skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I wrote, it is hard to keep the conversation private in such an offline+push context. On the other hand, the additional battery load induced by a properly implemented XMPP connection is low. Apple's main fear is probably badly designed apps which really drain the battery.
yes, Instantiate. the class's Update had

if (Instance != this) return;
And they'll have to deal with moving all their accumulated possessions into that shared space. And their families will not be able to squeeze in with them, if they have families.
Why do you allow an array index to start at 0?

Although I agree that this is not ideal, zero is not null.
caching won't help for libraries that want to have a particular version of jquery baked in ...
And from Google "CPC ... decreased approximately 2% over the third quarter of 2013."
The increasing cost of living certainly is an issue for startups. That's the real story here.

I found the article about creating a startup in Thailand [1] really interesting from a cost-of-living perspective. I'm sure many other entrepreneurs here can weigh in on other inexpensive cities in which to live and create a startup.

But the YC example doesn't quite back up the main story well. For most entrepreneurs, they won't be getting that $20k. Personally, I'd rather get $20k than $0k. Or, heck, the network and investment signal that an accelerator like YC affords.

[1] http://levels.io/bootstrapping-startup-thailand/
Why wouldn't you want a user_id being 0?
Seems to me Sass is preferred because of Compass tools.
Yahoo Detects Mass Hack Attempt On Yahoo Mail, Resets All Affected Passwords
They've been around for a while. Even before getting into mobile they did high end 3D platform stuff for console games like grand theft auto.
There's more to lock than just the write, some of this stuff will be lots better in future Mongo releases, but at the moment doing a safe write means a lock is held longer when there's network latency of any kind. Local updates are shockingly faster than even local network updates.

Honestly, the entire point of Mongo isn't that it's fast, it's that it's fast enough and can scale a reasonably flexible schema through the life of an app.
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And they may find they're miserable with 3 grown adults in a 1 bedroom apartment.
That's an extraordinarily generous definition of hacking.
Amazon's Revenue Surges But Disappoints
Lou Gerstner is probably the most obvious counterexample.
I'm guessing these are all "left over" or superseded feature phone components. I've got a few from a couple of years back that are explicitly sold as "Nokia screens" and all the library code makes it pretty clear they're Nokia 3xxx series phone parts.

The "hobbyist LCD" market doesn't get purpose designed components - not at the volumes and prices hobbyists are prepared/capable of buying. We get to re-use end-of-life components or buy the end-of-reel scraps from current product manufacture. (which is fine by me. I love being able to buy accurate 9DOF IMUs, but I sure as hell don't want to order them in reels of 10,000 un-hand-solderable SMD parts)
NodeLists don't have .forEach in their prototype chain kiddo ([].forEach.call(nodeList, hollaback);)
I have a family member there, it's because he's highly unlikely to be fired (even as they fire lots of folks) and he's looking for the right position elsewhere.
Sleeping on the job is, too. :)
How is an acqui-hire not job creation? How do big companies not innovate or create jobs? I work for a Fortune 500 and have engaged in both innovation and job creation.
This is a very interesting direction for Soylent to take. Rather than being the supplier of all the formula, they are further using their community as guinea pigs to test out other formulas.

I'm assuming the business model is currently an affiliate process when you order ingredients through the amazon button, but in the long-term, with the right processes in place, they can create the most popular recipes and make them ready to ship.
I believe it has to do with Unix-like OSes always assigning the UID 0 to root.
This is impressive. I think the perception is Zynga is this poor little company that is on its last legs when in reality they are still making money and fresh off the press of the IPO they've still got a bit of money to play with and this is a smart play if I do say so myself.

It'll be interesting to see if NaturalMotion is kept as a separate entity to that of Zynga or it is merged with the current company. The 15% Zynga staff cull that just happened I guess is a sign that they're going to be using their new-found employee purchases over at NaturalMotion in place of the 15% they just laid off.

Whether or not this purchase saves Zynga remains to be seen. CSR Racing is a fantastic game, really fantastic and well played. I've been playing it for a while now on the train to work, the mechanics and graphics are stellar for a mobile game.
Would it have been better to hire someone from the outside with no experience in software/technology AND no MBA?

Just trying to see if you (parent and g-parent) consider an MBA an overall negative signal, regardless of someone's background.
There is already a way to send comments to the translator, Thank you for your comment. When you send the message you can define the tone and give specific instructions. We also have an beta version of the android app and are almost ready to launch iphone. Also, we already have a lot of natives in the platform. For paid tasks, the quality is vastly superior to the news. I would invite you to try. Top up and experiment with giving instructions to the translators. And please get in touch with us, I would love to chat.
> Infact I can blindly bet that majority of users here on HN is using Windows.

I'd be willing to bet that HN has a lot more OSX, Linux and BSD users than the typical split...
Email has too much momentum to ignore? See Facebook's messaging - they're happy to ignore and cut off email. If they get away with it, it's a huge win. If it looks like they're not gonna get away with it, then they reverse decision and talk about opening up or whatnot.

I don't believe that it's clear at all that Google, FB, or Skype would win by opening up their systems. The best we're likely to see is alliances, like FB+Skype. Unless a service is in a losing position (like BBM), what do they gain?
Man that is a ton of money. Per my earlier comment on Bing's growth (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7111557) their CPC was down 2% from last quarter versus 2.9% predicted on a straight revenue grab.

They spent $2B on new machines and data centers and still put $3B in the bank. Amazing.
I made something like myself when I was in university. They had us upload HTML resumes for internship applications, so I included a link to a fake CSS file (they stripped out images, but not CSS) which was actually a Perl CGI script on my server that did a reverse DNS on the visitor's IP address and then email that to me.

It was interesting to see that some of my job applications were never even considered, and some of them were viewed more than once.
> Ditto here :) I don't use Slackware these days I used to love that distro. Still miss it at times.

right? ...stupid redhat coming along and making it obselete!
You're assuming the social contract follows the conventions of legal contracts between parties. It doesn't. Attempting to shoehorn it into that mode doesn't work, neither does argument by assertion.

while I do pay taxes, I never agreed to it.

And if I were to enter into a business relationship with an entity because there was literally no other choice (an email service provider as counterparty, a local monopoly, a services provider selected by my employer), then what? Willing or otherwise, you've agreed to the terms, which don't include "whistle while you pay".

Note that the State has also not consciously elected to support your ungrateful ass from the age of 0 to 18, prior to your age of majority, nor since. It simply does. That's its end of the bargain.

without the use of government coercion

I don't accept this limitation as it inherently ignores the fact that money is power, including political power, as well as the fact that all legal property is in fact a product of government coercion (as opposed to property by right of possession, might, moral suasion, tradition, or other constructs, which have their own origins).

Oh, and "property rights" aren't all that old a thing: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=property+right...

Please provide examples of the people or organizations able to arbitrage consistently, over time

Any holder of more productive land or assets (the substance of David Ricardo's lament in his Law of Rent), extractive oil producers, patent trolls, any party who writes or influences legislation to their advantage (as noted and strongly criticised by Adam Smith), market manipulators, technology and software vendors with positive returns to scale and lock-in effects (AT&T, IBM, Xerox, Microsoft, Google, Facebook) ... It's a long list, really. I'm not claiming that the power is unlimited or extends for all time, but while it persists it can be exceptionally difficult to dislodge.

The point is that initial leverage tends to multiply.
Bing is what I referred to as "services". Also, AFAIK, he never worked in Windows, at least before Bing.
The developers of Clinkle should try to get the FBI to do a court case based on the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act.
Can somebody explain the benefit of using pipes? Will this provide better performance than Grunt?

From an api standpoint, this doesn't seem that much simpler.
Thanks, I don't care for zynga, so I didn't even read the article.
I came here expecting to see something like this at the top position. Apart from the standard rant about how completely unconstructive criticism -- in fact just outright insulting whole people and companies from the safety of anonymity -- seems to rule around here, there are a couple of other things I'd like to say.

HN would greatly benefit from a regional filter -- as in, a filter of which comments I read, not who can post them. WTF do I care what some guy in Australia thinks of a very prominent Bay Area employer? He doesn't have friends and neighbors who work there, we do. Geographic community still means something, and much of the news on HN happens in our locale.

(Honestly, I have a difficult time taking any developer who doesn't live here seriously, but that's a different discussion.)

Second, up/down voting is conflated with "makes me feel good/not good" -- a better system would allow feedback to be more nuanced: agree/disagree, insightful, well-researched, funny etc. So we could have filters on discussions for what's actually insightful, not just what gives people the fuzzy comfort of knowing their preconceptions can remain safe and unchallenged for one more day, because the world has made low someone who has actual accomplishments (and mistakes)
Satya has an MBA too. I was just commenting on my previous comment. I guess author meant that someone just with MBA as a qualification and no relevant tech background would have been bad deal since MBAs get hired in leadership role even if they may or may not possess relevant domain knowledge.
Quite.

The biggest lock-ins are from Office formats, and Active Directory integration with network and communications services. Crack either of those and the bulwark starts to crumble rapidly.
No, it does not depend on a tpm.
You want bulk encryption to be fast, but can often handle slow key derivation.
Neat! It was only partially ported when I last heard numbers, full support often slows things down quite a bit.
I get told constantly that not only am I not a normal person, I'm not a normal programmer. This is in the context of me listing things I'd like to see in a product.

The irony is that when I build a product that I'm told that "normal" people/programmers will want, it usually fails. When I build a product that I would use myself, with weird features I'm told nobody wants, it does well.
I think you are concerned with correctly filling out The Universal Ledger of All Objective Truths. That's not what we're concerned with.

We're concerned with figuring out what we think is most likely. You are correct that we have insufficient information to know with high confidence who is telling the truth, but if we are in a position to use PayPal, we have to make a judgement anyway. Further, not having enough information to know most things with high confidence is the common case; we usually have to make decisions based on imperfect information.

In such cases, we have to use the imperfect information available to us. Prejudices is one word for it; Bayesians call it our priors.

For the record, I actually think PayPal is a net-good. I think that most of the negative press they put up with is unwarranted, and is a result of people not understanding how they are allowed to use the service. In addition, I think most people do not appreciate that PayPal is much more tolerant than the alternative that was the only-game-in-town before PayPal, which were merchant accounts with banks.
Facebook announces Paper — iPhone app available Feb. 3
So why not break up a large library into smaller useful pieces. Why can't we import only what we need.
I agree with you about ambiguous/open-ended tasks. I experienced the same. And also I don't like to spend too much time trying to list out specific tasks that I need to accomplish every day or do too much context-switching between tasks without continuity.

Instead of focusing on daily list, I categorized tasks in large buckets.

I drew a square with four quadrants on a Whiteboard. Each quadrant is focused on four distinct aspects. My quadrants for example are:

Q1 - Job Search, Freelance work,
Q2 - Side Project, Blog, Data Analytics,
Q3 - Algorithms, Python and Linux,
Q4 - OpenStack, Networking

My goal is to spend at least one day on each quadrant every week. Every morning I look at Whiteboard, and decide what Quadrant I want to spend time on that day. At the end of the day, I mark the Quadrant that I spent the most time on with day initials on Whiteboard (M, Tu, W, Th, F, Sa, Su). I keep the day initials for 3-4 weeks so that I can visualize which Quadrant I am spending too much time in and which is being ignored and forces me to balance out day allocations.

This visual display keeps me focused and on track.
I use jQuery because the DOM API for javascript sucks, and writing jQuery is fun.

How many lines of code are actually needed to give you selectors and the most common DOM manipulations?

How many lines of code are in jQuery?

Is there anything which would not be in selectors + common manipulations that you need, and which only jQuery can provide?
What about a co-working space? Prices range from $400-800/mo depending on space, privacy, and neighborhood; comes with "everything included" for a productive office space; is tax deductible. And you may meet other individuals or startups there during break times or evening events.

If you did a cost/benefit analysis on this already, I'd like to hear the details.

Note: I have worked from home for four months and then worked from a coworking space the past month.
It's not at all corp speak... are you serious?

It's the same idea behind Facebook trying to buy Snapchat. Facebook realizes another team is much more innovative & successful than them in attracting young users, so they try and spend money to acquire that talent and invest in that team's innovative ability (pay $3B now to realize >$3B revenue in the future).
For using a website's search bar, no, but for using "hacker tools" like Chrome Developer Tools' Network tab, seeing the resulting http data and then rewriting it with a trivial value change and rePOSTing that to the server -- very possibly, if you happen to stumble upon a security issue that gives you data beyond what the company initially expected you to get.

My point isn't to vilify the unknown "hacker" here but rather to suggest that what is or isn't hacking varies greatly upon whose point of view you're looking at things from, and how badly they'd like to shift the blame for their errors to someone else, and how willing they are to go after you with the full force of a federal prosecutor all too willing to jump on a trending gravy-train. We've set some very dangerous recent precedents where trivial "hacks" have resulted in very serious punishments.
I agree that average over the kilowatt-hours nuclear might be safer than coal. But the problem is that the risk is HIGHLY concentrated.

I can self-insure my computers because if one ever fails I have the cash to handle it. It's not a financial crisis. I don't self insure my car (for collision/comprehensive) because it's too big of an expense for me to absorb at any one time without severe hardship.

Nuclear reactors (as they stand today) are more like cars than computers. They tend to rob a few people of their whole lives and really eff up the ones that don't die. Coal plants have the "advantage" of robbing many people of a portion of their lives in a more subtle way.

LFTR reactors have physics on their side in that if containment is lost, so is criticality. Boiling water reactors, pressurized boiling water reactors, etc in my mind can't be made safe because they require power to stay safe, even if they're not generating power.

You've suggested that so long as the generators and whatnot arrive eventually, things will be fine. The problem is that you've made the assumption that somehow, some way the generators will arrive and the reactor can be made safe again over the course of some weeks or months. Nuclear reactors are one of the few pieces of infrastructure that can't simply be abandoned if something bad happens, or else the problem gets worse and worse and worse. This is a positive feedback cycle rather than a negative one. Positive feedback often "blows up" (a term we use in electrical engineering) or grows without bound. Nearly everything else in modern society functions with negative feedback and that kind of intrinsic safety is what most people want.

That's not to say that ALL nuclear reactors are by definition unsafe; just all the ones that are currently operating commercially because it's such a nightmare to permit new designs and the existing manufacturers have no interest in inviting competitors into their market.
Well said, for the most part, although it should be noted that not all prejudices are appropriate priors!
This doesn't make any sense unless for some reason you are creating unix users based on the users in your application and using the application user ID as the unix user ID which would be silly.
PR stunt?
When I work from a coffee shop one of my concerns is the restroom breaks. You can't really leave all your stuff on the table. You can't easily take them with you either. My solution is to ask people to my mind stuff but it's not always possible.
So if I can paraphrase, you really want to be "voting with your dollars", when it comes to which apps to use, and for you, theis segment of the industry has a poor track record, so when you see marketing that lacks integrity, you do not want to offer that support to it.

That makes sense to me, and sounds more reasonable than saying you are worried about what other people think. Is that a fair way to rephrase where you are coming from?
Where can I learn more about that? Seems to me this qualifies as rape.
https://github.com/chriskempson/base16-builder
Except you'd really want to figure out the confounding influence. The GP is correct, that Google's CPC has gone down for 10 of the last 12 quarters. It is reported in the quarterly earnings as a total across all clicks (which may be why you think the paradox applies) but by comparing revenue from properties and sites one can deduce that in this case it actually reflects that Google's ads are becoming less and less valuable. That has been more than made up for though by Google increasing their "inventory" which they can do up to AltaVista levels if they choose, but that gets another paradox going which is Ad fatigue. My read of their results over the last 3 years makes a pretty compelling case that the Ad business peaked 4 years ago and has been fading ever since.
It's a bit of a poisoned chalice for someone outside of Microsoft as if Gates and Balmer remain on the board as any new CEO will be continually undermined by people "going to Bill/Steve". To appointment someone from inside Microsoft is simply rearranging the deck chairs.

Best thing for Microsoft would be to hire an outsider who will come in with an unbiased eye and clear out the deadwood to give new growth a chance or to milk the cash cows to their inevitable conclusions. To be able to do this you need Bill and Steve and their old guard out of the way.
How does it work? Does it use eye tracking, or mouse movement, or what?
You're then both saying the same thing. S has to go up somewhere.
You cannot not market something. Even a lack of marketing is a form of marketing ("Customers perceive marketing as being scummy! Let's not market!"). The fact is, customers make decisions based on perceptions rather than on reality. The goal of marketing should be to make sure those perceptions match reality. Marketing becomes "scummy" when it creates perceptions that are out of line with reality. Marketing becomes ineffective when it creates perceptions that are worse than reality or it creates no perceptions at all. The sweet spot is when you have a marketing message that is in line with reality and presents your product's strengths well.
You might want to read a bit more. Gates owns approximately 4% of Microsoft stock. http://finance.yahoo.com/q/mh?s=MSFT+Major+Holders
GitHub Offers Cash for Finding Security Holes
Rumor has it that he's out as Chairman, now, too. [1]

[1] http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-01-30/microsoft-said-to-b...
It does exist, though whether this counts as a hack is a fair question.
Seeing how many of these hand-picked trivial code examples are still made easier by jQuery just makes me want to use it all the more.
It's irrelevant what Indians as a class may or may not be. Considering the choice is about a specific individual, not a random selection from a group, there's definitely more information than useless (incorrect?) stereotypes. Ballmer's a white guy and did a fine job destroying and alienating.
later on in the thread, the engineer specifies that users can make their phone numbers private.
If all you want is a feed of your friends posts, then you have the Facebook app.

I'm not a marketing bot... I work on the Parse team. You asked two questions in your response, I answered them.

All I said originally is that it's more than just newsfeed. It was not my intention to argue a point, simply to clarify. Oh, and don't worry, it will be great.
> This post seems to be ignoring the most obvious outcome: "yes, you own 1/3, but I'm not interested or able to buy your share right now."

That's potentially a very dangerous admission if the relationship is -- as it seemed to be -- already falling apart. Absent the right kind of advance arrangements -- which clearly didn't exist -- its possible that could give the dissillusioned party the right to force dissolution.
For a good few months I was doing

for i in range(len(input_list)):
v = input_list[i]
...do something with v and i...

enumerate is much nicer!

for i, v in enumerate(input_list):
...
Here is the mentioned pull request: https://github.com/jashkenas/backbone/pull/2959

Here is his benchmark: http://jsperf.com/backbone-patch-22be8f9/2

It only compares jQuery 1 and the DOM API, no jQuery 2.

TestBaseView: DOM API
TestPaulView: Reduced jQuery usage
TestView: jQuery
It uses mouse movement.
Hey githubbers, could you please stop repeating the tired "responsible disclosure" meme?

Full disclosure is not irresponsible and attempts to frame it as such are bordering on malicious toward the exact community in which you are attempting to engender goodwill.
Introduction to Intel Memory Protection Extensions
"Why not from rural Wyoming to, say, Colorado?"

Or also to Southern California? So what if there's a few mountain ranges in the way?