skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Far stronger than 99% of people... on what basis? I assume you've tested yourself against a large population and found you came out in the 99th percentile? You've run though SEAL BUD/S training and succeeded? Or is that just more conjecture?

For the amount of words you regularly commit to speculating about mental issues on this site, ever think about just getting out of your own head once in awhile? You know, day-by-day just practicing to stop caring so much about every small emotional upswing & downswing? Ya know, just letting them be what they are.

The way you write about your emotions makes me think you take the sound of hoofbeats and start freaking out about zebras, not rationally concluding horses. Practice getting off the rollercoaster, a "3 hour depression attack" is you magnifying some tiny event into a giant mental battle. And yes, I've experienced panic attacks and depression before, so I explicitly know of the tendency to both fear them and how your mood colors every conclusion you're making about life. You draw up these massive narratives about emotional events that honestly don't need any explanation. They are what they are, the sooner you stop trying to analyze / write a book about them and focus on something else, the sooner they pass.

Maybe you need to stop fighting yourself so hard and just let go, ever think about that? Before you start defensively banging out a giant response too, let my words soak in a little. From an outside perspective, all you ever talk about on this subject is purely conjecture and stems from your own personal projections about the root of mental health issues, there is rarely any objective factual basis for your posts.
Bringing SIMD to JavaScript
https://www.readability.com/
All the better then!
Announcing Google Cloud DNS
One thing I'd like to add to this discussion. It may be difficult, and it may not be something you should do until they're older, but talk to your children about issues that you have and that run in your family. It can save them a lot of heartache and difficulty down the road if they have similar issues. In particular, knowing my family's history of alcoholism and drug abuse helped me avoid both. Given my issues with depression, if I was drinking like my peers in college, I probably wouldn't be here today. Similarly, I didn't know the cause of their issues (depression) until I was already deep into an episode that lasted a couple years. If I'd known beforehand what to look out for, and that it wasn't uncommon in my family, it might not have lasted as long.
Rage Against the Machines
Nope. Boost is just another bucket of chum as far as Warp is concerned. I did use Boost extensively to validate correct operation of Warp and profile execution speed.
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Yes. Google too. That's very rare though. Even still, you have to expect those investors to demand attention to the current value of their investment.
I really do not understand what the Jave EE version history page has to do with the security of the Java runtime.

As for the other link, I think you have mixed things up a little. Those vulnerabilities are ways to bypass the Java sandbox, when Java is running in the browser as an applet. This is really not comparable to Ruby, as it cannot run in the browser and does not even have a sandbox functionality as far as I know.

Show me a way to remotely execute code on a machine just because it is running Java, and you will have my fullest attention :-)
> and it's a sedan, which has a smaller power requirement than other luxurious classes.

Model S vs the new Corvette Stingray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=VOqW...

If you need more power than that, you might as well bolt a turbine engine on your car.
I do not dispute that. I agree that it is a manageable situation. What I was pointing out is sheer scale of it. Given enough effort it is certainly possible to make any app to work on all android platforms. However, there are millions of apps in the play store and it is not possible to make them all to work on every device. I just think Google should be actively working to make that task easier on developers. For example getting cloud emulators or even physical devices available to developers for testing their apps against with automated framework.
Microsoft changes privacy policy to defer to law enforcement
I don't know, just think of how much time I'll save by not actually having to "go" to HackerNews explicitly in order to avoid whatever else I'm working on :)

HN: You're already there, now get back to work

A new spin on noprocrast!
Uncle Bob on the True Corruption of Agile
This feels like a huge loss. Readmill stood head and shoulders above other reading apps like Kindle and iBooks in terms of design. It was also one of the few services that would let you upload ePub books to your account through the website and then sync your library to your mobile device.

"Now cracks a noble heart.—Good night, sweet prince,
And flights of angels sing thee to thy rest!"

I wish the team all the best at Dropbox, and I'm sure Dropbox will benefit immensely from their remarkable talent for building amazing software. At the same time, though, I wish they would have just started charging $10 a month for the service!
Great advice, thanks. Are there any good resources specifically for volumetric, cube or voxel rendering? Is it completely different than polygons?
It was really hard comprehending this pastebin, you have to read it from bottom up it seems, and still... what.

Anyway, maybe you are searching for jobs in the wrong places? Hm? Those kind of condescending recruiters, ugh, stay away from them.

Just pass on, man there are greener fields ahead.
Solaris. "Other Unix-like". Sigh.

Love, ex-Sun engineer.
I don't post numbers anymore because I'd always wind up in arguments with people who simply didn't believe them, or thought I'd unfairly manipulated them, or cherry-picked the test cases, whatever. Hence I encourage you to run your own numbers.
All this done by one man? How much time in total? This is awe-inspiring
That was very moving. Comments like this make me proud to be a part of this community, despite its flaws.
The test model I used for a month only needed one charge, it works a lot like the black and white kindle and the document stays static on the screen and the device only really turns on when you write on it or turn pages.
I think a lot of people still think of the Tesla Roadster, not the Model S. The Roadster is definitely a sports car, but the Model S is like a BMW 5-series... Yeah, it's fast, but the people who can afford one are generally old/mature enough to know not to drive recklessly on public roads.
‘Yelpulus Rift’ augmented augmented reality? Shut up and take my money.
Quickly reduce the amount of data your node API returns
I used to have one of these:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ILiad

The iRex Iliad had a big screen and you could write on it with a stylus. It ran linux and didn't use proprietary file formats, so was great for actually doing stuff.

BUT

The refresh rate on the screen meant that doing anything with the stylus was painful. It lagged way too much. I see nothing in the specs for the sony device that refers to this problem with e-ink, and no video demo. Anyone have better info?
I am optimistic about our field.

Things have not stayed stale for the past 20~30 years, in fact, state of programming have not stayed stale even in the recent 10 years.

We've been progressively solving problems we face, inventing tools, languages, frameworks to make our lives easier. Which further allows us to solve more complicated problems, or similar problems faster.

Problems we face now, like concurrency, big data, lack of cheap programmers to solve business problems were not even problems before, they are now, because they are possible now.

Once we solve those problems of today, we will face new problems, I don't know what they would be, but I am certain many of them would be problems we consider impractical or even impossible today.
Also, Nicky Case recently raised $43K for his uncopyrighted game, a good portion via bitcoin donations:

https://back.nothingtohide.cc
Why not make Readmill part of Dropbox app ecosystem (e.g. Mailbox)? Just a read, sync and backup app without the social network features. I really hate to do all this manually with yet another service.
Wow, I wonder what Valve is going to do. Maybe time to buy back the augmented reality tech they squandered by firing Jeri Ellsworth and Rick Johnson?
Philips Introduces Android-Powered 4K TVs Coming Later This Year
Microsoft: We'll No Longer Search Your Personal Email
>Does Andrei have a sticky D button on his keyboard?

Well, it is written in D. Walter (not Andrei) is talking about how he leveraged D's features to his advantage when writing Warp.
Sure, if you are stuck with GCC, and have no plans to move, it makes sense to improve GCC's preprocessor for a number of reasons (warp produces cacheable artifacts, etc).

But it's actually not that tricky, since you can just change the defines it makes (after all, if you are maintaining your own toolchain, you are maintaining your own toolchain).

In fact, you are already doing it with warp to emulate GCC's defines.

Suffice to say, we've done it before to provide clang diagnostics but build with GCC.
I don't think I've installed any Chrome extensions other than the one for LastPass because of the "access your data on all websites" and even LastPass' made me pretty nervous.
Whoops my bad, Playbook OS not BB10.
You seem to be conflating the terms "disease" and "infectious disease", a common mistake

Chicken Pox and alcoholism are both diseases. Seriously.
but on other side, Meteor itself just for quick prototyping, it's quite easy to learn
That doesnt change the overwhelming competitive advantage rich families have when it comes to prestige schools.

Many wealthy families sink tens of thousands of dollars into preparing their child for university admissions - an advantage only the most brilliant middle class students can overcome.

Even then you have to ask yourself what it means to attend a prestige school. Are the students honestly getting a better education? It's not like they use a special set of books reserved for prestige schools only, and I have a hard time believing slave-labor TAs teaching skills would be any different at such schools.
Facebook Inc (FB): Wall Street Hates The Oculus Deal
You sure? They outright acquired Minolta.
I think it's a general problem with services.

I much prefer using desktop software, even when it's discontinued, it still works.

I think the next big thing could be bringing App Stores to servers. 1 click install, zero config, etc. I recently set up my own webmail, it was a pain in the ass. It could be made a lot easier, and I think people would pay for the convenience.
It might just be a matter of semantics, but in the link there it makes it sound like a Compute Engine VM with access to AppEngine features.

In the event they did a few days ago, I think it was the managed VM part where they demoed SSHing in and switching some things over from managed to manual, so I imagine it is much closer to compute engine.
10 Essential Tests to Drive Mobile App Downloads, Engagement and Retention
Well, at least they're not pitching it as a grand success for all, and won't end up on http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
Connecting the World from the Sky
You can buy one of those iPad style cases for the Surface that make it easier to use when it's in your lap.

I think the Surface is basically for the segment who either use it on a table like a computer or an iPad when it's not -- like me. The good thing is that there are lots of competing products that satisfy other use cases.
> There are a lot of documents that would need to be layed out differently after the change.

You could take any font with both "normal" and "light" weights, and then apply the leading and pair-kerning from the normal weight to the light weight, to produce a font that reflows text the same as the normal weight, but uses the ink of the light weight. I do wonder whether the results would cause typographers to gag, though.
I see what you're getting at, but a number of mental disorders are actually purely biochemical in nature, and not the result of psychological trauma. Treatment and diagnosis of these diseases would be nearly identical to the treatment of infectious disease or other internal medical issues if our diagnostic tools were better...
> YC is getting a big pass here.

The mistake is to regard YC/SV as disruptive. It isn't; it's about generating excess returns for a bunch of previously successful people. They have zero interest in fixing a broken status quo as long as they can continue to benefit.

> Just like the grade inflation in those good ole ivy leagues.

I only heard about this recently. The practice is abhorrent and further reinforces the entitlement complexes of some people.
Who says a person has to be a paradigm of a model employee? I don't get how we got to this point. That sounds like a work/life imbalance to me if you 'give your all' for a company and that's a 'meets expectations' on a review.

I don't no-life it; I come in at about the same time every day and leave about the same time. If the work is really interesting, I'll surely stick around later, but there's no reason to work 9-10 hours a day if there's no emergency.
Yes, just me so far - about 7 or 8 months total at this point.
I am glad someone else sees it this way. Some people are too damn wishy-washy. All the things people were griping about 4 days ago when FB bought OR could still happen.

I still dont want FB owned hardware in my house :shrug:
Ask HN: Startup Idea
I have founder experience-bootstrapped last co. to a team of 80/12-fig gross/7-figure net.

Software will eat the world & both the ability for top engineers to showcase their talent & co's to provide more transparency while pursing must get better.

Hence: Here's my chicken & egg:

Chicken: Tour top 30 STEM universities every year & provide students the best platform to showcase their hacks, projects & contributions in a way THEY deem fun/worthwhile. Also tell a story that goes beyond work; what's the who & why?

Egg: Enterprise HR is staffed by underachievers & bad-thinking. They thrive on providing as little knowledge as possible to "secure the candidate".
If we're able to create a community of scale we re-write the rules--enterprise will need offer info. such as: # of engineers currently employed in role, avg. tenure, avg. pay, specific work product desired, supervisor profile & details, etc.

Summary: Users have an awesome, community-inspired ecosystem to showcase their professional self & inspirations. Enterprise, while forced to disclose > than current protocol, end up with talent much more suited to their need.

Love HN thoughts,
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I follow your practice, except I use dwm. The interesting extra feature that i3 seems to have is the IPC: I was curious if you've ever found a use for this.
> It was also one of the few services that would let you upload ePub books to your account through the website and then sync your library to your mobile device.

Or you could just toss it in your Dropbox... assuming they integrate Readmill into the mobile app, I fail to see why everyone doesn't win.
They used to do a batch in Boston/Cambridge, but stopped when PG was expecting a child. I'm hoping that Sam Altman considers bringing this back, or continues expanding to other areas. I believe such a move could have a huge impact in places they'd expand to
WOW....I can't remember when a blog post made me so excited about the future of tech.

In one fell-swoop, all the naysayers about the FB acquisition were proven wrong.

Love it!
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There's a reason the game Pictionary is hard, despite the "a picture is worth a thousand words" saying. And that is that images, while evocative, are not very precise. Try to draw how you feel.

If you are using card[0][12] to refer to Card::AceSpades, well, time to learn enums or named constants. If, on the other hand, the array can be sorted, shuffled, and so on, what value is it to show an image of a specific state in my code?

There's a reason we don't use symbolic representation of equations, and it has nothing to do with ASCII. It's because this is implemented on a processor that simulates a continuous value with a discrete value, which introduces all kinds of trade offs. We have a live thread on that now: why is aaaaaa not (aaa)(aaa). I need to be able to represent exactly how the computation is done. If I don't care, there is Mathematica, and and the like, to be sure.

If you disagree with me, please post your response in the form of an image. And then we will have a discussion with how powerful textual representation actually is. I'll use words, you use pictures. Be specific.
That's true...in the about page on the site, I state that I will be happy if I can accomplish a fraction of my goals, or something like that. :)
Our organization is currently running on Ubuntu 10.04, which is reaching end-of-support next year, so I've begun a push to move to 14.04. All of our server installations are entirely automated so a lot of it will just be porting over the preseed variables to the installer, answering any new questions, and possibly moving to newer versions of some of our dependent software (a lot of which is equally out of date).
You cite heart disease as a "real disease", but all that term means is "the heart's operation is being impacted by a pathology". What makes the brain so different from the heart that it can't be ill, even when it's dysfunctional?
The Insight Data Science Fellows Program is currently for PhDs only. If you have enough engineering experience, I would suggest applying to the Data Engineering program, which is open to anyone. If not, then drop me a line at jake@insightdatascience.com and I can see what I can do to help.
He was accused of collecting money from investors illegally, and the head of the firm skipped out on a hearing related to the first set of charges in order to be with his sick mom. He is now held in contempt and needs bail money.

Ironic solution? Obviously, sell equity in the company to the employees to raise the bail money! What could possibly go wrong with this awesome plan?!
Dustin Curtis is a horseshit peddler. I'm not sure why people still listen to him.
I'm kind of curious as to why you think that Valve will be firing most of their VR team. Do you think that they have fully proven that VR is possible and done what they can without going in to production?

If I'm not mistake I believe that a handful of the VR people are also working on the steambox and controller which still has a ways to go.
All art and code from the game Glitch released into public domain
Do you have a link for a place that sells it? I can't find seem to find it.
I think that would be fine with Apple as long as were only able to open apps sent to you, and there's no price attached.
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This doesn't change any of the points Notch made in his statement. They are all still valid concerns.
Desktop oriented end user here: Does anyone else use the mnemonic shortcuts, e.g. ALT-F-A for Save As... and in LibreOffice Alt-I-O-F to pop a mathematical formula into a document?

Broken completely in 13.04 and 13.10 and somewhat broken in 14.04 (Alt-F opens File menu but any attempt at a second note in the chord opens a different top level menu).

Otherwise sensible changes, menus on window bars makes sense on larger monitors and shrinking sidebar very nice on a 1280 by 800 screen. Very snappy from live image on a Core Duo 2 laptop with Intel graphics (Thinkpad X200s). Good for demonstration of Linux!
Can ANYONE design a job application platform that doesn’t suck?
> how the ranges-and-algorithms style applies to Warp?

First off, a text preprocessor is a classic filter program, and ranges-and-algorithms is a classic filter program solution. Hence, if that didn't work out well for Warp's design, that would have been a massive failure.

The classic preprocessor design, however, is to split the source text up into preprocessing tokens, process the tokens, and then reconstitute output text from the token stream.

Warp doesn't work like that. It deals with everything as text, and desperately tries to avoid tokenizing anything. The ranges used are all ranges of text in various stages of being preprocessed. A major attempt is done to minimize any state kept around, and to avoid doing memory allocation as much as possible.

Warp doesn't use much of any classic algorithms. They're all custom ones built by carefully examining the Standard description of how it should work.
Android developers do need to re-wrap their apps for BB10, re-upload them to a new distribution store, and the BB10-Android compatibility layer is not 100% complete. This is especially true for anything that is coming out of Google Play (push notifications, maps, locations, etc).

The cost is non-zero. It is certainly lower than writing something from scratch for BB10, but non-zero. I write enterprise mobile software, and we used to get inquiries about a BB10 version of our app and were considering distributing it that way, but haven't had any requests for BB10 in 6+ months.
On a side note, this is just fantastically written announcement. Abrash is a masterful storyteller.
FWIW I agree, Playbook OS is pretty great on the usability front. I'm still steaming that they reneged on porting BB10 to it though, I only bought one on that promise.
Mentor, Manager, Leader. All of these are intertwined and provide value to an organization and employees. I not sure a straight hierarchy is the best way to accomplish these functions. Companies need ways to incentivize, provide feedback, provide communication etc. not sure that it all has to be done in such a strict concrete way as a position.
tl;dr: You'll lose maybe as much as 10% of your charge overnight if not plugged in, and the first 15 to 20 miles would cost double the amount of energy.

Most people charge every night so you always have an 80% full battery whenever you want to go somewhere. If you left it unplugged on a very cold night, you could lose maybe as much as 20 or 30 miles off the rated range due to the car using electricity to run the battery heating system to prevent any damage to the battery.

There are a lot of variables, the most important of which are how far you plan to drive, whether you pre-warm the car while it is on AC power, and how you drive it.

The standard 80% charge for the 85kWh battery is about 230 miles. That range translates to an average consumption of 290 Watt hours per mile. If you jumped into the car on a cold morning and just started driving, you would probably be consuming upwards of 400 to maybe even 500 Wh per mile for the first 15 to 20 miles as both the battery and cabin were heated. After that, things would taper down and you could easily hit 300 Wh per mile for the rest of your trip. A bunch of starting and stopping such as running errands would make that worse because it would take longer to heat due to the cool-downs when parked.

If you had it plugged in overnight and in the morning, you used the smartphone app to turn on the cabin heater though, it would use your AC power to not only heat the cabin but also start warming up the battery. Then, when you actually started driving, you would already be at that 300 Wh or so average.

We have never had any issues with not having enough charge to go somewhere, even on the occasions where we forgot to plug it in overnight. Our typical daily errand trips can be between 15 and 40 miles.
"stuck with GCC" is rather unfair. GCC still produces faster binaries on x86_64 Linux, which is very important for Facebook.
Yep I remember reading about .kkrieger several years back. :)