skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
80% of Costco's profits comes from membership fees (source: http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-c... ), so Costco is less dependent on changes in buying patterns, and sells pretty much at cost. Unless consumers start canceling their memberships en masse, Costco won't be in deep trouble.

Wal-Mart's profits, I'd imagine, are entirely from markups, and a slight change in consumer behavior (higher prices on gas, higher unemployment numbers, smaller paychecks) makes them a volatile player.
I found the salacious comments fairly off putting, perhaps AllThingsD thinks the rebirth of ValleyWag is a competitor?

In general product management does what you might think of "brand management" and "design language" so if Android needed roundier iconography I expect Barra was the guy to sign off on that, or if Samsung was getting too aggressive in making it a "Galaxy" phone instead of an "Android" phone he might get involved in that. I don't have inside knowledge, its just the kinds of things that role does in tech companies. That is why I wouldn't expect to see any sort of explicit impact statements wrt to Android. Rubin leaving on the other hand suggested that Android was going to become less the lede and more the flavor. Google has spent a lot of effort on making "Chrome" a more inclusive brand than Android which I find fascinating from a strategy perspective.
This is some nasty, tabloid-esque "reporting". It shows little respect for Brin or his wife, regardless of what the situation is. I wish we could not promote or spread this kind of rubbish, as it's not healthy at all.
Sound advice. I blocked it from my laptop. I still get much value from a daily browse, but it's not a time filler. It grows.
nice article. Thanks for sharing
Drunken Carousing is another.
Even if they are related its not relevant, just low brow gossip.
Two uses of "over X" in the first 2 "insights" raises my marketing-speak/bias alarm. I'd prefer to see exact numbers. Or just leave out the adjective.

"Cumulatively, Kickstarter (KS) has over 110,000 campaigns..."

"KS ($612M) has successfully raised over 6 times more dollars than IGG ($98M)."
Safari crashes on 10.8.4 for me.
"When/if the network security team figures this out and
blocks it, I'll demonstrate a few other ways in which data
can be exfiltrated."

I loved this line.

He mentions blocking there, but given the technique, could forensics show that this has been used? For example, could some future whistleblower for a national security agency (ours or anyone else's for that matter) use this to exfiltrate files without risk of discovery after the fact?

Could an organization like wikileaks or the guardian use this as a technique for whistleblowers to leak files safely?
Does anyone have a reliable system for creating artificial deadlines?

There are no external constraints on my work. When one artificially arises, I get my best work done, quickly. It doesn't burn me out because a rest comes afterwards.

I have no idea how to replicate this urgency consistently.
Should I learn and switch to HTML5 or not?
20k is on the low side, but one should still consider their own income before having children, especially two.

I don't think people are concerned with the wage earners as much as they are about the welfare of their children when they say things like this.
Stanford NLP has most of what you'd need out of the box. NLTK is way more popular though.Keep in mind the licenses (GPL vs Apache for NLTK) unless you've already bought the commercial license for Stanford.

I've built my own full stack http://www.alchemyapi.com/ using UIMA[1] and cleartk as a base though.

The option of the different JVM scale out frameworks like akka,hadoop,storm etc have been amazing.

I would recommend NLTK for simpler tasks though.

We're working on an OSS Watson over at[3]:

that uses those components though. It's fairly easy to use different kinds of machine learning models for what you're looking for. Shoot me an email (in my profile) if you have any specific questions.

[1] http://uima.apache.org/
[2] http://cleartk.googlecode.com/
[3] https://github.com/SolrSherlock/
what is your job title at the unsexy business? manager of sales, VP of sales, programmer? choose one and move on. if the person asks for more info, they you tell them what you do, just leave out of the entrepreneur thing.
For a lot of foreigners in China like me, Xinhua/People's Daily/Chinadaily are notorious for holding biased views for China. This actually undermines its credibility compared with less biased media like NYTimes.
"You don’t need to know your seat number until you are on the plane"

Maybe on a hydroplane.
Actually this is just a confirmation of water already previously found. It's nothing super groundbreaking but very significant nevertheless.

It's also the fact that the moon isn't exotic enough for the media/masses.
Big Big Book introduces smart booking system with high end API
Another fact which is ignored in this "review" is the possibilities for tweaking and customization; e.g. switching the layout, pulling of key-caps, etc.
Android VP has left Google for Chinese smartphone maker Xiaomi
It can be fixed by sending the attack again, then deleting the entire chat history with the attacker. (According to a comment the report linked to.)
Thanks for mentioning Conkeror. I just installed it (on Windows) and am enjoying it very much. I keep my Emacs 80 characters wide so it takes up only half the screen. Now I have Conkeror taking up the other half and Alt-Tab between the two and I can do most things without touching the mouse. Having the two using common key maps really reduces mental strain!
Remove the stat part. You should be copying the URL from the text box, not the statistics url from the notification.
Could gifsockets be used to exfiltrate a file as well?

https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets
That's my point -- the HR monkey was a social scientist, and the fact that they were administering a test and getting a number out gave them the illusion that they were actually doing something scientific.

An actual scientist would have asked questions -- Do the test results correlate with performance? Is the test biased? What is the margin of error on the test? etc. -- and would very likely have come to the conclusion that the test should not be trusted as a reliable indicator.
Is Linux too dull and boring?
Domestic startups sparkle as Japan Inc. names fade
>>Did you notice the data point in the article that Costco makes $2 billion in membership revenue and yet makes $1.7 billion in profit, which means they effectively lose money on their sales?

I'm pretty sure the revenue isn't net. It would mean they have absurd retail margins on their members and negative ones on every other product sold; which doesn't make a lot of sense.

>>In fact, a little known feature of Costco's business model is their ability to sell all their stock well before their suppliers require payment for goods (Net 30)? This means they have an effectively _negative_ cash conversion cycle, or in other words, their suppliers are paying to stock their products.

That could just be their way of handling stocking fees. They handle a lot of merchandise they can't afford to stick into inventory.
>For the past several years I’ve spent most of my development time with C++11 in Xcode.

C++11 has been around since `past several years'!?
Raising Money = Leasing Your Soul
I've recently been learning all this the hard way.

1. Documented API. Failing that...

2. HTTP client fetching structured data (XHR calls). Failing that...

3. HTTP client fetching and scraping HTML documents. Failing that...

4. Headless browser

I recently found myself pushed to #4 to handle sites with over-complex JS or anti-automation techniques.
This is also a great strength of Android, IMO. Closed mobile OSes like iOS or WP8 don't give third party vendors the same opportunity to develop deep, system-level expertise that Android does. Everybody outside the parent company is essentially a software sharecropper with no real rights or understanding of internals.

So, as this balance of power shifts to Asia, it's going to be Android that reaps the benefits, not other platforms. Of course, it remains to be seen to what extent Google also benefits from this but at least they will have accomplished their goal of preventing a single company from locking down mobile and boxing their services out of that platform.
Semantic Search with Solr and Python Numpy
I don't know, seems pretty reasonable, Costco revenue is 105B. Walmart has >4x revenue, and 19m*4=76m, more than Walmart. Based on your comparison, Walmart is paying their executives fairly.
Confirming a significant amount of water on the moon could mean in-space fuel manufacturing and refueling, though!
Even LinkedIn looses, as they do get more noise in their data, so that their intel about you, their matching will become worse, when a lot of people are endorsed for things they do not like to highlight, or are endorsed by family even if the skills are not that "good"...

So everyone looses, even recruiters, as they get more false positives when searching for skills.

It is a short business-win for LinkedIn, but a long term loss.
Maybe not run dry, but there is much rent seeking by the patent trolls. This slows down innovation.
Kucinich says US war on Syria could become WWIII
In which The Verge further shits on the concept of journalism by rewriting the same story twice without writing either story for themselves.
Unfortunately, we didn't scrape any time information. Surprisingly enough, Indiegogo is actually the older crowdfunding platform, though I agree with you Kickstarter was certainly the early-mindshare-leader.

Judging from the live dollar amounts that we saw over time, Kickstarter is continuing to widen it's lead.
10 Foods Sold in the U.S. That Are Banned Elsewhere
> Walmart is in business relationships with more poor people than just its employees

"more" here refers to "a greater number than", not "poorer than"
Nazis, not aliens.
FYI:

http://www.cliki.net/VLM_on_Linux

http://www.ugcs.caltech.edu/~weel/lispm.php

http://thepiratebay.sx/torrent/3769989/Symbolics_Open_Genera...
I think the Emacs as OS feeling particularly rings true for those using Windows. It certainly makes Windows a lot more usable for me.

With dynamic languages the ability to run REPL inside an editor is also a huge plus. In Emacs the way you can interact with text is pretty much unlimited. For example, with the right modes you can pretty much free form evaluate any expression anywhere in the editor. One has to use it to experience the power.
Android Executive Hugo Barra Confirms Leaving Google for Xiaomi
>>I think that this guy is saying that Wal-Mart can't do what Costco does because it has more SKUs and thus a higher density of employees. But TJ's density is much higher still, and it pays like Costco does.

It isn't the density per se, it is the density of a a much larger store that doesn't have the margins that trader joes has. They are two fundamentally different business models. Retails stores targeted at upscale consumers can afford to spend on salaries to give the service that their customers want. Wal-Mart needs low prices and lots of products to satisfy theirs.
We compiled our numbers in this table https://docs.google.com/a/jonlau.me/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Aob.... Or you can check out the raw data at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AobjVQ7EKnjldGR...
Can Apple Succeed Without Jobs: Lessons From Billion-Dollar Entrepreneurs
that's because its more fun to work on that new 1000 lines, vs having to dredge thru old code to add the 1000 lines.
Does not crash Safari 6.0.4 (7536.29.13) on OSX 10.7.5 for me.
The Pomodoro Technique is a winner for quite a few of us.

Also reading up on perfectionism might be interesting (hint: it often doesn't end with a perfect result but it is always time consuming.) YMMW.
This argument only makes sense if you consider 100% of membership revenue to be profit with absolutely no associated costs. However, clearly Costco's customers would not be willing to pay $60 annual dues if there were no benefits.
Emacs is used as an operating system (interface), by blind users! Emacspeak adds speech syntheses and more to Emacs, and can do better than traditional screen readers in many ways due to being able to easily access the underlying lisp states easily.

My father has difficulty seeing, and spends most of his computer time within Emacs, occasionally switching to Gnome (for certain websites) or a speech enabled console.
Project OpenData Adds OpenData Implementation Guide
Indiegogo started in 2008 and Kickstarter was launched in 2009. Also, we saw from the live dollar amounts that Kickstarter was quickly expanding it's lead.
My ipad 2 from 2012 has a dead battery. Its not like ipad batteries lives forever.
Holy shit. I can't believe I just read that. I shall forever this moment as the one where HN jumped the shark. God damn.
I think the partitioning and replication stories with Postgres will have to get a lot less manual before there can be automatic sharding. It doesn't sound beyond the pale to me, but I wouldn't expect it in the next five years.
There are better alternatives to Zerocoin that don't require "adoption" because they don't change the protocol... in fact, they cannot be blocked:

See CoinJoin https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=279249.0
Pure CSS Slide Up and Slide Down
Ten things you need to know about the publishing process 
If there is one point that I’d most like you take away from this talk, it’s that the process of getting a paper published is a collaboration among authors, reviewers and editors.
Not if each person holds the key to their own vote. You can only verify your own vote with your key even though the results are public.

If you could verify everyone's vote, then you'd be correct.
Those sections are for different readers, though. And at least I rarely need to be told my name in case I forgot.
Not all tablets are iPads
I have never heard of a place where "mediocre devs" get siloed off as a normal way of operating a business. If you have under-performing engineers you should change your hiring and think about mentoring or exits for those you have already.
A Clean & Secure Open Source PHP Login Script
Usually with a platform you want to go with the flow. If the users use it in an unexpected manner - you learn from that and optimize for it. Instead they're fighting their users. It's admirable that they're sticking with their mission but it definitely leaves the door open for someone to leapfrog them.
Very true. However, Indiegogo has far more launched projects. We found that most revenue is generated from the top 10% of funded projects. Kickstarter owns this space.
Who Built the Syrian Electronic Army?
Yeah. It's not possible that components this year could be cheaper than the year before.

#sarcasm
Must Have CSS Tools for Designers
Hmm. I must have missed the part where he mentioned the higher cut when I first read his comment (or it has been edited since). I assumed he wasn't aware of the higher percentage.
That's true ：） Most Chinese don't trust them either. That's why Weibo/Forums/SNS come to act as new media.

As for traditional media, BBC has a good reputation in my circles.
Yeah, I use pomodoro. I'm thinking more of productivity over a 1-3 day period. Maybe I just need better default habits, when I use pomodoro consistently I'm very productive.

I don't think I'm a perfectionist, and agree it is to be avoided.
Is Firefox OS The Platform HTML5 Deserves?
Scrollbars: Evolution Gone Wrong?
I kind of like that quote in the sense of "don't let anyone hold you back" / "don't settle for what is already there".

OTOH it can easily come of as pretty arogant. What do you think about that?
This isn't entirely accurate. The shrinking of the middle class is accounted for entirely by movement into the upper-middle (and higher) income classes, and what you say about the lower class ignores per capita data.
Yes, Kickstarter does curate it's submissions and IGG does not. We weren't shocked by the success % but rather the large gap in money raised considering IGG has 4 times the amount of campaigns Kickstarter has
Apple Found Guilty of Fixing E-Book Prices
In case you missed it, there aren't any managers at Valve...
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3871463
http://www.valvesoftware.com/company/Valve_Handbook_LowRes.p...
Ultimate Guide To Detecting AdBlock
Canonical looking to tap Dell to promote Chinese version of Ubuntu OS
HTML5 now neck and neck with native apps for developer love
In fairness, program files, templates, docs, settings, and examples on Windows are often in some mix of

C:/Program Files (x86)/VendorName/FooProg
C:/Users/Me/AppData/Local/FooProg
C:/Users/Me/My Documents/FooProg/
C:/VendorName/FooProg (I'm looking at you, AMD)
The registry (which is sorta like /etc, and often abused to store stuff like recent searches, etc)

Linux is definitely worse on that front I agree, but let's not pretend Windows is super-consistent about file locations. I only say this after much frustration recently trying to find things.
Show HN: shortcuts for developers - devs.info
Responsive design for Authentication
Additionally, the second and third "date display type" are not common at all (to the point that they seem made-up). For common date formats check CLDR data: http://st.unicode.org/cldr-apps/v#/en/Gregorian/562f98c4c6b2...

Obviously, date formats are different for each locale; en-US: MM/DD/YYYY, en-GB: DD/MM/YYYY, de-DE: DD.MM.YYYY.
I don't want a world where people consider their own income before having children and find that they can't afford to have children and not live in poverty, and have to miss out on having children.
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Someone else posted it, but it's here:

Company in question: Kaonix - http://www.kaonix.com/

Can we please blackball this company into oblivion from ever hiring any smart, capable, or talented developers?
mitmproxy sounds like a lot of overhead if all you want is your own raw HTTP traffic. You can get this without Python, and without mitmproxy. Also, I thought mitmproxy was intended for HTTPS. Even in that case, I'm not sure installing Python and mitmproxy is necessary if all you want is to view your own traffic. You can just run your own CA and a proxy that can terminate SSL (e.g., haproxy).

Below is a simple, _lightweight_ ngrep solution. RE means a regular expression. This only saves packets with the RE you specify and does not save full packets, only the HTTP headers. 1024 is an arbitrary size to get all HTTP headers; adjust to taste. tcpdump is there only because ngrep does not work well with PPPoE. If you don't use PPPoE you don't need to include tcpdump.

case $# in
1)
# capture HTTP headers to pcap file
tcpdump -Ulvvvns1024 -w- tcp 2>/dev/null \
|ngrep -O$1 -qtWbyline 'GET|POST|HEAD' >/dev/null
;;
2)
# search HTTP headers in pcap file
ngrep -Wbyline -qtI$1 $2
;;
*)
echo usage: $0 pcap-file \[RE\]
esac

To dump your results, try

$0 pcap-file . |less

And here's a little script to make URL's from your pcap file.
unvis just decodes URL's from the specs in RFC's 1808 and 1866. It assumes http:// URL's (no ftp://). The awk script ensures all URL's (not just consecutive ones) are unique.

case $# in
[12])
above-script $1 ${2-.} \
|sed -n '
/GET/p;
/Host: /p;
' \
|tr '\012' '\040' \
|sed 's/GET/\
&/g' \
|awk '
!($0 in a){a[$0];print "http://"$5$2}
' \
|sed '
s/%25/%/g;
s/\.\//\//;
' \
|unvis -hH \
|sed '/^http:[/][/]./!d;
s/ /%20/g' \
;;
*)
echo usage: $0 pcap-file \[RE\] >&2
esac

It's trivial to dump HTTP. You can feed this to netcat (using sed to modify the HTML to your liking), then open the result in your browser. Whatever you are aiming to do (I'm still not exactly sure - can you give an example?), I reckon it can be automated without Python and heaps of libraries.
Security relevant crash bugs are normally back ported. In any case, TextKit is just a wrapper of CoreText (like you said) for easier use within AppKit/UIKit — all the text handling is still done by CoreText.
I'm waaaay ahead of you here, but thanks for putting the links up for those who aren't in the know.

And before someone cranks one of these up and nit-picks some functionality GNU Emacs has that this doesn't, do try and remember that serious development of Genera for all practical purposes ended before Stallman released the first public release of GNU Emacs.
iOS is the only platform where I don't support full disclosure, or for that matter, any disclosure. It looks doubtful that this bug would be able to be used in a jailbreak anyway, but it's certain that Apple will patch it once it's known (and especially if it could be used to jailbreak).
On iOS, tapping the status bar will scroll the page to the top.
Unfortunately, that's where the "containers are like VMs, but better!" argument breaks down.

Linux Containers, which docker makes use of, are more like creating a "clone" of the currently running operating system with a boxed-in filesystem (and device-space?).

You can't run a Windows container on a Linux host; neither can you run a Solaris container on a Linux host; ad nausium.

With VMs, you can run whatever you want on whatever you want, assuming the processor architecture is compatible.
Nice.

on iOS:

Thread 0 name: Dispatch queue: com.apple.main-thread
Thread 0:
0 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x3a315e30 mach_msg_trap + 20
1 libsystem_kernel.dylib 0x3a315fd0 mach_msg + 48
2 CoreFoundation 0x3210c2b6 __CFRunLoopServiceMachPort + 126
3 CoreFoundation 0x3210afd6 __CFRunLoopRun + 814
4 CoreFoundation 0x3207e238 CFRunLoopRunSpecific + 352
5 CoreFoundation 0x3207e0c4 CFRunLoopRunInMode + 100
6 GraphicsServices 0x35c5d336 GSEventRunModal + 70
7 UIKit 0x33f9a2b4 UIApplicationMain + 1116
8 MobileSafari 0x000ff36e 0xf2000 + 54126
9 libdyld.dylib 0x3a25fb1c start + 0

...

Thread 2 name: WebThread
Thread 2 Crashed:
0 WebCore	0x382fe95a WebCore::ComplexTextController::adjustGlyphsAndAdvances() + 522
1 WebCore	0x382fb94e WebCore::ComplexTextController::ComplexTextController(WebCore::Font const*, WebCore::TextRun const&, bool, WTF::HashSet<WebCore::SimpleFontData const*, WTF::PtrHash<WebCore::SimpleFontData const*>, WTF::HashTraits<WebCore::SimpleFontData const*> >*, bool) + 318
2 WebCore	0x382fb806 WebCore::ComplexTextController::ComplexTextController(WebCore::Font const*, WebCore::TextRun const&, bool, WTF::HashSet<WebCore::SimpleFontData const*, WTF::PtrHash<WebCore::SimpleFontData const*>, WTF::HashTraits<WebCore::SimpleFontData const*> >*, bool) + 18
3 WebCore	0x382ff990 WebCore::Font::getGlyphsAndAdvancesForComplexText(WebCore::TextRun const&, int, int, WebCore::GlyphBuffer&, WebCore::Font::ForTextEmphasisOrNot) const + 56
4 WebCore	0x382ff862 WebCore::Font::drawComplexText(WebCore::GraphicsContext*, WebCore::TextRun const&, WebCore::FloatPoint const&, int, int) const + 150
5 WebCore	0x3808

PS: I love the C++ namespace 'WTF.'

EDIT: complete dump https://gist.github.com/6374524
I'm a VP at start-up, spent 11+ years at big company hiring lots of folks out of college. I look at work experience first, if you actually did real stuff, got real results.

Good grades just validate what I see on experience, bad grades tell me something might be off - is it all smoke & mirrors.

And yes, it only matters for the first job. After that, I honestly hardly even look at what college you went to.

I'd suggest also breaking out your GPA for your major vs. overall. That tells me that you're really good at your major (probably related to the job you're applying for anyway) but that maybe you just are bad at liberal arts.
With the presence of (liquid) water, is there a high chance of simple alien life on the moon? I mean, i can't think of any place in the sea that's downright hostile to life, where life hasn't found a way™.