skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Which D, 1 or 2?"

D2 of course... "Consensus is that D is dead for all practical purposes (especially D2)." BS..

There is a chicken and egg situation with D... if somebody big doesn't put some backing behind it then it will go nowhere...
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Infinitely complex, surprising and rewarding.
Plot summary: Indulge in pessimism.
I've seen plenty Europlugs that close up without a plug in them. It can be a PIA when they fail to reopen without a lot of force!
Now what am I supposed to do with issuenine.com? ;)
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that fast food hamburgers are only 2.1% to 14.8% Meat (B. Prayson et al. Fast food hamburgers: what are we really eating?, Annals of Diagnostic Pathology 12 (2008) 406–409
Thinking about some disintermediations. On the supply side with consumer goods you have replicable stock (buy in more t-shirts/potatos). Presumably this is not how jobs work. You need someone to go around harvesting individual opportunities. Like collecting truffles as opposed to growing potatos.

With other unique items such as houses / ebay on the demand side you have various market entry costs: can the 'buyer' physically come over and see the house / can you get their paypal details? With jobs it's very easy (cheap) to apply, while for the employer it is costly to assess applications - making the pre-screening service offered by recruiters attractive.

Plus to disintermediate you'd need employers to directly deal with more of the HR process. That's open to them already, I suspect it's just not something people relish. Like you could save money washing your car but often it's just seen as a pain to be avoided.

Perhaps there are other improvements besides disintermediation: e.g. jobs sites with recruiter reputation/feedback. Seems pretty obvious but I actually haven't seen it around much. Can imagine there would be some bias (everyone who didn't get a post is peeved, plus some that did).
LiquidPlanner. I find the UI noisy and counterintuitive.
Not very insightful. Nice try, though. Here is the classic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000043.html
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Could you expand D being practically dead? or link to some sources on that? I haven't heard such strong statements about D before, and I'm curious to learn more.
Maybe, for certain definitions of "outperform". I can't watch the video right now (at work), but no HTML5 or modern JavaScript engine means that it'll fall behind the web very quickly unless Microsoft provides updates.

Personally, I doubt that MS will provide those updates. The reason they keep IE6 outdated is because large companies want it that way; that can't handle epic change or their apps will break. If MS is marketing this phone to businesses, you can bet that the browser won't change much.
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Long press is the right-click of smartphones.

Yes. Maemo, for one, makes no bones about it: at the X windows level, a long press turns into an a right click.
That's what I thought, and I figured this would be a good way for startups to save time that would otherwise be spent finding, deploying and maintaining job scheduling infrastructure.

But, given the lack of interest I wonder if it's just not something most startups think they need?
Trip Advisor also has this weird thing where the reviews are in pages of three.
Ok, so the problem is that Java the language supports only one target platform. This is not completely true, I don't know too much about about J#, but as far as I know using J# basically you can compile your program written with Java syntax to .NET.
I don't see how this could be true. What makes Java the Language so special that it can only be compiled into JVM bytecode and not something else?
This article is short on facts and big on scaremongering hype. Just because script kiddies are purchasing malware toolkits which as some java stuff as a feature does not make JVM plug-in the "most exploited".

The last known vulnerability in JVM was discovered and patched almost a year ago. These issues are addressed in the following releases: JDK and JRE 6 Update 17 JDK and JRE 5.0 Update 22 SDK and JRE 1.4.2_24 SDK and JRE 1.3.1_27

If you are concerned about security, instead of reading this guy's uninformed blog, read this instead:

McAfee Threat Center : http://mcafee.com/us/threat_center/default.asp

Symantec : http://us.norton.com/security_response/threatexplorer/index....
Ok yes, if I give the robot the same exact pictures and random generator seeds, it is deterministic.

But in the field, even if it is stationary the pictures are never the same from frame to frame and everything relies on a lot a randomness, and random noise.

Simulators are almost a waste of time because the real challenge is handling that noise, NOT dealing with the information extracted after the noise. Once you have a clear view of the world, everything it is easy, it is getting the eyes to actually understand anything that is hard.
Facebook obviously didn't created those behaviors, as it didn't created voyeurism. But they cannot be exculpated from being a cause of voyeurism spreading out the way it is.

I mean sure, their success is huge, and lots of people would have a hard time living without FB. But if prostitution or heroine was legal, it also would have lots of success and (more)users. But would we be right to say it's a good thing ?

And yes, voyeurism is not heroine, but it's certainly not a good thing either.
The reason for this is that they use the same password in the call centre. So when you phone up they say "give us the 3rd letter of your password" and the 2nd digit of your Pin Number. The point of it is to make it hard for a call centre operator to get hold of your password. The internet banks are all built on top of the Direct Bank systems and ported that model in whole or in part to the internet. Legacy systems issue!
Trip on the cable, and the lamp falls off the table? Better?
"Sparks"? Are you kidding?
Interesting POV. I wonder though if Groupon has quite the same reach -- or branding influence -- as a logo everyone can picture in their head? One gets at how the brand actually lives in people's minds; the other maybe affects whether they think there's cheap deals to be had...
Small point - The map makes the UK and Madagascar look about the same size; Wikipedia reveals Madagascar is about twice the size of the UK.

I suspect somebody did not use an appropriate map projection.
I think I'm missing the point here, it sounds like what has been banned is the use of non-commercial CC licensed music in places which may qualify as commercial sometimes. That sounds pretty sensible. It's either that or go to each individual artist and negotiate a commercial license which sounds like a pain to do.
This is more marketing related, but I'd find a type of music that has rabid fans and little in way of lyrics online. I'd find their preferred forum and frequent it, and try to build a community tool that they can use to make lyrics for their music make sense. You're going to experience some genre drift and as this occurs more and more people will hopefully use your service.
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I doubt most people list cool bands just because they are cool and they don't really listen to them.

I think it's much more common for people to avoid listing uncool bands that they do listen to. Guilty pleasures, if you will.
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> "Facebook permissions work at the level of the page showing the image, not on the image file itself."

Exactly. HN discussed this a couple weeks ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1740271

I'd written:

Facebook operates web servers generating authenticated and authorized web pages. These pages are dynamic, generated per user, based on current privacy settings. These privacy-managed pages contain links to assets considered, by users, to be just as private as the page.

When the user changes privacy settings for the page, the linked assets privacy could easily be kept in line, as demonstrated by CloudFront CDN being able to support private content links.

Facebook's fault is that the privacy managed page links to public (non-privacy managed) assets, using links that do not respect the containing page's privacy settings.
Sorry, I meant I moved from the continent to Britain. Just a typo.
The Mp3 Experiment Seven
This is the first S/Ex I've had in years that let me totally satisfied. Not too kinky, not too amateurish, just professional S/Ex I'd gladly pay good money for.
JNI minimizes the Java trap, since your entire program doesn't need to live in the JVM. Other functionality can be implemented in native code, and it will work with Java just fine. Oracle does not control native code, so they don't control what platform you target in the future. JNI is not a panacea - your code still runs on Oracle's JVM. But it provides an escape route, since pieces of your application can be ported away from the JVM without requiring an entire rewrite.

If you've reached this escape point, yes, you're wasting time by porting your application away from Java. But you knew Java is a closed platform owned by one company, and you took that risk.
Why? It should be even the same process with merges, or isn't it?
There is no chicken and egg situation with D anymore. It has been around for 10 years. D1 at least. D1 and D2 are different beasts.

Tomasz wrote it better than I can right now http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=22 and I respect his view because, if nothing else, he is the man that wrote the largest code base there is written in D (for his Nucleus engine and tools). Main problem, among MANY, is that people who are working on D these days are not coding in D at all, not serious projects at least - otherwise they would see fairly quickly what is wrong with it. This topic has been covered among D community by large now, you can dig up fallout of tango team from D2 and numerous sagas alike on digital mars newsgroup.
Provide an API to get the lyrics, so music players can use the site (you can embed the google ads at the end of the lyrics, or find another way to get something out of it).

Most people I know, myself included, use music players that can query various lyrics sites and display the text within the player itself.

I'd ignore any new lyrics website if I couldn't make it work with my music player of choice. The easier it is, the better.
OTOH, Johnny Cash covered a lot of stuff. He had 6 cover albums in the "American" series at the end of his career..
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Based on PG's comments [1][2], I wouldn't touch lyrics.

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1760835

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1761437
The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes on
incomes, from whatever source derived, without apportionment

The several state legislatures ratified the Sixteenth Amendment
on the following dates: Alabama, August 10, 1909; Kentucky, February 8,
1910; South Carolina, February 19, 1910; Illinois, March 1, 1910;
Mississippi, March 7, 1910; Oklahoma, March 10, 1910; Maryland, April 8,
1910; Georgia, August 3, 1910; Texas, August 16, 1910; Ohio, January 19,
1911; Idaho, January 20, 1911; Oregon, January 23, 1911; Washington,
January 26, 1911; Montana, January 27, 1911; Indiana, January 30, 1911;
California, January 31, 1911; Nevada, January 31, 1911; South Dakota,
February 1, 1911; Nebraska, February 9, 1911; North Carolina, February
11, 1911; Colorado, February 15, 1911; North Dakota, February 17, 1911;
Michigan, February 23, 1911; Iowa, February 24, 1911; Kansas, March 2,
1911; Missouri, March 16, 1911; Maine, March 31, 1911; Tennessee, April
7, 1911; Arkansas, April 22, 1911 (after having rejected the amendment
at the session begun January 9, 1911); Wisconsin, May 16, 1911; New
York, July 12, 1911; Arizona, April 3, 1912; Minnesota, June 11, 1912;
Louisiana, June 28, 1912; West Virginia, January 31, 1913; Delaware,
February 3, 1913; Wyoming, February 3, 1913; New Mexico, February 3,
1913; New Jersey, February 4, 1913; Vermont, February 19, 1913;
Massachusetts, March 4, 1913; New Hampshire, March 7, 1913 (after having
rejected the amendment on March 2, 1911). The amendment was rejected
(and not subsequently ratified) by Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Utah.

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How did this garbage get on the HN front page?
So, their idea is to make a phone so awful, so useless, people won't want to use it, right?

They could have done it with WinMo 6... It would be cheaper...
"By establishing the relationship of feet to miles, he can grasp and know any distance on earth; by establishing the relationship of miles to light-years, he can know the distances of galaxies." Ayn Rand "Introduction to Objectivist Epistemology"

http://aynrandlexicon.com/lexicon/measurement.html
Instead of building the future together, let's all panic and stock up on canned food.
Beautiful design.
Cool place. I've been on vacation for a few weeks (staying in a small, extremely well laid out studio condo) and it's really made me want to downsize even more. My phone and laptop are really the only essential items for me. Everything else seems far less important in my day-to-day life.

With the iPad and AirVideo/NetFlix, I'm even tempted to get rid of my TV.
Human beings represent themselves differently in different situations; this is not something that started with the internet.

Look at yourself, I bet the version of you that you present to your parents is different to the one you present to your friends, which is different to the one you present to your partner, which is different to the one you present at work, etc.
The comparisons are about load/render speed of normal websites (like Engadget) and scrolling/zooming – not really about HTML5 or Javascript performance at all.

I wouldn’t say that anyone outperforms anyone else in that video – all three phones seem to be doing those tasks equally well (save for choppiness on Android).
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Even more importantly, you can start the JVM from C code -- indeed 'java' is nothing more than a simple wrapper around the necesarry DLL calls.
Craigslist. It is insanely hard to manage multiple anything.

Whether you've got all of your furniture up for sale or are interested in more than 2 apartments. It's just such a mess.

But dammit, it works... and I'm not sure I've ever personally experienced a second of downtime.
My university tried to write their own. But then each faculty decided they didn't like it and then wrote THEIR own.

Now I have to log into about 5 different systems to get anything done.
> HN is not the place for sanctimony.

FTFY. Apparently, you are someone who actually takes this sort of thing seriously.
> it's like MS is promoting a phone that you won't enjoy using too much, so you want to spend as little time on it as possible.

This is exactly what I was thinking. With these commercials, Microsoft isn't pandering to the "techie" crowd. They're trying to market their product to normal people. I think the simple fact that it's a cool, modern smartphone means that, for the tech crowd, it will essentially sell itself. The tech crowd doesn't need to be marketed to. They'll pick up anything that's new.

They did the same thing when marketing Windows 7 with the whole "my idea" campaign, and I think it will work with the phone too.
They keep IE6 outdated? I thought they released IE7, IE8 and now IE9 after that.

I don't think companies are going to develop for just IE mobile like they did for IE6. And how exactly does adding support for HTML5 break the HTML for older web apps?
Pretty much sums it up: http://h3.gd/devlog/?p=22
D1 and D2 are like different languages. D1 went to a dead end and D2 got nowhere, it got into a conundrum feedback loop. It's a bit hard to explain everything in this post since there is a lot to cover, but most of the community that is years into this is aware of all of it.

Also, good luck with any kind of support that is not in the interest/hobby of D developer. I once wrote a fairly large program that was for a commercial purpose (wrote as an order) - and I got stuck on a fairly large bug in standard library which I couldn't resolve myself because I have lacked the expertise to do so, I even think it was not open sourced then also (basically free() never returned memory to the OS). That bug is still open after several years. I offered money, anything basically to get this resolved since my application crashed due to it - if there weren't for helpful Tango guys I would have to rewrite the damn thing from scratch in another language.

D1/Tango had so much potential, but it got nowhere, unfortunately. I am still bitter I spent so much time and effort in D at all, just to return to C (and some C++).
The problem is that creative professionals have to be a lot more protective about their work than software developers.

While a software developer who's good enough to write successful open source code will always find a well-paying job, creative professionals have to fight very hard to get jobs, especially if they don't have a very wide network of connections yet.
> I wonder what the incidence of electrocution is in the UK vs US. I'm probably biased, but I certainly feel far safer here, especially having kids.

Cars kill 100 times more people than electrocution (not to mention severe injuries, which are rare for electrocutions), so they're probably a more important risk to worry about. Any slight difference in car accidents is going to swamp electrical concerns.
I like this design
You should try running NetScape 3 on modern hardware... It flies.

It's easy to optimize a subset when you can define the subset to exclude everything you can't make fast...
A great logo is recognizable in any form
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Name for what?
Show HN: Review my project - profilepin.com
http://profilepin.com

I made this site during my free time over the past few weeks.

I don’t consider myself a designer or a programmer, but I wanted to make something simple like this for fun, and now I figure I might as well have some fun promoting it too. The idea is basically a rehash of Google Profiles, except with a slightly different pitch.

So let me know what you think. A couple of specific questions I have: Does this actually work as a minimum viable product? Is that feedback tab on the side an effective way to collect feedback from regular users?
I should have explained what I mean by trivial: I think any competent programmer knows the value of testing. So in that sense saying that you should write tests is like saying you should write good code - it is true, but not very insightful.

In a time constraint environment, you often need to make a choice between more tests and more features, etc... I have seen a lot of people who said their code was great because it was well tested, but then the tests depend so much on the implementation that it actually goes against better code (since refactoring may mean breaking a lot of unit tests). So the more interesting question is: what to test, how, and how far. For example, my own rule for testing is that in general, I don't test something if testing it takes more code than the feature itself (except for regression testing, and things which really play well with testing, like parsers and the likes, and code which needs to run on many different platforms).

It is also useful to recognize when testing has value, and to avoid overestimating its actual benefits. Too often, people don't really think about failures when testing, or how the API it exercices can be used in a straightforward manner or not. For example, I don't get so much the value of TDD - I find it much more useful to think in terms of API usecases, for which small tests are often not well suited. Sure, designing for easy testing can help, but you can get the same benefit without TDD in my opinion.

Finally, too often, I see "this library is well tested" sold as a feature in open source projects - but test coverage is not a feature. Sure, everything else being equal, I would prefer a well tested library to a not well tested library. But everything else is not equal: there is a constant tradeoff between designing better API, getting a better documentation or installation process and testing.
No, I don't think so, because according to the presentations Microsoft put forward strict rules for the hardware makers who wants to run WP7, like processor, RAM, only two allowed screen resolutions, etc.
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i rarely ever think of gap...am i really going to become anti-gap now that they backed off their potential logo shift?

if anything, i think the "any press is good press" saying could apply here. the only people that expressed their distaste are loyal customers as it is.

as for groupon, the fact that a big brand like gap adopted it for a day was a) a HUGE get for groupon and b) a good way for gap to show how they're embracing the hottest tech approaches.

i bet a great amount of the buyers that day won't even remember to use the groupon...they just bought it cuz they thought "hey, it's gap. i could find something there. i'll use it one of these days..."
Now that's a cool idea.

Note: my music player of choice lately is soundcloud.com and youtube videos.
Game query was used in at least on of those games.
http://gamequery.onaluf.org/
You seem to be missing that the CBC buys One Big Library (APM), and thus isn't in the business of talking and negotiating with individual artists at all.

I'm not going to defend that kind of approach to radio - particularly not taxpayer funded radio which has the potential to have far more breadth and depth in its content than commercial radio - and I suspect it is a relatively new innovation, inflicted by the current clueless management at CBC.

Like many Canadians I still mourn the loss of the amazing Brave New Waves (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brave_New_Waves), and there's no way that all or even most of the obscura that was being played on that show was in some giant pre-licensed library of music. I suppose that cancelling one-of-a-kind shows like that is an aid to 'getting greater efficiencies out of the content management pipeline' or some such nonsense.
Thierry is not a true artist in the sense that he himself paints or illustrates--he has hired help, he's a business

Most successful artists have hired help. Banksy didn't print the Diana banknotes, and he probably doesn't construct his installation pieces. He's not the one painting the elephants or putting the chicken nuggets in cages. He might be standing nearby with a can of lager and laughing, but it's safe to assume a lot of his work is around conceptualising the ideas that end up with his name on them.

Ooooh! Conceptual art!

(And that's not to diminish his work - I utterly love Banksy. I bought a print and some other bits and pieces of his at the first show he ever did. In ROI terms it's probably the best investment i'll ever make. And, no: i'm not willing to sell any of it.)

Someone can correct me if i'm wrong, but I don't think the Chapman Brothers consturcted Hell, or Damien Hurst glued the diamonds to the skull, etc., etc.

Even the masters had studios of apprentices doing the grunt work, right?
The page seems to be down. Here is a text-only cached version:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:TpSleMI...
Your comment excited me because I thought questions would be tagged by Ubuntu release, but that does not seem to be the case.

edit: Looks like the release tag is available but optional which saddens me.
rallydev.com

It's really quite awful and cumbersome in certain respects. It's a useful tool but it makes you go through so much to do some really basic things (like adding items to an iteration) and the search is next to useless.
Sounds like something that would be a parody of of a geek store in a sitcom or movie.

So good if that's what you are looking for. Meh otherwise.