skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a crucially important point. The question becomes: to what extent does the accumulation of capital, expertise, equipment in a corporation render a software engineer able to produce more value than working on their own, or in a partnership, or other arrangement?

I would imagine this varies dramatically by industry. I know several of the biosciences, for example, do require a lot of specialized people, equipment and tons of cash... Many of the areas we're seeing disrupted by startups are areas where you'd hit diminishing returns (from, say, more equipment / capital) rather quickly.
Which version of OSX? I'm on Mountain Lion and Chrome 27.0.1453.93 as well, and they are just boxes for me.
I'm reminded of a history class I had relatively recently. We were talking about the cold war, and the issue of modern terrorism came up. My history teacher made the point that, looking back, many people are nostolgic because in the cold war, the president could pick up the phone to the soviets and talk to someone rational.

I doubt anyone at the time thought that.
Hacker news seems filled with people who have no perspective on salary. Take a look: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Distribution_of_Annual_Hou...

Yes, CA has higher costs of living, particularly in the Bay Area. But 60k a year isn't bad by nearly any source you can find:
http://www.indeed.com/salary/q-Graphic-Designer-l-California...
http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes271024.htm
http://www.glassdoor.com/Salaries/san-francisco-graphic-desi...
Oh, well, that's a bit better. The article would have the reader believe that it's an automatic government seizure program and that the bank account holder only gets to find out their funds have been stolen when the money is already gone.
Yea :D

I read Rocket Boys recently so it was kind of cool finding Homer Hickam in news.
Sounds about right. My favourite part was leasing a server from 1&1. Even a little industry knowledge with regards to infrastructure would have caused someone to avoid them.
Haha.. am still tempted to say that still doesn't ensure a random distribution as it's a lot more likely you picked a link from the first few pages for search results. :P. Either way, your point is valid.
This is likely why it's not been noticed before, I'd imagine the practical consequences of this are sort of moot: If the X Server is untrustworthy, you've likely got bigger problems.

I'll admit, my first thought was X11 Forwarding, as I understand you could have a bogus X server to cause junk to happen on clients on a remote server with X11 Forwarding enabled, which you'd already need credentials for. Again, if this was viable, the attacker having SSH credentials is a bigger problem.

I can't see any way for this to be really damaging in the wild, but I'm not a security guy so I could be totally off the mark.
His anonymity and the truth of his statement have absolutely no correlation, not sure why you even think there would be a correlation.

You have a tendency of making people regret they ever get in to it with you so its not suprising a lot of people would prefer anonymity when getting sucked in to these little flame fests, lest they star in your next blog post.

Marissa Mayer for example made the mistake of meeting with you and you apparently made her angry or frustrated enough she walked out. Your response, years later, is to write a one sided account of it on your blog to try to make her look bad.
It was one sided because you neglected to really describe what you said or how you said it, or accept that you might have been at least partially at fault for making her want to leave.

She may have done some calculus and deduced it was a no win for her. She stays in the meeting, listens to you, keeps her mouth shut and just gets angry. Or she gets in an argument with you which would have been even worse. By walking out she probably took the option with the fewest bad consequences.
The way I see it you pretty much have two noble roads you can take in life:

- You can be abrasive, stick to your guns, and deal with the fact a lot of people aren't going to like you for it. You take this road you need to grow a skin thick enough to deal with it instead of whining and demanding everyone who is mean to you back be blocked. You might not be popular but there is honor in this tack.

- You can try to be nicer to people, especially people you dont agree with, and then its OK to expect people to be nicer to you in return. Its really easy to be nice to sycophants who agree with you all the time. That's what you do on your blog and Twitter all the time. It takes character to be nice to people who disagree with you and are willing to stick to their guns.

Or you can take the ignoble road you seem to take time after time. You go out of your way to abrasive, insulting and dismissive and slag people who disagree with you. Then when people slag you back, or walk out of the room rather than get in to it with you, or don't invite you to SXSW to speak, you whine about the fact people aren't being nice to you and expect everyone whose not being nice to you to be muzzled and ostracized.

Just some constructive criticism, please think about it. You have a lot of wisdom and technical brilliance. You would go much farther if you weren't hacking everyone off all the time. Its OK to hack people off once in a while when they really deserve it, but you do it all the time often for no reason.
GNU Unifont covers the entire BMP. Every character in the BMP has an 8x16 or 16x16 bitmap in the font.

A "unicode complete" font is more of a novelty than anything else. For real work, pick a collection of fonts that cover the space you need. Good Arabic or Chinese fonts are not going to be great Latin fonts. For that matter, good Chinese fonts are not good Japanese fonts, even if coverage is good enough. In fact, the order of precedence that these fonts have will depend on which language is the primary language. If you're typesetting Japanese with Latin characters, then you can just pick a nice Mincho font, but Mincho has unnatural spacing if your audience has native English readers. (So if you quote Japanese in an English text, pick a Latin font and use Mincho for the Japanese; but if you quote English in a Japanese text, you can use Mincho for everything.)

It's hard enough just to find a good Latin font that also has a good set of mathematical symbols. "Computer Modern" of course, and "Times", but these sets are rare.
"Remember, you have the option to drive 30m to Hayward from Palo Alto and buy a 3bed2bath for $330k. You don't have that option in lets say Vancouver, BC where a 3bed2bath costs $850k, and 30 minutes away in New Westminster, BC a similar house still costs $850k."

These prices and this dynamic are not even close to representative of most of the US.
Screen sizes are always, ALWAYS, given in diagonal length. Maybe people assume that a bigger diagonal length gives bigger area too, but that doesn't make the statement "bigger touchscreen" dishonest.
AngelPad’s 6th Batch Of Startups: Companies Working On Drones, Storage and More
> What's infuriating is when it's all the mundane stuff, because management took the exciting parts and made them political favors.

Yeah, that would be awful. Thankfully Google isn't that sort of place.
Learning to Fail or Failing to Learn?
My post on failure and how to deal.
My local (Australian) telecommunications companies say you _can't_ sure SMS as a "secure" channel:

'"SMS is not designed to be a secure communications channel and should not be used by banks for electronic funds transfer authentication," Stanton told iTnews this week.'

and:

'Today, Australians only require their mobile phone number and one of either their mobile account number or date of birth to move their mobile phone number from one service (or telco) to another.'

http://www.itnews.com.au/News/322194,telcos-declare-sms-unsa...

(There's an interesting discussion then where the banks say "you guys should fix that", and the Telcos effecively respond "our business is making it easy for our customers to do things like port numbers, not provide secure TFA channels for you without getting paid for it - not our problem…")
My first reaction to this story was "if you liked 'slice of pizza', you'll love 'pile of poo'". Good to see someone got there first.
I like it. I'd maybe adjust the split to favour content over the left image slightly more and clean up a few things, but the design is nice and I love the image panel. Been meaning to do something similar in a few ways.
Creator of Designer News here. We hellbanned the author and submitter of the story since this post is a thin veil for a get-rich-quick scheme.
I dream of that day..
Hmm.i couldn't find anything more that the wikipedia page(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_India) and this http://codeformumbai.org/ . But i think it's time for india to revise it's policies from purely caste based towards purely economy based. And indeed there are some changes on that regards (called creamy layer OBCs) see here . http://obcreservation.net/ver2/forum/6-ncl-what/2104-who-are...
To be fair - you do need the Twitter account password to do that - and if an attacker already has that it's too late to protect anything. So you're down to protecting against people who 1) bother going in to enable TFA, 2) type their mobile number in incorrectly, then 3) click through the "did you get a text from us" without reading it. Sure, making them type in a code you texted them would reduce _a_ category of problems, but I suspect it's a reasonably small category (I'd quite likely have felt OK to accept that problem in order to rush something out quickly with the intent of "fixing it" in the next week or two, but then I've never run anything at Twitter-scale, and I suspect a tiny percentage of users with problem adds up to a _lot_ of support time very quickly there.)
Found this interesting from the Wikipedia article:

An attempt was made in the 1970s to commercialize the ability of the fruit to turn unsweet foods into sweet foods without a caloric penalty, but ended in failure when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) classified the berry as a food additive.

I remember first hearing about these berries a few years ago when they were all the rage for a while, but had not heard that before.
I think you may not have understood my question. It is _trivial_ to detect integer overflow in virtually every major cpu I've ever seen. x86, ARM, PPC, MIPS, and many, many more all support this in a single instruction. Trapping, on the other hand, is extreamly expensive in modern processors, on the order of tens of thousands of cycles wasted. Furthermore, there are many cases where integer overflow is actually desired. My question is would be why would a cpu trap be a better solution than what we already have?
This was his _first six months_ as a freelancer. Making the switch isn't easy. Clearly he's a smart and determined fellow who has a mindset for optimizing his business. Based on this, I expect to see his income grow substantially quarter over quarter.

It's pretty easy to find a token side point in any post and make a dismissive comment, as you have done. On the other hand, his central point was a useful revelation to me, despite my 20+ years of startup business experience.

His post is excellent, and exactly what HN is about.
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I think this is because V8, the JavaScript engine for Chrome uses USC-2 encoding. USC-2 characters can take up to 16 bits, not enough room to hold most of Unicode 6.0 characters.

There have been previous discussions about the topic here on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4833631
> When I was born two big countries had nuclear weapons pointed at each other with the very realistic possibility of exchange.

The only time at which that hasn't been true was a brief period during the early-mid 1990s. India and Pakistan are not small countries.
This blog post linked from the OP is very nice:

http://clear-lines.com/blog/post/Support-Vector-Machine-in-F...

F# looks lovely, but I have yet to find good cross-platform 2D plotting and 3D visualization story.

(ActiViz would give me everything I need, but the current wrappers are several releases out of date - though there is an ongoing Kickstarter to hopefully fix that)
I don't think you're being a jerk, you just don't understand pricing differences in areas. If I wanted to commute 60 miles every day or remote, I could buy a house for 55k with land. A nice one.

Also, I like how you say "qualify for the HN front page" like it's some sort of accomplishment.
I don't think Unicode emoji make sense in the long run - even if they're handy in SMS, and fun to scatter around normal text boxes, it would be better to use chat protocols with their own sets of consistent emoticons (as, indeed, many mobile messaging apps have). Why?

(a) Details matter. It doesn't matter if my 'A' displays in a different font on your phone, but the difference between Apple's colorful, pixelated, Space Invaders-like rendering of http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F47E/index.htm and the server-generated image's outlined round tentacle monster is fairly significant.

(b) Emoticons (at least those beyond the core set) are things of fashion: we always want more, but old ones go out of style. Though depictions can change, we're going to be stuck with the current list of Unicode emoji forever.
So why do you think that an AI could do any better? You really think it's too complicated for people to figure out how distribute wealth fairly enough and that's why it failed? All an AI tasked with making things fair for everybody can do is create a plan. It cannot execute it, it cannot enforce it.

Why would people follow it? Why would some rich and powerful guy with connections forgo all his power to some CPAI that was set up? How would he maintain his ego when the world no longer shakes from his every footstep? How would he repay all the favors he made to those that got him there?

AI is just a tool, like the gun, the ship or the railroad. It's not some panacea that is going to protect human nature from itself.
An macros to rival, but not beat (they can't be!!!) Perl's!
They removed the screen images and changed the copy so it says

>The ASUS VivoTab Smart is lighter than the iPad, has more ports, works with more printers, lets you see two apps at once, and runs Microsoft Office and other desktop programs.

Glad this 346 upvotes and 216 comments compared to the Xbox threads that were flagged off the frontpage. Great discussion Hacker News!
I wonder if the next step would be being able to deliver drugs (atropine?) in a more targeted way (maybe tiny doses highly localized and recurring? I'm not sure exactly how it works) along with electrical or manual stimulation.

I guess another option might be a rapid way to put someone on heart/lung bypass, either in the field or at least in the ER, rather than only in the OR. Or rapid chilling, or both. I suppose if we either had long-term useful artificial hearts, or a more efficient/effective organ transplant regime, this might be more of an issue.
Well now I want to know.
You should set up some kind of tipjar so you can use donated funds to help buy him some food.
Web Application Development in Clojure (2012)
Amazon Changes HQ Plans for Something More Designey
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I agree low error rates are the most critical quality measure in aeronautical accidents. Am just not sure i would use that measure for text editors. If i have to operationalize my previous comment, i would say, i care about the amount of time i spend hitting the keys compared to the amount of time i spend moving around the mouse.

I suppose that's not what everyone wants and in the examples the OP gives he has a point.I agree completely on the car audio part, not sure about photoshop(not much experience designing), but have some frustrating experiences with photoshop to suspect he's right.
I was staring at this article for 30+ seconds before I got it! <:)
It's a movie set in an already defined universe, you can't just start adding new technology because we invented the cell phone. There's still a bloody lot we're missing, and just because those things are way above the comprehension of a non-physicist doesn't make them any less inspiring. It'll just inspire future generations to become physicists, to build things like transporters, artificial gravity, phasers, warp drives and huge spaceships. Just because we have tablet computers doesn't degrade the rest of the inspiration Star Trek still provides, and I think that's where this article completely misses the point. If you look at faster than light travel as a 70s idea, there's something seriously wrong with your view of the future.
Really, the goal is to use the right tool for the data analysis they're doing.

90% of the time, that's Excel; they're looking at reports that can easily be pivot tabled or VLOOKUP'd to get what they need, or use the strengths of the UI and auto-updating to get the formulas they want working in an easily tweakable fashion. For those cases, things like R, SQL or Python can be overkill, especially if you spend more time preparing the data format than it would take to use Excel, let alone analyze the data.

However, 10% of the time, they're pushing Excel beyond the limits of what it can handle and wasting time as a result, spending an hour doing massive VLOOKUPs between two huge spreadsheets looking for an answer that SQL can answer in a heartbeat. Those are the use cases I want to solve for; where the advantages of statistical software, scripting languages and relational databases overtake the powerful and convenient simplicity of Excel.
The unambiguously correct term they could have used if they were truly trying to tout their product in good faith is "wider". Calling it "bigger" when only one dimension is bigger and the other dimension and the area and resolution are lower is stretching the limits of good-faith. It looks like a deliberate use of an ambiguity to imply something untrue, and no, the marketing people don't deserve the benefit of the doubt that they might not have understood the difference between diagonal measurement and area measurement.
Segoe UI Symbol has quite a few, not sure if it covers all of them though.
Adobe InDesign and Illustrator support composite fonts. Designers can mix and match Latin and Japanese / CJK glyphs, tweak them individually, and use overrides for tricky code points.

Web typography is a different beast because fonts can be bloat-y.
In fact, an AED does not restart the heart. It's used in the case of cardiac arrhythmia. CPR is the proper protocol for a flat-lined patient.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_external_defibrillato...
Java GC tuning for High Frequency Trading apps
There seems to be the opposite effect for "keming".
If only tech people were so smart: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5751329
I was actually very curious about how hacker news ranked its stories. Thanks!
I'm a student. I've filled it out at least three times in the past and never gotten anything.
I think kps means that posting HN stories that link to fileformat.info.
I posted this article. This is a little off topic, but I like the links. Karma point to u.
Actually it's really impressive he can hit the ground running and made $30k from scratch. Just like the first sales, the first batch of clients is the toughest to get. Once he got it going, he will get more. Kudos to him.
Well put. I hadn't thought of it in those terms.
That is an excellent point, and I'm glad it worked out for you. What I'd be more curious about is how well it would have aged had it not been discontinued. Comments below suggest that if you had longer to do it you would have done it differently. Which suggests to me that developers 5-10 years later would likely have wanted something quite different.

The reason that I'm cautious is that I've suffered through code that has to jump through hoops to remain compatible with something someone thought was a good idea 10 years ago. Things that seem like a good idea now don't always a few years later. When you control both ends, you have a potential upgrade path to fix it. When you don't, you're stuck.
Russia Developing Anti-Terrorist Robots
Why do I see a square?

It is because of the encoding format on HN? Or because my browser's built in fonts don't have all the Unicodes?
Subtle...
You can redefine screen size into some absurd bullshit, but that just means you are crazy, not that you are right.

Except they are not redefining it, that is how it is always advertised. Nobody advertises screen size based on actual area, it is diagonal size.

You can bitch about that being the standard way people report it, but don't blame individual people when they use the same standard everybody else does.
The idea of being presented with the names and faces of people in need and asked to choose who to give money to is so repellent to me that, if I encountered Karmabox on a website, I would choose not to donate at all.

Seriously. This makes me so incredibly uncomfortable. It's like you're forcing these people to compete with each other to get medical care.

I realize that donating to all of them is an option, but it doesn't make the presentation any less icky to me.

When I give to charitable causes, I want to feel like I'm entrusting it to people capable of making informed and compassionate decisions about the most impactful way the money can be put to use. I know that charities often fall short of this ideal in reality, but I don't think the solution is to present me, a rich white Westerner, with a menu of suffering third-worlders to choose from. That's just gross.
No, a street hawker is selling you stuff off the street. A spruiker is enticing you to enter a location where stuff is being sold.
I'm not so optimistic. If their intention was to open and publish the protocol and specs, they'd announce this intention and avoid (or at least minimize) this PR backlash.
I hear the US needs jobs; maybe we could rebuild this infrastructure before any more of it collapses.
WTF... why? for sharing my story? how is this blog post in anyway a "thin veil for a get-rich-quick scheme"? I'm not selling anything, I'm simply talking about what my experience was, and that I decided to focus on other things instead of a portfolio...

I will never again post on your site, no worries.
Yes you need a font on your system that has a symbol for that codepoint. I know I had to install 'symbola' font to get `love hotel` to display a few months ago.
That isn't just culture shock. That is a clear example of the higher integrity (in general) of Danish society than the US. That is, they place a higher value on honesty, fairness, and contributing positively to society. I am from the US, have always lived in the US, and have never been to Denmark. But from my few experiences with people from Denmark, and knowledge about their political/economic/social affairs, it is clear to me this is the case. I understand the analogy about vulgar language, but in my opinion this involves issues of ethics and core values much deeper than just "offensive" words.

To those who misunderstand, it is not a problem to compare your company or product to a competitor. It is only a problem to make a comparison on anything other than a strictly objective, factual basis, which is in no way deceptive (See the comments regarding EU law). I would guess those countries that banned (or still ban) comparisons did so to avoid the hassle of trying to sort out whether something was permissible or not.
I was in the same boat as you a few months ago.

Then I thought to myself. I wonder if Zuckerberg back in 2004 asked himself that.

If Facebook is capable of running the most popular website in the world successfully on PHP, then it'll probably be good enough for me!

My vote goes for PHP. Stick with what you know.
I recommend setting your terminal's hostname to an emoji for maximum fun.
It's not a character set issue. It's just that none of your fonts have that glyph.

I'm on Linux, but after installing the symbola font (Arch package: `ttf-symbola`) and restarting firefox, the square turns into the proper thumbs up sign.