skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No one's legacy is based on how good of a dad/partner they were.

What the actual hell? You really think that? Let's take another view: Dwolla might tank. It could be dead and gone within a year - that's how startups work. What is "impactful" today can be forgotten within six months.

Your legacy literally is how good a dad you were because the only legacy you can really rely on (within reason, of course) is your children and your family. I challenge you to find a father that does not think their "work" with their child is not "impactful".

I would argue that we are spilling thousands of words on his post because we identify with it emotionally, not because he is the founder of Dwolla. I barely know anything about the startup and I care even less, but his words still resonated with me - that's why I'm here.
Would you describe this as Instagram for audio recordings?
I was just reading about what Andreesen had to say why America is a good innovative country. This was a nice supplement. Thanks for the article.
That's an interesting example, because there is an API for movie-playing programs to disable the screensaver while they're playing.
And if you can't punish them for breaching those regulations what worth are they?
> so why introduce this weird async/await syntax and pretend that it's magic to solve "concurrency" in general.

Putting cool technology in the hands of blue collar developers.
Remember that x86 (and SPARC) offer the strongest memory ordering guarantees among modern processors. The POWER and ARM memory models are weaker than x86. This actually leads to correctness issues when virtualizing a multi-core x86 guest on a weaker host (cross-ISA virtualization). Of course, this problem only shows up in truly parallel emulators using multiple threads on the host to emulate a multi-core guest, such as COREMU (http://sourceforge.net/projects/coremu/)
In aggregate? No one. But the people who had been buying ads on the "cheaper" exchanges exclusively either through luck or because they had done research to determine they were cheaper, will now be paying a higher price. Personally, that doesn't bother me, but when discussions about this come up with regard to the financial markets there seems to be some folks who have a moral problem with market participants who "only" act as price arbs between exchanges.
Now to try this with midi...

But what to feed it into? I could make some musical analysis stuff, but do I need to write it in C to avoid accidentally fuzzing my interpreter?
Another Unsolicited HN Redesign
Yep, that's the part that I like: getting more people in the org to think about what is entailed in delivering product to end users.
Not disagreeing necessarily, but I am curious what makes you rate it "more important."
> There is absolutely a place for an API like this -- but that place is not as a replacement for OpenSSL.

I disagree. I think it is exactly the place for an OpenSSL API replacement.

As is alluded to in this link (thanks cremno) [1], they want a critical mass of users before it makes sense to deprecate the libssl API. Deprecation seems necessary in order to perform the serious cleanup/reimplementation under the hood that they would like to do.

While new projects may have an easier time, they admit that adoption by existing projects is significant work. However, so many and large projects already exist that it seems that many of them need to be won over in order for a deprecation to be practical. Many existing projects (see other comments in this post) use this transport layer flexibility in the OpenSSL API, and not offering it with the new API may slow adoption.

Yes, like you say another API layer could be added, and it is a deeply subjective matter so let's agree to disagree... But composability is so important and only becomes more so as we tire of wheel reinventions leading to unnecessary bugs. Enabling modularity and reuse needs 1st class API attention. Being able to easily plug this new API as a source/sink onto the myriad of existing (and yet to be created) I/O frameworks would be a major win. This is my $.02 and humble appeal to the people doing the fantastic work on this lib. My thanks to all of you!

[1] https://marc.info/?l=openbsd-tech&m=141524972826918&w=2
Is there as great of a guide as this for the US? I'm an American citizen (by birth) but have many friends that want to move over for work here and I am a horrible explainer.
Any mere mention of men isn't within its own right sexist.

If it was the other way around and they merely mentioned women I would most assuredly not call that sexist either.

If you feel it is sexist then explain it. Why is mentioning men sexist? Is it the word? The implication that men work in tech' in general? Or something else.
It's not supposed to be a real link. It triggers a JavaScript modal with a signup form. :-/
Bill Gates facing a lawsuit in India for testing vaccines on tribal children
Getting people under 30 to vote in large numbers would be a good start.
nice! I found myself having to dig around the internet when it comes to looking for colour palette for graphic design, the links to related works on dribble are very helpful too
It's just a startup-a type of work organization operating in the first world, staffed by people who can find another job in a few weeks if it should fail.

It's basically an exciting game for privileged people with too much time on their hands. The worst outcome is you have to go work at a regular job.

Relax, no one is being sent to the scaffold over this!
Google Cardboard on iOS using F#
I'm not sure what you mean exactly. Rome was not built in one day, but with small steps. If you wish change then you take small actions that of course do not build a palace today, but might do in 10 years.

That basically translates to use bitcoins alongside dollars and slowly transition to bitcoins only.
That makes much more sense than the big tough guy that I mentioned. But there are still many reasons why an innocent person thrown in jail could make up an story. I guess that it would be OK to use that confession if it leads the investigator to new evidence, but using it in court as an evidence in itself seems very wrong to me.

My knowledge about criminology or criminal justice is very limited, and it's probably polluted by all the cop movies and TV shows. So any input from somebody more knowledgeable on the subject is more than welcome.
Nobody knows whether $70/month covers capital costs. Google has been totally tight-lipped about the financials of Google Fiber. All we know is that $70 + value of tie-in from more use of Google services + the political value of shaming incumbents + unprecedented regulatory concessions makes Google Fiber worth the company's while in a small number of cities.

We have more insight into Verizon's financials: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/a-bear-speaks-why-v.... This article estimates that Verizon will ultimately lose money on FiOS. Indeed, if anything the estimates in the article, written in 2010, are a bit more optimistic than what turned out to happen. Verizon really struggled with uptake, which have only touched the 40% assumed in the article this year. That means the interest and marketing costs in the calculation are probably too low.

The numbers also explain why the company is reluctant to expand the service:

> Through 2010 the company will pay an average of $817 to run the fiber past the 19 million homes, on poles or under the ground. It will also incur $172 per home passed in other costs related to the video infrastructure.

It costs $1,000 to run the fiber past each home. The uptake rate is crucial--if only 10% of people in a neighborhood actually subscribe, then the cost just to run wires past the house is $10,000 for each subscriber. If 50% subscribe, that cost drops to $2,000 per subscriber. Verizon has thus resisted expanding to cities like Baltimore, where only a small sliver of the city really has customers who can afford $70/month for fiber. Google gets around this by only building out to neighborhoods where enough people sign-up to subscribe. Indeed, before they had to change their procedure in Kansas City due to marketing backlash, their sign-up process left most of the poor neighborhoods in the city without fiber.

You can call these build-out requirements inefficient regulation, and they are, but they're unavoidable in U.S. cities, whose political structures are dominated by those representing lower-income people.
Frontline did a great 4 part series on this whole debacle.

Transcript: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/business-economy-fin...

There's obviously a lot more to this than this one quote, but this sums it up well (from part 2)

"JOSHUA GREEN, Bloomberg Businessweek: Geithner’s entire recovery plan depended on confidence. And if you suddenly started going in and giving haircuts, people are going to get upset. They’re going to be worried. Investors are going to pull back right at the time when they needed investors to have enough confidence in these banks to put their money back in."
It sounds like we have similar setups. I use xmonad with no system trays - if I need something that happens to be a system tray, I'll ask for it and close it when I'm done with it. When I'm working in an application I don't need to see what the time is, if I've got a new email...

> I don't like the whole "have some discipline" argument. Humans are notoriously bad at discipline- environment plays as much of a role as self control (try surrounding the most hardcore fitness nut by candy 24/7 and see how long they last). The point of our tools is that they should enable us to be who we want to be.

Yes! I've come to the same conclusion myself. One thing that many people who complain about people's lack of self discipline nowadays is that it is most probably objectively harder to stay disciplined in the modern age then it was before. For a long time this was true for things like junk food, but most recently it's true for computers and the procrastination that they encourage. It probably isn't we who have gotten less disciplined - it is our environment that demands more discipline of us. And since computers are too-damn-convenient to be without, we need to make them help us stay on track rather than allowing them to drain our self-discipline energy (if there is such a thing. It feels like it is.)
> It's not as bad as it could be. JPMorgan spent 9 billion dollars to keep her off the witness stand.

...but they didn't really spend 9 billion if you read the article:

For starters, $4 billion of the settlement was largely an accounting falsehood, a chunk of bogus "consumer relief" added to make the payoff look bigger. What the public never grasped about these consumer--relief deals is that the "relief" is often not paid by the bank [...] but by the bank's other victims

Moreover, in this case, a fine-print addendum indicated that this consumer relief would be allowed only if said investors agreed to it – or if it would have been granted anyway under existing arrangements. [...]

The average person had no way of knowing what a terrible deal the Chase settlement was for the country. The terms were even lighter than the slap-on-the-wrist formula that allowed Wall Street banks to "neither admit nor deny" wrongdoing – the deals that had helped spark the Occupy protests.

EDIT:

And, to add insult to injury:

Because most of the settlement monies were specifically not called fines or penalties, Chase was allowed to treat some $7 billion of the settlement as a tax write-off.

Couple this with the fact that the bank's share price soared six percent on news of the settlement, adding more than $12 billion in value to shareholders, and one could argue Chase actually made money from the deal.

I would argue that it is much worse than you initially imagined.
> CEOs aren't afraid of jail time

Let's test that hypothesis. :-) I suspect if they really didn't mind that much we would see it more often.

edit: s/more often/at least once/
I don't get it. If you buy an ad, you are the highest bidder. How do you sell it for more? Another exchange?
Break them up then. Not directly, but indirectly by changing the incentives to be big. Also define a "bank" semi-recursively so even a company which merely owns 20 banks (or a company which owns a company which owns a bank, etc) is still considered a bank for the purposes of these laws.

Banks with holdings of over 0.5% of GDP lose all FDIC protection, while still paying.

Banks with holdings over 1% pay quadruple FDIC premiums while still receiving no coverage.

Banks over 2% also pay double-tax on every tax they pay either directly or indirectly, so all the payroll taxes are doubled and so are corporate profit taxes.

Banks over 3% pay all above but instead of double taxes, quadruple taxes.

Banks over 5% pay everything and get taxed at 5% of assets per year.

Very smart folks would immediately start figuring out how to fairly cleanly break the banks up while simultaneously not destroying themselves or the entire economy. Why? Because there'd BE MONEY IN IT.
> No one's legacy is based on how good of a dad/partner they were.

You've never heard tribute paid to a parent by someone you admired? Or do you think it's always ceremony?

I can assure that you that there are those whom you look up to, who in turn look up far higher to a mother or father. And there are people who write about life as a parent--and not just mawkish mess with a glossy cover, I mean that rare stuff of substance--who cause far more words to pour out than Ben has here, which is to say nothing against him but much in their favor.

One final note: maybe no one is remembered by name for their work as a parent or partner--not that it matters to most--but there are some who are known and remembered for how bad of one they were. And their legacies are tainted, no matter what else they did.
You'll find a handful of announcements if you google "microsoft new review system". http://www.theverge.com/2013/11/12/5094864/microsoft-kills-s... is helpful as it includes the memo that introduced the new system.

What I have not seen is any substantial discussions about the new system recently, which would be useful since the FY has now wrapped and we have had our first review under the new system.

Speaking only for myself, I don't really know how different the new system is than the old system, but I also didn't see a lot of problems in the old system. This may be because my group is somewhat odd (we're not in Redmond.)
Show HN: Dynamic blog engine in Go
Numenta Learning Center
Raising capital in the US vs. EU: a biased comparative study
Noise canceling headphones work great for the HVAC hum/rumble, if the noise is bothering you I'd recommend trying a set. The only ones I've worn enough to recommend are the Bose ones but they work very well.
Was this the Goldman article? http://www.propublica.org/article/carmen-segarras-secret-rec...
I agree, mostly. I really like async/await but I didn't dare touch it until I read the articles that explain what kind of state machine the compiler constructs and how the synchronization context works. I doubt the average developer would go through that trouble.

I think it's great if you follow standard design patterns but it could be a real source of problems for inexperienced programmers once a race condition emerges.
Judge Approves Detroit Exit from Bankruptcy
"Idem-potent messaging is the interface of choice for all networked applications"
> Your company loves you and wants you to be happy, though, so they’ll suggest two days for your honeymoon, two if a parent passes away, and one if your wife passes away. You can take that Saturday off, too, because the company is generous. There, that’s like four full days — five, if you time it with a public holiday.

I can't help but wonder how one would time the demise of one's wife to coincide with a public holiday.
Life is, truly, very short.

Yeah, it is. And you can't take your money with you. Your startup might be the next Facebook. It also might fail in six weeks time leaving you with nothing.

The fact that you define life success in terms of whether you won against other people guarantees one thing: you will lose. There will always be someone above you that you can stress and obsess over beating. Or, you can decide you want none of it and find success on your own terms.

I echo the other poster that described your mentality as "simple". In other situations I'd consider that a little too insulting to say, but you've already described people who focus on anything other than "hard" things as "weak". Truly complex people get fulfillment from a variety of sources. Cooking, gardening, spending time with a loved one, whatever. Success is not the only metric for most of us.
HN is just mean and boring for downvoting this. Gotta leave this place.
Love me some Chocolatey NuGet.
The analogy to COM apartments is completely to the point. In fact, if you look at the PPL header files for C++/CX you will notice that the PPL system explicitly refers to COM apartments. Since IAsyncAction and friends can be used from C++/CX and .NET alike they are actually sharing very much of the same principles.
Reporting Back
The problem with this theory -- the "holds a position too important a role in the popular perception of the institutional infrastructure to hold accountable for personal misdeeds" theory, which, aside from the financial collapse was frequently cited to justify the Ford pardon of Nixon -- is that:

1) As soon as such a principle is seen to be operating, it licenses further and greater misdeeds from those in the positions to which it applies, and

2) It ignores the damage (which may be less severe in the short-term, but is likely to be more lasting in the long-term) to public perceptions and confidence that the lack of accountability itself produces, including that resulting from the inevitably common perception (whether or not its accurate) that "too important to charge" isn't really about protecting the public from public harms resulting from damage to confidence in the institutional system, but is merely one of a set of a self-serving excuses that elites use to protect other elites from accountability to the superficially generally-applicable rules of society that are the only thing that protects everyone else from abuse by the elites.
Related reading:

ipfs, an optionally-authenticated hash-based global filesystem: http://ipfs.io

subresource integrity: an emerging web standard whereby you can specify a resource by its hash: http://w3c.github.io/webappsec/specs/subresourceintegrity/
it would have led to massive panic in the financial world.

Because they are all crooks and fear they will be next?
You're welcome.

FWIW, one of the most commonly believed things about Japan (domestically and internationally) that I believe is dangerously false is some variant of "Japan is not good at coming up with original ideas. It is good at perfecting ideas made elsewhere." There exist fields/time periods/etc where Japan has clear sustained leadership in innovation, just as there exist fields/time periods/etc where the same is true of the US.

"CRUD web applications between 2004 and 2014" has not been a particularly great example of Japanese technology leadership. Videogames in the 80s/90s/2000s or "Every mobile music device prior to the iPod" or "Robots, 1970 through present, excluding drones 2010-2014" or "Cell phones considered as hardware artifacts, prior to the iPhone turning them into software platforms" are all good examples.
Wait did you just unironically use a sexist slur to insult someone for what you view as sexism..? That's special.
I continue to find using explicit "Task<T>" types directly more intuitive. I've wedged in ASync/Await here and there to see if I felt good about it, but I never did. I would always find declaring a Task and attaching to it's ContinueWith (or whatever I needed ) to be more to my liking.
Taking a 6% pop as evidence Chase made money from the deal is ridiculous. I'm not going to waste time pulling up charts of their share price, but if I had to bet, their shares were depressed while the overhang of legal liability remained. For example, the price could have been down over 6% due to news of the possible liability, and then popped back 6% when settled. So they would have lost on the deal.
the only legacy you can really rely on (within reason, of course) is your children and your family

Except that is completely untrue. Every family I have ever encountered is split and bifurcated and generally not that reliable. True they exist, but by and large families are not that reliable.

I'm a father of three and have studied parenting outcomes for a while now. My children's outcomes in life are marginally related to how available I am as a parent beyond a certain minimal threshold - more important are socioeconomic factors. Even if you take that into account, even the most perfectly raised children (Whatever that means) have a high chance of winding up in an outcome that is less than optimal based on parental expectations - assuming that you have some aspirational expectations to begin with for them.

All that is to say that raising kids is a crap shoot and outcomes, either for you or for them, do not necessarily correlate with effort spent. Again, caveat this with "beyond a certain point" which is the bar of not living in poverty - arguably one major benefit of being successful in business.
These Males Are Cheating Animals
I often wonder how much of the so called 10x effect comes down to fluency.
I have always said that Detroit is Michigan's Northern Star. Now that it is on the way to being re-lighted then the state can truly come back as well.

Visit in a few years when most of the blight has come down. The Packard plant will show undeniable progress on its decade long rebuilding project however the Michigan depot will still be standing like an old Roman ruin to remind us of the bad old days.
How Apple Pay Saved My NFC Startup
10 of these bookmarked? I'd be surprised to see that there are 10 sites doing this already. I know of one other- but they do not get permission from the stock photo websites (which I do).
How Immutability Helps in Object Design
Not sure if this is considered a technical opinion but I believe Desktop Support/Help Desk positions shouldn't exist.

Computers are basically tools to help you do your job. Computers are ubiquitous enough now that I believe everyone should be ok using them. Hiring people to use your tool for you is wasteful for the company.

If you're having a house built and your carpenter doesn't know how to use his hammer, you don't hire a hammer support person, you get someone that knows how to use the tools of their job. I believe this same thing applies to knowing how to use your computer.
If you're a criminal, talking to the press is an incredibly bad idea to begin with as 'reporter's shield' laws are wildly inconsistent. A lot of criminals get convicted because they just can't keep their mouths shut.
Cynicism
Yes. This is describing classic venue arbitrage.
The built-in multiple desktop support (ctrl+arrow left/right to switch) plus Spectacle[1] (free, open-source) will get you most of the way there. There's no good way to get rid of window title bars that I'm aware of, though having them there does mean you can switch seamlessly between normal OSX window management and sort-of tiling management via Spectacle.

Spectacle's default keybindings conflict with (override) Chrome's primary next-tab/previous-tab keys, but there's an alternate command+shift+[ or ] binding for those actions in Chrome.

[1] http://spectacleapp.com/
> The problem is that no one chooses an alternative candidate who doesn't belong to one of the major two parties.

No, the problem is that we don't have an electoral system that makes it rational to choose such a candidate without reasonable basis to believe lots of other people will (choose the same candidate, not just any non-major-party candidate).

The symptom of that problem is that nearly no one chooses an alternative candidate.
iPhone 6 will bend itself