skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What will iOS be by 2015? When we are not able to predict what comes after iOS 5 how can IDC predict/project an arbitrary conclusion? Just doesn't make any sense!
Happiness Is a Stochastic Phenomenon
Are you're saying it's wrong to cheer for several sports teams? ;)

Of course you can love all languages, just as you can love all foods, love all cities, love all... well, you get the picture.

Admittedly, some languages are harder to love than others, but all the ones with more than fifty users are doing something right, even if it's just "running the critical software we wrote fifty years ago and don't have time to port"

And, as with sports teams, sometimes circumstances dictate that you declare your fanaticism for the local team and discreetly remain silent about any other teams.
3. Most of the people redeeming Groupons will come at peak hours, so you still have excess capacity at slow hours. If Groupon Now (or something similar) catches on, that might solve the problem of excess capacity, but Groupon Classic does not.
This is true only if you make up a new definition of "ponzi scheme."

I disputed this same point last week:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2617760
Ah, so you would nudge them towards current solutions, e.g. Best Buy, local mom and pop brick and mortar repair stores, etc. Would you be concerned that they would get ripped off?
These guys are on a rampage.
John Carmack is equally brilliant and lucky in the same way that Michael Jordan is/was. Both found their life's work at a very young age and pursued it relentlessly. Because they found what they love so young and had such incredible work ethics, they achieved incredible things that put most mere mortals to shame.

Natural talent was obviously a factor, but so was the hard work and practice that they got at ages much younger than most of their peers. Both JC and MJ spent their teens practicing when others were playing. It wasn't forced, it was what they wanted to do.

I learned to code pretty much the same way. I'm no John Carmack, but when my peers entered college and were just starting to learn Java, I had been building games and weird little projects in C++ and Java for like 6 years. I naturally had an edge after that.

Finding what you love to do early in life and practicing that like crazy is a rare and wonderful thing.

Bill Gates, Tiger Woods, John Carmack, Michael Jordan, Eminem, Metallica, Warren Buffet, Mark Zuckerburg, Steve Wozniak, all seem to have this kind of thing in common.
How about instead we have a project like Kickstarter for movies? For say $100 a year, you join a movie club and get access to the movies that they make for your enjoyment.

Movie makers get a concrete source of funding, and a defined demographic to design for.

Movie lovers get the movies they love.

Of course, theatres---excepting small private showings--are cut out from this new model. Likely, everyone would turn to streaming movies.

I already purchase HBO---not because I cannot get their content elsewhere but because I want them to make more of it, and I know they take into account the tastes of their paying customers.
There's a huge difference between algorithmic trading (I think that's what you mean with "Round Trip Trading") and speculation and market manipulation. Traders usually profit from very short term market movements, and big volatility is usually catastrophic for automated algorithms (see e.g. 2010 Flash Crash). For the long-term investors, algorithmic traders are actually beneficial, acting as market makers, providing sufficient liquidity.

Also, I think that "no laws protecting it" is actually a good thing. Look at what happened to GBP when Soros went after it (another comment focuses on that...) - he earned huge amounts of money, and the UK Central Bank suffered huge losses. They also changed the currency regime to "no laws" to prevent such manipulation in the future.
True, it didn't fit the rest of the list. They did do a heckuva lot to keep people from competing with them - and to prevent better technologies from coming along (as otherwise mentioned, acoustic couplers. fax machines also fit in there).

Bell also had a nasty habit of - when forced to compete by the government - physically sabotaging interconnect points.
No, I was replying to the claim that merging works and that stuff is never applied twice. Which it was. Specifically git suggested that I had a deletion of the new file unmerged.

Thinking back on it, this doesn't make sense. I think the situation involved rebase as well. That is, rebasing a rename onto a branch that already has done the rename in question turns the second one into a deletion. (Or at least adds the deletion of the second file to the list of unmerged changes).
imagine a restaurant on a good Sunday where the place is crowded and absolutely all the customers are Groupon coupon users,

the main aim of the waitresses and cooks would be to get the Groupon people - meaning - everybody - out of the restaurant as soon as possible - that goes against all principles of running restaurant business ..
I was merely responding to the statement that 'illegal things are not something Apple would do' that was stated in a matter-of-fact manner.

>And since that scandal, Apple has been fastidious about obeying the letter of the law

And you would know this how? Just because there's nothing revealed right now doesn't mean there is nothing that is going on and might be revealed later. Of course this cuts both ways and I am certainly not implying that something shady is going on, but I am just curious about the free pass given to Apple on here on various things that other companies don't get.
I would only direct them to resources that I, myself, would trust/use. Especially if they are friends and family. Additionally, I would also give them advice to mitigate the need for future external support from the very beginning. (Like direct them to vendors with strong products and great customer support.)
Right at the bottom they have this link:
http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/senate.gov.txt

I wonder how long before they get their .com taken from them and have to flee for another tld.
"When I say "older" developer, I mean the 40-50 year old who probably was a really good developer 10 years ago, got a steady, cushy job, with a salary that he/she is more than happy with, and stopped learning because he didn't need to anymore."

Which I'd agree with, but that eviscerates your thesis about the new mind training regimen does it not? After all the learning engaged developer missed out on the training you got from social media.

I think everyone here knows 'bad' developers, I was astonished at the number of people who I knew responded to the question "Why computer science?" with "I hear it pays well."[1] I suspect those folks stop being developers as quickly as they can and move into management (since it has a higher pay cap). So whether you are 20 something and programming by 'cut-n-paste' or 40 something and 'retired-in-grade'

It's wrong to generalize, and it's often a prelude to discrimination to generalize an opinion based on race, color. religion, sex, or age.

I'd love to get better tools and insights into developer productivity. I think it could be a useful differentiating factor on a source code control system.

[1] This contrasts with the people who respond "What? They'll pay me to do this? Cool."
An investor's take on Microsoft
Ah! Point taken. Although I've been giving some thought to local automobile production, actually - Richmond (IN) used to make cars and I think we should again. The only problem is it's damned hard to get one certified nowadays.
I might have misrepresented the case a bit. It involved a rebase, and rebase + parallel renaming makes for strange things to happen.
Actually looking at the software market, infinite manufacturing would result in a small few creating a neighborhood Ferrari because it suits their admittedly niche interests.
there's no evidence they rooted senate.gov. just local user access. maybe the coldfusion user?
How this works in practice is servers are fired if they do not sign off that they earned the difference in tips. This is a big issue with fast food restaurants like Pizza Hut, and cheap buffets where there is a lunch rush and then a slow period, coupled with a propensity of patrons of this sort of place not to tip because they think it is a buffet or fast food restaurant, not one where servers are paid $2.35. Often you have slow periods where there might not be any customers. Let's say from 1-5pm at Pizza Hut you have 3 tables and each leaves $1. So you made $3 in a 4 hr part time shift. You get paid $2.35 * 4 = $9.40 for those three hours. If minimum wage in your state is $8.25, you are required to report that you made $23.60 in tips during that period, not $3. You then pay various taxes on those phantom wages, notably social security and medicare tax, which are regressive flat taxes. You also may find yourself being forced to split the phantom wages with the dishwasher and manager. Often you make less than $0 during your shift. Some people can make up the difference during the dinner and lunch shifts, but those usually go to senior employees and the more attractive women. Getting more than 4-6 hrs a day is hard because then you are no longer a part time employee, which means the employer might have to start paying benefits, which would ruin their entire business model that relies on $2.35/hr wages and no benefit costs. Talk to anyone who works at Pizza Hut or most buffet chains to hear more about this in great detail, I have heard about this situation from dozens of people over the last 30 years.
Honest question: what happens to developers after they are no longer "Developers"?

As a 29-year-old I'm kind of freaked out by the fact that I'm on the older part of that distribution.
Without getting into politics, the letter itself is very humorous...lulzboat... lol.

I can't help but think what a much better world this would be if every objectionable act was handled in such a way.
They don't have to vertically integrate for the indie studios. What they do instead is create daughter companies that hang out at sundance and cannes and look for potential hits.

This is Fox Searchlight, etc.
So the FB login is just to set the tone among the early users? Maybe they switch to a Disqus model, with a couple options for identity.
Aaargh! The data doesn’t say this, all the data says is “Older StackOverflow users have disproportionately high SO reputation.”

An alternate explanation is that for some reason older developers are more likely to be addicted to Stack Overflow.

A big problem here is the unproven assertion that high SO reputation means you are a “better developer.” Does it really? (After all, with few exceptions, the more active you are on SO, the higher your reputation, period, regardless of your answer quality, partly because downvoting is strongly disincentivized. And the article itself notes that older programmers don’t receive significantly more upvotes per post!) Until that’s shown, the article’s conclusion is highly suspect.

Frankly, I’m embarrassed so few people seem to be calling out the terrible reasoning behind this post. It may well be that older programmers are “better,” but what we have here is nothing more than a colossal failure to understand science, reasoning, and evidence.
Some Facebook impressions are more equal than others.
I think this is the most interesting paragraph in the submitted article: "As critical as I am of Groupon, the slam dunk case is to sign up with Groupon if you’re going bankrupt. I strongly encourage every business that is about to go under to call Groupon. (Don’t tell them Rocky sent you.) It makes total financial sense--as a Hail Mary play. If you’re lucky, the upfront cash will be enough to help you stay afloat. If not, well, you were already going out of business. It may be your best option. In the short term, you’re actually helping Groupon because they’re being valued on revenue and no one is taking into account risk."

If word of this gets around, the incentives set up by the typical Groupon agreement with a merchant will be responded to by merchants for whom those incentives are the most perverse. Groupon may discover that it is inexorably moving into the business of last-ditch financing for failing businesses.
Boxee v1.1 for PC, Mac, Linux due this Fall
Watching this promo video will change the way you look for domains
I feel much more comfortable using a certificate from restaurant.com. They automatically add 18% gratuity to your bill, so that there are no issues with tipping. And they structure deals such that you have to spend a certain amount, e.g. your $25 certificate requires a $35 purchase, ensuring the business makes some money. It's perceived as a gift certificate more than a coupon. Even better, they frequently have sales where $25 certificates are only $2.
No; that would increase their profit at the expense of revenue.
we grabbed all their source code

I'm not going to pull down that torrent, but if someone does, can you tell me exactly what they mean by this? Did they just pirate and release the source for a bunch of major video games? Did they grab any of the art?
Far more interesting: they hacked the US Senate:

http://lulzsecurity.com/releases/senate.gov.txt
Advocates of Bitcoin portray its independence of state-sponsored currencies as a feature. Why should governments do anything to make Bitcoin safer to hold (even if they could)?
What percentage of Amazon's income comes from Book sales ?

A large amount of Amazon's valuation came from the fact that they'd be able to extend and become the dominant online retailer in a huge number of product categories.
How Apple stole notifications from Android and beat them with iOS 5
Node.js From the Enterprise Java Perspective
Actually, that's exactly what I meant. I can't remeber where I read it, but Tim claimed that many publishers rejected him, before he found that one that wouldn't. Or am I thinking of the wrong title?
This is kind of closing the barn door after the horses get out and I realize there is a delay in getting new versions out.

Check the OS version against a list of tested versions.

If the version isn't in your list of tested versions refuse to run, or explain that the software may not work properly and please do not post reviews.
I know I'm a bit late with my reply, but I don't follow hacker news all too much.

That said, in general, IPC is slower than threading for the simple reason that processes are in different address spaces. When you perform an IPC call, you must take a TLB hit. With communication between threads, there is only context switching overhead (assuming no preemption between calls.)

Chrome has a few different ways to do tab communication, none of which are truly "one process per tab".
James Franco Raising $5,000 on Kickstarter to Make Non-Visible Art
I blame the hollowing out of the middle on distribution. Denzel Washington and Leonardo DiCaprio are fine actors, but you don't need an actor of their caliber or pay to make a decent movie. There's plenty of "just below top-flight" talent in acting, writing, and directing (and arguably some of it is better than the "top-flight" stuff), more than enough to make some perfectly serviceable and entertaining movies/TV.

Hollywood movies in theaters can sell loads of tickets, and smaller movies can subsist off of rabid fans, but there's not really a mid-line distribution path where I can (a) reach out to a few million people and (b) get them to pay some amount between $5 and $15. Yeah, there's Netflix, but Netflix+DVD sales isn't much money, and Netflix doesn't promote, so it's hard for people to stumble across your movie.

Someone below suggested that video games have the same problem, and I'd argue that's distribution-related as well. On the high end, there are commercials and promotions and E3 demos for games like CoD or WoW, and on the low end, most of the guys making money depend on getting promoted through "featured game of the day" deals or "top rated" sections in their app stores or viral marketing or by just being so cheap it's an impulse buy. There's no real mechanism for a $15-$30 game to receive enough exposure that large groups of people will choose to buy it. Promotions and deals on Steam help with that, but it's not a big channel.
I'm 45 with a little short of 30 years of programming experience. Our team at HP (I'm not a manager) has a few programmers that are significantly older and a few that are very young. From my observation, what's different about young vs. old programmers is not related to the speed at which we pick up new technologies (we all love to tinker with the latest stuff) but at the general approach to problem solving.

Older engineers tend to compare new problems to experiences from the past. The tools at our disposal have become much better but the fundamental mechanisms haven't changed that much so it's easier to identify whether there's a real benefit to using a new tool or if it's better to stick with what you have.

As an experienced developer it's a little easier to avoid sinking effort into novel but misguided technologies.

As a young developer it's a little easier to be open-minded about promising technologies.

But don't pay any attention to me - my SO rep is less than 30% of the average for my age bracket...
Portable? Instant-access? Are you sure you don't have that backward? EBooks outstrip paper books in this way, by at least an order of magnitude.
6. Market goes rational (inevitable, forces pushing it irrational can't do so forever), valuation plumets [sic]

It's a nitpick, but the only irrationality that gets checked is unsustainable irrationality. It's a bit of a simplification to say that profits are actually "equilibrium irrationality," but not by much. If the market were actually composed of rational agents, all prices would be driven down to material cost + wages, and there'd be no need for advertising, either. Forces can, and in fact always do, push the market to irrationality. The only thing the market seems to do is moderate the degree of irrational excess.

I'm not really going anywhere with this. I just have a fascination with people's manifold faith in markets and their powers. It's interesting that "free market theory" flatters consumers (as rational) and benefits businesses (via consumer irrationality). I think that this is why the notion survives so well in popular culture.
Bitcoin's daily trading volume is incredibly small. That means if some even remotely large investor decided to buy or sell in volume, it would move the needle in big ways. I doubt there will be any kind of stability in Bitcoin volume until it is being traded in the billions or trillions of dollars, not in the millions of USD.
Ah, revenue. Yes, I remember this from last time round; revenue is what matters, regardless of the costs involved in producing that revenue, or its uncertain future footing. Right.
Though you can do the same thing with the Nook. The Nook Color (like the iPad) requires more power than conventional USB to charge quickly, but you can use a standard micro USB cable to charge it.
Hey, I wrote this! Let me know if you have any questions about it.
The article doesn't seem to have a single link to the site or to any other site except its own.

http://canv.as/
In this particular example, what resource would you trust to use? Which specific vendor?

Here's a prototype of what I'm building, would love your thoguhts: http://www.killerbees.co
Unblending, pretty amazing.
Cheezburger CEO Planning WordPress-Style News 2.0 Software
A note about other service industry deals on Groupon:

I've read somewhere of people buying discount coupons for services like haircuts or aesthetics, only to find that when they call for an appointment, couponers have longer waits than non-couponers for scheduling. That alone makes me uneasy.
I am trying to convey frugality and green living in a web app's design. How might you approach that?
Ask HN: South America or SE Asia for living a few years?
I know many HNers are living in South America or South East Asia, working on their projects while being location independent.

Currently I live in Vancouver but I want to go somewhere (preferably tropic where I can dive, surf etc.) and work online. I'm having hard time deciding where to go.

The main advantage of South America for me is that I can learn Spanish, which is more useful than languages in SE Asia. On the other hand, SE Asia seems more secure and cheaper.

In South America I'm considering Medellin, Colombia and Buenos Aires, Argentina (Which are a little far from ocean).
In SE Asia I'm considering Philippines and Thailand.

I'd like my expenses to be around 1000$/month (I live frugally).

So, South America or SE Asia? Please share your experiences. Thanks in advance!
Google About to Make A Big Announcement
We can handle about 20 startups per (full-time) partner. Maybe 25. So with 10 partners advising startups we could get up to 200-250 startups simultaneously. Not that we expect to anytime soon; the point is just that if there is a limit, it's not immediately in front of us.
Apple's US Mac sales grow 15% in April & May; stronger June sales expected
Search Quora Questions with SMS
Books haven't been around for far longer because they are timeless, but just because it took a while for technology to become superior. We've passed that point and the transition is going to be swift.
Many people hear that btc is an "anonymous currency" and think they're free to participate in all kinds of illicit activity on btc. The reality is that every btc transaction made is publicly recorded and the so-called "anonymity" depends on the obscurity of the btc addresses used in the transaction. Also note that these implications are not necessarily isolated to one transaction; if you and your partner both make a trade using new btc addresses, the coins that were traded can be traced all the way back to their generation and perhaps someone two transactions up the chain will provide a lead as to who is doing what ("oh yeah, that was a trade I made with Johnny...").

Additionally, if the government ever seizes the wallet of a dealer, which is likely to occur in the event that a search warrant is executed, they will have a list of addresses with whom the dealer has traded. These addresses can then be found and traced in the publicly-available tx chain. In this way even innocent people may be implicated in investigations surrounding illicit trades, and trading with a person that doesn't understand the implications of reusing or publishing a btc address can significantly weaken not only your transactions but other transactions that occur in the network.

The anonymity issues surrounding bitcoin are certainly more thorny than they appear on the surface. If you intend on using btc for illegal purposes, you need to understand what you're doing and be very careful, just as I'd imagine you need to do when trading illegally in other media.
Organization vs. movement vs. philosophy
Replace Bitcoin with silver and you've got the past 3 months in a nutshell.
It's worse than that - a single exchange, Mt. Gox, has 98% of the bitcoin trading volume. The exchange operator(s) have access to all information about orders placed - and also have bitcoin holdings themselves. The potential for manipulation here is unlimited. I do not mean to accuse them of anything - there is no information. But this is not a healthy situation, given, as others have said, absolutely no legal protection.

EDIT: I want to strengthen the statement that I'm not accusing the operator of manipulation. He's well-respected by bitcoin forum participants, and he is probably an upstanding guy. But in the world of finance, it is customary to have more than just that to guarantee the soundness of a central exchange.

Add to this the fact that Mt. Gox is taking deposits totaling in the millions of dollars without having any license to operate as a financial institution, and that it apparently hold around 10% of all existing bitcoins (someone traced a 470,000 bitcoin movement to a Mt. Gox account), and I have a strong feeling that this will soon end in tears.
Everyone is disappointed in the cloud, but they keep buying anyway