skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If they were publicly traded, they'd probably get drawn into the Wall Street trend of short-term profit above all else. Why risk whether you can sell the long-term vision of cheap travel to and colonization of Mars to institutional investors and speculators? Odds are it'll never happen at SpaceX unless company ownership is limited to people who share the long-term vision, which is kind of the opposite of being publicly traded.
Well, no. Fansubs are usually very poor quality translation. Not only do hey leave English mistakes in the subs, but they leave half of the stuff in Japanese (chan, sempai, sensei, etc.) because those are words their audience understand anyway.

Well, sorry but "sensei" just means "doctor", "professor" or "teacher" depending on the context, it's not some mysterious magic title that can't be translated.
I'm on Windows at work and the scroll bar was visible (when I went there the 2nd time) but either I didn't notice it or I ignored it. In any case I think the content itself just didn't look like it required scrolling. Instead I clicked on the features on the left.
If that were the case (it's not, but whatever) the bigger scandal would be a public middle school that has spent tens of thousands of public dollars to install a public charging station with no provision for public access. Who gets to use the station? What are they paying?
As much as Linus might not like it, the nVidia closed source drivers are the only Linux display drivers that are production ready for high performance 3D gaming.
> AdSense clicks are probably worth lots.

Is there something specific about finance that makes AdSense more valuable besides traffic? And if you already have traffic, seeding it in a brand new forum doesn't seem like a good way to get a big boost. From what I understand, there is a reason why high traffic blogs like Instapundit are supported more by Amazon affiliate type programs than AdSense revenue. AdSense will make you a bit of money, but I don't really know of anyone who uses it as their primary income.
I haven't been able to find any instance of an air marshal actually confronting a "terrorism-related" event. I'm sure there are examples of them subduing an unruly or drunk passenger; but the sheer magnitude of flights, combined with the fact that on-board threats are very few and far-between, makes me doubt the cost-effectiveness of the program.
I seem to recall just a couple of months ago the FAA proposed relaxing the rules so that small knives would be legal. Immediately following that, the media reported widespread public condemnation of the proposal by people concerned for their safety.

So as much as I despise this nonsense, this seems to be what a significant, vocal portion of the people want.
Ask HN: Please review my site about learning how to open and grow a store
Hey HN,

Thanks for anyone taking the time to view this post. I recently launched a "niche" site that will focus solely on helping people learn how to open and grow a store; either online or offline. The site is: http://openastorenow.com

Since the site only went up about a week ago, content is quite limited, but a lot of work is going in to provide tons of information, guides, resources, case-studies, motivational information, and much more.

I'd love to hear from the community:
1) Any feedback about the concept.
2) Any feedback about the site itself, design, layout, material, etc.
3) What topics would you like us to cover or questions to answer?
4) What resources/applications would you like us to review?
5) Do you have any stories or case-studies you want us to publish? (We'll make a post here in a few days asking for store-owners to share their stories).

A little background on the site: I've had some experience in the past running small online stores and have always had a passion about eCommerce. I'm also currently working closely with someone in the middle of launching a fashion store online, which will also soon be opening a retail space. During the process, we've both learned a lot and would love to share. This site was created because we found it nearly impossible to find the information we needed (especially in one single place or website). Since people are opening stores left and right, we thought we could help a lot of people by creating a great resource like this.

Disclosure: The site monetized through affiliate partnerships with (most of) the products and services discussed on the site.

Thanks for your time!

Link: http://openastorenow.com
Nice infomercial post that covers the same ground as the release announcement on the rails blog from a few days ago.
The "How it works" page gives exactly zero information about how it works.
Battlefield dabbler - my 7970 confirms anecdotally.
Using the plane as a weapon and bringing it down are very different objectives. The chief concern here is using that plane as a force magnifying weapon. If you wanted to pop a hatch in the floor and start messing with the avionics bay, you'd rather easily scuttle the plane.
At this point I'm willing to see Google for more than the sum of their parts.
You could just use regular WebDAV[1] (boring I know) and not have to worry about syncing gigabytes of redundant data onto every device you own.
I've been trying a password manager. How do you get around the fact that it requires you to put in your master password all the time? You just set it to not require that, or have a really long timeout? Or have a super easy to type master password?
I fail to see how that has anything to do with honesty. The source was leaked accidentally.
>> But I will point out that they are often just the default option not necessarily the best available.

That seems like the optimal place for Google to be. Aware of its user's complaints, but also aware that they haven't moved on, as well as what alternatives are being brought up.
Remember that half of 9/11/2001 was different. By 10:03AM, the solution was designed/implemented/successfully tested.
Google rolling out better password security in Chrome to Windows users
The good url is: https://angel.co/jberrebi
How to submit an app to Windows Marketplace
And you'll know you're grown up when you can spot a reactionary PR fluff piece instead of anything with actual content in it!

The Amazon announcement had a concrete end goal and time commitments, and was met with cynicism, whereas this fuzzy approach allowing people to project what they want into what they're reading creates a sort of delusional optimism among many.
Wow that's the most childish video graphic I've ever seen.
Clickable link: http://openastorenow.com
A first interview should never be sitting down with code. That's a waste of everyone's time. The first interview should probably happen over the phone, though it could be in person. There are too many people out there looking for programming jobs that can't pass the idiot test. In the last interview I went on the first thing they had me do was write a for loop. They explained that, while it may sound stupid, too many of the people that came in couldn't even do that. Where I work right now, we have been trying to hire for a PHP job, but most of the people they've brought in don't know basic things like what an associative array is.

Assuming you've at least weeded out the many people that are a waste of time and money, then I think it's fair to pay anyone you bring in a reasonable rate for a couple hours of work.

Also, with most companies that contact me, I don't really know if I'm interested at all until I go in and talk to them. Don't presume that all candidates are interested in working there. It's hard to know until you know more about what they do, their processes, the culture, the type of people you will be working with and what the management is like.
Hacker News has tacitly given permission for the use of this website. In exchange, they get permission for rebroadcast, possibly copyright ownership, etc.

The point is that we're not "taking" from them, they're allowing us to do so. Having permission is the difference between theft and use of a good. Even if the resultant outcome is definitively good, it doesn't matter -- you cannot take without permission or it is a crime.

If a house is on fire, and that house is situated next to a fire extinguisher plant, the obvious good is to pilfer the extinguishers to douse the fire. That said, it is still theft, despite the beneficial outcome. If the extinguisher plant's owner wishes, he may press charges, demand recompense, or forgive the crime altogether, but whether or not he forgives the crime, it was indeed still a crime.

Also, it's worth noting, the school is not a commercial entity. Had he stolen his power from Starbucks, which routinely gives power away as a part of doing business, the school has no incentive to do so, nor compelling reason to practice less than 'dumb economics' because giving away power for them is, in fact, dumb economics.
The results (png): http://i.imgur.com/mZ8Tj0kh.png

Report (pdf): http://www.oecd.org/pisa/keyfindings/pisa-2012-results-overv...
Having no technical expertise with which to evaluate competing contractors, the "better" contractor they find has the same problem. Cycle repeats.
Better to use your resources while you have them to try to ensure your survival rather than nonsense like stock buybacks. If investors don't like it, they're welcome to buy an Alcoa or P&G or any other bluechip monolith.
Futuremark shares its side of the Samsung-HTC delisting story
Barrier to using Linux is not lower than Windows. Windows comes installed on almost every PC sold. Linux does not. Therefore more work is required to use Linux.

I love Linux, but "if a program works on every single other distro.." is disingenuous. I have not once had 100% success with Linux on initial install. There has always been something that needed to be tweaked (usually sound or graphics). No, Windows isn't 100% either, but it's more like 98% while Linux is like 92%. For the majority of people, that 6% difference matters.

Gaming on Linux still needs to catch up. NVidia Optimus support is still being worked on. Most platforms don't ship with the proprietary drivers, which are the ones that are actually good for gaming. And from what I hear, the OSS AMD drivers are good at power management while they suck at gaming and flipped for the proprietary ones. AMD also has a problem where they drop support for cards relatively quickly.

I love Linux so much (Crunchbang, baby) but it's so fragmented that unless things change, gaming on Windows is going to stay easier. I don't see any reason why my family would give up Windows with its large library of games and all that support for Linux with its tiny library and not up to par drivers. That might not work on that distro without some workaround.
Do you mean from yesterday? http://weblog.rubyonrails.org/2013/12/3/Rails_3_2_16_and_4_0...
Serious question: Why bother? Why is there such an interest in using a very closed system in a way the vendor does not support if there are (more) open alternatives?

Is it because you are forced to use an iPhone by external factors, like your employer? Are there critical features missing from Android and all the others? Is it just your personal preference?

I really don't mean to offend anyone, it's just that I perceive the closed ecosystem of the iPhone as an intentional "feature" and as I personally don't like it, I would never put my money into such a closed system just to try to jailbreak it afterwards.
API keys do make sense if charging money for usage. This way, the right person is charged the right amount of money. The other case is when the API keys are protecting private information. Otherwise I agree, not much point to API keys.
Quick way to build a website for photographers
So push your fix? Push hard if necessary, and if your remote forbids non-fastforward pushes even with force, then delete the remote branch and recreate it under the same name with the commit that you want.
I share the same opinion. Appart from that, I'd love to have the opportunity to see and play with the actual codebase before signing up for a job. During my first days with a really friendly and somewhat generous company, I inherited a mind-blowing codebase (well I'm gonna call it "code", but I might as well call it absurd theatre). All the blubber that HR, product managers and team leaders feed you during interviews, gives you like 10% of the job description accuracy you would get from actually reading their code.

Anyway, I think attitude plays a really important role here. A candidate might be able to recite Linux Kernel code by heart, but if he doesn't show commitment or a bit of flexibility, I would never get him on my team. I'm not talking here about an 8 hour long test run. I bet the guy could have negotiated it to 4 hours or something. I gave away 8 hours of trial work once (+ 3 hours spent talking to managers during the other stages) and I never felt bad about it. I really don't get what the problem is here, I was always really eager to show what I can and to impress. It's all about being competitive. We're not pealing potatoes, we're writing code. Show some passion for Christ's sake. Or find a job that makes you happy even when you're not getting paid. That's the kind of job you'd like to keep for the rest of your life.
From the grandparent comment:

>> I then do a depth first walk of the tree and assign an integer to each of the nodes.

This is clearly wrong as the depth first walk on the said tree will keep on just taking the left-most path always and keep on assigning natural numbers to nodes on this left-most path. In other words, since the leftmost path is an infinite string of zeros, it is clearly denumerable and can have one-to-one correspondence to natural numbers (ordinals rather than cardinals though). Any other node in the tree never gets assigned any natural number, making the argument wrong.

I was left thinking though about what happens if a "breadth-first" search on this tree is used instead. Each row starting from the root as 2^N nodes (assuming N=0 for the root node). So you can assign '1' to the root node, '2' and '3' to the two children, '4', '5', '6', '7' to the grand children, and so on. Note that this assignment is very similar to that used in the proof of theorem 2 in the original post, just that the number of nodes/elements in theorem 2 is increasing linearly with the slanted row#, while in this binary-tree case, it is increasing exponentially.

Applying diagonalization now (by arranging the mapping in the usual way) though shows that 0.111111... is never assigned a natural number.

I cannot say however that I am 100% clear about this, and have had a corresponding confusion before using a different line of reasoning.
Human organ on a chip
Gabe was not just "release producer" at MS, he was the driving force behind windows gaming (port of Doom from DOS to windows)

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/167253-gabe-newell-made-wi...
I agree ... I've used Evernote on and off for years for occasional notes. And I still have to hunt for the 'new note' button everytime I want to click it.
it's not a coincidence of the audience and the topic that the top comment is basically just scheming of ways to make it more elite and exclusive instead of how to create a self-policing meritocracy.

why do you think HN is successful? did they limit registrations to @yahoo.com, @redhat.com, @microsoft.com, @google.com, @venturecapitalisthere.com? is that why the SN ratio is high?

and besides, doesn't bloomberg already have forums and chat for this exclusive bank crowd already? what is the point of recreating that on the web if someone like me can't see it?
I think we've transitioned into a world where no one can assume that a given device/OS combination will be jailbroken in just a few months. The state of the art of security for physical devices will be good enough, such that only used equipment and older versions will be jailbroken.
Yeah, sorry. I didn't bother with looking at the exact date.
> The thing is, the fansubbed product is better.

For those not in the know, the difference is incredible. Contrast a DVD release with crappy bitmapped, two-colour subtitles with interlaced video to a file with nice anti-aliased subs, often more contextual information/better translations, and in a small file size (thanks to a modern codec[1]) and a mobile-device-ready format to boot. There really is no contest.

To put it another way, it wouldn't surprise me if many people end up watching fansubbed versions of shows they already own just because it's better and more convenient.

[1]For proof of this just see VLC's release notes for all the improvements we have thanks to anime fans pushing adoption of modern technologies.
They have computer vision!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_vision
For lack of a better mechanism, I'm commenting here so that I can read your very informative user page when I get home later. Sorry for the noise all.
Y'know, I finally got an iPhone (a 4S), moving from Android and Meego (gosh I miss my N9...), and I thought I'd probably jailbreak to get the "freedom" I was missing. Instead, I installed iOS 7, and it does nearly everything I want it to do.

It's not perfect, I'd like to be able to load FOSS onto it without going through the app store (I don't trust TOR browsers in a marketplace like that), and a few UI niggles, but for the most part I now just use my phone for phone tasks, Siri to dump stuff into Reminders for processing later, and playing Poker on the go. I was as surprised as anyone; I've been hacking smartphones since the Sony Ericsson M600i!
I just learn the passwords for frequently used accounts.
Just pitched in $10. I'll agree with previous comments that the reason for jailbreaking has decreased in recent years, but I'll be damned if I don't want root access on my phone. There's a level of control I've come to appreciate and desire as I code and deploy software, and I'd like that to extend to the one device I use the most in my life. The reason for me, at least, is "freedom," even if idealized and largely inconsequential. It's the spirit of the matter.
Hacker news should be renamed "Start-up Web Presence Critics" I think.
So how much did Evernote pay for this ad?

Can HN auto-filter links with "Here's Why" and "21 reasons why..." headlines?
You'd obviously want to control for age in exactly the same way as the comment that started this thread mentioned controlling for race. That's exactly what we're talking about. I'd hope nobody would call you ageist for doing so.
We do like real-world assessment when hiring. We always pay the candidate's contract rate for the hours spent though, and if they don't want to enter that arrangement, we find some open source or other real-world coding exercise that doesn't benefit us. Seems only fair.
Actually in studies about this topic, the "proportionality" or harshness of the sentence does little to nothing to deter the crimes (more than a nominal sentence). What does prevent crime is making the apprehension of a suspect guaranteed after a crime has been committed. In other words, even if the sentence is nominal, if the thief knows that he'll be caught for sure, he'll be less likely to commit the crime. If the thief knows there's a chance he won't be caught, he'll be more likely to commit the crime, even if the sentence is very harsh.

This is one of the reasons why there's movement to undo the mandatory minimum sentences and harsh sentencing trends that have arisen in the past 20 years - because it doesn't actually deter crime.

For this particular case, if the school had simply put up signs saying the outlets are monitored and you'll be fined for any misuse would have probably done the trick without resorting to actual police intervention.
Sounded like the change had to go out same day. You don't handle a short-term real deadline by slowing down a developer and releasing a candidate's code in production. To a lot of us, this didn't sound like an interview, this sounded like getting someone to do needed work for free. Yeah, maybe we're wrong and it really was a genuine interview question, problem is that's indistinguishable from the "free programmer for a day" interpretation.
Its nice to use. I like how it integrates with my Mac stuff better than Android does, and iTunes Match is a killer feature. But I'd love to load FOSS onto it, so a jailbreak would be super handy.

Oh, and the main reason? 'cause we can :)
Yes. But at least for amoled, it can backlight only the shown pixels.

My Lumia 920 has IPS LCD, so it need to backlight the entire screen. But still, the energy consumption isn't that high. It turns off the screen when in the pocket. I have more than enough juice left at the end of the day.
Tesla for Glass - wearable computing meets the electric car
Is this any better than a link that logs you in automatically? A link would be easier and more secure. I've actually been thinking of that as a super simple login method lately, but I don't know if people would use it.

As a proof of concept, I couldn't actually get your site to work because by the time I understood the UI flow, it was throwing an alert saying "Error with that email address". Also, this goes to spam for me... just to let you know.
I find it less compelling to jailbreak. When I switch from one provider to another it usually takes the form of contract and right now a provider like AT&T or T-Mobile gives good deal on phones. I am actually less and less on phone spec. My Atrix used to be a top phone on spec but after using it for 6, 7 months I notice it being slower and slower. And then you can't upgrade to latest Android because officially Motoral doesn't support it and I don't want to deal with custom upgrade (I have done too many and many just fail my phone). I used to get expensive unlocked phones myself but now I can get a good deal from contract bundle and they offer quite a good range of selections.

After two years I am still using this old Atrix. I might switch to Nexus one day if I had the budget for it. iPhone isn't my cake so I'd passed on. But I have to praise a closed system like iOS - update is great. No fragmentation.
So basically an eye for an eye all over again. Never mind the consequences, like incentivizing prosecutors to avoid long sentences at all cost to reduce their personal risk.
The answer is, obviously, because you can (:
A number of tech advocacy groups including the Center for Democracy and Technology, TechFreedom, and the Electronic Frontier Foundation are making a major push this week to get the White House to support ECPA reform.

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Linkbait: The test was taken by secondary school students, not by mathematic students.

From the PISA webpage:
> PISA 2012 is the programme’s 5th survey. It assessed the competencies of 15-year-olds in reading, mathematics and science (with a focus on mathematics) in 65 countries and economies.
Before Windows 8, Valve seemingly couldn't care less about Linux! It bothers me how Valve tries to make itself out to be Linux's best friend nowadays. They also talk about open source a lot despite them ever releasing only proprietary software.
I tried to find an iOS bitcoin wallet. Turns out, Apple pulled them all from the store because they have mobile payment ambitions - and one doesn't let predators into ones own garden. The walled garden is beautiful, but innovation is relentlessly weeded out by its tenders. I much prefer iOS, but I was seriously creeped out by their anti-competitive practices. I can't run the software I wish to, so I'm going to buy an Android phone, even though I'd much prefer an Apple product that actually lets me run competitive software.
How did you guys arrive at 15% for 150K?
Programming advent calendars for 2013
I agree, I don't even load the app on my Macbook. Spotlight will automatically and instantly search Evernote, so that's my interface (Cmd+Space).