skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How did "we" come to this? You're asking the largest military wielder and prison population and the only nation to have used nuclear weapons on real people, people going about their contained lives wanting to wake up to see another day, how "we" came to this.

- Hiroshima

- Nagasaki

- Vietnam

- Constant US policy to support genocidal dictators around the world who mass slaughter "their" people, so long as US corporate interests gain over sovereign interests.

Millions of killings later directly and indirectly from US hands, entire lands and societies literally poisoned into waste at US policy over the past 70 years, and one asks how invading Iraq (and Afghanistan) on imaginary and unjustified pretexts was possible. The answers are shocking and simple.

There are a couple classic "American ways" in spirit. The first has some idealistic value (e.g. individual freedom, can-do attitude). Then the second is one that silences all else: hear no evil, see no evil, support our troops (i.e. in reality, support the political monsters who use them). The simplest answers to your question are related to deeply rooted combinations of nationalism, racism, pride, intolerance, regional proximity to other nations, and systems of governance that are both insufficiently compartmentalized and that run on forced funding (taxation). Guaranteed funding, especially with only the masking of "democracy," was a fast path for a super power that thinks itself a "super hero" in the world's eye -- and largely was seen as such to those who didn't face the brunt of its violence -- to guarantee its continued exploits and an accelerating industry of war. Elections put little if any checks/balances upon a congressional network of plunderers who mostly serve the same corporate and violent interests, policies, and strategists, but through lightly varying vocabulary come election. Paranoia that the US could reasonably claim in that last 'new century' and into this one is dismissed by policies that become brutal and offensive.

1. Google the American timelines and legacy of its direct and proxy imperialism: https://www.google.com/search?q=us+imperialism

2. Oliver Stone's Showtime series, "Untold History of the United States," is quite worth watching in full. Sure, we can all find faults with it. It's not intended to give a "balanced" account. Rather, it's a crash course in provoking thought about the seldom discussed or even known aspects of US policy compared to the general public and its vapid historical accounting of its negative actions. It's 10 episodes. http://www.sho.com/sho/oliver-stones-untold-history-of-the-u...
Functional reactive programming for 3D documents
Yup. Literate programming + clear not clever + less is more (doc and code must all serve a purpose.)
Image Placeholders? How about Placekittens?
If somebody said to me what you just posted, I would want to talk to them. I feel the same way. It's often jokingly pointed out that two introverts will never engage each other. I think that in addition to being funny, it's also true.
that's the best tl;dr summary.
> the company is struggling to find Okies with the skills to fill even its most basic factory jobs. Such posts require workers to think critically

Perhaps those educated enough to think critically put that skill to work before accepting a factory job making mass produced biscuits. My critical thinking skills lead me to guess that is not the most fulfilling, high paying, or upwardly mobile job even for Oklahoma.
> Getting morally outraged at WalMart is like getting really indignant about what plantar fasciitis is up to.

Except plantar fasciitis doesn't have a CEO, board or steering committee. Or a public reputation.

> but corporations are really only effectively controlled via legislation.

That's true, but it doesn't mean we can't publicly shame corporations when they act in bad faith. Incorporation is not some magical get-out-of-ethics-jail-free card.
Comes down to how inelastic I am at that price point as well. Personally, if I'm going to pay $739 for a 5c here in Australia, I might as well fork out an extra $130 to 'future proof' myself with the 5s. I get the feeling that Apple still needs to get the price of the 5c right.
Exactly! The 5C wan not about making a new phone, it was about cutting costs of the old 5 so they could hit their market goal of $99 with 2/yr contract.
A clickable link would be nice ;-)
That might be more akin to reducing bus contention.
What about photos? I could see ransomware being very successful just demanding payment to avoid making a bunch of your personal photos publicly available on the internet. They may not be sensitive per se, but they're still likely not something you want out there publicly. Ditto for email, chat messages, etc., etc.
I've been waiting ages for this ever since I saw jslinux. This is freaking brilliant.

Looking at the source its been minified. How big is it before that? Are you planning on going open source? Was kind of blown away to see the single js file do all this. Would love to see the method's names to understand how it works
sorry for the late reply, Bootstrap 3
There is so much liquidity in MSFT that it'd trade at a penny spread with or without HFTs. Thus, the only advantage is speed.

So you got your order filled in 5 milliseconds instead of 6 milliseconds. So what? You're a person.

And stocks without enough liquidity to get to a penny spread? The HFTs don't like those stocks, because the "F" is not "H" enough for them to participate. The very nature of HFTs is that they prefer to participate when there is already plenty of liquidity.
> No wonder no one is buying it.

"Months of rumors about order cuts and so forth, so let me take a moment to comment on these. No comment on any particular rumor.

I suggest its good to question the accuracy of any kind of rumor about build plans. Even if a particular data point were factual, it would be impossible to interpret that data point as to what it meant to our business. The supply chain is very complex and we have multiple sources for things. Yields can vary, supplier performance can vary. There is an inordinate long list of things that can make any single data point not a great proxy for what is going on."

- Tim Cook, Q1 conference call, regarding rumors that demand for the iPhone 5 was waning. Q3 results? 31.2 million iPhones sold.

Analysts aren't very good at predicting things when they're using isolated data points from the supply chain.
Heml.is: "We would close down before letting anyone in"
It's funny you mention that.... I implore 'cperciva to consider a glacier-level service. It is hard to compete with backblaze, but capping network bwdth is proly one way to skin that cat.
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I was actually replying to my other comment regarding the summary. Accidentally it got posted as a separate comment and then got downvoted like hell. I wish there was a delete option in HN (alteast like a delete within 5 minutes).
Yeah, I'd say Netflix has close to zero audience building ability, especially with the decision to release entire seasons at once. Building and audience 1) takes time, 2) benefits from shared experience and anticipation and 3) needs consistent promotion.
What's Russian for "liar liar pants on fire"?
Sorry if this comes across as somewhat tangential, but I'm still wondering if/when we'll have JavaScript runtimes (V8, Chakra, SpiderMonkey, whatever) that can export runtime type information, even if only enabled in a 'debug' mode?

I love the idea of optional typing being supported (whether in the base language or TypeScript/Closure/etc) but it's maddening to think of trying to have to add the type information manually to existing code, especially code with lots of good test coverage, knowing that the JavaScript runtime seems to have to figure it out anyway (at least based on talks about V8 from the past).

This kind of functionality seems even more important for projects like DefinitelyTyped, where people are trying to track the public API's for projects that sometimes have a lot of churn. Having runtimes export their runtime type information (which seems to have sufficient mapping to source based on existing debugger experiences in Chrome, IE10+, etc) and allowing the creation of tooling that can populate/check/etc the type information in source seems like a big potential win.

Anders asking the Chakra team for this to (massively, AFAICT) help TypeScript adoption among existing projects seems reasonable, but TypeScript type information seems to still be 'add it yourself' for now?

Am I just missing something that makes this far more complex/difficult/intractable than I realize?
My experience hasn't been so smooth on non-Windows machines: RDC for OSX is the only application that constantly crashes on my Mac.

Every second time I close it, it stops working and wants to send report to MS. Ridiculous.
Sure, it wouldn't prevent it completely, immediately. But 1) many users will do a search beforehand to see whether paying actually works. The less often it has worked for others, the less likely they will be to pay, and more importantly, 3) it would prevent them distributing new versions of the malware, which would prevent them profiting once antivirus caught up to the existing versions.
I guess that's because you can't pip install system packages, only Python packages.
The whole time I was watching this I was thinking, how would I explain to a normal human being why it is that I can't look away. Windows 3.0 especially took me back to my adolescence, like a smell.
Parsing JSON with a single regex in Perl
I think the Powers are beyond help. Battle not with SEO spammers, etc.
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The move seems so logical by Apple, although I've yet to really see any journalist comprehend it. Apple has lowered their cost to produce a product they were going to offer anyway (they always sell last years model at the same discount), while at the same time, visually differentiating it from the high end product. One would have to assume this has pushed more purchasers up-market to the newer device, while also attracting new customers who don't care about specs and are more concerned about the colors/fun factor. So Apple has not only gained a higher profit margin, they presumably have improved their device yield by making a simpler phone to produce. On top of all that, they have a product to appeal to a different segment of the market. The phone also allowed them to have something on the shelves while the 5s was sold out. Everything about it seems like an outstanding success to me.
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the article seems to be dated "November 7 2013", nearly one month in the future. Clearly the author knows something about physics that we don't.
I thought it was wallstreet engineers behind HFT
Sure that is possible but that is a different argument. The author should have made that point explicitly if that was indeed the situation (and provided evidence).
All true, but there are cases where the jump from the primality to the lawbreaking is really really short.

For example, if the authorities compromise a CA/ISP/website's private key, they'll be prohibited from "tipping off" others that the corresponding public key is insecure. But (in the case of RSA), that knowledge is equivalent to "the authorities know that the factors of X are Y and Z" or even "X = Y times Z".

Yep, announcing a number's factors can be illegal.

That seems like a more interesting, non-convoluted kind of "illegal prime".
1. You shouldn't hide that it's a real (valuable) problem they're helping you solve. A lie of omission.

2. You sure as hell better actually be hiring people, not just having people come in to help you for free.

Otherwise, any "work" done in an hour or two is the price of doing an interview. Seems fine to me.
I have a somewhat similar, though critically different, story.

For much of school I wasn't very engaged in formal learning. I didn't hate it, but it didn't hold my attention, and the drudgery was boring. I would often not do homework and slack off on projects. As a consequence of this when I entered high school I was put on the advanced track on math and nothing else. To the everlasting credit of my adolescent self I realized this was a problem and I set about fixing it. I tested into the advanced English track for my sophomore year and I figured out how to get onto the advanced science track as well. I ended up graduating near the top of my class and I earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics after only 2 years of college.

Nevertheless, as much learning as I accomplished through school I achieved about the same level on my own. I read about what interested me. I read magazines (like Scientific American back when they were good) and even textbooks for fun. I was supposed to have taken a biology class in high-school prior to entering AP biology but I never could fit it into my schedule, so I didn't. And despite that I was still at the top of that class, often scoring the highest on tests. Because so much of that material was stuff I had learned on my own.

But I got lucky. If I had attended a different high school with different teachers or if I hadn't had the insight to realize that it was important to invest in my education or if my personality had been slightly different things would have turned out much different. I might have even dropped out. And I can't help but wonder how many other smart people have been ill served by the school system because they weren't so lucky.

Edit: as an aside, as I grow older I've become more and more disillusioned with formal education. I see the skills that the system instills in students and in many cases I'm of the opinion that those skills would be better not to have (the worst variety of competitiveness, concentration on minutiae and policy) while at the same time doing a poor job of instilling actual knowledge, problem solving skills, and so on.
interesting to having recommendation function as part of SQL query. Not sure how much latency/delay is added executing recommendation query vs standard query against a big dataset.
Despite the original author's claim, Costco and Walmart aren't really competitors. They have much different product mixes and customer demographics, i.e. they serve different markets.
In a TED talk about dinosaurs[1], Jack Horner claims that many dinosaur species are probably the same specimen at a different stage of development (baby, child, adult), but that paleontologists have classified them as separate partially because they had no way of telling at what stage of development a fossil is (for which he has a solution, which is looking at the inner structure of the fossilized bone), but also partially because every paleontologist wants to discover his or her own dinosaur.

I wonder if that applies here as well.

[1] http://www.ted.com/talks/jack_horner_shape_shifting_dinosaur...
i suppose you could try adding something to do the networking part via webrtc as the channel?
High Frequency Trading Arms Race Beams Into the Future
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It's JavaScript, they're all optional.

Just start passing a single object parameter or using the arguments object and force everything into the documentation. Then it'll be just like 90% of libraries that depend on jQuery, especially once the code has been patched, updated, and maintained a year beyond the documentation.
Oh man, AT&T is my worst enemy. I have only dealt with their cell phone division, but in store and on the phone the customer service is awful. The manager at an AT&T store lied to my face just to get me out the door, as did a customer service provider I talked to over the phone.

The nickel and diming they do to their customers is crazy, and its kinda sad the competition is so similar (at least from what I gather from friends). Capitalism at its finest, right?
thanks rman666 !
Saturn in all its glory
Israel prohibe el wifi antes del primer grado
Facebook ad profit a staggering 1,790% more on iPhone than Android
It's not supposed to sell like the 5S, it's supposed to sell like the 4S did when the 5 launched.
The Stanley Parable review: You are in a room. There are two doors
New Yankee Workshop is also a great show for learning woodworking with power tools.
>Students forego calculators, having learned how to manipulate numbers in their heads.

Not true in Finland.
This is quite amazing. Could someone post a blog post on the details behind how this works. I am not a JavaScrip programer, and this looks like black magic to me at the moment.
"He also asserted that he was able to protect the documents from China’s spies because he was familiar with that nation’s intelligence abilities, saying that as an N.S.A. contractor he had targeted Chinese operations and had taught a course on Chinese cybercounterintelligence." I would like to know the exact wording of this because it comes off as extremely arrogant when paraphrased.
The tooltip text is half the joke a lot of the time.
Who is assuming that? The comments let you write your code quickly, and then of course you test to make sure it works. Comments do not obviate the need for testing, they just mean you don't have to (if up to date) read tons of source code.
There's no compression. It's expansion, since null bytes were added to increase the digit length of the resulting prime, making it long enough to publish. For an arbitrary binary, the original (most likely non-prime) zipped representation is more useful since it's smaller.
And I since 9.10. Sure, I've had my problems with it due to certain customisations applied, but to the best of my knowledge nothing that I haven't brought on myself, and I've been able to sort it out each time without significant trouble.
I think LinkedIn has a pretty bring future as a business/industry news aggregator which will ride on top of the social platform they've built. Think of it as a BusinessInsider/Forbes/VentureBeat/TechCrunch replacement.

Already you're seeing LinkedIn exclusive editorials by guest writers, and although most of the articles in LinkedIn's feed suck right now, I hope they increase the quality soon (e.g. No more "5 ways to be a successful leader" type articles).

If they can capture quality content and deliver it in the right way then I think that will be successful and fuel more growth in their product and revenues.

I've talked to Reid Hoffman about this, and his answer to what LinkedIn wants to grow up to be is something along the lines of "We've built this social platform which is successful + continues to grow, and that opens up a whole wealth of opportunities to build products/services around it [...]"

I think this is the right path for the company, but what's going to matter is execution. So far they haven't instilled confidence in their execution (What happened to their purchase of Pulse? Their aggregations haven't gotten any better....etc.)
> heavy IDEs

If your machine has 6+ GB of RAM, it doesn't really matter if some IDE uses like half a gig of that. I mean, that's why you bought all that RAM in the first place, isn't it? The point was to use it, right?

Same deal with all those beefy cores. Giving one of them a little bit of work won't hurt one bit.

The only actual downside is that start up takes quite a bit longer than 100msec. However, if you're using it all day, it doesn't really matter if it took 15s to start, does it?

I believe that one should automate as much as possible. Offloading as much brain-dead repetitive work as possible to machines is always a good idea.

So, check if I use the right kind of arguments. Check if that thing has that field or method. Tell me if there are any methods which start with "foo" and if so, tell me their exact names, arguments, and return values. Tell me if the change I just did broke something.

That's the nice thing about machines. They will happily do this stuff over and over again, a thousand times a second. They'll never get tried of it. They'll never complain.

One thing I really dislike about JS is having to check documentation. If you want to use some library/plugin/whatever, you always have to go to its website, navigate to the docs, and then navigate to the specific section. Just to look up the arguments or the names/types of that config object you have to pass to that function.

It's so much nicer and also way faster to do that kind of thing directly in the IDE.

> enjoy TS

I use Dart. And yes, I do enjoy it. It's very pleasant to use.
Very well put. It will be the first or second best selling phone in history and will have great margins for Apple. From their point of view, an excellent move.

The best indicator of the excellence of the Apple phone products, in my view, is that the iPhone 4 is still being sold. It came out 3 1/2 years ago, and is still good enough to be sold today. Are any competing smart phones from mid-2010 still being sold today?
Thank you for sharing. This has given me good ideas to follow through as I try to build up my product. How much resources (capital wise + hours) did you expend? You say in earlier post, 250K bootstrap fund. What percentage on this particular effort?
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The opening weekend sales for the new iPhones exceeded even the most bullish analyst estimates by a million. I'm not totally sure I'd call this a 'downward spiral'.

The fact no analyst came close to predicting the launch sales should be an indicator as to how accurate they can be (...not very).
Most of the apps I write have highly customized UI so I don't get that much benefit from native controls anyway. And having GL shaders available for any UI element would enable some pretty cool effects.
Turn Google Docs into a website content manager with a few lines of JQuery
Apple's market share for iPhones and iPads are going to crush the competition after the numbers for the holiday quarter come out.
I don't think Apple are still selling the iPhone 4...perhaps there is some inventory that's still available in certain markets, but if you go to an Apple Store it's the 4S, 5C, and 5S.
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"In Life*, there are many hundreds of common experiences, feelings, situations and even objects which we all know and recognize, but for which no words exist.

"On the other hand, the world is littered with thousands of spare words which spend their time doing nothing but loafing about on signposts pointing at places.
Our job, as wee see it, is to get these words down off the signposts and into the mouths of babes and sucklings and so on, where they can start earning their keep in everyday conversation and make a more positive contribution to society.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Meaning_of_Liff
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KENTUCKY (adv.)
Fitting exactly and satisfyingly. The cardboard box that slides neatly into an exact
space in a garage, or the last book which exactly fills a bookshelf, is said to fit
'real nice and kentucky'.
You forgot another company runner in France, and a very important one: the procurement people.

These guys make it incredibly difficult to build new businesses. In their mind contracting a company with less than a hundred people is heresy.
Looks like there is a pattern -

New Google Analytics landing page - http://www.google.com/analytics/

Or Google Hangouts landing page - http://www.google.com/hangouts/
Noice. =) Expounding would kickass, both kinds. ; D
just run it at NSA once.
24hours I bet.