skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, but I'd be willing to bet that performance impact of the the verifier is insignificant for all but the most trivial of programs.
One of the most inspiring people on HN, edw519, is still hands-on @ 55.
How am I incorrect? I'm referring to the idea of an average consumer buying 100 apps for their Android device and then being leery about switching to iOS because they would lose those apps and vice-versa.

Also, what company are you referring to?
How is a partisan political analysis Hacker News?

It's hardly news, the protesters have been there a while. And it's not an objective analysis of the economics involved -- in fact, there's hardly any economics in there at all.

Sure, he's a Nobel laureate. But this particular piece by him is clearly partisan. He calls parties and politicians by name.

Is this what Hacker News is going to turn into? Linking to partisan political columns?
it turns out a tempting language can be useful for more than one thing, but for small sites, it works very well.

you are reading between the lines to find an argument that isn't there.
Google Dart Language and Tools Explained
Care to clarify why?
Enabling IT Applications on Mobile Devices
Nice graph: Motorola Atrix 4G, LG Thrill 4G, HTC Inspire 4G, iPhone 4S, all with theoretical 14.4 Mbps down, 5.8 Mbps up. Only one of these products doesn't have 4G in the name.
Thanks. Missed that one. My "3rd party" language support is not perfect.
Ask HN: Recommended community/forum software?
I'm looking for any open source forum software, but something that looks modern, and clean. Not like Invision, or PhpBB. Any recommendations?
In my experience, yes. I a lot of people I work with (shifty at KFC) and live in my dorm get more excited about the Galaxy as apposed to the iPhone. Those who have the GS2 love and live by it.
DTrace scripts for Mac OS X
Why does this post got downvoted? Does it violate any rules on hacker news? Or just because here is a big Apple circle-jerk going on?

(written on my macbook)
Building The Future Part 1: Windows 8
Rails adds it too, even if your version of Ruby does not support it. Yay monkeypatching!

EDIT: said duck typing first. It's too early for thinking.
Sure, but I don't think this slideshow was targeted towards the developer who does not already know C. Instead, it seems to be targeted towards the semi-experienced C developer who lacks a deep understanding of the standard. Whether or not that kind of understanding is necessary for everyday coding is a different topic altogether, but the main point of the article is sound: take every opportunity to learn.
Well, any forum can be skinned to look nice.

I've always been a fan of vBulletin, but I have no idea what's available now.
Did I fall into a rip in the universe where web developers are once again in love with background textures?
Art of Business and Science of Economics
Tiffany sale
It's helpful to include the previous thread.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2917158
I'm the only one seeing this as the announcement of RIMs downfall? One of the things that really held BBs still going was that it's in almost all corporate environments. But I think a lot of users will jump ship after this.
At this point RIM is in serious problems.
Out of curiosity, do you know of any notable non-Google sites using GWT? I see a few here, though none seem to be particularly large web apps - that I can tell, at least.

http://gwtgallery.appspot.com/

http://www.gwtsite.com/whos-using-gwt/

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/aqsxq/does_anyo...

http://www.quora.com/What-web-applications-use-Google-Web-To...
"Error establishing a database connection"

So very true. When I lived 60 minutes from work and this would happen, it was a freaking nightmare. If I was lucky, someone else would be on call, but if I wasn't, it meant a 2 hour round trip to fix what usually ended up being an unplugged cable of some sort. Sometimes it just needed a power cycle. -sigh-

... That wasn't the article? I wonder if the article is as insightful?
As primarily a .NET developer this slideshow scares the shit out of me. He says "do you want to see something cool?" I get all excited and think, sure. He then shows me something FUCKING SCARY.

slowly backs away from the C language
The article makes it sound like BlackBerry proxy all EMEA network traffic through their UK servers. Does anyone know if this is correct? If so, I wonder how easily the UK government could get their hands on it.
Thanks. I thought it was some Buddhist syllable.

Like the blog post says, "poor design ruins lives"... that silly font already costed me 3 downvotes.
Why I'm not applying to YC.
I completed my YC application some time ago, I've had it proof read by almost anyone I know with an IQ over 10.

Then I came to a crossroads that I mentioned on HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3027224

I reached out to the connection that PG pushed (Oliver Cameron) who had nothing but praise for the YC program and gave a valid point: "There really is no risk to doing YC, the worst case scenario is you have $150k in the bank on the best terms possible, with the best possible network behind you."

That was it I decided, I'm applying to YC and so came the work of perfecting my grammar and introduction video.

However, I'm not applying and I have 3 reasons why. Personal reasons at that and boy I hope I don't regret this choice.

1. I've got an investor on board not with many connections but whom can provide all the capital I need, frankly we have more than enough. Connections I thought YC will provide, then it became clear to one that I can reach out to anyone I want using the internet. If my product is worthy of their time or response I will achieve it, YC can help I thought and boy PG is influential but I'm going to take my chances.

2. I'm from the UK and the whole process of relocating even for three months would be so much of a distraction. The culture change, the knowing that I will have some major VISA issues once the program has ended.

3. I'm at alpha. I love my business model, I believe in it. I've had some epic pivots already and frankly I'm at the stage where in alpha testing I truly do think I could be on to something. I feel one year or 6months down the line I will be at the public stage, maybe it would be better to use the YC card when I'm having issues managing growth or sourcing that $500k investment.

Above all I have the feeling I won't regret not applying. That's why I know I'm doing the right thing; oh boy I left it late and that's a statement of how powerful YC truly is. A statement of how it can turn a exceptional individual and a poor idea into a great business (pivots included).

I wish the applicants all the best and maybe one day you will be the alumni I reach out too.
Maybe, but you still need to avoid invoking the dynamic linker while inside the dynamic linker. And you don't want the code you call inside the solib invoking malloc again either.
Excellent info from your experience and great resources too.
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If you're taking me literally, do allow me to change that to "datacenter". I'm talking about email! Very little reason for push mail these days. Internet's fast and cheap and IMAP+ is as fast as push. And I've never seen gmail go down. Why tie all blackberries down to the blackberry datacenter in the region?
PS see you at startup school.
Money Raised by NYC Based VC Funds Dropped 40 Percent Last Quarter
they have released a language that is primarily designed to enhance their own tool-chain

You make this sound like its a bad thing, but that's open-source always and forever. Scratch your own itch.
Daniel,

I noticed your contact link is broken in this article (and perhaps all?). The HREF points to:

http://danielmiessler.com/var/www/localhost/htdocs/includes/...
I wonder what their response would be if you kept calling in each month to get the free month...
25 Years of Mac: From Boxy Beige to Silver Sleek
Plenty of companies, whether they know it or not. Large companies like IBM are very cautious when it comes to code ownership and contamination. In some companies, employees have an easier time going through their divorce than getting an approval by an open source committee to use GPL software.
They haven't doubled the storage (at the same price) for 2 years now.

iPhone 3GS: 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299.

iPhone 4: 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299.

iPhone 4S: 16GB for $199, 32GB for $299, 64GB for $399.
What do you mean Dart-to-JS can't be faster than hand-code JS? That's like saying C can't be faster than hand-coded assembly. Unless you write unmaintainable code or spend efforts counting cycles and scheduling and pipeline harzards, this usually isn't the case, and is not the way most people write large application (all in asm). If you take your average hand-written Javascript and run it through closure compiler, in many cases, it ends up executing faster (at least in V8). If you haven't already, I would recommend investigating the behavior of JS VMs with and without Closure Compiler, you might be surprised.

We're talking averages here, not pathological edge cases. Java has a 64-bit long type which JS doesn't support. GWT supports longs. In theory, GWT code should run slower, in practice, because GWT contains an optimizer, it runs as well, or faster, than hand written JS, simply because very few code bases have hot paths dependent on long arithmetic. For example, I've actually ported popular JS benchmarks to Java, ran them through GWT, and the result was faster.

Sure, would you be able to concoct applications for which Dart and Dart-to-JS have a large divergence? Yes. Will they be the common case? Probably not. I can concoct normal JS applications today which show high divergence between Chrome, Firefox, and IE, because of all of the JS VMs have different weaknesses, different optimizers, different garbage collectors. If you're writing applications that are so CPU bound and performance critical (e.g. games), chances are you're going to run into other portability problems too.

Most of this worry over runtime performance I think is a red herring. The real difference will probably be in startup time.
The only people expecting a tick-tick-tick release model haven't been paying attention to what Apple has almost always done.
After one refresh, the article came up for me.

But, yeah, there is a certain irony if this was caused by a remote connection issue.
Techinically, neither the Coulomb nor the Ampere are fundmental. Both are derived from the meter, second, and kilogram.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:SI_base_unit.svg

Now, in the abstract, yours is the more natural definition. But experimentally, it turns out to not give the best accuracy.

I believe one starts with (1) the meter (which is based on a second defined using a atomic transition, plus light) and (2) the Newton (which is the force required to accelerate the all-important kilogram at 1 meter per second squared). Then an Ampere is the amount of current flowing through two parallel wires required to produce a force of one Newton per meter between the wires.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere#Definition

Now, the technology is apparently improving enough that it may be possible to actually count elementary charges like you suggest. See here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ampere#Proposed_future_definiti...
They were just too ambitious is all. Hastings knows that streaming is the future, and he went into startup mode to try to turn his ship in that direction. The two problems are customer expectations and movies studios demands.

Customer expectations are a bitch because people believe $10 is the right price for Netflix and $16 is outrageous, even though this is a fraction of the cost of all traditional options. Now that expectations are set, price hikes just enrage people. But for a good selection of streaming content, people are going to have to be enraged for a while. We already saw what happened to Hulu. The reality is that studios are not going to let their revenues be decimated just so that we can live in our utopian future of streaming anything we want for $10/month. That is such a kick in their gut that they will be willing to spend the money to all build their own shitty services that fail over the next 4-5 years, put up with rampant piracy, and take any number of viewer-hostile actions all to avoid accepting Netflix's vision. Eventually I believe the market will cut them down to size, but getting everything you want is going to cost more than $10/month.

I give Reed Hastings a lot of credit for trying to bring the future faster by focusing on streaming, but he overplayed his hand. Netflix's clout comes from its user base size and the fact that it's DVD business is unassailable by big media. They're not going to be able to throw their weight around on streaming deals, and studios will be dragging their feet anyway. The smart thing to do is to focus on streaming and always be aware that it's the future, but keep DVDs as a value anchor so customers can justify the mediocre streaming selection.
Your phone... is now... a phone!
I'm working with Brett right now at Hall.com and am loving it. I worked at an extremely small startup before joining Yahoo! and found that both experiences were invaluable. My time at Y! helped me learn about massive scale while my time at the small startup provided me with an understanding of running a business. Although I loved my time at Y!....especially the people.....it feels great to back with a small team and taking a greater degree of control over the creative process.
For a tech lead, these are surprisingly strange questions.
For Adobe, the Future Is in the Past
And I don't like Krugman, but if I wanted Krugman-bashing, I'd go read _Best of the Web Today_, so I'll refrain from any name-calling and just agree with you. :P
You're probably right about 720 vs 1080. You've go to be pretty close to see the difference on a 46" screen. I believe I read that someone with 20/20 vision has to be closer than 8 feet to see the difference on a 50" screen.

If I was building a home theater setup with a huge projector (or giant LCD), dolby digital (7.1 now?), etc... then of course I want the best quality in everything I can get. A friend of mine has one of these setups and it is amazing.

The above is quite different than the family room TV though. I've seen BRD quality on my 46" TV and yes I can see the difference, but I have to look for it. It's been my opinion for awhile that picture quality and sound at 720p or 1080p streamed is mostly 'good enough' and people now want convenience.
They've had outages before and it doesn't seem to change anyone's opinion of them. That keyboard is like crack for some people - no matter how bad the rest of the offering is, they keep coming back for that keyboard.
It gets even more complicated if you have a spouse/partner that also works. Lots of 2-professional families will never leave a huge metro, even if one of both of them could find better work in a different (but not the same different) city.
I interpreted (no pun intended) this all to mean is that Dart is aimed at people who spend all day writing Java.
you're not interviewing C programmers, you're interviewing assembly programmers that use C as a frontend ;)
The seed of common anger is the perversion of regulation and governance at the highest tier of financial institutions.

However, the expressions of anger at the occupy* protests has been running the gamut. From moderate calls for financial reform all the way to straight up marxist wealth redistribution.

There may be fairly broad public support behind the sentiment that there's a fair number of problems with the system as it exists today, but there is nothing like widespread support for the gamut of messages coming out of occupy*.
Sorry, I misused the term obvious. It just makes a lot of sense to me.
Department of Homeland Security has a 'Pre-Crime' Detector
So far these protests are a media creation

That is categorically false. This protest is about as organic as they come.

"Adbusters Media Foundation is a not-for-profit, anti-consumerist, pro-environment organization"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adbusters

They concocted the idea, started it, Anonymous did some promotion, and it caught on with people
The original leaked memo that everyone was freaking out about was incredibly overblown as it was entirely decontextualized.

The engineer that wrote the memo needed people for his team. To get people to join a team from any of the others at Google, you need to convince them that your team is awesome to work with. At Google, you can't offer more money/benefits, so it has to be a "join us and you'll change the world!" message. That's going to lead to a lot of overblown statements that may or may not end up being true, and may or may not even be believed by the author.

Google is not in the business of doing things that are bad for the web (and when they have done, there's been an about-face, see: Google Video shutdown), even if internal machinations might make it seem that way.
A well reasoned and prudent argument. It sounds like you came to your decision logically. Kudos. Good luck to you and your venture.
> And that price hike is what kicked off the company’s tumble from a peak of $300 a share.

Nonsense. Losing 1M out of 25M customers while increasing profit does not translate to loosing $200 from a $300 share price.

This bad news is nothing more than an excuse for insiders to sell shares that they otherwise would not be able to do.

There are more problems deeper inside.
Ask HN: Advertising networks for small web apps?
I'm trying to monetize a small web app. Its quite new but getting around three hundred hits per day. I tried applying for Adsense but got rejected because the site isn't content based and also because of the site didn't meet some age requirement.

The web app is located at http://videodropper.ep.io. Do you have any suggestions for ad networks that's suitable for small non-content based sites?
Did ICE 'Pirate' Its Anti-Piracy PSA?
I went off cable a year ago. The only thing I miss is ads for upcoming movies. Weird, right? Everything else I want I can get online, but I had come to depend on ads to tell me when a good movie was coming.
Starting A Cleaning Business - Property Preservation
Google+ Has Been Throttled to Death – Now Blocked in China
Yeah, it's totally inappropriate by the book. On the other hand, the protests are an interesting new phenomenon and some discussion was inevitable. Might as well be this?

My favorite comment this morning is geebee's (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3094614), arguing that Wall St. should not get away with identifying themselves with true wealth creators in the public mind. It's reasonable, insightful, and has an HN slant. It's also the most upvoted at the moment, so things aren't too bad.
You don't sound very confident in what you're doing. And it sounds like you want to spend a lot of money on stuff you don't need or can get for free..
It's more of a strategic answer than a technological one. Per usual, Apple is taking a different user experience approach to the problem. It would be difficult for Google to mimic as their main monetization driver (Adwords) depends on their current model of search.

As far as their NLP technologies, I don't know enough about what they respectively have under the hood. I will say that Siri's ability to understand a variety of human phrases and contexts was more impressive than anything I've publicly seen from Google.
I'd be extremely wary about coming to any conclusions based upon the Reason.TV video. They have a clear political agenda and it's difficult to really understand the complexities of any situation through a series of edited interviews.

In any sense, from what I understand it seems that the group isn't necessarily pushing for any particular policy but the fact that the Government is systemically broken. They feel there isn't any democratic say from the average citizen in the policies made by Congress and the Presidency. It seems that they choose Wall Street as their target because their large financial abilities allow for them to give massive amounts of financial contributions to key politicians, essentially cutting out the average voter.

However, I haven't been to the movement in person, so it's difficult for me to be sure with any certainty.
8 hour BlackBerry Outage: Is RIM digging its own grave?
1000 upvotes. Let's keep both the regular NYT and WSJ opinion page writers off HN. The regular columnists provide zero signal as you can predict their positions on any issue (does anyone think Krugman will counterintuitively oppose OWS? Or that James Taranto will support it?)

These editorials carry zero information in the Shannon sense.
Just one comment on Jailbreaking.

Just this week, I happened to get an iPad at work. Turns out, the only way I can jailbreak it is by a "tethered" jailbreak, which means (as far as I understand) my iPad has to be attached to my computer whenever I reboot it, else it won't work properly.

We also have a 3G iPad 2, and it seems that can't be jailbroken at all at the moment.

So jailbreaking really doesn't seem to be the "magic solution" to the Apple walled garden. Also, note I don't have to jailbreak to run software Google doesn't like, just go to the webpage and download the package, rather than get it through google market. You can also jailbreak for root access, but I've never felt a need.

I will admit, the argument between Android and Apple is slim, but personally I see it mostly as a "one or the other", not "Apple is superior to Android in every way", as the opening poster seemed to claim.
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It's interesting to see the differences between major sports. It's trivial to replace your cable TV with online viewing for baseball, but impossible for american football.
Slide 231:

Q: So why doesn't the compiler reorder the members in the structure to optimize memory usage, and execution speed?

A: Some languages actually do that, but C and C++ don't.

And that's because...?
So it was astroturfed/seeded by a media organization.
Default Browser Changer Utility
Recently the YC gang was in NYC to give their pitch and here's what I walked with: It's one of the best paths to silicon valley. In other words if you really want a strong California connection at an early phase in your company this is a great way to start. Getting the capital is a good reason -- but a better reason is getting the connections. Much in the same way that if you had a Harvard MBA you'd be well educated, but you'd also know this people in the know. Of course it depends on your business -- if say you're focused on media or finance maybe you don't need a silicon valley connection.
Two miles is very walkable (given clear sidewalks in the winter)
Partisanship is not wrong per se. Why don't you critique the man's arguments instead of going into ad hominems?