skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moving the map around causes it to go black here in Chrome 18. But other than that (with might be Chrome's fought), I think the maps look pretty nice.
Google has an extensive user research team, and make extensive use of quantitative and qualitative feedback. They have scores of everyday users physically come in to the office or remotely participate in the studies every week.
Predator Drones being used domestically against Americans
Diversity is a good thing. That's been stated as axiomatic on these discussions and it's probably true.

But what kind of diversity will have the greatest effect? I posit that there are far greater kinds of diversity that will have a bigger impact than gender: language, culture, education.

I would also be interested in studies in why girls aren't as interested in science and computing as boys. When I started no one around me knew what a computer was. I'm kind of puzzled why I was interested at the age of 11.
I was also discouraged from doing it at school, but it didn't stop me.

I take issue with te while geek thing. It may be true of some devs, but most I know don't fit into that stereotype, they have a wide range of other interests. I wish people would drop it.
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Yeah, due to the fact they're out-of-order, the A15s will should be back on top. When the Pentium Pro was introduced with OOO pipeline, it got a 20% speed increase over similarly clocked Pentiums.
The issue might be can the A15s keep their pipeline full with such a small cache and memory bandwidth. And how good (if it even has one) is the pre-fetcher?
If the float units can't be given data fast enough, it's not going to matter how fast it is in theory.
Why are you arguing this at all? What made you so angry at Fowlers article that you actually had to attempt to debunk it?

Do you think having more women in our profession would actually be a bad thing?
And they tear them down just as quickly: http://weburbanist.com/2012/01/08/high-anxiety-rooftop-excav...
"I worry that this leaves creativity at a social disadvantage to physical commodities, selling Coke or furniture or razors or stocks, which are jobs that provide a steady salary that help people live" -- you're on to something here.

And you're right. Since anything and everything that is digital can be pirated, if you are trying to make a living only selling digital goods to the masses, it makes it a lot tougher.

The commenter below mentioned developers who put apps out in the app store, and that it would be hard to make a living doing that. That's for sure, it would be. That's why you put out an app in the app store as a side project, and use the leverage that it's popularity gives you to get a more high paying job making custom apps for companies who can't just buy the exact software they need off the app store.

If you are a professional photographer, I would assume that you get paid to do "gigs" - a photo shoot for a magazine, photos for a band's album cover, whatever. The magazine needs an expert to do this custom job just for them - they can't buy what they need for their fashion spread off a stock images store.

That's why making a living only off stock photos is tough. That's why making a living only off app store apps is tough. That's why making a living only off selling stuff in the envato marketplace is tough. And there are only a few of the absolute best and most popular people on these sites that actually do.

That doesn't mean if you're not one of the people doing this that you're not talented. That means you have to realize that putting out works, creative or not, into stock marketplaces or elsewhere in the open that many people could have a use for means that you should stop fighting it and just allow the many people to use them. It will be a good thing on the side, and boost your popularity, whether or not you could potentially be losing a bit of money, technically, by doing this.

If you need to make money, you should find a market where you are producing custom work for people who need it at a professional level. I write code for a living, and I try to make open source stuff as much as I can. I love the thought of people finding my stuff useful, and I code it for the love. But I also have enough money to pay the rent and for food because my main job does not involve writing general purpose code for the public, it involves writing very tailored code for one company at a time.
Even more of a contrast is the New York City Subway extensions that are proposed to take 10 years!
Personally, I agree with you 100%, especially since I run BD for a firm that does a lot of client work.

The only conciliation that I can offer is that I've never had a good experience with anyone who hard balls price, rather than quality -- in any industry, at any price. There will always be a point where the amateurs can't deliver like a professional can, particularly with photography -- that stuffs tough.
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I've had a good result using this macro instead of calling min. I wouldn't do it in something serious, but the code was <400LOC to crunch numbers and calculate a certain integer sequence.
ClojureScript is the only compile to JS language that I'm aware that lets you fully leverage the power of modifying JavaScript prototypes w/o fear of gross incompatibilities:

http://clojurescriptone.com/documentation.html#one.color

Note that they've extended (safely because of namespaces) browser natives including Element, Array, String, as well as the custom ClojureScript data types to respond to the color function.
This footnote drew my interest:

Although female programmers are rare now, that wasn't the case in the 70's. That shift is another argument against the natural balance hypothesis.

I am too young to know, but is this the experience of others as well?

Again, this is based purely on anecdotal experience, but I wonder if women programmers tend to concentrate into particular industries (for whatever reason). My wife was a programmer at a contractor for a large government agency, and it struck me that there was a higher concentration of women there than in other industries or in the start-up scene.

If this is generally the case, I am not sure to what extent this would support any given hypothesis.
> It was an attempt to influence OTHER photographers not to give away their photos for free.

At some point, photographers will need to understand that their work is not that unique and that the wealth created by the community through sharing is much greater than that derived by a single artist through the licensing and sale of their work.
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So, who wants to work on a project to build an open-source drone that can shoot one of these things down? I mean, seriously, if the government can have this technology, then We The People should be able to arm ourselves with counter-measures, no?
lol =)

Lets say I had such a picture and wanted to put it on my site. WOuld this disclaimer suffice? "If you are currently residing in France you are not legally allowed to see this picture. Please cover the picture with one hand during your visit"
Google charging heavily for maps is a good thing, in a way - more alternatives will come up, which are (hopefully) cheaper, and not locked to one company's whims
How often do you need random access by code point? In every case I can recall, if random access by UTF-8 offset wasn't the right thing (which it usually was), then random access by code point wouldn't be either. Almost all string offsets you'll ever have to deal with come from having a program look at a string, and in that case, you can just use UTF-8 byte offsets. What sort of text processing are you doing where this isn't the case?

As for East Asian text, you have a point: it will usually be shorter in UTF-16 than UTF-8. Before making this decision, though, ask yourself how much that extra space is worth to you. Is it worth dealing with possible encoding hassles? (The answer to this may be yes, but it's a question that should be asked.) Also, on a lot of data, there are many characters from the ASCII range mixed in with the East Asian text. I did an experiment a while back where I downloaded some random web pages in Chinese, Japanese, Korean, and Farsi, and compared their size in UTF-8 and UTF-16. Because of the amount of those documents that was HTML tags, all four pages ended up smaller in UTF-8.
you are willing to screw over people who genuinely do like ... Gilligan's Island ... because you don't.

Your response irritated me beyond its level of highhandedness. And I finally figured out why: I actually do like Gilligan's Island. I even bought "The Professor's" tell-all book, "Here On Gilligan's Isle". It doesn't matter if I like "Gilligan's Ilsand" or not, it's of low quality. The acting was low, the writing was low, and the production was laughable. That hasn't kept me from liking it, or regarding it as High Bulldada.

Sherwood Schwartz and CBS should be ashamed of putting out such schlock, whether I like it or not, and you should be ashamed of deciding you know what my aesthetics are.

But I'm also curious: why does a movie made by people supported by another job, or philanthropic donations, or one funded by advertising not meet the standard of "pro quality"?
Yes and no.

Yes, in that part of what you do is to tell Google "I trust these people" and give them higher ranking than random "search engine optimized" pages.

No, in that someone who follow the hacker news circle and search for "android" will likely prefer results about programming and marketing android applications, which are not the optimal results for the general public.

So the social graph does to things: it states trust (improves general quality of results), and it states interests (improves specific targeting of results).

The later obviously is more likely to work for interest based circles like "hacker news" than for your Family or even Friends circles.
Just started reading this book and am very excited to dig deeper into algorithms. As a front end developer practicing being a better back end programmer, my minute understanding of algorithms and their application sometimes discourages me. I hope this book will be a step in the right direction.
Yesterday the HN circle was in the 600's, today it's in the 800's, I guess it's catching on because of this story.
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Regardless of how much work was done offsite, it's still a unique feat to see an empty lot turn into a 30-floor skyscraper in such a ridiculously short amount of time; there's no doubt it's mentionworthy. However, as others have mentioned here, it doesn't look like anything to cheer about in terms of real quality or durability. There's a reason our methods take longer.
cost != value != price. I could buy a flawless diamond and use it to shred a Picasso. What should I be paid?
This site is very much a work in progress, but would love to get feedback from people on it. I tried to get rid of the worst bugs, but there are probably still a few bad ones out there...
I now see the true potential with personalized search. Just gives me the goosebumps (in a good excited way). Thanks for sharing!
The endpoints of the internet are not secure. Worse, pretty much all of our wireless protocols are broken right now, so a determined person can hack almost any wireless access point. There was a nice story about that on HN a while ago.

Right now, there's a lot less incentive to do all of that. But change to a system like this and people will just start trading in stolen accounts, much like they already trade in stolen credit cards.
I can understand why this would piss photographers off, but I can't agree with the "justifiably" part. When I ride my bike home from a bar instead of taking a cab, the cab driver might be pissed. Should he pissed at bike manufacturers? I'm sure horse whip makers were pissed at Ford for selling cars, and lowering the overall value of their industry. Why should photographers get special protection from market forces?
Libraries and Frameworks and Cruft, Oh My
Did you read the article?

It agrees completely with the data I cited. It shows a variance ratio of 1.1-1.2 across many countries (though not all).

Interestingly, it also shows very little correlation between gender equity and gender disparities in math performance. The strongest correlation it shows is that gender equity is positively correlated with math performance disparities! Gender equity seems to increase [1] math performance of both boys and girls, but it increases boy's scores more.

[1] Of course, the article only shows correlation, not causation, but I didn't feel like rephrasing what I wrote.
Cool idea, but this is just going to make the signal:noise ratio in the app store worse =(
Also, the idea is to help people learn how to code by allowing them to create angry-bird-like puzzles first through a drag-and-drop like editor where they see code being generated and then later by them actually writing or just tweaking the code that was generated for them.
Perhaps you could've stashed it behind some plants and gone back without it?
Congratulations on the move to startup life! Great looking website and nice user experience for publishing.

Posting the service on HN is one of those things I wish I had thought of a few months ago, I still have a lot to learn - thankfully a friend sent me this link since he knew what we were doing. TainoApp (http://gettainoapp.com) does all that (Wordpress to native iOS app), plus full platform support for Windows Phone 7, and Android (wrapping up Blackberry and MeeGo support as of this posting) you can see it at work here - http://goo.gl/nuZcm. So far, it seems we're the only ones that can do Windows Phone 7 - hopefully someone in the community can point out other projects we haven't heard from that already does it, so that we can continue learning from others.

We have the tech specs ready for implementing support for most of the CMSs out there (Tumblr, Posterous, and others including Tresite - heavily used in latinamerica), but decided to focus on Wordpress installs first since the install base was larger we were able to churn out an mvp faster since we were more familiar with the wp architecture.

Our focus had been on engaging one on one with customers and quietly testing out different revenue models - but this kind of torrent of feedback would have been truly welcome. It wasn't until the start of the new year that we decided to test an introductory offer for the platform - aimed at the latinamerican market first (it's google translate friendly - http://goo.gl/Y5JZL). I felt we were missing a lot of the features I wanted, so I held back from doing a public push to get feedback - that was a big mistake. Seeing everyone's comments for Appifier has been an uplifting experience - so keep at it!!! One of the toughest things I've felt is being out there and being open to scrutiny by other startups. Maybe we can chat sometime and talk a bit more about some of the mistakes we've done along the way - drop me a line at jramphis at gettainoapp dot com. Best of luck!
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The tldr is that UTF-8 is a prefix code: no valid character is a prefix of any other.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefix_code
I really wish there is a way to show more than just the domain name next to the title.

>Good bye, Google Maps… thanks for all the fish (google.com)

is simply misleading.
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I have a hard time believing that I'll be able to get a job at any reasonably respectable company just by teaching myself certain programming languages. I know exponentially more about system architectures and linux when compared to anyone else at my company, but others who have been at the company longer than I are still called upon when knowledge regarding either of these topics is needed. It just seems like, in this economy, going back to school is the only real way to get ahead.
Actually it seems that RaspberryPI will have a slightly odd bootloader, not the usual uboot, so you must check how to install BSD on the board http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoard#BootRom
Also here http://elinux.org/RaspberryPiBoardDistributions the BSD os is not cited, but I think the biggest problem could be drivers (especially for the video part), as stated here:
http://www.raspberrypi.org/forum/projects-and-collaboration-...
... and why my g+ follower count went from ~200 to ~1200. wait 'til they see a stream full of my lolcats.

on a serious note, it seems as though most of the HN circle haven't posted much yet, my stream hasn't got that much more content to what it normally does. Looking forward to what the HN community posts, awesomez no doubt.
In fact, my wife works in Early Childhood education at the Laboratory School at Stanford, and they do think and worry about exactly those kinds of things.
This seems unlikely to me for several reasons. First is Apple's "all-in" mentality, which I don't see in many other CE companies. It's the idea that Apple makes it easy to know which products support which features, because, with a few exceptions, all their products support the key features. Apple doesn't sell many low end products just to fill a niche, and those low end products are the ones that can't handle the banner feature like streaming or remote control.

Second, (and related) Apple provides UI consistancy, which is hard to do when you are 'mercenary' about OSs. And third, I simply don't see Samsung having the level of consumer trust that Apple has. People that follow these things may know a lot about Samsung, but most people I know don't care about the difference between Samsung, Vizio, or any of the other brands of TVs that line the walls of Best Buy. Sony once had a distinct advantage in consumer trust, but I don't know if they still do, having gone so long without standing out. Once upon a time, I wouldn't own a TV if it wasn't a Trinitron. Now? I just look at the specs and assume the manufacturer is fungible.
More accurately, Samsung is currently what Sony used to be.
And about the price, what are the bills like now ?
"Clips... ...of some popular movies on youtube are obviously infringing"

Or you know, fair use.
Agree - a blackout will essentially kill any negotiation and change the topic to one purely about power and authority, which defeats the purpose. Selectively demonstrating the potential impact of SOPA by censoring some of its supporters might work but in the end this is about negotiation not "going nuclear"
I have a Samsung TV and their iPhone app lets me control the TV. Handy for when I can't find the remote.

But their whole Smart TV system with apps and stuff really stinks. Very hard to understand the options, and the UI of the underlying apps is terrible. Just terrible.
Haha. Ken Kutaragi complained of Crash in the very early days that the "trees should wave their branches at you, giving the nostalgia of childhood." Or something like that. At the time we found it merely puzzling.
A similar story on HN from a couple of weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3392851 – Why (and how) we've switched away from Google Maps (nestoria.co.uk)
Facebook won't get shut down because it's too big, well-known, and rich.

It's all the would-be competitors who will get shut down, because who cares about some no-name "pirate" site? Suddenly, we'll stop seeing new sites that allow user content and the big players will be effectively entrenched by law.
This is a good start, but if it's just Reddit going dark for a day, I don't think it'll amount to anything. It's not like Reddit hasn't heard of SOPA/Protect IP.
But, er, doesn't the observation that the actual ratio is different evidence constitute "evidence"?

No. That tells you there's a difference, but absolutely nothing about the causes. You may not know of an artificial causal effect that inhibits greater participation in software by women, but not knowing about it doesn't mean that it doesn't exist (unless you have falsified all available hypotheses, naturally).
Going dark for a day is a pretty scary proposition for a company whose continued success is largely based on habitual usage.

As a practical matter, Google search is not really that much better than Bing. Making 600 million people use your competitor's equally capable product for a day would be pure insanity. Especially for such speculative gain.

I can't believe people think Google is dumb enough to try a blackout.
Ask HN: what kind of TextArea is used by HN?
I want something exactly like HN text area where formatting is retained like line breaks, auto-link detection. I tried using TinyMCE and one mentioned here(http://www.dynamicdrive.com/dynamicindex16/richtexteditor/index.htm)

The problem is that on the backend they don't send the HTML formatting

I am very new to web dev and dont have much idea about where to look for resources as well. Please help!
Wasn't referring to nationalists specifically. I was thinking of the broad ranger range of things like slavery, genocide, segregation, apartheid, etc.

If you think that communism is worse, that's fine by me. It doesn't change the fact that history is littered with cautionary examples of group-based determinism gone terribly wrong. It's naive to pretend otherwise.
> A search engine's value is in bringing new information to people.

I'd rearrange that sentence: its value is in bringing information that is new to the user.

Cutts knew that he played Werewolf, but did he know that the picture existed, or where it was?

It is creepy, though. Reminds me of this story: https://www.privacyinternational.org/blog/how-facebooks-targ...
I don't believe he said anything close to that. Part of the reason posts like this get people fired up is that they assume that they are being accused of shutting women out unfairly. He left open the possibility that women (for example) select themselves out of programming careers for whatever reason.

Imagine if you threw a party and invited half men, and half women, but only the men showed up. Wouldn't you be displeased with those results and conclude that you need to do something different to make your party more appealing to women? I know I would.
Did you know this comment was cited by Ramit Sethi at http://bit.ly/AqWxRH as "delusional" and "transparently kooky"?
I don't think this is a fair comparison. From what I've understood by reading both posts is that each writer comes from a different background(I can't think of a better word right now) and that's what's causing this difference of opinion.

The first writer is making a living from photography as stated at the bottom of his post: "John B. Mueller is a photographer based in Ventura County, California."

The second writer seems to be doing this as a hobby. At least I'm assuming so since he's been taking photos for 27 years and claims that he has not made any money from it. So I really don't think that this is a fair comparison.
Note that OOO isn't a boolean checklist feature. It's a design choice that opens up a ton of optimization possibilities (the obvious big one being the ability to issue instructions around a DRAM load). But you need to dedicate silicon to actually make those work. How big is the register renaming pool? What are the edge cases where OOO doesn't work (flags registers are a big one here). Do the SIMD registers get renamed too, or are they serialized? Lots of questions, with AFAICT no public answers.
At Apple's core (no pun intended) is an incredible user experience.

Anyone who has used Samsung products knows they focus 99% on hardware and 1% on user experience. Their phones have long been painful to use. Their hardware is usually top notch.

They seem positioned to leap past this issue with voice/gesture commands. Minimizing the ways the user interacts with their products could result in a huge success for them.
Ah, sorry about that. The post is too old for me to edit now.
Also not on the topic of the article, but...

I wish people would stop blogging on Google plus. Period.

It's the worst reading experience ever on the iPhone - nearly impossible as the text blurs, and you have to drag the article around to see it all and then wait for the blur to go away.
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