skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Weirdly, with the table designs, he switches to using italics for the %s without discussion.

I assume that's because, in the absence of a dividing line, it provides an additional hint that the two blocks are separate? That seems to weaken his point about the importance white space for this example, though...
If you are realy interested, look into NASA's Orbital Debris program. They have a must-read quarterly newsletter: http://orbitaldebris.jsc.nasa.gov/
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What's your reason not to join AngelList ? - there's nothing stopping you both using AngelList and get investment from elsewhere as well.
>It's more like i'm just using a different stove.

Sure: http://www.goodtimestove.com/

Modern constraints(http://developer.apple.com/library/mac/#recipes/xcode_help-i...), for instance, are insane to edit manually with no visualization on any complicated screen.

Perhaps you're just building tons and tons of tableview cells or something else automatically laid out for you, so you're not really feeling it (or are too strident a believer of your position to learn then judge, rather than judge first). But if you do any manual layout at all, there are huge wins within days of starting to learn the tool.

It feels like I'm discussing with someone contending that zip files are as good as source control here.
calling many people idiots

Yikes! Did I say that? I have to say that this is a very black-or-white reading of the post. However, I apologize if I hurt feelings because I know some brilliant Java programmers and likewise brilliant people who hate Scala.
I wonder if you have the same criticism of Jon Stewart, who has also frequently defended himself by saying, "I'm a comedian, not a journalist."
Since there are a lot of comments that disagree with the post, I'll say that I largely agree with its essential premise which is that a language's perceived difficulty shouldn't be based simply on the initial learning curve, but on how much it helps (or hinders) once it has been properly absorbed.

My only evidence for this statement is my own experience. I am well on the right side of the java curve as the article describes and over the first hump and well down it on the scala curve.
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I'm wondering if google is just trying to encourage an architecture which is less bad for their site.

I'm guessing a small minority of apps were doing things in a way that was eating up tons more resources than they were paying for. I bet for many apps, this could end up no worse or better.
Photos of earth from the ISS
i can't just imagine how cappuccino could be so careless like this.
I am interested in starting a company that builds and sells standing desks. I'm a technical guy, but ideally I'm looking for a partner who knows far more than I do about marketing, manufacturing, and supply-chain logistics. My goal is to do it lean startup-style, and develop an MVP first. My email is in my profile, or reply in this thread.

What do you want from a standing desk? What would get you to buy a standing desk?
SEO Smackdown: Information Architecture vs. Technical Architecture
VMware statement says Apache 2.2.20 fix introduces protocol layer bugs
I think we're missing a big part of this...

How many users were using it?
But is it really worth the headache of such a Frankenstein architecture?

I initially fell in love with the "no sysadmin" aspect of App Engine, and started building apps around it. Eventually I realized that (for me, anyway) the upside isn't really worth the trouble of having to contort my apps to work in Google's sandbox- can't run SQL, have to deal with datastore timeouts, CPU timeouts, etc. When you're done coding work-arounds for all of these things, are you really coming out ahead?
"Who's Your Best Friend?" - Is this really security?
CEOs Who Earned More Than Their Companies Paid in Taxes
Do you really believe that the skillset that qualifies one to design the Apple II similarily qualifies one to design iPads and iPhones? I find that rather hard to believe.

(Also: You shouldn't read anything into my statements that I did not say. The Apple II is absolutely awesome, brilliant and amazing. That doesn't mean that knowing how to design it makes one fit for designing radically different stuff several decades later. To just assume that is absurd to the highest degree.)
Here's another link to that event, that also discusses a collision between two satellites:

http://www.space.com/8334-junk-space.html

The claim is that the China missile test and this collision are responsible for 60% of the number of objects in orbit.

Even though space is vast, the number of useful orbits is limited. For example, the A-train (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-train_(satellite_constellatio... ) is a parade of remote sensing satellites in sun-synchronous orbits (as they look down, it is always within a few minutes of noon). So this makes inadvertent collisions more likely.

Slightly related, here's a close asteroid passby that happened last summer:

http://neo.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news172.html
No, you're conflating two different points he's making. The MonoTouch jab isn't about memory management.
Why the “scoop” mentality is bad for news
I don't really get how "1+1=3" is related here. With a proper grammar, such as the one used in infix arithmetic, whitespace is unnecessary. (and missing deliminators in postfix or prefix for 1+1 wouldn't yield three, just an error, or 11 if there's a unary + operator defined.
i bet am never gonna hand that over to Jobs.
I was looking for a modern training program (I started iOS App dev back before apple had a 3rd party lib) for a new guy, and this was my choice for best one. I also like the Xcode 4 book that recently came out.
I was a big fun of ubuntu, and used it on my desktops and laptops, but in last few years Skype became a major tool for me, to communicate with my team, and since there is still no good Skype for Linux, I no longer use ubuntu. On a desktop I use Mac OS, laptop is no longer my central tool, and most of the work from the road I do on my iPad. Thinking to get a book air for long trips, where iPad just can't cut it yet :)

also, unity so far has been a disaster... I know about 5 friends who still use ubuntu, they couldn't use it with unity, and I helped them to get old gnome back. Hopefully unity will gets better, but this change I think was too big and wasn't optional. I think they lost a lot of users because of it.

But I still use ubuntu on some servers of mine.
Hey aditya42,

I'm the creator of LESS Elements. Nothing is wrong with Bootstrap, it's just that when I wrote these mixins a while back Bootstrap wasn't yet available.
You could look at the hits returned on increasing numbers (eg, 1111 v 11111). A quick glance shows they seem to reduce towards zero by the time you reach 12 digits.

From there, it's probably trial and error - start with 12 1's in a row and fiddle with them. Even try deleting 2 random digits to see what happens (from 12 ->10 as anything with 11 numbers returns a UPS Package Tracking Link / Ad for me). Lowest I had is 111232111222 - perhaps someone should write a Wikipedia page on it?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interesting_number_paradox
Don't see why this would be downvoted--it's good to know.
"We launched first, so they must have copied us." - I really wish I'd quit hearing this.

Just because you wrote code fast and launched fast doesn't mean someone else did. It could be they took their sweet time and had actually started first, but you beat them to market.

It IS possible for 2 people to envision the same concept in the same way. It's actually quite likely, given how imagination works.

Having said that, I also don't think there's anything wrong with seeing something and thinking you can do it slightly better. That's the nature of capitalism.
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If You're Going to Act Like Children . . .
The laser-based suggestions sound pretty feasible. A laser based on the moon might even be plausible. The key is that you don't necessarily need a lot of energy to bump a piece of debris enough to knock it out of orbit.

http://www.spacefuture.com/archive/orions_laser_hunting_spac...
I feel like I've been in a constantly resurfacing burnout since I was in 7th grade... (I'm 18 now). Though in line with what other people said I wish he had offered more insight on what exactly got him out of his burnout.
Former F1 Ace Takes on the Best — Online
Surprised to see so many non-technical internships for the fall. Does demand for tech interns lower during school semesters?
All the tweets I've seen this morning state that Arrington has resigned from TC. But of course that's not at all accurate, as Swisher points out; all he did was change jobs from editor to writer. Somehow I don't see that diminishing Mike's level of control.

I do agree with Swisher, having more than one interaction with Arrington, that this is not a Good Thing.
Apple has the resources to own a big piece of the pro media market too - Mac Pros, Final Cut Pro, Color, Shake, Final Cut Server, Logic, XSan, OS X Server, etc. - they keep systematically destroying these for some reason.

I think Apple's corporate culture and ego, however, doesn't lend itself at all to this market - this market requires communication and feedback between developers and end-users, and roadmaps of upgrades and bug fixes and features, all things that Apple doesn't do for the most part.

All in all it is a shame in any event - I had a friend who runs a video editing department with 20 editors, and they literally just completed a very large Final Cut Server install a few weeks before FCPX (not Final Cut Server compatible) and the very sudden EOL of Final Cut Server. Of course it will work fine for a while, until hardware/OS render it obsolete/incompatible, but what about bug fixes, support, etc?
As it says in the post, this is just the benchmark of a for loop, and the author rightly says that nothing can be inferred from it.

When it comes to prototyping, using languages such as scala brings nothing for such type of mathematical algorithms as it is basically only loops and double operations. You are better off with languages such as R/scipy where most of the core is written in C/C++ and handily wrapped (there are many heavily optimized packages in R to do gradient descent).

For production code, well, you know the correct solution ;)
Ask HN : Can we see who down voted us?
I've just seen minus (-) in-front of my comments, not who did it. Is is true with more karma we can see who down voted us ?
I'm no expert in this area at all, and this is purely a theory: My impression is that Apple and MS users are quite different, in that when a new Mac OS comes out a far higher percentage of users are excited and wanting to upgrade, whereas when a new Windows comes out a far higher percentage of people are left thinking "I'll upgrade whenever I next buy a computer".
Ask HN: How do I prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI)?
I've been typing at about twice my usual rate for the past two months. The strain on my wrists is finally starting to catch up to me.<p>Is there a regimen or list of common practices for reducing RSI when programming? Are there any special products (keyboards, mice, wrist guards, etc)?<p>Any help would be greatly appreciated.
I guess it just seems like a place where everyone goes and you can get lost among all the other hundreds of starts ups trying to get in touch with the same investors.
We tried to use GAE several times on our heavy traffic production, and was just too slow. We contacted google several times, but never received any help from them. So, thanks to this, we don't use them and we are not affected but the price change.
Startups, get ready to hack the future of TV in NYC
The interesting number paradox was great, didn't know about it. Almost the same contradiction exists in my problem statement, as someone mentioned below. Would you be able to identify the lowest non-indexed number you probably couldn't keep it from being published on the web.
In an nVidia Optimus configuration, there is no actual switching between the IGP and GPU. The LCD display is connected only to the IGP. The discrete GPU is connected only to the PCIe bus. Therefore to display anything from the GPU, the contents of the GPU framebuffer RAM need to be copied over the PCIe bus to the main RAM and displayed using the IGP. The Windows drivers use "Microsoft detours" in the Display Driver Interposer to seamlessly direct graphics API calls from applications to the IGP or discrete GPU.

http://www.nvidia.com/object/LO_optimus_whitepapers.html
I don't know exactly why, but my mouse tends to be in the lower right corner of the screen most of the time. Considering that, launching an app from the bottom of the screen involves less work for me. I'm not sure if that's true for the rest of the people or it is just my thing.
It's only slightly related and not a likely solution since finding space debris is an issue but there was an Anime I recently watched called Planetes that followed a team of space debris collectors that I would recommend. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetes

Collecting space debris became a large issue in the story because of civilian space travel expanding and collisions that lead to catastrophe. They bring up the Kessler syndrome more than once as well http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kessler_syndrome which describes a moment at which there would be too much debris in space to launch anything else for a long time.
Same here, haven't had any type of 'cable/tv/sattelite' experience for about 8 years, and I'm not surprised a lot of people are also in these same boat.
...Or you can tell the story of your own experience which may be useful. But I agree with you there are many generalizations in the article and it is presented in away that almost seems scientific.
Making C# More Functional
That's not true.

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Check out their showcase:

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Israel has always had US support.

No. The comment above that the Cold War set the context for United States friendship with Israel has it right. When the Arab countries weren't as strongly aligned with the Soviet Union, United States policy didn't tilt nearly as much as it later did toward Israel. The 1956 Suez crisis is an instructive example.

http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/dept/scwmss/projects/suez/suez.ht...

The United States urged Britain, France, and Israel to withdraw from their military intervention in Egypt to ensure international control of the Suez canal. In that era, the United States was nearer to a middle position regarding Arab-Israeli conflict than several of the European powers.

The Six-Day War (which I remember from childhood) was probably the high water mark of United States support for Israel, as it appeared that a badly outnumbered, and uniquely democratic, Israel was able to overcome surrounding hostile countries through valor and strategic brilliance. Since the 1980s, the United States relationship with Israel has had bipartisan support at the federal government level, but I think the American Baby Boom's visceral identification with Israel as a fellow democratic country has diminished considerably since then. The aftermath of the Arab Spring may be an increased balance in United States attitudes toward Israel and the Arab states.
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>web ecosystem rather than contemptible parasites.

That's because they're competitors. When you find a market, don't expect to own it forever.
"Scala is difficult mainly because it is so well designed that it easily enables the use of functional patterns that most people aren't familiar with."

I hear this argument a lot, but I don't think it's true. I've done a fair amount of haskell, OZ, lisp in various forms, etc, etc. I often have a hard time reading scala code, more so than any of these other languages which are also FP. Maybe it's just me, but it sure seems like other people have had the same experience. I've begun calling it statically typed perl, because my experience with it is very similar.
Yeah I still don't understand why the Khan Academy and other educational/open source developers are using Google App Engine when it suffers from vendor lock-in.
PhotoAppLink ties iPhone photo apps together for multi-app editing
must-read space debris quarterly newsletter : scientists :: the Masters telecast contains 56 minutes of golf action per hour : golfers

(I happen to be in the latter camp)
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Industry cycles for visionary insights
Bootstrapped startup owner here... I am of the opinion that if a business on the Web needs millions of dollars to get off the ground, then it's probably a business that isn't worth getting off the ground.

I realize that there are exceptions and there are ideas that need funding to get going, but the whole incestious culture of venture capitalists, investors, and startup idea owners often doesn't foster real innovation. It instead lines the pockets of a select few with millions of dollars. Just a slick redistribution of wealth.
The bigger problem by far is the treaty the _prohibits_ companies from one nation from even touching the space junk of another nation. I know that there are several different schemes/ideas floating around (space tethers for one) trying to get funding to de-orbit or salvage space junk but they always get hung up on the political problem. This is definitely _not_ a technical issue.
I think that the ideal situation is having a CEO/Founder but one who realizes what his deficiencies are and can accept bringing in someone to help the company...but not necessarily have the ultimate word. There is a lot to be said about keeping the originator whose vision proved to be successful be in charge of future ideas and directions or at least have the final say on them. At the same time often a founder's organizational skills arent up to par for managing scale.
Not at all.

He is not just smart. Smart people with annoying behavior are over-smart.
Why you are killing your time on someone who would make fun of your company vision too?

When you hire, hire someone so that you would want to pay them more
every month for their work/involvement in your organization.
My father has saying: running business is a marathon. So from that perspective first 100s of meters (cloning the initial version of a web site) means nothing.
Ask HN: Virtualized cloud computing?
I searched HN but couldn't find an answer to this question: has anyone found a hosting service that offers a virtual private server (VPS) running on a cloud? I ask because most cloud computing plans seem to run about $70 per month, but surely they could be virtualized to allow multiple users to share one slice.

I did find this:

http://vexxhost.com/dedicatedservers.htm

http://vexxhost.com/cloud_hosting/pricing

Maybe there is room for a startup to resell cloud computing at a more affordable rate. I realize I'm glossing over the technical details, but have run my own linux instances on Linode/TekTonic and they have been generally too much work to set up and too vulnerable to hacking. I'm more interested in thinking about what's possible. I need a preinstalled LAMP server with shell access that can scale indefinitely, starting at ~$10-20/mo. Right now I'm going through a reseller account for $18/mo but sometimes they don't answer their support tickets and I worry about scalability.
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How is it not 'computing'? The iPad runs programs, with threads, and stacks, and filehandles pointing to files. It runs what is basically Unix, fer chrissakes!

All these components are hidden from the user, it is true. They're hidden from mainframe users too, and mainframes are just as closed as the iPad if not more so; does that stop them being computers?

Maybe it's just computing you don't like?
Hopefully Apple will start selling computers with Snow Leopard again.
His app generated no revenue, so any price other than trivial would have him jumping ship. Why does Google want apps like his?
It seems because of the fact that American Jews are much better organized, and better focused on their interests, than any other group. They're probably the most politically active group in the US.

I don't see anything wrong with the Jewish people looking out for their interests, but as a scientifically-minded person I'm more interested in objective analyses of the situation (as in the mentioned book) than vague anecdotes like 'lots of people think that Israel is right'.

If American Jews are an order of magnitude more politically active than other groups, we shouldn't be ashamed to admit it. It's an interesting sociological phenomenon that needs to be studied.
It's not true. You can never see who downvoted you (a good thing, imo).
Thank you for the awesome and detailed response.
Those are pitfalls I can definitely try to avoid for my venture.

Lot of what I am learning from entrepreneurship are things I read over and over again but you don't own the advice until you experience it.
In our experience, it's much harder to find dev interns that can have a real impact in such a short period of time to make it worth the recruiting and training effort. Most students with dev talent don't have to "intern" but can actually work, even if it is remotely.
How good is your idea?
Impressed with the turn-around for someone to use the Bootstrap
What are you talking about? You can just apt-get install skype, if you enable the partner repository. Or do you mean to say the linux skype version is not as good? Agree with you on unity.
Korg Releases Monotribe Drum Synth Schematics
You need to fill out some personal info but then you get access to the drum synth schematic.

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In support for your statement I'll add my own experience.

As a language expert, I've become more proficient with Perl the language than most people I know who program in the language daily. Perl has a tremendous number of nooks and crannies to explore and is so complex that as far as I know there are no other implementations of the language besides the original. However, having mastered Perl, I am still far less productive using it than any of the other several dynamic languages out there that let you accomplish the exact same things but without all the extra complexity.

Scala had the opposite effect for me. Having reached a certain level of proficiency with it, many times I feel like I can express my ideas in code faster in Scala than I can in any other language. If Scala had faster compile times and a more Unixy library (not likely, given its Java heritage), I would even replace my use of scripting languages with it for small tasks!
CEO Stands Behind His Product: Bulletproof Glass
Quite the opposite; the web is becoming so ubiquitous that no-one has to find out more about it anymore.
Messi’s Argentina Defeats Venezuela by 1-0 in Kolkata
Although they were bootstrapped for a while, they ended up accepting a private investment from Jeff Bezos (mainly to get Jeff as an advisor). So, I'm not sure if we can call them truly bootstrapped anymore.
IPad 3 Delayed Until First 2012
Suspected LulzSec and Anonymous members arrested in UK
Andy Griffith, with a little help from Isaac Asimov, has already solved this problem.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvage_1
There's a writeup here: http://laughingsquid.com/ceo-stands-behind-bullet-resistant-...

(originally submitted at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2954539, got no comments and no votes 45 minutes ago.