skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>install dropbox on VM

>snapshot

>10 minutes of referral link + revert

>???

>45GB of free space for life
I haven't felt such loss from a video since Snoopy Come Home.
How much of your company would you have to sell for it to become a deterrent to demo day investors?
Krusader is the best, at least according to some articles I read in the last years. I am using it for about a year and am very happy with it.
Don't worry, I'm sure someone will come along to comment on the web design on some computer screen in the background. And that will be OK.
People who commit fraud, register their devices in their real names :) ?

I think the sentence "A quick check had revealed that the iPad Tesco believed was in the box had already been activated.", needs to be written so it may not be interpreted incorrectly, was it activated prior to the purchase, after it, who checked it, when was it checked (before/during/after the arrest) etc.

The author seems to have a bit of a problem with Tesco, in fact it seems that they have a gigantic problem with Tesco given the tone and attack on Tesco. Given the amount of fraud large (and small) retailers are faced with every day they are probably a little cautious when someone brings in a box of clay and makes such an accusation. This is not a justification, but rather pointing out the fact that in the real world, that there are a lot of people who try to rip business off.

3 hours in jail, that could be seen a little excessive but it is better than a month.
>What caused you to reach that conclusion?

Perhaps he experienced the world with the eyes, and/or followed the news, and thus made a comparative judgement between different countries.

Which, could include stuff like:

"The director of the Moscow Bureau for Human Rights, Alexander Brod, stated that surveys show xenophobia and other racist expressions are prevalent in 50 percent of Russians."

And:

"In 2006, Amnesty International reported that racism in Russia was “out of control” and estimated the number of Russian neo-Nazis at around 85,000 in 2008."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Racism_in_Russia

Of course a lot of those statements could be the usual NGO BS, that they output because they have to output (keeps the funds coming in, etc), or because they act as agents of foreign interests trying to paint a bad picture etc. This happens more often than not.

But in general, it IS possible to say that a nation is more or less racist than another -- it's not an inherently moot proposition like some people here imply.

There IS after all something like an external reality. I'd, for example, would call a country with 100 racist attacks for every 1000 citizens more racist than one with 30 racist attacks for every 1000 citizens...
Messages for Mac Redesigned.
> You understand "individualistic" in some specific (probably american) way.

No, I meant individualistic in a "mostly devoid of the sense of social responsibility" way. In fact, it's a common meme in Russia to lament the lack of a sense of unity pervasive in the culture (the closeness of family/friends notwithstanding) .
Research theater? Take this with a grain of salt however, research value is non-linear and its success cycle is measured not In years or a decades even.
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#include <speculation.h>
Why cash out on USD when you can avoid doing so?
As BTC becomes more widely accepted the ubiquity of BTC acceptance will grow
Preventing Malaria by Protecting Mosquitoes
Because Devanagari isn't taught at the school level in Pakistan, I'd guess.
Judge: “NSA exceeded the scope of authorized acquisition continuously”
Read the SWEBOK guide https://computer.centraldesktop.com/home/viewfile?guid=49744... and over time, ask the team to focus on one of those areas and decide how to improve their game. In general, get the team to discuss issues and decide on solutions. For instance, Agile. If you read the Agile manifesto, a short text that emphasizes communication, you get a very different picture of how to do Agile than you get from any Agile books or consultants.

Make sure that you have good controls in place, and in software that mainly means code reviews and QA. Usually QA is a specialist role but you may find it better to rotate people through a one or two month stint as QA people. You will likely see more automation of QA if a software developer is doing the job.
I've lived my whole life here in America and when people ask me how I am sometimes I'll say "average", meaning not good or bad. People then assume I'm depressed or sad when I'm neither.
Startup founders' tension between feedback & faith
> Other runtimes are decades behind.

To be fair, .NET also offers a similar level of support.

The only difference is that you have to pay for it, by getting Visual Studio Premium or third party tooling like dotTrace which plug into the CLR monitoring API.

For many people, the fact that they get such tools without paying a dime is a selling point for the JVM vs .NET.
Wasn't that the exact same argument given to the expertise of priests and medieval scholars?

In any case, I wouldn't count on that. Recent meta-studies (if we are to at least believe those) show that a majority of scientific papers are non verifiable and non reproducible BS, contain fabrications and alterations, etc -- and that's talking about the "hard sciences". And having been involved with researchers, I don't doubt that at all.

E.g:

http://www.economist.com/news/leaders/21588069-scientific-re...

and:

http://www.economist.com/news/briefing/21588057-scientists-t...
It would be nice if the news stopped using the term "The United States" for all these sorts of stories and instead qualified them more precisely. e.g.

"US special interest groups representing the intellectual property lobby isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations"
Do you prefer the generic "people fiddling with their devices on a sunny day, female voice playing buzzword bingo in the background"? Props for Google for being ballsy.

I also love how people throw in the "multinational" qualifier as if this makes a company that much more evil.
I've always wondered if some of the huge R&D budgets we see are shenanigans to save taxes under the US's R&D Tax Credit.

I certainly don't know enough to accuse anyone of tax evasion. But it does seem to be a strong incentive to classify lots of different activities as R&D.
MimicDB: Speed boost for S3, 2000x faster
English is widely used throughout India, as it's the "national link language" according to the constitution. Most advertisements, street signs and stores contain lots of English.
The Land of Lisp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=HM1...

(but I'd argue it wasn't until InterLISP and Smalltalk that all the pieces were there)
>There's a certain part of HN that is totally all about rent-seeking.

I find that modern day capitalism is ALL ABOUT rent-seeking.

That's what has halted major advances and innovations in favor of Tumblr's and Instagrams and reduced the number of Promethean Elon Musk like figures to people like Zuckengerg et al.

>I guess, so far anyway, when something is that corrupt and unethical as the U.S. food policy, then even those who knee-jerk to defend anyone rich are not gonna be defending this nonsense. Everyone has a limit to their ability to be in denial about the corruption in our economy…

Well, there's a counter explanation, that they don't think they are defending rich people in this case (e.g they don't consider subsidised farmers that).
OK. Cash in the suitcase. ;) I feel like a gangster.
JESUS CHRIST their layout is annoying!

I'm sorry I couldn't even read the article because there's so much CSS garbage on that page!
How about your boss tells you to patrol a stop sign all day and count the number of rolling stops vs. full stops. Since you know your cruiser is GPS tracked, you're concerned being seen not moving for 8 hours.
well firefox uses window manager decorations, chrome doesn't
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AirBnB took quite a while before they started growing. If they had done YC in the first month of their existence, do you think that growth would've happened A LOT sooner? I think it would've helped considerably but I think some startups just need to "age" for a while. Ben / Pinterest had a similar long/flat growth line before they started to take off. On the other hand, maybe those "taking off" moments were a result of advice from smart folks (like YC).
Actually, it is more like "Groovy, the Smalltalk of Java" :)
It would not surprise me if Google actually was taking action. They've been known to chime in on national politics here and there.
As someone quite familliar with Haskell, I found the code here almost unreadable. I guess Coq is a log way away from Haskell.
I like the "south park episode with ancient aliens" part most.
http://i.imgur.com/ZDoYFdR.png
MS Strikes Blow for Software Patents: Neuters Goodlatte Bill
Ha. Not for a while now, though. Deckers has 95% world market share. I can remember the trademark battle a decade or so ago.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ugg_boots
Now that's more like it.
don't you want to only hash the relevant keywords instead of every word? if everyone used this app, it would make the hashtag not useful anymore, right? or am i missing something?
US users can soon get their hands on 10TB of free cloud storage from Tencent
>Do you know what good information looks like, or are you going to be fed crap from a circle-jerk of sources which all repeat the same lies? This is a bootstrapping problem, ultimately: How do you know where to get the first info you use to tell crap from good information?

The way you do it for everything else you learn. Start small, explore the area, verify yourself what you can, talk to people and read from various sources.

>Experts largely agree with each other in most mature fields.

When it gets away from the core mechanics of some field, that agreement is based on some fundumental premises that not necesarrily you or everybody shares with them. A lot of that is also based on the prevalent paradigms and ideologies of a time -- phrenology was once accepted by "experts", as were electro-shocks for gay people. And don't get me started on economic "experts".

Basically anything that moves from an hard scientific explanation to a value judgement is suspect and should be scrutinized, whether experts agree to it or not.

I'd only accept a consensus of lots of independent experts with no state or corporate funding, but those are very hard to find (if at all possible).

>How do you know Lustig isn't bogus and ego-driven?

I don't. Hence I advocate for people to "make up your mind on your own based on information" -- not just trust Lustig or "the expert consensus".
I think one needs to have the right expectations about what they want to achieve from an accelerator. If you are a company with a broad audience like consumer web or consumer mobile, an accelerator will help you build your company fundamentals, guide you through the generic process of starting up and at the end of it all give you audience with the investors; and if you are in a program like YC garner you a little more attention. So I really fail to see how useful it is to go through two different accelerators other than the just the last two reasons.

If I were running an accelerator and you were applying to mine after having gone through another program, I wouldn't just look at if I will gain (financially or otherwise) from you but really question how you will gain from having you in in the accelerator, having already gone through a similar, perhaps even conflicting process.

For a company with a more specialized market like education or health, while the requirements above stay the same, there are important differences. So going through a generalized accelerator to build those fundamentals and then going through an accelerator specific to your industry makes sense because while building strong fundamentals in business may be the smae, scaling up, selling and operating successfully in these industries is rather different and perhaps even more different than the consumer space, like Imagine K12 for education and Rockhealth for health; or even the other way round.
There are lots of choices. You can learn how to develop a patch yourself or organize people to do it. You can pay someone to develop a patch for you. You can fork the product yourself or organize people to do it. You can pay someone to fork the product for you. You can switch to another product. Or you can live with it. Those are the only choices.

Using a piece of free software doesn't give any user the right to a developer's time or bandwidth. The bug tracking software is there to assist the developers in cataloging and responding to bugs. It isn't a public forum or discussion. Some projects have such forums. Some do not.

Developers have different priorities than users. Maybe there isn't enough developer interest to fix a bug or add a new feature. Maybe developers are busy fixing other more important issues. Maybe developers are unpaid and busy with their lives. Just because it matters to a user, or even a lot of users, doesn't mean that it does, or should, matter to developers.

Many developers of free software get sick of dealing with users when there aren't clear protocols and respect involved. Pidgin's developers famously stopped paying any attention to their public forums for a while due issues like that a while back. Interestingly, it's been shown many times that free software users (that's free with a lowercase f as in no cost) are the most demanding and entitled users. They're more trouble to support on average than paying customers. Paying customers are more likely to either suck it up and deal with an issue or politely ask for a bug fix. The thinking is that they value the software (and, thus, the developer) more having paid for it. Open source users that value the concept of open source are a bit different. But many users of open source software don't care about that aspect of it... just the no cost aspect. So, open source developers have to deal with those free users as well.

Just look at that bugzilla bug:

"Seriously, this bug was reported in 2001! What a joke, will this ever be resolved? Is there any point to bugzilla at all?"

"WTF!? FF3 shouldn't be released until this is fixed, how hard can this be?"

"I am amazed that this bug has been allowed to hang around since 2001! I'm not going to hold my breath for a fix anytime soon..."

"Serously? Not enough time? You've had what, almost a decade? Please."

"Looks like the programmers behind Firefox are lazy, possibly bad coders, and don't care about the customer base. Fantastic. This is great reason of motivation to try other browsers such as Opera or Chrome, although I don't use either currently."

And then lots of me toos, plenty of reddit spam, circular discussion from non-developers, conversations about browser replacing operating systems, ALL CAPS YELLING ABOUT HOW CRITICAL SOMETHING IS, etc

Burnout amongst free software developers in the face of entitled users who feel like they are owed what they want (and demand it, often with little respect for the developer) is a very real thing in open source and free (lowercase f) software. It doesn't get talked about enough, which is a shame. I've lost developers over it more than once. And nearly quit projects because of it.
Does your address start with 2002? If so, you're using a 6to4 tunnel, which is basically crap.
It's definitely not implemented in the most-efficient manner.

If you look at the commit history for the repo, a ton of the functions which were normally partially applied had to either be inlined or broken out else it broke the Core Erlang extraction; mainly because it produced code which wouldn't be compiled by the Erlang compiler. Also, I tried writing it to be as close to the original Erlang as possible to make the post a bit more compelling and understandable for Erlang developers familiar with Riak.

However, that being said it should be pretty readable to an OCaml developer:

Here's the link to the first post, which discusses problems with the Core Erlang extraction and the original version of the code:
http://christophermeiklejohn.com/coq/erlang/2013/11/04/verif...
This is rich. So developing countries ought to be happy because the US does not oppose all their efforts to control large-scale public epidemics using emergency measures, but only some. Pray tell me, how is this a "compromise" for anyone other than US pharma companies angry at being denied the ability to milk poorer governments?

Please remember: this exemption isn't for all medication or treatment, but for "HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, and other epidemics as well as circumstances of extreme urgency or national emergency"
Allow me to clarify: given the concentration of software engineering in the bay area, I figured there would also be a concentration of demand for IPv6.

I agree, any progress is good progress. It's just interesting that it's actually proving difficult to voluntarily jump on the bandwagon that many are resisting.

(And interesting: I'm also T-Mobile, but when on data, I've only seen IPv4.)
Research doesn't always produce changes. If we suppose the Xbox360 controller is nearly the most perfect a controller could be, it's easy to see how large R&D budgets can lead to only small changes.

As for why they'd funnel a lot of money into a controller that is nearly perfect- well, they have the money and they want to win. Isn't that enough explanation?
If you give users immediate feedback as to which transactions hit your fraud screen, this allows fraudsters to black box reverse engineer your fraud detection algorithms much, much faster. You very much don't want to do this if you're a financial services business, because if your primary anti-fraud mechanism is an automated system and fraudsters discover the rules to it, you will probably learn about that first when you wake up, run an accounting report, and discover you lost $8 million overnight.

I don't think the average HN user appreciates the risk environment payments companies work in. Imagine if a criminal gang organized enough to have a payroll had ten copies of people who were every bit as good at app security / financial risk management as e.g. Thomas, with two of them whose only marching orders were "Probe payments sites every day, quietly, and tell the team when you find one which is weaker than it could be. We will then conduct several months of quiet R&D on a software product which is more elaborate than that shipped by most YC startups. Our 'launch' will be deployment of that software product against our adversaries at the payments company, and it will blitz them so fast that by the time anyone thinks to pull the plug we'll be millionaires. Then we'll celebrate our good fortune until we do it again next week, to them or another company as circumstances dictate."

(Risk management, which a lot of startups need, is a high-leverage and very fun environment to work in. At present a lot of companies, large and small, custom build systems out of bubblegum and duct tape. If you get good at this you'll have a very rewarding career ahead of you, for many definitions of the word rewarding. I used to want to go into it but got sidetracked by the unexpectedly high amounts of leverage you can get using software to sell software.)
Rewrite of http://venturebeat.com/2013/11/18/the-xbox-one-controller-pr...
Well if you go that way, firefox tabs from the previous release look also the same as chrome and australis.. so uhm, you saying Chrome copied firefox tabs? (in fact, yes it did, but then again, everyone uses tabs, obviously)
What is the database behind all these geo IP providers? I see many APIs providing same functionality and results are the same. Is this database purchased from somewhere every time you want to do this?
Well, it depends on the environment. If you are doing interprocess communication, then I/O bandwidth is obviously not a concern at all. On the other hand, over the internet, it clearly is the biggest concern. For intra-datacenter traffic on a 10Gbit NIC, it's harder to say, but it _probably_ isn't the bottleneck. Cap'n Proto supports both cases by making additional packing optional, so you can choose the best trade-off for your application.

Regarding the other formats you mention, I think you may be imagining that the designers of these protocols thought more carefully about them than they really did. Protobuf, for example, was designed pretty ad-hoc to solve an immediate problem in Google's search infrastructure, and then stuck mostly because as more and more things used it, it was easier to keep using it than start over. The designers readily acknowledge that it is not an ideal format -- in fact, there are other ways they could have done the encoding which would have taken no more space but would have saved significant CPU time.

(Disclosure: I was the maintainer of protobufs for a long time, though not the original creator. I am also the author of Cap'n Proto.)
if you put any other app tabs next to it, including current firefox.. its a "huge" difference as well. So yeah. pointless argument is pointless...
Nah, 2601:1
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Never mind quality 4.9MB from 590MB O_o That right there is amazing.
This is pretty cool. How would you start using MimicDB with an existing S3 bucket?
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Each Indian state can legislate its own official language.
To be honest a lot of the changes from the new UI make sense to me. Specially the dreaded status bar. I much prefer the new tooltip style that doesn't take precious screen space.
I also like the contextual forward button, most of the time you don't need it. And the smaller icons ;-)
I don't see how in any way Google is being "ballsy" here. It is a safe, soppy and relationships-oriented ad - in what world can that ever be "ballsy"?

Furthermore, I don't see the parent use the word "evil" in his comment.

That said, when a multinational that ferrets around billions of dollars in revenue around the world through obscure countries to avoid paying significant taxes in any of the countries it operates it [0], suddenly attempts to portray itself as warm, fuzzy and a big proponent of India-Pakistan friendship, forgive me for taking them at a lot less than face value.

[0] http://arstechnica.com/business/2013/10/to-reduce-its-tax-bu...
It sounds like it provides a nice s3 cache system for your backend. That is, it matches every s3 call to be a simple drop in request replacement powered by redis for caching.

Disclaimer: I'm tired and may have read it wrong.
i got a border, on windows and linux. i kinda found it odd still,then after 5min i decided i actually like it more.
com.apple.security isn't a file, it's a preferences domain. Preference domains are stored in ~/Library/Preferences/<domain>.plist for per-user domains, and /Library/Preferences/<domain>.plist for system domains. In this case, it's stored in /Library/Preferences/com.apple.security.plist.

If a preferences domain doesn't exist (or if the key doesn't exist within the domain), the app or system default is used.
How about JRuby?

...why do we have both a Ruby-like language and a Ruby implementation running atop the JVM? Sounds like a lot of fragmentation and wasted resources.
I'm guessing that the difference is that he trusts them?
pro-tip: firefox and chrome UI might be what you see most, but they're like 5% of the whole product.
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abuse of power? I'm not talking about that. I'm talking about "Society feels it's important to monitor the whereabout of these individuals for reason X".
This comment is pushing me over to try firefox as my primary browser. I'd love to see Firefox stay slick like Chrome. It's the development curve of Chrome that has kept me attached to it. Some useful features like managed search engines with shortcut are really neat in Chrome. I'm sure Firefox has them too. Sooner than later I plan on switching to Firefox.
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