skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very nice, when you can show me a prototype I'll be happy to give you some feedback.

I think AirBnB was spamming craigslist when they first started, and now their customers are doing it for them. Craigslist is free advertising. (Just a thought)
No, it wouldn't be illegal as the journalist is purely speculating without any insider information. However, if the money involved in the trade is high and SEC's eyes fall on the trade - there is a possibility of an investigation but that would be rare.
The K&R textbook is still my programming "bible". I don't use C on a regular basis, or at least as not as much as I'd like to, but still refer to it, even so. IMO, people should learn C first - teaches the right principles.
It really says something that we apply the word "journalist" to people who "speculat[e] without any insider information."
DMR was one of my heroes. Rest In Peace Sir.

I learned C from the first edition of K&R back in 1989 (iirc) on an Atari ST using the Sozobon C compiler. Happy memories (except for learning to combine pointers and loops and null terminated strings correctly! :-)
I'm much like you. For the most part, I prefer email, especially with a new client/potential client, because I hate being caught off guard in those first moments. It's often easier to explain things in writing. I can edit before clicking "send" and it gives me a written record of whatever it is we've been talking about without having to take notes.

That said, I also quite frequently run into situations where multiple emails or IM conversations that go nowhere could be easily solved by a quick phone call. But this generally happens when I'm working on a project with someone, rather than simply passing along information.

I prefer email for general correspondence, but if I'm looking to do some brainstorming and collaborative problem-solving, or to do a quick review of some code/layout/functionality nothing beats a phone call. It's more engaging and more fast-paced for quickly exchanging and discussing ideas than email or even IM.
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I think what he was saying is that different != worse.

If you had started on an android phone, you would probably have written a similar piece talking about how apple phones get muted when placed on a fluffy blanket (as the edge gets covered), and how the android hardware designers did it right.

You should focus on talking about design tradeoffs irrespective of your current behavior. 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 :-/
By "secret cult" I was trying to mean that there's a lack of data about it's practice, you know? It's hard to find people sharing their experiences on entrepeneurship like you find here.

I totally agree with you about the lack of domain knowledge. What do you think is a good way to develop this knowledge? To get a job on some company outside my field (i.e. software development)?
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I think the actual reason is not because of .NET awesomeness, Companies in UK have always invested in Microsoft technologies. I remember back in early 2000s, UK was the only place with a great demand for VB developers. and majority of the current work being advertised, involve rewriting the existing VB applications in C#.
Lot of action on Twitter about this. Recent tweet from Chris Dixon: http://twitter.com/#!/cdixon/status/124297282274340864
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I dont see how requiring credentials for a job in any way affects free speech. I'm not saying you cant write something down if you dont have a license, if you want to start a blog, magazine, newspaper, etc without a license on you go, write whatever the hell you want.

Its about setting standards and showing that you have a seal of approval from a governing body. Think of standards compliant HTML/CSS and the W3C, it sets the standard, but you're completely free to ignore it and write bad markup, but it'll be recognised by your peers that you dont meet the standard. THATS what i'm talking about.
> “It’s mostly just a rumor,” according to the report.

What does that mean?
Ask HN: 5 years wasted or 5 years of learning?
6 Years ago I bought a domain and put some content on it, then spent 5 years trying to come up with the perfect product, now I've realized that the perfect product was what I put up in the first place.

So after 5 years later, I'm going back to where I started.
I have mentioned this in the past, on HN, though much more briefly, and was attacked for it. (Though this was on a previous HN account.)

I don't consider HN to be a very receptive environment, especially if you're saying anything perceived as "negative" about certain companies, including Amazon, Google, Facebook etc. Though it varies widely, of course.
Notice how dcurtis didn't start with "This is how the iPhone is", "This is Android", and "This is why the Android way is wrong".

Instead, he shared a problem that he had with his Android – not that it wasn't like the iPhone, but that it didn't wake him up properly.

The rest of his piece put across a hypothesis that builds upon the problem.
Good. That's a really geometric understanding, which is helpful. I saw it as somewhat analogous to the back-substitution after lower-triangulation; using y=mx + b and starting with y_0 = b, then y_1 = m + y_0.
It almost seems impossible to imagine men like Ritchie leaving us. His efforts helped usher in the modern computing age.

While he is no longer with us in person, may his legacy never be forgotten by those of use who have had the honor to stand on his titanic shoulders.

Truly he will be missed.
While that’s one way to do it, I believe that current JVMs use an index directly to the target object in the Java heap. Since the garbage collector is following all the references anyway, it can eventually update all the old references to point directly to an object after moving it.

In 64-bit VMs without a very large maximum heap size, the JVM usually uses "compressed" pointers, too, so 32-bit values can, in practice, address 32GB of data. Intel CPUs have addressing modes that work quite well with this. See: http://wikis.sun.com/display/HotSpotInternals/CompressedOops

Garbage collection isn’t free, but it’s getting pretty good.
I have seen some very dark corners reserved for C# programmers around Sharepoint deployments...
Have you actually worked on a modern farm?
From a Time Magazine story from 2007:

The iPhone is a typical piece of Ive design: an
austere, abstract, platonic-looking form that
somehow also manages to feel warm and organic and
ergonomic. Unlike my phone. He picks it up and
points out four little nubbins on the back. "Your
phone's got feet on," he says, not unkindly. "Why
would anybody put feet on a phone?" Ive has the
answer, of course: "It raises the speaker on the
back off the table. But the right solution is to
put the speaker in the right place in the first
place. That's why our speaker isn't on the bottom,
so you can have it on the table, and you don't
need feet." Sure enough, no feet toe the iPhone's
smooth lines.

http://www.time.com/time/business/article/0,8599,1575743,00....
Celebrities often look very different in person than your mental image of them.
I hadn't heard about metagraph. Sounds useful. Where's the source?

As I understand it, the implementation in pypy is lazy by default and only "forces" a result when it's needed. So (again IIRC) it potentially avoids intermediates like numexpr (http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/).
Considering the tragic nature of the situation, the exit status should be nonzero.

#include <stdio.h>

int main(void) {
printf("goodbye, world\n");
return 1;
}
Ultraportables of that kind aren't really new either, though.

I use a 2006-era ThinkPad X60 laptop every day. It's five years old, 76mm (25%) thicker but 90g (10%) lighter than the X1 you mention.

Although I admit the X1 has a significantly cheaper RRP, so there's one noteworthy difference - these things are moving from expensive niche objects to the mainstream. Apple arguably spearheaded the move there.
I'm not suggesting it will play out this way, but financing drying up can be a step in the bubble bursting.
Ooh, rstat.us implements the OStatus protocol, so it interoperates with identi.ca. Good stuff!

The latest status.net release (the software behind identi.ca) looks an awful lot like Google+ or facebook, as opposed to previous versions' more specific Twitter-targeted style. After the #nymwars debacle on G+, I'm thinking perhaps identi.ca is the place to be, after all.
Milo API open: harness local commerce data
The iPad design team could have learned from the iPhone team. The speaker is on the back which makes it very quiet when watching a movie. You have to put something behind it to reflect the sound.
Like Android? Mobile Backend Service adds Android Support
Just put a fake phone number with the right number of numbers.
I haven't observed web startups running into a "cash crunch."

That said, it does seem to me that the market is exuberant right now. There are business cycles that imply things will go the other way at some point.

I also want to point out that it's utterly specious to compare the 826 consumer web startups funded in the last two years against the 416 funded in 1998-2000. How much bigger is the total addressable market? ~200 million people in the late '90s vs. 2.1 billion today? And that doesn't include mobile.

Similarly with the comparison of VC fundraising. The capital requirements of an Internet business are completely different today than they were in the '90s. (Does anyone from Web 1.0 remember budgeting $150,000 for servers?)
Understanding the Rails Logger
Isn't that possibly a selection bias though? Isn't it possible that the YC brand is still trending up while the market is starting to correct? Or do you believe there is no such thing as a YC brand and every YC startup is judged independently, thus giving you an unbiased sample of the market?

Granted, Jessica's a YC alum, but presumably the further out from YC you go, the less the YC brand matters and the more things like revenue start to influence funding.
Games are not games because they are scored and have goals. Games are games because they are fun. Scoring is one aspect and usually present, but it's only one aspect and will only appease a subset of people. You can play soccer for 2+ hours and not achieve a single goal. It's still fun. Even if goals are scored, keeping track is entirely optional. Soccer is a game and fun, even when you don't "gamify" it by keeping score.

Furthermore, "gamification" by that definition often begets "gaming" the system. Because scoring, measuring, and mechanical details almost never perfectly match the spirit and original intent of the game, these edge cases cause dissonance and frequently disengagement. Examples: A baseball player hitting 17 foul balls waiting for a good pitch, basketball players causing fouls on purpose simply to stop the game clock, monks in Everquest using the "feign death" skill to split mobs that would be unbeatable as a group; these are real dynamics in successful game systems originally designed or evolved to be that way. In other areas, such as academic grading or pay-for-performance, the dissonance is significantly more profound.

People play foldit because it's fun, and that's what "gamification" should be about. The scoring metrics are merely a small piece of that.
Its a great idea and a useful app. I liked it. Looks like you have already included quite a few ideas from here but you should continue improving it to include different variations in verbiage and also to look for special conditions like telecommuting etc .. Good Luck
The strategy followed by pypy to reimplement numpy from scratch makes it rather unlikely that it will support packages depending on numpy, because of the various dependencies on numpy's implementation details.
I'm didn't know the man but it's always sad to see one of the greats fall.

I seem to have mislaid my copy of the 'The C Programming Language', which is a shame as it is one of the few of the many programming books I have purchased over the years that continues to be relevant in this fast changing (and exiting) field.

RIP dmr, my condolences to your family and friends. You will be missed and your contributions appreciated by hackers the world over.
StartMate now accepting applications
Not if it's trending downwards.
Tough prediction to make considering it never went anywhere and Android is everywhere now
Actually when I read the post just now, I went to the shelf and picked up my copy of it and just placed it on my desk, he had a major impact on my life.

I "feel" more of a loss about Dennis' passing than Steve's.
In the realm of news, almost no one knows who Dennis Ritchie was. You can lament that fact (obviously, to anyone even remotely related to computing he was a figure of paramount importance), but it's ridiculous to expect the mainstream press to understand that importance.

Analogies are tenuous, but when Michael Jackson died, it was obviously big news. It was all over television. Nobody reported when Ross Snyder‡ died, even though his influence was of great importance. That's the way these things work.

‡If anyone didn't know, Ross invented the multitrack recorder, one of the most transformative tools in music production.
If a startup idea is really solid and has a potential for revenues, lets say in the short term ( < 1 year), do these market conditions affect funding such a startup idea. I mean, why would a VC or an angel not be convinced to invest in such an idea regardless of market conditions. Just trying to understand.
Invisible Interfaces
His great works had such amazing style -- simple, elegant, meaningful, effective. I think this sentence, which he not only co-authored but also executed on, summarizes it in plain English, all the more so when you read it from the small book in your hands.

"C is not a big language, and it is not well served by a big book."

These words have guided my writing as much as anything in Elements of Style.
Wow :) The resounding one.
Saving energy doesn't instill a sense of achievement. Nobody has a bucket list with an item that says "Save as much energy as I can". It just doesn't inspire anyone. Sorry if that's your startup idea.
I have, though not any large-scale intensive farming operations. I'm talking about robots with the dexterity and intelligence to replace human labor all but completely, to allow a large or small farm operator to manage pests and weeds without the use of hazardous chemicals.
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Can you show an article talking about how Steve Jobs would not be successful in East Asia?
Steve Yegge's Google Platforms Rant
Rest in Peace, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie. True Hacker Knight, Shinning Armor.

This is just for you. You will be missed.
The current code only implements a fairly trivial array structure in python, and it does not seem to implement any expression lazyness. But pypy should obviously make it easier to try this kind of things compared to the current numpy.
Having been through the tech crash v1, I cannot stress enough: You must always have an alternative to VC financing or you are playing russian roulette with the availability of new money.
I repeat my comment from the blog post - the real question here is whether we should expect companies to communicate with us using the method we want or should we communicate the way the company wants. The internet is moving us more towards the former every day.
I didn't even notice until I got to the part that explained how modern computers had 0.5G memory and 40G hard disks.
I love the `return 0;`. Something sad has happened, but it's not the end of the world and everyone continues on.
The iOS App Store: Needles in Haystacks
I've been following Steve Jobs since I was a kid, about 30 years ago. Woz was more my hero then, but I read everything I could about Jobs even then, and ever since.

I think Jobs transformed himself on a fundamental level. The young Steve seemed arrogant and self centered. Getting pushed out of Apple seems to have been a kick to the soul, and then in his 10 years away, he seems to have changed everything about him that was bad. Just check out how he responded to the insult given to him at the 1997 after WWDC session. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FF-tKLISfPE

Now that enough time has passed, all the people who were bashing Jobs from 1990-2011 are back bashing Jobs again.

But I think these stories are the real guy.

I was in his presence on a couple of occasions. You can fake some things, but its really hard to fake who you are. Everyone has their good and bad days... but one thing I can say about Steve, he was always genuine.

Made him a great salesperson, too, cause even if he was wrong, he believed.

So, I am grateful for these anecdotes. I'm eternally grateful for the 2005 commencement address. He was so private, and for good reason, and until the biography comes out these are some of the few views we have to him as a person. (I think the biography is going to be very revealing, and surprising when it comes out, since he's such a "control freak" but I think he didn't exercise any control, and people will be shocked.)
Users who bookmark and search engines care about non-random non-expiring urls. The urls on HN are wrong in every way a url can be wrong.

Closures create a resource for every closure instance which isn't very scalable or efficient -- it is in fact the problem with this very site. It might be useful for building complex applications but it's just a liability and a waste for something as simple and busy as HN.

I'm trying to convince you that manually routed URLs are always preferable but they should be for a site like this.
I've had the same realization about the iPad after working with webOS on the HP touchpad. I think the reason so much gets taken for granted with the iPad and iPhone is that their design and interface are very intuitive, so that you never have to really spend a lot of energy learning how to do things on them -- what comes naturally usually works. When you use a device that does things differently, you have to stop for a minute and take notice, and actually learn how to do it the way they've designed it (not that that makes it inherently worse).
Exactly. When I first found out about dmr, I really really hoped the stories will flood in here after the massive Steve Jobs amount. Not to take anything away from Steve, but dmr is far more important in my opinion, and I'm sure many other geeks would agree. I'm glad he isn't just quietly being forgotten like I feared he would.
I just use a google voice number set to transcribe all incoming calls and email. Unless someone has a very inconvenient accent, it seems to work well. I'm not deaf, merely antisocial.
Bloom Worlds - Learning from Failure
Go read Jessica's blog post from August - she advocated raising as much money as you could, etc. I asked the same question as you did on her blog but never got a response. What's wrong with you know making money to grow instead of trying to just grab vc cash.
Steve Jobs (and Mac) Trivia Questions
That's what they said about reimplementing Python ;)
Siri has to have some massive AI to know where to find weed and hookers. I can't imagine them building in that sort of functionality.
This is a platform, you can just buy them:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3101876
True enough. It's not an error; it's expected behavior.
You mean:

#include <stdio.h>

main() {
printf("goodbye, world\n");
}
THAT wasn't clear. Both of your examples, law and medical licenses are legally required.

Journalism schools already teach ethics and offer certificates. Reporters already are members of organizations with ethics statements:
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp

All I'm saying is legally requiring some sort of enforceable code of conduct for journalists before they can work is a violation of free speech.
Yes, everyone subscribing to a CSA would shift the face of food production in the country, by instantly jacking up the price of food for everyone, drastically reducing the efficiency of the food supply system (local farms being for many obvious reasons far less efficient), plunging whole regions of the company into seasonal food "droughts" (as Northern families throw away bushels of beets and sweet potatoes and go to McDonalds instead), and increasing energy consumption.

I'm a CSA-eating locavore; I buy my protein from a whole-animal butcher who's on a first-name basis with the farmers who raise all his products.

It is a spectacular luxury, one I'm actually faintly guilty about.
I know it's kinda tasteless, but `puts` is more appropriate.
SegmentFault, a Stack Overflow Clone for China’s Techies
SegmentFault is a vertical community that provides social Q&A for programmers. Second, this team also created a blog-management program based on open source PHP called Type-Echo
Google+ was supposed to address that?
Yep, Apple's docks have little cut-outs. Some 3rd party inserts for various cases have cut-outs too.
Damn.

That hit me harder than I would have thought possible.

The family of man is poorer for his passing, regardless of how few may know why.

Wow. I don't know if I'm at a loss for words, or have too much to say, but I'm really having a hard time putting my thoughts into a brief post.

Rest in peace, dmr.
Not quite: it's expected behavior, but still an error. In the logic of a testsuite, it's an XFAIL.
Not only is K&R _the_ book for C, it's an example for engaging, lucid, just-right technical writing that any technical manual should strive for.
Which API? Not that I think Google's APIs are all brilliant, but on the whole, I curse them much less than I do some other companies' APIs (like Facebook and just about anything by Yahoo).

But then again, the quality of their APIs varies pretty wildly from product to product.
I am not saying this story is true or false, but it reminds me of Bob Marley's cause of death.
I don't believe there is a cash crunch, but investing wouldn't dry up completely if there was. There are often exceptions for the best of the best. Investing doesn't come to a full halt during hard times, investors are just more careful. Ideas without a product would be a tougher sell if there was in fact a cash crunch.
There is a thing called a "multi-sided market".

Saying "you are the product not the customer" is not only popularist, but wrong.

Think about Skype - most of their customers don't pay, but they derive value FROM Skype - AND they add value to the paying customers.

Simplifying complicated markets with statements like "you are the product not the customer" is a disservice to the discussion.
The |s, the |s are calling.
My source is one of my professors. He told this to the class while talking about CDN.
It's too bad he's downvoted, because he's not completely wrong. http://1876.voxcdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/siri_weird... clearly shows an example of wolframalpha.
Why are you opposed to rBGH? Please be as specific as you can.
You may want to wait and see how this feature really works.
Tokyo Yamathon: The Ultimate Urban Adventure
it all happens on the servers, so there's no end to Siri's incremental 'intelligence'.

This is why I'm amused, but not amazed. Siri presumably has an actual team of ghostwriters cranking out amusing answers to FAQs.

And I can't wait for someone who has read The Diamond Age to concoct a version of Siri in which the responses are read aloud by actual human actors, who are paid Mechanical-Turk style, rather than the synthesized voice. Though the effect might actually be ugly: the human intonation will come through, but probably too well, such that every few responses "Siri's" personality seems to change.
RIP. It seems they are into a big project up there.
They were huge, and still are. 40 years on, his work is the basis for a lot of what's interesting in tech right now.
Ban programmers not functions (about memcpy_s) [2009]
thanks Ritchie,for your great contribution, Without you ,I'm sure,we won't be what we are now. RIP.
3G owner, made that mistake with 4.0....just reverted to 3.1.2

Not making that upgrading mistake twice...