skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author was very obviously biased:

> In short, there is nothing really surprising in this leak. Microsoft does not steal open-source code. Their older code is flaky, their modern code excellent. Their programmers are skilled and enthusiastic. Problems are generally due to a trade-off of current quality against vast hardware, software and backward compatibility.

"Their programmers are skilled and enthusiastic." How would you get that from a code reading? Comments? No developer I know puts enthusiastic comments in unless they are being sarcastic. So, I think the summary tries to whitewash it.

The comments show some problems that never got fixed or addressed properly. They are signs that code at the time was being developed quickly and haphazardly. That is what I mean by crappy. And I'm talking about it being historically crappy, not the way it is today. I can't speak for the state of their code in every project they currently manage.
Life Found Under Ice-Covered Antarctic Lake
Yeah, there should be a step before that involves joins, using composite primary keys and foreign key constraints, views ... just some things that I would say are a step above "I wrote a model file and my ORM issued the appropriate DDLs"
You are not wrong, it's just that your point is pointless. We know bits can be copied at close to zero cost. But the value of the bits can't be realized without the token (if DRM pertains) or can't legally be realized (if a single-user license pertains). The bits without the token have almost zero value. You are loaning the ability to realize the value of the bits.

You said "Loaning digital goods is a gibberish statement." This is simply not true.
And screenshots. Definitely screenshots.
"I have come to find out what it's like to be dumb."
Massive underground water reserve discovered in drought-stricken Kenya
Somehow I doubt this applies to NY Times readers.
It's ads and trackers all the way down?
It sounds a lot like someone making money. You play these over your $150,000 speakers with $10,000 speaker wire and you can pretty much hear the money hitting the table.

I heard this story on my way to work this morning and was just shaking my head. There are probably going to be a lot of people wanting to try out this newfangled $50 album, though.
Sorority/college sweater?
Here's my guess:
1) It's easier to say here pay $300 and you'll be able to play graphically intensive games vs here pay $200, install this video card into your computer, update your PC and drivers, etc.

2) Much harder to pirate console games. <-- probably the main reason.
Yeah, we had done some research before going into the call, which is why we were just floored at what they were saying. "So you're saying that an enterprise license is more expensive than the business rate listed on your website?" ... "yeah."

I think the whole google maps enterprise was just somebody high up saying "hey, maps is popular, let's try monetizing it" and then not actually holding any of their sales people accountable for anything.
>> It is alarmist and misleading, but it is also something that will continue to detract a new user's view of the JVM as a platform, like startup time.

No, it's just alarmist and mis-leading, the answer is upgrade. That's the answer for Java, Operating Systems (example Windows XP), Smart Phones, it's how software has worked for decades. There's nothing new about it.

Someone got a wild hair and posted a sensationalist title that JavaScript people on HN would like and want to jump on.
Didn't say it was impossible, just low :-).
WiFi-equipped Arduino Yun now available for $69
You just contradicted your claim that no privacy violations would occur.

You say no privacy violations "were going to result from this type of information-gathering". However you then concede that it resulted in a "privacy leak in that they showed Facebook users from her high school her picture," mentioning several reasons why the target may find this invasive. You frame it as "unintentional", but that is irrelevant; you've contradicted your claim.

I would certainly not argue that the critereon is intent to do physical harm, which is how you define "stalking". Boy, would an awful lot of stalking no longer be considered "stalking" under that definition. By your definition cyberstalking is ok if you only want to date them and/or joke with your bros about it, not rape someone.

Rather the issue is whether the actions of, say, posting your photo in a Facebook ad campaign -- and otherwise pursuing means of "information-gathering" so extraordinary that one needs to post to Hacker News to explain them -- might reasonably considered a willful invasion of a person's privacy. Certainly it could be, and these guys just didn't care, because they're just having a laugh, and she's probably cool with it, and if she's not, well screw her because girls should be cool with that sort of thing.
> If at this point, Putin sounds reasonable and is starting to look like the better of two devils, we're in deep shit.

Even a good person can be wrong sometimes, even a bad person can be right.
Long-time Java developer here saying I mostly abandoned ship several years ago. Still work doing some Java dev, but have mostly switched to Ruby, because Scala is unreadable to me and I've not found anything else I like as much as Ruby yet. Oracle really fucked things up, if for no other reason than they've poorly managed security issues. They let the government tell people to uninstall Java from their browsers. That is fucked up. It's like they don't even care and want it to die.
Presidents get much larger platforms from which to sell their opinions on foreign policy to Americans.
A Social Network for Crohn’s Disease – Crohnology (YC S12)
Most Amazing Magical RARE EARTH Stylus
Lavabit’s Owner Appeals Secret Surveillance Order That Led Him to Shutter Site
Whats wrong with that? We don't question tastes in art, why audio? I don't need logic or research or the agreement of others, I just know what sounds right to me, and that is perfectly solidly reasonable. Ears are as weird and personal as eyes, as is our interpretation. You wont necessarily hear what I hear. On top of that, over time they change.

No need for words like wacko and religious. Unless of course you doing mind if I fire back with a few judgmental words of my own?
They're actually fancy Latin words.
Microsoft TerraServer (1998)
Sure, they'll all ring in to vote on American Idol, but it's a tough sell to vote yes on gay marriage

And yet that has a fair degree of legal protection at the federal level and is legal in multiple states now, whereas in Russia it is now a crime to promote the view that homosexuality is normal.

The American people have always been politically conservative and reluctant to abandon their residual Calvinism; if you think this is peculiar to the last 20 or 30 years you're dead wrong.
It's simple, they're cheaper and easier to use.
I am an American, but I usually hit the BBC up when I need a news fix. http://www.bbc.com/news/
Breach Attack: SSL, Gone in 30 Seconds
How long does it take to reach around 40 – 50 words per minute ?
Doesn't the article pertain to applets? Are there any developers out there still writing Java applets?
True, but in that case the government forces should have been falling over themselves to facilitate the work of the UN inspectors.
> "Objects respond to messages from "god" at arbitrary times in an untestable way."

Not untestable or arbitrary, or necessarily a problem. First, almost all processes have some structure that is not random and arbitrary. Second, the science and engineering of distributed systems has some results and approaches that help deal with events that are, or appear, arbitrary. For example idempotence, immutability, monotonically increasing functions such as max() that give the same result independent of the timing or order of events. It's not easy necessarily, but in a distributed system, events are what you have under the pile of turtles.
A good reply to such articles: http://www.lostgarden.com/2005/09/nintendos-genre-innovation...

> As a side note, folks who argue Nintendo should just make games for other platforms are completely missing the point. Nintendo needs to control their hardware platform in order to force innovation to occur in the control mechanisms. Other console manufacturers who rely on the hardcore audiences and standardized genres don’t see this need. They would happily standardize the console platform and make it into a commodity. Microsoft has historically made major comments about having one universal development platform.

> The moment Nintendo loses control over their hardware, they lose a major competitive advantage in terms of creating new genres.
Yes, you are never actually buying a game, you are buying a license to play it. Even with boxed versions.
Further observation: not one mention of maintenance or architecture, critical for all nontrivial or non 'fire and forget' projects ... very much reflects the fact that this was built by a web agency, whose culture centers around disposable, prettified projects with easily invoiceable deadlines.
This C program not only reads as a series of letters, it also does something (slightly) interesting:

http://www.ioccc.org/1990/westley.c

(HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=375945)
Not to mention the amount of paper, energy to print and distribute. I know some people to like to thumb through physical books, and I'm sounding like a tree hugger, but small differences from everyone can make big impacts.
It does, to a Qwerty typist, or to one who switches between for whatever reason. Quite a few keys in Colemak are preserved between it and Qwerty (like zxcv), making it both easier to learn and easier to jump back and forth.

Personally, when I play the occasional video game, I'll do so in Qwerty instead of redefining every key. For typing and programming (aka daily life), I use Colemak.
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I wasn't very clear about it because it does really vary a lot. I've read of people reaching 40-50 in a week, for me it took me about 15 days.

After that I went 'cold turkey' and dropped QWERTY, while doing that I think that in about a month and a half I reached ~70 WPM.
There's an endcap at my local Sam's Club with Chromebooks. It's amazing to see them lined up like they're an impulse buy. I think they're actually in the boxes and not just a stack of empty boxes to claim the real device from a security cage. That's about as commodity as you can get.
In my experience it took around 1-2 months to become fully "fluent" in Colemak.
For starters....maybe it is as a result of a difference in investment thesis?

The things I have heard him talk about, I can't imagine a YC company doing that. Not saying that they won't, and going forward that may be the case, but I can't recall ever hearing many/any YC company making synthetic beef, or new types of seed, or other stuff that I hear Vinod talking about all the time.

Now don't get me wrong, I am not saying that there are no YC companies that do these things. It's just that based on what I know, if there are any, it is a small subset.

From there, then it is about whether or not the company founders and Khosla Ventures work well together and see the big picture similarly. Not every company that is in an industry you invest in, will be suitable for you to invest in - for a variety of reasons.

So, if we were to be generous, I would say 5% of all YC companies would make up the total "investable pool" for Khosla Ventures. That's only 20 companies. From there....there is no telling why they haven't invested - e.g. all 20 could conflict with existing portfolio companies, or maybe only 15 do and the other 5 are not as impressive as they would like or any other reasons that disqualify them from being investable and reaching a deal with Khosla.

So all in all....if YC were producing 400 of the types of companies that fit Khosla's thesis...then I would agree with you.

But that is clearly not the case....so I don't think that is a useful data point.
That's easy. User maintenance is a lot easier for XBone and PS4 than it is for any general purpose PC.
the law doesn't apply if you are a "very important person", don't believe what politicians say.
I've heard the term "ecologically valid social skills"[1] in the world of child ASD social skills training. I think much of the information from successfully teaching skills to children with ASD would apply to teaching normal children.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJwq7gg2Pw0&t=5m57s
Yep, the best one yet, IMO. A stunning selection.

The only trouble is I already own all of them. :(
Brilliant! And smooth abd clean. Saw it on Boing.
I helped build a dome in the late 60's. I think it ended up like your total utter failure - but I was gone by then.
I like the idea of using such a thing as a (flat) roof-top shelter on a garage or something (me downtowner).
And I'm highly amused that all the commentary I had the stamina to scan was about housing prices and nothing about structure.
cheers, Good Luck, Tedsy
Syria are not a signatory to the Chemical Weapons Convention (neither are the USA, Israel or Russia)

The US, Russia and Israel most certainly are signatories to the CWC. US and Russia both ratified in 1997, Israel has signed but not ratified. The CWC had the force of law once it had 65 signatories. Why would you not bother to check such a simple fact before posting?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_Weapons_Convention
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_parties_to_the_Chemical...
1)The instability of Syria could cause the rebels to gain access to unsecured chemical weapons that the obviously incompetent Assad govt may have.

2) Some rebel groups may have chemical weapons and if they use them Assad might feel like he can use his in defense.
High end audio delivers an experience which cannot be easily quantified for the listener. It's just like wine, most people (even many wine experts) can't tell wines apart, let alone rank them in double blind experiments, but drinking wine, from the presentation to the bottle to the company you're keeping at the time is what brings it together.

It could be anything in that bottle at that point, but the emotions of that holistic experience are what matter.
I never felt pained on switching layouts. If this makes any sense: learning the muscle memory for Colemak almost seems to be on a lower "level" than vim (to me), so I kept hitting 'i' and 'a' and so on without even noticing.
Actually it includes the freedom to make licensing as difficult as possible for those who want to use your code.

The GPL is incompatible with several FOSS licenses including itself (GPLv2 only and GPLv3 being the best example) and such legal issues only serve to drive away potential users of those licenses.

Personally, that's why I find the Mozilla Public License 2.0 to be the only copyleft license I can trust.
It's much clearer than the GPL, it doesn't have restrictions on dynamic linking, it is copyleft to itself but it allows code to be shipped under a defined secondary license. By default these are the entire *GPL family from v2, but it can be expanded to include other copyleft licenses such as MPLv1 or the CDDL if the developer so wishes, as long as the parts under the MPLv2 are available separately from the project under that license.

This stops license incompatibilities, something that the FSF needs to work on with their licensing scheme.
Startup time is a legitimate issue with the JVM...
Our startup launched after 3 years in development. What we’ve learned.
Strength of gravity shifts
Yep. Nothing's as good as finding out someone's name to prove you're good at writing webapps...

oh wait :p
I agree that we shouldn't go to war. My point was only that, while ad hominem attacks are not a valid form of argument in a debate setting, I think they are when it comes to heads of state.
The iPhone 5S is better than the Lumia 1020
There's an official API for HN that is much easier to use at https://www.hnsearch.com/api
Speaking to the portable gaming space, I'd also add that a big part of games is the controls. Phones don't have a d-pad and buttons (or analog sticks, etc..). That pretty much makes games like Super Mario Brothers impossible. You can have your simplified endless runners, and that will probably satisfy most people. But for serious gamers, you need more precise control than a non dedicated console can provide.
OK, so I don't quite have kids yet but I would tend to disagree... it's possible to be firm without screaming. I mean what is screaming, basically? It's expressing frustration or anger by "me-me-me"-ing your environment: blocking out what anyone else might be saying or doing, potentially while demanding them to behave how you wish them to. Not so different to a politican or an Oprah argument, really. Isn't that exactly the kind of antisocial habit that parents should be teaching children not to engage in?
Agree with the dependency bug and the jquery effects.

Disagree that the specificity is bad. If someone doesn't already have the skill, the specificity helps. I'd suggest something like "Can build complete highly interactive SPAs with frameworks like Ember.js..."
Makes sense to me, I felt the exact same way.

I think that it's better to let the muscle memory of Colemak to develop and you will eventually get used to vim.

When I use vim I'm constantly thinking about words, like 'ci' (change in) 'ya' (yank around) etc.

So when you get your Colemak right vim is not a big hassle.
China has no dog in this fight, and getting them onside just involves reminding them how they feel about the Japanese use of chemical weapons in the battle of Changde.
"...If at this point, Putin sounds reasonable and is starting to look like the better of two devils, we're in deep shit...."

Well, at this point with the NSA scandals, this Syrian civil, I am convince that Putin is the reasonable voice and that we ARE in deep shit.
Speaking of which, for the rethink people on the thread, how much of old "key-value store for SSDs" code is still active? Is the document store at all a layer on top of that?
It's amazing that you managed not to mention the chemical weapons issue even one time.
I don't agree that'd be a disaster, I personally like the idea or at least something similar.

Essentially it's about basing promotions & pay based off meritocracy. There could be concerns about the Peter Principle [0] but at a high level, it appeals to me to work in an environment where people can "prove" they have the skills, instead of talking the talk or simply being the oldest employee.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Principle
As to why a system like the 2DS or 3DS or Vita is compelling when we all have iPhones or Android devices, for me it comes down to the control systems.

Touchscreens are fine for a narrow band of game types, but I wouldn't want to play the latest Mario platformer or Little Big Planet or 3D FPS with one. For lots of games I'll take the physical d-pad and/or analog sticks and physical buttons any day.

And while you technically can get such controllers to sync with touch-centric devices, it isn't quite the same if you have to carry around a separate controller. Even more importantly, it isn't the same if the controller type is not completely standardized so that games for the platform can expect it. External controllers are a fine solution for emulation on phones and tablets, but not for core games on the actual native platform.
I think you have a different sort of 'taste' in mind than busterarm does.

It is a very reasonable thing to prefer record over CD. They have different sounds, people have different likes, easy, done.

But if someone tells you they prefer the look of HDMI when you use gold-plated wires, they're clearly deceiving themselves, because as a digital signal there is no difference whatsoever.

So the important question to ask is whether people can hear the difference. I will accept that some people have better/different ears from others, but the best way to demonstrate that ability is a double-blind test.

Your standard is what 'sounds right'. Well, if you can reliably tell me that X technology sounds better than Y technology, without labels on the two sets of headphones in front of you, then great, that's all I wanted. I don't need any kind of research showing that a format is objectively 'better'. I just want someone to show that it's objectively different to human ears.

If someone says they have a preference, but doesn't actually prefer either one in a blinded test, then the labels 'wacko' and 'religious' fit.
Its painful sometimes to read audiophile forums. Often you'll see people claim that FLAC audio doesn't sound as good as raw PCM. Some people seem so proud of their ignorance that they ignore the benefits instead of trying to understand.
It is an interesting debate, mostly centered around the chicken and the egg, which is do evil people become rich? or do rich people become evil? And its an area I've wondered about as well as I've personally known lots of people who have gone from 'not rich' to 'rich' and was able to observe some before and after studies.

This was a recent PBS NewsHour report on the Psychology of Wealth (http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/jan-june13/makingsen...) which included this comment:

"One of the things that wealth and money does is it comes with a set of values, and if you want a deeper ideology, and one of them is, generosity is for suckers and greed is good. But it turns out, there are a lot of new data that show, if you're generous, and charitable, and altruistic, you will live longer, you will feel more fulfilled, you will feel more expressive of who you are as a person. You probably will feel more control and freedom in your life."

My observation over the years watching people become millionares and billionares is that there is a switch that people do when they go from 'not rich' to 'rich' where they have to somehow rationalize their wealth relative to their friends who are still not wealthy. My first exposure was at Sun (I joined on the Monday after they had gone public) and a number of people were thinking they were better off than before, but by the time I left nearly 10 years later many knew they were much better off.

One of the more common rationalizations was they 'deserved' it, there was something special about what they had done, or what they brought to the company that made the company (and them) successful. Lots of things to point too and remember to give some meat to that belief. I met people who were fired at Sun for being incompetent, got jobs in start ups that went public during the dot-com boom, became multi-millionares and got fired again and still believed it was their "specialness" that made them rich, not random chance.

My best guess is that when you are rich you become a target for people who want to be rich but aren't. This is a common fate of lottery winners who often lose all their winnings in a relatively short time for reasons that are not altruistic or fulfilling. Makes me wonder what divorce rates are for lottery winners compared to the general population. Being so targeted can make you cynical, and perhaps push you toward being evil.

There is lots of research into the topic, lately its been a bit trendy because the disparity between wealth and non-wealth in the Bay Area and elsewhere makes for good page views (and discussion).

From the perspective of VC's, which are a self selected group of people with money, they are often people who are rich and trying to get richer still, and it perhaps that trait which selects for soullessness. People who get rich, stop work, and spend the rest of their days doing things that make them happy are not in that group so the results skew.
Reminded of haikus written in Ruby: http://timelessrepo.com/haiku
Depends on the concentration in the air. The concentration required to be lethal via inhalation may be vastly less than to be lethal via absorption through the skin, and therefore a mask may be the difference between life and death.