skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most teeth are for chewing or incising food, and thus I'd expect most teeth styles to be designed for diet. Canines aren't used for eating - they're used for killing. So I'd be surprised to learn that they evolved for diet only. I'm too lazy to do the research, but I'd be happy to be learn I'm wrong. A quick search turned up a somewhat relevant article about large canines in primates (not carnivorous):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080626145058.ht...

It discusses whether they evolved the large canines for fighting or to impress females, but either way it wasn't related to diet.
You complain that New York is too expensive, but you were living in a doorman building in the Financial District? Is this some kind of joke?

It sounds like you had a bad experience at a shitty job, hung around with total assholes, and then blamed the city for all of it. Then you relocated to a new place, did a different job, hung out with new people, and conclude that the entirety of New York (none of which, judging by your post, you've ever seen) is doomed because every one of its 8 million residents is a back-slapping MBA. Give me a break.
Large-scale cooking though is a more modern innovation.

Especially canning.
It should work, you can enforce this. You can see that some VCs even encourage founders to offload some of their stocks because it "destresses" the founder (a little bit of money in the bank= more zen) from worrying about money too much to refocus on the business instead.
Illumos sporks OpenSolaris: Spooning Oracle for now, but ready to fork
Why Beak (the Twitter app) Is Dead
Interesting, if disappointing. My conception of NYC is probably stuck in a 1970's vision of the place. I'm sure art cultures seem more concentrated and vital in hindsight when the winners have been canonized but I've heard a lot of people complain that downtown NYC has been Disneyfied.

I personally know several electronic musicians that left S.F. for Berlin so maybe that's a better destination. It doesn't seem nearly as energetic in tech though.
It looks like we interpreted the author differently. I took the "more degrees" coupled with a graduation age of 21 to mean the son had a Bachelor's and the father had only a high school diploma.

I was looking at it as college vs no college, not college today vs college 30 years ago.
Why would you say "The restriction is undoubtedly effective at preventing even more crap from entering the App Store". Is there any evidence that Apple's restriction on languages is preventing more crap apps?

Keep in mind this isn't about Flash (or at least, not just about Flash). It means iPhone developers can't use any other languages (Lua, JavaScript, Python, etc), interpreted or compiled.

You've got to have your head shoved pretty far up Steve Job's reality distortion field to claim that this restriction anything other than an anticompetitive move to "lock" developers into the platform.
Seriously. What a laugh. The author parks himself in a doorman building in one of the most expensive neighborhoods in the city and then declares that you can't get by without paying $2500 a month in rent.
Boston doesn't have anything old. "Old" in the US is more like this:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Acoma_Pueblo

although there are ruins that are much older:

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Chaco_Canyon

In other parts of the continent, there are much older continuously inhabited cities.
but it all starts with a good primary school education which doesn't exist anymore.
Sorry, I don't have the appropriate statute in front of me. Merely memory from discussions some 8 years ago. If you wish to know more, I strongly recommend talking with a competent lawyer.

Also note that there are a lot of caveats where details of your specific situation could make you fine. (Or not.)
The cloud is dead - long live the cloud
I come to Hacker News looking for intelligent discourse. There wasn't a _shred_ of nuance in this article.

That, I presume, is why it is hosted elsewhere. The comments here are illuminating, as always.
I have read the article and I gotta say, I really enjoyed it, even though I disagree with about 99.99% of it (as probably all New Yorkers do)

This is a brilliant move from PR point of view. It invoked feelings of Andy Kaufman from me, because at the core, it's a troll - yet it's not an "obvious" troll, so people still fall for it. I can only imagine the traffic/attention you're gonna get now that it's viral. Bravo!
How to find an angel investor
It seems obvious but it can be very tempting to switch course.
> I really, really get tired of coding all that stuff by hand every damn time - it's one of the major things that made me get out of GUI work in the first place

Absolutely. Having sensible and configurable defaults for everything is the way to go.
This is like complaining that LA is a bad city to film a movie because I've never seen a camera crew in Rancho Cucamonga. Manhattan != New York City.
Very nice layout. Not very "academic looking", but really nice to look at :)
News flash: Apple does not have a monopoly on that tone. It's just a good marketing strategy following basic principles that they employ a lot.

You could also say that a lot of Acer's marketing has a Dell-like tone. But that doesn't mean Acer is taking cues from Dell.
The PostgreSQL Development Process
Totally right.

Meat and electrolytes, that's what a body needs.
he just reflects on two separate facts:
1. app store is full of crap
2. apple being fascist to developers (and recently iPhone 4 users)
Is it just me, or did Zed not describe his testing methodology in any detail?

I can't even find a reference to his OS configuration and version details that he's developing on, which seems to me like a critical detail.
They work hand in hand. A successful job board gives us the ability to focus more on code hosting and collaboration. That's the fun part of GitHub, after all.
Don't forget non-compete agreements - valid in NY, invalid in CA. So not only can you NOT leave your day job for a startup, you typically have to wait 2 (or more) years before being able to freely work on any projects. (If your start up is in a completely different area than your day-job, you may be able to get away with it sooner. But don't think that corporations are lax about enforcing the non-compete you signed.)
Strawman. Very few people are saying that, not enough to worry about. The claim is not that 100% of college should be about teaching useful skills, the claim is that if you're going to be put into tens of thousands of dollars of debt that can not be removed by bankruptcy it should probably be the case that more than zero percent of your college time should be spent on a directly-salable skill.

Many people are really misunderstanding the argument here. It is not that liberal arts are bad. It is that it is basically large-scale fraud to sell a college degree as best way to a well-paying job and worth the massive undischargable-debt without explaining that the promise really only applies to practical degrees.

You are free to complain about how the market only values degrees that produce marketable skills (and I've deliberately phrased it a bit tautologically to make it obvious that it's not really a very compelling complaint), but I still say that if you want people to pursue impractical degrees you need to be doing it by telling them the truth about what they are doing. I will not deny anybody their right to go into tens of thousands of dollars of debt chasing their dream, I just want them to do it with eyes wide open.
Words With Friends: A Language Geek's Favorite Time Killer
As an intern who works in a Web Company in nyc, I can attest to the claim of above comment. My agreement with my employer even for an internship had this clear clause.
With so much variation in the time measured for a given language? Fastest to slowest is approaching a factor of 100 in some cases.

This study is useless (even if meaningful) with this much variation, and no clear explanation for why so.
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I won't attempt to defend iMac-based hardware upgrades apart from RAM, but memory is actually extremely easy to replace. Just FYI. http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3918
HN discussion with proper link: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1571933
Oohh this is perfect. I know they did this inside Google for all the @google.com employee accounts back around January. Good to see them pushing it out to the rest of us.
Cloud storage is nothing new. When Dropbox launched there were already lots of competitors. What makes Dropbox so awesome is that it _just works_ everywhere.

To that end, this is not a Dropbox alternative. This is a cloud-based storage platform, like so many others. You have a long, long way to go before you nail what it is that Dropbox customers have come to expect.
F***ed by Apple
I agree that hanging out with the Wall Street types, going to Wall Street bars, and living in Wall Street apartments probably skewed his perception of NYC's tech scene greatly.

But, hackers like myself who hang out with hacker types, go to hacker bars, and live in hacker nabes probably are probably equally skewed, albeit in the opposite direction. It's people like me who are shouting from the hilltops that NYC is the new SF, when in reality it's probably somewhere in between these two extremes.
LOL at "Craigslist never caught on in New York".
"We're Even Wrong About Which Mistakes We're Making."
Yes, the basic premise was that college is more expensive now, but that college graduates are not any more educated than they were decades ago.
Chef is kind of cool, but the Chef server? Reggie Watts described it best in his song, "Fuck Shit Stack".
Thanks for that; great read.
It seems to be "beat up on academia year" this year. Yawn.

College might occasionally be over-valued in some areas, but it's not useless. Last I checked towns with strong top-tier universities were much healthier economically than towns without.
You don't need to hypothesize an ulterior motive, they told you what it was straight out during the "It Must Be Objective-C" kurfuffle. It is to maintain control over the platform and ensure that as they update the platform the apps can easily track it because they are all on the same basic framework. That they later loosened this restriction doesn't really change the point.

I hate to call that "ulterior" though, because while I disagree with it, I can not say it is evil or invalid. It's their strategy.
Android is not doing that bad really:

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/burnette/android-sales-surge-surpa...

http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2367313,00.asp
You're making three assumptions

1. no one will risk doing "big" things as they're afraid of rejection.

2. If an app store has <200K-budget-apps, it will be full of junk.

3. If Apple pre-approved apps and more >200K-budget-apps were in the app-store, the app-store would not be full of low-quality apps.

The first assertion is a bit extreme. I understand that some big companies may hesitate to create apps that aren't pre-approved, but many other big companies (ranging from Volkswagen to Pizza Hut to New York Times to Microsoft) haven't suffered from any inhibitions when it comes to creating iPhone apps.

The second and third assumptions seem flat-out wrong. On (2) you can create high-quality apps on a small budget and on (3) the presence of high-quality apps (whether low-budget or >200K-budget) isn't going to dissuade junkware publishers.
Am I the only one who wishes all this personal stuff had
nothing to do with the business?

No, you're not the only one. I don't doubt Alexis wished for the exact same thing: that none of this 'personal stuff' would happen.
Um, that would be the baby boomers, not their parents.
Thanks for the insights. I can see that you're the hustler busting your balls trying. Get rich or die tryin'! Keep it going, and good luck!
> Sure, but that's no reason to be hostile to man pages.

They're not being hostile to man pages. They just don't maintain them. They're no more hostile to man pages than FreeBSD is to info pages.

> Ideally you have a man page [...]

That doesn't sound very ideal. man pages and info pages are formatted differently and take a different approach to explaining things. Having both would mean that the maintainer of each package would need to expend effort on maintaining both.

As an example. Here's the FreeBSD strlen() manpage: http://www.gsp.com/cgi-bin/man.cgi?section=3&topic=strle...

And the equivalent section in the GNU libc manual: http://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/String-Len...

On FreeBSD I'd do `man 3 strlen' at the nearest terminal. On GNU I'd do `info libc' followed by `m string<TAB>' to find that node.

You can't easily turn that documentation into a man page. E.g. on FreeBSD you'd have one manual page for malloc(3), but in the libc manual the documentation for malloc and other allocation functions is part of an entire chapter on "Virtual Memory Allocation And Paging". You can't easily tear that out into a man page.

> They could at least not stand in the way of those who would like to provide them.

Well, would the FreeBSD project stand in my way if I started sending them patches to duplicate their documentation in some new format like GNU info or perldoc? Probably yes.

Documentation isn't a one-off thing. It incurs a long-term maintenance cost. So it's best to pick one system and stick to it.

And really, it's not too much to ask that you just familiarize yourself with the conventions of the OS or system you're using. To stick to just ways of reading documentation I use man, info, perldoc, rdoc, phpdoc, javadoc, online tutorials etc. regularly.
> I have rather big doubts, though, that US occupation caused West Germany (and France) to become a champion of European integration.

US occupation made war involving Germany unthinkable.

The US did, at various times, encourage European integration.
As an eighteen- or nineteen- year old, I would have wasted that money almost instantly. Could it work in reverse with the money arriving in your fourth or fifth year of college?

Perhaps a curriculum dedicated to giving students more and more autonomy until they are working almost entirely independently by the fourth year?
Would you rather come up with a great idea you are passionate about and see it through to completion, or build something that you know Google (or similiar) will snap up for $25 million?

I prefer the former. But the latter is not a bad outcome either.
Definitely, it's from an AACRO conference which is full of collegiate registrars and provosts. The message may ignore contrary data to get a political agenda across. Until I can review the actual reports the argument is based upon, I can't really say for certain. To truly analyze the information across the nation the feds will have to create a US student tracking and lump it in with K-12 & IRS data. There's a quiet movement to do so - but there's resistance to that idea hence the discussion. Resistance stems from the orwellian aspects while proponents trend along "we spend federal dollars on these diplomas, we need to make sure they're doing GOOD for the society somehow." A figure quoted at the same talk was that we spend 3% of our GDP on education.

I didn't say I agreed with what was said, it's just something that higher ed is talking about at the top of the greater organization and was worth a mention.

Personally I feel state academia is bloated and backwards and many changes need to be made. Admissions should be highly curtailed where the whole nation makes an effort towards math and science instead of 'getting a degree so you can get 10k$ extra starting out.' I'm still not convinced that the federal dollars lost to defaulting loans wouldn't be better spent on k-12 education.
Yes, Europe did solve Napoleon on its own. I should have qualified my statement.
I LOLed at that as well. Remember too that to use the bathroom in California you have to get in your car and drive four exits down the expressway. So add another $400/month to your cost of living on top of rent/mortgage. Not having to own a car in places like NYC, Boston, DC, etc. means you can subtract about $400/month/person from your cost of living.
Wow - quality of TED talks has been on a steady decline, but this one really stood out.
Overall I found this article disappointingly full of worthless generalisations.

There is absolutely no way that anyone who reads The Economist can have concluded that Europe has surpassed America in anything not involving riots, in the way that no one who reads Maxim can conclude that acne is in vogue.

I find this attitude deeply aggravating. Europe has simply chosen a different path to the US, and to pretend that the US is superior in every way is ridiculous.

Europe, on the whole, balances lower individual buying power and higher unemployment against taking substantially better care of its citizens, and much better class mobility. It's certainly arguable that the average citizen experiences a higher overall quality of life in (western) Europe than in the US. I can absolutely see how that style of life is not for everyone, so it's great that countries like the US exist, but personally, I prefer to live in a european model.

As for the value of a degree, when I went into my programme I was a decent enough (for my age) coder, with a serious weight problem and very limited social skills, and when I left I was a better coder with some good fundamental background knowledge, fit, and socially confident. My degree program did me the world of good - it's fine that it's not the route for everyone, but pretending that all degrees are worthless makes you look silly.

edit: It appears that my infrequent reading of The Economist has resulted in an unnecessary rant on my part. My apologies to the author!
Ask HN : Write a Payment Gateway
Hello:
Having very less funds to give to payment gateway, I am planning to write my own payment gateway for a web application. Could you please help me to list some important steps involved in that? Thanks.
Yes but the argument to poll is a pointer. The pointer would be copied but the kernel can still follow the pointer to userspace, right?
In fairness, many of the pre-Google search engines _did_ focus too much on advertising, and auctioned off 1st place listings for various searches.

Google succeeded largely because they were unusually scrupulous about protecting the quality of their search results, and didn't make compromises that some advertisers wanted at the time.
Enso whips up two smartphones and three new slates
I think there are times when it is appropriate to add on products or course-recorrect. Case in point: we are working closely with a bunch of hiring managers / companies for our startup (CollegeJobConnect) and kept hearing over and over that they wanted a way to add a personalized careers portal. So we built Recruitly to allow them to do just that. It was a strategic decision and another product we added to our portfolio (also helps with our sales pipeline for CollegeJobConnect). I guess there is a balance between additive actions and complete distractions, just have to use your best judgement!
It's a measurement issue rather than a value judgement. Reliability is "sales we didn't lose due to downtime" while software is "new sales we couldn't have made without THIS GUY RIGHT HERE!".
i'm working on http://coloringout.com intermittently.
a bit rough around the edges at the moment and i'm in the middle of porting it to app engine just for the hell of it :)
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Ceglia says arrest dredged up Facebook pact
Hello, it’s Dell. Time for a reintroduction.
He didn't say they have a monopoly, he's just saying it feels influenced. Considering the guys who run GitHub are mostly (all?) Mac guys, I don't think that it's a stretch.
MeeGo Releases In-Vehicle Infotainment User Experience
Thanks for the paper! Quite interesting and easy read.
> But if you are a true-minded humanities major, you might even become a true humanitarian for a couple of years; maybe travel abroad to a Peace Corps or get a masters at a International Studies program. Then only later, you get on the fast-track to a management program at some Fortune 500 to manage some engineers.

Keep telling yourself that.

Only a small fraction of humanities grads make that transition.

Oh, and the Peace Corps wants folks who can actually do things. Food, shelter, etc come from applied technology.
So who's tried it?
You don't see the irony in your comment, do you?
Ahhh this is one of the issues I've heard tossed around - what makes for a successful individual post graduation? How can we measure it?

The feds are putting in place systems to track income as the best metric. But... I hesitate to call a 100k$ rockstar EE major ten times more successful than a rockstar chem e doing water purification work in Guatemala for 10k$ as a humanitarian.
I like this idea, but also consider your privacy policy before doing this.
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Of course colleges serve the people who work there. All organizations head that direction. The only thing that stops that progression is when the folks paying the bills take their money elsewhere.
Point taken... and you have to take anything like what I wrote (or what anyone else in any of this thread writes) with some degree of salt. All human experiences are small samples, and cities are big places.

But my personal experience in London was... well... in the right light sometimes they shift back to their natural form... hisssssss!
You might want to think about that last point there.
Congress shall make no law abridging the laws of physics.
And if your looking for a new podcast to follow, TechZing is a great one
Most research papers typeset using LaTeX use ugly fonts as well -- the computer modern fonts. In fact, when it comes to presenting equations, even major publications use these ugly CM fonts. They usually use Times Roman for the text itself. The mismatch is horrible.

There is a reason why there are people specializing in book design. And LaTeX specifically encourages ignoring presentation.

[But overall, I agree. Word documents tend to look even worse, unless formatted carefully]
http://quotesentinel.com -- Text message alerts for stocks.

I used to not want to leave my desk for lunch because I'd need to come back if the market moved. I wrote a script that would tell me if the market moved past a certain threshold and would text me to come back.

I was sort of shocked that it didn't exist in the wild (or at least wasn't easy to find) so I decided to see if I could make a web app of it.

Hoping to "launch" in the next 2 weeks. Would love testers.
I am always impressed by civil engineers. They are actually held accountable for their work. If a registered civil engineer signs off on something that is done wrong, and someone is hurt by it he faces criminal charges.

I've always wondered why we didn't hold corporate and political leaders to the same high standard. Their actions can certainly cause disastrous results if done with undue negligence. I think you would see a very different character of person reaching the upper echelons of responsibility if this was the case.
What you say about others says a lot about you
We spend 80% of our classroom time on the skills needed for 10% of our jobs
I can't tell if you meant "they've all stunk lately, but this REALLY stunk," or "this was the exception."
"Industry Leading" Browser Privacy Shot Down by Microsoft Internally
New York Times Real Estate Section. Both for sale and to let.