skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've moved to Minneapolis a couple years ago and I've been very impressed by the startup scene. I've had a chance to attend one MinneBar (http://minnestar.org/minnebar/) and one MinneDemo (http://minnestar.org/minnedemo/) and see 30-40 startups present. Out of that number, about 5 were in solid black, 5 were easily cash-flow positive, and 5 more well on the way. Minnesota does not have the superstar startups but there are definitely a lot of solid performers.
> Not the worst argument

It is when it's the only process requiring and loading up a slew of 32-bit dylibs.
There surely are different views. It was this one being generic and exhibiting SPAM like qualities that made me not happy.

If this reply had been personal.."Hey, this is what I liked about your HN submissions and I think I could use your input, are you willing to provide it..this is how you contact me if you want to.."

I might have formed a different conclusion.
Any technical field has to define more concepts than can be distinctly named by casual vocabulary using their plain England meaning, so some words will be jargon.

Don't pick on "almost sure". We also have group, ring, field, ideal, prime, countable, closed, ....
Wouldn't Windows Store be analogous to the Mac App Store where the "race to the bottom [pricing]" doesn't seem to be a thing?
You can read the book in less than an hour, it's not big.
LG Optimus G review: a quad-core powerhouse with Nexus aspirations
Someone should go to prison for this.
In particular, you shouldn't adjust for CoL any parts of your salary that will be spent on (nonlocal) trips/vacations, or on nationally priced consumer goods. The cost of big-screen televisions or Xbox games doesn't get any cheaper when you move from San Francisco to Fresno, for example, and neither does the cost of taking a trip to Paris.

The CoL calculators, as they're usually implemented, make the most sense for people with no real disposable income beyond living expenses, but they don't make a lot of sense for Google-level salaries.
I had no interest in this game so far, but now I will try to run this. Open sourcing almost any project is to programmers, like blood in the water is to sharks :)
Yeah, look... it's an impossible problem.

On one hand you put your finger on it. Your life in place A is completely different then your life in place B so trying to so that you are paying x% more per sqft and therefore you arre y% poorer is obviously nonsense. Same goes for inflation calculators. This week you spent your money on iPads, international foods, air travel, divorce lawyers and antidepressants. 200 years ago you could have taken that money and bought this many slaves, that much bread and a weekly leaching. Therefore $1 in 1804 is worth $349 in todays money.

On the other hand there obviously is such a thing as inflation over time and cost of living variances. You can tell because you can live in a house, eat food and drive a car with a certain amount of money in one place but you can't pay for a the smallest apartment in another place with the same amount.
OSX still just works, Chrome and Firefox are easy browsers to keep working, there's not really any maintenance required.

That said these are not really reasons to switch operating systems, there's nothing particularly difficult about using chrome or Firefox on Linux, or for that matter, printing.
Yes. Recall the DeCSS controversery in USA, and the Wicket-Cricket wars in fiction's HHGTTG
Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection
Just spent half of the day doing AS3 in Eclipse. That was nice… thanks to the Vrapper plugin. Once you go Vim, using any other editor is a nightmare.

Maybe that's just me but I would be incapable of choosing an editor/IDE/smartphone/perfume/car/whatever because someone I admire uses it. That sounds incredibly childish to me.
The other day I was thinking about how Sublime Text's Ctrl+P's great usability could be extended to more use cases, and I began wondering,

1. Why doesn't it already index on the function names (the ones you get to by pressing @), so that I could find a file not by it's name or path, but by it's function definition (and with less priority, by it's function use)?

2. Why doesn't find in files work with the same usability, even if the match would not be as instant? Having an overhead box and the file auto open in the buffer as it matched would be a great improvement over what seems like a set in stone standard of opening a new dialog/file to display the find in files results.

If anyone knows of settings, plugins or even other editors I can get for these features, I'd be in heaven.
Oh right, that's why it's not working. So if we all take drugs on the streets then the law will change. Will try this weekend and report back, assuming that I won't be in jail for the next 5-10 years.
While you're at it, stop eating for sustenance.
Why Britain needs a policy framework for 3D printing [pdf]
Creating A Visual Brand For Every U.S. President
Yes Fountain Codes are definitively something I have to look at. Improving bandwidth usage and resuming downloads are part of the next improvements with https.

For now Erlang have been an excellent fellow to deal with these things :)
$28,739 isn't a lot of money to hire programmers to work over any reasonable amount of time. This hardly seems surprising.
For me, the odd thing here is that they were already disabling running Java by default, which does a lot to defeat the drive-by download problem. Given that such a mechanism is in place, we already seem to have achieved the main goal you mentioned before: exploits don't "just work".

At that point, making Java "just work as long as you click somewhere to confirm you want it to" seems a reasonable policy to me. As many here have pointed out, reports of the death of Java applets serving useful purposes have been greatly exaggerated.
Both Google and Mozilla wants to obsolete your OS and move general computing in the browser; Google is more pragmatic and sees the need for native code apps on the client side (like games, image processing, etc) so they wants to transform the browser into distribution platform for such apps. Mozilla crew, on the other hand, holds high moral ground and lives in imaginary world where everything can be made with Web technologies, and if something isn't possible right now, we should just wait couple of processor iterations and couple of Web standard iterations.

If companies are people, Google would be someone like Linus, and Mozilla would hang with RMS.
or use call or apply when invoking innerFunction, which he describes later in the article
Secondary Storage scalability configuration in CloudStack
Safari has been fine on my iPhone 4 - probably better than in the previous version...
What is her phone number?
Ericsson Labs Releases World’s First WebRTC-Enabled Mobile Browser: Bowser
And in other news, water is wet.

Salary postings are link bait for the most part.
Brendan Eich posted some thoughts on Pepper recently in this comment and many followups:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4632410
Science Win: Scientists Turn Fresh Air Into Petrol
But look at at the plain meaning of the word: "infinite" is "in finite".

More seriously, if you aren't careful in your interpretations, you observe that the real interval [0,1] has finite measure but infinite cardinality. And the rational interval has 0 measure but infinite cardinality, so you do find infinite in the finite.
I do remember 2 things which might have bumped it up. To stem the stream of developers going to pre-IPO Facebook and other Valley up-and-comings[1], they bumped salaries up 10% across the board + making bonuses part of salary that year, IIRC. Also, a Valley salary corroboration was exposed recently[2].

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2417577

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3521817
It clicked for me when I decided that there were no methods and considered all function invocations to be special cases of `apply`. Then the case you mentioned becomes a bog standard case of a property lookup, and the callback becomes a case of `apply(window, [args])`.

tldr: JavaScript has functions, not methods :)
Indeed, glassdoor is bad (estimates low), at least at Microsoft, Google, Apple, and Facebook. I saw it on two fronts; as a manager, the salary ranges are fixed for each of the title/pay grads.

As a hiring manager, human resources also paid for Serious Surveys (i.e., not just relying on the people who enter their info into a random website) of salaries for comparable jobs at other places. Of course, that was probably superfluous, as the HR and recruiting people swap between the big tech firms pretty frequently (seemingly moreso than engineers), so for the cost of a trip to the cafeteria starbucks, you could usually get info on comparable salaries from a recent transfer.
Craigslist finally forced to innovate as competition edges in
Hardware companies pay the lowest? Not much in embedded, eh?
Let the Amazon stalking begin!
Ah, I will be careful how I write it :) Thanks!
> How could they enforce this?

Whatever government agency the schools in minnesota have an influence over.
NC-SA isn't "open source".
The mortgage on my 1600 sq. ft. house is about $800/month. Do you know anybody paying $800/month or less in rent in the Bay?
I think a lot of people lower their standard of living when they move to expensive places. For instance, I live in the mid-west in a 5-bedroom, 3-bath house with a 2-car garage. My wife and I own 2 reliable cars, and we eat at mid-level restaurants almost every day. If we tried to live a comparable life in NYC, I'm certain the cost-of-living argument would apply.
What was the reason behind this? "not free anymore"==??
I don't think it's getting you nowhere.

For example, I am about to vote to legalize marijuana in Colorado. I don't know whether it will pass, but you can bet that measure would never have been on the ballot were it not for the decades of data--on the medical and social effects of the drug and its criminalization--provided by people breaking the law.
Label them (those who left) as quitters without ethics or loyalty and make sure it comes up high in google searches. Do you think it would work ? I know potential employers google my name.
Hot corners have been in OS X and Ubuntu/Gnome for many years...
We're developing a social battery app, and we really need your input
Show HN: Swapm
Code generation for the rest of us
Microsoft announces Office365 University, subscription-based apps to students
Gallup Poll Special Report on United States LGBT Population
Mobile games from the past [a post-mortem]
Liturgical studies by a religious organization are specifically protected under the the 1st Amendment[1][2]. Schooling has been a state domain for a very long time (look at Texas and California's influence on textbooks). The regulating of schools does not violate the US or MN constitution.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incorporation_(Bill_of_Rights)

[2] consumer protection law and religious organization http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cantwell_v._Connecticut
> they don't make a lot of sense for Google-level salaries.

Yes. This was my point.

> you shouldn't adjust for CoL any parts of your salary that will be spent on trips/vacations, or on nationally priced consumer goods.

Indeed, the real comparison of salaries should take into account what you plan to do with the income above the CoL. To the above I would also add that the interest on the rest of your cash stash (you don't plan to spend all of it on LCDs and trips?) is pretty much independent of where you live.
Your paragraph makes no logical sense, a 20k raise is not the same wherever you live, taxes and the things you'll ultimately buy with it vary in cost so it's incomparable.

Notice how the salary adjustment jives with the CNN calculator too, this is because the cola takes into account the things that people need to spend their salary on, if you buy a vw microbus and sleep in the office parking lot every night and have minimal dining needs then you will notice an absolute difference between regions, otherwise you won't, the salary variance is eaten by the cost of all he usual things people do.
French Android Malware writer Arrested for stealing $653700
Disaster! Ubuntu Tweak is the first thing I install whenever I set up Ubuntu.

I don't like some aspects of Unity, and this is great tool for tweaking it. Does anyone know of a good alternative?
> Maybe that's just me but I would be incapable of choosing an editor/IDE/smartphone/perfume/car/whatever because someone I admire uses it. That sounds incredibly childish to me.

That is not what i was trying to say. I mean that when reading HN with all its Vim/Emacs hype one could get the impressions that you cant be an awesome software developer without using vim/emacs. But some examples like mine might help to check with reality.

Lots of what you read on HN is hype, be it vim/emacs, textmate, NoSQL, or some form of super cool javascript framework that is currently fashionable. Its good to know that there are still lots of devs in the real world, using proven tools and being as productive/awesome as the people using the latest buzz.
Apple shares close at new high on iPhone 5 pre-orders
No, Chrome already has native apps -- NaCl. This headline is about PNaCl, the attempt to make native apps portable.
Moleskine Goes Digital: The Story Behind Evernote’s Smart Notebook
Are you counting sales taxes? How about income taxes? Both affect your ability to buy even national goods, especially now that states are starting to enforce sales taxes on out-of-state items.

Anyone from CA want to chime on what state income and sales taxes are compared to the rest of the country?
They'll happily serve h264 versions of those to mobile devices, however, so if you enable debugging in safari you can switch the user agent to 'iPad' from the 'develop' menu and the page will reload and work just fine. You don't get the high def options though.
Tesla's First 6 Superchargers Open to Public Today
If the Boomerang product you're talking about is the one found at boomerang.com, then I don't think the two are related at all.

Boomerang is an email marketing software. It has a free trial but otherwise you have to pay to use it.

followupthen.com is only an email reminder system. It is not a marketing tool. It has a free version (which is what I use and is great) and then a paid version (which allows you to include attachments and will automatically put appointments in your calendar).

So they're not really comparable at all as far as I can tell.
I am in a similar situation. I have thyroid cancer, which is generally a manageable form of cancer but has a small (but not insignificant) risk of recurrence and distant metastasis which could require expensive diagnostic & treatment options. Having a pre-existing condition makes it very difficult to buy insurance on the private market and it is very expensive, if you can buy it at all. I recently hit a point in my life where I'd paid off debts and could have afforded to take a risk and start my own business (and want to), but I am not willing to put my family at risk for bankruptcy if I end up requiring expensive tests and treatments and I'm not willing to forgo those things and risk my own life. My dad faced a similar situation when I was younger. My mom was diagnosed with cancer at a time when he was considering leaving his blue collar job to return to college; he ended up staying in his job to keep his generous union health care plan, my mom got great care and eventually recovered, but he missed a chance to grab new opportunity because the risk again was too great.
In general, a map will always be good enough until the moment they aren't. It's extremely localized, and your experience can't be compared to another persons' 1-1.

There are now entire countries with completely useless maps. Is that fair to iPhone users in those countries? Even in Canada and the USA, thousands of small cities that formerly had detailed maps were "wiped off the map" with this update. So while millions of people think things have gotten better, millions of people can also legitimately claim Maps is not just "worse" but completely broken.

For the people who live in cities with turn-by-turn navigation and 3D flyovers, hey the new Maps is great. Apple has sacrificed a product that was good enough for most people with one that is great for some and terrible for others. It's a tough decision for them to make, and they should have still used Google Maps app for those who are affected negatively since theres still so much time left on the contract with Google.
good for you.

I haven't seen a perfect programming language yet, but the compromises offered by FORTRAN, C, Ada and lisp are really hard to beat, as the first three offer very competitive speed whereas the last one trades off about 50% speed for a lot of built-in metaprogramming.

It's really all about compromises, and JS fits no bill except "easy to learn for noobs", which imho is a non-issue for anyone considering long-term use.

(in case you didn't know, fortran has awesome arrays and awesome compilers, C has inline ASM and awesome compilers, Ada has increased execution security and lisp is lisp)
I think the parent is referring to the changes to ActiveRecord::Base#find and its convenience helpers, #first, #last, and #all. I'm not sure what else it could be. It's definitely true that the semantics of the finders have changed and they're huge gotchas to newbies to Rails. Here's a brief review:

In rails 2.x:

Post.find(:first) # => First record, determined by db engine
Post.find(:all) # => All records
Post.find(1) # => Find record with id 1
Post.first # => Same as find(:first)
Post.all # => Same as find(:all)

Rails 3.x

Post.find(:first) # Deprecated, use #first/#all
Post.find(1) # Same as 2.x
Post.first # First record, determined by db engine
Post.all # All records or force execution of a Relation

Rails 4:

Post.find(:first) # RecordNotFound, could not find record with id :first
Post.find(1) # Same as 2.x
Post.first # Ordering is enforced, use #take to simulate old #first
Post.all # Always returns ActiveRecord::Relation
Post.all.to_a # Force query to execute, avoid this!

I'm not particularly unhappy about any of the changes as they definitely make it more consistent. With the move to ARel in the 3.x releases, they definitely discouraged the use of #all to force query execution (build up a query, iterate over it, don't worry about executing it).

I'm actually quite glad they fixed the db ordering gotcha present when using #first and #last. It drove me nuts when I first ran into it and it has affected almost every Rails developer I've talked to.
Internationalizing an iOS application -- how MeetMe did it
As a chilean was kind of a surprise to see chimbalab listed as political hacking. While I agree that control technology for your own es a political act, there were collectives at the same time doing work on social and political spaces. Free internet, radio or even tv in 'poblaciones' (excluded poor places of the city), huge media projects that involved 90% of public communications from local activists, and even a open, communitary and free access hacklab. So i'm really forward too see what they have to say.
After 8 years of saying "Windows", it was changed as part of the 12.10 cycle.
You realize that a dot-release likely won't update Maps a whole ton right? The application itself that's installed on the phone is fine. It's the data that some people find to be inaccurate or not detailed. Apple has been updating the data independently of OS releases, AFAIK.
I'm currently going through Javascript Enlightenment by Cody Lindley. I think in the end you have to re-read lots of the same topics cause one author's way of phrasing certain things will 'click', and then another author's will add on to the 'click'.
I didn't know Microsoft had a stand-alone compiler, but I'm not even sure what such a thing would be used for other than to be embedded in some other software.

How is cygwin any better than a package manager like MacPorts or Homebrew?

If you're having this much trouble with shared libraries, you're doing something quite odd. They're usually less obnoxious than their equivalent .DLL files.

Apple has gone to great lengths to get fully POSIX certified. As far as the libraries go, they're nearly identical to their Linux or BSD counterparts. The number of platform-specific issues you'll have to deal with when using standard versions of the libraries are usually small.

In looking through open source, I always see a lot more of `#ifdef WINDOWS` than I do for anything OS X specific, especially in the networking and threading departments.
Why Investors are Fatigued and What This Means for Startups
TIOBE Dropped A Massive Clanger - Java is still Number 1
The traffic in the bay area is pretty bad, too.
Add a points filter to the new stories page. This would allow people to find potentially interesting stories (say, with 5 points) that haven't made it to the front page yet.
That seems rather rash.

Do I think it would work what? Do you have a goal other than attempting to destroy someone's career?
In a world of capped data consumption, how would companies deliver 4k content over data networks?
Unity also broke compatibility with every panel applet, Mich like Metro.
I'm from the UK.

If you think the Guardian's not as far left as the Mail's far right you're uninformed and need to read more. I suggest political theory and try reading all the different broadsheets on the same day a few days to understand political bias in each one.

Finally, go talk to some real people. If you think people don't have similar political beliefs as the daily mail you're utterly deluding yourself.

I suggest people not in your age group. I have found most Daily Mail readers in the 40-60s groups. It seems you have surrounded yourself with like-minded people, nothing wrong with that, but now believe everyone thinks like you do.

The 'middle' that you claim to be inhabiting is probably actually far left. There's a lot further right you can go than the Mail (like fascism for example). Liberals do seem to make this mistake rather a lot, thinking they're the moderate centre, when they're anything but.

I have no idea what you were getting at in your first sentence, sorry.
It has unfortunate, unintended side-meaning sometimes, but groups tend to grab the flag they can. The cinder/processing/max-msp-jitter-pd/demo scene grabbed "creative coder" as their moniker a while back, and it's probably too late to change it - and it does make sense, if you view it from the vantage point that creative coding" is the core activity of making a specific type of audio/visual artifact (or just art, or even Fine Art) - which people usually group with art/Art, so it fits.

You can always get bent out of shape about what people end up calling things... I mostly got over it back in the "web master" days.

Sites to peruse about "creative" coding &/|| that support for the contention that cc is an established term:

http://www.creativeapplications.net

http://creativecodingpodcast.com

http://cplus.about.com/b/2010/12/09/what-is-creative-coding....

http://createdigitalmotion.com

But I'll also agree with you, remember & underscore that much programing is inherently creative:

http://lifedev.net/2008/07/programmer-creativity-boost/

I'm using Fine Art/Art as shorthand for "arts existing within the historical institutional context of galleries, academies, collectors and museums" (which is what most people mean when they capitalize art, I think, even if they wouldn't necessarily say it that way)