jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Your numbers above list 1.132B English speakers and 1.116B Mandarin speakers.
I was big into Supreme Commander in the first 6 months after its release. They had a phenomenal online database of every ranked replay as well as ranking which would point users to great high-level replays.

Early on, Supreme Commander was great at putting out balance changes and hotfixes. Unfortunately, every single patch would completely empty the online database and would also break any replays you stored on your computer! People managed to hack together a version switcher eventually, but I still ended up losing lots of awesome replays.
Surely he means "Woody" in the first sentence, and not "Andy" - took me a moment to parse his meaning until I decided it was a typo.
Seems reasonable. Policy drives the energy industry.

And, wrt. the oil spill, isn't the popular theory that the disaster was caused by shoddy engineering due to a lack of oversight? A policy panel could be the beginning of a reset button on the supposed regulatory capture of the Minerals Management Service.
Good post.

Today I was fortunate to have my Dad meditating right beside me for awhile. For the first time in 37+ years (i.e. exactly how old I am) I felt his presence and realized that it had always been there. Every second of every day of my life, my Dad has been present. He definitely fits the type A anxiety driven archetype, and he always struggled with working and really being with his family. His presence almost always manifested itself as a highly interested attention, which I let grate on me many atime -- especially during my teenage years. In fact I don't know if I've ever really acknowledged it as a presence rather than something else, usually unwelcome. But now I realize that in many ways its what made me who I am today. Be present indeed.
Just do the math, there are a known amount of devices sold and a known amount of revenue paid. The average is about $16 which means you're a large outlier and you travel in a circle that's also made up of outliers.
I've been looking for one for a while now actually. It'd be great.

http://superpositionkitty.com/category/portfolio/

ryan[at]superpositionkitty.com
Certainly funny, but a bit off-topic here.
The latest count I've seen is 225,000 total apps on the App Store.
So if we divide the 1.43 billion dollars cumulative revenues
earned by those 225,000 apps, we get an average revenue earned
of 6,355 dollars per app (over 2 years).

But you had just said this:

Thus free apps would form 85% of all downloaded apps on the
Apple iPhone App Store, and paid apps only for 15% of all apps.

Shouldn't you divide the revenue only by the number of paid apps? That would surely make the platform much more financially interesting.

And you are assuming too much averages. How many of the apps got this "average revenue", what how many spent the "average" in development?
Link building, spamming, same thing.
I wasn't arguing that CSS does not stand on its own two feet, or that LESS is necessary. Rather, I was just objecting to the view that one should just improve one's text editing skills instead of learning to use some kind of abstraction.
I'm really loving Swift, but Xcode has gotten atrocious. I have a keyboard app with 8 different sub-keyboards, and 80% of the time, when I open my project, Xcode gets stuck in indexing. You can't build, you can't close Xcode, you can't do anything but force-quit and hope it doesn't happen next time. There are also frequent SourceKit crashes, random crashes to the desktop, and incredibly laggy typing and auto-completion. WTF?

"I guess I like the strict handling of nils in principle but in practice I've found this often means the user gets a crashed app instead of a more tolerable bug."

How are you using optionals in such a way that it crashes your app? I've found that using optional chaining and the "if let" block guards your code against accidental nilling even more. My rule of thumb so far is to never ever use the "!" operator except for initialization. I've found that whenever I get a crash — which is rare these days — it's usually because I forced an optional, or possibly used "as" instead of "as?".

"All the strictness of the language is just a facade when you're manually casting every time you deal with a collection, for example."

I dunno, I kind of like the explicitness of (cocoaArray[i] as? ABMyObject). It's no more work than you'd be doing with a generic NSArray anyway, and you get type checking for free. (And, of course, all your Swift native arrays and maps don't have to follow this pattern.)
Please don't be taken in by this masterfully crafted story without thinking it through carefully. The OP on reddit plays on many of our collective sympathies, but he unfortunately omits any semblance of objectivity from his story.

== Things that make us sympathetic to the OP ==

- He's a redditor, just like many of us

- He just wanted the money she promised him, nothing more

- He couldn't attend the game - this presumes he wanted to

- He used Google Voice - cool

- She was mean to him (and most of us are men, aren't we?)

- He has just added a cancer-stricken relative to the story along with a donation button

- She writes poorly, he does not

== Context this story sorely needs but is unlikely to ever get ==

- Face value of the tickets

- What his sunk cost is for the tickets ($0? $50? $600?)

- How he found himself with only 24 hours to unload the
tickets

- Any sort of verification of the cancer-donation story
As far as I know, Facebook Groups still doesn't send media along in its email updates. While most everyone is on Facebook, many family members I know don't check it regularly enough to make it practical. Email is a different matter.

I think Facebook definitely has the stronghold with familiarity, though. I'd expect their groups features to expand dramatically in 2011.
Okay, it's always a question of definition when it comes to "one's". :)

I do get your point however, and since you got more up-votes than me here I wont argue with it. I'm still a newbie at HN. :)
How about no? I want a single bill for data across all of my devices.

I pay a flat rate for my cable internet connection. It doesn't matter how many devices I use on my wifi network. The bill remains the same. I want the same thing for my mobile devices.
Linode hasn't been best lately. They suffered far too many outages and network issues (especially Fremont data center). We have been seriously considering moving to a dedicated setup because of network issues. (Also the fact that they are inflexible -- we want RAM but not hard disk capacity; they can't help us).
The name of my ad (the one they picked for the video) is j2eekonsulent.dk. See if you can spot it :)
People who think standard sized text looks godawful when it's antialiased?
The list of sponsors for the PSP [0] is surprisingly short considering how relatively affordable it is [1]:

Visionary: $150k (this is the level created for Google)

Sustainability: $90k

Maintaining: $60k

Contributing: $30k

Supporting: $15k

Partner: $7.5k

Participating: $3.75k

Associate: $1.5k

[0]: https://www.python.org/psf/sponsorship/sponsors/

[1]: https://www.python.org/sponsors/application/
To enable Sharding: throw your shitbowl against the wall.

NB: Cached items will be need to be reindexed once sharding has been enabled.
The best thing to do is for everyone to ignore this article and don't let it get traction via Streisand. It's clearly not written in good faith. The reporter had to be biased against siskind after the saga and conflict they went through.

The second best thing is, should any reporters be reading this, to take the opportunity to write a better article.
Go Map!! Is the best I’ve found for iOS so far.
> ...F#/C# being JIT'ed...

Nope, NGEN exists since .NET 1.0, .NET Native since Windows 8, Mono aot since ages, and then there are the third party tooling like IL2CPP.
The bowl cache is garbage collected with a stop the world collection step wherein the bowl is upended and the contents returned, the bottom cleaned, and a few select items pre-seeded in the fresh cache.
It's ironic that a paid publication is deriding someone who posted articles for free. It's even more ironic that the paid article is considerably worse than the free stuff.
As I mentioned in another comment, this product absolutely needs some lights or a buzzer to drive "engagement" in case the user doesn't "engage" with the bowl for more than a few hours.
Perry doesn't work for VMware. He has his own business that offers training on VMware products.
I haven't checked in some time, but they used to embed the complete continuation (if you don't know what's a continuation, you can just consider it's the stack) in the URL. It's a very nice and very natural mechanism, which gives them lots of flexibility in terms of semantics and garbage-collection, although I suspect it's very bad in terms of both performance and security.
It seems like 95% of the folks claiming to be "Entrepreneurial" are also sitting in a farm of cubicles somewhere. Just saying, it has a completely different meaning to the person who left everything they have and moved to somewhere like the bay area or NYC with a few thousand bucks to follow his or her dreams.
Americans are some of the most friendly, optimistic and outgoing people in the known universe.

I'm going to get downvoted to hell, but I have to say this: I agree completely.

The reason why Americans believe that they are hating elsewhere is people transferring their strong dislike of American politics ("let's invade/interfere (with) countries and call it freedom") onto the American _people_. It's an emotional and intellectual shortcut.
Careful of the golden handcuffs though.

Like it or not, many of the government contractors are in pretty stable multi-year contracts and are making north of 100-150k. Unless they have their finances in excellent condition, many of them can't afford to join a startup part time.

Though almost everyone is looking for side projects and something interesting to do in their spare time, so recruiting someone for 10-20 hrs/week is relatively easy.
BitCoins dynamically adjusts the computation needed in order to claim coins. It will just make the computation harder. Of course, you would get more than the other users with less CPU power.
I was really impressed about this. I changed most of my other password but forgot about LinkedIn. I think it's really responsible of them to proactively take the initiative on this.
3rd criteria can be considered a vulnerability, it may allow to know that certain user has a known file. It can be exploited to reveal information about the encrypted files.
From 1932 to 1986 the marginal top rate was >= 50%, topping out at 92%

https://cdn.theatlantic.com/thumbor/fNk9ykzBXTBck1HJK0pFxYhX...

As soon as it fell below 50%, median income growth stalled and hasn't really budged ever since:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Causes_of_income_inequality_in...

Compounding is one potential reason why. A 92% top tax rate helps keep a lid on geometric wealth growth via compounding.
I'm not sure what could be done that would be dangerous in the name of "ushering in the singularity."

How about firing up a potentially runaway AI without a stable goal system? Releasing a virus to "improve" people in the releasers' preferred direction? The likelihood of these seems minor (and for the first, might not even been possible), but the consequences are so grave that they bear some thought and worry anyway.
A quick correction: all articles that I've seen mentioning "4chan" actually mean "/b/."

Sure, the board is huge and by far the most famous, but it's not even responsible for the majority of the site traffic. There are dozens of different boards and, with very few exceptions, they are mostly sane.

I bet the people who write those articles don't even know about the literature and science boards that are just like any other forum, but without the user names. But I guess that cooking, animals and fitness don't bring enough pageviews to be mentioned.
Thanks for taking the time to reply. I got acclimated to the gmail app for Android for a while before I ditched Android for iPhone, an the only things that are worse in my opinion on iphone are gmail and google voice, which happen to be two very cool apps, which, if stronger, would make iPhone more desirable.

I think that the lack of push was probably the biggest annoyance for me, so I may try mail.app again with your tip.
My favorite response to that: http://unqualified-reservations.blogspot.com/2009/08/from-cr...
Well, as long as you overlook the minor detail that the evidence for computers is better than the evidence for heaven. ;)
Secrets about secrets?
People sure do love the appearance of consistency. Your criticism is logically invalid: just because I think that Alan Kay is a great individual doesn't mean that he meets my personal "standards for excellence in a mate".

However, your criticism is valid from a practical perspective, so I sincerely thank you.
I will admit my inability to carry through with such a debate on an informed basis. This is my last response on this thread.

There are clearly contrasting points of view about the benefits colonization of Africa. Those POVs which I've found insightful, as opposed to dogmatic or culturally biased, point out the assumption that modernization should be desirable to lesser developed nations is only an assumption, and not always one shared mutually.

cf. http://www.africaeconomicanalysis.org/articles/gen/neocoloni...
Sometimes there is a software issue, firmware update, diagnostic software etc that can help.

Not always, but it happens enough that they'd need to be able to log-in.

Still agree that asking for your pwd is reckless.
One of the best time-management/productivity tips I ever came across was suggested by Jonathan Mead over at the blog Zen Habits.

He suggests creating a "to-stop" list - a list of all the things that are sucking away your energy and are wasting your time. He suggests figuring out which of those things is having the biggest negative impact on you doing the stuff you really want to do and tackling that thing head on each day.
I hate websites that have everything hidden because js is disabled. Or, they have an overlay covering up everything. These are content sites that do NOT even need the js to display the content properly.

If I'm on a mobile device, I'd like to avoid having to run js.
Add John Carmack
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carmack
Single handedly inspired legions of coders to join the fold with his 3d democratization.
Not sure what would have gone in deciding that they don't need anything between 5GB and unlimited.
That's not what he's saying. The world isn't as black-and-white as "it can be hacked, so it's not worth it"... He's talking about raising the barrier to entry for this kind of situation via automation, much like TCAS would have prevented the Uberlingen collision.
Thanks for the pointer, I'm glad to know this exists. Too bad there isn't a lossless Fossil <-> Git/Github converter!
well, it started working :) so 5min id say
Images of the same thing in Sierra Leone, destroying the potential tourism industry http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-20897658
I suspect that as costs of living rise even more in SV, the cost of failure increases and the less people are willing to risk since the cost of failure is high.

Here in Austin, my total monthly bills as a single guy are still less than $1000. I can much more easily afford to take financial risks.
Oh yes, and then there are the griefers, who just want to make you sad, afraid and/or frustrated.

I do think trolls have gotten an undeservedly bad reputation because of being conflated with griefers. To me, trolling is relatively harmless attention-seeking vs. GamerGate, which is definitely griefing.
Any non-trivial bureaucracy will develop these degenerate use cases, with or without automation. It's a matter of will, not available neurons that could solve the problem if properly motivated.

If the story's author files a complaint with the FCC or the municipal cable-governing entity, this problem will be fixed rather quickly.
Intelligence, the engineeringly problem-solving version anyway, looks like focus to me. So the superfocused win. The autistics win.

But those guys like to eat their own poo.
This is striking, considering that Apple is a wealthy company with a small product line. They have the money to put resources behind getting their products fixed. They have total control over the hardware environment, so they don't have to worry about compatibility with external hardware.

Microsoft has put a lot of work into making Windows fixable. The two big developments for Windows 7 were 1) requiring all signed kernel drivers to pass the Static Driver Verifier, and 2) running incoming crash dumps through a classifier system which attempts to identify similar crashes and sends them to the same maintainer. Those two tools put a big dent in crash-for-unknown-reason problems. Is there any indication that Apple has developed similar tooling for their systems?
I like to refer to depression as a cliff that is always one step behind you.
I don't know, I've been a Mac user off and on since Macs were 68k based, had a 2007 MBP that I was really unhappy with (of my still functioning machines from that era, it's easily the worst, by $300 netbook is easily a better machine at 1/10th the cost). The last 3-4 years or so my daily driver at work is a rMBP.

I use Windows 7 at home, but feel about as comfortable in front of either system.

If I compare any of the last 3-4 versions of OS X to Win 7, I'd say they're roughly comparable. There's pluses and minuses on both sides. I just spent a few days writing some Python code on Windows, and the experience was generally about as good as OS X. Win7 is the most rock solid non-x-nix OS I've used, and once you learn your way around it generally flows well.

I don't perceive a huge downgrade in quality on OS X. Things change, bugs get introduced. I don't aesthetically like where Apple is going with their flat design, but the chrome of most apps I use takes up so little real-estate of what I use that I can ignore it. I think you have to do a bit more work to get an OS X machine into a real usable state than Windows. But once it's working it's relatively pain free. I don't think it's as stable as Win 7. But it's like comparing 4-9s uptime to 3-9s uptime. On a day-to-day level I don't really notice it as much.

I'd say uptime on my Win 7 machines is better, but Microsoft forces restarts and updates too frequently to make that kind of claim. It's nice that OS X is a x-nix in the sense that what I do on it is more easily translatable to other x-nix systems so deployment is easier. And that's great until it isn't, because some tool or library or something is different or not available. But then again, development on Windows forces you to assume all sorts of crazy non-standard stuff as a constant.

I don't really know where this perception that it's getting worse is coming from. I recently fired up my 2007-era MBP and it really feels like a worse experience, top-to-bottom. Modern OS X really is nicer.

I suspect that people are finally starting to look at Apple products more critically (at long last). Perhaps it's because the pace of innovation seems to have slowed down, perhaps it's because Jobs is gone, but I'm starting to notice Apple pundits are finally starting to see that things aren't perhaps as good as they dreamed, and looking for ways to push the fruit forward.
I admit to secretly wondering why she was incarcerated. She described herself as 'landing in jail' as if she fell out of the sky and whoops! in jail. No idea that maybe she deserved it, or did something that precipitated it - just 'landed' there.
Fortunately, unless you are an evolution-denialist, you know that human evolution adapted us to a very wide range of dietary factors, so within an extremely broad, shallow optimum pretty much any Omega 6/Omega 3 ratio will do. To argue otherwise would be to say that the human dietary optimum is narrow and deep, which is maximally implausible for an opportunistic hunter-gatherer-scavenger.
Welcome to yuhong, he's famous for this on basically every comments page I've seen him on
I worked fast food a couple of decades ago, and there would always be some new manager trying to give a cop a discount, and the cop having to explain why they couldn't take it. It really depends on the area, I guess.
What's "very suspicious" about the account? Checked, and he's been active for a year and a half, has posted 2 stories, and has participated in the comments a little more.

That the 2 stories are both from Guardian could just mean it's one other outlet he regularly reads besides HN. Heck, I read it too, and I'm not even British. Maybe because it's one of the best news sources? (and far better than most US based news outlets).

(As if the Guardian needs HN hits...)
While some of it is open to non-MIT students, it looks like to continue through to the finals you need at least 50% MIT students on your team.

Should be fun anyway.
Paypal is awesome, don't kill it, fix it.
Big trends are:
mobile computing and development: developing apps for smart phones and other mobile devices is the gold rush right now. Every company seems to be working on offering an app right now.

Maturation of social media: it's time for businesses to actually start getting value from social media. Developing useful services, products or even approaches could be very profitable. at the very least, you should know if, when and how to use social media for your business.

html5/css3/js frameworks: right now there are lots of technologies competing to be the platform for next generation web apps/sites. html5/css3 are around the corner and look very promising, even for very complex apps. We are also seeing how javascript frameworks are becoming absolutely necessary tools for everyday web development. Solutions such as node.js take js to a whole another level. These web standards might soon become powerful enough to compete with Flash for audio/video centric sites.

"New" languages: ruby and python continue to gain market shares while there are new promising languages such as Scala and Clojure.

Cloud computing: hate the term all you want but companies such as Amazon are revolutionizing hosting and computing. Also check of what hosting companies such as Linode or Slicehost are up to.

NoSQL: if you are working with very large data sets the various solutions offered by the NoSQL camp might be interesting. Be, however, cautious because it's all very new and challenging to use in production.

Game mechanics aka gamification: more and more sites are using typical game mechanics to create richer user experiences. Facebook, Zynga and Foursquare are the most successful companies doing this.

SEO: the biggest news on the SEO front is ... that it isn't news anymore. Everyone is doing it and so should you - from the very first day. Facebook and Twitter has had a huge impact on SEO and web marketing but the basics are the same: create great content/services and build relationships.

Web design: graphical trends come and go but the things that are here to stay are:
a/b testing;
using web standards (again html5/css3/js) instead of flash, images and other, less flexible/semantic technologies;
better layout support for mobile devices;
css frameworks such as Sass;
CMS frameworks such as Drupal or Wordpress are commonplace, even for very demanding sites.