skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my opinion it comes down to this, Do you want to play the game, or do you want to change the game.

If you want to play the game, Sure, be a jerk, be the biggest sociopathic jerk you can be, stamp your feet when your timelines get pushed back, force your subordinates to work extra hours, yell at anyone who breaks the build. It's the way the game has always been played.

Or you could change the game. Be the humble, helpful leader, be steadfast and nurturing, look at your employees as investments, because thats what they truly are, you are investing your product, your time, even your value into them, so they better damn well be worth your emotional efforts. Be the leaders that you see that are Charismatic and optimistic. But don't expect it to be easy.

For some of us, being the jerk is harder.
It's not all bad. Valve compensates its programmers the same as Google and Facebook, sometimes better. I believe their revenue per employee exceeds that even of Apple (but don't quote me on that).
Thanks!

My Shop Data is all PHP & MySQL, with Slim, Twig & Bootstrap.
The web scraping aspect is another product of mine (forgive the clunky homepage, I'm going to turn this into an API platform) - https://grabnotify.com

GrabNotify is Node.js, Mongo, PHP, Bootstrap and PhantomJS. The undocumented API allows you to create a web crawler but define a JavaScript algorithm to extract the data off the page. Some retailers have dropdowns which update stock, images, etc, so this crawler can simulate mouse events, etc. My Shop Data will supply a custom crawler algorithm for each e-commerce web site through the API.

And finally, I've written a HTML to Markdown translator to extract page descriptions but keep some formatting while being transferable to other systems that don't support HTML.

The whole legality issue of web scraping is an interesting one. I'm planning to position GrabNotify as a web crawler, page monitor and HTML -> data tool, but only if you own or have permission to scrape the original content but need a simple way to grab and monitor the HTML into data. I'm not really interested in building a business of scraping other people's content without their permission.
Why not 1920x1080??? WHYYYYYYYY?????
Where would you place the middle class? While it might not seem abnormal around here, a $100K income puts you in the top 3-5% of earners.
Bottle – Creating a Python Todo List Web App
For the skills-based immigration (not the startup immigration) you're right, you can do both. You can get up to 16 points for your primary language (out of [English|French]), and up to 8 points for the other one. So it can be worth getting even a very low qualification for your second language, if you need to tack on a point or two to reach the threshold.
We use multiple hardware queues. Some details in this old blog post:

http://blog.cloudflare.com/how-the-cloudflare-team-got-into-...

We're continuing to experiment with polling-based network queues.
Who was the guy who got jail time for breaking a TOS? Think it was iPhone related.
Yeah similar problem. Preordered year ago in June but no credit card charges have been made, nor have I received any emails about shipping.

I did call them today and they couldn't even find the order, even though it was still fine couple weeks ago. (This is an international order btw)

Anyways, the product still looks great and the customer support has been fast to reply so I have no complaints about that either. I was just quite eager to start developing some projects for it.
Is it really that far of a stretch to consider giving astronauts video games? What else are you going to do with massive amounts of computing power and tons of time?
Hear hear!

For the record, he's never actually voted against abortion. He opposes government-funded abortion, but also voted "Present" on a bill to defund the "Planned Parenthood" organization, saying that he will not vote on any bill that names a single private organization instead of a class of organizations in general.
>12 hours to comply with anything looks like amateur hour.

For what it is worth, we were given a few days in a cease and desist letter recently and our $250/hr lawyer laughed at the idea of just a few days notice. 12 hours or even a few days now doesn't seems serious at all.
You might also be able to drive those metrics externally from things like long-tail SEO.
Yes it's scrolled down when you visit a profile that is not your own. It just goes to show the picture shouldn't be that big in the first place it's just wasted bandwidth...
I feel like traditional pundits got pissed off because he kept wrecking their narratives. And he upset them further by turning political prognostication into something understandable by common readers -- instead of something only pointy-hatted political wizards could divine with the right amount of eye-of-newt and other secret ingredients.

Anyway: The New York Times should've worked harder to keep him. They should fire Tom Friedman and Maureen Dowd and put those resources into the kind of analysis Nate Silver espoused. Y'know, the "actual journalism" kind.
Reading the linked press release, it does not seem like they are claiming A->B->A. Rather, they are claiming a suppersistion of two states, (A->B) and (B->A). In the same way quantum mechanics allows a particle to be in two states at the same time, it allows the ordering of events to be two states at the same time.
What platforms do you think will still be useful in 20 years and why?
My father wrote some cost estimation software for excel in VB 20 years ago and it's still in use and working today in current versions of excel.

Looking forward, what platforms/VMs do you believe will have the most longevity, relevance, and interoperability decades from now?
Is this somewhat familiar to embedly.com? That's what I currently use, and it seems to work fine, but am curious if that's the best thing to be using (I'm typically just grabbing the image thumbnail, but it'd be nice to grab some text if it exists too.
What tone? He said you should read something before arriving at conclusions about it. He didn't add "you moron" to the end of it. And, it turned out, you hadn't read it.

Every criticism stings. They sting me even when I'm confident that I'm right, and even though a Markov 'tptacek could probably get 1000 karma points pretty quickly on HN. Don't confuse the sting of a critical comment with a breach of etiquette.
You assume the rudeness is in being told to read it, rather than the tone of that. Actually it was the way he went about it, like I said, without that preface to his comment it loses no content and gains civility. There was no need, and my point stood as the kind parent suggests without my having read it. So I disagree, your point is not orthogonal.

I'm not as smart as many in this community think they are (the majority are also almost certainly actually much smarter than me), so I don't trust my ability to assess the scientific quality of the report.

I'm happy to have my preconceptions changed by the way, but I want to have some certainty - extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence, and the claim that pornography harms children in any significant way seems to me to be quite extraordinary, and very clearly full of confounding factors, so I want to see an extensive metastudy.

Surely it's sensible for somebody to be able to critique very strong scientific claims that come not from a scientific journal but a government sponsored report by a committee which might reasonably be suspected of bias? Or do I have to read all the literature every time to be able to question that?
I'm not hating on him at all. I'm being serious when I say that I hope liberals who disagree with his other views can nonetheless support him in this one.

I think that as a practical matter, reform of the NSA has to come from the right. Candidates on the right are less susceptible to charges of being "weak on terrorism" and also can appeal to constituents (pro-gun, anti-abortion, religious) that have historically chaffed at government registration/monitoring type efforts (e.g. opposition to national ID cards has always come mostly from the right). And that means that liberals who want to see reforms to the NSA will have to get on board with any conservatives they can find who are willing to push the issue.
Recognition of what went wrong in the past is appropriate. Use it as an opportunity to point out what's still going wrong in the present; that's not the same thing as blaming the current generation for the errors of earlier ones, but neither is it blindly applauding while ignoring the things still needing fixing.
The Sysinternals Autoruns utility shows a full set of things that run at startup, it is not just the start menu and some 'run' reg keys.

It shows all services with their signature, all device drivers with their signature, etc. It validates the signatures too.

I'm sure I only run signed services and drivers.

Also, there's a rootkit detector Sysinternals utility. The page you linked describes how Mark Russinovich one of the writers of the Sysinternals utilities, discovered the Sony Rootkit.

> You don't care what happens in all the time that elapses from you're infected with something until you realize you are, if you realize it?

Of course I do, that's why I have the Sysinternals utilities at hand.
Nate Silver is unique because he's more rational than most people. This is why he can effectively use data to see things that the data revealed all along.

So it's no surprise to me that he'd find it difficult to work for an organization like the NY Times... The NY Times was not only complicit in the Iraq war, but came out strongly against Julian Assange through a series of horrible articles.

The purpose of the NY Times is to serve powerful interests and to prevent the embarrassment of powerful people.

Just skimming many of the regular op-ed contributors and editorial writing gives a window into the mentality of the paper. It's coasting on past glories and continually offering a message to readers that the world is full of illegitimacy and suffering outside the US.
I'm mostly just surprised that it seems like they didn't include a trainable gesture recognition app.

It should be pretty doable to hook it up to a neural network and train it to recognize some of your own gestures.

I was already looking forward to training up a drumroll gesture for 'deploy to production.'
An interesting tech startup idea.

If you can transfer things/information faster than light, then link-state routing protocols no longer would have a meaning in a network containing at least some FTL links. Therefore some startup should create an internet scale distance-vector routing protocol. OSPF is dead, long live RIPv4 or whatever. Cisco would be an obvious candidate to purchase the startup. Obviously demand would depend on FTL deployment rates.

I'm only half kidding, I think...
Why creative people don't leave US? There's a whole world out there where you could respond to such message with simple obscenity and never think of it again.
I don't know how much inspiration Star Trek provided in this case, but it's not unheard of for scientists and engineers to find some inspiration in science fiction.

I'm reminded of a story about how the science fiction writer Katherine MacLean [1], who predicted the role of computers in communication and music in her 1947 novelette Incommunicado, accidentally stumbled into a conference of electrical engineers and found herself quickly surrounded by Bell Telephone researchers who were inspired by her ideas to build the next generation of communications equipment.

As a software engineer, I have to admit to being inspired by near-future software engineering fiction that explores new ideas, many of which are quite achievable.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katherine_MacLean
Running a diesel engine off waste oil is a great idea, more people should be doing it.

I'm not really a fan of running diesel cars off waste oil.

To be clear, when I say "not really a fan" I mean I hate with a passion. In my experience, driving behind a vehicle running on waste oil is an absolutely foul experience. It doesn't just smell like fetid garbage, it tastes like it too.
The right way to think of this: the speed of light is not a speed limit, it's a speed reference. Everything is always moving at the speed of light through spacetime. When you "move" through space, you're not changing the magnitude of your velocity vector, only its direction. So the more you move through space, the less you move through time.

If you could move through space at the speed of light your velocity through time would be zero and you would appear (to yourself) to be moving infinitely fast, or equivalently, to be everywhere at once, or (again equivalently) that the universe had no spatial extent in your direction of travel due to an infinitely large Lorenz contraction.
Ask HN: How do I sell my company to a larger competitor?
I think our company would be a good fit for a larger company. We are small team/company and don't get much attention. But, we could be a good acquihire for the big guy. How should I go about trying to sell the company?
> What really matters is monitoring in real-time and receiving alerts of suspicious activity and acting upon it.

That's true....perhaps I am over thinking it.

After hearing all the cases of people's laptops being hacked and their webcams being turned on - I can see a crazy incentive for people to start hacking these devices. That's a bit scary to me.
Why is it unfun? Is he evil for inventing things that later turned out to be harmful?
Realistically you can escape the shakedown by buying "vendor compatible" transceivers. If they officially supported random transceivers they'd just make up the lost profit by increasing support prices.
Sometimes I hate stupid engineers. They are such assholes sometimes that just do not get it at all.

This fucking thing is some stupid fun. Nothing more. I’m not sure what this cynicism burning with the power of a million suns shit is all about. Why do people behave this way?
I used to do this kind of stuff for fun in my high school days. Now I don't have the time =( Kill to be able to get into game dev professionally (without winding up in a sweatshop, lol)
Unless it's a cyborg, why is this here?
Say 'Why didn't you just X before jumping to conclusions?' out loud and tell me it's not rude. It also presupposes that my only reasonable response would be to read the whole report and criticise its contents, whereas I suggest you can criticise it from the point of view of who it is written by and the fact it's not a scientific article. I also clearly stated that I just didn't know. Why that justified that kind of response I don't know.

You probably find it less rude as you clearly have more of an issue with people not reading things than the issue at hand. On that point (unless I'm mistaken of course), let me point out I am happy to read TFA and do so all the time, but a 20 page report which I am simply not going to be able to reasonably assess is not quite the same thing, is it?
Scientific debugging: Finding out why your code is buggy – Part 1
Then they play Doom the whole time, and end up bored when they finally get to Mars and there's no portal to hell to contend with.
Yes, it would likely be very destructive - however, once you have massive, fast ships moving around the solar system the Earth will be in danger anyway, warp-tech or no. I think it's too early to speculate meaningfully about safe distances and danger levels when it comes to this technology, which as you correctly presumed doesn't exist yet.

The press is hugely missing the point when they steam ahead using nonsense StarTrek analogies without an apparent clue of what's (im)possible with today's technology, but neither are the people in here getting it who are stuck lecturing each other about causality violations. This is not about speed or acceleration, or even the transmission of information. It's about bending space time. Let's not forget the enormity of that concept, but let's also admire this potentially useful shortcut that might open up for us in the far future.

Current models are purely theoretical and work on a basis that is pretty similar to carrying a black hole around. Needless to say, in an age where we don't even have the energy to reach Earth orbit economically, the power requirements of such a technology are nothing but prohibitive.

But even if we had enough power (and hence mass) to warp space by brute force, it would be a huge event that needs to happen far away from planets. While the general principle is interesting, I think what we lack is a more sophisticated method of modifying the properties of space time, something that works on a smaller scale and can be more easily contained. "FTL" neutrinos were interesting for this exact reason (before they sadly turned out to be a measurement error) because they would have opened a door for us to access and manipulate space itself without having to resort to enormous and ultimately wasteful energies. I sure hope we'll discover how to do that in time.
That's not correct. Interest is taxed progressively like any other income, dividends are somewhat taxed according to a complex formula, and 50% of your capital gains are taxed at the applicable marginal tax rate depending on your income.
The line about a person generally takes up ~150 square feet in an office, might not be so accurate. I've seen 4 people or more crammed like sardines into that space [1, 2, 3]. Hell, I used to be one of them. Throw in a couple fish tanks and a bean bag chair just for the hell of it. Extra office space is nice, but at a growing company, there is always room.

Just google images "startup office".

[1] http://images.techhive.com/images/article/2013/03/working2-f...

[2] http://cdn.thenextweb.com/wp-content/blogs.dir/1/files/2012/...

[3] http://2eq9hztv2wc1k6odx469m9znq0.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp...
Nate's work was practically the definition of "disruptive" when he started and it's been a joy to follow him over the years. As far as papers go I happen to like the NY Times, so I'm a bit sad to see him go. But I'll gladly follow him no matter where he is. This is definitely much more of a loss for the Times than for Nate.

I'll be curious to see what he says about why he left. It's very easy to imagine several reasons the he found it hard to work for the Times. It was very interesting to me to see how hostile some folks were to him during the 2012 election cycle. He obviously threatened the viability of a great deal of the(mostly useless) political punditry that we see. I think it's hard to separate which parts of that hostility were conscious reactions to a perceived threat and which parts were an unconscious reaction to ideas of how the news should work.

I'm sure Nate will do a great job with ESPN and I hope he likes it more than his time with the Times.
I do understand why you think this comparison is off, but

if Edge would have magnitudes of better performace(and I mean magnitudes) they would have to develop one for themselvs(meaning cpu/soc, they are already developing their soft). No crowdfunding will ever cover that. So it is choice between reality and dream.

Lower resolution was explained here:

"We also believe the race for ever higher resolution has become a distraction. Beyond 300ppi you’re adding overhead rather than improving display clarity. We think colour, brightness and dynamic range are now the edge of invention so we’ll choose a display for its balance of resolution, dynamic range and colour accuracy."

I think, and this is just an idea that: they can't announce unannounced cpu/soc or they or they don't know(that would be bad)

your s3 has 64gb sd. They are talking about onboard storage.
At the moment biggest onboard is 64gb, there are around 8 highest end phones that have that. This is probably the easiest thing to up if memory prices and size goes down. First 128gb phones should come out around the same time when Edge. Then you will have 128gb onboard+whatever sd you buy extra.

Why am I protective over this thing? Because I am the one who they are making this thing for. I like playing with tech and I would see the benefit for using this portable computer.
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altough, at the moment it is out of my budget.

EDIT: This does not mean it is all perfect project. There are already some unanswered legitimate questions in comment section.
"Public editor" is basically a particular incarnation of ombudsman. One thing common to ombudsman roles is that they're powerless and routinely ignored. They're the equivalent of "We are taking this seriously.", a meaningless gesture designed to distract and obfuscate. The people who take such roles are simply pawns.
I've been standing all day for three years. It takes a few months to get your legs used to it. Our office has 20 of these:

http://www.ergodepot.com/Ergo_Depot_adjustable_desk_AD127HD_...

There are a few exercise balls and aerons around that people occasionally use. I have a footstool that I rest one leg on as I lean forward on the desk. The other footstool is for pairing with a developer who is much shorter:

http://pimen.to/office-desk.JPG
Is there's no signup/login process is the TOS even enforceable?
Yeah, perhaps http://ninjablocks.com instead...
Personally i only serve client-side rendered content to browsers that are in my whitelist, everything else gets the server rendered content.

http://chadscira.com/ (set your user-agent to blank)
It's interesting that he would go to a sports network over the culture clash between statistics and narrative. Sports has traditionally been extremely negative on "stats geeks", and favored narrative explanations, along with factors like "grit" and "determination" and that kind of thing. Silver's own former work in sabermetrics was a frequent target of pot-shots from ESPN commentators for years. There used to be a blog on that kind of anti-intellectualism in sports commentary (written by people who post-blog went on to write for the TV series Parks and Recreation): http://www.firejoemorgan.com/

Sign of a more general change?
Any idea why it's failing here? The crawler is successfully fetching the content, but not associating it with the correct URL. Maybe google crawler isn't pushState aware?
I really really want to understand this, but I can't get past your third sentence. No fault of your own, just me. But if you have anything I can read that explains it better I would be grateful!
I've used Piwik myself for years and swear by it for all of my personal projects or sites where I need full data privacy. It provides all the basic data I need for my clients and then some. Also once it was setup I've found maintenance to be pretty simple. I use it for regular web sites, WordPress sites and MediaWiki installations.

Granted, I miss the days of being able to use tools like Analog but it's so badly out of date and not maintained anymore so I only use it when I need to process raw traffic numbers from a server.
Apple has lost the plot
It sounds like it will only be available to people who support the crowdfunding. I'd love to buy one, but I'm on CDMA at the moment and committing to buying a phone 9 months out seems a bit idiotic, especially when you consider that I'd have to switch service providers before I can even use it. I think I would buy the phone (I love the concept) but its not something I can commit to so far in advance, even if it means missing out entirely.
You can't get 1% interest risk free in a high-interest market, let alone the current one.

If you try really hard you can get 1% a year without taking on risk.

And you can't have any risk if you are going to be manufacturing phones with that money (sorry we don't have enough phones, we bet on Apple and their stock went down 20%).