skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
thanks. is this design in illustrator?
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And, as an OCaml programmer, if you were not one of those lucky 3, where would you work other than Jane Street?
Well, off the top of my head:

1) The "third party cookies block" championed by Safari for one.

2) Refusing to let the publishers get user info without the user opting in first (there was big hoopla about that from the publisher's end):

http://counternotions.com/2011/02/16/stores/
Nice, this is one of those 'duh, that makes a lot of sense' apps. I would have liked to pay for it.
Is this you? (https://twitter.com/#!/farhadabas) Was wondering if it was. If so, I'm gonna follow you so I can see what future projects you come up with. I try and keep up with new HTML5 stuff.
True, even the JVM verifier was flawed, maybe neither approach can succeed. It just seems to me we now have good reason to believe it's a dead end to try to sandbox native code in legacy instruction sets.
Yeah, I always 301 the “www” subdomain to the real site. Some agree with us[1], some disagree[2], and some disagree disagree[3].

[1] http://no-www.org/

[2] http://www.yes-www.org/

[3] http://www.www.extra-www.org/
Perhaps. But I think you have the economics backwards. Apple has said before that they break even from iTunes. iTunes exists as a low cost way for them to sell more devices.

Apple has a history of simple product lines. Supposing apple did release a tv, how would it make any sense to have a product called "AppleTV" that isn't a tv? Maybe you're right, but I stand by my own estimation.
yup, thats me!
This is addressed by duckduckgo on http://dontbubble.us/.

I think it's very very worrying.

Edit: DDG even references to this video.
> contributor-slots

That sounds similar to an idea that I've had for several years now, but which I haven't had a chance to implement anywhere. What if you had to spend karma in order to submit stuff, and recoup it with other users' upvotes? What if voting actually transferred a small amount of karma from the voter to the submitter? What if every other method of feedback similarly behaved like an economic transaction?

At first, this might seem to discourage participation because people won't want to spend their all-so-precious karma. But we don't want karma whores to comment all that much anyway. Given that people get so obsessed with those meaningless numbers anyway, could we harness that obsession for some good? If people had to spend karma in order to submit stuff, every submission would be an investment. If they want to be able to keep investing, they would need to turn a decent ROI. If voting cost karma, that would deter circlejerks. Forcing people to think of karma as a virtual currency might just be enough to make them think seriously about the quality of their comments.

There would also be a mechanism to create more karma, so that the karma economy expands at a controlled rate and not everything is a zero-sum game. Daily allotments and various bonuses might work there. You might also allow karma to be destroyed, e.g. when you vote something down, the submitter loses karma but so do you. Whatever algorithm you use, the point is to produce an artificial scarcity of karma that can only be overcome with a concerted effort by the majority of users to produce quality content.
True, Eric provided some info in the Redis google group some time ago:

"I just want to let the devs know that Youporn.com relaunched two weeks
ago with Redis as our primary database. With @100 million page views per day, our cluster of Redis slaves are handling over 300k queries per second.

After the switchover we had to add some additional Redis nodes but not because Redis was overworked but because the network cards couldn't keep up with Redis."

So at least the Redis part is I/O bound apparently, that suggests an high degree of efficiency for this use case.
Do you think HN should charge like MetaFilter?
You don't go to "kickstarter-for-movies.com" to be entertained (unless you find that kind of thing entertaining, obviously). You go there to support the kind of entertainment you want to see more of. Anyone supporting a prospective project in that way and expecting immediate returns doesn't understand the model, at best.

Your argument seems to be that since crowdfunded alternatives can't immediately supplant the incumbents, there's no point to even bothering with them. There's absolutely no reason whatsoever that they can't coexist, with the new model picking up slack that comes available as the old model withers. In point of fact, that's exactly what I expect to happen, at least to some degree.

(EDIT: TL,DR: streaming and crowdfunding are utterly orthogonal; I'm having a very hard time understanding how and why you're conflating them.)
Agreed. Genetics is overrated and poorly understood. To be sure, nucleotide sequence is important in determining phenotype, but since the human genome project's findings were released, its become more and more clear that its no silver bullet. Protein expression, folding, and regulation are really complex systems. Very few pathologies actually come from DNA sequence. There's an entire emerging field, Epigenetics, which is basically heredity that is not the result of DNA sequence.

That blood thiner example brings up some interesting thoughts. Have they found links between specific sequences and the response to the drug? If so, this could be useful. If it is indeed really cheep to screen, it could be useful epidemiologically. It could find new associations between sequence and phenotype that weren't possible before. For example, if everyone's sequence was known, they might find that people with a certain copy of a gene didn't respond well to a certain class of drug. But, the fruits of this would come after everyone was sequenced, and after much study.

It also brings up some ethical concerns that you mentioned. What if you don't want to know you have Huntington's disease, or you are predisposed for heart disease? Or moreover, what if you don't want that information to be in a database somewhere for who-knows-who to access? These are complex issues.
The current state of Delphi is very good. I picked it up about 6 years ago, and it's a wonderful language to use for native Windows development. They just released cross-platform compilation for native OS X GUI and console applications, have 64-bit and 32-bit support.

In fact, the same person that invented C# first created Delphi (Anders Hejlsberg), and you can see how C# has borrowed much from Delphi.

Delphi, in the past 3 releases, has added native generics, anonymous methods, Unicode throughout the language by default, compiling native OS X applications, compiling iOS applications, and writing native 32-bit or 64-bit applications.

In addition, Pascal (and Delphi) does not have many of the serious security issues C/C++ developers have experienced, by design; e.g., format string bugs are non-existent because Delphi allocates strings on the heap.

Also, the Delphi community is alive and well over at StackOverflow. Unfortunately, many new developers in the US aren't familiar with Delphi...but it's extremely popular in European countries. It really is worth considering if you are writing native Windows applications that require complex GUI's done easily.
Maybe I'm the exception, or maybe this is a cultural thing (I live near Berlin), but ...

I'm in the lucky position to have friends (and lots of family members) who are bluntly honest to me.
Javascript because too many websites abuse it for what should be a static page.
He also threw out the concept of native apps until he changed his mind she he saw it made sense.
Why is MS-DOS batch language missing? Makes the UNIX shell scripting languages look elegant and beautiful in comparison ...
"There are two types of languages, the ones everyone complains about, and the ones nobody uses."

- B. Stroustrup
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A user named kijon posted the below, which I find very insightful. Unfortunately, his posts are only visible with showdead on, so most people won't see it. If you would like to vote up these ideas, please turn showdead on and vote up the originator of them.
Original comment below:

> contributor-slots

That sounds similar to an idea that I've had for several years now, but which I haven't had a chance to implement anywhere. What if you had to spend karma in order to submit stuff, and recoup it with other users' upvotes? What if voting actually transferred a small amount of karma from the voter to the submitter? What if every other method of feedback similarly behaved like an economic transaction?

At first, this might seem to discourage participation because people won't want to spend their all-so-precious karma. But we don't want karma whores to comment all that much anyway. Given that people get so obsessed with those meaningless numbers anyway, could we harness that obsession for some good? If people had to spend karma in order to submit stuff, every submission would be an investment. If they want to be able to keep investing, they would need to turn a decent ROI. If voting cost karma, that would deter circlejerks. Forcing people to think of karma as a virtual currency might just be enough to make them think seriously about the quality of their comments.

There would also be a mechanism to create more karma, so that the karma economy expands at a controlled rate and not everything is a zero-sum game. Daily allotments and various bonuses might work there. You might also allow karma to be destroyed, e.g. when you vote something down, the submitter loses karma but so do you. Whatever algorithm you use, the point is to produce an artificial scarcity of karma that can only be overcome with a concerted effort by the majority of users to produce quality content.
Is MIDI bad? I mean, why do you think it should be replaced? I am not familiar with this area but I am honestly interested!
> an internet is to a world as the internet is to the world—not the World.

Analogies always fail.

An internet[1] is to a continent as the Internet is to the Earth.

I agree that this argument[2] is thoroughly lost because people rarely use the capital 'I' anymore.

[1] You have all sorts of networks, but a network doesn't become 'an internet' just because it's using TCP/IP.

[2] Perhaps argument is too strong a word.
This really is the key point. In graduate school I worked along side many individuals with close ties to the pharmaceutical industry, and many had very similar stories to tell...

Getting a drug approved is an interesting process. Not only do you have to prove your drug is not harmful, not only do you have to prove that it does what it's supposed to, you also have to prove that it works better than all the available alternatives. I heard numerous stories where a drug would go to trial, and for some subset of the trial population it would be a miracle cure. However, the way the current approval process runs, those miracles have to be averaged out with the rest of the population, and often the end result would be "it's not better than existing drugs: denied!"

Of course, scientists being the curious type quickly figured out that what they were seeing was the consequence of genetics. Have a certain variant of gene X? Then this is a miracle cure. But only 10% of the population has gene X, so on the whole this drug doesn't appear to be better than the alternatives.

The problem is, the FDA doesn't know how to approve drugs that only work for people with a specific variant of gene X. Mostly, it's a chicken and egg problem: most drug trials don't include genetic profiling, because it would be wasted money since the FDA doesn't consider genetic profiling, because most drug trials don't include genetic profiling.

If sequencing becomes cheap enough that it can be included as part of the standard drug trial process, this could all change. Personalized medicine is the future.

Edit: Interestingly, though the name escapes me at the moment, I did hear of one drug that was approved for a specific gene variant. However, this was only because that gene variant was particularly prevalent in African American men, and demographic data is collected during the trial process. I recall there were a lot of upset scientists regarding this outcome, though, because conflating race with genetics is dangerous and irresponsible. There might be an 80% correlation (and even that might be on the high side), but that implies that there are non-African American males who could benefit but won't get the drug, and African American males that will get the drug even though it has no beneficial effect...

Edit, post-Google: Well, that was rather easy to find -- http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/24/health/24drugs.html
I use Navigon. I'd give it a 4/5 rating.
This makes no sense at all. Ideas should be copied, redistributed, and refined by multiple parties. The execution best matched with its audience and context will do well. This post suggests that it is somehow not right for a person to draw inspiration from the work of others and then do the work independently to realize the idea. Why should I have to ask permission to access any idea or to do work by myself?
The core Go team was smaller than 8 people, at least at launch, although it has lots of peripheral contributors now. But you could look at that as the value of launching. :-)
The Dana, was a great machine. I feel bad I forgot about it. I will probably buy one. Then eventually sell it when I remember I outgrew it.
Everything's fair in love, war and business.

Ideas are meant to be "stolen". That's how progress is made. If you want to protect your idea, make sure that you've got the best execution. There is no benefit for society from protecting subpar executions.
In what way isn't open better? That way everybody can build on it. Just about every open source project started as a crappy copy of something or other.
I commonly commute between a small set of places at different times on public transportation. Depending on what time I'm travelling, the best route through public transportation can be completely different. I know how to get to all of these places by walking/driving, but I don't always know the best way to get there given the time, which is why this app is so useful.
Why primary keys and object IDs are implementation details
BitC was started when Shapiro was at a research university. No research institution would fund Go, because Go is not a research language. BitC was, however, designed as a research language.
people still writing stuff and getting upvotes without bothering to RTFM to the slightest.

man sudo

=> sudo -s

hard uh. always read the f. man damnit. you know, that's what RTFM means.
> Maybe that will mean that there will be no more media superstars.

Why would that be? The superstars are the ones most likely to survive in some sense. You need to 'think at the margin': http://journal.dedasys.com/2012/01/21/thinking-at-the-margin - it's the little guys on the edge of doing their art full time or not that are the ones most likely to be buffeted around by the winds of change. The Rolling Stones will still make lots of cash somehow.

Also, the ransom model has been with us for a while - it was proposed as a way to fund open source software too. So far, it hasn't worked that well (a few anecdotes notwithstanding). It can, in some cases, but most consumers want to have a look at something, evaluate it, and then get their instant gratification, not wait another N months for it to actually be produced.
So, a pretty massive rewrite and then it's 10% faster? Wonder how much of the reason for it in the first place is that a bunch of PHP/standard component programmers are probably easier to get (and replace) than competent Perl hackers…
I regularly need to get "directions" to places I commonly visit, because I use the map app to give me bus times. I suspect folks who drive, might do this allot with traffic information.
> People writing real kernels or embedded code have to write little shims in platform-specific assembly code to hook their C code up to the hardware

Platform-specific extensions to C, but not assembly. IIRC declaring a register on the hitech picc18 compiler was a cast of an address to a specific type, and on another compiler was a pragma. But that happens in compiler-supplied include files, so the C programmer ends up with a PORTA macro. Point being, the algorithmic code written in C isn't entirely beholden to a specific implementation and what platforms it chooses to support.

> C has a fundamental principle: you only pay for what you use

Unfortunately, there is a lot you are unable to use even when you are more than willing to pay. I'm basically proposing augmenting C with modern statically analyzable language features, so that one is able to pay for more capabilities.

The problem with the current bunches of languages is their extreme lack of maturity. Rust currently looks the most promising to me, but I can't be sure that at version 0.4 the main contributors won't move on to other things, leaving its popularity to be eclipsed by Deca 1.0. A working application can always be recompiled with a frozen version of the compiler, but if your goal is to write a major library that exports its abstractions as more than a C FFI, language community is a major concern.
I think people refer to Internet1 as "the Internet" (because it's bigger) and Internet2 as "Internet2" (or "I2").
Could you link to that presentation? I can't seem to find it.
It's quite an interesting problem - was actually an interview question for one of the usual suspects that I've interviewed at.
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There's active marketing and there's passive marketing (brand association). Go is popular because of its association with the brand of Google and the brand of Pike and Thompson. A lot of people like the language on its merits (although I disagree with pretty much every decision they made), but I believe the reason the language got traction is because of its brand association.
It's on point because "number of students who can integrate in 2012 vs 2011" is rather more like "percent of regression tests passed in 2012 projects vs 2011 projects" than it is like "quality of (?) search engine code vs quantum simulation code", or better, "number of successfully completed customer tasks using search engine product vs quantum simulation product". That is it measures something that is not irrelevant, but awfully specific, and possibly less indicative of the larger whole than you might think. Because teaching is pretty heterogeneous. And the measurement is extremely indirect, i.e. how good another person is at something after interacting with the programmer/teacher's product.
Looks like a great app. Does it offer any password protection?

Dan loses phone, Andy finds phone. Andy emails Dan's wife saying he lost his keys, and can she leave a spare behind the shed? Andy uses phone to find house, Andy robs house.

Just a thought. :)
A follow-up that deals with how the mapping was derived from the structure of V1: http://intothecontinuum.tumblr.com/post/19813076775/did-you-...
Why is that any better than using the bookmarks feature?
it's easier than that: you can just start typing a name, and the maps app will auto-complete from your address book or from the maps app's saved bookmarks.
If you launch with just a FB Connect login, you're ignoring potential users. I personally don't have a facebook, never will. If you launched with only a FB login, I would hit the back button and never return to your site. I would have no idea when and if you added a regular registration, nor would I care at that point.
So 'more expensive' and 'less open' are Svbtle's selling points? Sign me up.
Not true at all. I know a few current and former Googlers who worked on porn. The skillset is fairly transferrable to any high-traffic website.

At least in Silicon Valley, people don't really care what you've worked on as long as you have the technical chops. Hell, look at all the folks working for defense contractors - their biggest problem is that it tends to lock them into a proprietary software stack, not that they've written software used to blow people up.
Probably better to depend on the OS security for this.
"Slides" link on joind.in: http://www.manwin.com/confoo/eric2012.pptx
What I really need is an app to send an address I've looked up in Google Maps on my iPhone to my Garmin Nuvi via Bluetooth.

Search on the Nuvi for places > 5 mi away takes forever. It's so much faster (and easier since Google guesses many of the address details) on the iPhone w/ Maps, and it'd be awesome to add a button that say "Send to Nuvi" and be on my way :)
Yes. But Romeo and Juliet apparently borrowed heavily from works from 1562 and 1582[1]. Since he wrote the play in 1591, both works would have been under today's copyright.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Romeo_and_juliet
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Yeah, 'air' is another word that's sort of nebulous about its extent.

"The bug in the jar is running out of air"
c.f.
"Don't pollute the air" (i.e., Earth's atmosphere)
In theory, you do not but until Apple perfects the technology, we'll just have to wait.

I won't debate the merits of Bitcoin as a currency replacement as it is not needed, traded nor quoted in the financial markets. And by financial markets, I'm referring to the little club that certain banks and hedge funds have going between themselves, not the service your buddy operates from his apartment.
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Maybe so, but iirc the iPhone pin-code is pretty easy to bypass.

Perhaps it's just me that's paranoid! :)
If you own a car, you'll definitely find it useful. Really well designed and great execution. As every crowd sourced app, needs support from the community, so it takes time to build. It will get there.
XBMC 11 is released
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A bunch of good rules of thumb for pitching your startup and not sucking at it.
10% faster is quite an achievement for a site, that was fast before.

Additionally, I don't think speed was the primary drover behind the rewrite. I'm still waiting for the video/audio of the presentation, but he mentions the 'very complex architecture' of the PERL backend. So switching to a 'standard' architecture that fits on one PP slide seems liek a very good idea.
Steven Blank made a much more in depth analysis of this phenomenon on his:

Why The Movie Industry Can’t Innovate and the Result is SOPA[1]

In a nutshell, it shows how much the movie industry always fought change, it always lost, and it always made more money out it.

[1] http://steveblank.com/2012/01/04/why-the-movie-industry-cant...
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While in some deep (and silly) sense you can't prove the laws of physics, the whole point of science is that the scientific method lets us confidently infer that the laws of physics are a good model for reality through experiments. So in that sense, you can "prove" them, and people have. There is no similar justification for copyright, and claiming copyright as an axiom proves nothing.
Yeah, that was pretty cool for the time, at least until I had to unrack every single one and drive it back to our office. This is what it looked like after that:

http://www.tomkleinpeter.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/unra...

These days we are in Seattle.
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It could be the analogue of the Mac Mini compared to the iMac, it would fill a niche for those that want the Apple TV experience but already have a new fancy screen. So maybe the full TV would take over the AppleTV name and the little box would be dubbed the "AppleTV Nano". I bet it could sell well as an entry-level option if there are a range of products (and of course apps) in the ecosystem. As it is now it is an oddity.