skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wait. So you mean the guy started PayPal, SpaceX AND Tesla.

Mother of god.

What have I been doing with my life.
Strike the trendy "web" qualifier, and I'd argue we still have a problem, namely that "data" tends to outlive "behavior" by many, many years, and this fact is important and useful in both computing and civilization at large. This is why, in theory at least, relational data stores are more promising "trans-filesystem" candidates than either method-based object systems or "APIs". Hierarchy is inessential; data storage is not.

To say nothing of the fact that "APIs", Web or otherwise, aren't actually a means of storing data; at least in the context of things like "pictures" and "music", we obviously can never have "turtles all the way down."
Google, MS, Rackspace etc. ought to give a good look at all the middle layer libraries like boto, and support them to make it a matter of configuration to switch cloud service providers.

This already works well for email providers.
Free Pixelmator Tutorials for Beginners
Amongst the free online tutorials of Pixelmator some are of basic level and will help the novice to get familiar with the interface, tools and other basic features of image editing.
For ctrl-F:ers: mirror
As someone who generally avoids AV content, thank you.
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Drums and percussion. I run a YT channel too with my favourite material http://www.youtube.com/user/adrianwaj

Keeping layers and variations according to the music in the mind equate to layers in code.. loops and conditionals... which can be improvised too. Also setting up a context environment in music can be like setting up a context with code... blah.
You can see from the answers in this thread that certifications, if worthy of anything at all, are deeply looked down upon by the same kind of people who read HN. And more often than not, these are the kind of people you want to be working with/for.

Generally, certifications, however, are appreciated by the stereotype of the HR department and non-technical managers of large organizations. If you have a certification from a brand name stating that you know how to use a particular technology, then no one is going to be blame for hiring you, even if it doesn't work out. That's the stereotype and unfortunately, it is far from uncommon.

You were spot on that people "can just clear this certification program just by preparing through previous question dumps. Does this do any good to anyone", but that's a broader problem relative to standardized test. To a large extent the same could be said about your degree.

Finally, as mentioned globally in the comments, experience is far more interesting than certifications. However, I may add that, for programmers, nothing, absolutely nothing, beats a code portfolio.
Investing in uptime is always worth it.

That simply can't be true. There is always going to be a point where an extra decimal place of reliability is too costly.
Just how good is Google Drive’s image recognition?
I don't think the change is that slim. Elon is the type of person who knows his limits and pushes them. His goals tend to be grand, but, with effort, achievable.

I'd be more surprised if he didn't reach the moon or Mars
Interesting concept, here are some issues in my opinion:

1) No price shown on the first page, I have to click on Buy to see that it is $99 CAD

2) No mention of the source of the code, where it is coming from, what makes it tested, who tested it.

3) What about the license. Do you own it and are you granting it, is it open source code that you have scoured, what are the individual pieces of licenses and will I have to worry about that too.

4) What code samples are there? The image doesn't tell me much, need a list of code samples, including the sample of code so that I can figure out the quality before shelling out $99 CAD.
Don't sign anything till you get all your questions answered. Unless they are some stealth company that wants to bring you in bit by bit, there is no benefit to keeping you in the dark. The assumption that they don't have any knowledge of software engineering is probably true. Just trust your gut. If you feel like it's saying that this might not be the team you thought it was then leave.
Hacking festival attracts 500 aspiring young coders
You got it mixed up. They built Google on the (patented) PageRank algorithm, but have since improved upon it to such a degree that the what they currently use bears little resemblance.
My app is finally finished
First try...suggestions welcome.
Ten mins on the website and this strikes me as all being very "needy". I'm still struggling to understand why everyone feels these type of "little ole me" stories are so fantastic. (It's not the author's first either...)

Just wanted to offer the counter opinion. Each to his own...
Certifications are proof that you passed a test. This either means that you memorized a battery of questions, or you actually know the material.

Going with the latter (as the former would be weeded out nearly immediately on the job), it means that you know at least something about a topic, and are able to be trained on it.

Certs are more useful/common in the ops word. Personally I do the training/certification when I want to learn how to run a new operating system or application. It's a motivational time limit, and should teach you the basics at a minimum.

The other reason they're popular is they're a way to jump up the ladder at various workplaces that don't allow other methods of internal advancement, which is pretty dumb.
This is the most remarkable and best fact about the current browser shares, yet everyone gets caught up in the cheerleading (and I'm just as guilty at times).

It really is a great state for the browser market to be in.
Useful Training Tips and Superpower Eating
It's been a number of years since I compared, but I ended up doing rips at 320 VBR (or CBR -- I'm forgetting, at the moment) with the setting that allows bandwidth to fluctuate to whichever of the stereo channels momentarily has a greater, calculated need ("stereo" or "joint stereo").

Yes, the difference was noticeable, on a well-regarded iAudio player using decent can headphones. At 320, I was finally, really happy with the resulting rips. Though I'd still archive in a lossless format.
Yes. The current Sherlock Page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Sherlock) is official. Search should populate in the next couple days, the re-crawl shouldn't take more than a week or so.
Better strict mode enclosure pattern
Yeah, that makes sense, and I agree. You make a finer point than the third bullet point in the post :)

Btw, love Bridge--using it to do some slick "client-side" form validation across browser and iOS clients. Keep up the good work!
I agree with the first sentence, uptime is a very nice thing that users will notice and appreciate over time.

However, I strongly disagree with the second sentence. Investing is uptime is not always worth it. Taken to its logical extreme, imagine 2 potential websites. One of them is incredibly useful but only up 80% of the time. The other one is a blank HTML page, but it the most reliable website in history with 0 seconds of downtime in the past 10 years. If I surveyed users of both websites, I think it would be almost unanimous that people preferred the useful website that was up sometimes.

Startups have limited time and resources, and in practice getting 99% uptime is relatively easy, whereas 99.9% uptime is relatively hard. That is a difference of ~7 hours of uptime per month. Yes, it sucks when your website is down, but it also sucks when there are features you can't develop because you don't have the time or your technical infrastructure doesn't allow in order to chase ultra high reliability. Obviously this depends on your industry, IE if you are a payment processor you better have super high uptime or you aren't going to have any customers, but realistically most companies will likely not lose that many customers if they are up >99% of the time.
Amazing piece of writing, can't praise it enough.
I am at my second year in the process and already sympathize with most of what you write.
Thank you for writing it, hope I will be able to learn from your experience.
The Tony Stark character, billionaire-industrialist-brilliant-engineer superhero, has existed in the comics since 1963, 8 years before Musk was born. So, the claims of Musk as a model for Stark are best taken with a grain of salt.

Most likely, the Iron Man movie team -- including Jon Favreau and Robert Downey Jr. -- just finds it helpful to reference Musk as a modern Stark-archetype. (Starketype?) The original Stark drew from Howard Hughes, but Hughes isn't as familiar to the movie's modern audience. And, our other modern billionaires, like Gates and Jobs, don't quite have the same rockets-and-motion pedigree as did Hughes and now Musk.
I read the book with that disclaimer in mind.

Please don't take my comment as "you ruined my motivation for further education"; it was meant as "you saved me the trouble of finding out the hard way that this really wasn't what I wanted".

I have never been interested in being a professor, so I would be in it entirely to push my limits. But if I know I won't enjoy it (and as far as Ph.D. programs and publication go hand-in-hand, I know I wouldn't), then is it really worthwhile? That isn't to say I wouldn't emerge a stronger person at the end, but I would rather find ways to push myself intellectually that I will enjoy. I believe they're out there.

Edit: I just read a post about your book at http://blog.regehr.org/archives/743 which you might be interested in.
They said fail-over. Those "many, many resources" are other regions and zones.
If you're not going to become a professor, then why bother pursuing a Ph.D.?
Show HN: Using Twilio to extend the functionality of Siri
Yeah. My wife uses Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, and is moving to Lightroom now, professionally, and loves Adobe's products. Oh, I'm sure she has her gripes about certain things, but they work great. There are other products. She used Aperture for a while (and still does, as I mentioned, she's moving to Lightroom), but if you heard her tell it, it wasn't because Aperture was better, it was just that she ended up learning that first. They are, in essence, the same.

And when they are basically the same, the one that fits in with the entire suite of applications she uses is one she will want to use more often.

Adobe does not begin with PDF's and end with Flash.
done -- epub/mobi versions online at:

http://pgbovine.net/PhD-memoir.htm
FWIW, I started a game, then it stopped responding. Did it get taken down by the attention from HN?

Update: the Live Chat says they're busy, but working on it, and to give them 5 minutes, but definitely come back.
I haven't come across cases where I was forced to use prototypes. Can someone describe a situation where it would be necessary to use prototype? Or even advisable to use prototype?
One Week in SF...what to do, where to go, who to see?
I am a game dev heading to SF for the first time. I will be staying in Palo Alto. Sure would like to know of all of the cool, nerdy and fun things to see and do. I am very interested in the startup scene, and opportunities. Much appreciated.
If even the State Department is moving to Chrome, there is hope yet.
There's always a trade off between the cost of failing and the cost of engineering it out. The problem comes with the lack of understanding about where and how apps and intrastructure fail and how to avoid it. If you misunderstand the problem, you'll probably misjudge it.
Hardly a problem. As soon as there is demand, apartment buildings will start offering power outlets along with parking spaces.

Don't live in a building with onsite parking? Parking lots offering charging spaces will begin to spring up. That's the nice thing about capitalism: if there's an opportunity to make a buck, someone will jump on it.
How exactly is Google hurting Firefox? Is it just by taking away browser share?

Because last time I checked Google provides the majority of Firefox's revenue. (Though last time I checked was like 5 years ago, so that may have changed in the interim)
Yardsale - Join us in taking on eBay (S11)
Yardsale is a top 125 app for iOS, ranked #4 in Lifestyle - https://www.getyardsale.com

We’re a small team of developers who are rethinking the way people buy and sell things locally. We're well funded, our users love what we're building, and we do too.

We're looking for a hardcore generalist or an iOS specialist which means you should:

- Have a strong understanding of everything from optimized PostgreSQL to performance hacking UIWebViews and everything in between

- Seek out the latest iOS frameworks and clang features

- Learn quickly, we value raw intelligence pretty highly

This position is a key technical hire, with a significant equity stake and lots of room to influence the strategic direction of the company. The best fit will probably be someone hoping to be a technical founder some day.

Yardsale is based out of San Francisco's mission district. If you'd like to hear more please send your github handle or something you've built to jobs@getyardsale.com
no, the minute you add financial incentives people start to wonder if they're fair, and get piqued that they aren't greater
I agree that's a good article. I would have loved to read it 12, 10 or 8 years ago.

Coming from a design background, JavaScript was my first programming language at the end of the century. I simply learned programming through JavaScript's prototypal nature. I've used it extensively for many years before my first experience with a more classical language (AS3…). JS prototypes seem very natural to me. After a few years of AS3 (and a very short bit of C#), I'm not sure at all that the "classical" way is fundamentally better than JS's way.

Newcomers to JavaScript should drop their "classical" baggage before they embark. I'm starting to learn Python (2 week ends, now) and I'm not going to bring my AS3isms and my JSisms with me. Is that too hard to learn a new language with an open mind?
Leap second causing Linux server crashes?
To me, the issue isn't of 'reviews' as some abstract form of human expression (which surely would reflect the good and bad of humanity as the author states), but that Apple's specific implementation of reviews offers no chance for app developers to offer any customer service.

A person who complains, but then has their complaint heard and acted upon often becomes a star customer and evangelist for a service.

I've often thought that if Apple offered a separate "Report an Issue" or "Tell the Developer Something Broke" button they'd help both sides of the equation out as well as improve their overall happiness.
Can someone please explain why some people don't like RSS feeds?
Years ago I started using RSS to consume content and stay on top of what's going on. Today I find that there are still an unbelievable amount of people who don't understand the concept of pulling in content to a place like Google Reader as opposed to individually visiting sites (I'm talking about people outside of our techie world). I mean, RSS isn't THAT complicated, right? Then I hear spats about "RSS is dying" or "RSS is a thing of the past"... Really? I think RSS is one of the best things since sliced bread. I don't think social will overtake the need for RSS, so I'm just not quite sure I understand the nay-sayers. Care to chime in?
Or for a bit more power, check out the APC for $49: http://www.geek.com/articles/chips/via-launch-a-49-android-p...

"The APC’s spec includes a VIA WonderMedia ARM 11 processor at its core, 512MB DDR3 RAM, 2GB of on-board flash storage, 4 USB 2.0 ports, a microSD slot, Ethernet port, and both VGA and HDMI display ports. As for power consumption, it tops out at 13 watts under load and 4 watts when idle."
Interesting link - thanks.

I think Netflix are expecting another cloud to offer the same model and API as Amazon though, which isn't likely to happen - everyone else is learning from AWS's mistakes!

Even if it did, many of the features they're waiting for (like auto-scaling groups) probably wouldn't be as useful in a multi-cloud environment, and would therefore have to be built into Asgard.
pranksters placed a 911 call through a computer that
cloned her number

When did 911 start taking voip calls?
It’s very wget-like, due to the use of the Django HTTP test client — just slightly more elegant due to the programatic definition of what gets scraped/rendered and the addition of the "direct to S3" backend, which allows arbitrary mimetypes.

Glad you like it.
There's not a whole lot can be done about fragmentation in search results for airlines that don't want to participate in comparison sites. The only way to fix that is for the airlines themselves to make the decision to change, and Southwest doesn't really have much to gain by doing so because they have a reputation for being a discout carrier despite having fares that are usually more expensive than many other major carriers. Same thing with Spirit Air. I usually maintain a short list of airlines that I know don't show up on travel sites and perform separate searches. Not the easiest thing in the world, but certainly not what I would consider a major pain point in my day.

In any case I don't see how Hipmunk eases that process at all. To me it is just a different view setting for a typical search site, which seems more like a feature than a game-changing business. Maybe I'm wrong, but I've tried searching the site a couple times but went back to using Bing and Kayak because I think they offer the best travel search that I've seen. I don't have anything against the site or its founders, I just have a hard time believing articles like this that rave about how much better the process is. I just don't see it, and based upon what others have written I think a lot would agree. It's not about being a naysayer, I just like to try to keep an objective viewpoint regardless of who is behind the business. If I thought it was an awesome service, I would certainly give it it's due.
If authors of programming books wrote maths textbooks (cartoon image)
Time will tell. I suspect that the digital media market is not large enough to provide meaningful subsidies at this stage, especially since a huge portion of tablet time is spent on the web and in email. When customers want to buy a movie, they'll probably use whatever ships on the device they have already purchased. The better device wins--people aren't going to choose a tablet based on customer service or even content selection; witness Amazon's
failure in the music market.

If this is true, than Google has the stronger position, as they can afford deeper subsidies on the device through advertising. I don't know what Google pays to be the default search engine on the Fire or the iPhone, but it is significant.
Your confusion seems to stem from a failure to appreciate the default case, in the absence of corporate form. Without corporate form, a business owner is entitled to, by operation of law, the proceeds of his business, and is liable for, by the operation of law, the debts and other obligations of his business. That is the default scenario.

The corporate form comes along and says "let's treat this business as a separate legal person." The corporation, thus, is entitled to the proceeds of its business, and is liable for its debts and other obligations. The important thing to realize is that under this arrangement, the investor is not automatically entitled to a share of the corporation's profits. It's not his money, it's the corporation's money. The only thing the investor is entitled to is his capital contribution (which is not taxable), voting rights, and certain fiduciary duties from the corporate officers. When the corporation pays out a dividend, it's not giving the investor money he's entitled to by operation of law. It's a gratuitous transfer by one person (the corporation) to another. And it's taxed as such.

So it's not at all "dishonest" to say that the tax on capital gains is only 15%. It's a correct statement of the facts. It's no less correct than saying that your nanny's tax rate is 20% or whatever, even though she is paid with post-tax dollars. The corporate income tax isn't some gratuitous tax as the "cost of limited liability." It's just the natural consequence of structuring a business as a separate legal person in a system that taxes transactions between persons.
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Yep! You could also build the AMI's using a build / CI server each time you push if you wanted. Once you've nailed the process and are used to how long it takes you'll love it.
Chrome Finally Becomes Top Browser Worldwide
The problem is that we've been optimizing for food that looks like it will be tasty instead of food that is actually tasty: http://www.jefftk.com/news/2012-02-16.html
Like i want to always be logged on my all encompassing google account.

That's the reason the only browser i have sync enabled is opera.
Part of the problem with JavaScript is that prototypes are an inherent part of the language, but wrapped up behind syntactic sugar that hides them away on the fringes of the language.

If you've created an object in JavaScript, you've used prototypes, just indirectly.

If you want to use inheritance in Javascript prototypes are where it's at.

The ObjectName.prototype.fn = function() {} pattern is also a more memory efficient way of defining object methods than doing function ObjectName() {this.fn = function() {}}, as the method is only defined once in the former case, but is defined every single time a object is created in the latter case.

Basically for the most part you don't have to use prototypes directly, but more you know about them the better.
If you did not write the code I don't see how you can be selling it?
A few other resources below.

iOS Developer site has ton's of examples and all the documentation.

iOS the iOS cookbook has hundreds of tested examples too and you can get that for free on Github. https://github.com/erica/iOS-5-Cookbook
I go through similar trials when choosing electronic devices. Its especially bad if the item is new on the market..
One thing that you didnt mention are friends' input. If I get a good review from a friend who I trust about the subject, that can help me decide. And that is something that hasn't been covered well online...
I am currently stuck in my girlfriend's condo building in Oakland (moving to my own place would be politically unpopular, and she can't move until she finishes her current contract. It is underwater, and worth about 110k per unit now.). This is not the kind of building likely to have ev charging -- a Tesla costs more than the condos or net worth of most residents..

Shared office in a big building. Neither is really a viable option to get a charging station added.
This blog post is hilarious.

A region in AWS speak is already multiple supposedly independent data centers (in AWS terms: AZ (availability zone)).

So if an entire region fails, that's four or so data centers which all go down at the same time.

So how many companies on bare metal have four data centers and experience this kind of catastrophic downtimes? Add to that, how many of these companies operate completely in the dark about which data center is actually which?

These blog posts are annoying because it seems like these people have never done anything they suggest themselves.

Yes, the cloud lets you setup a fully configured instance within minutes. But at which expense? Mostly intransparency about what the entire stack and what is going on?

Food for thoughts.