skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
(I swear I'm going to get back to work after this comment....)

In relation to lionhearted's comment and the article, the author of the OP loses me at the paragraph where they discuss alternatives.

The Euro is barely stitched together and various conflicts between the participating countries are really going to prevent it from being recognized as a stable, worldwide reserve currency.

There have been some decent articles the past few years about the potential for the yuan to be devalued if the Chinese government were to allow it to float against the dollar. In this case, the yuan may not be quite ready either, although it's probably a better

And a last note which always gets lost in these discussions is that the U.S. dollar is supported by the U.S. government and military. If necessary, the government has quite a few options (all mostly worst-case scenarios) where it can exert force (economic or military) to ensure no other currency reaches the international reserve status the dollar still holds.

If I get comments from people asking me to elaborate on any of these points, I can in six hours after I get off work :)
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Maybe I'm being stupid, but I've got to ask: This is humor, right? Because it doesn't only sound like a bad joke, it offers no source either. So it's either a mediocre joke or a very crappy way to deliver some bad news.
That brings us to the follow up question of, if a small number of people are privileged during a small part of history, does that mean that the rest of it - filled as it was with problems and exploitation - is no longer a problem, and the critiques are no longer valid?

Just because capitalism works some of the time for a few of the people, doesn't mean that it's above criticism, and has no problems.

Since the majority of folks on HN have benefited from capitalism, it's not surprising that they are not as open to hearing criticisms of it.
I recently moved back to my big and fat 2nd gen ipod when my current one died and found that it surprise plays mp3's just as well as the new one, fits in my pocket and everyone love to play with it and remember/talk about their first ipod. It has become retro cool :D
Is Your Business Sellable?
"There's way too much scope for leaky abstractions when you try to hide away the true nature of asynchronous code."

Done properly, that's not terribly true. Done properly, correct code transformers can actually bring you a lot of power, such as handling exceptions correctly across asynchronous boundaries or enabling much more powerful control flows, such as being able to freely pass in callbacks that themselves may have asynchronous functionality, layered arbitrarily deeply. The only thing that can "leak" is exactly where the asynchronous breaks occur, but it's not that hard to see that.

It's quite debatable that "the true nature" of asynchronous code is in the manually-scheduled hacked up code that you write by hand in Node.js or similar tools. Other environments that don't require that make a good case for saying that the "true nature" of asynchronous code looks like the synchronous code, only with capable scheduling, and the real "leaky abstraction" is the way your terrible, terrible language runtime scheduler is poking out and requiring you to manually transform your relatively simple code into a spaghetti mess to satisfy it. There's your leaky abstraction, and what leaks out is daggers slicing your code to ribbons.
Are you sure on that last point? There have been some kings with pretty low standards of living historically... :)

I think a big part of the issue is our economy isn't aimed at letting everyone live like a king for just breathing, it's aimed at maximizing how fast we can transform raw resources into things people want and maximizing how much stuff we can get people with money to want to want.
Actually it displays intellectual understanding and rationality on the part of the gift giver:

I understand that you, and only you, knows best what you desire and that the best I can do to help you is to give you the most universally desired means of exchange.

Gift cards are a ripoff and if you give them you are (normally) doing a disservice.
Game of Life seems to have become the new "Hello World" for trying to learn canvas. I wrote one as my first project for canvas/JavaScript.
Sign of a top in the bubble?

I am considering the jump as well (from i-banking), and have been putting in a considerable amount of work, but part of me is worried the growth we have seen will come crashing down soon and opportunities will disappear. It is hard to give up a nice salary and job security, especially when a similar position is very difficult to return to if things don't work.
Every time I read an article describing any practice of recruiters, I lose more respect for them. Whether it be discriminating against un-employed job-seekers or mining facebook to eliminate candidates, their practices just seem terrible. Employers expect employees to keep a barrier between their personal and professional lives, but do not respect that barrier in the other direction.

still have pictures of the intoxicated you with your shirt off in 23 degree weather with the ‘A’ from “WILDCATS” painted on your chest during a football game (not exactly their idea of a “team player”).

How in the world does that affect ones ability to perform a job?
Indeed,

But what happens when the recruiter asks to "friend" you some time within the process of being recruited?

Sure, you can "woah, this isn't appropriate" but it might be a bit hard, depending on the situation....
What's your business model though?

(Kidding.)
I think Binary search algorithm is very elegant.
Sure, everyone is, given the choice.

I mean, you've described your own experience as getting out of the hidebound checklist mediocrity of university life to the dynamic 1-man-shop life. Similarly I pick startups to work at instead of big lumbering corporations.

I was just explaining where the unions tend to be coming from when you sit across the table from them. I think the seniority rules are dumb, particularly last-in-first-out which is probably the worst thing about the current state of your typical municipal agreement. But I think you're mischaracterizing the opposition to standardized tests.. some % of teachers are lazy and don't want to teach the material but the strongest objections tend to come from some of the best teachers who resent having to "teach to the test" instead of using their judgment about the best way to teach/evaluate their students.
I guess this is the start of the malware arms race, then? I actually already have Lookout installed on my Android phone, that scans every app I install (though I'm actually not sure what the scanning criteria are).

Isn't it really moot, though, considering the web exploits? I mean: what is there that you can get with this Android exploit, that you wouldn't be able to with the iOS web exploit?
For live update, you might prefer Ars Technica's AJAX driven liveblog : http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2011/03/ipad-2-event-liveb...
Could we make getTitle a method of some webpage object? Then the event handler could set the webpage instance's title attribute. Webpages could have class variables that kept track of the total number of webpages created and the total number that had titles.
This makes sense, except that we've been spending with wild abandon since (at least) Reagan. If we've managed to keep it afloat that long, why is it so improbable that we might continue to do so for another decade or two (or longer)?

(I'm not sure myself either way, just playing devil's advocate.)
Also, to establish the TCP connection you need an extra roundtrip compared to the UDP use case. Given that in the case of no answer in the cache the recursive name server may need to ask several authoritative name servers - this can add significantly to the delay, too.
Love the faster processor, HDMI out and better Safari performance. However, the main reason I'd upgrade my iPad would be for better resolution. Going from my iPhone 4, the iPad's screen just looks like crap. I primarily use the iPad for reading websites and Instapaper, and my guess is that I'm not alone.
Yes, exactly. This is a great description of the new deferred events and methods.
But they're clearly doing their best to minimise file size, and so using // cuts down on a few characters.
Without frames, http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=22452&The...
And most importantly, determine whether a potential hire has any clue to begin with. Without some knowledge of your own, it's a roll of the dice.
Live stream (video) is available here: http://bambuser.com/channel/mikebutcher/broadcast/1465264
I really want to be able to do a timed mute on my iPhone. I keep on putting my phone on mute to see a movie, then my girlfriend is mad at me the next morning because I don't answer the phone.
You won't find FSF on Facebook
Well, you might, but they say it isn't them.
Ars liveblog: http://embed.scribblelive.com/Embed/v5.aspx?Id=22452&The...
To get the new look, I just deleted cookies from google.com.
Give this a whirl will ya? http://bit.ly/eN5SWU

Only 25 mins left...
The Right Way to Get Your Ideas Heard
This is surprising. Does anyone know if Google can actually do this? Maybe provide a reference.
Self-sacrifice isn't the only way to survive. It's just the only way to achieve the median modern standard of living. If you're happy with a lower standard of living it's not hard to survive without working.

http://www.couchsurfing.org/

http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/frzzq/iama_prolific_du...
Why the video game focus?

There are some giant omissions. Barbara Liskov comes to mind.

I would also argue with the definition of "tech". Hedy Lamarr certainly was doing tech when she invented spread spectrum communications. Not to mention that if you wander slightly farther afield, you'll find the first person to win two Nobel awards, Marie Curie.
Step 2 is finding solutions. Step 1 is recognizing that there is a problem. This article (in my view) is aimed at step 1.
While it's true that we have a lot of work to do, conflict is unpleasant and expensive and people on the whole have a strong interest in avoiding it. Unfortunately, war mongers tend to spend other people's money, so they don't bear the costs; we need to stop supplying them and/or make them pay. If we can manage this, I think our adaptability and ability to cooperate can win out.
If Apple let you load the apps you choose on your phone this would be easy. It's a solved problem on Android (Locale).
http://buyersguide.macrumors.com/

used to be quite good, doesn't seem to be working at the moment. It shows the time between each revision, and when it was working clearly showed that sometimes there were only a couple of months between revisions, and sometimes there was a couple of years between revisions (the 30 inch monitor springs to mind).

Most Apple products were completely unpredictable in this regard. You could perhaps argue that the release of new computers or laptops was tied to intel's cpu release cycle, which while still appearing pseudo-random in terms of when Apple does their refresh, at least gives it some sane causal tie to the real world.

Oh, it seems to have loaded. So okay, right off the top we can see the iPod classic has in the past had refreshes as little as four and five months apart, and then 4 years (2006-09) where the new models came out in September each year.

Note that with Apple sometimes what counts as a 'new model' is really minor, even just something as small as a price drop.

iPod Touch, same thing, releases in September. Nano, September.

Shuffle, updated twice a year during 2006-09 period, only updated once last year.

Mac mini, updated twice in 2009, and not at all in 2008.

Since 2003 there have only been 4 years with a single iMac update, all the rest had two or more (2003 had 3!). So 13 updates in 8 years.

Mac Pro, only updated once a year since 2003 (2003 seem like a year where Apple pushed out a lot of refreshes).

MacBook, twice a year every year except 2005 and 2010, so 9 updates every 5 years.

MacBook Pro, multiple updates in a year not uncommon, 3 updates in 2006.

MacBook Air, once a year.

The first three iPhone updates were all 5 months apart (!!!)

The slowest updating ones of that lot mini, air and Mac Pro all feel (to me) like they update really slowly. Maybe the Pro will pick up with the switch to consumer chips instead of the server Xeons. In an industry with Moore's law (price per transistor halving every 18 months) running rampant back in the 2000s yearly or year and a half updates feel very slow.

The average Apple (hardware) product (including taking all the slowpokes into account) updates every 0.700205338809035 of a year. Call it eight and a half months.

So if they release a new iPad in March, seeing another one in November (just in time for Xmas! Funny that) would not be at all unreasonable.
You should really reference the online version of the dictionary http://www.jsoftware.com/help/dictionary/contents.htm, it is the current version.
IPad 2 Official Specs
IPad 2
Apple Unveils iPad 2 - Coming March 11
You can still get this kind of literature from a library, though - especially university libraries. It's like how books aren't free, yet you can still read them for free by going to the library.
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Share a url, email address, phone number, location, photo, video, music, podcast, links to; Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, Flickr and more.

It's an information card for people, places, events, things, whatever you want to share.

Examples:

AMBphoto - http://infostripe.com/ambphoto, a business
Harold - http://infostripe.com/harold, an individual
Oscars - http://infostripe.com/oscars, an event
Forever Alone - http://infostripe.com/foreveralone, a meme
Acervus - http://infostripe.com/acervus, a website
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Try it out and let us know what you think.
Ehh.. I love my IPad but I dont know if I will upgrade. Lighter is good I guess.
I wish more people on the business end of things had realizations like this. Kudos to the author for being honest with himself, and being willing to do what it takes to address a short coming.
Why did they not remove whitespace too?
No idea, I saw that too and was puzzled.
- Take a simple Lisp language.
- Remove macros, s-expression.
- Add a bunch of shit that could be trivially added if you still had macros.
Wonder if they'll keep the 4+ finger multitouch gestures. I've kind of gotten used to them on my 4.3 beta.
##sigh##

Yet another service that requires me to hand over information on what I read.

Why couldn't this be made as a privacy-respecting application I can run from my own machine?
Apple has already updated their iPad pages, perhaps prematurely. I haven't heard mention of a white iPad, but it looks like Apple has one made:

http://www.apple.com/ipad/built-in-apps/
Screen resolution of the new ipad:
1024-by-768-pixel resolution at 132 (ppi)

http://www.apple.com/ipad/specs/
> if you tap softly or hard, it changes the sound

How can a touch-screen detect velocity? There's no travel. (I ask because it would be cool if you can).

EDIT iPad has an accelerometer, so it can measure the force at which your finger strikes the display
Especially when you compare it to the best designed websites of the time.

Granted, going minimalist was a very wise choice; IE6 was far and away the most advanced browser of the time, and the real thorn in every web designer's side was Netscape 4. But the bottom line is that the design holds up, which is remarkable regardless of which design direction you take.
Call her before you go to bed...

This would actually create an interesting problem. If you have a hardware switch and a software timer, then the switch is going to be wrong sometimes.
OK, just found the email from you (from yesterday) in my spam folder which may explain why I was asking. Sorry about that!
It all depends on how you view your life. You will spend the majority of your life trying to simply survive the coming day/week/month/year. How you do so is what determines what kind of life you lead.

Work has never been my purpose in life so much as a means to an end. I've never been a "drone" so much as a wanderer that has stopped to warm his hands by the fire of a camp. If/when I don't like what I do anymore, I will simply cease to do it and wander on to the next thing. There is always a way to survive, though it may not always be obvious (and sometimes may not even be legal.)

At some point, many people find a person or group of people that they decide to center their life around, and put down lasting ties, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that. But that kind of life does require more planning and forethought, and often a lot more concessions to their own personal wants and needs. If you're fine with that and what you get in return (family and friends), then you never become a drone. If you're not fine with that, then you have to decide what it is that you DO want, and go after it.
I presume this is a well-deserved "Hey! We're a group sharing app too!" in light of the Beluga acquisition. Frid.ge should be rebounding off this shot in the press as well.

If I was Twitter, private-group functionality would be way, way up on my whiteboard, with a double circle and maybe even a bendy arrow.
They use the accelerometer.
Everything in life is a choice. Often it's a choice between two bad options-- that's life.

Covering your ears and humming loudly at the problem doesn't eliminate your responsibility to address it; nor the consequences for doing so.
Knowledge is stored in 3 buckets. Mentorship can help move the set of stuff you "don't know that you don't know" to the set of stuff you "know that you don't know". This can make the process of filling up the "know that you know" bucket much more efficient.
No, it's not a level playing field. You're absolutely right. I did not mean to give that impression.
You have a very good point. I've never realized it before, but now that I think about it, this is something that I see all the time - a complete and utter lack of entry level positions on job boards and hiring pages across the web. I wonder if there's an opportunity to be had here? There must certainly be a thriving untapped market of entry-level programmers who may be willing to take a pay cut to hone their skills for a year or two...
Live video stream of the iPad 2 hands on - from the Apple Event
They're saying it uses the accelerometer in the device itself to detect how hard you touch the screen?
Wizard of Wor in Rx for Javascript
I implemented a partial clone of the classic Wizard of Wor C64 game using Reactive Extensions for Javascript. It was fun. You like?
Marx's critique of capital is totally separate from his answer about what to do instead.

I know it may seem like a small nit to pick, but you can agree with one and disagree with the other (like me).
Yes, though as a corollary, we need to remember that the "accumulation of responsibilities" is composed largely (though not solely) of the accumulation of a set of outcomes from a set of prior choices.
Steve Jobs: "It's not a case -- it's a cover."
I walk into a restaurant. They charge me $10 for a meal. Yet they only paid $2 for the ingredients!

Now I don't know a lot of math, but even I know that 2 goes into 10... FIVE times! They are charging me FIVE times what it cost them to make that meal!

Sure, they came up with the money to open the restaurant, and the time to make the meal, but does that give them the right to rip me off? Because I spent my life earn my money, and by stealing my money THEY ARE STEALING MY LIFE!

Now you could say that I could always go and open my own restaurant, but that would require credit which THEY wouldn't give me, and ripping off other people, which I refuse to do.

Cooking? What's cooking? Never heard of it.
Unless you can back up that statement with anything else but speculation, yes.

1974 is also the year I got my first chemistry kit. That's about as relevant to the discussion.
I wonder if it has to be on your lap or some surface that has some give for the accelerometer to properly pick up how hard you tap.
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More general info about the iPad:
http://www.apple.com/ipad/
Rules prevent hackers from helping the Government
http://www.apple.com/ipad/ is updated
What a surprise, another article that blames the teachers. They are not the problem, the PARENTS are the problem.

The parents are the ones who think that the only place to learn is in school, and everywhere else you can play gameboy. The parents are the ones who think "being intellectual" is a bad thing and you should be playing football instead. The parents are the ones who opted-out of paying school taxes when they didn't have kids. The parents are the ones who don't make sure their kids are studying. The parents are the ones who yell at the teachers if their kid gets an F, instead of yelling at the kid. The parents are the ones who have driven all the good teachers away from teaching, or have beaten-down the ones who stayed.

You don't have to wonder why so many teachers have a standing appointment at happy hour every day.
New Features Coming to Chrome Tab Menu; Multi Selection, Better Graphics
Easy SVN branching and merging
i talked to him yesterday to ask him where the badges came from since that's one of the most popular features of foursquare. he left google on a friday and joined areacode on a monday which is a company that builds games (now part of zynga). he said he worked on an application called shark runners (http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/sharkweek/shark-runners...) which was a fun way to encourage people to act like marine biologists (study sharks). that specific app used achievements and is what inspired the badges in foursquare.

i also found it interesting that despite foursquare being 2 years old as of next week and having >7 million users (by comparison, facebook had 6 million users at 2 years) he still doesn't consider foursquare a success at all and worries about the company failing every day. he said his girlfriend told him his face was breaking out because he tends to put his hands on his face when he's stressed out.
It was mentioned, and to huge applause. Shipping white from the launch.
Klout is hiring interns. We want awesome people who will crush code: http://klout.com/careers
Bitcoin seems about ready to take over...
Show/Ask HN: My side project for over a year; should I take it on full time?
We personally have managed to occupy a very rich and privileged part of history. That doesn't mean that anyone outside of this country (or even this industry) is rich and privileged, and you could make the argument that our riches are built on their repression and exploitation.
If Warren Buffet only paid 17.7% of his income in '06, then other top-1%'ers pay a lot more than 31.2%! (see CBO Effect Tax Rates 2006: http://www.cbo.gov/publications/collections/tax/2009/effecti...)

Warren Buffet uses tax loopholes (perfectly legal) to keep more of his money, which he plans to give away to various charities by the time he dies. The solution is to close loopholes and encourage more charity among the super rich, so that the government doesn't need to do as much charity when it can't afford to, and the wealthy are still able to create jobs by not having an effective tax rate much higher than 31%.
For me, the most exciting announcement has to be the line of Smart Covers.

iPad covers aren't new, but this cover looks like it could solve the ergonomic problem of typing on your iPad or watching a movie/TV show while you're not sitting on a couch. It also protects your iPad's screen without adding bulk.

EDIT: @marcoarment: "The Smart Cover might be the best feature of the iPad 2. I can't possibly express how much I hate every iPad 1 case for some reason."

[0] http://www.apple.com/ipad/smart-cover/
Steve Jobs takes stage at Apple’s iPad 2 event despite health concerns
Well maybe they will...?
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