skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
chrome, the IE6 of today!

sacarms aside, nobody realize the similarity? defining standards by releasing first? all the cool prototypes at my company are done in chrome and only tested in chrome, before they become internal tools... which will require chrome 32 from 5 years on sice they will probably move to some other prototype while someone in the sales team base his team workflow on that tool...

the pattern is almost the same.
You have government, just not centralized. Collectivize on a local level, and form a confederation of localities, giving localities more power.

Additionally, and I've said it before, replace corporations with cooperatives. This is the more important part, you need to get rid of the idea that an individual can exist without society and outside of society. If everyone thought that individual wealth and profit-maximizing were the most important things higher education (and most education) along with a host of other institutions and almost every social institution wouldn't exist. And while I understand that a good deal of people are arguing against social institutions, they forget that wouldn't have received the same education they did.

If everyone was wealth-maximizing most professors wouldn't be professors because they're able to make more working in private industry. The same is equally true for a large number of public educators, at least in the hard sciences.

Education is considered a great equalizer. Society cannot get better if we privatize education, meaning only the rich can afford high quality education (and this is a problem that America is experiencing today). If only the upper classes can pay for high quality education the education gap widens, and it becomes nigh impossible for someone to be upwardly mobile.

And that's where my main problem with the American Libertarian movement, privatizing everything can at best keep society stagnant.
Reinventing Explanation
> The idea is that you correct it and do what you can to prevent it.

The US Government does not share this idea with you. It's much better to sweep it under the rug, because to admit to fault would hurt the public's confidence in The System(tm).
skype is so crappy that i usually call people in video, and then after some problems we are both disabling video to try to improve audio quality.
The economic climate we are in now is eerily similar to the 2008 financial meltdown, but worse.
Apple Reportedly Focusing On Health In iOS8 with 'Healthbook' App
Another cool thing is that the author of Redis made a decoder for ADS-B to decode aircraft transponder signals: https://github.com/antirez/dump1090
It kinda made sense, because there wasn't anything fancy like Notepad. If you wanted to read some section, you had to specify the range. If you wanted to change a line, you overwrote it by using the same line number. If you wanted to insert a line, you had to pick a line number which lies between those other two line numbers. That's why you used an increment of 10 (or whatever) instead of 1.
> TSA applies to commercial aviation

It hasn't been that way for a while. They have been expanding to things like sporting events, trains stations, etc.
Is Twitter the fuel behind the success of the #1 app, Flappy Bird?
Blue Frog Gaming is the company. Draftmix was our first product, which we went through YC with, but no longer exists.
Are you changing your employment agreements to not take all those rights? It is possible to narrow which rights are assigned.
* Chief Economist at Russell, suicide, after problems at work

* A retired Deutche risk manager, suicide

* An MD at Tata Motors, suicide

* An IT manager at JPMC in London, apparent suicide

* An unnamed marketing professional at Swiss Re, cause unknown

This is more like numerology than a "series of deaths in the financial world". The "financial world" employs many hundreds of thousands of people. especially when generalized to include commercial, retail, and investment banks, asset management firms, the entire insurance industry, hedge funds, market data firms, and analysts. Also, apparently, the automotive industry.

Moreover, these are people with wildly different jobs and levels of seniority.

You can probably generate similar patterns every year, if you look carefully and track, say, IT executives and marketing managers alongside the Chief Economists. If you Google some of the names in this article, you'll see that the news coverage for them frequently does exactly that.

This seems pretty silly. What am I missing?
I don't want to hijack from the OP, just want to point out that these are both awesome. Seriously, as a a data geek and huge NFL fan, great work to both of you.
Was just now researching this (procrast:on). Here's an incomplete list:

1) Tata's managing director Karl Slym

2) Swiss Re's Tim Dickenson communications director

3) Russell Investments’ chief economist Mike Dueker

4) Deutsche Bank's William Broeksmit to become chief risk officer (didn't materialize)

5) Zurich Insurance Group's finance chief Pierre Wauthier
Fontulator – Use unicode mathematical variables to achieve weird fonts
From the about page:
Invisible in most major operating systems until recently, the unicode specification defines a bunch of weird tables which are intended to be used as mathematical variables, for people who are not satisfied with good old a to z, a′ to z′, a′′ to z′′, etc.

Many of these are composed of the full roman alphabet, meaning a fun hack is possible which allows you to type with a weird font in places where you cannot normally use formatting – such as a filename, facebook status, or anywhere you can type unicode text.
Tech will abandon you one day.
It happens when you turn 30 or so.
All of a sudden, it seems you can't get a job anymore.
You can't compete with the fresh college grads who seemingly have no lives.
All the cheap labor from India & China work harder & cheaper than you.
The tech landscape has totally changed - your built-up years of experience are basically worthless.
Once considered a senior engineer, you're now back at junior level.
As much as you had proclaimed loving the tech industry before, it doesn't care about you at all.
You're left to rot, maybe to become a bartender or work in fast food or to just be abandoned.
What would be useful would be a tool to determine how really unusual is some series of events X. Obviously, you'd have to keep in mind that every day some number of "highly unlikely" events occurs [1].

Not to dismiss this series of bizarre death but rather, just feeling frustrated that I can say neither "Woah, something's going on" nor "nothing to see here folks, move along".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_problem
They've realized this global Ponzi scheme is about to meltdown.
The only thing that stands out, for me, is suicide. For instance Tata Motors CEO Karl Slym committed suicide after an argument with his wife [0]. He was heading a $35 billion company, and from what I can see, was facing no fraud/bankruptcy/arrest either.

Makes you wonder what can turn someone at those levels so despondent enough to end it all?

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/thailand/1060...
I thought that wasn't enforceable in California?
I don't know. They're casting a pretty wide net in their definition of "financial worker." Basically if you helped run a business, or worked at a bank, they were willing to count your death.

Without knowing the baseline population they're willing to consider in assembling their count, it's hard to say, but this might very easily be explained as a stochastic process that happens to be hitting a peak. It might even be the case that this sort of death rate happens all the time among the vast pool of "financial workers," but the Financial Post just happened to notice it this week.
Wow. I always thought SAP stood for Spanish Audio Program. TIL.
Suicide incidence per 100,000 people in the US is ~21 people annually. JPMC and Citigroup alone employe over 500,000 people. This story cites something like 6 deaths, in wildly different roles, including that of a retiree.
AT&T Patents Concept to Detect and Charge More For Certain Traffic
They have systems in place to handle that stuff, man. It's not like the telephone was just invented and we're still coming to grips with the various core problems of making it work. Don' worry about it, just call.

And if you still really really hate the idea of calling, then send a fax instead. Plenty of online fax services with free plans you can just upload a .doc or .pdf to, and the best thing about it - it's asynchronous, woohoo!
I don't understand what Tata Motors has to do with the financial industry.
I fly to the US a few times a year. Until a year ago from Switzerland either direct or London, now from Tokyo. Never seen a full body scanner outside the US. There is a bit of security theater though, which might pale in comparison to the TSA, like a security officer at ZRH giving me a 'old school' (read: no private areas) pat down because, as he told me, "I was the 12th guy in a row". At NRT they check your ID or passport prior to entering the airport and may glance at your bag, due to the troubles when they opened the airport. HND doesn't have that IIRC. TL;DR, this seems mostly limited to the US from my experiences.
Thanks! It looks as though by default strace isn't available on Mac but dtrace is!
Marriage is marriage, no matter how good one's job is.
Dart is actually trying to teach the web about static typing.
Since 2007, most bankers have described their situation as significantly more worrying and stressful. I’m estimating the number of senior executives in that industry at 50,000 people. Suicide rate for stressed 50-somethings is around 15 per 100,000. That means on average one every three weeks.

That would make a week with seven deaths seem suspicious, but let's consider the Bernouilli distribution, considering there has been roughly 700 weeks since 2007:
( (1-( 1-(15/100000/52))^50000 * (15/100000/52))^7 ) ^700 )

Yeah, that's unlikely.
the nice thing is that chrome auto updates, so most of the version specific chrome "things" either break fast or are not version specific.

the other nice thing is that chromium is open source, so if they do something truly novel, there is a publicly visible source repo.
GWT-RPC was designed before I got there, but the basic idea was to make it work just like Java serialization. To do this, you need to calculate at compile time which types the client might possibly have to deserialize and include client-side code to instantiate those types. But we don't want to do this for every Serializable type because of code bloat; when a type is declared Serializable in Java it's often intended for server-side serialization, not because anyone intended that type to be usable in a browser.

This is pretty hard to do in a language that supports both inheritance and generic types. Suppose you have a field of type List<Foo>. What values could the server possibly send the client?

- All subtypes of List: ArrayList, LinkedList. Also, ImmutableList and a bunch of other subtypes if Guava is in the classpath.

- All the fields in Foo, its serializable supertypes, and all its subtypes. And then do the same calculation again for those types, recursively.

Or if Foo is a widely used marker interface, anything implementing that marker interface in any library could possibly be sent. At this point, probably nobody working on the app has a good idea on why a particular type is included in the app.

Of course you could tell people to tighten up their type declarations. For example, never use List in a DTO; instead use ArrayList. This doesn't work because it just takes one field declaration in one library to screw it up, so it's hardly worth doing.

And I haven't even gotten into the complexities of things like:

class Foo<T extends Something> extends Bar<T>.

I heard a rumor once that someone proved that doing the calculation "properly" was NP-complete. In practice, we use approximations and there are bugs, though mostly people don't run into them too often.

I think it makes more sense to generate serialization code from an IDL such as a protobuf declaration. Since there's no inheritance and no generics, it's clearer to everyone which fields can possibly be transmitted on the wire and what the semantics are for forwards and backwards compatibility. Or just write out the JSON serialization for each class; it's not that hard, just repetitive.
http://www.perfectaudience.com/
It seems like the propensity to commit suicide is probably a mental disorder, and everyone has the same probability of acquiring a mental disorder, whether they're rich or poor.

When flipping coins, it's rare, but not too rare, to see tails come up five times in a row. When you consider the statistics of suicide, it doesn't seem too far fetched to see a string of five suicides, even within a relatively short amount of time. It really is a shame, and I hope someday the causes will be better understood and made treatable.
I don't agree with your position.

Look at the balance of harms in this example. On the one side, a TSA employee whose expression of sincere opinion is restrained by his employer, the government. On the other side, millions of innocent people who feel dissuaded from air travel on the grounds of national origin (see below) because they don't believe they'll be properly treated at airports and because they fear assaults , even if only verbal, from passengers emboldened by the slight imprimateur of official support for their prejudice.

(I say national origin rather than religion because most people seem to be in the habit of making judgments based on the former. Post 9/11 people like Sikhs were attacked because they were foreign-seeming and from a part of the world that has a lot of Muslims, even though Sikhism is a wholly different religion. a woman named Fatima Mubarak might be a Christian but most people are going to assume Islamic affiliation based on her name. Likewise, it's easy to imagine or identify people who are Islamic but statistically unlikely to be identified as such. In the aggregate, we're pretty superficial).

You have a balance of harms here, and I think ultimately courts would choose the harm that affects the fewest number of people, especially given the existence of numerous avenues for dissatisfied TSA employees to raise grievances through administrative channels rather than by trying to whip up public sentiment in favor of their political view.

Please note that it's not the speech excoriating someone else that I'm saying should be regulated - it's the publicity by the angry person of their official position with a government agency in connection with that speech, which shI say should be restrainable by the agency. If the TSA agent in this example thinks the agency so wrong-headed, s/he could resign from the TSA and then write things like 'I quit the TSA because they don't recognize the threat posed by Muslims' - to which the TSA could reply 'We are required by law to treat everyone equally and it is our policy to do so, which is why we parted ways with this employee.'

Now I totally agree that it's convenient when 'assholes out themselves as such.' The thing is that when they're in uniform (so to speak) what's convenient to you or me may be intimidating to someone else; things look quite different when you're a spectator rather than the target of someone's bias, and the appearance of official sanction for that bias amplifies the intimidatory effect. I'm saying that the interests of the agency in being seen to serve the public fairly and in accordance with law outweigh the interests of the individual agency employee who feels constrained by the agency's code of conduct.
Like most car companies now, it's mainly a financial service (to offer financing options to pay for the car) that subsidises a car-making operation.
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These aren't all bankers, they aren't all senior executives, they aren't all 50, the entire financial industry employs over 1,000,000 people, and you've understated the suicide rate (you may only be counting the male stat).

The article also doesn't count seven financial industry suicides in a week. It counts 3 (in that week, and in the [insanely broad] finance industry), and an auto executive.
Numerology.
To be a great entrepreneur you have to build a Mafia around you. Every successful one I know (including my mother) has had to do that. If you can't do that you fail as an entrepreneur.

You build a Mafia, by being so motivated you out-execute everyone who bets against you and earn the respect of the smart people around you. The trick here is to surround yourself with smart people you can learn from in the first place.

A good startup Mafia picks its people veeery carefully and pulls in those it wants. (a people hire a people, b people hire c people). It forms through action, not job postings - you have to burn through the same fire everyone else in your group is made of. Which is why a great startup Mafia sticks together, and keeps leveraging the network to amplify its people in their second, third and fourth attempts, while drawing a clout of deal flow towards itself. Execution gets better and better, and deal-flow means they also see the best opportunities coming their way to the point where the usual odds don't apply anymore.
I wager the % of the YC companies that raise $500k within three weeks of demo day is <10% making this rule effectively meaningless.
The CDC says that "Most of the fat that you eat should come from unsaturated sources: polyunsaturated fats and monounsaturated fats. In general, nuts, vegetable oils, and fish are sources of unsaturated fats." Which is (generally) consistent with what I've read on the topic.

http://www.cdc.gov/nutrition/everyone/basics/fat/unsaturated...
I don't need 20 years to change my opinion. I need 20 minutes with some reputable sources.
Sure, but nobody's saying that he shouldn't critique the agency as an ex-employee. That's totally legit.
Did you end up explaining to him why NDA's may be counterproductive? Sounds like a valuable lesson he could've learnt ;)
My idea is *not* just another business
Javascript's DOM
If there is one it's not public. Here's the bug to track:
https://code.google.com/p/dart/issues/detail?id=1533
I love this:

Several people in the restaurant were waiting for orders with their similar devices, which suggested to me this could be a pager system of some sort. Turning the receiver over, we see stickers with interesting information, including a UHF carrier frequency. For this kind of situations I often carry my RTL2832U-based television receiver dongle with me (the so-called rtl-sdr).

I knew I was forgetting something.

http://www.windytan.com/2013/09/the-burger-pager.html
It is a matter of responsibility. Anyone, in any organization, has a responsibility to make sure that the organization's "assets," however defined, are properly handled. Agree or not, intellectual property is one of the assets, and we had a responsibility to make sure that we followed the proper procedures before it was handed out.

What we did today was make a statement that encouraging participation in various communities and allowing Rackers to develop their skills whenever and however they want is both better for everyone and more consistent with our values. As obvious as this may be to you, we needed to do this in the proper way so that we could satisfy our duties to our shareholders.

I challenge you to find a public company with a similar policy. I have been around a long time, and I've never found one.
I had some pretty unpleasant residual tension in my pyriformis after a pinched nerve, and learned a few ways to deal with it.

1) Epsom salt hot water soaks. Gets the job done.

2) Sit, lie, stand, whatever, with a tennis ball or lacrosse ball under the sore spot. The more it hurts the better it feels. You'll feel the muscle spasm then release when you get it just right. It takes about 5 minutes.

3) The spot that hurts might not be the spot that's hurting. Referred pain is difficult to treat sometimes. With pain in your middle back, it could be caused by anything from your jaw, to your neck, to your shoulder, to your back. Pain tends to move downwards and inwards. Stretch (and strengthen) your neck, make sure you don't slump your head forwards, and triple check the ergonomics of your workstation.

4) I'm not a big believer in the term 'psychosomatic' because it sounds too much like 'all in your head.' Look for times when you're stressed, and run a quick check through your body for tension. If you find it, flex the tight muscles for a few seconds and release.

If you find yourself tense often, and I truly mean this in a respectful way, you have to deal with some important parts of your life. Persistent pain can be your body's way of telling you to address something.
Patent troll and lawyer parasitic scum. What else is new?

This will go until patent law is changed to make this no longer economically viable.
Wouldn't it be possible to add some kind of @json class annotation then, which cannot be combined with "extends" and dynamic types? I understand that serialization of inheritance trees and arbitrary data is a complicated problem. So why not allow a simple case first and continue from there?

I guess inbuilt json serialization of simple types would already cover alot of real world rest scenarios which most users care about.
I don't get it. If China's military is as weak and as far behind as the author claims, why is he worrying about China's military threats? It should be a cakewalk to head off any threats from them with our much more advanced capabilities. Why is he advocating to increase the military spending for US and its allies? Aren't our current capabilities so much better and so much ahead of them that they will have no hope of catching up?