skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Fact is that Experts Exchange is a parasitic organism. It games Google search results, then, when people click their links, they're confronted with an infamous paywall instead of anything useful. If Expert Exchange had any self-respect at all, they would survive by way of advertising alongside freely available content, as their successful competitors do.

I've been filtering all Experts Exchange content from browsing results for years now, and as time goes by, the justification only gets stronger.
"ideally both technical"

Absolutely not ideal in my opinion. Someone is going to have to be selling, marketing, networking, raising money, etc from the earliest days of the business - and that isn't something that a technical founder is necessarily good at or able to do alongside the technical stuff. Looking at the alumni of the accelerator I went through, the successful companies (eg the ones that haven't folded yet) have all had at least one non-technical founder.

The fact is, this is exactly the sort of question that technical founders struggle with - you want to be coding when the problem you're facing is something that requires getting on the phone, going to events, meeting people, and finding either someone who'll put in sweat equity or someone who'll put in cash based on your vision alone.

My advice would be to cut down what you want to build to the minimum, build a demo, and take it to people who might buy based on that alone, and try to raise some angel cash at the same time if possible. But with an angel who knows your market and can put in time as that non-technical business-side person.
A lot like:
http://www.openmirage.org/

This is an operating system that runs directly on the Xen hypervisor, written in OCaml, which does away with the usual OS abstractions.
Germany’s Effort at Clean Energy Proves Complex
I'm pretty sure that the button they are referring to is part of Chrome, not divx.
I wouldn't categorize this as brainwashing. Or to be more specific: I wouldn't categorize the description in the blog post as brainwashing or torture.

To me, this looks more like some kind of group therapy since the POWs were not forced and the example statement they were asked to make ("The United States is not perfect.") is obviously a fact because nothing is perfect.

What I find interesting is to compare this to what is happening today in Guantanamo.

I mean they are trying to get information and cooperation, why always default to torture?
Lamy Safari. I own and have used many much more expensive pens, but Lamy Safari (fine nib) is still my favourite.
> My hope is that you'll soften your hatred of EE ...

Okay, as a favor to you, I will hate EE 10% less for 24 hours. But I'll still filter their links out of my Web searches, and warn people away from them at every opportunity. The reason? They're unapologetic parasites.

Happy now?
Rhythmic ability linked to language
Only by a very loose definition of "kill" - that is, by looking at total population numbers. And overall, the communist regime saved many more people from starvation (you can also see this in the total population numbers).

Starvation was common before communism (this is second hand "communist propaganda" from my father, probably originally from a similar source to the information the Korean POW's were given), but it wasn't concentrated into a few years like in the great leap forward.
Xbox one may actually live up to this...we'll see
Oops - I just realised that myself. Still a) that's /really/not common enough parlance to be using in a support forum and b) that usage just trivialises the (very important) issue, at least in my ear. I don't get the impression that Conduit are taking this seriously. Still, I guess I'll never forget the name for that icon now :)
Thomas Knoll: The Story of Photoshop
>I picked up my 360 in the launch month, and it's still running eight years later.

Wow, I have had like 4 consoles, 2 original, elite and finally the slim. All but the slim RROD, to still have your launch edition is mighty impressive!
Hm, site is censored in the UK for being "violent pornographic and/or political material" :|
Why are you comparing gross revenue to profit? It would only take 3.3 million pre-sales to make up the $200 million to get to $1 billion/day. Diablo 3 reached that many sales on day 1, for example. Moreover, we're not talking about any random game, we're talking about this very specific game, GTA V, which has smashed existing sales records.
At least you're openly admitting that's your plan. So, you know, we can drag you behind the chemical sheds and shoot you for Criminally Irresponsible Use of Applied Phlebotinum.
We do this all the time, for example to immigrants. We call this integration in europe, you might also call this learning/internalizing the right values or assimilation.

And if I had to choose between that kind of Chinese brainwashing and Guantanamo/CIA black sites, I'll pick the Chinese option.
Also, although every new project starts out tiny, everyone _hopes_ to become really big some day. And to make that clear to everyone on the team, the architecture is immediately designed to handle the wildest success imaginable. Which ends up costing so much to implement that the first paying customer never comes...
> I don't like feeling like an unproductive schlub at work.

I am very jealous. Some of us have very boring, unchallenging, crap corporate-drone jobs in which the 30% social distraction is the only way to make it through the day without going mad.

Feeling 'unproductive' doesn't factor into it when one's work seems meaningless.

Quick riposte: 'just leave' doesn't pay the mortgage.
Does changing household size resurrect American economic performance?
In his defense, if you're dying anyway, you might as well leave a "ghost" behind. The ghost might not be you, and it will certainly have some psychological issues to deal with due to knowing that it's one ontological level "down" from a real, flesh-and-blood person, but you were going to die anyway.
Are you making good money with this stuff?

4chan is a big hit, but don't hear much about your commercial ideas.
Despite Google's protests, the MPAA still says Search is a pirate's paradise
>Dear god what a mess GTA IV was and how many patches it took to actually get it to a workable state.

Could be the reason they don't, but I expect piracy is the main reason it's not on the PC yet.

You do often see tech demos of engines that show of what can be done, but you develop for the market, which is the same for most technology (cough Internet Explorer cough)
The Internet Of Things Creates A Smart Planet That We Can Understand - Video
Sales != Earnings...
Protip: get earmuffs. The kind that construction workers use. They're about $20 on Amazon. If you combine them with earbuds, you literally can't hear a conversation right next to you.

This is the setup that pro Starcraft tournaments use so that players can't hear the announcers and crowd.
Why Wearable Technology is the Future?
They way they chose to compose that open letter meant I could not take it seriously at all. (And my partner is in employment law so I have an above casual interest in these kind of things in all industries.)
Yes in theory you could probably come up with a weird pathological scenario where a monolithic design is slower and a modular design is faster. But that usually doesn't happen. [...] Usually, turning a modular design into a monolithic design for a tiny performance gain turns into an epic disaster/mistake.

Well, think about this. Suppose you're running RAID-1 with two drives, and you've got some filesystem (maybe ext4, but that doesn't matter) running on top of that. You create one huge file, and then a little while later you delete it. And right after that, one of the disks dies, and you replace it.

In this case, your RAID layer doesn't know that most of the data written to the original drive is junk, and that the only really important bits are some inodes and directory entries consuming a few MB near the end of the disk. It has to re-mirror the entire drive from the original to the replacement before they are in-sync again and you are fully protected. Even with modern drives, that leaves a large window of time that you're not protected.

If, on the other hand, your RAID layer has a thicker interface to the filesystem than just a dumb block store, it can just mirror the little bit of metadata, and within seconds you're in sync again and fully protected.

That's just one example. There are many more. Go read the stories about people complaining about RAID-5 and RAID-6 performance.
Interesting 4chan and Hacker News are going different ways. They decided to make bans more transparent. Hacker News recently made it impossible to reply to dead posts, so you can't even tell dead users they are dead any more.
Censored by whom? It works fine for me on Virgin Media
Soldiers didn't have the internet. They didn't often get up-to-date newspapers and magazines. If they were lucky, they could sometimes get news/propaganda from shortwave radio, e.g., "Voice of America". Mainly they got news from their military and letters from home.

So go for a year or two like this in a horrific combat zone in an utterly foreign Asian country. Then get captured and spend a few years writing essays about Communism in a Chinese-run POW camp (if you're lucky).

It is both reasonable and compassionate that, when they get out, that individual should not be held to account for whatever documents they may have signed or political statements they may have made during that time.

Whether 'brainwashing' was complete fiction or not, it was a concept which let broken men put the past behind them and have a welcome return to their home country.
Rockstar north is based in Scotland, so it's not going to be that high ;)
Yes actually if I needed to do upgrade pricing. The solution from Omni involved enabling/encouraging purchase of digital goods outside the App Store which is one of Apple's brightest red lines in their App Store rules. The solution that I propose is completely within the App Store system and Apple still get their 30%.

If I was planning to use the approach I would reread their guidelines first with the specific plan in mind to check there was nothing preventing it but I wouldn't expect to find it (if you do know of a specific clause please let me know).
Facebook pics uploaded in the clear
OP here. No real money, just a few good ideas. I'm an engineer and programmer (started designing mainframes at IBM) but long retired from the day to day issues of design and coding, especially distant from modern device programming.

Like a barely countable set of such people, I'd like to lure a programmer in with a good idea and the belief that it could be financially worthwhile in the long run.

How to do that without being too vulnerable to a hit and run completely escapes me.

Y'all have given me some threads to follow, thanks. More specific individual replies coming up.

I sure wish ycombinator had a notification option for threads you start or comment in. That would facilitate longer and more productive threads. Am I just missing it?
>Hacker News recently made it impossible to reply to dead posts, so you can't even tell dead users they are dead any more.

I don't think this behavior changed recently (if ever). People would frequently reply elsewhere in the thread to warn people that they are dead.
Extrapolote that thought; it's only now that those kids (who grew up with BBM) are in charge of their own financial destinty. They might be used to having BBM in their lives and if they can get it on a new "cool" phone then that will make it popular. (To an extent.)
I can't make any sense of your perspective. Policies very much are made by a generation; they are very much not made by politicians. Look at the discussion of drinking -- politicians have decided that no one shall drink before the age of 21, the masses have decided something different, and the masses are having things 100% their own way. The society reflects what the populace wants.

> There's never been a meeting of whatever generation to decide policy, that happens elsewhere.

Of course there's never been a meeting. The generation doesn't meet. But it does decide policy. Who meets to set the price of copper?
I wonder if they will/could just port to PS4 and up the textures, framerate, draw distance etc.

It could be that there is so much PS3 specific tricks in there it just wouldn't work.
Well, if I had to guess, I'd say Adobe is moving into html5 in a big way.

1) They want to show they are a leader.

2) They want to encourage iOS app developers to use these features now, instead of, or along with native code. After all, Apple will have 85-90% of its devices upgraded in 6 months. You can make an ios7 only app and ship today. 50 million people are using it.

3) They want to encourage further browser adoption.
If your workload is light enough that a set of "full" databases is a cost effective solution, then a distributed KV store is not what you need.
40,000 students worldwide are studying Lord of the Rings Online
Mainly Gmail web (and android) interfaces, because it's by far the most intuitive and furnished client I've tested. I also use Thunderbird and Horde for a non gmail account, but I'm far from being happy with them. Actually, I feel more like if I'm back at stone age with them ...
NB: I'm actively looking for alternatives to gmail
That has the exact same problem as headphones. I do not want to wear giant things on my head for 6-8 hours a day while I try to get into and stay in the flow.

(I don't have a problem with ambient conversation at, say, Starbucks, but I find myself very distracted by people talking about work stuff in the same room as me.)
Missleading title? I think it could be classfied as crapware but malware?
Replace your Ruby workers with Go workers
Fine on BT UK, too (see sibling comment).
It's complicated, and not public. Here are the rules I've deduced.

If you submit the exact same link, or a link that is sufficiently similar under some rules that are not made public (and hence I don't know), and if the previous submission is sufficiently recent, or in the cache for some reason, then yes, your "submission" will act as an upvote on the previous link, and you will be taken to it.

However, if:

* The link is not exactly the same, or

* the link is not "nearly the same", or

* the previous submission is not in the cache, then

your submission will be accepted.
There is a list of global rules, as well as some board-specific rules [1]. Generally boards just require you to stay on-topic (unless you're on /b/, where the only off-topic thing is ponies, which is the only on-topic thing on /mlp/), refrain from spam, and not post anything that could get 4chan in legal trouble. Rule offenses result in IP bans, usually for a certain time (from a day to month to forever).

All of the boards have mods of various rankings (people who delete off-topic posts vs people who actually ban/temp-ban users) and various degrees of moderation. According to the post (and agreeing with my personal experience) moderation has generally been on the rise as of late, although apparently this is due to better moderation tools rather than an increase in moderators.

Prior to the new ban-list, most moderation (I've seen anyway) is pretty quiet, save from the infamous USER HAS BEEN BANNED FOR THIS POST that you sometimes see.

[1] https://www.4chan.org/rules
Linus Torvalds Admits He's Been Asked To Insert Backdoor Into Linux
I updated the divx software a few days ago and noticed this.

It has a rather obvious "install conduit search powered by bing" checkbox.
While this is defaulted to "yes", is very easily set to "no".
France puts Geek/Cosplay Festival on a "Cult Watchlist", cancels festival
Thanks for posting this.

Maps make amazing summarization/summary capturing tools. I used to unknowingly use them during my college days. One of the main reasons why I spent 1/10th the time yet scored the same as my classmates was maps. I would practically convert each chapter into a map, and merely crawling though a map was more than sufficient for any kind of a revision.

In our industry maps make wonderful testing tools. Lets say you want to test X, write down a map of each functionality, then write down further nodes, which basically is what could possible go wrong or right with each node(Each of this becomes a separate node). For each node you expand, stress the node bring out more test nodes until you can't stress any node anymore.

The resultant map will be nearly the best test cases you can come up with.

Now do this before you start coding, and what you will get is all the scenarios you need to handle to make the code bug free.

Additional tip, avoid using map software. Best tools for this kind of work are paper/pen or whiteboard/marker.

I've been using this strategy to write C code for embedded systems. And it works like a charm.
The Patent Box
I've been reading about this for a few years... Never seen a pic of the garbage patch... Given all the cheap digital photography equipment around, it does make me wonder.
Oh, I have. It's, well, "interesting."
It depends on the social norms. In my office, thankfully, there is a norm that you only go to ask another person after you've looked through the documentation and attempted to understand the code or error message yourself. I don't mind being interrupted in my current work environment, because I know that 90% of the time, the interruption is a worthwhile one - that there is a non-stupid question for me to answer.

I have worked at offices where this norm did not exist. I would strongly challenge your assertion in that case. My productivity definitely was adversely affected. What I think a lot of people lose sight of is that interruptions are additive. If you get interrupted once or twice, that's fine. You can recover and get on with whatever you're working on. But if the interruptions are a regular feature (especially when they're for little things that take two to five minutes to solve, but require you to drop all your current context) it takes longer and longer to recover. At some point (usually around lunchtime in my case) I'd just give up and hop on IRC or Hacker News, knowing that it was unlikely I'd get much work done that day.

It got to the point where I'd come in at 6:30am and leave at 3:30pm just so that I could have a few hours of uninterrupted coding time at the beginning of the day. And this was in an office where it was just other developers I had to deal with. I would probably last less than a week in an office that I had to share with non-developers (especially sales, who have to be constantly on the phone).
If you have an older phone that the vendor can't be bothered upgrading, if CM supports it then you get to install a supported version of Android with the latest security updates and bug fixes.

It also means you can install a close to stock version of Android without all the vendor additions. In the early days of Android, HTC Sense & Samsung's equivalent were probably necessary since the stock Android experience was pretty poor. Nowadays these vendor UI layers are relatively pointless: mostly they just make vendor updates to phones more expensive to implement and therefore less likely to occur. Vendors still like them because they believe they give them a way to differentiate their phones from everybody else's, but the vast majority of users simply don't care.

If you have a recent phone, or a Google phone that gets timely updates, then you probably don't care that much about CM. If you can afford to buy a new phone every year then you probably don't care very much about CM. That still leaves a big chunk of the population who can benefit from CM: an 8 million strong installed base is pretty impressive for an Android distribution that usually requires you to void the warranty on your phone.
The threat is not in a single one of them, the threat is in drone swarms. We (as in: the general public, I'm quite sure secluded labs have working prototypes) don't have the technical details figured out, but in 5 years, it will be possible for a swarm of 100's of these things to appear out of nowhere (from backpacks, rooftops, garbage cans, sewer drains) and, blitzkrieg style, overwhelm even largish targets within minutes. It will take very sophisticated counter measure technology to correctly identify, isolate and attack a sufficiently large part of such a swarm; technology that will not be available at the time motivated amateurs will be able to deploy such weapons.

These are interesting times to live in, indeed.
If it's a "succinct and accurate way to explain it" then why do so many people find it jarring and confusing? If management speak really is a jargon then it is useful only when talking to other managers, not to people in general. (And, it would appear, especially not when talking to engineers.)
None of those SOEs export. China's economic success is inspite of the SOEs, not because of them. Private companies subsidize SOE success through higher prices paid to them (with no other option given their monopoly statuses).

China is basically an aristocracy at this point, more so than other countries with corruption. Communist ideology plays little role in politics beyond little red book pissing contests that the left and moderates occasionally get into.
> As a new hire, I would send my mentor a question and it might be ten minutes to fifty minutes before I would get a reply.

This is a weaird problem to me. At my last job, we had the "ask async first" thing--but, yeah, if they're not responding and it's urgent, then of course you go ask them, that's just obvious. But the point is that this behavior should be rare because it's not "momentarily" losing their flow, it's often losing it for ten to fifteen minutes. A two-second IM is less likely to make them lose it than you walking over, so start there.
O2. They censor a really odd selection of stuff.
The developers of u-boot also has that option.
Probably the UK's strategy to prevent the Chinese from brain-washing you.
I'm a big fan of the series, but I decided to sit this one out until a PS4 / GTA V bundle comes out -- The game doesn't seem to look any better than GTA IV on PS3 and I don't want to feel like I'm playing yet another GTA IV expansion pack for the coming years. (I just recently finished all three GTA IV story lines. I'm not a huge player anymore)

Another thing of note about why GTA IV looks so much better than GTA 3 is that GTAIV uses what's now called Euphoria from Natural Motion: http://www.naturalmotion.com/middleware/euphoria/ Its synthesized animation looks way more natural than the stitching together of hand-made animation and I'm actually surprised that it didn't take the character animation world by storm by now.
> Collaborate damn it!

Do they want to hear you talking to him? I sure wouldn't want people talking while I'm trying to concentrate.

"Collaboration" doesn't have to mean annoying your coworkers. If you need to do things aloud, that's fine--I sometimes find it better too--but it's vastly better go somewhere private for it.