skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I seem to recall reading something about this in Freakonomics.

Price is a signal that people use for quality. Nobody wants to get discount legal advice. When things go well, you save a couple of bucks. When things go bad, you can lose a lot more.

This applies to the medical field too.
Yeah, if we're looking at senate stats, we should look at the record number of filibusters since Obama's been president.
I think it's quite easy to understand Apple's low P/E. Smartphones isn't like other industries, it changes quickly. The fact that Apple earns so much money now doesn't guarantee it can still do it in 5 years, much less 10. Just look at Nokia, RIM, etc. The market thinks that Apple doesn't have a lot of headroom for growth but has a much larger danger of a huge decline, so its long term expected yearly income is lower than its current one. And the E you use to calculate P/E should actually be the long term expected earnings.
Mark Zuckerberg To Host Fundraiser For Gov. Chris Christie
We tolerate shitty behavior because we are not told otherwise.

Growing up you you could meet a new kid on the block and play with some random game without much of a issue. We had bullying in High School and we tried to learn to deal with it.

Personally I know where I went left, I expected the best out of people and I treat people how I expect to be treated. Unfortunately it does not always work out that way, even if you work for them.

I won't generalize if there are more takers or bullies then yesterday, or tomorrow. I just know that people need to realize they give the bullies power over them. Once they stop giving that power they can /start/ to recover.
> Someone like Martin Fowler should have better sense. Probably 75% of code is hideous when it's written. Probably 99.9% is hideous a few years later.

Whoever came up with the orig quote does have good sense. I've worked with a lot of people ranging from NASA to new hotness start ups. I would say 95% people would be pissed no matter the skill level if you just made fun of their work as opposed to offering constructive criticism.

> Someone who's so attached to their code

I'm sure that most people who care about the quality of their work is somewhat attached to their code.

> that they can't accept criticism (even harsh criticism) of it is pretty much guaranteed to be writing crappy code

The issue at hand isn't that Heather can't accept any sort of criticism. The issue is still that you don't have to be a fucking dick to criticize someone else's work. It's not hard to offer constructive criticism as opposed to just trashing and making fun of something someone worked on for months or even years.

> You'll notice that harthur didn't flip out as if her child was insulted.

Umm she was crying; not only that - she posted that she cried. I would say she was pretty upset; she just handled herself well despite the circumstances.
It would make sense for Apple to lower its prices to capture and lock in a bigger market share, but only if they were able to meet the resulting demand.

But, if they are constrained by supply chain and manufacturing capacity, then maintaining the highest prices the market will bear makes the most sense.
There's so many pull requests I'd like to submit...
I believe DigiSpoke will revolutionize project management. Here's a sneak peek.
Now this is cool. If only we could fork it in real life.
One last comment.

I always wondered, what gave some random asshat on the internet the right to ridicule my code and beat me up.

They have no right, but until you know that...
I am also Australian. :)

For what it's worth, I think most of the commentors are reading far too much into "this is an eye-bleeding script*.

I've seen people hurt by having what they've said called 'bullshit' by someone they respect; it's capable of emotional harm as well. That being said, let's not walk on eggshells.
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Exactly!

Only pedants don't understand this.
In my home country, pretty much one in every 10 people with a degree is a lawyer (if I'm not mistaken, 1/3 of the world lawyers work there). Still, the hourly rates of the good ones are huge (to the tune of the aforementioned 700/h). I'm guessing it's a factor of the number of hours: you don't hire a lawyer for 8h/day - you pay for a few hours, and that is that, so at the end if the month, they sort of "cost the same" as the dev.

I know, it's a totally absurd "theory". Just my 2 cents, anyway
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This is a really weird request. make won't rebuild things that haven't changed, so the default make all rule will only rebuild the things depending on mytarget. Every time you change mytarget, just run make (all) and everything that depends on mytarget (and only those things) will be rebuilt.
Both of you seem to have misspoke, you meant to say http://www.moddb.com/mods/action-half-life
And - it's a very important distinction. How do I know that the movies, songs, tv that I download from itunes.com, amazon.com, mp3.com, musicmp3.ru, mp3shake.com, etc, etc.. are authorized to sell them to me?
Based on the article, it seems like this could be a perk for Google Fiber users. Man, I can't wait to see that service spread to more cities. It'll finally hold the existing providers' feet to the fire.
Like this?

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I dont think there is a chance in hell that it'd be a Linux exclusive but if it's on Linux at launch, that would still be HUGE.
http://www.digispoke.com is the site.

Disclaimer: I have nothing to do with DigiSpoke, but I know its leader personally, and as a fellow developer who have used multiple project management tools in the past (Pivotal, Basecamp, and others), I think he's onto something special here.

Any time I used project management that involved more than a few tasks, I had the feeling of being lost, or not having the full picture. DigiSpoke looks like the missing piece.

I'm interested to hear your thoughts on this. Again, I have no personal involvement in the project outside of seeing the first real demo in my social feed this morning.
A Tiny Box That Charges AA Batteries From Electromagnetic Fields
So I guess contribution as loans would be the cheapest way.
Ask HN: Internet controlled padlock.
Does anybody know of a padlock that can be controlled remotely via the internet? I'm not talking about the front door to my house, but a padlock (the type you would use to lock a chain around a gate). I have had a look around but can't seem to find anything. I am looking for a padlock with a keypad that you can assign different codes to different people for.

Ideally there would be something like lockitron (https://lockitron.com/) but for a padlock.

If you know of a padlock that can open via a swipe card, that could work also.

If anybody knows anything out there, I would love to hear about it.

Thanks!

Clark
last tag is not recognized until I add a space at the end.
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""Pirating" is the act of acquiring a copy of a copyrighted work in a way that is contrary to existing law."

Okay - I'll bite. What does that mean? How does one acquire a copy of a copyrighted work in a way that is contrary to existing law? Or, alternatively, How does one acquire a copy of a copyrighted work in a way that is compliant with existing law? As a "Pro-IP Law" enthusiast, I'm genuinely interested - my layperson's understanding of the law is that it deals with distribution, not downloading.
I think people (myself included) took your initial inquiry as sarcastic because you didn't so much as ask if it were possible as ask where it could be done. The wording kinda to presume one COULD purchase the game without DRM. And if you know Valve (and you may not, that's fair), then you should know DRM is their bread and butter. They're more synonymous with their DRM scheme/store/toolset Steam than they are with games.

To use a more readily recognizable name... It would be like seeing a post about a new version of Windows releasing, and someone saying "Great! Where can I get the source so I can roll my own?" Maybe that person wouldn't know... But the assumption is going to be they're making a comment rather than asking a genuine question.
And yet Republicans paint Obama as uncooperative?
It's always amusing to read the reactions when people that advocate for affirmative action find themselves on the wrong end of it. Hmm.
Ubuntu considers "huge" change that would end traditional release cycle
This is the first article I recall reading on that subject

http://waxy.org/2011/12/no_copyright_intended/
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Oh, I completely agree -- the feeling of mobility freedom when I got my first (and only; now sold) car was unparalleled, and a prerequisite for me being able to live on my own outside the family home.

But that freedom would not be infringed by a driverless car, would it?
Yes, GPUs are becoming increasingly flexible, but they are still limited by CPU-GPU bottleneck, GPU memory (which for the most part has been limited to 2 GB per card), really poor branching performance and limited ability to modify data in any other way than 1:1 correspondence. They are first and foremost designed to pump out polygons at high fill rates, which is fine unless you want to do some untraditional rendering or computation. :) Again, CUDA and OpenCL are paving the way for a new path, but I still think we should be using general purpose silicon underneath it instead of hardware designed to to do things like MSAA, interpolation, triangle setup, etc.
It's not only the textures that's the problem. Wine's app tracker reports that in 2010, Saints Row 2 would crash on launch. It's possible it runs now, but that doesn't leave Saints Row 3 with a good outlook.
I am pretty sure that the Quake 3 demo was released for Linux first and my memory is that this was an intentional move by Carmack to promote Linux [1].

1. Wikipedia lists the release dates for the full game, which were in Dec 1999 for both Windows and Linux (windows a few weeks earlier). I don't recall exactly when the demo came out, but I think it was sometime in the winter of 1999.
Intel's Desktop Motherboard Business to Ramp Down Over Next 3 Years
Oh the memories! Lights... Camera....
Does this support Tomato?
23% of parents have never seen a Tom and Jerry cartoon
Australia is a market where Apple holds a healthy phone market share and has both subsidised and unsubsidised iPhones available. Anecdotally, people who can afford get it outright and those that can't take the 2 year carrier contract.
The decline of spam: Read this and win million$
Yes totally. Though didn't that girl intentionally create the creepy ex-girlfriend persona? It's a little bit different than Rebecca Black who created something in earnest but then made the best of having it taken as a mockery.
He seems like a real self starter. If he has an aptitude for programming I'd recommend getting into mobile development as an independent contractor.

I'm not saying it would be easy. I started teaching myself iOS at the end of my sophomore year (4 years ago). In six months I felt comfortable accepting contracts off of elance. By the time I graduated I was employed full time as a contractor. It's just gotten better from there.

Mobile is one place where your past doesn't really matter. You either can or you can't. And your past doesn't matter much.
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Being flown out for technical interview. Advice?
This startup that I applied to (well, they contacted me through AngelList) for an internship has decided to fly me out for a technical interview after two phone interviews (one with recruiter, and one with the person that would be my boss). This is my first time ever being flown out for an interview, and I'm a little scared. I feel a lot of pressure to do well with them fronting the cost of the flight and accommodations. Any advice related to this sort of thing?
No, it's all relative. Let's say two developers each build and maintain a site and service. One to sell their own service and one to resell other people's products. If someone is selling $10,000 of their own service per month at 80% margins they have $8000 profit to reinvest in their business. If someone is reselling $100,000 of someone else's products and getting an 8% cut they have $8000 profit to reinvest in their business. Forget their topline, they both have an $8000 per month "profit" business. If they feel insecure about their place in the market they'll spend a large portion of that $8K defending their existing revenue. If they feel very secure about that $8K they'll invest it to do more things that grow the business.
Part of the reason for it, is the style in which the hyper dysfunctional modern era US Government passes new laws.

They do it almost strictly as a bundling system to guarantee no laws are ever vetoed. Which is how they've managed to pass tens of thousands of new federal laws, with a mere 79 vetoes spanning a quarter century.
Ah, interesting, thanks for the tip. We'll have a fix up online shortly. Sorry about that!
Limitations force you to come up with creative solutions to problems that should have been easier in the first place. :) But sometimes limitations force you to focus on the important things (if you could render absolutely anything, you could spend forever building an engine instead of a game).
I'm not the submitter, but I work with the people who write sequenceL and can answer questions about it.
Proposed Fedora 19 Feature: Replace MySQL with MariaDB
AMD Roadrunner Platform Opens Server Design
The author's arguing that's a good short term view and a poor long term one (unless they are constraining the entire SC which does happen for very short periods of time in high tech around chips or screens etc) Those high prices (really margins/profits) will attract competitors.
Why/how is mobile any different from regular web development?
Wrt "...the E you use to calculate P/E should actually be the long term expected earnings"...

You may be thinking of Forward P/E. But Forward P/E only attempts to project earnings out 12 months.

The E in P/E is the measure of actual earnings over time. The P/E ratio is, quite literally, the number of years required to pay back a stock's purchase price at constant dollars and earnings. AAPLs P/E ratio indicates it would take AAPL 10 years to pay back its current stock price. GOOG's indicates 20+ years. AMZN's P/E ratio indicates it would take over 3000 years to do the same.

You may be right, and AAPL's P/E ratio may be closer to 5 than where it is currently (where the drop comes from a lower stock price). But then, so should AMZN's.
Well, I never used Steam preferring DRM free distributors like GOG, so I can't say much about Valve in this regard except that I know that Steam uses it :) It's unfortunate that they are too engrossed in DRM as much as preventing their games form being distributed by DRM free channels.
They obviously have some interest to fly you out, so relax and do the interview and be courteous and all that. But don't worry an iota about their expense: it's part of their budget.
Thank you for this. You are awesome.
I disagree.

It's hard to predict the path a particular meme will take once it has gone viral. Compare say "creepy girlfriend" to "scumbag Steve".

If you can predict with good to absolute confidence where a particular meme would go, then you have something extremely valuable that any marketing dept would go for.

Remember, most of these things happened unexpectedly to the people involved. I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone that a) knew in advance what would happen and b) wanted it to do so deliberately.

Making the best of a bad situation is not understanding this sociological phenomenon.
Facebook cuts off friend-finding API access to Vine
Even there Android has overtaken iOS from next to nothing in just two years:
http://www.theage.com.au/digital-life/mobiles/android-overta...

Remove the subsidies and I think you'd see an even greater tilt to Android.
Twitter's Vine App Ready To Bomb Internet With GIF-Like Videos
Which is still better than 50%. After a split test, your point estimate, whether significant or not, is still your best guess of the effect.
I enjoyed this article. I was a little confused though by the final conclusion. Amazon shouldn't do a nice, high end tablet as that's not its competitive strength while also being Apple's strength. So don't play on their turf - I get that. But then Apple should do a lower margin mass market iPad for example? The author appears to argue that Apple has done this with iPod's - I guess it would be great if he fleshed that out further because the general consensus is Apple doesn't care for/get the lower margin/high volume play. If they did they might have maintained an early PC lead.
"Gideon’s Army" young public defenders (addresses the system of plea bargaining)
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Unlocking a phone that i own should be my right. If I want to use my phone out of the country or on any provider after I have paid for is no different then changing an engine in a car.
I am strongly of the opinion that even if you got a non-significant result doing your A/B test, assuming we're testing something of no cost to change (like a web design that has already been deployed for the sake of the test), your point estimate for the effect is the "best data you have" and you should act on it.

To provide an example, you run a test and find Page 1 outperformed Page 2 by a factor of 1.1, but that was non-significant at your desired significance level (say, p=0.05 and power = 0.8). You should deploy page 1 instead of page 2, assuming there are no other costs associated with deploying page 1 instead of page 2, because your BEST GUESS RIGHT NOW is that page 1 is 1.1x better than page 2.
Public defenders only came into existence in the 1960s due to a supreme court ruling...
They're hurting because their super high profits and margins have attracted an amazing array of competition and left them plenty of room to get a toe in the water. The fear is they're going to go from being the absolute leader in this space in terms of volumes, margins and profits to a smaller bit player. There is a sense that history is repeating itself.
A startup that has the money to deal with recruiters and fly candidates out for interviews? That's pretty interesting.
First off, why is this interesting? At least, I find it pretty uninspiring.

Second, how are the dates set to 23 years ago, etc?
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Sounds fun! I've heard a lot about the game and I'm thinking of giving it a go myself.
Government Persecution, From Aaron Swartz to Bradley Manning
I think completely different. I want more approaches on web rendering like I want more operating systems, even if they are attacking niche applications or playing "fantasy" games. I don't care.

You are talking about how currently HTML5 is implemented, but there is a long road of optimizations, HTML is a new technology and HTML5 is not yet here (try it on your mobile phone).

Do you remember anyone talking about hard javascript engine optimization until Google Chrome "attacked" with their implementation and anybody tried to catch up.
I get the Markov chain part, I don't get the Siberian drinking game part....
Okay, I can see your point.

I think it's important to note that labels still have a much larger promotional push than going indy does. If we run with the Drake example, I think he would have easily gone #1 without them, but I don't think he could have become a household name or gone on worldwide tours without the support of big business.

The original post suggested that artists would leave labels. I still think this is more or less another data point that suggests a more balanced artist-label relationship, and not a massive tipping point. But I realize it could be - it's just something i'd have to wait and see
what I I supposed to draw from this post? that vetoes are good / bad? that one prez was better than another?

A little explanation for non-americans would be nice. but even so I am having trouble understanding why this is on HN
https://github.com/DanL/shortener

A URL shortening API using Django. I had more-or-less never used Django before this. If I'm committing any Pythonic sins, by all means, elucidate me.
"Apple has said numerous times they are not interested in going after the low end market." - Yes, but that's exactly the premise that this author is now questioning. Is that the right strategy?
Well, they call themselves a startup. I guess it depends on what you consider a "startup."
I normally love to complain about J.J.Abrams, but this could be a great fit.

He demonstrated most of the necessary skill set in Star Trek. It seems unlikely his creation could be anywhere near as bad as Episodes 1 and 2
God I love this. I like browsing the popular pins once in a while when I have time to kill, but it gets kind of boring when it's just a rehash of the HN frontpage or after the 100th jQuery plugin demo page. This has streamlined that kill-time process like crazy. Thank you!
Annnnd.... once again when we want to read the actual paper (paid for with public funds) we hit a damned paywall.

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6118/417.full

Can anyone suggest a free source?
No Willy, No Women's Hour

Willy is juvenile slang for penis. "Women's Hour" is a long running programme on BBC Radio 4 covering a variety of issues from a women's perspective.

> I also like Capital sometimes,

Capital is some other commercial radio network.

> satire is our bag, right?

We enjoy satire.

> the same bit of me that loves Boris being the Mayor of London.

Boris Johnson, the current mayor of London, is a loveable buffoon who is immensely popular even though he's a politician. He's a bit of a guilty pleasure among some people.

> It is not always helpful to be stabby and cross about things,

Stabby - an informal colloquialism from "to stab", expressive of anger and violence.

> who was a GP

GP is "General Practitioner" - this is a family doctor.

> was so totally gutted

Totally disappointed; disheartened; dispirited.

etc etc.

Other people have covered the rest of it - a radio programme aimed at women wants to cover the lack of women in tech conferences and invited a woman to speak about it, but then called to cancel her because they actually wanted men to talk about the lack of women in tech conferences.
Glad to hear you're finding it useful! I was actually surprised how much awesome new content I ran across while developing the site.

I've added a form to let you sign up for updates (which will be infrequent and only for new features).
You can make a git commit with a date in the past (e.g. http://ao2.it/en/blog/2009/10/30/git-commit-date-past)
You should put a default value in the input such as interesting so it's easier for first timers to see what you offer.
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Seconding this. You'll only be doing yourself a disservice if you're stressed/anxious/tense. Just make sure to sleep and eat well, and maybe iron your clothes if necessary.
I think this is often overstated. Every generation thinks today's kids "have it easy" and "are soft." In previous times it was more about the physical or about working with your hands. Now because the world is more about the mental and social we accuse kids of being emotionally soft.

When you think about it though, imagine growing up with today's technology. Think about how bad Facebook can make you feel, when everyone seems to be having a good time and living perfect lives (because that's what they want you to see). Or how public life and the possibility of embarrassment, awkwardness, and ridicule can now follow us everywhere. Now remember how stressful being a teenager and going to high school can be on its own. I really don't know how kids today handle it.