skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's really unfortunate though because these languages are some of the hardest for someone like myself to navigate through. For instance I can look at "poulet et riz" and figure out its roughing something chicken. But "雞肉和米飯" means nothing to me.
Wow, Dustin sure has been prolific on HN lately. Four front page articles in the last few days. Prior to this week, he popped up in my news reader maybe once a month.

I'm not complaining, mind you. Just acknowledging and applauding his renewed motivation to write.
Google App Engine introduces free trial for MySQL databases
Best practices for dkim
funnily, translated to Polish it has perfectly natural structure. Это удивительным would be correct for Russian, yes?
You know a lot about cotton; want to chat? :)
Yes, that was pointed out by aw3c2 here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759809

It's too late, but I have submitted that link here:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4759908

Doesn't do any good, the discussion is here already, and there's no way to merge or migrate.
This only applies to this new wave of "ship it" these days. From what I've seen, it's pretty much just in web/mobile development.

I doubt Torvalds produces (or produced) quick dirty code to "make stuff happen", and I also bet he's a hell of a programmer.

As stated by someone before, shipping stuff fast makes you a good "product builder", not a good programmer.
Yes, they will all be flawed, but not all of them will be as flawed as skin color. Just because something is hard, doesn't mean it's OK to do something easy and bad.
It ends when it is politically expedient to do so. However, apart from demographic data indicating black people are no longer disadvantaged with respect to white people, I don't see what could drive such a change.
Just curious, why'd you take down the prototypes? I'm assuming the actual app doesn't share any of that source.
There are about 500 million Android devices out there and 410 million iOS devices (both numbers are from Wikipedia). We now at least from Android that most devices are smartphones equiped with a radio.

So 250 million people can not be most people. And as I read it, the number of current LTE users must be much, much lower than that, since Verizon states that it had 111.3 million customers (using LTE or not) in Q2 2012: http://news.cnet.com/8301-1035_3-57505803-94/competitive-wir... )
I said that it is a rough estimate, and we can tweak the formula. My opinion is that programmer competence is not absolute, but also not terribly relative. I mean John Carmack is kind of absolutely a better developer than let's say junior average Joe.

>small size of code means almost nothing to anyone except the original developers.

No. Small size reflects the quality of the code: It reduces the time of future developments (non DRY code keeps growing agreessively and becomes even more non DRY and very time consuming to develop new features into). It is an investment in the future. Now you are right: sometimes it is not worth it to invest into the future, because maybe the code will be thrown away because it will turn out that the startup/product is not viable. Somtimes you know that product has a stable growing market and you will have to develop tons of features into it in the future. Then investing in the future is very important.
There was also a video presentation by Peter Norvig posted a few days ago explaining research at Google done in collaboration with Geoffrey Hinton from the University of Toronto on deep learning at Google: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4733387
Get it to $100/kilo and we can build a dozen manned stations for the amount of money the country spends on potato chips each year (around $10 Billion)

How about "space chips?" Send up a batch of chips to be fried on-orbit inside a parabolic solar deep fryer. (It would have to have a means of centrifugally pumping out the oil once done.) Then distribute the chips amongst bags of other potato chips, such that there's a 1 in 6 chance of getting a bag containing a potato chip cooked IN SPACE! Then use the proceeds to fund unmanned missions to the asteroids.

But enough with the grandiose long-range plans that only serve to allow contractors to bill for a few years until the next grandiose long-range plan.

That's a brilliant and succinct way of putting it!
How much money do you think a few generations' of slavery is worth?

I don't know. How many years of race based discrimination is it worth?

Would you like to suggest one?

As many others in this thread have suggested: actual economic disadvantages, such as poverty, single parent household, etc...
Poll: Are you using Python 2.x or 3.x for your web development?
To a maintainer programmer, the programmer who makes the simplest code.
It was actually a sarcastic, intentional point missing. Humorous too. I thought I was well executed.

I will admit, the possibility of you out-Poe-ing tptacek is possible here tho....
Groupon Posts $3 Million Net Loss, Misses On Revenue
Show HN: We started an auction site—our second auction is running at 3pm PST
I think it's self-fulfilling - people see his posts score high for a submission, so they scramble to be the first to submit his next one, or automate submission through a bot/rss.

That agrees with the observation that this post hit 15 points before anyone commented, with the first 2 comments not even related to the blog entry content.
Putting on my tinfoil hat here, if all it takes to build a speech model to impersonate someone's voice is an hour's worth of them talking... what happens when the wrong person gets that? For example, the government or a corporation (a internet phone service, maybe) uses to fabricate evidence of conversations that never really happened; could also be used to aid in identity theft
Staying Small While Getting Big
I can see this going into Windows 8 phones... I'd buy one.
The Importance of Revenue is Back
This happens all the time. They go through the proper DMCA process (which google obeys) and then correctly register with ContentID (theory).

In reality, the big publishers stomp all over little guys and they have no standing to do anything.
This is not a solved problem. SpaceX is working on it, but they're currently around $6k per kilogram [1], with hopes to get to $1100 or less per kg [2].

Cost-to-orbit reduction is not a sexy or scientifically interesting problem to solve, but Nasa needs to put as a top priority. As the parent post stated $100 per kilo means all of their other plans go from being grandiose to realistic.

[1] - http://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/essays-and-commen...
[2] - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX#Background
Ahhh, nerddom.
One of the frustrations with Android Development
TCO Comparison Calculator for Web Applications
Git checkout -b "feature-1"
Git commit -am "Added feature 1, which included a migration"
Git checkout -b "feature-2-that-builds-off-feature-1"
Git commit -am "Added feature 2, which includes another migration"
Git checkout master
Broken (and with multiple migration files, even though I branched off for each new feature.)
Hipmunk has a much better interface, and considering it's also an aggregator, much better at helping me quickly find flights or hotels.
This I wonder about: do feminine and masculine (and nueter) pronouns indicate gender when used for non-people beings, or must they match the word of those things?

Ich hab' eine Hase, die wir Hans nennen.

The pronoun is feminine to match the word Hase, even though the hare is male as indicated by his name.

Oder würde man "Der [die Hase] heißt Hans" sagen?
Yes, absolutely. I had an experience where the design was dictated by an architect who cared more about the theoretical and having UML diagrams looking nice than about actual business requirements and having the code be lean, clean, simple and efficient.

TDD and also code analysis tools can help highlight what you actually need and what you don't.

The converse is true too, if you under-engineer you run the risk of not easily being able to scale up to new requirements.

Over-engineering creates an albatross where you'll fall under your own weight (too much code, slows down development, possibly bad performance, harder to debug).
Under-engineering creates a house of cards that is fragile (more buggy, code gets duplicated and patched on, frustrating to work on, hard to refactor).
Mandarin speaker here. I'm more impressed that it was able to reconstruct the sentences properly (where traditional translation tools typically fail). The output was fine. Obviously doesn't sound like a human speaker, but the tones are correct.
Apple's Rounded Rectangle Patent To Protect Design Of Original iPad
zalew: try again, I added it.

Apparently that airport just opened in July 2012, and formerly was a disused military airfield? That's why I didn't have it. Thanks again.
Even tho IMHO coding is an art, like writing, you cannot compare those two in this case.

You write code that will almost for sure, live on for 10+ years and will be changed by a lot of people.

Good code will be maintainable and easy to extend/change. Bad code is just... every programmer's nightmare.

Bad code will still be bad even if it made the product go live, and good code will still be good even if it took a few more days/weeks to produce it. The balance between quality and speed is completely product dependent. But sooner or later bad/fast code will claim it's price.
I had a remote team because it was a cost saving measure. The management said they needed to lose the office. It turned out it was really just political, and by getting me team out of the office, I could no longer influence / further my career. At this office, I basically moved everything from physical boxes in colo's to Amazon's EC2. This saved the company lots of many but was not popular.

A lot of folks on my team wanted to 4 Hour Work Week what they were doing. IMHO, they were trading time / learning in exchange for free time, and I was getting an inferior outsourced product.

Yes, if a team has to meet every day, I am doing it wrong.
Since everyone seems to be putting in their 0.02$ on which sites they use for booking, bing.com/travel is also very good. The buy-wait prediction is fantastic.
I am not surprised. They've had a rough time since going public. Their model does not seem quite sustainable and entities that partner with them in offering deals must be either desperate or extremely confident that they can generate enough buzz and retain customers to offset their losses.

Sounds like a losing strategy to me.
Examples like this makes me scratch wonder about the sky-high valuations for Dropbox and Airbnb.

Kudos to Dropbox and Airbnb for executing on great ideas and building awesome companies.

Kudos to YC and other early investors for finding a diamond in the rough.

They'll all make tons of money :)

But those lofty valuations come with lofty expectations. Groupon has over $1B in revenue and a $2B marketcap but is perceived as a failure.
Number 17 doesn't look to be extraordinary, it actually was commonly given in Moscow State University (on math and computer science departments) until recently, when oral examinations were removed altogether.

In general such discrimination against Jews in Moscow State University was commonplace until the beginning of 1990s, and is gone since then.
If I wasn't being four hour work-week'd, then github's model for remote management is great: http://opensoul.org/blog/archives/2012/06/05/whats-it-like-t... .

My advice is for a team from an old school ad agency where folks aren't really interested in working to begin with.
It would probably look cool but I'm not sure it's functional. It would just be 6 TV's showing a person standing on stage. Even in bars where they show 10 football games at once, they only play the audio of one of them, which is the part that matters for a conference talk.
UIP?
Simple continuous deployment with Github post-commit hooks and Deploy Button
You could operate a remote vehicle on the back of the Moon from Earth via relay stations in L2 and L4.
This may not be the place or time to ask this but here goes anyway:

How do the travel indexing sites like Kayak get their data? Surely they don't index or consume APIs from the travel companies individually?
Это удивительно.
The key difference between Siri and Watson from a user perspective is essentially the level of complexity and intelligence. Watson could probably do the searches that Siri does already (though does not yet have a voice interface - does NPL with text only so far) but its main objective is to solve very complicated problems. It is currently "in Medical School," for example, to absorb everything we know in text and experiential formats about cancer. Much harder than finding me the nearest parking garage.
Both Wonderwoman and Kusanagi are women designed by men. They are literally characters designed by men that dictate their views on how women should be. Even if they are relatively positive, they are still men transmitting their thoughts on how women should be.

Tell us more about female role models please!
Even tho it's not a tangible thing, it still exists.

You can't measure it with a ruler or some lines of code formulae, but good programmers are easily recognizable by other good/experienced programmers.
And the one game where they tried to actually make a character of her, Other M, portrayed her as embarrassingly weak-willed (making sure to make it about her gender as obviously as they could, no less) and verging on obsessive toward her (male) superior officer.

Metroid is a great series, but they do not win points for this.
It's just affirmative action. This sort of thing happens in every multicultural country, especially when one group apparently does better financially than the others.

http://www.amazon.com/Affirmative-Action-Around-World-Empiri...

The Russians came up with an unusually crass method for this, but guess what? Jews and other whites and East Asians all are, to some degree, kept from elite institutions today because of our more subtle system.
You can spend a lot of time creating content that you think HN is likely to like, and submit it at the optimal time, and still not get much karma unless that entry gets picked up within an hour. Otherwise it's just pushed down and out, and your time has been wasted (assuming the goal is to get karma).

Since there is a degree of luck involved in getting to the front page, I hypothesize that you can leverage the law of large numbers to maximize your chances of getting karma by also submitting HN-targeted content regularly/frequently.
Not sure what is wrong with the terminal application?
Copy and paste works fine, though you need to do Ctrl + Shift + (C | V) I guess this is because the Ctrl combinations may be required by the terminal apps themselves.

If you want fancy tiled terminals there is also terminator or tmux.

This is way nicer than powershell which seems to take an age to load and won't let me resize it properly.

Not sure how the window resizing is FUBAR, but I also hate the default scrollbar in unity (unless I am running on a netbook).
Thanks, it's a start.
A company called ITA, now owned by Google.
http://www.fastcompany.com/1666092/google-acquires-airline-d...
Data's one of the most important parts of your application, though. Get your data structure right and the code will be easy.
The incidence of "People on Reddit make a fuss" and "Big company quickly makes a change that happens to address the fuss but was actually completely unrelated" is far lower. While a fuss doesn't always produce change, it seems to me that change following a fuss may reasonably be viewed as a response.

Better analogy: Asking me for five dollars will not consistently result in me giving you five dollars. But if you ask for five dollars and I give it, you would not be wrong to assume that the two events are related. There are other conceivable explanations (e.g. perhaps I wasn't listening to you, but mistook you for a valet), but those are so much less likely given the context that it's quite reasonable to assume I was responding to your request.
Comprehend (YC W11) hiring backend/frontend/test devs, BI experts, inside sales
Looks like they launched a year ago. I went off a blog link that said it was this month, I was wrong.

@akanet - looks like you were hellbanned? Not sure if it's because you posted this infographic of your company's growth:

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mctj8bQNXI1qf7nhfo1_1280.j...

... which doesn't seem to deserve a ban.

FWIW I really like the Everlane website and the products look great. I am sorry you got caught in the crossfire - my comment wasn't intended to single out Everlane but rather to give concrete examples of the parent comment being chock-full of bad information.

(Nevertheless, even with your impressive growth, I'd like to point out that at 22 employees and 71,000 t-shirts sold, you have a long way to go before you are not bleeding big. Not exactly the grown-up definition of "doing well" - which was, of course, parent's example, not yours - so you cannot be blamed for it.)
I agree completely, and I completely disagree with Youtube's policy, but that's just one more reason not to promote the site by uploading videos to it. Boycott them!

(Of course, as I wrote later, I hadn't realized the video was old, which makes my comment rather idiotic)
Just started using Angular a bunch recently, thanks for this ;).
oh, right, forgot to fix the suffix.
I would write a book on this, especially when I worked doing support for a university. Lately though, it's people who say "my computer is slow, I have to delete some icons from my desktop". That, for some reason, just drives me crazy.

Ah since we are doing this, I have to share a story.
I worked as IT support for a university while I was an undergrad. I had a professor call me demanding that I recall an email that he sent to all of his students (outside of the university email system) because he sent out social security numbers by accident. When I told him that wasn't possible, he flipped out on me, because it was my fault. There is no reasonable response with the exception of laughing...which is what I did after he hung up on me.

I had to share that as my support days flashed before my eyes reading this thread.
Ask HN: Who needs a founding engineer?
You (or your team): have a great idea that you're passionate about, (ideally) have done some market research, have just started building out your product (or are getting ready to start), and need more engineering help on your team. You're at the stage where you're working nights and weekends while holding down a day job (or school).

Me: years of experience building web applications (mostly in Ruby). Have been a co-founder and lead engineer at previous startups, currently working as a senior engineer for a company post acquisition. Want to get involved with a passionate, very early-stage startup to build something amazing. Based in SF.

Let's talk if you think we might be a fit.

167b8472 at gmail.com
I was getting ready to say almost the exact same thing -- thank heavens that Hipmunk came when it did, or that acquisition (if soured) would have left a very large hole in my travel-making tools.

I don't particularly like Kayak, but as a matter of effectiveness, there's no doubt that it was pretty much king of the hill for a good long while. Since Hipmunk's inception though, it has definitely been the 'go-to' place for travel-planning, and beats the nearest competition (that I've used) by a mile.

I would also venture to say that this was perhaps a timely exit for Kayak, as the more and more traction Hipmunk sees, the less off the Kayak founders would have been for an exit.
This post just completely rubbed me the wrong way. It came off as an arrogant boast by an immature developer framed as an admission of shortcomings. But it was only an admission of shortcomings in title. He spends the majority of the post tooting his own horn about how people want to hire him, and how he's actually a good programmer because he ships code, and because he's worked at startups. He keeps posing these meatball questions and then answers them in a way that makes him look as good as possible but doesn't really provide an answer to the question "what makes a good programmer" (probably because it's a loaded question and depends on context). He's just setting himself up to say "a good programmer is like me because in this example I did a certain thing that made sense at the time." He also mentions that he's a college junior at least three times on that page and makes sure that we all know that all this insight and maturity is coming from someone still in college who's not even studying computer science!

>Sorry, bud, I worked with a couple of guys like you before - very bright, smart, self-confident, young, yet started coding before they started drinking, but with not a lot of mileage in the industry - and the problem was that this style of work is not compatible with other people.

Me too. And it's not just the code they write that's a headache - they're usually a pain in the ass to work with because they always know way more than everyone about everything. They know more about algorithms, they know more about software engineering, they know more about software design, they know more about human nature and the industry. They even know more about things they know nothing about. Meh.
The SMS interface appears to already be overloaded.
(FYI, standard phone numbers can send a maximum of 1 SMS a second, this limit is enforced by the carriers and applies to everyone even Twillio)
Cf. the so-called Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis / linguistic relativity.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistic_relativity
What's most impressive to me in Penn & Teller's work is not just that they put in extraordinary amounts of time perfecting a trick (giving themselves a barrier to entry), but that they "ship". They don't let perfection get in the way of bringing a new trick out.

I agree with Dustin that caring is critical to creating well-designed products, but fear the desire for perfection getting in the way of releasing.
Kasparov and Thiel: Our dangerous illusion of tech progress
different languages emerged because of physical separation. As barriers have been reduced because of technology (both physical and communication barriers) there really aren't "borders" anymore. I can call someone in China right now if I wanted to, something impossible to do even just 100 years ago.

So if we can all talk to each other across the world in real time, and we can all understand each other because of this technology, what exactly is the point of different languages anymore?
http://alexeymk.com/an-interns-guide-to-a-summer-in-the-bay-...
Paywall circumvention:
http://www.google.com/search?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ft.com%2Fcms...
This is pretty cool and clever too. I'd like to see more SMS games!
The story of KATCHAAM - From comic book to startup world.
The idea of microsizes is great. I often find it difficult to wear v-neck t-shirts from Armani Exchange they are too short on my 6'5" frame.

As far as colors are concerned, a deep red, like the red in the basic armani exchange v-necks is essential. Regarding the colors AA offers, I'm not sure I totally agree. It's some of my off-the-beaten path shirts from AA that are most likely to get me compliments.
iOS, but I do all my shopping on a desktop computer. Touch interfaces have a long way to go before they're low hassle enough to be worthwhile for me.
Thanks for the feedback! You're absolutely right about the family role dropdown. We put it there as a temporary fix while we built a more comprehensive "family tree" feature, and we'll be replacing it shortly so you can more accurately represent the relationships within your family.

Per your second point, we're extremely grateful to our early adopters who've taken the initiative to try us out with their family. We're constantly working to improve the product from feedback like yours, and trying to lower the barrier so those network builders do take the initiative. Would love to chat if you have any suggestions or concerns about the product!
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