skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is my list(Most of these books aren't from 2013):
1. The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff by Jane Smiley

2. Halting State by Charlie Stross

3. Levels of Life by Julian Barnes

4. The Particle At The End Of The Universe by Sean Carrol

5. Churchil Bomb by Graham Farmello

6. The Science Of Memory by Charles Fernyhough

7. The Anatomy of Violence: The biological roots of crime by Adrian Raine

8. The Bet: Paul Ehrlich, Julian Simon, and our gamble over Earth’s future by Paul Sabin

9. Experiencing Art: In the brain of the beholder by Arthur Shimamura

10. The Spark: A Mother’s Story of Nurturing Genius by Kristine Barnett
Greg stepped down as CEO of AngelHack in October 2013
Curiously though, CS still doesn't support yield despite there being solid PR's, no matter how many times I thrash the refresh button on the github's issues page.
im pretty sure this is better for your eyes than a traditional monitor.
Given the size of the "compiled" file, i'd say it's a bad idea . A better idea would be whatever js editor with a vim mode, not c code compiled with emscriptem like this one.
Freakish--I don't go to Berkeley, hadn't been to that cafe before! Anyway, woot, very cool hack! (And cool enough for the glance at it to stick in one's memory for a few days, apparently.)
Yes, investors with preferred stock usually get their money back first. Sometimes they get a multiple, but that's considered overreaching nowadays and the more promising startups never have to agree to that.

I suppose that is implicitly a target valuation in a sense. But no one views it as a target, because it only matters if things go badly.
yeah but not to move your hand if you're on the homerow
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'createBuffer' of undefined
blob:http%3A//www.playverse.com/5295321b-d5f5-4862-8065-821e3ded7e1d:5046
Digital Eulogy for Nelson Mandela via Google+ Hangouts Tomorrow
We go through a lot of the same crud. The latest is they cannot push out IE 10 / 11 to everyone because it would require server upgrades (which is true, but very lame). :/
5 apps that have given Android a makeover
I am selfish
'teaches' -> 'touches'.
Facebook's 'Deep Learning' Guru Reveals the Future of AI
I do this on my private google calendar when I'm in the zone. It works wonders. What gets measured gets managed. (I can only speak for self-management, I'm completely unqualified to talk about managing others)
I doubt there is fish to being with. The place's too steep, the surroundings suggests it's high altitude.
I know Google doesn't like to give numbers, but I would be very curious to know how much storage/bandwidth they use to implement this.
> That said, I support using LLVM bitcode more than asm.js myself. I think asm.js is the dying breaths of JavaScript being hailed as its rebirth.

I think asm.js has technical advantages over LLVM bitcode. Neither were really designed for this purpose (for LLVM, you must strip the undefined behavior; for JS, you must strip the high-level semantics), but at least JS has a fully specified, multi-vendor standard specifying the execution semantics. Plus asm.js has a very minimal type system and is non-SSA (while retaining high-level loop constructs that can be easily used to construct SSA without dominance frontiers if needed), both of which I think are advantages for delivering bytecode over the Web.
I have noticed the same. The time it really stood out to me was that guy who started the Facebook page for the Egyptian protests a few years back. The press was reporting him as a "Google executive", but he was actually an Adwords account executive. I don't know if there is a position further from exec than someone who manages Adwords accounts for big customers.
North Korea's Jang Song Thaek, Kim Jong-un's uncle, executed
that boils down to "good books are made of good writing, which is created by good writers, and good writers feel strongly about the things they write about"
North Korea executes leader's uncle as a traitor
>Why would I want to buy into an ETF that holds BTC rather than buying BTC myself, is it easier to write options or loan into short interest that way?

Yes it would be easier.

Also, it'd be much easier to grab a BTC ETF on e*trade than to deal with the BTC exchanges.
When developing low-level or systems software, there are many programming languages to choose from, but C and C++ continue to be often-chosen.

When developing software to run natively in all browsers, there's one choice: JavaScript.

So the comparison isn't fair. C/C++ had to prove themselves among many competitors. JavaScript "won" by default, not because it's somehow the best choice.

I'm glad to see other options like Dart and PNaCl coming along. It's about time.
Let's Chat, a chat app for small teams: https://github.com/sdelements/lets-chat

It currently looks something like this: http://i.imgur.com/Lwp2K01.png

Still a work in progress though!
200,000 years of history
Amazon rolls out all their features as CLI first, then build a web interface later. Although they have taken their time with this particular feature.
Indeed, I like the 'alt-left' keyboard shortcut, though I especially like it because it does the same thing in both Chrome and Firefox on both Windows and Linux! Yay for consistency!
An alternative could be to let the user decide if Gmail should prefetch images from a sender or not.

Email from familiar senders would have images prefetched (thus avoiding leaks of user data).

And DDOSing concerns would be reduced because those emails would not be from a familiar source.
When I try to load the game in Safari 7.0 (on OS X 10.9), I get a Flash game, not asm.js.
An investor took over as CEO already and started calling himself a co-founder? That's a huge red flag.

Except it isnt. Brendan Iribe has been working in the Computer graphics/games industry for ages, co-founding Scaleform (video game UI system) and then working as chief product officer for Gaikai (really impressive video game streaming technology). Oculus also has other co-founders who worked in the same companies. The fact that Luckey, who is 20 years old, gave the CEO role to Iribe makes perfect sense. This is not the next social networking website after all, they want to transform the world with hardware products.
Weird. It really seems like the management team is incredible. A CEO with multiple wins under his belt (and whom the founding team has worked with in the past) and who has raised almost $100M for the company? The brilliant inventor that invented the Rift – and John freaking Carmack? and Marc Andreessen on the board?

And their investors are Kickstarter, Spark and a16z. Isn't literally the ideal thing to prove the concept with the crowds, then take money from a vc with a proven record of successes, and then take more money from another vc with a proven record? (I wonder if they had any other term sheets for their b)
Group zip-lines their car over a river
Quote from the site regarding his house:

"I wanted to avoid using buiulding (sic) material that tries to look like something it isn't, but with the siding I had no choice: ALL siding materials I can buy try to look like wood! So, unfortunately, my house is wrapped in faked wood. It doesn't look too bad, but I would have preferred something different."

This drives me nuts as a home owner. I don't mind using synthetic materials in my house, but why are are they all skeuomorphic?

Plus I love the way the house is framed with bricks and mortar. I wish more houses were still built like this in the US, but I suspect that labor would make it cost prohibitive.
Like you, I have a strong stomach but I also couldn't use the Oculus Rift past 15 minutes before wanting to puke. I wonder if the new prototypes solve this problem.
I recall an analogy from Skiena [1], although this is not exactly what happened in my two-month to two-hour example. Skiena talks about a problem which appears to have exponential complexity at first, but then shows an insight that turns it into polynomial time. Consider the potential impact of this. Team Exp will be spending lots more time optimizing, debugging, writing test cases, while the team Poly will go though all of that much faster since the task is much easier now. Not just the running time is different, the development and maintenance time could be different by an order of magnitude too.

In the actual case, the team Months could not connect the dots to see that the specific problem at hand, that involved two complex things, somehow had a much simpler solution. Their code, development time, etc. looked perfectly normal from an outsider's point of view. The code was taking 40 minutes per run. I was unaware of their work and coded the same thing independently. My code was five lines core in Matlab plus overheads, or about hundred lines total. It also ran in two minutes.

In short, no one was cheating. Nothing was amiss. Just that I could connect the dots and they could not. Had I not worked on the problem, I would not have figured either.

The issue is that in the normal course of lives, two people or teams are not asked to work on the same problem in isolation. So the difference in performance does not become evident at least in the short run. This is in spite of the amount of duplication of effort that often exists.

Now this does not imply that I could do this for every task, though I do have more examples just as profound. I can often understand complex problems better and faster than other people, and then can work through them faster. But if both sides understand the problem+solution equally well, I may actually be slower in implementing at least in the initial rounds. (This is because my breadth of knowledge across technology domains is often five-ten times broader than normal engineers, which also implies that I have less practice in each domain).

And yes, I am chasing some really big goals.

[1] www.amazon.com/Algorithm-Design-Manual-Steven-Skiena/dp/1848000693/
No, the court did not rule anything (although it probably will).

The Advocate General at the court entered his plea, which the court usually follows.
http://vicapow.github.io/equation-plot-webgl/#number(%220011...
Unfortunately I haven't seen it for sale on Massdrop since I've registered months ago... Of all the mechanical keyboard designs I've seen, that's the only one that makes sense to me ergonomically.
Microsoft Is Bringing Its BUILD Developer Event Back To San Francisco
Why not Acme.js yet?
That would be Atwood's Law: any application that can be written in JavaScript, will eventually be written in JavaScript.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/07/the-principle-of-le...

And tlrobinson's Law (or corollary?): Any submission to Hacker News about a novel JavaScript program will contain a comment referencing Atwood's Law.

https://twitter.com/tlrobinson/status/395636386671235072
It may look like that, but that's not quite how we look at it :-). We think about it as trying to back the winners for sure, but being stage agnostic in our approach -- focus on identifying the best companies with the most amazing people and the biggest opportunities, and then invest regardless of stage. Internally we run very different evaluation processes for seed vs A/B vs growth of course.
http://teen2geek.com

Just a teen development initiative that includes a site for learning development, an internship board, and a social news platform
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Front End Loader Dreams
1) I think that was VP8. I don't know if those patents are licensed for use with other codecs or the extent to which VP9 uses the same technology.

2) MPEG LA doesn't have patents they invite patent owners to contribute them to patent pools for a cut of revenue. Where companies have not been involved with the development of standards they are not obliged to license them on FRAND basis so there is more reason not to join a pool. Nokia at least is in the pool for various MPEG standards but not VP8, there may be others waiting to troll if large scale use occurs.

3) Nokia hadn't joined the VP8 pool and was actually using a VP8 relevant patent against an Android manufacturer. I don't know the current status of this case but if you have a link to recent news I would be grateful.
Well, IMHO they won't get anyone back until they figure out where they actually want to be going.
Look who Harvard Business School rejected yesterday
Yeah, I get that. I'm just skeptical that it moves it much.

Personally, I liked the change; I'd like to be able to block annoying people who nevertheless RT my stuff.
I tried typing some gibberish and one shortcut that seems to be a bit broken for me is yiw diw

Hmm, actually it seems all the motions I tried didn't work :-(

http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/htmldoc/motion.html#word-motio...
there is no way any one can predict kick starter succes
What was costing you $200+ monthly bills? CPU? Storage? Datastore operations?
there is no way any one can predict kick starter success
I'd argue you're actually seeing the emergence of a "new series A"/"first money in" investor category. Often angel investors who raise seed funds or small venture funds fit in this category. These include (but not limited to) Mike Maples/Floodgate, Aydin Senkut/Felicis, Hunter Walk/Homebrew, Aileen Lee/Cowboy, Michael Deering/Harrison, and several others. Also see Heavybit for a recent category-specific innovation. Also Union Square, Foundry, Upfront (Mark Suster) do a lot of this. I think there may be more high quality investors at the early Series A tier than ever before, but many of them are new.
> There's no other comparable situation in which you'd make a public announcement and somehow expect some group of people who could hear it to not hear it.

The problem is, it used to work one way and now Twitter is (or, was) changing it with some really flimsy justification (now they can't tell when you blocked them! except there are other ways that worked). It'd be one thing if blocking worked this way from day one, it's another entirely to suddenly change it.
this is true for most pompous institutions...
Mobile Payments Startup Loop Closes $10 Million Series A
I'm personally very sensitive to this, and the new version they're working on seems to have completely solved the problem as far as I can tell.
DevOps Retrospective for 2013
Part of our bet is that we are not that far away from not having to trade off field of view vs resolution.
What's ignorant is your belief that the videos you've linked would change the parent's mind. It's all competent derivative tripe or sub-competent derivative tripe.

It's not offensive to call crap music crap. You should stop trying to be offended at things and try growing up and accepting that the universe is full of people with opinions you don't like.
Even if you take away the belief system in the Catholic church and the Pope has an affect on a huge number of human beings, and that is really what this is all about...

Yes, and it's about how many people are affected, not how many "care" about it.

You don't have to care about the Leaks in order for the revealed programs to affect you. And it's not only the first world, as every spy agency freely siphons any and all "foreign" data they can get their hands on. So third world countries are considered fair game by pretty much all spy agencies and are obviously spied upon (German authorities for instance often repeat the mantra that they spy on Afghani data traffic because terror). Even now the largest part of the third world population has a cellphone and is getting ever more connected.

The catholic church might have a good deal of political sway and lots of followers, but the Snowden Leaks affect as close to 100% of the global population as you'll ever get.

Edit: I'd also like to point out that the influence of the church is dwindling while the influence of digital communication is going to continue to soar.
> The results of the strategic review announced that not only will the Coalition’s plan cost almost as much as the originally announced NBN plan

That isn't because it is more expensive, it is because the estimate on the original plan was wrong.

The old peak funding requirement on the original plan was $43.6 Billion with 3.5 million households passed by June 2016. There was supposed to be an update of those figures published this July but they sat on the report until after the election. We now know that those figures are now $73 billion peak funding and 1.7 million residences passed [0].

> The Coalition’s NBN is a joke. It will not arrive faster, cheaper, or better.

It will be faster (as in, rolled out faster) and cheaper. Despite the political vitriol surrounding this topic in Australia, you can't bend the technical and economic reality that rolling out a fiber to the node solution (FTTN) is both cheaper and faster than rolling out fiber to the premises (FTTP) with existing households:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=638167...

You rollout fiber to the home where it is more economical (dense areas, new developments) you roll fiber to the curb where it is more economical and faster (apartment buildings) and you roll the fiber to a cabinet where it is more economical and faster (existing suburban areas).

Attaching each plan to a rollout strategy was a mistake in the first place, as a national network requires a mix of technology (this isn't FTTN v FTTH, its about where to apply each).

[0] Here is a nice table the lays out the old/new estimates: http://www.zdnet.com/au/nbn-strategic-review-by-the-numbers-...
Too slow for me on FF.
Cisco/openh264 - Open Source H.264 Codec
I prefer anthropology, sociology, history and psychology to fiction when it comes to learning more about humanity.
Cache in case my blog goes down:

I am selfish.

100 days ago I got an email from a lady who had seen my viral dance video. I got lots of emails from people who wanted to learn to dance but that’s not what she wanted. She had multiple sclerosis and what she wanted was to walk again.

So I taught her how to use Dropbox (the very first version of 100 was files in Dropbox folders) and she started taking videos of herself learning to walk every day.

Today is day 100 and you can see she’s made a lot of progress: https://giveit100.com/@cynthia

When people ask me why I made the dance video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daC2EPUh22w) I say it’s because I wanted people to see the invisible hard work behind talent. And that is true but you know why else I made it?

Because I am selfish.

I knew if I could make it go viral it would give me opportunity – as a dancer, as a writer, as a speaker.

And when I had the idea for 100 (giveit100.com) I said I wanted to build it because I wanted to help all these people. And that is true but you know why else I wanted to make it?

Because I am selfish.

You know what one of my hidden motivations was? I thought it’d be cool to write a book one day and I felt like a viral dance video wasn’t substantial enough material. But something like 100 – ohhh that would be good, that would be big, that would give me enough material for a book and I could become a nice published author.

Well it’s been one month since Finbarr and I launched 100. It’s been stressful and I feel burnt out and it’s tiring be constantly on.

And I wasn’t even going to admit that because potential investors will look for cracks and weaknesses and no doubt they are reading this very sentence right now. And they don’t like to smell weaknesses on a founder. Especially not a female one.

But if there’s one thing I’ve learned in the last year, it’s that ripping your weaknesses open for everyone to see is where you can draw your greatest strength. If you try to hide it, you give it power. But drag it out in the daylight and you will be liberated.

I am selfish.

But now I can see that 100 is bigger than me and it is bigger than a viral video and it is bigger than a book. If we do this right, it’s going to be the thing every person learning a musical instrument turns to. Every person learning a language. A sport. Every tinkerer toiling away on their side project. Every scared soul starting a business. Every teacher and every student. Every parent recording every child growing up – learning to talk, learning to walk. It will give people confidence, it will give people an army of others who support them, and it will give them belief in themselves.

How someone as selfish as me could create something that could affect so many people and make a real, practical, positive difference in the world – I don’t know. We have a long, long way to go. But we’re gonna make it happen.
Eric Schmidt has a PhD in Computer Science and was an engineer and engineering director for many years before becoming the President of Sun. I would say he's somewhat more than reasonably technical.
Can it be opted out by the user?
As much as I'm a fan of Carmack, and as much as Romero's rockstar antics of the late 90's disgusted me, you're right.
So, what's going on with repealing DMCA 1201 altogether? This development shouldn't be used as an excuse not to fix the root of the problem.
Very small, but frequent DB updates. I wasn't responsible for the software, but simply put, it was a backend for a not-so-popular Chrome extension, which was doing authentication and persisting some state (a few integers). I'm sure the architecture could've been optimized specifically for AppEngine to reduce the cost, but why do you need to invest so much effort in optimizing something so basic that works just fine on EC2 m1.small or Digital Ocean for few bucks per month?
You need to fix the garbage like DMCA 1201 which causes this thing to begin with.
Getting so many levels of meta in here.
Very true, now is a very good time to reread 1984 or Brave New World and reflect on where our society is headed.
Get hash of image file, serve cached version of fetched version if hash matches.
How about trying to create a change management process (supported by some time that someone other than your boss made a disastrous change)? Get him on board about how important that process is, especially when working in a team and something as critical as AWS. hint hint..
Peter Molyneux could be the M Night Shyamalan of games
Agreed. Fiction lets me say some things that would be ignored otherwise. There is something insidious about it. My stories would be off-putting in a frank manner. But through fiction, you can rest your case and expose a world that would otherwise be ignored. For example, The Kite Runner is probably the only way to learn about Afghanistan for many people.
Power over Ethernet
https://userscripts.org/scripts/show/87011

No need for Flash anymore, works on every video
Being selfish is a good thing. That's what pursuing values is.

All entrepreneurs do it. In context of trade, you only make money when you actually sell something people want and give them a good deal.

Let's look at the other side of the coin. If you try to cheat or victimize others, you are actually acting against your long-term interest; you are not being selfish. Bernie Madoff was profoundly unselfish. He sacrificed his life.

Watch out for politicians and Popes who demonize selfishness; they want to interrupt others' pursuit of values for some cause which, inevitably, is ignoble.

The expansion of the economy, which is what creates opportunity, expands the labor market, and raises the standard of living, turns on allowing people to pursue their values.

This, and its converse, is demonstrated empirically over and over since the Industrial Revolution. People are poorer in direct proportion to how socialist their country is. (And the US, with a stagnant underclass, is actually quite close to Sweden these days in terms of regulation and wealth redistribution).

That is why it's important to reclaim the word "selfishness," not just let people equate it with short-term victimization of others.
Anyone know a good "hacker news for programmers?"
Carmack is not one of the business guys, but he creates massive opportunities for them. That's the magic the GP is referring to.
I generally use three fingers swipe to the left.
How to demolish your software project with style
Well, PNaCl is poorly specified, difficult to implement for other browser vendors, and relies on a single implementation.