skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd take it one step further - your VP of marketing should be an engineer.

The fastest companies I know today have a ton of engineers dedicated to their marketing efforts. It's not enough to have the best product. You have to be able to find and acquire customers in a affordable and repeatable way. A non-technical marketer will say "I was thinking about it all night, and I like this wording the best". A technical marketer will say, "I tested 100 variations and these 3 performed the best. Let's try and optimize them even more." That's not to say there isn't a place for creativity and intuitive decision making, but a good marketer will always be seeking data to validate their hypothesis.

If you don't have a technical VP of marketing, the engineers should report to the CTO and should treat the marketing team as their customer.
Marketing is one, but just fancy websites is not gonna cut it of course.

The PR guys at, say a company like Heineken, can spent a lot of money on TV advertisements. It would be great if a bit of that money can be spent on future technological products. Say, a robot that brings you beer on the beach. They have nice PR and the world has spent some more resources on developing technology, rather than cool computer graphics for a clip.

Of course, companies are already doing this more and more. Amazon's drones have been more marketing that anything else. I don't complain.

Anyway, I diverged.
If the Earth's magnetic field wasn't protecting the earth, even for a few minutes, tons of high energy particles from the sun would enter our atmosphere. That could be pretty shitty for life on Earth (even if it doesn't mass-extinct any species).
Common mistakes: Testing with xdebug enabled in one version or testing with opcache enabled in only one version.
> http://www.banterant.com/2013/08/homes-for-hackers-gets-visi...

Disappointing lack of common sense from these commenters.

The prior probability that someone has bugged your house isn't affected by their claiming to be an FBI agent and taking you out for coffee. That's because, if you secretly bug someone's house, it's a secret. They would be doing it either way. (Or not doing it, because what are you supposed to find exactly?)
I did this once, and was impressed with how intelligent, friendly, and helpful the collections agency was.

Unfortunately, billing responded to the collections agency by yanking the debt back from that collections agency and referring it to another, meaning I had to start all over again. I don't know if that's against the rules, but it didn't seem fair and certainly wasn't nice.
While I defend "disruption" as a thing, that happens sometimes, I don't think this is it.

What Apple and IBM have really done is join an ongoing movement, something that has been going on for years. People already have these iPhones in their pockets, these iPads on their desks, and they very naturally have been integrating them with their life-and-business processes.

Sure, Google would love to have the IOS cache, but this deal more reinforces IOS market dominance than "disrupts" it, the leader.
This used to exist - SearchWiki gave you the opportunity to either vote up a search result or to remove it entirely. Both of these actions would affect only your own results - there were vague plans to eventually use the data to improve ranking, but the spam/SEO implications were never solved.

Basically people just used it to kill experts-exchange.com. Usage was tiny otherwise, and the experts-exchange case was fixed when StackOverflow started getting traction and Panda put the final nail into experts-exchange's coffin.
I'm not seeing "a plethora of smiley faces and three periods at the end of sentences" in that image... :)
A detail I've noticed when compiling to JavaScript is that Kotlin is not a reserved word, and if you bind something to it, it breaks the generated JavaScript.

fun main(args : Array<String>) {

println("Hello, world!")

val Kotlin = 0

}

will result in a type error
Funny that they chose the penny because it's classically used in geology to combat the issue of scale in photographs, which it seems is an issue in Mars too.
I'm happy at least someone noticed that. It's not an easy sell to any communications person anywhere in the industry. :)
Introducing Source Han Sans: An open source Pan-CJK typeface
Sure - thank-you for asking!

TW provides a stream of unfiltered content focused on the technology vertical, allowing for easy browsing and serendipitous discovery.

TW also automatically tags every story and surfaces "trending" tags to highlight the notable news buried in the stream.

So - the goal is to provide a degree of the "here's what you should know today" view, but still provide a fun to scan, unfiltered view of technology news.

Lots of action today - tags that bubbled up today (July 15, 2014) included...

Net Neutrality http://techwatching.com/tag/neutrality
Yahoo! http://techwatching.com/tag/yahoo
IBM http://techwatching.com/tag/ibm

...and a bunch of others.
I know this is probably an unpopular idea but it seems like we set up so much infrastructure(intelligence agencies, the entire security industry, etc.) to create and secure private information that I feel like it creates an unnecessary economic burden and has an unnecessary psychological effect on people.

We as a society need to first trust a large entity(which obviously right now is not gonna happen) with as much personally identifying information as possible in the hopes of creating an authority and allowing us to navigate the "system" much more easily(like I said renewing a Driver's License, getting a welfare check more quickly, processing a zoning request more easily, getting a medical history, etc.).

After that happens, we should hopefully then feel okay about sharing that personal information publicly. Not a selective news feed like FB but the equivalent of a publicly available intelligence dossier on yourself that anyone(including yourself) has free access to. I know it seems crazy, but I really believe that's where it's headed anyway.

No more background checks or credit score checks or walled gardens etc. My current location, my current heart rate, my arrest record, all my google searches(eesh) my last mammogram or testicular cancer exam, etc. is on display for all(including myself) to check and find out instantly and for free. The world would collapse. Economies might actually collapse though.

Obviously, society is not ready for that sort of thing just yet, but that should have been the direction Google should have gone with Google+(or Google Identity or whatever they want to call it) eventually.

You can't index the world's information if most of it is "private".
Android is in the works! You can signup to be notified of progress : http://realm.us5.list-manage1.com/subscribe?u=2aab5198c2f56b...!
I think Kluny's point is the the emails were an incorrect use of the English language not an incorrect use of email.
I believe a bunch of ``high-profile game developers'' like Markus Persson livestream their screens & webcams during 'crash-programming' events like the Ludum Dare. (IIRC it was on Twitch or some clone of it?)

One of my buddies has livestreamed last-minute web/product development right before launch of some Kickstarter campaigns (which have turned out to be really successful).

I know of a guy who, at least for several months, had set up his office webcam as a constant, public livestream of his desk and face as he stared programming at the computer screen. I think he might still have it going.

Of course these are all kind of one-off things, and I don't know of any dedicated website.
These are fun JS "gotchas" but this article should be rebranded as such. Edge-case trivia are not useful interview questions for finding a solid developer.
If you're worried Google is tracking you through chrome, you might consider switching to a more privacy centric browser you can trust, like Firefox.
Holy shit TIL. You may have just saved my life. Thank you!
Down With America's Kid-Competition Complex
I knew I had played a game like this in the past, thanks for finding it!
Those programs are going to do gangbusters on iOS - I can feel it!

Why do you think for a second that any of that stuff should, would or can go on an iPhone. At least Lotus Notes is a client.
Does this mean Realm would be usable for Xamarin-based apps in the near future?
> I don't think it's a tough argument that conservatives would be opposed to it,

Well, lots of conservatives (including 2/5 of the FCC) are entirely opposed to any regulation toward neutrality, whether under Title I or Title II or any other basis (and, in fact, many support Congress acting to eliminate any potential basis under which the FCC might adopt pro-neutrality regulations), so, sure, the proposed conservative opposition is not controversial at all (OTOH, its not much a basis for opposing any particular approach if you support the goal of neutrality regulation, since there is strong conservative opposition to the idea of pro-neutrality regulation, independent of the specific authority or mechanism.)
Nice work, thanks for posting.
This is a variation on the game of life.
Newegg aggressively promotes Bitcoin with 10% discount
You're right. In my case, I only use HN on mobile as a time-killer, cruising through interesting articles and emailing myself the ones that catch my interest. I don't get down and dirty until I'm on a desktop.
Let me guess: it's another example of GOP wishful-thinking, where it just happens to gerrymander away a lot of CA's electoral votes?

/me checks article and looks at map

Yep. The only section that would reliably vote against the GOP would be "silicon valley" due to it being mostly urban areas. The Sacramento and urban LA areas are questionable.

While (current) CA as been a reliable block of electoral votes votes for some time, it there the state has a lot more "rural voters" than most people expect.

Precinct heat map for 2008 Obama/McCain:

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/4362/statewidevote.gif

The same map skewed so area is proportional to #votes cast. The giant blue area on the left is roughly the "silicon valley" subdivision, and LA 3 of the eastern subdivisions are mostly the lighter-blue/lighter-read areas.

http://img43.imageshack.us/img43/3248/statewidevoteadjustedb...

It's not like it would happen anyway. Does LA really want to start paying us in the norther half of the state for all the water we would then be "exporting"? Not going to happen.

edit: fixed URL
Life Without Cars
Moving faster with data streams: The rise of Samza at LinkedIn
Just bootstrap and jquery! Here's a link to the repo: https://github.com/gorried/inverter
What? I thought zip and png use the same compression algorithm.
Awesome.

As good as Realm looks for iOS, I think it might be needed more in Android as there are no really viable alternatives other than using sql lite directly.
Presumably the terms used are locale-dependent (G+ is pretty well localized)...

[and as noted in other comments, it allows mononyms as well, for everybody]
tmux supports everything you just described.
fuck market cap. (Apple: $574.75B, IBM: $190.79B)

look at net income.

For the three months ended 29 March, Apple had $10.223B in net income. For roughly the same quarter (ending 31 March), IBM had $2.384B.

Apple is carrying $18.949B in cash and cash equivalents (though most of this is locked-up overseas), and another $22.401B in short-term marketable securities.

IBM is carrying $9.409B in cash and cash equivalents, and a mere $295M in markable securities.
Thank you! That's awesome. I'll put it on my TODO to send you $10 in the next week or so for the cost of the cert.
How to become a dinosaur
I see the same kinds of things myself. It takes execs with vision and talented people in the shop. But if someone's got it, man is it nice to work with them.
I have to agree. This gentleman seems a bit confused. I imagine a virtual livestock auction is something you'd want to utilize all the bandwidth you've paid your provider for and not risk being on a slow lane if the auction provider hasn't paid off your particular ISP. He seems to be advocating a market-based solution, but doesn't conceed that here is no competition.
Still not really a statement about accuracy...
By writing a snarky response, you have missed the chance to learn something from someone (the grandparent commenter) who seems to be better-informed than you on this topic.

The press release pretty clearly positions Apple devices as front-ends for IBM's big data and cloud offerings.

E.g., compute some "big data analytic" on the IBM server and view it in a dashboard on a mobile Apple device; or interact with client records or job tickets stored in IBM's cloud.
It does have a few capabilities that would make it (unlike the F-35) quite useful in Canada or Australia.

Twin engines: lose one and you should be able to nurse the plane home.

Awesome range: Canada and Australia have long borders to patrol and as a tandem seater allows for a pilot and spotter. A very cost efficient platform compared to the P-8 which probably costs similar to the E-7 to operate. (45k/hour)

Unmanned: They plan to offer an unmanned version which could give you far more range than a Reaper.
I'm honestly still surprised that YouTube has a dislike button. It must be incredibly important to their algorithms there.

But I'm 95% sure Google+ will never get a dislike button, much like Facebook. Dislike buttons don't belong in social media platforms. They sow disappointment and hurt egos (e.g. karma on reddit).
IBM is already in the accounts, and the accounts want iPads.
Rapture 2.0
Government report finds Gay and Bisexual Americans are more honest
Sorry to hear, I totally didnt think about that when I was testing :P
Unfortunately, our yacht club was not equipped with a time ball.
On the contrary, there are plenty of applications for these, and other IBM enterprise software, with Apple/iOS.

http://www.ibm.com/mobilefirst/us/en/
Until its been accepted (it hasnt) it shouldn't be called any version number.

So my comment is correct, the title is not.
The article said that it was previously expected in ~2000 years, then mentioned that the rate is about 10x faster. Assuming (quite possibly erroneously) that the relationship is linear and both of these factoids are accurate, that puts the change on the order of ~200 years.

So it doesn't seem likely that most of us will live to see it. That said, I understood it to be a gradual process and I thought there was a time of little to no magnetic field while it's shifting, which might be disconcerting.

Hopefully it's just a matter of securing power lines and hardening satellites, but I'm not sure whether anyone has studied this in much depth.
I wanted to like Google+. Hell, I still want to like Google+. And it's still better than Facebook in some ways, IMO. But there are just a couple of nagging issues that are such big turn-offs that I can't stand visiting G+.

For one, the two-column stream layout is a steaming pile of shit with no rhyme or reason to the layout and selection of items you see. And the single-column layout wastes so much space with those huge empty spaces on either side of the stream, that it just about drives me batshit crazy.

Add in the fact that they have shown zero interest in giving the world a usable API, and no support for open standards (no RSS/Atom, no OpenSocial, no ActivityStrea.ms, no FOAF, etc.) and G+ - for me - falls so far short of its potential.

It makes me sad, as I was really hoping Google would come along and give us a truly awesome alternative to Facebook and they fumbled the ball.
I'm sorry, I'm missing the point.
I'm not sure why you think this dystopian vision you have wouldn't be horrible. It would have massive chilling effects on nearly everyone's behavior, since it would be incredibly efficient to seek out and socially punish anyone with transgressive viewpoints.

Protecting your privacy is worth it, and despite what you think, there are strategies that are likely to help protect quite a bit of it, if the impetus becomes strong enough.
Here's what I did. Even before getting an order or making a pitch, I pre-designed five Chinese restaurant websites. I sourced the images, wrote the copy and made a sample menu -everything. The websites were beautiful.

Where ever the restaurant's name was supposed to be, I put "YOUR NAME HERE".

After I completely finished the websites (it was a lot of work), I SEO'd them for local search.

Once all five websites ranked in the top 10, I went and visited every Chinese restaurant in town with a pitch and printed screenshots of each of the websites.

I told the owners if they wanted a website, they could choose one of the five. They were already online, ranking high on Google, and phone calls for orders like sweet and sour pork were already coming in on my personal line!

Their new website was ready for them to take over, right away. No waiting, no cognitive dissonance, they could have it same-day. Instant gratification!

I priced the websites cheap too, several hundred bucks. A steal.

Surprisingly, I didn't sell one. Not one. I practically gave one away for a bubble tea (I was so thirsty from pounding the pavement). Maybe Chinese restaurants weren't the right market. Should have gone with lawyers.

So I tried to rent the websites for only $25 a month. Their company name would be on the website as long as they kept up with the monthly payment. I thought it was a novel idea.

Again, not one order.

Moral of the story? There are two. 1) Wait until you get intent to buy and a deposit before working on a website and 2) don't put your personal phone number on a fake Chinese restaurant website unless you want phone calls from drunk people at one in the morning.
That doesn't count. It's closing file descriptors before exec (and in one case, before doing some tightly-scoped work). It has nothing to do with closing all file descriptors, then expecting to use arbitrary third-party libraries.
This sounds like we need a change in how marketing is approached - you don't need to be an engineer to do A/B testing. I would be more worried that there are simply very few great marketers with an engineering background, due to filtering - and the fact that engineers generally don't have any incentive to go into marketing.
Lotus Notes is the devil. Jesus Christ, I hate it. They need to kill Lotus Notes, really the only valuable thing from it I feel is Sametime, but that can stand by itself.
As I said, this isn't happening in a vacuum. Silicon Valley sees this issue as a "necessary exception" to a generally "hands off" regulatory regime as to the internet, as Sam Altman articulated the other day, but I think this is more subtle than how your average politician views the situation. Selling this as a party-line, regulation versus deregulation issue is easy.

To highlight what I see as an impedance mismatch between Silicon Valley and Washington, take YC's comment to the FCC. There is a line in there "we should treat the telcos like the utilities they are" or something to that effect. That resounds here on HN, but made me cringe. The failures of utility regulation are a source of embarrassment to both sides of the aisle. Whether we're talking about rolling brownouts or ancient sewer systems dumping waste into rivers, nobody is really happy with how utilities are regulated in the U.S. So why evoke that association? You're guaranteed to alienate all but the hardcore "consumer protection" contingent of liberals, which are a dying breed.
Ask HN: How much revenue can cars potentially  make for Google?
I just read about the Alan Mulally Google appointment and can't help but wonder if automobiles are a serious play for Google. I suspect that Google's car plan may turn out to be more like air traffic control and computer assisted flight control. A sort of transportation "internet" for assisting drivers to move more safely and efficiently.

Out of curiosity, how much could Google potentially make a year in revenue if through consumer sales and government contracts they are able to install software that assists the drivers of cars? Billions, millions, or red numbers? This is all speculation but I'm thinking things like automatic accident avoidance, vehicle deceleration, evasive maneuvering and traffic control without traditional traffic lights can all be greatly enhanced by computer networks and AI.
Three words to follow up with: Class Action Lawsuit
http://www.millslawfirm.com/classaction.html
This is a feature steam added that I really liked.

1. You have a canonical URL that identifies the user.

2. The user can have any name they want, and the name will only change if you are in a chat room, adding a (2) if they are a duplicate name.

3. Finally, you can add tags and a nickname (separately) so you can always see whatever name YOU assign to the person and the person in question can represent themselves anyway they want.

Steam is one of the few social networks I participate in because I truly believe it adds some value to the basic digital distribution model. Say what you will about the ability to resell games or DRM or what have you, it is a compelling product.
http://www.goldcoastoutfitters.com/node/705
Vic has been particularly offensive about this. The restaurant analogy comes to mind. He also stonewalled for a long time, was kind of a dick about it, and refused to budge when presented with evidence. If something magically made him change his mind, I would love to know what it was.

That said, do you know what evidence made Vic push the names policy in the first place?
Sorry if the title was misleading. While better is a very subjective term, I meant nimrod to better in the sense that, while Rust ans Go are amazing languages, I believe they do not do anything to make programming and understanding code easier. Nimrod makes an a better attempt at simplifying syntax and making distribution easier than Rust or Go.
As others state, they do not seem to mark up. In fact, sometimes prices are adjusted after placing the order to reflect a discount.
The last sentence is debatable. IBM Design and certain other groups with IBM Software Group have Macs. Systems doesn't though.
I applaud their effort, and I sincerely wish them success...

But this is the medical equivalent of Notepad. It is lacking a ton of critical features, which makes it inadequate for almost any real use cases.

The regulatory burden is substantially lower when you don't have much functionality.

Also, $2 per case is way too expensive for what they're offering.

Source: I worked in competing products for a decade.

EDIT: Looks like they're moving in a decent direction, though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8038386

EDIT EDIT: I'm not as impressed with the "volume rendering" as I wanted to be. So, time will tell. I wish them luck.
I can totally see XKEYSCORE being run remotely off an iPad. The sort of places that run IBM stuff will run away screaming from running "big data analytics" from, nevermind viewing results on, an iOS device.

Trust me I've learned all there is to learn about IBM software - while working there.
The author didn't cite any sources but I suspect they were alluding to the fact that we know (roughly) when the field reversals happened in the recent past, and we also know when the mass extinctions were, and one can then see that the field reversals don't tend to cause mass extinctions.

I guess the main reason is that the Earth's atmosphere also provides a lot of radiation protection, regardless of what the magnetic field is doing.
+1, must also mention oct2py, the Python to GNU Octave bridge, that runs m-files from python. Some matlab legacy m-files may be rescued in this way.

Sage and IPython are alternatives, too.
http://www.sagemath.org/
http://ipython.org/