skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But the AR guys' project was seen as a failure, or at least as a poor fit with Valve, they apparently weren't very interested in working on Valve's other projects, and there had been antagonism between them and the rest of Valve. I don't think there are similar problems in this case.
The compile speed difference between a modern GCC and Clang/LLVM is nowhere near that dramatic, this comparison you linked is against GCC 4.21 and GCC 4.0 which are 7 and 9 years old respectively.
I agree with you, and incidentally so does Gerald Sussman (co-inventor of Scheme). He helped write an entire book on Lagrangian mechanics that uses Scheme because he believes the math notation is too fuzzy and confusing for people.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/titles/content/...
Essentially, there isn't. There are gays living and loving now, who are being discriminated against now. This effect that the affected are feeling now does not go away by giving anyone a benefit of the doubt. If we need time to sort out how exactly to handle this whole marriage business, it still is inacceptable to just keep discriminating until a consensus has been found. "I accept gays but I still do treat them differently than other people" doeesn't really compute.

It is generally instructive to try and apply the arguments to similar struggles of the past, that tends to make it much much clearer how wrong those arguments are. "If there is a reasonable way to reconcile opposition to mixed marriage with acceptance of black people, then we ought to give the opponents the benefit of the doubt before ostracizing them." How does that read?
> Personally, I raise an eyebrow when a six year old boy raised by adoptive lesbians decides he is transexual, and I feel like society may be failing that boy.

How do you feel when a 3 year old boy raised by non-adoptive heterosexual parents acts transgendered, regardless of what his parents do to try to get him to be like what people like you think boys are supposed to be like?
Do you have the option to be prompted before an update is installed, or is it a completely automated process?
No, it sounds like it's a welfare program. If it were insurance, it would charge proportional to the expected cost of serving the relevant demographic group. But due to the "community rating" provisions, charging actuarially appropriate rates is illegal, so instead we're charging rates that are pretty much guaranteed to make health care even more expensive than it was before.
Typical Developers Life… in GIF’s (How you feel when…) – Part 2
Nope.

http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_bigbook_chapt4.pdf

"if that be the case, you may be
suffering from an illness which only a spiritual experi-
ence will conquer. To one who feels he is an atheist or agnostic such an experience seems impossible, but to continue as he is means disaster, especially if he is an alcoholic of the hopeless variety. To be doomed to an alcoholic death or to live on a spiritual basis are not always easy alter natives to face.
But it isn’t so difficult. About half our original
fellowship were of exactly that type. At first some of
us tried to avoid the issue, hoping against hope we
were not true alcoholics. But after a while we had to
face the fact that we must find a spiritual basis of life
—or else. Perhaps it is going to be that way with you.
But cheer up, something like half of us thought we
were atheists or agnostics. Our experience shows that
you need not be disconcerted."
(I work on HHVM/Hack at FB)

We have an on-call rotation in which one person has the job of cutting (and testing) the internal named release. That person has final choice for the name, often subject to lobbying by the more rap-enlightened members of the team.

/me was pushing for C = Common
Thank you for these comments. I really appreciate your thoughts.
I never understood why Comcast bought Daily Candy for $125m in 2008.

http://www.businessinsider.com/2008/8/comcast-buys-dailycand...
Microsoft Office Apps Top App Store Charts One Day After Release
With Communism, a person's job is determined by an external power. How is the dealer network telling Tesla that they can't sell their car in NY not an example of communism?

Put down that microscope citizen. I've already told you, you are a cashier, cashiers don't use microscopes. Microscopes are for scientists. You can't be a scientist. Get back to your station. Don't make me taze you.
Net applications is the only major browser market share source that tries to provide _user_ share, not visit share.

Consider three people: one uses browser X and visits Wikipedia twice a day. One uses browser Y and visits three times a day. One uses browser Z and visits once a day. If you count share amongst users, the three shares are equal. If you count share amongst visits to Wikipedia, you get 50% Y, 33% X, 17% Z.

This same problem comes up if you count visits over a variety of sites too. Some biases cancel out (e.g. the sort you'd get if you measured just Huffington Post vs just Fox News), but biases that have to do with some people just browsing _more_ than others in an absolute sense are not.

Of course both numbers, visits and users, are useful information. They just mean different things.
Amazon support is pretty good so you might be in luck and not get billed, especially since you caught it quick. I am sure you aren't the only person who was compromises like this.
Just a few quotes from Alan Perlis:

There will always be things we wish to say in our programs that in all known languages can only be said poorly.

Re graphics: A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.

Make no mistake about it: Computers process numbers - not symbols. We measure our understanding (and control) by the extent to which we can arithmetize an activity.
The logic of your post can just as well be used to justify support of slavery (except the last paragraph).

That's some suspect logic right there.
>> then migrated to Angular to mitigate nested view chaos.

For the record, and for those who are unfamiliar, "nested view chaos" isn't an inherent characteristic of Backbone, and it can also be mitigated by writing good, thoughtful code (often easier said than done).

Using React views can make life easier, since composition of nested components is part of the design.
And our consumer-facing site has 46% IE users due to the healthcare world hanging onto that browser. Chrome has 23% and Safari and Firefox are neck and neck in the teens.
Isn't bootstrap a front-end theme toolkit? Why does it need to be "ported" to Rails? Can't you just use whatever CSS + ERB templates you want to with Rails?
The sites are measuring visits. That's what StatCounter measures too.

On the other hand, Net Applications attempts to measure _users_. This is a very different number from visits; it turns out that Chrome users visit more web pages on average than IE users (in addition to a variety of other demographic differences between the two groups), with Firefox users somewhere in the middle. See my example at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7490952 for a simple rundown of how the numbers can be very different depending on what you're measuring, even if we assume perfect measurement.
Yeah. A friend who has a PhD in a relevant topic did a great presentation on the phrase "biblical marriage". I forget all the permutations, but aside from the traditional man+wife, there was man+slave, man+wife+slave, man+dead brother's wife, and a few others. Basically, the people talking about biblical marriage were immensely selective in their interpretation of the bible, finding in it the exact prejudices they brought to it.

And the whole argument about tradition, although undoubtedly interesting to some, is irrelevant as far as civil marriage goes. In the recent decision on gay marriage in Michigan, the judge made it clear that "that's how we've always done it" isn't sufficient justification for a law. The state has to have some rational purpose. And multiple courts, including the one that overturned Prop 8, have concluded that the straights-only marriage laws have no rational purpose.
Isn't this kind of the point of free software? To provide software that is equivalent (or better than) proprietary alternatives, and allow users the freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software?

Are gnu coreutils "unethical" because they reproduce the proprietary unix command line tools with a free software equivalent? Is Linus responsible for informing everyone how Linux was originally inspired from Minix?

If I want to study how Threes was implemented, I can't. I can't modify the source code to implement new mechanics, I can't port it to new platforms. The only platforms Threes supports is iOS and Android. I don't have any devices with either OS, so I would not even be able to play the game. On the other hand, the free software 2048 has been ported to work in many more environments, such as the Web and even the Atari 2600! Threes would have never done that, not in a 1000 years.

Also just look at the burst of creativity, and inventiveness 2048 spawned. Now there are tons of derivative projects, each created by someone to tweak the mechanics and provide a new spin on the idea, ranging from simple tweaks, to full blown AIs, and even more advanced projects. And the source code is available to all to study and learn from. Threes inspired none of that. If Threes' developers had had their way, 2048 would never have even existed. Everyone who was interested would have to play the game Threes exactly as it was, and would not be allowed to change it, to experiment, or to express their creativity. They want to lock the user down.

None of this would have been possible from Threes, but it is possible from 2048.

If no-one buys Threes anymore, and instead uses 2048, that is not 2048's fault. It is not the job of free software developers to promote and support proprietary software. Should LibreOffice be required to do marketing for Microsoft Office, and give all users a link where they can purchase it?

Requiring everyone to reference Threes in each derivative is ridiculous. There is a reason why no one uses the original 3-clause BSD license anymore.
They were working on one, he was building it.
In the description, there's an interesting username:
"★★★★ Love this app" – PayMeForReviewsUser2041

Care to explain this?
Everyone uses buzzwords and I don't have a problem with them charging $599. If it is too high, I'm sure the market will tell them. I agree that they're using their Microsoft experience for added credibility but that isn't unusual either (though given pg's bias against Microsoft, I'm not sure if it will help them much :)

What I find more interesting is something that you haven't mentioned. Yesterday, the same blog post was submitted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 ) followed by an email request to thousands of people asking for an upvote. That post seems to only have 9 upvotes (and pg's anti-gaming algorithm may have played a role in it)

However, today, the post was re-submitted and it already has 23 points in just around an hour. So they've beaten pg's anti-duplicate-submission code (and perhaps his anti-gaming code as well)
That is horseshit. When somebody works to take away your civil rights, a desire for tolerance does not require you to politely say, "Oh, gosh, you go on ahead and oppress us then." An open mind isn't an empty mind.
Keep in mind its often the quality of the features that matter more than the number of them. No one is going to use a feature that is sometimes very fast and sometimes take 20 seconds and doesn't work 20% of the time.
I'd enjoy reading.
400 million saved is 400 million removed from the economy, isn't it?
I used to work in an outpatient neuro department that had a large paediatric patient population. One of the paediatric neurologists there had done her training at a famous children's hospital in London (GOSH) and said that it was a fantastic place to train in, but terrible for the outcome of the children.

Where we were in Melbourne, we had four paediatric neurologists for a catchment area of about 400k give or take. GOSH had six neurologists for a catchment area of 2 million. "By the time the kids in London got to see us, the symptoms were so florid and easy to see. Great for training, not so great for outcomes".

She did her training in the 90s, so it may have since changed. It's also a story about neurologists, not psychiatrists, but I imagine it wouldn't be that much different.
I use to work as a comsec custodian. It was my job to update or replace military publications with the newest version.

In the military/government, forms, publications, and manuals are regularly updated, distributed, and printed. Rolling out a new font on each update before distribution wouldn't be a huge task.
Surprised more people haven't noticed there's an SVG tube map right there! Bonus: it's tagged with the station Naptan codes and TransXChange route ids that are the API's currency.
>it does explicitly say god as you understand him

Sorta. Read here: http://www.aa.org/bigbookonline/en_tableofcnt.cfm tell me it refers to any other God.

The "as you understand him" part is somewhat a cop-out.

Only monotheism here!!

>as there are alot of tools in there that if put to use - does provide alot of relief -

For some people, yes. For other people, it is offensive garbage.
Then I guess we are lucky to know exactly what Prop 8 stood for and we also know he donated a substantial amount of money to it.

Prop 8 was about specifically banning gay marriage. A blanket ban. It wasn’t about changing the implementation or any such nonsense. Your argument makes no sense in light of that.
Yep, freshness or TTL in our cache layer.
How exactly is this a MVP?
I actually got rid of LastPass because of how poor the Chrome extension is. Between spamming the error console with errors, to injecting terrible HTML/CSS to pages for their little field 'star' icon, to terrible/broken notifications for innocuous things. (The yellow toolbar icon turning red could mean any number of things, from 'duplicate passwords detected' to 'please log into lastpass'.)
If you work to strip civil rights from a group of people, you pretty much have to not believe in their equality in any meaningful sense.

Sure, he might "believe in" their equality in the same way that most people "believe in" getting enough niacin. That is: they might state that belief, but they will never act for it and will often act against it.

And I'd add that if Eich believes in their equality and now regrets working against it, he could just say so. That he has energetically dodged the issue when it is of obvious concern to the people he can now fire says something on its own.
One down. Now to ask why does someone who was "least untruthful" in replying to questions before Congress still have his job?
Sounds like management doesn't appreciate you, nor are they competent at what they do. You deserve better. It's commendable and professional to work a set number of hours (~7-8 / day, though it varies). It is unprofessional and a sign of management's failure to ask you to work more, work on weekends, or catch up to hours you don't owe them. It would also be unprofessional for you to bow down to such ridiculous requests. It sounds like you are contributing more than anyone and with your skill-set, you should have no problem finding another job, hopefully one that isn't filled with unprofessional managers who can't manage and demand one work unprofessional hours.

tl;dr: Working more than 8 hours a day is unprofessional (except in rare, extreme circumstances where it is rewarded).
Stop. You're harshing my myopautopia with all your fact checking. Please reaquire a position within the jerculus circulus.
Way back in the day it was pretty common for people to swap out pieces of a system (not too much today except for gamers).

Your system needs a bigger screen? Get a bigger monitor and/or graphics card. Need a faster modem? Buy one. Need a camera? Add it.

Go upgrade the graphics chip in your Android 2.3 handset. Oh wait...
Wow so you have Abrash, Carmack, Luckey together working on VR and funded by another genius (who also happens to have billions to fund it) Zuckerberg, it might happen for real this time.

Starting to feel like the VR times we are in might mimic the advancements of physics and the genius around the early 1900s.

I thought Luckey was smart to bring in Carmack then Zuckerberg has all three working for him, definitely won the game and using money in a way others can only dream.
dude, thanks for all this good stuff.
Please view the site as a precursor to our customer development conversation or an add-on to the cold call. It's not for inbound marketing, in-fact we have spent Zero dollars on advertising.

1.	The service exists as a bunch of Java and Python scripts running on data sets in zip files. We needed just enough to get the core algorithms. We totally stopped development there and then forced ourselves to do customer conversations – we knew we could build this but not sure if people cared.
2.	We were experimenting here and used to change the tag line every 20 or so cold emails to see which one worked better. It ranged from “Increase CTR…”, “Customer Success Platform”, “Interrupt to Please” – We monitored our conversions and asked our prospects what worked for them. We do not have a ton of data[12 customer conversations] to prove one way or other but found a provocative line to work better to pull them in the conversation than the most matter of fact explanation – discussions always were about specifics.

Would more than appreciate getting specific feedback ritwik@informion.com or @ritwiktewari.

3.	This is an interesting one – we had two choices 1. Create make belief scenarios and try explaining that 2. Showcase examples where companies had done this well.
We started with 1 but almost never heard positive things in our conversations – we switched to 2 knowing that we could really NOT dupe someone since at this stage no one could sign up on the site besides a conversation -> demo followed by a pilot.
We have only one target in next 8 weeks replace this with a real customer testimonial ..
Please do understand that we just started and yes we might have crossed the line here.
If many share the feeling we would be more than happy to revert.

4.	This one we have really put a lot of pain into so let me defend this  ..
We asked our prospects
1.	How much they would value the service @ - the answer was around 1K/mo
2.	How much do they pay for compete/researched all the alternatives and the fact is that 1-3K is an average [Not really accounting for the difference between us and compete.]
From there we put in $599 – so that we are competitive yet account for the risk a company would take on an early stage startup
PS: Closes compete charges 3c/user – and we are targeting >100Kma
5.	Well it might surely be – but being in Microsoft till date meant people outside rarely knew about the cool tech that was built – it is not the case with Google/FB/Twitter et al.
I had 6 points and Microsoft was just one which was specifically related to
•	Have Non-existent open source profiles [Didn't we say Microsoft ☺]
I think that’s a fact – I am more than glad that things are changing rapidly for good at MSFT.
Ouch. I'm sure Amazon will help him out..300/day is an expensive lesson to learn.
Well, not to other people, no. "Benevolent" would be the last word I'd choose to describe him.

But I believe Jobs was "benevolent" to the product itself.
I find it interesting and useful to contrast Ramen's website with Peek's. http://www.usertesting.com/?utm_source=Peek%20Home&utm_mediu...

The first text you see says "Eliminate bad
customer experiences. Get videos of real people speaking their thoughts as they use your website or mobile app."

Beside that you have buttons "how it works", "Features", and a few more. Click on "how it works" and you land on a page that explains how it works. It is trivial to understand what this service is, whether it might be something you want, and how to get the information you need.

In contrast, on Ramen we get photos of the team.
> There may be reasons to prefer Firefox not to use blink, but "detriment to the health of the web" is a really vague and pointless argument. What do you really mean by that, if not just that Chromium/Chrome are somehow bad for the web?

Er, huh? I don't think my phrasing was that confusing: I said that the loss of diversity in implementations would likely lead to a loss to the future development of the web. Multiple implementations of a spec ensure that the spec matches reality and often make for better specs, as feedback from implementations over very different foundations bring out fundamental architectural and performance issues that may not have been obvious otherwise (e.g. you write a feature so that it's efficient on platform X, it means that in 5 years someone implementing a new browser will have to write it very much like X to get decent performance).

This is actually enshrined in the W3C technical report development process: for a specification to become a Proposed Recommendation, "the Working Group should be able to demonstrate two interoperable implementations of each feature"[1].

There were lots of arguments about this when Opera stopped developing Presto to move to Webkit. I think Chromium/Chrome have been, on the whole, great for the web.

[1] http://www.w3.org/2005/10/Process-20051014/tr#cfr
Cool extension. I'd love it if you made the story names a little more bold. That's generally how I choose what I want to read.
I'm amazed Dexter maintained the highs it did. Everything after Season 4 was inferior.
I think there's a legitimate version of that. People mostly buy solutions, not products. For example, my projector recently died, so I bought another one. That one didn't actually solve my problem, so I returned it for one that did.

So I think a good landing page should make it clear what the solution is. For example, Dropbox opens with "Your stuff, anywhere", with a picture of a phone and a tablet sitting on a laptop. Their product is disk space plus some free syncing software. But they have wisely focused on the solution, not the product.
Facebook acquire Oculus
Say you are working on a project, but you can't seem to make progress. At some point, you tab over and read HN or reddit for a while.

Now you have two choices: A) Hate yourself for it. B) Not hate yourself for it.

Lightning struck - you were unable to continue working. There are a number of ways to deal with that, a number of lighting rods to take away the pain from the impact. Some work better than others. Some might even make more sense than others. Procrastinating may not make the most sense.

But the problem is not that you were procrastinating, the problem is that you couldn't continue to work. In procrastinating, you were coping. Your brain told you in rather strong terms: "This is currently not working out and there is no way this is going to get better if we continue staring at it. So let's do something else for a little while."

What you should not do is hate yourself for setting up a lightning rod. Because hating yourself does not increase your chances of being productive. Most of the time what it does is the exact opposite - you're simply increasing the pressure for the next time you get stuck on something. The higher the pressure, the higher the chance that you will grab a coping mechanism from the lower shelves of your arsenal.

It's a cycle of self loathing that only has one out: Stop punishing yourself for not succeeding and instead figure out ways to make it more likely to succeed. Hating yourself is easy, hating yourself for browsing reddit is particularly easy. What's hard is helping yourself to enjoy yourself.