skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't believe these people actually exist. Unless you live at 1 Infinite Loop, most of the people you meet will have Windows computers.

Airdrop is only useful IF:

1. You want to send a file to someone

2. They are standing right next to you

3. They have a fairly recent Mac, running Lion.

Whereas Dropbox is useful whatever OS they're running, and wherever in the world they are.
It's also impossible to determine which areas they cover after signing up for an account. I've gone through the process right up to the credit card form and there's no indication that any less than the entire US is covered. There's no information about coverage on their Zendesk either.

A November article about the startup's launch mentions 20 washers hired in San Francisco. The fact that the website lets me order (and presumably pay) a car wash in Pennsylvania is strange. Why have a state dropdown if you only serve one state?
Fair point, still, she seemed quite creative. But you are right; 'we' have a different point of view. At least that's what it seems like.

Edit: I have some reservations about saying that though; I work with Pakistani designers and programmers, normal people, mostly not even well educated (just a bit) with just enough money to have bought a computer and learn some stuff. And they made products, sites, money just out of nothing like we would do here. So in that regard I have come to know at least some Pakistani as people who, despite their culture, mentors (and general lack there of), peers (and lack there of) and without the press, certification, education and wealthy family who took more or less the same path as 'we' westerners would. There are exceptions to most rules and I would think she would be that.
From one of the external links (http://www.jooq.org/), I like the idea of code generation, then importing them all with "*", so that you can use global fields as if they were keywords in the language.

It's an effective way to build DSLs in java.
Usually I'm excited about something at first and then it dies down over time. Very rarely it goes the other way.

I think you can get better at predicting what you will and won't like over time. You learn what you do and don't like about different types of projects.

One obvious trick for startups it to solve a problem you have yourself that you truly and deeply want fixed.

When Zuck started Facebook he wasn't deeply passionate about "making the world a more open and connected place" neither was Larry Page about "organizing the world's information". Their passion grew into a grand vision out of a small kernel of interest. It's hard to predict in advance how big an idea can grow.
The problem with sign language is that it doesn't do you any good unless everyone else speaks it, as well. Sure, there might be special services for the deaf where they can expect to be able to converse with someone in ASL, but for the vast majority of their interactions they will be dealing with people who don't know it. It then becomes something of limited use.

It's as if there were a programming language that greatly improved your productivity, but was only available for SPARC boxes running Solaris. Sure, the few times you were able to use such a system, it would be great. But how many programmers would bother to learn a language that they would use so infrequently?
The Mexico Drug War: Bodies For Billions
It took me a while to understand - I think you mean "preaching to the choir."
Cashiers... :|
For this audience? Gotta be *.geek.nz.
Great, thanks!

I'll admit that I don't think I've ever used K&R C code verbatim[1] so I never saw how outdated all the stylistic code was. I would never recommend this primitive style in modern projects. Thanks for your insight Zed!

[1] Really, if you start dealing with the complexities of C at all K&R will no longer do it. First you'll need to read the ANSI C specification to understand what's supposed to be going on, then you'll need to read your compiler's documentation to figure out how they have actually done what the specification says they should do.
To dissent, Chrome 16.0.912.75 on my 2011 MBA is perfectly smooth, CPU under 30%.
Maybe the one from Iceland. You'll need a country that doesn't bow easily to US, but also doesn't have its own laws for easily taking down domains either. You might find blockaid.me useful, too.
Not that "tip's" is a valid abbreviation for "tip is," anyhow.

EDIT: Sorry. Don't know what I was thinking. I will refrain from deleting this comment so as to not leave future readers wondering about replies, but I would appreciate if it's not up- or down-voted any longer.
Wait, #2 and #4 would also have to be true for this to be possible. To answer your question, it's explicitly not possible, because Facebook.com is domestic and is not primarily designed or operated to enable or facilitate infringement.
This is my solution as well; I hope to start in a few months. Really looking forward to it.
Interesting to me that they were able to get that domain name, being such a small outfit.

Particularly, I would have thought there'd be porn or some other domain-specific thing that would have grabbed that up and held it.
The url shorteners can blackout their links.
He brings no pedagogical issues to bare, it's simply a facile critique of "style", I don't think that answers the question why not K&R at all.

Some may consider the points well taken, not surprisingly K&R had the foresight to respond in kind, two decades earlier:

Our aim is to show the essential elements of the language in real programs, but without getting bogged down in details, rules, and exceptions.
This reminds me of how you originally needed a Mac in order to use an iPod which was later reversed.

Perhaps they are attempting to create a lock-in via network effects similar to Microsoft's where everybody feels they should own at least 1 apple device just to be able to be compatible with everyone else.

It's also possible they will port this to other platforms once they have it right on the mac as there are many people (such as myself) who simply can't justify the cost of buying an apple device.
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Can you offer it to them for free on a trial basis to get them using it and see how it works? If the service is beneficial they won't want to lose it.
Phoenix area. Seeking FT work.

I'm a systems administrator who would like branching out into dev or devops work. I have experience with many different kinds of computers/OSes/languages and good troubleshooting skills. Familiarity with languages as diverse as Perl, C, 86HC11 asm, AutoLisp, & Japanese. I also know a lot about glass cutting & tempering.

Email in profile.
All of that either already exists as described, or keystroke-count equivalents exist, in every programmer editor. If people aren't using it in existing editors they sure aren't going to pick up a radically different keyboard layout to use it.

(Said the guy who types in an increasingly-heavily-modified Dvorak layout. I recently mapped Backspace to "change window" (i.e., ALT-Tab in most WMs), since I long since moved Backspace to Caps Lock. You can't be much more willing to fiddle with your keyboard layout than I am.)
In the 80's I got the gist of spellchecker algorithms.

An Apple II spellchecker that I used a few times seemed to spell-check using brute force means with the dictionary filling an separate 143K floppy disk. It was a somewhat slow batch-like one document-at-time operation, but it was good enough to be useful.

As a programmer in the 80's, I saw a spellchecker that used a small hash table to tell whether a word was misspelled or not. The hash table could be made even smaller if we limited the dictionary to about 16000 of the more common words. If I remember correctly, the smallest hash table was generated as an array of 16 bit integers in the source code before compiling and it's small footprint kept in memory of the built program. Once a word was identified as a misspelling, using a very fast hash look-up, suggestions of words could be pulled from the actual dictionary on disk. Using the hash, there was the possibility of false spellings. Maybe this was a Bloom Filter.
I don't think there are existing legal channels for foreign sites.
No. A falling object is at "0G", it is "weightless" (in a "drop seat" type carnival ride, when the ride triggers, you have no force on your butt). A bullet is a falling object after it leaves the gun. You cannot measure earth's gravitational attraction from the bullet's frame of reference because it is 0. Therefore, you cannot use earth's gravitational attraction to measure the bullet's spin rate because the value is zero, and zero has no direction information.
Unfortunately, the Wayback Machine http://wayback.archive.org/web/*/http://www.cherry.com/ is down right now, because I had the same thought and was wondering who used to operate the domain.

Was surprised it wasn't the keyboard people, to be honest. (It turns out that they live at http://www.cherrycorp.com/)
I think it's only meant to be wireless. Also, it requires both computers to have the "Airdrop"-section in Finder open at the same time. And finally, it only works with Macs manufactured from some point in 2009, due to the specific hardware it requires. Would any of these possibly be the cause of the issue?
The Case of WordPress "App" Themes vs. The GPL
Ever hear of WordPress app themes? They're somewhat new. These are no ordinary themes. Take for instance a dental office. You walk in and the dental assistant makes an appointment on the scheduling app. Only it's not an app per sé, but a WordPress theme that acts like a full-blown web application. The application may use some features of WordPress, but may not use others. Some of the files will load via an MVC framework kicked off by WordPress calling a theme's index.php file. Some of the files may use WP API calls, while other files may not use a single WP API call at all. Some app themes may simply use WordPress as the sales mechanism because things attached to WordPress have market uptake. (Note, almost all app themes are not available on wordpress.org.) Some app themes may simply use WordPress to borrow the same database, provide easy admin panels that people are used to using, and the rest might be something else entirely. Some may use pages and posts inside the app theme. It depends.

Now that you know what a WordPress app theme is, the question is, "If a given PHP file doesn't make a single WP API call in it, but the parent file that called it may make a WP API call, does that file also mean it must be GPL as well because WP is GPL?"

Here's what the FSF told Matt Mullenweg about it:

http://wordpress.org/news/2009/07/themes-are-gpl-too/

However, did the FSF take into consideration my question above in the case of an app theme? That's a bit different, don't you think?

Here's my conundrum. I've put family life on hold, which hasn't been easy for me at all for me and my marriage. I've been drinking water and eating bread some days, almost. I did all this so that I could have the time to spend 30 days coding a WordPress app theme. Now that it's finished, I want to market it behind a paywall and get paid for my hard work. I want to ensure that when I told my wife, "We'll make some great sales here on this," that I was telling something realistic. But there's woothemes.com and cheapwoothemes.com as an example. Like that, I don't want someone to fork my stuff and sell it as their own accomplishment, perhaps doing nothing but changing branding, eroding all my seriously hard work.
Sounds like a great defense in a file sharing lawsuit.

"Sorry, but I really have no idea how many people used my Wifi!"
That would be huge.
I love the idea ("Uber for carwashing!") but I have some doubts.

The price point is too low for me to believe they'll do a decent job. There are already mobile car detailers here in Portland, and a good exterior detail costs around $100. That's because the companies are licensed and bonded. If I'm going to go cheap on a car wash, I'll do a $6 drive-through special at Washman on my way to the grocery store.

Not knowing the coverage area before signing up is a problem for me as well. My email address and phone number are private - I'm not giving them up until a company gives me something in return.
"Just $29 per wash, tip is included" isn't great wording, certainly, but is there anything wrong with saying "tip's"?

I mean, certainly it's not formal, but then neither are pretty much all contractions in English. "Your tip's included in the bill" would sound fine, no?
right, except for the bit where they suggest that we should encourage drinking to boost earnings. It is the absolute definition of the correlation/causation mistake. They also got a positive coefficient on the Divorced variable - I guess we should encourage divorces to boost the economy?
My name is Nato.

I am married to two side-projects. But am available to code RoR, Django, Chicago Boss projects on the side up to 30 hours a week for any Manhattan/BK based startup. I am a SR. Rails developer who has a long lineage to all matters web. nbartley [at the] indiana [dot] edu.
Can Technology Transform Education Before It’s Too Late?
I'll contact http://dlvr.it - I already run a number of accounts through them.

add: disqus? a YC conglomerate?
I think the point is that even people who are 100% apple are likely to need (or at least anticipate needing) to swap files with people who are not apple users.

I think being cross platform as it stands means being compatible with at minimum: Windows , Mac , iOS , android + possibly web?

I can't imagine there are many people desperate for a file sharing solution for their car or heart rate monitor, if one was developed it would probably be a niche solution possibly using dropbox as a platform.
Regarding the physicians and lawyers, I think you would find this illuminating.

http://www2.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/investment_manage...
Is "is" even required? "Just $29 per wash, tip included"
ISNIC, in charge with *.is, sez:
"Under what circumstances would ISNIC close or delete the domain wikileaks.is based on the contents of their website?

The answer is simple, such an action would require a formal court order from an Icelandic court. ISNIC has never been handed such a verdict about any .is-domain during its close to 25 years of history."

http://www.isnic.is/en/news/view?id=204
While there is a claim in there about ecofriendly solvents and methods being used, I am somewhat skeptical and concerned about the potential ecological damage and waste of water.

At least in the state where I live, there are regulations that require car wash locations to recycle the runoff water. I don't see how this would be possible with this model.
If I had buckets and buckets of cash I definitely would invest in early stage companies. I'm not saying that early stage companies are shams or are always deemed to fail or that your equity will always be worthless. The problem in my mind is that as an employee you have little to no ability to diversify your equity as an investment. You are all in with one company for usually 4 years or more (which is about 1/10th of your working life).

So now in regard to gaging the success of your company and your investment... I think it pretty easy to forecast the coming trends in the technology space. For example I think its pretty easy to foresee that the internet is going to eventually eat traditional cable providers as its great at eliminating the middleman. There are going to be some big winners in this space and there are lots of early stage companies looking to ride this. But who out of them is going to be the big winner or few winners of this space? - your guess is as good as mine. As an employee I have to pick one but as a VC or investor I can invest in the general space knowing that somebody in my portfolio is probably going to win this market.

This is the reason I take cash - its not that I don't want to invest in equities, its that I want to have the freedom to put that cash into diversified equities.
Ask HN: An older protest?
I turned the background black on my website back in the mid 1990's as part of a wide protest, but now I can't remember what the issue was? Anybody recall?
And the main point Alexis did make was that companies should compete with the pirates on quality of service. So now the only real piece on SOPA in the MSM has the anti- camp associated with some Hippy sounding bullshit... which the clearly anti-SOPA host argued against.

The issue should be framed as not just blocking access to foreign sites, but as blocking Americans from talking about them.
Well yeah, that;s what I meant about it not being great either way - I was just disagreeing with parent comment about "tip's" not being a valid contraction.
I have a friend who married into this exact circumstance who turned down med school at Duke to teach at Stuyvesant.
If the top cost $2, it probably was not a magnetometer clocking the LEDs in that toy.
Isn't one of the main features of airdrop that it can work in the absence of a network by creating its own adhoc network? I believe that in order for this to work when you ARE connected to a network, it rapidly switches the NIC between the two networks. Making airdrop "open" doesn't mean that any computer can make use of the protocol.
> Lawyers have a cabal, but it's pretty weak... you can always attend a 4th tier law school.

Getting a school accredited by the A.B.A. is expensive [1], and if the schools necessarily cost a lot of money to run then the students largely come out with big debts to pay off. The article says essentially that the U.S. is oversupplied with "expensive" lawyers and has a strong unmet demand for "reasonably priced" legal services.

Moreover, there are a lot of people talking about how law graduates in the US are underprepared for their work - there's a recognition that some traditional curricula don't provide enough practical know-how to function in the real-world without serious on-the-job training. Law is essentially a vocational degree, and there is evidence that the standards governing the accreditation of law schools (and so lawyers) aren't aligned with the needs of the country.

I'll grant that the gatekeepers of the medical profession may have a stronger hold on things, but there are decent arguments for liberalisation of the legal market.

1: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/18/business/for-law-schools-a...
Park anywhere, check in online, and we'll wash your car right where you left it.

I like the idea, but I wonder why most US service owners seem to assume that all their website visitors are from the US. I tried looking in the "Help" and "Terms" sections, but after ~3 minutes of searching I can't confirm that the service is available only within the US... I'm pretty sure it is, but would have liked to know without having to read all the fine print, especially since it says "park anywhere".
For the love of God, do NOT let the buyer use Paypal.
We tried to do that with http://sopablackout.org. Granted, this drop shadow implementation will get people's attention more, but we wanted to focus on allowing people to learn why the site is blocked.
Lauren Proctor, NYC (but open to anywhere), laurenproctor32@gmail.

Not a professional coder (yet), but I do digital marketing for startups.

Have done work for l2thinktank.com, 20x200.com, halogenmediagroup.com and many more. If you want help marketing your project or startup I'd love to talk. Specialties include branded content (blog, white papers, ebooks, etc) digital strategy, email marketing, social media, etc.
Thick vs. Thin Whois for New gTLDs
Slow and barely usable in stock Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb browsers, as well as Firefox mobile. Massive clipping errors in stock ICS browser render it unusable. Opera Mobile manages about the best, ignoring the lighting outright.

Hover effects really don't translate well to touchscreens.
AirDrop is a Mac-to-Mac connection, and works only between specific and supported WiFi-connected Mac systems. The connection is directly between Mac systems, and not via WiFi router nor AP.

Older WiFi devices don't support the necessary transfer mode.

Read the summary and features here:

http://support.apple.com/kb/HT4783

If you want to venture off the trail:

http://www.macworld.com/article/162407/2011/09/airdrop_any_mac.html
> "Well, if there were actually shortages, then wages would increase until the "shortages" disappear."

This is a common thought I see a lot on HN, but it's completely bollocks.

The elasticity of salary is not infinitely scalable, and is heavily based on the costs and profitability of the business. Say we took away all the taxi cab drivers in the world, demand would be immense and supply would be next to nil - in your fantasy world cab drivers would start making hojillions.

But of course, there is an upper bound to the value of a cab ride - cab fares would rise, but it won't not rise to astronomical levels simply because the cost will start exceeding the utility of the ride itself.

So yeah, in a shortage situation developer pay would rise - and rise they have, particularly in hotly-contested areas like the Bay, but this entitled attitude where "there's no shortage! I'm not making a million bucks a year yet!" is complete horseshit.
I've not read Zed's online book. I guess he encourages the use of -Wall and -Wextra when compiling on gcc? That's always smart. Also, cppcheck is a nice tool. If I were going to mention valgrind, I'd mention that too.
WNYC interviewed Elena Deblanco today - very poignant:
http://www.wnyc.org/npr_articles/2012/jan/15/daughter-auctio...
I depends. Increasing wages might mean people work less hours, because they don't need overtime to pay the bills. And you won't see a lot of experienced applicants appear overnight, unless you can tempt retirees or career switchers back.

If doctors who realise they can work 9-5, and have lots of holidays, and still have a great standard of living, why should they work longer hours? It does actually happen.

Of coures the mainstream economic explanation is that if this was predictable, students will have been driven into courses before the shortage occurred (it's called "rational behavior", or "the assumption that everyone is smarter than an economist").
But HOW is his talking point a "complete lie"? It is amazing to me that nobody either on that interview or in this comment thread can clearly and succinctly point out how the NBC exec was lying.
Old string instruments get pretty insane in price. My old teacher plays on a cello that's worth ~$1 million, and interestingly enough, he got a group of 10 investors to each put down $100k (not unlike angel investing I suppose). It's win-win: the instrument is pretty much guaranteed to appreciate in value, especially with a serious artist performing on it, and the artist gets to play on a instrument that doesn't hold them back in terms of expressiveness/tone quality.
Neat effect, but please make the spotlight slightly bigger so I don't have to move my mouse around as I read the text.
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FWIW, this page does not render at all on my Galaxy Nexus. Comes up as a black box in a grey box in the corner of the screen.

Does it look OK on other mobile browsers? Seems like mobile browser support would be important for this "template"?
Of course the completed portion only includes two examples and they are both stupid. ;)

while (...)
if (...) {
...
}
if (...)
...;

"A quick glance makes it seem like this while-loop will loop both if-statements, but it doesn't."

How could you possibly conclude that, considering the indentation?