skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd say, he deserves a raise! Anyway, maybe you should really add the

http://www.nist.gov/el/nzertf/upload/NZERTF-Architectural-Pl...

to your test suites and consider it a worthy goal as it really represents a lot of documents typical for the users who produce complex plans. Have you tried it?

It's immediate in Adobe Reader (as in one second) and takes more minutes in pdf.js Firefox 29.
I totally understand how our mobile site gives a poor impression.

We're aware of this, but FWIW, we haven't really spent much time on the mobile site at all given other priorities and because there really isn't much if any content on there that provides utility in a mobile use context. Most of our work at the moment is focused on Famous University (desktop only). We'll fix the mobile experience as soon as we wrap up the more pressing parts.

If you want a real world example to try out and judge us one, install the chrome app Beepe.me. Plugg.me is another app, but I don't think it's been released yet.

https://beepe.me/getstarted
http://www.plugg.me/
Or Apple?
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I never understood why people usually rush to board the plane, only to end up sitting in a cramped airplane chair and breathing stuffy air.

I usually opt to sit and wait outside the gate until I can assume that most people have gotten to their seats inside the plane and won't crowd the aisle. The seats are assigned anyway, it's not like I'd get a better spot by being early. So why not wait outside where there's plenty of space and (usually) fresher air?

No, the only reason I can think of is that people want to make sure they have place for their oversized carry on (as the article alludes to). If that's the case I have no sympathy for them, and hope they all get stuck next to a fat person with a cold.
I remember when I first switched to kde 4.0 and everything slowed to a crawl because some background process (nepomuk) thought it was a good idea to index the whole filesystem.
depends on what you mean by "orthogonal"?

Ethics in business are simply informal rules.

The purpose is to fill in gaps in the laws.

(or mitigate the cost of a hyper-specific compliance regime).

Thus, legal systems underpin the context for "informal ethics" in this sense.

"Moral ethics" (so called) are a wholly distinct concept.
Nice, but I don't want another UT, I want another Unreal. A true successor to Unreal 1. I did not like Unreal 2, I did not like the characters of it at all. I kinda like a silent protagonist, because it solves the "I don't want to play as that douche" problem.
Like Leapmotion? Try Hover – the Arduino, gesture control module
Fair point, it's just how I interpreted it, others may read that differently.

I was just focused on the "missing" term, to me that implies something that was once there or is notable in it's absence. However, as with many of the things that describe themselves in this way, that is not the case.

In this particular case, HTTP clients for the OSX ecosystem are not missing, they're just not that great.

In general I just dislike the wording.
Yes, that's what I am saying. There is a pricing point at which having a customized sales process absolutely makes sense.

What I am saying along with that is that - by doing this - you're ignoring a lot of the market at (or even just below) your price point. That might be OK - as long as it is a conscious decision to do so, including acknowledging that your market is completely above that point.

In the case being discussed here, it would seem that there is an interest below this price point.
My solution to boarding airplanes would be that you line up the passengers in lines at the gate in reverse to what the seat number they have, last seats first in queue, lowest seat numbers last in queue. So you reverse the seat number so seat 01A-E boards last. 02 second last and so forth.

Basically you just line people up in reverse to the seat numbers and then they walk onto the plane.
Actually it would be the reverse, since Buddha predates stoicism.

Though it is possible Buddha was partially influenced by pre-Socratic Greek thought and, in turn, later Greek philosophers were influenced by Buddhism (to put it in perspective, Socrates was roughly contemporaneous with Buddha).
I think it's like this: Six months to two years after starting a moderately-sized code base, you start to see why these things are important. You see that they're actually saying something fairly (though not totally) concrete. The more experience you have bumping into the issues, the more concrete the advice becomes.

But I can't give that to you in something that you can read in an hour, or even a day. I might be able to give it to you in something you could read in a month (of 8-hour days reading). It's really hard to show in a one-page example.
A code of ethics requires quite a bit more certainty and precision. As written, this is rather vague.

In any situation like this there are trade-offs between vagueness and specificity; the more specific the document, the longer they get to be (try reading the contract of adhesion your credit card company forces you to "agree" to, or the terms of service on a big website). Even then, edge cases arise.

In general, over time, overarching principles whose meaning can be applied to a specific case are better (think of the Ten Commandments, or the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, as examples).
Indeed, these codes are far from perfect, and fewer rules are best. ACM members are expected to know that code and abide by it.
Google does a thousand things, but only one of them makes any money -- advertising. If somebody (e.g. Bing) is able to capture a bigger share of eyeballs, or if somebody (e.g. Facebook) finds a way to target ads better so that people will be more likely to click on them, or if somebody (e.g. you!) finds a way to solve the fraudulent-clicks problem (the enormous elephant in the room), then Google will see its revenue stream dry up. And when it happens, it will happen FAST.
I understand that you don't like what I have to say. And I understand that you, and apparently others, don't like talking or even reading, for whatever reason, about money transmission.

Here's what I don't understand: you're now criticizing me for referencing something you posted on a public profile. Why did you put it there if you don't want it to be seen or considered?

You're also criticizing me for raising a substantive issue especially relevant to startup founders and investors, on a forum for startup founders and investors, when you yourself are a startup founder and (it would appear from this page) investor.

If you want to plug your ears and pretend that I am just some crazy person obsessed with a pet issue that has no bearing on reality, by all means go ahead. But this is exactly the ethical debate I believe needs to be had. Because I am not just a crazy person obsessed with a pet issue. I, like you, am a rather rational person looking to turn a profit from my involvement in the technology sector. And the California legislature has now put forth not one, but two bills, to amend the law that I am most concerned with because it had a material impact on my company and many others, including some of the largest in the country (ADP, PayPal, MoneyGram, etc.). Moreover, this law affects you and potentially your investments. It certainly affects Y Combinator. And there are serious ethical issues tied up in all of this, which I will continue to haul before a judge as long as I need to.

So really, what are you getting at? You don't like me? No problem, you don't have to. But don't pretend that I'm doing something "creepy" when all that I'm doing is pointing out that laws actually matter.
>> There is no reason why someone cannot come up with a service to cater to the needs of the disabled. <snip> Uber should not have too.

It is very rarely I am disgusted by a sentence but you have achieved it.

Replace disabled with Blacks or Hispanics or Females or any group of society you want.

Seriously, take a pause and consider what you just typed.
> But this is ridiculously inefficient.

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this. How is that inefficient?
Stihl have a business model based around dealerships.
Cool, so that covers iOS and Android (with its own long tail I'm sure). You still have Web and Windows mobile to worry about assuming that platform continues to gain popularity.
Thanks for the link.

TL;DR: In a nutshell their business came from SEO and that was it, no other channels. Google changed the game and they no longer got business through organic search results. They tried to get other leads, however, the quality from things like PPC wasn't the same - no conversion. Aside from these problems they were also in a business that did not scale very well - too many locations needing too many resources. They could not afford to grow, threw in the towel and handed money back to investors.
Schultz's work (as I've understood) modified tRNA to alter the genetic code[0] which converts nucleobases into amino acids. This allows for a different code compared to the one found in nature.

This work, on the other hand, adds 2 new nucleobases to the existing 4 bases.

That's not the same. IMHO it's a very different and novel work: in principle the genetic code can now accept an alphabet of up to 216 amino acids, compared to 64 previously (with nature essentially using 20 of those; this assumes three-nucleotide codons).

It's true that Schultz's work, at a higher level, is necessary for this to be of any practical use.
But this work has significant additional benefit on its own: for example, I believe you could immediately construct a genetic code that used the additional redundancy to be far more stable against mutation.

[0]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_code
I really like this list here: http://matt.might.net/articles/what-cs-majors-should-know/
I have, I think I might switch to Quill for that.

Blogmask is an interesting side project but I don't have much time for it. Always looking for open-source contributors though.
The point is.You cant get a native feel with web techs,you'd have to use the official device SDK. Web techs are for webapps.
Something's gotta give. If everyone's fucking you over, it makes it pretty easy for someone (a wireless carrier, for instance) to come in and offer an awesome (aka not shitty) alternative.
I'm using orthogonal in the sense of "can vary independently". IOW, something can be illegal but yet still be ethical, while something could be legal but still be unethical.

Of course, this is all somewhat subjective, and I acknowledge some people may dispute the idea that something can be illegal and still be ethical. But if a law is bad, I believe breaking that law can be ethical behavior. YMMV.
How does this version differ from what's in Lubuntu 14.04?
Dropbox drops the security notification ball, again
I'm a tallish guy (6"2) and the seats here in the US in particular seem incredibly small, so even with a small backpack with me I'd far prefer to get it in the overhead bin than have it stashed underneath the seat in front of me.

And again, being in the US - you do have to rush to get that spot as people bring so much oversized carry-on, it's kind of crazy. Never had any issues or felt any rush in Australia.
>> Why would the 99% of people who are able to exit and enter a regular building with stairs, benefit from ramps around a "fully accessible building?"

What's wrong with simply providing an allowance, or means tested reimbursements, to those few who may need it, and set it high enough that it becomes profitable for a reasonable fraction of supermarkets to equip their building to deal with them?

Fixed that for you.

Damn disabled people and their inconvenient needs. They should just be disabled elsewhere away from the commercial companies you hold dear.
Yes, low transaction fee is part of Alibaba's strategy to grow the eCommerce market in China (and also a major reason why eBay failed their China venture to Taobao in early years).

Amazon/eBay transaction fees (~10%) seem ridiculously high. They almost eat up all margins of many industries. Many small business sellers are complaining about it.
Did you read the article?

"From a data-driven perspective, this is nothing short of maddening. There are many ways to board a plane, with “back-to-front”—the chosen boarding process of most U.S. carriers—the slowest."
They touch on that in the article, it is actually the slowest way to load a plane. Worse than random.

http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane-boarding
Did you read the article? Back to front boarding is actually the slowest.

http://mythbustersresults.com/airplane-boarding
Anyone can file a lawsuit naming anyone they like. You are using the existence of a lawsuit you filed as evidence in your argument. I would call that "circular logic".
> I would have enjoyed this article if it dropped the Buddhism and kept the math.

People are different that way, aren't we. Something about not being able to please all demographics.
I would say #3 is pretty close too.
I made some big improvements to pdf.js's speed and memory usage a few months ago, particularly for black and white scanned images -- for one 226 page document I saw ~8x rendering speed-ups and ~10x memory usage reductions.

Details are here: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2014/02/07/a-slimmer-an.... These are present in Firefox 29 which only just came out, so if you're seeing bad performance and you're still on 28 or earlier, an upgrade might help.

If you have particular PDFs that cause pdf.js to run slowly, please file bugs about them at bugzilla.mozilla.org under the "Firefox" product and the "PDF Viewer" component. PDF is a large, complicated format, so there are many corner cases that the pdf.js developers are unlikely to see without help. Every improvement I made came about from profiling PDFs that people had reported as causing problems.
Google spreadsheets will let you view a small area of a spreadsheet in a web page. This would then leave the problem of getting the flat file and DB data into the sheet, options for this are google apps script OR google-spreadsheet-api.

You could post this to stackoverflow.
The universe in a cube
And the recission teams were even paid on commission. Top prize to the person who figures out how to dump the lady with cancer, second prize to anyone who can figure out what clauses to add to the new contracts to catch people like her in the future!

Also, don't forget the other tricks: shifting billing dates around, losing invoices in the mail, using the customer's income to calculate copays which would bankrupt them before they could afford expensive treatment... the list goes on.

EDIT: this is why I said that the insurance companies had to find an excuse to drop people, rather than just drop people. The really obvious stuff tends to be illegal.
> However, does low resource usage necessarily imply lack of innovation regarding user experience?

If you care about UX innovation, LXDE is not for you. That niche is filled by KDE 4, Gnome 3, and Unity. With XP support ending, I've used LXDE (Lubuntu) to rescue 2 old family machines that Gnome 3 and KDE couldn't handle without thrashing.

How does the memory usage of LXQt Desktop compare to LXDE and Razor-qt? I hope they've managed to keep it down.
You know, whilst this i true, there're definitely many solutions.

To use your example of Netflix: they could work incrementally through a list of ISPs and make object lessons of them. What do I mean? Well, take Comcast, Netflix/Google/whomever subsidizes the ISPs competitors through value added offers. Eg. 100gb of Google Drive space for each comcast user that switches to <insert non-shitty ISP here>. Do that for a month or so, then move to the next ISP. The benefits from this far out-weight the negatives, the idea here isn't a mass switch from ISP A to ISP B, more the publicity such an action would generate - would make the ISPs position untenable.

I would LOVE to see this done across the board to obliterate ISPs control of their customers content. Filter my porn? Fuck you! Throttle my bit-torrent? Fuck you! etc etc

Ah wishful thinking, but you get the idea :)
I've always thought of the UK as quite good but I'm in london so have easy access to fibre-optic.
I think the increasingly common desire people have to work for themselves leads to full-stack really meaning full-stack. There are few options: 1) work for a company that employs a designer, 2) work for yourself and pay a designer, 3) work for yourself on something with no GUI, and 4) work for yourself and be able to design. Of those, option (4) is the most tenable for working on something of your own that might make some money without requiring a lot of initial investment.

But I do agree with you that on job descriptions, "full-stack" tends to stop at javascript.
This article, hidden behind paywall, specifically calls out Beats Music as part of the acquisition. http://ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/e330e830-d6f3-11e3-b95e-00144feab...
The problem with relying on HN for your comments is that it's time limited. I went through your backlog of posts and found one I wanted to comment on, "The mathematics of team productivity" but found myself unable to do so.

Personally, I disagree with your point about multipliers. The engineers that multiply aren't the superstar engineers. They're the ones in the background. They make parts to share with others. They care about architecture and doing things the right way. They do the work that will never, ever make them look like a superstar, because all it does is help other people make widgets. But without it, everyone would have had to make their own solution - or worse, kicked the can down the road. These people, humble or quiet as they are, are increasing the productivity of everyone else on their level.

Examples of this kind of work: Improving task management systems, making GUI libraries for the entire team to use, etc.
CS:GO is definitely the biggest FPS in eSport right now. Unlike CoD and Halo, the player base has been steadily increasing.
Source?

Simpy by sheer logic the very act of using a navigation aid (phone, Sat Nav, map) must result in decreased attention to the mechanical process of driving.

I would challenge that safe navigation is a long solved problem.

Who solved it? How? How was it measured? When was it solved - 2013? 2004?
All these comments are good and all, but only Chromebooks and Ubuntu have brought forward a instant user friendly experience for users who don't want to Google around to get things working properly by default.
But you can approximately restore that if you use Project Naptha as well... urgh... please nobody do this.
If the rumours are true, Apple is buying Beats because they want physically bigger headphones to attach their (also rumoured) heart rate and blood pressure ear monitors. It's all coming together now. We'll probably see an announcement at WWDC next month with the products shipping before Christmas.
Amazon CloudFront Joins AWS Free Usage Tier
Supposedly (according to Recode.net) Beats music only has around 200,000 subscribers and most of them are free trial users from a AT&T deal. Doesn't sound a like a service Apple would want.
In other Missouri legislature buffoonery:

In 2007 we almost had midwifes legalized (widely opposed by nurses and doctors). The legislator behind it used the obscure greek term "tocology" to slip past the opponents' "grep" filters.
The mythbusters segment alluded to in the article is quite interesting to watch. I think they did a quite good attempt at creating a real-life scenario for boarding a plane.

While the article suggests that part of the issue is that the airlines create inefficiency in order to be able to offer perks to get around the inefficiency. That's probably a minor consideration (I can easily see the 'rewards program' suit arguing in a meeting to keep it).

But I think there would be a lot of inertia in changing a program like boarding allocations. There are a lot of procedures around boarding - we don't know exactly what 'hooks' the airlines have around their procedures. We also don't know how more complicated systems test with the general public - including first time flyers, people who don't speak the same language as the airline, and other edge cases. The current methods are quite resilient against these problem-cases, and the more-efficient ones may collapse faster as a result.

Essentially I think that it's easy for outsiders to suggest changes - but we should reflect on that like user requests like 'why don't they just change the UI on this software to make it more like facebook?'. It would be good to get an airline insiders knowledge and comments.
People bring oversized carry-ons because companies began to charge for every bag in storage, including the first one.
It Would Make No Sense For Apple To Buy Beats For $3.2 Billion
I've found this does indeed stop a lot of people. Either they are afraid they will damage something or they will "look stupid." A number of studies have pointed out that kids who just take failure as an intermediate step for success continue, and those for whom failure has been programmed as a deeply "bad" thing, either stop when things get rough or never start.

It is important to learn how self limiting this can be. Don't be afraid of screwing up, look forward to it. Look forward to learning something new and getting a better internal understanding of the world around you. Your parents/friends/spouse/etc will still love you.
It makes two recursive calls at each step.
Is Consciousness Computable?
Government regulation is one reason. But there are many other reasons (some are arguably more important), one of which being localization.

Check out other Asian markets (South Korea, Japan, Russia) and you may notice something interesting: many western companies failed to excel there too, even though there are no strict regulations.

eBay was not affected by GFW when they competed with Alibaba's Taobao marketplace a few years ago in China. eBay failed due to their own strategic mistakes.
Corecursive factorial in javascript:
https://gist.github.com/i/f75f21f6c56eb55c414c
Try sketching the call graph of e.g. fibonacci 5.
The Constitution of the United States was purposely written using very vague language and many argue that it is one of the best things that the founding fathers did.
You said it yourself: appearances. The number of people who think Beats cans are for audiophiles is astounding.
Water resistant.

Unless you have a superpower that makes you impervious to drowning.
A bad reference damages the reputation of a previous employee, but honesty and duty can compel an officer of a company to furnish a bad reference.
Well, they say development will be "in the open" and that "[w]hen the game is playable, it will be free. Not free to play, just free." So they use the words "free" and "open," but they don't say anything like "free software" or "open source." Even someone like Stallman acknowledges that this is a legitimate use of the word free (although the terms "gratis" or "free as in beer" are less potentially ambiguous).
Yes, I do have a docking station.
I guess my point is: you sound like a crazy person. You use tangential issues to raise things you think are important (YC ethics, my background) that nobody else seems to agree on.

The creepy refers to your mode of communication, not the message specifically. I never really get to the meat of what you are saying because I find I dislike your manner of presentation.

The message and the format are inseparable.
Actually, no, that's not what I'm doing.

True, the lawsuit exists, and anyone can be named. But this particular lawsuit is backed up with a few hundred pages of evidence. Feel free to read it--that's why I linked to the docket, so that anyone can. No circular logic involved.

Again, my point is that lawsuits are signaling mechanisms for ethical problems.
Tesla spent $2mil on a service station in St. Louis that employs 15 people. They're planning a second one in Kansas City.
Alternatively,

fibonacci n = (map fst $ iterate (\(a,b) -> (b,a+b)) (0,1)) !! n