skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Rockmelt was designed to make sense of the Internet".

What sort of horse crap is this?
> EDIT 2: Chrome handles this. I have never been able to accomplish this in Safari and/or Firefox.

I heard this a few times. I don't know what I'm doing "wrong" but for me FF easily handles a couple of hundred tabs, no questions asked.

Is it because I often use flashblock and mostly consume boring (work-related) pages? As far as I remember that used to be the case on Mac as well.
"Fuck IE" codes in Github
Did Goldman Sachs Overstep in Criminally Charging Its Ex-Programmer
http://steveblank.com/about/

You'd have to read the whole series, but his posts here give a good idea of his early background. It's pretty interesting, and it left me with the impression that he knows a thing or two about hardware. http://steveblank.com/secret-history/
Android: ring and wipe a misplaced device is coming soon
Timeline JS can pull data directly from a Google Spreadsheet and automatically embeds a YouTube player, Flickr thumbnail, Google Map, etc if you link the entry to it.
You're absolutely right. Perhaps "impossible" would be a better word than "daunting" in my OP.
GPL, perhaps, but I'm not sure how you think they're violating MIT.
Funny story. JSLint[1] does not approve of this technique.
I asked Crockford to implement the duplicate check in April 2009 via email. 20 minutes later, out of nowhere, he was done implementing that check and wrote back "Please try it now."

This guy is fast. Especially nice considering we do not know each other at all.

[1] http://www.jslint.com/ - JS checking tool from the inventor of JSON
If you read 2+4 contract closely, then you realize that Germany is still a divided country, e.g. when it comes to US atomic missiles, and that 2+4 is not a peace treaty, nor does it end German occupation.

It was very difficult to find a news that tells what contract was canceled today. The basically canceled, if I'm right:

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gesetz_zur_Beschr%C3%A4nkung_de...

So this cancel wont PRISM and the like, US gathering of intelligence is still legal in Germany.
A printer, cursive font, and a shitty renderer?
disclosure: Tooting own horn. Give our Timeglider widget a look too: http://timeglider.com/widget
I think of this as the "Rick Allen Solution." Rick Allen is the drummer for Def Leppard, who lost his arm in a car accident. He says that overcoming his disability has turned him into a better drummer.

Fundamentally, forcing yourself to do visual programming like this, is like tying one arm behind your back. It's so impossibly difficult, that you'll demand that the tools you use are the best quality, and intelligently solve as many of the problems at your layer as possible.

The truth is, if developers insisted on good tools with good abstractions, they'd achieve all of the supposed benefits of visual programming.

Most developers forget they're responsible for making their own living space well-organized. They just code, leaving a mess everywhere.
He put the time into making it correct, he clearly intended people to figure it out.
Agreed. I had a nearly head-on collision at ~40-50mph. Both front airbags deployed and my car (1999 BMW 323i) was totaled, but I have no recollection of even experiencing any pain whatsoever. I just got up and walked away, and went to school for the day (occurred early in the morning on the way to school).
I'm prepared to nominate this for a Hugo award.

I just double-checked the categories to make sure it goes in "Best Graphic Story" and not "Best Dramatic Presentation (Long Form)".
The network has been great for me in Nashville, TN; North County, CA; and most anywhere in CA. I haven't used other networks, but I've never been disappointed. I only had issues in Kauai, HI years ago, but their coverage map would suggest that they've developed their network there now.
One of these days, I'm going to come across a blog post about an acquisition that doesn't begin with "We’re excited to tell you..." and ends in a disaster for the majority of employees.

One of these days...

That said, recycling old Yahoo addresses, buying Tumblr, Snip.it, Summly... anyone see a pattern?

I can see Yahoo is trying to muscle in on Pintrest's turf with this and maybe even venture into Google Plus land : "Discover & share with Facebook, Twitter, and beyond."

The "beyond" is where Yahoo can provide infrastructure to build/extend their own social network.
My city (Trollhättan, Sweden) had that policy until a few months ago. But earlier this year we got a notice saying that the city's per capita waste bills were some of the highest in Sweden, so they were switching to a bin-based separation system instead.
Were you using Linux on your desktop in 2006? As I remember, the arrival of Ubuntu marked a massive shift in usability. I held out on various other distros, but eventually the extra polish Ubuntu offered was too compelling. Raising the bar has raised the game of other distros, but the introduction of Ubuntu was massive.
It's easy for the productivity of a job to be negative. Transport costs, management costs, opportunity cost because even a jobless person can be productive.
This is just like some spyware my employer used to put on everyone's computers, years back. Weirdly, this was not a feature they seemed to be aware of - everyone was taken by surprise when some nearly-full hard drives started filling up, and when I asked if I could clear off these images from my computer, the answer was, "What images? ...Huh. Yeah, go ahead."

I actually created an HTML front end to conveniently flip through the pics for just this purpose.
I'm curious how the notion of XML processing instructions informs your opinion. In general I think having a standard is somewhat more important than the precise details in the standard, but XML PIs enable precisely the kind of thing Crockford feared, yet it doesn't seem to have materialized. Is this because processing instructions are not inherently harmful or because segregating them from comments disarms them?
You should do more research into the subject, sadly, is well documented but people tend not to believe or acknowledge it. In fact the knee jerk react when it is mentioned is to call everyone who has looked into it a cook or a quack.

Regardless there is a group of individuals who have been pushing their agenda for well over a 100 years now, they have been instrumental in enacting federal taxes, the federal reserve, the moving off of the gold standard, and pretty much every war we have fought. The control the candidates and those who serve in their cabinets. You can start by looking at www.cfr.org.

Kings, Presidents, Congressman all are interchangeable and just pawns to them.
... marketing?
I think this stuff is pretty critical for any company founder that will ask users for data. In or out of the US, the fact that users have to simultaneously trust both the company and the NSA to treat that information well is a serious concern.
The self-aggrandizing kind.
Also see his fantastic "What if?" series[0] where he answers fantastical questions using similar research. Examples of recent questions include "If you call a random phone number and say “God bless you”, what are the chances that the person who answers just sneezed?" and "What place on Earth would allow you to freefall the longest by jumping off it?"

[0] http://what-if.xkcd.com/
I don't get it; there seems little upside to that venture, when they could fund a designer and manufacturer that has a record (Re: Google and Asus, LG, etc). You should be able to slap the OS in anything.
Shameless plug, but I just gave a talk yesterday[1] at the Rails User Group Berlin meetup that covers some techniques + gems for measuring stuff, including execution time. Primarily using Statsd/Graphite, but not exclusively. These can be useful even in production, because of the low overhead.

Rails instrumentation in particular allows plugging into controller actions, and things like the nunes gem hooks in even more places. But of course, you can also track timing info around blocks or methods quite easily on a ad-hoc basis.

Lots of this you get 'out-of-the-box' with newrelic (/pro), but this gives you even more flexibility and control.

[1] https://github.com/gingerlime/measure-everything
But he was convicted of a financial crime. It's not in Goldman's interest for that sort of thing to happen.
They absolutely could build huge farms, but their advantage in doing so would be significantly less than an average person with a general purpose computer, compared to now. They would effectively have less power over the network as a whole, because it's easier to become profitable (or at least less lossy) and compete, so more people would (theoretically).

Yes, bitcoin is not a democratic currency. But it is designed (and desired) to prevent all power from landing in the hands of very few / one, since then the entire foundation it's built on is worthless. Bitcoin is fundamentally stronger with more players, and Litecoin is easier for more players to join.

Absolutely, it came out a distant second, and that very well could be it's death. But why is there no real point in having more than one? With more than one, "money" is more resilient against new crypto attacks.
That's the whole point of not talking unless a lawyer is present (and you give them a chance to vet your speech). You have very little chance of knowing what is incriminating, and this is by design.

Their job is to put away criminals. In the case where there is not really a crime, their training, which is meant to get confessions from actual criminals, ends up pulling seeming confessions to nonexistent crimes from innocent people. After that happens, you are screwed.
This is ridiculous. Wikipedia is headquartered in San Francisco. If the NSA wanted to snoop Wikipedia lookups it would force Wikipedia to install PRISM-like access devices to the site itself, secretly. Switching to HTTPS consumes more resources all around, increases latency, increases site operation costs, and emits more climate changing CO2, with no net change in the NSA's capabilities to snoop Wikipedia lookups.
It depends. You have to consider that:

- if you want to use it over tables or plain surface is ok, but if you want to use it also on your legs, in train, or whenever you have not a table, it is really problematic. The fixed angle of the support make almost impossible to use it in most of the situation in which a normal laptop is ok

- the screen is around 11'. I don't know if your macbook is of the same size but i would never program in anything < of 13'. That is however a personal thought

- surface pro has a low battery compared to the macbook (almost 3.5 hours) and it has some heat problems
Iconizer will resize your icon to all the ios required sizes.
I don't understand, what's "naive" here? You say something may be poisonous, even at low doses. Poisoning people is a crime. I don't even see the question here.

>>> I don't know whether my restaurant has rats in the kitchen. How could I?

Ever heard of reviews? Critics? Certifications? Yelp? Zagat? Michelin stars? It is fascinating that a grown adult obviously having access to the internet, in 2013, can sincerely claim he doesn't know how to figure out if a restaurant is any good. There's a huge industry built on doing just that. People are complaining they have to many apps on their phone to do that and get confused.

>>>> Trendy, swanky restaurants are routinely shut down for doing very bad things behind the scenes. So clearly they can't.

Successful, prominent politicians are regularly busted for infidelity. So, clearly, spousal fidelity needs government regulation.
Curious as to why would engagement and retention be low? As regard's pay per download models...looks like "Attach" business model's are becoming more popular.

"Attach" means charging for something outside of the app store. Dropbox, Uber, Square all do it. I remember seeing a Chris Dixon post about this on HN a few months ago.
George Saunders' biggest regret: Not being kind
They may very well see a significant spike though.

This is why people should donate as much as possible before the "drive banners" come up. It doesn't have to be a whole lot; if most of the people who use it give even a small sum, considering the volume of visitors, they could still keep up with operations costs pretty well.
Homejoy is growing fast and looking for engineer #5
So how adaptable is something like this to password cracking?
That might be, but it's a CIVIL issue not a CRIMINAL one.
It depends on the features you use. If all you want is variadic macros, long long, __FUNCTION__, and stdint.h, it has those things.

If you don't care about sticking to C, you can usually get what you want with a C++ feature anyway.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3879636/what-can-be-done-...
The State Machines of Core.Async
SHOULD is defined in RFC 2119 as

3. SHOULD This word, or the adjective "RECOMMENDED", mean that there
may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a
particular item, but the full implications must be understood and
carefully weighed before choosing a different course.

The consequences are undefined, I feel, for a reason. You can't put them all down on paper, it depends on what all the parsers do. The parsers can accept or reject things with duplicate keys, or they can play a nice little ditty through the speakers.

All it means is a parser isn't required to reject JSON with multiple keys. It can, however, do whatever the fuck it wants with them.

If the wording was precise, then it should be a MUST. SHOULD indicates a terrible world of unknown consequences.
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It takes some getting used to even the idea that something like reading or editing an encyclopaedia might be activity that we should care all that much about securing.

(This whether or not your goal with TLS for it is securing that site or increasing the overall volume of encrypted data)
Eh, I'm on T-Mobile in NYC. It's not like they are mind blowingly great, but I get unlimited data, unlimited texts and 100mins of calls for $30 a month.

At that price, it's definitely the network I want.
Is it sexism when stories that are more interesting (titillating?) to heterosexual males get more votes on a site where most users are heterosexual males, or is it just math? All stories that get up-voted enough to be on the frontpage get there because they appeal to a majority of users; is it sexism that stories that appeal more to women don't get as many votes on HN, or just simple math again?

There's a lot of sexism out there, including on HN. But I'm not sure this is a good example of it.
The symbol effect is still valuable.
The USPS takes pictures of every piece of mail processed in the U.S.
I was under the impression that the Edge wasn't going to have an AWS-capable GSM chip, which makes this announcement really confusing for me.
On the Importance of Helping Other Entrepreneurs
iOS gives priority to ease of learning over efficient workflow for power users. I agree this gave them a HUGE advantage early on, but as users become more sophisticated in using mobile devices this "priority to beginners" philosophy is going to let Android slowly eat their lunch.
>>I was converting at a rate that Friend Finder was paying me 14 cents per click and in that first day I made over $5000 with very little ad spend.

Pretty amazing story. To put this in context time-wise, around when was this and how long did it take for that income stream to dry up? Was there a sudden end to it, or more like a gradual decline?
You wouldn't your project to cost 5 times more than it could just because you've chosen the wrong tools.

Yep, If there were really tools out there that could beat what is in current use by a factor of 5 then they would have won, and once they exist they will win. Because they would have had the time to A) Implement something better. B) Use all that extra time to build an easy migration path so that those on the lesser platform could migrate over.

So where is the processor that is 5x better than x86? Where is the language that is 5x better than C, C++, Java, C#,(whatever you consider to be the best of the worse to be.) I would love to use a truly better tool, I would love to use a processor so blazingly fast that it singed my eyebrows.

This is kind of the point. Current interactive systems tend to do lots of useless things, most of which are not perceptible (except for the delays they cause)

Right because all of us sitting around with our 1/5x tools have time to bang out imperceptible features.
"We procrastinate when we've forgotten who we are"
Merlin Man in Inbox Zero Notes (Sep-30-2009)
http://inboxzero.tumblr.com/post/201133278
NSA isn't the only party interested in wikipedia habbits. Other adversaries in other countries also like to listen.
Yikes. Fixed the fonts to make it more readable.
We have to stop pretending like there is literally zero difference between passive data collection and actively spying on someone.

We also have to stop pretending like being investigated is the same as being found guilty.

All this "read the Constitution" talk begs the initial question - what kind of risk are we okay with accepting when we ask for our privacy? Or to flip the question around, what are we getting in return for giving up our privacy, and is it worth it?

Frankly, we don't know right now, because no one's telling us (and being honest about it). I just want more information and less PR spin...
It's not ridiculous. First, it requires the NSA to actually do what you propose, as opposed to just reading broadly all traffic going through. That is a big difference because it gives the possibility of Wikipedia fighting back. Jimmy Wales has suggested that if he's ever given a FISA gag order, he might disobey it: https://twitter.com/jimmy_wales/status/362596285469044737)
It probably looks wonderfully strategic from a 10,000 foot view. Now imagine the task of actually gluing these acquisitions together for the actual engineers, not to mention the culture clashes that inevitably occur with acquisitions. I'm having a panic attack just thinking about it.
So much work. Why is this activity 'passive'??
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Interesting, thanks for the response. Have you mostly had job offers from startups, or are medium / big companies also interested in you?

Also, what kind of software are these companies building?

Sorry for the many questions, I'm trying to get a better idea of what the market is like for people without degrees.
I love T-mobile and the plans they offer. Their coverage and HSPA & LTE has been excellent in the DFW area.
The live-illustration is beautiful, but it is too abridged by far. If you enjoyed it, though, the full talk (below it) will be well worth your time.
> It would be impossible for a male sex toy to end up on the HN front page.

Let's think about what exactly makes you think a dildo is a female-only toy. Then, critically think about who is the sexist.
To me, this is all about motivation.

You know your mental capacity/ability easily exceeds and achieves what is asked of it, so in order to stop yourself over delivering you have created self imposed limits to prevent wasting your creative resources. Applying the 'minimum effective dose' to your work load is efficient but makes you a poor team player.

You then use time pressure & the guilt of not having done much work as motivation and a daily indicator of when it's time to really apply yourself & sprint to your deadline.

You're obviously deeply motivated by the sense of reward in experiencing the 'phew, just made it' scenario and this is far more attractive than pacing yourself and then asking for more work.

I don't actually think you're procrastinating - just waiting to be motivated & challenged and then filling in that extra time with (poor quality) mental stimulation.

By working in this sprint fashion you're actually ensuring you can cope with deadlines, stress & pressure - important skills you learned in your academic life.

Ways to resolve this involve using this motivation to your advantage (be careful not to burn yourself out)

Explain to your manager you feel you could be more productive & ask for a milestone approach to your work.

Surround yourself with ambitious people that you respect (even in online circles) they will provide a peer group that might trigger your competitiveness

Work on projects in your spare time in a sprint fashion e.g one night/week/month only or Startup Weekends

Decide on a work based project of your own creation to keep you productive even when you're not working on your core tasks.

You've ticked off the achievements that society sets out for us, now you have to continue the list & decide on your own new aims.
None of the 8 persons who replied to you have the correct facts. They are planning to mine with the chips.

The complete story is that the chips are developped in a 50/50 partnership between Leszek Rychlewski (aka "tytus"), and "bitfury" (a group of investors and engineers mostly from eastern europe):

- Tytus set up a company to launch a project known as 100TH-Mine that will deploy a farm running 100 Thash/s of these chips in Wenatchee, WA: https://picostocks.com/businessplan/19

- Bitfury is very discrete and was, as far as we know, merely planning to mine for themselves.

But over time, both entities realized they would be able to generate a lot more predictible revenues if they sold chips and/or fully assembled devices. So Tytus partnered with Megabigpower.com and BFSB as distributors is US and Europe. And the Bitfury group partenered with MetaBank to resell chips and devices in Russia.
I think you're off by a factor of 1000. I get 980 terawatt-hours of energy.

If, as you say, 971 GWh is equivalent to 6% of total energy usage, then 980 TWh is 6000% total energy usage. Of course, you don't get 100% efficiency in incineration, but an oversupply of 60x leaves a lot of room for inefficiency.

Here's my calculation. I've used scientific notation to reduce the possibility of order-of-magnitude errors:

> 230 million tons Avoirdupois = 2.3e8 tons

> 2.3e8 tons * 2e3 pounds/ton = 4.6e11 pounds

> 4.6e11 pounds * 0.45 kg/pound = 2.07e11 kg

> 2.07e11 kg * 1000 g/kg = 2.07e14 g

> 2.07e14 g * 17 kJ/g for carbohydrates = 3.52e15 kJ

> 3.52e15 kJ * 2.78e-4 kWh/kJ = 9.8e11 kWh

That's 980 billion kWh, or 980 million MWh, or 980 thousand GWh, or 980 TWh.

I wonder if maybe you're getting nutrition Calories (uppercase) confused with gram calories (lowercase). Nutrition Calories are actually kilocalories!!! If you forgot to multiply by 1000 to account for this, then that would explain your result.

In Europe, nutrition labels are listed in kilojoules. This eliminates the confusion over calories.
Why not? The things can be removed from the water, and even if they weren't, there could still be a net benefit in having one toxin over another.
12 Angry Men might, perhaps, not be the best example.

http://rationallyspeaking.blogspot.com/2012/11/odds-again-ba...

EDIT: Actually, this is the one I should have linked to:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/did-12-angry-men-get-it-wrong...
Thanks for the tips. The support stand angle issue may be a deal-breaker, as is battery life (compared to a Haswell MacBook Air alternative, not my current MacBook which averages 2 hours).
Hopefully you don't use the same key multiple times, as that's not guaranteed to work in different parsers.
Just nitpicking, but isnt the unit supposed to be GHz?

400 Giga Cycles/s makes more sense, unless I am missing something.
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