skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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> he fundamental issue in this rant of course is, "Why the hell should I do all that? Make it available in the front page!"

They could make it more obvious but, really, the audience for that page doesn't really include people who are familiar with technical issues and have made the calculation that it would be faster to download the full thing & copy it around.

> But did you also notice the parent comment: "Googling for things like "firefox standalone redistributable offline install" are a road to nowhere"? ;)

I did – and part of the point is that that's an unnecessarily complex query. Removing any of the redundant words (e.g. "firefox standalone installer", "firefox offline install") produces the correct result as the first hit. ("redistributable" appears to be the problem as that term hits a bunch of spam download sites)

In other words, that search query was itself an attempt to micro-optimize something which turned out to be unnecessary – rather like the entire post.
Top managers are traditionally drawn from the ranks of 50-somethings. Sure, that's partly due to a retirement age of 65, and partly a function of institutional ladder-climbing. But not just that. Someone in their 50s has a few decades of experience. Almost every situation or problem reminds them of something they've already seen or solved before. Intuition or gut instinct draws on experience, therefore it improves with experience.

Now, I wouldn't argue that someone in their 50s (or older) is prima facie better than someone younger. Just that they're not automatically worse.

p.s. You could argue that "too much experience" can be a bad thing, and blind someone to innovation. Although that's a good point I'd argue that the issue isn't too much experience, instead it's usually too narrow experience and/or too little ability to process it effectively.
Yes. I was lucky to have applications where that wasn't a problem — mostly because this kind of work was done regularly and incrementally, rather than rarely and in a big chunk.
Agreed. I feel more energized and motivated when I leave the gym, and my energy levels are vastly higher now at 38 than they were when I started exercising properly at 30.

And there's other things, like how at 30 I had totally lost the ability to squat down unaided - I had to prop myself up with a hand, and now I like to drop down and sit in squat position just because I enjoy the feeling of my newfound strength and mobility... I don't dare think about how drained I'd be from just short amounts of playtime with my son if I didn't exercise regularly.

Exercise is an answer to too little time, not a problem.
Great opportunity for a natural experiment on productivity relative to availability of tools. Track internal commits relative to prior Wednesdays.
"Most men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them." Thoreau
I have not, but looks like this guy has [1]. But I would also not rely on anecdotes, and would want them to test it out comprehensively before allowing it on road. If I am commanding a 1000 ton metal hurling with a speed of 110 kmph, its better safe than sorry.

[1] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640895
There's always reddit and experts-exchange.
This College Sophomore Just Did Something None Of Us Has The Courage To Do
This happens to me in Thunderbird / Postbox on Win7 and OSX, leading me to believe it's some old edge-case IMAP bug
I know there is an auditing process whenever a breach occurs, so it somewhat makes sense. However, it really seems like companies intentionally announce a 'smaller' breach only followed up (99% of the time) with a 'massive' breach.

I would much prefer a initial 'massive' breach announcement (when possible), as that would breath a higher a level of transparency and honesty.
China has the reverse of ageism: the Chinese tend to worship the old. A noted Chinese thinker commented that in China, the praise is "He is young but acts old." and in the West the praise is "He is old but acts young."

So in that environment, you can imagine how someone in his twilight years might have an easier time succeeding because people are more willing to listen to him. For the exception of people like Knuth, Lamport, Stallman, Pike, Thompson, etc. most of us in tech have our ears tuned to a much younger population. It might change as our industry gets older.
There is a ticket for VP9[1] and no mention that it might be skipped. So my guess is that it will happen eventually.

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=833023
A lot of programmers may actually have to take a break and go outdoors today. It's the code monkey apocalypse!
The common in-between is the users. I hope this isn't the case, but if hacker was able to get access to any MongoHQ db there probably is so much time needed, until you find a db holding full-text passwords.

Still, in order to do any damage to the application/platform the hacker should be aware of procedures for remote work (administration/support/development) in order to log-in and make a mess.
There's a really nice discussion in the comments of that post.

http://www.theatlanticcities.com/commute/2012/11/forget-subw...
Reminds me of my old Dual USB Macbook.
Still smells to the point the whole room it's in stinks after all those years.

http://lowendmac.com/menagh/06/1019.html

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/1320241
This is great and deserves it's own post. I bought modulz for $70 before realizing that it wasn't made with bootstrap. Thank you for making this great starting package! I've bought it.
Taking a look at the speedometer guarantees you aren't driving too fast and looking at the road is a mayor part of (safe)driving. Looking at the glass isn't, because even if you use it to look at the map that distracts you for way too long( >1sec, assuming you have to deal with the interface ).
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How does no comments + 10 points get on the homepage of HN. System makes no sense.
Maybe it's the grass is greener thing, but dude, that's one awesome life you've lived.

"Life is wonderful if you keep right on living."

Love this.
This pseudo-code seems to be with only one pass no ? Can someone find a counter-example ?

overall_max=0
index_of_overall_max=0

Second_max=0
index_of_second_max=0

Array_of_cumulated_Sum=0

Total=0

for i from left to right

if Height(i)>overall_max
//Water Area between new max and old max
Total+=overall_max*(i-index_of_overall_max+1)-(Array_of_cumulated_Sum(i)-Array_of_cumulated_Sum(index_of_overall_max))

overall_max=Height(i);
index_of_overall_max=i;

Second_max=0;
index_second_max=i+1;
else

if Height(i)>Second_max
//All the parts on second max is only to not miss the kept water at the end between the overall_max and another local max
Second_max=Height(i);
index_second_max=i
end

end if

Array_of_cumulated_Sum(i)=Array_of_cumulated_Sum(i-1)+Height(i)

end for
//At the end : water area between second max and overall max
Total += Second_max*(index_of_second_max-index_of_overall_max+1)-(Array_of_cumulated_Sum(index_of_second_max)-Array_of_cumulated_Sum(index_of_overall_max))

return Total
Why sites are publishing their downtime on HN? Hacker News is better than that.
Glass is an entertainment device, just because it is HUD does not invalidate it having an audio visual feedback, complete with a camera. It is made for consumption, on a small and more personal scale.

Glass could potentially make us worse drivers too. Satnav systems have guidelines issued for usage. Here, we are dealing with illumination directly 2 inch in front of my eye. I will go by your data, but would rather want California DMV to test it out comprehensively.
practical gains? None.

theroetical gains?

* They can try to pick a server near them
(I don't think the servers are geo-dist)

* No external DNS lookup
(silly, whats a one-time cached 150 ms between friends)

* Immune to DNS outage
(lol, if your DNS is working other stuff is prob broke..)

* More resistant to someone pretending to be github
(expect that github uses HTTPS..)

So really no point I can think of... but is sure makes you computer brittle to github changing anything!
I think listening does a bit of good. Understanding does even more, and sharing that understanding so they don't have to does even more good. The unfortunate fact is that you'll be listened to better by another white person than a person of color, who'll be perceived as being "biased".
Bug reports aren't "anecdata".

Today's new awesome Mail 7 behavior: reply-all to a mail with 10 recipients, get 10 new messages in my inbox all from me!
Don't worry, you'll eventually grow out of this attitude. Your confidence will increase. You won't have to say stuff like this in an effort to feel better about yourself. Hang in there and good luck.
Do this: stop comparing yourselves to Steve Jobs for a moment and go ask your parents, spouse, good friends, and confidants if you are a person of value (forget about "success"), and to give you some examples. This should clear it all up for you.
As a user of Google Glass, driving with it is idiotic.

It is great when walking or riding the bus/subway. Having anything except critical driving information such as speed presented in a Heads Up Display fashion is a distraction. Especially when going 80mph with other vehicles on the road.

Book her!
Honestly, not much.

You might be able to find a few vulnerabilities... maybe some good ones, maybe some hard coded keys, but about that's all.

Having a companies code doesn't mean you can make a successful business out of it. Especially if they are already established as a major player.
And at a stroke, programming across the world ground to a halt..

It's interesting how we only mitigate risk of failure of services we actually pay for.
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I get something similar from cucumbers. Even if there is just a hint of the juice that comes of cucumbers in my food I will taste it. It tastes like rotting cabbage mixed with dirt (if that makes sense) to me.
The other side of this is countrys using the NSA furor as an excuse to create a more balkanized Internet fire walling off themselves form those nasty furineers.
I've had a similar experience. I gave up working late around 30, when I found it wiped me out too much. Now I'm 36 and I've discovered I can do 12-hour days again.

Why? Better diet (Paleo) and daily exercise. Bodyweight and Pilates, in my case, but I'm planning to try powerlifting at some point. (I remain convinced that mind-body exercise like T'ai Chi, Pilates or yoga are one of the best body hacks out there. )

For some additional "Old Guy" inspiration, here's Joe Pilates, the inventor of Pilates, at 51 and 82. He, erm, doesn't exactly look it: http://www.vivianzapanta.com/look-at-joseph-pilates-age-51-a...
I don't understand being more lenient about DW-T/F than DWI, at least at a low BAC. It's comparably dangerous, and a lot harder to be mistaken. "Oops, I metabolize alcohol more slowly than I thought" vs. "Oops, I took my hands off the wheel, pulled out my phone...".
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Comcast still appears to be serving stale DNS, just a note here. So if you're on Comcast you may still have trouble loading the site (and therefore no even seeing this comment) if you're on Comcast. OpenDNS, Google Public DNS, and level 3 are all up to date. Hopefully Comcast will be flushing the stale DNS info for news.ycombinator.com shortly.

[Update 9:55AM PST] Looks like Comcast's stale DNS is still in place.
How Am I Supposed To Get Experience Without A Job In The First Place?
I worked as a manager at a major semiconductor company in Silicon Valley for many years. I interviewed thousands of candidates, many of who were older than me.

I noticed that older engineers seemed to bifurcate into two groups: the ones who were curious about everything, and the ones who stayed in their box.

The ones who were curious about everything remained great engineers. They tinkered with new technologies, read books about software project management, wrote cool little programs in unusual languages like Haskell or Scheme, etc. These guys were invariably great engineers, and their experience was just icing on the cake.

The ones who stayed in their niche of writing x86 assembly, COBOL applications for mainframes or writing the same class of network drivers for Linux for fifteen years were usually awful.

I don't doubt that there is actual ageism out there. However, when I did interviews I never cared. However, I also noticed that the "lazy engineers" hadn't really done anything in their career to expand their skill set beyond the minimum their employers required them to do, and I could see why they were not employable. The older "curious, passionate" engineers I hired worked out awesome.
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You see the FBI has some to offload, so expect to hear quite a few stories about normal ppl using bitcoin for normal stuff.
A cynic.
Heh, I have a similar experience. I couldn't touch my toes for years - now I actively enjoy bending straight down from the waist to pick things up off the floor!
>That doesn't mean that feminists hate men, white or otherwise, anymore than men hate women as a class of people.

That's a nice false equivalence you've got there.

>However, white men have a lot of cultural privilege

Oh goody, you're hiding behind the boogieman, aka "privilege". In modern, "western" culture there's really no cultural privilege for men. Unless we're going to count the privilege to be drafted, or murdered, or die on the job with nary a twitch of the feminist diaspora.

>Anyway, I hope you have some opportunities to grow and realize lack of respect for a group of people seeking to be respected is a failure of imagination on your part

That's rather nonsensical. Just because a group wants to be respected doesn't mean they deserve respect.
Oh man please no. Imagine having this in your pocket and playing music! The little amount of stress your pocket puts on it will make your music jump.

Imagine having a magsafe connector on a laptop without a battery. So every time your connector gets a bump your laptop shuts down. The reason magsafe works is because you don't need constant power, so a short interruption is okay.
Whether to keep background processes and how many to keep is trivially configurable in Android though. So if Samsung wanted to skimp on RAM they could totally do so. My wife's Galaxy Nexus had 1GB RAM and Android 4.3 works fine there but compared to my Note 2 the multi tasking suffers. Anecdotally though I have had much lesser page reloads on Android devices even with 1GB RAM.

So yes Android will use more memory if there is some available but there's no evidence to suggest it needs more than iOS.
I've got a standard resume in Word and PDF form. Name and contact stuff at the top, then education, work experience, and skills. Just a light horizontal line break between sections to give it some visual separation.

I would hope that the bullet points on my resume stands out enough, having spent considerable time going over all my accomplishments, selecting and combining the right things to demonstrate my skills, and giving the right quantitative details.

In comparison, my LinkedIn, which seems to be a CV for most folks these days, is really scarce. I've intentionally left it vague because I'm concerned about running afoul of disclosure agreements. I'm wondering if I should revisit it to spruce it up.
This looks awesome and I want one. I think Parrot (makers of the AR Drone) should license this immediately. Their product is fun, but it's still quite scary to pilot indoors with people around. With this I can imagine playing AR drone tag!
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Frequently threads with as few as 3 points make it to the front page. It's (among other things, obviously) about speed of upvotes on /newest- and given that posts rarely get more than a couple upvotes before they're knocked off the front page there, it's a good thing the threshold before things reach the front is low.
Realtime Dns Tool w/ IPv6 Support
- Queries all common dns records together (A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV)
- Reverse DNS and FCrDNS
- Specific nameserver support
- IPv4 + IPv6
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640504
Incoming Stallman "this is not free software" rant in 5, 4, 3, 2...
I tried talking about this in an earlier draft of my article but found it to be a deep rabbit hole. I'd like to explore this more fully in a future post. I feel that will be more divisive in it's reception :-)
Seems like its back up at 11:08
Not at all. I consider it wholly inappropriate for people to be restricted from copying and sharing data, and believe copyright should be abolished for human good. Of course I'm ok with some speech restrictions for, say, privacy reasons.

Nothing about creating value and selling it for money requires that I be prohibited in my rights about what I'm allowed to do with digital works, be they considered property or thought. Unfortunately copyright holds us back in this regard and builds an economic environment predicated on this offense.
People actually compare themselves to Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg? That sounds rather sad to me to be honest.
> But how do you want to prove that Glass was off?

That's the wrong question. The right question is: How does law enforcement prove that Glass was distracting me?

I shouldn't have to prove my innocence. They should have to prove my guilt.
So according to this thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6640324

Mozilla is going to add a Cisco blob to their distributed browser, and not the actual compiled source. Any clarification on that?
Javascript returns [1,2,3,a]. What's the problem.
We failed over to our secondary load balancer and are investigating what went on. We've disabled realtime websockets for now.
In the US (I know, this is a global community) we are largely 'at will' employment (a quick google suggests that only Montana is an exception). Such a contract is not enforceable. To lock people in we use things like vesting - you get stock grants, bonuses, or what have you, but only vest into them over time.
i'm 27 years old this year, and i graduated recently with a business undergrad degree. i've tried my hand at doing a startup throughout my undergraduate degree but failed, and if i'm being completely honest, i felt like i learned very little from that experience as i was not a technical founder. at 28 next year, i will be returning to school again for a computer science bachelor's and frankly, this 35 year old threshold keeps coming up in my head.

years ago i set myself an ambitious goal of being a self-made millionaire by the time i'm 30, and a billionaire by 40. it's crazy talk to most people, but it was a goal i set for myself. obviously, it doesn't seem that plausible now - it's really more of a fantasy than anything at this moment but still... i find myself feeling old and having wasted many years of my life.

this blog post lifted my spirits a little. i feel that if i begin working really hard now and make the next few decades of my life extremely, exceptionally and extraordinarily productive, i can probably still achieve enough to make up for the last few unproductive years of my life.
Considering the legal weight limit (not including special permits) for commercial vehicles, e.g. 18-wheelers, on most US roads is 80,000 lb. (36.29 metric tons), it'd be quite surprising to see anyone in a 1000 ton (metric or short) vehicle, let alone traveling at a rate of 110 km/h.
Consumption doesn't mean entertainment, unless you think navigation and driving alerts are entertainment?

Satnav systems potentially make us worse drivers as well. If I have to look down at the system (which I do) it's much more intrusive than Glass, which only requires I look up and slightly to the right to see. It is certainly not directly in front of your eye unless you are wearing it completely incorrectly.

Have you had Glass on? It isn't as intrusive as you appear to believe.
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I _almost_ never user a lawyer or a legalese contract. The projects I do, custom CMS's and small business applications, just don't demand it.

What I have is signed work agreement.

It specifies deliverables, cost, cost and process of scope changes, an short term maintenance agreement(with cut off date) and how the software is licensed (I only deliver software which has an open source license, MIT usually).

Licensing the software under open source lets the client have it, and frees me to reuse it for other projects. There is also a warranty clause in the license.

Twice in 20 years I have not gotten paid. Neither time I had an agreement, both were for small amounts.

But, if you have large clients, a large budget, or intellectual property is an issue then consider a lawyer, and one who has dealt with software projects before.
I wonder what the genius bar lines would be like if Apple products were a lot more open and allowed for that kind of customizability.

There's probably some correlation between simple(r) products and good customer service.
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Yes, the definition of success is something I want to explore more fully. The media/tech portrayal of success is extremely 1 dimensional and results in a great deal of dissatisfaction and anxiety. Personally, I think it has less to do with big wins or press worthy outcomes and more about consistently applying oneself in a manner that you can be proud of. You make sacrifices to fit all the things that are important to you in life and that's fine. Let the public have their judgements. Ultimately, you only have to answer to yourself.
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Evidence that dendrites actively process information in the brain
"A college kid would never have come up with what I'm building, because they wouldn't realize the problem I'm trying to solve actually exists."

This is such a key point. Sometimes it takes years, if not decades, of experience to even know that the problem exists. Put another way, if the problem can be solved by a 22-year-old with no experience in the field, there's a good chance they've misunderstood the problem.
A similar question was asked on Quora recently:

https://www.quora.com/Silicon-Valley/What-do-people-in-Silic...

Some of the companies and founders' ages compiled from the answers:

- Zynga: 41

- LinkedIn: 36

- Salesforce: 35

- Intel: 41, 39

- Qualcomm: 52, 50

- Juniper Networks: 42

- Wikipedia: 35

- Pandora: 35

- GigaOm: 39

- Zipcar: 42

- TechCrunch: 35

- Craigslist: 42

- Netflix: 37
How do you feel about bandcamp? Wouldn't it solve the same pain points?
How much info does the HUD show, and how does it do in daylight?
You want a wifi receiver and processor powered by a small amount of heat and movement? Don't really see that happening.
I think the more likely explanation is the behavior I have seen in IE8 and below where DNS entries get cached and as long as the server responds correctly, they cache is not busted. On one particular upgrade we brought the TTL down to 60 seconds and had to wait three days for the traffic to subside.

Also, at least older versions of nginx in reverse proxying mode have the same issue. Had to send the nginx processes a SIGHUP or restart them entirely, don't remember which, to get them to use the new IP's.
The Web Is Flat - how international referrers leak domestic browsing to the NSA
couldn't get the room to work, but was able to find a web demo application for webrtc that is supposed to work for both firefox and chrome:

Room:
https://apprtc.appspot.com/?r=08426541
PR damage control.

BTW, Adobe seems to be a vulnerable giant to be taken over. Not sure why no startups target them.