skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, there are a lot of important benefits to having firm design choices made by someone, rather than just not ever making the decision and cramming a million options into a multi-tab options dialog (or a config file). I own (and use every day) a mac. I've recommend mac to everyone I know, fo rthe reasons you mention.

But you can't have it both ways - not having those options available means you're not as free to use your machine as you are with other OSs. Trivial eg: OS X windowing behaves a certain way. You want to maximise a window? You can't, unless you know some secret trick. You want to tile windows? You can't, unless you install some 3rd party software. These aren't power-user functions.
I'm also not a founder, so this might be a dumb idea..

But if you're doing well enough to have several employees and funding and stuff, wouldn't you pay yourself a reasonable salary?

It seems hard to believe a company could be doing that well, but the founder would be in dire straits financially.
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If you're not paying for it, then you're not the customer, you're the product being sold.
AFAIK, on iOS CSS (especially when using transforms) is a lot faster because it's hardware accelerated.
This was the second thing that came to mind for me. In addition to that, it seems reasonable to assume that people who bothered getting your app in the first place are most likely the people who spend more time on your website.

But the first thing I thought, I thought upon reading the title. It was: "Yes, indeed! I do enjoy your site more if it isn't littered with ads and navigation bars and lists of related articles and sidebars and comment threads". I have written about 50 element hiding rules and Stylish scripts for news sites that I visit regularly, just to get rid of all of the stuff that distracts me from reading the article I came to read.

That's fine for geeks like me, but for everyone else, I can think of few things that would improve the web more than a serious reduction of this kind of clutter. I was a little disappointed in the OP that it did not talk more about this.
Yeah! Damn right, basic but good post!
That's a kind of mechanistic thinking and attention to irrelevant details that might be restricting your talent pool.
And on Roundtrip vs. Oneway:

In most cases roundtrip is way cheaper, even if you only require a oneway flight. The cheapest roundtrip from Vienna to San Francisco is something like 700 EUR, with oneway it costs around twice as much for half the flights (1400 EUR).

One notable exception for flights between US and Europe is Air Berlin, where oneway costs only half of roundtrip. But they only fly on certain days under the week and may therefore not show up when you search for a site.

Next best option is to just book roundtrip and just let the return flight expire. Warning: Most airlines invalidate all the other flights after you've missed on of them. So make sure to only let the last flight(s) expire.

And the most important rule at the end: Never ever (even if it's free) fly Air France or over CGD airport. The experiences I had there were (multiple times) so awfully bad that one wouldn't believe them if I told then.
This seems really bizarre to me. Jobs was a fierce competitor. It's much easier to visualize him yelling "WHAT? Why the fuck would you delay the launch of a product because I died a few days ago?" than to imagine him appreciating this gesture.

At first I thought it was just an excuse for them being late with a product or event preparations. But using SJ's death for something like that seems so absurdly disrespectful I have to discount the possibility.
The NYT obit for Al Davis http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/09/sports/football/al-davis-o...
It's got to be something like that. Otherwise it would be a complete waste of resources. (5% of non-retail staff would be something like 10%+ of all engineering staff...)
If you want an unobstructed view - http://mrdoob.com/131/Clouds
Posting to a blog about a first round of interviews while you are still going through them can easily be viewed as premature, immature, and potentially dangerous for the company

I have read several version of this comment elsewhere in the story, is there any basis for this attitude besides paranoia? Have you ever seen something like this be "dangerous" for a company in real life, or is it completely imaginary? You use the word "easily," so I'm just wondering if it's so common that I just don't get out enough.
I wish I could agree. I am concerned about the tracking. I block Google Analytics and Facebook on my "day to day" browser.

Unfortunately, I don't think most people can comprehend the picture these companies can form of them, much less believe it. Google says "we collect anonymous data", so they are safe.

I don't want Google or Facebook tovdie, but I do want my privacy back.
That's really a big deal and just shows how governments treat their own laws and how important an open government is, in which such things can be verified and controlled!
Excuse my ignornce, but what is Twitter's business model?

I can understand Groupon and Airbnb, but what about Twitter?
Except addressing that amount of memory is still going to need a bus, it doesn't matter if the memory is sitting right on top of the CPU core or in the next room. It simply isn't going to be possible to provide direct access to every single memory cell when there are billions of them. This is still going to be a von Neumann (actually Modified Harvard) architecture, it's just going to be blazingly fast.

Now, once we start applying memristor implicational logic data processing we will have truely left the confines of the von Neumann architecture.
Does that really happen? I have never signed an NDA prior to a job interview.
The first thing I'm looking for on a news-site when I can't actually read the article from all the BLINKENLIGHTS is the print button, can't find that, or all I get is a pop-up to actually really print the article? - Either zoom in enough to be zoom past the crap, or leave.

Don't get me wrong: I have an adblock in all my browsers: But the new, hot, web 2.0 stuff means there's some Facebook crap loading, there's ~7 buttons to share and ~5 buttons like the article through different social channels -- all of which I couldn't care less if I'm interested in the actual content.
I don't think the argument lies with whether or not record labels provide a valuable service to their artists, they do, but more if the value of their services will remain above their cost. When they were the only distribution game in town, it was a no-brainer as you either distributed through them or you didn't distribute on any meaningful level at all. Now that there are more and more tools and services available to artists that replace some, and possibly soon all of the labels' functionality, the question becomes at what point does their cost outweigh their value?
Airborne Wind Turbine
Yep! That's it, thanks!
This wasn't our goal. We have been creating elearning materials for teachers, not softwares. This is our first software project and it's open source (https://github.com/niclupien/ticavie-tree).

I posted here to find people interested in our project not to find customers.
More like the backside of someone else that (allegedly) heard it by SJ and (allegedly) forwarded it to the techcrunch author.
How can you even have 1000 people designing a chip? A micro-processor is not THAT complicated. Perhaps you can have people doing research on particular aspects, but research teams are typically small (maybe 5-15 people). It seems to me difficult to believe that it's even possible to have that number of people designing a single and insular hardware product, of which the manufacturing is being outsourced (so they don't have to build the making-machines).
But a few million is not nearly enough to buy everything I want

Do you have a list?
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Strap staff cards, membership cards, plastic cards, plastic frame plastic frame.
I watch all my games on Broadcast.com and pay my local taxes with govWorks website.
I never quite bought into the concept of treating long-term capital gains in a special way. In fact, a glance at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_gains_tax suggests that only Hungary, India and United States have a notion of special taxation for long-term capital gains (it's 12 months in India and USA and 3 years in Hungary).

Treating LTCG as income would simplify tax preparation, but any time this gets brought up, the politicians bring up the small business owners who are unfairly penalized for selling their business.
"mobile" is old school. Apparently they're talking about the "post mobile" era but we wouldn't understand anyway.
This is already possible with existing DRAM memory; simply cool the RAM chips sufficiently and you increase data retention enough to extract the RAM sticks and read back the data. However, if someone has physical access to your PC, there is almost certainly an easier way for them to gain access to your data. The best protection is restricting physical access.
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Wikipedia says 150 people for PA Semi before they got acquired.

1,000 has to be wrong for two reasons. 1) That's an explosion in staff which your organization can't handle 2) 1,000 people on one chip is ridiculous and only something Intel gets away with.

A good estimate for a SoC would top out at around 200 people for the design, implementation and a 100% NIH syndrome.
While an open government would be ideal, it won't change the fact that the CIA or any government organization will never admit to working on viruses.
The devices people referred to as "mobile" for all those years weren't ever really intended as PC replacements... except perhaps in the developing world, where there weren't many PCs to replace.

"The post PC era" is meant to refer to a world where (except in some specific professional contexts) people largely stop buying PCs because of a new class of mobile devices that takes over their workload entirely.

If I say "the mobile era" to people, that means something very different than "the post PC era". This is what language is for. We create new words so we can talk about new things, even when they're small changes.

Larry Ellison whines about the word "cloud" and insists it's just "servers". But "cloud" is about instantaneous provisioning and other infrastructure that lets you target an undifferentiated set of servers, rather than having to administer each server one by one. And unlike a "cluster" you don't generally own the whole thing. What word should we use, if not "cloud"?

Yes, it's still servers. Yes, the iPad is a mobile device. Yes servers and mobile devices are old. But whats your problem with using new words for the parts of these phenomena which are new?
Function Points are Fantasy Points
With distribution through itunes & amazon I wonder just how long the record labels' business model will be sustainable.

90%+ of the music I purchase is self published. (and incidentally, from searches I've asked friends to make, it appears most of what I listen to is missing from spotify.)
You'll likely have multiple R&D teams competing against each other, with support teams for each. Don't forget to include operations, assembly, shipping, and any teams directly needed to support this research and development of new chips.

It's not inconceivable that Apple would have many teams working on many different ideas and designs that compete with each other. Apple is brilliant at understanding you need to disrupt yourself, before other companies disrupt you.
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Interesting choice. Will definitely check it out. Thanks!
This is really interesting and I've never seen it laid out like that. Can you recommend a reference?
You should read http://www.scipy.org/PerformancePython if you haven't already seen it since it deals with the performance of nested loops. The only issue I guess would be portability, for example to PyPy.
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Actually, forget about the comparison to the shell. (It's misleading unless you are old enough to remember the commands fg, bg and jobs. Nowadays everyone uses the windowing system instead of fg, bg and jobs.) My bad.

Proving you wrong about 3 items on your list sound like too much work, but let me try again to make my basic point.

In Emacs, start a new shell process by saying M-! sleep 10 && echo hello && echo world &

The ampersand at the end is important. If you leave it off, Emacs remains unresponsive for the ten seconds during which the shell process runs.

If you include the ampersand at the end, on the other hand, you can switch buffers and perform unrelated tasks while the shell process is running. Then after ten seconds, when the shell process ends, Emacs shows you a message in the echo area informing you that the shell process is done, and if you switch to the buffer named "Async Shell Command", you can see its output.

Emacs has been able to do that for decades, and it is definitely not what great great great grandparent meant by "multithreading" but it is the only kind of "concurrency" I have ever needed or wanted in Emacs to the best of my recollection -- and when I send an email, search a buffer or look up someone's phone number in my address book, I am using an Emacs command I wrote.
But will Meg take it in the right direction either? Her experience is consumer-facing... I hope there is an empowered VP or 2 who will make that initiative a success.
> I believe you're pretty offended though.

And so are you, it seems... ;)

EDIT: Since you cherry-picked my points and completely ignored what I tried to say in order to attack me, I'll just repeat what I wrote, since it's what I would reply anyway.

Trying to put all the blame on Steve Jobs' shoulder, right after his death, is horrendous.

...made much much difference in those two specific areas than most things Stallman did lately.

(notice the "specific areas")

Granted, he never open sourced the whole operating system, but why would he? To see Apple collapse again while Dell/HP and others strive? What's the point? Then we start all over again? We'll have open-source chips manufactured by 2 or 3 companies? What's the fucking point?
So, if you are in the 10% of Mac users, you are of no interest to the authorities? Quite pragmatic, I suppose.
Warning, this shit link will froze your ipads safari and then crash it, nothing to read while frozen.
Did the same thing on my MBP; had to force-quit Safari. Worked sort of OK in FF though.
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This does not cover PyPy and under PyPy behavior of those methods will be Very different.
> What does prevent me from understanding code is 5-10 nested if blocks and insane logic checks without commenting.

What's worse is multiple nested levels of #ifdef. Not only is it hard to tell how the code flows, but you can't even be sure it's all being compiled!

I work with code like this so frequently that I actually got around to learning elisp so that I could write a function in Emacs to highlight the nested levels of #ifdef. I have a black background, so each nested level increases the brightness.

(I should really get around to pulling that code off of my computer at work and putting it up for everyone to use...)
"The post PC era" is meant to refer to a world where (except in some specific professional contexts) people largely stop buying PCs because of a new class of mobile devices that takes over their workload entirely.

Then I think we're a long way from seeing this era, simply because anything that requires more than a couple lines of text isn't just better on a keyboard than other input devices—it's vastly, insanely better (at the moment), a problem I don't see being solved in the nearish future. Rather, I suspect many if not most people will have one PC-esque device for keyboard heavy things and one or more "mobile" devices, using your definition.

This also assumes you're not counting laptops under your "mobile" rubric, which I don't think you are.

Anyway. I don't even see desktops going away all that soon because of one thing that gets lost on HN discussion: they're cheap: http://jseliger.com/2008/12/26/computer-post-desktop-or-lapt... .
What drones give you cheaply is persistence. Let's say you identify this week's Al Queda #2. You know where he is, but he lives in a compound with 20 other people. Drones are slow, use little fuel, and you can swap out the people flying them, so (depending on the model) a single drone can loiter over the guy's compound for up to 24 hours. You watch him until there aren't any innocent people around, then you shoot a missile.

All this can be done with manned aircraft, it's just a bit more expensive because you have to refuel them every four to six hours and the pilot will eventually be too tired to continue.

The real change isn't automation, but rather the targeting pods that allow you to see what's happening on the ground from miles away at 10,000 feet and precision weapons (like laser-guided bombs and missiles) that allow you to hit exactly what you intend to hit. Whether the aircraft is manned or not manned really doesn't change anything from the perspective of capability. It just changes the cost.

None of this is a substitute for boots on the ground - the conflict in Afghanistan would have over years ago if we could put soldiers in Pakistan. There's just no substitute for having a guy on the ground with a rifle when it comes to enforcing your national will.
With an open government they wouldn't be able to do this in the dark.

Also, they don't need to admit it, it's not like nobody knows that this software exists.
damn, sorry, didnt realise that. works just fine on chrome :(
I am in Austin. I haven't really looked much into the startups here, but based on the few jobs ads I've seen, they are looking for programmers with alot more programming experiences and skills than I have. That's why I was wondering what position they could possibly want me for. Or, I could just work really hard on improving my programming skills. But am I better off doing that while working for a non-startup or in grad school?
I think the greatest impact of the memristor is in the consumer space. When you have a 1000-fold (or million-fold) quantitative change you are bound to have a qualitative change as well...

What would a computer with petabytes of non-volatile RAM look like? How would you package software for it? Will it reboot from time to time? What does a reboot mean when your memory is non-volatile? I have my hunches, but the effort to find answers to my few questions is dwarfed by the effort to find out what the relevant questions will be in this brave new world and if we can answer them. Or even understand them.
A couple times?? Surely some people do that, but I doubt it's the majority. This is way too broad of a generalization.
Good article by Hernando de Soto. TLDR: US and Europe forgot one of the primary lessons of the Washington Consensus which was used to stabilize the financial sectors and economies of the developed world the past ~20 years: Collateral ownership underlying debt assets must be well documented and publicly available. Without that, credit becomes untrustworthy and lending and financial markets don't work or are prone to failure.
Agreed. This article is ridiculous. But hey, people love to read stories about Apple, no matter how fabricated and unrealistic they may be. Every article posted from TechCrunch should get a warning label placed on it.
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Conferences and Social Media discussions have one thing in common
Is there a way to find out whether a story was killed (besides noticing a sudden drop in the ranking)?
If it's something you're passionate about and that people really want and are willing to pay for, press ahead. Who knows, maybe you can execute better, or maybe the competition will pivot to something else. Even if they don't, there is always room for competition in any industry, and sometimes that is what spurs innovation.
Remind me to stay on your good side.
What I find interesting about Apple designing their own chips is the notion that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. Apple's value proposition with Macintosh is that by owning the entire experience--hardware, OS, even distribution to the store--Apple can deliver an optimized product that is superior to products where company H makes the hardware, M makes the OS, and CC distributes the resulting PCs.

Designing chips is the logical extension to this model. The chips are designed with the end product in mind, and everything works together to deliver the product's value proposition.

Other manufacturers end up hostage to whatever chips Intel and AMD feel like selling to everyone. They are hostage to whatever OS features Google feels like adding to Android, whether I integrates with the chips or not.

It's not a given that Apple will necessarily succeed with this strategy, it requires an ability to juggle multiple balls at once, a very rare trait. There's a reason most businesses try to do just one thing well and commoditize everything else.

But it is certainly beautiful to watch them try to sail the opposite tack.
More likely, they had this issue prepared ahead of time. They, like most observers, knew it was coming. No ads simplifies the logistics of swapping out the issue.
silent is a feature most people need on their phones several times a week - i doubt most people chnage their wifi setup many times once configured.
The works of Christopher Alexander are worth reading for many fields including computer systems. Along with them, you might find Richard Gabriel's Patterns of Software: Tales from Software Community, now out of print, of interest. There is a Kindle electronic edition: http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Software-Tales-Community-eboo...
Sure, but with a big fat IF:

If one is provided the resources necessary to accomplish stated goals/milestones/deadlines, then this is fair.

Most organizations have excuses for not providing sufficient authority with expected responsibilities, and then try to pass that off as management.

Want the excuses stop? It has to work both directions.
Germans interested in similar news should check Felix von Leitners blog, who brings up interesting articles almost every day: http://blog.fefe.de/
Well, I think we have to fight this absolute nonsense. If Astrolabe prevailed in this case, which they will not, because their claim is ridicoulous, douchebag companies all around the world would try to do the same thing with other opensource projects.

If you want to set up a mirror yourself, to help spread around the data all over the world, have a look here:
http://github.com/canbuffi/tzmirror
Twitter should drop the  baggage
Currently:

Hey @jack, I think you should listen to @sparker

Suggestion:

Hey jack, I think you should listen to sparker

—

Of course, jack and sparker would appear as links. The links would be requested by typing @, then the name. But the @ symbols would never appear.
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http://rome2rio.com/ actually took a lot of hassle out of flying for me. Sure, they don't list "no-frills" airlines like Ryanair, but I don't want to fly those anyway. Check them out if you don't know the site yet, they were on HN some months ago.

Also, http://skyscanner.net/ has not been mentioned yet. From the article, Amadeus seems to do something similar, but I've only used Skyscanner so far and have been quite happy with the results.