skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Myself, I think this would be safer.

I disagree with the other pilot (but I'm only PPL) on his views about sleeping during boring stages of flight. Say for instance you've piloted badly into a CB, you suffer a freezing on your pitot static systems. The autopilot disengages.

If you were asleep, it might take a while for you to get your act together, co-ordinate to ascertain who has the flight controls and start CRM procedures.

If you were wide awake, thinking how to solve this tricksy problem, you might do a better job as your mind is already warmed up!
Gambling isn't, in itself, shady. Educated adults know that there's a risk. There are the compulsive types for whom it is a problem.

On the other hand, search for "Betfair doesn't pay out" and you see dozens of stories, often by 'big media', of repeated and numerous instances where Betfair has suspended accounts that have won money, and even voided all bets on an event where they stood to lose a lot of money.
More years to come for sure!
I made a few android apps with scala. What's not working for you?
Income inequality is, by definition, the gap between those with lower and higher earnings.

So if Facebook et al. pay higher salaries, and other salaries don't increase, then income inequality increases.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing, but it seems obvious that soaring tech salaries will increase inequality.
Open-Source Weather Station and Outdoor Wireless Platform
I have not read the Culture series. What about the AI in the Orions Arm universe project?

http://www.orionsarm.com/
not for new grad, but I've seen up to 400k in stock given, pretty amazing..
What do you think the chances are that they send an email every time the customer is charged, listing their "points" and benefits thereof?
Twinkind - buy a 3d printed copy of yourself for $300
Repo here: https://github.com/nicolaskruchten/pivottable
I always thought PandoDaily is a good name, because they are pandering to the stakeholders daily. Online "journalism"! Even CNN is more concerned with celebrities than actual wars.
Pretty much every video game from at least the last three decades has "[used] sound...to ratchet up excitement." I would hardly use the word "offensive" to describe this.
Magento 1.8 stable has finally been released
LINQ for C++ (gcc/clang/vc)
> There is no economic incentive to have pilots fly less and sleep more

Crashes are tremendously bad for business. Also, the laws about pilot rest are incredibly strict. That doesn't mean that pilots won't break them, but it does mean that the "economic incentive" aspect is pretty much moot.
Sure, "Engineer's Savings Time" is a common imaginary time scale, which has led to a rule of thumb for engineers to triple their instinctive time estimates for tasks by default.
They have a working kernel, HURD, you can play with it using a Debian release:

http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/
There's no nicer way to say this: you're scum. Have fun trying to sleep at night.
Yeah, it's not the best, but it was good enough for my needs. If I was looking again I'd probably choose your service if you were cost-competitive.

Another place I looked at did storage by the cubic foot, so you'd never see the stuff in storage (and they could presumably save money by packing it better). Seems like that would be a great model for you to use for people who never actually go to their unit.
Show HN: Feathers - Realtime apps in 6 lines
Feathers is a minimal, flexible wrapper over top of express. It is a resourceful REST implementation where you only deal with your data.
What do people use for editing Rust source code?
Debugging Rust in Eclipse
I disagree that just because most people who day trade lose money, that wider access to the markets is a bad idea.

I'd rather have the option to enter a market when the odds are against me than not have that option at all.
This is why I have my credit/debit cards cancelled and re-issued once or twice a year. I can't be bothered to spend several hours on the phone trying to cancel scumbag/parasite operators like this (AOL was notorious for this back in the day).
this has the potential to be much worse than a shady checkout screen. for every vip charge they aren't even shipping a real product. they give credits. if a company files bankruptcy those credits and gift cards will be worthless because it is considered a liability. so they don't even have to keep a real inventory (which would be an asset with real value).

(1) get funding
(2) ?
(3) bankruptcy
(4) profit
How ‘Bacon and Eggs’ Became the American Breakfast
Their OS is called GNU Hurd. [1] Apparently, they are still making progress, but it must be hard to catch up with Linux.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Hurd
"Credits" are in some cases more insidious than being sent physical goods, because they're less likely to be noticed. And you'd be surprised how slowly most people realize they've been subscribed to a service -- especially if the billing for that service is under a fairly innocuous-sounding or obscure name (as is often the case).

Paying "for one item in the first cycle and then cancel[ing]" is probably an exceptional case. I'd be willing to bet that it takes most users two, maybe even three or more cycles to notice and then break the subscription.
Yeah, that is the one I regard as being the proper original. I like the way it scales and has real world objects for comparison. Can't see any real world object on the submitted image, but that might just be a me thing.
> The cockpit of the future will contain a pilot and a dog.

> The pilot is there to feed the dog.

> The dog is there to bite the pilot if he tries to touch anything.

Not sure who originally said it.
> However, most people are used to trials expiring and being forced to explicitly upgrade to continue using X product.

Actually, the free trial period with automatic billing at full price at the end of the period is a fairly common model that people in the US are used to (even if they don't like it); either it or the very similar discounted introductory period with automatic billing at full price at the end of the introductory period model is used for almost every periodic membership-based service that exists. So, I doubt very much that your statement about what most people are used to is accurate. (It may be what your experience genuinely was and the basis for your expectation despite the very clear explicit statement to the contrary that Amazon provides with free Prime trials, but I don't see any reason to believe, and have plenty of reason to doubt, that it is generally the case.)

And Amazon makes it unusually easy to cancel it for a full refund after the trial has expired and the full membership has been charged.
Also, these aren't all "file formats not starting at offset 0". For example, PDF files must start with %PDF. The problem is that several tools are happy with a PDF prefixed by noise. That probably is because PDF, originally, was a text format (just as PostScript still is). Compression of content was added later, but the structure still is pure ASCII (for example, the table of contents at the end of a file has file offsets in ASCII, and you can find the start of the table of contents as an ASCII string, too).
I'm not. I'm proposing that Google is not the cause of other people's personal income and transportation problems.
Except it doesn't, because the manager will shift to a different aspect of Basic Economics and fire the overworked developer for nonperformance and churn through to the next monkey to leap into the meat grinder. Just add H1-B to your recipe for success.
Twitter lights and memory limits with the Arduino Yun
... not using it to back his own argument.

Are you sure? Seems to me he referenced TIOBE as a counter to the claim that Java ruled the Web, and wondered where Wired was getting their data, since the TIOBE data contradicts Wired's claim.

Let’s look at some numbers.

The TIOBE Programming Community Index shows us information regarding the relative popularity of languages. Java is high up there, Ruby also features. Scala and Clojure just don’t have enough people using them yet to break the top 20 which still includes COBOL, pilloried by all as an abomination to work with.

As of today Scala gets a mention at number 42 with 0.3% share.

This is unfair though, these numbers are not segmented by industry. We really need to look at numbers for web sites only.

Before we leave these numbers though it is interesting to point out that the Java ranking is very obviously trending downwards in the TIOBE index.
First, a note on the name: the official name from ARM is "AArch64", but this is a silly name that pains me to type. Apple calls it ARM64, and that's what I will call it too.

What ARM calls ARM related periphery is canonical, whether you think it's silly or not.

However the overarching entity is called ARMv8, with the 64-bit state called AArch64 (which can be contrasted with the AArch32 state, which is also a part of ARMv8) and the instruction set is actually called A64.
Is the NPS measured with visitors to the site, customers on site, or people being charged? I'd wager for some companies the differences could be telling.
Unfortunately this is the state of journalism today. In the length of an article it is only possible to make one point, at least outside of a dense article aimed at a specialist audience. Additionally the article should seem to be relevant, that means that its single point need to be exaggerated until it seems earth shattering. And journalists are not really payed to research a topic in depth, but to write articles.

So this is at least the impression I get from every article, where I actually know something about the topic. In theoretical physics every article describes one paper, and calls it a break through towards quantum gravity. Independent if this is a cute toy model, a interesting trick to calculate some technical problem or a actual attempt at quantum gravity, in which case there is certainly no data to back up the theory and the theory is almost certainly wrong. Another thing is any reporting about nuclear energy, either the article is wildly exaggerating the dangers of nuclear energy or it is wildly overstating the necessity of nuclear energy. ( Nuclear energy is IMHO a particularly nasty example for articles, because the dangers are extremely model dependent, so to inform a lay audience one would need an entire book.) And for programming, well the wired article did not strike me as a particular bad offender.

This would be tolerable, if it would not bias the political process. The current German president, Joachim Gauck, is a nice example. [1] In 2010 the, in this context center-left, SPD had no chance at electing their own candidate, so they attempted a PR coup by nominating a guy who is a hero for conservatives, while the conservative CDU did elect a career politician. Much to the dismay of conservative talking heads. Last year, the president had to resign [2] and chancellor Merkel did nominate Gauck, knowing that now the SPD is on the hook because he was their candidate. And all political commentators in Germany did just dust off their opinion pieces from two years ago.

In conclusion, I have no idea how to fix journalism. But I think that better journalism is badly needed. Or else the control loop for the political process has less and less input from actual facts and deep thought and is only controlled by some self consistent PR bullshit.

Edit: Clarified the conclusion.

[1] In Germany the president has a largely ceremonial role and is elected by an assembly of the parliament and (some members of) the state parliaments.

[2] Itself only a media phenomenon.
Designing Secure "Run As" Functionality
Show HN:Google docs as content editor
How Facebook Enforces the 20% Rule
Why not? Even if it doesn't use JTAG for debug, it almost certainly would need it for boundary scan. I just checked volume 1 of the Intel i7 processor family datasheet, and it does show a JTAG port.
Except it's not always stationary and I don't want to think about settings such as that.

Better to fix the algorithm, methinks.
Funny thing... this post just disappeared from the home page.
It's probably more of a perception thing than anything else. An animated GIF feels like a lot less overhead than a full on video, even if the file itself is smaller as a video.

Also user forums like reddit are a lot more likely to permit images in posts than a video tag, so you get the added portability of being able to post it almost everywhere.
By that logic, the other industries are causing income inequality by not increasing their salaries.
> To my mind, the article is a demonstration of how poorly the media cover just about everything. When you or I read articles about subjects wherein we are not experts, we (or at least I) assume that they are well-researched and accurate. But when we read articles about subjects in which we have expertise, I find I'm routinely dismayed at the inaccuracies. I am no longer surprised by this, but still bothered. It casts a huge cloud of doubt over everything I read in the media.

This is informally called the Gell-Mann Amnesia effect.

http://harmful.cat-v.org/journalism/gell-mann-amnesia-effect
Related to this, I do think the question of what should or shouldn't be legal is a bit of a separate question. Of which this data is only one part. (to be transparent, I'm the author of the post)
Cool, has anyone made something similar for Clojure?
What health problems can companies accept? Which are insurmountable?
The bit about memory-mapped files, considering the fact that these devices aren't using magnetic discs, is something interesting. The conventional file API of seeking and streams suddenly feels a bit anachronistic. Of course, flash memory is often optimized for sequential reads, but still - it's far more amenable to the memory-mapped model than magnetic media ever was.
me neither but it instantly reminded me of Kurt Vonnegut
I see an interesting parallel of "crowdfunding" to MOOCs. The original (private capital / high-prestige colleges - or their synthesis in Harvard, a hedge fund with a university attached for tax purposes) is a clubby self-dealing arrangement designed to preserve a certain level of oligopoly profits. The cheap substitute gets held up as a way for the average person to buy into that system, when it's really a way to dump an inferior product on the public with the same brand and none of the private advantages that make it worthwhile in the first place.
There are two pilots. So assume they sleep in shifts.

The point is that the several hours en route are a good time for the pilots to rest. Takeoff and landing are the riskiest phases of flight. I'm mainly concerned that the pilots are on top of their game then.
wow, do you have a link for this (Googler's claiming their CRUD app was exceptional)?
Humans could have remotely landed that plane, just like they do with drones every day.
Thank you for the breakdown of how performance is affected with the new architecture.

I've had a few quibbles about where performance gains would be, and all too often I was told that the performance increases would be solely realized in the larger memory addressing space. That just didn't seem right to me.

I really like the use of the otherwise unused space in the 64-bit pointers.
Certainly true. I note that this is causing the "good" half of income inequality, though: the "some people are getting richer" part, not the "other people are getting poorer or staying the same" part.

(I digress, but: we all agree that given three different possible worlds, A, B, and C, where in A, everyone's poor, in B, most people are poor and some are rich, and in C, everyone's rich, C is the best, and A is the worst, right? Nobody's here to argue that A is better than B?)

To the extent that you can draw a causal line from "tech boom" to the bad half of income inequality (the "lots of people are getting poorer or stagnating" part), it's more about "wealth gets tied up in companies that just intrinsically employ fewer people than the labor-intensive manufacturing companies of the mid 20th Century."
It never occurred to me that they'd be using tagged pointers for Objective-C runtime stuff. Of course it's obviously a good idea, but only after hearing it does it become so. Objective-C is always more dynamic than you think it is, so taking implementation cues from other dynamic language runtimes makes perfect sense.

It appears that they've been using tagged pointers on the desktop since 10.7, which I never realized: http://objectivistc.tumblr.com/post/7872364181/tagged-pointe...
so you are basically a software house fishing for clients here?
Yes, this is a good and distressing point.
Yeah right! Last time I checked starting up a bus was easy as starting up an airbus. ;) [1]

[1] http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e54_1379836442
I agree with your sentiment, but sadly science (or rather, the doing of science) is about prestige.

Put yourself in the shoes of a funding agency. If you have two grant proposals, one from somebody at an institution in the middle of the country you haven't heard of, or someone with a strong publication record in big-name journals --- who are you going to award the money to?

A scientist in academia needs funding and publications for tenure. To get publications, funding is needed for equipment, postocs, etc. To get funding, a list of publications is needed so that people recognize your track-record. It keeps on spiraling. To paraphrase from Pratchett in Carpe Jugulum: "Human families raise their successors, but a [s/vampire/professor] is raising competitors." There's a limited funding pool that the researchers are fighting for.

It doesn't seem much better in the industry side of things. For instance, Google [X] is an extremely prominent research lab. However, why? They work on ??? something that no one really knows about for years and don't publish anything. The scientists there may come out in 5 years with something really cool, but if it doesn't pan out, the Google machine will eat it up and the public won't see. Science there is more about the company's prestige than science.
"What ARM calls ARM related periphery is canonical, whether you think it's silly or not."

And why, exactly, should I care?
What if he's not being paranoid, but instead pointing out how paranoid and flawed the concept he has pointed out is?
Startups can't find (good) developers because they don't understand how high the demand is. Unless you're in the big league with the big money, you will have to settle.
FBI drone use prompts calls for new surveillance rules
How do you know what the official site for a text string is?
>>Everything I've read says that 1 java server =~ 10 ruby servers

I believe that is roughly correct. I'd add two points:

- This goes about the same for all the scripting languages and the faster compiled languages. (+)

- You should consider, and might even earn time, by first doing a scripting language implementation and then port it to C/C++/Java/etc, instead of going to C/C++/etc directly.

(But all this is more or less conventional wisdom, afaik.)

(+) Some lisp variants might be able to be as expressive as a scripting language while almost as fast as a compiled language. I don't really know that world since quite a few years.
It's a mistake to jump to the assumption that it's just because of gender. Exactly the same thing happens to plenty of other people, maybe it's because the other person explained it in a different way, maybe because they don't like her on a personal level (irrespective of gender). It might be related to gender but don't discount that other factors could be at play.

In any case changing jobs would seem to be the obvious solution regardless of the underlying reason.
"Have you heard of us?" is sometimes called "brand awareness", and it's normally used by larger companies. Airbnb is probably at the size where it's a useful measure of PR success. Much smaller, and you'll get so many people replying "no" that it doesn't tell you much.

"Would you refer us to someone you know?" is often called "Net promoter score". You ask 100 of you customers if they'd recommend you to a friend [yes/no]. Subtract the latter from the former, and you get your score, from +100 to -100. Apple does consistently very well in these tests - around +70. The utilities firm I worked for hovered around -10.

You can use a more nuanced version with a score from 1-10. <=6 counts as -1, 7 or 8 is a zero, and 9 or 10 counts as +1.

This isn't really a measure of PR, though, because it surveys your existing customers.
I truly look forward to the burst of this flash-in-the-pan game startup IPO bubble, albeit with slight sorrow for the truly hard-working game devs who are feeding the producers and business staff with their undervalued efforts.
This is just a bad article. The causal linkages provided by the piece are laughable and infantile.

"First, there is unsettling realization that the middle is losing economic ground while Silicon Valley execs babble on about “changing the world” for the better. Income inequality is growing ever worse, and it is increasingly clear that one of the forces fueling this trend is the technological innovation flowing out of the Bay Area. "

One of the forces fueling inequality are the some of the best employers in the world? New companies creating jobs, and paying living wages?

I could go after many more examples but I have other things to do.
Hm, this may be a bit of history I'm missing: what was meant, in 1983, by "an Empire game"?

Edit: Apparently this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empire_Classic_%28video_game%29
Ask HN: Rate my Startup - Office Trail Mix Dispenser?
http://www.wyldsson.com/product/dispenser/

I developed this trail mix dispenser for the Irish Rugby team (the photo is from their team room at their training camp last weekend). In the evenings when they're chilling out, they take a little cup of trail mix instead of a bar, as its a much healthier snack.

Question: Would YOU like one of these in your office? (Think of it as a water fountain for trail mix) I'm thinking of promoting it to "progressive" firms, who already provide free snacks etc.

Any thoughts would be really welcomed!

PS: Will be exhibiting it at Web Summit - see you there!
Nobody seems to have mentioned the fact that a well known celebrity, Kimora Lee Simmons, is the president and creative director of this company, no doubt a huge factor in attracting VC attention.
This is just a simple front-end/demo. The real work is being done by a separate project at https://github.com/mysema/scalagen.

I kind of wished this site was written in Java and run through scalagen with the output being run as an additional meta-demonstration.
/me sings, "Another one bites the Dust"

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It looks as Drupal is not suited to stand a HN-DDoS, of 70 points (7000 visitors estimate) in 3 hours.
I've actually got a series of about 6 or 7 articles I'd to write on B2B sales. Hiring is top of the list.
Right, but in the above few posts we're talking about how heightened pleading standards can get you into trouble.

And as a general point, special cases for special areas of law are hacks. The problem with patents isn't the pleading standards. It's not the lack of loser pays. It's that patents are very amorphous, poorly defined property rights. Imagine how much litigation there would be if your property right in your yard couldn't be simply and unambiguously determined just by looking or simple surveying. That's basically the problem with patents.
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So now I am really wondering. What is the sub java parts of the JVM that need to be implemented to completely free Scala from the JVM ( i.e. what C interfaces are needed to allow scalc to compile to LLVM or comparable VM)
I would consider that a success. The free software ecosystem has grown much larger then any one project or organization.
Wouldn't the AI in Asimov's "The Last Question" top that chart.