skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've had it installed on a bunch of corporate boxes and never used it and I'm not sure if anyone used it.

Even though it's a bit crash happy on windows and the gtk file picker sucks on windows for my uses meld was the most useful(at least now they have a packaged version for windows - http://sourceforge.net/projects/meld-installer/ - so you don't have to package it yourself). It's simple, good looking, highlights the difference between 2 slightly modified lines, has support for comparing directories, and allows in-place editing.
> I don't know about others, but I don't want to live in a world where my only option to control my house, car, and life is to go to an Apple store. At least Google and Microsoft give us some choices.

But you are okay with your only option being some humans on this planet, you just don't want them to be in the same company?

> I feel like we're living in a constant world of incompatible systems whose (nearly) sole purpose is to "own the market": VHS vs. Beta, GSM vs. CDMA, Canon vs. Nikon lenses, and so on.

Isn't that what you said you wanted?
Kenney has some very good content on here. You can make a fully fledged platformer with all his stuff and it'll look great, perfect for learning. http://opengameart.org/users/kenney
Wow, I haven't heard mosix in forever. Or beowulf cluster, for that matter...
i used it on the flame developer device,its quite decent actually. I certainly wouldnt want a N95 instead of it. Its not at all in the same league.
Massive Security Flaws Allowed for Stratfor
NSA is too big to comply anyway.
New way to distribute app promo codes on Twitter
same offer, Palo Alto or SF (email in my profile). Happy to listen over coffee, a meal, or breath of fresh air on a hike.
Just a question: have you ever been in a relationship? I'm just curious, because what other evidence do you have for the seemingly bold statement that women become more like their mothers as time goes on?
Tinder consultancy startup: building a startup on top of a pre-existing app
Rust, Go and C++ all have regex libraries as part of the standard library.
Note that "perfect" capitalism, for obvious reasons (amongst others the ones you mention) does not have a commons. And yes, there are "natural" commons, like the athmosphere, but those are unsolved problems.

> The concentration of resources is typically avoided through wealth redistribution, another mechanism of mandatory altruism.

Again if this works, it's not altruism for the same reason that Ford's actions weren't altruistic. They were a business investment that would force others to make the same investment, and he was gambling that people would invest it in buying his cars. He was right. This is the same thing, only at a country level.

That's assuming it works. While the political advantages of directly promising large amounts of people money are undeniable when it comes right down to it, people work because they're forced to work to an extent. That, sadly, means you can't take that away. You can probably safely take it away for a while, even a generation I think. But ...
Bateflix[1] is noticeably absent from the list of partnered apps.

[1]: http://bateflix.com/
They don't have 51% anymore, although I think their other concerns are valid:

http://www.coindesk.com/bitfury-pulls-power-ghash-community-...
https://blockchain.info/pools
:( Why are we replying without going down the chain? I almost didn't even see you put more of a response to me.

Regardless, I'm familiar with Ada. I'm also familiar with some fun disasters using software by Ada.[1] Now, do I blame that it was in Ada? No. However, the attitude you are displaying of "if all you know is it was in Ada, then it is safer than the alternatives" seems to be the exact problem that led to that disaster.

If the only thing I know of two irradiation devices is one was statically typed and the other wasn't, I'd likely pass on both. Or I'd like to know how much radiation each is capable of outputting. Consider, x-ray machines far predate what we realize as programmable computers. And much more goes into the safety of the devices than just the language used.

[1] http://www.adapower.com/index.php?Command=Class&ClassID=FAQ&...
The car salesman pushes you to buy the best quality car, and this is generally understood.

The financial "adviser" (what a misleading name!) pushes you to buy the worst quality product, and this is not generally understood. They encourage this confusion by present themselves as being more like lawyers or accountants than salesmen.
I'm not an ISP advocate... My hatred of time warner runs deep into my soul.

But, I just completed an Office 365 implementation for a huge enterprise. Email for businesses of our size is similar to netflix in many ways.

Guess what we found out early on? 365 is different than web surfing and providing services to consumers and business partners. The model we used to deliver Internet wasn't effective for a variety of reasons, so guess what we did? We paid a bunch of money to establish a peering connection to the Microsoft network at our expense.

Netflix's solution is was to peer and to place a bunch of storage gear at ISP points of presence for free. That works, but may not be a solution that makes sense for the ISP for a variety of reasons. The issues that we're witnessing now is the lame ultimatum driven behavior that happens in contract negotiations.

IMO, we need rules that prohibit ISPs from discriminating against certain traffic. But there needs to be a line where exceptional bandwidth destinations have to take measures to be good citizens, which may require payment for connection or hosting.
Yes, but the file extension has always been .jpeg.
Mathbreakers does state machines with trains
The problem with pricing by volume is that the average consumer can't really manage their volume.

Would the consumer be responsible for paying for:
-DDOS (not only can you knock them offline, you can cost them big money)
-Spam (Both received and botnet sent)
-Retransmissions for traffic the ISP dropped due to congestion
-Ads (adblockers could reduce bandwidth costs by a third)

I personally would love volume pricing. But I also would not want to provide tech support next time my parents get hit by malware and get hit with a $1000 isp bill.
There's nothing wrong with "Because I wanted to" as a WHY.
Brewer! Makes more sense than brewmaster. I assume that dealing with common aliases is on the todo-list. Just the ones for "police officer" could be pages long, and region-dependent.
"...but there was a poll here not too long ago about how accurate the opinions are here. That's objective data showing you that the anecdotes are as right as you're going to get. It's a fact."

By definition, an opinion poll is not objective. Are the results of a presidential election objective data on who the best candidate for president is?
As you type command line completion, without tabs
Everyone on this thread - you are amazing - bless you for offering to talk to people who need a sympathetic ear.
I agree it is stupid that data you enter into a service, which you cannot know if it will remain (and that means every service), you can't extract to do with it what you want (log it yourself). It just gives me a better feeling if I can extract my netflix watching habbits and ratings for my own usage instead of relying on their ways (but their way isn't bad).

Also I just recently tried Mopidy again, a year ago it would crash a lot and time outs and stuff, but now I have it running as my main MPD with MPDroid on my phone and also Mopidy-Spotify. It is really awesome! I can just use my own keyboard shortcuts again to prev/play/pause/next again which I always found a burden in the spotify client.
I'm with you on that Spotify C library, it would suck so much if they would EOL it without replacement.
> Apollo, Facebook’s Paxos-like NoSQL database ...

> supports anything from a minimum of three servers to thousands

Sorry, you don't run Paxos on thousands of servers. Typical Paxos cluster sizes are 5-7. The algorithm would never converge if you did run it on thousands of servers.
Well then we're doubly fucked in the recent conflicts, aren't we ? No way that these islamist wars in the middle east will bring even a tiny amount of innovation, just death, massacres and economic disruption (which will bring a lot more misery than even the massacres). I mean maybe Iran is capable of some innovation in the area, but I doubt it.

And this Iraq war is but the latest addition of the many conflicts islam nutcases are waging. Outside of Iraq, there's Nigeria, Mali, Western Sahara, Sudan, China, Phillipines, Russia (basically the entire border of where muslims live geographically, actually).

I get the impression that what's really happening is that the US is no longer policing the world, the legacy it got from WWII. The old empires are in the same situation, and we're returning to the historical norm before that. That historical norm was 1.5 millenia of islam versus everyone else war, with more victims than any other conflict in history. Constant civil wars at the edges of muslim territories and regular genocides inside of it. The entire world, from morocco to close to south africa to deep in China (almost up to Hong Kong).

I guess what they mean is that for example, up until they were bought out, the main driver of independant robotics was the DoD. I guess that's what they mean. But outside of the US, Japan, China and Britain I doubt militaries are all that innovative. Hell, I don't know if they are outside of the US, point.
Even if that company's business is providing the API?
OK, cool. It's still not built in to the language in any meaningful way. There isn't any special syntax or rule-bending done for regexes.
Lying for financial gain is generally illegal. That's what fraud is.

If the dealer lied about the car while selling it, then in theory the buyer can successfully sue for damages. In practice it's likely to be hard to prove.
Agreed, so this would reduce the number of advisors in the market. They really don't provide much value anyway.
10-12 hrs sounds exaggerated, I've never once seen a MPB last even ~5 hrs with light use.
Is the 'us vs them' attitude really so strong in your mind? Do you think it's perfectly reasonable for an organization that spends $1.5billion on IT to be unable to retain their directors email? I can't help but think that your opinion would be different if this was email between oil executives.
Does the version in the market feel complete to you, or do you have other things you wish you could add?

Also, any tips on recovering from a ranking hit after releasing a new version and losing all your current version ratings?
Same here, have a working side project that has been working like a clock watch for the past 3 years, with a few thousands regular users.
I will now need to see if scraping is a solution that can work.

At the same time, when they announce last year they were stopping the new API keys, I was wondering how long it will take for them to terminate the existing ones.
I'm surprised this game hasn't earned you enough to retire on. It's been #1 on the paid list for a long time, I figured you guys must be rolling in the dough, but in the article it says you would need to repeat the success of the game every year for you to quit your day job. That's unbelievable.

How can flappy birds be making $50k per day, and your #1 paid app only makes $2k per day?
This is a little off-topic, I know, but I'd really appreciate some suggestions for good math-based games for my kids, ages 7 and 10.

So does anyone have good math games to suggest?
OpenGameArt launched in 2009, several years before the Liberated Pixel Cup: http://lpc.opengameart.org/content/lpc-about
I feel this article assumes that the major war will happen "somewhere else". The last major war caused complete destruction of the economies and infrastructures from Seine to Volga. Today, a major war pretty much means nuclear/biological/chemical warfare. What kind of growth is author thinking about after that?
I did not my friend, must have been someone else
If you look at the 6 month graph, this downward blip is such a small one that it's indistinguishable from noise.
The Information Age to the Networked Age: Are You Network Literate?
My biggest complaint is that it's just buggier than the Lumia I had before, or the iPhone 5 I had before that.
Moonrocks will be the default server for Luarocks with the next Luarocks release.
Dear Sam,

It's interesting to hear you speak about founder depression as you sit on top of the world.

Our team, openhospital.com, interviewed at YCombinator 6 weeks ago for the current batch and we failed (rejection email below). The $1100 interview reimbursement we received from YC only covered 1/3 of the cost of the trip and the time/energy spent applying could have been time and money spent coding and developing our product (and paying rent).

In the last 7 months I've managed to burn through my 401k from years software engineering jobs in pursuit building a cash medicine marketplace. I barely have enough money to pay my rent next month. In a desperate attempt to find capital, I also charged a trip to San Jose on my credit card 2 weeks ago to knock on doors up and down Sand Hill Road.

If you or anyone on this forum is interested in starting a cash medicine marketplace there is an opportunity to change the world and this needs to be done. Ironically my wife has horrible stomach problems and I spent two hours calling GI/colonoscopy doctors trying to find a cash price as I will be charging this on my credit cards as well.

I am desperate to start this and I don't care if I end up with 1/10000th of founder ownership at the end. We have a working provider site with several providers (18k lines of code). The other engineer on my team is smart (Stanford educated) and an awesome co-founder to work with.

Am I depressed? Yes. Am I giving up? Never.

My contact info is joe (at) openhospital.com if you Sam or anyone on this forum would like to chat.

Joe Arnone
Founder
OpenHospital.com

https://www.dropbox.com/s/d0jz58wmd8ynsup/Photo%20Apr%2026%2...
The idea that most black hat hackers come from that part of the world is quite interesting. Would you expand on it?
Kind of off-topic but the Korean term for a Samsung type of company is Chaebol: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
We weren't able to record the talk, but there are handouts that walkthrough the design and implantation process available here: http://mbtaviz.github.io/handout.pdf. If you have more questions feel free to contact https://twitter.com/msb5014.
FWIW, the link to TMDB on the bottom of your site is broken.
3 ways to release stress, manage depression and anxiety as a startup founder
This reminded me of a book that is, I think, an excellent way to teach math to kids: Mathematical Circles: Russian Experience, by Dmitri Fomin, Sergey Genkin, Ilia V. Itenberg (http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Circles-Russian-Experienc...)
> The car salesman pushes you to buy the best quality car

Nope. The car salesman pushes you to buy the car with the highest profit margin that fits (or is slightly above) your budget.
I found this to be really useful -

http://research.microsoft.com/apps/video/default.aspx?id=153...
Lots of interesting comments here. I'll put some thoughts here, too...
I have always thought there are two kinds of people in this world. One who do things that make other people's life better. Others who reap benefits of things done by the former group. To me the question is about whether you want to be selfless in the service of others or live a steady life. Once you have figured out, there is no shame in failing if your goals are high and intentions are right. If you base your success based on how people perceive you that is a very wrong way to think. The only reason because public opinion tends to change very so often. So, for me at least, being successful implies reaching for a bigger goal than the self. Being principled and finding happiness in doing the right thing.
Just imagine if Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, Dr King, etc would have only thought for themselves what kind of a messed up world we all would have been living in?
With greater goals come even greater challenges in some shape or form of "failures." "If There Is No Struggle, There Is No Progress”
No synchronous messaging API in Chrome in 4 years
Americans' Ratings of President Obama's Image at New Lows
Why China went to war against golf
When business schools a few dozen years hence discuss this period of API development, they'll talk of how we learned to use an open API as a weapon wielded by a mid-size company to fend off competitors until the company has grown to a place of market dominance.
It's worth noting that the web version is open source, but the version for sale on the iOS Appstore is not open source.
There's nothing wrong with it. It's perfectly valid. But there is something strangely crushing in the freedom to always do exactly (and only) what you want. I can't really explain it.
China housing slump sparks fears for economy
Stories like that exists, true, but so what? The moral of your story is not that one shouldn't talk to friends about their actual situation, but rather that some VCs are not the best people. Also, surround yourself with smarter friends.
There's no other way to bulk lookup quickly besides zone files. Maybe if you are a registrar and even that I am not sure of (depending on how many results you need).
> The very first thing I did was ... change the words

You did not mention that you had changed the words, and Hacker News does not present me with older posts in the thread, so I literally had no idea you did that. Since you changed the words, why didn't you just say so, instead of trying to defend your straw man?

Also, now that you've changed the words, I still disagree with what you wrote, because you're making an implicit assumption as to what it means for a company to be important, without defining that assumption. And without defining that assumption, you don't really have a basis for claiming that the op is wrong. Obviously op is wrong by your definition of important, but not wrong by their definition of important.

But at least it isn't a straw man anymore.

> And given that all you've done here is attack, attack, attack, what do you expect me to do other than be defensive?

I told you that you were committing a very obvious logical fallacy, and instead of simply saying "you're right, I've now changed the wording so my argument is no longer depending upon that logical fallacy", you started trying to accuse me of what is ultimately a meaningless non-semantic distinction in an attempt to trivialize and discredit my original response.

> Since you like logic, you'll like this: if you don't understand what I'm saying, then it's not a straw man on my part

That's bullshit. I do understand what you're saying. It may not be what you meant to say, but I can't look inside your head and figure out what you meant to say, all I can do is respond to the actual argument you write down. If that argument is wrong, the fault does not lie with me in pointing out the straw man, the fault lies with you in not expressing your argument in a manner that can be understood correctly and without logical fallacy.

> Not once have you 'just admitted' that you might have been off-kilter, not even an "I still disagree with you, but yeah, I could have behaved better"

What? What is this, kindergarden? Do I have to apologize to you for disagreeing with your argument and pointing out a logical fallacy? That's ridiculous. Nothing I have said in this thread is needlessly antagonistic or rude, or otherwise uncalled-for. The fact that you went on the defensive instead of appropriately responding to my criticism does not make my criticism something that I need to apologize for.
This is wonderful. I remember using http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/vocabul.htm some time ago and you would often have to study an entry for a long time to make {. or {: of it.
It's sharded, dude. You may want (typically) 3, 5 or 7 machines per shard for redundancy and failover, but there's no limit on the number of shards you may want to have.
Agreed. I'd like to investigate and possibly commission some art.
Just remember that the failure of your startup/project does not mean that you are a failure. In the last years you most likely "merged" yourself with your startup, you need to keep reminding yourself that your are more than it. You have friends, family, other ideas. You always can try again. And yes, would be happy to have coffee/lunch/whatever to chat (I am in the Bay Area).
Screens of Football in a Pub
"our concept does work...but...we simply needed a lot more capital"

This sounds like the old dot-com boom excuses of the early 00's. Popular service or not, if after almost 5 years you're still relying heavily on recurring investor capital for day-to-day operations and not bringing in sufficient revenue to at least cover basic expenses, unless it's high-tech biomed or pharma, it typically isn't a viable business model for a startup. Maybe this would have worked out for them 10 or so years ago, but not so much any more.
Misappropriation of public funds is the greatest driver of economic growth! Let's do more of that.
Nice. I think you might be able to shave another cycle off if you were to use [base + 4 * index] addressing with base = array_end and a negative index. This allows you to get rid of the second compare and use 'add index_register, 4' 'jnz L' for the loop test and exit when index == 0. This saves another instruction as well as a cycle of dependency.

Of course, you could also go all out and vectorize: vpcmpgtd, then vpaddd for per-column subtotal, then sum the elements at the end, then negate. Combined with the negative index trick, you might be able to get it down to single cycle per 8 ints. Ahh, the joys of micro-optimizing toy loops!
NSA controlling Youtube... Comments?
Now if I could pipe the request from Sublime Text and get the results back in a buffer it would be awesome to deal with JSON. Any idea?
I don't know what is the big deal. It's as if these startups were in a Bachelor/Bachelorette style of competition and everybody but a few lost. It's not like the terms and conditions said the API would be there forever or for everybody.
The Evidence Crisis
>I don't see conspiracy here.

Lois Lerner pleaded the fifth couple of months back. She is accused of harassing tea party donors.

Lois Lerner in 2011: Receiving a Thick Questionnaire from the IRS Is a "Behavior Changer"

http://patterico.com/2013/07/10/lois-lerner-in-2011-receivin...
There's at least two clear incentives here.

Losing the evidence means the hole in Smaug's armor is temporarily patched for when it flies in to Laketown.

Secondly, losing the evidence means they get an innocuous selling point when they request a bigger budget to implement that arcane task of backing up files.
This. Anyone in federal government knows it's this. Not even a question.
You realize the income tax didn't exist about 100 years ago, right? The income tax is only a portion of the federal revenue.

The income tax also has a secondary effect to generating revenue: it implements control and enables targeted abuse of undesirables with a big dossier of filing mistakes.
"Do you think it's perfectly reasonable for an organization that spends $1.5billion on IT to be unable to retain their directors email?"

You do realize that the IRS it budget is spent on trying to keep a database of every American running for ever on $5 a years per person? Email servers don't have anything to do with that. And having seem "cost cutting" measures in both government and industry the "non-essential" services like a centralized email server would be the first to go.

So yes, it is, you get the government you pay for.
Yep. This is the biggest unspoken scandal in government. It has probably taken years off of my life. The whole system is in shambles.