skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm in your market. 6'3", 160 lbs. I was all set to explain why I don't think your idea will work for marketing reasons (short version: A few larger diversified companies get close enough to the mark that they'll take your core business, and you'll need to be able to survive off seasonal variations, which won't work.) Then I found this today: http://www.moderntailor.com/ Maybe I'm wrong.
Generally the starting point for any tech acquisition is 3x - 5x revenue multiplier. Occulus is hardware so their margins are lower than software, pushing them closer to the 3x mark.
> a single "score" cannot encompass someone's influence

I would argue the opposite. There is one ultimate "score" of a person's influence: their wealth.

While not all of a person's influence is delimited in dollars at any given time, almost every kind of influence is fungible to dollars. You can, for example, "spend" social capital by burning bridges asking friends for personal monetary loans.

It's actually pretty unclear to me whether President Obama's or Justin Bieber's influence would liquidate into a greater amount of money. But it's certainly a question that has a factual answer, and it's a useful answer, unlike a Klout score.
Expat? How to build credit history in the USA
Grander vision? Klout should die because it's trying to create a numeric score to measure e-popularity. Why cater to people wasting their life chasing a stupid metric? Better to leave it highly ambiguous.

From a geek perspective, I hate social with an intense passion. It drags the politics and power hierarchies of real-life onto the Internet, and reinforces the status quo.
If we could tell, just from a single trial, whether a particular drug was safe and effective, then it's true that the subsequent FDA trials would be a huge waste of time. Sadly, history has told us time and again that we can't.
Look beyond SF.
Surely your dev team laptops total 5 digits already.
I think so. You've basically reimplemented a fold, but clojure stdlib has a built-in left fold. See line 84 https://github.com/clojure/clojure/blob/master/src/clj/cloju...
You can definitely make KDE4 look good, but KDE3 looked a lot better out of the box, and distros like openSUSE, Sabayon, PCLinuxOS, and MEPIS all provided very unique KDE setups, but it seems like the well-supported KDE4 distros all look very close to stock KDE4.
How will you know if someone is about to close or exit? I feel like startups go out of their way to keep that private.
How to move from a H1B visa to an American citizenship
Feels like it was more of a missed opportunity for Apple.

Gaming is a weakness of Apple's Mac line. The situation is a lot better than it used to be, but is still a weak area. In one swift move they could've made gaming on a Mac better than anywhere else, and any developers who were not already developing for the Mac would have very good reasons to reconsider their position.
Someone stole the money, but it's probably not Karpeles who did it.
That fraction is over 95%
I'm pretty well convinced that the motivation for getting upset over the "wrong" use of this word is usually just a desire to claim special knowledge and feel superior about being part of the elite group that knows the true meaning. It's disingenuous moaning about "confusion" while ignoring the fact that the rest of the world seems to get along just fine with the occasional word that has (gasp) more than one meaning.
You can always shoot yourself in the foot even with a service layer.

But in a service layer you need to get it right once. And therefore if you don't, you have to fix it just once.

And coupling your business logic with your frontend layer suggests spaghetti code and violates DRY, because you typically have many frontends, but one app state.

Security is about focus. If the service coders can focus on the service being secure & fast, frontend guys can focus on the frontend being usable.

Otherwise you're asking everyone to think about everything, and human attention span, memory and skill sets are limited, and this does affect security.
I am postulating that he looks guilty here.

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2014/03/27/business/dbpi...

And I can't tell you why. Maybe I'm projecting. But it's my gut intuition. Though is this not a category of thought that should be discerned via "fast thinking"? Are there any studies that compare test subjects' judgments of guilt, based on defendant photographs, to jury verdicts?
It's just yet another reason why I will not use coffeescript
That's really the MacOS vs MSWindows disagreement, and then the "whom should we emulate?" disagreement among Linux desktop people. Oh, and the OpenWindows and CDE people before them.

I'm biased, but I think of this as another one of those "well, Microsoft got it wrong, but people are so used to it now that we have to perpetuate it or we look like we're just willfully antagonistic" situations.

User studies can be produced to prove either side, of course.
Will the Facebook bubble burst any time soon?
http://thegamingpc.webs.com/apps/blog/
And that link just jumps you another animation, where you would then be as stuck as in the first place, with no more guidance link.
Would cryonics be possible if you were to chill someone to just above freezing? Cold enough to slow cell processes to a standstill but warm enough that you don't cause cellular damage from the freezing process.
Yakuza?
Sales guy CEO did.
OK thanks, no I have not seen that.

What is left for Angular to do? Really would like to know the answer to that.

If they are serious about helping move the web forward, they will just change the Angular logo to the Polymer logo and start pushing to make that work. And stop saying things like browsers aren't ready.

Polymer works in new versions of Firefox, Chrome and IE. We don't need a new version of Angular.

If someone thinks we need to keep using Angular, give me a reason. That presentation on Google Docs that is linked in the parent just shows reasons for Angular to go away.
That's not actually what "groupthink" means, so you aren't really disagreeing.
Credibility for cryonics in the medical community is more likely to emerge from the application of vitrification to donor organ preservation, I think, which is where inroads are being made by groups like 21st Century Medicine.

But credibility with the public follows its own strange laws, seemingly immune to logic and the voice of the research community in some areas. So who knows, you might see some sort of transference of credibility via magical thinking, in that both involve cold.
Ideally the button should describe what is going to happen so people who skim read the dialogue still know what it means - see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5018918
Back in 2003 Sony Pictures hotlinked some javascript code I had created for handling Flash->javascript communication. Back then all I could think of was using it to float a dancing robot over their content. These days I guess you can get away with a lot more.
Ask HN: What under $100 item would you recommend everyone buy?
I'm of Asian descent and cannot confirm. They still use red stop signs and traffic lights. Red is also the color of blood - similarly, there's a fair amount of literature supporting the evolutionary emergence of red as a signal of danger.
One of the best news for Gnome is their (updated/clarified) stance on portability, that I found linked in the section for developers[d] linked from the actual release notes[r]:

http://blogs.gnome.org/desrt/2014/02/19/on-portability/

"GNOME is not “Linux-only” and it never should be. People are running GNOME on FreeBSD, OpenBSD and very many other non-GNU/Linux systems. People are running GNOME on GNU/Linux systems that don’t have systemd. This will continue to be the case. We need to continue supporting these people."

[d] https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.12/developers.ht...
[r] https://help.gnome.org/misc/release-notes/3.12/
That is a total mischaracterization of what it means for a language or DSL to be "powerful." When you are writing not-X to assist X in doing Foo, that doesn't mean X is powerful-enough to let you do Foo; that means that X isn't powerful-enough to let you do Foo without breaking out of X.

To put it another way: the fact that you can greenspun Lisp in C doesn't mean C has all the power of Lisp. It means that Lisp has all the power of Lisp. Every even-mildly-useful language is Turing-complete; so, in order to be able to give a ranking to languages at all, we have to restrict our discussion of a language's merits to its merits if you aren't just using it as a glorified Turing machine for implementing a different language.

Without writing custom PHP, Drupal is less powerful than PHP. That's perfectly okay.
> This app seems valuable to non-professionals who may want a digital floorplan of a room.

No data is better than bad data.
Little early for April 1st isn't it?
Ask HN: What are the value demands for products built on Voice API?
What sort of apps are being built on Voice APIs like Plivo and Twilio?

What kind of demand is there for software built using such APIs?

Plivo, Twilio, which is better for building a product on top of a Voice API?
I think it's a combination of 2 and 4. I've been in two startups that were working on things that aligned with my interests and things that I thought were pretty awesome. Then after the first year or two, due to the inability to acquire customers or the existing business model not working out, pivots happened, resources and people started getting moved into different teams and projects, and communication started breaking down between the execs, management, and engineers.

Then shit just hits the fan as people leave, sometimes taking others with them, as soon as they realise that things aren't going as well as the company would want them to believe. After all, a company isn't going to outright tell its employees that things are going to hell (until the very end at least). That'll just cause a bigger exodus of talent. So it's not uncommon in a failing startup that management starts BSing - it's all about retaining employees.

In the end I think when you join a startup you have to be realistic about its chances of succeeding. Not every startup's a rocketship. You're going to get bullshit, pivots, short sighted decisions (or indecisions) when things aren't going well.

My advice is to not be too emotionally attached to your job or go in with too high expectations. If you sense bullshit coming out from management, do some due diligence on the state of the company and leave if you must. After all, if you're not happy doing what you're doing, then it's not worth it. There's a ton of startups out there looking for talent, and I'm sure you'll be able to land another job.
Knife and gunshot wounds really just means penetrating trauma. There's a hole and it's bleeding, but otherwise the body and vital organs are fine. If you can fix the hole and stop the bleeding in time, the person will live. If not they die.

Contrast this with a car accident where massive blunt trauma forces have crushed and wounded lungs, livers, bones, etc. There's no one "hole" to fix, just blood oozing from thousands and thousands of micro tears. Surgery won't fix these people.

Make sense?
Solo's definitely have a chance. For questions, please ask Henry Ford, Dell, or most small businesses.

Startups are with out a doubt a lot of work. That being said, with good time management skills and a lot of drive single person can be successful. Plus, less founders equals less splitting of the company ownership!
I'd also drop the "Yes" given we're auto-programmed to agree and make popups disappear. "Delete it" is more powerful.
> I find it bizarre that Amazon put so much effort into pushing the idea theat their killer feature is price. Plenty of people outflank them on price.

This is the Southwest Airlines model. Tell everyone you're great on price often enough, even if it's not always true, and plenty of people will think you're good on price.
Talking to Anne Helen Petersen About Leaving Academia for BuzzFeed
Red is still the color of emergency, alert, STOP, etc..in China. We are at orange alert on pollution right now, if it gets any worse, we will be on a red alert.

Now if we are going to talk about the meaning of check marks and crosses in the Japanese market....
This is amazing news. I have a image gallery site with ~500,000 images. It currently costs me $39 a month and now I'll get to spend even less, no idea how they do it.
Carmack has FU money twice over. This is about seeing his dreams made into reality.
Very cool, although, I was hoping for a 'MissingNo.' palette.
They've created a feedback Klout.
Microsoft and Dell sign patent agreement covering Android, Chrome OS, and Xbox
Chromecast (if technology related, since this is on HN).
I'm probably a bit biased because I spent most of that 5 years pouring my heart and soul into a site that was, basically, right up Drupal's alley, a regional news portal that was very content heavy. We did use lots of various modules, some core, and some community - such as polls, forums, captcha stuff, comments, we had almost a terabyte of stuff served via ImageCache...

We actually didn't use Drupal forms for much on the front end (The occasional webform for user submissions, etc, but very few actual drupal api forms), but on the admin backend we had lots of little things I threw together that worked well but were not used all the frequently (and then only by power users).

Our frontend was primarily done through a system I called the Page module (Because it was the module that made...the pages - for instance http://www.reflector.com/news). That was actually a really cool hack. It worked a lot like views - but could actually run on a high traffic site without bringing the whole thing to it's knees. The trick was that the really nasty join across about 8 tables (node, the content type data, related image data, story body (for teasers), and a couple others) was done only on node save and that was stored in an index table (not everything on the node, but just what I needed to build a page). So to generate each news block was a really super simple query of basically:

select * from page_index where page_blockid = 12345
order by updated desc limit 5

instead of something like, and this is the super simplfied version

select * from node left join content_type_story cts
on cts.nid = node.nid left join taxonomy_data td on
td.nid = node.nid left join uploads on uploads.nid = node.nid
left join upload_files uf on uf.uid = uploads.uid
left join node_content nc on nc.vid = node.vid
where (td.termid = 1231 or td.termid = 1256) and
node.published = 1 order by updated desc limit 5

(Field names ommitted because that query is way too long as it is).

Of course, we were running multidomain so a lot of those tables where domain alises etc, again, all precomputed in my module.

No, I don't miss it. But it was powerful, and I did develop, deploy, and serve 3 daily newspapers with 20k+ circ each with a dev and sysadmin staff of 1. There is no way I could have done that if I'd had to write everything from scratch.
Its a good idea to use "Delete" in addition to color, multiple signals can avoid problems like color blindness.
In my experience - and from what I've seen in my subsequent frustrated research - Google Drive struggles with large files. I had a 9Gb VM that I split into 2GB pieces, and I still couldn't get one piece uploaded in a 24-hour period. Also, there is no progress display and it seems that a simple 'pause' of the sync restarts the process.

The GD client / back-end and large-file handling seems to be a long way behind the alternatives, sadly.
http://blog.backblaze.com/2014/03/19/backblaze-storage-pod-4...
I would prefer solid blue for a confirming step, and a blue border with no fill for a cancel button. The contrast of fill vs no fill for the button highlights better than two colours.
One Human Heartbeat
they aren't ready. the standards aren't even ready for polymer to polyfill for the browsers to implement.

you need to be patient. open platforms are a very long term play.

i saw they reviewed a few of the polyfills for 2.0 inclusion, and there wasn't a lot that was really capable of being used yet, for a variety of reason.

I believe open platforms will win eventually, but it's not going to be tomorrow. it will be maybe 5-10 years from now. Just be glad there's movement.
I don't think so.

The original assertion was that Z was more powerful than X, and I merely stated that that is false because X is really the superset X+Z, whereas if you are using JUST Z you don't get X.

We're not talking about 2 different languages here.
> design your code to use undo rather than confirmation

I can think of two ways to implement undo.

1. Use flags in the database, this method has its own drawback since the entry is not really deleted but flagged as one.

2. Client side. Delay the actual delete request to the server.
Perhaps the parent objects to hellbanning on principle, and is partaking in some small amount of civil disobedience to right a perceived wrong.

If a single post happened to result in my being hellbanned, I would surely hope someone would tell me so I didn't continue wasting my time trying to participate, only to have it sent into the void. I could instead use it as a signal to either move on, or do some self introspection about my actions which resulted in the ban in the first place.
Another SO set up question :)

But what I did find interesting was this comment getting so many votes -

117 "Neither, if you're red-green color blind like 10% of men. – Roddy of the Frozen Peas Jan 12 at 5:31"

With a obvious reply, but less votes -

53 "@RoddyoftheFrozenPeas (1) while some degrees of color blindness are quite common, thinking that 10% of men are red/green color blind is totally insane, (2) solely using a color to point out something is bad for color blinds, but if the color is something "extra" on top of the main information, then it's perfectly fine. I'm quite surprised and worried that your horribly wrong comment managed to raise 4 votes... – Lohoris Jan 12"

It's amazing people really can't think for themselves and just meaninglessly up-vote because it seems the right thing to do, as compared to what the logical thing to do is.
I used to do a billing system that processed about $15 million a year. To my horror, I realized when I joined that all chargeback processing involved someone in accounting going through the huge envelopes of chargeback claims + photocopied statements that they received in order to determine what to challenge. The online payment processor they used at the time didn't have any option for presenting the documentation online....
> Not really; the upper bounds generally are speculative.

Yes, an upper bound is still useful information. It says that a package is known to work with a certain range of dependency versions. This is why I think cabal should support something like < for speculative upper bounds and <! for known failure upper bounds. Then we could have a flag for optionally ignoring speculative upper bounds when desired.

> I wouldn't expect it to work for "years to come" in any event, though

I can still download a binary of GHC 6.12.3. Hackage also keeps the entire package history so there's no reason things shouldn't build for years to come. I'm all for the fast moving nature of the Haskell ecosystem, but we also need things to be able to build over the long term and there's no reason we shouldn't be able to do that.
Hanlon's razor, or "Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
Akamai on the high end, Fastly for a startup or mid-sized business.
C-q (quoted-insert) will insert the next input character ignoring any other bindings. So:
C-q C-\
C-q C-]
C-q C-^
C-q C-_
Could you just delay the COMMIT for a few minutes/seconds/until the user navigates away?

And if the user clicks UNDO, do a ROLLBACK?

Edit: Of course, if anything goes wrong before the COMMIT, you loose the transaction.
There actually is another way. Event-Sourcing. I've never seen this technique in my limited experience though, but theoretically this would be the optimal way to implement such a feature, and obviously has to be a engineering decision from the get-go.

Alternatively you could also have a very primitive form of version control : recycle-bin (edit: actually this is the same as point 1 =) )
Underwriters let King Digital get Candy Crushed
Organic material spoils faster in a fridge than in a freezer.
Buen desarrollo de un niño de 2 años
Con los niños de 2 años uno nunca sabe en que mes, el niño pondrá a prueba sus habilidades. No todos los niños de 2 años se desarrollan de igual manera, y no todos los padres estimulan de igual manera el desarrollo de un niño de 2 años.
Unfortunately, PUTs are just more expensive computationally than reads. You could always use a caching layer and only put for persistance.
Never serve on a jury.
It doesn't have to be anything sexy.

I've been at some places with pretty horrific internal security. It's easy to imagine that someone was trusted who shouldn't have been, and had access to nearly everything, including "cold" wallets. Heck, if they were working remotely they might not have even needed to "run".
> Just a few weeks ago I tried Gnome 3 again (again!) and it still sucks as a productivity environment.

I am sorry it sucks for you. For me, it works great.
Why would you need a visa to attend a conference? You don't need a visa to travel, and I think people travel for business all the time.
Apology accepted :)

But you're kind of right. I can't really find information on Chester (from Linkin Park) doing functional programming.

It's either the guy on the picture really looks like Chester, or the said person (programmer) used Chester's pic as his avatar (unlikely, though, since they are a reputable sight).
Why Failure Should be Embraced in Education
Linux 3.15 Should Suspend and Resume Much Faster
It's bad because most journalism is done by press release, especially in science where there are almost no reporters that understand the science. In this particular case, Science Magazine has competent understanding, but Irv Weissman is one of the greatest scientists of our generation, and either he or Stanford's press office is really hyping this particular avenue.

I have a ton of respect for Weissman, but I thought the claims at the time were not merited, given the evidence I saw, but then I didn't have Weissman's experiences or brilliance. Older well-respected scientists do sometimes fall into a trap of getting hypotheses wrong, as is typical in science, but having their hypotheses being accepted as proven before all the work is done
I think no one would implement it client side in practice; if the user clicks delete and immediately closes the browser, what happens to the action?
> At this point they will have no blood in their body, no breathing, and no brain activity. They will be clinically dead.

Is this right? That seems to imply that brain activity can be restarted from a cold, "electrically" inactive mass of grey matter. I thought brain dead was dead and there was no coming back from that.

Is the article accurate? If so, does the ability to restart the mind from an inert brain tell us something important about how thought and consciousness works?
That ESC is to allow more control characters to be defined than what was initially put into the standard. Consider for instance how ANSI colors are written to the terminal. They are escape sequence control (ESC? I'm not sure if the original designer meant to be meta) characters, identified by the escape sequence (ESC)[.
Fascinating to read a 1st person account of a near-death moment. "Companies are damn resilient" - I think entrepreneurs are damn resilient, too, for making it through crises like this over & over...
Red should be associated with risk (where care and consideration is warranted), not 'bad' (you should not do this).

Thus the act of deleting should be red, but the act of not deleting should NOT be green, rather a neutral tone.