skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you think C# is not much different than Java then you are either not running up against the limitations of Java much, not using C#'s features fully/properly, or both.
I reluctantly use a BB at work. For me, the PIN part of messenger is a pain. Identity seems to be tied to device so anytime anyone refreshes hardware, a bunch of PIN messages go out and a lot of the time they fail with some gibberish message. I'm much more curious about BBM having read what you wrote, as point to point messaging is an interesting thing, even though I'm not partial to adding interruption channels personally.
Is 'red' the same to all creatures?
Sneak *peek".
if it's not in my reader or HN, then it's not relevant. HN really has been my replacement to Digg because their community is obsessed with cheap content.
Can exercise replace Zoloft?
Hmmm, I would imagine the average hourly wage of 6000 people would be much lower than $50/hour....
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/article1084093.ece
Buzz Aldrin Is Not All That Impressed With Walking on the Moon
There is no way it makes sense, literally or otherwise. Learn to write, dude.
The C and Prolog examples solve a different problem than the others. The others split on either any whitespace or on only spaces. The Prolog example splits on whitespace and punctuation. The C example splits on anything that isn't alphanumeric.
Loads instantly here, but is completely blank with javascript blocked. That's how you know he's a true professional.
Introducing the Totebag for eBooks
The PPAR agonists stimulate adipogenesis - one of their main effects is to make you fatter so that you have a dumping ground for excess sugars. This doesn't seem like a very good idea, and I'm not surprise that it turns out that they suck (kill people).
Killing Private Enterprise One start-up at a time
And now, a word about entrepreneurship in Greece:

http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/fullcomment/archive...

(and, less humorously: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405270230425270457515...)
I listen to binaural beat loops (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binaural_beats). It works great. I use Holosync (http://www.centerpointe.com/) for meditation and for short power-naps/quasi-meditation, I use Pzizz on my iPhone (http://www.pzizz.com/). I can especially recommend Pzizz.
A C++ version:

#include <iostream>
#include <string>
int main()
{
std::string s;
while (std::cin >> s) {
if (s.size() >= 3 && s.match(s.size()-3, 3, "ing") == 0) {
std::cout << s << '\n';
}
}
}
For anyone interested in trying meditation, I found this podcast useful:
http://www.audiodharma.org/series/1/talk/1762/
A simple model for innovation
I still can't get over the $1B prize. Andrew just got massive points for pulling that off.

I'm guessing that it cost $30m to insure that prize. (src="http://scapromotions.com)
Kellogg's math: 28 million boxes recalled = 353 million bowls
I've heard that as well.

http://credit.about.com/od/usingcreditcards/a/deadbeatcredit...
1. Read the post I responded to again. I think we may have found one![1]

2. Good luck with the feeling-sick-because-I-agree-with-PG thing.

[1]In any case a group that still thinks of economics in zero sum terms are doctrinaire marxists. The idea that economics is destined to, at some point (sometimes claimed to be behind us), become zero sum is popular in hardcore environmentalist circles.
The consumers will go where the software is, in some cases. Take a look at the Sega vs. Nintendo market of the 8-bit 80s in the US - Nintendo offered a larger market, and locked up all the developers in exclusivity contracts. Even with superior hardware, Sega couldn't compete because they couldn't get many third party developers to develope for the Master System.
Yeah, we haven't even had to deal with data directly from the instrument yet. So far, we've been getting data from collaborators for analysis via terabyte usb drives (FedEx throughput can't be beat). For the actual analysis, we've found the same thing... disk IO is a limiting factor. Well, that and the 16GB human genome indexes in RAM. And we aren't on an Isilon system yet (probably won't be either).

However, we just got our own instrument, so this will definitely be an issue, but our University knows a thing or two about dealing with big data (http://kb.iu.edu/data/avvh.html).

I've only dealt with a few GWAS style datasets, and the next-gen stuff dwarfs the GWAS data in terms of size. But when looking for linkages between variations, we're still talking more time than the universe is old level of calculations for more than 3 combinations. Which is really scary, because like you said, all the genetics people are going to be using sequencing for most things from here on out, so its like you have complexity on top of complexity...
So you want to be a writer, or an entrepreneur, or…
BackType is hiring front and back-end developers
TL;DR: This Meme Must Die
JAVA for ever
Hey, don't be hatin' on Win9x - it's allegedly got greater market share than the iPad or Blackberry:

http://www.netmarketshare.com/operating-system-market-share....
Can you elaborate on the practical effects TM has had on your life? I've begun a meditation practice in the past year and I'm finding that I am much more patient and present with circumstances and people, and rarely have moments of anger or negativity any more.
Was looking at the line outside Oakfield Mall yesterday and asked an advisor if anyone had done this calc. Thanks.
Someone with karma please downvote or flag... unsubstantiated rumors don't belong on HN.
and of course they got a guy who looks like Morgan Freeman for a photo op. Chain Reaction, anyone?
Whoah, weird, didn't realize people were talking about this article here.

I blabbed too much about some of the wrong things to that reporter...kind of afraid of people reading it now. It sort of makes me seem like a dick.
Many of the postings for 95 and 3.1 appear to be in the field of health care.

Perhaps this is an important message to companies attempting to create rapid innovation in the health sector...
It's amazing how many cold calls you get if you mention Hadoop in your LinkedIn profile or resume. It's also a bit myopic: the strength of Hadoop and MapReduce in general is a simple, scale agnostic programming model. I can give somebody Tom White's book and they'll be able to write working code in few days.

My team uses Hadoop extensively, but while a background with Hadoop never hurts (it's a great system that solves a difficult problem, but it has many quirks and rough edges that need to be worked around) it's much more important that the candidate is a great programmer and has domain specific skills (in data processing, information retrieval, machine learning, statistics, numerical analysis -- the tasks you typically use Hadoop for).

Asking "how do you compute <some function> over <some dataset> on a cluster of unreliable, commodity machines, communicating through message passing" is a much better interview question to use than "what is the difference between TextInputFormat and SequenceFileInputFormat" and "what is the interface you implement to specify a custom partitioner and how do you configure the M/R job to use it".
Not really... these datasets start to saturate 10Gb network connections very easily, so it's a question of volume. With some instruments, you can generate 10-20 terabytes at a time.
Life is full of uncertainties. Our job is to assign probabilities to outcomes and use those probabilities to make choices. I don't think it's unreasonable for that piece of evidence to increase the probability of his disagreeableness in someone's mind.
We are dealing with transcriptomes. Do you do targeted sequencing of exomes (DNA), or RNA?
> unfortunately it's difficult to gain traction without a compelling headline.

The difficulties of the journalism industry don't excuse bad reporting.
The Python implementation doesn't use ARGF and so appears clearer. Luckily this is no problem in Ruby too:

while line = gets
puts line.split.select { |word| word =~ /ing$/ }
end
Smaller than you could ever experience with your finger (about a 90-pixel square area on the iPhone 4), and better than any other phones on the market, apparently.
Facebook First Teaser Video
Did you guys read the book? "Accidental Billionaires" How well do you think the movie is going to do?
To the best of my recollection, Jekyll itself plays nicely with 1.9.1. It's Liquid that was a problem for me. The Gemcutter.org version of Liquid (2.0) is not 1.9 safe. However, the version at Github (2.1) is.

http://github.com/tobi/liquid

Since the commit to fix Liquid for 1.9.1 was in April of 2009, I wonder why it's not the version on Gemcutter? (Or some version of that version, if there are other issues...)

Edit: Yup, just checked. Jekyll with Liquid 2.1 is fine on 1.9.1. (I'm on OSX here, but the 1.9.1 I checked is also patch level 378.)

All of that said, rvm is outstanding.
I'd love to see a comparison of ad-supported free applications. iPhone will surely win, but nowhere by that margin.

Also, one of the points of the article is that Android allows for more varied apps to be developed. GOTO (as described in the article) cannot exist on the iPhone. Nor can Swype. Nor any of the the home screen replacements.

Indeed about half of the app ideas I have are not possible to implement on non-jailbroken iPhones.
I don't think there's anything there that will make the site less shallow so the power users should still be quite at home.
Does the internet even "work" with Windows 95/98?
Most of the people that will be using this tool are intel analysts. Most intel analysts used to be in the military at some point. To be an intel analyst in the military you have to score relatively high on a test called the ASVAB (basically an aptitude test). There's still lots of old guard in the field who can't work a mouse, but the recent crop of analysts were all trained and worked on systems of similar complexity and size (ASAS, JIOC, DCGS, etc.).

In other words, we're not talking about the typical government paper pusher.

That being said, it's still a complicated tool requiring the training and understanding of some pretty complicated concepts that most analysts don't know about or understand (like ontologies).
It sounds like you have direct experience with them. If so, would you please describe what you personally saw or heard, that sheds light on this question?

If it's BS, perhaps it's BS designed to hoodwink engineers. It certainly got me excited thinking that it might be true.
GithubGraph + ubigraph server = pure awesomeness
i'd rather work at taco bell
What happens with libraries downloaded from the Google mirror?
An interesting datapoint is this guy:

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/caq8f/iama_developer_w...

Who made the same app for the iPhone and for Android. His ratio was 3:1, which is roughly the ratio of handsets in the US iirc.
Hmm, so as humans we should be productive every day, all day? Didn't realize if I took part of my day to wait for something I was excited about meant I was doing something wrong!
Very, very interesting. I'm going to have to suck it up and pull it from sourceforge - I'll be very interested to see how they implemented the message passing and "safe object" stuff. With time this could change things quite a bit for python.
To be fair, there's a long history of self-aggrandizing blog posts with which to judge him by.
Good to hear (thanks)! Alas, multiprocessing will always be slagged by the serialization and deserialization of objects. Note, I'm the maintainer, so I'm not trolling :)
Not quite. Apple's HIG recommends allotting 44pts for hit targets (about 90px on the new screen) for usability's sake, but you can hit much smaller targets if you're careful about it.
Totally. 98 was supported by Firefox all the way through version 2, IIRC
Really? It's that problematic to go talk to someone who'll want to talk to you about your needs and see what works out for both of you? You'd prefer the guy with that vague portfolio and a flat published rate instead? I don't publish my rate (let's just say it's not even half of $1k/hr except in extraordinary circumstances, like most developers I know consulting on non-specialized stuff), but I am at no shortage of clients right now. If I could actually slow my flow of emails from interested individuals, businesses, and recruiters for consulting and jobs, I'd be so happy...

Anyway, I'm not denying Mike's claim to fame, and other than some of his nuttier blog posts/tweets he seems like a reasonable guy the few times I've met him in passing. But I'd want to do a little more research into a person's background before jumping on the bandwagon and assuming what he's done in the past is going to help you towards whatever goal you might have. And this is why I call his portfolio vague. While it might work for the kind of work he's looking to do right now because his expertise as being part of the teams behind so many hits is exactly what he's selling, I'm not about to work with/hire someone as an actual developer (and not just consulting on The Big Picture of things) without more info on what exactly he did on those apps. (Though I'm sure if he ever did consider doing that that he'll kindly provide it to interested parties.)

BTW, his $1k/hr rate blog post was originally about his plans to travel worldwide and to use limited consulting hours at that rate to help fund it. I don't think he's the one you're looking for to send your first email to if you need a talented developer to work longer term. If you are looking for long term work, @schwa, the guy that wrote that tweet that Mike screenshotted and included at the top of this blog post, maintains a list of experienced developers looking for work (http://toxicsoftware.com/i-wouldnt-hire-an-iphone-developer-...). Big Nerd Ranch, the company founded by Aaron Hillegass, the person that wrote the book on Cocoa Programming, also does consulting (http://www.bignerdranch.com/consulting). Iconfactory does UI/design work (http://iconfactory.com/design). The list goes on and on.
It's awesome to see that more people are biking and walking, and that the government is spending money on programs to encourage this behavior.

However, this is essentially chart junk. The time spacing is not consistent, which makes comparing any two years essentially impossible. Also, this data does not take into account the growth of walking & biking per capita. The stick figures are clever but tell me less than the numbers below them. The only thing this chart really shows is that the government is spending money. Sorry GOOD, this is pretty, but you should do better.
A long time ago something clicked for me and I realized other people have only as much power over you as you grant them, and the main thing standing in the way of your own success is yourself.

IMO/IME confidence comes mostly from realizing that almost all failure modes are, in the grand scheme of things, impermanent and insignificant.

Worry less about what others think, worry less about most consequences, and just attempt whatever interests you. Pay attention to your mistakes and incorporate some learning from them in to your next attempt.
You're totally right. I have never met either man in person. I only said I suspected that, based on the personal behavior I've seen expressed in both cases. I've never seen Carmack behave badly. What I read in the Lee post constitutes bad behavior, in my ethical system. YMMV.
How does Digg differentiate itself from Reddit?
I don't have the link, but apparently that's nothing compared to the time lost when google made their logo an interactive pacman game
Christian Louboutin OTK platform boot black
On Forced Grouping In MMOs
Opera 9.5 works on Windows95. Possibly later versions, as well.

http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/886/
Apple tried to move to top tabs in Safari with no easy option to switch back and got major complaints. Despite the four reasons in the video, a lot of people like the tabs the way they are and changing it will just drive them away. Or worse, it will keep people on Firefox 3.5.
Yes, but the Lisa cost about $22,000 (adjusted for inflation). A regular macbook costs $1000.
Become successful and rich. Or at least more successful and richer than you were before.

This is unfortunately recursive, but that's the way it works. You try something at the edge of your ability and accomplish it. Because you were successful at that, your confidence goes up. Then you try something harder, accomplish it, and your confidence goes up again. If you happen to fail at something, lick your wounds and try again.

Eventually, you don't need to play mindgames with yourself, you just realize that you're completely capable of doing what you set out to do.
Or Subway, unless you want to live on the toilet.
Achieve things, even small things.

Achievements incrementally build confidence.
It's worth spending a bit of time reading on, as I find the descriptions here to be overly superficial, perhaps largely because meditation is more defined by what you do not do, than what you do. It's also worth noting that there are many types of meditation. Years ago I read "Buddhism without Beliefs" (on "agnostic Buddhism"). Bullshitty as the title may sound, the major thing that I came away with was a decent meditation practice that I stuck to for a few months.

Sadly, I've found even for those convinced of meditation's benefits, like exercise, knowing you should do it doesn't mean you do.

http://monkeymindonline.blogspot.com/2008/04/critical-analys...

As a side note, the all time best quote on meditation, from Tom Robbins' Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates:

"Meditation hasn't got a damn thing to do with anything, 'cause all it has to do with is nothing. Nothingness. Okay? It doesn't develop the mind, it dissolves the mind. Self-improvement? Forget it, baby. It erases the self. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass. What good is it? Good for nothing. Excellent for nothing. Yes, Lord, but when you get down to nothing, you get down to ultimate reality. It's then and exactly then that you're sensing the true nature of the universe, you're linked up with the absolute Absolute, son, and unless you're content with blowing smoke up your butt all your life, that there's the only place to be."
I believe some hotel interactive systems (i.e. through the TV) use Windows 95 or 98.
Tapulous, not Tap Tap Tap. I like Tap Tap Tap. :)
Youtube.com/watch?v=DlO8KMv7Bx4

" Not available on Mobile "
as seen from my BB8130 using opera mobile 5.

The native browser used to work with youtube, but then the site changed. Using opera on certain yt videos usually offers me a link to the rtsp:// feed that will open back in the native browser, then the media player (a part of the browser?) launches the stream. To say nothing of how bad the mitsubishi ad linked elsewhere played, when I got it to (likely youtube or the original uploader making a bad encoding decision, but it was all artifacts with no interpretable images).

Offtopic, but oh so relevant. I love to hate on this phone.

Pre-edit(ps?): The input system hates text fields on webpages, hates entering and leaving fields (cursor gets locked on the first word), hates text boxes bigger than the screen (seen occasionally in the horrible RIM FB app), the input system will crash occasionally, and it's predictive text refuses to acknowledge typos. Also, I kept getting a spurious double "e" ("ee") when I /pasted/ the youtube link above, and I've never seen that before.)
The government never demonstrated he did anything wrong, except being overly optimistic about his company. Houston's Clear Thinkers blog has done a great job of chronicling how absurd the governments claims are. http://blog.kir.com/archives/2010/06/skilling_wins_a.asp
Easy access to insurance that isn't provided by an employer is important for entrepreneurship, but if by "proper universal healthcare" you mean single-payer insurance, I disagree. The individual insurance market sucks in America because of preexisting conditions and the higher taxes on individual insurance than on employer-provided insurance. The former is getting fixed. I'm not sure if the latter actually made it into the final bill, but I don't think it did, and that's a shame.

Beyond that, the only advantage single-payer systems have is the lower prices that result from wielding monopsony power. I don't think it's possible to maintain the quality and pace of improvement of health care when people are funding it less than they would be willing to. Health care is expensive because we value it so much that we throw tons of money at it. People try to provide better care in order to get some of that money, and if you take some of the money away, there will be less people advancing the industry, which isn't what people want.
That still seems like an curious criterion with which to judge someone's humanity. Gary Vaynerchuk, DHH, Zed Shaw, and a lot of the people admired by many HNers are very self-aggrandizing.

Sidenote: It seems that people like this have to deal with a trough on their way up where a lot of judgment gets thrown their way for their outgoing manner. If they hit it big, though, that seems to be quickly forgotten and everyone loves them. We've seen it with all of the above. Those who fail to cross the trough, end up forgotten.
Anyone else think of Facebook after seeing those screenshots? I know I did.
Writing things on the Internet is part of human behavior.

What a person says reveals aspects of who they are. The Internet is not some special place that is exempt from all normal expectations of conduct that otherwise hold in meatspace. Just as simply being part of a business enterprise does not exempt one from being judged as a human based on your behavior.

Also note I said "suspect" not "knew for certain" or anything as extreme or decisive as that. Important distinction, and one I chose intentionally when picking that word. :P :)
Indeed on the tricky bit.

But even so, some dynamics might be discernible in the mess. Such as... consider the set of skeuomorphs defended by the claim to function that they aid by minimizing some switching cost. That defense has something akin to a half-life, when there exists some set of transition steps that takes the design of the skeuomorph, imperceptibly at each step, toward some more efficient design. So indefinitely using the "minimizing switching costs" rationale as giving "function" wouldn't hold up in such cases. Then it seems reasonable to say that any costs which arise from not having moved such skeuomorphs along that path of imperceptible transitions in a timely fashion would be a indefensible waste if that was the skeuomorph's only claim to functionality.
I think he was deliberately using hyperbole. The point is that people who turn off JavaScript are a tiny, highly technical minority.
I think Digg is at a stage now where power users are not only non-essential, but detrimental to its progress. If MrBabyMan stopped digging stories, those same stories would still find their way to the site - they often do, BEFORE he submits them.

Digg was at its best, IMO, when it focused only on the tech industry. Now that I can specify whose news I want to follow, I think any Digg user can create a niche Digg experience that harkens bark to that first version.

People are undervaluing what Digg is doing here - it's creating what I think is the best RSS reader available. Rather than subscribing to Mashable's RSS, TechCrunch's RSS and RWW's RSS, I have friends with similar taste adding content to "MY NEWS." Each one of these stories is something interesting enough to merit submission, whereas in a traditional RSS reader 1/10 of the TechCrunch posts would be one of those "Jason Calacanis: the Attention Whore" type of posts that Arrington publishes.

In short, Digg doesn't need power users, and its redesign is going to bring a lot of users back who liked the tech-centric Digg of old.
Except for Prolog, I am familiar with all of the languages presented. Python and Haskell were the easiest for me to parse, not that any of them were overly hard.