skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why would Google+ go away as of right now? It seems to be doing just fine.
I'm familiar with the median-of-medians linear-time selection algorithm (a.k.a. BFPRT). But I don't recall ever seeing a construction of a pivot-finding algorithm using de-randomization. Do you have a reference for this?
> You're wrong re: "(ICTY) has indicted members of pretty much every side"

No, I'm not.

> Croatia had military support from US:

And several Croats (29, including Bosnian Croats) were indicted by ICTY.

> and "Gotovina and Markač were acquitted on appeal in November 2012."

Yes, and so? They had charges against them. That they were acquitted on appeal is not evidence that the ICTY did not indict them (they also weren't the only Croats indicted by the ICTY.)

> Moreover, US at that time also effectively supported Bosniaks

And the ICTY indicted and convicted several Bosniaks.

You'd probably also point out that the US and NATO intervened on behalf of the Kosovo Albanians, but the ICTY also prosecuted, and in some cases convicted, Kosovo Albanians.

And ICTY wasn't set up or consituted solely by the US and US allies.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the_...
Who'll be getting rich off Twitter
"in every way that matters to most people"

It makes you think, doesn't it?
Except for the ways in which people are outraged over being spied upon.
I haven't tried it at all, since it just needs to be faster than my Internet connection (it's for backups), but you can just run the file provided there and it should work properly. Please post a benchmark if you do (I'm not at home now)!
That cannot happen.
Scenario 3: You're thought to be doing something illegal but not in the least bit dangerous, like growing marijuana. And the cops do a midnight raid just because they can on the pretext that you might "destroy evidence" if they merely came up and knocked on the door at a civilized hour like civilized people.

The vast majority of no-knock raids are simply not justifiable in terms of risk to the officers or risk to the public. It's more a question of "if you have a hammer, everything looks like a nail" when the PD has an otherwise bored SWAT team lying around that needs a little practice.
I thought this when I first heard of snapchat. How could you not archive away the pictures somewhere?
Yeah, well, either you're a war criminal or your life is screwed way before you become one... not a win either way.
"sell the sizzle not the steak"
That's pretty great, I think I will use bup when EncFUSE is done, rather than rdiff-backup. It's also very actively maintained, which is great.
If somebody would be looking for "bubbles", Snapchat at 4B is a clear sign of one.
I believe the described system would work fine without needing double spending.

Even simply acquiring the bids to verify transactions into the chain could make it worthwhile. When the "selfish" chain is published, it takes two blocks of transactions from anyone else, plus it has given the "selfish" miners the entire period from when they last discovered a secret to when they played their hand to mine for the block that will follow.

It may allow them to capture a greater portion of the main chain by denying information to other chain agents unless beaten or trumping.

Actually, that would be a good term for the method. "Trumping" the chain.
Competition could be a good way, once you figure out how to gameify self-destructing photos. Some sort of scavenger hunt model, perhaps? Giving out clues? Maybe adding a Snapchat Games section for companies to host these treasure hunt promotions? Or some sort of art contest?
Maybe not inevitable but I prefer this path to following google down the android hole. It's hard to be truly innovative when you let someone else hold the reigns.

Content should be first. Search, maps, news, video editing, messaging (basically everything Apple isn't that google, microsoft, and yahoo are.)

With a top tier software services stack, and exclusive content, it's a lot easier to convince people to latch onto your hardware platform.
Am I missing something but I always assumed that valuations at this stage of a company is to do with huge/vast sums of money being removed from the table by the founders and they've done this by selling a good stake of their equity/voting rights in their company.

The founders are now rich.. but the company isn't.. and if they raise a next round, their true valuation will shine through...
It will not be end of people's participation, it will just mean that all losses will be civilian.
How hard does it make it change all static sizes to %s? I've seen a couple of these and wondered if it would be pretty easy to just convert all your px to % making the logo easily scalable just from the wrapper's size.
Press space to start playing, WASD to move around. I had a really hard time playing it though, crashed a lot and didn't always let me walk in every direction. Gave up after 3 minutes.
I'll suggest a simpler framework for valuing Snapchat: probability of becoming another Facebook. If you think it has a 5% chance, then it should be valued at around 5 billion (relative to Facebook's 100 billion).
W3C is full of terrible standards: the verbose dom, the obtuse xml schema, the crippled css (you can't have a variable), and others. XPath isn't one of them. It is the best way to query XML documents in a forward compatible way. Maybe someday we will able to use XPath in a CSS file instead of their crazy selectors.
That's not the case here because we're talking about CSS pixels and not physical pixels. A CSS pixel is 0.75in and an inch on Windows is 96 physical pixels but on Mac OS it is only 72 physical pixels.
Maybe the NSA is funneling investment to get their hooks into Snapchat, preventing it from being used as a means for enemy spies and agents to send each other temporary messages.
For decades we've done coding the only way we can given the hardware available. But nowadays program sizes are approaching the amount of information stored in human DNA, which is a blueprint for a self-fueled, self-healing, self-reproducing nanotech computing machine that puts any modern software to shame. I'm beginning to think we're doing it wrong.
Not really: http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/38354/where-did-t...
Yeah I like it too.
I do not know a single person (in Europe) that uses Google+ as social network.
The figure placement was solved with \usepackage{float} or not?
Noise-Canceling Window Treatment Is all You Need
If you believe such courts aren't biased, do tell me if anybody from the US chain of command was ever prosecuted in any international court for anything? It will never happen as long as the US remain what it is.

Now that you also mention Albanians at the same court, I checked http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_people_indicted_in_the_...

"The list contains 161 names. 94 of them are Serbs, 29 are Croats, 9 are Albanians, 9 are Bosniaks, 2 are Macedonians and 2 are Montenegrins."

I can count only one Albanian sentenced of mentioned 9, others are acquitted or withdrawn. You should also check the list for other acquitted (e.g. of the Croats you mention), it was easiest for me to check Albanians as there are only 9 of them.
Writing an XPath 1.0 parser in C was fun. Maybe one day I'll use it to (partially) replace MongoDB's JSON query language.
i'm guessing you aren't drinking any good beer if all you are getting is insulted!
I went $230,000 into debt to become a doctor in America
When introducing a new visualization, First you show familiar curves such as y=x and y=x^2 as context for more complex curves that follow.
A string metrics library written in Go.
Right but that's just "for lower-resolution devices", i.e. devices with a resolution lower than the reference pixel. There's no use demanding to have units of measure which the device is incapable of displaying! What possible use would it serve?
30-some years later and I can't remember the controls either.
I think you may be missing the point I am making. See other recent threads about bubbles.
I think the difference here is that I wanted Mailbox to do this when I signed up. This is no so for LinkedIn.

(I don't use either service anymore but this is a very clear line to be drawn I think)
Doesn't sound right to me.

The proposed selfish mining strategy in a nutshell is: when you find a block, keep it secret in the hope of finding a second one that will give you the leverage to start messing around. If someone else finds a block before you find your second, go ahead and publish.

Since by hypothesis you have a minority of the total computing power, usually someone else will find a block before you find your second.

But by the time you become aware of this, at least some other miners are also aware of it, whereas no others are yet aware of your block. With the 'first wins' tiebreaker, usually that means your block gets lost. So most of the time you lose out. So on average, selfish mining loses, at least as long as your computing power is small compared to the network total.

Is there something I'm missing?
Yeah, the video got posted a while back, but at the time he hadn't created the interactive page. It's cool to see how much thought he puts into presenting each idea. He doesn't stop with just the talk.
Well, no. First of all, even overseas the great talent raises their prices comparably. You will still get a price discount, if your freelancer is based in Madagascar, but her rate will also be on the higher side, comparable to the price of living in both countries.

What I am pointing out is that cheap outsourcing sites are not the right place to look for exceptional talent because when 100 people charge $1, then you as a client get too attracted by the low price and you would naturally forgo a freelancer to asked for a lot more. This is not your fault, just human nature, and not the freelancers' fault, they just want money.

It's the oDesk's and eLance's fault for screwing you over by having a marketplace where the prices are dirt cheap.
Wow a down vote for asking an honest question. Someone's a bit cranky today.

For anyone else who only got a gist like me just take the url and put it into google and follow the link. This seems to skip what ever sort of paywall the article is behind.
My favorite piece of trivia about this time period was the passage of the Guano Island Act in 1865. It allowed US citizens to claim islands with guano deposits to be US territories. Islands claimed under the act were even afforded protection by the US military.

The US is still in possession of a handful of islands claimed under the Act. A few are even still in diplomatic dispute.
The news beneath the news at Strata
Unfortunately Google has the ability to force their users to help the dirtiest growth hacks to succeed...
Since you asked, here is a list of little things I miss from Chrome Dev Tools (I usually spend 2 to 6 hours a day in chrome dev tools) in random order:

Inspector

1. Use F2 to edit selected DOM element. (currently I have to double click it)

2. When I add css rule I want to see list of available properties right away (and later I want to CRTL+Space to show the same list). For example for text-align: left, right, center, initial, inherit, etc.

3. Use orange/yellow/green to draw selected element regions form margin, border and padding

4. make the tooltip which appears above selected element with its class and id optional.

5. Autocomplete !important keyword in css rules.

Console:

1. Implement one global history for all pages. Use arrow case to browse console entries.

2. When I use this $('div') I want to be able to click on result and find that element in the Inspector tab

Debugger

1. I want to open some loaded JS file, change something, CTRL+S to save it and the code should be live. Scratchpad is confusing to me for this scenario.

2. Unminify/pretify javascript code.

Style Editor:
1. Prettier theme for css files.

Others:
1. Implement Continuous Painting Mode

2. Implement h shorcut to hide/show DOM elements in the Inspector

3. Create Super Lighter theme, which does not have big dark panels everywhere. I tried both themes, but these big dark panels are still there.I like white. I work well on white.

Thanks
IMO security is solved by sandboxing and Chrome-style auto updates and reliability is solved by data centers and mandatory backups, but I guess the plug/RPi people disagree.
Hey, love the product (hence I posted it)! Have you considered shipping from Jordan/Israel for european customers? I know it gets probably a lot more complicated but $20 shipping on a $30 shirt is kind of a bitter pill (plus I know my country will charge me another $20 import tax so we are at a $70 t-shirt...). All the best with the kickstarter!
Building Bridges – SproutCore
Brett Victor: Kill Math
Anytime stock changes hands in exchange for money it's reasonable to use that transaction to value the company. It doesn't matter if it's the company selling a piece of itself or employees selling stock to an investor. Someone is still paying money for ownership.

If anything, employees selling shares probably makes it easier because it's common instead of preferred shares being sold.
Bret Scares me. He makes feel inadequate on so many levels. Am I alone on this? I don't care for most 'successful' startup people and others, but Bret in particular - is amazing.
This is cool, too bad it crashes so much. Once this is better I think there is a lot of cool software they can put up.
Use a Google Spreadsheet as your JSON backend
I think it's very presumptive to think that because someone is "just" growing marijuana, that they aren't dangerous. Yes, many times they are, but that's no guarantee.

I do agree a lot about no-knock raids, though I'm not sure what alternatives there are. It seems you're trying to say that they really no functional purpose, which I'd disagree with; every single person I know that has dealt with drugs would flush them in an instant if the police showed up and politely knocked. I've personally witnessed it.

Point being, that you've helped to reiterate, is that there is not a problem of officers wantonly shooting dogs; rather, it's symptomatic of larger issues in law enforcement.
I'd love to see this, even if they'd keep the content private for x number of years. Copyright runs out eventually and it would still be archived then.
The pre-war southern economy was an agricultural economy made possible by slave labor.

From Wikipedia, but any research will back this up:

While about a third of Southern families were slave owners, most were independent yeoman farmers. Nevertheless, the slave system represented the basis of the Southern social and economic system, and thus even non-slaveowners opposed any suggestions for terminating that system, whether through outright abolition or case-by case emancipation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_the_Southern_United_...
The Gilded Age.
I wonder how clicking this article, and others like it, gets you tagged with the relevant authorities.
but did it swear at you in an endearing way, like wanting to fuck your forehead? or did it swear at you saying you were a dick bag? because there is swearing in a site that has the word "fucking" in the domain ;)

ps: i typed in "sweet action" and it went all green for me. i submit to the jury exhibit B that clearly shows that ANDREW RITCHIE can not fucking type!

but how about you go drink a sixpoint and then take one of the suggestions it's thrown at ya?! enjoy a good fucking beer tonight :)
The keyword is "Fake". The static HTML5 websites take much less time to produce thus reduce programming costs and shortens precious time-to-lauch.

In a nutshell: Moqups > PSD > PSD2HTML + Static data > Fake sites
Because their freedoms don't extend to harming others, and never have.
You count how many lines in the chat one has missed, but if you come back to the tab there is no indication where you left off. Might be useful.
I haven't read the paper, and I'm certainly no expert in game theory, but I don't think we have to worry too much about this. The assumption seems to be that selfish miners will collude to control the network. However, it still seems to be in their best interest to compete. If the coin starts losing real-world value due to a bad controlling group, rational miners will stop helping the controlling group mine.

In addition to spending time/money/resources on mining hardware and power, miners now have to spend time/money/resources on finding and implementing better strategies. This just shows that there's another variable.

(I could be, and probably am, wrong.)
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You're right, Google+ is not a social network in Europe, but I still visit it more often than I do Facebook.

Facebook has made me lose interest in people, or rather, people online. The feed is a sentimental heap of nothingness, and I find myself having uninstalled the main Facebook app (but of course keep the Messenger.)

Plus, on the other hand, actually offers me things I am interested in, because I haven't added those hundreds of persons who share nothing I have a feed showing what is (more) relevant to my daily life.

Edit: To that end, I don't see what is odd about Google keeping Plus going, they're offering a great service, and I hope it takes off increasingly with time.
See the Evolution of Valve’s Steam Controller
Why nobody wonders that it is still required to know math to develop engineering construction. Or that it is required to know chemistry to create dish washing products.

Why then so many people find it strange that to write a program you must.. program.
I think it has a negative chance of becoming the next FB.
Sounds like the differences go rather farther than you know:

The object model's really quite very different - F# uses CLR objects instead of OCaml-style ones.

F# has computation expressions, which are a rather nice riff on monads.

F# doesn't have functors. Since it uses CLR objects it does have .NET generics, but it's just not the same

Active patterns and type providers are neat, too. Though I believe there are Caml macros that implement both.
The key bindings for movement are:

Left = a

Right = d

Up = w

Down = x

Stop = s

I've been unable to figure out how to fire weapon.

The Enter key gives ammo summary.
Agreed, if your use case requires precise delivery times then it won't work. I also would love a delivery estimate API, I wonder if they could make that happen.
Wally: a home sensing solution
Their newest boxes are 100% flash, but they're still rolling out the older spinning-rust designs. The all-flash boxes are for the most frequently requested movies, in the locations where there's enough traffic to justify them.
My jailbroken iPhone saves every snapchat that I get without notifying the other party. It also makes all snaps viewable for unlimited time and I can even send snaps of pictures in my camera roll to make it seem as if I took the picture in the moment.

Look up "Phantom". It's a jailbreak tweak for iOS available in Cydia.
It was established at the Nürnberg trials that "just following orders" is not an excuse.

In the German army, you are not punished for disobeying orders that violate human dignity and you have the legal _obligation_ to disobey any order that runs against international human rights law[1].

[1]http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&tl=en&u=ht...
I have too. In those cases, I treated the corporation well as well. Hence the "make it happen".

It's a two-way street, and when you're a faceless unknown dealing with a large entity, you usually have to make the first move.
http://status.npmjs.org/
I published an article about Snapchat a couple of days ago. Yes, it is. Snapchat is not a "sustainable business", it's a trend or a bubble. People are using it now, because it's cool; but in a couple of years, there will be another trend and so on. Even if they are still alive after 5 years, the valuation is ridiculous. Entrepreneurship is not about money, but at some point you need to face this problem and have a solution in your pocket. They are worth $4B and they don't have a clue. I guess this is just another groupon. (http://greatpreneurs.com/startups-dilemma-trends-businesses/)
Does that mean FB has a chance of becoming the next Snapchat? Now THAT doesn't seem too likely.
I dig. Very neat. I would throttle the URL thing so that it only changes the URL if the user has stopped typing for, say, 2 seconds or something. That way it doesn't generate a new URL for every letter you type. Other than that, very cool.
> Also, how is it that large enterprises like Google, Facebook, Twitter, Amazon, etc. can scale to millions/billions of users using a similar API-driven approach and a company of tens of thousands couldn't do the same thing for their ERP system that probably has < 100,000 users on it?

Business rules. Google clientel basically all use the same api to ask the same question.

SAP users have, I'm guessing, 2 -3 orders of magnitude more differences and rules that a google user does.

This is a 100 billion dollar business where almost every company on the face of the earth can be a client so it attracts some very smart people.

The huge differences from company to company make it really tough to have one product scale out for everyone. SAP, Oracle, SalesForce, Microsoft and many others have tried and the fact that no one has done it yet speaks to how difficult it is to do.
Great feedback dude! Thanks. We will try and take this approach in the future.
On one end of the spectrum, you have non-technical people going for wordpress.com accounts that are hosted by Automattic. On the other hand you have fairly technical high-traffic users like New York Times or CNet hiring either their own technical staff (or, once again, outsourcing that to Automattic).

The target market of "people technical enough to download, roll out and host their own version of Wordpress, but not technical enough to find and roll out a plugin" is fairly small.

They could probably package WP-Cache with a default distribution of WordPress, but since that requires allowing write permissions on some directories, I suspect they're erring on the side of security.
Weird, others here report that it played fine. Both Chrome and Nightly failed to play it for me. Perhaps a bandwidth issue for me.
Great suggestions all. One of the best decisions we made was recognizing how our .com site was failing the most basic needs of our sellers. However, the challenge to change it into something that will work for millions of global sellers, is not something that can easily be done overnight. Feedback like yours Bruce is taken very seriously and we will continue to work to make access to workflows faster and smoother across all of our portals.

Cory Gaines
Sr. Director PayPal Business Products
$4bn for an easily replaceable service that is little more than Microsoft Paint duct taped to a disposable camera?

Oh please!

Sure you can recreate the app pretty easily which, you can also do for most services (this does not mean scaling to the users they serve) but that is not the value of the service.

It's also why 'hackers' typically don't make great investors see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8863
I am not sure. You know how the saying goes, One Month Rails is supplying jeans to miners in the Gold Rush. I am not sure if buying the jeans (not a perfect metaphor, I know) and mining is the right path.
PG and YC (by reading the Launchpad book) are very adamant in their view of technical founders. I am confused if an MBA with a strong bootcamp base would be considered a thoroughbred.
And how do you do all those things, when you're operating in a society where bigotry is the standard? Where refusing to do business with bigots means you can't do business at all?

How is your hypothetical world better than one with civil rights legislation?