skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Come to think of it, our legs (including associate muscles like the gluteus) are indeed disproportionately large for our overall body size.

It would be interesting to know how do we measure up against other mammals in terms of... uh... I forgot the technical name, it's the ability to absorb and metabolize oxygen. It's determined by lung size among other things, and it's a strong predictor of endurance.

Add to that a large brain, capable of planning, and driven by purpose and by an understanding of the concept of time in general and future in particular.

Large legs, oxygen metabolism, brain capable of long-term planning - well, that's the perfect trifecta that could produce an excellent endurance runner.
What if I am a Canadian new grad student wanting to move to the US? I did not see nothing about TN visas on that chart.
They mean they have a very narrow definition of what makes a man a man.

For example - I can not do many repairs to my car and so I take it to a mechanic. To a great many people, this makes me less of a man.
FYI - for those trying to find this online: The full docu is about 130 minutes long and has professional English voice overs [1]. There are a few copies on youtube with subtitles, but they are missing about 30-40 minutes.

[1] http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6866374/Happy_People_A_Year_I...
I became a resident by following one of the simpler paths on this chart. Coming to the country on vacation with my American wife, deciding to stay and filing the I-485 (plus about $2000 in fees) and waiting for green card.

The whole process took about 5 months and included a visit to an office where they take your fingerprints and ID, a separate visit to a designated doctors to have a full medical and then a trip to a large city for an interview with the immigration officer.

For the interview my wife any I were the only ones in the waiting room without a lawyer or large binder full of supporting documents to prove our marriage. We just had a 5 minute chat with the officer which went quite naturally and he approved us right there. 7 days later a green card arrived in the post.

I tell my story to give a real example of immigrating here. I'm from one of the US 'allies' countries, no bad history, good job etc. When I look back now it didn't seem so bad but at the time there was a lot of stress and expense and that's just for one of the 'easier' paths.
In my university, the computers are locked down so much that literally you cannot lock the screen. Which means when you get up to go to the printer or run to the bathroom, there is no way to protect what is on your screen short of logging out completely. The IT director for the school saw nothing wrong with this.
It's not uncommon; Visual Studio's release cycle is around every two years.

To work out the math a bit, say the developer is looking to make 70k a year (which is quite low IMO, especially if you are self employed). If his release cycle is every two years, he needs to make 140k over one version. At $59 for S2, thats around 2400 sold copies over two years. Not a small number for a product that is tailored to such a niche market. Also considering that there comes a point where the purchases trail off, so the developer needs to find a way to sustain an income. Upgrades seem like a very reasonable way to do that.

With S3, if the developer wanted to offer a reasonable way to allow S2 owners to upgrade at a discount, it comes at a loss of income for the next two years. Given that the amount of people who would buy the editor have already bought S2, so the pool of possible purchasers decreases. So it seems like a reasonable balance to allow that discounted upgrade, while increasing the full price to make up for the loss of new purchasers.
I agree, Apple can hide things to make the OS less complex. But what irritates me is that, as a user, I upgrade to the new OS, and the most basic of functionalities is hidden from me. They've literally taken something away. You cannot put a link to your compputer or hard drive on the desktop anymore. Is it not unreasonable to think that your users might want to be able to do this as you've had this hard-drive-on-desktop paradigm for well over 30 years now? I'm glad there's a check box to show the computer on the desktop now. I would never have found that. I mean, 30 years of interface paradigms teaching me to make an alias or simlink there was obviously just some mental retardation on my part...
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Thanks, I didn't see it listed on their site anywhere.
Support for cross-compiling is definitely awesome in Go. Here's a good walkthrough: http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-c...

It's not out-of-the-box though. You still have to build Go itself once for each target, so kencochrane is right: it's still easier to rely on dotCloud to build server-side.
Sync? What sync? Even though I have a lot of stuff, I'm not dealing with all of it at one time. I can keep track of what's being done because it's just a handful. But it's the access to all of it that I need because who knows when I'll need what?
See, the reason I want HFS+ gone is that NOTHING supports it. NTFS is supported on Mac OS, albeit read-only. NTFS is readable on most Linux's. EXT is readable by a number of OS's. And I don't want ReiserFS on my Mac. I don't want to be killed and stuffed in a suitcase by my filesystem.
The author says he can do "almost" anything he does on the iPad. Clearly he has no need for a general purpose computing device, then. Doesn't sound like he needs to (or can) type fast. No file system. Minimal, restricted connectivity to the outside world.

Anyone who thinks the iOS iWork apps are in any way remotely close to their desktop equivalents has blurred vision, the most likely cause of which is staring at an iPad screen, deciding to read something instead of smashing your head against the wall trying to do work on it.

The iPad is beautiful to look at. My 2 year old loves it, so it's totally crapped up with sticky stuff. I don't really have any use for it; the Air is superior in almost every way that matters.
Not sure what happened by my comment below was supposed to be a direct reply to this comment
Shirley Hornstein Apologizes, Promises Change
This diagram misses out a ton of other immigration routes, including the O1 visa (aliens of extraordinary ability, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O_visa).
I can't say for certain but I would wager it was certainly a significant part of it.

You could put a programmer or an artist down in front of it and it was intuitive enough and gave an "integrated" feel which was also probably part of what made Visual Basic popular.

Basically the interface felt "empowering" to the newbie in a way that something like vim doesn't.

For example, you could create an animated sprite and with a couple of clicks transform it into something that you could manipulate directly in the code as an object. No importing third party libraries or creating "sprite sheets" was required.

I'm not sure if the bar for games has become significantly higher apart from in the AAA area, plenty of successful indie titles still look like SNES games.

A games/multimedia specific JS IDE that dealt with as much of the crap surrounding the JS ecosystem as possible could certainly have a chance of being popular. Though I think something built around http://love2d.org/ with easy browser publishing might be better in some ways.
Thanks for taking the time to disagree. Do you speak on behalf of Ubuntu in any official capacity? I'm simply reading the statement as it is written: 'their software', not 'their Ubuntu software'.
If you try to link materialism or atheism to atrocities, you run into a major hurdle, in that, you have to admit that religious belief is no guarantee of morality either. And in fact, can sometimes directly cause great pain and suffering. So what are you left with?
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I'm sorry for the above comment everyone. Reddit has infected my humor. I shouldn't have brought it here. :(
Cross compiling is easy. Follow the steps here: http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-c...

You can compile from any OS, for any OS. I compile for 32 and 64 bit versions of Windows, OSX, and Linux for my applications. It takes about 5 seconds for all the builds (running serially) to complete.

[edit] Bah, beat by shykes. It's still not hard.
Minor nitpick: 2nd and 3rd graphs say TN instead of TC

I always wonder how much of this data is skewed (engagement especially) by the amount of apps that are built on top of HN.
Playing Tag for 23 Years
The EU does a pretty good job of freedom of movemove, enshrined as one of the "Four Freedoms" of the EU: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Freedoms_(European_Union)
Likewise, I'd not say that it's 'most' of their money, but pretty much every bank I know of will happily take the opposing position to their clients. In many cases though, this is just the bank providing the market to their clients, especially in the cases of less liquid products.
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My husband & I lived in Vienna and we were the only people who spoke out loud to each other on a daily basis (especially in English), and we understand each other very very well in any case, and we got the point where we often didn't even speak in complete sentences over a mere matter of months. When we traveled abroad for a month in an English-speaking country, it took me several days to feel like I was making sense to strangers again! After that I made sure never to go so long without talking to other people out loud again.
> Old Karp was usually delighted by the latest innovations that the scientists brought up from their camp, and though he steadfastly refused to believe that man had set foot on the moon, he adapted swiftly to the idea of satellites. The Lykovs had noticed them as early as the 1950s, when "the stars began to go quickly across the sky," and Karp himself conceived a theory to explain this: "People have thought something up and are sending out fires that are very like stars."

WOW.
Agreed. Please, please use and return these in preference to callbacks.
I also recommend the book he wrote by the same title, featuring some of the same essays/articles featured in the broadcast and a good deal more. If you're in the US it should be no bother to find, but if you're abroad it'll take a bit of searching (or ordering from the US)
There's also a lot more to entertainment than games. iTunes is the dominant media application, and it's so much better on OSX than Windows. A lot of people consume their entertainment online nowadays anyway, my kids are growing up that way.

Between Steam for Mac and the Mac App store availability of top tier games on the Mac is excellent and getting better all the time. Can't play Far Cry 3? Oh well, I'll just play Portal 2, CoD Black Ops or The Darkness II instead and there are scads more.

+1 for your point about creating though. Both my kids are very musical and are playing with Garageband on the iPad already, and when they're a little older it's there for them on the desktop too. My eldest is getting into photography as well and while she may well outgrow iPhoto at some point, it's hard to imagine a better way to get started.

But then I'm squarely in Apple's largest target demographic for the Mac. That doesn't mean the mac is only for home users though, any more than Windows is only for gamers and Enterprise users. It's just that those are their particular strengths.
The other thing few people realize about personality assessments is that they are almost always RELATIVE, not ABSOLUTE, values.

Where you rank on any scale is a function of the population you're being compared to - so, for instance, if you take an assessment as an undergraduate, you may score lower in Extraversion or Openness compared to your peers (since studies show people tend to peak in those values at that time of life) as opposed to the general population. Practically speaking, your results from an assessment are often benchmarked against a group, but it's rare you know who that group is.
Apple finally abandons its sad claim to the 'Multi-Touch' trademark
promises are also pretty essential when doing RPC-esque back-and-forth with web-workers when you need to distribute a workload and wait for all results to come back to continue a chain of ops on the main thread.
can you elaborate on what is "real coroutine support" and how are these better than promises?
So, as far as I can tell, there are two benefits this article outlines: avoiding highly nested code, and handling certain types of errors better. Are there other benefits?

In my experience, promises can be more difficult to debug (once the promise library takes my callback, I can't follow the flow of execution until it is called, unless I crack open the library itself), and are less intuitive. While those shouldn't disqualify the idea immediately, it does make me hesitate.

And I'm not sold on the benefits to error handling either. In the author's example, yes, all those error handlers could be grouped together - but how often do you have that many async function calls with identical error handlers? In most situations, that is a warning sign that you aren't handling errors properly and with enough "resolution".

All that said, I don't think promises are useless. There may be times when it makes sense to use them. But calling them the "next great paradigm in JavaScript programming" seems like a bit of a stretch to me.
The devil you know and all that. Goldman might screw you, but you're still getting a good deal compared to the bank you don't have a long term relationship with.

In many ways it's no so different with the managing agents my building co-op appoints. We know they're screwing us every year, but at least we know how they're doing it, while with a new agent we'd have no idea!
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I applied, because more than anything I need contacts that something like this can offer. That and a lot of the feedback on my start-up is that is great for News and media.

However, how many start-ups can really afford picking up and relocating to NY for a 4 month incubator without having funding (which SpaceTime does not appear to offer). I hope the selected start-ups are offered some kind of funding to cover relocation/living which can obviously be experience for 4 months in NY.
I don't get it... so I don't know if I should laugh or be offended. :)
And plenty of those trades aren't designed to make money anyway, they're made to hedge other risks that clients have.
Thanks for linking to that, great story!
Even Apple doesn't target it anymore... XCode.
Microsoft's 64GB Surface Pro will only have 23GB usable storage
> having slept in the open in 40 degrees of frost

I'm no scientist, but I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees. Maybe this was a mistranslation...?
Nice library! Too bad it's so large. 32k for tooltips is a bit much. Split this up such that I can use just the tooltip style I want and keep it under 5k and I'd use it.
Not to be a downer, but can't people already go to the library for free?
I grew up reading Cringely and this is the first time I have visited his blog in years. He seems to want to blame external factors on his decision to stop writing and concentrating on books, but the fault lies with himself.

There are thousands of bloggers with a lot less experience and a lower level of writing quality who survive and do well from blogging. Cringely misplaces the blame on the advertising market, which has only been growing in the time period he describes.

For some reason he thought he could register a wordpress blog, insert some Javascript from a cheap ad network and then 'file' his columns once a week and that would work. He has done little to take advantage of his brand, the community around him, or adjust to how blogging and the explosion in consumer internet and apps changed technology journalism.

Outside of HN I have never seen his columns or posts promoted, or read a comment from him on Twitter, or reddit, or Facebook, or any other blog - or anything that would get his content infront of potential readers.

The world overtook him and blew him over, and he doesn't seem to realize why or what happen.
Perhaps my perception of the cost of living multiple for the bay area is distorted, but I can't believe that anyone is working as a developer there for the lower side of that curve.

Those offerings seem comparable to what I see here in Atlanta.
I like the charts but they doesn't seem to include the L-1 Visa path. Anyway it seems to me that this new reform rewards illegal immigration and doesn't do much to improve the chances of those applying for green cards through regular channels.

Also the travel restrictions for those with L-1 visas need to be reviewed, it doesn't makes sense that one you're approved with a L-1 visa in the US you need to go through another approval process in your home country if you want to travel outside the US.
Well, I don't know much about wolves, but I know dogs sometimes naturally track interesting prey over long distances by scent. They don't have to travel fast, they just have to travel on average faster than their pursued prey.
Just added these. We don't have enough listings in Portland to show data, but Seattle is now there.
By about 900 shares.

Joking aside, though, I don't think it's different at all in this context.
> I don't believe frost forms until 32 degrees.

Perhaps it was under 10 atmospheres of pressure? ;-)
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Here's a recent video of the last survivor: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayWPnm0JWG0
That's a shame, when I got to uni most of the comp sci computers were Linux based. I got to use fluxbox as my primary environment for 3 years.
Phobos Flyby Tops Europe's 2013 Space Goals
Orthogonal to this discussion, I use Ghostery because I don't believe MixPanel and their customer's best interests always align with my best interest.

I only mention this here because the linked page does not work when JavaScript is enabled but MixPanel is not. Defensive programming, people!

Timestamp: 1/29/2013 1:28:52 PM
Error: TypeError: mp.landing is undefined
Source File: https://mixpanel.com/revenue/
Line: 98
> We have seen what they have done to Assange, what they have done to Kim Dotcom, what they have done to Gottfried. All within a single year. All within our community.

Dotcom is not part of my community. I try to avoid people who have been convicted of embezzlement, insider trading, and trafficking in stolen goods, and who appear to have only ever engaged in enterprises that were not based on defrauding people when they were FORCED to keep clean because they were still on parole from their previous conviction.
A combination of high demand + strong incentive to keep access at a strictly controlled low level = this.

I made it all the way to the green square at the bottom, following a long path along the left-hand edge. The process is a mind-boggling Rude Goldberg Machine governed by arcane and seemingly arbitrary rules riddled with exceptions. Having an excellent lawyer is both helpful (obviously) and depressing (in that it reveals just how many hidden controls are embedded within).

The worst part is the long wait time when you have absolutely no say in the outcome, basically at the mercy of a remote faceless bureaucracy that can decide your fate and enforce it.
> "The distribution of introverts and extroverts in the population looks eerily like the results Grant found plotting revenue across his 1-to-7 scale."

'Ambiverts' make better marriages?
Recreate Pinterest's Success by Applying These 10 Secrets
10 Secrets that Pinterest used to generate all that traffic and become so popular.
Do they allow use of the "unsafe" package?
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Living bacteria discovered under 2,600 feet of ice in a buried Antarctic lake
http://www.businessinsider.com/burried-antarctic-lake-shows-first-signs-of-life-2013-1
As a Cringely fan, I sadly have to agree.
HFS is no more proprietary than NTFS. There's a free HFS reader available:

http://www.catacombae.org/hfsx.html

Or a commercial option:

http://www.paragon-software.com/home/hfs-windows/

These solutions are available if you just look for them. And, regarding your other comment, aliases and symlinks still work . . .
So "data:text/html, " is the new "about:" to do some inline html? Useful to know.
Is it so crazy to offer an ad-free option? I see a video interstitial on nearly every YouTube video I watch. Maybe I'm not aware of the costs involved, but I feel like I would be willing to pay whatever the cost of those ads are back to YouTube to avoid them. Same goes for Hulu+.

Does anyone with some more insight know why they don't offer such an option?
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You should read that as -40 degrees - likely Celcius and not Fahrenheit you refer to. Funny thing is, -40 C = -40 F.
What's the startup scene in Atlanta like? I visited MailChimp there and attended a conference a few months ago. I live in Greenville, SC and we have an interesting little hub here.
Probably means minus 40 degrees. Which incidentally is the same in Celcius and Fahrenheit.
HN Hands Down any day if you're looking for developer traffic.
Sharing photos was very much possible before facebook, and is still possible without facebook. Quite contrary to your claim that facebook is making this possible that wouldn't be otherwise, they are actually limiting what most people think is possible, having convinced the world at large that they are the internet. Facebook is destined to continue following the same path as AOL.
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Getting upvoted on HN seems like a bit of luck. I've seen really bad posts get upvotes, and some better ones get nothing.

So just posting on HN is not a launch strategy unless you know people who will upvote your submission.
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Failure Is Not The Worst Outcome, Mediocrity Is
Disagree, a lot of bloggers get as far as a book deal and that's the end of blogging for them. I think you're reading too much in to the why he's stopping - I think the new projects he's embarking on are more interesting than his blog.

His posts tend to get around tech sites, you mentioned HN already, http://www.theregister.co.uk run a lot of his stuff, also:

http://slashdot.org/tag/cringely

http://www.reddit.com/domain/cringely.com/
Wow, this looks great. I looked at using Salesforce, and it was so painful (I've used it before) that we ended up just using RT (which is great for support issues, but sucks for sales).

Going to try this out for sales.

Also, yay for using Plivo and good call quality instead of Twilio. This should presumably support native SIP endpoints (and G.722), so I'm a lot more likely to use it.
I built this with my team at http://porkepic.com . We built this with 1 designer, 1.5 developer over 3 months.

Here to answer any question you might have on the implementation.
I've seen the phrase in a Jack London story. That would be 40 degrees below freezing. For Celsius that would be -40C since freezing is 0C. For Fahrenheit that would be -8F (32 - 40).
You didn't even make it one whole sentence with a correct statement. You stink of an OSS troll in this thread.

There have been plenty of interest in Sublime Text 2 builds for Android, I've seen people ask about it for both the Exynos Chromebook and the jailbroken Surface RT.

Amazingly, I can use ALL of my desktop software (except VirtualBox) on Linux/ARM and it's just like using an Intel machine. The only thing missing are proprietary apps like ST that can't have an ARM build generate for it automatically.
"seen kyle" might fall on the wrong side of "making fun of nazism" line however. To reiterate, it is illegal to make the Nazi salute in Germany. It is possible however to use the nazi salute in ironic/mocking way, but you would get arrested and the court would decide what is what. Few people have tried to make this defense, but ended up losing.