skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I can't help but feel that this issue has been addressed long ago in the context of patents.

If as an employee you invent something that is related to your normal job activities, then it is deemed the property of your employer. So a travel agent tweeting airline deals should be considered to be doing their job, and if they are better than their colleagues, then indeed they should get a raise (unless they are sending customers towards a competitor, in which case they get fired). The same person tweeting about racing cars would not be deemed to be doing employment-related activity. An employer simply has to know that a potential employee is "famous online" before deciding whether or not to hire her, along with the risks that that might entail.
Nvidia's Project Denver [1] is very similar. A 64-bit ARM based CPU for servers that they started working on a few years ago.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Denver
Do you really think if iOS had had different buttons and intents people wouldn't have called it an incremental improvement?
And if they're not working because all they do is blog?
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It is kinda sad. The performance of his stack is second to none (in my testing he undersells it). I really do like configuration via directory structure, and it has various cool tooling in it.

That said, yeah, the freeware / closed source seems to be the worst combo. But who would buy a web server they couldn't test first?

Also, the guys crazy (ala Tesla, crazy smart) personality is allowed to shine though on his site. He needs a marketing person to keep him the hell away from the customers. Make an ultra cheap or developers "trail" (no freeware), etc.
I would say Python frameworks like Flask or Pyramid offer the first 2 benefits as well, and when used properly in combination with a caching proxy and container server that allows asynchronous processing the 3rd benefit too. So they are not unique to Node.js although out-of-the-box, as a standalone application server, Node will be faster.

Which leaves the 'JavaScript comfort zone' as the main driver of Node popularity, which while understandable, IMO isn't exactly a technological benefit, rather a downside (I don't like JavaScript, at all).
The reason they locate there (as with in London) if to reduce the latency for financial trading programs. It may not sound like a lot, but when you have an automatic trading application processing billions of trades a year it can make a huge difference to receive the information a little earlier, and place your orders that little bit quicker.

As a side note, Internap's LGA11 datecentre facility on 75 Broad Street is currently being evacuated, and most of the fuel reserves are submerged below water...
Apple has capriciously pulled apps from their app store too many times to count, so I assume you specifically mean when have they pulled competing apps because they decided to introduce their own apps with similar features. Well, they've done that numerous times, too. For instance:

http://www.tuaw.com/2011/04/08/quickpick-update-in-limbo-for...

http://appleinsider.com/articles/10/06/02/apple_yanks_widget...

EDIT: fixed first link
I'm disturbed by how emotionally indignant both the Aurora and Garret articles are in contrast with the original Ted Tso remarks. My personal expectation of a community of technically sophisticated individuals is that all convictions be subject to critical examination and nothing be taboo. I'd be much more comfortable interacting professionally with someone like Tso whose point-of-view is rationally presented, whether or not I agree with him, then with people who come across with shrill disapprobation and the intention of blackballing colleagues for their public opinions.
iOS is stagnant or mobile OSs are stagnant?

Android was listing screen capture as a new feature not long ago which hardly suggests a breakneck pace of change across the board.

Windows phone tiles are interesting but they don't feel game changing.

Is this an iOS thing or wider than that? Genuine question because if it was iOS alone then surely it would be eating Android's dust right now and that doesn't feel like it's the case, it feels like they're pretty much on a par.

(Just say I'm not wild about the word stagnant given that this is a market that has gone from nought to sixty in about the same time as it takes MS to get a version of Windows out, but it does feel like that pace has somewhat plateaued in the last 12 months or so).
"Be brief."
I am not the creator, but in the spirit of Bob Ross the only natural thing would be to liberate it: "It's your world" :-)
What's the status of clojure-in-clojure?
Is Rich working alone, again? Or its a team effort (open) ¿ Or a (closed) team effort?
It always, without a single exception, returns to the launcher.
If there is something intrinsic to hacker culture, that is to not care about being politically correct especially when you are talking facts. Theodore Tso simply posted a factual breakdown of what rape cases consist of. What's so wrong about that? Nothing.
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It isn't a troll, the performance numbers are real and it is a fairly slick product.

Bad marketing, bad licensing, crazy (ala Tesla) developer and owner being allowed to dump his brain onto the corporate site are the main problems.

When we deep dove on it, we were driven off by the site oddities and authors nonsense more than the tech (which impressed us) -- but you don't put your corporation in the hands of crazy -- even with "Source Insurance" (which is a great idea, but needs a little more explanation for US lawyers).

That said, I am reviewing it again because I am dealing with an actual CPU bound problem domain.
So Intel just hasn't bothered to getting around to designing a low-power x86 chip that can compete in mobile devices with ARM? The more likely explanation is that it can't be done because ARM is a better designed and therefore intrinsically more power efficient ISA than x86.

In any case, the more pressing problem for Intel is that in the mobile space consumers don't know or care what types of chips are in their phones so even if Intel could design an x86 chip competitive with ARM, consumers are unwilling to pay a brand premium for Intel that they're used to getting in the desktop market.
Actually their motto is to make it a question and answer site and not a discussion site.

The issue with that is, the answers that follow depend on the question. If the question cannot be answered as a clear cut fact then an discussion is inevitable. Also some questions by their very nature attract discussions and they turn out to be the most interesting ones.

As somebody else also mentioned, some topics just can't have a clear factual answer like religion, literature etc.

The problem with factual answers is, there is only that much you can do with general problems that everyone face. Once those questions(problems which every one face generally) are answered, your site turns to a knowledge repository. And then the site traffic greatly depends on specific problems faced by people and most generally nobody else gets interested in those.
I didn't vote, but my reasoning would be that a day won't help. Allowing late submissions with explanation (as cperciva mentioned) or have the deadline tied to something (michaelhoffman) would probably be a better idea.
If you read the correspondence in question, I'm not sure that the fellow actually qualifies as an apologist. What's the criteria for that (serious question)?
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I believe the appropriate shorthand would be "misanthrope".
Trying it out and since you mentioned it, I have a question:

Something I like with Evernote is that it is quick to edit a note while on Springpad it seems painful to do, especially if you want to follow your progress on a note/task using comments. I don't like the social comments as it does not seem to be effective, I would like to edit the note itself.

Any idea?
I like Erlang, but the lack of libraries to me just means more things that other people have already done (for other languages) that I may have to do myself, rather than taking those pieces, and putting them together to accomplish something unique and interesting in the real world. I can appreciate the fun involved in hacking on something for the sheer joy of writing new and (hopefully) beautiful code, but the business side of my personality that I am trying to cultivate wants to get shit done, not write yet another whatever.

Also, this is a decent Erlang rant:

http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2011/07/trouble-with-erlang-...

I do like the language, just that it's ... something like a high power chainsaw rather than a swiss army knife. It does what it does really well, but cutting the steak you cooked for dinner with it would probably result in a big mess.
Atom didn't go anywhere because it was a 10W processor benchmarked against 100W processors when running performance tests, but compared to 1W processors when doing battery tests.
Have you tried nevernote?
Jeff comes along and says, "I'm going to mock you if you don't let me take over your project," and Gruber is the jerk for saying no?
I'm in France and I'm getting pages in a mix of English, French, and... German! On the same page. (With no way of changing it.)
Is that from touch down or touch up? Most controls respond on the release because holding down or dragging is a different action in many (maybe most) cases.

I'm not perceiving much lag between touch up and animation start on the back button of the UINavigationController.
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That rationale makes sense for Stack Overflow. It makes absolutely no sense whatsoever for Programmers Stack Exchange, which is supposed to be for the "big questions".
To be fair, microsoft did kinect, a computer vision product that is in millions of hoees. It wouldn't be hard for google or apple to this but they haven't for some reason.

The problem with microsoft has been that is ran it's research wing separate from the business, while google runs research like a business
http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2012/7/151226-googles-hybrid-a...

A full shift to the realization that machine learning isn't research and should actually be the majority of what everyone does hasn't sunk in it. The question not be "where can we apply machine learning" but instead "where should machine learning not be applied". This type of thinking should occur even down to the individual person (quantified self) http://quantifiedself.com/ .
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Happy little trees :)
Another reason why I like FF for large tab workloads are TreeStyle Tabs. That way I can easily hierarchically manage my tabs. On Chrome there is simply the tab bar that quickly overflows. E.g., on my laptop the tab bar gets too crowded for my taste with more than 15-20 tabs open.

I'm currently using chrome for Hacker News, reddit, and similar websites. For casual browsing. And FF is for serious browsing where keeping Tabs and large amounts of Tabs are more important.
Yes. I've tried rainmaker.cc and like it, but I have yet to find a service that merges my contacts and auto-updates / helps me update my contacts.

I wish you success, and please update HN when you add any new features.
I always heard it as 2-envelopes.
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This is a pretty naive worldview. Yes it would be grand if we all just magically got everything done.

For the vast majority of companies in the real world, someone has to watch deadlines motivate employees and make sure things ship. If an employee is writing a personal blog instead of doing there work, something will give.
Absolutely true... for professionals.

(I think that's pretty clear from the context of the article though.)
The answer to this question is always "yes".
Yup. Pretty much everything is in this book:

http://www.amazon.com/Paul-Graham-Funding-Interview-ebook/dp...
sigh seriously what the hell was tso talking about?

If you have sex with some one who lacks the mental capacity to consent or at least object, that is rape. Whether it's with someone drunk, drugged, asleep or a child.

Seriously, it's not that hard.

Anyway, I am a little bothered by how some people on HN have a tendency to dismiss issues regarding how minorities are treated within developer culture. We should be talking about such things, because minorities are members of our community. We should try to put in a little effort to see things from their perspective, to hear their concerns, if for no other reason than it is the responsible human thing to do.

Or to put it another way, the flip side of open source being open to all is being welcoming and supportive. Otherwise we risk losing contributors and reviewers, and we know that our code is better with more of both.
I likewise use different browsers often during development, mainly for testing and exploring browser specific options, but use Firefox for my main browser and bookmarking etc. When I want to access a bookmark in, say, Chrome, if the page is open in firefox I simply drag globe icon next to the URL from Firefox and drop it onto chrome. If it isn't already open, I show all bookmarks and drag and drop the bookmark from there.
Apple vs. Everyone
"in this way, the performance penalty of garbage collection is amortized, and so a long-running application will not mysteriously stop responding from time to time while the garbage collector runs."

I think he meant to say un-amortized? Usually amortization in algorithms means that we gather up lots of little chunks of work into one big chunk of work. Here he means that the GC does the exact opposite.
I think it should have one speaker at each of 3 corners at least.

Also it would be nice if they invented some cleaver way of directing sound towards the user because now when I use iPad I have to user my hand as a makeshift reflector to hear anything.
Becoming Device-Agnostic
None of the players work with Android.
What makes you sure of that?
This looks very cool, I'm not seeing any TabBar support though.
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Hi. I submitted this article. Frankly, I don't think that skud ever expected this to get onto Hacker News. I'd never heard about her before her article - in fact I found out through David Gerard of Wikipedia fame via Facebook and I thought it was interesting enough to submit to HN.

I don't think there was anything intentionally link-baity about the title. It is what it is.
Heh, I think we may both have misunderstood each other. My apologies.

I agree though, Apple's price discrimination may be understandable but as a customer it can really grind sometimes. When I went for an iPad I decided on the 16GB model for cost reasons and regretted it ever since, but the price jump to the 32GB was big enough that I shied away from it. It was annoying that the premium for a component that cost a fraction of what they charged created an uncomfortable dilemma for me that as a customer I shouldn't really have faced.

In all I'm excited about the level of competition, with MS's Surface bringing in another interesting angle, and I hope it continues for a long time. For one, though I have an iPad already I'm pretty sure I'm going to be picking up a Nexus 7 soon.
Why poll this? Either extend it or dont.
Leave No One Behind with HTML5
> If Ive must now look after both the hardware and the software, he must be less hands-on in the day-to-day work on individual designs.

What this means is that, Ive now gets to chose people and those who do that in turn report to him.
carousel.html (one of the new examples) is really sexy. i think they learned lots of people are lazy and just leave their sites as pretty much stock bootstrap for a long time - so might as well make stock bootstrap look amazing. well done!

Here it is http://dev.82.io/carousel/

There seems to be a bug with the carousel though. Clicking next doesn't work and the images randomly start skipping really fast etc, at least for me (Chrome/OS X)
Having read a lot of Erlang and a lot of Ruby code.

Here are actual numbers:

http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/benchmark.php?test=all...

Downvoting, by the way, won't change the numbers or the relative verbosity of Erlang, even if it makes you feel better.
The most eye-opening thing I've did in that regard is participate in a "microfiction" contest related to an online game, that had you tell complete stories in exactly 55 words, with a (vague) predetermined theme.

It's truly amazing what you can do with so few words.
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Parallel? More like copied.
I have made a subfolder for the read-later. It's continuosly growing and once in a while I clean up - often just kicking out stuff without reading. It's working nice for just moving the "I might read this later" somewhere. I don't have to think about which subfolder it needs to go in and it's out of the way fast.

One annoying feature in Firefox is that "Bookmark this page" always puts stuff in the last subfolder used. I often end up with bookmarks not just in the wrong subfolder, but also without an idea in which one they have landed. So I create a new bookmark just to figure out where the last one has landed ... sigh
Yeah I've been wondering which tablet/pad to recommend to my parents. They arent that much into computers, and I dont think they want to have two tablets lying around when one is all they need. So for them the nexus 10 sounds like a good choice, provided that the multi account implementation allows them to keep their emails private. From the google info page it sounded like you didnt need passwords to switch accounts, which I found a bit odd. Will wait for the reviews for specifics.
Cook seems like the kind of CEO who accepts he's imperfect, and rather than justifying a bad decision and keeping someone around will do what needs to be done. Good thing for a leader of a company the size of Apple.
NYSE shutdown day 2 even though the data centers are secure
Success Rate by Programming Language
So send your kids to private school while campaigning for better state schools.
Thanks for posting that, I wasn't aware that they were using XPC for the Mail sheet, etc. Hopefully we'll see some neat things next year.
iOS IS stagnant.

Windows Phone 8 has a totally different and new paradigm going with merging start screen and "notifications bar" with the live tiles. Rooms with its "all sharing feature". Kids stuff. Lockscreen apps. All of these are a totally new approach to the mobile platform.

I feel the "new Microsoft" is really innovating(i hate that word) atm.
For me, cross platform support and reliable backend are critical and these are two places where Evernote excels.

Evernote really needs to focus on app stability. For example, the current IOS app crashes constantly and has a glitchy interface. Over the years, feature growth has been very messy from a UX perspective so it is good to see they are working on a fresh approach.

I have been using Evernote since before it was a cloud app and I always loved the cross platform support with the same data file. Once it became a cloud platform, the broad platform support of mobile devices is truly fantastic: BlackBerry at work, personal iPhone and iPad, Linux desktop (Web app / email address to add notes), Windows 7 & 8 on VMware, and it works great on my Nexus 7.

Evernote is a key part of my workflow and daily life and I found my investment in time figuring it out has paid off immensely.
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How many LTE terminals are running in the wild ? Too few to provide the shiny new LTE network with a normal load. Enjoy your empty airwaves before the unwashed Youtube consuming masses bum rush the show !
Until now a minor version bump would warrant a name change. This time it doesn't.
How to prepare for Google code in?
I think I am going to participate in google code in so :
1 - did anyone participate before ?
2 - how can I prepare for it ?
I tried both and decided the answer was neither - I'd recommend giving Ansible serious consideration. (https://github.com/ansible/ansible)
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I never got on well with either. Puppet was mind-bogglingly slow (even locally without a master), both Chef and Puppet felt overwrought, and I prefer keeping dependencies to a minimum.

Just a pointer for anyone else that doesn't have much love for either: I found myself happy and productive with Salt. Fast, simple, and lets me do what I needed with less Byzantine setup: http://docs.saltstack.org/en/latest/

There's also Salty Vagrant and Salt Cloud for local and remote provisioning.
Snow-capped mountains :)
OpenBrand To Become A DropBox For Designers
Exactly. "Do precisely what the boss tells you to" and "quit" do not form a dichotomy of actions.
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Crockford also developed a standard for JSON [1] and actively participates in maintaining it. [2]

[1] http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4627

[2] https://github.com/douglascrockford/JSON-js/commits/master
> I know this is brute force way of getting things done.

now, theres something to be aware of - "getting _things_ done" in this context means getting a high score in a standarized test, not getting a job.

Having such a score doesn't necessarily mean you are able. Especially in a creative field that requires genuine interest and passion. This sort of training works for training operators of machinery and/or manufacturing workers that require special knowledge, but for creative fields such as programming (and not the CRUD type!) i think having such brute force method of learning is in fact a barrier.

I hear in china that there are so many people who get excellent scores in tests, and yet is unable to find jobs. Simply because jobs suitable for them isn't there, nor are there that many opportunities. The sort of rote learning is really exacerbating the problem, not helping, because the students studied hard (despite not being their "passion"), they get a good mark, but still find themselves in a rathole.
I have a friend in Marketing that often asks me to verify her translations of press releases from French to English. I flatly refuse to translate directly some of the fluff, and make her write more directly - she hasn't been fired... yet!
I'll be interested to see how Ive's does. He is, undoubtedly, hugely talented - as is the team he's built at Apple.

However the work that he's done is all about Industrial Design, which operates under many different constraints from the software world.

From the Apple folk that I know Ive and his team currently seem to run a bit like an in-house agency rather than being 'part of Apple'. I wonder if they'll try and continue that way - or become more integrated with general product development.
I wonder how many times that's need to be said until it sinks in? This is the third time and I didn't even go through half of comments yet...
Yes, they would benefit from nuance - but the point is to go after low-information voters that might not care all that much, and in testing consistant "No/Yes" answers were a lot easier to parse.

I went off what's on the website of both candidates - not various statements they may or not have made (which would be impossible to nail down, you say Nuance, I don't know if that's how I'd describe both parties pandering).

Romney on Abortion - "I am pro-life and believe that abortion should be limited to only instances of rape, incest, or to save the life of the mother. I support the reversal of Roe v. Wade, because it is bad law and bad medicine. "

Obama on Social Security - doesn't mention raising the age, Romney has it as part of his official platform

Obama on Corporate tax rate - again doesn't mention it was part of his plan, Romney has it as part of his official platform.

On the middle zone I agree which is why it's not presented seriously.