skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Icenium - Chrome Web Store
I don't think he was sarcastic, he probably really meant that such shortcut urls are good ideas and thanks the parent for it.
It's all a joke.

Highs and lows balance.

Petty little lives.

CIA.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

nica had knowledge that the word of
God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred
up the people.

17:14 And then immediately the brethren sent away Paul to go as it
were to the sea: but Silas and Timotheus abode there still.

17:15 And they that conducted Paul brought him unto Athens: and
receiving a commandment unto Silas and Timotheus for to come to him
with all speed, they departed.

17:16 Now while Paul waited for them at Athens, his spirit was stirred
in him, when
Even Java bashers would concede that Java is a brilliant language, certainly for its time. And the JVM is the most impressive programming environment to this day.

But the language has become a little dated. Oh, you don't need to go as far as Scala to fix it (to me Scala feels like a deranged, haphazard combination of javascript and Haskell), but something like Kotlin could really be a "better Java" (it also happens to be a better Scala, but that's a different point).
Because if you anonymize your currency (e.g., use cash) you've got something to hide?
Put yourself in their shoes. It's going to cost you $50MM-500MM just to test if a drug is effective and safe for treating a disease.

You sink all of that money in, with the hopes that your drug gets approved. And then, once you've done the heavy lifting, every generic manufacturer can come along and sell the drug because you don't have it patented?

No rational person/company will do that.
1) There are enough factual errors in that article to show that the author doesn't know what he's talking about.

2) Small airplanes aren't necessarily expensive, so you don't necessarily have to be rich to afford them. For instance, there's a Cessna 150 in good condition for sale on ebay for $16500 right now.

3) The FAA is actively working on unleaded replacements.

4) Many small planes can already run on unleaded.
When I called in the first time, I got a busy line. When I called in a second time, I was directed to Nancy Pelosi's voice mail.

Hopefully, this means we are flooding the lines!
It seems hard to use emotional arguments against logical decisions, and vice versa. Given that their initial decision was emotional ("I want to build something my mom will use!") it seems likely that an emotional counter-argument ("you respect me, and you're losing my respect by acting illogical") was more likely to work.
Ok, point taken. It is vaguely a logarithm function. But what's the base of this logarithm? How much is it curved?

Just try light up a big room which has no windows with a candle - you can see pretty well at the distance of your hand, but in a few meters from you - it's plain darkness. I expect wi-fi waves to be like this.

Using the grath "Perceived Brightness" at [1] we have roughly the following table:

Distance/Actual/Perceived Brightness
1/100/100
2/25/~55
4/6.25/~30

[1] http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/vision/bright.htm...
While I agree with you, the article mentioned it was a phone interview, so hopefully he wouldn't be driving drunk. I suppose he could be driving drunk while talking on the phone, which would explain some of the people I see on my morning commute.
This is a pretty common strategy. Many companies have poor record retention and backup policies because it's in their best interest to "forget" the things they do. I know of large companies that limit email boxes to 50 MB partially because it forces deletion of old, possibly incriminating email. Government agencies are generally supposed to be better about this due to stuff like the Freedom of Information Act. I wonder if there's any teeth in the act for non-compliance like this?
I don't think it can be that easily predicted. It all depends on Canonical's press efforts. There will also be a surge at the end of the project.
> Well, does that mean that every other country in the world is well within its rights to spy on every US citizen?

Yes, that's exactly what it means. This is how governments operate, all over the world, and it's been like this for centuries, if not longer.
OH: "People interested in being brutally honest often seem more interested in the brutality part"

There's nothing wrong with creating a culture (especially a non-hierarchical culture) built around trust, good intentions, and honest criticism. But honestly, I see a lot more damage in almost every community I am apart of (not just tech communities, art communities and political communities suffer from the same things) from people hitting people over the head in the name of "honesty" than from bad ideas or bad practices being allowed to continue because no one bothered to point them out.
Quantum computing to tackle big data
This also explains why we're seeing services like KISSmetrics, Dropbox for Teams, etc. moving to annual, pre-paid pricing rather than monthly with free versions
I would question it too, as well as question other things. But I have no answer, answer, though. It's a hard ball of questions, a 100-people-block team...
sounds to me like he was using his position to bully these guys away from pivoting. If he hadn't been an investor his opinion, like those of their other colleagues, would have gone unheeded. How is this not bullying? Personally I don't even think it was a mean thing to say, it was just honesty, but the whole drama stuff of throwing up arms in exasperation rather than just professionally explaining why they were about to make am mistake is just bad manners.
Atlas: Virtual Reality Made Real
Very correct, but a side note: asm.js might not be useful or necessary for this. asm.js makes more of a difference in large, hard to optimize codebases, and less in small amounts of code, because JS engines have been optimizing small amounts of code extremely well for a while now (using TraceMonkey, CrankShaft, DFG, IonMonkey, etc.).

Also, asm.js code is structured in a way that makes it obvious the code will not change over time (it's in a closure, where functions cannot be modified), again, in order to make optimizing large projects easier. When JITing however you do want to add new code all the time.

But this could work great without generating asm.js code. The VM itself is C code that can be compiled wholesale into asm.js (when the Lua VM was compiled that way it was quite fast, about 50% of native speed), and it would then JIT at runtime normal JS and call into that.
Out of interest, why did you (or your work) decide to use RubyMotion (vs Objective-C)? Were you all using Ruby already / familiar with the language, or was it something else?
I agree, but I think fans of Go would not :P Hence my tentative "arguably."
Talk to the FAA, who have made it so expensive to upgrade/update anything related to airplanes. There is a marginally viable aftermarket parts market for these engines now, but for a long time owners were strictly limited to OEM, salvage, and remanufactured parts. Also, the number of older GA Airplanes, and antique/warbirds in service are so small, it's got to be nothing compared to the exposure from thirty years ago.
Why Google Reader Died
Uncool or not, Apple is still a bellwether
I call them fibers. Or lightweight threads. They're like Erlang processes or goroutines. You can read more about it here: http://blog.paralleluniverse.co/post/49445260575/quasar-puls...

The library is very much in active development.
Thanks for your feedback. I'll fix the form in the morning but the conversion rate is pretty excellent at the moment, we're pushing 50% for some traffic sources.

I'll put the examples up also once we launch fully.

I hope you've signed up! I'm looking forward to having you on the course.
How Google Rediscovered the 19th Century
Lot's of stuff - talk to Collabora developers who attempted to rebuild some common Linux middleware atop of bionic. It's very difficult, painful and upstream bionic has no interest to cooperate to help this process. So I conclude that it's a pointless time wasting. Mobile Linuxes should continue to use glibc and working on getting the drivers. Libhybris is a good tool that helps deployment until normal drivers will become more common. TL;DR - bionic is not good enough to replace glibc.
It was considered anti-competitive back in the 90's because back then IE had the extreme majority stakehold in internet browsing with no true competitors.
> not meant for you [...] is for you

Judging by the article's numbers, the market is vanishingly small. There are many ways I imagine the community would support Ubuntu / Canonical. Designing and manufacturing hardware is not that.
We're in agreement that functional programming encompasses a range of characteristics and is hard to define.
It stops being "during non-working hours" if you're drunk when you roll into the office. I personally don't care what you drink and how much, but you should not be intoxicated when you walk through the door.

The tweet wasn't "I got so drunk last night, yo!" it's "I'm going into this thing drunk".
America's Broadband Blues
NSA says it can’t search its own e-mails
Would it be wrong to use his video to create a web based competitor? Looks like it is possible.
It's not easy, but certainly possible. I contributed to Kilim[1], a microthreading Java library built by the brilliant Sriram Srinivasan.

[1]http://www.malhar.net/sriram/kilim/
I always wanted a HHK (happy hacking keyboard, http://www.pfusystems.com/embedded-keyboard/hhkb/index.html), but it seems impossible to get one around here (Brazil).

At home I use a razer cyclosa (not mechanical, but feels really good though).
At work I use a dell keyboard (with a huge spacebar, I love it).
I am one of those programmers: I have no real idea how a compiler goes about its business, my university does not offer an accessible compiler class (only for grad students and very irregularly), and I have no idea where to start besides trying to force my way through the purple dragon book.

What are things I should know about compilers that I probably don't? What is suggested reading on compilers?
Birthright citizenship in the U.S. is hardly about a desire to "extend rights and privileges to outsiders". The 1866 law was voted during the Reconstruction after the Civil War, to guarantee civil rights for Blacks [1]. It was later introduced in the Constitution to make it more robust against repeal [2]. Republicans have talked of repealing the amendment precisely because it is used (abused) by "outsiders" [3]. I'd like to see better examples to support the assertion that the U.S. has been more liberal towards outsiders than nearly any other developed country.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_Act_of_1866

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourteenth_Amendment_to_the_Uni...

[3] http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08...
Small High Contrast Graphic LCD Displays for Microcontroller Projects
The 10 Coolest Cloud Startups Of 2013 (So Far)
Battery life is excellent. I use the machine on long flights. I just disable wifi when not using it, and close unneeded apps.

No heat issues.

Suspend works perfectly. Takes a few seconds to unsuspend, but that's about it.

Macbooks are much worse supported than thinkpads. For all purposes, thinkpads are the reference platform for linux, like macbooks are for OS X.
They should be glad for the Promotions tab. Now that promotional emails aren't gumming up my primary inbox, I'm much less likely to unsubscribe from them. I don't mind having coupons for stores I rarely visit, or newsletters for projects I'm vaguely interested in, since I don't have to deal with them every time I open my mail.
Google doesn't get paid for emailed ads. They'd rather you were paying them for ads that masquerade as genuine emails.
I agree with you- basing a startup on one of these platforms is incredibly risky (on top of the standard high risk that all startups have).

I myself have written a TON of code for Twitter, for example, that is no longer useful due to ever-increasing restrictions on the Twitter API (combined with the network growing more and more. I want my 20k API requests per hour back!). Since these platforms can change their terms and access at any moment, you could easily have a great idea and implementation that they invalidate accidentally (or intentionally). That's just too much risk for me.
I built https://apps.facebook.com/pinviewer/ in 2012 and even up to there, FB changed things all the time without any warning.
If I read it correctly, his goal is to use the PyPy JIT. So what he's doing is translating the PyPy JIT (which is created automatically from the interpreter written in RPython) into javascript. Because he's using emscripten this javascript code can be statically compiled by virtue of asm.js (in Firefox at least).
I take it to mean both. They're both bad hires, though obviously in different ways and degrees.

Generally speaking though, in places I've worked, simply being not up to snuff is not in and of itself evidence of a bad hire.

If you're not competent, cannot learn quickly, or are unwilling to train and learn, then you may be a bad hire.
In fact, since go does not have explicit constructors, it encourages the factory pattern all over the place. You'll find static factories everywhere in the go library.

http://golang.org/doc/effective_go.html#composite_literals
I'm finding it faster to do the tab polling than it would to extract out the items I want to bin from one unified inbox. Definitely making my morning email cull faster.
To win a sports bet, don't think too much.
Could Leap Motion Gesture Control Mean the End of the Mouse?
My numbers suggest they're getting over $96K/hour having them hit their 32M dollar goal on August 4, 2013 at just shy of 9pm.

$/Sec
26.7404

32M on
8/4/2013 21:40:03
> thousands of trillions

If only there was a word for this.
Maybe OPs searches didn't work because of the accent on Tehrān
Machine Learning for Poets
Wow, just looked in there and found a message from an old close high school friend's mother. My friend had passed away many years ago and haven't talked to his parents for 20 years. We were best friends at the time and I was very close to his parents. I had no idea that those messages existed.
> If it's true that Samsung distributed this driver as part of the Linux kernel source code tree then it is arguably a derivative work of the Linux kernel.

Other companies use binary blobs in the Linux Kernel by using a GPL-compatible shim driver.

Samsung would be in violation of the GPL if they do not publish the source to the SHIM in a compatible license, but that would imply nothing about the binary blob.

Disclaimer: I'm not even sure whether they use the shim workaround in this case.
I'm having a hard time believing that the NSA trusts it's own people so much that they tie their own hands here. Unless it's a strategy to limit the amount of internal information any one person can access (?)
Even though it generally drives me nuts, the "move fast and break things" mindset can work in some situations. Building a platform for others to rely upon is not one of them. I never understood why they repeatedly broke their platform so much, unless they honestly did not care how it affected those downstream. But if they didn't care, why even build a platform? Even the most cowboy of coders can see why always breaking others is bad. Baffling.
The northern Darwin’s frog may be extinct
#golang-nuts on freenode. The effective go document is pretty good for basics, especially concurrency.
> Just because it comes from Mailchimp and/or includes an obvious unsubscribe link doesn't mean it's not spam.

No, but it's VASTLY more likely not to be (if the unsubscribe link is real and working).

> There are countless sites whose default behaviour goes like this:

> * require an email address to create an account to use their service

> * without stating this, automatically assume that they now have permission to send you whatever email they want - admin emails, special offers, partner promotions etc
> * assume that because they provide an unsubscribe link, those emails are automatically not spam.
> It's those sites which I'm really glad Gmail automatically filters them out. Providing an email address because that's a requirement to have an account is not the same thing as giving approval to receive all your marketing and promotion spam.

Well, if it's in their TOS (and on most the sites it probably is), then it probably is okay, and you have nobody to blame but yourself (as do we all). The current state isn't optimal, but it's what the public wanted. The race to low cost/free services subsidized by advertising has led to this.

If you really want to not be contacted for a promotion from a company, put your money where your mouth is and choose services where their business plan doesn't require pestering you to use them more.

edited to lighten the accusatory stance of "blame", as it didn't convey my real intent accurately
Personally, I would much rather someone be brutally honest with me, rather than beating around the bush or talking in innuendos hoping that I will figure it out. PG is an expert in his field, and there is no point for him to waste either parties time participating in this charade. Being blunt likely accelerates the learning curve by gutting the conversation of red tape. Getting to the meat and potatoes of the conversation.

p.s. This is also why I respect Linus.
Its shocking for americans because they're american. Much like the NSA scandal is shocking for europeans because they're europeans.

I think you're applying a causation without correlation here. Under what conditions/preconditions should things be protected under "secrecy of correspondence for all the people"?

Note I don't necessarily disagree, but there are multiple competing interests here and I don't always think that the idea of secret communication overrides societal benefits to being able to view things that aren't attempted to be secret.
> Anybody that is not skeptical about 7% weekly returns on anything is just asking for it. That's 33x your money in 1 year. How can that sound legit to anybody?

If you were following the Bitcoin forums at the height of the Ponzi, anyone who suggested it was a Ponzi was called a troll who was libelling pirateat40 by what felt like half the forum. Everyone insisted that unless they had actual proof it wasn't a genuine investment, they should shut up, and that the only reason for them to make a big fuss about it was to . This comment was about par for the course, and bear in mind this was after the scheme imploded: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=101377.0

A number of widely-respected members of the Bitcoin community supported the Ponzi and even ran pass-through schemes for it.
If you read this... please reach out to me if willing via the email in my profile here. Would like to dig into what happened.
Agreed.
But what else to they have up their sleeve? They might add new levels that turn out more attractive, if they determine it is needed to push it past the finish line.
Bitcoin Ponzi Scheme Mastermind Under SEC Scrutiny
Searching for Dark Matter with Cloudant: Part 2
Herbert Dow would be proud: http://www.quora.com/Business/Whats-the-shrewdest-smartest-m...
I am reminded of the whole (and multi-part / -dimension) GWB email "fiasco".

"Lost" servers. "Deleted" emails. Suspicious hints of use of non-governmental email accounts for government business and/or avoiding detection of campaigning using official resources (time, location, staff, "trades").

What ever became of that? Not much.

This has a bit of a different flavor in the press. Nonetheless, I'm not optimistic.
> For marketers who are trying to establish a personal relationship with their customers, this change can be frustrating.

This, even without any further context, describes what 99% of Gmail users would consider an overwhelming positive.
Yup, it shows... let's see going through this thread... it shows that the company had piss poor judgment, doesn't take hiring seriously, aren't prepared to hire the best people, ...
"Are you kidding me? Our systems are rigged to search everyone else's emails, we never thought about our own!"
The real issue there is that Android partitions its internal storage into System and "Internal SD" space.

So your 8GB phone will only have 2GB that can hold apps. It's awful.

(Apparently this depends on the phone and OS version to a degree. It's true on GT-i9100s running Android 4.0 at least, and true on all 2.x OSes)
It's worth noting that a lot of the apps that Facebook "killed off" (iLike, Social Reader, RockYou, Zynga games, etc.) really did detract from the user experience. Let's take Washington Post's Social Reader as a case study. You had to authorize the app in order to read the articles (that were often loaded with linkbait-y titles), and any time you did read (or click on) an article it automatically shared it with all of your Facebook friends. Zynga is another example; I'm sure I wasn't the only one constantly bombarded with invites to Whateverville. I had to unfriend some people to avoid them, because there was no way to turn them off.

It felt like these apps had found a hack that was taking advantage of the platform, but really this was just the result of the platform being poorly designed itself. The selling point for developers who picked up on it was, "You can make everyone who uses you spam all of their Facebook friends." Unfortunately spam, especially when it's coming from your friends, works like a charm. Facebook eventually had to stop allowing that before it let itself turn into a MySpace filled with little widgets.

Facebook's real problem wasn't just that it wanted to own everything itself, but that it didn't build the platform the right way in the first place.
I would think it would be owned by the designer and would be used as a prototype tool (as others mentioned before). I would not use PS for anything else other than to create elements to support the design (crop images, special graphics) but other than that a tool like this would be great to get the project started on the right direction and test the functionality on different browsers without having to involved a dedicated dev into the mix.
The Constitution limits the abilities of the U.S. government. When people say Constitutional rights should apply outside of the U.S. as well, they mean those limitations should apply to the U.S. government in their dealings with people outside of the U.S.
> Actively fostering a culture of "no filter" is painful at first. But like exercising, the more you do it, the easier it gets. And it's better than the alternative—death.

No.

You say that people tried to tell you what was wrong, and that you didn't listen.

Better communication doesn't mean "start with being blunt", just as better communication doesn't mean "dance around the issues but never talk directly about them for fear of offending people."

Or, let's see how this works:

You're an idiot if the lesson you get from this is that 'no filters' are a good idea. Only a dumb-ass would reach that conclusion. The same kind of fuckwit who would ignore all the smart people trying to give them information and who only gets the point when someone is exasperated enough to fall into rudeness.
In modern languages, you don't need to write a class when all you need is a first-class function.
DataStax nabs $45M to dominate the global enterprise NoSQL market
If you're the one holding it behalf of someone else then yes. If you want it to be anonymous as the consumer of the service then it's fine to anonymize your deposit. If you're going out of your way to anonymize what I've given you (to prevent me from tracking it) then that would seem shady to me.
What if the person in fact has amazing judgment and there were circumstances you weren't aware of and that e.g. there was good reason for him to get drunk at that conference (networking, other opportunities, etc.)? Would you be ready to admit your deductive reasoning ability is seriously flawed?