skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cheap and convenient interstate travel. Megabus sucks.
Rush Limbaugh explains technologies
>or if pretty much everyone who makes should-statements on the Internet is recommending genocide

No, you are seeing a reflection of what other people are searching too. It's a mirror into peoples private naughty thoughts. Stuff they wouldn't say themselves, yet they search for to see if there are arguments supporting the thought.
I have a very different experience. I've had my fastmail account for ~5 years and get 20 new pieces of spam in my inbox daily, while on my gmail account, that I've used for ~10 years, I only get 1 spam per month on average.

Fastmail's spam filtering is atrocious in my experience.
Why would you ever pattern match on Option[T] in Scala? In all my code, I do either:

optionalF.map( _.whatever ).getOrElse(fallback)

or perhaps

(optionalF <+> optionalFallback).getOrElse(finalFallback)

For those unfamiliar with <+>, see here: http://www.chrisstucchio.com/blog/2014/handle_failure_with_p...
acquired by google?
Having to go to the doctor for something little, rather than a quicker and cheaper alternative.
Practically any command line utility? eg. ls, cat, sort, uniq, ps, what have you.

I'm constantly amazed that make(1) can do successive recompiles of a 50k LOC project in less than a second, while gradle / maven / etc takes upwards of a minute.
Desktop, chrome and MacOS X Telegram apps that will make you switch
MH370 disappearance: Goodfellow's theory about fire and Langkawi is wrong.
I suppose there would have been a better way to phrase that sentence. The goal of the Electrolysis is to render the web content in separate sandboxed processes to improve stability and performance.
Having to go grocery shopping when you only need a few things.
We'd love the help on Huginn!

https://github.com/cantino/huginn
Cities also limit the number of "regular" taxis, too.
This clearly violates rule of least astonishment, however as Linus says: "we do not break userspace".
Maybe they wanted a patch that could be easily applied to older versions. It might have an elif later too, although I'm guessing that's not too common after debug blocks.
Use OpenJDK.
Those are not the reasons I use Foursquare, HN, or Reddit (can't speak for others)
Multiple return types: Questionable benefit there. Exceptions are nice when used properly. Option classes handle the rest.

Categories: Default methods probably do what you want.

Get rid of primitives: Are you nuts? It turns out computers work on primitives. It's good to support them.

"Proper" generics: maybe you mean specialization, or maybe you mean reification. It's a choice.

Properties: If they irritate you that much, just use something that will generate them for you, using standard annotation processing.
they are trying to make changes to improve. give them some chance to improve. They have moved all the downloading to server side & so downloading an attachment or running a video is much faster now on gmail as compared to earlier

Lets give them a chance to improve before we bid goodbye
Not knowing what the culture is really like at the companies your considering working for.
Come on, that's unwarranted. Don't be a jerk.
What are we discussing? Who has more power? I'm really confused by your argument because I don't think we're arguing the same points.

Can we get back to my original response to the original post:
1. Is finance irrelevant to tech as the OP suggests. I think we can both agree that it is NOT irrelevant although we can both agree its importance (as a % of GDP and in society) has diminished.

2. Does Icahn have LEGAL legitimacy for his claims. I think we both agree that there is some legitimacy, even if we don't believe in it.

3. What is the desire to pit tech vs. finance coming from? Why can't both co-exist? Who values Facebook? Investors who make money off it.

By the way, if you think YC is going to beat Berkshire Hathaway in terms of net IRR during a comparable time-frame, you're either trolling or have a limited history of venture and angel investing. Furthermore, it's worth noting that Berkshire is doing this at a much larger base, which makes Buffet's IRR that much more impressive.
Sorry, forgot to check this. One left!
Not knowing what different careers are really like until you try them.
Remembering all your passwords.
Not being able to easily compare the performance of different mutual funds.
Think about how a game treats a block of stone right now. It's a hollow cube with textures pasted on it. It's bounding box is pretty easy to calculate, but a complex object that doesn't match it's own bounding box closely will still clip right through it.

Now, imagine if we replaced that single block of stone with a matrix of tiny blocks. Also, imagine that we've made the bounding box of the complex object fit its geometry much more closely. If the same motion that caused clipping before is carried out, we'll detect it. It's going to take a lot more computation, but we will detect it.

Not only will we detect collisions that we wouldn't have before, we'll be able to handle them in a variety of gameplay enhancing ways. If the stone is meant to be strong stuff, we make it's mass high and the bonds between sub-blocks strong so that the complex object will come to a jarring halt when it makes contact instead of passing into the stone. If the stone is meant to be softer, we dial down the bond strength between the sub-blocks a bit so that they can be broken. The object might dig in a bit and leave a noticeable gouge as some of the sub-blocks are separated from the main block. If the stone is meant to be more like dirt, we make the bond strength very low so that a blow will cause a chain-reaction that will cause the whole block to tumble apart. We can change the probability of blocks sticking together to simulate either wet, clumpy earth or dust that's ready to fly off in all directions when it's touched. Deforming the complex object is also an option. It could be similarly be composed of sub-blocks, but with tweakable levels of stickiness/stretchiness holding them together that would allow us to capture things like flexing or bending.

In short, we really oversimplify the physical nature of objects in video games at present. This greatly reduces computation, but it makes the world seem unrealistic in how objects interact. By splitting things into smaller chunks that more closely resemble real matter we can start to simulate real materials, but at the cost of greater computation that isn't devoted directly towards making things pretty. Prying resources away from the graphics engine has long been something developers just don't want to do.
Agree to disagree my friend. I wish you well.
What Life Is Like When Getting Your Period Means You Are Shunned
I liked Spotify's response ("derivative of John Gage"). Has Spotify stopped streaming audio ads between songs on the free service? Pretty easy to go back to that if this became a real problem.
As a power user, I like my shell access to my mail machine. Procmail, shell scripts, perl...

Oh, and GMail has definitely grown a lot more heavyweight. I've had to switch to the classic HTML interface to get anything done in GMail on my 3 watt 1GHz laptop. Turning off chat helped, but not nearly enough.
I think that's because they used poor art assets. Most games look far more pleasing and realistic than those examples while using traditional rasterization pipelines, mostly on the strength of the artists and an offline prebaking stage.

There's a reason Nvidia employs top CG talent for their hardware demos. A pretty demo sells more than an ugly one, even if they essentially pull off the same effect.
Have a look at Chrome, desktop, Mac Os Telegram apps
Smaller polygons.
For those who don't know: this is PROBABLY named after Palm OS Gremlins. Palm OS had a debugging tool called "gremlins" that would randomly tap and type and gesture all over your Palm OS app. This debugging tool would often find edge cases that would end up crashing your app.

As someone who used to program for Palm OS a lot, I was pretty happy to see this name. :)
For Android: http://developer.android.com/tools/help/monkey.html
That doesn't make any sense. Icahn is a shareholder himself and he mainly makes his money through share appreciation. If the share price goes up, all shareholders benefit.

I don't know enough about the TWA business dealings, but sometimes a company is more valuable broken up.
I think that there are some polls that I would be interested in seeing the public opinion of. Most of the things on the site now I wasn't interested in though.

Also, check out http://platformed.info/.
>I don't like cab companies, but I do want to know that my hired driver is insured. I'm indifferent to hotels, but I don't want my neighbor running an SRO out of his apartment. I don't enjoy high medical bills, but I like the ability to know that my prescription medications aren't radium-based elixirs. And so on.

That's not protecting established businesses. All those laws are arguably meant to protect consumers. I can't see any justification for "caps". This is just the needless contrarianism that appears in the top comment of every HN post. This is undefendable though.

The problem of industries resisting change through the legal system is far worse than whatever small problems might be caused by disruption. In general humans are heavily biased against change. We need less resistance to change, not more.
You can always forward your mail through GMail. Publicly, your address is r0s@gmail.com, but that account forwards to another address. Boom, spam filtering. You can even give out your "private" address to trusted parties, and skip the middleman.
They highly endorsed "fundzinger" -- but that's not what some people have been saying: http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1119213/fundzinger-do-not-us...

It shows up near the top of the google results for fundzinger, and a fishy sock puppet "Tim Koteke" showed up in thread and did some damage control for fundzinger. No google or linkedin hits for his name or his projects. Then once people started asking for some evidence that he wasn't just making shit up, he (or somebody) deleted the post (which is still quoted in the thread) and he disappeared.

That discussion inspired them to start this thread:
http://boardgamegeek.com/thread/1126569/kickstarter-boost-co...

If that's the kind of "pr" fundzinger does for themselves, I doubt they do any better for their customers.

So why would they recommend fundzinger so highly? Are they just grateful they didn't have to pay them for the hours they worked (or pretended to work)? Or was there some kind of tit-for-tat: you say nice things about us and we don't charge you for canceling the project. That wouldn't surprise me much, after seeing their lame attempt at sock puppeteering.

...Maybe they should have tried to be hip and cool by calling themselves "Fundzingr", then I would have immediately known they were charlatans.
"Having" to go through K-12.
I meant almost in the sense of "possibly", as in YC is international in the range of 0.2-0.4 and 500 is in the range 0.25 - 0.45 or something. And that YC still has a greater number/quality of international startups, even if 500 has a greater percentage, partially because YC has been around longer and has had a few big successes (Team Ireland at Stripe is worth more than all of 500 combined, and possibly more than TechStars, although Digital Ocean might test that).
Yup, I literally have to use /h/. Standard has become so slow I can count the seconds between the end of page loading and the begin of responsiveness (like how Windows used to boot to the desktop, but be unresponsive for another 30 seconds)
> glibertarian

hmm.
Interestingly, this leads to the heart of the analysis. Which is probability of success, control of success factors, and second best outcomes, given success doesn't happen. If you consider those more "rational" metrics (agnostic of money/fame), how would they compare?
A lack of stimulating discussion. Most people treat discussions/arguments like wars, and don't know how to apply the principles of reductionism.
It would be interesting to compare how many cases would be silently fixed by such a change.
Possible MH370 sighting as Maldives residents report 'low-flying jumbo'
Kind of fits with the fire on board theory.
The world's largest database of opinions is called the internet. If you can make anyone's opinion valuable then you are on to something. Tldr no.
I've mostly jumped off the webmail bandwagon altogether. They are all headed that direction (except squirrelmail) so I stick with IMAP access. Outlook 2010 is currently idling on my laptop at an astonishing 36.6MB.
The 1984 Macintosh had a similar testing tool called The Monkey.

Andy Hertzfeld: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Monkey_Lives.txt
I was not there at the time of 6502, but imo ARM assembly is simpler (relative to x86_64).

I would go as far to say I really love debug things on RISC instruction set.
In this case, I think the userspace is already broken, but people haven't realized their code is broken yet.
Having to clean.
Largest Redit cluster ever
I'm personally interested in when Kickstarter makes sense, vs. one's own self-hosted presales site. Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

It seems like Kickstarter makes more sense for smaller projects, but the 15% cut and inflexibility (no bitcoins, no bulk sales, etc.) might be a bigger issue for larger projects.

The "virality" part of KS is nice, but it doesn't seem like a huge percentage of orders. The "all or nothing" part reassures people, but for a YC company or other respected entity, you could just make the same promise.

The "artificial deadline" part is nice, though.
Finding something good on TV.
What do you mean, Outlook has less features than GMail? Sure doesn't seem that way to me.
Nothing. It is only different in name. Oracle owns the actual copyright on JavaScript via Sun. ECMAscript was used so the ECMA would not have to worry about this.
I've become a advocate for the idea that the only values which should evaluate in boolean context are actual booleans. If you need to test for the number zero or a null value, you explicitly write 'value == 0' or 'value is null'. Is it more verbose? Yes. But it avoids any ambiguity about what you intend to evaluate. Typing speed should not be a determinant in the language you use.
Sometimes not banging your head on the keyboard each day is worth $10/year.
A nitpick that has caused much confusion in the comments below:

The nuclear family is the most basic form of family, and is certainly not opposed to an extended family. An extended family is a superset of a nuclear family. All families by definition must include the subset of the nuclear family, and thus it is the minimum requirement to fall into the set of "All possible families".

For the set of all families F, there exists an element N = "nuclear family" such that N is a subset of F.
Did you read the article you linked to with the stock buy-back, ticket sales, and then tanking it in Chap 11? That didn't benefit the other shareholders.
Le Japon invente le Kit Kat cuit au four
Kit Kat se métamorphose en un biscuit croustillant au contact de la chaleur. Le Japon fait dans l’insolite avec cette barre chocolatée qui devient dorée une fois passée au four. N’oubliez pas le thé !
Honestly, I don't think they're really worried about the competition. They have Jon Carmack, enough said.
> Are my rights infringed if the infringement has no impact on any of my other rights or my life in general

You're assuming no impact without evidence. Let's think about that first. Even assuming no G-men in black helicopters descend on you at any point in your life, what results from the government collecting all of this information?

The most obvious problem is, what happens if the government uses the same level of competence to keep your secrets secret as they do at anything else? What happens when some tool walks out of the NSA with a backpack full of hard drives comprising the metadata of everyone in the US for the past decade, and posts it on the internet?

The results of that are entirely predictable. Every vulnerable population whatsoever will be exposed to their antagonists. Crime bosses will be able to find informants and undercover law enforcement officers. Terrorists and criminals will be able to identify vulnerable targets. Industrial espionage and blackmail will proceed on a massive scale. Abusive spouses will find their exes. None of that reasonably classifies as "no harm no foul."

But OK, that hasn't happened yet, suppose we give them the benefit of the doubt. Uncle Sam is going to fill the server room with Marines until the end of days and keep everybody's secrets from ever leaking onto the internets. But still there is the government. If you know the government is recording your movements, are you going to be willing to visit a Communist rally to broaden your horizons or satisfy your intellectual curiosity? What about an abortion clinic, or a psychiatrist? What aren't husbands and wives going to be willing to say to each other for fear that someone could be listening? What essays aren't going to be published if their authors don't believe in their ability to remain anonymous against pervasive surveillance?

The problem with "harmless" surveillance is that it creates fear, and fear is a harm.
So you're kidding about the "ransoming" bit.. but why not have an auction or pledge for 'how much would you pay to know who just posted this post?' and then allow the author to click accept/reveal or no/keep hidden. Could also have an option upfront for disabling the feature (maybe only disabling on the author's end, to ever reveal, but let user's think they can bid it up).

Got me intrigued at least.
I also don't worship Sam, but even if I were the OP I'd say the same thing. It's just not worth the conversational overhead.
I don't remember the source, read this over six years ago, but there was a case where a women born with stereo blindness just suddenly regained depth perception.
This startup is better off in Tokyo than in Silicon Valley
Ukranian Revolution – seen through Epiphany Eyewear
How to break games out of the “act like a man” box
> I don't want to speak to my watch

Doesn't everyone want to look like a TV show FBI agent?
I think this is essentially "Fuzz testing"[1]. Something I read about in a book years ago but never saw done in real-life. The term may be antiquated at this point.
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuzz_testing
Ask HN: How much Resource (CPU, GPU, RAM) do you need to run Google Chrome?
I have an old-ish but decent Macbook Air (2010) with 4GB RAM, 2.13 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo. I sometimes do Photoshop, use Sublime Text and almost everything else. It is not super fast but it gets the job done without much of a problem. But for Google Chrome (version 33.0.1750.152), it will kill itself, crashes like hell. Of late, this has been my regular problem. What about yours?
Andreessen has very publicly said that he wants to replace money with tech. His Bitcoin bets are public statement that he believes that this new technology will disrupt an industry: that industry is finance. The majority of the financial industry probably doesn't think the threat is credible ("First they ignore you..."), but Icahn is a bit more forward-thinking than most, and he probably realizes that Andreessen is going straight after his power base.
Drop Down Menus – Common Misuse
So, that's cool and all, but we aren't making simulations--we're making games.

Nobody gives a hoot in hell how realistic the drapes on a window are if the game isn't fun.

Many games have gone for very good realism, and it hasn't really worked out so well.

Doom 3 had per-poly hit detection, and all it did was make many weapons feel less accurate and multiplayer more annoying.

ArmA2, one of the most detailed military sims out there, did very accurate character-world collision detection and as a side-effect actually moving around inside buildings became quite hard. A community mod was created to address that and restore the funner, less realistic behavior.

Red Faction Guerilla tried to make more realistic destructible physics, but it mostly just made more trouble for level designers, because things they built tended to fall apart.

Again, simulations aren't games.
Final Result: iperf benchmark run on AWS ‘m1’ and ‘m3’ instances
Book review: Parallel and Concurrent Programming in Haskell
First, I can see some benefits to a false midnight. The case of truncated timestamps discussed on the Python list is actually useful.

However, the problem with the Python truth value of a date here goes way deeper than what folks have generally discussed and make the behavior here unsafe for any use.

When designing a module, contracts are important. You don't want to ever have to break a contract if you can avoid it. Sometimes it will be unavoidable, but you hope not. What this means is that your contracts need to be clear, precise, and meaningful, and the code needs to implement the contract.

I good contract would have read something like:

A time value is false if it represents a midnight, either when unqualified by timezone or when midnight GMT.

This gives you a specification. It gives you something you can use and count on. Maybe it is a killer feature for someone. However the implementation instead was:

A time value is false if and only if it evaluates to zero after subtracting the timezone offset if it has one.

Think about what this means when you have a negative vs a positive offset. It means that negative timezone offsets allow a date to always be true, but positive ones allow it to be false at UTC midnight. The real takeaway from this really should be the fact that API documentation should be declarative in nature and not procedural. Don't tell me how you get an answer. Tell me what the answer means. if you do the latter, then nothing can ever be fixed but probably cannot be safely used either.

The problem then is first and foremost a problem of API design and a design which is fundamentally flawed. This is why absent where the algorithm is critical to the contract it should not be mentioned. Explain what is expected and what it means, not how you get at the answer.
Slavery was legal once too.
I've always wondered - are Google's autocomplete choices based on what people are searching for, or are they based on frequently-found phrases in website content?
What would happen if an API turned out to be based on a clearly incorrect and useless reading of a POSIX standard? I would think that even Linus might fix something in that case.
Can somebody explain to me how "pings narrowed the location of MH370 at that moment to one of two arcs"?

If a ping is picked up, shouldn't it be somewhat definitive of where it came from?
One more NewSQL database
ASM is not made to be read by humans but by computers.
Voxels, pretty much? Like minecraft, but 10 or 1,000 or 1,000,000 times smaller than the objects/characters in the world.

It might look pretty blocky at lower resolutions, but considering the enduring appeal of "pixel art" (and minecraft's success too), it's kinda surprising it hasn't been done yet. i.e. a voxel physics world at a similar resolution to old 8-bit games (for example, 8x8x8 voxel characters).

If voxel physics can be done largely locally (with long-range effects being a slow ripple), it could be a killer app for massively multicore devices.
This negates the privacy benefits of not using gmail, no?
You can load WebGL texture from byte[] pixel array. http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9046643/webgl-create-text...
Sure, but comparing a paid service to a free service and expecting the free service to be as good as a paid service is silly.
I've noticed this with maps as well. I don't know what that has to do with corporatization, but I do know slow, hiccupy, and failed to load when I see it.
Why it's a site controlled tag and not a browser option? This is crazy
Elfactem's law of user churn
The satellite just recorded the time the signal took to get from it to earth and back. That gives you a circular arc of places.

The interesting bit in the article is to scroll down to "GOODFELLOW REBUTTAL...Interesting analysis of my analysis." in the comments.