skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The "squirting" absolutely killed me. A word you don't want to put through corporate content filters and a word that systems like Google's autocomplete won't complete. The conversation must have gone something like like:

Clueless Boss: I think we should call the lending feature: Squirting!

Embarrassed Subordinate: Uh...are you sure that's a good word?

Boss: It's great, really pushes the fun, playful image we're after. I love it!

Subordinate: It's just that it...

Boss: Yes?

Subordinate: It means...It, uh, I mean...yeesh, I'm going to go grab some lunch. <runs>

Boss: Cool, squirt you later!
Very much so, thank you. This comes at a time that i'm working on a new project as well and looking for suitable domain names.
Why you should always Split Test (Story of a Beggar)
Franklin's autobiography (where this comes from) is a fantastic quick read with lots of thought provoking ideas relavant to the HN crowd. Definitely recommended!
Agree! pretty interesting times are coming... I had to leave 7 months ago because I wanted to focus on my startup and I was not able to do it with my H1 job, the discussion ahead related to this topic is worth watching
...unless you are a Patent Troll :)
Apple didn't turn the iPod into a phone. The iPhone is derived from the iPad [0]. Later, they created the iPod touch from the iPhone.

Before the iPhone, there were several Moto phones with iTunes integration [1], but those were less than successful (and frankly, horrible to use).

[0] http://thenextweb.com/apple/2010/06/02/steve-jobs-the-ipad-c...

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motorola_ROKR_E1
Every objection here is answered succinctly and powerfully at http://tauday.org/

I suggest you read it if you haven't done so.
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But unfortunately points of view aren't innocent things that everyone is entitled to. They can cause SERIOUS damage to the lives of other people.

If I have a point of view that binder clips should be made illegal because they're hideous, and manage to make that a law, then A: My point of view is making regular stationers criminals, and B: I might have put people who make binder clips out of work.

Everyone has a point of view, but not all of them are reasonable, and simply having them can screw other people up.
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I got a Django exception... maybe this will help you out:
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My first response was just "mp3s" but there could actually be some cool tech out there we don't know about and that got me thinking about my DJ friends who post their mixes of their shows online.
> I think every student that graduates with an advanced STEM or computer science degree should have a green card stapled to his or her diploma.

That might seem radical, but why stop there? Why not allow anyone in who can fend for himself (provide more than he/she extracts)? Surely that must be the logical conclusion from his premise.
Mutation is not modular; mutation is complicated.
EDIT: I was mistaken on a few things - see gfodor's comment above
Considering that the developer in question was described as an autodidact and lacked formal training, your rebuttals are just becoming pedantic.

I find your example with civil engineering and QCD disingenuous, because one doesn't need quantum theory when building buildings, bridges and roads.

You conflate fundamental academics with fundamental knowledge.

People were building all kinds of great things before Newton. Lots of that stuff is still standing, some of it is still functioning.

Here's some examples:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eupalinian_aqueduct

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon,_Rome

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appian_way

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forbidden_city

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_mahal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_aqueducts_in_the_Roman_...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macchu_pichu

Civil Engineering not your thing? Here's some mechanical engineering

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cannon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aeolipile

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Water_clock

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catapult -- you couldn't possibly make one of these without knowing Newton's laws of motion...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellows

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chain_drive

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crank_(mechanism)

Here's some pre-Newton celestial mechanics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armillary_sphere -- some even hydraulically powered!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnomon

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_calendar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism

These guys got along more or less alright without fundamental Newtonian mechanics

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonardo_da_Vinci

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hero_of_Alexandria

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archimedes

I could go on, but you probably get the point.

To hear you tell it, humans were just scratching around in the dirt until Newton lifted us into civilization on the wings of F=ma.

One doesn't need big-O to write software either -- even great software. I know that in academia these kinds of things are seen as absolutely fundamental, every published algorithm paper should at least show complexity for big-O (at a minimum) to be taken seriously. And that's great for your milieu, but you need to come down from Mt. Olympus and mix with the rest of us mere mortals and just build stuff. I guarantee you can build all sorts of wondrous, magical things without ever even considering big-O.
I just logged in and set feedback to private, now it says:

+Private
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I bought a gift for my cousin and now my profile is tagged with 420chopshop (they also sell things that aren't related to marijuana). It seems like you can write anything you want in feedback and there is no way to hide or remove it.

While I don't find it to be a huge issue, it will make me think twice before buying something from Etsy in the future.
This isn't exactly a dupe, but if you change "HP will build a cloud" into "HP will ship WebOS on every PC next year," you will probably get the exact same discussion we had the last time Mr. Apotheker opened his mouth to brag about stuff he wasn't shipping:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2304768

The best comment came from JoelSutherland:

> "HP will stop making announcements for stuff it doesn't have. When HP makes announcements, it will be getting ready to ship." - Leo Apotheker, Jan 27 2011

> Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12291529

If you agree, give him some karma love.
It is great that someone from Etsy has stepped up to respond. Thank you!

But, does feedback expose purchases? If so, there needs to be an explicit explanation (or policy) that identifies this will occur on Etsy.
If at first you don't succeed, redefine "success".
I'm not a seismologist, but this piece read more like spooky voodoo than scientific reasoning.
404 would be cool Page not found 5555 ;p
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There is literally nothing in what he released that is obviously illegal to me. He says a bunch of it is illegal, but I'm no lawyer and it looks like one person just deleted a bunch of data and another person asked if that was really kosher and we don't know what happened after that.

I'm just not jumping to conclusions I'm not qualified to make. It's impressive to me, that you can do that.
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Honestly, I'm on the other side of the fence. I've found that good programming shops are a bit offensive and a bit agro when discussing code, and it leaks playfully out into regular relations. It needs to be offensive, but not about the person themselves (like all good criticism)

"What? This sorting code is slower the a walrus walking uphill"
"Dude, your lunch STINKS, are you cooking a month-dead skunk?"
"That's retarded. It won't work. At all. Ever."

Sure, they sound a bit harsh, but they're not actually offensive because you KNOW they're not about you, or are only peripherally about your judgment, and it's an unavoidable fact that some people have terrible judgment.

The shops I've worked in with quiet, softly given feedback have been those that aren't doing anything interesting, are moving slowly and don't really have any great developers, or even better then average ones. In my mind there's a definite correlation between boisterous shops and great ones.
Latecomer? AWS is one of the oldest cloud hosting platforms out there and it's what, 6, 7 years old? The majority of the others are less than 5. This space is just heating up.

That's not to say that HP won't fail spectacularly here, but to suggest that it's too late for a company with billions of dollars to make a move in the space seems a bit rash.
I think I found a picture of HP's cloud: http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_Sz5ESDttTuE/S7jLPZqcm-I/AAAAAAAAAI...
From at least the PR perspective, the move seems disastrous.

How does the slogan: "Come try Windows Phone 7, based on failed Zune technology!" sound?

Maybe "Windows Phone 7, we promise we won't junk it in a couple years like the other stuff we junked..." instead?
vote me down if you want. At first I though HN was degenerating to Reddit. Now I'm convinced we are regressing to Slashdot.
When you say you don't need different apps for different phones ("Controllers are built using just HTML, CSS, and Javascript."), you do need some "native" code at the other end (what is being controlled).

We're trying to make it zero install for the receiving end, but there has to be fallback. But there are certain where it is almost unusable if you maintain that goal.

Do you have a protocol worked out? Or is there one ready to use?

People always have different definitions of protocols. So to be clear: The transport is abstracted for getting messages between devices. As far as the SDK user's code is concerned it's just getting input events like in a regular input loop.

Cheers,
Stephan

Thanks for the questions.
I guess I just meant that it seems far too many companies are announcing "future plans". Building such a large product is certainly possible, but there are so many other companies far ahead of them (shipping, or nearly shipping) that they will have a lot of ground to cover in little time.

EDIT: After some more thought, it also seems like while the definition of what a cloud service is isn't solidified yet, but it's definitely something HP doesn't have any experience building, which is also a huge hindrance. Contrast that with Amazon, Salesforce, VMware, and others, and it seems like the gap is just enormous. Certainly not insurmountable, though.
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We've just opened up our public beta and are trying to iterate as fast as possible.

We often found that it was too difficult to find good local news, deals and listings. Major news outlets seem to be focusing on stuff not within the city. Posts on craigslist are too hard to wade through to figure out what the good stuff is. We want to fix that.

Any questions and feedback are very welcome, thanks.
This program is $12 million total. Chile's per capita GDP is $12,800. Lets say their avg. income, payroll, and VAT burden is 40% of that total.

So 2,344 Chilean workers will waste 40% of their working lives this year to pay the taxes to fund these 300 startups.
Hmm. Looks very similar to my own typical work day. Except I get up at 6 instead of five which means I have one hour less a day to spend per day. However, I would no be able to function properly after a while without that one extra hour of sleep.
Thanks, load was over 100 which makes it extremely slow to fix.

I've tweaked some settings to try and handle the load better (250K domains checked in 2 hours was a little more than I expected).
Clickable: http://www.exipe.com
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Since when did os x have this? I've been using hacks to get the color picker to show up as an app for a very long time. This is an amazing find for me right now, thanks
Microprocessor easter eggs aren't new.

Here are some of the existing menagerie...

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/chipshots/dec/index.html

http://simh.trailing-edge.com/dsarchive.html

And then there's the classic "VAX - When you care enough to steal the very best" that was etched (in Cyrillic) on the some of the MicroVAX chips:

http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/creatures/pages/russians.html
Speaking of mathematical pedagogical disasters...

I taught science and technology at a secondary school for a while and through the process I had to get certified to teach in the state of Virginia. Part of the certification process is passing the math praxis. If I remember correctly, all teachers in the state of Virginia must pass the math praxis I. I was surprised (actually dismayed) at the large number of my colleagues who thought it was challenging or had to take it more than once before passing. Here are some sample questions: http://www.studyguidezone.com/praxis_math.htm

My wife (who also got certified to teach in Virginia) just told me that many of her colleagues couldn't pass this simple math test and several had to take it multiple times before passing. She said that some teachers simply couldn't pass it so chose to teach in North Carolina for a while and then move back to Virginia (because after so many years the teaching certification from another state was automatic).

tl;dr: The tech leaders of tomorrow will not be from America.
Turns out all the optimistic scenarios beloved by Hacker News were sadly wrong. The containment for reactor 2 is almost surely damaged now. If I understand correctly, the suppression pool is vital to maintain integrity primary containment as it vents extra pressure steam and is also the source for water that is pumped in to the primary containment to keep it cool. After the explosion pressure in the suppression pool dropped to 1/3, implying its seriously damaged. It may be only a matter of time till the primary containment itself is damaged.

Its not apocalypse yet, nor will it be apocalypse even if the containment fails. Chernobyl after all resulted only in a few hundred deaths. But there are a few more complicating factors here. Primarily, if reactor 2 does indeed go in to full meltdown and radioactivity escapes freely, how will the other reactors be maintained? They are still critical. Sadly I think several of the workers there will likely be giving their lifes for this.

Secondly, Japan is much more dense country than Ukraine/Belarus were. And finally, the country's infrastructure is not yet restored to normalcy. Surely power/water/communications all will further breakdown.

Still, Japan itself has recovered from even greater calamities - as the Prime Minister reminded us. I believe in this case, within a few months recovery will be with us.
Start -> Run; type "cmd"; drag & drop the chrome icon onto the command line window. You may need to prefix it with

start /wait

To capture output. But there might not be any output.

Process Explorer traces some stuff, and doesn't need a system environment. I'm not sure if it would suffice, particularly with a process that dies quickly. You'd have to try it.

Good to hear that it works - not quite sure what you mean by "mostly". :-)

I'm no Windows expert but feel free to contact me out-of-band (contact info is in my profile) if you think I could help.
What's the point in creating "Silicon Valleys" everywhere anyway?

You don't need to have a specific area in which technology/innovation/money flourishes. Why not try to promote the "startup spirit" countrywide?
But what's the point of making a response that everyone understands if you're not really saying anything?
Really nice. I tried it and it suggested some genuinely useful domain names, unlike most of these tools.
More like:

#include someone_else_did_it_so_we_dont_know(x)

Just as those other answers in C relied on GOTOs somewhere.
Personally, I think it's totally badass.
I have wanted a Flickr competitor with start-up culture and mentality for a while. I feel reticent about uploading my private photos to Flickr, because Flickr don't have any second layers of authentication.

I'm convinced that there's a great start-up opportunity here.
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AWS is so far ahead that it's not even funny.

E.g., go to IBM's cloud site (http://www-935.ibm.com/services/us/cloud/index.html) and behold the content free page w/ generic stock photos. Click on the pricing page on the getting started page and it tells you "This page is no longer available".

With AWS by contrast the "Sign Up Now" button is prominently displayed on the home page and in mere minutes you can have your test server up and running for which you pay nothing for a year!

IBM and HP can't get out of the mindset of selling expensive hardware w/ even more expensive support and consulting contracts. Until they do, they are doomed in the cloud space.
That sounds like a good bargain. Each startup only needs to create 8 jobs for a year (or 4 for 2 years, or 0.8 for 10 years) in order to pay it back. Right?
The conditions of the grants are that they create local jobs I believe. So 2,344 Chileans will create at least 300 jobs for 300 fellow Chileans. I wouldn't say those tax payers are "wasting" 40% of their working lives, but you are entitled to your opinion on this. I think its a smart and cheap move to get their entrepreneurial community rolling. All net jobs in the US over the last 30 years have come from startups/small businesses.
>>>"...understanding that sin represents the y value of a point on a unit circle..."

Wow, I'm enrolled in a college trig class right now and your comment just made me realize that. Thanks for the heightened understanding :)
For the sake of conversation I might say that you can replace "Portland" with any city in the US. As I mentioned in the post (A Startup Community Needs 4 Things: Ideas, Talent, Ambition, and Capital.) You can probably find greater and lesser amounts of each in any city. And like Portland, most will be shortest on the Capital. But the capital world is changing and I think there will be more opportunities for startups to get off the ground wherever they are based.
Yea totally - some great stuff in there. Wisdom!
I forget the last time I uploaded a photo to Flickr. Somehow, without any conscious decision, it's just stopped being part of my flow. Perhaps it's that not many of my friends and family see what I post (I live overseas from most of my family and friends), perhaps it's the seemingly constant begging for me to "come back" to a pro membership (nothing is a turn off as much as desperation), maybe it's just that Facebook is winning and someone else has to lose.
Culturally, there's little to find too jarring about Canada if you're coming from the US, we watch the same TV shows and movies - you just might see more stuff like hockey and French TV; though Canadians spend a great deal of time cultivating an identity as non-Americans...

As far as tech, it's roughly comparable to the US, just on a different scale (we've got 1/11th the people!) - most of the buzz is centred on a few cities (Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver) but there are good start-ups pretty much everywhere.

Canada is vast, rugged (mostly frozen) landscape and the people reflect it - we're helpful and friendly but enjoy nature and adventure too.

The two big complaints I've had from Americans moving here are: a) our telecom service (cell, TV, etc.) is stupidly expensive b) our liquor-laws are draconian (arguably this is uniquely Ontarian)

Whether Canada is a good place for your start-up depends a great deal on the nature of your business - if you're looking at industry (especially primary industry) there's no better place on Earth to set-up shop.

I'm a Canadian, but was partially educated and have worked a great deal in the US (the coasts, mostly) and have lived in five Canadian cities and visited every province and territory - I grew up in rural BC.
that's 14.3, not 3.14
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Also the mindset of playing the "Ask a salesperson for a quote" which is code for "We have no fixed pricing, it will cost whatever you can afford to pay because our business is a resource extraction operation and we will strip-mine your budget."
I concur, and I'm the author. It's a wonderful introduction to Big O for folks that struggle with it. My post is merely a tool to help refresh my knowledge of fundamental concepts. William Shields does an excellent job of making Big O approachable to non-CS majors.

The only passage I take issue with is his description of O(n) arithmetic examples. In my thinking addition/multiplication are O(1) but I blame that view on years of thinking about FLOPs and letting thoughts of # of operations conflate with big O notation. In practicethe example of adding two large integers is a single operation, or at least a fixed size handful operations for arbitrary precision.
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I heard they settle quite densely on their island, though. Perhaps the carrying capacity of the island has pretty much maxed out? It seems they eat through the oceans of the whole world to feed everybody, too.

Just saying - who knows, maybe the birthrate would change if there was more space/less people. For example it could mean food and space for living would become cheaper, so having children would become cheaper, too.
I submitted a universal app 6 days ago and still am stuck in "Waiting in Review".
Event driven development was instrumental. Back in 2007 I coded a similar project in PHP and had to take the app offline because it was painfully slow for end users.

I'm sure you can do something similar in any language by using something like RabbitMQ.
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You should give it a try. You might surprise yourself. I recently started getting up at 4 just to see what would happen. I've got a ton more time and occasionally need to take a nap around 5-7pm, but other wise have been fine just getting 4 hrs a night.
I've been using iColors which is a standalone system color picker - http://www.fadingred.com/icolors/

I use it in conjunction with various plugins to said system color picker such as http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/ and http://lithoglyph.com/mondrianum/. It is very nice that the OS X system color picker supports adding plugins to /Library/ColorPickers because then you have support for new color picker panels in every program that uses the System Color Picker.
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I love textmate. Thanks for this tip. There were times where I opened up photoshop just for the color picker!
The same thing happened to me with salesforce.com, I ended up paying, basically because they already had my cc# and I didn't want to have to fight. With the credit card company.
C is more a description of a Harvard machine than a von Neumann machine. In fact, a useful new language feature would be dynamic generation of machine code.
My cynical take is that their clients do know it's hype, however if you're an executive who has bet on HP, this announcement means you can't be second-guessed. If somebody angling for your job asks "Why are we with HP? Why don't we go to the cloud?" you will respond smoothly, "We are going to the cloud with HP, in the fullness of time, after all the relevant details have been examined and the considerations carefully weighed, ..."