skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks. All great observations.

For some time I've been convinced that a key skill for negotiating life in this century will be avoiding useless distraction. This has probably always been true, but the distractions seem to have ramped-up in the last 10-15 years. People who are unable to avoid being continually distracted will increasingly stressed, dissatisfied, and unsuccessful.

There is probably money to be made in coaching this skill.
I'll help you.

Develop an application for support of financial and tax regulations for a certain country. You will have verbs and nouns which describe the situation clearly.

You develop an application from specifications written another language than English. They exist.

The biggest failure I keep seeing are futile attempts to translate concepts under these circumstances into English.

I agree in this case: when you want to invite collaboration on github, English (or Chinese?) would be better suited.
After all there aren't many high quality opensource RDBMS GUIs available. The only one I know is pgAdmin and even pgAdmin has some serious bugs. (GUI freezes easily when you have many windows open and/or do large queries; import/export barely work)

The only code I would trust is the code I generate myself... ;)
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I "concede" that they are doing nothing wrong and you are way out of your depth here.

I strongly suggest that you drop this before digging yourself an even deeper hole in front of the people following this from Twitter.
From Fortune:
"This is not the first time Jenkins has peered into Cupertino’s future and foreseen doom. Two years ago, in a column entitled “The Microsofting of Apple?“, he excoriated Apple for rolling out “increasingly junky devices” (referring to the iPad) and for making a strategic decision to “cut off its users from a huge amount of Web content” (referring to mobile Flash).

Since Jenkins wrote that, Adobe (ADBE) has conceded that mobile Flash doesn’t work and Apple has sold more than 100 million of those junky iPads."
How great would it be if he could mass produce these! He gained incredible insight leading to variable pitch blades, process of making the various parts...if I were a homeowner & actually had cash I'd buy one in an instant.

Or even write a detailed ebook showing others how to do the same, and maybe sell the tricky parts like the stator sheets and blades to budding windmill DIYers. Great project.
Any plan to open-source this?

edit: After some digging I found this non-minified version on Github: https://github.com/Gwendall/hackerface/blob/gh-pages/script.... No license info though...
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Indeed! The Sketchpad demo. The Mother of All Demos (Englebart who basically conceived of hyper-media and the future of knowledge work). The Symbolics lisp machines.

It's all really cool stuff. I'm really glad that Light Table is making it popular again. Maybe this time we can at least give a nod to where these ideas come from so that more people can be aware. New instead of novel.
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The suggestion is actually; Everybody, apart from those who worked closest to him.
I read an article years back and I think it was in the Wall Street Journal. My understanding was that an unexpected grandmaster-level move at a point where Kasparov was expecting to see a different move occurred.

Kasparov suspected user intervention. Unfortunately the event was sponsored by IBM, so ther was potential for a conflict of interest.

He requested to see the source code and the game logs which was denied by IBM. IBM also disassembled the computer immediately after the match to re-purpose the computer for protein folding.

I think this book is rewriting history. Kasparov was devastated.
I cancelled the installation when it askedd for permission to acces "your data on ALL websites".
It would be great to limit it to news.ycombinator.com and just the sites it really needs to access.
Why is it done this way?
Maybe I'm being stupid but I cannot find any maps on the Bing app. I open the app up and I get presented with a search bar and a picture of some mountains, touching the screen anywhere doesn't bring up any options for different types of searches (i.e. I wanted a map-specific one). Searching for my town "Brno" just brings up regular search results with no option to view a map. Searching for "London" brings up more, so there's a new header giving me the options of narrowing my results by "all", "images", "video" or "news" but still no maps.

This is not a suitable replacement for Google maps, I'll be deleting it.
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its not Sequel Pro but you can try http://inductionapp.com
Same problem here, the Bing app doen't have any maps...
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The game itself, replayable online: http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1070912
On a related note, what is a quick way to view an extension's source code without actually installing it?
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If you have kids, let them help you build parts of it. They'll never forget the time spent with you and what they learned from you while doing it.
I've worked in the TV (set top box) business. Oh, god.

The cable companies (a) despise their customers, (b) hate to innovate, and (c) their /short term vision/ is on the order of five years.

Cable Labs? A firewall against companies that think they can intrude on the space. Want to do something new and whizzy? No problem, just pass some compliance tests . . . which takes months or years.

Also: TV is harder than you think. Think "legacy network with some interesting regulation thrown in" (e.g., handling emergency broadcast signals, batshit insane limits on use of bandwidth) and that's for starters. Comcast's back ends are running horrible software stacks, and interoperability with that stuff is really hard; you get to build your own back-end for testing, probably millions of dollars . . . and then you get to integrate with Time Warner's stuff, which is all different, and Rogers, and so on.

TV is all about smiling people circling each other with knives. It's full of entrenched players who are happy to screw anyone, including big companies who think they can do end-runs around carefully erected defenses. TV is war.
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...confused by this post ?!
Most phones could technically run it but there are no updates supplied by the vendors. That's one of Androids biggest weaknesses. Well, I don't care, I've rooted my device long ago and keep flashing updates :)
Other positive news, Gavin Andresen, Lead Core Bitcoin Developer - "I'm pleased to announce the launch of the Bitcoin Foundation: standardizes, protects and promotes the use of Bitcoin cryptographic money for the benefit of users worldwide. The Bitcoin Foundation is modeled on the Linux Foundation."

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=113400.0 https://www.bitcoinfoundation.org/
Agreed. And existing content is less important to television than new and live fare, as evidenced by its most popular programming: network prime-time and live sports. Speaking of "systems", both ESPN and ABC are controlled by Disney, whose CEO, Robert Iger, is an Apple director, so likely to see Apple as a potentially lucrative business partner rather than some dangerous, untrustworthy Other.
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IMHO, Nothing like agile for freelancing.. every week the customer gets a solid deliverable, every week I get a real paycheck.
If at any time the customer does not like my work or I don't like the customer, we can always part ways, what is done is all 100% his, (documentation, source code etc)

Worst case scenario.. I am out a week's work.

*so far, I've never been stiffed.
For previous discussions:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4352290

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4350238
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your argument is similar to: "it is impossible to design a bank that can be kept 100% secure from bank robbers, therefore we shouldn't use banks"
I have been in that position many times. But with a family and a visa to worry about, I could never just quit. I work on my project(s) on the side. I launched one app in my spare time (in ~10 months) and I am working on my second app (hoping to launch within the next 5 months). These side projects also help me keep my sanity at my day job.

Keep in mind that your family is the most important thing in this world. Do whatever is needed to keep their future secure. So for now, I have decided to keep my dilbert day job, until the US decides that I can work for myself without any strings attached.
But you are forced to use Microsoft's App Store for Metro applications. Even if this works (I haven't tested it, but it seems plausible) you'll probably never able to get your application through Microsoft's certification process... :-(
Essentially never, if the top player knew it was a possibility.
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What could MS complain about. Interfaces are explicitly protected by precedent. And reverse engineering software is explicitly protected in the DMCA for the purposes of interlopability.
>TV won't be Apple's undoing but it also isn't obvious that they can win big there. It is a complicated business with a number of interlocking players at different levels and vested business interests. It is also a global business with rights packaged up at a very national level and sold with exclusive deals.

Funny, the said the exact same thing about mobile...
>TV won't be Apple's undoing but it also isn't obvious that they can win big there. It is a complicated business with a number of interlocking players at different levels and vested business interests. It is also a global business with rights packaged up at a very national level and sold with exclusive deals.

Funny, they said the exact same thing about mobile...
Interesting! The point I was trying to make wasn't that it knows everything everything, but it knows a lot more useful information than you.
Can somebody help me, I only have 1% of battery left, I was using IOS6 maps to get to my local mall but I am now in what looks like Antarctica? Im very cold and car hasn't got much gas left, I hope s
@bitsoda, completely agree
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Changing account details or payment data or placing new orders requires separate confirmation via mail or phone anyway, so you'd have to have access to the email account for a chunk of time. If you can do that and prevent your mark from noticing the confirmation mails, you could have done the same with password reset emails.
Your story proves that sometimes you have to find a bigger crowd and/or a different approach, not that crowd sourcing sucks.

Either way, nice work!
I simply want to be able to build my own hammer if necessary. Microsoft - of course - does not have to build the hammer I want to use - but give me the possibilities to do so - in this case access to these API functions.

The Javascript engine used for Metro applications (Chakra) also uses these API calls, so even Microsoft is (obviously) not able to relinquish using these API calls for writing a JIT compiler.

So: I really only want to use the tools the platform offers - but in the same way Microsoft does; not in the limited way that Microsoft forces outside developers.
It should be interesting to see how stresses on food production will play out as climate change intensifies over the next decade.
I've did some experiments - and yes APC is a little bit faster (1-5ms per page rendering) when used as key-value store in comparision to memcached via unix socket. However I had always problems with cache fragmentation and a resulting slowdown. If you use Apache mod_fcgid the PHP processes are beeing shot down and started at random and APC is is not shared acress them. With nginx and PHP-FPM is is not so true anymore. I've had the impression memcached is more solid.

For static caching I use nginx with fastcgi_cache. This makes WP-Supercache obsolete. I bybass the cache for requests containing certain cookies, so that logged in users always receive fresh pages.

Another big Wordpress performance sink is locales. If you have a blog in a non-english language consider using a language-caching plugin. Wordpress uses a PHP gettext implementation that is quite slow. 20% speedup if you cache the generated locales.

But it's a shame to spend days or months on tuning Wordpress, what is essentially just a blog engine.
> the New York Times has disclosed that the writer is writing as a blogger, not as a journalist.

I am confused.
The script breaks on trying to view my own profile. The error is: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot call method 'split' of undefined" in chrome-extension://daljejehnbbbhjlecjgafnnfgilbkdhj/script.mini.js:32

It also affects my userstyle for the topbar. Please don't break page styles :) Namespace your CSS.

Also, please fix your permissions as noted by jchung and others. I installed the extension only on my Chrome Canary because I was too lazy to check the entire JS for security problems (or malicious intent).

With some fixes however, this would be really nice to have.
Fine.Thank you for asking.
I thought iPod HiFi was their undoing!

They've had so many, it's hard to keep track.

My instinct is that the TV is a stalking horse. Zero doubt that they're working on something, and it looks like a TV, but it has to be something a whole lot more than iTunes+flatscreen+Siri. I know what I'm hoping for...

But if I'm wrong, or if it fails, or both...it will hardly be Apple's undoing. Their most profitable product lines are still growing fast, and the others are doing respectably well. They'll need a new product line in the next few years to maintain growth, yes, and there are other threats. I'm not worried about this one.
The upcoming nokia 920 is expected to have a display even better than this. Atleast that is what they claim. It will be interesting to see it validated by Anand.
Chrome books don't require you to be online all of the time. The web has had an offline spec for several years now. http://appcachefacts.info
Most technical-minded people who are aware of the distinction between the various formats.

I didn't get the impression that Google Docs was only used by those. We probably won't see an outcry, though, because the people getting bitten by the change (and there are lots of smaller businesses who don't really see a need to upgrade to current Office versions) aren't that vocal on the net.
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contrast: Buridan's Ass http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buridan%27s_ass
yep, P/E of 1008. Super solid company. SO much revenue.
How is this patentable? Isn't this just API stuff?
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Same for Nokia 920. They claim to have a better display with higher nits. Wonder if any third party reviewer can confirm or refute it.
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My understanding is that this is not exactly a GUI client.

You can give pgXplorer (http://pgxplorer.com) a shot which is open source and the binaries are readily available. Disclaimer: I am the lead dev of pgXplorer.
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You might find this useful

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It didnt on my old iPhone 3G.

Gone were all my contacts and calendering data, including birthdays.

I had to export my stuff to CSV and massage it in local Outlook and do some reverse-and-double-wipe sync stuff through iTunes.

It was horrible and I refuse to buy another iDevice ever again.
I think skype was released a month or so after they acquired skype. Besides the skype integration that they show in the next version is way better than on any other phones/OS
I don't know what rapportive is. I guess I'm not cool enough to understand this headline.
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Almost everything is patentable. The real test is holding the patent up in court.
Time management on the command line - thinking Unix as design
DbVisualizer (http://www.dbvis.com/) is an excellent cross-platform, multi-product GUI tool. Doesn't have many design tools (well not any really, but neither does PgAdmin). Java-based and not free, which gives freeloaders and snobs something to complain about. No relationship, just someone who has been happy to be a customer for many years.
I believe LevelDb is getting bloom filter to alleviate the key not-found performance issue soon.

Very cool article.
Not to pee on your parade, but you should've really started discovering that while still employed as a cubicle dweller. That removes heck of a lot of uncertainty compared to jumping off the cliff, blindfolded.

Good luck though, this still beats sitting in a cubicle.
And don't forget books! http://breadpig.com/blogs/news/5863073-reasons-to-self-publi...
So what you're saying is that, because Kasparov assumed the move was anticipated further than he could see, chess's "nature" is inferior to go, because in go–you implỵ–this wouldn't have happened.

Please be more clear with what you're saying.
Very well written. It's the first technical CS article I've read in a while and really enjoyed it.
Might want to fix the spelling mistake on the first line on your site. Otherwise, cool out-of-the-box idea.
It could also be that surfers don't want to share the great conditions with others so they can enjoy them without the congestion?
I know 37signals is looking for one. What better place to work at?
Ubuntu is also moving towards an app-store model, be it much slower. [citation needed]

Steam itself is an app-store model too.
JLS7 is ~600 pages; the latest draft I could find (because apparently the actual standard isn't available online, a problem in itself) for C++11 was over 1200.

I very much doubt a version bump will stem C++'s decline; while it contains plenty of improvements there are no really radical changes. What are the changes that you think will make people who chose C or go over C++03 switch to C++11?
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I believe raytracing is normally done from each pixel on the screen, into the world that is being rendered. Not "a bajillion rays" from the light sources in the scene. I.e. there is always a constant number of rays for each frame.
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The real question: is Dotcom innocent of his alleged crimes? The real story is that if Dotcom was facilitating piracy. The technicality of if he was wire tapped illegally or not is important in theory, but it comes down to this: Dotcom would not be in trouble if he hadn't broken the law. If he was innocent, then this would be a big story. This is similar to someone caught in video robbing a store but beating the charge because of a technicality.

Criminals winning cases on technicalities while still having committed the crime is not justice. Justice is getting punished for crimes actually committed. Justice is when innocent people are acquitted of crimes they did not commit.

Turning Dotcom into somekind of folk hero is ridiculous. He became very wealthy by facilitating theft. It isn't like he was donating the proceeds to build schools for girls in Afghanistan. If he broke a potentially unfair law as a statement and did it for something other than getting rich, maybe then we could consider him something other than what he is -- a self-serving criminal.
> good apps often have short names: Skype, Spotify, Instagram, Twitter

I think you mean 'well-recognized brands have short names'. If you're trying to discover a new Twitter client, it might help for them to have their name, and 'Twitter', in the title. The goal with search isn't to deliver the user to exactly the app they already know they want, but to display apps they might want. Discovery is really hard given one screenshot and 7 characters.
> What’s your suggestion on ensuring that we deliver high quality?

Understand the economics behind software development, and stay as close to the edge of cost/quality curve as possible.

Simply wringing your hands about "doing better" doesn't do much. You have to understand why 'cheap / not so good' wins in some cases.
Just curious :)
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Just get into it.
The entire article seems to be founded on misconceptions about raytracing and a wilful misunderstanding of what is meant by photorealism. Don't waste your time.
So maybe they should have called it. "3 problems that raytracing can't solve, and 4 other ones that just suck about modeling real life in 3d(on a 2d surface)".
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The whole idea of modern systems languages like Rust or D is actually to avoid the need of using Python, Ruby etc. The language covers all your needs in a nice coherent package from top to bottom.
Rapportive is a gmail extension. It shows the profile picture and various social profiles of the person whose email you are reading or writing to.

You can just ask a question, you know. No need for pithy one-liners about internet coolness.
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My favorite quote:

"A similar miscalculation led Microsoft to treat Netscape as a mortal threat and into a self-defeating tussle with a reciprocally purblind Justice Department. The Web did indeed create enormous opportunities that were seized by companies other than Microsoft, but Microsoft is still around and doing fine."

That is some serious revisionist history going on there. The author seems to forget that Netscape was a huge threat to Microsoft. Microsoft then shifted their strategy to focus on the web in, what I would argue, is one of the more impressive pivots by a large company. That pivot led to Internet Explorer crushing Netscape and becoming the number 1 browser. It also led to a radical reinvention of the Microsoft developer toolset to focus on the web - ASP, ASP.NET, etc. These technologies may now be passe, but they were pretty cutting edge at the time. And even though Microsoft has now, in my opinion, fallen really far behind in the world (missing most of mobile, etc), you can't say that it was a miscalculation to go after Netscape - think of where they'd be if they'd not gone after them.
I could expect this out of Go Daddy, but should the people approving this patent also be blamed?
> I strongly oppose any legislative efforts to make it more difficult for me to obtain these substances.

The way I took the article was that, if some sane rules were applied and enforced, it would actually be easier for you to obtain them - because right now you could be knocking back selenium and rat urine for all you know.
A test I expect this will fail. Fairly sure there's some prior art for this.
I guess going by the apple-samsung lawsuit, getting your patent validated in court seems to depend a lot on random chance as well.
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>The real test is holding the patent up in court.

Or threatening enough people to sue them for umpteen fantastillion dollars
unless they pay you ransom money^W^W licensing fees.

Remind me why we still have this fucked up system?