skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah, and it's not just APIs. Some of the changes are much more subtle, e.g. how often a particular event fires. If you're not careful these can destroy performance in baffling ways.

If you make an effort to stay on top of all the latest OS releases, life is great, but it's frustrating when you're trying to remain backwards compatible and figure out what the heck is going wrong on the new OS.
> and also publish flat-out racist cartoons

Then it will be easy to provide proof of that, isn't?
10 Cool Things from CES
Simple auto-login from emails using your favorite key-value store
> How am I supposed to get motivated?

Embrace the suck! So much of work-life is a mental game. Can you learn to lean into it, take control, and shake off the lethargy of a controlled environment?

Recommend reading Mark Divine, unusually good practical advice> http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17465530-the-way-of-seal
There's no desktop section on Flippa.
It'd be great if they could blog about how F# performs and the benefits of using it. e.g. Fewer bugs, less code... How are things working in practice.
Why assert the term is American-only slang, then?
"Eliminate the need for indoor heating" seems like a goofy application of what is really just a new type of breathable insulated fabric. You will still want the objects you interact with barehanded to be at room temperature; and many building elements and appliances are designed to be operated within a regulated temperature range, e.g. plumbing.

On the other hand, depending on the weight and breathability of the fabric, it could see use in the outdoors community for hikers, backpackers, climbers, etc.
"We need more love of self & others, more transparency, more equality, environmental protection, systemic design, awareness of the impact of our actions, awareness of politics, decentralization, less emphasis on money and more emphasis on community, etc."

How do you propose to bring about a more utopian society with the above characteristics?

How plastic do you think human nature is?

(Note that I came of political age during the tail end of the cultural '60s. I have heard all of the above before....)
My doctor for one, would benefit most from fixing his own basic problems than from dwelling on God or what problems God has given us, but like most doctors he pretends to solve big problems while saying pretentious things.

I'm just saying you'd expect these doctor types to have the greater powers of analysis, but in my experience they just pretend harder.

[Edit to remove that off putting stuff]
In Wake of Charlie Hebdo Attack, Let’s Not Sacrifice Even More Rights
Tinder Sponsors 'Swipe Right Night' at NBA Game, Hilarity Ensues
He could have written the same article between 1980 and 1985 though, when Japan's fertility rate was increasing.
People notice that they get attacked when they criticize Israel online, and eventually they keep quiet.

I haven't seen examples of this. I post quite critical stories about Israel's policies (some from the press in Israel, others from places around the world) on my Facebook wall, and not even my Facebook friends who occasionally display Israeli flags as Facebook profile photos seem to mind. Here on Hacker News, the one country that people can "attack" almost with impunity is the United States, but of course every United States citizen, including me too, has plenty to criticize the United States about, so all I ask is that criticism be factual and made with some international perspective. I think most Israeli citizens, and for the most part operatives of the Israeli government, have the same approach: criticize what deserves criticism, and give us a chance to discuss the policies of our country openly, but don't ignore the rest of the world in the process.
I received an interesting reply over email which I wanted to share here. With the author's permission I've reproduced it below but blanked out some details:

> I (or we as a company) faced pretty similar situation just a few weeks ago.

> The app is called ______, and it was our first app ever, our child - app that constituted our company brand and still is pretty useful for many small business owners (_______ is an invoicing app, making something like $20k/year on our domestic market).

> Unfortunately(?) business is business, so finally I decided to decline it. Now we’re making some final touches and will release it as open source project - again facing similar problems - the codebase is almost 6y old, app is not trivial, build procedure is not single click etc etc.

> Besides all those risks and problems, I still believe that opening the source code is worth doing. That way we can help other (less advanced) programmers to start their own mac products/businesses. I’m sure that you’ll agree that after a certain point you need to look inside something bigger than a trivial app from examples folder, something that is/was a real thing, something ‘alive'. That’s IMHO a single priceless source of practical knowledge.

> That’s my 10cents :)
Uhh, unless SSD technology changes significantly that line is a long long way off. SSDs are orders of magnitude slower than RAM. For example assuming a 2 GB/s speed is legitimate, RAM is over 22 GB/s. Plus RAM can be written and re-written without any wear, whereas SSDs have a max-write limit.
Someone else had your idea first
I'm not sure how true that is. Generally heading something like the FCC is a bit of a death sentence to your political career. You are sort of cordoned into the bureaucrat/lobbyist pool.
PTIME <= BQP <= EXPTIME

This is what I mean by 'closer'.

I had to use EXPTIME rather than NP because of Savitch's Theorem.

> In general, quantum computers only have a quadratic speed-up as far as we know.

Not really true? In the time setting, there's the case of sampling problems, hidden subgroup problems, the evaluation of linear systems, etc. There are also many other settings (Merlin-Arthur-like round complexity) and communication complexity where exponential and even superexponential increases can be had.
I suppose that you will provide proof of that racism don't you?
How are you generating the instruction traces? What format are you writing them to on disk?
Always is a great read. Can't help myself into rereading these stories every time I see this post.
Agreed. The invention seems solid, but gods, I do not want to handle everything with mittens.

Maybe this is how we get room temperature super conductors. Move to Antarctica and wear this.
EmptyApp runs on a Hapi.js/Node, MongoDB, Angular stack: https://github.com/stefanRitter/emptyApp
he was toasted as the hero of the project.

Sorry, but this guy sounds like an asshole. Derailing a project so you can be the one to save it is pretty sleazy. What about the stress on his colleagues, the late nights, etc? They were "frantic" and "exhausted", and he was sniggering the whole time. The human cost of his moment of glory?
Spurred on by the success of "if A==bad then NOT A", I used this tool to patch several more bugs -- which nearly all had to do with the collision code.

This reminds me so much of a developer I work with, why figure out the root cause when you can throw a try / except / pass around it. If that doesn't work upgrade a package and see if that helps. If that doesn't work throw in a hacky fix.
> Do Not Call List
I think most people are pleased with this.

> The Bush Era FCC was fining people for swearing on TV and Radio.
Not Title II.

> Both parties support SOPA and 6 strikes.
Can happen with or without Title II.

> The FCC regulated phone sex lines in the 1980s.
Not familiar with this one (and I'm not going to research this specific case while at work). Though again, the government could easily decide to regulate this regardless of whether ISPs are under Title II.
This is a pretty common sales & negotiation technique. Anchor high, with a much higher profit margin than you actually need. Do your best to get the customer to buy at the high price. Periodically, when you want to seem benevolent, offer a "sale" or "concession" that gets you down to what you were willing & able to do in the first place.

Every time you buy stuff on sale at the grocery store, you're seeing it in action, but you probably don't think much about it.
Some people are swayed by rational argument and some are not.

Some people are swayed by emotional argument and some are not.

Some people are swayed by satire and some are not.

Satire, it general, is not intended for the people being satirized, it's intended to enlighten the audience about the true nature of those being satirized.

This satire, in particular, was meant to illustrate to the French audience that Islam is NOT a religion of peace. Islam already knows that it is not.

Just because you, personally, seem confused by satire to the point of bewilderment and anger doesn't mean satire is not an effective tool in convincing others on important topics and issues.
Ah, I see. Only slightly less interesting, then :)
Great response. It takes a strong person to be empathetic and rational in these situations and not just seek out revenge by whatever (even non-violent) means.

But I guess people will always look to the easy and emotional options. Which explains a lot of the 'how' in the 'how we got to this point' question - on both sides.
I was hoping for deeper tech dirt and architecture commentary from eetimes. This article didn't say anything I didn't read in Ars Technica yesterday. :-/
The rebuttal seems pretty convincing if you only look at the graph between 2002 and 2008. You could lop everything off after 1985 and have the same rebuttal.

The rebuttal would be convincing if he went into detail as to why the government forecasts are wrong, but he doesn't. He just says "hey they're wrong" without delving into any of the history of the forecasts, how the forecasts are made (which would be interesting, because then he could really say why he thinks they're wrong), what his forecasts might be... But instead, he just says "hey they're wrong" without anything else.

If anything he's guilty of cherry-picking, which is something we rage against when climate change denialists do it. Why is this guy convincing while they're not?
Soldier, or whoever. It is totally unwarranted to put our forces in harms way whoever you are and such speech is certainly not protected regardless of who you are.
Setting Up a Shopify Development Env for Windows
Congrats to the YC Crunchies Nominees
As a former tenured professor I thought a lot about this issue. The underlying problem is that administrative staff create work to justify their existence. The more administrative staff you employ the more you need to employ.

I was on the academic council for a couple of years (itself a huge waste of resources and time) so I got to put up a proposal that we get rid of all administrative staff and replace them with academics. The idea was the academics do all the needed administrative tasks, and since nobody's job would depend on doing administrative tasks, that we would only be doing the bare minimum needed to keep the university running. Also everyone would be aware of what the consequences of some new administrate task would be on teaching and research. The look on the vice chancellor's (university president) face was priceless - I don't need to tell anyone here that the proposal was immediately dismissed without discussion.
Je suis Charlie: http://www.tjradcliffe.com/?p=1704

If you're not, too bad. But all you have to do is stand up. You can do it whenever you want, however you want, but you can always do it.
Tig: Text-mode interface for Git
this issue has been fixed
You do want to have your default setting be "avoid technical debt", so that these sort of hacks are just that - hacks. Projects get into trouble when people do them as a routine matter; they're saved when a project that's otherwise healthy needs to do something naughty to work around a tricky bug.
One of the most famous games of all time in the poker world saw swings of $10M+ in each direction and was exclusively heads-up, limit HE: http://www.pokernews.com/news/2006/02/beal-corporation-finis...
They lose right off for me because the back button doesn't work on jet.com to even exit back to the previous site you were on.
Would you be surprised really?

You immediately came up with an idea to ruin certain conversations using technical know how not available to the general public.

Now imagine you work somewhere with the budget and means to actually do it, and you are the type of person who is just as techy and also is fine with your career working with the people who got burned in the Snowden leak. Why wouldn't you actually do it?

You probably would: https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140714/10462727873/lates...
It's not necessary to agree with 100% of a publication to sympathize with one of their positions. It is not necessary to disclaim all their past transgressions (as distasteful as they may be) before supporting them in the wake of this massacre.

You might be mischaracterizing what some/many/most people mean when they say, "we are charlie."
First step is for people to understand stacking contexts (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Under...). Blew my mind after years of web development to learn that I had really had no idea how z-index worked.
AWS Lambda vs. IronWorker
It always seemed a bit easy to me without running through probabilities due to the fact that the game show host was forced to choose goat (which is different depending on where the car is). The idea of a forced non-random choice is more clear to me than a probability explanation, but you need probability to demonstrate a proof.
Of course, one can make the argument that fibre would never have privately been built out if it were subject to sharing rules. It would be great if individual communities built out in infrastructure mode, but that push has to come locally because it's never coming from corrupt DC.

Pragmatically, I'm still a huge fan of DSL (thanks to Sonic.net/Omsoft). I haven't even kept aware of what the bigcable caps are looking like these days, but I've had many months where I've done >1TB over ADSL2+ (one third of my available bandwidth).
A lot of people take advantage of other "emergent behavior" of the minecraft world to do interesting tricks as well - things like instant wire and Block Update Detectors (BUD switches) that update redstone when a block is placed or changes state.
Thanks, interesting paper.
"in cyclotron's at"...

who proofreads this?
5 jobs a month, in the entire world?
Yeah, I was wondering about that. I had certainly read it before, but was confused about the "Copyright 2015" at the bottom of the page. If you follow the link to the non-print version of the article you get the real date.
You can sell the website of the app (with the app). I guess you can make $10k-15k on this.
If I ever found out someone did this not only would I fire them, I wouldn't keep it a secret. I'd make sure everyone on the team knew exactly why he was fired. That is acting is gross bad faith. Think of the time it had cost all those people around the world just because he wanted a day off here and there. Blows my mind that someone would do that.
I would be incredibly shocked and surprised if the French press had anything negative at all to say about this. This seems to be a time of solidarity in the French press and they'll be welcoming any and all support.
There was a major news network that wouldn't display a picture of Obama's kids (A selfie taken by his daughter, which was leaked) because of privacy concerns. They went on and on about how we need to be careful about exposing children to the media and using pictures of questionable sources.

The next segment was a picture of Sarah Palin's son stepping on the family dog. The picture was taken in their family home. What happened to privacy?

It seems the privacy card is only pulled out when defending the people you like or agree with. I've see this time and time again on nearly every major news media outlets in the US.
They exist, fwiw.
On a somewhat unrelated side-note, you might want to look at how those images are scaling/displaying on your mackernews site depending on the scaling of the page (I noticed that if I zoomed the scaling in the browser it started to look better but at normal settings the images compressed vertically but not horizontally).

I'm not a software or web dev but things like that definitely influence my decision to try or buy software.

(ex: http://i.imgur.com/PgmrAm6.png)
Reading the blog article I get the assumption that you plead for a maximal decentralisation of the consensus process.

This assumption may however be wrong looking at the requirements of a system like Bitcoin. In my _opinion_ those are:

- A optimal scalable and fast system

- A optimal decentralized system

The thing is these requirements influence each other, which means that we shouldn't aim for maximizing one or the other, but both at the same time, keeping them balanced.
That article is nonsensical.

Someone calling racism this:

"Even in a fresh-off-the-press, glowing BBC profile of Charb, Hebdo’s murdered editor, he comes across as a racist asshole.

Charb had strongly defended Charlie Hebdo’s cartoons featuring the Prophet Muhammad.

“Muhammad isn’t sacred to me,” he told the Associated Press in 2012, after the magazine’s offices had been fire-bombed.

“I don’t blame Muslims for not laughing at our drawings. I live under French law. I don’t live under Koranic law.”
"

is someone that doesn't know anything about racism

And the "welfare queens" quote is really funny
T450s comes with 4GB RAM soldered: you can either have total of 8GB RAM dual-channel or 12 GB single-channel (don't do it).
My son just got one of those types of books for Christmas. In the states there is a run of them called "Scanimation" books.

http://www.amazon.com/s/url=field-keywords=scanimation
So what happens if everyone plays that strategy? Presumably expected earnings approach zero?
Don't optimize prematurely, there's probably a lot of people in the U.S. that can use your site first ! :)

Best of luck :)

Edit: also, U$ 8 / month is a huge barrier for international adoption.
All rumors are "Fake"
At first I was totally grossed out by the though of the entire process. It's tough to see how the sausage is made, tougher still with the cultural aversion to eating bugs. Then I watched the video where they are frying up the bugs in the pan, and though "How can they be so thoughtless to use metal on a non-stick pan"! So perhaps I'm past my aversion to eating bugs! Maybe not.
If you are a conspiracy nut for not being surprised what am I? I would be surprised if they aren't. Because ... why wouldn't they? It would be effective and easy. We know the tech exists already, we know it's used around the world. It would be less illegal than the things we know they do.
With my example I agree with you - the example in the article is different though - putting artificial constraints into a project to encourage innovation and making sure you have the necessary resources - and then removing the constraint before you go live - isn't a bad idea IMO, especially when you are dependent on multiple teams. Think of it as resistance training :)
'Interface' Considered Harmful
There's good satire. Religious even ,it can even be blasphemous and it will all be a non religious person being non religious-sy.

But inciting people and/or depicting people as terrorist only ends up bad and nothing's good ever comes out of it .
Disruption lessons from the Grateful Dead
Speed's nice, but get the price-per-terabyte down, I beg you.
Please don't wind down the project! I'm sure people are using it because they find it useful, and I think they would be disappointed if it stopped - I know I would if someone stopped working on an app I used heavily.

(1) I think its worth trying to sell the app - you did a good job, obviously it has a user base, and I think its fair you get paid for it and have someone continue to maintain it.

(2) If that's a hassle and you lose control of the project's trajectory - why not open-source? Your users would still use it, it would be free, and there might be some power user willing to take it on and improve the code base.

(3) As someone else mentioned in the comments below, maybe find a contractor to maintain it? This only makes sense if the cost of the contractor is less than what you're making off it, of course.
or the x16 chips are still too expensive.
What about taste? While bugs are a great source of protein, we don't eat foods primarily based on nutrition, we eat food based on taste.

I know Huhu or Witchetty grubs taste similar to peanut butter. And while peanut butter is nice and all, I want me some rich (but sustainable) beefy taste.
I don't think the efforts are in the hands of the US particularly. It's pretty much global.
I think, more accurately (and also more impressively), it plays nothing but +EV hands, while also not folding any +EV hands. Avoiding false negatives against a GTO player sounds like the really hard part.
Robber barons and silicon sultans
What's the fastest algorithm for sorting a linked list?
Because I am not Charlie. I don't have that courage.
I saw it posted today. Another friend commented, "you know this isn't real, right?". He responded "Meh. It doesn't hurt anything".
Oh cool, an internet zoetrope.
You have no idea what kind of performance you'll get with an Apple SSD. My almost brand new Macbook Pro has the worst SSD I've ever used, we're talking sequential speeds comparable to a hard drive. But it still works, so they refuse to change it.
I think it's supposed to happen with these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memristor
Sometimes you just have to do what pays the bills. I can't tell you how many broken PHP apps I've worked on over the years.
What Do You Need to Know About Deep Learning?
It's my understanding that limit is popular at places like the Oaks because No Limit was not allowed for a while, until there were means of getting around it (Oaks has 'cap no limit' for example -- can't bet above the max table buyin; Bay101 has something similar). I see the current popularity as a function more of inertia than of actual interest. A majority of the tournaments and SNGs that the Oaks runs are no limit.
The link between being a Street Athlete and building a startup
Software developers are human. Therefore, they are also creatures of habit. Once inured to the clumsy use of files and folders and lifeless, non-dynamic programming methods, once they grow emotionally and intellectually attached to their file-based tools and infrastructure, they are incapable of appreciating any other way to do things. They’ve become so efficient at doing things the hard way that it seems, to them at least, the best way to write software. These aren’t stupid people; they are simply habituated.

Yeah, it's the usual condescending "If you don't see the stupendousness of our approach, it's because you're not enlightened yet!" that we also get from Lisp and Haskell types. Spare us.

The rest of the article wasn't bad, but that one paragraph really turned me off. If I don't do it your way, could you please stop assuming that it's because I don't know any better? It may be because I actually do know better.