite fast, beating Python and Ruby easily. So even a half-speed Lua-VM-in-JS would be competitive with other dynamic languages - which means it is fast enough for many uses.

Finally, we can certainly compile VMs that JIT, we just need to create JIT backends for them that emit JS (preferably asm.js). But LuaJIT is more tricky, as you note, because it lacks a portable C interpreter.
I solve problems. My experience in problem solving will never become irrelevant. It happens that I solve problems with code. With my experience in problem solving, I can pick up "new tech" quickly-- primarily because there's really nothing new. Things get smaller and faster; the real technological advancements are in the physics of storage and processing. The "advances" in software seem to follow what The Graybeards Of Antiquity dreamed up in the 1960s, now with a slicker, graphically enhanced user interface.

I see so many less experienced software creators going nuts over something "new" when it's just repackaged from a decade (or three decades) ago. It's interesting to see reactions when asked "how's that different from Q?" or "but what about problem J?" and even "ah, that's over here in TAOCP ... you know Knuth, right?"

EDIT: relevant quote from another headline on HN-- 'Calling a hierarchical directory a "folder" doesn't change its nature any more than calling a prison guard a "counselor".'
>Stuff.co.nz (Fairfax Media) is a more credible news source IMO.

I find just about everything published under the Fairfax banner is of pretty poor quality, not necessarily factually incorrect or even politically biased, but presented in a overly sensationalist manner and with a populist and oversimplified analysis where any is provided at all.

Both Mediaworks and TVNZ have similar problems as well.

Radio NZ seems to have more freedom to ignore certain demographics (the lowest common denominator), and IMO has better quality news and opinion than other sources.
This is what happens when understanding of basic economics and free markets is equated with libertarianism in most people's eyes.

Without an understanding of economics, people morally equate private transactions that raise the rent in an area (which causes no externalities) with polluting someone's water supply or running down bicyclists with your giant corporate buses (which are externalities).
I am disagreeing with the idea that the rank and file (primarily young) employees really understand that they are almost certainly going to make less money than they would working at a big company.

Anecdotal evidence on both sides, but most people I know who have actually gone into very early stage contemporary startups as non-founders were convinced (primarily by being sweet-talked by the founders and money people) that the company they were working for was going to be "the next big thing", and that is already a bad assumption for any startup. But the worse misconception is that even if the startup defies the odds and is quite successful, most younger non-experienced folk remain under the impression that because they were given "1%" of the company to sign-up (at the time when they actually signed up), if the company exits at say $100,000,000 ("real" money but kind of chump change in the days of Instatumblrgram) they will see $1,000,000... which is... not going to happen, not even close. By the time they are fully vested and the company exits, their 1% is probably more like 0.01% or worse. The realities of things like dilution of common stock are obvious to people who live on the money side of the startup world, but not so obvious (in my anecdotal experience) to the heads-down techie types who haven't yet been burned by it.
Well at least until the point some of those people you refer to decide that they want to run things another way, and muster up enough resources and support for such.

This tends to happen from time to time outside of the current constructs of the government at the time.
Newman's Own
Does it work on iPhone? I heard they had issues with Apple, and allowing you to download apps from the internet for your Pebble with iOS.
Depends on the valuation of the co., number of founders, and how many rounds of investment they've done (every round dilutes things). Basically though, if you weren't there when the company was founded, you probably won't have it.

Assuming a YC 3 founder model
After 1 or 2 seed rounds, likely 10-20%
Decrease by 20-40% per round after
AML legislation is already in place across the OECD; the US was a major sponsor for the multinational agreement that most OECD nations signed up for.
Maybe we should also brand Mozilla's asm.js as "JavaScript: The Fast Parts".
Isn't the universe still growing? Which means that at some point in the very far off future, the ratio of of the diameter of the universe to the diameter of a proton will be 43 digits? Passing thought -- since 42 _is_ the the answer to the Great Question of Life, etc., perhaps only a universe with this ratio of certain length can support life, e.g. when the universe becomes too large, there will be too much entropy in the universe for life?
The simplicity of git's data model is the root of the problem; that is the reason it is hard to learn and hard to use. It operates at a lower level of abstraction than the level we are thinking at when we are actually developing code. Git is less of a version-control system and more of a library one could use to build one, but in absence of any canonical high-level git wrapper, we all end up implementing and running one in our heads. This is a waste of brain-power.
No. Whether it's new depends on the specific meta data being captured.

Also, what is new is the scale of meta data capture and analysis capabilities enabled by current technology. It is silly to say that authorities have historically looked at postal addresses on envelopes, so that makes it also OK to sniff virtually all forms of meta data for all forms of electronic communications. You can extrapolate that point into inanity, such that virtually anything is fair game.

Here, you are literally using what was permissible with Pony Express technology to make the case that it should still be permissible (or is at least no different) in today's hyper-connected world.

But, at some point, technical capabilities render safeguards in old laws obsolete, and we must take a fresh look at long relied upon precedents. Some of those precedents are based on capabilities available at the time, long before many of those available today could even be imagined. When that happens, there is a material difference in implication and meaning.
I read that batch cooking can be quite efficient: You spent a day every month cooking a huge amount of food that freezes well. Works especially well, if you are not bothered by eating the same meal for a few days in a row.
eval is not only dangerous, it is also a very expensive operation. If you put eval inside a for loop you are going to have a very slow program.
Building Distributed Systems with Mesos - Meetup at Box
Positive Feedback Loops.

Plan - Outline - Allocate limited time for Sub-Tasks - EXECUTE!

Works just like this little BASIC program:

10 LET T = 10
20 LET N = 0
30 IF N < T THEN GOTO 40 ELSE GOTO 70
40 LET N = N + 1
50 PRINT N
60 GOTO 30
70 PRINT "Positive Feedback!"
80 PRINT "All Sub-Tasks are done."
90 PRINT "Your main task is complete."
10 PRINT "Complete your next project!"

(Btw. I just learned BASIC during this response :) See the irony?)
Reloaded the page a few times and saw just the first two sentences of the article. I understand why newspapers need paywalls — and I'm willing to pay for quality journalism, but paywalls (especially ones that kick in almost right away) make it hard to discuss articles that go viral on community sites like HN.
The real reason is that these genes sit on the x chromosome, which makes it possible for women to be heterozygotes. If one of the receptors is mutated and color-shifted, then women will be homozygous for the wavelengths of two of the three receptors, but heterozygous for the remaining receptor, which gives her two more wavelengths to interpret. Therefore, she will have a four-dimensional color space. A male with the same mutation does not have a normal copy of the gene, so still only sees three-dimensional color, with the third dimension different from what most of the rest of us see, which manifests as a type of color blindness, since the rest of society has engineered the world for normal RGB people.
This is a troubling thing to say.
I completely agree, but I want to add one caveat. People will often learn far more spending a year or two at a startup than they will at a big company. In the long run, that will often pay dividends once they get to a good big company.
If all you got is ~30 carefully picked packages to create a fully custom ISS installation

With 30 packages, what you've got is a toy, perhaps a single-purpose embedded installation, not a useful OS; and IMO the knowledge required to curate such minimalism has a high cost. I spend far more time updating a ~40G Linux installation than I do Windows - Ubuntu's package manager accosts me at least once a week. At least the pestering for reboots is a lot easier to ignore - I have a script in a loop on Windows, after once losing work to an ill-timed reboot prompt stealing focus.

EFI BIOS is know for a slightly worse performance for linux vs windows

No shit. I wasted a whole day - last Friday, to be exact - figuring out how to get Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS working on a modern UEFI machine with full disk encryption and Nvidia graphics card. UEFI doesn't supply old BIOS text routines, and Ubuntu GRUB2 defaults don't work, such that when you switch from nouveau's hilariously unstable drivers (hard X.Org crash if you move windows too quickly) to nvidia-current you don't get a prompt at boot-up to enter your password - just a black screen of apparent death. You have to configure a framebuffer that works with the Nvidia card and live with NVRM's kernel log warnings about only supporting VGA text consoles.

Most of all I really resent Ubuntu forcing me to learn how all these pieces are put together, so I could fix it. Using it as a desktop OS daily, I remain more convinced than ever that it is best put to work via an ssh session in a different OS. The command-line is the only UI on it that reliably works.
Just like how a 3-in-one printer/scanner/fax machine does none of those jobs well in comparison to separate dedicated devices, you get what you pay for.
The unwillingness to defend speech that you do not like renders the first amendment pointless.
That's why everyone needs to own a set of well made wooden blocks at some point in their life! Blocks let you naturally pick up some really great physics and maths through play, without having to know any algebra.