skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1) The 'great' marketing, pr, bd people make way way more money than 'great' tech people. It's unlikely that a startup can afford a killer marketing guy at $300k. They're probably hiring marketing people at $50k.

2) It appears you don't value those positions much. If you are the one doing the recruiting, I would say that explains it.

3) Marketing, PR, and BD make a lot more sense in industries where tech isn't the dominant factor. Just look at consumer packaged goods, movies, etc. Almost no tech worth talking about in CPG, but some amazing marketing and biz dev people. Those industries (and others) attract the best business people because they have a lot of impact on the success or failure of the product. In startups, if the developers suck there really is nothing the marketing guy can do about it.
Chomsky: How the Magna Carta became a Minor Carta, part 1
Venapro Review
Venapro Reviews - I ordered Venapro, after reading several Venapro reviews and it arrived in a very plain and simple packaging with no advertisement and bold wordings showing what the product was for.
FastLZ - lightning-fast compression library
Including one typing this very comment, but who typos and leaves the "s" off "duplicates"

There would be an infinite number of those, too.
"which Apple invented completely on their own." priceless.
My preference has been http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/business/buy-rent-calcula...

There are a lot more options that I can take into account using the NYT version (ownership costs, HOA fees, specific mortgage rate, length of mortgage, rate of return of other investments, etc). How is this calculator better? Just because it’s simpler?
Just let your interest in design be bigger than your interest in programming for a little while.
Temperatures have not been rising for 150 years or more. You need to check your facts.

Direct instrumental measurements only go back ~150 years, but another direct mechanism exists: borehole measurements [1]. This gives us a very good measurement of temperature over ~500 years. These show that at no time have temperature averages been as high as they are now.

We can go back even further, to the tune of 1000 years, through proxy data obtained via things like tree rings, coral growth, stalagmite layers, etc. This covers the so-called "Medieval Warm Period" and these data show the last century to be warmer than any other in the data set.

Not enough? Antarctic ice core analysis provides a record of the glacial-interglacial cycle over 100s of thousands of years. These data show that current average temperatures are higher than they've been over the last 100,000+ years. This is documented in Figure 2.22 of the IPCC Third Assessment Report [2].

[1] http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/paleo/borehole/index.html
[2] http://www.grida.no/publications/other/ipcc%5Ftar/?src=/clim...
For those of us running the GM version do we need to get the app store version in order to get updates?
Interesting to note they're using the "old" Twitter logo on http://www.apple.com/osx/whats-new/features.html (right at the bottom).
how you played around with mongodb
Aurora theater shooting: Gun sales up since tragedy
Ubuntu Evolution: anti-Christian?
Undefined behaviour yes, but does that really make it illegal? Sure the compiler is allowed to play some AC/DC at this point or other undefined behaviour, but I am not sure that makes it an assertion per se?
I'm confused.

It says ¥128.00 there. So, I checked google http://www.google.com/search?q=%C2%A5128.00+in+usd

That's less than $2 or I must be mistaken.
Deciphering OS X Mountain Lion’s Save Document Features
Good point.
Thanks for clearing that up
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A Hot Button Issue: Do Social Sharing Buttons Work?
> [...] there's no firm consensus on whether it's literally infinite. If it is finite, there is no "wall" or "center", since it's not a big sphere -- a finite Universe just means that if you go straight long enough, you end up in the same spot.

My understanding is that for your interpretation here of "finite" to be true, there must be some curvature. If you only consider the geometry of the universe, then what we see with our instruments does allow us to put a bound on the size of the curvature.

If you want to say something along the lines of "outside of the observable universe is probably cheese whiz" then that's your perogative, and no-one can refute that. But (from the article) the geometry of the universe that we have measured is consistent with an infinite universe, and gives a minimum bound on its size which is many multiples of the observable universe.
I don't know what you run, but I run some things that are obscure or tie into the OS in non-sandboxy ways, and can say "nothing broke" that I can think of.

Here's a sampling of items that are known good in my ML.

Pref panes that work:

- Growl 1.2.2 (same as Lion, uncheck the update prompt pref)

- Geektool 3.0 (non-app store version)

- Hazel 3.0.10 (had to update!)

- Logitech LCD Manager

- MacFuse

- MenuMeters 1.5

- Perian 1.2.3

- Plantronics Spokes 1.0.2 (USB headset driver)

- Printopia 2.1.5

- Xmarks for Safari 1.4.1

Menu bar apps that worked on latest versions:

- Fantastical

- Dropbox

- Adium

- Xmarks

- Google Drive

- Display Maid

- BetterSnapTool

- Flux

- gfxCardStatus

- Transmit

- Western Digital Drive Manager (USB RAID Manager) - NOTE: This one had to be updated for Lion, with a beta driver http://support.wdc.com/product/download.asp?groupid=114&... and this same beta driver works in Mountain Lion. There does not appear to be a newer driver since that one.

- DisplayLink USB-to-DVI Driver 1.8 (for USB to DVI dongle, I use three monitors)

Apps I updated:

- Parallels 7.0 15104

- MailPlane 3 (build 357)

- Skype 5.8.0.1027

- ScanSnap Manager 3.2L60

- CardIris for ScanSnap 4.0.13

- FlashPlayer for OSX

I've been extremely happy with this update compared to the Snow Leopard to Lion update, where a variety of things needed updates or command line configuration.

Naturally, update Xcode and etc. for the latest command line tools.

Executive summary: absolutely nothing keeping me from getting work done.
If only there was a preprocessor in the language that could be used to hide the keyword from older compilers.
If Craigslist spent as much on UI or API designers as they did on lawyers, we'd all be better off.
They have two different definitions of "artificial intelligence," which is where the schism seems to be arising from.

Chomsky takes the academic approach - artificial intelligence is the simulation of humanlike (or even possibly mammalian) intelligence.

Norvig is taking the engineering approach - artificial intelligence needs only to pass the Turing test.

They're both right, both approaches have value, and they both are bound by our limited technology at the moment.

In the end, though, Norvig will lose out. Sure, he'll make the finish line first - an AI capable of 'passing' the Turing test, but in order to have real intelligence you need an analytical engine (or brain, if you will) that can prioritize data without fiddling with bits. In the Norvig solution, someone will always have to be fiddling with the bits.

Chomsky's approach, on the other hand, will result in a 'true' artificial intelligence, the way neurologists understand it. It's just going to take a lot longer to get there.
There was a talk about this issue at the Midwest Science of Origins Conference on 31 March 2012 by Marco Peloso of the University of Minnesota. Peloso reviewed the evidence available for the condition of the Universe just after the Big Bang. He also mentioned that current observations are consistent with a "flat" geometry of the entire universe, but pointed out other lines of evidence, not mentioned in the blog post submitted here, consistent with a finite (although very, very large) size for the universe.

Finite size is consistent with current observations and theories, and an issue that the submitted article doesn't have a lot of space to address. Per a Wikipedia article,

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universe#Size.2C_age.2C_content...

consistent with what I heard in the lecture earlier this year, "The universe appears to have no net electric charge, and therefore gravity appears to be the dominant interaction on cosmological length scales. The universe also appears to have neither net momentum nor angular momentum. The absence of net charge and momentum would follow from accepted physical laws (Gauss's law and the non-divergence of the stress-energy-momentum pseudotensor, respectively), if the universe were finite." Wikipedia cites the Landau and Lifshitz physics textbook from the Soviet Union, Landau, Lev, Lifshitz, E.M. (1975). The Classical Theory of Fields (Course of Theoretical Physics, Vol. 2) (revised 4th English ed.). New York: Pergamon Press. pp. 358–397. ISBN 978-0-08-018176-9, for this statement.

Some multiverse theories such as those mentioned in another comment posted before this one can be overlaid on a simpler theory of a single finite "observable" (in principle) universe with the properties we know from human observation. Testing theories like those, or like the "level I multiverse" theory mentioned in the other comment, still needs more work.

The current Udacity course in physics

http://www.udacity.com/overview/Course/ph100/CourseRev/1

started off its first unit with the students reproducing the effort of Eratosthenes of Cyrene to measure the circumference of the earth more than 2,200 years ago. On reasonable assumptions known to the ancient Greeks, it was possible to get a surprisingly accurate estimate of the earth's circumference, with a major source of error being simply measuring distances between one city and another a few days' journey away.
It's not obvious, but there is also aesthetics in code, although relatively few people ever see it. You can give a coding assignment to two people, they can both deliver as specified, but one's code might be a pleasure to read while another's hurts your brain.

Some of my greatest pleasures have been compliments on my coding style.
Is the upgrade to Mountain Lion free for members of the Mac OS Developer Program?
If CL doesn't want this to happen, all they need to do is add <meta name="robots" content="noindex"> and we're done.
Tatu Ylonen, father of SSH, says security is 'getting worse'
What didn't you like about him? He seemed keen on a solid business principles and that's great. Only thing I didn't like is the desire for a 2+ person team, because ownership is everything, but that's hardly an unfair request - there's far greater risk investing in one person.
> How else can they (Microsoft) compete with the iPad but than to switch to an Apple-style schedule of annual incremental updates?

> That mindset and development schedule — “What can we do to make this nicer by next year?” — may well be the most important thing from iOS that Apple has taken back to the Mac.

His last couple paragraphs got me thinking... If Microsoft wants to sell hardware, they'll have a better chance of succeeding if they release Windows versions faster... Apple sold a ton of 4Ss, because it was faster, had more ram and a much better camera. But, also because of Siri, a software feature.

And Google/Asus Nexus 7, from everything I hear, is a fabulous 7" tablet. But much of its greatness is because of Android 4.1. How can Microsoft compete with these devices if they want to take their time releasing new versions of Windows every 2-3 years?
> "In my testing, reading the 10.8 review took approximately 128 minutes. But I walked my dog briefly in the middle."

> "At medium brightness, my iPad (3rd-generation) battery fell from 73% to 56% while I read the review on it."

I... I think I love Marco Arment.

A great way to start my day, thanks for the chuckles, Marco.
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http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/os-x-server/id537441259?mt=12
The recommendation here is essentially "Start with this very common design (a Bootstrap theme), then add/change {something}, and voila!" which is obviously missing a significant "something" in terms of instruction. I believe that there is a way to acquire design intuition of the kind I seek as a programmer to bridge me into more robust design work, even if it takes time and practice, but reading another article telling me to use Bootstrap themes isn't it.
"Apple Launches 'OS X Server' for Mountain Lion for $19.99"
http://www.macrumors.com/2012/07/25/apple-launches-os-x-serv...
Samsung didn't copy Apple: proof
I agree it seems common sense that the maximum number of productive hours would vary per person, just as so many other things in life. I would also expect that the number of productive hours is highly dependent on the type of work, the variation in the work, and the incentives people get. Startup work would be very different from other work in that respect.

Lots of people with a 40 hour work week go home to play a computer game for several hours a night. If your work was as much fun as playing a computer game you would have no problem working 10 hours a day. Startup work might be just as much fun as computer games?
I still can't download it though. Still getting that error 100
Kirby meets Dropbox
> That mindset and development schedule — “What can we do
> to make this nicer by next year?” — may well be the most
> important thing from iOS that Apple has taken back to
> the Mac.

Did they really take that from iOS though?

From Wikipedia:

Version Codename Release Date
------- -------- ------------
Mac OS X 10.0 Cheetah March 24, 2001
Mac OS X 10.1 Puma September 25, 2001
Mac OS X 10.2 Jaguar August 24, 2002
Mac OS X 10.3 Panther October 24, 2003
Mac OS X 10.4 Tiger April 29, 2005
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard October 26, 2007
Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard August 28, 2009
Mac OS X 10.7 Lion July 20, 2011
OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion July 25, 2012

I could just as easily say that Apple was "learning from their early
development," or "getting back to basics."
How easy is it to revert to your previous version if you don't like it ?
I just commented this in reply to another person but I feel you will understand it more.

I was just part of an FP7 EU project in which 11 organisations of 7 different countries participated... and gosh, the admin burden of that is horrible. I got to be a work package leader and unfortunately it means you can't really do a lot of R&D. The amount of forms you have to fill , all the Brussels reporting is amazing. Added to that, I think the whole "publish or perish" attitude of academia just is not for me. So what if I only publish one paper from the project? yeah, everybody things I am a loser and that my participation was not successful (yeah, nobody says that but...). It feels as if research is just done with the objective of publishing papers... not only that, but colleagues actually say it "but you know, we have to see how are we going to translate this research into publications".

On the other hand, I also worked in a smaller 3 year EPSRC project with 3 Universities and 3 industry partners. It "felt" better, although the 3 industry partners did not really care (each meeting they sent someone new because the other person was either out or doing something else, so the new guy didn't know anything about the project and was just in the meeting to fill in). In this project, at least each academic partner was doing whatever they wanted and just presented their work, and a the end of the project, something "practical" came out of it.
Never mind. It's $20. http://likeforex.com/currency-converter/chinese-yuan-renminb...

I guess Google was wrong this time.
At Steve Jobs' Stanford Commencement Address: 3 People That Missed the Point
The basic problem being addressed is one of dependencies and versions, and indirectly permissions. Imagine you have an application that needs version 1 of LibFoo, but another application requires version 2. How can you use both these applications? If you install everything into /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages (or whatever your platform’s standard location is), it’s easy to end up in a situation where you unintentionally upgrade an application that shouldn’t be upgraded.

From:
http://www.virtualenv.org/en/latest/index.html
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In order to find a good mentor you need to know what you need to be mentored on - that is, what do you want to get out of the relationship? As you are starting a startup you can possibly find a mentor in any type of startup-related activity (startup law, accounting, programming, marketing, growth-hacking, etc). Only by starting your startup will you figure out what explicitly you need help with and can then figure out who is the right mentor to approach.

So I agree with georgespencer - you don't need a mentor right now, you need to start doing things. As you do these things it gives you something to talk about with various people and then you can dive into a mentorship relationship.

Regarding bidirectional exchange - perhaps you are very good at some things others are not. You can use this to mentor your mentor.

As you grow and learn your mentoring needs may grow and change, so what you are really should be seeking is a community not a mentor. Go to the meetups / hackathons and make friends so you can join the community.
VCs' Strange, Instinctual Need to Replace Founders
How to design a good native-looking WordPress Admin icon
If the difference was only a week or two of channel fill, then these vendors would be reporting actual sales instead of dancing around, trying to avoid the topic at all.
Floating point gotchas: Trick for computing log(1+x)
If Mark Zuckerberg were British
Best review of a review ever. A+++ would read again!
I have the new model. I don't see an option to select a macbook air when choosing the mac type. Guess I will be on call with apple..
What happens when you die. Part 3.
Phusion Passenger 4.0 and Phusion Passenger Enterprise
Agreed with the search being awkward. I tried searching "end of eternity" with and without quotes. In both cases, A Song of Ice and Fire as well as Fifty Shades of Gray came up [1]. I'm looking for a classic book by Isaac Asimov. For what it's worth, Amazon knows what I'm talking about immediately [2].

On top of the search algorithm being a little wonky, I think your sentiment analysis is a little off, as well. For example, for the book Caine's Law by Matthew Stover, you have the Two Pens and Kirkus reviews as negative, when in fact they were positive reviews.

I would love to see a site like this work--I'd be a constant user, but it's got some work to go before it's usable.

[1]: http://idreambooks.com/newbooks/search?q=%22end+of+eternity%...

[2]: http://www.amazon.com/s/?field-keywords=end%20of%20eternity

[3]: http://idreambooks.com/newbooks/232-Caine-s-Law
Just wanted to note that fiction does have a prominent history in business writing in the form of case studies. Most issues of the Harvard Business Review include a multi-page fictional story about a middle manager and some dilemma he or she faces, along with a suggested course of action from 4 real-life middle managers.
If the user shuts done the machine while the OS is writing a file, that file is corrupted/incomplete.
That notification is way better than ending up with a broken save.
Love the graph comparing word lengths of previous OS X reviews.
A Productivity CRM Solution For The iPad — Review of Update CRMpad
hahaha, first thing I thought. I've got two kids and I haven't descended into a hole of misery and depression ;)
Does Microsoft Stand a Chance?
To the moderators:

Yes, I've changed the title from that on the original, but I've done so specifically to help people judge, in advance, whether this might be something they're interested in.
Primitive Data Types in Java
it's the same build as the GM.
Interestingly enough I went through their redeem process (which is sort of convoluted, with a password protected PDF), and was then told "This code has already been used. Each code may only be used once." when I tried to redeem the code they gave me...

So you might want to wait a bit until they sort out the bugs.
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Thanks for trying.
Once you finished tracking, all the tracking data is sent to the server for further processing or next time the device has network connection and the app is turned on.

If the track is accurate enough, has no big jumps in it, it will be visible in a couple of minutes on the appropriate city's map or on the My Area map.

We do add cities manually but all tracks should be visible in case they were accurate enough.

Unfortunately, I cannot see any tracks in London which could mean that the track wasn't accurate enough or wasn't uploaded.
'Digital Economy Act illegal under European Court of Justice decision'
Does not help
You can know through the domain name. Then when it loads up, the tag line is "Making Apartment Hunting Suck Less" with google maps right behind it. To me that's pretty clear that it will tell me what apartments are available for rent in the region I specify.
Meteor Raises $11.2M from Andreessen Horowitz
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Has anyone reviewed this review review yet? I don't want to waste my time over here.
Pillow moved to python-imaging organization
That's true, but in many cases of undefined behavior, compilers take the liberty of interpreting it as an assertion. In this case, for example, it's legal for the compiler to assume that p and q don't alias when it sees this expression, because either: 1) they really don't alias, in which case the assumption and subsequent optimization is correct; or 2) they really do alias, but in that case the behavior is undefined, so the compiler's choice to apply "erroneous" optimizations is not prohibited.

It's a common approach in C compilers for inferring more optimization-relevant semantics than the language constructs explicitly specify.
Also the text is fully justified, which is generally not the way to go on the web.
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AutoPager (https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mmgagnmbebdebebbcl...) for Chrome enables you to just scroll through the entire page, works great for me at least.
why? why? why?
starts to bang head against desk

can't wait for a world free of PHP and JS, and you go and create a VM in JS of... PHP.
...and hence the works of William Shakespeare?
Sales Skills for Non-Sales people
A review of a review?
Marco has perfected the followup blog entry HN spam. Even if it is hilarious and witty.

He jumps on a hot topic and gets the page views.
No, Yen and Yuan both commonly use ¥ as their currency symbol, so Google just made an (incorrect) assumption about which you meant.
With Apple’s Numbers, Timing Is Everything
Playing devil's advocate, can MS and Apple deliver new features every year that would push someone to upgrade at a low price? With mobile devices being so young compared to the PC I can understand why there is an annual update. For the PC I'm not so sure.
> In terms of reversing, Windows is really the only way to fly; the tools just aren't there otherwise.

Curious, why is that, and what tools are those then?
YC alum Meteor gets $11.2M to Democratize Advanced Web Development
What Happens To My Klout Score After I Die?
Some info from Siracusa about the different ways to read the review: http://siracusa.tumblr.com/post/27978338524/about-my-mountai...

Sounds like if you buy the Kindle version when it comes out ($5), he'll get a direct cut, which is nice.
Didn't work for me either. Guess we'll just have to wait.
I wonder if I'll have to turn my 2006 MacBook into a Hackintosh to run it. That would be very disappointing.
But if the big bang happened 13 billion years ago there shouldn't be any matter or energy outside of a 13 billion light year radius, right?
Isn't there a TL;DR;TL;DR;TL;DR^25 somewhere?
At a guess, it would track iris dilation to determine your focus depth.