skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ya but both of those don't work in the real world, at least not very well (or beginners would be able to use them). I'm not trying to be negative, just pointing out that existing options are not living up to expectations.

I think I'm talking more about readability than sophistication. I want to write in a high level language like Hypertalk (from the HyperCard days) and let the compiler create a series of permutations under the hood that I could review and say "yes that one works, use it" and then maybe the compiler could annotate my code with more precise limits on what I said. So for example I tell it I want to sort a list, it shows me algorithms that sort numbers, strings and objects, and I say "yes strings are good enough" and it shows me the updated version of my code showing that it requires strings.

I know that sounds a little weird but this is 90% of the minutiae that I deal with on a daily basis and I am thoroughly disgusted with how myopic and restrictive tools have become today. They break when I forget a semicolon, when I would much rather have them show me an edge case of my algorithm that is incorrect.
It's possible that they set the header at their gateway so that it will override whatever you set from your device. It's also possible that the app is firewalled to only be accessible directly from their mobile network.

Of course, it's also possible that at least one operator isn't following appropriate measures to make this secure.
65% say they will cancel Google Accounts over Privacy: Washington Post Poll
Check out the Stalin Scheme[1] compiler which can produce code faster than hand-written C (it's a whole-program optimizing compiler targetting C).

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stalin_(Scheme_implementation)
I think most of githubs innovations could likely be added to google code without acquiring github. The technology isn't really what makes github special.
Wow - 65% of people say they will cancel their Google Account over the Privacy changes...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-user-polls/post/wil...
I don't know who down voted it, but you make two false statements.

First off, there is no ban on competing browsers. There are a wide variety of browsers available in the AppStore, and I use one of them-- iCab-- a fair bit.

Secondly, there is no "monopoly" to protect. You're using that word because it has an emotional impact, when in reality, its like saying you have a monopoly on your home. The iOS is Apple's product, for it to be a "monopoly" there'd have to be no android and no Windows phone.

FWIW, The post you're responding to has been heavily down voted, as are any posts which talk about Apple that do not bash them. I've had posts that stated simple facts- not even taking a personal position- and linking to an authoritative source to back up that fact, down voted to oblivion. On HN, if you're not an Apple basher, you get down voted constantly.
We've got machines with memory, registers, instruction pointers, and such, and they are here to stay. As long as the world runs on Von Neumann machines, someone will always have the job of converting intentions into machine code, at some level.

If you come up with some sufficiently-liberating declarative language, you still need an amazingly smart compiler to use it. People will invent new types of these languages, as the style catches on, and there will be lots of people writing the runtimes and the algorithms that you (the one taking the declarative route) depend on to get a reasonably-performing program out of the whole process.
I'm writing an article that could use some input from you. I'll appreciate if you can contact me (http://www.nilkanth.com/contact) and share some insight.
If I had to estimate, at least 95% of the website malware gets caught by MSE. This is a typical day reviewing new ad placements: http://i.imgur.com/gvtY9.png
Sorry: I probably should have posted this here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3510109
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So if such corporation would be public and it would oppose, say, SOPA and I believed SOPA creates great public benefit and owned shares of such corporation, I could sue it for not promoting the public benefit and actually force the company to come out and support SOPA? How that makes any sense? And how the courts would even decide such case - no legal definition of public benefit exists or even possible?

If you wanted to make profits and to build a better world, what prevented you from setting a regular company and a charity and have the former donate to the latter? A lot of people donate millions of dollars this way.

It looks like it's one of those feel-good laws that everybody pats themselves on the backs about how they promoted public benefit and nobody even thinks about how it would work or what would be the consequences...
Thanks for pinging the article. It applies very well to my actual situation, which is different and yet similar in its essence. I am still in school and when I had problems I dealt with it by myself no matter how hard or the quantity of extra activities. Since then I have learned to rely on the help of actual people not only internet. I guess thats a problem many of you guys already solved. Anyway, it was mine to solve and this article only makes the map neater.
This is true of the first five films, but the later ones were separately negotiated

"Radcliffe found himself playing the lead role of Harry Potter in the anticipated family film, Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, based on J.K. Rowling's popular novel, and signed on to star in the first five movies.
Once his contract was up, he signed another contract for $50 million to star in the final two films of the series."

http://www.tribute.ca/people/daniel-radcliffe/6160/
Heh, I worked in big oil at the time, and they couldn't kill blaster because IT people kept on imaging new computers on internally exposed networks. We probably could have killed the outbreak a week or two earlier if everyone just stopped imaging for a day.
The entire premise of this thread is false. UIWebView uses the optimized engine as of iOS 5.

This is just an example of Apple releasing new code in the browser first before extending it into other apps being turned into an excuse for people to ignorantly or dishonestly bash Apple.

The reason it was put in Mobile Safari first is obvious-- Apple controls the source code there. Thus they can deal with any instability caused by the engine in the wild there.

If they immediately put it in all the UIWebViews in the system then many third party developers apps would become unstable due to these bugs.

I find it quite astounding that people are trying to make hay out of Apple using a phased roll out for a key piece of technology.

It just shows how any opportunity that can be used to mischaracterize Apple is seized upon, and even when the situation that led to the original issue is long resolved, people continue to report it as fact.
Since I could sensibly say to my advisor "well, there's nothing in the environment, so it must be something in the device", I think 'nothing' is a perfectly valid word for describing a sufficiently low pressure vacuum. Especially if you are addressing a lay audience.
My kill Hollywood idea: Actors/Directors become startups
I don't have much more to add than what's in the title but I'm thinking along the lines of the way Spacey and Fincher are working with Netflix but turned up to 11. So the idea is something like... build a startup with Brad Pitt, in essence he IS the startup... he agrees to not work with Hollywood anymore in exchange for funding and artistic freedom. As soon as you have 5-10 top stars working this way it's a snowball rolling downhill. In my imagination there are hundreds of things standing in the way of this being reality but there's no time like the present to start destroying them.
Well sourced. Thank you.
if 95% of the population have a BS/BA, then it no longer serves as a filter... Business will find a new filter.

Also if 95% have a BS/BA, then you no longer have negotiating power for your higher wages...

Giving everyone 4 more years of education will certainly benefit society, but it doesn't solve the inequality problem.
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Ask HN: Candidates with no sample code?
I've been interviewing/hiring a lot lately ( www.fancyhands.com/jobs ). One thing I've noticed is that a lot of candidates don't have code samples ready. After looking at a good resume, I tend to ask for code samples and to set up an interview in person. More often than not, people don't have any code samples they can share. No github, etc.

I'm not looking for "work" code or even a full application. Just something above a hello world that the candidate wrote.

Personally, I'd rather see a few code samples than a resume. You can talk me through your work history, but you can't just talk about code. I'm not going to hire someone on a code sample alone, but I think it really moves the conversation forward.

So, the question: Am I being harsh in thinking it's a BIG red flag if a candidate has no code samples? How do you approach a candidate with a solid resume but zero code samples?
I don't know anything about Virgin or Pixar, so I don't and won't explain them at all. For that matter, I don't know anything about the Mac, Lisa, and Apple II team. I have heard that Apple will create ten prototypes from scratch before picking one, but this seems a little different from having ten different divisions doing the exact same thing. I would be surprised if the ten different prototypes were made by ten different VPs, but there's a lot I don't know about Apple.

It matters a great deal if a division fails precisely because most companies only have one of them. If the company had two, certainly one could fail - but often companies don't have the resources for two. Splitting the division into two equal parts often isn't practical - sometimes it takes five people to complete a job and the company only has money for five salaries. And for most functional divisions - human resources, marketing, product management, finance, etc. - I really don't understand how the company could have two parallel organizations operating simultaneously, even if they had the resources, without causing damage to and confusion in the company.

I get that you'd like things to work differently - but I can only tell you how they work currently, at every company I've ever been a part of. If you can persuade a company to hire you as the vice president of something without lengthy experience, that's terrific, and I wish you much success. But you asked why companies don't generally do this, and I've told you.
Microsoft Security Essentials is a nice compromise if you need to appear responsible to individuals and small businesses. It gets the job done, and it's only minimally intrusive. It also comes from a company that most people tend to trust.

Norton, on the other hand, is pure evil. If Microsoft bundled Security Essentials with Windows and thereby pushed all those pathetic AV vendors out of business (just like they did with web browsers), I might turn a blind eye this time and call it the lesser of two evils.
Um, two languages being able to do the same thing does not mean there is no difference between them. Particularly when one is much less verbose than the other.
SPYW -> Search Plus Your World.

This is the path we’re headed down – a single unified, ‘beautiful’ product across everything. If you don’t get that, then you should probably work somewhere else.” -larry page memo
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Have you tried verbatim search? In the left column of the search results page, click "more search tools", then "verbatim".
I'm reminded of TeX, where Knuth struggled to keep it declarative-only for years until the macro system added tail-recursion, becoming a Turing-complete language in its own right.
I've mentioned this before, but World of Goo did everything right: great game, 90 on Metacritic, easy purchase through Steam or direct from their website, no DRM at all, and priced at $19.99. But an estimated 90% of players were on pirated versions of the game: http://2dboy.com/2008/11/13/90/.

Is there something else they could have done?
The World's Worst Privacy Policy
fixed link: http://progmofo.com/
Website porting from one web framework to another - How?
I am about to embark on the above. From rails to something different. Maybe Chicago Boss. Is there some best practices to make this pleasurable?
For an example of how this is done with google images check out this project http://logolifter.com/
Ha, I had to lol at:

It's 3 o'clock in the morning and you get a call...

"hello?"

"yes, your server has gone"

Well worth a listen, there's plenty of juicy stuff and insights on the whole process and decisions made that aren't mentioned in the blog post (yet, at least).
You'd be surprised how little some people know as they begin preparation for their first fundraise.

As I mentioned in the title - this is for people looking to raise capital for the 1st time. A beginners 'tip list' sort of thing.

Sorry it didn't provide value for you...
What can be done in 1KB of CSS?
The consequences of detection are also the validation step for people cracking your DRM. They won't release something until they can confirm they've broken it.

It's much harder to work through removing DRM if you have to play the game for half an hour each time you want to test a partial solution. Games that dump you before even showing the title screen are actually making this confirmation activity easier.
Cool news.

No shortage of haters dumping on it when it was closed, now not a peep. Is it just me?

Sadly webOS might not see adoption, or it could be come the next Android now that it is.

It's certainly one of the most polished mobile OS'. It's also ahead of the curve in that you make apps for it via javascript/html.

I hope to grab a Touchpad one day soon and see how it is.

What do you think?
Oil's "low hanging fruit"
This was a great summary. I don't know that going from 20-25% unique searches to 16% is "killing", though. Some of that is just going to come from the space of possible search strings getting used up.
Much of these "bubble" issues are created by interested parties (mainly your competitors) the best you could do about it is assembling a better PR team.
>That's simply untrue. Many apps have been blocked from the iPhone apps store that were neither "porn" nor malware.

There have been a few mistakes, but I'm not aware of any apps that wouldn't fit into those categories. I consider apps that trick users, or which use undocumented APIs to be malware.

Apps that are offensive, such as gay bashing apps, etc, have been blocked, this is true, though I put that under the "porn" label even though it isn't porn. What's the broader word for "apps that many people might find inappropriate or offensive"?

> could still allow side-loaded apps for those who wish to use them.

As I pointed out, Apple has gone out of their way to create a method for "side loading" apps. They provided a way to create apps in javascript, which have access to much of the native hardware, you can install it thru the web, with a custom app icon and run them offline.

> Instead they block sideloaded apps to ensure complete control of the iOS ecosystem

On the contrary, as I mentioned there is a method to install apps completely out of Apple's control. (in fact, you can do this also with native apps as well using the adhoc distribution method.)

>and render impossible any kind of credible competing app store (like the Amazon App store) on iOS.

Yep. And this has proven also to be in consumers best interest. Look at all the dozens of "App Stores" that have sprung up since the real AppStore was created? Every single one of them sucks, and sucks really hard. Its like they aren't even trying.

Massive amounts of malware are being distributed via, at least the android marketplace, if not Amazon as well.

Why should Apple support third parties making the phone suck?
Playing on your emotions is an important part of marketing. Most successful marketing campaigns to this to some degree.
Bless them for putting up a playground: http://enyojs.com/samples/playground/

Such a web based interactive was a big reason for why I found it so easy to get up and running with Mongo (http://try.mongodb.org/).
Had part of this discussion on forrst, too: http://forrst.com/posts/Code_samples_from_Programmers-6pi
That's MSE thinking that something has modified the hosts file and resetting it.

I'd go for an ad blocker rather than a hosts file hack.

Adblock plus works fine on Firefox and Chrome. There are TPL subscriptions for IE that block everything (google around for them).
Hey Unwiredben, I think I remember you from the webOS Developer Portal. I just got my touchpad 10 minutes ago. How can I help with the new Enyo FOSS initiative?
So basically, what your saying is most companies don't want to split even if they can? What's wrong with having two people work one division while the other three work the other? What do you think is preventing that from happening?

Yes, some companies really do split the functional divisions of HR, marketing, product management, finance, etc. They are rare but they are quite successful otherwise I wouldn't be asking this question to figure out why more companies don't do the same?
I've always wanted to know the HN score of pages I stumble upon. I've also wanted a simple way to see the HN discussion about the page I'm currently viewing, so I built "What HN says".

It is similar to HackerNews'd [1] extension, which I only discovered after I built mine... Well, "What HN says" has the advantage of showing the score inside the icon. Also, it is built only with Javascript by using the great HNSearch API [2].

It is my first Chrome extension, so please fork it and improve it.

[1] http://mfairley.com/hnd/
[2] http://www.hnsearch.com/api
Am I missing something or is this site specifically designed to enable copyright infringement? I don't think the little disclaimer saves it. Contributory infringement is illegal in the US, and this tool lifts images from Google Image Search, 99.9% of which are not licensed for distribution. If this is your site, I'd consider replacing the image source with something like Flickr whose API which supports search-by-license.
The press release that the article summarizes can be found at https://news.slac.stanford.edu/press-release/world’s-most-po... . It goes into a little more detail, including some brief comments on the implications for fusion research.

Fusion in my view is one of the two technologies that will have the greatest impact on human progress in the 21st century. The other is evolutionary computation (solving problems via genetic algorithms rather than conventional analysis).
Full disclosure: Washington Post Co. Chairman and chief executive Donald E. Graham is a member of Facebook's board of directors.

They omitted it this time it seems.
That's fine. I used poor wording. By gathering more information about me, and making more guesses about what I want, Google is making a stronger bubble. Sometimes they guess well. Sometimes they guess really badly.

For many people this is great and exactly what they want. Sometimes it's what I want; sometimes Google's stemming or synonyms gets me a result that I would have struggled to find.

But, sometimes, I want Google to search for the words I enter. I want Google to return the same results to me as it does to Bob and Ann (if they're both in my country).

I don't care that [roses] gives me a different result to [roses roses roses]; I do care that Ann gets a different result for [roses] than Bob does. I can't explain why I care, and I'm happy to accept that I'm wrong. (For example, hopefully once people pick up that Google serves different results they'll stop saying Just Google It, which is good advice but sucks if you've Googled it and found only three forum posts with people being told to just Google it.)

I guess a lot of this is age and weariness. I remember a time when a Google search result would be an opportunity for serendipity to point me towards great sources of information. Some person, an expert, had a little plain html page with a few diagrams and a lot of text and I'd have to work to understand it. Now? Not so much. I get a lot of content farms (But I'm really grateful to Google for tweaking those down, and allowing me to block content from certain domains) or flash heavy brand sites (See especially photographers and watch manufacturers.) or a narrow band of not fun sites.
In music, the intervals of silence are often more important than the sounds themselves.
I like how you explained it much clearer than the professional author did...

I think NY Times needs to realign their columnists talent level...
Apple’s fast rise can’t last, and that’s a good thing
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I see no issue with asking for a sample. I ask them to demo something that they have built if they can and I personally bring a working app with me on an interview. If they do not have a code sample, I would ask them to choose an intermediate tutorial code base on the web and walk me through the code. But without a code sample I would probibly only offer them a junior position, with the understanding that if they prove to be a senior in 30 days, that we will change the position with back pay.
As much as I can afford. Honestly, that's the best answer I've got for you. If I need money for something and don't have enough, I will earn it.
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LinkedIn uses it for their mobile platform. I know some pretty big companies are looking into it. I know there are sizable companies out there using it in some capacity: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Projects,-Applications,-...
WebOS Open-Source plan announced and Enyo Open-Sourced
ClojureScript is amazing, and makes sense for a lot of apps because it's so feature full.
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I look at simple facts. Firstly, Firefox or any other browser which uses its own JavaScript engine can't be ported to iOS due to license ban. You don't consider it uncompetitive behavior given that browsers are a very competitive field in general? Well, I do. Secondly, Apple of course can argue that it's not a monopolistic thing in the global sense, since there are non Apple OSes around which don't enforce draconian restrictions. And it most probably can even work in court, to dodge possible antitrust inquires. Yet, it wasn't all that so good for Apple, and they removed some restrictions from their SDK to avoid some of these problems (it's slightly better now). I'm sure their lawyers are trying to find the edge there. If you don't like the term "monopolistic practice" because of those nuances, you can call it anticompetitive practice, fine with me.
Sure you can.

Replace it with a simple app that randomly shows fake notifications for threats, with a clickable button called "remove threat" that doesn't do anything. Upon clicking, show some stats on how many fake threats were dodged.

(1) you won't be seen as irresponsible anymore

(2) since users will constantly receive threat warnings, they'll be more careful than usual, improving security
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