skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
My point is that they tend to be penny-wise and pound-foolish. Killing an idea like 20% time because it'll save money in the short term while destroying a culture of innovation that can lead to gains in the future is precisely what I meant by "soul crushing."
Random Forest: Per prediction confidence
Eh, I don't think they said that at all, and that doesn't make sense anyway. They would need to add an extra 3D model or two obviously, so sure, that's a bit more work, but in the big scheme of things it's very straightforward. By "modeling and movement" algorithms, I assume you mean animations, and I don't see any reason at all that they couldn't just use the same skeleton as the male characters, which negates the need for new animation work.

I'm not sure what the point of your second statement actually is, but I disagree with that too lol. I feel like you're making the easy parts sound very difficult and then completely trivializing the part that's actually a lot of work.
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I was going to tell you that "the countries this phone is targeted at don't even have 4G". But what do you know: Russia, India, Brazil, all have 4G networks [1]. That's really impressive...

[1] http://www.worldtimezone.com/4g.html
I agree that it was abusive of Bukowski to kick her. 100%. That's doesn't mean that he kicked her because, "he thought it was funny to kick women". I think it's clear from the video that he kicked her because he was upset that she was cheating on him. I think he was entitled to be upset, but not entitled to kick her.
...when you see it.
If "the user" is compiling code then yes, that is a dependency for them or their package manager/ports system to track. However many times the user installs a binary and never needs the source.

The other thing, I think this highlights one difference between C programmers and others, and maybe explains our disagreement. People coding in C often care a lot about the object code. It's not all that uncommon to look at the assembly and question what your compiled has done and make tweaks to get the binary looking better. Hence the disconnect between me saying runtime dependencies are the most important thing and you saying you don't want to install autotools to build. To me the latter complaint comes from a completely different planet.
Hey Jon. Thanks for reading the article & posting a comment. Interesting question.

I haven't and I feel that it could get a bit more akward, if you haven't established some sort of connection first.

Another reason against it might be that if the other person blanks out, you don't know enough about him to fill the void. In the example I've given with Matthew, when he blanked I knew enough about him and his endeavour (writing a book) to come up with a few ideas how he could do research for his book.

On the other hand, asking this upfront sets the tone for the entire meeting. That is also a great benefit.

tl;dr: I might have to A/B test this - right?
Thanks. I understand the premise now, but I think the copy needs some work so people will better understand what they're buying.
I guess that conclusion would depend on whether the upper managers expected to better off (a) by staying at the same company for life or (b) by pumping the short-term returns and then using them as a shortcut to a better position at some other company, where the long-term consequences won't be felt.
Good marketing is often context-based. There's a reason all of the shots show a person's arms, a computer, and a cup of coffee. They want you to imagine yourself using the product in an ideal setting. Should they demo it on a couch in a messy apartment, or in a drab office with florescent lighting?

This is why when you see ads for Porsche's and Mercedes, they are parked on a brick-covered street in Soho or a huge mansion with a circular driveway, instead of parked at a red light on a dirty street or in gridlock traffic, which is where they will most likely end up.
9K LOC (not including comments) may not be "large" but it is quite sizeable and in a framework like Angular, probably does quite a bit.

For comparison, I work on a Backbone.js app that has the following distribution.

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Language files blank comment code
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Javascript 282 4348 7356 27860
CoffeeScript 336 4953 1687 17939

Obviously Backbone.js has much less "batteries" included.

The tips in the article were good and well thought out. I appreciate the effort the author made.
No need for a Chrome extension.

Just block the /ajax/mercury/mark_seen.php, change_read_status.php and /ajax/messaging/typ.php URL's via your firewall ruleset.

The utility of a kernel space firewall is not limited to Facebook privacy. It's very easy to stop mobile apps from "phoning home" using such a firewall. Could users find this desirable?

Maybe there's a market for a pre-configured firewall you can carry in your pocket? Think small PCB (say, RaspberryPi or something that could fit in an Altoids tin) as a headless wifi gateway/firewall for your branded, infinitely functional, graphical mobile device.

It might sit between the user's mobile device and the wifi access point and redirect certain IP addresses (e.g., those for www.facebook.com) to a proxy listening on localhost. The proxy can perform Layer 7 filtering.

tcpdump/ngrep running on the PCB could show the user what apps are phoning home. The user could then choose to add them to the firewall.

Internet service subscribers with modest technical know-how routinely configure and run wifi routers in their homes. Or someone does the config and setup for them. Running a similar "router" in your pocket is not unfathomable.

Does privacy have value?
Nice to meet you! There's always one that slips through the net ;-)
The Tizen with no announced devices and proprietary SDK? No thanks, I rather place my trust on Mer/Nemo.
You'll sound just like a telemarketing attendant. As mentioned, it's interesting to chat first and only mention it when it's meant.
On the basis of his writing, this can only disparage the significance of IQ testing, as though any more disparagement of that practice is needed.

BTW the "top 0.1%" figure translates to those with IQs at or above about 146, assuming the usual suspects, i.e. mean 100, sigma 15.
Introducing FuzzDB
> I think it's ridiculous that he gets charged with murder and other people who commit similar offences, which by nothing more than luck happen not to kill people, don't.

I, on the other hand, don't think its ridiculous that homicide is, in fact, an element of the offense of murder.

> If intent's what matters then you've got to be consistent in that regard.

Intent isn't "what matters" in the sense of "the only thing that matters". Both the mental state and prohibited substantive act/result of a crime are parts of "what matters."
What Happens in Ad Ops / Ad Tech
Thanks for the cupcakes.
Let's face it, its the next best (and more culturally acceptable) pictorial setting compared to your product appearing in-front of a scantily clad porn star... bringing you your coffee.
I like it a lot. I eat about 10 meals a week there, have lost about 25 pounds, and I hate going out to restaurants because you have to pay and the food isn't as good.
Dynamic Typing and Risk Homeostasis
Disappointment in the HN community has reached a new high today.

So, instead of discussing the topics in the video, the majority of commenters here are discussing the flaws of the website it's hosted on or debating whether or not reddit is profitable. Neither of which has ANYTHING to do with scaling.

I expected better, people. Seriously.
How to Best Get Traffic for Your App with Facebook Ads
Software Sins of Omission
I think doing this as an opener could come across as arrogant. Especially if your just another bootstrapper at a networking event.

I would rather start a conversation first and see where it goes. Listen and ask questions.
I find it funny that you find the lack of upper-case letters makes it difficult to read, when you missed have the words you should have capitalized in your comment.
I've been using fish for a while now. Overall it's pretty great.

Here's my fish config if you want to see an example: https://bitbucket.org/sjl/dotfiles/src/tip/fish/config.fish
Great article but 9K lines of code isn't that large, it is probably medium size.

For example, http://Clara.io, our 3D design as a service offering, is already 52K LOC in just our core and that excludes the 30K LOC of external libraries.
OpenStack's next step: Building a solid core
I like auto-complete in web-browsers, but I can't see a single use for it in my terminals.
After all, what Linux-user hasn't automated their terminal input to some degree? Nah, I'll stick with my [TAB]...
Vooza should spoof it and have the dev knock the coffee onto the laptop destroying their entire prototype.
Because it apparently lulls some people into thinking they have done something meaningful.

And this is worse than not even wanting to do something meaningful, or anything at all? Nonense.

Talking about it endlessly here accomplishes two things: jack, and shit.

Talking about it "endlessly" is just another strawman, right now we're talking about discussing it at all, vs. discussing it not at all, because realizing in what belly people live is not interesting enough for some.pond.

If talk achieved nothing, corrupt authority throughout history including today, wouldn't be so fucking terrified of it, they would dare to shut up for a second, and let the "narrative" unfold itself, instead of being dictated. The emperor is naked, and collectively realizing that is not only half the battle, it's 90%. Unless you're suggesting to go off and just assassinate people, which would backfire, I don't see what one could do without talking about it: Before anything can be done, people need to be aware, and once they're aware, what will be done will also depend on them.
You say "UC Davis," Google Maps' algorithm says "pepper spray"
Blend.io: A Peek Into The Future Of Music Project Collaboration?
Bionic fashion: Wearable tech that will turn man into machine by 2015
What for, beside fetishistic reasons? (and those, ALREADY have this technology... sex technology advance faster than many people can imagine)
I think that the endless stream of stories about websites shutting down and deleting all user content has made it clear to HN users that clearing a profit is pretty important.
Same for me, too. Also disable Vimium if you have RES installed.
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Debian, and I keep wondering to myself why I didn't switch much sooner.

The lack of any integration with a specific desktop environment, and having pure GNU and Linux underneath a pure DE is something that is really quite satisfying. It gives you modularity and customizability without having anything break or feel out of place; something that often happened to me while switching DEs in Ubuntu.

It really has been the benchmark for all free software so far. And the Toy-Story themed releases are a nice touch.

Happy birthday, Debian.
Please share what you found out. What characteristics of Debian make it a better server OS than Ubuntu or CentOS?
Though, the contract you have with TCP , is between TCP at your end and the TCP at the peer, not that it also have delivered the data to the application of the peer.

If the peer crashes just as it read() the data, but didn't process it, it will look just as a normal clean close on the sender machine if there arn't more data laying around in the TCP buffers.
For example the move to relational databases to NoSQL could mean unlearning some concepts you swear by, and starting from a clean slate.
> I don't buy it. If 'painful barriers' were a good thing, you'd see the world's best capitalists in North Korea and Cuba, no?

You wouldn't expect that, because there are high barriers to starting successful companies there, and few that would want to go there to start companies.

What he is suggesting is that, GIVEN that there's a lot of people that want to move to the US to work or start businesses, it is possible that the barrier to immigrate legally serves as a filter so that those who make it through are people who are more likely than the average of those who would like to immigrate to the US to be successful.

If that is the case, then by increasing immigration, you might not increase the amount of successful businesses nearly as much as you might hope.
Ah, so obvious now. Thanks.
I work for a company that adopted 20% time a few years ago and the 120% time is true here as well. It probably works out to 110% time in our case, I can typically take a half day during the week and then nights & weekends. Really, I think the final paragraph is true anywhere. Every company has some cool data or infrastructure to play with and smart management encourages that hacking in a sensible fashion.
Google Now: http://memeburn.com/2013/03/from-a-20-project-to-googles-fut...

If IO 13 is to be believed its become an essential pillar of their current vision/roadmap for search (Answer, Converse, Anticipate).
A someone who has been responsible for Ad Tech in addition to Engineering - this site brings me endless joy.
Massive SWAT Raid Seizes Organic Okra
I had this idea in my mind as well.

Could you support a feature that hides all information on the calendar except times? I don't want my appointment makers to know my life story.
The Buddhists wouldn't disagree, they would agree and state that it is an axiom of their philosophy. The whole point of Buddhism is that people want more than they need and that it offers a way out.
I hope HN isn't getting large enough that we start to see more infographics like this.
Well, the post pointed the obvious, which is not an easy thing to do. Networking meetings are actually a good place to know investors more than other entrepreneurs.

I have been to some of them and I honestly can't remember more than 5 names that interested me. On the other hand, talking to the people who was there to put their money on random projects is a much more meaningful chat.

Personally, whenever someone asks me recommendations to fill a vacant position on a company I don't bet on 99% of the people I know. The other 1%, those who I know are genuinely good, I tend to keep in contact, even if its to drink a beer after work, just to know what's up with them and what's on their minds lately. That's called making friends.
47 Startup Bloggers....And Counting (An e-book)
I'm not even going to bother reading this article. What the hell does "Gen Y" have to do with anything? Have there been big whistleblowers in the past? Yes, of course, some of them extremely big. The Pentagon Papers being an excellent example.

Indeed, here's a list of major whistleblowers in relatively recent history (20th century): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_whistleblowers

Keeping in mind the bias of any historical list toward the present, I don't see any evidence in this list which indicates "Generation Y" is somehow different in its ability or tendency toward whistleblowing.
Can this be used as a wifi device without the cell plan?
Great advice, but not a new idea:

"Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit, but in humility count others more
significant than yourselves. Let each of you look not only to his own interests,
but also to the interests of others" - Philippians 2:3-4
http://d1snlc0orfrhj.cloudfront.net/presentations/13-jul-sca...
Interesting! One thing that I don't understand (which might be a little off-topic): If it's an RPC call, shouldn't there be a response for each RPC request to ack that the RPC request is well processed by the application layer? Otherwise how do you make sure the application layer won't screw up? How do you notify the client that the request is not invalid?
What Happens When You Abolish Tipping
Death threats are more numerous and less threatening than they seem. It's terrible to be regularly threatened by anonymous people but the fact is, any 12 yr old with an internet connection and a phone line can send/call in a threatening message. The likelihood of it being carried out, however, is slim to none. Few people would be willing to take the lives of children, and then face jail time, for the sake of a video game they don't like. As far as law enforcement goes, resources are limited and they can legally only do so much.
ISS Spacewalk (Live)
I'm in the Gen Y bucket and I refer to people born in the mid to late 1980s until the mid 1990s as Gen Y. I'm not sure if this range is appropriate or the standard.

I've made the distinction between Gen Y and the Millennial as "people who remember a time before computers were so ubiquitous" vs "people who have always lived entrenched in technology".
I've gone on about this elsewhere (search my comments), but it comes down to the utter stupidity of blind allocation for experienced engineers. There were projects that literally needed my exact skill set, and engineers on those teams did their best to try and open up a position for me on them, but middle-level management and HR blocked all their efforts.

I could have stayed a year and hoped for the best, but by then I suspect I would have been so embittered that I would have become the embodiment of a bad culture fit so I left before that happened because I had a great opportunity dropped right into my lap.

Now I suspect I am blacklisted at Google because a few people have tried to get me rehired now that such openings exist and they were immediately shut down by HR.

Whatever...
I thought that too, but then I found the ZTE Tania, for £69.99, same seller as the Open. It's a Windows Phone, but it's got a faster CPU, 800 x 480 screen, 217ppi (vs. 480 x 320 on the Open), bigger battery, more flash. No micro-SD slot though.

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Brand-New-Unlocked-ZTE-Tania-Windo...

Comparison: http://www.gsmarena.com/compare.php3?idPhone1=5320&idPhone2=...
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Consumer 3D Printing has a Twitter Problem
PyCon, RubyConf, UseR ... why no C conference?
I think the answer is, C programmers are too busy writing actual programs.

PS only partially trolling ;)

but seriously, why do you think this is the case?
The first Debian "release" I installed was called "Slink-and-a-half." It was Slink with some important Potato packages backported by VA Linux.

I quickly upgraded it using dist-upgrade to unstable, which was potato at the time (testing didn't exist yet).
PS I know about http://www.cconf.org but it was cancelled ...
Funny, when I saw the title, that was my first thought.

But the deeper, better first question is "What are you working on?" Give them a chance to make their elevator pitch, then start asking questions. There's a good chance the "How can I help you?" can turn into "I think I could help you with ${PROBLEM}..."

But to get there, you need to figure out what their pain points are, and what you can actually do about them. This is no different than figuring out your own customers, really.

And the step beyond this is to actually do something that really helps them. Because if you can truly help someone, you'll make a lasting impression, something that they will want to pay back, with interest.
"The subject later reported that he could feel and hear the air leaking out, and his last conscious memory was of the water on his tongue beginning to boil"

Can someone explain the boiling water on his tongue?
I updated the "How does this work?" question on the page

I hope it is more understandable now. If not just ask.
The folks working on the components are going to be incorporating all this feedback and reporting going forward. Everyone is encouraged to file bugs with the repo here: https://github.com/mozilla/brick/issues

Just an FYI - Mozilla will be employing this highly technical problem resolution strategy to ensure a high level of quality prior to official release: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yo3uxqwTxk0
I think that when it comes to an idea one truly believes in, even if one is not inclined towards running a company, one is likely to give it a shot anyway.

I can see where that would be true for some people, but I doubt it's universally true. And it may even be that it just makes more sense to do the idea inside Google than doing it independently anyway. Again, look at the resources and infrastructure Google already have assembled.

And some people may have just bought into the Google mission / vision / whatever, and / or just feel a sense of loyalty to GOOG.

Anyway, I don't mean to suggest that it never makes sense to quit and do your own thing. I mean, hell, I probably would, as far as that goes. I'm just saying that there are some legitimate reasons why some people might prefer to just work within Google than quit and run off to start a new business of their own.
I don't see an email?
57 comments into this thread and not one mention of the string "baseband".

Surprising, as that is far and away the most interesting thing that could happen in this space, and it continues to not happen.

Depending on the phone and the implementation of the baseband firmware, your carrier could have as deep as DMA access to that computer in your hand.

Osmocom is interesting, but it is 2G only, works (almost) exclusively on euro-GSM handsets, and is barely making calls at this point.

This (the op) is all very interesting, but all that matters is getting an open baseband firmware that you can protect from the carrier.
You are not e. e. cummings. Use proper capitalization.
The end of "Total Recall" ruined "Total Recall".
And keep in mind that simply asking them what they're working on is a favor, at the bootstrapping level. It gives them a chance to make (and refine) their pitch, and talk about the thing they really, really love.
Sure, but people 100 years ago all lived like kings compared to kings 100.000 years ago. Poverty is a relative thing, IMHO.

Yes, a lot of the workers seemed poor, but they were nowhere near living in the same conditions as the poor 50 or 100 years ago.

Were they working for "a big flat screen TV and a new car"?
But it will go up...

How much to hope for is not really all that important, the fact is that with 0 immigration there are no immigrant founders and with lots of immigration there will be more of them.

Therefore increasing the number of immigrants will lead to a higher number of immigrant founders. Barriers are silly and counterproductive.
Why is this interesting when we have zsh?

https://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh?source=cc
Agreed. That's the best solution to this kind of trolling.
thanks for the insight. i did not have much to do with Go. But hear a lot of positive benchmarks here on HN. Reddit is kind of like an example social web app, and I read a lot on its architectural changes and scaling efforts. So for social Web 2.0 apps, which are getting older now, I m curious how much Go would make a difference. Mainly for Google applications, apparently Go brings a lot of speed and performance on the same server.
Underlying Polymer's opinionated framework, there is a set of polyfills for the emerging Web Components standards - both Mozilla's X-Tag library and Polymer use these polyfills as the basis of their offerings.
Good luck to the guy, BlackBoard(the market leader in that segment) has a few patents and is willing to use them to kill competition.
Does your startup take public stances like this? It should.
It's important to take user feedback into account, but your software also needs to reflect some of your own core beliefs so that it has an identity.