skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think it's all that crazy to postulate why Monsanto opposes labeling milk as rBGH free. Their position is that there are absolutely zero health effects for rBGH on humans (which as far as I know isn't disputed by any study). There is research that shows that it's harmful to the animals, but that doesn't seem to bother us here as much.

If their competitors are trying to introduce what they consider an "artificial distinction" based on FUD, what should their reaction be?

By the way, I'm not saying they're correct. Who knows, in 30 years our entire society might become all "Children of Men" and lead to our species extinction. I'd bet not though.

If you looked in my apartment, you'd think I was a proponent of the organic food movement; but it's all an illusion. Left to my own devices, I would eat nothing but Capn' Crunch and Hungry Man dinners. What changed for me was when my girlfriend moved in with me. She's basically a walking allergy test. It's easier for her to describe what foods she isn't allergic to.

We had to start buying organic vegetables because they were the only ones we could find that aren't sprayed with sulfites (which she's allergic to). She couldn't eat the potatoes we had in the house (which broke my Irish heart...for people here, imagine if your significant other was allergic to parenthesis).

She's allergic to the hormones they inject into beef. Even buying free-range, organic beef where they read poetry to the cows and slaughter them by having them laugh to death was about 50/50 whether she'd break out in hives.

Our solution was to switch to ground bison as a ground beef replacement (for whatever reason they don't appear to give bison hormones, maybe that'd change if they were more popular).

But there's a cost to all of this. It costs us ridiculously more for food than it used to.

I don't know if the emergence of the organic food movement or the success of Whole Foods is really as indicative of people caring about these things as much as you think it is. There's been an enormous emergence of sales of Steampunk goggles too, but I'm not sure that's all that widespread. People tend to find ways to spend their money. If they think that paying $50 for a single bag of vegetables from Whole Foods results in them getting better quality food, there's a segment of the population that will do that.
If you want little rubber feets on the back of your iPhone, put little rubber feets on the back of your iPhone. The back of the iPhone is, properly, inert and ambivalent to your modifications.
Free form play is so critical to building up the imagination and creativity as well. This shouldn't just include the amount of time given to this activity but should even encompass the toys that we give kids.
Big difference here between these two, check out a copy of "Deep C Secrets" by Peter van der Linden.

This is ok, safe, complete, reliable:

memset( s, '\0', sizeof( s) );

This yields the perception that it works, depending on what is going to make use of s later on, it could fail to do what you intended depending on how you use s:

s[ 0 ] = '\0';
While VRS is probably the closest to real-time voice communication, it's similar to speaking through a synchronous translator for another language. I've done synchro work and it's not the best way. No wonder so many political gestures get miscommunicated at conferences!

I'd say SMS and chat are far better (or email), as you are actually communicating with the person directly.
DR was someone I looked up to since writing my first C program on a VAX mini-frame. RIP.
Where’s here? I have never heard of this sort of policy.

Somewhat relevant: I have called 911 a few times to report near-emergencies (e.g., significant debris in the road, or extremely erratic driving; they forward me along)
Inventing Unix: a May 2011 interview with Dennis Ritchie
I can totally relate to this article: as a frequent launcher of iOS apps, i'm always open to suggestions for how to promote them. At the moment my (admittedly very vanilla) strategy is:

* Set up a promo-page at www.blahapp.com
* Use adwords ads to send people from google to my website
* At the website, provide links to the app store.

However, any suggestions will be well noted.
Then you shouldn't assume that somebody who is vitriolic about the issue is automatically a liberal wacko.
DMR created. SJ inspired.

let's not compare both.
Dennis Ritchie passes away
I just left Google after 3 years (to build my own projects). I echo Steve's sentiment that overall, Google is a company that really tries hard to do everything the right way. It's a company full of smart, well-intentioned people. There are many of these internal discussions, all of them would be fascinating to outsiders, but it's just (un)fortunate that this one was accidentally posted.
I still remember the first time I picked up K&R. I tried my best to devour it. The technical prose makes the book a tour de force.
Every time I write a new "hello world" program from now on, I will add a "Thanks dmr" at the end.
May you rest in peace dmr.
Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie Explain Unix (Bell Labs)
My timings where different on my 6 yr old Pentium D dual core, Ubuntu 64 bit:

time python2.7 -c "print 'Hello, world'" && time ruby -e
"puts 'Hello, world'" && time lua -e "print('Hello,
world')"

Hello, world

real	0m0.056s
user	0m0.040s
sys	0m0.000s

Hello, world

real	0m0.008s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.000s

Hello, world

real	0m0.061s
user	0m0.000s
sys	0m0.010s
Google has so many products, how would you expect a typical, hard-working employee to actively use all of them? They just wouldn't get any work done.
Someone still grinding an ax six and a half years later may not be offering the most objective advice.

Form your own opinion.
They are top 10 on Github: https://github.com/popular/watched
Also, they could add a confirmation layer just in case.

User: Call 911
Siri: Are you sure you want to call 911?

etc.
It's a sad month.
Ever heard of PR?

Hire a PR company, or send copies of apps for review, etc.

Apple also reviews new Apps, and if it's outstanding, Apple typically promotes the app.

So, if you are not enjoying success, perhaps improve the app and improve visibility as mentioned.
int main(int argc, char argv[])
{
struct passwd pw = getpwnam('dmr');
restInPeace(pw->pw_uid);
exit(0);
}
In this context, yes. Not a generalization.
I'm working on technology related to this problem. I'm interested in hearing anyone's thoughts (ideas are cheap, right?) about the best way to curate the app store at scale.

The biggest challenge seems to be that there is a very limited amount of information available. Marketing text, category, and maybe rating (Though I think you have to violate Apple's ToS and scrape to get that.) Apple already offers free-text search, but I think few use it.

Most approaches so far have gone for trying to create a social network around app discovery, which seems like a lost cause to me (how many people are going to join such a network?) I could be wrong though...
To be fair, agreement is not universal that null-byte termination is a good thing. Though that doesn't detract a thing from the man's greatness.
Goodbye, Dennis. It's been just over 30 years since I picked up K&R and started programming in C and using 7th Edition Unix on a PDP-11/45. And C is still among the languages I program in today. You'll be missed.
I hate Net::SSH::Perl
There is a wonderful argument about product strategy in there. Steve Jobs says, ""you've got to start with customer the video and work backward to the technology"".
> Besides accessibility being enshrined in law in many places

This is already resolved by the phone company for hearing impaired people. It's not as if phones just popped up. They've been around for a bit longer then the internet.
The realization that being employed by someone else was holding me back intellectually and financially.
Whenever I notice customer service requires speaking on the phone, I'm fairly sure that they do that to avoid having a record of their conversation. +1 to public pressure to force these guys to support the sense disabled. But you can't combat that with government regulation- at least not in any sensible way. Instead, lobby Mozilla, Google, Microsoft, Apple, and Opera to enforce accessibility via page warnings, etc. That may actually be something that the government could help with - working with these companies and standards committees to ensure representation of the disabled.
Upon hearing this, jarek was enlightened.
Hello, I'm afraid PR isn't the answer. Some folks can afford to hire big guns and/or get lucky, but it's not so easy to just plunk down cash for copy.
I for one wish the black bar would stop darkening our door. Both men were great in their own ways and made large contributions to our world.
I am not an electrical engineer, but to answer your question it is my understanding that the diameter of a speaker is very important for sound quality, volume, and cost. This is the reason that home audio speakers aren't the size of thimbles.

I did a quick search to see if any of those issues have been talked about wrt iphones, and the top hit was http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=761725 ("when i listen at max volume [my iphone] is really bad. my nokia N82 compared is like a audiophile system") -- which I imagine is caused by the N82 having a larger speaker positioned on the back.
Has anyone tried the "very optional" exercise (1.3.29)?
How has your strategy worked so far?
Looks like Facebook is going to need to find another CDN...
Indinero should consider pivoting.

Compete.com only shows them at 800 or so uniques per month. But more importantly it will be extremely challenging for indinero to pick up enough small business accounts to make this idea work. While it's possible that this company could be an acquisition for Intuit that's not going to happen with anything like the user base they have. And getting time strapped small business owners to see value in this service in my opinion (with many years selling to small business and owning several) doesn't seem likely at all.
Steve made that mistake. If I'm using Google+, I could accidentally select the wrong circle to share to.
I disagree. The rant contained at least as much content as a press release announcing one new customer. And I think the disappointment has to do more with the boasting than the simple customer relationship.
We once tried buying google ads directly on highly targeted keywords. We spent a small amount of money, but it resulted in no sales at all. Other attempts at advertising, via tap joy, etc, also produced almost no positive results.

Using pay-per-install, you can have thousands of people download your app (for thousands of dollars)... but nearly none of them will ever launch it again.

I think they're also the same people who download dozens and dozens of apps, more than they can keep track of.
yep much prefer the old ui, as well.
1) Silicon Valley's prodigal son is banished from his company.

2) Grows up

3) Comes back to become one of the greatest visionaries of our time. Inspires millions.

4) Dies young.
Ok, Maybe the Google+ API Was An Afterthought
It's a two step click thru, and effective cost of acquisition can be high! Think $5+. And volume will be low...not enough to "chart" or grow sustainably.
Damnyousiri.com/.net/.org were all bough last week sadly :'(
Apple launches iCloud, tougher times for Androids.
Rollr.com
A new and dead simple way to publish and share on the web.
http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+love%3F
from the comment you replied to:

> Reading about how you can't train yourself to place your phone face down, and that this is somehow a samsung design flaw, isn't interesting :-/
Nope, when calling customer service, almost all say "This conversation may be recorded for quality insurance".
Ask HN: Apple copied my App Name, what do I do now?
I woke up this morning to see some really confusing news. An app with the exact same name as my soon to be released app had been released by Apple. What do I do now?

Some backstory.

I had begun work on this app in 2009 but got distracted thanks to a hectic life (marriage etc) and had early this year started working on it again. I registered the *app.com domain and submitted a basic binary to Apple for Review. I pulled the binary and began working on it, trying a whole heap of ideas and talking to family and friends on what they'd want in the app.

I work a day job and money is tight so I don't have tons of time to spend, and definitely not the money to register the trademark locally (Australia) let alone the US. I'd say I was about 2 months off of release at this stage after spending a ton of time working with server components to store and share the information on a budget. The site is also blank as I didn't have the bandwidth to set it up nicely and I wanted to be a bit stealthy as the name gives an extremely obvious indication of what it does.

So now Apple has released an App with the exact same spelling as my app (and obviously a very similar functionality based on the name) while mine is still in iTunesConnect ready for binary submission and approval.

I just feel gutted, I'm not sure I can release the App now (since it directly competes) and I don't want to rebrand all the artwork and domain. If I do release it, I feel like I'd look bad for trying to hang off Apples success and not sure I can cope with the support required for users who install my app and wonder why their friends aren't on it. I didn't even get a notice from Apple about any of this. Do they even check for existing apps?

Does anyone have any input on where to go from here?

Thanks
I don't understand the Eliza one, am I missing something?
What are the chances that VCs are planting these sort of stories in order to try to scare startups into accepting deals with terms that are more advantageous to the VCs? Exactly one week ago, there was a story printed in the New York Times that read very similarly to this one.
Haha :) Not sure if you’re serious or not — and no disrespect either way — but thank you for the belly laugh!
Hi msg,
Since you worked on SOA projects what book/resource would you recommend to build an app from the ground up to be service oriented.
Thanks
An observation from the article that I can confirm is, "It is hard to find groups of children outdoors at all, and, if you do find them, they are likely to be wearing uniforms and following the directions of coaches while their parents dutifully watch and cheer." Yes. For a few years I actually wondered if the townhouse neighborhood in which I live had any children living in it besides my own. It seemed the kids would come home from school and immediately stay inside their houses, no matter how good the weather, and that they must have been at daycare during the school holidays and not outdoors in the neighborhood after that either. Only recently are there quite a few neighbor children (typical age four or five) who play together regularly--usually on my patch of lawn or on my driveway, oddly enough--in view of their parents' homes but somewhat independently from their parents. Playing outside is very good for children, and I have encouraged my children to play outside every day for their whole lives. Our neighborhood is crime free, and my children walk to the local public library whenever they like. (They can really go whenever they like because they are homeschooled. My second son volunteers at the library at an hour when most other teenagers are in school.) Perhaps my children's free-range lifestyle is beginning to influence the neighbors. I hope so.

From your post:

This shouldn't just include the amount of time given to this activity but should even encompass the toys that we give kids.

One word: Legos. My sister gave my oldest son a set of Duplos for his second birthday, and thus Lego mania was born in our household. We have more than 10,000 Lego pieces in our house from dozens of separately bought Lego sets, and all four of my children love to spend time putting Lego pieces together, especially when the weather doesn't make playing outside feasible, and they also like to use the Lego constructions as characters in fantasy play with one another. Recently my daughter, our youngest child, has been building elaborate Zometool

http://www.zometool.com/

towers, and those are great fun for the kids too. I much prefer open-ended toys to toys that have too much structure built in.
My two cents - it would take a strong/credible brand to come in, editorially decide on categories and then rank the apps based on a number of metrics or pure editorial voice. Assume the content can be gleaned in one way -- then how is it organized and presented to the user?
Ask and ye shall receive. http://shitthatsirisays.tumblr.com/
We all witnessed one example where the start up "cost" about $200,000, and failed.

How long is a piece of string?
"That’s my memory of Steve. He showed me the World of Tomorrow."

Thank you for that. I feel the same way. So many things are so misunderstood, but there's always a reason. Apple makes a whole lot of sense if you stop to think about why they did whatever.

Yet the magic comes from people not thinking why.

Remember all the criticisms of the iPad when it was announced? All gone now, now people just want it. They don't know why, but they've experienced it.
Think Facebook app developers steal your data?
I like the tidbid about Jobs knowing how to focus the iPhone by tapping a part of the screen. He's one of the few CEOs who know how to use their products. What was it, Eric Schmidt never used Google Buzz or Wave?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ELIZA
I'm sure some employees from his early days would have less flattering stories to tell, but it wouldn't be classy for them to tell them now that he's gone. So the other side of Steve will be buried with history.
I'll bite, but you won't like the answer: when it gets to zero.

Unless you know someone willing to pay people to take their stock?
Seeing clearly through windshield scams may not be as simple as it seems
National Glass Association Auto Glass Division vice president, Leo Cyr, states that there is simply no excuse for anyone filing an insurance claim on undamaged windshields. At the same time, insurance companies do recognize that a broken windshield is a real hazard and can pose a threat to occupants of a vehicle.
Just do it. Are you making mistakes yet? Good, that means you are learning.
Galvin is/was a household name in Chicagoland. RIP.
Every time someone tries to manipulate the government into legislating them out of obsolescence, I am equal parts amused and disgusted.
Google didn't gain a competitive advantage because they were profitable early (they were profitable, but only marginally so). They had an advantage because of the traction (significant year over year growth) they had as well as their ability to scale economically.

If Google didn't raise big money, they wouldn't have went on to do as many early acquisitions. Without those acquisitions, they don't stumble onto adwords/adsense and they remain a mildly profitable company.
Dmr's home page
Citing Compete is dangerous territory indeed.
Kik Messenger now available for BlackBerry again
I don't believe they had revenue at that point.
I don't have access to Indinero's data, but for my own startup, Compete's data is no more accurate than a random number generator. Both the absolute numbers and the shape of the graph have essentially zero resemblance to the real data.
I am on the real Diaspora node (joindiaspora.org) and it is a ghost town. Accounts that were created were limited to 10 invites when I first started, and even that was turned off rather fast. 10 people is not a lot to get started. It is a ghost town now.

What is the point of supporting it further? I gave them a chance, but from my perspective they blew it.
Search form in wp nav menu
search form in wp nav menu
It’s not very common to actually code anything in Ruby. You pretty much only see people coding Ruby while using the Rails framework which governs the whole thing.

This seems like an unfair generalization. I have come across many large non-Rails Ruby projects, e.g. Homebrew, CloudFoundry, Fog. A lot of reasons why Ruby and the like are good for web development also extend to other types of development.
Right. If someone builds something interesting enough to get on Oracle's radar, then they become an obvious target for litigation. Doesn't make sense to build anything with Java, when there are so many other free alternatives available.
I think this is a bunch of BS. Google didn't have to create a platform, it took control of the world's biggest platform. Google benefits from most things built on the web sans Facebook. Now it's leading the way in the most promising platform of the next few years with Android. Chrome is a platform. Google+ is a platform for content creation that solves the problem of the Facebook crawl wall. It also sets the stage for a more complete solution to your problems (aka searches) via increasing its knowledge on individuals.

I don't think Google will accomplish its goal with plus however, because it's not being aggressive enough in collecting user data and integrating it with search. I think the Universities are in the best position to do this as they did with email and the web. The killer app will be a light bulb that makes extremely useful suggestions based on context.

This rant expounded here:
http://www.wepolls.com/p/3740179
I interpreted it as returning "success". In a more global context than just the program at hand.
User: Call 911 (or 000 here)

Siri: I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave
First, I vote to change the title to include a hint that they're asking for donations.

I admire what they're doing, and I think they should be proud of how far they've come, but I also think that Diaspora should continue by community involvement instead of by another round of soliciting donations. They probably could have done better off if they'd used a bit of that money and tried to market Diaspora a bit more, and they definitely should have at least summarized what they have produced so far, if only for people who haven't yet joined or aren't familiar.

An example of how I think they could be better marketing themselves: I like how they're publishing their financials, mentioning and linking to that from their blog post would make me feel better about donating. My 2c.
Thanks! Saw you speak at the Under30CEO-NYC meetup a few days ago... very inspiring!
I don't understand what is "eye-moistening" about somebody failing to act like an asshole and doing what any normal person what have done.
Biblical View on Paying with Cash to Get Out of Debt
You can’t blame businesses for trying to grease the wheels of their sales by offering too-good-to-pass-up financing deals.
What would Intuit want with them, though? Intuit already has Mint and their own service for syncing with all the banks. Indinero seems like a business branded Mint, which Intuit would be able to do themselves. It doesn't seem like there'd be much value in Indinero's brand or accounts either at this stage.
or that you probably broke the law.
Does anyone know if this panel was recorded? Curious to hear or read a transcript.
VC funding continues record pace in third quarter
Voice recognition on the Mac has told jokes for years. No idea how far back, but definitely on Jaguar
I'm not necessarily opposed at all, in the same way I'm not necessarily opposed to smoking, or chocolate or potatoes.

I don't see however why I should not be told what is inside each particular product. If the cow was given antibiotics or chocolate to eat all day or allowed to run free for life, why shouldn't I be allowed to know this as a consumer?
Well, go and compare the amount of products google has to the amount of products apple has. Eric Schmidt isnt going to use them all, but i bet he knows how to use Google Search.
I'd say, for most people, focusing more on the life-part of their balance is the key strategy to accomplishing their goals more effectively.

Exercise, eat properly, don't watch tv, sleep what's right for you. As a bonus, don't do long commutes.

Those 4+1 rules are, by far, the most important.
IT would have also worked better if they published it on Diaspora, and not on a Wordpress blog