skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In fact, all else being equal, the fastest company might just as well burn through all their cash and go bankrupt faster than the competition.

"All else being equal", if that means all the companies in questions are on the same profitable trajectory, the fastest company probably will win.

The problem of course is that all else is never equal, and speed generally comes at a cost, which means there are plenty of scenarios where opting for a slower approach will be better.
There's no "8-bit pixel resolution". The 8-bit means there's only 2^8 = 256 colors in single image. Depending on console, those 256 colors were either pre-selected or you could define your own colors (even modify them in real time).

Those concepts are loosely carried over to modern pixel art. In most cases 256 colors is enough for static pixel art, especially if you avoid gradients (as most artists do).
You can use it with cmus, or any other music player, if you set up a loopback device. See the README's section "Capturing Audio": https://github.com/karlstav/cava#capturing-audio
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Going thru these growing pains ourselves... Well written, couldn't agree more... One of the biggest problems with apps (when we considered the Lean Startup application) is that you can't
You may complain about quarterly capitalism, but studies show that investors with a short time horizon do better than investors with a longer one.

http://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2015/07/how...
To add,

* Good regexp chops in a scripting language.

* Cooking, because it's a proxy for skills in procedures, taste and aesthetics, and makes you more able to keep a healthy diet.

* How to set up, maintain and use a commuting bicycle. Easier and more productive than the gym.
This is in no way intended to detract from your knowledge, but reading this reminds me a lot of 2006 when robert love (of linux kernel/GNOME fame) started getting into commentary on keynesian economics on his blog, eventually heavily lauding Ben Bernanke as the savior of the market post-greenspan, and having to eat his words (and delete his posts!) shortly thereafter.
> Personal safety is the #1 priority of any emergency worker.

They created a dangerous situation that required guns drawn by not contacting the building's management with an ex-military guy that might have reacted violently.

How the fuck are you going to argue that meshes with personal safety is #1?

> By all means, question police methods. But to snidely chide them for putting their personal safety first suggests that you don't really understand their job at all.

Or, I am capable of thinking beyond talking points and realizing the police actively create a dangerous situation by not even bothering to contact the building's management.

I'm sorry but its ridiculous that they didn't even bother to confirm with the property owner that someone was trespassing.
Hacking Team's Purchasing of Zero-Day Vulnerabilities
Depends on what your goal is. If you want to make a lot of money, I'd say learn about an industry, especially one that's in a bad need of a technological overhaul. Make connections with people who can help you shape and advance a product. Almost nobody ever made money creating TODO apps, but plenty of people made loads of money bringing technology to where it was absent.

As for specific skills, sales and marketing are great ideas. If you want to be a very desirable coder, I'd say learning two technologies that don't normally go together but are both in demand at all times. For example, I have met very few people who have equal passion and skill for developing for iOS and Android. Add Windows Phone for completeness and most small companies would hire you on the spot because they can't afford a separate developer for each platform.

Another example of that might be front-end and backend work. Basically, if you can code up your own device drivers, then quickly create beautiful browser or mobile interfaces, you have become a truly full stack developer.

The ultimate triple threat would be: backend, front-end (web + mobile), and design. People that can quickly design beautiful things, then implement them are incredibly rare.
A/B as quickly as you can on Web (Android much better). Def requires much more initial research before mvp
Browserify vs. Webpack – Configuration isn't evil
The CPC just want a soft landing, not necessarily maintaining high growth. Rapid deceleration of this nature is not a soft landing and is extremely disruptive. The whole system can come apart at the seams from wild swings as the Chinese economy is built on layer upon layer of structured fascism, unlike the mostly free market system of western economies which have evolved to mostly absorb these sorts of blows.
Faster than Bresenham's Algorithm? (2009)
I'll just re-post the same comment I posted on the original posting of this...

I take offense to idea of speed as a priority, though not necessarily to the whole article.

> All else being equal, the fastest company in any market will win.

All else is never equal when speed is the driving factor. I have never seen a company execute well while pressuring for speed.

It's significantly more important to think about systems. What is the cooperative source of your speed? What are the barriers to making good product quickly? What allows us to make faster decisions?

Invariably, without fail, unequivocally, the answers to these questions—which are sources of speed, quality, and market fit—lie in the systems that compose a company. Not systems as in slow methodical heavy processes, but systems as in a clear understanding of how things are connected and how to continually improve how they work.

Start with systems, then you can go fast. It's ludicrously dangerous to put the cart before the horse. Granted, much of this article dives into detail on how to make things run smoother in order to go fast—that's great, but if you focus primarily on the systemic source, imagine how fast you could go.

Speed... a noble goal, but as W. Edwards Deming said, "By what method?"
Well Europe did ban short selling in bank stocks and CDS for quite a while [1].

[1] http://uk.reuters.com/article/2010/08/06/us-eu-shortselling-...
The flu also kills healthy adults. Get your flu shots. Etc.

But yes, I have great distaste for people who could work from home while sick and instead ruin the productivity of the entire office for what can be months afterward.
I think we (FossHub) can be the alternative for certain devs and most people were happy with the service we provided so far. Disclosure: I am a member of FossHub team.
Your New SharePoint Intranet Is Your Chance to Host the Olympics
You still haven't made a case for that being wrong.

This isn't that hard:

Bug in iOS:

1. Apple releases a patch

2. All users of supported devices can install it

Left hanging: people with old devices (minimum age approaching half a decade)

Bug in Android:

1. Google releases a patch

2. Many Nexus users can install it immediately

3. Everyone else has to beg dozens of manufacturers to ship an update for a device which brings no further revenue to the hardware manufacturer

4. At least in the U.S. everyone then has to beg carriers to ship an update to existing devices rather than using this as a chance to push you to upgrade to a $$$ new device and extended contract lock-in

Left hanging: everyone who doesn't own a recent Nexus device. Minimum age: negative – devices without the current OS will be sold to users months after release.

Note that absolutely none of this is Android's fault technically. It's only Google's fault to the extent that they naively believed everyone else would be responsible and neglected to have this license require updates, unlocking after dropping support, etc.
I hadn't expected the dominance of Java in the "programmers per language"; I should have, but didn't. I also hadn't expected the disparity between Python and Ruby numbers.

I'm looking forward to digging into this further; it's a really useful and interesting dataset!
Try to convince the average user to install a new app, and make it the default sms app. He will neither want nor understand the trouble of learning a new app for something that works just fine. And honestly, I don't blame them because that is not something they should have to worry about.

Android should rather work on a feature that allows them to patch their not-so-open operating system just like Apple does (or use a concept that is close to the one in the GNU/Linux world but I don't think Google is gonna do that).
But only after doing a few day course in how to cold call, so that you can write/tweak your own scripts, and/or know why the ones they give you are the way they are.

Also, doing various sorts of hard selling (phone, on the street, for charity or selling products) would probably teach more than doing charity sales for 2 months. I'm too chicken to do something like this myself though...
Am I the only one who tried if the IP is online?
Frege – A pure functional language for the JVM in the spirit of Haskell
I bought that game recently. I really should play it some more. It's a very fun game.
Democracy and corruption are very complex issues in China. Chinese in general aren't all that concerned about democracy, and the West has plenty of corruption, just in a different way. For example, American congressmen are hesitant to close expensive and unnecessary domestic bases because they mean jobs and votes for their home districts. Perhaps China could adopt an anti-corruption method pioneered by China's only female leader to have ever held the masculine title of emperor: Wu Zetian. She instituted a system of anonymous complaint boxes for local officials that went straight to Beijing. Although undemocratic, it helped stamp out corruption and improved the public's perception of fairness.
Well put. However, you have to question the assumption that a stock market crash affects the economy in a significant way. For example, it would make sense if a lot of savings were lost, because that would affect consumption. However, that's not the case. As the Economist pointed out - "Less than 15% of household financial assets are invested in the stockmarket: which is why soaring shares did little to boost consumption and crashing prices will do little to hurt it." [1]

The fundamentals of the Chinese economy remain strong and the the Communist Party's panic-stricken attitude isn't helping matters much.

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/07/chinas-s...
I've hit this. Usually it's because I originally thought about it, created a generic solution to my understanding of the code/domain, hit an edge case, tweak it to handle that edge case, hit another edge case/break a test, tweak it to handle both that and the original, repeat.

I think everyone hits this; to avoid it you have to have a perfect understanding of the domain a priori. The difference I see now, compared to when I was starting out, is I recognize I'm doing it more quickly. Once I do, I will re-examine the domain from the perspective of "it includes all these edge cases", and generate a new abstraction that encompasses more (hopefully all) of them.
Game where no combat, no health bars and no death
Have you looked at Code Climate?

https://codeclimate.com/
git (and hg and svn and tar and cpio and pax and zip and ...) should set the permission of the archive (vcs db) to the most restrictive of the permissions of those added.

Also ... webservers should make it very hard to offer up .dotfiles as webcontent.
On port 80
Thank you. This was spot on.
[quiz] Guess why these dot-com startups failed
Speed, quality, and market fit have the same parent: systems thinking.

If you get your systems right, all three go up at once. The tradeoff is a false dichotomy.

And logically, this makes sense. If you've doubled your workforce, what the hell is preventing them from going quickly and executing well at the same time? Shouldn't you expect a decent bump in efficiency, if not double then at least a moderate increase? What leads to diminishing returns when you grow?

Systems, that's what. The connections between people, between processes, and the methods of management that generate those connections.

Read up on Deming, still the best source of wisdom on the topic.
Being in SV as a founder – pros and cons
How to launch on Product Hunt
How is it that I don't see anything about this exploit on any of their sites? It's not on the steam store website, not on the Valve site, and not in Valve's news feed.
So the Hangouts bit is just about triggering the problem without user intervention? If an attacker can find another way to get you to play a malicious video, there's still a hole? That's clearly more serious.
Yeah, I'm sure those sorts of statements were made when NASDAQ was dropping rapidly in late 1999/2000.
> a spell checker didn't save you from a typo

Believe this is where parent's preference for high-quality, easy-to-use libraries handling common security operations comes from.

It's a lot easier to make a typo (or logical mistake) in 250 lines of your own code than in (hopefully) <250 lines of a library invocation.

Honestly, library functionality like this in any given language should be thought of as an analog to infrastructure spending. We're finally seeing reinvestment from end-users and value capturers (Facebook, Google, MS, etc) back down the chain to the OSS projects they depend on.

Language guiders (and in some cases the support businesses who are attached to languages) should be equally serious about this. If your language doesn't have high-quality, easy-to-use libraries to mitigate attack surfaces, that's a fundamental weakness in your language eco-system...

(Aka the "Perl+CPAN is better than a lot of more advanced languages, because code" argument)
Are there other GIFs than 8-bit?
it can be argued that impressionism did gather quite some attention, though.
You're splitting hairs here, common usage of "texting" includes sending pictures, video, and audio.
Asset allocation - so to speak - over one's personal time is usually a very personal thing. Six month is a long time, but it is not enough to get reasonable good in piano playing. Or to acquire a black belt.

If you have a bit of talent and help, you could get fluent in a foreign language in 24 weeks.

But then, there are some talents, that you wanted to foster during the last years, but just did not have the time. Maybe it's easier to start from there.

Anyway, some suggestions into the blue:

- read books and travel

- learn excellent writing skills by writing a short book about what you learned so far in math/finance

- move to a foreign country where you do not speak the language and try to survive (two of my friends did this, and they did well)
The bubble is clearly visible here: http://www.bloomberg.com/quote/SHSZ300:IND (change time frame to 5Y)

Based on my completely non-expert analysis, it looks like the index is likely to drop down to around 2,800-3,000 or lower...unless there is some realistic explanation for an index which was on a slight downward, long-term trend to suddenly jump up by 130% in ~9 months.
Yeah, that's a popular theory. I'm not sure if it's a complete explanation, though.

Pixel art (and other art as well) is often stylized, which means it's trying to present a more appealing version of reality. The viewing angles are carefully chosen, the colors and lights are more vibrant, the shapes of everyday objects are more varied and graceful, the people are better looking, etc. The end result is that you're looking at a rough description of something that you want but don't have.

You could achieve the same effect with a high resolution image, but then you need to make all the little details beautiful as well, which takes much more work. There are certainly high resolution paintings that manage to be as haunting and evocative as the best pixel art, for example Shan Qiao's "Story of the city" (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/story-of-the-city), Nivanh Chantara's "Babiru 02" (https://www.artstation.com/artwork/babiru-02), or pretty much anything on http://reddit.com/r/backgroundart.
(I work mostly on Python, so this is my opinion based on that)

Most of the code that I write that would be duplicating the functionality in a library would be doing so because we don't need the extra functionality. For example, I need to pluralise a small set of words, so I write 3-4 clause if-statement and append some "s" characters because I don't see the need to use python-inflection. The latter is massively more complex, so unlikely to be detected as the same thing.

Sure, there might be a few matches, but I suspect they will mostly be helper functions within libraries, rather than the public API of libraries.

I would prefer not to send code to a web service for detection, although not totally against it. In many companies this would not be allowed, either through policy, firewalls, exfiltration detection systems, or lack of internet on development machines (I know people who work, or have worked myself, in all of these situations).

Something I think would be far more valuable, and possibly more realistic as well, is local detection that highlights possibly duplicated code in a codebase. I find little snippets (1-2 lines) that have been duplicated on a fairly regular basis, and if I could identify those to be extracted out into re-usable methods, that would be amazing.

Would I pay money for it? Probably not, it's not that much of a problem, and all those sorts of tools are usually open source anyway. Unfortunately that's my expectation now.
> Perhaps websites just need to die altogether, and instead we'll just use APIs. You choose how to render the content in your browser according to your desires.

Yeah. Maybe you could download some kind of menu of what the site offers. You could go ahead and download the text because it's tiny, but you could decide, eg, "I will request the image resources but not the javascript ones", or "I will display the text in a font of my own choosing".

The site content could use a language to "mark up" what it offers, and the site's specifications could be overridden by user preferences, sort of a "cascade" of priority.
In practice, the situation is not directly comparable to Linux distros; Android vendors produce closed Android forks for each phone, and update these seldom and late. If someone was doing this with Linux distros, they'd be similarly nightmarish, security-wise.
Sworcery also has this kind of muted colors.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u4GIsmwnlpg
Startup = Growth - cf Paul Graham ;)
Which just proves that economics isn't a science.

For genuine science you'd have to have a control group. "The same group two weeks later" is not a control group.

>Short selling allows market participants to put downward pressure on a security earlier helping the security reach equilibrium faster.

This is story-telling. What happens has more to do with barely sentient flocking behaviour than "reaching equilibrium." There is no "equilibrium" to reach. There are only more or less naive and information-poor actors looking at each other and trying to out-guess the movement of the flock centroid.

It's like running an economy on the basis of a ritualised spot-the-ball competition.

If markets had any real interest in equilibrium or efficiency, bubbles wouldn't happen. But markets don't - mostly they have an interest in short-term gain, which makes the whole system as predictably unstable as any other system driven by positive feedback.

Of course some agents profit very nicely from bubbles, and politically bull markets are a useful way to create an illusion of shared prosperity. So it's in their interests for the manic-depressive nonsense to continue.
Foundations of a good UI
I changed mine anyway; I've been meaning to change to a more secure password. I definitely think that if your account wasn't compromised, you don't need to change your password.
Goodbye Wall Street, Hello Silicon Valley
What if the Android update system is split into two channels: critical updates and feature updates.

The latter can be issued via the OEM or carrier - whereas the former is issued by Google. Since Google own the trademark on the Android name (http://developer.android.com/legal.html), perhaps Google can enforce a rule that an OEM which ships it's device without compliance with the above cannot call their device an "Android device".
The Fed does indirectly props up stock market valuation by 'encouraging spending and investment through moderate inflation'.
Rolling expired certs
Oh, The messes this sort of thinking has caused for me! In my past experience, "Just get it done today" leads to all kinds of complicated problems in the future.

Yes, you can get it done today, but you will have a mess tomorrow. And you might just burn-out all the employees that can fix it.
If your question is "Can GIFs not be 8-bit", the answer is yes. You can use frames from a movie or output a flash vector animation into as jif.
> not being a tumblr site

You mean, not being a site that can tolerate the load when linked from a popular link sharing site.
Raising Floor for Minimum Wage Pushes Economy into the Unknown
I think that if you're using git,

use git crypt[1][2]
use git-dir and work-tree options/env vars

[1] https://www.agwa.name/projects/git-crypt/

[2] though you have to remember to git crypt lock
Nifty things in F#
For what purpose? To advance your career? Self-improvement? Fun?

1) I'm guessing more finance and math.

2) I second the CFAR recommendation.

3) Whatever you want!
machine learning and data analysis obviously!
It's unfortunately not that simple. Nobody uses DVD as a mezzanine format, partly because 4:2:0 MPEG-2 at DVD data rates is unsuitable for further manipulation, and partly because the DVD rights holders may not hold the rights to republish. It's a mess.
More than 256 colours at a time?
Both of you are right.

infinity0's point seems to be that a more fair reporting would be: (1) here's the problem with Android's ecosystem [was included] (2) here's the solution with Apple's ecosystem [was included] (3) here's the solution with OSS distros' ecosystems [was NOT included]

I think it's fair to take umbrage that an intelligent but uninformed reader could very easily walk away from that article with the conclusion that "If Google ran Android more like Apple runs iOS, then Android would be more secure."

Which itself is probably true, but far from the only solution. And indeed, probably the least free (speech) solution.
Need to promote my app?
Yeah... I published, few days ago, my first personal app on Google Play Store... It is also my first experiment with WebGL and... yeah, is something almost stupid, but I still believe it can also be funny...
The app ("Toonifier") allow you to take a snapshot, apply it a filter (choosing between three, "standard", "b&w" and "ink"), and turn it into a cartoon-like draw... And, of course, it's free.
So, why I'm writing here? I didn't care, so far, to find a way to promote my app. I simply talked about it to some of my friends, waiting for others to discover it.
But now, the app lacks in feedbacks; I would like to improve it, make some changes, new experiments... but not only the ones I already have in my mind...
I know... everything I wrote will sound just like a spam. But, if someone would like to give it a try and let me now their feedback, I'll really appreciate it.

The Play Store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ionicframework.selfieoon886899
Thanks!
Of course they aren't. Why should they be?