skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heck, I had to look three or four times before I saw the typo, knowing that there was one!
You know that an instruction can be short, unambiguous, accompanied by best designed clear easy to understand diagram / logo, and that someone will ignore it and do something terrible.

"A few cans of Pepsi (NOT COCA COLA (http://example.com) and not any diet product please)" does have the advantage of being more check-list like, allowing people to hghlight / crossout the items they've done or not done yet.

The post-mortem of a kickstarter posted to HN yesterday, where someone managed to print and deliver a poster with a misspelling of the word "BROOKLYN" as "BROOKLYIN" has made me think about how people find and prevent errors.

HN isn't a good audience to ask that question because there are different ways to write code. There is only one way to write BROOKLYN.
Grace Hopper, UNIVAC and the first programming language
The scanning electron micrograph conveys little information while the chemical structures would have been interesting even to amateur chemists. When new science is inaccessible to citizens that don't want to pay for it twice it should be the minimum responsibility of the scientific press to report the key findings.In chemistry, that means structures.
And "I'm sure..." weakens your argument. Do you get the irony of saying the parent post is relying on propaganda while tacitly admitting you don't know whether what you're asserting is true?

Utilities and telcos are a weird industry, with issues of natural monopolies and last-mile issues. I don't know what the right way to handle them is, but the case against government intervention is much weaker.
Lightroom is far better for the tasks you mentioned than GIMP. IrfanView or XnView would be also perfectly adequate for your simple tasks.

Forget about easy skin retouching in GIMP, no 16-bit/channel in official release yet, forget about high-end fashion photography with GIMP. It's still not there :-(
If the bet had gone your way, how many months' salary would you have made?
I'd just progressively tax estate, rooms, inhabitable area, whatever so that owning a house or a flat or two or three costs as much as today, but owning fifth one for a year will cost you for example 10%-20% of its value and owning twe tieth for a month would cost you more than it's worth. Some of those costs would be passed to tenants but this would lower demand and make the whole enterprise of owning property much riskier and incentivise selling also buying but only if you don't have one or two already.
Intent is a huge factor in ad monetization. It does not get much better than pinterest in that sense.
They are developed by the dozen, per day.

-former material scientist-
Business Marketing 101: Is Social Media Right For Your Small Business?
Decline of West Antarctic Glaciers Appears Irreversible
Checked it out - left after a click and a few scrolls because I could find no actual examples of what I would get if I signed up. I spent probably 10-15 seconds on the page which is probably what most folks would do. If I can't find where you show me actual examples of the product that I would use, I will close the tab.
>It's funny how their newly appointed CEO resigned over a donation made years ago, yet the community backlash for supporting DRM has been underwhelming.

Because the initial backlash came from vacuous, self-righteous social justice keyboard warriors whose time is spent fighting gender wars online.

There's just no feel good factor, no high horse to ride in on, involved in giving out about DRM.
The RMS rider is full of lecturing and childish demands. I'm amazed people are applauding him for it.
The short answer is that you can't just use any blocking code. The Comsat project (https://github.com/puniverse/comsat) contains integrations of popular libraries with Quasar fibers, without change to their API. Under the hood, this is done using transformations made available in the FiberAsync class. Like eitany said, you can use FiberAsync to integrate the library yourself, or wait for an integration module in Comsat.

If library provides asynchronous APIs, it would yield great performance when integrated with Quasar fibers. If not (like JDBC), it would work as well as it does on regular threads, but won't interfere with all the other great stuff fibers can do.
Why Your Personal Brand Matters More Now
From your answer then we could already improve the author's introduction...

"Go is an open source programming language designed for building simple, fast, and reliable software. It's a good choice where squeezing maximum performance out of the hardware is a primary concern."

Maybe a minor point -- but it makes the book far more compelling to people who will benefit from it, while enabling those who won't to move on.

So given that your choices for high performance is:

"C, C++, Nimrod, Rust, D, Go, ..."

Is there really nothing the author could say to help choose between them?
It is not intuitive to me why this works, which is very exciting because it'll be fun when I "get it". Is there somewhere online that explains it in an intuitive way?
It wouldn't matter if there were governments that wouldn't spy on you. That you don't put your data on a server in the US isn't going to stop the NSA, that you didn't put it in the UK isn't going to stop GCHQ, and so on.

This idea that you just put your data in Europe and it's safer is just laughable. The treat is pervasive, it is intelligence agencies working together all around the world. It doesn't stop at any national border.

> top echelons down

I can't tell if you're being humourous or not, but the Snowden releases weren't really new information, they were proof of what information that had leaked out over the past decades.
these articles were actually the start of a new chapter in my life.

- they helped me rediscover my love of writing.

- I discovered I could by sharing what I know about full-stack development[1].

- The search for the perfect medium lead to me discovering wayfinder.co[2].

- I love the format so much that I was contacting them to help them improve it.

- This has lead to me becoming the CTO of Wayfinder just last week.

So yeah, angular definitely did make me happier.
Or maybe just stepping back and thinking about things was the key.

[1] Full-Stack Fundamentals: Introduction
> http://daemon.co.za/2014/04/introduction-fullstack-fundament...

[2] Microservices : Field Guide for April 2014
> http://wayfinder.co/pathways/53536427f7040a11002ae407
The EFF apparently cares a great deal about government surveillance but does not comment on corporate surveillance.

Is it a coincidence that some of the 6 star corporations who supposedly "have our back" are funding the EFF? Sigh.

A lot of the EFF's work seems to go into defending Google's rights rather than defending individuals' rights. This is bizarre behaviour for a privacy advocacy group. See also: https://twitter.com/EFF/status/466727797713825793

I find that I can no longer support the EFF's work.
What is China building on this tiny island?
Because if it's against the law, we all know intelligence agencies won't touch it.
I noticed the typo straight away as I opened his kickstarter page, even before I knew there was a typo. Can't believe none of the backers noticed it.
Seems like an odd theory on the heels of three counter examples. Bill Gates didn't create the first OS, Larry and Sergey didn't create the search engine, and Mark Zuckerberg didn't build the first social network.
Xanpan: When Kanban Meets XP
Stack Exchange network is currently down
I think this is another great example of how modern AV software can be used as a tool of mass censorship. They can simply add signatures for any file contents they disagree with (or some other organisation with the appropriate power requests to do so), and it will disappear from their user's computers under the pretense of being malicious. Users will trust them in order to "stay safe".

That's why I believe in behavioural monitoring rather than signature-based approaches, since what's malicious is really the activity itself.
The photos North Korea didn’t want you to see
Another bugbear for me, coming from Windows, was no single-key shortcut to open / delete a file, two of the most common operations. All these little reasons mean I almost never navigate the Finder using the keyboard, which is a real pain (from memory, Explorer is actually very keyboard-friendly).
Benchmark proves Aerospike nearly 10x faster than Cassandra, Couch or MongoDB
Right to be forgotten sounds attractive but creates more problems than it solves
And they would also need to port the whole Core Graphics subsystem.
It also might have a huge point where just because you thought you were in MIT that you weren't there by luck and was smart enough.
What the WELL's Rise and Fall Tell Us About Online Community
Asynchronous JavaScript at Netflix
>And the next Mark Zuckerberg won’t create a social network.

Unless they are creating Twitter. And an article written before Facebook started would probably have said "The next Tom Anderson won't create a social network"

Yes, every successful business will need to find what their particular unique niche is, and it certainly helps to be the first major player in a whole new area, but the reality is that at this macro level "Every moment in business" doesn't happen "only once". Most markets have plenty of space for multiple innovators making relatively minor tweaks to existing industries.

For instance, you could easily present Steve Jobs being "the next Bill Gates", and he certainly did well out of a company creating OSs (and the hardware to run them on, but at least with Macs, and potentially with iPhones/iPads, the OS was almost certainly the more important part).
But they did find the child eventually. It's not like they continued to not notice the body for the next three decades.
This is exactly how I feel about my Ouya. It sits on the side of my TV stand completely unobtrusively, and if friends come over within 30 seconds we can be playing frantic, immersive games. Not desperately struggling to figure out how we get a second player online without a second xbox live account.

It's a shame enough people didn't realise this from the start, but $150 is not a lot of outlay for what I got in return and when the games eventually move on to Ouya 2, I will just put XBMC on it and it's still a great device.
I also bought an Ouya, but for some reason.. I only use it for Plex...

Haven't gamed with it, but perhaps i should after reading this.
You could not be more wrong with your assesment why Photoshop users stay with Photoshop.
I bought Pixelmator, and I also got CC licencse. I don't even remember when was the last time I had Pixelmator open.
Pixelmator is a great and cheap alternative if you indeed only need pretty basic things, but many need a lot more.
And if you are in print business there is no discussion at all.
Open Crypto Project
Your example is misleading. Ukraine is not a part of NATO (unlike Poland you have mentioned) and alliance cannot start military actions there legally, unless it threatens one of the member countries directly. Such actions would surely provoke a war with Russia and no sane west politician would want that.
Modi to lead India
I'd agree that it's silly to assume it to the point of excluding all other possibilities, but would also think it reasonable to think foul play was a likely factor when someone heads home from the pub and is never heard from again.
Q/A session with Yann LeCun (Facebook, NYU) on /r/machinelearning
I feel there is something missing in Postman's interpretation. I've seen it linked a number of times in the past few months and I think I have a grasp on what it might be: Cycles.

There are no cycles mentioned in this manifesto. And yet everyone who's been around the business of technology long enough knows and recognizes cycles in it. What he sees as a "price paid" might also be nothing but a temporary rebalancing, due to swing back the other way in a few months, years, or decades. This goes for the little things - the Javascript framework du jour - and big ones - the Internet, drones, 3D printing...

In that light, the points he makes tend to come across as simple BEWARE CHANGE moralizing. Are the changes we make really as permanent as he claims, or is this simply a way in which we mythologize the present? Which is not to say that it's beneath consideration to examine the impact, but perhaps rather than focus on the technology aspect of it, focus on the cultural part. It's easy enough to spot ideological goals that are associated with particular technologies or technical movements. Technology is simply the force multiplier to realize those goals - a mechanism for gaining the upper hand, albeit temporarily. The resulting consequences of technology are the consequences of "making dreams come true."
world finance is brutal
"Edward Snowden didn't go to work for Disney," Rice said. "What did he think the N.S.A. did?"

Obey the law?

"If I were Edward Snowden, I'd watch what I eat," Rice said.

Threatening assassination? Why the fuck is she on Dropbox's board? What do they gain from this?
To be fair, you can consider yourself lucky — many people in rural areas can only get 384 kbit/s DSL.
For a distributed wiki try gollum. It's the wiki engine behind the github wikis and it's basically a wiki where the database is a git repo. I love it for family use. I can put up a nice web interface for everyone else to edit and yet I use git push/pull and my normal text editor. Works great.
It doesn't state whether the women measured were allowed wear make-up or not, which could have a significant effect?
I am surprised there isn't more talk about the costs of delivering t-shirts for these campaigns. This project was an exception, but most of the ones I see are selling shirts that have to eat more than half of the contribution from each $30 donor.

There should be a way to have Kickstarter discount the low donations that require shirts or stickers because they end up contributing much less to the project goal than someone contributing $200 for a product.
Altavista was dominant when Google entered the fray. MySpace was dominant when FB took off.

Whenever there is space for innovation and the incumbent does not react, a new player appears.

Facebook is my next to be toppled over bet. There is a huge space for innovation and FB is not nimble and quick to react nor it is particularly innovative on its own. Acquisitions and the social network barrier to entry protect FB, but they don't hold forever.
The Programmed Self-Destruction of Crypto-Currencies
How to Research Local Competitors' SEO
What are some success stories that resulted from Crowdsourcing/Sharing Economy?
With all of the amazing [relatively] new web services out there (airbnb, zipcar etc...) it makes me wonder what amazing stories are happening relating to this that I do not know about. I'd love to hear!
What is the story behind “a-” prefix / suffix?
Meta to the article itself but this SumoMe stuff is incredibly annoying. It breaks the flow of reading. There are highlights on here which end in the middle of a word [http://i.imgur.com/6zQjwvW.png]. And now I just had an email-newsletter popup occur halfway through reading the article.
Didn't you, I don't know, elect them? Who is there to blame?
Google Apps works like a champ.
We do use Trello's calender features for some stuff as well because we can link to tasks we've got set up within Trello itself.
Yes, a professional should be prepared for unexpected customer requests with tight deadlines. And the response to such a request is to just get the work done. That, of course, involves being prepared for any service outages that might interfere with such work.
There are two forces at work there. First is that without being granted a monopoly by force, only really smart people manage to monopolize an industry (think Google).

The benefit monopolies offer is not just that they’re good investments, but that they concentrate wealth in the hands of someone smart enough to monopolize something. Wealth tends towards entropy, so brief concentrations of it are a beautiful thing. And while markets are great at optimizing the last .1% increase in efficiently for a known process, they suck at paradigm shifts—unless there’s someone really smart with enough money to singlehandedly shift that paradigm. Google’s near monopoly on search has probably hastened the arrival of self-driving cars by a few years, saving numerous lives. Score one for monopolies! Even my least favorite monopoly, USG, has deployed money in interesting and otherwise infeasible projects, such as landing on the moon and defeating the USSR.[1]

Second is integration and incentive structure.

One simple robust solution to the innovation problem would seem to be manic monopolists: one aggressively-profit-maximizing firm per industry. Such a firm would internalize the entire innovation problem within that industry, all the way from designers to suppliers to producers to customers – it would have full incentives to encourage all of those parties to put nearly the right amount and type of efforts into innovation.[2]

[1] http://oddblots.tumblr.com/post/85817835358/stoptheslowlane-...

[2] http://www.overcomingbias.com/2014/04/rah-manic-monopolists....
You can set up a shortcut for tagging files in Finder which I find really helpful: https://coderwall.com/p/8li8hw
Putting Trust Back Into The Equation
Whatever it is its safe to say it won't be 30hz.
I wish people would stop using the term 'AAA' . Its meaningless imo as any other members from the implied scale (AAA, AAB, AAC, whatever) are never referred to.
I find it one of the more annoying americanisms.

edit: What people actually mean when they say " an AAA game" is "a game with a very large development budget"
This article put the Ouya back on my radar. I'll have to look into it.
You're right, the period was "hand picked", but that's because I was looking at a 5 year graph with the high and low marked, and just used those numbers. The movement before/after 2008 wasn't the 40 percentage points that would be needed for the hedge funds to do as poorly as the market, so I didn't bother.

But I just looked the exact numbers up. The S&P 500 opened January 2nd at 1467.97 and closed December 31st at 903.25. A 38.5% loss instead of the 60% I said, but that's still almost twice the loss of the hedge funds.
I know this is exactly the opposite point the article is trying to make, but I'll wait until they're selling a version with a Denver CPU and a Maxwell GPU, before I even consider buying one. However, I'm not sure they'll survive that long. Maybe releasing one with Tegra K1 this year would sustain them a bit longer. I don't think you can even do 1080p games on OUYA, unless they are 2D. Maybe that's fine for kids or something, but not for me.
I am recommending this on a thread for people who can't use their paid for software from Adobe. Sure, some other people might use it as well, but seeing as Adobe have already calculated that they can afford the risk before they started offering CS2 plus serials for download, I don't think I need to worry too much. As far as downloading a cracked version, well there is no way I am going to recommend to people to try out random cracked stuff off torrent sites.
Fake trailer for Jodorowsky's unfilmed Dune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwHO2HnwfnA

Interview with Eddy Van Halen, telling the story first hand. :)
Very interesting, as GitLab B.V. CEO I'm very much looking forward to part 2 :-)
That's something that I've done with data processing and security contracts for the last 4 or 5 years. It's an addendum to the main commercial contract and is deliberately long. Almost all of it is non-exceptional "just do it right" kind of stuff, but there are a handful of clauses I've put in that absolutely no company could reasonably agree to. If they agree to it without challenging those clauses, I then know that I am going to need to grill them on the detail of everything that they do. It's proved very effective for me.

edit: I actually refer to them as my "Brown M&M Clauses" too!
The problem with calling it the perfect "party gaming" console is that it completely doesn't work for that when "it took me almost an hour to update the firmware and configure the 4 controllers."

I'm not saying that to hurt OUYA, I'm just saying that if they want to find this niche they should focus some effort on fixing that.

Edit: I'm not implying that other consoles are better fitted to this. I'm implying that engineering a console so that setup time is always fast even when you've not touched it for weeks could be a valuable feature in the "party gaming" market.
Not anymore. They became reasonable again and both the search and any selected location description has a "save for offline use" button at the bottom.
The cynic in me believes that this allows them to OCR whatever you're showing on the screen so it can be beamed back to the mothership (MIIT).
"The treasuries are denominated in dollars: If China decided to dump all the treasuries on the market at once (driving US interest rates through the roof, and the price of the T's down), the US gov't would just buy it's debt back for pennies on the dollar."

Buy with what? With more printed dollars? When someone so large as China starts dumping cheap U.S. bonds (dollars) on the wild pulling down currency's value, it won't be the only acting player. Nobody wishes to loose value by holding to a rapidly depreciating currency, so expect a shopping spree all over the world. It all comes down to faith. Small players can't trigger such big events, but China could. It won't matter that U.S. debt problem gets solved if its currency looses monopoly.
I'm not exactly sure what you are asking.

But almost all of the things on that page -- standing orders, direct debits, day to day banking, maintenance, transactions -- are free of charge at most UK personal current accounts.

The only thing I noticed that would have a charge is sending money outside the UK, even to EU countries.
> I have terrible memories of coming to a gamer’s place to spend the afternoon playing Fifa, Street Fighter 4, etc… in all these AAA titles, the guy who owns the game basically beats your ass so hard that all the fun is gone.

This is not a failure of those games, this is a failure of the person who owns the game to not be a dickhead.

Street Fighter 4, for example, has handicapping. You can tilt the game wildly in the novice's favor, to the point where if they land a few lucky hits they win.

I've never played FIFA, but I'd be surprised if it didn't have some way to skew the balance of the game in favor of the novice.
Hmmm, a service that charges nothing for things that almost certainly cost money (BTC-USD conversion, "insurance"), marketed at "non-technical" users, lots of promises about "nobody will steal your BTC, not like all the other places"...

Remember the old line that if you don't know who the sucker is at the poker table, it's YOU?
My self-hosted apps work on my laptop when I have no network connectivity. That's a big win for me.

Funny you mention Mappoint. It's exactly what I use when I'm navigating for my wife on trips. It works fine in areas with poor wireless data coverage. (We supplement with Waze to get traffic reports, but "self-hosted" Mappoint guarantees we won't lose map coverage because of radio issues.)
Oh, so it's apparently not meaningless, and not even confusing, as you were able to figure out its meaning right away.
One of the issues with the move to the cloud with formerly desktop software is exactly this. I used to use the analogy of an army using guns, except instead of a magazine holding bullets they had a long hose feeding them rounds. It sounded great to the generals, because instead of carrying around 20lbs of munitions, the soldiers just needed to carry around their guns. Of course all it took is for somebody to put a kink in the hose to put them out of the fight completely.
If "trying to move closer" is enough, maybe you don't even need a pathfinding algorithm - if the target is to the right move one step to the right, if the target is above move one step up, and so on?