skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Who are the top 0.1%? More importantly: what is it that they do that is that valuable?
The implementation of this is pretty interesting, in that it generates code that imports your code, compiles it, and then uses reflection to generate the serialization code. And in the end, that worked out better for the author than using the AST.
Apple almost certainly have a MacBook Air based on one of these chips at prototype stage.

There are many reasons in favour, including keeping negotiations with Intel over price interesting, but probably the main thing preventing them running with it would be an inability to manufacture the chips fast enough, which is a major concern in mobile land. This is why lots of Android devices exist in variations based on different chips as hedges by the device manufacturer on long term availability.
This article comes to mind:

http://www.daviddfriedman.com/Libertarian/Virtue1.html
I like
Math.pow = function() { return "pow pow pow!"; }
If you have a trademark, file a complaint with ICANN. It will almost certainly be handed to you. Usually without even hearing from the other party. I've both lost and gained domains in this fashion.
Conclusion: "Big Data" is a stupid buzzword and it makes me cringe every time I'm forced to say it to sell some new solution or frame something in a way someone who barely knows anything about computer science can understand.

It's nebulous. I've seen it applied to machine learning, data management, data transfer, etc. These are all things that existed long before the term, but bloggers just won't STFU about it. Businesses, systems, etc. generate data. If you don't analyze that data to test your hypotheses and theories, at the end of the day, you don't understand your own business and are relying on intuition for decision making.
Replacing the Standard Library – Python Requests
If it really takes 12 hours to compile the kernel and application on the target, I think no amount of instructions would be slower.

And it's a one-shot thing, why make people compile the kernel at all?
Building Docker-Capable Machine Images
Google Drive API login returning 403
Not yet showing up on the Google app status page. Returning 403 (BadAuthentication Error) for known valid credentials. The web gui seems to be working fine.
Ask HN: What do you use for font management?
Seeing as Fontcase has been retired[1], I’m looking for new font management software.

What do you guys use?

[1]: http://bohemiancoding.tumblr.com/post/65603011680/retiring-fontcase
ColorNot – tricky iOS game based on the Stroop effect
what is the programming equivalent of "morphological classification"?

what is the morphology of a class? I would argue that it is the interface. That is the part that determines the form that other programs interact with. that's the part that actually matters for object oriented design.

so while you're right that in biology morphological classification is a distraction that belies the existence of deeper relationships, in computing morphological classification is actually the most important part and what we should focus on.
I like to think that every object or living being in this world has properties and methods as in programming ... This the source of data, small or big depending of actions or complexity
I work for a large enterprise using Google's cloud. It's quite a different experience from using our own servers to handle the same thing. We are now at the whim of a company that doesn't always announce changes until they've happened, and those changes don't always work within our business model.

Yes, it's a nightmare.
What would be an ES-friendly way of modeling relationships between entities? It's hard to give up the speed of pointers in say C++ and use instead handles for example (tho they would come with other advantages like lifecycle handling).
It's a direct quote from the Reuters article; but my point is that saying "no comment" isn't a good approach in the circumstances.
Haha, perfect.
1. What's so horrible about JavaScript? Could you give a few examples?

2. "one DSL that was designed to mark up content in simple ways" - With custom elements, we can extend that simple language to our liking. There are no bounds anymore.

3. "everyone ignores or overrides them even to the extent of building preprocessing tools" - Problem? We write in Sass/Less/Stylus/etc. which are capable languages that are continuously improved.

4. "It offers limited separation of concerns in terms of content, presentation and behavior" - What do you mean? You can separate those things just fine.

5. "It offers almost no tools for modularity" - npm is full of tools for this. You can have modularity in your source code and rely on tasks to package it for production.

6. "the Web is somehow a special thing" - Hm, it's open-standard and fully cross-platform. Looks pretty special to me.

7. "and run-time environment that a diverse range of programming languages can use as a stable, secure, reliable foundation" - Isn't JavaScript just that? I'm not an expert on this, but it looks like the general trend is that more and more languages are being compiled to JavaScript.

8. "to build more suitable replacements that are designed to be fit for purpose from day one" - I think we can all agree that this would be better, but it's just entirely unrealistic. We can't just ditch stuff that has become common. The Web is here to stay.
Google Maps Pokemon Challenge
I deal with this everyday selling software, and it's much more complex than being truthful and lying.

My job as a technical consultant to our sales staff is to bridge the gap between needs assessment and salesmanship. I have a 0 tolerance policy about lying during sales (I have to be to keep our sales guys from making false promises), but I struggle with finding that delicate balance between the truth, focusing on what's important to a prospect, and the manner in which you talk about capabilities you don't have. You cannot simply tell a prospect you don't have a feature if they don't actually need it because there's a lot of psychology at play. A competitor told them they needed that feature so you now have to mitigate their concerns. You essentially need to find a way to be truthful while simultaneously transferring emphasis to your selling points or to their needs.
Here's a different opinion from elsewhere in the thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7501908

Those details seem like exactly the sort of thing you'd spend a long time sweating over if you're going to spend this much time on a game like that.
Public-key RNG; an RNG that has asymmetric structure.

The concept of PKRNG and how it ever could be innocuous got debated on Twitter last year, and (I think) Matt Blaze pointed out that you might want one in order to constrain the number of different math/crypto operations you relied on in your protocol. If your security already depends on number-theoretic crypto because (for instance) you use DSA, you might think "in for a penny, in for a pound" regarding discrete log, and use an RNG that has the exact same dependency; the thought might be that there's only one thing that could then go wrong to destroy your security, not several.

That said: PKRNGs are weird, uncommon, and (in 2013-2014) very shady. They're also very slow. Nobody uses them.
Oh come on ! Any creative+commercial industry is full of clones. From movies, to music, to books, to ...whathaveyou. In any of these, once a 'formula' is proved to work, you'd get clones by the bucket-loads. In almost all of these the capital invested in really doing something different and creative is much higher than in the software industry. One just has to accept that

a. You might get imitated if you are successful

b. The imitation might get more successful than you

Why is the software industry so full of whiners !?!
INAL but document everything as in send certified letter to this bank etc, you may need to prove good diligence.
Since I believe I may have the project managers attention for a brief moment, I might be so bold as to ask a few questions :)

* In the e10s-addon-docs etherpad, it says that you expect a solid browser (ignoring addons) in Q2 and then with complete addon support in Q4. Is this still the plan?

* Will e10s include a task manager for e.g. identifying resource heavy tabs? I couldn't see anything about it in the GDoc backlog spreadsheet.

Thanks for your hard work on this project! I know many who are rooting for its success.
Does anyone have an open implementation of the glacier api? I'd like to add support for it to my backup tool, but I don't want to have to take on the financial risk of a large bill from Amazon if I happen to mis-use the api. So I'd like to try it out on a local server first, to project what the cost would be after a few months of use.
>Just because you own something DOESN'T give you impunity to 'waste' it as you see fit. //

Sure it does. IF you own it.

>These are greedy people just speculatively buying stuff without any real interest. //

This is capitalism. The more damaging domain as you suggest is real-estate. Online the problem becomes simply "oh example.com wasn't right, example.org ... oh, ya, there it is". That might be a very minor annoyance for some people for a couple of seconds.

The problem I see with the "they're not creating a mall" argument is that to the logical conclusion that means that if you have a swimming pool and aren't using it as much as the public feel you should that it can be confiscated. Or, say, you have 2 cars - well clearly you can't drive both at once; repossession by the state, et cetera.

Now I've got some pretty communist sensibilities but unless we're going to implement the whole system and treat all properties in this way (I'd really like to use one of the many, many over-priced vacant commercial premises in our city) then I can't see how you can really move on this?
I guess we're taking different viewpoints on this. I'm considering the ability of a new player to protect and exploit their invention (defensive), whereas you're thinking of an existing player using the same system to prevent others encroaching on their market (offensive). Both are valid.

I'm not disagreeing with your argument. I'm specifically disagreeing with the fourth paragraph of the top post. It presumes that everything is already 'invented', which I disagree with. What he/she is really saying is that 'whoever has the most lawyers will win'. It's not even about IP law at that point.

Edit: Yes, the way things work now IP can simply work as ammunition for BigCo. However, even if we did away with it, BigCo's boots/fists/whatever are still bigger than yours (so the "Without patents" part does not hold up).
Scratch HN moderators, here it is straight from the horse's mouth:

> "So already for the past week TSA stories have had an automatic penalty applied. Or more precisly, they've been autotagged as being political, which entails a penalty."

> "When anything gets over a certain number of flags, it shows up on a list that admins see. They decide either to kill it, mark it as political or whatever, or do nothing."

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1934950

So, at least as of 3 years ago, HN both "autotags" and has admin driving tagging. Penalties are given to posts that have received particular tags.

Strictly speaking, "words in titles" may or may not be involved in that "autotagging", but given PG's history with content classification... I suspect it is.
Reuters should be especially careful about how they word things, given the size of their readership and the authority people invest in their reporting.
How does this work with assets that need to be served externally, e.g. uploaded to S3?
From paragraph 4 of the article:

"Nearly a quarter of these uber-weathy work in the financial industry. And 40% are executives, managers and supervisors, Sadoff says. A vast majority of the 0.1% live in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Washington D.C. or Houston."

Side note, it is never surprising that the guy with the keys to the pantry is the fattest one of all.
How WhatsApp Grew to Nearly 500 Million Users
Designers and developers share bite-sized resources under one modular framework
Most likely also Vasco security tokens since NSA owned Digitalnotar which Vasco owns.

CA is a flawed security model with governments wanting to read all your data. Far to easy to forge a CA either by running one covertly or hacking into one.

One subset of users will get man in the middle certificates and interception.

The other set will get normal certificates.

How many really check the certificate fingerprints and who issued the certificate?
That maybe nghst should take a step back from HN and consider that normal people may find the original 2048 fun and may not care about its variants at all.

Giving an example is a perfectly valid way to make a point. Circumstantial doesn't mean wrong.
Satoshi – "I am not Dorian Nakamoto"
The volumes for desktop/laptop are almost trivial compared to the volumes for handheld. (At least for Apple.) So making the processors in volume for a Macbook Air would probably not be a problem.

Also, Apple probably have little problem getting preferential treatment from manufacturers.
Just curious - who'd you take the transaction costs from? The sender?
Purported iPhone 6 pictures show protruding camera, rounded edges
My spouse works as a BA/project manager for a large e-commerce player. The efforts they go to in order to handle fraud are crazy. Fraud management is an entire department in any e-commerce organization. They're fighting not simple scammers, but international organized crime syndicates.

My not-a-lawyer advice? Drop your "side project" as fast as you possibly can, before it destroys you.
http://www.foundersatwork.com/
Mobotix makes great cameras. Not the cheapest but their cameras have an onboard computer which allows them to operate independently. Send emails, upload to ftp, etc...
Pixar's alums reveal: Building The Next Pixar
Karen Sandler joins Conservancy's Management Team
Patent trolls target US businesses, consumers ultimately foot the bill
"Cyclone is a wide machine. It can decode, issue, execute and retire up to 6 instructions/micro-ops per clock."

This is truly amazing. In comparison, Cortex-A15 can issue 3 instructions per cycle, for example.
I'd recommend reading Iverson's "Notation as a Tool of Thought" (http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm) . Operator looks for APL - and then for J - were modelled after mathematical notation, which had to be extended somewhat towards computations. But can you imagine writing on a whiteboard, say, "samples_transposed" instead of A'?

You definitely can use words instead of many symbols in J. I highly doubt though you want to do that for the core language. Much more productive - IMO - is to learn the vocabulary - which is very finite. Yes, I know it's a great show stopper for those considering learning J.
Satya Nadella email to employees on tuning our organization
C code isn't necessarily more efficient; it's definitely possible to write slow C code if you make poor choices, and the performance-critical work in python can be written in C (it might be already, e.g. if you're using numpy). And if the performance is IO-bound (e.g. communicating with their server), there might be a negligible difference anyway. Also, being high-level can give a big advantage in development time and bug prevention which is more likely than response time to be where things get difficult.
DK effect?

I can only speak to my current company (dox) and Jane Street, where I worked a long time ago.

At JSC, comp was above market and everyone was quite happy but they've quadrupled in size since my time so YMMV.

As Dox, we are currently bootstrapping off of a small round and everyone is working well below market in terms of cash but with commensurately higher equity. we will be raising a round later this spring and intend to roughly match or exceed comparable shops when that round closes. we've been completely transparent about that to the entire team as they've all taken pay cuts to work with us a this early stage, something we respect and are extremely appreciative of.

If immediate salary is a principle concern, probably best to look at JSC, Stan Chart, or Barcap rather than a place like us or one of the other startups.
Probably because you didn't read the logic. I said individual, not professional. If you want to be a HFT, great, but if you are an individual, non-professional investor, you should stay out of short term (less than 10 year) trades and probably invest in index funds.

The analogy to programming is that if you need a spreadsheet, as an individual you should get an app that does that, not write it.
The Continuing Public/Private Surveillance Partnership
I think you're missing the point. The problem described in the article is the expected behavior of the indirectly loaded component (mshtml.dll) which creates message loop (COM STA requirement), and because compiler runs as a low priority process, this message loop causes priority inversion which affects entire system. There are many wrong things here:
1. COM uses message loop and hidden windows to serialize calls. This is pretty stupid IMO, but I'm pretty sure Raymond Chandler would find millions of good reasons why it's done so.
2. Layering problem (XML parser uses mshtml.dll etc etc).
3. Why use config in XML file? Isn't XML so 1990s?
The number one under used service on the planet. It is amazing and should have revolutionized packaging years ago!!!

Hope people will just "get it" soon!
Not interested because it only works for deb.
How Everyone Got the Top 1% Wrong
This is a neat idea. I disagree a little bit with the ordering. I think the version control aspect should be placed a little bit earlier but I can see why you would want to be seeing results of what you are doing before making sure you keep track of your changes when just starting.
Buffer’s Rejected Y Combinator Application
Google is not going to help Windows Phone succeed. Just like Microsoft didn't help the iPhone succeed by withholding office for years.

We can argue on the effectiveness of those strategies but that is the strategy here.
I wonder if Nvidia Denver could match with this chip.
Federal Judge Rules that Commercial Drones Are Completely Legal
Very cute. :-)

Now that we've all had a laugh, wouldn't it make more sense to have the server respond with a redirect to a shared copy of the script hosted somewhere that provides bandwidth for free? (Perhaps this is a sign that the script should be open-sourced as well.)
Agreed. I'd put version control very early in the learning process of a coder. If you know enough code to be writing actual things that do stuff, you can benefit greatly from version control, and the earlier the better.
Great book, thanks for posting!
But ... What are those steps?
An important US trademark case (Burger King of Florida, Inc. v. Hoots (1968)) also involved Burger King: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burger_King_(Mattoon,_Illinois)

The court ruled that federal trademark registration had priority over state law, and that the big chain Burger King had rights to the “Burger King” name everywhere except in Mattoon, Illinois. Since the Hoots family had prior actual use there, they retained the name for the Mattoon area.
This is anecdotal evidence from my own experience, so take it with a pinch of salt. I work on an open hardware project[1], I believe that we lose a significant portion of users (~50%) at each step deeper in to the development process. It seems that the steps are along the lines of: binaries - source releases - code from GitHub - updating firmware - compiling firmware - debugging hardware.

I think it would be useful to have a Virtualbox image available with everything set up for cross compiling for the Pi, BBB, etc. The thought of setting up non-standard toolchains seems to put off a lot of users.

I've also been working on a project[2] involving the BeagleBone Black and I saw a sharp increase in users when I began distributing an OS image with everything pre-installed.

[1] https://github.com/greatscottgadgets/ubertooth
[2] https://github.com/dominicgs/USBProxy
Since a .deb, shouldn't this be installed into /usr rather than /opt?
Okay, as long as people who actually want to understand the issue know that in many cases HFT firms can actually see orders before they become public although they don't actually do much to disadvantage a retail trader.
I wouldn't want to be on the receiving side of this request. If its approved then it creates a bad precedent (as ds9 indicated). If its rejected then the person rejecting it is likely to piss of the 4chan crowd - and unlike many other 4chan attacks this is a cause the entire 4chan user base can get behind.
IPhone6 Pics Leak From Foxconn
Two months early. 300k under budget
As I look at the pricing wars, I realized something: If you choose to use "cloud" based in your projects or businesses, you will never know the long-term costs associated with operating in the cloud.

The cloud provider can raise or lower prices as they see fit. What prevents these for-profit companies to keep lowering prices and not raising them?
The NSA is now actually making US infrastructure less secure. Consider that many companies will forego association with the most advanced security agency in the country. The country has placed it's best security resources in one pot and then spoiled it.

They're a resource that could have continued to provide valuable assistance. Instead, due solely to their organizational egoism, the NSA will be shunned and their advice dismissed as suspect.
If anything, that would be an indication that the tooling is nowhere near good enough. Any reflection should be doable entirely with data the compiler has anyway.
I was only suggesting that the people who pony up the early cash get some token equity. Lets say give up 5% to enthusiastic early adopters who share your passion rather than 25% to angels. If say the $300 netted you $3,000 bonus on exit, you can have a party and celebrate the founder's good fortune. Its a win/win (founders get lower cost of capital than angel route, early adopters make some cash. Methinks we will see more of this, but only time will tell.
Zo ontwerp je zelf je badkamer als wellness ruimte
Right, but what's he's getting at is: will a bot that responds faster have an advantage over one that responds slower, even if both respond within the time time limit? Or, is the server waiting for both responses to come in before progressing the world state?
We're not forced to choose. Unlike a patent, a trade secret leaves anyone else free to invent and use the same idea.
I would like to know the answer to this.
React came out less than a year ago and there are already
alternatives built on the virtual DOM concept

How is it a bad thing?the virtual DOM should be a library by itself i believe. So should be angular injector , so is Sizzle ,etc...

Instead of writing big frameworks that mashes up a lot of stuffs, these libraries should AND will be more modular no matter what, in the future. I want to be able to create my own library with building blocks ,like in any other language. The problem today is

1/ javascript lacks of a proper module spec

2/ libraries are too tightly coupled

ES6 module are the answer and will change things.fortunatly.

I dont want to use React,Angular or Vue or whatever. I want to use building blocks to create my own framework. JS lib maintainers will have to change the way they write libraries to make them extentable and pluggable.
How far will the Supreme Court go to stop patent trolls?
As cubicle turns 50, its inventors despise cube farms and "corporate zombies."
Mozilla?! wow this is going to hurt their image...
I'm surprised it hasn't been done already. Wasn't the RPi supposed to be an "educational" product, or is this just a case of "shut up and give my my toys already"?
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