skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes really. Can you elaborate on "far ahead" on device support compared to the TWC TV, HBO Go, and MLB.TV? Being able to control a DVR (like in the TWC TV app) or watching live television and easily perusing a guide and switching between streams (like in the TWC TV app or the MLB.TV app) are pluses over Netflix's offering. I have watched live streaming sports without issue over ESPN's offerings or individual league offerings and I find they work well and provide a lot of alternative content, things which Netflix isn't even in the business of having much less having the features for.
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The Post you're replying to would arguably be more impactful if it were short enough for a tweet- as it is, the point is restated two or three times. The first sentence is certainly enough to convey the message (and its subtext).
The amount of apologetic in this thread is hilarious.

Do you all expect to see "SECRET NSA WAREHOUSE" on the packing slip?
Pure CSS Bus
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Gee, no wonder they all sound the same.
I agree about the brevity. I don't personally see it as terribly important. As the article points out, once you're in the habit of tracking things, it does mean they absolutely will get done! But to my mind this suggests you should have more space, for keeping track of as many items (large or small) as required, rather than less.

(I just maintain an A5 notebook with a list of tasks. I let them build up as required, cross each off once done, and clip the edge of a page once all its tasks are resolved. Makes it easy to find the remaining items.)
You can see it as an alternative to Matlab/R (sorta)/numpy not C.

People only ever used C when speed was crucial and depending on what you were comfortable in or what you had learned maybe Fortran for speed instead of C.

Julia is meant for scientific computing with some nice features. As I see it it is similar enought to Matlab to be easily learned by those who use Matlab but has enough goodies that it can be a viable alternative.

Programming isn't about being specific it is about accomplishing a task and many times yes you don't want to have to worry about the details as long as it works the way it should.
Let us not forget another great 70's flick, 3 Days of the Condor.
The guy I responded to is using that some information to try to support the theories. Either the info is good, or it's not.

I have no particular objection to saying, "this stuff would be secret so of course there would be no information on it". Oddly, nobody has actually tried that.

However, that still goes back to the point I raised: why Alexandria? It's not particularly convenient to the NSA. It's not convenient to shippers. It doesn't have anything special in the way of infrastructure. So it would be quite an odd choice. Possible, but it's not the smoking gun the article makes it out to be.
Very much so, in fact Close.io <http://close.io/> was built out of our own sales team's need for better sales software / we hated all the CRMs we tried. Then it turned into its own product. We would have never known how to make Close.io better than existing legacy CRMs except for seeing the pain our sales teams actually had while doing sales.

Now the entire focus of the company is on this internal-project-turned-product and now we get to use Close.io to sell Close.io, which is great. We get to solve our own problems (usually) and others benefit from it (and our product gets better).

Wrote more about it here: http://blog.close.io/coworkers-as-your-first-customers-your-...
The Affordances of paper are quite significant. We're still years, maybe decades, away from digital technology as easy to use, as intuitive, and adaptable as paper.
Nearly all of my former-company's middle-management and business development people were ex-Intuit. I'd like to think that means that Intuit is good at getting rid of its worst hires.

Obviously though I have my doubts.
Nope, it is many millions of consumers who are responsible for all this crap. This one guy is just an important part of a team feeding them what they want to eat.
> Why This Mars Rover Has Lasted Longer Than Expected

It hasn't, it was designed to last this long.

But politically it's better to say it's designed for a short period in case things go wrong.
Reminds me of the Monkees. In the early days, the studio hired the best songwriters to write the tunes for them. After a while, the Monkees rebelled and insisted they could write their own songs.

And the Monkees pretty much ceased to exist.

Pretty much the same story for David Cassidy.
I'm a co-founder at WonderProxy https://wonderproxy.com/ I launched it to help a friend who was in QA. Our own site doesn't do GeoIP stuff, so I don't need it.

I enjoy working on it, have quite enjoyed the site re-write (https://admin.wonderproxy.com/) but my day to day life doesn't need to route traffic through Brazil.
>If you're an employee you spend money where you live, not where you work

During the work day most of these people are 40 miles outside SF on self-sufficient campuses, often with free food. That means that during the week they're not in downtown SF supporting local cafes, coffee shops etc. But the same argument can be used for any commuter community, in this case it's reverse of many cities where people commute into a city.
Denmark's average income is higher than the US so the comparison does not favor the US. Basically, there poor make more money than our poor. And there mobility is higher so moving to denmark looks like a great idea for the average American who wants to get ahead.

Denmarks per capita GDP 56,210.23 USD
USA per capita GDP 49,965.27 USD.

They also have lower per capita public debt and universal healthcare. Largely because they don't waste as much money on useless military expenditures and a pointless war on drugs / terror. Edit: US government spending 40% of GDP, Denmark's is 57% GDP so there still spending significantly more.

PS: Denmark also had a much higher GDP growth 2000-2013 than the US granted lower last year.
Unfortunately, the video interview is only available dubbed in German. The German broadcast claims not to have the rights for the original version and also is not even allowed to publish the German version outside of Germany.
>One might say video games killed tabletop RPGs

I'd disagree with that. RPGs were always pretty much a niche hobby. There's a rich fandom if you know where to look, and the industry is adapting to the pressures of technologies in some interesting ways (e.g. embracing print on demand). Check out the activity on forum.rpg.net to see the hobby alive and well.
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You're right, it is pretty hard to understand.

In one paragraph, you seem to be saying that the NSA wouldn't trust the employees of contractors. In the next paragraph, you tell me that the NSA is still "really fucking tight" with Booz Allen. These two ideas seem completely contradictory.

But I think you might be suggesting that the NSA has given up on the low-level employees, and is now having the executives of these companies do the work directly. Which seems completely ludicrous to me, as no C-level at a company like this (even the CTO) is going to have the requisite skills, and even if he did he's not going to have the time.
Did they _actually_ write an article with a tweet as the _only_ evidence?
Would you care to refute that instead of just shouting? Like, point out something that contradicts it? Because I can't think of any, and I lived in Alexandria for seven years.
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Sounds similar in concept to http://timehop.com/ ?
If there's more evidence, they sure haven't mentioned it.
(1) Get a client to pay you to solve one of their problems, but keep the rights to the software. Then, make it your product and sell it to others. This way, your product is funded, you know someone really needs it, and you can continue to profit.

(2) Rather than billing by your time, bill by solution. Many companies are willing to pay a lot more to solve a problem than to pay someone hourly to write software.
Java port of Robot Odyssey
If you are in the US you can use https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/ or alike to watch it.
It really depends on the individuals learning style. For me, more room for more stuff is not better.
You are either stupid or subversive. By now we all know Keith Alexander’s view of hackers (socially disabled, semi-autistic kids sitting behind a laptop at 4 a.m. wearing a batman suit and gloves) and his view on technical matters is equal with Comodo’s [2] leader. As for NSA having skilled personnel??? Sure - some of them are skilled - but they don’t take decisions[1]. The stupid guys do (again, K. Alexander is an excellent reference for incompetence add to that that he is a lier[3] and you’ ve got an explosive mix).

NOTE: In “War and Peace” - Tolstoy’s masterpiece - there’s a Russian officer (Prince Andrey IIRC) who realizes the insane tragedy of human history: While the Prussian and Russian army coalition (hundreds of thousands of men, with families and lives left behind…) is about to face the fiercest opponent of their era (Napoleon, is a legend among Russian military officials) the two Generals (Prussian and Russian) are fighting and sabotaging each other about who is going to lead the battle… Until it’s too late. They both get easily crashed, without putting up a fight.

So you can play naive, stupid, stunned or cunning all you like but human history is FULL of stupid people in position of power.

[1] Quora: “Does the NSA have better engineers than Facebook or Google?”: http://www.quora.com/Engineering-in-Silicon-Valley/Does-the-...

[2] “BlackHat USA 2011: SSL And The Future Of Authenticity”: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7Wl2FW2TcA&feature=youtu.be

[3] “K. Alexander lies to congress” - http://www.globalresearch.ca/nsa-chief-lies-to-congress/5339...
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Says it all really. Banal, soulless, uninteresting songs. All up for awards.
Let's Build A New Mesh Network To Replace The Internet
I said they made an attempt in the right direction from the small bit of code I'd deciphered and outlined some unaddressed problems.

I offered a critique of their code--I didn't praise or damn it. I apologize if there was any confusion.
"Every major pop song" seems like a bit of an overstatement. He's clearly very good at finding the sound that sells - but there are many successful songs (even just in the genre of "pop") not written by him...
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This video of his seems to give more of a demonstration of his alternative paradigm:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=En_2T7KH6RA

It's really interesting to see, but in order for any of his idea to actually work you need to rethink the entire operating system it seems - not just the UI. He wants all content to have history, which would fundamentally break copy and paste (one of his points actually). The problem I see with that is you'd still have individual files (actual bits) on the hard drive, just they'd all have some meta content that describes it's origin. Or you'd need some sort of database file system (WinFS).

I'd like to see technology trending more this guy's way, but the reality is that the technological challenges seem to be too great at the moment.
Does anyone know what's the equivelent in rap? Can I assume most mainstream rappers(Kanye, Wiz, 50 Cent etc.) heavily contribute to their own lyrics? I'm particularly curious about Eminem.
Didn't he ascend to a higher plane?
Can we get a source for that SNAFU claim? If true I would be very interested to read more about it.
For values of "virtually every" where "virtually every" means "surprisingly prolific for one songwriter, but nowhere near 'actually every'".
Nothing to be proud of.
Well, I made a long, detailed, and reasoned reply to one of the replies to my "lack of tact" post, and it got downvoted to -1. So there you go. Yay HN.
I'm pretty sure my partner and I will face a loss when we marry, because our combined incomes will push us into a higher tax bracket.
Perhaps they woke up. No wonder they are moody. I'm always a bit moody when I wake up.
No, they don't mean the same thing, even approximately.
4 reasons to use a candle-based desk lamp:

1) You have to go to sleep when the candle burns out.

2) You can always get more wax from bees.

3) Gives off a pleasing aroma.

4) Take it anywhere you go!
I am sorry, but this isn't a revolution! The protesters are a minority. Democracy works differently - at least there are free elections in Ukraine! Joining the EU or not should be decided by a referendum, not by a few criminals destroying the the city and turning it into a shithole! I only wonder why Europe is excited to welcome barbarians and neo-nazis who beat up and set police officers on fire! Well, it's easy to play a man when you know the police officers are ordered not to carry guns and not to respond to provocations! Also, a lot of people don't know that George Soros is fueling this along with the US - they don't even shy away of hiding this fact! The video with the arrested naked guy that has circulated also hides an important detail - the guy poured flammable liquid on himself and wanted to set himself on fire, yet, the journos are saving these details and only let you see what works best for them! I am really disgusted by seeing this shortly after Syria, where the US is, again and again, on the wrong side! Why didn't the US condemned Turkey's actions against the protesters there? Well, Turkey is an ally! Why isn't US condemning the way gay people are treated in Saudi Arabia? Well, Saudi Arabia is an ally! Yeah, make a boxer a president, and good luck, Ukraine! Or good luck joining the sinking ship of the EU! When Euroscepticism is becoming more stronger of a movement by every day passing and some are considering leaving the EU, others want to join! Again, good luck!
Disclaimer: this is a rant, it is obvious that I don't like OpenCL and that I think that it was designed by monkeys so take it with a grain of salt.

In short: don't learn OpenCL. Both CUDA and C++AMP are good languages for programming heterogeneous machines and nVidia's Thrust and Microsoft's PPL are both excellent libraries to write efficient and reusable code. These language extensions are also strongly typed and come with really good tools. My advice is: learn any of them instead.

Why not OpenCL? AMD's Bolt library is the live proof that OpenCL is fxxxxx up beyond all repair. It is not meant for humans to write, nor for machines to understand.

Kernels are just character strings!!! This is just so wrong! Forget about using functors and lambdas as kernels, and forget about mixing kernels with templates. You will be better off using Python and PyOpenCL (which is great) that using C and C++. In C++ generating kernels is really hard, and generating kernels from expression templates is insanely hard.

Furthermore, this also means that the language is not typed at all!! Forgetting a semicolon in C results in a runtime error! Do you want syntax highlighting? Write your kernels in separate files! This is even worse than the way people used to write functors far away from the call site in C++03, at least they were in the same file!

As stated above my advice is don't learn it. Let it die. Your time is better spent learning CUDA/C++AMP and their libraries. The design rules for OpenCL have been "let's not learn anything from OpenGL" + "we need something, this is something, let's standarize this". This of course has resulted in an hilarious language that came after CUDA and was worse in every possible way.
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I specifically stated that I was just trying to point out that, despite your claim, there's something interesting in Alexandria.

There's no point in debating speculations beyond that because we don't have any information for or against.

It's just me stating "hey, it's possible" and refuting your suggestion that there isn't anything in Alexandria that could cause concern. I'm only answering a question you asked.
Eminem's style and lyrics are all mostly personal. You can tell from how his lyrics mirror his lifestyle that much of it is written personally.

On the flip side, Dr Dre is known to have his lyrics ghostwritten & is primarily known for his production skills.
Yea, I use my latest side project which is an OS X menu bar app that blocks distracting websites (like HN): http://www.heyfocus.com/

I don't think it's a "need" but I do enjoy using it and built it because it's something I wanted.

If you're interested I just did a write-up on it http://bradjasper.com/focus.html and open-sourced it http://github.com/bradjasper/focus

My goal lately is to try and find stuff that I like building and that has a market—not having to pick either or.
Clearly, absence of evidence is evidence of conspiracy, and evidence to the contrary is propaganda.
It's the only way to know for sure.
Not really, there's not much interesting happening on the software side there, and Tim Cook wants it that way.

Can you imagine having to work under Craig Federighi? Uh, pass, that guy is a political creation I wouldn't trust to architect a Rails app.

Bottom line: If you want interesting, innovative software work, Apple is at the bottom of the list these days.
You could try attending a gaming convention. Assuming the US, Origins and GenCon are both a lot of fun and relatively inexpensive (outside of travel, hotels for < $200/day, cheap with a group, and the registration is usually ~$70 for the whole thing + $6/game you want to attend (usually 4-6 games)). Also, you might be surprised who among your friends and friends of friends is interested in this stuff. I've had a lot of luck getting to know people who were in local theater groups, and random colleagues.

The hardest part is just coordinating groups as people start having children and getting married. Just aim small, 1 Saturday every month or two, and you can probably get a steady group.
I don't understand all the hate.

Okay I get we don't have a lot of backstreet boy or Britney fans here (not one either) & I get the whole "pop music sounds the same lament, but at the same time, there's a market for it & he's excelled at creating something that sells that.

Just because it's pop music doesn't mean you can't give the guy credit for understanding his market & dominating his field.
Imperative and mutable isn't inherently wrong, even in a general purpose language like Julia.

In Clojure it's hard to write imperative code, which was one of the reasons I've left. Sometimes, imperative programming is the best way to code something. Sometimes it's best to do it in a functional way. Julia can do both.

The same is true for mutability. I understand the advantages of immutability but I think it's overhyped. Besides the obvious advantage of mutability - performance - it sometimes makes for more readable and shorter code. And what if you have some complex nested state and need to change a small part of it?

BTW - what do you mean by functional programming exactly, how does it differ from imperative programming in your view?
That's pretty unlikely though. It's not like cars are going from manual-everything to autonomous all at once. Multiple levels of traction control and steering assistance are already in control of your car, and they prevent more accidents than they cause. Autonomy is going to be rolled out in pieces and tested little by little.
I've always thought that the protection part was a fallacy and the more obvious conclusion is that they swerve in the direction they are used to safely passing with.
Topical comedy based on current events from Netflix?

With Kevin Spacey?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Cards_(U.S._TV_series)

I feel the idea of releasing the whole 'season' at once is perfect for the Netflix model. No need to drag it out: Netflix knows their core base likes to marathon binge on good TV.
Definition of Product Market Fit
Ted Nelson: I think I now who Satoshi Is
I have a question. Why does every color end with Color? I mean, when you specify a color you say something like background="@color/seafoamColor" or Colour.seashellColor(), isn't the Color bit at the end unnecessary and repetitive?
Flickr's about page is upside down
Interesting to see similarities in musical preferences & identifying common threads that lead to popularity. This video / song [1] was viral a few years ago because it demonstrated the similarities between major popular songs spanning multiple decades through the use of just four chords..

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pidokakU4I
Nice, I used to use browsers extensions to achieve the same thing. Your solution is better.
That's really ugly. I can understand why you felt the need to create a new throwaway to hide behind.
As much as I'd like to believe that they did mess up the interception reporting (if they really do interception like that), I've seen enough crazy tracking reports that I wouldn't be surprised if it was just a stupid mistake.

Just googling for "funny delivery tracking route" for example will give you things like:

- 4 times over the ocean - http://i696.photobucket.com/albums/vv325/oneupmanship34/Fg0e...

- let's send it to Canada, 3 times - http://i30.photobucket.com/albums/c325/duffer987/UPSFTD_zps6...

- Germany, HK, Germany, HK, ... - http://laforge.gnumonks.org/fun/dhl-hk-leipzig-hk-leipzig-hk...

Getting a strange route within one country is probably an improvement compared to those...
I agree with what you say. More and more though as I get on in my career as a scientist I realize though that the details turn out to matter, sometimes a great deal.

Anyway I'm all in favour of an open, fast MATLAB alternative
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What I think is interesting is what it may mean for both web and mobile apps.

Is there a particular holy grail magical formula for mobile and web apps that produces more hits than losers?
oh god, ransomware for your car...
thank you, that was helpful of you
You think along the narrowest lines of anyone of anyone I've ever held a conversation with.

Not executives specifically but somebody trusted. That's more likely to be in the building where administration is done than anywhere else. Also you want to separate research from implementation. Your narrow refusal to even consider that there might be an interesting place for an agency to ship a laptop component to in Alexandria has taken this exercise way further than it needs to be to demonstrate the point.
This has been on the front page for hours. Only 30 votes and no comments. Odd.
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Self-driving short-term rentals ala Zipcar or Car2Go?
I said that a bash script would be perfect for collecting data periodically and saving it to a file, I wasn't suggesting that you use it to write a web app. I thought that was clear; apologies if it wasn't.

However, you say that this is an easy way to discount every possible language: can you point me to a vulnerability on the same level as register_globals in any other language?
>there's a market for it & he's excelled at creating something that sells that.

There's also a market for black tar heroin, nuclear missiles, drones, slaves, and so on.

>Just because it's pop music doesn't mean you can't give the guy credit for understanding his market & dominating his field.

Is pop music a good thing for the world? (It obviously isn't as bad as any of the things I listed above to avoid claims of hyperbole, but) should we think people who make pop music are doing a good thing?