skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think your comment hits the nail on the head. I've worked with web apps for a long time and I quickly learned that all I was doing was writing software for some business process. This isn't the sexiest work or the most interesting, but it has never stopped me from doing interesting things.

For example, I try constantly make less work for myself. So much of the code we write is boilerplate so I have various tools that generate as much code as possible. I have written mini languages that specify the important parts and then generate all of the plumbing around it. I won't run out of interesting problems until I can generate an application by specifying the important parts (to the business) and generating everything.
Um... no, being right actually matters. Leaders that say, get half their men killed in a phyrric march to Russia failed, no matter how they are remembered. They did wrong. It isn't enough. Being the Best or Nothing is an attitude that will end in tears. It's only to be the best-- the most considered and thought out-- that one can be. Anyone can hare off into idiocy... that doesn't take bravery, or gumption, or if it does, it takes tools that could be used well and uses them for ill. All it takes is not knowing enough to be concerned, and thus not knowing enough to make informed decisions about what one's going into.

Action is like fire-- it's a means to an end, not an end in and of itself.
TAT comes out with Recognizer Mobile Application
More seed funding for Canada – Founder Fuel gets their first commitment
Guy Steele's conc Lists in Erlang
Not patenting a linked list, but an enhancement to it, as a reader suggests. Not that the idea is bad, but doesn't seem ingenious enough to be patentable. Node(Value, Node next, Node auxNext, ...) is just unnecessary complication of the simple concept of a linked list, and seems useful only for very specialized needs.
I'll try.

"Free will" is the hypothesis that it is, in principle, impossible to determine the outputs of a brain just by measuring its physical state with perfect accuracy. In other words, if you have two physically identical brains, with physically identical states, these brains can have different outputs.
I had a school assignment about writing a letter as if I were part of the Trojan War. I figured I'd learn Dactylic Hexameter and write it all in Dactylic Hexameter. Bad idea.
Oh... and nobody leaves an actual comment. 1-star reviews without any information on why it's 1-star. our lowest rating with a comment is 3-stars.
the best defense from a weapon is to run

Actually, I've always held that the best defense against anything is to get your own weapon and attack like crazy. There's always one around: coffee mug, large rock, laptop, broom.

Muggers, etc. rely on people doing what they're told. The "victim" immediately going on the offensive is the last thing they want. Sure, attacking your attacker has to be a calculated move, but if you think you're going to be killed or injured anyway, you have nothing to lose, so go for it and don't stop until he's a bleeding pulp on the ground.
Decent article, but misleading headline. Fibre channel drives != fibre channel.
Google's LinkSpam Report and Matt's note about Mahalo
Given the interest on Mahalo's spammy techniques, I found this comment by Matt Cutts on his blog interesting.

"... If you’re not aware, Mahalo has been making major changes recently (e.g. putting a lot of noindex tags on their short pages). It’s safe to assume that if they didn’t (and don’t) take sufficient action, then my team is always ready to investigate in detail."
Head Start Conference for Startups in Indian
It's not a binary system. The point is that it's better to make a decision knowing that your knowledge is imperfect and allowing for that than to do so thinking that your plan is perfect and that nothing could possibly go wrong.
It is not review process that gets attention but horror stories associated with it. Nobody cares and nobody talks about the apps which were approved quickly, but review gone badly get too much (imho) attention. Especially from those who most likely will never have to deal with it themselves.
QOS (Quality Of Service). Apple thrives on providing a high-quality service. It's nearly their entire business.

Using private frameworks / unpublished / not-locked-down APIs is a ticking time-bomb from a stability standpoint. What if it changes?
Ikea launches line of prefabricated homes
Creative companies will be able to get a lot of mileage out of this in the future, but I think the early wins will be in the business and enterprise space. I've talked to companies that are getting a lot of traction, for example, by helping businesses automatically power down IP phone systems at night. Developing an analytics system for power consumption could save business real money while helping the environment to boot.

Now that's the power of green.
This actually helps sum up why I like doing Flash work in Actionscript. AS3 has a single fairly narrow standard API with consistent structure and conventions. Flex has a much larger API, but still with consistent structure and conventions. When I stray from the comfort of my (admittedly user-unfriendly) marketing microsites toward the wooly harum-scarum of HTML/PHP/non-jQuery-Javascript, I feel slightly sick to my stomach.

On the other hand, Django/jQuery is pretty sweet. I think it's a matter of working with orthogonal and well-designed systems, more than the number of systems.
What is different now? They have never allowed apps that use private frameworks. Some slipped through the cracks and are now being removed. How is this becoming less acceptable? Or are you just buying into the media's knee-jerk reaction each time an app gets removed?
> You gave it by saying things like:

I specifically say things like:

you are happy

Which isn't trying to imply 100% accuracy of prediction. It's saying if your happy that your assessment is that he's unskilled is accurate then do it. If your not, then I guess it depends on the person what you want to do.

I see you mentioned elsewhere you were learning boxing and karate when you were mugged. Im not aware that any of those disciplines give you suitable training in disarming a knife wielder. So you made the right choice IMO.

Waiting till your forced to fight is, IMO, the worst move. If your able to disarm the guy all your doing is sacrificing a part of your advantage. (if your not able to disarm him then, yeh, clearly co-operation then trying your best if attacked is the best policy).
More expensive in terms of money or in terms of lives?
Think like a statistician, without the math
I agree with the conclusion, but there's a little bit of disconnect between the that and the evidence the author's citing. The economics statistics are all regarding a 1% increase in price. The astute may notice that the difference in price between a $0.99 app and a $1.99 app is slightly greater than 1%.

The point behind the studies he cited was that an otherwise unnoticeable increase in price helped the bottom line. Those studies have nothing at all to do with app store pricing, which doesn't give you the option of even having a 1% increase in price.

The top grossing category section of the argument was much more convincing.
Stanford Researcher With Second Life Background Launches WebGL-driven Startup
In my family it's common to carry a wallet, and then a hanging pouch with your valuables (serious money and stuff you don't need everyday, though I don't keep my passport there) when traveling.

So even if you're robbed, you have something left (not as good as your advice, but it sounds like it works).
Yeah, it's clearly said that McAfee "provided information to Google" which sure doesn't sound like any direct involvement with their investigation. In addition, from a quick scan of their linked PDF, I don't think McAfee mentioned Google at all - which makes it look more like the Wired writer just plastered "Google" all over the article to make it a bigger headline.

I'd blame Wired here more than McAfee.
In my case Training != training in a gym in my spare time.

I was quite heavily injured actually during unarmed training - but by a baseball bat not a knife :)
i just want to say that the wifi there was really good. i go to a fair number of conferences and it's always very impressive when the wifi is that good for that many people.
If a scientist tells you something doesn't exist, remind them of the problem of induction.

If you hold a prior belief that the physical world is all there is (or that physical explanations are the only valid explanations, which the physical sciences take as their starting point), you can come up with endless circular rationalizations of materialism.
My favorite thinking on this comes from Pratt:

http://chu.stanford.edu/guide.html#ratmech

My favorite line in the paper, cogito ergo sum should be cogito ergo eram :)

It's all Chu spaces -- enjoy!
I was waiting to hear that she got lost and if a poor soul hadn't heard of her because of a webapp she had created, they wouldn't have brought her in when her car broke down, saving her from death by exposure.
Undoing Git Merges
He could do better, though, not just with nutrition but with other lifestyle factors. For instance, he could explain to older women that doing weight-bearing exercise will reduce their risk of osteoporosis, and he could tell them how to get calcium if they have problems with dairy products.

But my point was that very few people even bother asking him for guidance. It's silly that educated people just assume that by reading a little in their spare time they can acquire a better practical knowledge of nutrition than a professional with four or more years of intense training in human medicine. It's mind-boggling that they're right. For instance, if my friend could name a couple of high-calcium non-dairy foods -- which I'm not confident he could -- it's only because he read some diet books looking for ways to lose weight. He could probably name more symptoms of Chagas disease than dietary sources of vitamin D.
That may be - but in the case he described he has already been paid as a direct contractor.
$126,000 = Your Salary Soon
In the operating system business? AT&T Unix?

Didn't they just buy Sun?
In this case patent's are less harmfull than Copyright. With a patent your idea becomes public domain farily quickly with Copyright 100 years from now the same DNA would be protected.
Your Version Control and Build Systems Don't Scale
Large scale Apache log file analysis
Does anyone know of any good commercial products to analyze about 500 million to 1 billion rows (1 week) of apache access logs?

Looking for fairly simple analysis. Something similar to what weblog expert does, but on a larger scale.

Are there any commercial tools out to do this or are we stuck writing something for this?

I know we could use hive/hadoop/cassandra etc and build something. We are about to roll out another product that uses cassandra as a backend, but this is simply to get an idea of some of our basic web stats in a simple report. This is not part of our core product, so I am just looking to see if there is an easy way to do something here without a bunch of development.
I took out the vivid descriptions of personal misery because I thought they were too much of a downer.

No little-matchgirl snow, though.

The point is, it's like having an entirely new life. Was that unclear?
Ha. Yes. We run a bank review site as part of the same brand. It shouldn't have been a surprise to us, but seeing how angry people can get about their banks is still shocking. They sound like crazy people. Here is a more recent bank review title we've had to pull:

"Chase are murderers!"
> I think that your point about taking serious damage from a knife fight is wrong.

It's.... complex.

Part of my point is that if your trained and attacking it's hard for them to do serious injury without being skilled themselves.

small knives will do damage to your abdomen (it's hard to hit there anyway) but aren't likely to be fatal (unless of course you dont get help). A knife wound to the lower back doesn't have to be deep to kill you fast.

Slashes can be worse in some areas than others (e.g. belly slashes are worse than stabs if deep enough).

If your opponent has a carving knife you need to consider options. On on hand it is less wieldy and they are unlikely to be able to stab you. But it's also longer and the chances of getting knicked or catching a slash are higher.

With a short knife your reasonably ok if you can get their wrist.

If they have a machete or anything really long like that your made. :)
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From sneakers to smartphones: The man behind MS Windows Phone design
Free will is an algorithm, nothing more or less. Input genetics and experience, output decision and behavior.

What's more, your beliefs about free will get integrated into the algorithm as well; someone who believes that they are not responsible for their actions will behave quite differently than someone who believes they are capable of choosing. Like many human ideas, free will is a necessary (or at least, useful) illusion.
I've realized this for a while; ever since I looked at the terms of service for the iPhone SDK, which forbid pretty much any innovation on things like RFS #5 (you are not allowed to write compilers or interpreters which run on the iPhone, which pretty much precludes any development tools that aren't web apps).

I think it's about time for me to get an Android phone. The platform isn't as polished, but you can actually get root on your damn phone and some of it is free software (about like Mac OS X, actually; a free kernel, some libraries, and utilities, with some applications on top that are closed).
"You can't tell people anything" -- when marketing your app
They've got a major issue.

Facebook is a site where users are highly unlikely to be in buy mode.
Yes, it's clear, but I kept expecting to hear about how it literally, and not metaphorically saved your life.

I think if you added the 'creative' (or professional, or something like that) to the title, it would still work quite well and not leave people like me thinking "uh...wait...".

The main point of your article is good, and resonates a lot with my experiences.
A good visual for that exercise is to skip the rubber knife; give your friend a marker. Pretend that's a knife and try to disarm him.

When you're done, count up the marks and see how many times you'd have been cut and where. Even without taking into account the edge of the fictional knife, it's a pretty damning visual.

(Also: with a standard rubber knife, too many of the hits during the exercise won't be noticed or remembered by either party.)
> you are always a split second away from death.

Depends on the gun and the range and what cover is available. Certainly they are unlikely to be hit with the first shot unless the shooter is skilled (this is always the key bit).

If you can close fast enough after their first shot the only real risk is the closest few yards.

Aikido masters sometimes demonstrate this with paint guns - I've seen people make maybe 20 feet (sometimes they are hit, usually nowhere fatal) and take down their opponent.

Have you ever tried to hit an Aikido master? It's an amazing experience because it is pretty much impossible for anyone below their skill levels. They train to watch body signals and are already avoiding your punch before you actually move.

Same applies to the gun (within reasonable limits). They can see where you are pointing it, where you intend to fire and have easily 1-2 seconds (if not more) on you when you start to pull the trigger. 1-2 seconds sounds like nothing but couple it with the time to pull the trigger and for the weapon to fire you easily have time to move out of the path.
The unlikely life and sudden death of The Exile, Russia’s angriest newspaper
Did the poster confuse the Elliot Associates with Ellison? :)
Bloody annoying auto-start video/audio. Impossible to find among 40 open tabs on 12 desktops.

Seriously, seriously pissed off, and desperately wantin an implementation of the Remote Strangulation Protocol.

http://kobesearch.cpan.org/htdocs/Acme-Remote-Strangulation-...
Now we just need a karma ticker to embed in a website or as a desktop widget.
It depends on how you define "free will".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compatibilism
I agree. I frequently flag ads on Facebook as 'offensive'. It's a cesspool.
To determine if I have free will, I shall now attempt to willfully raise my arm. Raises arm. I don't know, that's pretty hard evidence to refute.
So what if subprime blows up? (July 16, 2007)
New proof that expensive iPhone apps can sell like crazy
My friend Catharine has a concept that is basically this idea at http://zerobaggage.com
Not approving apps that are going to break because they use private frameworks makes sense, but pulling a wide variety in one genre after they've been published and found a foothold just sucks.

And while Apple has been "explicit" about not allowing "duplicate" functionality, that standard is incredibly vague in practice and incredibly arbitrary in enforcement.

In this case, one of what I presume is the banned apps (the article doesn't mention any, grr!) supported some non-duplicative features for war driving assistance, as well as a "radar" view. So yes, some features are duplicated, just like Pandora duplicates some features (playing, pausing music) that iTunes does.

WiFiFoFum's product review/description page on MacWorld, with 1,549 reviews:
http://bit.ly/bF4gMP
Get To The Point First
Teletext: 300,000 IPhone Downloads, Half For Paid Apps
Aaah, yeah, that's harder. Hm.

Personally, I'd just find the points that edges intersect the antemeridian, and define two polygons, ORing the results. Know if there's a reason that isn't done?
The thing that I do that feels like "free will" is use adaptive heuristic problem solving to explore an imperfectly mapped problem/solution space while attempting to maximize value fulfillment payoff.
I really like how you use the bank icon as part of the MKAnnotation you place on the map. It's a really nice visual tweak.

Only four reviews.

Sadly, I think the majority of low star reviews do not have an actual text review associated with the rating because it's so easy to knee-jerk dismiss the on-uninstall dialog with a low rating.

Perhaps it would be helpful if Apple forced a radio button dialog - why this 1 star rating (e.g. list a few choices - crashes, doesn't run, etc.)

Have you tried correlating your 1-star ratings with the crash reports on iTunes Connect? This is assuming the rating has a date (which it sadly may not).

Downloading it now to check it out/do some testing.
You've probably evolved to avoid asking too many boring existential questions when you could be breeding, instead. You probably have no choice but to trick yourself into trivially proving that you have free will.
How the Federal Reserve works (aka Hi, I'm Ben)
I'm guilty of only scanning the article, so I could have missed something, but I expected from the title "biologist says" to find some empirical evidence. Instead I got just another philosophizing speculative article.

You would think the belief in free will, or its absence, becomes a feedback mechanism in human behavior. How many different ways can that seed be planted? Why does the belief/disbelief amplitude vary among individuals? Is the belief/disbelief meme just another meme that's been around a long time, and affects us far less than we believe? I once knew a successful Indian woman who completely believed in fate, which surprised me because with all her energy and drive I thought she was living her life as a free willer.
My mistake, they're all touchscreens. I didn't see the word "touchscreen" in the description.
Epic strawman: "I don’t buy the argument that just because it’s software, it can’t be inventive"
"It doesn't exist" is a shorthand for "There is insufficient evidence for it or against it, and it has minimal explanatory power, and it's not amenable to proof or disproof, so your life will be simpler if you assume it doesn't exist."

This, at least, is the attitude that many people have to ghosts, gods, and werewolves.
"When you do your own thing, you give others inspiration and permission to do their own thing." - I once read in a psychology book, that a lot of us don't get permission from our parents to do specific things. Giving a person permission to do something they desire can indeed be life changing, so in a way (although not literally), shipping did save her life...
And you can surely do this with most SCMs on the market, including Perforce. Now all the hacker needs to do is compromise the build server...
Curl tries to be this. I remember reading articles about it years ago, but it never really took of: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curl_%28programming_language%29
Sucks, yes, I'm not defending the suckiness of the app store. Few can deny that.

But its purpose is not to lower suckiness for developers, it's to lower suckiness for consumers. They're merely being consistent in that goal.
Let's assume free will does not exist. It follows then, that you should theoretically be able to perfectly predict the actions of a human given enough information about their current chemical & physical state.

I have never seen evidence of such a machine, so I don't think you can prove it either way. I like to believe whichever theory seems to benefit me most at the time.
So there are two arguments in this article. The first is that Flash makes development and bug fixing harder because you rely on someone who is a Flash expert to fix any bugs, and from anecdotal experience the author was working on a team with no Flash programmers, so that was then a bottleneck. Part of his argument then is that if you want a rich application on the iPhone you can just make an iPhone application. Yet that has the exact same problem if you don't have good iPhone developers in house. The argument of "this technology is hard when you don't have programmers that know it" seems pretty ridiculous and would even apply if I wanted to write HTML apps but my team only knew Fortran.

The second argument is that Flash apps don't scale well to different resolutions. As a Flash developer I think this is simply false. There's no basis for the argument, you can make Flash apps scale in whatever way you want, and you have completely control over nice fluid layouts (at least with Flex you do, but you can do a lot with non-Flex Flash too).

If part of the argument is really that you don't want to have to develop different versions of your app for different devices (in this case he worries about resolution), then Flash is a clear winner, since that will let you develop the same codebase that can be used across any Android/RIM/non-iPhone phone. Sure, you'll have to rework parts of the UI to accommodate different screen sizes, but that's just a part of mobile development. Anyone who thinks you can design a mobile app for very different devices with different resolutions without reworking the main UI is simply naive, regardless of technology choice.
>you need to present a SSN

Just FTR, an SSN is absolutely not necessary to open a US bank account.
I wrote the first WiFi stumbler that hit the app store (WiFinder / WiFi Checker). It was probably the first app to use private APIs, as dubious a distinction as that is.

The reviewers rapidly figured out I was using them, told me about their displeasure, and let me know they'd not be approving any updates. They just only now (more than a year later!) got around to removing the other applications using the same APIs. Until now, they were just denying updates but leaving the applications in the store. And occasionally, a new application using the same APIs would squeak through a foreign app review site (I'm looking at you, Japan!).

Overall, though, at least this is a set of rules they're trying to be clear on and are finally consistently enforcing. If only they had the ability to, oh, I don't know, check if the submissions were linking against dlopen() instead of expecting the reviewers to guess if private APIs are in use! If only we had the technology... owait...