skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Macro comments that his grandparents don't want/shouldn't have to spend time dicking around with apple IDs. No one should have to. It's awful. Email, music sharing, itunes match, App Store, iMessage, FaceTime, iCloud, notes, and likely others. Getting an iOS device or mac to have fully functioning services usually takes me weeks to achieve (oh, that email account isn't arriving for some reason) as random things that worked just seem to stop working when peculiarities of personal account functionality are encountered. Why on earth the initial setup can't have an initial chance to enter apple I'd one, then a list of services to turn on.
And if for some reason a password reset has to happen it's just terrible trying to get all the devices in the house working again (don't lose Apple TV remote...) is hours of work, and is so bad the password changes are a killer. Please Apple, save us, I'm more than 50 years younger and I don't want this either.
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Yes I have, and that project would be a great fit. They already have a scala regex based lib though. My library is likely a faster and lighter alternative.
For one, widespread support for that feature is relatively recent -- in fact, it's slated for the next version of IE.

For another thing, it's a bit more complicated to implement (you need to have a valid URL for every little piece of every page on your site) for not a lot of benefit that most people would notice. In fact, if you don't do them really well, it might confuse people when their bookmarks don't take them to the start of the page. They're sort of the awkward middle child between permalinks to an index and permalinks to posts, and even if they were there people wouldn't want them as often as the other two. This would probably put it in the "Maybe get to this later" pile.
That is an election year hit piece on a fringe blog (alter net)

Whitman led eBay to incredible valuations (6x from 1998 IPO to 2005), until the bizarre Skype flop, and as the MS buyout showed, Skype was run by some very clever crooks.

https://www.google.com/finance?client=ob&q=NASDAQ:EBAY&#...
Does anyone know if there is a way in iOS to apply a color profile to the display? Even if the displays are well-calibrated for accuracy out of the box, there are other reasons to mess with the color rendering (colorblind users, etc.).
I noticed you can deploy your "blog" using jekyll. Can I deploy other Flask or Celery app easily with harp.io ?
"Companies are afraid to hire at-level because they can't admit the truth about the quality of work they have to offer"

Everything else you said is absolutely true, but you could have stopped here. Perfectly summarized, and dead right.
I like how detailed AnandTech analysis are. Good to see that they persist.
For GOG installers you can simply use innoextract to unpack all the files, to avoid using installer through Wine:

http://constexpr.org/innoextract/

The proposal above is really more about giving an option of native Linux games when they are available. Often GOG offers a Windows version, while Linux or Mac OSX variants aren't offered even if they exist.

Having a DosBox / ScummVM games packaged for Linux is good, but that's not the main point of that vote.
I just got the latest Humble Bundle (6) and I've been able to install all of the games through the Ubuntu Software Center (sweet!) with native Linux versions.

Seems that game developers have an incentive to do this since, according to my latest glance at the Humble Bundle website, Linux purchasers give much more than average ($10.13, as compared to $5.48 for Windows and $7.27 for Mac).
Isn't there a known fix for this for like a year or so?
(http://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2011/01/24/php-nginx-and-o...)
Does it? I mean, is WP really on par with Android or iOS? I haven't ever used it, so I can't really make a statement here, that's why I'm asking.
Thanks for your post. I was about to write something similar. While it is surely very impressive (the post), I am not sure if I learn better when I click on things. The visualizations make it nice to see what is going on, but making code that does not work error free is always (and was) the most effective way to learn.
Is it normal to have 10% of a company's valuation be invested/debt cash?
Synchronization of Metronomes
Not for me it isn't. I much prefer to listen to the whole album all the way through a few times to see if it has any staying power. Previews are better than nothing but when you're competing with piracy you should strive to give the user the best experience possible.
The Linus Equation - Does it float?
Saw this on slashdot, makes sense :)
Yes, evolution will clear the gene pool of chiropractor and GNC customers.
The 920 actually performs really well here. Another strong point of this phone. I really wish Nokia a proper comeback in the smartphone market. Maybe I'm just nostalgic about what they used to be. However, the 920 seems to be the kind of phone that could manage just that, even though I'm a little skeptical about the choice of OS (have only read about it though).
> coffee, known to improve insulin sensitivity

Known? I've seen interventional studies on the effects of caffeine claiming effects in either direction. Here are two studies showing decreased insulin sensitivity:

Effects of Coffee Consumption on Fasting Blood Glucose and Insulin Concentrations (http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/12/2990.full)

Caffeine Impairs Glucose Metabolism in Type 2 Diabetes (http://care.diabetesjournals.org/content/27/8/2047.extract)
There was a fantastic Reddit comment last year where someone did some basic controlled chemical analysis of a very popular cheap protein supplement, and found it had no protein in it.
_hard of hearing_ and _can't hear_ are very different.
I was at that talk at UIUC!
Title:
Startup Stories: Longtime tech recruiter shatters the engineering shortage myth

Interview:
So the Great Engineer Famine of 2012 is — what, a total myth?

“Oh, there’s definitely a shortage of people as the tech industry expands,” Marcus says. “The economy is expanding here, and they need a lot of engineers. You just need more and more people to code all this stuff.”

Mismatch?
En Rajasthan desconocen el aviso en la reducción de las torres
Google Unveils Stunning Underwater Street Maps
I don't know how the caching plugin in WP works, however the most difficult part of caching is always cache invalidation, which is the reason why Memcache is better than an in-memory cache, even for a single server, because then you have the flexibility of invalidating cache entries from a background process that does not run on that server.

It's also great to have the flexibility of adding more servers in case of a huge spike, even if you are running on only one server. Like on Heroku, where you can just increase the number of dynos in realtime. Doing that without a central cache that every server can access can break your MySQL because each new server will have a cold cache.
Has any one used Bing Maps in San Francisco? If so, can you comment on how good it is with public transport?
I am curious about your use case. Was it full text search? Did you get the database in wiki format, which you transformed to text?

The goal of my library is to enable quick data mining on wikipedia. Search is just one use case. As an example, you might want to build a content classifier to automatically categorize web pages into wikipedia categories (like politics, sports, etc). To go about doing this, you would need to parse wiki pages and extract features (like n-grams) for a particular category. The C library transforms plain wiki text to a parsed object, that you can use to extract what information you want. The only advantage is that it does this incredibly fast.
In a full week of usage, I've yet to run into any actual, material problems with the new maps (daily usage in San Francisco). I'm using The Transit App for transit directions, and it integrates nicely. Sometimes business locations are 10-20 yards off, but that's about it. I've already noticed some of the problems I've reported getting fixed.

Depending on where you live, I think you'll find all the peanut gallery moaning about the new maps to be a bit exaggerated. Try actually using it for a while. It's decent (at least where I am).

(In fact, the new iOS maps are a godsend for transit directions in San Francisco. iOS 5's transit directions use the "scheduled" times instead of their actual times. If you've ever been to SF, you'll know that busses and trains don't even try to operate on a schedule -- they just come and go whenever. With iOS 6, I can use an app that uses their actual times -- The Transit App. I'm much happier with this setup, even though it requires an extra tap to select the app when getting directions.)
PageRank was an old algorithm, applied to a new corpus (the web, instead of research papers). Their contribution was in executing on the web.
Managing and Monitoring your MySQL server configuration
im in the same fucked up situation as you in NYC with time warner. there's other isp's on my block and rcn said they would wire the building for free, but clarke mgmt sucks balls and said no. were you able to find a modem that worked on their networks?
There's a misleading conflation of at least 2 issues here:

If manufacturers are releasing product with substantially different contents than the label, then they are guilty of defrauding their customers. This is a crime which should be expensive for the guilty company.

But giving the FDA control over what supplements are allowed in the market is a travesty waiting to happen. The FDA works dramatically slower than decentralized market action, and works under incentives favoring control over free choice. Sites like http://examine.com/ are working to bring science and facts to the supplement market, and I expect a lot more progress in this area over the next few years.
I think you overstimate reviewers.
itunes searching for apps works so much better than google play searching for apps. Google play search is an embarrassing joke.

Searching for USA travel guides brings in french travel guides, spanish travel guides, and london maps.
According to WineHQ that's already possible.

http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&...

YMMV of course.
"... I think it's regrettable that he nonetheless is able to slap the New York Times brand on an overly speculative post that assumes matters of fact that are not well verified. I'm not sure if all readers are as aware as many HN participants that some long-established journalistic organizations host blogging webpages that have no editorial oversight. ..."

Been down that road before with the NYT, "The Google Way: Give Engineers Room" ~ http://www.flickr.com/photos/bootload/1685662827/in/set-7215...
> All-in-all, the TSA treated me fairly well considering the circumstances apart from in San Francisco where a passing female TSA agent smirked and commented saying "Come on, he is enjoying it!", laughing as she passed me by. That, that was a bit of a punch below the belt...

Yeah, TSA is a jobs program for the otherwise unemployable.
> For example, the top two manufacturers of in-flight entertainment systems are already transitioning to Android (Thales and Panasonic).

Hmmm, on a flight a couple of years ago my IFE screen (Panasonic I believe) crashed, and I was treated to linux kernel boot messages and then a bunch of SDL (the hoary old linux graphics/game library) error messages as it messily failed to restart properly...

It definitely had a bandaid-and-chewing-gum feel, so using something like Android would probably be a good thing.
HTML KickStart - Ultra–Lean HTML Building Blocks for Rapid Website Production
How a random bug in Deep Blue may ultimately have led to Kasparov's defeat
> But, as a tool to get more people to get away from Windows and the Win8 store... It would be irresistibly strong bait. And that's definitely in their long term interests.

They wouldn't have to give it away to do that. Just offer the Linux version 12h before the Windows version at normal price (and pre-announce it) and they'll burn Canonical's server into the ground under the load of gamers trying to get HL3 a few hours in advance.
Scribd is still in business?

I wonder how many people are still a running Firefox 3 on win2000 or whatever to have a use for the scribd links instead of the original PDFs.
Here's the post: http://www.reddit.com/r/Fitness/comments/uva9t/big_reddit_pr...

Someone offered to test samples of various protein supplements for various metrics (protein %, solubility, etc.), and discovered that American Pure Whey contained .5% protein.
Increase the "delay" in your settings to get a delay until the comment is visible to others.
i'm only aware of methods that require jailbreaking your ios device (eg, the f.lux app can be installed via cydia).

Would love a non jailbroken approach myself though!
I would argue that this does count as a major player getting behind Linux. While Valve might have additional longer term goals in mind, their plans to support vanilla Ubuntu will only benefit gamers who wish to run Linux.

IMO the question is not 'will more Linux users buy games', but rather 'what percentage of games-playing Windows users will decide they no longer need a Windows box'.
Trolling much? Of course you have a number of AbstractBeanXmlFactoryFactory, and it's generally pretty verbose, but you do have a large number of well-tested, well-performing solutions already established. And that's definitely an advantage when you have a problem to solve right now.
> The FDA works dramatically slower than decentralized market action, and works under incentives favoring control over free choice.

The FDA was a response to massive market failure.
I didn't really mean that; I meant something more like "every person that is unusually obsessive about their health and willing to regularly take diagnostic testing that is considered conventionally bad Bayesian medicine at a population level should try Metformin".

So really I meant that everyone should have health care in the top .1% of healthcare available on the planet, but that's a utopia, not reality.
This is way, way nicer IMO.
I bet it had something to do with media licenses/contracts.
As an European Windows Phone user i'm doubting that they are aware that there's a world outside USA.

A lot of features are disabled for no good reason, and the rest of them has no data for Denmark.

For example when you play music on your phone you can set it to show pictures of the artist on the lock screen. On my phone the background just turns red. Also Local scout is disabled, though there aren't any data for it in Denmark anyway...
Hello, Kyek. I was also involved in this. I am happy to see you here as I remember your work. I remember when people figured out that GDB would let you dump the decrypted memory and you could put it back into the main executable file with a hex editor or dd. I can't help but think the real tragedy is that apple didn't work to make it harder to pirate apps. I really think they missed out on this.
You said that everyone else's use case is "dead".
Would be interesting to read a comparison with D. And no, "obscure" is not a meaningful description when comparing it to a language still at v0.3.
It took me about 5 tries for it to actually find the address I kept searching for and tapping on, but once it 'took' the directions were accurate and easy to follow (walking to the stop, which bus, how long, etc).
How many phones can run JB now? According http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html it has 1.6% share.
According to some reports iOS6 got 25% in just 48 hours and had more than 50% share a week after release, so much more people have experience with it.
Sure, glucose is a drug. There's a lot of overlap between foods, supplements, and drugs, and for the most part the distinction is created by bureaucrats at the FDA.

My favorite example of something that is simultaneously a food, drug, and supplement is the Seville orange. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitter_orange

The bitter orange is delicious with stronger orange flavor than a normal orange, particularly in the peel. Most commercially used "natural orange flavor" is derived from bitter orange peels. The bitter orange contains a powerful set of ephedra-like substances, which are quite powerfully mind altering. A single bitter orange is actually uncomfortably stimulating for most people, in the sense that people have enough of a sense for this kind of thing that they stop eating before they consume an entire orange.

But even though sour orange extract is regulated as a supplement, it works as a powerful drug, and an unusually dangerous one at that. It still grows on trees and is very delicious and perhaps available blended in a $15 cocktail near you. Most bartenders don't realize they are adding a stimulant to a drink when they add Seville orange.
Oracle updates views on update. Pstgres allows you to write a trigger to do the same.
So he is making you a proposal along these lines:

-hey man, come over here, I'll let you listen to music for free if you let me steal money from the websites you visit...do we have a deal?

totally legit.
What is more relational?
That Valve are working on a Steambox at all is pure speculation, it seems a bit of a jump to assume this all in service of a rumor. I think it's more likely Valve have been paying attention to stuff like the Humble Indie Bundle guys drawing about 1/4 of their revenue each time from Linux users. They may just be out to make money.
One of the most user friendly additions to software, ever, is the undo button. (if you want to feel how it is to use software without, try Linux in terminal for a while ;) ). And one of the best attempts to do this on a OS scale, is Time Machine. It should be as easy as bringing up a prompt and step or scroll backwards in time. You are really just stepping between data states. If you restore a state, it will merge with current state and step forward (which of course can be undone). You can decide to restore only one app, and thereby limit impact.

Update, restore, "are you sure you want to do this?", "pick the right destination", etc are user unfriendly concepts, and will make people nervous. Auto-update apps, but let people undo. Make restores undoable. Change "are you really sure?" to "don't worry, you can always undo".

Of course, you could argue, this will waste storage space. Well, with a good diff algorithm to rely on, not really that much. And even if so, you can always merge older states together (e.g. the detail of change is mostly relevant to very recent events - a few weeks back, I only care about major things like when I deleted all my contacts and didn't realize until now).
Stuxnet is a worm, which have always been considered malware.

And while the definition can change, of course, I don't see why it would.
I took 10,000 ui a day for over a year to build my vit d level up to 176. I have multiple sclerosis. My goal is 200, have done a tone of research on the topic, toxicity levels, etc... For 12 years in a row, have had a relapse every winter, past winter didn't have one. One could say this is a coincedence, I say no.
In the summer I am always out in the sun alday, mostly every day, shorts, t-shirt, etc... For some reason, my body doesn't absorb the vit d good. I have fair skin, that tans very well. Anyways, I just wanted to share my knowledge to help others.
The site crashes Dolphin on Android 2.2.x
So why are they updating at all then? If they don't expect any change (either positive or negative) why are they doing it?
Always find maps.nokia.com better on my iPhone. Best part is it works even in places others fail. e.g. UAE.
I think he meant catamorphisms of arbitrary functions over trees of arbitrary data. As in, you can apply any function at the leaves, and the leaves can be any type.
Hah! CS was the shit until 1.6, when they completely crapped the physics and finally fixed the bug that'd allow you to switch instantly between your Desert Eagle and your AWP...

Oh... how I miss those nights wasted playing CS!
I'm aware of what and why Go came to be, and I can easily relate to the reasons(I've read the blog post). I am by no means saying C or C++ as languages are perfect, nothing is. However, as I mentioned in my another reply to sanderdj, there's huge investment in effort for the abstractions the two languages build. It's very hard to tackle the problem of existing codebase for example, as that requires building stuff from ground up(that happens later on), or the fact that there are far more competent C or C++ programmers than there are Go or Rust programmers(and this isn't likely to change for the next 10-15 years or so, I'd bet), or the fact that there exists practically no libraries for these languages(ports are relatively fast though, few years max.), portability is a major concern too, tools too as well as language standard and educational resources(books, uni grade education, best practices over years, ...) won't exist for years...

So while I think that C and C++ will phase out eventually even in the domain of systems programming, I really don't see Go or Rust doing that for the foreseeable future, if ever. It would be really great to build trustworthy(non-leaky, efficient and secure) abstractions on top of languages like Rust and Go, but how reliable would it be? When would it be feasible? Who takes the first steps? When will the mainstream follow? Are these languages going to be relevant after 20 years?

Oh, and I'm not deriding other languages in their specific domains(I'm a Ruby fan, not so much into Python), but rather the fact that I've been under the impression that many people think that soon C and C++ will phase out and become obsolete(or that they have already done so), we go higher in abstractions, Python and Haskell are the future and computers are so fast that nobody has to care about optimizing their code. Then reality and post-PC era strikes back, battery life and software power-efficiency play higher role than ever...

My experience with Go and especially Rust is quite limited, but it would be really great if I could do my stuff(right now games and path tracing rendering, render times from 12 hours upwards) in either them instead of C++. I really like the ideas behind the languages and they fit my core domain just as well as C and C++ do. Though the thing is, there are no tools. No libraries. No books. Nothing. There's simply no way to jump over, even if the possible performance penalty would be tolerable. And this isn't likely to be changing much for the better for upcoming years, if even then. Perhaps when the languages get an actual standard... It's sad in a way even, but can't escape the facts which make them not viable for many domains.
... but it is no longr 1980, amd we have massively more data.
So, as per usual, when apple stuff doesn't work it is the user's fault. Right?
And to add a few points:
- When you don't have network access and the device is at the limit of storage space (so that a major state changing operation couldn't be undone), for the love of god, get the user to connect it first. Let it back up it's state to computer or network. Don't allow situations which cannot be rolled back.

- A lot of apps and iOS features sync with the network. Will need a little work to make sure a restored local state doesn't interfere with the network state. It's solvable.
"How many years will it take to get a reliable Go or Rust support for programming a vendor-independent GPU? What's the overhead compared to say C or C++?"

We're already using Rust for OpenGL ES 2.0-based graphics programming.
Very little, if any. The difference is statistically explained by regression to the mean.
Is "median" expressible as a catamorphism? What about a neural network propagation?
There is a bug on doing that, but keep in mind that bundling libgcc would only make Rust error out with a more informative error. Because Rust uses the system linker, you need MinGW installed to use Rust.