skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Using pointer equality is fine, but doesn't help in the case where you have a custom equals() implementation. Maybe the JVM could inspect the implementation of equals() and spot certain patterns (e.g. it's the conjunction of equals() of a set of constituent objects), but doing it in general sounds impossible to me.
The article seems to imply that Justin was the first to do "lifecasting". But Jenni and Ana preceded him by almost 10 years: http://www.jennicam.com/ , http://www.anacam.com/
One of my favorites, encountered in the wild: Your system will never need to handle a time before 1970.
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It's not about curiosity here, and it's posted specifically because it's familiar, not because it is weird or uncommon.
When someone states that the data Netflix has is not their data but that of the viewer and Netflix should not alter access to it, I take that to mean demand of access. I could be wrong but that's my take on it.
This seems like it would be an actual good use of a QR code, if it was specifically labeled as "Scan this to see how to install this product."

On the other hand, I just got a bill from my exterminator service. And lo and behold right there next to their address block on the invoice was their URL and an unlabeled QR code. Why in the heck would I ever bother scanning that? Having it there just screams "the owner's kid nephew said that QR codes are all the rage so we had better get one on our invoice."
I got the sense that things were left intentionally vague -- not so much to make the movie a mind-bending philosophical exercise, but more as a storytelling cop-out and a way to guarantee a sequel:

http://www.movies.com/movie-news/ridley-scott-prometheus-int...

So I wouldn't count on understanding too much more on multiple viewings...
Have to disagree with this. It's an interesting attempt at criticism, but I think it's stretching too far.

What Prometheus is "actually about" is sucking dollars out of moviegoers' wallets.

For many years Ridley Scott resisted the calls to revisit the "Alien" universe, and when he finally gave in he produced a shallow, overly-marketed, slickly commercial film that looks great but lacks a soul. We've seen this before: the Star Wars prequels (which disappointed fans also tried to analyze and criticize into something more meaningful).

Prometheus was a dud; let's just accept that and go watch "Alien" on Blu-Ray.
He's talking about test code. So if those test cases are missing, but the programmer thinks the tests are thorough, then it looks like the programmer believes those things (or forgot that they weren't true).
Well time would be unidirectional, right?

The computer clock might not be.
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Why is is so cool to hate on QR codes lately? I've heard Merlin Mann and Marco Arment rag on them pretty often on their podcasts. I don't get it. No matter how ugly, it's still a better way for me to get to your website/app from a physical item (bottle of wine, print ad, whatever) than having me type out a URL....sure they are stuck a bunch of places that make them ugly or inconvenient to actually read....but so are URLs and phone numbers. I'm way more likely to scan a code than open a browser and type out a URL or even worse make a note/take a picture to remember to look something up later, there's pretty much no chance at all that I will call a phone number if that's all that is listed. The code (when implemented properly) takes me directly to what I want with almost zero effort on my part.

But I may be some kind of weirdo, I think think QR codes are kinda cool looking anyway, at least more so than (800)-999-9999 or http://www.foo.bar
yeah -- I came across their site the other day. Would love to see some quantitative / qualitative numbers from that project.
Play is more powerful, but the libraries especially for 2.0 are limited. It can do everything node does because it also works as using none blocking IO.
Unfortunately, third-party router firmware distributors have an annoying habit of going from free-as-in-beer to having obnoxious and expensive licensing conditions. Which is of course one of the reasons why the open source ideology is popular in the first place!
That's what meetings are for, right? Or even just the ability to walk to someone's office/cube/desk, and talk to them about important things. You can establish a culture of communication within a team that doesn't intrude on personal time.
Ask HN: How would you inspire 18 year olds to learn to code?
I'm due to give an hour talk to a class of 16-18 year olds on computer programming. I work for a gaming company so I could easily just talk over some slides about what we do and how we work but I'd really like to do something that would inspire them to go on and create their own games/apps/whatever. We've access to computers and a projector during the session, it's also quite likely the majority will have smartphones.

What would you do with young people to get them psyched about programming?
One thing to remember - it is a 1 hour break, not a 25-30 min lunch break. Just eating is not sufficient for the brain. You also need to take a walk, breath a fresh air, etc... You should just forget the office for a 1 hour.
Well I guess it is possible if you used some Chinese or Jewish calendar or something like that.

But at least in the western system it shouldn't be possible to it to span years.
Have you tried VooDoo Donuts? Those are some serious donuts and well worth a dollar :-)
I thought about the same thing. I choose to read the title as "Falsehoods programmers seem to believe about time". Or "act as if they believe" in place of "seem to believe".

I can easily imagine somebody introducing a bug that relies on a 24 hour period ending in the same month as it began.
The birth of Groupon inside an activism website
I'm sorry, I have to clarify this. It's a single writer database...
A few months ago, I would have told you that there is no way that anything like this is possible at MSFT - especially the crypto world at Microsoft where everything is extra locked down (it is kept separate from the rest of Windows).

However, after Flame, I'm not sure what is possible and what isn't. If somebody can figure out a way to sign binaries as Microsoft using hitherto unknown crypto research, you have to wonder what else they're capable of.
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OutGrow.Me - Successfully funded Kickstarter projects that are available to Buy
Earlier discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4127173
Depends on the introvert I guess. I get plenty of solitude while working on code and I enjoy the opportunity to chat with people over lunch.
This conspiracy theory has literally no supporting evidence. The entire article is linkbait built around a sensationalist headline.
haha, the whole time I was clicking around, a non-zero part of my brain was sitting there thinking, "ok, but where the hell did that daddy thing come from?"
Actually, I've met recently with the Dean of Engineering about encouraging more entrepreneurship from undergrad engineering students. It's a top priority and there will be related initiatives coming in the fall.

Biomed is so popular because so many students go to WashU for undergrad to be premed and then switch to other majors later--biomed being the best premed choice of the engineering disciplines.
Updated:

Update: We’ve received word that the new API Terms of Use aren’t as sinister as on first glance. From VentureBeat:

We are not prohibiting sites from showing competing services, however we do not want anyone to use Netflix content such as titles and descriptions to advertise a competing service.

We’re not prohibiting developers from monetizing their applications by selling them directly to consumers. We will not, however, permit resale of our information in a business-to-business fashion.
Brain Can Be Trained to Be Less Impulsive
The article doesn't convince me that money thrown away by individuals on a Kickstarter pipe dream is any worse economically than money wasted by a large corporation on a failed product or an unproductive hire. Economic growth happens because the few successes more than make up for the many failures. This will be as true for Kickstarter as it is for the economy in general.
This is a real problem. The situation isn't exactly analogous to a salary negotiation though. The balance of power between reporter/PR guy is much more equal than between employer/employee. Yes, if she encounters that guy again he might think that she's "that bitchy reporter", but he's still going to want her to write positively about whatever game he's promoting.

If he has even the slightest idea of how to do his job, he might appreciate the insight into how to make the demo the best possible experience for her. There's a good chance he walked away thinking "I sure did a good job showing that lady reporter how to play our game".
I had no idea it had a connection with thepoint.com...
I would bet that it took you to their website. Most unlabeled QR codes are just there to save you from typing.
I've thought about the buffer for texting and the problem is that you can't send a message from your real number, it would have to be from a separate number, thereby kind of defeating the purpose...
35. Two timezones that differ, will differ by an integer number of hours.
In France, this need have been killed by the ISP themself. Is there any ISP in the US who does that ?

Free (a ISP) started in 2002. It's a home-made modem router, who also does TV and Phone. Since that almost all others French ISP have created their *box (Livebox, BBox, AliceBox, Neufbox, …).
Sometimes time is simplified on purpose:

15.9.1.2 Day Number and Time within Day # Ⓣ

A given time value t belongs to day number
Day(t) = floor(t / msPerDay)
where the number of milliseconds per day is
msPerDay = 86400000

http://es5.github.com/#x15.9.1.2
And cOmparing NetFlix usage data to a bank statement is ridiculous anyway.
Prehistoric cave paintings have an anthropological interest outside of just their artistic interest. I'm much more interested in those as a scientist than as I am about someone trying to appreciate art.
That wasn't me, but I agree. Especially for touch based and small screen devices like iPhones and iPads where HTML5 apps compete with native apps. It's much easier to create a fast and responsiveness non-standard UI natively than with HTML5. I haven't seen html5 app on mobile that has impressed me. Usually you can tell right away because they have unresponsive, laggy input.
Correct! Different scenarios require different solution. One size doesn't fit all. And it's nice when solutions play nicely with each other.
"my data" implies ownership in this context. The more accurate phrase for what you appear to be trying to say would be "data about me".
What is a Monad? (haskell)
This seems to ignore everyone's struggle to compete with Apple and Samsung at the high-end and the bloodbath at the zero margin low end. HTC seems in a best case scenario position compared to Nokia - they have well respected hardware, a good name, and are established/experienced partners with the dominant mobile platform - yet they're losing money. RIM are probably more analogous to Nokia when Elop took over - a reputation for great hardware but maintaining a dying/technologically stagnant platform with too hazy promises of something better tomorrow - and their experience, even with a steadier strategy, says that Nokia might not have had any win-win options.
36. GMT and UTC are the same timezone.
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If you really want to stress test time handling code, try to get it to accept Feburary 29, 1900 and Feburary 29, 2000. The first doesn't exist but the second does.

But really, with regards to time use whatever library came with you programming language.
No they didn't, they spent money to rent/watch videos.
I must have missed that bit.
Is the SQL "HAVING" Clause Strictly Necessary?
Startup stories where things don't go as planned but the founders find a way to persevere anyway (like Justin.TV) are way more inspiring to me as an entrepreneur than the overnight successes of companies like Instagram, etc.
If every Android, Blackberry, and iPhone came with a universal QR code reader it MIGHT be worth it, but none of them do, so you have to provide printed material or a url anyways so there is no real reason to use them now.
That was my thought, too (followed immediately by "but I imagine there is a large gender difference in doing that"; I wonder how much of an outlier you are). It may have also been a subconscious thought in the people treating her so poorly, "If she is a real gamer, she wouldn't let me take the controls."

But, male or female, somebody shouldn't have to say "back off" to get some respect.
Whoa, that's pretty awesome. Does anyone know if DD-WRT can do this as well?
For hash tables where the number of buckets is much smaller than the number of hash codes (i.e. all of them) and where hash codes are well distributed and collisions are caused by different hash codes mapping onto the same bucket (not always true, but often), the tree can be implemented by comparing hash codes, with a fallback to handle the case of multiple identical hash codes.
Our team does this once a month, and nobody is obligated. I personally can't stand it even once a month as I am the only vegetarian on the team, so when they are choosing a place to eat, I always feel like I am making them miss out on their favorite Bar-B-Q resturant.
http://bootstrapchallenge.com/

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Given that the original comment here said "from my desktop", I assume he means something he can click, and associating jars with the JRE in the desktop environment is probably a reasonable solution.
I would have thought eighteen proofs would be enough to convince anyone.
Great, as long as it's a paid lunch and counts towards the 8 hours per day limit prior to accruing overtime.
Optimizing the (immediate) measured economy doesn't necessarily reflect the most important goal of society. People might measure their productivity in forests paved, or maybe we can maximize the needle on some Fed metric by building more napalm factories. On the other hand, most corporations doubted the value of exploring packet switching back in the 60's.
Also, any other change to the system clock. NTP will either slew or step the system clock to keep it synchronized with the upstream time source. And the user can explicitly set the clock, as well. See also assumptions 9 and 10.
35. There are years past 2079. SQL Server smalldatetime only goes up to June 6, 2079
Is that mochaUI? Looks like it.

Tried using it recently and it actually was quite nice despite the lack of docs and other various hiccups.

At any rate, thanks for putting it out.
And this will likely be RIM in 12 months, but without a benefactor (for at least the smartphone business) in the wings.

I still think that going Windows Phone was Nokia's best option -- even though it was a risk. The problem is just that the ship turned too late. It hit the berg anyway.
Every two years or so someone comes up with a new javascript package manager. Obviously something about the javascript ecosystem makes this hard because someone constantly attempts to solve the problem over and over again. What' wrong with the previous 3 or 4 attempts. I'm honestly curious. I don't live in the world of javascript very much anymore so I don't know what all the issues are.
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I think the unresponsiveness is largely because of too much JS and poor event handling by browsers, myself. I refuse to believe JS execution can actually be that slow.
36. Two timezones that differ will differ by an integer number of half hours.

37. Okay, quarter hours.

38. Okay, seconds, but it will be a consistent difference if we ignore DST.
Draytek Vigor. My go to router of choice. built in vpn from the off, so you can drop in these bad boys and then (once set up) auto route all your traffic that looks as if it should go to the remote site TO the remote site. Easy to vpn back "home" if you are out and about. QOS built in. VOIP server built in to the higher version. They are as cheap as a typical router but they pack the punch of any router out there. ... unless someone can tell me why not ?
The way you're thinking about it, yes -- but the passage of a month may take you from December the [mumbleth] to January the [mumbleth], which are in different years. For some strange reason, code in the wild doesn't always account for that, so the due date for an item may well be eleven months before the request was entered.
Ran into a similar one about ten years ago; a medical records system with the assumption that you wouldn't need dates before 1/1/1900.

You know who goes to the doctor a lot? Centegenarians.
This doesn't take into account the realities of an E3 demo.

For one, the clever tricks that ease you in to the controls generally occur at the start of the game. It's not just the UI of the game that allow a first time player to be able to understand, it's the design of a level to teach you. This is often not the part of the game that an E3 demo wants to show.

The second point is that a lot of the more subtle stuff that hints to new players how to play may not even be in the game yet. These E3 demos are with an incomplete product, but the developers have slaved to create a section of the game that seems polished. However, they know their target audience for the demo are experienced gamers, not members of the general public, so it changes their development priorities accordingly.
I've a few questions if you have the time.

Did you never charge? Or were you charging?
What were the reasons it was / you were not ready to make it a money making business?
Any mistakes or lessons learned while building/running the software?
Where did the 120 users come from?

As someone who is looking to create their own product soon I'd be really grateful for any response you can give.

Thanks

Alan
One of the impromptu perks here is lunch: a most eclectic group of programmers, chemists, physicists, managers, support, etc. congregate around one large table and enjoy a discussion thread that flows thru technology, philosophy, brewing, literature, linguistics, astronomy, cooking, etc. - often all in one sitting. Indeed, if I'm not there I feel I'm missing out. No pressure to join in, but indeed a great perk if you do.
is this partners where you just give them the title.

or is this like what you have with law firms, where they have to buy their way in as well?
I get inundated with conversations, discussions and emails so much during work-time that lunch time is often a good time of solitude for me to organize my plan of action for the rest of the day. I usually take a short walk around London's alley ways while eating my sandwich - nice experience, to be honest.
I think QR codes have a place. But I don't think advertisers know where that place is yet. QR codes on products I may buy -> bad, terrible, everything this comic describes.

But if it happens to be an event (free concert in the park, grand opening of awesome new store, whatever) and it's on a poster somewhere about town, I like this, cuz maybe I'll be like, "hmm, blues fest sounds like fun, lemme just scan this in, and I'll have all the deets for it on my phone.

If it's a QR code on my bottled water, well that's just a waste of space.
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I don’t see an interpretation that makes sense. In fact, I don’t think there is one. I guess you define a “statement” to be a complete sentence, judging by “its title alone isn’t a proper statement”, but titles are rarely statements anyway and the actual contents of the novel, I am sure, are full sentences. We need to use more precise language, instead of hiding behind vague terms like “statements”, if we hope to evaluate the argument.

I am not nitpicking. I honestly don’t think any sense can be made from leot’s statement. If I am wrong, I invite you to refine it in a way that makes sense. Your earlier refinement (text is not the best medium for every message) makes sense, but the point is that art is not defined as “mediums other than text”, and therefore it isn’t relevant to the previous discussion about art.
I'm only talking about faces tagged with an actual Facebook account.

It's unlikely they would enable facial recognition for non-Facebook users. How will they know the difference between two different people tagged as "John Doe" if they're not linked to a specific account?
That seems like a pretty gross overreaction.

The article is about a pretty small, close-knit startup serving a free gourmet lunch by professional chef. I doubt anyone there feels like it's stifling and I doubt anyone is thought less of for occasionally doing their own thing.

Certainly this is a Forbes blog and someone may take the idea and try to force it into an environment inappropriately, but arguing that it can never work seems over the top.
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Angry “Internet lawyer” sues The Oatmeal, bears, and cancer research
Show HN: Combinator - A simple Hacker News client for Windows Phone
I just submitted version 2.1 of Combinator to the Windows Phone Marketplace. It's the simplest and most elegant Hacker News client on Windows Phone.

You can see it there : http://www.windowsphone.com/en-US/apps/a5275a3f-6611-48f6-bd62-7382eda4c028

The new version is going to cost $0.99, and there won't be any free/trial versions available. If you want to get it for free, you still have 3-4 days left before the update reaches the Marketplace. After that, you'll have to pay for it.

What do you guys think? Is the app worth $0.99?
Meraki is severely over priced and focused on enterprise users. They are not a consumer product.
I feel the same about those silly "Pin it", "Follow me" icons on every webpage. I cannot say that it has never helped any site get more traffic but for the most part it is just monkey copying monkeys all the way down. They do nothing except make all pages look generic and cluttered. The biggest example of just doing it for the sake of it is the porn sites that use these share icons too (who in the world shares a xxx video they watched on their facebook timeline?)
This is a completely misguided article, from the ground up.

The point of Kickstarter is to fund things that people want but where traditional funding sources are unable to accurately assess the demand for those things.

In other words, KS does not create market inefficiencies, it corrects them.
Our team goes out probably once a week (informally) on Fridays and I feel like I hold them back if I go. I'm not a vegetarian but I am allergic to dairy and eggs which makes it hard to spontaneously pick a place to eat.
Yeah, it's MochaUI. About two years ago, the project was mostly un-maintained, I haven't looked at it recently though.
Checking the terminal, I don't see any corporate bonds maturing in 2079 yet. But I do see a handful in every year >= 2070 and <= 2077. So maybe a few more years and some people / firms will start hitting bugs...
Ask HN: Why doesn't Apple add an iCloud link to their homepage nav bar?
If the cloud is a large portion of their future strategy, why doesn't Apple add it to the navigation to get more people signed up for it?
http://www.apple.com/
then do not take my time to do so.

Seems to me there is a great deal of time other than lunch to allow us to bond. Why do some people feel intent on taking my time away to do something they won't give of their time to let me do; as in your meetings are far more important than bonding but my lunch time isn't.

Been there, done that. Its like another management fad that poorly managed companies try to graft unto their dysfunctional culture. They of course fail at it because they don't understand it really is they who are the problem, not the employees.
Perhaps the accurate title is "Assumptions programmers make about time"
A bad test might boil down to,

assert(month(now()) == month(now() + 24.hours))

then fail from time to time.