skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! This idea came out of the fact that we built an enterprise Radian6-like platform specifically for the health vertical and realized this would be a useful tool for consumers as well.

That and people send so much time searching for this stuff anyways, we might as well help them out.
The new "Australis" theme (on the roadmap for 2H) looks like Mozilla is trying to copy Chrome yet again. Don't get me wrong, Chrome does a lot of things right, but shouldn't a browser have some sort of... unique visual identity?

http://people.mozilla.com/~shorlander/firefox-ui-design/fire...
Great. I see this being very useful if you have a specific medical condition. Your favicon is missing.
goes well with the (obviously satirical) site I made a couple of months ago - www.didwebombiranyet.com

How do you plan to send so many emails in real time?
Reminds me of Super Adobe by architect Nader Khalili.

http://calearth.org/building-designs/what-is-superadobe.html
If this isn't satire I have no idea how this would work! An honesty system for countries about to press the button? I doubt it's hooked up to the nuke-sensors on GPS satellites and the like!
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> You should have seen the vacant look on his face when we tried to explain a very simple closure. Advanced indeed...

Being able to describe a closure is only valid if you've had reason to use them before. Sure, use of jQuery pretty much implies use of closures, but in general, lack of specific knowledge within a domain does not imply lack of knowledge in the domain.
Your link is dead....
Let me start by saying there is an obvious bubble in the market - or in more professional terms, an oversupply of early stage capital, mostly in seed stage. It is no news that in the last couple of years many new private individuals / angels / micro-funds have entered the venture market, and are funding companies at the earliest of stages.

Well since it's so obvious, it should be trivial to give data to back your arbitrary-sounding claim. Unless of course, this really is an arbitrary and unfounded claim.
I think one of the commenters below lost the tone of the article. It's tongue in cheek. Back in the day (before my day), things were damn hard with barely adequate tools. Some of the accomplishments with these tools were truly amazing, but it takes a serious masochist to want to use such tools for all future jobs. Be grateful that you can build on the work of others.

For a more balanced comment about higher level tools, almost contemporary, see Fred Brooks comments in Mythical Man Month about using higher level languages (e.g. - APL, back in his day): one must look at what it does, and not just the cost of using it, before dismissing it out of hand.
Which is the main reason why Kernighan created Ratfor... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ratfor)
I haven't used setTimeout much, but I do use js everyday (it is my fulltime job).

And it may be nice to have 'just objects with function references' when you are writting a few lines of code to validate emails or something like than. When you start pushing 2k lines of code and more than two developers you need much more structure than than that. Anyhow C++, Scala and C# all have reasonable understanding of this. If all you have are function points, don't have this.
On the order of seconds, which is really not a problem (I work at NASA and we've tested remote vehicle operation in analogue environments with 3+ second RTT. The operators adjust to it pretty fast).
A ski area near a family home in Maine has just recently put up some yurts. They appear to be year-round structures, and I assume they rent them out.

I couldn't tell you how well they age, though, as they're new this year.
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Pick something you love to do. If there is market demand for it, you've validated your idea.

Still, there are no guarantees, but it's that easy.
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Actually, if you don't have a specific medical condition but just wanted to stay up-to-date with something in health (new startups, health technology, health policy, etc), It serves the same function.

Thanks for alerting us about the favicon!
But hasn't Larry Page's tenure at CEO been precisely one of reining in engineers who working on projects that may have been awesome, but not necessarily contributing to the core mission of the company.

It seems like his principle effort has been to provide focus for Google.
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That is a surprisingly well designed site. Love the dynamic layout.
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I've never been very successful communicating to my customers and bosses the difference between a "super programmer" and a "mortal programmer". It's a critical distinction that eventually must be understood by organizations that build software. So instead of trying to explain, I just email them this link:

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/HighNotes.html

Then they finally get it.

Now I have another link to help them understand why their management style isn't working they way they think it should. Thank you, Joel.

A few more Joel links like these two in my back pocket and I won't have to spend so much time explaining much of anything anymore. I can just go back to building stuff.
I loved the idea. Hope this guy makes it, because I wanna play that!
Dude, chill out: RIM director goes on angry rant against 'critics'
At a former job we could reject 80-90% of candidates for a heavy SQL Server + VB6 position on the grounds they couldn't write a SELECT with an INNER JOIN in it.

It is scary. I interview people for MSSQL positions and have seen way too many 'expert MSSQL' people who can't write a simple inner join much less anything with some sort of outer join.

IMHO, if someone is going to put MSSQL server on their resume they also better be familiar with MSAS, SSIS, DTS, etc... Even if they don't know details they better know that they exists and what they are used for.

BTW, UDFs are great in theory in MSSQL but horrible in practice unless constructed just right. Scalar UDFs will lock in the query into a single threaded mode and destroy performance. So only use table value UDFs without return clauses :)
The JSF was just an example. With a 30 cycle per hour rate it should be obvious that JSFs can't be a primary use.

They make a lot of critical parts for commercial airliners.

Parts where a high strength to weight or volume ratio is critical are the candidates for such an expensive process. I suspect most of the output is in aircraft, spacecraft, turbine blades, and possibly other machine tools. The journalist had to pick one that people would recognize.
Thanks for the link. This will come in handy since were moving to 520's across the board including our database servers eventually.
I guess rbenv + ruby-build uses GCC by default, because I've never had any issues with this on any machines running 4.2.

rbenv install 1.9.3-p0
rbenv global 1.9.3-p0

Done.
Thanks for the inside view on things. It sounds we're definitely speaking from the same position, and I'm glad that we agree on the meat of the argument.

I'm going to grab my soapbox and expand where I'm coming from regarding the normalization of child pornography. By allowing a de facto distinction to exist between hardcore abusive pornography and other forms, we are essentially saying that some types of child pornography are okay. This primes individuals to regard possession as acceptable; this is why reddit's inaction until now was so reprehensible.

I understand that the legal system is unlikely to investigate cases of child pornography that don't consist of egregious child abuse. That's fair. The legal system has a limited amount of time & money. But the moment we allow people to mistake this inaction for tolerance is the moment everything starts to go wrong.

But again - it looks like we're on the same page, and I definitely appreciate the inside view you bring.
It's this kind of thing that makes it extremely difficult to learn programming in your spare time. Getting the dev environment set up for someone who isn't well-versed in the process is almost frustrating enough to make you quit before you even write a line of code. I think that's why I'm enjoying and sticking with the CodeYear project where other efforts have fizzled out.
That's a pretty self-indulgent rant. I've got nothing against the ultimate decision by any means, but that decision is being rationalized -- and rationalized poorly.

8GB of RAM costs $39. If the OPs time is worth so little that they'd rather stew for 5-10 minutes every day waiting for repair permissions to finish, then that's simply their choice. FWIW, I haven't done anything like that on my 4GB MB Air since I bought it, and it almost never gets rebooted. Granted the SSD makes VM usage a lot more transparent, but still...

The software installation comment displays a lack of understanding of what's going on with the App Store; e.g., it's new, things are still ramping up, etc.

As an aside, my 2-cents to anyone new to the platform is to stay away from MacPorts. It does things just differently enough to make future updates (outside of what they provide, or before they get around to providing it) a potential time-sink to sort out. Not worth it to me; it's easy enough to build what you need, and there are plenty of places for excellent guidance.
Because sometimes there's more to life than a startup.
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All Linux distros I have seen look tacky and gaudy compared to OSX. I guess that's just your style, though.
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After years of DOS then Windows (various versions but not Vista or later), various RPM based Linux distributions with all the weird corruptible state RPM distros can get into this statement rings true to me:

"Most notably I get the ultimate software installation tool, apt-get. A tool that installs binary packages with their dependencies. A tool, that's universally supported by Google et al., so I don't even have any problems installing newest Chrome, for example."
I have seen a few studies that suggest New York City is the most environmentally friendly place to live in the US. But, mostly it comes down to transportation costs. And being that close to a harbor is actually a huge net gain.
It's interesting to watch a story spread when it becomes so big it goes beyond it's normal sphere (in this case, basketball/sports fans). Makes me wonder how many stories of this type that occurred before the explosion of the internet would have received similar treatment had they happened today instead.
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Freshbooks is great for long-term clients. I don't think it's adequate for one-off invoicing in an e-commerce type situation.
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My best bookmarks. Always good to re-read before interviews and when reviewing applications.
I can't directly answer the question but I get the feeling most memory issues have to do with an individual's use of their system, and not the system itself. I have a 2009 iMac and a little netbook running Xubuntu. The iMac has 4gb RAM and the netbook just a single gig RAM and not even 2ghz processor. The netbook doesn't slow down on me while the Mac is prone to freeze ups. I Could say "Linux is better than my Mac because it doesn't slow down" but that's not fair. They each have their own pros and cons and I don't see one as being better than the other, it's all a matter of preference.

When the slowdowns bother me I look at usage. On the Mac I always have 4 spaces open (the dashboard is not set as a space on my Mac), and at all times I have the following apps open: Mail.app, Terminal.app, Chrome w/>=5 tabs at a time, MAMP, CodeKit, iTunes, and Sublime Text. Then Photoshop is open a lot in a addition to a lot of others that get opened at times. On the netbook I've got a terminal session, Chrome, and Sublime Text. That's it. It's no wonder the Mac slows down. So I'd say look how you use the thing. No machine has unlimited performance and when it comes to memory usage it's a lot like money in that the more you have the more you tend to spend and you never seem to be able to have enough.
Because I don't like dealing with the business side much.
Interesting, they don't seem to do live patching, but leverage the addon system to do small updates until a browser restart is performed. This wouldn't be able to fix issues at the core of the browser, but it would still be able to do a lot.

This should also be mentioned http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2011/05/the-infinite-versio....
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There's a push towards minimalism by all the browsers and there is only a few ways to do a minimal browser UI.
Terrific software and support ... for criminal botnet builders
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It was a great post, but I noticed that many folks here weren't getting it. It sounds cliche, but I knew alot about everything when I was an obnoxious 21 year old. Now as a grizzled 33 year old, I have a much better appreciation of what I don't know -- which I find empowering.

Perhaps humility (or the perception of it) is a "symptom" of being more secure in other areas.
What are mobile users looking at? HINT: Not most of the apps downloaded!
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Not really. I am arguing against the idea of non-governments.
I've had it fail to install packages for me before, forcing me to grab them from source, modify the source with patches, and compile by hand.

I've been using Homebrew for about a year and haven't ever had an issue like that.
Monstro creates playlists from music shared on Twitter
I like the "value it creates per customer" question. The problem with business plans is, people identify a target market of "everyone with an internet connection, times an arbitrary adoption rate" (1%? 0.1%?).

In reality, your target market is "everyone you can advertise to". That's probably 10k people through social media, and then $1 / customer (wild man guess) per google ads click. You then need more than 0.1% of the target market to sign up to break even.
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1) Nowhere have I suggested to "kill top RSS process".
2) If you start Activity Monitor, you immediately see if memory pressure could be the problem (well, after 30 seconds, because it takes time to start Activity monitor if you ran out of memory)
3) If you ran out of memory, looking at which apps use much RAM is useful. And it's not as unpredictable as you make it seem. Quitting an app, you'll free at least the private memory, and you might free some of the shared memory, and other processes (e.g. Window server) might also free some more memory as a consequence. This might not be a precise prediction, but it's not quite "impossible to assess".

I do not know how prevalent memory pressure is for other users. It's been the primary reason of "sluggish computer" for me. If you know more about this topic, I'd be thrilled to hear other possible explanations beyond "it's more complicated than that".
The game itself is here: http://statico.github.com/webgl-demos/ducks/
RJMetrics is hiring software development interns in Philly

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Well, if that's what you meant, you should have said that, instead of making false claims about what people do and don't do.

Now that we're back on track, If you're trying to make a semantic point in an article by emphasizing certain things, wouldn't you want that reflected in the HTML? Do screen readers do something special for bold-via-css or is the emphasis lost on the visually impaired?
Honestly,i dont care about certification and employers.I just need the right knowledge to help me create my own stuff.
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I've updated it for you now.

Agreed. Eventually you will be able to claim your links with an account (update, delete, sort, possibly your own storefront, etc)
Thanks for the suggestions.

In case it helps anyone else: It's something about the way that Flask handles a direct send_file that seems to be causing problems in our tests. However, we've found reports of sendfile not working properly on certain platforms and we're still investigating, so I'm not convinced at this stage that the problem is with Flask itself.
hmfff, works for me from Philadelphia ...
Maybe it was the . in the end. Anyway, there's not much to see there :)
I’ll bet more entrepreneurs model their behavior on Captain Picard from Star Trek than any nonfiction human. [..] Turns out, it’s positively de-motivating to work for a company where your job is just to shut up and take orders.

I like the post, but.. at the risk of sounding like I've thought about this for too long, Picard's management style wasn't of the tough "command and control" style described here.

Picard's crew had a significant amount of autonomy and a reasonable scope to question their direct superiors (although going too far up the chain usually seemed to backfire). The buck always stopped with the Captain and he set the crew's overall mission, aims and goals (with significant input and advice from his crew) but in terms of the day to day running of the ship (and even many of the crisis situations) he was not at the center of most decisions and relied heavily on his crew to do the right thing.

All this makes me realize that as much as being a sci-fi show, TNG was particularly good at demonstrating management styles and crew relationships (with many episodes dedicated entirely to these matters or contrasting them with those of other crews and civilizations).
That seemed to be a trend in this project, that we briefly overcame: https://github.com/twitter/bootstrap/pull/266
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As someone who uses both Linux(most familiar with Fedora and Ubuntu) and OS X regularly I have to say I completely disagree with you.

My Linux systems are always a headache. Last week I pulled a recommended patch from the system updater and it broke Xorg. I had to remove it by hand and reinstall it.
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Part of the rationale for package management with dependencies in linux is so that libraries are shared (only loaded into memory once) between different executables. If OS X is giving up some of that sharing in exchange for simpler installation, I wonder how much that has to do with the memory usage complaints in the comments here.
Most of the images did not pass the Dost Test.[0] They were illegal.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dost_test
Oh, yeah, UDFs are something that I want a dev to know about but I also want them to understand why most of the time they shouldn't use them ;-) Triggers, too.

I would say there are some positive cases for using scalar UDFs in live-run queries, but certainly not where the UDF's result is in any way dependent on the value of a field in the dataset. There lies the path to horrendous performance problems....
"Sometimes it takes me as much as three seconds to exhaustively search all of humankind's knowledge."
I'm not the author, actually. I just ended up with that page as one of my tabs and I'm embarrassed to say that I've no idea how I ended up there :/

Supposedly the AI would have extra knowledge from the level-building stage, so the search space would be smaller than playing "normally".
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Enrolled! Anyone have any opinions on what subjects you CAN'T teach effectively through MITx's proposed methods?

I'm having trouble coming up with any "intro"-level work that cannot be effectively handled in this way. Solve the likely engagement issues (perhaps with well-designed gamification), and suddenly you've replaced all 100-level university courses -- freeing professors to teach the interesting stuff.
Sure, this is being used to build JSF's, but really it is a romanticization of American production-- an antidote to the "nothing is made here" nonsense that has become popular these days.

This nonsense can also be fought with simple facts. Depending on how you count it, the US manufactures either the 1st or 2nd most amount of stuff in the world. It's just that we do it with drastically less people and with robots now instead. The US manufactures more things now than it ever has before.
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I do understand how memory works on modern systems, and I agree that Activity Monitor can still be used as a blunt tool.

My system (MBP, 4 GB of RAM) works beautifully most of the time, but I noticed that sometimes when I went to a new tab in Chrome, there was a multi-second delay. I opened up Activity Monitor, went to a new tab, and noticed that my disk activity had spiked. I figured that the memory system was swapping in/out a lot of pages, so I looked at rough memory usage, and saw that the Shockwave Flash plugin had close to 1 GB in RSS. I then realized that using YouTube as a music player is probably not a good idea - Flash was designed to run as the main thing you're doing, not in the background while you're doing other things. I killed the tab, and I had no more problems.

Blunt tools can still be useful. The problem isn't the tool, it's the knowledge that people have when they use it. For example, I know that RSS overcounts, but I also suspect that the Flash plugin isn't sharing enough to make a big dent in 1 GB. And, it turns out I was right.

You wrote an excellent explanation above about modern memory systems, I find it strange that you're harping on this particular point so much.
I usually just redo a set of projecteuler.net problems, until I get enough context of the language to feel like I don't have to look up every single language construct.
I never said it was legitimate content on Facebook. I said Facebook shouldn't be liable.

Are you reading any of my replies? Or do you already have your answer formulated in your head before I type anything?
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Yup, I saw him speak.
It is often claimed that piracy is the entertainment industry's own fault--that they need to evolve to embrace digital media, and because they haven't, people are forced to turn to piracy.

There may be a bit of truth to that argument, but if you look at the Apple App Store, you'll find a damning rebuttal. The App Store has embraced digital distribution. Purchasing and downloading apps could not be easier. It's certainly easier than pirating them. And yet app store piracy is a huGe problem [1].

Why? Because if you pirate, you have money left over for other things. It's that simple. So even though you could afford $2 for an app, you'd rather pirate the app and spend the $2 on something else. It's human nature. This is one reason societies make laws and enforce them with police. If we'd let natural evolution dictate the run our societies, then the alpha males would each have fifty wives and most males would be mateless or dead.

[1] http://www.everythingicafe.com/apple-cracking-down-on-app-st...
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Ask HN: Anyone have experience working with the Google Calendar API?
I'd love to ask you a couple questions about it. There's a product that we are looking to build, I poured through the API last night and couldn't get my question answered.

Basically trying to figure out if I as a user can look at other calendar (coworker's calendars) through a 3rd party product and make changes on their calendar. Booking an event, editing the event I created, and/or deleting the event I created.

Let me know if we can get in touch offline!
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I suppose since there is a patent on unlocking with your finger, we will have to use a "place genitals here" unlock. Just think what marketing companies could do with that!
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