skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A startup is simple a new business. Legally, a startup is a business in the process of setting up its operations, and ceases to be a startup once it has completed its setup activities and begun its ongoing business activities.
Yes there are infinitely* many problems that can be parallelised but even in the best case they will only equal the single processor at double the speed.

http://home.wlu.edu/~whaleyt/classes/parallel/topics/amdahl....

I should have referenced Amdahl's law in the previous post but didn't want to misspell it and bother to look it up.

*Infinite numbers exist of both parallel and serial computing requirements. Practically there will almost always be additional cost in parallel implementation even if the extra is insignificant such as higher start up cost and coordination for shutdown.
Eugene Roshal is the author, and from his other products I use everyday the FAR Manager for Windows (Midnight Commander / Norton Commander type of file manager) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugene_Roshal

FAR Manager has been open-sourced - http://www.farmanager.com/
I don't know... it is interesting that they have a vastly superior Maps system in China now, and a relatively high quality set for the West Coast. (edit: areas of extreme competitive importance)

But I can't believe that they would go toe-for-toe on the map client feature set without similar attention being paid to overall database quality.

They've licensed dozens of data sources, they've bought entire companies, they've been working on this for years...

I think they pulled the trigger for a variety of reasons and then braced for impact. This change wasn't taken lightly.
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As someone who worked on an internal NHS website I can affirm this. Rather than use the same CSS and HTML for a form no matter which page it appeared on, the original coders had re-written it from scratch every single time, with slight differences (some intentional, some bugs) between them all.

Oh, and the entire site didn't work in IE6, it was developed / tested entirely targeting Firefox, despite the IE6 requirement being in the spec (and it ONLY needing to work with IE6).
hookers and blow, on demand
I read HN religiously (perhaps too much so), and I am absolutely interested in bash vs zsh - and this is the first time I've read an article on the topic.

Never heard of oh-my-zsh before. Loved the post.
Hah! Thanks for the post! This is just a little hack Ive put together. I saw how people tweet their departure and arrival airports when flying, so I thought Id make a web app around it. It will also notify you of other users who are flying the same path. I hope you enjoy it!
Version of Google's parisian love in apple's app
Cook took the opportunity to reflect upon the lessons he learned from Jobs before his death last October, explaining that the founder never wanted Cook to dwell on what he would have wanted after he died. Instead, Jobs wanted Cook to avoid thinking about the past and instead look to the future, focusing on creating the next great thing.

"When he called me to his home to talk about being the CEO and subsequently the discussions we had, he told me, 'I witnessed what happened at Disney when Walt passed away,'" Cook said. "He said that people would go to meetings, and all sit around and talk about, what would Walt have done? How would he view this? And he looked at me with those intense eyes that only he had, and he told me to never do that, to never ask what he would do. Just do what's right. And so I'm doing that." [1]

[1] http://arstechnica.com/apple/2012/05/apple-ceo-tim-cook-stev...
zero padding brace expansion has been available since bash version 4 20/02/2009

$ echo {000..10}

000 001 002 003 004 005 006 007 008 009 010
How does that scale?
I got the point from others that some are apparently more creative on swings than I but I must ask who is so forced?
I agree its a real problem. I don't think it's a minor issue, but it has some attributes that reduce its severity with regards to choosing an appropriate public response by Apple:

- It's likely rare. Either people catch the mistake early (as you mentioned) or the algorithm actually works.

- It's correctable. Sometimes you can eyeball the map, sometimes you can see how it messed up and work around it. Sometimes you know better and "override" it by driving the way that you know. Ultimately you can ask someone or pull up google.

- It's unclear where you direct your anger to. When your phone drops calls, you blame AT&T. If it's the hardware, you blame Apple. If there is an error in the map, who do you blame? Us techie's realize the details, but do most people know who authored the maps? If people understood it was Google before they might still think it's Google's fault now. If the algorithm gives you the wrong directions, do you blame apple or the "stupid computer"? It seems like there is less of an emotional anger towards Apple, the company, when this error occurs (excluding those of us who understand the intricacies of what parties are involved for what types of error.)

A big dynamic here is that people were used to a certain level of quality from Google. Did they know it was Google? Do they know who is to blame for the step backwards?

I'm certainly curious what specifics prompted this response. Cook has never been in charge before and speaking from experience it's always incredibly tempting to want to make a public statement and backtrack when the mob is yelling at your door, but despite common advice it's not always the right decision for the company.
Seriously, that's not the only apology apple should make.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12506897/is-safari-on-ios...
The site hasn't changed much (and dear god is it still slow), but it has been pretty fundamental in a number of papers on copyright. The database will hopefully be able to bring actual data to bear on future copyright reforms...if that ever happens.

I'm surprised at the number of people who haven't heard of the site before. If a link has been removed from Google, it will replace it with a notice that a link was removed and and link to the actual takedown request in the Chilling Effects database (which includes the link that was taken down). I believe they started doing this when they were forced to take down the Scientology links years ago.

Since we now know Microsoft is one of the top DMCA notice issuers to google, if you pick a query like

https://www.google.com/search?q=windows+7+torrent

you'll see a bunch of the notices down at the bottom. If you click through to a notice, I don't think you can figure out which link was actually removed for your particular query since the notices can apparently contain hundreds of links, but it is at least a decent measure of transparency for the process.
The transit app works awesome and is a bit easier to use then Google maps.
The Ruby Freelancers podcast covers a large swath of language independent freelancing knowledge: http://rubyfreelancers.com/

They highly recommend two books for freelancers, "Get Clients Now!" by CJ Hayden, and "Book Yourself Solid" by Michael Port. The Hayden book, in particular, might be viewed as agile marketing, so developers can feel right at home.
Apparently pre-10.8 the grep program that came with Mac OS X was GNU grep. 10.8 comes with BSD grep.
I think I understand what you said :)
While clever in a hacker sense, I see no reason why the government can't compel rsync.net to continue updating the canary by just yelling "national security" loudly enough.
I would pay $20 for hooker on blow. Seems like a good price.
something i'm curious about - for linux fans who have made the switch, is osx an "acceptable unix"? people keep trumpeting the fact that it combines the best of both worlds, a seamless gui experience atop a full-fledged posix core complete with a bash prompt you can drop down to as easily as you can in linux, but philosophically it seems that for the little things like package management, command line utilities, etc., the experience is closer to cygwin than it is to linux proper - you can do it, sure, but it will involve falling back to a third-party ecosystem.
That email got me to reply, and moved our business to WP engine faster. Trafton gave me some info that helped convince our tech guy.

And then I stole that email in our campaign (with some modifications), to great results. I even got lots of "Wow, you guys are real humans and not robots" replies.

I'm interested to hear what you say is wrong with the email, because you haven't yet.

edit: The lead developer champion bit wasn't in the email they sent me.
Ask HN: Co-founder personals?
Do we have any kind of personals website for meeting co-founders?

I'm looking for a person with specific domain knowledge in my area (or country) and would like to post up a "in search of". I checked out hackernewsers.com, but didn't have any luck. It doesn't have to be tech specifically, just a site for "I'm entrepreneurial, and would like to meet -"
I suppose you could sue for the right to break the gag order, while still supplying the information, but I'm not a legal expert.
So, a hooker already on blow?

I think $10 for hookers (plural) and blow is still a better deal. Because even if the hookers are not already on blow, you can share with them!
"It's just a stage of adjustment" - hehe, am I the only one who sees the humor here?

"since much of life boils down to work, eat, reproduce, and die" - Remember, it's a choice :)
Funny you should mention WordPress.

Just yesterday, Joomla, the next largest CMS behind WordPress, launched a latest version, entirely built with Bootstrap: http://joomla.org/3/

That's a not-insignificant % of the web right there that's moving to Bootstrap.
http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDgrep

BSD grep has been imported to 9.0-CURRENT on July 22, 2010. It has been obtained from the OpenBSD and the FreeGrep projects to make it appropriate for our needs to provide GNU compatibility and let ports build without problems. GNU compatibility is almost 100%, the only missing feature is -P (--perl-regex), which is not possible to support without having PCRE in base system and anyway, it was disabled in GNU grep for the same reason.

Somewhat ironic as OS X includes PCRE. Not sure why Apple didn't stay with GNUgrep.
It's definitely GNU grep on 10.7.5.
Are those problems really specific to enterprise software?
Yes, I really hate this. I was going to pay the $60 but just because of their current password rule I decided against it.
Same here, I don't think I've ever actually used snooze.
Google Launches FieldTrip, A Location-Aware App
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+1 for this being amazing on the iPad with accelerometer. Very addicting game, well done
http://i.imgur.com/BVo3u.png
How Facebook solves the IT culture wars and scales its site
BlackBerry 10 QWERTY revealed in internal marketing video
I've been wanting built in internet in a macbook pro for a while now. It's frustrating that this still isn't an option except on tablets and phones.
I don't think Go is intended to replace C. It was intended to replace C++.
Digg Adds iPad Support to iOS App
Its not close to GNU tools but its very true to Unix tools. Many of the tools have the same options (if not the same man pages) as their Free/Open/NetBSD versions.
No problems in South Florida (Fort Lauderdale, Miami and Palm Beach) either. Last I checked we are outside California.

Don't make generalized statements unless you can back it up with data.
I think the lack of transit directions, poor blending of map images (http://static4.businessinsider.com/image/505cae6969bedd427a0...) and the overall lack of detail is a massive reason to consider it a downgrade.

If you're honestly happier with this product then thats cool, but i'm not.
omg, did not think of that! I don't deserve to be on hackernews :P
privatized unlimited postal (snailmail) service that doesn't deliver junkmail. Use self-driving google cars or hoverbots to replace postmen.
I get your sarcasm. I missed the gotta pay to try, I thought I was signing up for a trial or a beta.

My complaint isn't that they have a password rule, it's that my password met the requirements but they obviously are looking for something other than what they are rejecting mine on. I suspect it was length, but by then I was tired of trying to guess.
GoDaddy Patent - Announcing A Domain Name Registration On A Social Website
Nice. Does it use exactly the same protocol as Mongrel2? i.e. if I point Mongrel2 at Zurl is the result a transparent HTTP proxy? If so, that's really cool.

Having symmetric client and server APIs is awesome because you can reuse identical middleware. e.x. say you have "Cache" middleware:

cachingClient = Cache(client)
cachingServer = Server(Cache(yourApp))
cachingProxy = Server(Cache(client))

EDIT: Also, why the heck does it depend on QT? :-/
This is general to Ludum Dare (not to this challenge) but since it's infrequently discussed here I thought I'd post.

I'm not really sure what the point of Ludum Dare is. I participated once in the main competition for LD23. I produced a pretty horrible game with the time I had allotted but did enjoy having a reason to screw up my schedule and drink too much coffee.

The winning game I thought was innovative and I actually played it for more than 10 minutes. There was one other game that I played (I played twenty or so to vote on them) that was fun to play. It also (deservedly) ranked well. The rest (based on an admittedly small sample) simply weren't games, at least not yet.

My observation is that if Ludum Dare is about creating games -- if nothing else than for the sake and love of games -- then the format is completely wrong. If you look at the industry as a whole there is an abundance of poorly made games (largely made in Flash, though iOS, Android and most other platforms have their share) that do nothing for the developers or the limited number of people that play them.

This October challenge reemphasizes the misplaced focus of Ludum Dare: make something overnight that makes just $1. The world doesn't need any more games worth $1. Here's a better challenge for the game development community: Make a game in a month that makes (over its life) $1,000 - $10,000. I want to play those games. A month is still insanely short, especially assuming most could only put in their free time, but it's infinitely better than 48 hours. A simple game has some chance of being polished in that amount of time.

Instead of Ludum Dare squandering the significant amount of attention is generates on 1000s (it broke 1000 entries in LD23) of shovel-ware games, why not encourage and then help promote a smaller number of reasonably well produced games. Raising the bar for entires would cut the numbers dramatically so it would be win-win.

You could say that I already answered my question when I said I enjoyed participating. I did enjoy it yes, but I don't think I would do it again. I also don't think that it has any value for the game development community or people who love games for the reasons I've already outlined. The emphasis is all wrong. You don't want to just finish a game. Games aren't made that way. Instead shift the emphasis to creating, polishing and even marketing simple games.
'Street Ghost' art project brings Street View people back to the real world
5 Tips to becoming a better programmer... Tip #1
What if the self-driving cars delivered hookers and blow?
> did they intentionally portray the maps as an advance in an attempt to keep iphone 5 pre-orders up?

Given that Maps is the major change in iOS6, wouldn't it have been better to release the iPhone 5 on a slightly improved "iOS 5.2", and to keep iOS6 for the next iPad?

Though that would have worked against Passbook :(
I did mention that the pull quote quotes (excerpts) the main article; that's what makes it different from a block quote. Though there may be ellipses, a summary is not a pull quote.
I don't think that Apple should have pulled the apology card for this. Apologizing on this scale will surely help customer frustration, but it's not necessarily something you can do very often. While apologizing may have a positive effect, to be honest the problems with the maps app really weren't -that- bad. It's not like the antenna issue where nobody could use their phone if they held it wrong.

They really should have saved the apology card for mending an issue much more dire. Now that they've used it up, they can't really publicly apologize for anything for quite a few years lest their brand become tainted.
Oh, no, the experience is way better than Cygwin. Cygwin feels exactly like what it is a: bolt-on trying to emulate features and filesystem structures of a completely alien OS. It feels clunky, what you see when you do 'ls' at the 'root' of your filesystem is completely different to what you see when you 'dir' (or use the Windows Explorer.)

OS X is a completely different story. If you ever used BSD before, you know how it feels 'almost' like linux, barring a few differences. It's the same with OS X. Besides package management (which is greatly alleviated by Homebrew) and so-so integration of X applications, I can't say I miss my Ubuntu laptop at all.
I'd assume this is a case by case basis till they solve the problems they are having with USD -> CDN accounts
Since the introduction of the GPL3, there's been a steady purge of GNU software from OS X. This is why Apple's GCC, bash, etc. are stuck at old versions lacking a variety of useful features.

I'm kind of curious what they'll do about Emacs. It doesn't have a BSD-licensed counterpart like everything else they've removed... Maybe they'll just leave it out.
ah - that's an interesting distinction. i guess linux has gotten me subconsciously used to thinking of the gnu tools as the current unix standard.
what a joke!
that's a misreading of what I wrote. I mean, the predictions made by the theory have been found to be true, not that the theory itself is ever proven to be true.

A scientist might make a hypothesis that suspect A is the murderer; the prediction would be that the murder weapon would be found in their house, the fingerprints match, blood types match. Upon search, the murder weapon was actually found, and fingerprints and blood types match.

A layman would say that finding the weapon converted the theory into a nearly certain fact.

A scientist would say that finding it pushed the hypothesis towards being a theory.
It actaully doesn't have much to do with -webkit-font-antialiasing as a css extension, and much more to do with how chrome is handling font rendering in general. v22 was a big, big step backwards.

Designers and typographers are pissed. Even if it's "right" as the chromium devs seem to insist, it doesn't change the fact that fonts look like shit, and don't look like type designers intended them to render.
You mean something like http://founderdating.com/? No, there isn't anything like that. Go create it.
Apple time to make some friends :-)
Unprecedented for Apple maybe. Look Apple never admits to any bugs or issues until it (the issue) gets main stream press. Then fall over themselves offering explanations and feel good messages like "We make great products for you!". Remember Antenna Gate? Or Mobile Me? This letter is basically the same thing.

There's a LONG list of bugs/issues in OSX and IOS that have been around for years. Some of these issues have huge threads on Apple's own forums. They might get around to fixing them. But the reason some of these haven't been fixed is lack of press. Which is sad really.

Look, I've been an Apple fan-boy from way back (longer than many of you have been alive). And I am getting damn tired of Apple's "perfect world". I bet they released Apple Maps really not expecting any complaints. Really. Apple is probably shocked at the reaction.

But I also bet that the majority of people using IOS6 don't have problems with Maps.
But iCloud (which he "blessed" and introduced at stage) replaced Mobile Me and killed iDisk (wiping a couple million web pages off the Internet), keychain-syncing, MobileMe gallery, iWork.com, ...
if you think Proteins are your common ancestor Yes, btw you don't have to know me to know 'what is correct' :-)
The wonderful and amazing “Cloud”
This wasn't a deliberate decision on Apple's part to remove this particular functionality. Rather, they switched to a different implementation of grep (BSD instead of GNU) and it leaves out PCRE support by default. If word of this gets back to whoever made the change, it should be a simple matter to reenable it for future versions of OS X.
SOA is nice but it also has some drawbacks. While the OP argues that it brings simplicity, SOA also makes the design process more complex.

Like functional programming, you have to think more carefully about what each service will do, and how it will implement that functionality. Just deploying a service doesn't give you free scalability, you have to design the service to scale. You have to think about shared state, and stuff like that.

I think that maybe monolithic applications are more popular than SOA apps, because it is faster to create one (even though it is harder to extend afterwards).
I ran into a flexbox bug (which turns out to be by design):

http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=152386
`display: -webkit-flex` disables `overflow: hidden`

Flexbox in general is still experimental; only Chrome 21+ supports the new spec.
...What? He was saying that there are no swings hanging from branches in parks... He isn't saying prior art doesn't exist, just that it doesn't exist in parks. It is a clearly pointless and erroneous pedantic tangent. What are you on about now?
TL;DR: Build an API for every component that's hard to scale, to maintain, or needs dedicated resources. This is the definition of distributed architectures.

HTTP is not necessarily the best protocol to use. It's easy to use, but sometimes TCP or other protocols are a better fit.
These sorts of issues (primarily related to auxiliary functions in grep, sed, etc) can cause portability issues when developing locally for linux systems, but no worse thanks, say, writing for fedora on an Ubuntu box. Brew is okay but a bit sparse. For me I mostly miss Gnome
Ask HN: What happened to Profig?
I tried to get in touch with Profig many times, telling them I was working for one of/the biggest YC alum, and that I wanted to see if they could provide a system for them.

After several emails where they assured they would call me, and having no contact from them, now their whole site is 404...

Did they buckle from the pressure? I feel like they pulled a friendster. Anyone know what is going on with this company?

Appears they were not in a position to scale/gain too many users?
Feels a bit similar to after the iPhone launch, when they cut the price a bit and gave the early adopters a $100 credit.

Again, when had a hardware company ever done such a thing?
Apple’s Biggest Blunders of the Post-Steve Jobs Era
>Funny enough, the same push-back is happening in the food biz. The entire local food movement is based on a fairly similar desire.

You do not have to go that far in your analogy. The music business is a great example of how more and more musicians are inclined to be "independent" of their monopolistic overlords.
Windows Phone Dev Center Now Provides User Review Translations..
Flash/Flex live coding(Video) (similar to LightTable)
Slipping in download statistics in an apology - oh Apple - you are selling even when you are apologizing.
Knowledge should be free? What kind of world do you live in exactly?
Apple uses Open Street Map. See here:

http://blog.osmfoundation.org/2012/03/08/welcome-apple/

Adopting/Contributing to the project as their number one mapping foundation would be nice and would have provided them tons of goodwill. But I guess Apple also wants to use OSM together with data from other commercial sources (tomtom).
I wasn't forced to play with a swing, but there were a limited number of objects and we had to spend the time in the playground area during recess/lunch and couldn't leave school grounds. This was a suburban public elementary school in San Jose about 20 years ago.