skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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".

When HN gets busy, that is also helpful for posting comments. Sometimes even when I type one of my shorter comments, by the time the comment is done and I select "reply," the response is "unknown link," a sign of a time-out condition. (I probably type slower than many programmers.) Fortunately, my browser preserves my form submission if I encounter that condition, so then I copy the whole comment and try again. Anything long that takes looking things up I compose in my text editor, and then paste in all at once (as for another reply I posted today).
I am in the same boat as gp. rails has a lot of nice time savers, RVM is better than virtualenv, I like that in ruby you have more than one way to do things so you can write the way you feel most natural, ruby is more fun to program in for me(not a huge fan of the indentation now because I have had to reformat scripts to work correctly one too many times now). packaging in python is what pushed me over the edge though. It never felt like I could get anything installed nicely because the "best practice" for the packing managers were changing daily. rubygems is much nicer in that respect. I still like python but in the future I am going with ruby unless I have to use something else.
I constantly find myself leaving fingerprints on the screen of my MacBook after I've been using my Transformer for a spell..
Yes! Left joystick + R + left C, twirl around and end up back in the vent. Plant a mine at the spawn point and hope you don't end up there when you die before someone else does!
My experience building computer vision application on Flash
Ugh. Apple stories really bring out the worst in HackerNews.

makes a note to avoid reading such threads in the future
It's not conspiracy theory, BUAA professor claim they have got pieces from F-117

http://jpk.buaa.edu.cn/2007jpk/bjsjpk/fjztsj/jxlx/jxlx.htm

11m35s

at BUAA that piece in question is in public display

http://www.hobbyshanghai.com.cn/data/attachment/forum/201205...
Manipulated ? He just said in other words - "Hey follow me on twitter if you want to stay updated". Is that manipulation according to you ?

I actually looked for the twitter button on his site so that I could follow him - since I did enjoy the post and would like to see more from him. Didn't feel manipulated though.
The best was putting proximity mines on the body armor!
So let's do some math. I drive a Toyota truck that goes anywhere and does everything. It gets 20mpg average (I have a ScanGauge for monitoring this). It's 14 years old, and it cost me $5000 when I bought it. So at an average daily commute for Americans of 16 miles [1] (my commute is 5 miles one direction), that would give me an average of 400 bidirectional gallons used per year (16 miles one direction times 250 working days divided by the mpg) for work use. At $3.50 for a gallon of gas, that's $1400/yr, plus a one-time cost of $5000. Once per year, I take an 8000 mile journey, assuming that's bidirectional. That's another $1400 in gas. We're now looking at $7800 the first year, and $2800 every year after that. If I have the truck for 5 years, I'm out $19,000 in total.

Now instead, I buy a Tesla Model S. It costs $100k, but electricity is free at their chargers. Now I want to make my cross country journey, so I rent a minivan at 8000 miles, I'll be gone a week to fully enjoy the resort with the wife and kids. A minivan from Enterprise is $110/day plus gas. Looking at the fuel economy of a minivan [2], looks like I can expect 20mpg. I might get more, but that's what I'll budget for. Same as my Toyota truck, I'm spending $1400 in gas once per year, plus the $770 to rent the van for a week. Which means, in total, I'm spending $100k the first year, and $2170 every year after that. So unless you can spot an error in my math, in terms of fuel cost per year the poster boy electric car only saves me ~$700/yr.

Here's the results:

Toyota truck: $19,000 over 5 years.

Electric car plus a rental one week: $108,680 over 5 years.

Maybe you want to be more reasonable and go for the base Model S: $66,080 over 5 years.

Which one makes more economic sense?

[1] http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/Traffic/story?id=485098&...

[2] http://www.fueleconomy.gov/feg/byclass/minivan2012.shtml
Does the racket-lang website have to be restarted every so often?
Although I see how piracy may be a huge hindrance to Android apps not "selling" well, it can be battled through a smarter backend. Most devs have yet to place the game behind a paywall to protect it despite APKs being passed around. That's just one primitive way to help with piracy.
There is support for debugging native code with gdb, and in the latest Android tools releases this is integrated into Eclipse via the CDT. However, it can still be difficult to set up - if it doesn't work the easy way it's very difficult to figure out how to fix it.

And although there are quirks (mainly performance related) in the ADT/Eclipse combo your description is far from my experience. The overall experience is better, IMO, than Xcode. The latter is the buggiest IDE I've ever used.

Frankly AppCode/IntelliJ beat both in many respects, but frustratingly don't quite cover the full range of functionality. It's difficult to make the leap when you need to go back to Xcode/Eclipse to accomplish some of your work each day.
Not in laptops. Which is what everyone is talking about, if you missed it.
That makes it cool.
Love what you're doing guys but you're killing me. Add an email subscription form or a registration button or SOMETHING to the page if I make it through the popup.

Also maybe go easy on the popup in the first place - I closed it so I could work out what the page was about first.

Both of these things should increase your conversions to new users or, at the very least, subscribers.
Clearly, this shows how you wrote a book in eight days (five days for the first draft, three days for the second). Still impressive, but it isn't the same as writing a book in three days.

As noted by others, this also discounts the time taken earlier, discussing the process to be documented, with your friend -- so I guesstimate "How I wrote a book in a short month" might be more accurate.

I really wonder if you didn't just demonstrate how to write a (good) blog post in a month -- I'll be very surprised if your book is better (sheds meaningfully more light on your process) than the blog post.

Either way, I respect you for doing it - and getting it done. It reminds me of someone (couldn't find the link now?) writing that their first book took one year to write, spending less than a month on the structure, and the rest on writing (and re-writing) -- and the second book took three months, two of which was spent on the structure/table of contents. Moral being that time spent on design/plan is returned many times when "fleshing out" the text.

Perhaps it was noted somewhere in "On Writing Well"[1] -- a book I highly recommend for anyone interested in doing any kind of writing.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0060891548/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
Because people as a general rule abstract anything related to computers or computing into one lump object. This vague, ossified amber of the interwingled nature of computer media causes problems with understanding computers.

That and the sort of person who does development ends up doing some IT and Vice versa.
Reasons Apple has peaked—for real, this time
Let's also mention that other "properly engineered" sites done by "rockstar programmers" don't even come close to how well HN works. Given the traffic and the audience, it is quite a remarkable thing, actually. All this with an experimental version of Lisp. :)
The gasoline infrastructure is not entirely free from cost. It costs of lot of money to staff gas stations, to deliver the fuel and to maintain everything. The sites themselves are in prime locations and could be repurposed to higher value activity. The fuel tank trucks are cumbersome and dangerous, and the refineries more so.
Charging your EV at home and work is already sufficient for, I assume, the vast majority of passenger miles. While long-distance road trips are a lot less common, they are cracked by electric cars when batteries can power for 8-10 (and higher) hours per day and we can use hotel/motels/carparks to recharge. We are not there yet, but the power density curves are pointing the right direction.
F-22 is really awesome because it has X, Y and Z properties. And to have X, Y and Z in your plane there is one good and reasonable way to make it happen. It is the obvious way. If the US didn't come up with it someone else would have. By restricting design you are stopping innovation... or where did I go wrong in reasoning this way? Honest question.
Pakistan gave China access to the stealth helicopter used for the OBL raid.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/pakistan/8701...
It's not like this any more. That's why recently there are so many "software engineers" - you write your Ruby code, install and configure NginX, Passenger etc., even support a cluster of machines (LB, DB, Apps), maybe with a little help for Chef.
> Batteries are still too heavy

> Changing. Rapidly.

It doesn't matter how rapidly they are changing; the original comment was saying that they are too heavy now. You can hypothesize about where they will be in 5 years, but that's uncertain and doesn't apply to cars that are available now.

>take too long to charge

> Improving, rapidly. Much more rapidly than, say, gas mileage.

Again, rate of improvement doesn't have much to do with what's available now. And even if it is improving now, where will it top out? I can fill my tank in a minute and a half at the pump; will I ever be able to fully charge a car in that amount of time?

> Sorry to be a broken record, but this too is improving rapidly.

And again, it doesn't matter how fast it's improving; what matters is whether in the end, it will wind up such that it's cheaper than fuel-powered cars.

> Tesla's range is already over 250 miles; this is getting very close to that of many gas guzzlers. And again, this is rapidly improving, even though we're not working very hard on it as a society. Imagine what would happen if we tried!

This doesn't matter to me if I need to take a 500 mile trip. Then, instead of just filling up for a minute or two at the pump, I have to wait for hours for a charge every couple hundred miles.

> Uh, you can transport electricity to people, too. We have power lines for that.

It's a lot easier to clear a road to get trucks past than it is to repair a full power grid.

> Charging time: This doesn't have to get much better at all; you can recharge at night.

No, I can't. I don't have a parking space where I live. I have to park on the street, and can't rely on being able to park in front of my house. Unless we get recharge stations installed at every parking space, an electric car will never be practical for me.
I think that a scientific/mathematical definition would work in this case - if you can simulate a turing machine on that particular machine, then it is considered a general purpose machine. Otherwise, its a special purpose machine.
I was thinking TV news, personally.
"If a male and a female developer with a similar skill level apply for a job, I bet that in 99.9% of the cases the girl will get the job."

That looks like sexism to me.
Perfect Dark was like a reskin of GoldenEye huh? That was awesome too. My cousins and I used to scare ourselves shitless by turning on bots to highest difficulty, giving them max speed and only tranquilizer guns. They'd still pwn you!
Not to mention crippling driver bugs. For example, many Adreno 200s try to read invalid memory and segfault if you call glTexSubImage2D.
if public sentiments is all that's needed for laws like this to pass, it would be much easier.

It seems to me that blockers for such laws are more likely to be lobbyists.
I've been thinking about it, and I'd like to use a metaphor. It's imperfect, but it's basically true.

IOS = Console Game
Android = Desktop

IOS, you basically know your system, but your system limits you. You have to get permission to sell from the maker of your system. You get exclusives, because it's fairly easy to build to your system.

Android
You can have a wide variety of systems which can mean a lot of potential issues, but can have a minimum and suggested specs, and can even add features if the computer supports them. You don't have to sell your application through the official store, or any store, since people can (usually) load what they want on their device.

Thoughts?
You known when Apple will have peaked? A bit after the "Apple has peaked" headline meme will have run its course.
Someone should write an article about being a black person in tech. Or maybe an Irish person in Tech, we need more of those. It's tough for the Irish in Tech, they get no respect. So many Irish never even consider a career in Tech because it's not a traditional industry for Irish to be employed in. I want to help break down barriers by being an Irish person in Tech.
> I suspect that the HN software does much more important but less obvious things which meet YC's goals than those you mention. I also suspect it does those things well.

If I was PG I would test YC founder's time/frequency spent on HN against the success of their startups. I would use that data in evaluating new applicants. This test might ferret out founders with a procrastination problem.

I might also try discovering possible throw away HN accounts created by founder's applying under their official HN identity. That could really ferret out some assholes not technically competent enough to cover their tracks and dumb enough not to think this possibility through.

Also, PG's essays are one of the great success stories of content marketing.

That's how I found this community, and although I probably will never apply to YC, the enthusiasm for it's backed startups have rubbed off on me. I wouldn't have been an early AirBNB or Dropbox user if not for those essays.
Running the air conditioning compressor creates more work for the engine, but not so with the heater--essentially it circulates the already-hot water+coolant through an additional small radiator.
The Yugoslavian incident involved an F-117 -- completely different low observable technology than that used in the F-22/J-20/etc.

The mumblings I've heard is that the Chinese stole blueprints from the F-22 project. I don't have a URL handy at the moment, as I'm not near a web browser.

Besides, you can Google a sized-referenced picture of an F-22 from every angle. It's a relatively well-documented airframe.
How would Rails be bumped to Ruby 2?

Does Rails 4.0 depend on it? Or will it be a 4.x thing?

Just trying to get my head around this, since some of these changes seem quite integral?
A. Depends on where in NYC you are this very minute. If you're sitting in downtown Manhattan right now you're in a dark room with no power and no net connection — and very little is open. If you're sitting in North Brooklyn like me you've got power, a net connection and not only are the bodegas open but they're fully stocked.
Hmm, I'm really enjoying Sonic from Tegra Zone. If anyone can line up awesome games it's NVIDIA. Also Osmos is awesome. Their numbers about there being less paid apps seems kind of bizarre to me. A good game dev uses in-app purchase instead of paid apps since it monetizes so much better...
If the qualification is equal I would very much hope that the person that increases diversity is hired. Why would you do anything else?
I'm somewhat astonished that members of a community dedicated to building products to disrupt incumbent industries upvoted this comment to the top slot.

One way to think about this is that electric vehicles (EVs) are at the iPhone 1 stage, with the Tesla S being the first to demonstrate to a lot of people that it can all be put together in a compelling, yet expensive and not quite perfect package.

As with the first iPhone, the prescient community can see vast potential, but recognise that there are still a few issues to deal with.

Those issues are summed up as "battery energy density". Once we have battery energy density that allows us to power cars at road speeds for 10-15 hours, then we will have completely solved the riddle of the recharging station. We can still charge at work an home for shorter trips, and can charge at carparks and paid accommodation for longer ones. Luckily battery energy density is continually getting better - and is the main reason that we are seeing the emergence of the EVs we have today.

As an aside, we can probably forget about developing recharging stations as the ranges will be too long and the logistics of journey interruption poor. Let's think instead about developing products to help hotels, car-parks, businesses and households set up their own (pay accepting) charging stations. Obviously these will all use the existing electricity grid, with capacity freed up by general electricity efficiency efforts and smarter grid technology.

It's clear that the next generation of EVs will create major and overdue auto-industry disruption. It's almost as clear that the current auto manufacturers, perhaps Toyota aside, are incapable of rapid enough change.

So yes, with the Tesla S it's not clear that EVs will win. Bring it on.
unfortunately, obviousness is a very difficult thing to test for.

May be a test for obviousness is that an expert in the field is able to deduce the "inner workings" by only observing the result of applying the patent.

Thus, a pharmaceutical patent would continue to be effective under this test (you can't really tell the inner workings of a pill by looking at the pill). However, you can tell the inner workings of a bloody rounded corner, or using a phone to play music.

I say this, because patents were intented to incentivize people from hiding their secret ideas so that society at large benefits. If your idea can't be hidden, then there is no need to grant any monopoly.
"That looks like sexism to me."

That's reality.
It's everywhere. I've known a lot of physicists and programmers/engineers who climb, and I'm in Kentucky.

I've always heard the problem solving aspect put forth as to why it's so popular with these types.
Wasn't the (future) physical card one of the things that they went on about when Google Wallet was initially launched?
give me your friends! :P
>Who cares?

People who like games, and developers who make them.

>Maybe we have better things to do than play games on phones.

Is that a statement regarding all Android users, or your clique, or...? Because many of the most popular apps on all platforms are games. People like games.

>I couldn't give a fuck about playing games on my phone.

This doesn't necessarily hold true for everyone, which is the point being made.

>I use the phone and the apps all the time though.

So do I. But I also use the games all the time, too. If this doesn't affect you, then good. I'm glad you're enjoying your phone. But you seem dismissive of an entire market just because it doesn't suit you. That's not a good mentality to have.
You should follow http://webbugtrack.blogspot.com/ -- it's not IE specific, but exists to catalog front-end related bugs in all browsers.
PC trackpad quality has gone down the drain since everyone started to implement multitouch. Multitouch never works properly on cheap PC laptops, and the crappy drivers they bundle with such laptops make it a PITA to perform ordinary tasks like dragging and dropping. I could drag and drop more reliably on my 2001 laptop than I can on my multitouch-enabled 2010 laptop with the dreadful HP "clickpad".
> OK, let's assume that the Surface's keyboard completely solves the problem of not being able to write properly. That still leaves us with the problem of not being able to point properly.

The touch cover also has an embedded touchpad which you can use if you want to. I don't, generally, but it's there if you want it.
Too hypothetical anyway. Skill level, or more precisely the interviewers' opinion of it, is never precisely equal between candidates. It includes soft skills besides programming.
free enough as an academic language

Constructing derivatives of other languages is a pretty common thing for PL academics to do.
From my understanding of the EMV payment specification (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EMV) a card can actually have multiple applications and when used at a compliant terminal, you are prompted to select the payment application. In other words, a EMV compliant terminal should prompt you to select which card you want the charge to go to. Of course this isn't a terminal behavior you typically see because pretty much any card you get issued by the bank will only have the one payment app. In my own testing though, I've come across cards with more than one.
Buyers were afraid to leave honest feedback on sellers, due to the threat of retaliatory feedback. Some listings actually came close to extorting positive feedback, with high volume sellers bluntly saying things like, "You can't hurt us, we already have over 10000 positive feedbacks, so do as we say."
Estimates of Apple's legal fees for Apple v Samsung (a multi-year case) range from $20m - $100m, with the higher end being if they gave a "performance bonus" for the win.

This fight was personal, though. Apple hired two top firms to litigate the case--it seems like they spared no cost to win.
I would probably pick the person that meshes with the team best rather than the one that panders to my internal sense of injustice.
Did the Expansion Pak [0] even work for games that didn't support it? From memory the game had to specifically support it or it didn't get used.

I remember Perfect Dark (the spiritual successor to Goldeneye) required it to run most of the game.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_64_accessories#Expansi...
I think their recent foray into Maps may give them pause.
I believe you can also sell electronics TO Amazon. Probably at a reduced price, but I got several hundred dollars in amazon credit (equal to cash for my personal use) for an iPhone once. It was absurdly easy.
But I think it mostly depends on how the woman looks like, do you agree?
I believe this is what you are looking for:

http://eee.asus.com/en/transformer-infinity/features

I've never used one but a lot of people on HN seem to swear by them.
Glad to hear I can just carry one reward card instead of card for every grocery store I visit. Glad to hear Ill be able to use google for person to person payments instead of paypal. Perhaps they will even get the same functionality as the bitinstant card.

http://thenextweb.com/insider/2012/08/20/bitinstant-may-brid...
Actually, it makes more business sense to hire the person who fits in best with the current team. If sexual diversity is the goal, kudos for sexism, hire the female.

Where all other qualifications are equal, companies should hire the person who best fits the team strictly on a personality basis. If a man were hired over a woman at a mostly-female company because of diversification policies, I would still consider that sexism.
Some banks have protection for this. As long as you can get to a phone you then ring the bank who will issue you with a pin you take to an ATM. This will give you access to emergency fund while they courier you a new card.
World War II carrier pigeon found with an uncracked secret message
Already on front page -- http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4729068
Then you have one more thing to worry about - whether the server/service is going to come back online. :)
https://wrapbootstrap.com/