skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're right, policy decisions don't cause more people to have kids at a young age.

'Abstinence only' sex education causes more people to have kids at a young age, because it prevents more people from learning what options there are available. Add into that the issue that young people have always been difficult to stop fucking each other throughout history, and combine with the highly sexualised modern society, and 'Abstinence only' sex education is, frankly, evil.
This is an important point especially if just wanting to stay short-term. Furnished places for rent are extremely rare. Pretty much the only chance for that is if you go through an agency which targets foreigners and you will pay through the nose for that.

Sometimes though appliances are included. My flat included a small bar fridge. Another flat I looked at (but didn't rent) included a washing machine and TV.

You'll also need your own washing machine. Rental buildings don't have a common laundry room.
We already have computers wildly more advanced than anything in Asimov's universe (until his very late writings), even as his robots firmly remain science fiction.

Yes, we know that he was wildly wrong about what would be easy and hard about robots and computers. It is bizarre to go back and read his stories in which robots are walking and talking, but it takes a massive robot brain installed in a permanent emplacement to get little more "raw" computational power than a 1970s mainframe. Unless you travel back in time and reveal the secrets of robotic brains to those in the 1950s, it's a done deal.
Ha, I wish!

Currently working at an ad agency and learning how to program/ building my own project during nights and weekends.

Was wondering if you'd want to grab coffee or drinks in the upcoming weeks - would love to learn more about Roundtable and your experience thus far.
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I can see this starting to take over simple tasks. Love the idea of being able to dictate a reminder, or ask the phone to wake me up at 6AM (7AM?!).

How much quicker is it ask those questions, rather than navigate to the App, input the info? Lots!
I've got an app that does real time location sharing:
http://convoyapp.net/ aimed at people driving in groups. I wonder how well this location sharing feature will compete against it, and if it makes it obsolete?
Ask HN: If you were a file extension, what would you be and why?
Perhaps off topic a bit, but here's a recent run in with a .net shop.

I was brought in to work on a project. They'd installed a PHP-on-Windows setup for me because I was introduced as a "PHP guy" (which I mostly am, but I do other stuff as well). I indicated I could do the project in ASP.Net, but it would take me a bit longer because it's not my main platform. No... they needed it done ASAP, and were prepared to be a mixed shop. They were already running another PHP app on Windows already, so this was a natural progression. They were already having trouble finding .net people in the area - freelance or otherwise, so it seemed a concession they were willing to make. Find available talent, get job done faster, move on.

Project was done in July and August, then went up the approval chain. I was expecting to come back at end of Sept with a list of changes to make.

"Well.. our developer ported it to .net because that's what he's more comfortable maintaining."

So... rather than spending some time getting comfortable with PHP, they spent time reworking something in to ASP.Net, negating my work, and meaning there was a couple of weeks of other internal .net work not getting done either.

What does this have to do with .net developer shortage? Maybe nothing, or maybe those companies could be more productive by having staff that could work with mixed tech stacks more effectively. I'm stereotyping a bit - we've all met developer X who only knew one technology, and every problem had to fit within that one tech worldview. I've found it with zealots of all stripes, but perhaps it hurts a bit more at the enterprise level?
> That this tribal behavior occurs among software engineering
> is a rather disappointing fact.

It occurs amongst software engineering humans. All humans get this to some degree, it's basic ingroup/outgroup psychology.

We're all humans here. It's nothing to do with "devoted to doing something positive" or "using our brains in more advanced ways." It's just the reality of being an evolved ape, and the lack or presence of this trait doesn't make anyone any better/worse than anyone else.
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The 4S exclusivity kinda bugs me. I can understand 4->4S exclusivity, but id like it on my ipad, which i have mounted as a car computer.

With the addition of imessanger to the ipad, id like to think that I could also use siri for safety purposes.
Do you think all overgeneralizations are false?
For any mathematics problem, we can never know whether studying it is wasted time.

For example, look at number theory. For centuries, it was without utility. Then, suddenly, it got practical applications, making all the time spent on it wasted time :-)

Similarly, the Collatz problem may seem useless enough, but what if, in a few millenia, someone applies it to physics or to sociology?
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>will it effect sales?

Sure it will: People will use it if it's there. If they don't put it in, people won't use it and will continue to laud the iPhone's battery life.
Hell, if I wouldn't even have had a kid in the first place, until I could ensure that I could raise properly.

Kids have a way of happening even when you don't expect or want them. Combine that with social pressures against abortion, and your stance becomes a luxury.

Also, I'm a bit disturbed that you see field trips at school as a luxury rather than part of a solid, well-rounded education.
It's a comment on hacker news illustrating a point, not a guide of how to write test cases.

The point is that it is possible to have good test coverage and still have bugs that are best found by humans.
you guys make a good point on the design not needing to change. the iPhone 4 chassis design is essentially perfect as far as I'm concerned. the letdown, i think, is in the excitement of something that looks new, just like the excitement of seeing the original iPhone and seeing the iPhone 4 for the first time.

however, aside from aesthetics, i think the case is in need of some new features. for one, the home button is overloaded in ways that multi-touch could fix. double tap on the lock screen to get the fast camera button, double tap when unlocked for fast app switching, etc.

fast app switching is awkward and not easily discoverable; it would be much nicer if i could swipe left or right on the bottom bezel to switch apps. also, with the new Notification Center, it would be nice if i could swipe from the top bezel instead of the screen, thus causing less interruption to third party apps.

as far as people wanting a bigger screen, i disagree. the Retina Display was brilliant in that it kept the exact same aspect ratio as the original iPhone. no app had to change to support it (aside from offering larger graphics assets).

anyway, that's my $0.02 :)
Mine started with

Game: Your child wants to join the sports team
Me: I have a kid?????

Why would I have a child if I can't afford to live on my own?
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8 megapixels, but on how large sensor? Not surprisingly, all sample images are taken in bright sunlight. I doubt that the camera will perform anywhere near Nokias N8, or reasonably priced point'n'shoot. Well, I guess that people should be lucky that Apple didn't put in something silly like 16MP 1/2.3" sensor in it.
sure man. shoot me an email: josh@atroundtable.com
Show HN: do a 'whois' on apple.com, Google.com, msn.com - nasty.
Example of what you'll see:

Whois Server Version 2.0

Domain names in the .com and .net domains can now be registered
with many different competing registrars. Go to http://www.internic.net
for detailed information.

GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZZZZZZZZZ.GET.ONE.MILLION.DOLLARS.AT.WWW.UNIMUNDI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZZZZZ.GET.LAID.AT.WWW.SWINGINGCOMMUNITY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZOMBIED.AND.HACKED.BY.WWW.WEB-HACK.COM
GOOGLE.COM.ZNAET.PRODOMEN.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YUCEKIRBAC.COM
GOOGLE.COM.YUCEHOCA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.WORDT.DOOR.VEEL.WHTERS.GEBRUIKT.SERVERTJE.NET
GOOGLE.COM.VN
GOOGLE.COM.VABDAYOFF.COM
GOOGLE.COM.UY
GOOGLE.COM.UA
GOOGLE.COM.TW
GOOGLE.COM.TR
GOOGLE.COM.SUCKS.FIND.CRACKZ.WITH.SEARCH.GULLI.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SPROSIUYANDEKSA.RU
GOOGLE.COM.SOUTHBEACHNEEDLEARTISTRY.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SHQIPERIA.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SERVES.PR0N.FOR.ALLIYAH.NET
GOOGLE.COM.SAYS.IWANNATSAHEYLUWITHNINAT.COM
GOOGLE.COM.SA
GOOGLE.COM.REJSCRAP.COM
GOOGLE.COM.PE
GOOGLE.COM.PAVLINOFF-55-11-44.COM
GOOGLE.COM.MX
You know, as nerdy as it is, it's this sort of Aristotelian dichotomy between content and presentation that I really nerd out on. I'm reminded of an old SimpleBits staple where Dan Cederholm challenged us to find the most correct way to mark up breadcrumbs. But I digress...

I'm always glad to hear about more creative solutions to solving this dilemma. In my experience, since switching to Sass, I can't really think of a case where I had to sacrifice semantics for style, but perhaps that's an effect of being a designer who's wary of such things (letting the man who shovels sh*t decide how many elephants there should be in a parade, et wot).

Anyway, I don't think I share any normative urgency, (especially with something like W3C specifications). At the end of the day, I'm overjoyed that Sass saves me from 99% of semantics issues. For that other 1%, there's always the style attribute, no? ;)
Execution. Execution. Execution.

iDisk offered essentially what Dropbox offers. iDisk sucked, Dropbox doesn’t.

I’m not saying the execution is great (I simply cannot know that at this point in time), I’m saying that execution is extremely important when it comes to whether something is game changing or not.
tomp asked what I think is a crucial question, that you didn't address: what does the language-specific wiki have to do with it? Wouldn't the English-language wiki be subject to the very same law? If so, how does downing the Italian version protect wikipedia?
Oct 4 ... besides that, I agree.
Alternatively, those guys' actions then were the past which led to this present, of which they are ashamed.

Who better to do version two than the people involved in version one?
The phrasing of your last two sentences is unclear, but to clarify for those reading, you can indeed use Interac debit cards for online payments.
I don't think this is a hissy fit. Instead it is a passive aggressive move to show what full compliance would mean.

"You want something stupid? Okay - here's all the stupid you can handle."
Yes, and I believe (and hope!) it also means that if you're going to tie yourself into a 2-year contract with a CDMA carrier, they won't lock down the GSM for you. Especially so since it's advertised as a "world phone", and CDMA carriers don't really distribute SIM cards (-:
For others interested, I paid one month key-money, no deposit and half a month to the rental agent. I probably could have negotiated more but was eager to move in quickly. After getting my first gas bill the last payment on the account for that unit was two years ago so the apartment was probably empty since that time. I'm not in Tokyo though.
Hi,

there are some points that I like about the old design:

1. The cartoon pictures are cute and tell the "story" of your service. In the new design something like this is missing.

2. The ordered list of instructions how to use the service is actually good. It's linearly ordered and concise. I like it.

3. There is a "Helpful Video"? That's fantastic!

In the new design there is a huge background image, the mail box. On my screen I see only the upper part of the picture, the wooden part visible in the screenshot is clipped - scrolling does not help, the image is fixed.

In the old design there is no background image, so the text links to the privacy policy and terms of service are better to find. Text or text links on a background image are generally not the best idea, if readability is intended. Maybe you will even have users with a mobile device that can only display some grey scale colors, then setting a sufficiently high contrast between text and background is a good idea.

On the other hand, there is now a logo for the service in the new design. That's an excellent idea, since it was missing in the old design. Pick a logo you are happy with and never change it.

The design of the "terms of service" page in the new layout is not so bad, maybe you could use parts of this design on the front page as well, plus the now missing elements from the old design? Like taking the best from two worlds ...

Please, consider to add a page about who is running the service. I always want to know who is the mind behind a site and why it is there.

I can't comment on the registration process, but I hope that there was something helpful for you in this comment.
Communication has been oblique from the Italian community, so I can only give my "best guess" answer here.

Practically speaking there is no way this can affect Wikipedia itself, because the servers are in the US. The Italians appear to be claiming that, however, this law would affect the editors directly - leading them to be fined if they write material that someone objects to (and don't fix it within 48 hours).

I'm not really convinced myself (reading the law) that this is a risk for them. But it is the reason behind their move.

(or if I was being critical; they are making a political gesture to try and stop the law, which is terrible...)
I know it's not exactly the main point of the post, but I'm curious about the diet.

Eggs for breakfast every morning -- just eggs? Tuna for lunch every day -- just tuna? How much of each? How do you cook the eggs? Does your body eventually adapt to the lack of variety, or do you get up in the morning with a stomach demanding waffles?
Italian law is very unlikely to extend outside the borders of Italy. I see this as analogous to why Google can serve up content about Tiananmen Square outside of China without any repercussions
You're assuming that they're not able to augment/enhance the Nuance engine with their own improvements.
How many things can it really do, though? Are those not some preprogrammed use cases, and for the rest it falls back to Wolfram Alpha, which has been around for years?

Google also has offered "special" search results for a while, such as evaluating calculations or exchange rates on the fly. I don't think what Siri does is more advanced than that. It is a nice touch to integrate it more deeply into the OS, like "get me home" - but then that is also just one button with a popular Android app (Öffi for example).

Google Calendar also does some "real text parsing" afaik.

Can't really think about a more complicated example atm. OK maybe "set up a dinner with Doug and Sandy, where Doug is a vegan and Sandy doesn't like to go farther than 2 km from her home" - can Siri parse that and pick a suitable restaurant?

I need some ideas for birthday presents for my child, can Siri help?
I'm hooked

(t>>2|t>>6)*(t>>5|t>>7)
Part of the problem is that in Enterprise .NET, it's hard to convince your boss to use a non-MS solution. Unfortunately, a lot of .NET is done in the Enterprise environment, which results in a population of programmers that live in a very big bubble.
Apple unveils dock to micro USB adapter to comply with EU standards
Exactly! mdasen should be thinking about this problem as a SimCity / Civilization problem. What's the best way to have the most collective ability & prosperity in a nation?

It was kind of sad that he was willing to intentionally shackle smart kids in order to have more equality.
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Agree. It beats me why Google has continued to pour so much money in Android with apparently no business plan to recover that. Apple has a completely different business model that lets them recover their investments. But with Androind being free, I don't understand why Google has any motive to do investments. Their shareholders and directors are going to ask this question at some point of time.

It scares me that Google is looking more like the "New Microsoft" scared of everything that everyone does and trying to get their hands at everything.
There wasn't an obvious field to put in this information. What would be the most appropriate spot in the application for this?
kudos for you taking the leap but it would have been much more prudent if you changed the "to start" to "while starting".

A lot of the people you hear that quit their education (Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Zuckerberg, etc) to go on and build their own start-up mostly did it AFTER their ideas took off and started gaining traction[1]. They don't just blindly quit their education just for the sake of starting something. Many times it was due to a really good compelling reason such as Angel/VC funding was approved, taking a lot of their time, huge sudden interest, exponential customer acquisition, etc. Also, for every 1 successful person you hear that quit their college, there are another 100 others who have failed.

Anyway, who am I to tell you what to do. Again, like I said at the start, kudos for you for actually even doing something which puts you ahead of many others who are still at the "thinking stage". But I think in this situation, it is apt to say: look before you leap.

Good luck and all the best! Do prove me wrong and drop me an email when you're all successful. ;)

[1] I recommend "Founders At Work"
That's not the point, the question is about understanding fundamental, abstract computer science concepts and being able to craft simple algorithms. Even if we don't manipulate these data structures directly these days in code, there are "real world" concepts that are very similar to these fundamental data structures such as HTTP redirection chains, various stages of a workflow and so forth. It is due to the very nature of computers that a good developer has to be able to find abstractions in real world patterns and solve problems using these abstract ideas. A linked list (or a binary tree) is a very simple abstract idea and it's a good device for measuring the candidate's skill at solving abstract problems.

Additionally, my view and experience is that unless we're trying to hire a specialist in a niche, domain knowledge (in this case, .NET) is considerably less important than general programming skills and abilities; a good developer with limited .NET skills would still write excellent .NET code, a developer who's very familiar with the .NET Framework but who's poor programming skills would be a liability for the company.
If people relied on data driven approaches, I don't think there would be any startups. The expected return of a startup is a massive time expenditure combined with very little cash reward.
Jimmy Wales just described it (in a Facebook post) as "Wikipedia Italy is on strike against an idiotic proposed law". While Jimmy Wales is no longer synonymous with Wikipedia governance, his implicit endorsement of the strike is definitely Something.

Though people are fighting on the mailing list and calling for all the Italian sysops be desysopped.
No matter how well it is implemented, talking to your phone in public or even when somebody else around just sounds too geekily awkward.
My #1 feature request would be to make it touch-screen enabled. Along with flexibility, the other major benefit of a physical storyboard is that it fosters communication and collaboration by forcing people to get up from their desks and talk face to face. Also in standup meetings it is invaluable to be able to stand around the board and talk about what it is showing you regarding blockages and flow, and immediately do something about it. So ideally you'd project the board up on a big screen or a big TV or something. Then if anyone has an ipad or iphone handy, you can update the board on the fly.
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Much worse, AAPL is going to take a big plunge - no matter how awesome and flashy the 4S features are. After the HUGE pre-event hype and blabla, everyone is only going to take "What, NO iPhone 5????" away from this, sadly.
Yes; he just posted to that effect on his en.wiki talk page.

Disappointing, I feel. What next; English Wikipedia suspended till the US government sort out copyright laws?

Worrying precedent!
You can either pay 100% cash or you can get manual underwriting. Manual underwriting is harder/takes longer, but is possible.

- Put at least 20% down on your home.

- Choose a 15-year, fixed-rate conventional mortgage.

- Have a strong employment history and personal income to support the loan.

- Demonstrate 4–6 trade lines that span 18–24 months. These are just regularly recurring expenses such as rent, electric bills, water bills, cell phones, etc.

[1] http://www.daveramsey.com/article/the-truth-about-your-credi...

[2] http://www.churchillmortgage.com/info/no-credit-score.aspx
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The practical reason I can see is that: 1) a large portion of Wikipedians from Italy are worried about the consequences of this law for Italian Wikipedians and wish to stage a protest; and 2) editors from Italy constitute an overwhelming majority of editors on the Italian-language Wikipedia, and are therefore able to stage a protest there, but not elsewhere (since they don't constitute an overwhelming enough majority of the other languages' Wikipedias to get consensus agreement for a blackout).

So far it seems the Foundation, which ultimately owns the servers and could intervene if it deemed the move contrary to the organization's principles, is standing on the sidelines. In part, that might be because the consensus is so strong; it wouldn't be overruling a handful of rogue admins, but a large portion of the Italian Wikipedia's editors (straw-poll here: http://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Bar/Discussioni/Comma...), which it prefers not to do unless absolutely necessary. A number of people in the organization, speaking in their private capacity, appear to also be fairly sympathetic to the protest, and not inclined to overturn it in a heavy-handed manner (perhaps there will be some informal negotiation to bring the site back online without condemning or officially "overturning" the protest).
It's odd you reach to Blackberry, here.

This is just like the iPhone 3G > iPhone 3GS transition. Doing a new enclosure every year would be pretty taxing, so they take a year off. Incremental hardware improvements meanwhile. The funny bit is they barely needed to do this much — iPhone 4 was still selling steadily.
"You can be watching TV and see Coca-Cola, and you know that the President drinks Coke, Liz Taylor drinks Coke, and just think, you can drink Coke, too. A Coke is a Coke and no amount of money can get you a better Coke than the one the bum on the corner is drinking. All the Cokes are the same and all the Cokes are good."

-- Andy Warhol

I don't think Apple's goal with iPhone is to make you want it because it's exclusive; you're supposed to want it because it's good.

The Macintosh ended up as more an exclusive, niche product, but with later products Apple has moved away from that as a market strategy.
Next year, people will be wondering why they bought an HTC Evo 3D when Apple announces the iPhone 5D. :)
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Yeah I agree. Part of the point of lean is not specifying too much too early. Inevitably new ideas, problems, priorities will crop up and if you've specced out too much too soon, some of it will go to waste.

Perhaps the ability to hook up with APIs would be useful though, so you can manage features and bugs in other tools (GetSatisfaction eg).
We knew this is what was going to be ahead of us when we started building our service.

I totally agree that it would be naive to drop out of college to start a startup, but what is your opinion on dropping out of college to grow one?