skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sounds tempting, but no regrets also means no learning. Looking back to realize you should have done differently in the past implies you're now wiser and understand better. It means you've learned. The only way to never second guess yourself is to be absolutely set in all opinions throughout your life; but we call such people fanatics, I believe.
http://datagenetics.com/blog/september32012/index.html
Better to regret the things you did than the things you didn't do
Connecting with the Chicago teachers' strike
It's a waste of time. My suspicion is that we're arguing with a bunch of folks who spend a lot of time riding buses, and/or who don't even hold drivers' licenses.
Nitpick: didn't you mean something like this?

void load(Assets* a) {
for (int j=0; j<m_numAssets; j++) {
loadAsset(a[j]);
}
m_numLoadedAssets += j; // Increment once, out of the loop
}
bah! sweet.
So Memcached then...
Wise comments. If Yahoo was smart, they'd hire Hilary Mason.
You can ignore errors if you want to crash, just like Java.
http://www.postalmethods.com/
What I'm thinking about goes way beyond regular patient information. I'm thinking along the lines of a "family medical history social network".

For example, I want it to be where family members can input small ailments, such as "I suffer from cold hands and feet".
Now imagine a few other relatives happen to put this down as well. This is not something that you would ever reveal in a regular doctor medical history report, but something like this could, say, indicate that there are circulation issues running in the family.

That's just an example I made up, but imagine the possibilities. The software should allow "privacy" options, so that if a family member is embarrassed to reveal an ailment, they can choose to make it private, however, the software will take that into account to see if there are patterns that it should alert you to.

I haven't brainstormed enough about this, but I just think this could be really useful in some way.
Now the world knows :)
BS. Patent trolls have been around for a very long time, and companies like IBM represent the lionshare of patent applications.

Apple themselves files one of the lowest numbers of offensive patent lawsuits -- it's just a confirmation bias mixed with the massive publicity that Apple gets.

Just because you hear about EVERY one of Apple's lawsuits doesn't mean that Apple is "paving the way"!

I hate the knee-jerk "blame Apple" nonsense that is so pervasive! What is Apple doing that is so groundbreaking to patents?

I argue that the weaponization of patents, something APPLE TAKES NO PART IN, is a far worse problem. Google buying up Motorola for their patent portfolio and loaning them out to partners like dirty nukes... and APPLE is the leader of patent nonsense?
I've head from lawyers that East Texas became the place to patent lawsuits mostly because the War on Drugs. It was much easier to get the courts' time for civil trials or motions before they were overloaded with constant criminal prosecution. East Texas happened to have a lower load at the beginning or some townships spotted an opportunity to bring in some more business by making themselves attractive to litigators. Either way, the reasoning things are filed in East Texas has more to do with it being the Silicon Valley of patent trolling than any kind of venue shopping.
I think for most software on Github, the "end users" are themselves developers. Libraries, vimscripts, languages, programmer oriented utilities, etc.

I almost never got that sort of software from SourceForge. Most things that I have gotten from SourceForge are more "user application"-y. I can't think of any examples off the top of my head since it's been so long.. maybe things like Wesnoth.

Basically what I think I am saying is it depends on who the end user is.
Carwoo sounds interesting and it is similar to what I was thinking. But I think I might be imagining something more aggressive, where the startup sends an e-mail/fax/phone call to dealerships on the customers behalf. Acting as their "agent" almost. Also, it seems CarWoo only includes partnered dealerships. With the method I described a buyer would be able to contact every dealership of their interest. The only issue with this is that since the startup would be more "customer oriented" rather than dealer, it would probably have to charge customers (unlike Carwoo) instead of charging dealers like CarWoo.
Yet more proof, as if were needed, that software patents are BS.
Please keep in mind, I was being sarcastic.
It's a shame the videos don't have subtitles like in the crypto course.
I've been using CamanJS for a while now: http://camanjs.com/
My iPhone 3GS is dying, I bet there are a lot of iPhone 3G customers that are either changing phone because their beloved iPhone does not work anymore or are using their iPhone so lightly that the only application they use is Safari (no apps installed).
So I guess there will be no problem at all or the problem will affect a tiny portion of the % of people that have an iPhone 3G that it will just not matter at all.
I'm disappointed. I expected this to be a post along the lines of Ridiculous Fish's two posts on C++ features that you pay for even if you don't use:

1. http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/i-didnt-order-that-so-w...

2. http://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/i-didnt-order-that-so-w...

Thankfully one of C++11's requirements was to not introduce any new functionality that had penalties even if you aren't using it. Too bad that wasn't a requirement for the original design of the language.
Ready are you? What know you of ready?
The article mentioned DropWizard (covered more in part 1). DropWizard is a very nice (the best?) way to write RESTful web services in Java. Coda Hale, that author, has glued together some of the best Java libraries with very sensible configurations, almost to the point of saying "look stupid, this is how you're supposed to do it (in Java)". The application configuration patterns (ugh... I said "patterns"), clear separation of resources, built-in metrics, and health checks is worth studying (at least for journeymen like me).

Check it out: http://dropwizard.codahale.com/
"All your data processing codes are belong to us." Unfortunately, this is not as funny as it should be.
You realize this is basically the same as the NP-Hard Knapsack problem?
I really wish 'explicit' was default and the keyword was 'implicit'.
"If I were to cut them off, would that magically make them upgrade? I don't think so. They'd just be bummed that their apps stopped working."

Remember, the problem listed will only take effect if:

* Their iTunes has downloaded the latest version, and

* They have to restore their device from a backup

Doing an update to your app to remove iOS3 compat won't remove it from folks' devices, iTunes won't push it to their device, and it won't magically stop working. Seems like such a small thing to worry about, especially given all the cool things in iOS4 and above...
X Prize Launches Open Bioinformatics Challenge
I googled "web awards" and all the top links required you to pay a "participation fee".
Combining Lean Startup Methodology with the Crowd
Agree. I've been playing with Go a bit, and though I still lean towards python and scala, Go definitely shows promise. The interfaces model and channel synchronization primitives are compelling enough to keep me interested in its progress.
It wasn't crappy at the time. For those of us used to Windows 3.x it was amazing.

This is more akin to selling Windows 95 on machines after Windows 98SE was already out. At that point, yes, 95 was considered terrible.
Why Design, explorations and viewpoints from designers
There may be problems with your line of pricing thinking, too. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4393817
It seems like it might be a fun project to compile Go to Java bytecode. GCC might actually have all the relevant bits---it includes gcj, a Java compiler including bytecode generator, and a Go frontend.

Knowing this, someone's already done it---anyone aware of such a thing?
Normally, I like to dig down to the first source, but I've noticed those articles don't get the same attention as submitting from "the big sites". I submitted the original source for a lot of today's A6 articles, but it got no upvotes and only one comment.

Looking over my submission history, the original source rarely gets the attention, and the rewrites articles get a lot of upvotes and comments. I'll keep alternating to see if there is some secondary pattern.
I spend hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with service providers and vendors as lead developer/devops/sysadmin/etc at a tech consulting firm in Chicago.

I don't give a damn how the site looks; if you're solving a problem I need to get solved, I'm taking my Amex out to pay for it if it makes our work easier.
This reminds me of the "fellowship" programs such as those offered by Bain Venture Capital Group (http://www.baincapitalventures.com/startupacademy/) and Greylock Partners Network (http://www.greylock.com/careers).

For those who haven't heard of either - essentially they allow candidates to apply to a broader "portfolio" of companies that Greylock or Bain represents. Internal recruiters then try to match the candidate skillset and interests with a company from the portfolio for a potential placement.

So why can't Developer Auction candidates go through a more rigorous selection process? I would assume it is not nearly as easy to scale. But certainly, as many others have echoed, their screening process is a far cry from something that will produce 25x candidates.

I applaud the effort and look forward to seeing this develop.
I like where you're going, but let me tweak it.

The company who really needs different incentives is the recruiter themselves. They can shotgun their database of candidates at their database of companies and hope something sticks, and waste a lot of candidate and company time in the process. There is no cost to them to make bad recommendations. (OK, eventually they lose the company's recruitment business, but I think that penalty is too tenuous).

So, make somebody pay 0.4% of the candidates salary for the interview, but make it the recruiting company. That will align everyone's incentives.
Looks like most of these patents can be killed by prior art. The first one is hashing, for instance.
Thanks for linking to that; it makes a better case for what I'm saying than I'm willing to spend the time making now.

Stop encouraging people to burn $150/hr hours making things that are "pricey" if they cost more than a buck.
Subtitles are being produced. They should be up in a day or two.
> This sounds alot like hashing the contents of a file to get and identifier for it

Oops... I think the image asset deduplication method I used at the portal I worked for infringes on that. It's a Brazilian company, so, good luck for them.

Yep... They still use it:

http://i0.ig.com/bancodeimagens/02/9a/e2/029ae2zxd9u8jflt2le...
The term "cartel" arguably did apply up until around the death of Pablo Escobar, and the subsequent usurpation of power from the Colombian producers by the Mexican distributors. For the most part, the drug trade really was a single, multinational, price-fixing monopoly (or at least a cooperative oligopoly) under Pablo's reign.

[I'm not trying to give the guy any credit or praise for his actions, though.]
Is it advisable to not have a significant other during a startup's init stages?
It probably is, but that's not why I paid for it; I paid for it because it's the coffee shop in my building and I'm not going to go out of my way to optimize over 5-6 dollars.

If it was crappy coffee, it would not matter to me if it cost $0.50. I can get crappy coffee for free in the lobby of the parking garage I park at.
Yes, exactly. If you find the boilerplate tedious, feel free to ignore errors completely. :) For test code it doesn't matter. It is the equivalent of providing no exception handler, or catching Exception or Throwable and doing nothing.
I think you're the odd one; I've had this problem and witnessed others having it, on most computers I've encountered with the feature. I have tap-to-click disabled on my laptop for precisely that reason.
You mean www.developerauction.com?
Watching electrons move at high speed
I'm impressed at the features and simplicity, but I'm wondering what the real use cases are. If filters were a core part of my business, I'd certainly be doing them in-house instead of relying on a 3rd party service... Especially when it comes to the basic operations (crop, resize, etc) which can simply be done with imagemagick (or rmagick). Even Heroku allows for those operations on temporary files, despite the read-only filesystem.

That said, the "real-time" feature seems like it could make certain use cases much easier. (An alternative to firing up workers and returning an intermediary status to the client.) Also, I suppose apps without much server infrastructure (built on more limited PaaS offerings) could benefit from this API.
Well, perhaps most people want to use a website that gives some sort of sense that a large portion of their projects aren't over-hyped vaporware.
Lian Li releases awesome but utterly useless model train PC case
Online gamers crack AIDS enzyme puzzle
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Without patents, how is a pharma company expected to pay the enormous cost of research, development, and FDA approval of new drugs?

Well the obvious answer would be through some form of tax based scheme that then plows the money into research primarily based on clinical need, which funnily enough is how a hell of a lot of the drugs that are actually useful get developed currently. But expanding these kind of solutions is very unpopular in the states from what I gather, apart from in the case of weaponry, so how about some form of kickstarter for medical research? People throw loads of money at products that don't and may never exist on there, so you should be able to get tonnes of cash by just repeating the word "cancer" a lot.

[edit] I went off and found some figures on this:

"In 1999 the National Cancer Policy Board conducted a survey of federal and nonfederal sources of cancer research funding [ 11]. The board found, for the fiscal year 1996/1997, that the total amount spent on cancer research funding was US$5.165 billion. The three major contributors were (1) federal funding, US$3.060 billion (almost entirely from National Cancer Institute); (2) industry funding, US$1.6 billion; and (3) funding by nonprofit organisations (e.g., Howard Hughes Medical Institute, American Cancer Society, Komen Foundation), US$305 million."

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1513045/

So, for cancer at least, government and charity funding combined, dwarfs the amount spent by the pharmaceutical industry on research in the US.
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I'm suprised that he had to return a week later for another session. MDMA tolerance should be counted as a huge factor. I'm not sure if this is accidental or not. Although 83mg is not a big dose, and shouldn't be neurotoxic, without any supplements like 5-htp or other precursors to serotonin, it's pretty tough for your serotonin levels to return to baseline in a week time.
Java came out at in 96. GO has been out for couple years ago. The difference makes it far from decades.
At least from what I have seen, the Valley is much friendlier when it comes to job-hopping than most other markets. Maybe changing jobs every year is a little extreme, but certainly every 2-3 years is not out of the question.
Care package of candy. This was just after the first month and very much appreciated. :)

It was an incredible experience - all of the founders became really close friends over the course of the program. It's probably because the class was so technical that we bonded as closely as we did.

TechStars definitely helped moved our company forward, and I my network of friends, mentors and confidants grew probably 10x. It's definitely worth it.
This isn't Apple's style. Apple has planned obsolescence.

The other thing is that there has been over the air upgrades since iOS 5, so people do upgrade their iOS version.

From my multiple app stats (thousands of users), less than 2 percent run iOS < 4.3.

98% run iOS 5 or higher.
Hey Mark, you're right on every count. The div.nav is a mistake that I thought I had fixed already, as for the rest let's just say it'll be fixed post-haste.

Obviously we're HUGE fans of Bootstrap over at Divshot :)
I hate the knee-jerk "blame Apple" nonsense that is so pervasive! What is Apple doing that is so groundbreaking to patents?

You know, I've looked all through the Constitution, and while there's some stuff about promoting the progress of science and the useful arts, I don't see anything about starting thermonuclear wars against competitors. Can you help me out?
> They're talking about distributing data throughout a network of servers

Hmm... We used that to shard the MySQL databases for our WordPress setup too...
I like that they have the ability for one employer to ask a question and have that question answered in public for all other auction-goers to see. Seems like they have put a lot of thought into the website design.
We moved node.js to Scala and play for our startup. I've programmed in grails (groovy) professionally and don't recommend it. I've heard good this about clojure but you either are a lisp fan or you aren't. As such, I don't think closure is the next big thing.

I am not a fan of the required cognitive overhead that scala takes to get started -- reading someone else's code reminds me a lot of C++ and the tooling still needs to catch up. If any of the JVM languages are going to break out, I'd put my money on scala. JRuby has its place as well, and I know of a few high profile projects done in it, so it wouldn't be a bad choice for consumer apps. For enterprise, I think static typing has some major wins.

I kind of want Scala--, to be honest...
It's less about it being responsive in real-time and more about it being responsive across a wide array of devices with different size screens.
Steve Jobs Taught Me Not To Steal
But I shot a man in Reno,
Just to watch him die,
When I hear that whistle blowin',
I hang my head and cry.
- J. Cash
Huh, guess it's been a while since I used that. Oh well.
In gmail if you don't archive something it goes away on its own and it's lost. I've been using Instapaper daily for about 3 years and have always considered it one of my favorite iOS apps. I use the 'read later' folder for exactly what it is. A dumping ground. A sort of limbo. When I want to save things for an extended period I just move them into a different (non-readlater) folder. They stay there. Not only that, but they are categorized.

There are a lot of stories/comments on HN that I disagree with, but in this case I really don't understand what the problem is at all. Maybe I am missing the point because I'm not using a designated "archive" function and don't realize how much better it is. Is there a reason archiving is better?
Is there any current IBM litigation that hurts the average consumer as much as Apple's actions against HTC and Samsung?
It'd be hard to convince people running sites that they should accept 0.10 to let me bypass the captcha. It'd be easier to solve this on my side and for every site at the same time.
Id say from being involved with hiring in a few different spots that they are definitely on the higher side but not insanely so. There are a lot of jobs in startups that are quite low on salary but higher on the equity side (or atleast thats what the pitch is) and those may not be as represented here. The shock to me was how little of difference there seems to be in salary based upon location - with cost of living put into the mix it makes me question being in California
I can assure you that Tcl blocks are quite "real" in that they are code that gets executed. Initially, yes, they are treated as a string, but then they get byte compiled, and remain 'code' internally.
It's annoying, the only thing it has going for it is it's better (in my subjective opinion) than the alternative.

In go you can happily ignore an exception by assigning it to _. That's probably a bad idea for a larger piece of code, but for little scripts, go for it.

I may be already permanently damaged by go. Every time a function can return an exception I have to stop and ask myself: "self, what should you do if this happens?". I'm starting to think it results in better code. Granted, not every shell script/utility benefits from this level of introspection, but that's what python's for I guess.

p.s. Anyone who's had to deal with checked exceptions in java puts up with a crazy about of boiler plate too.

p.p.s. Disclaimer I have been professionally employed writing all languages mentioned above, so hopefully I'm relatively unbiased.
See here: http://www.bls.gov/ncs/ocs/ocs95apb.htm#programmer
The question you have asked is equivalent to another: "How many of these ridiculous wars will it take before arms manufacturers realize how bad violence is?"
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Ob. Mark Twain:

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
You're right - we have a subtle math bug (JavaScript not known for its math precision..) SASS takes colors out to three decimal places, which we weren't. Will be pushing the fix to both GitHub and the live site shortly, along with some rendering fixes for IE8/9.

Updated: fixed on GitHub - https://github.com/arc90/sass-color-picker/commit/4b2fc4fcad...
I definitely agree. Which aspects of Yahoo! would you like to see reinvestment in as a shareholder?
Exactly. But I'm suggesting a "bridge" that would sit between this, so I'd pay a "premium" for 10 credits, but everything would be solved with a click.
Ask HN: What should I do with my life?
I think most of the people reading this have the same interestes as me so I will try to explain my situation and seek some advice. I have a 5 year Electronic and Computer Eng. degree. Through university I was studying just enough to pass the courses and didn't find anything really fascinating. I enjoyed the creative process of programming but hated the debugging part which seemed to take 80% of my programming time. I do enjoy programming at Matlab though. Also I am absolutely not interested in hardware or circuit design (except when I see awesome projects at hackaday). I have done the MBTi personality test and it turns out I am the INTP type, which means computers are like an ideal career for me. I am thinking of pursuing a Master's degree but I don't know at which field. Lately I really enjoy reading about psychology and neuroscience and I am thinking maybe I could take a Cognitive Science course but not sure what I would do next. I am also thinking of taking a Management and Technology course so that I can create in a more abstract way, make plans and not battle with the technicalities. I have to say I am not young (26) and my grades are not that good. I like computers, art, psychology. Any advice or personal experience is highly appreciated.

TL;DR Computer grad not interested in programming or hardware design trying to find a way (Master's or job) to happiness.
would be a cool bike or car app - your get a notice when you are near a hotspot for bike or auto accidents. Give the user a heads up. Possibly to scrape this data from county GIS sites or police maps.
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The thinking there is: Only links about development of software, no entrepreneurial stuff.