skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
i love to put this annecdote on top of facebook's

if the same people were handling WoC, they would have called in the janitor, made her sell her stock for peanuts before the new stock price set in. garanteeing that only the suits made any big return of it.
How about the ability to browse? I'm tired of signing up to all these new sites only to find I'll never use them. I'd like to know what I'm getting first.
I designed and built a steam engine in high school in metal shop. It took forever and was beyond my machining skills. It didn't work, due to being so poorly made.

I tried again in college, with a much better design. The guy who ran the college machine shop (he built custom lab equipment for researchers) helped me a lot. It still took months. This time, it did run, but it took so much time it didn't satisfy my urge to create things - my designs ran far, far out ahead of any possibility of making them.

Not so with software!
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First checkmark confirms it hit store and forward servers. I prefer second checkmark to indicate delivery, as I care less if someone read it and more if it just made it to their device.
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Right now? Shopify.
SMS for this just plain sucks. I do not want to expose my cell phone number to Twitter or any other third party just for a simple app login.

I also will not accept, that someone else (hint hint) sees the comms flow (metadata) from Twitter to my cell phone, let alone the content in there. SMS is leaking like hell. I have more trust in HTTPS than in SMS.
The point you make about not having to scroll endlessly through your inbox to find 'that link' is moot when using Point a lot, because you'll be endlessly scrolling through the Point app.

Also; what happens when the content changes and the quoted part is gone?

Would be interesting for for example QA teams when you include Dropbox integration with a screenshot option.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/22/science/older-brain-is-wil... also http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/10584927/Bra...

Nice to see many self righteous people downvoting without even trying to discuss.
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Nice ideas! I wonder how the read circles scale. How do you imagine this looking for groups of 10 or 20 or more people?
I saw a few minutes of the presentation. The presenter argued that some percentage of world's population does not use email, but everyone has a phone.
the difference is that on tech world, they already came up with a way that only the suits will profit.

anytime you see two types of stock, you can be 110% sure that you are going to be screwed.

and last time i checked there was no tech company, HN included that didn't have restricted and unrestricted stock.
These FTDI fakes aren't stolen, though. There is a massive difference between stolen, counterfeit, and clone. If the chips are only sold as "FTDI-compatible", then I would even say they should be completely legit, like Dalvik vs. Java.
If the person from whom the motorcycle was stolen discovered one night that it was at your house and just took it back, they would be committing a crime. Even though the motorcycle was rightfully theirs, there is a procedure to go through to get it back. Simply showing up and taking it back is a form of vigilantism. What FTDI is doing is also a form of vigilantism.
Depends on what you mean by worrisome. Some adults who were not readers earlier in their life, find it more approachable and less "preachy". I wouldn't give someone Faulkner as their first novel. That said, my belief is that they move on because eventually they aren't challenging to read and so become less engaging. An author who is being explicit so that a younger adult can catch the subtleties of a conversation, might make the more sophisticated reader feel patronized. Its a fine line.

That said, I did enjoy reading the Harry Potter books with my kids (we read them aloud), but reading the Animorphs was not something I could really do for any length of time.
So why did you respond to pedantry with more pedantry?
Having a couple kids in this range, I'm really seeing both sides of this now.

First, they do read these books. Their friends read them too, this is a good thing.

However, they never have to leave that range of books dedicated to their age group. They seem to be interchangeable as well.

Additionally, it seems like the concept of mass market paperback has evaporated in this age range. I feel like there is some gouging going on with customers who aren't as price sensitive because they probably aren't spending their own money.
A very interesting counterexample to the notion that telcos are a "natural monopoly" because of the problem of laying wires.
Good point -- though we are building a search functionality now so that won't be the case soon enough!

If the content on the page changes, the quoted text will still show in the point chat box. Definitely useful to comment on Dropbox files/links.
A fairly large edge case is that it wont work on a cellular iPad at all since you can't receive SMSes out of the box.

I hope the SDK detects iPads and offers some kind of alternative login mechanism.
They knew that it was unbalanced and that some cards (Moxen, Ancestral Recall, etc) were too powerful, but that was on purpose because they expected scarcity to be a part of the metagame.

If you were playing with your own group of friends who owned a few cards, the small total number of overpowered cards would be a fun diversion. They didn't anticipate the huge success and scale the game achieved. With a worldwide metagame and market for buying/selling cards, scarcity vanished as top players would pay up to get 4 of whatever card gave them an edge, so revisions had to be designed in balance, rather than rely on scarcity to create balance.

Source: I read way too much MtG history a few years ago when I was working on my own card game.
How about the first checkmark indicates delivery and the second "read". do you guys care about the "it left the phone" state?
The problem isn't defeating the patent technically - it's defeating it legally, while still remaining profitable. And nobody has more money to throw at lawyers than Apple, Inc.
Where do I do search by commute time? That sounds really useful. I couldn't find it on Trulia's site.
Crisp video! Did you make it yourself?
Is this simply twitters oauth / single sign in service?

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This is another story I've read today about twitter rebranding services they provide into their own brand.
How are you supposed to demonstrate those skills in an hour doing anything? The only practical way to determine high level skills, such as the ones you listed, is through studying past work. The company has probably already formed an opinion on those skills and is testing to see how well rounded your skill set is.
Some interesting criticisms here: http://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/2k070h/enabling_blo...
Gotcha. I didn't notice that. That is a real shame.
Still moot, my mail app has a search box as well.
Even if you don't dig deep, every memorable character is a snowflake because people who aren't snowflakes are boring and thus aren't interesting or memorable. Stories are made to be interesting, and so they are, basically as a matter of fact, about people who end up being interesting.

Even Walter Mitty, possibly the most average man in literature that I can think of, was exceptional in his imagination, and it is that exception which makes his story compelling.
What I learned from this is a great way to prototype/demo and share an idea before building the whole app. The three improvements you suggest - 1) re-sharing in groups 2) read confirmation in groups and 3) saving - aren't the pain points that I have.

Personally, my pain is just p2p sharing with a person sitting in front (or next to me) - I want the app to understand (say, when both users press a button - its like scanning for a nearby bluetooth connection) to add a person on my whatsapp, allow me send stuff (pics), share a contact, or share a meeting invite - stuff like that. WhatsApp would be great to do this. Proximity-based p2p connections should be quite easy, and apps could make it "feel" more automatic/magical.
Ah, that makes sense. The "right" answer would probably be to convince the USB-IF to standardize the interface. FT232 and FT245's popularity should be argument enough that it's worth doing. I have no idea how politically viable that would be.

EDIT: looks like they did standardize a USB-to-serial device class [1]. Maybe they just need to update it?

[1] http://www.atmel.com/Images/doc4322.pdf
> I believe that your link was specifically related to them building their own MagSafe connectors

From his link:

> Instead of mimicking Apple's patented MagSafe connectors, Sanho's products actually rely on recycled official MagSafe products made by Apple. "Our charging cables use original Apple MagSafe connectors for maximum compatibility," the company's website reads

The issue is that even if they're right, nobody can afford to defend themselves in the face of the financial might of Apple's lawyers. And Apple can just refuse to sell to them/their suppliers - that's fully in their right.
As an ex-Zillow employee, I'm guessing it does go away from Zillow/Trulia at some point, and also, these brands definitely do compete.

Zillow/Trulia are media companies trying to connect buyers with brokers who pay them money for advertising.

Redfin is a brokerage trying to connect buyers with their own brokers.
he did mention they had disgruntled shareholders. e.g. complaining about paying $300k for a $100 item. couldn't they have used that to halt the payment to the small (and illegal) shareholders of the past?
Hi. Yeah you're right. I'll look into making it more open this week. The initial idea was to gauge interest so it seemed like a good idea to see if people were interested in signing up and getting personal recommendations for programming jobs. But it's certainly possible to make it much more open.
WTF. I click the link "Get started with fabric" and start the signup process, and then it says "we'll be in touch" like this was a beta invite-only thing? Seriously false advertising. I doubt I'll look at it, even if I ever do get confirmed now.

I'm sure little old me doesn't matter to them in the grand scheme of things, but I absolutely hate crap like this. Tricking me into registering by pretending to have a product I can try immediately is just plain stupid. I lose all respect for projects that do this as a first impression.
Except in this analogy, someone sold you a Ducati with Pirelli tires that happened to be counterfeit. And suddenly Pirelli shows up and torches your bike because someone used a tire that had their logo.

Edit: Apparently I don't proof-read
Yes i totally agree .. nginx has very less memory footprint as well
And Jo-Ann Fabric: http://www.joann.com
Appreciate the feedback by the way. Thanks. : )
Also, some contemporary video of the EDSAC "workflow": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsirYCAocZk#t=1613 .

The EDSAC was pipped by the Manchester "Baby" prototype, which was activated and ran a test program in 1948: http://www.computer50.org/mark1/firstprog.html .
Sounds like they're on the right side of the Dunning-Kruger effect.
thank you! i imagined it to be similiar to fb messenger. (there would be a symbol that inicates "all others" if the groups size exceeds 6.

I also expeimented with more checkmarks, or colored lines that come down and show read progress for individuals (like a race).

there would also be more information when you click the status bar of the chat.
But Future Technology Devices International Limited (USA) is.
http://www.ftdichip.com/FTContact.htm
You can patent anything these days. Patents aren't really tested until you have to defend them in court. The PTO can't afford to figure out if patents are valid so they lay that burden on the courts and whoever has to dispute/defend the patent.
Was the driver pushed out by Windows Update from WHQL? That's via a network.
It was my initial thought, but this is a little different. It's to use in an existing app and not building an app for twitter. At least that's what I got.
It looks like there are like 3 separate optimizations, but I think the most important one is the "enable_listen_spawn" feature. Here is how they describe it:

Fastsocket creates one local listen socket table for each CPU core. With this feature, application process can decide to process new connections from a specific CPU core. It is done by copying the original listen socket and inserting the copy into the local listen socket table. When there is a new connection on one CPU core, kernel tries to match a listen socket in the local listen table of that CPU core and inserts the connection into the accept queue of the local listen socket if there is match. Later, the process can accept the connection from the local listen socket exclusively. This way each network softirq has its own local socket to queue new connection and each process has its own local listen socket to pull new connection out. When the process is bound with the CPU core specified, then connections delivered to that CPU core by NIC are entirely processed by the same CPU core with in all stages, including hardirp, softirq, syscall and user process. As a result, connections are processed without contension across all CPU cores, which achieves passive connection locality.

The kernel in its normal configuration will try to spread the IRQs evenly across CPUs. So for their use case, where you have one worker thread per CPU handling zillions of short lived TCP connections, they can eliminate a bunch of locking and cache thrashing that would otherwise happen when handling new connections and dispatching the related epoll events within the kernel.
The leader and frontman can be a different person? Is the Free Software movement a 'grassroots' movement?
I'm unfamiliar with this problem, possibly because I'm not a Disney Princess. Is it referring to the fact that disney princesses tend to be women who have some exceptional circumstance thrust upon them?
Is that what 20-somethings do (or aspire to do) these days? Skateboarding and hanging out on the beach? Most of my peers and I spent our twenties busting our ass studying and then busting ass establishing a career. I must be getting old--watching that video I couldn't help but think, "It's daylight. Shouldn't you guys be in the office?"
If I didn't respect their privacy, I could point you to one right now.

In fact, figuring this out was a source of significant enlightenment for me. (Thanks, Internet!)

I wouldn't describe them as an unqualified success, but they are very good at getting what they want -- and leaving the rest behind.

I can't imagine that they (speaking generally) are that unusual.

Separate from my own experience, and I haven't read it yet, but a relative has recommended the book, People of the Lie. I don't know whether their experience was with a psychopath, but the title grabbed my attention.
Poll: After FTDI, How should software react in presence of counterfeit hardware?
Ok, so FTDI have set an unusual precedent. Their new windows driver actively disables fake chipsets when it discovers them. But does so seemingly silently. I am interested in finding HN's views on this, and anyway, I have not seen a poll here for years.
The genuine proprietary driver should be "liberal in what it accepts" and just work.
The genuine proprietary driver should inform the userland and refuse to communicate with hardware.
A genuine proprietary driver should if able reprogram the hardware to fail in future as in this case.
A genuine FOSS driver should also identify counterfeit hardware and inform userland but continue to work despite any bugs that might occur
A genuine FOSS driver should also identify counterfeit hardware and inform userland and refuse to work.
Hey there! Hmm seems strange -- I'm from the Fabric team and I'd love to chat more about this. Mind dropping me a note at support@fabric.io? Thanks :-)
I think the impressiveness of what these guys made is the best argument for what a mistake that is. The effective 0% unemployment rate of engineers in SV shows what you get when you're not willing to be "bad at math." I know you're not advocating for that attitude, it just drives me nuts.
There are a finite number of repetitions until the onset of nausea, so the latter.
There's more to it than that. They've re-released edition after edition to obsolete the previous. Used to be 1 mana got you a 1/0 or 1/1 creature with nothing else. Now you can get cards with 1 or two features, flying etc. Anybody using the old ones is a sucker. Its easy to think its all about the money, you have to buy new cards to keep competitive.

In fact this is why our game club designed their own card game (Orion Empire, check it out on Kickstarter!) The idea is, new cards will always be different in some way from old ones, so no card is ever completely eclipsed. So you can buy new decks to keep it interesting, but your old one is probably still competitive.
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It's not a great situation, but where does FTDI responsibility for supporting counterfeit devices start and end?

If they let it continue more devices may hijack their USB VID, perhaps with bugs and glitches. Should they patch their driver to protect their reputation?
These guys pulled the trigger, but how this unhindered and highly profitably mercenary force wound up in Iraq is the bigger crime.
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This has happened before, in the late 1800s/early 1900s. From [1] (see the transcript).

"Well, the unique thing about this period– the late 1800s and the early 1900s– was this was a time when books written for children as the main audience were largely and often read by adults and appeared on adult bestseller lists. You take a look at the bestseller lists during this period, and you see like Rudyard Kipling, Robert Louis Stevenson, Pollyanna, Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm, and maybe like War and Peace. But the great authors of the time were writing for children."

[1] http://backstoryradio.org/shows/little-feet-2/
The genuine proprietary driver should inform userland, but continue to work with the hardware.
It's funny, because for me the scrolling on their page (https://www.google.com/inbox/) doesn't work at all, on Safari 8.0/OSX.
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Does the CP210x support operation at exactly 250kbaud? I've previously recommended FTDI-based adapters for DMX-512 control of lights. The other adapters I tried can only do 232k or 256k or some fixed number, not 250k.
This probably leads to a great user experience.

However, if this catches on, SMS sniffing over the air is going to really pick up! :p
SMS messages are often carried over GSM control channels, generally unencrypted over the air.

Even when they are encrypted, it's only A5/1 (already broken).
Did you buy it directly from a dealership? It's really an apples and oranges situation here.
Countless adults are reading it instead of nothing else
Danke! It took several attempts but i hope it brings the ideas across.
See Byzantine Fault Tolerance if you don't want to deal with a centralized ledger: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_fault_tolerance
Wouldn't their prior work be unusable at a new company, though? At least for the first several months, it would be a mouth to feed with no usable output for Google.
It's completely mental (not as in crazy, as in it's a mental issue).
I like to keep things tidy, if something is in my inbox then it's something that needs to be dealt with.
From the anecdotal data I have read on the topic, at least the smart ones do recognize each other and do not work together for obvious reasons.

A sociopath does not feel kinship and AFAIK they view themselves as predators. Another sociopath is more of competition and a potential threat.
I hope Fiddler remains free...
Game of Thrones has tons of examples. The characters act according to the situation they are in, how they were raised, not generally because they are archetypes.

Is this character conspicuous because things worked out for him?

Or did things work out for this character because he is conspicuous in some way?

Game of Thrones has a lot of the first, virtually no teen book does. They are imbued with something special and everything works out because of their specialness. Sometimes multiple other characters join the cause sacrificing or putting on hold their lives because this person is a prince(ss).

With all this dystopian teen drama going around, I wonder how many SF authors are out there kicking themselves for not writing a romantic triangle into their story.
I have 63 filters right now for my personal mail, somewhat less (17) for my work email where I am a bit more diligent about sorting (and where filters can be more complex).

119 is completely sane.
One massive success like Airbnb or Uber means vastly more to the world than even a thousand moderate ones. If your motivation as an entrepreneur is to change the world and not just to make money, your optimal world is one where the chances can be non-zero.
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IFComp organizer here. Pleased to see some interest in IF and the competition on HN!

I'll take this opportunity to say that the comp's judging period lasts through November 15, and is open to the public; anyone who rates at least five games via the website (at http://ifcomp.org) will have their votes counted.

This is the IFComp's 20th year, and we have 42 new text games for you to play. All of y'all are welcome to come join us!
Just a few words to tell my experience with the tool:

./configure
make

ERROR: required tool wget not found.
brew install wget

ERROR: required tool gs not found.
brew install gs

ERROR: required tool convert not found.
brew install ImageMagick

ERROR: required tool xelatex not found.

LATEX???? -> GOODBYE
Counter-point: It's hard to track SMS after a few carrier hops, especially in third world countries. There is no guarantee on delivery to recipient unlike email.
Yeah, but it's possible many folks trust Google and don't trust Dropbox (or haven't even heard of Mailbox) so it's interesting for Google to access that untapped market.
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What OS does this run on? From the screens I would say both Android and iOS, can you confirm that?
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+1 for the fake chip name. "Supereal" takes the cake
If you have a problem that behaves poorly in the face of the Network Fallacies, then you want to scale vertically.

RDBMSes are a classic example. Some kinds of compute-heavy problems too -- simulations with lots of coupled components, video compression etc.
Good stuff. Glad to hear!

I've been foraging for 25 years so that knowledge is sort of built in (at least in the UK) but I still won't touch mushrooms!
They do, true, but Google legal -> Oracle Legal : NCAA football -> NFL
Yeah, using "platform" for just a bunch of libraries that are vaguely related is quite linkbaitish. This doesn't solve any of the issues a 'platform' or framework would solve. It just gives you an easy way to link said libraries to your project.

In other words, this is just native advertising.
Yes, I can. I can picture a product vendor using a modified Linux kernel with that code in a driver, or at least a moral equivalent. Eg, a NAS box which is "only compatible with brand X drives".

Just because the code is available doesn't mean it does no damage. Only that you have the ability to find and fix the code.
http://xkcd.com/1095/