skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Amid the ranting, he's making a good point.

And that is that there is no serious competition for the hard combination of serious good taste, obsession with details that seem negligible but ultimately matter a lot, etc., embodied in Apple's recent products.

I know this sounds like raving Apple fanboy stuff, but I do think it's rarely acknowledged explicitly; it's either assumed by those in the know, or ignored by those not.

For example, I would never in a million years want to develop Android software; why? Because it's written in a language I loathe, and the API is workmanlike but completely uninspired (disclaimer: I've never written any code for it). In contrast, the Cocoa Touch APIs are delightful, and MIT-style (vs. New Jersey) at most levels. Perfect? No. Amazingly crafted? Yes.

I claim the secret sauce to their APIs is actually a character at Apple named Ali Ozer who, along with his crew, has maintained a firm hand on the tiller, and learned a huge amount about object-oriented design for interactive systems over the past couple of decades.

iPhone OS is the result of throwing out a lot of the cruft and starting over, but keeping the hard-earned knowledge. (Core Animation being one of the key underlying technologies for iPhone OS that found its way back to the desktop, but only partially due to all the cruft in normal desktop Cocoa.)

And Apple works hard at the silicon-to-UI whole-stack integration and performance tuning, something that other vendors famously haven't been able to do (because they don't control the whole stack), or haven't wanted to do. Microsoft has recently figured this out, according to Ballmer, and intends to do the same.

I could go on, but I'm sure I'll get downmodded to death already. ;-)
If you're in the right lighting conditions, blacks are far blacker, contrast is better IMHO than a matt display. But it's a very contentious issue as far as I know.
It may not be "impressive" but you can't get to PR6 without getting to PR4 first. Everyone has to start form somewhere.
It was made several years ago, near the birth of Git, called cogito. http://git.or.cz/cogito/ . It's currently deprecated.

It was how I learned Git actually; it made the UI very similar to mercurial's UI. It was actually a surprisingly good learning curve, because it allowed me to experiment with git commands side-by-side with cg commands on the same repo, and I slowly transitioned out of cg into full-fledged git, almost without noticing. I'm a little sad it's not maintained.
The U.S. counts unemployment as "people who are currently looking for/want a job but do not have one". So anyone who is included in this number is not self-employed or running their own business.

The U.S. unemployment number does not count:
1. "Discouraged workers" - people who are no longer looking for a job because they figure they can't get one anyway.
2. Workers underemployed by time - people who work part-time but want a full-time job
3. Workers underemployed by skill - people who have qualifications and experience for a more difficult job than the one they are currently working, i.e. a chemist who stocks shelves at Wal-Mart because the local chemical plant shut down and there's nowhere else to go

So even with an unemployment number of 20% (considered disastrously high for most purposes), that doesn't necessarily mean the economy is sweetness and light for the other 80%, either.
Musician’s Jamming Software Makes the World a Slightly Better Place
Fewer rich men than other types, though.
Thank you everyone for your feedback and suggestions.

The data will be used for nothing except displaying your invoice. Also, i made the urls look dirty with those random characters instead of letting people choose shorturls to keep invoice details private. There's no/will be no page anytime that would list the invoices. So they are all safe.

P.S: pdf and mailing option coming in the next few hours.
That thought has been in my mind for some time... maybe one day I'll actually get annoyed enough to write a nice wrapper. Where nice is subjective and == like svn and mercurial, with sane defaults (so no options are needed most of the time) and completely redesigned 'remote'.
Princeton details diagnosing iPad WiFi DHCP glitch in 22 of 40 devices
Yep. Also the fact that you can "bruteforce" most password-protected door locks one character at a time.
'Pavement power' may light up French city
The iPhone works fantastically well for bond users, thanks to the brilliant design of VoiceOver. It turns out tactile feedback isn't nearly as essential as one might expect.
having had both matte and glossy macbook pros, my own observations seem to confirm this: colors are richer and display is brighter (across the same model) but glossy screens get smudged a LOT, and reflect just about everything
Turn Two HDTVs into a Magic Window on the World
You should know, GS was basically forced to take the bailout money by Paulson, and were the first to pay it back.
I didn't take Latin and I did not understand it. I appreciate that someone took the time to translate it.
I recently made the mistake of buying a Cowon touchscreen media player to use as portable music player. It had no control buttons apart from very bad volume buttons so i could not control it "blindly" when it was in my pocket. Sold it weeks later to get a proper player.
How to Bury Negative Publicity Sites (or "Owning Your Rep via Subdomains")
The article is quite short, but those of you who choose not to read it should know the actual numbers quoted:

The iPhone's share is 0.51% (not 0.051%), the iPod Touch has 0.11%, and the iPad has 0.03%.

That means iPhone OS has a total of 0.65%, Android and Windows Mobile each have 0.07% (not 0.05%), and Blackberry has 0.04%.
The terms of service were updated on April Fool's Day as a gag
Whatever you may think about implementing an entire e-commerce site in full-screen Flash and flat XML files, I can guarantee you it's a better solution than implementing an entire e-commerce site in a hybrid Java and ActiveX environment with an Access 97 backend.
Ugly Viral vs. Pretty Viral
You should read some of the actual accounts of how/why GS took the tarp funds. Paulson basically told them to take it, or the government would suck up all of their oxygen.
And what have you done that is so great?
I saw the live interview and it was great.

It seems to me that the charges of fluffiness come not necessarily from "softball" questions, but from the impression that the questions are strictly softball.

Seeing you interview, it's very obvious that you're a genuinely nice guy. You couldn't hide that without changing yourself for the worse. But you don't have to, because it's an asset.

Part of this interview focused on the question of how do you make interviewees comfortable? Comfortable enough to do the interview in the first place, and comfortable enough to answer the questions openly, without fearing that the interviewer is about to spring some trap on them.

I've also noticed you tend to apologize when asking someone a question you think is tough, but it's interesting to see the reaction, almost a "No, no, I'll answer it."

For questions that are particularly salient but awkward to ask, you should continue to use that same technique to push just a bit further, both to stretch your comfort zone, and to get a feel for the real boundaries of what people are willing or even glad to answer.
I'm looking forward to seeing if it actually exists, and if so, the price, which I noticed they haven't announced yet.
Google Fast Flip's code browser does not have Flash
I don't live near a Walmart, but this kind of physique is no stranger in NYC. Just yesterday at a supermarket I saw a pre-teen child about 4-ft high, who was bursting just like that.
Good link, i like the graph. As i've mentioned in previous comments, i'm not trying to impress, just inform. It maybe obvious to you what is needed to go up in page rank, but it wasn't obvious to me, so i did some research and now here I am!
I'd really like a full-size laptop with these exact specs (and a full-size battery.) What really detracts from these things' portability is that they basically have to be plugged in every day. It's even the same with my Droid.
Thank you for making me Google "mit style versus new jersey style". I had heard of "worse is better", but had not heard those terms:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worse_is_better
Auto-closing ssh tunnels
I did like see more of your credibility on HN . Do you have a regular id that you post from ? Dont get me wrong , I do not go by NIT tags or IIT tags. Street cred has more value.
Taking a bigger picture:

Muscle atrophy is one of the biggest causes of reduced quality of life in the elderly (and also the not so elderly). Women in particular are susceptible to this due to their smaller amount of muscle mass to begin with and the general cultural aversion to women undertaking resistance exercise. My own experience (as a man and admitted gym rat) is that resistance training sorts out my back problem (and generally improves my life in other ways).

So, who's for deadlifts? :)
I think he meant `git checkout -b ...` since that's what people want to do most of the time. What's the use case for creating a branch if you're not going to use it straight away? (and no 'branch' in the command really)
Right, this is a mis-nomer. They're going from a managed service to leasing a datacenter or leasing space (several rooms) within a datacenter. Facebook went from leased space, to leased datacenters to building their own.
(The comment I am about to make is not supported by a link to a paper published by a widely respected, peer-reviewed scientific journal. You can safely assume that it contains nothing but falsehood and moderate accordintly.)

It's possible that the purpose of the comment was merely to express an opinion, and that the commenter had no intention of persuading you, or anyone else, of anything.
Undo is good, but I can't help but chuckle at the thought of "Whoops! He's not really my boyfriend" going out to 500 acquaintances 20 seconds after the opposite statement.
I work for Masten Space Systems. What we've done on $2M could not be done for less than $50-100M by the government. It's unfortunate but they have ridiculous amounts of overhead that companies our size just don't have.
I think the general trend is a social one. I suspect that the naturally thin people are having more children on average than the obese people, so the evolutionary trend will be towards faster metabolisms.
I think the author meant these commands as I'm in the same OS class and this script has been circulating around the class:

$ cat git-create-branch
#!/bin/sh

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
echo 1>&2 Usage: $0 branch_name
exit 127
fi

branch_name="$1"
git push origin origin:refs/heads/${branch_name}
git fetch origin
git checkout --track -b ${branch_name} origin/${branch_name}
git pull
Indeed. One of the things I try to figure out about a startup I'm considered working for is "can they fire people?" Because while making a wrong founder/hiring decision is often fatal, it becomes much closer to surely fatal if you don't have what it takes to correct it. (And it is hard.)
I was thinking along similar lines. Paul Graham has done a good job of laying out what the major factors are in building a successful startup, but to pinpoint down to one single factor being the MOST important is really just an exercise in understanding your own weaknesses. For some people, picking a problem you understand is the obvious part, but being flexible about their company's focus is not so obvious, so for them, that will be the most important principle. The most important principles for the individual are the ones that they won't accomplish naturally without thinking about it and working at it.
I think that some operating systems have gone like that way - features are not always removed, but some feats are harder and harder to find; other parts are replaced with automatic parts, which will have hardcoded or automatic answers to questions, which were asked before; some tools are removed, because things get better and you dont need them anymore. I am sometimes really surprised when I think that nowadays OS is basically desktop, window and one toolbar and start/K/whatever menu - of course, there is a lot more, but it all orbits around this simple set of things, which clearly do not evolve into bigger complexity and more functions, but more like into elegance, simplicity and features over functions.
Andrew, How about an HN-like board where people can up-vote any questions posted by other users in the live chat room. You can have a section in the interview where the top voted questions can be asked
it's in the specs, starts at 449 with wlan, 16gb
Very like Mercurial eh? I wonder if it'd be worth someone's while to pick it up & maintain it.
Knights of the Lambda Calculus
It's not so much the lifespan, it's performance degradation after lots of the drive has been written to. It's not a permanent problem, but I know lots of people who notice and end up formatting to regain their performance.
I'm not saying they don't degrade... just when they do, the performance is still so off-the-charts when compared to a hard drive that it's crazy to obsess over it.

And 10X sounds high to me - what sort of benchmark are you running? Most of the benchmarks I've seen put the hit at around 20 - 30% in random writes...
It's reusable - something the government hasn't been able to produce. There are a lot of applications - vertical takeoff and landing testbed, acceleration of Technology Readiness Levels, microgravity research, upper atmospheric research, heliophysic observation, etc. It's not a "space program," but vehicles like ours and John's have a very real market.
Purely from the security/retrieval viewpoint, I think not. You'd pass up potentially critical information that way.

Hmmm, I suppose from that viewpoint you'd also want to follow their policy of not telling anyone about the security system in the first place.
Seconded. I also like how many people are learning some ASM.
Government Backs Down in Yahoo Email Privacy Case
"Does Your School's Computer Lab Scare Away The Girls?" would make a less ambiguous title.
I'd say 2 and 4 are derivatives of 1. 4, not so much because a lot of petroleum and coal derivatives are used in those chemicals too, but more sugar in stuff is almost always because it is HFCS.
So about $600 at current exchange rates.
I really appreciate the simplicity. Please keep it simple. Don't listen to all the naysayers who want X,Y,Z feature. You'll end up alienating the users who actually enjoy your product.

Thanks, I will actually be using this.
Given the organizations supporting Yahoo, the same people are still protesting it today.
I'm not sure why "Microsoft free" is a product category? I mean, if you start out from such an odd ideological position, there's no telling what else you can convince yourself of.
NASA has shown itself incapable of meeting deadlines or staying within budget on many projects, and Obama is right to turn access to Low Earth Orbit over to commercial companies (on fixed price contracts, not the normal cost plus contracts). We've been building the same boring "get us to orbit" rocket since the 1960s. Wouldn't NASA's leadership (doing science and developing technologies that private companies cannot afford) be better spent on LEO and out? The moon, asteroids, Mars, Phobos, etc.

This is a great plan. It's a Good Thing for the aerospace economy in the long run even if there's going to be some displacement in the meantime.

It also opens the door for entrepreneurial companies - building rockets, engines, payload integrators, whatever - to make money in a way previously not possible. It's impossible to make money when the government is competing with you. This is a great thing for entrepreneurs, scientists, researchers, and people everywhere. There's a better chance your kid will be struck by lightning than be a NASA astronaut, but now the door has opened and we'll see private astronaut corps pop up from a few different sources.

Get behind this plan, folks. It's a Good Thing and great for other entrepreneurs, even if we're not building web software. :)
The specs say in Germany they're going to soft-launch it in July and publicly launch in August this year.
How does he know his Page Rank score? I didn't know such values were made public.
Programming parallel algorithms
I like that quote. It is a good description of what happens when people ignore basic rights infringements. The core of the US's glory is our rights, and if we let them be taken away for any reason... well... that's not why I came to the US.

In any case, what was the quote from Ben Franklin? "He who lets his rights be taken away in the name of security, deserves neither."
I like Mixergy in general.

Some episodes I don't like but I've found that's because of the guest, so I think that speaks well of andrew. If you hear 'This Week in Startups' you know it's all about Jason Calacanis, but in Mixergy it's really about the guest ad their stories.

Speaking of the stories, I like that a lot. I was really tired of hearing Jason Fried and DHH tell the exact same pitch on every podcast (yes, I'm suscribed to too many) but I quite enjoyed Jason F on Mixergy. That's because of the story.

I don't like video, though, and the audio feed only work sometimes. I know I could pay for a reliable audio feed :)
Maybe I'm a bit jaded, as a former broadcast.com employee who watched layoff after layoff drain a thriving company to a shell of its former self.
We were already taught at uni that the NSA gathers, scans and records (albeit temporarily) all email that passes through US servers.
Thanks for replying- Andrew is certainly doing well with Mixergy, and I hope things continue to go well for him. The question is just what style works best.

As Andrew mentioned in his comment (above) about 99 designs, asking for customer feedback is important.

I offer my comments here in that spirit-

Personally, I find the self-indulgent questions somewhat distastful, but it's ultimately a decision of what style he's aiming for.

You mention that I shouldn't compare him to George Stephanopoulos; While Andrew isn't at that level yet, Comparisons are among the best ways to get better. Maybe Stephanopoulos isn't the direction that Andrew wants to go, but he should look to people he emulates and try to find what he can do better to be more like them.

A large part of that is choosing your personal style. The Mixergy style works fairly well so far, but there's always room to adjust as you mature, and as the program ages-

For instance, Andrew could pursue a Folksy, relaxed, conversational style, interacting a lot with the audience. This is a lot of fun, and helps us feel connected with him, almost indie rock bandishly.

Another direction would to bring things to a more "professional" level, more akin to Bloomberg news with a focus on young and ambitious starts, rather than the megacorps we see so dominating the media.

A third option, and the one I'd reccomend, is to go for more of a Biographical view. Aim for Timelessness.

When I visit Folklore.org and read about the creation of the original Mac, I'm transported back 30 years. The stories about Atkinson and Jobs are classic and it doesn't matter WHEN I watch or listen to these stories, they'll always be wonderful.

We say good examples of this during the SmugMug interview. These stories work well now, or 5 years from now.

Discussions of current events, such as the iPad and the re-launch of StackExchange are interesting, but don't have nearly the same level of timelessness.

Particularly since Mixergy makes it money by selling back-archives, try to make sure they're valueable into the future.

Think A&E's Biography, not CNN Headline news.

In any events, Thanks for doing the interviews, they are an interesting contribution to the world of Startup Culture.
That's good to do, but you should flush things correctly anyway. Otherwise your error messages and output conflict.
As a long-time TA for the class leading up to 15-410 (almost as long as he's been a student at CMU) I can firmly attest to the fact that we have done absolutely nothing to make him aware of centralized version control (or distributed version control...) :)

So basically, he's got the freshest possible eyes to make this judgement, and if your counterclaim is that he hasn't truly grokked it yet, then that suggests that it may be counterintuitive.

Additional fairness: the project in question is a 6-week round-the-clock code fest. Writing a kernel from scratch takes forever. (Is this project just a waste of time? Having moved on to poking at the Linux kernel and stuff, I'd say almost certainly, but that's a topic for another conversation.)

Most Sincerely,
Alex "Found out the hard way that reset != revert" Gartrell
There's another article on obesity at the site that I like:

http://modeledbehavior.com/2010/04/16/hoisted-from-the-comme...

Particularly this line:

> In order to stay within one pound of your current weight
> over a year, calories-in have to match calorie-out with
> 99.7% accuracy. The calorie testing equipment that
> determines what goes on food labels is not even that
> accurate, so it seems implausible that people are
> achieving this through conscious equation of calories-in
> with calories-out.
If that happens, it's supposed to block, so let it.

So yes, you are wrong here.
The tacit claim that you're making here is that ideology is the only possible reason that one might have for wanting to avoid any particular vendor. Maybe you need to support that claim a bit. Surely a company of their magnitude has a healthy share of run-of-the-mill disgruntled former customers.
Can programming be liberated from the Von Neumann style
SSL also prevents webmasters from tracking the keywords used by the searchers, since the referrer is blank.

This can be a useful privacy feature, in addition to the encryption.
Wow...just wow. Why would you do this to yourselves?

First of all,

git push origin origin:refs/heads/${branch_name}

is totally unnecessary when creating a new branch.

I see that there are remote branches you want to track. It's simple, no need for a script. Just make sure you are synced with the current version of the repo you are using (using `git pull`). Then:

git checkout --track -b bugfix origin/bugfix

Easy as pie. I even have an alias set when I want to do this, so I just call

git cot bugfix origin/bugfix

To create a new branch locally (that doesn't track a remote), just call

git checkout -b new-feature

Note: When using `git pull`, `git fetch` doesn't need to be called. Pulling changes will fetch them for you automatically.
This whole problem had two starting points.

1. The repeal of the Glass-Steagal act. This allowed banks to undertake the business of commercial banks, investment banks, and insurance agencies. That means that, banks were able to build these complex derivatives, use money from people's savings accounts to partake in risky investments, and then insure them with high standards. All from under one roof.

2. The investment firms went public. This was a fundamental change in the 80's where Goldman, Morgan Stanley, and many others where they became officially owned by the public. That ment that the risk of all their losses was owned by the shareholders as well as profits. Risky investing became the norm, because if you lost a ton of money for Goldman, you may have gotten chewed out or lost your job. But if you made a ton of money for Goldman, you had a very large bonus waiting for you.

Now this mindset has just grown out of hand. It's greed that is driving our financial center, Wall Street.
Facebook, Happiness & The User Data Black Market
Imagine if Facebook data was used for more than just benefiting Facebook?
Back when I tried that I simply used xbench - the 4k block writes went below 10MB/s. I don't have the exact numbers, but I do remember that mac os took > 30 seconds of spinning wheel to boot, compared to 1-2 usually. BTW, filling the disk is as easy as performing "erase free space" with Disk Utility.
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