skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"When the last veterans of the earliest still-in-use software layers start to die, we will be in historically unprecedented territory."

So true, so true. We have already seen a spate of that this Fall, unfortunately.
I'd personally pull it. People are going to download it and it will then look like YOU bundled it this way.
Most people would think it was you who bundled those extra "apps", not download.com. To protect your app's brand I would remove it from download.com
Big Oil Heads Back Home
I read all of this but had the uncanny feeling that it could have been said in about 10% of the space. Lots of waffle and fluff. Good points though ... I think? I can't hardly even remember what page 1 was about.
Creating Artificial Intelligence Based on the Real Thing
yeah, there was some confusion between us and the javascript framework.
Unit testing in Coders at Work (2009)
A High-Stakes Search Continues for Silicon’s Successor
Y Combinator is to VCs as _____ is to record labels.

The people who can fill in that blank will be very rich someday.
Data Show: Removing 'Rogue Sites' From Search Won't Make Much Of A Difference
Is this why the galaxy nexus was delayed for so long?
The SISAP metric spaces library comes with an implementation: http://sisap.org/Metric_Space_Library.html
You can also compare BK-trees with other methods and you may encounter that their performance is not so great, specially for high dimensional spaces.
Earlier discussion here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=863219
I enjoyed this article, with the mindset of there are kernels of truth overlaid with layers of rhetoric and bandwagon hitching.

I think though, that for the general audience it is intended for, it might wake a few people up to the fact that software is a core competency for just about every business and not a cost centre, and that competitors who can use software well are well positioned to outstrip those who can't.

Further to that point is that, to get good software, you need good developers. And if you aren't actively trying to work out how to get the best developers, you're getting the leftovers.

This fits neatly into the point I was making recently about government projects always being doomed because they end up with bad developers on projects with too many owners, and that governments everywhere should just buy off-the-shelf solutions and fit their way of working to them, rather than the other way around.
>still I have a hard time believe a 30,000 employee company would not use many more languages internally in some capacity.

There are likely uses of other languages internally for small projects or one-off kind of things, but large companies generally prefer some standard practices/patterns/languages. For well written code, you have to realize, your code will likely outlast your employment. That means someone must maintain it, fix bugs, augment its functionality, etc... It is MUCH easier to manage that whole flow with strict(ish) stylistic standards (Google has these) and a small range of possible languages. If you've ever seen code written 15 years ago in the (then) language du jour, with no sort of consistent/recognizable style/coding patterns, etc.. you will understand why companies do this kind of thing.
I wish he knew that ;)
Once again I don't get it... oh well. I'm sure this is going to be hot with a select group of hipsters.
I think that in the whole universe there is intelligent life out there like ours (not in body but in mind/thought). However due to the time/distance scales that are required to interact with them, it might as well not exist, since we'd require a huge amount of luck to ever interact with them.
Death Sentence (http://www.amazon.com/Death-Sentences-Management-Speak-Stran...) by Don Watson is the seminal work on the topic.
Someone please remind Mr.Sibal that India is a democracy , one of the largest of its kind!!
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Where is New Math being taught? I learned (and loved) New Math in a gifted program in the 90s, at one of the last New Math outposts in America, in an IMACS/MEGSSS program.
What is this, a race to see how many straw men we can defeat in five hundred words?

Finding another planet in the habitable zone is, if nothing else, a testament to humanity's technological advancement.
Emacs had them first; shells copied them.
Once I click 'next' focus is not on the console window. FF8/MacOS. Very distracting.
a) Bank loan is not an investment, not even a convertible debt.

b) Raising Money takes longer time than one imagine at first, especially at start when every available second is used for the development. All of a sudden, in the middle of the code server development, you have to stop your hacking works and author a 15-18 slides deck for an investor, that alone can take about a week.

You know, working on the figures, facts, and backing up your thesis. Sending it over to get reviews, meeting, waiting for answer.

It takes time, and it takes the most expensive time of yours.

You are suddenly stop working for the startup and start working for the investor(s).
One solution for the upfront cost vs time and materials dilemma is to have an in between model. Have a time and materials contract with a bonus for coming in under a certain budget (or negatively a penalty for going over budget if you must).

As for writing good code, unless your client is educated enough on the topic, the won't want to pay for good code no matter what your contract. Sometimes they might be justified too if there isn't going to be any maintenance, but most often that's probably not the case.

I think your only option is to quote enough to cover doing it properly, and sadly probably not get the job because you are more expensive than others.

I remember reading somewhere that when a client puts out a "tender" formal or not, they typically choose one of the cheaper options, and therefore they choose one of the vendors that least understands their requirements.
I believe they are actually emacs bindings. These bindings originates in emacs and were then used by readline. Software that uses readline then acquires these bindings, including bash, etc. So I wouldn't say that these are standard shell bindings that happen to be used by emacs, since they originated in emacs and shells happen to use them.
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I wish if Google and FB said, " Sorry Sibal we don't censor results , if u insist we would leave!" Though its not viable , it will scare the politicians.
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Considering how awful college stats classes are, I don't see high school getting any better.
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Hi Community,

I have launched Edge Kingdom, hoping to the largest and best Adobe Edge community. Adobe Edge is a fantastic software that allows you to make HTML5 animations and interactivity with a timeline, similar to Flash.
I had a similar idea - a living styleguide derived from the css. I envisioned it in 3 parts:

* A way to transform css into html (https://github.com/aglemann/css2html)

* A simple webserver that would detect a stylesheet, run it through the transformer and serve up the html styleguide (https://github.com/aglemann/instant-styleguide)

* A methodology for architecting your css for use with the two technologies (coming soon?)

All the pieces work, I need to do a blog post about it ;)
This might be true, but I've found quite the opposite at college. A good amount of people major in math because they enjoy abstraction and want to get as far as possible from implementation details/application.
No criticism of Firefox intended, more just one more reason to despise flash.
Until this story hits mainstream, there's no hope of that happening. Even if it does hit mainstream, you need a bunch of talking heads that are able to explain to luddites what the implications are.
Show HN: Opened up the code for my iPhone weekend project
This was an app that I made recently to make it easy for anyone to keep track of their expenses without having to learn a new software. Look forward to hearing your feedback!

Github: https://github.com/JoeCortopassi/Follow-My-Money

App Store:http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/follow-my-money/id471808412?ls=1&mt=8
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Adding positive comments doesn't usually add as much information. The story itself was a positive comment. Critical discussion is best done not by saying "hey, cool story" - that's what upvoting is for. There are some cases where a non-negative comment is great, like pointing other readers to an interesting piece of related information, but if all it does is confirm what the original submission said, it's less informative.
Increasingly? The whole Discovery Program of the late 1990s and 2000s is everything but plug and chug and memorization, to the point that parents started a reactionary "Where's the Math?" movement (actual name) to put some plug and chug back into the curriculum so their kids can't bluff their way through math class.
I'm quite sure this is the same dilemma (or at least part of the problem) which causes government projects to come in massively over budget and not delivering on their promised feature set.

A recent project was delivered in Melbourne, Australia called Myki which I'm assuming was delivered under scenario A from my original post (you can read about it here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myki#Criticism)

I like the idea of the mixed model though, that has some potential to it.
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You need to get a game like this picked up by spencer's gifts or a similar novelty shop. Their brand is known for carrying this type of merch and if your game has promise, as you seem to indicate, you should give it a real chance. Go with a big player who already has the buyers.
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When math is taught well, 'when am I even gonna use this?' never comes up. Inherently, math is extremely interesting - it's quite a bit like solving puzzles. While puzzle-solving doesn't appeal to everyone, there are a lot of people that enjoy the sort of thinking that goes into it.
The sort of people that like puzzles or strategic games like risk will probably naturally gravitate towards math if it's taught well. I don't think anyone who's learned to solve rubik's cube has thought about the real-world applicability, for example.
The tone of this post is horribly condescending, I feel embarrassed for you. This is the kind of stuff I read HN to avoid.
When do we leave? Oh, yeah... WE DON'T HAVE A MANNED SPACE PROGRAM ANY MORE. Grrrrrrr.

Yes, I know it's impossibly far away. I just find it harder to get excited about this these days. And yes, I know that's not totally rational.

But yeah, what cletus said. Depressing.
Businesses are not under a general obligation to facilitate the activities of their competitors. Nor is Verizon a monopoly in the usual sense, upon which special obligations might be placed.

Unless some sort of settlement were reached, you'd basically have to prove ISIS is a "contract, combination in the form of trust or otherwise, or conspiracy, in restraint of trade or commerce" (15 U.S.C. §1). That would be an expensive, multi-year legal battle by itself, and may or may not succeed. Then there's the question of what to actually do about it, which isn't necessarily going to be "oh, just allow other payment providers".
It's a great idea. Only thing is that the person who agrees to develop it further has to realize they will be assuming the twilio fees for all your existing customers as well, which would be $5 for each new teacher, plus $2 a month per teacher - assuming a large number of them are starting with the free service.
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Ask HN: Need feedback on startup idea
I was recently married and saw first-hand the hassles my wife and I had to go through to plan everything - especially finding a venue for the dates we wanted.

----------------

The startup idea is kind of like an IKEA for weddings. (I know that sounds terrible, but read on)

The company will provide complete pre-made weddings that you can shop online or in person (kind of like the IKEA rooms). There will be signature designers that you can choose from with plenty of pictures to show you exactly how everything is setup including the chairs, tables, flowers, dj, photo-booths, and all the details of the wedding.

The pre-made weddings will be custom designed for particular venues. The startup will reserve high-demand dates many months ahead of time, so people who want a lavish wedding without much time can still get great wedding dates at high-demand venues (as long as they use the service).

---------------

I'm really not that excited about the business model, but here is where I wanted your feedback.

For those of you familiar with Lean StartUps, how would I build a minimum viable product to test this model out?
Paypal is a bunch of scumbags. They deserve to go out of business.
I would expect the rule is there to cover a lot more than the signals disabled by "airplane mode". For one thing, a tilting plane exerts major force and it moves in ways that passengers may not anticipate; if someone is holding a phone and lets go, the phone becomes a heavy object that can hurt somebody else.
These horror stories are so common that I have to ask: why does anyone still use PayPal?

I ask this in the most constructive way possible... is there a set of use-cases that PayPal is still the best for? Is it a lack of awareness of alternatives? International availability? Something else?
In the future, will we carry only our phones?
If this is going to end up in an awesome website that I can show my friends, how about you show me that up front? That sounds pretty motivating!
I've always wanted to learn Ruby. I think this book is perfect for me. I had to just scroll over the pages to "get it" (I have a really bad attention span).

Though I've been programming in PHP for a while sheepish smile. So, that might've helped. Total beginners, I'm not sure.

The probable reason for this is because, you get to the "good parts" quickly (twitter code). It's good for me because I don't want to be drilled down with the basics all over again.

An idea for a code example. As you mostly concentrate on web scraping, you can teach people how they can make a PDF version of your book so that they can read it on their ebook readers. I normally learn new languages when I have a real good need for it. This example can motivate them to actually "start" coding.

And thanks a lot for your effort! Appreciate it.
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Paypal has a reputation for stuff like this...can't exactly be a surprise
There is no step three.
It really perplexes me as to how paypal can get away with withholding money from people. What is stopping them from simply picking accounts at random and saying, "actually, I don't think you deserve this money, so we'll keep it."
I think they legally have to refund the money, although it would seem that they keep the transaction fees still.
Pervasive encryption/compression of electromagnetic communication across an extremely wide spectrum and truly badass video games can explain why we haven't been visited and why we can't watch their TV channels.
I can't believe they never played "Don't Tread on Me"
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PAYPAL: I haven’t seen that PDF. And what you’re doing is not a worthy cause, it’s charity.
ME: What’s the difference?
PAYPAL: You can use the donate button to raise money for a sick cat, but not poor people.

Sigh. At the risk of pedantry, it's hard for my wtf filter to believe this without more context. Is this a direct quote?
Yeah, I agree it's a great idea - but there are some unanswered questions.

What are the monthly expenses?
Worth noting that if enough bad PR gets into the lamestream media about this it could be a death knell. CBSi doesn't exactly monetize well, and CNet has always bled money.
Yes,I agree. The way he has managed his sector is brilliant.Last month I went to 'panchayat samiti' at taluka level and shocked to see that people were using UNIX and tablet Pc for their daily work.They sure have come long way.
Because buyers keep demanding sellers use it. If you're a buyer, it's about the most painless thing out there. I got forced into it by a client once for that very reason. Unfortunately PyPal froze his account with about $20k in it. We switched to a real merchant account and everything went uphill from there.
I'll be looking at alternatives after receiving the friendly "We reviewed your account and determined that there's a relatively higher than average risk of future transaction issues" email that states they'll be holding my money for 21 days...

I have never made a claim. I have never had a claim filed against me. My account receives maybe $500/year, tops. I send $500/year, tops. HUDGE risk of transaction issues.
The exact same in Minneapolis. I'm definitely not learning Python for a job—it's strictly for fun side projects, which you really don't get in either .NET or Java. The main reason I'd avoid those languages would be to avoid mercenary programmers, and instead find a dev who gives a shit.

Choice quote (paraphrased) from a .NET dev: "who cares what the code looks like, you should be gone by the time anyone would look at it."
Mainly international payments. Plus, customers are more likely to already have an account with them, and no one feels like signing up for a new payment system just to buy something at your store.
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Not that I want to defend CBS, but CNet pretty much runs itself, and had run itself into the ground way before CBS "saved" it.
Objective decision making – are we really able to do it?
An Obscure Competitor is Giving Away My Product
I'm working on a product for the company at which I'm a cofounder. So is some other guy. The products will be functionally identical once both are deployed and out of beta. In comparison:

ME: 6 months with PHP and mySQL
HIM: Professional developer

US: 2500 twitter followers, 20k unique page views per month
HIM: 9 twitter followers, page views unknown

US: Marketing a basic subscription at $9/mo, up to $99/mo for high-volume biz customers
HIM: Free.

We currently have paying users from our content-paywall model, and we have been around for over 2 years. He's toiling in obscurity now, but he's one tweet away from becoming a serious competitor. I've reached out to him to see if he's interested in working together, but the response has been unenthusiastic. The only saving grace is that we still have a pretty massive user base to whom we can market this product. He is starting from 0, effectively.

This is the first time in our history that anyone has presented competition.
As the only programmer on staff, I am worried. My programming skills pale in comparison to his. Although I'm learning at a breakneck pace, it is discouraging to see him progressing much faster. As hard as I am working, I get a pit in my stomach thinking about what will happen if he both beats us to market (likely) and gets media attention (possible). I have to keep track of his progress, but each time I check in I get dejected and lose my motivation to work. I am sure most of this comes from insecurity in my own skill set since I'm still very new to programming.

I know this feeling is not new territory. What do you do to push through it?
Gordon Ramsay is the example that pops to mind, if you read his autobiography. He is the driven to succeed man who never sits still, while his brother is a helpless heroin addict. Both came from the same family. There's probably a yin/yang in there as well, as one brother tries harder to distance himself from the family, and the other sinks deeper because he has a statistical outlier for an immediate sibling to compare himself to.

But what makes the rocker switch go one way or the other in childhood? It's funny, because I was thinking about this very topic not long before reading this interview and the comments here, but in relation to food attitudes. Does the way food is treated in a household determine whether we over or under eat as time goes by? Is it the same for pessimism and optimism in terms of motivation as well?

I don't know the answers but it's good to think about.
I'm not a programmer, yet I'm having a ton of fun going through the steps on this site.
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"This fits neatly into the point I was making recently about government projects always being doomed because they end up with bad developers on projects with too many owners, and that governments everywhere should just buy off-the-shelf solutions and fit their way of working to them, rather than the other way around."

Initially I had a strong reaction against what you're saying here, but I see you chose your words carefully, saying gov projects "end up with bad developers on projects with too many owners". Sadly I have to agree, since I am in that world in the federal gov and see it first hand. But there are many highly talented developers here! They typically don't stay on projects long enough, so "end up with..." is exactly right.

And that does tie in to your point that "to get good software, you need good developers", so it's a never-ending challenge trying to find and keep those 10xers engaged and happy with their work so they tend to produce that 'good software'...
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I've been doing this for 2 years. My setup is a 3GS with an iPad data plan from AT&T. ($29.99/unlimited). Talkatone hooks into google voice for incoming and outgoing calls. The app is free and I paid a token amount to make the ads go away.

Compared to apple's Phone and Messages, Talkatone is complete shit. It mostly works, all the while looking horrible and feeling worse. At least 25% of my incoming calls don't connect when I answer them from another app. The audio quality isn't great. (google's voice app is a bit better but it's still an offense to any decent iPhone app. And it only does texts and connects calls to your actual phone number with a callback.)

There are some hacky VOIP/SIP solutions for the iPhone. But having it call through google's servers is killer and offsets the horrendous UI. So thank you talkatone.
I'm a business/tech founder and very interested, also like to know the expense side and what competitors are in the same space.
For some things? Absolutely. For everything I currently use? The three hours I spent last week downgrading my Xorg thanks to a botched nvidia driver update force me to disagree.

Granted, it was an nvidia driver update; I should have known better. But that's exactly my point.