skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not a fud :) I promise.
Only what it happened.
And you don't read carefully my post.One example: I didn't write you are forced use Mac app Store to install program, I wrote I read about Mountain Lion, by default you must install from MacAppStore. And I asked "what in the future?". With iPad and iPhone you can't choose your app provider.

And about, the memory management problem, I used to read this sort of answer: "It doesnt come to me so, it doesn't exist".

EDIT: And about the file system, I wanted to talk about http://forums.appleinsider.com/t/143744/mountain-lion-brings...
Not all of it is real-time: http://www.google.com/intl/en/googlefinance/disclaimer/

Even then, they have a disclaimer:

Real-time price data represents trades which execute on
the NASDAQ and NYSE exchanges. Volume information, as
well as price data for trades that don’t execute on
those exchanges, are consolidated and delayed by 15
minutes (NASDAQ), 20 minutes (NYSE).
This kinda stuff gets me fired up. Do your job, blogger!

Anyways, edited.
Push Is On to Ask Candidates to Ensure U.S. Science Leadership
If anyone actually is interested in a trade here...

The option market was pricing in about a 12% move. Today we got a 15% down-move. This means that anyone who was short puts either has to cover or they have to sell stock to reduce risk.

Normally what happens after earnings events is that the implied volatility gets crushed as the event risk goes away. However because the options market is feeling a bit of a squeeze, the IV remains elevated... this was the case this morning, but less so right now.

So the trade? If you want to buy the dip, I would look at cash-secured put sales. Specifically the Sep 21 put sale for about $1 or higher.

If fb heads under 21 bucks then you will be assigned with a basis in the 20s. From there you can roll to covered calls or just hold onto the stock at these levels.

Put sales make sense if you are bullish stock and bearish volatility, and as IV continues to fall as the event risk goes away, your position will be in an advantage.
A Geopolitical Review of Nolan's Batman Trilogy
Can anyone weigh in on their differing arguments regarding the definition of slope? I am not a maths expert by any means, but am genuinely curious who is correct here. Or is this a matter of one being technically correct versus the other being correct in practice?

(Cross posted from the original thread because I genuinely would like an opinion more informed than my own and the totally unhelpful "conclusion" provided by Valerie Strauss.)

*Edit, I missed that he (Khan) posted a video defending his definition http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TNaQJjLAhkI
Apple Claims Google Warned Samsung Against Copying iPhone, iPad
Lightweight Maps for Mobile
I like Gnome 3 in that it made me explore other WM/DE options and think more about what I wanted.

I found Awesome, and though there are some things I don't like about it (or namely, some programs that don't work nicely in a tiling environment), every time I try to use another WM or a DE, I miss the speed and keyboard accessibility of Awesome. It's a blast to use.

I installed KDE for my wife to use. It takes KDE an order of magnitude longer to start than Awesome, for all those services and stuff that it's running--you know, all that stuff I'm probably not even using.
... sometimes get confused and think that the user actually cares how the app is doing what it needs to do.

Can you share some links to research showing what users do care about, or research showing that they actually not not care how the app is doing what it needs to do?
How We Cuke it at SideTour
I'm certain that the Sudoku part is a hook, to bring in more viewers and then keep them for a bit. And although the site is called technology review, it is basically just a general audience site so concepts like permutation matrix would be lost on the audience and massacred by the time pressed journalists. This comes down to a trade off.

You want to draw people in and show them how cool modern tech is, but if you make it too much like a lecture you don't reach as many people. I think this trade off is okay, people who are attracted and care will unlearn and those who don't care will forget but still have a general idea of science as awesome. E.g. I used to read NewScientist although now I see much of it is garbage. That stuff can't be much more damaging than non-hard scifi and comics IMO. The only site that makes me angry is ScienceDaily and not for their horrid site design.
Actually auto termination apps exist since Lion: http://reviews.cnet.com/8301-13727_7-20090789-263/some-appli...
I wouldn't say you're an accomplice in that most likely you were raised to eat meat. From the time you were a small child you've been conditioned to be OK or maybe even to love eating meat. You've also had the terrible conditions of the factory farming industry hidden from you. Because of this I don't think anybody can be blamed for eating meat. But I do think that once those conditions and factors are brought to your attention that people should have a long think about the situation and really spend some time deciding if they want to continue to support such practices.
Hopefully some day I can marry multiple women. Or maybe some day hopefully a mother and son can marry. Who is to say? As long as we are all adults and love one another.
When you take a lowered salary as a founder of a startup, what you're really doing is investing part of your true value (the salary you COULD command at a regular job) into the company. For example, if you are worth 180 and you take 40, you are in effect investing 140 per year into the company.

This is important to keep in mind during the early years at a startup, when cash is harder to come by. If the company dies after one year, you have lost whatever part of your 140k (pre-tax) investment that couldn't be recovered in the sale of the business. That is your risk. The reward comes if the company hits it out of the park, and you own a piece of the action.

Once you do a series A (if you decide to do so) or become cash flow positive, you can bring salaries up to normal levels. Until then, every founding member is effectively an investor.

What this CEO is saying is "I don't believe in this company enough to invest in it." Do you really want him at the helm?
Can you tell us what city you're in, or at least be a little more specific? I know you're main point was to vent and get advice, but a lot of times these posts can result in actual job leads and offers.
This is an important point. I've always found lecture to be a very inefficient method of teaching. Why not switch to an entirely written format? You can say a lot with diagrams and pictures. Good exercises and well explained solutions are also very important. Also if it's all text then you can easily search for keywords.
iTunes does reshuffle when switching playlists.
A very callow and pretentious move on Groupon's part, if true.
That's very true. We do actually do that with our production team. It's split into "ops", which is the day-to-day work and "engineering", which is the more complicated, more interesting work.

We hire junior people we think are smart into the ops roles and train them to eventually shift over into engineering. Some people can do it in a year or less, some a lot longer, and some just don't work out at all (or actually like doing the more routine work). Those people are definitely easier to find. We just talk to a lot of people and pick the ones we think are the smartest and will mesh the best and train them up on the rest.

In some cases, though, you just really need to get experienced people and can't wait the amount of time it would take to train.
Hey Virginia: You're Out of Excuses. Become a Hub.
Fjölnir[1] is an Icelandic programming language from the 80's.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fj%C3%B6lnir_%28programming_lan...
This is something I can't really relate to. Sure you have a small "switching" period when you're jumping between languages but that's it basically.

> 1. Try not to use similar languages in the same niche.

On the other hand I find it really simple to use similar languages, you don't even need to change how you think! It's just a change of syntax very similar to how I can switch between English and Swedish. The problem is when you want to use a language you haven't used in a while, but that too will mostly be a case of syntax issues ('How do I do X in Y').

> 2. Try to use one language at a time.

I partially agree with this - it's easier to only use one language than switching and this is certainly the thing you should be focusing on if you're having problem with 'too many languages'.

With that said I have never had a problem wih switching from say Perl to Javascript to SQL and back again in a short period of time. I find it easy to look at the surrounding code and just do the same.

> 3. Keep notes and save sample code.

I have yet to keep any notes for a specific language - I tried but never used it - but I do agree that cookbooks can be very useful. Otherwise reading code is always a great thing to do regardless.
Problem? I thought this was a feature. It happens when the user does not interact with a page for some time.
I thought HN has it so that the users are forced to refresh the screen and get the latest news.
Am I wrong here?
Google Partner ViVOtech, Maker Of NFC Hardware/Software/Services, Shutting Down
Introducing XY Combinator
What's wrong with the keyboard? It's different, but all the reviews I've read have grudgingly admitted that it's actually better (or at least just as good) as the old keyboard.
A letter from Mark Zuckerberg
Apple has done pretty well here. Their desktop is very opinionated with very few checkboxes anywhere, yet many things can be tweaked at the command line.
I think the point about similar languages is important. After using a Java-like language where == can compare Strings, chances are you will use == instead of .equals() when working in Java.

Also, when switching between languages like JS, Ruby,and C#, I can't automatically type semicolons and the process involves a quick delay when I have to think about whether there should be a semicolon or not.
Full letter from Groupon's lawyer is attached to the Techvibes' article.
For any equation in the Cartesian plane, Khan is right.

http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Slope.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slope

I cannot stand people who leave things at "just because". I can't remember who said it, but it goes "people who have explanations will explain".
haha! ugly as sin
Let's take a poll: How many people here understand that Google is a corporation and therefore has making money as its primary goal?

Seriously, what would be wrong from a corporate standpoint would be for Google to be doing this out of the goodness of their heart, not the opposite. You don't like it, don't use it. I bet you'll have a real easy time finding someone to pull fiber to your house and provide you with gigabyte internet without trying to monetize it.

Welcome to capitalism, I'm personally quite happy with it.
"If you need VC money, you just missed the last train."

That's not true if you have a business that can sustain itself for a few years. There's a ton of VC money still there (the stock market, real estate, bonds etc aren't as appealing as one would imagine) but it's most likely going to be very picky.
20% increased risk of death or disease over the span of a generation is not worth getting excited about? For someone who's healthy, it may seem insignificant when the baseline risk is low, but for someone who develops a chronic disease, in hindsight a 20% reduction may be very appealing. Minimizing regret is important.

As for scientific validity of those studies, doing proper scientific studies of diet is so difficult it might as well be impossible. What kind of person is going to volunteer to have someone else dictate their diet? What kind of person is going to comply with that diet long-term? If you want to do a blind study, you have to turn all food into unidentifiable mush. You can't have people seeing broccoli florets or pork chops.

There is a proposed theory for why red meat has those effects: Neu5gc consumption causing persistent low-level immune response. Less conclusive dietary studies have noted a difference, but without doing a scientific study giving one group Neu5gc supplements and another placebo, how can we know? Ethics boards might have a problem with that, since Neu5gc can be demonstrated in vitro to trigger an immune response.

Perhaps the most general and plausible theory is that it has nothing to do with inherent unhealthiness of red meat or meat in general. Rather, more meat consumption means less dietary fiber, fewer fruits and vegetables, assuming the same total caloric consumption. Meat consumption probably also correlates to excess calorie intake, which is a risk factor for a variety of chronic diseases.
Aku sendiri
"The biggest selling point here (in Canada)"

I hope Fiber comes to Canada, but I fear protectionist legislation will get in the way.
This is the kind of documentation PHP _should_ have had all along. Kudos for going into such depth.
She's asking that the people who caused the problem (Parliament), investigate with a view to determining why there is a problem.
My best teachers were also content experts.

My worst teachers by a long shot were also content experts, holding, in one case, the research chair of an academic department in a renowned research university.

Couldn't teach to save his life and was lucky that the tutors put in a lot of extra hours so that around 50% of the enrolled students passed his fairly easy course (it was a revelation that after I had failed, and had to re-sit during the summer, I asked an academic in a related field to coach me based on a text, and his explanations were lucid, to the point, had an expository style that engaged and that he actually wanted to address the material at hand).

An intelligent person with some domain knowledge, good teaching materials and firm grasp on how students learn beats someone with all the domain knowledge in the world who is a hopeless teacher, in my experience.
In this case Bezos is donating to a group that is trying to popularize a particular law, which will soon be voted on by the population of Washington state at large -- so he's trying to buy the opinion of the people.

It is also relatively common in America for corporations to donate large sums to the re-election funds of officials already in power; they are often then granted concessions in their favour (e.g. George W Bush was very good to the oil industry, Barack Obama is friendly with coal companies).

While both forms are legal, people are generally more morally comfortable with the first than the second form.
I really like using iodocs by Mashery, it's pretty simple (put all of your API calls into a single JSON file) and it allows you to quickly do example calls with different query parameters that your users can test out right on the documentation. Klout uses it now too, I believe.

http://dev.mashery.com/iodocs

It's also open source, which makes developer me happy. The only thing I wish they would update is allowing JSON to be sent in the request body, which there seems to be an open pull request for on GitHub:

https://github.com/mashery/iodocs/
education problems aren't going to go away because of videos on YouTube

Moot point since the Khan Academy is much more than about YouTube videos now.

The videos may have kickstarted it; but to offer the above as a critic to Khan just shows that you are debating on an outdated version of what the Khan Academy is up to.
You must have other interests. I suggest you look for a job in one of those areas. Some things can overlap with pure mathematics, game creation, for example. Some jobs can simply provide you with enough resources to pursue your other interests separately, sales, for example.
It sounds as if you're doing all the technical work and you're unsure of what your partner is contributing but feel obliged to bring him along for the ride. So you already have one person who is not working at capacity... why do you need to hire another one? Bringing on a third non-technical employee is just going to result in one more person telling you they can't land customer X until feature Y is ready.

Tons of people are rightly pointing out that this guy should be optimizing for equity rather than trying to strip-mine the business' savings account, so let me add something else that sounds really fishy to me about this setup: anyone with the experience or skill to serve as CEO in this sort of startup should have major concerns about (1) your lack of full-time involvement, and (2) the lack of clarity over what your co-founder is doing. The fact that these are not the most important issues in your discussions with this guy suggests he does not value his potential equity and will make an absolutely horrible CEO due to a gross inability to recognize and hedge against what are fairly obvious business risks.

Finally, if you believe he is potentially worth 180k for the customers he will introduce, he is probably worth a lot more. One way to figure out whether he thinks he can make sales is to offer him a much better package worth 250k, but make all of his earnings contingent on hitting real milestones which generate revenue for your company. This allows you to pay him out of growth instead of savings and steers the conversation away from an abstract discussion of "executive" salary levels and towards the more practical matter of (1) whether he can drive revenues, and (2) what he feels the product needs to have before he is comfortable leveraging his connections in service of the business.
Add FaceTime features to any iOS app, all without learning Objective-C
Windows have had that for years now.

But I guess since Apple haven't done it yet, it doesn't exist to hipsters.
Actually it is simple: eat less meat. Meat production is vastly more wasteful than vegetable production calorie-for-calorie.
I use Gtk on a daily basis while working to the elementary os. I just love their Vala language,it gives me the ease of c# and speed of C. But the thing is there is not much documentation present. The irc channel feels slow. I encountered a bug in Vte about a week ago about transparency and no one is able to help.
This as a dev discourages me. I use Vala and Gtk solely because the elementary team uses it. Gnome becoming uncool has started a vicious circle which will lead to its death.
Your comment on #5 is interesting: local storage folders/directories don't correspond to the WWW experience.

Locally, I've got to dig through directories to find stuff. I've got some search tools, but they're generally primitive and/or hit-or-miss. I almost exclusively use the command line, not graphical file browsers (which I find exceptionally tedious).

On the WWW, I generally find stuff through a search engine which, with the benefit of some very clever back-end heuristics, does a really good job of turning up the right stuff. Or I might use my local bookmarks collection, though that again uses a folder metaphor and is a bit tedious to use.

But ... I use the Vimperator Firefox plugin, which makes my browser a lot more like a command line. So when I want to open a web page, I'll almost always switch to command mode and start typing a part of the URL or description of the site ... and Vimperator starts searching through my history and bookmarks for a set of likely matches, which I then tab to and hit <enter>. (Granted, some "superbar" navigation works similarly, though I find Vimperator's operation superior).

My experience is that directories work where you're going to put a certain level of thought into how you want to organize content. But heaps and search tools work better where you've got a lot of diverse content and want to be able to dig into it periodically.
Actually, yes, I agree with that. I have many friends who are varying degrees of polyamorous and I see no reason to deny them the right to have legal recognition of their relationships and all that entails (including joint property rights, medical visitation, inheritance, and everything else traditional families take for granted).

As for mother and son, I personally find it distasteful, but why on earth should I care? Seriously? Are mother/son couples going to rise up and enslave us all, forcing us into incestuous mother-loving relationships?

Why should politicians define the specifics of social arrangements? Laws should be a platform upon which people of all persuasions can develop their own ways of relating.

Like an open source approach to social relations.
Just ask KA for a current IRS Form 990. It will show you just about everything. Here's an example from 2010 - http://dynamodata.fdncenter.org/990_pdf_archive/261/26154496...
I'm analyzing the ingredients of 29000 recipes. This is what i did so far.
Twitter 'bomb joke' man Paul Chambers on case win
Having the debate framed as 'Sal Khan is the future of education' and 'No, he isn't, teachers are' is bogus. It's a ridiculous dichotomy. It does a disservice to both Khan and teachers to debate this in that way.

There will be many teachers who will use Khan's videos in their teaching (or to augment it), and I imagine that over time Khan will change the way he does things based on his own education about education.

It's self evident that the 'sitting in front of a machine watching videos' isn't the solution to the education. If it were the multimedia revolution wouldn't have petered out as it did. Children (and adults) need a variety of approaches. Khan's is just one.
Don't tell .NET developers that.
You're absolutely right, that's one of my fears as well.

That's up for another debate, but there's a point where legislation shouldn't interfere. If we're stuck with awful service because of the law, it's time the law (which should be serving us citizens) got changed.
I think this is one of those problems where smart people think too hard. It has nothing to do with non engineers misunderstanding randomness or the human mind intrinsically superimposing structure. All it has to do with is being an algorithmic dj.

Users don't want a random playlist. They want their songs shuffled, and they want them shuffled in a way that keeps songs from the same album distributed far apart. No one presses the shuffle button to get satisfaction out of pure randomness. They press the button because they want to listen to music. If think your users are dumb because they don't understand randomness then you don't understand the job that shuffle is supposed to do.
That's not procrastination, that's push-back. ;-)
For me, the blame lies principally with the CPS and the Police, who should have exercised their judgment and not prosecuted.
It can change the outcome of the electorate as a whole, if the less-likely-to-vote voters vote differently then more-likely-to-vote voters.
Metadata Misery: Why Don’t Metadata Repositories Pay Off?
This is nothing more then political propaganda dressed up with pseudo stats. There is little evidence sited to support their claims just a raw number followed up by their preferred solution. How did they derive this number? What is the source of the information? Are they adjusted for population size?

All they are trying to do is scare people, 9000 people a year die!!! If that is the case you have a 0.0026% chance of being killed by a gun in the US. Not to be callus but that is a VERY small chance.
On Leaving Academia: Followup and FAQ
What's missing from this argument is that traditional education dogma has the same plight. Is anyone ready to state, on record, that any educational platform is perfect and free from error? Khan deserves/requires criticism, but let's not forget that these criticisms apply across the board.