skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's not quite true, but I think it should hold for this in particular. Some other counterexamples besides "nothing" would be if it generated a regular pattern like "101010101" or if it picked up some kind of mostly predictable input, like a radio station or GPS data. You definitely don't want to dilute your entropy pool with something that can be predicted.
cool tool but one of the advantages of using Safari is seamless integration between my iPhone and Safari Bookmarks
The experiment artificially avoids this by manufacturing a situation in which purchasers only had a one-time choice

Well how many times are you going to download the same free app? And how many free apps can you really stomach having crowding up your phone all at once?
I agree. Now I am following you.

The discussion about what a 10x developer means is really interesting: specialization and long time commitment to specific fields pays a very important part. I don't think you can be a 10X developer in an unrelated specialty. We can compare this with experiments about chess masters playing a new game with modified rules, they are not masters anymore.
https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/sites/default/files/11-apresenta...

Nice use of Comic Sans in the presentation. Wonder if he paid the licence or used Powerpoint.

Nice post though, I did not know about GendBuntu !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu
Is it only "the American people" who this person wants emails to be private? That's what they're title says, and they talk about the US Constitution whose privacy restrictions only apply to US citizens (AFAIR). Go beyond the fourth amendment.
Fedora would have been a better choice.
Acting like java or flash are or ever were alternatives to javascript is displaying a very profound ignorance of what javascript is for. How do I manipulate the DOM in java? Oh I don't? It is not an alternative option then. Javascript absolutely is the only option, and people have no choice. That is why people invest so much time in writing LANGUAGE_X to javascript compilers, so they can write code in a less terrible language even though it has to be deployed as javascript.
Me too (tho I also use folders to group sometimes), but that has nothing to do with the article or the solution to the problem :)

This is for people with more than 30 bookmarks
Governments should use as much open source software as possible, both because of cost reasons, but also in principle (especially now about the NSA scandals, instead of buying proprietary software from American companies).
"A Poisonous Affair: America, Iraq, and the Gassing of Halabja"
Microsoft's Surface 2 launch: What to expect
I'm also in the "I like to get up and out of the office even for a few minutes" camp, though I hate waiting in line.

I've seen the opposite - where I've been in a capital markets job where I couldn't leave my desk, and the office assistant screwed up the order at least twice a week.
You're confusing profitability with productivity, and potentially killing lots and lots of very useful apps that are distributed for reasons other than profit.
France's Untouchables: the Cagot
Can't find a good holistic reference off-hand, but you're looking at focal series reconstruction (or, if you're using specialised equipment, holography) to recover phase information of your wave. That can then be used to reconstruct transfer functions and the like. [This isn't something I do personally so I don't want to go into too much detail in case I explain something incorrectly!]
Slow Tests Are the Symptom, Not the Cause
Child-Free Flights and Kid-Free Zones on Airplanes
The general practice is to leave known spies operating and use them for counterintelligence. No other explanation is consistent with the small number of prosecutions and premature deaths.
I already am. I'm starting a side gig, and will do it full-time as soon as it starts earning profit :) But I'm stating the reality that's true for the vast majority of people here.
They most probably tweaked it to remove that kind of things.
The French Gendarmerie as a pretty good IT department. They even developed a big security plugin for thunderbird called "milimail" (may be abandoned now).
They've also contributed to Trustedbird [1]. Personally, I think that's totally awesome.

1: http://adullact.net/plugins/mediawiki/wiki/milimail/index.ph...
Clever marketing to pull at heartstrings. Of course they want email everywhere to be private.
Saying that handing over money to them somehow = human rights isn't much better than the people who say that PRISM = protection. Just because LavaBit's shtick and rallying cry is around freedom doesn't mean that they aren't a crap company or that they are telling the whole truth about what has gone down. For all we know the founder is just some wacky libertarian taking an opportunity to give the gov some bad press.
Active MITM attacks are not easy by any stretch, certainly not against email. On top of that, if you do not begin the attack before the first messages are sent, you will not get another chance, at least not easily. It would also not be enough to control just the mail server; you need to control every communications channel available to the target, which is a substantial effort and far beyond the scope of what we are trying to achieve with email privacy. Frankly, anyone who can pull that off could more easily break into your home and install a keystroke logger somewhere.

PGP's model works pretty well. You get the key from a key server, you communicate through a (presumably different) mail server, and if you need more protection you use the web of trust. Imperfect, sure, but no security system is perfect, and at least with this the barrier to spying is high enough to stop mass surveillance (not true of Lavabit, whose users just have to be thankful that the service was shut down over such a request).
-1 Daniel Points for using "fascist" as a swear word.
>That said, I agree that you still shouldn't use it in a production environment!

I wonder though. There's a possibility that you'll screw something up and miss it during testing, but I've also seen some scary analyses of expensive off the shelf RNG hardware.

I'd say that if you're in a position of highly restricted capital that requires generation of tons and tons of secure random numbers, the ugly truth is that an open source DIY solution for generating your own entropy (especially if you can use multiple designs that are separately tested) might be safer than dumping your limited resources on proprietary unknowns.
I always just ignore the subject domain and focus on a technical challenge. That's been enough for me for 15 years so far. I haven't ever been stuck on O&M work though - that seems soul-crushing.

Get yourself some new development work, and try to pick the hardest challenges and that'll often be enough to stimulate you.
SLACKWARE IS ALL YOU SHOULD EVER NEED YOU NARROW-MINDED EVANGELIST!!1
Ask HN: SAAS Dashboard with Google Analytics Integration
For anyone running a SAAS business, what tools do you use? What reports/metrics do you wish you had access to monitor or easily report that you don't have today?
>Javascript is basically Scheme/Self with a C-based syntax[1][2]

That is an absolutely absurd claim. Javascript shares similarities to smalltalk, perhaps you confused it with scheme?
It's common in software for us developers to create tools to "scratch our own itches". In this instance, the author might just not personally appreciate those kind of work cultures. This does not imply a fascist desire to exterminate brogrammer culture or any other culture.

For myself, I would not want to work at a place that advertised pingpong, beer, or pizza, because to me, those imply both a homogeneous age (young) and a desire for long hours at the office.

As I get older, I prefer to eat more healthy (haha I wish) and limit my working hours to spend time on the people that matter. I prefer to work cooperatively with my colleagues, not competitively. A positive, supportive working environment is very important to me. If people are swearing at each other, that's a huge red flag.

That doesn't mean that the kinds of work environments are intrinsically bad. For some people, they would be perfect! But if I'm looking for a job, I know up front, they're not for me.

But that's why I work for the government instead of for a startup. :)
Btw, responded to your comment on the site, getting some great replies from the audience including yours!

http://www.replyall.me/the-replyall-cast/breaking-bad-as-a-m...
I think my edge could come from my experience in concept work mostly in large shopping center projects. Getting something from zero, that is without doubt my specialty (and the root of my problems in times where there is no growth in the world). That 'specialty' can lead me for 80 hours/week in one CS startup and to continue my stalled life. I am afraid of that 'detail'.
I imagine their custom version removed that: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GendBuntu .
There's no part of "constitutional protection and human rights" that forbade them from refunding customers' money for a service the customers paid for that they then stopped offering.

(NB: I have no idea if they did/did not refund any money; I'm taking it as a given for this comment but I'm completely relying on the comment chain for the unverified story.)
> I have graduated and have been in the industry for a few years

No one who can say this about themself is in a position to be making any absolute statements about anything.
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Most of the inconsistencies in JS are with respect to the DOM / standard library exposed by the various browsers. That is surely not part of the PL.

As for Python 3, if they hadn't made breaking changes, people would complain instead about the various warts the language has acquired over the years that they refuse to fix for the sake of backward compatibility. There's no solution that makes everyone happy, but I'm glad that the python community is still willing to make high risk / high reward decisions about the language's evolution. That's a sign that it's not yet set in its ways.
In the context of this discussion, GIMP wins. You (or a group of users) are "free" to create an alternative interface for GIMP. The rest of the features of GIMP are readily available to be integrated.

The GP on the other hand is forced to use the exact same interface that Adobe prescribes for Photoshop. Moreover, if Adobe shuts down tomorrow, it is the end of the road for Photoshop development.
Douglas Crockford just said that even though Javascript's syntax resembles an imperative language like C or Java, it's much more similar to a functional language like Lisp or Scheme. From that comment a whole myth began which states that Javascript == Scheme. That's like saying Java == C just because both are imperative. Handwavy and completely wrong.

What you should take from that assertion is "Javascript is more functional than imperative" (which is correct) and not "Javascript is lispy" (which is not).
I agree with a lot of these. Fixing IE JavaScript and CSS with stupid browser hacks is, to me, the equivalent of moping up puke and cleaning toilets in the world of web development.

But hey, sometimes you have to do it to pay the bills. If you can move on up the better. Nevertheless, I think it's good for everyone to pay their dues in doing the menial stuff because it helps build character.
A new Era of Web Development – HTML5
If someone isn't working out, whether it's their fault or yours, you are doing them a favor by terminating them so long as you give them appropriate severance that will cover them long enough to find a new job.

Most people don't want to settle for slightly below average, and it takes a shock to get out of complacency. It's happened to me in the past. The only regret is not getting better severance, but even there it lights a fire.
Shouldn't that cost more?

Some developers are willing to sell for $1, and make quite a bit of profit because that brings in lots of customers. Why "shouldn't" they do that?

Imagine if App store and Play store didn't exist and you'd have to individually find developers and buy/download their apps. That would certainly result in higher prices.

So you're saying that Apple and Google are providing most of the value here. Maybe they "should" be getting 90% of the revenue instead of 30%.

People also have no freaking clue how hard it is to make apps.

It's hard to make microprocessors. Should Intel and ARM make an agreement to triple their prices so that their engineers can be properly rewarded?

If a large enough group of people start raising awareness and refusing to release their work for peanuts

As a cell phone customer in the US I appreciate price-fixing cartels as much as anyone. But first you should really do something about those open source communists who have been devaluing software development for decades.
We made quickrota.com for periodic group based nagging.
Is your school underrated for tech entrepreneurship?
Yes. The CNIL and the tax service have really nothing to do with each other.

Not to say that Google shouldn't pay taxes like normal businesses do, but this has nothing to do with it.
Mentioning gender != discrimination.

"We are looking for smart men and women to join our team" isn't sexism. In fact, it may be the opposite - deliberately mentioning that the company welcomes women, which in your system would achieve the opposite effect.

"We don't believe in typical tech industry culture and strive to create friendly environments for both males and females." will also trip your filter. As an error to boot - not even a warning.

or perhaps even more benignly:

"We are an online retailer for women's fashion."

This isn't full of shit either, consider the following excerpts from real job postings:

"As a top ten defense contractor we take our responsibility very seriously, and we are privileged to support our customers and the men and women who get the job done."[1]

"Accenture is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women."[2]

"Shopbop is the premier online shopping destination for what’s new and what’s next in fashion and style, offering women around the world the best selection from both established and emerging designers."[3]

"We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Drug-Free employer; we encourage veterans, minorities and women to apply for job vacancies."[4]

"The University of Massachusetts Amherst is an Affirmative Action/Equal Opportunity employer. Women and members of minority groups are encouraged to apply."[5]

"Since 1901, Our Enterprise customer who is a Retail giant has offered a wide variety of quality apparel, shoes and accessories for men, women and children at our stores across the country."[6]

I'm sorry, but keywording on generic nouns and pronouns is not at all a good idea.

[1] http://jobview.monster.com/Engineer-Sr-Test-20-Job-Alpharett...

[2] http://jobview.monster.com/Federal-Virtualization-Engineer-J...

[3] http://jobview.monster.com/Sr-Software-Development-Engineer-...

[4] http://jobview.monster.com/Software-Engineer-Job-Altoona-PA-...

[5] http://jobview.monster.com/Software-Engineer-Job-Amherst-MA-...

[6] http://jobview.monster.com/Senior-Software-Engineer-Enterpri...
No, but if you lie on the application and the insurance company finds out, they're going to drop coverage, and may go after you for insurance fraud.
_Imagine if App store and Play store didn't exist and you'd have to individually find developers and buy/download their apps. That would certainly result in higher prices._

Higher prices .. and much, much lower sales.

The analogous situation is developing with PC games and Steam; rather than spending £40 each on a very small number of games I find myself spending £4 - £15 on a large number of games.

Some sort of ridiculous Galtian producer's strike will get you nowhere here. People have plenty of other choices.
I solve the waiting in line problem by eating lunch slightly later than normal. I find that around 13.30 I can hit even the most popular of lunch places and hardly find any lines.
I do something like this with a script called "boss.py'.

It regex matches time patterns from a dict and yells out the value by calling the mac 'say' command. I have it configured to yell at me to focus every 5 minutes and to lock me into a pomodoro-like work cycle. I run it on days I can't seem to get going.
Fair enough, but if you're firing someone, something is clearly wrong, right? And your point only reinforces mine: firing for cultural fit is a passive-aggressive way to fire someone without confrontation.
The strange thing is that games can effectively be "trial" by structuring themselves with in-app purchases to overcome obstacles. I wonder how well this would work with "productivity" apps.
The cheapest plans in the US tend to have a deductible of ~3-6k with coinsurance up to a set fixed amount per year, usually close to 10k.
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Don't count on finding big misconceptions here: in fact, questions about black hole entropy and the Beckenstein bound are some of the most intensely studied topics in theoretical physics today. Not that we understand the answers! But these issues are very near the heart of questions about quantum gravity.

As for your question about "actual" black holes, I think you may be missing some pieces of the puzzle, and I don't have the time to chat about them at length here. But one important point is that while outside observers may see infalling matter appear to stall out an infinitessimal distance from the black hole horizon, the standard classical or semiclassical result is that an actual infalling observer would pass through the event horizon without noticing anything special about it at all. (For a stellar-sized black hole, they would probably have already been ripped apart by tidal forces at that point ("spaghettification"), but that's unrelated to the horizon. For a truly massive galaxy-sized black hole where tidal forces are small at the horizon, the observer wouldn't notice anything special at all as she crossed the point of no return.) There is at this moment a massive debate raging in the particle physics community about whether quantum gravity effects might lead to a "firewall" at the horizon of a black hole that would change this story, but I don't think the question is settled yet.

As for localization of quantum states and information, again, all I can tell you is that people have been studying those issues a lot, too. The details of entanglement of states inside and outside a black hole are closely tied in with the current "black hole firewalls" debate that I mentioned earlier, for instance. So don't make the mistake of thinking that the physics community has neglected this sort of issue!
Great read. I strongly believe that a very high-touch approach to customer support and development is the way to go. It's very humbling to look at your software from the consumer's prospective. More like this plz!
-1 Kenneth points for implying "fascist" should ever not be used as a perjorative.
I agree with the lack of trial apps but you're crazy if you think people will pay $20 for apps like Dark Sky. The problem with apps is that there are so many: I have > 100 on my phone, while the average user apparently had 41[1] and for all I know may have more now. And that's why the $1-3 is the only price point that makes sense for most apps.

[1] http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/05/16/nielsen-us-smartpho...
I would say at least that it's much easier now than it was a few years ago.

XCode and iOs have improved tremendously in terms of usability and functionality, compared to the first releases, and I expect that the Android SDK has gone through a similar evolution.

In addition, you'll probably find a tutorial or a Stack Overflow answer for every problem or question you could possibly have, while at first it was largely undiscovered territory.

In short, barriers of entry have lowered tremendously.
care to put it on github? I'd love to give it a try (though I don't have too many problems focusing myself. I'm in the middle of a workday, just doing some..shit, HN).
Why cast to `int64_t` here? Just because `time_t` could be `int64_t` under the hood doesn't mean it must be casted to this exact type for string formatting/presentation purposes.

And I thought `%lld` actually means `long long`... So, http://ideone.com/SJJFPs seems like a proper approach to me. That said, if compiler supports %lld (an %I64d or alike might be required for older compilers), so a better cross-compiler approach would be in lines of `printf("test: " TIME_FMT "\n", (TIME_FMT_CAST)t)`. Or, ahem, maybe, `print_time(t)`.
Yeah, there is basically zero info on where the money is going, I don't know how people (especially people unfamiliar with Lavabit) are going to be encouraged to contribute.
If your MAGI is above a certain level, that's kind of the point.
I don't think he needs to pay any license to use Comic Sans:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Core_fonts_for_the_Web
I'm pretty familiar with foundation, but the other day I found their template page and was stoked to have a starting point with the header and some divs already in place for me. It was nice and responsive and I could focus on styling those areas. The extra push is the entire purpose. And when templates strike that perfect balance between generic / specific I think it's both time saving and inspiring.
Indeed. Big game publishers can afford to give out their games for free, then harvest millions of dollars a week from in-app purchases, pour that money back into paid user acquisition, top the charts, and repeat until their next game comes out.

That business model is all well and good if you're a game publisher, and especially if you're a well-funded game publisher. But it kind of sucks for anyone who's not in a category that benefits so dramatically from in-app purchases. In-app purchases are not a magic-bullet solution to pricing problems for most other categories of apps.

(Now, one could certainly argue that games provide more value to the user than other apps do. While there's something to that argument, it's not sufficient. Surely the solution to this problem isn't "every app becomes a game").

So what should you do if you're an app developer, and you're not making a game? To be honest, you're in a tough spot. The deck is stacked against you. Prices are converging on zero, in-app purchases probably won't keep the lights on, and the prospect of flooding your app with advertisements probably makes you (or your UX designer) cringe.

This is where the freemium model should make sense, IMO. Create something of general value to a large TAM, but of extraordinary value to a smaller slice of that TAM. Give away the basic version to the TAM, but upsell the power version to the power users. It may be the case that your app is better for the power users than existing solutions for which they're paying hundreds, or even thousands of dollars. If that's the case, don't be afraid to charge higher than $.99 for the premium version. If the delta in utility between Your App and Existing Solution is extremely high, and the price gap between Existing Solution and Your App is big, you've got a lot of room in pricing, and that pricing will be justified.

Unfortunately, absent a fantastic way to do trial versioning, the existing methods are pretty inelegant. Apple needs to get better about allowing developers to do trial versions, or this overall pricing and monetization problem is going to get worse.
I think this is a great idea for getting more people to experiment with hardware projects. Then they can move on to learning more things. But for a first try the barrier to entry needs to be as low as possible.