skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've given more than a few public talks, and I ran for Lieutenant Governor of NC a few years ago, and did some campaign speeches as part of that... what I have found is that they key is to be able to improvise your entire talk if need be. That is, if you know the points you want to make, and a rough order you want to make them in, you can construct the talk as you go if need be. Then you never have to worry about "forgetting your lines" or whatever. If you can develop this ability to give a speech totally unscripted, you can then choose whether or not you want to use notes or whatever to help you stick more precisely to the plan... but in the worst case, you're never totally screwed with no ability to proceed.

FWIW, when I ran for office, I never memorized a single speech, nor did I use notes. I mentally rehearsed the key points and structure on the way to the venue, and then improvised. Take the fact that I didn't get elected however you want, vis-a-vis the effectiveness of my approach. :-)
Which is why RIM is trying to move their expertise into areas such as Mobile Fusion, allowing administrators to managed BYOD in the enterprise. Imagine BlackBerry BES services on your personal Android or iPhone, so you can access your company's assets in a secure manner. It's something RIM is working towards, and is honestly something that Microsoft's culture wouldn't allow.
I'm not advocating cooperation or cartels, i'm advocating not caring about competition (or cooperation), ignore both.

I believe in an open market, and cooperation and cartels destroy that. Focusing on competition is a distraction. I'm saying be indifferent to competition.
I've never had a huge issue with the difference in appearance. One was assembled by a stylist, the other by a teenager putting together 200 of them in a shift. As long as what I asked for is in there, and what I didn't ask for isn't, and it's generally piled vertically, I'm good. Nice bit of PR on McD's part though... this is very seldom directly addressed by the food industry.

Now to find lunch...
900,000 Android device activations per day

Seems likely that the Android party will continue to be a big fractured mess, but at that kind of scale there's always opportunity.
It might have been 0.03W. I’ll need to check again… It was either 0.3 or 0.03.
they're usually contractors these days to be honest.

I always sit in the middle between humans and machines and am quite happy getting my hands dirty with both sides. Communication and management is part of the job.
I have to admit that graphs using logarithmic scaling can come quite handy when trying to make a certain point.
developer.apple.com looks down from here:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/developer.apple.com

adc.apple.com looks down from here:
http://www.downforeveryoneorjustme.com/adc.apple.com
In the US, they have to by law... if the photo is advertising an actual product. For instance, they could garnish the photo with a basket of fresh tomatoes, a head of lettuce, a friendly cow, etc. and that would be okay... as long as the actual product being sold is made using the as-sold ingredients.

This law came about in, hm, the 60s? after the first wave of outrage over things like ice cream in advertisements being made out of textured lard, or whatever.
Good points. Depth is hard to measure, but generally I find that clients will ask a question about a specific programming topic and start off basic. When the candidate gets that right, they go a little deeper with the second question and the candidate fails. It's like being able to name all the baseball teams but none of the players - that would be breadth but not depth. You might come across as a baseball fan initially, but not on further review.

RE: entitlement - I don't think what you are describing is a superiority complex as much as coming to a realization that you are more senior than the person - no complex, just a fact I'd say. Companies that have bad process should be off limits for you as well, I don't think that is entitlement but rather some basic expectations. Not being willing to work at all with PHP, Java or MS could be perceived as entitled if everyone else has to dive in on those from time to time.

Agreed with your ideas re: co-workers. The key being that you demonstrate the understanding. It's not so much about claiming responsibility as it is about being curious about your surroundings and interested in things beyond your individual contribution to the project.
Ex-Googlers Launch Avocado, An App For Couples
Definitely agree about it being the right move for the long-term; Microsoft tends to have a bad habit of sacrificing performance and features for the sake of supporting old systems, glad to see this is changing.

As for all us ‘early adopters’, I for one don’t mind at all. There are some features of the new OS that simply aren’t supported by current-generation WP hardware or just wouldn’t perform well on it. I’d rather not get an update than get one that compromises the performance of my device (which I love as-is anyway) or one that seriously fragments the platform.

And, the way I see it, if WP8’s future is one of greater integration with W8 and Xbox, and Microsoft can really deliver on their ‘3 Screens & The Cloud’ vision [1], and this decision is integral to that (which it seems to be), then I’m fully on-board with it.

Also, they just announced that all existing Windows Phone 7 devices will get an update, to ‘Windows Phone 7.8’, which will bring all the UI changes and many of the new WP8 features. Most importantly, they’ve stated that all non-native code WP8 apps will work on WP7. I think that's the most important thing anyway and this approach makes for a good middle-of-the road solution. It allows developers to focus on just one platform and gives (the admittedly few of us) current WP7 owners continued access to new apps and features.

[1] http://blogs.msdn.com/b/stevecla01/archive/2009/05/21/three-...
I wonder how many people who argued about Linux vs BSD in early 90s would have predicted that 20 years later, in the post-PC-era, these would be the two most popular operating systems by far, backed by the two biggest post-Microsoft tech companies, Google and Apple.
Likewise, and from talking to food stylists, not just from reading about it. Again: totally possible McD doesn't do that anywhere.
Why is PHP hated by so many developers?
They changed to a better kernel. A really old and battle tested kernel. It is an exceptional reason to break compatibility but it's hard to argue that they shouldn't have made the decision. Certainly they won't switch kernels again soon because there is no better Windows kernel than NT.
> It uses the best static typing system to do so.

It doesn't use the best dynamic language or best unit tests.
Microsoft Surface Keynote
I am so impressed with Microsoft right now.
That's probably why it came to mind. The real instance I encountered wasn't that, but requires so much other context to explain it wasn't a good HN comment.

Also, rereading my comment, something that may not be clear, when I said "some non-trivial percentage of the tests are still redundant to the type system", I mean per test. On each test, some non-trivial percentage is actually redundant, not that there is some percentage of tests that are totally redundant. You just remove those, of course.
Ah, this is a bitter reminder that I purchased Portal 2 when it came out (for the Mac) but do not yet have a computer fast enough to run it...one of my few regrets about getting an Air.
As a Windows user now I have to decide between a 720p WindowsPhone8 phone or the Windows 8 RT ARM tablet.
A programmer high on the compensation scale will typically have decided to stay on the "Individual Contributor" track and top out as a "Distinguished Engineer" or similar title, but still be considered as a programmer. A PM who has advanced to a similar level, on the other hand, is likely to be some sort of VP or SVP and considered an "executive". That is to say the PM compensation track divergers, while the Engineer's stays the same
With each version of iOS, developers can access new API on older devices. With Windows Phone 7.8 it will not be possible to access shared native API set.
I guess you're making the point that people will continue to buy it because they are mis- or uninformed?
Legacy? For reals?

WP7 is much younger than Android and the iPhone. Already they're cutting out the "legacy"?
Yeah, but I don't think it would be a small loss for Android to fall from dominance in medium to high end phones in Google's best markets. In theory, Android gives them at least some control in a category with important implications for every part of their business (mobile). I doubt they're too concerned about Bing, but if WP8 takes off, it gives MS room to make inroads in search, and for Apple and Microsoft to interfere with search queries with tools like Siri...
Lumia will get WinPhone 7.8 which includes all the UI updates but leaves out the features which requires more advanced hardware.
Yes, for example Foucault or Derrida is not meant to be skimmed, and part of the point of reading Hegel is to struggle with it. It doesn't make sense to make the reader struggle with an opinion piece, since you are generally trying to persuade someone of your opinion. Although opinion pieces don't necessarily follow the traditional lede + nut graf format, this one appeared to do so, until the actual content was different from the first few paragraphs.

GQ prefers short Anglo-Saxon words because they think it's a style that men prefer to read, and what I am trying to say is that using too many words that were imported from French is generally used to make people sound smart because it was once the language of bureaucracy, but generally makes things harder to read.

Consider, "I don't even know what you're trying to say here. I mean, I can guess, but it makes me queasy." This is an extremely clear sentence, and would be pretty similar if translated into Middle English. This is generally the argument that Orwell makes in Politics and the English Language.

http://www.resort.com/~prime8/Orwell/patee.html
What's interesting is they're not really competing.

BSD for desktops, Linux for servers. Not the split I would've guessed 10-13 years ago.
https://github.com/learnboost/juice
This article misses the forest for the trees. During the height of Microsoft's monopoly, consumers were very much limited in their choices. MS did everything they could to keep the likes of OS/2 and BeOS off of new PCs, and that means no one ran other OS's, so no one wrote apps for them. Had that not been the case, the PCs, phones, and tablets we use today would be very different. I daresay they'd be better, for having arrived at many current innovations sooner due to the more robust level of competition and potentially having more viable options in the market today.

Just because MS lost its monopoly on its own does not mean that we, as consumers, would not have benefitted--and would still be benefitting--from breaking up that monopoly when it was more dominant.
Know your latency: a simple hack using Graphite and Memcache
While all of that is true, in my experience, quality people choose to end a relationship rather than allow others to drag them down.

I agree that that is true in the long-run, but there may be temporary circumstances where someone will bear some pain longer than they might otherwise... maybe they don't want to create a "job hopper" look on their resume, maybe they feel dedication to (some) of their colleagues, maybe it's a down economy and jobs are scarce in their market, etc. In either case, I contend that management should, ideally, be willing to accept that sometimes the required change is on their side.

That said, my experience is that poorly run companies usually don't seem to improve, and that the best option for an employee is usually to just leave, depending on any mitigating circumstances.
Tried submitting this as 'PayPal.com redesign using Twitter Boostrap elements' but alas it was already posted sans any mention of that. There's definite use of Bootstrap in this. Not sure if I love that or hate it.
I couldn't agree more with the point of this post. The fact is that many people get hoodwinked when they are getting things sold to them, it's people that are in the actual field that are capable of seeing the difference between something worth the price or not worth the price. That said, if a company doesn't have a dedicated IT staff and said company isn't a small business anymore, that's pretty much asking for trouble.
They're not?

I've seen very few places where PMs and analysts even get on par with normal engineers (aka, non junior).
Note: Need to clear up that references to CodeAcademy in this post refer to what is actually Codecademy.
> You do not test the potential of something by using the worst possible example of it.

So? Folks don't use the "potential", they use the real. They're asking questions like "should I use Java or Python".

> do airbags help prevent deaths" would be a very poor test if it used anything other than the best possible airbag technology.

That's not how things actually work. You decide between what's available. The performance of the best possible airbags is irrelevant. The real question is the cost and benefits of airbags that are likely to be deployed.
China warns its rare earth reserves are declining
But WindowsPhone already supports connecting to SharePoint and accessing any documents stored there.
I happen to know that in the USA, they can (and presumably, do) use plastic replicas for their photography.

(My wife saw the ones Dairy Queen used while she worked there. She says they look amazingly real, even up close)
I am happy about their foray into the physical world but there is a much more critical feature still missing in my opinion: the possibility to check for a desired trigger (e.g. stocks) at a specific time/date or, in general, the possibility to combine multiple triggers at once
I thought you were being sarcastic with the name, but no, it really is called the:

"Samsung Galaxy S II Epic Touch 4G Android Phone, Black (Sprint)"

http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Galaxy-Epic-Touch-Android/dp/B...

Wow.
> "The only thing the compiler will yell at you is if you passed a type that is not of a Query type. The compiler will not yell at you for getting the current session directly or creating your own jdbc driver for that matter."

In Haskell, I'd have a module, Database, that held all my db code. That module would export functions something like

query :: Query -> DBResult
update :: Query -> DBAction -> DBResult

(read those as "query is a function that takes a Query and returns a DBResult.")

In the rest of my program, those functions would be the only way to talk to the database. There's your guarantee.

Could I, rather than using my nice database module, instead drop into IO and write code to do something vicious? Surely. But now we've moved beyond bugs and into active malice.

> "Again, so this cannot be done in a dynamic language? If it can be done, why bring them up?"

It's harder. With duck typing, if it looks like a Query it is a Query, no? Even if it drops your table. I'm no expert on dynamic languages, and I'd believe that there are sophisticated object hierarchies that can do these things (at runtime...), but the original article is empirical evidence that real projects get this wrong.

Really, though, try a language with a modern type system and see for yourself. I know we Haskell users sound like zealots, but the difference between the Java and Haskell type systems truly is night and day.
I can easily see them supplant Android as the "anything but Apple" option.

Do you really imagine that the hundreds of millions of Android users chose "anything but Apple"?

This mirrors the iPad discussion. People want a device to fill needs. Anyone who thinks this isn't competition with the iPhone is an imbecile.
I think plenty of people in those segments believed those operating systems would be huge, but they missed by a mile when it came to the form.

I remember arguing with slashdot Linux fanatics at the turn of the century, and they stubbornly believed that somehow magically Linux as it was at the time would go mainstream on the desktop and vanquish Windows. It was always an absurd premise. It almost always takes a paradigm shift to leave a big enough opening, and mobile provided that (the desktop still being ruled by Windows).
I wonder what would happen if everyone started calling him that "funny, junk lawyer"
My high school yearbook senior quote has a link to my geocities.com page. I thought I was brilliant for thinking of it. :(
> when they've repeatedly proven it's a disastrous strategy (see: Zune).

That's not the best example to use of Microsoft's failure.

Every time Zune has been brought up for discussion here, I've seen primarily two types of responses...

From people that actually owned a Zune: Fantastic product (better than my Apple iPod).

From people that never owned or tried a Zune: It's absolute crap (I've never seen any of my iPod friends with one).

The iPod users verbal diarrhea was so thick, that MS's marketing department couldn't cut through it. One iPod user would regurgitate it down another's mouth, and soon everyone had fed on the same crap.

Watching their "network effect" was kind of impressive.
My point was that Android is based on Linux and iOS on BSD. So the split really is BSD & Windows for desktops, Linux for servers, and BSD & Linux for phones. Who would have predicted this?
It's almost always the case that applying a new set of tests finds more bugs so this experiment doesn't actually prove its conclusion.
First thing I thought of (since they're in the news so much): ΣΥΡΙΖΑ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coalition_of_the_Radical_Left
IIRC, Ocaml does use Hindley-Miller, but Haskell has some tweaks that make it work better. I may be mistaken, someone who is more current on both please correct me.

In retrospect, I think I was also thinking about type-classes in Haskell, which Ocaml does not have. But from what I understand Ocaml has other means to achieve the same ends.
> And if they are kings, they're leading a dying kingdom. Have you seen the iPad sales numbers recently?

Here are the Q1 2012 numbers:

PC sales [1]: 88.9 million

iPad sales [2]: 11.8 million

About 13% as many iPad sales as PC sales. While the iPad sales are impressive, it doesn't seem like PCs are dying yet.

[1] http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1981717

[2] http://www.abiresearch.com/press/3919
Is that actually the law? If you're referring to the FTC Act, I don't see the bright-line about using actual ingredients; the law says you can't make "deceptive" statements in advertising, and the FTC clarifies "deceptive" in a policy statement as (paraphrased) "a false statement about a material fact of the product that would mislead consumers into taking an action they wouldn't if the statement were known to be false".

So, showing a 3/4 pound hamburger in an ad for 99 cent cheeseburgers would be material, but using colored caulk instead of mustard probably wouldn't be.
Once you add a power supply for your micro, connectors, and an enclosure, you'll probably be hitting the $50 mark, if not more.

You also need to be very, very careful when working with the mains. I wouldn't route a board that works with it unless you know exactly what you're doing.

It'll probably be easier than making Linux deal with your relay

At least on the Beagleboard, GPIOs show up as files that you can write 'high' and 'low' to, making it easy to switch relays.
I almost understand what you mean, but my intuition keeps tripping me up.

Say there's an LLC with 3 owners: 70%, 20%, and 10%. All members get 1 vote (unless I'm missing something). So how does the ownership relate to their control? What's implied by basic math is that 3 votes equals roughly 33% control each, assuming all votes are in (and for/against). But what you showed in your article appears to disprove that.

You've gotten enough of my attention for me to subscribe to your blog, though.
Long story short, PMs are closer to the money. When you're managing a project, you know you have a budget of X dollars to get it done. If you get it done in X-P dollars, you can take that to your boss and immediately show that you made, or saved, the company P dollars.

As a programmer or engineer, you may not even be directly aware of what the project's budget is, so it's harder for you to demonstrate how much value you're providing.
I think iPhone started the BYOD movement because it was so much better than the rest of the devices for quite some time. Its only now that android and windows phone are catching up. If you see there are only marginal differences between the top of the line devices now. So the "insist on bringing to work" that you talk about is not strong enough as long as the device is a easy replacement. Both Android and I think windows phone with v8 are getting there. So IT should not feel resistance to deploy these. Besides with Microsoft's familiarity and IT friendly tools and mindset, they might actually favor a windows phone over iPhone which does not have features such as company specific app store.
Lispyscript is Javascript with a Lisp syntax
create "mystackrunnethover.com" (or mystackoverfloweth.com) and just post those questions... use OSQA to keep the same format?
Online Marketing Platform DistilledU Launches in Public Beta
This is flat-out wrong. You are not talking about "control", which has specific meanings in corporate and tax law. You are talking about "likelihood of control" or some other concept that is somewhat related to control but is not "control" in the meaning as it is used by everyone else.
Really? I distinctly remember Jon Stossel having a news show in the 90s in which he showed how TV cereal commercials use glue as the milk
This article skips over the direct role that United States v. Microsoft had in creating space for innovative companies like Apple to succeed. Without the US anti-trust intervention it's quite possible Microsoft would have totally embraced, extended, and extinguished open Web technologies and subsumed the Web into a Microsoft proprietary platform. Macs would not be nearly as viable a product if Internet Explorer were the only browser that worked with most web sites.

Another important part of the history is Microsoft's June 1997 $150m investment lifeline to Apple when Apple was worth less than $4B. That investment predates US v Microsoft but at the time it was widely believed that part of Microsoft's motivation was ensuring Apple didn't go completely broke and thus invite even more monopoly scrutiny to the PC business.
Really? Sorry, not trying to be dense here, but from what I see in 506.b.2.ii:

Nature of purchasers. Each purchaser who is not an accredited investor either alone or with his purchaser representative(s) has such knowledge and experience in financial and business matters that he is capable of evaluating the merits and risks of the prospective investment, or the issuer reasonably believes immediately prior to making any sale that such purchaser comes within this description.

Sounds like to me that they just require you or your representative to "know what you're doing" if you're not an accredited investor.
I think you might taking things a bit too personally, but I understand your point of view and people dealing with you should be more diplomatic.
University of Chicago economics professor says government regulation not needed? Why am I not surprised?
+1 for Premailer, I was going to dig this link up.

Coding HTML email is a nightmare.
Zapier (YC S12): An IFTTT For Business Users
Any discussion on this topic always leaves me more confused than I was before reading it.