skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
jacquesm, I respectfully disagree with you. Communication between close friends is obviously different between communication during job interview/business negotiation.

Sometimes it is the other way around that our real identity is divorced from what we have to present in public. There are different personalities who choose to use different means of communication - I know that preferred mode of communication on HN is to offer advice/encouragement/feedback to others' startups and technical/business career paths etc. like at a real life tech meetup's.

But I gravitate the personalities of people's throwaway confessions of their burnouts, private frustrations and rants against the industry that quite often reveal more their personal vulnerabilities (which is universal in the introvert/geek culture) than technical matters (e.g., michaelochurch).

Other people might take issue or feel personally outraged or just amused. But I don't use this forum with my real life handle/LinkedIn to build my "network," but as a way to express personal thoughts and get feedback from others relating to similar issues - which a lot of people do as well do (e.g., keeping a personal journal).

So I think that's where the mismatched expectations comes from.
I think it speaks volumes to the downward trend of Apple these days.
Anyone know why these high point submissions aren't on the front page? Is Hacker News ghosting/flagging these posts for any specific reason? Sorry to ramble a bit off topic.
It probably would have been more appropriate for them to call it "Clipped Wings" instead of Flight.
id much more like to have voice calls on the gvoice app... hangouts is mostly useless bloat for me. that cant even uninstall (buy a google unlocked phone to avoid carrier bloatware, only that now google is the carrier with bloatware and all)
I'm not a cat guy, but they definitely serve their purpose.
Nice story.
Cats aren't just great for the distillery; nothing makes me more content than having one of my two cats curled up on my lap while I sip a scotch and watch something nerdy on TV.
Another draw back of using tokens instead of cookies is that tokens don't offer any security mechanisms similar to the Secure and HttpOnly flags for Cookies. Without these security controls they're easier for an attacker to intercept.
1) is great advice. It's roughly equivalent to what most music teachers recommend for learning to play an instrument. If you just play all day long you wont improve, or at least not improve as quickly, as if you just play one hour per day in which you try hard to play as perfectly as possible.
It's OK to point at the potential problem. It can be that the GC in D can be improved.

But for the given specific case, whenever I'd want to make a fast compilers (and I've made two in my career) I wouldn't set my goal to produce gazillion objects and expect some fairy to make it fast. I'd take care to use the stuff where one allocation produces a lot of stuff: like arrays. You probably know: addressing elements of the array in the machine code is very fast: there are instructions that do that very effectively. So don't be afraid to use arrays and use indexes instead of pointers. Your code won't be much less readable, but you can achieve significant speedup, provided you don't have more algorithms that slow up exponentially (and there's some chance you have these too).

One of the benefits of arrays is that you're also deallocating a lot of stuff at once, which also makes the whole process much faster. And whenever you feel that you're not programming easily enough, think about the first Fortran compiler, produced in fifties: it generated quite good machine code, almost as fast as the hand coded one and it had only a few kilobytes of RAM to produce such a result.
Bay Area gets the European Internet exchange model Netflix hopes will spread
What actually happens after you raise seed funding
with clang too ?
Skip to 13:00 for Elon's speech.
Huh, I would've thought it was Iridium.
Funny that you say that, since the USA is a country where in many states even school is not mandatory. Why should kindergarten be?

In Germany school is mandatory until you're 16 (if I'm not mistaken), but kindergarten is completely optional. Most people - if they can afford it - would send their kids there, though, because it gives them (the parents) more time off, and it's good for the kids to spend some time with other kids.

There are public and private kindergartens here (same with schools), and for the public ones the price depends on the parents' income. It seems that the costs vary by county and by the number of kids you have (as an example I found this page: http://www.netmoms.de/magazin/kinder/kindergarten/kosten-fue... ). Looks incredibly cheap (I'm honestly surprised), so maybe it's time to plan for some offspring.
Batteries are about the least energy-per-kilo way of storing it - increasing battery energy would cost the very most in weight you could imagine (except perhaps a windup spring)

Liquid fuels (gas/alcohol) are very efficient. Metal-air batteries may beat liquid fuels for ergs/kilo?
I understand. It would be nice to see an example though.
Agreed. Cat on lap + scotch + good book is the key a stress-free evening
Video chat options in general frustrate me to no end. Skype - at least on Linux - have steadily dropped in quality over the last few years (the old cynic in me wants to blame MS for no particular reason). Back in 2006-2007 I used Skype video chats daily with few issues between the UK and California. These days I have problems getting it to work reliably within London, and have given up on it to let my son talk to his grandmother in Norway.

So I tried Google Hangouts. It's marginally better. But it's still awful, and odds are about 50% that one or the other end of just fails to work (suddenly wants to reinstall the plugin, or just plain refuses to recognize the camera).

It's just incredible to me that a decade after I had reliable, working video chat, things appears to have gotten steadily worse, not better... I have 10 times the bandwidth - or more -, for example, both up and down.
Worried about what?
10,800 results for "site:http://www.google.com///search"
Show HN: Summaries of Paul Graham's essays
Check if your email was leaked here: https://isleaked.com/en.php
or the print business.
It's on the front page at third place for me. What interface are you using to browse Hacker News?
The Internet of Things to Become the Biggest Trend Yet
Maybe it's about existing dongles communicating with the iPhone.

On that note, is the communication protocol over 3.5mm audio standardized in any way?
I did not realize that Macworld still existed.
If you open source it, pick a license that's more restrictive (e.g. AGPL). This leaves a chance for you to get lucky and sell it to a company who wants it to use it as closed source so that you can buy a few beers. Otherwise they will just take it and use it without a single thank you.
Probably I'll get downvoted for this but IMO releasing work under the BSD, Apache or a copyleft license that you created on your free time is like playing charity for large corporations.
That's not true; it's explicitly OK on HN to downvote disagreement. Downvotes are superior to empty disagreement.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=658683#up_658691
This looks great! I wrote something similar but Angular-data looks more polished. One of the problems I was trying to solve was synchronizing the same piece of data in multiple places in the client app after the server had validated the data. To do this, I broadcast an event on the rootscope in the http callback. https://github.com/robbyronk/angular-model-sync/blob/master/...
>This one weird google bug will make you scratch your head!

But that's clickbait! :)
So then why does Reddit censor some information:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/10/16/3514232/reddit-ceo-yishan...

> Last week, that very same Gawker unmasked one of Reddit's most unsavory trolls, posting his real identity for all to see. Allegedly, it cost Violentacrez his job. For Reddit, the stories were serious offenses: the site does not permit posting the personal information of its users (aka "doxxing"). However, Reddit's moderators took the rules a step further, attempting a site-wide ban against the Gawker network, and banning a user and even one fellow moderator who spoke out against such practices.

but not take down the private celebrity photos?
Show HN: Chrome Extension for Net Neutrality Day
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/dont-call-it-net-neutrali/claioomgodhmknfakphlihjlcdngdpdj

Hope you like this chrome extension replacing "Protecting Net Neutrality" with "Preventing Cable Company Fuckery."

Happy Net Neutrality Day!
We could use Voice since some time ago but without Free calls. Now we have an additional feature VOIP which you get calls between Hangouts users for free.
'Enemy Jetpack hack causes spinal injuries'
Getting a blank page on Chrome 37.0.2062.94 on Linux Mint
T-Mobile has a $30/month 5G 4G data, unlimited text, 100 voice minutes plan available, but you can only activate at Walmart or on T-Mobile.com

EDIT:

http://prepaid-phones.t-mobile.com/prepaid-plans

http://i.imgur.com/5aQ7LRy.png
Have you live-blogged similar events? Just wondering.
How Netflix, reddit–and even Comcast–pledged support for net neutrality today
Surprisingly enough, GV for iOS was just updated:

- Updated user interface to match iOS7 guidelines
- Bug fixes and performance enhancements
- Support for Google Voice integration in Hangouts
I'm assuming that ST is scripted television for the most part (as much as 'reality' TV can be scripted) and the people who do all the legwork and pick these products sit with the "sharks" before hand trying to drum up a dramatic narrative for the show. Cuban was just playing his role to counter the other guy. That's how you get ratings and that's how you get paid. Anything past that is giving these guys way too much credit.

Cuban's "good guy" narrative on ST is a character he plays. This proposal is more the "real" Cuban, someone who fights for the interests of the 1%.
How about being totally open about the state of the company, so people have advanced notice and the opportunity to prepare?

Surprise layoffs essentially reduce a significant inconvenience for the employer at the cost of a massive, stressful life changing event for the employees. It's always an asshole move.
>Microsoft antitrust trial was Gates' deposition testimony, which, when presented in court, made the judge laugh out loud

I was in the courtroom when that happened, and you're right. My Wired article at the time said that "Gates gave narrow, evasive, and definition-twisting responses..." http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/1998/12/16589

What follows is a side note to Mark Cuban's point, but it's about Bill Gates and this is HN, so indulge me for a moment...

What we should also remember is that Thomas Penfield Jackson, who heard the case, was a preternaturally biased judge, very anti-Microsoft and pro-DOJ, who brought sympathetic journalists into his chambers during the trial for private chats likening Bill Gates and other MS execs to "drug traffickers" and "gangland killers."

The appeals court properly slapped Jackson down and handed the case to a different (and unbiased, as far as I could tell) judge:
http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/02/42071?cur...
http://archive.wired.com/politics/law/news/2001/06/44886
"rampant disregard for the judiciary's ethical obligations... comments were not only improper, but also would lead a reasonable, informed observer to question the district judge's impartiality..."

If you're a smart, biased judge you'd presumably forego the cheap shots of laughing aloud in court and taking potshots at Bill Gates in chambers -- then go as far as you can in your final opinion. But Jackson proved to be a dumb, biased judge, which actually worked in Gates' favor when the appeals court reversed the order that would have carved up Microsoft into multiple pieces.
It's for good measure, in case it's down.
Amazon vs. Hachette is nothing: just WAIT for the audiobook wars
Heart and Breathing Rates Tracked with Google Glass
Revisiting the Value of Elite Colleges (2011)
To my knowledge, Force ( which is http://artsy.net ) is an Ezel app. So this is an example of how to build a non-trivial application using the Ezel ideas.
> Skype is a standalone application where the only account you need is a Skype one, which is free, and isn't tied to any personal information other than an e-mail address.

When Microsoft bought Skype, I seem to recall them requiring all new users to use a Microsoft account instead of a Skype account. That isn't the case now, and it may have just been a confusing installer at the time, but it's a concern.
Since when Hangouts or Skype compete with a product only Apple users can use? I personally don't know anyone who uses Facetime.
“IT'S HIDEOUS” removed by /r/apple admins. 673 upvotes, 1829 comments
I have noticed that more often than not, eventually my braceless conditionals turn into conditionals
Probably a good time to mention similar alternatives that I liked a bit better than Gollum such as:

https://www.branchable.com/

and

http://gitit.net/
Its a nice simple design. Interesting to see it python instead of the usual verilog/vhdl

Real uarts tend to implement FIFOs and oversample and do control signals. The virtual 16550 linked below oversamples at 16x and the generic verilog uart below does at least try to sniff at the center of the bit clock even if I don't think it oversamples.

Here's a generic verilog uart

http://opencores.org/project,osdvu

here's a virtual 16550

http://opencores.org/project,uart16550

Those projects would be logical paths of inspiration to extend the python uart. You could probably just steal/borrow the PDF spec sheet for the virtual 16550 and use that as a spec to implement the python uart.
So what? There are plenty of things that are really great to do once for fun, but still devolve to a grind when you do it all the time for work.

I'd drive a tractor trailer or a tank for free, or work on a 787 assembly line. But that doesn't mean the people who do it every day for a living consider it a perk to do their jobs.

Additionally, the people who cheerfully do this stuff for free are often the people you don't want doing it for you for real.
I'd counter that people who've only read 10 books are probably much less likely to participate in this meme.
I may be interested for some international calls..
I suppose it's not that strange that this data was aggregated intelligently from status updates.

I do wonder, though, the number of lists and data collections like this that are assembled and we are not told about. Not that I resent it, exactly, I know the terms I joined the network on — but it is a little unnerving to think just how many ways such a huge trove of data could be mined - weekly popularity lists for books, movies, etc. Makes me wonder why Facebook bothers advertising when they have the most powerful and targetable polling tool in history available to be gated off for a price. Maybe they're already doing this and I just don't know.
Real-Time Stream Processing as Game Changer in a Big Data World
What moral obligation do you feel was neglected here? Surely hiring someone doesn't create a moral obligation to never lay them off if you can't afford to pay them anymore.
More like dead trees delivered at your door-step a month after things happened.

Apple mags will just be the first to go. The rest will eventually follow.
the root of self suicidal Jihad theory is bahai community
Yet angular-data doesn't seem to deal with model layer per say, but rather synchronization issues between what's somehow in the scope and the web services.
To me that seems to be handled quite well with services and maybe factories for wrapping json into custom model classes.

It seems more meant ot be used as a caching layer that would wrap you webservice access services.
I know this has been brought up before, but I'd like to toss in my two cents.

For HN posts that link to paywalled articles, I would like to suggest a [paywall] tag be appended to the title.

This will indicate that for someone like me, who doesn't subscribe to The Economist, I would have better luck skipping the link itself and instead going straight to the HN comments, where (hopefully) a user with access to the full text will be kind enough to post a brief summary. (Presumably, the OP should have access, and I would like to gently suggest that it should be he or she who writes the summary.)

I would also like to suggest that if you notice a post with a [paywall] tag, and someone has gone to the trouble of summarizing it, you vote that person up even if you would ordinarily not take the trouble.

Finally, I would like to suggest that these summaries self-identify not as tl;dr (too long; didn't read) but te;dr (too expensive; didn't read).
I asked someone I know about this and they confirmed that a RAM upgrade would have a significant effect on battery life. Can't provide any citations of course.

They also pointed out that iOS already artificially limits the amount of RAM a single process can use, so adding RAM wouldn't even really do anything besides make it take longer for background apps to be evicted.
Rails 5, Module#prepend, and the end of alias_method_chain
Do you support high speed Internet in Seattle? Speak out now
Gitit is awesome, it uses pandoc so its trivial to export your page to PDF (using latex), ODT, S5 presentations, etc.
Thank you!

Paul Irish responded to me. swoons
But "a literary arts postgrad level" is a strawman. Are there more than 10 books on this list that don't have a movie version?
No no no, clearly it's all because of Apple. All other print magazines are thriving!!! /s
Interesting. Does this mean that transaction data (what I bought, when I bought) is visible to Google, unlike Apple Pay (claimed)?
It's really more middlebrow than lowbrow. Lowbrow would be fantasy romance, potboiler political thrillers, and other such pulp. This is more like a greatest hits of the 20th century collection, plus a few accessible classics.
Yep!

There are a bunch of packages on pub: sqljockey (MySQL), postgresql, oracledart, odbc, mongo_dart, wilt (CouchDB), google_cloud_datastore, couchclient (CouchBase), and more.
>> ...the kernel oopsies :)
Fire in the Lake, which boils down to Ho Chi Minh was the "best" world leader of the 20th century? Best as in most capable and effective and intelligent not necessarily best as in matches my ideal of leadership?
What the Apple Watch is really about: Tracking your emotions
Ask HN: New to SF--where do I meet people?
Hi everyone,

I just relocated to SF and I know almost nothing about the city. Where are good places to get out and meet people? Are there sites that list upcoming quality tech events?

If it helps, I am a freelance iOS developer who is bootstrapping a new product.

Thanks!
add -hostgator to the search query and you'll find best-seller-watches.com dominating the list. Add that one to your query and things get really strange.

https://www.google.com/webhp?gws_rd=ssl#safe=off&q=site:goog...
The most interesting bits in this summary are the network connections such as "people who liked this liked that". Is there anywhere this is published in detail or with the ability to manipulate the visualization/report? Just posting a zoomed out pretty picture of "look at the nifty analysis we can do" without sharing the ability to do so is as disheartening as seeing Harry Potter, the Hunger Games, and The Stand in the top titles.
Let's all remember we are just a pale blue dot
I think Notch just want to have fun, and build fun stuff.

I don't think he wants to build an empire, but he wants the freedom to do his own thing, with people that he cares about (the mojangstas).
Web apps with no back end code: the Jekyll-Angular-Firebase (JAF) stack
Yup exactly. What is the incentive here for the banks to allow Apple to tokenize CC numbers, AND pay Apple for it? Some kind of risk/liability reduction?
Complete DIY Guide: Founders Agreement Part 3: Intellectual Property
dotNET rewrite?
I just bought the Beyerdynamic Custom Pro One (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LDBWrSENTps) for about $200 and I can't recommend them enough
I have a work sample test with questions at increasing difficulties. They don't do any better than a junior dev.

After having interviewed over a hundred candidates I can now tell in the first minutes of the meeting. They generally apply for a role they never have done before, are overdressed for the occasion and talk flawlessly with confidence.
So I went to read the privacy policy on the cyberdust site and came across this gem in section 6.1:

"Your information, and the contents of all of your online communications (including without limitation chat text, voice communications, IP addresses and your personal information) may be accessed and monitored as necessary to provide the Service and may be disclosed: (i) when We have a good faith belief that We are required to disclose the information in response to legal process (for example, a court order, search warrant or subpoena); (ii) to satisfy any applicable laws or regulations (iii) where We believe that the Service is being used in the commission of a crime, including to report such criminal activity or to exchange information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction; (iv) when We have a good faith belief that there is an emergency that poses a threat to the health and/or safety of you, another person or the public generally; and (v) in order to protect the rights or property of Radical App, including to enforce our Terms of Service."

If you needed any more proof that this is just security theatre, check out the FAQ as to why they need your email:

"We require you to enter your email address upon sign up so that you can recover or reset your password if you forget it."

No way will this get me to switch from textsecure.
>>>I miss when phones used to have easily accessible microSD slots.

Phones still do. Just not iPhone.
Your comment (intentionally or not) makes it sound like humans are killing cats and dogs simply for the sake of killing them. The problem is overbreeding causing too many animals. We're not forgetting that these animals make great pets, we're not killing them just for fun. There are limited options in how to handle overpopulation.
As yet another FPGA enthusiast with a software background, I want to like MyHDL more than I actually do. It makes the expression of complex generated hardware easier (because it's Python), but the workaday circuit level stuff ends up even cruftier-looking than VHDL. And the simulation backend seems like mostly a toy. Chisel is sort of the same thing, but based on Scala, and has a lot of the same issues IMHO.

Honestly I wonder if all these "open source HDLs aimed at hackers" projects are simply trying to do too much and what the world really needs is just a cleaner Verilog with the synthesis and simulation environments more strictly separated...

Also: what editor thought that the best way to represent code examples was as an unreadably small app screenshot followed by helpful "bigger image" and (sigh) "view this code on github" links?
Impressive!

I can swipe away the bottom row easily without toppling the entire tower. I guess you don't take into account friction associated.
Their conclusion is a little too broad; they don't explore why this might be the case in their experiment. We don't know whether being subjected to pain makes one more cooperative, or whether observing a pain response causes one to be more empathetic and thus cooperative, or whether both are the case, or neither.

For example, studies show that physicians down-regulate their automatic empathetic response. Would physicians therefore not cooperate more? And those with sadistic personality disorder may receive a rewarding feeling from viewing others in pain, which would probably encourage the opposite of cooperation. There could be many cases where the conclusions don't work, but we don't know, because they didn't find out why it was happening.