skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Given how little the votes of the average shareholder actually mean today versus the singular, large bloc-votes of the large shareholders, I see no reason not to move the economy towards a form of worker cooperatives that issue non-voting stock, or in which stockholders vote for some portion of the Board of Directors and employees for the other one. The main actual issue will be splitting up dividends between proper Mondragon-style Employee Capital Accounts and stock-investors.
If ever there was an article in need of some good illustrations... Does anyone have an example of one of these "solutions in natural numbers modulo N give us other, more elusive, avatars"?
Do OpenGPG smartcards work?
I set-up TTRSS (http://tt-rss.org/redmine/projects/tt-rss/wiki) on my own server. I didn't like that Feedly requires a browser add-on, as I'm not always going to be able to install that on every browser I might use.
The page views from users and bots for a poorly specified interval has very little meaning. Much like the social network "followers" badges we have today.
I think the modem carrier dropped on your last line. Can you resend?
It's often is. But somehow people end up with 'git remote' aliased to 'gr', and I ask the same question. :) I use gr very often and so not have to tab complete is a plus.
Guys, do not worry. When they will raise enough money, they will fund 10 or even 100 appropriate researches that will prove the credibility, safety and superiority of this product to natural food. And everything will be ok.
They have been doing that for ages.
But not exclusively. And that is one of the problems. If they marketed it as "only" a meal replacement, the risks would be a lot less severe - after all a lot of people get by just fine with horribly deficient meals a lot of the time. But it's a big leap from "a lot of the time" to all the time over a prolonged period of time.

While I'd love for this to be a safe, reliable option, and might even try it as a replacement for some proportion of meals if/when it becomes more widely available, their marketing claims far exceeds what they have evidence for so far.
How to Hack Saved Passwords in Browsers
This was submitted nearly two weeks back, here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5682367 but it must have slid off the front page and into obscurity so I am glad it has come up again and received the attention it deserves.

However, I am curious that the URL seems identical so how was it possible for a new submission to be made? I thought HN just added another vote to the original for duplicates.
It's heavily used in the Linux kernel and in the Linux world in general. But Visual Studio doesn't support it, so projects that target Windows pretty much have to avoid it.
Deligne's work is certainly impressive and he deserves the prize.

However, it is a real pity that they have not even tried to bestow the Abel on Grothendieck [1].

Yes, he will certainly decline or even not answer but, honestly, they are missing the chance of saying 'hey, we really appreciate his work although he is not going to accept the price'.

Probably neither Deligne nor Atiyah nor so many people would have done what they have without Grothendieck's astounding contributions. But I digress.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Grothendieck
That's right, it's a designated initializer, except the standard c99 way requires an =. gcc didn't/doesn't but that's nonstandard. So it is an extension, just not a plan9 one - a gcc-ism. clang's error/warning, as usual, is very helpful so it's worth it just to try clang when running into weirdness like that:

warning: use of GNU 'missing =' extension in designator
[-Wgnu-designator]
I found the Feedly Firefox plugin to slow down Firefox a lot, so that wasn't really a good experience.

So far, as a FeedDemon on Windows, Reeder on OS X and Reader on Android user, NewsBlur looks like the best option from where I sit (as a 10-year RSS reader user with some 120 feeds ATM). Going to try Feedbin, though.
This can be really fun.

I once did this for a facebook competition; An estate agent would post pictures and you had to guess the location.

After checking the landscape, scenery, road sign styles etc I managed to reverse engineer the exact streetview URL from the image.

Here's the image: http://i.imgur.com/lKeAXsE.png

And the streetview URL: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...

Turning it into a game is a stroke of genius. I can see myself wasting a lot of time on this!
A lot of good points there, and a notable exception to Betteridge's law.
I use Tiny Tiny RSS and it works well enough with the web interface on my desktop. Although it's self hosted I have no problem using a $2.5 per month vps with 256 mb of ram to host it. For mobile access I use YATTRSSC which is a decent tt-rss client.
I can't stand macro comments - it makes it impossible to figure out whats going on without being sure to open the file in a specific editor with a specific project loaded. Say you have a separate lib project used by an application - if you open up an individual file from that lib while working on the application in Visual Studio it won't have the necessary context to 'comment out' macro comments. Its also hostile to people who use vi and emacs.
Can anyone explain the naming of files? c00.c, c01.c etc
Fat Head (2009)
By him, not really. Professionally the term to google for is stonesetting techniques. Its a pity titanium is an unholy pain to solder, otherwise he'd have been a perfect candidate for bezel mounting (basically think of how glass pieces are held in stained glass windows, wrap the edges with foil, more or less, and solder the foil).

He has the same Polish made 5C collet chuck on his lathe as I have on mine in the basement.
SQLite gets memory-mapped I/O - The H Open
Cache: http://svay.com/projects/FullHackerNews/#article-11
You won the challenge with 12867 points against 8845. http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTI4NjcsInZlc...
If an egalitarian equity structure legitimately benefits the companies, they will adopt that structure.

Interestingly wrong. The problem here is the definition of "benefits the company". The interest of the company is defined as the interest of its shareholders, with the interest of different shareholders counting in proportion to their ownership stake.

The equity structure is itself the terminal teleological value of the company, and consumer markets make zero evaluation of that structure except in very specialized sub-cases (like when I deliberately purchase King Arthur Flour for being a worker cooperative, for instance). This is one of those "companies do not evolve" things; state action is the only thing that will ever change company structures away from what the incumbent shareholders want, and even a fresh-founded start-up has incumbent owners in the form of its founders and seed investors.
How much should a startup spend?
Jif? i had no idea people pronounce it like that.
Definitely less patronizing, yes. I like it very much, but that works better in a situation where you can see that they already understand X/Y/Z reasonably well. I guess I was trying to present the worst possible situation, where it seems like they are stumbling around with concepts that seem to be over their heads, and then I think the risk of being patronizing is worth the value of being as honest as possible.
Wow, the comment with the most insight and clarity in this discussion. I couldn't agree more. We are building a future that we can't properly retire from, making "software" of questionable value (socially, economically, sustainably) while our countries crumble around us and the middle class evaporates.
Because developer one wrote

if (statement)
one;

And developper two added

if (statement)
one; two;

too quickly
I'm only 23 years old, and I hail from the East Coast of Canada. I've never heard anyone pronounce it "Jif", but I had read on reddit that some people have had the opposite experience, never hearing the "Giff" pronunciation.
I'm using http://theoldreader.com/
Role of Design In startups
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Yeah, the creator has recently come out and has said that that is the correct pronunciation.

Link: http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/22/twitter-in-uproar-as-gif-creat...
> Yes. Social proof is not going away because it's part of human nature, not a technological gimmick.

Technological gimmicks might be expected to tune better though. If the only people I've followed on twitter so far are artists and programmers, it seems to me that it would be a reasonable bet that I'm not going to be interested in superstars. It's odd that people would be expected to click through to follow just based on # of followers.
I thought that something in Florida was in California. That was the miss I was referring to.
I've pronounced it like JIF since the mid-90's when I first learned of GIFs. I've had to send many people here to prove I wasn't crazy: http://www.olsenhome.com/gif/
Cloud base application for finding sexy photos in Facebook
I'm using CommaFeed[1], it's pretty much a simple Google Reader-like interface. It's a bit slow sometimes during heavy loads and needs better scaling.

The code is open source and available at Github[2].

1: https://www.commafeed.com

2: https://github.com/Athou/commafeed
I'm pretty sure that's just a form of socialism.

Quiet you, we're trying to Talk Like Very Serious People ;-)!
This seems pretty legit. I really like the personality you gave the site with its design.

Do you have any plans to support GitHub repositories as a location to pull source from in the event we don't really want to deploy a jar with our source in it?
> Each time I sit down to brush up on the details of Prim's algorithm or the exact implementation of quicksort, my eyes glaze over and I start thinking about how I'd much rather be building or tinkering with something. So that's what I end up doing.

Nailed it.

Another interesting thing I noticed about myself in technical interviews is that I have a lot of trouble doing things that I would have no trouble with if I'm tutoring someone. Perhaps it's the anxiety, and practice will surely help, but see above, I'd rather spend my time tinkering with stuff than preparing for interviews.
UnQLite - An Embeddable NoSQL Database Engine
Nice strawman. It's great that there's restrictions preventing dangerous stuff from being put into food. But the issue here is not being able to avoid dangerous substances, but whether or not Soylent is sufficient. You're deflecting the discussion onto something entirely different.

Unless you are claiming that these guys are likely to put dangerous, non-FDA approved substances in their product?

The comment you respond to makes the point that while there's plenty of possibilities for dangerously deficient diets at any grocery store, and lot of people do choose diets - from regular grocery stores - that are extremely limited, most of us do ok.

And that is what Soylent needs to match or beat in order to avoid doing harm. The bar is extremely low considering some of the stuff I've survived on for extensive periods of time, and the type of diets I see others manage on.

That's not to say that they shouldn't aim higher, but there are a lot of people here that seems to be completely oblivious to just how shitty diets a lot of people live on.

That said, I think their marketing claims are well in excess of what they have evidence for, and it saddens me a bit that they feel that hyperbole is necessary. I also hope they put a lot more effort into testing.
A page full of stats and relationships regarding the commit behaviour of one of the most important figures in computer science of all time, and the only one people care about is "how much he swears". Fuck that shit.
It's ironic, if they paid that 30K to the developer they wouldn't have a hiring problem in the first place.

It seems like employers are jumping through more and more hoops to avoid paying developers what they're worth.
I'd like to read what specifically lead them to categorize Backbone.js under "hold". They wrote about the various technologies that are recommended but don't provide much of a narrative for any of the "holds".
I wonder how many of those 'prioritize your tasks' pieces have to get written until it finally stops.
Trying https://www.commafeed.com/ at the moment, but still open to suggestions.
'root' is only offensive if you're described as a 'dud' one ;)
There's an interesting observation in the field of mechanism design that says when any ordering of preferences if possible (that is, it is possible for something like agent X thinks A>B>C and agent Y thinks A>C>B and agent Z thinks C>B>A to happen) the only "truthful" mechanism is dictatorial. Otherwise it is always possible to game the system by voting for outcomes you don't really like as much but you think more other people will like.
I'm sorry, Android development is currently not supported.
Basically I am waiting for the Reeder App Guy to Announce what he will do with the app. If he goes the "give me an google api compliant endpoint and it will connect to it", I might use https://github.com/swanson/stringer , looks really promising so far. But I need Reeder to support it first.
I'm using TT-RSS. I just installed it in a subdirectory of my existing domain account - so no incremental cost at all.
I know it works on the JVM level, but we use Glassfish a lot in production and I'm interested in finding out exactly how practical it is to use Takipi with Glassfish?
How to work out the optimum burn rate for a startup
There's a window during which duplicate submissions only vote up the original, but after a week or so they show up as normal stories.
An interactive HTML5 film: The Wilderness Downtown
gwene.org, then read in gnus via nntp.
He probably lives in a country where the internet is unreliable.
The gc compiler does not use a gcc backend. You're confusing it with gccgo. The llgo project is working on an llvm-based Go compiler.
It wasn't an Apple product page, it was an Apple HTML5 tech demo they'd crafted around Safari to show off what Safari could do. So it wasn't necessarily about turning away customers, it was about showing off.
> no white space after the keywords if, for, while, etc.

Woh, my workplace enforces the exact opposite! The idea is that if, while, etc are not functions, therefore `if (x)` is unacceptable but `my_func(x)` is ok. I personally prefer `if(x)` though.
Has anybody here ever actually been asked to exactly implement quicksort?
I worked at CompuServe in the 90s and it was only ever referred to as "Giff"
KDE Plasma Workspaces 4.11 will be a long term release supported for 2 years
Like "gift" w/o "t".
Don't forget that not everybody has the skills to teach, being a good programmer is one thing, being a good teacher is another.
Don't forget heartbeat-sensing and detection of "miniscule [muscular] shifts", which combined with precise color analysis on your skin means the Kinect will be able to read a fair amount of the mental and emotional state we normally hide from the world.

I'm putting another tally-mark in my "Things Invented Towards a Cyberpunk Hell" column.
[...] don't try to write the most compact code possible but rather the most readable.

Don't conventions 6, 7, 8, and 11 violate this?
Feedbin.
Well, I don't live in the US anyway, but I think there has to be a trade off in a civilised society because we have a huge volume of history telling us that without these sorts of restrictions people get screwed over at every turn.

Some of my favourite things are illegal and I will lobby to get the laws in those areas changed where I don't think that the potential negative impact on society is too great.

Outcomes are important, not just principles.
I have noticed that in Anonymous and pseudonymous environments people seem more willing to speak from personal experience and in the first person, which enhances and personalizes discourse. Actually, my favorite environment of all time was enforced anonymity with hiding comments that got downvoted. Without the ego payoff of persistent identity, ignoring the trolls was actually effective and people who's comments weren't engaged with just left. The discussion that was left was insightful and frequently constructive.
The actual problem there is that developer two checked something in without thinking about it, reading it, or examining the diffs of the change.

If you had a coding convention of always using braces in if statements, you might be insulated from this particular symptom or instance of the problem, but you still have the underlying problem that people are doing things without thinking.
I used http://selfoss.aditu.de/ and I like it
Try MultiPLX at http://multiplx.com - is totally web based, a pure HTML5 client, supports card layouts and also let's you export your own data.
I'm actually using Chrome Version 26.0.1410.64 m on Windows 7.
As you are down voted I wonder: I have the same experience here. Very few serious problems (1/year) that come from developer bugs. Others seem to have much more, e.g. when people ask me if the devs here have pager duty (which they haven't).

I also wonder if we test too much (ca. 85% path coverage, 15k unit tests (3x rewritten), automatic selenium tests, explorative manual tests, automatic API tests, developer acceptance tests).
Maybe its like one of those cola vs. soda vs. pop things that is based on geography ... http://quittingsoda.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/09/popvssoda...
yeah feedly seems to sort of fill the gap for me as well for same reasons.
Beat you (no google, rotate and zoom only), but I had an unfair advantage on #4 - I'd been there before!
http://www.geoguessr.com?v=eyJ0b3RhbFBvaW50cyI6MTU0MTUsInZlc...
Startup advice ! = How Google did it.

I read a ton of startup advice, but I consciously filter out the corner cases like Google and Facebook. I'm a lot more interested in how the thousands of less famous companies have succeeded (or failed).
> If the rumors that the Xbox One won't power on without the Kinect attached are true, it'll be difficult to convince people to part with their used New Kinects for more interesting purposes.

i read somewhere that they're, logically, planning to release a second-generation kinect for windows [1] soon after the console-version ships, which should alleviate that concern.

i always imagined that's what most people use for non-gaming purposes anyway, especially as the console-version uses a proprietary connector.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/kinectforwindows/
Ugh. libertarian alert.
Newsblur: it has a clean UI, mobile apps, open source, has a viable business model and has gotten past the first round of scaling to handle the Reader diaspora.

A number of the people I used to follow on Reader have joined and the social side is flourishing with most of the voices which Google+ snuffed out.
I've watched Cloud Atlas a couple of times. Enjoyed every second.
Looking it up post mortem it doesn't appear that it was several days, but it sure felt like it at the time. It was over 12 hours. There were significant outages on March 12th-13th [1], Feb 25th [2], and Feb 1st [3].

[1] http://www.businessinsider.com/microsoft-forced-to-apologize...

[2] http://www.neowin.net/news/microsoft-outlookcom-down-for-som...

[3] http://gigaom.com/2013/02/01/microsoft-office-365-hits-potho...
Vitamin B may protect against Alzheimer’s, say reseachers | Science Recorder
Podcast 28: iOS Engineer Who Built Twitter #Music App
The conversational aspect was one of the differences between Google Voice Search and Siri (though it doesn't matter if you have conversation abilities if you fundamentally don't work, but that's another debate). Interesting to see the progress in this space.
And for the steambox team. There is (anecdotally strong) demand for single player games that you can play and mod however you desire.
If you dig back to the last tech radar (http://thoughtworks.fileburst.com/assets/technology-radar-oc...) you'll find the narrative for why Backbone.js was moved to the 'hold' category.
How about the least-controversial and most common advice ever given: “Only hire A players.” Here’s when that doesn’t apply: When you can’t hire A players.

Unless if your company is terrible, the problem will never be that you can't hire A players, it will be that you can't find them fast enough. That said, the compromise in waiting for only A players will appear to be to slow growth. In my opinion, though, the quality of people is so important to an organization's long term success that what will look like a compromise will actually be a tradeoff between short term growth and long term growth.
> Philosophically this is utter hyperbole. Not being able to watch Arrested Development, or any content, under whatever circumstances you prefer does _not_ infringe on your freedom.

But not being allowed to control my own property is. And this is specifically what DRM is supposed to do, it prevents me to switch the bits in my RAM in the way I want to.

And this was precisely my point, a important part of the standard depends on the precise meaning of freedom.
Just had one of those "this is exactly what I was looking for" moments
I'm not one of these Reeder users. I've always used Byline on iPhone (a Google Reader client) so I'm waiting to see if this is going to be maintained post-GReader and what service it will support.
How to setup a Load Balanced Web Farm of Virtual Machines on Windows Azure
Very practical :)
Takipi fully supports Glassfish, as well as all other major web servers and containers.
"Student develops low cost alternative to 3d radar imaging"
Amazon is making another move into advertising
Not working for me. It displays "No Internet connection."

Edit: see http://crbug.com/242861
I think I may have been able to wrap my brain around the basics, yes. :)

My question, however, was not "does your method work?" but "can you show that Nathan's method has the results you claim it does?" - ie a quick burst of sales then severely limited back-end?
What do you think a representational government is except the exertion of social pressure backed by force?
Wow. It used to be 10k for referring. I knew their turnover rate in Dev was pretty astronomical, but I didn't realize it was this bad.
"I've determined that I either need to come up with an idea of my own that I can turn into a steady income or that I need to leave this field and find something else to do."

What about consultant / project / contract work? Generally "the hiring process" treats candidates for full time employment relatively poorly and unprofessionally, but treats consultant / contractor types more professionally.

Think about other professions. If you're hiring a plumber's apprentice, its funny to ask them if they know which end of a plunger to hold, and watch then squirm under the pressure. But if you talk to a real genuine licensed and bonded independent master plumber and ask him to demonstrate unclogging a drain before you'll offer a remodeling contract, he'll probably tell you to F off and walk away to a more professional job. You can treat employees like dirt, but not contractors.
A few attraction Points in San Diego May 2013 by San Diego Airport Limo
Nope, I live in the United States with a pretty reliable connection. There is documented evidence of these outages which I posted in reply.
A couple of guys in Scranton have gone to a non-private prison for running in teenagers on bogus or exaggerated charges and taking kickbacks from the private prison company.