skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Video games are one of if not the primary driver of consumer hardware. You're reading these words right now using probably dozens of technologies originally invented to make better games.

Gaming may not be your cup of tea, but the cutting edge of video game technology is definitely of interest to hackers. Calling this a "gaming" article is a little spurious, I feel.
I've never been in a place where I could compare the fan. Sounds like a great improvement!
I don't see why you can't have the Doc/Pt relationship you are speaking about.

Have you stuck with one GP or GI doc? Have you jumped around a lot? It takes time to build the relationship you are talking about. You can't ask for a "partnership" and then dismiss the other side ("priesthood").
That's kind of disingenuous, Mexico has massive corruption problems and a massive, semi-open black market.
I use Chromebook a lot and I never really thought about the home/end/delete keys.
Wicker Furniture — Indoor Isn’t Your Only Option
Wicker furniture truly is in a class by itself. After all, how much of the furniture out there can look great, both inside and outside? Whether you’ve already got some wicker furniture indoo
Sony Files Patent that Would Pause Games to Show Ads
Ask HN: How to identify important emails
I have a big list of emails through a subscription form. and I would like to cross reference those emails to see if there is someone interesting there.

Outsourcing this could potentially lead to the leaks of said list, same goes for mechanical turk, ideas?
unless the head honcho is wearing a jesus t-shirt. Sorry, I don't actually mean to be so snarky, I just hate democracy so much.
Great having statistics like this, but for most of the statistics the pie chart is rubbish.
It only makes sense in the case where the companies really only uses one of the technologies posible.
Bar graphs would have been better.

EDIT: Seems like I need to refresh the comments before i post my own, archangel_one beat me to it.
You shouldn't really look at stock price (it's an arbitrary number). You should instead look at Market Value - should FB be worth 80bn when Google is worth 200?
Not a troll, sorry to not be clear. I would think a lot of people would prefer the 6key cluster, but thats very possibly just my own bias.

I've honestly never heard of ctrl-a ctrl-e or alt-arrow keys to do those tasks. They certainly don't work on Windows Chrome or Sublime Text 2 in Windows so I've never used them in my daily routine.
Conservatives want more government when it comes to the military, the drug war, opposing abortion, restricting civil liberties (everything the ACLU does), "tough on crime" laws, immigration, Israel...
The original intent of a startup doesn't matter much if your real goal is just to get a lot of users and sell them to advertisers. Then, who cares what you build, as long as it attracts users? The original intent matters a lot more if your goal is to build something you want to see exist.

I, for one, am glad Stack Overflow is the site that it is today. There are plenty of other places on the Web for more open discussion… like here, for instance.
Where did you get those facts
Jeff is a great designer. He completely got that there's left and right handed people in the world and the catered his design towards that. While you hold your Kindle (left handed or right handed) you always have your thumb on the next page button and you can easily slide your thumb upwards to go back.
But Apple already rejected alternate browsers from iOS

Have they actually rejected alternative browsers? I know you can't execute mmap() on iOS to do javascript jitting, but have they actually rejected them for some other reason? Opera Mini is available, after all.

they already demonstrated their willingness to abuse their power over iOS market, with dropbox, amazon, the ibooks debacle

Well, I disagree with abuse. Remember that 99% of the programming guidelines that get apps rejected are to prevent egregious abuse of the end-user, like uploading the users whole address book to a server, logging IMEIs, or using trickery, obfuscation, and confusion to upsell iPhone users into cloud storage data plans.

If you're a 'rockstar programmer', and the only thing that matters is you and your fans, then iOS might not be the platform for you.

and already set up barriers for developers on Mac OS, as if I remember correctly, the Gatekeeper license is supposed to cost serious money.

It's $100 for the OSX developer program license, unless this has changed from when I last heard. And you don't need it anyways - just install with a warning. Why shouldn't the user get a warning when they're asking to install a program from an unknown and untrusted source?

So I'm not exactly holding my breath, even though I'm writing this from a MacBook.

I've been using Linux Mint 12 for some work tasks lately, and it's awesome. It's not OSX, but I know now that there's a viable alternative to OSX if Apple really messes things up.
No more than you can filter comments.
I think once you can program on them it'll become obvious that the main customer for these things is Google themselves.

Right now though I'd tend to agree with you.
And this based on what? One data point (You)?
The pie charts also don't match the percentages in the tables. Took me a second to notice, but the pie chart shows the relative percentage of usage by sites using a particular category, while the table shows % sties out of total # of sites.
That's not a comparison he makes.
Augmenting soldiers' brains and military neuroethics: q+a
I agree that for personal use, Chrome OS is not very interesting until the price is down to 200,- or less.

But I don't see businesses adopting tablets for use in their call centers, and that is what Chrome OS is currently targeted at.

Every large company has thousands of employees that need a computer basically only to access some web based business application as well as basic office tasks (spreadsheets, mail).

Chrome OS promises a very secure solution with a minimum of maintenance costs.
I believe this was Henry Ford
"and that racist cousin that digs Ron Paul." - do you consider this clever?
I fully agree, though I will caveat that many companies, mostly larger ones, have the vast majority of resumes funnelled through HR. HR may be much more inclined to just toss a resume that doesn't check every box that was listed as a "requirement" for the job than a hiring manager actually would. Of course, that may fall under the "it's probably not a company that you want" category, but it is well worth noting.
They are working on an arm port for an unnamed device but it seems like it's still under heavy development. One reason you likely won't see something like the transformer running chromeos is their upstream first policy, which suggests that they won't ship chrome on devices that don't have their driver base included in the base linux kernel. There are exceptions, but I get the feeling they aren't interested in core drivers like graphics being one of them.
Speaking for myself, clicking on a "chat" link crosses a threshold for me from "I'm taking a break and checking stuff out" to "I'm goofing off." Maybe I'm kidding myself that my checking out SE threads isn't goofing off, but once I enter something called "chat" there's no way I can suspend my disbelief, so I don't do it.
Minor Pedantic Point of Contention: Quake 1 had the rocket jump "discovery"; by Q3, it was an expected part of the gameplay. However, this does not affect your argument in any way.
Google TV is Android 3+ with some UI changes to make it better suited for TVs. Eventually, I think they will merge Chrome OS's great looks into the Chrome app for all platforms (especially Android), or at least do some kind of merge with Android and Chrome.
Travelers who want to type stuff and not want to care if their laptop gets stolen. If your documents are on the web and your laptop is literally ripped away from your hands you lose what, 30 minutes of work?
Ruby on Rails Token =~ Rails 3/whenever the csrf token was introduced? (2.3ish?)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delayed_onset_muscle_soreness#R...

The degree of soreness you'll feel after your first few workouts is a degree of soreness you'll never feel again (until you stop working out and get out of shape).
Interesting to see which companies are savvy enough to sign up for Google's free webmaster tools: http://trends.builtwith.com/tech-usage/Y-Combinator/Google-W...

The list includes Dropbox, Scribd, WePay, OMGPOP, Loopt, and Weebly, but a lot of sites are missing out on potentially useful information--only 18% of 136 sites were detected as signed up with webmaster tools.
Just in case anyone was wondering, in Perl 6:

sub factorial($n) {
my $output = 1;
for 1..$n -> $i {
$output *= $i;
}
$output;
}

or

sub factorial2($n) {
[*] 1..$n;
}

Pretty anonymous function to add a constant:

-> $x { $x + 7 }

Really short version:

* + 7

Named:

sub plus7($x) {
$x + 7;
}
I thought it was very telling that out of the 136 companies surveyed, only 2 had a payment system. Speaks volumes about the sort of companies YC is trying to incubate/build.
Clients of investment banks in an IPO have a choice to invest or pass on the deal. There are many things they consider when making this decision, and the price of the deal is one of those. Assuming they are not given inaccurate information, they are not getting "bilked" by the banks if the stock goes down in the aftermarket. The clients know this is a possibility, and they chose to invest at $38 per share. Right now those shares are worth less than the offer price, which is disappointing to the clients, but they made the decision to invest at $38 per share.
Augmented reality developers: tap the user's 1st person POV camera feed
For other discussions and stories, see here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033224 bbc.co.uk

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033225 bbc.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033242 bbc.com <- Comments

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033315 securelist.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033481 wired.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4033541 wired.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4034879 verelo.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035300 abc.net.au

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035485 securelist.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035641 reuters.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4035833 novainfosecportal.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4036025 securelist.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038014 bbc.co.uk <- "Fix" found

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038051 gizmodo.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038200 scmagazine.com.au

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4038206 washingtonpost.com

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4039136 (deleted)
My production style is happy to use:

$output *= $_ for (1..$n)

and you're right to call me on it. If I am writing a multi-line for loop, I do like to name the loop var though.

I think this is an interesting point (in a discussion about readability), do non-perl coders think the one-liner (with 'for' suffix) is more or less readable?

(I also prefer explicit return for maintenance reasons, except possibly in one-line subs)
Both sides of the political spectrum pull this stunt (e.g. Solyndra, Evergreen Solar). Crud like this is why I don't vote party lines.

Actual businesses run by competent people create jobs. Big loans from governments or VCs distort who is actually good.
Based on the examples, I presume xrange(x) is every integer up to but not including x. ie 1..^$x in Perl 6, don't recall if that's the Perl 5 syntax or not.
I was about to note that the OP clearly hasn't used Clojure if he uses it as a negative example in terms of reliability, but then I remembered — I promised myself not to get too deeply into these kinds of silly discussions.

Erm... He didn't? He said:

"While so much of the shiny-chasing buzz in the micro-ISV startup built-it-and-they-will-fund world seems to chase Clojure and Node.js and app-in-a-page tricks, Perl 5 continues to be my workhorse."

No comment on the reliability (or otherwise) of Clojure.

And much as I love Clojure - there's an element of truth there. Lots of folk using it because it's the new-and-shiny rather than it being necessarily the best solution. I know I've binned some Clojure stuff that would have been fun for me - because adding the JVM to the mix in production wouldn't have helped us actually get stuff done.

(and while it's an unfair comparison - since it's a vastly younger language - the transition to 1.3 wasn't fun for many folk :-)
Facebook is playing "IPO Wars" with Investors
I get what you're saying although I personally would not put it so "mystically."

I would start by saying that the quoted sentence perpetuates the Cartesian mind/body dualism, where "my body" is not "my self." But that dualism is outdated. It arose from a philosophical approach to understanding natural phenomena that we have since discarded in favor of the scientific method.

So now we know a few things that Descartes did not know:

1) We--human beings--are entirely natural phenomena. We're not special or distinct in any physically measurable way. We are as subject to the scientific method as anything else.

2) We have never observed a human self separate from the human body. The vast preponderance of the evidence (i.e. all of it) is that what we call "mind" is simply one aspect of a physical human body.

So I would say that if we consider mind and body as simply different aspects of a unified concept of a human being, then in fact we do experience direct contact with reality. When I touch water with my fingertips, my fingertips are part of me--so I am in direct physical contact with reality. My brain also performs processing on the fingertip signal to store and match it against my mental model of the universe. But that is not any more inherent to my self than my fingertip is.
smit at smitpatel dot com
I have no data points, because I don't know anyone that wants one these chromebooks.
Most of your life's problems can be solved at CPAN. :-) Just write:

use Method::Signatures::Simple;

http://search.cpan.org/~rhesa/Method-Signatures-Simple-1.02/...

But you might instead want to look at this (or similar with Moose support) to get simple type declarations:

http://search.cpan.org/~barefoot/Method-Signatures-20120523/...
This user looks like a (new) pusher of Geek/Extremetech stories.
I don't like the idea of having "one UI" for all form factors, like Microsoft tries to do. I think that will only lead to being optimized for one form factor, and significantly underoptimized for others.

Personally, I'd like to see them use some kind of "UI modes", so you have a phone mode, a tablet mode, a TV mode, and a desktop mode (which may or may not be the same as the tablet one, but would probably be better if they are kept separate).

Of course, they should still make them resemble each other as much as possible, but you can't use a tablet UI for a TV, and you can't use a phone UI for a desktop monitor. So when I dock the phone into a PC monitor, I want to see the desktop mode, and when I dock it into the TV, I want to see the TV mode, and so on. I don't think there is such thing as "one UI for everything". It may be good for one form factor, but for all the others it will be mediocre at best.
Was your story supposed to conclude with "then I got his job and realized how hard it was" or were you really smarter?
>The value of one's life is infinite.

That is demonstrably false. Everyone of us could, at a cost, reduce his chance of dying tomorrow.
"I don't know the answers because I do not need to clutter my head with the answers you seek. I hire smart young people from your schools who have memorized information(like the indians) that you think is intelligence. My job is to keep my head clear of such clutter and trivial facts so that I can think" Henry Ford
Also no one got mad at the guy mentioning the police budget keeps getting cut presumably suggesting increased police funding might help. Public allocation of funds and public policing seems to fall under political discourse but no one touched off on him.

It seems to indicate the issue isn't politicizing the the death, it is the issue of gun control in specific that bothers people deeply :/
Every day, 1 hour working out, 6 hours getting paid, 3 hours doing something cool.

Leaves plenty of time for going out/family/leisure time and a healthy dose of sleep :)
What the employer means in the context is that they want someone with practical experience with the tech; not just book-learning. All you have to do is display the experience that you have, or get some if you don't have it.

"We covered this in class" is generally useless, given the gulf between theory and practice. "I have app X in the app store" is priceless. Github profile, history of helpful posts in a related forum, stack overflow reputation - any of these can show that you've done the work before.

The experience requirement is also used to weed out applicants who intend to read one book on the tech/language and learn the rest on the job. In some positions that is appropriate, in others it is not.
Only 15% of them are using advertising tools? Are YC startups averse to this type of marketing?
Some types of the latter are subsets of the former.
Scanned from right to left, read the URL and thought "Last artup club? What's an artup?"

Regardless, great idea!
Irish mathematicians explain why Guinness bubbles sink
Your rule ("don't change anything") is also an argument for never adding features!

There's a tradeoff here that you're glossing over. Given that each newer version is presumably some amount better than the previous one, eventually the benefits of upgrading will outweigh the costs, at least if you're going to continue making changes to your software.

I don't think chromatic was saying "everyone should immediately upgrade to the latest version of Perl". I think he was saying "upgrading to the latest version of Perl isn't as scary/costly as some people think; I did it, and here's my experience."

Also, keep in mind that sometimes there are hidden bugs in the old version, too. My employer just ran into a problem with the de-allocation of deeply nested structures being implemented inefficiently in Perl 5.8 (which has been in production for close to a decade); the bug was fixed in 5.14.
Intelsat Signs First Launch Agreement With SpaceX
Your argument falls apart when you realize that Macs don't have any of those keys and most people have no issues using them for "basic text editing".
You may be correct on every point; but are you adding anything substantive to the discussion beyond your emotions about the story?
http://meta.programmers.stackexchange.com/

Also, four of the close voters are regular users, only ChrisF is a moderator (notice the ♦), but it doesn't really matter, as it takes 5 close votes to close a question and his otherwise supercharged close vote was a regular user vote here (being the fifth).
Virgins probably also don't see what the big deal about having sex is. They've probably heard horror stories about it.

Being a father/mother is simply the best thing you can do with your life (Unless you hate kids, or are too "grown up").
Talking about safety, why is the driver's forehead right behind a metal beam? Even the slightest head-on crash would lead to death or paralysis!
Most of those COBOL jobs were offshored or are now performed by Indian/Asian vendor non-immigrant visa holders imported.

Within hour drive from my house, I can tally at least a half-dozen corporate IT shops that outsourced heavily in this way, axing thousands (in aggregate) of jobs that normally were served by internal/domestic consulting houses.

Yes, on the backend there is still a lot of COBOL, even if it is running on micro-hardware as opposed to the old big iron. Claims adjudication, utility metering, charge card processing, billing for just about any corporation that existed pre-1980, etc.…
The market seems to be every non-technical family member of mine. All they need is a web browser; if these "just work" for that purpose, have good battery life and they don't have to worry about anti-virus software or other updates, then these are significantly better for their needs than what they have.
Is "my ($self, $a, $b) = @_" really that hard to read? It's slightly more characters but I've never found it particularly annoying.
"I have no data points, because I don't know anyone that wants one these chromebooks."

I don't know anyone who watches Big Bang Theory but that show has millions of viewers and has been around for 5 seasons.
Nintendo can't secure a business license?
I looked it up. It was Einstein. :)

Or at least, it's attributed to Einstein. It's a common enough sentiment, though, I'm sure I've independently said similar things myself.

On the other hand, it can easily be taken too far. Sometimes a random factoid isn't just a random factoid, it's part of the scaffolding on which you hang your knowledge. If you have to go to your periodic table to look up things like "Carbon" and "Hydrogen" you're never gonna have an intuitive understanding of chemistry.
The market is (as I see it) for a "home" machine. People who use the web, the augmented web (web services via apps), video & maybe some light document stuff. People who "get enough of the computer at work" people who can share a laptop, people who didn't really use the internet before facebook & youtube came to them.

That's a lot of people. Being a second machine might follow from being good at those things.

That said this chrome/android separation is nonsense.
Ah yes, SBCL, the runtime that manages memory with a signal handler on SEGV. Stable!
I believe it was built in Ubuntu. I know they worked with Canonical on it before they announced it.
Conservatives don't want that stuff, republicans do
They kinda do, actually - fn+left/right is home/end, fn+up/down is pageup/down, fn+backspace ("delete") is forward delete.
If some no-name iPhone case stand can secure this at the mall, then surely Nintendo can too? Why go through the outrageous cost of setting up an elaborate "Nintendo Winter World" or whatever they called it -- and stop just short of being able to make any actual sales?
Larry Ellison was right, "The Cloud" as used in today's marketing is simply a synonym for "The Internet".
Incarcerated, police harassed for being Black in Daly City
Scala adoption continues to climb rapidly
PLAYD - possibly loses all your data?

How's that one?
The feel I get from the "scala community" is that we've realised that fancy operators are a mistake; most operations are better expressed as english words rather than the ~/s of our foolish youth. I wonder if we'll see that happen with other upcoming languages.
Show HN: REVIEW MY APP
I tried to create a web app that helps employers and candidate to find each other using facebook and linked in accounts
>People with no children won't ever understand this no matter how hard they try/re-read the articles many times.

Halfway through the article I started re-evaluating whether I still want kids. Not sure I could carry that burden. [] Though that is probably more on a logical level than feeling the raw emotion that a parent would - which is probably what you were getting at.

More accurately I know I could out of necessity carry that burden. Its everything else in life which would be more difficult. Kinda like a warrior without family at home has the luxury of adopting a devil-may-care attitude to combat - once others depend on him that isn't possible anymore.