skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not so sure about that - you have a community that is very tech-oriented and actually volunteering to view ads knowing it is doing the community a benefit. Such people are more likely to pay attention to what is being advertised as well as they're conscious the advertisements are there by choice.

Marketing done carefully on such sites can lead to a much more effective turnover if it identifies with the group it's targeting. A few good examples are the beef jerky company and the Reddit soap rescue done about 12 months ago. Forgotten both their names but can do a search if need be :-)
AOL jokes got old years ago. Alexia Tsotsis doesn't notice.
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i18n would seem logical. They presumably don’t want an English and a German binary, they want it all in one bundle in one as is common on Mac OS X. (I think that, e.g., Lightroom still has different binaries for different languages, which presumably means that it couldn’t be on the App Store.)
I'm kinda curious. Does anyone know if that extra .27 ghz translate to a big difference in real world use?
It is easy. Y Combinator's application process is designed to take only an hour or two, though it can take much longer if you have to figure out what your company is going to make at the same time. But you have to figure that out anyway -- it's not really a difficulty of raising seed money.

Y Combinator is very selective, but there are many other incubator / tech accelerator programs where the bar is not so high.
How thick is it?
I would definitely not take this issue to HR. HR is not there to help you. Mostly, they're there to screw you out of a little bit more of your health insurance benefit every year. Escalating this above your manager is really just an opportunity to brand yourself "high drama".

You really ought to just have a conversation with your manager where you acknowledge that you have just learned that he doesn't want you testing the dev server for security vulnerabilities, and then you ask him what the most effective way is for the company to channel your interest in security.
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Just curious. Please share your project and your vision for the future.

I live in Atlanta and there is not many people who even think this feat is possible. I hope there is at least a handful of 'crazy people' still building things that matter.
You ask for our thoughts, then make a point that if we don't like / understand him, don't bother posting because nobody cares. So is there a point to this other than to have a bunch of people say he's awesome and feel that they have great taste in art?

As it happens I do enjoy his work, but preemptively shunning critics is silly and counterproductive to the kind of personal growth that I think he would encourage.
But what of those "Chinese Android" phones I hear about? That they're based on Android but aren't officially Android?
Good point. However, I don't recall Steve or any text on the Apple website that outright says that it is tapered for economics reasons. In this Stevenote and the previous Stevenotes where the MacBook Air was discussed it came across as if the the taper was there so they have another number to brag about when talking about thinness. That was my impression at least.
In the UK there are copyright libraries - you must give a copy of your work to these libraries if you want the government to prosecute copyright for you.
The British library (equivalent of LoC) is one.
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Previously: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1525445

And from almost there:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=716219

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=167076

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=132026

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=61831

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=769769

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=668138

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1209378

I kind of like classical music if it is slow paced and without singing, otherwise none is better.
a tool to pass stdin to stdout for a set time period.

I'm curious what that has to do with data analysis.
It is still possible that they haven't figured out how to do touch-screen in a satisfying way for these machines. Taking Jobs at his word doesn't always work. In a year or two he may emerge to declare that they've come up with a "magical" solution.
Resolution independence really is going to become a necessary feature in the next year or so, especially given the pixel density on the iPhone 4.
No, public source tree and a process for outsider commits are critical for proper open source projects. Otherwise, while you have the code, your only choice is to fork, not collaborate. The code may be OSI compliantly licensed, but the community, the decision process, and the opportunity to actually make a difference are closed.
Anarchy is fun and all, but it also might be amusing to combine it with a "like" button and reputation.
The people who are celebrating it would say it's not a political issue, it's a human rights issue.
Mostly no music at all.

If I listen to music, then it's mostly classics like sonatas by Bach, Beethoven, Chopin or Mozart. And it's always music that I know very well, so that it doesn't draw away my attention. For the same reason it's mostly music with very few instruments. You can't concentrate on coding and a fully orchestrated symphony the same time.
Jazz is another option. Again: Shouldn't be too complex. More like solo instrument. Keith Jarret playing piano is a good example.

Less likely other modern music. Singing I experience as distracting. Unless I don't know the language, so that I'm not tempted to follow it, Jan Garbarek playing sax together with the Hilliard Ensemble singing in Latin works great.

Though I listen to a lot of different music when I'm not coding.
You can play single-player as long as you've logged in at least once ever. I think it's a very reasonable security scheme, and it allowed me to play for a month or two while I didn't have internet access at home.
Is Python a beginner language or is it robust?
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For what? Selling games for Symbian / J2ME / WinMo phones through the carriers five years ago?
>Maybe I'm just selling out, and this is definitely a vent post, but does anyone here feels the same at their current job, and if so - what do you do?

I did... 12 days ago.

I had numerous discussions with my manager (even a few partners) over 6 months who ignored them, under the fear that the CTO would attempt to stick me in another group (which would cause some partners to raise hell), because any other group would welcome me with open arms. Knowing this, and that I probably had no real way out of the group I was in, I did the only thing that made sense to me:

I quit.

I would not recommend this course of action considering your other obligations, but ultimately, it's probably the solution that will work best for you. You need to find people who are passionate about their work as you are, as they're the group you'll best be happy working with. The only difference is you should ensure for a smooth transition with no breaks in income, instead of the route I took (which I'll admit, was a dick move at the time).
Does Apple have a reason for the NDA other than letting their developers know who's the boss?
I think analytically also, but I don't think that this is why Feynman became what he became, nor that focusing on truly understanding something is always the best tactic for success.

People that think analytically can really piss people off that aren't as obsessed with detail. I've learned this over time and have to turn myself off every once in a while.

It takes the right environment to excel, and I believe that Richard was blessed with one. But he was also just a remarkable person. Love his books.
You can buy a developer phone. However, I'm not sure you can get one for any carrier.
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True. True.

However something tells me Steve doesn't care what the carriers think or feel. I know I don't care what they think.

In fact, putting more stress on the digital networks may give the carriers in the U.S. the ammunition they need to get the FCC to let them abandon POTS. The truth is that money going to support legacy POTS is taking money away from digital network investment. The FCC should allow common carriers to abandon POTS on the condition that all that money get poured back into digital network bandwidth and rural network expansion.
or just http://squarechat.com/hackernews to get into a room with others.
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This article implies that might happen: http://pajamasmedia.com/blog/the-business-of-the-social-netw...
I'd like to add: becoming a programmer fundamentally changes your personality and who you are. Seriously.
As far as I know, any phone that runs Android is "Officially Android", of which there are a number of Chinese handset manufacturers making handsets.

Many of them don't have access to the Market, or run Google's applications, but I don't think that makes them "not officially Android".
I just wanted to say thanks for the blog post. It conveyed a lot of the nuances that might not have come through in the tweets.
As much as I hate advertising everywhere, you bring a fair point. Logos can easily be an indicator of place and time for a recordings.

The above is also why I can't stand how many blogs these days don't put a publish date anywhere, for the sake of minimalism.

I think the real, unwritten reason they're doing this is to serve as an adblock for video content you 'consume' - that is, television shows and movies.
I don't know if this is true, but I read somewhere that listening to music while coding can interfere with coming up with creative solutions when you are stuck on a coding problem.

The reasoning behind this claim was that music "occupies" your right brain leaving only your left brain working on the task.

I don't know the validity of this claim as I haven't seen any academic studies backing it up.
It's one strategy. The other is opening it up so much that no one breakout distribution, application, or interface could possibly emerge "victorious" (meaning, the vast majority uses it), which is what Linux does. There is so much room for experimentation, so many flavors and choices and configurations and ways to do it, that no one but the most hardcore and devoted users can seriously figure out how to do things with any respectable degree of confidence.

I've run Linux on the desktop in one form or another (laptop, desktop, or server) since Red Hat Linux 6.2. That was over a decade ago. And, guess what? We're still fighting over GNOME vs. KDE (or fluxbox), and apt-get vs yum (or port), .rpm vs .deb (or .tar.gz). You still can't grab a package from Ubuntu and install it on your Fedora box (well, not without a tremendous amount of headache), and if you go strictly upstream, you have to be at the terminal every time a new version comes out (./configure + remember the build options you want, make, make install).

Windows, unfortunately, is in the middle, and it's still, 15 years later, a virus-prone rooted-zombie mess, albeit with a supposedly pretty good modern browser coming real soon now.
Yep, here's AppleInsider's coverage of that patent: http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/10/07/22/apple_shows_co...
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Generally people prefer to look at the screen. Extraneous lights are distracting.
it does. Search expands our mind's reach.
The iPad and the Macbook Air need to basically become the same product.

Kind of like the tablet laptops Toshiba was shipping about 7 years ago. You open the laptop and it's a Macbook with touchscreen display and keyboard. You swivel the screen flat onto the keyboard and it's an iPad. Maybe some apps work in only one mode or the other, but your files will be available to both kinds of apps, X and iOS.
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I don't find support of these people to be a bad thing. I find the homogeneity and cruel, almost-textually-violent reactions of redditors to non-homogenous thought to be the bad thing. Look for AMAs where the subject is positive to religion ("IAmA practicing Mormon", "IAmA Catholic priest") or opposed to same-sex marriage, etc., and see how those turn out.

reddit is extremely antagonistic toward people who they consider unenlightened. There is a culture of incivility. It's not a numbers game -- it doesn't matter for instance that a larger portion of reddit is irreligious than religious -- it's just a matter of human decency, courtesy, open-mindedness and humility, which are almost non-existent on reddit.
One user at a time.

I haven't built anything solo with 1 million users, but I'm one of the 600,000+ people who helped build this:

http://drupal.org/home

...and it was done one user at a time, over a decade, nothing unethical, not much advertising beyond word of mouth. Lots of hacks, though!
I don't seem to understand Apple's move with the huge price drop in the Air. I feel like the Air is a much better alternative to the iPad, and this causes Apple to compete with its own product.

People make a big deal about tablets. Personally, I don't see them as the next big thing. Do you think Apple is straying away from them, given their somewhat underwhelming sales?
>Facetime is then an open system

I'm a big Apple fan but feel I would have to turn in my nerd credentials if I failed to point out that you just used the "o" word to describe an Apple product (without qualifying it) :-)
Apple may have won on design, but what the author fails to mention is that despite all of this, Google is doing pretty darn well.

The missing ingredient on Apple's side that is allowing Google to excel is the lack of openness in attempt to control and micromanage the experience. While truly good design requires a great degree of control, people like freedom.

If you travel around the world, one thing you will notice more often than not is that cities and towns are often poorly planned. This is annoying to many of us, and we respect the cities and towns with the well planned grid layout of roads, where the roads are numbered in order, etc. So, if a more well-controlled and better designed city or town is better, why are there more cities and towns that are more loosely planned? Freedom. Things that grow organically, grow more.

This is why Apple failed against the IBM clones and Windows in the late 80s through the 90s. Apple had the chance to allow Mac clones, but didn't since they would compete with Macs, and they'd lose control.
I'd stop looking over the fence. If they are blocking your work or career progress, then they matter, otherwise focus on your own career, goals and lifestyle requirements.

It can be hard if you don't feel engaged with your co-workers but it happens. Set your goals and areas of ownership, develop yourself to support them and start pushing to see if you can progress your career. If they aren't a good baseline to compete with, you have to make your own structure.

If you have a baby on the way pretty soon you'll be in coast mode anyhow (I mean this - if you're still working, some days you'll barely have the energy to focus on your inbox, let alone productive work)

After this stage in your life, re-assess. Maybe your work / life balance is different, maybe you'll be more risk tolerant and change jobs / roles, maybe you'll just be happy. Mostly choice, and hard work.

In regards to the after hours stuff, it's doable as well. It sounds crazy to try and launch a whole side project until you actually do it (even with a baby on board). I noticed you knocked back a suggestion to do an off hours project / startup before, don't rush to close the idea off.

To give context: professionally I put in about 47-60 hours a week depending on what's on, and I brick in every single free hour around that (as stamina and life allows) on side projects. Before I started doing that, I said it couldn't be done, and would park my ass watching TV or generally doing nothing instead.

Figure out what you want, don't measure yourself on others, and go for it. =) If it's what you have now, there's nothing wrong with that.
My favorite is:

11.3 "Enemies" within the context of a game cannot solely target a specific race, culture, a real government or corporation, or any other real entity

I guess my WWII game cannot just be focused on the Western Front. I will have to include the Pacific side just to get past the Apple Content Research, Approval, and Processing group.
Maybe there were, but this guy just didn't wanna listen? I have to jump to conclusions, but from his writing style, he seems borderline arrogant.
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I'm looking forward to the day when we have a widely used p2p archiving network like OceanStore or Free Haven. Then we can stop worrying about this stuff.
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"Graham concedes that individual YC partners have invested in a few startups that hadn't been able to attract much outside funding."

Interesting that Paul, Trevor, Robert, and Jessica (maybe Harj and Alexis now?) will backstop companies that can't raise outside money after YC. It's like the exact opposite of the signaling problem.
Do they collect and remit the HST, or do they pass it on to you for remitting to the CRA?

Sorry, I'm not an iPhone developer, and I was always wondering how the accounting would be handled.
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Don't worry, I'm sure the NSA has it on a server somewhere along with the rest of our communications.
I have seen quite a few religious IAmAs, and, as a rule, everyone was respectful. Reddit mostly has a problem with people who try to undermine rationality and critical thinking in the name of religion, not with religion itself. If you show me a post where redditors are being disrespectful to a (sane) IAmA-er, I will be very surprised.

In fact, I remember a recent post by a theologian, it had hundreds of comments and everyone (including the poster) loved it, it was very civilized and informative.
Basic math is all you need to program, but many times, the cool things you can do with programming will need strong math. For example, just working with mapping data, I need to be able to think pretty extensively about functions for changing coordinate systems, figuring out which tiles I need for a specific zoom level, etc. Of course the actual math itself is basic trig, the abstract concepts are much more difficult, and I'd argue those are math related.

Extending the mapping analogy, I built a 3D terrain system with a simple mesh overlay, and drew a 3D route inside of the system. I had to map the route onto the terrain, and to do that I needed to understand a good amount of vector manipulation (cross products amongst others). Maybe this is 8th grade math in Russia, but it certainly isn't taught until College here in the US.

So, yes writing a program itself doesn't require math, but many of the cool domains require math.
Needless to say, I lost. But is this really even HN-worthy?
This is clever! As soon as you realise that the roof of the original hexayurt has the footprint of a regular hexagon, you can mine the entirety of the platonic, archimedean, and semiregular solids for anything with hex and square faces: bam, new no-waste building structure.
The running back metaphor is perfect.
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Big enough attacks commonly take down the hosting provider. Especially if they are not geared up for such things.
It really is. I was playing video games a few hours ago, and had my laptop open to read stuff between matches. I got a FaceTime call, and was able to reach over, click accept, and say "Hey Kelly, I'm playing some Halo right now, what's up?"

It was actually a way more pleasant experience than trying to do the same thing on a phone.
:) there's a hack, create multiple accounts.
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I've found it's more about being in the hole than getting back out. It's only when you're really, truly screwed - in the sense that you're out of your comfort zone and have no clear path forward - that real learning happens / your character comes out.

There's very few people who are decent and / or successful who haven't had some seriously hard knocks involved in shaping who they are.

Edit for anecdote: I was a mid 20's guy with an average job and bad investments that put me close to 3/4 million in debt just before the crash. A lot of pain, panic and off the cuff decisions to save my own ass, but hell, was one of the best things to ever happen to me in hindsight.
Spot on. You may not need math if you are working on very very standard boring things, or on some system level stuff. However, the moment you need to work with real data and do cool things with it, you are often left SOL without the ability to figure out the math.

Many people grab a scientific toolkit (psipy and the like), but understanding what a Gaussian filter is vs calling a function for it, does an immeasurable amount of good anytime you need to decide what your particular dataset needs.
I'm sure part of it is the size. /r/atheism has over 94 thousand subscribers. In a group of people that large, there are inevitably going to be a bunch of super-assholes. The true measure of a subreddit is its ability to keep the assholes in check and denounce them when they rampage. A quick skim of a few threads suggests that /r/atheism is fairly average in that regard.
Why this site name?

Obama has a Mac, and his Mac has a Pacman on it. Originally OP is going to be a site on both Apple / Obama news, but there are just so many interesting Apple stories so we scrapped the non-Apple part.

PS. Thinking of changing site name. So if you have any ideas, please contact us.

http://obamapacman.com/2010/07/pacman-birthday-cupcake-obama...
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I love that he's a "vice president of new product development." A good way to make a company look bigger.
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