skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because they bribe the sites with ad revenue and promises to not have to develop a mobile version themselves, presumably.

Which would be ok, if the OnSwipe user experience didn't suck so much for end users. I wish they'd publish a list of sites using onswipe so I could just skip those sites.
i'll be waiting an invite. I think the app will be cool.
Apple store employees are no different than BestBuy employees when it comes to knowledge level. The help they provide is the same as well, they get the stuff from the back.

If they were knowledgeable, they wouldn't be working at an Apple store.

/Mac user, won't waste my time walking into another Apple Store.
None of those are "round robin DNS" as mentioned. None of them are "fairly easy."

And yes, being more precise is necessary when you are critiquing someone.
I've come to realise this is a New York thing, but every experience I've had an Apple Stores has been filled with smiley, doltish people who are terrible at honouring appointments on time. I go to the Apple Store when I'm willing to trade sanity for immediacy; otherwise I far prefer ordering online.

The Cupertino and Phoenix Apple Stores I've been to were different, but comparing apples to apples (no pun intended) I've had great retail experiences in other New York stores.
I like the aeroquads. A bit more expensive but way more customizable. Get to dust off your EE skills too.

http://aeroquad.com/content.php
Since when is 85% satisfying? If there's a 17-18% increase in downloads out there by simply using a slightly different API and memory technique (not being able to use weak references), then I'd say it's worth it.
Except a cursory google search shows that they do, just like every other tech company.

"Employee Stock Purchase Plan
Oracle's Employee Stock Purchase Plan lets you purchase Oracle common stock at a discounted market price."

http://www.oracle.com/us/corporate/careers/college/benefits/...

"Employee Plan Account Access
If you hold shares in the IBM Employees Stock Purchase Plan, please use the Employee Plan Members site to access and manage your holdings. ESPP participants will also to able to view and transact on their registered IBM common shares that are not held in the ESPP. Instructions for ESPP login access are on this page."

https://www-us.computershare.com/investor/default.asp?bhjs=1...
> This article starts out with a fallacy that immediately made me stop reading

You are 100% correct about the fallacy, but you missed out on a very interesting article. The fallacy is not a central part of it, it's just how they open.
ESPP won't net you more than pocket money at any company I've ever worked or heard about.
I've worked retail. This just isn't the case.
Plus lolcommits includes the commit message. Great for when some of our less technical folks work on the UI and regularly submit "SDF" as the commit message...
Readability Redux plugin (chrome) helps with this. Or you can read in a console-based browser (w3m works well, screen or elinks* variants).

But, yeah.

I'm finding increasingly site design for content-based sites gets in the way of content. G+ is among the worse offenders in this regard (particularly as various plug-ins to fix this keep breaking themselves). I tend to browse it with the Developer Tools element inspector open, deleting the stuff that bugs me most.
What else are you going to do, if you are young, intelligent, naive, and have spent 4 years working very hard but acquiring no actually marketable skill? You 'start at the bottom' like your parents tell you.

Of course, they don't realize that the bottom goes nowhere today.
> I really dislike articles like this because not all jobs within a company have the same value.

Did you read the whole article? That part about which jobs have value was mainly just in the beginning. The main parts of the article are about how motivated people are to work at Apple, how they foster that, and a lot of interesting details about Apple's retail outlets and what it is like to work at them.
Google has lost lots of credibility among 3rd party developers using their API and services with the dramatic price hike with Google Maps and AppEngine. You would never know when they will decide to jack up the price again.
Many technicians, though, wanted to leave but were unable to find equivalent work, according to Mr. Garcia and other former managers, in part because of the weak economy.

For a job paying the median income for a 25+ individual with between an associate's and bachelor's degree their labour seems fairly priced if there is nobody else bidding for their skills.
Oracle Accepts $0 From Google, But Plans Appeal
I think part of the reason for these fluctuations is that certain divisions within Google are under a lot of pressure to be profitable. So maybe Maps were really looking hard to make money because this kind of order came down the line from Page or whomever (I'm sure that division has a comparatively huge budget, with their scale of operations on the ground). After which maybe they realized that the kind of profitability that drives developers away is not what they were looking for.

The whole "do no evil" handwringing is a bit misplaced here, I think. Google is providing a service, they're free to set their prices. They're not trying to sabotage the OSM project, and the api remains free for not for profit use.
Whatever happened to the matte-ish finish used on some late-90s-and-on CRTs? I had some with way less glare than my MBP, and, being a CRT, about as perfect black levels as you're going to get.
i like the plots that show the wallet balences change in time. may not know who these are, but we can see the change.

http://blockchain.info/charts/balance?address=1DkyBEKt5S2GDt...
Ask HN: Is RESTful purity too chatty for HTTP?
Hello fellow hackers, I posted this question on SO and CodingForums a few days ago and have no replies yet.

REST principles dictate that when a resource is created or updated (POST/PUT), the response body should contain a representation of the transaction result, along with a location header of the new resource, etc. While this is all good and well, it pretty much forces you to re-request the resource to get its current state, but HTTP requests are not free - far from it. Is there an accepted approach to deal with this?

It would seem appropriate to return both a location header and an XML or JSON structure in the body to avoid a wasteful second AJAX request. The body can then use an envelope/namespace similar to SOAP that would separate any transaction response message from the resource representation itself.

originally asked here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11123571/proper-way-to-minimize-rest-re-requests-on-create-update

thanks!
I feel slightly embarrassed when I hear people say "bing it". I also think of Ned Ryerson.
My take is that for the vast majority of applications
the network excess is more than compensated for in style,
simicity and predictability

I like how REST fits my brain and yes that is a rip off of an old Python slogan

I would also add that iirr 202 header Location returns can themselves be pointers not to the new resource but to a redirect to a new resource. This enables you to create asynchronously and use a URL scheme that depends on full knowledge ofthe resource.

Edit - seems I answered a question that got deleted in the meantime. Weird. Did not seems that bad a question.
I am thinking Markaby. So its use cases are this ones use cases. Or am I missing something too?
Craigslist, LinkedIn, Netflix, and others don't owe us anything.
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We're attending and are more than psyched! It's only 2.5 weeks away. We just got selected to come up on the DOer Express bus coming up from NYC that's being sponsored by Twilio and SendGrid. We can't wait to launch Kunvay at the festival and to learn from the international startup community.
I see the same sort of thing constantly on HN and everywhere else. A poorly worded statement, misinterpreted out of context, spiraling the discussion out of control in some pointless, heated, and in some ways harmful direction.

This is why the last few months I just stopped commenting here on HN, and quit a lot of other forums/communities. My communication skills just don't seem to be solid enough to help me avoid unintended conflict.
I find the desktop performance bit ridiculous. I mean, a (very) high-end hardware manages only 20FPS while browsing Facebook? It would have been interesting to see similar benchmark on Windows.
Perhaps this is more of a problem in the US than in NZ.

My bank has "ASB will not sell your information to third parties." in it's privacy policy near the top. They do talk about sharing information with credit agencies.

At least in my country there are laws about this kind of thing. (Privacy Act 1993, NZ)
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Buying a download is another case - can't revoke that.
Clearly in this scenario, people would have more available money and therefore likely spend more. This additional spending could cause inflation.

This is very different from what InclinedPlane was talking about, namely paying back the debt by just printing money. And I'm not just talking theory here, but empirical observation, because this has already happened!

That's what QE is all about. The Fed creates a lot of money to buy treasuries, which is (from the perspective of the private sector) equivalent to printing money to pay back the debt. That hasn't caused inflation, and the reason for that is very simple. From the point of view of the private sector, exchanging treasuries for money is simply an asset swap. It minimally affects the yield curve, but that's it. The purchasing power of everybody stays the same, and therefore aggregate demand stays the same, hence no inflation.

Compare that to your scenario, in which the purchasing power of everybody is increased significantly, hence most likely aggregate demand would increase significantly, likely causing inflation. Very different scenarios with very different outcomes.

To sum it up: printing money is not inflationary. Spending can be inflationary, but then it doesn't matter who is doing the spending (imagine the richest 500 people in the US suddenly spending all their wealth - that would cause quite the spike in inflation!).
It'd be great to know what the other company was.
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The very funny thing about that is that Marco wrote that as a counterpoint to people calling him an Apple fanboy, when the iPhone was more popular than Android.

>which is probably more popular than your choice, for reasons that you wish to discredit

At that time, the usual suspects Horace,Gruber, Siegler et al. were vehemently claiming that Android would never overtake the iPhone(which Marco seemed to have fallen for) but it happened later in 2011.

So that quote seems especially funny now in retrospect as it has been turned on its head and now actually describes Apple fans calling Android fans "fanbois".
"Because they bought up all hi-res panel supply?"

They've done that in other parts of the supply chain, but I was thinking more about patents. It wouldn't surprise me to find that they've patented how to have a lot of pixels in a particular geometry.
So the real problem is that currency has a value all its own, entirely apart from what goods and services it can buy. As a result, there's no way to blindly equate X in one currency with Y in another, because the very act of exchanging one for the other affects their relative values. Transactions that should be purely economic in nature have unavoidable political undertones.

I see.

Wow, that's broken.
Although that might seem like a likely explanation, LinkedIn wasn't putting the "import email contacts" widget in your face like they do, now.

Of the two people I vividly remember as only vaguely familiar suggested people, neither was in my Gmail address book. I had a 2-sent-emails thread with one person, and no direct emails with the other. In 2007, Gmail might have already been auto-collecting contact info of people you email directly, but that can't explain the 2nd person.
Some aspects of a platform are not a challenge, just painful.

For instance say I am looking for a bit of text.

In *nix I have vi in which I can type "esc/foo." Now, before I can blink the I am at the first match. Hitting "/" goes to the next one just as fast. If I don't know what file to look at, grep will tell me quickly.

Visual Studio has a search function, but it's not regular expressions by default, will not work on all of the design surfaces, and requires going through several dialogue windows. Typically I have to put my hand on the mouse to get any results.

For some tasks platforms and tools can make a big speed difference.

However it is true people are complex and hard to predict.

Perhaps some c/c++/QT programmers when given a, a shiny new windows based development environment, may enjoy the extra time they spend searching through source code. Who knows?
"We followed the experimental protocols speciﬁed
by (Deng et al., 2010; Sanchez & Perronnin, 2011), in
which, the datasets are randomly split into two halves
for training and validation. We report the performance
on the validation set and compare against state-of-theart baselines in Table 2. Note that the splits are not
identical to previous work but validation set performances vary slightly across diﬀerent splits."
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A close family member of mine has schizophrenia (fortunately it is well managed at the moment). You cannot imagine the frustration of trying to get good mental health treatment in our system, and that is with a willing patient. My greatest fear is that we wind up in a similar situation as the author, where we get stuck in the system where treatment is not the most important consideration.
I tried doing timed snapshots, but it frequently caught an empty chair. So I have it take a picture whenever I deactivate the screen saver, so I'm pretty much guaranteed to be in front of the machine. I also have hooks for other activities/events, like while I'm playing QuakeLive.

https://github.com/thwarted/picsofourlives
When I said that "only a few geeks would care", I meant it as a selling point for consumers or developers. "Hey, this phone uses QT, buy it, develop for it!"

I did not mean applications like yours and never implied it was a toy.
As mentioned in other comments in this thread, LinkedIn's tech team frequently disregards security standards.

I found a CSRF attack on LinkedIn by accident when searching in Duck Duck Go some months back. I clicked a link in my search results and was presented with a page thanking me for signing up for some LinkedIn group. I then received an email thanking me for joining the group as well.

LinkedIn was joining a group whenever an authenticated user performed a GET request to a particular URL in their browser. I followed this up by searching Google for other URLs that suffered from the same problem and found many. I wrote an exploit (very easy for that issue) and contacted LinkedIn. They have fixed the issue by now but it took more than 6 months.
How about an animation instead?

#!/usr/bin/env ruby
num_snaps = 5
time_int = Time.now.to_i
num_snaps.times do |i|
file="~/.gitshots/#{time_int}__#{i+1}_of_#{num_snaps}.jpg"
system "imagesnap -q #{file}"
end
exit 0

The problem with this code is it makes the camera go on and off successively, which creates a minimum delay between shots. It would be nicer to have finer control over the interval.

Picturesnap somehow supports sequences but there's no control to how long they should last (would require firing a background task), and snapshots get saved in the running directory (instead of based on the passed filename/path) which would require mving each file. Pull request could be a short and sweet free time project...
Qt! It's Qt! ;)
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It is mathematically impossible for all of the debt in the world to be repaid (without more debt, and it's this way by design).

Money is debt, and debt is slavery. Shhh! You're not supposed to look behind the curtain.
Is joining a startup right after school a good idea?
Is joining a startup right after school a good idea? Thinking in terms of building a career? stability?
Zen and the Art of Multitasking
It wouldn't have to be your bank, either; it could be the retailer that sells your information.
Free software allows for freedom.

Most (if not all) frustration in tech comes from the lack of it.
Seemingly open-core.. The webapp is open source.. but unless i am mistaken, seems to push notifications through https://tapchat.heroku.com/.. and the android app is payware, without the source..

It also doesn't support secured networks that i can see (which also means no znc integration)..

Having said that.. it does seem pretty well polished...
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The _s family of functions is what MSVC has been forcing upon people by claiming all other functions deprecated.

So now the standard is lending nomenclatura and possibly implementation from the company that stoically refuses to implement C99.
My take is that for the vast majority of applications the network excess is more than compensated for in style, simicity and predictability
I like how REST fits my brain and yes that is a rip off of an old Python slogan

returning the resource on every POST / PUT would only be correct in a subset of use cases anyway. If you POST a wall of text to a forum why would you want it back?

add to that you may create more than one resource (how many do you return?)
> So I get what with an iPhone 4?

The ability to run apps targeting iOS 6 and above, which is arguably more important than everything else you listed.
Facebook's new LOGO? :O
That's a good point. I'll keep that in mind.

I'm still hesitant to feel like it explains everything -- in 2007, LinkedIn still didn't seem that ubiquitous (after all, FB was then just opening itself up to non-college students, and LinkedIn's target demog. was still the pre-internet generation). So there weren't a whole lot of people I knew on the site to begin with, and there wasn't anybody I knew in common on LinkedIn connecting me to at least 2 of the vaguely familiar people I knew. And those 2 people started getting suggested to me by the site at the same time -- it seems too coincidental that these people (and others) provided their email contacts to LinkedIn at exactly the same time.

One good takeaway is, despite it taking me 5 more years to learn my lesson, and the really hard way :-(, I'm now using KeePass and creating difficult, unique passwords for each site, and using git to sync across computers. That helps.
"Name the last big "Windows App" that made you buy a copy of Windows?"

I have Windows in case I ever need to use FrameMaker again. Sometimes I boot into Windows to play Portal.

So basically none.
"Whose work do they all point to? Moore, Lanier, Holland, and Hawkins. Guess what all four of them say they think?"

Here are some pretty uninformed statements by tech luminaries: http://spectrum.ieee.org/computing/hardware/tech-luminaries-...

They mostly don't have the philosophical or synthetic chops to make intelligent statements about the singularity. Moore misunderstood his own observation for at least the first ten years after he made it, not to minimize his important contributions.

Singularity is an unfortunate term, because it's technically incorrect and logically contradictory. My work is not trying to make a singularity; it is trying to make recursively self-improving machine-human intelligence which interacts with and learns from its environment. This is not impossible; it is merely technically difficult.

It is also a hypothesis. That's all. It isn't a phenomenon, so we cannot yet be good Aristoteleans and observe it. Therefore, we can't develop a science of it. You'd avoid this entire webpage's worth of argument if you'd just simply remember that the singularity is nothing more than this hypothesis.

Repeat: The singularity is not a phenomenon, nor is it a theory; it is a hypothesis.

For those who wish to believe it is a correct hypothesis, and it is the future, well, get busy doing the hard work and developing the the technology to make it the future. For those who don't believe it could be a possible future, get out of our way, since you're so damn sure you're right.
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FYI, that page has bizarre scrolling behavior on an iPhone - in case that matters to you.
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Two answers

1. If you are young free and single, hell yes. Having no life commitments is not something every young person finds, and much rarer as you start to go grey. So take the opportunity now if your life fits well. (I am reminded of a poem to the poets younger self, about running barefoot more often, sleeping around more. Those I leave up to you )

2. The whole career stability thing - there was a recent post about recruitment agencies and another on the non-existent skills gap. In short large companies used to hire right out of school, mentor, train and churn out well rounded professionals. They stopped doing that.

A start up is the most likely place to get ten years corporate experience in 2. Maybe. Whi h leads to 3.

3. It totally depends on the start up itself. Gut feel is the best I can suggest.

But if you life circumstances can support it, take a flyer and join one. Worst case you are looking again in 6 months but with some intensive experience under your belt.
One doesn't have to buy into the system you describe. I basically sleep on the beach on Maui and mostly eat for free. In many ways, it's a good life :)
Well, I don't think anyone's expecting it to sell like Windows 7. They're expecting it to 'flop' like Vista. i.e. sell quite a lot but have a large user base sit on Windows 7 waiting for Windows 9 as people sat on XP after Vista.
Then capture that cookie over the wire, and voila you are in.
Strange that the article title refers to a bit of high drama rather than "we can make replacement tracheas from scratch now!"
Data mining usage habits rarely result in lower prices for people making positive, less risky choices.

This is because we live in an inflationary economy. Most prices go up. As a healthy guy, I'd like the price increases to be inflicted on the fattie smokers rather than me.

Not that it really matters in the context of health insurance - the laws surrounding it are structured in such a way as to subsidize the fattie smokers at the expense of healthy gym guy, regardless of what info the insurance company has (and they will become worse in a couple of years, unless the supreme court stops it - good luck with that).
I'm not denying the MBP might be worth it's price, just that it is an evolutionary jump in computing. Also you compare to a laptop from last year. A year is a lot in technology.

Besides, if the HP is so ugly, why did you buy it in the first place?
i think there's a lesson here in risk management. the obviously brilliant doctor failed to put care and attention into the mundane delivery part of the process. there are no small details. Jet Star is a low price, zero premium service. for the cash/time invested, they should have being going business class with a premium airline, a signed piece of letterhead and if possible, hired an airline rep to walk them in one airport and out the other. someone's life hung on the balance of a student knowing a pilot...
Yes however retina games don't require 4x AA to look great. So you're trading one performance hit for another.