skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is about as likely to happen as a law that comes right out and invalidates software patents. Or ends women's suffrage. Or requires everyone to wear blue pants on Thursdays, under penalty of death.

It's an interesting thought experiment, but treating it as more than that is a mistake.
It's written in Arc, which is written in Racket... you might find yourself coming up against the limitations of tools which were designed by academics, for academics and never meant to be used in a production site.
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That mix, combined with the fact that grid power is more efficient than ICE anyway, is still very good.
This is brilliant. Thanks so much for doing an API! As much as I like web apps, I'd hate to keep a tab open for the entire day in my browser. I'll go build a simple native mac app that sits in the toolbar and plays music.
> There's really no way you could have provided a worse experience unless you actively tried.

Oddly enough, that's been tried at least once:

https://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/business/28borker.html?pa...
That isn't really true, there were other useful details, although they may not have stood out to you since a lot of it could be considered good common sense.
Fine, go ahead whoever you are. I guess I'll just vote everyone's posts down today so maybe I'll catch yours.
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We don't need to read a textbook to use a spoon. But, then we need to read the manufacturer's manual to write effective assembly code. Is this a conundrum, or is it just that life is a little bit too complex to fit in naive generalizations?
Sure, but they don't have a nice GUI or good messaging around why I should use that to solve this problem specifically.

Also, in a world of politically correct egalitarianism I respect a company that has the literal and figurative balls to stand up and say, nope, this is for men (and go so far as to bake that assumption into the product name)
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They want to access their apps on all their devices, but they don't care if all versions are built with the same technology as long as they can accomplish the task, at least i don't care as an app consumer.
It makes some sense. He's attempting to promote an easily understood measure to mitigate the harm caused by software patents. Putting forward suggestions which are easily understood is very useful in politics.
Actually, I think I would much prefer a brain surgeon who has spend decades learning all the intricacies of the brain operation through hands on experience starting when they are in elementary school. I'm just not sure who would provide access to brains in the interim leading up to my surgery, in order to have the experience, due to the nature of the work.

The computer, however, doesn't care how inexperienced you are. You can screw up hundreds or thousands of times and it really doesn't matter. By the time you are old enough to enter the workforce where your work does start to matter, you will have the solid grasp necessary to do the work professionally.
"Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know."

...

Remember that the next time you are listening to a discussion of complex field - where none of the participants have degrees, industry experience or in depth on the ground knowledge of said fields.

If those who know do not speak, how could we ever listen to any other type of discussion?
The reality of things is that there are no rules.
While I'm all for EVs and would happily change if I could afford to, this strikes me as off:

> ... if I want to take a long road trip, there has to be a big stopover in the middle, which makes trips much longer. The Model S solves that.

The Model S has a range of about 400 km (250 miles). For long highway-type trips, that's probably about 4 hours of driving. Which is not much.

It won't get you from Köln to Berlin or from Paris to Lyon or from New York to Toronto, to pick a few random examples that slightly exceed 400 km. Those are distances that people would consider "long trips", and quite reasonables ones, too.

Obviously a 400-km-range car is plenty for most people, but we can't pretend it doesn't limit our options or force us to find alternative transportation for some trips that would otherwise not be a problem with a gas-powered car.

I assume you at least partly financed the Roadster with income you earned through Braid, by the way. If so, good for you, and I was glad to contribute! :-)
Light Table looks like a REPL on steroids, E-n-C is like REPL on tranquilizers. It has limited use, allowing only limited changes. There's little interactive environment (immediate window), and even that's pretty limited.

So no, I don't think edit and continue is that big of a deal. A REPL would have been easier and more useful, see F# Interactive.

As far as stepping into code, I find the MS symbol server and .NET source code stepping to "just work". But I sympathize with the pain of debugging a deep stack in ASP.NET, trying to figure out how their abstraction worked. For 3rd party libraries, would it not be up to that publisher to publish their own symbols/source?
Don't you think that "no buyer protection" is just heading too far in the opposite direction?

Especially with callmeed's post[1] above...

[1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4730281
Wow, it's scary enough writing a comment in HN without a copy in my paste buffer. You would be a very brave man to do your application straight up.
It would be interesting to read a preview of the book.

I think that releasing software quickly is completely different to releasing a physical item quickly. You continue working on the software and update as necessary but you cannot update a physical book that is sitting on someone's coffee table.

How much time was spent on the content of the book versus the design? Is the content alone worth the price asked or is the content just a filler for the book design/marketing effort?
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I thought google wallet was supposed to replace the cards I carry, not adding another one to it.
Plus I'm sure I've seen pg say somewhere it runs reasonably well now, and when it starts going they flick the switch and bring it back up.
I'd be just as interested in how Rare went from doing Goldeneye 64 to making what seem to be relatively mediocre games today.
It's well known that for men the peak years are 40-50.

Yes, 20s are awesome, but, unless you're producing Nobel-winning stuff in your early 20s, then you had best learn to age well.
Possibly a linguistic (hah!) confusion. I don't mean that he pioneered the study of language, i.e. linguistics. Clearly people have been studying languages for millennia. When I say he pioneered formal language theory, I mean it in the computer-science sense, that he pioneered the study of formal languages. That's the theory of how to mathematically and computationally parse sequences of tokens into semantic meanings. Chomsky wasn't the first there, since work in symbolic logic (e.g. Frege's work) also considered the formal syntax/semantic mapping. But much modern work in parsing and related areas is derived from Chomsky's work. Any programming-language researcher has heard of and likely used the concept of a "context-free grammar" for example, which Chomsky originated. More information: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chomsky_hierarchy

Put more simply, I'm saying that he did valuable scientific work in developing his formal analysis of grammars, even if it fails to capture human language. He intended it to capture human grammar, but it's an interesting computation-amenable model of grammar even if it isn't how humans speak, because it is pretty much how we now write programming languages. When computer scientists today talk about "grammars", for example someone saying that they're writing "an ANTLR grammar for Clojure", they mean it in the Chomskian sense.
I was pretty frustrated when I sold my iPhone 4 when the 4S launched, had a winning bidder, who then never paid or contacted me. Couldn't leave negative feedback on them at all, and they continue to bid on stuff they don't intend on actually paying for, with sellers none the wiser that the bidder is a shitty person.
Sometimes. Check out SLAPPs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slapp#United_States
I've been a long time eBay user and have also had issues over the past year with a couple of unpaid items and having to relist. The annoying part was not being able to give the buyer negative feedback, allowing him/her to waste someone else's time.

What about them linking your ID to Facebook for new users without let's say 10 feedback?
Infinite scrolling is actually not going to be there in the final production release.
We are working on it.
We gived some explanations because each people wasn't not understanding the same value, we are in a step by step explanation of what we've done.

You're definitively right.

Follow us, more examples soon.

Thank you for your advise.
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"I would far far rather read a book written by you in three days on orbital mechanics and what is feasible and what might change. Then another on lunar geology and moonbases."

This is an orthogonal point, though. He said he's writing a novel, and you're saying don't want to read novels, because you like quickly digestible information.

He's not trying to write an informational book about orbital mechanics. He's saying he spent time researching that subject in service of his work of fiction. Presumably, he did that research to help flesh out the world of his story, and to make sure his science fiction is informed by real science (something few SF writers these days actually take the time and effort to do). I don't think his goal is to "stir sugar into a healthy and nutritious meal," but rather, to stir nutrition into what would typically be a sugary snack.

J.R.R. Tolkien famously spent a great deal of time creating an entire language before incorporating it into his Lord of the Rings series. That doesn't mean he should have written a dictionary of the language instead, and then kept the novel a separate work. His primary goal was the novel, with the linguistics being a (very fleshed out) supporting detail.
Another vote for the Transformer Prime + keyboard dock. One of the best kept secrets in mobile computing.
In real auctions, when you bid you can not renege (otherwise the whole thing would fall apart). So why does eBay allow a bidder to bid and then not buy? That's ridiculous.
Speaking from the other side here, I started programming at eight and abandoned that in my late teens for partying, sex and adventure through my twenties. Despite landing a scholarship at a respectable school, I walked out the door two months later to go chase a girl.

It's only been now in my thirties that I've taken programming and such seriously, because it's suddenly far more fun to me than social games. There's this vague sense of regret much like you're describing, except inverted -- I could have probably accomplished a LOT had I stayed on point. Despite that, I'm still successful by standards I set out for myself in my early twenties and I've got some rather ambitious plans for my forties, yet.

At the end of the day: I've been here since Usenet was a thing, dotcoms are still as hilarious as they were in the 90s and I honestly think it's just the media fixation on the notion of precocious children that perpetuates this culture obsessed with how we're all supposedly dead at thirty -- when really, that's when many creative individuals begin to hit their stride as many artists discover their talents later in life.

Really, people should stop worrying about any of this shit, as most of it is just talk from people trying to sandbag you.

+1 for being brave enough to talk so candidly.
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What is strange here is that Apple seems to be perfectly able to compete on merits - take MacBooks. Granted, they aren't dominating the market like iPhone used to, but they have a sizable niche and when some years ago I didn't see any Macs around on conferences now almost everybody has MacBooks. But they don't seem to be that eager to sue everybody else on that market. The merits of the platform are enough for them to be successful. Why can't they do the same for the phone market?
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I don't really understand why it matters whether gas stations have electricity and chargers...doesn't charging take hours? Who wants to sit at a gas station for hours waiting for their car to charge?
Mistakes between french and english. We fix it.
So the recent change to Google Wallet to let you use any card you wanted basically worked by creating a virtual credit card that acted as a proxy, and transmitting that card number using NFC. When the charge hit that virtual card, they would then process a corresponding charge to your real card.

It looks like they're going to give you the option of getting a physical representation of that proxy card.

One thing I'm curious about though is how chargebacks get handled with this system. Say I have the proxy card pointing at my Amex, I go buy something, and Google forwarded the charge to my Amex. Now for whatever reason I need to do a chargeback. Who do I talk to, Google, or Amex? How would that even work?
>These properties make [pi] the only known constant with universal distribution of its digits that cannot be represented by the fraction of any two numbers, or polynomial with rational coefficients.

Do you have a source for this?
> Power is not free. An electric vehicle still needs to get power from somewhere and that power requires all the normal transmission infrastructure.

My understanding is that Tesla's new SuperCharger stations are solar based, charging a a local battery that's used to supply customer Teslas, then feeding any excess back into the grid, making it a "negative carbon footprint" source.
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A stronger version of this problem is the speculations about the "age of mass robotization".

As robots become more and more general-intelligent with cheap maintenance costs, creating their specific "inner robot market", they will drive the costs of many human labour/service forms even lower making many current human-oriented job obsolete.

Without egalitarian welfare solutions, such as basic income, we are very much fucked.
It's a heuristic not a law. Use it to protect yourself from the adverse selection of stated data in complex fields from highly incentivised agents (including me).

Follow it, or don't at your own peril/gain.
The title of the article is misleading. The issue here isn't about putting cameras on private property. As I understand it, the judge was saying that in a place that the police could have searched or could have themselves hidden and watched in person without a warrant they can also put a camera without a warrant. I'm as bothered as just about anybody about the erosion of 4th amendment protections, but this doesn't appear to me to be one of those.

This is not about someone's residence. It is about rules for searching "open fields."
There is now a "Campaign Against Arrest of Ravi Srinivasan for a Tweet" [0]. This issue is getting a lot of attention in the international media too [1].

[0] http://getup4change.org/rti/support-free-speech/
[1] http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/10/31...
No one is mentioning Hydrogen fuel-cell cars that have been in trials, such as the Honda FCX Clarity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Honda_FCX_Clarity).

Relative to battery-powered fully-electric vehicles, some advantages are:
- Quick re-fueling (like with a gasoline vehicle)
- No loss of range in cold weather (and seems like earlier freezing issues have been addressed)
- No deterioration of a battery's performance over time

Some disadvantages:
- Hydrogen economy is not here yet and may be difficult to make efficient relative to electricity delivery (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrogen_economy)
On the contrary, I suggest 20s is the best time to explore who you actually are - so called "hippy" stuff. As later on it just becomes that much more difficult. Whether you end up building a great company or end up doing a regular job in your later years, it will not mean much if you did not find out who you actually are, what is your purpose in life (all those silly questions we all pondered sometimes but never actually pursued). Once explored thoroughly, and if the conclusion was that your purpose in life was to do a start-p(or startups) and establish a successful company, then it will be worth it. Otherwise, neither your startup will be successful, or if successful, your life will still be miserable. Better to figure all this out in 20s, instead of focusing primarily on your career.
Should I follow your flawed logic? How does a crap host relate to eBay? Are you saying that eBay is a shit marketplace? Please provide proof to back up this defamatory claim. You took a risk using eBay's resource, you lost money due to a fee for using their resource, that is reasonable.

I gave you a chance to explain your rationale and you failed as all I'm getting is the feeling of someone who has a silver spoon in their mouth. It is a marketplace, you used their resource, someone didn't pay, you said you used one of their protections, it worked, but you needed to get an unrefundable $2 back, so you went to CS who did not want to refund it. There are more people who had a worse experience than this such as losing their item, fees, and not getting any support. If anything you got the closer to ideal case of this and you are complaining about it. That's crap.

I no longer have anything to contribute to this as I am wasting my time here.
Better yet, copy the application questions to a text file, write your answers there, and when you get ready to submit your application, copy in the answers and hit "submit".

You'll want to preserve a copy of your application for future reference anyway.
Please don't act surprised after what you wrote. There are polite ways to make a point, and good reason to do so.
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Android is a desolate wasteland when it comes to games
Sorry, but I don't have much of an opinion, just a vague impression that is based on random snippets and could easily be wrong - hence the "a lot of people argue".

(To avoid circularity I might add that, if the "igon value" thing really is inapt, that would be a counterexample to my "cultural justice" theory, which is okay since I only thought of it this morning.)

In general, I think storytelling and factual fidelity are at odds with one another. They're incommensurable and can't even really be balanced. What we most want is stories, but we also want them to be true, which is impossible, so we do a lot of complicated ritual dances around that, and get angry when someone breaks the dance rules.
Note to Google: If the world hears about your new secure payment system via a LEAK you're off to pretty bad start.
Innovation has nothing to do with how many R&D dollars you have. When Apple came up with the Mac, IBM was spending at least 100 times more on R&D. It's not about money. It's about the people you have, how you're led, and how much you get it.
-- Steve Jobs, Fortune, Nov. 9, 1998
Looks like google wallet is a not-so-well-liked app:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.google.and...
Are the products on your website handmade? Who is curating these items?
Ah, I misread. In that case it is claimed by that patent, but this almost certainly wouldn't hold up in court, because there's so much prior art for doubly-linked lists.

This situation would be laughable if it weren't backed up by the force of law.
I feel you may have completely missed my point about it being the wild west. Android, iOS, and many other mobile platforms provide a rich set of frameworks that solve much of the hard engineering challenges for you.

HTML5 gives you a programming language or two and some rough system interfaces. By the time you are done your HTML5 app, it should be almost indistinguishable from a native app in terms of code, but you will have had to build many of those frameworks yourself; or, at best, extend one hundreds of competing frameworks that get you half way there but never all the way (again, unless you are doing something really simple).

As mentioned, I do agree that this area does improve each day, and the time may come where it does meet, or even exceed, what the native platforms offer. In the meantime, however, you are going to be spending a portion of your development efforts being part of that improvement cycle instead of moving on to the next native platform. Six of one, half dozen of the other.

Additionally, the reason I called it the wild west was in reference to the many HTML5 developers who choose to forego best practices altogether and program their app close to the "bare metal", doing only the bare minimum to get their app running. This provides a much shorter learning curve and quicker time to first product, which many non-native developers even consider a strong selling point of HTML5, but it sacrifices all of the lessons developers have learned over the past 30 years or so. Once upon a time, we used to program native applications that way too. Why sould we consider it a good idea now when it wasn't deemed a good idea back then?
Don't make critical purchases from random people on the Internet? We should never blame the victim, nevertheless everyone should be thaught a basic level of "Internet street smarts".
"Android's experience has been evolving from day one."

Yep from a blackberry clone to an underperforming iphone clone with some +1 features to a near parity iphone clone with some +1 features.

"iOS is basically the same experience except for major features like multitasking menu, notification menu, etc (and where did those come from)."

This is funny because to me the biggest feature in Android 4.2 that you're so excited about is the AirPlay clone. Over the last few years iOS has fundamentally rebuilt phone calling (Facetime), texting (iMessage) and the primary interaction ux (Siri). Where on earth have you been? How on earth do you call it "basically the same experience" when I can now just order the phone to do tasks like Montgomery Scott in Star Trek IV: The One with Whales?
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> We restart HN every 5 or 6 days, or it gets slow (memory leaks).

Because competence wasn't worth it a few hundred restarts ago and isn't worth it now.
What a US court thinks is irrelevant in the UK, and has zero bearing on the Apple UK site. Thank $DIETY the USPTO is confined to where it is.

If Apple doesn't want to comply with laws, they shouldn't operate in those countries.

That said, it was obvious they'd get chewed out for this from when they posted it (if you know anything about UK law). It's okay to be smug and they would have probably gotten away with everything except the very last paragraph.

The last paragraph was completely unnecessary, and now they're facing the consequences of their hubris.
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really? I did not even know this was a thing? do you have examples? can i pm?
Just emailed you guys about the design position!