skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have taken this test several times over the years. I can score perfectly but if I make a mistake it is in the blue greens.

I have fun running different sorting algorithms on the tiles. The trick to getting a perfect score is doing a pass where you switch every pair of adjacent tiles. This will double the color delta on the edges if the tile is correct and halve the delta if the position was wrong. I always catch at least a blue or two on this pass.
This is particularly interesting article because they have the answer to the question on the bottom of the page: http://i.imgur.com/0NdMB4S.png

The share icons are Facebook, Twitter and Google+ logos. The share icon that nobody agrees to is actually just the icon that is going to reveal the interface of the actual share icons.

I think that users don't want to share, they want to post on facebook, tweet or do the thing that people on google+ do(sorry, never used it) because the context of the thing that you are going to share is often appropriate to one of these and the reflex of the user is something like "I should post this on facebook so that my friends see it" or like "I should tweet this so that my audience sees it".

You can't find the logo for the share icon because the action is fundamentally something else. I don't know, maybe the button that will open the interface for the sharing buttons should just represent the logos of the services available.
10 billion in "projected" revenues. I predict that I too, will make 10 billion one day. Of course, the prediction means little in the face of reality.
I haven't done this personally but you can minimize the risk of interception without really changing anything by going through a VPN. This way all unencrypted traffic is strictly on wired networks.
All the things I mentioned received the same kind of comment, and were at first only brought by cheapstakes that wouldn't buy any kind of add-on.

And yes, all those things survived because of an ecosystem of long term support and advice. If both phrases look at odd for you, you may need to take a look on how societies enriches itself.
Not sure an unbounded 6% annual salary increase is plausible, especially over a 35-year period. That makes the "get a job" numbers quite inflated. I think its clear that the potential payoff from being an entrepreneur is very significantly higher than being an employee; it's a question of when someone's willingness to accept a higher risk matches their circumstances (luck, market, idea, etc.)
In this case, the schema probably disallows any other tags inside <line>, which makes </line> superfluous and it can thus be omitted. If <stanza>s are not recursive and poems cannot contain <line>s outside <stanza>s, </stanza> can also be omitted. Etc etc.
you are aware that this is proprietary software and that there is a legal owner?
The definition of idiomatic Go code is go fmt, go vet, golint, and https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments.
There seems to be so much variance in starting a company that I'm not sure how valid it is to use the 'averages' to create an earnings graph.
I really prefer the "many people" icon, and disagree that it should only mean collaboration. I think it has the least abstract form and most intuitive meaning.
buy equal parts of IBM and John Deere. Come back in five years and watch your money double.
+1 for the coinage of “BitCumulus” in the context of data.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TorChat is open-source... Not a tough choice for me.
But you have 60,000 unique users that have-used/use your technology. Can't you contact them to determine how you can change to support them more fully? Or to determine, at least, why they are not utilizing your technology, and therefore, not paying enough to sustain your business?

I just think you have a goldmine there that can be accessed.
https://github.com/worrydream/Tangle
Think of it this way: you're paying by Bitcoin, but you're guaranteeing that you won't drink the minibar dry or trash the room with a credit card. This won't change until there's a well-established Bitcoin credit facility.
The company you keep...

I follow mostly academics, researchers, and people who tend to ascribe to the "talk is cheap, show me the code" mentality. My Twitter experience is very positive (and when someone gets a little too happy with inflammatory tweets, the "mute"/"unfollow"/"disable retweets" buttons are very easy to find).
Except for the couple billion people who sadly don't know what a milkshake is.
Privacy and self determination.
This is the same approach used the the .NET framework in Array.Sort:
http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/collec...

You can see the fallback to heapsort here:
http://referencesource.microsoft.com/#mscorlib/system/collec...
Absolutely agreed. (After all, the presentation is everything we got wrong, not everything we got right -- and I definitely agree that the world emphatically does not any more open source licenses.) I don't agree that this is the "number one" anti-pattern because we don't see it much anymore: the five licenses that are out there cover a wide range of philosophies and objectives, and one of them should suffice for just about any project.
>What about all the serious recent research showing little correlation between fat in diet and all the diseases?

I don't think that is the best way to interpret them, the way I read the gist of recent research is roughly:

0. Calories you didn't eat are better than:
1. Calories from protein are better than:
2. Calories from mono-unsat. fat are better than:
3. Calories from sat. fat are better than:
4. Calories from poly-unsat. fat are better than:
5. Calories from complex carbs are better than:
6. Calories from simple carbs are better than:
7. Calories from trans. fat are better than:

But nothing is better for then the calorie you didn't eat (assuming you have met your caloric needs for the day).
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I generally want to avoid a shitshow. I have talked about that before, both on my blog and in comments on HN. I am not posting this here with any real expectation that conversation will ensue. I am posting it in hopes that, for a few people, it will be eye opening.

I have actively kept my profile low in recent years. I am slowly working on raising it. I have had shitshows in the past aimed at me. What I have endured is really minor compared to what this woman describes. I would like very much to find a path forward that is less ugly but having very recently been privately attacked for being publically polite to someone, I am beginning to suspect that no matter how polite and well behaved and so on someone is, there is no such thing as publicity without at least some downside.

I have no idea if it is really worse for women per se. My understanding is that plenty of men in the public eye have also been shit on plenty. So that isn't my reason for posting this here.
>That you don't recognize this means you should be more charitable in understanding his point of view.

Should that understanding have come before or after being accused of 'Scientism', which feels like an insult, but I can't be sure because I don't really know what that means in context.

>The person you're debating doesn't think evolution is going away, not even a little bit, not even for a second.

I didn't imply that he did. The point I was trying to get across is that there are some real constraints on the type of explanations we'll have with respect to Consciousness. We are not going to need unknown exotic physics to explain it, and whatever the answer is it will stay comfortably within the current Evolutionary framework. Obviously that could be wrong, but I wouldn't bet on it. This should not be a controversial statement.
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Yeah, you are right. But i meant to say that firefox could have made firebug as its own developer tool and continue to make it better instead of building their own.
In your mobile browser at least Firefox Nightly supports extensions - I have adblock, ghostery, etc. Aside from the privacy benefits it also makes a significant performance difference on my kindle.

https://nightly.mozilla.org/
Tell HN: .guru domains don't work on iOS Safari. Is the TLD system broken?
If you are using Safari on iOS then when you visit a .guru domain you will be sent to Google instead of the target domain.

Try visiting these Apple owned .guru domains from Safari on iOS:

apple.guru
iphone.guru
ipad.guru
mac.guru
> water increases its speed when you shrink the pipe

Not exactly. It increases its speed when you shrink the nozzle. If you shrink the pipe and don't change the supply pressure the water will slow down.

The nozzle is special because it's a transition from high pressure (inside the pipe) to zero pressure (the world outside).

If you keep the flow rate of the water unchanged then shrinking the nozzle means the water must flow faster in order for the flow rate to remain unchanged.

But if the nozzle feeds into a high pressure part of the pipe then things just slow down.
just a small question here but essentially it would only a local repo? i don't know too much about git but if you don't store it on the cloud, how would you transfer it from computer A to B? (using a repo and not copying folders over)
Huh...?

He worked for a company out of his own will, and that company paid him in exchange for his work, with the full understanding that all ownership of the work would go to them. I mean, it's not even as if Apple hides that about them- that's one thing they tell you OVER and OVER when you interview with them.

He knew exactly what he was getting into when he accepted to work for them (and did so for many years), and he definitely doesn't seem to mind what he got out of it (salary + the ability to call himself an "ex-Apple employee" and extract the social proof/appeal to authority that comes with it).

I love Bret's work, but this page on his website is very distasteful and comes across as fairly petty.
The reviews I've read about the existing Firefox OS phones, which have reportedly cost well over $25, have not been very encouraging. Pretty much all of them have pointed out that the hardware is quite poor, and this results in a rather bad user experience. Even considering how rapidly the cost of mobile hardware has been decreasing, what will prevent a similarly negative user experience on these cheaper Firefox OS devices?

While the ideological benefits of HTML5/JavaScript/CSS "apps" are often touted, we've yet to see anything truly remarkable done using such technologies. At best, we've only really seen clones of existing Android and iOS apps, but these generally feel less responsive and less capable than their native counterparts. If Firefox OS only supports these kind of non-native apps, how is it supposed to truly compete with Android, iOS and the other mobile platforms that support these HTML5/JavaScript/CSS "apps" just fine, but also offer far more choice and capabilities to developers in the form of real native apps?

And one other thing that I rarely see considered by the advocates of Firefox OS is how we're seeing more and more used iOS and Android mobile devices ending up in developing nations. They tend to be quite affordable and usable, even if they are somewhat outdated. Why would people in developing nations pay for a new Firefox OS phone, when they can get a used Android or iOS phone that may very well perform better than the Firefox OS phone, while offering a wider selection of apps, while also costing roughly the same?

Can you address these concerns?
Small probabilities trend towards incomputability in tail events. The rate of error for the measure becomes so explosive that in that arena individual parameters seem to be more relevant, among many other things. We'd be better off with PG's intuition than this.
I was also just reminded of the documentary The Century of the Self which I think I originally saw at Aaron Swartz's recommendation. The documentary took me by surprise in some ways because it seemed to start off with a familiar narrative about the benefits of individualism and economic growth in giving people more choices. But at a certain point it turned darker and described how marketers had understood that giving people certain kinds of experiences of choice and personal attention could be deployed as a means of manipulation. It's something like the advice I just read the other day that you can get little kids to put on their shoes by asking them which pair of shoes they want to put on. The question puts the focus on their choice while directing their attention away from the question of whether they wanted to put on shoes in the first place.

The darker later parts of the documentary make me think that we have a lot of practice celebrating people's power of choice and freedom from constraint (which I fully agree with). We have a lot of recent experience saying yes when there's no reason not to. What we perhaps haven't been practicing as much is saying no at those times when there is a reason to.
My Previous Bosses Are Now My Customers
Depends what you mean by this. ZFS will alert if it reads data into ram that then doesn't match the checksum during verification.

But it can't prevent a bitflip of data in memory from getting written to disk before the checksum is calculated. Nor can it prevent data being bitflipped after its been verified and handed off to the application.

Which I'm pretty sure XFS can't do either.
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Often the share icon will let you post via email or sms as well as facebook and twitter, though. I have only ever used the share icon on my phone. If I'm going to share via my browser i'll just copy/paste the URL.
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Interesting! I would have thought the color "trueness" would have a lot more of an effect. But I guess the originator of the test took that into account.
I think the organizer should have been upfront with you about what he/she wanted you to talk on. That said, I don't think it was an offensive request. The organizer wasn't being presumptuous that you would be interested in speaking on this topic just because you're female -- he/she was merely asking you... As a woman in tech, I get how it's these little things compounded over time that get annoying, but this ask on its own is not unreasonable is it? You can always just say no (as you did). :)
> "Nothing better than JavaScript" isn't a real limitation if JavaScript is a moving target

JS is only a "moving target" in the sense that stuff is being added to it. If you could make a perfect language by just adding things, then we'd be fine.

But the nature of the language itself is not going to change, because that would break backwards compatibility. The type system, prototype inheritance, `this`, type coercions, etc. There are plenty of undesirable things in JS which we're stuck with (unless we break compatibility, in which case it might as well be a different language).
The google 'share' icon is the same. On Android it means 'do an action with' since all it does is activate the intents menu.
A friend of mine discovered his color blindness when he joined the military and took an eye exam. He said he never noticed things like stoplights red/green being very similar because he just thought that was how it is supposed to be.
I don't think this is specific to iOS, I can't access "apple.guru" in opera on os x.
Probably Microsoft's traditional "submarine patent fears" excuse for NIH.
Who is the legal owner? I never heard what the final resolution of the probate process was.

EDITED to add:

Oh, I guess David Schmidt owns all of it now [0]: Symbolics is currently a privately held company which acquired the assets and intellectual property of the old public company called Symbolics, Inc.

[0] http://www.symbolics-dks.com/
It would be cool to be the programmer of a computer the size of a semi truck. It probably did the work of a pocket calculator, but it looked impressive.
Great article, two issues:

1. Instead of looking at averages for entrepreneurs (and stock-holding employees) it should look at expected values. Those take probabilities into account. So with a 0.1 chance of a $100MM payout[1] gives you an expected payout of just $10MM for ~7 years of very hard work. Not too shabby, but not spectacular either.

2. "Assuming you don’t have any exits and you work 65 hours a week while running a company (compared to 50 hours per week with a regular job)" ... while I agree that people work this much and more, the funny part is how a lot of cold hard research proves that working that much makes you less productive and lowers your chances of a serious payout.

Now can someone make this for freelancers? I feel like we're somewhere between employees and entrepreneurs. Salary definitely grows quicker than 6% and risk is definitely smaller than "pure" entrepreneurs.

[1] billion dollar exit, let's say $100MM actually gets into a founder's pocket
I wonder what other TLDs are broken on Opera and Safari? A broken domain name system is a fairly big issue isn't it? How come Icann is taking our money for TLDs that don't work?
MuckRock and the Beacon Reader are also working on uncovering law enforcement across the country using "Stingray" rouge cell tower equipment: http://www.beaconreader.com/projects/the-spy-in-your-pocket

Please chip in $5 if you can towards their goal.
Perhaps if I threw this on github people could see the code themselves, or better yet; run the extension in dev mode so they can 100% be sure they know the code running.

Appreciate the concerns claudiusd. Just trying to protect people's email privacy :)
How do you figure there are "fewer layers"?

Both are built upon Linux. So we can say that they're pretty much equivalent at that level.

Then there is a runtime and libraries providing common functionality above that. Again, we have pretty much the same in both cases.

Then we have the apps running on top of that, making use of the functionality of the two lower layers. Once again, it's a similar situation in both cases.

I really don't see the differences that you claim are there.
Thought I was the only one :)
> Note that surround sound data is, IIRC, already not "twice" the size of stereo.

Even stereo is also not twice the size of mono. (using joint-stereo encoding)

Agree with all the other points too.

> 2) Complete depth data, allowing dynamic depth of field changes.

This does extend the natural sense range, but is also already possible/done.

> 3) Complete geometry and scene-graph data, allowing you to change the camera and perspective.

That should actually take less space than the final scene in many cases...
http://i.imgur.com/80fMIju.png - here's a quick mockup I made in Inkscape of the best icon I know for "share". It's two people handing something off to each other.

When I was a kid, this is what I thought the old "Find" binoculars icon from Microsoft Word / Netscape was. It seems to me that an icon that brings this association inadvertently is better than a contrived abstract symbol that requires explanation.
Eh, I'm willing to cut them some slack. I talked about science as a continuous process of revision, which might give the impression that I'm making a Pessimistic Induction argument (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pessimistic_induction) against all scientific conclusions. I think macspoofing was just trying to counter with examples of scientific theories that seem pretty airtight, and that's fair. Also I basically accused them of falling prey to mindless Scientism, which was admittedly a bit harsh (seeing people attribute "magical" explanations to skeptics can trigger my rage mode, apparently).

Anyway, this whole thing is very controversial (they don't call the Hard Problem "hard" for no reason), and I can see the appeal of trying to safeguard the scientific process of knowledge-building from the messy weirdness of subjective experience. Time will tell if consciousness can be explained by a more advanced physics. I'm certainly looking forward to it.
There's not a single mention of taxes in the article.

I don't think that the average employee is aware that an entrepreneur/founder/self-employed person can save a lot of tax if they structure it right and are meticulous about it.

A self-employed person earning $70K a year can be better off than an employee earning $100K.
Well in the case of what I am buying I am using the ZFS version that comes with FreeNAS which is based on FreeBSD. Everything can fail at some point. So I also have off site backup. I will have 4x4TB in this setup and only need 4GB of space so I think I will do the ZFS version of RAID10.
Not an expert, but reasons I've discovered over my career:
1. Because words take up a significant amount of space. On mobile, icons improve the experience.
2. Words in other languages can destroy layouts, meaning customizing style for each language. For instance, potato in english is pomme de terre(apple of the earth) in Canadian French. Some other languages I've worked with are much worse. English can be very terse it turns out.
3. Drop down menus require more clicks than a toolbar. Word toolbars without images either read like a sentence and are confusing, or they are well padded and then will take even more space.
4. Pictures can be more accessible to many people (if done correctly)
5. Our brains react to icon faster than to words. We actually store words and icons differently as well.
6. Reading is hard, and expends more energy. Really. It has to do with the above.
> I think we agree, that any defensible policy would lie somewhere between "ignore all accusations of booting" and "credulously believe all accusations of booting".

I agree with this.

> Re-reading your comment, I'm not sure, but are you saying that CF are at the former end of the policy spectrum? That's regrettable.

Somewhat. As of my last experience with them (which was like a year ago), they will accept abuse complaints for booters. If you can prove to them the site is a booter, by providing documentation on the site itself (not hackforums or anywhere else where it's being advertised, which is understandable as it's basically hearsay, though a bit difficult) indicating the site offers a DDoS service, they will provide the abuse@ email of the hosting company. They will tell you to have the abuse@ people contact them directly for further details. This is the only action they will take.

But my opinion is they should, upon confirming the site is a booter, terminate their service to the site. It would also be nice if they would continue to provide the host details, in addition, so the reporter can contact the actual host and have the site taken down from there as well.

> Also, any argument you make about CloudFlare could also be made about Google: I see http://quantumbooter.net as the second link and http://top10booters.com/ as the fifth link at https://www.google.com/search?q=booter+services

Very good point, thank you for mentioning.

The difference I see is that CloudFlare actively provides a service to them, while Google is merely maintaining a keyword-based search listing for them. That being said, I can see both sides of this one.

My views on the legitimacy (rather, lack thereof) of booters: they are a service that serves absolutely no legitimate purpose. The sole purpose is to perform an illegal act against another person. I know a bunch of them are sold on hackforums as "stressers," i.e. "stress test your own server," but that also isn't a legitimate purpose - I can see no case where one would want to stress test their own services with some UDP or SYN flood over the Internet. Such a thing would only be done over a private network using your own packet generator.
Looks good. I wish Aphyr would unleash his Knossos on it. That would be very informative. In other words wonder how it handles network partitions...