skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it even make sense to use a GUI IDE to write and build something as cross platform as Apache? All that boiler plate from the IDE is great, but much of what one would consider boiler plate in the Apache code base was built up over time as features were added and it was ported to new platforms.
I'm currently using the rails_api gem for an API only app I'm building. It's pretty lean.
Really. Could you provide an example of this?
I thought skype was owned by Microsoft, they don't need the money! Why'd they deliberately harm their goodwill?
I often hesitate to chime in on a discussion like this, because my response is based on Myers-Briggs Type Indicators, and a surprisingly large number of people consider the MBTI as useless and lacking scientific foundation.

Regardless, here is my response to someone making this exact same complaint on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/INTP/comments/sqhxw/motivation_and_o...

I always recommend that everyone find out their personality type by taking one of these MBTI-like tests. I see too many of these posts that have people feeling down on themselves for reasons that amount to not understanding who they are and what the benefits and challenges of it are. I can recommend the following:

www.careertest.net
http://humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm
http://similarminds.com/jung.html
VCs are liars.  And so am I.
You don't need to eyeball it, the second graph gives the numbers for installed base 48 vs 32% Android to iPhone.

Two caveats: this is smartphone data, so doesn't count iPod Touch or iPad which will understate Apple's addressable audience and it's American data, not global, which will probably overstate Android's addressable market (though probably less by dollar spend than per person).
I don't agree with this at all. If it were true, they would be nerfing mobile safari rather than upgrading it like they did in ios6. What they are aiming for is the absolute best experience on mobile (as they always have, no matter what the platform), and right now this is through native apps.

As the web grows and matures and html5 adoption becomes more widespread, the web will overtake apps and apps will become wrappers for web interfaces.
Revenue PER DAY does nothing to address the time frame it has taken each app to reach that rate.

For example, if you have an app returning the same revenue per day after a week on the market as another app which has been out a year, tell me which one is performing better. You can't because you don't know if the app which has been out a year ramped up to that rev. per day or if it has kept it out of the gate (or even decreased to that rate).

Hence, the not enough details in the title/article, and the alternate scenario I gave vs. how the article portrayed it.
Dunno about others, but this is what I see: http://i.snag.gy/LPiss.jpg. I assume the author was using a "trusted PC," which he had previously verified.

What's really annoying about Hotmail passwords is the 16 character limit.

Edit: This is what Hotmail says about verifying a "trusted PC."

"To use this feature, you must access your account using Internet Explorer and have Windows Live Essentials installed."
> Is it clear now why there are some of us (with decades of make and shell and ssh in our toolbelts) who sit here and scratch our heads at the perpetuation of this nonsense?

It's no more clear than it was before--that is to say, perfectly so. But here's one for you, in turn: I'm glad that it works for you and that you like it, but if you want to insist it's objectively superior and I don't know what's better for me (which is what you've been doing throughout this thread), I cordially invite you to go fuck yourself. Impolite of me, sure, but telling you to go fuck yourself is considerably less impolite than patronizing people who decide they don't value working in the same way you do. I've been where you say to be, I've done what you say to do, and I got the T-shirt that you're rocking out in. I put it in a drawer because I think it wears poorly.

I have plenty of experience with "make, shell, and ssh"--I'm neither new to nor afraid of working in shells. Doesn't mean I want that to be my primary work environment and certainly doesn't mean I'm either ignorant or wrong for disliking it. For me, a phrase which I will italicize a few more times because you seem unable to internalize this, the UX of the command line abjectly sucks for tasks beyond basic file manipulation and quick text editing. It sucks! For me. I don't care about its hallowed consistency when it makes me feel like shit to be using it all day and makes me feel like I'm wasting my time. Learning new tools is, for me, a smaller cost than hating what I do. I'd rather go learn a new tool, one that's specialized to its use case, because in every case I've encountered it is both a more productive and more enjoyable experience. If I'm not going to value doing my job in an enjoyable fashion, I might as well go be a plumber.

I'm more than happy to use the command line to handle deployment tasks and other automation, but for actually creating things, writing code and doing development work? I'd rather have a tooth pulled than work in vim all day. But I recognize that that's the case for me. Your decisions to use those tools are right for you but not for me are your decisions--if they make you happy, awesome! But your patronizing "what you do is nonsense" crap (and your consistent implication that not adopting your methods is borne out of ignorance rather than experience) leads me to invite you to GFY.

Preferring consistent tools to specific tools for different tasks is not better; it is preference. And, quite literally, nothing more.
You can also use Delphi on Windows of all things.

http://www.itwriting.com/blog/4841-hands-on-with-delphi-xe2-...
You can also do this with Adobe Air. It's also free. Take a look at http://www.flashdevelop.org/.
It would be interesting to know how many men years were put into Windows and OS X, for comparison. Anybody has an idea or references?
You can try it at your own. what I expect is that it would be much more faster, since you are pushing less data on wire.
The First Thing to Know When Creating a Habit
This website is so horrible that I can't even read the article. Maybe posting a readability version would fare better? The ads and popups and everything are too much.
> Basing a business plan on advertising is a decision to provide a cheaper/free service at the cost of deliberately worsening the UI and, ultimately, the user's experience with your product. That's a serious trade-off indeed.

Actually, ads on Skype probably would have been fine, if they'd done it many years ago. When Skype was new, it was an incredible deal. Voice chat! To anywhere in the world! For free! (Or a small price if you want to use the phone network at either end.) That was such an incredible deal that nobody would have minded if ads were included as part of it -- what else you gonna do? Pay long-distance rates to the telephone company?

Nowadays we're all spoiled and accustomed to the fact that we can video-chat with anyone at any time for no money and no ads, so this sounds just plain annoying.
I'm waiting for someone in the UK to invoke the 6 year warranty rule, since obviously if the battery is glued in and the RAM soldered in it's gonna last forever right!

http://blogs.thisismoney.co.uk/2010/03/tv-warranty.html
>I think Orwell might have something to say about that.

Note that we're talking about Apple, not Amazon. And I doubt that it will ever happen on Amazon again either, after the PR drubbing they took after doing it the first time.

And your other anecdotes are well and good, but show me where this has happened with Apple. We're talking apps, not books.
There's a big difference between being paid $100K to start a business and being paid $100K to have fun with. Thiel is funding the former. Out of that money you will take living expenses, but most of the investment will go directly back into the business to make something of it. That is, after all, the goal.

Almost nobody makes $100K, degree or not, ever, in their lifetime (the top 5% earners begin at just shy of $90K, from what I recall). You also won't make $100K to spend as you please by taking his offer either. The realities are that you will probably take $20-40K of that money to spend on yourself, which is definitely not an income out of reach of anyone with just a plain old job. Heck, flipping hamburgers at McDonalds will pay that much on the low end.

It seems like a fantastic opportunity to me, but it's not a big money windfall. Not unless you can make something of your business.
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If people can't stop using Skype, they can use older versions, or bithack advertisement displaying code out from binary files of new versions. And there will be open source protocol-compatible clients. There are a lot of options besides paying and switching the network.
>imaginary world with imaginary benefits and solutions for imaginary threats

Do be careful. RMS's "imaginations" have come true more than once. It's often that you don't know what you have until it's gone...
Ah, the "which way is the logical way" stuff is such an arbitrary but yet so weirdly satisfying...

I could to write emails with vi and I could learn to write python extensions for Qt Creator to do just about anything also. I could add an email-sending make step to my project if I happen to want send emails when I checked changes into git. I don't know which one is better and I don't do either right now because I don't have to.

As far as doing things "the same way" goes, the same way as what? I've actually done lets of command-lining in my time. When I need to formulate a twenty argument command, I usually edit it in a text file and paste it to the prompt. And the thing is, the argument syntax of shell commands isn't consistent. The only unifying factor is the various pipes but it's hardly a panacea. I mean, fricken grep only searches directories recursively for a pure wildcard search (just "*"). You can pipe the results of this search to a further search for, say. ".cpp" but if you've got lots of non "cpp" files that happen to have the "cpp" string next to the string you want in them, you're hosed. I'm sure someone has some other trick for this somewhere. But the situation seems to boil down to "you can do anything if you take the time to learn everything" - I mentioned you could write custom IDE extensions right?
Jabong.com trumps Flipkart traffic - Indian Ecommerce
ARPU: A simple number with complex underpinnings
We really did try to make it not-spammy. You have an option to tweet when you list a domain name that you own. Or you can comment on other people's domains using twitter. Also we're expecting most of our traffic to come from twitter, so they will know exactly what's getting tweeted.
That only prevents impossible actions, like teleporting or such, but that's already not feasible with most games, since the server double-checks those. The hard thing is knowing whether a certain sequence of actions was done by a player or by an All-Knowing cheat doing it for them.
+1 for shapiro, we are just here to allow people socially / casually discuss around their domain names. No crook intentions. :)
Eh, I just had an X-25M G2 start to fail the other day, after two years of desktop use. Intel replaced it within the week for free, but it was hardly retired.
Minor timezone glitch, just fixed.
I don't reach for a debugger often, instead relying on sanity checks and traces. But when I do reach for a debugger, it's because I am so completely confounded by what is going on, and I have started questioning even the most basic of assumptions, that I just want to watch the damn thing execute.
I don't know about him, but for me that's one of the reasons why I still have no interest in a Kindle, or any DRM'd ebook platform. I give Amazon lots of money for other types of goods (~100-120 orders a year according to my invoice history... yikes), but not much for books any more.
Augmented reality glasses look a step ahead of Google
You seem to imply that GNU userland tools are:

1. an inherent part of the Operating System.

2. the only way Linux can be used.

The first point is debatable. In academic circles (where Linus has spent a big part of his career), operating systems usually designate the kernel. In commercial products, the kernel by itself is not very useful, so you'd add a few userland utilities to your definition.

The second point is simply wrong. Busybox is a very widely used alternative to GNU, and Android, arguably the most successful mass consumption Linux system to date, has zero GNU tool.

As much as I appreciate GNU, the FSF and rms, this constant demand for credit is, too often, misplaced and above all, a bunch of misguided rhetoric.

Can't we simply be happy for an engineer who fully deserves the recognition he's getting?
Oh. I should have guessed. Sounds awful!

Kids these days. In my day we had Fruit Ninja and we liked it.
November 2011 I bought a Samsung 470 128GB for $199.

2 weeks ago I bought a Samsung 830 (faster) 256GB (twice as big) for $220.

The price drop is pretty amazing.
I'm convinced rebase vs merge is the new spaces vs tabs or emacs vs vim. There are reasons to use both, and it usually isn't worth your time to try and convince the other side they're wrong.
Because it's a stupid view of the world. What if you bought a BMW and they said "sorry, if you want to replace those tyres or wiper blades then you need to bring it in to BMW, even though we don't actually make any of thee parts ourselves".

(Yes, I understand these are serviceable parts, replace above with car battery if you like...)
2 Days, 2,500+ Developers, Moscone Center, SF June 28-29
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The DevJam portion will include talks, roundtables and workshops for developers and tech professionals, with a range of sessions presented by area Meetups, user groups and other entities. Activities include a Community Summit, Mobile Privacy Workshop, Gamification Workshop, NOOK Developer Workshop and much more. In fact, as an official Google I/O Extended site, the Tech Career Expo & DevJam is livestreaming Google I/O keynotes and key sessions and inviting talented developers who didn't score tickets Google I/O to connect with each other throughout the day.. Interested professionals can visit the optional preregistration page at http://TechCareerExpo.com/talent/, or just stop by the Moscone Center. Interested companies may order exhibit space online at http://techcareerexpo.com/employers/ .

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> Do most modern games now use a physics engine to
> simulate every bullet instead?

It might depend on the game, but as the parent suggested, the cheat could just avoid 'line-of-sight' with the barrels of the opponents guns, though those movements might become more obviously mechanical to other players.
the interface you establish is the ultimate form of communication with the people behind the clients. You can't force people to read/obey documentation (no matter how pretty or up-to-date it is), but they are obliged (naturally) to follow the rules of your interface.

It's also worth bearing in mind that the design you pick will directly affect how you document your API - documentation of RPC APIs are different from that of Rails-style CRUD-over-HTTP APIs, which in turn are different from that of REST APIs (or "hypermedia APIs" - redundant term, really).
Nice one, but could not find any information about what was created?
Another factor of this is that Apple has a global servicing network in its Apple stores that is kinda astounding. With a sony laptop, you would have to mail it off to their national service center, wait a few weeks and get it mailed back to you for warranty repair.[1]

The same repair can often be accomplished in an Apple store very quickly.

For example. I bought a Macbook Pro in the USA. I was in the UK and had a problem. I went to the UK apple store, and they fixed it- replacing parts-- in 30 minutes. It doesn't matter that I bought the machine in another country (something that would be a hassle with other manufacturers) and I didn't have to send it off-- I was without my computer for all of the time it took to eat lunch, not a couple weeks.

Apple has radically changed the service/support situation for their machines, and thus they are designing machines to be highly serviceable by APPLE, not by users. These aren't made to be modded, but for apple to be able to quickly service.

I think iFixit is looking at these machines in the context of other players in the industry. You have to service your Dell laptop because getting service from Dell may well be a pain in the butt or simply not possible. That's not the case with Apple-- provided there's an Apple store reasonably close (and if not ,they have pretty efficient mail in service.)

My experiences with PC makers, with consumer electronics makers of all types, and even big companies like Intel have never been anywhere close to this level of service and convenience in the service.

[1] Between me and my cofounders we've had this experience with Sony, Dell and HP. The results we got with Apple astounded one of my cofounders because their experience was that things just didn't work that way-- and in their experience it took several multi-week trips to the repair shop to get their name brand PC repaired, leaving them effectively without a computer for months-- because the maker saved money by outsourcing repair to some random third party repair agency. Apple gets things right by owning the store that does the repairs and can impose quality checks on them.
In iOS 6, Apple Finally Fixes Notifications Across Multiple Devices
I don't know... Samsung S3 had 9 million pre-orders. I know a lot of people upgrading due to 1) the marketing hype surrounding the new tech 2) in the UK at least your carrier will generally give you an upgrade ever 18-24 months (cost dependant on level of service)
I've always wondered if we had an Olympics type sporting event where 'anything goes' would be sport worth watching.

My experience has been in two online games, one an Aces game where you flew against WWII planes and cheaters would make their planes make impossible turns or suddenly have 3000' of altitude etc. Made it unplayable. And in World of Warcraft where a sort of soft-core cheating or 'twinking' was making player vs player for non-twinks seriously non-fun, they added a 'twinks' mode where twinks had to play only other twinks. (this was done with a combination of things but it worked.)

I enjoy playing games on 'god' mode some times, and its hilariously fun with friends, and have many fond memories of running a Unreal Tournament (UT) server with some really crazy environments. So I expect there is a market there. Very happy to see Rockstar being creative here.
Nuclear telescope to image details of black holes
Adapting to an unsupported BIOS is not remotely "defeating DRM". Apple just doesn't support other firmware -- it doesn't include features deliberately meant to defeat unlicensed installs (like Windows) or any cloning (like iOS).
I also just had an issue with AirBnb. I live in a NYC cooperative apartment. We do NOT allow short-term rentals (It's actually a NYS law, minimum of 30 days). The person renting out their apartment owns it. I had spoken to AirBnb about this issue, asking them to remove the listing. They feel that this is an issue between our building and the owner of the individual apartment. However I asked AirBnb why they allow apartment rentals in a state where the law does not allow it. AirBnb stated that the lessor signs an agreement and therefore the onus is on them. However, I feel the law is implicit and AirBnb is aware of this law, then entering a contract with prior knowledge of the contract already being invalid makes AirBnb culpable. You dont enter contracts knowing the contract is already void.
It's amazing that AirBnb's entire business model pretty much hinges on this contract cop-out.
It has yet to be seen if my building decides to include AirBnb as a defendant in a lawsuit against this owner as we work to evict them.
The main reason why toursts need to stay in hotels is also as follows:
1) no background check - allows opportunity of crime. Example: pedophile renting a house or apartment near children. Or someone wanting to rob a specific apartment or group of apartments. How do you gain access to the building? $120 bucks, one night.
2) Fire Code: hotels have sprinklers and proper signage for fire in places where people are not as familiar with the surroundings. This puts the guests at risk.
3) Fire hazard: Guests are unfamiliar with the stove, or jet lagged or smoke a cigarette etc. Risk of fire is greater.
4) Noise: guests decide to have a party or blast music. Or they are just up late b/c they are on vacation.
5) Vermin: guests arent going to be as clean. B/c, hey that's what the cleaning deposit is for. This can attract vermin. Then there's the chance the guests bring bed bugs with them.

And yes, I agree it does take away units that would otherwise have been used for long-term renting, robbing the rental market of stock. NYC has about a 1% vacancy rate as it is.

AirBnb is going to see a huge litigation storm coming its way if it doesnt take more of a proactive approach where local law does not allow such rentals.
Feh, just be honest with people. If they get defensive, they get defensive, so what?

I'd love to hear you tell me "I just don't think you have what it takes," as that's just going to pour fuel on my fire and motivate me to work that much harder just to spite you.

I love negative feedback like that... fuck all ya'll, because when I'm running a billion dollar company and rocking up to your shitty office in my Maserati to ask "how's it going?" I'll be laughing to myself at how pathetic and stupid you were to doubt me.
Newegg had 120GB 830s for $89 earlier this morning, for a more apples-to-apples comparison.
> True, but hardware failures are known to happen due to Linux misbehavior

[citation needed]

In the past, Linux was blamed for memory failure because it exposed bad memory when trying to make use of it, and Windows on the same machine didn't. But it was not Linux's fault.
Note the year. Apple had only recently switched to Intel.
Moving rapidly off-topic:

That is an accusation, trying to backhandedly hide it behind "I'm not going to do exactly what I am doing right now" is just as disingenuous as people who say things like "not to be a dick, but ..." as they proceed to be a dick

http://www.virtualsalt.com/rhetoric4.htm#Apophasis

I'm often surprised by discovering certain rhetorical devices that are old and widely spread enough to have their own name.