skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Banking or management consulting? If you're willing to put up with insane hours and no life, it's not hard to get to the point where you're earning over $1M/yr in salary + bonus. And it's low risk. If you're smart enough and put in the time, that kind of compensation can almost be guaranteed.
Why is this being downvoted? Voat.co is really winning this space, mostly because of timing and exploiting an opportunity.
This makes me think of when financial journalists/broadcasters constantly report that the SPX or the DJIA or the FTSE or whatever are hitting 'all time highs' and it's a really useless piece of information. Investors want to know how much it went up by on the day (and what he trend of the last few days/months has been), the fact that it poked through to a new high level is not important.
Who is dissing Voat? minimaxir was just pointing out what happened.
Office365 and Office365 for Business's OSX installer already ships the new Outlook by default, Excel and Word and the rest are available as optional downloads, and will ship in the main installer, from what I've heard, early next year.

Compared against Windows' current version of Office, it is a refinement. Compared against Office 2011 for Mac, it is a massive upgrade, like day and night.
How American Fans Pirated Japanese Cartoons into Careers
Especially when you have 'ports' like GTA V, which in reality was a different version of the game for PC, which ran like a dream.
The Banana Pi has an IR receiver on the board, I learned today.
Subredditdrama is a not exactly a high quality place.
You login using the same menu you used for adding a passphrase- you enter your passphrase form another computer.
The overarching point was that Xbox was supposed to eliminate all this hardware/driver/platform incompatibility, wasn't it?
Tesseract is quite good and can get some really good results if you can train it.
I just wish there was a more UI friendly way for generating the training file; for the project where I had to use it I ended up paying a freelancer with some strong knowledge of Tesseract training.
Really happy with the results for my iOS app (universal app)
English translation: "I want to be as big a jerk as possible and blame it on everyone else when they don't like it."
Ask HN: What are the HN apps you use in android?
Hi everyone,

What are the HN apps you use in android? And What features you like in that app?
As far as I understand it FileMaker does this based on your searches/queries.
A "simple" memory layout for cache friendliness (assuming you don't have to do updates on your tree; there exists a more complicated cache-friendly dynamic tree structure, too) is a recursive van Emde Boas layout. This memory layout will achieve performance no more than a (small) constant multiple worse than an omniscent cache in terms of the number of cache misses, and it requires almost no tuning to work in any caching hierarchy.

http://supertech.csail.mit.edu/cacheObliviousBTree.html

More generally: in the last 10-15 years there has been a lot of work on developing algorithms that are compatible with caching, but which do not need to be tuned to the details of a particular cache hierarchy on which they run. For more info, see

Demaine, Erik D. "Cache-Oblivious Algorithms and Data Structures." http://erikdemaine.org/papers/BRICS2002/paper.pdf

Erik Demaine's 6.046 lectures on this topic are available on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cJOHERGcGm4 and https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjUDy6a5vx4

One cache-oblivious dynamic tree structure is also due to Demaine: http://erikdemaine.org/papers/CacheObliviousBTrees_SICOMP/
You're right, gamergaters aren't as bad as pedophiles, my post implies that they are and I apologise.
Doubt it, its been pretty much around there for a very long time.
I don't think minimaxir was "dissing" voat.co, just stating facts. As for voat's success, I can't see how it can ever hope to supersede reddit - or even come close to competing with reddit - given that it is indeed a blatant clone. There's no real redeeming qualities of voat that are not already present on Reddit.
Child abuse and pedophilia is straight-out illegal and can not be hosted on voat.co.
Not sure how that's relevant. Voat appears to have too few differentiating features to be a significant threat to reddit. Frizbee, on the other hand, appears to be something genuinely new. As far as the other claims in that post go, the administrator of 8chan has compiled a more accurate recounting of this controversy here: https://medium.com/@infinitechan/what-do-we-know-about-voat-...
Reddit is rank 32.
Hacker News is rank 1,859.
Bulbapedia, the Pokémon wiki, is rank 4,101.
Voat is rank 25,171.

I don't think I understand your definition of "huge success".
Translation: I want free speech except I want people I don't like to not have it.
With Outlook 2011 for Mac being little more than a rebranded Entourage, long recognized even by Microsoft as not equivalent to Outlook for Windows, it's no wonder your folks are having problems. I've pushed my Mac users to use Apple's Mail.app instead- much less friction than using a program that is Outlook in name only.
OpenGL was available on the PS3 but wasn't used by AAA games. LibGCM was the PS3's main graphics API. For the PS4,GNM is the primary graphics API:

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-how-the-cre...
It looks like you're off to a good start. There's design cleanup to do, for sure. Ya, there are buts that people can clear cookies and vote again - welcome to the world of building social news software.

There will be two key moments with this:
1. Will people stick around after this is off the front page of HN?

2. When people decide to game your site, how well do you handle voting rings? The reddit founders have mentioned that nearly half of their code catches voting rings; that's not trivial to do. And of course, it may be premature optimization, but it is something to consider that anyone with a few minutes of time to build a bot could completely destroy your site.
For a new project, is ditching Cabal altogether and using Stack recommended?
> if you feed it data up to, say, 1990, will it correctly spit out 2015 temperatures that fit the reality of 2015, or will it spit out crazy 2015 predictions like the models that were built in 1990 did

Yeah, so they pick models until they find one that fits both 1990 and 2015? That would be using the test data to train the model - like the Baidu approach.
Had no idea Voat was run by a sixteen-year-old. That's pretty impressive. The poor kid must be peeing his pants trying to figure out how to keep the site up and having no money for servers.
It's even worse: California also taxes capital gains (as income!).
Oh, no argument there -- and I wouldn't call the messages subtle, either. That said, Apple would be insane to orphan its Obj-C codebase (but it may start deprecating...)

I was just pointing out that the original linked article isn't really about Swift, just an Apple framework that can be used with Swift.
I use "HN -- Hacker News Reader" by Manuel Maly

It's clean and has all the features that I need. But if you like google material design check out "Hacker News" by DWAK.
what does [wow](file:///etc/passwd) do?
You have to be a pretty shitty company to think this is an acceptable solution to #4.
that has the unsavory effect of money = votes
Apparently, the past models did not, because they did not model the long term interaction of the oceans with the atmosphere, and the current "hiatus" is mostly about the atmosphere temperatures, while most of the warming is currently happening in the oceans.

The more sophisticated current models do match the recent observations if you feed them the past data:

http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/09/research-...
Not really. koko775 spelled it out and you decided to just put words in their mouth.
If by security you mean the organization that gives data to the police willy-nilly and not any sort of org dedicated to protecting user data. FB has no security (user data) ; no org, no culture, barely any tooling, and no corporate intent.
A pay raise would do it. But actual money is hard to come by in an unprofitable high growth company. What is really desirable is a way to distribute equity in a way that is not so complex from a legal and taxation stand point, is manageable for employers, and is understandable by employees without a finance degree. That's a pretty hard problem, and the shift in exit patterns over the last 10 years has made it even more difficult.

The realization of the ideal that you can just get a percentage of the company for putting in your time working hard is largely elusive. I think that is the problem to solve. I'm not terribly optimistic there is a way to solve it outside of "don't give as much equity since nobody wants it", but I like to think there are smarter folks out there who can come up with something.
Well, not quite a competitor. I presume it's expected to work better with Google Cloud than elsewhere?
In what language does "stalking and threatening and hurting others" translate into "people I don't like"?
I don't know, is censorship the problem with Reddit?
It's okay, I'm hellbanned and I can say it, yes, they're basically just as bad.

Proof: go to KiA, etc. Are they talking about ethics in journalism or are they bitching about something some female did online. I'll let you guess.
Look at this graph: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/voat.co It shot up to its current rank in almost no time. That is a lot faster growth than both reddit and HN experienced.
It's not complicated. If the company is that bad that people want to leave as soon as they're vested, then the company deserves to fail.
SpiderOak will let you handle assigning different folders.
> LibreOffice is a full-fledged office suite, is feature-complete for just about 99% of things you can do in MS Office

Did you seriously just compare LibreOffice to MS Office? Look I'm a huge Linux fan, but buggy LibreOffice is nowhere near this imaginary "99% feature matched" you've spit out here. The performance is also a joke when it comes to LibreOffice.

As much as the open source camps would like to believe, Microsoft still hast them beat in the Office sector.
The founders do too. The venture capitalists, on the other hand, are deploying money that isn't theirs. It feels like you can argue that to the extent they do anything to cushion the outcome for startup team members, they have to be doing it at the (ultimate) expense of pension fund stakeholders.

I don't know how strictly true that is in most cases, but it's a factor worth considering.
Wouldn't "handling vote rings" be a form of "censorship"?
Here's the thing: you're not the person who's raging out over this. Yes, you're part of the demographic who might be upset, but it's people like me, who have stuff like 2x(or more) 980/295x (or better), 3000+MHz DDR4, x99 Processors/Motherboards, all overclocked, with custom cooling solutions and hooked up to G-Sync/FreeSync displays, that are upset. While graphics are not everything, and I play plenty of non-AAA games, a good chunk of the rationale behind even buying AAA games is beautiful graphics and high framerates. With the shit drivers from NVidia, and the absolute tripe so many studios are pumping out these days, I'm questioning the ongoing viability of high-level desktop gaming solutions.

Then, to have the absolute audacity to call a game AAA when it's hard capped at 30fps on PC is just an absolute act of spitting in our faces.
http://ephemeralp2p.durazo.us/

^ This is a truly decentralized website
GTA IV was a port of the XBox360 version which has 3 CPU cores. GTA IV was the first triple A game that maxed out all three cores. Most PCs at release time still had dual (2) cores albeit a lot faster cores than the XBox360. So GTA IV never run fine on a PC with just two cores.

Another thing was the bad driver compatibility with ATI/AMD graphic cards. For the nVidia cards there was the first time ever that they released a special launch beta driver specially for GTA IV PC.

Beside that, to run at very high settings one needed a high end graphics card. GTA IV was with Crysis 1 the last PC game that pushed hardware to the limits. Even today both still look great, and with certain mods they look as great as GTA V (though in the later case the engine is more optimized). Nowadays GTA V is a XBoxOne port and it doesn't push the PC hardware to the limits, it uses just 25% of my CPU and 50% of the GPU running with 60 fps in 1080p.
And a miniscule amount have gotten rich off of equity. Your point?
Of course it did; there was a big hullabaloo that led to some people migrating to it. That's not really a sign that they did anything right, or that they'll have similar momentum in the future.

The same thing happened to 8chan, and then it entered a gentle but consistent decline: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/8ch.net
It's emulating a Mac Plus.
How can you make less money by exercising the same options, but at a different time?
I'm sure they did pay more. But Alex Stamos is not the kind of person to take a job for the money. If Chase Bank offered him double what Facebook is paying, there's no chance he would take money over the opportunity to work on industry changing projects at Facebook.
> Steam could be a major force in turning around the recent slew of absolutely craptastic, completely broken, game releases recently.

> QA/QC should not happen at the customer level.

With the exception of games running under Linux https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9757382 :).
Use AppCompat, and you'll get native MD on >= SDK 21, and an emulated MD on < SDK 21 devices.

http://android-developers.blogspot.com/2014/10/appcompat-v21...

It's a bit of a hassle (you'll need to use compatibility facades vs the real thing, which are sometimes a bit inconsistent), but it's not too bad.
Pop quiz in Creative Thinking, Perception and more with metacognition bonus
I've used tesseract to great affect. I don't know how your images are but if only part of the image has text in it, you should only send that part to the OCR engine. If you send the entire image and only a portion of it has text in it, chances of the OCR extracting text are slim. There are pre-processing techniques [1] you can use to crop out the part of the image that has text

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Hough_transform
I don't want to be That Guy, but I really don't think the UI is very intuitive. A lot of things really bug me about it. It's hard to peruse a list of posts and scan headlines, unlike on Hacker News or reddit. You compose comments with a serif font, and then the comment is posted with a sans-serif font. It appears as if all URLs are just frizbee.co/#SomethingGoesHere, regardless of what it is. This makes me lost a lot because I'll click the logo in the upper-left corner because I want to go back to the homepage, but it doesn't work. It also means that I have no idea what a link is before I click on it. When I see reddit.com/u/takua108, I know that it's takua108's user page. When I see reddit.com/r/dota2, I know that it's the Dota 2 subreddit. When I see https://frizbee.co/#ICameHereFromHackerNews558b70ef40cdf, I have no idea what the hell to think. Plus, there's no comment permalinks, and it looks like every link is using javascript or something, because I can't even hover over the link to see where it leads!

I like a lot of the ideas behind this, but I feel like the execution is very, very poor.
I think this is the best solution, though a bit daunting without experience in either to approach. But you'll get access to processing all of your information in a low level language very quickly.
According to https://voat.co/about it was created by a third year BSc student which would place the creator at around 20?

Though, you specified "running a website" which is not the same.
I think what we need to understand is that we shouldn't underestimate how naive people are when it comes to the chance of going home 'big', and how exploitative big companies can be of such naivete. Imagine big company X, listing a shady company Y (no official connections to company x though) which has a few employees and some very vague hocus pocus documents discussing their promise. Y gets a few googly eyed people who don't do their homework to buy in, by selling stock owned by X. Stock prices go up naturally, and then when all the stock is done, big company X closes up Y (discard office premises etc but keep the legal entity) and move on to their next similar venture. Money is laundered back into X's bank accounts and the thieves come out on top yet again.

It's not like the current system stops people from being gamed, but any of these types of systems are bound to be exploited by the "evils". Cartels are formed in the shadows, markets are manipulated. I love the idea of a public market as an official process, but I'm not sure if it can be done without the system becoming polluted.
In fairness, I will admit my recap was more terse than my usual HN posts. Mostly because this particular startup deleted-then-resubmitted their Show HN multiple times yesterday.

This time I decided to be more constructive. :)
> Of course it did... That's not really a sign that they did anything right

Actually the fact that they shot up at all is a sign they did something right.

Now it is a question whether they can maintain that momentum, but they did get a real good start.
Where does law enforcement come into it, then? I'm missing any involvement, so far everything appears to be private parties that don't want to associate with them.
The Senate Passes Fast Track–But We Can Still Prevent the TPP Train Wreck
Respectfully, you don't sound very well informed and your reply is pretty emotional and negative. Did you actually work on or with FB's Security team? If so, when?
Thanks! Just something I dreamed up one day when someone said "you shouldn't have unit tests for private methods because unit tests of public methods will catch them" and I extrapolated from there.
I personally am not using voat yet, but think that the fact that ModLogs are totally public and open instead of being hidden away and largely controlled by a couple of cabals of users is a huge plus.

I don't see voat as being a long term viable thing though, since it's just one kid in college and the recent surge of users was largely driven by an exodus from reddit over banning politically incorrect speech.
I've been trying to find one that allows me to login and post and comment AND support the Android Share API so I can send shit directly from other apps.

All the apps I've seen that claim they can post, none of them seem to work well.
Why I Can't Forgive Dylann Roof
Facebook's concurrent usercount greatly exceeds yahoo!'s (p.i.c.?)

My impression has been that alex wants to tackle problems that are large in scale. Probably less about money and more about doing good for the most people possible.
I agree - salary is what you negotiate on and equity is gravy. I took my current offer because I was happy with salary. If equity never pans out oh well.

Also to everyone else if a founder wants to pay you a lot with equity, you have to wonder how confident he or she is in long term value. If they really are going to be worth so much, why aren't they clutching those shares more tightly and throwing cash at you instead?
Can't help but immediately notice: "Drawing by Robert Krulwich"
I don't understand the question. If the money isn't very valuable, it buys less equity. Companies who raise money typically talk to tens of firms looking for the best terms.
Nope. Citation needed. That never was the point.
That's the problem with restricting speech. Who defines what is acceptable and not. You can't even say something along the lines of no hate or no harm or no threats as what those terms refer to can change over time and also by locale.

Slang in one place may refer to something rather innocuous and that same term may refer to something entirely different in a different place or dialect. Also some terms can be endearing in one place and quite crude on another.

So, unless one represents an official standard, like a company or a government, censoring content is a bit of a wild goose chase.

Now, that's not to say I want to read crude or hateful content, as I find it a turnoff, but the alternative on balance seems worse. I'd say leave it to the indiv communities and their admins to establish norms rather than a site wide policy.

When I go to reddit or another community, I want civility within the subcommunity I'm interested in, if an alternative community wants to spring up with a free for all approach, so be it.
The language where "stalking and threatening and hurting" equates to "saying mean things on the internet", or at times "disagreeing with".

I'm getting rather tired of seeing words like "harassment" being bandied about as shorthand for incivility.
Yeah, it looks like it's mainly a way to manage code you're running on Google Cloud services
If you're a bad enough person that _Reddit_ will ban you or your favorite subreddits, by all means get the fuck out! =)
I downvote all of Alex's posts on general principle.
So interesting. This race for features between the cloud vendors feels crazy to me, but totally makes sense from a business perspective. Classic attempt at locking you in to a single platform.
Pro tip: whenever you read "$XX billion dollar market", replace it in your head with "It's big (obviously) but we basically made up a number to make it sound like we know what we're talking about".

That and company value is the present value of all future earnings, where "industry size" is typically understood to be an annual revenue number. Apples and oranges.
To be honest, I often feel like maps in competitive games become popular for seemingly no reason at all. As a long-time CS player, dust and dust2 have always felt rather stale to me. I've always found the dynamic, multi-level combat of maps like assault and office to be more fun. Fortunately, I've been hearing a lot more people piping up in favor of traditionally unbalanced maps like nuke these days!

(What's annoying is when people try to attribute a map's popularity to its design. I've heard some people say that fy_iceworld is a brilliantly designed map. Seriously.)
The Fallacy of “Everyone Should Learn to Code”
Yes, lots of spacecraft use traditional RTOSes like VxWorks, RTEMS, ThreadX, uCos, etc. Keep in mind that there are many computers on a large spacecraft - attitude control, command and data handling, instruments, and other microcontrollers.
I don't know that Microsoft has ever made that claim.

The original Xbox was the closest to standard PC hardware, and even it diverged somewhat from what was available on standard PCs at the time at both a hardware level and API level.

The common APIs make it easier to develop cross-platform, but the platforms are still different.
That is a pretty good synopsis - thanks.
I know several people involved here, some of them very well, some of them being people I tried hard to pull out of Alex's orbit (because they are awesome, not because Alex isn't), and, respectfully: I think you're full of shit.

Especially amused by the attempted "read-something-on-HN" snark. Yeah, that's where all the high-profile elite security people are these days. Hanging out on HN with me.
Bitcoin company names really suck
I read an article several years ago about the environmental cost of the lithium that goes into Prius vs the pollution it saves by not burning fossil fuels. The article was, of course, in the lambasted as being [insert uneducated political argument of the day here]. The only way we'll ever win is if people start compromising and get way from the all-or-nothing stigma that dominates politics.