skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The situations in the US vs. the European nations that have been in serious trouble recently are barely comparable.

Even in the past year or so, with fears of further recession fading and growth returning to the PIIGS group, Greek unemployment is still running at over 27%, while the US is running at under 7%.

Similarly, while the US and elsewhere saw significant protests as part of the Occupy movement, they were mostly peaceful in nature. The violence seen on the streets of Greece around 2010-2012 as severe austerity measures were taken was on a different scale entirely.
Interesting approach, thank you. I don't much care for Lua (either as a language or as an API, especially when dealing with C++), but this is a pretty neat concept to think about.
Yup. 'sama tweeted something similar about users not really caring about underlying tech. None of it matters if users don't love the net result. JFS - just fucking ship. Worry about delivering a compelling product, why you are building it and monetizing to stay fucking alive. Bikeshed on which testing framework to use another day.
Hi! The name was inspired by this article:

https://medium.com/everything-old-is-new-again/8c5883a005c3

:-)
Try http://in.linkedin.com/in/sarvjeetahuja (works for me without being logged in to LinkedIn).
This whole thing just feels 'off.'

Perhaps I'm jaded by the past few years of disinformation and spying, but I'm starting to believe that there's more to this story than meets the eye and because of that, we may never know what happened.

Wag the Dog comes to mind.

In any case, I find it strange to make this determination having not have found the plane.
> you'll pay him 70k€ and he'll get 35k€

That's true (although it's a pretty junior salary). However, thanks to the stuff funded by the €35k he didn't receive directly:

* he has no student loan;

* his kids' school is free or very cheap;

* he has top-level health insurance, and he knows there's a 0% chance he'll ever lose it; he hasn't got a clue what "preexisting condition" might even mean;

* he lives in a place safe enough that there's no sense in paying to live in a gated community; he probably doesn't know what a "gated community" is actually;

* he's got decent unemployment insurance (even if his qualifications are his best employment insurance, it still allows him to get bank loans more easily);

* his retirement is funded;

* his wife will be able to take years off to raise his babies under financially interesting conditions (legally he can, too, but culturally he usually won't want to).

* he gets massive tax breaks if he employs a nanny, a maid, etc.

So all-in-all, I'm not sure you're better off with $100K in the US than with €35K in France.
All of the equivalent operators don't exist, though those are only slightly interesting. Perhaps most interesting would be all the index types, right now currently GIN works, but GiST didn't quite make it. GIN was definitely showing the better performance on JSONB but there are still valuable cases for GiST which often appears smaller on disk.
Nokia X Review: Windows Phone Maker Does Low-Cost Android Surprisingly Well
Bullshit.

You are the one with a "platonic causation", namely, older = rigid thinking.

Enders Game is a child's book, written to appeal to children. Note we don't actually have 9 year olds making decisions in reality.
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If you're willing to get into actual NLP, then semantic similarity would certainly be one way to go. Is there any equivalent to Stanford (Java) or NLTK (Python) in Ruby land? But I'm not sure that Levenshtein will necessarily get you better results than the bag-of-words approach the author is taking with Jaccard distance, if all you're doing is document classification.
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No. And I said, these designers are a minority. Android is definitely hard to get "right" design-wise, but it can be done.

But if all you are trying to do is make it look like iOS, you are on the wrong track.

Monetization issues are a separate problem as far as I can see. While money can shift priorities, but shouldn't affect design.
The tar.bz there has a CSV file which looks pretty sourcy to me.
Wonder how long it will be until he retracts this statement.
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A solo founder can have a team (of non-founders), as the founder in this article does.
Even 30 is low. You know that in all other industries, a person in their 30s is still early in their career, right? You don't start getting the respect of being a season pro until you're in your 40s at least.

Personally I've had great respect for the 50+ yr old programmers that've worked on modern teams with me. They've always been great augmentations, and I prefer to hire more experienced people where possible, especially if that experience predates the web.
Right now, in my code, assert(0==1) produces this output to stderr:

run: run.c:422: main: Assertion `0==1' failed.
Aborted

That is what I want.

You are correct. If I build with -DNDEBUG=1, then the assert is completely ignored: no error message, and no abort. That is not what I want. Therefore I will not build with -DNDEBUG=1.

I will certainly not introduce "logging to a file" as a concept inside buf.c. There is no need for the pure data manipulation code in buf.c to know anything about files or stdio, or a specific name of a log file.

If the assert from assert.h does not do what I want, then I'll make a version that does. However, that is a moot point, since right now it does what I want.
Does the JSON type still have a set of use cases as well or is it just obsolete now? If I was writing large quantities of json documents to a table, and I didn't need tag indexing or targeted updating, would using the JSON type be faster than JSONB?
This is an open forum for discussing how to remove yourself from technology using my proven method.
EGL 1.4 implementation for iOS
I found my gig by putting this on my SO Careers page: "I'm looking for a challenging position requiring significant programming expertise; preferably involving systems-level programming and/or CS theory". Open source work helped.

Older technologists are out there, but they're a bit nomadic.
Conducting employee sentiment at your company
Ask HN: What's up with Google?
I've been using Google talk on my rooted Android phone and for a couple of days now, using its replacement app Google Hangouts on a Nexus 7 2012.

It's a lot more confusing than Google Talk app. I have a separate Google+ account and a normal account. All's well for the Google+ account, but when I logged in using the non-Google+ account, it did not even show me online / offline status of contacts. I hunted for a setting / checkbox and searched the net only to find negative reviews about this[1].

I don't understand how someone can think removing this was a good thing. Why are we going backwards on usability and trying to coerce users into our platforms through sneaky tactics (forced updates, no "Do not ask me again" option, etc.)?

[1] http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/tech/tech-news/Googles-Hangouts-blunder-helped-WhatsApp/articleshow/30837560.cms
String Templating Considered Harmful... for generating content client side.

An important sub-title which needs to be highlighted, as these arguments and micro-benchmarks do not apply to most people who use string templating server side.
Okay, then, a critique of the OP is that
in classification the number of classes is
an input to the algorithm, not an output.
My view is that being clear about such
details is crucial.
No.

It just wouldn't be politically feasible, and since Turkey is arming the rebels, there isn't a reason to risk an outright confrontation with the Assad regime. Not that Turkey wouldn't be capable, but the fallout at home (during a critical election season) would be significant.

Rumors about sex tapes have floated around for several months, and myself and others are expecting that the biggest revelations against the PM/AKP will happen this week, just before the election. I'm not certain that they will be quite so titillating, however.

Interestingly, tapes revealing obscene levels of corruption haven't done nearly the level of damage that many expected. So far, the Turkish political environment has shown an astonishing tolerance for abuses of power. So, there really isn't any need for a 'Wag the Dog' event.
Malaysia Prime Minister: Flight 370 'Ended in Southern Indian Ocean'
This statement seems more to be made in a "We're sick of having the world's spotlight on us and we're giving up" way more than a statement of "This must be the conclusion because X, Y, Z."
Wanelo has a great conversational tone in it's copywriting. Check out the iPhone app update descriptions: http://www.appannie.com/apps/ios/app/wanelo-shopping/

I believe I've read somewhere that Deena writes those descriptions herself. She doesn't talk about it, but I think this personality goes a long way with her audience.
There's a strong correlation that shouldn't be hard to figure out. You're right that it's not necessarily equivalent, but I don't think anyone posited that gray hair automatically equals masterful programming ability.
Some pretty interesting observations here. Hiring can be an arbitrary and inaccurate process, especially when dealing with total strangers. Obviously, when the hiring party and applicant know each other, it's a different ball game altogether.
Well, you are "old". Yup, over thirty, you have missed the boat. Welcome to the new ageism.

FWIW, I'm 47 and was programming assembly and microcode in my youth. So I have 10 years on you. At this scale, I doubt the difference matters much. Because you are old, too.
>Well, to be fair, Facebook was the company that created the always open "floating bubble" concept, to my knowledge.

I believe Holo in Paranoid Android's ROM was first, beating Facebook's app by a few months at least.
1966 coupe, with the 200 sprint, because that was the car I bought when I was 16 (although I didn't get to drive it until I was 17, because I had to fix it up).
I think just showing that you are still learning makes you relevant. Displaying some level of intellectual curiosity will get attention, even if it isn't the exact framework or new shiny thing that is the latest flavor. Also shows that you can pick up new things.
Future of Learning [pdf]
How will this finesse the (hardware-based) DRM on PS3 games?
On slide 14 of the presentation, there's a screenshot of an email thread that he's part of.

Mirror, in case it gets taken down: http://i.imgur.com/OmultA0.png
NVRAM can be overwritten with a factory fresh BIOS image....
No, and fuck you. Stupid shit like this is one of the biggest reasons we are struggling to get women into tech.
Facebook Paper: Is It the Next Big Thing in Social/Mobile?
It is talking about people with kids and such - you know, 30-40. Basically, you, very shortly, if not already. The article specifically called out people with kids, and pointed out that at the age of 30+ VC starts being skeptical of the chances of backing the founder.

You are a year or two from being 'old' in this mad market.
Occam's razor, motherfuckers, Occam's razor!
Basecamp System Status – why DDoS?
The person at the LinkedIn link is Sarvjeet Ahuja. He claims [1] [2] to be a co-founder of Wanelo, and former CTO. I haven't found him mentioned in any documentation from the company, as opposed to just being from him - except one. In the company's CrunchBase profile, he is listed as being a co-founder back in 2009 [3]. I don't know enough about CrunchBase profiles to say whether this should be considered reliable evidence; can someone with more experience confirm?

Additionally, a VC report from 2011 talked about how "both founders have extensive knowledge of the high-tech industry" [4]. Another described Sarvjeet's extensive experience [5].

[1] https://angel.co/sarvjeet

[2] http://www.crunchbase.com/person/sarvjeet-ahuja

[3] http://www.crunchbase.com/company/wanelo

[4] http://gecr.co.uk/file_download/45/

[5] http://tmtinvestments.com/i/pdf/Wanelo%20RNS%20(22%20Nov%201...
It sounds like they've found a cluster of debris:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/mar/24/flight-mh370-ch...
This post seems to have destroyed the site. Excited to try it out though.
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Correct - I work primarily on the front end. The article is about creating rich interactive interfaces that perform well in the browser without sacrificing the ability to render initial pages on the server, something which (as falcolas notes) could have been made clearer.
So they're employees. Paid / unpaid, stock?
To be fair, a few years ago it was pretty obvious that windows XP/vista does not work well on laptops. Sleep was often horribly broken.
Border-box is great, but whenever I have to use 3rd party code all hell breaks lose. You can mix both, but only applying border-box to your own code is tricky and the mental overhead is quite annoying. Even then some minor glitches can occur which you might not even spot in most cases. For example nanoScroller.js exposes Firefox's scrollbars when zooming because there is no way to hide them via CSS and the code to hide them underneath other elements breaks when using border-box.

Not even sure how to handle such problems.
The documentary explains the issues of government investigation right before that, but it's impossible to say whether it was an editing decision made after Schmidt chose to mention the government or whether the interviewer specifically asked about that.
>selling doge2048 shirt

>not accepting dogecoin
Hardly a defence when the detaisl of the court orders not highlighted.

From what I can tell some peoplke sad things about the goverment they did not like and this is how it panned out. Now the whole World is saying bad things about the Turkish goverment and how is that going to pan out.

Of course they won't backtrack, but how will they resolve this without being seen as some dictorship against free speech is not going to be easy or indeed possible.
I have heard of Inmarsat before, as a provider of satellite-based IP and telephony services.

Perhaps a device utilizing their service was in use on the plane (for in-flight broadband, perhaps?), and Inmarsat was able to review their usage data to help determine the plane's course.
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I think Ghostery's motivations are fairly clear -- a viable business model.

I can't think of a clear business model for disconnect.me.

In any case, it's good to have a choice. People who are serious (who don't mind breaking everything) are probably using something like RequestPolicy to control cross-site requests. https://www.requestpolicy.com/
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Yeah, but yet again it's a lot of words that avoid giving us any information: what analysis did they do, and how did they come to their conclusion?
As a former user and fan of Outbox, it makes me both happy and jealous to see the Swiss post take this on. It makes so much sense. Too bad the USPS is so dependent on junk mail to ever try this. Or..if they did they would mess it up by blasting your "e-post-box" with e-junk-mail.
Occam's razor.

"Among competing hypotheses, the one with the fewest assumptions should be selected"

No signals = Mid-air explosion.

Hijacking, abduction, bermuda triangle, parallel universe, bitcoin theft, patent stealing, or whatever stupid conspiracy theory people wanted to believe never passed the test of Occam.
Suppose you wrote MediaWiki, by yourself, and thus had the authority to change its license. Further suppose you did so, adding in restrictions like you mentioned that forbid the NSA from using it.

Now, assume you found out, via a leak of some of these classified documents, that they were using it -- in violation of your license -- and you decided to sue.

Having seen some of the excuses they've come up with before (and assuming that you have as well, which seems like a reasonable assumption), why wouldn't they simply argue that the software applications they use internally are classified, that disclosure of such would be detrimental to national security, and, because of that, your case should be thrown out (like they have argued so many other times)?
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What about all the distributions that don't include Linux, or those that only include the kernel but has nothing else in common. What about distributions that has more than one kernel.

So instead, lets call it distributions! Except, distributions of what?

Maybe we should call it distributions of Unix compatible operative systems. Except, Unix is not a standard so then one have to ask, which unix version and what does compatible means?

Maybe we should call it distributions of POSIX compatible operative systems. Except, then we got the problem that most distributions are not 100% compatible.

Maybe we should call it distributions of partial POSIX compatible operative systems. Except, that is not a specific definition, so now you can't graph it.

I am sorry, I do not think there is a correct name we can use. I also do not think this is a discussion relevant to the article.
Inmarsat data tracks the Rolls Royce engines.

The data they have isn't position or direction, it is a set of metrics that report on engine performance and conditions.

They never had positional information, except by virtue of the timing signals for those data points to their satellite. Which is how they originally determined the arc shaped corridor.

They must have been able to cross-reference this signal with another satellite (or source) to say with certainty that the plane went down the Southern corridor.

I would be surprised if this was cross-referenced with one of their own satellites given that they could have done that a week ago. I'd speculate that they were supplied with access to some other source that had received the signals, and were able to use that to triangulate the position.
While clearly anecdotal, my own experience is that things have really not improved all that much over the past seven years. I've been using Linux since 1995, so I remember the bad old days, and things had improved a lot leading up to 2007 when I installed OpenSUSE 10.2 on a Dell D620 with relatively few problems. I recently tried installing Linux on a Dell E5430 (another mainstream business laptop, which is certified to work with Ubuntu) and my experience was not nearly as good:

OpenSUSE 13.1 was a disaster:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835277#c31

Mint 16's installer had problems:
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=153379&p=80...

OpenSUSE 12.3 worked, but I had to mess around to get WiFi working:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=835277#c33
and the touchpad still has issues:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=869722
and there is other weird behavior, like the laptop screen not turning off when the laptop is in a docking station with the lid closed (did not have this problem with OpenSUSE 10.2), and the encrypted partition password prompt being off the screen if an external monitor is plugged in:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=862961

I'm a big fan of Linux, but things do not seem to have improved over the last seven years. It just feels sloppy and unstable. I'm sure some things have improved, but too much feels unpolished. Maybe I just have bad luck, but I was talking to a guy the other day who has been using Linux since 1996 who had the same impression (he was having problems with disk corruption on a desktop installation).
Interesting idea, but as others have noted, once it's known the game is rigged, it's just a matter of time before I find the price floor. Perhaps a random price floor for each shopper?
Basecamp was under network attack
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I did not previously know that there was work suggesting that mining is naturally an oligopoly. People have suggested to me that mining may already be a monopoly and that this could have been going on for a long time, with a monopoly pool "laundering" its work through rented time on other pools. So there are definitely interesting questions to consider in this area, including questions about how a rational mining monopolist will want to behave.
It's minus half a credibility point for being a lone wolf founder. The reasons to have founders plural are countless.
If search is your application's main purpose, you'll want something more flexible.

Otherwise, it's fairly easy to implement, and you get full SQL support so joins, transactions, etc. So you can always prototype it and see what limitations you run into.

If you're just getting started with Postrges, I have some examples of using its' FTS search here: http://monkeyandcrow.com/blog/postgres_railsconf2013/

It's targeted at Rails, but I always show the SQL first, so you should be able to adapt it.
2 weeks. no wreckage. only people talking. as time is ticking they just get desperate to tell something. anything. i won't believe a damn thing.

they don't have a shred of a clue. there's only future profit to be secured.

edit: yeah, c'mon. give me downvotes, idiots.
I had no objection to the approach, just the lack of a note about assumptions it relied upon.
DHH is reporting that criminals are bringing down the Basecamp network of sites in a blackmail attempt. A working writeup is on a gist from DHH right here: https://gist.github.com/dhh/9741477
I asked her this question directly. She claims she did it via $20 a day on FB ads for a few months: https://twitter.com/siberianfruit/status/447961840090218496
Do they read your email? Your parent specifically debunked the point your trying to make. Microsoft selectively reading one persons mail who was leaking their activation technology, is not the same as reading their customers emails.

Hyperbole doesnt make your case stronger. In light of every other privacy issue happening in the world, this is a non story. I think it would be useful to prioritize outrage, and direct it to a spy agency or some other countries military.
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A distro with enough options to satisfy the creators of every fork would be an unholy mess. 1,000 separate contributors are very good at adding every option under the sun to a piece of software. But reducing choices to the point where you can just burn a CD and "install Debian" is anti-parallelizable.
Building an OS X triage drive and automating the process with a shell script
The Amazon of the Arab world Souq.com raises $75 million funding
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I used to have a service in Sweden that did this (Abuni) but they failed to get acquired and shut down. As someone who travels a lot, it was a godsend, and I don't know what I'm going to do to replace it.
Sizing up entrepreneurial activity in Europe vs. the US (F6S data)
Exactly, that was the original title.
The world's a big place and we really don't have it all figured out. Simple explanations are probably the correct one. I do wonder how many flights daily could be drummed up by weird trivia if they were put under this much scrutiny.

So, how long until the 24-hour news networks switch to stories that have big ramifications instead of this interesting, but not very (world wise) impactful event?
I'm more intrigued by the reaction of the families. Is this a normal reaction from Chinese families?
I would think that a piece of software which intends to have a markedly different user-interaction with the computer would show, in concrete terms, what that interaction looks like - through the technology of photographics or videography. Especially when wanting $150 for it. I guess I ask too much.
The author should look into DTMF, they were quite popular in packet radio and you got a 1200 baud datarate. Haar Wavelet transform would probably be a lot less CPU-hungry than FFT.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dual-tone_multi-frequency_signa...
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