skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think they might find Will Wright who was doing this with laptops in Berkeley at the Stupid Fun Club and Trevor Blackwell at Androbot are way ahead of them.

Not that it is a bad idea, its a great idea, but its also a well trod path, so there is a lot of stuff out there to learn from.
He said big vectors. You're talking about sub-page fragmentation.

Big vectors inherently avoid sub-page fragmentation because they're allocated directly via mmap. The only thing that matters is having unreserved address space, and 64bit gives you a lot.

What you say is true for a worst case load of millions of vectors that are larger than half of the mmap threshold size (typically roughly page size or a small multiple of it). So this might just be a semantic disagreement, but I don't think of millions of 3KB vectors as 'big' vs a smaller number of MB or GB vectors.
Ask HN: How do I convert a PSD design to Android xml?
Hi everyone,

I've been toying with android apps the past couple of days and cannot seem to get my head around the entire UI and layout development.

I've been programming in Java for the past year so I'm fairly familiar with the language and I've been front end developing in CSS for a couple years now but I can seem to make the transition.

If anybody could point me towards some online resources that would be great.

Thanks a lot
Because global climate is going to get worse and worse.
Aging cougar who can't take it hard any more launches business to convince pay couples to watch other boring couples get it on during another boring Friday night.

Is anyone really taking this woman seriously?
Yes, but if you are an "Occupier" you agree to abide by the votes of the General Assembly. The original statement by Occupy Wall Street, that was endorsed by most GAs, stated they were non-violent. Being violent plays right into the script of the State.

However, Occupiers also always have free autonomy as individuals.

"food is taken care of in the USA"
Not for poor children. Not for homeless mentally ill people who don't take their medication. Not for elderly who live on fixed incomes during the Winter. There is much shameful hunger in the USA.
These two things are contradictory:

1. "He can generally write very solid code that's readable and handles edge cases beautifully."

2. "you can't get a clear thought out of him without rambling incoherence surrounding it"

It would be better to talk from actual experience than to invent things that don't exist, in support of a point that must necessarily therefore be bogus.
You're totally right by the way. My initial reaction was so annoyed that the whole thing even happened the way that it did.

It's not like I know the guy but you listen to enough podcasts and read enough blog posts that you feel like you sort of understand the person.

Ultimately I was just very surprised.
Depends on your platform, libc version, compiler, etc. Anything recent should default to just passing through to mmap for allocations that are a small multiple of page size or larger, and on 64bit systems you can happily mmap huge regions.
>But the sex itself, is it that much different than "real" sex? Are there really that many people having boring sex to make the amount of people coming close to and/or surpassing porn a statistical anomaly?

Oy vey, you're constructing a spectrum with "porn" on one end and "boring" on the other. I strongly (strongly!) disagree with that sort of assumption about sex--- getting naked with a partner who you're excited about and is excited about you can be so damn varied, and spontaneous, and goofy, and expressive, and...well, just all around great. Porn, on the other hand, is generally bound by some weird and arbitrary genre conventions. If you were having sex as contrived and indifferent as you see in a movie, you'd probably get bored!
Obviously the 1894 Panhard will not be mentioned because its design became an industry standard and those cars are not competitors at this point in time. HP and Apple are compeitiors at the moment. Apple's design is not an indusrty standard. HP had millions and millions of design choices but decided to ape Apple. If something's a copycat, journalist should call it every single time because that's the highest standard of journalism. Are you advocating for the lowest standard?
Congratulations HP, and good luck with that.

I realize that many HN readers (including myself) are working on their own products which are almost indistinguishable from what came before and what will come after, and we hope that no competitor will ever be able to get a slice of our pie, but if I put on my consumer hat for a minute, here's what I have to say:

Thanks goodness most cars have round wheels, steering wheels at chest height, and reasonably similar control layout. Had that industry developed in today's environment they'd all be suing each other left and right over door handles that pulled upward to open the door and sun roof patent licensing deals. Who knows, maybe back in the day they did.

Thank goodness for wintel and competition. How dare people look down their noses at the market forces that produced a sub 1k laptop (or sub 400). Many people, myself included, are pretty lucky that the "race to the bottom" resulted in home computers that we (or our parents) could afford, allowing us to eventually become part of the hacker community.

Congratulations to Apple for making a beautiful high end product, but the fact that their product is beautiful and high end should be all the market advantage they need/deserve, and if they can't out compete imitators like HP, they don't deserve our business.
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Not sure this will pan out. It sounds like scientists are close to being able to release new UG99 resistant wheat crops, which means there should be more grain in the middle east by this time next year.
He'll be making movies again in 1 - 2 years. Sailing is boring.
Source that this will cause high food prices?

From our standpoint, technology and automation will get better and better, bringing the price of many things down.

Humans have demonstrated their ability to adapt to change.
First, you might remember that the first 2 years of his presidency he had large majorities in both houses of Congress.

Second, the list you sent me to includes things such as - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animal_Crush_Video_Prohibition_.... I'm not sure that qualifies as "extremely productive"

He said when he took office that we absolutely had to pass the stimulus bill, and if we did it would keep unemployment from going over 8%. You might have noticed, that since then unemployment has in fact never been under 8%. We have the weakest recovery in recent history, with a jobs report last Friday that said 400K people were so discouraged they gave up looking for a job.
Sinatra, Padrino or Ruby on Rails - What Ruby Framework to Use on the Cloud?
There is a thingy on the bottom that opens a tray on the left. That contains a link to the desktop site. You can then read the article without their fucked up interface.
Show HN: Chrome Extension to automatically block the annoying Quora login prompt
I tried to have a look at your API, but it won't load. :) Just sayin.

EDIT: Nevermind, it loaded.
Also inflation. Lots of "quantitative easing" going on.
Aha!

In zsh "=(cmd)" does that, but "=" doesn't work in bash.
"<(cmd)" works everywhere... why did zsh trick me with "="?
I think you are confusing "riot inciters" with community leaders.
Well, I have to say that your analysis of Egypt is quite wrong. The last time I was in the poorer parts of Egypt, in 2008, extreme food poverty was easy to find. Men in sack cloth queued at huts waiting for unleavened flat bread. One method used by Mubarak to contain dissent was in providing food aid to the poor, and wealth disparity in Egypt had fostered a festering hatred of the government.

The intensity of the Egyptian riots is very much connected to general poverty and food scarcity in large parts of Egypt, though not uniformaly. Cairo is a different circumstance. None the less, your point is incorrect.
Are you really comparing Obama to Lincoln? You'll find a lot more similarities with Carter.
I'm from Jacksonville, FL. Unfortunately, there isn't a huge software community here -- at least not that I can find.
looks pretty decent!

Question, is the $15 price difference between the pdf and paperback the money the publisher is charging you?

on my way of buying the pdf right now
<blush>
That's just taligent begin taligent.
Remember when you were 4 or so? And you had a "busy box"? Just a bunch of levers to move, buttons to push, dials to turn?

A well-done skeuomorphic interface, I submit, can be a busy box for grownups. What's wrong with having a few things in your life that partake of both "toy" and "tool"?
I am glad that HN is even able to discuss politics with some sanity.

Was just scrolling through Reddit to find their take on the subject, but after the 10th "Romney eat my hamster" story I just gave up.

This leads of cause to my conspiracy, that Reddit was highly active in the anti-CISPA movement, and the recent Obama visit political motivated to create goodwill for the upcoming executive order.
It's okay, though, they're "pretty apologetic".
Unfortunately he had no experience leading anything. As chief executive, commander in chief, and leader of the free world, I'd like for him to have some experience leading something other than his own campaign for president.
The last major web site update was in late 2004, according to my bisection of the wayback machine. It's a project, not a company, and there is no marketing or design budget. For example, Magnus, who does some Windows maintenance, is a principal author of the new pg_receivexlog, and knows a lot about the SSL support also worries about the web-based mailing list archive program and the CSS of the manual, if memory serves.

Nobody's holding back anything. It would be wonderful if someone wanted to contribute their design skills to the web page or documentation -- talking to the mailing list pgsql-www is probably the way to do that. I am positive such a person would receive profuse appreciation, and maybe can parlay that into personal advantage if the fulfillment of the impact such improvements would have is not quite material enough by itself.

The project runs its own web site infrastructure (many regimes have come and went in Postgres' history, only semi-recently was pgfoundary decommissioned for the purpose of new projects), and it's a little arcane -- but if someone really wanted to take ownership to move things beyond maintenance into progress, perhaps changes could be made.
While I appreciate this extension, I think a better tactic would be to not visit Quora if you don't agree with the way the site is run.

Between the blurred answers and the login prompt, I will never visit Quora, for any reason, ever.
Hi,

Thanks a lot for responding! Your suggestions are incredibly helpful.

First of all, we intend to fight curable blindness with surgical camps across rural areas, with free of charge surgeries (as you probably know from reading the rest of the website). We'll add this as a main heading.

We'll move the stuff about Dr. Pandya to the main page as well, and, include some more details about his philanthropic career.

Dr. Pandya has done thousands of charitable surgeries in the past (right from his medical school days!). He has helped setup two very large charitable hospitals, which are still in existence. And, he has spent a majority of his career doing charitable surgeries. Of course, it is difficult to pick out separate cases, but, there are a few. Once, he operated on a 92 year old patient (free of charge), who had been blind for almost 40 years and revived her eyesight, who saw her family for the first time in 40 years!

We intend the surgical camps to carry out a wide variety of surgeries - treat cataracts, glaucoma, infectious diseases, etc.

We will be doing surgeries at lowest possible cost, where the physicians will be giving volunteer service; so as to maximize the impact of the donations. Costs consist of lenses, medications etc. (unavoidable).

We're working on replacing the current pictures with newer ones relating to surgeries we've performed.

I'm also sending this to you as an email, just so it doesn't get lost in the maelstrom of HN comments.
Have an upvote.

I found myself giggling at this one along with all the other ones with things that make no sense like leather buttons and switches, and then I started to wonder: is it possible that the designers making this nonsense are actually representing an aesthetic totally decoupled from actual usability? In fact, let me get ageist here for a second—could it be that the designers making this nonsense are actually too young to have ever seen or used the real-world objects these skeumorphic interfaces are imitating?

I don't know about you, but I found some of my rage dissipated when I started to consider this just fashionable design. Yes, in a perfect world Apple would make appropriate (i.e. less) use of skeumorphism and therefore we wouldn't be seeing these kinds of ridiculous excesses from young designers, but something has to be the fad, and right now this seems to be it.
But leather and metal are helpful on a camera, as is the cross hatch on the lens.

On an iPhone app cross hatching does not help you grip the control.

The leather on an iPhone app doesn't help protect against scratches or provide a superior gripping surface to polished aluminium.

If you like the idea that good design is as little design as possible then a Leica style app design isn't as little design as possible. In just the same way that a moleskin notepad app isn't helpful, nor is comic sans as a font choice despite that it approximates hand printed letters. Maybe if they really want to make the full experience the 'pen' you use to write letters can run out of ink and then you have to shake the iphone to get more ink.

Design should help the user accomplish tasks not get upvotes on dribble.
17-year-old girl invents heart exam for cellphones
Born This Way: Sympathy and Science for Those Who Want to Have Sex with Children
You might be interested in OpenPhoto which adds a handful of layers on top of services like Dropbox and S3.

Here's an example of displaying photos from Dropbox (in this example it's S3).

http://current.openphoto.me/photos/list

Disclaimer: I'm a lead dev on the project

https://github.com/photo/frontend
In my country(India), for a while people have been predicting country wide mass riots for fresh water(portable water). And it doesn't look surprising at all, looking at where we are currently.

Cities are already faced with huge crisis for water. The under ground water tables are depleting like crazy. There are villages which practically have no water at all, they have to go around nearby villages to scout for water. There are some states like Tamil Nadu, where water crisis is so imminent, if Karnataka and Kerala were to stop releasing water they would be in serious trouble. But this is not limited just to one state. The rivers are heavily polluted, and beyond any meaningful usage. In the name of development and growth, lakes and ponds and cities have been converted to spaces for buildings and urban infrastructure. In early days nearly every village used to have a lake, that culture vanished with appearance of tube wells. People are paying a high price for that culture. This is likely to affect nearly every aspect of India life.

With irrigation methods belonging to old stone age and population on an upward trend. This is a classic recipe for disaster.

You may have your mobile phones, PC's, iPods and jeans pants. But without food and water none of it is going to every workout well.
It is a personal habit of mine that I treat shit and its variants as very casual terms. Doesn't reflect well on me, but it is a failing of mine. I'm not angry at all, just slightly baffled at how quick everyone is heap praise on someone who did something very stupid and then backtracked after many people pointed out how stupid they were being. Bullshit in this case is just used to point out how frivolous the matter was that caused the censoring.
Could this be expanded to including UX fixes for other sites?

To get the feature request going, I'd like those click-through slideshows to be replaced with a single (scrollable?) grid-based gallery.
>Humans have demonstrated their ability to adapt to change.

And that realization only comes after some big wars, famines and disasters.

There are only a few instances where we have changed proactively.

Humans have always needed a wake up call.
I respect the "If you don't have enough money for this, I will give it to you for free" notion. However, given that that policy should totally resolve all of your moral qualms about charging proper prices, this should probably cost $25 ~ $50, which will a) compensate the author better, b) underwrite more giveaways (either of this book or of other projects), and c) ensure that among purchasers of the book it gets treated as a valuable resource rather than as a disposable impulse-buy. (You can add to this the somewhat shocking observation that you may actually sell more copies.)
You could vote (any) 3rd party. Not because you hope they win; they won't. And because they won't, a vote for 3rd party is a vote for none of the above (two). Which I think is the best possible vote, because the two current stewards of democracy, debate and engagement are failing.
I also cant code for any of my projects unless it has a solid brand to back it up.
The apology doesn't reflect an understanding of the gravity of what he did. He mostly apologizes for using the wrong mechanism and generally overreacting, not for the betrayal of his users and the abuse of power for personal reasons.
I've got a car that runs on water. No, really. The thing is, these other cars, they just decide to run on gas. Totally ignoring the potential of water power. Of course this design is really fundamental to the way cars will be built in the future, you could call it a foundation of a new paradigm for cars-- all the performance of a gas car, without all the hassle and expense- not to mention pollution-- of gasoline. Just simple pure water.

Don't believe me? You shouldn't. The question is, how can we take TechCrunch seriously when they do not even ask the basic questions?

Edit:
Seriously, they say its distributed but ACID compiant. Ok, how do you do that? This violates the CAP theorem. How do they handle partitions? Without answering this, the article is as meaningless as an announcement of a water powered car.
> The remainder is consumed by animals and by
> industrial processes.

Grain raised for livestock use is only for livestock use. It's not like "corn" is all the same thing. The corn that is used for livestock is not the same corn that you buy at the store (on the cob or in a can). It's tasteless, and so far as I know, not desirable for human consumption. You can't treat all of the corn produced as usable for all uses that corn is put towards.

Also, if livestock is what regulates the grain market, then why do grain-producers get such large (non-ethanol-related) subsidies?
Relevant meta-commentary on the proof by Marty Weissman and Minhyong Kim:

http://mathoverflow.net/questions/106560/philosophy-behind-m...
The way I see it Mochizuki's work could turn out to be like Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. It could give us a definitive theory on the nature of prime numbers, but first someone needs to come and understand and solve it. A 'solution' of a differential equation system would be a formula, a 'solution' of Mochizuki's system would be an algorithm. Many new algorithms could come out of this, and one of them could be an algorithm for prime factorization.

But: I'm not a mathematician, so maybe I'm just fantasizing right now.
"The service can scale across a distributed infrastructure without the worry of a single point of failure, making it simpler to scale."

:)
Why Dan Shipper is Wrong about Goals
I said it was hypothetical, but I'm sorry if I wasn't clear enough. It
was easier to write the potential objections clearly from the first
person. Though I personally prefer plain text email and do use an MUA,
I'm actually not a kook about it. ;-)

(MUA is "Mail User Agent" often called an "email client" -- I should have
expanded that abbreviation previously.)

I have non-technical family members who send me HTML-only emails. It's
annoying, but they're family. Also, I'm fluent in HTML source, so it's
never been an issue.

I've seen the mentioned methods used by others, particularly by people
who prefer the terminal based "mutt" email client. The old-school UNIX
folks and the security conscious folks are a TINY minority of users,
and their choices are, umm, well, self-inflicted wounds. Not supporting
their preferences could be a reasonable business decision but...

The most important issue is the increased risk you face by not
supporting accessibility for the disabled. If you intend to ever have
interaction with government organizations, you MUST --by law-- have
support for people with disabilities. Of course, the exact laws vary by
government, but they're common in most civilized countries. Being on the
wrong side of those laws can be very expensive. Sadly, in the US there's
an entire industry made of suing people/companies for failing to provide
adequate access to disabled people. --It's just not worth the risk.
This essay is pseudo-intellectual. I'm not here to defend the USA, my beef with this article honestly has nothing to do with its message. I've heard several reasons people move out of their home countries, and as the child of immigrants (and the friend of many expats) I fully support these kinds of decisions.

What annoys me is this article is written abstractly and is saturated with metaphors, but actually lacks well-argued points to support its wild claims. How can someone argue against "it’s clear your path is unsustainable. Collapse is mathematically guaranteed"? It reads like a diatribe from someone who has seen very little of the world.

I want my 10 minutes back.
Great comment. I can say, anecdotally, that I send photos to friends / family using Dropbox all the time. Most of them are slightly confused by the idea at first, but when the invite e-mail shows up most of them click it and sign up (Dropbox also cleverly incents me to do this by offering more space for referrals).

Dropbox, however, started wanting to copy ALL photos from my cameras and/or Pictures folder to it, which made me bristle because I don't want all my photos, and especially the NSFW ones, on Dropbox.

>But from the developer perspective, he will still have to maintain multiple integrations into FB, Dropbox etc.

Yeah. Especially because I'm averse to FB, but Joe down the street loves it, and Jane mostly uses Picasa, and so on.