skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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I doubt it has anything todo with the number of tabs. I had hundreds of tabs open in Chrome. As Chrome keeps only the last few pages in memory, that's not an issue. But some very JavaScript heavy sites can be an issue, especially with devices that have only 512MB of memory.
No i disagree with your interpretation, but that's because I'm a perl guy who is currently doing 60-75% javascript. Both are very pragmatic languages with significant design warts, but with enough useful higher level features to make them fun (unlike say PHP).
I believe you. But I had the same reaction as mkaziz. And was about to comment on this.

So I think the takeaway is that people are turned off by this - and you can convince people on HN that you won't abuse it. But not everywhere.

And, with a million products attempting to take my time - anything that makes me hesitate (like that I have to allow you to "update my profile") is enough to turn me off.
I posted this the last time I saw you making ~ the same point https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7316490

(And yeah, 10+ years old Perl code bases might be less than pretty... The environment evolves quickly, for good and bad.)
Now I really don't know what to say to my brother in law who is opening a brewery / restaurant...
The problem with digital music (for producers)
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Nationwide data if you are interested.

http://money.usnews.com/careers/best-jobs/software-developer...
In a non-protectionist world there would be free movement of labor and so there would be nothing stopping say a US or European developer moving overseas to follow the work if that it what they desired. Sadly this is not the case so off-shoring is equally as protectionist which is where a lot of the criticism comes from.

Globalization as currently implemented simply moves work to where it is cheaper as protectionist immigration policies in most cases prevent skilled labor from following the jobs. That sadly is the reality of modern trade.

> In fact demonstrating fair wages is a fundamental
> requirement for H1B applications.

The fact is that there are enough loopholes in this requirement to drive a truck through and enforcement is weak. And the companies that exploit this know that.
I start with:

-Os

I really don't like the stack protector. It adds a lot of space to executables, so I turn it off:

-fno-stack-protector

Arthur told me about:

-fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables

which seems to save a lot of space. I don't know exactly what it does, but the documentation suggests it does something with debugging, however `-s` doesn't remove it so I have this here.

I often work without glibc (don't need it) but I like gcc's builtins so I have:

-Dabort=__builtin_trap -Dmemcpy=__builtin_memcpy -Dmemset=__builtin_memset -minline-all-stringops -msse2 -ffreestanding -nostdlib -fno-builtin

which seems to do the trick. I don't think all of these are necessary on all versions of GCC but I keep running into versions that complain about something so this line keeps getting longer. On x86 I additionally use:

-mregparm=3

since it saves a lot of space and helps benchmarks.
This is so apropos!

Three groups of my friends (6 people, total) are attempting to start breweries, brewpubs, or cideries.

I have a number of thoughts for these friends. (Advice not totally unsolicited -- I've been homebrewing for about 17 years.)

- Brewing a good batch of beer - better than most of the what's sold in stores - is easy. Almost anyone can do it with their first batch.

- This tricks people into thinking that brewing is easy. But...

- Consistency is hard. That recipe that turned out so well the first time? It might be good the second time, or it might spoil, or it might be too hoppy, or it might be cloudy, or taste of yeast, and so on. At any rate, it's unlikely that it will taste exactly the same as it did the first time.

- Brewing large batches is hard. Even transitioning from 5 gallon to 10 gallon batches requires different equipment. Recipes don't scale in a simple way. And when you get into backwatering high gravity beers everything becomes even more complex.

- Making wine and cider is hard compared to brewing beer. The former two have fewer ingredients, which, being fruit instead of grain, tend to be less consistent. Conditioning takes MUCH longer which means feedback and learning take much longer.

- And yet, I bet actually making a consistent, high-quality beverage is the easy part compared to running a profitable brewing business.

- Brewing is expensive. Startup costs are high. Even an enthusiastic homebrewer can easily spend thousands. Think $10,000 for a bare-minimum commercial brewing setup built around e.g. a SABCO Brew Magic.

- The legal stuff is hard. Licenses, bonds, a legal location -- all that stuff takes time and money.

- The food industry is brutal. Combining a brewery and a restaurant seems like it must tremendously increase the probability of failure.

Anyway, brewing is a fun hobby. But one of those that sort of lulls people into making hasty business decisions.
Oh how do you know it's not the real khal?
Ok then why not just ask to post tweets on my behalf? why ask for Update your profile., Read my tweets, etc. Not letting any unknown app update my profile. Sorry.
No, it's not. You said GSM is used everywhere except Verizon in the US. That's just plain wrong.

If you'd like to say that your point remains valid, I completely agree. But if you're going to insist that your factually incorrect statement is not wrong, we're going to have a problem.

Also, I did not say anything about reasons for buying different kinds of phones. I only talked about the number of different kinds of networks available throughout the world.
>1. Did he really have the US Constitution as a backdrop?

I'm as politically cynical as just about anyone I know. I have no faith in either party. Ron Paul was the only remotely interesting candidate in the primaries, but after he lost I couldn't care less about the Obama vs Romney election. Both are empty suits beholden to the highest bidder. Sure, the parties are great at focusing on polarizing issues like abortion and distribution of wealth, but neither one apparently gives a fuck about reforming the rot at the core (e.g. campaign financing, congress beholden to corporate interest, defense spending, moral hazard post bailouts, cost of college skyrocketing along with student aid keeping pace, etc).

So yes, I'm a doom and gloom kind of guy who sees no clear way out of the mess that the US is in. I'm not patriotic, though I'm still grateful to be a US citizen. I scoffed at the Tea Party's obsession with the US Constitution since I saw very little evidence that they really understood what it's all about. If I saw any politician giving an interview with a US Constitution as the backdrop, I'd roll my eyes and wonder what they were trying to sell me.

BUT, Snowden is the best example that I know of as a person that really values the plan for the US as laid out by the Constitution and who saw first hand an insidious threat to ignoring those principles without the public even being aware. If there's anyone who has earned the right to call himself a true patriot and defender of the Constitution, it's Edward Snowden. So the backdrop may not be such an odd choice given that perspective, IMO.
I'm in my mid 40s. I have been coding my entire career and I am still coding everyday.

The startup I have worked for 3 year was not quite taking off. So a few months ago I decided to quit to look for something new. This is the first time I have quit a job out right without having a new job waiting. It turned out to be the best thing I have done. Once I broadcast the message that I am in the job market, my email box quickly fill up with requests (I'm in the San Francisco job market). I've spent the next week pretty much interviewing full time. Very soon I've received multiple job offers. The company I like the most did not make the highest offer. But I successfully negotiate up to a satisfactory level.

In terms of work and technical skill, I feel I am in the top of the game. I'm not sure where people get the idea that young person is better than more experienced. New knowledge often build on top of old knowledge. Fundamental skill like logic, math, data structure are just equally relevant. Plus experience is useful when you need to make judgment on where and how things are likely to change, and where things is more risky that deserve more attention for design and testing. That say the landscape of technical knowledge is huge and quickly expanding. There a new thing to learn everyday. I am aware that many people around me, both young and old, are really talented. There are always things I can learn from them.

In terms of pay, it is rising in absolute term. But I'm not in management and I'm moving mostly laterally. I don't believe I am making more than someone who are in their 30s. In this sense both my career and my pay is plateaued. But still I satisfied with the work and pay level. I think this is an excellent career choice for myself.
I think it would be very valuable to try and do a big compare-and-contrast analysis of the Python 2->3 transition vs the ruby 1.8->1.9(->2) transition.

ruby 1.9 transition was actually a pretty big pain (I have no idea whether as big a pain as python2->3 or not, that'd be something to look at).

But the ruby ecosystem/community has successfully moved to 1.9, there is little left on 1.8.

On the other hand, sometimes it's _really_ frustrating how much work I need to spend upgrading my ruby stuff to use the latest and greatest. Ruby community is relatively uncaring about backwards compat (less than python? I am not sure. Is that uncaringness part of the tradeoff that got us to all move to ruby 1.9 somehow? I don't know, but that's what I'm wondering. Many interesting questions.)
How so? SHA256, pbkdf2, bcrypt, and scrypt are all deterministic--in all cases, I can get your key if I know your secret (passphrase and salt).

Admittedly, though, using SHA256(passphrase) without a salt to derive a key makes dictionary attacks easier than the others.
this is precisely my point, we love namecoin but it needs better uses/applications of the key-value interface it exposes
Is there a name for this approach? The recursive-tile-morph-factor shader?
Also, I think that iOS 7 has gotten mixed press. (Like it, hate it, not-quite-baked, etc) that it's worth making a big deal of 7.1.
I'm currently enjoying web-ui hacking as it's really the interesting part of the CRUD domain now that everyone expects js code to do interesting things.
Just a quick suggestion but the header green bar on the homepage is an eye-burning shade of green.
Interestingly, this is the same thing that is currently killing Python. The lack of migration towards Python3 is causing major problems.
Hair Growth Tablets That Work
> You are asserting that [older] people have timeless knowledge making them more valuable employees than younger people without that timeless knowledge.

I never said that.
"passionate consumers, who hunger to hear music the way its creators intended" - Unless this device teleports me to Red Rocks Amphitheater in Colorado, it fails at this goal.

Feel free to substitute your concert venue of choice here.
I'm 38 -- your notes on memory are interesting. I use Anki spaced-repetition software to retain less-often-used technical minutiae.

I'm also transitioning to using it to integrate new knowledge. Clip to Evernote. Create flash-cards in Anki, and practice on my commute.
aye, perl is still huge in the teleco and networking world. These guys are not without their technical management problems though, and some of them seem resistant to getting someone in to help fix the problems.
Yieks, I can't believe this release didn't include a fix for #4068, it's quite serious. https://github.com/dotcloud/docker/issues/4068
Can you add in how many moves!!?
@lbr @palakchokshi

That's right. I totally understand. The thing is... Twitter permissions aren't very precise.

I just wanted to ask for the permission to write tweets from my app, not to edit your profile. But they don't allow you to do that...

Anyway thanks for the feedback!
Muneeb here, one of the devs of OneName. Just wanted to let everyone know that we got way more load than we expected and had to fire up a lot of additional namecoind servers. The new servers started coming online 1-2 hours back. So if you registered between 11am and 3:30pm EST then your profile processing could be delayed by a few extra hours. Sorry for the inconvenience, but firing up 10 extra namecoind servers while keeping the current setup from not choking was a "fun" experience :D

I need my breakfast now
You should take money from investors that trust you to make the right decisions. Ultimately you are responsible for the success of the company. Decisions should be made with the customer as your priority and not the opinions of any investors or advisors.
This is entirely not true.
When microwaves were first released, they were so low powered that microwave cookbooks gave advice like "wrap the edges of the chickin in foil".

http://www.ebay.com/itm/like/281275232630?lpid=82

Also, most microwaves have a large metal rack inside them.

Only certain configurations of metal are dangerous in a modern microwave. A computer has those, though.

http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2010/08/why-you-gene...
Nice. It would be interesting to see more visualizations or summary statistics that show what type of phrases, topics, or other features of a Kickstarter campaign make it most likely to get funded.
Folder Tree in Mac
Never `bundle exec` again
Would like to have seen this delivered in person, is there is video version available?
Personally I would want to see some kind of smoking gun like "A competitor emailed me AT THE UNIQUE EMAIL ADDRESS THAT I JUST SIGNED UP TO STRIPE WITH" - otherwise the mail could have just been a coincidence and could have come from anywhere.
Snowden: Surveillance is 'setting fire' to the internet
This seems like a hijack and the Malaysian incident seems like a hijack. How are there not satellite photos of the plane changing course and landing on a freighter or something? That's got to pop on a satellite image somewhere.
Most of those stops between Boston and D.C. only have one train service per day.

The typical Northeast Regional between D.C. and NYC is: New York City, Newark, Metropark, Trenton, Philadelphia, Wilmington, Baltimore, BWI, New Carrolton, D.C. That's 8 intermediate stops over 3.5 hours, or one per 26 minutes. The Acela Express doesn't stop at Metropark, Trenton, BWI, or New Carrolton.

Why does even the Acela pass through Wilmington? The city only has 70,000 people, but is also a hub of corporate law firms and credit card companies. Wilmington boards about 800k passengers per yer, versus Baltimore's 1m, despite the latter being about 10x as big.
Thanks! We're hoping to do a lotttt more with this :)
Those little devices are filled with snake oil. Buyer beware.
Thank you. I am not much of a designer, I have been playing with a few different colors.
Very cool--I'll look at this if I ever get back to this project. (Unlikely, given the changes in my priorities since I started it.)

At the time, my primary motivation was really to learn more about x86 machine code, which explains the brute-force approach. (Hey, Linux got started because Linus wanted to learn more about x86 memory management, so it's not a completely dumb approach.)
I know, but I also think it has become a political nostrum that's used to shut down debate as often as open it up. It's easy to fall into a http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mean_world_syndrome mindset as well; this used to be considered a mass media pehnomenon, but relatively small internet communities fulfil the same function. In short, not all good news is propaganda.
For now, yes. Like most things (e.g. Chromecast SDK) they don't speculate until the release is complete.

>The current UI is definitely not something that is appropriate for end users; it is mostly for platform engineers (a tool for examining, debugging, and testing the state of that part of the system), maybe some day for third party developers. In what form these features might be available in the regular UI I couldn’t really speculate about.
Many of my fellow students sprouted Perl on their resumes after working at a storage company in Raleigh.
I told Google all about it!
Try the sculpt wireless. No mushy spacebar. I just don't like the esc key - small and different switch style - since I'm a vim user, but its not a blocker. I couldn't stand the 4000.
Yes, still, someone could leak "Book X is by Author A" regardless of it being true.

The main issue are the candidates. However, I believe that for this type of analysis exclusion of a certain candidate is much more reliable than finding the one who did it (as the article exemplifies)
Chinese DVDFab (movie copy software) has domain seized by AACS LA
For what it's worth... I live in the heart of Washington's wine country. Every year there are dozens of new wineries, and the same number that go bankrupt. Very few people who move here to be a "gentleman farmer" enjoying the imagery of the harvest find that to be the case - most end up bankrupt. While I am not in the wine business, it's pretty clear there are a lot of shenanigans that go on, like buying wholesale wine and putting a nice label on it - like most businesses, the marketing matters at least as much as product quality.

I make cheese, and have spoken to some of you here about that as well. Producing commercial dairy products blows away the health and safety regulations in beer and wine making. Think it is hard putting a fermented grape in a bottle for sale, try something that comes out of the backend of a live animal...
> The experience is less like city subways, regional rail, or buses, and more like what you would expect from airplanes (although with more space and without the seatbelts).

The NRE is more like what flying business class used to be 15 years ago. Plenty of space, clean, relaxing lighting, a snack bar, etc. Most airplanes these days are filthy (they scrimp on cleaning between flights), don't run air conditioning enough on hot days, not to mention cramped.
Artificial Brains – The quest to build sentient machines
The game is super addictive and I figured out a way to get to 11000 in the first hour. It's actually an excellent analogy for social network-type products and any business really. If your users belong to different clusters and similar clusters don't meet, there is little value and the network doesn't become more valuable for anyone. By focusing on the same corner scenario you help similar clusters find each-other consistently and thus amplify value to each-other. I took over one corner and keep stacking on to it with blocks of increasing value, essentially never moving out of it. If you move out of your corder, a different cluster takes hold in it and then everyone in that corner will hesitate to buy into you, even if the other cluster is small - it becomes a thorn in your butt. Great job! I learned something new today (Plague has also been very educational for me so far, but for viral dynamics.)
On what basis did you suggest that it wasn't the most advanced?

I'm interested from a technical perspective. From a deep software development point of view, I'm familiar with OSX, FreeBSD, Linux and Windows and know their technical merits well.
> Building static sites in Clojure

> Unlike pretty much every other static site generator, though, it is not an "opinionated framework",

?

Stuff like the link checker seem really useful though.
Managing Oneself (1999)
is 1.5 not compatible with 1.4.3 boxes? I had to downgrade because of ruby errors on windows 7.
Depends on how obsessive you are about clarity. I've made apple cider and drank it after only a month in primary. It was still a little cloudy but otherwise fine. I also have ciders that I've aged for 1/2/3 years, which have gotten crystal clear and taken on an even more wonderful flavor with time.

Some years, apple harvests where I live are good, and other years not so great. Not so great apples = not so great cider = benefits more from aging.
I began harvesting fruit for my 2013 batch around Labor Day, and drank some for New Years. It improves with every month of aging. Carbonation takes time and helps to build character.
Yeah, I like brewpubs as a customer, but I don't see what the business model is, over just running a brewery or a bar. You get the beer at cost, but the price of a keg of beer is not really a problem most bars feel the need to improve upon.
Is that more yikes than 'FBI safehouse'?
First of all, kudos on a well designed game. It's obvious you've made something pretty addictive, as evident by the place on HN and the responses you're getting here.

One thing I've found out is that you can pretty easily get to at least 512 or higher just by repeating the following pattern:

right + down + left + down

Try it out and you'll quickly see how it works. Any other similar pattern would also work:

right + down + right + up
up + right + up + left
left + down + left + up

I will also sometimes break the pattern to consolidate some of the larger numbers when opportunities present themselves. But other than that, I usually stick to the pattern.

Of course, it will only get you so far, because you will eventually run out of space to keep the pattern working. But it will get you past the first few thousand points (512 or higher).
Start with one, period, do a truckload of due diligence and then add another truckload before the sale closes, and then cross your fingers and hope that your employees don't burn the place down. ;) Starting a restaurant from scratch is something I don't want to wish on even my worst enemy. It's very, very difficult and time consuming to the point that I will try my best to talk people out of it if they even think about it. I know 3-4 talented chefs that almost went bankrupt trying to open their own restaurant instead of just buying one and remodeling/revamping it.

Big ones can be iffy, they'll all but guarantee you some kind of (positive) cash flow but a lot of them sink so much money into necessary wages that I definitely recall wondering why the fuck anyone would think I would spend $1+ million to buy a wildly popular business that gives me all of $10k/month back before I can pay off any business loans. I seem to recall the broker trying to sell that particular one to me with "you can take the place of a few employees because owner/managers tend to work way harder and save like another $10k+!"....sure, if I wanted to work my ass off from 7am to 1am every single day?
But is the "real Satoshi" a true Scotsman?
$ brew install tree
Lynx v2.8.8 released
Apparently the 128GiB storage will allow 1000-2000 "high resolution" albums to be stored at once.

I have 96 FLAC albums on my Mac, and they take up 42GiB.

I wonder what then "high resolution" is supposed to mean.
I didn't, I just said that the comment was debatable, and that's enough to make the advertising misleading.

I don't think anyone could disagree with that, even the most ardent Apple crusader.
There are jobs out there which justifiably require a PhD qualification, e.g. industry research labs, defense research labs, national research labs. I think new PhDs should try hard to seek these jobs rather than typical developer-type jobs that would not necessarily benefit from the skills one gained while working towards their dissertation. This is a difficult mandate to follow, but I think a useful one from a career-satisfaction perspective.

Edit: See 'meat-space' vs. 'net-space' comment below. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7373273
I make my kids upgrade their iPads first then test them thoroughly before I do my wife's iPad and iPhone.

With respect to OSX I go for a major release straight away and test it for a couple of hours. If it's broken, I'll restore the machine from Time Machine.

All the Apple users I know do roughly the same process. They're quite conservative and pick guinea pigs before they upgrade.