skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"every day we hear that we can no longer "afford" things that we, presumably, could once afford?"

Look at the hyper conformity of the average consumer.

I'd pay anything for health (insurance co exec and hospital exec smile)

I'd pay anything for my kids to get a good job, and rich peoples kids used to get great jobs, and also used to get an education, therefore education must be required for great jobs, so I'll pay anything for my kids vocational educational training (university execs rub hands together in glee at idea of multigenerational 10% annual tuition increases)

I'd pay anything to live in a nice safe location (sellers and commissioned real estate agents and commissioned mortgage brokers/bankers jump up and down with excitement at a new sucker)

There are a couple things in common. Suckers who see the expenditure as a universal, unarguable good, and entrenched players doing the ogliopoly thing by purchasing .gov regulations to prevent a free / competitive market.

Any time you hear some well trained little consumer drone claim they would pay anything for some trite object, we just hear an idiot, but a businessman hears a cash register bell... Pay anything you said? Well... that can certainly be arranged...
Couchbase Sync Gateway
How is it complicated to sort a list? The only challenge is to provide a corresponding swap function for your list (or for any ordinal "collection" you need), like in this example for arrays, when it is trivial:

func (s Organs) Swap(i, j int) { s[i], s[j] = s[j], s[i] }

http://golang.org/pkg/sort/#example_Interface

Also note two things:

- This is the efficient and type safe way to handle polymorphism in Go

- The standard packages documentation is very nice with live, runnable examples
What you've made is just a hobby then, not a business. (Not that there's anything wrong with programming being a hobby - it's more about managing expectations)
Having seen him present live, i'd fully agree that he is informative and interesting.

Another, possibly more so, is Simon Phipps of the OSI.
Netflix Poised to Report Passing HBO in Paid U.S. Customers (1)
Assuming anything we can't measure well yet is ~0 is also not a very rigorous approach.

At the end of the day, you need a number - the amount of dollars to fund physics with. This number will have uncertainty attached to it, just like every other number.

I agree that such numbers are difficult to establish, they are likely to be strongly dependent on priors, and credible intervals will be large. So what? It's still a better approach than simply throwing arbitrary politically determined amounts of money at endeavors that sound cool to a rationally innumerate and ignorant electorate.
I never got why MRIs are scary for anyone.

I've had two MRIs when I was a child. For some reason the "thunks" are relaxing to me and I fell asleep during both procedures. I even pressed the "panic button" by mistake when I had a sleep spasm! MRIs are nap time for me :)
The infusion of Nokia engineers long familiar with engineering for battery life should help
It would be fun to build a list of projects that install this way, then build a tool that sits on open WiFi networks and automatically tacks on a "fun" payload whenever it sees someone request one of these scripts.
You might doubt it, but it's entirely true. Apple aggressively cut power to unused devices and provide out of band mechanisms to generate wakeup notifications. Apple will entirely cut power to an SDHCI or Thunderbolt controller that's not in use. Windows won't.

There's nothing secret about this. Anyone who spends a while looking at the ACPI tables will see it. Recent versions of ACPI provide a standardised mechanism for doing this, but Apple have chosen to continue using their custom implementation.
The kana should be mirror images and should include some Latin numerals
No, it's not impossible. Basically, you detect anomalies, i.e. gather statistical information about your users and their behavior in advance and apply that as a filter during attacks. For example, if you have like 10 new refererless users per hour, i.e. without a cookie and a referrer, but suddenly there are 1000 of them and backend is already slow - you should probably drop their requests. Same with specific referrers and any other information you have about your users. But this is kind of preventative only approach, it won't work if your site is already under attack.
Another shining example of ethics in journalism.

If you start small, write glowing reviews of products and company directives so that you get invited to pressers and tours, and maybe someday you too can get invited to go work inside the very companies the public trusted you to cover in an unbiased fashion! Be careful though, anything under 4.5 out of 5 stars and you might get a phone call from the PR department expressing their disappointment while they take you off of their most exclusive lists.

Congresspeople who take jobs as lobbyists after their terms in office are synonymous with journalists who join companies they covered "in the public's interest" during their professional careers.

(Disclaimer: I'm not saying that this was Pogue's position re: Yahoo. This is a rampant problem in new and old media in general.)
At these coffee klatches, death is on the agenda
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Generalized Composition in Haskell
One question on this- how many of the committed buyers actually pay, or at least subscribe for a minimum period of time?

I could imagine a significant # committing and then pulling out later on. I'd like to see some stats on that as a conversion rate.
Don't be silly. When he said he spend a lot on advertising he didn't mean that put up a superbowl ad. He probably spend it on Google Adwords for people who where searching for related terms.
Since every comment seems to want to point to Stanford's rich history, diverse degrees and entrepreneurial excitement (I'm not doubting that Stanford has all of these things) Let me try to make something clear: The author isn't taking issue with any of those things. The author is taking issue with 20 year olds who have spent 50-100k on their education being asked to drop out for a .1% stake in a company so they can make their professor million. It is a very obvious conflict of interest, great school or not.
You can move whenever you want you are asleep (you just usually don't want to), and people can hear you call for help.
Have you checked out ariba.com ? You can register as a supplier and bid on RFIs/RFPs. See an example RFI

https://service.ariba.com/Discovery.aw/741797/aw?awh=r&awssk...
Worth mentioning is "--first-parent" argument to git-log, which is usefull when using git-merge --no-ff to keep clean history with summary commits.

With "--first-parent", git-log only follows the left-hand (first) parent, thus listing the shortened history, by skipping over the right-hand ancestors of merge commits.
Or at least round it off with breakfast at Milliways.
...most visited by people dumb enough to install Alexa.

Alexa stats are interesting, because people who install searchbars voluntarily are also probably more likely to click on an ad and buy your penis enlargement cream.
Here is the video in Theora: https://archive.org/download/Despotis1946/Despotis1946.ogv
We were definitely pursuing the add-on route. Although add-ons can be clunky we felt people would want to switch between the two views quickly and often. For example, if you make a change in the spreadsheet view you might want to see what effect that had on the tree. What do you think?
You're playing word games. Our tax code does, in fact, treat wage income differently from capital gains (at least those > 1 year).

How this relates to a definition of income that some guy wrote in the 20s or 30s isn't relevant.
Cbgb - A database for everyone
I wouldn't recommend making Photoshop Plugins to anyone now, unless you have some absolutely killer must-have algorithm (in which case, you'd probably still make more money by licensing it to Adobe / Google etc). That ship has largely sailed, its heyday was around 2007 or so. But if you executed well, there was definitely money to be made at the peak. (Literally, the peak of the Crossing The Chasm bell-curve.)

(Disclosure, I've been writing/selling Photoshop plugins for over a decade - but I'm mostly working on other projects nowadays.)
The general public unthinking consumer type is of the opinion there exists only one type of IT person. We all are experts on removing viruses from their windows machines and purchasing the "best" PC or phone, etc.

Career decisions are usually made by kids who are legendary for poor decision making in general and are (intentionally?) not very well informed. It would be interesting to compare the choices made by kids who decide they're going to "do computers" at age 6 vs adults retraining at age 35 (as if on average someone that old will be hired, but I digress)
The need the best of the best but they are identifying the best the wrong way. Maybe they need the best CRUD developer, well if all you look at are candidates with strong research-level knowledge then they will not be the best at building CRUD apps. Sure we can all say that the research-level code is harder and naturally that makes that candidate smarter, but it's like trying to find the best doctor for a nursing position.
You do have love "trying to play it down" reporting like this though...

> The NSA's targets appeared to be individuals suspected of links to terrorism, as well as those tied to French business or politics, Le Monde wrote.

...setting up the "we accidentally all your powerful people while hunting terrorists honest" defense.
> As long as you write your state transition functions with certain identities and use appropriate data structures to represent your state you can guarantee a partial ordering for messages and an eventually-consistent state (the only assumption is that all messages are delivered to the replica at some point).

CRDTs are one such approach. Commutativity solves the problem of ordering in a very different way, and turns the consensus problem into a "set membership" rather than a "membership and order" problem. CRDTs have some really nice properties, and are a very active area of research.
Well something happened. You might want to tell those guys that 500 million lines of code is a bit ridiculous.
Could anyone share which platform / framework they used?
I worked for an Equifax subsidiary for a time, and I can vouch that at least there they took security very seriously, and always worked with the best practices.

The downside was that changes were veery slow to implement :)
How is it better than ideone.com?
Hah! yes. Maybe I should have put it the way you did.

My view of Haskell is the same as a non-Lispers view of Lisp. Cry about too much parens and it making things difficult to understand. Doesn't mean the language needs to be changed. I am all in for learning Haskell although most introductions to haskell are really time consuming and dense, so I never just did it. Which is where I was really glad that this tutorial was put up.

Hating any language which actually does serve its purpose is pretty stupid. If anyone actually has some issues understanding a sightly different but very well respected language, then the fault is mostly with that person and not the language.
I like to recommend this article to people getting confused with Haskell's syntax: http://blog.ezyang.com/2011/11/how-to-read-haskell/

It concisely covers most of the syntax and some common idioms with prelude functions (such as using `$` and `.` to get rid of parenthesis)
Interesting. As I understand it, you use a spreadsheet as input and then create the data flow diagram. I certainly see how seeing the data flow diagram means better clarity and error-finding. So here is a question for you? What if we take it a step further and have users actually entered their complex spreadsheets in a tidy graphical data flow diagram which mapped back?
Fortunately, most humans don't spontaneously generate ferrmagnetic materials.

Only Wolverine is at risk in that regard.
I disagree with this statement on the basis that this assumes all products are made with monetary profit in mind. I'm working on a product right now that is for myself and my spouse to solve a money management issue we have, it is something I will use even if nobody else does.

I will be adding the ability to purchase it as a subscription so that if others want to use the product they can too, but ultimately I'm building something I want to use.

Jason Cohen's statement is based on the idea that all software is written with profit in mind, and there are a good number of years in Open Source that prove that to not be true.
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What really needs to happen is to develop apps to pollute the information being gathered. Bogus MACs and IP over spoofed SSID that transmit false and fake social media connections and goog quieries, etc.

America, as all other people of the world, need to wake up and realize that the future is a post nation / nationalistic one....or bust. We need a civil intelligence capacity that is global and fully transparent and targets the powerful and wealthy to track them and surveil them. Civil society, needs defenses against our own government, aka, ranchers or plantation owners. If you want to be free, you cannot be subject to anyone.
Exhibiting at a show is like speed dating and needs to become online dating
Slides from a similar talk here: https://speakerdeck.com/argv0/lessons-learned-and-questions-...
I am one of the authors: Ask me anything!
Fat chance. If the NYTimes had hired more engineers, those engineers would have told management they needed to innovate to survive, just like everyone else was telling them. And management still wouldn't have listened.
Cool. I'm chris@slateforexcel.com btw
How not to do two-factor auth
I think he means the idea of pretending it's a transporter.
I would be against that too as I would feel bad deceiving kids.
Autographed e-books: Apple is interested, but what does it mean?
India is catching up.
Remembering Peacefull Afghanistan (1960s photographs)
For one, it's much faster. CodeCube also streams the output to the browser. Also, CodeCube is open source (https://github.com/hmarr/codecube).
It certainly is a good idea.

Don't mean to hijack the thread, but I've been toying with the idea of having users use a data flow diagram to structure complex spreadsheets. Still have a pre-prototype stage and I'ld love to get your expert feedback on that idea. If interested please drop me a note.
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Originally presented 1 March 1998
at the invitation of the
ACM 1998 Workshop on Java for
High–Performance Network Computing
held at Stanford University

Those exact slides might be from 2004 but the content is from 1998.
This is big news, Pogue was/is one of the most important tech writer in my own opinion. He has a good approach of dumbing down tech products for the average joe despite beeing very knowledgeable.

I guess it is showing a shift from Yahoo to be a quality content producer.
The Darwin kernel scales down as far as an HDMI adapter SoC[1]

[1] https://www.panic.com/blog/2013/03/the-lightning-digital-av-...
IPhone 5S surprises
I fell asleep and was slightly irritated when it finished and I started sliding out. Great nap.
Ford plant living roof growing strong 10 years later
A Feature A Day For X Days
Yep. https://www.google.com/search?q=yahoo+most+visited

It's Yahoo properties, not Yahoo.com. Big boost: they bought Tumblr.
I was just watching the blackhole concept on the universe(discovery channel). Blackhole might have everything that has ever existed.
The cost issue is probably because they're using Linode instead of AWS.
"The outcome of this MRI will determine whether your surgery is go or no-go, the surgery can leave you with a colostomy bag for the rest of your life."

Add to that feeling very ill and weak and having a headache. The thunks are equally likely to be experienced as a pleasant rhythmic music or cause your head to spin and make you throwup.

Things that appear trivial and insignificant can cause a great deal of discomfort for people. I actually felt anguish because of a cracked ceiling for example (you're stuck looking at it for days).
The first time I encountered something so simple as JavaScript closures it took me two hours to get it.

Closures are not simple. They are a powerful concept, one which introduces a whole new way of thinking about programming compared to what most people start out doing. It's normal for it to take a long time, over many sessions, for the concept to sink in and become a part of your programming vocabulary.

Freshmen year of undergrad, it took me well over a week to wrap my head around this "public" and "private" concept of classes. I had only written C++ that was mostly C with structs and C++ input/output. I had never had to reason in an object-oriented way before, and it was different. It was completely alien to me that I would intentionally "hide" some parts of my code from myself. Now, it's completely natural to me.

What the author did not see was those same developers learn about closures for the first time. When she sat down with them, they had already reasoned with the concept many times. Don't confuse initial difficulty with some inherent deficiency in your mental ability.
Interresting! That's the time when in Bulgaria (part of the Ottoman empire then) started the April Uprising to liberate itself - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Uprising - and later in 1878 leading to independence for some of the territory, while full one was gained much later.
To be fair to Pogue and Yahoo!, the latter's had a sizeable journalistic operation for years now. It's not like he's going off to work in their PR department. (Which is a thing that happens all too often, yeah)
hmm, guess I got a bit ahead of myself - you are right, you wouldn't want to switch views/apps as you would indeed expect people to use it in quite a dynamic way. really looking forward to it!
http://book.realworldhaskell.org/

Spoiler alert: you can't really get anything signifant+useful done with that book, because Haskell is a language where only experts can get anything significant done.

If you just want the mindblow experience of Haskell:
http://conway.rutgers.edu/~ccshan/wiki/blog/posts/WordNumber...
“If you’re not paying for something, you’re not the customer; you’re the product being sold.”

I was hoping that this was something I could pay for. It's still a free web browser.
Any idea of the price ?
Agreed. Stanford has a huge number of exceptionally highly regarded programs in a very wide range of disciplines (many of them are outside computer science or engineering).

http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/09/28/nrc-rankings/

No doubt computer science and startups are a big deal at Stanford, but that hardly means these other programs aren't there. No idea why this writer hasn't mentioned this.
"Seventy years later, however, some of the film's warning signs still seem prudent."

Some? I don't think people realize just how deep we have sunk in all these matters. The central powers have just become much better at disguising it --much better at placating the masses with cake and shiny bobbles.
I think this response -- and its popularity -- is an indication of frustration people feel with their ideas piling up and the sense that they aren't "doing" anything with them. The ideas we do work on happen to be the ones the rest of our lives push in front of us. This may or may not be the optimal strategy for developing ideas.
Regarding the site with the turotial suite: I am not a big fan of harvesting community knowledge, input and ideas and then go commercial

On a second note, how many will use a platform like fpc's, where an external entity has immediate access to your code, for serious projects ?
Standardized tests like SATs and school grades are a terrible way of ranking a potential employee and have significant biases such as income and age.

I didn't have very good grades and my SATs were ok but not great, both primarily because I didn't study or apply myself. I was completely uninterested in school. Get me to write code and you'll see what I'm capable of. I'm certainly not unique in this regard.
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I think all SaaS products (which this article is about) have monetary profit in mind.
Because we don't want to be stuck in a cubicle until we're 70 years old. That's why.
> the interface kept asking me to reenter the information for our dependents. Farther on in the process it doubled the number of our children (to 6!) Even though it listed our children’s names twice (identically) and even though these clones had identical SS numbers, the validation software was not smart enough to realize that the duplicate records were describing the same people!

This didn't happen? Are you suggesting he made this whole story up?
Over the past year, Pogue has reviewed Yahoo's products on many different occasions. Presumably, his hiring-managers read all of them.

It is quite likely that Pogue's reviews (e.g. great review of Flickr changes) were honest reviews and that he wasn't trying to curry favor with prospective future employers.

However, I hope that this job offer leads to more thoughts on conflicts of interest and perhaps requirements (from NYT etc) regarding journalists reviewing companies from whom they might accept job offers
Good enough for government work? The contractors building Obamacare
I haven't used Squarecash so not sure how it solves the problem of phishing. Reciving an email, clicking a link and typing in my credit card / bank details. Are we just expected to trust Square?
Evernote. (I tried Workflowy and its great when you start but the most you put in there, the more unwieldy it becomes)
So..... what did you make?

(The fact that you didn't say shows that you REALLY aren't concerned about marketing! But I'm still curious.)
Vorbis doesn't have hardware support on many chipsets which means that battery life would not be as good as for MP3/AAC. I find it quite hard to see Apple as evil for implementing International Standards and while they are not free (or Free software compatible) they are open.

There are plenty of good reasons for not adding support to additional codecs without good reason to.

1) Different (and confusing) compatibility depending on the exact model of your product.

2) Need to keep support indefinitely otherwise you cut off previously supported content in people's libraries. People get far more annoyed when you take something away that if you never enabled it.

3) If you have Apple's scale and people will encode to your format anyway a narrow minimal range of formats supported will reduce debugging and handling of edge cases and file types.

Free codecs are a niche concern, almost all users get them [edit: by "them" I meant AAC/AVC/MPEG4] free from their OS provider and in the trickier cases like Linux there are plenty of sources for open source codecs that you can obtain as packages for nearly every distro. AFAIK there has never been any legal action to try to prevent these packages being distributed. So in practice using Free codecs is an ideological decision in most cases and very few people care (I used to but I got over it, the AVC and AAC licenses really aren't that bad if you read them).
"Expose yourself to new ideas and cool things. Great." ... "They're luxurious fantasies that many of us can't afford to nurse."

That fantasy is still free and luxurious and new and cool, just you need an internet connection (which you need anyway) instead of attending school. If you're the type that doesn't want to learn, going to school isn't going to help much, and if you're the type that wants to learn, you don't need the school (to learn) if you have the internet.

The only remaining purpose of school for most, is social signalling and some advanced (and some not so advanced) vocational training, and a few nuts like myself who still think education itself is worthwhile, as opposed to mere vocational training.
Since Microsoft is so "popular" today on HN, have you seen Pogue's hands-on review of Windows 8.1 yet?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u-vDf...