jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
At the very least, I'd change the <title> of the home page to remove some ambiguity. Right now it says "Get Composer | Composer.js", and the URL for the PHP composer is getcomposer.org.
Dropbox, because it solves a real problem my family has.
The point is that semantically they are a unique concept, not that they would be hard to implement.

I'm not going to argue it with you. I know about input range, I'm suggesting something else, and yes, there are many ways to accomplish this.
They said they began development before an iOS version of Osmos was announced, but if they were aware of the original game (and it sounds like they may been), a reasonable person would probably have concluded it wiser to choose a new name. Even if they weren't aware, I can't imagine settling on a product name without searching for it. Furthermore, instead of costs to rebrand their work (which would have been questionable enough), they asked for full development costs plus anticipated sales, which would suggest they had no intention of releasing anything.
No. No. No no no no no no.

There are frequently cases to combine sliders like this. But there are just as many examples where it's worthless to combine them in a linear fashion. If this were a standard, it'd mean non-linear combinations would be a break of that standard, frowned upon but ultimately required. Or browsers would have to implement combination-formula-X. Or you'd have to define a combination formula, if there even is a simple one (step functions?).

Similarly, it can be replicated easily by JS. Want an actual list of related fields in a form? That's what <fieldset> is for. In addition, tag bloat is a decidedly bad thing.
Quora or Groupon.

Quora because it provides an extremely high-quality Q&A community.

Groupon simply because of the crazy growth and insane amount of revenue/profit they generated.
try http://musicanchor.com (YouTube interface)

http://www.shuffler.fm (Music blog interface)

http://www.playlistnow.fm (jukebox)

http://www.muziic.com/ (YouTube interface)
I have an idea of filtration posts by tags, it can remove the problem of information overload. I will prepare an article with description of my idea and submit it to HN.
I found the adulatory tone of the article more than a little annoying, as well.
I can't wait to see the DHH post on the 37signals blog about this one.

http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1941-press-release-37signals-...
Rushmore

It Might Get Loud - documentary about Jimmy Page, Jack White and the Edge
I'd rather hear from Uncle Sam's grand children than his nephew.

Dear Sammy
Children have to trust that their elders carry the wisdom of thier age and thoughtfully apply it when faced with trying circumstances. We trust that you will do the right thing and protect and safeguard our future. For each generation to leave a legacy that enables the next generation to continue to have a chance prosper and pursue its dreams. During the financial turmoil culminating in the financial crisis of 2008 you broke that trust. You sold out future generations to save a priviliedged few. You lied to the people to hide your failures and to protect your own fortunes. In order to avoid facing difficult problems and dealing up front with the people of that time, you chose to steal from future generations so you could continue with the graft, greed and lies upon which you and the favored select few built your empires. All the while just shifting the burden of your selfishness to us, your children. Well thank you for bankrupting our future! Now we are now saddled with debt that can not possibly be repaid. We have have limited hope of growing and developing ourselves and providing for our families. There is little opportunity for building our own dreams because we are overwhelmed with tax burdens, failed governement services, scarce and expensive resources, as well as world turmoil and general social unrest. Our currency, tattered and beaten, has been left a former shell of what it once was worth. People have largely given up because there's little incentive to build something of your own when most of the fruits of one's labor must go back to you Sammy to pay for past excesses or to help the masses of less fortunate that now exist b/c jobs and oppotunites are few and far between. So I hope you, your nephew Warren and the other priviledged few got to party it up while it was good because if there is a god you'll all rot in hell for your shamelessness.

Signed your destitute and dejected grand child
All of these things should contribute to a debate that should not be artifically limited by the values of any participant or for simplicity's sake. Privacy and health are more aspects of a complicated situation that should not just be imposed on the population like this one is. I mean, I hope its not controversial to assert that the scanners are being imposed.

And for the record, it hasn't been proven to help national security. It also doesn't make ice cream, but what if it did? Is the best idea we can come up with the one that coincidentally is being cheerled by Michael Chertoff?

Among many other misgivings, this is not the right place for the revolving door of politics, opportunism and business. US tax dollars are paying for all of this, after all.
The Internet is real life.
He's known by many in the AI/ML community as someone who likes to slay down claims of novelty and likes to dig up connections to decades old ideas (which heavily include his own works). He's controversial, meaning that many people like him and many dislike him, few are neutral.

Perhaps look up the case with Ian Goodfellow's work on GANs. Schmidhuber said the GAN paper doesn't give sufficient credit to his earlier work on predictability minimization and was very vocal about this also in conferences (interjecting etc.).
> More people lately seem to downvote out of disagreement rather than to keep a thread in check.

Downvoting out of disagreement has always been endorsed on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=117171

You may disagree that it is a good choice, but it is not new phenomenon.
Still raising the issue is important. I don't know, but that I know I don't know makes me a better, more informed voter than before when I didn't even know that it costs more to build here than other countries.
Most people being cheated don’t know it. Taking a little extra detour “because on construction,” or taking a drunk person home the long route — people being cheated generally don’t know it.
The black cabs in London were excellent but ridiculously expensive, which is why I’ve only caught one, like, once. Most people have to rely on minicabs, which were sketchy and unreliable. Uber was a huge boon to London.
As pointed out in the article, not using the SDK does not preclude authenticating with a Facebook account. It just requires a bit more work on your end to protect your non-Facebook users.

So it does come down to what you care about.
I started smoking... Trying to stop now.
Operating Systems still don't seem to be taking security seriously enough.

OpenBSD (and even FreeBSD), on the other hand...
Interested in getting your two cents
it would be cool if there was a way to show which commands npm was running in its scripts.
What would the performance characteristics of that be? What configures the network volume? Isn't configuring and maintaining a network volume comparable to configuring and maintaining a database?

Mesos is missing something to deal with persistent storage. From what I've heard all teams that employ Mesos don't actually run their persistant storage clusters in Mesos. Perhaps handy for them, but for me that takes most of the use out of Mesos.
It's not just Npm, RubyGems has essentially the same issue. I think the real lesson is "be careful what you install".
Somehow I feel like using something that just simulates rm -rf /* would have brought the point across just as well and a bit safer...
I like Scala (and I'm starting to use it in my day job!) but I don't really think IDEA tooling is "roughly Java-level" quality. In fact, all the Scala IDEs I've tried are astonishingly bad, IntelliJ included.

The consensus among the more knowledgeable Scala programmers at my office is that IntelliJ is too quirky as an IDE (probably due to its built-in Scala compiler which gives way too many faux compile errors. This is maddening in a statically checked language!), and Eclipse-based Scala IDE is only slightly better. They recommend entirely disabling incremental compilation in the IDE, and instead using SBT for this. Coincidentally, this is what someone here on HN told me is the "unofficial recommendation" from the Typesafe guys -- I wouldn't know. As another example of broken tools, with Scala IDE refactoring is so fundamentally broken I cannot use it; it often results in wrong code (with Kepler-based Scala IDE, I've tried refactoring the name of a method and it resulted in syntax errors in other files!). Debugging is also hit-and-miss, at least with Scala IDE.

This is miles away from most Java IDEs, which are perfect in this regard. Not having compile errors correctly reported as you type is truly disappointing. Not being able to reliable refactor or debug code is very frustrating.

(I realize this is a tooling problem, and I love Scala. I'm just puzzled that almost nobody seems to consider these issues as disappointing as I do).
Kids these days... I remember when DirectConnect was a crappy VB program that crashed continuously, and DC++ was just getting started as a replacement (they didn't even have a server at the time, only a client).
"and before long you have a system that demonstrates rare flashes of brilliance but in practice is so unpredictable and opaque you can't use it"

_That_ actually seems to resemble human psychology to some degree ...
Slightly less depessing then :)

Although, how many people know what "you can buy a LAMP stack" means AND would chose to pay $50 if they have ssh access to the server?
Congrats to Jazzy - looks like a great talent addition!
I suppose "partner" is a tempting word to use in this situation, but there may be legal connotations to designating higher-ups as "partners"--in particular, the connotation of being something like an LLP or law firm.
Note: Used RapidSSL, paid $10.95. Best lunch's worth of money ever spent. Beats GoDaddy, as no cert chains are not required.
Definitely will play that one. It seems it is hard to capture on video what made the game so great, though.

Also, am I the only one who finds sequels depressing? There rarely is a point in beating the enemy in a game anymore, because they will ALWAYS be back.
> [citation needed]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOgOP_aqqtg

> got anything non-anecdotal that speaks to this, or at least a (neutral) third-party authority on UX?

http://blog.nielsen.com/nielsenwire/online_mobile/iphone-vs-...

http://www.google.com/search?q=iphone+android+customer+satis...

U.S. iPhone users have the highest customer satisfaction, despite having greater dissatisfaction with their carrier, AT&T, which is responsible for a pretty big portion of a phone user's experience.
Agreed, just saying it's especially trivial for phone numbers.
> You can't buy your way to a 2400

Well, no, since that would be 150% of the maximum score.

You can buy your way to the maximum score, and people have been doing it, but test prep won't get you there. (As you note, prep is worth nearly nothing in terms of score gains.) You need advance access to the answers, or a substitute to take the test for you, or something along those lines.
Someone who entered college at the start of the dot-com bubble is in their mid 40s, and that's not even when CS degrees were first offered, just when they started entering the public consciousness.

You could easily have a CS degree and be past normal retirement age.
It's been more than a decade since I've even bothered to peek at the Java desktop GUI ecosystem. Did JavaFX ever get good?

Eclipse SWT was the way to go back then for its native widget binding. But like I said, I stopped paying attention around 2007.
> all the blazing speed of Smalltalk

If you're alluding to cost of message send, then it's pretty low, and can easily be made faster in case it becomes noticeable:

http://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/performance-comparisons-of-com...
this is better than anything i had imagined so far. blew my mind, awesome. looking forward to using the API.
Since it's a U.S. company and apparently not a non-profit, wouldn't paying $0/hour be in violation of federal minimum wage laws?

A junior developer who does what he's told by the employer (i.e., doesn't have control over "what will be done and how it will be done"[1]) wouldn't meet the criteria for an independent contractor, so they'd be legally classified as an employee.

[1] http://www.irs.gov/Businesses/Small-Businesses-&-Self-Employ...
Awesome. Deploying Firefox is still not simple for network administrators due to their lack of official MSIs. If I still ran a network, Chrome would be the default browser just due to the sheer convenience (and that's probably what Google are hoping for).
So what are the other alternatives for scripting in the browser? Other than VBScript on IE? Hah. (Languages that compile to javascript don't count. At the end of the day, it's still javascript in the browser.)
When I was diagramming sentences,
they never let me modify "the
entire sentence"! Maybe the
reason was that Latin never did that!
Reminds me of this really fantastic video of finding the gaits of different sized/legged 'animals' at different speeds:
http://vimeo.com/79098420
I agree that the site looks extremely shady. But that doesn't mean unsuspecting people deserve to get harassed by that asshole. I think we take for granted how well versed we are on the internet and how relatively new the concept is of buying things online. Many, many internet users still aren't accustomed to the tricks of trolls and often click on the first thing they see on Google b/c they assume they're getting things from a place that everyone else talks about (presumably because it's at the top of a Google search).
I've seen novices do amazing design work. (Usually they go on to a portfolio school after working for a few year or building a studio, though.)

Practice and good taste is pretty much the only things in design. Low-end design is pretty much just keeping up with the lowest common denominator in design style, anybody moderately trained--or self trained--can do it.
GitModel itself has a global lock (for now), here: https://github.com/pauldowman/gitmodel/blob/master/lib/gitmo...

I think it's easily fixed with a merge, as I described here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1929691
I've always envisioned a near-apocalyptic, autonomous flying drone, resembling a large flying mosquito, about the size of a large pit-bull, that randomly targets parked cars, and siphons several gallons of gas from their tanks, in order for it to 'survive'.
Any list that puts China and North Korea in the same category is a bit ridiculous. Which one would you rather live in?
That link didn't work for me, this did though
[linked removed] thanks pietrofmaggi
"to help change the perception in India"

I don't think the perception of India as a land of (by and large) cheap semi competent (at best) devs with broken English will go away as long as outsourcing is a reality (and its champions, like Infosys, TCS, Cognizant etc are the folks with the most PR).

But that is all right really, at least as far as I am concerned. All the really sharp devs I know here in Bangalore have plenty of interesting and satisfying work to choose from and could move to the USA (or wherever) whenever they want. They just choose not to, which is a hard concept for people who'd kill to get on the H1B/Green Card/USA citizenship treadmill to wrap their heads around.

It is only the folks with somewhat "generic" skillsets that the bodyshoppers want, and with no unique knowledge or skill, who are really "stuck" in the outsourcing jobs and (in some cases) desperate to move on to some unarticulated "better job". And in most such cases the "better job" is management. Why waste time hacking on some nightmare enterprise legacy codebase no one in the West wants to work on anymore when you can politick and attend meetings and send meaningless emails for thrice the money? If I were working in some soulless "offshore development centre" I'd be a manager too. It is the lesser evil.

Even outside the bodyshopping fraternity there are a lot of people here who talk a lot about the latest kool aid fads - agile, lean startups, functional programming,what have you, but very few people who can actually get stuff done or code up something interesting or value providing. The folks who can are swimming in opportunity.

As Alex Feinberg (strlen here on HN) commented here the other day "Specialized knowledge is how you make your way out of the enterprise/web ghetto and onto much more fascinating problems". The "enterprise/web ghetto" is where all the outsourcing critters swim and there are plenty of warm bodies competing for those jobs. No Indian dev with any kind of specialized knowledge lacks for opportunity.

My personal belief is that if you have access to the internet and can afford a cheap laptop to install Linux on, your only limits on achievement (in software) are those you impose on yourself. And many Indian devs do impose many social limitations on themselves ("I want a 'good' arranged marriage" heh heh) which are fulfilled in dead end jobs and not in the riskier but more interesting opportunities.

There is nothing really stopping a guy in India from building good software. Sure you have to work harder/smarter if you are not in Silicon Valley/don't have an American passport/whatever but so what? The world was never "fair" in an absolute sense.

(I hope that wasn't too harsh but imho many Indian devs whine too much about lack of opportunity and don't code/learn enough).
This therad disagrees: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=801503
Neither.

Find a way to restructure the sentence to use "you".

It's about your audience, not yourself.
Their support for local music is still a bit second-rate, imo. Not least because of its lack of codec support.
My writing teachers never let us use "I" in high school, because it is considered poor form by most grammar purists.
delicious just never evolved into something really useful. They have so much data but they don't do anything too interesting with it. Where are my personal recommendation for example?
Building a simple photo sharing app as an exercise to learn Django and some jQuery. My background is in math / scientific computation so it's interesting to see things from this perspective. I'm hoping to start freelancing in a few weeks :)
Actually most of the code initializes Fructose, in PHP I can write the same code like (6 lines, 7 including blank line):

class Greeter {
public static function greet($text) {
echo $text;
}
}

Greeter::greet("Hello, World!\n");
It does not follow that a deterministic system is predictable, depending on what you mean by "predictable", in theory or in practice. A Turing machine is deterministic, but predicting whether it will halt or not is not decidable.
Perfect explanation. I'm pretty sure that macro is the way to go. I have a theory that you can take anything and separate it into macro and micro levels (whether it be economics, science, etc.) You can look at systems at different scales and, while there is sometimes an intermediate, it's usually possible to separate the interpretations into two distinct categories.

As mkrecny stated, choosing to observe and predict the micro aspects of our universe is a lost cause. However, finding patterns in higher levels of systems is what makes science works. While micro systems are usually the areas left for theorists, macro systems have real life applications for scientists. We predict things every day and some things are simply easier to predict than others.
1) That's the point. It wants to be similar to gold. We traded based on a third party commodity (gold/silver) until 1974 and did alright.

2) So? I don't see your point. The goal of BTC is not to eliminate fees, but to make digital currency that you can use P2P.

3) I don't think government currencies are going away any time soon, but BTC provide an alternative.
There's basically three categories where this problem shows up: grade inflation, cheating, and discipline. Grade inflation is most relevant to colleges, discipline only matters for levels of schooling with mandatory attendance, and cheating cuts across all levels.

However, the same issue is in common: In theory, there are standards applied to students, and it is an important priority to distinguish between students who meet the standards and students who don't. In practice, the administration does not necessarily care about applying the standards rigorously.

I think the following two articles are a good introduction to grade inflation as a topic:

"Can Untenured Faculty Members Stop Grade Inflation?" - Chronicle of Higher Education, http://chronicle.com/article/Can-Untenured-Faculty-Members/4...

"In the Basement of the Ivory Tower" - The Atlantic Monthly, http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2008/06/in-the-b...

It can also be useful to read up on business schools, because a business major is not an "academic" subject; more than any other major, the students are looking explicitly for a credential that boosts their income, and don't care about the subject material. The book "Ahead of the Curve" (http://www.amazon.com/Ahead-Curve-Harvard-Business-School/dp...) is a well-written appraisal of the Harvard B-School and includes chapters specifically on both grade inflation and cheating.

Going through these publications and/or following the notes and recommended reading therein can lead to more involved reading on the topic. Articles in the Atlantic Monthly are always a good starting point.

The fundamental issue: If an institution of learning punishes students for cheating, or failing classes, or behaving badly, then somebody, somewhere must have both the authority to do so and the goal of exercising said authority. But often, nobody wants to be that person, or the authority is conflicted, or the goal is given less priority than the goal of making money/quota.
Really pleasing sound and interesting idea!
>I meant intrinsic value in that context.

I'm heading out the door, but just wanted to note that nothing has intrinsic value. All value is subjective.
The main reason I have (at least some) confidence in my friends' ratings being more useful than those of the general population is that the system approximates what my friends and I currently tend to do, which is go to restaurants recommended to us by our friends.

We've got tastes and opinions in spades, but when it comes to picking a restaurant, we're really not that different - our different opinions are discussed over a dining experience we all want to try and/or enjoy.

If we didn't have a tendency to like the same dining experiences, we probably wouldn't be eating together in the first place. The 'smart/group average' example also seems to be a good way of avoiding or minimising that kind of clash if you don't already know the person.

Most of my friends don't even like the same food as each other.

I'm intrigued by this. I can't think of any particular foods that my friends would say they don't like or don't eat - except perhaps obviously unhealthy options with no redeeming features (eg most fast food). I suppose some people might have a very specific pet hate for something, but usually that results in that person not ordering that thing rather than the whole group going elsewhere.

Australia has quite a multicultural society with a rich variety of cuisines, so that may be part of the explanation. Upon reflection, I'm not confident that our approach would always be accepted by friends not from here.

Maybe this is all just an example of the hyperlocal being more useful to an individual than the general. If Facebook implemented it well, and didn't co-opt each of my ratings into some kind of advertised endorsement, perhaps it could work there too.