skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe 2.7 or 3.1 of the ACM code?

2.7 Improve public understanding of computing and its consequences.

Computing professionals have a responsibility to share technical knowledge with the public by encouraging understanding of computing, including the impacts of computer systems and their limitations. This imperative implies an obligation to counter any false views related to computing.

3.1 Articulate social responsibilities of members of an organizational unit and encourage full acceptance of those responsibilities.

Because organizations of all kinds have impacts on the public, they must accept responsibilities to society. Organizational procedures and attitudes oriented toward quality and the welfare of society will reduce harm to members of the public, thereby serving public interest and fulfilling social responsibility. Therefore,organizational leaders must encourage full participation in meeting social responsibilities as well as quality performance.

Or number one on IEEE?

1. to accept responsibility in making decisions consistent with the safety, health, and welfare of the public, and to disclose promptly factors that might endanger the public or the environment;

Given, what's "best for the public" is up for debate (at least according to the people doing the collecting).
stackexchange.com is bigger than stackoverflow.com.

Source:
https://www.quantcast.com/stackexchange.com?country=US
https://www.quantcast.com/stackoverflow.com?country=US
Rather like conflating the Tamil Tigers and the Lions Club.

That is hilarious.

I know humor is underappreciated here, but that deserves a million upvotes.
sweet - for an account or invite? if the latter, email me (address above in this thread)

right now photos are hosted by us. haven't considered linking to photos elsewhere yet, mainly since we need to run them thru a few processing steps.
Then they should quit rather than work for an unethical employer.
I don't know why you write a hacker news comment for this- I often see instances where hacker news has incorrect information.

Your comment is pretty irrelevant, if you cannot find errors in the current page. Yes Wikipedia is not accurate for some things, yet what's wrong with the article posted?
Also, although I might sound like a hypocrite, if you find something wrong on wikipedia go ahead and change it.
I don't. I carry my passwords (via 1Password) on my phone, so I'll just use that.
Thanks - although reading that page it looks more like the technical aspects than the etiquette.
Typekit understandably wants to make sure that no one else uses the font bundles, so they check the referrer. If you strip referrers it'll block the response and eventually it'll timeout, and show using the default system font.

The choice is a delay for the few people who block referrers or a flash of unstyled content for everyone else.
Thanks for the suggestion, I'll look into that!
This looks fantastic. I make gifs out of pictures I take on burst mode and these would be beyond perfect for presenting them. (try it at a party, it's much more fun than static pictures, also for posed group shots)

I'm waiting for flexible color solar-powered wireless e-ink displays to give the full "Harry Potter" moving-picture effect, but they're a few years out!
Sounds like a Lightning connector.
There's a bit of a catch here; because EC2 mining is so obviously unprofitable there aren't any calculators that support it. NVIDIA Tesla M2050 mines almost 100 MH/s; a cg1.4xlarge has two M2050s for ~$1,500/month and it generates about $5/month: http://mining.thegenesisblock.com/a/0803c4e57d

There was an article about Litecoin being profitable the other day, though. (I regard Litecoin as being even more of a bubble than Bitcoin, but you could hedge by periodically selling your LTC for BTC.)
I'm not sure what a beef jerky subscription is. Are you going to send them Beef Jerky daily/weekly/monthly from now on?
Seriously? "Snuck" is incorrect? That's the first time I hear about this.
Ah, that was a 9/11 thing?
There is probably a good number of visits from people not "at work" per se, like students and hobbyists working on things in their free time.
I'll never forget when I was taking CS in high school and we were forced out of the lab for a week and had class in the library. Our teacher spent the week teaching computer programming ethics. We talked about a lot of stuff, as you can probably imagine, but I was glad to have someone show me what he believed a good path to take with development was. In the end we all had to write a paper that he graded pretty damn aggressively for a cs class. Thats the only time in all my cs education that computer programming ethics in this context came up. Definitely agree it deserves more conversation.
> Yet he is unable to get an iPhone.

Maybe this has more to do with Apple really not caring about setting up an entire secured structure to match what BlackBerry offers just to have the President be their walking advertisement.
Unlike Java for example, C is very lax about what the different types mean. In particular, there is no guarantee about the size of int/double except that it is at least as large as short/float respectively. Some implementations of the standard library impose a requirement that DBL_DIG in float.h be no less than 10, which avr-gcc fails to satisfy, but I don't believe the core language imposes that requirement.
None on Intel chips, but on virtual any other chip you'd get SIGBUS by referencing e.g. an N-bit datum not alinged on N/8-byte boundaries.
Source? I'd love to read about that.
If you don't track your time, I suggest you do. Knowing there's a record of what I'm _really_ doing each day pushes/inspires me to make that record a good one.

I started out using Harvest, but since I'm less interested in 'what project(s) did I work on today' and more interested in 'how productive was I today?', I've switched to RescueTime.

RescueTime isn't new (YC 08) but they do have an updated interface, so it feels much better than the first time I played with it years back.

Pro-tip: I created a Fluid ssb pointed at my RescueTime dashboard that I then pinned to my menubar, so I can check my stats anytime. Here's the icon that makes it look good: http://bit.ly/1bhewsA
It's nice that they're finally fixing this, but I feel like Gruber's take [1] is probably right. It's a little odd that there are no pictures, but this won't be released until 2016. As he points out that's four years after the Lightning connector came out.

It's been dead obvious since USB first came out that having a cable that worked either way would have been easier to plug in. We've been through a couple of revisions of the smaller connectors (A, mini-B, micro-B, the new USB3 version) but you won't start to see this for another two+ years.

[1] http://daringfireball.net/linked/2013/12/04/usb-lightning
Why tablet market growth will drop off in three years
IDC forecasts the tablet growth tsunami will calm to single digits in 2017. A good reason for that could be improvements in computer-human interaction, which will make mobile devices with larger screens less vital.
Keep your fiancee and son, keep the feeling of pride for "finish line" accomplishment.

The rest will come by itself.
Rewriting can be great as long as you take all the things Joel notes into account and decide it is still the right decision for your project.
You correctly recognize the key issue that "basic rights" are intrinsically a restriction on democracy. The question is: what counts as "basic rights"? In the U.S., we have a basic set of rights: those enumerated in the Constitution itself plus those that exist as a result of long historical practice plus those recognized by the Supreme Court based on a combination of the other two sources. In a Constitutional republic, rights aren't static, but they're slow to evolve.

Cyber-libertarianism, at least as espoused by many today, embraces a dramatically broader notion of rights. You don't just have the classic rights of Englishmen (life, liberty, and property), but the right to privacy, the right to free and anonymous exchange of information, the right to tinker with your cell phone, the right to turn your apartment into a hotel, the right to transfer money freely and anonymously, etc. Cyber-libertarians tend to believe that government should be restrained from acting unless absolutely necessary, and almost never believe that government action is necessary when it comes to cyberspace. The more rights you recognize, and the broader those rights, the narrower the scope of democratic self determination.

This viewpoint is the diametric opposite of constitutional republicanism. Under that view, government, by the will of the majority, can act so long as it does not invade certain "basic rights." Under cyber-libertarianism, the assumption is reversed. Government is barred from acting unless there is an immensely pressing justification.
I don't understand a large part of the brouhaha. In a sense, static memory allocation feels much more natural than bunch of mallocs in random places around the code - to me.

Maybe it's because quite many years ago I used to do some very narrow scope algorithms in C for some code that needed high reliability.

How could such code even have mallocs? You would need to then know that at no point the memory requested would be greater than memory available. So if you already know that, why not allocate the memory beforehand?

Your example, a feature used for 0.1% of product life. Certainly you couldn't tolerate that the software hung to a memory error 0.1% of the time? Hence if the product supports the feature, then it must always work, and thus memory must always be reserved for it. I don't understand how it would really work otherwise.

The other end of the spectrum, the "modern way" even in high performance tasks, with reckless java object creation and jvm memory shuffling almost makes me sick. Then everybody's tuning the garbage collectors to avoid constant full gc. It's heuristics. Oracle makes drastic changes to the GC defaults between minor releases.

While there perhaps aren't maybe many direct memory bugs in such code, the code does become very unpredictable.

Then to fix that it's again going to preallocated static pools and primitives and self implemented cache cleaning and what else, and you've lost quite a lot of your java style.
Privacy isn't exactly binary, though, so the point still stands that you should probably not leak to ValleyWag.

Privacy is like a game of 20 Questions where the adversary intends to hone in on the full identity. Regardless of whether the source is identified, it is still unfathomably sloppy on ValleyWag's part in protecting their sources.
I am so glad to see this list! Although we are intelligent beings, we emerged from the wilderness, molded by eons of Natural Selection. It is naive to think that our intellect is pure, that it has somehow emerged uncolored by our origins. More likely, our minds are highly biased and carefully calibrated toward protecting our own individual survival. This is a list of what makes us humans. Someday humanity might create artificial forms of intelligence, but it will no more resemble our own intelligence than a plane resembles a bird. This is a list of all the mental quirks that define us.
Commander In Chief vs. faceless private.

1 of 1 vs. 1 of 766,984.

Nuclear weapons vs. M16.
> "Your character can never be essentially injured except by your own acts."

In a similar direction, but I think more powerful, is this one:

"If any one speak ill of you, let your life be so virtuous that none will believe him."
naps, probably. they make the early afternoon a bit more like the early morning (most efficient part of my day), for me.
Ah, I see. Quite silly in my opinion but thanks for the answer. I'm fine with how it is -- there isn't a reason to protect the minority in this case: bigger fish to fry. :)
Sure, you're probably more knowledgeable about it than me. I was only observing that "things used to be better" is a constant theme and when one has nostalgia for a certain time, it's worth noting that people active then were reminiscing about an even earlier time.
What do you think the role of the President is, according to the Constitution?
I should of known its a loosing battle.
The Snackwell's effect (2009)
It's not though, that's the entire point. All usages except irregardless, which is well on its way, are considered correct, though not so in the past.

Also, snuck is the last accepted irregular verb, rather than pronoun.
The hardest habit to pick up for me was to become a morning person ! I was a night owl going to bed at 3-4 am and then wake up in the afternoon. To break this cycle I tried melatonin, f.lux and trying to eat less before sleeping... nothing worked. My solution was to go 24h without sleep and go to bed really early 8-9 pm and put an alarm for 6:30, then I now go to bed before 10 pm and don't have any problem to wake up really early and I find that my productivity level as increased more than ever ! (The coffee help too ;) )

I feel more healthy now instead of waking up to the night, I start my day with a bright sky !
The purpose of memorizing the passwords is
a) so you always have access to them
b) so they are safe

The idea is that password managers should meet both these goals as well.
Lessons Learned from 5 Years of SaaS… and $1 Million in Revenue
Small thing: I think you mean the Play Store, not the App Store
"Only things outside of the standard" includes many libraries necessary to allow cross-platform compatibility.
Emotions aren't a choice, but emotional awareness and control can be. When annoyed or upset, stopping to ask yourself why you're annoyed or upset can be very beneficial. The old "stop, take a deep breath, and count to 10" advice from grade school has some merit. (You don't literally have to stop, take a deep breath, and count to ten. But making a conscious effort to be aware of one's emotions is a worthwhile exercise.)
Yes and no; an array of predetermined colours - say ones deemed to be print-safe - could address that.

And even if it weren't perfect, narrowing it down to, say, a green domain of colours would still be valuable.
Someone did that in the UK. He was only ever caught because a background check for a promotion revealed he was married to someone on the no fly list.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2011/02/uk_immigratio...
He's also not allowed to walk across the street from the White House to have a beer at the local bar, or drive his own car around DC because of the restrictions the Secret Service places on him.
Integrated graphics catching up with desktop cards? You mean the cards that need 300W by themselves in your PC tower? You must be joking. Its not because integated graphic cards are not as piss poor as they were that the gap is narrowing. The high end moves fast too.
BuzzFeed, too.

I believe the entire Gawker network is blocked.
Maybe he didn't choose. He's the President, not the Dear Leader.
No it takes a life of its own. Get help if you need it.
The Talk Of The Town
Surviving the Dark Side of Affiliate Marketing
Here are all the videos embedded on the conf site: http://conf.couchdb.org/
It's a pretty big one. DoD certified iPhones only for nonsensitive work (low-level clearance stuff). In contrast, the sort of work POTUS does will most certainly be sensitive. For things of that sort, the operating system AND the hardware are extensively vetted.
Please stop piping curl(1) to sh(1)
LOVEINT
http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/08/23/nsa-officers-someti...
...and sometimes they do something completely different. One company that changed focus and held onto their brand name is the UK's Whitbread. They had a virtual monopoly on beer and public houses in southern England up until some time in the 1980's, then, for no obvious reason, they sold all of the brewing interests, bought a coffee chain, a few hotels and some gyms. They kept onto the Whitbread name which was once synonymous with beer even though they moved so far away from the stuff that they most definitely were not the same company. There is no 'consumer recognition' as they trade on the High Street with different names - 'Costa Coffee' etc. - but they do trade on the stock market as Whitbread.

Back to the point in hand, Apple have somehow managed to make themselves de-facto for musicians, video editors and people that draw pretty pictures in Photoshop. These are the 'halo' users and mere mortals that think of themselves as possibly being creative one day buy Apple in part because that is what the creative professionals use. The fact they get no further than 'Crazy Birds' on their iPad Air is neither here or there.

HP should have worked on a similar strategy but in the 'technicial/scientific' sphere rather than the 'creative' sphere. They should have listened to and looked after the customer base they had built up from selling things like 'scopes so that the de-facto kit to buy for anyone doing anything vaguely technical was HP. This too could have had a halo effect, so anyone studying something like engineering would instinctively want to buy HP rather than some other cheap Chinese junk.
The Wise Teacher
I haven't looked into it myself, but I did hear that there is an alternative interpretation of that experiment. Apparently the test subjects did as they were asked, up until the very last prompt used, which was the strongest. Less a request and more a demand. As soon as the prompts stopped appealing to the test subjects desire to further science or not fuck up the experiment, but began making demands, the test subjects almost universally balked.

This interpretation isn't really any less disturbing, since it suggests that people will commit atrocities and simultaneously believe that they are doing the right thing. Perhaps it also says something about the general public's trust of, not necessarily authority figures, but rather scientists.

Reading up on this has been on my back-burner for a while, this interpretation might be well considered and discarded, but I thought I'd throw it out there.

I believe this is related: http://www.is.wayne.edu/MNISSANI/PAGEPUB/Milgram.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/01/030120100451.ht...

"Fungus-growing ants practice agriculture and have been doing so for the past 50 million years according to research published in the Jan. 17 issue of Science. These ants not only grow fungus gardens underground for food but also have adapted to handling parasitic "weeds" that infect their crops."
Woah thanks for this great post. I was considering doing an F&F equity round but had no idea about the potential tax implications. Reading this made me realize I need to tread a bit more carefully and do some more research.
How is this different/better from Apple's connector?
Ev provided edits to my article O_o

I published an article to Medium earlier today, which I submitted to the 'on startups' collection curated by Ev. I'm not sure if it was actually Ev or another Medium employee, but I'm impressed at minimum to the level of commitment these guys are providing to the Collections element.
They should have designed and released it with USB 3. 2016 is way too late. The damage has already been done.
What good will that do against a keylogger?
Is that not common sense?
> This health care debate is nothing new, and has been in the works for at least 20 years. One could say that health care reform was inevitable

The debate over universal health insurance at least 60 years old (Eisenhower's reinsurance proposal was intended to acheive that by providing public insurance to insurers against overly-high expenses), and the history of efforts in the domain provides no basis to conclude that something would have been adopted in the 2009-2012 term no matter who was elected in 2008.

It might have been "inevitable" eventually (though even that there is little evidence supporting), but whether it would have been now, or 20 years from now, or another 60 years before major steps were taken toward universal coverage, well, that's another question.
Too bad :(
Did Ben actually confirm he was leaving? If you read hist post on the subject he says:

"I'm probably going to step back from libuv and node.js core development."

Did I miss something?
That doesn't really go far enough: If people don't buy more of the products being advertised as a result of the ad then the advertisers will stop running the ads and WaPo will lose revenue. That's not fair to WaPo.

Everyone should promise to buy whatever product is being advertised or at least convince themselves that their brain patterns have been changed so that they are more likely to buy the product in the future.

It's only fair to WaPo.
yeah because we had scp and rsync. Hell even dropbox.
Apps and shortsighted or ignorant programming practices by app devs are a big source of security holes for iOS.
surely no
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/aug/24/nsa-analysts-ab...
I have the feeling that the default used to be true, and when the default was later switched to false, it was done by this option to not change the behavior of legacy configurations.
Valleywag articles are auto banned on HN because they are too waffly.

Maybe try turning it off, then, after that, turning it back on again.
Greenspan Says Bitcoin a Bubble Without Intrinsic Currency Value
Could be referring to the micro-exodus of users after Final Cut X came out, but then of all my friends in film and video none have switched from Mac since then, only to...
No snark necessary, Justin. It was a genuine question. I just didn't understand why it was so highly upvoted and why this was so interesting to people.
This. Except I like to carry a marble notebook around in my backpack to track my time. It feels less restrictive IMO.
Play didn't invent the iteratee concept, Oleg Kiselyov did (http://okmij.org/ftp/Streams.html). I asked myself the same question, as I'm doing the reactive programming course on Coursera, where Rx was the topic of the last couple weeks. I came to the conclusion that Rx focuses on side-effects while iteratees concentrate on iterative calculations. Iteratees calculate a result while Rx-observers just perform side-effects.
Maybe someone else can further elaborate on this topic.
The google effect is a very interesting one that I have noticed happening to myself. It is interesting to know that it is happening to other people.
Ha, that's me. I'll post questions on how to write code, not just problems I can't work around. Then I go off and slack off, and wait until someone answers it. My version of "I'm compiling".
Not quite. I can represent pi in a finite way, like so: π. That's about as finite as it gets!

However, if you fix a finite alphabet beforehand, you will never be able to describe all real numbers using strings constructed from this alphabet. You can always add a new symbol to your alphabet to represent some new irrational number, but no matter how many symbols you add you'll never be able to reach "every" irrational number.

Put another way, for a given alphabet there's no way to represent every irrational number in a finite way. However, you could have an irrational number that can be finitely represented in one alphabet, but unable to be finitely represented in another.
I like the one about how if you cannot be employed, rather than being idle you should cultivate your mind. True now more than ever with all our access to online university education etc.
Issac Roth is not an asshole. The quote about firing Ben was a joke that didn't translate well.
Well he has a point, while the kernel interfaces remain consistent, most userspace libraries have the habit of breaking compatibility every few years/get replaced altogether.

It's easier to run the Windows version of early Linux games like Unreal through wine than getting the native version to work.
Haha awesome. We need to step up our game! We're primarily frontend designer/developers and this is our first node.js project :)
They own a subsidiary, called Certicom that owns nearly all of the key patents surrounding Elliptic Curve Cryptography.
True and Stack Overflow is #1 in North Korea.
Legacy cruft that no one cares about anymore. That's why Wayland exists.