jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
True. Does have to be different. As it is very basic and simple (thats the point), its free to use - no monthly. Just a very small percentage collected per invoice.
This is a separate idea, but...

The "Chromium-like user interface where tabs can be torn off and moved between windows" would be awesome if it were implemented directly in Mac OSX. Then applications could drop all of that code and just let the OS deal with it. Also, you'd be able to group distinct applications. I'd love to have a [Browser, Text Editor, Terminal] tab group.

EDIT: Another thought... Chrome tabs don't look like any other tabs in Mac OSX. Applications lose uniformity as they're forced to define more about themselves.
You can see a timelapse of him working from a couple of months ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1629810

The amount of work this guy can get done by just sitting down and working non-stop is incredible.
focus

chances are you go to school for 4-6 hours a day at most. Then you have homework etc for another 3-4 hours(hardly). That still leaves you with 7-8 hours a day to work on your startup.

And once you finish coding, there is really no requirement to work 24/7...sure it helps...but chances are early on you'll do X, then wait a week to see the impact...because you just don't have enough traffic to split test with
The idea that loading a program into RAM for the purpose of executing it counts as a "copy" is as silly as the idea that you copy a book by reading it since its information is transmitted to your optic nerve and memory.
> Why do you hate that? You wouldn't be using your phone during the night anyway?

I can't answer for the original poster, but for me...

At night is when I charge my phone and there isn't always a plug near where I sleep.

Having my phone have to run at night without a charge will mean it's not fully charged at the beginning of the day, which is a very big deal breaker for me. My phone will last the entire day, but only if it's fully charged when I get up in the morning.
I was just pointing out that you don't need to know autorelease is used if you just know to retain anything that isn't a new/init/copy/etc. Also, you don't need to use autorelease, you can just have all your variables return copies.

Obviously it's something any Cocoa developer would want to learn, but it didn't seem necessary in an article trying to prove how basic memory management in ObjC is.
Any users with small children care to share your experiences? Is it even worth the bother, given that huge uncontrollable variable in your sleep habits?
Here's a free Expert with 2 stars, and a paid Expert with 5 stars. Depending on your question, ask whomever you want to.

If they drive acceptance of the platform, they drive their revenue, as well.
> soyez

I take it you have been watching Gravity?
Irony does not go over well here, it seems,
And right after that:

The study exposed 20 ash trees to various radiation sources for a period of three months. Trees placed closest to the Wi-Fi radio demonstrated a "lead-like shine" on their leaves that was caused by the dying of the upper and lower epidermis of the leaves. This would eventually result in the death of parts of the leaves. The study also found that Wi-Fi radiation could inhibit the growth of corn cobs.

Where can we find this study? Was a peer reviewed study? There isn't a single damn reference in this article other than "according to a recent study in the Netherlands". They only make reference to "the researchers".

Why does science reporting suck so much?
I agree with you and would go further: consumer choice and fragmentation go hand-in-hand.

As much as some chafe against the "Jobsian" world of Apple products, Steve makes many choices for you and most of those choices are right for most people most of the time. That's about the best you can do.

I'm reminded of a classic Joel post "Controlling your environment makes you happy" [1] (which, in my opinion, is one of the most important things ever written on UI/UX), particularly the section on "Choices" [2]:

"But wait!" you say. "It's important to have options for advanced users who want to tweak their environments!" In reality, it's not as important as you think ... Every time you provide an option, you're asking the user to make a decision.

Lots of comparisons are made between iOS and Android. It's important to understand that they're fundamentally different. iOS is a brand. Android is a commodity, arguably even a philosophy. Give someone who has used an iDevice any other iDevice and they know what to do. Give someone who has a Samsung Galaxy S an HTC Evo and they'll likely be somewhat lost.

I would go so far as to say as people buying an iPhone are buying an iPhone; people buying an Android phone are buying a phone (or, in some cases, they're not buying an iPhone).

Anyway, the fragmentation problem with Android isn't really about the UI. It's about the hardware. I've heard from multiple sources that OpenGL is just a nightmare on Android because of allt he different GPUs. Some have different strengths and weaknesses to others and different idiosyncrasies.

My personal belief is that Android handset manufacturers are participating in seppuku. Their interests are different to those of Google. Android handset makers (and carriers!) want to differentiate themselves somehow. That's a big part of your fragmentation problem right there. They don't want to be interchangeable (and, in the carrier's case, just dumb pipes).

Google wants to commoditize the mobile platform. And they're succeeding. But with ever-cheapning hardware costs, all the handset makers are doing is racing each other to the bottom.

[1]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000057....

[2]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/uibook/chapters/fog0000000059....
According to this page http://eh.net/encyclopedia/article/whaples.work.hours.us In the 1800 americans worked seventy hours or more per week
Powers of two wouldn't work.

If A = 2^1, B = 2^2

AA, B would evaluate to true.

But you're right, the running times aren't any better, except that the constant factors of dealing purely in arithmetic might make it faster in real terms if dealing with a lot of this type of thing than creating hash maps. If response time matters for the application (high frequency trading, etc), it might make a difference.
from the article:
"Besides the electromagnetic fields created by mobile-phone networks and wireless LANs, ultrafine particles emitted by cars and trucks may also be to blame. These particles are so small they are able to enter the organisms."

I think particle pollution is a much more plausible answer because the radiated power emitted by WiFi and cell phones is so minuscule.
Today science said, "Something that's everywhere is bad."
Note: "Say you have one string of alphabetic characters"

The array of bools, bitmap (remember 32-bit int!), hash map; all are the same basic deal, easy to understand code, etc. Any would probably be fine, imho.

Hash map would be my initial implementation, though, if only because I don't know where it would be used, and the map will be immediately understood.
I really appreciate this article. Unimaginably, most programmers I interview to this day in late 2010, react primarily to number of shares an offer includes option to buy. I've written offers with (made up numbers) option to purchase 10,000 shares at a strike price of $0.10 and had candidates, asking no questions, attempt to negotiate for 20,000 shares which is something that they'd be more comfortable with.

In my admittedly limited experience, just realizing that there are a number of shares out there (fully diluted or not!) and that this grant translates to a percentage of the company and that the strike price implies a valuation is beyond a solid majority of people I've seen receive stock option grants. Articles like this one are certainly needed to improve education on these matters.
Reading through the list, it shows just what a high standard any current theory must be held to, given the amount of past failures in what are fundamental understandings of the world we inhabit.
> "then a combination of extra AC adapter, third party display, keyboard and mouse takes exactly as much work."

And is completely contrary to the Apple way of doing things. Macs "just work" - plug in an external monitor and it automatically selects the right color profile and sets your resolution. It also remembers the difference between your home and office monitors - it's vastly superior to Windows in this way, where one has to constantly remind Windows what the native resolution should be. Not challenging, but annoying as hell.

So is un/plugging in a bunch of wires whenever you leave or return to your desk. A dock is one of those things that is right up Apple's philosophical alley: something that takes away several annoying-yet-not-difficult tasks and instead makes it just disappear.
Waterloo is a hub of software engineering education in one of the most populous areas of Canada. A LOT of Canadian computer geeks went to school there. By extension, lots of them have interned at RIM, as it is so close: http://www.rim.com/company/maps/index.shtml
Second time this semester my textbook's been posted on HN. Go figure. Does this link make it up every couple of months? I thought there was something preventing duplicates.

(I am in the class, that is; I didn't write the textbook).
This makes me think that Diaspora needs to be (or at least be moving towards) a "social protocol" like SMTP. Since something like this doesn't already exist, having a small user base may be helpful in providing feedback to developing one.
I definitely don't understand the demand for soggy fries and burgers at 60% upcharge, but to each their own ;)
> The modern oil industry isn't a valid comparison to a gold rush. It's relatively mature, stable, and operating at a global scale that has been captured by a few dominant players.

The oil industry continues to have its gold rush moments, typically every decade or so. At those times you want to own the commodity, the oil rights, you don't want to be the equipment supplier, if you're choosing positions. Every time the price gets high enough, a fever of gold rush mentality hits the industry just the same.

The equipment makers did not extract the most value out of the Permian during the gold rush there, the natural resource owners did (including the land owners).

> Obviously, if we get to choose with the benefit of hindsight then we will choose the winners.

It has nothing to do with hindsight. It's a repeating, predictable pattern. Intel is not primarily a semiconductor equipment maker like Applied Materials, and they sit higher in the pyramid of value than Applied Materials. Apple is not primarily a low value commodity maker down the pyramid of value, it's not difficult to predict who is going to make the most money off of an Apple product; it was not difficult to predict who was going to make the most money during the smartphone gold rush, Apple or the company making/selling lower value components inside of the phone. It's because of the tier that Apple occupies. It wasn't surprising that Microsoft extracted more value from the software gold rush than the company selling computer chairs or desks.

It doesn't take challenging guess work to figure out whether the aluminum can maker is going to do better than a first tier positioned company like Pepsi or Coca Cola. That's a trivial thing to figure out.

> It's not easy to choose the side of the winners ahead of time, though. That's the point.

It's easy to figure out what value tier a company is in. I never suggested it was automatic to figure out which company would be the biggest winner in a tier.

You already know who all the players are in a gold rush, you know who owns the mines and who makes the equipment. You can very easily narrow all of this down and research a given company. It's not blindly throwing darts.

In a gold rush the big winners among the shovel makers will do worse than the big winners in the resource owning tier (those that own the gold, mines, land or oil).
Union shop is illegal federally. Some people say union shop when they mean agency shop though. The Wikipedia article says agency shop is a form of union security agreement.
Intel is supposed to be releasing their Xe-HPG this year and they've already announced it was going to be manufactured externally. Is this supposed to be specifically about the CPUs?
I'm not sure that's a valid comparison tbh. I assume it'd be rather hard to do Hollywood acting remotely, but remote (even other-country) engineering teams are fairly common.

Broadly I agree / hope so too, but I don't find hollywood to be a convincing example at all.
I would be interested in learning about the demand in Atlanta? Which language? How much is a reasonable expectation?

I did a Ruby on Rails bootcamp in Chicago awhile back. At the end, I decided to take a mid six figure job in another industry and am wanting to go back.

It's been two years and while I have been able to save a couple years reserve now, I am basically starting over. I lean towards Ruby on Rails, because at one time I was offered an entry position as well as I know maybe a dozen developers that went through the same program.

I have money/time and the determination (In a previous job I taught myself chemical engineering, so Ruby on Rails was much easier)

ANY ADVICE WOULD BE APPRECIATED!
Uplink was such fun back in the early 2000s

When I lived in Thames Ditton a few years ago I realised I lived not far from the Introversion offices and by chance met up with them a few times which was pretty cool. Still got my v1.0 CD of Uplink with the bonus mini-CD in storage :)
Amazing how realistic (and incredibly funny yet sad at the same time) they all are. In fact, if anyone needs inspiration for content which will turn in great karma on HN, look no further!
I think iOS lulled us into forgetting that longstanding truth. For a few years, every iOS release meant my iPhone got better -- and occasionally even faster. That changed when iOS 5 came along, of course. Apple really had us conditioned to think that their OS releases were getting unequivocally, monotonically better... at least for a while.
I can understand the point of view. In a world where they produce children's toys based on adult videogames, there is always going to be content that crosses the age boundaries and make it difficult for parents to cope with.

Disappointingly, she isn't their audience probably because her demographic don't buy enough comics or comics of the right theme. The same could be said for people with Wheat / Gluten allergies in most shops, which is why they have little or no products available in most general stores, because they aren't a big enough demographic to make money out of.

Those comics weren't aimed at her (due to the age rating), which meant that they shouldn't have been a factor. I'd also be curious about which Batman comics were actually suitable for his young son. What should have been a factor was the lack of content available for his daughter (which was mentioned), instead of the focus on the unsuitability of content which isn't even aimed at her. Too much focus on his daughters age and older themed comics.

I would have sided more with the author if they spent more time researching and promoting alternatives and encouraging parents to be more careful with the content they children are consuming (due to the closely related adult versions).
localStorage would work fine for saving state.
A bad programming language that remains bad for nearly two decades isn't really any better, in my opinion, than a bad language that undergoes some change that may have mixed results in the end.

JavaScript is bad. PHP is bad. They're both bad in many of the same ways, and they're bad in different ways. None of this changes the inherent fact that they're both bad programming languages.

Of course all programming languages have "warts". Very few, however, have as many horrible and inexcusable "warts" as JavaScript and PHP do.

As an industry and as a community, we can do better than JavaScript and PHP. In fact, we have already done better in the past (sometimes many years ago), many times over.

So, yes, I will speak out against programming languages that are inherently broken and inferior, and even extremely harmful, whenever I get the chance. It's the right thing to do.

This is not about my ego, or about my "superiority", or about me at all. This is about doing things properly, as an industry and as an entire community of programmers and software developers. JavaScript and PHP are very clearly not acceptable programming languages to use, even if a lot of people make the mistake of doing so.
Everyone thinks (or at least when pitching will claim) they have a unique understanding that lead them to a product that fits the market they are targeting better than anyone else. As an investor the problem is trying to figure out who actually does have a potentially successful product and who doesn't. That happens to be incredibly difficult, so when looking at a business that doesn't have assets that are worth something even if the business fails, generally an investor is going to want a high potential payoff.
What they mean is that her books were popular and read throughout the (developed I guess) world. And this is true. They were also made into tv series many people watched and radio plays. So obviously producers thought they would be popular. The books are also very critically acclaimed.

I think it would be hard to somewhat regularly buy books or go to a (typical English language) bookstore without seeing anything about Margaret Atwood.

But maybe there is a large world of English speaking people who don’t at all follow book releases or tv or even headlines in the mainstream news (where her winning of awards would be announced).
I use htop and turn the colours off... thing I like about htop is I can use the mouse. It's so F-key-based, which, especially on a laptop, means you have to take your eyes off the screen to find the keys.

Of course, I'm not opposed to colours, I'm opposed to colours that look tacky / l33t hax0r, which would be most terminal stuff. I like 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 better than trying to find colours I won't hate.
Don't miss the amazing webgl examples towards the end.
Solid advice, and I like your point about SA--his experience was extreme enough that I wouldn't be surprised if it's totally unique, and yet everyone wants to have a debate as if his is typical or representative.
Definitely sounds promising, will give it a try
There's plenty of discussion on this very topic in GitHub issues and PRs. The current "typeof" is inherited from JS and TS compiler doesn't actually do much to change that code. It would be great to see a nice pattern matching syntax, but people will have to figure out what the JS that pattern matching code would look like.
I'll have to watch to make sure that this isn't something sneaky, but if he's really putting a stop to it this could be significant.

Some states have already legislated to prohibit this, but the federal program allowed their own police forces to sidestep the prohibitions... effectively making it impossible to fix at the state level.

Don't get me wrong, Obama and Holder are both shitbags, but this makes them slightly less shitbaggish, even in my own eyes. Two or three more things like this, I might even be forced to change my opinion of them.
There "the defining property" if you want to mod out isometries. :) They're nice, because they encode the geometry of the data.

You could very reasonably try things like cosine distance. And I did some experiments, to good results, with sqrt(d(x,y)), to emphasize really close together data points as special. But these don't feel as motivated.

Hm. It might also be interesting to try with the p_ij values from t-SNE, which model the topology of the data. Then you'd really be getting meta. :)
You hold the assets until the accused is either found guilty or innocent. If they are innocent you return the assets. (Never mind that they are now doing exactly that to prevent people from using their own money to pay for their own defense.)

When we grant law enforcement authority, we are extending them trust not to abuse it. They have failed to not abuse it, therefore the authority should be revoked. So yes, drug dealers should keep their money, so that random people don't get robbed by the police. If the police whine, tell them it's their own fault for abusing their power. (Of course this is idealistic garbage, the police are politically entrenched and rarely ever lose any power.)
Or alternately, "comics for women", just like "video games for women" and a thousand other products that just take something dull and derivative, slap a coat of pink paint on it and call it "done" aren't bought by women because they're smart enough to recognize crap, even when it's meant for them.

The author isn't asking for "Comics for women", he's asking for "Comics that aren't repellant to women".
This is my post on the Startup Visa http://en.wescribe.co/t/the-italian-startup-program-startup-...
Looks cool! Will remember if I'm ever needing shiny documents. I agree with those who support a one-off transaction option. (For example, I love PlaceIt and don't pay them monthly, but they might be doing good business from people like me anyway. I see those in the same boat.)
Poor american left. When the right storms several capitol buildings, y'all're still the ones to bear the blame.
Any non-twitter news sources?
A woman has been shot inside the capitol building by Capitol Police.

Not going to post links, but there is video on Twitter.
Update: White House says National Guard now dispatched: https://twitter.com/PressSec/status/1346918582832168964
Thanks. I edited to clarify that people who care have them open.
At least one shot so far, didn't say if it was outside or inside.

Edit: inside.
You can make it "look" professional if you want.
Yes, please join Facebook and destroy what little is left of our democracy.
Why not start working on the next feature while the previous one is in review?
The question I came here to ask relates to your comment:

> 'The universe doesn't need to "calculate" it's systems before it executes them, they just do what they do (for lack of a better description).'

What I want to ask someone who knows a bit more about modern physics is this: is this article evidence that we do, in fact, live in a simulation?
My family knows Har-Prakash Khalsa well, and while this work appears to rely heavily on anecdotal descriptions of this condition called 'cessation', his photographic work that he develops in tandem to his meditation practice is pretty impressive. I'm not sure if that ads anything to the discussion, but the pictures are nice to look at.

http://art.harprakashkhalsa.com/exhibitions/true-nature.php

If people are interested in his meditation practice, he has some youtube videos up.

Steps to meditation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAUR0DNDnj8

Nature of the intellect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tPrm7YaaU1Y
Both OpenWRT and Tomato USB (http://tomatousb.org/) feature broader device support (via a 2.6 kernel). I prefer the latter.
Is there really an abundance of natural gas? Why is that?
This is a good point, but the OP brings up a valid question that can be applied to businesses in general. The smallest companies stand to lose the most for exposing their idea, yet companies from 37Signals to Apple are very secretive about what they're making next. Why is that?

Your point applies to the small guys who haven't launched yet, but it's not applicable for established companies. Sure, the big guys are on everyone's radar and others will copy them if they release their idea, but they're big guys for a reason. They've built a brand that some copycat doesn't have. In addition to that, they stand to benefit the most from exposing their idea because they already have an established customer base from which to gather feedback.
How has Facebook had a huge impact on SEO?