skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doing CSS and HTML is completely different than programming and its frustrating to go back and forth between the two. For example, if I'm tasked with fixing some bug or implementing a feature to where I have to write Java code and then also write some JavaScript (such as an AJAX) app, then also do HTML and CSS, by the time I get the functionality working with the Java / JavaScript code it can be hard to focus on that CSS / HTML.. sometimes doubts start to creep in about the code, things you want to double check, etc, thinking about maybe making small optimizations, etc, basically I think most engineers simply don't want to think about the HTML / CSS layout stuff because thats not what they're paid to do, for the most part, and if they make a mistake in the server-side logic, for example, by putting in something to where its not adequately supporting concurrency and data loss / corruption occurs, this is going to get them into a lot more trouble (damage reputation, etc) than if they messed up the spacing on the HTML page.. bottom line is if you want a UI done well then hire someone who spends all their time thinking about that sort of thing
I've been as outraged as anyone about Apple's excesses and I don't think it's necessary to be as controlling as they are to facilitate a successful app economy. However, they're currently the only really successful example of this model so the burden of proof is on their critics to show that other approaches can work too.

Focusing on the mechanics of distribution is missing the forest for the trees here. It's about money and what kind of software economy it takes to bring high-quality applications to users. OSS has failed here.
Money is already based on time. When you go to the store and buy some fruit, you pay for it, but you could also take the TIME to plant some of your own and grow it. When you buy furniture you are paying for something you could take the time to build, and each part you would need is also based on time (you could chop your own wood, etc.)

This applies to services too, obviously. You could learn to be an accountant, but you can also pay someone to do it for you, you're paying for their time. When you boil it down, just about everything you buy is based on time.
Sorta/kinda relevant: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nncY-MA1Iu8

It's a TED talk about a woman claiming that sleep is the secret to success. (I only sorta/kinda agree with her but it's still an interesting point of view to consider)
Ask HN: How to reach developers?
Hi HNers,

I have started a new blog and I'm looking for developers to review their applications. If you are interested get in touch with me or post a comment.

Also I ask the whole HN community: What is the best way to reach developers?

Cheers
Why Indian computer science education sucks
I enjoy reading about education here in the US, and in other countries. It's all well and good to compare our system to others. But, I can't help but wonder what the chances will be that the system here will ever actually be reformed.
I've never understood this attitude toward obesity. If you had any other 100% curable, 100% terminal condition, you'd make it a priority to do something about it.
Porn must use a lot of bandwidth.
Keep going and it gets simple again.

You put a bunch of leptons and quarks in a specific ordering and they start arranging other atoms in ways to help them understand their own specific arrangement.

That they can is why I think it is simple. in the sense of elegant.
A prize up-vote goes to the first comment on this link to tell what MZ stands for without Google ( please be honest ;-)).
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yeah but if the user loses a crapload of data because someone did something stupid on the server-side that can get the company in a lot of trouble. (even if they have backups, as it may take a day or 2 to get them in place) With UI bugs, it usually becomes obviously quickly that its not working and the user will then have to wait for it to work, but usually existing data, etc isn't in jeopardy
This got me looking at the careers page as well. "really nice office" isn't one where you can't stretch your legs forward without banging them to a fellow employee. Seriously, you have space, use it wisely.
Or you use timerfd(2) and get the kernel to manage the timer heap. Under Linux anyway.
Many compilers insert padding bytes into the struct to ensure the fields are byte-aligned. What's worse, they often do this by default.

The way this guy explains it, he makes it sound optional, when it isn't. You can't use misaligned addresses on pretty much every piece of hardware. Compilers make a choice between time and effort, it is much easier to just pad a struct then try to juggle elements around until it takes up the least space. The onus is on the programmer to order their struts properly if they really care heavily about memory.
I have seriously written a parser/loader for this file format without it ever occurring to me that there might be something interesting lurking behind those two letters; I feel stupid. (edit: and thank you for making me realize this.)
Hey Palish,

I'm 46 and I'm in pretty good shape. Second baby on the way. There is more to life than computers and I really really really urge you to review this comment annually to see how you feel about it. 50 will hit you a lot faster than you think it will.

To a child that's 5 a year seems like an eternity, 50 year old people are old and 10 times older than you. In your teenage years you can see the end of the new year from newyears eve, 50 year old people are still old but they don't seem nearly as old as when you were 5. By the time you're 40 you can touch the end of the new year from newyears eve, and you find that it is hard to tell the healthy 50 year olds from the unhealthy 35 year olds. 50 is an age that is only 25% away from the time you've already spent.

When you become 46, 50 is literally just around the corner.

Approximately twice annually I have to wear black for a day to say farewell to someone that lived with your attitude. Believe me when I say that they would have happily re-wound to the time when they made the same bad decisions that you are making today in order to tack another 20 or 40 years on to their lives. I know an awful lot of people and those that live healthy seem by far happier than those that are barely able to carry their bodies around.

Typically they seem to have fewer psychological issues and they spend much less time in hospitals and with doctors or $ on medication.

If I die at 50 that would be a pretty big disappointment. There is so much that I still want to do and see, on top of that I hope to be around for a long time for my children.

Think this over please. Eating when hungry when it increases your weight just leads to being hungry earlier.

That's a runaway system and eventually something will have to give (in order of probability: diabetes, hear trouble, kidney trouble, liver trouble). The obese 30 somethings have a similar quality of life to the healthy 70+ people that I know, and sometimes their quality of life is worse. Much worse.

I've been reading your comments on HN for a long long time now and I've never found one where I disagreed so strongly with what you wrote, and I really hope that it is not just the gap between our ages speaking here but something where my perspective on life from my current vantage point can help you in avoiding what could very well be the mistake of your life.
What about a high school student willing to take the 18 months off to work on their start-up and dependant on success leave school for good.

In Ireland its free high school and college education and if it was a failure its very easy to re-enter the education system.

I know you guys founded Collison, what do you think?
As a treat for being honest, here's a jump-off point that will truly be rewarding if you go all out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zmist
I'd say there even some advantages as you get to meet more people, get more ideas and generally your brain works better while on the road.
(My theory for that is when we are in a foreign environment we need to be more careful)

I run an online business and live two kinds of life:
1) Travelling or staying a couple of months in each place.
2) Home, Italy, where I spend most of the time at my desk.

I was actually able start it (no funding) and run it while constantly on the road.
I'm really surprised to see so much GPL and LGPLed code in here. Doesn't the license require that, in addition to having the source code, that it be possible for the user be able to re-compile and re-link the binaries? Isn't this impossible with the Kindle hardware?
scg is right, this is indeed incredibly stupid. How can they own something you make in your spare time.
For those who don't know the Louis CK reference, here is the video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r1CZTLk-Gk
Nice. What's next; the kernel getting its own version of printf?
Actually nobody on earth knows how to make something apparently as simple as a pencil (obviously much, much simpler than a modern computer mouse).

http://www.fee.org/library/books/i-pencil-2/
I had looked that up before, it stands for the initials of a guy at Microsoft working on the DOS format. :)
Greg takes the win !
The language isn't easy to learn, but easy to write and read once you've learned to talk with it. This is the distinction usually made regarding the language differences. Also most of the professional vocabulary is lent from other languages. I prefer to speak English when talking about programming or tech in general. Then again this starts to take affect, at the earliest, in high school.
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Woah; I've actually looked at Z0mbie's disassemblers before, but I had never realized I should look at Mistfall: I'll be certain to check it out, as it sounds amazingly interesting. (edit: somehow I keep forgetting the) THANKS! ;P

(I develop Cydia (Mobile)Substrate, a library, used by all the people who do random iPhone hacks, for performing runtime code modification in a reasonably safe/sane manner.)
But isn't the PE format already well documented by Microsoft? http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/hardware/gg463119

Does this site brings anything new?
I'm new here. Can someone explain to me how a website advertisement gets into top rating in Hacker News?
My 2c: The three questions meant to sort the wheat from the chaff don't go nearly far enough. Have a designer write them or at least review them. As they are now there is a million and a half Pinterest users that can answer with a resounding Yes! to all three of them, and only a handful of them will have the grit you are looking for.

There is this dynamic that you need to pinpoint that "A-star" (as you call them) people too want to move upwards in their career, so they want to apply to jobs (if ever) where even they seem just the right amount of under-qualified.

My suggestion for nailing this dynamic would be to up the bonus requirements by adding stuff like this:

* Designed an app spending significant time in the US top 20

* Introduced an interface metaphor on iOS that got copied by Instagram or Evernote

* Worked with graphic design close to the core iOs team at Apple

If you see what I mean? The thought you want to put in the mind of your dream candidate is "Oh man, I wish I had what it takes to apply to this team".

And the mechanic you then apply to get to talk to the right people is to look around Dribbble, Forrst, Lovedsgn and Deviantart and point designers to the ad and say "We think you might have what it takes to be part of our team. Do you want to have a conversation about it?"

Sell your team by setting the bar for entry.
Surprising it isn't any more, but it is still striking how recklessly one-sided and opinionated the goverment can be regarding one particular business. We dont officially know whether this relatively small business is _really_ that überimportant for the country, or did the business owners simply find a way to puppeteer the goverment to claim that it is überimportant. The circumstances strongly resemble the story of french 17th century button makers and their fight against innovation:

"Two of the most extreme examples of the suppression of innovation in France occurred shortly after the death of Colbert during the lengthy reign of Louis XIV. Button-making in France had been controlled by various guilds, depending on the material used, the most important part belonging to the cord and button makers' guild, who made cord buttons by hand. By the 1690s, tailors and dealers launched the innovation of weaving buttons from the material used in the garment. The outrage of the inefficient hand-button-makers brought the state leaping to their defense.

In the late 1690s, fines were imposed on the production, sale, and even the wearing of the new buttons, and the fines were continually increased. The local guild wardens even obtained the right to search people's houses and to arrest anyone in the street who wore the evil and illegal buttons. In a few years, however, the state and the hand-button-makers had to give up the fight, since everyone in France was using the new buttons." [1]

and

"The question has come up whether a guild master of the weaving industry should be allowed to try an innovation in his product. The verdict: 'If a cloth weaver intends to process a piece according to his own invention, he must not set it on the loom, but should obtain permission from the judges of the town to employ the number and length of threads that he desires, after the question has been considered by four of the oldest merchants and four of the oldest weavers of the guild.' One can imagine how many suggestions for change were tolerated.

Shortly after the matter of cloth weaving has been disposed of, the button makers guild raises a cry of outrage; the tailors are beginning to make buttons out of cloth, an unheard-of thing. The government, indignant that an innovation should threaten a settled industry, imposes a fine on the cloth-button makers. But the wardens of the button guild are not yet satisfied. They demand the right to search people's homes and wardrobes and fine and even arrest them on the streets if they are seen wearing these subversive goods." [2]

Sources:

[1] http://mises.org/daily/4315

[2] http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20070110/004225.shtml
Every time I read an article about why XYZ's schools are so great, I cannot help but think, wouldn't it simply be because XYZ's children are great?

At least I think that's a factor we fail to control for. Designing a good school for well brought-up children is far easier than designing it for children who grew up in a hostile environment watching TV all day long.
That doesn't seems like an issue for the OP. Leo Babauta has six kids.
The only part where he cheated as far as I can see is the memory, that's a static RAM chip. All the rest of it is relays, it runs at 6(!) Hz.

The video is quite amazing.
In the video game industry this is rather common -- developers can be contractually forced to hand over their pet projects to the company they work for.
Go to an application's site. Click the contact link. Use contact form or email the specified email address.

If there's no contact info, check the domain's WHOIS record.
Site bring anything new == Not really

But, we must be polite.. it is rare to see the word PE appear on HN ;-).

Also better err documentation available at other unorthodox sources.. as Peter and Kris would attest to _ grin _.
Monitoring OpenJDK from the CLI
This is the most shocking thing I heard this hour.
You're very wrong. C++ templates are very capable of expressing very powerful idioms. C++11 adds this to this power with variadic templates. std::function, std::tuple, etc are the future.

Please do not be offended, but if that is your attitude towards a major language feature of C++, you probably should not be writing tutorials about it.
"The article simply focused on osmosis to explain the process of dehydration at a cellular level (blood). In that, I'd say it was rather accurate."

Cellular osmosis and dehydration have almost nothing to do with one another. The article is, indeed, wrong, in trying to associate these things with one another.
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Thank you for that link. I took the liberty of re-posting it separately, it is one of the coolest things I've ever seen built. Besides the memory (and that would just add another couple of 10's of thousands of relays for a usable machine) that looks like the shortest direct path between 'man on a beach' and having a working automatic computer with a practical degree of reliability.
I often try to explain this to friends, but in a shorter way:

Driving a car is essentially a controlled explosion taking place every second about three feet in front of your face—and yet this very dangerous and messy process "just works" for millions of drivers every day. We are more afraid of other cars than we are of the fireworks right in front of our face. That's pretty amazing.
Z0mbie made a bunch of us AV folks go crazy in the mind. Some resent even the name being mentioned around them ;-).
Thanks for the mention of the Stanford courses: I just watched the first one, in which Paul Hegarty explains iOS' interpretation of the MVC pattern (including iOS-specific terms like 'outlet', 'delegate', 'target', 'action' etc., which are used in Interface Builder and XCode).

His slides are awesome too. He uses my favourite font: Comic Sans MS ;-)
I disagree completely. The fitness function is clear, and that fact that many children will produce invalid code is not that much of a problem, really. You just eliminate them.

Google "automatic programming" if you think it's never been done, your mind is about to be expanded.

You should really learn to think for a while before you dismiss ideas as "nonsensical".
TTL was several steps up from ordinary transistors, I don't see how that would be a valid shortcut. You'd still have to make silicon first, as well as a process to create integrated circuits. Simple ones, but still.
These are all good tips, but you should also watch out for sleep apnea. Its incidence increases the more overweight you are, and it's a silent killer.
Question for the advanced: with that kernel version warning, since CentOS 4.8/4.9 is stuck at 2.6.9-023stab053.2 does that mean I can definitely not use this workaround?

The .9 seems to imply not, but I am not sure how to interpret all those versioning extensions (ie. stab053.2)
"Red Queen" is one of my all-time favorite books, up there with "The Fates of Nations" by Paul Colinvaux. Both instantly and completely changed how I saw the world around me.
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Julian Assange shows up wearing an Anonymous mask at Occupy London
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Can anyone parse that title? I'm failing.
Color Identification System (for the color blind)
Ask HN: to SF or not?
I found a cheap ticket to SF. I want to move somewhere new.. I'm swedish but have lived in MX for the past 4 years. My main talent is increasing conversion rates for hotels and real estate, buying this ticket would leave me with 500 usd in my pocket landing in SF. Any recommendations? Do it/save more cash/buy it and then what?
This is common in almost every mid to large size corporation in the US with a legal department. If you're working on a side project, it might be best to clear it up with your employer and make sure it's not a conflict of interest.

It's mainly an issue of copyright. The company wants to make sure it owns the IP to every line of code you write. For example, if you do some work on the weekend they want to make sure they own the copyright to that.

Every company I've worked for had a clause in my hiring contracts. Some will enforce it more than others.

Here's some in depth discussion: http://answers.onstartups.com/questions/19422/if-im-working-...
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#79

Cool!

Maybe when color finally goes bust they can get the domain, it seems like a much more useful application for such a domain.
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soundcloud does sound.
Yes--and these are the overwhelmingly most common case for a query in most applications. From reading the blog post, it seems like the blog author was either doing pretty frighteningly complex stuff just to render his homepage or he didn't think ahead enough to add fairly standard queryable indices to his collections.

Neither strikes me as terribly smart, and the latter strikes me as writing it right the first time, not "avoiding premature optimizations."
Electric leaf -> Nissans' new electric car

leaving well enough alone -> keep your hands of

Rough translation: Nissan Leaf owners open up the hood to see if they can improve performance and/or charge time or other stuff.

An EV can be hacked on by electronics types in much the same way that a regular car used to be the domain of gearheads. Regular cars now need knowledge from both domains but EVs are much more accessible to EE types and other people with knowledge about the way electrons make our lives easier.
What I do is give my brother my password for Steam and not keep a copy for myself. When I am busy, I just log out of Steam and I can't play any games until I ask my brother for the password.
Agreed.

It seems like a world war code:

-"The cat is in the celing" I repeat "The cat is in the ceiling", over and out!

-"The electric Leaf true believers won't leave well enough alone, over an out".
Ask HN: Can we build a web dev school from free content?
I was recently talking to my little cousin who is contemplating what to major in college. At some point during our conversation it occurred to me that in order to learn web development from the bottom up one does not really need to go to university and get a "degree". All the knowledge and information required exists for free online. The only problem seems to be that it lacks the hand holding and curation of a structured university program. Do you think it's possible to put together a syllabus linked to free content online that might take a high schooler and turn them into a well rounded web developer? Do you think we can curate a set of lessons and tests to serve this purpose?
That's management speak. From the post:

"what most people don't get about his post is that you see posts like this almost every day at Google"

If this is really the case, then we know Yegge's suggestions are not on the priority list.

Sounds like Larry, Sergey and Eric aren't working on any of these requests.
Here's a result of running Git::Garden on git-garden: http://stepien.cc/~jan/git-garden.html . PNG backends require a bit of polish. An image generated by Gnuplot is http://i.imgur.com/A5KsC.png , and the one which went through Graphviz is http://i.imgur.com/6NL43.png (it's height is 6px).
Diablo 2 gave me RSI (repetitive stress injury). =/
"The Electric Leaf’s True Believers" - people who really like the Nissan Leaf car. "Won’t Leave Well Enough Alone" - tinkering with things that 'already work', or 'shouldn't be touched'. So we could probably change it to "Nissan Leaf Fans Hacking Their Cars" for HN, but this is probably not good a media outlet.
This is similar to one of my favourite interview questions. I usually ask my candidates to explain everything that happens from the time they type an address in their browser till when the page they requested is rendered. You can find a lot about candidates with this question.