skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Coincidentally, this is exactly what the School of Haskell[1] tries to do for Haskell--it lets the reader execute examples right on the page.

[1]: https://www.fpcomplete.com/school

With a bit of work, there is no reason to limit this sort of interactivity to JavaScript.
But it is the very definition of a network effect - I think competing with it is a hiding to nothing - I suspect that the best approach is to commoditise it - one of its plugins will become so popular that it essentially takes over simply using the LinkedIn API as a convenient backend
Was this a new addition? IIRC, I stated age when I applied three years back and I got in as a 40-something.
I can't imagine anyone using Windows 8 by choice.
Mainstream Media Error or Something More Sinister?
Absolutely. When choosing between network effects vs. data, I will invest in a data company every time. Data seems to pay off in totally unforeseeable ways far into the future.

Take, for example, YouTube. Google paid $1.65bn for a company that didn't have a way to make money, but it generates massive amounts of human-labelled data. Now, a decade later, with Google's distributed artificial neural net, YouTube is granting Google sight. Google can see.

Yes, this is proof by anecdote - makes me cringe too. But bet on data. You can make lots of money.
Game is too hard. Keep running into bars as I am getting instructions.
I found it again. It was A New Grammar by Ann Fisher (1719-78), and this is a good article on the subject:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-...

Also see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Fisher_(grammarian)
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The irony is considerable. Not only was the originator of generic "he" a woman, she was a successful woman entrepreneur when such a thing was unheard of. What's more, her book was known for arguing against the incursion of Latin rules into English grammar—which is what generic "he" was.
Well you know, that's just it; I don't agree that scrapping the War on Drugs would upend the legal system. It would presumably clear out the prisons for the most part, but that's not what we should be worried about.

However many of the legal and investigatory techniques used to investigate drug-related "crimes" are perfectly cromulent ways to investigate many other actual crimes. I would like to keep those techniques available, in general. Each technique may or may not have it's place, for sure.

But a useful, cost-effective tool that's not otherwise unconstitutional should be used. We should then make sure that the oversight and transparency measures for each type of tool is in place to ensure that such measures are not abused.

The government is pretty much literally the only thing we the people have any input into... functions which rightly belong to "the people" at large should be placed into the government. Where government screws those up, the answer should be to fix the government, not for the people to completely abdicate that responsibility.

> How does it follow that we should then make sure the shit is evenly spread on everybody?

You're basically asking why a given system should be fairly applied? I would reverse the question completely and say that any given government system should start off completely fair and only deviate from that for very good reason.

Avoiding "Misery Loves Company" is a good reason, mind you. We levy administrative fines on people who actually screw up, for example.

But the Simon logic is, why is it permissible to surveil tens of thousands of cell phone calls within a predominantly poor, black & Hispanic neighborhood for literally years at a time, looking for evidence of small-time drug dealers, but it's not possible to get the same type of court order to surveil other communications (even at larger scale) for something that's actually important to society at large?

There is a difference in scale, that's for sure. But the difference is not really as large as the difference between no surveillance and what the police/FBI/others are already doing (and have been doing) throughout America. And so that's his point, if America agrees that this type of investigatory powers should be used (the kind that have always permitted incidentally collecting too much, or searching through all records reasonably relevant to a case, etc.), where and why does the framework behind those powers actually end here when it didn't there?

There may very well be a good reason, but if that reason is "we don't trust the government" then by what logic do we let the DoJ in general investigate criminal acts? I guess what I'm saying is that I really wish we would get back to a framework of control of government (like the EFF, ACLU, etc. have been pushing to do for years) instead of instinctive distrust of the idea of government.

But whatever we do decide the government rightly has the power to do, we should at least be consistent with it.
For anyone interested in the average profit margins of books publishers and some what the percentage of the paper, print, and binding for a book is of the total cost, the Art & Science of Book Publishing by Herbert S. Jr Bailey (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0821409700/ref=wms_ohs_prod...) is a good book. Print on Demand and ebooks have changed some aspects, but it is still largely true that, for most books, marketing, overhead, sales, etc. are a lot of the cost of producing a book. Even with ebooks, this is still the case. Illuminating stuff.
I'd like to see the argument that the war on drugs does more good than harm, even ignoring the financial cost. When considering the financial cost, I find it hard to imagine any remotely reasonable argument that it's beneficial to society.
He's speaking at Startup Bootcamp @ MIT this year.

http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/

(so am I)
I can. Considering I use it on my (non touchscreen) desktop by choice and prefer it over Windows 7.
Sorry, I thought you were specifically responding to "It's google award for KitKat for being very active on G+."
Letter To The SEC - General Solicitation Rules
PG has kind of already written about this:

http://paulgraham.com/hubs.html
I encourage you to check out MIT's Startup Bootcamp (http://startupbootcamp.mit.edu/). It is not as big as Startup School, but still a great event
OK but once you're in already, and you aren't connecting your address book (hmm, what else are they going to do with it?) what sucks about LinkedIn so much relative to other social networks?
After clicking a few articles deep, it appears this is communicating with a geo-synchronous satellite and with latency of roughly 750ms. Plenty of bandwidth, and it should in theory work in North and South America.
First is to figure out what your goals are long term. Then figure out how to work towards those goals. If a 401k fits those goals then start a 401k. Most of the time, though not always, you need to be full time before you can contribute to a company 401k plan.

Best advice I can give, though, is 1) read a lot and 2) never take anything you read at face value.
As a poke at Emacs' creeping featurism, vi advocates have been known to describe Emacs as "a great operating system, lacking only a decent editor".

From Editor War on Wikipedia
Low-barrier civil disobedience people can take with the TSA: Opt-out/in to everything that will make the process take longer. Gum up the works.
"Until the recent UI overhaul"? I still have the feature exactly as you described it in my browser.
The desktop browser statistics in the article value Internet Explorer higher than in other articles I have read such as this one: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers
Like a Wasting Disease, Society’s “Connective Tissue” is Being Eaten Away
I prefer this: Microsoft doesn't and Oculus Rift changes gaming forever.

Microsoft can't add anything besides money.
Ya, was thinking the same. He doesn't present an argument as to why they are losers?
Vaughn v Rosen

http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2117854604861806...

The TSA has to provide you with an index of the materials and a legal reason for denying production of each.
It's an understatement to say his theories led to carbon trading. He wrote two of the most important articles in modern economics, ones that are more directly relevant to public policy than nearly anything else that came out in the last century. His ideas have been tremendously influential not just in economics, but in law and political science.

The Nature of the Firm: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1468-0335.1937.... (1937) (introduced the theory of transaction costs).

The Federal Communications Commission: http://old.ccer.edu.cn/download/7874-1.pdf (1959) (introduced an economic theory for allocation scarce resources using market mechanisms).

The latter paper looks at the basic models of allocating spectrum (at that time a classical rival resource) and demonstrates how market trading of spectrum rights would lead to optimal allocations, assuming no transaction costs. The former paper looks into transaction costs in the context of asking why firms bother to hire permanent employees instead of contracting everything out, which would in theory lead to more efficient allocations of labor.
Yea, the age box is insulting. Even when I was younger, I
never saw the need to ask about a person's age. I had
a few young friends in the 90's go into game design. They
were excited to be doing something they loved, but all
eventually felt their youth, and naivety were exploited
by older white men. I still remember how impressed they
were by free sodas, and snacks. Anyway, I used to think
Thoreau was right. He said, 'I've never learned anything remotely useful from anyone my senior!', or something like that, but age does bring some useful knowledge; especially about human nature, and how unforgiving the
legal system can be.
The influx of new software, design and consulting companies by ex-Nokia employees will certainly have some kind of effect.

With its Bridge Program, Nokia encouraged those that were laid off to become entrepreneurs by giving away free training and grants. http://publications.theseus.fi/handle/10024/52495

The grants from the Bridge program are running out. At the same time, the government needs to reduce its spending by around 10%. Our tech sector and startups are heavily financed through government controlled institutions that will certainly face budget cuts.

Soon we'll be in a situation, where there are hundreds of very capable companies in dire financial situations.

I run a small web application development company in Oulu, Finland. I started the company in 2009, a bit before Nokia's struggles started to materialize. We're a 3 person development team specializing in developing large scale javascript applications. One designer, two developers.

I'm terrified. I'm scared of the influx of competition. I'm scared that local demand will dry up. Sometimes I'm certain that the sky will fall down.

At the same time I see a lot of potential for co-operation with the new companies. Finding employees should definitely be a lot easier now. The startups haven't tied themselves to just a few subcontractors like Nokia, so they all are potential new clients.

As you can see, I'm mostly confused. I see the Microsoft-deal to be primarily a good thing. I believe that in the short term it will stop the layoffs and at least ease the uncertainty a bit.

A friend was able to put into words the feelings many of us have been going through today, and for the last few years: "Denial-Anger-Bargaining-Depression-Acceptance #Nokia"
I've found out why they build up — it seems that the elves have been ignoring them for years now. Makes no sense, I know, but they've gone back to making shoes overnight. It doesn't matter how many times I write TODO, it never actually gets done unless I do it myself anymore.
Immersion is definitely an important point of the game.
Me too. Let's get one started.
You can consider buying a put option as a form of a short. The problem there is you need to deal with the likelihood of your option expiring worthless. But your downside becomes limited.
The form only asks for education and where you've worked. That's a limited definition of higher standard (especially for hackers and designers).

You also wrote this [1] back in 2007. Have your views changed since then?

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/colleges.html
'Literally' is already in the OED as 'not literally':
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/10240917/Uproar-as-OED-...
Was I the only one thinking that video at the end was taking a dig at Mark Shuttleworth? Great bit of funny marketing regardless.
This post isn't entirely accurate. It's tempting to bash the courts for a decision you don't like, but after reading the opinion, I don't think the judge is obviously wrong (I say "obviously" because I haven't checked all of the citations for accuracy).

Some key points from the opinion:

* There is precedent stating that district courts do not have jurisdiction to review sensitive security issues and that this has to be considered by an appellate court. The main way to get to an appellate court is to dismiss the case at a district level. Therefore, I would consider this less the court saying "what the TSA did was proper" and more "I can't rule on that, but let's send you to the right court."

* The plaintiff accuses Broward County of lying at the TSA's direction about the existence of the surveillance footage. Two issues here: (1) If the TSA is telling Broward to lie, then it's obviously the TSA's fault, not Broward's. But it's not clear from the opinion whether the plaintiff properly directed this accusation at the TSA as opposed to Broward, and courts can't automatically amend your complaint to go after the right person when you accused the wrong one. (2) The only relief requested by the plaintiff was that the court release the video. Since the video was released, there's nothing else the court can do to punish Broward county for lying.

I realize a lot of this boils down to technicalities that don't really get to the substance of the actual legal claim, but that's how our legal system works (and for good reason -- the technicalities that slow down justice are the same ones that slow down injustice).

One last point -- the author is angry at the court for needless delays and so forth. I don't know the particulars here, but I will note that it's probably less that he's being singled out and more because of budget cuts. Courts all around the country have been taking ridiculously long times to resolve issues ranging from child custody disputes to patent litigation.
So you are saying that there was an orchestrated move against RP to regional accents in the media in the 90's and you think it was partly to help a Scottish influence in civil service and ministerial appointments and to help John Prescott in some nefarious plan to become a lord.

Sorry for swearing at you before, but this seems unlikely.
Lots of people who code with VIM don't use IDE's out of choice though. And Vim has had 20+ years of development, so I don't think it's going to stabilize any more.
Well, I seriously doubt a Microsoft astroturfing shill would expose insider trading before the acquisition, which would potentially result in MS/Nokia employees getting penalized.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6318733

I can assure you that I am just a fan(perhaps overzealous at times, like many on here) and not a shill. Don't know how to prove it to you though, if there was any proof that would convince you let me know, I will provide it. I never worked for or received anything from MS directly or indirectly ever. I don't even own their stock. I just like to play devil's advocate on HN. :/
Airline Customer Explores Depths of Pettiness
Why Elon Musk is a ROCKSTAR
I don't like the "War on Drugs", no. I'm the kind of person who would remove 80% of the safety labels out there if I had my way, so someone choosing to do something stupid with drugs is on them as far as I'm concerned, up and until it starts affecting other people.

And even where it does start affecting other people, there are probably much better ways to regulate that effect than prison, and we should be using those ways instead. And we should switchover yesterday.

It's probably not yet practical politically to fix that (especially as its so tied toward racist tendencies dog-whistle style), but that would not be a reason for me to argue in support of it.

However I also don't presume that shedding the War on Drugs would eliminate crime, or the need to investigate and prosecute such. So we'll still have government enforcing law, protecting public security, and the like. And so I get very, very tired of the argument that government trying to get power $FOO to do such things is necessarily a dystopian power grab.

Don't get me wrong, it may actually be a bad idea for government to do $FOO, but no one is generally going to convince me of that by hyperbole or invoking the Sheeple Mantra (not saying you're doing that here, btw, just remarking on some HN threads I remember in general).
Anyone interested in public policy should definitely read these. Unusually among economists, Coase had a gift for clear prose and preferred to build arguments from basic principles, rather than relying on jargon or trying to bludgeon his readers with mathematics (something he contemptuously referred to as 'blackboard economics'). The patience and rigor of his arguments won him great popularity among lawyers, and his theories are central to the 'law and economics' movement.

I am sad to learn of his passing but it was a life well lived.
Were people not saying this about facebook once?
Open-Source Python Code Sets New Standard for Quality
Making software architecture choices analytically with CodeTrend
Puritanical stuffiness seems to be popular in domestic policy. Coffee is my vice of choice, but I personally don't begrudge others their own, whether or not they wound up on the legal or illegal side of the game of substance ban musical chairs. That being said, and I'm not going to push this point too hard, there is a counterpoint to the relationship of drugs to the arts in that we've seen a lot of tragedy come out of that relationship as well. I wouldn't presume to tell people what they can and can't use, but I likewise wouldn't deny that there are both positive and negative effects of using such substances. I take from your comment though the idea that we overwhelmingly emphasize the negative aspects of substance use/abuse. Obviously people enjoy them, but that never seems to come up.
Where's the source code for your bench? How large are the records you're loading? How large are the keys? What's the insert order?

How does your test compare to http://symas.com/mdb/microbench/ ? If you're going to try to talk about numbers, talk about them in a meaningful context. Right now you're just handwaving.
Here's an example plot of Rails vs. Django:

http://www.codetrend.org/compare/django/vs/ruby-on-rails
Those are gaap earnings which are of minor relevance for high growth companies prioritizing usage and revenue expansion. The company made $363 million in revenues last quarter.
How  to Make Your Copywriting More Conversational To Attract More Customers
Dear God do not try to hit "back" on that page having scrolled all the way through...
Can I apply for virtual attendence? Is there gonna be an option to attend via G+? I'm a graduate student based in Auburn, AL and it's would not be feasible for me to attend physically.
Why not? They made a bunch of performance and under-the-hood improvements.
Just in case you haven't tried, and are interested, getting bitcoin really isn't that hard. If you are in a large city, I recommend localbitcoins.com.
FWIW, I've been using the aws command-line tool by Tim Kay for over 6 years. It's only Perl and cURL. A single self-contained script with no other dependencies. It's been rock solid in production that whole time:

http://timkay.com/aws/

The syntax looks quite the same, but Amazon's awscli Python installer has loads of dependencies. I'll have to see if it's worth switching.

Anyone already know if Amazon's new CLI thing has any big advantages over Tim Kay's Perl aws?
That mootness exception is only applicable if the requested relief was for the government to stop lying. As far as I can tell, the requested relief was only for this particular surveillance footage to be provided, not an injunction governing future government conduct. And the court usually can't grant relief not requested.
I would change on the website:

1) Upload binary 2) Receive Bugs

to:

1) Upload binary 2) Discover Bugs
Not to forget the excellent music!

There is a OST Bonus Bundle that is available as free download: http://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/journey-bonus-bundle

And the OST on Bandcamp as well: http://austinwintory.bandcamp.com/album/journey

Here's a 'behind the scenes' video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNHtReya_p0
Remember those magic years in 2005 and 2006 with Connexion by Boeing, when we had Wi-Fi on several airlines over the Atlantic and from Europe to Asia?
It's now (sort of) available directly. We can stick an NVDIMM in our server and use it as really fast nonvolatile memory, instead of buying a fancy enterprise storage system (Fusion-io, Violin, etc.) that acts like a disk and may contain any of a number of interesting nonvolatile memory technologies.

The price, size, and performance characteristics of non-volatile memory in your server and the various fast disk replacements are very different.
That's actually rather unfortunate—the original Cubox (/pro) based on the Armada 510/Dove has a GigE PHY which is completely capable of ~1000 megabits.
Prank Call NSA to Restore Lost Email
Thanks for sharing, I'd never heard of this tool.

Indeed, an official supported friendly and easy-to-use CLI interface is long overdue.
Wow! this is amazing.
> It did not 'nearly kill them all.' It killed five people, none of whom where in the cabinet although they were senior party members.

The article you quote says 5 were killed and 31 were injured...
Cool, though a bit confusing at first, since the player has no clue what to do, and the game restarts all the time which looks like a bug.
Hmm,

Would it be that hard to ramp this up and start a service on the ground? It would be nice see more competition for the duopolies.
Shift+R could do it (Shift+a for reply all)

https://support.google.com/mail/answer/6594?hl=en
Looking at the picture, I'm pretty sure it's intentionally worded that way. A spin on "Push Button, Receive Bacon".

http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/push-button-receive-bacon
apparently it was "built with unity"

does unity now target html5 without any depending on a webplayer plugin?
I like Windows 8.

I like Mac OS X.

There, I said it. I own both. I use both, daily. They do not have to be mutually exclusive.
Works prefectly (Firefox 23.0.1 64 bit / Debian testing amd64). What does Firefox say about your video driver in about:support?
did they get into how unity was used in their pipeline?
Then, in addition to my previous comment, especially at a pool for the elderly.
It asks what's the coolest thing you've built.
actually, ec2-api-tools has been provided for years: http://aws.amazon.com/developertools/351 - I just didn't like the command interface provided by them. Haven't had time to check out the new CLI yet but it looks much better at quick glance.
Wow. WIndows XP. What a beast that it's still north of 30%. Too lazy but when was it released and/or when was it replaced? I feel like it was superseded all the way back in 2007 or so?
The requirement is that you be very good at the things we need. There are multiple ways to demonstrate this.
I feel like we're at a support group meeting. I just stood to clap for you in my living room.
Never thought I'd see the day that it would actually be news that the current version of Windows is still selling more licenses than Mac OS X.