skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really didn't like his 1GB example in the beginning. You can't compare humans to computer programs in terms of capability. Computer programs do very different things. Sure we can spot the missing triangle faster, but we can't sort 1M names very quickly.

And on flexibility of the human source code -- sure a small change results in a cow. But a small change in Windows (default registry settings) can make Windows start in its standard shell, command line, safe mode, Media Center mode, etc...

While I can be in awe of the complexity and power of living organisms, I don't think its all that useful to compare them to programs -- at least not based on our current understanding of biology.
Semantics. What matters to consumers is whether their phones get the new features, not who wins this pissing match.
I am using a branded T-Mobile HTC phone and I cannot agree more about unwanted crapware. I have a "Top Ten Apps" app on my phone which is preinstalled by T-Mobile, is not removable und runs permanently as a background process with 14mb ram (and I never started it) -.- I don't need to mention all those facebook, twitter and other "social" stuff where I don't even have accounts for.
I'm looking for a good solution for continuous integration of OS X/iOS builds. By the looks of these comments, this isn't it. Does anyone have more worthy suggestions?
Here's Wikipedia's climate data for Lulea:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lule%C3%A5#Climate

Looks a little cooler than most of the northern US. "Artic Circle" or not, you're right, this isn't "Open the doors and cool the servers" cold.
Most of the inner pages of content are black on white. Much more readable.

See: http://docs.scala-lang.org/overviews/collections/introductio...
I totally agree with you, they take the same effort at the beginning. Because of that, I think a lot of people figure they might as well swing for the fences.
One can also lease computers. Including Macs.
I meant this more as a data point for realistic mental comparison to an ASIC, or anyone thinking they might use one. It's cool that it's achievable, and saying "This (big-n) gate count part is available today!" is nice and gee-whizzy for the press release and trade mags, but divorced from it's cost doesn't mean much to someone who would put it to work, as I'd expect at least a few here on HN to be.

High-end Virtex 4 parts from 2004 still cost over $10k. These aren't the devices you design into products unless your market is low volume, high margin, and long life-cycle. This is the part you buy to prototype your own ASIC design.
Sigh. You know, there are some topics on which I might agree with your jaded view. But a topic like this? Where there is real risk of harm? And where the FAA is trying to figure out which laws they might use to protect people from such harm? I think your sarcasm is misplaced in this instance.
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She will program. For music. http://skud.dreamwidth.org/10449.html
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With your average presentation style red laser pointer I don't think there's any chance you'd be able to disturb a pilot. The astronomy pointer lasers and similar high powered units are what I understand to be the issue. They still look the same as a regular laser pointer pen, but emit a much more intense beam that remains visible for several miles.

When I played with a unit a friend had, at 200 yards the beam was already ~3' in diameter--so it's not exactly a tiny dot your trying to aim. In addition, you can see the beam as it travels through air, making it much easier to align if you were trying to aim it at something distant.

Edit: For a decent video of these handheld units in action, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAeF_bTF9CM. Units can be acquired relatively cheaply now (sub $100) which probably explains why this is an increasing trend.
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It looks like Android, but that's not my point. My point is that only fanboys care about a discussion of whether or not Android looks like X, or if Apple copied Y, etc.

I think productive people who actually create things that people use have better things to do than fight these wars so I flagged it -- HN is supposed to be for such people, and so why do we have fanboy ammo on the front page?
Well I made several points. If you want a TL;DR then it's "i'm sorry women get harassed sometimes, but this case is not the norm because she was much more of a target than most women in tech"
As a comparison, Pentium 3 had 10 million transistors. Does that mean that in theory you could implement P3 CPU on this FPGA?
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She'll develop… music: http://skud.dreamwidth.org/10449.html
The equivalent of MouseFree for complex programs. MouseFree is an Eclipse plugin that displays the keyboard shortcut for any action you initiate with the mouse. It's meant to train you to learn the hotkeys for things you do frequently so you can be more efficient. It requires less effort than reading a manual and I think it gets better results because it offers immediate feedback.

I'd like to see this concept extended further to more software.
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yes, in many countries. plus there's a significant chance your electronics will get "lost"...
Yes it is the fucking internet. But as far as I know it is also our fucking community. We can try to keep it clean of this kind of garbage and to improve it.

I do not know about you, but I pretty much enjoy the company of women and it is an all too rare experience in my professional life. I want women to feel welcome and relaxed in our field, not stressed out and on their guard.

Yesterday I went to a "team-building" event organized by my future employer. There were 2 women and 31 men... During this event I found myself in the middle of a match of masturbation and scatologic jokes. Those were fun when I was 15 but they feel now tired and old. This kind of stupidity tends to be inversely correlated to the proportion of women in the group... And it is only one of the many ways in which women can improve our community.

So yes, I want to "get more women in technology", not out of some stupid ideal but simply because I find it desirable. So I think it is important to encourage women and condemn the stupid jerks every time it is possible.
Except if they phoned you - it would be a crime and the police would investigate.
Buy a Mac Mini.
Actually, it's more like being an electrician and wanting to work on a particular job, but having to buy a very specific, very expensive tool just for that job. I'd like to dabble in iOS development but I've already paid a decent amount of money to buy a machine that does any other programming work I need, so I don't want to spend another £1000 - £1500 just to experiment, and I wouldn't use the Mac for anything else.

It's very common to hire tools, particularly expensive ones that you don't use very much.
In the case of iOS development, alternative tools have their own cost: effort to set up and maintain. Akin to how most operating systems besides Windows take additional effort to set up on that new Dell. If you can afford this extra effort (i.e. have the patience to work through the quirks), then you're welcome to it. Complaining about needing to obtain a Mac to gain the convenience of Apple's development environment is pointless.
Thanks coob. This was my requirement on a testing scenario to ensure my app is working correctly with Core Location, and my app is U.S. locations only right now. He's in Europe and he used a different 'fake location' work around (BTW, thanks on your link!), which is nice generally speaking to test app, except when the point of the test is to make sure everything OK with Core Location against my U.S. service data. While he can remotely use a mac on my network for this test, my question is to explore if this is viable option in place of that.
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My interest with FPGAs is more designing processors rather than interfacing with electronics. I like the products from OpalKelly [http://www.opalkelly.com/] for this as they have a USB interface and C libraries on the computer side, HDL on the FPGA side to abstract the host->FPGA communication allowing you to just focus on your design.
Since '98.
I guess I am stuck on what it is you mean by "falling for troll bait". In my mind it means that you get sucked into an internet argument by someone who clearly just wants to cause trouble, not have discussion.

The fault for this guy's escalation to the point of calling people's place of business , etc.lies entirely with him. So I'd agree that you treating men and women equally, but I would argue that you would be equally wrong.

It is possible that things have never happened but there seems to be enough evidence amongst others. From her original post, it appears she has gone to the police but they did not do anything. There is a rather expansive area of behavior that is clearly intimidating and inappropriate that is not technically illegal.
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It's an interesting take by someone who has been involved since the early days of personal computing. I have not read the Jobs book yet but I have been reading Dave's stuff since sometime in '98 (His writing used to be the second result when searching for scripting) and he is always good for an interesting perspective.

ps. Thank's to the mod's for removing the negative editorializing from the submission title.
Can someone please tell me why quitting the tech community would stop someone from harassing you because you are a woman?

If anything, you'd think bringing it up to the community and get help tracking down the person would work better. That or public ridicule/shaming. Something proactive. I mean, isn't feminism about fighting back against these degenerates?
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What IRC channels?

I never saw a troll on freenode, for example. Not a very frequent visitor, but still.
I think Apple+Nintendo would probably be the best fit in terms of corporate culture, much more than Sony, and Disney is a maybe, but that's really an industry they don't have much internal knowledge of.

That said, Apple+Nintendo may never happen due to nationalism. I can't imagine a Japanese national treasure like Nintendo being sold to a uniquely American company like Apple. I'm not saying it's impossible. It would just be a very big deal if it did happen.
Would you be OK if people often called you an abuser of women?

MikeeUSA is not (as far as we know) an abuser of women. He is a person who sends unpleasant nonthreatening emails while peacefully sitting in his home.

Your attempt to conflate people who initiate violence and people who express unpleasant opinions is dishonest.

Further, you don't have any "right to be happy". No one does. You have the right to pursue happiness in a manner which doesn't involve violence against others, but you don't have the "right to be happy". If I have a "right to be happy", then you are violating my rights by not buying me some whisky and hookers.
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But it is "Open the doors and cool the servers" cold in winter at least, so savings from cooling are sure to be substantial. Coupled with the cheap electricity in summer, and well developed infrastructure, and you can see why it was chosen.
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Walter Isaacson wrote the definitive biography of Einstein, so I believe he can grasp the technicals. The reason the book is not overly technical because like Apple itself, it's better to put people in front of technology.
The issue I see with that is that we've grown accustomed to breaks in our TV shows, whereas we would likely see any break in our movie experience as jarring and negative.

Something more like YouTube's banner ads along the bottom might work.
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We were young and stupid, and the world told us we were the super-exceptional people that Jobs apparently believed he was until he died. That's what makes this so hard to read. We weren't that special.

Dave Winer is an exceptional person but I don't like how he writes as if he was a complete equal to Steve Jobs. Just because Dave Winer doesn't think of himself as special, doesn't mean Steve Jobs wasn't special.

The people that think they are super-exceptional, are often the ones that end up being super-exceptional.
Glad you enjoyed the book.

And of course there's no reason you should care what I think.

Can't think of a single reason. :-)
Not exactly submerged, nor actually a lake, but Googles Finnish data center is cooled with cold seawater.
I'm not sure that this would solve the certificate problem. With the standard iOS dev program you can only use 1 machine to develop on. If you want to move to another machine you have to invalidate all your old certificates. If you are working off the same part of the server every time it might work but otherwise it would still be problematic.

Also it might not be very secure for the company to allow you access to Keychain.
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The "no factorial is a perfect square" is used to justify why square roots are applied before any factorial on a given node of the evaluation tree.

No factorial is applied on a non integer intermediate result indeed, but if the intermediate result "becomes integer again", factorial are tried.

For example, if a candidate is (1/2) * 3 * 4 + 5, then the algorithm won't try to compute any factorial of (1/2) * 3 = 1.5, but it will consider (1/2) * 3 * 4 = 6.0 as integer and try the factorial on 6.
Are you really sure they're not threatening?

Also, harassment goes far beyond trolling.
That's indeed a fun little problem, thanks!

For the lazy, solutions are at http://pastebin.com/XJZTFGHP
Based on his description of beating Very Hard opponents I'd guess it is gold to platinum level at the current stage.
So what I don’t get is the hate. I run a small crowdsourcing biz, (that was pretty risky to start btw, it ate both the founders life savings and more), and I’ve once or twice been told I don’t belong at various startup/hacker meet-ups. Or to "start a real company."

From my perspective the companies are the same size, the tech is the same, the risk to personal wealth is if anything greater, and heck sometimes the market is the exact same. Why I can’t talk about these problems with people just 'cause I didn’t take funding mystifies me.

Of course, not for long, as generally the people who make these comments are just rude, and not the kinds of people that I’m going to think too much about. Still in the moment it kinda stings.
But the OS isn't the tool: the project-building, code-compiling apps are the tools.
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According to the article. "The trend did not appear to be related to...any major shifts in American attitudes towards crime, fear of time, or reports of being victimized, reports Gallup."

I thought that at first as well, however.
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While you are at it, get me a cup of coffee... Aren't you asking for a bit too much (specially on the "lower the price" bit.
Wow, that's actually pretty brilliant, and doesn't feel like you're forcing CSS to act like a programming language.
This reminds me of back in University ~10 years ago. In one of my Java courses we had a female professor and one female student. The female student ended up dropping the course within the first month not from harassment by her fellow male students but because the professor was embarrassing/harassing her in almost every lecture by bringing up the fact that there was a female student in the course.

As a side note, that same professor said at one point during the course that males were keeping females out of tech by using terms and ideas such as Queues and Sockets. It was an interesting year...
This is also after a 4 year study, which is on the FAA page(http://www.faa.gov/aircraft/safety/report/laserinfo/).
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i don't know of a way yet to disable this feature globally, but you can disable it on an app by app basis by issuing this command in a terminal:

defaults write com.apple.Preview NSQuitAlwaysKeepsWindows -bool NO

just replace "Preview" (above) with whatever you want to not have restore windows instead.
A simple "help me choose a plan" type of wizard would definitely help strip the complexity of the pricing to the buying process.
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I disagree. I do think it can be better, but blaming your apps failure because of it isn't a good excuse. Granted, I work with an app that is on these leader boards but it wasn't always that way.

We started out having maybe 5-60 downloads a week for quite some time (1+ years). Now, we're at several thousand downloads per week and have been for the past several months. From the surveys we've done we've found at most about 5% stumbled upon our app and used it because they saw us in the app store. The rest? from continued press, advertising and word of mouth about what we are providing and how our app adds value to a users phone/life.

The reason why apps get to the top is because usually they're providing something novel, or at a minimum, provide something that no one else does well. It's something that happens in every industry. Are you really filling a need of someone other than you? Are you doing it better than the competition? (UI, Design and so on) Are you listening to your customers? There are exceptions, no doubt, but if you're building a killer product and advertise it elsewhere, I do think you too can make it.

With all of that being said, is the app I work on perfect? not in the least bit, but we're continually improving it, making our customers happier with each revision. (And when we don't, we act quickly) The list of todos for our app is 10x longer than what is done, but that's because we see so much potential. Is our app better than our competitors? certainly, our reviews, # of downloads and so on show it.
Of course when he was alive we were complete equals.

Do you know of a mathematical formula that allows you to compare two whole human beings?

To think otherwise is an exceptional form of hubris. And of course that extends to you and to everyone else who comments here.

And now that he's gone, I'm more of a person than he ever will be. I believe that's the sad truth of what death means, Sean. Gone is gone.
crowdsourced data driven smart phone app that lets you know when your program comes back from commercial. just tap the screen reapetdley once the program is back on. when signing on the user selects what they are watching, which network, locality, etc.. If you are the first person to sign on for that program, you would have to type in the details so others could follow it. use some sort of averging equation to cancel out the early tappers and the late tappers. no need to mess with synching scheduling data, the users do all the work. offer some incentive for those that inform the rest of the users that the commercial break is over. it's a dopey idea.
We can fix it to some extent through public condemnation, raised awareness and demonstration of support to the victims of this kind of behaviour.
There's a great deal more factors aside from the rise of the iOS platform that are relevant to Nintendo's poor performance.

- Extremely strong yen.

- 3DS is an expensive platform in the youth space at a time of economic uncertainty. (They've since price dropped to ~$169)

- 3DS appears to be a mere Nintendo DS 0.5 update until you actually experience the 3D in person.

- Weak 3DS games.

- Nintendo got over protective parents concerned by stating themselves that young kids (Nintendo's core market) shouldn't play the device.

- The Wii is dead.

The iOS platform is popular but we have to consider how many of the folks engaging in iOS gaming were likely to buy a 3DS in the first place. I'm not convinced yet that we're seeing a mass switch over. I think Nintendo does have to treat this competition very seriously, but I think some of the other points I listed above have had a larger negative impact on the 3DS and Nintendo's recent performance than the rise of iOS gaming.
And this is one reason why Google bought Motorola Mobility.
A video game which makes me want sorbet...
Do you mean MouseFeed?
Very true. Since Google makes Chrome, which is excellent on the desktop, there's no excuse to let us deal with the 'Browser'. Android has always been a 'work in progress' and it's been too long now.
Software compatibility is the key difference in here.
To this day, virtually every application built for windows will run on windows xp.
Does the same applies to android? I don't think it does. Many android apps require newer versions of android.
I believe phone manufactures want to push compatibility lifetime so they can sell more devices.
Please define "professional courier". Do you mean local courier companies? I was wondering about insurance coverage (for items shipped and also for people doing the deliveries).
My post wasn't condescending at all. I was just pointing out that instead of the typical reactions to affluence (jealousy, anger, etc.), you should admire it and strive to attain it while furthering your own skills and bettering yourself.

Most of my hustle has been in the form of serious hacking/side projects.
Yes, that's what I meant. I bet there are recordings too. It would be enormously selfish to keep those for himself, but I agree with you that it's unlikely. However, by asking for it, it seems to increase the likelihood that it will happen, however slightly. The question should be raised. Maybe after Isaacson dies he'll will them to a museum, library or university.
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Not everyone wants to go through this kind of battle against an anonymous adversary.

I think she has the right not to have her decision to quit questioned. Just because she was the one being harassed does not mean she is suddenly responsible for bettering women's situation in tech.
They are in Argentina. If you are lucky enough that they will actually allow you to receive the package at all. Just try to buy a Kindle, once it reaches customs they keep it there and there is basically nothing you can do about it.
I recommend wepay. We're building our marketplace with them and they seem to be the easiest way to get started.

They have a marketplace use case:
https://www.wepay.com/developer/usecases/marketplace.
She quit a tech job, not the geek femininsm community.
If threats were included, I'm assuming that Bayley would have mentioned it and the police would not have dismissed it as nonthreatening.
I would assume none. But I also assume it doesn't hurt to ask. :-)
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Probably, since the new JS Maps v3 API a key is no longer required.
So what kind of "developer" can't afford a computer of their own?
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A tool that evaluates which flights are most likely to be on time. I've noticed from travelling for business that there are clearly routes that you can have more confidence in than others. Add in weather, current events, etc.. It seems like it ought to be possible to give these trips a confidence indicator. Similar work could be used to indicate flights likely to be overbooked. I'd liket that too, because I like to get bumped for free tickets.