skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hard-float has worked for quite some time.

All that's happened recently is that the Debian name for it "gnueabihf" is recognized.
I believe the point of examining code is usually to eliminate "really crappy code", it's not to determine "really great code". The code sample is usually a qualifying factor, not a determining one.

People may disagree on what constitutes great code, but most people reasonably skilled in the art can agree on when code is crappy.
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I try and keep perspective that there's way, way worse things than having over 200k debt and making 40k a year while working and living in a modern, Western, industrialized country.

I think the 40k number is worth emphasizing though, not as some terrible torment but as a data point that casts light on the financials of attending law school. In terms of objectively looking at the merits of law school as an investment, a 40k salary outcome is pretty awful. The opportunity cost and direct costs (in loans) are enormous and the risk of getting the low-end outcome is pretty high. There's way, way less risky ways to make 40k, and way less costly ways to position oneself to one day have a chance at a six figure salary.

"Just getting by" and "the only way you can afford your loan burden is by taking advantage of government income-based repayment and loan forgiveness programs" is not the outcome most people expect going to a decent law school, so it's important that people hear that this happens.
Your posts have been well written and very honest... Looks like you guys started a wave of good change or at least discussion.
The other issue with people like me who chronically over eat, is that asking me to eat 6 small meals a day is like asking an alcoholic to go to a bar 6 times a day but only order pepsi.
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Yay, yet another editor flamebait post. Wonderful.

TL;DR version: "I am trying to say that you can’t be wrong if you are getting your job done" - IOW, don't bother.
Interesting. Could Apple replace voicemail with their own system? Eventually they might even be able to merge the phone app into the messages app. Phone calls over wifi, new voicemail etc.
>"How would you hire a rocket scientist?"

Without getting bogged down with literals, I'd do my best to determine what constitutes a good rocket scientist, and work away. I suppose I'm just confident I could do it. I've had to hire good people in my field (pharmacy), but I have no formal connection to the industry. Sure, maybe if I was a rocket scientist, I'd have a slight edge in this specific case. But don't forget, being a CEO doesn't mean you're hiring all rocket scientists (or in FB's case, engineers). You have to hire people of all types, so you lose any competitive advantage rather quickly.
I'm definitely not saying they shouldn't be saving. The (now deleted) comment I replied to was awed by the high savings rate the kids were getting, 5%. I was just putting it in perspective.
Not everything on Silk Road is particularly illegal. And I'm sure the LEA have better things to do with their time than chase down some consumer of 1200mg of modafinil.
I think it depends on how much glucose and carbohydrates you're getting in your diet. Your body needs a minimum level to survive (eg. for brain function) and if it doesn't get it, it converts fat. So if you're on a low carb diet, but getting at least that bare minimum, you won't get ketosis. Something like that, anyway.

You were the one who started it:

> your body is finally getting rid of some stuff it should have gotten rid of

Sounds like woo-woo toxin theory to me. There are fat-soluble toxins, but I doubt they'd be enough to make you sick or smell bad.
I'd love to see that in Gmail too.
I used it once out of the pure novelty, and I actually met a pretty cool entrepreneur, but I can't say I particularly enjoyed it; it was a little bit stressful. It was cool, but it was a chore.
This is pretty cool. Love the Dropbox integration!
You can always jailbreak to run Bittorrent apps.
Nope. As more gold was mined during gold rushes, the value of gold decreased. As people found more uses for gold and demand outstripped supply, the value increased. And of course the relative value of gold and silver changes over time.
Apple's ABI for iOS is a custom derivative of APCS, not AAPCS. They do not even try to conform to the AAPCS ABI, nor should they need to. iOS has a soft-float ABI, but uses the float glue names from libgcc, not the EABI names.

This whole thing reads like the LuaJIT guy whining that he has to do some work to port to iOS. The compiler-rt library provides these functions and it shouldn't take him more than 10 minutes to figure out the proper names to use on iOS.
>Vegans who are vegans for health reasons - dumb dumb dumb

Actually if you have an even basic understanding of biology and how factory farming works in the United States you'd know that this isn't totally true. A large majority of meat sold in supermarkets, fast food and chain restaurants in the US use meat that is non organic and absolutely full of antibiotics. In addition, between bovine growth hormone, mad cow disease, pink slime, the link between cardiovascular health and red meat, etc, are you actually going to make the argument that eating a vegan diet has no health benefits?

>Additionally, many vegans will go heavy on soy and wheat based foods.

Funny, as a vegetarian I (and all others I know) eat a very balanced diet that doesn't include an excessive of anything. But since you're happy to throw around generalizations, many carnivores will go heavy on fried chicken and big macs. There are many health issues surrounding obesity, heart disease, and diabetes linked to these.
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I think this is really cool. Authy guys are making 2-factor authentication main stream, which is incredible. I've used them before on some sites and the process is as easy as you would want it to be. Great job!
I'm not sure where you're getting your info (perhaps you saw the price for the remainder of this season) but it used to be $100-$120 depending on which
Even you bought. It went up slightly this year, though I'm not sue how much since they let returning subscribers keep the old rate.
Looks awesome. Would be great for file submission competitions.
I don't agree. My assertion is that person X might think a code sample is crappy, but person Y will not think it is crappy code.

I am expecting this is especially the case where the person assessing the code does not understand what the code does (i.e. a "lesser" programmer assessing the work of a "greater" programmer)
"Mmm Mmm Sexy Times"

They made it pretty easy for me to pick.
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Show HN: Designers read hacker news too
This isn't your fancy new javascript gizmo, but funny guy with a funny story to promote his toddler app. I'm sure you'll agree. Humor me.

1st let me tell you how I came upon hacker news, and why I read it everyday.<p>I'm not a programmer, and only half-decent designer. I'm much more of a 'project manager' type of person. I wrote a blog post 2 years ago on how to do a fancy trick with css3 with box shadows. It was clever, and has been expanded and implemented all over the web. One day (while sitting in church) my phone kept buzzing every couple of seconds with comments on that blog post. I thought, "Oh great. my WP install probably got hacked... again.." I wasn't paying too much attention to the comments, as they were coming in so quick, I though for sure spam...

After church, I took a look at my weblogs to see thousands of visitors coming from some "hacker news" website. My fears were confirmed. I'd been hacked.

Needless to say, I eventually found out what HN was, and have been a near daily reader ever since! I love it. I don't understand half of the programming mumbo jump you'll talk about, but I love reading and following trends.

Soon after being 'hacked' by HN, A bug bit me to create a kids app for the iPhone for my then 2 year old boy. Since I knew some flash (being a designer) I set down that path using Adobes packager, and after what seemed a jillion hours, released my App. It's not quite as polished as I'd like, and I've got some more plans for it, but I'm quite happy.

So make this Dad's app climb the rankings by downloading it! It's a free DL, and I'm pretty sure your toddler children or nieces and nephews will thank you for it as well...

Do the right thing here, it's my vindication for ya'll hacking me.. :)

http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/toddler-trainer-hd/id496323534?mt=8
All great examples but I'm trying to find code that can be definitively attributed to one single person.
Of course you are wrong.

Firstly, most users aren't going to actively try and bypass the restrictions. Secondly, most users aren't going to know that they need to right click, open "Show package contents", understand the .app file structure, browse to the binary and open it from there.
I would recommend NPR as a far better fit for that, with that added bonus that it let's you do other things such as housework while you listen.
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I'd be happy to try this service, but the Facebook requirement turns me away; I can't help but think this hurts their acceptance in the tech community.

Though mainstream populace probably wouldn't care, social networks only get traction after the tech folk create that traction.
One of the comments on the site, from user Ronmovies, says it all:

I generally use iChat and Skype for chatting, but I was
curious and checked out Airtime. The first thing that
greeted me was a Log In with Facebook form that warned that
this app would have access to: "Your profile info:
description, activities, birthday, education history,
hometown, interests, likes, location, religious and
political views and work history." In addition, "This app
may post on your behalf, including videos you watched,
videos you posted and more." Why on earth would I want to
give them all that power, including the unspecified "and
more" when chat platforms like Skype aren't nearly as
freakishly invasive?

Chatroulette succeeded because of its subversive texture and flavor, not in spite of it. Airtime, meanwhile, sounds about as subversive as the John Birch Society. If someone like Fanning doesn't understand that, then I don't think we'll see any genuinely interesting startups from the "Facebook mafia."
America's monoculture was actually one of my surprises. I live in London; going to the Bay Area and seeing the monoculture was a bit of a shock. IMO you're far more likely to hear foreign languages (foreign to the country) in Europe than almost anywhere in the US.
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Bias is also very strongly present in television news (even news other than blatant lies as found on certain networks)...it may get worse as the most educated viewers leave to the Internet, and accountability for accuracy goes down.
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I would recommend people don't work for Apple. It's one thing to lie about computing history and say you invented everything so that customers believe it and give you lots of money (which you then use to outsource jobs and stop the company charity program) it's another thing entirely to drink your own kool-aid and start a series of the most embarrassing lawsuits I've ever seen. Apple is now officially not just a dodgy liar, but they are a joke. Work there at your own peril, I personally think they are a complete disgrace.
like the UI
http://www.getprotean.com/images/infographic3.jpg

This is blatantly misleading. Protean users carry 1 card AND AN IPHONE. The card only stores 3 at a time. :/
They're list building by submitting to random forms . Then they go back and try to see if the comment when through the form and shows up as a comment on the website. If it does, then they know they can spam that website in the future.
The onboarding process on the iphone app is probably the best I've seen on any app. This is good stuff.

Edit: But it breaks my heart to think that they will give it away for free to grow fast and then do all sorts of backflips in search of a business model. The business model is straightforward here. This product is useful. It has emotional value. Just charge good money for it and focus on making it bloody brilliant.
Why is that community (CAD/3d-modelling) even sitting at the table?

These modern GPUs are very generalized hardware now. Their drivers are "simulating" all kinds of features. Its a bit like OSS vs ALSA. They should just make the GPU a standard compiler target, and offer only the bare minimum (video-mode-setting) at the driver level.

Let the game industry write/design their own API on top. Let the CAD community do the same for their usecases. I know, with Mesa, this is kind of the setup. Except mesa isnt executed by the gpu: it runs on the CPU, and from there it executes code on the GPU.

Wouldnt it be much nicer if GPUs just behaved like CPUs? They are just optimized for different types of proccesing. Thats the interesting end-game: could the CPU be optional?
That depends, how much of their competitive advantage over AMD is in software and how much of it is hardware?
oh my god I wonder what dalton caldwell had for breakfast today
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While the design seems fairly nice, the idea is nothing new.

Rypple, founded in 2008, started out with an anonymous feedback application built for the enterprise (albeit, I don't think the messaging was quite as forward as it is for this service, I think it required the manager opting in). Rypple eventually pivoted into a performance management cum next-gen performance review app, but the anonymous feedback feature is still a component. It was acquired by Salesforce.com last year.

I love the idea of anonymous feedback, it's one of the aspects of Rypple that initially attracted me to work at the company (I used to work at Rypple).

However, I'm not even sure Rypple was the first mover in the corporate anonymous feedback space, there's been quite a few similar services over the years. I think an app with just this feature, given how there's been consolidation in the HCM industry and providers now often offer a full suite of HR/performance management tools nowadays, is unlikely to achieve major success. That said, there's still a ton of small startups in the space that have similar ideas to Happiily.
Spoke like a real American who has not seen many places.
One canon of construction of legal documents is to treat every word as necessary to the meaning. The history and text of the 2nd Amendment suggest that the right to keep and bear arms is allowed for two basic purposes: self-defence (as a pre-existing right and the fact that this is largely copied from the English Bill of Rights where this was more explicit), and the militia interest (again found in both the English Bill of Rights, limiting an individual RKBA to Protestants) and the text itself (which mentions a militia).

The Supreme Court has always said (even in cases where they held a collective right, like Presser v. Illinois) that an attempt at elimination of gun ownership by a state would run afoul with the militia interest by the federal government. This is because the militia interest can only be served by an individual right. You have to be able to bring your gun when you join a militia so you must be able to own one outside this, and so the right has to be broader than the mere militia interest. And I disagree with groups like the NRA here but I think that if the state put forth an inexpensive program for people to learn and be certified regarding gun safety, they could probably require such certification before allowing them to own guns.

Again, I don't see anything in the text or history of the second amendment that would preclude eliminating nuclear weapons ownership. Now, big guns on private warships? That's a more interesting question ;-)
You're thinking of Parkinson's Law -- another well known finding in all industries.

A lot of comes down to how estimates are being used. A lot of places use estimates as the plan rather than ... an estimate. And that's where stuff goes awry, because as you say the incentives are to stick to the plan even if it's stupid.
I just heard of this project today, but being an Android user I would contribute to a kickstarter just for Android if that's what it takes.
The blind allocation policy exists because a lot of the work at Google isn't very interesting.
The San Francisco Bay Area? That's where I live. Mono-cultural it is not. Maybe you meant another Bay Area (there are as many of those as there are bays.)
> I think it depends on how much glucose and carbohydrates you're getting in your diet.

Let me rephrase the question, as apparently it wasn't clear:

Most instances of fasting (specific time + specific instance) do not get acetone breath at all.

Some instances of fasting do get acetone breath, but if they do, it's usually only for a couple of days near the beginning of the fast (usually starting around 2nd day and ending before the 4th day), even if the fast goes on for 3 weeks.

Your explanation does not seem to make this dichotomy possible - it seems to imply an all-or-nothing situation (for a specific instance). Can you extend your description to accommodate this observation? [Note: based on personally collected set of anecdotes - I couldn't find any rigorous collection of this data]

> Sounds like woo-woo toxin theory to me.

I specifically avoided "toxins" in this reply (but not in others) because toxin theory is not well defined, and can thus easily be ridiculed to death. If you define it more properly, (e.g. caffeine "detox"), it is exactly as described, it does make you feel sick. Technically, caffeine is poisonous (as is alcohol) - it's just that in small doses, we as a specie seem to like the effect it produces.
If you're building a tech business in SV, and you have been around for less than 5 years, you really need to bid on this guy:

http://goodwillion.com/lot/14858

David Weekly is one of the smartest, best-connected guys in the Valley. He isn't a money-grubbing asshole, or a shameless self-promoter, so most of the New SV Crowd probably has no clue who he is, or that he "matters." The rich New Guard of SV knew / hung out with David Weekly back when they were the broke New Kids. Spending what is currently $41 to get time with him is a serious bargain.

Oh yeah, and he pretty much started the whole Hacker Dojo thing, the whole hackathon thing, etc. He's seriously just too much of a good, nice guy to put himself out there like that, though. So there, I did it for him!
Many people don't realize how small Bitcoin is. It's trading in the $1M range. That's like few hundred people playing with their savings - low liquidity = high volatility - talking about this as something significant/newsworthy is silly.
It doesn't have to be intended or designed as a Ponzi scheme to end up as one. E.g a legitimate investment manager could cover up a bad month/quarter/year hoping to fix it down the road then wind up being flumoxed by compounding losses or seduced by the increased business they get by beating the rest of the market during a downturn.
Thanks for the feedback. Education is for sure an underserved market. One of the reason is the high barrier to entry. It's a completely different ballgame when you're selling to schools rather than small businesses.

Having a bundled lesson plan, multimedia attachments, and links to resources is definitely something we want to look into. Our goal is to have the teacher eventually teach from his or her Planboard. We're still far away from the digital classroom but we believe the next big change will happen in education.
Yup. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2800880
My initial impression: if you like the Journey soundtrack or soundtracks by Clint Mansell, you'll like this. Had no idea who this was until this article, but I'm buying her album after listening to the tracks on her website.
It's much, much worse for me. Things go into Inactive memory, which is fine, but then it doesn't get freed when it's needed, or else it does so very slowly. So I have 20 MB of Free memory and 4 GB of Inactive and everything slows to an unusable crawl and I have to run `purge` to get my computer to start behaving properly again.
They aren't worth less than yahoo, they're worth 2x as much ($42B vs $19B) as of the current moment.

Yahoo is worth much less now than Microsoft offered for them in 2008, so this comparison is just your average TC troll title.
#2 - http://techcrunch.com/2010/05/11/yelp-security-hole-puts-fac...

Facebook actively hands over your data to partners

Google does retargeting the right way. I don't how you make the assumption google shares more, cause google is very open with their ad retargeting. It never shares any personal identifiers just general aggregate data.

#3 .. People won't admit it but its a fact.
Awesome company, actually the easiest reward card I've used. I use them at Rojoz in Palo Alto, give them my phone number, and the 7th wrap is free.
Do you mean 32,000 listeners?
This is nice, but I'd still like to see a complete nobody, without previous record deals start out on the internet and "make it".

So far all the examples of internet distribution "working" have been from big (or relatively big) artists.
Bitcoin trading volume over a 30 day period is more than $20 million dollars, which is incredibly notable for an open-source currency which isn't managed or operated by anybody. The technology involved and the implications of its growth are very significant/newsworthy.

The fact that it's trading at $10 again is also very significant to the Bitcoin community, it hasn't done that in more than a year. And it'll probably reach 12 by the end of the year before it stabilizes again.
Microsoft abandon Metro name due to legal challenge
I don't follow baseball so please correct me if this information is for something less than it seems to me. A quick google search brought up two services (MLB.tv and MLB Extra Innings). The former seems to cost about $40-$50 while the latter is in the $200 range for the season. Also, Extra Innings looks like an add on package to an existing cable/satellite subscription while MLB.tv is a standalone service.

MLB.tv:
http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/subscriptions/index.jsp

Extra Innings (found price info on Wikipedia):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLB_Extra_Innings
Thanks for that! I totally forgot about Fahrenheit and I was super excited about it back then and depressed when it got cancelled, ha!
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My dashboard has 10 widgets, two of those are web clips. I'm seeing 90MB real memory and 220MB virtual. Maybe it's not as bad as I thought. Or maybe it's just improved since 10.6.
This isn't necessarily a bubble, but market reaction to the block reward halving later this year. The decreased inflation will double the value of bitcoins, and this trend was anticipated well in advance.