skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You contradict yourself. First you say: "Neither path is right for everyone"

Then you say: "The sad part comes when some bright, young up-and-comer leaves off their interesting personal projects in less used languages in order to focus on only mainstream stuff."

Why is that sad? It's just like you said, "Neither path is right for everyone." I was bright and young once and had an opportunity to go into a start-up and shape the world, but I turned it down for a mainstream job, and I'm happy I did.

There is no reason to pity my choice or mourn for me. And there is no reason to continue to foster the mentality that anyone who has never worked in a start-up is some sort of lesser developer.
How does this get flagged off so quickly when there's a sexism article on the frontpage?
You don't need a study to know that none of the Soda drinks are of any help to any humans. Humans lived without soda for very long time until someone invented Pepsis and Cokes and .... and they are not something you use to help yourself for anything. So why bother?
> every single URL you visit and every search you make on Google isn't evil

No, it's not evil, it's the the point of the extension -- to do product search.

If you don't like the product, you don't have to use it, but you can't say you want it, and then say it's evil for doing exactly what it says on the tin.
Is that spouse-as-a-director trick legal ?

(The idea is that if the company bills 100,000 pounds
it pays corp tax of 20,000. Then the director can withdraw the profit of 80k as a dividend. Since a tax has already been paid on the 100k the 80k is free of income tax. However income tax is charged at two levels in the uk (25% and 40%). The govt says that the first level of 25% has already been paid (by corp tax at 20%). The 40% only kicks in at 43,000 a year - so you can as a director withdraw 43,000 as dividend and not pay "extra" tax on personal income.

The parent is suggesting your spouse can be a director and do the same, effectively making a 80k pa net household income on 100k revenue. (And if your are in a stable threesome it's even better :-)

If it is legal send me your accountants number - my mail is in the profile!
I miss the functionality from browser in Mozilla Suite.

Basically, when you type something in the address bar it would show your history and add "Search for ..." as the last option. So, even if you had large history, it was enough to press the UP arrow and switch from address to searching.

AFAIK, this is still the way it works on SeaMonkey.
Finding the hourly billing strategy strange. My best estimates are in "half days" worth of work. Will try how the equation fits in the UK though. Pleasant read :)
Sadly, Amazon isn't alone in this. There is no secure CSP that Chrome implements for any of its extensions, and they don't require and sort of legitimate oversight, so I would venture to guess that there are at least a few dozen extensions that are just as bad.

We wrote about one, incidentally, a few months ago, that has hundreds of thousands of installs: https://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/blog/building-a-browser-exte...
People also have sex with people they know from work. Should they have it at work? If you can't find something to talk about at work other than how hot some naked woman on tv was last night, they're not giving you enough to do.

If your friends at work refuse to meet you away from work for your crucial sex talk, they may be uncomfortable with it too. If your self-righteousness is because you feel put upon by not being able to say what you want when you want, I entirely lack sympathy.
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/san_fran...
Germany and China.
Everything in every language means something funny in some other language.
>The government was ordered to report back by July 12, 2013 on the timetable for that review.

So where can I get more information on the report that is to be filed today?

(http://blog.zwillgen.com/2013/07/10/fisa-court-of-review-iss...)
It's unbelievable because (1) the patent is in no way tied to a physical system as required by US Patent law, (2) is merely a generic and obvious collection of related activities and basic processes, and (3) is invalid based on at least a decade of prior art that predates the patent.

Do you understand that the patent, as written, would lay claim to the basic functionality of every MMO ever released? That is quite literally lays claim to the character selection screens that have been around since Ultima Online (as the patent limits itself to networked game, earlier SP games are not relevant), which came out in 1997?

This isn't an old patent--it was filed November 2010.
Why checking your email is like smoking crack
I'm glad you rest your case on the funny I made just for you!
that saying is only good if you are talking about an individual, not a company...
Trae Vassallo’s Tour of Functional Geek Fashion
connected to the neighbor's open wifi?
How is SVM doing comparing to the Neural Network renaissance with deep learning?
Sen. Wyden imagines the White House is willing to reconsider surveillance
His last lecture here for those interested
http://video.mit.edu/watch/dr-amar-g-bose-last-lecture-of-fa...
> I didn't notice anybody saying, "Hey, let's not get ragey about [the NSA|Apple|patent trolls|Facebook|Google|Congress], we're here to learn, not get upset."

People were saying that. People were flagging those stories. Some people lost their flagging rights because they flagged too much.

I still flag some of the [the NSA|Apple|patent trolls|Facebook|Google|Congress] flamebait stories.
> No the are NOT! Don't use strings for comments dammit.

You're gonna have to back that up with a reason. I'm tired of pedantry for pedantry's sake.
I would like to see proof as well, currently this seems to be mostly hearsay and journalist sensationalism.
That is not true across the board. Many companies are looking for specific technical talent. When nVidia is looking for someone to fill a specific niche on the CUDA team, they don't care about how much money you made for company A or B; they care whether you have the technical ability to fill the niche as they conceive of it. The hiring manager isn't naive, and already has an idea of why this position was created and what they're looking for in a hire. The interviewer is quite likely to be an engineer already on the team.

What they want you to convince them of is that you have the technical skills to fill the role. If you start talking about ROI and business value, it can be seen as a red flag that you're from a more "soft" background like business informatics, and not a good fit for the position.

Of course, if you're getting hired by someone who doesn't have a specific technical role they're trying to fill, or doesn't know what exactly they're looking for, the situation will be different. But that is not usually the case at chip-design firms.
http://www.mikadosoftware.com/bizplan/busplan

This is still rough draft, but I am publishing anyway.

Let me know your thoughts
I'm sorry, but I completely disagree. If netflix wants a way to add DRM so people can watch DRMed videos on the Internet let them.

There is no negative. What is negative is the fact that people seem to think that netflix should just continue using a closed system made by Microsoft which doesn't work on Linux natively.
Cancel Netflix if you'd rather use Silverlight than HTML5 video.
Summary: Fat, unhealthy people drink diet soda. We don't know if it's correlation or causation. Lots of people have different theories, but they're all over the map.

Reading articles like this in news media sources is so frustrating since they only ask questions and never answer any of them.
I don't use Omnibar, because by typing words into the address bar directly, Firefox does do a search.

Also Firefox's address bar is much better at searching your history, saving you from doing Google searches. For example you can type the words in the titles of articles you've read and Firefox's AwesomeBar does a good job at suggesting past entries.

This is awesome when you no longer remember the domain or url, but you remember a word or two. In such instances searching on Google doesn't help either.

This feature to me has been an epiphany actually. Google has no interest in developing something like the AwesomeBar, because they'd rather see you doing searches on Google instead.
Thanks, will look into this - looks like a bug in dojo-bootstrap.
I couldn't believe what I was hearing and it was a pleasure to leave the company shortly thereafter

I'm sad that you were forced to make that choice, I'm proud of the choice that you made.
This is quite old. It is funny though. I read it to myself in Michael Caine's voice.
Shooting in SOMA
I made the exact same two switches over the past week and agree with the author. Honestly it's been great. I'm also slowly migrating away from my gmail and to a hosted email on my domain.
I've never heard that before. And the searches I just did for it seem to reference "fiancée" as just a side note. It seems to me that "fiancé" is most commonly used to mean either. I for one was not confused one bit by the original statement.
Marketing Automation: Introduction To Email Autoresponders
A UUID generator that's pleasant to use
Shootings in SF at REI  888 Brannan. Area not secure. Be careful
Multiple fatalities reported at the REI @ 888 Brannan.

Updates at:
http://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14404
https://twitter.com/Emergency_In_SF/status/355798992497557505

Heard that people at pinterest are locked in a basement and surrounded by swat team.
Local News Names Asiana Airlines Pilots "Ho Lee Fuk," Other Racist Names
The way to fix it is to start a software company and then hire all the overlooked overqualified women on the job market. When people are being stupid like this, it's a market inefficiency; it means that the market price for a woman will be lower than for an equivalently-qualified man. As an entrepreneur, your job is to exploit that market inefficiency and in the process drive wages up to parity.
This is exactly how Firefox currently works, but you just press enter instead of up and then enter. If what you've got in the address bar doesn't look like an address, it'll google it for you.
It's a noble concept, but a bit weak. Really what you want is a static analysis tool that an keep up with your programmers.

For example, Guice fails the Grep Test hard, but it incredibly helpful.

All data-driven fail the Grep test. Your browser fails the Grep test (you can't grep for javascript content)

You just need to replace Grep with an xref tool that understands your programming language, including your metaprogramming. This may require you to commit your configuration files and standard data objects into your source control, or build an indexer that can read your CMS as well as your code.
Bose got a bad rap.

In the 80's, everyone agreed Bose products were pretty but overpriced. Unfortunately that reputation stuck.

These days, we all gladly pay extra for good aesthetic design (see: Apple, and almost every electronic gizmo on Kickstarter).

Bose was ahead of their time.
No they won't, and we are all in our late_30's/early_40's.
Remember, though: this is the FSF talking. There's no such thing as a shade of gray to them; you're either Free, as they define Free, or you're not.

That's not to say they're always wrong, but you have to remember to evaluate everything they say through that lens...
Power Poses
According to Obama "everything was legal". I don't buy it, but if we assume that what he said was true, then it doesn't matter what he does until the laws themselves get repealed.
I don't understand your point. If there were such a difference between Chromium and Chrome, then it would surely show up in a diff of the binaries' disassemblies. The size of the binaries doesn't matter, because (assuming you trust the Chromium source and your local system) only the difference between the two is relevant.
I'm with you - 3 or 4 months seems premature to give up on something that's already been built. It does sound like the marketing plan is weak.
In practice, I don't believe any U.S. states attempt to regulate the mere linguistic usage of the word "engineer", the way that Canada does. Pretty much anyone can call themselves an engineer, or have the word "engineer" in their job title. What's regulated is that there are certain situations, mainly in civil engineering, in which a required document can only be signed off on by someone with a state engineering license.
HN is fast because it is feature-barren. That's a design choice pg is free to make (and cutting features is a great way to improve performance), but not a proof of Arc/Lisp's ability to support complex applications with high-performance.
If you value freedom , why did you sign up for netflix in the first place?
That's why they use docker: it automates the process of building and packaging Graphite, so you don't have to worry about it.

$ docker run lopter/collectd-graphite

You're done.
Animal House: Google interns gone wild
Newbie question: I find zero-fat food that is very high in protein and reasonable in sugar. Such food also is high on calories. Is food with 230 calories (zero from fat) the same as 230 calories (120 from fat, zero grams protein) in terms of weight loss? I am avoiding the latter, do I need to avoid the former too?
It's the second article I've seen on HN shilling bitcoin as a viable currency for Africans with blatantly false claims. It's a worrying trend.
First I though it is smart commercials from Panic and their Diet Coda
Don't overlook the Braun Atelier systems. Those products are art.
>I'm a high school math and science teacher

>I teach an intro programming class each year

God bless you.
I've been a Netflix customer for 8 years. I haven't paid for cable or satellite for most of those 8 years, and I've always tried my hardest to understand the driving forces behind Netflix's decisions, such as raising prices to manage skyrocketing license costs, and segregating streaming and DVD services so that the DVD customers don't artificially inflate streaming numbers to negatively affect licensing contracts. I was even prepared to accept their dreadful choice to completely separate the streaming service into a wholly different company, though I was glad that they ultimately decided against it.

It was easy to see the economic reasoning behind many of those decisions, even though on the surface they seemed not to benefit the consumer.

Clearly, DRM is required in order for them to license the shows we want to watch. It's unfortunate, but it is something I am prepared to accept. What upsets me about this particular instance is that they are moving to make DRM a part of what are supposed to be the open standards of the web. It flies in the face of the principles upon which the internet was designed and built, and regardless of what technical hurdles it would help the company to overcome it is also very clearly an anti-consumer move, the scope of which reaches far beyond Netflix itself.

Maybe it's time I dusted off some of the books I've been meaning to read.
Wow, I stand corrected. The original logo also has subtle adjustments to one or both of the lower-case 'i' characters to make them each different, which was what threw me off.
And congratulations - the prize for Most Outrageous Similie guaranteed To End the Argument is ...

Love it.
AT&T To Acquire Leap Wireless (Cricket) For Around $1.2B
This could also be worded, "Cancel Netflix if you value free software." By definition, Netflix users are paying for software (ok, a service) so it seems hard to get them rallied up for this cause. (This isn't a comment either way on the cause)
> What's the elephant in the room? Metabolism!!

The stuff I've seen says that metabolism can only account for about 300 kcal/day difference, until you get into extreme cases like "starvation mode" where the body starts to shutdown (women's periods stop, etc). In the end there's no way around the first law of thermodynamics.

Most anecdotes about "but he eats the same stuff I do!" are just the extremely common cases of people under and overestimating caloric value.
Dr. Randy Noblitt, Satanic Limb Transplants, and the Music of Mind Control
>all electronics, except Bose, were ugly.

Except for Braun, Sony, B&O, and other high-end electronic manufacturers...
For The First Time Ever - A Human-Powered Helicopter
Well worth it, I'm sure. When choosing between MailChimp and CampaignMonitor for our newsletters (both equally good at the time as far as I could tell), we went with MailChimp simply because we got a kick out of it.
How is that even possible to have the exact same act be counted differently solely based on who is the aggressor?
"Diversity information" should not be forwarded on to anyone except the statistician[1] in the personnel department who is creating charts to show that the company is making efforts to not exclude people.

It's probably time that companies started asking for a different form of resume / CV - without any age, gender, sexuality, race, religion, or disability information on it.

We could probably design a suitable experiment to satisfy everyone that the phenomena is real. I'd be interested to see what happens if 10 people send 3 CVs each for a company - same information but with "Mr Kim Johnson", "Mrs Kim Johnson", "Yolanda Johnson" swapped in for the name.
In my experience, Chrome is way better than Firebug or Firefox's builtin tools for development. Firefox's debugger doesn't appear to have any way to debug webworkers for example. You can't reformat source. They only just got SourceMap support and it doesn't appear to work as good. No syntax coloring. Poor profiling tools, can't get a timeline which shows frames per second, breakdown of paint/style recalc/layout/composite, no memory/heap profiling UI, etc. No explorer for local storage or filesystem apis, no manager for app-cache. Nothing like chrome://net-internals for analyzing network issues, and on and on.

I'm sure they'll fix all that in time, they have a good development team, but to say Firebug is clearly superior is obviously based on not having used the Chrome tools to do anything significant.
I don't doubt it's a great book, but the first sentence defies your claim that metabolism is a red herring unless you're saying this guy is selling red herrings:

>Clinical Research Proves that Eat Stop Eat will Help You Lose Weight Fast, Get Rid of Ugly Body Fat and Increase Growth Hormone in as Little as 24 Hours - all while Improving Your Metabolism and Even Building Lean Muscle
Another missive by the FSF that's mostly meaningless to people who aren't willing to make huge sacrifices in their lives to avoid the (cue ominous music and thunder) 'non-free' bogeyman of the week.

Seriously. My sincerest apologies if this sounds bitter, but this is a completely non-constructive rant. Again.

The FSF's stances are completely untenable to most people.

Aside: Why would someone who makes a principled stand on free software ever have signed up with Netflix in the first place?!
Good to see China looking at the long term economic benefits from undertaking such projects.
I believe Monster.com allows you to do this; there is an option to hide your contact info and only allow recruiters to contact you through the site. This is ostensibly to allow you to apply for new jobs without being discovered by your current job. I would imagine many job sites provide this feature.
The Great Gatsby - Visual Effects
The point of a university is to master the subject by any means necessary, which includes building up your professional and social network. This point was impressed upon us in our first week at uni. We were encouraged by profs and TAs to set up informal learning groups, if we didn't we weren't going to cope with the pressure. I keep telling my students the same.

I hate to say this, but it must be said: anyone who calls dealing with an incompetent TA "hazing" when he is at a genuine university like Berkeley has missed something. Didn't you have fellow students to talk to to be able to pass Calculus?

I know there are not-universities, and anyone who passes through these is cheated, but Berkeley isn't among the not-universities.
Not as much as I value convenient streaming movies.
actually, it is, for some values of universe (observable, etc.)
word is it's a robbery attempt
Of course not. Acknowledging that two things are the same in some ways does not imply that the two things are the same in all ways. Don't be intentionally obtuse.
Meet the man behind the music at more than 1,400 Chipotles
> A unified bar in FF

you need Foobar [1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/foobar/
So what?

How does that change in any way the substance of Snowden's disclosures?
Of course the FSF is taking this position, and I'm glad that they are.

Is it an impractical position? Totally, of course. DRM is not optional to video content suppliers, so no matter what replaces Silverlight, it will come with DRM.

Without a W3C standard we might get several totally different, incompatible DRM implementations instead of one standard one. To folks who like standards, that will feel like a missed opportunity; but it doesn't seem any worse than what we have now.
1. Bose products in the 80s were ugly too.

2. Not all electronics were ugly in the 80s. Bang & Olufsen and Quad would completely blew Bose away as far as style.
I just got back from Kenya 2 days ago. I was blown away at the M-Pesa penetration. They are skipping credit cards just as they skipped land lines.
My point is that it will show up in a diff of the binaries.
Firstly, saying one third of kenyans use M-Pesa doesn't really reflect its impact fully - from the Economist's article on mobile money in East Africa last week:

"17m of Kenya’s 19m adults are signed up to M-PESA. Cash equivalent to nearly one-third of Kenya’s GDP washes through the service."

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21579870...

Ultimately, the move toward less regulated currency is driven by the Kenyan Government's decision to tax M-Pesa transactions by 10% which threatens to tip them towards no longer being the most efficient way to move money. This is just a clever work-around to the poor regulation of mobile money.
Here's an article dealing with the irony of the USA complaining about other nation's cyber shenanigans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/11/world/asia/differences-on-...

I submitted the article here but it's buried in the morass of other submissions.
It's not well known, but Dr. Bose had a stroke a few years ago. I was an officer of a local Acoustical Society of America chapter in Boston. Dr. Bose had been awarded a plaque at the national ASA conference in the summer of 2011, but he wasn't well enough to travel to accept the reward, so we volunteered to host a reception in Cambridge to give him the award and recognize other prominent acousticians. At that point, none of us knew what had happened to prevent him from traveling (I figured he was just really busy), but we were informed shortly before the reception.

When he arrived he was clearly still recovering (he had difficult walking and needed time to collect his thoughts before speaking), but he was still able to make a barn-burner of an acceptance speech. Afterwords, he took the time to speak to anyone who wanted to talk to him, including me.

I know audiophiles and enthusiasts have a low opinion of Bose products and their litigation strategies (some of which I share), but I had Dr. Bose as a professor in college and he was a fantastic instructor (even without the free ice cream during tests!). Students would often challenge him based on audiophile beliefs, and he would always use sound engineering arguments to refute them. And he was the only MIT prof I have saw who regularly ate meals at the Lobdell Food Court.

RIP Dr. Bose.

camera-phone picture of James Barger, Dr. Bose, Christopher Jaffe and Eric Unger at the aforementioned reception: http://twitpic.com/d2amd3

edit: bose.com has a memorial up: http://www.bose.com/remember/index.html