skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You do realize that eventually China will become a huge market for Apple! If Google and Apple spend money outside of the US, it is for tapping into international talent! And if the money was earned outside of US soil, then there's no need for it to come into the US and run through taxes.
Just copyings James' response below here:

That's the idea :) but a few things to note: 1. All data is anonymized 2. You can turn data-sharing off in the settings (as pointed out when you start the app) 3. Providing data to the networks is not only a funding source for our efforts to build coverage maps online (which will always be free and independent at opensignal.com) but it allows the networks to improve their service - showing them where their service is weak, or where they should focus their marketing.
Ask HN: Has anybody created a Wayback Machine for git?
I think it'd be cool to have a Wayback Machine for git/SVN. It would take a snapshot of your site from each commit, so you could take a look at how your site progressed from creation to the most recent commit.

Does this exist anywhere? Would be fun to try out!
possible, but unlikely. When I ask friends with Airs they never complain that the screen is lacking in any way. I think "retina" displays are a marketing gimmick, and in some cases actually cause problems until all the apps know how to work with them.
For those wondering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3313928? Main reasons are:

- a tattoo may be a strong indication that, some time ago, you had an opinion, but it isn't any kind of indication that you still are of that opinion (including a timestamp in your tattoo is an option, but impractical). A signed statement in a bracelet, on the other hand, can be updated regularly, and even if it is not updated, the fact that you still are wearing it can be seen as confirmation that your opinion hasn't changed.

- regulations.
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The thing is, it already went down from 700 the last couple of months
One of the more interesting parts of the call is them saying they are abandoning their conservative guidance for a more "likely" one.
I am well aware.

This does not change that pretty much everyone here but you thinks this was a bunch of crooked shit.
At the minute I would say keep the job.

I'm currently at university in the UK in 2nd year(not one of the top universities) and have actually learned more from other students and the internet than from my actual course so far.

It's getting to the stage where I'm learning things now, but it took a year and a half.

A few people on the course are here only for the bit of paper at the end, they've been programming for years, contributed to open-source projects, but don't have solid experience and so can't get a decent job.

A good job with opportunities for advancement in the future is a great asset to have at the minute, especially if there are more senior developers that will help you out.

If you are worried about missing out on learning some things from university there are some great resources out there, for example:
http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/audio-video-courses/#electrical-e...

If you apply yourself to the work, and want to learn, you can do it yourself.

Look around for online courses on computer science, software engineering, algorithms etc.

Another useful topic I would suggest searching is interview practice, there are a lot of websites, and some email lists that will go through common interview questions, data structures, algorithms, design methodologies. The fundamentals that a CS degree will give you that you will learn to build upon.
You should take a look at http://www.gradle.org/ if you haven't already.
I worked on an ant project and decided we needed to convert to a better build system. I started down the path of Maven, but Gradle changed my mind because of the conciseness.

It uses the groovy language so hopefully it doesn't fall into the same trap as described in the post.
Ubisoft wants to buy South Park, but it looks like there may be legal trouble. South Park Studios filed a complaint saying that THQ did not have the legal right to sell South Park as long as South Park Studios reclaims the license by paying the full amount that THQ put into the game.

http://www.digitalspy.com/gaming/news/a453020/south-park-stu...
I pronounced the rubber stuff "lay-tecks".
and you never have to think about presentation at all

Sadly your colorful description is not entirely accurate.

With LaTeX you're in hell immediately when you need to divert just the tiniest bit from what your \package of choice provides. Want a logo in that letterhead? Address format looks wonky? Need a nice looking table? An image in a table even? PDF output looks strangely different from dvi?

Well, any such seemingly trivial detail will be good for countless hours of scuba-diving around the ancient shipwreck of a language that is LaTeX. The little available documentation is usually only served in PDF format, sparse and contradicting. None of the packages interact with one another but most of them conflict in funny ways.

And no least the syntax and semantics of the language itself are closer to ancient greek than a modern markup- or scripting-language.

Yes, the LaTeX-output is pretty. But LaTeX must die. Take the algorithms and integrate them into software from this century please.
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"For more than three decades, technology has reduced the number of jobs in manufacturing. Robots and other machines controlled by computer programs work faster and make fewer mistakes than humans"

Worst of all, we haven't even seen the robotics revolution yet. In the past, automated assembly lines, manufacturing plants, etc. were the realm of extremely large companies with volumes in the hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Now, with embedded development becoming more and more accessible and interfaces becoming an important part of software, that automation will become cheaper and cheaper. Pretty soon we'll be able to use off the shelf hardware with Python and OpenCV to program complicated assembly lines and manufacturing pipelines (which we can to some extent already).
so what if they have legal / export restrictions, it shouldn't stop them from getting software
I can mostly agree, Haskell's additions aren't even in the same ballpark. I also prefer Python overall to Ruby. But Ruby has a huge advantage of anonymous code block parameters.

That facilitates dsls and I believe it's important enough to note as significant.
IANAL and IANACPA but I'd think the simplest solution would be the best: have a C corp (or switch to a C corp) and then simply allocate more shares at the current share price. The only problem with this would be getting everyone to agree on the share price.
Whatever "Maven" is. Nice attempt to aggrandize your post.
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Tim Cook, from the call:

"In addition to reporting changes, to further increase transparency, we're changing our guidance approach In the past, we've given a conservative estimate. Going forward, we plan to project what we are likely to achieve"

And the projection for the Jan-Mar quarter:

"we are expecting between $41 and $43 billion for the next quarter"
This is very eloquent distillation of the thought process underlying the evolution of my toolset over the last 5 years.

After having jumped into Rails and shifting from BBEdit to TextMate as my primary editor overnight back in 2005, when TextMate started withering on the vine I became disillusioned that I had put so much effort into pursuing such a short-lived tool.

Reflecting on my history with a UNIX shell going back to the late 80s, I realized that things I had learned 10, 20 years ago from the UNIX world were still relevant today. I committed myself to getting serious about vim because I want to optimize for A) learning many programming languages and B) not using verbose Java-like languages that require IDEs for the all the boilerplate and rote refactoring.

While this kind of toolset will never provide quite the bang for the buck of a contextual IDE in a specific language, it's a phenomenal hedge against all the career risks I face in terms of Ruby becoming irrelevant, the web becoming irrelevant, Apple nerfing OS X, or any other probable sea change. No matter what happens I feel like vim + bash will bring me an immediate level of productivity in any new task I face, even if I start flattening out before I reach the Eclipse or Visual Studio level of wizardry, I don't expect any one thing to last long enough in this industry for such optimizations to pay off.
Shame, they were one of the only publishers willing to take the risk on a new IP.

Sadly, the worst part is not that an adventuresome publisher is no longer with us. The worst part is that all the other publishers will now be that much more afraid of being adventuresome.
I don't see a clear way to find projects in a size range. For example, between 300 and 500 stars.

Though I suppose you can just search for <500 and stop looking when you get to 300.
$13 Billion in profit a quarter and Wall Street slams their stock. I guess they expect 20% growth year to year on a company valued at $500Billion.
All this hate for Kim Dotcom aside, he didn't literally write it, some developer did, and if that developer is anything like me, he's going to want to take care of his baby, and these recommendations are going to immensely help him do that.

But he might not be like me, so I dunno.
making choices all the time for everything is very taxing and energy consuming, and at some point I just want to be taken care of

That seems shockingly lazy to me, and possibly dangerous.
With a company as big as Apple ($485B market cap) you can pretty much throw out the fundamentals. The question is, can they continue to grow?

I personally don't think they can grow to be much bigger than they already are.
No one ever knows how badly they need something until they see it. When you see a retina display, then go back to normal resolution, you notice a slight difference. And that can be enough to push people from "I'll upgrade when it breaks" to "hmm... this is several years old."
As a technically inclined member of the HN community I am acutely aware of the implications of leaking my personally identifiable information out into the world and having it be stored/analysed/sold/copied for eternity. I think many of us are.

Simply inquiring about how/why this information is used/asked for does not imply that we're having a 'hard negative reaction'. It just means that we're aware of our right to privacy and are actively trying to assert and protect it.

Personally, I applaud the OpenSignal developers being active here and answering questions. Also, just because you might not be using the information you collect in your apps for nefarious purposes doesn't mean that nobody does. Finally, I don't expect you or anyone else to be the guardians of my privacy. Only I can be charged with that task.
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I don't want to get too meta here but...

Just as easy as someone can send out a fake news tip to a bunch of sources, a person can just as easily pick out a piece of news story that is being covered everywhere and write a fake blog post about how they created the news tip out of thin air. I'm not saying (or even think) that is what the author did, but it is interesting to think about the reverse of this.

He could have made up that he made up that news. I'm mean he could have just
That depends on your insurance company, too. In my city it's not a big problem.
Or perhaps because not many people are going to want to individually set the visibility of likes, and displaying it more prominently would be a usability nightmare.
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He implemented click to open too. He states that goal at the begining: "should be searchable and launchable from Ubuntu dash." If you read the rest you'll discover how he implemented that.
Retina displays could be a driving force for selling more airs.

Retina is great, but it depends on the price. But still, what next after the retina? People are working more and more online and even old computers are perfectly fine. Not the fault of Apple or Microsoft, in fact they may have done a too good of of a job.,
Please realize that the current horrible insurance system is almost entirely a product of government regultory practice.
They're facing actual competition, and with actual competition Apple has to start to compete with themselves (the iPad Mini, a very strong emphasis on the last generation of smartphone as a discount device), and they have to iterate quicker: See that the iPad 3 lasted for 6 months before it was replaced. Apple's margins have always been an extraordinarily out of line with the industry, so really it's just falling back to Earth.
I don't think it's the same thing as the foundation is operating under the motivation to protect the freedoms on which the platform depends and thrives. Envato has multiple motivations, remaining the biggest market place being a big one and they put a lot of restrictions under which terms authors can distribute their works. That being said I don't agree with punishing Envato authors/users in the way the Foundation's seems to right now.
Weird, how does "x" not make a "ks" (or "eks") sound, both pronunciations there appear to end in a hard "k" sound; did they misspell LaTeK?

Do people here pronounce sex as "sek"?

/incomprehension
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One of my favourite 404 pages was this:
http://www.homestarrunner.com/systemisdown.html
Was this double :( a response to the fact that jQuery is available and shouldn't have needed to be? Or because you just wrote 6 lines of javascript when you could have written 1?

I read it as the first, and had this immediate reaction:

- I'd rather write the 1 line of jQuery over the 6 in vanilla javascript

- I'd rather read the 1 line of jQuery to understand what is going on instead of the 6 in vanilla javascript

- jQuery didn't actually impact your experience much... as you didn't realize it might even be available.
Bringing the profits into the US isn't about where it's made. It's about where the company is based for purposes of dividends. Apple is a US company right now, and if they were to pay dividends, it would be the US branch (the public company) that pays them.
is it Github's responsibility to keep these people from shooting themselves in the foot?

No.
Neither investments nor dividends impact net profit.
but language is not always logical, so lay-tecks is also possible

'not logical'? They've recreated a pre-existing word. The logical way to pronounce it would be the same as the pre-existing word.

Cue Monty Python's Mr Luxury Yacht, whose name is properly pronounced Throatwobbler Mangrove...
That very article points out the best coverage of the trial has come from the Guardian, the second largest paper in the UK and now one of the largest by uniques in the world.
I didn't hear a single skeptical voice.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5051946
TL;DR:

-- Music players remain a shrinking niche.

-- Mac sales have (at least) plateaued and are likely sinking in lockstep with the rest of the classical PC industry.

-- Apple is doing fine. 75%+ of their revenue is now from iOS.

-- China is important.
What questions should MIT be asking at this stage of the Aaron Swartz review?
'Please remember that this is about the first phase of the review only – questions about what happened and why. A second phase, where we all deliberate over implications, will follow.'
The format of this proposition looks oddly familiar
(to save others the trouble of doing the math themselves) It means 6 iPhones/second and (almost) 3 iPads/second.
I wrote that prior to realizing it was a game :) I can now save a lot of them. I feel much better.
That's to the Sherriff's department. It's all the salaries of deputies and whatnot. If you click on a box after zoomed in it gives an itemization.

Looks like the Sherriff (Barbara Deeley) had two line items for salary and made about 130k or so.
I'll take rigid maven any day. Much preferable to some cobbled together build system that is undocumented and hard to reliably reproduce.

I'm curious what people are doing with Maven that they manage to get into such a fight with it? Although to be fair, due to issues in its dependency resolution mechanics, it can pull in incorrectly versioned artifacts without ever telling you anything.
Career advice from Richard Thaler
'Please remember that this is about the first phase of the review only – questions about what happened and why. A second phase, where we all deliberate over implications, will follow.'
Advertising to your target market is creepy and unethical? What planet are we on?
Part 2: EFF Proposes "Aaron's Law"
Nice graphs, courtesy of TechCrunch for visual people.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/23/apples-record-first-quarter...
Why is the stock down 5% on an announcement that beats estimates, and is a record for the company, along with positive guidance.

Because revenue growth is starting to fade away and margins are being hurt. Despite a lot of really, really ridiculous things said about equities here on HN (or any tech board), the market is quite rational and future-facing. Look back on all of the absurd conspiracy theories about options traders keeping AAPL down, and compare with the reality that it is down 6% aftermarket today. Of course it's down from enormous heights, so in no universe is Apple in imperiled or any nonsense like that, but it simply isn't the darling that it was a year+ ago.
You're spot on that's the cleanest conceptual way to do it in jQuery. In more recent versions of jQuery, though, $.live is technically deprecated (1.7+). The equivalent new syntax is:

$(document).on('mouseover', 'img', function() {});
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I'm not sure I follow this. A like to Google quoting Apple's stock price?
With Sega's purchase of Relic, hopefully they can pick up the Homeworld franchise and do something with it again!
Cause seems to be lower iPhone sales than were expected: http://abcnews.go.com/Business/aapl-aapl-apple-sells-48-mill...
> Retina is great, but it depends on the price. But still, what next after the retina?

An LTE/3G connection would be nice.
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The more I play Saints Row 3, the more I'm convinced it's the finest Sandbox game since GTA: San Andreas.
Surely you don't think that 1950 was better in terms of quality of life compared to 2013. Right now is the most prosperous time in human history.
Spot on post.

Last year replaced a maven shitfest with an old fashioned Makefile which calls javac and manual dependencies. The whole port process took about 2 hours.

Integration and test run time has gone from 7 minutes (to drag all the maven plugins and dependencies down) to just over two minutes.

This saves us a fortune on build agent capacity as well (we use TeamCity).
Deleting and recreating your repo isn't necessary. If there's a problem with your fork not showing up, let us know and we'll look into it.
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Apple stock is down (currently) at -9.70% in after hours.
He's asking for his competitors to stop offering his employees more money than he's paying them. He has all the money he needs to make counteroffers and keep his employees in the fold, but he wants to deny them their fair market value so he can keep that money. It's exploitation of the people who are building his business and it's essentially stealing from them.
There must be some unwritten law about not growing above $500 Billion market cap, at last not staying there for any long durations.

Makes sense, especially in tech companies; an investor has a lot to lose and less upside given the current market cap.
These restaurants are absolutely everywhere and have been for a long time so don't be surprised about it.

There are however plenty of better restaurants out there, Glasgow included, so don't be sad!
This is a hell of a tutorial. It must have taken ages to write. I need to re-do my blog to be responsive so I've bookmarked this for later.

Thanks for the Swiftype shout out, too!
I had a dev send me his. I guess he doesn't understand the whole key-thing.

Now he doesn't log in to my server. Just sends me a zip-file that I unpack and test. sigh.
Given by the upvote/downvote ratio on my recent posts, I don't think that's clear cut.

I do think the visible reaction is fascinating given this is a site dedicated to growing businesses that almost certainly will conduct such practices (completely legally, too).
Prettier than Geocities? Unpossible.
Quora really needs to fix this.

I just launched my blog at http://ececconi.quora.com and then opened up an incognito window on Chrome. Navigating to the site took me to the Quora signup homepage. I have to enter in the address again into the bar and press enter to navigate to the blog.

One of the things I dislike most about Quora is how the website obscures the content in attempt to get more people to sign up for it.
> I don't know where you get the idea that Indian culture celebrates severe schizophrenia

It's a near-direct quote from an Austrian mental health professional I encountered in Indonesia some months back. Also, it is generally supported by the rather broader minded approach to mystics and non-mainline-society people's physical presence on the street and within broader society that is immediately evident to the traveller in India, as well as in other developing world countries.

> ... in other cultures ... in all cultures ...

Big claims. I would wager that you have not spent much time living longer-term in cultures significantly distinct from the west.
I'm moving there next year, so this is quite useful information. Thanks.
EU must respond to the shale revolution
I disagree; government regulatory practice is mainly taking some of the worse edges off the inherently broken model of "healthcare as insurance". I'm thinking particularly of major conditions. I think regular office visits could probably be paid for out of pocket, but the real money is going towards hospitals, and that's also where free-market solutions don't work at all.

In particular, I don't see how an unregulated system would solve the correlation-across-lifetime problems. A friend of mine was born with a congenital heart defect, a "preexisting condition" since birth. In a free market, it actuarially makes little sense to sell him insurance at any kind of affordable rate, because the uncertain event already happened (he lost a particular lottery at birth). And in a really free market, that would apply to many more people, because rational insurance companies would require genetic screening before allowing coverage (which they currently can't), allowing them to uncover all sorts of less obvious genetic lottery losers. Put differently, the random risk being insured is, in large part, entire lifetimes, which the insurance market cannot handle, particularly if you think individuals should have some kind of choice (vs. some kind of setup where parents have to buy their offspring's lifetime health insurance pre-conception).

Risk pooling across a large corporation's employees is sort of a hack to approximate the needed across-population risk pooling, in the absence of a true socialized risk pool. That hack has let he U.S. hobble through much of the post-WW2 era, since a large percentage of Americans had employment-for-life at large companies, but it's poorly suited to a world of freelancers and job-hopping.
That'll be because everyone's got one now...

More seriously, YTD is not pretty.
The free market, remember, is only efficient under certain circumstances, particularly: transaction costs must be low and there must be few barriers to entry.

AirBnB et cetera lower the transaction costs and remove barriers to entry.
The "X" is, despite appearance, not an X but a capital Greek letter chi, pronounced like the "ch" in "loch". As Knuth puts it, when you pronounce it correctly your monitor may become slightly moist.

Lamport isn't as fussy about such things as Knuth, and the "X" in "LaTeX" is commonly pronounced more like a "k".
Yes. Spammers do all sorts of things to seem legit.