skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I usually assume "should" and "must" in such contexts to be similar in meaning to rfc2119 [1].

Of course, it's up to Google be be clear with exactly what should or must be done. Unless they want to be unclear..

[1] http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2119.txt
the top review was by the man himself, Peter Norvig. That's very high praise indeed. I'd read it if it weren't about Lisp, a language that is bad for all the same reasons it is good.
That is incredibly great, Rob! Good on her.
Great distinction, thanks.
All the Maemo music players do this too. I expect it - and if I'm going somewhere where I don't want it to switch to the external speaker, I just mute the external speaker volume.

Question for those who use either iPhone or Android - do they have independent volume levels for speakers vs. headphones? I honestly just realized that I don't know.
That sounds exactly like the hell I went through at Raytheon. In fact, I may have heard that visibility quote verbatim during one review.

Raytheon didn't have the problems described by Microsofties, though. The long-term employees (who were a majority at all the facilities I worked in) developed a sort of mass psychosis that was part Stockholm syndrome, part misguided patriotism, and part Dunning-Kruger. If you didn't drink the Kool-Aid yourself the stack ranking system would be the least of your worries, though it was a useful tool for managers to deal with subordinates who wouldn't comply.
YC startups are independent and autonomous, the only people running them are their own CEOs.
> Well, there is a chart for that on wikipedia too, and it doesn't look good either.

After you misrepresented the last one without actually linking to it, I'm not really inclined to expend the effort to verify your characterization of this one.

> There was a country just a little over 20 years ago that was in debt up to its neck and was trying to do global surveillance and project global power.

AFAICT, the Soviet Union, just before it fell, had an estimated $65-$100 billion in foreign debt with a GDP on the order of $2.5 trillion -- it wasn't really "in debt up to its neck".
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> Already in the Chrome App store, the Ember Inspector extension will let you see what your Ember app is doing in production or your development environment. You can also use the inspector on other site's Ember apps as well. Three cheers for easier debugging of your Ember app! Link to the Ember Inspector.

This is cool. AngularJS having a Chrome-plugin debugger was one of the things that got me interested in trying it out. Powerful, specialized debuggers are always a killer feature for any new framework/system.
Agreed, why isn't there something for genre? I searched for 'techno' and got 4 results from some electro-acoustic band with a female vocalist, which is about the exact opposite <:-/
I don't think that this page is actually the policy. The intro text points here: http://play.google.com/about/developer-content-policy.html

And the relevant text in the intro points out that these are guidelines to help you follow the policies: "The sections below highlight best practices and common examples to help you avoid the most common types of policy violations."
Repeat after me "timestamps should always be UTC. Time zones and DST should be left to the display layer".

In any case, as a security measure, preventing the clock from being set before the compile time is a bandaid for a bullet hole.
I thought the on-boarding was rather pleasant! Keep up the good work!

I expected to be able to attempt other peoples' quests, but I don't seem to be able to. Is that outside your scope, just not implemented yet, or am I simply missing it?
the seller did raise the price because he is not receiving his money and to prevent buyers from buying. original price for a single license was $6
I really wish someone would make a modern scientific calculator - Imagine what would be possible on a modern ARM processor. Even the new HP calculators use old ~70mhz ARM processors emulating the even older saturn HP48 code...

You could build it on top of Android, and have the software be open-source while making money from selling the hardware (so you could run it on a touchscreen, but if you wanted a keyboard you'd buy the calculator).
In hindsight though, this was probably a good thing. You would most likely have been on an NSA database if you had donated to Lavabit.
thank you! If you can come up with a statistical test, it should end the real debate (before it has even really started.)
18% of the speed of light at the surface means that it could only spin slightly more than 5x faster without violating known physics. That isn't fast enough?

If you want an in depth breakdown of this scenario, try posting a question at physicsforums.com. Be advised to follow their rules, though. Personal theories by non-physicists are severely punished (I made this mistake once).
Added to weekend projects list. ETA mid-October.
Some interesting bits:

Nanotechnology will bring real personal manufacturing at the molecular level giving people the ability to produce nearly anything for virtually nothing. This will result in the destruction of current socioeconomic systems and government as there will be no need for any type of scarcity monitoring or control or labour.

People will trend away from cities, and live in smaller more natural close knit communities. Realistic 3D holographic projections will further enable this.

He attributed the nanotechnology factory idea to the great Richard Feynman.
I think the problems started when they hit their monopoly phase and Windows became a cash cow. It probably looked at that point like they had "won" and all they had to do was keep the upgrade chain going. Don't need to innovate; that would rock the boat and risk the cow.
The claim that he had the password on him is being denied.
What they really should have done is hand transported a very large one-time pad, and after a one-time is successfully transported without interception, transport the data encoded with the one-time pad.
FWIW, the official policy document I linked above makes no mention of opt-in whatsoever.
Lots of gold on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/user/JamesBurkeConnection?feature=wat...
As far as web applications dominating and taking over market share from the Windows ecosystem? Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Java_Virtual_Machine

> Sun Microsystems, the creator of Java, sued Microsoft in October 1997 for incompletely implementing the Java 1.1 standard.[2] It was also named in the United States v. Microsoft antitrust civil actions, as an implementation of Microsoft's Embrace, extend and extinguish strategy

You can bet all the money in the world that Gates would have been acutely aware of the App Store. The App Store is, after all, Apple doing to the handheld market what Microsoft did to IBM and the PC. Which is, establishing themselves as a gate-keeper for all things mobile.
I assumed, I think incorrectly with hindsight, that the 'friends' connection dwarfed all others and would be separately optimised. I think you're right though - 'likes' and 'friends' probably don't dwarf each other at a guess, and as Scaevolus pointed out it wouldn't be fundamentally different anyway.
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Apple Writer made me the writer I am today. (To this day, I rarely compose paragraphs more than a few dozen words long.)
Most of what you're describing as "madness" is already done in head.js and require. They have no particular speed penalties and handle dependencies better than just putting script tags in the right order. The one difference is that a system like this would check the hashes to verify the code.

The one possible catch, as you mention, would be getting access to these scripts before they are loaded without having cross-origin problems.

There are a number of problems with serving from your own domain. It is, in fact, much less convenient for developers, as it adds an extra step to the build process and requires the system to properly handle caching so that old resources are not still served after a build. It is also slower to serve from the same domain as there are connection limits. Lastly, it gives up all advantages of a CDN.

My proposal is an attempt to continue taking advantage of CDNs and third party resources, but without giving them the keys to your site. Did you ever consider that Google has access to all of your users' cookies, if they wanted to add a small modification to jQuery or Analytics? Considering recent revelations about government involvement, is it really out of the question to believe that they never would take that information?
Very cool. I'm thinking of trying out Fortune with some changes so that I can serve assets from the same app & try it out with Angular.
I think that's the point, I think Angular is easier also. But once you've mastered Ember, what you can do with Ember in a timeframe, greatly exceeds that of Angular. It's extremely powerful.
On my Android (not sure which version, i think its v2) when you unplug the headphones the music stops, but it has only one volume for headphones and speakers.
Wouldn't that kill the battery and nullify the major benefit of a dumbphone?
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I think he's naive with some basic human behaviours and economics of it all. What he says is 90% true though.
Agreed. Seriously. Great work, team. If anyone is able to help them get to the finish line - as I see they are requesting - go grab a task to work on (https://github.com/emberjs/ember.js/issues/3246) and join the #emberjs-dev IRC channel on Freenode.
You could enter a fake email address: foo@bar.com. I am torn between having an updates signup or not.
Mailelf - simple encrypted email for everyone
You'd need interactive signatures to prevent replays of very old timestamps, which significantly hurts scalability of the signed timestamps. However, I suppose with a weaker trust model one could have a federated signed timestamp service, where you could get timestamps over TLS/SSL.
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I see. Again, thanks for the insider info.

I didn't consider that presenting too much concept art & story details might detract from the experience of letting the concept blossom in the studio exec's own mind.

I'll have to sit down with some screenwriters again, and see if Gingko is something that they'd be able to use or not.
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Thank you!

If quest is based on a stencil, you can take the same stencil for yourself.

Otherwise, it's a feature called "Cloning", and it's not implemented yet: http://questhub.io/realm/meta/quest/51f7ab8688a70b5f74000046
Replicator and holodeck?
I think you are missing the context. In the US (Berkeley) this is an almost certainlyadministrative accomodation (ie, a favour) required by law to make the test "more accessible". Which is code for easier.

Providing exams for disabled students is not degrading, if such accomodations are helpful. Other forms of accomodataion (eg, relaxing of standards or deadlines) may reasonably be subject to abuse, in the absence of direct oversight. Etc.

If there were some actual evidence this was an act of intimidation or "humiliation" it would be interesting to see such supported. In all likelihood, it would probably lead to a situation of legal jeapordy for the University.
I was keen to do something similar, but there's no tracker on the Phoenix Light Rail.
Most of the site is much more toned down, but I thought I'd share what I believe about Gingko's potential.

I respect Nelson, but his intensity is off-putting... don't want to make the same mistake.
"...when he's never been one of the top 10."

Not correct. He has won the Badwater 135 Mile and the Vermont 100 Mile ultras, and has come in fourth place in the Western States 100 Mile (iirc).

Jurek has a more impressive record than Karno as an ultra runner, and a history of being negative about not being as well known as Karno. Karno is a great runner who also wrote a great book and got a lot of people to read it and has a history of being positive and encouraging about everyone running.

Edited to add references:

First place at Badwater 135 Mile, 2004: http://www.badwater.com/results/index.html

First place at Vermont 100 Mile, 2006: http://vermont100.com/html/2006_results.html

Fourth place at Western States 100 Mile, 2003: http://www.wser.org/results/2003-results/
It never occurred to me that there'd be a single volume for both, just because I can't think of a way to relate the volume level of speakers and headphones.

And to think that I was annoyed that my phone didn't automagically spawn a third volume level for my bluetooth speakers:)
Ask HN: How have product stories or teaching helped your business?
Do you know of a businesses that used teaching or story to:

a) build an audience for their business, or
b) increase the perceived value of their product?

I'm looking for case studies for a new book on how sharing, either through teaching or creating a back story, can help sales.

Here are two examples to get you started:

1) Teaching

In order to promote my email marketing SaaS app I've been writing articles and building an email list around teaching email marketing best practices and how to launch products.

That's been a very clear win of using teaching to build an audience and increase sales.

2) Story

A friend of mine designs and builds custom furniture. When he delivers a $4,000 dining room table he includes a coffee table style photo book of photos (with captions) of that table being designed and built.

Now when the client's friends come over and comment on the beautiful table, the client doesn't just say "You like it? I got it at IKEA." Instead they pick up the book and show their friend exactly how their table was built. The table now has a story behind it and is worth more.

Products with a story behind them are worth more and are more likely to be talked about.

So, do you have stories to share?

I really appreciate the help.
I don't love the term, but people of color is broader than black. It's a replacement for "visible minority".
Not cooperate with warrantless data requests that might reveal that someone is gay?
Airbnb and Heroku. And all this is since 2004, with tiny funds, and early 20s kids. Imagine how he'd do with unlimited money and talent.
That's where the story ends though. I never owned a TI-83 but I remember class-mates linking their TI and sharing programs. Here you have to export to Xcode, pay Apple $99 and fill a bunch of forms, wait for app-store approval.
I remember one comment at a perf review from my boss when I worked at MS. There were two of us on the team of 35, who were working on a certain tenet. My boss said "next review season, I'm going to go around and ask people who's the [tenet] expert. It should be you, not him."

So although we were working together, we were also competing. And yeah, when he asked, I was the expert. I think a large part of that was because whenever the two of us got together to ping people about our tenet, it was in my office, so the emails came from me, and the bug updates were under my name. I did that half-intentionally, and feel a little bad about it.
Huh, that's an interesting perspective. What makes it more powerful? Is it a higher level of abstraction thing, like PG suggests makes one language more powerful than another?
Their example policy has some very surprising terms. When you click on an advert, they'll send them your email address. Really? Apps do that kind of thing? That's truly scummy and shouldn't be allowed, EULA or not. No-one expects that kind of privacy invasion on a web browser ad, why should it be allowed in an app?
Thats a nice story, but unfortunately not the truth. This was simply a spur of the moment idea and I wanted to see if it worked, which to a relative degree it did, hence why I posted it. The main goal of posting it is to show how easy it would be for a website to show ads to a user, even with an extension such as Adblock enabled. In regards to the account, I haven't had a need for a HN account before now.

Sorry if you didn't like it.
Half-transcript, half-paraphrasing of the key quotes:

something is going to change within 40 years to change our lives as greatly as the changes since we came from the caves to modern day.

The problem is that, as we try to solve privacy, feeding the world, etc we spend months of time discussing these short term problems in board rooms and parliament whilst labs around the world are working on nanotech

Richard Fynman said that there is "no physical law against creating a personal nanofactory", like a 3d printer, to print anything from basically air, dirt and some Acetylene gas (for added carbon).

Everyone will be able to make anything they need for practically nothing, and this will destroy current economic systems and government.

When nanofactories appear, they will address the problem of scarcity. All our years have been spent constructing organisations and systems to share everything. There will be no need for any social institutions, as they all exist to share things, to address scarsisty.

Why would we still live in massive cities, when we have no more factories, no more need for economies of scale? People will be able to then live by themselves on a mountain using solar panels for power and no need for utilities.

Physical contact between people will happen, but be rarer and and 3d holography will be used to allow this over great distance, to allow you to talk to someone as if they are there, no screen, but if you try to touch them you'll just go through them.

We are going to live through extraordinary times over the next twenty-thirty years!

Edit - Further good bits I missed on the first pass:

In response to "You seem as optimistic as you were in 1970":

* laughs * Well you know what they say about pessimists: They jump out of the window and they're no longer involved.
So PG would be really good at delegating, another plus point for him as future Microsoft CEO.
Why wasn't his genius work similarly wiped out?

A good question. I'd say that the Apple II family survived longer than it deserved to because the hardware was so nice. Woz combined classical hacker insights with a look-and-feel quality ethic that the Commodores and Ataris couldn't live up to, being designed to target a price point beyond all else. Sure, those computers could do tricks with graphics and sound that the Apple couldn't match -- but if you wanted sharp, readable 80-column text for word processing or VisiCalc work, your only options were an Apple //e at $1500 or a similarly-equipped Tandy or IBM PC for well over $4000.

Apple's huge array of (relatively) low-cost peripherals also helped it compete against other platforms in the early days. These aspects weren't sexy but they were important to lots of home and small-business users.

Famously, the company was also smart enough to target K-12 education, which cultivated their marketplace from the ground up. Once again, the impression of quality versus the low-cost 8-bit competitors would have helped them do that.
Sony Ericsson's dumbphones have also stopped the music when you unplugged the headphones since they added MP3 support. It always annoyed me that Nokia's didn't back in the S60 days.

I once biked too close to a fence in a crowded area, got caught and flipped the bike, and if that wasn't embarrassing enough, I was listening to some pretty terrible music at the time which then started blaring out of the speaker. I went back to my Sony Ericsson after that event. Didn't help that Sony Ericsson's dumbphone OS was better at multitasking J2ME apps than Symbian was at native apps (and in ways better than iOS 6 since it let me run an IRC app if I wanted to)
I miss this.

I used to have a Palm device. It had a black and white 320x320 screen, slow CPU, low memory, and no Wi-Fi. But I could run PocketC on it and work on a hobby game project, either on a computer or the device itself.

A few years later I got an iPhone 3GS. It had a much faster CPU, better screen, wifi and 3G Internet with a browser that could display desktop websites. It was leaps and bounds more powerful and capable than the Palm device, except I couldn't actually develop any pet game project on the device itself (in a C-like language; I suppose JS dev is possible).
HP laptop leaks/transmits its built-in mic audio somewhere around 24Mhz
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This solution (and those listed in the comments) are all very interesting solutions, well done. They might not work with different colour images, but they are interesting nonetheless.
Might have been better to demonstrate that using subtraction as addition is commutative and thus either one works fine in this case.
Is it possible they just wanted even more news exposure?
Extremely interesting. Some other commenters mentioned this is off-topic; I think it's pertinent to understanding what's behind the empirical evidence pg presented.

This paragraph in particular:

It is brutally hard for most people (after the age of puberty, and perhaps especially for males) to learn to attend to sound distinctions that don't exist in the learner's native language. That is especially hard when the sound distinction signifies a grammatical distinction that also doesn't exist in the learner's native language. For example, the distinction between "I speak" and "he speaks" in English involves a consonant cluster at the end of a syllable, and no such consonant clusters exist in the Mandarin sound system at all. Worse than that, no such grammatical distinction as "first person singular" and "third person singular" for inflecting verbs exists in Mandarin, so it is remarkably difficult for Mandarin-speaking learners of English to learn to distinguish "speaks" from "speak" and to say "he speaks Chinese" rather than "he speak Chinese" (not a grammatical phrase in spoken English).

One thing I've noticed is that there seem to be relatively few super-successful Chinese immigrant founders in the USA. Fewer than Indians for example, even though both are large immigrant communities. My wife is Chinese and her theory is that Chinese aren't really good at teamwork. I think it has more to do with their difficulties in catching the subtleties of the language as described above.

It is not quite a problem of them not communicating their message well, I think. Most of the time they do, although it may not aesthetically be very pleasing. It is more an issue of them missing alot when you speak to them, unless you conciously try to adapt to your audience.
I think the reason we don't see eye-to-eye on this is this line right here:

> 700-rent 200-car note 80-insurance 500-food 200- utilities 200-gas

When I look at that I still see room to squeeze it cheaper. Rent could go down with a roommate (or several). A $200 car note is pretty substantial. $500 for food is also a lot more than needs to be spent.

I think that when you look at that, it's a bare-minimum kind of thing and it couldn't possibly get any cheaper.

What it boils down to is the will to make the sacrifices necessary to stop having to make all these short-term tactical decisions and be able to start taking a longer view.

Here's a lady who talks about having a $30/week food budget for her AND her husband.

http://moneysavingmom.com/2012/04/is-it-possible-to-survive-...

I would also suggest that you don't attack me personally for my views and instead argue why they're wrong. When I disagreed with you I said "I don't think you can make that argument reasonably." When you disagreed with me you said "I'm not sure if you're trolling or just extremely naive and idealistic." You can do better.
Each of those dozen eggs is worth 20 packs of shitty ramen

Careful: at a point, qualitative aspects matter. Your eggs are proteins and fats (both of which are essential to survival -- your body cannot manufacture certain proteins and EFAs). Ramen is virtually 100% carbohydrate. While it's going to provide you with energy, it's not going to sustain other essential bodily functions.

And I really have a hard time parsing tobacco consumption as fiscally responsible under any terms.