skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
KNC is already shipping a 28nm 550GH/sec miner for $5k

There are people already using them and more next month.

Butterflylabs will be out early next year.
> * Because rewriting code that looks ugly is one of the ways people use to begin to identify with the codebase [...]

Surely you must see that if more than one person is working on the same codebase that this approach does not scale. If everyone on a 6 person team is constantly rewriting the code so that they each understand it better, and each of them has a different way of understanding code, well, that's going to be quite the clusterfuck.
My thoughts at first until I clicked and scrolled down... and down... and down... until I realized how insane it is to spend $100k on sending out emails.
I Have a Great Startup Idea - Now What?
I like relocatable JavaScript.
Totally anecdotal and only tangentially related, but I've been to Tokyo three times since 2009 and the change in availability of American craft beer as well as Japanese microbrews was honestly staggering. As a Coloradan, it was almost comical to see so much specialty beer from home so far away.

Soon after returning from my most recent trip, I happened to sit next to an employee of Left Hand Brewing (Probably the most weirdly ubiquitous Colorado beer I saw there that trip) during lunch, and it turns out some beverage exporter pays the freight on the kegs to and from Tokyo just to bring Left Hand overseas. I have to imagine this marks some sort of change in tastes and economics, at least in the big city.
Maybe not, but it sure does play one on TV.
Most important would be the capability to run any OS I feed it (without any signature bullcrap) because I am what I am and the supplied OS is never good enough.
Stoned Insights (Carl Sagan)
I'm curious to know what HN stoners (or light smokers) think of 'stoned insights'.

Sometimes when I smoke pot while coding, I get these product ideas that seam magical and are 'guaranteed to disrupt'. I've always dismissed them as fairy tale thinking, but after reading what Carl Sagan had to say about this, I'm starting to reconsider.

“There is a myth about such highs: the user has an illusion of great insight, but it does not survive scrutiny in the morning. I am convinced that this is an error, and that the devastating insights achieved when high are real insights; the main problem is putting these insights in a form acceptable to the quite different self that we are when we’re down the next day.” -Carl Sagan

“I can remember on one occasion, taking a shower with my wife while high, in which I had an idea on the origins and invalidity of racism in terms of Gaussian distribution curves. (…) One idea led to another, and at the end of about an hour of extremely hard work I found I had written eleven short essays on a wide rage of social, political, philosophical, and human biological topics. I can’t go into the details of those essays, but from all external signs, they seem to contain valid insights. I have used them in university commencement addresses, public lectures, and in my books.” -Carl Sagan

additionally, a well written piece to the topic:
http://sebastianmarincolo.wordpress.com/2012/02/15/marijuana-insights-myth-or-reality/
iPad mini with Retina display
Early on in the video there is mention of Haim Bodek's first speech where the audience was astounded.

Does anyone have a link/vid for this speech? I've googled and youtubed without luck.
Is there a text explanation of this? I'm curious to learn what the allegation is, but I don't have 50 minutes to spend on what is likely a silly conspiracy theory.

The small amount of text present suggests someone is being allowed to jump the queue. Is that the allegation, or does it go beyond that?
My prediction: The fact that the supply of Bitcoins is fixed will bite it in the ass in the future. Some major player will hoard enough Bitcoins to be able to control the market, reducing people's trust in the currency and relegating the currency to a niche. Bitcoin will almost definitely not displace the USD within our lifetime.
This is a hilarious video
30 things about me
It's interesting that Google reportedly demanded Apple allow Latitude in Maps on the iPhone as a prerequisite for providing turn-by-turn navigation. Apple refused, built their own maps product...and then Google cancels Latitude?

http://appleinsider.com/articles/12/09/26/disagreements-over...
Building Modern Web Applications
> What's the problem to have links between documents? Really? Looks like another case of "best practice BS" to me

I think the main problem is that it becomes difficult to maintain consistency, due to Mongo's lack of transactions.
Get out of my profession, you repugnant sexist asshole. This kind of rhetoric is not acceptable.
I thought that there was a strange bug on this page, look at the ridicules price hikes.

501 - 1,000	$15
1,001 - 1,050	$20

5$ for 50 mails ..... 10 cent per email wow, I think you could get a better deal at the post office :)
A system that is almost impossible (if used properly) to compromise still can be compromised. Meanwhile, ability to easily recover from such events reduces their significance and might be more valuable for some users.
This is the hacker news comment thread from yesterday which I presume sparked off this post: "Apple maps: how Google lost when everyone thought it had won" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6711551
مبارة الأردن والأوروغواي اليوم 13/11/2013 التوقيت والقنوات
Japanese handsets' software does indeed suck however Android dominates the Smartphone market (As per above article) and Samsung has good share of android sales[1] so I think the "anti-korean" thing is being blown out of proportion.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6716190
Except that Google does the exact same thing with Google Play Services on Android. Ask Skyhook. On top of that, Google keeps pushing organic SERP listings further and further down the page to push people to Google+.

We actually live in much better times than the Microsoft monopoly days. Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook have asymmetric business models. Consumers benefit in the long run as they all battle each other.

Apple doesn't have to monetize Maps so they can chip away at Google's ad revenue. Google doesn't have to monetize Android OS and devices so they can chip away at Apple's hardware/software revenue.
4-D Printing Means Building Things That Build Themselves
Is this like Star Command? I like the idea but Star Command was a disappointment. Just the same thing over and over again without any real depth. Unfortunately this looks just as battle focused so I'm skeptical.
Mailchimp is ideal for sending a high volume of emails to a small amount of users. I couldn't imagine using them with a large volume of users, it's literally $0.005 per user, imagine if you only need to send a monthly or even weekly email to 1mil+ users, total rape on the per email basis
- If I would buy a new laptop, the most important specs would be (price, speed and memory) because I am a homeless entrepreneur.
This is crazy. The first impression is "oh shit I have so many option" but in the end, seriously, how do we keep track of the pricing? Is the average worthy? Is this really that cheap? I like their service but this is crazily complicated. Whoever did the pricing must have some innovation in marketing - this is like calculating EC2 cost (it's getting better but still hard).
As a complement to dr's offer above, if you want to talk to someone who has been at FB for a while and worked with a bunch of infrastructure (traffic, core systems, &c.) and product (graph search, site integrity, &c.) teams, hit me up. My unixname is neil (and my non-work contact details are in the HN profile).

I'd like to help you and dr find you a good match - FB has been a great opportunity for me, but I stumbled a bit so I know how important finding the right thing to work on is. I can also offer you my frank impression of the performance review system here, which I've been through a few times as an IC and as a manager.
Brilliant game. Super excited for this.

If you haven't played FTL before, don't heed the complaints about the randomness, it's not as difficult or random as it may at first seem. And frankly failing in this game while you are learning the ropes is half the fun.
What Haim's referring to are a set of order types used on many exchanges to allow traders to place orders on a level that can't be displayed for regulatory reasons. There's nothing nefarious about them.

Reg NMS prohibits exchanges from displaying quotes that would lock (bid==ask) or cross (bid>ask) another marketplace.

As an example, say BATS is 10.01 bid 10.02 offered and the 10.02 offer trades out completely. Some HFTs want to be the first to form the new 10.02 bid to earn the spread + liquidity rebate, so they send post-only bids at 10.02. BATS sees stale 10.02 offers on ARCA, so they re-price the trader's order to 10.01 bid, or reject it (behavior depends on the exchange). In response to this, HFT algos would repeatedly re-submit their orders until the exchange let them in. This led to enormous stress on their matching engines during price moves.

In response, exchanges created order types that would let the trader bid 10.02, but only display it once the away markets faded from their point of view. It's basically like having a callback API rather than a polling one. The end result is basically the same, except less load is placed on the exchange's matching engine.

There's nothing "rigged" about this behavior. Traders forming new price levels on public markets still incur substantial risk that the price will move against them when filled. There aren't any order types that let you get execution priority in front of a large queue like he describes.

These order types and their behavior were well-documented on public websites and anyone concerned with the microstructure of how their trades executed could easily use them. The game he's describing is of little concern to anyone other than HFT MMs and execution algos that depend on favorable queue position. The entire process of a level ticking away and a new price being formed in liquid tick-wide names plays out in microseconds these days.
Doesn't Google do the same though with Drive and Hangouts?
Either that or just expose the formula for calculating cost.

The plans are too exact to really be "plans". Is anyone thinking "I have exactly 52000 users right now"? I feel like bigger brackets or a sliding scale would be more appropriate.
If the DOJ decides that blogging is an important market, and the theoretical abuse is meaningful in terms of impacting consumers, they could pursue Wordpress over the matter.

Smart phones in the US is a market measured in the tens of billions of dollars per year. Apple has over 40% of it. The money involved makes it a much bigger issue than eg blogging.
Their main pricing page, http://mailchimp.com/pricing/, is much better from a marketing and sales standpoint. I'm surprised they even provide a link to the "all" page since it probably doesn't apply to 99% of their potential customers.
Lots of potential hidden state as well as the need to support the entire DOM API server-side. For example, directives may add hidden state to the DOM and assume full availability of DOM API (even jQuery). The server will have to support all that

Also, you'll have to re-do the entire rendering on the client, then swap the server-generated DOM with the client-generated DOM. Its probably possible - but is it worth the effort?
If an infinite number of monkeys type on an infinite number of keyboards, eventually one of them will write an infinitely scrolling, infinitely minute & obtuse pricing list.

Pardon the snark; This week I have to move a client off of MC because their WYSIWYG style editor is practically useless. Anyone with a recommended service?
It's an allegation. He's basically referring to Direct Edge's Hide-not-slide order type.

The only equities exchange I know of that lets you jump the queue is NYSE where DMMs and floor brokers can join a level and participate along with the front of the electronic book. DMMs have negative obligations though.
I always thought the New Jersey guys were Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie. Thompson and Ritchie worked at Bell Labs in NJ, and then Thompson brought Unix to Berkeley, where Bill Joy picked it up. I don't think Bill Joy ever lived or worked in NJ.
Whereas bitcoin is computational fiat money.
With some clever compilation stuff, you can also pack most static assets directly in your application (see https://github.com/jteeuwen/go-bindata ). This gets even more magic...
If you can't beat the game easily on easy, you are just missing something. Maybe you should read a forum or something?

You can give yourself an easy bonus just by training against the first enemy you encounter that can't penetrate your shields. Make sure you have helm, engines, shields, and weapons manned and you aren't auto-firing enough to damage the enemy then just let the game sit for an hour or two while your crew levels up.

Early on your shields are plenty vs. the non-missiles of the enemies you encounter so all that matters is upping your engines enough to dodge missiles and saving enough spare money for stores. A nice bonus is that you can run away faster too.

Once you hit a store with enough money and a teleporter, bio beam, cloaking device, or drone system and defense drone, you win basically. Teleporter/bio beam lets you capture enemy ships intact for massive resource gains (and disable weapons on the end boss) and it is easy to micromanage your guys and beam them back and forth to take any ship. Cloaking lets you dodge full enemy salvos. Defense drone takes care of the pesky missile problem, the only really effective weapon in the game as long as you keep your shields upgraded properly.

I can win reliably on easy with any ship, and often on normal. If you can't win on easy you are just missing some technique. You can't scout but you can easily pick the right nodes to see the maximum number of nearby nodes, picking the optimal path, etc.. If there's anything I hate about the game it's the fact that there are so many auto-win scenarios. If I run into a teleporter in a store in a ship that doesn't start with one and I can afford it selling anything non-critical, I pretty much win, so it isn't fun.
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'nuf said.
I think I would much rather roll out my own solution using Mailgun/Amazon's API with a basic RoR/Golang prototype than use these shady monkeys.

It's their business and they have every right to price it the way they see it fit, but when there's something deceptive going on, as an end user I think I have every reason to point it out.

For example, when you start with a free plan and you decide to upgrade to a paid plan, you actually need to go about 5 levels to actually get over 2000 users! And it's not pretty cheap either. I mean $100k to send just emails? (Keep scrolling down)

I once used them when Feedburner bailed out on us, only to never look back at these monkeys (that's their trademarked mascot) and I rolled out my own basic solution on my VPS in just good old PHP (with Wordpress) and it worked well. And I definitely didn't spend $5 for 50 emails, just $20 for my basic Linode.
The Live Marine Traffic Tracking App
But why the fuck would they bother?
Indeed. Google pushes Google Maps as an unchangeable default just as much as Apple does, just not on Android.

iOS market share: 54% (or less, who you believe).

Google Search market share: 67%.

So when Google Search lets you replace Google Maps as the in-page default with Bing Maps/OpenStreetMap/whatever - you know, when you search for a city or zipcode - I'll start worrying about the iOS defaults.
- I might have left a phone interview but never a face interview. Still, I wish you the best.
I wasn't expecting it this early, although I'm not sure the early delivery will help me since I'll be out of town between November 26th and December 4th (estimated delivery window it gave me). Still, nice to have it ordered as I read reports of short supply for this quarter. Got a 128GB.
Your comment does not do the game justice IMHO. FTL is a solid game and I spent a lot of hours with it. It is true that there are a lot of random events in the game but you can plan a little or let's say: You can improve the odds:

For example there is a subsystem (forgot it's name) that let's your ship jump to every previously visited location. So if you find a map of the current sector later on and this map reveals a store you may be able to simply jump back to it if the fleet is not yet there. Also: If the fleet is already there you can still jump back. You only have to fight a ship from the fleet. Then you go to the store, buy your goods and jump back.

Also: You can plan your route through a sector. You should try to visit as many places as you can but still be ahead of the fleet. This is a very cool challenge - especially for CS people… route planning, route optimization, etc…

Your actions also have a direct influence on what you get: For example if you encounter a hostile ship you can destroy it or make a plea bargain with them. Usually the ship will offer you fuel, scrap (=money) or other stuff you may or may not need. If you decide to destroy the ship instead you usually get less goods (fuel, weapons) and more scrap (money). So if you plan (haha) to visit a store soon you may decide to destroy the ships on your way.

There is a whole wiki-community for this game. They note different strategies:

http://ftl.wikia.com/wiki/FTL:_Faster_Than_Light_Wiki

Also you can upgrade your ship with scrap (money). You have to decide what system to upgrade.

When fighting another ship it makes a huge difference if you know what you are doing or not. Of you are a noob you will most likely be destroyed or loose too much during the fight.

Before you start your journey you can also pick one of several different ships. Every ship has different characteristics. Even your crew members have different capabilities:

There is one species where each crew member gives the room where the crew member is in additional power.
Guys from other species are made of rock: Use them to distinguish fires on your ship.

Fire on your ship is a huge topic.

Fire occurs when your ship is hit by sun flares, big weapons or other dangerous stuff. Fire is causing damage to your ship and makes the current room unusable. You can plan ahead to deal with fire:

You can control the hatches of your ship. Some people have all hatches open so that all unused parts of the ship are exposed to space. This means that those rooms have no oxygen in them. When a fire happens in those rooms it automatically disappears after a few seconds because in those rooms there is no oxygen.

You can plan so much in this game…
Littlesnapper - captures and prints snapchat pictures to a little printer.
I haven't use it but some of our customers use it and seems to work pretty well.

Also it's easy to use: http://www.memset.com/blog/backup-your-windows-server-memsto...
Apple is accused of being criminal. So showing that Google does the same thing is a refutation?

If Bank of America illegally forecloses on people, it's okay because Citibank does that too?
I was going to ask how you knew that since I couldn't get that from the FastCompany article. Good thing I checked your profile first. Loved seeing you at MicroConf and keep up the good work ;)

I'm not surprised that performance reviews are still needed since just a ranking wouldn't give employees a direction or focus to improve.

I am curious what you did find the ranking information to be useful for though?
Sorry I'm stupid, I was thinking Python

select ... where person -> favFood in ("pizza")
In Tokyo; quite a few people use smartphones's NFC FeliCa (SUICA) as their train commuting passes (along with the connected payment option):
http://www.jreast.co.jp/mobilesuica/whats/models.html

I guess for JR West it might be different.

+1 for pointing out the success of gold iphone in Osaka

agree with regards to making conclusions with regards to personal anecdotes (hence the disclaimer); interesting to hear that it is different in your area.
Absolutely, Yes. As somebody mentioned, the more languages you know, the better you understand any of them. More specifically:

You need to know at least one of the fast, compiled languages. The choices here are C++, Java or C#. Among these three, Java is by far more pleasant to work with (personal opinion). C is not really an option, unless you need to do networking, drivers, and work directly with hardware.

Please do not equate Java with J2EE or Applets! :-) J2EE sucks and Java rocks (again personal opinion). Modern Java programming style is a lot less OOP-rigid. We will have Closures and lambda functions in Java 8 in 2014. Here is a good book with more modern views on Java programming model:
http://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Programming-Java-Interdis...

Here is what Java is actually good for:

- Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. Collections APIs (Thanks to Joshua Block for designing them!) rock there. Yes, you could do the same things in C/C++ but it's a lot more painful. And no, you can not do this in Python, it's too slow.

- Information Retrieval at a large scale.

- Any large systems. Java has debugging capabilities like no other language I know. Please don't use J2EE!

If you want to work for Google, you need to know C++. C++ is 20 - 30% faster then Java and it matters at Google scale. But no one else has the Google scale in the corporate world.

JavaScript is another "must to know" these days, especially Node.js and AngularJS.

Python is the nicest interpreted languages I know. Really good for learning data analysis, machine learning and natural language processing. Tons of good libraries.
If you think staying under $10,000 prevents you from being reported for suspicious behaviour, I have bad news for you.
Adobe credentials and the serious insecurity of password hints
So does the author deny the existence of any sort of domain where these paradigms would be "right"? Or are they universally "wrong"? Also, he states a view or philosophy: "everything is an object" and then he says "this is wrong because I disagree. functions are not objects". Wow. If you remove the commentary about scala and python, which is irrelevant to his philosophical thesis, then what is his argument? And why is it not a matter of just having a different definition?
That was hard to read...

"The manufacturing process for most solar panels involves manufacturing a block of sapphire or other crystalline silicon and then slicing a .2mm-thick sheet off of it with a wafering saw."

Painful
Does anyone know a simple way to get a go file webserver with traditional auth (plain/digest) ?