skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... and here's where you receive a flood of scathing email from teen/twentyish brogrammers and 37Signals fans across the planet (sent via Gmail, of course), saying basically, "Oh like what would you know about Facebook anyway?" Er. Wait a minute. :-)

A little less meta: I think your point is valid but I think the OA's satire was an illustration of a valid criticism of a kind of valuation model that's driven more by herd mentality, and where anything giveth ephemerally can also be taketh away ephemerally if the pendulum swings back to fundamentals-driven before the bubbled company in question can build up real profits to start justifying its currently frothy 'maybe someday' valuation. Facebook, like Google, has been an exceptional case in several ways, it could be argued. But exceptions don't invalidate the wisdom of a general rule of thumb.
I wonder whether seeing a story where something good happened that you didn't have a (rationalizable) part in, still triggers the effect. If it did, you'd think aid organizations would A/B-test call-ins to their telethons and realize that they should stop showing the happy kids that've already been helped.
Co-author writing here. Although we think Bitcoin has (probably) a bright future, the book is really just about explaining how it works (the protocol and the cryptography behind it).
I just found this,

https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Doc-building-for-androi...

it does not look like it is production ready, if this is really the latest state.

This is not something I can put into an APK.
SVN works better when you're dealing with large binary files.

If you're bundling in all of your dependencies, or some images/models/sound files then Git gets very big, very quickly.
I use FastMail. They seem competent. (This is a high compliment.)
Ask HN: Do you provide meals for your employees?
We are a small startup that is just about to incorporate. We are starting the process of bringing on a few employees for ~5 employees total. A big question we are trying to answer is whether or not to provide meals for employees, with the goal of course to increase productivity and time spent in office.

Does your startup provide meals? Which meals and how often? Have you found it to be successful and worth the cost?
UK's reputation is damaged by reaction to Edward Snowden, says UN official
Buying drinks/snacks on planes in the U.S. It's not universal, but probably 50% of the domestic flights I take specify that they only accept debit/credit cards for payment. On a recent flight that did accept cash, I overheard a passenger ask why this flight took cash and others did not, and the flight attendant said that their particular plane hadn't been fitted with some system that would allow credit card checks in flight, but it was on their maintenance schedule.
No, they haven't quite reached the last generation (PS3/Xbox 360) yet and they're a long way away from the PS4 and Xbox One.
Have you tried this? http://www.youtube.com/html5
this action doesn't keep me safe, IPs are the same, behaviour is the same, search terms don't change, etc. All i'm saying is that the entire prism story, corporations not making an effort to keep users data safe, constant ad spam because i'm in the "ideal consumer" age range and location, etc, made me rethink how i present myself to google (and other services such as FB). i can only encourage you to simply change you age and relationship status to widowed and you'll see the change.
I've previously done this kind of thing with an ND filter and long exposures to save getting frustrated by occasional passers-by.

Here's a series of photographs of major cities around the world done using this technique by Lucie & Simon:

http://petapixel.com/2012/03/28/post-apocalyptic-photographs...
http://www.lucieandsimon.com/works/silent_world
That said, I have seen panic'ed linux systems on such screens too. But granted, it is easier to run a single program as /bin/init on a linux system than to configure a proprietary OS.
I read a comment earlier that made a good point that unlike the console launches of the previous generation in 2004-2006, we now have access to Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube to vocalize and demonstrate our complaints worldwide.

It makes the vocal minority much more vocal.
Nice work. I did something similar many years ago on film, and here's how you could replicate it with digital.

a) high ND filters, like a 3.0 and up, to give long exposure times and blur any moving objects
b) composite of exposures, as digital cameras cannot handle the super-long exposures required, and some elements of the pictures need fixing, like electronic signage. (plus digital processing is required to ensure perfect alignment of images).
Yes, I own bitcoins right now (no idea about my co-author.) We are not journalists, just technical book writers. Of course we are probably biased, in the same way that someone writing a stock market book invests in the stock market, or someone that writes about vegetarianism is probably a vegetarian.

When I write newspaper opinion pieces on bitcoin (only one so far) I make sure it says in there that I own bitcoins.

I definitely agree though that bitcoin raises new questions about conflict of interest when writing about technology.
Thanks for the updated list. It's been a LOOOOONG time since I compared MySQL vs PostGreSQL in detail (around 2001), but what I found at the time made me never want to look at MySQL again.

Understand, MySQL-ers, I know that your DB has been patched A LOT over the last decade, but running with something that did not support ROLLBACK (nor isolation), nor foreign key constraints???

That the MySQL team even thought they could call such a thing a database terrified me, and made me quite scared to ever trust their judgement. (viewing the comments for this article suggest to me that playing those odds was the right thing to do, as well, rather than simply "prejudice")

That, and at the time, PostGreSQL was supporting stored functions that fit anywhere in SQL statement syntax that the return type matched the needed expression type (scalar, vector/row, matrix/table), and could be written in a PL/SQL work-alike OR alternate loadable languages, while MySQL had no stored procedures at all.

That, and at the time (already), PostGreSQL supported OOP-ish "extension" tables that extended other tables with extra, specialized, columns. Rows in the specialized, subclass, table would show up in the generalized, superclass, table (sans extra columns), but the subclass table would only show the relevant specialized type rows, with non-null columns where needed. Other DBs required you to join 2 tables and manage joins and a view to do this.

Putting SQL syntax on top of an ISAM engine just makes it dBase with awkward syntax, and that's not an environment I wish to revisit. (I know that InnoDB is constantly twiddled to suck less, but that back-end was extra back in the day, yes?)
(323) 905 - 4259 ?

Or do you believe when you give your phone number to Google, it's obfuscated, not indexed or searchable, and not permanently associated with you for their current or future use?

Next step - has anyone confirmed your identity yet?
It is 1983. The Atari 800 (XBox One) and Commodore 64 (PS4) are the hottest items in home computing. The PC (Steam) that has been around for a couple of years is a growing infant that doesn't quite approach the industry leaders. The brewing revolution that is attributable to the ubiqitous penetration of the PC along with *nix, cheap networking, the internet, billion dollar apps like DBase, Lotus and WordPerfect is a decade away, but it has started. The snowball has started rolling.

SteamOS has the potential to be a juggernaut of gaming that eclipses consoles. Will Valve prove to use their talent and determination to make this THE eventual go-to gaming platform? (Note: Rhetorical headlines can usually be answered with a "no.")

Maybe. They certainly have the opportunity.
The problem with restricting judicial discretion is that a judge always has a living breathing person in front of him or her, and a sentencing committee never does. This leads to inflated sentences across the board.
I get a 404 when trying to view them.
AMD needs to move to 14/16nm FinFET in 2015 as soon as possible (like Nvidia is doing). Everything is great on the GPU side, especially with all the added parallelism features, but they really need to close up that gap as much as possible with Intel on the CPU side. They can't do that by being 2 process nodes behind Intel, no matter how much they will innovate on the CPU side in the next few years, too.

If they try to be on the most cutting edge process node as early as possible (that's available to them), that could make them quite competitive and appealing, especially as all-in-one solution for gamers. I'd certainly consider them myself, too, but not until 2015, and until they jump to 14/16nm FinFET.
The Tipping Point By Malcolm Gladwell
And there's no indication that they're in danger of not having you, or a large number of close approximations of you.

Social networking is today's TV, that you must participate both as a way to spend your life and to not be alienated from all the other people in your lives that use and talk about social, or TV, or whatever the next thing will be.
Equipment needed: baby, aged zero to two
At least you know right away that they're dead.

It'd be more annoying 6 months down the road.
Google can definitely afford to alienate the small percentage of its users who actually care about privacy. They alienated me to the point where I no longer use any Google products, and I hear the company is still pretty successful.
Utilities puzzle mug
I am doing the same, once the OS gets released and I can buy controllers I will be hooking it up as the main system. The thing steam gets right is that everyone in the house who uses games has a great experience, from 10 - 35 years old it is extremely friendly and useful.

I have been using Steam on Linux and once they get a few more titles final (like CS: GO, they already have DOTA) it removes any need for Windows (home life isn't very Office centric).
- As of now, no but I plan on providing brunch for them.
So I'm curious then, given those flaws, why still use Backblaze as it doesn't seem to be a true cloud backup? Would feel more like a cloud Time Machine
A back button would be nice as well.
> is that their market isn't consumers, it's Mark Zuckerberg plus a few people who are trying to compete with Facebook.

This.

My take is that SnapChat's valuation is driven mostly by the perception that it's a strong contender for acquisition by Facebook or the like.

Of course it's a separate issue as to whether that buyout makes sense in the long run, because, from what I've heard anyway, a big part of the attraction of SnapChat to teens is that it is NOT part of Facebook (or Twitter or G+). Because they of them not wanting parents/teachers to see stuff, not wanting Facebook intentionally or accidentally exposing their data later, and also just the desire to be "cool" like other cool kids (the temporary fad effect, always churning along with all ages, but at a faster rate with juveniles.), etc. All/most of that gets extinguished immediately, or, eventually after, an acquisition by Facebook.
Sunset on Mars
You're welcome - pleased to have helped.

With regards the post closed - I guess they feel that the absence of a "reply" box would give that away.
Or worse, the Xbox 360 RROD issue, which was an inevitable ticking time bomb that could blow at any time.
> And lastly, if someone steals your phone, with your a mail client on it, it is way easier for identity theft to occur, not harder.

How exactly is this true? I encrypt my phone's hard disk and I encrypt all of my SMS communications (locally) with https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...

It's no harder than if someone steals your laptop. The same measures you would use on a laptop (FDE, TLS) are available on phones. The argument can certainly be made that SMS is an insecure form of 2-factor auth, since they can be easily intercepted in transport (though if you use TextSecure someone who steals your phone can't get them!), but that's why we have the google authenticator app.
What mysterious property is a "true valuation" and how does one measure it?
Reminds me of the opening scene of Vanilla Sky where Tom Cruise is running through downtown Manhattan alone --

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DIsa_SLifQ

I always think it's cool when we're able to capture this sort of rare feat on film, in this case emptying out Times Square for a few brief moments
Sure, I'm only trying to criticize the idea of learning language from error messages triggered by invalid (due to standards) input, as they directly take you to implementation details and other dirty stuff.
Wouldn't it be "easy" to capture a video of a minute or so and then write an algorithm to keep the parts that were unchanged among all frames? I did something like that ten years or so ago, and it worked very well (it took the mode of each pixel among X frames).
Exactly! Also imagine the situation when you only were working inside one source folder in a large code base, changed 3-4 files significantly and latter decided to revert back to original ones. It just takes svn revert -r revision in that folder to get back original files. With git you can't get away without having to create subtree first
No.
xbox 360 gpu has ~ 240 GFLOPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xenos_(graphics_chip)

phones have ~ 25 Gflops - 50 Gflops http://www.anandtech.com/show/6330/the-iphone-5-review/11
How to build a B2B Unicorn - what makes a $1bn enterprise software company
Ah ok, my bad, I misread that.
Google does not get the credit for making the Internet searchable; there were some pretty decent search engines, like AltaVista, before Google came along. Google made an incremental improvement in search algorithms and figured out how to make search very profitable.
I don't know but you can use private or incognito mode, or different browsers (Firefox, I.E., TorBrowser...) to be logged in differently. NoScript can block popups, may glitch site.

Edit: For Youtube, if you turn on safe mode, hiding comments, it may prevent the box talking about the new comments section, but now I do not see see it with it off, so I may be wrong.
If you clicked on the link above, you will see that nearly 40% of the Amazon reviews are 1*. There is a good chance that most of those people received a dead PS4. Agree that not everybody who received a good PS4 left a positive review but this certainly does not make it looks like a minority.
I hate to say it but: Don't go to the Southern parts of the US. Don't go to Texas. Don't go to Florida. Don't go to the Carolina's. Certainly don't go to Mississippi, Alabama or Louisiana. If you live there now, leave.
I think it'd be possible to get photos of Times Square virtually empty, though a frame without either a pedestrian or a taxi would be difficult. Was looking through my old photos and found two near such shots, at around midnight...however, I almost always try to capture at least one person in a frame as a reference point for the scene, so I didn't try very hard to get an empty scene :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/5297956792/

http://www.flickr.com/photos/zokuga/5296132766/

OK, they were during snowstorms, but still :)
Proclaiming theories as fact is not a very nice way to proceed in an argument.

That said, please consider a counter-theory to your theory: Due to the fact that many people imprisoned for long terms do end up obtaining their GED and one or more vocations, it seems quite probably that american criminal law is a test of education more than one of genetic factors.
It has been so long; I almost forgot the phrase "Eternal September." Keeping an eye on your internet privacy is a pain in the ass: I use DDG when I can, block most scripts and trackers, and keep an eye on my cookies, but it breaks some websites in non-obvious ways, and I'll have to do something else to deal with browser fingerprinting. As long as most people are easily productized, it just doesn't matter.
> Stay at hotels, eat at restaurants

So, you only want your money going to the wealthier families, many of which are foreign?

Street hawkers may be annoying, but they also represent the most basic form of entrepreneurial spirit.
Fetch Your Waze Commute Data
Yes, it's worth learning.

3 good reasons why:

1. It's ambitious.

Meteor is not yet another nodeJS web-framework or client side JS framework. It also doesn't stop at combining the both (with a beautiful DDP to share data between C/S). Meteor' s architecture will make it possible to use it's components for all sorts of applications (other then the obvious web-apps).

2. It's as easy or as complex as you want it to be.

You can write a meteor app in 4 files or in a complex packaged structure. No need to overcomplexify, if you dont't want to. But you cán write large, complex, stable and maintainable code.

3. It embraces the eco-system.

You can rely on all of the NPM packages out there for your serverside logic and use all of the available frontend UI libraries and scripts. It will also enable writing complete reusable components in 1 package: servers-side logic, data-model, client-side logic, UI, ... all in one.

Biggest upcoming updates:

* Meteor UI.
Better approach then any other UI framework out there (including Facebook's react or FTLab's fruitmachine)

* Galaxy.
Deploy and scale your app on your own infrastructure or in the cloud by pressing a few buttons.

To counter a few of the cons in this thread:

* It's not reached 1.0 and it is therefor not production ready. I'd suggest writing your new applications in meteor anyway. Meteor matures quicker then any other framework out there. Is is well funded and here to stay.

* It is not scalable. Maybe not easy right now to make it scalable. But it certainly will be soon, when using mongodb oplog and galaxy will make it really easy to scale your service.

I run an agency in Belgium (redandivory.com) and we switched completely to meteor for all of our new projects. I think it's the framework of the near future.
Why worse? Weren't the rrod Xboxes replaced by Microsoft? PS4 has not made any public announcement that I know of.
The problem with those reviews is those whose console is working are not complaining. Are there any hard numbers on the proportion of dead consoles? Have Sony commented on this issue?
I think the problem comes from the fact of treating Google+ like any other social network like Facebook. Google+ is supposed to be an identity layer for all of Google. The fact that they have status update posting, etc is secondary.

Google would like to assign a face, name and phone number to every Google account. And why is that? For various reasons. A face and a name is very valuable for targeted ads. And a phone number associated with every Google account will help Hangouts. Maybe it will enable sending SMS from the web to any phone and also Voice users can cal from the web from their Google account. Thus, Google achieves their aim of disrupting the carriers and making the phone number irrelevant.

That's just the way I see it anyway.
Setting aside your hysterical NSA invocation. Once I give Google my phone number, it is yet another (and wholly unnecessary) place where I have to keep my phone number updated.

Moreover, in the event that it changes, I have a Google verification problem.

So the fact that I don't trust Google not to leak it somehow is by the by, although that is why I also disabled their "web history" tracking service. No, what really annoys me is that they, and every other service that overcollects, are creating future data management debt for me to deal with. Like I don't have enough already.
Maybe as a general assessment, but I think the google+/youtube merger specifically is being driven by ideology, not metrics. Remember that memo Steve Yegge wrote a few years ago? I think the company took that message very seriously. Maybe a little too seriously...
Bitcoin braces for regulation as Senate hearing draws nearer
> Just who the fuck do they think they are??

One of the leading services targeted by account generation farms to launch spam.
It is not just about being harder to understand. I would say it is partially self contradicting. First, it teaches you to unlearn the centralized vc. But i am yet to see a commercial git repo which doesn't maintain a central branch. The amount of confusion it puts an average developer into, specially if they are coming from subversion background does eat a lot of energy. I bet the person making the decision to switch to git, didn't foresee that (i didn't). Otherwise, you always would question if it is worth the trouble maintaining the project. Having said that, although there are countless benefits of git, but the one that truly makes it worthwhile in my scenario was the difference in merging capability. SVN needs to go a really long way even to be competitive there.
We know that at least 323 received a broken PS4. At least 492 received a working PS4.

I would guess that 1/10 would write a review when the PS4 is broken and 1/1000 would write a review regardless.

Also we don't know if these are real reviews or just 323 Microsoft employees who were given money to order the PS4 and then post a bad review :P
C++11 adds a little welcome syntaxic sugar to the language. Yet C++ is nowhere near supporting functional style as well as D does. It really doesn't look and feel the same.
Nices photos, horrible website usability.
You may be able to block the script with NoScript.
That's last year's iPhone. Didn't the performance double this year?

http://www.imore.com/sites/imore.com/files/styles/large/publ...

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7335/the-iphone-5s-review/5

It looks like we might get a doubling of performance every year. With Android vs iOS vs Microsoft, consumers should be in for quite a treat.
What memo? Do you have a link?
My Last Night on the Black Sea
Kitkat Factory Images for Nexus 4 & 7
It helps a lot, and she discussed how to wash your clothes, at night before going to bed.
In a similar vain, learn how to use a debugger, such as GDB or DDD. Even the bare minimum (getting a stack trace from a crashing/segfaulting program) is incredibly helpful.
Funny picture about Santa
Funny and nice picture about Santa. It will make you smile!
Adobe Password Breach: What You Need to Know
They don't need a number for that. You already read gmail and watch youtube on your phone..
Isn't the real point here the relative quality difference between Google's search and the rest of their products?

The search result looks pretty good...
As of right now, there are 323 1-star reviews.

Sony sold "81,639" PS3 consoles on that unit's launch day.

So if Amazon shipped 81,639 PS4 consoles, this would be a failure rate of 4.0 units per 1000, or 0.4%.

Microsoft noted at one point during the Xbox 360 launch that the industry standard failure rate was between 3 and 5%.

Presuming that same 3-5% is the failure rate for the PS4, and that 100% of DOA customers posted a 1-star comment, Amazon sold between 6,460 and 10,766 PS4 units.

I would hope the failure rate is closer to 0.4% than to 4.0%, but I can't even hazard a guess at Amazon's sales volume, so this is where the hard numbers stop.

(ps. I didn't check my math closely and I'm walking out the door, feel free to correct me in replies and I'll edit later to reflect.)
How would you measure if it's worth it?
> As a condition of my employment, I had to sign a contract with my former employer that basically said since I was a software engineer with them, they owned all the software I wrote, even if I wrote it outside of my work hours.

I had an employer spring an intellectual property agreement just like that on me. I'd been working there for six months already, and had to threaten to walk out unless they specifically put in an exception for open source work in mine.
Idk, I've never had that happen, while some people have had it happen over and over. From my perspective, it doesn't seem any more inevitable than the console becoming obsolete.