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If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here. | I would like one, please. |
If anyone would like an invite, send me an email or reply here. | I'd love an invite, ben [@] hutchins.co (no spaces). |
> In my mind, it’s a little preposterous that if I want to do so, however, I have to be ok with being felt up and indirectly insulted.
To the author: You're right, it's unacceptable but you know how to fix it? You say something at the point in which it occurs. Nip it in the bud. Running off to write yet another gender-... | This is a great point, but it's hard to be confrontational in a place where you're already worried about your social standing. I agree that things would change faster if people were more confrontational but it's kind of a lot to ask. Posting a blog post about it (and one that's well-written, with good examples and expl... |
Thanks, it's been a lot of hard work for a lot of people making all of this happen ... I am glad to see you're happy, but am most curious what else you think can be improved. How can I help you get to the 100% happiness point? Please feel free to drop a comment in here or email with any feedback you have. For technical... | The features making a website go beyond standards and into microsoft specific areas (menus in pinned sites, changing color on the chrome depending on which site you're seeing) gives me a feeling of 'this is wrong'.
Care to shed some light on this topic? |
I don't understand what he's angry about. Photoshop, Microsoft Office, OpenOffice, these are all enormously complicated programs that require resources to load. That doesn't make them bloatware and it doesn't make the programmers lazy.
His proposed solution sucks too. Show the UI while it's loading so the user can impo... | It's the same for any complex program, smartphone or desktop. I have Picsel Smart Office on my phone and it has a boot time, because it's an office app and has to load resources to use the app.
And on his proposed solution, he asks developers to empower users, to not make users feel belittled, and at the same time he a... |
This might be a little off topic but I often read articles like this, and elsewhere, speculate on the "future" where so 'n so is able to see exactly what you purchased on your cards for some nefarious reason.
So here is my question: Do stores REALLY pass on an itemised list to the credit card processor? Because it was ... | Potentially could make assumptions about establishment and value.. $2 at gas station probably isnt gas. etc. Hard to do though. |
"They don’t tell you that a lot of programming skill is about developing a knack for asking the right questions on Google and knowing which code is best to copy-paste."
No, no, no! This always frustrates me. This is not 'coding' (maybe it is, and we should be doing less of it, and more programming). This is gluing toge... | copy and paste helps to get the job done |
It seems like we should be able to measure whatever effect there was. There must be sources of data about salaries in the Bay Area. Has anyone tried looking to see if there is a depression in tech workers' salaries, relative to people in other fields, during the time this agreement was in force? | I am not entirely sure that 'relative to other fields' is a useful metric in this case.
Maybe if we could restrict those fields to others in the middle of a boom or otherwise in a fierce competition for talent...petroleum and other engineers in the oil industry in the past few years, for example. (though I'd wonder if... |
I thought this was going to be a puff piece before I opened it but the most interesting thing--and perhaps this is posted elsewhere and I merely missed it--is it has basic Facebook financials.
$2 billion revenue for $400 million profit gives a P/E ratio of 125. That is simply nuts.
Now I fully realize that the stockmar... | Salesforce has a hefty P/E of ~ 258. This pales in comparison. Both are absurd in my opinion. |
This is how I feel. I don't watch TV for hours like I did as a child. What I do now is worse; stay in doors programming, browsing the web aimlessly, or staring at the ceiling. I don't blame my internet lifestyle for this really, but I literally don't know what else to do and the internet is so accommodating to me being... | Go on google flights and pick a city that sounds dangerous. |
Not specific to hacker culture, but I always felt there was a bit of a double standard when it comes to alpha male behavior. Women are attracted to aggressive men. Women like men who take charge. Women like men who are the initiators. Now obviously there is a line that crosses over into sexual harassment, but the fact ... | Ugh.. the last thing we need is to turn this into a general sexual attraction discussion about what (we think) works and what doesn't. It's a way more complex and controversial topic that we don't have to solve in order to address the "women in IT" problem when there is a much simpler solution:
DON'T TRY TO HIT ON WOME... |
Is this where we get to complain about how horrible Google Maps suddenly is?
Because wow. I can speak about this. It's terrible. First and foremost, and they have their "reasons" of course, but my Samsung Rant (yeah just a feature phone) always had great maps. Just a simple Java app, built on the maps API. Well that do... | The quality of their directions has gone downhill as well. I keep getting routes that take me needlessly onto a frontage road and back to the main road; that say there's a hard right when there's a slight jog in the road; that have me take take a right and three lefts instead of just going straight and turning left, wh... |
From the fringes - how typical is a 8:45am - 4pm (3 days a week anyways) schedule for HN googlers? | Virtually everything about your experience at Google will depend on your manager. |
Dolphins are exactly why I feel SETI is such a misguided (in a sweet way) effort.
Here we are, searching for extraterrestrial intelligence while we can't even communicate with the other intelligent species on our own planet.
Glad to see we're making progress though! | SETI are one of the biggest supporters of research into dolphin vocalisations. Laurance Doyle, who is at SETI, is one of the pioneers of the field.
http://www.tusker.com/tusker-trips/eclipse-trips/archaeo/art... |
I had heard a while ago that Einstein was a womanizer. Looks like he was a demanding jerk as well.
Just goes to show that there is usually a huge difference between what we think of historical figures and how they actually were.
It's interesting how much we want our heroes to be pure and spotless -- unlike any other hu... | I agree that this isn't enough to judge Einsteins morality, but it is interesting the tendency to want our heroes to be noble people. James Thurber wrote a wonderful short story about this -- The Greatest Man in the World. |
Seeing comments like this “I'll never switch back to MS for what they've done in the past” always reminds me of this post from Hanselman http://www.hanselman.com/blog/MicrosoftKilledMyPappy.aspx | https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7281319
This is partly what inspired me to write a wishlist for Satya in the first place. |
"And most importantly: Don’t be ashamed to build 100% JavaScript applications. You may get some incensed priests vituperating you in their blogs. But there will be an army of users (like me) who will fall in love with using your app."
This statement needs a huge, HUGE caveat that you should only be building 100% JavaSc... | Also, spare a thought for those who have to use screen readers.
If your 'app' is just a web page — use a web page! |
I would literally switch jobs (and perhaps careers, if every company was like this) if forced to work in an open office like this. I cannot work that way; I can't focus.
I realize that I'm adding nothing constructive to this thread; I don't care. Maybe some manager somewhere will see this and a hundred other anecdotal ... | Agreed. The most important thing about an office or workspace, for me, is that there are minimal interruptions. Quiet is best, maybe punctuated by music through my headphones or a bout of pair programming with a colleague. |
If you're getting your work done, on time, and to the quality specifications, who the hell cares how many hours in the week you work?
We're working on computers, doing work which does not benefit from typing for N hours straight; there is no meaningful correlation between quality/quantity and hours worked.
I wish more ... | It really depends from whose perspective you're looking at. If you are working for a startup this is exactly how you may think. If I am the owner I would probably think otherwise. There is always more work and more responsibilities that someone can take on, and I would expect my people to do just that. If you're doing ... |
I've noticed a rather disturbing trend of thought in technology that's been showing up more and more recently with things like this: "Make it harder for users to know how things really work. Make it harder for users to explore, make mistakes, and learn. Make it harder for users to become developers. The less the users ... | I don't have netflix. If everybody does the same, they'll go out of business. Or are you all addicted to TV? |
Don't throw stones on me, but... Why on HN?
(besides, I am as saddened as you are. I truly loved his as an actor and comedian - I just used his acronym scene from Good Morning Vietnam 4 days ago in a presentation I gave). | I had the same thought, but...Robin Williams. |
Incidentally, if anyone has any suggestions for technical changes/features/tricks that would help fix the problem, I'm all ears. Fending off the decline everyone thinks is inevitable for forums is the main thing I work on. It has been since practically the beginning. | Use the same system that decays a post's weight on the front page to decay a comments weight on a thread.
This will balance out the uneven distribution of karma that is talked about above, as new comments will be seen and given a chance to voted on even well into a conversation.
Having done this, comments that stop bei... |
The problem with this article is that a lot of things that are cheap for one serving go stale before you eat the second.
For instance, on day one, he adds some mint which cost ~50p to buy, but he calls 1p because he only eats a little. He does not eat the rest of the mint that week, so it cost him ~50p, i.e. half the d... | I know this is inappropriate but I got a kick out of imagining your customers dining on sand witches. Brilliant! |
The problem with SO is that easy questions get answered quickly and hard questions don't get answered at all, in most cases.
I'm a semi-competent programmer with a few thousand SO reputation (or whatever it's called). Every question I have ever asked there has gone unanswered or has been answered insufficiently.
The mo... | Totally agree on the so called subjective questions. The idea should be "wide-open your minds" instead of everybody's "how can I cast it to list" questions. |
I'm currently mounting two rPi boards to two external hard drives. I'll leave one at home and one at work and run BitTorrent Sync on them to create my own little distributed / decentralized Dropbox. Would a blog post when I'm done be interesting? | ya |
I created my account exactly 6 years ago, on February 20th, 2007. I guess I must have seen that announcement[1] posted on Reddit[2].
It's definitely lost that small town charm, but given how much it has grown it's still remarkably good.
To another 6 years!
1. http://www.ycombinator.com/announcingnews.html
2. http://www... | Nice. just checked mine -- I was here 3 days after it was created. |
Ten years ago? Not sure. I know fifteen years ago I was making video calls over my GSM phone, chatting with people via SMS, AIM, and ICQ, etc. Literally nothing in this post is in any way amazing to anyone who actually remembers life ten years ago. We had smartphones. We had social media. We had web forums. Jus... | One major innovation that has occurred over the past decade has been the distribution of technology that was only available to a lucky few.
Over the last decade tech has had a major impact on the daily lives of people like me. Today I can work from anywhere and communicate with everyone I know at any time of day, while... |
I worked at an Apple store for over a year as a "salesperson" (we called them Mac Specialists at the time). Let me input my two cents:
I was trained to do this. From day one of dedicated 8-hour training sessions, we're trained to find customers the right "solution" rather than get the most money. This requires using th... | I agree that Apple, as the case is at every brick-and-mortar store that I'm loyal to (B&H Photo has often talked me out of expensive purchases), has a great incentive to not oversell an unneeded product.
However, I think we need more data on recommendations before we can argue that the intent is entirely altruistic. As... |
This is exciting and all -- and much as I would love to see a serious competitor to Facebook, I still don't know how I would convince any of my non-techie friends that they should switch to this.
Circles? Actually I think that many people like the idea of their posts are being read by as many people as possible and not... | on a side note, the mobile app is live in android market. https://market.android.com/details?id=com.google.android.app... |
"To me that’s far more interesting than a tech company that’s hiring a bunch of people, just got their fourth round of financing for 12 million dollars, and they’re still losing money. That’s what everyone talks about as being exciting, but I think that’s an absolutely disgusting scenario when it comes to business."
Hi... | If anything, that comment just confirms his consistency. |
by cutting off free users they just opened themselves to getting undercut by a smaller company that can offer fewer, cheaper, targeted options.
I just wanted an email for my domain and that's not worth 50 bucks a year. I'll just set up my own email system at this point, call it a learning experience and never be expose... | They can play the game though, too. Offer good discounts for onloading users; First year or two free, etc.. Hell, first 5 years free. What do they care if they get you used to their products, and then stay a client for 15 years after the 5 year trial? |
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that I think he's being rude and arrogant.
Yes, he's in a position of power, and could turn up to his meetings wearing only a cunningly positioned silk scarf, and it would have no effect on the banks' willingness to earn lots of money from overseeing the Facebook IPO.
But whe... | But when you're in a position of power you also have a responsibility not to be a dick.
In general, that's a great idea and I agree. But Wall Street types mostly don't believe in that responsibility. So it's nice to see someone turn the tables on them. |
I don't respect this. I acknowledge that as it is their playground they can make this kind of judgement call, however I have always believed that freedom of speech also protects the freedom to hate and be a terrible person. There are countless texts, movies, and other 'creative works' which both condone and encourage v... | Kickstarter is simply selecting with whom they choose to enter into a contractual agreement. So long as they do so in a way which is not illegally discriminatory, they are within their right.
Likewise, the potential counterparties to an agreement with Kickstarter are free to choose not to enter into a contract with Kic... |
While I no longer visit 4chan regularly, I love its extensive influence on human society.
* lolcats
* rage comics
* anonymous
* a lot of the 1% movement
* getting random people in jail because they think animal cruelty is funny
* making Moot TIME's person of the year and getting him a TED talk -> http://www.ted.com/tal... | > PS: 4chan has also invented a clever sorting algorithm
Isn't this just relying on the scheduler which is probably a minheap? |
Actually I think Apple won here. Google was refusing to release a turn by turn direction update to their apps. By developing an Apple Map App with turn by turn, they kind of forced GooG to provide it on iOS platform. Also, it is very difficult for google to ignore ios users. | As I recall, the reason that Apple chose not to include turn by turn in the official maps app was because they early on had high-profile partnerships with GPS makers who had expensive apps on the app store. |
Can anyone identify a few example passive income apps that a single developer has managed to support? I know of bingo card creator, but what are some others? | There is a good blog devoted to passive income: http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/
They also have a podcast, which I have listened to. It's not bad at all. |
Doesn't matter for me. I hardly get much deep sleep due to anatomical issues essentially blocking my airways. I can't afford the surgery (even though I have insurance) nor will my government contribute to it (even though it would increase my productivity multiple times over, meanwhile they throw trillions at universiti... | Properly installed double glazing will block almost all sound, why not install them?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Insulated_glazing |
Look, I really like the idea of the Chromebook, but I feel like Google's kinda moving in the wrong direction here.
What power user lives completely in the cloud?
* Coders obviously can't use this machine.
* Designers need photoshop or other non-web apps.
* Writers are not gonna migrate from Word to something like this,... | You have multiple good points. But I don't think that writing really requires Windows, that is a pretty extravagant claim. You can write with a typewriter or a text editor, it's not DTP. And I don't see how someone whose job is to operate sites like Twitter has any serious reason why they would need Windows per se. |
The whole thing reeks of NIH and some poor saps trying to save their butts by trying to be forcefully relevant.
Apple and Google already solved the UI problem - you don't need to have the damned ugly in-car UI anymore. Just stick decent hardware with Android Auto and CarPlay support and be done with it. Make decent lo... | How long is any particular flavor of Android going to be supported, vs QNX or some other unix-like RTOS?
Yes, you could contract for longer support, but how much current energy will remain with whoever's engineers you contracted to for supporting that older and older version?
Also, QNX is an RTOS. Maybe they actually n... |
Like others in this thread, I naively assumed this was how Spotify already worked, and wondered why the payouts tended to be so low. Now it makes sense, and puts the numbers here (http://www.spotifyartists.com/spotify-explained/) in context.
Realistically, it would be both hard to change structurally and a hard sell fo... | Grooveshark supports Flattr which does exactly what this article proposes, if the user opts in.
http://help.grooveshark.com/customer/portal/articles/669416-... |
To get an idea of the raw power of the Oculus, check out this guy playing a horror game with it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OrANjgeYe0#t=3m55s
(Kind of loud. But be sure not to miss his awesome reaction at 4m20s.)
I have the original devkit, and it's amazing. You can even interface it with Google Street View. T... | I found this much more amusing, and it shows just how "real" Oculus VR can be to people, to the point where it physically affects their movements:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9po7_2hYaU |
I think the biggest problem with RSS is that you divorce the content from the context. Both from the publisher's standpoint, when their ads aren't being served or they decide to truncate their RSS feed so they can get ad revenue back from click-through, and from the reader's standpoint, where a common lamentation in mo... | This is the first I'm hearing of Newsblur. I've contemplated building something similar to try and tackle some of the issues I raised in my comment in this thread. Looks like you're well on your way. |
I have a theory. I think that self-help books and articles actually make people miserable. I'm quite happy, and I manage to be happy without having a list of the 6 essential things I must do every day to stay happy.
In my personal life, the people most into self-help books and the like are the least happy. Correlati... | What you do is as bad as standing next to a doctor's office and telling the people coming in, that you personally don't need to see the doctor to be healthy, so they must be doing something wrong, especially since they seem to come in more than once.
You're being a jerk, whether you meant to or not. |
I think we should stop using the word "poach" when describing these job changes. Use of this word suggests that we (technology workers) are the property of our employer, and that other employers are "stealing" that property away. I don't consider myself akin to a cow owned by my previous employer, stolen by my current ... | I think the word is apt in the context of employer-employee or employer-employer relationships involving ownership claims. |
Hey everyone -- sorry to hijack the top thread but I’m an ads engineer at Facebook so I feel qualified to respond. I posted this over on reddit too but it's still pending approval.
In the case of this ad — I think we actually delivered on what was asked for. The targeting specs were fairly broad (cat lovers in four cou... | You just completely ignored the point he was trying to make with the fake likes. You're going to have to come up with a better bullshit defense. |
How prevalent is Tcl usage in the real world? You don't hear much about it, are there any new startups adopting it? Or is it only used in legacy projects at large companies? | It's definitely not the 'in' thing these days, but it's a very solid, robust bit of code that still makes for a nice language for creating certain kinds of systems. |
As usual, the government is trying to meddle with companies. Read the letter, but make no mistake - the "kind" tone, especially when reminding how they did they best to get in touch, have meetings, help insuring compliance etc. is just a decoy. The truth is with "must immediately discontinue marketing the PGS".
The gov... | I agree for the most part (I tend towards libertarian ideals if you've read any of my comments), but it's a difficult balance to maintain between allowing for medical innovation and preventing an objectivist distopia a la Bioshock. The government has a legitimate responsibility to ensure that medical technology is used... |
From the article comments:
"This is the bottom line. Whether or not the business model is out-dated or not has absolutely no effect on whether what Kim was doing was either immoral or illegal.
In the Governments eyes, what Kim was doing illegal. I can't just steal something from an Amish person's business because "thei... | But those 400 wouldn't buy a CD. Maybe 40 of them would. People consume a lot more content when it's free/unlimited. Proof of that is the average content consumption on Spotify vs iTunes, and why some artists complain that they make a lot less "per play" from Spotify than they would on iTunes, but they are looking at t... |
"Our new economy is shrinking because technology leads to efficiency over growth."
Anyone who wants to make the claim that technology is net killing jobs has to be prepared to answer the question: why now? Technology has been killing (but not net killing) jobs for centuries. It's possible that technology could start ... | Read "lights in the tunnel" by Martin Ford. |
Problem: Django has features. These features, horrors, reuse each other's capabilities.
Solution: Use something that has no features.
I'm not sure myself how sarcastic I'm being, to be honest. There's some truth in there too (or I wouldn't have posted this). But of course your microframework doesn't have any dependency... | You just posted what I had intended to say, only you said it better. |
> The main reason for Python 2 users to not switch to Python 3 is the lack of motivation/killer features. We need to therefore be more proactive in encouraging people to switch to Python 3 by (a) making sure that any new users are always directed to the latest Python 3 version, and (b) releasing, in the near future, ne... | just include it for default in ubuntu repositories and distributions |
I think you're right about society's role, but I see a much more pernicious tendency that I think damages boys and, eventually, men. Society teaches boys to bottle up their feelings. "Be a man" means be strong, and don't show emotion. Crying is a sign of weakness. And god forbid you talk about your emotions...that's a... | The problem is that it quite often isn't actually safe for men to be vulnerable, or share painful feelings yet. |
Or better, more solid relational options like Postgres...
Honestly, is there any reason to use MySQL over Postgres at this point? Or is it sort of six of one half a dozen of the other as long as the data model is decent? | One minor reason I noticed recently is that you can't change Postgres' listen(2) backlog. This can have a significant impact on responsiveness. |
Notably, Play services is totally closed. So Google has abandoned the open source part of Android and is now developing the operating system as a completely closed product.
Edit: downvotes don't change the truth of the observation. Android is no longer meaningfully open, other than a years old core of basic functions... | It is amazing how big of an ass you are. Make an assertion --> people provide counter-arguments and downvote you. You --> provide no explanation to your initial assertion and ass-ily mention that downvotes are meaningless.
Be a man and get into the argument if you really believe what you are saying. Otherwise keep blow... |
Oh for heavens' sakes. Yet more ignorance.
A more realistic view of C:
- C is straightforward to compile into fast machine code...on a PDP-11. Its virtual machine does not match modern architectures very well, and its explicitness about details of its machine mean FORTRAN compilers typically produce faster code. The C ... | > The social necessity of implementing a decent C compiler may have stifled our architecture development
the idea that specific requirements of c had started driving architecture development blew my mind the first time i came across it. it is still a point that does not get discussed nearly enough at a popular level. |
I am personally not a fan of businesses giving money to charity. If they have spare cash, they should give it to their employees (who in a normal business are mainly responsible for the cash surplus) as a bonus - those employees can themselves donate their earning to a charity of their choice, rather than having the co... | tptacek made the only refutation of your criticism that needs making later in the thread, so I'll copy it here as a direct response:
It is not a valid criticism to complain that money that the owners of the company are entitled to anyways is instead going to charity.
The pledge is the founders pledging equity. It is n... |
Are there any common languages that allow you to do compile time metaprogramming in the language itself? I'd like to write little miniprograms which output source code and get evaluated at compile time. For example:
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#COMPILETIME
int fib(int n) {
if(n ... | Others have said LISP; if you're willing to manipulate ASTs then anything with macros will do (I love scala). If you want it to be more string-oriented then perhaps TCL (not that there's always a compile time per se) |
I honestly don't understand why people value Stallman's opinions on these matters so highly. I completely disagree with him on essentially everything he writes about these topics.
Granted, he's an incredible programmer who contributed immensely to the development of our modern operating systems and the tools we use, an... | sorry, but your comment is trolling! You just claim RS isn't "right" and name others who aren't "right" either - in your unfounded oppionion.
RS lists examples of FB malpractice, abuse of power and in contrast to your trash talk he is linking proof to each claim. |
My good old trick to mitigate that is:
touch /-@
I also always do it in my home directory:
touch ~/-@
That's the first thing I do on a new host.
When accidentally running rm -f *, the command expands to -@ first, which is not a valid option and makes the command fail before doing any harm
rm: illegal opti... | alias rm='trash-put' |
Does everyone think this is good news?
I'm all for making the web faster/safer/better and all that. But I am worried about losing the web's "open by design" nature.
Much of what I've learned and am learning comes from me going to websites, opening the inspector and stepping through their code. It's educational. You lea... | As others have already stated the web today can be quite hard to read. WebAssembly doesn't make that situtation worse. WebAssembly, however, is and will continue to be well defined and openly documented. I am confident tooling will come that will help humans understand this format.
It might be time for a WebDwarf debug... |
I think the bigger news here is the Chromebit. A $100 device that turns any monitor into a computer? Fascinating. | One of those running XBMC would be awesome. |
No, of course I know that :( The problem was that the papers mentioned were either 1) not about the subject in question or 2) not cited enough to count. Hopefully your professors also drummed into you that anyone can write a paper and send it to a conference -- the kicker is if it actually makes an impact. Isn't that m... | Let's put them back on there and add a chapter titled 'controversy over Wikipedia deletion' - plenty of sources there :-)
(I am only half kidding in fact, I remember something like this happening a while ago but don't remember what the precise article was about) |
As someone who does JavaScript and HTML5 UIs for a living, I'm interested to understand more about the market of customers who pay for UI components or libraries.
Can anyone comment point me to an successful MVP in this area or tell me about customers who buy this stuff? | My untested opinion is quality JavaScript libraries are something everyone needs, but few are willing to pay for because Open Source has taught the majority of web developers to demand everything be free all the time, and include free support, otherwise they won't touch it. |
OFF-TOPIC FOR ENGLISH-AS-SECOND-LANGUAGE:
For HN'ers who are still learning the finer points of English this title shows one of the many weird inconsistencies of the language.
Normally, when trying to say 'a thing' where the thing starts with a vowel we change the 'a' into 'an' so 'a axe' becomes 'an axe', 'a umbrella'... | This off-topic digression was made possible by the submitter's rewritten title: "PowerDNS on losing Cloudflare as an user".
Since the article's title is neither linkbait nor misleading, we reverted to it, or rather to a shortened version of it that fits the 80 char limit.
I'm also demoting this subthread as obviously o... |
I was considering getting a Lenovo X1 Carbon to run linux on. I'd be installing a clean image, so no Superfish, but I still don't want to give money to Lenovo right now.
What alternative linux laptops are there? (aside from macs) | I have an hp elitebook, works great with ubuntu |
If Moores law ends with 14nm, I wonder what we'll be doing 10 years from now. | look back and laugh at how long we were able to just shrink transistors within the 1 plane, totally ignoring all depth? Remember, moore's law is about transistor count per square inch. I'm kind of shocked we don't use 3D chips, though I understand heat is an issue. |
I think science articles should be banned from HN. The userbase is clearly not educated well enough to deal with the issues. It only produces comments from armchair scientists conjuring up whatever pet theory they can explain away the results with. Comments like the classic freshman stats quote "correlation does not... | The only topic that gets worse comments than science on HN is gender issues.
I think you're unfair there. If you want to see a diversity of opinions, that's exactly what we have--the fact that you disagree with one side or the other is quite your own problem. |
For the most part, I think that Google's crackdown on pseudonyms and anonymity is actually a good thing. In most cases, anonymity online brings out the worst of us—just look at 4chan, littered with mobs of minions proliferating senseless hacking and child pornography[1]. You need but look at the news lately to see the ... | Anonymity is not related to lack of forum moderation or escape from consequences. It just means a username is not recorded or displayed. BTW, posting underage obscenity, inflammatory statements, neo nazism etc gets the poster ip banned.
[1] /b/ is an isolated case which is often quoted. It is only one of 40-something f... |
Edit: Boston police reporting at least 2 dead, 22 injured and 10 people losing limbs.
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/04/15/explosion-reported-near...
Looks like there were two explosions.
Picture: https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BH6fCgFCQAERWMB.jpg:large
More details http://www.wcvb.com/news/local/metro/Explosions-reported... | The explosions is so timely it gives more reasons to oppose any US immigration reforms next week. |
I'll have to think of something extra for them too. Any ideas? Bear in mind that about half the users under 10 are also over 90, so whatever it is can't conflict with extra large fonts. | <blink> and <marquee>. |
The kids knew sign language?
The kids went and bought stuff (incl laptops) at multiple stores?
And wasn't there a long line at Apple? How'd they make it to so many other stores?
The kids physically go to the store to buy school computers?
The kids are such good actors that they fooled the author & all other salespeople... | I had the exact same reaction. This story has all the telltale signs of typical internet fiction trying to pass as a real story. Lack of details (no names of the school, teacher, etc., no date) combined with an implausible "this doesn't happen to anyone" story line is the biggest giveaway.
It's unfortunate that people ... |
I just bought a home, and just started a considerable renovation. I'm putting in new water pipes, new electrical wiring, etc. I thought of putting "smart" devices (i.e. switches, alarms, thermostats, etc.) given the "advantages" these promise.
After considerable research, it's not worth the hussle or money. Let's put a... | That's why you make sure they use one of the standards based protocols, then buy something like a smartthings hub which is open enough that you can write your own apps if the vendor decides to abandon theirs. You don't need the vendor to update their app, you just need them to operate with the hub, and then talk to th... |
When I had a lot more time, I would go into Yahoo chat and basically phish for pedophiles usernames/passwords. I can tell you that a "hehe" after anything will set the hook.
I could on average phish about an account a minute and I was never figured out. I only fell out of character once to warn an 18 year old kid, that... | Previous comment here related to multiple down votes I received. I jumped the gun and lesson learned. |
I'm the counterexample - I like letting capable people as loose as possible, and more often than I'd like this backfires. I'd appreciate some effective pointers on how to deal with this issue. | This is correct, from my understanding cultivated sternness happens not by being that way by default but by being so lenient at several different moments in your past that you were strictly taken advantage of until you could accept it no longer and you had to be strict or mean.
Then the first time you decide to do so a... |
I simply do not understand this anti-college anti-credentialling sentiment. I am featured in the latest Hacker Monthly ( print version of HN). So they asked me for a bio. I wrote something about how I learnt everything in college...am not a hacker...and that you should go to grad school if you want to get better at CS... | You could spend years in college or you could just start trying to solve problems collaboratively that lend themselves to principal components analysis. You'll learn PCA much faster via the later approach. |
Caveat: this is an anecdote, and your mileage may vary, but I think it illustrates a point of contention in the "two cultures".
As a computer science major in the US, I once took a "philosophy of mind" course out of a genuine multi-faceted interest in AI. I was working on undergraduate machine learning research at the ... | Paul Graham wrote an essay a few years ago about his very frustration with this:
http://www.paulgraham.com/philosophy.html |
Happiness-wise South Korea ranks 41. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Happiness_Report).
Here in Switzerland (3rd in happiness) it is not unusual that people are employed only 3-4 days / week and still make enough money to live well. I don't know of any other country where this is commonplace.
(Full disclosure: If y... | My ancestors are Swiss, and I have seriously considered moving back. :) |
Not at all! Today is the ten-year anniversary of my first real post, so I've been planning to have my last real post on 3/18 for a long time.
Thanks for all your attention over the years. I'll still be around, just not doing these essays any more. | I have to say that this is kind of sad. I've just discovered your blog and the podcast and I feel like I'm going to miss your essays.
I'm not an engineer, but a designer who likes to program and your thoughts on software are useful even for me. Now that you are venturing into the realm of VCs and being a media company ... |
My experiences with Groupon mirror your own. Whenever my friends and I would show up to a business with a Groupon, we would be treated with bad attitudes, worse service and just general reluctance when the exact opposite should have been true. I mean, that is the entire point of Groupon right? To promote a business -to... | This mirrors somewhat my experience many years ago with bartering. The places that were bartering were doing so because it was some low hanging fruit way to increase business and it was easy to to. And they were places that weren't particularly popular on their own (restaurants let's say) so they would do bartering to ... |
Every time his story comes up, there are people who respond with answers along the lines of "what can we do for him? can we find him assisted employment? can we raise money for him?" etc. While these comments are surely well intentioned, they end up being mostly condescending and out of place, as if talking about a com... | Racism is not a disease that requires or even invites our help. Sure, we're open to engage in civil discussion with racist people -- even try to gently persuade them of the error of their ways. But that's about it.
We live in a society where we're supposed to cherish and celebrate the fact that we're all unique (and br... |
>> Backpack is a company that arbitrages the cost of goods in different countries by using international travelers as a distribution network
I don't understand this one - with a world focused on security and import taxes, how does this work out? | If backpack's team is crazy, many more are crazy as you check out our non exhaustive list http://blog.piggybee.com/2014/08/delivery-by-travelers.html |
I might just ditch Firefox because of this webpage. A fresh session of Ffx15 goes up to 1.5 GB memory usage, pushes everything into swap and brings my whole OS to a grinding halt until I kill it. In other words this link is basically a very effective DoS. In Chromium it works fine. Am I the only one having this problem... | Using the current Nightly, I go up to 1.1Gb of memory usage, and the system (an old mbp with 8gb ram) is now noticeably slowing. |
"Meteor 0.5.0, available today, allows you to write secure realtime client-server applications in pure JavaScript. It's the only system of its kind in the world."
That's an outright lie.
cf. http://opalang.org | i think when they say "only system of it's kind" they mean they are solving all of these problems in different ways than all other systems... everything from rails to django to opa to derby to whatever. |
Isn't C-w kill-region in emacs? I recently came up against this problem too, but what else to change it to .. ? | I'd suggest changing it to vim.
But no, seriously, screen is one of the more useful programs I've ever used. I have a screen session running on a server somewhere, and just log into it from whatever terminal I happen to be using at the time. It's pretty much the best. |
I don't like REST. Making a call to a server should be like calling a function anywhere else - you have your parameters and return value. In REST the parameters are spread over 3 places, the action, the url and the post parameters themselves. It's a much better design to combine all your parameters in one place and kee... | IMO the biggest benefit of REST vs RPC is reduced coupling between the client and the server. With RPC client needs to be explicitly aware of all methods and parameters that the server supports. With well designed REST interface this is not the case, you can have a generic client that does not need to be explicitly cod... |
> 100-megawatt reactor measuring seven feet by 10 feet, which could fit on the back of a large truck
A typical thermal power station has an efficiency below 50% for electricity generation, so the plant dissipates at least as much heat as it generates electrical power.
I wonder how you could get rid of 100MW of waste he... | Sounds like it could make a heck of a launch rocket. |
Dropping Mozilla because Eich is anti-gay-marriage made sense to me because Mozilla is the beacon of open source. Mozilla belongs to us in a very personal way, many of us have contributed code to Firefox personally.
But Condi Rice joining a completely private Dropbox as a board member - this is a non-issue. I'm as stro... | Why do you think that it is "ridiculous" for people to be upset that a strong supporter of warrant-less wiretapping and PRISM is now a board member at the place they store their data? |
Damn... I thought it was another remote DoS (like the semi-recent hashmap degenerating that could be triggered by using parameters in URL like aa=xx, ab=yy, ac=zz, etc. or the floating-point 12-years old bug that people noticed could be remotely triggered on any Tomcat server) and that, once again, I'd have to apply a ... | Java applets were great for graphics demos and teaching apps.
Flash and Unity, etc have taken over, but who's to say that they are more secure? |
I think it's a very strong point that moving script code off the main thread can help achieve smooth UIs. No more GC pauses, no more slowdowns if the JS engine hits a snag, etc.
I think this is actually possible on the web as well. Someone could write a UI framework which runs JS in a Worker, and sends messages to the ... | > I'm surprised this hasn't been done, or has it and I just haven't heard about it?
N2O framework might do that.
https://github.com/5HT/n2o
Book:
https://synrc.com/apps/n2o/doc/book.pdf
One pattern you can do is send events to the server, server renders data asynchronously (maintains state for each client in a lightwei... |
I'd rather not. It introduces a pretty big conflict of interest (for example, Gruber would probably think twice before writing something negative about a former sponsor when he's on the record endorsing them) and blurs the line between advertising and editorial content. As mentioned in the article:
> the cost today ra... | PBS and NPR have to deal with this issue every year and their solution is pretty simple. They report it as they would want to, mention that X Co sponsored them in the past/present, and don't take their advertising dollars for that piece. |
It's great to read that Gabe has had such a positive experience with a Microsoft product team - but it seems pretty obvious to me that it's because he's a somebody. His posts on penny-arcade reach an enormous audience, and so of course they're going to do their damn best to make sure he sings the product's praises.
My ... | > They make great promises that they'll go away and think about it, and then nothing happens.
but this is EXACTLY how they treated Gabe. They didnt fix ANYTHING, they just showed up some prototypes and talked about fixing some stuff. |
Dear TV manufacturers,
No one want's your shitty software, it's not a competitive edge. No one has ever been impressed by the software their TV comes with, and for every person that found your software easy to use, there is a thousand who are still trying to figure out what that one button does on their remote. You wan... | Dear LG,
I just returned a Nexus 5 because it had poor reception compared to other phones using the same SIM card.
I was going to buy a LG G2 but having just seen how you treat your TV customers as cattle, I won't touch anything from LG for the forseeable future.
In a nutshell, LG, you lose my money.
Regards,
Ex-Custom... |
I don't think it's that strange. Let's compare the cost of the same MacBook Air in the US and France.
1. MacBook Air 11-inch : 64GB in US is $999.
2. MacBook Air 11-inch : 64GB in France is €1,049
3. $1 = €0.80 at the current time.
So you might think the MacBook Air should be €800 (999 * 0.80). So why it is €249 more?... | Apple garnered £6 billion in sales in the UK in 2010, and paid only £10 million in tax.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/mediatechnol... |
It's actually still possible to perform a specific type of legal insider trading.
Example: you are an executive at E Corp and the company will announce its acquisition in two months. You had previously set up planned trades to sell x number of shares each month before then. Because the acquisition is at a premium on ... | what about making 1000s of trades and cancelling the risky ones via insider info.
then the good trades weren't insider trades? |
Ubuntu runs hot on the MBP and will chew through your battery power even if you aren't running it in a VM. So MacOS is Unix anyway, you say? Too bad the default libraries are a pain to upgrade, trivial applications like "locate" and "wget" are missing and you'll have to manually configure stuff like page up/page down i... | This is ultimately what led me to switch from OS X to Ubuntu. Been using Ubuntu full-time since May and its great! All those headaches are gone! |
Realize, of course, that "Free" usually means, "We'll let you use a lot for free, until you use too much, at which point we'll either (A) Rate Limit you, (B) Have a conversation about why you are abusing the Free Incoming ALlocation, (C) Charge you for your excessive incoming data (D) Suggest you take your business els... | How big is the pipe comming in to the server?
Because unless it is very large, chances are that it will not be able to banckrupt Linode.
On the other hand, they pretty much sealed the deal about where I will host my next project. |
When I see heavy web pages like this it makes me worry about the state of front-end web design.
According to YSlow, the site came to 3.5MB, which is quite large when compared to the average home page. The site took at least five seconds to load on my fast dev machine, which is far too long.
The nail in the coffin for m... | It crashed my browser (Opera) right after it loaded. |
i am worried about the popularity of git to be honest. i'm convinced it is popular rather than good.
"I've really tried to 'get into' mercurial's mindset several times now, but never could, whereas, IMO, git's model is simple and powerful. "
I find it hard to understand what this means, but this is typical of the argum... | > "I've really tried to 'get into' mercurial's mindset several times now, but never could, whereas, IMO, git's model is simple and powerful. "
>
> I find it hard to understand what this means
The git model can be, to a sufficient degree of completeness, be demonstrated with child toys: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1... |
So, a thin client connecting to a virtual machine under some other company's control? No, thanks.
The fact is, computers are plenty fast now, and can handle 90% of peoples' usage patterns (browsing reddit, watching cat videos) with ease. The last thing I want is to have a remote desktop that lags out whenever there's a... | yo dawg I heard you need a computer to use your computer. Jokes aside, tablets/phones are carried with us everywhere and for on the go can accomplish most of what one may do when they are away from a dedicated pc. I can ssh into any one of my computers and do whatever is needed from my phone for the most part.
I'm re... |
Looks spectacular, but why does it have to be a shooter?
I still hope that someone will eventually make a large scale world exploration game. Journey on steroids, basically. | Sounds like a great idea, especially now that the idea of doing this for real is becoming a reality :) |
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