skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
4. Prepare people for change.

yea, he didn't seem to say "and I'll be helping here, because I'm kind of experienced with digital business" at the end of this paragraph, which I thought he was going to. It left me feeling like this letter lacked substance - why did you buy the post then, Jeff?
“Anything you do will be insignificant, but it is vitally important that you do it.”
That's interesting to ponder on and all, but we know the Sims characters are not aware.
Yes, but you "have to live with" every decision your company makes, and you cannot make them all. This is control-based thinking: the sort of thinking that leads foolish managers to try to control coding decisions they don't understand or a million other things.
No, I can't. The Emergency Broadcast System isn't often misused that way either.
Wow, even on HN, there are people that oppose gay marriage? That surprises me.
How I Made It: Evernote CEO Phil Libin
Not much yet. It's not well enough understood yet.
With talent. Although there's never a guarantee.

For a studio like OMGPOP though it's important to note the downsides of cashing out big on the strength of one huge hit. It was great for the founders because they got their payday, but from a business perspective everyone else got ripped off. Had they not been acquired OMGPOP would not have been beholden to try to win back their purchase price in game sales, they would have only had to maintain healthy profitability. Which I think was well within their means considering the low cost of development of their games.
? we need eyes on yet here you are, not wanting to know..... get your shit together....or someone will beg to turn an amber alert off when your child is taken. grow up. its there for a reason.
Go for it. It's a great book and except for references to friendster as the big social network and facebook a newbie, nothing else seemed dated to me. Most of the APIs used in the book are still pretty much available except probably(??) delicious API.
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The contrary position is that if a company stays in its rundown office space, it will stagnate, morale will suffer, people will leave and the rest of the operation will shrivel up and die. New space is a reward for ambition, and one of many steps to becoming bigger and better operation.
Is there any practical purpose in human cloning short of cloning specific organs for replacement? As for tailored drugs to induce cancer, that is rather specific. There are a lot of ways to kill people, not sure if that would be the most efficient. And if you have that level of technology, there might also be dangers like custom made viruses that are super-contagious and 100% lethal.

Which makes #9 more interesting. A war between man and machines would end very quickly if the AI just designs a super-virus and kills 99% of the population overnight.
Yeah, it'd be illegal unless you were to truly value these innovators as potential contributors and then just not give a shit until this potentially powerful and creative company (that agreed to the sale of course) is a distant memory.
It.. seemed neater.
how is this relevant to anything?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtObrnaovrI
Making The Web Faster with SPDY
Yes, lots of photos and videos. We are working on a 15 min story for TV in Australia.

Talking with the Caracas locals (not living in the tower) it is seen as a bit of an embarrassment. The government there has no good solution for housing, so the people took it into their own hands.

Some of the apartments are amazing. $1 million+ views but without proper fitouts or running water.
> What's the deal with school choice? Seems kinda random

There is a religious subset of the libertarian crowd that is all about those four issues. School choice means religious and/or home schooling (which tends to also be religion centered).

Their intersection with the civil liberties crowd is pretty small - they dislike acknowledging that there are systemic problems beyond their main issues. For example they don't believe in anti-discrimination laws because they say the market place (private property and economic liberty) will sort it all out - despite all historical evidence to the contrary.

For me, seeing that list would make me wary. My impression of such groups is that there are indeed some people who truly believe that but there are plenty for which it is simply cover for bigotry.

The enemy of my enemy isn't necessarily my friend.
I'm not so sure about that. Gossiping and commenting also has the potential to form shared opinions and values within the group that attends the meeting, not to mention a certain group-think. There is a possibility that these values diverge from what would result from public discourse.

I would hypothesize that the mere fact of being invited to a traditionally secret club tends to make people more selfish, arrogant, and prone to abuse their power. I don't know this for a fact, but other results of psychological studies that I have heard of make it seem very plausible.

This is especially important with politicians. Politicians are supposed to be servants of the people. If we take psychological studies that point to a "fake it until you become it"-effect seriously, we should demand of politicians to also behave and carry themselves like servants. The Bilderberger group is a venue (admittedly, one of many) where politicians can become detached from their duties.

So like I said, it's less flashy than a Hollywood-movie conspiracy, but important nonetheless.
There is another theory that states that this has already happened...
We were filming a story for TV in Australia. It really is an amazing place full of industry.
I don't think PG ever gave up on regular old tables for layout. He's old school that way :-)
I am far more interested in this kind of approach to things these days than ORMs or object databases. The relational model is a very powerful way of looking at data and almost all ORMs wind up neutering all of that power, leaving you with the absolute worst of all worlds.

What's needed is good (possibly object oriented) interfaces to relational data, which is a very distinct concept from ORM.
It's nice to see memristors bearing fruit (or about to soon) finally.
> it can warn you about [...]

You make it sound like an automated solution! ;-)
It was possible to pay a motorbike taxi driver to take you up to the top of the car park. That saves about 10 storeys of walking. We did not though as we found lots of interesting shops, factories and people in the first 10 storeys.
They'll learn those cards were purchased from a Walgreens on Market Street in San Francisco three months ago. If the clerk even remembers, the purchaser said something about being dragged to SF for business, and how they really wish they were back in New York with their kids. In other words, less than nothing.
Conceptual rebrand of Google's 'Squared' education initiative
I couldn't say, and my comment above is honestly baseless speculation, just a very strong hunch. I haven't read any of their public filings on that acquisition so weight that appropriately.
RetroShare isn't similar to Freenet at all. Please read design & white papers completely for both projects. What I really like about Freenet & GNUnet is the build in distributed efficient caching of data. So even small sites won't go down when there's a global rush.
Gas is basically free in Venezuela. To fill up a car with 50L/13 gals was 4 or 6 Bolivars, which is about 15-20 cents at the black market exchange rate.

We had a driver for one day and he had to fill up the car. I bought him a can of Coke which cost twice as much as the tank of gas.
And... now it isn't :)
I guess it is more accurate to talk about latency, because throughput can always be improved by accessing multiple cells in parallel.
This philosophy doesn't sit well with me. Physics at a particle or even mass scale can be described mathematically, I'll give you that. That said, if you are to understand the relationship between one particle and another, you need some way to explain that relationship.

For example, the pull of one celestial body of matter on another (really the sum of particles, but let's simplify) can be explained with math. But you cannot communicate the RELATIONSHIP between the two without understanding the concept of gravity and space-time. It would be claiming the universe is all 1s and 0s, ignoring the fact that there must be a en/decoding method - a meaning to the numbers - for them to make any sense.

The weaker claim that the universe CAN BE computed is to me fairly obvious, but that adds little to any discussion among those who believe in causality.
Reminds me of Étoilé [1] a Software Environment based on GNUstep, which was quite promising when I was last interested in it (2008)

[1] http://etoileos.com/
How to Systematically Eliminate Risk
I'm only sorry it's not into the hundreds of billions. I don't know if $30 billion loss in 3 years is that strong of a deterrence against the mass spying. If I were in the administration/NSA I'd probably think we could make that back through some industrial espionage alone.
> If we allowed complete freedom of contract, law could be privatized, to our common benefit.

This Anarcho-Capitalist ideal has never come to pass in any scenario where it could have happened: That is, there have been multiple scenarios where the established government has broken down entirely, and nobody's ever created this system with government-by-contract or anything like it.

We can argument-from-fiction this to death, and many people have, but if it can only happen if it's set up by some external agency it doesn't look like it's ever going to happen, so why bother?

> If even a few of us honestly sought truth, we would not disagree with each other.

Only if everyone starts from the same premises.

For example, does every example of Homo sapiens sapiens count as a human being? If no, then arguing against some plan because those supposed 'non-humans' would be made unhappy by it is worthless. You might as well argue against a plan because gneiss would be put out by it: In the minds of the people you're arguing against, it would be a total non sequitur.

A lesser, but more important, version of this is "Does every human matter equally as much?" Again, if you're arguing against people who hold as axiomatic that some matter more than others (due to tribalism, "racial realism", etc.), certain arguments aren't going to work.

Maybe we'll have to kill everyone who holds those ideas so we can stop having wars. (Your task: Am I being serious?)
Namecheap also accepts bitcoins and is quite a bit cheaper.
Not to be too glib about it, but for God's sake, who cares? It's my Feedly account. It holds my read/unread status for my daily newsfeeds. What's the big hacker target here? Spoofing that I've already read Hacker News today? Subscribing me to feeds I don't want? I encourage Feedly not to waste time securing that on my behalf.
It doesn't matter whether they are used or not by the JVM, to the OS, they are allocated and gone. Startup time is a moot point in long running apps.
> a.k.a. as

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAS_syndrome
yep. This and Mr. Bush claiming that God told him to attack Iraq:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2005/oct/07/iraq.usa

I think Bush is when we all started taking the US not really so seriously. Or things like the moment we notice the US population still supports him at large even when he says he has to attack Iraq because God told him so. You're just so immature as people and a nation.
You can't really come to a conclusion since no information is given about the configuration of the JVM. Most likely the minimum heap size was unset which often means it will default to 1/64 of the total system memory.
Moto X making motorola website go down?? 
Anyone get the same probs? Wonder what level of traffic their servers sees now due to Moto X.
I thought this. While I don't think that benchmark is entirely worthless, it's hardly conclusive enough to be basing a business decision on:

* What's the concurrency like between two servers? (you need to test both low and high concurrent loads)

* What's the difference between the two in creating new connections and/or threads?

* What's the performance like when you up the number of packets per connection? (a simple ping pong hiding buffering performance etc).

* What's the performance like on the host platforms? (I'm going to assume that they're not the same OS on their Macbooks as they will be on their load balancers).

Of course, arguing a case of using Scala because it's a language they're already proficient in is itself a perfectly valid reason. But my issue is they seemed more interested in picking either language based on the best performance without actually evaluating the performance of either in any detail.
I think you're on the right track in supposing that there can't be a huge performance difference in such a simple task, given that both languages are compiled and reasonably low-level. The most plausible explanation would amount essentially to a misconfigured library, not a fundamental advantage due to say, advanced JVM JIT. Your suggestion to try server-{a,b} x client-{a,b} is also a good one.

Your modified Go server doesn't return "Pong" for "Ping". It returns "Ping". And the "a small change" version is nonsense. It's fundamentally different. - you're firing off all your requests before waiting for any replies, and so hiding the latency in the more common RPC style request-response chain, which is a real problem.

You speculate a lot ("hiding some magic" "likely doesn't need to observe the answers") when you haven't offered any insight.

EDIT: Nagle doesn't matter here - it doesn't delay any writes once you read (waiting server response). It only affects 2+ consecutive small writes (here I'm trusting http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nagle's_algorithm - my own recollection was fuzzy). If Go sleeps client threads between the ping and the read-response call then I suppose it would matter (but only a little? and other comments say that Go defaults to no Nagle alg. anyway).
If it's so wonderful, why hasn't it happened yet?
Pet supplies
Rape has meanings other than non-consensual sex.

GP:
Please use the word rape to the full extent provided by the english language, and let those who don't like the word deal with it.

As for the benchmark, who writes their own load balancer? Isn't this generally a solved problem? If the point is to extract max performance from a simple ping-pong server then I'd go right to C and epoll/libevent/etc. I'm guessing that the team is somehow trying to extrapolate data from a ping-pong server to the actual problem they're trying to solve which is dare I say, stupid.

In general the best way to solve this problem is use whatever language the team / person writing the software likes because having them write it faster generally outweighs whatever server costs one will run into, whenever this is not the case the best answer is 99% of the time: write it in C.
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I have now talked to Digitalocean, the issue has been identified and a fix has been applied.

Fast, courteous, responsive. There is something to learn here for other cloud shops.
FT Paywall. Boo.
Do you know how complete this is at the moment?
Jersey 2.x killed performance
Good find. I'm struck by the quality.
I've read a few in the LA Times "How I Made It" series, and I'm not impressed. It's not BAD stuff: I, too, hate passive aggressive signs. It's just that the article doesn't describe how anyone made anything. If I hadn't read the title, I would have no idea why the article was written.
C++ IDE Performance Improvement in Visual Studio 2013 Preview
> emergency care was available during all of the strikes.

Interesting. Have there been strikes which made emergency care unavailable?
That's "1 second of 1% of the neurons", even.
Very interesting; as someone's who been very happily using Ibatis with Java and Spring for many years I've always been wary of Hibernate for just the reasons you mention. The thought of ceding control over SQL to a framework so extensively would give me sleepless nights, and my hunch has always been that there will be a bunch of non-performant parent/child relation anti-patterns basically baked in and waiting to pounce (if that's not too much of a mixed metaphor...!).
The better performance of the Scala client+server if anything suggests less buffering, not more, since the next ping can't be written until the previous pong is received.

p.s. to parent: "the JVM TCP stack?" really?
Interesting concept, you've put a lot of work in this! First of all, it is 100x better than the current website/branding, but I have a general remark: the style is not quite inline with Google's corporate branding.
> Anything a government could do, could in theory be done by a voluntary system if enough people agreed it was a good idea or it was a benefit to them to do so.

And we call that system a government.

Seriously. Every time an anarchist seriously gets down to brass tacks about how their world would work, there's some agency by 'the people' which does things which have to be done, and it's indistinguishable from a government. It's just a Good Government, a Responsible Government, and, really, an Ideal Government.

Either anarchy has never happened or it's the only thing that happens. I don't know which is more damaging to the case of doctrinaire capital-A Anarchists.

> a semi-private legal system for some things might work

This is called contract law.
I'm not the OP, but I've worked for Samaritans (http://www.samaritans.org/) in the UK. I'd be happy to discuss by email at 7cot.10.fishpi@spamgourmet.com if that's useful to you.
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"If we keep writing down common sense datums until 2100, we can make computers as smart as people."

Worth noting that this approach has already been tried:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyc

"Commonsense reasoning" has been around for a long time as an AI topic - like many AI topics it appears straightforward but is actually full of complexity.
If you have physical access to the car to the extend that you are able to talk to the CAN bus, you could as well cut the brake fluid lines, corrupt the tires so they explode when they get hot and the pressure rises, put poison in the air conditioner or whatever. Sure, fiddling with the electronics gives you more creative ways to do harm, but the assumption that you have physical access to the can is a very strong one. Furthermore, some cars have multiple buses, with the more critical ones being harder to access.

A lot of people are negative about all the electronics, but there is a reason there are all there. The electronics allow you to have engines that are three times more powerful than those of 15 years ago and in the same time consume only half as much fuel. The electronics allow you to measure and control everything much more precisely.

Also electronics allow you to implement security systems like ABS, ESP and so one which are really helpful (ABS saved me several times!).

Talking about security of the CAN - one should think that adding more security means that more powerful ECUs will be required, which means more weight and more power consumption, which means more fuel consumption. Is it worth it?

One more point for the security - critical ECUs that control steering, brakes, airbags and so on are required to get the corresponding ASIL (Automotive Safety Integrity Level) certificates which require a lot of testing and sometimes redundant sensors (similar to those for airplanes). So it is not that simple for a ECU to send some false messages on the bus.
The free course is online.

Let me give the backstory, which I hope will clarify things:

I'm giving a talk at Strata London (a "Big Data" conference) in a few months. I won't be able to go into details for the talk, so I want to create supplementary material. I seems sharing this material online will be good for others (and for me). I don't want to plonk it all on the web because 1) I don't want to make all my material available till after the talk and 2) I want to build a mailing list of people interested in this kind of stuff.

I may build the material into a more formal course if there is sufficient interest.
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Religion (by way of magical thinking) is one of the things that defines humanity. We have evidence of it even in Neanderthal sites, given that we find them in caves, with their feet pointed east more often than not, with flower pollen on them in places in caves where we don't otherwise find flower pollen.

Only recently have we been able to overcome it.
QM provides a clear set of equations that govern how wavefunctions evolve, but some versions also include the notion that wavefunctions collapse when an observation is made, but there are no equations or even firm rules for when this collapse is supposed to happen. Many-worlds is founded on the observation that the equations governing wavefunctions are sufficient in and of themselves to explain the observations that originally led people to believe that waveforms collapse, and that therefore the collapse postulate ought to be discarded as redundant. And because it's spooky action at a distance.
Not at all. All these things "hinge on" being able to make money on an ongoing basis, not whether the money you had saved was stolen.
Given how little tax they pay in the UK, I'm surprised it's not higher.
Statistically speaking, large companies are far less economically productive. And frankly if you were working 11-14 hours a day I wouldn't be surprised if you were less productive than someone working 4-6.
Google: Keep Android Users' Secure Network Passwords Secure
Couple months ago, I met Andrew Ng at a meet up and asked him why there's deadline for the courses (comparing to Udacity model). He said they did a study, courses with deadlines tends to have more students.

I found that it's very plausible. I still have couple of Udacity classes half finished, thinking I can always come back later, while working furiously on Coursera's deadlines...
> First of all, they're testing on MacOS, which is not going to be the platform they're actually using for the server code. The backends can be very different.

Unless you have evidence that Go has MacOS-only bugs, this is meaningless speculation (though I agree that it's possible that there's no problem on Linux and that people don't generally run mac servers, I'm not sure why we should privilege your hypothesis).

Agreed about GOMAXPROCS=4 - that seemed questionable to me (I don't know what it does, precisely, but I don't see a 4-anything limit in the Scala code).
Creating a Completely Customized Google Map Plugin for jQuery
Last week I briefly touched on the customization possibilities of Google Maps, this week we’ll be taking a more in depth look at what exactly you can customize. The options available include customization for all aspects of the map such as:
The slight inconvenience it caused you (after all, you were just lying in bed reading) is worth it if it allows for many more people to be on the lookout for the vehicle (there aren't digital signs everywhere on the highway either). I honestly can't think of a better way of informing people of urgent events (natural disasters, mainly).
Ikea launches augmented reality app
Beg HN: Please only report serious GitHub outages (1h+)
GitHub was down for 5-10 minutes today. Two people got upvoted for reporting it. That makes no sense to me. Whenever GitHub goes down for more than 30-40 minutes, then yes, it's a serious disruption, anything else pollutes people's RSS feeds unnecessarily. Please consider this next time. Thanks.
almost all game companies are contrary to this
Allocated memory that's paged out and not used is nearly irrelevant (I believe this is true even though a 200mb JVM heap will likely see some unnecessary rotation in/out due to GC - ideally you'd manually configure the heap appropriately (smaller) if you intended to challenge total system memory w/ many processes).