skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
so if google owns nest and nest nad owns dropcam if you have a dropcam and the NSA wants to come blackbag your house can they delete the video off the cloudhosting warnetlessly?
The point I was trying to make was that somehow it was easier to imagine time travelling than just looking "across the pond", oh to say Sweden. Or probably other civilised countries.
Ask HN: Does AdWords work for you?
I've talked to a few businesses (mostly Saas) who run AdWords campaigns that don't "work". The campaigns drive some traffic, but they're not seeing a good positive ROI.

Have you made Adwords work for you? Can it be made to work for smaller businesses?
Obviously the GIL was shortsighted, yes. Leave the people out of it. The idea was stupid. There was a reason, but it wasn't a good reason.
'Hacker' Finds Evidence of Chick-fil-A Frappuccinos
Is there any actual scientific substance to Occam's Razor?
People do not get paid based on how much money the business makes. On the other hand they get paid based on how much value they add.

Someone whose skill is French Language is surely is not much worth compared to someone who knows how to make pancakes. I will not be surprised that a lot of college teachers teaching skills of no use are finding it hard to make enough money.
Let's change the terminology a bit here. A professor is someone with tenure is on a tenure track. A lecturer is someone who is not. The article isn't talking about professors, which in the USA relies on research, publishing, obtaining grants, and tenure. Yes, a lecturer teaching a low demand subject is going to have a hard time. Just like most positions, there exists a hierarchy. The reason why this doesn't exist for primary and secondary educators is because of unions and that can be argued either way.
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He was not. He says everyone should afford a college degree. Nothing wrong with that. He wants to spend someone else's money to make it affordable which only means worthless degrees will be dozen a penny.
It's sad because the interpretation of quantum physics is important scientific work. What does a dual slit experiment tell us about our world? Trying to answer that question is where the Many Worlds Interpretation came from, and it likely wouldn't have been published prior to the 80s or 90s.
Thank you. Best tl;dr I've read in ages. If I'd read this before the article it would have saved me a lot of time.
Since he's already here, maybe I could solicit a comment from him to an older post of mine regarding another of his articles: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7849386
Google has demonstrated zero hesitation about changing privacy policies when it suits them.
I don't know if you'd count these one-off experiments in the same league as making aircraft that you can actually turn a profit manufacturing and operating. That game seems to have dried up at about the size and speed of modern jetliners, given the issues we've had with operating supersonic commercial aircraft.

I'm sure somebody in a lab somewhere can make a single processor that's ridiculously fast compared to anything you can buy, but being able to manufacture usable, reliable CPUs in quantity and cheap enough to turn a profit on selling them is a whole 'nother ballgame.
38 hours? Are you not salaried?
You would think with so many colleges in existence, that some of them would resist this sort of policy -- are there counter-examples to the trend towards increasing 'adjunctization'?

Also, if the cause of adjunctization is rising administrative costs in colleges -- are there any universities that have figured out that problem? That is, how to prevent a bloated bureaucracy of overpaid administrators?
> On the one hand, you want to provide perks that offset personal cost to your employees AND reduce the amount of time it takes for them to do something like lunch with the result in increased productivity (ostensibly simply due to removing factors such as travel-time-to-lunch-place).

Yes, it does make things incredibly convenient. No doubt about that.

But what about just doing it the way it's done in Europe? Where employers are required by law to be paid X amount per month for lunch, X amount of transit, and so on. Company gives you the money, you spend the money whichever way you feel.

I'm not against perks, I'm against hiding them behind some feel-good crap about how much free stuff you get. It's not free, it's part of your paycheck. And it's cheaper for companies than just paying you more, to boot.

I also like the idea of just having a conveniently located lunch place (internal or external business entity, doesn't really matter) that employees go to and pay for stuff with money. It can even be cheaper than going outside because said business has a guaranteed customer base.

Guess that's along the lines of your "allowance" idea. But even less wishy-washy.

PS: when you think about it, it's really kind of funny how all these perks and stuff that magnificent Silicon Valley companies offer their employees, are taken for granted in Europe because they've been there since workers' rights movements
* Horrible duplicate code.
* Functions with more than 200 lines.
* Functions with about 16 parameters.
* A deploy process that consisted of copy and pasting using FTP.
* No source code control. Not even regular file backups, the 'code' was just on production and everybody worked against that.
* If else cases in the double digits.
Critically, excellent education has to be included in that as well. It's not enough to just take care of bodily needs -- you have to provide a way up, too.
Looks like the vc industry is becoming like the music industry. Select who you want to market...and market them.
Chrome on iOS doesn't use Blink because Apple doesn't allow it.
Apple may allow iOS Screen Sharing and Remote Control in the future
Not by a long shot. There were a lot of people that thought this might be the case, but there's a big difference between a webview and a native app in terms of performance, polish, and capabilities.
The story behind China's new tech billionaire (Jumei.com)
> If you care about having a codebase that is accessible to all levels of talent, then you should optimize for readable code.

"All levels of talent" is such a can of worms. No, not even in a team environment you should have all code accessible to all levels of talent. That's just a recipe failure.

Anyway, that isn't really relevant to the argument of how many characters you should use in a variable name.
...Which makes sure their stress is prolonged far more than 24 hours, at least according to my friends who work there.
Better title: I don't understand the difference between software and algorithms.
Salaried Google employees, officially at least, work a full-time schedule according to the local standard workweek, which varies by jurisdiction. That's 40 hours in the US/UK offices, 37 hours in the Denmark offices, 38 hours in the Australian offices, etc. And enneff's profile indicates he's in Australia.
It is beginning.
Or providing video to law enforcement on demand.
> resulting in less time typing and improved legibility

...and more time correcting the text that the IDE autocompleted wrongly.
No idea, but when I worked in a casino for several years you could see the APNG files being loaded during boot.
Hyperbole perhaps, but not nonsense. A photograph can be saved as a file on a computer. The file essentially just consists of instructions for displaying the photo. Does that mean photography === mathematical algorithms?

Or yesterday there was a frontpage story about a guy who spent 13 years of his life building a (pretty cool) freeware game. I'm not arguing that he should be able to patent the mechanisms of the game, but not because it's just one big "mathematical algorithm". That's ridiculous; it's a work of art.

To use the example from the article, any design must be described with a sequence of words. You can't patent a sequence of words, so all patents should be invalid. To me, that's not much more of a stretch than saying that all software is simply a collection of mathematical algorithms. Perhaps literally true in a sense, but essentially meaningless.

Edit: By the way, since the perfect patent system is probably a pipe dream, I expect the world would be better off if software patents were abolished. I just don't believe this particular argument holds much water.
Philosophy and Technology, a paper about Heidegger, by Dreyfuss.
How can we get meaning and commitment back into
our lives once we have gotten into the passionless, reflective attitude we are now in?
Distractions are definitely a big part of what slows me down and often causes typos - it's like any time something changes on the screen, it causes an interrupt that consumes "CPU cycles". I've found that I can type the fastest if I read ahead, then close my eyes or look away while typing, and only look again when I'm almost done typing what I last read.

I actually find the >100wpm test much easier than the actual races, since the accuracy there doesn't have to be 100%, and there's no distracting changes on the screen except for the text I'm typing, so I just push myself to hit the right keys as fast as I can read the text without actually looking to see what I typed. In the actual races I usually score in the 130-150wpm range and my best is around 170, whereas in the test I get consistently 190-220 with 93-95% accuracy. On that test my bests are 188wpm with 100% accuracy, and 242wpm with 95% accuracy.
So you could use YO like you would a missed call, maybe to get around the charge of a text, but if you're on a smartphone, there's already plenty of free texting apps. WhatsApp, Line, Telegram… You can just send short messages though those instead. They aren't any more expensive…
> Are you implying that without government, we as a society would be unable to educate people?

Well I don't have to imply you just have to show a few example of a successful world renown university run completely outside the control of a government. There are example of successful higher education institutions controlled and sponsored by governments. Western Europe has those example.

> The fear of failure that universities don't experience now.

Again, can you show one single example of a university outside the control of government that accomplishes and is driven by this mythical fear.

> "Harsh capitalism" solves that problem

Be honest now, have you been reading some Ayn Rand? That is fiction you know that, right?
Also make sure you are compiling with optimizations on.
How does a dishwasher work? GoPro goes for a spin
I saw examples like this over and over when I worked with Government, and it's ultimately what pushed me to embrace libertarianism. Government usually has great intentions, but those intentions are often overwhelmed by the perverse micro incentives of the human beings, driven by basic human nature, who run everything at the ground level.
> There is nothing in the words "replica" or "secondary" that implies the "primary" controls the others.

rep·li·ca
[rep-li-kuh]
noun
1. a copy or reproduction of a work of art produced by the maker of the original or under his or her supervision.
2. any close or exact copy or reproduction.

Things we would call replicas cannot exist without an original. But you're right, there's no control involved in the word. Could you please explain how replication involves a primary controlling replicas, or perhaps how the absence of a controlling primary node matters?
What, they had microscopes thousands of years ago? TIL
I don't know what this article was trying to convey.

Valuations are a subjective airy-fairy number and, in reality, based on the strategic need of a buying entity. For example, when I was in the process of selling my last business I had 3 offers. 2 offers were from companies that wanted me obviously but didn't need me strategically, therefore their valuations were low. The 3rd offer was from a company who had a hole in their product-line and my tools fit perfectly in that hole, hence their perception of my company's value was much higher.

So find businesses which have a strategic need (or convince them of such need). Also, I would assume but have no evidence that strategic acquisitions have a higher success ratio than purely financial acquisitions.

And just like salespeople should 'always be closing', business owners should 'always be exiting'.
You think that we need patents to disseminate ideas widely? That's a faulty premise.
> “Everyone tells me to just pick something,” she says, “but I don’t know what to pick.”

Why is this not the obvious and glaring problem? After four years of going to a college with doubtlessly many opportunities, and she doesn't even know what she enjoys?
I came here to talk a little about Yo. I was one of the original people to "hack" the app and updated the message to say "Tweet #YoBeenHacked" at about 3AM EST on June 20th. This is the hashtag that has sense been used. Approximately 15 minutes after doing this, I received a call from Or, the founder and CEO of Yo. Or, Chris, and I talked for about an hour and fixed a few issues then. From that point on, the message could not be updated.

The issues with Yo were not entirely Or's fault. As he put it, the app was intended as a "prototype" and had it not blown up so fast, this would not have been an issue. A common claim is "You have 1 million dollars, hire someone to fix this!" which Or had already done. A meeting with the parse team had already been scheduled long before today and had everyone tried to hack the app today, the attempts would fail. During this meeting Parse's Security team, Or and I fixed the security issues. I would be happy to answer any other questions, post below.

During the conversation Chris and I were both offered freelance jobs. Chris declined, I accepted. I currently am working on a feature for Yo to update your username.
There is a lot of government involvement in American universities, but in weird pseudo-market ways, like grant programs (to institutions) and subsidized loans (to students). They're not a good example of the non-market model, which is much simpler: public universities, funded by tax money, staffed by civil servants, charging no tuition. Some U.S. states had this model through the 1970s, and it worked fine. Parts of Europe still have it, and it works fine, too.

I've been at both American and Danish universities, and the American universities today really do not seem progressive to me. Many professors will claim to be left-ish, sure, but structurally the universities are not run according to a traditional public-service model, and are not internally egalitarian. Their structure, with tons of administrators, large pay differences, odd systems of performance reviews, people job-hopping for pay raises, administrators desperately looking for revenue, etc., reminds me of American corporations more than it reminds me of public service. Just the pay inequality in itself is shocking, more like corporate levels than civil-service levels. An American Dean's salary might be twenty times or more what a PhD student is paid, and professors' salaries might differ by 2-4x even within just the tenure-track segment. In Denmark the entire range from "highest paid professor" to "lowest paid PhD student" is maybe 2.5x, and professors' salaries are on a boring civil-service scale with about 30% variation. This already makes the American environment much more like a company: competitive, hierarchical, not really egalitarian, big focus on revenues (for the institution) and salary/advancement (for the employee).

There are admittedly things the American university model does do well; it's well regarded in research, for example. But one thing it is not, is a straightforward public system along the lines of what a social-democratic government might run. (One might say the same about the healthcare system, for that matter.)
I'm not sure how this is relevant to Hacker News.
Not really that funny. Most humans aren't brands. They change opinions and views based on new information.
It did happen, there is even a movie about it

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1862079
How far out is servo from being the mainline Firefox renderer? A year? More? Pie-in-the-sky?
The Emperor has no clothes.
>'d fear any language provided build tool would risk becoming, like the python standard library, the place where modules go to die....

I used to think this, but Go changed my mind. Like Go or not, its an excellent example of awesome tooling.

Go run/build/install/vet/test make my life to much easier than it used to be in Java/C/++ world (and C# tool because I'm not enslaved to VS for my teams tooling).
Satellogic Aims To Launch A Constellation Of Small Satellites Around Earth
Second note: this Kiva is also not the company producing automated robots servicing select Amazon Fullfilment Centers
that seems as if it'd be true for any surface that makes use of the three dimensional shape/properties of the surface.
Additionally, securing Parse requires setting an ACL. This is not a huge deal but many apps do not. If you use Parse, please check your ACL.
How was the Yo app hacked to play sounds('rick roll') that weren't originally in the app binary?
If BI happens, there will be an entire art form developed on how to live happily on $15k/adult/year. This is already taking place (e.g. Mr. Money Mustache lives a comfortable middle-class livestyle with his wife and son on $27k/year).

I consider this a good thing.
Is there a reason why you don't do 40 hours a week?
Also I really like your idea about working with other consultants. That may be what I try to do first (especially since I'm not a front-end dev)
I had the same feeling when people suggested using completely random UUIDs for things like cookies and transactions.
This really looks like a problem with the Windows implementation of std::chrono::steady_clock more than anything else. This clock is nano-second resolution on most *nix platforms (incl. Mac OS X) and offers the strictly increasing guarantee required (without possibility of discontinuities).

It seems like (in the long term) it would be better to push some std::chrono::steady_clock Windows patches to stdlibc++/libc++/MSVC and use this instead of re-inventing the wheel.
I'm assuming you mean it uses less class heirachies and more composition. Is this correct?
Hi, I’m a Tablet. I’ll Be Your Waiter Tonight.
Search 'Friday news dump'

From the West Wing - http://politicaldictionary.com/words/friday-news-dump/

Donna: What’s take out the trash day?
Josh: Friday.
Donna: I mean, what is it?
Josh: Any stories we have to give the press that we’re not
wild about, we give all in a lump on Friday.
Donna: Why do you do it in a lump?
Josh: Instead of one at a time?
Donna: I’d think you’d want to spread them out.
Josh: They’ve got X column inches to fill, right? They’re
going to fill them no matter what.
Donna: Yes.
Josh: So if we give them one story, that story’s X column
inches.
Donna: And if we give them five stories …
Josh: They’re a fifth the size.
Donna: Why do you do it on Friday?
Josh: Because no one reads the paper on Saturday.
Donna: You guys are real populists, aren’t you?

There are also other reasons, maybe they were rushing to complete the deal by EOD, if you try to keep it quiet over the weekend, might leak out in a haphazard way, want to release outside market hours, etc.

Not too coincidentally, a lot of the SEC filings with really bad news seem to happen in the last minute of filing activity on Friday. (Not that this particular announcement is very material or bad news)
We are running these in OnMetal: http://www.lsi.com/products/flash-accelerators/pages/nytro-w...

Reliability is similar to an SSD. The underlying storage tech is basically the same: some flash chips, with a controller that handles wear leveling and so on. Just that instead of running operations through a SATA controller it uses the PCIe bus, which offers higher bandwidth and lower latency.

Interestingly, Apple is shipping PCIe flash in all (I think) of their latest laptops.
UChicago spent $446M on academic salaries, $889M on staff salaries and $338M on benefits (not broken out into academic vs non-academic) in the the 2011-2012 fiscal year that Zimmer's compensation temporarily spiked to $3M. It is safe to say that over $1B was spent on non-academic salary and benefits (administration), which dwarfs both Zimmer's compensation and the $3M operating deficit.

http://finserv.uchicago.edu/pdf/2012FinState.pdf
Or came to the conclusion those people changed the binary and that they were on jailbroken devices. Those videos were faked so to say.
Every Senior V.A. Executive Was Rated ‘Fully Successful’ or Better Over 4 Years
Google's Nest Acquires Dropcam
Sure, and you can find low volume prices here: http://cmp.imag.fr/products/ic/?p=prices
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Oh, I see, just plain SSDs with PCIe instead of SATA. Yes, that seems logical.
Totally agree with you. So called perks like gaming consoles are a bit silly indeed, and would fit his point better. But food is different, as we all need to eat.
Jumping (GOTO) out of a subroutine directly back to a label in the main code.

RPG.

Sorting months by alpha name.
TL;DR version: Physicist thinks time travellers are obsessed with one particular Pope and/or some non significant comet.
Yes, you're correct that Zimmer's compensation is less than the total salaries of every other person employed by the university.

I guess we can argue about the meaning of the word "significant" now.
No way is 28nm cheaper than 32nm per chip. Even though the die size shrinks, the process is much more expensive.

Also, s/waffles/wafers/
So many people commenting here don't seem to have read the article. His comment is that Java can't connect to an SSL encrypted URL out of the box. He is saying that because it can't do this it can't be used for a basic command line app. He isn't complaining that it is hard to write a command line app in Java.

He is trying to load this URL:
https://keybase.io/_/api/1.0/user/autocomplete.json?q=someth...

This URL is not self signed and loads fine as a valid cert in a browser. In the Java application it throws an exception about a bad handshake. I believe this is because Java 7 and 8 ship with less trusted certificate authorities than browsers do.

I forked his project and made it easy to run via the command line without Android if anyone wants to try it out:
https://github.com/teacurran/KeybaseLib

Just clone the repo and execute "./run.sh something"
>His point was that the Python source code does not get interpreted, it gets compiled to bytecode that gets interpreted by a bytecode interpreter (a VM).

My point was almost every mainstream interpreter does this (and has been for decades). So him saying "Python... was an interpreted language. While not completely wrong, it is not entirely true either." is confusing and inaccurate. It is completely true that Python is interpreted (and like almost every other interpreted language its the bytecode that is interpreted not the source code).

When I was doing my undergrad we had an assignment to write an interpreter, at the end of class our new assignment was to make it 10x faster. So we did this by converting the parse tree to bytecode rather than directly executing it as it parsed. It wasn't hard or advanced work.
You should try asking this question at growthhackers.com - there's folks who hang out there that have more experience with paid marketing.
While we're on the topic of economic cost, I wanted to mention economic value. For example, check out this article, "Accounting for the value of ecosystem services": http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0921800902...
40 hours of work per week!? Eight hours a day, five days a week, for every class?
Awesome, I hadn't realized this project was quite this far along. If they get PyPy 3.4/3.5 going with NumPy, it will make a really nice package. Fast Python code for the high-level logic, paired with fast low-level number crunching. This could also help speed up the adoption of Python 3.