skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, and a non-class-minded non-critical mind might take just that away from it, but I think it's really apparent that they are skirting the entire perspective (of what happens to a probably larger swath of youths) -- they "broke the rules" and got away with it, which enabled them to go on to success.

To take it even farther (because this wouldn't be the internet if I weren't trying to one up everyone including myself):

Stoners have great ideas, some stoners go to jail for petty posession 3 times and do not get much of a chance at life after being incarcerated. I don't think I need to point out which stoners end up going to jail, and which get a slap on the wrist and get to smoke on a college campus later.

I'm really not trying to enrage anyone -- I just think this article was super unbalanced
I would have gone with siliconevalley.
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What a horrible headline. That makes it sound like US newspapers were somehow entitled to that $5 billion. In actual fact, the newspapers had the same opportunity as Craiglist to earn (or try to earn) that revenue, and they dropped the ball. Boo hoo, cry me a river.

It should, instead, read "failure to adapt to new technology and a changing environment results in $5 billion loss to US newspaper industry". Or something roughly like that.
Curated list for bootstrapping developers
"Facebook to cost newspaperz Z billion in lost obituaries"
Anyone know what business units these cuts are coming from - core routers & switches, carrier, security, etc?
This looks pretty sweet. I wonder if there's a similar application for linux desktops?
Microsoft won't support a 14 year old C Standard
because it's "really a C++ compiler"? When, exactly, did
it from being a "C compiler" too?

Since at least the last PDC, that's been the official line. Since C++ isn't technically a superset of C, I find that position reasonable, if annoying.

Over the last few years, we've seen C# get features
first with C++ receiving the same features only if MS
gets around to it.

This sentence makes no sense. C++ and C# are totally different languages on totally different runtimes. People hate "embrace and extend"; there was even a lot of push-back on the extensions to C++ Microsoft added to make writing WinRT code easier, despite them going to some lengths to show that the syntactic sugar was, indeed, only that, and not some major semantic change to the language.

I further think it's clear that Microsoft does care about development tools. What they don't care about is having Visual Studio be the be-all, end-all environment for Windows development. You want C99? MinGW is actually good these days. You want Pascal? Free Pascal is at your disposal. JavaScript? NodeJS runs fine, embedded right in IIS. C++? Visual Studio actually makes one of the best C++ IDEs around, and its compiler is actually pluggable. (That's how you use ICC with it.)
Interesting. I've used the same trick with food. Buy a box of little debbie snacks or whatever, and instead of eating half the box, eat one and smash the rest into the trash.

Next time don't even eat one--or just take a single bite and then smash the box. It feels strangely powerful.
Bare metal Lua: http://www.eluaproject.net/
Except that you can sell the items you make for cash, and a lot of people make thousands of dollars making hats for Valve games.
Although I'm happy to hear this news, it highlights the importance of Blender's choice of GPL as its license. If it weren't for the GPL, Valve would be free to modify Blender and then sell it without contributing anything back to Blender. Blender is an amazing app that I've enjoyed using for many years. It's definitely in my top 10 ten list of best open source projects. Hopefully the increased exposure through Steam will only help the Blender Foundation continue to provide incredible free software.
Android Studio 0.2.4 Released
I know it isn't particularly noteworthy, but if you go through MS's buglist, essentially every single critical hole is due to using unsafe languages. And despite how much effort has gone into tooling and scanning and automation, stuff like this is still found monthly.
Except less useful, unless I missed the part where horse carriages had been in decline for years before cars existed because the dominant producers engaged in a series of corporate mergers and cost-cutting moves that stripped out the main customer value from the product.

America's newspapers (particularly the big dailies) had been destroying themselves since about the early 1980s; the decline was well-known, and often discussed long before it started to be blamed on competition from the internet in general or Craigslist in particular.
Maybe because the majority of abstainers do it for the wrong reasons.
Yup. I found that drinking was holding back my fitness progress. It was much easier to say no to the nightly few beers when I knew that it would affect my performance.

I even got to the point where I'm exercising 5 days a week and so I go out binge drinking on the weekends much, much less.
Sheryl Sandberg earns $100M, but won't pay interns
I agree that web developers may not help building a scientific computation language. But...

> Not every language has to have webdev functionality shoehorned into it.

I'm still in doubt about this. Web is the basic human I/O nowadays.
It's the Windows 8||Ubuntu Unity of warplanes!
4K looks amazing. Unlike 3D it is a real reason to upgrade your TV.

Didn't know 4K monitors where already affordable... If they can get the refresh rates up it would be a no brainer.
Drunk. They're still drunk by Monday morning? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=sozzled
I don't think most of the widely-spread military projects are all that good at generating votes. Rather, I think that the threat of losing votes for "killing jobs in the district" is a good way of keeping members of Congress in line behind the projects.
ErgoEmacs - Ergonomically modernized Emacs
WOW, it would be awesome if it becomes a reality :)
You could plug some serious AI into the drone so it can engage without a connection back to home base. Video game AI is getting pretty good. Just pray it doesn't go all Rise of the Machines on us...
I wouldn't mind if newspapers went out of business. Hopefully most of the industry's jobs could move online. And it sure would save a lot of paper.
This fits well with #4 on pg's list at http://www.paulgraham.com/founders.html. As he noted there, asking about real world hacks became part of their standard ycombinator application.
Is not what I seen.
I read this and think "man, these guys are going to be great at running healthcare"
The benefits you list are nice, but a video screencast has a couple of big advantages: (1) it sits still until you decide you want to play it. Animated gifs are distracting when you're trying to read the surrounding post, and the more such gifs you have the worse it gets. (2) you can rewind and replay the bits you don't understand.

Are these problems solvable? Could they be solved by this tool?

The first one seems solvable just by having a still shot with a play icon on it that swaps out for the gif when you click it. The second one seems hard.
>but just about every startup I encounter is hiring and a common complaint is that it's very difficult to find "good" engineers.

My impression is that standards are higher here. I've worked in the central valley, and most of the jobs I had there? I was... like a little god. My arrogance was justified at every turn.

Here? generally I have to put in at least some effort to just make mediocre, and I simply am not made of the stuff required to be the best.

From that point of view, the salary difference might be justified just on skill.

(I mean, there are very good people living in the flyover. The density is just dramatically lower. I'm arguing here that the average engineer in the silicon valley is much better than the average engineer elsewhere. There /are/ outliers, and often looking for those outliers can be quite productive.)
That's true. Other things like convictions for drug use/dealing that make you ineligible for student loans, felony assault convictions that your dad couldn't hire a good lawyer to fend off, etc, also seriously decrease the chances for a poor kid with the same 'rule-breaking' attitude to end up in the same place.
The site could definitely use a better design. I've wireframed something basic that I think is better. I see you've got some improvements on the way and maybe use it to help, although I'm not sure how much leeway Shortform gives you to move stuff around.

Move the leaderboard section down a bit

Put your corpo name in the top left(maybe include a link to your Twitter as well)

Enlarge the song/artist names, social links are good there (although you might get a larger response if you separate Facebook and Twitter and put them right out there)

Make the preview screens larger and underneath the main video with a title/artist visible without mousing over(similar to Vimeo's layout)

The massive slogan and "Learn More" button are really just wasted space, make them smaller to leave more room for the videos

Here's the wireframe link
https://wireframe.cc/F5T58B
Primary argument against plugins is that they have to be remade for every platform. See: the iPhone not having Flash.
Learning the Meaning of Words
Moduler - View nodejs Dependency Graphs in d3
Originally you said "Some scholars maybe." Then you backpedalled to "10% of people." A bit of a difference.

Everything you're saying now is obvious, which is why I asked why you're bothering to make this point. It seems like you're just being argumentative for no reason.
I've written a good number of Meteor sites/packages (including https://atmosphere.meteor.com/package/z-mongo-admin) and I'm in love. For a personal project, I switched midway from Flask/Backbone to Meteor and rebuilt everything from scratch within a few hours. It was very eye-opening not to have to worry about concurrency, re-rendering, and page refreshes. Admittedly, I haven't played around with Derby nearly as much (only went through a few tutorials), but the community behind Meteor is amazing.
If you consider how much value craigslist creates, its so much more than $5B. Everyone who wasn't willing to pay for a newspaper ad plus the people that were add up to a lot of benefit. Its a ton of value. It doesn't go into GDP. But its still real value.
This was my experience - it's cool because it's novel, but playing a game for longer than 5 minutes really hurts my hands from holding them in awkward positions. At the end of the day I'll always want to stick with my mouse and keyboard.
I guess you may have just woken up from a coma that started in the late 90s.. in any case, Windows security is vastly improved in recent years, and even if it weren't, remote DoS against a hugely deployed OS in a kernel driver in the default install is still very noteworthy.
when did the straight of Taiwan stop being a nuclear tipping point?

Ah, good old theory, it's always more reliable than practise!
At what point do we stop? Is a 4K desktop monitor 'retina'?
Doubt it would have much impact. People will simply find new ways to distract themselves.
You know, I guess you're right. I was off base with this comment - I tried to be more neutral and less critical in my top level comment to pg. But yeah, I concede. I see your point.
I believe Google switched everyone over to the new compose a few days ago. If you click the little triangle in the bottom left of the compose window, to the right of the garbage can, you'll see an option to default to full screen. I think that's as close as you'll get to the old compose experience.
No, vulnerability in Windows allows Denial of Service. This isn't a protocol flaw in ICMPv6.
Maybe the author made the whole thing up?
How Orange Is the New Black became Netflix's best series
A judge isn't stupid. They'll see through any trickery that has the result of disclosing the NSL. If you have to lie to avoid disclosing, the law requires that you lie.
Not The Onion, but, maybe, with some luck and careful nurturing, it'll take root.
Your technical note is only true for signed integers and unsigned integers are usually the correct types for such counting loops.
$241,080 is the average cost to raise a child born in 2012
Dumb question: after completing the test, I didn't see "soundfocus autotuned" (or whatever) as an EQ option. Not sure if it is automatically applied and then you pick additional EQ settings to go on top of it, or what. Hope that makes sense
"He gazed up at the enormous face. Forty years it had taken him to learn what kind of smile was hidden beneath the dark moustache. O cruel, needless misunderstanding! O stubborn, self-willed exile from the loving breast! Two gin-scented tears trickled down the sides of his nose. But it was all right, everything was all right, the struggle was finished. He had won the victory over himself. He loved Big Brother."
Could it simply be that they are more likely to found startups? (which would not necessarily imply that they are more successful entrepreneurs but instead that they are more likely to become entrepreneurs)
Did they check CEOs, too?
Thanks for the critique. Shortform doesn't give me anything to work with really, so I'm cutting it out completely and using something else. I saved your diagram, and I m moving around a lot of stuff right now thanks for your time :)
> I'll just make two requests for the same information and clip it where they differ.

So, byte 0? You're not really using ECB, are you?
Same thing with every browser. IE, Firefox, Chrome all push security updates monthly now.
LOL. You're not looking for an Office product from Apple then. And I say that as a happy buyer of Apple products, but come on. Emulating old school products and putting finesse above functionality? What else did you expect?
Using http://isthisretina.com/ (handy) it looks like the Seiki 50 inch 4k monitor becomes 'retina' at 99cm and the 31.5-inch Asus PQ321 at 64cm..

Personally I sit about 60cm away from my monitor and 50 inch is probably too big for me.. I don't want to strain my neck. :)
It's hard to envision a conflict where the A-10's advantages over the F-35 are dispositive, given that there aren't divisions of Warsaw Pact T80s massed on the German border any more.
This is a very short-sighted view. Where do you think all those syndicated stories that fill every online news site actually come from?
Perhaps they aren't as concentrated as Iranians are?
I thought it looked odd too, but then again all the stuff on his uniform looks kind of 'shopped too.
100% agreed. I'm a very savvy Internet user (I thought?) and I still don't really understand what they do/offer. At one point I thought it was just an "open" version of Twitter, but that seems to have changed now (or has it?)

It feels very much like "insiders solving very specific problems for other insiders" ... maybe insider isn't the right word, but my sense is they were born from frustrations with changes in the way Twitter handled the ecosystem ... i.e. 3rd party clients. So they said ok, we're going to build our own system that isn't trying going to restrict 3rd party clients.

So I (think) I get what they are on the periphery, but I still don't get the core product.

I'm sure it's good though - or at least good in spirit. Would love to hear more.

Can someone do an 'explain app.net to me like i'm 5 and have never used the internet'...?
Let me make up some crazy conspiracy theory and see how close it comes to the official narrative:

Three letter agency hacks NYT servers. Servers go down. Official story is going to be that some super skilled Chinese hackers attacked the NYT.

End result: More cyber defense budget and getting journalists "feel" the "threat".
I can second this. Working out at Gym, lifting heavy weights not only givens you that winding down effect but has a positive impact on productivity as well.
My GF and I quit drinking for four months once and it totally changed our lives. All the haziness disappeared, and so did our desire to get senselessly smashed. Everything, literally, improved in our lives --work, school, focus, our relationship: everything.
In the bottom left, there is an on/off toggle if that helps.
People who don't know javascript.
Interns aren't employees and aren't allowed to do things that generate income.
Load test with parallel:

cat urls | parallel --jobs 4 --load 6 'curl -s -w "%{time_total}\n" -o /dev/null {}'
Actually, most papers, including the one I work, will run a basic obit without charging you a dime. It's only when you want extended text or pictures or fancy fonts that it costs a dime.
I don't understand what your GPL comment has to do with this situation at all. Nobody is even talking about modifying blender in the first place, let alone improving it in ways that could be contributed back, let alone would they have any reason not to contribute back.

This is just asking the blender community what they think about some distribution and upload scripts.
I clicked on it thinking that blender technology might have come into the 20th Century...
Why pay when you can get high quality labor for free?
Wow, this implies that he's smarter than he behaves in the parts he plays. We need more of this in the media. More people generally need to be "REAL" and let the younger generation know they should strive to be better for not just themselves but the world they live in in general.
"Why would you go ask a consulate when this info has been on the web for ages."

Well my thinking at the time was because I found their website (at the time) to be a maze of legaleze and the consulate was two blocks away from my current workplace, while the closest embassy is a five hour drive away.
It was both a pleasure and a pain for me to read about this! Pleasure - because a language with closures is finally getting "closer to the metal" (even if it means an abstraction layer sitting in between). Pain - because that language is not a Scheme/LisP!

This would be so much cooler if I could tap into an REPL remotely and blink out a Morse code on the LEDs :)

PS: I have no idea what makes most of us go "cool!" whenever some form of remote control of a hardware device is presented :)
Are the firing concentrated in USA?
Don't you forget that Arduino is C++.
A New Approach to Information Storage
If unpaid, paid interns can do work that generate income.
Would you use a software like MSN nowadays?
I know about existence to social networks widely used in almost all kind of user in the planet. But some of them use not why they want/like, but because they need to. To speak to someone that is communicable only by this means. I'm one of them. We like to log-in by using a software and send some message and perform a communication. Seen the blinking task bar when some message is answered. Without all those imagens, mensagens, videos and ad what you don't wanted put the your eyes. Nobody filtering your mensagens, getting your words space location to better suggest your an ad or something like this. Spam.

So, what about? I will appreciate very much your comments. Even if answer is no. :)

Thanks in advance.
...that depends on the license.

But I'm only here to clarify the very important point about who owns the hardware in question, not to call either license better.
Great news. I'm almost surprised this hasn't occurred sooner. Blender is used all the time in the item and mapmaking community.
I filed a bug report that my default GitHub avatar was not found - Apparently it was an issue with broken profile images, and they fixed it with these identicons.
Yup, over 10 million dollars paid out for TF2 items as of June apparently: http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=10843
In many cases, yes. You cannot have an intern do any activity that would normally fall to a paid worker, if the intern is unpaid. Many companies do have internship programs where they pay interns, and are allowed to do proper work.
At the same time, I can't help but grin that we on the
CS side find a way to erase all the gains in performance
and efficiency as soon as the EE guys make them.

Here is one way I can think of - add a layer to run a subset of Scheme on this :)
people generally pay the sminimum they must. rarely is there an exception. I respect those who are responsible for the exceptions, especially those who do it with conviction.
But why would she seek an intern at all? Why not hire someone?
this is not really a tech article, its more of a fanboy article

Blog author here. I wasn't trying to go into technical detail; I was just commenting on how much of a non-event Linux viruses are compared to Windows ones (and, to a lesser extent, OS X ones).

When he says "all other operating systems"

I didn't say "all other operating systems"; the only ones I mentioned other than Linux were Windows and OS X. In terms of desktop users, that basically is "all other operating systems", but I realize that's not true in other areas of computing, and I certainly wasn't trying to imply that, for example, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, etc. have more virus problems than Linux does. I was only talking about the systems I specifically mentioned.

most of the statement is basically untrue...

Not sure what this is referring to; perhaps the above will help clarify what I meant.
Would you mind citing the law?
Many companies do this, when they're about the bottom dollar. IE. her company is caustic and grimy, the status quo (sorry to say.)
Someone said once "If it CAN be developed in Javascript, eventually it WILL be developed in javascript"
In my opinion this whole thing doesn't work because renewable energy is still for many some sort of hippie talk.

If it were about become-independent-and-never-pay-electric-bills again there would be potential for a much wider adoption. But the save the whales perspective just doesn't work especially for many in the single-home-owner areas.
You also need 1) the resources to survive some bad outcomes early and 2) the profile of an otherwise low-risk person, which helps mitigate a lot of close calls and a few additional bad outcomes.

Those are what poor kids don't have.
Sorry, I googled your launch date, saw some TC posts from 2012 and didn't know you guys were doing beta before that.

Can't edit it anymore...
Had the pleasure to try it out last week and I found it incredibly easy to get things up and running. I think it has a lot of potential. Excited to see where this goes.
Give me a break. How many big corporations have unpaid internships? Yes, it sucks that not everyone is in a position to accept unpaid internships. But pointing fingers at Sheryl Sandberg because her company is doing the same as an untold number of others is disingenuous.
How exactly does the money back guarantee work? After a developer does all the work for a project, the project owner can just say he's not happy with it and wants a refund? There must be some safeguards in place to prevent abuse...
Newspapers forfeit $5 billion badly needed dollars to Craigslist by totally failing to notice how bad they were at their jobs, and how technology has changed information delivery. Continue to insist upon sending patrons pounds of waste paper every month.
That's a good point. If you look at the whole bell curve (and we're surely talking about primarily males on both ends), it's more males at the top and the bottom. Why? Higher variability thanks to imbalanced genetics (Y =! X).

The upshot is the women have more in the middle. "Where have all the good men gone?" They were never there, my dear.
nyar should have specified "unpaid interns":

http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.htm
I'm amazed too, considering how I often have to squeeze lots of performance out of my sub-100MHz Cortex-M3 micros, even when I'm using C++.
Thanks - I figured it out. There was a brief message on playback start that I must have missed a few times which let me know soundfocus was unavailable due to DRM. The bottom left icon says "---- DRM" in that case so until I saw the message I didn't know what I was missing