skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How does Go compare to modern C++, using the newer feature and libraries without the old cruft?
> I really strongly dislike how it munges together different conversation threads under a person, which at the same time excludes other emails from other people that were part of that thread.

That's what the thread view is for. Simply click the small icon next to a message's subject (the one with the number of emails in a thread) and you'll all of the referenced messages.
Would probably be more if everyone paid tax on those earnings.
~/.osx updated — sensible hacker defaults for OS X 10.9 Mavericks
Upgrading to Mavericks — What I Learned Today
Cool, I'd love to take this for a spin, so great to hear you're planning to have a trial eventually!
Oh, cool - DeFazio (one of the sponsors) is my representative. I guess that saves me from having to call him. Anyone know if they tally calls for people calling to say thanks or good job or whatever?
Good job shipping!

"Most IT projects fail because of scope-creep, bad estimates and being afraid to ship. Single-developer side-projects are no different."

This is dead on. It's too easy to keep adding more stuff once you start to get momentum, and then your project ends up with such a large surface area of features that it becomes difficult to polish and finish. That's where the fear usually sets in.

Some game feedback: I had a lot of fun playing the first few waves, but the more difficult enemies are really hard to deal with since I'm always flying towards them. If I don't start off on the other side of the screen, I usually die as I fly straight towards them.

Again, congrats on being in the app store!
Unibox has this: http://www.uniboxapp.com/faq/attachments/list
Start small, decide what it is you really want to accomplish, and use a realistic timeline. Things I always forget when starting any (side) project.

I only allow myself an hour or so per day to write code on the side, or to play with a new technology or library. If I don't put boundaries around whatever I'm doing (and have an end-game in mind), I end up wasting a lot of time and don't get anything out of it.
That's speculation. I've seen servers get compromised due to FTP problems, SSH misconfiguration, unpatched Apache vulnerabilities, third-party stats monitoring software with 0-days and even SQL injection.

Defacement (I consider malware injection a form of defacement) isn't unique to PHP by a long shot.
As was talked about with the recent controversy of Nokia and Microsoft news being penalized while Apple news was on the front page, HN has some pretty intrusive algorithms that play with the positioning of the article on the page, algorithms that aren't always clear to the users or necessarily productive to the discussion.
A lot of the comments here seem to me to be based on a confusion between Python as a development tool for users and developers, and Python as a base operating system component. These are two very different roles that the language fills.

IMHO confusing these roles and providing, or expecting one install of a language to fit both simultaneously has been something that's irritated me about Unix-like OSes for a long time, much as I love them.

Yes I know there are plenty of tools for installing dev versions of tools side by side with the system components. IMHO doing so should be the default assumption unless you really are developing system scripts or scripts that you explicitly expect to be limited in scope to that OS.
Does something happen? Because I have ~100 candies but I looked at the source and it's HUGE. What is this!?
The number of housing units in NYC increased 5.3% in a time period when US population increased 9.7%:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_the_United_Stat...

New York may be building more than, say, San Francisco, but it's not building enough given a country with increasing population and the growing popularity of city living. New housing units may well be smaller than old ones.
Full disclosure: I'm at a YC startup working on a people-centric email service at Post.fm

Great to finally see some people adopting a similar approach to us, however the real trick is figuring out the balance between threads and people. Simply grouping emails by people doesn't work for most professionals who often have threads with multiple people. This is one problem that's taken us years to solve - and only now we finally have an algo that gets the right balance I believe.

Interesting fact - Post.fm used to be called unipost.com, so unibox is a very interesting name :)
wrong approach. copyright laws are already sufficient to protect copying of source code. thats not what patents are used for. patents are used for protecting product features and functionality. by their nature, product features and functionality cannot be trade secrets since the public uses them.

however, I agree with you that we should just get rid of software patents. I think there is no downside to companies copying (and potentially improving on) the features of a competing product.
It is a part of the ad words section. It is paid for, even though they apparently so far are not charging extra for the image.
Same here( "a lot of unicode placeholders" ). Can anyone clarify what would make these visible with Firefox 24 on Windows? (Same result for me with Iceweasel, but it's a few versions behind)

The site says JS is not required, and turning it on didn't help. FF 24 is just about the latest. What browser is this intended for?
Almost every conference’s second day opens with attendees being asked how their hangovers are. Second day early-slot speakers joke that no one will turn up anyway, or they’ll all just be staring into their coffee. It has become normal, in fact expected, that drinking and staying out late is what we do while at conferences.

There are a number of issues here: drinking (to excess), staying out late, and scheduled events early the day after these are known and expected to happen. I would think that drinking is actually the least of them.

Of course it’s possible to attend these events and not drink, but being the sober person at a party gets tiresome.

It's also possible to drink without ending up drunk, by not drinking too much. Alcohol is metabolized at... I think it's around 1h20m/drink or so.

I attended Monitorama EU recently, where one attendee had proposed a 5K run around the Tiergarten in Berlin on the morning of the second day.

It sounds like this actually worked, which I find surprising (really, talking while running?). Something to note tho, is that it was a "small group" that did this which sounds even less all-inclusive than leaving out underage participants is.

Photo or history walks around cities can be attractive to a lot of people in our industry

Yes.

These are all good examples of simple things that can be organized around conferences to create alternatives or additions to the parties.

Something to keep in mind for these is that they're outdoors. Which means they're subject to weather and to daylight hours. They also involve moving around / doing things in an organized fashion.

That said, I am still struggling to find good alternatives to the pub meetup, particularly in the UK. Other than taking over the corner of a larger coffee shop for a daytime meet, what kind of things are possible and inexpensive for small groups? In particular I find it hard to organize alternatives for the type of meeting where the numbers that might turn up are hard to predict.

The thing about coffee shops and pubs is that everyone is in one place with no organized activities to pay attention to. This is the important part, and the drinking only comes in because that's what society says to expect when you have a group of people "hanging out" with no agenda in the evening.
I know some states regulate e-bikes as mopeds, here in MI they're treated the same; need to register and plate them, wear a helmet if you're too young, and get a license (I think the license is also based on age).
What made you think the solution was trapped inside the carousel?

I understand what both of you are trying to say. Thanks for the answers. Yes, I'm applying that kind of thinking quite often myself. (I do Haskell at work, where these abstractions are particularly natural. No OOP necessary. )
I suspect the full paper includes much of that hand-wavey obviously-biased goodness that we expect from Fox News: http://freethoughtblogs.com/lousycanuck/2011/12/14/im-better...
PCI = peripheral component interconnect? I don't get it.
It's named after Tom Cruise in Top Gun. Duh.
Whow

$ zcat ~/Downloads/static.log.gz |
perl -lne'if (m/ 200 (\d+)/) { print $1 }'|sort |uniq -c
390 0
523 10881
639 12479
16276 1279
178111 2602
1 4071
14 4072
63 4801
112 4812
9431 5097
27654 5821
110 5911
1348 6008
162 7884
256 8278
568 9035
1103 9634

That's a lot of changes
Oh true, I forgot this was twitter.
Parent is saying they misconstrued PageRank as having been named for its function rather than after (one of its) coders.
Eh. (blog author here). It was exceptionally annoying, but in the end, the paper got in. You have to develop a thick skin, but I've found that in the long run, the process works pretty well. The feedback we got from our first submission to OSDI was awesome, and helped seriously improve the quality of the research, not just the paper. (It led us, for example, to adding the formal proof and the machine-checkable proof.) The NSDI feedback was crappy. I'm disappointed, because I like NSDI a lot. I think people were just having a bad-Paxos day. The final SOSP feedback was again really good.
Check your mobile device performance with two quick demo links:

snap.svg coffee demo (click wheel to animate)
http://snapsvg.io/demos/#coffee

d3.js chart demo (click buttons to animate)
http://bl.ocks.org/mbostock/3943967
If you are interested in such things, I suggest reading Transcend by R. Kurzweil. He takes the supplement craze up to 11.
The Importance of Learning From Others
My willpower is directly proportional to the amount of coffee I drink.
(function () {
for (var i = 1; i < 99999; i++) window.clearInterval(i);
var pl = Game.prototype.postLoad;
Game.prototype.postLoad = function () {
window.game = this; pl.call(this);
};
Main.documentIsReady();
})();

game.candies.current = 999999999999
I don't know enough about the process to comment, but judging by the results it must be pretty good. They have a good track record of finishing government projects on schedule and budget.
How technical or not you are has nothing to do with how much you care about the security of your email. LI is just hoping that they'll gain trust by being open about their process because they're counting on that "transparency" to help people feel comfortable about installing it.
Sure, that's possible. But then you would expect the "reviews" to not be so similar. They almost universally say "Thank you so much blackberry team. I was waiting this app".
Whether or not they are relevant to the search is immaterial to whether or not they are ads - lots of ads are relevant to the search terms. They are paid for with the intent of driving more traffic.
This is a puzzling comment. Every hypothesis is a premise.

Every schoolchild in America is told experiments begin with hypotheses.

Granted that isn't how things work in the real world, but it isn't categorically untrue either.
Payments Compliance(?) Industry(?) – rules you must follow to process credit card data. See https://www.pcisecuritystandards.org/
Ah, now I think I get it.

It is demand pull, not supply push - the miners are only willing to spend money on mining because they think they can get that money back by selling.

Buying mining hardware is speculating on the future price of bitcoin.
(function () { for (var i = 1; i < 99999; i++) window.clearInterval(i); var pl = Game.prototype.postLoad; Game.prototype.postLoad = function () { window.game = this; pl.call(this); }; Main.documentIsReady(); })();
game.candies.current = 999999999999
What exactly would you call it then, if not a banner ad? It's a large, colorful, rectangular 5:1 panel that advertises a company. Cut the doublespeak.
From a systems perspective: Dealing with lots of communication and having lots of concurrency _where the concurrent actors are doing a lot of different stuff_ is easier in Go.

Achieving high performance on a single machine and building reusable data structure libraries is easier in C++. Things like vectorization, cache-optimized layouts, etc., are all more easy here (or just in C).
Even if that's all sad, I don't see where the crash would come from.
Interactive Programming: Hot-swapping in Elm
Yeah, I am shocked to say the least after he authored SOPA.
The only drinking problem I see here is that people are drinking whiskey out of plastic cups. Philistines.
This is exactly why I prefer R for static maps. Would have taken like a quarter of the time, if that.
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Anecdote for my sister in Texas:
2010: Started renting her house on AirBnB to build savings / side-income.
2011: Left full-time design job.
2012: Repaired house and added efficiency unit.
2013: Picking up freelance design work.

Results: She works less hours overall, but feels need to respond to AirBnB-related requests at all hours. Now has ~20% higher income but less predictability. She pays taxes. AirBnB taught her several skills necessary for entrepreneurship. Still cringes when there is a critical review.

Her local bars and cafes definitely benefit from her guests (she provides local recommendations). I suspect local hotels might be losing some but not all of the business. Her guests pay roughly 25% less than local hotels.

She also travels more now, and has built a network from people who have stayed with her. Examples: Helped plan a wedding, assisted commercial photo shoots, went for drinks when visiting former guests’ cities.
When “selling magic”, where do we draw the line for collecting actual money?
The full quote is still true.

"There will be no banner ads on the Google homepage or web search results pages. There will not be crazy, flashy, graphical doodads flying and popping up all over the Google site. Ever." -Marissa Mayer

That "banner" is not a "crazy, flashy, graphical doodad". That is pretty much the company's logo.
The value of zero-priced software
Language is the biggest influencing factor, at least for me.

I get zero ads if I search for “trash can” but an ridiculous amount of ads if I search for “Mülltonne” (German for “trash can”), all because I’m searching on http://google.de/.

Screenshots: http://imgur.com/a/Yco1R#0

(Hey, the German results leak the city I’m currently staying at. The first organic result is a form to sign up for the city’s garbage collection.)
PCI short for PCI DSS which stands for Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. I.e. the standard that regulates how you capture, transmit, or store credit card information.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payment_Card_Industry_Data_Sec...
Whoa this line really stands out from the end of Thom Henderson's (creator of ARC) take on Phil's death:

I can think of no more fitting epitath than the final clause of the original ARC copyright statement:

"If you fail to abide by the terms of this license, then your
conscience will haunt you for the rest of your life."

(Apparently PKARC was blatantly ripped off of ARC and Phil refused to license ARC.)
The freely available dumps to SHP are not up -to-date or have insufficient details and my several efforts to produce an SHP myself have failed. I'd like to be able to produce a shp dump that contains only selected "layer" for given country.
Thanks that's actually a helpful tip.

It doesn't quite solve the whole problem for me, which is that:

* I like to scan conversation threads (of all conversations I'm having presently, not just those involving a single person) -- it's one of the primary ways I look at my mail.

* I find having all of the messages munged together from different conversations I'm involved in with a person to be disconcerting ESPECIALLY since those messages lack the context from other people involved in the context. It's visual cacophony to me. Contrast this with Apple Mail VIPs: When I click on a VIP, I see all of the conversations I'm involved in with that person, not the individual messages.

That's just me and my brain. I could of course just be an anomaly.
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Anyone interested in getting a better understanding of the economic reality of trolls is encouraged to go to ssrn.com and do a quick search for "patent trolls". These are not all peer reviewed papers, but many of them have data and methodologies and, most importantly, numbers. Read only the abstracts, if you're short on time.

As always, the topic is so much more nuanced than "good" or "bad". The first result, "Patent Troll Myths" by Michael Risch is a good start.

Sure, you will find the papers by Bessen et al where the "trolls cost the economy 29 Billion" meme comes from. But you'll also find a paper (by Schwartz and Kesan) that debunks Bessen's paper, which got nearly 0 coverage in the press. You'll even find a paper showing trolls have better patents than average! But these tend to get settled quickly, so typically the poorer ones go to trial, and so you get papers (like from Lemley) showing that trolls lose more cases than average.

You'll also find papers arguing the benefits of trolls, debunking some of the common arguments against trolls, and introducing new previously unconsidered harms of patent trolls.

And of course, just like there's no clear definition of "software patents", there is no clear definition of "patent trolls" either, and you'll find papers discussing this.

And because they use different data sets, different papers look at the same problem at the same time and reach completely opposite conclusions.

And further, because the authors are almost never practitioners in the field, you get some really obvious findings being reported... and then misconstrued! For instance there's a paper showing litigation has shot up since 2007, and presenting various theories, completely missing the
Medimmune v Genntech decision that effectively upended the rules of patent licensing. And there's the paper that argues patent quality is dropping because more patents were being issued, without being aware of the ending of the misguided "reject, reject, reject" unofficial policy instituted by former USPTO head Jon Dudas (http://www.ipwatchdog.com/2009/03/16/prespective-of-an-anony...)

And as always, it's helpful to keep in mind where the authors' funding comes from. Bessen of the "29 billion" fame, for instance, is funded by the "Coalition for Patent Fairness". Check out the list of supporters. It's almost ad hom, but hey, if we can point out that studies showing the harms of piracy are often funded by the MPAA, we can point this out too.

Yes, there are clear bad actors like Lodsys, but there are so many more variables out there, and many are arguably helping more than harming.

Yet, somehow, it's only one small side of the story that gets told.

As this is a hot-button topic, we should take an objective look at the data. Because, quoting from one of the papers above, "Without a better understanding of the many complicated effects of patents in high technology markets, we run the very real risk of misguided policy decisions."
yes, i have "no idea how advanced the manufacturing sector really is". i can only imagine. it's just not my profession.

but the point here is, i think, that the vast majority of people (including myself) take it for granted. we don't really care about how the iphone's made but when we have the chance to actually see automated manufacturing we are (or at least i am) completely amazed by what we as humans are able to do with materials coming out of bricks of stone from below earth surface. i'm amazed that people invent machinery so acurate and precise creating clear, polished surfaces for the end product. pressing metall into a desired form. creating glass to be bend and scratched like crazy.

i could stand at a production line and watch that stuff all day.
Leaf - We're going to change the way you shop.
So Google broke up with early adopters. Apt.
Oh, and I can't work out how to star/flag a message.
Without arguing the motivations of this "third party" study, you ignore the fact that it finds:

- People stayed longer and spent more

- Money ended up in individuals' hands, instead of a hotel megacorp chain

- Much was outside Manhattan (a distinction from your claim of "midtown to downtown")
Would CSP solve this issue? Looks like we could try restricting iframe-src?

But if they are able to hack into the server, I supposed there is nothing to do then...
Ask HN: Just built a mobile version of our site, feedback please?
Hi guys,

We've just created a mobile version of our site - www.getinspired365.com/mobile/20131023 - just wondered what you thought? Would be very interested to see what you think of www.getinspired365.com/mobile/discover as we're wondering if to follow this type of approach to our main site.

Thanks in advance!
No, no, no.

You can absolutely trust them if they are say "we are doing this to maximize profits for our share holders / owners".

Then, what is this expectation that one should be able to trust them to do anything else at all? Surely the mere existence of consumer law should tell us something.
It is valid for me. Perhaps you don't have the DOD CA installed in your browser.
Our swimming coach in high school was named Harry Kramp. Can't make this stuff up.
This is something I see often ... a company wants to prove some positive thing about their business, so they commission a study, only to have it torn down in comments because it was they who paid for it.

I totally get that it's a conflict of interest, but what alternative is there? Seems like a study of this kind is really valuable to be able to contribute to the policy conversation that's currently underway. Would the only ethical option be for AirBnB to put out a public call for someone, anyone, to do this study on their own dime? Who would do such a thing without being paid up front? Would it still be a conflict of interest if the researchers put up a crowdfunding campaign to pay for the study (even if they did so at the behest of AirBnB)?
Those sound more like electric mopeds than electric bicycles.
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How Scala made my tests more meaningful
S-class owners are also known as "beta testers" ;)
Ah. Now all I do is need to reign in my raging ambition enough to admit that an RTS is not appropriate for a first game.
There is a library in one of the Go subrepositories that handles transformation from other encodings to UTF-8: https://code.google.com/p/go/source/browse?repo=text#hg%2Fen...

If you're expecting to get data in other other encodings you could put together some detection and transformation at the point of ingress and convert to UTF-8 encoded text for the rest of your application.
Umm they forced me(as in I wasn't able to use youtube otherwise) to connect my Google account to my Youtube so...that is pretty much combining the accounts in my book.

I think, they just needed that to collect my aggregate search+video watching behavior for ad targeting, which they got.
This build is conservative when picking a R9 280X, because the performance level of AMD Firepro D300 (dual) is currently unknown.
You can always drop in R9 290X (or two...)
Clicky - www.getinspired365.com/mobile/20131023 and www.getinspired365.com/mobile/discover
I've been wondering this for a while - is there a viable business model for email clients? Charging a small one-off fee isn't sustainable really. At the same time charging a subscription (like SaaS) is unheard of for email clients. Email services on the other hand - a different matter. But even with Google Apps - $50 a year for an email service is really cheap, compared to any other SaaS out there. Wonder why that is, when email is so crucial to every company?
Any Amercians think it was some hideous British dental condition? ;)
It's an ad with a picture as a banner across a significant portion of the browser window. Ducks, quacking, etc.