skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You asked me a bunch of questions that I don't for one second believe were not rhetorical and based on some assumptions that you've pretty obviously (and incorrectly) made about me, what I said, and what I meant. So no, I don't really care to answer them, for the same reason that I won't request that you propose an alternative to C++.

And by the way, please learn to separate swearing, sarcasm, or whatever it is that you seem to associate with emotion, from emotion. They're rhetorical devices. Oddly enough, you seem to be the one getting emotional here. Or perhaps you consider your spontaneously-hostile defense of JavaScript to have been the rational course of action?

I asked you to clarify an apparent circular argument you had made (I wrote it in JavaScript, because I targeted the browser, because I wrote it in JavaScript...), expressed that the browser seemed to me an unnatural platform for a game (but not necessarily a poor one), you shot back a smart-ass remark about how lots of people use browsers (no shit), and here we are, arguing about how much I (apparently) hate JavaScript.

I think I'm done here. Judging by your perception of me, you seem to be arguing with someone else anyway, so I'll go ahead and leave you to it.
Did the article say these devices use WiFi, or do they use something else?
Nimrod is GC'd (reference counting is a GC, and DRC has pauses), or unsafe if you don't use GC. It's not in quite the same space as Rust.
"I've watched A LOT of "I used to code" managers, and almost to a [PERSON], they are a disasters."
If the Affordable Care Act providers deliver what they seem to promise, it's tremendously helpful to small-scale entrepreneurship. Pre-ACA, once you had a family with any health claim history it became increasingly difficult, expensive and invasive to obtain individual health insurance. In some states, maternity coverage was not offered in any usable form. In short, the system was heavily in favor of being a slave to any company large enough to have a group plan. Not only does the ACA makes it easy with its "no questions asked" approach, pricing is 30-50% less than the real cost of similar pre-ACA products. Also, if you have a slow business year, you can get a substantial premium refund via the tax credit, making insurance no longer a primary reason to "get a job."
"Small entities are just in a bad leverage position, especially when their "product" depends heavily on someone else's very expensive and hard to reproduce infrastructure"

Small entities already pay their fair share for access to that infrastructure. Have you forgotten that startups have to pay for their Internet service? The Internet is not a fancy cable TV system where service providers negotiate contracts with websites. Nobody needs "leverage" on the Internet; you are limited by your technical capabilities, not by your negotiating skills, and that is what makes the Internet a great step forward.

Net neutrality is why we do not talk about "paying for Verizon access" or "paying for Comcast access," but rather, "Paying for Internet access."
Comments like this make me think that maybe all the "acting naive about foreign affairs, diplomacy, and statecraft" is not actually acting.

In the entire human history of diplomatic relations, nations have always attempted to spy on one another. Diplomatic relations are not based on trust, they are based on shared beliefs, interests, and goals.
> and one knew all this but had the interpersonal skills of a serial killer. The creepy kind, not the mesmerizing kind.

Wow, I didn't like that line at all. What an arbitrary, immature, and harsh criteria to dismiss someone.
Why does anyone lend credence to speedtest.net scores, particularly in the context of a net neutrality discussion?
Every data point is sacred
I don't think I'm unique and special. A hallmark of a healthy marriage is that you're willing to drop everything if your spouse genuinely needs you, and lots of people are married. If you're a parent, you're going to drop everything if your children genuinely need you. Lots of people are on call in their professional lives.

To me, the biggest difference between childhood and adulthood is that adults have real responsibilities that are more important than silly games.
Too rambling. Seriously... 8000 words, and in a fairly stream-of-consciousness/unstructered style. Sometimes I came to a new paragraph and it felt so disconnected that I was wondering if I was reading a new entry.

But maybe the attention span of Web users was longer in 2005.
One of our local tech mentors here in Des Moines released a free Excel file for these sorts of projections (an accompanying book to explain the models, etc is also available from Amazon).

You can download here: http://www.startupmodels.com/download/

I haven't used it myself but I know that it has helped quite a few companies work through their financial projections around here. It's at least a decent starting point.

(More info: http://www.siliconprairienews.com/2011/10/startup-models-see... )
I actually have an amazing ISP (start.ca, uses Rogers' cable network, but with their own peering infrastructure behind it)

I always hear about people saying "I can't play YouTube videos!" or like the comments above this "Netflix keeps buffering!". I've had absolutely zero issues like that.

But, I'm starting to think that people's issues with their home internet comes down to their network setup. I have the fast Asus RT-N66u with Tomato firmware, good QoS rules, Apple TV wired and not wireless, etc.

Maybe some of these folks have the crappy gateway from the ISP, or really bad wireless environments, or bad cabling.

Case in point, I was at a person's house the other day who wasn't even aware that their DSL connection from Bell was disconnecting every 5-10 mins for 30secs or so (probably due to bad phone lines in the old building).

But they went on watching Netflix and checking their email totally unaware. So Netflix drops it quality or buffers a little then continues on it's way and people go "Oh man, my ISP sucks! Netflix is always buffering!"

I bet there's a good business in going around to people's homes to fix network issues.
You're drunk JavaScript, go home.
He Ultimate Cheat Sheet For Starting And Running a Business
That weird valley is essentially where you become a high school teacher. Most of the time if you're talking to that few people, it's because you're trying to give a lesson in some form or other.

I've spoken in front of large groups of students of all disciplines, large groups of business types and small to mid size groups of scientists. Large in this case is several hundred.

Undergrads get bored easily, but you can make it fun. Scientists are hard, simply because they know their stuff and get a knack for asking really annoying questions, the ones you didn't quite prepare for. Business people are simple in principle - everything has to be dirt simple (could your Mum understand it?) and usually to the point (what are you selling and why?). The hard part for business talks is that usually you can't be remotely technical because people will tune out.

With very few people it's easy to be flexible - odds are you know them reasonably well or you know enough about them that you can throw in a bit of banter, make it fun and respond to their queries well.

Larger groups you're just a drop in the ocean. The bigger the talk, usually the less time there is for interaction. So you can do your spiel, have a couple of short questions and leave. I find they're fairly easy as everyone blurs together.

In between is hard. You're acutely aware if people get bored - they won't hide it like small groups. You may have to answer fairly involved questions too. The only way, as ever, is to practice and make sure you know what you're talking about back to front.
What about Scrypt-based crypto currencies like Litecoin? Will this tech help?
Ah, I misunderstood and feel silly. My apologies.
Gotcha, didn't realize, noted for next time.
I'm a massive Nimrod fan, but those safety guarantees are void once you use manual memory management. What Rust gives you is safety with memory management. Nimrods GC and type system are both really powerful, but Araq and I were chatting about Rusts type system on irc for a reason...
It's not that tough in NYC if you go with lots of roommates, or are willing to take the bus from cheap NJ living each morning. Even after I stopped taking so much equity instead of cash and moved into the city proper, I still managed a basement apartment in Chelsea for only $1,500/month. Something like Washington heights at the top of the island would probably be half that.
It would certainly make me happier.
> All the ‘problems’ Mother solves are not really problems and it doesn’t seem to serve any truly useful purpose.

Having just returned home from visiting my grandmother a few moments before I looked at this, the first thing that jumped out at me was "Did you take your pills?"

Fortunately, she is in good health but, like most elderly folks, I imagine, has a number of medications that she takes. Some are taken once a day, others twice, and there might even be some taken more frequently.

I, myself, am still in "recovery mode" after being on the losing end of a head-on motorcycle vs. Jeep collision. I'm not several different medications any more but I was for a good while and it was difficult for me to keep track of them.

I'll grant you that there are alternative solutions to these problems -- a family member who lives with my grandmother simply writes down (on paper!) when she takes what, for example, and you mentioned another (weekly pill container) -- but for the busy/active/always on-the-go person, I can certainly see them filling a need.
I'm probably in the minority here, but I think the answer is "so use a GC". The number of people on earth that I would trust with my life to correctly manage memory in a complex application is very small.
In my personal experience with education IT, all those concerns are problems with actual contractors :/
Arguably the telecoms too. They benefit from an increased requirement for their services, but that only happens as new and compelling services are created and catch on. Under what conditions are these services most likely to come about? Well, we've been able to compare networks where content and carrier have ties, and neutral networks. Think AOL versus the web. We have some idea which one does better.

Introducing extra data fees isn't necessarily the walled garden, I suppose, but depending on the structure, it walks us back some degree on the spectrum between the web and AOL.
Success Pollution
Browserling now has Internet Explorer 11
The webpage showing this off is impossible to read without watching animations to get the full content. It is downright obnoxious.

Summary for those who don't want to sift through the reams of PR: It is a set of fitbits that communicate with a device about the size of a tennis ball that is turns communicates with your phone. Instead of just tracking you; you "stick" the things to random stupid things like your toothbrush or fridge.

Why? Because we apparently need to know how many times our obnoxious kids leave the fridge door open, and we want people to base their brushing worth on weather they brushed off their enamel or not.

This reminds me of something my mother said about 1 week ago. She said "Why don't they just make it so your shoes weigh you whenever you are standing up?" That would be more useful than this.
Thanks, those are good answers.
my observed rule of thumb is that there are more bad <foo> than good <food> for any given <foo>
We all may be suffering from a case of Fortune 100 CEO syndrome. That is, we all wish our lives are so busy and important that we need personal assistants managing our lives.

So we buy these products that make us feel more important. It documents what we do, and it tells back our story through a dashboard, in an autobiographical way, as if we're some kind of celebrities.

But are we that important?
What if everyone of the ones he's watched were men?
I'm a fan of Snowden, but I agree. He needs to be more selective in what he releases.
Ask HN: Should I take the plunge and learn how to program with Bloc.io?
A bit more info... I'm a self-taught self-made mobile PM with UX chops, a bit of design tricks up my sleeve and strength in business/strategy. Over the years, I've felt paralyzed, inferior and, dare I say it, 'stupid' because I can't program and wouldn't know where to start.

One of the most compelling reasons I want to do this 12-week bootcamp is I think it might be a good return on investment. Putting on my resume then I have experience in web development, and the ability to build projects and prototypes that express my ideas...would be amazing.

I also strongly believe programming teaches you how to think.

On the other hand, a lot of people are discouraging me from this program (bloc.io's 12 week bootcamp). It is definitely expensive--over my budget, it's a lot of work (which I"m willing to do), and the skeptics wonder what this course will even bring me as far as value. Will I even learn to be a web developer? My goal isn't to be the best developer, it's simply to learn how to program--whether it be slow/fast, good bad. I may never even use the skills I learn professionally, but is the journey and knowledge I gain not worth it?
So, any chances of finding such a device out in the wild? Suggestions for detecting the most likely used type of radio transmissions? How can they transmit over 5Km with USB power and no antenna?
Today it is just a well publicly known feature of modern Intel CPU (officially it is stated to be disabled on some CPUs :)

http://www.realvnc.com/products/viewerplus/

"Computers with particular Intel® Core™ vPro™ processors enjoy the benefit of a VNC-compatible Server embedded directly onto the chip, enabling permanent remote access and control. A RealVNC collaboration with Intel's ground-breaking hardware has produced VNC Viewer Plus, able to connect even if the computer is powered off, or has no functioning operating system."
Oh please. Take your fear mongering elsewhere.
I'd imagine that it's very close to Nest's vision now.
Obama to Place Some Restraints on Surveillance
> The number of people on earth that I would trust with my life to correctly manage memory in a complex application is very small.

The Rust compiler checks it for you, so you don't have to trust anyone. :)
This tax "analysis" doesn't even pass the smell test and appears to be based on the assumption that Motorola losses will continue at the Q3 '12 record level and makes hay of the $700 of reduced taxes Google would have to pay in that case while ignoring the actual $2 bln losses a year that would pile up on the side.
Silver Lining from New App Development Report by Gartner
I don't take a lot of pictures so I just end up storing them on my hdd and back them up with a small flash drive
It's all about measurable goals and improvements, not about importance.
I'm surprised it doesn't have wireless. Places I've lived always have the router tucked away in some inaccessible closet.
I suggest equipping yourself with some mathematical computation software. Mathematica is my favorite. There are some free, opensource alternatives like ipython which seems to be pretty popular lately.
It helps to grasp things much more quickly by simply playing around with stuff. And you also get to write some code as a bonus. Say when I was learning economics I'd simply code all the concepts and charts in Mathematica and then play around with different input values to see what happens.
mathworld.wolfram.com is a great resource for understanding mathematical concepts, very short, fairly formal descriptions with references. Helps to expose yourself to mathematical language even if you're confused at first. Wikipedia articles tend to be too long and all over the place.
Past the introduction, it is mostly python-specific content.
Um, no. That common carriers aren't liable for something doesn't imply non-common carriers are liable. Moreover, IANAL, but I can't imagine common carriers are exempt from prosecution for criminal conspiracy.
You don't need to trust people using Rust, you just trust the type system.

Admittedly, the memory safety features of the type system haven't been formally verified, but this is a goal, and there is a rather large piece of in-source documentation: http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/rustc/middle/borrowck... (I haven't read it, so I have no idea if it will make any sense to someone who doesn't know Rust.)
I gotta wonder if the batteries on the 787 are made in China.
The silicon spheres for the Avogadro project were polished by a single Australian guy.

From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilogram#Avogadro_project):

These spheres are among the roundest man-made objects in the world. If the best of these spheres were scaled to the size of Earth, its high point—a continent-size area—would rise to a maximum elevation of 2.4 meters above "sea level".

^ that IS impressive ^
I did a quick model with this tonight after a full day of investor pitches, and even though I'm exhausted I got about a 70% accurate model done in about 5 minutes. I know how to use Excel, but I just wouldn't have gotten that done in 5 minutes with Excel. It was helpful, that's the best thing I can say about anything.
Net neutrality never existed to begin with. It is a pipe dream of those who think Americans still live in the 'Land of the free'.

Ever wondered why youtube videos seems to work for shit over some connections that are rated at a high throughput on speed tests? Yep... data discrimination in action. Especially on providers that also provide television? Hmmm... I wonder why a tv provider would want to slow down youtube. Duh.

Also, for those who think net neutrality is a good thing; grow up. It is a good thing. Some thing actually -are- more important than others. I would prefer that I can actually get regular html pages at high speed while some dumbass is streaming a 4k video of some random off joke on the work connection. I realize this is just a local network example, but it ties all the way to the globe if you think about it for a bit.

The end of net neutrality would be the end of spam. Why? Because if you charge a slight amount for email, it removes spammers ability to send 20 billion of them. They've tried this repeatedly though and it never took on. So long as the internet is a wild west of chaos, there can be no real improvement on the quality of the whole system.

Keep smoking weed and believing. If you smoke enough maybe you'll start believing that the world really follows whatever delusional model you are believing in.
Because it won't tell you if there's humidity inside the bag that could potentially harm your device.
Silica gel isn't electronics. It'll change color when it detects moisture.
120,000/year + a percentage of revenue. I give my engineers 130k + a slightly smaller split.
Are they TRYING to scare me?
US allies see this as industrial espionage not overreach
From what I've heard, in parts of Asia it's common for antibiotics to be sold over the counter, and a lot of the worst drug-resistant strains come out of the developing world. It's a much bigger deal than American agriculture, given the classes of antibiotics involved.
There are too many of them to be wire pads.
It's been 3 hours and I'm still singing Danzig.
Information is the most dangerous thing there is.
Not.

There is a simple reason why PSD to HTML will continue for a long while. The reason is that HTML still sucks ass and can't do half of the things you could do is basic desktop publishing software from 15 years ago.

Sure you -could- do it all with active javascript, but with plain HTML and CSS, there are a ridiculous number of simple desktop designs that you just can't do without jumping through ridiculous crazy fucked up hoops.

Design tools are here to stay, because they are designed for designers. Why don't people get this.

Sure HTML is getting better; but it is held back and strangled to death by demanded backwards compatibility. Dump HTML and move onto something else that isn't shit. Please.
> Also mind blowing is to wonder if the inequality of our economy is simply a reflection of this. If 8 out of 10 candidates for X job are shockingly incompetent, can we complain that the the wealth of the world is owned by so few?

You could make the argument that these people are attempting to get jobs above their skill level, or outside of a field which they could excel in provided training. The problem of course is this silly free will thing, but that doesn't mean that wealth should be as unequal as it is.
The "common public interest" should not be limited to the US public. (even if it were, I'd argue that they are only mutually exclusive in the short term).

IMHO, the public should know everything its government is doing on its behalf. A more appropriate question would be how long the government is allowed to keep its secrets.

I don't dispute that there is definite realpolitik value in keeping secrets when trying to achieve short-term gains. However defaulting prevents that society in the future from determining if your actions were just when done in their name. Every time a politician acts in the name of myself and my fellow citizens, it reflects on me. On the other hand, I and my fellow citizens voted that person in to get things done on my behalf. The eventual publication of all governmental secrets keeps governments honest long term. After aboute ~10 years, a secret poorly received when made public after the fact no longer reflects poorly on the current officials in government (unless those responsible are still involved in government). What it does do is allow society to have a debate about whether they approve in hindsight of a government's actions.

If the government wants to keep a certain category of secret indefinitely, it should specifically ask the public if they acquiesce via a majority vote. A future public should be able to overturn that vote and make something public. Unilaterally affording government officials the right to make things secret indefinitely is a path to tyranny. The truth keeps governments honest.

Does such a policy put a country at a disadvantage when competing against adversaries without such a policy? Yes, it does, in the short term, since any governmental actor must consider the potential for fallout when their actions/policies enter the public domain. On the other hand, there are long term game theoretic advantages of holding your country to a higher standard. It establishes a basis upon which the population of other democratic countries judge their own government.

The US used to have this positive influence upon the World. There was a time when citizens of less free countries would look to the US and ask themselves, "Why can't my country be free like the US?". That question is no longer asked because we are no longer a guiding light for the world to follow, instead we've become the ship on the beach that has become the lighthouse to the sea.

Long-term, citizens the whole world over are going to be better off by establishing a precedence that everything their governments do in their name (from the local and state levels to the federal) will eventually become public.
Shouldn't it be possible/feasible to form Python 2.7 and backport bugs/performance improvements from the 3.x branch? I am surprised that someone like Redhat has not done this yet.

The Python community will not like it, but if there is enough demand/contributors to make it so, surely they will not refuse patches?
Couldn't you get the "Round trip, SFO-PVG: $700" ticket and then use it only one way PVG-SFO?
It does beg the question - why? Would this be a good base image for deployment of Node apps onto a Docker host, for example?
When a PR person can be more famous than their clients - the world is upside down.

On the other hand, finally a woman in technology that doesn't have to depend on her looks to get by.
This looks really cool, though I had no idea what this product did based on their bloated landing/homepage.

Just a few picture examples with blurbs of text & a demo video would suffice rather then an infographic type of website.