skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you are like me and just want to see the raw data in a user-friendly and customizable way without a bunch of pointless graphics or text descriptions, there is also http://weatherspark.com/
Official response from @FTDIChip: https://twitter.com/mikelectricstuf/status/52491736815449292...
With vocal fry dressing.
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I was watching a reality TV show last week (flip this old beach house or somesuch) where a father and his toddler daughter had approximately this dialog.

Dad: "Who's my favorite?"

Daughter: "Me!"

Dad: "Are you my favorite?"

Daughter: "Yes!"

Dad: "Whose favorite are you?"

Daughter: "Yours!"
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That bit about half-speed and double speed clocks is intriguing. For those that don't play Starcraft, all games run at ~1.4 times normal time.[1] A lot of players usually have the in-game clock, which is running fast, showing during gameplay. I wonder what effect that has had.
That functionality has already existed for quite a while in Google Now.
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places where greater opportunity exists

like where? You might as well ask why tech companies don't set up elsewhere and start their own little versions of Silicon Valley instead of spending $$$ to headquarter in SF.
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This seems to happen a lot. Sheryl Sandberg talks about this too especially with mentoring which requires a lot of a one on one meeting
Even if Zuckerberg's main motivation was to learn his wife's language, I believe this will effectively raise the bar for CEOs in the years ahead. I wouldn't be surprised if this seemingly unnecessary skill could signify new business opportunities for large corporations.
I listen to these via a podcast URL, not sure if it is official or not: http://howtostartastartup.co/feed/podcast/
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I just made a homebrew formula for this and sent in a PR

https://github.com/Homebrew/homebrew/pull/33487
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In this case I was talking about Inbox, which in my mind should be a all-in-one gmail inbox.
> The city doesn't know how to police this. How would you build a law or tax around regulating this behavior? New York may attempt a pied-a-terre tax, but no one really knows how to deal with this issue of vacant housing units held as investments. Technologically, it's easy to track who is doing what where at all times. But legally, there are a lot of issues around privacy with policing this if foreign buyers are taking up 1/3 of the new housing stock as investments.

As someone who seems to know way more about this than I do: what about a land value tax? I've heard a few urbanists talk about a land value tax as an incentive not to withhold properties from the market. The reasoning is that with a property tax, if you leave property undeveloped, it will have a low property value and your tax rates will be low. But with a land value tax, the value (and consequently the tax rate) is a function of the value of that location, which in turn is a function of density, nearby amenities, demand, transit connectivity, etc. With a land value tax, someone keeping a property off the market in SF would be paying increasingly large amounts of tax on it, as the value of the land goes up along with the development nearby.

Do you have thoughts on this?
I believe they typed the wrong URL; probably meant this page: http://www.google.com/inbox/
One could argue that using the official driver with counterfeit chips is outside intended purpose of the official driver, at which point the user is proceeding at his or her own risk.
The $10,000 pay difference between men and women in executive positions seems far from practically the same to me.
Co-op banks address many of your concerns, and are very popular in some groups.
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The dominant use case for the last decade or so has been web servers hitting caches to do low-CPU low-causality CRUD operations. That looks unlikely to change in the next decade, so keep your Intel stock.

That said, for a lot of interesting use cases, like that king-hell postgres database sitting in the middle of the swarm, or video processing, or streams processing, or indeed any situation in which thousands-to-millions of simultaneous actors need to work on the same shared state, this sort of system starts looking real interesting.

As a thought experiment, think of this system like a GPU, except every single processor is a fully capable 2 GHz i5 running Unix, and instead of having to deal with the CUDA or OpenCL API, you can just write erlang (or haskell; .. or whatever) code and it will run. And instead of having 2-8G of RAM, you have 48G. And instead of having arcane debug tools, you have recon and gdb and ddd.

I don't think there is a pendulum, I think there's a spectrum and has always been one; pragmatism should always rule, and your use case is not my use case. There isn't going to be an objective winner ever, no matter how close Intel may get to covering much of the sweet spot.
I'm talking about all financial institutions being non-profits. Financial institutions would not have a responsibility to shareholders to show a return on investment. Instead they would only have a responsibility to provide a needed service to society (i.e. the creation of and access to capital).
beat me to it although i made a tap instead. but unless i'm mistaken you don't need openssl or libxml2 since osx provides those.
What is the HN crowd's preferred way of dealing with that kind of parasite?
wow that's awesome! We really appreciate that.
It would have to be a statewide ballot proposition, and you'd be up against the entire real estate industry, which has large parts of the California State Legislature in its hands. They would spend enormous amounts of money to mis-market it in poor political advertising.

Perversely, two-thirds of the financial benefits of Prop. 13 and its tax freeze went to commercial interests even though it was sold as a way to keep homeowners in their homes. One only-third of its foregone revenues benefit homeowners. A lot of California policymakers have wanted to change this for years, since it really screwed with public school and city finances for decades.
I highly recommend "Storm of steel" by Ernst Jünger.

He has incredible descriptions of the terror felt at the trenches.

http://www.amazon.com/Storm-Steel-Penguin-Classics-J%C3%BCng...
That is demonstrably insufficient. From the article: "I was a volunteer firefighter, I coached football and baseball, I was saving my money, doing everything you're supposed to do". This guy had tons of contacts and a savings account, and he ended up homeless.
Yes, they send their homeless people to SF instead. http://www.ksby.com/news/san-francisco-suing-nevada-for-alle...
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can you recommend some shows/channels? Are there any online streams?
I think what the parent was saying was that you literally can't afford to go elsewhere to find a job. When you don't have money to pay your rent, you likely don't have the money to:

- Pay for airfare and a hotel to go out for a job interview (these types of jobs aren't flying you out and putting you in a hotel)

- Have living expenses to cover you for the time it takes to find a new job in the area (the types of jobs we're talking about here don't give you a relocation allowance)

- Rent a truck and gas to move a long distance (certainly not to pay a moving company)

- Pay first and last months rent and deposit

Moving is often "free" for the types of jobs the typical HN reader would have, the company trying to recruit you would pay all of the above. These aren't the types of jobs people discussed in the article have or can get. They are effectively stuck unless they take a huge, potentially even more devastating risk, or are fortunate enough to have some sort of a support network where they are hoping to move to, like family or good friends willing to let you couch surf for a while.
I've found wunderground.com to be the perfect combination of clarity and high-density information. There are no click-bait "related" links there.
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Just one clarification though: it's user-moderated by voting. The comments won't be deleted but will auto-collapse with enough downvotes.
Of course a German professor would say that. (-: I've taken years of both languages in high school and college, and I'd have to disagree with him. An example of the difference in difficulty is that when you learn German coming from an English background there are only four more letters to learn (ä, ö, ü and ß), whereas there are 214 Mandarin radicals to memorize. And these radicals aren't even the entire "alphabet", they're just the basis that all characters expand upon.

Also, Mandarin is a tonal language, along with having vastly different grammar than Germanic languages. While English has plenty of influence from Romance languages, most of it is strictly vocabulary; English, at its core, is a Germanic language. Thus it'd be rather hard to prove that German is more difficult for an English speaker to learn than Chinese. However, I would love to hear his arguments to the contrary, or anybody else's for that matter!
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I get what you're saying. I'll ask our blood banker when she gets back from ASHI.
If e-mail were indeed only messages from people we'd have no need for these products. But it's not realistic to expect that anything we pay close attention to won't be thwarted by some form of spam or advertising in this day and age.
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I did not expect Bulgaria to be mentioned in there as well. When reading the article's name one does not associate 'trenches' with battles in the Balkans.

The story shows how one soul ended up 3000 km away from his birthplace. Nowadays, after a hundred years after those events, one can travel on a flight between Dublin and Sofia in a few hours.

The point that I found interesting is that about mismanagement. The claim that the colonel did not prepare his troops, permitted them to stay without guidance in the tranches, without food or proper clothes. How the other side - in this case, Bulgarians - were more acutely aware of how to operate their guns. It rings true the disillusionment and disappointment when organisation or institution fails to organise its efforts.
It's not exactly what you're thinking of, but you may be interested in Positive Money, as it's tackling a number of the same issues (it's a UK scheme, but it's just as applicable elsewhere)... http://www.positivemoney.org/
If you're connected to the community you live in (coaching, etc), your child's doing well in a good school, it becomes easy to extend yourself "one more week" in order to maintain that, hoping things will change - and then past the "oh shit" moment you realize you're past the point of effectively affording to move and restart life. Plus, in 2009, i don't think there were places to move to to get an easy job. The guy did apply to 800 places...
If you can't afford $20 then maybe you need to get more creative with your pitch and rely less on props like business cards.
For the right service, this will be great. But I am very, very hesitant to give out my phone number to anyone, so I will find other ways of signing up for accounts that use this.
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I am currently looking into selling my software through Codecanyon but they charge 55% per order on non-exclusive sales which seems really high. Have you had any luck with Amazon or know of any code canyon alternatives?
They basically admit it on their license page:

http://www.ftdichip.com/Drivers/FTDriverLicenceTerms.htm

"Use of the Software as a driver for, or installation of the Software onto, a component that is not a Genuine FTDI Component, including without limitation counterfeit components, MAY IRRETRIEVABLY DAMAGE THAT COMPONENT."
Ok 'structurelessness' is another word for chaotic (or worse, secret structure). But there are many alternatives to simply 'layering' where you progress from one title to another, always 'upward' whatever that means.

Having roles, being structured, doesn't mean layering and promotion. It means clearly defined jobs and roles that encompass sets of jobs. You can still be 'unstructured' if that means no simple hierarchy. Instead folks can all be responsible for their tasks, empowering folks to do the right thing without a 'boss' to enforce it.
>And you know clones are dangerous because they are unreliable, failure prone and nondeterministic in some way.

Is there any evidence of this?
Yes, this. I have my @google.com address, and my @gmail.com address.
"bricking" doesn't seem to be the right word. FTDI is making it so that the counterfeit chips don't work with any FTDI drivers, old or new. (Per the thread, all that happens is the PID is changed to a PID that no FTDI driver will recognize)
Could someone please invite me -- coffeemug@gmail.com. I'd love to play with the product
Huh?
100.000/day*128bits = 12.8mbit/day = 1.6mb/day.

You read it as per second? That would indeed lead to 128gb/day.
Confuses the actor with the behavior.
I love my haskell brethren dearly, but haskell isn't organized structurally around an essentially-mandatory fundamentally concurrent, debuggable, quasi-preemptive core like OTP. Not that it won't get there eventually (cf. Cloud Haskell) but it's more than just being able to run concurrent threads. Note: this is not a language flame, just a personal opinion/observation, and I love and welcome correction.
Without knowing how closely related the learner's own language is, it's meaningless. For example, a Dutch speaker would likely find German easier to learn than Chinese. On the other hand, (Mandarin) Chinese is easier for a Cantonese speaker to learn than German.
Chinese is actually much more similar to English (structurally) than a lot of people realize:

It doesn't mark case or gender like English (and it doesn't even really inflect verbs).

The word order is for the most part the same or similar (German has this verb-at-the-end construction that you not only have to learn, but you have to train somewhat to remember enough context to bind the verbs to the clauses they apply to; Japanese is SOV rather than SVO like English/Chinese).

The writing system takes a really long time and a lot of memorization, but if you're learning only to speak and listen, you don't really have to deal with it.
Any ideas if CLI also supports login with a Yubikey device?

LastPass has Yubikey support for the Premium tier.
I keep seeing this, and i keep wondering why said developers are doing any packaging at all.

A binary and clear instructions on how it is launched from a command line should suffice for any competent admin.

He should then be able to fit it into the boot scheme of whatever system he is maintaining.
Isn't speaking relevant foreign languages considered a plus in business settings? That seems to be the layman perception, at least.
Johns Manville has a problem with name recognition, not branding. They can define what they do, the public just haven't heard of them.

Yahoo is the opposite. They have no problem with people knowing who they are, but beyond "Internet stuff," can't define what they do. Actually trying to find out what they do eventually takes you to https://everything.yahoo.com/ where you see most of their sites are clickbait next to a search box.

It's probably not the brand identity they want to advertise.
Are you sure? IIRC it was HAL that picked the kernel events and converted to D-Bus signals, but it has been deprecated a long time ago.

I gave a cursory glance to the systemd/src/udev files and found no mention of dbus.
Everyone should read Papert's Mindstorms book, about teaching kids to code. It is one of the best books about learning there is.
I'm unconvinced that a school-setting can teach children languages vastly more effectively than an adult (or an adult can self-teach). Maybe for very young children, but even that I'm sceptical of.
Its not open source so why should I care? Also the website is really bad and doesn't give much real information beyond buzz words without real digging. What is your target audience, is it us? The page doesn't feel like it, it feels like it was targeted towards business people who don't know much about computers and like hearing buzz words.
"Supereal" might not be the name of the fake itself, it might be just the name of the mask-programmable microcontroller they used.

"It seems that in this case Chinese designers implemented protocol-compatible "fake" chip, using mask-programmable microcontroller. This way they only needed to redo 1 mask - this is much cheaper than full mask set, and explains a lot of redundant pads on the die."
>> "Painting Google busses as "going out of their way to make it easy for employees to live in SF" is (at least as of last month) not accurate"

Ok but as you allude to those buses have been going on much longer than the last month. Also - they aren't public transit. They're private transport. I don't know the specifics of that law but I don't think private transport provided by the company would count.
Not any more. Now you can just test the prototype to see if it runs the FDTI driver correctly. If it fails, your supplier doesn't get paid.
I've been using this for the last 4 hours or so. I closed the old gmail in my browser and swapped default apps on my phone.

My quick thoughts on the iPhone app:

Good overall. It's just as good as most of the new line of productivity focused apps that have been released (and acquired) over the last year.

My quick thoughts on the web interface (inbox.google.com):

This is where it's really shining for me. Finally email doesn't feel like a spreadsheet with buttons anymore. It feels like Gmail should feel in 2014. Now that I've started using this, it would feel painful to go back to normal Gmail. You just kind of have to start using it to understand, but I really like it.

All of the new features (reminders, pinning emails, bundles, and one-button archiving of bundles like promotions and forums) are great . I've used almost every new feature already and they all feel like a natural part of a flow.

The only nitpick I have at the moment is the integrated chat in the web interface. It's defaulted to the Hangouts style chat, which I'm not a huge fan of. In old Gmail you have a choice of using the normal version of chat or Hangouts chat, and I've always turned off Hangouts chat. I really wish you could do that here, but I'm not seeing an option for it and my guess is there will never be one.

Overall however I'm really happy with this new version of Gmail and will continue to use it everyday.
Thousands of years ago a Chinese gentleman wrote "The wise man must be prepared to abandon his luggage". Still true. Most of the behaviors discussed are 'conservative' meaning they try to keep what little you have and risk nothing. Its often an alternative to just 'get up and go', risking all. You can eat at the Salvation Army, stay with a friend or sleep in the park in a tent. I've known now-successful Engineers that moved to Silicon Valley with their wife and 6mo old child, slept in the national park in a tent while interviewing.
I think this underlines the point rather well -- it's SO improbable that sharing a drink is anything but romantic that you guys assume a divorce in 6months?

FWIW, my wife (Monica Guzman) is commenting actively on FB thread about this here. https://www.facebook.com/moniguzman/posts/759642049127?notif...
Sweet, built fine with that. Oddly I already had all the depends installs, so not sure why the included make doesn't work. Thanks!
https://cloud.runabove.com/login/?launch=power8 leads to the power8 pages. Not a super well organized site imo.
It doesn't use any Chrome specific features and it will work on FF, but it needs to be optimized to get buttery smooth 60fps animations. As you know, the logic for when the various browsers do layout, create layers, upload them to the GPU, etc is different, and that causes divergence rendering performance. It was hard enough to do this on Chrome, it just takes time.

We also ran into a recent difference in the way sparse JS arrays as handled. We use sparse JS arrays for some data structures, but array.splice(0) on Chrome runs much faster than FF when using this to clone a sparse array.

There's no intent to exclude Firefox, engineers are staying late in the office working on it.
It does. https://commuterbenefits.511.org/#options

> Option 3 — Employer-provided free or low cost bus, shuttle or vanpool service operated by or for the employer.
> IMHO, Inbox basically takes the stuff that inbox-zero folks had to learn to do manually, and makes a lot of it automated. It's particularly great on mobile.

But the manual intervention is precisely what makes my zero-inbox so effective. It's also agnostic to the device/application. If I leave something unread on a device it's unread somewhere else and vice versa. If one calls it "save for later", I don't know if that also means "unread".
Never understood this obsession with "reinventing email". Email works fine. Use filters, folders, tags and full-text search.
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It's hard to know if that's true or not - as if the fakes caused a bunch of problems, they'd be complaining about FTDI rather than the fakes.
A NAS box "only compatible with brand X drives" is nowhere near a NAS box that intentionally bricks non-brand X drives when attached.

As a side note, are there any known cases where a vendor has released open source code that intentionally bricks a device? I'd be surprised if they were not found legally liable if the intent was spelled out so clearly.
Hey. This is me. I hope I was not that much of a dick, but at that point I wasn't interested in making money off old IF. I don't remember the specific incident, though.

(I'm still not very interested in making money off old IF, although I've tried a bit of that. The Hadean Lands plan is to charge money for a new game which has never been released before.)

Other notes: we also have a Boston IF meetup group (http://pr-if.org/).

The term "interactive fiction" dates from the early 80s, actually. Infocom used it in their ads with the general theme of "We're more serious and important than mere videogames." The term has been tussled back and forth over the years; these days it's more of an umbrella term than a niche.
I think I remember reading that zSeries has Decimal Floating Point, too, and that IBM's JVM does take advantage of the instructions on z/OS.

Of course, even if that is true, it is a different architecture. But still, if they made the change on one architecture, it would be silly not to make it on the other one as well.

Unless that was intentional to keep some sort of advantage for zSeries.
Google already has my emails (Gmail). If I use Mailbox I'm throwing another party into the mix. Google continues to get them and now Dropbox gets some of them too. It would be best to use the service of the company that gets them either way (Google). Why give your email to two companies when you can give them to one and get the same features?
I'm not sure that that's really true. Investors don't vest because they put in capital which is immediately available. Similarly, those contributing capital (either in the form of supplies (e.g. a drafting table) or cash) should get their shares right away. Those who are accepting equity for labour should vest because otherwise they may walk away before all of the promised labour materializes. I think that those who were paid in WOTC stock (in addition to or in lieu of cash) received their stock in paycheque-sized increments. Which is fair because the amount of stock they received is a fair trade for the labour that they put into the company.
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