skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus, from the description I read, Gabriella shows an interest in becoming a better programmer: she is constantly looking for feedback to improve her work. We get no such indications about Rodrigo.

This, I think, puts Gabriella slightly over the bar -- she sees value in being more like Rodrigo, but it doesn't appear that Rodrigo sees value in Gabriella.
Your interpretation is right, and those minima are interesting in themselves. For example, when http://quomodocumque.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/mochizuki-on-a... was posted, the very first comment was about that.

"It almost looks as if the method doesn't (as presently written) produce explicit constants. Hopefully as the ideas become more widely understood, effective constants will be able to be extracted."
I was worried about Fiddler getting "redgated" too. Glad to see Telerik being very forward about not screwing the community. Between their free .NET MVC controls, the Kendo UI and that a few of their engineers put out top quality content via their blogs Telerik has always played nicely with the developer community. Good luck to Eric and Telerik.
It wouldn't hugely surprise me if there was a manufacturer pulling the strings here to do market research and gauge public reaction.
Probably the bit about how they can't distribute it with DRM and must allow people to easily copy it from that point of distribution. I don't know for sure how free kindle e-books are distributed, but my gut tells me that it's the same way that non-free e-books are. If there is DRM preventing me from copying that e-book to another device, modifying that e-book, etc, then it would be in violation.
Well we needed to define what bloated means. While we have always point to its size. Most of the time it is including too many things we dont need and want while the whole thing is slow and large in size.

If the app with 10GB can open in less then a seconds then i dont think many would have complained. The problem is all these apps are getting slower, even with the Hardware performance improvement, and they take up valuable SSD space.

iTunes is one hell of bloat. Because you simply dont use your Music Player to manage your iPhone! It simply does not make any sense. And telling casual users to install itunes is just making the problem even worst. The Sync Apps should be linked with your Media Player Library or Playlist. But it should not be the same app. As a matter of fact, get rid of Sync with iTunes and use iCloud instead.

There are lots of bits and pieces in OSX that is showing its age. It wasn't much of a problem when Microsoft fail to make decent OS, and Google wasn't doing Android. Now Windows 8 has a shit UI but brilliant Internals, and Android is basically a Linux with cooperate backing. Apple seems to lack enough Software Engineers for an OS internal development.
The difference I would toss out there is that what Hardie did was not unethical, it was criminal.
SOLID CSS (Yes, all capitals, but that's because it's an acronym)
Seriously? Sounds like you have a faulty unit. No amount of jostling will turn on a closed Macbook Pro retina.
I'm always looking for a co-founder, whether I'm the geek or the suit. When a suit approaches me to be the geek for their idea, I usually give them some simple technical task to do - like setup a Tumblr or a Twitter account for the idea. Then I'll often ask for something businessy - form a C-corp for the idea or file a provisional patent.

Finally, before I even consider opening my laptop to code their idea, I want some paltry measure of idea validation. Are you selling a product? Good, find someone who will pay you to do the task manually before we program it. Are you looking to give the service away and monetize the user base? Good, get 5000 emails from a landing page describing your idea, or get 1000 followers on Twitter for your idea's account.

If they can do all this in a day or even a week, then they're quality co-founder material. Any longer and it's a judgement call. Most won't get past step one, and you certainly didn't want them as a co-founder.
>No it doesn't

Yes it does. See how easily something can be refuted when it isn't backed up?

You might have an argument if it's unintentional, though.
I would call it a problem of excessive specificity in general, where specifying adjectives is an example of it!
Ask HN: Is an opt-in ad network feasible?
Is an opt-in ad network feasible?

I think it's safe to say ads are necessary for many publishers. The subscription model has it's limitations. Ads are a necessary evil as I see it.

What if you could opt into certain topics for ads that followed you around the web - no matter the platform - based on something ever present like the social graph? I'm talking PC/mobile/game console/E-reader.

Would people go for this idea and actively sign up?

Would this provide to be financially feasible for advertisers?

It's just an idea that popped into my head so please be brutal. I think Adwords is a bit broken and could use some retooling.

Re-marketing is essentially opt-in advertising since it's based on browsing choices to explore the brand or product.

I think Facebook page 'liking' is essentially this except that it's restrained to the boundaries of Facebook.
1. Because that research has value, so it would be unethical.

2. It takes more than code to make a business.

3. A partnership will be more fun and less likely to suffer from technology myopia.
Adding to this, shipping with modern UNIX utilities. I understand they might face issues with GPL3 but it's annoying that the OS is shipping with UNIX software that's years out of date.
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Create Your Own (Quality) Content
I am actually completely and almost 100% happy with iTunes. I wish I could stuff more into it. I can basically drag whatever media I want on it and it only takes up one dock icon.

What does absolutely suck in the Appleverse is photo syncing - the one thing Apple has not left to iTunes. You can either use iPhoto or a directory tree on the Mac, and you have the option to build a parallel photo library on your iOS devices with iOS iPhoto. Why can't I delete photos on my iPad and have it synced back to the desktop? Why is the Photo Stream still limited to one device? (iCloud often makes a lot of sense once you start sharing your account with other people).
Well. Me, at least. Probably half my office and half of any other IT office around. It's not like an average Joe is lazy enough to buy groceries through the internet, so the overlap between potential customers of a.pl and people who are interested in this case is not insignificant.
Reminds me of the studies done of walking pace in cities. Researchers discretely measure off a known length stretch of sidewalk and then secretly time a bunch of people walking it, with interesting results ("people in fast-moving cities are less likely to help others and have higher rates of coronary heart disease").

Radiolab podcast from 2010: http://www.radiolab.org/2010/oct/08/

Paces in different cities: http://www.richardwiseman.com/quirkology/pace_home.htm
Why I'm the Best Programmer in the World (Jeff Atwood, not me)
This site is the perfect example of why HTML 5 won't replace flash anytime soon. Because, this site pushes the perks of using Flash to its fullest. Beautiful illustration, excellent animations and simply awesome...Keep it up guys.
Hm, this might explain why my 2011 Air is occasionally on and hot when I pull it out of my laptop bag, too.

I only started noticing it after the Mountain Lion upgrade, so I figured it was more likely something to do with their crazy new sleep mode, but hey, perhaps it's a combination of factors?
Hi - glad they were helpful! :)

As a further suggestion you can even put what you wrote on the website as well as it really gets to the point of what you do.

Congrats and good luck!
It's still not original, but one might assume that a native English speaker elected to combine "Next" and "Phone" - two somewhat common-place terms that appropriately define his concept.

But you are right, Apple would probably sue him for use of their term "[i]Phone".
> the gender aspects of it, a woman who cannot code but is a great coworker, talk about stereotypes

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4503317

As for the rest of your post, try not to get lost in the details. Questions like "What kind of code is it? Who can design/build the better UI? Can't good developers introduce bugs too?" are valid in general but sort of miss the point of the post, which is that in general, people who are "bad" at programming but "good" at communicating and staying organized tend to be favored by management instead of the good programmers/bad communicators.

Of course there are exceptions (based on the specific skills each job requires and what different companies value in employees), but that's true of all writing that speaks in general terms.
Thanks so much for all the data! I was just about to write a "well, hopefully nobody on HN cares about these rankings" post, trying to remember some of the facts I read about, but your post summarizes these data so well, no need to post at all.

Just for the record: I recently read (presumably on HN, too) about a ranking where somebody asked lawyers to rank schools according to their prestige. Penn-State always got ranked in the middle, even though it didn't have a law school at all. So, in a sense it doesn't even matter if administrators are cheating or not...
Yes, we are planning in publishing a "doable" business idea once every two weeks. With a lot of details like Business Model, Distribution, Technical recommendations, etc.

Also we are deciding if we do a blog or a video podcast where we explain the idea and also post the details in a document

What you think?
In my view only Route53 and DNSMadeEasy are worth looking at. Others are simply too expensive. Or in the case of CloudFlare it is very slow at times. DNSMadeEasy is one of the fastest DNS ( actually it is the fastest according to many test ) While being one of the cheapest option out there. They lack a few Advanced DNS features compared to others. But for Normal hosting most of the time you wont need to use it.
Now that is what I call a bubble red flag article.
True, for instance Mobile Safari is very crashy on it. This is of course not unique to just iOS, at least on Transformer Prime a lot of Android applications like GMail tend to crash a lot. So I'd count it more as a defect from a still young platform.
There's a good article out there that I couldn't retrieve within 20 seconds of searching, that points out that Loose Change was made to be a mockumentary, but Avery got approached by Alex Jones or some other conspiracy theory nut job and edited it to be about 911 (was more generic before if my memory serves) and then started talking like it was all true. But this was just a piece to make Avery famous. It doesn't even try to provide any truth.
Good god, really? My copy of 9.3.2 appears to only be 707 - http://cl.ly/JO6T
I don't think intentional really matters, I just said it because of the feelings around Apple. That logo should be illegal, but it shouldn't be used because it's too obvious.
Agreed. And it's not a "grocery store" it's an "online service" (dealing with the food industry). Granted, not Apple's core business, but a heck of a lot closer to their realm than a brick-and-mortar retail outfit.

Apple suffers here because their trademark is an English word. (Though A.pl probably isn't intended to be a homonym for "apple" in Polish.)
Fort Hood Massacre?
Shame it's not "I don't often test my code, but when I do I do it in producting".
Fantastic work and really quick turnaround. I'm really impressed! I've watched a few already and have some on my bookmark list so you've definitely convinced me.

Looking forward to seeing how this develops. :)
This is from 2004, but I thought it was interesting and relevant in today's world of ninjas, rockstars, cowboy coders, and interviewers who think a good programmer has the memory of Von Neumann.
How to generate Character Animation with VisualStateManager in Windows Phone 7
Some of those points are valid (#1 especially). But when you run a business it's important that all parties are happy and feel like they have a fair deal.

You need to ask yourself that 6 months down the line, when the other person really isn't contributing much because they can't, and you're working long days sweating, working hard and putting a career on hold, and you've got 50% equity, are you going to be happy? It's not going to be a sustainable relationship for very long and has a good chance of being doomed to fail before you've written any code.
For data going back to 1990 see [1] and [2].

In figure 2, the paper [3] tries to fit the data to an exponential curve starting at 2004. The longer term data at [2] does not appear to support this fit.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_riots#1990s_-_2000

[2] http://www.fao.org/worldfoodsituation/wfs-home/foodpricesind...

[3] http://arxiv.org/pdf/1108.2455v1.pdf
Nope. A barrel of oil from Exxon is undistinguishable from any other barrel of oil traded at the exchanges. This is not the case with say, Thinkpads vs Macbooks.

Quote wikipedia: "A commodity has full or partial fungibility; that is, the market treats it as equivalent or nearly so no matter who produces it." So nope, definitely not (yet) the case with computers.
For a Startup, Two Heads are Always Better Than One
A lone crazy person. This is the exact kind of "omg they're EVERYWHERE!" thinking that's turning the US into a police state.
Of course - let me know if you have any questions. Always happy to help.
Yes I saw that and I'm saying that correlation might not be so important in practice, because however they might profess to feel about animal rights, most people will still insist on eating meat without wanting to know where it comes from.
As I see it though, they are all the same problem, fix one and you fix all three. Granted with #3 a company or individual may be more willing to invest some time, but many times specialist jobs can be small and therefore the purchasing party may, in the end, decide that it is not worth the effort. Reducing that entrance barrier not only lessens the decision making for #3, but the others as well.
When the Wired author was hacked and it was first posted here about half of us jumped on 'shoulder surfed', 'is it possible to brute force' and half a dozen decent technical explanations. I think often people are now looking for the next over the top attack and forgetting the simplest tricks are often the most successful.
of course - good luck. If you have any follow up questions please email me - always happy to help out
Sorry, the changed phrase killed it for me. I'm pretty sure the meme/commercial goes "I don’t always [X], but when I do, I [Y]."
I find a lot of "idea" types don't realize how much work goes into building a business.

In their mind, they are already running a successful business where they just come up with ideas and delegate anything that resembles work. And everything everyone else does is "easy".
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If You Meet Neil DeGrasse Tyson on the Road, Kill Him
Humans still have strong instinct. When you do something physical or violent you feel more like you're doing a lot, you feel more risk. But when you're doing something intellectual, well it just doesn't feel like it's that big a deal.

That's how a lot of young smart kids get sucked into serious crimes.
Well again I'd say that's not an instinct, just like hunger it's a desire. An instinct is a very specific pre-programmed behavior that can't be overridden, a desire or reflex doesn't fit that description.
Thanks neya! Very kind. Although...we have an HTML5 version running concurrently; try it on iPad...
While the Breaking Bad logo is awesome, I have to say their Codecast-ing feature is what makes it pretty cool. Is there anything else out there like this / has this feature?
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What is an object?
I have no idea why anyone would buy a "Retina" MacBook any time in the near future. There are a huge number of popular apps that still don't support it. Lack of Office & VirtualBox support by itself would be a non-starter for me.
After 5 years of bootstrapping, Stormpulse is finally getting some serious lift this year and I'm experiencing the truth of this post first hand. While not fun (growing pains are ... pains), it's encouraging to hear (from Feld's own mouth) that this is normal.
Blizzard is secretly watermarking WOW screenshots
Your comments about Spring (not really lightweight) and Play (lightweight) are spot on.
XML is not Turing complete, nor are most configuration file formats. Yet these are used to provide significant behavior. They are are programs. Programs are data. Data are programs.
Yes, but most crucially, they don't turn it on with the lid closed.

Open the lid, turn it on, closes the lid.

Should be fun to try to power an older MB with the lid closed to see what happens.
It's actually called the US Forest Service.
The new icon solves the problem of being yet another thing people will point at and say they were just copying Apple. It might not be totally original, but that's okay, everyone borrows from everyone, and I don't think they will get any flak just because it somewhat resembles Firefox.

The problem arises when you can trace so many ideas back to a single source that it makes it look like you're just making a cheap copy, which sadly is what is happening with elementary.
It's from an era where every game engine inexplicably felt the need to create its own mediocre scripting language rather than using a real language.

I'm not sure that you're placing it correctly in its historical context. There really weren't (as far as I recall) really suitable implementations of scripting languages for games at the time and there were certainly poorer amenities for people wanting to use them.

Would you consider UnrealScript one of these toy languages (it is) or QuakeC, or the goofy approach of Out Of This World? A problem needed solving, and these devs found something that worked well for their purposes.
Stay risky my friends
The people inhabiting your part of the world is not everyone.
The code looks very cool. Great job on creating such a concise dialect. I would have fun experimenting with this, but that's probably as far as it would go as the massive number of people that are already comfortable HTML/CSS can't be ignored. I think it's easy to discount the value of mind share, but why try to replace HTML/CSS when every beginning web developer knows it?

I don't feel any pain in writing HTML/CSS as it is. Also, I would feel a bit uncomfortable moving away from the underlying language, with the feeling that it might make writing/debugging regular javascript more difficult.
Isn't 5000 emails a bit steep to ask for in a day or even a week?

A conversion rate of 5% is pretty respectable, that means the landing page needs to be seen by 100k people to collect 5000 emails.

That's quite a bit for having nothing more than a landing page to offer, I can see that happening for a MVP, but not for just a landing page.
The only OOP I have really looked into since, was PHP frameworks like Zend Framework and I didn't find it made life easier for me.

I do make use of classes in Perl and PHP when they are presented in modules. I just don't choose to structure my work in objects.

I am using javascript as a functional language when in use with node.js or with firebase for example.

I just break my work up in simple functions which I use and re-use to do anything I need.

In regards to not developing as a programmer, of course if you have a style you will get better at it, but I find I grow better by learning more variety of skills, e.g properly securing password data with bcrypt, or playing stripes CTF2 to see where the vulnerabilities exist in software. As examples, I think there is more value in becoming a widely skilled and capable hacker, than an coding [style] guru.
The zero day applet exploits say otherwise ;)
Hopefully ones that support Linux. Fiddler is one of the few reasons to keep using a Windows VM.

There are existing alternatives, charles, burp etc but these all cost money and have an inferior UX.
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I wholeheartedly agree with him - I wish I had read this essay in 2001, I wish every Java developer, especially whose who were live in US, had read it. There was nothing wrong of Java in 2001, but, you should have caught the smell of corporate, protocol, committee, process, outsourcing, offshoring ...
Why spent everyone's time?

Usually it is clear from the beginning what people are made of and the quality of their thinking.
Just say "No, thanks, good luck" and in 99,999% cases your decision will be the right one.
So, a more erudite-looking version of "The end of the world is nigh!" The funny thing is people use to wear billboards for this. Now we have edgy, hispter-coded websites for it. :)

Also, HN has featured links over time to some creative entrepreneurs with novel agricultural ideas. So, nigh or not?

To sum: correlation is not causation.
I don't think he's wrong in any sense of the word when he wrote it. From the opening he's very forward about his "hacker radar".

From a hacker perspective, Java is typically a poor choice. But it didn't succeed on hacker merits so much as it did on sponsorship and forward pushing from business types. Any competent programmer who has been in the field for long enough sees Java's issues and strengths and can judge it impartially but I'd be hard off to find a single one that felt it was the "best" language by any means.
Whenever I hear "science" applied to applied psychology etc. I get the creeps. Stopped reading at the first quotation.
MIT certainly doesn't have the humanities breadth of Harvard, for instance, but the humanities that MIT does have are remarkably good. Some of my fellow MIT students at the time went to MIT because they thought the extra-curricular music programs were better at MIT than at Harvard. I got my SB from MIT in Philosophy. MIT's Philosophy program is considered to be in the top few in the country, as is its Linguistics. I was taught creative writing by Joe Haldeman, photography in dark rooms that had been built by Minor White, psychology by Susan Carey, etc. Every MIT student is also required to take 8 classes in humanities, complete a humanities concentration in a particular field, and take a certain number of humanities that have a very significant writing requirement. MIT's business school is in the top few in the world.

Also, I'm not sure that it is correct to say that science and engineering are more "specialized" in their entirety than liberal arts are. All of Harvard's engineering, for instance, is contained in a single department. Doesn't that make Harvard more "specialized" towards liberal arts?
Sounds okay to me - at least we won't be bumping heads applying for the same roles :)
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A usable PHP console (REPL).
I couldn't find a read-eval-print loop console for PHP that I liked, so I wrote this one. If you do a lot of PHP development this might make your life a little easier.