skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your percents are way off.
Sure you can take OK photos with a phone—maybe 2% of the time you can take a good photos with decent camera. As the name implies, photography is first about light. A good camera and lens immensly expands the definition of what acceptable light is. An off-camera flash
will make a night and day (pun intended) difference in your photos.

You mention timging. Autofocus speed and accuracy, shutter lag of DSLR and phone camera are not even comparable.

In short: moving from phone camera to an entry level DSLR with kit lenses will already be a huge step up in quality of your photos. If you understand what you are doing buying expensive lenses will add a noticeable increase to that as well. Then if you understand what are you doing and do it a lot buing a professional body will get you durability and the maximum control over the process (and ability to control aperture, shutter speed and ISO does matter too).

Yes, if you "get it" you can take a good photos with the phone if you are if conditions are favourable. But if you get it, then using DSLR will let you take more good photos, because the limits of favourable conditions are expanded a lot.

There is some truth in your last sentence, however from technical point of view, even is someone "does not get it" and would take crappy pictures on the phone then with an expensive kit he can have pictures of the same crap but with much higher quality.
GIF decoding has never been hardware-accelerated (as HWA is commonly used in this context, using fixed-function units on silicon taking care of computationally expensive parts of decoding). We (as in the Internet) were laughing at dancing_baby.gif (among all the other GIFs that Geocities page had at the same document) back in 1997 played back on Pentium 2 CPUs.

And animated GIFs are just a bunch of frames indexed with 8bit color, all packed with LZW. It's no h264 to require hardware acceleration and even the latter can be decoded effortlessly without accelearation by modern CPUs.
Cain and Abel -- some offerings are good, some bad.

http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1+Corinthians+14...

God says...
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What's the use of cooking class if you have no pan to cook in?
Honestly, this is such an artificial separation. Watching a DVD or reading the book is an experience. What if it is an educational DVD? What if the thing is a telescope which can provide many nights of an amazing experience?
"they're not exactly hard to obtain"

Except, of course, in Mac OS X where you have to download (a couple of gigabytes) Xcode from Apple and install it to get GCC :)
>> If you are claiming that... <<

What I'm doing is responding to your claim -- write everything directly on top of primitive arrays (as is done on the shootout).

>> When you need a hash table <<

Task description from the home page -- "Repeatedly update hashtables and k-nucleotide strings"
TVs with cable make it very easy to flip it on, channel surf, and watch some random shit. Suddenly hours are gone. My productivity dives and my sleep debt zooms when I'm staying in a hotel unless I unplug the TV.
For me there were two things: first the feeling that this was forced (for the very broad definition of the word) on her by her SO. Second, that there was a very little point of doing that.
Developers often anthropomorphize things to gloss over irrelevant details. The focus is on what, not how, and anthropomorphizing is the quickest route to get that across.
NPR Planet Money did an episode on the claim that rich people move states based on increasing tax rates:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/04/22/135635574/the-frid...

They found, based on research, that the effect was negligible, and that other impacts of increasing taxes are much more noteworthy.
While many of the comments so far can be summarized as knee-jerk reactions; if desired, so can the original post.

Does anyone have actual numbers on the overall message therein? How much traffic is actually driven by would-be pirates? Clearly, it would appear by all accounts; the number is large. Can we get some facts?
This is quite right, HTML 5 sucks for application development.

It has come to replace Java with code once, debug everywhere.

Every single browser version, even from the same vendor, or operating system has a different understating what CSS, HTML, JavaScript means.
And in case of photography it is the expensive stuff that is worth keeping. Actually it would save some money to skip the cheap stuff. Case in point—tripods. There is a good piece about it: http://www.bythom.com/support.htm
Wait, what exactly happens in that last one that I shouldn't dare do?
The most common cellphone plan here in eastern europe is $10 per month with unlimited voice/sms and 0.5gb of data. If you want an included iPhone and more data, then it's like $40 since the phone is expensive, but how can you get up to $80 is quite a mystery that only monopolist lobbying could explain.
I digitized a bunch of stuff as well, and was very pleased with it. Objects were keys to memories for me, so throwing away the object felt like throwing away the memory. Looking through the photos makes me really happy, and I don't miss not having the physical objects.
Congrats. Awesome! I'm glad you still find ample time to tell other people about it on the internet though. Without you, no one would ever know what it is to escape the grips of a television and experience a real life.
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Writing it in the passive voice is slightly more awkward. E.g., "git cherry-pick" was enhanced with an "--allow-empty-message option".

Similarly, writing it in the active voice but attributing the verb properly ends up with meaningless words: "Developers taught cherry-pick to..." or "We taught cherry-pick to...". Every entry would begin that way; having the first words be the relevant subsection of git makes it easier to skim through the release notes.
Can you be more specific about "most"?
I enjoyed GMail, but now I use Sparrow (desktop and mobile) to access it: it is just much nicer. A lot of people use apps to access twitter.
X-RateLimit-Limit? Sounds redundant.
That only applies if the criteria in 101.1.a.4 are met:

(4) Except as provided for in 101.7, any unmanned free balloon
that-

(i) Carries a payload package that weighs more than four pounds and
has a weight/size ratio of more than three ounces per square inch
on any surface of the package, determined by dividing the total
weight in ounces of the payload package by the area in square
inches of its smallest surface;

(ii) Carries a payload package that weighs more than six pounds;

(iii) Carries a payload, of two or more packages, that weighs more
than 12 pounds; or

(iv) Uses a rope or other device for suspension of the payload that
requires an impact force of more than 50 pounds to separate the
suspended payload from the balloon.

As long as those don't apply to you, you're pretty much good to go. I'd imagine that they're criteria where, should your ballon hit anything, it wouldn't cause any damage.
Sadly not lovely, because when I installed Mono 2.11.4 a couple of weeks ago, I forgot about "Compiling with stock LLVM is not supported, please use the Mono LLVM repo..."; and I guess when --llvm is used without LLVM being enabled, Mono does not give a warning message.

The Mono 3.0.0 measurements are made with LLVM enabled.
Lots of changes can happen. They just haven't here, in this case. Did you read the article? The arguments they had during the 1800s basically foresee all of the issues people talk about regarding copyright, including foreseeing piracy.
There's a button on the add account screen that takes you to an advanced form with an "API Root" field. You can set this to whatever you like.
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There are holes in every system. Anyone got some stories to share/ expose? It's foreign territory for me. But I'm sure a few ideas and stories could open avenues for some good ingenuity here - to cut through all the noise.
Upload files using torrents to your personal space with Put.io
I should have written:

git branch --set-upstream origin/foo

This counter-intuitively creates a LOCAL (!) branch named origin/foo which tracks the current branch. I would expect this to set the upstream of the current branch, given that most commands operate on the current branch unless otherwise specified. Instead it does something completely unexpected and useless.
"..these days being cut off from the Internet is to alienate contemporary society..." for you

actually, GP's statement is true for most people "in the west", adding "for you" is just silly..
Does someone have more info on this:

A credential helper for Win32 to allow access to the keychain of
the logged-in user has been added.
Kind of related:

The usual pattern of a copy command:

copy source destination

The pattern of git push command

push destination source:destination

http://perlalchemy.blogspot.com/2011/04/git-push-and-other-c...
i am able to access the file from that link.
I've noted redthrowaway to be oddly but harmlessly enraptured by morsels of Reddit inside baseball[1]. You may be mistaking affectionate ribbing for spite.

Or maybe I'm missing someone's dickishness, who knows.

1. An exemplary specimen from this very thread: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4681972
that's what OP is saying. The fact that 35% is good blows his mind.
Sure, but which one do you want to use instead?
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Freenet has "Freesites".

https://freenetproject.org/
I think this is a poor substitute for engagement/wedding/etc announcements in the newspaper. While he could, I suppose, buy ad space for an engagement announcement in a newspaper, they are submitted/printed for free (and put on the paper's website). Furthermore, it is seen by a wider audience than just your facebook friends (in fact it enters the public record), and you get a nice newspaper clipping. For example, my co-workers (whom I am not facebook friends with) brought in a clipping of my child's birth announcement and picture from the newspaper. I think it will be nice to show that to my child in later years. Would you show your child a screenshot of your facebook page? Print it out for a baby book?

(I realize that in his example he promoted a political joke, something that the newspaper wouldn't publish for free, and that it someone might want to supplement a newspaper announcement with a facebook thing.)
Facebook was cool back in the day because it was personal.

This is consistent with their trend of becoming less personal, and less cool.
Aren't there gyms with a national presence. The gym I used to be a member of had either locations or deals with other gyms basically all though Europe.
thanks for your comment- the default search now is Google :) for auto-suggest, it does not seem to work well on iOS so far.
Technically you'd have to factor in all the computers which are part of the BitTorrent network, wouldn't you?
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Okay, lots of changes. One example? Can you show me a paradigm shift where the rules actually needed to be updated, and explain what is different from this case?
I'd be interested to look into it if you recall the name- I researched quite a few start pages concepts, and many of them require too much work to set up for users, or add clicks instead of removing them. I tried to make it a 1-click experience for as many services I could think of :)
any "friend" of mine that would be using this trick would deemed to be a spammer and shall be deleted from my friend list.
And all this on top of the fact that HTML was not intended to build apps and it shows. No matter what is built on top foundation will still be messy and shaky.
Just a few months ago I was working on moderately complex web app and even with some nice tools helping to bring some sanity into it (backbone, coffeescript, etc.) we had to reinvent a lot of thing that native APIs give you for free.

It really makes me wonder about those proclaiming superiority of HTML5 over native:
did they build anything nontrivial in it and did they try to do the same with native
approach.

Alas, I see html approach as "mediocre everywhere and pain to develop". And I say this as a guy who does know HTML, CSS and JS :(
Hey there. Thank you for taking the time to comment and for seeing beyond the layout. No doubt I need to make the concept a little clearer and I have lots of iterations to the design and concept until I really have something here - this is just my first attempt and I am pretty excited to see what I can turn evemi into after another six months.
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Sorry to say,but $149 for a phone is not aggressive pricing. That's typical of carriers in the US. Lumia 920 is offered for free on pretty much every 2-year contract in UK/Germany/France. You can get S3 for free on a 2-year, $50/month contract, and that already includes unlimited internet(with tethering allowed and no fair-use policy) and unlimited text, and 2000 minutes.
Frank said what?
I became a mechanical engineer because I was fascinated by machine tools, but ended up writing software and devising printing algorithms for a living. This article is a treasure. Just the kind of field guide that people like me need to go back to the world of atoms and build stuff.
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> Was software reinvented in the past few years while I was sleeping?
> Is functional programming taking over the world?

Yes and yes, and it's awesome! :) Previously functional programming was mostly an academic pursuit but in the last decade it has definitely entered the mainstream. Once you understand FP, you become a much more skilled programmer and can make more efficient solutions even in languages not designed for FP like C.

> Is understanding things like Monads and Promises now a must have
> for anyone calling themselves a programmer / developer / software engineer / hacker?

I don't understanding it per se is the water branching point. Instead the difference between an "office drone engineer" and a hacker is a natural curiosity and interest in learning new things. An office drone will say "damn! now i have to learn this NEW thing, argh." A hacker will instead enjoy it and have a very fun time learning about monads.
Great landing page.
Here's a full breakdown on hack sponsorships...maybe it'll make it in your next post ;)

HACK SPONSORSHIPS

Non-college hackathons are sponsored mostly from Platform Marketing departments that want developers to use their toolkits. Inspired by "the greats" like Twilio and 10gen, most developer tool companies are looking for ways to get their tools known and used by developers and are willing to pay to do it. Good examples are: Heroku, Pusher, Apigee, Mashery, Cloudmine, Mailchimp, Box, Firebase, Pearson, New Relic.

Some like Apigee will only sponsor if they can be the top prized API or headline sponsor for the event. Some like Mashery will try to convince you that they don't have money (they do), but that they'll bring a bunch of people to your event (they wont), others like Microsoft will pay if you can integrate an appealing Windows 8 vertical, and then there are those like New Relic who will sponsor if they believe you are doing good for the community and want to show support #nerdlife (this is an extremely rare breed though, so don't count on finding too many like this). There are lots of Platform marketing teams out there with a lot of different budgets and reasons to sponsor. If you can align your hackathon with their initiatives then you can land some good ones.

After that, there's recruiting -- The recruiting bucks come easy if you're a top tier engineering school. Most of the big companies I know only want to hire top devs and will pay for creative ways like this to brand themselves to them. The only non-college hacks a recruiting sponsor will pay for are the mega hackathon events that bring everyone out of the woodworks - (ex. Photo Hack Day, Disrupt Hackathon, AngelHack).

Lastly, there is sponsorships from organizations sponsoring entrepreneurship (Kauffman, BizSpark, Google Entrepreneurship, Ford). These deals normally take 6-18 months, but are completely worth it if you can land one. They cut monster checks (normally 6-7 figures) and will guarantee the growth and sustainability of your event. However, you have to prove you're creating a scalable model for entrepreneurship (ex. StartX, AngelList).

And should all else fail there are ticket sales. If you're scrappily putting your hackathon together, want to see it scale (which means hiring people to help organize), and you don't have big entrepreneurship sponsors onboard yet, then you should probably charge for tickets. Either that or be willing to pay out of your own pocket if ANYTHING goes wrong…. and like most events, it almost always does...
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So what happens when copyright holders see a bunch of put.io IP addresses connected to the bit torrent swarm? Or will it be a game of whack a mole? Just interested in the general legality. I suppose no one can really monitor the downloads from random sites like megaupload... will sites like that begin to actively monitor and disable downloads from services like these (as they circumvent the ads)..?
major grub boot problem with ubuntu 12.10 dumped the cd in garbage. Back to windows 7. Much better operating system.
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the "oldest undeciphered writing" is controversial. 5000 BC is closer to us than 5300 BC which Tartaria tables have. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tărtăria_tablets
Just FYI, on the register pages (http://put.io/register/BASIC) you display the SSL Verified seal but the form isn't actually sent via SSL. You might want to fix that.
Careful with the .io domain, though I've never heard of them shutting down a startup over content, their rules do state:

No .IO domain may be used, directly or indirectly, for any purpose that is sexual
or pornographic or that is against the statutory laws of any Nation.

The "laws of any Nation" could be a rather onerous clause one hopes never gets called upon. It has happened for .ly domains...
It wasn't paraphrased, he gave a direct quote and a picture of LeMond was one of his slides.
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Practically speaking, in most cases, whoever is in control of your SMTP server and whoever is in control of the recipients mail server can read the email. (Reading it in between those would usually require deep packet inspection).

Similarly, if you post it on Facebook, people with access to Facebook's databases can see it. The risk seems to be pretty comparable to me, it's just different companies you trust. Certainly sniffing your email off the wire would take a lot more effort than somebody at Facebook reading your posts, and moreover has to be done while the email is in transit.

Email has the option to provide more security through encryption, and is less dependent on a single company.

For communicating anything of importance to my friends, I prefer phone or email, in this way I'm pretty sure that they'll receive it. To Facebook I post chit-chat and interesting tidbits for which I don't care who reads it and who misses it.
Most likely put.io will receive any DMCA-notices and will have to comply with these and take down the offending files to remain legal?

I used to operate a tor exit-node and my hosting provider wasn't really interested in whether I was infringing or not; If the data looked to be going to my server, I was responsible so in the end I had no option but to operate as a non-exit node. Put.io will most likely be hosting their own data (or in the cload), so this might not be an issue.
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It's amazing what a wall socket will do under duress. I was drilling a hole in an exterior wall and accidentally draped the power cord into a puddle at the exact point where the drill cord met the extension. I got a big shock (I had contact with the puddle) with some effort dropped the drill that I was sort of force clenching, and ran/stumbled inside and turned off the mains. I couldn't work out why the fuse didn't blow until I pulled it out. Someone had stuck a paper clip across it, presumably after running out of fuse wire. The extension lead had welded its contacts to the drill lead as well. A lucky/unlucky combo that has taught me a lesson in electrical safety.
As you may know, iCloud is written in SproutCore. If you compare the development process and programmer productivity of SC with let's say Cocoa, you'll see SC can't get near Cocoa in these aspects. It's a mess.
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Same here.. pictures of physical things are a very poor replacement for the actual thing.
[1] Anyone who brings up mobile Chrome will get a mouthful about why that's terrible as well.

Personally I prefer stock browser over Chrome because I find it faster and more responsive. That said: I'll bite.

What's so horrible with Chrome on Android? And I say that as someone who is interested in learning, not someone debating the correctness of your claim.
I find this arrogant and stupid, and by no means worthy of the word 'hacker'. It's cheating, plain and simple.
This seems a bit oversimplified. Sure, there are no race conditions if there are no interactions between files, but if there are then swapping the symlink mid-request on requests that are already in progress will cause all sorts of race conditions.
Hyper-focus is not great, nor is it some form of "super power" that adhd people have. Its any time that somebody with adhd is able to focus on something. People without attention disorders can focus willingly, people with adhd cant.

The difference is that the adhd brain is deprived of euphoric dopamine until you have that "hyper focus" activity that the adhd mind begins to depend on.

People with adhd are highly prone to becoming mentally dependent on activities like video games because of this euphoria. However, I find that being medicated appropriately and focusing on what I want to focus on is more rewarding than the activities I depended on pre-diagnosis and treatment.
Because the iTunes platform is written in Java with a legacy web framework called WebObjects. Also the iTunes business unity has more characteristics in common with Amazon than Apple itself. That's why we're stuck with a thin client for the AS.
I interpreted the article to be about showing the contrast the two perceptions and show how wildly different they could be, rather than to shit on the startups.

Like you said, there are the warm fuzzies too. But thats covered very well by more mainstream-ish sources, so it wouldn't be worth reiterating those.
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Rex [1] already supports deployment (and rollbacks) using symlink replacement.

[1] http://rexify.org/modules/application_deployment.html
Over-abstractionism
which invalidates part of your point, because --set-upstream is now _deprecated_.
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