skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...especially for code that's macro heavy. It's easy to have code where a macro is including a memset to protect some invariant. The compiler can see the bigger picture and realizes that the memset target isn't actually read from again in this case.
Looks quite nice. There's a video showing the new stuff at http://thenextweb.com/dd/2014/09/04/wordpress-4-0-arrives-em...
Video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OadhuICDAjk
Nars2000: An Experimental APL Interpreter
This practice is (was?) fairly common in Moscow. It's been a decade since my last visit, perhaps no longer. I knew many single women felt comfortable with these renegade taxis, with a far lower price.
The reason that I'm optimizing those sentences away is, they aren't pulled back into the central question. I take as my central question: why is walking better than sitting for some kinds of intellectual problems? That first quote doesn't connect to that question (it says that there may be differences between different sorts of locomotion), nor does the second quote (which doesn't distinguish walking from sitting), nor does the third (it tries to distinguish city-walking from garden-walking but not walking from sitting). Heart rate was the only thing I saw which actually seemed to answer that question of, "why does walking help us think?" as opposed to "how should I walk, so as to think better?"

But my point was more, "I was hoping for some science," really.
Unfortunately I do not have experience in billboard advertising. However, I do have experience in massive companies (they suck) as a Software Engineer and I've realized how little they actually know about their own products and the data associated with it. You could probably contact Clear Channel trying to advertise with them and just ask for simple data like expected eye balls/views and population etc. If they have absolutely no idea then you have your answer that there might be a market for this. Your market might not even been the billboard company but rather someone trying to advertise. If I were to advertise I would want some data behind the advertising platform along with some way to track its effectiveness. I assume you are the same @bduerst?
I would say that it, induces creativity because it forces you into a different mindset. Even if it is a placebo for general creativity, it still puts you into a different state of mind which can change the way you approach things. Whether your are more creative or not you will approach issues differently.
Tivoli Systems, where I worked, went public in 1996. Not long after that it was acquired by IBM (which bought control of the company through a tender offer for the shares). 26 or 27 of the original employees of the company made over one million dollars. Even the administrative assistant, hired in the early years, was able to pay off her house.
I definitely agree with you, but I also like a term from the article: the founders were long-term greedy rather than short-term greedy. They were willing to give millions to their employees in exchange for what I can only assume to be life-long loyalty and an unbeatable reputation. For someone who wants to stay in the industry for the next 10-20 years and found more companies, that could very well end up being worth far more than the money given up in the deal to employees.
It's also caused the extinction of many things. I don't know if that's really the winning track.
It works like that in Latin America and parts of the former Eastbloc. The drivers tend to be totally manic, trips are erratic, cancelled suddenly, accidents are frequent and the equipment totally unsafe.

Each trip like that is a mini adventure, and I'm always happy to be back on terra firma afterwards.

Even in places like Panama (not exactly known for it's super infrastructure) they are trying to get rid of them ('Diablos Rojos') for these reasons.
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They have something similar to this at banks (Though without the extra cash) It's called PDA or primary duty absence and it's designed to catch internal bank fraud. Usually people take a vacation and then also do a couple weeks working in another department or role. Normally all your primary accounts are disabled for this period of time as well.
Good points, but one thing to keep in mind - a lot of people just enjoy working at smaller companies.

I did some time at a large financial institution making great money, but absolutely hated how empty it all felt. Nothing got done, nothing changed, nobody listened to me.

I work at a much smaller company now, and almost everything I do on a daily basis has a measurable impact. I can literally watch the things me and my team do increase the bottom line. I derive value from this myself, as it allows me to grow my team, hire new employees, give people responsibility of their own, etc.
What does wordpress have that something like Ghost doesn't? Working with wordpress is a real pain, it's code is not what I would want to dig into a friday afternoon. Why is wordpress still popular?
Yeah I have this problem as well. It's very CPU intensive.
>I stated that if one has less money than someone else, they are much more likely to have to deal with things like being assaulted or killed or going without enough to eat etc.

So just to clarify, there's a lot of Harvard and Dartmouth graduates (in non-economics) going without enough to eat, are there?
It enhances silly fascination with almost anything, but certainly not focus.
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There are an awful lot of themes and plugins? I was at a talk the other day where some guys had built quite a good support social network for MS sufferers using Wordpress and Buddypress (shift.ms) in spite of not being programmers. I dunno if there's another platform where they could have done as well?
Talk from Justine Barber of Poppy Barley on Starting a Product Company
Do you happen to have anything written on comparing modern FreeBSD with Linux (either kernel vs kernel or FreeBSD vs say Debian)?
As someone who uses Wordpress daily at my job... Gosh I wish it would die already. Any sort of development is so damned painful. Things like VersionPress and Thermal API are making it less crap, but it's still so bad that we've been working on a way to inject Wordpress into Laravel (with a neat storage driver that will keep your mapped models in Wordpress' backend). It's made our latest project far simpler and more powerful.
I've had a couple of interactions with the NYPD, and it's never been polite or deferential. It wouldn't surprise me if it's on average worse for non-Asian minorities, but don't think that being white will keep you safe.

Bodycams can help protect all of us from the cops.
I think it changes from person to person. I have friends who get much more work done when stoned. If I am I can't get a single thing done and just zone out all the time.
By his logic: Why would you want to tinker with something that's already perfect?
"once a given company "wins" it's a pretty safe bet that they're begin to act like any of the legacy transportation companies."

That's pretty much all anyone needs to know about this "disruptive" business thing. In fact, Uber has already worked with municipalities to change the regulations to allow their business model, but not others.

Once they are in, they will fight just as hard as any other taxi or town car company to keep the competitors out.
How do I know that I'd be surprised? Lots of introspection, mostly.
Blogging and writing about JavaScript
I refuse to take any new upgrade seriously until they fix the galleries. The whole galleries concept is broken, and though every time they build new eye candy upon that same unbearably broken concept.
Dammit.
OMG Markdown
> In the 1960s, the hardware that comprised the byzantine switching systems of the first electronic phone networks would occasionally cause a misdial. Instead of revealing the mistake by disconnecting or playing an error message, engineers decided the least obtrusive way to handle these glitches was to allow the system to go ahead and patch the call through to the wrong number. Adar says most people just assumed the error was theirs, hung up, and redialed. “The illusion of an infallible phone system was preserved,” he writes in the paper.

Then later:

> One relatively benign class of examples occurs when an operating system fails in some way and a piece of software is programmed to cover up the glitch. The misdials of the early phone switching system fall into this category.

Really, that depends how you're covering it up. The case of the telephone network is clearly malicious. It didn't do much harm, but it was harmful, and the benefit was all for the owner of the phone network: they basically caused more mis-dials than was necessary, wasting people's time in the process… then they tell the users it's their fault! (The lie was by omission, but no less efficient.)

Even in cases where short-terms benefits are clear, like placebo buttons or progress bars, I fear the lack of trust that it could pose long term. People already see their computers as independent thinking agents. Some of them are afraid of their computer, but use it anyway because they've become so dependent. Deceitful interfaces will likely reinforce this learned helplessness.

This kind of insidious, diffuse damage may be far worse than any observable benefits. The end doesn't justify the means when the remedy is worse than the curse.
I wonder how this would have played out differently if cab companies developed decent "hail by mobile" apps. Hell, they still can: mobile app design isn't that hard/expensive, and they can just use mobile phones like Uber.

The opportunity still exists for them to do so. Uber is really not all that novel in what it does: at the end of the day, its main use case is to be able to hail a cab with your phone and verify said cab is coming to pick you up.

But the author is right; this service is a commodity. Uber has been trying to differentiate through platform lock-in, but cab drivers will do anything to make a buck. Short of anti-competitive practices (which Uber has certainly had no shortage of) there's no good way to ensure your drivers don't leave you at the drop of a hat when something else pops up.
I totally agree with you. it seems that having a family is aliability for the startup world, however, my experience is that families give you a special resilence than others don't have.

Keep up and good luck ;)
I believe it was Steve Kent's The Ultimate History of Video Games Atari portion that really fleshes out Steve Jobs. The two anecdotes I remember are:

1. People in Atari generally considering him an oderous hairy hippie who once disappeared from work to go to India for self-enlightenment, but returned with Hepatitis.

2. He (Steve) was once offered $100 per transistor he could eliminate below the 100-transistor mark for an arcade game (I believe it was mid 150 count at the time), so he went to Woz and paid him on the order of $100 to eliminate the transistors (Woz was woefully unaware of the deal between Steve and Atari). Woz got it down in the low 30's or high 20's, Steve got the large sum of money and Atari wound up adding transistors back because while it worked they couldn't figure out how.
I think the contrast is to the complaints we often hear when a top financial position is an ex-Goldman exec. Or in general when a top regulator is recruited from the industry they will soon regulate.

In those cases too, you could say "well, how else would you rather they fill those spots?" And yes, it is likely the a Goldman exec would have lots of expertise in the financial sector, so it's a natural place to recruit from.

Still in both those cases, and with Google here, there are large potential conflicts of interest. People that complain about Goldman execs in Washington will also complain about this appointment, and there are valid reasons for such complaints.
This talk is about how I change from blogging about philosophy (and Ruby) to JavaScript. Parts of the blog resulted into my new book http://pipefishbook.com/
Worlds Together Worlds Apart (http://amzn.to/1rzYmUg)
Yep, that license seems to apply to the code.

Now we get into the question of whether an abstract API can be copyrighted -- we all assumed no, although the Oracle v. Google case (about Java), suggested an abstract API could be copyrighted. With, most of HN thinks, fairly disastrous consequences if that holds as law, although I think it's probably going to be litigated more.

I frankly doubt Gruber was assuming that his abstract (poorly specified!) API for Markdown could be copyrighted. And almost everyone on HN seemed to think it would be disastrous if that were the case regarding Java; it would be somewhat hypocritical if the same people think it somehow ought to be the case regarding Markdown.
I really liked Coral Common Lisp. After I ported the ISI Grapher package to Coral, I gave my Xerox 1108 Lisp Machine to a colleague.

Clozure Common Lisp is very nice, but for some reason I usually use SBCL (and rarely Franz or clisp). I used SBCL (with QuickLisp) for the last edition of my Common Lisp book, BTW.

If there had been very good free versions of Common Lisp 20+ years ago, then I think the language would be more popular today. I think the same is true of Smalltalk. Today Pharo Smalltalk really is a wonderful programming environment and it is free. In the 1980s and 1990s it was very expensive to get a Smalltalk programming environment.
Avoiding Command Injection in Node.js
Facilitating arguments about Star Trek was one of the primary motivating factors in the development of the internet.
An ecosystem and the fact that it powers 18% of the web.
Almost as cool as naming one after your Dad:

http://www.topdino.com/tanyindex.html
The vast, vast majority of people who work with wordpress never have to see the code, beyond some settings in a config file. You have to not think about it as a developer and think about it as a consumer who just wants "a site" with themes and plugins that "just work" (and with wordpress, they mostly do.)

Although as a developer, I agree - the code is pretty awful, even for PHP. But... small business owners, bloggers and such couldn't care less about that.
“$100? You're kidding me” or, fairness with in-app purchases
A bit of quantization (automatically aligning notes to the beat) would really improve this. Not sure how computationally feasible that is though.
Thanks for linking that. It's always interesting to see posts from several years ago and reflect on how things turned out (if you go up a few parents you can see discussion about tarsnap and dropbox makes a brief appearance).
The grant itself requires board approval, so that isn't a huge roadblock. The bigger issue is how much leverage you have. If you're experienced and they need you, getting double-trigger acceleration shouldn't be an issue, and it can't hurt to at least ask for single-trigger...
Never ever, ever build a service that is 100% dependent on another service that you don't have alternatives for and never use someone else's trademark in order to leverage your business. That's two fatal mistakes in one go, they should be rather surprised that they held on this long. But maybe the 'user outrage' will be enough to get twitter to buy them, though - assuming twitter isn't dumb - that would be a bad move because that would lead to hundreds of copycat attempts.
Fun fact: Mojang bought Bukkit. (@jeb_ tweeted the other day. This notice states that bukkit uses Minecraft's code without permission, and it did at one point. Now, though, as Mojang owns both, I think it should be allowed. Oh, and a Mojang employee (Dinnerbone) has stated he will be updating it to support 1.8.
Too late to edit, but I'd like to add that "for your wife" would be as bad as "for wives", outside of a context where you are talking to a specific person and you know they have a wife who would be interested.
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Ask HN:

So, I'm the sole founder here with investor. The dude's awesome, but the contract we signed puts me in significant financial risk if the company doesn't turn up profitable.

I have more than several employees (some of them will probably read this) who I pay regular and competitive money though I'm not particulary pleased with their output (but hey, it's improving, and there's not much of a talent pool here). Most work on their hourlies, and if milestones/deadlines are not met, I try to find somebody else and handle all the consequences of that myself. Basically, I handle entire risk and stress.

Now, if what we work on turns profitable, or has a successful exit or whatnot, you know how much of that money do I think it's fair to give to them?

Nada. Zilch. Zero. Go through the shit I'm going through yourself if you want a big payout and then we'll talk.

What do you think?
Please do yourself a favour and ask your company about this. A lot of my peers just assume that every stock option contract has this clause.
You forgot the obvious detail that the founder also stands to make far, far more money from an acquisition than most employees, but (if it's VC funded and not bootstrapped) is mostly insulated from any sort of real catastrophe if it fails.
When I joined a startup a couple years ago as a very early employee. The equity they offered was some tiny percentage, like 0.1%. I did the math and said, "you know, we would need to exit for a billion dollars for me to receive a million?" The founder seemed surprised at that. Nevertheless, I joined the startup.

What I don't understand is if the company does sell, and I only get my 0.1%, I should be upset or call the founder "greedy" if he doesn't give me more money than what was in my contract?

If I'm going to take less than what I believe to be the "market rate" for my services in lieu of some equity and my motivation is to make money, then I'm going to do the math and weigh the probabilities of my equity and the lower-than-market salary being more lucrative than taking a job with no equity and a market rate salary.

I just don't see how founders who honor contracts that employees sign as being greedy. Arguments that the founders take more risk or work harder or whatever seems to me to be beside the point. If the employee doesn't think the percentage of equity is good, then they shouldn't sign the contract. That's how I see it. And maybe if more of us took that stance we wouldn't have to hope that founders would just give us money out of the goodness of their hearts and instead have satisfactory agreements already in writing.
You know that the latest employee 5 year share scheme at British telecom a mature FSE 100 company returned well over £60K effectively tax free with zero risk to your capital?
I can confirm this as well. I'm about 1 year out of college and just got a Google offer (salary + bonus + stock) that averages ~$240k per year.
Feature-wise It has everything that Ghost have and more, lots more. That's the whole point with Ghost, that it only does a small, simple subset of what WP does.
Twitter was very friendly to 3rd party developers. But then the big rich guys came in.
> Wordpress into Laravel

That's a little scary. Any reason you aren't put focus on Drupal 8?
I'm always curious how dinosaurs this large even got to food. Did they just bulldoze their way through trees and use their long knecks to strip the foliage all around themselves?

Elephants can do it at 5 tons, I'm sure at 65 tons they could knock down any tree.
In my experience, which may or may not be representative of the general case, bootstrapped and profitable startups with no funding often don't offer equity at all to employees.
I would love a version of WP hybridized with Laravel. I briefly attempted it with CodeIgniter, but it proved non-trivial and I didn't have the time to see it through.

For all of WP's countless problems and general ickiness, it delivers what it strives for extremely well. The real strength is the ecosystem of plugins and themes, and the balance it strikes in being dev-capable while exposing a lot of "prosumer" functionality to end users who are computer-savvy, but not developers. (Of course, the plugins are a two-edged sword, given how many of them carry security vulnerabilities.)

Thanks for the hat-tip of VersionPress and Thermal. I like the idea of using WP only for its admin, and I've done it a couple times before, albeit using custom queries to fetch data manually.
If you really think your employees will read this and know that you wrote this, you should probably delete this or reword this. Its bad for morale to appear flippant about employees.
I think they can do it, but I dont think the ROI would cover the investment to change hardware and software for a system that currently works. Unless you are up against an hard EOL for your 'traditional' install I think it would be a large gamble to change. Im speaking for 'traditional' enterprisey install bases only though.
"In a larger sense, I see the AS chapter as part of a long-term program to pathologize normal behavior, one that hopefully will backfire and destroy unscientific psychology." - Paul Lutus

From: The Trouble with Psychology http://www.arachnoid.com/trouble_with_psychology/index.html

Mr. Lutus has many articles on psychology. Asperger's By Proxy (http://www.arachnoid.com/psychology/aspergers.php) is extremely relevant to the software industry.
German podcast bubble? I'm from Germany and I don't know what you are talking about.

I asked App.net about alternative paying methods because in Germany it's not very common to use your credit card. Nothing.
While most cops are simply doing their jobs like any other profession, there are some who let their power go to their heads. Devices like cameras can help when complaints are received (as long as the cameras can't be tampered with post facto..)

Case in point: girlfriend was in a taqueria in the Upper Haight neighborhood of SF, and witnessed the following. A cop was sitting at a table. A guy walked in, stood in line to pick up a takeout order. He started staring at the cop. Now, the Haight has more than its fair share of weirdos, so a person staring at a cop is nothing new. But the cop decided to take offense at that. Started verbally harassing the guy. Took him outside, threatened to arrest him. All this time, the guy is saying: but I didn't do nothing, man! At one stage, the guy put his hands in his pocket, trying to pull out some ID; and the cop's hand immediately went to his gun, threatening "you don't want to be doing that!". Luckily, the guy took his hand out quickly. After harassing the guy, the cop shoved him and walked away.

GF witnessed the whole thing, and went out to talk to the cop as he was walking away. He just laughed at her, saying "get out of my way" and kept walking.

There were other witnesses too; but it still is basically their word against the cop's, and the SFPD refuses to do anything about it. Had there been a camera[#] on the cop, they would be singing a different tune.

[#] I told her: next time, _video_ the damn thing!
Why are you separating the idea from the execution? Ideas are just multipliers for execution[1]. You can have the best idea in the world but if your execution is terrible no one will use it. Conversely, a lot of effort focused on an average or even so-so idea can result in a great product.

If you're unsure whether to start building something, the answer is usually to start building anyway. You can refine your idea as you work, and once you have a basic prototype you can start asking people what they think of your idea and of your execution.

Prototypes are cheap, and as soon as you have one you can start validating what really matters: your product.

[1] https://sivers.org/multiply
hah, awesome! had a beat going in seconds :)
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