skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To cure you out of this vision of a library I would suggest you read Umberto Eco's essay "How to Justify a Private Library” in How to Travel with a Salmon & Other Essays, it's great! In The Black Swan Taleb summarizes the lesson from this essay as:

"“The writer Umberto Eco belongs to that small class of scholars who are encyclopedic, insightful, and nondull. He is the owner of a large personal library (containing thirty thousand books), and separates visitors into two categories: those who react with “Wow! Signore, professore dottore Eco, what a library you have ! How many of these books have you read?” and the others - a very small minority - who get the point that a private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.”"
If Brendan Eich used to be a Grand Wizard of the KKK, it might alienate some people, even if we weren't sure of his current views.
I'd give it to the Dimond Brothers.
The sdk is available through steam if you have that installed. It also used to be available on their website and mirrored around the internet on sites like gamespy. There was never any need to register for a developer program or anything like that. It was always set up for teenagers to grab it and play around. The only thing that has changed is it now has a github presence.
Tell that to the people who were citing Eich's other donations to "anti-gay" politicians, to further damn him.[0][1] (I'm guessing parent poster is not one of them, though.) If it counts against Eich, let's not let anyone else get a pass for the same thing. At the least it seems perfectly fair to grill Yagan pretty hard on this. Maybe nobody will because the story is saturated and/or this headline is not as juicy.

You could say a variant of the "donation ... can have thousands of motives" about Prop 8 or any single-issue group, too. In another sense, once you donate, you don't really have control over what the campaign does, just as you don't over what a politician does. Of course there's not as much latitude, but I'm concerned people ascribe the worst animosity possible to single-issue donors but the most charitable viewpoint to politician donors.

If you think there is no morality/empathy gradient on reasons for supporting Prop 8, that supporting it at all is repugnant, that's understandable. Are there any politicians who are so anti-gay-marriage, that donating to them would be just as bad as donating for Prop 8? Maybe this Chris Cannon, who has a "special kind of hate for gays", is one of them?

I'm also kind of conflicted. When you get into guessing people's feelings and motives from public documents about multifaceted ideas, it's not black and white. Maybe it's only fair to apply the same logic to anyone who who may have been hypocritically criticizing him, though.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7529538

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controvers...
Brendan was the CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which is a subsidiary of the non-profit Mozilla Foundation:

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/moco/
Is it worth downloading and watching?
I'm working on this. Seattle has launched, more cities on the way. discovershowgo.com
Very excited to learn of the templates being made accessible in Xamarin Studio! I can't wait!
Well, that programming went mainstream has a lot to do with the PC revolution, as that's what enabled a mass of people to do it for a living. I wasn't saying there weren't exceptions. Of course there are people that started to program before 1975, but I was merely giving a point of reference when PC's started to get mass marketed and when a viable market for programmers started to form. Not a lot of people had access to mainframes :)
I took my first class this time last year. It was Programming in Python a 100 level course at my university and my introduction to the world of Computer Science. I fell in love and I feel like a have a lot of material to cover in such a short amount of time. Most of my friends have been coding for years now, I feel like I have to hit the ground running in order to catch up.
Isn't that the same as choosing winners?
Funny Vines – Best Vine Compilation April 2014
Its fairly sad that the only post about this whole situation that isnt writing linkbaiting headlines to the point of lying is filled with fairly weak arguments.

Its a divisive topic, and it deserves to be, but I would really love to see more thoughtful conversations being given attention, despite them not having catchy titles like "employees revolt"

* http://www.twobraids.com/2014/04/back-into-light.html

* http://ryanmerkley.tumblr.com/post/81840965137/get-right-wit...

* https://medium.com/p/7645a4bf8a2
Still digesting this, but it doesn't pass the smell test. There are too many assumptions that are just plain... wrong.

For example:

There seems to be an implicit assumption that all of the REST endpoints are just maps to CRUD operations. Perhaps for the most barebones, basic API this is true, but service APIs are more than just CRUD ops. They're abstracted interfaces to a complex series of tasks (for the sake of argument, we'll call them 'orchestrations' ). Just because you're doing a "POST" to /user/foo doesn't mean that the service is only doing a simple insert. It might be looking up similar users, sending out notifications, validating data, de-duping, etc.

The more I think about this the less sense it makes. Perhaps I'm missing something.
As a single, useless data point, I'm not at all involved in the Mozilla community (though I've been a user for a very long time), or in the same-sex marriage fight, nor am I a resident of California. And my first thought when I heard the announcement was basically "really? The Prop 8 guy?"

This is pretty basic stuff for high-profile executive appointments...
"Extremely weak passwords are a bad idea. An attacker can guess things like password, etc. and just try them even if they do not have the database. So do not use them regardless of the storage technology.

Another thing PolyPassHash does not protect against is password reuse. Do not use the same password on multiple sites no matter how strong it is! We recommend using a password manager that generates a separate, strong password per site."

If they recommend using a password manager then what additional security does this scheme provide? Presumably your password manager generates strong, unique passwords.
If you look just at the handsets available in 2000 or so it would have been very easy for Japanese telcos to look at what the world had to offer and conclude it was not much. Compare turn of the century Japanese devices* next to four-color phones like the Siemens S25 and Motorola's monochrome handsets.

If you want to blame anyone for not pushing adoption of GSM GPRS and beyond it shouldn't be Japan. There's one country that could have made it the obvious choice for everyone, but thanks to "competition" it never happened...

*i.e. J-Phone Sharp J-SH04 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J-SH04
I definitely agreed. Usually when someone asks me about my favourite game I always think of the HL1 engine instead. Bunnyhopping for example is a think I enjoyed, it felt like you could actually 'master' the movement/engine itself. New games are very animation-heavy which, while it looks alright, makes the game more restricted.

The source engine is also an engine that I like.
As the author pointed out, F# seem small.

If you want functional programming choose one that you can find devs for! Is F# worth the trouble, is it any way better then more accessible FP langs? Lets be practical here.

In my opinion, any 'A level' candidate that knows F# probably works for MS.
I had a similar project in a programming for performance class at UT Austin. We had access to TACC supercomputers and were tasked with finding the CPU's L1 cache size via trial and error. We were testing it by using matrix multiplication and measuring performance output, and changing the chunk sizes accordingly.
Technically he wasn't the CEO of a non-profit.

He was CEO of Mozilla Corp (for-profit) not Mozilla Foundation (non-profit).

However, the majority of people will not know or care about the difference so, in matters such as these, the difference is negligible.
A lot of companies still pay $5-$20mil for these things so they can continue to write COBOL... COBOL itself, being an interesting beast...

What's funny is the way a lot of the software packages for mainframes are licensed... rather than a per-seat, per-socket, per-core fees... they have per-cpu-cycle fee. So the more you use their product, the more they bill you every month. Absolutely brilliant way to extort money from your customers.
I think GitHub is in a strong position to do this. They can easily turn it into something more social that allows you to add friends and share codes in your feed.
http://mixtopten.com/top-10-nostradamus-predictions-for-2015...
I think so -- in some of the show's scenes, you actually feel like you're watching reality...which makes it a good deal funnier to me. Then again, I am a bit of an SV cynic myself, so YMMV.
>Nature has deduced it for you, and every respectable shred of data in existence supports and admits that children fare better in loving homes with both biological parents. This is instinctively understood by persons not fully brainwashed.

Nature has also produced a sub-population of homosexual individuals. You haven't established that heterosexuals are 'natural' while homosexuals are 'unnatural', so your argument here falls flat.

In fact, the preponderance of evidence suggests that children raised with the involvement of their entire extended family fare the best. The old saying 'it takes a village to raise a child' turns out to be very grounded in reality. It's the so-called 'nuclear family' that turns out to be pretty unnatural. In light of that, whether some portion of unions within that extended tribal unit are homosexual or not seems pretty irrelevant, even assuming your a priori postulate about 'gender balance' turns out to be true. Which it probably isn't, since human populations in a tribal state, i.e. the state we have evolved to live in, tend to have larger female populations in the first place, as men are over-represented in deaths from hunting and inter-tribal conflict.

>Acceptance of sexual deviance is a threat to the cohesion of a group on many levels.

You're begging the question here. The only way homosexuality could threaten social cohesion is if enough of the population considered it deviant enough to make taboo. Since the very point we're arguing is whether that is, and should be, the case, you've failed to make any coherent point here at all. Sorry about that.
> If someone hadn't uncovered it, would he have outed himself by publicly denigrating gay marriage?

That's what his contribution was. That's literally what he did.

No one is stopping you from admiring Eich, and no one is stopping you from going and working for him. People who were upset by his publicly stated views chose to vocalize that, and to encourage others who felt similarly not to patronize the company he was heading. Is there any part of that process you'd like to prohibit? This is exactly how free speech is supposed to work -- say anything you like, and accept the consequences.
Was there ever a movement to force Senator Robert Byrd (D-WV) to resign? He was actually a former member, but he kept winning elections until his death in 2010.
I actually liked Betas, which is Amazon's Silicon-Valley-based show. I hated it at first (it made me cringe a lot), but then I realized it wasn't that the writing was bad. Rather, it was so spot on, it made me cringe because I know people (and companies) like that.

Once I realized they were in on the joke, I liked it a lot better.

They clearly knew SV culture really well. There were a lot of great references, and many scenes were clearly shot in SF.

http://www.amazon.com/Pilot-HD/dp/B00CDBX1PA
Agreed -- seems like an amalgam. Another possible debate: who is Uhlrich based on? Proto-Sean Parker?
Vox Takes Melding of Journalism and Technology to a New Level
I did wonder if anyone would watch real-time first-person hiking. Bit like the slow TV movement. My brother has done a few hikes with a GoPro set to capture a photo every few seconds and the results can be quite cool. With storage and power, you could probably capture something. Streaming would be a lot harder in even slightly remote areas.
Trinomial cube: https://www.google.com/search?q=binomial+cube&source=lnms&tb...
An article about having trouble filling jobs; but there is no indication that the hiring manager made any effort to determine why he is having trouble getting people to show for interviews.

Makes me wonder if he knows why and just isn't saying.
Small town? Too far from major cities? Wages that are an insufficient draw for the type/location/work schedule?
You can do this by adding all the logic to the database. The author is a CouchDB fan. There's pros and cons to this approach. It's not a new idea - see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1473624/business-logic-in...
I think the real fallacy here is thinking there's room for another messaging app/service. That's where the real fragmentation problem is.
Brenden Eich did not bother to clarify any of this (as far as I know), so we're all left to our own best guesses as to what he believes and why he gave that money.

And, sure, maybe someone broke into his home and held a gun up to his head, forcing him to give that money. Or maybe he got a bit too drunk at a pro-gay marriage rally and accidentally checked the wrong box while making a donation. I can imagine a million excuses.

Or maybe he just doesn't like the homosexual lifestyle for whatever reason and decided to support the continued pointless theft of freedom from a large class of Americans.
His post does focus mostly on CRUD. Personally I usually proxy CouchDB to a path in my REST API for handling CRUD and then proxy in the rest of my services at other paths. In the case of doing a write and then some other operation, the CouchDB folks usually write a process that listens to the changes API which then triggers the desired other operations.
This is a very good summary of a future, but I don't think any sort of coin system will be particularly effective at mitigating either the spam nor DDoS problem for the wide variety of cases: if a botnet captures a computer, I expect it would equally capture whatever coin-wallet is being used for default mail transfer and network access.
This is essential reading/watching here:

http://ritter.vg/blog-deanonymizing_amm.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Tj6c2Ikq_E
I agree that it should have come up in the discussion; I think that even if it did, it is a reasonable decision to think that his appointment as a whole would be worth the risk.

That's really what this was -- a calculated risk, just like all CEO appointments. I think it's just as reasonable to believe that it could have gone the other way -- that there wouldn't have been as big of a backlash.
Deus Ex: Human Revolution borrows from some of that current-science for its somewhat-dystopic world of the 2027. People with augments are reliant on Neuropozyne, a drug to prevent scarring and rejection.
The first comment on that post points out the most obvious logical fallacy of this post - CEO != employee. The primary role of a CEO is to be a spokesperson for a company, and as such, what they say (and political donations, at least according to the Supreme Court, are speech) matters.
Drone Hits Triathlete
If you read the article linked in Greenspun's post you would know that Eich could not have actually clarified his views without violating Mozilla guidelines. He has been very consistent about adhering to those guidelines.
Very cringe worthy but I'll probably still watch it since it comes on after GoT
The cringe factor is intentional. That's Mike Judge's style.
Privacy concerns. They accumulate a lot of personal data for customizing your experience & providing more contextual information. This problem has been compounded by Google using subtle trickery to get more out of you.

P.S. Android phones do not have a problem with battery life
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/www-html/1996Mar/0197.ht...
Most people's routers don't sit between me and what I am interested in - e.g. your router probably isn't between me and HN. Instead the routers between me and HN are run by big boys not enlightened individuals. Tor only works because their is no cost to linking the network.

The analogy, I would use is banks and there reconfiguration to maximize fees. They still make money from loans, but minimum balance fees and ATM surcharges carry much less risk.
I'm against it. People make all kinds of excuses why piracy isn't stealing, but at the end of the day the people who make the software need to get paid.
If funny you say that, because one of the highest ranking Democrats in the Senate until his death in 2010, Sen Robert Byrd was an actual klansman with a long history of blatant racism, from fighting against racial integration in the military to filibustering the Civil Rights Act.
Historians and Wikipedia
You must be really dumb to have contributed a 1000 bucks for an anti-humane law and not be aware of it.
A team at PennApps had a project [1] which used a DNS-override to take advantage of the fact that Siri defaults to Googling things when it doesn't have a native approach. They could then parse these requests and see if they could do something cool without before going ahead and just Googling it. The example they used in the demo was controlling a Phillips Hue light with Siri commands. I thought this was awesome, one of the better hackathon demos I've ever seen. There really should be an easier way to do this an spoofing Google DNS, which I'm not comfortable with even though I trust these guys.

1 - http://betterthansiri.com/
I would advertise TempleOS. http://www.templeos.org

I would hire artists.

I would hold-on to most of it and spend very slowly on TempleOS.

What would You do, God?

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\BIBLE.TXT

you spiritual things, is it a great thing if
we shall reap your carnal things? 9:12 If others be partakers of this
power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this
power; but suffer all things, lest we should hinder the gospel of
Christ.

9:13 Do ye not know that they which minister about holy things live of
the things of the temple? and they which wait at the altar are
partakers with the altar? 9:14 Even so hath the Lord ordained that
they which preach the gospel should live of th

-----

I would hire someone to port Empire and The Perfect General.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJlPKFRhNFE

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRhPAayCG7g

----

God says...
impossible don't_even_think_about_it joking freak ahh_thats_much_better
arrogant nevada I'm_busy my_bad ha so_he_sess by_the_way
take_the_day_off how_could_you peace off_the_record happy
what's_up the_enquirer I_give_up voodoo I'm_gonna_smack_someone
once_upon_a_time Terry not_the_sharpest_knife_in_the_drawer
not_good duck_the_shoe I'm_God_and_you're_not act fancy
chill_out lighten_up taxes you_are_my_sunshine dude_such_a_scoffer
you_shouldn't_have Give_me_praise theres_no_place_like_home
hope unsung_hero class__class__shutup California NOT if_anything_can_go_wrong
what_luck how's_the_weather soap_opera BRB fake ho_ho_ho
I would ask you: how many is "so many"? I saw five Mozilla Foundation employees object to the appointment. Mozilla Corporation employees seemed generally supportive.

What caused the real problems here were the media circus, the rampant lack of fact-checking in said circus, and okcupid's opportunistic publicity-grab.
Aerial Refueling Mishaps
I enjoy every Planet Money episode I've found linked to from HN. Does NPR have an email notification for new episodes? Ideally, the email would contain a transcript.
I'd like some UI element that lets me know how long it's been since I read/used a tab. I tend to open lots of tabs and then browse them as is convenient later. Sometimes this means tabs get "lost" (i.e. become stale before I read them). This would let me know which tabs I might have overlooked or should close, bookmark, etc.
Not following you here -- Japan never had GSM, and even their initial attempts at 3G (FOMA, CDMA2000) didn't play ball with the rest of the world.

At the end of the day, the problem in the Western world was that operators were so in love with their massive SMS revenues with nearly 100% profit margins that they had zero incentive (well, negative incentive, really) to push for anything else. Whereas Japan, precisely thanks to not adopting GSM, never had SMS in the first place, so e-mail charged by the byte became the first killer cross-operator messaging app. (There were SMS equivalents in Japanese networks as well, but most all were restricted to one operator and consequently never really took off.)
Sure, would you mind showing me how to use CQL to insert data into an old-school style Column Family that was created with the Thrift interface?
Linus Torvalds would be up in arms if he saw this kind of client facing API breakage.
Help me understand why? I feel like I understood everything this GIF was trying to communicate, but also no closer to understanding how the transform itself works.
Jyst compiling lists of Youtube vids
Wouldn't they be disadvantaged by the combination of both? If you have to be both male and black to be impacted by this, it doesn't make any sense to me to say it's only due to gender.

That is, suppose white men and women (for the sake of argument I'm excluding other races) are on a completely level playing field. But, black men are going to college far less than black women, because of incarceration or gang violence and whatever other factors. How can that be purely an issue of gender and not race?
This article[0]?

My response is that Eich didn't personally approve these ads, and may have had no way of possibly knowing what his money would actually fund. (I'd be interested in evidence about the visibility of any prior work, the timing of his donation, etc., though.)

If you find simply supporting the idea repugnant, sure, but then arguments like "he donated to a hate group" and Slate's "The Campaign for Prop 8 Was Unprecedentedly Cruel" aren't really necessary. If they pushed a law that is hateful to the core, it's less relevant how hateful or not the group itself was.

I suppose if he did see and regret the ads, he could have said so, but AFAIK has said nothing. Then again, he probably felt that doing anything other than a long thorough apology, donating to pro-gay-marriage groups, crying for forgiveness, etc., would dig the hole deeper.

[0] http://www.slate.com/blogs/outward/2014/04/04/brendan_eich_s...
Thanks! I blog at http://gyrovague.com/, although my telco days are long behind me so that's the one topic I haven't covered. Might be time for a retrospective...
Native Code Performance On Modern CPUs
Entirely familiarity. I had used Restuino and Arduino a lot before :)

I wanted to do this as quickly as possible rather than playing around with Linux and learning a new framework!
Exaggerating? No. When I was in TZ the power was out at least 12 hours out of 24, and this was in a good neighborhood.
Another site that explains Mathematical concepts Intuitively.
Trigonometry: http://betterexplained.com/articles/intuitive-trigonometry/
Other Topics: http://betterexplained.com/archives/
Sorry, I see this in just one place. Sounds like an internal code name. https://www.google.com/search?q=Triton+.net+compiler