skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds implied you do understand it better, so don't keep it to yourself.

Also, mouse-free environment is not just a concept, and most certainly not retarded. Care to elaborate why you think that?
> The phone market is indeed significantly warped by subsidies from the carriers. If carrier subsidies didn't exist (if people didn't fall for it being subsumed into the cost of plans) the iPhone market would never have taken off.

The point I made about carriers was about Apple owning their sales channel. Most people buy their phones directly from carriers. Carriers have their own agendas. Thus Apple has less control over the phone sales channel than they do for any other product they sell. It matters. We could debate how much, but it matters. For example, if I walk into an AT&T store and ask the salesperson, "I want a smartphone", and he replies, "This Lumia 900 is our latest and greatest" and so I buy that, my opinion is that that has a real impact on the market.

Regarding your point, though, if carrier subsidies didn't exist, presumably they wouldn't exist for anyone, so who knows what the market would look like? It might favor Apple even more. Their supply chain seems to be the best in the industry. Rivals are having trouble making tablets with similar features for competitive prices, and competing PC manufacturers are having trouble selling ultrabooks for similar prices as MacBook Airs. So wouldn't it stand to reason that in a subsidy-free world, Apple could make a phone for $300 or $400 and still make a healthy profit, but Samsung or HTC or Nokia would struggle to do the same?

> They once had it in the bag, and now account for about 1/2 of tablets, heading ever downwards.

Do you have a link for this? I'm sure you're familiar with discussions of market share based on shipped vs. sold. And this is only anecdotal evidence, but just about everywhere I go -- coffee shops, airports -- all I see are iPads. I've seen maybe 2 or 3 Android tablets (including the Kindle Fire) in the wild ever. Again just anecdotal, but it was pretty clear once Android phones started to gain traction and were selling in real numbers. It doesn't seem that way at all with the tablet market.

I'm not sure that the tablet market will really settle down to look like the iPod market. There is too much money to be made and way more competition than there ever was for portable mp3 players. But I do think a lot of the market fundamentals are the same as they were with the iPod, and assuming Apple removes the price umbrella relatively soon, I think it's going to take a _significantly higher quality product_ than what we're seeing today before competitors start gaining real traction.
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> A glass of water can be worth more than the New York Times if Zuckerberg is lost in the desert and you happen to have water.

What if you don't bother to drink the water? What do you call that?

Call me naive (I am), but there has to be more to this than the respective to ones needs narrative. Here's a few points that I've soaked in:

- Instagram will continue to be a separate entity
- Instagram "brand" is worth $
- Instagram revenue is worth ?

OK. So, let's say FB acquired Instagram for their "brand". How will FB benefit from Instagram's brand if they are a completely separate entity? If they are after revenue/audience, where's the money? There is more to this than just being best buds with one of the photo sharing platforms of choice.
Nice, work. I found it especially impressive that you got the car icon to match the actual color of the car.
Essentially, mySQL was the bottleneck. He fixed that, then Apache became the bottleneck. He just didn't realize mySQL was his bottleneck (or that fixing that would increase the load on the webserver) and therefore "blames" the functioning of the app on mySQL's slowness. Now, whether or not there are changes to Apache he could make to avoid having to queue ajax requests is not something I can speculate on.
Lots of cities have nice areas around downtown, but few have nice areas around downtown where you can do everything you need (walk to work, walk to the grocery, etc). They do exist, obviously, and some people are more tolerant about walking through a few bad blocks on the way to work than others, but it is my observation that most U.S. cities don't do a good job of making downtown a desirable place to live. Many U.S. downtowns essentially shutdown after 5pm as all of the restaurants close for the day and everyone commutes back to the 'burbs.
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The upper classes separating themselves from everyone else isn't a modern invention...what do you think castles are?
You're perfectly entitled to feel that way. There's no objective set of human incentives/desires and everybody is entitled to his/her own utility function. For me, I'm too curious about what the future will bring to die now or any time sooner than is necessary. Learning, satisfying my curiosity, and gaining new experiences have thus far provided me uncapped positive utility and I expect to continue to feel that way into the indefinite future. If I didn't have that love for science and technology, I could expect that long life would become monotonous. The only opinion I won't abide is that of someone who not only doesn't want to live longer, but also doesn't think I should be allowed to.
I grew up in Alberta and fresh dry wind blown snow is hard to walk on, like dry sand. Slow going.

I now live in Vancouver and despite temperature it gets damp enough that movement without sweating is well nigh impossible. Good thing I work at a pool and don't give a damn.

Either way cycling is still better.
A great start to what looks to be a promising series of articles.

My Walk Score means a lot to me [1]; if you're looking for a new place to live, Walk Score's apartment-finding service is the best tool I know [2]. The commute times feature is a particularly interesting bit of tech.

[1] Warning: I am irretrievably biased (see my profile.)

[2] http://www.walkscore.com/apartments
So... what, the client had a polling loop with no delay other than the time to actually make the ajax request?
In my opinion, to be truly confident that your data will be forever exclusive to yourself and people you choose is to pay for the service, to keep it running in the long run.

Otherwise, how is the service going to survive? They have to monetize somehow down the road to pay the bills.

See if you agree with what the creator of Pinboard says: http://blog.pinboard.in/2011/12/don_t_be_a_free_user/

I personally run a site called Handpick that helps people curate links and inform in a considerate manner:

http://handpick.me

I have paying subscribers who help me keep the lights on and do not have pressure to monetize my users' data in any way.

The question is: do you care enough how your data is handled to pay for the service?
By all other measures it's still a very good school for Comp-Sci, especially considering that it's a public university with somewhat reasonable tuition. Also, while the general acceptance rate is high, you do need a 3.5 GPA to get into the Comp-Sci program.

For example, take a look this publication based ranking:
http://www.urch.com/forums/computer-science-admissions/79645...
HP "Converged Cloud"
never heard this one. I like Wiki take: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luck
Can someone please explain why dynamic DNS, port forwarding and SSH tunneling involved when attaching to the same session?

I just fired up two instances of Putty and see my keystrokes replicated within a second.
I was merely curious. English is not my first language, I learned it at a pretty ripe age, so sometimes I miss some subtle nuances.

I'm actually reading the Harry Potter books (yeah, I know, but my kids are reading them too, and I figured I need to become an "insider" to that universe before they start making references that just go whoosh! over my head) and I remember seeing the expression "a right pain" somewhere in there.

Finally, I tend to be fascinated by odd and obscure language issues and details. I guess that's just the way I am.

Anyway, I'll be more careful to explain why I'm asking, in the future.
UC tuition through selling a piece of your future
Facebook and Instagram: When Your Favorite App Sells Out
There is already a really nice iOS app so I think I will leave that one alone. We made this version with Android use in mind. That being said there are a lot of things that could be done to get the quirks out on mobile, like preventing window resizing and handling multi-touch. I would prefer to keep it web based if the experience remains decent. Android is a possibility though.
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Yes, this is exactly what I wan't. I'd love facebook to use their data to the fullest, and I'd love to pay for such a search engine (mainly so, that they dont need to sell my data). I hope this happens, and I hope they make alot of money from that, keeping my feed/timeline/stream focused on my friends.
Did The Internet Killed Reading Books?
I can't find the number right now but I'm pretty sure I've seen it somewhere that Baikonur at 45N has a 9% penalty (cargo mass_Baik = .91*mass_Canav for the same propelent). So 2 degrees south is probably fairly trivial.
As someone with not a lot of experience in low level languages and I can't wait to play around with this. I think it will be fun way to learn and maybe even try building hardware implementation using a FPGA.
Definition per http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK10468/ :

"Clinically significant: A result that is large enough to affect a patient’s disease state in a manner that is noticeable to the patient and/or caregiver."

But "autopsy" means the person died but not when they died. So an autopsy of a person killed by gunshot in their 20's doesn't alters the average lifetime risk from the xrays.
Well, the ‘gated community’ as such may exist by virtue of the automobile, but the overall concept is much older and can apply even in high-density urban environments. What about a luxury apartment building that hires a doorman? It is the same thing in spirit as the gated community.
Weird that they didn't include the language link[1] that shows all the repo statistics for the language, like most watched, most forked, newly created, etc.

[1]: https://github.com/languages/DCPU-16%20ASM
Fun fact #2:

In the top 9 most awesome Open Source projects in the world 6 out of 9 are ruby projects. Linux or Apache projects are not in the lists. Yep, seems about right... (I am sarcastic of course)

Plus, but it may only be me, rating open source projects by "awesomeness" is a gross misunderstanding of the nature of Open Source and the contribution that everybody can bring into this world.
The Star Trek attraction that almost came to life
Turbo Pascal!
I think Valve's titles are very PC-centric.

I'm guessing that they will continue this route, even if they made a "PC-in-a-box". If I'm a Valve customer interested in 1st party titles (HL3, L4D3, Portal 3, etc.), why would I buy a console (even if it is a Valve one), when I can already play their games on my PC?

> I would argue a steam console that played console-oriented games using the steam platform is a great idea to compliment the pc-based service, and not competing head-to-head.

I think Sony is in a great position to do this (see their partnership with Portal 2), although the PSN team might have something to say about that. Maybe Nintendo can partner with them to flesh out their online story.

All-in-all, it's a tough sell (at least from what I can see). If they do launch it I don't see it being anything more than a niche device.

They can overcome this by pulling off other tricks, like including a subscription to all Valve titles, or making it extremely cheap, or some sort of exclusivity (at the potential cost of their PC fanbase). Otherwise the value proposition is basically a prebuilt PC with the Valve logo on the outside.
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Get your Walk Score: http://www.walkscore.com/score/times-square-nyc
Things one should consider before designing a logo
That's exactly what I was thinking. At work I'll set up production servers all the time, but I'd enjoy knowing I have a personal web server running in my closet.
Facebook buys Instagram for $1bn
Baltimore's downtown is surprisingly livable and walkable.
TechCrunch is still relevant
Looking at how society as a whole generally/broadly defines "success", yes, there are a few cases were not making millions or more is still considered [extremely] successful, but more often than not, "success" at the level of people like the founders of Instagram usually means making bank.

I am in no way agreeing or disagreeing with this notion of "success", just stating how I think society in general broadly feels.
That's the traditional "business district" style downtown, yeah, but afaict there's been a shift away from that in the past 15-20 years, and now many people commute to downtown in the evenings, because that's where all the restaurants/bars/clubs/theaters are. That's definitely the case in the Bay Area, where SF is much more lively after 5pm than most of the Valley is (Santa Clara is basically dead once office workers go home). Was also the case in Midtown Atlanta when I lived there a few years ago; big influx from the suburbs in the evenings, esp on weekends.
I agree that 0x10c DSLs that control game play will be more successful than a C compiler. :)
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I have and since I write the code, I expect zero errors. And that's what I get. When there are errors, that code needs to be fixed. Tell me more, bro.
A huge listserv. Each day, only one random person can write to it.
Awesome, I'm going to run it off of Comcast's network as well. I hope the fire shortly stops, mmx. Sounds like you're in a rock and a hard place right now. We just need Mother Nature's intervention.
With this valuation there is no way that they werent.
> If you want it badly enough you will make it.

That's nice to think. Hell, I wish I had your tenacious optimisim, but you'd have to be willfully avoiding reality to truly believe this is always the case. Sadly, it just is not.
While I agree that most people walking would be generally better than not, I don't quite follow your reasoning.

According to this paper [1], mean comfortable walking speed for a male in his twenties is 253.3 cm/s (~5.67 mph). Assuming you are male and in your twenties, this means it takes you ~39 mins to work each way, not including stopping at intersections, etc. Contrast this to ~15 mins each way in a car.

This means the cost/benefit would go something like this:

Walking:

(+) 78 mins/day commuting + exercise

(+) Mood heightened

(-) Lesser exercise (walking vs 1 hr at the gym where, presumably, you'd do more than walk)

Driving/Gym:

(-) 90 mins/day communting + exercise

(-) Mood not heightened

(+) Better exercise

(+) More flexibility (want to go more than a couple miles for lunch? Sorry.)

My guess is that most people choose option 2 for the flexibility alone. This allows them to do their exercise when they want to. Whether or not they will is another story.

[1] http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/1/15.full.pdf
I just emailed you -- interested to hear your reply.
Absolutely true -- it's more of a risk mitigation thing for me.

I had a ruptured disk and a spinal fusion a few years ago that went really well.... and I'm a little paranoid about keeping it that way!
Yes, I know. Like I said, error_reporting on (set to E_STRICT) and display_errors off. And yes, where the error goes is a completely different question.
I might do that if my homemade web server was handling 20+ simultaneous connections.
Don't they have QtQuick or QtScript for that?
C++ doesn't coerce the void* malloc returns into an int* , C does. You have to write

int* foo = (int*)malloc(sizeof(int));

in C++ or the compiler gives a type error.
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SEEKING WORK - Remote/Phoenix

I've got a lot of experience with Java, in both the web and mobile space. I did a lot of work on earlier mobile (J2ME, Blackberry, etc.). Now, I'm looking to do more Rails and iOS work, and have spent time getting familiar with those.

See http://alwold.com for links to my github, resume, etc.

alwold at gmail dot com
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Sorry but saying "And I'll tell you how to make the best tomato sauce in the next episode" is not what I expect to read here.
Au contraire. Apple will drop Air and Pro and unify them all in one simple choice for the consumer, just pick your screen size in 11, 13, 15 and 17 inches.

That's it. Apple's simplicity and beauty.
Are you in two separate locations connected to two different networks at the same time? The author is talking about telecommuting. Sure dynamic dns is not needed but timsbox.dyndomain.com is a lot easier to work with than whatever IP he has today.
Nice, I'm thinking about running it off an old laptop too. I was going to set up a cron job also to fix that whole dynamic ip issue.
Instagram:
- tints photos
- uploads them
- and has 30 million users

I largely buy the gigaom explanation (http://gigaom.com/2012/04/09/here-is-why-did-facebook-bought...). That's why the water-in-desert metaphor is, IMHO, very apt.
Not all of our cells are replaced as you describe. Some cells in the brain, heart, and eyes last throughout our lifetimes.

I'm not making any particular claim that our identity as minds hinges on these three types of cells (though such a case for the brain cells seems, prima facie, like a possible good direction), but if you are going to make claims about what our identity as minds does not hinge on, you should take more care to get the facts straight.

ref1: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/content/latest-questi...
ref2: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/aprilholladay/2007-03...
congrats man, we'll definitely play with it these days.
> I don't know anything about you, but judging from that attitude you haven't worked in many teams.

I haven't worked on any teams. I've always written software solo. What of it?

> You may have the luxury of refactoring all over the place, but the reality out there is that horrible code like this is left to fester until it causes real business damage.

Refactoring is not a luxury, but a necessity. Not only do I refactor other peoples' code, but I refactor my own. That's the only way to get to a quality code base.
While there aren't many cases where you should run PHP as a daemon or cron job, there are _some_. Like, for example, you've got dozens of models and helpers written in PHP and you want to use them in queue workers or aggregation jobs.

I've run into these a few times and acquired a bit of mastery of PHP's PCNTL, POSIX and Semaphore/SHM/IPC extensions.

I don't do much PHP work anymore, but I do maintain an OSS library for other people in that situation: PHP Simple Daemon -- https://github.com/shaneharter/PHP-Daemon

This is half-plug, half +2 to your point.
I agree. I also want to say that a lot of the argument in this post revolves around the option for an optical drive. I think it's much more likely that Apple eliminates the built-in optical drive across models and releases an updated external version with Thunderbolt for the pro market.
Of course readability matters. But you must know language constructs anyway, no need for them to be overly explicit and be in the way of your code - therefor it could easily be argued that "mtx" is easier and more optimized for reading than "mutex".

The only reason an "if" or "while" statement makes sense to every programmer isn't because it is readable but because you must know the syntax and semantics of the language you program. And having a good shorthand is faster to read and since mtx isn't a word it isn't associated as anything that could be a word but you instantly see it as a language construct (kind of like syntax highlighting) and thus reduces the work of mentally parsing the code (one advantage of not writing your code in English is that you subconsciously see the language constructs differently than any of the code that you wrote yourself, not saying that I prefer to do this or recommend it (on the contrary)).

Again, this example alone isn't one I'd really care about - just questioning that "mutex" would be more readable than "mtx" (as a language construct).
Ask HN: Is Ars 0wnd or is it just me?
So ars technica pages seem to be delivering up a bunch of brower exploits (well attempts) when you land there. It looks like the site was totally owned and converted to malware injection super store.
What I would like is Apple to split and create a less expensive (but never cheap) brand to bring back plastic Airs in colors, for just $799, and affordable minis also in plastic and colors for $399, increasing its penetration in OS and Apps which in the long run expands their ecosystem and dominance.
I am surprised that author of the article wasn't aware of Dr. Web! Well, I had an impression that any self-respecting security expert will be aware of "Russian big two". Dr. Web is very well known, especially for their powerful malware detection and removal engine. I always keep Dr. Web CureIT handy in USB sticks.
I live close (<2 miles) to work/downtown and could technically walk, except for about two blocks in the middle of the commute that I would not feel safe walking in the dark alone. (I am female, maybe a man wouldn't feel this way)

Sometimes I ride my bike, which feels safer, if for no other reason than those two blocks go by awfully fast and an assailant on foot could not easily catch up to me, but biking feels like a lot more work than walking. I have to gear up, and carry my bike down the stairs from my apartment, and bike three stories up the parking garage for our office once I get there (the building manager hates bicycles, and so you cannot take them up the stairs/elevator). I also feel like one of these days I'm going to be hit and killed in that garage. I feel that way even in my car (well, at least in my car I probably wouldn't die. On my bike? Maybe). The visibility around the corners is terrible and people seem to drive through that garage like maniacs.

Unfortunately, I have night owl tendencies and even if I didn't, I work for a startup and often need to work late nights, so I can't just arrange my schedule to know I can walk home before it's dark.
Kickstarter backed, Arduino style development boards arrive from SeeedStudio
I hope I never need to get back to my Windows/Ubuntu install...
Rara music
The client makes a lot of ajax requests since it's so ajax heavy and there is no throttling on the concurrency. When 5-10 requests hit the server from the same client at the same time it is a "little" bit like a dos attack.
Very low barrier to entry is also one of the reason why PHP ecosystem sucks. More than 95% of PHP programmers never grow up from beginner(at least what I've seen) even after more than few years of use. And those who grow up starts to use other language.

The PHP crowd is mostly filled with "Internet Programmers" [A person who copies code from the internet and pastes in one's codebase, without even reading it, and expects it to work.] And this also applies to all the javascript programmers who can download a jquery plugin and successfully use it in a website.

They even don't know that you can install PHP, apache and mysql separately and use it. For them XAMPP is all there it is, armed with dreamweaver and a ftp client. Most of them will be lost without cpanel.

I've tried teaching a few but all I get is :"go away don't try to be smart in front of me, I know what I'm doing."

Most of you here are smart people. But out there this is what you get from most of the PHP programmers.