skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FYI the sidebar scrolling doesn't work (and general layout is a bit iffy) on Nexus 7 chrome. I wasn't going to say anything but if the audience is very general it might be worth fixing - the new ddg works awesomely other than that! :)
While I do understand the reasons for Quora wanting to join YC, I can't help but feel bad for the one company who will not get to participate now because of this. Maybe I don't understand YC well enough to make this claim but it seems like choosing a less established company would be better for both the company and the partners.
are you a designer? The styling is cool...
And if it is worth $1m to Google think how much it is worth to you.

This is the opposite of a good deal. Build something that is probably worth $250M and get $1m for it.
I know this would be worth quite alot...

but given google is sponsoring this. What kind of application could this have, or better yet if we get one that is super small/meets the qualification. What kind of potential does it have?
Watch Ed Catmull talk about Pixar Disney + Steve Jobs
Maybe you remember that Halliburton got a patent on a method of patent trolling:

http://appft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=...

Patent Acquisition and Assertion by a (Non-Inventor) First Party Against a Second Party

Abstract
Methods for a first party to acquire and assert a patent property against a second party are disclosed. The methods include obtaining an equity interest in the patent property. The methods further include writing a claim within the scope of the patent property. The claim is written to cover a product of the second party where the product includes a secret aspect. The methods further include filing the claim with a patent office. The methods sometimes include offering a license of the patent property to the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include asserting infringement of the claim by the second party after the patent property issues as a patent with the claim. The methods sometimes include negotiating a cross-license with the second party based on the assertion of infringement of the claim, where under the cross-license the first party obtains a license to an intellectual property right from the second party. The methods sometime include attempting to obtain a monetary settlement from the second party based on the assertion of infringement of a claim.
Oh, no, i wasn't probably clear enough. We have the same age, et both did that course at the same age. We just happend to have a very different opinion on that period.
I don't think the author of this piece fully understands the criminal mindset.

Clearly a lot of criminals are retarded idiots, however, there are some that are extremely well read and educated. For reasons of their crime, e.g. if drugs related but without them having ever used violence against others, some 'criminal masterminds' have an outsider view to society, a rejection of capitalism and a dislike of government institutions. Yet at the same time, they might prize certain objects. From having done time they might also have the obsessional way of thinking that goes with spending ten years working out how to steal something that, for reasons of their own, they particularly want.

Plenty of people like to have things that are unobtainable by normal means - 'trophies' that you have to either pay a lot of money for or steal. Things that have to be stolen have a cachet to them that merely very expensive things do not have. Not so recently, in the UK, there was a 'football casual' hooligan scene where the clothes that went with it had to be stolen, buying them, even if the money was available was just not the way to do it if you were to be 'part of the gang'.

My point being that people steal these valuable artworks to sell them simply does not apply in a lot of cases. It might have been in this one particular tale, however, it is to underestimate the tastes and education of 'the criminal' to assume that outrageously valuable things are sold down the pawn shop for a couple of quid.
There was a HN article about "Dart" (and their Kickstarter) about a month ago. They're building vastly-smaller switching power converters in the VHF frequencies (upwards of 300MHz). I'm not sure about the validity of their claims, though I believe the tech originated at MIT. This could be one compelling route?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7593909
Power has to be stored as DC.

If google wants to "own the grid" and we know they do. Then power will need to be efficiently converted from DC to AC.

If you do this at the outlet, then LED's and other DC favoring electronics could be powered by wires that are DC, and AC would only be used when necessary.

Think of all the devices you have with a power brick to take AC to DC. All of those are losing electrons along the way... (most power supplies are less than 75% efficient).
When I finished the last question it just sent me back to the homepage.
Offering tools to put the subscriber in much greater control over their device would (and IMO should) be offered.

My frustration is that at present, I cannot do what I want without, take your pick:

• Using a dumbphone with at best the ability to block (but not whitelist) specific numbers.

• Using a smartphone, with all of the additional privacy invasion concerns involved.

• Utilizing a service such as Google Voice, in which all of my phone traffic is routed through yet another NSA surveillance partner (willing or otherwise is left unspecified).

• Ditching conventional voice comms for an alternative (which I haven't yet even identified) that actually does offer the filtering tools I'd like. This would also have the effect of greatly limiting my general connectivity, though in the present universe this might not be all bad.

My suspicion is that a high-end and/or technical solution which does this will emerge. As either option is selective to generally more attractive and upscale markets, the conventional telephone network (wired and cell) will die: it will be comprised increasingly of down-market subscribers, less attractive to both telcos and others who might be interested in reaching them, and cut off from the NeuPhone network (if it weren't that would itself be a disadvantage of the NeuPhone, though some bridges might in fact persist).

It's a similar dynamic to how first AM, then FM radio have increasingly become wastelands as those with means switched first to cassette CD players, then iPhone adapters, as well as satellite and Internet radio. Or Facebook's overtaking of an established social networking market by offering a more attractive network (the in-crowd of Harvard, Ivies, Stanford, and selective colleges for the first few years of the network). Or of broadcast TV's increasing fall in light of both deferred-viewing options through DVRs and increasingly on-demand video content over the Internet -- why accept QVC when you can watch Netflix, Hulu, Vimeo, or even YouTube, bypassing schedules, advertising, and hours of crap?
It's slightly pathetic that when viewing the website with Google's own browser, the font in the "SOMETIMES THE BIGGEST..." block is rendered incorrectly with stray pixels on top of the S's, O's, and G's.

I'm assuming it's not intentional since zooming in causes the artifacts to disappear, but they come back when zoomed back out to 100%.
Sorry, I missed my mouse target and clicked the wrong button, downvoting you.
Why don't companies do this more often? Write down a list of stuff they need/would-like for their projects but aren't yet actively devoting resources to, and then offer prizes to anyone who comes up with the goods. I know that crowd-source design contests have been common (and controversial) but R&D I don't hear about so much.
It only protects the specific page they're reading. The domain goes in cleartext (that's the whole point of SNI). Kind of a weak protection.
That's not the same. When you go from 3D to 2D you lose a dimension. Information is lost. When you map color spaces like I proposed you go from 1D to 1D, you're just compressing the data in that dimension. No information is lost (except because of the limits of numerical accuracy)
Yep, similar here -- many teams, many use cases, many DBs in use:

* Postgres (including RDS), Oracle, and MariaDB all used as transactional stores on projects of varying vintage

* Vertica for aggregate reporting

* Hadoop/HBase in another data warehouse

* Mongo in several key-value stores

* Amazon DynamoDB under evaluation for likely adoption for a newer key-value store

* memcached ubiquitous

* SQLite for simple read-only stores within web services

* Cassandra and Redis under evaluation for task queue result stores

In a large, mature organization, I think this kind of heterogeneity is both inevitable and appropriate.
That's the thing that baffles me about Quora. I've seen interesting questions and responses but they're totally unreadable. A decade+ after we all knew Experts Exchange was a horrid experience and years after Stack Overflow proved you could show the content and be successful... Quora went right back there.
How can you seriously multitask on a retina ipad with less than a gig of ram and no virtual memory ?
If you took my comment to mean that I think Chomsky is always right, then you have misunderstood. I have simply noted that the enthusiastic "debunkings" of Chomsky that I have come across have been of very low quality, and often include explicit pleading to trust those in power, instead of pointing out where he has actually gone wrong in his arguments.

As to your specific question, a few seconds googling produced this: bigwhiteogre.blogspot.com/2010/07/chomskys-views-on-khmer-rouge-distorted.html?m=1

Myself, I take no position. Let the debate continue. Let the facts be known.
Woah, what's with all the downvotes here?
Camingo Code – Great (and Free) programming font
This is a great and free programming font.
In practice, I see people boot Linux desktops under three conditions:

1. Once in a great long while, perhaps when there was a power outage or a critical system update.

2. Daily, for a few people who shut down their computers when they finish work for the day and boot them in the morning. (I never understood this.)

3. When something has gone quite badly wrong.

Outside of that, there are desktops which hibernate, laptops which hibernate, and phones which are running Firefox OS or Android and boot about once a week.

If you have a journaling filesystem and no weird hardware, desktop boot times are not a problem.
Introducing CNN iReport + Google Glass
Thank you. $32 and on order.
> Tools That Convert to JavaScript are a HACK [..] they’re usually full of edge cases, varying browser support, inconsistent performance and other strangeness.

The second part is true of any platform that has multiple independent implementations, it isn't because compiling to JS is a hack (which it is; but that's irrelevant here). If everyone used the same browser with the same rendering engine and the same JS engine, we wouldn't have browser support issues, inconsistent performance, etc.

It's not just compiled-to-JS languages that have browser incompatibilites etc., it's also HTML and CSS, and non-compiled JS. The issue is the fundamental tradeoff of the web being a spec that anyone can implement, which keeps the web open. But it also means multiple implementations with different performance characteristics and so forth.

The web was never designed to be an ultra-consistent platform that is super-easy to develop for, which is what the article pines for. If you do want such a thing, the closest is probably Flash - good developer tools, single implementation. It was good for some things, but being a single implementation was one reason why it is losing popularity.

With all that said, the web is actually gaining powerful low-level capabilities these days. So you could build something more consistent on top of those. Specifically, you could render UIs using pure WebGL and avoid much of the overhead of the DOM and JS. And compile-to-JS languages can give you more predictable performance than JS itself, because they can emit simpler code (e.g., no garbage collection necessary). There is a big opportunity to create a tool using those two which would give a much better developer experience than the web currently has.
as long as the ads don't run code, i don't mind at all.
It's probably a lot cheaper to crowd source the solution. You'll get a lot more effort for the money. Crowd sourcing a problem for a prize is a well proven method that's centuries old. Here are some famous examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Longitude_prize

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirit_of_St._Louis

And of course, the modern X-Prizes: http://x-prize.com

The one improvement would be to crowd-source the challenges and the money. Think KickStarter but participants vote for the projects and donate the prize money.
It is Comcast's customer who requested data, and it is Comcast who is responsible for ensuring that request is fulfilled.

Therefore it is Comcast's customer who should pay for the service that Comcast provides.

Getting Netflix - for example, to pay Comcast to ensure that Comcast is willing to fulfill the requests for data by Comcast customers is just.....odd.
Why stop at highlighting? The syntax should be customizable also. Who needs to repeat the `protected` keyword, initial null value, or semicolons before the line ends? Perhaps instead of...

protected HashMap children = new HashMap();
protected int backgroundProcessorDelay = -1;
protected LifecycleSupport lifecycle = new LifecycleSupport(this);
protected ArrayList listeners = new ArrayList();
protected Loader loader = null;
protected Log logger = null;
protected String logName = null;
protected Manager manager = null;
protected Cluster cluster = null;
protected String humanReadableName = null;
protected Container parent = null;
protected ClassLoader parentClassLoader = null;

...we could write...

protected(defaultInitialValue: null){
HashMap children = new HashMap()
int backgroundProcessorDelay = -1
LifecycleSupport lifecycle = new LifecycleSupport(this)
ArrayList listeners = new ArrayList()
Loader loader
Log logger
String logName
Manager manager
Cluster cluster
String humanReadableName
Container parent
ClassLoader parentClassLoader
}

And that's just for starters!
Yeah, I'm learning.

I'll still say this wasn't quite what I had in mind, but it may well be good enough in terms of tabs management (there's still the content presentation, but that's another story).

I've been watching the vids, and they're really helpful.

I've given this tool mention on my subreddit (comment so far, story likely to follow) and on G+. After tabbed browsing and competing with vimperator, probably the biggest revolution in browsing I've encountered in 17+ years.

http://www.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/comments/256lxu/tabbed_b...

https://plus.google.com/u/0/104092656004159577193/posts/B43j...
> 125k salary ends up being about 250k once all other direct and indirect costs are factored in.

I find an additional $125k to be a stretch, but I also have no data to back this up. I'd be curious to see the breakdown for this: $125k + some share of insurances, office spare per square meter, equipment, training, social events, etc - what else?
Until recently I felt that all the free services I am getting from different website are a blessing. I am starting to feel otherwise. Somewhat unfair, because I have the money to spend, but still. When the service is paid for, I as a customer have some voice over things like ads, or abrupt changes in product direction. For now I'll donate some money to Mozilla I guess.
> The problem, however, is that this doesn’t really fit into Mozilla’s brand image. It’s supposed to be an independent, mission-driven organization. Once it starts taking money from big brands, it will be harder to maintain this image.

This is a rather silly statement - most of Mozilla's funding already comes from Google, and has for a while.

If you want to make Mozilla less reliant on "big brands", it's very easy - just donate[0]. Every dollar from its users makes Mozilla slightly less dependent on advertising money.

[0] https://mozilla.com/donate
Protip: if you append '?share=1' to the URL it will display the page without the blur.
Additionally AC transmission is inefficient compared to DC transmission; the skin effect[1] really kills you

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skin_effect
This was mentioned in the White House's FACT SHEET [1] on solar initiatives, fwiw.

Certainly the inverter is an expensive hunk of metal, but soft costs like installation and permiting dominate the average residential PV installation. And if it were easy to make a more efficient inverter, wouldn't Xantrex have made one by now?

Kinda confused. Oh well. Guess we'll find out more later.

EDIT: Maybe they're talking about microinverters. I'd still like to see the spreadsheet describing the economics though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_micro-inverter

https://completesolar.com/micro-inverters-vs-string-inverter...

[1] http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2014/05/09/fact-s...
I wish they would have added a RSS/Atom feed.
Where is the DC ultimately coming from in this scenario? Is the whole grid high-voltage DC, or what?
In the enterprise server market, Windows handily beats Linux. Consistency, integration, and ease of administration are major reasons why.
Wasn't aware of it using DB2, not that I care much what it is as long as it works. As you probably know having worked on it it's an application platform too, which is mostly what we use it for. Sadly, none of my colleagues has the time to develop any apps for it and I only dabble around in high level languages, so everyone just uses the blank office template and creates documents with tables and stuff. But the search is great, and the save conflict management keeps some of the IT-related headaches away. I wish there was a self-hosted web app equivalent though as the UI for editing is similar to Ms Office, thus easy for Average Joe to grasp. The drag-drop storage of files inside documents is nifty.
If Google is willing to pay $1M for this, I suspect that such a design is worth significantly more.
Better advice: just use Postgres.

Three reasons: 1) your data is probably relational, even if you think it's not, 2) if you have non-relational records, Postgres has JSON and hash storage types that perform better than most NoSQL databases, and 3) The architecture, standards compliance, and sheer capabilities of Postgres are all best in class. Seriously, if you want to read some good C, peruse the PostgreSQL source. Go Bears.

Unless you're trying to do some analytics (in which case, find a column store), or want to use it and forget it (Amazon's database services; and RDS is Postgres), Postgres is the way to go.
Another poster writes
> people with as little as up to three years of experience. To me it seems they just don't like being programmers.

I don't think this is fair. Many of these people are young. When you are young, life can feel hard. If you asked me when I was in my 20's if I liked work, I would have answered on the verge of tears that I hated work, and was tired out from it. I had good jobs, and good workmates, and am relatively smart. But life is hard sometimes. Looking back, I would say that the hardest things in your 20's are that you don't yet relate to people well (you don't know how to understand their motivation, or how to forgive their different views), and that your taste for quality work exceeds your skill at producing it. These are very tiring things to deal with.

But stick with it, you get better, work feels easier, and you start to enjoy it again.

My advice to myself if I could speak to myself at 25 would be to worry a little less, be proud of the things which you have produced, not to compare yourself to people 15 years your senior, and not to try and achieve fame and fortune by the age of 30. Remember to drink plenty of water (not too much alcohol) and eat your greens, get proper rest and exercise. Proper rest includes daily sleep, and regular holidays, and sick days when you need it. Don't be afraid to use a counseling service if you need guidance.

I hope this helps a young person who is feeling burnt out. Our industry needs people who care about what they do. Keep trying, but do look after yourself.
Web workers are atrocious though. They're very strangely hobbled by either requiring a serialize->deserialize round-trip when passing data back and forth, or you can sidestep it by 'transferring' the object across contexts (it then 'disappears' in the original context). The reasons for doing it rather than sharing are obvious (the race conditions would be hard to track down, etc.) - but there's no escape hatch for languages like ClojureScript which has immutable data-structures (and therefore don't care about mutable race conditions) and persistent/structural-sharing datastructures (and therefore would be very costly to serialize/deserialize, or totally broken by the transfer model).

Really a shame.
Balance is the answer.

This tends to be true of all things.
By jailbreaking and installing "OS Experience" like the article says? The device was designed with to use a low amount of resources.
The issue isn't whether or not the code is open source / free software, it's specifically compatibility with the GNU GPL v2 under which the Linux kernel is released.

The GPL is picky about what licenses are compatible with it (or more specifically, what licensing terms), and for very good reasons given its intended purpose (to promote the availability of yet more GPLd code).
Seems to me that the appropriate attack might be fraud and misrepresentation, if not copyright abuse. That's an attack which could be levied on Oracle by any party (oh, say, someone who's already upset at them for some reason, perhaps Google), not just a kernel copyright holder or The Linux Foundation.
as namenotrequired said, the latest round was very recent

but their team page does lists 77 people https://www.quora.com/about/team
Just because software views IP nodes symmetrically doesn't mean that there aren't central and leaf nodes in the physical structure of the network. That asymmetry is endemic to where consumer nodes sit on the physical network.

I quite agree that letting the people who own the wires do what they want will have an effect on the margins of companies who depend on those wires to reach customers. But doesn't that reinforce my point: there is something disingenuous about certain companies taking up the mantle of free speech and internet Utopianism to lobby for policy that is primarily targeted at fattening their own profit margins?

I don't see any reason to pick sides, certainly. I am equally skeptical of lobbying by ISP's that invoke the public interest or consumer protection to justify regulation excluding competitors from their markets.
Dawnkeeper: Last Survivors released
Because, as much as possible, we dont want ISPs to discriminate against any website, whether it is discrimination based on politics, or commercial interests.

I have no care about whether Apple can get its websites shown - Apple can take care of itself.

I do care whether I or other entrepreneurs can continue to publish our ideas without suddenly needing to bribe ISPs to not ruin the experience of customers using the site by throttling bandwidth as soon as it gets popular.
Quite agreed.

Oracle's association with pretty much any product (free software or otherwise) is enough for me to head in the other direction, and those are the recommendations I pass on to my clients, employers, and/or others asking for recommendations.
In a game where sound is the only way to see you save a lot of time on making textures. : P Looks fun.
PostgreSQL and MySQL have more in common than Couchbase and CouchDB
I'm interested in seeing where those stats came from. Care to share?
ew, you use windows?

Nice downvote idiot. The problem happens on all browsers in windows. So pathetically dumb
Well, the two that stuck out to me were "economist" (something I'm interested in but haven't devoted much time to studying), and software developer, which I happily do for a living. Pretty accurate.