skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I am doing a double-take as well.

It seems like closed-source is antithesis to "designed for the every day person who really values their online security and privacy."
A while ago, Derek Sivers had a blog post about how with most of his ideas, the first thing he does is sketch out the database schema. That seems to help him think it through in the same way. His blog has been redesigned since then, but here is a link to the details he used to have online, including database schema and Rails RESTful routes:

http://web.archive.org/web/20100926194455/http://thoughts.pr...
"As ever more opt out, the larger culture is damaged."

What is the larger culture? Those who've opted out of the real world and into primetime TV, rabid sports fans, and social drinkers. Those opt out activities are much more popular than EVEonline or the other examples and would seem like a much better essay topic, certainly more raw material.

Fox news viewers outnumber active EVE players by an order of magnitude, as just one of a zillion examples, and certainly are not any closer connected to reality.

"gamer after gamer was now playing alone"

You can draw almost the same argument from live plays, to movie theaters, to "the" family TV, to watching TV alone.

How about the trend of sports are something you play, then something you watch your neighbors play, then something you watch regional teams play, then something you watch in a bar with an expensive radio, later expensive TV, finally sports are something you watch alone at home on TV.

Meanwhile in both examples, the real world goes on, outside.

You'll have about 100 times more data and over a longer time interval to gather data. Seems a little overly trendy to grab an inferior topic instead.
Some impossible functions
From the post: "The two winners of the next-generation NoSQL database wars have been decided: MongoDB and Hadoop. Everyone else is basically toast. The faster they figure that out, the faster they can carve off sensible niches on the periphery of the market instead of running like decapitated chickens in the middle of it."
Seems like the audience is the 2% of people who read a newspaper, are utterly clueless about technology and still want to read about it.
Promises and Generators: control flow utopia – Forbes Lindesay [video]
It's not a definition of a criminal offence, and nowhere did I imply that. It's an observation that numerous people witnessed an event or were made aware of it, yet not one of them contacted the police. The employers response (http://www.neo.com/2013/10/14/a-note-to-the-community-about-...), made no reference to a crime.

The closest law to not reporting a crime is Misprison of Felony (http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/4), although that would require management/HR knew a crime had been committed, and then concealed it. It would be suicide for EdgeCase/Neo to know a sexual assault had occurred and not report the alleged assaulter. It would be socially limiting for the immediate sober witnesses too (the bar staff, any CCTV of the area in question), and those whose judgement was impaired by alcohol.

No-one commenting was there, so this is all conjecture. If a crime was committed and no-one reported it, now is the time to do so. The full force of the law needs to be applied. I do not buy that someone willing to talk about this publicly online would not want to go through reporting this because of shame. If a crime has been committed, and they have the evidence, why not press charges?
Tried out this service, and it's pretty nice. In the founder's post[1], he talks about the pitfalls of Twitter/FB. Would love to see tighter integration between these services. I'd use a service like this as a simple "mind dump" space. Sort of like JSFiddle for essays.

Less work than Tumblr, but I don't see the differentiation from Medium.

[1] http://markdawn.com/post/14/
Getting customers is not tough if you have a solid idea that sells, This article was worth a read, Helpful enough.
But should we all expect our customers to pay first before writing a code? I think that's not always possible.
Indiegames, a breed apart from mainstream games
Sadly, I think that traditional media itself is a dwindling business, not just the tech coverage .:(
What a Dog and a Monkey Taught Me About Management at Google
No, actually https://simple-vpn.com, it's paid for with BTC for those who really care about anonymity and privacy. Seems like the service got hackernewsed though. :)
Never heard of this company before, not sure what to think of their blog post announcing the availability of this browser. If I'm not mistaken, one can pretty much configure any browser to do what they have identified done in their browser, unless there's more.
I went through one in university as an electrical engineering studies "field trip". It's a lot of fun if you aren't worried about an actual medical condition at the time TBH.
Java's FP has historically had problems of its own. The requirement for exact portable behaviour crippled performance when the available hardware primitives weren't a good match.

For example, x87 performs all calculations using a configurable intermediate precision, 32, 64 or 80 bit. But if you want to configure it, you need to change the control word - not something you want to do every other instruction. The main other way of specifying precision is to not use most of the processor's internal registers (FP stack), and instead store intermediate results to memory.

That's changed a bit over the years, and Java has loosened up somewhat; you need strictfp to get the old behaviour.
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No. Similarly, there is no non-circular evidence that statistics works, that double blind clinical trials work, or that any of our basic scientific machinery works. If you adopt a different epistemiology, you will arrive at different conclusions.
Note that this "rant" is by Velvel Kahan [1], who won the Turing Award for designing the IEEE 754 floating point standard [2] (among other things), which is used for specifying floating point computations on almost all computers today. So perhaps he has a little more context on this than yourself.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Kahan
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754-2008
Technology & the City - San Francisco
In regards to handling video upload and encoding, have you checked out Transloadit[1]?

[1] https://transloadit.com/
Startup School 2013 Doodles
I agree that a new language has a much better chance of survival if it's part of a new platform. And it's interesting to think about what exactly a "platform" is in this context: an OS, a form factor, a VM, a scriptable tool, a technology stack, a service, a sandbox, a consumer app, a game, new users, a new industry, something that nobody's thought of.

But C++ suggests another path to language survival: present it as an "easy-to-learn" (it started that way) superset of an existing language that addresses a weakness. It's C! With classes!
Petition to open source code from healthcare.gov, including code by CGI Federal
> That said, it isn't hard or long to learn monads.

I am not sure any definition does that justice. It's similar with concept of recursion - it's easy to define (function calls itself), but to put it into programming practice (writing all loops as recursion), that's a lot harder.

I read "Learn Yourself a Haskell" as a tutorial (which is in my opinion great) and still it was a lot of work to figure out this: http://blog.tmorris.net/posts/20-intermediate-haskell-exerci...

Then I started reading http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/All_About_Monads but didn't finish it yet (I was playing with Haskell, just figuring out how to structure the application). IMHO, unless you understand all that, how to put monad concept into practice, you don't really know monads.
Why Developers Hate Marketers
Yahoo Homepage UX Teardown for a PM Interview
Just want to add another data point, that here in Washington State, a comprehensive plan for my family is going to be around $600 less per month under Obamacare than what I can get right now. This is without any subsidies of any kind, so while I know it is just 1 extra data point, I consider myself a "typical case" (3 dependents, 1 pre-existing condition).

I can say that the Manhattan institute's numbers (what the Forbes article is based on) for Washington appear to be incorrect (based on just my experience though), as they list a premium for a 40 year old man to be currently $181. I've been buying individual health care for myself and family for the last 8 years, and maybe back in 2006 it was about that price. A "comprehensive" plan in Washington would easily set me back ~$1300 per month for my family of 5 - under Obamacare the same (or even sightly better) plan would be around $750. I currently only carry a "catastrophic" coverage plan, and even with a $7500 deductible it's still $600 per month.

So for me I'm looking forward to Obamacare.
@Poll Creator: Michigan / Ohio / Pittsburgh lumped together, are you kidding me? We need separate options for those states. I would go further and add Detroit, Ann Arbor etc as it's own options.
There are a few Kinect projects for this, one example is this:

http://bgr.com/2013/08/01/microsoft-kinect-sign-language-tra...

But sign language not only consists of the hand movements. The fingers and lips are important, too. The kinect resolution is not good enough for those right now. And don't forget the facial expressions.
They market Windows 8 tablets side-by-side with the iPad.
I would say that is a miscategorization of the election results. It's not so much that he was voted out as the electorate falling for the populism of Framsókn.

Of course a party of 3 out of 63 is not going to make big waves legislatively, but the center-right coalition wouldn't touch this issue. Hell, the previous administration didn't want to touch the issue either. Noise, that's all.
A Brief Guide To User-Generated Censorship
Nice looking idea, but it really needs an About page. I tend not to sign up for things without knowing what I'm supposed to use them for or what they're going to use me for.
All The News You Get From Autoplaying Videos In Your Browser
> But why? As a nation we are "wealthier" than we have ever been

But look at the wealth of the median college student. College is no longer a privilege of the 1%, but a requirement for the masses.
If you have been working as a data analyst and software developer have you thought about getting into the simulation side of aerospace engineering. I have a math degree and I did that for over 12 years.

If you don't have a problem working in the defense industry that would be the most logical place to start looking for work, especially on the simulation side. Although with defense spending being tight right now it may not be the best place right now.
Thank you for the nice words. I'm trying to build a minimal social layer underneath, that's neither intrusive or abusive so you can check later on your favorite writers.
In fact, Google was concerned about Microsoft more-strongly binding Windows Mobile (Windows Phone came later) to their Web ecosystem. Microsoft was working on Windows Live Search, which would later be replaced by Bing.

At the time, Windows Mobile was the epitome of a modern mobile OS. It had a real(ish) browser and a VM-based app runtime for a modern (C#) language (albeit optional and not nearly as tightly integrated with OS middleware as in Android). Google saw that an ecosystem such as Windows Live is much more critical to a mobile device than it is to a desktop PC. The nature of Android more closely reflects the threat from Microsoft than from iPhone.
Do You Feel Lonely?
Our Need for Morning Faces: Does Isolation Cause Delusions?
Upvote * 1000 Feel the exact same way about Nova
We thought of this, but using this service would have been against the rails rumble rules
Your skill in the js front-end is a valuable asset. Silicon Valley startups have moved architectures and frameworks from multi layer b'ends to far lighter archs on the b'end and new derivative next gen languages on the b'end. Eg like LAMP stacks, python and rubi (2 next gen functional languages). The line between f'end and b'end has shifted where the f'end takes on some of the responsibilty (via its own frameworks like backbone.js, node.js,etc...) that the b'end traditionally would have. Bottom line, trend is your friend and js and its frameworks are in very good demand more than ever in the valley!

I would say the biggies like ebay, google, apple , etc... may look at your degree (or lack of) and rank it for eng positions. I know goog may look at it a bit. they used to like high ranking colleges. However, for your valuable skill in js, small startups may value your skills and are open to sponsor. some are starved for f'end talent.

heres my advise to getting in to a small startup:

look in HN jobs, startups for hire indeed.com, network friends, linkedin etc... find small cos, private
make portfolio of your apps, design docs, blogs, etc... and put them online. take them to interview and show them to everyone
small cos may sponsor you. there is usually a cost in salary i think (20+%)
demonstrate your knowledge of js in the interviews, good attitude
*take a strong double shot cappuccino in the interview, it works for me to get my brain supercharged!

good luck
On my Lenovo laptop, I have Windows 8.1 dual-booting with Arch Linux, and I don't see this message. Pretty sure I have secure boot (UEFI) disabled in my BIOS.
Yep. Livesheets more or less.
Basically bullshit when you factor in that the one contractor not hired was the integrator. HHS's Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS), i.e. inexperienced/no experience in projects of this scale inexplicably decided to be the integrator of this wildly spread out project, as the report details.

And did a horrible job of it, as we're hearing from the NYT "In the last 10 months alone, government documents show, officials modified hardware and software requirements for the exchange seven times." (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6583327) and from many sources that changes were being required though the last week before the launch. Which of course had to be coupled with only trying to test the whole thing in that last week.

Now matter how evil you believe these contractors to be, no one can realistically claim they could have produced a working system under these constraints, including how late they were brought into the game.
But this paper steadfastly focuses on responsible journalism, irconclad ethics and superb writing. I’ll always be a loyal ally...

This is such an unnatural sentence, it doesn't surprise me at all to see it as complete spin. Its beyond rare to pledge loyalty to a company, when you are leaving it to join a competitor. And Newspapers are so full of conflicts of interest (especially a place as politicised as NYT), that any reference to 'ethics' that is not self-serving is only by coincidence.

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#5 isn't a matter of convenience if you're trying to do heavy mathematical operations in Java. Deviation between conventional notation and programming notation is a real problem, because it's a place where bugs can hide.

However, I would be very sympathetic to the argument that the solution is "Don't do that". In 1998 and today, for what may be different reasons but still comes to the same outcome, Java is not a language intended for highly mathematical computations. It's probably better just to not pretend that it is one, than to try to force it in. Nor would I even consider this a criticism of Java (though I personally dislike it); compared to its focus area, trying to support heavy-duty math would be a tiny little niche to it that would take wildly disproportionate amounts of effort to support. Let people who care about that niche operate in it.

My only point of agreement is that it is true that you ought to be able to get easy feedback about NaN and other failures, indeed precisely because in Java you are unlikely to be doing the sorts of calculations in which those are expected possibilities. $NaN or "infinity hours billed" is something you generally want an exception for, ASAP. It would have been better to write that in as a requirement for the VM and slowly emulate it on the few platforms that didn't natively support it than leave it out. (A brief google search suggests Java still doesn't support this, even today. If I got that wrong... great! I'm glad it has come on board, but I stand by the idea that it should have been in there from day 1, which is the real point I have here.)
The effect that you're ignoring is that insurance premiums have a hefty amount of margin built into them, and the ACA produces a collective bargaining effect that gives insurers an incentive to offer a competitive price on the exchange.
Facebook suffers global outage - The Times of India
Well, get in touch. email address is in my profile here.
I wasn't afraid the first time I got into one. But I did have to fight some low-level emotional terror creeping up on me once I was inside.

It's a tight space, and the device is noisy. Pretty much designed to trigger these emotions, even though I knew it wasn't dangerous.

Second time I almost fell asleep.
imagine owning a race car team. For years you buy cars from Ferrari. Finally, you're forced to make your own. While in 5 years you will certainly have a better understanding of the car, V1 of your new product will certainly be a bit inferior.
Well this is silly. Stanford graduation rates have been increasing over the past 10 years: (http://ucomm.stanford.edu/cds/2012 - search for point B11). 1998-2003 were all in the 90-93% range. This last year had a graduation rate of 95%. This doesn't support the opinion that students are dropping out 'en masse.' As for "professors having a financial stake in their student's work" – since when was this not the case? Professors have been dependent on grant money based on the work of their student researchers for decades; only previously, the students had no way of making money off of the work themselves.

I do think that it would be good to establish and maintain a set of ethics for professors who have a financial stake in companies, but it seems like this piece was more of a ranting projection built for page views than a thoughtful criticism on the state of the university.

Edit: And I should have researched a little more: Stanford does have a policy regarding faculty investments: http://doresearch.stanford.edu/policies/research-policy-hand.... Points 3 & 4 seem particularly applicably as a response:

3. Faculty must foster an atmosphere of academic freedom by
promoting the open and timely exchange of results of
scholarly activities, and ensuring that their advising of
students (defined for this policy to include postdoctoral
scholars and other trainees) and their supervision of staff
are independent of personal financial interests. Faculty
should inform students and colleagues about outside
obligations that might influence the free exchange of
scholarly information between them and the faculty member.

4. Faculty may not use University resources or personnel,
including facilities, staff, students or other trainees,
equipment, or confidential information, except in a purely
incidental way, as part of their outside consulting or
business activities or for any other purposes that are
unrelated to the education, research, scholarship, and public
service missions of the University.
I could put all the countries in the Eastern European Timezone as Eastern Europe, but it would put Finland in there as well which would be wierd.
One of my fondest hopes is that Apple and Google mutually assured destruct in a legal war, leaving plenty of space for Mozilla and Canonical.
> Do you think that has the same chance as success as someone who's only goal is to make money?

Yes, or at least maybe. The viability of businesses is extremely low in almost all circumstances. Doing something creative and putting it out there with a will to get some income from it perhaps has no lower chance than a more aggressive business strategy.

By reducing the cost of running the business to near-zero, you extend your runway to near-infinite. I'd say it's as good a bet as a VC-funded startup which needs regular cash injections to survive infancy.

> if your #1 goal isn't making money

I understand why you are saying that, and given the state of the world, you may well be correct in your belief.

However, I find it an extreme and quite a negative view.

As a consumer, I (with my limited economic power) would rather support people and small businesses with a #1 goal of improving the world in at least a small way - perhaps those which you would probably call hobbies - rather than support things that have a primary or exclusive goal of making money.

I believe that having money as a primary focus will, slowly but surely, damage your business branding over time.
Talking to people? What a concept!

Seriously though, it is amazing how much information can be gleaned from someone (rightly or wrongly) if you just sit down and talk with them for a bit. And even more information about someone's true feeling can be determined from their non-verbal communication, something that electronic surveillance (like email snooping) can do nothing about.
I tried dipping my hands into Haskell over the summer. I fell in love with two resources:

1. Yann Esposito's Haskell Fast and Hard (on FPcomplete -- https://www.fpcomplete.com/user/yogsototh/haskell-fast-hard)

2. Learn you a Haskell by Miran Lipovaca http://learnyouahaskell.com/

The latter author decided to write the book based on his experience in learning Haskell. It's definitely one of the simplest and clearest programming books I've read.
I think the outrage is based on a perception of a teacher/student relationship, but unlike high school, the students in college are legal adults. Legally, and I would argue ethically, college students are not under the care of their professors or administrators.

If there were allegations that professors were tying their instruction to investment--e.g. let me invest in your company or I will give you an F--I would agree that there are ethical issues. But I don't see any allegations of that.
New Zealand (Aotearoa) is most definitely within Polynesia, being one of the three corners of the Polynesian triangle, the other two being Rapa Nui (Easter Island) and Hawai'i.

I chose US on the poll, but feel that Oceania is more appropriate in a geographical sense, especially since so many Americans don't consider Hawai'i to be a part of "the states." (until it comes to war)
Articles like this pop up all the time. The problem is that they never address (1) the legitimate need for surveillance;

From the article:

For the state to find criminals, it needs to be able to investigate specific crimes, or specific suspected planned crimes, under a court order. With the Internet, the power to tap phone conversations would naturally extend to the power to tap Internet connections. This power is easy to abuse for political reasons, but it is also necessary.
Food? Shelter?

Granted these are typically less expensive than the services you mention, but they're certainly not less important. Rather, they're sold in functioning, normal markets of private firms.
I store a lot of "I've read the solution for that problem somewhere while researching something else."

Yes, this is more what I was thinking of as "encyclopedic knowledge" (which may not be what the parent post to mine meant by the term).
The software in question was the software used to determine the best media buys, the volunteer organization software, and similar that was known to be part of his advantage.
Did you read more than half of one sentence that I wrote? The poor are at a disadvantage when it comes to escaping their position in life; if you need this spelled out for you, the poor are disadvantaged when it comes to making decisions about saving money that could help them improve their financial situation. Wealthy people are better able to make rational decisions about their money, which helps in retaining wealth.

Maybe you should actually read the article I linked to, if it would help you understand what I wrote.