skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The 3 and 1/4 icons displayed on a single row is a bad idea. Not because it's bad UX but because it seems that the application doesn't cache any hidden icons. Every time I scroll the list that's a (very) small loading time that block the natural scroll.

Anyway I like the "See all" view (but I haven't used it from day one, I don't know way but it didn't catch my attention). Finally Apple has implemented infinite scroll. I found myself more inclined to continue to scroll the list part application #20.

On the old App Store you had to tap the "show 20 more" cell. For me It's a sort of psychological barrier. It's like saying "there are more apps, I don't show them to you cause they are not very good". I don't know if I explained it well.
Review: The 2012 MacBook Air soars with Ivy Bridge
1. Seriously, I have to the endure 20% of my phone screen covered by a floating absolutely positioned ad to join Google+? Why, because the website is so beautifully designed?

2. Array out of bounds is an exception because array access is an operator, not a function? So we classify failure modes by the syntax of the call? Why can't a[j] return two values?
Reminded me of Minsky's quote about the null program : http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/12
Same exact thing happened with Google Play. Google removed the recently updated view almost everywhere, while at the same time claiming they were optimizing the store for visibility for everyone's apps. But they took away the one thing that was actually doing that.

Throw in how they added responding to comments, but only by an elite few with special marks by their names that aren't earned by numbers, and there you go, it's a pretty harsh world for the small guys.
44...Rd1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8guNB96rVgw
See 3:10. Deep Blue resigned at move 45.
I love how Valve is going way more than the extra mile to bring a very successful game store to Linux, and here we're just complaining about the DRM.
I'm sure Jelly Bean is a huge step forward, and I'm sure that when it actually starts having a significant install base -- sometime in Q3 2014 -- people will probably be really impressed with how close it was to what Apple's products were shipping with just two years ago :)
They do buy offsets, which are reputed to be higher quality than the BS you can add to your Dell shopping cart or whatever.
Ask HN: Forget job board, what about an idea board?
I'd be one of the first to say ideas are a dime a dozen. The idea may be kindling, or a kernel, but it's just the beginning.

But what if you can combine the idea, business plan, system architecture, founding documents, advisory board, and some petty cash ($10 - $20k) all together.

Are there awesome coders out there that would jump at such an opportunity?

I'm thinking about creating an idea board where people can post their ideas, and what they can provide along with it, as a way to recruit an engineer or engineering team. For example, some ideas may be a founder looking for a team, some may be an investor who wants to recruit a team to work on a specific problem they think needs solving.

I'm confident about the supply side of the equation -- but what about demand?
Won't that cause hurricanes?
Okay, so we can now do the "math" :

70 000 / (4 * 12 * 12) = 121.52 request per CPU
I never used Google Maps for public transport anyway because they report scheduled times, which are useless. Bing isn’t any better.

Good third party options:

- The Transit App – http://thetransitapp.com

- Lumatic City Maps – http://lumatic.com

- Transporter – http://www.transporterapp.net

- Pocket Muni – http://www.pocketbus.com

The first two also do routing and integrate with iOS 6 Maps. Regarding public transit I am actually happier with iOS 6 than I was before, precisely because of the 3rd party integration.
Go has first class functions yes, but without the support for generics/parametric polymorphism, you can't write "higher order functions" for polymorphic functional constructs like map/filter/reduce etc.
Counter-Strike is such a game that will never go out of style, generations to come will look back on it as we now look to chess.
Does noone need privacy anymore?
Why Is everyone so excited about storing their private data like photos on other peoples servers?
Is there no need for more privacy?
I like to have all my photos on my own little home-server or NAS.
But I still like to share some with friends or family. Isn't there a solution other than flickr or snapjoy to keep everything at home and share through my DSL?
I don't see the point of submitting this to HN. It isn't a review of all high-end device displays, or something else generic like that.
Well, that settles it, clearly if every food is also a drug, that means any drug is safe to take in large quantities on a regular basis.
My 3GS feels a lot nicer to use with iOS 6 than with iOS 5.
iOS 6 feels fresher and more responsive.

I seldom use the maps so that's not really a problem for me.
This whole "scandal" thing about iOS 6 being a disaster seems to me to mostly be a "we want Apple to really fuck up" by the press and media.

As someone said on Twitter, this is the 6th iPhone in a row that failed to meet the analysts expectations...
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Somebody is to Blame for This
I don't think reporting on a minority opinion among researchers is such a horrible thing to do. Yes, he could have emphasized the fact that it is a minority opinion and said more about the counter arguments. What he did is point to an article in the NewScientist that does just that.

Any reporting on new theories within science will include things for which it is "too early to say yes to the question posed in the headline". And any such reporting can easily be criticized for "going straight for eyeballs".
I'm not sure I crave for sRGB gamut and perfect color accuracy in a smartphone. Isn't more important that it has eye-popping contrast? When was the last time you needed sRGB and compare that to how often you look at the phone with a lot of ambient light or possibly reflections. It seems that Nokia here is much more focused on the relevant innovation here:

http://i.nokia.com/blob/view/-/1824216/data/2/-/PuremotionHD...
And therefore no one will find it interesting? I'm not that interested so I didn't upvote the article but I don't see any problem with others voting it up and me seeing a link to the article on HN.
TL; DR - How many teams out there are looking for a great new idea to work on?
While Marco has written specifically about iCloud and the iPad, what he describes is not limited to just everything Apple. My father recently turned 70 and he has a PC at home which is used for listening to music, browsing and a lot of CAD. He started using computers much before I did, but he did not grow up with them and still finds it hard to deal with GUIs. It has always baffled me as to how someone who was excellent at using the CLI can struggle so much with what is meant to be easier. I am talking about ease, not efficiency.

And it is not that he's not a sharp cookie anymore. He runs the household, still consults on his civil engineering projects, tinkers frequently with various things electronic/electrical, but GUIs stump him and his predicament has only gotten worse with the newer iterations of operating systems. For my generation, who grew up with the modern computing paradigms, this is unfathomable, but it is a real problem too, one with no real solution.

I have found my eventual solution in doing Teamviewer sessions for most problems. It is heartbreaking to make aged parents feel incompetent because they can't seem to grasp easily the same concepts we can grasp without even half a thought.
When I first read about Varnish it was framed as a "correct" implementation of what Squid was trying to do. It seems like people are using Varnish in situations where they would not otherwise be using Squid.
None of the other posts on the blog have a number at the end of them.
From the end of the last post in the series (http://winningraceconditions.blogspot.com/2012/09/rust-4-typ...):

let arc = RWARC(some_data);
for num_cpus().times {
let arc2 = clone(&arc);
do task::spawn |move arc2| {
process_data(arc2); // might read, write, whatever
}
}
let modified_data = unwrap(move arc); // blocks on all child tasks at once
// do more of the algorithm, etc.

This is a nice fork/join pattern, allowing implementations with minimal copying and reasonable safety. If this is indicative of design decisions made by the creators of Rust, I think it looks pretty good.
When I follow your links I see the Penguin edition for $14.99 and the other edition "not available".
I never "trusted" facebook in the first place. There is always a tacit understanding, in my opinion, in using free services, that they control the data that you put in there. As long as you use the service with that in mind, you're good. I never used facebook much, but even in the PM, I would never write anything more than a "hey, how are you? can I drop you an email?".....
Absolutely! It's so unintuitive that preventing people from doing things you don't want might get them to not do those things, I totally fail to understand why people buy into that "myth!"
Yes.

Its limitations are speed and libraries. However each year these continue to improve. So for now I've only used it a couple of times for small scripts but I do plan on writing some modules/libraries in perl6 in the (near) future.

Also chromatic (http://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=chromatic) has mentioned about using it for many years in his production systems (however I think he ripped it out recently and replaced it with perl5 solution).
The fact that they state they want to test steam on as many different configurations as possible directly contradicts the idea that they're testing ground for a console. After all, a console will only ship in one hardware configuration by definition.
Honestly I find it easier to go to Google.com and search for whatever your looking for appended with "android app". I'm surprised there's such a large difference in the quality of search between Google Play search and Google Search.
Nagoya Corps Works are in Chubu buisness district.
Hi, I am Sapan Diwakar. I also don't live in Bay Area but would love to chat with you if you're interested. Here is my homepage: http;//sapandiwakar.in
Flipkart Customer Support Hijacked
Columnists have always had the liberty to write stuff that doesn't reflect on the newspaper, often stuff that goes contrary to the official stance of the newspaper. This is not something new.

I guess what is new is that newspapers have been marginalized to a degree that otherwise well educated people no longer necessarily know the editorial conventions that govern them.
Yup, then some south hack to make usernames longer than 30 characters...
From the article:

Kasparov had concluded that the counterintuitive play must
be a sign of superior intelligence. He had never considered
that it was simply a bug.

Does anyone know the source for that? Game 2 was definitely pivotal, but I couldn't find any reference to indicate that he gave up because of the random move in Game 1.

Regarding Game 2, from http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/tech/analysis/kasparov/...

In that game, Deep Blue made a series of brilliant moves
but then failed to anticipate one Kasparov could have made
-- but didn't -- to force a tie. Kasparov, who didn't
notice the possible move until it was pointed out to him
after the game, said: "I still don't understand how the
machine couldn't see that."
Why would you call Self a visual language? It has an IDE, but the language is most definitely textual. Its only when you throw in Morphic does the line begin to blur, but you are back to text again if you want to write any code. Many languages we think of as visual are more structured or graphical (graphics baked around text); compare ToonTalk to Scratch! Most languages fall somewhere in a spectrum between heavily visual and heavily textual, but this is my own classification system and there is hardly much consensus on the topic.

Liveness doesn't require visual, of course, but that's where liveness first shows up in history (SketchPad, along with directness). I go into some of the history in my own paper on the topic (http://lamp.epfl.ch/~mcdirmid/mcdirmid07dead.pdf).
I really don't like DRM in general. Valve's move to Linux has its pluses, I'm not denying it. But DRM is a fat minus.
Every year there is a regulate supplements as drugs bill in congress. Every year it fails. Mainly because their is a lot of grass roots support for keeping supplements legal and the industry has developed to a point where it can effectively lobby.

The constatnt onslaught of anti-supplement bills almost reminds me of the RIAAs continuous lobbying onslaught of draconian copyright bills (sopa, pipa, protectip, etc). Just like too many people are using the internet for the most disturbing copyright bills to pass, there are too many people taking nutritional supplements for the pharma industry "we're all going to die" anti-supplement fud to be effective. Interestingly enough, given all the anti-supplement fud going around in articles like these, prescription drug overdoses now kill more people now than car crashes (http://www.voanews.com/content/article/171721.html).
Looks good. Thanks! I was aware of https://gephi.org since before, always nice to have more tools in the toolbox. :)
Same for HTC Desire Cyanogen latest 7.2
To compete with Apple Maps, Google replaces UCSC with Segway Santa Cruz Inc
How can you tell that story and not conclude with the result of the trial?

It's so well written, despite all the terror of the words, you can still almost imagine Jeff as one of 12, arguing against 'verdict for the plaintiff'.
Long-sought particle that could revolutionize quantum computing
By default, iTunes pops up a message saying "you have purchased items on this device, would you like to transfer them?"

It sounds like your co-worker said no to this in the past, and checked the box to not pop up the message anymore.
Awesome :)

For those with even less of a chemistry background than I have: rust is iron oxide, and pyrite is iron sulfide. It's a good analogy because oxygen and sulfur are in the same group (column) in the periodic table, so they have some chemical similarities.
I agree with all of your points! I started to build it as a pack of loosely connected plugins, because thats what OStatus is... a pack of combined open protocols...

With the actual structure you can decide if you want to use the whole pack or only single items and the complete OStatus pack will be compatible with all single plugins/specs.

I agree that the Name "OStatus for WordPress" is not that end-user friendly... but with a better name and a better installer it should be a good start!

If someone is willing to help, please let me know... Up to now it's only me working on all the OStatus plugins (pubsubhubbub, activitystreams, webfinger, salmon, ...)
Talking purely from a consumer perspective, you want to argue that one phone reproduces accurately the full RGB spectrum and another blows it out of proportion and that makes one phone better? Isn't that a matter of subjective taste? How does that make one phone better than another? For eg. I may like to turn the color all the way up on my TV. That doesn't mean my TV's picture is objectively bad or the other way around.
Just do it like Microsoft products do: big warning that you could lose new features whenever you save to the old format.

I think this is a big mistake for Google.
Thank you so much. This is exactly what I was looking for.
> Moose is pretty much built in - objects are in the language itself and there's no need for more syntax sugar on top

Python's object system only provides a subset of what Moose (and Class::MOP) currently offers.

Have a look at Bullwinkle which is a (currently incomplete) port of Moose to Python: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/bullwinkle/
Yea, I was trying to find some information on exactly how many servers are responsible for content generation. If this is about 100 machines then yes, 70k/s is pretty damn impressive. If it's 1000 machines, then I'm a little less impressed.
Valve has filed patents on a console controller:

http://www.vg247.com/2012/03/05/valve-patent-shows-steam-box...

Remember that the idea of Steam on Linux was itself just a rumour mere months ago.

Regards the "Linux users pay more" meme on the humble bundle, bear in mind you are still talking about people only paying something like $10 for about 5 games. I assume that Steam prices will stay the same across OSs as well rather than charging more for a Linux version.

It's obvious that they are getting more interested in hardware such as the Oculus Rift, also with hardware getting cheaper there seems to be a growing market for people buying hardware/software integrated solutions.

Whatever it is they are planning to do, they want to become a first class player in the gaming market rather than being whim to Microsoft who look like they are wanting to produce their own hardware.

The best way to do that is to take an already proven kernel with good performance and no licensing and work on from there.

My guess is that porting Steam to Linux gives them an eager powerbase of vocal power users to use as a test market. It's the same principle Apple uses by marketing to the "fanboys" first and letting it trickle out from there.

Hopefully they will continue to support "normal" Linux distributions however, it would be nice to be able to hook up their controller and a headset to my PC and run everything that way if I don't want to buy a "steambox" or whatever.
This is very anecdotal, so I will follow up with one too. Driving north on 280 towards Daly Ciry, I tried to get directions to In n Out. Multiple call outs referred to a "Mission St" that does not exist. Even in SF, iOS 6 has significant mapping problems.
I've updated the link with a basic mock:
https://github.com/sandeepshetty/converspace/blob/master/REA...
Having to spend more time and money marketing just to get my numbers to where they were is a disaster to me, as a developer. I'm not sure what you're getting at.
Portugal Shows How Euro Crisis Is Shuffling the Tech Order
I just watched this right after reading Bret Victor's Learnable Programming essay (http://worrydream.com/LearnableProgramming/).

The dissonance between Bret's visions and where even a quite progressive modern IDE is at disturbed me deeply. Nothing that Chris showed was "trivial" when seen from the perspective of how things might be rather than how Eclipse does things.
I enjoyed it. Not out of any interest in the iPhone 5. But as a (somewhat) technical article about how displays are measured.

One of the more interesting articles of the day imo.
Might be an Amazon territory thing, then. I'm in Europe.
I hate how everyone immediately takes every comment as pro or anti apple on the web. Im not trying to defend Apple here. My comment was more about taking responsibilities for your own actions before immediately blaming someone else.
Initial setup does ask for an Apple ID, then sets up most associated services (App Store, iMessage, FaceTime, iCloud, Notes, etc). They fixed that with iOS 6, and no 'random things that worked' broke when I upgraded. I don't use iCloud email so I can't speak to that.
Oh, you know, lunch in Cologne, dinner in Munich, then back home. Or maybe a leasurely afternoon stroll in the Black Forest or on the shore of the North Sea.

Something like that.
I don't agree with the use of If-Modified-Since – the author seems to have elected to completely ignore the rest of the section of the RFC (http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec14.html#sec14...), specifically: "If the variant has been modified since the If-Modified-Since date, the response is exactly the same as for a normal GET."

What the author seems to be actually describing is exactly what the If-Range header has been designed for:

If a client has a partial copy of an entity in its cache, and wishes to have an up-to-date copy of the entire entity in its cache, it could use the Range request-header with a conditional GET (using either or both of If-Unmodified-Since and If-Match.) However, if the condition fails because the entity has been modified, the client would then have to make a second request to obtain the entire current entity-body.

The If-Range header allows a client to "short-circuit" the second request. Informally, its meaning is `if the entity is unchanged, send me the part(s) that I am missing; otherwise, send me the entire new entity'.
No one said they need millions lines of code. However a large "enterprise" application have a way of growing like cancer. This tool won't be particularly useful for such codebases.
It only does it when it needs to disambiguate between posts with the same "slug" (i.e. URL-friendly name). My guess is that in their drafts, there are two posts with the same slug, so WordPress added the -3 to disambiguate.
I watched the Anthony Griffiths movie he referred to a while ago and it is heartbreaking. I'm normally a very reserved person who's partner is convinced my tear ducts dried up from lack of use years ago, but watching Anthony tell his story is like a punch in the guts. I didn't enjoy watching it, but I'm glad I did. It sure puts things in perspective.
>I live in South Africa and government handouts do nothing but keep the poor oppressed and uneducated.

I live in Australia, one of the best examples of how government handouts can ruin a race, and I'm saying this as someone coming from a low-income family with poor education and working+educating myself to a $100k/y job before I'm 30.

>I think paying for people who lose their jobs because of new technology is way past that line.

I think completely supporting them would be a bad idea, but as said in my original post, assistance in re-education should be partially paid for. I am always of the opinion that education should be at least partially subsidised - full subsidy encourages a poorer quality of education.

Example: You're 26 and have just spent $80k and 8 years of toil studying furiously for a degree, and the market for your chosen field evaporates. Sure, you've got the rest of your life ahead of you, but now you're significantly in debt because of something you had no control over.

This is a difficult analogy to compare with taxi drivers, but I hope you see the point - and over the next 10-40 years we will see this happen more and more as machine intelligence replaces more and more jobs.
i'm always disgusted when a googler publishes anything about pagerank. yes, google is still using links as a single in their search result, but the original pagerank paper is from 1998, we can sure as hell be sure that they iterrated/rewrote it a few thousand times since then.

every time a (any) googler now publishes a paper (or presentation) about (the old) page rank a horde of too well paid SEOs is pointing to it for the importance of pagerank, and why linking out is bad, and whatever bullshit (i.e.: later in this thread the based on nothing hypothesis about "nofollow") they come up with. everytime it happens, the SEO bullshit dance starts anew. (in my opinion pagerank is thought-cancer, please see my old TC article for more about this http://techcrunch.com/2010/07/07/startups-linking-to-your-co... )
My main concern would be the people I'd be paired with. The team seems more important than the idea, and it can be tough to get a feel for people from written communication, let alone commit to them.

One approach to this problem might be to target local DIY and artist communities, and people could suggest engineering and art projects to do for fun and learning. By targeting people who share creative interests in the area, and removing the profit motive, maybe people could be less suspicious of those they're grouped with, and eventually find people they would like to start serious projects with.
yep. we have CNAME support.
Rupert Murdoch backs down in war with 'parasite' Google
PageRank is ThoughtCancer [2010]
Maybe they haven't found that one hardware configuration yet.