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Since this concerns the U.S. government, I'll say that the vendetta against euthanasia and doctor-assisted suicide by the Christian right is puzzling. The Bible has a very ambivalent view on suicide (as with any other topic), the tale of Samson being a prime example. The main argument against suicide comes from Corinth... | The alternative to euthanasia is not suffering, but better hospice care. The sad thing is that not every hospital provides that equally. |
I realize that the realities of the limited resources available for charities and non-profits is what leads to the ethnic and gender based targeting, but this just leaves a bad taste in my mouth. Is it a good cause? Yes. Teaching any disadvantaged group a useful skill is a great thing, but solving a problem of exclu... | What's the difference between "Girls Code" and "Black Girls Code". They both exclude a significant chunk of the population, but one is slightly more targeted than the other. They both exclude based on biology and facts on ground. It's the exact same thing.
One could also say "Dallas Girls Code", a program for girls in ... |
About a year ago I left a cable modem and internet service (Time Warner) at an apartment I was moving out of while my friend continued to stay there. I had configured the thing in a manner I thought to be fairly secure -- strong password, no broadcast, etc.. One day the internet goes down and my friend doesn't know wh... | Proprietary software, firmware and hardware ultimately means you don't own the stuff you use. Goes on at all levels and people interiorise it to the point that they will take it as a given and justify uses that are not truly justifiable. ISPs do not need this kind of policy to operate, regardless what you'll read in t... |
it's hard for me not to recall Commander Taco's (in)famous dismissal of the original iPod when I browse these comments
You should also remember that he was hardly in the majority with those comments. Further he was technically correct, and the iPod succeeded because of a synergy with other parts of Apple's empire (nota... | Hard to stomach? That's a curious choice of words. Do you think Google or Amazon would not do the same marketing and try to create the same kind of hype around their products if they can? You are saying you can see through the clutter but it looks more like you are biased against company that was successful in their ex... |
First, I'd get annoyed if I found you tried to bug a CV you sent me. I'd definitely tell you not to send something like that to my clients.
Second, I think that while HTML resumes are a fine thing to post on your website, they are a terrible format for sending to a prospective employer. You are virtually guaranteed tha... | > PDF. It's the way to go.
Seems 5 out of 10 malware writers agree ;-) http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/03/09/adobe_reader_attacks...
OK, I also prefer PDF, and I know the problem is the Adobe Reader (and the scripting added back in 2003 or so). I try to stick to the OSS readers.
But I would think that web-bugs are al... |
It's unfortunate that signing up via Facebook or twitter or some other OAuth method gives people such a creepy feeling. It sure is a lot more convenient for everyone involved: don't need a password, no email confirmation, sometimes it's one click and you're in.
I feel like Facebook screwed this up for everyone when peo... | Exactly. As far as I'm concerned, the only reason some app would ask for my FB account info is so it can post shit as me. Thanks but no thanks. |
"If you've bought something you should be able to do whatever you want with it, whether it’s modifying it, or unlocking it. You shouldn't need a massive corporation's permission."
If you think $200 buys you an iPhone, you're sadly deluded. "$200 with 2 year contract" means you haven't bought anything, you're still payi... | Paying the contract and using the phone are two different things. As long as you continue paying for your contract, why should the carrier get any say on how you use your subsidized phone?
There are plenty of great uses to unlock your phone even if you still want to keep the primary contract, like travelling abroad or ... |
And yet it should be the artist's choice on how THEIR work is used, regardless of how you, or 99.999% of the people feel.
Personally, I find the overly-developed sense of self-entitlement to be way more unlikable than an artist's overly inflated ego. | Not me. In this case the inflated ego leading to unreasonable aggressiveness is far more distasteful than the relatively mild sense of self-entitlement.
The more derivative a work is, the less it belongs to the original artist. In this case, the work was derivative enough for there to be a legitimate legal case eithe... |
On the game I'm currently working on, it's built very heavily around Lua. So for the save system, we simply fill a large Lua table, and then write that to disk, as Lua code. The 'save' file then simply becomes a Lua file that can be read directly into Lua.
This is absolutely amazing for debugging purposes. Also you nev... | I've had to write output save file formats for various projects on several occasions, and it never occurred to me to take this approach.
Thanks for sharing this, it's one of those ideas that (to me) seems so brilliant in its simplicity that I probably would've never thought of it.
Any hiccups in the day-to-day work usi... |
What is that makes the United States such an attractive place to immigrate to for people whose skill sets could take them almost anywhere in the world? (In other words, why is that successive sessions of Congress can basically count on lots of people desiring to live in the United States, thus setting up an environment... | >>What is that makes the United States such an attractive place to immigrate to for people whose skill sets could take them almost anywhere in the world?
So, I'm highly critical of USgov but USA, with all its alleged faults, is still considered the "Land of opportunity" by a lot of people. If you have tech-skills and ... |
> Really, it's a cultural problem.
No, it's an economic one.
> I have a liberal arts degree from an "elite private university".
Ok. Let's make the assumption that you're at least moderately intelligent and would be able to get a job for 40K from the bat.
40K * 4 = 160K
College tuition is 40K itself at an "elite private... | Ugh. What a depressing way to think about college. But you're right. My English degree isn't doing jack for me. In my free time during college, I actually studied theology, computer science, and martial arts. They are what should be written on my diploma, and what I'd rather show to potential employers (well, not the t... |
Seattle used to have an area of downtown where you could ride the bus for free. (You could ride within the area free, but paid if you rode out of the area or started your ride outside of the area.)
Busses became makeshift homeless shelters, which probably ended up driving away actual commuters.
Seattle also bought fan... | Downtown Salt Lake City, Utah still is a free ride zone, also. :) |
> and you get beer by the 18 pack.
I really don't mean to come off as snobbish, but, what kind of beer is worth drinking that comes in 18 packs? I'm not sure I've ever seen anything but cans of alcoholic water in that configuration. | Today I was reminded that there are other parameters for beer than my own. |
>> Now, I know when some people see graphical environments they start whining and saying “But I don’t want to use a mouse. There’s no room on my desk for a mouse.”
How small were desks back then, not having room for a mouse?
>> Well, with Windows, for the most part the mouse is optional. I won’t be using a mouse at all... | I wasn't doing too much computing in 1985, but I don't think the issue was so much about small desks as it was large computers. Likewise, mice were larger then, too. The whole "smaller computers" is still a really recent thing, despite the recentness of the whole "computer" thing in general. |
Anyone who's done some Haskell care to comment on whether scala is worth learning?
I read the scala book a few years ago, then I decided to go to the source first and learn Haskell. However, I don't see many Haskell employment opportunities available in my area or industry (London, Hedge funds/algorithmic trading). I h... | I too suggest that Scala is worth learning, coming from Haskell. The integration of OO with FP that Scala achieves is magnificent, and any future mainstream language will be measured against it. I would also argue that Scala, which has been influenced heavily by Haskell, improves on Haskell in some domains, in particul... |
Am I the only one who thinks Microsoft is nuts with the whole Metro UI on a PC thing?
I mean it may be a good UI for tablets, but I did not buy two 24" widescreen monitors to run IE in fullscreen. When I use my PC I don't care about active tiles or what's the desktop at all. I have apps to run and work to do.
And I am ... | You are definitely not. I use Windows 7 primarily and I'd never even dream of replacing it with Windows 8 in its current state as a horribly thought-out mishmash of design principles. |
So heartbreaking. The front-line folks at Zynga were worked to the bone, by so many insider accounts. Now all the stock they were counting on has had most of its value evaporate.
But that's life, right? Counting on equity is, simply, a gamble.
Except when you've rigged the table, as Pincus and his cronies have.
http://... | I have no pity for them. They'd have to be terminally ignorant not to realize they were building scumware. |
So 10,000 children grow up happier and learning proper risk taking behaviour... and one dies from strangulation when going down a slide with a rope in hand (happened last week in my city)... and one is quadriplegic for life after jumping into a murky lake (friend of my cousin)...
Do we really, really just want to accep... | Kids have been getting paralyzed from jumping into pools and lakes since forever, and the "going down a slide with a rope," strangulation thing sounds a little rare to even think twice about. |
nan | Maybe it outlines a issue of karma whoring? Just sayin'. |
Can it be true that the Python coverage on HN is overproportional compared to its real world usage?
If I look around the world is full of Ruby and Rails. Sites, libs, meetups, developers, everything is on Ruby or Ruby on Rails. Python and Django devs are so damn rare in real world -- I just know two of 100.
Not that I ... | In regards to your second edit: http://www.google.de/trends?q=django%2C+ruby+on+rails%2C+nod... |
Whats worrying about the apparent proliferation of security breaches like this is that as the attacks get more sophisticated, so do the prevention methods. This could get to the point whereby the skill level required to protect an application or server goes way higher than the skill level of many developers.
The result... | In my experience the expense of a security consultant is rarely correlated with their skill level. |
Airbnb & YC, just fix this please:
1. Get a new place for EJ. Furnish it fully. Pay for everything.
2. Help her restore her virtual identity. Use any resources at your considerable disposal.
3. Help her find her irreplaceable stuff. A few private detectives and a small team of scouters can make more progress in 2 weeks... | Not sure why YC should be getting blamed here? I give them a lot of credit as it appears that hacker news broke this story. If there was anything sinister going on I think they could have just deleted the story.
Airbnb is another matter. Asking the blogger to remove the post sounds like such a bone-headed move that ... |
I'm wondering how alone (or not) I am in being uncomfortable with cloud storage for my (mostly family) photos. It would be the most convenient solution in terms of storage and redundancy, but the idea of them possibly being compromised and also somewhat out of my control doesn't sit well with me. It feels slightly hypo... | Do you keep your money in a bank? I get worries about storing things on Facebook, but I feel the implicit contract about iCloud is that it's a personal drive (unless you explicitly make something public).
I understand some people might be really good at automated backup and whatnot, but for me this solution means not l... |
Perhaps we should drop the corporate tax rate to zero. It's simply too easy for a global company to avoid them. In the end, small and mid-sized businesses are the ones that get soaked.
It currently makes up about 10% of federal revenue. http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=3822 | If we just moved to be inline with the rest of the world that would be an improvement. |
I trust security advice from tptacek or cperciva more than from [name withheld until you vote].
Threads get really confusing when [name withheld until you vote] argues with himself all the time. | If you are not in a position to evaluate an argument about security you probably shouldn't be following the advice anyway. |
I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying. Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views, even if they had absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the... | Is his political views are contrary to some of the organization's core values (such as diversity and inclusiveness), then he should have refused the job. To be fair, I don't think anyone saw this as an issue at that point. Everyone has blind spots. |
His rant doesn't seem too informed: "aggressive anti-performance and apparent contempt for the web by Twitter’s designers"
According to his charts most of Twitter's page is JS/CSS and presumably set to heavily cache. Very little is data. Once you've done the first page load Twitter's pages will load quite fast and e... | Caching is fine when I'm actively using Twitter, but if I do something else these 2MB will be competing against other junk|useful stuff.
I've used Twitter not very long ago (since then I've visited a forum, a piece of docs, left my browser idle half an hour, and visited HN), now I've just looked in about:cache and twit... |
I'm confused by this. The large banks are (arguably) more efficient because of economies of scale, eg. less duplicated management, purchasing power. So it's probably not a good idea to limit the size of banks which is what this article seems to propose, because that'll make banking more expensive.
But the flip side i... | The sums of debt some of these banks got into swamped their share value, and in some countries were a fair chunk of the GNP. But I certainly wish we had removed shareholders from any bailed out bank.
One issue is some banks were on the border on if they needed bailing out, and shareholders might prefer the risk of cata... |
One thing I've never understood about interpretation of quantum entanglement experiments:
Based on what I've learned of these experiments, it seems to me that the least mind-bending interpretation is that the entanglement event results in two particles that have some complementary property k (i.e. one particle has k an... | I believe you're talking about "hidden variables" and the argument against it is Bell's Theorem http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bell%27s_theorem
I'm not a physicist and I don't really understand it fully, but I believe this is what you're talking about. |
This purchase certainly makes one wonder what Apple is up to. Kinnect has been, for the most part, a party-game interface, and that's not really in Apple's bailiwick. Capri is not really small enough or appropriate for phones, since you tend to gesture with your phone rather than at it. It is small enough that it could... | >Capri is not really small enough or appropriate for phones, since you tend to gesture with your phone rather than at it.
How about gesturing with your iWatch?
Just sayin' |
I still can't see why would anyone buy one except as one of those toys that you buy and then gets tossed in the closet. 10 years ago I could see the appeal, but now? The robotics, home automation, and weekend project use cases seem like would be better served by a $5 microcontroller.
Some projects, such as the weather ... | I'm currently putting together a data recorder for an academic experiment. It requires: GPS, Camera, Environmental data, inclinometer, and a few other odd bits. I could build up a custom system, but that is a big NRE expense for something that less than ten of will probably ever be produced. I could also use a "better"... |
All: much of this thread is of low quality, below the standard that Hacker News discussion should adhere to, because it doesn't engage with what pg's essay actually says. It merely uses it as a trigger point for passions about other things, like H1Bs and Infosys. In other words it goes on a generic tangent, and generic... | "the idea of pg lobbying to flood the market with cheap programming labor is not only demonstrably wrong"
He wants the top programmers in the world to be able to come to the USA. But my suspicion is he has very little concern for your above average, but not great, USA born programmer whose wages are threatened by cor... |
I think the big takeaway here, not just for women but for anyone in the workplace who feels uncomfortable with or offended by something someone else has said, is to consider the intent.
Sometimes somebody says something offensive, and they don't even know they're being offensive. And in those cases, you can take them ... | How about we all just treat people like people. It doesn't matter if you are a man or woman, your respect in the community should be based on merit. There are plenty of terrible male executives, and there are also plenty of terrible female executives.
I'll probably get downvotes for this... but the one thing that annoy... |
> "Like most people, I don't like to be tracked. I also am the founder of the search engine that doesn't track you, DuckDuckGo."
It pains me to hear intelligent people talk about being "tracked" as something "bad" a priori. While there are certainly plenty of examples of abuse of knowledge, I tend to think of most "tr... | I like that everyone seems to have a way better barista than I have. |
I'm a woman who was originally introduced to HN through Reddit and started reading about a year ago (this is a throw-away account that I will probably not use again.) I don’t really care about startups – I'm a physics graduate student planning on going into academia – but I do care about programming and tech. I have no... | Odd, I'd never noticed any such discussions. Maybe the stories I read don't get those kinds of comments, but I'll be on the lookout - I don't like that kind of thing either. (I'm male) |
In its report, the WHO team agreed that the concept of RISUG was intriguing. But they found fault with the homegrown production methods: Guha and his staff made the concoction themselves in his lab, and the WHO delegation found his facilities wanting by modern pharmaceutical manufacturing standards. Furthermore, they f... | My thoughts exactly. All the objections seem to sidestep the revolution that this drug could be. If the science is there, but some more studies are needed, why didn't the WHO back better lab conditions and make a go for it?
Either they thought it was not a viable theory for a drug, or they were avoiding it for profit/p... |
I like the use of short 2-5 second videos instead of pictures. They did it tastefully and made it useful.
I never thought I'd see a good use case for auto playing videos.
(It kind of reminds me of Harry Potter too) | I like the idea, but the moving images in my eye line as I tried to read made me feel really queasy. |
The "roller coaster" effects in the 3-d view are my favorite. They've got some smoothing algorithm going, or it wouldn't curve the way it does, but the elevation data must not have a high enough resolution. Google has made this sort of thing look so easy for so long, but it's clearly very hard to get this stuff right.... | It is either the classic problem of floating point precision or just data a data collection error. See my other answer. |
Sorry to sound harsh, but this seems really silly to me (the concept, not the code which I'm not competent to comment on).
Be human, tell other people to fuck off when they are bothering you. End of story.
I find the lack of verbal communication skills among programmers/techies their biggest disability. Learn to talk t... | Possessing communication skills doesn't mean that you want to talk with everyone at every moment of the day. Not only people with lack of verbal communication have use for fake phone calls... It can be used to get out of various awkward situations. |
Is your machine even operational? My macbook air from 2011 (with Yosemite) is sluggish to the point of being unbearable to use and just collects dust. | I run Windows on mine and it runs fine (late 2010 13", 4GB model). Only use it when travelling though. |
So, oddly enough, the thing that bothered me the most about this article was the way his wife left him. I read stories like this a lot online, where two married people are prospering and living happy lives, and then despite the vow they made for "better or worse", one just gives up on the other person when times get h... | >one just gives up on the other person when times get hard.
That's a pretty simple summary. You don't go from prosperous to poor without a lot of stress and frustration, and that can change people, usually for the worse. If your partner used to be very loving, and spend time with you, and now is working all the time, ... |
Bitcoins are not the future. But they're a great start.
Bitcoins have two major problems stopping mainstream adoption; excessive volatility that isn't managed and the fact that is a deflationary monetary system, with the latter being a much bigger issue.
Fundamentally a currency needs to move around fungible value. Tha... | Additional issues with bitcoin include significant and growing implementation complexity, legal environs, and latency. |
Its great that the power of the law is currently being directed at great big jerks, but do we really think it will stay this way?
These revenge porn sites are journalism. And apparently we are all now cheering the government as it shuts down publications whose motives and views we disagree with.
http://www.chrisstucchi... | I'm cheering anyway. It's not possible to have a set of laws or system that will prevent all misdeeds and protect all basic rights. |
Since the modus operandi seems to be for the NSA to suck up everything it can and decide later it seems (wild speculation follows) that the NSA might be sitting on audio recrodings of all your phone calls for the past several years.
Can you imagine the number of divorce cases that would impact? Civil lawsuits? Proof of... | Enjoy our brave new world. |
Why Rust? Is it better at this than, say, Go? | Because it's fun. I don't think there is a very strong reason for preferring Rust over Go except than the authors like it more. Hackers don't need to justify their decisions. They do stuff for fun and sometimes they end up with useful things. |
Am I foolish for not believing the vi/vim hype? I understand that it's been around for as long as rocks, and that it's quite handy since it's available everywhere. I use it daily, in fact, but rarely for more than basic editing.
I'll just come out and say it: my favorite editor is Visual Studio. Sure, it's slow to ... | Oh, but you need to use viemu (viemu.com), to have the sweet editing goodness of vim with the other great features of the VS IDE. It's awesome. |
Entitlement. I has it.
Why does HN continue to think that companies on the web who give their services to millions of users away for free (please don't repeat the you are the product being sold meme), are entitled to direct said companies to keep any project you deem useful around for as long as you deem it important ... | It's more about companies taking an open platform, co-opting it's userbase with a good solution, and then kill or stagnate the platform in one way or another...
Microsoft did something similar with IE back in the day: it was better than Netscape and it quickly dominated, but then they kept adding proprietary hooks (Act... |
Here's the biggest offenders I see when talking to founders:
revenue vs GMV
(if you give GMV, give me your cut/margin)
contract vs LOI
burn vs expenses
users vs customers
(customers pay)
signups vs users vs active users
(you should give active with time interval and measurement of active.
eg. logge... | billings vs revenue
markup vs margin
payout vs dividend |
Ok, there's a lot to cover here.
First off, the Apache Software Foundation isn't trying to absorb anyone or anything. Projects and people come to the ASF. It's a specific policy of the Foundation to NOT solicit projects. If someone says they're representing Apache and soliciting projects, they're wrong.
Secondly, Apach... | what about Subversion goes "straight to the core" of the ASF that is not also true about git? |
Shit. Looks like I got caught up in the adobe breach. Let this be a lesson to all engineers in charge of such situations to implement strong security. You are partially responsible for these disasters.
I got a call from PayPal a week or two ago. It turns out somebody in Indonesia accessed my Paypal account, presumably ... | After the Macrumors breach (I had only signed up about 2 weeks before it happened), I decided it was time to make all my passwords unique and to use a credentials manager like 1Password. I too shared the same password for multiple sites/services (shame on me too). |
I think it's time that we consider that the problem might not be that we're hiring people based on the wrong things, but that the simple indicators of future success just might not exist.
How long does this have to be an unsolved problem before people start to think, hey, maybe future success just isn't predictable, an... | This. I doubt anybody could have predicted my success. All indicators were that I would amount to nothing. Every adult seemed to think so. If they were to have looked closely, seen the potential and invested in me I think they would have been richly rewarded. I've generated wealth for people who didn't invest in me (to... |
I wish I could choose a language to preview the schemes with. My biggest gripe with many of these themes is that is looks great in some languages and terrible for everything else. | Completely agree and it's pretty high on the TODO list. |
There are two ways CA could be doing less for its citizens. They could be raising less money, or spending it more wastefully. The writer seems to assume all the problems he observes are due to the former and none to the latter. The first step in verifying his claims would be to check whether the state's revenues are... | Not just less or more inflation-adjusted revenues and their spending as absolute sums - the per-capita values impacted by the population growth would be even more informative. |
"And most importantly, drive."
This advice is disastrously wrong. That's not how YC interviews work. They're interviews, not presentations. We want random access to your thoughts, not to listen to a single path through them, prepared in advance.
When people walk into the room with a predetermined pitch that they're ... | Wholeheartedly agree. You simply can't drive all the conversations that happen about your company and product. If your success is determined by your necessity to drive the conversations, you're going to lose badly. The interview with PG notwithstanding, you have a company to run and marketing and sales to tackle -- the... |
Make it feature complete and you'll get the same speed the browser has.
If we're going to build a new rendering engine for the web, maybe we could try to create something nicer than HTML and CSS, whose only advantage at the present is the number of developers familiar with it. I know I wouldn't miss them. | What is there that's so much better? |
The basic income concept is intriguing to me (because it simplifies things) but I do not think it will work for this reason: Who administers the basic income? The government and by extension politicians. Once they have every single person who breathes on the dole, this will give them unbelievable leverage against the... | >The government and by extension politicians.
You need a government that extends to the people who are being governed. |
Are people using Atom as their main editor now? i.e. have successfully made the switch from sublime? Just wondering how it holds up under daily use. | Atom is now my primary text editor for miscellaneous tasks, quick fixes and languages that are not supported by Jetbrains IDE plugin ecosystem. It can't match the refactoring and autocompletion capabilities but it is a very useful addition to a toolbox.
Its strongest selling point is extensibility. I've never thought o... |
Are people using Atom as their main editor now? i.e. have successfully made the switch from sublime? Just wondering how it holds up under daily use. | I still prefer a full IDE like IntelliJ for my day to day work. If I do use a pure editor it is going to be Sublime (and sometimes vim). |
"What we did is cook the rice as you normally do, but when the water is boiling, before adding the raw rice, we added coconut oil—about 3 percent of the weight of the rice you're going to cook,"
I've never met anyone who cooks rice by boiling the water first. Maybe it's an Indian thing, but all the people who've ever s... | the Pakistani basmati I have instructs to boil the water and then drop the washed rice in. I think it makes it fluffier. really good basmati is light like a feather. |
> the code is usually not particularly shit
I'm sorry, but yes, it usually is. I've been in this business for over 25 years, and I'm one of the few people that actually enjoys the challenge of dealing with legacy code.
But most of the code I've seen is shit. The answer to the question "could it have been done better" i... | Sure, there is some really bad code out there. But even pretty good code looks really bad to a lot of developers, because of the "This is shit" mentality the article describes. |
"The average American cashier makes $20,230 a year, a salary that in a single-earner household would leave a family of four living under the poverty line."
20k is on the low side, but one should still consider their own income before having children, especially two. | 20,230 is what is reported by the US Government: http://www.bls.gov/oes/current/oes412011.htm
So the number stated is the mean, not the mode or median. |
Quite impressive indeed. I was particularly interested in the insane iPad numbers, which surprised me.
I thought I would use this opportunity to ask the HN community: what do you think people use their iPads for? Honest question - I have had one for a long time now and barely use it as it sits in this awkward middle be... | Tablets are the future.
What do I use it for? Basically all the stuff I was previously doing on my PC and Phone, because it does it better.
I have a Asus Tranformer Prime (Android). Browsing the web? Check. Playing games? Check. Reading RSS? Check. Browsing YouTube? Check. Listening to podcasts/online radio? Check. Re... |
This would look great if it wasn't made by SONY. They have a history of building devices that seem great, but on closer inspection it usually turns out that the user interface is horrible, overall usability is poor, and to use the device you have to install a proprietary piece of Windows-only SONY software that might b... | Or they install a Rootkit in your computer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki... |
A few seconds warning seems like it might be kind of useless for humans, especially at 3am, but it would be cool to have this feed into automatic systems to automatically put them in a "safer" state before an earthquake hits. It might even be that 10 false positives a day are worth it to catch one real event, if the "... | Don't underestimate the value of people simply knowing what's happening. There's a big difference (translating to greater safety) between reactions of "WTF?" vs "here it comes!" |
Ok folks, let me know when you throw out your computers. I mean, seriously. I don't want to hear the 100th story about how ipad changed your life unless you literally get rid of your computer. If the number of people who replaced a computer with a tablet exceeds the number of people who still have one, we can talk abou... | What people are replacing is their upgrade cycle: they buy an iPad instead of a new PC, and just hang on to the older PC for a while longer. Many of my non-techy friends are doing this. |
All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me. I absolutely love it. It's become my social media platform of choice, in fact. Maybe it's just that I have enough interesting people to read that it's worth it to me. I'm not sure.
I've never been a fan of Facebook. I've had an account for years, but that's pretty much entirely ... | > All the Google+ hate sort of puzzles me
Because Google became evil. Remember when Microsoft pre-installed IE in windows? It's the same thing when Google placed G+ in gmail. |
This is a beautiful machine. Once again, Apple excels at hardware.
But what the living hell is going wrong with Apple's desktop software? OS X and Apple's applications suite have been getting steadily worse with every release. Look at the App store: the latest releases of OS X, iPhoto, iMovie, Pages, and Numbers are (i... | My guess is that somewhere deep in the basement they have an OS that unites iOS and OS X into a single system that will run on future devices. That OS will run both OS X apps in legacy mode and iOS apps. Apple is funding teams for the iOS versions of the apps because that is where they see the future. |
If I can't judge you by your code, how should I judge you? Now, that's not to say that I shouldn't take other things into consideration, like your experience at the time. Obviously I'd never expect a junior dev's code to look like someone with 10 years experience. And yes, if you're working at a place with terrible... | If the only code somebody shows is code they make excuses for, that's a red flag, but shit does happen in life and if you're not the type of boss who can deal with that, then you're not the type of boss I want to be working for. |
A bunch of the folks in this article are Y Combinator or Google alumni, and we're giving a talk on Saving HealthCare.gov next Thursday in SF for anyone who's interested:
http://www.eventbrite.com/e/saving-healthcaregov-tickets-118...
Let us know if you have questions! Or if you want to help.
UPDATE: we seem to be sold ... | So cool! Just got my ticket. |
The reason why Tesla is able to pay the Dept of Energy loan early is because of a secondary stock and bonds offering worth about >850+ million. In another words, Tesla is raising funds by generating more debt (from bondholders) and diluting share value (from shareholders), roughly about 3.5 mil out of 40 mil float, and... | I'm looking at the 'Not Cool Dude' button. |
I don't know about anyone else, but I feel extremely awkward going to nice restaurants alone even if I bring something to do. I don't experience this feeling anywhere else...just restaurants. I think I'd be more likely to travel alone than to go out to a nice restaurant down the street alone. | Ever since I moved to another city, I eat alone all the time (breakfast, lunch, dinner). I have very, very few friends, and the few I do have live a bit of a ways or we just aren't that good of friends (so I guess they're technically acquaintances). Part of my family lives here, and they just think I'm extremely strang... |
Indeed. I've been using Ctrl-\ as my Ctrl-a in screen (and occasionally tmux). Turns out that I never use that keystroke in real life. | I use ctrl-_. In many terminals you can generate it with ctrl + 7 and/or ctrl + ?. |
> Autonomous cars are the next big tech that changes the world - I put them up there with computer, Internet, and smart phone.
I wouldn't be so sure. Yeah, it might prove to be a very good thing for the United States, but for the rest of world there's first Europe's public transport networks (I'm 31, don't have a drive... | I'll tell google to stop work because it doesn't help with your daily commute :-) |
I have a strong desire to leave windows. Windows 8 seems to enrage me more every day. Unfortunately, the majority of my experience is with C# :( | Check out Mono, it's a cross-platform .NET runtime. You'll have to give up your Windows-specific knowledge, but C# the language works fine. |
This is pretty fucked up. The author conveniently ignores the fact that sniper mass killings have already happened (e.g. the Washington sniper). The reason we do not get more sniper mass killings is that it takes a lot of skill to hit a target at a very long range with a sniper rifle.
This rifle of course removes the s... | I have to apologize because I knee-jerk downvoted you because frankly, your position disagrees with my own. Had I waited half a second longer, I wouldn't have, because I don't believe that disagreement is a valid reason for downvoting, but my instinct took over apparently and got away from me. I'd reverse it if I cou... |
Anyone remember Microsoft's last huge push into the hardware market, the Xbox? How would this headline have looked in 2001? If we remember, Microsoft took seven straight year-over-year billion dollar losses until the Microsoft gaming division finally posted a profit in 2008.
I don't mean to directly compare Windows RT ... | Is the Nexus 7 posting huge losses? I'm pretty sure it's profitable. Microsoft is doing something wrong. Years of unprofitability is not a prerequisite for profitability. |
I never knew this was a problem in EE, but I know for a fact it's a huge issue in CS.
They don't want to teach any "tools" b/c CS professors find teaching people how to be good developers as beneath them. They honest to god think CS is an actually hard science on par with math and physics. You can sum up their attitude... | Print statements for debugging is not necessarily a bad thing: http://www.scott-a-s.com/traces-vs-snapshots/ |
Very pretty. But, despite what the web site shows, Silicon Valley is currently at 63F/clear/calm. The site shows wind speeds of 36km/h. Not sure where they get their wind data, but it's clearly low resolution. | It's referring to a higher altitude than the surface. |
ARM x64, wow. Is this really necessary? Or just a prelude to some new applications?
When i think of ARM i think of Mobile Phones, total ram isn't an issue(yet?) Are there other advantages? | http://xkcd.com/619/ |
As late as 12 November, the ESA's own FAQ [1] was stating that Philae's minimum mission target was one week of surface operation (powered entirely by primary batteries), with even more operational time powered by back-up batteries (themselves recharged by solar) - resulting in an expected surface operation period measu... | Their mistake was to state a _minimum_ target mission like that in the first place, when you know that this is an incredibly complicated mission. |
I wonder if they'll ever understand the people they're trying to protect are actually the victims in their actions.
They hack Sony. Sony loses millions. How do you think they're going to recapture their loses? By passing the loss onto consumers. Increased prices for TV's, games, anything Sony makes is going to increase... | I fail to see how forcing Sony to raise their prices or take less in profits doesn't achieve their goals? It isn't like you're forced to buy only Sony's already over-priced and poorly-built shit. |
While obviously stories like this work out for some people--I think the general advice of dropping out of college to start a startup is a very bad idea. First, maybe 5% of people are driven/motivated enough to actually have a chance of making that decision work out. Second, odds are your startup will fail and you may n... | Went to UCLA - when I took out a loan for a year the estimated cost was ~$27k a year (In-state). Friends of mine who were international students were already paying $50k+ at UCLA.
Could easily imagine $50k/year for private schools. |
As a co-founder of Picnik, I was surprised by this article. It contained several errors which is pretty astonishing given its brevity. Here are a few corrections:
1) Sposato was not a founder of Picnik. He was hired by the two founders, myself and Darrin Massena.
2) Sposato did not decide to sell Picnik. Naturally he w... | Maybe you didn't know they would integrate it into Google+, but why would you assume they would keep picnik.com? Even then when it got bought I immediately assumed it would at best be integrated into the Picasa web app and perhaps program, too. But keeping picnik.com wouldn't have made any sense for Google's vision, ev... |
dear HN - my team at microsoft did the Python Tools for Visual Studio project (http://pytools.codeplex.com).
i would love to know if there is any interest in us providing an "R Tools for Visual Studio" product. think Project, Edit, intellisense, Debug, Deploy, linux debug, etc. support for R in VS.
if we did this, it ... | Absolutely. I work with C# all the time and I am now working on integrating R statistics and data mining into a SSAS cube product we are doing. Having more seamless integration between .NET, Visual Studio, and R would be amazing. |
A bigger question on my mind has been why would a shop as smart as Google not have started out with a sane language like python in the first place instead of foisting this java idiocy on another generation of devs. | How the hell does drivel like this get upvoted? |
I've been thinking about this lately, too. A long time ago, I spent almost no time on the internet, because there wasn't really much of an internet to speak of. Instead, I wrote code. Lots, and lots, and lots of code. Some of it in assembly; some of it, even, in hex, with tons of printed pages of processor instructions... | I think you just spoke for 75% of the people on this site, myself included. |
I completely disagree with Aaron, but I respect his opinion. Reading the news is incredibly important, and it shapes your understanding of culture and circumstances outside your social bubble, which in turn affects your future social interactions. | Maybe opinion pieces do. The news, I'm not so sure. |
Personally, I like http://osrc.dfm.io simply because it provides way more detail and insight into the user. Just my opinion though, this is still pretty cool. | Both awesome links. Thanks! |
It's disappointing to me that this needs to be said. I read the first Song of Ice and Fire book in the middle of 2013, and I finished the fifth book this past March. That's several thousand pages of fiction in less than a year. Clearly, I like the books.
But I can wait for the sixth book. I did fine in 2012 without ASO... | Joe Abercrombie's books (the First Law trilogy and three semi-sequels) hit some of the same notes. If anything, even grimmer in outlook, and with a substantial dose of dark "British humour". Richard Morgan's The Steel Remains is alright, dude tries a little too hard though.
In general - you didn't do too bad just by as... |
Why do people still insist on doing this? I prefer to remap all fonts to two (a serif and a sans) that are much easier for me to read. When people use these silly font+glyph combos I never use their software. The one rare exception is GitHub. I still wish people would just use SVG.
Edit: Why was this down-voted? Is... | Art. |
Hiya guys. Feel free to ask any questions if you've got them. I'm generally happy to answer, to the best of my capabilities. | Can you delve more into how you develop and close your first few enterprise sales? Especially in a market that you haven't been in for a long time already. Apologies if this has been answered elsewhere. |
Hiya guys. Feel free to ask any questions if you've got them. I'm generally happy to answer, to the best of my capabilities. | Any plans for another podcast? |
"But there’s something off. He’s not productive. He’s not a culture fit."
I've interviewed at a company before for about a week. 4 interviews later they tell me they won't go through with me for undisclosed reasons. This was before I had seen the company or anyone besides the immediate people interviewing. I then asked... | I get the sentiment, but don't you think punching someone in the face is a bit too much? |
There's also a danger associated to this phenomenon. If the source of your mental model is later debunked, you may not realize that you need to revise your model precisely because you don't remember what your source was. You may even read about the debunking of the source but fail to draw the connection and realize the... | I'm curious, do you think it would be beneficial to make a list of where you got your ideas from? Like a sort of list of citations for your model of the world. |
Sorry Google. You've lost my enthusiasm.
Why would I invest the time into learning how this works, trying to become part of the community etc when I can be pretty sure that they're just going to shut it down in a few years time? | Agreed. I'm still hurt with the killing of Google Reader and the Wave(Pfft). |
So true. I get calls from startup recruiters all the time. They don't seem to realize there's this thing called rent. They want to pay with equity. Might as well pay me with lottery tickets.
Here's the minimum I need to even bother talking to a recruiter. That means that for me to accept the offer, it probably needs mo... | I have great difficulty with the idea of hiring someone who says they will under no conditions work more than 40 hours a week. That won't work in a situation where we are all working together as a team to achieve something worthy of achieving. I don't hire people by the hour; I hire them to accomplish things.
TL;DR If ... |
So here's how this works. Gold bugs are big fans of buying gold. They have lots of gold. Their narrative of the financial system is that gold is the uber-asset that all other assets must be denominated in, and that fiat currency is doomed to collapse. The massive run-up of gold prices during the financial crisis pl... | The only conspiracy is the Gold Bug conspiracy.
The US did not have a Gold-backed dollar in practice. From 1933 onward, Executive Order 6102 was in effect, making it illegal for any individual to own more than 5 ounces of gold.
The majority of people living today have never lived in a time period where you could practi... |
The question is why? Why should the U.S. spend billions on a great passenger rail system? High speed rail is almost always a serious money loser. What are the benefits?
Japan and Europe's high speed rail is nice, but it hasn't necessarily resulted in a greater share of passengers taking rail. "Since Japan introduced hi... | What is valuable and what we need more of isn't regional trains is light commuter rail. This is the rapid transit system the SF Bay Area could have had today had people had more foresight to approve it back in the 1950s.
http://www.jakecoolidgecartography.com/regional-rapid-transi...
https://www.flickr.com/photos/walki... |
Playing Devil's advocate here for a second:
If Netflix is 35% of global internet traffic at peak capacity (as per the Akamai CEO's comments at a number of events), is it really fair to treat them like every other company? That is to say, if Netflix is really the sole driver of Network upgrades, why does Verizon have to... | My ISP has provided 100 Mbps for years, and has recently brought 1 Gbps fiber. They've never complained about video services or torrents eating away their bandwidth. Guess why? Because when you're able to provide 100-1000 Mbps to each and every customer, the ~5 Mbps required for Netflix streaming is nothing. |
I have no complaints about the modern standard of education
Here's the thing, which I've written about before (http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2014/04/27/paying-for-the-part... and http://jseliger.wordpress.com/2008/12/16/beer-and-circus-how...): universities are actually bundles of very different things, especially in t... | In some circles, the notion that students who are not already financially independant should consider earning potential when choosing what their college experience will be is considered offensive, or even politically incorrect. Some people honestly seem to believe that any college education should be highly valued, an... |
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