skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was browsing some old(ish) books in the computer science section of a used bookstore, and there was a popular book on Motif user interface programming. Curious, I started to leaf through it. Then I didn't believe my eyes and went through it more carefully.

About 350 pages. Lots of APIs and descriptions of options and stuff, but exactly one diagram. In the whole book. For me, this pretty much sums up why Unix UIs were so bad.
Anybody have a glossary?
I love this. Thanks for documenting it, its a very cool experiment. I'd be waaaay to lazy to go through this.. seeing someone else do it successfully is great!
Events Can Make Sense (2007) [pdf]
A decent market simply might not exist, and if TWC+Comcast becomes a thing the statement becomes a lot stronger.
My Google-Fu failed me earlier. Could you link me to Title II and maybe something explaining it?
So, should we not discuss the merits of a person who has a public life? Glenn Beck is a public and controversial figure, and controversial for good reason - in fact I don't think he would object to the supposition that he goes out of his way to be controversial. So, if someone brings him up in conversation or in a blog post, I shouldn't respond in kind because I might offend someone?

I mean, keep in mind, I didn't bring up Glenn Beck. He's a central part of the article, for crying out loud, and Arrington references his book multiple times, compares himself to him (and Churchill by proxy), and on and on. It is not unreasonable that discussion of this article would include Glenn Beck, since he's such an integral part of it, and it is not reasonable to ask that people keep their personal opinions of Beck out of that discussion.

Your comment is seemingly pretty benign, but I will tell you that I take a great deal of offense to it. You are thought-policing - simple as that. I don't know where you think you derive the authority to tell me what topics are and are not off limits - especially when those topics are referenced directly in the article at hand. And, for the record, I often do start to write a comment and then think better of it. This time I didn't. Perhaps you should have.
DrawAttention
The single-level store started with Soltis' System/38 in the 1970s: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System/38

I really recommend Frank Soltis' Inside the AS/400 if you are interested in computer architecture and virtualization.
There's one of those outdoor malls in Seattle, next to the University of Washington. Yes, Seattle, where there's nice summer weather for about 2 months a year. I genuinely don't understand it.
I've actually assimilated this effect and consciously appreciate how certain craft beer labels affect my perception of the taste. There's a local brew I explicitly enjoy more from a 12oz bottle than on tap because of its package design.
I am a self directed learner and school has always felt like a prison to me.
I don't think you read very carefully. As the author is careful to note, a share buyback is only a way to return money to shareholders a la dividends iff the shares are retired. But as the author points out, often the shares are not in fact retired, but used in other ways (for employee compensation, acquihires or acquisitions). It's not a "bad thing", and I don't think the author is arguing that it is, it's simply that the total value of a buyback can't be equated to a dividend unless you're looking at shares truly retired.
Its not very well worded but he isn't wrong per say.

Dividends theoretically should cause a fall in share prices the day after. Most aren't nearly large enough to be noticeable but for example in 2004 Microsoft issued a $3 dollar dividend and the share price fell by roughly that amount.

Conversely, stock repurchases you have money out but you also have a concentration of the stock.

In both cases money goes out of the company reducing its NPV but with stock repurchases the concentration and corresponding increase in EPS should offset the loss of money assuming the stock is priced correctly.

So there is an incentive for anyone with options to not pay dividends and save that money for stock repurchases. As well although theoretically buybacks shouldn't increase prices they do tend to as its seen as sign that management thinks the price is undervalued.
regardless of how misguided their attempts are, doing nothing is a non-option for studios, right? what alternatives are there? there are none - those who make the content make the rules, it's something i'm confident will not change.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2014/05/reconciling-mozillas-missi...

anyways, this is off-topic.
It sounds so amateur hour.

Amateur hour? The traders could be monkeys, since it's only the salesman who matter.

When you bet other people's money, the strategy is fairly simple: Go long (or short). Somebody at another company goes short (or long). One wins, one loses (it's guaranteed) and the winner gets a percentage of the "win". This is why they love volatility so much, as it determines the size of the profits, even in a zero-sum game.

Sure, mathematicians can beat the house. Doesn't matter to these guys. Other people's money? Flip a coin.
Stuxnet 'Patient Zero' Attack Targets Revealed
Mozilla’s Data Privacy Principles Revisited
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Can you concretely state what actions the legal and medical professions have taken that engineering/computing has not, and why you believe they made the difference?

I think one of the hardest things for people in tech to admit is that an uneven gender ratio is by itself a deterrent to talented women considering the profession.

It is indeed hard for activists/SJWs to admit that women's choices and intolerance of difference are partly the cause for women being underrepresented. But I suspect activists aren't the group you were referring to.

Anecdotally I also don't think you statement "people care about" is correct, at least w.r.t. gender/race. Most of the white and asian men I know are far more likely to have a problem joining a group of Windows users or IDE users than a demographically different group.
That may be the most well researched bug report I have ever heard of.... and from a user too
ParticleJS – Snow demo
Since the courts have basically explicitly said that anything that doesn't fall well short of neutrality fails without the FCC making a common carrier determination, yes, basically it is the only regulatory route to neutrality. The other alternative would be explicit pro-neutrality legislation from Congress that bypasses Title II, but that's realistically not happening with this or the next Congress.
It certainly is the trend here in New England, where winters are reasonably harsh. And the new outdoor malls aren't very walkable, either. They're separate stores, or sometimes chunks of stores, that you almost have to drive between. With an Olive Garden or an Applebee's in the middle of the parking lot.
HP, with some 300k employees, has a company-wide policy of allowing people to choose their email addresses. It's possible there's a human in the loop filtering out inappropriate ones, but even if so, the problem is clearly tractable.
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In the 80s? Its gotten MUCH worse since. All the malls i went to growing up now have mall cops standing at the door IDing people who look younger than 50 and won't let people under 18 in without a parent or guardian. Kid you not! This all started about ten years ago. I just... its absurd.
> The market is saying one thing. You believe another. So you bet against the market and the end result is... no change that affects shareholders?

At the moment of the transaction there's no change, you've just swapped money for stock and could swap it back the moment after and be back to square one. If you are right and the market is wrong you'll make money on the transaction in the long run. It's just like buying stock for your own account. The moment you buy your net worth doesn't change you've just changed your asset mix between stocks and cash and could change it back with a sell order. Only by the stock changing value over time do you gain or lose net worth.

PS: Starting your comments with "No." doesn't really add much to the discussion.
It is more in the lineage of puns and odd coincidences (not quite right, but something better is escaping me)
One of the big posts up top talks about the network OP will miss out without college.

Let's analyze.

Which dev will be more experienced: 4 years of full time dev work or fresh out of college?

Who will be more financially stable?

Who will have a larger network in the valley?

Who will be more employable?

Who will be earning more exactly four years from now?

Which one will have less debt?

Which one would perhaps even have savings?
>Yes, but there is strong evidence that it is more nature than nurture.

Is there? Where? And if it truly is nature over nurture, then why is it that women are interested in STEM at all? Why isn't the field entirely male instead of majority male? And the answer is, because people are different. Yes, they have different preferences. Yes, those preferences differ by gender. No, it is not solidly linked to genetics.
It is a tricky issue, but I can see a good argument for increasing the amount of traffic going through TOR, even if much of it was from users without proper OPSEC.

As with all security, it is an education issue; just as "Private Mode" warns users that they might be tracked by ISPs or other agents, "Super-private mode" would have to warn users that supplying identifying information would jeopardize their privacy.
Prop shops don't have salesmen (at least, none that I've ever seen).
http://imgur.com/DtAqDBU
New York Taxi Service Aimed at Women Finds Loyal Following
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Great read, and following these rules is so important when designing CLIs.

It's such a shame that for all its popularity, Git spits in the face of so many of these rules (least surprise, reversibility, failure, silence, predictability, etc.). It can be argued that understanding Git's plumbing obviates some of these violations, but I'd counter that I have better things to do than memorize intricate plumbing and byzantine combinations of commands and flags just to get usable source control. In either case, it's a fine VCS saddled with a tragic command-line interface, and it's become so popular that we're going to be stuck with that CLI for ages now.

Just goes to show: The command line is so elegant and pleasant when programs follow these rules. Make an effort to get your CLI right from the get-go, because if your program becomes popular you won't be able to change it later.
I just looked at http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
and the "Note" mentions NEF as a supported format. I am still seeing errors "File size larger than remaining quote" when I try to upload NEF files, but JPG works fine. Not sure what the disconnect is.
Wonderful! I wait for it quite a long time. it has already have good interface in safari iOS, but I prefer a handy app
> the one shaping up to be one of the most evil entities humanity has ever seen?

quite an assertion.
So just like the Mafia they're "offering" to sell you protection from...themselves.
Not waiting for your current VCS to bitrot is probably a good idea (assuming bzr dying isn't massive hyperbole)
Hey Consz,

I'm glad you laughed, as I tried my best to make it humorous. You're absolutely right, it is total amateur hour. Sometimes I can't believe this is how I make money! Price-action based trading can be so intellectually vapid. And that is why I feel so blessed to have this job and to be able to make it work. I don't try to pretend to be anything more than what I am. I don't make 7-figures but I make consistent, steady, low drawdown thousands that add up to a 1%-er income. I'm only 25 so I like to think there's room for improvement too. If you're doing better than that, congratulations.

130k is just a number in the middle of the drawdown that I arbitrarily referenced to give some context. You'll have to read the rest to see what the final number was when the full loss was realized.

Well, I'm getting "stop submitting too quickly" msgs and I'm sure there will be no shortage of people telling me this will never work, it's all random, no edge when backtesting, etc. So I'm done debating for the night, best of luck to you guys, hope you read part II!
Women receive a lot of biology degrees and math-ed degrees, which make up a disproportionate fraction of science degrees. In the math-heavy science degrees women are underrepresented.

There is a very good reason for at least part of this (read the tables not the titles):

http://www.ams.org/notices/201201/rtx120100010p.pdf

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/321/5888/494.summary

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21038941
We're talking to Dropbox about mailbox app - hopefully it will support us soon, as with everything it's a matter of engineering resources.

We're also talking to many companies about a better API for everyone - the draft spec is at http://jmap.io/ - it's based on the API that our app already uses.
Phew, problem solved.
We're working on that as well, it's just taking a little longer than the app did, so we released the app first.
> But as the author points out, often the shares are not in fact retired, but used in other ways (for employee compensation, acquihires or acquisitions).

Those two things are not connected in any way. Say you do a share buyback of 100 shares and give out 50 shares in compensation to employees. What you've done is given 100Xshare_price to your shareholders (you've gone out on the market and bought those shares from them) and 50Xshare_price to your employees (by issuing the new shares and thus diluting your shareholders). That second decision is independent from the first.
Sergii Iefremov: Runtime.JS: V8 JavaScript Kernel – JSConf EU 2014
Yes, you are correct. On an average Linux box to have a single cache line data transfer between the cores under 150ns 99% of the time is about the best that you can get. Especially if you are running stock kernel that eats this 1% and creates huge outliers ;). There is some talk though, about crazily-expensive switches with integrated FPGAs...
Given the increasing amount of PR pieces and fluff pieces fellating multinationals (the Firestone ebola article, anyone?), I wouldn't be surprised.
It's basically our existing web client, but hooked in to Google's notification service.

What we are hoping to do (quite soon) is switch to pure JMAP for the app's communication to the server - http://jmap.io/

At that point, k9 will be able to get the same great push notification system and efficient updates by implementing a JMAP backend.
I'm thinking of the case where for example a female nurse encourages her daughter to become a doctor because it is a more aspirational career in the same field.

OTOH a male doctor is probably not as likely to encourage his son to become a nurse because that is generally perceived as a step down in terms of prestige and pay.
There would be no need to contemplate reclassifying ISPs if they weren't run by sociopathic scumbags.

I'm quite libertarian in general, but "natural monopolies" need government regulation. Or we get abuses, big and small:

1) never ending price hikes far exceeding cost or inflation

2) extortionate demands to "double dip" revenues, e.g. how Comcast is charging Netflix to deliver packets that you as Comcast's customer asked for

3) Verizon stripping STARTTLS flag from email

And that's just a start. I don't know how big a message HN allows, but I'm sure we could all exceed that by enumerating our complaints.

There's a reason why Lily Tomlin could say, many decades ago:

We don't care, we don't have to ...
We're the phone company

There's a reason why Comcast is one of the most reviled companies in America.
Noob at investing and interested in it? Read this
Culture agents visit Earth in a short story set after Consider Phlebas and it's during the Middle Ages.

I'm not familiar with any medieval Culture encounters (and I don't see any in Wikipedia's description of the Culture's fictional history[0]), but there is a story, "The State of the Art", where Culture agents show up in the 1970's, which supports your point about the Culture explicitly not descending from humanity.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Culture#Fictional_history
https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2476.txt

December 1998

It's hardly your ISP's fault that you are 16 years behind best practice.
67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko the 'singing' comet
An unequal gender ratio in, say, therapy is a problem, but it's much less of a problem than the one in engineering. The reason that's the case -- and should by no means make you crazy -- is that not all inequalities are equal. When people study gender and race biases, the first thing you should consider is the question of power: is there a group that is under-represented in certain seats of power?

The tech industry is considered a much more significant source of power than psychotherapy (this is probably objectively true, but even if it weren't, being considered to hold more power makes it so), and so the underrepresentation of women in blacks in that industry is much more concerning and much more important. It's also the reason why the under-representation of whites in basketball is less concerning than that of blacks in Congress. Whites aren't marginalized away from power by being mostly absent from basketball, but the same cannot be said about blacks in politics.
>ISPs are likely "MitM"-ing their own traffic (which by definition isn't a MitM)

What's the definition of a MitM? If you're trying to talk to Google, and your ISP is modifying what you say, I would consider that a MitM. Wikipedia mentions a router MitMing its users. I don't see how that can be considered a MitM but not this.
This guy is silicon valley's dream. Self re-locating, driven and talented, and young enough to pay peanuts in salary. You late twenty-somethings have an expiration date now.
Holy cosmic coincidence, Batman. I posted an Ask HN about an hour after you first posted this seeking suggestions for discussions of information design for command-line programs.

Even more funny, valaruca1 suggested that "The Art of Unix Programming" by Eric S Raymond might be a good place to start. I was a little disappointed when I checked it out; perhaps he just mis-remembered this keyword.

Thanks for posting this--it looks like where I need to start.
That's great to hear. Regarding the Android app having just checked it out, my first request, if you're taking them, is multiple account support. I can only log into one fastmail.com account at a time with what is here now. The reason I have two accounts is because I have two domains that get emails. Otherwise seems like a solid app. I'll probably start using this as my calendar app. :)

http://jmap.io/ seems pretty awesome, I guess I can use that to build my own fastmail app integration?

Thanks for all the hard work on fastmail!
I thought HP had been working on it since at least 2008 (when I heard they got it to work)

I just assumed they are integrating it into their new super computer
The article may be badly worded, but it does make sense to some extent. What he is arguing is that buybacks can obscure the dilution from employee stock compensation, while at the same time they can be utilised to inflate the share price even if said employees are not doing a good job growing the business.

Say you take control of a company with a nice cash pile from past successes, but that isn't doing too great. You manage to get a great deal of options on the expectation you'll invest that cash pile to grow the business.

Now you can work your ass off to grow the company, or if manage to convince the right people so you can get those buybacks through, you could go for burning through that cash pile on buybacks, and profit nicely from the resulting rise in share price.

And if you're really good at sweet-talking the board, you could manage to sneak in additional options too. After all the share price is rising.

It's mostly a "buyer beware" type thing: It's not good or bad per se. Often the employee stock compensation may be necessary, e.g. to lure fresh blood in. And sometimes buybacks is the best response to a stagnating business: There may not be a short term prospect to be able to invest that cash pile in new product lines, for example.

But it's bad for you if you invest without understanding what is going on. Then again, that's always the case.
Not sure why the downvote. There is overwhelming evidence showing that both cancer and heart disease are significantly influenced by diet and exercise.
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> 320 times less

Kind of hard to trust the math in the article with that title
> In both cases money goes out of the company reducing its NPV but with stock repurchases the concentration and corresponding increase in EPS should offset the loss of money assuming the stock is priced correctly.

Both cases have the same exact outcome. If the company is worth Y and you decide to give out X, at the end of the transaction (dividend or repurchase) the shareholders as a whole will have a company worth Y-X on their hands plus X in cash for the same total of Y.

> As well although theoretically buybacks shouldn't increase prices they do tend to as its seen as sign that management thinks the price is undervalued.

That is indeed an extra benefit of repurchases, that they potentially signal that management believes the share is undervalued.
I might give this a go. I'd probably want a passcode option like Boxer to use permanently though.
Company morals, mission statements, constitutions etc are marketing material and not law. If the law requires a company to comply but their mission statement goes against this, the law will win every time.
Trading is like the Israeli nuclear program: those who talk about it don't know about it, those who know about it don't talk about it.

If technical analysis actually worked, you'd be able to find the "Technical Analysis Toolkit" for on GitHub, and... technical analysis would no longer work. A little bit of grepping around yields: http://ta-lib.org/ (Technical Analysis Lib).

Ergo: if technical analysis ever worked (there is some evidence it did before about 1990 when personal computers became ubiquitous) it almost certainly does not today.

The only way market timing approaches can work is if they embody significant information that is not generally available. A successful market timer has to be smarter than everyone else in the market at the time of each trade.

Anyone claiming technical analysis works is claiming that there is an inefficiency in the market that has been well-documented in public for decades, to the extent that an open-source BSD-licensed tool for identifying the inefficiency exists, and yet the inefficiency still exists.

This is simply contradictory.