skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't be bothered to find the source, but I have read that:

Interestingly the Windows kernel type of Hungarian notation (iFoo) was set up because of a misunderstanding of the Office team's process. The Office team used the "sensible" form of hungarian notation (e.g. rPrice, cPrice - row and column respectively). The kernel team decided to borrow the idea, however, they didn't actually understand it completely when they did - leading to the mess of hungarian notation in the windows APIs we have today.

All of this would have been avoided if we had language support for units of measure[1] back then.

Edit: Seems like it was Spolsky's article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html

[1]: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233243.aspx
Rather, this seems like a clear case of Poe's law.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe's_law
Totally unusable on mobile. What a shame.
Interesting tool. Thanks for sharing.
This is my suspicion too. Tail wagging the dog.

Obama flip-flopped on FISA [1]. He was blatantly aware of the risks it imposed.

The question is why? Did someone pay him a little visit? Did some man in a black suit and dark glasses show him a little manila envelope with unknown contents, that caused him to change his mind?

One year ago I would have said this was an insane proposition. Now after Snowden, I'm not that sure. That is what is really scary about the surveillance state.

[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2008/07/netroots-activi/

[2] http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2008/jul/14/...
I prefer it when mine stay out of my road and let me get on with things. They have a pretty poor understanding of software engineering, but can code enough to think their input is helpful, when it usually isn't
Twitter has a power to change the fates not of just people, but of whole nations. Coal on the other hand, is intrinsically worthless: we have more coal than we can afford to burn due to global warming, so availability of coal is not a limiting factor.
The problem I had with the movie is that it took a well thought out book and reduced it to hollywood stereotype.

For example, later on in the book and the movie, a recruit asks why they learn to throw knives when guns make them obsolete. In the book, the sergeant gives an explanation of tradition and admits that knife throwing is a fairly useless skill for mobile gundam suit pilots. In the movie, the sergeant just throws the knife at the cadet's hand. Towards the end of the book it's revealed that drill sergeants are carefully screened not to be sadistic jerks, but to actually be decent people who are carefully calculating the best way to train their cadets.

The book was well thought out. The movie was just stereotype and mockery.
Moving the marker from apathy to critical thought, in the masses, is the thing I think. That, and fixing the central banking cartel and the military industrial complex, I suppose.
مباراة الزمالك ووادى دجلة الموعد والقنوات الناقله لها مباشره
I wonder if Facebook though of becoming the next MySpace when they built their platform.

I would wager not. The goal was to build something useful and they were never looking to be acquired if they were we would probably never have heard of Facebook but good look recreating the great successes with a failed paradigm.
What do you think is the reason for this? A bunch of propaganda that we're well off here in the 'safe' part of the world?

Love this comment from the article

"I'm sure we've got high quality, nationally representative data out of the Congo."
I did that with an old employee when the lead was an asshole.

How he calculate how much I work is base on how he feels like how much I work. Apparently the first day didn't count cause I spent the day root hacking an old employee Apple Laptop cause he didn't ask and refused to ask an old employee for the password (cause the guy was a dick apparently).

I just told them, repeatedly, "I would like to get paid for the amount that I've worked for". I calmly calculated the days I've worked and ask him if there were anything wrong with my calculated days and that we can talk about it. But I would like to get paid for the days I've worked. Lead email was like look man I don't wanna fight you I just feel like you work less but whatever. For the record he was a dick and a bully and basically said, this is how the place is going to be run if you don't like it you can leave. I told him that I'll leave.
For what it's worth, I emailed with the CEO of Everpix a couple of days ago to tell him that my organization may be interested in buying the app so that they wouldn't have to shut it down.

All I was asking for was a telephone call to discuss the possibility, but I was denied even that opportunity. I wish I knew what was going on behind the scenes at this point that would lead to the decision not to field last-minute offers.
That still feels iffy to me. Do you agree that lead acid would be the better choice if it was vastly less expensive?

Remember that the deep cycle thing can be counteracted by installing twice the number of batteries.

I think that maybe power density (as opposed to energy density) is the problem here anyway, rendering the discharge depth argument moot.
I originally wrote 2 paragraphs. If you read them both, I also discussed the upside of space research.
So I'm clueless as I haven't been paying attention to this market since the PS4/XBox360 were released - does the PS4 not run PS3 titles? If so, does it have some emulation or is it new hardware sitting on top of the old Cell design?
When you say "didn't work", what do you mean? "Rigging the bidding" sounds like a big deal - where is this covered?
Fighting crime through Crowdsourcing
Accusations of hypocrisy are a form of ad hominem, so I agree it's amusing that so many people think they are good arguments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tu_quoque
Well for one thing is you make a specific allegation it can be denied and the story becomes did they/didn't they story and breaks down readers along partisan lines rather than being about the really key issue which is could they.
So what about if the government decides to devalue the currency by printing more money? Hasn't that 'quantitive easing' eroded your stored value? Your balance might be the same but the purchasing power and thus value isn't. Best bit is you won't know till after its done, way after.

It might be a nice incentive for investing money to keep value ahead of inflation but to the man-on-the-street its a bit like robbery in some sense in that it deprives you of the full expected value of your funds.
Neither PS4 or Xbox One are backwards compatible with their previous generation counterparts. Both of them went x86 this time around with no emulation layer or additional legacy hardware to maintain any sort of backwards compatibility.

A little bit of a bummer, but we'll all forget about it in a year or two :)
The Sorry State of Online Journalism
I've experienced one party held at my (then) employer's premises. Alcohol (as I recall, mainly wine) was consumed. I don't drink.

There was thanksgiving food; there was cake; a few people brought small children; my boss played an instrument and sang for us. It was great.

Basically I agree with you that the "party" described was lame. The problem isn't that there was beer at an on-premises party even though OP doesn't drink. The problem is (definitely) tacit mandatoriness and (to a much lesser extent) that the party didn't have anything to offer other than a chance to show that you're "dedicated".
Your comment reminds me of this awesome article by the WSJ[1]. The funny thing is that, it's so out of reality that I wouldn't even bother arguing.

See the miners filled lawsuits against the company, because weren't for capitalism their life and working conditions would have avoided a life-threatening situation.

But then again depends what you wanna do: Find the truth or find evidence - even risking ridicule - to support your beliefs.

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870367360...
You make it sound like I'm making an even remotely controversial claim. Billions (in fact, all 7 of them, easily) eat meat and most live healthy lives eating it. All cultures, all ethnicities, all genders, all everything. You're the one claiming this is somehow bad, and you're acting like I'm making this grand contradictory claim, when it's you that is making the ridiculous far-fetched claim.
It's a one sided test so obviously biased. Like rolling a bunch of dice, then pointing at all the 5-6s and saying "too high!"
> Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't want the US Attorney General to be someone who frequents call girls.

What's the problem with that?
A famous quote from the satirical political TV comedy Yes, Minister sums up the British press fairly well. Amusingly, one of the characters is named Jim Hacker.

Hacker: Don't tell me about the press. I know exactly who reads the papers: the Daily Mirror is read by people who think they run the country; The Guardian is read by people who think they ought to run the country; The Times is read by people who actually do run the country; the Daily Mail is read by the wives of the people who run the country; the Financial Times is read by people who own the country; The Morning Star is read by people who think the country ought to be run by another country; and The Daily Telegraph is read by people who think it is.

Sir Humphrey: Prime Minister, what about the people who read The Sun?

Bernard: Sun readers don't care who runs the country, as long as she's got big tits.

(The Mirror is a leftish tabloid, the Sun a rightist tabloid, both are strident and stupid. The Guardian is a lefty broadsheet, very 'liberal media' by American standards. The Times is center-right, the Daily Mail is middle-class outrage and celebrity gossip (and outrage about our culture of celebrity gossip). The Financial Times is like the WSJ without the axe-grinding editorials; the Morning Star is now defunct but used to be a mouthpiece for the USSR communist party. The Telegraph, sometimes referred to as the Torygraph for its unflinching support of the Tory party, is basically a serious newspaper for people who are convinced the country has gone to the dogs, global warming is nefarious plot, and so on. There's also the Independent, which didn't appear until some years later, which can best be summed up as 'worthy but boring.')
"wah wah wah monarchy is bad, empire is bad"

The British government is directly responsible for the possibility that this discussion of "taxation without representation" is happening; colonization, trade, etc.

Sometimes when you stand on the shoulders of giants, you realize that the old ways were lousy. America as it is today wouldn't exist without slavery and Native American genocide.

I'm not comparing Capitalism to Genocide, but I am saying the form of argument you used is ridiculous, because I can use the same argument to defend awful things.

If you stop and listen for one minute, people like me are saying, "Maybe the current system is TOO excessive, and should be reigned in, in some ways." We think laws should help fight the excesses of unchecked capitalism.

We're not proposing the "share everything" that Kasparov ridicules, and posing our argument that way is an absurd straw man.

That said, I don't represent a united front of people who believe identically to me, but your argument is so absurd that I think it might practically be targeted at only a tiny minority of people currently saying anything negative about corporations and our current means of economic growth.
Yes, "by mistake". I wonder how many crimes we could get away with if we just said we did it by mistake, like they do.

There should be a zero tolerance policy for this sort of thing. The government itself and authorities need to be held at a higher standard than everyone else.
Best post in the thread. This is exactly the problem.

Now, an interesting question is, what happens if everyone knew almost everything? This is the alternative scenario. If the end of privacy is more ubiquitous and democratic, the power of the secret services would shrink. It might lead to a change of our laws and social norms to something that more realistically represents our reality.

I'm not optimistic that this would be a good or even better world, but this is the best argument I've heard from the people who are not afraid of the end of privacy. I would count Mark Zuckerberg and Eric Schmidt into that group, but also many of my friends.

Which norms and laws would change? I can imagine that e.g. the use of certain drugs like cocaine and sexual behaviors like sado maso and yes prostitution would be the first to be tolerated by the majority. In some societies, that is already the case. A more difficult to swallow reality might be pedophily. I'm quite sure that child abuse would always be unacceptable but simply being pedophilic might be accepted as normal for a certain percentage of the population.
Bitbargain (UK) "No reason to worry"
+1 in this case, it's the meaning that matters.
I tried it. Looks pretty cool. It really helps people with the perception of the product and information. I think it's a nice improvement of the existing search engines.

From UX perspective, if you can make the preview as mouseover with the content being displayed on a separate layer using iframe maybe much more convenient than open a new page and come back.
I find it rather funny, money is about the only thing that can keep a business in operation. If your end goal isn't to generate a positive cash flow, there likely won't be much of a business left to call it a business...

Now, what you are is what you are, cant change that. If you call yourself a business then by definition your sole purpose is to make money. How you make money is a different ball game.

You wont be making money if you are selling a half assed product, that's not solving an actual problem or making someone's life better.

And you certainly won't be building a good sound business if you are not putting your heart into it. Running a business is a very involved emotional experience and anyone who has built one knows that.
He is showing how his argument stands whether or not the reader believes that this has already happened. His stance only strengthens his argument, since he makes it clear that his argument doesn't rely on a conspiracy theory.
Great initiative.. I am glad to India as blue in the map :)
A person in a far away land is unlikely to be able to steal funds you put in a physical BitCoin wallet generated offline that has never had any transaction outputs. Less likely than the cash analogy.

They can get my debit card number and steal money remotely though.
It had Doogie Howser wearing a Nazi uniform for gawdsakes!
Take them out for lunch, talk to them and try to understand why they are the way they are. You said they are doing an above average job, what more could you ask for. It could be because they are new they are just trying to make there mark but going the wrong way about it.

You could fire them and hire someone else you get along with but what if this person needs help doing even the simplest tasks. You dont want to spend the day wiping there arse. You would soon be wanting the other guy back even though they annoy you slightly.
I understand that these guys are different from a random group of guys part of Anonymous or something like that, but still, is this comment relevant at all to the situation? As in, is the end result inevitable?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4100100
Feinstein comes to mind. Although she's probably doing it for the heck of it. She almost seems to enjoy supporting the surveillance state.
Thanks for posting at least one pic of what launch games looked like last generation. I urge people to go look at some others on the web.

Anyone arguing that games don't look that much better than current gen need to remember how much progress we've made this generation, and then look at how good games like Killzone: Shadow Fall already run and look at launch.
I would actually like to watch that!
Composing Services into Layers
This seems interesting but what exactly is the incentive for people to report a crime
I got an offer much like this (though located in SF, not Palo Alto). I took it, because my only other offer at the time was for roughly half the salary.

I ended up leaving after what was considered a surprisingly short time because I didn't particularly like living in the area. There are other aspects to life than having a famous employer.

That said, I'm with you that it's an attractive opportunity. But founding a company of your own is just one of many reasons to pass. Personally, I value telecommuting.
In BitCoin I do believe the irreversible nature of transactions is seen as a feature, not a flaw. My bank has fraud protection but if I use my debit card and the transaction goes through, it is very unlikely I will ever see those funds again.

Also important to note, the Fed doesn't protect your value or purchasing power, they just insure (to a degree) the balance, but they also have the power to erode purchasing power at will.
I keep my wallet.dat in Dropbox. It's versioned and they have 2 factor authentication. I also trust their security more (they have a dedicated security team: https://www.dropbox.com/help/27/en) than some John Doe on a Bitcoin forum.

Just use online wallets as your hot wallet and keep most your coins offline.
Price is outrageous. Nobody is gonna buy this.
Wouldn't libraw and/or freeimage be a good fit (both for raw and dng)?

http://www.libraw.org/
http://freeimage.sourceforge.net/
Yeah, I'm from Vancouver and curious as well.
You are of course totally right, it wouldn't be possible.

However it is possible to have large corporations and growth but also do it in a responsible manner. It won't be an overnight fix but there are a lot of smart people in this world that could make it work.

And of course lots of the solutions to the problems are also vilified (nuclear is a big one) so it isn't going to be easy.

But I think the general point being made shouldn't be dismissed entirely. They are right about many of the "solutions" that are presented being sort of a waste of time, intended only to make people feel better about themselves without making any real progress towards fixing the problem.
if you look at the larger scheme of things , once there are sufficient reports you can get location based safety alerts based on crime in a particular location. Moreover ,regions could be marked based on crime density.
Which also leads to crazy optimization against the stable hardware. Just look at what PS3 and Xbox 360 are pushing out with ~512 MB RAM and 7+ year old hardware. It's pretty incredible.
Speaking of foxconn, this story sadly got buried today

http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-11-07/an-iphone-te...

But it is very much worth reading.
I'm a tech employee bootstrapping something on the side.

Once I worked with a co-worker who had an absolutely brilliant mind. He was a perfectionist, and came up with stunning solutions to write fast code in PHP (imagine that!).

Unfortunately, he would constantly break the API he exposed to us, creating weeks worth of work for all of us. When told our needs, he would argue and argue and argue, creating even more work. He would never listen.

Yes, I believe our team would have been better off without him, and I also believe that there is a niche somewhere that is perfect for him. I hope he found it.

About a year later I got fired in a different team. The lead would write kilometers of spaghetti code fast, and measured productivity by hour fast you can solve problems. It never occurred to him that it is a bad idea think it is fast to keep solving problems that might never have come up if you put a little more thought into your work.

I immediately got another job at startup where I'm half architect half developer, work just with the CTO, and essentially keep doing what I think needs to be done unless I hear anything different, which rarely happens. It's a darn paradise!

I found my niche.

So, by all means, don't force something that just isn't going to work. There is such a thing as giving up too quickly, but all the thought and consideration you're putting into it and your willingness to give him severance are strong indicators that you are not taking this lightly.

I admit it hurt to get fired. A lot. It took me a while to get over it. But I did. That's life. Shit happens. It's grave. But you can do something grave ethically as long as you know it's grave and treat it accordingly. Which you are.

As an added thought, if you were firing him for questioning your technical decisions, I would advise you to reconsider. Also, if he had said "I'm sorry I'm just a mess before 11 o'clock and I always miss the bus", I would advise to work out some kind of solution. But if he's just a darn pain to be around and doesn't seem to notice or care, that's just plain inconsiderate. If I ever heard of a good reason to fire someone that's it.

By the way I felt compelled to share all this because it moved me how conflicted you are about firing someone...
I always saw it as satire, as I'm on&from the eastern side of the Atlantic the references to facism was unavoidable.

The thing is that it's stopped being satire after 9/11. Just replace "bugs" with "islamists" and it becomes depressingly prophetic. I end up thinking of Pat Tillman every time I see the mobile infantry.
Given the scale of the surveillance, I am sure that there are more subtle and harder to detect approaches that could be used.
I'm quite certain Petraeus has been removed for a different reason than we were told. They can't trust him for having an affair? Give me a break. If he was on their side they wouldn't have ratted him out like that. And you can be certain that FBI agent didn't go to the media on his own, but had to ask his higher-ups about it first.
Why do you even need 3D printing, an artist can certainly make a 2D drawing that looks 3D and put it on a website or email for people to just print out.
The Daily Telegraph is owned by the Barclay brothers who also own Shop direct, which transferred its call centers to Serco which outsourced them to India and South Africa because it is cheaper. Profit. You can connect anything to low wages and "poor conditions." The point is completely overhauling the corporate government and finding real freedom, real true freedom. The issue is finding people who are aware that the government and media have failed us in their original watchdog approach. Media employees have been sucked into the same trap, that maybe they can get ahead if they stick to the winning side. They are only winning because we, the people, are too comfortable with settling instead of opening our eyes to the truth. You cannot trust the media; it is ran by corporations that influence what we can see and what we can know. It influences what we think. The world must wake up, or we will all be hypnotized by the newest marketing ploy.
I think hypocrisy is a valid argument specifically when someone claims that they should be trusted with political power because they behave in a puritan, unassailable manner, while their opponent is merely human.

When it turns out they're a hypocrite, it strikes at the core of why they were elected.

Moreover, it SHOULD remind people that the guy who claims his morals are unassailable is lying to you.
These allegations are very dangerous: they undermine confidence in the democratic system. What will happen next? Will they start calling for violent revolution? We must stop these irresponsible journalists before it is too late.
Use your imagination!

The conditions that cause the fires seem to be narrow and well-defined enough that a clever workaround is possible. Maybe add an extra layer of sacrificial armour? Or move some cells away from the vulnerable region.
> Great films are often made from bad books

People never believe me when I bring up Shrek as an example of this.
Well that's somewhat underwhelming.
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Not at all on the stockmarket.