skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"...will eventually pass you on each of the many roads you haphazardly travel."

This post assumes that there is a single criterion for success that is universal to all people, and that those who move "haphazardly" between pursuits will fail to meet this criterion.

The truth is that some people are maximizers who define success through things like financial achievement, and some people are satisficers for whom success is truly getting to work on things you love every day.

I do agree that this generation (myself included?) is much too willing to give up on something that is getting boring / tiresome in favor of something new, when continuing on the original path would have in fact made them successful shortly. The only project I've stuck with for > 4 years in my entire life is paying off, largely because of my team's dogged pursuit of the same goal, even when things got tiresome.
Naive question, but how is such a large disparity between the number of shares that Williams has over Dorsey considering they're both Co-Founders?
John is really good at getting eyeballs to his blog. His also the author of 'The demise of Javascript'.

Apparently, since he actually started using it, he thinks its not so bad now and will be around for a while.

John also likes to make very broad and just downright swiping generalizations like this below:

'We’ve sort of reached the place in the C# and Java space where just about everyone is doing “cargo cult programming.” What I mean by this is that a majority of developers are writing unit tests and using IoC containers without understanding what value those practices bring or even if those practices are actually bringing any value.'

I find this article along the same lines. I applaud him for his ability to generate views but I don't put too much weight in his "insights".
I prefer EME to not being able to legally access media at all.

In other words, you are willing to give up freedom to get--what, exactly? Movies? Music? Eye candy?

I confess I simply can't understand this point of view. People are willing to hand over the Internet to DRM and the media corporations because they can't live without the "entertainment" that Hollywood provides? People are willing to have their computers pwned just so they can watch Netflix? That appalls me.
It doesn't necessarily have to suck like Facebook feed. I never despised placement advertising in TV shows.
Often, that is the case, though there is a lot of scrutiny on the patent trolls these days. We're also seeing great shifts in transparency on the part of the people held up by these IP bandits. Witness The Oatmeal vs. FunnyJunk:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Oatmeal_and_FunnyJunk_legal...

Some companies are crusading not just to defend their IP position, but to actively attempt to change the law so that these things can't happen again. Newegg is a prime example:
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/05/newegg-nukes-corp...

"There are strategies I think would be really neat and effective that I literally can't execute. I can't make good law because I don't have any appellate cases left. They [the trolls] are dismissing cases against us before any dispositive motions." -Lee Cheng, Newegg's chief legal officer
I am surprised Instagram beat Tumblr to it
Ah, noted, thank you. I hear the whispers among institutional investors is 11bn
Some naive questions from someone who genuinely doesn't know: how is it that a company cannot detect when someone downloads a giant database of sensitive personal information from their servers? Surely, there are ways to monitor access to this data and immediately flag suspicious behaviour? How do the intruders even find the location of this data and then download it? Isn't there some best practice security measures that can prevent of all of these things? I presume Adobe failed at all of them?
I've had the same problem before. Store shopping as well. Sometimes I'll try on two colors of the same shirt and they'll fit much differently. The fix to this though is just to find the manufacturers that understand how important consistency is. It isn't easy.. manufacturing clothes is fairly imprecise, depending on methods used, but some companies care more than others.
Pardon my ignorance but I see most of the suggested links from tech news/blog sites. But unless your customers are entrepreneurs and tech readers, shouldn't you launch where your customers are ? (which could be any aggregation website from farming, medicine or any other subject matter)
They've only just started ramping their monetization engine as they've only been offering paid solutions for a few years now. They get all their revenue from essentially two products: promoted tweets and promoted accounts, so I see their revenue as pretty impressive given their simplistic offerings. They're now trying to get a piece of the $85B/year TV ad industry in the US too, so expect to see revenue start to come in from a variety of sources. For those criticizing Twitter because the majority of its users are a passive audience, remember that TV is in the same boat and commands the lionshare of ad spend globally. There's a lot of potential here, and they are just scratching the surface with what's possible.
Happy World Standards Day (but only in the US)
As a point of fact, the article writer's positions on Obama and McCain that he discusses in the text were to win the nomination, not the general election. He would have won the McCain bet with the full dollar if he had hung on to it.

You can read the raw data, less ambiguous than the text, below the main article.
You've got to be shitting me: 'voting with their money' is not at all a valid point, nor would it ever trump that of an elected representative.

Notice that Starbucks and Amazon are american lifestyle companies, of course there is going to be an appeal to the lower income class for services that are immediate and cheap. Since they are paid a poverty wage, they are too busy working to have the time to do things like go out for lunch or cook a meal.

A woah, guess what? Those business models perpetuate the same conditions that lower work environment standards, wages, employee health and morale. It's a positive feedback system that needs to be nipped in the bud before it completely devours the French economy.
Unless they've changed it since I looked, the only interface the HTML5 EME specification defines is the one between the website and the browser. There is no standardized interface between browsers and DRM modules, nor is there any requirement browsers support external content decryption modules. For example, last I heard IE was only going to support a built-in implementation of Microsoft's PlayReady which isn't available to anyone else.

In fact it's not clear that anyone can use a standardized, open API for decryption modules and meet content providers' security demands. While some of them were historically willing to use Flash which did use standard browser APIs, they've taken this as an opportunity to demand more.
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No, the financial transactions will prove his guilt. This is for finding him in the first place and getting the necessary warrants. Also, note that this evidence is for the indictment, which is what it takes to bring the charge, not a full statement of the case at trial.
Why do they say "we'll start slow"? Doesn't seem necessary for them to tell the public that, and it's only concerning.
For me? Well, I'm a computational epidemiologist, so targeting science is exactly it's advantage. PiCloud allows the use of AWS resources fairly seamlessly from inside scripts, iPython notebooks, etc.

They're also very responsive to questions, and their package is far, far easier to use for the things I use it for than trying to build something myself via AWS, Rackspace, etc.

Disclosure: They also gave me a $500 research grant.
Can't wait for chrome packaged apps on Android

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any good example sites of the OP?
300 million.
It's worth noting that the original "i quit" post never mentioned burnout. I didn't get the impression that it had anything to do with loren's reason for leaving, so it's strange for the reply post to bring it up like that.
Fab to cut more than 100 jobs, 15 percent of site's workforce
This was in June, so it's summer, and the father was supposed to drop the baby off at daycare, but forgot; don't know why... but came and left the baby in the car, and came into work.

As an aside...

There was a Pulitzer Prize winning article about the phenomenon of parents forgetting their children in the backseat and leaving them to die in the heat. The main take-away is that it can happen to anyone. It isn't a matter of malicious or inattentive parents, it usually happens when there is a variation in routine that distracts the parent and pulls focus from the kid.

http://www.pulitzer.org/works/2010-Feature-Writing
Some reviewers do (voluntarily) do that[1]. I would seriously consider doing so once I'm tenured (i.e. when I feel I am immune to blowback).

I would hope that those cursory reviewers resulted in feedback from the other PC members that fix the issue (either through improved future reviews, or not being invited back to be on the PC.)

[1]: http://se.ethz.ch/~meyer/publications/online/whysign/
Show HN: Snapchan - the Snapchat-only image board
they also support the apple tags, but that's going to be deprecated

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Chrome will also allow Web Apps to launch in “App mode” if they embed a meta tag using the “apple-mobile-web-app-capable” name. Chrome will stop supporting this usage in an upcoming release. Chrome currently shows a deprecation warning in the Developer Tools’ console log when it detects a page with only the “apple-mobile-web-app-capable” meta tag. The warning appears as follows:
Android, Google Analytics, etc etc etc
Yes, I will say that was a bit ostentatious.
> Do you think the Universal is just 6 months away from streaming the latest blockbuster with VP8 in a video tag?

They should be. Because I'm going to continue getting my DRM free video from the Pirate Bay until they do. They might have a chance at revenue if they'd just get over themselves. Dinosaurs.
How to enable easy mode on the Galaxy S4
This is unlikely to change. Firefox at least is not about to ship with DRM plugins built in, any more than it comes with Flash built in now.

EME is not strictly DRM in your browser: it's a standardised interface to allow your browser to talk to DRM modules.
If this means companies like Netflix use HTML5 rather than Silverlight to stream films it will ultimately make the world a better place.
If project euler seems too "mathy" try some problems from Top Coder or similar programming challenges. I find they're pretty fun, and can be a bit of a puzzle to work out what's the most efficient approach.
Aligning your team through design principles
You'd be surprised how little companies know about what their networks and applications (and intruders) are doing.
> Around November 2011, Apple screwed up one of it's premier softwares (Final cut pro)

I understand why you would say that, but I don’t agree. At the time, I used Final Cut Pro 7 daily and when Final Cut Pro X was released, I didn’t immediately switch to it. I waited for multicam editing and XML export, and Apple delivered. That’s when I switched to Final Cut Pro X and it was a great improvement over version 7. When Adobe came up with Creative Cloud, I signed up. That meant I got Adobe Premiere as part of the package, but after trying it, I still much preferred Final Cut Pro 7. Comparing Premiere and Final Cut Pro X, for me, it’s not even a contest. With Final Cut Pro X, I’m way more productive than I ever was in FCP 7, Avid, Premiere or Media100.

Apple could’ve done better by offering the first few releases of FCP X as a free beta, but right now, FCP X is a way better product than FCP 7 ever was.
Whoever has the best lawyer?
- Make it free. Seriously there is no other way to enter the market unless you have ton of money to burn.

- Have in app purchases.

- Facebook Ads. First test out multiple versions of ads for Facebook and see which one gives you best results and then spend more money on it.
Can the CO2 be removed from the ocean and broken into C and O2? Is this geo-engineering we can do?
Hundreds of IPOs in the past 12 months?
Muffin is a new full stack development tool for creating modern webapps.
I empathize on libertarians on this one, but at the same time as a statist I'm gleeful that it took no time at all for this "free" system to devolve into an amateur crime lord calling out hits on people.

DPR isn't just a libertarian. He's bad in the ways that highlight the shortcomings of anarcho libertarianism. People aren't good and presented with opportunity, they act quickly to aggrandize themselves using whatever means are necessary.
The actual site and system seems rather simple. The other Tor merchant sites I've seen look much better than SR. The real issue is trust (both in the site and vendors), and open source won't help there.
Bioinformatics challenge: hidden messages in DNA
Why Some Companies Shun Remote Working
In case anybody is wondering how jellyfish are relevant: http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/rise-of-jellyfish-reveals-...
Michael Jordan doesn't much factor in, that is why no rappers are wearing his jersey or his number(23). Jordans, the shoes, are mentioned in rap songs because of the status(very expensive and hard to come by) and fashion of the brand, like other brands mentioned in rap, Gucci, Prada, Fendi, etc.. Rappers don't know and don't care about the people who started or who are behind those brands, they are only mentioned for the high status and fashion associated with those brands.
It's cool and inspiring, but having clicked through some of the sites I think it is actually an arts project, rather than an attempt at learning coding. As an art installation it works very well, and Jennifer said she is an artist originally, so I suspect that is what is really behind it.

I'd reconsider learning coding that way, though, because too many sites seem to have little enduring value. I suspect by tackling a "deeper" project for 180 days one could learn coding just as well, but have more to show for. Unless you are an artist, in which case this result is great.

The most inspiring aspect for me is actually the sticking to a plan for 180 days.
It doesn't matter unless the website acknowledges your DRM scheme.
> They are only a failure if adoption was a goal... Often one is created to explore an idea.

Hence "academic". Design for idea exploration rather than widespread adoption is a crucial property of a language, and a valid target for criticism.
I think you're misconstruing the linked article.

Answer the following. In a generation raised to believe that "how I feel" is the metric to be optimized, who will do work that does not provide "a positive amount of feels". Not all work is sexy work. And loads of people are inheriting this prima donna attitude of, well, I'm above unsexy work.

How do you reconcile this?
A lot of people posted their results to twitter, you can get an idea of where you fall in avg by giving this a glance over:

https://twitter.com/search?q=I%20completed%20%22You%20Can't%...
> For example, you could run a binary through an obfuscator after compiling in a decryption key -- from source code that had been published and distributed under an open source license.

Of course, if you do that you may as well just not release the source code at all, because there's no way for the user to tell that the binary does actually correspond to the source without also being able to extract the encryption key and break the DRM.
I never liked rap and I can finally explain my reason:

http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=woman%2C%20women%2C%20girl%2...

And I've heard a lot of rap. My highschool bus driver always played rap on the bus's radio every time we had him as a driver. Honestly, I went to school angry every morning. Similar to how you feel when you try to listen to Glen Beck or Rush Limbaugh.
Advertising is always the most desperate business model when you don´t have any other ways to monetize. However, that's the problem if you are a generic startup for everybody and don't have a niche.
Right, it has value, but that value is not going to go up, is my point. Twitter users don't become more engaged over time because only a small percentage of users can use it the way it is intended.
My argument is not about which of the two companies' products are better. Probably Apple's is better, but the creative suite at a 50% off was a deal not to be missed for me at that time (It included Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects, Premier and Audition)
COOKIE DOG
Not without a significant energy expenditure.

But most of our energy sources of course produce CO2 and other products.
Basic words do: http://rapgenius.com/rapstats?q=get%2C%20we%2C%20i%2C%20is%2... I + you is 3%, we and is are close around .5-.8%.
Could this result in a huge fine or penalty, not least due to potential PCI DSS violation? Here in the EU, it'd be a big data protection issue as well.
There is a proposed geoengineering approach, but the authors of this page don't recommend it:

https://web.duke.edu/nicholas/bio217/spring2010/chang/GeoEng...

http://www.cquestrate.com/the-idea
Twitter not yet profitable
If you can see beyond provocative part without getting offended you'll see that the post main point is how persistence and grit beat passion and being smart. Hardly anyone can argue with that.

"It doesn’t matter how brilliant you started out or how much faster you exited the gates than everyone else, those who consistently get up every morning and direct their energies along a single path, no matter how boring it may be, will eventually pass you on each of the many roads you haphazardly travel."
That's cool, but what about PNaCl? If somehow I could run native code on Chrome/Android - all nicely within a secure sandbox without having to deal with Java/IDE/Emulator/SDK/Versioning hell wouldn't that be great?!
"This story has broken an embargo and will shortly be taken down. It will be relaunched to the site at 6.00am BST. Apologies"

Interesting.
The Nietzsche quote is not only out of (very meaningful) context, but also from a poor prewar translation, as far as I can tell. Even so, anyone even slightly familiar with Nietzsche's tone should see the irony of appropriating this in the article's reasoning.
There's also "Under what conditions when Tesla cars crash will they catch fire", and then you only look at your 12 crashes, and that's when everything goes wrong.

The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after take-off in January
1986. Subsequent investigation determined that the cause was failure of
the O-ring seals used to isolate the fuel supply from burning gases.....

NASA staff had analysed the data on the relation between ambient
temperature and number of O-ring failures (out of 6), but they had
excluded observations where no O-rings failed, believing that they were
uninformative. Unfortunately, those observations had occurred when the
launch temperature was relatively warm (65-80 degF).

http://www.datavis.ca/gallery/missed.php

Let's look at this question "how bad will that fire be for persons and property involved?"

You look at your 12 crashes where fire occurs, so (e.g.) 6 crashes. Of 6 crashes 3 were accompanied with injuries. All 3 crashes that were accompanied by electrical fires and injuries occurred was when the car's speed was between (e.g.) 40mph and 50mph. Does that mean when the speed is not between 40mph and 50mph, people won't be injured when there's a crash and a fire? It means nothing like that but it's too easy to make a wrong conclusion; you're skipping all the other data where injuries and/or fires happen independently of crashes.
In Turkey, we have these things called virtual credit cards. You basically log in into internet banking, click a button to generate a new card, it shows up instantly, then you define how much limit it would have and you are ready to use it. For convenience you can use that card many times, just reset the limit or you can create new one if you wish. It's really good, I use it every time.
In legal practice, decisions are tested on appeal or by subsequent tribunals.

While this process is currently conducted by paid-for editorial teams, most practitioners rely on citation tools which for any judgment provide links through to subsequent decisions which have, for example, "approved", "considered", "distinguished" (as in disapplied due to different facts, but this can have the practical effect of confining an earlier decision to its particular facts) or "overturned" that decision.

Although Google Scholar seems to provide some authority measure through the "cited by" tool, I've often wondered why academia (or perhaps I've just missed it) hasn't developed a comparable "precedent" system for research.
There is no cognitive dissonance in believing the state has the right to prohibit harmful things while also believing that most drugs aren't that harmful and the drug war is overly broad and poorly executed.
How does source code leak in such an attack? Why would customer facing servers and databases share a network with a code repository?
Twitter’s growth, in two charts
What's the mechanism for QE having a particularly acute affect on technology company valuations?
"the photos and videos many of you already enjoy from your favorite brands."

I do? Last I checked they were people, not brands that I was following.

It disappoints me that micropayments are such a dead idea. I like paying for things I actually use a lot better than the cognitive pollution of advertising.
We've already got Silverlight, Flash, Java, so on and so forth... denying DRM entry to HTML won't stop DRM web content, and allowing it might just make the experience less miserable.
The battery pack is directly under the passenger seat, and this is typically a non-structural compnent, of very thin sheet metal. One would not want to be riding shotgun.
Are the authors against all geo-engineering or just this plan?
Haha, actually we do use our own service to find users. We eat our own dog food, yum...

That being said, we're pretty agnostic to the methods we use to source our leads. We find that different industries can have widely different lead generation methods that are most effective. The advantage to our service is that we can customize how we generate these leads. If Craigslist ends up being the best way, we'll use that, if it's a different method (LinkedIn for example) we'll use that method or any other method that works well.
Every time you have to add a new component to a system to run your tools, a system administrator gets his wings.

PS is built in, Python isn't, so Python can't be used to 'bootstrap' anything from the ground up in Windows. If you're going to have to bootstrap in PS, why not just stick with it?
We are actually a week from the anniversary of the world's first act of geo-vigilantism: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/newsdesk/2012/10/the-f....

Really fascinating stuff.
Oh, I’m not disputing that, and I too took advantage of that offer. I’m still very happy with Creative Cloud, with its more frequent updates and lower pricing. Premiere just isn’t for me. (I did use Premiere extensively back in the 90s, but that was before FireWire, digital camcorders, and FCP.)
You seem not to be able to see the wood for the trees. You are trying to suggest that Samsung have done no wrong. You then essentially say "heh, fanboys", when people disagree. Are you not doing exactly the same?