skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've wondered at times if PG isn't deliberately leaving this problem in place so that people who get annoyed by it are filtered out as users of the web site.
Yes, you need to be able to switch out the LGPL-licensed code, but dynamic linking is just the most convenient way to doing that—it's certainly never been required. You can also offer the rest of your combined work's code in a form suitable for re-linking (e.g., by providing .o or .a files for the rest of your app).

There is no requirement that end users be able to do any of this on a platform without becoming licensed developers for that platform. (At the time LGPL was written, many platform vendors charged hundreds or even thousands of dollars for their developer tools.)
did you let them redistribute it?
Are you sure? It looks correct to me.

If the number is not multiple of 3 or 5, you must output the number. That's what is he doing.

He prints output at the end of each iteration, setting it to empty string at the beginning.
Hell yes!
I can't concentrate. My phone is with me, pushing all of my emails, ringer is on high just incase I miss the notification, and my friends are have emailed/texted me about my application.
I feel like I'm expecting a baby right now, every notification gets the "oMG, is this it" reaction.
Best of luck to everyone:)
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We were a bit surprised on Opera's performance as well, since it did reasonably well in our last benchmark (vs. Chrome 6, FF4, IE9 beta, etc).

http://www.lucidchart.com/blog/2010/09/16/ie9-ff4-beta-in-re...
Wow, what a terrible article. The disingenuity is astounding.

>Pornography is fake.

True, but that's not why the analogy is used. Pornography is a visual media that conveys some of the pleasure of an act without the viewer actually going through the effort of doing it.

>Pornography's aim is to sexually excite the viewer. Are geeks sexually excited by the eBay data?…

>pleasure comes from many things that are non-sexual such as eating…

>So let's swap 'geek porn' for a 'geek feast'.

But why isn't "feast" defined symmetrically? A feast's aim is to gastronomically excite the user. Are geeks gastronomically excited by the eBay data?

The whole rant is semantic nonsense, defining words in a way that begs the question. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for a good rant. I just like my rants to make sense.

The real reason not to use the Porn Analogy is stuffed in the last paragraph: "Many people are uncomfortable with pornography and don't want pornography analogies in professional work."
Bank security algorithms are damaging micropayments
Well, a mess was shipped and he was the guy in charge. So I'm assuming he was the guy responsible. If a mess really was forced upon him he should have resigned instead of sticking around to ship the mess.

I have in that exact same situation, "This will not be associated with me, I'm out"
Storytelling As Effective Tool Of Communication In Web Design
The wittiest thing I read today was at the very bottom of a HN discussion, whooshing over people's heads :)
Kudos for pointing out that this is a classic example of menu costs, but price changes occur for many reasons besides the Fed. Even if you had a fixed supply of gold coins and nobody could ever mine new coins, the value of those coins would change in proportion to the value of the overall economy, and that will tend to change for all sorts of reasons such as population growth.
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Must we discuss the same thing that was discussed in the thread I posted the link to? Nothing new has happened since the last thread.
I'm divided. Smartphones will probably always be much less secure than specially designed one time password provider hardware.

On the other hand your smartphone can get more secure with updates and your token provider will surely be much harder if at all possible to upgrade.

Anyway the point is moot, if such a scheme is ever viable (as in most people will have one and you can implement it in many websites without having to be a bank) it will be through smartphones.
You can make a good living off of fixed price games - micro-transactions have only become popular in the past 5 years or so (at least in the US). The game industry was very profitable long before micro-transactions. Does not matter if you are doing mobile, PC, etc. You probably will not make as much money, but you at least can feel guilt-free about your work (if micro-transactions do make you feel guilty). Many fixed-price games have made millions of dollars on mobile (for games that cost a few hundred thousand to produce, at most).

All that said, I am not against micro-transactions. I am against them when there is no other reasonable way to play the game though, or they are psychologically manipulative. I have probably spent a few hundred dollars on micro-transactions, and the experience left me feeling empty (not unlike a washed up drug addict)...which is why I refuse to buy any more games that use this method in an exploitive manner.
Actually, it did. Coke remained fixed in USD, so it had to change relatively to "real money".

EDIT: I was wrong, sorry. I got the wrong impression from the podcast.
A solution would be that when your page 2 expires then you should be redirected to the most up-to-date page 2 rather than being told page 2 doesn't exist.
TechLaunch showcases 10 startup companies on demo day
New Chrome Experiment Allows Users to Explore 100,000 Stars - Instant Fundas
Tesla Model S Buyers Face Year-End Deadline: $7,500 At Stake
UI evolution of the first email dashboard for iPhone
The best tool for paper prototyping.
Stanford physicists take first step toward quantum cryptography
Ask HN: Why is my submitted link dead?
I just tried to submit this url "http://www.greencarreports.com/news/1080482_tesla-model-s-buyers-face-year-end-deadline-7500-at-stake" and it came up as "dead" on the new page.
I'd guess it's a pretty big corner
Ingres: A Worldwide Mobile Alternate Reality Game by Google
I guess it's a solid article on web design standards and trends that deal with storytelling, but really the title is a little fluffy. Storytelling is an effective tool of communication, period. That's the lesson.
200 Samsung executives set to meet next month to discuss war with Apple
I don't have much hardware technical background (I'm a web developer / designer), (...) and all the components are already existing (...)

I would be interested to know why you feel that, without any actual training in the relevant fields, you can accomplish on the cheap what the actual researchers and engineers with funding and training and high-tech equipment haven't been able to?
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The majority of services I create are designed for heavy Internet consumers - not for the average consumer. Therefore, most the people I am targeting use AdBlocks - so I have never found use in AdWords except to rank up hits.
Any Updates for YC winter 2013? 
Does every applicant gets an email with their results ?
> I've wondered at times if PG isn't deliberately leaving this problem

Since you know about the implementation(I haven't looked closely), won't it need a complete overhaul to take closures out of equation? Or implement some sort of closure serialization(on-disk maybe)? Is there a third option where pg just bangs at the keyboard for a couple of hours, and done?
Finally the NJ tech scene is starting to shine.
Too funny
It isn't just that you'd be paying for extra queens, they'd also start you with less pawns, or make the board twice as big (or something) so the game takes longer, to encourage you to buy queens.

That's the real pitfall, when that dynamic actively makes the core game design worse.
The interviews were for all of 15 minutes anyways. I'm not so bent on time efficiency that I felt it necessary to save myself and the applicant twelve minutes by concluding the interview early. Also, I'm human and that's a level of cold that I didn't want to go to.
Your Gmail account is not necessary to retrieve your credit card, phone, and Social Security numbers. And finding someone's home address is trivial, usually for free.
"Passwords should die a horrible death. They are a mere fallacy. An illusion of security."

Wrong. Passwords have worked well for decades. They are, by far, the best balance between convenience and security. Service providers need to do a better job of taking into account other factors (IP addresses, cookies, recovery techniques) to mitigate breaches.
In general you cannot place your work under public domain because in many countries (including in the U.S. with some exceptions) the work must enter the public domain by itself after the copyrights expired. The copyright term also differs of course from country to country. Even worse, there are jurisdictions in which the public domain is not recognized.
Go NJ!
I'm really worried about Google's potential for an anti-trust lawsuit. Giving away free phones, destroying profit margins on competitors, and using those users to increase marketshare in other areas they dominate seems incredibly risky to me. Having a majority share of mobile phones for free or less than free, tied into Google's SaaS services that can be used for free and using them to increase reliance on Google services that are made profitable by their tight vertically integrated ad solutions worries me.

I like Google. I don't want to see them turn a late 90's Microsoft because they started to overreach. Dumping is not a good strategy for flying under the FTC's radar. Can anyone put my fears to rest?
Turning old TVs into Glass and Lead
Wow, this is going to be one spectacular flop.

Or how to turn something ridiculously simple (go to here.com to get Nokia Maps on your iPhone, since this is probably what Nokia is aiming at here) into an incomprehensible buzzword soup.
Shouldn't that be a browser feature, rather than every website creating their own different implementation?
it's interesting how well some established pricing models can hold up even as the underlying cost structure radically changes. even among this tech savvy crowd people will regard this as some kind of deal even while we all know optical data costs are approaching zero [1].

voice is of course just super low bitrate data with a legacy last mile that (sometimes) requires a DA converter. tricky? not at all. at least in the us and places with a similar regulatory environment it's awesome - actually way easier and cheaper than pushing pure bits, at least when you're up at a tier 1/tier 2 level. imagine if the government mandated free open access peering for local ip traffic - already tiny ip traffic costs would probably drop almost as much as the fiber glut caused. yet that's basically what you can do with voice in these markets, with some exceptions.

every all you can eat voip provider offers 30 days or more free, usually with a lot more features, inbound, no calling restrictions, etc. why not when it will probably cost them way less than a dollar (at least for outbound only) and whatever keywords they are buying on google probably cost several dollars (informed wild ass guess) and aren't anywhere near as qualified.

for comparison's sake if you want cheap US/CA outbound calls it is easy to find deals like 5000 minutes that don't expire for $5.00 and doesn't require any recurring billing.

Now obviously it doesn't matter too much since even overpriced anyone's voip is still a small fraction of an hours work, i just find it funny that people think a free month is some kind of deal yet wouldn't in a million years vote up a story about netflix offeraing a free month of streaming, something that probably costs them a couple of orders of magnitude more.

[1] some rounding errors may apply
Does the same apply to journalists? If not, where's the line?
Organic in the sense of how it's used in the industry. Google's search algorithm is set by Google but when talking about the search results people tend to differ between "organic" and paid.

The difference here is that "organic" is considered Google's and Facebook's best attempt to show their user what is most relavent to them. Some speculate that both companies are modifying these results to optimize paid results but there is no smoking gun that is true.
Nexus 7 Sold Out
Why would it be? It works well enough and it's not worth anything to add features. It's PG's experiment.
woah awesome!
Hacker News as of late has given me quite a bit of hope that I'll be able to actually get a job writing code one day (anyone need an intern? ;) ) between this FizzBuzz thing, and hearing about people who've never heard of multi-dimensional arrays, I'm feeling a little more confident..!

Of the authors three ideas as to the reason for the inability of candidates to pass the test, I can perhaps understand the first two. My younger days involved copying/pasting Actionscript2 code and relying on superstition to get it working. All the while having no idea of how the fundamental constructs (like loops) even worked. What I don't understand is how someone has the confidence to apply to a job/hold down a job when their coding style is cut and paste.

His final point has me scratching my head a bit. Specialist or not, aren't loops and conditional logic kind of the fundamental tools in all languages. What would the discipline be that has you coding in a specialist niche, but not using loops or conditionals?
How do you suggest Microsoft goes about convincing the millions of East Asian users running IE6 on a pirated version of XP to upgrade to IE10?
Amazon links mainstay S3 storage to its low-cost Glacier
Cease and Desist: Four Blog Writing and Marketing Practices That Have Got to Go
Not horribly relevant from a software perspective, but as a hardware geek I think the way they're doing threading is really interesting. Big OoO processors like a normal Xeon or a Power7 usually use simultaneous multithreading (SMT) which means that you have instructions from two threads being fed to the execution units every clock cycle, and since they often aren't in contention for the same resources you get higher throughput. Some in-order processors like a Niagra often use block multithreading (BMT) where you run one process until you get a cache miss, then switch to another thread with some delay as the pipeline is flushed.

What the Phi is doing is combining those approaches, running two threads simultaneously and switching threads out on cache-misses. This way you only double rather than quadrupaling your control structures, but you don't have your cores entirely unutalized when you're swapping threads. A really nifty compromise, I think.
Media Hint Lets You Watch Hulu, Netflix and Pandora Outside US for Free
That's an interesting idea, but I would be nervous logging in to services in public as someone could be watching. Or even worse a store employee could watch the tape and figure out the movements. Although, I am probably just being paranoid.
Yes every applicant gets an email telling you whether you get in or not.
Appreciate the heads up, could you forward us the confirmation email: info@codewa.rs... If you go back to the site (after clearing your cookies or on a different browse) you can renter the same email and opt to resend the Confirm/Access email, that should take care of it.
This dev is 100% right. Games as a service are probably a more sustainable way to go than a $1 sale and you're done. Most great businesses survive on repeat business - Apple customers tend to buy multiple iphones, ipods, ipads, and macs. Microsoft customers tend to buy multiple PCs or copies of Windows and Office. Google customers tend to keep buying ads and users tend to keep clicking them.

A single sale, whether its $1 or $50 means you have to keep making new things to make more sales, vs. a service where you get paid in microtransactions or subscriptions or both allows you to keep selling to existing customers. The LTV is probably higher per customer and it's cheaper because you don't have to keep advertising or advertise as much to get the next sale from an existing customer.
Could you give, or point where one might find more details. How many more lines of code from third-party patches? 2x? 5x? 10x? Hows the quality? Are there more donations? If one take a scientific point of view, whats been the practical changes of how third-party contributions?

Those details can be very useful for the community of free and open source software, and when deciding licensing for oneself.
Quite nice feature is that when you double click on the road you will get the street view, and clicking on the buildings will move the viewport in actual 3D instead of series of images. In some places it's actually quite accurate, although they probably aren't using their LIDAR data yet (at least not in hi-res).
Android now accounts for 72% of worldwide smartphone market
care to elaborate and share with the group?
I haven't gotten anything yet, but since YC is on pacific time, perhaps everyone is just getting up.

Good luck,

Jenny
I've never touched Ruby, so I could be misunderstanding, but I think his code is correct.

In each loop, he initializes the output variable to an empty string. If the current integer is not a multiple, he replaces the empty string with the integer. If it is a multiple, he doesn't know which one it is, or if it's a multiple of both, so he appends the text to the existing string variable. At the end of the loop, the string is output.

Since the `output = i` line is the only assignment that occurs when that condition (not a multiple of either) is met, it makes sense to just reassign the variable rather than append to it. It might be less flexible, sure, but flexibility isn't required here.
You're missing the point.

This article is about BRITONS, i.e. the inhabitants of the British Isles. It's not using Romans as representatives of what PEOPLE did back then, it's using Romans as representatives of what BRITONS did back then.

Historically the Romans had a huge cultural impact on Britain... whereas ancient Jews had none. So why then should this article randomly mention ancient Jewish traditions?

You're complaining about a complete non-issue.
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Obviously interviews are stressful but this is FizzBuzz we're talking about. If someone cannot figure it out during a moderately-stressful interview, they quite simply aren't a very good programmer.
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Of course, but I'm talking about the opposite way - after all his strongest password was his Gmail password.

Some comments here seem to imply that having a strong Gmail password and having a weak Twitter (or whatever) password will somehow make it easier for a hacker to get into your other accounts. It all hangs around that word "linked" that I don't quite understand. But I see from other comments that the story is that the offenders went through Amazon to get someone's Apple password. That makes sense after reading the full story.
Very sound advice by someone who's accomplished A LOT in this field.

#6 strikes me as particularly important:

> 6. Make sure you’re talking to the ultimate decision maker.
> It’s often not the person you’ll be directed to. It’s frequently the PM.

I'd also add that 'it's not necessarily the person with the fancy title.' You'll lose a lot of time by focussing on the wrong person(s), even if their title suggest that they're very important. We lost a deal in which we spent several weeks conferencing flirtatiously with BD and Corp Dev (both EVPs) only to have the proposal rejected by a 'regular' PM, who ultimately owned the product and wasn't very pleased to be brought into the process at a later stage.
Instead, we should have asked early on who is going to be involved in the decision process 'given we find a great strategic fit'. Getting a soft Yes, that'd be him/her/me on this also helps the general sales process.
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Strongly agreed with lots of these. Getting to the right person is key. Also the "Bigger companies" comment applies whenever the company you want to partner with perceives themselves as big or important.

The two I would add:

1) Listen. Obvious but critical to making the right arguments and providing the right information to help the project get sold internally within the partner.

2) You don't just have to fit in with the overall strategy but local departmental strategies and politics with the partner company. Convince the person deciding that you will help them achieve what matters to them (hit targets/get bonus/get noticed...).
I'm more impressed by the lack of enthusiasm. A true Google Maps competitor is a really positive thing. And people here should have a better understanding as to how difficult a task this is... especially given recent shortcomings by other companies in this area.
I have a great idea then:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DkGMY63FF3Q
Recently, they were seem to have been floundering about with some last-ditch engagement attempts -- game-wide "feats". One of them was to invite as many people as possible to the game, and there was widespread backlash, very depressing now that I think about it.

They were fairly open, with an API that enabled several third-party iPhone / iPad apps -- but that were mostly passive inventory viewers, etc. I wonder how things would have gone with Facebook integration instead, with noble attempts at social networking and feed publishing. May have given them the edge they needed.
For me, what pisses me off most about MOOCs is the rhetoric. They're basically devaluing future reform by claiming it's here now... but this isn't education reform, nor is it even new. The novelty is in scale.

It doesn't surprise me that most people don't recognize this. Most people haven't actually thought through the nature of what they seek to replace. They've grown up on broken education--content delivery--so they think that broken education's problem is simply one of scaling the delivery system. They've grown up in a country where education is a minimal priority financially, so they think that the solution to its problems is economic.

Those of us who have been fighting for education reform since before Salman Khan are watching this and seeing the opportunities we worked so hard to wedge open slip away. Instead of breaking the classroom-as-church-sermon paradigm, MOOCs have enforced it with an iron fist. Instead of creating legitimate ways of evaluating student progress, MOOCs have doubled down on the worst methods of doing so. Instead of helping us recognize that education is not just a funnel for the job market, MOOCs have emphasized it as its only real purpose. This is anti-reform. It's like saying you're fixing Big Brother by installing more cameras and wiretaps.

Does it have a benefit? Absolutely. A lot of the technologies and methods being developed by MOOCs are things we could use if we actually had real reform. Khan is trying, in his own way, to do that; that's why he's working on a brick-and-mortar school.

It also has an interesting risk. The liberal arts of universities have been a refuge for political dissidents in developed, educated countries. They provide a decent level of security from which loud criticisms can be made. Arguably, the blogosphere has obsoleted such agitators, but what if it hasn't? How do we account for this in an age of MOOCs?
I'm surprised the bottlers didn't try to bottle different sizes and charge pricing differences on the larger bottles that Coke wasn't advertising for. Maybe this would have cut into their distribution/packaging costs though since the bottlers would be typically making a smaller margin on the larger bottles?
O(man) I'm busy then but I would love to come to this in the future! Cool event! Consider inviting professors from CMU, including but not limited to Guy Blelloch and Robert Harper.