skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Costco is just starting to establish itself here in Australia. There is currently one store in my city (Melbourne). I personally know people who travel 40+km to shop there so they are doing something right. I understand that more "local" stores will be opening soon.

I'm not sure how the focus on pay & conditions translates across the pacific however; our national minimum wage for casual workers is already AU$20.34 (US$18.54) and we have universal healthcare. So I'm guessing the relative benefits of working for Costco are lower as compared to in the USA.
With gamers? Oculus, by a landslide.

Glass can enable some interesting layers over the real world (I'm personally looking forward to Ingress on Glass), but it isn't even close to the level of immersion the Rift offers.

There's room for both, of course. Initially I expect Glass and AR devices to be more palatable to the general public than VR.
> Conservatives have responded by telling Mr Miyazaki to stay out of politics.

The nexus of creative entertainment and politics alienates many. If one of your well respected entertainers makes a political statement that you don't agree with it can come as a shock. This attitude of "Stay out of politics and stick to entertaining us you court jester" is present probably in every country, and the most saddening because it has an implicit attitude of "I'm allowed to state my opinion, but you are not."
What do you mean by "auxiliary characters" do not work and what where the errors while importing?
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What companies actually require people to have a GitHub and LinkedIn to apply? I've been doing recruiting for about a year and a half, and I've never seen this be a hard and fast prerequisite.

I guess I could see a situation where the HR machine makes you fill out some stupid form when you apply to a company (in the same way that this HR machine makes you upload your resume in a certain format), but I'd be very surprised if those rules and requirements come from hiring managers.

It makes sense to want 1) a concise way to see where you've been working, what you've been doing, and what you write like (presumably this is the LinkedIn portion) and 2) code samples, but it doesn't make sense to require that this info comes to you in a specific medium.
A very poor article on the topic. I saw the movie last week in Japan, and it was alright, but not extremely good either (But since I hated the stupid "Ponyo" movie, it could only be better than the previous one...).

It's very difficult to make a movie about an engineer who does not fly himself (and therefore where there is not much action involved). Conveying his process of thought was near impossible and most of the time you end up seeing him scratching stuff on paper in the movie, or making paper airplanes. Mmm. This could have been better.

The love story felt very pointless (and almost fake), compared to his other movies as well. And since the movie was set in a realistic setting, there was not much of the imaginative fantasy that I like from his previous works.

I liked some other aspects, like how he refers to the cultural exchanges between Germany and Japan before the War, and how Japan felt that they were clearly behind in terms of technology vs Junker. That was insightful and well done.

All in all, an OK movie. I won't go and watch it a second time, however, I don't think it deserves a second viewing. Unlike most of his other movies that I watch from time to time.

Funny trivia, that you may have heard of: the director of Evangelion (Anno Hideki) was chosen to dub the hero's voice in 'Kaze Tachinu'. However you can clearly see he's an amateur and he does not put much passion in his lines. Maybe that was on purpose. You get used to it after a while, but it really feels like he's reading.
That assume everyone works the same way on Github. The code I host on Github for me is old code. So I have big commits and then long lulls. As noted by the author, a lot of people don't use it as their primary repository.
Do you know much coverage this extraordinary events gets in mainstream media? Nothing, zilch, nada. http://imgur.com/a/WyDKy
Ask HN: Looking for a tech cofounder? I'm up for grabs, let's talk
For various reasons I need to keep this submission secret.

I've been going the more traditional route of looking for a better job than the one I have right now, or even trying unsuccessfully to start my own stuff, but I what I really want is to find people who think like me, who want a challenge, who maybe have been thinking about quitting for a while but haven't had a reason yet.

I know you're out there, so...let's build something together! If you're a lone entrepreneurial spirit looking for a cofounder, talk to me. If you're a team that has the perfect idea but no tech guy to build it, I'd love to talk also. Even if we don't make anything, it would be cool to meet people who like to think outside the box. You never know.

My qualifications: I have worked as a product manager and full stack engineer (PHP/SQL/JS/CSS), and I have co-founded several startups, none of them particularly successful. I consider myself enthusiastic, passionate, and motivated.

I would like you to be: good on the sales/marketing/people side, ready to take a serious leap into full-time startup mode, willing to discuss new ideas and take big risks, aggressive about growth, and preferably someone who has tried and failed a startup in the past and learned big lessons from it.

Please email me at techcofounderupforgrabs [at] gmail [dot] com if you're interested in talking. I realize I'm asking you to reveal your identity before I would reveal mine, so I appreciate your trust.

Looking forward to your email!
I would pay for the source code.
The misconception about what a 'founder' represents is so true. I've been guilty of it myself till I spotted the danger signs (delegating too much, modelling myself after Steve Jobs with the misconception that all I have to do is have 'vision' :P).

The reality is as a startup founder, you're expected to bear the blunt of the risk as well as majority of the tasks, from getting coffees, to setting 'vision', to product design, and coding the mundane that others don't want to do.

To this day, I still firmly believe that (on my 1st startup, so additional mileage may change that) having a diverse skillset, or the uncompromising willingness to learn anything is key to success - guess that's what PG calls determination.

So going back to the OP's view that solo founding is possible - I totally agree. You may need to hire or get help where your tech / business skills are lacking. But if you have sufficient & diverse work experience, and some financial capital, it's totally feasible to go solo.

A big BUT is the emotional support that a team can offer. This is even more so when you have a solid co-founder. The trials of startups are hard and deeply emotional (I think all founders will naturally develop bi-polar disorder - one day you feel on top of the world with your world changing idea, the next you are filled with doubt), so any kind of support from people that understand what you're going through helps - this is unlikely to be your spouse if they've never been exposed to startups or even the financial burdens of brick-n-mortar business. You can substitute with meetups and surround yourself with startup founders, but someone who doesn't have skin in the game just isn't the same.

TL;DR So while I think it's possible to do it alone, there are added benefits to being able to share the responsibility & emotional rollercoaster of a startup
I also recommend everyone read 'Founder's Dilemma', good data backed analysis of pros & cons of various startup decisions like solo vs. co-founding. Bootstrapping vs. funding, etc.
I think that is the author's point though: he has a lots of private repos on bitbucket that he doesn't want to share. The work history and depth of his code and such is not publicized.

Note also that this is the same for private repos hosted on github. When you are logged in, you can see the activity and commits of yourself (and your teammates) in all of the public+private repos that you have access to, but your public profile only shows public commits. This is by design.

Here is my example image, when I was doing a bunch of work at the start of the year in some private repos: http://imgur.com/4Tr3LQz The top is my public activity and the bottom one is my public+private activity. So if you're used to working out of private repos, then nothing is publicly documented and your actual github profile is not very 'deep'.
https://github.com/samgranger/blink.js

User agent check still needs to be removed and replaced with something better
Generally, it's dismaying to discover that someone whose work you respect holds worldviews that you disagree with. An example that many readers of HN will relate to is the one of Orson Scott-Card, whose books are pretty great, but who holds some pretty outdated views towards homosexuality*

*: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-becker/orson-scott-card-h...
Cities are fricking big in Australia, the urban sprawl here is crazy. Perth, a city of under 2 million population, is around 70 km NS and 25 km EW.

But bicycling IS pretty popular anyway.
> There are also issues where people ask why it is that it is legal for men to go topless, yet is criminal for women to go topless? Should not the law apply equally to both men and women? That is a reasonable question and there is no answer that justifies this discrimination that is not intrinsically sexist.

Here in New York City, both men and women are permitted to go topless.
Curiosity Kills
What would have happened to Tumblr without Yahoo? Trouble
Are you saying that not smoking is not an option, ever? Because that seems highly unlikely.

You may enjoy it, that doesn't mean that stopping isn't an option.
Somebody running a service like Lavabit woild be a very motivated individual, civil disobedience was a real risk.
Making WebGL Dance [video]
I had the same experience; having briefly touched Matlab and loathed its difference between semicolon (don't print result) and no semicolon (print result) I was very dubious of it—why not just put `return` there? But when you combine it with the almost-everything-is-an-expression way of doing things, it actually works really well. Makes some forms of state machine exceptionally elegant, for example. So much so that Python has lost some of its charm for me.

Also, the type checker ensures that you'll hear about it if you lack a semicolon and emit a value other than unit from a block, without then using it.
Caveat: If you are planning to follow the above advice, and you think your country will not enforce the wishes of the US government on such matters, check that assumption carefully before you bet your fortune and your life on it.
Note that that is HTTP; SSL will be likely to come quite a bit further down the track.
Yeah, that was from Takahata. Takahata is genuinely smart when it comes to treat serious topics like in Hotaru no Haka. I don't think Miyazaki could ever make such a movie himself. He excels in other areas.
> * Games require portability. Not many platforms will have a rust compiler (Not to mention that current C++ compilers are very mature and highly optimizing).

Rust uses LLVM as the backend, so any platform that Clang supports, Rust can too. (And also, it has the optimisations built in.)

In fact, there's already support in the compiler for x86, x86-64, arm, and mips. (I'm not sure if mips actually works, but arm definitely does.)
Dont forget the political power all this information gives to whoever is in charge at the white house..

even if you guys do manage to elect a guy sensitive to privacy.. in the minute he see all the information provided to him about all his adversaries.. and all the other players around the world.. this guy will be converted instantly to the mass data surveilance state "cult"
> Someone commented about Brazil yesterday how debts are inherited in that country

Oh, that's a lot worse than a country where you inherit social class.
Any feedback, questions, criticisms are welcome.
I don't know that either has to "win." Oculus games clearly replace the hardcore FPS/Computer game sort of market, whereas Glass games are more a replacement for cell phone games, more casual things, or real-life MMOs/ARGs (which there hasn't really been a market for before, except maybe Ingress and a few others). I see both being pretty popular with gamers (although I guess the stereotypical ones who just sit at home all the time won't necessarily enjoy ARGs).
1. A system, almost the same as it is now, but the one patenting has to prove the patent office that the thing he wants to patent cannot be easily reproduced elsewhere without specific prerequisites, like exactly the types of research that was done by the patent "client". This rule would protect patent for things like drugs, where it is very expensive to find and test formula, but easy to copy, but would make it impossible to patent things like rounded corners or trivial algorithms or methods, things that are used the most by patent trolls.

2. Let everyone make anything that is patented, doesn't matter who is holding the patent, but the one using the patents should be aware he is using it. Then, if he, who used the patent, makes no money from it's use, he is allowed to use it without any limits (for example personal use, experiments, etc). If the patent user starts to make profit out of the product, which uses the patent, then there would be a special patent evaluation group, that would evaluate the significance of the patented thing, and the evaluated significance, combined with the profit the project is making and the set fraction that the patent holder gets, will be issued as a non-debatable compensation. Also the patent would only start to cost from a certain amount of profit bar and the price would rise non-linearly as the profit improves, so that lower profit products have to pay less, so that the price would not impede the growth, but only promote innovation by paying for it. The weak link would be the evaluation group - how to ensure it is not corrupt and evaluates righteously? Strict rules for evaluation could be set, but that would require some work to set up.

3. Combine those two.
I'm not getting worked up over anything, I'm merely stating that not smoking is an alternative, which is something leoedin left out. Everything that's followed is my insistence that not smoking is an option. I have made no claims to the ease or feasibility of it as an option.

I've made no claim for or against e-cigarettes. I've made no claim for or against smoking in general in this thread. The only claims I've made are that not smoking is an option. The reason I made that claim was, as stated above, the original comment failed to mention that not smoking was an option.

On the car front, yes, cars are bad, I agree, wholeheartedly, but America made a decision to emphasize cars over trains post-WWII, which is why I use one. As for biking and walking, those are infeasible options for long distances. Fascinating that you neglected to include trains.
How much volume now and in the future? I may be able to help you out.
After making me feel old, this led me on a trail for similar articles, but instead I found this: http://www.vintageadbrowser.com/computers-and-software-ads-1...

This is gonna waste a couple hours..
Neil Gaiman wrote something pretty great on enjoying the art of people whose worldview you disagree with:

http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2006/06/in-wee-small-hours-of-...

Scroll down to the third question (questions are in bold).
Native fragment technique is even faster than innerHTML in Chrome/Firefox: http://jsperf.com/innertext-vs-fragment/19
Just because you don't want to quit doesn't mean you might have to, or that it's not an option.
I wouldn't be surprised if Amazon spent more on new fulfillment centers this year than they did on their entire web facing development team for the past three years. Amazon is an internet company in the same way that WalMart is a parking lot company.
Agree very much about the annoying inability to go back!

This will still be my "go to" as a result: http://cheeaun.github.io/hackerweb/
Blink doesn't support blink?
I, too, found it kind of odd. The bulk of the savings they achieved came from dropping support for the Chromium browser (since Chromium no longer relies on WebKit) and C++ 11. This was a really bizarre article because it had a lot of details about how to reduce the size of a C++ binary but not what that actually means to performance.

What did that 6% binary size reduction buy them in startup time? 10ms? 300ms?

What about memory consumption after startup?

Did tests indicate that the memory locality had improved CPU performance in noticeable manner?
Which has been standardised for ages, but deprecated for a while.
Great job!
Skip should be next?
The article implies that it's more than 5x as expensive to house the mentally ill in jail than elsewhere. Such a huge difference suggests that providing them with housing and care would more than pay for itself, so cost ought not to be an issue. I realize that's oversimplifying--for one thing, total cost to society is not the same as costs (and income!) to different institutions--but do you think it's basically correct? If so, where in your view are the obstacles really coming from: moral ideas about criminality and illness? institutional politics? for-profit industry? etc.
> It's just common sense man.

Sure, I wasn't complaining. In fact I think they should do it more often. Since they sell the unclaimed bikes to second hand bike shops it would perhaps decrease the prices...

> we optimize for durability

That is true, but you have to agree that there could be durable bikes which don't have the oma/opa fiets look and come with a normal stand not that useless frame which tends to get loose after half a year and doesn't even keep the bike standing in moderate winds..
Thanks for your reply. I agree there's quite a few things that I would flag myself if I could (I coincidentally lost the ability from flagging too many in a short amount of time). I would ask for it back, but I am afraid I would lose it again and honestly, it ate up a lot of time I could use for something else. In lieu of that, I just try to upvote new content more that has substance.
Contact me, email in profile.
Silent Circle CTO Jon Callas has been participating in this G+ thread I started this evening:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/112961607570158342254/posts/9uyS...

Excerpts:
"If you're not afraid of the NSA, then encryption is good enough. If you are, then the headers in your email leak so much information that you don't really need to decrypt... Study the other headers and there are all sorts of other things that one mailer or another leaks as well as all the servers all along the way. Most importantly, all of this is permanently stored in everyone's email archives which most of us keep lots of. This is what the NSA wants. They want to construct the social graph, the interactions, the timings. This is how they get "chatter." None of this is encrypted. This is why email is broken in ways encryption can't fix..."
Proactive Security Response
I wish I had seen it as a kid. It really has a lot of depth in it, a lot of empathy. Self-sacrifice. Not showing the world as good/bad but as the complex system it really is. Not giving up. A lot better than your average saturday morning cartoon. Kids need to learn these things (not by watching cartoons necessarily, that's just the carrier), or they might end up as adults with a too simplistic world view.

Of course, for the younger children, Spirited Away might be a better choice. And Totoro.
I liked this article, but the last 3 graphs were really poor. By not listing the actual binary size in some denomination of bytes for the last 3 graphs (only using %s), I get less information from the charts. A much worse problem is the date formatting, which squishes all the numbers together so that they look like one big string. The first graph was much better.
Think Like (a) Git
In the last few months he's been very verbal about being pro-privacy and anti-NSA on his twitter feed [1].

[1] https://twitter.com/kimdotcom
I suppose? Define 'bad job' - asm.js is super new and it's a very low level representation of an application. From what I know about it (and my experience trying to produce optimal jitted JS without using asm.js at runtime), it's very easy to produce valid, fast-looking JS that turns out to run really slow.

A lot of the problems here require global optimization - thinking about high level dataflow, object shapes, types, etc. asm.js eliminates some of those problems, but not all of them - if you bounce between integer and float a lot that will cost you more in asm.js, if you miss cache and branch mispredict a lot that will cost you more in asm.js, etc. A lot of the optimizations you get 'for free' in a normal JS environment aren't meaningful for asm.js, so you may have to do a lot more work in your compiler (or in this case, JIT) to hand it code that is already high quality.

For example, let's say you've got a variable that bounces between containing a float, an integer, and null. In normal circumstances, Spidermonkey and v8 may be able to do clever things like using type information to determine that it's safe to always store that variable as a given type, and remove that optimization the moment an int or null is written to it. There are also tricks like nanboxing, where you pack smaller types into doubles by utilizing quirks in the IEEE format - meaning that the runtime can just allocate 64-bit slots for everything, instead of having to allocate room for a type tag + the largest possible type.

In asm.js, you need to figure all that stuff out yourself, and do it up front in your compiler (or JIT). It expects you to have all your types figured out so if you hand it the naive solution for that problem (type tag, largest possible type) you will end up using more memory and potentially paying higher costs from always checking the tag and always copying the whole thing, where a more dynamic runtime would be able to do on-the-fly optimizations based on observations about your code. It's a trade-off.

One other area where this can come up is virtual calls. Virtual calls are incredibly pervasive in languages like Java and C#, to the extent that HotSpot and the CLR actually do very clever dynamic optimizations on virtual calls (and interfaces, in the C# case) that can outperform equivalent patterns in native code. This doesn't mean that overall Java or C# deliver better performance - they don't - but this is one of the strengths you get from a tightly integrated JIT and language definition. At present, at least, this sort of optimization is also outside the domain of asm.js - it's an AOT compiler, not a recompiling JIT, so it's not going to do any magic to make your virtual calls and other pointer indirection any faster.
Ugg, why disable pinchzoom for mobile devices? No up vote from me.
Isn't WebKit based on KDE's KHTML?
Ask HN: What kind of music you listen to when coding?
We are legion!
Black text on a vibrant green background is not very readable, unfortunately.
Game of Thrones piracy is "better than an Emmy"
The end of liberty.
This is really neat.. but please, please give me a back button. A lot of the pictures were gone before they loaded for me on the slow internet I'm using.
Apparently it's just one part of a bigger plan, that includes adding paid tiers: http://mailinator.blogspot.pt/2013/05/mailinator-is-for-huma...

Personally, I just have to thank the creator for a great service that I used all the time (until I got my own domain). And for his technical blog posts: http://mailinator.blogspot.pt/2007/01/architecture-of-mailin...