skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a question that fascinated Alan Turing, who wrote a classic paper called "The Chemical Basis of Morphogenesis" and other unfinished papers about the subject (some published in a book called "Morphogenesis"). He used lots of heavy math that came so naturally to him, to model plant growth as a reaction-diffusion system running in a ring of cells (the stem of the plant). By computing the reactions by hand on paper, he studied how cells could grow into "parastichy" with spiral patterns related by Fibbonachi numbers. http://botanydictionary.org/parastichy.html
http://www.dna.caltech.edu/courses/cs191/paperscs191/turing....
Ah neat! Do you know if this works for undergrads? And if the employer is a startup, does that add to the complexity?

P.S. This isn't for me, but for an undergrad I mentor.
So wait, they're going to support a platform for which no new devices are being manufactured to run on? It sounds like they're planning to license it, I guess, if they can. (They probably won't be able to.)
First: I really would like webOS to succeed and find a device it can run on.

That said, how is it at all credible that webOS' main backer has simultaneously ceased production of ALL its hardware which was intended to run webOS, but also expects us to believe a line like "We will continue to support, innovate and develop the webOS App Catalog"?

Who's going to buy apps from that App Catalog? How are you planning to keep this OS current as a competitor to iOS if you have NO users in the field using it, buying and downloading apps, helping to test and fine-tune it, etc?

I just can't see this realistically happening. Apparently, very few others can see it, either, which is why HP stock tanked by 20% today.
Rather than add --default-character-set every time you invoke the mysql client, add the setting to your my.cnf/my.ini config file.
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That was just Stephen Wolfram channeling Alan Turing but not giving him credit.
$10K/mo is a little more than my current salary, but I would have to exclude taxes, health care for four (COBRA is a US law that lets you buy your old employer's health plan for 18 months after you leave, and at my last job it was $1800/mo), etc. I live in Chicago which isn't NYC or SF but still isn't cheap. Plus I would need more savings bc of unpredictable cash flow. Plus stress kills productivity.
It's the BBC. You have to speak appropriately for your audience.

Not to say the BBC's audience is a bunch of ecstasy addicts, but they aren't all chemistry PhD's either. Most people know drugs by their street name.
The cat is out of the bag! What the technologists have known all along! The market is huge, and mushrooming. Only the largest tech companies can keep pace with the growth, and there is still a-plenty for today's startups. Get yours today. Seriously!

Even already-connected markets, like the USA and Europe, will mature impressively as more people get better at using an improving internet. And by the time the entire living world is connected, birth rates alone will sustain satisfiable market growth.

How's that for a pitch?
Excellent. The book has a hacker's dedication too: "Dedicated to Brian Kernighan, who has taught us all so much; and to prisoners of conscience everywhere."
Online code editor that makes it really easy to code on the go
Context needed.

Under what circumstances did this refund occur? What was the user's claim and why was it BS? What is the service you're selling?
http://www.leandesigns.com/ is also a great tool, but this is a great gift to the larger community from Twitter, and for that we thank you.

Disclosure: I'm an adviser of sorts for Lean Designs
That's hilarious, nice one Germany!
Impressed that the founders are all 15. Can't wait for this to sync with Dropbox.
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It could also become a desktop OS of sorts. They were planning on shipping it on their HP computers if I recall correctly. This could mean that they could make that available still for Windows PCs as they had planned.

My guess is that your licensing guess is correct. I do hope it succeeds. I feel it's a better option in the long run than Android.
But what if the code looks beautiful and right, but hides a rare bug that the designer doesn't know about?

I totally agree, it's over-sold. But any time you're using something you don't fully understand, you run risks. Being able to be informed of updates / problems would change the entire practice of re-using snippets, and integration into an IDE is the perfect way to do so. You, as a contributor, could even learn of problems / improvements that others have found.
You meant to write, "use appendChild()," right?
You can pick at Marc's words as much as you like, but having heard his visions back in '95 when Netscape was big, he's a big picture guy and is seeing the forest for the trees.

Consider the following:

- In this decade and the last, software engineer consistently ranks in the top ten best jobs

- During the financial crash, software engineers enjoyed the least turmoil and the quickest recovery compared to almost all other sectors

- Software is mission critical to almost every business in the world now, regardless of sector

- Our jobs tend to have the highest pay among the majority of jobs (again, top ten)

I'm with Marc. I'll double down on software right now...it's not going away.
Possibly. Email me some info, my username @ gmail.
"We have opened the next chapter for webOS..."

Well, that's a way to put it I suppose.
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Sorry, but why the Downvotes? I'm quite serious that some apps that would make it easier for you to find Dollar Stores near you - or better yet that would show you who has what in stock would help the adoption of shopping there by folks who have grown accustomed to those kinds of things where they have been shopping. I could also imagine an app that would let you scan in what is on sale there, and link you to articles like the one mentioned in the opener to make the "alien" lamp.
Doesn't F3 in Firefox do the same thing? Then F3 for next instance, etc.
Thanks ggchappell for the correction. In the future I'll run quotes by snopes before using them.
I sent that link to a coworker I was IMing with when I read it. A minute later he wrote back, "mmm, I didn't know that either."

He's not a programmer, but still. Wow.
As they say in the financial world, "He's talking his book."

That said, much of what he says is spot on. Software is creeping into everything. Education seems obvious. Health Care will be more difficult. A lot of the change will happen in the US.

If we can't invest money, we still can invest our careers.
If the din keeps investment low, then you will not have a bubble. The current bubble is in "insecurity", as gold prices indicate.
Thanks, shabble!
nano 4 lyfe!!!!!!!11

My favorite thing about nano is that the commands are always at the bottom of the window for you-- no remembering needed. ^C and ^W are right there ;)
Firefox 7 Beta Puts Priority on Performance
So wait, they're going to support a platform for which no new devices are being manufactured to run on? It sounds like they're planning to license it, I guess, if they can.

You know, back in the day everybody and his dog was telling Apple to license MacOS (I mean OS 7-9, not OS X). Apple supporters would tirelessly explain that turning MacOS into a commodity OS would make it neither fish nor fowl: It wouldn’t have the reach of Windows nor would it have the seamless integration of an Apple-only product. There was a brief and half-hearted attempt to license it which only cannibalized Apple’s existing sales. Steve killed it the moment he returned as CEO.

Now HP has declared that despite being a dominant manufacturer of PCs, it cannot win in the personal computing business and it has no marketing muscle nor manufacturing chops to succeed and make money in the phone or tablet businesses.

Only everyone talks about how great their OS is. This sounds exactly like Apple when they were all but acquired by NeXT in a reverse takeover. Only instead of doubling down on their manufacturing and marketing like Apple did, they’re exiting the business and licensing their OS. I am not going to predict that they will fail, but I am going to say it will be interesting to see what happens with licensing and to compare it (if only for entertainment purposes) with what happened with Apple.
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The problem is that increasingly, learning to ski, picking up guys, etc are going to be dependent on being able to use a computer efficiently.
Unfortunately right now the choice is SMS (one app, in my dock standard), or GroupMe for some friends, Kik for some others, a few on Facebook Messenger, four or five who've figured out Huddle, and some other small fragment once iMessage shows up.

Sometimes, I don't mind paying for convenience.
I commend this analysis to the House.
Why might programming not be like Chess?

Because it is a multidimensional profession rather than rather fixed task?

Programming is hard, harder than anything else you could possibly do. But because it is so hard, an important task for any programmer is to know their limitations and work around their limitations - master the skill of software engineering.

Just consider, the things that "only a few people can do", like playing 2800 chess, are turning out to be what a computer can more easily accomplish. Whereas the things "any idiot can do", like speaking English, are turning out to the things that computers have a really hard time doing.

In this sense, if programming is a "humanistic" field, it seems like many people and kinds of people can achieve excellence in it. But naturally this depends on what an organization cultivates.
"Companies in every industry need to assume that a software revolution is coming."

I can't wait for the revolution to come to the control and automation industry. I can see the heritage and legacy of the (software) tools I have to use, and unfortunately they aren't so old as to have a unix heritage but to have been born in the windows 95 era.

Probably I just need to pony up and get the real good high end shit, but the automation industry is ripe for disruption like health care too. the problem is the market is small and the stakes are high, so we end with old, expensive, tried, true, ancient solutions.

/rant
Wait until Nokia gets WP7 phones out there, then we'll really see whether it'll be the 3rd player or not.
$290 is pre-tax btw.
That's insane. They must be really, really desperate to get at least some money back. According to iSuppli [1], TouchPad costs $306.65 to make. It's over $200 lost on each one of those. It's going to be really tough for HP.

[1] http://allthingsd.com/20110703/hps-touchpad-teardown-its-dee... (I couldn't find their (iSuppli) orignal article, I believe it's behind some paywall.)
This is great if they can sustain it. Is there a company and revenue model behind it or is it just someone's hobby? Also, isn't it similar to Factual and the like, other than fork and pull requests?
It's just a bit off-putting that a company would try to justify a $10B - $30B valuation when they have never shown any net profit.
It's really eye opening in a good way. Teaching my Mom how to use her first computer (which had Windows 98 on it) was all I needed to fully understand why Mac mice only have one button.
The consummate business person: It is all about the numbers.
Is it worth having service contracts if you have thousands of machines? I would have thought it's analogous to car hire companies not having insurance on their cars (because with enough cars the distribution of accident costs evens out)
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what's the attraction to gold, other than being somewhat scarce and well prospected for (probably no massive surprise claims to be found).

The value assigned to gold is clearly not due to its industrial applications. Gold for jewelry is also clearly not driving up the price as uncertainty rises.

What is a bar of gold good for and why does it represent a more secure asset than a bar of platinum, or silver, or anything else. Why is gold the commodity to go to for "security".
It is amazing to see how far we have come. I'm so glad that I picked the right industry to get into. The world changed all around us, and we were a part of it.

My only fear is that this will flood the market with crapy developers. That is how this change WILL be like the DOT COM boom.
Could Google’s purchase of Motorola Mobility make it illegal in China?
On Nintendo’s future (hint: it’s theirs to decide on)
Looks very well made, I'm using it next week already for a small project :)

The IE incompatibility is a shame, this could be a nice poster for progressive enhancement.
Chrome's Find menu has "Search the Web", "Find", "Find Next", "Find Previous", "Use Selection for Find" and "Jump to Selection". I'm willing to bet non-techies would be utterly confused by all those possibilities.
It's not possible to read a CS5 PSD with CS3. If you don't follow Adobe's upgrade path you're out of business (which means a great opportunity for GIMP).

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
Well i guess this means that emotionally warped hypergeeks will truly inherit the Means of Production and run your life like a program---from cradle to grave. Fuck Marx and Engels, we have Andreesseeeeen and Zuckerberg.
Ask HN: What do you want most from webmail?
Webmail has been the same old for too long. What do you wish your web mail had?

Even better spam filters?
Absolutely no ads?

And, are you already happy with what you can do with IMAP across all of your devices?
Try, "grep grep grep". That's easier to say.
That would be fun to watch, though very frustrating for both of them.
tl;dr: "I have no idea what we are going to do - if we are going to do anything anyway!"

Or is it just me that got this message reading this "announcement"?
>>It's been how long since it launched and I've only ever seen one in the wild that didn't belong to someone affiliated with MSFT.

Not a fair comparison:

WP7 was launched in October 21, 2010[1] [2]

Android was launched 2 years earlier [3]

iOS more than 3 years earlier[4]

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Phone
[2]Assuming that you're talking about WP7 and not Windows
Mobile
[3]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_%28software%29#Hardware
[4]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IOS_%28Apple%29#History

edit: Please explain why I'm wrong before downvoting.
Facebook has a responsibility to do the right thing or lose a lot. It has executives, investors, and assets which are all exposed to lawsuits and criminal investigation.

A dude in Thailand that makes a free "Angry Birds Cheats" app does not have a lot to lose. In fact he could probably get away with putting something up on the app store with a stolen identity. The app could suck down millions of people's address books with real names, real birthdays, real phone numbers, real addresses, a network graph, and maybe more completely silently. You know the network activity indicator doesn't even activate unless it's flipped on and off programmatically? Best case scenario Apple finds out, takes the app down, and tells the Thai police to go find the guy? Good luck with that. Worst case scenario nobody even notices and the app disappears after sinking off the charts.

There is zero consumer protection against the latter and quite frankly the former shouldn't be an issue to begin with either. Facebook was getting away with it without getting caught. How many of those other high throughput apps that aren't from Facebook receive the same scrutiny from the public and researchers?
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I run a company called http://www.AppBlade.com and we provide a service to do OTA (Over the Air) installation. This OTA technique is the Apple recommended way to do secure wireless installation for enterprises to a specific hardware device (via UDID.) Anyone with access to the latest betas can try it and see that yes it still works.
Same as with any other currency. The reason people invest in USD instead of pink shells is because people will pay for USD disproportionately to its functional value.

You could certainly invest in platinum, but it's value is still rooted in practical utility- people won't pay for it unless they have a use for it.

Why is it gold that is partly a currency, instead of platinum? It was established as a currency back when its utility really was equal to its value, and people noticed that it was a valuable and stable resource.
Ah, now I understand why you mentioned Nebraska.

My US geography is still a little iffy. I've never understood why that bit is "midwest". To me "midwest" looks like, y'know, Montana.
This article suffers from a lack of editing - it could do with a rewrite to improve the readability alone Apart from this, some of the points are somewhat glib, if not outright specious:

* PHP can do more than 'web' - the functions that fall outside of 'web' (process control and semaphore come immediately to mind) have wildly inconsistent quality and are generally not supported outside of POSIX based operating systems. This reflects on PHP as a language on the whole - part of the language and its extensions are well written and documented, many other parts are not. Prolonged use of the language just repeatedly reminds the developer of this, which becomes tiresome.

* PHP projects are not reusable - While the example given (Wordpress) is widely used, the project is somewhat cumbersome to extend because of the mix of application and presentation logic. Also, using Wordpress is not the best example to use, given the amount of security issues it has faced[1].

* PHP is not good for high performance scalable Web sites or applications - There is a claim regarding the HipHop for PHP (H4P) project being solely about making PHP into a citizen of the multi-threaded web server module world. The performance improvements in execution speed provided by H4P show that the benefits of compiling PHP scripts via interpretation into C++ are far more than just providing multi-threaded instances. This part of the article also continually refers to CPU being the key benchmark for intensively used websites. In the real world, applications generally consume more memory than CPU. PHP handles memory use poorly. That alone appears to have been the motivator behind the H4P project at Facebook. Using PHP in the real world means that a series of caching technologies (opcode - e.g. APC, frontside - e.g. Varnish, memory - e.g. memcache) are required to support large amounts of simultaneous users.

In summary, the article detailed and answered many fallacies regarding PHP that are littered across the web. The inclusion of statements that are 'loosely' true and glossing over innate inadequacies in the language reduced the article as a whole. As a result, it underlined the reasons why I do not choose to write any programming code in PHP at all any more.

While I can see the reason for responding to a series of specious assertions regarding PHP[2], a better response could have been made.

[1] https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=wordpress+security+iss...

[2] http://java.dzone.com/news/i-php#comment-54511
"How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built " by Stewart Brand (of Whole Earth fame). Highly recommend it. I've lost track of how many copies (10?) I've given as gifts to friends.

TLDR: The bones of a building determine how adaptable it is to reskinning and structural change. If you don't have the right bones, you will have to tear the building down and it will not adapt over time. Adaptable systems have a backbone that lets them be stable during change.

http://www.amazon.com/How-Buildings-Learn-Happens-Theyre/dp/...
Yes, it is confusing.

On the other hand, the Wrench menu (not the standard Mac menu on top) has a single 'Find...' option with the Command-F shortcut label next to it.
If you think Ctrl-F is bad, wait till you see how you find text within the page on Mobile Safari.
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But guess what, they are trying to convert non-Windows developers. Palm allowed me to develop on whatever I wanted. And they sent me a phone upon request (they were never sold in Brazil). So does Google. And every dumbphone out there that supports J2ME. The only company that also wants to restrict what I use is Apple. And Apple throws the equivalent of Visual Studio in with every Mac (all you have to do is download it). I don't think it's out of malice they don't support other platforms. I have a couple friends who work at Microsoft and they seem to really believe that everyone who develops software has a Windows machine and Visual Studio. And, if you are serious about developing software, an MSDN subscription.

And this just shows how amazing Microsoft's developer support and outreach really is. As long as you give them money, they support you. If you don't run Windows, they don't really care about you.

No, thanks. My software, my rules.

And, besides that, it's not like WP7 is gaining much support from manufacturers, or market share.
IPhone 5 To Arrive in Early October, Says AT&T Exec
I assume you are being sarcastic.

They have been in this race since the first release of Windows CE in the late 90's. They even dominated the segment for quite some time.
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I don't think that's true. Maybe you didn't see the reference to "admin themes". They're not normal website templates, they really are essentially the same as Bootstrap, collections of styles/images for menus, typography, forms, warnings/errors, tables and dialogs for use in applications.
OK, now I'm curious.

> cd /usr/bin/

> grep grep grep

Binary file grep matches

It's nice to know that there is indeed a grep in grep when you grep grep for grep.
Obligatory 'real programmers' links:

* http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html

* http://xkcd.com/378/
You did not pick it...it picked you!!
you make these points
1. used to be a currency
2. stable resource

which have helped me understand that
1. dollars used to be tied to gold. now USA is making more dollars, thereby devaluing dollars relative to everything including gold.

2. the supply of gold is relatively fixed compared to the supply of dollars these days
Not an emacs user, I take it? Otherwise you'd have a nonstop twitch in your left hand for all possible situations.
yes...we emotionally warped hypergeeks have something tht we can offer people....their own time...while the others seem to be making money through bullshit sales pitches!!
Weren't you working on Convore a few months ago? Is this from the same team?
HN Business users: What are your daily pain points from a technology standpoint?
What type of recurring issues do you face at work that limit your ability to be productive or even get the job done?
Check out the open source ThinkUp from ExpertLabs:

Live demo:

http://expertlabs.aaas.org/thinkup01/index.php?u=whitehouse&...

http://thinkupapp.com/

"ThinkUp is a free, open source web application that captures your posts, tweets, replies, retweets, friends, followers and links on social networks like Twitter and Facebook.

With ThinkUp, you can store your social activity in a database that you control, making it easy to search, sort, analyze, publish and display activity from your network. All you need is a web server that can run a PHP application"
Hopefully his parents will say, "Wow, you worked so hard on this." Anything except, "Look how smart you are!"

Those comments breed laziness and allow people to say, "I guess I'm just not as smart in this area."
In Xcode cmd-shift-f means "find in project", never used it to fullscreen an app but I might be missing something ;)

[edit]

Oops, you said ctrl-shift-f, not cmd-shift-f. My bad!
wouldnt you rather use a currency whose value does not depend by dumb politicians?...wouldnt you use a currency whose value truly depends on the laws of supply and demand?