skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Regarding his assertion about reference counting: Apple's implementation of ARC for Objective-C doesn't handle cycles (it requires the engineer to reason about weak and strong references in order to prevent memory leaks), but it is certainly a "serious" implementation. The fact that it doesn't have facilities for detecting and releasing cyclic references makes it definitely not the "other side" of the GC coin.

That being said, ARC-style reference counting is more limited in terms of what developers can do with their code, and it may not be a general enough solution for a language like C++ (which strives to be all things to all people). Weak pointers in Objective-C also require runtime support, which could probably not be appropriate for high-performance applications in many cases.
As a hardcore SC2 player, I'd only be interested in a native version of this game. Even the latest ASM.JS demos like Epic Citadel run chopping on my system. Hardcore gamers like myself won't sacrifice performance for a the luxury using poorly designed and immature technology like JS and WebGL.
The cynic businessman way to look at this is that John Deere knew repossessing a tractor was pointless, because there would be no one to resell it to. It would better to forebear the loan for later repayment and gain the goodwill.
Why do you think any given hipster wasn't also punched in the gut for being a nerd? Who are you to say that your nerd style sense is somehow more "real" than their adopted image now? For all you know they were a nerd then, continue to be a nerd now, and have merely refined how they carry themselves. Maybe hipsters look like cool kids trying to make "nerd" cool because they are actually nerds who are cool.

Who the hell knows? Not you. You are just judging them for their style and how well they can pull it off. This tells you nothing of who they actually are.
"Is Your Unpaid Internship Illegal?" If not, it sure as hell should be.
Unfortunately, the two cute girls I was writing a story for are cropped out.

Looking at the whole picture now, it still doesn't appear evident (at least to me) that the two ladies chatting beside him were waiting for their story to be done.

I agree with the author: seeing his sign more would have put more context into the picture.
Forecasting: principles and practice (free online textbook)
Linking and resource expansions in APIs
I think your 'or' might be misleading, with the (a) incidental and (b) required. I deal with a number of smart C (and even C++) programmers who view it as assembly with macros. But I've yet to meet any assembly programmers who view C as just a more succinct way to write assembly. Maybe it can be phrased as "Anyone who conflates C and assembly has probably never compared the output of their compiler with the code they think they wrote".
<sarc> Thank god for that $1 billion in savings though. Without that we'd be in really tough shape economically. </sarc>

In all honest did not know about the history behind all that. Thanks for sharing.
The only one that comes to mind is Stonehenge.
Unless you do it in a sports car, or your blood alcohol content is anything other than zero...
I bet you and dragonwriter that Google will integrate both in the future.
...and (probably) helped him avoid all this hate.
My error prone memory says this always worked in the past but I've had it fail a few times recently so ymmv.
When it comes to personal decisions, 100% of the responsibility lies with me. When I'm driving, 100% of the responsibility to avoid hitting a bicyclist lies with me; when I'm biking, 100% of the responsibility to avoid being hit by a car lies with me. The idea being that everyone else on the road is absolutely crazy, so my responsibility is just to be prepared for their insanity and act accordingly. I think this philosophy increases my likelihood of survival.

On the other hand, when it comes to cultural and (to some extent) legal ideas about "responsibility," I do think that the idea that "with great power comes great responsibility" (thanks, Spiderman) is a pretty decent heuristic. Lots of people have no concept of their own vulnerability, and lots of people have no sense of their own power to do harm, but one will hurt me and the other hurts others. Plus, and maybe for that reason, I think it's a lot more difficult to forget vulnerability (it's obvious every time a car flies past 3 feet away) than it is to forget power--passing a bicyclist with a couple feet of room just doesn't feel scary to lots of drivers.
I'm pretty sure that's what happened. Party City had a whole sign apologizing for the switch to nitrogen about the same time we were having trouble getting dewars to refill our scanner and I talked to the owner about it so I don't think it was confusing the floating balloons with the other balloons.

But you're right it makes little sense in terms of buoyancy and that hadn't occurred to me at the time. Maybe it was actually a switch to a helium/nitrogen blend.

I can also see replacing helium completely for those balloons that get tied into shapes (animals etc), but that's a tiny sliver of the balloon market I'd assume.
... or you broadside a minivan
If you have AdBlock you won't need to worry about ads. In fact I haven't seen a single ad since I installed it for Chrome. Facebook, youtube video ads and pandora ads all gone.

The idea is pretty simple. When you consume an ad network for your site you handle scenarios when there isn't an ad to display. The browser extension has a lengthy list of advertiser urls and cancels them before they are loaded.

So in other words f' pinterest ;)
In the Low-Carb Age, Does Cereal Have a Future? - Corporate Intelligence - WSJ
Escape From the Planet of x86 (2003)
I read a while back that they are #1 or #2 in email services. Gmail may have surpassed them, but they're still in the top 3 along with Hotmail. Email is a great tool for customer retention.
I remember reading about the negative side-effects of crime-stat systems a few years ago.

When the systems were first installed, they provided a ton of good information and the crime rate dropped. Homicides were reduced, less gang activity, etc.

Well after a couple of years of reducing crime by double digit percentages, suddenly that became the standard. So there were perverse incentives to do things like classify crimes as lesser offenses. If you can talk people into only complaining about assault, your rape crime count can go down.

At the same time, if there isn't enough crime, you don't need as many cops. So there are also incentives to write more tickets and criminalize more things. Since it's now a crime to walk with your shoes untied, the police can say "Look, this year arrests are up 10%! We're really doing a good job!" or "New kinds of crime are taking over, we need some people for a task force.".
Not his either? Before he yells at others to get off it, he should get off it himself.

He is making a baseless judgement about an entire age group because he thinks that age group makes baseless judgments. The lack of self awareness is ludicrous.
My dad says the same thing. FWIW, he managed to craft the perfect young childhood for me. I was born in a small, semi-rural college town, moved to a bigger city when I was 10. This means that around the time I started to become aware of some of the sadness of life (and actual sad things began to happen, like my parents divorcing), I was in a different city. This preservation of my earliest, most innocent time has given me kind of a safe-haven. The town has changed (and so have I), but there is so much there that I recognize and have memories of. I try to go back and visit every few years. Although there's always some sense of sadness and loss (friends I no longer know, family bonds broken, realizing that my childhood has truly passed, etc.), those newer memories never butt out the old ones; if anything, they just refresh them.

That's something I'm going to think about when I have kids; how to preserve their earliest happy memories such that they will feel like they can revisit them as an adult to take solace.
Or, you know, maybe people actually use a lot of their sites (fantasy sports, email, flickr, finance, entertainment news).
More than that, planning a Dream Wedding. That's Pinterest's real bread and butter.
Bartosz, Haskell was created 23 years ago, before Java.
What is the reason it did not catch on yet? Will that change?

I'm not aware of any even mildly successful system that uses pure functional languages.
Most of the implementations I know about is either C/C++/ObjC or JVM. Some Python (Youtube, Dropbox), one .NET (StackOverflow) and pretty much that's it.
What do I miss?

[Edit] I'm looking for production code, not "in-house" or "internal tools". I did read trough http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Haskell_in_industry
Yahoo Sports is an excellent site, I go there multiple times a day.

You asked about international: the (mostly independent) Yahoo Japan is huge and always has been; my wife and many of her friends use it as their homepage.
They were kind of the definitive site for general information in the 90s, so many millions of people who started using the internet in the 90s got used to going there for news, sports, finance, weather, and some of their other verticals, as well as things like email.

A lot of those people haven't had any good reason to switch to anything else, so that's what they use. This tracks with the way people choose offline brands like toothpaste and such -- once people get used to buying a brand, most of them tend to stick with it until they have a clear reason to change.

That's actually why the transition to mobile is so crucial for them -- those people still want to keep up with sports and weather and everything else on their phones, but they're more likely to use an app than a website. If Yahoo loses their userbase in the transition to mobile, those users are probably never coming back.
CyanogenMod: Where do we go from here? (interview with cofounders)
I don't know if you've ever had to do any significant writing on a manual typewriter, but it is a very difficult process. It would much, much easier to write it out long hand (he has great hand writing, as can be seen on his sign.). Even better would be to write it up o a laptop, let the customer view it on the screen, then email it to them later. Or, write it up on a phone with a $20 Bluetooth keyboard and email it immediately. Lots of different superior options exist, depending on his budget.

Bottom line, using a manual typewriter is a theatrical element and designed to draw attention to him.
Instead of posting to show HN first, piggy back on somebody else's post that has similar idea, or topic. Post it as a comment and look at the response, comments, pageviews that you get. Fix/make changes based on the response. And once you think it is MVP, post it as show HN.
Totally agree that ageism is dumb. I've met plenty of people under 25 who are rather smart, mature, and well rounded people.

But I've also met far more who are arrogant, confused, and wistful.

It's hard not to make broad, generalized statements when making such observations which is why I felt like I should justify it a bit more. I'm not saying there aren't any adults over 30 who don't act like bullies; the game just changes in my experience.

The point is that hipster hate tends to be a symptom of the self-conscious people who lack a solid understanding of their own identity. This can be a problem for people well into their 50's or through out their lifetimes: I don't know. Either way I wasn't implying anything negative about young people. Except that they're all absolutely insane in my opinion. Hate me if you want.
Are you looking to make this run well on mobile too?

There are 2 main advantages of web over native games. The first is being able to quickly jump in and play with a friend. The second is being cross platform including all mobile devices.

These 2 reasons are why I'm building my multiplayer tower defense game http://www.towerstorm.com in javascript. I'd be interested in trying out your engine if you're looking to make it run fast on mobile along with PC.
Yahoo -- I think they were concerned about getting infected by M$'s culture.
Is there anything like the PCI DSS for HIPAA?
The idea is for NASA to buy Pu-238, not make it. I am not sure how much Congress micromanages their budget though, it may very well be the case that money meant for probes cannot be redirected to buy Pu-238.
Funding Your Startup From Friends and Family
Hipster bashing started with this book which came out in '03: http://www.amazon.com/The-Hipster-Handbook-Robert-Lanham/dp/...

Also, pop culture is not dead #twerking #beiber #hashtags
My oldest son is basically a sociopath. He once tried to tell me a good thing he did was not really good because he did it for bad reasons. I assured him there were no thought police and the only important part was that he had, in fact, done the right thing.

I honest to god do not care what motivated their decision. I am a bleeding heart idealist, or at least perceived as such. Yet, I think "doing right" is a pragmatic thing, not some abstract ideal measured by some supposed god in some supposed spiritual realm.

(But have an upvote. Good comment.)
thanks for your feedback so far.

how about long-form matter?

e-books in particular...

-bowerbird
Google gets me the context, but not the meaning. Could you explain? C++ is the price of our sins and C the lost paradise?
In the USA my girlfriend (in her mid 30's) and most of her friends use Yahoo.
So, instead of adding or subtracting leap seconds, we adjust the speed of light (and every other physical constant that includes a time unit)?

Also, which day would become the new standard: the solar day or the siderial day?
Whoa me too, in about 15 years of surfing the web I've never noticed any .int TLD. Not old enough for .arpa but this is cool. I would have not seen this without your pointing it out. Thanks for the life experience! ;) With mobile browsers these days most of the time the URL isn't even shown.. So I hope everyone can appreciate this
> I'm not saying there aren't any adults over 30 who don't act like bullies; the game just changes in my experience.

The game doesn't change, it is just played in different arenas, against different 'opponents'.
On a small and not so happy scale, a certain city in North Dakota would only sand the roads in the winter if accidents had occurred (budget savings). They had year to year data. I would imagine most cities have the full accident data, but I bet getting it will be hellish since it might be a lawsuit problem ("you knew this was an issue...").
The GP wasn't saying that exercising quality control as a platform holder is a bad idea, just that Nintendo engaged in some ethically dubious practices at the time. The most obvious evidence: Nintendo did excellently in Japan while exerting significantly less pressure than they did on companies that wished to produce games for the American market. The Famicom had no lockout chip. Nintendo did not impose a strict 3 game per-year limit in the Japanese market like they did in America. Third parties were allowed to manufacture their own game cartridges; there is direct physical evidence of this fact in the varying shapes and vibrant colors of the cartridges themselves[1], and the existence of customs ICs and discrete mapper designs common in Famicom cartriges. In addition to slimming margins for third party developers, this also made supply and demand problems very difficult to deal with, as tinco mentioned. Remember how Nintendo infamously forbade third party devs from publishing games for competing platforms in America? Didn't happen in Japan, and so a fair amount of early Famicom games received ports to the MSX and other Japanese computers.

The Famicom did have some amount of Atari 2600-goldrush-esque crappy games (some licensed, some not), but it didn't stop the console from being a huge success. This suggests to me that Nintendo's reasoning was only part "Americans will flood the market with shitty games again if we don't do something about it," with pure monopolistic greed being the other part.

With all due respect to Hiroshi Yamauchi, I don't think their business practices during this era should be considered at all admirable, and I don't think it's right to credit their monopolistic practices for "saving the medium."
It is the highest rated game ever on MetaCritic http://www.metacritic.com/game/xbox-360/grand-theft-auto-v

FYI if any of you play it and like cheat codes, here they are http://www.gta5cheats.com/
Vim table-mode
Yes, the point was "from now on", as a clean break from the past without giving up legacy code.
The USA has a century long precedent of certain protections for laborers. Child labor protections and regulated overtime pay are just as non-free than the "equal work, equal pay" mentality when it comes to intern abuse... For better or for worse.
Read my whole first sentence again. Carefully. I think it does not say what you think it says.

Furthermore, I still don't think you got the point that there is no royal road to perfect memory management. You can't just say the words "manual memory management" and pretend you've solved the problem, or indeed, that you've said anything at all. Many of the same "manual memory management" techniques that you might use are still readily available in "garbage collected" languages. It's not a boolean, it's a rich space. And thus, I stand by my first sentence.
In all fairness that depends a great deal on the skill of the rider too.
Beeminder got bitten pretty bad by this yesterday, as one of the "small number of customers" affected by the duplicates. Several users let us know they were seeing quadruplicates. Oy.

We're still huge Mailgun fans though, and have been since they were just starting out. We've certainly had worse crashes of ineptitude than this ourselves.

Kudos for the thorough post-mortem!
Hipster hatred really baffles me. The only thing I've come up with is that hipsters generally are people who actually are trying to live by their liberal ideals of anti-consumerism. Yes they are into fashion as is everyone else, that doesn't make them hypocrites.

People hate them because they make them feel bad by generally doing things most people are too lazy to do themselves, not because they go around telling everyone they are crappy or acting holier than thou. The act of recycling old clothing is what offends people, not hipsters talking about it.

You know what is holier than thou? "Hipsters are hypocritical scum". I've never been told anything like that by someone who is a hipster (except my radical feminist lesbian sister-in-law and it isn't because she's a hipster)
I wasn't at all worried about giving my email, but then I clicked the email and it expanded to ask for email, name, phone number and zip code.

I admit that I skipped the phone number part... just in case.

Super tinfoil hat mode me wouldn't put it past the NSA to put up a site JUST LIKE THIS and start categorizing the opposition.
I would never have considered Yahoo in the past, but recently Google has been on a crusade to make their products worthless to me so I've been looking around to see what else is out there. I've settled on Bing maps, though OSM is what I'd like to end up using eventually. I suspect at least a few other people are doing the same, and some of them might be settling on Yahoo products.
We can't shake C++ because for a number of things, there's still nothing better.
Sub-threshold (extremely low power) ARM chip on track at Ambiq
Flat-out lying was mentioned last because I rate it the lowest. But also non-zero. This is a field that has had many more liars than discoveries, though certainly when there are zero discoveries to be made in the search space we've had access to so far that says less than it might otherwise.
Yup I point that out a few comments down as far as overall traffic in comparison to Google. I'm referring only to search traffic here.
> Women click on ads far more often than men do.

Is this actually true?
I agree pretty much entirely. It's entirely possible that no one was at fault, or even that the bicyclist was, say, looking down and didn't notice the van until too late. And please don't think I'm "calling for the van driver's head." I have made so many mistakes while driving, riding a motorcycle, and bicycling that could easily have led to the death of me or other people if the conditions lined up right. Dappled sunlight through the trees, relatively high speeds for a bicycle, a sharp corner, and a tiny side-street are a really dangerous combination.
Does anyone know of a HIPAA compliant PaaS (other than building it yourself)? I'd like to run stuff for work on Heroku, but they don't claim and compliance last I checked.
i think they will too, but i think the point is that they don't want to. Microsoft office support in Drive is like SMS support in Hangouts. They know people want it, but it's an outside-the-ecosystem technology that they want to die, and they're hoping that if they hold off supporting it for long enough demand will go away.
To whatever degree the Journal made the decision, I expect it was either over cost or over their desire to have more control over their own technology coverage.

ATD has a pretty huge following, and I can't imagine that they will have any trouble driving plenty of traffic and/or signing up a new partner without the Journal.
Tumblr & Flickr are both pretty popular with most people I know.
Quantitative easing is great... Mugabenomics forever!

"Priceline.com became the first company listed in the S&P 500 to trade at $1,000 in the index’s 56-year history."

http://blogs.wsj.com/moneybeat/2013/09/18/on-a-day-of-record...
No, I don't think so. Everything seems to imply that no modification is needed at the application layer.

Additionally, one of the researchers goals behind the technology is to support unmodified applications. Here's a presentation from the team's website http://multipath-tcp.org/data/MultipathTCP-netsys.pdf
MailChimp's Iterative Process for Support Videos
Eh, I'd think hipster if I saw a pinstripe suit.

Loose fitting jeans and a polo, however, might do it.
That would be a really terrible approach. Time is the ultimate basis for practically every other quantity we know how to measure. The SI second definition is literally the last thing you'd want to mess with.
Your performance is not typical. Webgl performance is dependent upon drivers and system config. For other people like myself those demos run smoothly.
In most places in the US I believe there is no statute of limitations for murder.
Yes, both endpoints will need to support it.
Support for MPTCP is advertised through a TCP option during the setup phase of the connection.

One of three things can happen:

- Both endpoints support MPTCP and announce it through the MPTCP option : MPTCP will be used. Subflows will be set-up if possible (i.e. if additional addresses are present on at least one of the endpoint)

- One of the endpoints (say an ios7 device) supports it, but the other (say a webserver) doesn't : the server will ignore the MPTCP option (which it doesn't understand) and a normal, single path TCP connection will be used.

- None of the endpoints support it, thus no MPTCP option will be sent, normal TCP will be used.
Apropos of nothing, I just wanted to drop by and reiterate that Kara Swisher is in the running for the most obnoxious person on the planet (don't forget to cast your votes!).

I hope she dwindles into obscurity (finally).
The European Union web page is europa.eu.int. That's the biggest one I can think of.

I do admit that one probably don't see that one a lot if you don't live in Europe.
Maybe they can use a box full of old pinball parts.