skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Chromebook Effect: Microsoft Announces Cheaper Version of Windows for OEMs
They may have done just that, but their artist was left-handed. Or a right handed artist whose hand position didn't touch that area. Or a test group made up of these kinds of people. Also, doing User Acceptance Testing certainly does not 'take 5 minutes'. It's far more difficult that people give it credit for - if it were as trivial as you imply, then there'd be no kudos for good design
F# – Discount Code for C# Developers
Any idea how they are doing financially lately? I remember reading last fall they were struggling financially.
A true pervert ostensibly might appreciate the additional megapixels offered by a still image over under-sampled auto-compressed video.
Isn't the internet global?
They based this on an interestingly small amount of data. The 5,318 Google employees, for example, is a pretty small fraction of the 49,829 employees they had in Q1 of 2014.
I read something the other day that seemed to indicate it's $150 per person in BizSpark. That is, if you're in my company and we both have a BizSpark account we can both make subscriptions on Azure and get the $150 per month _per_ subscription.

We're taking advantage of the $150 and staying within it, but once we go live we'll need to expand. We will definitely investigate that.
Big Data and Machine Learning in Catastrophe Modeling: Dag Lohmann Interview
VERY low audio latency on iOS. Its not android
What do you mean exactly "European equivalent"? Heroku has a European region - https://blog.heroku.com/archives/2013/4/24/europe-region
The graph only shows the 5 schools sending the most people to a given company, so it's far from comprehensive.
No, the difference is in the added word troll, not simply a defender. Trolls are non-practicing, and produce nothing and protect nothing. I'm sure a legitimate 'little guy' with a patent would get all the sympathy he deserves here, unless perhaps, as you mention, it's a software patent.
Interesting data, but the focus on the top 5 from each company isn't going to indicate much (too corrupted by geography) and the more informative question is what kinds of positions each school is feeding into. Especially if non-technical positions are included, the locality bias is exactly what we'd expect. Google doesn't demand elite degrees for its lower-level HR functions.

My observation is that school pedigree doesn't actually matter that much for getting in the door, but (rather disgustingly) has more of an effect once one is in. It's relatively easy to get a referral that bypasses the resume wall (as long as you're in the geographic area) and then interview performance trumps pedigree. However, pedigree matters a lot after getting the job, especially when it comes to project allocation. If you have pedigree, tech companies know you have other options and will give you decent projects. If you're from SJSU, you might be very good but they'll assume that you don't have other options and you're more likely to get grunt work.

Getting the job is the much easier battle in which pedigree doesn't matter much. Getting good projects once in the door is, in large tech companies where it's impossible to prove oneself in a meaningful way until already having favorable project allocation, very strongly influenced by pedigree. People who believe in "meritocracy" will argue that it's possible to succeed on the crap project and gain recognition, but in reality that only gets a person more crap work. This long-lasting and completely inexcusable pedigree effects is one of the dark, ugly secrets that few people will talk about. (People are, morally speaking, OK with the fact that Harvard resumes get more attention than SJSU resumes. The idea that pedigree would still matter among the pool selected for jobs, if better known, would inflame them.)
Thanks for the link. His website is terrific. He offers some perspectives for gaining intuition about complex numbers that I'd never heard before, even after all these years. This should be required reading for HS math students.
A lot of ccTLDs do not allow direct first level registrations. There should be a filter for this.
It would take lots of money, hardware and resources to build and maintain a site like Youtube (did I missed the pounding legal and privacy issues to be dealt with)., and the possibility of revenue is so lower to compensate for the money spent which is a model that investors don't like..

As youtube already captured the desktop video streaming and most of the mobiles, a possibility will arise only if a new platform awaits.. like VR, or IoT.., these things would give an early bird ticket for the competition arena..

And, i am slightly eyeing on the possibilities for a Video streaming services in IoT field., Say for example, streaming vids in your fridge, roof, doors or whatever..
> What matters more: the future, or your personal notions of what's classy?

His point was about neither of those; it was about what is legal - something you seem completely uninterested in. Yeah, it might not be "classy" to file patents, but claiming they've done something that would invalidate the patent when they haven't surely isn't classy, either.
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There was at least one serious proposal for a Mars airplane:

Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey (ARES)

NASA link: http://marsairplane.larc.nasa.gov/

Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_Regional-scale_Environme...

Robert Zubrin also wrote a proposal for a nuclear powered "hopper" that would use CO2 from the Martian atmosphere: NUCLEAR ROCKET USING INDIGENOUS MARTIAN FUEL [http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov]/199200...
The author states:

- Here are a couple of examples of prior art that I submitted.

- Grrr. Markerbot.

- Please submit prior art to invalidate these patents.

You're stating:

- The author's examples of prior art are false because of a misunderstanding that the author has about the dates with respect to the patent application.

- By encouraging people to submit prior art to the USPTO, the author is creating a 'witch hunt.'

A few things to consider:

1. The author is not encouraging people to submit false prior art.

2. The author is not maliciously submitting prior art that isn't. He/she really believed that the prior art was valid.

3. The USPTO is the entity ultimately making the decision here, not the tech community that you fear is swayed by this blog post, nor the author of the post itself.

4. The author is not encouraging the reader to spam the USPTO.

5. The author may be smearing Makerbot's reputation here, but encouraging people to submit prior art to the USPTO really is a side-issue to this, that should end up with zero negative effect on the situation (with respect to the patent application).
We converted from Heroku to AWS+Chef (we use hosted chef from opscode). We even wrote and open-sourced a application_procfile cookbook that lets you do heroku-like things with Procfile web and worker processes.
for years I tried to add various chemicals to my body to find a solution. it seemed obvious that I just needed to get the right drug at the right doseage and that would solve the problem. but the solution was exactly in the opposite direction. I didn't need to ADD things into my body to fix my brain, I needed to PREVENT certain things from entering my blood stream. diet is everything. food is medicine. food is so messed up in our society. to eat a healthy diet that will actually allow your brain to work and not get panic attacks requires EXTREME dedication and will power. AND on top of all that, you need to be social with your friends, family and co-workers and not make your special diet ruin the fun. Super challenging, but as I get older I find it's easier and easier to really carefully monitor each and every bit of food I put into my mouth. I won't bore you with the details but you probably already know, too much sugar, too many carbs, these things matter, a lot. Stop trying to fix big problems with band-aids when you've got to get to the source of the poison in your blood stream.
In my experience, people who've had exorbitant numbers of kernel panics on Macs have had tons of things installed that muck around with MacOS X internals. VirtualBox, old SIMBL hacks, manual fan controls, etc. Those are all notoriously unstable and can cause lots of kernel panics.
Rabois potentially has a massive adverse selection problem on his hands here. i.e. the only ones willing to hit his admittedly low-ball bid are those whose houses have been mis-valued by the Homerun model.
By giving the wrong date, the author has all but ensured that the patent office is going to drown in completely irrelevant prior art claims.
I'd be interested in the environment: politeness, respect, abuse being frowned upon.

I use the Linux kernel constantly, GNU Project software an awful lot, and Perl now & then. Involvement in any of these strikes me as a bad idea. OTOH, CPython is quite different.
Shop for local food on Good Eggs… by zip code
It always bugged me that you couldn't just simply enter a zip code.
Our Own datacenter
Yeah. UW feeds a lot to the local Seattle Facebook and Google offices, not just Microsoft. But I guess those satellite offices are a small portion of the larger companies.
I have an iPad Air, and there are definitely basic iOS7 operations that lag and stutter on it. (For example, pulling down the search box).
I've always figured it was a diagnostic... so that it can determine your eligibility for video during the rest of the session or something.
It's not right and it's ruining the world, but you have to work within the system until the system changes.

I disagree with anyone calling anyone here anti-hacker. But I just wanted to point out that the above sentence can be used to justify any legal horror in any time. Think of all the atrocities that once were legal. If you think something is ruining the world, that's a pretty good reason not to work with it.
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'Naming and shaming' the way you've done it is not really the way HN does things. Whether or not you are a fanboy, I find your behaviour to be more harmful than any of the comments you quoted. The "well, what have you done" tone of the comment is basically claiming that all of those you named are worthless people.

Instead of being a tattletale (of dubious quality), respond to comments you find egregious and lead by example (unless they're trolls, then simply downvote and then ignore them).
:) It uses the list http://www.disneymovieslist.com/disney-movies.asp if you're curious.
Shameless plug:

Bld3r.com co-founder here.

I started working on bld3r, because i was unsatisfied with thingiverse (owned by makerbot/stratasys). I'd like to see the community put a stop to a potential facebook-like hold on 3D model sharing learning since we are learning makerbot is very rapidly changing their culture from open hardware cultural icons, to an anti-social corporate subsidiary.

I'll hit some fairly basic bullet points:

* We are a functional 3D printing repo and social network, and in the top 3 alternatives to thingiverse.

* We on github (AGPL), and i'd happily accept pull requests: https://github.com/bld3r/bld3r

* We are built on google's app engine, so you can take our site and use it as a base for building your own social network and launching it in a couple hours or a couple of days.

* One major feature is that you do not have to upload 3d models to us. You can if you want, but you don't have to. We'd actually prefer if people host files elsewhere (via dropbox, github, tpb, etc., even thingiverse). You can then submit a link to your object and it'll appear on our front page crowd-sourced with reddit-style voting.

* We do not sell 3d printers, so if you do, we'd love to give you some free advertising while we grow our site. We are currently working on a contest feature, so within a month, if you want to host a contest, you can design what you want on our site, and launch it to promote your printers (Lulzbot was the first of such manufactures to do so, and we are very grateful to them for the notable bump in traffic and name recognition).

There are many more things we do to prevent even ourselves from exploiting a network effect in 3D repos.

We are not without our warts right now (this is neither of our main occupations, it's just a labor of love to keep 3D printing open), but please give the site a visit if you're interested. I live in SF and my co-founder lives NYC. We'd both be happy to get a beer and talk about the site if anyone is interested in using it as a base for another open social network.

http://www.bld3r.com
require('name/repo#commitish') works with npm/browserify, considering that bower uses git repos you can require them that way.
...and if your 15 year old self had $500 for the registration fee. :)
Has MakerBot acted on any of these patents? If they are acquiring them defensively (a good move if they plan on working on them, lest a patent troll file the patent), I don't have a big problem with this. Of course, assuming altruistic motives is naive, I just wonder what their motives are.
I don't know about 'cheering' it, but as a hack, it did put a smile on my face.
Whilst I agree with the general thesis of the article, this paragraph seemed very distasteful to me:

> There is no reason to trust people you will not interact with again in the future. There’s no incentive not to defect. At the end of my last relationship, our interactions became significantly less pleasant as it became more obvious that it was over – I would not have to deal with this person in the future, so why bother going through the motions of kindness?

Without meaning to be rude or make an attack on the author's character, the author does sound like a bit of an asshole there.

How about being nice to people because you're a nice person, rather than because you want to get something out of it? If you could murder someone and get away with it, would you? I wouldn't, because in abhor the idea of killing people. Similarly, I would act decently towards another human being even when I have no incentive to do so, simply because I am a decent human being and I don't like the idea of causing unnecessary pain and suffering to others.

As they say, a gentleman remains a gentleman even in the gutter. If you need to be surrounded by other decent human beings to be decent, if being surrounded by jerks automatically reverts you to jerk behaviour, perhaps you're not a decent human being after all, only a chameleon sort of person who will do whatever they think they can get away with.

I hope a majority of people here would behave the same way as me - decently, irrespective of the surroundings and likelihood of "getting caught". And there's the rub I guess - a community composed mostly of decent human beings will be less vulnerable to this effect than one composed mostly of selfish people who only act decently when they can see a tangible payoff.

That may be another path to survival: find the assholes and keep them out, and then perhaps you can deal with growth more easily.
Never used them but have heard of them:

https://shellycloud.com/
Not sure you're helping your case by invoking a 400-year-old example. Tell you what, let's split the difference: if "tl;dr" is in use 200 years from now, I'll take your point. I'll even give you 95%! If "tl;dr" is in use 20 years from now, I'll take your point.

(But now I'm curious, so as an aside: what's the most recent abbreviation that has totally lost its original meaning? It certainly isn't "tl;dr".)

In the meantime, it's clear that "tl;dr" is there to signal something like "The Cliff's Notes Version". If it were a headline, the headline would be: "15 Easy Words You Should Read Right Now That Tell You All You Need To Know". There's a good reason why we don't want headlines like that on HN, and for the same reason, we should guard against that quality in comments.

It's not as if HN threads are so hard and time-consuming to read without such gimmicks. Would making them easier and snappier make the discussions better? I think the answer to that isn't merely "no", it's a resounding, obvious no. We need people to do more considering, not less.
U.S. officials cut estimate of recoverable Monterey Shale oil by 96%
> Remember the MS Courier?

It was never a product, it was a concept.

This, by the way, is why it's a bad idea to show everyone your concepts. They will hold them against you for years.
You mean all the thing I use to do my job?

I actually lag 4-6 months behind releases now on both my macbook and my iphone. While I used to love being an early adopter and downloading the latest release the night it came out. Over the past few years I've had so many stability issues that I can't afford the annoyance, frustrations, and hit to productivity. It definitely seems that the quality of apple os's out of the gate have more problems then they did in the past.
> But at what point does an anecdote of a changed mind and life become admissible in the public court of reason?

What if that anecdote is about Lord Krishna? What will you say?

It seems the court of Christianity is not any more open-minded than the court of reason.
As a Thinkpad user, I have bad memories of docking stations. They're nice to have, but they're ridiculously expensive for a hunk of plastic and some interconnects.
Lost me at date picking, and then got even more confused when choosing "flights" -- incredibly hard to read the flight table.

Not a fan of this refresh.
He probably means this – http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/04/coldfusion-hack-used...
We didn't move, but we've always been on SoftLayer using a bare-metal Postgres machine and it has gone well.
Sure, there's lots of stories -- and they aren't consistent with each other, unless you cherry pick to support a particular viewpoint.

Faith and reason may both have value, and they may be compatible, but you can't rest the former on the latter.
The site is down. Not a good start. Why do we need a new URL shortener anyway?
I've struggled with this for years. Burned out 3 times. I've done CBT, meditation, and tried various medications. I've quit drinking, I eat well, and exercise often. These all helped a bit, but I was still panicky. Nothing helped more than deciding to spend less time sitting manipulating symbols on a screen and more time moving my body, more time in nature, more time with people. I've also resolved to stay away from toxic jobs, no matter how well they pay.
My experience was the opposite - the degree makes them take note of your resume, but once you're in nobody cares (or often knows) where you went to school.

FWIW, one of my interviewers went to SJSU. He wrote the JS styleguide, and was a key contributor to Closure and GChat (back when it didn't suck). Another of my interviewers went to UMich/AnnArbor and then toured around the country in a punk rock band; she was the Docs TL before doing a bunch of important work for Search Infrastructure and Chrome. Important work goes to people who seek it out and have a track record of delivering.
Same, I have one for a VPN and another one for a simple nodejs app. $5 a month for nodejs hosting with a static IP. The nodejs as a service sites either don't offer external static IPs, or charge a fortune for it. It's been fantastic.
FT's accusation sounds dubious.

For example, Giles claimed:

"Piketty appears to have added random numbers to certain formula to bend the data toward his hypothesis." (from BI) and Giles: "A 2 is added because the number wasn't high enough — it didn't seem to fit what he wanted to show in his charts, so he just added 2 to it..."
Source: http://static1.businessinsider.com/image/537fa370eab8ea427aa...

First off, it's not a random number. That 2 is an estimation from the two actual numbers from (Wolff 1994) Table 4. There was neither 1960 nor 1970 numbers available and only 1962 numbers (25.9% & 7.5%) available from the original paper. Hence, for the difference of that 2 and 8 years, Piketty first estimated the 1960 Top 1% wealth share number (31.4%) by (25.9 + 7.5 - 2). Then, the 1970 number is calculated based on the 1960 number and the ratio of "top 0.1% wealth share of 1960 and 1970, with the addition of that "2" which just took off for the 1960 number (2+31.4*10.4/8.7). I would say "2" is reasonable, even though it's arbitrary, to make the whole data series more smooth. Of course someone could use other estimate number for that two years, but it only makes the whole series more bizarre, and it does not change the pattern of that data series.

Second, FT's own conclusion even shows the patterns are almost the same with FT's claimed "correct" numbers or Piketty's. Piketty even pointed out other researches from Saez and Zucman published after his book also confirms his finding in the book.

All in all, FT just sounds like trying to sell more paper/subscription.
16:9 means panels can also be used in TV hardware, and you can standardise your tooling. This is why the common 'decent' midsize computer monitor has fallen from 1920x1200 to 1920x1080, because the latter has 16:9 panels that can be used in TVs.
Facebook blocks plenty of legit things. To be honest, if you don't know what you are doing tor can be pretty unsafe.

Think about the general population who uses facebook. They wouldn't have a good time browsing the onions
25ms of 44.1kHz isn't even an integer. So the original argument is even less compelling with 25ms windows than it was with 10ms windows.
Always wanted to get al.ec, but it's apparently too short (when I've Googled it). I'd also like .ks to be a TLD so I can by soc.ks (I'm a huge socks fan).
On a related note, I've noticed I actually never use the actual back button anymore via click or keyboard. Instead I do Chrome's two-finger back swipe on my Mac trackpad. It's the easiest motion to use since my fingers are already on the trackpad. I imagine this is a growing trend and therefore developers should also worry about overriding this feature via horizontal scroll commands.
I found this recent article about online harassment and moderation much more optimistic: http://www.wired.com/2014/05/fighting-online-harassment/ (Primary source: http://gdcvault.com/play/1017940/The-Science-Behind-Shaping-... ) Even with 67 million users, the developers of League of Legends have apparently reduced misbehavior substantially using fairly simple (although non-obvious) techniques.
Fortunately, there is more to this than meets the eye. It is unlikely that a patient will come to a halt during a panic attack, say "Wait. I just need to breathe, slowly."

If you haven't experienced a panic attack, it could be difficult understand why some people are unable to act rationally and control their anxiety. However, this is one of the symptoms. Immense fear is disabling. Depending on the severity, one may just need to remove themselves from the situation, fast. I have left meetings, presentations, and other importance face-to-face appointments, because of anxiety. Sometimes, it's just not worth the internal torture.

CBT is not syntactic sugar for meditation. Well trained therapists work carefully to control the stimulus, testing slight attitude changes vs. physical response. Think optimization in the presence of singularities. The average meditation coach is not required to steer a client away from paths to delusion, expose akrasia, or recognize more serious mental illnesses. Insufficient treatment frequently results in depression, mania, schizophrenia, and suicide. These are important problems, and presently, state of the art is well beyond a 'reinventing of the wheel', despite the simplified view of that Wikipedia article.
So, http://ins.ertco.in makes me a hipster?
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