skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I find the claim that nobody understands multi-level file systems a hard to swallow. Inside my Documents folder, I have a folder for one of each of several organizations I work with, inside of those a set of folders for one of several different things I do for those organizations, and within some of those, a folder for every project I have going on. I don't necessarily need to know the complete path to everything, but anyone can generally look at the directory listing and see what the next directory to look into is.
Outlook has had that since 2003, though it was not very functional until 2010. It is not enabled by default.
How does that even make sense? Apple was never even in a "browser war" to begin with, but even if you want to claim they've "lost" some sort of war, how does that lead to discontinuing their browsers? Besides the fact that Apple created WebKit and ship it as a core component of OS X, how does reducing browser choice benefit anyone?
And one that doesn't, and is AFAIK incompatible with others. Nepomuk from KDE does this with a separate database, I believe this is mostly to allow it to work when xattr isn't available (say for some network filesystems). I've not actually used it much myself, (there's far too many files for me to even begin doing it.)
In particular, from Norvig's page:

"As another example, many psychology experiments are run on volunteer college students. Often an experimenter gets a result from such an experiment and claims it is valid across all people, but later finds out that the result only holds for (a) people roughly 20 years old or (b) people with the skills and dedication necessary to be a college student or (c) the type of people who like to volunteer for things."
I guess we'll have to see how this holds up: Usually the problems arise not from one's own folder structure (most people know their way around what they've created) but when working together in someone else's structure. Does this approach solve that problem?
>I've yet to interview anyone that didn't know C or C++ but correctly understood pointers and references.

Clearly you haven't interviewed any Lispers. The concept is innate to cons cells and how they're constructed.
Is "I made x in y amount of time" the nerd equivalent to "I squat x for y number of reps?"

Just wondering.
Me too - I'm buying ex-lease high end Dell 1600x1200 IPS screens because using 3x24" 16:9 is like watching a tennis match - you are constantly twisting your neck from left to right
Is it a symptom of the fact that he believes himself to be an expert on the subject that he enjoys using the term "file system" over and over in a way that goes against 50 years or more of common usage? Or was it just link bait for those of us who thought there might be some new HFS+ implementation?
This looks great!

I am an experienced programmer. I was planning on trying to learn iOS development on my own, but your course seems just what I was looking for.

Is your iOS program also suitable for absolute beginners?
Facebook Earnings
The cost of acquisition for new players has grown so dramatically that to keep up their user numbers they must spend a large amount on advertising. Not to mention they are acquiring companies left and right.
Thanks, Groupon: NEA closes monster $2.6B fund
No, it's almost always done directly by a human if your account itself is hellbanned.
Shouldn't this just be "Zynga earnings miss".

I don't see where the FB also failing comes into the picture.
Yep, he fixed it.
Apple is replacing Macs with iPads at school
That's insulting, ridiculous and easily disprovable.
"We’ll be supporting this program for the next month (now through the end of August), and we’ll be donating 100% of all proceeds raised."

I'm confused, do the proceeds go to the charities or to pay the temps? If the former, are the temps just volunteering? If the latter, what do you mean "we’ll be donating 100% of all proceeds raised?" Does my $50 yield 2hrs of work and $50 to a charity? Because that would be a great deal!
> IMO, the biggest downside to raising a lot of money is that you are no longer accountable to anyone. You can run around saying "We're rockstars! We're winners! Catered dinners! Aeron chairs!" for years, even if you make no progress and produce nothing of value.

Aren't you accountable to those you've raised money from?
It could also be as simple as the glass on the smaller monitor being marginally thicker.

Using weight as a metric for judging the quality of electronics seems … peculiar.
Please stop assuming that those of us who want to do something about the growing income inequality and shrinking middle class are also those who think the government should get money from its citizens.

It's possible to think that the evaporating middle class is a bad thing, without thinking that the solution is "more tax revenue and more government {operations, spending, regulation, etc}".

Whenever you think the answer is "get the government to help fix it", you do not fully understand the question.
Saying you found his argument convincing is in no way important either it's a factual statement it it's not, what you believe is meaningless. Suggesting it matters in any way who made the argument is an appeal to authority even if your next sentience says it's not. Reality does not care what you think it just is.

PS: You clearly lack the courage of your convictions to actually leave an argument when you say 'Goodbye'. However, I realize trying to reason with a fool is a waste of time, so best of luck and 'Goodbye'.
http://www.tinyurl.com/vimeo-sucks
The PA248Q is a completely different monitor from the PA238Q.

Also, try adjusting the Trace Free function.
I think it's mainly because of Paul Graham. He's a visionary and he's excellent at spotting awesome teams (even if their ideas suck). Nobody would have thought twice about Airbnb, but Paul saw something that other investors didn't see. He noticed how effectively the team worked together. He also knew they would pivot if they needed to. Having that type of discernment has allowed YC to find & fund all these amazing startups. His hunch with the Airbnb guys paid off considering the company is valued at over a billion now!
Apple created "WebKit", but before it was WebKit it was KHTML. Let's not lose sight of history here.
Or, you know, the panels just weren't up to the PC manufacturer's standards. Happens all the time.
I don't know what's happening this quarter, but at least previously, Zynga used to put some some 90% of their revenue towards acquiring new customers.

I've heard from a friend in the gambling industry (which is still legal and thriving outside the US), that it's all a market: There are "affiliates", which can provide you with the right kind of cusotmers, with an average lifetime value of (say) $1500 to you (if you keep them engaged over 6 months and don't piss them off). The "affiliate" would get paid half of that in the long run, or $200 one-time-fee.

There are multiple buyers, multiple sellers, and relationships play a big part, so it's not really efficient, but it is not too far off.

I wouldn't be surprised if that's the case for Zynga-esqe customers as well, although I have no one to verify that with. Alternatively, Zynga might be in the business of bringing in the customers themselves. Either way, it costs a lot of money to bring in a customer who spends money. The same order of magnitude, in an efficient market.
So why don't you just point Outlook at GMail?
Zynga's shares plunge more than 30%; Facebook stock down 7%
"Windows 8 is a catastrophe for everyone in the PC space" - Gabe Newell
The seasons happen for a known, cyclical reason. If it turns out that there's a first cause behind the ice melt, then it would be proper to refer to it as a cycle.
Zynga is mainly based on Facebook's platform. They also explicitly said that getting revenue on that platform is harder than expected. That makes investors very nervous about FB's outlook. We'll know more tomorrow when FB releases their own performance and expectation numbers.
How about comparing to Dell Outlet prices?
> Folders are not a feature that beginners muddle through but pro users require. No one can deal with deep folder structures. Our brain is simply not built for them.

This is ridiculous. I have computer files I've produced from over the past 20 years. As time goes by, I continually archive them in a big old hierarchical folder called "Archive". Broken down my life phase, school year, project, etc. Without folders-inside-of-folders that whole system would be a mess.

Or, programming projects. How can you even imagine organizing your stylesheets, plugins, libraries, components, endpoints, controllers, etc. without folders?

I'm sorry, but throwing away hierarchical folders completely is a monumentally stupid thing to advocate. Beginners might be better off without them, but pro users absolutely require them.

And our brain is most certainly built for them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Memory_palace

Now, I'd love to have tags as well, but "keep your hands off my folders!" :)
Zynga to launch real-money gambling online games in 2013
While I love my parents as I have gotton older I see how much of their life they put on hold to have me. How many dreams they postponed and how much they worked for very little gain.

Honestly skipping 10-12 years of your life in the hope that the output, over which you have very little control, will amount to something later is just crazy. Better go and do something amazing on your own. You might still fail, but at least you will have direct control over the actions.
I thought subscribers to the blog deserved to see that comment, so I wrote an answer/advertisement:

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Nearly all of them.
It's not a question to be tossed aside, but I don't think the evidence would bear it. For one thing, nothing made in DPRK is going to be sold through South Korea. They're at war still, not trading and communicating with each other.

Secondly, while DPRK has a lot of people in labor camps, they're starving and their education level is comparable to 4th grade. I don't think you can get exacting standards of quality out of starved forced laborers, but even if you could, you'd still be dealing with the complete lack of a supply chain in North Korea. There are plenty of countries in the area with established supply chains and populations experienced at making these kinds of things, but DPRK isn't one of them.

Third, there just isn't a lot coming out of DPRK in the first place. I've heard of paper flowers made in their labor camps being exported to China and Japan, but in general the trade situation is pretty much a trickle.

It's possible, and there are certainly people around better informed than me, but it doesn't sound like the best or most plausible explanation to me.
National lab, international lab, whatever. Point is that CERN is still more like a large, government-supported lab than a university.

What's happening at CERN is not at all reflective of the university environment of the OP, which emphasizes small collaborations working on, say, million-dollar projects lasting 3-5 years. As we both know, CERN is nothing like this.

I commented because the idea of saying that the work at CERN is "university research", as was done in the comment above, is mistaken. CERN has no relation to the work done by the OP.
The relevance of G+ being null? ;)
If Netflix just stayed as a DVD mailing service, they would certainly have become the next Kodak. But they're disrupting themselves (and pissing off existing customers like you).

As a Canadian, all I've known is the streaming only Netflix, and I've been a fanboy since I signed up in 2010. I see no reason to stop since the service has only been getting better!
Americans buy their cars by cupholders.

And monitors by input ports. ;)
me.html is giving me a 302 redirect to the home page. Am I missing something?
I get the impression they already started doing that, when Safari had to work in tandem with WebKit2WebProcess.exe (if I recall the right process), which is pretty good at crashing all my tabs.

Pretty sure Safari from one year ago worked better on Windows than it does now. :/

On the positive side, maybe Apple won't try to force-feed users the browser, when they install and update iTunes, anymore.
I will take Meteor seriously when it is acknowledged and supported by the existing node.js community and the leadership. There is a large group of module authors who are cranking out beautiful, useful modules for both the browser and server at 1000x the rate of a normal human being. I am not going to list names here but check github or npm repository, etc. It is this team that makes node.js special, not simply 'javascript on the server'. If Meteor can gain support from this _established_ community I will start taking it more seriously.

Why not use the 11M in funding to hire one of these node.js leaders full-time? Outside of Meteor, what contributions has the Meteor team made to node.js and the ecosystem of modules? The founding team has no presence in the development community and yet their technology stack is built on top of it. I need to see that people I trust in the node.js community are driving and influencing the direction Meteor is headed. In fact, its almost a warning sign if Meteor can't staff any of the node.js leadership full-time as they certainly have the cash to do so. I will be watching who they are hire next very closely.

The lack of node.js leadership in their organization is already evident in the product decisions they are making which wouldn't stand a chance if they had a true representative of the node.js community on their team. A glaring example is the decision to build their own package management solution instead of adopting npm or working with npm to drive it forward if its missing useful features. Meteor is leveraging the output of the node.js ecosystem yet not recognizing its existence in their own product. They seem to be segregating themselves.
Depending on how sensitive you are to peripheral stimuli (which is generally oversensitive thanks to evolution), this setup seems like it'd make you distracted with the movements of your partner's head.
Many confuse the Chomsky approach v/s Norvig approach as who is right and who is wrong. But that is an unnecessary distraction. Consider planes. The wright brothers studied planes without mastering Fluid dynamics. Their planes flew. That was awesome. But plane makers kept exploring and inventing. We achieved super sonic speeds and even made rockets. As time passed, we learnt more and more about fluid flows. While on the one hand atoms jiggling around with various velocities is all that we are studying. But the fluids demonstrate very rich and complex behaviours. Only a fool would stay contented that the aeroplane flew. Our understanding of fluid dynamics comes in handy to model wind turbines and weather patterns and a whole host of awesome areas. A lot of those great discoveries came from investments in aeronautical research made by profit hungry entrepreneurs. The science v/s technology debate is usually just funding politics. It is silly to argue whether the eye runs the marathon or the leg runs the marathon. Let us just accept that "the runner runs the marathon" and just move on.

Chomsky may or may not be right. Just like aristotle was not right about many things. He was a genius and he contributed as well. He may have stirred up some trouble also. Over time if we are fortunate enough we may get a clear understanding of the core ideas like we understand the behavior of a fluid. If we have to settle with flying planes but don't understand wind, we cannot go supersonic or reach the moon.
In a flat universe, the universe starts off infinitely large and infinitely dense at time 0. As the universe expands, it gets less dense. Imagine an infinitely dense rubber sheet that starts to stretch at time 0, and after time 0 it is no longer infinitely dense, and it keeps slowly stretching forever, getting less and less dense over time. That's the universe as it is currently envisioned.

But our "Hubble sphere" is in no way special compared to other Hubble spheres. Our Hubble sphere is the part of the universe surrounding us from which light has arrived. Outside that sphere, nothing has a causal connection to us, since nothing can travel faster than the speed of light.

I.e., it just wouldn't be the case that our Hubble sphere is full of stuff and all the other Hubble spheres are are so different as to be empty.

Unless, of course, everything we know is wrong.
The Outrageous Claim That Every Tech Innovation Came From Private Enterprise
Last I checked you still have to get users/customers to be a winner in business. YC has clout with investors, so their companies are more likely to get investment, but that's not the right measure of who is a winner.

The millions of consumers you need as customers (or, if B-to-B, say fortune 500 companies) don't give a damn about the YC stamp of approval.

Increased investment only turns into increased "wins" if you use that money to get more users/customers, i.e. with a better sales team, more marketing dollars. Is this happening? I don't know, it sure seems like a lot of software companies are eschewing traditional marketing and sales and counting on viral growth to be a success, but you can't just hire more engineers and increase a product's viral-ness. I don't think anyone truly understands what makes a software product catch on.
I think they may turn out to be a very good long term bet. Pincus is quite directly attempting to mimic Bezos' strategy with Amazon. He's in control and he doesn't care (much) about the short term stock price.

Zynga is in the best position to profit from the rise of social/casual gaming. It may take 10 years but they could quietly grow into the behemoth of gaming the way that Amazon did in shopping.
... low price.

I don't always nitpick, but when I do, I go after "cheap prices".
We only exist as a way for our genes to be mixed and passed on to the next generation, but hey, I am not going to be a good servant to my DNA.

Oh and once I am dead I really don't care what happens as it will have no effect on me at all.
Ok, I logged in and saw a bunch of seemingly random stats. Now what? (Please don't say "tweet it!")
He admits to the Warhammer influence.

Mass fanboy seppuku in 5, 4, 3...
Sure they are. Impossible things are impossible, even in an infinite number of possible worlds!
Screw Powerpoint. Make awesome HTML5 Presentations with reveal.js
After some number of tabs are opened (depending on window width) the rest aren't accessible as tabs, but from a drop down list of all the tabs.
apologies for soliciting on hn, but i couldn't find a support line through the site.

must donations be recurring? why can't send one-off donations? also, at the risk of sounding vein, must the donations be anonymous? these things are keeping me from giving my money to people.
Isn't this the same setup that pivotal has been using for a few years now?

They have a bunch of details in a 2010 blog post here:

http://pivotallabs.com/users/jsusser/blog/articles/1505-pair...
I rock the Cinema Display, but would seriously consider one or two of these as secondary displays. Of course, it the mooted third party Thunderbolt breakout boxes actually show up (and work), the economics change for me.
Your blog doesn't have an obvious link to your main site.
Love it! The numbers may be off (I don't think I'm more relavent on twitter than Kim Kardashian) but it makes me feel good.
Thunderbird uses similar technology for it's addons as Firefox and is just as extensible. If you can write JavaScript, you should be able to figure out how to extend Thunderbird. The entire calendar and pgp functionality comes from addons.
I've heard some great things about the Yamasaki Catleap, another cheap 27".

I might be ordering one of them soon.

The vast majority of the receivers have received perfect screens and been really happy with their purchase it seems, check out the reports in the table here:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1225919/yamakasi-catleap-monitor-...
> If all addresses were based on mac, you could easily intercept the messages from anyone.

So you encrypt stuff you don't want anyone else to read. Security isn't the concern of the networking layers; it's all done, to the extent it is done, at the application layer.

That's the original design, anyway.

Edited to add: Well, the original original designs were by people who weren't thinking of security at all. That's why telnet and FTP are the way they are.

> Another problem is that numerous devices will share the same MAC address, it's just statistically unlikely to find them on the same network.

This, on the other hand, really is a perversion of the intended model. 48 bits was intended to be globally unique.
There's another very plausible explanation:

Womens' clothing and appearance varies much more.

Men don't have the choice of 15 different kinds of clothing tops and bottoms, whereas women do, plus accessories, much wider variety of hairstyles, makeup, etc. Plus they tend to put a lot more effort into choosing them.

So in recognizing photos of women, there are a lot more unique "local" details to help you remember things.

Making the leap to women being "objectified" more seems to be editorializing this way more than is deserved.
We also recently released a Github project for doing this called "WP Stack". Git, Capistrano, CDN rewrites, and staging environment all in one toolkit. knewt.ly/N119BM
Tweet it for Quibird perks, free iPads, etc.
Can data mining stop the killing?
Not electronics quality but amount.

And from that I drew a (simplified, yes) conclusion that more electronics => more processing => better picture.
Beagle3, James33 are you saying their model is not sustainable? Do you think they would be afloat or keep loosing money were they cut their marketing expenses significantly?
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Here you go http://www.stanford.edu/~mmilosav/jcp_mili.pdf
Most athletes have day jobs outside of the Olympics training season. For most Olympic athletes, especially those outside of marquee sports like swimming or gymnastics, the only sponsorhip money they will ever see if the money they get during the 3-4 months of Olympic hysteria. These sponsorships are not usually in the six figures.

They take on sponsorships while training so that they can afford to take breaks from their normal jobs to train (though a few employers, such as the HomeDepot, actively recruit Olympians and provide generous training allowances).
With OS X Mountain Lion, Apple and Microsoft’s strategies grow further apart
I think that AH just wants your tech. to exist. This is the same as any other company investing in OSS.
Your comment was a personal insult.
Your comment was also a personal insult.
>I actually wrote this blog post in reaction to the ongoing debate about the exploitation of undefined behavior by C compilers for optimization.

So, it looks like they do quite good job. They noticed that there was some feature needed, provided with some workaround. They added it to standard. No workarounds needed anymore. Workaround that uses some compiler features, but in terms of programming language don't make any sense. That's great, makes C better with same, good sanity. In fact, one of best things I like C for. :)
The Battle of the Search Engines 
Google Vs Bing Vs Yahoo in this epic battle over the top search engines.