skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is his retirement. He retired in order to have time to finish the series.
>The key idea: we in the US are wealthy materially, but impoverished in community and human contact.

Amen.

I grew up in a subsidized development. Tiny houses (850-1000sqft) by the standards then (1978), never mind today. Everyone knew everyone else on the block. Everyone's kids played with everyone else's kids. When someone built a pool, or a deck, or sided their house all sorts of neighbors went over to bring food for a picnic and to help out.

A few years ago I moved towards Boston and lived in a gated apartment community that originally was supposed to be sold as condos. Most of the new tenants were those ditching their homes in the economic downturn, but still a lot of parked M3s, M5s, 911s and even a Ferrari 430.

I took a walk every day. When passing someone else I would say hi and not even be acknowledged. When someone's dog was loose and I went to leasing to reunite him with the owner, they seemed to be BOTHERED that someone interacted with their dog. When I attempted to introduce myself to the neighbors with a fresh batch of brownies, only 1 of 4 neighbors answered the door. 360 units, all filled, and no one can be bothered to interact.

When someone moved in they had knocked on doors to see if there was a vacuum they could borrow. I was the only person that answered the door, and I certainly loaned him my vac. Ended up being the only neighbor I ended up getting to know.

I ended up moving into the city later on. Nice place, and it's a building. At least with the forced running into people in the halls people say hello, but no one will hold a door for you. Oh well, at least everyone's dog is friendly and likes to say hello.

Friends who come over to visit notice the same thing. And when I go their tenements, every one of their neighbors I encounter is friendly. I'm honestly curious what psychological/sociological phenomenons cause this.
Remember hearing from people for a long time about 5 guys before I tried it on a trip to D.C. Quite frankly I was underwhelmed and don't understand the hype.

The Wisconsin chain, Culver's, absolutely blows them away.
They're a local company here - my favourite shop for decent beer had six bottles. My boss bought all of them.

Him and four of his friends split one bottle between them for a night. I'm not a fan of strong beer, so I passed, but anyone who seriously thinks BrewDog encourage 'irresponsible drinking' is just trolling.

Scotland does have a huge problem with alcohol, but it's largely down to CHEAP strong alcohol - the white ciders. The kids that cause trouble aren't buying £30 330ml bottles of beer, they're buying £2 3 litre bottles of White Lightning.

As for Bismark - one of my boss's friends bought a share in BrewDog, and then used the shareholder discount to buy six bottles of that, too.

BrewDog seem to have what you might call 'hacker sensibilities'. After the fuss caused by Tactical Nuclear Penguin, they released a beer called 'Nanny State'. It's 1.1% ABV. Their share scheme is also pretty ingenious - people are buying shares not so much as a simple investment, but to be involved with a company that speaks their language.

Canny - and agile - marketing combined with a good product. Good to see.
To announce he will be posing for a new "Programming, you're doing it wrong" poster.
It doesn't even sound like Google is being of two minds. Changing one's mind from one position to another, even if in a very short period of time, is far from schizophrenic.
Rapid Thinking Makes People Happy
Although I am amongst the first to disagree, maybe not necessarily with Apple's goal, but certainly with the language they are resorting to to achieve that goal, I have to object to the following statement:

What I believe programmers are truly angry about is that Apple broke their long standing promise of supporting multiple languages when they originally attracted them to the platform. They're really saying:

"You told me if I bought a mac, and an iPhone, and an iPad, that you would create LLVM and MacRuby and Python bindings so I can code in my favorite language. You lied!"

Nobody is really saying that because neither Apple nor any of their employees have ever told anyone such a thing. On one hand the ban of interpreted code, except for Javascript, has been there since day one, so no sane programmer has had the illusion that they can use Ruby, or Python, or whatever to write iPhone apps. And on the other hand there is absolutely nothing preventing Apple from amending that clause in the license agreement once the technical limitations, e.g. garbage collected Objective-C runtime, behind toll-free, ahead of time compiled wrappers like MacRuby disappear. Especially since MacRuby in particular is an Apple run project.
Again, please don't editorialize in the headline, it kills the potential for real discussion.
If you were going to burn $60, you could instead have gotten a 50 euro BJ in the Red Light District and then had an Heineken with your buddies. You probably would have sweeter memories of Amsterdam...
Google Maps/Yahoo Maps: Why Aren't NYC & Wash., DC on the Default Map?
Chrome 5.0.342.9 beta: 137/160
Yeah that blog smells pretty ripe to me, too. I don't trust invective. But it's worth knowing it's there if one is going to dig into this topic a bit further.
I'm wondering how the implementation is chosen when you do something like

List<String> list = ["ham","eggs"];

Is it a linked list, an array list, a vector ... ?
A colleague and I are currently working on Noted (http://notedwiki.com), which matches what you are looking for, except that we are planning on charging when it launches. It is currently in development, but we are going to be looking for beta testers soon, which may provide an opportunity for a free or discount copy.
I don't think Hacker News is the appropriate place for Google content petitions.
Good joke.

Only--Knuth isn't the author of LaTeX.
Chrome uses FFmpeg, which already has a good amount of ARM optimizations and is around 10% faster than Theorarm on my Cortex-A8.

Maybe it's in the same vein as summer of code?
Software undergoes mitosis: Why Twitter’s API strategy was brilliant
I think there's at least one server-side (senior Java) position open on the systems integration side: https://jobs.ea.com/jobs/jobposting.aspx?refresh=1&posti... (warning, will try to resize your browser window).

I think knowing your stuff is more important than how you know it, but game servers are essentially soft real-time, maintaining thousands of connections and arbitrating 3D movement and actions and physics with predictions to compensate for network lag for all of them, and if all you know is stateless HTTP, that's not going to cut it. Video games have been dealing with the C10k problem for a lot longer than web developers.

In addition, if you're only slightly better than someone who plays games or has game industry experience, I think they'll get the job over you, no question. I'm not much of a gamer, and there just isn't anything else some people here talk about, so I miss out on a lot of water cooler talk.

I don't know how the other offices do it, but the Austin office does SCRUM, and there's always some team that's crunching during any given milestone (this time it's us). Since we're making an MMO, our release date doesn't mean we stop working or making content, but the office is mostly cleared out by 7pm or so, most nights.
Local to Austin only. They're contract positions, so no relocation is provided. Sorry.
They also say they're interested in a "generalist", but then the list of skills makes it pretty clear they're interested in someone mainly skilled in web-related stuff (backend, frontend, design). There's nothing wrong with that, but it's pretty clearly a kind of specialty, and would be an inappropriate job for a candidate whose strengths weren't web-related, no matter how many other skills they had.
If you view the iPad as a replacement for a laptop, then it falls short. Text entry is difficult, you can't print, can't use USB devices, can't use flash, can't videochat, etc. People who have extremely limited computer needs will find it sufficient, but that's a niche market.

However, as an adjunct to your computer, it's quite nice. Certain kinds of web browsing are much more pleasant. Curling up on the couch with ABC video is comfy. Comics are fantastic. Within narrow domains, it's better than anything else on the market. That being said, a laptop or phone does all of those things, just not as well.

The question is, which way are people going to see it?
How far did big-name talent hoarding get Microsoft or the Washington Redskins over the last 10 or 12 years? Going after big names is a warning sign.
Sorry, Adobe, you screwed yourself
What I don't understand about this whole kerfuffle is that Apple already had the power to arbitrarily block applications. Why not just make the TOS more explicit in requiring performant apps that look and feel like apps written in ObjC? That would still make life very hard for cross-platform flash, but allow people developing against Apple's library directly in Haskell, Scheme or whatever to do so.
They let you buy 6 shots of absinthe? That's massively irresponsible. I'm pretty sure there is a limit on what they are supposed to serve.
If that's the case, you wouldn't use it in the first place, regardless of if it's unmaintainable or unmodifiable.
The story BCG offered me $16,000 not to tell
I can't get the taste out of my mouth about 331. To the point that this is actually making me study other platforms because of the spookiness of Apple's propensity to be arbitrary. I'm two weeks into developing a game I had hoped to port over to Android after releasing for the iPhone. Now, I'm looking harder now at WebKit and Android (and have glanced a little at Windows Phone, gasp).
That is true :) I will re-title my submission. A focused editor got even more focused.
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Would anyone be interested in a hosted web service along these lines? I took a stab at extracting a similar set of features from CrowdVine, but I'm not sure if it's worth pursuing.

The site is: http://big.ly

My idea was that websites get set up originally by people who want to get under the hood. So I made all of the templates overridable using Ruby's Liquid templating engine.

After the initial setup, they're run by complete Normals. So all of the editing is wysiwyg (through TinyMCE).

Other features are a custom domain and tab/subnav management. I didn't get as far as a contact form, but that was on my list.
The "hard problem of explaining conciousness" is discovering all the small biological and neural correlates. It's a hard problem in the sense that finding all the subatomic particles in an atom with a particle accelerator or sequencing the human genome is hard.

On a theoretical level, I think consciousness has already been explained and is not a hard problem unless you are using a hard definition. A state of consciousness is whatever neurons happen to be ON or ACTIVE in an arbitrarily small interval of time. The information held in a system at a current time.

A good example is the phenomena of hemispatial neglect. In this disorder, if a person suffers damage to say the right portion of their parietal lobe, they will not be able to integrate the left side of their world. People will only shave the right side of their face or eat food off the right side of their plate. If asked to draw the times on a clock they will only draw 12 through 6. One part of the brain is not allowed to activate, and the result is a radical change in conciousness, the lack of conciousness of the "left" side of the world. One patient as even stated that he didn't know why they called it neglect, because it implies there's something there that he was ignoring.

Perhaps when people say "conciousness" they are referring to "HUMAN conciousness" and that is a much harder problem. Again, I don't think it is so hard. The unique aspect of human consciousness, as to why we consider it more evolved than other forms of consciousness, can easily be defined as capacity for analogical reasoning. It isn't external tool use, as even crows are quite capable of this. Compared to other intelligent animals, humans are by far the most advanced at analogical reasoning, with bottlenose dolphins and great apes coming in a distant 2nd and third.
Seriously? Unethical?
It'd be more useful to have this list for all browsers, rather than just the one you happen to be using.
there's "english sound" -> text.. what i meant is that perhaps "chinese sound" -> text or something would be more useful fost most people around here
I don't think Apple have any interest in strictly enforcing this rule. It's meant to be a catchall clause. Most likely App store reviewers will first use some subjective criteria like whether an app feels like a native app or whether it fits certain performance requirements. If an app fails to match the subjective criteria it will be submitted for further inspection. And just then, if it fails to pass that one too, it will be "objectively" rejected for a subjective reason.
Why not? In addition, he could demostrate that any given NP problem can be solved in O(N^2) time complexity.
Papers on software transactional memory (STM)
Someone missed the point of the statistic. Jobs was merely saying there is a potential to make money via ad sales and we as Apple want a slice of the pie it not, "hey look we are going to be serving a billion ads a day via iAds alone the day we launch."
It's not Apple who built on Unix first, it was Jobs, who was fired from Apple. Jobs' work with Next was big part of Apple's comeback. Other Jobs' new decisions provided the rest of success.
The saturation of computers in this country is very high. Pretty much the only people who don't have one are too poor to afford an iPad.
Inefficient sort algorithms
That's John McCarthy, inventor of Lisp.
I live in Russian and am running an IT startup. I can tell you that nobody here in Russia takes these kinds of things seriously. It's clear even to a first grade kid that the only goal to almost any government endeavor that has "sience" or "nano" as part of its name, is to steal money from tax payers. It's also clear that Silicon Valley is rather a social phenomenon which cannot be reproduced by simply pouring tons of money, and this is the only way Russian govnt learnt to act for past decade.

What's more, we do not need any Silicon Valleys, it's not meant for Russians, it will not work under any conditions on Russian grounds.
Hehe love the Simpsons. But really? On HN? It's getting a bit banal now. Can it at least be kept to intelligent discourse about Apple?
There was a lot of hype that it was a great browsing experience; he might have bought it just to see what it is all about.

I personally share his feelings - I enjoyed using my roomates' iPad initially, but it quickly proved useless relative to my laptop. Part of the issue was that it was so darn uncomfortable to use.
Maybe he is doing a pipe organ concert.
Me too! And I do! I frequently work at my band's practice space. :)

Are you in SF?
WebKit nightly r57408: 137/160
He has halted the problem solving?
Internet Explorer 8: 19/160
Hey folks. Sorry for being so late to the conversation. It's been wild with the amount of media coverage we've been getting. I'll try to respond to comments.
We're committed to implementing countermeasures that prevent bad content from coming onto the site. In similar fashion to how Reddit Karma and other reputation systems moderate content and kick off bad actors.
Having dynamic types is not the same as being a dynamic language. With C# and Java, there are idiomatic ways of doing things, which generally involve static typing, and are generally considered verbose by the dynamic language proponents. Those idiomatic features don't go away just because there is now support for dynamic types.
...costs about $53 bucks a bottle...

That's just sloppy writing.
Nah, you're all wrong. It's actually this: http://www.ibiblio.org/Dave/Dr-Fun/df200002/df20000210.jpg
I think it's dangerous to try to attempt humorous sarcasm if you can't pull it off. I agree with the guy, but this is painful to read.

Thoughtful analysis trumps cheap shots even when you're in the right.
Again, that sort of thing will be tough to do based on what we've built. You can't just spin up new account programattically. You have to use a verified Facebook account with a sufficient level of activity to prove humanness.
also re "how well that worked out for Apple the first time" -- actually: Windows managed to imitate most of Mac UI only with Windows 95, some eleven years after first Mac. Before Windows 95, Windows was ugly.
Also note that some court decisions in Microsoft's favor were needed in order to help Microsoft imitate Apple in 1995.
Chrome 5.0.371.0 dev: 142/160
Yes, and I think that gravitational "tug" is pretty much still there. Bear in mind, they may also attract a different class of high-caliber engineer than typically contributes to Hacker News: RF, chip design, industrial design...

I know they have some pull in security now, and they don't exactly have a spotless reputation for security, so I don't think it's the news cycle that's doing it.
"There is no room in this factory for levity, no matter how weak." --I Love Lucy, 1952.

I'm up for satire, but to qualify for my admiration, I'm looking for the satire to address both the action and the motivation of the party being skewered.

In this case, making fun of the "no other languages" clause is totally fair game, but by characterizing it as an attempt to weed out wimpy developers it is attacking a straw man instead of addressing Apple's desire to defend control of their own platform against encroachment by Adobe and others.
Mozilla Firefox 3.6.3: 101/160
Expect the unexpected; He has made a lateral move into an entirely different business: The porn industry. I do not think he can possibly offer more than he already has to CS so he will now focus on contribution that will primarily benefit the degenerates among us. I believe I heard Paul Graham stating that he would do this as well when he was done with YC as after all he is a man of the future. It's all about staying ahead and being flexible about business.
The site is actually full of awesome content of a very productive, professional nature. TechCrunch's headline was hysterical and designed to draw pageviews. Mission accomplished! The conversation on Unvarnished is more akin to what you find on HackerNews than on, say, 4chan.
I'm an iPhone developer who knows ObjC inside-and-out and I stand to profit (and in fact already am profiting) from Apple's decision to shut down cross-platform frameworks.

That said, there's no direct connection between a great user experience and specifically using ObjC, not even in theory. There are many frameworks (MonoTouch comes to mind) which explicitly bind Cocoa/Touch to C#. The only difference is, instead of writing your logic in ObjC, you're doing it in a language you're more familiar with. This type of framework/cross-compiler leads to high-quality, reliable code that still provides a nice Apple-ey user experience.

On the flipside, you have plenty of app store apps (games, mostly, but others like convertbot) that totally eschew Apple's UI controls. These apps are written in 100% ObjC with all of Apple's tools, but simply prefer rolling their own because they think the user experience is better. Up to now (and as far as I can tell from my talks with them, still) Apple has no problem with this.

So I think your logic that using Apple's tools magically leads to a better user experience is flawed. True, some cross-platform environments lead to a subpar experience (potentially Adobe's CS5). But Unity3D and MonoTouch clearly contribute to the platform from a user experience standpoint.

A much better argument is that Apple is planning to make lots of changes going forward and they don't want to have to worry about waiting for the Unity people to update their compiler in order for developers to be able to implement [whatever] for their apps. For instance, the multitasking change is pretty big under the hood--who knows how long it will be before MonoTouch binds to it? That's much more likely to be Apple's concern.

TUAW made a similar argument to mine, but it's flawed in a couple of places because they don't understand OSX. There's nothing about cross-platform frameworks that makes multitasking hard per se, but making it more difficult to update existing code is going to be hard if Apple ever decides to break backwards compatibility, which clearly they're indicating they're going to do.

Of course, from Apple's POV this has the nice "side" benefit of locking developers in to ObjC going forward. Better for the platform or not, I think that's what has developers most upset--we've just gotten out of two decades of vendor lock-in under Microsoft. We were headed for the web, and we're about to miss it.
Bureaucracy is a part of human nature and it cannot be fixed. Neither in Russian nor in any other country. Once it's there it cannot be eliminated, unless you kill half the country population.

Same is true for corporate sector.
Our very first revision of Playbook was built on Instiki, and if I remember correctly, it had user registration.
Private information that is not business related will be deleted from the site, and get the reviewer banned. (and not just kicked off the site. Ban his FBUID forever, such that he'll have to invest in a whole new FB identity that passes our threshold of "humanness" before he's let in again.)

So yeah, it's not a good idea to engage in behavior that violates community guidelines.
Thanks! You definitely nailed it ... I think we spend 80% of our eng. time on those three things.
Right. My view is that Apple's resurgence was due to two factors: a radically improved product (the newer Macs, with MacOS X) plus persuasive evangelists (alpha geeks like you and me). The bet with the iPad appears to be that you can piss off the geeks to some extent as long as the product is really good (in the eyes of the target market). I'd be lying if I said I knew how it was going to turn out.
I don't see how this could harm. There has been too much "toughtful analysis" in this religious war. I'm still laughing.
Am I the only one who thought "What the hell is 'Functional Programming Arithmetic' " after reading this headline? :)

I once had a more detailled look at floating-point numbers, and yes, it's quite a big topic. I like the site, because it's kept quite short, and it describes a few important aspects in regard to the usage of floating-point numbers in your programs (e.g. Comparison).

Maybe you want to mention that there's also an IEEE Standard for Floating-Point Arithmetic: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/754/
NCSA Mosaic 2.7b6: None existant
Why do you find that amusing? The cut out the second part of that sentence which was "everyone would take their profile down in the case they get a negative review."

Your desire to 100% control your image does not trump the rights of free speech that others have. For example, I can't remove any of the comments here on this site making reputation claims about me, because it would be censoring you. And it would injure the rights of others to consume that information.

Just because I have an interest in making everyone think that I am 100% A+ 99th percentile doesn't mean I can censor you.
Table of overall scores for different browsers: http://rakaz.nl/2010/03/the-html5-test.html
Well, the first effect I see of this new clause is that Adobe have finally suddenly figured out how to export to HTML5 instead of just SWF.

Not bad for a few lines of english added to an obscure document.
Correct. You can speak about me without my permission. We do it all the time offline, and we do it all the time online.
Facebook iPhone Dev Quits Project Over Apple Tyranny
Why I’m starting Delimiter
shows how much i've been paying attention :)