skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"We need to protect speaker reputation..."

...followed immediately by list of glowing adoration that ends up dancing from point to point. While the True Believer has been been known to make posts like this, it really has more of the feel of a /salesman/.

"Nobody was reading Wikipedia links, organizers were only seeing that I am calling 'their' speaker a scammer."

Many true believers (at least from my experience) will look at the links, and initially make up some sort of defence, which often takes the form of arguing why those references suddenly don't apply or don't are excusable. It's only after they realize they can't argue against it that the entire subject becomes taboo.

The used-car salesman, however, will suddenly find new ways to not talk about that Big Defect even though they know all about it.

These organizers are on the take, or at least profiting form the situation personally in some way. It's possible they don't even realize it.

Fortunately, given the comments about TED shutting down similar situations, it looks like this particular problem is not going to persist. Even better: if the talks are "water engine" quality, refunding your ticket was probably a blessing.
Search distribution is a common way of monetizing freeware and it doesn't count as malware unless it resists switching search providers back.

But that person surely needs VLC instead, which too may come with 3rd-party crapware installer if you're not careful.
You don't even need a knife, you already have several of them - spinning. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2413231/Roman-Piroze... - "... was pulling a stunt with the chopper at a Brooklyn park Thursday afternoon when he lost control and the RC device flew into his head. The blades sliced off a piece of his skull and slashed his throat."
I remember my first internship at a famous company.
The first thing they told us was R&D was 2% of revenue. Marketing 50%.
And we're talking billions here.
Are you suggesting that an alliance (between nations) is equivalent to the United Nations?
I don't understand what this offers that isn't offered by, say, Riak. Riak ticks all the same big feature boxes as zBase (distributed, elastic KV-store that persists to disk) and has the advantage that Someone Else (i.e. Basho) is paying for development.
For Red Dead Redemption, wives of the developers has written several open letters to show the world the horrible condition their husbands were facing.

You can easily find this story, like on Gamasutra:
http://www.gamasutra.com/blogs/RockstarSpouse/20100107/4032/...
Currently zBase does not have any capabilities for indexing. But, the inherent design enables to use incremental replication protocol to build things outside of zBase to do indexing.

zBase is used as highly available key-value store for writes and reads. It offers few fancy operations like get-lock as well.
Drones are sensational but a deer rifle with a scope is going to be a much bigger threat for a long time to come. RC planes were available in '63 but I doubt Lee Harvey Oswald considered one of those.

You can stop "drones" like these with a simple net if they really become a problem.
Your straw man doesn't work. In a trivial sense, we are machines. There's nothing magic between quantum mechanics and a fully functional brain. Our soul is material, made up of neurons and other cells.

Just like a man-made machine, we are physical processes. We're just much better at self reference than the machines we build.
This actually might be a first for OS X freeware. Certainly I've never seen (or heard of) a 3rd party toolbar/whatever bundled into an OS X package before this.
This is absolutely not true about Nokia.

Nokia took the competition seriously, but made a single fatal error: it tried to evolve its low end platform into its high end platform. While that strategy makes complete sense in 90% of cases for market innovation, in the mobile phone industry--which, it turns out, was going through revolution--Nokia should have done the opposite. People often forget that Nokia still controls more than 70% of the worldwide phone market, and controlled vastly more of it in the mid-2000's. In 2007, they had no idea that 90% of industry profits would come from the 30% of the market that they were not focusing on.

You can't really fault them for that, because strategically it makes perfect sense. They regarded the competition seriously but had a flawed approach/response.

That being said, they had a bunch of half-assed hedges against their fatal strategy, like high-ish end platforms such as Maemo, Symbian's advanced versions, etc.., but in fast moving markets with extraordinarily complicated infrastructure/platforms, this approach does not work. You can half-ass evolution, but you have to full-ass revolution.

They realized this mistake fairly early on, but by then it was too late to develop a platform, and full-assing it would have put the company's core competencies at huge risk. So Kallasvuo was fired, Elop was hired, the company moved in with Microsoft, and, eventually, they married.
Why would you write a whole post about a bunch of new features, and then include demos that only work in one browser on a new mobile OS release? Why not include screenshots?

Still, neat to see that Apple is shipping some of Adobe's new prototype css/canvas features. They seem pretty useful.
Mutt son - Mutt.
I really like your comment, I actually believe this goes really deep

when a company is of a certain size and top management is making millions, radical change becomes impossible

BB is dying, because it needed a radical change, but top management, I think, were too afraid to act on it

This is even true of lower levels inside organization, managers accept defeat rather than challenge it by requesting a radical change

To add more, I believe manager prefer to fail for doing small changes, rather than fail .. because they took on radical changes ...

they should have gone radical, but they went incremental, because its better for management to fail that way
Good question. It's not clear where there data source is coming from (well, their own service, but where is that coming from?). Data source is important: Using craigslist for instance will ignore tons of places on the low end causing distortions.
This sounds like a great opportunity for anyone wanting to get into os development with a few easy tasks still todo.

I'm curious how you would configure and manage your applications. Like are you able to attach to the input and output streams from the host or would you still get some basic form of bash to manage it?
In a worst case scenario, I've seen PMs at a large company that was building an internal tool for its own use watch pitches by startups who ran white-label products with the same functionality. They did it to see if there was a better solution and if there wasn't they still got ideas on things that maybe should be included in their product. In the end, execution and scarce internal resources meant the final internal product was far worse than market options, so I wouldn't worry about that.

Now, the fun part is that not too long ago I actually joined that big scary company that could have been a competitor to start pushing internal startup opportunities for new revenue models and products i was considering. I reached SVP level execs, and saw how political winds above the VP level blew whatever meaningful thing got in their way without recourse. Compared to running with my own startup, that type of intrapreneurship felt like walking through a tar-pit. If it requires political approval and funding your "enemy" PM will likely have to fight a harder battle than you.

Make your product as good as it gets and you win, regardless of how many competitors know about it.
Trello is pretty flexible. I love it and my clients find it easy to use. It runs on all devices big and small so they can use it on the road. I wrote a tool (yes I am pimping it, it is what I do these days) called reportsfortrello.com that will show you what they are all up to. Both my site and Trello are free. There are other tools that will track time and tasks with Trello as well. Checkout boardtrail.com and burndownfortrello.com for more solutions.

I hope you find what you are looking for.
Not if you teach your children critical thinking and to base their opinions on something provable.
Find a way to give back the old compose message box, charge $1 to buy the feature and you'll be a millionaire in a week.
I got a tiny little bit of that old C64 feeling showing my daughter how to cheat at Cookie Clicker (a browser game) yesterday. It's got nice and clean Javascript source code with comments, and all you need is a console prompt.
Your point was a lot more coherent before "the other side of that coin".
Each developer account can register 100 devices. People would sign up for a developer account, then go on eBay etc and sell "get iOS 7 beta for $10!", register the customer's UDID on their dev account, and send them a copy of the ipfw.
Not only celebs, Soulwax a belgian music group created their own Radio Station on GTA V...
Vuze for Mac does.
Glad to see Adobe's input into CSS - can't wait for CSS shaders to make their mainstream debut.
It is really depressing that we live in a society where our first instinct is to think "what would happen if someone strapped a bomb to that".

In contrast, in Germany this wass a prank, and only about surveillance. And the police let the guy go after a short interrogation.
Quoting a CCCP developer on the subject[1]:

> In short, though: More support for formats to be decoded, best HW acceleration available as open source, much less hacks in there compared to FFDShow-tryouts, uses vanilla-based ffmpeg libraries instead of the mess that is in FFDShow-tryouts, as well as LAV Filters just being still in active development compared to FFDShow-tryouts being dead.

FFDShow still offers more extensive video/audio postprocessing options over LAV Filters, but most people are probably not even aware that they even exist.

Anyway, personally I would highly recommend using CCCP if you're on Windows - it doesn't ship with any useless extras (like most codec packs you might find on the internet) and is pre-configured to maximize compatibility and playback quality - you get better quality than VLC will offer, for example. And if you throw madVR on top of that you can make it even better with top of the line rendering and scaling (though the difference isn't admittedly that big).

[1] http://www.cccp-project.net/forums/index.php?topic=6677.msg4...

If you're on OS X or some *nix and want a simple video playback solution you're better off using VLC, though. For advanced users, there's mpv.
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> Most are only concerned with propping up their families and embezzling enough money to send their kids to a nice school abroad that doesn't suck.

You've just described "people in power" world wide. It isn't unique to communism, or china.

A huge amount of their economy is state owned[0]

That alone is a tenant of marxism. I'm not particularly interested in "true scotsman" style argument regarding is China 'really communist', as you can easily make the case that the U.S isn't technically a democracy, but it doesn't get us anywhere. It's just an argument of semantics.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_State-owned_enterprises...
Thank you for letting me know in a kind way.

I figured out so but I also thought that when I submit a link that's already been submitted it would take me to the previous submission rather than resubmitting it, or does it resubmit if there's a big time difference?
I think Bing is more willing to spend money to get traffic. You can easily get $5 a month in Amazon credit from their rewards program just by using Bing. They have a few other interesting promotions, such as starbucks cards and XBox Live Gold membership. But I'm sure this is costing them a decent amount of money.
Yup they definitely look like a team I could enjoy working with..
I wrote a site called reportfortrello.com where you can see each member's time and how many tasks they worked on. I hope you try it before giving up on Trello.
I would say that the oposite is true. Brainwashing takes the same mecha isms that we use as humans to be able to learn our how to behave in the society, and how to learn to be a person. I have small kids and they are like empty disks looking for something to copy. They copy behaviours that sourround them and make them part of their personality.

Adults just slow down the writting but we always try to fit in the social group that we are living. And that includes political opinions, faith, etc...
Maybe you could have requested him/her to use headphones. Many a times in a situations similar to above I have requested my coworkers to use earphones, and usually they would comply.
Recent graduates or interns is very long term, but a good idea.
First ship photo

My favorite part of the setup was the utterly useless desk safe, easily jimmied open (and then permanently broken) by using two Navy-issue pairs of scissors. Then, invariably, someone would forget to wedge their safe door open and you'd have to barge through staterooms in officer country during heavy seas at 3 a.m. to look for the offending thunk, thunk that was driving everyone insane.

Oh, to be 23 again...
Still waiting for Safari to report scroll events correctly. Still waiting...
Hi, I am making them! I created reportsfortrello.com. I am adding new stuff all the time. Let me know what you need and I'll add it if I can.
Why are laws and the government a bitch? How much would the self-motivated guys cost? And why do you say that it's a bit late to be jumping on?

Cheers!
Sure but it seems both you and he can both be right in a sense. A designer needs Dribblized portfolio and Dribblization is making things shallow and hard to use.

The present ultra-competitive world optimizes some things but neglects others.
I agree, for customers, Trello > redmine.
Can someone tell me what CyanogenMod does that my Stock 4.2 Android doesn't do? I had a quick look at the site, and the answer at the moment seems to be "Sound, Themes, and Settings" - none of which excite me enough to make it worth flattening my phone and reinstalling everything.
Really? A sappy slide show set to Lee Greenwood with 316,000 views over 4 years is comparable to a Communist POW camp.

If that's brainwashing, then what do you call this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH2-TGUlwu4
101,912,811 views.
That's a pretty good point. They were essentially both puppets of the large powers, and the war pretty much a proxy war.

But that makes the POWs change of attitude less brainwashy and more 'informed' in my opinion.
This is so much worse than the torture and rape we did on the Chinese! Keep highlighting this!
Also if anyone is thinking of watching the 2004 remake/'re-imgainging' … don't bother.
I believe in Mono if one does Ahead-of-Time compilation the bytecode is just mem mapped in and can be shared between runtimes, giving you much of the advantage of this work.
> it doesn't count as malware unless it resists switching search providers back

Bullshit. If installing software changes random settings on my computer, it's malicious. If it was a default in the app itself, that's a different matter.
Earth can support life for 1.75 billion years
So Rockstar San Diego is 100% male then?
A source code is not valuable IP ... the people that wrote it are precious. Reading and understanding source code is so hard that it is often cheaper to develop from scratch if you are competitor.

There are exception of course ... but unless a team includes a few Carmacks and the likes its value is often overstated.
Me neither! Did you ask him to use headphones?
FWIW, CCCP is for Windows, and the complaint in the link is about OS X.
Installing separate decoders for every single format is just dumb and a waste of time. Something like LAV Filters will handle pretty much everything you throw at it, and on top of that you just need a media player like MPC-HC and a decent subtitle renderer like xy-vsfilter. Incidentally, this is pretty much exactly what CCCP gives you with a simple single installer.
Don't wait. File a bug report.

http://bugreporter.apple.com

http://www.openradar.me
I disagree with the _utility_ of the article's conclusion - "keep the facts in mind when you are asked to do things". Basically it says - be in control of what you do. Or, we are always a step or two behind (we only realize later what happened in a certain situation). So what you do when somebody applies a technique on you, which you don't know yet, in a situation in which you are caught, which you don't yet realize it fully (this perhaps comes later, or never)? I hint that the solution is more about what you do in general when you don't know things, than what to do to know them beforehand (which i think it's impossible). How is one grown to deal with the unknown, without resorting to the "you must also recognize this situation as this or that"
That's right, lets take our Western-pro-US measuring stick out and measure china against it in order to show they are not as "successful".

China's goal posts are not in the same spot as the US's.
People would probably only use wtf if the language did something that they didn't expect of it, regardless of how wtf the language actually is. This just shows that Python programmers programming in Python use WTF x times and Java programmers using Java use WTF y times.

(This would also explain why the wtf rate for Javascript is so low ;) )
You're thinking short term. DARPA was already testing drones that can see who you are from 1.8 KM above.
Is there something I'm missing, or should someone file a bug report with Opera if their lexer is taking noticeably more time and memory to strip whitespace?
It's easy to write off what I've said as overly critical, especially since the underlying sentiment has some valid points. But here being right for the wrong reasons or being close enough is just not acceptable. Precision isn't just important, it's everything. Whether HSR or hyperloop we're talking about a cutting edge multi-billion dollar infrastructure project. Californian highspeed rail is expected to cost more than the Manhattan project (adjusted for inflation). This is not a topic that allows for sloppiness in its discussion.

If a technical article about how facebook is able to scale was posted to HN and then someone made the comment: "Everyone knows that scaling java services is easy, the real problem is that facebook doesn't have a clue how to monetize effectively." people would jump all over them. Regardless of whether or not the criticism of facebook's monetization strategies was accurate. When you make a fundamental technical error on that scale it immediately red flags whatever point you are trying to make, and if the rest of your post is just assertions and opinions with no backup then your post should be ignored, and rightly so.

If you want to talk about multi-billion dollar high technology projects and you don't care about getting the details right then I suggest you go to the bar and discuss things with the other patrons there. If you want to have a serious discussion though then you better come to the table with the correct facts.
I used to trade on the largest trading floor in the world. It's the ultimate open office plan - MD next to associate director next to operations analyst next to napping beer cart attendant. Information flowed like quicksilver, and bureaucratic hurdles were resolved in a rapid sequence of huffs and grunts. For pounding through a structured list of tasks, there was no match. For more cerebral work, I hated it.

My most productive and cherished hours were those after the close, when I could snap in headphones and burn through theoretically intense if P&L-vague projects. Incidentally, it was those projects which made the bank's quarter for every quarter I worked there.

There is a personality that thrives on open office plans. I, sometimes, am one of them. But open layouts encourages rapid, myopic collaboration over deep thinking. The ideal solution might be an open office layout with a "library" retreat.
Ask HN: Is there a distributed B-tree database?
I need a database that supports fast sequential reads in lexicographical order, like LevelDB. This is usually achieved by using a structure like a B-tree. But then I would like it to be distributed, ideally being able to rebalance itself amongst existing and new nodes as data grows. Does such a thing exist?
You could if you target really high end PCs but a lot of the PC market is now laptops or people who don't want to upgrade every 6 months to a year.
1) Protect your intellectual property by obfuscating code

There is no protection in minifying an interpreted language. This is an invalid argument.
Thanks. I didn't consider that the mere act of having sshd deny attempts is a performance cost. I guess one could potentially dos a server by flooding the sshd with bogus attempts?
Remember how Nokia was pioneering an alternative Linux mobile is until Microsoft started talking to them?
There is this pretty cool research project at Stanford (it's headed by Andrew Ng of the Coursera fame) that uses NLP and machine learning to detect content that the user might prefer not to see. It's still pretty rough around the edges but this demo is pretty cool.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
Riak is extremely slow, perhaps zBase delivers better performance?
That only helps with the 'size' problem, which we do not really have; it does nothing [1] with the 'power' problem, and the related 'heat' problem.

If you stack 20 ARM CPUs in a single package, it fits in your phone, but it will burn it, too, if it does not run out of its battery first.

[1] Maybe a little bit, as 3D allows for slightly shorter connections.
Java has had Class Data Sharing (CDS) since jdk1.5, an archive of "standard libraries" shared between all instances. It can be rebuilt with additional libraries, speeding their load and reducing their footprint.

Links to notes on this, https://plus.google.com/113218107235105855584/posts/K9seVudj... . Stack overflow q, http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4692076/speed-up-applicat...

CDS is fantastically un-isolated and using it is going to be systemwide. You're still running many many java copies, and that is fat in size, ugly and busted in form. Containers like Tomcat exist to solve a near-like problem of being a many-application serving system. This virtualized virtual machine is definitely the first runtime that's oriented to multi-tenant, but if you look around, you can find some it's technical roots here and there.
Question is, would it have made the game better? Or would it have been the same game with more content (so that you could hunt 1000 different animals instead of 50 (just throwing out number, I don't know the actuals)) but which nobody knew about?
I stand corrected on the Photo stream data thing. My experience with it is not that it syncs the recent ones first. My experience is they pop in randomly, then it stalls for half an hour for no reason. Maybe it's gotten better recently.

It's still ridiculous that the answer to "I want to send this thing between these two devices in front of me" is "I have to send every photo I take to a server owned by a company somewhere".

Clearly Apple agrees, or they wouldn't have created AirDrop in the first place!
SAGE GOES IN EVERY FIELD

Ahhh, memories.
> solely to broadcast that don't-bother-me signal.

Current workplace has a no-headphones rule, exactly because of that.

Many people were donning headphones as soon as they arrived in the office and not taking them off until home time, simply to avoid having to interact with anyone else.

So now no-one can avail of shorter periods of non-interruption, but I understand why they banned them.

In-ear earphones seem to be tolerated, so long as they are removed when someone comes to talk.
Any piece of software for which "Click the 'hot dog' button" is a non-ironic command is probably best avoided...
Agreed. I have my iPhone with iOS7 next to me, but right now I'm reading HN on my Mac. Demo video would be nice...