skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"If the definition of letting them be kids is shutting off the TV, on sunny days pushing them out the door to go play in the dirt, and on rainy days taking them to the library..."

I push my kids outside on the rainy days too. Of course, I make sure they are sufficiently dressed for the occasion.

Finding fun in the mundane is rewarding on many levels. Having a companion during these moments can cause these episodes of fun to turn into life long positive memories.
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I really don't care, and I know female programmers who don't care, and I'm actually annoyed that this question is being asked.
Nice. This might lead to some cool Siri-based hacks.
I am less than happy that Google Maps is dead. OpenStreetMap is still far from being comparable.

I think I made a mistake with the figures. I just checked that email again and it says 10,000$ for 1 million page views per day for public facing deployments. What a shame.

Google is changing. They used to be startup friendly. Now they focus on internal startups, and with a switch of a button cut services to potential competing startups.
Reddit attempted this but gave up. From what I can remember, the personalized stories were not noticeably better than random.

For instance, here on news.yc, I posted in a Iphone thread today, but I don't actually want Iphone news highlighted. I posted in a Steve Jobs thread, but I certainly did not enjoy the cacophony of stories that flooded the main page following his death.
I don't necessary disagree with you but there is middle ground here. While there is a problem with mass media only appealing to the masses (I.e. most of tv news), there's an opposite problem of an ivory tower editor caring only what happens in his or her world. there's an old saying in newsrooms that news is whatever happens to the editor.

So this technique could be used to suss out important topics that are outside of your newsrooms social sphere. And en evaluate the demand versus what your news outlet has currently produced for said topic.

For example, most editors live in their city centers and have little clue about the much more populous surrounding areas. So, not "Paris Hilton" and "Kim Kardashian"' but "Morningside Heights" vs "Flushing"
No, you cannot, bro.
I similarly can't understand how Microsoft is dying in the post-PC world that we are supposed to be living in, but somehow trying to kill Linux by requiring secure boot on it's PCs(which no one is supposed to be buying anymore).
Perhaps it's not so much a sexist term as it is a useful warning sign.
Why are Banks known for getting robbed more often than Bakeries? That's where the money is.

The reason you've been hearing about Mac popularity with regards to viruses is because it's true, despite the fact that you'd like to think otherwise.

The fact is that Mac market share is still only around ~15% in the US and much less than that worldwide. That is about triple the market share that they had ten years ago.

Also - Ever heard of Pwn2Own? The Mac has fallen first every year.
No one will upvote anything anymore. They'll move their cursors to the up arrow and pause for a moment.

What if this is the one? What if this link is the buried landmine that will explode and destroy my perfect Hacker News karma score. I can see the headlines now: "Respected Hacker News User Clicks on Obvious Flamebait" Think of the scandal.

And then they'll move their mouse cursor away, pining for a HN where they can express their opinions about articles without worrying about what the group will think.
"Bro" has become a word used like "hey guys" in mixed company, or "dude", applied equally to men and women. It's cultural, and like many cultural things, is popularized from chan sites. Starting as mocking the fratguy and Jersey stereotypes, it's now a cultural mockery of itself, like hipsters who hate hipsters.

My brother and cousins are increasingly "brotastic", with tough talk, and repeated high fives (followed by finger pistols). And they didn't even get it from the aforementioned chans; it grows naturally. As scary as that may be to the rest of us.

So, if the term sexist? That's two questions:

1. Is it intended to offend or drive away women? Probably not.

2. Is it offensive to women despite intent? Not for me to answer, as a man. But this is the more important question.

(Sorry, lots of editing. I realized I had a lot more to say. But if they wanted to go for this style, they could've just as easily made the first line say something like "looking for awesome dudes and lady-dudes with awesome skills and awesome personalities to join our awesome startup!" Or something as cheesy to ensure inclusion.)
I just wanted to thank everyone for the compliments. In case anyone is unable to buy or is really curious about the app, send me a tweet @mmackh and I'll provide you with a promo code - as long as I have any left
Don't pay heed to what stock analysts say. They can't predict the future, but instead of saying "I don't know" they make some forecasts with dubious assumptions, and then make stock recommendations.

http://articles.businessinsider.com/2009-08-08/wall_street/3...
Of course. Modern startup thinking seems to be "we'll get a fireproof door once the wood one has burnt down".

Only with this one it's not likely to be your possessions like it is with AirBnB, more likely to be you. Imagine the driver taking you down a quiet road to where his friends happen to be waiting.

Also, since you're taking passangers, do you need a taxi licence or liability insurance as a driver taking passangers for payment?
Yes, I think I remember what you were talking about.

Seemed like /. was one of the first millions-of-hits-per-day site that was heavily dynamic content. All with Perl and MySql, right? I still don't really understand how they do it, but I remember feeling grateful that they were describing it openly.
1. Programmer who...frat boy...calling everybody "bro"

2. A programmer who looks like, acts like, or is a bro.

3. A popular, cool, or otherwise normal person who has become intrigued by the fun of programming.

4. a bro who somehow learned to program

All of these seem to agree with what I said about it being bro + programmer and not itself about gender.
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Yes, sorry, I meant implementation of the language, ie. CLR.

That being said, having to rewrite an entire engine because of the underbellies of the CLR seems to be dubious, especially in the case of a development environment that purports to make life easier for the developer.

I have nothing against C#, one of the trading frameworks I use uses it exclusively (Ninjatrader) and it's pretty nice. It's just that I would hate to have invested weeks/months into a software project, using what I imagine would be tried-and-true software techniques, and then have to rework them to get over the particulars of the implementation.

That being said, I guess all languages have similar problems. For example, when I was working on a backend server back in 2001, we found that our product was "leaking" memory on HP-UX, even though none of memory leak detectors found any problems, and the memory leak problem didn't occur in Solaris, AIX and Windows (we had a cross-platform server). It turns out on high-load systems, our app was allocating a bunch of small strings all over the place, and the base memory allocator for HP-UX was causing memory fragmentation over time. By switching to another memory allocator that handled this situation, it fixed the problem.

I guess there aren't any C/C++ books that I've come across that say "don't allocate a millions of small memory blocks because your memory might fragment, even though you free them properly." So maybe I misspoke, I guess to some degree it does manifest itself in all implementations of languages.
They have a hand-coded javascript version in progress too:

https://github.com/mbebenita/Broadway/tree/master/Play
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I'm so tired of benchmarks that play with ints and floats which show how fast Java is.

Most business app work is string manipulation. If you think Ruby is slow, look at the timings for "sequential" operation in the table on this page (yes, it's my site):

http://roboprogs.com/devel/2009.12.html

If you think that I have badly blundered in my methodology, get the benchmark code, fiddle with it, and run it on your own hardware:

https://github.com/roboprog/mp_bench

FYI: I'm not trying to say that "Ruby is the most awesomest language, like ever, d00dz!!!". I like different tools for different jobs. I'm just tired of seeing people judge implementation speeds based on bit twiddling benchmarks, rather than stuff that at least churns through a large number of strings, if not other object types, and does some I/O.
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sexist? yes.

valid EEOC complaint? yes.

http://www.eeoc.gov/facts/qanda.html
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Whew, and here I thought some startup was launching a Coldfusion PaaS.
Slovenia has had a service like this for about 6 years and nothing has ever happened to anyone. It's much less of a problem than you'd think.
Ignoring the inherent immaturity: As a term of camaraderie I would consider it. The main problem with it is that it looks like it could be "sissy".
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Who writes an article like this and doesn't give a TIME for the presentation? Are we in the 1990's here?
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"Crunk" literally means being intoxicated from both marijuana and alcohol simultaneously. There's no way this posting was serious about the amount of partying.

If one reads carefully, the ad does claim that non-bros are welcome to apply, but I doubt that anybody else has read that far.
It's claimed to be producing energy via so-called "low energy nuclear reactions" involving hydrogen. You have to supply hydrogen (which you can get by electrolyzing water once the systems is up and running) and re-form the catalyst when it wears out. It's not claimed to be a perpetual motion machine, so stop attacking a straw man.

I remain highly skeptical about this, but it's not a perpetual motion scam.
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>it sounds like either machine is a huge time sink for you

No, it doesn't sound like that. There are many things I like to tweak that make me more productive. Tweaking those things is time-consuming, but once it's done, I never have to waste time on it again. This default window manager sucks? Let me spend a day to throw it out and install awesome. I find myself doing the same things over and over again in Emacs? Let me write and store a macro for it. And you know what the really cool part is? _I can do these things!_. And I usually end up learning something useful about the system.

Now you may find Apple OS X perfect and that's great for you. But what if Apple makes some change tomorrow that bugs the crap out of you? Everytime you encounter that "shitty" detail, a little part of you will get irritated and want to take a hammer to your laptop. Or maybe these things don't bother you. I, however, won't live with something like that.
You can't get a complaint letter from a murder victim.

It's an awesome service among friends though.

What's the service called in Slovenia?
I love the convex/concave in/out zoom. The other stuff seems less intuitive, but still pretty impressive.
Completion could need some work, though. Maybe it's just me, but I'd expect that clicking on one of the origins/destinations when they pop up would select it and quit the dropdown (normal combobox behavior).
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Now things are going to get interesting. Games distributed to the Google TV via the Android Market, using an existing Android-powered smartphone or tablet as a controller. Hell, developers have already figured out ways to get the Wii remotes and other console controllers to work with Android.

If Google plays their cards right, especially with some more powerful hardware in their next iterations, they could accidentally become the next big contender in the Console Wars. If nothing else the Wii proved that the casual, indy market was a completely untapped niche that exploded overnight. The machine basically printed money for Nintendo for the past few years.
Let's say the oil price would dive vertically. And with free electricity, you could make synthetics and synthetic oil cheaper than digging for it. For some countries this would mean ruin. (Not to mention the US, having just spend so much money to take over Iraq.) But it would also relax many international conflicts. Suddenly, nobody would be interested in the Spratley and Parcell-Islands anymore, for instance.
I don't know. Running a vending machine actually would sound like fun to me. It's a modern day lemonade stand.
No, you still don't own it. The software it runs is still incredibly locked down, leaving you unable to inspect how it works at any reasonable level and unable to legally modify and resell it like you could with anything you actually own.
That would be Apple ;) You can probably use the latest iOS longer (as discussed yesterday) and it also hold a much much better resell value.
Lynnfield is the 45nm Core 2 Duo, kind of old to make a comparison. Intel doesn't sell anything as big as 300mm^2 in their current line except for $2k monsters like Westmere EX.

I honestly don't know where I got that number from. I was thinking something like $200 average for the 2-core Sandy Bridge die, which is 90mm^2 I think. I'm obviously not privy to sales volume numbers nor to what their wholesale prices look like. So feel free to apply a factor of N to that intuition.

And obviously I meant revenue, not margin. Apologies.
Exactly. At least they let you know that they have the data and the opt-out was easy enough (I also did it).

Organizations share gtheir mailing lists ALL THE TIME. If I pay a membership to museum for a year, I suddenly have five similar museums sending me their marketing info in the mail.

I used to work at a non-profit where this happened constantly. Sure, it wasn't a lot of data about what I have done, but it was basic demographic stuff. To me it made no sense, you'd think that you'd want to protect your donation base at all costs, but this is how deals/partnerships are made between organizations.

Who knows what Facebook is doing with all of that data. If only they were as transparent as B&N with it.
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Guessing from the name, probably an app that displays information on the lock screen. One of the (many) features that Apple does not deem worthy of iOS, thus forcing customers to jailbreak their phones to have it.
Saying that the alternative is "a stiff and sterile ad" is a fallacy of false dichotomy.

fair enough. to clarify--"a stiff and sterile ad" is the only type of add that won't alienate any possible subgroup.

the goal of a job ad is not simply to "attract talent". it's to attract the right kind of talent. to that end, a job ad that emphasizes culture is one way to look for it. these guys made a choice, and it looks like their (imo) poorly-worded job ad isn't being well received by the majority of people on hn. but unless we know that no suitable candidates resulted from it, i don't think we can claim it a failure.

To be fair, it's not a job ad that fails here, it's the culture that came up with that job ad.

agree, in the sense that if people react adversely to this job ad, they would have a similar reaction to the company culture.
How much effort does Apple put into securing the devices nowadays? The hackers seem to be getting quicker and quicker with each release, it's as if Apple isn't even trying anymore!
Brings to mind two ideas.

Could a parent do all of this without actually renting a machine? Not ideal and a bit of a white lie, but would remove that cost. A father/mother could come home each night or report back at the end of the week. A bit like playing lemonade stand by proxy.

Could a simple app assist a parent in doing this and getting imaginative/realistic situations to keep the child interested? Or even a service renting physical vending machines specifically for parents and children to try this?
Yes, but, it would be a dead horse, they would have not been keeping it in production and improving it over the past 5 years. I think this is the key, well designed, well maintained, well used for critical stuff in a big company all that over several years.

Edit: forgot part of the sentence, stupid me.
Thinking about it more, this is a great way to spread the message of how awful this bill is.

We do not need the big tech companies to sign on, we just need a handful of small startups. Startups are representative of future economic growth and everyone understands this.

Example headline would go something like this -- "Fearful new legislation will cripple the internet, a growing number of young tech companies have banned 28 senators from ever using their products."

If anyone wanted to do this, I would put up a few thousand dollars.
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All of these seem to agree with what I said about it being bro + programmer and not itself about gender.

Try looking up the term "bro" on there
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=bro

Obnoxious partying males who are often seen at college parties.

An alpha male idiot.

a usually white young male

Stupid white trash guys in the 909 with lifted trucks, wife beaters, shitty music
Yeah, but doesn't everyone know everyone else in Slovenia to begin with?

Kidding aside, how many people get how many rides via that service a day/month?
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There's a bunch of those services in Germany, too. Then again, I think car sharing has been a bit popular in Europe in general, as cars per capita might be a bit lower, gas prices are higher and not everybody has a car suited for longer routes.

(Established players in Germany: http://www.mitfahrzentrale.de/, http://www.mfz.de, http://www.mifaz.de/, http://mitfahrclub.adac.de/, http://www.mitfahrgelegenheit.de/; One new startup I'm aware of: https://www.flinc.org/?l=en)
We do have a problem with this. We aren't whining. I asked some male friends about this just now and they think its shameful. It basically reads: "We are looking for male programmers, females need not reply." Yeah, just stick us back into the secretarial pool.
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I've been following this for a little while; just of idle interest.

Unfortunately everything about the way Rossi acts in relation to the project screams scam.

I bet nothing conclusive comes from this test..
The App Store has an unbelievable positive impact on the developer ecosystem.

Paul Graham (the creator of this site) commented on the App Store himself, and his words were not entirely of ignorant praise like yours are:

http://www.paulgraham.com/apple.html

The scarce thing is really your favorite band making a kickass song, investigative journalism instead of astroturfing and GRRM writing the next ASOIAF novel in less than five years.

Although this is besides the point, it is pretty easy to envision a moneyless post-scarcity society where such songs, novels, reports, and other forms of content are delivered to everyone free of charge:

http://adciv.org/
That license for Android seems to suggest it includes at least the GPL. That means commercial apps built with this library must make the source available, right?
While I do agree that it was not professional nor would I have posted it, I feel like many of you guys are taking it personally.

I was involved in greek life during my undergrad and we used to joke around about the "bro" lifestyle because we were all far from it, yet outsiders associated us with it simply because we were in a fraternity. That's what made it so funny to us; while other "frat bro's" would be out partying at 1am on a Friday, all of the engineers and CS guys in my fraternity would be in a computer lab.
This seems like the perspective of someone without spouse and kids. Which is fine, and I don't even disagree. But there are people for whom (and phases of life in which) a steady pace is not a bad thing at all, and not necessarily indicative of hating your job.
It's not really a customer support line, it's more of a redirection to a customer support line. There's no actual queuing going on, and if the dialed number doesn't pick up it's going to go to their voicemail, rather than the support voicemail to which after-hours calls go.
Looks like the Kindle and the Nook are the clear leaders in both availability and price.

I haven't been too impressed with magazine iPad apps, so I'm hoping the Kindle Fire reigns in their "creativity" a bit and keeps the prices more in line with the print equivalents.
The difference though is that F&P were real scientists who simply happened to be wrong. They published their work in a way that could be replicated, and those experiments found their results were in error. They were shamed and embarassed, but they played by the rules and were doing real science.

This nonsense is pure charlatanry and fraud. An "inventor" working alone and discovering new fundamental physics without published results or peer review needs to be viewed far more suspiciously.
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To be honest, I'm not an Apple fan. I'm a fan of the iPhone; I think it's a superb bit of kit. But I waited 4 years to upgrade my last one, so I'm probably not exactly their best customer.

I don't really see the problem with claiming a company sets out to make money. But Apple's achievement in this area is nothing short of phenomenal. They've driven component costs down to the point that there's _hundreds_ of dollars of margin on every device. Then they've got the app store. The only firm I can think that does it this well is Nintendo, who even in the days they weren't fashionable were nonetheless very profitable.
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The subtle comments DO cultivate such a policy. Sexism in its worst form isn't overt - it is the small comments that are harmful.
Might it be simpler to penalize people who vote for an article which later becomes flagged/killed?

Maybe a temporary ding on their votes' impact.
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Okay, this is only tangentially related to the post, but this is the second article I've read on that site, and I keep running into an issue on Chrome in Linux:

http://www.larrikj.com/media/images/ss.png

I have the text not staying in the designated areas, and text overlaying other text. This happens on quite a few blogs I read on HN, so it's probably me and not them, but it doesn't seem to happen on most other sites.

Does anyone else see these issues? Did I break something in my install or settings (or extensions)?
This is totally anecdotal, but I've personally had far more problems with bad RAID controllers than with dying hard drives.
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Whenever you buy an iOS device you know that it is locked down. I don't understand why people feel the need to complain about this. You do own it, you can do what you want with it. It has just not been designed to make that easy.
The epitome of small-scale, early-stage funding. Good investment ;)
Why would they? It would just be a lot of hassle and money for something that is released for free anyway. You can get the same images off of NOAA's web site.

I hope that the control link is authenticated and encrypted in someway.
Didn't they do a similar announcement in the past (for older versions of the phone) that turned out to be vaporware?