skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How do people look at Apple’s movie trailers page?
> Unlike many tools, it is easier to understand the internals of git than the externals.

But why should that be? For example, the git docs use different terms for the same thing (e.g. cache, index, stage).

Also, the git tools overload the same command for different purposes (e.g. git add tracks new files or stages pending changes from existing files; git reset can unstage pending changes or revert committed changes). These are different functional procedures that happen to share implementation details.
But how will I get the pictures back from that webcam on demand and for a reasonable price? I wouldn't mind paying for both of us to go up there if that was going to be the lion's share of the cost. But since the trip is maybe 1% of the cost when you have to use a satellite uplink...
Show HN: My POC of user auth using HTTP and public key crypto
Is it any more of a ripoff then any of the other MP3 players which were manufactured specifically to compete with Apple? Except those companies were big and had lawyers of their own.
I've subscribed to MOG, and I currently subscribe to Rdio, but I've been itching to try Spotify for what seems like a year now.

My early thoughts:

1) The software is snappier than, but not as well designed as Rdio.

2) Their catalogue is missing a lot of work from some of my favorite main stream artists (Bob Dylan is the biggest hitter I've encountered so far with a woefully incomplete discography).

3) No web interface like Rdio or MOG, so you're out of luck on a work computer where you don't have full rights to download and install software.

4) Being able to add in your own music files is nice plus since neither service has 100% of what I want.

5) Having an ad supported free version is great for sharing playlists. I've made Rdio playlists I'd love to share with their embeddable web widget, but only people with a paid Rdio account can hear the songs. With Spotify you don't get a web widget, but you can share playlist links which anyone can listen to with a free account.
That's why the analogy is perfect. Twitter in this case being the poorly developed app that hijacks the back button on your browser.

Would you rather your browser didn't have a back button at all?
... don't really care. Not that interesting of a service. Not to mention my grammar & syntax testes just shrunk into peanuts and shot into my throat.
I wish I could compare this curve to comp in finance. It seems like a lot of money until you realize PE firms/hedge funds/banks are offering fresh MBAs +$200K a year. I'm not saying finance is better, it's just a data point to put things in perspective.
I'm pretty hyped about it too. But party of me worries about what happens when the new car smell wears off.
I only mentioned it as a UI thing because every time I touch my girlfriend's Android and try to navigate around, I'm confused. Yet, when she grabs my iphone, she's not confused. It also could be that I'm just the slower one of us (she did go to MIT...)
Excellent! Good luck!
Indeed that 30% error correction rate was very helpful :)
>As a developer, I don't want the obligation of an unlabeled inconsistent back button constantly to annoy and confuse my user.

Then don't override the default functionality. Overriding the back button on android is like doing so in a web browser, optional and a dumb idea.
The CMS Is Broken.
I find it interesting that so many people are highly concerned with keeping the image of their nude body from being seen (especially temporarily without permanent storage). Our bodies are all very similar. Especially as children. What exactly is the concern? That someone is going to snap a photo of your TSA security image and post it on facebook?
FBI Opens News Corp. Hacking Probe
Dave McClure's answer for you -

http://www.businessinsider.com/dave-mcclure-startup-presenta...

Or Orwell's answer about writing a book is relevant -

"Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness. One would never undertake such a thing if one were not driven on by some demon whom one can neither resist nor understand."

http://orwell.ru/library/essays/wiw/english/e_wiw

If you even have to think about it, don't do the startup.
Brazilian college student here. We get a lot of job offers, and 11k is what most internships pay. Sure, my jaw dropped on the number of people earning 60k+, but R$ 11k is really low.

And I would like to point out that the consumer electronics tax is a PITA. A simple Amazon Kindle, considered extremely cheap in the US, is an internship's month salary.
Also it might have a bias towards Web/Mobile Apps. So, I created another poll to verify that.

http://news.ycombinator.org/item?id=2764570
Sharded search is not new. Solr, elastic-search, and Riak do it as well. The difference here is that we've built the Search on top of the BigCouch map-reduce view model. Views are calculated post commit so there are no data insertion locks. Multiple copies of each shard exist for fault-tolerance. Also, multiple map-reduce analytics passes can be used as input to the search.
You are quite right. The way he lays out the module pattern forces it to be a singleton.
OS X Lion Release Date is up in the Air
To make it more interesting, feed the bot 'profanity' list for git commits..

http://andrewvos.com/2011/02/21/amount-of-profanity-in-git-c...
A review of the most popular frameworks: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/4_tools_for_teaching_ki...
Chris Crawford, the author of the brilliant (for its time) game "Balance of Power," wrote a book about the game and his design process. In it, he pointed out that the simple facts encodedc in the game--such as the GDP of Ghana or the number of troops in Mali--were unimportant, but the relationship between the facts, the cause and effect between actions countries take and the facts, those were the important things to understand.

Thsi comes up all the time when discussion programmer intervies. No, there is no point in asking if somone has memorized something they can find in Google. But their is a point in asking questions to elicit their understanding of the relationships, correlations, causes, and effects between the facts. Being able to Google the answer to a relationship is not the same thing as understanding a relationship directly.
Thank you for the advice. I think the sell to cofounders/financiers will go over better once I have the prototype working :)
There's a heck of a difference between being in London and somewhere else within the kingdom ...
Exactly. I don't want to know what an employer thinks they can get away with or even what level I can push it to (which may be higher or lower than my 'recommended' level).

To get a proper idea I'd also have to do a lot of interviews. Hence where someone who's got a bit of experience/knowledge in this area can save me a load of hassle.
It stops being healthy if you heat it enough. Like frying stuff with it.
I have no philosophical objection to collecting tax for states other than the one in which my employer is located, provided two things are done first:

1. Rates are simplified. I do not want to deal with every separate county, city, or special tax district that has its own rate. I want to be able to look up the rate I should charge based on just a 5 digit zip code.

2. Reporting is simplified. I do not want to deal with almost 50 different requirements for how to submit the collected taxes. Keep in mind that each state needs to know how much tax was collected in each tax district so that they can apportion it correctly, so at the very least they are going to want some kind of breakdown from me.

My suggestion to deal with #1 would be for the states to get together and create a single source for rate data, updated quarterly, so that merchants could grab all the rate data from one place.

For #2, my suggestion would be for the states to agree to collect for each other. I'm in Washington, so already have to collect tax for Washington sales, and am already set up to report the appropriate data to Washington. So why not make it so when I report to Washington, I report sales from all states? Washington can them break that out by state and send the appropriate money and distribution information to the other states. Same goes for the other states--California merchants would report all sales and pay all collected taxes to California, which would then pay Washington for the sales that were to Washington, and so on.

If it were done this way, it would have minimal impact on merchants. We'd basically just end up getting bigger tax tables than we now get, and submitting more data to where we already submit data.
Wasn't that the sort of thing Tsutomo Shimomura specialized in? I remember it being hyped as part of the danger of Kevin Mitnick's hacking into his systems.
Brad Feld: Don’t focus on ideas, focus on executing your ideas.
"Grope" is a pretty loaded word to use for what is actually just a pat-down. Grope has a sexual connotation, and I unless the typical experience is very different from mine, there is rarely anything sexual about TSA searches.

I'm sure things would have been fine if she simply refused. She and her daughter would not have been allowed to fly, of course, but she knew or should have known that well before she went to the airport. What she actually got arrested for being belligerent to the agents. This could have as easily happened if she got in someone's face about a french-fry order at McDonalds. Starting fights isn't OK anywhere.

I'm somewhat convinced that the new security measures don't really help much, but there are good and bad ways to deal with irrational policies. Yelling at a TSA agent isn't one of the good ways.
I think this may be driven by usability where they want to make it as easy as they can for the user to engage.

I agree with you though, security trumps usability for this one.
I'd be very confused if the TSA was either consistent or any good. I'd think I'm dreaming.
It's not dependent on developers using it right. They can only make it bad by intentionally messing with the back button. The default behavior, which 99% apps use, is what the parent described. You're already used to this behavior when you press the back button on your web browser.
I think that other article is wrong, but it's pretty clear that it's addressing people who develop on and for Windows. It's not slamming other platforms as inferior. It's just hypothesizing about the future of development. I am not surprised when Windows developers talk about Microsoft technologies when they discuss the future, any more than I'm surprised when OSX developers talk about Apple when discussing the future.

Maybe your intent was not to openly hate .Net, but it's what you ended up doing. Your entire post was just comparing .Net to Ruby and saying that Ruby is better. It comes off as a bad sales pitch. Even in your update, you're still saying that .Net developers should try Rails. If you think that .Net developers are too isolated and close-minded, the solution is not to desperately pitch Ruby as some cure-all. There are a million ways to develop software that involve neither .Net nor Ruby, and you didn't mention any of them.
Erm.. I'm certainly no expert, but 'we have to pay more for benefits like health care' should be somewhat qualified.

In DE half of the (state based. There's a 'I don't want to be part of the general system' option that works slightly different) health care is payed by your employer, half is deducted from your salary. It's a percentage of your income.

Next thing that kind of trips me here is that I'm pretty sure that the tax rate is a little different...

So - comparing the salary is probably already problematic, but if you want to start a discussion about costs you should compare the income _after taxes_. Good luck with that..

Edit: For kicks and giggles: If you're a single (not married, no children etc.) your tax rate here would be around (ballpark fiture. +/-5, I was too lazy to look it up and it ~depends~) 40% of your salary. This is the tax for your income only. You pay more than that (your share of the health care, a different 'tax' like thing for retirement fonds etc).
Average internet users don't understand why Twitter hijacks their back button on the browser, but I'm sure if given the choice between no back button and one that works almost the entire time, I'm sure you can tell which they'd go for.
Congrats Drchrono team! Are are missed in NYC.
No, I want to see someone who has contributed in ways I can see that I can look up and also consider the quality of his work.

My corporate contributions almost certainly will never leave the purview of the company servers. Ergo, if I ever want to show code samples, I will have to write them at home, on my own time.
No one? I'll even take critical feedback...!
> So the back button on your browser sometimes takes you back and sometimes dumps you onto your desktop?

The "desktop" you're referring to is the functional equivalent of your web browser's home page. So yeah, the browser does take you there.
Thanks for the insight. Now we can discuss whether "home" means "screen 1" or if it means the "desktop app". Either could fit the word "home". Apple has so far chosen then second meaning.
recruiters are not your friend and are incentivized to place you quickly, not necessarily at top dollar.
I would avoid a market sector with no competition. If you have no competition, you're probably creating a problem to solve.

Sometimes competition is a bad word to use though, and it is better to think of as alternatives. For example, the first car company had no competition, but they had alternatives (the horse).
So BTRFS is very efficient for big sequential read (which you generally don't care for much, because they're pretty fast in any case) and dies when subjected to small random read (which are the bane of platters in the first place)... isn't that dumb for a general-purpose FS?
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Clearly that's the problem. Only MIT-educated users are qualified to operate Android devices. :)
You're making a mistake in thinking that there is an objective value that you can apply to yourself. It's not you.value, it's you.valueTo(other,now).
I also like their idea of 'just swipe'. But I see one big issue - phone cases. Swiping from the edge of the screen is very difficult when you have a protective case.
You want to watch any show you choose, at any time, without commercials, for less than a cable TV subscription.

I'd also like a Boeing 747 for $5.
"Finally, we discussed bringing one of Kiln’s major features—kbfiles—into Mercurial as an official feature. kbfiles enables you to track the history of large files (like images, libraries, and executables) in your Mercurial repository, without keeping a copy of every version of every file on your computer."

Looking forward to hearing more about this, and hopefully a similar feature makes its way into Git. Poor handling of large files is one of the main drawbacks to using DVCSs in many kinds of workflows.
I am well aware that we all got 10 fingers unless you are mutants. Why use only one, right? Well, when comes to UI, the less is better for users. And it's less UI behavior consideration for developers. That's all.
A first look at the Cius, Cisco's attempt at a business tablet
Personally, I wouldn't want to use this. The whole idea of my friends submitting gift ideas to me feels like I'm asking for a little much. It feels unfair. I'd rather my friends get me whatever they feel is right without my say, this way it's a real gift.
I also thought about mis-clicking. This could be solved with a small timeout (say 1 second) before the home button has the new behavior and brings you to the first screen.
Transactional memory. Why bother memorizing something if you know how to access that information anytime when needed? I seem to recall Sherlock Holmes saying something about how he tried to forget everything that was unnecessary, so as to preserve his mental capacity for other things (ex. how when Homer learns something new he forgets something old).
yup documentation is nice.. with clean javascript wrapper and highly customizable
I did the reverse - had a vanity domain and all that stuff, then just tacked my Github account onto it.

Also, why not find your patches from http://git.gnupg.org ?
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If developers using it wrong causes problems, then it's dependent on developers using it correctly, by definition.
Yes, you avoid NPE, but consider this piece of code:

//fetch the name of bacteria from somewhere
String bacteria = getBacteriaName();

if("botulinum".equals(bacteria)) {
//do something
} else {
//do something else
}

Now, if for any reason the getBacteriaName() method failed and gave you a null instead of some string, the code will end up doing whatever it is you want it to do if the bacteria name is other than "botulinum". But this might not be what is really desired. The method failed and this should be taken into consideration. The string bacteria doesn't contain the name of some other bacteria, it's null. The problem here is that, under the circumstances, perhaps the code should have returned 'botulinum' but since the method failed, the program acts as if another bacteria name was fetched instead of throwing an exception. Just something to be careful about.
It would lead to chaos if every device retained the IP it used on that AP previously? Yeah that sounds like hell, imagine the horror.
interesting, I've never thought of it that way. that actually is a fantastic parallel in this case, too.

I know competition brings innovation, but it still makes me feel very self-conscious about my abilities to create a comparable product, one that could be considered an "alternative".

Thanks for your response!
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If the competing company is not one of many, then sure you can compete! Compete by doing everything they do better. Do a better marketing strategy. Provide better value. Make it your manifesto to provide more value.
I grew up relatively poor, in a small town (800 people), didn't do that great in college, went to a no-name college in the midwest. I used to think like you "How will I ever compete"

And then I started to meet people the exact opposite of who I was. I realized they are just like me, and there is nothing to be afraid of.

If you're motivated and half way intelligent you'll be fine. Things probably won't turn out how you expected, but you'll be okay.
Gulfstream, obviously.
bartonfink,

How will you demonstrate that in ways that I (or a hiring manager/engineer) can see?

Papers? github(bitbucket, sourceforge) code? applications released? conference presentations?

I can hunt down abstract knowledge all day and bloviate like a master, but in the end, it's all hot air if I can't demonstrate my mastery in a concrete fashion.

The advantage people are seeing is that github provides a public mastery demonstration, as well as a view of your work.
I'm not sure that's a very meaningful point. Your Android device is not a browser. Your desktop/laptop OS functions just fine without a global back button. So does iOS. If I'm given the choice between no global back button or one that annoys me 5% of the time, I'll take no global back button. My browser can still have its own.
Wow. It says Palo Alto, CA is 71% MORE expensive than NYC. That result alone left me feeling that this data is not what I am looking for. I have lived in both places and disagree. I am curious about what "NYC" means to this site.
It looks like people aren't ping-ponging around. It seems like the most important factor is location which seem somewhat trivial but is still really interesting in the detail we can get.

The trailer site is a marketing tool and it appears there are certain slots that should be more valuable than others. While some of it is obvious, things like avoiding the left are not.

My guess on why no one looks on the left side is the utilization of the right rail which moves the center zone right and it's distinctive appearance as opposed to the rest of the page probably accounts for why the right rail gets a bit more attention than the left column of posters.

That's just speculation, but it would be cool to remove the right rail, recenter the trailers and see what changes!
What a phenomenal video! I'm a designer in SF, interested in social marketing and am looking for work. Contact me if you have any openings.
I think it is a neat collection of the upcoming movies. Also the Front Row app inside OSX lists the trailors from it.. So all in call cool place to get your fav. trailers..
Why was this article written? How is it the end of the engineer? How is the 'era of the engineer over'? I don't see one thing in the article to support his idea. The only thing I conclude from the article is that the focus of business has shifter to satisfying the customer with easy-to-use elegant technological products.
Nobody. For the record I agree with you, I wasn't defending saurik just pointing out that your resolution was inadequate as he is overly invested at this point.
> For this reason, many new virtual setups are using solid state drives, which have no seek time. This keeps the high level of random IO operations from significantly impacting performance.

Except for btrfs, where it would make the whole thing even less efficient (because now the only cost is the waiting around for threads, not even the random seek on your platters).

And as a result, I disagree with your "and exacerbated by". BTRFS's problem becomes worse on SSDs (qualitatively) because the random read itself is almost free, and all of the cost is in the context switching done by the FS, instead of only 80~90% of that cost.
But you still need to remember the text you wanna search for :P
Ooohhh. Thank you, it makes sense! (I still stand by my criticism of their article though).
The developers don't have to use it at all. The overwhelming majority of apps don't touch it.

I know you have to cheer on your team here, but the back button is completely intuitive and users like it; you're creating problems based on what is theoretically possible and not what is reality.
I'd rather that Twitter didn't break my back button. But I see no value in having a global back button anyway. Who should my browser's back button sometimes take me to the previous page, sometimes take me to Microsoft Word, and sometimes drop me on the desktop? Why can't the back button do one thing right instead of a bunch of things kind-of right?

And I would much rather have no global back button on my phone than a sometimes-broken one.
Absolutely agree. How do we communicate this to Apple?
It seems that they tested the remembering on data that is uninteresting or/and useless to the subjects. It makes perfect sense not to remember such information and even more so when one knows it's googleable.

On the other hand (insert anecdata disclaimer here) I have found out that Google does not prevent me from remembering things like git options or obscure facts I had to dig up as ammunition in flamewars I participated in.
Thanks for the feedback. The target audience comprises of people that actively create gift registries or wish lists today. E,g. it's common in US/Canada for the bride and groom to create a gift registry for their wedding ASKING for gifts they want. GiftBait solves this by letting friends decide what they want to get...so in effect it's quite a bit better than being told what to get. If the friend's gift gets selected, they know what to buy, or they can submit more gift ideas for the host to consider. And as a bonus: it lets the friend suggest gifts they can afford/would like to get vs. the host saying what they want.

<TL;DR> This is targeted at people that use gift registries today. If you don't, you admittedly won't see much use for it.
You should quit your job. But, sadly, you probably won't.

This line probably sounds best in the voice of Darrell Hammond's embittered-but-resigned, progressively drunker Jack Perkins from SNL about 15 years ago.

"That's a song. It's called 'Shadows of the Night' by Pat Benatar. We should do a Biography about her. But, I bet we won't."