skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>I never accused you of saying all users of Apple products

> when they accuse Apple users of

I did not accuse Apple users in general, just a set of them.

> even if you personally think there are customers of other companies that exhibit the same traits, you almost certainly wouldn't think to apply those specific labels

Yes, I would, and I do.

> Why do you think those labels are appropriate

Because they accurately describe the groups I apply them to.

> what portion of Apple's customer base do you think they apply to?

A significant portion of their vocal user base.

> If you think that this description is only appropriate for a very small number of people, why even bring it up?

Because they are the loudest ones and they lower the signal-to-noise ratio considerably. Why do you care that I bring it up?

> Do you actually know what a straw man argument is

Yes, you are deliberately misrepresenting my argument so you can appear to have successfully attacked it. And now you are trying to belittle my intelligence by accusing me of not knowing what a strawman is and that I'm attempting to "shut down conversation" (which is laughable, here in a public comments thread, where I have no ability to shut down anything). Given your defensiveness, intellectual dishonesty, and inability to read a dissenting opinion without exploding, I have to imagine that you are one of the True Believers.

edit: just so we're clear, that last line was sarcastic, so please don't have a conniption
I found another interesting gotcha in regards to the filter step of exception handling described at [0]. Its in VB but describes the CLR two-pass exception handling and how filter functions and finally blocks interact with regards to state.

[0] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2009/08/25/the-good-a...
>reworks its content acquisition pipelines as new digital and analog technologies come to market.

I would have gladly paid them to watch a stream at 8pm last night, yet somehow that still isn't an option in 2015.

Instead I ended up with 4 episodes from a torrent at 8:15. Tell me more about embracing new technology as it comes to market.
And a MITM'd captive portal can do the same over SSL against users who don't understand the gravity of whatever warning their browser shows. For HTTPS to be everywhere, there needs to be zero reliance on certifying authorities that your uncle and grandmother have never heard of, zero dialogs/UI indicators that they'll just learn to ignore anyway, and zero effort to maintain the server-side of it.

It's a much bigger challenge, and I find it wildly cavalier for anyone to say "just use HTTPS everywhere" without directly addressing the faults pointed out by others. And by addressing, I don't mean dismissing out of hand.

Hell, I'd settle for acknowledging instead of addressing some days. There are real world problems on both sides that need to be considered.
Costco Recalls Convertible Hand Trucks Due to Injury Hazard
Diamond age was a disaster for me. I found the beginning and middle very good and looked forward to more development of a few things. And then it turned into something completely different and weird. I'd rather see the last pages of his new book just to verify he figured out how to write an ending.
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Angular Here Maps
Angular directive for Nokia Here Maps
You blacked out your location in the Charles Proxy screenshot, but not in the chrome screenshot. Just an FYI.
Iran' State TV Social Media Accounts Hacked by Pro-Saudi Hackers
Correct. If you're going to try it, I recommend getting a stylus for your iPad, since handwriting with your fingertip doesn't work very well.
I tried coworking last year. It was an hour drive to me, but overall it was worth it. So much better to be in a social environment where folks are supportive than in a cave at home slinging out code.
Technical Debt – The code monster in everyone's closet – PyCon 2015
Reference counting is not a complete GC solution, it does not collect circular references which happen quite often.

That is why python will occasionally run a mark and sweep GC even though it says it uses reference counting.
An excellent system: In my 50.000-people company, everyone was required to work 1 day per week from home. It ensures everyone is involved in finding good solutions for the VPN, the chat, VC and work visibility. It also shift the prejudice of "working less" away from the teammate. Of course it's not an immediate solution if some remote workers aren't in the same city, but it makes them more legitimate.
The first time i read Cryptonomicon it was a pleasure the whole way through, from page 01 to page >9000. This may have been because it was almost entirely news to me; i had little to no experience with anything it covered. I finished it in 3-4 days. What a delight. Each reread i learn something new. Conversely, I went into Snow Crash with high expectations only to find the story somewhat silly. Not that there weren't really great moments.
To respond to your point,

I think its the only way to go. The filter function that throws could be attached to any catch block all the way up the call stack. Where exactly would you start the search for a exception handler in that case?
Nothing in Library Science Technology is new! That is the reason why I am a former :) It was 100% frustration with old technology and no new solutions.

Except the Open Source options which the commercial companies did everything they could to bad mouth Open Source anything. So if I mentioned something the first three questions always included, "Is it Open Sourced." As in scary and I had a great relationship with my boss.
Sorry if come off as naive (as I don't really understand what a 'full text search' is), but for a couple thousand names wouldn't grep with regex wildcards suffice?
Scientists have found more evidence for liquid water on Mars
You are making extremely strong assumptions about their motivations.

Yes, though I believe my assumptions to be well-founded.

Simulations are cool, but it's not the same as observing the real thing.

No, they're not of course. But they can achieve a sufficient level of accuracy for entertainment purposes.

Again, what do we have that would possibly be useful? Science, art? Hah. With the time and resources needed to launch interplanetary probes, they could run a whole bunch of sims with all kinds of interesting starting conditions. That's a lot more convenient.

The other factor in this just how fast / hot sufficiently advanced civilizations will run at. Your meat brain operates at essentially the 10's of Hz range. You can get anything done at all because it is massively parallel.

A fully optimized brain of similar architecture could instead be running in the 10 GHz range. So it would be experience reality about a billion times faster than you.

So now you want to send out probes to nearby star systems to look for something fun. Let's say you get lucky, and something interesting has developed 50 light-years away, so you send a tiny probe at nearly light-speed there. You've got to wait about 100 years for the first results to come back.

But that is our meat-brain time scale.

In your optimized-brain time scale, you're waiting longer than the universe has existed so far for the results to come back. That, my friends is boring! Will you really care about the results 100 billion years from now? Eh, probably not.

Sure, you could put yourself to sleep to await the results, but then you'd miss out on everything that is happening locally. Who wants to do that?
Cool story bro...
Perhaps the author should have a look here: [1] and note that transmitting a message over the air in an undetectable way, and embedding a watermark are roughly the same thing.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spread_spectrum
Oh right, this is coming out next month! He's going on tour to support the release:

http://www.nealstephenson.com/tour.html
I don't think they need CloudFlare for that though, they just need marketing people to sell it. I can't see CloudFlare acquisition being worth it for Google just for their marketing expertise.
> Either you failed your organization on the hiring front and have terrible engineers (unlikely)

What makes you say that is unlikely?
Not really - everyone was always on IM and I'd be phoning up and talking with people daily. But really I needed physical presence to really pick up on the subvocal stuff, and the people who would pop by and mention things off hand.
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Livestream link:
http://livestream.com/spacex/events/3959775

Broadcast starts at 1615 est.
... gargle blaster. (There, you're welcome.)
I imagine HBO knows every reviewer they gave a watermarked copy to.
It's rainy here in central Florida but hopefully I can see it outside. What was fun was seeing the night launch they did a few weeks ago. That one was very easy to spot in the sky.
congrats to Will, Robbie, Chris and the entire team. to the moon and more :)
Adults can be quickly taught to see from video data that has been converted to sound waves: http://www.seeingwithsound.com/

In fact, in animals you can rip out the entire visual input, reattach it to the audio cortex, and they seem to relearn how to see just fine. The brain is incredibly adaptable and it's extremely unlikely this would be harmful. To the brain at least.
It will be high up in Ask for a while.

There's usually a "Seeking Freelancer" thread on the 1st of every month that might be worth posting to if you haven't gotten any response.

I think your "spec" is good enough for the right person to start asking questions, but it isn't good enough to complete the work.
I don't know the context around which this was presented to students, but it's much easier if you think of it as a set operations problem than a pure logic one.

Also nice to see that the age old act of providing irrelevant distracting information in word problems is still alive and well.

A neat problem, though. I'm curious whether I would have gotten it at that age.
Some languages are almost UNUSABLE without libraries. Looking at R with the dplyr, ggplot2, reshape 2 packages being mandatory for my work flow.

Python also has some mandatory libraries if you want to do any specific. Numpy and pandas for statistical analysis make them required.

My code is concise and clean but it is because of these libraries.

I am also certain that there are exceptions.
Hello Eric,

I saw you speak some years ago right around the time your first book came out. I have a media background, and I noticed some parallels with what you described at IMVU and what I have seen in my industry.

Typically, the projects have involved large media companies building high-quality products/brands, such as television shows or websites. They are designed and built in near-stealth mode with limited opportunities for user testing or audience feedback, and sometimes (but not always) fail miserably when they are released to the world. Conversely, there are examples of media programs/products/brands being developed in a highly iterative/audience-focused approach and sometimes (but not always) leading to a hit or at least becoming self-sustaining.

My question is this: Generally speaking, can “lean startup” concepts be applied to media or other industries, or do the unique characteristics of those industries — for instance, high cost structures or dependence on industry-specific business models - make it difficult to really leverage the software-focused product development concepts you outlined?

I hope to develop a framework with which to approach product development in my own industry (“lean media”) and would greatly value any feedback/ideas/suggestions for further reading you may have.

Thanks!
Author here. Yea I was not sure on the best approach for naming when using the directive in template but when specifying it as a dependency the directive is referenced by `ui.dial`.
Huh? VC-1 in WMV and H.264 in MKV both support VFR. It's not uncommon for handheld video cameras or some anime sources.
That requires the other parties to realize this, too. You can send all the emails you want, have all the video chats you want, and IM to your heart's content, and it'll be worthless unless your boss is receptive to it.
That could just work! You could probably serve every tap in the North of England. As long as only one person wants turns their tap on at once.
Sam talked about this briefly in his AMA here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9239677
Actually, I used two steps.

1. Take the subset of months without a globally unique day? (Bernard doesn't know the answer)

2. Of the subset of months without a globally unique day, is there a globally unique day within that subset? (Bernard knows the answer, and therefore so does Albert)
And this is why I didn't do well in math. Whenever I got a question like this, my first thought was always along the lines of "Cheryl is fucking bitch, just tell them your goddamn birthday so I can solve a real problem".
Samza's author really opened my mind related to how useful stream process is to high performance data processing [1] and I think Samza's only bummer (for me, personally, today) is it's lack of support for non-JMV languages [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fU9hR3kiOK0

[2] http://samza.apache.org/learn/documentation/0.7.0/comparison...
But uncle Joe and grandma Margaret don't care about confidentiality. If they did, they wouldn't crab about that shifty Snowden guy, and they would donate to the EFF. They just don't want their Facebook login stolen, or their banking login sold on some forum, or their family photo gallery erased. Confidentiality, for the unfortunate majority of Americans anyway, just isn't a selling point.
This might be the big one folks. Daytime launch with good weather, and calm seas.

If things go right, we might see the first rocket landing in the next hour.
Gotcha. Outside of extension devs, it probably doesn't matter. But I figured I'd mention it.
Guilt of a few
http://www.ecoseeds.com/mojave.html
Recently I have been getting cautious about Cloudflare. I do use them and like them a lot, also enjoy reading their technical blogposts. However from a privacy stand point it makes me feel uneasy. Cloudflare is just everywhere now: HN, Stackoverflow, Reddit and countless other sites. You can block a cookie, connection to a third party script, but how do you block an internal proxy? All your cookies, credentials, heck even HTTP request and response goes through them. Also why is there cloudflare specific cookie (__cfduid) on sites may not prefer tracking users? (eg: HN)

Maybe I am just being paranoid...
If the best solution we can come up with is electric cars then we're doomed.
The gradient in the background might have had something to do with that. Also, low grade LCDs have obnoxiously extreme brightness variations from top to bottom that are most prominent in the mid-to-dark grays.
Facebook - iOS Software Engineer - New York, NY - Full Time - No Remote

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We are looking for self-starting engineers with strong experience developing sophisticated applications on the iPhone or iPad using the iOS SDK. If you are interested in joining a team of passionate, extremely talented industry veterans in the mobile space, who like to work hard and play hard, we look forward to hearing from you soon!

Relocation within the US is provided. If outside of the US and an H1B visa is required, we will conduct interviews in September 2015.

Have a look at the job req and apply if interested:

iOS Software Engineer: https://www.facebook.com/careers/department?dept=grad&req=a0...
Oy: that's just poorly named. I've seen it a million times before, but never would I have thought that "More Examples" would lead to a book.
That doesn't sound like a bad suggestion at all. I think it might get bigger over time, or i might have aliases for the names, and in the end using just regex i'll probably hit a ceiling sooner than later.
Stream http push technology for your Nginx. Comet made easy and really scalable
Pencil (by FiftyThree) works great, of course. And unlocks the additional features in the Paper app. I'm actually quite impressed by how well it works.

http://www.fiftythree.com/pencil
Being an active participant on HN has been very helpful to me professionally. HN karma, on the other hand, has not. The only thing that ever came from karma for me was a TechCrunch interview about HN.

There are great commenters who are very well-known who don't rank anywhere on the leaderboard. 'pbsd is a well-known cryptographer. 'tzs is the best commenter on HN. 'carbocation is a doctor/medical researcher.

Being engaged and available is important. The leaderboard is a really warped assessment of that. HN should get rid of it, along with the whole karma system.

An easy start: continue scoring comments, but stop revealing per-user karma totals.

I don't think anyone needs an AMA from me or Patrick McKenzie. The Ries AMA is interesting because he isn't a regular, and has interesting things to say.
I would definitely take that option if we would use PostgreSQL, but we don't. PostgreSQL sounds like a wonderful piece of software, but they need to work on making it more accessible and user friendly. I tried getting something up and running, but given that there isn't a proper native client for Mac i gave up :(
The Mojave had extensive low-altitude conifer forests during the Boreal Holocene age, but took on its current characteristics (IIRC) about 8,000 years ago. Poster might be thinking of the cold and wet conditions of the Little Ice Age, which was a periodic climatic anomaly and thus not a useful basis for comparison.
My favorite rule from "On Writing" is "Second Draft = First Draft - 10%". What a godsend that rule is.
Space-X's webcast:
http://www.spacex.com/webcast/
> ISIS is fundamentally different from Al Qaeda

ISIS's old name was 'Al Qaeda in Iraq'.
Rainbows End is amazing.
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That's ridiculous. In what way is it unique? Nukes are more likely to be used in a Pakistan-Indian conflict and now that the cold war is over there's no chance of a regional war spiralling into WWIII.
I didn't interpret that sentence the way you did I guess. It made sense to me when in context of whether the target of the golden ratio mattered in the first place.

In other words, the golden ratio is an irrational number. Given limits of decimal precision being unreachable by realistic building standards, it'd be a silly target to go to far into the decimal points to perfect your structure. But it doesn't matter anyway because the ratio isn't 'golden,' its 'perfection' is subjective and therefore not meaningful to constrain your projects to.
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina, USA I presume. If you're not in the know, it's another tech center in the US
Google has built enough devices / systems in house Google Glass, Nexus, Self driving car, solar, and various computer systems that having a small but world class team for battery technology is probably a no brainer. IMO it’s less about keeping ahead of the curve so much as avoiding dumb mistakes.
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The article really shouldn't have led off with that. Its much stronger point is that the only reason we think of the golden ratio as a design principle is confirmation bias and wishful thinking.

Either keep comparing lots of things to each other until you get a ratio that's about 1.6 (I mean, seriously? The height of some guy's navel?), or just Photoshop a spiral onto anything with a ratio between 1.3 and 2. Golden ratio confirmed!
The app is NOT required to be AppStream-aware, no. (Not since we created "Zero Touch" mode, anyway!)

We periodically install random Windows apps (including games) to test the stack. Games work well. Too well, you might say. ;)
Nice work, and thanks for open-sourcing this!

There seems to be a lot of under-explored potential for building useful, pluggable D3 widgets along these lines. I'd love to see more interactive widgets like this.
Scott's piece is great, but like all works of art, there are always counter arguments or viewpoints. Mobile deeplinking is a complicated space...

https://medium.com/@AustinHay/hi-scott-8fd0e4584347
Saying you shouldn't use source control because you aren't a software company is like saying the janitor shouldn't have a mop because you aren't a cleaning company.
I've had a look at your code... GTFO!

username = r.config.logged; // stealing reddit username and sending them to your own server

socket.on('alert_autoclick', thebutton.click() ); // click the button automatically when your server tells it to

socket.on('reload', location.reload() ); // reload page when your server asks to inject new code from it

and the server code isn't even publicly available...

is this a joke? do you know what malware is?
Brilliant idea! Deserves to be recognized!!
> I felt like I constantly had to "prove" that I was actually working and present

But that's arguably your fault, not the company's.

> and expected me to be around from the time the work day started in their location, until the end of the work day in MY location

As you said, that wasn't a stated expectation.

> None of these things were outright stated, but certainly little comments or behaviors reinforced them.

Perceived behaviors.

Sounds like your own insecurities/paranoia made WFH a problem for you, not the company itself.
US only. Lame.
The Messaging Shockwave
For common 'developers making cloud apps' scenario, the best thing you should do is stay passwordless, but use an embedded appliance separate from your server layer. Eg, if you currently do HTTPD all the way to your server, you have n copies of your private key on full Linux instances - you can reduce that substantially by using an HTTPS gateway.

If you switch to, say, a load balancing HTTPS proxy appliance (like Amazon's ELB or Modulus' Go-based load balancer) you store your private key in one place, and that one place has far fewer points of attack than a traditional full OS.
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Hi Eric! I enjoyed "The Lean Startup" and I think the approach for the new book is very interesting.

Besides establishing the backer-only discussion community, what other lean methodologies are you using to write this book?

Along those lines, have there been any significant pivots yet? Obviously, the kickstarter seems to be doing well at over 3.5x pledged over the goal. Do you think that this is validation of the new content that the book promises to deliver or is it simply riding the coat-tails of the previous success you had with "The Lean Startup"? How are you measuring success?

I only now noticed that there's also a Reddit AMA, apologies if you've answered in that thread already.
Apart from the linked video, do you have any suggestions for approaching Zizek as a philosopher, or for giving context to his works?
Because A knows the month and says B doesn't know the birthday, it cannot be May or June since they have unique days (Which would allow B to know the birthday). So far so good.

After this statement B know it's one of the remaining two months, July or August and that's enough for him to know the correct date hence they day he was told cannot be the 14th. leaving only July 16th, Aug 15 and Aug 17.

Since this information is enough for B to know the exact date, it clearly cannot be August, leaving only July the 16th.
You can also just turn styles off ("View > Page Style > No Style" in Firefox).
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