skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It certainly meets the "improbable and kooky" parts of a conspiracy theory. There are several problems with it:

1) Apple already managed one processor transition without herding everyone onto a standardized API. Surely they'd go that route again.

2) If they weren't going that route, then surely they'd be trying to herd as many people as possible onto the standardized API. But the App Store as Stealth API Standardizer doesn't hold water; if that's what it were intended to do, they would have tried to make it appeal to every important vendor on the platform. Instead, it's squarely aimed at small indie developers and excludes or is otherwise not strategically interesting to important 3rd party vendors like Adobe, Valve, VMWare, Mathworks, Microsoft, etc, etc. Are they not coming along to the transition?

3) What is Apple going to transition to? ARM? Seriously? They're great low-powered CPUs, but they're not within a million miles of Intel's Core i* CPUs for the "truck" computing that Apple's pro machines are used for. Compiling software on a 1 GHz A4 would be painful; editing video on it would be downright insane. This may change in years to come, but we're nowhere near close enough for it to happen any time soon.
Actually the author kind of made the distinction that he believes your first language should be so an so, so it becomes the 'base thinking platform' (so to speak) in which a programmer develops code in his mind. I agree with you though, you can mostly think (in real life and in programming) in terms of languages you're already fluent in; however being introduced to a new concept can give way to new ways of thinking that can probably be expressed in every language, albeit poorly in some.
Thats not really fair to Groveshark - I have enjoyed searching for artists and listening to a lot of their tracks.

The only issue (but it is a big one) is the complete reliance on flash and the inability to integrate with my pause, forward stop buttons on my keyboard.
The most successful people do something they love. If you love something, you will spend more time doing it. If you spend more time doing it, you will inevitably become good at it.

Sure, it's easier to pick things up when you're younger. Yes, you remember more of what you learned in your teens vs. 20s and 20s vs 30s. That's just the way the mind ages. But people learn new things at every decade of life. Your 30s are still a great time to learn. You'll be an expert by the time you're 40 if you stay with it.
I've had serious reservations about content from w3schools, to the point where I now skip them entirely when they come up in a Google search. They seem like a collection of all the bathroom-wall code ever: MySQL or SQLServer specific code presented as "SQL", things that only work in one browser or another presented as the best way to do things, etc. I usually know enough to know that their approaches are misleading, and I shudder to think how many devs take them at face value.
So, let's take the minimal case of 'complex' a system of two cells vs a system of only one cell.

Any animal from the 'other' branch that observes this 'complex' life from made of two cells and another one nearby made of only one would have the choice between two bites for the price of one and one bite.

So new 'complex' life would not be around for very long because the ohter branch has presumably already reached a higher level of evolution.

It would have be a very successful mutation to stick around long enough to have enough offspring to take on higher organisms than itself by having some survive in spite of being predated on.

The lowest level organisms best defense against extinction is their enormous numbers or symbiotic relationships by evolving in tandem with higher order forms, a brand new attempt at complexity would not have that advantage yet.

The same goes for another carbon based evolution scenario, after all, if there could be two independent complex branches of life it would not be too much of a stretch to think that over the last billions of years a second life form would have come in to existence. But it would have found each and every niche already occupied by 'our' kind of life and likely not survive long, and likely not leave any trace of its existence.
Bare-knuckle boxing is also a far bloodier affair than Marquess of Queensberry rules, even though it is much safer when it comes to brain injuries. I can imagine mainstream contemporary crowds being too squeamish to watch a real bare-knuckle match.
I agree. Visual Studio is an excellent product.
Now may I know the names of Programmers that developed Visual Studio?
Of course he does. And yes, this small syntactic difference does have effects in the real world; rename 'func' to 'delegate', and with the addition of a semicolon (at the end of the println() call) this is valid C# code today - but almost noone writes their resource protection using this idiom because it's ugly.
What?! Wait, was this an interview for Google? How did this guy get to this stage? I've always assumed I probably couldn't get an interview at Google, but geez...
To say any of these things have made anyones life better is quite a stretch. Has gmail improved your quality of life? Really? Choose your words carefully. Indoor plumbing and electricity made life better. Gmail has not. Your email was fine before Gmail.

And Google should pay their F-ing taxes. I do.
I'm thinking about going beyond what even Debian accomplished. As awesome as Debian is, it's based on unix-derived architecture from the 1970's. What about a successor to OS X with capabilities, orthogonal persistence, and no bootup? (App Store requirements and APIs could target easy migration to the new architecture.) Microsoft would have to follow or be left in the dust, but it would be travelling a path Apple is better suited for.
Netflix Accounts For 20% Of Peak U.S. Internet Bandwidth
Love the United Kingdom
This is a very good primer on the issues, but some of the specific prescriptions feel a bit short-sighted.

As long as you are not reading the Great Gatsby on one page, scroll length is a better indicator for article size than page numbers. With pagination you never really know how much text is waiting for you. It is too abstract. Having no text mass indicator forces the user to check with a swipe if there is more is not interaction design. And that’s very very unfriendly.

There's really no guarantee with scrolling or pagination that the text density ahead will be consistent with what the user is currently observing. It could be text, images, figures, or tables. And a good pagination display (such as in iBooks) gives the user as clear an indication of where they are in the document as any scroll display.

Of course, scroll bars and page numbers are just two methods for showing the focus state of a document that happen to have become standards. There's room for exploration -- perhaps even with something iA has been experimenting with in their excellent Writer iPad app, reading time: Instead of a scroll bar or pagination display, Why not just show estimated reading time remaining?
http://angel.co/
i think the next big thing will be telepresence. rent a robot in some unfamiliar city to kill an hour before dinner is ready.
I can see this being a big success. Feedback roulette does everything right: I immediately understood the website and could participate.

Reviewing the websites even has an addictive quality to it.

Interested to know the business model.

Nice work.
Actionable Intelligence for the Music Industry
I'm assuming this isn't so slow it shows up on a screen recording (of course, if it IS, that would be interesting), but either way could you please file a bug at http://bugreport.apple.com/? It will reach someone who cares.
Except that your leaden, verbose headline would have been terrible from an editor's perspective. Their headline is far more succinct and uses language that speaks to the Ars Technica audience, which tends to both specs-obsessed and a little puerile.

Besides, the use of scare quotes ought to suggest to any reader that the headline is tongue-in-cheek.
And those academics are right. Let me sidetrack for a bit, because this is an important point, that not everybody thinks of:

If students had to pay the actual cost of their education, it'd be much higher, even in Ivy League schools. Universities complement the tuition fees by getting public funding.

And (in theory, at least) tax money should be given for a good reason. The public as a whole does not care about the personal benefits that some would get by gaining a degree. That's the private interest of those people, and we're talking public good here: it should help all.

Tax money is given to universities so they would create inventions and innovations in science and art, which are in the public interest. And to create those we need well-educated people to invent and innovate.

Thus it's not the students buying education. That's a byproduct, and they're not the customer, just a beneficiary.
It's the public buying educated people.

Of course, this is all pinko-think, and it's true that some academics are just old farts who keep wondering how dare those students interrupt the academics very important nap time, and who thought of letting students in campus anyway?
Ah, you beat me to that quote.

It is not evil to minimize your tax liability within the rules. If Google were spending millions lobbying to decrease their tax liability, then that might be evil. Minimizing your tax liability is perfectly reasonable. Not doing so would be doing a disservice to shareholders, and is arguable more evil.
Been there, done that. The most useful tip I could give you is to have trust in your guts that you can do it and just start.

Don't get me wrong, the world wide web is a totally different beast.. however, the basic stuff still stay the same :)
Will Hunting never actually matriculated. You could say he was being exploited, actually, because of his legal situation.
We generally have a series of 1 on 1s, each interviewer with a different discipline with a little bit of overlap. This way it's more of a conversation rather than someone being grilled on stage.

Some may prefer the N on 1, but for me I see that I can get a lot more out of people just by myself. People are more relaxed, and I can get a feel for who I'll be working with, not just the person that showed up in the interview.

After all of the 1 on 1s, we'll sit in a room and talk about what we learned and how we felt. Everyone gives a gut-reaction rating and go from there. It takes more time and resources, but for us our hire-quality is... well... higher.
n on 1 is a waste of resources. If you do 1 on 1, you can get into a much deeper line of questioning, because you can weave a thread of conversation lead by one person. You can then serialize the process to n - 1 others.
> write a program which calculates the sum of all numbers between 1 and 1,000 whose digits sum up to 7

My Python answer:

sum(x for x in xrange(2, 1000) if sum(int(y) for y in str(x)) == 7)
# 9324

Anyone have improvements on that?

(I used the range (1, 1000) as opposed to [1, 1000], but it doesn't make a difference since the edge values don't have digits that sum to 7.)
KPCB Launches $250 Million sFund Initiative for Social Web Entrepreneurs
My understanding is that anything that allows the user to choose what specific tracks they want to hear is deemed "interactive" by the industry, and costs an awful lot more than "non-interactive". "Non-interactive" appears to mean streams which the user can only broadly determine the content of (i.e. genre or like-artist 'stations'), can't allow skipping over tracks too aggressively, and who knows what other restrictions.

I don't have any idea as to how big of a difference in licensing fees we're talking about here, and I know it's very hard to make a buck in this sphere with so many vampires in the picture. But not paying up for interactive seems like a really bad call on last.fm's part (and/or suggests that they are in pretty rough shape as profits go). The list of things they're removing is essentially a list of "all the reasons why I might be interested in using last.fm".
...RMS has said on several occasions that GCC has to be difficult to integrate into other tools just for the sake of pushing the GPL. For example, this was his explanation for why improvements to GCC's intermediate representation formats (GIMPLE and friends) were refused for a long time.

Weird. Though not as bad as the worst of Microsoft's shenanigans, this strikes me as in the same class of uncivil moves that the FSF complains about proprietary software vendors pulling.
Ask HN: Has this been done? Cost-sharing for ads
Are there any services out there that allow people to share the cost of an online ad campaign -- I'm thinking specifically on Facebook, but possibly on other ad platforms?

Here's how I'm envisioning it:

A group of advertisers evenly split the cost of an ad campaign purchase. When users click on the campaign's advertisement, they're taken to a "splash" page that features separate advertisements for each of their businesses.

I know what you're thinking: How can you create an acceptable, enticing ad for five potentially disparate businesses? I think I've got that part figured out. I'm just wondering if anything similar has been done.
However, you don't get any credit, or a degree. So it doesn't really matter whether the classes you drop in on are Ivy League or not, just that you are learning enough to make it worth your time. You won't be able to validate your knowledge of the course material later with anything but a personal demonstration.
Steve Jobs is Trying to Bypass the Web
This is essentially relying on convention rather than guarantees. Convention is fine for smaller programs, but it falls down when you're dealing with large, complex code bases worked on by many diverse programmers.

If you're debugging a sharing problem, and relying on convention, you don't even know where to start looking for it in a large codebase.
Harvard has a similar option called Harvard Extension, its also where Hillary Duff attended.
Usually you're not allowed to change a password without showing again, even if you're logged on, that you know the current one.
Well, I don't want to get into an argument about poorly-defined words, but I see "nerds" as embodying a certain set of negative behavioural stereotypes.

You can define it so broadly as to include all smart people if you wish, but then what label do you have for the fat smelly bearded 35-year-old virgin on the bus writing Firefly/Dollhouse crossover fanfiction?
Panic isn't really exception-like - it's explicitly described as not for transmitting exceptions across module boundaries.

There's more discussion, by me and others, in this past entry: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1576401

A better error handling mechanism may have been a restartable condition system.
Like the design, but I absolutely hate the brand name. You will forever be a Mashable-ripoff because of it. Nothing you can do now but ick, that was not a good decision.
GE Uses Jet Engine Cooling Technology in 1,500-Lumens LED Bulb
From a bigger picture I can see the issues that are getting people nervous however I really couldn't see Apple cutting off their nose by blocking the usual App installations.

From a usability point of view it makes so much sense.

Currently a user has to:
1) Go to a website (or search for it)
2) Enter credit card details (are they trustworthy?)
3) Download the dmg file
4) Open the dmg file
5) Drag the app to the apps folder

Or they can
1) Open iTunes
2) Search for an app
3) Click download

Not to mention app updates which are handled differently in every app. iTunes will make this trivial for you and keep your apps up-to-date.

On a different note how long before iTunes just becomes iStore it's not really a music player any more is it!
Clojure Key-Value Stores, Voldemort, and S3
Ugh, you just reminded me of the Java updater on windows machines. I hope that if Oracle does care, they at least care enough to get it right. And that Apple lets them still hook into Software Update.
Judging from the tax limitation described in the article, increasing the corporate tax rate for Google Ireland to 100% wouldn't make it leave.
I'd actual advise you to "Think in Lisp" while learning Javascript - I'd just read "The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs" when I started getting deeper in the JS, and it made a world of difference. The Javascript type system is a little like Python and a little insane - check out "http://www.slideshare.net/SlexAxton/superclassy-inheritance-...

The Mozilla HTML reference is very good: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/HTML/Element and between it and just viewing the source on decent websites you can learn a lot - coming from Java, you must know XML pretty well already :)

As for CSS, I've always just used the W3's reference: http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/ which is a little dense but followable. (The W3 for HTML isn't bad either, but they will use the schema definitions for everything, which are slightly opaque.)

Finally, http://www.alistapart.com/ is a great reference for the pragmatic state of web design. Lots of great articles, especially going back a bit.
I parsed that incorrectly, but yes, I would totally be willing to rent a killer robot.
I'm all for simplification, but I think your plan would have some unintended consequences. It's essentially a subsidy of vertical integration.

This would make it hard for any b2b company. you can hire an accountant in house, as an employee (deductible, under your plan) or you can pay an external firm (say, a firm next door. small business accounting is usually done locally.) to do your taxes (not deductible under your plan, even though the accountant salaries are deductible to the accounting firm, the accounting firm fees you paid would not be deductible for you.)

This would make it doubly hard for those of us who spend most of their revenue on non-salary expenses and who are primarily b2b businesses. The thing is, I pay more for power/rackspace/bandwidth than I pay for salary, and that disparity will only increase as I scale up. For me, it'd be a double whammy, as not only would I get taxed on what I pay for power, (so I'd have to raise my rates) but my customers would have to pay those higher rates out of post-tax money.

This would probably be incentive enough to move my corporation abroad or shut down... I mean, a bunch of my customers are already outside the country, and while it wouldn't help my US customers pay me out of pre-tax dollars, it would mean that I could lower my rates by 35%.

Really, I think only taxing profits is great for growing companies. Right now, I live in California, an area with ridiculous taxes. but you know what? I don't really care, because I only have to pay taxes on profit, so worrying about my taxes being high is one of those "good problems to have" that I really only have to worry about once I start making a lot of money.
The Classic Printing Products
Talking about most classic printing products, they are none other than vinyl banners and vinyl stickers at all. That is why company offers you matchless printing solutions globally.
The fact that the iPad uses a new processor and Apple's continued interest in LLVM would seem to support this, as well.
HP completes tender offer for ArcSight
Big companies think & act in terms of priorities and not what is right or wrong.
Right. Folks nowadays carry around an embarrassment of riches in terms of CPU power. People feel poor if they can only sit with a phenomenal amount of computing power in their local cafe, as opposed to phenomenal times 3.
"There is a major difference between being the best in the world at something and being better that 99.9% of HS students."

Depends how you look at it. If you're one of the top 25 HS students in your field then you're probably only 15% as good as a professional, but you've probably put in at least 30% of the hours and gone through 60% of the pain needed to get there. In any event for most fields you probably only have to be one of the best HS students, unless you're picking something like ski jumping.
I have a couple people I would be absolutely delighted to send on such a trip, even knowing the science return would be hardly significant.
This goes to show that what you buy at an elite college is the degree, not education. At most of these colleges, you can take as many classes as you want, but you won't get the degree unless you fulfill their admission criteria.
Columbia has lots of ways to enroll. I did the 3+2 engineering program, and I was far from Ivy League material when I left high school.
If he made shitload of money, he'd be doing tax mitigation of his own, and probably wouldn't pay 40% either.
Distance isn't dead
Well, pointers have fixed size, random structures may be arbitrarily big and involve a crapload of copying.
You mean there are too many people wanting to work for a game company?
It was only a matter of time before BlockBuster had to throw in the towel. I love streaming it on Xbox 360.

I wonder how the RedBox DVD rental service will compete with Netflix in the future. It is pretty easy to pick up a DVD because they are all over and you can't beat the price. Is Netflix really that much easier?
I think you are right that it does go on like that forever but I think the reason for that is in the end, everything is selfish. But. It's not bad to be selfish. The reason it loops is because you accept that being selfish is ok, you struggle with the idea and come up with more examples. Once it's accepted, you can simply move on and do more.

For instance, I can be selfish all I want but eventually, I cannot do everything myself. I will need other people to help me out in life. It's not selfish in the sense of what you learn in pre-school, it's self preservation.
Kliener perkins new social fund
sorry, small nitpick with your methodology- try these as more realistic comparisons (still not exactly apples to apples):

http://www.google.com/trends?q=%22justin+tv%22%2C+ustream%2C...

http://www.google.com/trends?q=justin.tv%2C+ustream.tv%2C+li...
My experience from observing people over the years is that prolonged or heavy cannabis use is as damaging as prolonged or heavy alcohol use, if not more so. Lightly used each is relatively harmless.

The 'elevated consciousness' is just your drug addled mind flattering itself, to an outsider you will seem imbecilic. Your slightly self-satisfied tone is really, really unwarranted.
Thanks for the link to angellist - something I aspire to join but as I said in my post, you have to be approved to get listed and one of the requirements is you're not a newbie - you must have connections to other angels - in fact you must be referred by another angellist angel and have invested at least 3 times before. This was revealed in this great interview with one of the angel.co founders: http://www.danielodio.com/2010/10/21/fundraising-hacks-inter...
What about a daemon that migrates files over and symlinks them?
No, you are not nuts. Here is an example of nuts: thinking that you have a telepathic connection with your ex-girlfriend, who wasn't actually your girlfriend.

You are normal. Go for it.
Apple's Dumbing Down of Computers a.k.a The End of Super-User Computers
The destop app supports media keys, with installation of the appropriate platform specific helpers. :) As far as I know, no sites support media keys directly because browsers don't make them available, even to extensions. If anyone has example sites that can do this we'd love to see them...and figure out how they are doing it. ;)
Please explain down vote. This is relevant and straightforward.
If Intel doesn't either make the Atom line higher performance or the Core line more portable friendly then I could see Apple switching to ARM. The high-end ARM chips aren't quite there yet in terms of performance though, so I figure Intel has at least one more rev to the Core line before that's a danger.
This is a really neat idea, but it seems to track how fast the mouse moves over the canvas instead of the amount of time the mouse is over parts of the canvas.