skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> tobacco companies ran ads with Joe DiMaggio about how healthy their brand was[1].

Tobacco companies actively engaged in a campaign of misinformation. They deliberately spread confusion about science.
Apparently not. Our resident native-German-speaker managed to fill our fridge with it in Chicago.

Yech.
> ..they took a massive 27% in equity for a tiny investment...

Their website implies - at http://hackfwd.com/dilution - that they invest a substantial amount, ranging from €91,000 for a single founder to €191,000 for three founders (although another document - http://hackfwd.s3.amazonaws.com/system/documents/4bd586/e2e8... - says that they invest "up to" these amounts).

It would be interesting to hear from some actual HackFWD alumni how much they actually invested.

EDIT: If they did actually invest those amounts, taking 27% in equity would not be unreasonable. If, however, they were invoking the "up to" qualifier and offering to invest much smaller amounts in return for the same amount of equity, then that would raise a question mark.
Pain at the Pump: Gasoline Prices by Country
Show HN: Wit – Natural language for your app
This isn't something that's on Valve, but games should bring back LAN play.
All the nesting and redundancy come from Java itself. Verbose as it may be, after you use any language for a while you will see right through the syntax and it will not add (much) cognitive load to your work.

I think the value here is in having a micro framework that allows you to put together a web app without having to juggle a horribly complex abstraction hierarchy for even the simplest of tasks.
> In the case of 32-bit architecture, this refers to two to the power of 32, in other words 4.3 billion bytes of information per cycle.

> In the case of 64-bit architecture this refers to two to the power of 64, which totals about 18,400,000 trillion bytes.

Per cycle? Er...
Some issues I notice:

1. Blocks are having different sizes. Sure you may have some fillers, but they don't look nice. A light drop could shatter the whole thing (phone must be able to take hits and drops for many reasons)

2. The pluggable architecture calls for the backbone to be some sort of shared bus, example will be I2C, which may not be efficient for high-bandwidth transfer (e.g. camera to memory). A dedicated bus for some modules will just break the 'plugability'. Mitigation could be to zone the backbone so that each zone's traffic is limited, well, that is not simple...
Sinister Statistics: Do Left Handed People Die Young?
I just parsed them manually; I didn't come up with any syntactically valid combinations in the first 100 attempts.
The exobrowser might be awesome for experimenting with browser ideas, but if it takes off it's a gaping security nightmare since now javascript lives outside the sandbox.

As I understand it, the exobrowser allows you to load a local html/js layout that can embed webcontent objects that behave like top-level frames and the javascript outside the box can presumably see (at minimum) window and url change events inside the webcontents. (Hence, security nightmare.)
Vaccine 'clears HIV-like virus' in monkeys
Top 10 Disappearing Futures (World Future Society)
Interestingly, we in Latvia still have a shot factory which produces shots this way: http://www.dsr.lv/?lang=en
Citation needed on both points. Most evidence points to IQ scores being valid measures of intelligence, in that they have some predictive power, especially for average life outcomes for groups of people, and are mostly stable throughout life. For example, look up the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth, which examines life outcomes based on SAT scores at age 12.
Thanks for the reply. I guess we have a difference of opinion on the concept of modal editing, which is fine.

I find it a plus that I'm not having to move my mouse hand off the base row all the time, and find that vi offers elegant solutions to many oft-recurring tasks people normally accomplish with a mouse (copying a row or two, highlighting text inside brackets / inverted commas, editing a variable name up to a specific point, etc). While I agree that the incantations required are relatively complex, they do become second nature (e.g. I'm an on-and-off user of perhaps 2 years, and I'm comfortable with the basics). This of course comes at the cost of having to switch modes often (and specifically, exit current mode using ESC, which is irritating), but this normally only involves 1 key. I guess a complete cost-benefit analysis would be highly subjective, in my personal experience the trade-off is worthwhile. In short, I'm not aware of anything that comes close to the terseness of vi(m) for basic editing.
Python's dir function is wrong
Any idea, how to decrypt it? I've been dealing with this for two days now. I really want to find out how this works.. :X
Why is this _AGAIN_ here? This has been posted like 50 times already during a couple of days.
And what Linus says isn't actually even anything bad that should create this kind of stupid fuzz.
I've had depression my entire life and was diagnosed clinically depressed at 21. I don't think you have it, yet. That being said, it sucks you have Lyme's disease. I hope you get better soon.
How the 'Mark of the Ninja' designer stayed true to the dark art
>Every Maccard on the planet seems to think pirating OS X is an oh so terrible thing to do

First, who are those "Maccards" you are reffering to? Perhaps you meant to say "OS X user" or "persons who likes Apple stuff".

Second, a lot of us OS X user could not care less if you pirated OS X or not. Matter of fact, I know several people with genuine Macs that also run a Hackintosh (and I experimented with one a while ago).

>(to the point that parent post is bringing up poems about it like its a cute, non-weird thing).

The poem is placed by Apple developers, inside the OS X internels. IIRC, it's loaded in a .kext (a kernel extension). That's cute, especially it being a flippant poem and not some 20 page long legal text. In essense, it's a small easter egg.

It's not like random Apple users write poems about not pirating OS X, which seems to be your impression.

>At the same time pirating everything else on the planet seemingly is OK.

"Maccards think pirating OS X is very bad" (wrong)
"At the same time pirating everything else on the planet seemingly is OK" (wrong again).

Even if "Maccards" (sic) thought that pirating OS X is bad, who told you it's the same persons that think pirating everything else is OK?

>I've never understood the rationale behind this.

The problem might be that what you believe goes on is not happening in the first place.
I don't think this is how it should be, mostly because it's stupid and will backfire. If you want only Ninjas, super developers or those crazy things, expecially if you are not willing to pay for what you ask, you will soon find that it's extremely hard to fill those positions and you will miss people that might be still developing their skills but in future will be brilliant developers. I was lucky enough to get hired from a great company that is not ashamed of picking up "new" developers and grow them. This turned out to be a great strategy and I think that in my case worked out amazingly for both of us!
But lets turn back the clock a few thousand years, where pre-teen boys were practically expected to engage not only in sexual acts/experiences, but often with those FAR older than themselves. At the risk of more unsubstantiated statements (qualifier, I spent 7 years studying latin+latin history), I feel like the amount of sexual content exposed to children in that era was FAR greater than now, even with the internet+porn, just in different media, and handled in very different cultural and social light, with much less stigma.

There seems to be a lot of paranoia around this issue, but observe that there have been HUGE ranges of how humanity has handled sexual content over the last few thousand years around the globe, and generally "we've turned out ok." This is a question that answering empirically will be VERY difficult, due to the sheer complexity of the human development process and the number of confounding variables, and I think a degree of faith needs to be had in the resiliency of our species and social structure to adapt.
Coincidentally, I am working on a BSD-licensed form builder (as part of a larger project), and I found your comment timely and insightful. You may have unknowingly improved our form builder, so thanks :)
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I don't get why people are still whining about this in 2013. Is it really that unreasonable for an OS manufacturer to restrict the devices on which it can be installed? I write firmware for a specific known hardware platform; do I really want the pain of people using it on an Arduino? The appeal of OSX is that it just works, and works beautifully most of the time. Opening it up to all the devices dilutes the main thing it has going for it.

Sometimes there is freedom in restriction.
Now I want a bartending robot with it's own drink-mixing DSL.
I feel for you.
I have reviewed for Packt (for free). It was not a bad experience, and the book is now available and getting great reviews (http://www.amazon.com/Git-Version-everyone-Ravishankar-Somas...). After this book was released and doing well, I was asked to write for Packt as well, but let's just say I would have to have done it for virtually no payment. From what I understand however, this is common with most publishers. I had to opt out after doing a cost/benefit analysis on the project. I figured, if I really wanted to write about the things that interest me, I could do so on my blog.

Some of the work I had to do was non-technical. I would often find myself translating and rewording awkwardly written passages so that they sounded better (the author is a non-English speaker).

That said, Packt is pretty hands off and don't micromanage (which I actually really enjoyed). Most communications that I had with them were initiated by me when I felt things needed to be pushed along during the review process. That said, in the end, a book was published, so I suppose even if the process leading up to that moment was not completely optimized on their end, the end result was a successful book.
Agreed. However any form of "tricking" would be ultimately pointless because a small adjustment could be made to random.c. Existing CPUs can't be "changed" (barring microcode, but avoiding that is simple - don't install new microcode) so they would no longer work against the system.

In addition the amount of transistors required to actively circumvent random.c is prohibitive: CPUs would need to be significantly larger to pull off attacks like this.
Color Picker in Pure CSS (without gradients)
Oh yeah, I remember unplugging my phone at 100% then a few hours later having the 10% warning flash up. Luckily, it's at least better than that.
How long till we hear a similar story about TrueCrypt. Except no one even knows who is behind TrueCrypt. I hope there was some audited fork or another software with similar features(esp. hidden volumes) from a reputable company I could use.
Expect, and get disappointed. Humans simply cannot be perfect at all times. Eventually, we all fuck up. Expect that and you won't be much disappointed.
Certain apps, such as the Finder and the SystemUIServer, are encrypted and this kernel extension will only decrypt the executable pages if it considers your Mac to be genuine (consulting the TPM, I believe).
There should also be a better way to return phones for recycling. Mining the gold and minerals is destructive and it's weird to me that it's easier and cheaper to dig up ore and process it than to grind up old tech and process that.
If they can make it look like a stream of zeros, they can make it look like a random stream which is actually a pseudo-random stream as well.

Also, they might leave some randomness in, but it can be a small enough amount of entropy that it would still render crypto keys vulnerable.
The idea is that this poem is copyrighted as a creative work, and therefore Apple can control its distribution. The actual key contains a copyright message after the poem.
Unlike Apple, Samsung will actually take advantage of the 64-bit support, and will most likely add 4GB of RAM to its next Galaxy S5 smartphone.
Interesting case study of a company that was a leading trophy company in the US in the 70's or 80's that had a model that worked. They had a single production location that shipped nationally across the United States.

They thought they could do the same in Europe, immediately running into problems as they quickly found they would need a distributor in each country which would take a rather large chunk out of their margin. They still proceeded and found that everyone had different tastes, the Italian's liked something flamboyant, the French preferred something classy, the English wanted something Iconic and the German's wanted something Minimalist. In the US, everyone wanted the same thing. In short, the company went bankrupt in both regions due to the errors made in Europe.

There are language differences, cultural differences, tax and regulation differences, additional costs of multiple companies to be setup during expansion and the list keeps going on. Startups stuggle to scale in Europe for very clear reasons, it's much harder to do so. With a small team and little resources, a company can address the entire United States, in Europe they simply can't (of course there are a few lucky exceptions).

So as a European, what has Europe needed for the last two decades to be competitive? Quite obviously, it is to level the playing field and remove those barriers to zero. Until that happens, European Startups will never be able to scale to the size or with the speed of their US competitors. While I think European founders are as smart as American founders, by the points above, does that even matter?

Easier translation such as http://www.reverbeo.com (Friends of mine) will take care of the language barriers on web businesses.
Higher levels of customisation on both software and hardware will take care of the stylisic differences.
But the regulation challenges require EU intervention and we've been waiting a long time for them to do anything.
Functional Color Picker designed in pure CSS
They have been this way for centuries, nay milenia, so it's not like it's some volatile truth that an angry comment will change.

(Not to mention he haven't told us why it SHOULD change).
Ask HN: In a post Sparrow world - how to manage multiple GMail accounts on Mac?
I was a big fan of Sparrow and paid for it right when it came out. Unfortunately, I haven't been able to find a suitable replacement. There are two problems I face:

1. Huge inboxes (10,000+ emails) - I do keep most/all emails archived, but that won't help with a mail client since even the Archive is part of the index. (My workflow is to deal with an email conversation and hit archive on the gmail web interface, this way I keep my inbox clean)

2. Need to use features like search, labels, etc.

3. Multiple gmail accounts (4 at the moment..)

I tried keeping 4 tabs open in Firefox with tab grouping but over a period of time the browser would really really slow down.

I've tried Mailplane but it is very buggy (keep getting errors of being logged out - especially when composing new emails). It's also very slow in terms of marking things as read (I open an email and my notifications will still say that I have the same number of emails read)

With Mail I had the issue of the system really slowing down due to the huge number of emails.

The last version of Sparrow also has the same issue but not as bad as the mac Mail.

So how does everyone on HN manage their multiple gmail accounts ? Is it really still such a struggle or am I missing something ?
Good article if only for "bucket of digital slurry."
Japan’s tech startup solution? Women.
As someone who was within recent memory a "young programmer", I find this somewhat of an untrue statement. At the risk of defending my argument with anecdote, VIM was the tool of choice for my entire circle of friends in my undergraduate/graduate, and many of them now sit at MS, Google, and prestigious universities, I would not consider their (or my) careers crippled by this choice, rather facilitated by a tool which has worked well for our needs, and in application (and yes, I have tried other editors) I have not found lacking.

I would not say I "write Fortran" (given that soon to be father in law does, and I would be an embarassment to his competencies) I am familiar with it, and even so would not argue maintaining huge truckloads of legacy code. There does need to be lines for when you "burn it down" or realize that you've been accumulating technical debt that just maintaining compatibility for and of is only contributing to. I would not say that modern vim falls under this category at this point in time.
Mercedes-Benz reveals recent test of self-driving car
Does Flynn actually have any momentum yet? From what I can see they reached their funding goal then dropped under the radar, I even popped by their IRC channel to see if anything was active there but found it to be partially infested with tumbleweeds.

Not bashing it or anything I'm just interested in its progress but can't find anything!
I'm very upset that this is the top comment on here. 14 year old teenagers are definitely children and they do need to be protected by law from predators.

Everybody should be protected by law from predators. Including you. The claim was that what isn't needed is "protection" by law from recording activities that people willfully perform anyway.
Make sure your physician is evaluating and treating your Lyme. Lyme is relatively uncommon in the Southeast US compared to the Northeast US so physicians here are not as experienced in treating it.

I would also seek a second opinion from a neurologist if you have not already. If you feel that you have cognitive impairment now, then the neurologist may feel that a brain MRI is indicated. This may not affect management, but may provide you with prognostic information.
Wait, so you're saying that the Terraserver project that was supposed to show Windows and SQL Server capabilities was back-ended by a third party company using tomcat, oracle, java and linux. That doesn't make any sense. The OP-linked paper describes how it was all done with NT, IIS and SQL Server. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa226316%28v=sql.70%...
I would say your experience is typical for 99% of the people. High school is ridiculously easy even in Europe let alone in North America. High school can be aced with common sense, some intelligence and minimal learning. And if you happen to go to school in a small local community you are doubly unlucky, because it's much easier to be a local star student there and build unrealistic perception of yourself and pick up a lot of horrible habits that will almost grantee you don't make it later in life. You should not ever gauge anything by high school success (high school failure is on the other hand a good predictor of university success).

Then you move to a hard science university and slowly start realizing that you must actually work and study 8 hours a day or more just to keep up and the subject is basically a bottomless pit, there is no end of it and you could spend thousands of lifetimes studying a single subject and still feel like you are only scratching the surface. This is also where intelligence has lesser and lesser significance (almost none). You may notice that good work habits, good organization habits (anything from note taking, listening, attention to detail, to times you study, to light in your study room), and social skills (who you associate with in school is more important then intelligence) and the ability to stay motivated and inspired by your subject etc. matter way more and are a better predictor of academic success.

I had similar feeling as you (I did pure math undergrad and pure math grad school). You are not slowing down mentally, you are just getting fatigued and saturated and getting into more and more esoteric and fringe areas of your subject study. You have to know that most of those visiting professors are lone experts in esoteric razor edge thin subject and they get incredibly excited when they hear there might be another person somewhere across the globe who might have remote interest in roughly the same thing as them. That's just to give you some perspective. I'm sure when you look back at those courses you took years ago and that you thought were incredibly difficult and challenging, you find them trivially easy and boring. That means you have grown by order of magnitude.
You topped the comments in previous discussion too. (Hope you are the same guy)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2985195
Show HN: Nicehand, a Meteor.js + HTML5 powered poker hand history sharing site
First Hadoop Search Engine Launched By Cloudera
Syntax is what makes the framework micro.

Following your point about the cruft being from the language, Spring MVC is as "micro" as Spark. In fact, it is shorter.

Spring MVC:

@Controller
public class HelloController {
@RequestMapping(value = "/hello", method = RequestMethod.GET)
public @ResponseBody String hello() {
return "Hello World!";
}
}

Spark:

public class HelloWorld {
public static void main(String[] args) {
get(new Route("/hello") {
@Override
public Object handle(Request request, Response response) {
return "Hello World!";
}
});
}
}
There's space inside for more storage in most phones. 64GB is just a point where the number of people who would actually use that amount of space rapidly diminishes.
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Instead of saying put up or shut up, let's think if this is within the capabilities of Intel or an impossible feat.

First off, the RNG doesn't have to reside in RAM as it could already be in cache. So you're already not going to be detected by looking at RAM access. Also, it's not 1992. Modern architectures and modern operating systems are going to throw out instruction timings from Intel manuals. A cache miss and you're toast.

Now if you have a dedicated pipeline to executing a RNG within a code cache, all you would have to do is work out it's inverse. Very plausible.

Unless the above sounds magical, it does seem like this is a possibility. And as it's been shown that the NSA is using it's enormous budget to pay US companies to help do it's bidding, this does seem like it's within reach.
> They arn't children. They are teenagers.

Have you ever met a teenager? They're fucking idiotic. That's why we don't let them drink alcohol or vote or get married or have sex or join the army or a bunch of other stuff.

> You know those dirty letters you got from your sweetheart when you were 17? Sexting is the same damn thing.

No it isn't. A dirty letter is a dirty letter. A photo sent via sms has lasting consequences. Youth don't understand consequences, that's why we need to keep reminding them that anything they put on the Internet will stay there forever.
LucidWorks and Cloudera are at the forefront of enterprise search with Apache Solr at the heart. Congratulations, Cloudera! Enterprise search world couldn't have been more exciting!
It's an arms race.

I see a lot of CVs and the fact is most people exaggerate their skills in their CVs. In turn companies exaggerate their needs in their job descriptions.
I did.

You hint to the fact that even if one does not get paid, the knowledge built upon working in open source can be used for building up a curriculum that helps getting a new job.

Which is true. The only problem is what to earn during the learning process, if open source is the only source of income.

Again, I am not against open source, as I actually am an heavy user of it. But based on personal experience there are only a few markets where I see a possibility to earn money from it, at a sustainable level for what is expected in western civilizations.
A new strategy: no more idea fishing
I really like Long Island Iced Tea, what about other hackers?
http://www.fluentin3months.com/no-usa-for-me/ (2011)