skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I observe the opposite. The developer ads I've seen almost always say "college degree or equivalent experience". For a good developer who wants to stay a developer, college is a waste of money. It might be great for other reasons though.
My mother also passed away 10 years ago when I was 12. The concept of death is a constant nagging horror in the back of my mind that won't go away. I've never been able to make myself feel any better about it, and I probably never will. I guess the only consolation is that, ready or not, it will eventually just come and then I won't worry about it anymore.
MacObserver spam accounts:

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jmartellaro

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=digiwizard

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davethenerd

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=tanousjm

- http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=Semteksam
Well that is just dumb.

If you're young and don't know what you want to study, and change your major a few times, then yes, you should not be doing it while paying $56k a year. Leaving to go work for a while would be smarter until you lock it down a bit more.

But just drop the "i left BU to do awesome work" thing and how much academia held you back from doing that awesome work.
I was trying to show that even though I prefer Apple's product and even though I think the walled garden is a legitimate idea, I think in this instance (and many others) Apple is being stupid and cowardly.

Most people on HN, probably with good reason, assume that people take sides in a specific argument based on their Android-Apple loyalty.

[I don't distrust Apple's intent any more than I do any other profit-driven business (i.e. Google is included). Apple has many times owned up to their app rejection mistakes. See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4454530]
Debian looks at OpenRC as a potential init replacement
I think you are being too cynical. IMHO, I don't think the lawsuits were a serious threat or a factor in this decision. They (obviously) believe they have the right to shut down the service regardless of who owns it.
I'm wondering this as well. But the bigger question on my mind is whether I want to stay with them. I am almost finished migrating my data off of the hosts and onto Google Apps. I'm not going to undo what I just did, so I don't see any reason to keep my lifetime accounts.
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It copies on the third line prior to C++0x, and unfortunately not everyone can rely on move semantics yet.
Perhaps I'm being dumb, but doesn't std::list<T> already do exactly this?

From SGI's STL docs:

"A list is a doubly linked list. That is, it is a Sequence that supports both forward and backward traversal, and (amortized) constant time insertion and removal of elements at the beginning or the end, or in the middle"
I was actually remarkably offended when they removed the former app. Exodus is wrong and ex-gay conversion violates APA guidelines, but that doesn't make the app inherently bigoted, which is a remarkably weighty term that I'd prefer leave reserved for people like the Westboro Baptist Church.

Exodus claims to 'provide support' for people who want to 'recover' from homosexuality. Predatory? Misleading? Sure. Immoral? I'd say so.

But unlike homophobes, I don't agree with censoring speech that I disagree with and forcing my beliefs on other people.

I'd much rather let the app stand, have it receive 1-star ratings, have alternate competing apps (ie, from pro-gay groups) come up in the search results, etc.

Why? Because I'm certain I'm right and that ex-gay conversion is wrong, and I'm certain that, if the truth and the lies are laid out side-by-side in the plain light of day, eventually, the truth will prove itself.
This is the first time I've ever visited AppSumo, and my first impression is that it seems to be a collection of - overpriced - get rich quick schemes and apps of a dubious value.

A shame because the basic concept seems to be a great idea.
The linker included with OS X is known as ld64 (to distinguish it from an older linker). The source code is available from http://opensource.apple.com/source/ld64/ld64-133.3/, but it is not a part of the LLVM project and only uses LLVM for LTO support.

You can produce standalone binaries with it (adding sections and modifying their attributes with command-line arguments), but it doesn't support linker scripts.
Lifehacker: Photo based apartment search
Yes, SGI is still in business. I use two of their large storage clusters. One CXFS, the other DMF.
A format with lossy alpha transparency! This is good news!

Being able to have graphics with transparent portions, without having to use bandwidth-hogging PNG will be quite useful.
So he wants to turn REST into SOAP? Personally, I'll pass on that. REST is agile. REST is not about a ponderous, verbose, bloated specification for 5 things I want to do an 50 other things I don't need but have to take with it.
Yeah, I pretty much agree with everything you're saying, but trust me, std::list really does work by copying the items, so your point was not technically correct.
Do I have any real scoop that Yahoo is actually considering launching its own TV? I'll let you know when I get off the phone with Marissa Mayer. Ms. Mayer's Yahoo is about product, and since bold moves are the only way forward, why not forget all these TV and second-screen apps and just build and own the TV?

So... the answer to the question in the headline is a big fat "No."
Choosing Your Strategic Path
The Reactor Pattern and Doing Amazing Marketing
Right, but... I'm not going to do that unless I know what I'm clicking.
They've been promising the Livermore line forever. I think it'll probably just be vapor forever, Livermore-ites may have just decided they're ok not having a direct line from SF, Oakland, and Berkeley funneling drug dealers, muggers, and the homeless straight to downtown.
A good developer shouldn't need to fall back on a degree; they usually aren't required to get a job, I've seen.
So if AppSumo does take a hefty commission in the 50%+ 75% range (as mentioned in other comments here), that would pretty much explain the decline in quality of goods offered.

I personally wouldn't mind selling my (imaginary) e-course/book and only get 25% of proceeds -- for other, more tangible things, not so much.

Not knocking the story though, interesting stuff.
I support this. It's kind of ridiculous to see YC company's job postings on the front page all the time. And there's no reason to conflate the cult of YC with actual hacker news.
I read the use case mentioned on the article, wikipedia on mixins and a couple of more articles, I didn't follow what is the use case for mixins?

Someone care to take a stab at it or point to a resource?
Cobook, A Better Mac Address Book, Now Syncs With Google Contacts
Maybe I'm being harsh, but if someone downloads a clearly sketchy looking app (DOWNLOAD FREE MP3S) I have no sympathy for them when it ends up being malicious.

Just like I wouldn't pick up a candy bar off the street and eat it, I wouldn't download a disreputable looking app. Common sense.
I came here to see if anybody else noticed this too.

The only thing I can think of is an oversight by a lazy copy editor, just like the occasional [TK] that slips into print.

Though this is becoming increasingly rare, both because the [TK] notation is losing popularity, and because having copy editors at all is also losing popularity....
For that many sales the numbers are fine. Just be careful that you don't devalue a brand with heavy discounting.
Harvard Probing Dozens for Possible Cheating
I haven't used Über, but the idea is exactly the same and the apps are very much alike. I live in Madrid, which is one of the cities where Cabify operates. I've used their service a couple of times and I can only recommend it. Looks like a good place to work and Mark Villa Camp, the guy mentioned in the article is a well known name in the Spanish tech scene.

Is Cabify a copycat? Whatever, is a well executed idea and I wish they succeed.
"It seems like I’ve been rubbishing the whole ‘REST’ project. Actually I think the current situation is healthy. Monolithic ‘enterprise’ protocols like SOAP usually end up being a bad idea."
This is kind of an odd topic for a SXSW panel, but I'd like to see what HN think of it. The premise is that event-driven programming is a radically new and powerful paradigm for developers and is more clearly manifested by the popularity of Node.js.

This panel seeks to see how marketers and people running business can apply those engineering insights into how they both do a better job and scale the impact that they can have given limited resources.
My continuing education takes place at work and is part of work. I am also frequently being educated while reading, watching TV, browsing the Internet, or socializing. I don't see a description of what constitutes "education", do they mean purely "attending classes"?
Nice. I look forward to reading it on the 4th!
5 Useful Ipad/Iphone Tricks.
A letter to the editor is similar to an app? How?
PlanGrid (YC W12) is hiring a salesperson to help reform construction
PlanGrid is looking for our very first enterprise sales person. This job is for self-motivated individuals with enterprise sales experience who are looking to work for an exciting and rapidly growing startup hell-bent on reforming the construction industry. We offer uncapped commissions and a competitive base salary with medical, dental and vision insurance.

Responsibilities:

-Will be able to find, call, and meet with key decision makers (C-Level, Heads of IT, Project Executives) in the AEC industry

-Will be able to quickly learn the details of how PlanGrid works and how it adds value by eliminating paper costs, saving tons of labor hours, and reducing rework.

-Work with the founders to get angles on which companies are already using PlanGrid on California-based projects and then leveraging that into additional projects and/or enterprise-wide deployment

Locations:

New York City, Dallas, Houston, Washington DC, Chicago, Atlanta, Boston, or Los Angeles

Qualifications:

-4 Year degree required

-Ability to work independently

-3+ Years enterprise sales experience

-Blatantly amazing people skills

To get started, send your resume and references to jobs@plangrid.com with the word sales somewhere in the subject line.

About PlanGrid:

PlanGrid is a YCW12 company that was founded in 2011 to bridge the gap between good mobile software and the construction industry. Our app is currently being used on thousands of construction projects across the country and is enabling many companies to eliminate waste and save gobs of time and money. For more info go to www.plangrid.com and check out the cheesey pictures of the founders while you’re there.
From day one you could always install any .apk you wanted, I don't see that changing.
Actually in this particular case that "copy" is allowed to be elided even in C++98, as the copy constructor of person produces no side effects. It would be hard to notice if the optimizer is that smart or not either way though, since it will be optimized by redundant load/store elimination even if it was initially generated without optimization.
A protection against HIV would also do this, if only.
I think there's nothing to fear. The announcement states that in most cases you should be able to port your applications from Qt4 into Qt5 with little or no modifications.
On the other hand, I was an skeptic in regards to QML at first, but after using it I fell in love with it. It's logical and very easy to learn, and having similarities with web development means expanding the availabilty of programmers and designers who can work immediately in your project. Great stuff.
What Does It Mean To Be A God?
Reddit AMA: I make over $1 million / year in revenue with drop shipping business
I think the OP is trolling and has failed to grasp the actual point of this 8-year-old essay, that people who go out of their way to learn new languages are demonstrating something about their intellect. In 2004, Python was just building a head of steam. Nowadays it's Clojure or whatever.
China in Revolt
digitall, I don't get it. You submitted a link to an entry on your own blog that does not include any of your own content -- it's merely a copy/paste of a pg article. And your HN comment history is rubbish.

It makes it seem like you are attempting to promote your own blog without using any of your own content. What gives?
Considering a $50 discount and a guess of 70% for AppSumo, OP paid an effective $120 CPA. In return, did OP gain lifetime value from bought actions? Did he increase exposure for his book so that more people will buy at full price? Will he have repeat customers? Is this a positive ROI move? I think that is a better metric to measure this type of _marketing_, not "we sold x copies in y days!!".

I understand that there is no variable cost, but by offering a permanent "discount", OP may have permanently devalued his product. If that steep of a cut was viable, then author might have had a bad price point to begin with.

In general, the same thing must be considered for products with little to no variable costs. I'm not sure what the optimal solution is, but I would think that one would want to sell even at $0.01 - because a sale on a product with no variable cost has to be better than no sale at all...
I wish I had received this email, I think I missed out on one of the migrations at some point and I dropped off the list, but I re-added myself now.

It really makes me feel happy to see Dean to come out of the woodwork and handle this. I'm sure there's a million things he'd rather do than be involved in web hosting anymore, but he obviously felt some obligation to all of us who believed in his vision 8 years ago, and that more than makes up for a thousand what'd-you-expect-from-shared-hosting-you-idiot comments on HN and elsewhere.
The University of Cape Town research was done in colaboration with Medicines for Malarial Venture which has received $336 million in funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation since 2005.

MMV Press Release:
http://www.mmv.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/news/Afr...

Background on research team:
http://www.mmv.org/sites/default/files/uploads/docs/news/Bac...

Search Gates Foundation grants:
http://www.gatesfoundation.org/grants/Pages/search.aspx
It gets more Orwellian than that:

"PriusBot has detected you have been classified as a public menace. In accordance with statute XYZ-00N, you are now being driven off the nearest bridge."
Ask HN: What drives comments on "Show HN" threads?
Hi there,

I've mostly (/completely) been a lurker on this site. I posted a Show HN the other day for my app, and I only got one comment (it was very useful though).

I've looked at other Show HN's that make it to the 1st or 2nd page, and couldn't discern any noticiable difference between theirs and mine.

Just looking for some advice as to what works if you want input from the HN community.

Thanks!
Researchers engineer light-activated skeletal muscle
Don't bet on it. I have been consulting for many years, and the majority of my clients discount those with no college degree (doesn't usually matter what in), if they consider them at all. I don't really like to admit it, and I know many counter-examples personally, but this is generally my default view as well.
The missing address book for MAC
It's also not a problem in C++ if you don't care. Just because C++ gives you the means to enforce encapsulation doesn't mean you have to. And, as I said below, when your goal is performance and you need to break abstractions, it makes sense not to enforce encapsulation.
Lessons from HubSpot: Keys to Ensure Success for Growing Companies
BeSDS Firefox & Thunderbird deployment tool goes open source
Samsung unveils the Galaxy Camera: Does Android belong in your point-and-shoot?
The current website is getting blown away in a few weeks. We have a redesign branch on Github underway.
Most downloading is illegal. But there is a difference between crimes that the police will arrest people over, and crimes for which someone 'wronged' can sue. For downloading the 'wronged' party can sue for damages, which would be loss of earnings for that one sale. Plus, I guess, costs.

Uploading is easier to sue, because there the damages (the number of files made available) is much larger and it makes things more cost effective. It also (possibly?) acts as a deterrent to other uploaders.

Criminal charges tend to come in when money is being made from copyright infringement. Selling burnt DVDs, for example.

I'm being a bit vague because of the international audience. (I'm in the UK.)
And even if it was, C++ is nearly a superset of C. Write the part in C-style code which works best in C and then move on with your life...
The idiomatic way to access and manipulate STL data structures is through iterators. In this case, an iterator for a std::list is basically a pointer/reference to the person container in the article, so if you're referring to the list objects via their iterators there's no need for O(n) list traversal.
If the house has been previously hooked up for cable (or still is for internet) you can try hooking up anyway. A lot of them will usually have those channels come through anyway because it costs them less in filters and things to do so. However some of them still encrypt them so it's a bit of a crap-shoot as to what you'll find.
And have completely different computational complexity for all the important operations. Use the right tool for the right task.
Rollover effects using only 1 image.
O(..) notation for complexity is usually qualified with "worst case" or "average case". Either way, "best case" behavior of O(1) is not really interesting.
I no longer trust them to offer a similar shared hosting service a) reliably and b) actually lifetime. It was probably never a good idea to finance a company this way and it's certainly not a good idea to spin this off into a new company with zero paying customers but actual real life costs that can no longer be written off as a cost of doing business. How long before this new Textdrive folds? 5 years, 6 months?
شبكه شعر ، ادبيات و هنر
So You Want To Be a Data Governance Manager?
Some of it is probably just random luck. Stories that don't make it to the first page don't get many comments, and there are way too many new posts for them all to make the front page.

But I think that the fact that your site is about retirement planning (a decidedly unsexy topic -- no offense!) probably also plays a role.
Myth of the "No-Code" Solution
>Newspapers are very influential, more so than Apple. Will you claim that they should print all letters to the editor, with no discretion?

Newspapers have limited space and no filtering capabilities for readers.

>How about Hacker News? Shall we lobby pg to remove the ability to flag an article, and let this place turn into Reddit?

I have the choice to use my web browser to read sites other than HN (and I don't need to jailbreak my browser to do so).
Famine isn't the issue. A famine is when there simply isn't enough food within a population. The issue at hand is when there's enough food that isn't well distributed, which is a completely different phenomenon.
Cool. For some reason I thought you all had found a way to ingest good tips from Facebook/Twitter without having the user opt it into your platform. Sort of like a replyz.com (not at all perfect -- but good try) but for tips.
We don't use interviews so much for tech review but more for getting a feel on a person's personality. Granted we run the risk of having that person out of their element and not showing their true colors but it does help weed some.
I’ve hit a glass ceiling of coding productivity. Now what?
I am an expert on the topic.

I was profoundly deaf. I wore hearing aids and later got a cochlear implant. And I've known several people in a similar position.

Trust me, these stories about people hearing for the first time are sensationalized, to say the least. I'm in no way minimizing how miraculous these devices are -- just be aware that the experience is quite different to that being portrayed in the media.
Went to UCLA - when I took out a loan for a year the estimated cost was ~$27k a year (In-state). Friends of mine who were international students were already paying $50k+ at UCLA.

Could easily imagine $50k/year for private schools.
Bootstrapping a Software Company
I already finished migrating off of my TD lifetime account and onto WebFaction. I don't see why I should put my sites back on TD. So I guess my TD lifetime account is a spare, for now. I'm sort of glad to hear they're doing the right thing, but they did it the wrong way.
Explosion.js
JavaScript Canvas based simple explosion library .
I am utterly utterly overjoyed seeing this, even with caveats.

Government has been described as the engine of a lawn mower and the brakes of a Rolls-Royce - so it's good to see the brakes off for a while.

I do worry about those brakes though. In the design principles they disparagingly refer to an article on beekeeping as not a core focus for government (you did not know Ron Paul was a RoR guy did you?).

But beekeeping is on the live site because it represents a constituency of the live governemnt. Although they are under the cabinet office and so theoretically able to say no, I think hoping you can slim down government through web design is a bit - optimistic.

Dirctgov started off as optimistic as these guys - and what is not on github is the decision making process - when their mailing list is world readable as well as their code then we shall have open government

till then, the beekeeping lobby will have it's way - eventually.
Clearly not as desirable as just having the finished app approved, but a drones twitter account that posts every time the strike database is updated sounds like an itch worth scratching to me.
Completely different? No. The core e-reader features should have been identical. Searching an Amazon e-book, for example, should have simply reused to code they already had. Instead e-book searches on the Fire are not indexed, so there is no way to search your device for words or phrases. You cannot even use the fucking dictionary because it takes many minutes to do its linear scan.

The same thing is true for organizing books into collections. This was a solved problem. Even if Amazon could not reuse the GUI code, they had the existing collections GUI as a functional specification of what needed to be done. But no, instead my Fire gives me a giant pile of hundreds of unsearchable, unorganized e-books.

Or what about the synchronization feature? It lets you synchronize your notes, highlights, and last page read across all your Kindles. Amazon had solved this problem. They had working code that at the very least could have been used as a cheat sheet fore the Fire. But no, they managed to break that too.

The techmical execution of the Fire is the second most bot hed software product I have ever experienced, the worst being a video game from the 90s that I picked up remaindered for $2.
Free Ninite Pro to patch the Java Zero Day
Well, if we're striving for technical correctness, std::list really works by invoking the assingment operator on the items. The original article is strictly correct when it says:

> EDIT: Assume that the object to be contained in the list is non-Assignable as is the case with any non-trivial objects, for example those holding large memory buffers, file descriptors, handles etc. If the object is Assignable simple std::list<person> would do and there is no problem.

Except that normal C++ programmers would deal with that by overriding the assigment operator on this class to copy buffer pointers or whatever as appropriate.
The Ars article misses out the third opportunity - a subscription based service with easy to use existing networks and protocols and software; where some of the sub fee goes to content creators.

That's never happened. Even though the content creator would be getting paid for their content there would have been many court cases shutting anyone providing that service down.