skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's funny watching people poo-poo other's successes.

Spoiler: if you think reddit isn't revolutionary, or doesn't have a big moat... put your skills where your mouth is and make something better and more successful. "All it takes to beat reddit is..." really? Really?

It's easy for a layman to stand there and call reddit non-revolutionary. (Note: I call you a layman because you can't even write the business name 'reddit' correctly... Yeah I bet your an expert on the business ;) )

We're all waiting for the reddit killer. Been waiting almost a decade. Digg didn't last this long, and slashdot was never on top for this long.

Social networks turned over quickly until facebook, and link aggregators turned over quickly until reddit.

It's easy to downplay someone else's achievement without being able to replicate it or beat it yourself. Illusory superiority. I bet the people with huge experience in reddit's field will be much more hesitant to downplay it.
That's because the marketshare of ios on mobile systems (13,4% worldwide [1]) is not comparable with the marketshare of windows in pc systems (90% worldwide [2])

Microsoft windows is in a strong dominating position, ios not

[1] http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/screen-s...

[2] http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
I had a cheap place in the outer DC area for a while. 750 a month near a military base with >125k salary as a contractor.

I know some people very well off in Denver, CO as well.

Using public data(data.gov, enigma.io) you can find the areas that have the most positive trend in population weighted with average/median income and percent software jobs and/or locations of companies recently funded on crunchbase.

Might be best to start with a data set of cost of living and just apply functions to the ranking of the index depending on what matters more to you.
http://www.census.gov/compendia/statab/cats/prices/consumer_...

Good Luck!
You're probably onto a good future (startup?) idea.

I could also see a startup doing some kind of glass thing for career counseling, to give the real story.

I've watched a couple kind of cheesy Mt Everest documentaries. I would pay some $ to defer expenses for the unfiltered experience of a real live mountain climber. Maybe not a huge amount but certainly in the range of pay per view. Please, no soundtrack, no voiceover narrator, no team of yelling sportscaster personalities. Kind of like the difference between watching a sports event on TV and being there watching live. Or like the difference between Japan Ninja Warrior which was cool and USA American Ninja Warrior which is intolerable.
I don't know about how affective the ad will be for sales, but, from a purely aesthetic point of view, I love how abstract most of the imagery is. Almost every shot is made up of only a few lines or gradients. Someone had a lot of fun with those renderings.
Canon Debuts Its First 'Facebook Ready' Camera
> "Fortunately having an unchallenging job can provide lots of time and energy for research and side projects that can lead to jumping into more interesting work."

That's not always true.

It only works if the job is both easy and coming at a low enough pace that you can do it in a couple of hours and forget about it.

However, when the amount of work itself is overwhelming and the job is unchallenging, it works out the other way: it sweeps all your energy and leaves you burnt out at the end of the day. You get home and all you want to do is drink a couple of beers and watch a TV series until you're sleepy enough that you can go to bed and fall asleep, getting just enough sleep to be ready for more bullshit the next day.
The first link I clicked on in the list was dead. Admittedly I found the pdf with a trivial bit of googling, but still annoying.
Idea: git push requests
>But hey, i'm not really happy with apple anymore either, so I am an equal-opportunity cynic.

I was going to say, pretty much all the major players are doing the same things you criticize Microsoft for. That said, while I'm happy that they backtracked on the Xbox One nonsense, the fact that they went there to begin with makes it clear that they would return to the same old Microsoft if they ever got the chance. How did they ever think those "features" were acceptable?
I don't think one is inherently superior to the other, it just depends on the data. If you have highly structured data for which integrity is mission-critical, you want to be using a RDBMS. If you have unstructured data for which throughput is mission-critical, you'll probably benefit from using a NoSQL system.
It didn't take a year for anyone to notice, it took a year until the investigation was finished and another fine was announced.

Concerning that Microsoft is a test-obsessed company, failing to test properly for an error that could cost you multiple millions is also a huge blunder. This was failing to live up to a legal oblication, not a mere bug.
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The username he used is "moot", the pseudonym of the long-anonymous Christopher Poole, the founder of 4chan, and privacy/anonymity advocate. Looking at his profile, he does appear to be the actual moot.
There's no chance at all that you completely could.

http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html

Ken Thompson, 1984, explains how to get a system with perfectly clean source code to compile a hacked 'login' binary every time.

"In demonstrating the possibility of this kind of attack, I picked on the C compiler. I could have picked on any program-handling program such as an assembler, a loader, or even hardware microcode. As the level of program gets lower, these bugs will be harder and harder to detect. A well installed microcode bug will be almost impossible to detect."
One general thing to keep in mind is that if you have a simple lifestyle it is better to maximize profit in an absolute sense over profit in a percentage sense since after doing so for awhile, you could move to a place with a lower cost of living / salary and your larger accumulated savings will go further.
Isn't this the same one that was shown at WWDC when the Mac Pro was introduced?
I saw Elysium on Monday and this was shown before the film. That's why they are calling it a trailer.
What is the evidence for the claim that this was an intentional move by Google rather than just them breaking an unpublished protocol?
In 2013 there are still people who think including a browser in your OS is optional, let alone some sort of evil conspiracy?
I stopped visiting medium.com. It is always perfect "HN bait" with fluff. I realised it was wasting my time.
I had very good luck living in Central Florida (Orlando) and working for a company based in Silicon Valley (Yahoo). I had a SV salary with Central Florida expenses. A telecommuting opportunity OR a satellite office opportunity gives the greatest ability to arbitrage cost of living vs salary.
Eric Schmidt - On Larry Ellison and his comments about Google
Don't visit this site on a mobile device. Something is terribly, terribly wrong. I just spent 10 minutes trying to get my phone back into a usable state. The page loads about a tenth then causes the browser to be unresponsive. Killing Safari multiple times didn't help and I even had to force restart 2x.
Bank of America adds someone to my account
Imagine my surprise when my wife logs into our 'secure' BofA online banking site and discover that (i) I am not longer on the account but that (ii) someone I have never heard of is now a named account holder.
Never fear, however, because when I reported this disturbing fact to BofA then assure me that they have people working on such account problems 9-5 Monday to Friday.
Good to know. I can now relax for the remainder of Sunday.
Not everyone is well suited to building a start up.
> or better yet MS, Apple and Co. who couldn't agree on one standard just for profit-reasons

Odd that the two companies you explicitly mention were just fine using h264 and didn't really stand to make money off the decision.
I dunno - I have about 15 years C++ experience, and if anything the better I have become at the language the less I like it...

Having said that any language with a GC is unlikely to supplant C++. I would have thought that anything that could get away with using GC is already not using C++. Ergo what will finally kill C++ in all its final domains is IMO some sort of better C. Maybe Rust, if they sort out their non-mandatory GC.
That's not quite what he is talking about. With the Pixel every single time you boot (not just when you initially put it into Developer Mode before installation) you are greeted with a nice big warning label about OS verification and you need to press Ctrl-L to kick it into SeaBIOS so that Grub can be kicked off.

It turns on and off as normal after installation, you just need to hit Ctrl-L mid-boot each time. I reboot infrequently enough that this hasn't annoyed me yet.
>You know, in theory this is true. In practice, I've been in this situation a couple of times in my career. And it sucked. Hard. It was soul crushing. It was depressing.

I'm in a similar boat. Not as bad as your experience sounds, but I would definitely consider it an unchallenging job that leaves me feeling more stressed than anything. I have lots of ideas I want to pursue in my free time, but I know that if I get involved in a project it will make time go by quicker and I'll just have to be back at work sooner. Everything I do in my off time is designed to make it feel as long as possible. I haven't read a book in months. Sometimes I don't even want to watch TV because it's too entertaining.

God damn that's depressing to write down.
Pretending this is just an American problem actually benefits the US because the info sharing deals will continue uncontested as participating countries are given a pass. Never mind those military bases in Germany or the five eyes. The West is intertwined, hell the whole world is, but deceive yourself if you like.
I live in San Antonio but work for a company in Boulder. Works pretty well for me.
> Anecdote: I recently learned that Facebook and Amazon have teams dedicated to rebooting crashed servers

That's a nice anecdote. I'd hate to think it was actually true. There is potential loss of data to think about as much as anything.
The EU request was not to not include any browser at all, it was about include many to give the chance, to the user, to chose the one he wants to use and bind it to the system, while microsoft wanted to force the adoption of ie also binding it strictly with the system (aka clicking a link on a textfile or a random program would open it on ie also if you set another browser as default on your system).
I thought about something similar, like a Chatroulette, but in the real world.

I imagine it would work like a restaurant, on entry you would get a list of people to pick from, with their backgrounds, and you could choose to join someone for a meal or wait for someone else to come. And vice versa, you could say which people do you want to join you.
coders for trading companies in Chicago are paid extremely well, and Chicago is awesome.
This is pretty awesome, but I think something that could PDF an html page would be much more valuable. Currently I have to use some wkhtmltopdf server-side trickery.
Instagram, vine, codecademy down right now
30. Supposedly way past my peak. Haven't felt it. Actually, it seems to be the reverse. When I was 10 years younger, I'd think I understood a topic with only a superficial knowledge. Now, I'm older and I'm better at learning, but I also know what I don't know.

My clock speed is probably 5 to 10% slower than at peak (mid-teens) and will probably slow by another ~2-5% each decade, but software quality keeps going up and, as you probably know, clock speed isn't the most important factor when it only varies by a few percent.
I thought the interesting line from the article was: "For employees and ex-employees, our biggest beef with Steve will probably turn out to be that he made a great, if sometimes brutal, place to work a lot less great. And that, particularly in the second half of his CEO tenure, it became a lot more brutal yet cruelly random in how it measured and rewarded employee contributions."

It is one of those situations that gets repeated at companies of every size. It was a fun place to work then someone did something and the fun stopped. The weird part is when it happens at places that are profitable.

It being "cruelly random" isn't really that uncommon either.
They reference Koushik Dutta in the sources. He believes it's intentional, see:
https://plus.google.com/110558071969009568835/posts/ZeHgRXS6...
First they came for the communists ...
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/28/us-embassy-cabl...

f3, DNA, enter.
There are a bunch of things, lets see whether I can summarize them:

(1) I dont want to be advertised to at all, if I want something - I will go looking.

(2) I dont want my browsing habits in the hands of third parties, they should be between me, the browser and the remote server. Its creepy.

(3) Targeted advertising doesn't work - having crossed the rubicon, invaded my privacy, tracked my habits and carefully curated the extensive data they have collected on me - they then advertise something to me that is almost, but not quite, exactly unlike anything I need or want to buy.

(BTW, 90% of the 'targeted' advertising isn't targeted at all, because limiting the number of people who see my ad based on my guess at their needs and preferences is just dumb. Its WAY better to advertise to everyone and let them sort it all out.)
> But he also voiced support for Chromecast's tab casting feature, which essentially gives users limitless viewing options so long as they're watching something in a Chrome browser.

I have not had a good experience with this. None of my personal media is in a format that Chrome will play let alone stream to Chromecast.
Good point and +1 for spinners. Anyway easier to implement most of the times.
Apple testing 64-bit ‘A7′ chips for iPhone 5S, 31% speed increase
I'm a professional split tester as well and the internet is so full of opinions and noise. Programmers have plenty of chances to learn by just downloading someone else's code. You can execute it and see that it works. In statistics, it's much more difficult. There needs to be a stronger emphasis on proving one's point using simulation.

Run something like this through 10,000 simulations and you'll start to see how the theory really gets applied.
if you're looking for interesting systems languages, clay looks good too: http://claylabs.com/clay/
I never saw anything obvious last time I was there.

CSIS HQ is a stone's throw from there, but that's probably unrelated.
His only evidence seemed to be that this was the second time it happened.
Significance isn't. Your split test is lying.
This is purely conjecture, they have no way of knowing if breaking changes were intentional.

Also: Any media that can be played in your browser can be played with Chromecast, Just start casting and go to "File:///C:/" and traverse your file system/find your media. Obviously this applies to your desktop, not your phone.
truecrypt isn't open source, its proprietary with published source.
Use PhantomJS to Create PDFs from HTML: https://coderwall.com/p/5vmo1g
No, as i remember it was another one
Tribal Workers
Parse.com is down (500)
Something like this what I think github needs. Github should complement developers working using the cli. (git-send-email, git-format-patch, git-am). I hope they concentrate on this soon.
What's really amazing about this language is that until only recently it has been developed solely by one person in his spare time no less. It is competing with the likes of Rust and Go which have pretty big companies behind them.
Well, Nimrod is built around type-infernce.
Most of the time you should just say "var thing = somethingStringy()".
Kinvey is down.
Github link is missing on that page. https://github.com/MrRio/jsPDF
I think the article text and headline has been changed! What's the name of that news article diff website?

This is what was at the link: http://uk.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/uk-usa-security-nsa...

Now it is this: http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/08/25/us-usa-security-ns...

EDIT: Newsdiff doesn't diff Reuters, I guess.
People put so much weight on leadership.

Microsoft when Balmer took over had one direction to go: down. It's reversion to the mean. Eventually a company is going to roll 7 on the craps table.

Unless Cook is extremely lucky and skilled, in 5 or 10 years people will say the same thing about Apple. Days of stagnation and decline will also visit Google and Facebook eventually.

I understand our fixation on leadership. It is super important. But as a thought experiment, I wonder if Steve Jobs was running Microsoft 2000-2010 instead of Steve Balmer, would Microsoft be in great condition today? Or were there already internal and external forces at play at that point that were trouble for Microsoft?

I guess the ultimate lesson is one you can learn from Bill Gates: quit while you're ahead.
That can easily be solved by paying attention.
There are a few places in Europe that you wouldn't be able to get to - the centres of some small villages, for example, or some smaller residential streets - but they're a definite minority. Don't forget we have buses and delivery trucks here, too!
Kitten, a statically typed, globally type-inferred, GC-less functional stack language, with opt-in layout-based syntax and an effect system to separate pure and impure operations.

Disclaimer: I wrote this; it’s nowhere near complete, but not bad to play around with. We’re working toward a release in a few weeks, to include some missing language features and a new x86_64 runtime.

https://github.com/evincarofautumn/kitten

http://kittenlang.org/
All kinds of things like this happen without court intervention. Don't pay your cable bill? No cable for you. Don't pay for your car? Repossessed. Don't pay your credit cards? They'll report you to the credit bureaus and you'll have a hard time getting any more credit.

Some products fall into a category where it's harder to take stuff away, like health care and housing, because that stuff is critical to life. I'm pretty sure that a web site falls solidly into the first category, though.
The killer app for broadcasting is live sporting events, and "events" ranging from nice peaceful music concert to unfortunately humanity will continue to have onsite news reports of disasters.

Locally radio is nothing but top-40, live sports, political propaganda, and infotainment "morning shows". TV is rapidly evolving toward the same point, now with pictures. If you search for "old time radio" you can find decades old mp3 files of radio dramas. Exactly the same topics on radio as are now on TV (action, drama, cop/lawyer/dr shows, etc) Broadcast TV is headed the same direction... inevitably someday you will see the last broadcast "cop show" as the whole genre moves to pay per view/youtube/itunes/whatever.

I'm not clear how marketer types will promote show release times. Download the new episode of "Barney Miller 2014" at 5pm EST today or whatever. There's probably a great startup opportunity in "handling" how new episodes are made available. Not just the technical side (thats all solved) but the economic / practical side. Maybe an auction where the highest bid class at a certain time gets it two hours before steerage but its free for everyone tomorrow.

Another peculiar, possibly unworkable startup idea is something like etsy for radio drama. Or a virtual network. Once it becomes retro enough to be cool, you'll have people lining up for it. There are individuals working in this field today, but the closest thing to a network or industry-wide scale effort is probably twit.tv and their audio versions.
But even when the complete page is reloaded in an ajax/pjax manner, the loading bar is out of the visibility area. If one scrolls through the recommended videos on YouTube and pick one which is in the middle or below the list, one will not directly recognize the loading bar - why not showing the status indicator in a more prominent place?
Well there is a bunch of standards aimed at this, already mentioned are EDI and cXML. But another very ambitious is Oasis' UBL. In Denmark and a few other european countries you basically have to support invoicing in UBL (Or more specifically the danish subset OIOUBL or scandinavian subset NESUBL) if you want to do business with government as it is a requirement.[1] In a transition-phase (which i don't know if still is ongoing) suppliers could send invoices to a "scanning agency" that would attempt to convert the invoice to OIOUBL and send on to the government institution.

This has pushed adoption of these things in Denmark quite a bit and we see a lot of big corporations demanding of their suppliers that they support these formats.

Edit:
[1] Previous to OIOUBL danish government had its own format called OIOXML: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OIOXML
You should read that book. Seriously. If you don't have fun at your job, and you're not having fun away from your job something needs to change. It's easier to have fun in the latter situation versus changing your job. Good luck my friend.
I have also maintained or architected two large JS applications (100k+ lines of javascript) in ExtJS, Knockout, Kendo and React and I couldn't imagine not having requirejs, for the benefits of enforcing modularity and sane dependency structure, just as much as the sane approach to an optimized build and the plugin system.

The pain point you describe is not a pain point for my team, and even if it was a pain point, it is perfectly possible to abstract the repetition[1], which you are of course aware of since you use Angular. FWIW, we have not felt the need to have any modules with 20 includes.

[1] http://www.dustingetz.com/2013/05/13/javascript-dependency-i...
I've used PrinceXML in the past and it worked well: http://www.princexml.com/
Thank you for the lead - looks good. I found this, which goes into a bit more details for the Rails folks (like me):

http://big-elephants.com/2012-12/pdf-rendering-with-phantomj...

Looks very promising. Open to suggestions if others have better PDF-generating solutions!
Dear everyone, please stop using C as a compile target. Thanks.
> "If you’re the smartest person in the room, you’re in the wrong room."

Corollary: every non-empty room has at least one person that is wrongly there.
> Microsoft was not punished for being big and successful.

Oddly, that's exactly wrong when you're talking about antitrust law. They were punished for being big and successful. The tactics and legal limitations on tactics involved are only relevant to a company large enough to affect the entire market.
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