skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you have money, the options outlined are pretty good. If you're strapped for cash, I'd encourage you to start building on www.appcubator.com which will get a project going for you for free. Disclaimer, I work at Appcubator.
I don't want it to happen, and it sucks. Call it a bug, or call it a feature, but remember that what you call it doesn't make it any more desirable.
Design Decisions: Basecamp for iPhone iOS 7 by Jason Z. of 37signals
It's mental violence. You're exploiting human nature to impact their free will. Perhaps part of "being an adult" is shouldering the responsibility of propping up your own illusory free will, I can't say.
I haven't tried playing 80% of videos on YouTube (ain't nobody got time for that), but of the videos I've tried to watch, all of them have played just fine (with a few buffering/[quality settings refusing to stick] issues which I've experienced equally on Windows boxen). Videos on other sites seem to work most of the time, especially if I temporarily disable AdBlockPlus.

Distros: Fedora and Gentoo.
You mentioned headphones. Headphones seem to be an essential part of open plans. Not only do they send a don't-bother-me signal, they also drown out the noise.

But that's also a really annoying part of it. I don't want to have to put on headphones all the time.
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It sounds more like de-brainwashing to me. If those soldiers go in with this perfect idea of America, how we can do no wrong, and how everything we do is justified, then turning that on its head seems more like...rational thinking.
I don't interpret that as hypocritical. Whether legality equates to morality doesn't matter. If you get caught, there can be serious consequences (legal penalties, kicked out of schools, etc.. all depending of course on the circumstances of the party, the party-goers, the school, the state, etc.). These risks didn't exist when she drink in college. They do now, and it's not unreasonable for a parent to want to prevent these things from happening to their child. Their opinion can be 0% percent judgement based (in the sense of "passing judgement".
> It's a thing that actually happened.

Just like HD-DVD is the future? Netflix cannot obviously in the point in time be a future for most citizens on the internet. You may be screaming in an echo chamber if you're located in the US. Netflix certainly isn't a solution elsewhere.
Simple English Wikipedia sacrifices nuance to fit to its constrained lexicon. It is possible to explain pretty much anything using only 1000 words (and probably fewer), but it's going to be awkward because language is more than just conveying ideas through words. Words also have sounds and rhythm and evoke different images and emotions beyond their literal dictionary definition. For that reason, Simple English Wikipedia fails at being literature, but succeeds in communicating ideas to people that don't speak English. Since the latter is its goal, it's successful. But it's not something to imitate if you desire to communicate rather than just describe.

And, some phrases are simply used too often by people trying to sound smart when they really have nothing to say. There is nothing wrong with catalyzing synergy, but because so many people have applied those words when they had nothing to say, the phrase has gradually become meaningless. Omit meaningless words.
I'm in a cube farm right now and I don't find that the cubes make the noise any softer than my co-workers in another office that have an open plan. I can still plainly hear everything that people around me are talking about. I still find headphones a necessity.
Personally, I would think you are using miles incorrectly if you're getting a 1 cent value for them. It depends on the airline, but 1.5+ cents per mile is a more reasonable value.

If you are flying intercontinental, to Alaska/Hawaii, or anything but economy the value can be much, much higher.

If you only fly economy flights within the continental US, you're probably paying peanuts for flying anyway.
So is blind indocrination to "obey" (or be drugged) in grade school?
Starting with their baseline of better performance and faster updates than most OEM builds, they're building in some very interesting features/services:

- privacy-conscious device location

- cross-platform secure messaging

- multimedia streaming to "anything"

- ...

Assuming they can get official access to Google services, they'll have the whole package (which is unsurprising, they couldn't have gotten to millions of users without it).
Also did the communists do a bad job...

Compare West and East Germany. Compare North and South Korea. Compare Mainland China and Taiwan. And once you've done those comparisons ask yourself about what kind of job the communists have done. Many millions dead. Many more millions in poverty. That's the job they've done.
Am I misunderstanding something or does this sound a lot like a Connection Machine? http://www.amazon.com/The-Connection-Machine-Artificial-Inte...
Paid products gets cancelled as well.
Would docker be well suited for a testing platform? Thinking about maybe using docker to stand up a database instance that can be instantiated quickly and blown away after test cases are executed, seems like it would be a perfect use case for something like docker since manually restoring a db backup for testing can take several minutes.
Thanks, that's true but my comment was mostly a response to the "three million zeroes and a single four" as a valid random sequence comment. I wasn't suggesting it as a generic method to test the quality of a PRNG.
I don't think it was a waste of time, I did enjoy the conversation but I'll let it end here as it's too deeply nested and a pain to check and we aren't really getting anywhere.
I... don't like it. So far anyway. I'm trying to keep an open mind since I don't have much of a choice anyway.

I don't like that buttons turned into labels. I don't like that my screens now look more cluttered without clear delineations between UI elements. It looks a bit like a toy now as well. It also feels a bit more sluggish on my 4s.

I don't know, maybe it will grow on me.
Try again. There is still zero evidence Google did anything other than comply with requests for individually reviewed pieces of data, and did not engineer anything to permit firehose dragnets.

If the NSA is getting any kind of dragnet data, most likely it is via external network taps, intercepting non-encrypted SMTP traffic, or non-encrypted intra-datacenter fiber traffic the same way they tapped 'dark fiber' undersea cables of the Soviet Union during Venona.

Google cares very much for user privacy, it is part of the corporate culture.
I had a hard time understanding the last graphic, because I was reading on an iPad, and the sliders don't work. I thought it was all static, and couldn't match the numbers in the graph with the previously mentioned numbers, as the defaults of the sliders do not give a simpson's paradox.
You guys did a great job. Having worked with MM4 and MM7 I can imagine the undertaking Twilio had to take. I'm sure the worst part must have been the MMS provisioning with carriers.

Looking forward to other media type soon :)
If an opinion is being slowly but inexorably pushed on you from all sides by your captor over a long period of time, as part of an explicitly designed program of of propagandizing, it's brainwashing, regardless of the opinion's merit!
All iOS 7 WWDC 13 Slides Indexed in Evernote Public Notebook
Now that iOS 7 and NDA are lifted, enjoy! Just search for a keyword and Evernote will do it's magic.
America was in almost no way the aggressor.

North Korea Invades South Korea on June 25th 1950. The UN, for probably the first,last, and only time, takes military action (at American behest and because the Russian's were boycotting the UN) led by a US General and primarily American troops. This force and the South Korean Army repel the North Koreans and drive into North Korea (which was suppose to hold open elections but didn't as part of unification), the Chinese enter the way as the UN forces approached (but did not cross) the Chinese boarder.

EDIT: This is not to say that the UN forces crossing the 38th Parallel was the best idea or that they were not happy to occupy North Korea or that they didn't have ambitions to do so from the outset , but aggressor is really a misleading term when they did not fire the first shot.
Quality of life is low in the sense that they are paying a huge % of monthly income in rent and usually sharing sub-standard housing accommodations. They don't save much. They work a lot and rarely have time to enjoy the area.

Quality of life is high in the sense that they enjoy what they are working on and feel like there's a decent chance it will make them rich. They are in the middle of a boom and millionaires are being minted left and right. They now have friends they went to school with, who they know well, who have millions of dollars in the bank who rent yachts, vacation in Ibiza, and bang models in Las Vegas (while plotting angel investments and new startups). They feel very close to an indescribable grandeur and if they just keep grinding away they will get there.

So in some ways it sucks, and in some ways it's awesome and they will look back on this period as the best time of their lives. But very few of them think about this as ''real life'' the way people elsewhere in the country seem to, when they think about what community they want to live in, who they want to date or marry, where their kids will go to school and how their life will unfold in the decades ahead of them.
Personally I always donate at least $10 for every device I install CM on ... its well worth it in my view. That seems like a decent business plan to me.
Like others have said quitting without a plan is a bad idea. Start working on finding a job that's more in line with your personality.

You don't know if your ideas have a market. Get users if you think your ideas are worth pursuing. Sell first, build later. In the mean time build up cash to extend your runway. 2-3 months is too short.
These comparisons though are becoming meaningless. Google is doing major upgrades to all the key apps on Android at a super fast clip. I think they realized they'd never get close to doing it the Apple way and then wondered why they were doing it the Apple way anyways?
The graph doesn't show up in Opera, Firefox, or Chrome for me.
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Ad-hominem. Check.
Does it do syncing?

That is, while you're having a conversation on Bluestack on your computer and then you don't get a reply for a while, and when you get a reply on your phone, you completely forget what the conversation was about: will your phone show a history of the conversation from the computer?
Though it's not April 1, I thought this must be a joke.

Not because these features don't make sense. They do. I know plenty of people who would love them.

Except those aren't the people who would pay for them.

Simply put, the sort of people who use emojis are definitely not the sort of people who pay for productivity software. Nerds (and generally "professionals") will pay for a Trello board. But nerds don't particularly like stickers.

Normals love stickers, but barely ever pay for anything—least of all subscription web services. Even today, I just don't see many teenage girls willing to toss $5 at a web productivity board.

It's just a sad and bizarre case of product-market mismatch.
Santa Cruz is historically low on rental inventory and (notoriously) low on local jobs. How has this changed in the past 10-15 years?
Probably no PR filter below the C-suite. :P
What do you think it is about your current shared cubicle that makes it the most productive ever?
I thought telecommuting was a great idea until I tried it. I have enough trouble focusing on my work at work. At home, no one can tell that I'm playing Team Fortress in my underwear as long as I keep the IM window open, and my productivity basically craters. I'd like to think that I'm a grown-up who doesn't need someone looking over his shoulder but, well, I'm not.
I love Santa Cruz - Go Banana Slugs!
Grand Theft Auto V Earns $800 Million in a Day
Funny. I believe it.
Your next doctor visit could very well be online?
SimplyInsured Is Hiring Hackers (YC W13)
Private space for everyone costs more. The entire point of the open plan is to save money, but it gets sold as something entirely different.
Distributed systems with distributed, synchronized state is a hard problem. Whatsapp handles 27 billion messages per day. That's almost 50x Twitter's volume. The former behaves like a switch with pretty end-points (the smartphone app), whereas the latter is a massive distributed system storing enormous amounts of state.

If Whatsapp allowed you to log-in from multiple places but didn't synchronize your state for you (i.e., see conversation history that you had on your phone after you've moved to your computer) it would be a pretty unpleasant experience. To accomplish that, the switch-like back end wouldn't be sufficient.
I congratulate moot for the job. 4chan's change over the years has been minimal. The biggest change was probably the captcha - initially it was a temporary fix to flooding and spam at the time, but it stayed since there doesn't seem to be an alternative. Those that use 4chan enough for the captcha to get annoying, the $20 yearly pass was a great way to get around it and to allow us to support the site as well.

Also the introduction of some of those boards was simply to get shitposts out of other boards (e.g. /soc/ was created to cleanup /b/ and /r9k/). Worked great.

However, I have to disagree with the sage thing. While originally the term was used to not bump a thread (implying that your own post was not worthy of bumping a thread back to the front page), in the last five years (and before that, to some extent) it HAS been used as a way to 'down vote' a thread.
Your definition of "hypocrisy" is off. A hypocrite is someone whose current actions and professed moral standards don't agree. The father was simply wrong about you, not a hypocrite. And the The View host simply changed her mind due to a new perspective, for right or wrong.
You're missing the point. It's not about what is technically feasible. Omni Group didn't have technical issues implementing their upgrade solution and it contradicted no policy that they were aware of at the time.

Nevertheless, Apple decided that they didn't like it and shut them down. They might do the exact same thing to an app that simulated upgrades via in-app purchases. Developers have been asking for upgrade pricing for years and gotten nothing. In many cases, Apple has even stopped offering upgrades for their own apps.

Given the development effort required, would you bet on Apple allowing your upgrade solution through?
Yeh. I guess usually when I'm on HN I just respond to people as if they're real, have a brain and not intentionally trying to stir shit up. In this case I didn't even notice the name.

Alas, perhaps times have changed around here and I need to start treating people like redditors until proven innocent ;-)
Sounds good to me if it is. After all, it'll be in everyone's self-interest soon enough.
CPC in AdWords will skyrocket on Calcio pages and in SERPS overall, the price of SEO in health* niche will also be very high, because as I guess Google will use SERPs to promote their new business.
I think we both knew that, in practice, there is no real risk in being kicked out of school for hitting up a party on Fridays so long as you act with some baseline level of responsibility. In my case it wasn't even a dry campus (and few people other than freshmen were in school housing anyway, so the parties were on private property), and nobody had cars (campus was in the city). In this specific case, her judgement was based on mixing the legal and moral signals, but she does not normally buy into that.

I would describe her position at the time as slightly hypocritical, or at least poorly considered. To be clear, I don't think anti-kids-these-days-drinking attitudes are categorically extremely hypocritical, just often so.
It's not hypocritical, regardless of whether the risks existed then. To say "I was wrong, even if I didn't know it. You should avoid being wrong as well" is in no way inconsistent or hypocritical.
I love the rationalization people have to use to explain China's economic success. If what Deng brought was capitalism, then Obama is an anarcho-libertarian.
I've programmed the Connection Machine and I took a few classes from Carver Mead -- arguably one of the fathers of the neurosynaptic approach -- and these are nothing alike. The Connection Machine was simply a highly parallel SIMD computer that looks a lot like a GPU but with relatively better cross-processor communications support. It was resolutely digital in nature.

By contrast, neuromorphic chips are based on spike trains and are a much more analog form of computing.
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It highly depends on the team. In a small team that know each other well, it can work. Most of the time it's not the case, however.
Sex and Politics at Google
This sure sounds like the official end of Blackberry as a stand-alone company. To stay in the game on margins, apps, and consumer awareness they needed massive scale. Clearly those days are over.

I think it's safe to assume an acquisition (of Blackberry) isn't far behind.
Yes, it would be perfect for that. In fact people are using it for that today.

Here are some slides showing how eBay does this today with Docker. https://speakerdeck.com/teddziuba/docker-at-ebay there is also a video available of the talk he gave explaining it at one of the docker hack days. I don't have the link handy, but I'm sure you could find it.
love this.

although i am annoyed that the redscript and subsequent javascript examples are merely split by spaces on the website.
A little bit Off Topic : Are there any upcomming or new open source projects that chose C as the language of choice for implementation? (Just like some projects of old git, openMPI etc)
One of the worst things for me in open plan offices is you can hear people eating at their desks. For me nothing is more annoying and distracting than to hear someone crunching on cookies or popcorn or potato chips at his desk. That's an instant headphones-on for me. It's worse than all the other background noise/conversations put together.
I don't know many people who like their open office plan.

Yet, why are startups trumpeting these as great places to work? Particularly as an engineer, having a door I can close is essential. (That's why I love working on Fridays, when nearly everyone else works from home.)

The biggest stressor for me in an open office is overhearing personal conversations. It's not the noise that bothers me, but the fact that I hear things I really just feel awkward hearing.

My ideal office is just lots and lots of rooms. Maybe you could do an open office if complete silence were enforced on the floor and all meetings were held in adjourning rooms, but that'll never get buy-in.
So rather than saying 139 Results found, I would have to do over a dozen HTTP requests to get the full result count? How is that expensive?
I don't care how big your data is
Assuming that the OS is set to permit developer-signed apps. That's the default for now. If the Mac moves further in the direction of iOS, it might not stay that way.
I think what you're asking for is intellectual honesty. There's nothing hypocritical about judging people for crimes you were guilty of in the past. You can't take a word and just change it however you like. Actually, you can, if enough people agree with you. But in this case the dictionary doesn't.
Cool, I guess, but if any stenography is on these slides you're not going to get a thank you card from Apple Legal.
Anybody here feel like this might be a generational issue? I suspect the negative crowd is north of 30 and/or experienced non open spaces. But just a guess.
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Off the top of my head, content acquisition. Which content to acquire, from which production house, with which actors, in what language, how did they do in the theatres. You can compare these indexed data with internal data, and find correlation. Netflix did them all with in house data, and they can do it because they have 114,000 years of streams every month[1]. Their dataset is large enough to pretty much represent what the general public wants. For up and coming companies, this is very helpful.

[1]http://gigaom.com/2013/09/18/building-vs-buying-how-netflix-...
Another case of socialization of incompetence: instead of blaming the subpar decision-makers who drove BB to the ground those who did the best they could to put this platform back in the game get a pink slip.
FWIW, Simpson's paradox is a "veridical" paradox, not a "vertical" paradox as noted in the article. Apparently veridical isn't yet accepted by spelling checkers. (As I'm writing, Chrome offers the single suggestion "vertical" for my "veridical".)
IBM...SkyNet. What's in a name?
Let's Swap Columbus Day for Election Day
I created a petition aiming to end Columbus Day and make Election Day a federal holiday instead.

Columbus didn't discover America, he brutalized Native Americans, and he ignited the global slave trade. I don't think this chap is worth celebrating. However, I think promoting civic duty is.

Direct link to the petition:
https://petitions.whitehouse.gov/petition/repeal-columbus-day-and-make-election-day-federal-holiday-instead/QKSdvhKX
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What about comparing mainland and Taiwan? I don't think there exists an obvious conclusion from this comparison if you look at status quo. If you are judging based on the situation before 2000s, I agree with you that there is an obvious conclusion.
Fortunately for those of us without SMS plans, iMessage lets you turn off the SMS fallback, and displays a clear visual distinction when it gets used.
What if you have to lay off workers due to a business cycle?
I take it you mean to imply that by "figured out" I mean we have a working example. Obviously not, or we wouldn't be lacking a hyperloop. By figured out I mean all the requisite problems have been solved. It isn't a mystery how we could build a tube and put vacuum pumps on it. And we've built plenty of complex structures in seismic areas.
The point is they are not potential elite, they are already elite. The fact that they can get hold of the treatment when the majority can not shows they're already placed at the top of society.

Personally I agree with the logic that if we have the choice between 0 and 100,000 people living for ever we pick 100,000 (Even if that 100,000 include such greats as Un and Assad). Having said that If I had the choice between 100,000 living forever and 3 billion people living forever with less private jets in the world I'd pick the later. Perhaps I'm cynical but if we do indeed get this tech I'm a lot less confident about my values being satisfied in the second instance than the first.
Is the graph normalized to account for lines of code per repository? WTFs by repository is a useless number: I'd be more interested in seeing the WTFs per line.
Maybe. Mixing legality and morality is popular enough though. In other words: "the drinking age should be 18, but it isn't, and you should respect the law".

I suspect many would also oppose dropping the legal age for MADD inspired reasons (god I hate that organization.... bunch of neo-prohibitionists...) even though they think their kid is responsible enough.

I do agree though, most probably do think that the age could be lower.
The concepts of AngularJS Forms
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There's no such thing as brainwashing. It was a piece of propaganda to use against the Communists during the Korean War, and the fantasy of a bunch of shadowy government agencies that only seem to be able to poison a bunch of people or get them high during brainwashing experiments.
Do we need a urbanite decelerator more than a village accelerator?