skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks by the way, HN moderators, for expanding the short URL generated by the site to share. Now it didn't keep track of how many people visited the URL, and I missed the Announcer badge. May I ask why?
Pulling on the parallel to human languages I'd say c is the latin equivalent (except that c is still actively in usage). Basically, c was there first, you could and still can build anything in c and though its easier than x86 its full of pendantic features much like the latin case system. Also because c has been so successful its had a huge influence on just about every succeeding language - again much like latin. So I'd say learn c meets your requirements. Nonetheless, just learning c won't get you acquainted with many usefull features, just like knowing only english won't let you realize that common words like collegue or friend can carry gender connotations that automatically tell you if its a male or female friend/collegue (or that word order isn't important when your language has cases).

In that respect I think Java plays a role similar to say 18th and 19th century French - the post latin lingua franca. Java took a lot from c, but implemented many new concepts and design philosphies to programming and brought them to a wide audience. Although Java is kind of on the decline, and many other newer languages like Go push the envelope further, Java and java philosophies have still had a large influence on PHP, Ruby, Go, etc.

As far as what the english equivalent would be in this contrived metaphor... I'm unsure maybe we'll just have to wait, but in the meantime with c and java you shouldn't have a problem understanding just about any programming language currently in use.
I've met total posers that can whip up the little snippets that people have time for in an interview... and I've met great coders who crash and burn a live code session due to interview stress.

I've consistently found open-source code to be a much better sample since the person being interviewed is not under such pressure when writing it. And yes, the pressure from being in a room with 3 ppl watching you is very different from "deadline pressure" to complete a task when employed.

I don't think the github resume is going to be the standard for quite awhile, but I know it makes my job when hiring much easier when we can discuss code and techniques used in an open-source project the interviewee wrote, than arbitrary questions that only prove he's recently memorized an algorithm book.

The real thing developers should think about, is the competition. This is what made "has college degree" an easy filter for employers. If you have 800 applications, tossing the ones missing a github repo in addition to the college degree trims it down a bit more.

Will you miss some possibly great people? Absolutely. Same with the college degree filter. But you'll still likely end up with a bunch of "would like to hire" candidates and it'll be easier to see what their work actually looks like. If you're applying for a job, you should absolutely consider how to stay ahead of the competition, and I'm sure companies in the future when bombarded with so many applications will add things like this to the resume filter.
There is assembly language, which is the root to all higher level languages... but I would not recommend anyone start there unless they are using a micro-controller or other tiny platform.

If you aren't too savvy on computer concepts I would suggest python - probably the easiest to get into and whatever platform you are on (Mac, Windows, Linux) python exists for it, has libraries for just about anything you want to explore, sound graphics, etc.

Second choice would be C - lower level than python but more understandable to the neophyte than assembly would be. C runs a lot of system functions on popular computers.
In Australia, this isn't such a problem. Voting is mandatory. I'll now await to hear the almost universal condemnation or be downvoted by American participants...
The trick will be for them to be helpful without being creepy.
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Nice. Any plans to add more languages?
Milk & Honey for your tea, folks =]
From the role you played in Babylon 5 I salute you for making it one of the rare TV series that had me feeling comfortable with the characters and direction before the end of season one, let alone season 3 which is the usualy pace for me.

I feel rest in peace is probably not as fitting perhaps as Live In Peace as for many his work in which he touched us will live on still.
Maybe you got down-voted for being off-topic, but it seems relevant to me. I didn't even finish the first page, let alone put up with such a design as my daily news reading.
Yes, NY and CA are still high, but the "star" locations (as OP calls them) were absolutely hammered during the recession. We've already seen them start to come back from their lows. Anyone who managed to scoop up property in one of these areas is going to see the price of their property double in the next 5 years.

I agree with your theories about rent in these areas.
In OpenID you have to enter your IDP URL and then optionally sign in to the IDP.

In Persona you will just click a button (because your browser knows your IDP) and then optionally sign in to your IDP. A huge difference.
You guys finally came out with a release that rivals JWplayer. Congrats! I switched from flowplayer to jwplayer when it started to get bloated/buggy in v3. Looks like I might come back for 5 :)
Unless he's drinking decaf, several liters of iced tea intake a day would almost certainly indicate addiction and dependency.

Replace 'tea' in this article with cocaine. The cocaine alone doesn't do it for him, he requires there to be some sugar in it. And then blaming the sugar withdrawal for his fuzzy head.

That's basically what's happening here. Except that people tend to ignore that caffeine is a drug that can have some pretty pronounced effects when used a lot and over a long time.
Because the purpose of linking something on HN should be to share it, not to personally gain from it.
This is awesome. I just started building an app to track misc personal stats (a la Daytum, but with an API) and this will work great with it.
Precise match is broken: People will spell addresses in all kinds of ways, and Maps needs to find all of them.
The headline is pure hyperbole. He thinks he has a problem because he gets a fuzzy head when he doesn't drink his tea. That's caffeine withdrawal.
Very good quote
I just found this great quote and I fully agree with it. What do you think?
Thanks. Yes, the decision to add a language right now is pretty much governed by its popularity and the ease with which I can sandbox it. Any requests? :)
Can U.S. Universities Stay on Top?
Pretty sure silent updates got rolled out around v15.
It seems feasible to me that a reasonable person could see a gallery of the "worst car crashes" as violent, your definition or mine of violent could vary but it does fall under the bounds of what people could understand that term to mean (i.e violence doesn't only mean harm to people).

Glorifying car crashes is definitely in an iffy area (you have to remember that in some places it's not unheard off for people to steal and crash cars for fun).
I recently wrote a similar utility. I'll definitively take a closer look at this.

I don't know if you have these features, but here's couple of features I have in mine that you might find useful:

1) I can upload a timeline into Google calendar. I do this by chunking my day into half-hour increments, and whatever I spent the most time on in that half-hour get assigned to the half-hour. (Hey, Google, please let me set the task color through the API - thanks)

2) I also sample the title window of the foreground app, but I can override this. For example, if I go running, or do the dishes, that time will be properly tracked.

3) I assign tasks to categories. For example, emacs, shell, my IDE, are all "Development". Dishes, cooking, etc are all "Chores". I'd rather track time by these larger categories.

I wrote this utility a week ago, so I haven't been using it that long. But I am liking it. One more thing: Python absolutely ROCKS! This utility is less than 700 LOC and was a pleasure to write.
I suspect this would be better as a membership with an annual fee and a free app.
>And there are real risks associated with eating too little salt.

Salt intake is a necessity for life.
This sounds like a keto diet. If so, welcome! :)

http://reddit.com/r/keto
The "award system" for drug development is full of problems.

Who makes the call as to how much to award? Who decides who the award goes to (very few drugs are develop by one group alone)? Who decides when a drug is actually better than existing treatments?

Insurance companies already reward innovation. When a new drug hits the market, insurance companies collect and review all the data available and decide on how much access they'll provide their customers with. This analysis includes looking at a drug's impact on total cost of care.
I agree, this should not be down-voted per se, as its not really an "ad-hominem" atack on the article, given the subject matter. Its a fair critique on readability. "Readability" is central to the discussion for a bunch of reasons:

(1) <cost> The "brain damage factor" is relevant tradeoff to consider, if and when present;

(2) <information efficiency> or lack thereof is a nother key determinant of success; and

(3) <threshold competence> failing to understand (1) & (2) damages credibility ever-so-slightly.

Let us not forget the subject: competition, criteria, and selection of optimal media platforms.

Finally, this article // is a bit // <Exit through the Gift Shop> // with its finish.
I'm reading this article while drinking bottle of Red Bull and eating chocolate. Through the first paragraph I'm telling to myself "he is going to talk about sugar, he is going to talk about sugar".

Then it comes. He says "Sugar" and I scream "Fuck!!!"
I was struck by how little effort the author put into describing the proposed solution for "the poster child for patents." Is the Atlantic going downhill?

How do you let drug companies recoup costs quicker without reducing the oversight that goes into drug approval? I am also a little curious about the free market implications. Instead of the invisible hand guiding drug development we will be relying on government autocrats? It seems that the incentives for governments to lengthen patent protection would just shift their nefarious attention to the prize system and drug approval process.
Oh, I'm aware, it's just strange to see his name as anything other than "Tim Cook." One would think exceptions should be made to style guidelines to ensure the reader doesn't pause and think, "that's just weird." Strict adherence to style guidelines doesn't always produce the best results.
You are assuming that both the bad map data and the searches are evenly distributed across all locations. If their data are good in the most-searched areas, the number of users affected is much smaller.
If anyone is interested in collaborating on similar stuff for a commercial project (an OS X app) let me know. I'm working on an objective-c app that does some similar things.

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If it's all about sharing, why do we attribute anything here? Might as well make the submission and all the comments anonymous here as well.

Reputation is mark of making _good_ contributions, and is something that every site has utility for, including HN.
So far Google Now is pretty impressive. I love that it will post a reminder in my notifications before an event telling me when I have to leave to make it there on time based on current traffic conditions.
I think in Python's case there was really no compelling reason to burn the bridges between 2 and 3. Burning the bridges should be done when something will be significantly improved.
While it's true that insurance companies use cost as a major driver for decisions, however it's not the only driver.

In the US, insurance companies compete with eachother to provide coverage for employers. Many (not all) companies want insurance that is beneficial for their employers. If you drop coverage for something an employer wants, you may lose a major customer.
When I saw the keynote introducing Google Now, the first thing I thought of was that concept video they used to introduce Glass [1].

For example, in the video, the user looked at a subway station entrance, and the glasses showed a rider alert that the station was closed due to a train problem.

I have to imagine that Google Now will be an important information engine behind the "HUD" displays in Glass. Glass is aiming to also follow that principle of offering you information when it's contextually-relevant, and trying to get out of the way otherwise.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9c6W4CCU9M4
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>But good luck convincing American legislators of some abstract far-future benefits to a less regulated world when the short-term result would be a worsening of the trade-deficit, a lowering of American exports, and a lowering of American income and tax yields.

I'm not sure any of those is actually true. Maybe the trade deficit, but only on paper. In fact the money just goes into Apple's coffers instead of Samsung's, and in turn to Apple's shareholders instead of Samsung's. But they're mostly the same people. Large publicly traded companies are owned predominantly by highly diversified institutional investors. The fact that one company is nominally American and one is nominally South Korean doesn't really have any bearing. Apple manufactures almost everything in China and Samsung does a significant amount of R&D in the United States, and American and Korean investors both invest in both companies.

And the same goes for income tax -- Samsung pays U.S. income tax the same as Apple. (Which is to say not really at all, but that's a different debate.)

Transferring money from one to the other without creating any underlying economic activity has no productive economic consequences. It doesn't create any new non-litigation jobs or produce any new tax revenue, it's just the broken window fallacy as applied to corporate litigation.
Isn't that ironic that you formed an opinion about an article that you didn't read?
There is bad data in the Bay Area which some consider dangerous.

"Having a medical emergency? Then he might not want to use your iPhone five to search for an emergency room."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ketYUfQX9f4
News content is distinguished from all other content by the nature of its time sensitivity value and geographic relevance to information consumers. nwzPaper has launched a system that can push content in real-time from a global level all of the way down to the local level instantly when a journalist publishes. The UI is intuitive and much better than reddit. It also provides a journalist perspective for added background on the author. Did I mention direct subscription...and it's not rss?

Check it out:

http://nwzpaper.com/articleView?articleId=4
It bothers me that the only paid model for content is to pay for the source. I enjoy some pieces the New York Times publishes, but I don't want to pay for the whole pipeline. I would however, be happy to pay something for individual pieces of quality content.

Additionally, much of the content I enjoy reading is produced by people not in it for the money, so there is no way to pay for it even if it did have monetary value to me.
Twitter isn't "mainstream" - does that matter? (An argument for chaos)
Sensationalist headlines! YAY!

And seriously if your head feels disconnected without tea... you could probably use some exercise.
1.) The Economist is always going to be anti-regulation. They're a neoliberal magazine: repealing laws is the point of the paper.

2.) Even if the EU abolished their unemployment insurance programs and made labor unions illegal, you'd still see startups moving to SF, just for the network effects. The legal system isn't the only factor in producing startups. PG wrote a essay about this.
> According to this either 60% of the locations either incorrect or missing altogether.

This test makes a bad comparison. See here:

http://vore.cc/post/32503374905/old-maps-vs-new-maps

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4591169
Both AOL Advertising and Tribal Fusion have huge display ad businesses (both reaching >500million people) with vast number of advertisers.

Many large content company only use Google for remanent advertising as the Google CPM is often pretty poor compared to other options.
> high-fructose corn syrup (much worse than sugar)

This is controversial at best (see, for example, http://www.sciencebasedmedicine.org/index.php/the-sweetener-...). I know there's money behind corn/HFCS, but what is your source for this claim?
> high-fructose corn syrup (much worse than sugar)

> gluten, is the worst, worse than sugar

These sound like dubious claims to me. Do you have a citation?
Aza Raskin posted this on twitter a while back:

The private-public key encryption concept explained through mixing paint: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NcDVERzMGw#t=147s (Starts at about 2:20.)
I've heard from a few sources that "Maps is great" is actually accurate in China - it's supposedly much better than before. This blog has examples

http://anthonydrendel.com/

(Though I had less luck with Hong Kong. For instance, a search for "Big Buddha, Lantau Island, Hong Kong" and every likely English variant just finds the middle of Lantau Island, not the Buddha itself.)
I'd say the English equivalent is PHP: a mongrel language that succeeded because it absorbed everything, where you can say things 10 different ways. Most developers know enough of the language to be conversant, making it a kind of lingua franca.

From a historical viewpoint, English is just as much a weird mishmash of everything as PHP is.
I entirely agree that taking time to savour the moment is important to maintain a healthy lifestyle. I'd also go further and say that while such a results in rapid progress, it's also a good idea to stop and think about how everything went. Do a short post-mortem, regardless of whether the result was a failure or a success, identify some key areas that could use improvement, then go out and do better next time.
Giving Closure to C
nwzPaper.com launched a platform to emancipate the journalist and unbundle the content from the legacy aggregated subscription model.
Interview questions, or "Can I work with you?"
Is there a patent-free economy that is also as innovative as an otherwise comparable one with patents?

Is there another way to encourage innovation?
Richard Biggs / Dr. Stephen Franklin (2004)

Andreas Katsulas / G'Kar (2006)

Jeff Conway / Zach Allan (2011)

and now this. Wow. Until you mentioned it I had no idea about the first two. :(
Ask HN: If I threw a technology "science fair" for startups/etc would you come?
Hi all, for a bit I have had the idea of having a science fair version of a startup conference. Sure you would be able to show off your startup, but the point would be to show off cool stuff you have pulled off/interesting visualizations/etc, is this of interest to the community?
People need to understand that Apple is taking a long term view of this.

And we know this because they didn't setup relationships with any of the local data providers in each country. They just setup a single one with Yelp.
I tell the majority of people who want to dabble with programming to start with javascript, because the environment setup to make something run is so trivial, and they get positive reinforcement from making something that relates to other sites they actually use, not command line output.

If you're really looking for a latin equivalent, I agree with the previous posters (a lisp, python, and c all have merit and are worth getting to eventually).

My own early learning path was basic -> dos shell -> c -> c++

I'm glad I learned c, wouldn't really mind having missed C++.
Actually this is much closer to theft, because it transfers value without consent. Copyright infringement does not transfer value.
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Dean Wampler, Jason Rutherglen, and myself wrote the newly published 'Programming Hive'. The book is 352 pages! There are many reasons for this, but one was that I wanted to dig deep into hive and unearth many undocumented features. Other reasons are case studies from m6d (media6 degrees), photobucket, and Nasa.(Ow yes. I am name dropping). Other reasons are we tried to cover EVERYTHING from writing User Defined Functions, hive streaming, compression, SerDes, thrift support, as well as more complete version of the language manual with sample data and query output!
Seconded. Understanding the details of each statement before progressing seems to lead to a deeper and more lasting understanding. See you Monday at DBD headquarters!
I'm pretty interested in something like this. It seems to me that all these services like Dropbox and Google Drive are charging for something the vast majority of people don't need - online storage of data - when what they really want is just sync of data between devices. While storing the data online makes the process more user friendly, it opens up a raft of other problems like legal liability and of course, most of these services are built around models that charge for storage, so you end up paying more and more the longer you use them.

I'm sad that LiveMesh is being retired by Microsoft as it actually did exactly what I want - just P2P sync. I'm looking into OwnCloud at the moment.
Right now, the insurance companies' decisions are skewed by the fact that the new drugs have to be compared against the price of generic drugs. That means that unless the new treatment is orders of magnitude better, it won't be much of a cost savings until long after the inventors should have been rewarded for their innovation.
I have to ask:

Why is there so much emphasis on planning a trip? What happened to mapping out a few attractions and spending the rest of the time stumbling around letting your feet and eyes be your guide? All my favourite trips have resulted from pure serendipity and the rewarding experience of discovering something purel by accident.
> Sugar withdrawal can be modestly severe, but it's not physiologically habituating, and a couple of weeks of abstinence will get you through the worst of it.

Simple carbs spike serotonin levels, and then collapse them soon afterwards. People want to feel good, so they eat more sugar, which leads to another spike. This is by definition addictive!

It is also a vicious cycle. Too much sugar consumption can lead to obesity, which can then lead to depression, and of course sugar is already a person's go to treatment for feeling "down".

Thus the cycle continues.
Comics are Trash
I saw the headline and the source and had one thought:
"Finally"
Well said.

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I'm not grokking how legumes are bad, can you please elaborate?
I would be less afraid.
As I said it doesn't matter and we think this is an important feature.
Well, because you can't. Mac OS in its essence has traditionally been developed for a Mouse/Keyboard combination - Keyboard only is not regarded as the "Mac way". I'd say that this is actually a pretty good match for Laptops, since the touchpad is very close - as long as the touchpad is good you can work pretty efficiently with this combination.
However, on Desktops I've always felt limited by OSX compared to Windows and I think this is because your app is missing ;).

Let's just hope Apple will never shut the doors for Apps like yours. Given their current direction it's not unthinkable unfortunately.
There are some that disagree that the noise is useless:

http://arxiv.org/abs/1010.3003
Or a lemon... that is what worked for me. Now I can no longer drink sweetened tea.