skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a dev ultimately wanting to do bigger things:

Start Small, Stay Small: A Developer's Guide to Launching a Startup by Rob Walling

http://www.amazon.com/Start-Small-Stay-Developers-Launching/...

As a human with a curiosity:

Decoding the Universe: How the New Science of Information Is Explaining Everything in the Cosmos, from Our Brains to Black Holes by Charles Seife

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/067003441X
Altman Course, Company Culture
Company culture was an important topic in the
recently completed
Stanford course "How to Start a Startup" by Sam Altman at

http://startupclass.samaltman.com/

Some readers might also like the series of blog posts on company culture at

http://themusingsofthebigredcar.com/the-company-culture-series-ii/

by Jeffrey L. Minch, long the most popular contributor to VC Fred Wilson's blog AVC.com.
vgdb (the GDB interface binary) plus --tools=massif is like magic for finding resource hogs: hit a break point, dump heap profile, step, run another dump, compare.

If you often find yourself staring at the massive massif "massif" (triple pun FTW) and wondering why things are going up AND down, you need vgdb in your life.
I use them almost every day. In cities all over the country. They are better than Taxi's in literally every single way. I actually have nothing but positive things to say about them.
It's ancillary to the discussion, but I'm not sure of the due diligence which can reliably and certifiably be completed in India. There may be assumptions made from a belief that these things are present.
This would be made easier in Namecheap offered Secondary nameserver support. For example, DNS host at Namecheap, but use Linnode as a secondary.
Yep, and that's what puts Detroit in a better position than Toledo or Youngstown.
Do you recall how you found the first version that you purchased? What I'm wondering is if the free marketing on sites like Armor Games was a key part of the initial push to be discoverable on the app store rankings. Of course, the existing mobile user base may all the captive audience they need to accomplish that at this point.
Permutation City by Greg Egan takes the cake this year in fiction. Although a very close second would be the Hardcover Penguin Classic's edition of Frankenstein by Mary Shelley mainly for it's deftly abridged version and preface which gave a new dimension to the story for me.

Non-fiction would either be Mortality by the late Christopher Hitchens or "On Numbers and Games" by John H. Conway.
Possible community fragmentation until one fork "wins.
Thanks for the warning. I hoped the deslider would work. Unfortunately:

>Sorry, the deslider doesn't know how to parse slideshows from that site
(A parser has yet to be written or assigned to deal with sites hosted on "techcrunch.com")

http://deslide.clusterfake.net/
> its advantageous to dismiss candidates with any defect or suspected defect

I agree; the problem is just that the society (and laws) judges different cases of discrimination completely differently, even though the underlying mathematical principles are the same. Don't hire a man because he could be a rapist? OK. Don't hire a woman because she might give birth? Outrageous.
The Median Earnings for Full Time Workers page was quite sad for America.

Language Other than English Spoken at Home was quite surprising for me. I had no idea it was that high.

I don't understand how the employment numbers can be that bad. 35% unemployment - that is mostly impacted by people rearing children and college age folk, I hope.
Almost every one of those books you find in the library is on the internet, the reason you're not finding them is payment.

Publishers don't put their books for free in on the net, they want to make a living. Libraries on the other hand, pay publishers for the books, but only have a limited number of copies. You can probably access most of these books behind a paywall, but paywalls filter out search engines like Google.

It is kind of silly comparing the modern internet to a library, because technologically, the Internet and computer wins by a large margin. Every book in my local library can be digitized and put on my computer, and I'll still have a huge amount of space available. My computer can make unlimited copies of that information. My computer can OCR the information and the content of the books can be searchable, something a physical copy library cannot do. I can share my entire library with everyone on the planet with an internet connection.

I'll repeat, this is not a problem with webcrawling. It's a problem with financial incentives.
The current thinking from the meeting (correct me if I'm wrong) is that Docker extensions are late-bound named Docker containers; each extension defines a set of "drivers", which have privileged communication to the Docker daemon, and which speak libchan (which is msgpack over HTTP 2) to interface with well-defined "internal" (but public) APIs in the Docker daemon.

Each driver can bind to sets of internal APIs, which allow it to insert blocking hooks in e.g. a networking API, for "network create" or for volumes, before "volumes create".

In terms of extending the CLI, there was some mention of standardizing on JSON Schema for specifying the APIs, such that CLI user interfaces could be auto-generated.

A lot of detail here remains to be thrashed out, but yes, the git model is definitely one to look at. We also talked about modelling this on other successful plugin models, such as the one that ships with Eclipse.
Definitely not necessary to pay to play these games. Makes it easier, sure, but they don't have timers or super high difficulty spikes to overcome, except maybe the last level.
I’m using it on http://sublevel.net/ — there’s no problem whatsoever. It does the job so well, especially if you have consistent fields on tables. I like the fact that it can search multiple fields at once without degrading the performance. You can try it on Sublevel without creating an account.
Rape cases are under reported even in US. Majority of the rapists in US are also let go free. In fact, the rapists often intimidate the vicitim by hiring expensive lawyers and suing them back for reputation damages.
Yes! After the negative Uber story yesterday I asked if there was a compiled list of their wrongdoings. Apparently, TechCrunch was listening. :P
Isn't their disagreeing just another reason to have them there? Their feud is not helping either side.
Is there anything technically wrong with the Docker format, or do you just have doses of Lovecraftian fear and uncertainty to offer?
One guy gets paid to write about meaningless micro trends, another guy gets paid to blast him.
Nothing to gain from this in my humble opinion
Well at a minimum you are dividing the development efforts between two different pieces of software. Which means (arguably) net contributions for either one should be less then if all contributions were going to a single project.
The first time I read Meditations I read the Gregory Hays translation. It's written with very colloquial language and makes for a great entrance to the book.
I kind of agree with their original thought, if the game can't succeed on one large platform then being portable is irrelevant. If it does succeed then porting is an additional cost but it's a cost you can weigh up and choose to do or not do, you have the choice. That seems like a better option than over encumbering yourself to begin with by adding in effect a bunch of additional cross platform requirements.
Is it just me, and the VR community in Seattle, or does it seem like no one is excited about the Samsung VR? I hear very little buzz about it, especially since it's only compatible with the Note 4. Also, I'm not sold on the whole VR/underpowered mobile device pairing either.
Any time you're hiring an army of contractors across the world, you're guaranteed to have some problems.

I'm impressed that after six years in business, tens of thousands of drivers, and a $40b valuation that one of the top-10 worst things about Uber is that they refunded money to some people as they were figuring out their pricing model.

I'm amazed that this is all TC could dig up.

Edit: I really don't see how all of this paints the picture that Uber = evil. Sure, some of their management and some of their drivers may not be great people, and like any company with massive growth, they've had their share of horrific issues and accidents. I just don't see that the company is going out of its way to screw people over. Remember that the alternative is getting in a Yellow Cab.
It's actually kind of complicated whether there are benefits or drawbacks to being married. For couples where most of the income comes from one person, there are benefits. For couples with roughly equal incomes, there is a marriage penalty for couples with very high (because the upper tax brackets start at less than twice of the corresponding single tax brackets) or very low (because of EITC) income.

Here a chart that depicts how the effect of marriage on taxes varies with income: http://taxfoundation.org/article/effects-marriage-tax-burden...
You may be interested in reading Bolo'Bolo by P.M. or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Widmer

I've taken a lot of inspiration from this for future plans.
1.) this is a recruiting blurb from TBH.
2.) I want an unbiased opinion, this one doesn't address pros vs. cons.
3.) why would I want to smell fish all day?
Unfortunately both ASAN and Valgrind are broken on FreeBSD. ASAN has the decency to tell you it doesn't support FreeBSD, but while Valgrind doesn't even build in FreeBSD and doesn't list FreeBSD as a supported platform, the FreeBSD port is available but completely borked when testing clang-compiled software (which is everything on FreeBSD these days).

I have to compile my FreeBSD-specific code on Linux to find memory leaks, while praying to God the leak isn't in one of the ifdef'd sections.
Thanks, but finding unicode glyphs isn't my problem. I can do that easily enough with the OSX character palette or Julia (which automatically turns TeX escape sequences into unicode characters on the command line). My problem is finding the meaning of a symbol (or composition of symbols -- one above the other, in a subscript, underlined, in a left subscript, etc) in a specific context. Usually what happens when I put a unicode symbol + context into google (or google scholar) I get the worst of both worlds: false positives from the symbol mixed in with the hits I would have gotten with the context terms alone.
Michelle Alexander's The New Jim Crow.

It should be considered required reading these days--couldn't be more timely.
What if somebody who already is in a position of power/authority/trust is accused of something like that? That's what I meant with "easy to ruin people's lives" (e.g. Strauss-Kahn).
This is true for C++ and doubly true for Java.

In 20 years, I don't think I've ever seen a commercial third-party C++ library that I thought was competently designed and implemented. I was about to offer the exception of mysql++, but then I remembered it's an open-source library so it wouldn't count as commercial. C++ seems to breed a lot of crappy but marginally useful code.

I haven't done much Java, and I don't think it's a bad language, I've never seen a Java development environment that I would even wish on my enemies. Java seems to breed bloated over-engineered but under-flexible designs that require the programmer to do way too much of the kind of stuff that we invented computers to do for us in the first place.
In the last year I replaced my copy of Meditations, which I didn't like very much, and surveyed most of the existing translations in the process, comparing them to each other and to the original Greek.

Maxwell Staniforth's was my favorite, being both faithful to the original and easy to read. Hammond plays too loosely with the material, IMO.

The only hardcover I know of:

http://www.foliosociety.com/book/MDS/meditations

A paperback:

http://www.amazon.com/Meditations-Penguin-Great-Marcus-Aurel...
A lot of it actually looks really nice, almost like it's in the country or a very small town. If they can keep tearing down the completely blighted areas, it seems like they can actually turn it into something quite pleasant.
MPAA assignes CITIZENFOUR a rating of R
What's this got to do with the topic on hand?
Hindsight is 20/20. It was 2011 when they ported the Flash version to iOS, so Cocos2D-X had just been forked and Unity had just released its Android version. Cocos2D was what all the hit games were using at the time.

The game's popular enough that Activision did them the honor of cloning them for their recent Duck Dynasty game, so it's hard to say they screwed up that badly.
This looks nice. I'm going to try it out. I've used Xpath before and it (mostly) works on well-formed web pages. Also, I'm not completely sure if the advanced parsing mode allows for conditional non-link tests? Something like if title==X, then scrape the page. Good work.
Forking is healthy. In the late 90s/early 00s, you'd hear about a new Linux fork almost every other month. Those forks would die quickly, but sometimes would have something to contribute back to the larger distros.

The fact that Node is popular enough to fork is a good thing. There is an inherent disagreement between Joylent and the Io.js folks, not on technology but process, and it's likely that the conflict will be resolved that way they always are (the more suited fork will win out). The risk of fragmentation is very low.
> there's ethical dilemmas no matter how you slice it

You're exactly right. So the question becomes, "Is it better to disqualify applicants based on accusation alone, knowing that you'll disqualify some number of innocent people, or is it better to screen on convictions alone, knowing that you could possibly not screen out some guilty folks you otherwise would?"
Clustering, tags, and other enhancements to come in InfluxDB v0.9.0
Not only breitbart but written by gamergate darling Milo Yiannopoulos so you know it is going to have a nuanced and original view of gender /s.
yeah I just meant that good devs can use any language, not that any language is good for any problem. It obviously isn't. :)
Benedict Evans's weekly newsletter had a pretty concise synopsis of Uber's approach to business:

"Uber raised another $1.2bn at a $40bn valuation, wrote a contrite blog post saying it had to become more humble, and (following the standard go-to-market strategy) launched in Portland in breach of the law."
What are the related sequences?
> I didn't see anything in the Rocket proposal that implied they thought the things Docker wants to add aren't needed

I was referring mainly to this statement: "We should stop talking about Docker containers, and start talking about the Docker Platform. It is not becoming the simple composable building block we had envisioned."

I agree with you that that doesn't necessarily mean that the Rocket team disputes the need for enterprise features, but (as you say) may think other technologies are better suited. The announcement itself doesn't go into much detail as to which technologies those would be, though.

> Who is propagating this myth of the "Simple, Lightweight Enterprise Platform" to begin with?

It certainly hasn't been associated with this specific phrase, but the idea that there is a New Cool Tech around the corner that will be simpler, easier and less heavyweight than the Last Cool Tech seems to be a recurring theme in our industry, in my experience.

That's not to say that new technologies don't introduce dramatic improvements in certain areas. Personally, I'm a big fan of microservices and, specifically, containers as a possible implementation mechanism.

Equally, I don't think it's surprising that technologies such as Docker that start out as 'simple, composable building blocks' become part of more complex, "heavyweight" solutions as they evolve.
this doesn't look like it has the positional head tracking markers.
well right now title==X is not supported. However, you can fork the project and contribute. I am also planning to add a css selector to it. So that i would be much easier
> "assuming it can emerge from bankruptcy and state management"

Assuming?
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2014/12/05/detroit...

Edit: I'm downvoted for pointing out that the exit is all but finalized and thus "assuming" is an unnecessary qualifier?
If you're like me and hadn't been paying much attention to this product:

It is a head mount rig which you plug a galaxy note 4 into which gives you an oculus rift compatible VR head set.

http://i.imgur.com/wKUTy0Q.png
It was a PR filtered flame war.
Exactly! It's half a problem of legacy and half a problem of motivation.

Books and review articles (if you're lucky) are the only things I know of that plug the gap.
non portable technologies
It is another example of the new form war takes when it comes to casualties: highly asymmetric. It has recently been in the news, thus on my mind. No other reason I bring it up.
Well, it's damned difficult to follow laws that aren't written down.
This isn't a contradiction; there will be ideas that have something appealing about them, and are actually bad ideas in practice.

Or they could be early or executed poorly. YMMV.

In other word "Worst Flop" is not going to be the terrible stupid bad ideas - the exact opposite of "fantastic idea", more like "biggest gap between expectation and reality".
You can go better than "accusation". Anyone could accuse anyone of anything. But you could set the bar in the middle with "arrested", which is half way between "accusation" and "conviction".
QOTD:
What are we going to do for the next year?
Eat pizza until we learn to speak Italian by osmosis?
> The alleged driver had previously served 7 months in prison for rape charges, that didn't stop Uber from recruiting him.

mostly because he had No Objection Certificate from Delhi Police itself [0] that his history is clean?

EDIT: This image could be fake too, I can't trust our Indian media houses either :|

[0] - http://i.imgur.com/rwjhHBq.jpg

source of [0] - https://twitter.com/timesnow/status/541885210573275136
To a point. I've noticed in functional language jobs the specific language is less meaningful. While it may be Clojure, it will often have a requirement of "experience in functional languages" rather than explicitly Clojure. I think that's a combination of fewer developers to choose from, smaller companies (so a technical person reviewing it rather than HR), and the recognition that the major difficulty to getting productive is that first paradigm shift, after which it's evolutionary rather than revolutionary.
$200 seems pretty steep. This is just a shell with straps, some sensors and lenses?
They didn't say no, they just said they wouldn't spend effort conforming to a 3 day old standard that no one was using.

That just makes business sense.
Too many variables.
How do you pay Uber in India? Did you make a deposit, or is this on a credit card? I don't know the credit card rules in India, but in USA there's no way I would have ended up paying Uber's self-serving "fine".
It also heavily depends on the customers you are selling to in Detroit. Basically all state/local government agencies and a large percentage of big local business have "minority owned business" preferences written into their purchasing process. As a result, you'll find a number of small shops whose sole purpose is to be owned by a minority and then subcontract out jobs to other companies who might not otherwise be able to compete for those contracts. Alternately, I've encountered companies entirely staffed by non-minorities but the company is "owned" by the wife of the CEO who happens to be Asian or whatever.

Michigan has a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBE) certification process to attempt to reign in some these shenanigans (used by MDOT for road construction projects) but I still see this sort of thing all over the place.
Well, it would have meant abiding by the law...
I had a similar experience once with Uber. We were going to a hotel and the GPS led the driver off the freeway then back on the freeway going the opposite direction, then said "you have reached your destination". In the middle of the freeway. Sure we were right next to the hotel I was going to, but you can't get to the check-in desk by pulling off to the side of I-95.

I've never used Lyft before and I don't know what GPS Uber uses. Just an anecdote. I've had my personal GPS do stupid things like that too.
Anything to keep in mind when switching to cloudflare? Is it completely free?
You're confusing definition of mundane. It doesn't mean trivial or obvious or without value.
Show HN: Simple improvement for single-line text fields
> I wouldn't be surprised if even Rocket becomes bloated as they realize they cannot design for simplicity when complexity is a requirement.

That was pretty much what I was trying to get at with the question of how a "Rocket ecosystem" would address these requirements. I think vidarh makes a valid point that these could be met by tools outside the container system that are better suited...but I am curious as to what this combination of tools would be.
Anecdotally, at least, the negatives do seem to be making some impact (at least here in Denver). I've met an increasing number of people who have heard of the $500 rides who are scared to touch Uber.
An Inmate Received Nearly One Million Votes in the 1920 Presidential Election
Forking is the sexual reproduction of the software world. Yes, just like the living world it takes a lot more resources to reproduce in this method, you end up with a much larger number of variants. These variants can fill various niches, such as security, speed, or ease of use. Most variants will get neglected or die off, but many will succeed, and some may be reincorporated into the original project (cross-breeding).
If I were in a position to hire/not hire those characters, I would definitely stipulate that they may not bring a gun to work...
UBS Turns to Artificial Intelligence to Advise Clients
In Israel we have these guys:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GetTaxi

They're OK, I guess.
I have a high end gaming rig and the visual fidelity on my DK2 is still subpar, a phone would most likely be way worse even.
Like a normal cab that you hail from the street?
The Naked Eye - Charles Saatchi

Outsider - Brian Sewell Autobiography
Uber's a super aggressive company. They need to be in order to (A) expand a non trivially scalable business model this fast and (B) Confront the legal barriers, ambiguities and opposing interests in so many different jurisdictions. Hyper aggression is almost certainly (in my eyes) a prerequisite here.

But building up such an aggressive culture can have side effects. They could get blinded to the fact that some laws and regulations are appropriate and blindly fight instead of complying with good laws. They can develop an asshole culture internally where smashing through barriers evolves into smashing through people.

I think this kind of aggression is culturally dangerous.
Wouldn't forking be asexual reproduction? Only one parent...
The reason why it seems like a really bad thing in this case: many top contributors left node over some core principles.

But I agree with the article, when you read deeper into the comments and commits, it's not virulent in the record (though I'm sure tempers flared).

That being said, I'm just a lowly web dev and barely understand what's going on under the hood.
`Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance`

The book looks at what it means to say something has 'quality'.

It didn't teach me any new philosophical methods or theories, but it did make me look at my own work differently and start asking: how can I make something with the highest quality? What compromises that quality? What is a method that leads to the highest quality?

Translating that to my business life: in the startup scene I've scene a lot of startups treat lean as gospel (myself included at one point), and as a result they compromise on the quality that both themselves and their customers are happy with. So I certainly found it useful to have a book that made me think about this.