skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Every time there's a report about Curiosity doing something that overlaps with software or hardware that we at HN are familiar with comments like this appear.

The bottom line is: (a) Curiosity was designed 8 years ago so the tech. on board is old (b) everything that's on board has to be radiation hardened and (c) NASA are conservative about 'new stuff' because they need it to work (e.g. the thrusters on the skycrane were derived from the Viking landers).
Helios - Ken Starks - appeal for (time-critical) help
Not to forget that Microsoft is pushing metro everywhere. If somehow Windows 8 becomes a success with the consumer market, I see limitless demand for Metro tablets and consequently metro phones.
You've misread -- `stinos' isn't the one saying these things, he's quoting a Belgian journalist. He disclaimed that he doesn't know if these are accurate depictions and asked HN for comment.
Between the to bar and the content, for a week or so, place a centered link reading "A personal message about the future of HN from Paul Graham." Make it a thread maybe. Talk about the expectations of visitors. The need to build up, rather than drag down. To hold back the snarky comments, no matter how funny we find them. (And not to vote them up, no matter how funny we find them.)

Talk about the virtues of reddit's better maintained communities if you're not looking for serious conversation.

Make the post exactly what you want from the community.

Treat them like the serious business and tech minded sluts you want them to be woke under your roof. And point that out too. You're choosing to engage, like you often do. You don't want to, and shouldn't have to, seek technological answers to people problems.

Maybe you'll convince a few people to think before posting/voting.
I feel like there could be a really interesting story behind this. You mention interesting concepts like interplanetary colonization, destruction of the Earth ecology, fascist government and extreme reduction in population.

But the languag is difficult to read. There are lots of missing commas and bad grammar, making it difficult to parse some of the sentences. I get the feeling you are not writing idiomatic english, but translate more or less word-by-word from another language.

I suppose writing skills comes from practice, so don't give up. Write down your story and go back to refine the language later.
very helpful link, thanks.

"there’s no question this will become the way new Mac users will find Mac software".

It's true, and you have to be there if you want to be found.
From the Wikipedia article on Pussy Riot:

"Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Yekaterina Samutsevich participated in some Voina performances. Tolokonnikova was part of a performance in which a number of couples were filmed having sex in the Biology Museum in Moscow in 2008."

You can easily find footage of them participating in this orgy. How would you handle such "protesters" that constantly show this kind of behaviour for many years? I guess they would be imprisoned in the US as well.
presumably the 8 year old design would use already-proven tech too..
The USA seems to get a third world country. The step between poor and rich is huge, there is no health insurance, people can buy weapons and kill each other, the political system is broken and corruption is everywhwere.
I bought an ebook today from Amazon and it had the option to "rent" it. Wow. I can't even believe how quickly I was right. The paperback copy of this book was $28, the ebook was $15, and the cost to rent started at $8. I assume rental cost increases based on the length of time (shortest period of rent being 30 days), but I was in a hurry and didn't have a chance to mess with the options.
Except for "Orcs Must Die", which is the title that got me to sign up to OnLive! I really enjoy the service.
Say what you may about operating systems then and now, but with experience I can tell you this, these devices were phones first and computers second. They are computers first and phones second now.

[Warning - Personal anecdote. #include<grain of salt>] Even in Nokia land, SonyEricsson land, what ever crap may have happened on the system you were ALWAYS able to attend phone calls. Even if the whole damn os came crashing down because of a rogue game, an incoming call was never missed or cut off. Once phone functionality became 'just an app', there are a lot more cases (personally) of the incoming phone calls flat out not responding because of some random rogue app. Both iOS and Android (early revisions) are equally guilty of this. Note, I'm not talking about dropped call or poor reception which may be a network issue. I'm specifically addressing the "code" part of the phone where functionality just did a 180.

/end-rant
1 way HN could REALLY help: ERIC NEEDS YOU
The CPU is a radiation hardened PowerPC 750 known as a RAD750 made by BAE. Some more info at http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57491281-76/slow-but-rugge...
Are you saying short-term discounts and freebies are unheard of in USA?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/02/national-donut-day-...
https://www.facebook.com/events/353010928105586

There are many more examples of stuff regularly given out by companies for free, it's just two things I could remember immediately due to you mentioning "sugar holiday" :)
Honest question, why? Don't most of the phones run on ARM? Or did you imply something on the lines of PC (or the POWER architecture)?

/clueless
The german Autobahn is much better than the US highway system.
Because it wouldn't bring in as much revenue as advertising, I'm guessing. And I think they'd rather have less third-party client than they do now.
Integrate IDM with Chrome using oGet extension
A social network for programmers
Memory allocation overhead in C++
Are you aware of the fact that HN is open source? There's also Reddit and Lamernews. You can pick one and re-skin for your purposes I suppose.
Firebird golang driver released
Please help my friend Eric. He really is awesome! And he really could use your help!
What are you talking about - of course many dispute it! There were mass protests about the election results, and multiple proven cases of fraud - which, of course, were never prosecuted due to absence of independent judiciary.

Again, quoting official results in obviously and proven rigged elections as evidence of "voters who have voted for Putin" is just disingenuous - do you really believe anybody would be swayed by the argument "Putin won elections because Putin says so"?

Also, the democracy is not only when majority wins. It is also when the rights of everybody are respected. Even if Putin had won the majority vote - which we do not know since there was no free and fair election - it would not absolve him from responsibility to preserve the rights of every citizen - including those who oppose him. That is clearly not happening.
I've always thought of Stack Overflow as the programmer's social network.
Everything is local.
Backlift seems like a great tool thank you for taking this step! I was setup in 5 minutes. The writing on the setup docs is straightforward so I think I could pass your link on to "less techy" friends and they would be able to be up and running quickly. The general docs are also well written. I am curious and have two questions: 1. Is the data stored in CouchDB, Mongo or other? and 2. The docs mention "eventually... deploying production websites used by millions." Please can you tell us the eventual date? Also I would like local development but I think I can guess that you guys will not prioritize this as your target users might not make it through the conversion funnel of getting the software setup on their own computers. All-in-all, bravo, I think you are on to something great here.
I would not "handle" them in any way. Why should I "handle" them? There are a lot of people having sex, some of them film that, so what? Who cares about it and how it is related to anything?

If you think people that have sex or film it (provided, of course, we're talking about consenting adults) are imprisoned in the US, you obviously do not know much about US. In the US, to be imprisoned, one has to actually commit a crime and be judged and sentenced, and this happens in independent court which does not jump when the government says "jump!". So please do not guess, because your guess is wrong.
I'm not sure if this is what you want, but you can turn live evaluation off with Ctrl/Cmd-l and then evaluate the individual line you are interested in with Shift-Enter.
Did you ever hold the LG KE850 (Prada) in your hands or even tried to use it for extended periods of time? I developed for it at that time (J2ME) and let me tell you it was not in the same league as the iPhone.
Sounds like the rantings of a socialist agitator.
You make a good point. Lots of extremely smart people work for large companies. If you held all variables constant other than company size, I suspect most people would prefer a smaller company, but that is just an educated guess, and in reality company size is heavily correlated to other factors.
The French would all be speaking German today if we (USA) had emulated them in the last century.
Heh...you really do need to visit Turkey. Turkcell didn't advertise that they were giving everyone unlimited texts. There was no article in the national paper about Turkcell giving unlimited texts. They did it because it was proper, and hospitable. In short, Turkish hospitality is very different from the examples you gave.

Trust me, if you ever care to visit Ankara, tell me and I will show you Turkish hospitality.

(Or, as odd as it sounds, Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" episode on Istanbul does an amazingly good job of capturing the essence of modern Turkish culture...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ojatA-Xqhk)
You think the problem with celebrity users will be solved by having pg take a bigger role?

I think the way to remove the low-value posts would be to ban all the self-promoting bloggers; daringfireball, 37signals, 42floors, asmartbear... we don't seem to get these problematic stories either from "proper" news sites (even techcrunch et al) or from bloggers unrelated to YC who don't post here regularly. Of course, that would be a dramatic change to the character of HN, and I suspect pg himself would end up on the wrong side of such an exclude list.
Indeed, their shopping list 8 years ago was not from Newegg with whatever Intel had at the time, it was whatever BAE had spent many years rad hardening and qualifying by that point, which would itself have been based on an already proven CPU (read: older) when BAE first started looking. All of a sudden it's 1993.
exactly. Though the fact smsm42 claims it was overhyped seems to prove the point on the way the media reports.
Array is block of memory, which has address.
Pointer is variable, which holds address of block of memory.

Arrays are useful when array memory can be accessed directly, without using of indirect addressing as in case of pointer.
here is a Reuter's quote:
"Kasparov and his Other Russia dissident movement are not standing in Sunday's parliamentary election because they could not get registered as a party. They enjoy little public support among Russians but have a big following in the West."
Taken from:
http://in.reuters.com/article/2007/12/02/idINIndia-307909200...

By MIKE WHITNEY:

"And a final word on Garry Kasparov

On Sunday, while Putin's party "United Russia" was screeching to a landslide victory, Reuters News was busy taking mug-shots of the stony-faced Kasparov holding up Florida-style ballots claiming the voting was rigged. "They are not just rigging the vote," Kasparov moaned, "They are raping the whole electoral system. These elections are a reminder of Soviet elections when there was no choice.....Putin is going to have a hard time trying to rule like Stalin."

Stalin? So now Putin is Stalin? First of all, when did Reuters begin to take such a keen interest in voting irregularities? It must be a recent development, becuase they were nowhere to be found in the 2000 presidential election. And when did they start to pay attention to "political dissent"? They certainly never wasted any video-footage on the antiwar rallies in the US. Are we to believe that they are more interested in democracy in Russia than America?

And why is Reuters so eager to provide valuable column-space to a washed-up chessmaster who's only interested in making a nuisance of himself by bellyaching about voter fraud? That's not news; it's propaganda."
From article dated December 05, 2007
Why the Council on Foreign Relations Hates Putin
Why Murdoch’s Journal Loves Kasparov
Australia vs New Zealand live
Australia vs New Zealand live stream at Sydney
Match scheduled:
Date : Sat 18 AUG 2012
Time: 10:05 GMT
Rugby Championship / Bledisloe Cup 2012
venu: Sydney
I actually find 4chan to be a very good source of constructive feedback. The ratio of constructive to unconstructive comments is much worse, but the unconstructive comments tend to be very obviously so, and the anonymity and general culture make it easy to brush them aside without much thought.
I'm in a similar position and I'm not very productive focussing on two projects at the same time. I decided to work really had on client work for some time to save enough money so I can take off 4-5 months and finish my own project. I have two more weeks to go on a freelance job .. can't wait to be free again :)
I disagree. Employees are still collecting a salary, and they probably haven't put lots of money into the company up front (although over time they are effectively doing so in the form of lower salary).

Generally founders of startups have taken a leap of faith well before there are any employees collecting a salary. They work full time on the idea for a year or two before they can approach investors, living off of savings or small investments money from friends and family. By the time the first employees are brought in, there is enough money in the bank to pay salary and benefits for a year or longer.

Do I think that most startups under value the opportunity/uncertainty risk that employees take? Absolutely.
Grue or I'm not playing.
So it is legal to have a public sex orgy in a museum in the US? I honestly didn't know that.
As Windows is not in option anyway, another point to prefer OS X over Linuxes and BSDs is Apple's Aperture app. I do shoot photos from time to time, so I need a nice app to process them and organize my library. Also, I need iTunes to sync with my iPhone and iPad.
They can even patch Voyager, now at the edge of our solar system: http://www.spaceflightnow.com/news/n1005/11voyager2/

They also patched the MER rovers many times; This bug caused quite a few headlines back in the day: http://www.nasa.gov/offices/oce/llis/1483.html
I think HN should be a democracy:

1. Don't let people create multiple accounts so easily. Switch to OpenID and have the ability to associate old accounts with the new ID or have the old account deactivated within 90 days. I don't even know how many accounts I've created, but it is a lot. This is basically anonymity. This does not work.

2. Don't filter comments and not hide topics that anyone disagrees with unless they are extremely offensive, and those could be marked as offensive and then PG and those with enough karma will check those and if they are offensive, they will hide them, but anyone could still see them, vote on them, and comment on them, if you clicked a flag to see them. You have to login to upvote, downvote, mark as offensive, post, or comment.

3. Show who upvoted or downvoted to everyone. This will make people think twice before downvoting.

4. Allow private communication between users so that if someone downvotes you without saying why, you can ask them why.

5. The new page is grouped by: last 24 hours, last 3 days, last week, last month, last 3 months, last year, and then by year. Everytime something is upvoted it goes to the top of the new list for the group it is in.

I'm sorry that some people have complained that HN works fine technically as it is. It certainly does, for those it serves. However, people complain that there are negative views here. I think the changes I proposed will help with that. But a bigger problem is that people's posts and comments get whacked. If you handle things in the way I described, and stop silencing me and others, I think the community will be much happier.
Subscripting only on OS X not iOS.
I think Jeff was always very keen not to make it a social network and focus on pure Q&A. Ie there is no ability to follow people/friend them etc which you can do on Quora for example.
RIP Open Source MySQL
Ah yes. You've got a good point. I find it confusing on how to allow downvotes then. Is age of the account a fair measure? Then what about people who've been here without registering, or people who actually have good discretion.

Maybe enforce a stealth downvote. This would be a case where the downvote button is visible but you use heuristics and probabilistic models to determine to whether actually accept the guys' vote or not, and if yes, what weight to assign it.
I think though you currently just subtract them and test equality to zero, so it is all done by the hardware.
I guess that arguably trying to get HTC banned from importing any of their phones into the US isn't "suing" them, but it's still pretty damn hostile to both them and to competition in the smartphone market: http://www.bgr.com/2012/06/06/apple-htc-patent-lawsuit-us-ba...
What does a series A funding strategy and plan look like?
What qualifies as "hate speech"? As far as I understand (I wasn't there), the worst thing they shouted in the cathedral was "holy shit" (literally translated into Russian as "срань господня"). That wasn't any kind of violence rally, and that was mostly political performance, not religious.
So, what is it? I'm hearing different amounts in these threads, $200, $500 and further down even someone saying they paid $1399 for a hosting contract?
Furthermore, the lack of discipline of US parties has to be taken into consideration.
They're basically coalitions in which factions compete for power and influence through primaries and financing while in France everyone knows the minor center-left parties (the Greens for instance) will participate in a coalition led by the Socialist Party.
The negociation on the inclusion of this or that topic in the common platform are formal.
The Decline of MySQL?
I won't be signing up purely based on that photo of a "programmer".

Marketing guy: should I start a social network for marketers, showing a guy who's adding two and three together and getting six as answer? Would you sign up for that? No? But you expect programmers to sign up when your marketing portrays them as idiots?
Introducción a TDD
Raises the interesting question: Are there radiation-hardened hard drives (not SSDs)?
I wonder whether it will get to the point where they just send processors was a large amount of redundancy, multicore/ multiprocessor, and just not trust any one result but probabilistically across operations in parallel.
Linux is a lemon on the new retina Mac Book Pro
Twitter Changes Lead to Online Protests
I believe a cursory look at the majority of websites on the internet would provide ample evidence to the contrary.

I certainly find web design very difficult, whilst programming is something I am comfortable with. This may be more down to experience than anything else though.
Perhaps (and this is just based on my impression of your approach from a computer terminal 1000 miles away; could be way off), an approach of needing things to make sense, needing information, needing closure is coming across as a negative personality trait that makes the interviewer think you're going to be high maintenance, a drain on their time, and self- and team-sabotaging.

Nobody likes getting passed over for a job, with so much prep work and so much on the line, but it's part of the game of interviewing and working for somebody that you can keep that aspect of nervousness in check. I'm not saying this is you, but if the roles were reversed, and you had 20 candidates for 1 job, and out of the two finalists, one may have higher technical marks but is so nervous during the interview, wondering how they're doing during the interview, even seeking your approval before they even get the job, which one would you hire?

The basic value proposition for working for someone else is that you generate a net positive financial and time outcome for them; if you take weight off their shoulders, you pass. Seeking approval adds weight.
Personally I think I'd raise the bar to moderator rights to those with several thousand karma, and encorage strongly to flag stories they think are inappropriate. That should get the site closer to what it was a few years ago.
I know nothing about this site but, going by the people page, is it's origin in Iran (nothing against it, just curious)?
Why not show the "new" tab as the front page and put "top" as a menu option? I know it's one more click for a lot of us, but it could be a nice change! Or, at least make that the default.
You can use them on iOS 5.1 by implementing the methods the subscripts map to on NSArray and NSDictionary (as well as mutable) in categories.

For NSArray:

- (id)objectAtIndexedSubscript:(NSUInteger)index {
return [self objectAtIndex:index];
}

NSMutableArray:

- (void)setObject:(id)object atIndexedSubscript:(NSUInteger)index {
if (index < self.count){
if (object)
[self replaceObjectAtIndex:index withObject:object];
else
[self removeObjectAtIndex:index];
} else {
[self addObject:object];
}
}

NSDictionary:

- (id)objectForKeyedSubscript:(id)key {
return [self objectForKey:key];
}

NSMutableDictionary:

- (void)setObject:(id)object forKeyedSubscript:(id)key {
[self setObject:object forKey:key];
}
...and this is a perfect example of why anonymity on the internet is a good thing which has inherent value. Now we've learned something we wouldn't have otherwise. It's not like people with these paraphelias show up for interviews with the newspaper.
Well, this is pretty preliminary. I will make the commas and grammar corrections. Thanks for the input.
Related Google Tech Talk: Debugging Code from 60 Million Miles Away https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gZK0tW8EhQ&hd=1

Ron Garret talks about DS1, a project in the 90s where a small team used Lisp to send an autonomous craft into space in a third of the time and at a fraction of the cost of previous comparable projects. (Yes, I couldn't have made up a more HN-friendly story if I tried.)
How so? Maybe if the USA was healthier and less depressed you'd have joined the war from the get-go rather than staying in bed for the first four years. But even if you'd stayed out entirely it wouldn't have delayed the soviet defeat of Germany overmuch. If you were talking about France's failure to defend Indochina you might have more of a point, but the US doesn't exactly have a great record there either.
This was my first thought. Flicking through the rest of the site though it doesn't look bad. Surprising number of members from Iran.

I do feel the home page needs to change. Why not rotate the image and show a random community member. This would be a better representation of what a 'programmer' looks like.
And here, I always thought of GitHub like that...
This doesn't feel as much a social network as an unstructured dumping ground of noise vaguely related to "programming", in an insultingly naive sense of the term [1].

Maybe there's some grand plan here, but I don't see it. As it stands no self-respecting "programmer" is going to use this site because it serves no purpose, nor does it solve any problems. We'll use StackOverflow because it does.

[1] see the landing page photo.
Just be careful, if you get too god at this it might be used for things you don't agree with. This is an area that I would steer completely clear of, the same way I'd never help develop chemical or biological weapons.