skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One of the greatest joys I find is when something of an outrageous reputation actually lives up to that reputation. The Beatles, SICP, a couple examples. Shakespeare is perhaps the greatest example.

Some people have argued that nobody should read Shakespeare until after forty. I'm younger than that, but it's true that one of the greatest pleasures of reading great literature is recognition - RE-cognition - and you have to live some before you can recognize something in a piece of art.
I always admire and am inspired by people like this. One of the (many) thoughts I have after being impressed and jealous is what did he do before this. Before he evolved to Homo Ludens was he Homo Sapiens like us? Did he have a middle-class career in engineering and saved/invested assiduously? Does he still work? Remotely? Did he have family money? Win the lottery?

I think it takes a particular trait to be able to acquire enough money to be able to stop all that and get away and play rather than a) not making enough to retire early or b) never being able to give up striving for more.
I don't know about renting but perhaps check the return policy on a few websites (Amazon is usually pretty good) and try one of those after buying it and if you don't like it return it.
Is this how you get to the top of a HN comment thread? by posting something totally ignorant?

Why is the text in your post not completely faded away yet? There must me more of your type around here than I thought.

Where was it said that if you unlock your subsidized phone that you no longer had to pay for it? The fact that it is subsidized means that you are under contract for it. Break the contract and what happens? You pay for the rest of the phone plus more in early termination fees. It's YOUR PHONE once you sign the contract and you are going to pay for it one way or another. Stop paying and you are going to have collection agencies stalking you, won't be able to register your car or get any type of credit, and your wages garnished.

Don't ever have pin stripes painted on that sports car you are paying off. Don't ever replace the flooring on the home you are mortgaging. Try logic sometime.
Would you mind explaining how you think antitrust laws have any bearing on this issue?
In particular, what Denmark considers really barbaric are long sentences: 10, 20, 30+ years are quite unusual. Most sentences are less than 2 years, with a handful of severe sentences in the high single-digit range.
Indie/small/medium-sized videogame studios with forums.

Alternatively, if you're not the sort of company that naturally engenders an active community, Twitter. It's not perfect, but it's a far better experience for customers who may want to keep up with what you're doing but don't want a new email to delete every week.
thanks! I've been delaying the read of Brothers Karamazov. I'll look for the Steinbeck's.
VP9 is licensed for all MPEG-LA patents, so it has that going for it.
Doesn't MIT's Scratch [1] accomplish this? I was going to default to this. I'm wondering how much reading, writing and math my kids need to have before starting this. Reading complex sentences and addition and multiplication of single digits? (Wrong thread to get started on what EWD [2] thinks on this...)

[1] http://scratch.mit.edu

[2] http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD10xx/EW...
How do fake followers affect your ability to use twitter?

Too, this problem you've described isn't one that seems common - at least a google search only turns up your comments about it.

Given this, it seems the priorities are about right...
"Want to see if your users are opening their emails? Pay to display your message in gmail's promotions tab."
Decoding Reality: The Universe as Quantum Information.
Air strike kills 124,711 civillians on purpose
Not really, at least not in 1.3.

As http://golang.org/s/go13nacl describes, supporting Chrome is not a goal for 1.3 release, only being able to run nacl-sandboxed executables from command line.
I just took a road trip and looked at one of Bill Gates previous favorite books list, and picked "Tap Dancing to Work: Warren Buffett on Practically Everything, 1966-2012". I've always wanted to know more about Mr. Buffet, so I thought this would be a great choice.

I almost drove off the road listening to him talking about bonds vs stocks and percentages. It was interesting, but definitely not a road trip book.

That said, I finished Snow Crash on the trip, and it was a great book. I think I preferred Cryptonomicon a bit more, but some of the theories in Snow Crash were incredible, and way before their time. Hiro Protagonist and YT are also awesome characters.
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For now Bush does not travel by public planes, because of some places like Switzerland he [1] can be persecuted for war /torture crimes.

If US forces truly invade Iraq to bring justice and democracy, then let's hope one day Iraqiis government will succeed in building that. And send a justified drone after Bush.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/02/05/bush-switzerland-to...
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Twitter's Block Policy Change Hurts Only The Victims Of Abuse
How many college-educated liberal folks with a non-engineering background do you know? It's all but impossible to avoid him in these circles.

(I say this as a philosophy degree-holding liberal pinko who is is exasperated by Gladwell. To be fair, I'm more exasperated with the culture of cherry-picking near-banalities wrapped in an engaging narrative that he and the TED folks have propagated rather than their work itself.)
Ask.com and Yahoo are the fastest growing sources of organic search traffic
I thought it curious that it included a space at the end (0x20), before I ever decoded it. Anyway, here's my contribution to the hex-to-binary Rosetta thread.

echo '416D65726963612043616E20436F646520' | xxd -p -r

--> 'America Can Code '
Browser based or Sandboxed secure apps in golang -  Native Client Support
Bot traffic is up to 61.5% of all website traffic
I'm not in to video circles anymore, but I was under the impression the existing open source implementations were way better. The reason this code is significant is Cisco is providing licensed binaries.
or d) Nobody is big/strong/"stupid" enough to fuck with US.. at least not officially to start a war - so US can do whatever they want.
> This makes it very contextual to the "game level" where it plays.

Totally agree, that's why VG music cannot be considered real music, most of the time. It would not make sense to listen to it outside of the game context.
Perhaps a 3D graph would be interesting.

- Batch year
- Valuation
- Years to reach valuation*

* First dinner to m&a, discounting prior traction/validation.

That way, gross valuation / year can be more easily elucidated.
We use iDoneThis at Heroku. I love it so much. Thanks for building an awesome and simple tool.
I'm a huge fan of Cal Newport. I've been following his blog for years and I love his methodical approach towards deconstructing and demystifying various career related things.

Some books I read this year that stand out:

* Emperor of All Maladies (Mukherjee): Beautiful look into the most elusive disease of our generation. Mukherjee provides a biography of cancer.

* The Art of Learning (Waitzkin): I've been following Josh Waitzkin since I was a little kid. I fell in love with his Chessmaster series. Waitzkin was the inspiration for (and child actor in) Searching for Bobby Fischer. A chess prodigy and former IM, Waitzkin deconstructs his learning style and how it allowed him to become a leading Tai Chi martial artist.

* Humble Pie: Autobiography of Gordon Ramsay. I am a fan and found it pretty honest (although his cockiness leaks in a bit). It's a very quick read.
Back in the 1970s/1980s, I think people did things like this with old car alternators -- probably a lot less efficient. One of the startup community people at MIT (Richard Shyduroff) built something like this at an old cannery in Maine.

I'd love to build something like this in WA (to go along with a grid connection, solar PV, solar hot water, and wind). With an artificial pond and pumping, it might even be a good energy storage solution, although finding a place with a natural stream would be better (and mountainside land is cheaper, generally, since only a small fraction is buildable.)
The Silo Saga, by Hugh Howey. Originally self-published and released as short Kindle "Singles", the first section of the series is collected in "Wool". The Omnibus collects the first five singles, and is $6 on Amazon[1]... but if you want to test it out, the first single he released is still available for free in the Kindle store. It ranks among the best zero dollars I spent all year.

Behind that, I really enjoyed "White Noise" by Don Delillo, though I did have some problems with characterization (basically, all the characters were the author), and Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism

http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Part-One-Hugh-Howey-ebook/dp/B005...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Wool-Omnibus-Silo-Saga-ebook/dp/B0071X...
Ask HN: Any resources to learn how to effectively use commenting?
The Minecraft clone in C thread a couple of days ago had a discussion about commenting and it got me thinking about the fact that I don't know how to effectively use comments while writing code (I'm mostly self-taught and don't work for a tech company, yet). Does anyone have any tips or know of good resources where one can learn this?
Getting the font right is the easy part. Figuring out the formerly occluded pixels in the background image is the hard part.
Cool! After we had it for a year or so, said uncle put Windows 95 on it. Lost the speakerphone app and Lode Runner Online during the process, but gained the late 90s web. I downloaded that Lode Runner from the creators site around 2004[1], and had my first retro computing moment.

It wasn't upgraded (except possibly RAM), and we had it from about 1995/6 until 1999, when my dad got a Pentium 166 that was surplus from an office move.

[1] http://www.daggert.net/Folio/Programming/Presage/LodeRunner/...
In the "Semantic Versioning Specification", it's seems inconsistent when you look at #4 and #5 and compare it to rule #1 at the top. Changes in x (x.y.z) should be reserved for "when you make incompatible API changes", but the #5 in the spec forces you to change x (to 1) even in some situations where there may not be "incompatible API changes".
Oculus VR raises $75M
RCM: rc file (dotfile) management
Well, he is the Andrew Carnegie of our generation. I would say he has helped a very large number of people and been an inspiration to even more, especially outside of the US.
For me, it's a tie between Daemon by Daniel Suarez and The Lost Fleet series by Jack Campbell.
Used in the original meaning: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Begging_the_question
related: checkout CLJS in Qt (via QmL) on YouTube.
Actually, the most serious reason (and the reason why not displaying images was introduced in the first place for unknown senders) was the potential for exploits triggered via embedded images, e.g. http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2004/09/17/exploit_for_mic... or even just using it to bypass firewalls by having someone inside an organization execute a GET request (via img src=) from a browser inside the firewall. (P.S. This is one reason why write operations should always use POST...)
They all seem to die over time. I had high hopes for http://quant.ly, unfortunately it died off earlier this year after a 2-3 year run.
This makes it sound like they want another VM alongside existing JS VMs specifically for Dart. Isn't that making the same mistake again of not specifying a general purpose VM?
Just curious, but why have request be different from context? The request is the context.
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It was a little disappointing that the game only had one puzzle which required that you die in order to solve it.
How to get rid of YouTube comments, Make YouTube faster.
I hope this really takes off.

RIP Andrew Reisse (http://www.oculusvr.com/blog/andrew-reisse-in-memoriam/)
It seems that even FTTN is too good for Australia
I can attest to this. It's ridiculous how unreliable most contractors and tradesmen are. Our house is about 25 years old so we often need to have a bit of work done to fix things and we are often looking for various contractors and I honestly can say that about half of them never show up after agreeing to do the job. Some of them won't even answer their phone and others will try to reschedule indefinitely and still never show up.

I totally wouldn't have a problem paying top dollar for someone who is reliable and respectful of my time.
As far as I can tell, Gmail is not returning open data until the email is actually opened. Gmail is pretty good about identifying spam and putting it into recipients spam folders which is usually not opened.
I'm pretty sure this already exists -- I've gotten spam with obviously random noise, lines, etc. added to the background.

My assumption is that it's making the images unique.
Best of luck. Sounds like you're doing it for all the right reasons. I hope that I'm not doing the same thing 40 years from now, either, to be honest.
After only a couple minutes with the low resolution dev kit, I was sold. I can't wait for this to hit the consumer market.
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Gmail already delivers paid advertisements through the promotions tab. I'm sure Google gives those advertisers plenty of metrics
A Stream of Music, Not Revenue
I don't think it's nearly so hard to understand.

Does the software solve your problem? Then it's good software. If not, then what are you paying the programmers for, anyway?
Baldur's Gate 2. It's so good that a studio re-made it to work on modern computers- it just came out last month:

http://www.baldursgateii.com/

(I have no relation other than a happy customer)
If you go to the trouble to figure out how to disable the "auto-load images" setting, then they're just as blocked as before.

If you accept the new default, it's far easier for them to track you, because Google will kindly be loading their tracking images on your behalf when you open the email, every time.
You need to read better fiction. Look around you, speculative science fiction is what inspired the world you live in; it created this reality. You have global communications via satellite because Author C Clark wrote a piece of fiction that sprung the idea upon the world. Fiction generates ideas, to think that somehow doesn't matter because it hasn't happened yet is massively missing the point.
Woman A works January 1 to March 31, has baby, quits work. On her $100,000 salary, she only makes 3 months' worth, meaning she _earned_ ~$25k, while her male counterpart makes $100k.

Woman B works January 1 to March 31, has baby, takes 6 weeks off paid, and another 8 weeks off unpaid, makes only $84k while her male counterpart makes $100k.
neat stuff !

There already seems a lot of traction there.
How Gmail's Image Caching Affects Tracking, short form:

* Loading images is now enabled by default rather than disabled by default, meaning that a larger portion of emails will be tracked, because it's more likely tracking images will be loaded.

* Images are now loaded through a proxy, which means that all tracking images will no longer provide information like cookies, IP associated with the account, etc - the only information they'll provide is "this specific email was viewed by someone, somewhere."

There is still an option to disable loading images by default. Toggling that option still results in images being loaded through a proxy, so the second item above still applies.

As far as privacy goes, the potential level of privacy has increased (the proxy now allows you to load images if you desire without leaking IP etc.). The average level of privacy from the change is a mixed bag - more basic tracking (open tracking) will occur due to the change of default, but with the trade off that more advanced tracking (e.g. tracking IPs, setting cookies for correlation with non-email site visits a.k.a. remarketing) will no longer be possible.

There is no net change to how hard it is to verify whether an address is a valid GMail address - that's already possible by simply talking to a Google mail server.
I agree on this because most of the news I hear today are bad news..
Where Does the World's Electricity Come From?
From the google post about why they don't display images by default: "We did this to protect you from unknown senders who might try to use images to compromise the security of your computer or mobile device."

Surely it's this same technology google themselves use more than anyone else to identify users?
It is, but there's a cap of $6.5M/year (and they'd get some of that back as payment for their patents in the pool)
Social Photo Startup We Heart It Partners With Teen Vogue
I make note of the books I read in 1-2 sittings because I can't put them down. This year these were:

Five Billion Years of Solitude - Lee Billings
Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
Grand Ambition: An Extraordinary Yacht, the People Who Built It, and the Millionaire Who Can't Really Afford It - G. Bruce Knecht
That reads more like the GPL than a definition of what open source means. What, then, do you call code that provides the source but does not allow you free distribution of both the source & binaries? "The source is open but it's not open source"?
I was shocked by that quote from someone in such a position of power and influence. As kids we are taught that "non-fiction" is "true" and that "fiction" is "made-up stories" but I would hope that most of us, as we get through life, eventually figure out that nether of those statements is accurate.

Camus said it best: 'Fiction is the lie through which we tell the truth.'
I came here to say basically the same thing, so I'm going to chime in in support of what you're saying. If I'm a marketer and I send an email with a link to the image, and Google caches it in order to resend it for their own purposes (even if that's to shield their users from spam), how is that not a copyright violation? In this case, caching is no different than copying; and the kind of caching Google is doing in this instance is different than the caching an individual does via his browser, since the individual downloaded the image in the original instance.
There is really no such thing as a perfect general purpose VM that can run everything. This is touched upon in the Dart FAQ

https://www.dartlang.org/support/faq.html#q-why-didnt-google...

and many others, for example me

http://mozakai.blogspot.com/2013/05/the-elusive-universal-we...
theguardian.com excepted, of course.
I don't understand I guess, how did the change to how block work allow 1800 follower requests in that the old way block worked kept out?
Ideally, people having kids wouldn't cause the wage gap to grow. But the push for women to downshift is really brutal

I'm not particularly inclined to believe that neglecting your kids for the sake of your career is the answer.
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Apparently Google does not always fetch the images.

But even if they did, this is still more information leakage than the old default (don't load images).

Spammers who email via botnets and the like, with false return addresses, doesn't get bouncebacks to clean their lists.

But if you (or Google, on your behalf) give them a hand by reliably loading their tracking image, that flags your email as a valid one.

If you weren't actually reading the email, that's still a false positive I don't think you'd benefit by giving.
"NYC won’t go down without a fight"

Unfortunately, I expect their fight to hinge on regulatory capture rather than innovation.
In what way is using LLVM bitcode (PNaCL) at all similar to ActiveX?

Yeah yeah I get it. I like asm.js as much as the next person; I just wish this whole PNaCl-is-ActiveX meme would seriously go away. It's willful ignorance.

FWIW, I think it's fantastic that asm.js is turning out great. I also think that PNaCl is a worthy technical achievement. Two ways of solving the same problem given different constraints. I think Mozilla has a better chance and agree with their reasoning re- browser compatibility and third-party adoption. Still doesn't mean I'm going to go around calling PNaCl ActiveX when it clearly isn't.
My daughter is in a Montessori kindergarten. Seeing how they teach math (which goes so far as introducing the concepts of exponents), it would be very easy to apply the same techniques for teaching that age binary notation & arithmetic, simple logic processing, and programming. Independently on the iPad she's learning the essentials of programming and algebra via apps Kodable and DragonBox.
If your passions don't pay well, you're probably not making something people want.
Wage gap, not total pay gap. The article is talking about what women make per hour versus men. This means that a woman starting off in her 20s, without a child, would (on average) earn 93 cents for every dollar a man makes.
Does anyone know if this is just on the web client, or if it also affects emails retrieved from Gmail via POP/IMAP?

I'm not too keen on the idea of Gmail modifying the body of emails sent to me.
Aren't people just going to start fuzzing the images? This sounds like the beginning of another arms race.
I think what you're saying is that if a company were sold for $40m, employee #1 wouldn't get enough to buy such a house. That would depend on how much stock he or she got and how much he or she was diluted by later investments. The cases I've seen fall on both sides of the line, but there are plenty above it.

But also, we're not talking about 42 companies with valuations of $40m. $40m is the lower bound.
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Are you gonna learn about dating by reading romantic novels or real life stories?

Well, if you are straight guy, you could learn a lot (everything) about what women want by carefully reading the romance novels they read.

There's also this embedded assumption in your statement and in BG's that non-fiction tells some sort of factual truth about "real life." Negatory.
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I've used the low res dev kit and the immersion it provides it great.

I believe this will have a ton of applications from VR conferencing to going to virtual concerts to even spectating sports with an isometric view of the field instead of the 2d projection.
Good god, it's 2013, use java script to flip through a slideshow.
I wish that they would show how these compare to the recommended dietary intake of the micronutrients.
Great, so it's time to get rid of affirmative action, right?
I'm fascinated by the A16Z investment strategy. It looks like they will put in any kind of money into companies deemed as winners (GitHub, Oculus), with some small investments thrown in here and there just so they're still considered a VC and not a private equity fund of sorts. I think it's going to work very well for them in the long term, and possibly change the investment landscape for future VC funds.

Either you go huge and buy a stake in the winners at all costs, or you go wide and super early like YC. It does leave a large seed/series A financing gap someone will need to close, and I suspect their returns won't be as stellar as those in the extreme ends of companies financing.
Not saying it's really bad, just saying it's not good.

Think of it as, what if his 40 neighbours did it?

It's like using wood to power you house in the forest. If it's juts you the harm is hard to see and not huge in the scheme of things, but it is harm and if everyone did it that's really bad.

> And by reducing the water velocity

This is a bad thing that's part of the issue, your removing energy from the stream which changes it's dynamics.

But compared to the house, yep perhaps not to bad.