skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's not like it's some "real" CNN writeup. It's Dan, and it's Fortune. Dan is currently my favorite inside baseballer in VC-land. He actually knows his beat really well. Apparently Fortune (TW owned) eschewed its own domain (much like ESPN did in favor of espn.go.com).

For instance... this piece about the Midas List was a really well balanced look at the issues with Forbes' list.

http://finance.fortune.cnn.com/2013/05/09/fools-gold-in-vc-l...

Dan knows his stuff.
In his twitter feed: "I never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me"
Where in the World is Satoshi Nakamoto? [funny infographic]
How Tech Hedge Funds And Investment Banks Make Sense Of Apple’s Share Buybacks
You don't even have to commit. Simply having a github account means your email address is public; it even says this on the "Edit your profile" page.
The right language for the job
I like this.

The only line that tripped me up was "There I sat engaged in guessing the meaning of each cursed expression". The half-rhyme is fine, but the second half inevitably comes out as "THE meanING of EACH cursed EXP ... What now?" I see how it's supposed to be read, but I just always end up reading it the "wrong" way. Maybe something like "There I sat engaged in guessing values for each cursed expression" would work? I don't know.

Anyway, it pretty much made my day. I've always enjoyed The Raven, and it manages to keep very close to the style. I especially like including Underscore.

EDIT: Hm... It occurs to me that the submitter might not be the author.
A very very very tiny step.
For people to understand more on the context of this link posted, "Kim Dotcom accuses Google, Facebook, and Twitter of violating his two-step security patent" [0]. You may also find his Twitter feed interesting [1].

I never sued them. I believe in sharing knowledge & ideas for the good of society. But I
might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me

Google, Facebook, Twitter, I ask you for help. We are all in the same DMCA boat. Use my
patent for free. But please help funding my defense.

[0] http://www.theverge.com/2013/5/22/4357500/kim-dotcom-claims-...

[1] https://twitter.com/KimDotcom
Yeah, right, like if everyone else wasn't doing the same.
I confirm. Broken in Firefox.
I would rather get a decent Chai, impossible here.
Open source geeks like to spread the myth that Microsoft consoles are the only ones not supporting OpenGL.

Given that the games industry is very hostile to open source and very few geeks have access to console development kits, it is no wonder the myth persists.
Honestly, schemes to manipulate participation are not the best solution. This is a technical community and it loves to propose technical solutions, but negative comments are a people problem first and foremost. If you wish to see this improve, be the change you wish to see. Exercise self discipline. Choose to not comment if it is trivial and negative. If you do say something trivial and negative, you have about an hour in which to change your mind and delete. Exercise that option if you think it does not add value. Set the example.
"I never sued them," Dotcom continues. "I believe in sharing knowledge and ideas for the good of society. But I might sue them now cause of what the U.S. did to me." The faint threat is followed by a plea to the named companies for financial support in Dotcom's ongoing fight against extradition to the US.

What the...

How does his (perhaps rightful) indignation against the US government get redirected towards the listed tech companies?
We have no idea the demographics of those who left Africa, or why!
I teach 3d modeling in my math classes, and I'm going to share this with students tomorrow. This is absolutely inspiring.
hmm... thought I replied from mobile, but I guess it failed to post.

I guess it's because I find it hard to focus, or rather to shift focus. I'd much rather chunk my time (and get economies of scale), rather then shift between two discrete tasks.

They don't have to be attentive. Heck, they can put URGENT in an email, and I can make my computer beep the moment that comes in. But most e-mails can wait.
Here goes my Version used to fetch the email addresses of your followers :)

https://github.com/rShetty/Scriptomaniac/blob/master/github....
Find Email Addresses of your Followers
I'm just gonna put this out there, could the reason they would not implement Google Authenticator be simply because some suit didn't want people thinking Google+ was in charge of their authentication or something? I hope not, but of all the companies Twitter seems like it would be too 'brand sensitive' or some crap.
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You guys are funny. It's simple: Kindles are better for books and iPads are better for magazines and color.
I'm glad you made the comment, others might read it the same way as you did originally. This clears the potential misunderstanding.
> A single bad engineer could theoretically destroy a company if they were savvy enough.

This sentence does not compute.

Anyways, I think a big portion of the "hiring problem" is that companies are too afraid of hiring a "bad" developer. They somehow have this notion that if they fail to hire a great developer then its no big deal, but if they accidentally hire a bad developer, their company will all go to shit. This results in crazy interview multi-hour processes.

In the real world, the worst employees rarely ever negate the work of more experienced workers. Thats like saying if you hire a bad teacher, students will forget information rather than learn.
... and it's not like it requires a lot of effort to switch to the web browser on an iPad. Just swipe up with four fingers and touch the Safari icon. And at that point, you don't have to deal with the terribly slow monochromatic screen.
the place we deserve and our kids deserve

If you could change three things about the world to move it in this direction, what would those changes be?
>In short, the Privco report is a load of Yahoo.

I can't comment on him knowing his stuff since I'm not familiar with his work, but I definitely like his style ;)
To be fair, Fred Wilson is highly followed on Twitter, journalists follow key people on Twitter, and Fred tweeted the direct link to Hacker News and his statement from Twitter.

It's not as if CNN are sitting on HN and other sites omnipotently following and making sense of everything... they're following twitter and the information is revealed there and then they click the link to see what the fuss is about and whether there is a story.

https://twitter.com/fredwilson/status/337144796420390912
Banks ignore. It goes to court. As he's the sole named on the patent, the judge requires his presence in US courtroom. I think it goes without saying that he will never come to the US.
Patent for free if they fund his defense? Pretty sure that's not my definition of "free"
Its usually pretty damn obvious Ask them to explain what the code does and why they wrote it. If they backpedal and aren't able to say anything then you can assume they didn't write it.
Completely agreeing with you guys here and it is most likely the case.

Eddie Cue was probably sitting right next to Jobs and perhaps even legal counsel would have looked at these emails. Consider the significance of a publishing deal like this one, it is in Apple's best interest (and the interest of the shareholders) to strike a deal and do business.

Great post, it's always an interesting learning experience to read how deals between giants are done. Murdoch held his own but Jobs proved victories; Jobs did make a few good points by saying he though $16 eBooks would be priced too high, but in terms of iPad eBook revolution - I'd say the Kindle is the eBook leader in the space today and for a while...?
Parametric type means to take the type as a parameter; parent was probably asked to use Generics in C# or Java or C++ templates.
'Irrational' hackers are growing U.S. security fear
Saul Griffith (co-founder of Makani) is a far more valuable asset than just the tech/product here. He's very active, collaborative, & well respected in the Maker community.
I apologize for behaving badly and deleting most of my posts. I've cooled off now, but am still very concerned for people being taken in by this.

This gif pretty much sums up my feelings on the matter: http://i.imgur.com/twkp3So.gif
That's what abstraction layers are for, think Direct X and OpenGL.
Telcos threaten to sue reporters for uncovering privacy breach with Google
If I tell you the combination on my laptop case is 1-2-3-4 so you can get me my power adapter and you then try 1-2-3-4 on my luggage and successfully steal my collection of Kylie Minogue's undergarments (I never travel without them), while I am a (rather creepy) idiot, you are a naughty boy.
> "Amazon's MP3 store, despite launching with cheaper and DRM-free music, has never been able to make a serious dent in iTunes' market share".

Maybe because iTunes selling DRM'ed music for so long helped them gain that market lock-in, just like it helped Amazon get the same lock-in with DRM ebooks.

If publishers knew what's best for them, they would force Amazon to offer DRM-free books before it's too late, and the process can't be reversed anymore.
This is awesome but it would be great if it also expanded as you type. Like on Facebook when you are typing a status update that is long. The box expands vertically as you type. Neat feature. If it could do that, this thing would be rock solid.
I am reminded of my former company's CTO who once told me that true and disruptive R&D can only be done by a company with a monopoly power, so they can hide their true margins in blue-sky work. I for one hope they can do this as long as possible, since I love Google and I love Google X and I worked for two great R&D departments that were cut short on all long-term projects by controllers looking to post higher margins in competitive environments.
Kelso Choices: Getting Along Online
In rea world programming, those algorithms have very little practical use other than the "gee-whiz" factor.

If you understand algorithms in general, then I think thats enough. Its sort of like being able to play a single song on the guitar is great, but to have the skill to play any song is even better. On the same token, being able to write any algorithm is a much better skill than being able to write out a single algorithm.
Running it against my username, the first email address it pulls is the email of someone who contributed to one of my projects, not mine. (using -a does also include my address)
This is correct - I didn't realize Medium was still invite only

A little away from topic, it seems, but -- https://coderwall.com/ ?
Me too.I'm absolutely excited by the service itself and really puzzled how people stick on the some irrelevant and well-known details.

Guys - anyone TRIED at least other user handles? Its fun!
Hardly an apples to apples comparison.

Porting code written for VM a to VM b by some rubric hardly seems like a fair comparison.
Or when to jump out the window. I'm thinking a Logan's Run type implant is a good idea.
How Blackhats can/do use botnets to solve CAPTCHAs
But it is a perfectly, wonderfully in fact, appropriate example of the government playing the role it is supposed to play by setting the terms of competition in the marketplace. Just as the government says I can't break into your house and take your stuff (which would just be another aspect of market competition, if you really liked your stuff you would have had better locks). If I do, you call the cops and punishment results. This isn't a waste of money or some sort of evil coercion, it's the government setting the rules we play by in a way that benefits everyone. Does the government always do this perfectly? Fuck no! But don't gripe about it when the system actually works!
Indeed - an pure sci-fi, too
Pidora - Fedora 18 Remix for Raspberry Pi
Title should be corrected, as it doesn't get the email address of all users, only those with public activity. A team member on a private org repo I'm a part of has no public activity on Github, and no email is returned, even using -a.
I did an app for rolling dice

https://github.com/dumbstore/dumbstore/pull/15

ex:

roll 1d20+4

=21 | rolled 17 plus 4 for a total of 21.
What I don't get is why is this just coming to light now? In the article it says that this happened February 9, 2012. It's been over a year since this happened why are we just hearing about it now?
Alright, here's a an idea if you feel like putting your money where your mouth is. New Zealand is a good place to start. I'm not sure which country you're in right now but I notice far too often that people aren't willing to move to another country even if it may be the best thing for them. I'm working on projects that affect a good percentage of this country, mostly because of its short reach.

Just don't live in Auckland.
brain fart. I was thinking monopolies and came up with att when microsoft (re IE) would be a better example.
Hey I'm moving to Dunedin in a couple of weeks :D
Much more interesting than the benchmark was the ease with which the author seem to have translated dart to java. I'm still new to web development, but each line of javascript I write makes me long for a more java-like language.
Meta: it seems the New York Times really didn't appreciate getting blocked from China a few months ago. All the articles I read on HN that depict China negatively seem to come from the NYT. Or maybe other publications that aren't blocked in China actively avoid those topics?
> How could you verify the code is actually theirs in just one hour

You don't have to review the code inside of one hour. You can take as long as you want on that. The point was that when talking with them either on the phone, in person, whatever, you take only an hour. Code review can take as long as you please. I highly encourage you to look at source code before making a hiring decision.
As far as I know, the subsidy is the same regardless of the price of the vehicle, so it doesn't apply only to "toys for rich folks". Also, I wouldn't say that a Tesla is a toy for rich folks. Many reasonably successful software engineers could afford one if they didn't want to spend their disposable income on other forms of entertainment.
Here's a version that's not Chrome-only:
http://jsfiddle.net/eymAS/21/

I've been wondering why I keep hearing that the DOM is supposed to be slow. Don't people mean to say that rendering (i.e. mostly CSS) is slow? This fiddle is certainly not doing much with the DOM except setting style attributes.
Hi Zhangela,

Yes I am. I utilize value investment methodology which is the brainchild of Benjamin Graham.

On the few aspects on stock evaluation, among them are:
- Company's financial statements (Balance sheet, Cash flow statement and Income statement)
- The company's management profile (from remuneration comparison from company-to-company to governance and each individual's background)
- The company's activity as published by the Exchange
- Overpriced/Underpriced compared to book value and also intrinsic value

In order to check the performance of my investments, I measure from two perspective:
- Realized gains/losses - (dividends received and gains or losses from sale)/(amount of money put up to purchase the stock)
- Unrealized gains/losses - (Mark-to-market gains or loss)/(amount of money put up to purchase the stock)

From the figures attained, I compare them with figures such as fixed deposits and performance of index funds
Number 2 will not work without ample advertisement. And you also have to think which people do you want to want your product.
Yes, sorry, I meant SSE intrinsics. As I think I note later in the article, the compiler I used emitted scalar SSE2 for floating point.
Tangential: Larry is an avid kiteboarder.
And we used rocks as weapons before we used them for building. (Ignoring naturally forming caves).

We know media technology is led by the porn industry. Maybe physical technology is led by the weapons industry.
That's not what the parent means. PDO legislation in Europe defines precisely which regions are allowed to sell products under a specific name. No other region is allowed to use that name ( hence Roquefort vs blue cheese)
Try -g ;)
I actively use a Nokia 100 (as my "family calling" phone - calling and minimal texting -only-). A brand new one cost £18.99, it has a monster battery life, is super light and yet an absolute rock in build quality.

I'm sure it has some additional bling like FM radio, a media player or whatever and some games, but I use literally use that phone for nothing other than calling and texting.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0068ZAPB0/
It feels the most interesting use of asm would be to bring existing C code into javascript and have it run at reasonable speeds. Things like small (or not) database engines, authentication or encryption libraries, data parsing utilities etc...
This presumes that a) You want to work at Google and b) You consider Google to be doing interesting stuff that it would be worth applying. I don't. They aren't.
We are also on nonrel.

It is a bad decision to move back to PostgreSQL, better invest that time on your product and make it better. You can always change later.
Camel ancestors lived in the Arctic
From a broad search, it seems that much of the downstream market for whey byproduct of yogurt and cheese production has plenty of uses. In this article by the USDA (http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/rbs/pub/mar08/whey.htm), it discusses dairy farm cooperatives turning the Lactose sugars, of which 5% of the "waste whey," is used for ethanol production. Whether there is a difference between acid or sweet whey, I am unsure, however there is certainly a demand for the byproducts of the dairy/cheese/yogurt industries.
So now we're going to say that in 2013 it is impressive that 160 rectangles can follow a mouse cursor? I see the advantages of client/server applications (as they used to be called), and presumably js/css apps will continue to get faster and asymptotically approach their client-only functional equivalents, but there is a thing about a hammer and all problems looking like nails that springs to mind when I see people claim that moving 160 rectangles in 16 ms / frame is 'scary fast'...
Halo 3, GTA 4 , forza 2 and Gears of War were the titles I remember everyone being excited about around launch. Granted some of these did come out for PC eventually but there was quite a wait.
I needed a replacement for GR and this one is nice. subscribed for now (you have my $2).

You need to give me an option to scroll down automatically when I press (n)ext, instead of sliding. It's frustrating because I have a lot of things to read and I don't need to wait around for it to slide down.

EDIT: Maybe a good idea to add an inline "report bug" feature. You guys have a lot of squirmy things happening on your page and I would be more inclined to list them directly.
There's a war being waged over the corpses of Amazonian zombie ants
I see two big issues here:

1. "Sane" is highly subjective. There is no single optimal language for all problems and audiences.

2. Pushing a new language to all major browsers is hard, like you said. Maybe even impossible, several huge corporations with complex politics are involved.

Google is trying this approach with Dart, and I personally don't think it's the panacea, nor do I expect all major browsers to support it.

So the only alternative I see is to have a very flexible VM that can run pretty much any language. asm.js proves that JS is actually quite good at that. I'd still prefer something like native client, but asm.js is highly promising: It's downwards compatible and has some potential for optimisation at the same time.
I will second this recommendation. I'm a big surf fanboy.

Not only does it force me to focus a bit more, but in my experience it loads pages significantly faster than Chrome or Firefox. Which I wouldn't have thought possible, but there you go.

Also, make sure you use a recent version if you need the Web Inspector.
I don't disagree. But, what does this have to do with game theory?
Pearl Boy WebGL Demo
If you jailbreak, there's f.lux which greatly helps and there's another tweak which makes the lowest brightness even lower. It's a great combo and changed the game for night-reading on the iPad for me.
F3 to iPhone 5 has to be the biggest jump I've heard of lately. I've been meaning to pick up a dumbphone myself, maybe I'll grab an F3 - I remember when they came out, I was dying for one. It's a bit like buying the... junker of your childhood dreams.
Google already has NaCl
In my cursory search on the matter (and comment a few moments ago to another reply), ethanol production was my first thought when dealing with the excess lactose. It seems that there are a few cooperatives that own a facility in California & Minnesota. I am still unsure of the difference between "sweet" whey & "acid" whey, I believe that they should be able to convert the lactose into a useable ethanol.
There was a TEDx talk in 2011 covering a very similar innovation: a custom-made "corset" for his ascending aorta, built using CT imaging, CAD modeling and "rapid prototyping" (which I suspect was 3D printing).

http://www.ted.com/talks/tal_golesworthy_how_i_repaired_my_o...
To me it's not obvious what it is (and I'm a big car nut).

It looks like a used car sales site, that has comments. If I was a car nut looking for car info sites or a car community (which I am), I'd dismiss it nearly instantly as "just another car sales site" and close it.
How to retinafy your websites
"I personally still prefer the PDF for e-books, as it maintains original design, layout, and typography, as well as page numbers."

That's great if your device happens to match up with the size of a book, but it's far less flexible when it comes to devices of different sizes. I want to read books on whatever device I have, phone, small tablet, large tablet, computer, whatever. And I want the ability to adjust the size of the text. I don't want to lose that just because some books might not have that flexibility, and most do.

Also, Kindle and iBooks have page equivalents, that solves the page number issue.
Not everyone includes their email in their GitHub profile. For instance, the creator of this tool’s profile at https://github.com/hodgesmr does not include his email address.

This tool does not rely on email addresses being in profiles. It can look up the email addresses used in commits in the user’s repos, and use heuristics to choose the most likely one.
Observing two people agreeing to fix prices is nothing to be admired. While it is eye opening to see how Jobs communicates, it is disturbing that we accept this sort of behavior by companies.
"Reading in the dark requires a light and the attachments for the kindle have all seemed a kludge to me."

Kindle Paperwhite has an LED backlit screen with an e-ink display that sounds like exactly what you want.
Does anyone know why there is no affiliation listed for djb? Did he retire?

(Side note: I am not sure why it was downvoted, I apologize if my question is offensive/problematic for people. )
It's easier to do on linux than on windows, but if you're willing to do some work to get it set up, Octopress on Github is becoming a popular option. More for developers than for casual blogging though.
"Much more interesting than the benchmark was the ease with which the author seem to have translated dart to java"

Dart was initially slated for being "boring". It's comments like this that start to show that being familiar and unsurprising is sometimes a worthwhile goal.
Submission process is not a game QA, TRC is not checking if the game is fun or if you get correct ads on your players in Madden. TRC is checking for uniform behavior (like loading UI, save game UI, correct naming of parts of the console and actions, handling pulled out controller, disk errors etc) and security issues (correct libraries, proper protocols for online etc).

Another thing - big titles break TRC routinely. Failing CoD for a TRC is like giving a speeding ticket to Obama's motorcade. That game sells 10M and brings ~100M in licensing fees every year.