skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
PS: this is wrt to "likes" vs the facebook ad part of the post

Not to mention that Facebook has drastically throttled updates pushed from pages to a users timeline, making the whole concept pretty useless unless you pay them (I know, I know, capitalism at its finest).

About a year or two ago, each update that came from our page (auto update from an rss feed) would be seen by 100 - 300 people, now we're lucky if 30 people see an update, usually its more like 7 - 15.

Whats the point?
> There seems to be no quick way to liquidate that much wealth without destroying some in the process.

That's not actually wealth that exists being destroyed, that's a poor measure of the wealth represented by a stockpile being revealed to be poor. The quoted market price of a unit (which is basically the marginal price of the last/next unit sold) times units held is not an accurate measure of the total value (wealth) represented by a stockpile of a marketable asset.
Introducing Dashboard.js
You can have the best test coverage in the world backed by a great CI culture but if porting something is a huge time investment, it may still be a huge time investment.

The right way to port is this: You make a rewriting engine that does the porting for you, and you develop on that, not on the port directly. The maintenance team keeps adding features to the legacy engine, but you can absorb those changes by running your rewriting engine on the whole code base.

Then, when the ported version is passing tests and looks good enough, you switch people over to the port. I've done this. It works. In fact, I know of at least one company that has based a consulting practice around this technique.
Two thoughts on this:

1) True, if it had been his own firm, he would have been a millionaire. But would he have known enough about his business at age 23 to create that same firm? I'm betting he has learned a huge amount in the last two years -- that he's much wiser and more savvy now than he was before he started this process. That wisdom will make him much better positioned to someday build his own empire than he would have been had he jumped the gun and started building without it. That's an advantage that very few 25-year-olds have.

2) OK, so his boss is a millionaire and he isn't. But what he will find as he earns more money is that there is no amount of money that is "enough." Say he goes out on his own and makes as much as his current boss does. Now he's a millionaire, but now he finds himself envious of multi-millionaires. And what he doesn't realize is that those multi-millionaires are envious of people who have hundreds of millions, and the people with hundreds of millions are envious of the people with billions... and on and on. It never ends. There is never enough.

Or as one of my favorite reads, Stephen Mitchell's translation of the Tao Te Ching (http://acc6.its.brooklyn.cuny.edu/~phalsall/texts/taote-v3.h...), puts it:

Fill your bowl to the brim
and it will spill.
Keep sharpening your knife
and it will blunt.
Chase after money and security
and your heart will never unclench.
Care about people's approval
and you will be their prisoner.

Do your work, then step back.
The only path to serenity.
I Suck And So Do You
>It's a shit source for a shit story that attracts a bunch of shits posts from people who I would describe as utter shits.

I came to HN for the tech news, but stayed for the intelligent and insightful commentary.
All layouts technically fit that description, since you have to guess once for your first move.

Beyond that, though, a hollow 3x3 ring of mines also requires guessing, since there's no way to tell whether the center square is a mine or not. There's lots of other such situations as well.
I heartily second Stiff's recommendation for Kernighan and Pike. (And being from the 80s, it assumes more of a multi-user Unix environment as apposed to a sysadmin p.o.v.)
Comparing Filesystem Performance in Virtual Machines
Absolutely. I consider that a failed acquisition -- which many companies do. Yahoo!, for example, had done this a lot in the past with their acquisitions.
Why would they refuse to take more money from people that are unwilling to use the trackers?

I can see a far future where the only people who want to refuse the trackers are reckless or awful drivers, but I can't imagine an insurance company refusing to write a contract with a driver that has a reasonable history.
It's a violation of the constitution for a private company to collect data on a product that they sell you, when they tell you ahead of time they'll be collecting that data?

Wow, those framers thought of everything.
He's stuck in the success trap. You've detailed a list that has very little actual correlation to fulfillment. Those are all issues related to security, comfort, and a lifelong desire to one day avoid work.

I wrote a couple pieces on this at startupathlete.com.

Protip: millions of $ =/= success. Ask any millionaire what they would wish for and it's not another million $.

That being said, one of the best questions to ask when someone is in a rut is, 'if money was no object, if you had millions in the bank, what would you be doing'. The follow up, 'why aren't you doing that', will always have some excuse about money, which is bullshit. It's about fear, security, and risk tolerance.

The happiest people I know have the stones to risk their pride, lose all their stuff, and live with mistakes. The saddest people I know spend their later lives regretting the risks they never took.

Wish you both the best of luck.
On the other hand, the rate the software gets outdated these days is taxing in a way. It makes me feel happy when I receive a support e-mail for a project that I thought dead for a long time: "Hey, somebody is still using that thing I hacked 8 years ago!"
I would "fight back" but I have a job.

Who am I kidding? I would not fight back even if I did have the time. Even if this were not horseshit. I would be dicking around with golang and flagging banal questions on StackExchange.
True, you have to dive your mind into the article to follow along as it has a dense content writing style.
Having read over the years many of these kind of articles I thought this is one of the best aggregated information in a single article. Each sentences carries lots of deep experience. In my opinion well done.
I also found the article to be lacking. The overemphasis on "income-generating" assets does indeed reflect a misunderstanding of any sort of risk profile, as does the "buy and pray" moniker.

Income-generating assets do have a place in your portfolio, but certainly should not be the majority especially if you are so far away from retirement. As you mentioned, as one ages the allocation can be changed. Towards retirement and into it, income-generation should have a much bigger proportion as it better reflects one's needs.
I did not know Aaron, but in my mind, I knew Aaron not as an activist, although he was. I knew Aaron as an architect, an engineer, a programmer, a visionary. I'm sure he talked, I'm sure he protested and I'm sure he did many other things, but to me what Aaron did was build the future. He literally built a small part of the future, using computers and algorithms. You can take a thousand activists--tens of thousands--but at the end of the month, if none of them build anything, there will be nothing left after they leave. Not even words.

What would Aaron do? Would Aaron have just passively asked for people to come forward? Would he have asked everyone to post some icon everywhere? Some forgettable meme?

Or would he have created something? Something that maybe wouldn't be obvious to the likes of us, to the likes of the EFF and The New Yorker? Something explosive (figuratively, Ms. Ortiz, figuratively)? Something evolutionary? Would he have banged out some code that would make even die hard Wikipedians feel unwise?

I don't know. I really don't. I don't even know what A/B testing means. But if no one else does, I have a feeling this is going to suck.

Edit: I didn't even know downvoting was possible on HN, but hey, if haters aren't hating then you're doing it wrong
You supposedly value legroom, but you're not willing to spend the two minutes it takes to do the research yourself? I don't think you actually value legroom.

In case you just thought it was much harder to discover than it actually is, check out seatguru.com.
Strange that the joke most popular with my friends has not been quoted yet. It's about the programmer who goes to bed and places two glasses by the bedside: one with water, in case he wants to drink at night, and the other empty, in case he does not.
She has a Fan page, and was trying to by ads? This doesn't sound like 'Sharing a weight loss' story, it sounds like selling a book.
I feel like the more we talk about it, the more everyone becomes desensitized to the U.S. surveillance problem. Then we get the public at large just rolling their eyes and saying "Oh, another paranoid lunatic wants to take over the government".

I want to do more than just like stuff on facebook... hopefully this will present something more tangible. I signed up for the "Add a banner to your site" list. I can tell ~15k visitors about this over the next month at least.
Then it ignores the reality of the law which is very specific regarding the difference between American citizens and the rest of the world. Not that the NSA cares either way.
I do web development, and I think in terms of Big-O notation almost every day.

I remember talking with a colleague once who had written some really slow code. He needed to test whether a specific foo was part of a collection of foos, and his collection was an array. Well, that test is O(n), which means it gets slower and slower as your array grows. I said it should be a set or hash, to make the operation O(1), and he had no idea those had different performance behavior. I was shocked. This is about the simplest application of time complexity imaginable, and he had a degree and 5 years of experience.

You should study data structures not so you can implement a linked list (though you ought to do that in your studies), but so you can reason about what your code will do when you have 1000 products/users/whatevers, 100,000, 10,000,000, etc.

As an aside, an interview question I once heard: You have a program that stores the full text of books. Each book is stored in memory as a binary tree of pages. For a book of n pages, what is the time complexity to print all the pages?
> ” The People” don't want to own companies, they want enough money to feed their families.

Actually, no. They want to feed their families, period.

Dumping a lot of money on people's hand to buy food doesn't necessarily solve the issue because spending = inflation.
Let your freak flag fly! (not just for you, but so everyone else does too)
Yay, slacktivism!

-----

edit: I wrote the above because there was no clear "call to action" other than changing one's Facebook profile picture (seriously?) but, according to the "Open Letter" [0], I guess we're all supposed to call our legislators that day.

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7037532
Not sure what is more mind blowing, that a "startup" can offer to pay someone 500k, or that Google thinks a programmer is worth $3M. Or, that I just fell for some click bait garbage and if the story is remotely true it must be a senior exec, not a "programmer."
A Business Card that plays Simon Says
What do you mean "now"? That was the first thing I said to you.

So you are trolling, and you still haven't pointed out such a rule.
Audio software company Waves starts accepting Bitcoin
I see what the GP is talking about though, and would probably explain it as "fight" being used as a malapropism, not as a rallying ethic. That is, calling something "fighting" which is pretty much the furthest thing from it, rather than exhorting people to fight in whatever way they deem fit.
If you're looking for a stable language you shouldn't use Rust right now. The language is still changing every few days.

If you have a bit more time to spend it's fun, though -- I spent a lot of time in the IRC channel. The people in #rust are really helpful and will answer all your pointer questions.
You make a good point, but let's not pretend that crashes due to speed are "one-time" events. There is a certain roadway near where I live that frequently has these types of crashes. Lowering the speed limit doesn't help of course (these people are interested in obeying any posted limit).
"If Aaron were alive, he'd be on the front lines, fighting against a world in which governments observe, collect, and analyze our every digital action."

While government surveillance and open access are both information issues, we definitely should not be construing what he would or wouldn't believe about revelations that were made after his death.

If we're taking a literal interpretation of his Guerilla Open Access Manifesto, he may well be on the front lines fighting for a world with zero privacy from anyone.
"Perfect enforcement would rapidly reduce the number of stupid and nonsensical laws on the books"

And if that doesn't turn out to be correct, we end up in a totalitarian regime.
Related to A - there's an old quote from John Wanamaker, father of advertising: "Half the money I spend on advertising is wasted; the trouble is I don't know which half." It may not be clear to anyone (even Coke themselves) whether facebook advertising, or any other channel, is effective; they just know their total efforts are working very well.
The Dirty Secret About 4K: Content Owners Can’t Afford The Bandwidth Costs
A set doesn't suffer anything, only individuals suffer.

Some women (say 80%, for concreteness) have suffered because they are women. Consider the set WM consisting of those 80%, plus a random 20% of men. WM has the same statistical properties as W - it's members have suffered harms due to being a member of the set of suffering women + random people, and this group is also 50% of Britain. Is WM due the same moral consideration as W?

You can't use only the statistical properties of a subset to determine it's moral weight. For nearly any statistic you can think of, there are massive (i.e., 2^bignum >> population of earth) numbers of statistically identical subsets.
They do not allow ad photos which promote an idealized physical appearance. This is the most awesome thing I’ve ever seen of Facebook. If only all media channels would do the same!
#ifdef GetAHearingAid

Stolen from the Bad C Pun Contest in the C/C++ User's Journal, in 1992. But I've never forgotten it.
Improving Ranking of Twitter Handles Search
2014: The year of encryption
I hope you guys won't stop at pushing just for the USA Freedom Act, which sounds pretty decent, but not like it's going far enough. To me Rush Holt's Surveillance State Repeal Act sounded close to ideal, but he's going to need some co-sponsors for it.

Ron Wyden, Mark Udall and Rand Paul's bill also I think sounded better than the USA Freedom Act. I always forget its name because they chose a pretty bad and long one ("intelligence oversight something"). So I hope you keep working on passing those (or others like it), too, and don't stop at the USA Freedom Act (or try getting some amendments to that pushed, too).
This sounds very much like the bug at http://connect.microsoft.com/IE/feedback/details/808033/ie11...

The (surprising) solution is to first assign a space character, then the empty string.

So (I'm guessing), in that http://jsfiddle.net/dahjelle/zVjfY/ code, change

field.value = clearValue;

to

field.value = ' '; field.value = clearValue;
Philadelphia Brewing Co. to Accept Bitcoin
It appears to be nothing but slactivism.

At least everyone involved will fee like they did something.
How to make smart, fast decisions (that you’ll still be happy with in 10 years)
Vim plugin to highlight words to avoid in tech writing
Finally bitcoin has a purpose in my life.
Interesting insight into perseverance!
Am I the only one bothered by how many people are invoking Aaron's ghost? The intent might be pure, but it really bugs me when people speak for the dead.

And let's not forget, Aaron didn't pass away, he committed suicide. Case related stressors may have caused this, but it's also not right to make him the poster child for every anti-government/anti NSA campaign on the Internet.
Yeah, let's fight online surveillance through facebook, google and the other NSA-approved social media.

How about instead we save some energy and invest it in better encryption and security?
The upside is that I see very few sponsored posts in my timeline.
The second portion of the post which explains how to capture traffic leaving your device is more informative and probably should have been the main thesis rather than focusing on Foursquare's non-surprising use of constant geo location updates.
React inlines event handlers since it manages them through it's virtual event system.

For more information on why react breaks preconceived notions of best practices I recommend checking out http://2013.jsconf.eu/speakers/pete-hunt-react-rethinking-be...
Tell that to any adjunct professor you happen to meet.
> This is bbc news, not fox news. I expect better.

Seeing how bbc 'news' have covered the NSA scandal so far [1] I would no longer say there's much difference between bbc and fox. Both are establishment mouthpieces, while one is quite blatant and the other more subtle.

You could perhaps argue that fox 'news' spectators are mostly clueless brainwashed Americans while bbc 'news' still has a strong following among all levels of English society.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f1Zvo8N3G94
I know very little of this competition, but it's possible that's a case of a non-representative training set rather than overfitting.

Learning fluent English doesn't teach you Portuguese.
Yes.

You can only really rebase onto one remote branch. If two people are working on feature branch PRJ-123-awesome-feature, then you both rebase onto origin/PRJ-123-awesome-feature. You have to merge with master if you wish to keep in sync.

Prior to one of you pushing to master you can opt to do a final rebase onto master, but I've always kept these long-running branches in history. I too try to avoid cluttering history with too many merge commits, but it's a very different thing if these long-running feature branches wind up as merges in history.
I predict they will have to deal with a lot of fraud especially while they are guaranteeing prices sight-unseen.

What happens if the the item isn't what I say it is? Can the buyer get their money back? What if the item is perfect but the buyer claims there's something wrong with it and issues a chargeback?

The reason I don't sell electronics on eBay is because there are a crazy number of scam artists who know how to exploit the safeguards. In my last eBay sale (for all time), a guy bought my old cell phone, claimed it was broken, and then mailed me back a different broken phone of the same model. That is a difficult threat to guard against. Based on their site, I'm not convinced they've spent nearly enough time thinking about this... they are not just connecting buyers and sellers; they are going to be on the hook for any chargebacks.
slick UI. Deals look good too.
If it works for you then great, but it's kind of crazy to me that anyone would call this "simple". That strikes me as disingenuous, to say the least.
> Do they have a mortgage on the rental property? That makes things much harder to break even.

You have it backwards. Borrowing money at 4.5% is way cheaper than using your own money. There is opportunity cost to tying up your own money in the real estate. Real estate loans allow you to leverage your 15-20% down. It was really bad when they let you leverage using 3.5% down.
This blog piece has a lot of rich learnings for financial well being. What I disagree with is the author's stance on savings. It is dangerous because the 'unwealthy' minds are going to read 'saving is not good' as 'go spend'
as a non-US citizen this won't change anything for me.

"free society" here should be really re-worded to "free US society".

as long as there is a intelligence apparatus in the US at all, spying on the rest of the world will continue. by definition.

the NSA is monitoring all internet traffic as it would be really hard to know beforehand if it only pertains to US citizens. not sure what exactly you're trying to achieve here. the NSA either monitors facebook or it doesn't.
Whereas you get the smug satisfaction of feeling superior to people who are actually doing anything at all.
Why Your Job Description Should Read More Like a Tweet
Stop reading startup sites every day.
Automated Testing of Responsive Design
MBPr 15" @ 2880 * 1800, scaled to the smallest possible size. It's awesome.
How about companies pledge to never hire NSA staff? Close the accounts of and ban surveillance supporters and their families?
I find it interesting that very few people know about the "cd -" command (goto previous directory). I find it invaluable, but never see anyone else use it (this tutorial included).
Thank you - I've been meaning to think that process through. I'll be doing this from now on if I'm in the same situation rather than 'ah feck it, commit it'!
>> > The best part of Go is the fact that it forces error checking.

> Except that it doesn't.

Depending on the value of "forces" used. Maybe "forces" in the sense of "only viable option for someone not programming foolishly."
Good to hear that the Dell prices have not actually increased to $1,600. I was a bit shocked by that when I searched at Newegg. Still, it's exceedingly frustrating that the price of a 30" professional monitor has been locked at $1,100 since they were introduced in 2005 (or was it even earlier?).

I suppose you and I just disagree on what is good and what is not. I've personally used the Seiki for the past few days. We just got them this week. I value the quantity of pixels and price a little more than color accuracy, balance, and uniformity. I want even better specs. I want 60Hz most of all. But given the balance of priorities, I personally think the scale tips toward size and resolution to maximize my own productivity. 60 Hz though, I'll take it in a heartbeat.

The blog entry is just my opinion and I understand your opinion is strongly opposed. That's fine.

Answers: (1) A total of about 6 hours a day for the past few days. They just arrived. Key quality of life improvements have been using the firmware patch to allow the backlight to be dimmed and using dark color schemes. Most of us were using dark color schemes already since we prefer those at any resolution. (2) I'm not going to bother answering this in detail. From the reactions I've seen, we're very happy with the upgrade.

Seiki has a lot of room for improvement. I take it your opinion is that they have a huge amount of improving to do. I really want the whole desktop display market to improve dramatically. It has been stagnant for so long that I really treasure these recent developments. As much as I acknowledge this display's weaknesses, I see it as a harbinger of some long overdue innovation. For that alone I am very happy.
It was enabled for me by default, but the iOS location icon is always displayed on the Springboard when it's being used.

Also, Foursquare will constantly send you notifications saying "It looks like you're near Foobar, would you like to check in?". They make it very, very obvious that they're tracking your location.

It was a quick matter of going into preferences and looking to see what applications used location services recently to fix things up. The biggest offenders were Foursquare and the Google app. I ended up turning Google off completely, and disabled Foursquare except for when I have the app open. Problem solved.
So, what's your plan re: pushing legislation? Have you identified who in Congress will serve as a champion for your cause? Are there any lists of specific demands that any good legislation would address? Changing your avatar on Facebook, Twitter, or G+ won't sway anyone.