skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
RedWest was kind of like,"Not really Microsoft" to those of us on the main campus. You were closer to Nintendo than you were to us. :-)

I remember taking the campus bus there not long after it opened and it was a much different world. It was a very clear sign that MSFT had become a "big" company. Passing dozens of "Herbalife" signs on the way just reinforced that.

The biggest "cost" issue we had was a) don't print if you don't have to, and b) if you have to, use the back side of previously printed paper. That was more environmental-green vs financial-green, though.

Then I went to Amazon, and it was a whole new world of getting no perks whatsoever. Non-adjustable "desks", the slowest development machines possible, and a bunch of false economies around operations and infrastructure.
This analogy doesn't work because Google is extremely selective and hires for "cream of the crop" CS graduates who can pass an algorithms/data structures whiteboard coding gauntlet, as well as highly accomplished/experienced engineers who have made already made huge contributions at other companies or in open source.

When you hire people like that, you have to give them hard, interesting problems to work on, or they're going to be bored.
I agree with your general sentiment here; it was a surprise and they really should be more transparent about the pricing model. That said, they do offer a free week to decide whether you would like to spend $24/year (paid monthly) on the service.

I much prefer this (even imperfect) approach to how feedbin doesn't let you even try it until you provide credit card info and pay the $2.
MyShoebox Gets Social With Collaborative Galleries
Giving computers to low-income kids doesn't improve academic outcomes
A plan to assess people’s personal characteristics from their Twitter-streams
Interesting, do you have any references/links with more info about that?
If any of you guys are in Austin, check out 1405 E. 7th. ("Vintage Heart"). Fairly large space, some stand-up desks with optional bar stools, lots of outlets, and pretty solid wifi. Also a lot of the tech crowd hangs out there already, so it's practically a free co-working hub. And there's always at least a few tables open so I never feel rushed out.
I clicked the title expecting it to be hyperbolic outrage at an advertising half-truth, but — yeah, that really is flat-out wrong. I can see how it could perhaps happen unintentionally, but Microsoft should definitely change the ad after they see this.
It's for lack of research, distinguished professors, facilities... certainly not the quality of students. Graduating from St. Stephen's nearly 30 years ago I can say that the average student there was pretty damn smart and really hard working.

The article is spot on in many respects, except for the reference to finding only one applicant to Brown that he really enthused over. That is his experience, but in mine I can assure you that there were a heck of a lot of students most top universities in the US would compete over. In my time the principal and other staff were far more liberal - there seems to have been a sad regression judging from the position of the present principal.
Agreed. I think Bitcoin has amazing potential as a tool. It's hard to create no government control without opening pandora's box.
Make sure you can afford it - DynamoDB can get very expensive fairly quickly as data size grows. Admittedly I last used it over a year ago and for a small company - but eventually we had to pull the plug because of the high costs.

I'd recommend estimating how much you think it will cost you, and then 10X that value. If that value is going to be hard to cover, stick with something else. If you're working for a Fortune 500 however, Dynamo is very nice.
you can upload data over wifi or cellular network. It won't take up space on your device, i.e. 10GB of photos/videos from your library will just be 300mb on your iPhone.
I think that whether or not technologists are arrogant does matter, regardless of perception.

In Silicon Valley, arrogance is really about ambition. There are some who want to replace political processes with crowdsourced or individual solutions. These are ambitious goals, but the problems that they attempt to address (law-making, social justice) are far more difficult than many of these people realize. The goal of disrupting current channels of social change and policy are lofty, but assuming that it can be done without help from existing institutions is arrogant, and will lead to both a toxic culture and an incredulous image, even for those of us whose ideas may have a chance of bringing about real change.

>If you want to be heard, you need to "show that you care"

I think you're definitely correct on that point. Some may view playing within the existing infrastructure as pandering, but it's often one of the only ways of expressing a serious commitment to change.
Who would benfit from your product the most? Get it in front of a couple of users. If they like it great, start from there. Find out what they'd pay for it. Next, find out what they think needs changed. I think it's about finding a target customer first then finding a product that fits their needs. But, you might as well use your current product as testing ground. If you don't have a target market try looking to your contacts to help find one.
I went with my cousin about 10 years ago. I was a Mission Specialist and got to do the EVA. He was stuck in ground control. It was a tense plane ride home :-)
Our assumptions were that the GIL was getting in the way with our excessive concurrency. gevent + PyPy is not really a safe thing yet.

This entire project was also stood up in a week, so it's not like this service is some monster service with a lot of work invested into it. It was small enough that instrumenting and figuring out where the problems may lie and figuring them out would have probably taken just as much time.
So a question, do scientists not make a distinction between blowing things up for fun and blowing things up for an organized scientific experiment?

I understand that blowing things up and having fun can be part of a scientific experiment, but that doesn't mean any time that someone makes an explosion that they're participating in a scientific experiment, unless we're using a very loose definition of the word.
The story playing out is one thing that makes it a tough call where the line could be drawn.

What if it isn't a RPG? What if we're talking about a video of mario kart?

If I bought a physical Nintendo chess set, I don't think anyone would claim a video of my gameplay would be Nintendo's property. By extension, a video of me playing a virtual nintendo chess game with my commentary should still be mine, after all, the story is being written by the players. I think that's fairly analogous to a commentary of a mario kart game.

Now it gets interesting with a role playing game like zelda perhaps. I certainly have a right to produce a gameplay from it. Do I have a right to record it? Why not? How is it really any different that recording a play with a physical object, something which is done every day. Nintendo may have the storyline, but they didn't create the actual play. That is a result of an authorized use of the game. Player runs over here, picks up a sword -- that's something the player did, not Nintendo.

I think in the end it boils down to what the lawyers can convince a judge is true, rather than what can be proven or what is the law.
Are there any plans to reach out to any app developers (e.g., Reeder) to work out an integration? I think that's a pretty key requirement: solid integration with high quality cross platform feed reading applications.
There's a pretty good bundle on Steam that has The Dig and Loom in it (and both Indiana Jones games I think). I never caught The Dig when it came out so I've been playing through it lately. Loom was an absolute favorite when I first played it (I think I was 11 or 12?). Mind-blowing. Probably internet-common knowledge but in case you're not aware of the Double Find Adventure kickstarter, it's worth knowing there's a studio working on a new point-and-click adventure for those of us who were (or still are) ravenously obsessed with the genre - http://www.doublefine.com/dfa
Hi, cofounder of Loom here. We upload all of your photos and videos and want to make that experience as easy and transparent as possible. We have especially focussed on being able to manage uploads/syncing for a lot of data since many people have libraries north of ~100GB.
Agreed. I have been working 100% remote for three years and it has been great. However, I was very careful to choose a company that has had several 100% remote teams for many years over a company where I would be the first. I did not want to be both the person pushing for change and the only person that would be out of luck if the change didn't take.
Ktap — yet another kernel tracer
With changes like these I always wonder if the users actually see the difference in performance. Was there positive feedback after these changes were rolled out onto production, or rather; was there a _decrease_ in people complaining about server performance issues?
I say go and sell the heck out of it. Even though you already built it before doing validation, it of course will be a waste if you don't even try to do anything now. Look at the bright side, you already have something to show. instead of asking "I am working on xyz that will do abc for you", you can now say "I have xyz that can do abc for you"
Dear "angersock", it appears in fact you don't hate to be a jerk. The entire contents of your comment indicate the opposite, you enjoy being a jerk. However, there's an interesting question of what's worth working on in the comment, so let's rephrase so we can maybe discuss:

"Is photo storage really broken as the post says? Do we really need more of this kind of technology? I know of some real inefficiencies in medical image sharing which seems like it'd be a similar problem to solve, but to my eyes much more valuable. What would it take to convince people problems like that are worth tackling?"
MangoDB perhaps? I have never actually used it myself, but I've read a lot about it. It supports have as many dimensions as you want. Also, maybe Redis hash tables if need for the data to be stored in memory for speed.
My interest is:
* A portable programming framework including UI
* The portability includes being portable to Android
* Already has a large base of open source code written in it

The framework that satisfied all these conditions was Simple DirectMedia Layer, version 1.2. Cross-platform games and applications which have been in development for over a decade can be ported with incredible ease to Android.

I have a particular focus on Android though, so your needs may be different in other cases.
Those perpetrators have a strong overlap with people in their last year of vesting who are both coasting at work and running some side business out of their office.

Identifying them for further investigation will generally turn up more ethical and performance issues, safely justifying reassignment or outplacement.
Even without regulatory credits included, they made a profit. Check the filing: total profit for the quarter was $96.3 million, and revenue from ZEV and other regulatory credits was only about $85M.
I like the core of Peter Thiel's comment. If you're not in the business, "Most people think X, I know 'Not X'" then you're not really an entrepreneur. Anything that is un-contrarian (maybe status quo is the better word) can be done at a large company better.

If Excel is the optimal spreadsheet, work at Microsoft.

If hotels are pretty good, work at Hilton.

If airlines just need some tweaking around the edges, go work at American Air. (Yikes!)

One can argue exactly how bold these places were in their contrarianism, but they still bucked the status quo. I couldn't have dreamed that AirBnB would have pulled it off.
http://theintern.io/ looks very interesting, haven't used it yet.
I think it is just the prejudice about how "easy" things that we already know seem. But I do remember, and have seen many people, struggling to get a grasp of IPv4 subnetting, routing, security, etc. But you practice and over time it becomes second nature. If you put in half the amount of effort into IPv6 that you did when you learned IPv4 you'd probably be set.
Your last line gets right to the heart of the problem.

" I still prefer the legal protection afforded me in a regulated bank".

What system can provide legal protection without governmental abuse?
Is there evidence that Go is better than Java in computational performance? Truly curious are their links?
Massive Number of Vulnerabilities Found in X.Org
This article is a joke. First, it misapplies the joke that it says "literally" applies to Android marketshare -- the "bigger truck" joke only applies when profit is negative so that the net is a loss, and a bigger truck is a bigger loss.

But even worse, its just throwing stuff out that doesn't stick together. I mean, it makes at one point the claim that Android manufacturers are sacrificing margin for marketshare (which is no doubt true; its a common strategy, one which Amazon's Jeff Bezos has highlighted with the comment that "Your competitor's margin is your opportunity"), suggesting that while the trend is against Apple in marketshare, Apple could easily reverse it by cutting its own margins.

But then the article goes on to say Apple shouldn't cut the prices on its offerings because not enough is known about price elasticity in this market (well, specifically, they say not enough is known about price elasticity of the iPhone).

And then they make the claim that the goal is not to maximize marketshare (okay), or even to maximize profits (!), but to maximize the ratio of profits to marketshare. By that logic, in a two-player market where one player has 99.9% of the marketshare and a mere 99% of the profits, and the other player has 0.1% of the marketshare but a whopping 1% of the profits, the latter would be winning.
My team started off with QUnit but switched to Mocha a while back for unit testing our JavaScript. The tests run in the browser or using Node.js (on the build server).

We've dabbled with BusterJS as an alternative when needing to run the tests in multiple browsers/devices.

Also used Selenium/Sahi on occasion for acceptance tests. We need to test on lots of mobile devices so this helped speed things up a little when using the Android WebDriver and Appium.

I still don't feel like we've found the holy grail of JavaScript/UI testing. A mixture seems to works best for us. Unit test what we can and using Selenium/Sahi when testing browser/device inconsistencies are important.
I'll gladly agree that working from a home office vs. an "office office" can be good or bad depending on the person. I'll also point out the chance for the Hawthorne effect to make changing from one to the other seem more (or less) productive than it really is.
It's not a law, nor is it a business practice. Read what I said again:

Moore's law ... OBSERVES that the number of transistors we can fit on a chip doubles every two years.

If you are trying to argue with me calling it "Moore's law", you are too late. You missed the boat. That's what it is called, law or not.
>1 file to 1 url does not scale to even small blogs

Huh? You can use a lightweight framework like CodeIgniter to immediately remove this problem.
pg is right- fundamental.

angersock also touches on a higher level, fundamental need here: the ephemerality of human memories.

Technology should be able to help and this is exactly the problem that Jan and his team at Loom are trying to solve.

Our memories- of our grandparents, our parents, our loves, our children, our grandchildren- they should last forever, and not be ephemeral like clouds and the Cloud.

Technology should help them endure like the cave paintings in Lascaux France. They were created by the earliest, most primitive human technology and remain to inspire awe in all of us.

More than that, our memories- the visual stories of our lives- should be available on any device: any iPhone, any iPad, any Android. And even any TV, Windows or Glass- wherever we are, and wherever we go.

Memories should be memorable and shareable with those we cherish most. An heirloom of us.
always an enjoyable read from DTT, great work!
Not sure if you're trolling. Google+ has never been mandatory within Google. There's plenty of people at Google who despise Vic Gundotra and don't want to have anything to do with G+.

On the other hand, there are very active and vibrant communities in Google+, perhaps you should try looking them some time.
> Lecturing from a book, or from notes, is sometimes the right thing to do,

I don't see how this can ever be useful. I grew up in the Middle East and attended an Indian School which followed the CBSE syllabus. There was nothing in the syllabus per se that inspired me to ask why. That came from my innate interest and from the occasional teacher who went beyond what was taught.

The focus was on rote memorization. You could be assured of excellent marks if you simply regurgitated what was in the text book. So if you were a moron, but had great memory, you could get 90%+ on an exam, but did you actually know anything?

In high school, I loved math but I never did well in the exams because I didn't really understand what I was applying and why. My high school teachers told me that I would do better in a western system of education that focused more on application than rote memorization. This was borne true a few years later when I started my undegrad in the US and aced my math classes. Although to be fair, my previous exposure to higher math definitely helped. But what I gained most from my education in the US was that I knew why I was doing what I was doing.

> The US system seems to overemphasize understanding.

I fail to see how anyone can overemphasize understanding. Understanding is the point of learning something. I still remember one of my friends memorizing Physics derivations. I once tried to ask her to explain one particular step and she had no clue why it was being done. She had simply memorized it. I sucked at that; I cannot memorize anything if I do not understand it

> That's biased. How can you challenge the intellect and question paradigms if you don't know them in the first place?

He's talking about the paradigm of rote memorization and conformity. In school I was frequently docked points if I restated my answer in any form that was different from the text book. It didn't matter that what I was saying was essentially the same. I didn't use the language of the book and so it was "wrong". How does that teach anyone anything? I still remember being terribly frustrated because I knew that my answer was right but yet I was being penalized because I hadn't regurgitated what was in the book.

Rote memorization may be helpful, but it cannot be the central underpinning of any kind of educational system. The idea of education is to understand what is being taught and apply it. Not just to memorize and regurgitate it without any regard for the meaning. Otherwise you're not better than a parrot that repeats phrases without any idea of the meaning or context.
I've actually tried DropBox for photos, and it's actually pretty awful on this front. Our company just switched from Box to DropBox (because of DB Teams issues), so I have little reason to stay on DB outside of my photos... Someone will come along and do this better (and they'll win this space starting mobile first).

Don't know if the winner will be Loom -- But the "why is there yet-another?" could've been the exact same question for when DB launched. "...Because people feel like the problem is still not solved."
Wow that was bad. He basically says "well the arguments were a bunch of anecdotes therefore I will ignore them." Not once does he refute, even anecdotally, the charges made in the original.
If your numbers are based on the on-board computer, they're wrong. The computer usually states something higher than what you actually get. Even the MPH is a lie, as the speedometer is set to be higher by 3-9 MPH.

In the real world, I haven't seen hybrid drivers that actually get what's advertised. I don't know how much this has changed within the last 3 years...
Yeah, I think that bold looks better with sans serif typefaces than underline, so that was a design rather than an ergonomic decision; perhaps not a correct one. I think underlined blue text is probably the "most linky" looking text, given the history of the web.
I'm trying to think of _any_ experiences visiting websites which I could equate to a memorable dining experience at my favorite restaurant. I can't.

So maybe the whole web is like fast food.
Do you know about GOMAXPROCS? Sounds like tuning it could help.
I was very curious about the claim that Go approached C speeds. I've not seen those claims before and the latencies cited certainly don't back that up.

C inter-op speed would be a big part of any such claims as any systems language would need to support that.
Good point, I have something to show which will definitely help my sales efforts!
Here's a thought with respect to security questions/answers. Even if you designate random, password-like/quality answers, are those answers security hashed?

If not, you're nonetheless one DB dump or other undesirable access away from having your account pwned.
Trust is central to all net purchases. No way around that.
I'm pretty sure it got flagged off the front page by other people who expected the same from the title.

It dropped from #12 to #40 while the age went from around 17 to 19min and votes went up from 6 to 8. That can't be right without flags.

It's now #31 with 13 points and 27min, might get back on. It was also #31 less than a minute ago with 11 points, but 2 quick votes didn't move it up. That seems odd. Maybe I don't understand how this works, I don't know.

EDIT: and now it jumped to #7, still with 13 points. There must be some delay before stories move around, but I really don't get it.

EDIT 2: #1 and Daring Fireball picked it up. I really don't get to complain anymore :D http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/05/23/screen-size-shen...
I have tried a decent amount of surveying friends and strangers. I got great feedback, however I felt that it was not entirely accurate. I felt that my family/friends for market research was almost entirely inaccurate. While strangers seemed more accurate, many seemed to say 'it looks nice' so they could get back to doing their own thing.

All this is also inefficient and time consuming.
10. Try to limit yourself to using jqLite that Angular comes with rather than full jQuery. This isn't really possibly with any reasonable part of Bootstrap however;

Can you explain this better?
Listening to aircraft transponders with a Raspberry Pi
You're right, it needs to be in front of people. Marketing it will be tough, I guess it will start with some cold calling/emailing and go from there.
I'm not surprised at all, given the Sears real estate portfolio. In Indianapolis, a company converted an old mall into a data center, and it seems to be working pretty well [1]. Retail buildings probably have a decent connection to the power grid, so it would really make sense to make use of the open spaces.

[1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/10/30/lifel...
Looked at loom.com, don't get what this site does.

Looked at loom.com/about and read wall of text, still not sure.

I'd suggest finding a more efficient way to communicate what this site is to newcomers.
What do mean exposes? Once the code is generated, the AST is gone (or so I thought). But yeah, there's some neat things we could do with massaging the AST into something more like Angular. Stop giving me ideas!
It's certainly not sufficient, but it's close to necessary for startups, because startups generally have to do something no one else is already doing.