skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>> Since we will be using all of the above for the next 20 years...

As if Apple had invented all of those things. They didn't. Far, far from it.
Well, yes -- and a farmer gets corn from cornstalks :-)
I've never understood the obsession with Turing machines. It's like basing one's core belief of what a car is off one of Da Vinci's crazy wind-up things.
Again, I'd ask you to reread what I'm proposing. I am not proposing the wholesale slaughter of those who believe differently than I, nor am I saying we must force our values on others. We must, however, defeat this foe. Where education and economic freedom can accomplish these goals, we should use them. However, the true nutbags will not be deterred by these means, and in fact actively fight against them. You can not educate away the Bin Ladens of the world; he in fact was very highly educated in Western schools. Where religious fundamentalists seek to destroy our culture with violence, we must be prepared to respond in kind.

Again, we didn't start this fight and we cannot coexist. This is not a matter of live and let live, as they won't let us live. The fundamentalists are expansionist, and are not happy unless everyone believes as they do. Take this attack, for instance. In Islam, you are forbidden from insulting the Prophet. Fine. If you're Muslim, then don't insult the Prophet.

That's not enough for them. They want everyone else to follow their dictates, too. Where they are not followed, these people think it entirely reasonable to murder innocents unconnected to the original "offense". Our only options, here, are to either respond with force or acquiesce. If we choose the latter, we have abandoned our values of free speech in favour of their values of adherence to their dogma. This cannot be.
After PG's response, chance are you'd be filed under "unconvincingly pitched frighteningly ambitious ideas".
Reminds me more of a Smalltalk workspace pane, except everything seems more disparate and random. It must be cool if you happen to use these particular tools, but I'd prefer something more minimalistic and generic, like the part where you can expand command output or execute it anywhere (just like in Smalltalk) or the part where you can assign on-click commands, and stuff like that. Something you can use for many different things. The rest looks overengineered and way too specific.
IPhone 5 and the post-Jobs Apple
All You Need to Know About Programming
So let me get this straight. A single app on iOS, which doesn't live up to expectations or desires AND is still in BETA (re: unfinished, unready) and this makes you consider buying an entirely new phone?

You sound like those soccer moms I make house calls for who just think it's easier to throw away a working system and buy something else.
Come4.org: Porn with heart (aimed to fund causes)
Hell, following that, r/atheism is a religion, a cult following of Neil deGrasse Tyson, Carl Sagan and Facebook.

Is it really helpful to define the word "religion" that broadly, though? I don't know about Facebook, but when's the last time Tyson or Sagan threatened you with exile to either hell or Siberia for asking too many questions?

It's painfully obvious that personality cults are religious in nature -- see my other post ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4513391 ). But I don't see the same unquestioning adoration being offered to NGT, CS, or Mark Zuckerberg, at least not post-IPO. :)
I think you're on the right track with Google wanting to increase their ad footprint. I tend to view every move that Google makes as an attempt to increase their ability to collect ad revenue. Even the self-driving car frees people up from staring at the boring road and offers an opportunity to look at ads.

Android can be explained in the same manner. Google saw the traffic potential the mobile web had, and they wanted to make sure they were the search engine of choice. The best way to do this is to control the software people use to access that mobile web.
I feel dirty playing the J card, but...

It this something that would have happened with Steve at the helm? I mean, the business case for moving off of your competitor's flagship map product is clear. You want to get them out of your product development cycle, you want to deny them revenue, you want to dilute their brand. I get that.

But still, Apple is ultimately achieving this by pushing what seems to be universally regarded as an inferior product out to its customers. It's basically a downgrade. When has Apple ever done that before?
It's not about phones. People want to be distracted from everyday life. "Revolutionary" tech releases satisfy that need, especially for a slice of society which is both intellectual and a bit manic-depressive. It's sad, but for a lot of these people, new phones/tech are the only real things they have to show off/feel excited about/have strong opinions on/argue about/dream about. It's fundamentally about fantasy, and the reaction you see today is what happens when reality fails to satisfy that fantasy.
I was using Marco Arment's class Bcrypt before: https://gist.github.com/1053158

This is a nice improvement.
I have a 4th Gen Nano and it has no clip. I don't think there has ever been a clip on this model. The Shuffle has the clip.
If anyone's interested in this enough to buy a book on it, I highly recommend Millon's Personality Disorders in Modern Life. It touches on a lot of the issues that the GP asked about including how to distinguish personality disorders from traits.

http://www.amazon.com/Personality-Disorders-Modern-Theodore-...
Intent do not always translate to reality. HTML5 does not deliver for mobile/desktop. End of story.
Characteristic of editing via Modes, previously seen: The Mother of All Demos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mother_of_All_Demos

Are we going to see more of a return to Modal editing?
« According to WHO, in 2007, nearly 2 billion individuals had insufficient iodine intake, a third being of school age. Iodine deficiency can have serious consequences, causing abnormal neuronal development, mental retardation, congenital abnormalities, spontaneous abortion and miscarriage, congenital hypothyroidism, and infertility. Later in life, intellectual impairment reduces employment prospects and productivity. »

http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673...
Science & Technology ranks in top 5 mobile app categories
Not exactly:

"The script editor can be accessed directly at http://script.google.com, or by launching it from one of the Google products which support built-in access to the script editor, such as Google Spreadsheets and Google Sites."

In Spreadsheets, you just need to go to Tools → Scripts → Script Editor.
I ran some numerical simulations on my Raspberry Pi and on my laptop. With the LCD on, my laptop used 20.4 watt seconds to do the calculation and the RPi used 17.1 watt seconds. The RPi drew 3 watts and my laptop drew about 60 watts. I think, even with my screen on, that my laptop would be more efficient if I had used 2 cores instead of 1 in the calculation (or if I had just turned off the LCD).

My conclusion, the RPi doesn't even win in FLOPS/Watt let alone $/FLOPS.
The tool I remember would basically do the equivalent of:

for file in `find /opt/package_name/version/` ; do
NEW=`echo $file | sed -e "s/^\/opt\/package_name\/version\//"`
ln -s $file /usr/local/$NEW
done

Where the base files are installed in /opt/package_name/version/ and all of them are symlinked into /usr/local/ by default with the option of changing individual file links. This way you change the entire 'installed' version of a package without needing application-specific path modifiers. But you can still build applications against specific versioned directories (if you have an app which requires BerkeleyDB 4.1 which conflicts with 4.0, for example)

(You can automate that for a pre-existing package if it's got relocatable code, but hardly as reliable as building it from scratch for the versioned directory and changing symlinks in /usr/local)
Yes, hopefully they haven't pulled a full Apple, like Microsoft has with their 'Metro' store. I don't think I can ever forgive them for making that sort of lock-down acceptable.
You do that because nobody told you what they were for, they just were.

I do that because I've seen previous examples of these things, often cases of solving a real problem, and then go from there.

Yes there are times I see some set of tools and just mess with them and make stuff up, but really I only have so many hours in a day for that and other things.

FWIW I think most people dive into Linux because they already had an idea of what they expected it to do for them.

Perhaps Xiki really can do assorted cool and novel things. Or maybe it just does familiar things in a cool way. That's much less interesting to me.
I'm 22 years old, so I was about 10 years old around the time of the .com crash. Therefore I like every other founder my age never really had the luxury of building a vast network of talented individuals through prior work experiences in a decent economy. Not to say a few of us hadn't worked together with one another in the past, just that the economy has honestly had no effect on us being able to hire on creative talent. Recruiting and training team members has never been an issue for us - We've developed quite the knack for attracting the very best and brightest.

With that said, not one of our team members have completed their degree, and I'd be willing to bet every one of our developers, myself included, are equally if not more skilled then anyone you'd potentially pit against us against from the valley. Our standards are equally as high, as we enjoy working with "A" people, and we don't tolerate anything less. We don't discriminate based on educational merits as they mean absolutely nothing to us, and that allows us to recruit individuals from all walks of life. Also, since we're so close to the University of Missouri (Mizzou) as well as St. Louis and Kansas City, we're able to pick up university educated graduates if we so desire (which so far, we haven't).

We work M-F out of the spare bedroom of my apartment from anytime after noon til early into the morning. Some of our team members live together, and some have families to support. (not to mention we all grew up in the Midwest, and our entire families live around the area) Since we're bootstrapping we're on a very tight budget, so needless to say real-estate is definitely a limiting factor for us, and California is expensive no matter where you choose to reside.

While I do agree that customers, mentors, and employees are abundant on the coast, I'd argue that our geographic location is a blessing. Not only is it superb for our market (Independent music), but the entrepreneurial community in Columbia Missouri is exceptionally strong, intimate and full of helpful mentors, networking events, competitions, and resources.
PayPal just told customers to incorrectly update their IPN scripts
So I got a message from paypal@paypal.com today with the subject line: "ACTION REQUIRED: UPDATE YOUR IPN/PDT SCRIPTS"<p>Sounds pretty important, huh?<p>I obviously read through it immediately and was about to update my IPN script when I noticed multiple typos (on one line) of their PHP example code.<p>First off, they failed to embolden the top line of the PHP header script (to indicate you need to change it to http 1.1) and then they told me to add this to my header script:<p>$header .="Host: 'www.paypal.com\r\n';;<p>Anybody who knows PHP can tell that that line will make the page spit out errors galore.<p>I have had it with this company. Can they do absolutely nothing right?<p>Comments welcome...
IPhone 5: Why we Didn’t Get What we Didn’t Get
But you should have submitted this source instead.

From http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter. "
Yeah, this isn't a great solution, but it's been surprising the number of Mozilla folks that have come out and said, "this may be the only real solution". They've all said they won't be doing the same thing, but there has sometimes been a strong suggestion of a "yet..." there.

I don't think:

a) most people realize that extension permissions are not exactly analogous to phone permissions. When you give browser extensions even fairly standard permissions, they can arbitrarily interact with and alter every single thing you see and do in your browser (meanwhile phones are still somewhat protected by their isolated app architectures). There are some mitigation strategies, but the reality is that the only real difference between many userscripts and a keylogger, for instance, is intent on the part of the developer. And how do you detect that?

b) I don't think many people reacting to this change (like in this thread) realize how many people are actively installing malware in the form of extensions and are being screwed by them. These aren't hypothetical problems, it is quite widespread (check out the many Mozilla conversations about this). This is the reason Mozilla has been so sympathetic to (and muted about) Google's change here, I think.

A dropdown bar and a "are you sure?" are not sufficient. I wish Google would do more (and the "I intend to polish this UI a bit" comment in that bug thread should tell them exactly where they should be focusing their efforts first, not just ignoring it for now), but browser extensions are way too dangerous right now. Downloading the folder and dragging it in kind of sucks, but it's really not that bad in almost all cases (I'm sympathetic to the drop in installations you'll face if you don't want to kowtow to the chrome webstore/mozilla addon approval process, though).
Yes, god forbid someone does that...
So scrum has a single-point-of-failure that organizations, more often than not, see high failure rates with?

And we're still recommending companies adopt this, when the failure rates are both known to be high, and catastrophic when they occur?
http://www.simplerna.com/2012/03/learn-new-languages-easily-...
No it's not. It's pretty well documented in the scientific literature that making people who've mastered something (eg. doctors, airline pilots) work from intuition a lot of the time, so following a set of prescriptive rules inhibits their performance.

If you're still learning how to do things, then how-tos, recipes and best practices like Scrum will help.
Just avoid Freenode, the no fun zone.
I would agree with this a lot. Context matters. On the macbook air I have work, I kept the default font.
YouTube links already opening in new standalone app on iOS
Things I Learned from Having a Brain Tumor
Facebook was first developed in Massachusetts while Mark was attending Harvard, another top tier educational institute. Dropbox and AirBnB were both YC backed companies, and due to the rules of YC, were essentially "forced" into migrating to the valley.
To be fair, it's tricky to use people like Hitler and Breivik to back up any point one tries to make in these discussions. Those guys were psychotic assholes, first and foremost, so whether they were Christians or atheists or anything else was of secondary importance.
You are misinformed. Assisted GPS is simply a feature that reduces the time-to-first-fix of GPS. Triangulation from cell towers exists, but nobody calls it A-GPS.

I've used the iPhone 3G, 3GS, 4, and 4S extensively in the wilderness. Every version since GPS was introduced has been "real" GPS.
Given it's getting released 7 days from now (and the version that comes with the GM, released today, is equally terrible), I'm, not sure it's gonna change that much before the release...

(irrelevant fact: Maps is the MOST important app on the iPhone for me - after the browser, of course. I've put my life on its "hands" an infinite number of times...)
Yeaah, the Palm Pre's wireless charging sure set the world on fire...

This collective "meh" has been said over and over again in techie forums about every iteration of the iPhone (including the first one), as Apple's marched from a bit player to the most profitable company in the world on the iPhone's success. Actually, this was pretty much the response to every iPod, too.
This is good data. Just to sum it up though.

3) 500k per your note

2) 500k for two kids in university

1) 200k for house

____________

= 1.2 million after tax = 1.5 million pre tax
The problem is I cannot see Android specifically adding to that. Specifically I cannot see the ROI. Google is in such a position that people want to use their apps/services (unlike yahoo or some other company) so I cannot see why they could not have gotten the same ad footprint with just apps instead of an OS.

I don't know if I would reduce the self-driving car to just increasing time to see ads though. Its much grander and in fact revolutionary than that.
I'm not sure what you mean. 3.5G to LTE is a simple improvement along a one-dimensional axis - bandwidth. Maybe two metrics, if you want to account for the latency improvement. There are no such straightforward metrics for comparing Gopher and WWW. So no, that kind of thinking does not arrive at WWW being a slight improvement over Gopher.

That's not to say incremental improvements to existing features, such as LTE, can't be reason enough to sell a device (note that wasn't the question, though). As others have pointed out, though, Edge to 3G felt like a more significant step than 3G to LTE, though, just as 56k to 1 Mbit DSL felt like a more significant step than 1 MBit to 16 Mbit or 16 Mbit to 50 Mbit.
Statistics: A Very Short Introduction

http://www.amazon.com/Statistics-A-Very-Short-Introduction/d...

and

Born Together - Reared Apart: The Landmark Minnesota Twin Study

http://www.amazon.com/Born-Together-Reared-Landmark-Minnesot...

I hope to apply things I learn from each of the books to future comments here on HN. Thanks for asking.
Can posts on HN be deleted by admins? 'cause this needs deleting.
In other news, television shows promote stereotypes
Well you do know what it is, you just want a pic before it passes. Otherwise, it's just easier and more efficient.
Look at it the other way: requiring a credit card up-front gets you less unqualified tyre-kickers so the people who do sign up are probably far more motivated by the pain you're solving, and so are much more likely to become a paying customer. Ideally, after reading your sales site your potential customers should be begging you to take their credit card details ^

It's a choice between a higher throughput into the funnel, or a higher conversion rate. Neither is necessarily wrong.

^ My one problem with the upfront credit card system is the <$1 test transaction which is usually applied and then instantly refunded. This makes the anti-fraud systems at my bank go into meltdown and puts a block on my credit card until they can confirm the transaction with me.
That is true - there is no math to this one but I do know from observation that if you have a decent roof over your head, running water and electricity, decent transportation, an internet connection and a computer all "paid off"... the rest of life can be lived well and paid for very very cheaply.

May be an entrepreneurial way to think about for those that are prone to being a cheap ass like me
I'm from Liverpool, UK. I turned down a place at university to become a programmer as I was sick of formal education, preferring instead to teach myself. It's a choice I regret in some ways but the past few years since leaving college have been fun, working as a programmer.
Redesigning LinkedIn’s Header Bar
Worse for me was realizing that when you click a map direction on a website it no longer brings up The map app with directions to your destination from your current location.

Now your are taken to some dead end Google MaP in the browser that does nothing.

WTH Apple?
This just helps to highlight the actual level of understanding most none tech-skilled people have, I'm sure it goes a long way to bridging the gap between the average Joe and the web developer, but a large portion of it is incorrect and probably harms the industry as a whole. It's a shame that the author didn't go further in his research.

It really does point to a major flaw in the education system. Some basic coding needs to be taught in high school to all students.

Everyone knows you spend 5% of your time writing code and 95% of it debugging, anyway.
How to create Human Level AI
Your incorrect corrections were rather matter-of-fact. And we are discussing the notion of Mark continuing as the CEO, not the plausibility of the company's current market value.
The Milgram experiment should have proved that beyond question.

Careful that you don't undermine your own point here. What Milgram demonstrated was that authoritarianism works.

Experimenters like Milgram and Zimbardo were trying to illuminate the motivations and mechanisms of the Holocaust, an event that could have been stopped by the moral authority of religious leaders including the Catholic Church but was not. Instead, what happened in their constructed scenarios was not that different from what happens in a church: an unaccountable authority tells ordinary people to do debatably-ethical things in order to achieve a goal or carry out an assigned role, and a majority of the audience is receptive to these orders.

The only surprise is that someone actually had to do an experiment to remind us just how gullible we are.
Indeed[1]. It seems to be endemic of the entire medical field[2][3] and even further removed[4]. Combined with how difficult (if not impossible) it is to reproduce many findings[5], I would call these the most important problems in science today. Science cannot move forward without all of the data (positive and negative) in a reproducible fashion.

1. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18199864
2. http://journals.lww.com/greenjournal/Citation/2003/09000/Evi...
3. http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=198809
4. http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
5. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405297020376480457705...
Time (of stories) is measured in points. You won't be talking about a 10 story sprint.
It's the first time they've had it. There isn't turn-by-turn on the iPhone currently. But if they have issues finding addresses in general how good can the turn-by-turn really be?
Historically, this is not something Apple has ever done. It doesn't even make sense, since their main money maker is selling new devices - not software-activating features on older models...
I have been using tmpfs for /tmp for many years (since 2005 IIRC). Note that I do have large amounts of swap space (typically 64GB).

One simple benefit is that files there do not get caught in backups - they are temporary detritus so I don't want backup space wasted by them.

The major benefit is that fsync is really slow on Linux. Typically it turns into a sync, and a lot of programs like to ensure you don't lose data by being fsync happy. For temporary stuff that is even more painful - you don't care about data loss - that is why it is in tmp in the first place.

TLDR: I prefer filesystem operations on transient/temporary files and data to run at the speed of RAM, and not end up in backups or waiting for syncs.
They work; it's just more convoluted to install them at first.
Try iTrans NYC. It's incredible. http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/itrans-nyc-subway/id283492923...
Diplomat Killed in Libya influential EVE Online gamer
Amen on the very last line "web fonts are here to stay". I'm amazed that in 2012 I'm still working with developers who act like it's something we may want to try next year. It's time to realize that this is a technology that should have taken off ten years ago and now it's time to play catch up.
Out of curiosity, what would you expect to show up? If someone said they're going to ORD (I live in California, too) then I'd ask if they have a connection in Chicago.
Okay, but people don't run web browsers on AWS.
People thinking and resistant to gaming are pretty much mutually exclusive.
Zynga Chief Marketer Jeff Karp Leaves in Staff Exodus