skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Next time try posting links that doesn't need subscription - not all of us here are backed by institutions to read hacker news :-)

http://www.rand.org/pubs/working_papers/2010/RAND_WR637-1.pd...

(viewer: http://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rand.org%...)

(scribd: http://www.scribd.com/full/49777774?access_key=key-1z4k6uefp...)

Not as well formated as ScienceDirect (which is sourced from the Journal of Health Economics) but doesn't require a subscription.
"Hacking me"
There's more, but if you just stop there and understand PLT's contributions to Scheme, you'll be gushing too.
Given the state of useful information on home/lockscreens in competitors (Windows Phone 7, Android, WebOS), it's almost necessary for Apple to make a UI overhaul in iOS 5. I'm loathe to jailbreak (performance issues), but when I have jailbroken my phone, the lockscreen with usable info (weather, notifications) was brilliant. I don't think Apple should open up the lock/home screen to the app environment necessarily, but Apple should do something to make their devices more useful when they aren't in active use.
My Danish isn't too hot, but I make it N=1146, Danish only.
I think that the casing of the first letter of the title is forced by HN.
"Dropping out of MIT is like graduating from Yale."
"As for the notion of a thought vacuum, I think its incredible to consider that no matter how bleak an environment you may find yourself in, or how dull an object you may find yourself holding, these things are always influencing how you think and feel about the people and places around you."

What's more important to me than how this might/should effect product design, is how it should effect our concept of free will.
Consider de-duplication.
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Fired for sexism? Or only because he was losing money?

Because if it was sexism, depending upon the state, the women in that company could own the company, after lawsuits.
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The learning outcome is irrelevant. It's irrelevant to the cheaters and to the poster above. Someone taking amphetamines to cram is doing exactly that. They aren't learning, they are just cramming to get through the next set of exams. So to them the learning outcome is irrelevant if the only thing that matters is the grade.
Exactly. If you've pigeonholed yourself into only one specific previous-generation language on a single platform, you're already digging yourself a hole as a developer.

The author should start exploring other languages regardless of whether they abandone VB at work. Odds are they will once they expand their horizons a bit.
Yeah, like I said elsewhere, the current system has problems - some of them serious - but I have yet to see anything that makes a lot of sense as a replacement. And yes, it's not a 100% "real" market, and thus the quotes - I didn't realize I'd need to spell it out. I thought it's obvious to anyone who studies this stuff that IP is only "property" due to laws and regulations, rather than some natural state of rivalrousness and excludability, like an automobile.

My best guess is that reconfiguring the current compromise in favor of consumers, rather than some producers (copyright extensions, etc...) might be the best course of action, but I am not convinced 100% of anything.
It's been more than a day for me. It's Tuesday and I still have not regained access to my GMail account...
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On a sidenote: Sebastian (@cocoia) posted a great article on the problem of notifications the other day: http://blog.cocoia.com/2011/notify/
I don't think I'd want to be a passenger on a bus or plane where the operator has been operating for 14 hours straight, speed or not. Don't pilots nap on long international flights? That's why you have a co-pilot.
Fascinating. I read the whole thing. Then I flagged it.
Thanks for the comment, but I'm going to have to disagree. If you read the comments on the main article, I think you'll see that quite a few people found it funny. As did many of the people who emailed me directly. You're right, sarcasm isn't funny in and of itself, but it is used as a comedic tool very frequently. I'm not sure I've ever seen a stand up comedian who didn't use sarcasm as part of his tool set. Did my frustration come through? Absolutely. Did I sound enraged? I don't think so. It was more like bewildered. Obviously you're open to your own interpretation, but as the author I think I have a better idea as to what the tone of my writing was.
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Most people are well aware of the history; "Free" is a generic term, and attempting to claim it from other open source developers is patronizing.

"Open Source" is inclusive of GPL licensed software -- I don't see the need for a GNU/Linux style distinction in a survey targeted at all open source developers.
Federal taxes versus federal spending
Rhetorical question that I really want to hear the answer to: What would underproduction mean? Kids on the streets begging for mp3s?
US says China's Baidu is notorious pirated goods market
Interesting.
Beyond the retro-definition of the word "passion", I agree that "doing what you love" is a pretty naive view of the work world. When I get asked "What would you want to do all day," I answer "drink, play video games, and look at naked girls." Nobody wants to pay me to do that, trust me. I do, on the other hand enjoy programming. I also get sick of it.

tl;dr: A career is ruining an activity you enjoy in the name of money.
This looks like a very interesting language. I like the idea of exploring the statically typed Scheme space. I especially like the support for algebraic datatypes and the array notation. But a couple of things puzzle the hell out of me. Why Python (at all) and why not LLVM already. Using Python for the front end surely makes it much harder to set up an efficient API accessible from C. The use of C for the back end is perfectly defensible, but (and I'll have to read it more carefully to check) does this mean there is no (fast) interpreter and it is only a compiled language? If so, I'm disappointed, as the language itself looks absolutely great. With the LLVM Jit on the back end and a front end written in C, say, this would surely be a killer language.
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The fact that Arianna Huffington is Arrington's boss is a source of endless mirth to me.
Seems dated? Personally I call into question the masculinity of any guy that won't support his children, to the point of shunning one particular jerk for 10 years now.

Women get hired, promoted and paid better than men in certain jobs (enlisted military service, govt jobs) that they strangely don't want! So some of it is self-inflicted.
RJMetrics in Philadelphia is hiring both programmers and marketing interns for the summer.

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Well, yes, I'm a firm Democrat, and every Republican in federal office favors the Patriot Act, so yeah, coincidentally, my single-issue ducks are in a row there.

Feingold was one of like maybe 10 honest senators. Down to less than that, now.

Also, the Koch brothers supported Michelle Bachmann. Again, they are not libertarian, they are conservative. "Libertarian" just gets better press on boards like HN.

Lastly, I love the amount of self-programming that has to go on for you to call campaign finance reform, quote, "limiting the free speech of corporations". After all, why shouldn't my voice count nearly as much as theirs? Ohh, I get it.
Seems like a stretch. The argument he's making is that "A is on the slippery slope to B" is equivalent to "A and B are both motivated and caused by common factors and influences", so B could just as easily have proceeded A. That's true for some A's and B's, but not always.

After the kittens on top of HN yesterday, I guess we'll find out just how slippery that particular slope is ...
Slightly unrelated but a really simple change I'd really love to see is the "swipe to unlock" moved to the top of the screen so it's easily answerable with one hand.

This way you don't have to crane your thumb down or juggle the phone to a higher position in your hand.
Can you provide me a single instance of democracy that is independent of PSYOP?

Human life is about effecting change from the first instance of cognition.

Perhaps you can share what it is that bothers you enough to prompt your question to me?

*Note: Ironic that with my username, I forgot my password.
It frustrates me that the iPhone's UI is stuck firmly in what can effectively be considered the smartphone's past. The UI was revolutionary at first, but that was years ago. Now it's archaic and limiting. I understand Apple's reasons for disallowing UI change, as it is a support nightmare, but I do wish they would allow some kind of opt-in system where you could enable UI replacements, without being forced to jailbreak your phone.
Imagine the disagreements that would happen if there was a discussion of something remotely complicated or controversial!
I'm quite sure women "feel constant pressure"; I'm just not sure its there. It may be a different emotional response to social pressure: guys are largely oblivious, while some women are acutely sensitive.
I had a look at it today and it does look great. My only suggestion would be to implement the "later" and "Open" in the bar itself so that it is a single click to read it or mark it for later, rather than two clicks.
On a superficial layer it might not seem important but when this is a daily affair it will become irritating.
I really want to explore the intuition v logic discussion, since I see it a lot in business owners, particularly those that truly are successful entrepreneurs (short take: intuition is incredibly valuable, learn to listen to it, but it can be wrong and does need to be either trained or developed over time).

But really, I just came here to note that this is the second sign I've had in the past fortnight that the Audrey Hepburn movement is still strong. Glad I'm not the only one.
And that thing that most websites run on.
And tons of other infrastructure of the modern world.
Yaknow, like that version control system.
2004 Time Magazine's one of the most influential people in the world.
Pioneer of FOSS and innovation.

But whatever. Computers a boxes full of magic, if you open them it all escapes. My uncle fixes computers and makes html pages too, it's no biggie.

:(
Ah I see it now. Weird, I double-checked to see if I read it wrong, but still didn't realize I did.
I am, perhaps because I am programmer, more inclined to think that a person who created and now runs the most important piece of open source software is more important, to the world, then the person who plays a character in a movie. Which is all my opinion of course, and no more valid or invalid then yours.

I apologize if I came off condescending, the arts are super important to me.
For me these are least important and I struggle to understand why others are so obsessed with it (this does not mean that I think current implementation is the best possible, I just don't care).

The reasons: if I see a badge on a program (mail, phone or SMS) I will check it anyway, so I don't need the full info on the home screen.
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Oh, don't get me wrong--I agree. It's not their fault that women at hackathons are genuinely uncommon, and they're not bad people for acknowledging this (though I would argue that they shouldn't gawk and draw undue attention to them, and this is admittedly a fine line to walk). But by the same token, it's not her fault either that that's the case. It feeds an unpleasant vicious cycle.

It's a good example of the fact that it's very hard for people from an underrepresented group to break into something that's traditionally not "their field". I feel a lot of respect for the ones who are brave enough to be among the first ones (and who aren't naturally the sort who enjoy the extra attention they get, be it positive or negative--which I'm going to guess from this post that the OP is not).
For some reason this reminded me of neuro-linguistic programming: there's something there, but it's easy to overstate your case.
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I would have few qualms not abiding by the arbitrary and invasive framework of rules the insurance company, drug company and health care industry have erected around my self, my body and my choices.

That said, I don't advocate scamming, stealing or lying (in fact, it's probably easier and cheaper to illegally self-medicate via the internet).

That's a false choice -- I wouldn't want to be a passenger on a bus or a plane when the operator has been working for 14 hours hopped up on nothing (though, gun-to-head I'll take the hopped-up-on-speed pilot/driver over the one dozing off).
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For excellent C++ support in a Linux IDE you should have a look at KDevelop 4.x some time. Qt Creator reuses KDevelop's C++ parser, but doesn't quite go as far on making use of it for semantic functionality as KDevelop does.

For example, it does excellent semantic syntax highlighting where the same variable is drawn in the same color throughout - after using it for a while, code in other editors looks pretty dead :-).
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There are indications that there won't be an update to the notification system in iOS 5 (Apple had a recent job posting that indicated they were just now looking at updating the notifications), so it's almost hard to imagine what Apple has been working on if they don't update either the homescreen or the widget system. I'm afraid this guy's work will be wasted.
Bleh, this is just a press release, and a poor one at that. The thing reads like a telecom buzzword-bingo exercise. In the first paragraph alone:

* strengthen the position in the market

* consolidate the development of their unified communication solutions

* SIP routing development process

* highly available communication systems

* carrier grade communications platforms

* solid base for further growth and adoption of new technologies

None of this tells me anything about the service offering. What products are you offering? How do they integrate in to legacy environments? What exactly are we talking here? Outbound termination? Analog trunk replacement? Bundled VoIP with IAD for legacy integration? Just another SIP carrier?

What really bugs me about this is the use of "Open Source Software" in the submission title. Yes, Sipwise has an open source "community edition", but it's just another example of a hybrid open/commercial software offering.

If you want a fully open source product, have a look at OpenSIPS: http://www.opensips.org/. I'm not directly affiliated with their project, but I've worked with a local SIP carrier out of Cleveland that uses their product in their core SIP infrastructure. It's open source from top to bottom. There is no upgrade path that involves you writing them a big check, and their software works fantastic.
I'm the author of the blog post linked here. Thanks for the interest and thoughtful replies.

I certainly have complaints about the dev process Apple has created but I stand by my statement that Apple has allowed me to connect to more potential customers than ever was possible before.

The web has been available to the average person for 10-15 years but that doesn't mean I would have been able to get those people to look at my product. If I held a yard sale I can't realistically say that I have a potential market of all 600k people in Baltimore. Maybe I put up signs around my neighborhood, a small number of people see them and an even smaller number go out of their way to see what I'm selling.

But if I'm given a shop in the high traffic inner harbor, I have access to vastly more people who will already be drawn to the area and happen to see my wares. And even better, that shop in the high traffic area is decorated nicely and already set up with a credit card processing system. All I need to do is line the shelves with product.

I'll stop before I carry the analogy to the point of silliness, but for me to succeed without the App Store would have taken a different kind of product, more infrastructure and a lot more time spent on the things I don't know how to do. Despite theoretical potential, I never would have made it happen. The App Store significantly lowers the barrier to entry.

When I started as a software developer I dreamed of having a product on the shelves at Babbages and CompUSA. I feel I've finally achieved the modern equivalent of that. I would not have been able to make that happen without the ecosystem Apple has set up.
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How do you plan on maintaining the somewhat arbitrary measurements (the metrics) between a steadily growing stock of books? Also are you relying on user comments to derive the score on these scales?
The wall behind my monitor right now (at work) is beige :(
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I mostly agree - next meeting on lockscreen would be a nice-to-have.
"benefits of being a male software engineer"

"benefits of being a male social worker"

I don't get your point. Aren't these exactly opposites in terms of prevailing stereotypes? So why would the odds of seeing those articles be exactly the same?
I really doubt that software piracy would be illegal if put to a public vote.
I was holding a warm cup of tea while reading the article but I still think it sounds a bit fuzzy. I'm guessing the decline effect will push the results below the noise floor.
Well I find code completion and code navigation much better in KDevelop 4, it really has some excellent code parsing and insight. So that's what I use as my general C++ IDE. But when some more insight and support for Qt is needed I guess Qt Creator still beats it. Not to mention the new Qt Quick support and nice quick deployment on mobile devices.
per olalonde, you'll probably find this post a lot more upvotes and survey participant conversions if you "open source" the survey. right now you're basically asking people to support closed/private research.. and not just any people.. you're asking the open source community -- the demographic i'd suppose least likely to respond to a closed survey.

based on the current parameters my participation does not follow.
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If this happened a decade ago, this would have been huge...but it's worth the quick read just to see the graph of how ridiculously lackluster this accomplishment is.
Linus understands the merger between technology and the mindset of a factory's manager.

He doesn't care about your made-up business statistics, he cares about total system throughput, he cares about making things work correctly, he cares about not treating any one paradigm like a religion but rather something to be validated in context.

He isn't interested in making linux easier for anyone to contribute to, he's interested in making linux the best, and he has great reasons for using a "less modern" language, when you examine them in terms of reaching his goals.

Once you understand this, you'll understand all his criticisms, including his controversial stance on the GOTO.
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I believe there is a good chance that Apple will be improving the notification system in iOS since many months ago they hired the UI lead engineer from webOS that apparently came up with the notification system for Palm (now HP) webOS. I have used it a couple times and it was really elegant and not intrusive.
So I will expect Apple to get something fresh for iOS 5. And who knows they may show some feature of iOS at tomorrow's announcement.
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I work on a headless embedded system - what should I do?
You might gain information but you also gain 'information stress', with the current homescreen you feel the phone submits to you in letting you do what you want. With homescreens like this and the notification systems in competing platforms the phone is the one that tells you that 'you really should be looking at these other things as well, nag nag'.

This is useful for certain types of users, that lead busy lives. Therefore for professional users and business users the homescreen in the article will be an improvement because of the extra information but for the casual user and home user it will be mainly an increase in stress, I expect.
Personally I like this one: http://4.flowsnake.org/archives/202 :)
Speaking as a current Dotcloud customer, the setup they've created to handle creating and managing the various components of your "stack" is very cool - within a week of starting work on our first project hosted on Dotcloud I was already planning and thinking about how to move ALL of our projects over, as the flexibility and ease of use is awesome. Right now they are still in beta, but so far I'm super impressed.
At the extreme end: imagine the world without any commercial:

* Software

* Pharmaceuticals

* Books

* Music

* Movies

Now, I'm not saying that we'd arrive at that extreme, but you get the idea, no? That's "underproduction" in my mind - it'd be a poorer world with drastically smaller quantities of those things.
$0 - $10
$11 - $100
$101 - $500
$501 - $1,000
$1,001 - $2,000
$2,001 - $4,000
$4,001 - $6,000
$6,000 - $9,000
$9,001 - $15,000
$15,001 - $30,000
$30,001 - $83,332
$83,333 - ∞
Poll: What is the average monthly income from mobile apps? 
If you have iPhone/iPad or Android apps on market, how much do you earn from it?

Average monthly income:
Great stuff. We love Redis and I've always been impressed with the quality of the software (and readability of the code). This manifesto makes sense in that context. I like 'Redis is a data structure server' better than what point #1 says now.
One should forward this document to microsoft.
Google stole my friend's birthday
My poor friend (and also several million people) was born on a 29th of february. Off course she is tired of listening jokes about her birthday every 4 years, and that's not the story.

The story (or BUG REPORT) is about Google Calendar:

I added her birthday on Google Calendar, and I had to do it on 29th February 2012, all right.
The problem is that when I went to 2013 calendar, the birthday wasn't there. It appeared once again (predictably) on 2016.

Here's my complain: If I can make an event on 29th that repeats dayly, weekly or monthly without problems, why on earth it doesn't work yearly?!?!?!? The thing get worse if you repeat the event yearly a fixed number of times. If you say that you want it 4 times, the event on 29th lasts 16 years, if you do it on 1st march, it lasts 4....

So, come on Google, you can't fail me on this easy one, at least give me a warning before eating her birthday!!!

UPDATE: The calendar also fail to render a series of monthly events if you happen to add the first on the 31st.
It's their dialog that says "repeats every one month" and fails.
I more than readily accept your skepticism re NLP. But the first paper he talks about got into Science

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/328/5986/1712.abstract?sid...

I don't have access to the article itself, but I assume the writer didn't mangle the conclusions that badly. Can anyone with access help out here?