skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So just because it happens to be convenient for you, you want everyone to be forced into that mode?

Sure wire synching with a computer should be possible for people that have huge music collections and are too eager to let their ipad sit on their desk one night to synch everything. But why is it required?
And we had tablets in the year 2000 too.

http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2000/nov00/11-13...

I guess we don't really have it until it gains wide adoption.
Git's Windows support is clearly the weakest since it requires either MinGW or Cygwin. The platform itself is unoptimized for native Windows performance. It may not be terrible but it's certainly the weakest of the DVCSs, as they say.
"And the big question is will the iOS devices have monitor outs?"

They've already had 30-pin to VGA output for quite a while now, and now HDMI out with the latest dongle accessory.
I know many people who use it in the bathroom in the morning.
What device should it be called?

/joke
No, that's not true at all. Netscape saw the potential and talked publicly about it quite early on. The details were imagined differently, but people knew that the browser would be a cross-platform way to distribute software. People might have thought things like Java would be more involved than JavaScript, but that's not the point. I can find citations if you'd like. Believe me, I was there.

This all came out in the Justice Department's antitrust case against Microsoft, too - emails written by MS and Netscape employees discussing this.

Think of how Microsoft saw the world back then. Applications like Britannica on CD-ROM were Windows Applications. Browsers were perfectly capable of displaying images, formatted text, and arranging to play sounds. That means something like an encyclopedia was perfectly possible, and it would work the same on Windows, Mac or Unix. It was clear a lot of apps could be done in a browser.

Whether an application ran in the browser or on a remote server is not the point. The rise of an open way to distribute content meant the Win32 API was going to be much less valuable, and MS would lose the control. From the beginning the browser had the potential to become a platform-independent way of delivering program content to an end user, and everyone knew it.
Yup, I'm sure it's in the blogger's rights to republish his own articles with a more link-baity title.
> And political -- an attempt to kill organizations that tend to be Democratic (this would be equivalent to trying to dismantle fundamentalist churches, as their Republican leaning).

Whoa, this just sunk in with me. I guess it's commonly accepted that most teacher's unions lean Democrat, but I never considered that the people educating children are fundamentally partisan. That's... kind of scary.

Hell, you equate with them as the equivalent of the most fanatic members of the right. That really can't be good that the kids are being educated by fanatic partisans, if your analysis here is correct.
Not the actual title of anything in this post, but contained in "Official Statement from Dr. Rudy Schild, Center for Astrophysics, Harvard-Smithsonian, Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Cosmology."

Seems like a very unscientific statement, in that it's about impossible to validate. Anyway some article related to this paper is likely to become a big discussion item on HN. Might as well be the actual paper.
Blogs and Bullets: Breaking Down Social Media
It was not a reflection on your product. FWIW, I tried it out about 3 weeks ago, using the setup.sh script. I'm not even in a position to critique Blueprint, as I was only migrating one single Linode instance to another, and not even anything complex.

Like you guys say, DevOps is hard.
I had bad teachers, but the teachers I thought were bad probably would get the best student reviews. They'd sleep in class, weren't prepared, but they gave mostly A's. My favorite teachers taught well and expected a lot. They were a lot less popular.
I'm currently doing a computer science (& maths) degree and within the CS department there's two main degree schemes: information systems, and computer science.

The latter is programming, i.e. the more technical side of things. The former is more about the IT/business consultancy side of things.

The former group hate programming, but there's a large emphasis on UML and other such 'design' 'tools' within their course.

We (the computer scientists) never tend to use UML or CASE tools though.

So yeah, I have no real World development experience yet (other than helping out in a couple of relatively big online projects), but it does seem to me that programmers ('real developers', as the title puts it) don't use UML and other such 'tools', whereas the IT consultancy side of things tend to use them.
Or not at all. CentOS rebuilds the kernel SRPM as it sits; they're bugwise-compatible with RHEL.

This is a complete non-issue to CentOS.
That was a fork. While they'll hopefully get merged in, they're not currently in the official queue.
Last time I tried TortoiseGit, adding a file either didn't work or just crashed hard. Mercurial, on the other hand, just got TortoiseHg 2.0, which is a pleasure to work with.

It is true that git works on Windows, but that doesn't mean it works well.
You're referring to a fork of fabric that was posted to HN a few weeks ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2250001

The author of that fork wants to contribute those changes back to the fabric project. But that did not happen before the 1.0 release.
It's not that its unmeasurable, but they won't take the time to measure it. The cheapest way is to get rid of teachers altogether. Just let the students go to class and randomly assign grades. The fact that they have no real metrics will mean that perceived quality won't change -- but I think we'd both agree that something would have changed.
Android phones will have monitor outs, though, not just the tablets. How about the iPhone or iPod Touch?
While on a significantly smaller scale, this is exactly why I program in my off-time. Nobody's going to make a lot of money or solve an important problem by messing around with an app that creates fake iPhone SMS conversations, but it keeps me sane.

It's the same reason the pomodoro technique is so effective, or why productivity actually goes down under a highly regimented work environment. Creativity comes from fooling around, you can't force it.
Android phones will have monitor outs, though, not just the tablets. How about the iPhone or iPod Touch? They could fit an Apple monitor connector in the side of an iPhone, but I think it will be a long time before we see that.
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I'm pretty sure the parent was being sarcastic. :)
I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes, but it works pretty well for me - on a Mac. Are you using the Windows version?
Ask HN: RSS Reader that's similar to HN
I consume most of my startup/tech news through HN now. I'd like to expand that to all of my news. Specifically, I like the idea of just viewing headlines in reverse chronological order in the dead simple interface HN employs. What dead simple rss readers would you recommend that have a similar vein to HN's UI (and that have a similarly elegant mobile version)? Ideally, it might also take my list of rss feeds and, in a perfect world, learn what I like or pull in ratings from somewhere to prioritize what I see.
I can entirely understand that, and kind of agree. We have more data that anyone could know what to do with, but we should be doing more, I'd certainly like us to be.

To try and explain the apparent lack of activity; the last couple of years have had a lot of sorting-house, changes in product (moving away from on-demand, charging for some services, etc) and some technical "house keeping". Last.fm has been around for ~8 years, that is a long time and comes with a lot of technical debt, it can slow you down.

PS: One of my favourite things about Last.fm is our approach to openness of data, our API makes it totally possible for hypem (who are awesome, especially Anthony) to use your scrobbling data, even the recommendations we generate for you, on hypem.

We believe that if the data is visible on the website then there should probably be an API for it, because if there isn't, then someone will have to scrape it anyway.
My parents and my mother in law literally don't want to do any of the things you just listed, but all of them have found my iPad useful, could use it immediately, and want one.

That $75 computer on Craigslist simply can't do things in the same way.

It's like comparing a mountain bike with a 15 year old pickup truck. You can spend $1000 on either, and the truck will go further, faster and carrying a greater load. But the mountain bike will go places the truck can't go, and the experience will be totally different.
Wish I was there. You should do some sort of online thing too ;)
Principals know, and schools have both student results year-over-year and evaluations which are good indicators.

Can you get me data on this? I've asked every HS principal and probably half of the middle school principals in the Seattle School District. Maybe every principal in Seattle is incompetent, but I haven't gotten a single name or metric.

If you can get this information for Seattle, please post the result and from which principal. Because I have asked this exact question to every HS principal.

overlooks the fact that the total compensation of teachers and other public employees has been going up while service quality has stagnated or declined.

Citation on the quality of teaching has stagnated or declined. I haven't seen this data.
But, that's not the point. This whole conversation is about Microsoft referring people to a site that will help them upgrade their browser...the majority of people seeing the message and following those steps, will be upgrading to a browser that just isn't up to snuff.

Expecting Microsoft to advocate people moving to a non-Microsoft product is idiotic.

I'm tired of dealing with Microsoft's problems, and I don't think it's fair that they use their market clout to keep putting their problems on my plate.

Let me get this straight -- your main complaint is that it's not fair?!
Yes - I was although I think a mountain bike is a better analogy. But seriously - people can't see the difference between an iPad and a $75 PC off Craigslist? Perhaps a pair of spectacles is in order.
I was under the impression that they use SourceDepot still, but I could be wrong.
> I hear a lot of complaints about iTunes, but it works pretty well for me - on a Mac. Are you using the Windows version?

even after I secured a windows computer to run itunes
Git and Hg accomplish essentialy the same thing.
The platform support and tool/utility support for Mercurial on windows in important to note.

I decided to choose Mercurial as the VCS for my 'work'. This was a team that had no prior exposure to VC before. And works in a mixed environment.
Hg follows the 'one true way' philosophy of Python; so there's just a single command to learn for each task.
Plus, Bitbucket's new Free pricing plan for tiny teams convinced me to go with it for online hosting(rather than roll our own hg server over vpn)

Though, If I had to choose a host/vcs for 'my awesome FOSS community project', it would go on Github.
If all you ever use your PC for is Hulu, then what you need is a TV, and televisions are not "post-PC", they're a different product entirely, nor will they ever replace PCs. :P
The bunch, it is not spoiled, by one apple that is bad.

That's how the saying goes, right? ;)
Even if the author was right about the iPad not being a post-PC device, your assertion that it is just a peripheral is laughable hyperbole.
http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC552ZM/A

"Watch slideshows and movies on the big screen by connecting your iPad, iPhone 4, or iPod touch (4th generation) to a TV, monitor, projector, or LCD display that uses a VGA connector."

I haven't really looked into it much, so I don't know if apps are limited to mirroring content, or if they can display another screen worth of UI/etc through the cable.
Live Blogging the Making of a Node.js Twitter Clone
Dropbox works well.
That's the easy bit :P Copy wikipedia, disambiguate by genre and/or country .

It gets harder when someone scrobbles a track by "Felt", to which artist do you attribute it? There's a whole host of problems like that to solve too.
And this was made in MS Paint --> http://diamonster.deviantart.com/art/powerdraw-17908194?full...

Should people ditch photoshop now?

Just because there a few examples doesn't make it a suitable tool for most people.
Silly strawman. Actually none of them watched video at all. They used maps, google earth, the browser, a Craigslist app, the photos app, and kindle.

But I guess I've fallen for a troll.
The only issue with the website:
Development of this site is slowing down due to the lack of support and popularity.
If we get more support from our viewers by reaching 200 "likes" (upper right hand corner of the site), we will continue to work on this site full time again. Thanks.

It seems like a really good idea so I am hoping that some people from hacker news will go there and show support. :)
First, there's a difference between the teacher's union and teachers (just as all unions). Unions are generally partisan. Why? Because Republicans are anti-labor, hence anti-collective bargaining.

The actual teachers probably lean left, as they're educated (who generally tend to lean left), but as most teachers aren't actively part of collective bargaining (although benefit from it) it usually isn't part of their calculus. Things like abortion, gay marriage, gun rights, taxation, affirmitive action, and other issues like that are likely just as important to any individual teacher.
Wow. It's dramatically better! Within about 20 seconds I was filled with that rush of curiosity / grandiose ambition that Civ creates so wonderfully. I immediately closed the window. Fuck. I don't have time for Civ. Must ship more code, startup crunch time, no time for playing I tell myself. I know I'll be back. Fuck.
You don't have to guess where users will look on a page. You can measure it: http://www.gazehawk.com/.
Agreed. Or better, the ability to easily see a number of approaches all of which would work (algorithm designers love to publish improvements on the state of the art), then go about selecting perhaps the simplest. If performance is an issue, one that meets the performance requirements. If future changes are anticipated, one that won't make that too difficult. Doing all this without the need to do time consuming research is what makes for productivity.
- Civics/Politics
- Science (especially in districts that don't want to teach students about the theory of evolution)
- "Technology" (I had a computer teacher in HS who said F it and let us play around with hacking our test routers)

So we have math, literature, social studies, and science.
There are implementations of those features that are and have been in the official queue for a while.
Is there a demo running somewhere?
That's not what it says. The last statement is talking about what happens at runtime (i.e. the number of values on the stack vs. the number expected, not the number of values passed vs. declared).

Obviously if you don't pass the right number of parameters, the function behavior is undefined (i.e. a pascal function will of course muck up the stack)
This is basically where I stand as well. Git has no real appeal for me, but GitHub does. Plus, with the ridiculously easy hg-git[1] tool, I'm able to take advantage of GitHub while staying in my Hg comfort zone :)

[1]: http://hg-git.github.com/
There are plenty of cases where deployment script language matters. Usually they revolve around having lots of tools/objects/etc already written in a language, and want to incorporate them into your automation system. This is how I found fabric to begin with.
"Perhaps more now than ever, the point of the college experience is to have a good time and walk away with a valuable credential after putting in the least effort possible."

And then they wonder why a college degree is not a ticket to a good job.
How a restaurant might fail
Churches do get preferential tax treatment.

But the problem with fundamentalist churches isn't in their existence, but rather their beliefs. The opposite is the problem that the right has with unions. They aren't against teachers per se, but they're against labor having any power -- regardless of what the profession is (and the fact that its public/private labor is a red herring).
I never got preparing for exams in groups. It's fine to exchange material but actually learning in groups doesn't seem so work for me at all because it is so distracting.
It certainly looks interesting and very powerful, but horribly complicated. I haven't played any Civ type games before, so I really don't know how to get started. I don't know what the tutorial was suppose to do, I loaded it and it didn't show me how to play.
So what you are saying is that you don't believe it is true to call it a post-PC device now, but it will be true at some point in the future.

And your problem with this is? Just that they are saying it now? Don't understand the concern, honestly.
I'm sorry I'm late to this discussion, but: some people seem to be saying, "what's the harm? what damage did he suffer?".

I'd like to point them to Kyllo -vs- United States http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyllo_v._United_States . Basically, the USSC ruled that taking a thermal image of a house amounted to "unreasonable search". Even though the heat rays emanating from the dwelling can be considered "public knowledge", the cops can't use it to then conclude that there's a grow op in the house.

So, just because something is sorta "public" it doesn't mean the cops can reach for it.
THE is actually the original name and Archy the new one. I hadn't considered spaces and expose as a similar idea; interesting, thanks.
the design is great. i checked out your credits page and you listed blueprint. you must have used something else as well to help design the website. please explain.
i am in! mailing you right away
Wow, a tactful grammar nazi!
Parent comment refers to the previous title of this submission, which was changed by a moderator. Unfortunately I think the submission needs the linkbaity title to get upvotes; this was my second try at submitting it.
24% of people will not buy an IPad.

So what's your point again?
We didn't have anyone that senile at my schile, but if we did -- the only question would be "how hard is the class". If he forgot assignments and gave A's, he'd be loved by the students.

But I went to a really bad high school. I suspect at better schools students are probably better judges. But you end up with an odd situation where the schools that need the least help have the more accurate assessment (and frankly probably have the fewest poor teachers).
I find the way your phrase that question interesting. Git and Mercurial are nearly identical in terms of functionality, to the point that converting back and forth between them is pretty trivial. (Example: here's Git's repository in Mercurial https://mirrors.kilnhg.com/Repo/Mirrors/From-Git/Git)

The only real difference between the two are the ecosystems. Mercurial, being written is Python, is very portable and easily extensible. I feel like, because of that, the tools for Mercurial are better. Git has GitHub, and the incredible open source community they've developed there.

* Note, the rainbow road is due to one of the few differences between Git and Hg: Hg does not allow octopus merges, so the conversion turns them to a sequence of two at a time merges. Also, in the interest of full disclosure, I'm one of the devs on Kiln, so I'm certainly biased towards Hg.
I used code: NJNNPYMMPHMA

- First thing I noticed was that upon launching the app it asked me to rate it. I haven't even done anything with it yet, so asking me to rate it seems out of place. You might want to wait a few launches before you request feedback. Also, it is really annoying that every time I run the app it keeps asking me rate it even though I said "No Thanks". I even agreed to rate it, and it continues to pester me.

- In the settings menu, I think I would like it if it played the transition sound when I changed it in the menu. It was annoying to have to close out that menu and tinker with the app to hear the sounds.

- I think I managed to flummox the app a bit. Not sure if it is as designed, or a bug, but it feels like a bug...

Here's what I did:

1) Start the app

2) Add one song to the playlist

3) Click Done

4) Click Play to start the list

5) Skip ahead to the next song

Counter says "0 down/0 to go", but the 60 second timer continues to count down. The play button doesn't do anything, the back button doesn't do anything, but the skip button will reset the 60 second timer and play a sound, despite there being no song present.
Lung cancer huge in China, where everyone smokes like a chimney.
and OpenCOBOL uses CVS

http://www.opencobol.org/ (http://sourceforge.net/projects/open-cobol/develop)

maybe a language older than that still uses RCS
I know this is kinda off-topic but could someone explain why the wobble rate and the spin rate of the plate would have a 2 to 1 ratio? Is this somehow related to the spin numbers of elementary particles?
Not a straw man, it was an example. I am not trolling. PCs can be used for all manner of things, some things that they are now used for are better suited to other devices. Some things are perfectly suited to PCs and other devices just fail to measure up.

My point is, iPad ownership and PC ownership are not mutually exclusive. Having an iPad does not mean you are done with PCs.
Why do people seem to think this is so bad for CentOS users? It seems to me that if the CentOS devs quoted don't find it to be a big deal, it probably isn't. They know better than you or I.
Both. Yes, they're arguing from different positions.

With a magnetic disk it's straightforward to force data be overwritten at a physical level. With an SSD it is less straightforward and it may not be possible to ensure that the data from a particular file has been erased.

So from the perspective of a diligent user an SSD is riskier than an HD.

However, typical usage of a hard-drive will leave a significant amount of "deleted" data still on the drive, except for unusual circumstances (such as subsequently using the drive to near capacity). While typical usage of an SSD will tend to erase most data fairly soon after it has been "deleted".

So from the perspective of a non-diligent user an HD is riskier than an SSD.
I use Last.fm to scobble and for music/concert recommendations, it knows my library really well so is great at recommending stuff.
Of course, that's completely true - and all the more reason to follow your love and passion if you happen to be privileged by luck of birth, family, and genetics. I think that this is true of many HN readers and certainly describes me. I'm incredibly grateful for being born into that lucky circumstance.

And I don't mean to put down people who can't do that because they have to figure out how to stay alive in a war torn country, or figure out how to keep your family from starving.

Thanks for your excellent point.
I don't follow football, but I do watch the superbowl, and I frequently see teams with black head coaches on the field.

It's easy to pretend there are no barriers, or that the barriers are related to talent, but whether YC is biased or not (I don't think it is), this says a lot about how much we lose as a society when talent goes untapped for no good reason.
You can install pretty much all the files you'd need on the device so you're right. Music, Books, Apps or TV Shows.
I'm in but I'm missing the "great idea" bit
"Mostly a theory...": I agree it's that too.