skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just a guess: couldn't be an x86(-64) vs ARM thing? Like GCC being better on x86, and LLVM on par with it on ARM? Or maybe they tuned the compiler for the iDevices?
Well that's his point I think. The same exact job can be fulfilling and meaningful one day and annoying drudgery the next.

You have a good day at a gaming company and you feel like "I did something very fun today and at the same time made the lives of a bunch of people more fun. This is great."

You have a bad day and you feel like "Stupid games. Stupid gamers. I'm wasting my life."

Both feelings are legitimate interpertations of the exact same work situation. What he's trying to teach us is how he attempts to turn one of those into the other.

I, for one, have the same issue all the time and I really liked his advice on how to deal with it.
For what it's worth, the paleogeographic maps themselves are Ron Blakey's work. The original paleogeographic maps don't have the cloud cover. Older versions (and some additional info) are available at his NAU website here: http://www2.nau.edu/rcb7/ and newer versions are his company's website: http://cpgeosystems.com/paleomaps.html
Really? I thought it was about building skills by just applying yourself. You don't learn guitar or Ruby in a night. You practice and play with them for years and integrate them into your projects.
Could it be because Pandora actually uses humans to categorize the music?

http://www.fastcompany.com/1718527/pandora-ipo-tim-westergre...
It might be the prelude to an extortion attempt.
Oh no, it made me cry when Wikia added achievements. IMO this is so ridiculous. But it's still funny and if you like this, I'm fine. Especially when it means more code! I'm sure some of it will be of quality. Maybe it even causes future talents to stay interested.
It's up behind a paywall (probably... with my university connection I'm never sure what has it and what doesn't) here: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/full/nature0... . If anybody is more mathematically sophisticated than I, wants to tackle it, but can't get through the paywall, send me an email (in my profile).

Skimming through the supplemental information, it seems like they assume a Markov process where individuals adopt one of two strategies (with a preference towards adopting the strategy that their parent adopted), then look at which one is more likely to be dominant in the population.
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How am I supposed to take seriously an article that confuses "follower" and "followee"?
I've had an iPhone since the original and there's been only 1 time I wish it had flash. Of course it was a restaurant website for their menu.
To me, the most remarkable thing about this post is that when the rest of the world is falling in love with the "power" of weak typing systems, Google is going the other way.
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Its good to see Apple make stand for its App store developers, but where's the iFlameThrower? This looks a bit too nice a response for the petty shakedown run lodsys tried to pull off. Oh well... I guess Apple does not have to speak loudly to be heard.
The licensing fees are typically on the order of 1/100th to 1/1000th of what you might have to pay if you lose an infringement case in court. I forget the exact margin, and it varies by circuit, but something Federal court decisions in these cases tend to break in favor of the plaintiff.

It may disappoint you, but no company in their right mind is going to take that gamble.

(IANAL but one of my good friends is a self-confessed patent troll -- in this market, you take what you can get. He explained the whole racket to me over beers one night.)
Congrats, Dan and the crew at Sparkbuy. Looks like the beginning of something great.

And in just about a month after launch. Now there's a contrast to recent complaints of Google's glacial hiring process. Biz dev is like the platinum line!

Also, Dan gave a great interview on Mixergy last month:

http://mixergy.com/dan-shapiro-ontela-interview/
If we're talking about a way to generate an upgrade image for a single architecture, taking a known version # of an executable to another known version #, built on a production build machine, I would think that could cover the case easily.

That kind of led to my second question: this makes really small images, but only from one known version to another, right? What happens if the target to be upgraded is 80 revisions behind?
I did not understand seriously what kind of robustness you are talking about? Do glossy screens last longer than the matte ones? At least from the look of it, matte looks less fragile compared to glossy, although I am not sure if either of them is less fragile than other. Looking at matte is much easier to eyes. And as far as cleaning goes, cleaning the glossy one with towel will leave scratch everywhere! Isn't it?
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I'm thinking more along the lines of being able to evaluate whether Apple's lawyers are correct or not in their conclusions.
They have the Watch ESPN app on iOS now which streams all the ESPN stations and ESPN3 content.
I agree that is it good to see that the ratio is balancing but I worry about the cost of this. The applicant breakdown is not 52% female, so should the admitted students and accepted students be this high? I worry that since not many girls apply to a school like Harvey Mudd, they are having to lower the standards of acceptance in order to achieve this high female ratio.
I think the proponents of web apps only consider the twitter/facebook/etc type of apps in these arguments. If the types of game you're interested in are relatively simple affairs (Angry Birds/Cut the Rope/etc), sure, you could probably make it performant with HTML5. Good luck doing anything more complex (Unreal, PhotoSynth, GarageBand, etc) with javascript without at least 3-4 generations of hardware improvement.
And the error says it's an int, but it's declared long. Am I missing something about long in C++ not being 64 bits?
You are right. 2k requests per second is still not much.
I suffer from Artism as well :-) Which is to say as an engineer I solve problems with materials at hand in ways that meet constraints. That often requires creative thinking but the creative act is appreciated by other engineers more than lay people.

I think of it as the ability to see the unseen. A very non-crisp way of describing the ability to see a solution amongst a pile of symptoms or pain points. A sculptor sees the figure 'inside' the stone, an engineer sees the solution 'amongst' the available resources.

Now if I could reliably interview for it I'd be all set :-)
Apple’s lawyers seem to believe that licensing those patents is unavoidable or at the very least that not licensing would cost more than licensing them.

You might disagree with that interpretation of the law but you should never claim that it’s an endorsement of software patents.

I do not know Apple’s stance on software patents but I simply cannot see how Apple’s actions in this case can be interpreted as revealing Apple’s stance on software patents in any way.
Seems to me (IANAL) that Apple could sue on fraud or breach of contract: if Lodsys sold a license to Apple on the pretext that the developers were covered, and then later went after those developers as if they weren't covered, Apple could claim that Lodsys either misrepresented themselves, or failed to honor their side of the contract.
TabbedOut requires each user to use a five-character alphanumeric code, similar to the kind you'd get when booking an airline ticket. I'm not sure how the bartender is supposed to remember everyone's code (let alone people who have had too much to drink), but that's the general idea.
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This is the first comment that I have seen that I think really suffers from the lack of visible points because it is SO correct and is refuting what I agree is really bad advice but I don't think the GP should be voted into oblivion because he gave bad advice (but I really don't want to turn this into another of those threads ;).

The only way to really know where the problems in your app are is by watching users use it wherever they actually use it. Without that, you will never know about the little cheat sheet they have to reference every single time they use your app because your "amazingly simple" navigation structure that you were positive made your app easier to use (an experience I've had).

You can get some information about what questions to ask from statistical monitoring (why does this step take four times the amount of time of any other?) but you can't find the answers without real users.
Why does Android get credit for being disruptive? It's not.
This is a complex issue, but there is no general fairness requirement in contract law. There are some concepts that relate to fairness, such as consideration and unconscionableness, but they are not a fairness requirement, there are fairness requirements in specific narrow cases (usually in agency situations), but it would be wrong to say that in the general case a contract has to be fair to be enforced.

None of this is legal advice, just broad overview for the purposes of a purely academic discussion. There are a lot of details that are omitted, so do not rely on anything said here but consult your own attorney instead.
http://www.neurosciencemarketing.com/blog/articles/neuro-men... - is thin on evidence and designer focussed (summary 9 rather than $8.99) but a good starting point.

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OT: This is good on setting prices, consumer surplus, etc..
The "to your face" rule is "don't put anything in a comment you wouldn't say to a person's face".
Sure, but then he has to decide which updates to apply. Kernel update 2.6.40? Sure, why not. Kernel update 3.0? Not a chance.
that's like saying it's in a doctor's best interest to make people sick...there's always enough natural problems with sites and servers to warrant uptime monitoring
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That's the whole point. =] This is a surprising aspect of C++: the shift expression doesn't have the type of the declared variable.

The integer literals we are shifting are of 'int' type, and the shift occurs at that type (based on the usual arithmetic conversions). There is stack overflow question with explanations and a good blog post here about it:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/836544/usual-arithmetic-c...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2004/03/10/87247...

Also, you can look through the C++98 standard to understand all the details. Relevant sections are [expr]p9 and [expr.shift].
We'll have to agree to disagree.

Saying it's no contest is a huge exaggeration. I won't argue that BART/MUNI is better than other transit systems, but I still get around without a car.

That said, the fact that transit closes in London and Paris while New York doesn't is a major advantage. It's actually precisely the reason why I have been able to not take a taxi or have to walk home in the early morning. And in NYC, a lot of people don't own cars because they don't have to either.
I encountered this data structure over 20 years ago as an undergraduate, but didn't recognise that it was the same structure used in Kruskal's algorithm until I read this.

The time complexity of the path-compressed algorithm is very nice.
nice, just signed up.
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It is sad they didn't ask the manufacturers why they do that. One reason is that 'glossy' screens have higher contrast than 'matte' screens because off-axis light is reflected mostly off screen, but on a matte finish off axis light adds a 'glow' to the screen (which is a diffuse reflection rather than a specular reflection) and that glow gets counted against the 'black level' and the contrast.

Glossy screens in a darkened room perform demonstrably better in terms of contrast than matte screens.

Matte films are easy to come by and I'm rather surprised that given this sort of market research there isn't someone out there selling them by the boat load.
long is 32-bit on x86_32 Linux, 64-bit on x86_64 Linux, and 32-bit on x86_64 Windows.
And Linus's feelings about that relationship are...?
It's really not a big deal to most consumers. Most people don't even notice and will never use a laptop in direct sunlight.
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They've always been a threat. The reason Lodsys were interesting was because they presented a potentially new and interesting business model: license to the few big guys, squeeze the legions of little guys.
Companies don't have to reveal if it's less than $50M, so, unfortunately, the only answer you'll absolutely get is "< that $50M" :/
the rest of the world is falling in love with the "power" of weak typing systems

Really? I'd argue the exact opposite -- with F# and Scala (and some others) on the rise, I think there are plenty of people who are fed up with weak/dynamic typing and want to take advantage of building programs with strong type systems.

At the very least, it seems that the programming world is becoming much more polarized. Anecdotally, it seems that every developer I know is either a proponent of strong/static typing or weak/dynamic typing -- but I don't know anyone that's just sitting on the fence.
It's great to see new design patterns. The adaptive accordion is a cool riff on the standard (boring) accordion. Kudos to you guys, and I hope other users like it as quickly as I did.
> The licensing fees are typically on the order of 1/100th to 1/1000th of what you might have to pay if you lose an infringement case in court.

That's exactly my point about how it's currently still cheaper to swat the flies. But they could at least publicly argue for patent reform, and heap scorn on patent trolls, which shouldn't be as expensive.

> IANAL but one of my good friends is a self-confessed patent troll -- in this market, you take what you can get.

If you're really struggling to make ends meet, I can understand resorting to behavior even if you don't agree with it 100%. I'm sure I would steal bread if it were my only alternative to going hungry. But in the bigger picture such people/companies are leeches on the economy and should have their legal weapons (patents) taken away from them.
While I agree with the conclusion that you only get out of something what you put in, a quick review of the history of genius will reveal several characters that did have an innate talent that was indeed cultivated through hard work, but was not learned "from scratch". You may, in fact, be the artistic type, and glean from that a certain advantage over someone who is not.
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Leena,

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8...

As you can see, you have published numerous articles on this company with a blatant formula to your titling strategy.

If I may offer some constructive criticism, I would recommend that you vary your language just a bit with the next Square article you post.

Thanks :)
Great, so the incentive to create content is not intrinsically coupled to the need to control sharing of that content. That's a great point that we often miss, I think.

However, how do you propose content creators become incented to create content?
But...the problem is that developers are getting sued for the thing they were pissed about before, so now they're just double-pissed. It's not like they're getting sued for using some alternative that saves them 30% on purchases.
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Interesting, any ideas what those might be? I'm genuinely curious because I actually can't think of any.
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At this rate, my kids probably aren't getting into college
I play FPSs very often, and a glossy screen really has no merits unless you are playing in the dark with no other light sources to reflect. I'd much prefer a matte display with good color reproduction.
Mostly I found people cringed and replied in English ;-)
> 2k requests per second is still not much.

That's a completely meaningless statement if you don't specify what the requests do, and the resources available to make it happen.
During those times, land was a barren desert. No soil, no crawling things, no plants, just barren sand and rock. If you left an apple out in the dirt, it would grow no mold and probably just dry out. It's hard to imagine a world like that.
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They had investors and (with their investment being so recent) they certainly had $ in the bank, so you can also rule out the "nice signing bonus" outcome. With $1M on a $3M pre-money (guess), they'd have to sell for north of $4 for the investors to get a return on their investment.
Is the service discontinued? The site itself is just background image now.
We need to reach a definition of creativity before we can have any discussion about whether an activity is creative or not.

A good definition I found somewhere is that creativity is the ability to create solutions for a problem, any kind of problem. A lot of creativity (if not all creativity) is the ability to assemble large objects from smaller ones, such as writing symphonies, designing a motorcycle engine, or building a computer program.

Creativity is the ability to create new things. It is the ability to hear 100 jokes and make a really funny new joke, or to bring a number of words and use them in a new manner to create a creative poem.

I find absolutely nothing inherently creative in a person's ability to follow musical notes and thus play the violin. The same goes for painting, and any number of other 'creative' professions. But to excel at these fields creativity seems to be necessary. Writing a novel without creativity will only produce a dull one that nobody wants to read, and the reviewers will say 'there is nothing new in it', because the author hasn't used creativity to produce new material.

Programming is one of the most creative professions, it is hard to think of a better example of a creative profession, because programming is problem solving, which is creativity.

Bad programmers either lack the skill and experience to build solutions, or are simply not creative enough to do it. A person's creativity is limited by their ability to hold complex problems in their brains, and different people seem to have different capacities of this brain 'RAM'.

After loading a complex problem into our heads, we then need skill to manipulate the objects to make something beautiful out of them, and this ability can be severely limited by the lack of knowledge of the field. It will be hard to create elegant mathematical solutions to programming problems without some knowledge of math.
the supplement is open: http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v466/n7310/extref/natur...
Not every project treats version numbers the same way.

It's irresponsible of anyone paid to know this kind of thing to not be aware of how a project handles version numbers.

Linus is the kind of guy that would go to 2.8 just "because it's time" in his mind rather than some big feature jump. Whether or not a person agrees, it would be good for people to at least inform themselves.
Are the two parts of this post really connected? Yes, there are more international students applying to U.S. universities, and admissions rates are going down at Ivy Leagues, but is that primarily due to the international students? An alternate hypothesis is that it's mainly due to more domestic students applying--- a much larger percentage of American high school grads now apply to college than did in, say, 1970.
>That's a very good thing to hear.

It would be but for the distinction between "undisputedly" and "undisputably". All this says is that it hasn't been disputed, not that it can't be.
> so that I can avoid having to make the -rc1 release from Japan using my slow laptop

Linus can't just shell into a faster machine somewhere?
Chrome needs to be restarted after updates, too.
Here's an article with more info:

http://www.geekwire.com/2011/google-buys-sparkbuy-search-eng...
Knowing how to play guitar like a virtuoso != being artistic. Head on down to Guitar Center to see what I mean.
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It depends on the screen. A cheap glossy screen might scratch easy, but something like a macbook screen probably has a pretty good anti-scratch layer. Glossy screens tend to get dirty easier, but also clean a bit easier with readily available materials (e.g. paper towel + water).
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I think glass is appropriate for touch screens – I wouldn’t really want to touch a plastic screen. I would never want a glossy laptop screen.
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I'm still a little unclear with the purpose of this bill. Is this extending a tax to businesses that work with businesses in CA or am I missing the point?
It’s glass – not easy to scratch, at least compared to plastic. That’s at least true for all of Apple’s laptops except the Air.
Its Y Combinator for dating only if you're a guy..
When I've used this in bars they have asked me to show them or tell them my code. It's already up on their POS system and has my name attached as well, so for future use I can just say my last name like I normally would even if they had my card.

Generally there are only a few people using TabbedOut at any given time, if not just me, so it's not hard for the bartender to remember me (bar tenders are quite good at remembering faces and names as they do it so often).
I'd definitely be interested in looking for a co-founder for my next personal enterprise on a site such as this.
Ask HN: Is my startup legal? MovieByHeart.com
I’m an immigrant and I have a fear of speaking in English.
This fear of performing in another language, also known as Foreign Language Anxiety, affects more than 50% of people.

I’ve searched everywhere for a solution to this problem and found nothing. That is why I’ve created MovieByHeart.com. This website will help people overcome the fear of speaking in English.

At MovieByHeart we transform movie into educational games, following the Fair Use copyright guidelines. However, I think that The Gatekeepers will consider it as copyright infringement.

I want to make this project legal, I’d love to pay license fees, but at this stage no one knows what to do, because we are in uncharted territory. Such companies as Amazon, iTunes, YouTube are not able to license movies they want. And I’m just a teacher, who can’t afford a lawyer.
What should I do?

Your opinion and advise will be greatly appreciated.
If you would like to test website, use email: moviebyheart at gmail, password: test1234
My article actually intended to do the opposite - to argue that there is no dichotomy at all. I'm interested how you got the opposite impression. Maybe I should go back and edit some more. :)
If your blog is actually served up in production by Github, yeah, you're a technical person.
We should act and do as though there are no limits to what we can do, but we have to remember that nature & nurture do impose boundaries. We just don't know what those boundaries are.
I agree.

Not all of our customers live up to your standard, however.
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