skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like this blog post better. It goes more into the radical innovation (for academia) of the authors' process:

"But more importantly, the spirit of collaboration that pervaded our group at the Institute for Advanced Study was truly amazing. We did not fragment. We talked, shared ideas, explained things to each other, and completely forgot who did what (so much in fact that we had to put some effort into reconstruction of history lest it be forgotten forever). The result was a substantial increase in productivity. There is a lesson to be learned here (...), namely that mathematicians benefit from being a little less possessive about their ideas and results. I know, I know, academic careers depend on proper credit being given and so on, but really those are just the idiosyncrasies of our time. If we can get mathematicians to share half-baked ideas, not to worry who contributed what to a paper, or even who the authors are, then we will reach a new and unimagined level of productivity. Progress is not made by those who break rules."

"Truly open research habitats cannot be obstructed by copyright, profit-grabbing publishers, patents, commercial secrets, and funding schemes that are based on faulty achievement metrics. Unfortunately we are all caught up in a system which suffers from all of these evils. But we made a small step in the right direction by making the book source code freely available under a permissive Creative Commons license. Anyone can take the book and modify it, send us improvements and corrections, translate it, or even sell it without giving us any money. (If you twitched a little bit when you read that sentence then the system has gotten to you.)"

(borrowing the google cache link from below: https://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?strip=1&q=cach...)
It would be a better step for instagram if they would bring adding caption capability to android apps. They have this on ios and other apps use instagram as photo sharing social platform because of tags yet android developers has no such chance.
I didn't have a computer at the time, but my friends who were online all used AOL, which came with its own search engine, chat rooms, email, etc.
The illustrated "Conference Room Technique" at the bottom is almost straight out of a movie! Two assassins kill 12 targets in less than 30 seconds.
>but we already have resistant strains out there.

But those resistant strains will be outcompeted by non-resistant strains without the presence of anti-biotics.

There is a fitness cost to most resistance mechanisms [1]

[1] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20208551
really good read
Good point. It does make me wonder though: Does the time and money cost of purchasing more licenses outweigh the effect on employee morale resulting from night shifts?
I vividly remember reading that several years ago when it was first put online someplace. o_O
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I actually just built an iPhone app to help people get rid of stuff they don't need called Give or Take: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/give-or-take-bay-area/id6517....
Everything on it is free, so you won't make any money off it. But sometimes giving stuff away can be faster and less stressful.
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!!

Oh wow he actually DID write that in a little city in British Columbia. I assumed he was pulling metadata and serving people different answers.
5 Critical 2013 Trends Driving the 3rd Platform for IT Management
Many pundits and analysts have declared the concept of cloud computing as the Third Platform (for IT). If you have critical projects in mobility, cloud services, social technologies, or Big Data, it’s time to make that same transition in your management tools.
Sure, if it seems like a reasonable conspiracy theory a healthy debunking is acceptable. In a fair number of cases, however, some of these conspiracies are so outlandish that we really should punish the perpetrators via public shaming.
It's 60yrs later. Reality is darker, I'm sure.
Maintenance is 200% of the cost of writing software.

The first 100% of the cost is 20% writing, testing and certifying it, and 80% maintaining the result.

The additional 100% is the cost of rewriting it because you didn't actually write it to be maintainable.
A lot of really large tech startups are not even solving "first world problems".
This reminds me of the following study, that had similar results but a better title:

How fast does the Grim Reaper walk?
http://www.bmj.com/content/343/bmj.d7679
The two are not mutually exclusive, and solving both of those is what makes programming hard and fun.
Iff you were rich and white protestant.

My grandma remembered the Great Depression as a time when life improved.
I had a perfectly usable blog built in laravel 3 with a content manager, hosted comments, the works -- but I destroyed it because one day I decided everything had to be turned into modules, and then one day everything had to be statically cached, and the switching the css framework from bootstrap to skeleton then back to bootstrap, then I built a custom static-page generating php framework, then I realized what an awful idea that was (although it's what my site is running now, minus a blog and anything interesting), and now I'm trying to port my laravel 3 stuff over to 4.

Just dumping textfiles into an open directory honestly would've been more productive (if less fun.)
big like for mean.io!!
The Surprisingly Non-Evil Ad System Saving Facebook’s Business
I find that a bit disingenuous on the part of the HN moderators.

I still maintain that the piece was original. It was based on (and expanded on) one of the eight points made within an NYT article.

To me "In Head-Hunting, Big Data May Not Be Such a Big Deal" could not describe the same article as "Google admits those infamous brainteasers were completely useless for hiring".

Even the headlines indicate two separate directions.

Please read again and compare this (relevant passage on NYTimes will be Highlighted):

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/20/business/in-head-hunting-b...

to this:

http://qz.com/96206/google-admits-those-infamous-brainteaser...

Serious question - am I completely off the mark?
Sorry if this is an insensitive question, I am merely curious. How do you navigate hacker news?
I've been involved at a few startups that over a year later my accounts still are not disabled. At one I logged in six months later and disabled myself.
> Simplicity of usage should always win over simplicity of coding.

In a superficial assessment, yes, usage is the objective of software, and it should be as complex as needed to enable its users to have an optimal perfomance.

But then, most software is built in an environemnt where people don't even know* what problem they want to solve beforehand. Ading complexity too early makes it very hard to change your software and leads to a situation where you completely optimized some work that shouldn't be done at all, while the important work got harder because it was overlooked at first.

* They have a general idea, and even that is wrong sometimes.
Never get rid of books. I got rid of a lot of mine and thoroughly regret it. Why?

I now have children who want to read them.
The OP doesn't argue against styling. It argues against design cruft. The point is not to forgo design, but to focus on design that enhances content.
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I totally agree, I don't read the comments for an explicit summary. I read the comments to see what opinions people have of the article, on the basis of the comments I determine if the article is worth reading.

I don't do this for all articles, but it is a pretty common occurrence.
My father is nearing 80 and in the last couple of years his gait his stiffened and slowed noticeably. Of course anybody has limited time left at 80, but it's interesting how much older he suddenly looked to an observer. 3 years ago he was confused with men in their 60s.

I think he suddenly felt older to himself as well, this year my parents finally decided to do a top-to-bottom review of their life-insurance, will and other estate issues.
I automatically checked the source after reading "There's not much code on this page at all, just simple markup for paragraphs, hierarchy, and emphasis." Just out of curiousity I guess. It's obviously not a big deal, it's just funny. It's not what I expected.
Probably because you can update your app on Google Play instantly. On App Store, you'll have to go through the verification process for each update.
Bourbaki!
Yay! Just started using Firebase on a new project of mine a couple weeks ago, and loving it. I'm glad to see it's certain to be lasting :-)
I'm working under the assumption that if government granted monopolies will happen, getting a bit more of a benefit out of it may be worthwhile.

Generally I'm also of the idea that monopolies are bad, but I'm not knowledgeable enough in the subject to know whether there's possibly a short time frame (5-10 years?) where a monopoly is actually has enough benefits (or can have enough benefits if the right constraints are placed) to society to make it desirable.
Introducing Pagespeed optimizations
I hope my kindle will still work
Oh, the project seems certain to be a total clusterfuck; it's just not 100% surprising that they could be gated on physical space.
These maps more likely prove that the cost of a device is directly related to the income of its user.
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Craigslist the non-cheap stuff. It only takes a few minutes to post something there (less time than going to Goodwill, probably), and you'll get some cash.

But yeah, the gifting culture drives me kind of bonkers too. I intend to establish Gift Truces with as many people in my life as possible come January 1st of 2014 (since, mathematically, I should be even with most people at that point). Or, if a person won't go for that, I'll ask them to donate to charity in my name instead of give me a gift.
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Good luck. Nice to have all in one.
I doubt it. Such a replacement would be a huge effort to write (including integrating it with the existing VM) and maintain, and there are also political factors. Despite those, I don't think it's out of the question that it will happen some day, especially as Chrome already has a copy of LLVM, though I do think it's less relevant than the other stuff I mentioned.

edit: azakai has a better answer :)
Wow what a combo.
Why We Should Rethink the Eight-Hour Workday
I have done that a lot. I have also used scanning services such as bookscan.us or 1dollarscan.com to convert older books to PDF.
Unfortunately, that hasn't been my experience. Everyone wants software to be easy, but most people (by which I mean clients, management, and anyone else who's ever asked me to build software) have no opinion one way or the other about simplicity: They want it to do exactly what they want, the way they want, regardless of how technically feasible or user-friendly that ends up being.

Simplicity is an ideal I see a lot more among tech people (myself included), and while I think it's nice to aspire to, it's definitely not something I've seen as a request, requirement, or even preference among the kind of people who are willing to pay others to build things. They want what they want, not a simple implementation of what they need.
If I may be so bold as to synopsize patio11: Choose your tools pragmatically, for each job.
Depending how the rich web app is made, I reckon it has the possibility of making things more accessible. With many jQuery based sites it's not uncommon to load all the content for the site in one go, leaving content with visibility hidden or with 0 opacity, meaning that people with screen readers may have tons and tons of content to sort through to figure out what is relevant.

Newer template engines make this better since templates are likely to be stored as Javascript objects/functions that are written to the DOM when they are relevant.
> Just being able to see what's changed since you last recorded is a big win.

Particularly with the fuzzy temporal revs thing, e.g. HEAD@{1 week ago}
If you're already asking where you think your career will be in 3, 5, or 10 years in relationship to a single employer, you're probably asking the wrong question.

Employers no longer care about your career. Any career growth you experience at a single employer is a side effect of making that employer happy.

This is a GOOD thing, because it acknowledges the fact that only you are in charge of your own career. So think about what you want in the next 5 years, and for which ever job you join, work towards the goals you set for yourself.
My point was more along the lines of it is wasting time. If you do something bad for the right reason and then later find out it is bad then at least you know that solution was the issue and you can try a different solution next time.

If you do something right for the wrong reason then you have absolutely nothing to learn from and have made no progress at all at finding the correct solution for the problem at hand.
something in one of chrome, ghostery, disconnect or adblock removes that, fwiw (and maybe it's just because it's timely, but it's actually one of the better posts i've read in this kind of thing).
Oh, OK - I knew about that trick. I thought you were referring to the internal speakers on a laptop being usable as a covert audio recorder.
However it seems to me that to this day there is no proof they intentionally tried to weaken a standardized crypto algorithm, they seem to have instead relied in the past on imposing reduced sizes of keys. But even that seems to have changed nowadays, AES 256 bits despite all the scrutiny seems to still be a safe choice. Of course, I don't know what are their plans concerning crypto but the backlash will be huge if it appeared they rigged an algorithm. Of course, if they happened to honestly find a significant flaw or make a breakthrough in quantum computing for instance I doubt they would tell the public either.
He's one of a tiny minority of VC partners who actually write code. His site is http://continuations.com.
We do logging on our web server, obviously the support ticket system, our mail server, coupon code redemption, etc. Billing with Stripe -- presumably they keep records for a long time. We don't see your CC, but are notified of payment, etc. (which is why Bitcoin is very attractive to add, and maybe other systems.)

The privacy VPN itself currently does zero logging. The best practices seem to be either zero logging or very short retention logging. We'll commit to one of those (but most likely zero logging) soon (working on a very clear and plain language ToS). All the stuff we'd handle with logging is instead done by going out to top-500 sites (or anything reported to us as not working), rather than monitoring use.

We don't currently do "anonymization" so web browsing can be an issue. We're looking at that with some kind of opt-in proxy.
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The gender balance in the picture really struck me.
It is very hard to do, and LLVM has been difficult to use as a JIT in past projects (Unladen Swallow, for example).

However, Apple is experimenting with this in their FTL (fourth tier LLVM-based) JIT project in JSC. Because Apple drives both JSC and LLVM, this has the highest chance of success of any similar project, I believe, so it is very interesting to watch.
Note that in principle it's probably better to change your diff software to recognize sentences than to change how you write your latex.
Looks a lot better than what was here a few hours ago. Good job fixing the typesetting issues.
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http://ask.metafilter.com/55124/What-laws-do-noncriminals-co...

http://www.dumblaws.com/random-laws

They've basically "al caponed" the entire US. If they can't get you on one thing, they'll get you on another. Oddly enough, taxes are probably something everyone has broken the law on. Do you really report everything to the last penny? No? Oh, well theres tax evasion.
Not exactly efficiency, (though they have high combustion efficiency) but low cost and very good mass ratio. If they make it reusable, that where the killer improvement is. Elon says they're getting there; I'm crossing my fingers.
Papering Over App Store Problems: 53's Series A Should Concern Apple
Payment is by Stripe, how long are records of the transaction kept by yourselves? Are you associating a card transaction to an IP address in any way that could result in you ever having to release that data?
Thanks so much for posting this. Let me know if I can help you out in any way.
You are correct. I use OpenVPN to terminate a connection and get great performance, but it's served up by a reasonably powered box. If OP is using dd-wrt, I'm being it's on a WiFi router with 300mhz cpu at best and 48-64 mb ram.
If we don't standardize a subset of JavaScript that browsers can execute quicker, it will cause a decline in the use of websites as developers choose to write native apps instead. Then we will lose all the benefits that the Web provides.
Google [iq fat tails] and there're a bunch of articles on it (and one comment I wrote here about 4 years ago). The original data source for most of the articles is Terman's 1921 study of high-IQ people; they've plotted out the observed frequency of Terman's data against a normal distribution and found that it deviated markedly after about 3-4 SD.

Some additional Googling seems to have found some other independent studies:

http://hiqnews.megafoundation.org/John_Scoville_Paper.htm

http://www.abelard.org/burt/burt-ie.asp

I'm curious what sort of population your work draws from. The results above showed that IQ follows a normal distribution until about 140; other papers I've read indicate that IQ correlates with life outcomes until an IQ of about 140, and then appears completely uncorrelated. If you're studying workplace performance, I wouldn't be surprised if a good fraction of high-IQ people simply aren't in the workplace. (See eg. Christopher Langan.)
That seems like quite a contrast from Mochizuki.
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A more forthcoming Bourbaki since all the HoTT authors are publicly listed. No conjectures needed.
Or, just post that shit on Craigslist and save shipping a bunch of crap a long distance for the second time.

Seriously, if you have some stuff, here's how I would get rid of it on Craigslist:

1. Valuable Stuff

Take nice pictures and some time to write a decent description and get the full value of what it's worth.

Or

Spend almost zero time on a bare bones post and get half of what it's worth.

2. Worthless Crap

Post it as a bulk lot and get like $10 for everything

Or

Donate to thrift store and get a tax deduction

Either way, you'll probably get more than the $10 per box that this service would offer, plus you'll not needlessly ship stuff all over the place.
Atlas of True Names
VCs code!?
BrainTree is another option to consider: Their API seems to be as simple as Stripe's, and their pricing looks better (quicker payouts, volume pricing).
This post boggles me.
I'll save you a lot of hard lessons by telling you what to do.

1. Don't quit your day job. If it's easy enough to finish and study during the day, then don't quit it until after you make enough to do so.

2. Buy a Mac. What good is that corporate banking job if you can't afford a $1000 Macbook Air? You gotta spend money to make money.

3. Start writing apps TODAY. You'd be surprised how much you can accomplish during nights and weekends if you turn off the TV, video games, and sacrifice a little bit of your personal time.

Do all this for at least 6 months and if you haven't found a way to hop on the gravy train, look into something else. At least you'll still have that day job which clearly affords you plenty of time to pursue other ventures if this one doesn't work out.

Good luck!
I don't think posting a comment counts as "web design". Nobody said "writing comments shouldn't be about words".
Yep, very happy for you guys. If I wasn't working on my own stuff, Firebase would clearly be the very first startup I'd apply to work with.
Words delivered as electronic text are a great equalizer, for both the writer and the reader. Words impose no accessibility barriers for people with sensory disabilities. Words require minimal bandwidth. Even for readers with no significant disability or bandwidth limitation, words are great because the reader can read them in whatever way he or she sees fit (computer screen, e-ink display, printed page, text-to-speech).

Written words allow a writer to communicate without being hindered or prejudged by things beyond his or her control, such as accent, rate of speech, sound of voice, or poor acoustics. A writer can rewrite and edit his or her words to say exactly what he or she wants, far more easily than one can edit a video or audio recording.

Electronic text is more amenable to analysis and manipulation (e.g. translation) by machine than any other human communication medium.

I'm not so sure about this, but written words might favor reason over emotion, especially if one can disable presentation hints.

For these reasons and more, the Web should be primarily about written words delivered as electronic text.
Stanford, Mozilla, Opera team up to tackle cookie privacy issues
is it unusual to use "bitwise and" inside the feistel function? i thought that normally xor or modular addition or shifts or permutations (nx1 s-boxes) were used, which keep all the information (in some sense). "bitwise and" isn't like that (i don't have the right word for this distinction, sorry. maybe "invertible" is the word?) but is used here. anyone know why? or is this a distinction i've invented that has no basis in fact?

obviously it doesn't matter (decryption still works) as long as it's inside the feistel function itself. so i guess maybe i am just muddling that with how things must be outside that?
A tiny minority of them do.
Absolutely agree. For those who have trouble setting up OpenVPN (it's a pain in the ass) and want a simple solution, sshuttle works really, really well:

https://github.com/apenwarr/sshuttle
The 1990's were great, leaving aside the U.S. use of cruise missiles, several random invasions, etc. E.g. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile_strikes_on_Afgha..., http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cruise_missile_strikes_on_Iraq_....
So.. am I missing something here?

You are a new startup. You are operating a closely related product to a large power player in the same business by choosing a nearly identical name.
Now you are suggesting their data is so important to you that you are going to technically circumvent their block, potentially adding more legal liability, and use their service anyway?
And calling them "assholes" in a public forum forum?

Does that seem at all sustainable to you?