skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Beyond open-sourceness it is also worth noting that while all browsers are behaving well on the internet right now (ever since Microsoft failed with the IE monopoly), Mozilla just does not have the permanent lingering need to make a profit, collect user information or to use their browser strategically in any way.

Occasionally there are already Chrome-only websites, there is a Chrome web store that could potentially become a gatekeeper for software similar to what Apple is doing in the iOS ecosystem.

I'm using Firefox even if that means that I don't get some cutting edge feature that I don't really need until a few weeks later. Hope that makes sense.
Which suburbs are they? I tried 30004 - part of Alpharetta and had no luck.
Anyone have any idea the date of the paper? I couldn't find it anywhere and it seems like an important piece. I'm guessing "immutability changes everything" would be a phrase that means something different if stated 20 years ago for example.

It references a paper from 2014-2015 so it's at least that new, but still I think it would be easier if the date is shown on the top or something.
How to Ensure Your First 2 Sales Reps Actually Work Out
How is using Javascript or forking Atom equals to building native email clients on desktops? I seriously don't get that part.

There's also no clear picture as how Nilas any better than other services. What incentive is there to use Nilas over other products?
"Figure 4 shows the result of an experiment we ran to test rendering with JavaScript for better web performance. . . [The test failed and] even after we turned off the experiment, it took almost a month for pages in the enabled group to recover..."

This is the incredibly frustrating part of White Hat SEO w/Google because:

(a) At nearly every SEO conference, by Google's own actions in releasing Page Speed Insights, and by Matt Cutts engaging and talking about page speed being an important indicator it seems like speed is pretty !@$!@% important to Google and worth pouring resources into. (1) (2)

(b) As a result a well equipped and well connected organization like Pinterest launches tests designed to improve this important signal. I'm going to assume they're organizationally smart enough to not damage or ignore other important Google signal ranks like usability, time on site, etc that you have to balance w/the JS page speed test.(3)

(c) Google penalizes them.

WTF!

My frustration as a customer acquisition guy - encompassing CRO / SEM / SEO / etc - is that I try to discuss and push best practices for my own projects, for clients, and for public facing blogs / presentations / etc.

I get that they don't want people gaming / pushing - but when they push out a "best practices" methodology like page speed, and then execute a penalty as described by Pinterest, I just want to throw my hands up.

(1) https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

(2) http://www.webpronews.com/today-on-the-matt-cutts-show-page-...

(3) I'm going to add the disclaimer of not having seen the JavaScript that pinterest used and perhaps they're not properly weighting / aware of other important SEO signals that GOOG penalizes when using Javascript, but I'm sure they are. Happy to answer more on that directly via my profile or this thread.
Nope. Now you're just trading in insults.
Added your blog generator to StaticGen now :)

http://www.staticgen.com/deadsimplelog
Your music sounds really good. woah. Thanks for sharing. When is the CD coming out? :)
Fast Asleep and Wide Awake
I'm no tax lawyer and have no clue on the specifics of US tax law, but in many jurisdictions it is relatively easy to do a tax neutral demerger of a subsidiary company from a holding company. You essentially defer the capital gain, up until you liquidate that company/stock.

Didn't Warren Buffet do something similar by trading P&G stock for Duracell stock a while back, thereby avoiding (deferring) capital gains taxes?
GlibC Security Vulnerability
I'm not sure I follow. Of course... I actually don't recall running XP heavily. :(

Are there objective measurements on how these things were kludges back then, but are good features today?
> It strikes me that the NSA is a significant election issue, just not to the voters.

You've just managed to explain quite succinctly why it isn't a significant election issue.
"46% of them had failed within 18 months. In other words, most recruiting practices are about as effective as a coin toss."

I guess I'm not quite clear what this is claiming - you could read it as saying that tossing a coin would be as effective as current recruiting practices, or you could read it as saying that current recruiting practices just aren't as effective as hoped. I think the author meant the second thing, but it's pretty confusing.

If it's the first, then you were selecting candidates completely randomly, then the percentage of successful people you hire would be the same as the percentage of successful people in the applicant pool. There's no reason to think that ~50% of the candidate pool will be successful - I'd think less.
> Substantially nobody starts a startup with the idea that they will get bought out by $NAME_AN_ACQUIRER. This is a sucky and very stressful way to buy yourself a job interview at the cost of two years of your life.

True. Generally the hope isn't to get a job but a payout big enough to retire immediately, which is why I said "and/or a truckload of cash." Ideally, merely getting hired is a consolation prize for the employees, not the founder.

And I disagree that "substantially nobody" does this. "Build a service, sell it to Google, retire at 25" is an actual business plan that I've seen people propose more than once. It's true that they're probably not trying to make something unsustainable that Google/etc will kill on acquisition, but they're also not trying to make something that will stand the test of time. Once they've got their payout, they don't care what happens.
Yeah. I strongly considered those ones, however I was in LA, and they are the only game in town. Thanks.
It's really hard to quantify NASA & military spending though, a lot of that money was already spent by the military on ICBM research, which coincided nicely with trying to send people to space.

To get an accurate number you'd have to take the amount that the US was spending on ICBMs, and ever more accurately how much the Third Reich was spending on research for the V2s etc. After all the US military & NASA benefited immensely from Wernher von Braun and other German scientists that delivered Nazi rocket research to them after WWII.
Access to the Internet is increasingly viewed as a right and/or an essential service. Access to overpriced handbags, not so much.

Providing health care to the destitute isn't profitable either; doesn't mean we shouldn't be doing it.
Is anyone else able to move windows? I can open things by clicking, but windows won't drag.

Still, very very cool little example.
The reality is that arguments of this kind are always made by people who dont have any fantasy on there own. This mechanical story you layed out is devoid fantasy.

In the real market people take advantage of oppertunities, large companies are not always so flexible and dynamic for example, companies can survive in small market, more companies may join.Maybe for some other reason all the streets have to be opened and you can somehow get your cable in for cheap. Maybe you have a groupes of special costumers that require special networks and you can give them a discount because you wanted to do that anyway.

The are for example universtiy networks in some country that are connected by glass outside of the internet. Now if you can find a costumer like that you can lay some internet glass as well.

Or how about a big company that did something diffrent joining the game (google in this case), they will not be underpriced so easly.

A small company could survive in a single place or town, and if they can do it other might be able to do it as well.

There are a millions of possible ways that your mechanical view does not take into account, and that why we have markets. Im not smart enougth to figure out a good solution, you are not smart enougth but somebody might come up with something. There were many great and powerful countrys that crashed in a suprisingly short time because of these sorts of things.

If we can get away from "regulatory capture" we have change to see these effects. For what is worth in Switzerland a new company is laying down massiv amount of fiber right now and the competition has yet to dynamiclly rearange themself to this new challange. Also even if it fails, its not at all clear that once prices went down, they will go up again. Just because the new competition is gone, does not mean a company wants to take the marketing hit of rising the price again. People might switch to the equally bad competition just because they are angrey at a company raising prices on them.
I love that in the Phoenix area, you can go across town and still be on something & Cactus.
Nice hack. I always found 1.25 to be "too slow" for watching something but 1.5 to be way too fast and annoying.
> Unfortunately the ansi palette is pretty limited so I didn't have a lot of flexibility in the color choice.

I believe the issue raised isnt the palette range itself, but rather that it is the reverse of what it is typically expected. The current red area "should" be green indicating there are many calls in the fast region while the current trailing green blocks "should" be red indicating problem issues

This color of green=good and red=bad I believe stems from Triage tags: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Triage_tag

Sometimes white is used below green as 'dismiss/not an issue'
Definitely, a bit of hand-held camera motion can do wonders for realism, in the same way that an ultra-smooth camera can add an unreal feeling to a real scene. And modern 3D software suites often include excellent features for realistic camera motion:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EyoY4_iGFcM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNmmkqtiw-A
http://www.cidrdb.org/cidr2015/Papers/CIDR15_Paper16.pdf

I'd say 2015 :)
A new interface which offers less functionality than either Chrome or Opera 12 (it can't even export your bloody bookmarks FFS), constantly locks up and becomes unresponsive for half-minutes or more at a time after simple actions, and largely wastes its breath on visual features like the new bookmarks manager which manage to be deliberately less functional than almost any other possible interface.

It's not as bad as Firefox though.
I spent most of the day tracking down the status of various Linux distros. Blog post forthcoming, but the TL;DR is that you need to patch RedHat.
And consider The Monster:
http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=WMT+Key+Statistics

Just shy of half a trillion dollars in yearly revenue, which generated 15.4 billion in profit.

That's $1.3B revenue per day, or $55M revenue per hour, $920K/minute.

A million dollars of revenue, every minute.

Compared to nominal GDP, Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. is larger than Taiwan, Austria and Thailand.

Granted, that's revenue, which is 'easy' compared to profits!

How can we not start looking at some of these organizations less as companies, and more as countries?
Java: RandomAccessFile + BufferedReader = FileRandomReadLines
That sounds incredible, I'm excited!
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-18% sales year over year is a plunge by any measure.

It has everything to do with open systems. Walled gardens is a threat to them, it's a very important battle for everybody who cares about freedom.
Staffing and supplies for the staff are cheap enough when you have billions. Let's say you forgo airplanes, how much is it going to cost to get that carrier ready to sail?
Find it hard to believe a mattress can track sleep quality accurately, and in order to aggregate information about your day gathered from other sources and do something useful with it they would need a very complex ML backend, which I doub a mattress company has.
I never understood why people are hating on big companys that produce great effects and big market share. I can understanding people hatin horrible IE6, but gmail was and is fantastic and most people love it. Noting is stopping them from leaving to other provider (and there are still many other) but they are happy.

So why is everything that has big market shares bad?

How about we switch to a model where we gat bad at companys that are actually selling us shitty products instead.
On the bottom left of the first page:

"7th Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research
(CIDR’15) January 4-7, 2015, Asilomar, California, USA."
From the article: "…but with a command line version on the way and a Sublime Text plugin already live…"
Some indication that the business will grow?
Took you long enough. One less Firefox addon, I guess.
Banks in the US don't really care about credit card fraud "that much" since the onus is on the merchant. Since debit cards require a PIN, the only fraud that even comes up is cloning and PIN scraping via fake ATMs (chips might help here, but they have these problems even in Europe, so I'm not certain).
Another interesting question: If you could design your own instruction set, what is the smallest you could make a complete chess program? Is there an ultimate limit, information-theory style?
App Maker Vendors Review
To be precise, that 1 billion tally includes iPads, iPod touches, and Apple TVs. Still obscene profit.
If you include FoxConn employees do you also include FoxConn revenue from Apple?
Because there will come a day when something they want to watch desperately will require it.
> product as a long-term investment

Having an internet outage (or DDOS attack) render your "smart" home appliance unusable should be considered unacceptable product design. That said, heated mattress pads on the market now have a finite lifespan. The heating elements gradually lose their ability to heat, necessitating replacement after a perhaps 3-5 years, give or take. Unless they've engineered a much longer-lasting heating system, this significantly limits the window of risk.

If they have engineered a pad with significantly longer-lasting heating elements they should trump that fact LOUDLY, as it'll be a big plus to existing fans of heated mattress pads.
YouTube, Spotify, Google Play Music, SoundCloud, Pandora, et. al.
Are you sure that's what he means?

I'm pretty amused at the contrast between your comment and ykl's, who has elaborated on korzun in terms of money alone.
users wont, content producers, publishers and companies will publish want DRM.
I disagree. We have plenty of competitors in web browsing area: Chrome, Comodo, Epic, Epiphany, Firefox, IE, K-Meleon, Konqueror, Maxthon, Midori, Otter, QupZilla, Sleipnir, SeaMonkey, and now Spartan and Vivaldi. Why don't they contribute to any established open source project rather than create yet another closed source web browser?
Yes, I used Opera for many years until I reluctantly switched to Firefox. The MRU popup still adds a mental load because you have to visually scan the tab list and know at which tab to stop at. Alt+Tab suffers from the same problem.

> or you could use a mouse

I try to not use the mouse, even while browsing the web. One of the reasons I liked Opera was the excellent spatial navigation feature, which sadly has no good equivalent in other browsers currently. Vivaldi claims to reimplement it, so that's interesting, but at this point I'm not going to risk more lock-in by switching from an open-source browser to a closed-source one.
I believe I heard those numbers in one of those videos:

http://blog.monumentvalleygame.com/blog/2014/12/3/eight-vide...

But I can't remember exactly when I heard it.
Serious question, what makes Apple laptops beat the rest of the industry?

No docking station, can't change batteries, no touch screens, no spill resistant keyboards, no matte screen option,etc.

You also need those dongles for ethernet and video and can't upgrade RAM or hard drives on the retina models.

Sure, the OS (if you need/like OSX, there is little choice), and the trackpad (if you like that those) are good, the rest? meh.

I rather have a Thinkpad that can take a lot of abuse.
I was kind of half-trolling, but thank you for asking the serious questions.

I think it is part of the natural order of things for humans to work and provide for their kin. This certainly include teenagers and senior citizens in good health. The recipients should be first and most obviously children, but also include the elderly and the disabled. Of course if the family is prosperous enough that only a subset of "working age" members can support it, there is no inherent obligation (or prohibition) for all who can work to do so.

Also, there is the social custom that if you are prosperous enough, you should extend the same provisions to non-kin. The is a wide degree of variation between being merely a cheap neighbor and being an abhorrent misanthrope, so you have lots of options regarding on how generous you can afford to be (or not to be).

Enter the government here. The secular liberal worldview that most people around here would identify with says that you pay taxes in return of the services that you receive from the government (other cultures or life situations dictate that it is your divine duty, or that they kill you if you don't, but let's not talk about that here).

So, the question is... what is the meaning for a government to extract a fee for a person to have the right to be born and raised? Does it mean the government can dictate who has the right to exist? And, by extension, not have such right?

Of course, in practice, the government can charge you money for whatever reason they can come up with (my personal favorite is in 19th century Mexico, where they charged on the number of windows your house had... and the people began simply to wall off their windows). It also can expend the money however they see fit. In the particular case of the US, they already give money to people with children, they give food stamps, they give free public education... and all of that money comes from taxes... they just don't charge you for "the right to have been born and raised".

Besides, people who object to taxes at least have the freedom to turn into a life style that do not require such payments (even if the personal cost is too high). By example, you are free to not hold a job if you object to income tax. What are you going to do to those that do not pay for having been born? Kill them? Turn them into slaves?

I have already mentioned the "natural order" of human existence. And I am aware that not everyone believes there's such thing, but still. I think the natural order of Nations is to preserve their people and their culture. And you can only do that by raising newer generations. There are many people in every country that need assistance, and we can debate on the worthiness or unworthiness of each claim... but to deny the claim of the children is exactly the same as eating the seeds for next year sowing. It is the telltale sign of a corrupt society.
Most company have intangible assets and/or liabilities whose valuation is less-than-concrete that aren't traditionally reflected on a balance sheet except when they are given a concrete valuation as "goodwill" in the event of acquisition of the company.

These assets and liabilities exist all the time, though. In the case of a publicly traded company where the market cap is substantially less than the book value -- concrete assets less concrete liabilities -- there is a judgement that these fuzzy assets and liabilities aggregate to a net liability. That's a sign of perceived distress, but not really rare.

Its even less rare for a company to be valued less than its (concrete) assets -- this is fairly normal. That just means that the net positive goodwill is less than concrete liabilities.
Different things work for different people. However, I think this really overestimates the efficiency of email as a communication method to replace meetings. Personally, I think for the most part phone meetings with occasional screen sharing is usually sufficient but so much either gets lost in email or requires more effort to communicate effectively that I feel like this is more like "I don't want to deal with people" than about efficiently completing tasks. Also, I agree with the other person the lunch time thing and after hours thing just kind of makes me sad. If you replace email with phone calls, I mostly agree with it. Definitely agree with throwing out the all hands stuff, it's just a vestige of some Methodology fad.
Very cool. The one thing that stood out to me is the transition from screen-space to cubemap reflections. If I understand how these are typically implemented, screen-space reflections sample existing parts of the current frame. These are good for real-time reflections at shallow angles. Cubemap reflections are for the rest of the environment, when there is nothing "on screen" to sample from, and so you must resort to a pre-baked image of the environment to represent your reflection.
What diversification rules?
You have put so much optimism in this situation :) Great insight.
I'm going by the map graphic they have here[1] showing certain suburbs highlighted. Granted, College Park and Hapeville aren't necessarily wealthy areas but they are near the airport so that makes sense. I was thinking more of Sandy Springs and Avondale Estates, and to a lesser extent Decatur.

Of course, that graphic could have zero to do with their plans and I'm going on about nothing. I do wish you could check by ZIP code alone instead of needing a street address as well. It would be nice to know just how close the service is to me geographically.

[1] https://fiber.google.com/cities/atlanta/home/
I wish they would note which movies they've shown to me and I've chosen not to watch 1 bazillion times. Then stop showing them to me. For recommendations, isn't knowing what I chose not to watch as important as knowing what I've actually watched?
You're right, but lots of people know about DOOM and Quake right?
You might want to consider making glyphs a subproject of pseudo, then you can get both with a clone --recursive and you can insure that the pseudo checkout has the same version as it is expecting.
I propose an instruction set which consists of a single instruction. I'll give it the mnemonic CHS, and when executed, it causes the CPU to play a game of chess with the user.

(That's a long way to say that the question is somewhat under-constrained.)
It was a bespoke build system but this aspect of it was similarly "wrong". IIRC pre-build commit, yes, was version-number related. It also gathered issues fixed in the release being built and updated change logs/release notes/upgrade info documentation automatically. IIRC the post-build commit helped confirm in the commit history that a particular build for release x.y.z was successful and the version number can now be incremented (occasionally it took multiple attempts for the release manager to build successfully). Of course, one could go through the tags but most of the developers liked seeing release management stuff in trunk/release branches.

I didn't mean to criticize SVN as being inherently incapable of reproducible builds (if anything that's harder to achieve with git, especially with hacks like I've listed above), but the act of cleaning up the SVN repos and preparing for migration to git where a lot of our old SVN (and RCS!) habits would be problematic, also seem like the same kind of housecleaning you'd need to prepare for reproducible builds.
I know it's their data. I know I'm playing in their sandbox. I know how much data a couple of terabyte hard drives can really hold.

But these kinds of revelations are still a solid 10 on the creepy scale nonetheless.
Also Chrome on Linux
Overture.

Which was kind of like "PayPal buying eBay" in terms of Yahoo!'s core business, but didn't go far enough.
I don't know ... Maybe if we are going to war or something but if your life is that serious to get into 1 minute == 3.3%, that just feels weird like maybe those people the drop out and disconnect from society have a point. :)