skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What was that motto? Don't be... ending? Don't be evasive? ... Don't be Evan? No, sorry, it's gone. Can't have been important anyway, or someone would have remembered it.
Huh, lobbying, in my view, these days is nothing but paying people lots of money to steer their decisions... Otherwise why bother doing it...
Dumbphones are too distracting; pen and paper is superior.
God I hate make. I hate make so very, very much. Compiling code isn't that hard. I swear to the programming lords on high it isn't.

Here's a wonderfully useful open source project - Google gperftools [1]. It includes TCMalloc amongst other things. The Makefile.in is 6390 lines long. Configure is 20,767 lines long. Libtool is 10247 lines long. That's fucking insane.

Compiling OpenSource is such a pain in the ass. Particularly if you trying to use it in a cross-platform Windows + OS X + Linux environment. One of my favorite things about iOS middleware is that one of their #1 goals is to make it as easy as possible to integrate into your project. Usually as simple as add a lib, include a header, and call one single line of code to initialize their system (in the case of crash report generation and gathering).

I work on a professional project. We have our own content and code build pipeline. It supports many platforms. I don't want anyone's god damn make bullshit. I want to drop some source code and library dependencies into my source tree that already exists and click my build button that already exists.

</rant>

[1] https://code.google.com/p/gperftools/
The case I site is an environmental group, but there are actually quite a few different attacks (lawsuit based) that happen in the US.
Except I also read in other threads that you comment on spending $5/day on food. And not living in SF because you can't or won't afford to.

So it is entirely possible that you are min-max'ing your life goals in an outlier fashion (which is your perfect right, don't mistake me).
Sure, but even the open web has some basic ground rules. What what special about Prop. 8 (as opposed to virtually any other issue) is that it represented a direct attack on the 14th Amendment - which is one of the basic pillars of our democracy.

For any flourishing society, a broad spectrum of opinion is vital. But when you start attacking the underlying system that make that open society possible in the first place, you've crossed a bright and shining line.

After all, not everything is up for debate. Indeed, that's the whole point of having constitutionally protected rights. People are comfortable with the back and forth of democratic rule if - and only if - they know that their fundamental human rights and basic legal equality are beyond the reach of public debate.

Put that in play, and all bets are off.
Didn't really see the need to honestly :).
From a security situation, the worst situation is everyone running different mail clients, because then if any one of them has a vulnerability someone can send in a crafted mail to take over their box and gain access to your private company docs.

"Monoculture" isn't always bad.
It's not really like they had a choice -- they needed to have access to large pools of existing work forces, and agreeing to no-poaching would prevent that.
I think you have a rather unfortunate misspelling in your post. It's "asexual" not "assexual".
Ask HN: Better Shirts – Tailored Shirts Delivered in 48 Hours
Hi HN,

I've had this problem for a while. I'm a tall, slim guy and it's difficult for me to find a nice, well fitting dress shirt to wear. I thought of this idea called Better Shirts a few nights ago. Let me know what you think!

Here's how the service would work:

1. User would browse our selection of shirts (various patterns and colors)

2. User would enter their shirt measurements

3. Checkout!

4. Custom tailored shirt is delivered in 48 hour to their door

Here would be the feature points:

1. Fast, 48 hour delivery.

2. Low cost, high quality clothing (costs are kept down by bulk purchasing from manufacturer)

3. No questions asked return policy and superb customer service (think Zappos)

Other notes:

1. Cuffs, collars, and buttons would all be standard and would follow current popular fashion.

2. There are other services out there that provide custom tailored shirts. But their cost per shirt is some $150+ and they use brand names.

3. I'm certainly not a fashion or textiles expert, but if it's reasonable to sell quality dress shirts at $30 or less (with shipping) that'd be awesome.

4. Interested in working with me? This is just an idea that needs to be vetted out. Email me! bettershirts@hush.com (temp email to avoid spam)

Cheers!

EDIT: Formatting.
This is great. I never knew about the universal selector (*) or the general sibling selector (~). I'm sure I'll learn a few more tricks from this as well, not finished yet.
Facebook maintains a no-poaching agreement with companies which share the same board members. Is this common enough for it not be a big deal?
It's not the leaking of trade secrets that's criminal, its the theft of the associated intellectual property. If you assume (as US law does) that intellectual property has a value and its theft is equivalent to theft of physical property, then it makes sense that it's a criminal offense in the same way as a physical theft (and probably also a civil matter).

Not all intellectual property is legally protected against theft this way though (otherwise any disclosure of IP could be theft). The bar for intellectual property to be legally considered a trade secret is high. If the IP isn't sufficiently secret, it's legally less clear whether you can really steal it. Just stamping it "secret" isn't enough. To be a trade secret the company needs to prove that it's a secret, that the secrecy of the IP is highly valuable (for instance loss of the IP's secrecy hurts a competitive advantage), and that they've made significant attempts to keep it secret by limiting access to "need-to-know" people and protecting the IP though appropriate security and secrecy.

In this case, it sounds like the defendant may have gained physical access to a building he didn't legally have access to (ie company made an attempt to limit access with some security) and copied data off a server. MS is arguing that this hurt them financially.

A defense against this might be to claim that even if the data might have been valuable and releasing it harmed the company, they didn't treat it with enough secrecy/security for it to be considered a trade secret. If that's what the court decides, then there could still be a civil suit (breaking employment NDA contract, etc), but it wouldn't be a criminal matter.
Late comment: but handily enough, many large enough corporate structures will happily pay your way through MBA school when you are middle management with "potential". My ex-employer sent one of the managers in my group through Dartmouth's MBA program.
Obama to Call for End to N.S.A.’s Bulk Data Collection
2. Espresso machine was fun and delicious!
Really? I don't see any reason to suspect his intentions were any more sinister than my friends and family members who supported Prop. 8, who generally had much less interest in stripping gay people's rights than they did in protecting a religious institution that is very important to them. A lot of the people I know who supported Prop. 8 have actually spoken out against homophobic rhetoric they've come across, because they sincerely do care about gay people — but they still supported Prop. 8, because they felt more like their religion was under attack than gay people.

I'm not saying that it was all because of the flat-out lies like the state forcing gay marriages on churches, either. I was just giving that as an example of how hard churches worked to tie Prop. 8 with being a good religious person. Not everyone who supported it did so because they personally have it in for gay people.
There is a nice group in St. Catharines Ontario called Cowork Niagara @CoworkNiagara the meetup is currently at the local cafe @MahtayCafe which is amazing.

My personal experiences so far have been. 1) getting actual work through fellow members 2) Getting solid advice 3) enjoying the relaxed atmosphere and having persons to collaborate with.

The cafe has all the amenities necessary. However the group is expanding to its own location.

There are certainly events; podcast hosting and start-up meetings.

No need to book the space but Friday all day is usually overrun with coworkers.

The cafe has beer too so things get interesting every once in a while.
It’s worth noting that Facebook was hotter than the sun back in 2008, so for it to continue to recruit from other firms could could have been a reflection of its market position; if you are doing the poaching, why would you disarm?

Facebook was much smaller then, and likely had a lot more to gain from poaching than they had to lose.
So there's no any text editor with C++11?
Brilliant. I have been doing a little bit of CSS over the years and I can get what I need done albeit not as quickly as some frontend developer that has every quirk of IE6 memorised. Since I generally do backend stuff sometimes I put in an extra class, e.g. for the end of a list, just 'to make it easier' on the CSS side of things. There are things like A+B that I steer clear from as they are allegedly bad according to tools like 'ySlow'. So I have plenty to learn when it comes to CSS selectors. Normally I look at the CSS and the HTML, not the big picture beyond 'inspect element'.

I felt that CSS Diner is very useful even if you think you know your subject. The graphics are great. I wish all education was as much fun and as interactive.

Like many folk here I did not understand what the game was at step #1 although I forgot this at step #2. So yes, some introduction needs to be worked on even though it is easy to overlook that once you get 'absorbed'. Aside from that, brilliant and bookmarked.
> My point is that people demanding scientific data for criticisms had better do the same when their favorite language gets praised.

Ah, the dreaded double standard. Easy trap. Personally, I avoid it by trying to have objective criteria. I end up with crude and imperfect measures (LOC count, number of defects…), but at least they're not too biased.

> personal evidence is less strong than scientific evidence.

Actually, this is not necessarily true about first hand personal evidence. While a host of biases are out to cloud your judgement, science can be weak for two reasons: (i) the studies may not amount to much evidence, either because the controlled experiments are also artificial, or because there may not have been much of them (it is quite expensive to do the same project multiple times with arguably similarly skilled teams), or both. (ii) What applies to the majority of people may not apply to you specifically (though you'd better have strong evidence as to why this is the case).

Now, second hand personal evidence… that's much harder, because (ii) doesn't apply, you also have to trust whoever is telling you the story, and this story hold far, far less information than what you would have gathered by living it yourself. Still, it may yet be stronger than sufficiently weak scientific evidence.

Now, a blog post by a random programmer? Okay, that one is always weaker than science.
Yeah, it was merely because they were on the sink side of a serious flow. If it was in the other direction they, being a corporation, could easily have been all over an agreement like that.
Other than lambdas, almost nothing in that list is in Java 8.
The one person I admire the most is Mark for being a rebel in the valley.
Of course. The signal here is that investors want to cash out. Even if investors aren't selling shares as part of the offering (haven't read the details yet, so not sure one way or another) and Box is simply issuing new shares and locking up investors for some period of time, this is a path to liquidity for investors.

Generally, selling shares is a signal that insiders view the company as overvalued.. otherwise they would hold. If they needed cash, they would issue debt instruments.

The market is hot on tech, so get out while the getting is good.
More importantly - go to a sports shop where they have trained professionals who can adequately assess your needs, and depend on them for advice - not a stranger on the internet.
To be fair, Sandberg saying "we didn't do this" about an illegal thing doesn't necessarily mean that they didn't do this. Also, why would a company much smaller than the others agree to this?
I use to sport the Motofone F3. It was Motorola's answer to Nokia's domination of the feature phone market. The phone was amazing. It used e-ink for the display, super lower power, and texting completely sucked on it, but it had a really crisp design.

http://images.amazon.com/images/G/01/wireless/detail-page/mo...
Again startups are pass/fail. So what can he benefit if they fire you and bring some professional CEO who tanks the company? The truly big outcomes come from the founder who stays and does well (Apple, Google, Facebook, etc) That is why they stared Andreesen Horowitz http://www.bhorowitz.com/why_we_prefer_founding_ceos
When gov’t spies fake your company’s website, what can be done?
I dont know why I was so naive to think that all these youtube stars just repped themselves and it was all very... home grown if you will.
I think it was "Let's choose three words that people will beat us over the head with until the end of time every time we so much as throw a gum wrapper on the ground"
There's an opening brace on the next line that could probably be more obvious.
Exactly. Just like how history doesn't celebrate the names of everybody who worked for Thomas Edison, there were hundreds if not thousands of people toiling away in anonymity underneath these giants.

Edit: And many more "giants", of course…
I used a Nokia Lumia 900 for about a year and loved it. Technically a smartphone, but I got over a week of use out of a single charge! You might think the hardware is too slow for a smartphone OS, but this was the flagship WP7 phone - no lag or stutter. It also boots fast if you prefer to keep it off.

Note that AT&T will not allow you to activate this phone without a data plan. Just use a different provider.
Show HN: News scraping website for Malaysian
And yet most contemporary hipster build systems are all just shiny make reinventions.
Does anyone know how much money we're talking about here? How much do, say, Google SRE people make after a few years on the job?
Creating Microsoft Excel Spreadsheets with Python
Yes you can change the theme.

Sublime is a text editor, so it doesn't offer debug/refactoring or other IDE features for languages out of the box. But you should find plenty of plugins that can help with different things, and it will syntax highlight just fine out of the box. What type of support are you looking for?
dont be
don't be a menace
don't be hatin
don't be sad
don't be evil

https://www.google.com/#q=don%27t+be+evil

Organizing the world's famous last words.
What you are describing is autoconf, not make. Make by itself is actually a very handy tool for performing tasks that have a dependency graph.

Autoconf.. Well, I can't disagree. It's a hack built on top of a hack and should probably be rethought. Once autoconf is done generating Makefiles, make itself is generally trouble-free.

http://freecode.com/articles/stop-the-autoconf-insanity-why-...
I had a very similar bug in some software I wrote and used to perform in a band. The upshot was that everything worked fine at soundcheck; 6 hours later, the tempos were off by about 8%, and varied pseudo-randomly during each song.

The fix was to switch from float (24 bits precision) to a long int (32 bits), and to reset all the relevant vars between songs.

Fun times!
Mega poised for $210m backdoor NZX listing
Why SaaS Products Need To Adopt Feature Branding
I used to hold this logic. Currently though, I'm using Sublime. I've found that the situation where I need a console editor isn't overly common. When I do, I just page in the vi key bindings tweak a file or 2 and move on.
Most of them do, even if their channel is "claimed" into a multi-channel network's account.
This is pretty common in startups: it's considered bad form to poach employees from companies that have common investors, and board members of those companies.

Sometimes, however, recruiters may not necessarily know and reach out to candidates and violate this unwritten rule.

Also depending on the case, boardmembers/investors may look the other way.
I'm curious to know how much work they'd done on the idea ahead of time. If this was conceived during YC, they're definitely a very impressive team.

A few months ago I looked into building this exact product. If you're a DIY kinda person and you don't mind carrying around some extra bulk, it's somewhat easy to cobble something together. If you want a light/small brick w/ self-contained charging and output regulation that just works, it's much more difficult and potentially dangerous -- especially if you want it to charge fast enough that a 1h airport layover is meaningful. Add in more advanced battery management/conditioning schemes, and I'm just all kinds of impressed.

Though, this claim does irk me a little:

> With the same battery, we could charge to a full 100 percent and it won’t degrade

> Never experience loss in capacity again. A Li-ion battery powered by BatteryOS doesn’t degrade in capacity over time, and as a result has a 4x higher cycle life than when controlled by conventional methods.

I think I need a better definition of "capacity degradation" here - if you acknowledge that there's still a charge cycle limit, I'm curious to know what happens once it's reached. Either way, I'm very sceptical of anything which claims to completely eliminate the effects of entropy.
"Campaigners say that the Rome government receives around 71 billion euros each year in tax from Venice - some 21 billion euros less than it gets back in investment and services." [0]

There does appear to be significant economical imbalance, however it would take blood being spilled before powers that be would let any kind of secession stand.

[0] http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2586531/Venice-votes...
What he says is you should get to product/market fit. If you don't get there then whatever business plan you have will fail and so will you. When Aaron dilutes himself massively he does so to buy time to get to product/market fit. Only by dong so can he later turn on the growth engine and know that users will stay and love the product. A top VC knows that he can never trick a founder into making him a large exit. The founder just needs the "right" plan, not "his" plan.
The interesting question for Apple buying this is if battery life is a factor in their planned obsolescence. I'm not sure it is at this point.
No, many of their articles have more substance (I would say most, but I think it's physically impossible for one person to read most of their articles, they publish a lot of stuff.) I think this one was intended mainly to generate pageviews from HN.

I was especially amused at the line "A search in the iTunes App Store today reveals just what this latest gold rush looks like..." Of course, since these games are all free I don't think they're rushing towards a lot of gold.
Count me in as a Makefile hater. I'm even using it to manage a portable /home directory and it's just making me hate it even more. Why did all the alternatives have to fail or be worse than Make?
I doubt I would have ever heard of the Threes game if it were not for all the 2048 games on HN.

Additionally, from the article: "For the makers of “Threes,” the good news is that the emergence of the clones hasn’t decimated its market share – the app is still a Top 10 title in Puzzle Games, Card Games and the general Games category in the U.S. and a top 20 Overall app on the U.S. App Store. (All Paid rankings, which, to be fair, is less competitive than the Free ranks.)"

It's also important to note that just because I played doge2048 for a few hours doesn't mean that I would have been willing to pay $2 for Threes. 2048 and it's variations exposed me to his idea, but did not cost him my purchase.
That was understood when I commented.

Not sure what your point is.
The shading language is similar to CG and HLSL, not very similar to GLSL.
With Google, no real human is sitting around sifting through your email. It's all done programmatically.

I don't care if some algorithm scans my email for keywords, but I don't want Bob to read my emails.
You're point?
Apparently it even has a GPS?
200k over 4 year vest for an engineer with a handful years of experience is far from unheard of in stable publicly traded companies in the valley.
I don't mind money going towards Libertarian asshattery because frankly, I'm happy to see it crash and burn as publicly and spectacularly as possible.

Or not. In which case I'm prepared to change my views. But I'm not prepared to change my view about the 14th Amendment and the wisdom and decency of assuring basic legal equality for everyone. To my mind, that is an entirely settled issue. I'd no more go back on that than I'd tolerate a return to slavery (which, let's not forget, is the horrible error that necessitated the 14th in the first place).
A cursory google search should have shown that gmake (GNU Make) is widely available and used on FreeBSD.
For me, it boils down to the fact that we as a society grant or deny rights and privileges based on whom we place in category Married vs. !Married. As long as that category includes unrestricted hospital visitation, financial/insurance benefits, etc. then we have no business legislating it, and saying "Persons X and Y (and, hell, Z, Q and P) who truly love each other and consent to marriage are denied these things because they don't meet our definition of what marriage means" strikes me as no different than "Person X is denied the right to vote because their skin color is not the one we associate with sound mind and ability to vote." I'm sure there are a number of institutions that any group wouldn't consider marriage, and that's up to each individual to decide. But as soon as the state and institutions tangled marriage with equal treatment, they set themselves up for this struggle and have to address the inevitable inequity.

Anyhow, I realize you probably agree with this. My point is that the individual lines we draw aren't relevant when people's lives, health and financial livelihood hinge on whether or not society determines them married. This is a civil rights issue, nothing less, and it's hard to see support for an anti-gay-marriage organization as anything less than funding an organization that fights against equality. I wonder how we'd feel if the donation was instead for, say, a proposition that would bring back some aspects of Separate but Equal, and how the rhetoric would change.
Also worthy of note:
"You advocate a ________ approach to calendar reform..."
http://qntm.org/calendar
Hi there! I was actually going to use the domain itsloca.com for a recent project. Since I'm no longer working on it though, I'd be happy to send it your way if you like. Just let me know.
No perks? No problem
> When you are learning that new JS framework, do you not keep going through their docs and googling?

Yes -- and then I proceed to use the thing every day. I wouldn't be adjusting a Makefile very often so I would keep forgetting whatever I "learned" every time I changed it.
For my own projects, I have found make's alternatives (eg. scons) to be a much superior choice. Make is just too complex for what it is intended to do (at least as used with autoconf, etc.).
I'm confused by the idea that there could be a vulnerability while reading RTFs, of all things. Annoying; I frequently send out documents in RTF format to make sure everyone can read them...
I wonder what the percentage is young adults who are on pay-as-you-go plans? Smart phones without a contract are not cheap.
Can't say salaries, but any engineer who joined facebook in 2008 is now safely a multi-millionaire.