skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Once systems get as large as the ones at Google, it can feel like the piece of the puzzle you are working on is inconsequential. This leads to boredom and ennui. There are currently a lot of opportunities to get paid well while feeling like you are making a bigger impact on the direction of a company, or simply just have the opportunity to create something from scratch. I often wonder if Google will turn into a place where older engineers go to "retire" with a stable job if their stints at startup companies never work out.
Sorry, I meant you couldn't put Newstand in a group folder. I definitely think your publishing platform has great promise.
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Hey Harold, definitely will shoot you an email. I'm still in NYC for the next few weeks, but I'd love to grab coffee once I'm back.
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it's not an RSS feed, but:

https://status.github.com/api/messages.json

see: https://status.github.com/api
I've been watching that microphone issue for a while now - is there no hope of applying those quality functions to the device so that SIP usage would be bearable ?
Love the layout and animations.
Erm, Steve Jobs? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2MOwQ089eQ&t=52m55s

I've hardly ever seen people zooming with one hand (one hand on the screen, sure, but the other hand holding the phone). Maybe it works for you but, having just tried it, I find it very clumsy.

I've just looked through a load of random videos of people using their phones on youtube and I didn't see a single one where people are holding it with 3 fingers behind and two in front.
This type of snark comes up whenever the patent system is discussed. However, isn't the fact that this would (presumably) not be approved an argument in their favour?
"Considered harmful" is the code word for passive-aggressively manipulating an opinion as truth. Whenever I see it, I would mentally say, fuck you, just state your opinion as opinion and don't try to twist it around.

Back to the blog. Contrast to the claim, closure for class/module privacy is great because it separates inner implementation from public interface. I really don't want any outside code to touch the private code. Because tomorrow I might change the inner implementation, function signature, break the function into two pieces, or proxy-call other libraries. And I want the assurance that the change won't break any calling codes.

Public function is like global variable. Anyone can access it anywhere and anytime. You don't know how, where, and when people call it. If you change its signature, you pretty much have to hunt down every call of it to retrofit. Private codes have no such issue. It's best to limit the scope of codes that are intended to be private.

Testing private code is a non-issue. Nobody outside cares about your private functions. They care about your public functions serving as the public interface. You test your public functions as your users would call them. Your public functions in turn exercise the private functions.

If you really want to test the private functions, write private tests in the same scope as the private functions to call them.
this is boutique ecommerce done right.
Haha ok. Would be surprised if I had made an un-removeable app :-). Thanks.
>It'd be nice if HN allowed us to collapse entire conversations.

There's a whole bunch of extensions/plugins/userscripts for HN out there, including ones that implement thread hiding. I personally use Hacker News Enhancement Suite for Chrome.
The UI is lovely, although if you also sold some mugs I'd probably get one!
unfortunately, the status page is fairly inaccurate and delayed.

(note that I'm not agreeing we should post to HN for every blip)
If you did this project and enjoyed the time spent, there is a good chance you are really a programmer that just happens to have an MBA. I hope you continue down that path because we need people with drive like you. I wish my first program was this good.
To sum up my reply to replies to my OP: the biggest thing I take away from this quote, personally, is that you should have a good, practical knowledge of something before you go about making a standard, and input from the real world is also a very good idea. Some upfront design is necessary, yes, but when politics dominates technical concerns, failure is bound to follow.
Never felt comfortable with this service from day one.

By now, I have tested many and have stuck around long with InoReader. However, I must confess that nobody is doing this better than Feedly team under the circumstances. So I give up looking anywhere else for now.
"Is it documented anywhere that we support that?"
But that's assuming that work is at least moderately fulfilling. Unfulfilling work and the best benefits in the world will only retain the lazy or insecure.
You may also enjoy http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~smr/papers/rt_model/rt_model.pd...

http://gfx.cs.princeton.edu/proj/3dscanning/

Or you might find some things of interest in my article collection https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/315/articles/index_no_im...

(No doubt Dropbox will disable my public links soon. I wish there were an easy way to mirror my Dropbox folder to S3.)
Then why don't they offer contracted, non-at-will employment?
the space-time continuum collapses?
from the github repo:

0: it's a lib, and there are at least 2 client being developed (ncurse and qt)

1: it currently compile on linux/os x/window

2: see 0.

3: no, but you could potentially host a "private" boostrap node and have a separate network.
it's important to mention that they doubled the efficiency of their own previous solar cell, clocking in at 7.3%. a mass produced amorphous silicon cell achieves around 8%. however the advantage of polymer solar cells might be much lower production costs.
That's not what he was asking. The question is if someone can be "too drunk to consent" (assuming they are conscious enough to verbally consent, but too drunk for that consent to be valid in the eyes of the law), then why are people held responsible for drunk driving incidents? If the law finds them incapacitated to the point of not being held responsible for their decisions (in this case to have sex, or sign contracts, etc), why are they held responsible for their decision to drive drunk? It's a valid question and I don't think I've ever seen it answered sufficiently.
I've never heard of any such thing as "money based on savings".
Atlanta has been a hub for startups in my field (information security) for a decade & a half, mostly owing to ISSX (now part of IBM, but huge before then). There are lots of little security and network tech companies out there that were originally fed by ISSX.
The linked report seems to suggest that the median time was 1.1 years, not 4.
hg extremists!
Can I just come down there and buy the shirt? I feel like shipping a $10 shirt from the Mission to SOMA is not the best use of resources.
Just don't drink the groundwater...
Ask HN: User Documentation solution?
I have to make a "microsite" under my application with documentation about it.

The concept must be very similar to any "programming project" style.. (codex.wordpress.org, guides.rubyonrails.org, docs.shopify.com/themes): I have to teach users how to do some tasks.

I started generating Markdown files and parsing them as html but I realized that the scope is a bit larger: I have to handle sidebar links, breadcrumb navs, translation support, etc)

Is there any tool/service/project for that? What is the best/common practice to solve it?
If I understood their code/doc, the public keys must be exchanged out of band.

So how could the proxy pass for another person?
"Compared to how normal tech company should behave."

Shrug, Apple negotiates above board and pays Amazon tens of millions for one click (possibly bullshit). Apple negotiates above board and pays billions for walking all over Nokia's patents. Samsung walks all over Apple's design (according to Google lawyers) and Apple's (possibly bullshit) patents and Googlerola negotiates for a farcial 5%+ of revenue for one (possibly bullshit) standards patent and yet it's Apple who is the huge villain for going after them. Got it, Apple is supposed to write checks to other companies, never cash any and Google and friends get a lifetime free pass for infringement because they talk about being "open".

"We don't use patents offensively" tends to be propaganda from companies with bad patent portfolios.
Ask HN: How do I display my work if it's hidden?
Most of my time is spent developing for my job (small startup). And like most businesses, we keep our repositories secret, with access only for employees. Is the only way to showcase my skills my resume and open source work?
This seems like the simplest answer. What about most modern large companies would inspire loyalty from their employees?
The government got involved with a lot of those examples because private firms at the time (allegedly) couldn't have gotten it done (too expensive, required easement rights on properties, etc).

The internet already exists. All of today's problems are minor in scope to the original problems of connecting the nation together. Why turn it over the government now?
"depuis quelques mois, nous avons eu
plusieurs affaires juridiques lié à l'utilisation
de plusieurs réseaux TOR dans le cas de la pedo
et on va désormais l'interdire au même titre que
tous les systèmes d'anonymisation. Cela augmente
l'utilisation frauduleuse de notre réseau et le
nombre de réquisition juridique chaque mois"

"starting a few months back, we've had an number of legal cases regarding the use of multiple TOR networks for pedo, and we will forbid its use from now on, the same way we forbid all anonymisation systems. It raises the number of fraudulent uses of our network and the number of subpoenas each month"

I guess it means both.
> If the prevailing mode of thought is that MBAs aren't useful, or aren't technical, MBAs must present fact-based argument against this.

Part of the problem (at least to the HN crowd), is that a lot of the problems MBAs solve can't be shared on Github and/or can't be shared outside of the company (because it would violate NDAs, trade secrets, etc) and so it seems that MBAs are worthless.

I'm halfway done with my MBA (having come from the software development world) and one of the biggest adjustments I've had to personally make is to realize that I've gotten work done (and enjoy the associated sense of accomplishment) even if I don't have a set of commits to show at the end of the day.
Hunger Games themed semi-iterated prisoner’s dilemma tournament in Python
try web.de , it's however mostly in german, it comes with an office suite
Oh my. I felt my fingers twitch when I typed that sentence. But alas I only have 30 minutes for lunch as did not budget time for lookup.

Still though, lurid may be an appropriate adjective.
It would be <redacted>, a very well known large software company, that deals primarily in online sales.
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You are asserting a made-up argument. Having an active public project behind a logo is not a necessary condition for not re-purposing the logo for another project. This particular concept just happens to be taken.

Every good logo is trivial in retrospect, it's finding a strong concept that's a bitch. I looked at /gd/ thread and virtually all of it revolves around shaping a keyhole this way or that way. Then suddenly someone says - "Here, done". Turning an empty space into a chat bubble requires a step up, it's an altogether stronger and more complex concept. It is possible that another person came up with it independently, but also consider that with all the variety of secure messaging apps no one had thought of it before 2012. It's not an easy concept to stumble upon.

(edit) This is getting meta. It is plenty obvious that Tox fellas think they are in the clear and it's OK to recycle an existing logo. I think that it's not. That's hard to reconcile.
What changed?

The '80s happened. Greed is good.

The decades of corporatist funded libertarian populist propaganda finally started to work.

Supply side economics. Mergers and acquisitions. Corporate raiders. Looting pensions. Gaming investment vehicles, or outright fraud. Long-term sustained assault on labor. Offshoring, outsourcing, guest workers. Regressive taxation. Defaults. Bailouts. Deficit spending. Etc.
>Apple negotiates above board and pays Amazon tens of millions for one click (possibly bullshit)

So? Amazon is also patent sick. As well as Nokia and other patent aggressors. Is that news? It's not an excuse for any of them.

"Good portfolio" does not include ridiculously idiotic patents like one click, round corners or anything like that. It doesn't even include any software patents at all.
They're allowed to think out-of-the-box http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2006/05/googles-20-percent-tim...
Thanks for the link, I dug a little more and came across [1] which mentions a contribution by erdos to the effect that persistence might not be bounded. I guess I might spend some time to figure out number 12 :) [1] http://web.archive.org/web/20050214141815/http://www.wschnei...
>That's exactly it though, lots of people "experience" being roofied, and then are tested and it turns out they were not.

Do you have a link for that?
You don't pay it directly. But you are paying your hosting company who is several steps down the line paying a backbone provider to tie their network to the rest of the world's networks. So, yes, you really are paying to have other users be able to connect to your site.
Lee - I love this article. I think everybody should read it just to get the idea that this whole 'networking' thing can get pretty lame at times.

I like the way you explain it - but basically, just, "go make friends" is the advice, right? In case you're interested in the writings of someone with a similar point of view, I wrote a similar post, slightly rantier, a year or so ago: http://danielhough.co.uk/blog/human-business-card-jar/
When government enters any equation and starts over-regulating in the name of "poor" the poor must be actually worried. Indian healthcare system is no less greedy than that of United states, I know several examples where Doctors would perform needless surgeries, will recommend expensive surgeries for terminally ill patients (which makes death more painful) and so on.

Indian government is a big believer in state interference into everything but when it comes to healthcare Indian government's approach is different. Instead of telling private hospitals who they should be run, Indian government builds its own hospitals. Thus private hospitals are left on their own with very little government interference. Thus those doctors can experiment while being very open about their experiments.
Go's garbage collector sucks pretty hard for large heaps. A 16GB heap that's mostly live objects will take tens of seconds per round, during which no goroutines will run (it's a stop-the-world collector). Basically it's 15 years behind Java in this regard.

If you're worried about this, stick with C++.
I can tell you what the type of person who does not buy drugs looks like.
Google-translated part from http://www.ovh.com/fr/support/documents_legaux/Conditions_pa...:

7.4 For security reasons, all IRC services (for non-exhaustive: bots, proxy, bouncer, etc..), anonymous browsing services (usually called proxies), TOR nodes, are not allowed on the OVH network unless written consent of OVH. OVH reserves the right to suspend any server which these elements are used without prior permission of OVH.
This seems a bit like various volume rendering techniques, except with the objects having no transparency (like they would in a typical tomographic reconstruction)

See: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=378484 and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tomographic_reconstruction

Very cool for a simple implementation, and considering that the author doesn't appear to have dug deep into existing work.
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Oh how I wish this cart was open-sourced.

Any plans to do that soon?
"Pour des raisons de sécurité, l’ensemble des services IRC (à titre non-exhaustif : bots, proxy, bouncer,
etc.), services de navigation anonyme (généralement appelés proxy), nœuds TOR, ne sont pas autorisés
sur le réseau OVH sauf autorisation écrite d’OVH. OVH se réserve le droit de suspendre tout serveur sur
lequel ces éléments seraient utilisés sans autorisation préalable d’OVH."

It looks like anything looking like a proxy is forbidden now. Including tor nodes :/
This attitude is something that I've heard from many colleagues. If you're not being promoted within your company, staying there for more than two to three years is bad for you.

I wonder if hiring managers approach it the same way. Do they understand that company loyalty is no longer a hire-able quality?
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The relevant French: "depuis quelques mois, nous avons eu
plusieurs affaires juridiques lié à l'utilisation
de plusieurs réseaux TOR dans le cas de la pedo
et on va désormais l'interdire au même titre que
tous les systèmes d'anonymisation."

My (amateur) translation, cleaning up Google translate (which doesn't recognize Tor as a proper name): "For several months, we've had many legal matters related to the use of TOR networks in pedo cases, and from now on, it is forbidden along with all systems of anonymization."

Doesn't sound like they want any part of it.
Really? Because I thought the real disaster here was high social class actors who act unethically and harm lots of other people. E.g., the 2007-8 financial crisis.
Times must be hard if you're selling free t-shirts for money :-p
Using logic to "prove" God exists isn't totally crazy, just mostly crazy. Gödel himself tried his hand at it [1].

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del's_ontological_proof
Go's GC isn't nearly as powerful as any of the many GC implementations for the JVM, but Go's approach is also quite differently. In Go, you can reduce / avoid the garbage that you create. And when the GC turns out to be the limiting factor of your cache, then you can also mmap some dedicated pages from the OS and manage the memory on your own. But I guess that won't be necessary. Do you have any issues with Go's GC today?
Unfortunately, making child porn illegal is a waste of time if the goal is to protect children from abuse. In reality, though, "protecting children" is a banner under which people grab more abusive power. In my view, everyone who is actively fighting with tertiary effects of a social problem is either stupid or plain evil.
How does this compare to Hazelcast[1]? Seems like the same idea, but far less features?

[1] http://www.hazelcast.com/
I have a hard time blaming them for this. They're a budget provider, so any extra cost handling subpoenas and legal documents (which, let's not kid ourselves, is going to happen 100x more on a Tor node than on the majority of their other customers) quite possibly means a loss for them on a server.
Barnaby Jack's cause of death could remain unknown for months
Internal relays would never result in complaints though, since it only connects to other Tor nodes?
The inclusion of the word 'populist' in this post confuses me. Does populist not mean 'for the people', and thus not aligned with the rest of your list?
I prefer my method of "meetup golf", it's a little different than this one.

In my version of 'meetup golf' you basically go play golf, meet people who enjoy golf while doing so, ask them what they do for work, and 1/2 the time they are in tech or some form of tech (YMMV depending on where you live & play golf). At the end of the round you shake their hand and say "It was nice meeting you. Hey, listen, if you ever want to play golf in the future or need anything at all feel free to contact me" -- hand them your business card, 9 times out of 10 they will connect on linkedin or shoot an email thereafter.

You now have more in common with them than just your profession, you also share a hobby. Also consider there is a 19th hole in golf. This is a far better way to meet, befriend, and build a network that holds some weight.
I have a question ... are you allowed to make an app where people make in-app purchases of content, and you rev-share with the authors? Does Apple have anything in the guidelines that prevents you sharing the revenues and other people "selling" content through you?
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Ask HN: HN for Investing?
A couple of friends and I are starting an investment club. We each will bring equal amounts of money in. The problem is we have no idea how to get started. Is there an HN for investing?

Or, even better, can someone with experience in investing share how they got started?

We have $5,000 to play with. We are very much aware of how fast that can disappear. We are just trying to get our feet wet and play a little.

Thanks.
Here is an implementation of a similar idea:
http://www.vision.caltech.edu/bouguetj/ICCV98/index.html
Regarding social class and cars, is your theory here that social class and kind of car is uncorrelated? Or just that you'd like them to demonstrate it as well?
I don't see the point of changing to a more permissive license just to get on the iOS and WP8 app stores. Those devices are all compromised to begin with.
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One of the prerequisites for markets to work is that, both the parties should get into a transaction willingly.
That premise somehow gets violated when it comes to healthcare. That is why there are too many market inefficiencies which are skewed towards hospitals and insurance companies.
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It's slightly different because Google is in a relatively unique position of being able to unilaterally deploy new technology, as they both serve a large fraction of the traffic on the internet, and have a very popular browser.

Mozilla is understandably wary about new technologies from Google, because it would be very easy for them to make it so that the best youtube experience can only happen in chrome, which would be quite detrimental to Mozilla.
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Once whatever successor to Google Glass becomes ubiquitous, I can see this becoming a reality.

This is an advertising research agency's wet dream come true, unfortunately.
As long as Apple gets their 30%, they don't care where the money goes afterwards.
If you want something lightweight, I wouldn't go for Foundation either. Even after stripping out the unnecessary stuff, I found it overly obnoxious to style.

I ended up with the Skeleton framework after struggling with both Bootstrap and Foundation for a few days. It was a much better decision. I've also been eyeing Bourbon Neat lately as well.
This also works really well with cycling group rides.
I can remember a number of marketplaces, including ebay and a number of forum/bulletin board based sites promoting certain postings to have a different border, background color, etc. I do not think that applying the same kind of filtering to include comments instead of topics is that inventive.