skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Kind of a strawman argument, as no developer would argue that only unit tests and static typing are needed to guarantee quality.
Not hard at all:

#REDIRECT [[Sayre's law]]
Loneliness can be compared to other withdrawal symptoms. People that are used to and expect a lot of social interaction enter a negative mental state to being without it.

When you don't find the social contact addicting, and do not engage in it much, you never are exposed to the "withdrawal" symptoms.
> The post says that.

I think the grandparent knew that, and was just repeating what you said to contrast it with his following statement about what static typing is good for.

And dot-completion is not completely unique to static languages, but I would say it is “particularly unique” – it is more common for static languages. And that’s not just coincidence – it is generally easier to write a tool like dot-completion for a static language than a dynamic language, because dot-completion involves static analysis of the code.
I don't wholly agree with the contents of the essay, but that was so delightfully well written!

We have evolved to be social being. Being independent and content with yourself is a good thing, but total isolation can have disastrous effects on the human psyche (Look-up reports of POWs who were kept in isolation for extended periods of time).
MS seems to be pretty much betting their company on their company on the metro interface and their win RT core. I'm curious about how well this core scales to low power devices. What's also important is the migration path from win32 to winRT. Apple has brought most of the backend frameworks from OSX to iOS, which makes porting powerful mac applications easy. Does anyone develop on winRT already?
Just a side note, but Standard Oil wasn't all bad (at least not for the first 20 or so years).

They consolidated kerosene and gas production/consumption under essentially one roof, standardized rail carriages/loading docks for rapid oil dissemination and built hundreds of gas/oil pipes to aggressively reduce costs whilst providing a higher standard of oil (hence the name Standard Oil!) to the masses.

Standard Oil only became as big as it did because it provided a critical service at a lower cost. Problem was - as illustrated by my answer - is that they lost their way in the charge of profits with all the monopoly stuff you reference. This is why totally free markets don't work - they tend towards monopoly - which is my point.

I like free markets, I like innovation and I also like the government. I'm a walking host of contradictions :).
OK, so MS are changing the way Windows integrates with hardware. Cool.

I ask my original question:

Ahh, What about the Surface is "something different", other than the Touch Cover?

(as in, the device itself)
"5minutes is hands down the easiest and fastest way to create and manage your web presence. No coding or design skills needed."

That's really a big claim, especially when you also tie in that you are product you are building is quality. I'm not saying that's it's not possible or you guys haven't figured it out. But without seeing exactly why it's the "Easiest & Fastest" it's hard to accept it as fact. A video would be nice.
If you're going to re-use your own work and present it to readers, at least acknowledge that you're doing it. This American Life does this well, starting each re-run with a note saying, 'This is a re-run and we are playing it because XYZ'
I like that the video was filmed on Dundas west + Roncesvalles in toronto. McDonald's is one of the few fast food joints around there surrounded by an amazing selection of much nicer eats.
So.... no reply Jason?
> "Saying "X types of errors were found" is not as good as saying "the following types of errors were found" and that's just the start."

The blog post is vague, but the paper (also available at the link) isn't. It identifies the particular errors found.
A. Yes

B. No

I'm just responding to the "fame can be its own reward" sentiment I detected.
> This whole dialogue is doubleplus bad.

Newspeak, citizen.
WordPress really isn't insecure if you use it and configure it correctly.
I typed in "food styling" and FTC into Google, and it was in every result on the first page. (I was not using personalized search but I do have cookies enabled, so your results may vary.) If you do not want to pay for the digital copy (I think it is $10 on Lexis for the case, not including search charges), you can go to your local bar association law library. Larger law libraries may have a copy of appropriate FTC rulings. Alternatively, a law school library will have a paperpound copy (but may charge non-students and non-alumni for entry).

In a nutshell, in Campbell, the company used marbles to stand-in for peas and other various vegetable ingredients. Someone complained that the ads were deceptive. The FTC pursued an enforcement action against the company. In its ruling, the FTC noted that a food product (and any ingredients) advertised must actually be the food product sold. Otherwise, the ad is deceptive.

The application to burger commercials: The advertised product must be an actual sample of the sold product. All of the ingredients in the sold product must be in the advertised product.

The ruling is not explicitly limited to the food products being advertised and sold, however it does not address any other ingredients except for those advertised and sold. Consequently, if a foodstuff is not part of the final sold product, the advertisement can use a stand-in. Consequently, the milk in cereal commercials can be glue (or paint), while the cereal in milk commercials can be plastic.
Slavery isn't some inevitable feature of, trade, or political systems, that one chooses or does not.

I don't know if it's inevitable, but it's only been for the last couple of hundred years of human history that it was not very commonplace.
Introducing MicroXML, Part 1: Explore the basic principles of MicroXML
With appropriate compiler flags, you can make up any sort of contracts you like in Haskell. But there's no guarantee that the compilation process will terminate if you do, even putting aside the impenetrability of the resulting code. Haskell is not a general purpose proof assistant, and the typing definitely has limits both practical and theoretical. Abstractly, static types can represent anything, however we (by which I mean humanity in general) certainly do not know how to use such powerful types in real, general purpose code.

If you want to go that road, look up Agda or Coq.
Sorry but what authority do you have to speak for the HN readers and to say that "most of us do believe" this or that?
So we're talking about type inference - which way are you going?
Why you should be user testing...now.
In context, I called it a hypothetical because I'd asked for specific examples of boot-time malware that justify the rush to secure boot. This wasn't one.
Prisoners are not in isolation by choice. It's uncommon, quite rare even, but I don't think you can deny that there are a few people who find happiness in solitude.
The Udacity "Applied Cryptography" course covers Bitcoin at the end of Unit 6. Here are the videos:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdsS8jFVv2c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJxVXyvccgI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4UF9zYU0jZI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRPu-vUdJU0

They range from under two minutes to a bit over 3 minutes.

PS: that course is excellent. If you are at all interested in cryptography, I highly recommend it.
And I happen to know that they can't. It's illegal. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4138305
Yes. And a program you can't modify to suit your needs is defective. This isn't enshrined in the law at the moment, but it's the same idea.

However, my real point was just that people's being able to not buy your product is no defense: it doesn't work in consumer protection cases and shouldn't work here.

Moreover, consumer protection isn't just about dishonesty: even if you represent your product perfectly accurately, you still can't sell certain (mostly dangerous) things. For example, if you design a really cheap car and market it as "cheap but dangerous", you still can't sell it.
C++11: using unique_ptr with standard library containers
This looks awesome. Congrats. Just wondering, why do you pick browser as the IDE? (as a background, I've been developing iPad IDE called Worqshop).

It's an honest question. How does the IDE perform using the iPad Safari? I thought about doing web-based IDE but found the performance very slow in my testing. Ultimately, it boils down to native vs web apps.

Nevertheless, kudos to you. I know that doing front-end web UI, dealing with AWS, and provisioning the boxes, are not trivial problems.

Edit: Just to preempt, yes, I know my app restricts developers to use iPad :)

Ups... reading the comments below... you will be providing SSH access to the VMs
Questioning both the GP's cases and your's require not only critical thinking but also a little domain knowledge.

Reading "unlimited bandwidth" doesn't imply that's not the case unless you know from experience or hearsay that there are heavy conditions.

Same thing with "lonely girls in your down", how am I to know that's not true on face value in this particular area and that rather it's a common come-on.

I think we like to think optimistically and assume people mean what they say in general.
> What you mean is that the world is no place for rational, principled people. And yes, I know you also mean it's not a place for irrational, dogmatic people. But your category includes both in a fallacious "package deal."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hedgehog_and_the_Fox.

Yes it includes both. The world isn't rational. It isn't fair. But neither is it completely random. Your writing against the government was very hedgehog like (one idea - clear cut - rational). The world is boundedly rational and it is not a place for both the rational or the irrational - extreme viewpoints do come as a package. I like being pragmatic, complex and contradictory. I also like being idealistic, simplistic and consistent.

You'll notice that thinking along these lines (what some call "fox like") frees one up from past beliefs and allows one to flexibly make decisions under uncertainty whilst limiting bias. I could just as easily argue for your side as I could for mine. I'm the hedgehog and the fox.
I had a 2 page resume and I was fresh out of school, you will be fine. The market is so choked at the moment that if you are from a decent school, with decent grades and nice internships, a recruiter will take the time to give it the look over.

But yeah, optimize it as much as possible: remove as much as you can remove but like I said don't worry too much about the 1 page requirement...
Are you saying that if I buy a refurb iPad from apple.com it's been processed by some skeezy repair shop?

Do you have references for this?
Telerik’s Test Studio app can run automated tests on your apps without jailbreak
I think you only say this because you haven't seen reddit any time recently or you've only looked at a select few sub-reddits.

Perhaps HN is closer to something like /. now, but I don't mind that. But it is really nothing like reddit (or at least reddit's front page).
Someone copied it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m63gE5eySkU

Search for "Domino's Pulling the Cheese".
I bought Lumia 900 the day it was released and no, I don't feel it's a "dead-end phone". Given that Microsoft backports many of software features of WP8 to WP7.8 (which BTW was under big question in Lumia 900 launch time frame), I'm even less inclined to think so. Will I be getting WP8 device any time soon, just because it's there? I don't think so - I'm pretty happy with my phone.
We absolutely welcome constructive criticism about both our product and how we portray it. We try to keep our screen shots and website feature listing up to date, but currently the team is working hard in preparation for our booth at DIA Philadelphia! Thanks for the well wishes.
Kickstarter is essentially a form of prepayment triage: if enough people want to pay for your product in advance, you get the money to make the product.

Crowdfunding is simply cash for equity. The investor is not getting a product, so the Kickstarter model does not work.
Of course nobody expects that the existing phones will magically grow new hardware :-) But there are plenty of software-only features like native code applications, better multitasking, sensible VoIP support, or a more modern browser. Some of these are filling in really major gaps.

Also if the current phones can't be upgraded, it seems virtually guaranteed that Nokia will continue to release new low end devices running WP7 for a long time. This means that those phones couldn't e.g. support NFC, and would be rather unappealing devices if NFC finally takes off.
Re: Facebook,

"Why Is Facebook So Damn White?" - http://gawker.com/5587428/
You go from "Cheat" to understanding that they're "Cleaning up the photo"

Viewers probably find themselves saying "That makes sense. I can see why they'd want to clean up the photo and missing seeds"
sometimes, in a pinch, i use mcdonalds to hit my proteins/carbs/fats macros and calorie count because these stats are so well published (i even have my favorite quarter pounder minus dressing combo with milk and a healthy side memorized!). it does have its place with people on a sensible diet
New Apple Patent #825265: Will Apple clone you to save you from Big Brother?
Apple has just been awarded patent number 825265, which describes how Apple could create a cloned version of your digital identity in order to protect you from corporate or government electronic surveillance.
I think you mean the ATMega168 and its power consumption is somewhat less than 0.0027W, while the BCM2835 is more like 2.5W, but regardless, I think you're defining overkill in terms of power, which is only one dimension, probably not the one the comment was referring to.

It's a bit like saying using a tungsten lamp is massive overkill in lighting a room.
'px' are already not defined in terms of actual pixels by CSS. I don't see why this is necessary or interesting.
Nike's Twitter football advertising campaign banned
Shop more carefully?
I wonder if he'll put his money where his mouth is and fund people with no college degrees, or even people with degrees from non-Ivy-League colleges.
I am working on a game in C#. I wrote the game originally for WinRT using a "Portable Class Library" for 80-90% of the code. Over the weekend I ported the game to Windows 7 and XNA re-using the portable class library without modification. Naturally the user interface needed to be rewritten but I think that's for the best.
> I don't see any other viable economically proven method to fund our consumer software development.

Apparently you have never heard of RedHat. You missed a billion dollar company. They release their software for free, as CentOS, as well. But they sell costumer support on top of that. It WORKS.
My personal qualm with McDonald's lies in its nutritional and health values. Surprisingly, they have adapted their products to suit popular opinion (salads, low-fat items, etc...). I think McDonald's won't go anywhere even if humanity IS faced with a food crisis, since it's easy to make and cheap.

I totally agree about advertising exposing a human's weakness.

Regarding BMW, I know someone who purchased a BMW just to go to auto club meets and meet new people. So far, he says the car has landed him opportunities he would have missed by not driving the car and surprisingly, it has impressed some ladies. I'm not one to comment on the quality of his new 'contacts' but it is what it is.
No one can save you from Big Zuck.
How Reddit's cofounders built Reddit with an army of fake accounts
> "This sounds incredibly naive...."

Yes, well, speaking of naive, I'm well aware of the dogmas they fill your head with in public school, so you don't need to go citing the monopoly dogma 101 stuff. What they don't tell you in those classes are the insidious ways in which harmful monopolies were beneficiaries of government privilege; you have to take the time to dig that stuff up yourself.
It's back up again. Dropbox was returning 5xx responses for every page on the site (including links to things in people's dropbox folders) when I sent the link.
On a Night of Snow

Cat, if you go outdoors you must walk in the snow.
You will come back with little white shoes on your feet,
Little white slippers of snow that have heels of sleet.
Stay by the fire, my Cat. Lie still, do not go.
See how the flames are leaping and hissing low,
I will bring you a saucer of milk like a Marguerite,
So white and smooth, so spherical and sweet--
Stay with me, Cat. Outdoors the wild winds blow.

Outdoors the wild winds blow, Mistress, and dark is the night.
Strange voices cry in the trees, intoning strange lore;
And more than cats move, lit by our eyes' green light,
On silent feet where the meadow grasses hang hoar--
Mistress, there are portentas abroad of magic and might,
And things that are yet to be done. Open the door!
Yet another attempt to diminish the value of statically typed languages and the benefits that go along with them.
Reminds me of Brad Templeton, who moderated rec.humor.funny, and had a usenet address like utzoo!watmath!looking!brad -- so he was known as the "funny looking guy"!
This. It's like a straw man in a way. The vast, vast majority of people do it this way. By every common criteria it is considered "right". Just because Thiel got a lot of news for proposing an alternative idea doesn't justify this ridiculous notion that doing otherwise is somehow contrarian. Quite the opposite.
It might be illegal, dishonest and relatively unsustainable, but it is a way to make money. And existing business models (even legal ones) can still be dishonest and unsustainable. It is actually a very similar model to a lottery, except there's more lying involved to get more people to put in more money. So it's just an illegal and unethical business model.

Also, the argument isn't that businesses shouldn't be able to use that model, it's that the government shouldn't be helping with draconian laws.
He published it in Circuit Cellar magazine.
Code is at http://www.dtweed.com/circuitcellar/caj00238.htm#3973
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4139798
Well of course. Somebody has done that now for that page it seems, but the general problem still exists: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_Law_of_Triviality

The idea would be to make mediawiki itself automatically preform reasonable redirects when pages don't exist.
In a fashion, OpenGL ES is about as OpenGL as C# is C.
On a hot summer day I ordered an ice cream cone at a random McDonald's in Vienna, and when it didn't look as enticing as the picture, I expressed a child like disappointment. They immediately took it back and made me another one that looked like the picture. That made it taste even better.

On the other hand, also in Vienna, in winter I ordered a bagel and asked if they could toast it for me. The lady responded in a strong Russian accent "Das ist ein kalt produkt!" No amount of persuasion or rationalizing could get her to put the f'ing bagel in the f'ing toaster right behind her. ;-)
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We make money in technology by making computers do things for people. This means there are two, equally-important pieces: computers and people.

PMs and BAs are supposed to be able to both understand and bring these two elements together. Of course, whether it works that way in reality is another story.
Do you really imagine that the hundreds of millions of Android users chose "anything but Apple"?

Yes I believe this is true.

There are very few redeeming qualities that an Android tablet has over an iPad. Likewise the people I know with Android phones either couldn't afford an iPhone, don't want one due to philosophical issues, or just wanted a simple feature-less cell phone and an Android phone was the same price.

People do not desire Android devices... they tolerate them. That's why Google should be afraid of these new Microsoft tablets and phones -- people already desire them in a way I have never heard anyone talk about any android device ever created in the past 3 years.
In a conference 15 years ago I heard a guy say The problem with software is we don't know what it is. He meant that: we know what is a car or a bridge, we know why and how they do their purpose, not so much with software, which is a strange beast our minds are not ready to grab yet.
Google easter egg - Tilt
I'm a programmer and I think they are worth more too. It's a disaster when you have a bad business person and lose investors because there is no one to meet them, or it takes several months longer than expected to hire a desperately needed graphics designer, etc.. I've heard managers of mine mention getting 1400 emails a day, and I bet a lot of it is bitching they have to put up with about budgets and timelines, and business considerations - not fun coding stuff like I work with all day. You couldn't pay me to take a business job, but I acknowledge it is more essential to the actual business.
'Checkpoint of the future' takes shape at Texas airport
Yes, static typing is not enough. Which is why a good statically typed language like Haskell also has great testing facilities. So you don't just write well typed code, but you also write unit tests (HUnit) and property-based tests (QuickCheck). The really neat bit is that static typing actually makes writing tests easier--QuickCheck is much easier to use in Haskell than it would be in some dynamically typed language.
Well there will be some incentives for the manufacturers who do NOT support SecureBoot: they will get a better share on the market than their current one.
After reading that post, I feel like I'm doing it wrong. I figured I'd learn a ton taking the hardest programming courses I could find, and yet I found it striking that you're spending your time in school learning about making a business. I suppose the foresight I thought I had is a little too narrow. Maybe I can change my classes before the next semester starts and add a non-CS class to expand my horizon. Thanks for the great post!
A 1.8GHz Core i5 should be faster than a 2.0GHz Core 2 Duo. If a computer with an i5 struggles with Portal 2, it's probably the GPU.
Quoting from the link you gave: "foxes who draw on a wide variety of experiences and for whom the world cannot be boiled down to a single idea (examples given include Herodotus, Aristotle, ...)"

I don't think your interpretation of "rational" is making much sense if Aristotle isn't included. In any case, I'll classify myself if you don't mind, and I consider myself an Aristotelian and an empiricist not a Platonist, which seems to put me in the "fox" camp if indeed this fox/hedgehog thing has any kind of meaning at all.
If, as a progammer, I see something like this render taking 10 seconds, I will shake my head in confusion and think "what the hell is taking up all this time". Stuff like loading the same font a hundred times, allocating memory for all the same symbols - identifying and getting rid of that is not premature optimization, its plain fixing the code.

Of course you might have done all of that - no way to know unless you tell us more about the actual pipeline.