skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes state as in where you are in a page isn't stored in the bookmark. I get that. I've tried loads of tab extensions. That one was broken for me when I tried it. I still think this is window manager / desktop manager territory, grouping: tasks, pages, apps, sessions.

Perhaps listening to a passage of text and typing some notes and reading a web page belong to a given task, and I might want to stash that away and pick it up later. Although I'm probably kidding myself thinking I can multi-task, and manage multiple tasks, sessions. Freezing one or two though might be useful.
Piracy is ALWAYS an option.
And piracy guarantees privacy in viewing. It doesn't go into RedBox's DB, nor does Netflix see what I watch, and nor does Hulu, nor even YouTube/Google. Nor will those Internet-bluray players tattle what I've seen.

And there's no ads, ever.

And I can watch when I want, how I want.

Better yet, call it Rights-maintained Media.
Their claim will be that any of Carmack's work on those topics, because he originally began his work under Zenimax, is recreating based on Zenimax's property, because Zenimax has a claim to the early prototype Carmack thought of when pitching the ideas and there's no good way to show that Carmack isn't using the knowledge of those topics created during that period for his current work.

It's essentially writing new code looking at your old source code, and hence directly derivative of work that Zenimax has a reasonable claim to.
Ask HN: Can we do a "Who's looking for work?"
I was wondering if HN has considered running a monthly "Who's looking for work", similar to the "Who's hiring" posts that are run every month.

Seems like this would be handy for small startups and talent to find each other, or maybe even would allow fellow HNers to help each other find a good fit via networking.

Or maybe this was already attempted with bad results?
Definitely aliens.

...

Honestly I'm surprised The Guardian even types that nonsense in a news lead.
Yeah, forgot about that. Such Faustian clauses are evil, and shouldn't be possible in the first place.

Nevertheless, this doesn't look like a Non-Compete Agreement violation, or we would probably have seen those words in the article. My guess is, Carmack haven't signed one (75% probability).
Alibaba I.P.O. May Unleash Global Fight Over Users
I think it's at least partially a problem of not being better enough than "good enough". Not to mention Itanium (and maybe Sparc, I don't know enough about it to say) had plenty of its own problems, including with interrupt handling.
Check out 'alantutorial' if you're into bizarre yt/web things.
For small projects, you can certainly get stuff done more quickly with native JS and/or jQuery.

Once you get past a certain number of developers, or project size, are framework really shines.
Trying to raise money? Hide your wife, hide your kids.
"A lot of people think Google, rather than Getangular LLC, created Angular"

1. The Angular website itself states that Angular is "by Google"

2. On many occasions, Misko Hevery has described how he created Angular while working at Google.

3. This page itself is the only real reference to Getangular LLC that shows up in Google search results.

Consequently, I'm inclined to think that you're mixing up your story.
He has 1,751 subscribers, this is something to think about.
> e.g., cash discounts at gas stations

This one, oddly enough, is only possible because of the government: in states where it's possible for gas stations to give cash discounts, this is only because state law overrides merchant agreements that otherwise prohibit it. Otherwise, credit-card merchant agreements (i.e. corporate policy, not government policy) generally prohibit differential gas/card pricing. As a merchant you could choose not to do business with Visa at all, but if you do business with Visa, you aren't allow to give cash discounts by the contract terms.
I'm on Debian Nightly 31. And I can't even find the managing session stuff in the menus. I'm sure I used to be able to save a group of tabs.

If bookmark management was better in the browsers I'm sure people would use them far more.
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matasano - always hiring, never replying to emails. I passed the crypto challenge and took the suggestion to apply - no answer. So I asked tptacek why they didn't reply - he said that was definitely a mistake, and I should send my application again. Of course again I got no answer. The crypto challenge was enjoyable though, so thanks for that I suppose.
Reminds me of Gibsons "Pattern Recognition".
Share Your Where
My name is already registered at Github by someone else, and it's not a common name at all. I just hope they're good!
So this appears, on the face of it, to have nothing to do with "Hacker News". It is historical. It has to do with startups or wireless web applications.

But I learned something from it. The guidelines state that an appropriate article is "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". And I found that this tale of how America's first "sports superstar" (as the article classifies him) was enabled by changes in technology (particularly the railroads), not just social changes, that this tale was somehow intriguing. Made me stop to think what kinds of social changes our current technological innovations may bring (are bringing) and where these will wind up.

So, one up-vote from me.
I apologize for saying you were the one who said that about the shiny toys.

But wow do we come from different viewpoints. Are you sure we both have the same type of brain? :)

> slightly-evolved apes who have become infatuated with our technology

You still think we are more or less similar to apes? I'm having a hard time responding to this because I just can't understand how you think that way. The difference between humans and apes is not just a matter of degree, it's a matter of kind. Apes have more in common with mice than they do with humans, despite how different they look to mice, and how similar to humans.

We aren't infatuated with technology - the use we have of technology is put to solving the same problems we've always had. How to connect with people, and how to live.

> For example, arguably technology on its whole became a net loss once we invented nuclear weapons -- until that point, we never were a push-button away from extinction.

We still aren't. Or are you under the mistaken impression that nuclear bombs could cause human extinction? All the bombs ever created couldn't do that, even if carefully detonated (they could cause devastation, but not not extinction). We have a greater capacity to cause disasters, but an even greater capacity to solve them, as a whole a net win. And did you loose sight of the fact that we made these bombs - and only used them twice? That speaks volumes about humanity. I bet you would have never predicted that if you were asked a few decades ago if we would use them.

> evolved to suit cave-man conditions, not the modern world that we've invented around us; cultural and technological evolution have outpaced natural evolution in our lineage

The modern world was not thrust upon us by an outside force, we created it because it suits us. We don't need to "evolve" to match it - we created it exactly the way we want.

> For example, to most Americans, American civilian lives are worth much more than civilians in say Iraq or Afghanistan; not because Americans cannot affect Iraqi or Afghani lives -- we have and continue to do so

You have not made your point. Our president can affect Iraqi lives, but any individual person on the street can do nothing about it. We read about sectarian violence between two religious sects (Suni, Shi'ite) that to non-Muslims appear identical and just can't understand why they even fight, much less do anything about it.
Simpson's Paradox is deeper than conventional analyses suggest. I'm going to use the pilots'-late-arriving-flights data:

name | delay%
alice | 30%
bob | 20%

So Bob's flights are delayed less often, he's the better pilot, right? Yet:

name | night | day
alice | 7/25 | 1/5
bob | 3/10 | 3/20

So now Alice looks like the better pilot!

But wait, what if the pilots are responsible for scheduling their own flights? Bob's individual batting averages might be somewhat worse than Alice's, but he's making better decisions about when to fly.

But wait, what if Alice and Bob fly out of the same airport(s), and they've agreed to let Bob fly during the day... (this is not meant to be an accurate representation of air traffic control)

When faced with a Simpson-like situation, a correct analysis usually requires considering the chain of causation, in particular, whether any stratification of the data depends on the independent variable being tested. If the stratification is a result of the test variable, it usually isn't a good one. In the Berkeley example, this possibility is the highly unlikely situation that applicants were automatically assigned to departments with gender taken into consideration -- so the stratification was valid.
Here's a fantastic short story by Bruno Schulz that, to me, captures the joy of walking, albeit mostly indirectly: http://www.akirarabelais.com/vi/o/thelibraryofbabel/schulz/c...
so, she did have something to hide after all. One more example that the rule is working
If you create enough data smog the Big Data systems will just give wrong answers. Whether that's a good or bad thing depends on how the data's used.

It seems to be a common misconception that the Googles and Facebooks of the world have someone nefariously looking at your data to profile your every move. No. The average employee at Facebook does not care about you, and even if they have access to your personal data (I know that this is significantly locked down at Google, and probably is at Facebook these days), they don't care who you are or what you do. Instead, they're developing algorithms that mine lots of data from lots of consumers to produce products for lots of consumers. If you put in wrong information, it's basically GIGO. And since the basic models are trained on millions of data points, if just you do it, you only hurt yourself - you're a drop in the bucket compared to everyone's data, but your own personalized interface will be based on the profile you give it, not what you actually want.

You can see this in action with shared Netflix accounts. Share a Netflix account with someone and basically you get garbage for recommendations, because the system tries to make sense of two different "streams" of data that were arbitrarily merged together. (There are ways to separate them out, but they add a lot of complexity to the system.)

Things may be different if you're talking about Palantir or the NSA. They specifically do look at individuals. But then, if they get a bunch of random data their assumption is probably going to be that the person is deliberately trying to obscure their tracks ("tradecraft"), which means that the suspect warrants even further scrutiny.
Woha and I received it in the mail today! Happy times.
Twitter CEO Dick Costolo
Why I Recommend a Bootcamp, Yet Didn't Do One
It could be performance monitoring. A company could be doing it to monitor how long it takes YT to process new videos.
Yep, Maven is the defacto AFAICT. But so is Java 6 currently.
See also Gluse which is a man riding elevators in various buildings.

http://youtube.com/user/gluse

(I am not mocking him. I admire the ability to create so many videos about a focussed topic.)
I'm more surprised by the fact that there aren't more.

You would think the Internet would have gone ballistic over this discovery, but no one has yet to pick him up.
Distributed Computing is Hard: A Cassandra Migration Horror Story
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No no no, there's a difference from re-creating work from memory, and re-creating work while looking at an old copy.

It is also possible to work back from first principles. Heck, many Free Software was written like that: by rewriting the proprietary parts, possibly one by one.
I live about a 5 minute walk from Castro St. in Mountain View. I always walk down there whenever I go to eat food because I enjoy walking. My roommate cannot comprehend why I do this instead of driving. I think it has to do with the fact that our society has become so focused on instant gratification rather than gradual gratification.
SBT has a terrible habit of breaking backwards compatibility, which has put me off it.
Nimrod looks interesting,how does it compare to Go, as i see it works without a VM, like Go, and has async programming features.
Looks like a weekend project to setup a VM to build just got bumped to the top. Thanks for the inspiration!
We have significantly more privacy in the modern era than people did hundreds of years ago. Most of us live in cities large enough that no one will know that you've been to the doctor, what you bought from the butcher or who you spend your time hanging out with. If you think it's easy for people to find out that someone is pregnant now, it was absolutely effortless in 1714. It's common for people to spend days commuting to work and going out to eat and socialize without running into anyone that they know. In the past there was almost no privacy for anyone. People lived in a world comprised of dozens of people and saw many of them every day.

Are we moving into a scary new era of data collection and prediction, or cycling back to an old world where it's hard to keep secrets because everyone knows everyone else? Big Data is no more of a threat to privacy than Small Town used to be. But in modern society we have the option to opt out. Or at the very least, use Tor or private browsing and avoid social media. We have the ability to live with a level of anonymity that our ancestors would deeply envy. The only thing stopping us is our own desire to participate in services and online communities designed specifically to collect and broadcast information about ourselves.

Why do we do it? Because we really like it. Our cultural roots lie in societies where supposed secrets traveled fast and everyone knew if someone was pregnant or gay or searching for information about strange topics. Even when we're able to hide ourselves in crowds of strangers we invent new ways to connect to each other and broadcast our statuses and purchase habits to as many people as possible. Everything old is new again, and instead of trying to hide on social media we should focus on figuring out how to take advantage of new technology to give ourselves the level of privacy that we want. Modern data collection presents challenges, but challenges that we can overcome to create a world that is better than the one we came from.
I don't want to be that guy but.. What's the point?

Unless you are the most lazy ass on earth you still want to modify the style.

And by style I mean, everything, to fit your design.
> And that’s the leap: It is impossibly hard to imagine raising $1 million in 30 days, even as a contingent commitment (meaning, you only get charged if we hit the goal).

That's because America is a poor country, and doesn't really want democracy. Compare to Russia - no, compare to Moscow:

http://navalny.livejournal.com/845180.html

76 million (unrevocable) rubles in 2 months, with about 32 rubles per dollar exchange rate. Summer 2013, Moscow mayoral race. For the candidate opposing Putin regime.
You don't need to couple memory pages with disk blocks.
What Did You Expect?  Managing Startup Expectations
> both government and large corporations are at fault here

Small companies can be equally guilty of misusing data. The best example is credit reporting data, which is often used to screen out job applicants and creates a downward spiral where falling behind on your bills due to a job loss harms your credit which prevents you from finding another job. This has nothing to do with big multinationals.

We've gotten so used to the advice about "building credit" that we've forgotten that it's really corporate surveillance. But at least its regulated, unlike Facebook.
Huh? Since the comparison would be to the likes of svn and cvs, git is a hella good improvement.

If you are willing to learn what it is that it does, git is actually fairly frigg'n good.

Of course, mayhap I've just not used a better tool.
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tl;dr version:

snip.ly a startup that is building a link shortner with a call to action built-in gets rejected by YC for not being the "next Google" (example shortlink: http://snip.ly/as6)
The initial stack, reading process arguments and environment variables (2012)
as opposed as taking 256 pages by MB? And all the overhead of that

It's probably easier to make something special for small files than making the current system go faster
> A lot of large companies have policies that anything you make in your off time is owned by them.

And that's just wrong, plain and simple. There's no excuse this is allowed.

> I can see why they do it my company has probably spent thousands on training and employee development and they want the return.

Training someone is not a valid claim to all uses of those skills; off-time is off-time. Just because someone applies a skill they learned at work in their off-time in no way justifies the company owing that work.
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If you click a poster's name, they often list their email in their account profile. In this case, they did:

"csg@tekeeper @t gm@il dot com".gsub!('@','a')
Analysis Framework: A Practical Approach to Solving Business Problems
> or a polymorphic event API with dedicated method types for each event

Exactly!
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We are comfortable accepting and including what we call permutations.

Clearly, our project is about testing web application frameworks and platforms (we just say "frameworks" for conservation of typing). Testing NIO vs. InputStreams, for example, in isolation is a different project.

But as part of a web framework—let's say you had a framework that provided support for both NIO and InputStreams—we'd be happy to include the multiple permutations.

Obviously, this is within reason. If you submitted 512 permutations, I might have a small heart attack. Also, a general principal that we ask all participants to bear in mind is that each test should represent a viable production-grade configuration. This guideline might rule out a great number of wilder permutations.
But x32 doesn't work on 32-bit systems
I'd agree, except that I've seen too many examples where people, particularly those who still have things to learn, cite blog snippets as authoritative. IMO we have something of a duty to those people to get it right. In this case it's not a lot of effort to get it right. Relying on the side-effects of an assert() is not getting it right.

The fact that I got a reply based on a misunderstanding of how asserts work tells me it's a point that needs to be made.