skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
well to be honest that client library was written to address the shortcomings of the previous Python library, which didn't support Recurly.js (arguably the best part of Recurly), but the new Python client library does and my library wasn't completely finished yet. Even though I have to move some code on my project over, it frees me from having to finish writing that client library, which is honestly about as interesting as waiting for paint to dry so you can watch it chip. It's don't exactly wake up in the morning and think "I wonder what kind of XML I'll get to parse today".

I'm annoyed that I did a bunch of throwaway work that could have been easily avoided, but the API updates are a significant improvement and they solve a bunch of problems for me that I was previously forced to solve myself (especially the new support for multiple subscriptions), so it all comes out in the wash.
Where do you(as a company) store important paperwork?
Our world is becoming progressively digital. Do you still hold on to the original paperwork for your company or have it all tucked away digitally? I'm talking about employment contracts, stockholders agreements, NDAs, anything that counts as important paperwork to you.
Some would arguing that the panic raises awareness which helps kill these things before they become a reality.

Also many of us would not like to wait several years if such a bill is passed to see which way the Supreme Court will decide.
Well, if you go back to 2003, there was the Motorola A760, which looked a lot like current android phone but without capacitive touch (resistive touch/stylus, no keyboard though). Oh, and it ran linux, and apps via java.

http://www.gsmarena.com/motorola_a760-392.php
Second, that the people at the top have made out like bandits over the past few decades, and that now everyone else must pick up the bill.

I have no idea what The Economist could possibly mean by "pick up the bill" in this context. They know as well as anyone that wealth isn't conserved. If my company makes twice as much money next year as this one, I've added to the world's wealth, not subtracted from it.
For what it's worth, the OpenBSD team is working on improved buffering for high-RAM machines:

"Computers today have immense quantity of unused memory. This new software almost works, we still have some minor bugs to fix, but the results so far are incredible. On computers with 16GB of RAM we can dedicate as much as 13 GB to buffering and almost no data is read from the hard drive, everything is in the RAM. It performs even faster than SSDs. We only have to write to the disk anymore and that’s mainly for reliability reasons. I estimate we’re a year away from the whole thing working flawlessly. From this aspect the 6 month release cycle is a bit limiting."

http://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article&sid=2011101806163...
archive.org has a copy of Part 2: http://web.archive.org/web/20101023104654/http://blog.ksplic...
> They do not mention if these numbers were adjusted for inflation...

The graph is labelled "US real average after-tax income" (emphasis mine). Real income is, by definition, income that has been adjusted for inflation.
Can you share what types of meetings you have lined up, if you'll be speaking to any members of Congress in a formal setting, etc?
this just screams seo crap to me
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Here is a small test:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/tmp/file count=50k bs=100 # create 5MB file of zero
aes -e -f file -o file2 -p asdfasdf # create aes encrypted version of the file
tar -czf file.tar.gz file # compress file
tar -czf file2.tar.gz file2 # compress encrypted file
du -sh file* # check size of all files

Here is the output I got:

4.9M	file
5.0M	file2
8.0K	file.tar.gz
5.0M	file2.tar.gz

These results pretty much speak for themselves. Just think of it this way, compression works by finding patterns (like every byte is zero), and only storing the patterns. If the encrypted data has patterns, then the plain text could more easily be found.
Perhaps it is necessary for the 1% to have huge sums of money and income compared to the rest in a flourishing economy. For one, it means they can spearhead the direction of capital. If you look at the graphs, everyone is doing better. It also leaves out many products that you can get now for less money or with more features. Everyone uses the same iPhones, college students and the rich.

There is not an inherent problem in income inequality if everyone has an acceptable standard of living. The problem is when the poor go without health care, food, shelter, education, Internet, and heating. Unemployment can be a large part of this.
Lua is pretty well established in the gaming world as a lightweight but fast scripting engine. It seems to be gaining some momentum in other domains lately too. It's somewhat similar to Python but without the extensive standard library.

It's not going away but it's hard to say how much bigger it will grow. It seems like a good fit for mobile devices. It's used in Corona, for example.

Edit: corrected Cocos2D -> Corona. Thanks!
The size of Google makes me very skeptical about working there, despite getting called by recruiters fairly regularly. I feel drawn to a more informal startup or academic atmosphere. My experience with large companies is that the number of meetings and cover-your-ass behavior that goes on increases greatly as the company size grows.

Can anyone who has seen Google grow comment on culture shift over the years?
"These are the imminent signs of a fake" <--- What...exactly... does that mean?

Definition of imminent: "About to happen"
So if we are not to sell pets, does that mean we need to give birth to them ourselves?

Obvious situational differences aside, I'd actually hazard that pets aren't too far away from the rights of 2 year olds.
First, You can read this graph in many ways, including that everyone has become more wealthy in a short period of time.

Second, all of guilmarin's points:
1) Transparency - Only politicians would disagree with this. Good idea.
2) As other readers pointed out, this is a red herring, and would not solve anything.
3) This has the effect of killing the messenger, and there is a lot of evidence that derivatives are extremely helpful to markets as an information tool and reducing volatility. I certainly can't come up with a compelling moral reason to limit free people from doing what they want with their property.
4) The tax code should be simplified, but because simplicity is inherently better. Removing the corporate tax, as indicated, would both decrease complexity and promote investment.
5) Do you have any evidence that junior senators and representatives are better or worse? I could see a problem with lame ducks increasing their cronyism rather than decreasing it. I don't have an intrinsic opinion on this, but certainly sounds like a reasonable goal if you can come up with a clear mechanism on how this would help and particularly data to support. Looking at incumbent stuff might be a good way to do this.
Right, we'd have to get some concrete numbers for the drawbacks of HFT (if any) and then compare with the benefits. What's the societal value of having a $20 spread vs a $230 spread on a million dollar transaction? What is an acceptable trade-off spread value, how do we define it in the first place?
It's great to see tools like this start to emerge on iOS but the new 11" MBA is only slightly more trouble to lug around but is infinitely more useful as a development tool than I suspect a tablet will ever be.
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You chose to buy an iPod. If you don't like the way it works, buy a different device.
After Citizens United, I no longer trust the court.
Hmm. I just started playing with a comic about "Miss Fussyspider", who likes to organize and sort things; a friend suggested that it could be a tutorial on different sort algos... and then I see this. HMMM.

Wonder if they'd want a comic-book introduction to sorts. I always see the PragProg line as being a bit more hardcore than that but you NEVER KNOW.
Who will pay for this new tax?

If you're a company raising money, investors will want to be compensated for this extra cost, thus shifting the burden onto the company and raising the cost of raising capital.

If you're an investor who wants to liquidate, you'll be offered a price lower than fair market value, as buyer will want you to cover the tax portion.

Armed with this knowledge, the rational you will think twice before converting cash into financial equity instruments. Maybe you'll choose CDs, maybe bonds, maybe stocks of foreign companies that trade on exchanges that have no such requirements.

You could probably mitigate the HFT strategies by suggesting the market stay open for just a few hours a week - enough for buyers and sellers to match outstanding bids, not worth it for HFTraders to bother.
If you mistake the call for Cocoafication for nothing more than a call for "prettiness", you're naturally going to end up missing why people care so much about it.

Java applications don't support a lot of deeper OS X features that make the platform so consistent. I have custom keybindings set up via the DefaultKeyBinding.dict mechanism that work pervasively throughout the OS, except in applications like AppCode that seem to think that their ease of coding trumps my consistency of platform and configuration. I think that kind of assumption is utterly broken and user-hostile, and it has nothing at all to do with "prettiness".
DHH is always fun.

David Heinemeier Hansson at Startup School 08
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY

Jason Calacanis vs. David Heinemeier Hansson on This Week in Startups
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPrvnlvnu-k#t=47m
Simple ARC explanation
I'm really sorry to hear about your loss. Parrots are wonderful creatures.

I will point out that, though letting your parrot out of the cage for indoor exercise is important -- and they do indeed love to climb around, so get a big ol' play gym with branches and little chains and stuff -- nobody in the (North American) pet-parrot literature recommends letting them outside. Indeed, letting a hand-raised parrot escape to the outdoors is a classic way to get them killed. They have no idea what to do out there, they often get lost or confused or stressed and fail to come home, even from the top of a tree right next door. And, obviously, there are a lot of dangers to a naive bird in a tree: Hawks, cats, other mammals, perhaps even snakes...

Now, obviously there are lots of places where wild parrots live outside by the thousand. And in the right climate even former pet birds can successfully transition back to the wild. (Even in North America: See The Wild Parrots of Telegraph Hill, a great movie.) And if you had an originally-wild bird it's even less surprising that it managed to negotiate trips to the trees and back. But it's kind of fortunate that yours kept coming back.
Inspiration can be highly personal. This is the video that did it for me. "When you want to succeed as bad as you want to breath, then you'll be successful."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsm-QbN9r8&t=20
If Apple doesn't ban this app, it will be a dramatic about-face from the offensive "no code other than what we permit" policy they've held since day one. I don't think it's naïve to be surprised they might actually cave after so many years of criticism by makers went nowhere. Hell, if they're going to start treating me like a human being and actually mean it, I might even buy one.
I was literally unboxing my Arduino Uno when I refreshed the page and saw this link. Nice to read how the Arduino got started and where it comes from, because I really didn't expect to see a 'Made in Italy' sticker that holds the packaging together. Time to start building some robots....
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My thoughts exactly. I've been trying to figure out the best way to introduce my kid to programming, when it becomes relevant. Games are probably the most engaging type of software for children.

This app is just what I've been looking for. On a PC, even the best educational programming environment can't get rid of all the PC-related overhead. You can't beat an iPad for simplicity; no need to learn about filesystems, your app runs full screen by default so there are no distractions, etc. You can just pick it up, dive right in and make a game.
The relevant Dilbert comic:

http://search.dilbert.com/comic/Random%20Number%20Generator
Except there's no loophole. Registering the vehicle at purchase (or at beginning of lease) is required. Cal DMV will then send you plates. At which time your paper stickers expire.

Besides, his vehicle wasn't displaying the temporary plates either.

Look, MacObserver and all the rest of you fanboys: Steve Jobs just decided to disobey the law. There's no loophole. There's just a guy who thought the lines of his car were spoiled by license plates and who decided that, fuck it, he's a billionaire and the laws didn't apply to him.

Jobs was an asshole and a scofflaw. He'll be remembered for doing great things with Apple. Quit trying to whitewash the rest of his life. By the time you people get done with him, his Wikipedia page will talk about how he spent four hours every day feeding puppies and orphans. Sheesh. Knock it off already.
The thread you linked to is (currently) three days old. That's like practically an archaelogical dig for HN (granted it was only 2 days old when you posted this now day old question). This forum moves pretty fast. I email myself a link to anything I want to check back on because it moves so fast. I really don't see any reason to treat this as some big mystery.
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I would not sit through 18 minutes of commercials for a 42 minute show, neither 30 minutes for a 90 minutes film.

I don't mind watching commercials (for television particularly), but your numbers are really, really high.
You don't need to define HFT, nor do you need to play games with values. Set the tax at a raw percentage of the transaction's value. This percentage can be ludicrously low, like one hundredth of one percent, and still achieve the desired outcome. Such a tax will have no appreciable effect on "normal" trading, but would seriously diminish HFT.

I have no idea whether this would actually be a good thing or not, though.
The U.S. upper class: Soviet blatnoys in capitalist drag.
I think you mean Corona, not Cocos2D. The last time I used cocos, it was strictly an objc library to make opengl dev easy.
I just discovered that there's nothing like PIL for doing image processing in Ruby.

Isn't RMagick "like" PIL?
Actually it's true. Apple removed Scratch from their app-store because "Apple wants to focus on consuming media using these devices, not producing media."[1]

[1] http://computinged.wordpress.com/2010/04/15/apple-removes-sc...
Full of shit as always.
It looks like this is something that the developer is already thinking about. https://twitter.com/twolivesleft/status/129304975623995395
It's not (just) the dynamism of Objective-C that make some refactorings unable to be guaranteed to produce correct results; the "C" part plays a big role as well.
FWIW, I wish you'd keep most of your thoughts private :-)
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Yes, Lua is an excellent language and used very heavily in the games industry - a LOT of AAA games use Lua for scripting. I don't see it dying out in the foreseeable future.

Furthermore, on platforms where it is supported, LuaJIT provides a blazing fast implementation (and includes a very very simple to use FFI to make embedding in C even easier) which has shown to be competitive with C in some benchmarks.
Some feedback on this graphic's data:

At least at Microsoft, my recruiters told me that a huge portion of the resumes submitted were from people who submitted either every day or multiple times a day. There's a "zeroth" reviewer that is a computer that determines and processes duplicates. I'd assume Google has the same problem and a similar solution (or else they hire a lot of recruiters).

I don't think this graphic's "25% increase" number accounts for attrition. I would expect Google's total attrition number (bad+good) to swing between 5-10% year to year.

Would people please stop quoting salary numbers as if that's the major portion of compensation at these kinds of companies? The reason it's hard to leave places like MSFT/Google/Amazon isn't the salary; you can get that anywhere. It's the N-year vesting stock grants. Once you've been there for N years, you have a full set rolling and vesting each year, with the number increasing every year. As you pass N years, you typically go from 100% of your salary in additional stock-grant income to some moderate integer multiple. Not counting bonuses. It's getting people to leave behind many hundred thousand dollars of pending grants that's tough, not matching the salaries.
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Yep, it's actually already available:

https://github.com/pmn/noir-messageboard
Oracle vs Google gets postponed all the way into 2012
Having a "contractor" role there is going to throw off salary. If this is a typical contractor role then it is likely to be much higher. Does anyone have an idea how many contractors Google employ?
Do yoga, lots of it. Like 30 minutes a day. Don't wear knee pads or ancle pads they will get you hurt more. Being flexible is the best way not to get hurt and just don't force anything just flow. Flowing will allow you to control the pace and allow you to tap early (and tap often). Also avoid rolling with meat-heads.
Oh no I am speaking of licensing the graphics engine underneath to devs so they can distribute their own standalone games in the app store, without users having to download this app.
This is nice :) It's an "Infinite monkeys and infinite typewriters" kind of thing. I like when these sort of patterns emerge in random series.
Ask HN: Facebook removed programming languages from "languages you know"?
Today I see that the programming languages I had listed on my FB under "languages you know" randomly disappeared. I tried to type them back in and nothing showed up. I tried every language I could think of after that and not a single one showed. Anyone else notice this?
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As snippyhollow pointed out, you're right with regard to frequency and that is the Nyquist-Shannon sampling theorem. However, it is important to realize that the resolution of the sampled signal is separate from the sampling rate and so the second part of your statement is incorrect. In theory, a signal sampled at its Nyquist-Shannon rate may be perfectly reconstructed to its analog equivalent. In practice, quantization (the number of bits used to represent each digital sample) will cause distortion to occur, but the bit depth or resolution of a sampled signal is only limited by hardware - in other words, there is certainly a limitation but one-bit quantization would not be useful (and thus not used) for recording an ultrasound signal.
Somebody forgot to tell you that the created content can only be used by you and not others. This is because the app is prohibited by Apple from downloading and running code. Want to run a cool program you wrote on your mom's iPad? Gotta type it all over again. This is because Apple prohibits apps from running downloaded code. How useful is that? Not to mention the banning of similar apps that don't use Lua or JS and even prototyping apps. This prototyping app was in limbo in the app store for 3 months before the developer just gave up in disgust. http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/1015614125/google-voice-says-h...

http://blog.robrhyne.com/post/659211315/almost-on-the-app-st...

Now THAT is(or could've been) a useful content creation app, but you can't have it.

In contrast, even MS with a similarly closed ecosystem, provides a development system on Windows Phone with a tool from Microsoft Research that allows users to write, share and run code from the cloud directly on the phone. http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/touchdevelop/
A few of those are from the 2003 book "How Would You Move Mount Fuji?" which is about Microsoft interviews. They are part of Silicon Valley/Seattle lore, but likely no longer used.
Nobody is denying the way 3G users got screwed. I should know, I'm still paying out a contract for my 3G which was boxed up long ago and replaced with a 4. However this situation didn't repeat itself with the 3GS & iOS 5. They learned from that and corrected it, especially now that they are still selling it. iOS 5 runs beautifully on the 3GS.

Point being, all of the Android phones released around the original iPhone and iPhone 3G have most definitely been cut off. However, the Nexus One is newer than the 3GS, not to mention the benchmark model for that generation of Android device, and it has already been cut off.

This is separate from the 3G issue which was bad, but is in the past at this point. It's also arguable that even slow 3G users are better off than users of the same era stuck with Android 1.5/1.6. Hell, just throw ultrasn0w on your 3G and it becomes perfectly usable again.
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Would it really be Stallman without long moral justifications of every clause?
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Google's power is not in being the press, but in being the distribution channel
VS just tries to do too much. Integrating TFS is a bad idea, that should be a separate application entirely (or possible 2 separate applications). VS nails the core functionality it has provided since VS2003; code completion, refactoring, debugging. Too bad the featuritis means we have to deal with weird bugs like random freezes that require to close all the way out and restart. You can always just use the text editor of your choice and msbuild though.
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Even though, my introduction to programming was through vi and notepad, often I find that when I'm trying to teach kids how to program, they're turned off by the 'clunkiness' of IDEs and compiling.

Imagine how amazing of an introduction to the world of programming Codify would enable for kids. Teaching computer science in elementary schools will become so much easier and fun. This looks like something kids would love to use. And perhaps, it'll enable a new wave of young hacker/entrepreneurs who'll go on to make more awesome products.
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BTW, the most recent figure I heard (from a reliable source) is that Google actually gets two million resumes per year. I don't know how many are dupes.
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Mahalo pivots for nth time.
Ah, I missed that. Nice catch! :)
For what it's worth, I lived near Jobs' growing up, and not once heard of his plates (or anyone in that neighborhood's) plates getting stolen.
great to finally see something like this!
No, it died just before the last election in August 2010. Officially it's 'on hold', but practically, it is dead.

How? A lot of pressure put on a lot of politicians in the run-up to the last federal election, which promised to be very close (and was actually one of the closest in history).

You obviously have to pressure whomever holds the majority, but you've got to let the other side know about it as well.

So Australia is filter-free for the foreseeable future - it's become a 'dead issue' that politicians aren't willing to spend political capital on.

US Folks should take this as a bright data point that these battles can be won, but it will take a lot of effort.

Personally it's something that Tea Party and OWS types could get together on, because it sucks for everyone. That's what happened in Australia - they took heat from both 'sides' of politics and it got dumped (sorry, postponed)