skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've started putting tags in filenames. This works pretty well. Instead of saving a downloaded file under its original name -- "leadfreereliability.pdf", or whatever -- I'll give it a new, verbose name like "Aerospace_Corp_lead_free_reliability_report_2011_Kostic_Pb_free_RoHS_bullshit.pdf".

Then, later, I can find that file and any similar ones with a simple command like

dir /s | grep RoHS

...or the equivalent command in a different OS that might share the same drive.

It's no substitute for a true tag-based file system, but it's much better than nothing.
I have used Netflix on ~25 of the last 30 days. I haven't purchased film in over a decade.
I've currently got an e-IPS dell and an IPS catleap from ebay sitting next to each other on my desk, and the catleap is considerably better. Make all the assumptions you want, the fact is that cheap 27" screens from korea can be damn good displays.
Ask HN: Financial advice for rich young aspiring entrepreneur 
I am a recent college grad.
Due to some successful SEO I did on the side while in HS and college, I've been able to graduate debt free and now have ~450K in liquid disposable capital. I have a degree in Computer Science. I'm moving to San Francisco by the end of this year.

All the financial advice I have been able to find online seem to be targeted towards young adults with a fixed income - save for retirement, invest in index funds, maximize contributions towards your IRA/401K.

But what would a HackerNews TM reader do?

here are my current thoughts -

start an IRA with 50K. Live off my savings for a year (I'm fairly frugal, this would cost me perhaps 40K in San Francisco). During this year, work on OSS/personal projects, build connections, an online presence, develop SAAS apps that can generate passive income, and maybe join/start a startup IF the right opportunity presents itself. (I'm really interested in the leap motion!)

If I were to do this how should I invest my savings? What ratio of long-term to short-term investments are ideal for someone who isn't sure if he's going to join a startup or get a normal (relatively high paying) job? Moreover, even if I did join a startup I wouldn't need that much capital, just enough for rent and expenses, so you can see how hard it is to get this kind of advice.

Or maybe I should get a soft eng job that pays 80K/year?

Any thoughts at all would be very appreciated! :-)
If that's true, the HP ZR2740w is a much better choice. Got mine for ~$650 few months ago, so it'll be < 2x of these prices but no need to worry if they will fail or not.
Information architecture from a neuroscience point of view.

Concept building: A bottom up hierarchy

Everything you know was learned in the context of prior knowledge. You combined prior experiences, refined them, and over time solidified them into new constructs which you then used to repeat the process for higher level concepts. Visual light and dark blobs become coherent shapes which get associated with meaning and eventually those meanings get associated with names like 'chair' or 'rabbit.'

Content access: A top down (and sideways) lookup.

In many cases we know what we want without bothering to think of the name. Being thirsty may mean you think 'glass','faucet','stream','bubbles', and 'water.' But you don't have to think any of those words to get a glass of water and take a drink.

Unfortunately in much of IT there is a textual interface so you first have to pick a starting word and then use that to find what you're looking for. Any time you think of a word it is physically connected to many other notions, memories, experiences, and other words built over a lifetime of experience.

When we try to describe what something is we access the hierarchy we have learned. A chair is a piece of furniture, which is a solid object, which is something I can touch. We may even use this description to create a hierarchical description.

The tension here is that how we describe things is at best a very limited subset of how our brain connects to information about that thing. These mappings differ from person to person and change over time. One system of hierarchical categorization cannot be intuitive to all people and probably won't be to the same person after 10 years.

IMNSHO The only interface which will 'just work' for organizing labeled objects is one that knows you. The best example of this is Google's one box which searches my computer, builds associations between content that are not directly related to the search terms I use, and modifies itself over time based on my behavior.
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Zynga down ~40% in after hours trading
Federal Reserve Audit Bill Overwhelmingly Passes The House
> Apple, on the other hand, does have the freedom to switch suppliers.

Though it might be a hollow freedom if no one else other than Samsung can give them the volumes and delivery dates they need. Mutually abusive co-dependent relationship, oh boy.
Ask HN: How to attract users to our iOS Bootcamp? 
http://www.hackrocket.com

At HackRocket.com we are launching a 3-month online iOS Bootcamp to teach people with a basic knowledge of object-oriented programming how to build fully featured iPhone and iPad apps from scratch.

We have a great instructor, masterclass sessions with mobile entrepreneurs and experts, and a really great price (when compared to other training programs that teach people how to code)

Lots of people are really excited about this program but we need more people to sign up.

Take a look at what we're offering and give us your feedback. We would really love to hear your ideas.

Thanks!
Thanks. The algorithm already factors in the relevance of Google+
Minimum raised to $1.00. See here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4292843
Nope - no limit other than available disk space.
“Samsung is disabling useful features on my phone”

If you like those features, Apple has a phone with your name on it :)
"The NEC's display must obviously be lighter. So it's all electronics."

It's not always the "electronics", and besides, who says better electronics need to weight more? A few years back, I interviewed with a company that makes high-end blu-ray players. They showed me how they put weights in the cases, so they were heavier, and felt "sturdier" and of higher quality.
He's making the distinction between saying a language is "functional" versus "pure functional." It is not correct to classify Lisp and Erlang as pure functional languages, because they both include support for imperative style programming.
At the end of the day, it all boils down to content. We're going through an age of amazing television, especially with AMC and HBO. Netflix needs to either provide GREAT content that they create, or they have to get HBO and AMC on board (which is pretty difficult).
I'm sure sports broadcasting rights are really ratcheted down, but It would be cool if they broke into the live streaming side of things. I'm sure they have the capacity to handle a football game or hockey game.
The last thing I would compromise on with my set up is the monitor. After all, I'll be staring into this thing every day for at least two years if not more.

No TN-Panel. No glare. I also refuse to buy a 16:9 monitor.
The GTX 680 review clocks in at about 15k words, fwiw.
Plenty of people are concerned about specifics when buying any tech product without buying the most expensive product. I'm concerned about specifications and benchmarks when I buy a graphics card, it doesn't mean I want the best possible, it just means I can judge quality vs. cost.
Bloomberg: "Zynga Inc. (ZNGA), the biggest developer of games played on Facebook Inc. (FB), missed analysts’ second-quarter revenue and profit estimates as the company struggled to add social game users." http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-07-25/zynga-misses-estima...
I bought a PA238Q a while back, and I use it now as my second monitor. It has incredibly bad persistence... like 20 to 30 seconds of afterimage when I move a window full of text out of the way. Plus the backlight bleed on a black screen is pretty bad.
He doesn't mean the aliens will see an exact duplicate of what we see but that the universe is uniform enough that what they see would have the same properties (density, etc.) as what we see.
Defense Grid 2
Show HN: Ignite. Code, compile and share, all in real time web editor.
If a machine is at all usable with a mechanical swap disk, then there's not enough swapping happening to worry about the effect on the longevity of an SSD.
> zero total energy ... means that it is conceivable that someday we might figure out how to manufacture entire new universes.

How does that follow?
Zynga just got owned
who's next. let's see how fb does. it's still still valuation rich if mobile ad hasn't been fixed.
That's nice to see, thanks, but at a 50% premium over an MBA (including Windows tax).
I've got my eye on the new NEC P232W: 23", $569 - http://www.necdisplay.com/p/desktop-monitors/p232w-bk
Are you mentally handicapped, what part of "Goodbye" was unclear to you? And no, it's not an argument from authority, I specifically headed off that critique when I said I wasn't making any fucking argument. Learn to read.
I had no issues installing from the MAS with FileVault 2. Never tried the GM.
Manufactured products tend to have two spikes in their failure rate: soon after being put into service (manufacturing defects showing up when the product has been used a bit) and near end of life (parts are wearing out due to long usage). In the middle, the failure rate is pretty flat.

Monitors failing within 3 months suggests that you're seeing the infant mortality part of the curve. If a particular monitor lasts 3 months, it will likely last for many years.
Zynga earnings miss, FB also falling
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> Stu is quite memorable as a voice actor in the role of Human Peon, where his rendition of a downtrodden brute-laborer was comedic genius.

Nice to finally know the person behind the still-funny-in-my-head warcraft phrases - "Yes me lord", "Who me", "Uhuhuh"
FWIW I'm listed as inventor on around 10 patents.

The only area I think patents do make some sense is for medicine, where the R&D costs are astronomically high. But most other fields, R&D isn't that big a cost.
This will definitely require more than the two minutes of thought I put into this post, but. . . Large companies like Adobe, Microsoft, etc, often sponsor projects that will serve as good marketing for whatever initiative they're trying to push. Something similar could work once you see projects out there. In the spirit of openness you could setup and initially fund a non profit similar to Apache Software Foundation with a board that decides where the money goes. Doing something like Google's Summer of Code might spur some interesting projects. Or maybe even set aside the cash and do some sort of community voting contest thing. Like: "Build something awesome and win up to X in no-strings-attached cash, voted on by the internet." Put in caveats like it has to become a full time project, etc.
I expect Apple to go "free" with OSX updates sooner than later. Their OS revenue is barely a blip on their quarterly balance sheet. iOS's free OS releases have been a coup in terms of both usability and press attention. People who don't necessarily think of upgrading their OS can still be lucrative customers and can benefit the most from simplifying usability enhancements. And of course, it would be a great card to play against Microsoft, who have a lot to lose if free OS updates become the norm.
what a buzz-kill
Facebook CEO gets his first patent
> Chomsky's greatly damaging influence to linguistics is due to the fact that his speculative and simplistic ... views on how the brain processes and learns language has stifled research in promising fields by decades.

By decades. Really? I think those claims would need better substantiation. Looking back we have a 20/20 hindsight and maybe can say where we took the wrong turn. But can you point out to other budding and promising theories that Chomsky somehow squashed because of, I don't know, his great power or character.

As for politics. Can you explain better and provide some more information. So far it seems, this is just you disagreeing with his politics and then attacking his influence on linguistics as an obvious extension of his political views.

> I think it's time to retire and the "old guard"!

No. You retire, theories that have been proven wrong and bring about theories that explain the reality in a better, more complete, or universal way. You don't retire the "old guard" because you disagree with their food tastes or politics (which seems to be in this case)
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nothing more than an artificial monopoly only benefitting the patent holder

I thought that's exactly what patents are supposed to be. Inventors are rewarded with a temporary artificial monopoly.
> I don't think it's possible to have a finite space with no well-defined boundary.

The 2D space described by the surface of a sphere is one such space.
I agree that there's nothing new here, but I think knowing C is still useful. It's as close as it gets to a lingua franca in our field.
Mountain Lion Features
That does not necessarily follow. See the "bathtub curve".
It's here:
"Relative visual saliency differences induce sizable bias in consumer choice"
Milica Milosavljevica, Vidhya Navalpakkama, Christof Kocha, Antonio Rangela,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1057740811...

It's also behind a paywall. Insert the normal line of commentary about paywall science.
> I should have been clearer. Most of the core devs have side projects that they're building on Meteor. I'm building a social contact manager, which I'm using for a community group I'm involved with. Nick built an app to keep a database of his wedding guests. David built a app to keep track of the schedule for his favorite TV shows. Matt has built some games.

> What we're not doing is trying to turn any of these other projects into businesses. Meteor is the reason we exist, rather than something that we have to continually justify to ourselves as an "engineering investment" as we build our "real" product.

Won't this lead you to make choices that make sense for short-term projects but age poorly as your codebase grows? Many of the choices in Rails versions as early as 1.0 are undoubtedly influenced by the implementation of Basecamp (a non-trivial app) using the framework, and during the last eight years it feels like large projects have only gotten more manageable and maintainable.
Yea, from reading the article it seems like the entire test was bent towards a sexual angle. Perhaps they've already done some more neutral tests and this one came after those, but it feels like they were leading the results with the format of the test.
What about Cloudera?
Hadoop ecosystem subsidized by VCs, so lots of their smaller startups will be able to save money on Oracle, Vertica/Greenplum licenses...
Buckyballs Magnets Have Been Banned by the Feds
where is the neuroscience in what you wrote?
I think that his philosophy damaged linguistics (and science in general) rather than his theory or experiment. I think that he genuinely does not know where one should end and the other should begin, especially in his problem domain, especially in 2012.
There's an old saying that "Americans buy their cars by the pound." I suspect that it is a bit more universal.
Plan or build?
Anyone looking for a high-quality review of the panel, check out http://www.tftcentral.co.uk/reviews/dgm_ips-2701wph.htm. The Pro/Con conclusion is at the very bottom of the page.
I cannot recommend tftcentral enough as a monitor review site.
I just don't use full screen mode. (I've got 4 monitors.) I assume that's what others do. Though there are some niceties to the dedicated mode, I figure that it's mostly important for my laptop (where I do use it, along with Spaces).
Probably signals a market collapse in the last 2years.
Dell and co either ordered, or suppliers thought they would order lots of new big screen monitors, so fab lines were setup, components were bought, screens were made.

... and then the world (or at least those who still had jobs ) ... bought tablets.
They're not required to submit patches, only release code to people you've distributed binaries to. So before Chrome was released, they didn't have to release anything.
Rubbish. Nautilus is possibly one of the best file managers of any OS. The reason that CLI-orientated responses were given, rather than GUI-orientated, is because the board this was posted on is Super User. It's for more technical folks. You'd get a similar response posting about OS X on there.
Is it possible that after various administrative costs, they don't end up getting $100 worth of labor out of someone, vs. $100 worth of labor by hiring Exec?
Type 'man xattr' in your OS X terminal; isn't it what you want?

xattr -s author George file

(It might need a -w, I'm not sure as I'm writing it with my iPad)

I'm not sure it's searchable though.

But unless I'm very mistaken, mdls (metadata list) Is searchable. It lists what's been saved by Spotlight and you can add to it.
Yes lets bring down this hype down to earth without actually having used the product. Classic FUD.
Mountain Lion’s dictation feature disables MacBook’s fans to hear better
Wow. That’s very interesting. So the rate must actually be a reasonable estimate of expected loss. If you were to bill for the time you took out of your schedule to resolve the payment issue, it might work out to a few percent anyway.
> But that’s not the real reason why geeks are skeptical. It’s because we are smart asses. We are the people that put salt and pepper on the pizza before trying it, because we just know best.

I couldn't have put it better. It goes double for us coders.
Just out of curiosity... How does a software company with >$300MM in revenue lose money? Is it spent on people, hardware, advertising?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purely_functional
Will it Python? Trying Machine Learning For Hackers in Python
I almost would not mind this if I could open files in new programs like the Share feature of Android.
This is one of the reasons I dislike iOS and barely use my iPad for anything but comics and web reading.
I've yet to interview anyone that didn't know C or C++ but correctly understood pointers and references. Of course that's not necessarily bad since it's not a useful distinction in some higher level languages.
AMC is on board, at least with past seasons of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, and Walking Dead
Scala: laziness, unapply magic, null checks
Is America Crazy? Ten Reasons it Might Be
Conversations typically trim portions of messages to make it look you only see what people actually type out. It strips things like headers, signatures, replies, etc.

Threads are a sort of pre-Web 2.0 way of doing things. The messages are linked together in the tree portion of the UI but are still viewed individually in the viewing pane. They aren't stacked together like they are in a typical conversation view.

Conversations are a more modern, succinct take on what threads were trying to be.
That seems crazy since the HP ZR2740w is only ~$100 more.
Man with Van Wealdstone
More here - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2854630
Gabe Newell Wants to Support Linux, Because Windows 8 is a 'Catastrophe'
I'm sure this will add a lot of awesomeness to tasks like creating a web page or an application; all the pngs and jpegs mixed together in Photos, templates and styles in Documents...
At least one of the Korean monitors has an identical panel to Apple's Cinema Display, so your claim of e-IPS is false. If you had checked some of the discussions on Overclock.net or HardForum first you would see that this has been proven true by users who have taken the monitors apart.

Secondly, I'm not sure if I agree with your claim that e-IPS is inferior to s-IPS. I read a document before (can't locate it now) implying that e-IPS had similar characteristics. If you can provide a primary source with more information on this, that would be great, and I'll happily agree with you.

And finally, there have been quite a few cases of sellers honoring the warranty. Check the aforementioned forums, or I can provide a direct link if you like.
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See also "time value of money" - if you don't have to buy the spares until they fail, all that extra money is worth something to you.

There is a reason Toyota and co don't have 6months of parts on hand - and it isn't due to shortage of shelf space
I don't use GMail so I've never come across their filtering before, but that looks crap. Sieve is much more flexible. And they could have also implemented ManageSieve so people with mail clients which support the protocol could configure their filtering rules directly from their mta.
Also if you would like to see how real time works you can visit: http://ignite.io/code/50105ff2ef167bf967000000

Or just hit save and share with a friend!
I use "Spotlight Comments" on OS X for tagging files. Not sure if this is exactly what you want but works great for me.
Different strokes for different folks. I don't like Chrome and am perfectly well served by Safari.
> We are the people that put salt and pepper on the pizza before trying it, because we just know best.

Salt and pepper... on pizza?

Is that a thing?
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It's 240 for 3 years with the MBA. If you save almost that amount on getting the cheaper craigslist version, why not spend what you've saved to get a MBA that you know will be covered for 2+ years? (assuming you got one that's under 1 year old)
His reviews are what got me interested enough to Switch back in 2002.
> Hierarchical file systems weren't invented because it was ancient times and they were the easiest thing to produce.

Correct. They were invented because it was just past the middle of the 20th century, and they were the best organization mechanism for the resources available. They're also very robust, versatile, and wonderful in innumerable ways, especially for the audience at the time. Unfortunately, they're not the best thing for most users today, when we have more computing power and experience with search as an organization tool.
I get the impression you're thinking "secure" is a boolean, if anything it's a floating point. By that I mean "is it secure?" could be viewed as a naive question, a better question could be "how secure is it?".

>> NB: The next point is

Yes but I didn't want to write a counter point to each point. I'd taken the view from the listing of possible problems presented that the basics weren't being considered. It reads as a list of random points in a large space rather than a comprehensive listing.

To give a specific example, the article talks about writable concerns when really we want to be ensuring readable gets the same treatment.

>> even if it's in the web directory, can't leak the data without some other compromise

Or a config error (a botched upgrade disabling mod_php could do the trick, or more obscurely a content negotiation oversight), or a leaked backup (another common one - storing random backups under www root)... There's more than one way to skin a cat as they say.

>> If I can even connect

You're often better to view security as something you provide in layers. I wouldn't expect to be able to hit port 3306 from here, but if you're not expecting me to ever be inside your network, then priviledge escalation is going to be fairly quick for me once i surprise you by getting in.
Because it is annoying when someone who is clearly clueless questions your intelligence.

Neya is the equivalent of Fox News.
I stopped reading at "Learn C".
Google paid $5.5 billion to arm itself with Motorola's patents
Pretty funny. Basically a guy talking about how to impress him, but doesn't know what functional purity is.
Link to paper: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ejsp.1890/abstrac...

It's gated so I wasn't able to actually read it.