skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been checking out fivethirtyeight every few days. You are correct. The quality has gone down since relaunching. I believe this is due to the wider focus and the need to pump out articles. They still do some decent sports articles (and I assume the election prediction stuff will still be good), but overall, I'm not impressed.
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Steve jobs lied to his close friend Steve Wozniak about the payment from Atari in the 1970s so he could keep 90% of the money. His daughter was raised on welfare by a single mother for a period of time while he refused to help or acknowledge his paternity. He cheated early employees out of equity to such a degree that Wozniak gave some of his shares away to make up for it.

I can't see any reason to believe that if Jobs was still here today that he would suddenly become compassionate, caring or empathetic after showing none of those traits for 40 years.
Any reason why Go is better than Java on Android? Concurrency is the reason? I personally think Go is good for System Programming, e.g. Docker, GoRouter (Cloud Foundry), etc.
Wow, thanks HN. Really appreciate the advice. Funny, I expected to hear more of the hacker mentality -- forge your own path, cut the fat, efficiency efficiency efficiency. Found this great DIY MBA post while trolling old HN posts. http://jfornear.co/diy-harvard-mba/

A little background is this is a one-year add-on to an MD. The healthcare aspect is a whole separate discussion, but briefly, my decision is complicated by the fact that I will be doing a residency and not using any of the MBA skills for several years (besides the leadership, team management, etc.). I'm hoping the MBA will serve as a starting point for launching a healthcare-related technology company later in my career -- writing a business plan, drawing on former connections for co-founding, securing funding, etc. I think most of the considerations you all mentioned regarding the decision still apply.

Do I think the skills are worth learning? Yes, absolutely.
Are the business course offerings directly in line with what I'm passionate about at the moment (coding, stats, data analysis, web dev)? There's overlap, but this is one of my bigger sticking points. Am I going to be bored out my mind in Accounting? Sometimes I wonder if I should wait until after residency and go for a hardcore Informatics MS.
Do I like the idea of delaying work/income for a year? No.
Do I like the idea of taking on so much debt? No way.
Do I want to surround myself with intelligent people who have the balls to start companies and move large sums of money around? Hell yeah. This is one of the biggest draws.
Do I want a corporate job? I like the idea that an MBA could mark me for leadership at an academic medical center.
Do I like (and need) structure? As much as I love MOOCS/MIT open courseware and think of myself as an auto-didactic person, I know myself enough to say that the going would be much tougher without a formal program.

It's not an easy choice, but I'm grateful to have the chance to make it. Appreciate your insights.
It's YouTube's html5 leanback experience. So it's Google, but they license the interface to a lot of vendors. Google can in theory push updates out this way too.

This is also what Netflix increasingly does (Hulu Plus and Pandora too).

If a smart TV or set top box has a good version of WebKit embedding in it and uses html5 rather than embedded versions of code, they can stay up to date much better. Samsung's newest TVs are designed this way, but there might be a provision check for the Samsung website as was the case in this thread, which is just bs.

The problem was the first two generations of "smart TV"software were highly proprietary embedded systems with custom apps from a service. It took 7 years, but most have moved to html5.

You do still run into hybrid solutions. Even the Roku3 and TiVo Roamio have html5 for some apps and custom old-ass shit for others.

For the fire TV, Amazon uses html5 for its own apps but android apps for other services (except YouTube, who doesn't offer its app outside of google play, so it's the html5 version Roku and some of the TVs use). In that case, I wish for companies with great html5 solutions for those with them (pandora, Netflix, Hulu Plus)
Java is here to stay. We are a small startup, but I am building our entire backend in Java 8.
I don't care about the downvotes. The article did not prove its basic premise. It's that simple. I will keep saying it and keep getting downvotes.

There aren't a lot of radical environmentalists on here, but I have several comments in this thread. Each one that is here can go through and take several points away, they've been doing it all night, and are apparently telling their tree hugging friends to do it as well. It's rather telling that all of my comments have -4 points; 5 crazies have taken 60 or so points. All it shows is that HN isn't the place it used to be.
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>I will have to assume they are using the sea because its the least likely assailable location by anyone who might seek to take the weapons?

Largely political. They couldn't find any nations willing to host the weapons for destruction, so doing it in international waters was the best available option.
The usual argument "You have to use the newest shiniest tech or you suck"
Well, the problem is, how does a society address the issue of steadily decreasing commodity prices as science and engineering produce them?

The New Deal helped farmers, back then a much larger percentage of the population, at the expense of everyone else. The real solution was to move people from farming to industry, or as it turned out, the US military and industrial production to support it for WWII (and per the WWI song, "How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm? (After They've Seen Paree)" (Paris), between that, the "GI Bill" subsidizing college education, learning all sorts of useful skills, etc. I gather many if not most didn't return).

The New Deal, as I've pointed out above, didn't really solve the problem when it's policies damaged so large a portion of the population. No Holodomor, but just as deliberate. I've seen a newsreel of this: http://www.livinghistoryfarm.org/farminginthe30s/crops_17.ht... ; you can imagine what hungry people back then thought when they saw it.
JVM languages would probably top such lists in coming years.

Think JRuby, Jython, Clojure,Javascript...etc and of course Java.

For anyone interested in trying these out, checkout HiveMind (crudzilla.com), I am the developer.

Sample screencast:
http://crudzilla.com/assets/img/info-graphics/lang-demo.gif
Censorship or decent moderation?
>>> most modern day guys could never even imagine.

Oh no need for that. Grab a local news paper, check the crime section. 'modern day guys' are not so smart and innocent, are they?
I ended with "different strokes" to mean that I am explicitly not discrediting those that have issues. Just saying that there is also a population that doesn't have them. I don't know how large we are, but I do like seeing us represented a bit more. Especially when the other viewpoints are a lot more polarized.

For the problems, it sounds like I've been ok by avoiding nVidia for these years. I did the upgrade over the weekend and it went smoothly. I'm even finding a few things to like about it. (For the most part, I wouldn't even notice I have upgraded.)

Contrast that with my trying to use the work issued Macbook. I pretty much hate it. Has a nice screen, though. I could probably get to like the touchpad.

My wife's Windows computer is similar in my not liking it. Even she has complained about some of the UI choices, lately. Though, she can get what she wants done and doesn't necessarily see a reason to change.
This relies on an assumption that 1) the only (or only important) places wealth can exert power is in government, or 2) that the likely harm of centralizing measures to address abuse of power in other spheres is greater than the likely benefits. 1 seems plainly false. 2 is much more plausible, but should still be stated explicitly and supported rather than implicitly assumed
If I shot a lot, I would be concerned: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19395342

I use lead-free pellets in a pellet rifle, which we keep on hand to shoot at animals that want to eat our chickens. It seems like a lot more pellets are lead-free now than just a few years ago. I don't like the idea of lead pellets laying around on my property. Most lead-free pellets also claim to be "high velocity' so it seems unlikely they are wearing the rifle barrel more than lead pellets.
I've been thinking of moving to Poland from the U.S. for a few months now. This sort of thing doesn't necessarily make me not want to go, but it does make me angry how the U.S. and other countries treat the majority of the world like our own, personal dump. And it makes me wonder how well Americans would be received by the locals once people start coming down with cancer and other horrible diseases that we essentially are the direct cause of.
Another reason would be that JNI is horrible and if you need to mix your app with native code you are out of luck.
Don't Let Incumbents Hold Back the Future
The content here is interesting, but I don't like the way the information is displayed. Most of the time when I read HN I skim the articles I'm interested since it's not worth my time to dive into all the details. This layout makes it pretty difficult to do that efficiently.
That's a likely outcome, but it doesn't have to be. The settings UI could allow me to install new keys off USB, and then set a password to prevent someone else from doing the same thing. Security doesn't have to mean giving up control of your own system (Microsoft's requirements for UEFI Secure Boot on x86 systems get this precisely correct)
r/technology was an absolute disaster before this anyway.
Dying grandmother uses Oculus Rift to walk outside again 
Dying grandmother uses Oculus Rift to walk outside again
To be honest, once Facebook strips the messenger app from the main app I'm done using Facebook. I don't want to agree to the new terms and conditions.
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I like how in the future everyone will still have 70s hair and fashions.

DISCO WILL NEVER DIE!
friends of mine have still segfaulted mlton-compiled SML programs. as I understand it, you need to have a bisimulation-based proof that shows equivalence in states between ML and x86, and as far as I know that just hasn't been done. until then you have the risk of a bug in some aspect of the compiler, which has happened, emitting code that produces a crash or something else bad.
You're right, it does add 1 to RDI, but this is exactly what we want. This is x86_64 calling convention, where arguments come on registers, not the stack. On 32-bit x86 you'd do something like

mov eax, 1
add eax, [esp + 4]
ret
definitely a smart choice...especially if you are thinking of something that can adapt to evolving technology, so far I haven't found a platform quite as flexible.
Why Robb Stark needed a mentor and why you do too
So Go solve the problem, right? How is Go's OpenGL/OpenGL ES?
Thanks for writing this post, I've bookmarked it for reading later as it has plenty of links and I can see I have a lot more reading to do.

If you edit or update your post, I hope you will Mozilla's excellent "Security/Server Side TLS" page at https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Server_Side_TLS. This helped me get up to speed quickly and provided clear examples.

As proof of how good the Mozilla docs are, I tested my personal website using the Qualys test you mention and received an A+ rating!

This beat the A- rating for your site (though I freely admit I'm a total noob in this area - I'm copy/pasting and don't understand much about SSL). I guess this reinforces your point that good documentation is critical, and I hope more people find it at the Mozilla site.

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=tombrossman.c...

https://www.ssllabs.com/ssltest/analyze.html?d=daniel.molken...
Found via insaneirish's comment [1] on another article [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7620828

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7619117
At the moment Aereo locks you into the metropolitan region specified by the billing address on your credit card. So if your card has a Denver address, you can only see Denver channels.

So this would not be a usable solution for international viewers. Perhaps in the future if things loosen up.
Lazy moderation. An auto-delete filter for major news keywords is a poor way to run a news subreddit. They're throwing the baby out with the bath water.
Is the Go FFI any better? How does it interact with the garbage collector? What aspects of the JNI are horrible in your mind (I have a few in mind as well) and how does the Go FFI differ?
Seems like a thankless sacrifice to use a photo app that will take pictures at a concert in a way that doesn't annoy others. How would you market this?
Because following the algorithm isn’t going to cost you more money, and it might actually relieve some of the second-guessing that occurs when you’re left to your own devices.

Disagree. Airfare pricing is adversarial. It used to be "common knowledge" that buying tickets on Wednesday at 3:05am Eastern was optimal. Then, airlines responded by jacking up prices at that time. You'll also get different prices from an Incognito browser than one with cookies. I'd bet you get hosed if you use your iPhone, for obvious reasons.

If something becomes commonly known as "the right way" to get fair prices, it will surely lead to unfair prices as airlines take advantage of the herd.

Because it's adversarial, the landscape is constantly changing and there are no guarantees.
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Per http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/news/press/2013/sep13/09-02an... they did buy use of the brand, but only for current products. So if they want to come out with anything new, it's got to have a Lumia or Asha brand, which they bought outright, or something else, like Microsoft.
You have to be physically located in the market whose content you wish to receive. Sending NYC broadcast television to anywhere but NYC is not in Aereo's business model, and they actively attempt to prevent doing so. If they were caught doing it, they'd be shut down without a question.
This is great news. I was very surprised that the term "Tesla" was being blocked. Later, submitters were using "Telsa" to beat the auto-deleting mod script.

When pressed on this subject the mods claimed that Tesla wasn't technology worthy and should go into a car subreddit, yet endless articles about how wonderful the new iphone is don't get shoved into /r/apple.

It looks like a couple moderators decided that their pet fanboyism would define the sub. Reddit had a choice of intervening and getting rid of those mods or delisting them from the front page. I think delisting them was the right move. If you want to have your own personal subreddit running on your own personal bias, then go for it, but don't expect to be a default anymore.

I find the mandatory default system to be more than a little broken. Instead, at account creation, show me all the defaults as checked checkboxes and the most popular non-defaults below, unchecked, and let me choose.
This is a comment in the HN comments section on a news website article about a scientific paper.

In this paragraph I will mention a link to a Wikipedia article that may or may not be related to the article in question [0], accompanied by some personal thoughts that may or may not add to the discussion (if there is one).

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solway_Firth_Spaceman
This is just one of basically countless examples of how the Reddit model of moderation does not scale. Moderators are chosen by other moderators, and the subs become fiefdoms.
Glad not to be the Intel CEO
Mainly intended for London residents, but we would consider strong applications from elsewhere.
We lost USENET, and it has been replaced by a website owned by Conde Nast.

We had an open and decentralized discussion system that was globally replicated. We had scores of NNTP clients to choose from.

Now it is 2014 and I am lamenting what was lost by editing a post on a webpage. This is a catastrophe.
The `track by` feature alone wouldn't solve Angular performance problems if you are rendering a large dynamic table.

Every `ng-*` and text interpolation using `{{ }}` will add one binding per usage. This can add up quite fast and easily cross the sweet spot of 2000 bindings per page (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/9682092/databinding-in-an...).

Large grids are not an ideal use case for Angular, and I like the approach of using React/Mustache or even direct DOM manipulation inside an Angular application when performance is critical.
A DVR, whether leased or purchased outright, as a piece of equipment totally under the control of an individual user, and present on the individual user's personal premises. Aereo does not provide "equipment rental." It provides a service using equipment that it owns and totally controls. In that sense, the difference between a rented DVR and Aereo's service is very similar to the difference between a leased car and a taxi cab.

Similarly, while you say that the "only difference" between Aereo's service and having your own antenna is the "length of the wire" that statement ignores all the other dimensions along which the two situations differ, and is reductionist in the same way as saying that the "only difference between a movie theater and watching a DVD with friends is the size of the screen and the number of friends. It's overly reductionist. The positioning in the market of the two experiences is totally different. The ownership structure and profit motive is totally different.

Your whole position depends on drawing these reductionist analogies and saying two situations are the same. Applying similar reasoning to other situations, however, shows that such reasoning leads to conclusions that defy common sense. Of course a leased car is not the same as a cab, and of course a movie night with friends is not the same as running a movie theater. But if you ignore ownership and control of the equipment and the market structure of the operation, as you are doing by analogizing Aereo to an "antenna with a long wire," then you can make such counterintuitive conclusions.
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That animated background header is making me very motion sick. Ugh.
I agree fully, it's a huge productivity win. I built a small layer that simulates or at least stubs out all the device-only APIs for the desktop target; switching resolutions & DPI dependent assets (works), loading translated strings from Android XML files (works), opening the marketplace (stub), setting alarms and timers, etc.

I estimate I spent 99% of the development time on the desktop target with a redeployment cycle of just a few seconds, and only test on the device occasionally.
"Universities are no longer institutions of inquiry but ‘safe spaces’ where delicate flowers of diversity of race, sex, orientation, ‘gender fluidity’ and everything else except diversity of thought have to be protected from exposure to any unsafe ideas.

As it happens, the biggest ‘safe space’ on the planet is the Muslim world. For a millennium, Islamic scholars have insisted, as firmly as a climate scientist or an American sophomore, that there’s nothing to debate. And what happened? As the United Nations Human Development Programme’s famous 2002 report blandly noted, more books are translated in Spain in a single year than have been translated into Arabic in the last 1,000 years. Free speech and a dynamic, innovative society are intimately connected: a culture that can’t bear a dissenting word on race or religion or gender fluidity or carbon offsets is a society that will cease to innovate, and then stagnate, and then decline, very fast.

As American universities, British playwrights and Australian judges once understood, the ‘safe space’ is where cultures go to die."

Excerpt from:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/australia/australia-features/9187...
(Hirsi and Brandeis are discussed in a larger context)
funny, i was just speaking with someone this weekend who was convinced about correlation to crime in NYC vs legalized abortion. (Donohue-Levitt hypothesis)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_ef...
My gradma digged trenches and stacked bodies, at the age of 14 or 15. Modern day guies don't do that, or something similar. War time is dramatical different.
Wow, that makes it even less valuable than I realized. Thanks to digital broadcasting, I get a perfectly clear picture with a $10 rabbit ear antenna from a thrift store.

How does Aereo charge $8/month for this?
‘Big Data’ Is Bunk
I think the biggest benefit is the network you will build there. There are some really cool/smart people there.
Nokia did not transform from a device company to a software company well enough. A big part of the damage was caused by decisions made long before Elop.
Do you have any documentation on the incognito vs. cookies claim? I'm skeptical that many airlines would do this when their "advertised" price is readily available on so many other sites.

ITA's Matrix is my go-to choice. I wonder if they sell search metrics to the airlines.
> I have a feeling they're hoping that long-term they'll be able to ditch the one-antenna-per-stream nonsense. With that one tiny (!) little tweak it suddenly becomes wildly profitable.

For a short time, maybe. But such a court ruling would basically declare open season on broadcast content, such that anybody would be able to quickly start an Aereo competitor and retransmit OTA television. With AWS, it would be a cinch. So the price of the service would quickly drop to nothing.
What about availability. If you buy sooner that's worth something.
I'm perhaps missing the issue completely, but isn't the argument about sensible defaults?
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Scott Alexander had a pretty good blog post on other sorts of potential biological correlates with crime recently.

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/02/18/proposed-biological-exp...
Because space isn't this thing where you eject stuff like a garbage chute.

I recommend reading up on rocketry, orbital mechanics, and modern space programs because a) it's really cool stuff! and b) you'd quickly realize how ridiculous, dangerous, and counterproductive this suggestion is.
Nokia already has over 90% of the Windows Phone market share. Third party OEMs might as well not be making them already.
When I think of false urgency, I think of the infamous shoulder-tap-management style. Illustrated best here: http://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-...

Shoulder tapping someone to say "hey I just sent you an email about the thing" is the very definition of false urgency.

If you do that, stop.

They'll see the email eventually. It can wait an hour.
Great work! I've been contemplating a service much like this for months. A site that lets you start with a subject or concept and generates a precise list of reading material and subject matter to bring you up to speed. It is essentially answering the question, "What should I read next?"

I look forward to seeing how far this database extends!
Your opinion on monopoly first social advertising site Maplace.co
Would you make a profile on Maplace.co/join the community and advertise there yourself or your company?
I don't think so, there have been bugs in ghc before, the problem would be a bug in ghc that emits code that crashes.
IP blacklists are a waste of everyone's time.
The backlash against big data
I don't see a problem. When I see an article that has stood the test of time, I am more likely to read it.