skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've updated my 4s and put at least 1000 miles on turn by turn maps and everything is okay (turn by turn is beautiful, if that matters at all). I did add the maps.google.com shortcut to one of my folders, but I haven't needed to use it.

I havent noticed any bugs in safari, I did have to disable the iCloud tab sync since my son is the main iPad user and all of his mine craft tabs were showing up on my phone and computer.

You should try the maps for yourself though, all seems fine to me.
Actually my advice boils down to :

Avoid the sucky parts by listening to people who recognize the suck.

And that's exactly why it is an addition to the existing answers, most of which do not focus on that core point, and some of which even advise to read documentation written by people who don't recognize the failures of JavaScript.
Mobile Point-Of-Sale Payments On Staggering Growth Path
It would nice to see all crowd source projects have a clause that if the project fails or is mothballed, then the project code and assets are released open source.
Haunts: The Manse Macabre and all assets could be place on github for the users to continue.
The bottom line is more interesting. If I hire professional lawyer company, I would expect their results to be perfect with respect to the law. Why are lawers sending abviously bogus claims/demands? Shoudn't it fatally hurt their reputation?
Good point. And now that I think of it that way, It wouldn't surprise me that the software engineers in finance are not making google money. I guess I thought the parent was surprised because he was thinking quants.
That would be the basic "state cannot regulate a religious seminary" clause. It would be a 1st amendment case that the state would lose. I find that good not worse.
Agreed. Maybe they're testing the waters with the Chromebook and not updating the Android Chrome yet.

BTW is there a dev channel for Android Chrome?
Their base salary (which is what is listed here) may not be a whole lot more; a large portion of their compensation comes in the form of annual bonuses. That's also the case for some of the listed firms, FWIW. As a senior engineer at one of them, I have received bonuses that are twice my "base salary" in good years.
I think the key is actually measuring the KPI's that matter. It's not total users its total active users. If you just report on total active users weekly, then you get to the same conclusion.
You did build a great product? Let the money come in!
Sounds like a good direction, like most things it probably needs to be tested in the wild. I'm not sure that it addresses the heart of the problem though, which might be this: as communities get larger, quality drops.

This is a hard problem to solve, and all I can do is offer some ideas. One idea might be to have a hierarchy of influence, where some users have more power than others, and users get promoted automatically according to their activity.

Off the top of my head, here's one possible way this could work:

Say you have three member tiers - reader, contributor and editor, and let's further say that the power of each tier differs in order of magnitude. readers can grant items 1 point, contributors 10 points, and administrators 100 points.

If members at a higher tier than you consistently upvote stuff after you upvote it, at some point you get promoted. In the same way, if they downvote stuff after you upvote it you get demoted.

I'd be interested if HN or Reddit ever experimented with something like this.

One other important thought - you'll probably never be able to completely automate a great community. Or put another way - everything else being equal, a community that is also actively curated by someone with great taste is probably going to be better.
No joke. Thomas Jefferson was removed from history textbook and replaced with Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin because he was a Deist and coined "Separation of Church and State".

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html?_r=...

“The Enlightenment was not the only philosophy on which these revolutions were based,” Ms. Dunbar said.

Me: Yes, it was.
Education, and self-education specifically is a fundamental human right.

I can't even begin to wrap my head around this.
You're looking for strings in the decimal expansion of pi. Pi is not a decimal number! Every decimal representation of pi is an approximation. Pi is not an infinite sequence, it is a single value a bit higher than 3.14, it is only the decimal (or other bases, besides 10) expansion that has an infinite number of digits.
From the latest update:

"""A lot of you have mentioned that we should open source everything if worse comes to worse. In fact, the code is already open, but if we cannot pull together to make this a retail product, we will absolutely fully open source everything, content and code and turn it over to the community. Actually, at some point we’d like to do that no matter what, even after a retail release (however many years later, when it makes fiscal sense). But right now the code is under the same modified BSD license as the Go programming language and the contents are all Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial Share-Alike."""
Didn't actually say that. Gawker is and has been a terrible company for as long as I can remember. But their actions have nothing to do with these ongoing issues that keep cropping up with Reddit. If they didn't do the witchhunt, someone else would have.
Nonsense paper provisionally accepted by mathematics journal
I agree. For all the people wanting to learn/practice Go, finishing Haunts would be a great opportunity
The present and the future of online health communities
Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup Webtiles (browser based rougelike)
Not to mention that East Texas is the Patent Troll capitol of the U.S.
This law was passed (in NL) only some 5-7 years ago, IIRC? Because I also don't recall any "robocalls" to landlines before that time. There were the unsolicited phonecalls, but they were human, you could always request to be taken off their list and taking some basic privacy precautions I only got them very very rarely.

But I don't remember getting mass-phonecalls with pre-recorded messages, nor heard about people that did. I could be wrong, of course.
Ask HN: What is color of walls where you do your development?
It would be nice to have salaries of software engineers per country (from France those numbers are huge)
This is similar to the Infinite Monkeys theorem and is more nuanced than many people think.

http://milesmathis.com/monkey.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_monkey_theorem
Besides, I should point out that the project owners haven't abandoned it yet. They are trying to find ways to make it happen.
Tien goede redenen om noten te eten | Leef Nu Gezonder | Leef Nu Gezonder
Bitcoins are pseudonymous. Not anonymous.
At least the homepage doesn't seem that restrictive to me. It looks like it was designed to communicate something about Quibb and get me to apply. I just think it does that very well.
Not new, but still awesome! I was surprised this hadn't already been submitted.
Because with a sufficiently small government, ISPs would not enjoy a government-mandated duopoly?
Stop working for salary.
oh thanks, I hadn't seen that. I think it would make more fiscal sense to open source it now and get it finished rather than let it sit, reimburse backers and then open source it.
Isn't there a catch in job position names? I heard that the term Software Engineer is used broadly in Google. Thus a higly-paid Manager in IBM is Software Engineer in Google...
Can Social Media Predict Election Outcomes?
A bit over a decade ago, that is exactly how I thought when I signed up for experts exchange to answer Perl questions. At about the same time I signed up for Perlmonks.

A couple of years later I never went to experts exchange, even though they were willing to pay money. Meanwhile I was so active on Perlmonks that I had the highest earned points of anyone on the site.

It turns out that I enjoy teaching exactly because I'm motivated by the interaction. Make the interaction wrong, and I'm never going to show up. OK, I will if you pay enough, but any true expert will have no shortage of people willing to pay more for their time than any junior person can ever hope to afford.

Now granted, I'm an outlier. But this is a critically important problem that needs to be solved in any kind of problem/answer site.
Are IBM salaries so low because of the "the cost difference is too great" between H1B and domestic employees as posted yesterday? http://cis.org/miano/ibm-cost-difference-too-great-business-...
Here's a proper and more holistic overview.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2066438441/haunts-the-ma...
Learn Lisp. Realize that JavaScript is a lot like Lisp, but with better libraries and C-like syntax. Then write really good JavaScript.
I would say that pseudonyms do more than just allow us to be anonymous with our opinions, but it also allows us to be anonymous with our emotions. In that sense, everyone has - or realizes - their jimmies are likely to be rustled at some point and it's best to shield your real identity from that person hitting the fan. But I agree I think we need to do a little bit more to figure out who gets hurt and why, and what we can do to curb that or provide them with some sort of kiddie pool to wade in. Sounds kind of silly, but I think it'd help.
It isn't a gag. It is a (conjectured, tested, not proven) mathematical fact explained on the SE page.

It is relevant to hackernews as a illustration of the effectiveness of seemingly pointless pictures of text as memes, obnoxious though they be.
Blackboard: With Both Co-founders Now Gone, It’s The End Of An Era
CNN has a cost of living calculator that seems to take grocery , housing, utility, transportation, and healthcare factors into account.

http://cgi.money.cnn.com/tools/costofliving/costofliving.htm...

107,798 in SF would be 73,278 in Minneapolis
Id say just like with any language, you need to ensure that your objects do one(or a few) thing(s) well. Read this article about dependency injection with JS http://merrickchristensen.com/articles/javascript-dependency... if you're able to model your code in a manor that fits that pattern, you'll be off to a great start
I basically agree. Especially with the difficulty of getting out of the hole.

You can live healthy on little money. But most people don't want to eat that kind of food. (George Orwell made a similar observation.)

Potatoes are actually pretty healthy.
> Does it baffle you that the school location for your kids is so tied to where you live?

No. Kids need to get to school, often by walking/biking. Schools can't afford to bus random kids in from 100 miles away. At least where I live (Ventura County, CA) parents are able to drive their kids to more distant schools if they prefer. As long as schools are a physical location where you have to show up to benefit from, it makes sense for them to be location based. If schools were 100% online, then it wouldn't make sense.

> Does it baffle you that your employer decides how much it wants to pay you as well ... desk ... computer ... 401k ... bonus ... vacation ... etc...

All of those things are either related to the relationship between you and your employer. The 401k thing is a little funny. I'd rather take the cash and manage it myself. I'm assuming your point is that health care plans are just another form of compensation and if you don't like what's offered, quit and work somewhere else that offers something better. The problem is that 1) coverage chosen by the employer can change every year, 2) you can't get the same coverage at the same price on your own or at a small company, and 3) it's non-optimal because it bundles unrelated things and requires you, as a "consumer" of employment, to make your decisions based on the aggregate value instead of individual values of the components.

> Let me ask you though. What if your employer would give you the money they put toward your health care to choose the provider of your choice (even if you had to pay the difference for any shortcoming)?

That seems good to me as long as you had the option to buy the same coverage at the same rates as the big companies.
Every Entrepreneur Needs to Master Key Disciplines
There's a difference between publicly disobeying an unjust law and privately disobeying an unjust law.
After many years of reading these surveys, I've started to avoid them. It's not very helpful. Sure, it may tell you if you are drastically underpaid. What it won't tell you is the opportunities of the particular job, whether you will be happy working there, or how much you'll be making in X years because you chose one opportunity over another. All it can really do is make you bitter or smug.
The Enterprise Sales Game Has Changed. Have You?
One thing for sure. LocBox probably got a lot more attention now due to this post. I did not get the email but this post made me take a look at LocBox :)
Does Pi contain every possible number combinations?
Microsoft on How to Reduce America's Talent Deficit
>Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad-hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of CommonLisp.

"Including Common Lisp." - Robert Morris

http://paulgraham.com/quotes.html
Unless you happen to own a quantum computer.
I like how that sounds. My only concern is philosophical -- who then sets the agenda? We wouldn't be able to implement democracy without the tyranny of the majority, nor could we exalt any one minority group without the same issue. At least with a for-profit society the motivations are clear.
XKCD has improved over the years...
That can be a slippery slope, because with more money and time, they can keep finding ways to "make it happen." When is the line drawn? Maybe the should publicly state a date to release the project to the people if they cannot complete the project.
Shameless plug I wrote an article called "OO JS in 15 minutes Or Less" that did really well hacker news in addition to others. Feel free to check it out :)

http://beardedocto.tumblr.com/post/21920818233/oo-js-in-15mi...
>Here's a few of the popular ones: monads, composition (of functions, not objects), maybe

None of those are design patterns in haskell. They may well be design patterns in other functional languages (probably only monads really), but in haskell they are very basic, fundamental features of the language. That is like saying classes and variables are design patterns.
You are being intentionally vague for no good reason. Define library in a reasonable way and your claim is not true.
Define library as an "uncatalogued lexicographically sorted collection" and your claim holds. A library is about selection and organization and metadata (a form of compression), not merely enumeration.
Startup School 2012 contact exchange
Since many of us are descending on the Bay Area this weekend, I thought it might be a good opportunity to exchange contact information with each other and/or set up meetings.

The goal of this thread is to facilitate networking with each other. So post up a bit about yourself, what you're looking for, and your contact info.
I agree it's strange and I'm not sure how the letter of the law is being applied to Coursera, but it seems like this wouldn't even let a qualifying religious program give a B.A. or B.S. in Theology, more you'd be able to get a "certificate of congrats you can be a minister for our church". Also protects VBS and confirmation class type courses.
"Google Is Tops for Software Engineer Salaries" - I'd hope so, compared to traditional corporations like GM for instance; they have similar operating income BUT, Google have roughly a quarter less employees.
They need to be paying high salaries to attract top talent, as an incumbent operator, but their contribution to the larger economic picture is less than impressive, (Unless tax avoidance impresses you).
I hardly ever use 'delete word' because I use 'change word' so much.
Green, red, blue, yellow with some white.... (I work for eBay)
Summary: genius is a complex relationship of ability & accomplishment and is both a nature & nurture issue.
Now we do not always need anyone else to resolve any conflict between us.

Provided you agree on the definition of property, which is by itself very disputed.
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Except the 250$ model does not have 3g so it really is 25$.

It's the 330$ 3g model that's got the deceptive pricing.
why on earth would you sort that list by company name and not by salary?
This is one of the best resources I've found that highlights all the silly things about javascript. It doesn't treat you like a beginner, it's just information about gotchas

http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/
And I forgot to mention that 128K is really a low end for finance software guys. It's not uncommon to see salaries about 200K for experienced guys even outside of Manhattan ;-)
How can those businesses try to sell you something without identifying themselves?

Also, there must be some weird political or legal reason why they can't (or won't) get the identity from the phone companies. It can't be a technical reason, because they're already capable of tapping everything, and the phone companies are already in full cooperation with that, even developing and providing specific technical interfaces for law enforcement.

And, maybe someone can tell me if this is actually possible (as opposed to a "CSI" type exaggeration): In many police series you see them requesting full cell-phone logs of all incoming and outgoing calls to a certain phone in the past few weeks or so.

In case that's realistic, I certainly hope that it can't be foiled by something as simple as spoofing the caller ID? Because, you know, that'd make it really easy to frame someone.
Like I said, disabling port 80 is a great way to handle this kind of attack. Those would obviously be trickier. I'm no network security expert, but I would assume that they are much more resilient to other attacks, as most protocols aren't as network intensive as TCP.
Why Felicia Day Makes Me (More) Proud of My Startup Job
The source code for the game (Go/Lua) is already on GitHub: https://github.com/runningwild/haunts
"Mozilla doesn't like Pepper" is a bit of an unfair characterization. A better description would be "only Google likes Pepper", because as far as I am aware Microsoft, Apple and Opera have not expressed any interest in implementing Pepper either. You just see more about Mozilla's thoughts on Pepper because it is a more open organization.
Exactly. These kind of bonuses are not uncommon...
Low balling potential hires due to cost of living isn't right and won't win you any hires... but.. It's disturbing to think that you'd pay the same, or close to the same for rent wherever you live.
You mean Minnesota, if you are referring to the ban on Free online courses.
You can get protein for really cheap. You just have to get used to eating offal.
Saumil,

Your e-mail to me was generic. Nothing personal. Cookie cutter, boilerplate, etc.

I took it as SPAM and the last thing I am going to do is reply back to a SPAMMER and confirm that my e-mail is real.

Most all of my HN submissions are my thoughts and opinions. Nothing really technical. You say that you did read my submissions before contacting me.

Specifically tell me what about my submissions caused you to e-mail me?
Emphases on insoluble, as to find an item of interest, on average, would take longer than the history of the Universe till now, longer than human civilization or any encoding scheme is likely to be in use....
Skunk Puppying: dealing with legal threats with cute animals.
But what are the limits? Are there any? What system API does the implementation map to? Epoll on Linux automatically, kqueue on Mac OS X, and whatever on Windows?
Again, you have ignored the question. What makes posting pictures of Lindsay Lohan's crotch more acceptable than posting pictures of fully clothed women standing around in public?
Theses files are examples files. You can find the same in the cowboy_examples repository[1] (Cowboy is the erlang server I use to build the application).

I should remove these files as the application do not use them.

For your information, there is no https available yet for http://fipelines.org as described in the blog post and the README. You have been warned ;)

[1] https://github.com/extend/cowboy_examples/tree/master/priv/s...
I'm Ritesh, and I'm the founder of taab. I'm an ECE grad from Waterloo, and a Master's student at Toronto. I've been working solo on my startup, developing an MVP and a growth strategy.

This weekend, I'm hoping to meet a kindred spirit, or a soul mate... aka. a co-founder.

Would love to speak with anyone who's interested, or just wants to hang out. I'll be in SF all day today, and obviously at Stanford tomorrow.

You can reach me at xpatel at taab dot co. My website is HTTP://taab.co. You can reach me at eight five eight two two five seven three nine nine. Text first.

Thanks!
You didn't have to give an email address, btw. So no point in giving a fake one anyway. But I think someone willing to bypass "registration" would not impulsively submit a fake address, but rather would have read the small print.
> Eating healthy is more important than exercise

For losing weight. For health in general, both seem about equally important. (And lots of exercise will allow you to get away with a crappy diet much easier.)
This is a pretty in-depth but terse look at how prototypal inheritance works through the eyes of someone who's only dealt with classical inheritance: http://killdream.github.com/blog/2011/10/understanding-javas...

For anyone who cares it's Sorella on ##javascript @ irc.freenode.net
Representative democracy's like the US are not based on "majority rule". The most obvious example being all the presidents that lost the election while winning the popular vote.
The cost of living difference between Minneapolis and San Francisco is HUGE. For the cost of an apartment in San Francisco you could have a huge house on 1/2 an acre of land in the Minneapolis area.

This calculator takes into account more, like housing, food etc: http://www.bestplaces.net/col/?salary=107798%20&city1=50...

"A salary of $107,798 in San Francisco, California could decrease to $56,716 in Minneapolis, Minnesota"

Which is much more in line with my personal experience having worked in both Silicon Valley and Minneapolis.

If you're a good engineer, it is not uncommon to pull down 107k or more in Minneapolis as well.
True, and that's why I mentioned only Mozilla - I have no clue what others are saying. Any references to position of Opera, Microsoft and Apple?
The weirdest thing happens when you compile it with gcc and then try it with clang. http://pastebin.com/DwFgsiLV
Why 4K TVs are stupid
My ex wife's iPhone 4 is still using ios4 since I'm not around to do it for her. I chuckle a bit every time she sends me a text message.
How about (wo)manning up? Swedish mothers are very fond of saying (in Swedish): There's no bad weather, just inadequate clothing.
You would be surprised at how many people, programmers or not, experienced or not, don't know those and other basic shortcuts. No wonder Vim's motions sound like necromancy to so many people.
No shame?
And this is a prime opportunity for Minnesota residents to learn about proxies :)
1) So what? Personally, I don't give a shit about karma and would rather not see it, account age or even usernames, but that's another discussion.

2) Perhaps you're being shortsighted. Popular educational submissions now could seed wider, educated submissions/discussion later. The immediate number of comments doesn't necessarily encompass the entire value of a submission towards discussion on HN.
GoF DP have failed to deliver their premises. They are not language agnostic. They are useful for education and to help communication when speaking about code. They have never helped me to develop code. Sometimes, my code contains a DP or another one, but it is never the most stable parts of my architectures.