skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Haha, good catch on the math goof.

> without accounting for probabilities, is flawed reasoning.

This is the problem. It is rather illogical to believe that one can come up with an accurate probability of success for a given company given the multitude of variables both known and unknown. For example, AirBnB was thought to be not only bad, but a terrible idea initially yet it is one of the biggest winners in all of the YC batches. What probability of success did investors give it? Think of it from the point of view of an investor who passed up on AirBnB. How much do you think that these probabilities that you come up with mean when you know how bad you are at deciding whether to invest at all.
C++ is a legacy language. It was indeed good, about 20 years ago, and we can't shake it because it was good, about 20 years ago.
> I'll be surprised if they're not merged at some point.

I would be too; it worth noting that doing separate things in overlapping-but-not-identical domains and then merging them over time (especially when one is an acquisition, like QO) isn't really unusual for Google (and increasing the overlap on the way to merger isn't unusual, either.)

QO's been around for quite a long time, and is a fairly recent acquisition. Its not a new offering, the news here is that its just been made free.
Directly related ("U.S. Starts Making Plutonium"): http://news.discovery.com/space/nasa-plutonium-production-sp...
Heh.. If OP had asked this question a year ago, I might have given him a few good answers. Now I went ahead and implemented it, and the app should be out pretty soon. So yeah, if you ask techies what pain points they have, they probably are implementing the solution already.
Remote exploit of a non-privileged account that needs to phone home to collect the local exploit to get root (after figuring out which one will work for the environment)? Seen it many times.
I always wondered, would it be possible to design a custom cartridge with its own CPU/memory and only use the Atari for drawing on the screen and therefore have more complex screens? In other words, use the special hardware to calculate the frame and then use the Atari to control the beam to color the screen the way you want. So the classical interface between the cartridge and the Atari is only handling turning the beam on and off and with what color.

I know that the Atari has a certain pixel size due to how fast it can turn the beam on and off, but working with that constraint it seems with the above method you could still produce much more complicated games that rival the interactivity of say the SNES.
Why do people have Renaissance fairs, use film cameras, paint instead of using Photoshop, etc? Why do anything? It's fine if it doesn't interest you, but it's not like you need a practical reason to have fun making something.

>Even if I could write NES code, I probably can't find working NES hardware to test it on.

NESes themselves are readily available. Flashcarts like the PowerPak and the Everdrive-N8 are somewhat expensive, but not outrageously so. Some people also gut old games or buy repro PCBs to create test cartridges with somewhat easily-rewritable EEPROMs.

>There are emulators, at which point I may as well write in another language.

As long as you periodically test on the real deal, I fail to see how this would be a problem. It's certainly faster to load a ROM in an emulator than it is to copy it to an SD card or rewrite an EEPROM. Not to mention, there are obvious advantages to having access to a software debugger.
Do you have a citation? I'm not sure about software specifically, but here are citations that suggest that diversity improves financial performance, team performance and innovation:

Beryl Nelson (Google) had a talk in March at a conference called "Voices - Creating Global Connections":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucMU5RmkxOc

Here are a few instructive slides from the first 7 minutes:

* Financial Performance: Companies with a higher proportion of women in their top management have better financial performance

..* from Georges Desvaux, Sandrine Devillard-Hoellinger, and Pascal Baumgarten: Women Matter: Gender diversity, a corporate performance driver, McKinsey Report, 2007; similar results in Catalyst study; and for differences in race, by Cedric Herring

* Better Innovation outcomes (Page, 2009, Cox 2001)

..* Mixed gender tech patents are more cited (Ashcraft et al, 2007)

* Teams with gender diversity are more productive; better decisions:

..* Malone et al, 2010: women make teams smarter

* Gender in teams and collective intelligence (higher collective intelligence is correlated with higher percentage of women)

..* Anita Woolley and Thomas Malone: Defend your Research: What Makes a Team Smarter? More Women, Harvard Business Review Report, June 2011
C++, the language programmers love to hate :)
If you'd like to read some more C++ bashing: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/
John Carmack wrote a very interesting post about this same topic. http://www.altdevblogaday.com/2012/04/26/functional-programm... To sum it up, he's still writing code in C++, but it has become less and less like C++. His code has become less OOP and more functional.
Since the beginning of 2008, MSFT has paid ~$4/share in dividends as well, so we can't ignore those.

http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/msft/dividend-history
Every resource is finite, and if the people in the distant past had attempted to preserve the things they found scarce for us we'd probably be quite unimpressed at the results.
Or you can edit right in the map view and commit with geojson.io. For example, http://geojson.io/#id=github:open-air-data/atc-radar/blob/ma...
"Then it came. Another deactivation promptly followed by a termination notice from Etsy for both of my shops. Banned from Etsy. For life."

Ouch. I can understand closing her account or making her remove her listing. But banned for life on a misunderstanding?

That's harsh, when you take into account that this person was using the website as a source of real income.

I think this story shows that webmasters shouldn't think of user as only "those dumb users with their issues" but as real people.
Crunchbase lists a bunch of angel investments and a board observer role, but I can't imagine that's what's taking up the majority of his time.

http://www.crunchbase.com/person/jerry-yang
I think Linus sums up C++ pretty well:

http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.version-control.git/57643...
it sounds like they mean using AdWords but targeting the content network, which is effectively the AdSense network. That is different then search engine traffic that you can also buy through AdWords.
Actually DOE has started a production program using $10mil appropriated through NASA, http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n1303/20pu238/#.UjuOO6x3O4B

The original plan was to fund $10mil through NASA and $10mil through DOE for a total of $20mil per year, but DOE lost their half of the funding due to Solyndra-related politics.
HIPSTERS ARE A MADE UP GROUP - POSSIBLY BY THE GOVERNMENT AND MI-5!!!

Sorry for the crazy-person all-caps, but this thing really crunches my Funyuns. Hipsters are a totally made-up label to brand people with that are into different shit. Would we have called Dylan a hipster (in the derogatory sense, not the beatnik sense)? What about Steve Jobs in the early days? Shoot, even Woz wore some pretty ironic bow-ties (definite hipster).

What's also a gas is that all these "hipster bashers" are so heck-darn defensive of mainstream culture. We all acknowledge that Walmart is a shithole. We all agree McDonalds is feeding garbage into our souls. So why are people so darn defensive about people who are trying to explore different things.

The "hipster" label is a sickeningly old cliche. Seriously. So-called "hipster-bashing" has been going on for 10 years now (it all started with 'the hipster handbook'. I've never really got it either. I mean, people don't actively go out and go "right, I'm going to be a hipster". Like the amazing roaming typist, these people are just interested in different things.

In my opinion, these "hipster bashers" are people that are just so obviously insecure about their own lives. Why bash others, just because you can't step out of your box.

Then again - maybe the definition of a hipster is someone who does actively embrace the attributes of this made-up subculture to form an identity - without understanding the depths of what they are appropriating. I must say, I have not met anyone like this. Hence, why I think hipsters don't exist.
As someone who both bikes and drives, I think bikers could also be a lot more aware and conscious that they are piloting a vehicle with no protection around 2 ton or so vehicles. The burden of safety should be split equally regardless of whose vehicle is heavier.

While I've been lucky enough not to see a full-on crash, I've seen a few situations where bikers were almost in very serious accidents here in San Diego where I felt the biker would have totally been at fault if the collision wasn't luckily averted.
AdWords is the portal but you can target search or the content network (aka AdSense).
They're different products. Adwords ads go on google.com, Adsense ads are put on the display network (blogs, gmail, etc.) Now you can create both through the Adwords tools, but they're still separate offerings.
Been a looming problem for years:

http://www.metafilter.com/94959/We-Are-Running-Out-Of-Helium...

The Helium Privatisation Act required the reserve to sell enough helium to pay off its debts by a given deadline, then close. The resulting glut has kept the price low.

http://phys.org/news201853523.html

I don't know why they didn't instead just sell the reserve in its entirety for the amount of the debt, or for more. If the goal was to get the government out of the helium business (a dubious aim, if it's really as strategic an asset as all that) that would have done the job immediately and eliminated years of market distortion. But I guess any upheaval that resulted would be easily tied to the government officials who were around at the time.

Helium is a byproduct of natural gas production ... Demand for helium has risen, driven particularly by Asia's booming manufacturing industry.

A cynic might wonder if a closing date known 19 years in advance was designed partly to ensure that American petrochemical industry had time to develop the infrastructure required to take maximum advantage of any price shock.
this is why they had to squash affiliate links.
Fair enough... but we can't exactly hold up microsoft as the paragon of good returns compared to it's cohorts (eg. AAPL, GOOG, etc).
The problem with this theory is that the speed limit on that road is 40. If she was traveling well under the speed limit but did not have time to stop for a turning car, then it seems to me that either a) the intersection is designed such that a vehicle traveling the speed limit will be unable to stop before colliding with a turning vehicle, or b) the driver turned after the bicyclist had turned the corner. Or, of course, a combination of the two--it may well be that the intersection is fairly dangerous for drivers as well (and some commenters have talked about previous accidents at the same intersection).
The United States Department of Labor fact sheet[1] on internships is perhaps more user-friendly than the website kindly submitted here, and is an authoritative source of information. Bottom line: if the worker is providing economic value to your for-profit business, you had better pay the worker at least minimum wage.

[1] http://www.dol.gov/whd/regs/compliance/whdfs71.pdf
I'm not a networking expert, but does this require system changes/support on the other end of the connection?
If I die on a road I hope it's in a car. At least that way I won't have a whole hoard of internet forensic scientists desperately trying to figure out how it was all my fault.
Thanks - it's good to see it's still possible to disagree constructively on HN :)

Yes, I think it's fair to say that a skilled sysadmin can assemble a system quite similar to the core of docker. In fact many, many sysadmins have. The result is an ocean of DIY container management tools, each incompatible with the other, and each not quite generic or polished enough to be made usable by others because, well, sysadmins have real work to do :)

So the question really is: is it valuable to federate efforts so that instead of 1000 incompatible and unpolished tools, we get a small number of tools which are more polished and more interoperable? I believe the answer is yes, because it allows the use of containers not just as a site-specific deployment tool, but as a mechanism for code distribution and re-use. We can make containers as useful as libraries! That is not possible unless we agree on some sort of standard "call convention".

Now, you may agree with this but answer "but these tools already exists: look at lxc, openvz and libvirt", then I respectfully disagree. If those tools were sufficient, sysadmins and developers would just use them directly, instead of each writing elaborate abstractions over them. These tools were not designed to use containers as units of software distribution and re-use. They were designed to use containers as lightweight servers. Basically like a VM but faster. Those are useful tools - but they serve a different purpose than Docker.
He conclusion is the C++ is obsolete and the power of new hardware capabilities is being squandered because of it. I'd call that 'scathing.' I'll always be fond of C++, but I hope I never have to use it again.
Just wondering, how many people use Yahoo? It's supposed to be getting more popular but at least with my peers I don't see that trend. Is it popular outside of the USA?
Real crime statistics dropping? Or fear/perception of crime dropping?
Who supports social movements out of irony? I don't understand this.
One fedora per crew, bro.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/08/22/yahoo-surpasses-goo... Strange, huh?
Lol, oh god no. Especially when the NASDAQ is up almost 100% more than MSFT during that time period.
Pure nitrogen basically has the same density as air (Composing 80% of it). So a party balloon filled with nitrogen wouldn't float.
Worth noting that the Rio tool does not seem to account for R's concurrency / race conditions when running RScript. Basically, if you run it a lot in parallel you will get random failures. Although I am sure it is not exactly meant for high concurrency situations, it would be good if it accounted for this.
I've got a 2 year old, and just judging by parties I go to, nitrogen isn't being used in party balloons very much (at all?).

And, hey, why not just use air?
Yes, Clojure Programming is amazing.
Yay, let's celebrate the underperforming. I suspect many Yahoo investors would rather have had their $31 5 years ago so they could have invested it in something that would actually grow.

Though, at least they've had better results than the MSFT investors.
I remember reading somewhere about Harlan Ellison doing the same thing during a science fiction world convention many years ago, after which Ben Bova (then editor-in-chief for Analog sci-fi magazine) bought the whole piece.

In other words, yeah, I'd like to see more of this.
>and should be troubling to shareholders — that Google neglects medium-term

Oh, for once, would someone think of the short to mid term shareholder gains!

Is this guy serious?
> Every decision you make should be based on minimizing the number of times the radio powers up.

It doesn't have to be "every decision" if you architect the app to not do CRUD-over-mobile-data and do sync instead.

This not only improves battery life, it has a strong positive effect on perceived performance and interactivity.

Fortunately, there will soon be a book all about that (ISBN 1118183495).
I find it's more popular in less-techie and/or older circles.
Well, according to wikipedia, it took 5 days for COD:BO2 to earn $800M. Game grossed $500M on the first day.
That said, it's a curve with a 40mph speed limit and a 35mph recommendation. If it's not safe to do 35mph around that curve, the road authorities should mark it accordingly.
The difference is that you can separately compile your Scala libraries from the code that calls them - if you do that in C++, you give up templates. All those #includes at the top of your C++ code are basically just dumping code into your source files, and if you're using templated code, it macro-expands with parts you're putting in from your own code. There are some separately compiled C++ libraries, but most of the standard library and Boost code you use is recompiled every time you compile your program. You could probably define a new pragma that would tell the compiler that all the code from a given file, class, or function is unsafe, but it would take source-level modifications to every library you use to properly implement the flag you suggest.
The S&P 500 index was at around 1,300 at the beginning of 2008.

It's at around 1,700 today -- actually, a record high.

Of course, it reached as low as 700 to 800 in March 2009.
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I'm guessing it's popular amongst people who install software that in turn installs a yahoo search toolbar on them that they cannot figure out how to turn off/don't bother to.
You make me laugh, seems like you follow first order logic in a human discussion.

Let me speculate what would happen if Google applied your thinking:

- You could not integrate Google Adwords with Google Analytics because there were part of different companies.

- Android could not integrate with Google Search Engine because it was only part of a mobile innitiative.

You can play yourself combining the acquisitions listed on: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisition...
For my self preservation I don't bike there. I don't want to be the statistic, and there are so many other places to bicycle without dangerous car traffic. Driving in general works out because the people around us can usually compensate for the mistakes that we'll invariably make, and thus avoid (or mitigate) an accident. This is harder for a bicyclist --- a bicyclist can't accelerate away, handle a swipe, recover from a collision, and is harder to see.
"Therefore moun we singen Deo Gratias."
>We're already seeing other services crop up to fill the niche YouTube is filling.

The biggest feature of YouTube, in my opinion, is not the video hosting. Rather it is the content discovery mechanism which, even as a programmer, I can best describe as black magic.
This is interesting. Hospitals in Austria are actually required by law to report such incidents as far as I know. The same is true for results of domestic violence.
> I see the two methods achieving the same results with about the same amount of text, except with a script, its savable and much easier to type

If I wrote a script for every command I executed to manipulate data I would have about a million small files lying around full of one off commands. Frequently I am just debugging or exploring data and I never want to see the command again - but if I do, it will be in my bash history.

One of Python's annoyances (which are few) is that it doesn't put enough in the default namespace to be convenient from the command line.
As another commenter pointed out in another branch of these comments, even at the highest reasonably plausible speed for the cyclist there would have been 3 seconds between coming around the turn and hitting the van, so I don't think scenarios where the car was already turning when the bike came into view are likely.

One possibility I don't think I've seen mentioned yet is that the driver saw her but misjudged her speed. Based on the pictures people have linked to, it looks like the curve was far enough away that someone not familiar with the speed of bikes in that area might think that he's got plenty of time to make his turn and clear her lane long before she gets to him. It takes a lot longer than most people realize to judge the speed of an object that is heading almost straight toward you.
Mozilla Labs: TogetherJS
You sound like you didn't read the linked-to article, which details all of that except for the Solyndra politics.
Bypass ios 7 lockscreen
apple did it again?!"#
Yahoo has a pretty huge portfolio of sites that fit in that bucket compared with googles many(but in honesty generally unpopular outside of search and email) offerings.
I would be interested to hear your proposed algorithm and how it will prevent unintended consequences of such a feature. It sounds like the kind of thing that might make minor accidents more minor but contribute to major accidents at high speeds.
Right, that's pretty much what I was talking about. Not so much something "officially blessed as a prototype" but "does this make sense at all?" experimentation shy of an MVP. I've heard "write it, throw it away, rewrite it" attributed to Knuth, and while that's overstating it a little you definitely learn things in your first attempt.
I kind of agree with you (see my edits), but it is harder to decelerate on a bike than in a car, especially going downhill - you run the risk of going over the handlebars.
Security holes unearthed in Apple's iOS7
You can take advantage of google's first click free to read the article in its entirety. Just search for the headline in google and voila, the tree will smack you in the face.
To elaborate on maaku's answer, as the article points out, "the Atomic Energy Act forbids NASA to manufacture plutonium-238."
MailGun Outage Postmortem
I once taught someone at work in a technical group that typing words in the address bar is the same as searching. So not everyone realizes that.
Video of it on an iPhone at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gsqUzmikbuo (via https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6415212 )
Whose lawn is it?
I don't know, and won't until I get the backer surveys at the end of the project.
Funny you mention the "worst of all worlds scenario" because that's exactly what I was thinking about your advice to start with a GC'd language and then escape for performance critical (which usually means huge heaps btw) parts. This plan combines you all the flexibility, predictability and reliable latency of managed VM systems combined with all the safety guarantees of a manual memory managed system.
a) They have a LOT of people on staff and the level of effort here isn't exactly rewriting the Linux kernel.

b) They're getting a lot of attention in the open data community, where the same features developers like are valued for tracking information as it's received, cleaned, and forwarded. Efforts like https://github.com/unitedstates are getting traction with some influential groups (non-profit, journalism, etc.) so I think we're going to see this as far less of a niche in the future.
It seems entirely possible to me that the van driver was actually taking the corner "too slow" (though I'd be taking it slow too based on blindness of the turn if I wasn't used to that area) resulting in a situation where there was an obstacle in the bicyclist's path that was difficult to avoid at the speed that she was travelling.

And yes, this would also mean that turn would be dangerous for other cars as well in this situation, but modern cars actually have a much easier time of safely breaking while curving and going downhill than a person on a bicycle would (way easier to crash the bike or slide it out) and the car would be further out to the left of the lane than a bike would.

Of course, this is all speculation, and this is a horrible tragedy no matter how it happened, but I think some people are calling for the van driver's head way too early on this. And I say that as someone who does quite a lot of biking both mountain biking and on the roads.
Better idea - save the data to a server, make an API (free), and let engineershelp visualize where the violence is occuring / predict where it will occur based on date/time
Commodore Pi
Now, that is odd...I just tried the page on my Ubuntu system, and the back button wasn't hijacked at all.