skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ahhhh.... this is one of my biggest pet peeves. We're using the same words to mean wildly different things, and then arguing past each other about meaning. Every discussion thread I have seen on the matter has quickly brought up the relevant actual semantics, but people still want to argue.

It's a shame that ColinWright's post, linked by him below, got nuked by the moderators because it contains the most relevant information on the matter directly from an accredited mathematics professor, Terry Tao [0]. This is what should gratifies one's intellectual curiosity, not a series of posts that argue about the boring parts.

[0] http://terrytao.wordpress.com/2010/04/10/the-euler-maclaurin...
> Do you think they believe it?

Depends on what you mean by "they" and "it". The numberphile folks undoubtedly know that they are playing fast and loose with the rules. The readers of Slate almost certainly don't know it.

> There is solid math going on here.

No, there isn't. There is solid math going on in complex analysis where you have concepts like analytic extensions that produce unintuitive but useful and (more importantly) consistent results. But that is NOT what this video is about. This video is about using high school math to "prove" a result that is simply not true under the rules of high school math. The only thing separating this from outright crackpottery is that the result they derive happens to look like one that can be legitimately derived under the rules of complex analysis and analytic extensions. But that's a mighty thin reed. It doesn't change the fact that they present the result as if it were true under the rules of high school math, and under those rules it isn't true.

EDIT: Terry Tao's article is excellent, and I am appalled (but, sadly, not surprised) that your submission was killed.

Hm, my own submission seems to have fallen off the front page awfully quickly.

EDIT2: I have been corresponding with an HN mod who informed me that my submission triggered the voting ring detector. (It was a false positive, which ought to worry someone at YC.) Also, the original Terry Tao submission has now been unkilled. I encourage you to upvote it.
"Fisher Price is the most high-risk manufacturer in terms of recalls"

High-risk implies that for every toy released, there is a high probability that it will be recalled. The post fails to provide any data indicating this is true for Fisher Price. It is most likely that Fisher Price and Mattel simply sell a significantly wider array of toys.

For all we know, based on this data, Fisher Price could just as possibly be the lowest-risk manufacturer.
My response to Amazon, if they do this, is something I call predictive returns. As in, I predict I will return everything they ship to me in this manner.
At this point I don't think that the product is as important as the branding and the userbase.
I don't think Apple's success can be isolated cleanly to one pivotal variable. Steve Jobs was obsessed with product and obsessed with product marketing. Apple doesn't see product and product marketing as two wholly distinct functions, either. Most companies do -- and the fact that Apple doesn't is, in itself, a corporate strength.

People could probably quibble for days about whether Apple is a "marketing first" company, or what that phrase actually means. I think it's more apropos to say that Apple is a company that understands both product and marketing. And it understands the "full stack" of marketing in a way most tech companies do not. Apple is phenomenal at brand marketing, for instance -- not just MarCom, or advertising, or conversion optimization. A lot of its competitors relegate marketing to a series of discrete, necessary-but-evil functions, and not a pillar of corporate culture.
Video narration goês too fast to follow for some people like me
Interesting, it seems kind of like the scenario where the "web stack is the new GUI", with desktop projects like Light Table being built on Node-Webkit. You're reusing browser infrastructure for native apps.

What other alternatives are there? Apache Portable Runtime?
It's worse than that. Apparently, you need to hire people to stand around all day and run cash registers.

They should go back to the drone delivery plans, they were more thoroughly thought out.
True, just not as flexibly. Most targets that might be threatened in this way have various barriers between them and a would be RC car assasin. Although the sequence in the move "The Dead Pool" tried to envision this threat with respect to an actual vehicle target.
Yeah, it doesn't seem to be memory- or CPU-limited. My browser hard-locks for half a minute, but most major usage stats don't move.
So I'm assuming they have determined that S3 is cheaper than their own metal for actual file storage?

With S3, they don't have to physically own enough hard drives to support every user maxing out their allotment. If I started DropBox tomorrow, and a million people signed up for free accounts with 2GB, S3 would cost me $0 at first. As more and more users start to fill up their accounts, it will make more economic sense to migrate in-house (a la Backblaze storage pods).
Thanks!! Please consider adding that some of this to the Security documentation, and more prominent links to the source code as well.

I actually found your GitHub profile and should have realized that core-communication-lib is what I wanted, but it appears new and doesn't have many stars yet, so I missed it.
The frequency is the center of a 200kHz channel. The first channel is 88.0 - 88.2 MHz, thus the center is 88.1.
I agree, that most probably, Snowden broke the law (I am no expert in US laws).

But again: US gov. has double standards. When Snowden breaks a law, he will most likely be hung (or worse), but if members of Us agencies breaks hundred, thousands, even million times laws of human rights and the US constitution, they will be either promoted or get an automatic pardon from the president (as Obama did directly after election).

That stinks and is a SHAME for the whole "western world".
Or go to http://www.google.com and type into address bar:

javascript:window.location="http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230346500...

:-)

One step further is to define a new keyword search type in your browser to perform this redirect for any provided url in the future.
I'll be worried when Amazon starts hiring precogs. The question then would be, would I want something before I want it?
People write technical documents in vim?
this is going to be funny some day. when the bubble bursts.
Because a "drought" is relative. In this context it also has a legal definition.

Or do you think the definition of "drought" is independent of expectations and demand? If there was not 10 million people in LA, a huge agriculture industry, and yes, lawns in suburbia, there would be plenty of water right now in California. Relatively plenty. And hence, there would be no drought.

So yes, lawns in suburbia have everything to do with a "naturally-occurring", but in reality created by human demand, drought.
Personal pitch: Get rid of the "ginormous" f-ing shelves that push sharp front edges (yes, get rid of those, too) into the users' wrists, especially when working mobile at a table or workspace whose height and resultant forearm position cannot be optimized.

Some of us still need to do significant amounts of, you know, typing, which is one reason we are on a laptop and not a tablet or whatever.

If you're going to stick a keyboard on your device, make it comfortable and ergonomic.

/grump
It would seem that their costs would be "monstrous", but they are in a position to work out a unique deal with Amazon based on their consistent usage at scale.

I'd be curious to know how much of a volume discount they get.
Could someone explain what the point of Dropbox as a company is now? They literally own their space, everyone loves them, and I'm sure they're making money hand-over-fist.

However, they raised another round? Why?
1. You can add methods to other people's types.

2. My solution is not incomplete. It solves the stated problem exactly. If you need to sort the objects with a different criteria, implement the interface with whichever criteria you want. It's not so difficult. Generics will not save you from having to implement some kind of comparison criteria in other languages.

3. You can add more methods to the interface for an out of place sort.

4. If you need to implement a b-tree, add the methods to whichever type you need to sort appropriately.

It's not that big of a problem. You will not have to up and down cast. You only have to cast a type of interface{} to your type once and only once while you are comparing.

Is your problem ideological or specific to this example?
Clojure joke:

'knock knock!'

- Who's there?

'minute of silence'

'Knock Knock!'

- Who's there!?

'another minute of silence'

- Java

- Why did you knock twice?

- I didn't, but some other suspicious guy is standing here with raised arm and mouth open.

Based on my recent Clojure on Android experience.
I finally managed to finish one! http://www.youshouldbuythese.com

I think the secret to a successful side-project is deciding on an MVP that can be built in a single weekend. I've found that I'm also much more likely to keep iterating on a project if it's already in a 'finished' state.

I seem to run out of steam or lost interest in my more ambitious side-projects, where working for a whole weekend will only get you 10% closer to a finished product.
I'm not sure if you're being deliberately hyperbolic, but I think your example is an extreme oversimplification.

More like "Joe Bob in Nowhereville, KY has this item in his wishlist. He looked at it three times in the past three days, and twice today. The last time he exhibited this pattern he bought it within two days, as have 78% of the people in this geographical region who have exhibited similar patterns. Let's ship to a local transit in prep for his order."

Actually really cool - and at least based on the summary (can't view the linked doc b/c of missing plugin of some kind) it's a business method patent as opposed to a software patent.
I'd also add:

- Allowing multiple versions of the same package in one application is asking for Cthulhu to climb out of the ocean and burn a whole in your mind and your program.
XULRunner is almost 8 years old now, it was invented for the same purpose TFA uses Chromium but it's actually documented:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/XU...
> Until no politician/President can guarantee himself a second term will they ever feel accountable to the public.

Why are we voting for second terms, then? Call for single-term presidencies.
Most Samsung Android devices come with Dropbox installed, and you get 50GB free for 2 years. With auto-upload of pictures and video, it is a great way to get people hooked. When those 2 years run out, and you have 10s of GB of pictures and videos already stored in Dropbox, $10 will be a small price to pay to keep it there.
I'm posting this from a Chromebook Pixel, which I use for all of my development. No crouton, just stock ChromeOS.

This movement is really interesting to me. If I could clone myself, I'd be working on an exokernel in Rust that just exposes a V8 VM, and uses a DOM implementation as the native drawing interface. Processes == tabs...

Of course, there's higher level work that needs to be done to expose more of the machine in JavaScript. Check out http://extensiblewebmanifesto.org/ , signed by Google, Mozilla, and W3C TAG members, as well as #extendthewebforward on Twitter.
When you have a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail...

Seriously, the case was possibly the least important part of this and they had no troubles manufacturing it.
Except if he actually had his windshield cracked it's more likely that the cops saw it than that they pulled a random car over without cause and it turned out to have a cracked windshield.
Dropbox definitely doesn't own the enterprise space. I imagine that's where they see the growth opportunity.

In the enterprise they've got different hurdles and competition.
How about that thing in the Dark Knight Batman film, where he hacks into all the cell phones and then uses reverb / echo analysis to somehow create a 3D volume rendering of the space.

They can't do that yet, right? Right?
Also of note - if youre buying a 15 inch pc laptop you now get a numeric keyboard by default whether you want it or not. This also has the side effect of making the keyboard and mousepad layout assymetric since the keyboard and mousepad are now pushed to the left to make way for the numeric keypad on the right. The only two machines I know that dont do this are the dell xps 15 and the dell m3800 but both of them are > 1800$s. Quest for the perfect laptop continues.

EDIT: other major quibble - backspace needs to be the right most key without any nearby power / other buttons. When I violently hit backspace to delete code that I know is wrong I dont want embarassments like hitting delete instead or powering off my machine.
Ok, you're right; I used the wrong term. How does that change the substance of my argument exactly?
Am I doing something wrong? When I click this link I still get paywalled. :(
X - X = 0 only if X is finite. If X is infinite, X - X can be anything.
I'm not just saying that not doing so is equivalent to leaving money on the table, I'm saying that the net costs to the economy would be greater than the revenue collected from content providers. In a certain sense the revenue collected from content providers could be seen as offsetting revenue that would otherwise be collected from subscribers, and may lead to faster deployment of network improvements. However, that neglects the full cost to the internet as a whole, which would be the increased barriers to entry for new companies.

Blagojevich got in trouble because he pushed the envelope so far, but I used the quote because it reflects the reality that not cashing in on some opportunity is equivalent to losing money, and particularly so if you have a responsibility to shareholders.
This is off topic but, what happened to your Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon [0]?

0 - http://words.steveklabnik.com/returning-to-free-software-a-g...
How good are the Topre switches, compared to the ones on the Kinesis Advantage (I'm assuming you used 'blue' ones on the Kinesis)? I'm about to get a Kinesis Advantage, and the only con that I could think of so far is that I read here an there about how the Topre switches are even nicer than the Cherry MX switches.
Startup Finance 101
Encountered quite some bugs with FF (Aurora here), most prominently the highlight wasn't updated when I moved a step forward.

Suggestion on top of that: It would be really nice to grab the whole 'firmware' and dump it to a local .hex file. If that isn't allowed for obvious reasons/by design: Fair enough.
Sorry about your experience, it should be fixed now if you would care to try it again.
Just saw this interesting post by Noa at Spotify (speaking on his own behalf) later in the thread, about the trade-off between monoculture on the one extreme, and effort spread too thin between competing solutions on the other:

https://lists.debian.org/debian-ctte/2014/01/msg00306.html
Its not crazy to want to see signs of life outside your home.

Many humans are just not conditioned to live in an artificial, concrete jungle.
Why Men Don't Want to Marry
<3 Remzi. Best Professor ever.
Betterworks missed the mark in a lot of ways, but in other ways they were doing well - but their seed round and series a were so huge, if it wasn't going to be a multi-billion dollar company it wasn't worth continuing. If you want to be a hundred million dollar company who could make your way to being a billion dollar company, do this but do it better.
Hmm, it has a much better left-control than most Thinkpads (which tend to cram fn down there, not an issue with this design). And good riddance to capslock - I'm not sure that home/end are the perfect replacement, but they're both much more useful. And honestly, the placement of home/end insert/delete etc. varies significantly from keyboard to keyboard, and we somehow manage to adapt...
HackIllinois: A student hackathon at UIUC
Course Death
No paywall link:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=site:wsj...
Cached version (no paywall)

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online....
Ad blockers: A solution or a problem?
No, the investors are buying 2% of the equity, and by paying $200 million they indicate that they estimate that all of the equity together (the whole company) is worth $10 Billion.

Return on investment would mean that the investors expect the valuation to rise, or that they derive some other kind of profit from owning the shares (sometimes patents, knowledge, influence etc).
Get the cached version at

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:online....
XULRunner is a good option to build HTML or XUL based apps. We were looking for a great cross platform library for native (c++) apps. With support for OS specific features.
There were plenty of fairly high-capacity mp3 players around before the iPod came out, and I was 25 in 2001; a target market for them.

>the clickwheel was a revolution in UX

I guess. It's pretty, at least.

>So much so that it remains, largely unchanged, on all but touchscreen ipods.

That isn't revolution, that's branding. The product had a single differentiating feature, and they've maintained it.

And iTunes was a revolution in awful, unnecessary experiences that one can have with a computer.
I use it primarily for PGP. I've been thinking about trying out Linux from Scratch with it, but haven't had the time.

I made a decision to start using the Chromebook to dogfood this particular vision of computers: I'm not happy that it involves Google, but they're the only one with an implementation that's this far along, unfortunately.

I've been meaning to write on this whole thing, haven't had the time...
How to Create “Immutable” Classes in Python
Who is going to trust Obama? Then, who is going to trust the NSA?

Only fools. James Clapper lied about what the NSA was up to, to Ron Wyden, a member of the US Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Clapper has still not been charged with anything.

There is no way to oversee an organization that only has to tell you whatever it wants to. Do people really not understand such a basic concept as this? Congress does not have special insight into what the NSA is doing. Everything Congress knows is whatever the NSA wants to tell Congress. It's all a sham. Kangaroo courts and pretend justice. As fake as all that crap North Korea shows tourists. As fake as Saddam's elections in Iraq.
That's fair, I don't think you can tease apart the product and the marketing. But the reason I find the quote strange is that the marketing depends on the product, not the other way around.
The Apple laptop keyboards are pretty fantastic.
They actually were one of the first newspapers to implement a paywall in 1997. But in recent years they allow a certain number of referring urls to break through it so that they can generate traffic from major aggregators.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paywall
You say Libertarians are focused on "unjust property laws", but sadly most Libertarians these days seem to be royal libertarians, supporting land as private property where the owner is 100% sovereign and are opposed to such things as inheritance tax on land. If you agree with the arguments of this article (I do), this is fundamentally unjust property law. People who don't own land are at the mercy of land owners and so are not free. The Mathew Effect ensures that land ownership becomes more and more concentrated, contributing greatly (if not mostly) to the extremely poor distribution of wealth that we see today.

What are your opinions of the article's arguments?
The only argument is: "We should have a Caps Lock key above Shift cause that's what we've always had".

It only takes a few days to get used to a new keyboard, and it seems like, for people who aren't used to rebinding keys, this could be a huge improvement. Caps lock is like the penny, not all that useful in the modern world.
I do not think rational is the right word here. One way you can look at it either slave away and make few dollars more or do nothing and get about same outcome.

This is not rationality, this is hopelessness and despair.
Um. There has been a notable increase in the level of openness in government. Open Government isn't an initiative for making the privacy geeks happy. It's an initiative to make already-public data accessible and usable, and to increase the amount of data available. Federal agencies and lower-tier governments (states, counties, cities) were given a mandate and timeline to do this to their data.

OGI has nothing to do with the NSA and never has.
It also would be quite remarkable since Mars is tectonically inactive at current state of knowledge.
In my opinion, the Home/End keys instead of caps lock would actually be pretty nice. I have a tendency to just remove the caps lock key (on mechanical) since the only time I use it is by accident.
> I mean, one of the principal challenges of empirical data analysis is putting together data from disparate sources in order to come to actionable analysis. One doesn't just publish the data that's easy to come by and then call it a day.

I thought it was curious how the most dangerous "toy" is the bicycle. I suppose that's not surprising, but other charts indicate that the greatest hazard to children is choking. I'd wager it's difficult to choke on a bicycle save for disassembling it and ravenously ingesting the smaller parts.

Given the CPSC's recent history (think Buckyballs), I also wonder if the relative number of product recalls has increased due to changes in regulation, changes specific to the CPSC itself (organizational, leadership, mission, etc), or increased pressure from consumer/physician groups.

Products containing lead appear to be responsible for a sizable portion of the recalls, but I'm not completely sure I agree with the implicit suggestion that modern toys are somehow more dangerous based on recalls alone. The US is a litigocracy (and increasingly so) after all.
Their patent portfolio might be of high value if they have patented certain processes for file synching.
Code a Python interpreter in JS (without using Emscripten.)
As someone not at Google, but who's re-used multiple parts of Chromium (as described in the article), the code (especially the stuff under base/) is possibly the best documented large-scale, open-source C++ codebase I've seen.
I think Lenovo is slowly abandoning what used to be the niche Thinkpad had filled in: great laptops for developers. There might be some good opportunities for startups. It's really frustrating to see that nothing ticks all boxes these days:

* 4:3 high-res matte screen (like Chromebook Pixel or some old IBMs)

* Good mechanical keyboard which includes insert, delete, begin, and end

* Robust case with serviceable Linux-friendly components

* Trackpoint

I'd really pay a high premium for a well-executed laptop with these features, and many people I know would do as well.
Maybe. I'll also be curious to see if politicians will go against surveillance in their campaign speeches.

Although the cynical side of me asks, if a politician goes against the surveillance state, who has both the motive and opportunity to sabotage that politician's career? Answer: the surveillance state.
> Surely the exact same criticism could be leveraged at go proponents pointing out the exact same features they love every time

This thread was started by someone complaining about lack of generics.

> should discussions of Go simply stop until the next major release, and only new features (if any) be discussable?

Why? Because there's no reasonable middle ground between "don't ever talk about Go until there's a release" and "hijack every thread about Go"?
Doesn't that imply revenue growth is slowing?

$46m -> $116m (+152%) -> $200m (+72%)

Then again "more than $200m" is probably conservative.