skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm pretty sure Steve Jobs isn't on the list because it's a list of living individuals.
This is actually Homestar Runner's 404 page. Still a good one (warning - has sound)

http://homestarrunner.com/lkjsdflkjsdlkjklfjsdf.html
The compromise of composabilty is that if you don't already understand the problem domain, you don't know how to structure your code. Frameworks are brilliant for paving a golden path for us to follow - we get to reuse someone elses knowledge and experience, codified into the framework.

A great example is the present state of browser development t. Google "backbone sucks site:news.ycombinator.com" and you find tons of comments from people who struggle with backbone - a supercomposable library, not a framework by design.

Composabilty pays off huge in the long, but you need experienced leadership to wield it.

There's also a happy medium in things like Play Framework, a functional scala framework but designed almost as a collection of composable libraries so you can lean on Plays opinions for most things but since it is designed to be composable (compare to "pluggable", or "extensible") so you can swap different pieces out if you like. That is my experience, at least.
How is it that Bloomberg himself isn't on the list? According to Wikipedia he's worth $25B which is well within the top 100.
I try and debunk/explain [shady] biological science news wherever possible here. In fact, it's typically my only contribution, but one I feel is highly important.

Your perpetual (and totally correct) crusade against PhysOrg reminds me there are others doing the same, and for that I thank you.
IMO, if he primarily wanted to protect himself from further lawsuits he'd pick a different line of business. There are easier ways to make money.
Apple's Tim Cook Explains How to Think About Certain Rumors
It's interesting how the richest man in the world comes from a third world country (Carlos Slim from Mexico).
Is there a reason why the Rothschild family doesn't appear on the list? I'd imagine that they are still billionaires.
If one doctor or hospital is objectively better than the other, I want to be able to choose the better one, even if having to actually choose is not fun.
I have no knowledge of the financial world, so maybe someone can help me with this and what it means... Apple is now a $50b/quarter company, with a $480b (edit: now $430b) market cap and $140b in cash. Surely this means that, within a few years, Apple will have enough cash to buy itself? This seems like a dangerous situation for a company to be in.

For whatever reasons, there seems to be little confidence in Apple lately, but it can't be denied that they're still making substantial growth quarter over quarter. Is this current situation not unsustainable?

Edit: thanks everyone for the explanations, it's very much appreciated
And most of which are "demo app" or "assignment app" or some kind of testing /demo use key in an application that deals with ssh in its processes. There also isn't any apps above 100forks, so nothing widespread to worry about. (add forks:>100)

Reminds me of google hacking: www.hackersforcharity.org/ghdb/ (which is way more fun)
Yeah, but the Walmart stock price didn't start to really take off until the late 90's.
bloated insurance industry

Which is a product of government regulation.

Seriously. This is historically factual, and very clearly explained in [1].

[1] http://www.theobjectivestandard.com/issues/2007-winter/moral...
Do most HN readers enjoy their jobs?
I graduated in 2011, I currently work as a java developer for an investment bank, and I find myself spiralling into a work induced depression. Skills-wise I'm not progressing at the rate I would like; the hours are pretty long so I have minimal time for coding outside of work, no one on my team cares at all for best practices or improving their craft, technology is seen as a secondary concern, and any enjoyment I used to experience from coding is gradually diminishing.

I'm interested in hearing whether or not the majority of HN readers enjoy their job, and if anyone has been in a similar situation how did they go about rediscovering their passions?

I kind of feel like I have no right to complain and that this is a complete first world problem (I'm pretty comfortable financially, living in london which is a great city, working with fairly agreeable people etc etc) but I'm completely unfulfilled by the work I'm doing on daily basis - any advice at all would be very greatly appreciated!

So to sum up:
1) Is it normal to dislike your day job?
2) If not, do people have strategies for finding jobs which they are strongly passionate about?
Heavy Multitaskers Are the Worst At Multitasking
I was a customer couple of years ago. To this day I still get their newsletter and there's no link to cancel it. They say you have to log in and change your "newsletter settings".

Also their stupid auto-generated username "XY<account_number>-GANDI".
>Apple is now a $50b/quarter company

That's revenue and can't buy anything with revenue since you have to pay for the salaries, hardware, stores etc.

You should look at profit which is $13B/quarter right now.
Search for "PRIVATE KEY" on new GitHub Search
A killer problem from the entrance exams to Moscow State University
It's great that you mention Cuba. They have basically the same number of people as Belgium and Cuba is nearly four times bigger than Belgium... Yet their GDP is 1/8th that one of Belgium.

And they're at these "high" levels only because Cuba wasn't doing bad at all before the communist took power and because, after the revolution, Cuba was heavily subsidized by soviet russia (they were sending billion of $ to Cuba).

Thing is: if Cuba was a place of freedom where people were free to create businees, maybe Larry and Sergey's parents would have moved to Cuba and created Google there, say in Pig's bay which would have been the Cuban Silicon Valley. And Cuba's GDP would be closer to the one it should have.

In my opinion people able to earn $10bn know much about creating present growth and future wealth than people admiring homophobic racist mysoginist slaughterers like Che Guevara.

So, no, I don't find it unfair at all that a single person is more "wealthy" than the GDP of communist countries ; )
My experience is this is caused by a lack of refactoring/ rewriting code when it can no longer support easily modification into the desired functionality.
No, but soon enough you'll have to download their app to see the other entries.
Creating Uninitialized Objects in Javascript
HN Discussion from yesterday: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5095634
Pro tip: Don't make glib comments and be surprised when people respond brusquely.

Also, Pro Tip: Assumptions are necessary in order to have reasonable conversations. People aren't inference engines.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fractional_reserve_banking

It's not like their money hidden in a vault. Furthermore they may have spent it, thus converting their money into a non-monetary asset like a home, yet it still counts when calculating wealth.
It's actually very handy to keep your private keys in a VCS (along with other dotfiles.) I keep mine in a private repository. I don't worry about it because all my private keys are encrypted with strong passphrases.
any hackernews users review of namecheap as registrar, DNS, and/or email hosting?
No problem! I lived in Philly off and on (mostly on) for 5 or 6 years up until about a year ago. The 'grunge'/grime is probably a bit of a culture shock at first (depending on what you are used to) but it's a pretty nice city once you get over that.

If I were to move back, I would probably outside of the 'city' Philly along the main line. Lowest grime-factor there is, as far as I know.
Marissa Mayer Is Late All The Time
Exactly. This guy was very publicly trying to either blackmail or sell the data. As someone who had an iPad 3G and was alerted my info was stolen, I was pissed at the future spam I knew I'd end up getting out of the whole thing.

Weev is a troll. That's not a judgment, that's fact. His antics weren't about liberating data or making a bigger statement, it was about embarrassing a company. He did it for the lulz.

The law might not see these as different cases (though like you, I know I do), but public opinion certainly will.

To be totally honest, I'm sort of disgusted that he's using Aaron's suicide as fodder to try to gain sympathy or sentiment ahead of his sentencing.
You can always run maven offline.
I think that shows they can stereotype the kind of people who register hacker give them headaches.
And only one black man.
They dropped all the local drug charges and stuck to federal hacking charges.

Fayetteville, AR is a very poor/bad place and I think someone with a trivial amount of drugs, who is also a supreme internet troll, is not someone they'd want to prosecute locally.
If you take out the ones who were billionaires by inheritance, and then look at those under 50, all but 5 are well connected beneficiaries of the fall of the Soviet Union.

The other 5 made their money in IT (Dell, Bezos, Zuck, Brin, Page).
Modeling side effects as transformations on data is what functional programmers do all day. I'm not talking about monads - simple things like inserting keys into a map and manipulating collections does not rely on side effects in functional languages.
SICP is one of my favourite books but there's a moral hazard in getting one of your own to conduct reviews. Personal relationships always cause bias.
That registers a mouseover event listener. Mine triggers a mouseover event. They are completely different.
Are you sure about that? I just tried to register somethingsomethinghacker.com and got through the checkout process to the point where it asked me for a credit card. I didn't proceed (because I don't want the domain).
Thanks for the correction -- but doesn't this still mean that, if Apple completely plateaus and they have no more growth whatsoever, Apple would still reach its current market cap ($430b) in cash within about 6 years?

And this is presumably an overestimate because its current stock price probably has further growth priced into it, so either Apple will reach that target sooner as a result of an increase in profits or, if profits remain the same, their market cap will fall further? I'm just not sure I understand the implications of a company acquiring so much cash that it matches its own market cap.

I ask because, this fact alone, seems to suggest to me that they're very much undervalued right now. But I'm not sure if I'm missing something.
"you shouldn't underestimate the power of an open mind."

I'm not sure your ideas are quite as bold and radical as you think. In fact, I would say that you're merely repeating the common liturgy of the industry. Young tyros are more "creative" than seasoned veterans. Caffeine addled youths have more exciting ideas. They have fewer preconceptions. They're more nimble. They're in it for love of the game.

What I'm asking is why you're so sure all of this is true. "It's true because I am successful" doesn't seem to me very persuasive.
It is possible that some of those buttons are from add-ins like CRM, which haven't updated to the new look and feel. Visual Studio 2012 has the same problem.

Although this by no means affects your main point about the organisation/visual hierarchy.
It's pretty cheap, I thought. It sucks if you have a ton of domains, but transferring over also renews the domain for an additional year, so the transfer itself really costs basically nothing. I just transfer whenever it's coming close to time to renew my registration anyway...
Yes. There will be a blog post when API access is available.
Quora Blogs, Branch and Other Things I Won’t be Using
Well, obviously there are exceptions, but I wouldn't measure or defend a system based on the best case, but the average and standard deviation. Unfortunately, a huge amount of people are falling through the cracks. Sweden's system might be worse for rich/upper middle class people, but the average case is more than acceptable and the deviation is small. For instance, if you come in with a non life threatening condition, you will have to wait. That could mean waiting months for a specific surgery that you might get instantly in the US if you had good insurance. That kinda sucks when you have to wait and you're in pain, but is understandable unless you want to spend 50% of GDP on health care, or prioritize people based on how much they earn.
How about Maven 3 and Groovy DSL?

http://www.mail-archive.com/users@maven.apache.org/msg126205...

At least the people behind Maven took notice that there is a problem and working on something.
I have a 2nd gen i7 and 16gb on the host. I think I tried everything up to 8 cores and 4 gb, but it still seems like everything is slow.

So you don't do anything special to optimize it?
I totally agree with the article. I love somethings about maven but XML is a pain to work on.

I am thinking that a build system can be built on top of Java. But Java for shell scripting has some drawbacks that can be alleviated. I am working on these little tool to use regular java for shell scripting, it is auto compilable and it has better abstractions for file manipulation. https://github.com/huherto/jashi
More info, including an example of Maven itself shipping with mismatched versions: http://jira.codehaus.org/browse/MDEP-273

Depending on how bad the mismatch is and how carefully people maintain or break APIs between versions, it can introduce problems.

I've not been into Java enough recently to know if this is fixed or is still affecting Maven3.
Zambuni's comment is definitely true, although I don't think it accounts for the incredible uniformity of the 40-hour work week. (For instance, if employees properly valued healthcare as compensation, then the 20-hour employees would rationally accept less than half the pay of a 40-hour employee.)

There are other contributing "signaling" effects which are postulated, e.g. if you tell a future employer you only want to work 20 hours they take this as a sign that you are lazy or not committed. These signaling effects result in an inefficient market (i.e. a non-optimal work schedule is negotiated) and have been used to justify government intervention. It seems surprising that signally effects could be this large, but people also argue that most college educations are essentially zero value-added and serve only signaling functions as well. I've been influence a lot by economist Robin Hanson in this direction, and you can find to read from him.

Lots of disagreement among academics, though, so take it with a grain of salt.
Same in Android actually.
Unless you've got kids or are going to school, I'd live in center city. For a fairly small and completely walkable area, it's got variety, from high rise apartments to "George Washington slept here" houses two blocks south. Best overall option in the city. Or live outside the city, but that's not living in a city.
To be fair that interface has WAY bigger problems than being flat. Even if you unflattened it, it would still be a horrible interface.

Not really a fair argument.
Gradle has given me a lot of headaches for small projects. I keep going back to it now and then and run into performance issues with it where builds that take 10 seconds in Maven take 10 min in Gradle.

It's something about the dependency resolution mechanism. Something is broken, but I haven't been able to pin-point it yet.

It's frustrating because I love Groovy. I write a lot of Groovy and I'd love to use a Groovy-based build tool, but I can't justify wasting a lot of time on Gradle when I know how to do what I need to do in Maven.
Many of these categories are, of course, culturally relative and would be viewed through the analyst's particular lens. Nonetheless, it would make for an interesting perspective.
> 8. Open Source Is Becoming a Monoculture
>
> [insert comparisons how one software is vastly preferred over another,
> eg. git vs subversion]

If you'd make the comparison five years ago, half of the software would not be present. svn would rule over cvs, abiword would rule over openoffice, a konqueror would rule over mozilla etc.

It may be a monoculture today, but nothing stops people from inventing the next SCM tool, the next word processor or the next web browser. That has happened in the past, that will happen in the future.
I'm unsure how exactly this is supposed to be news. Of course economies of scale are going to pay off. Of course better technology is going to pay off. But how in earth and when is it going to compete with fossil fuels? No answer. Rubbish article. Sorry for the rant.
For the curious:

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Yeah, you have to be more specific. The "Godaddy SOPA fiasco of 2012" maybe
What a shame if anybody does that. Hacker News, for me at least, has always been about business as well, and the size of the iOS market is constantly changing and of interest to many hackers that have sharecropped the App Store.
Alan Cox:  Fedora 18 "worst Red Hat distro I've ever seen"
I just tried it and got this error: http://i.imgur.com/uz4yrBt.png
FWIW, I registered two domains recently through namecheap using a credit card.
>I'm sorry, but there's no way that any person's individual contributions to society are worth 3-4 orders of magnitude more than most other people's.

Why not? Just because it was likely timing, doesn't make the impact less great.

Your point seems to be that such a person isn't inherently that much better than someone else. Ok, but no one is inherently that great. 90% of "making it" in any of the senses is timing and placement, so it's really all relative.

By being able to post on HN you are about the same magnitude "better off" in real wealth terms compared to a man in the Shomali plains than a billionaire is to you. Does that make your accomplishments better compared to that Afghani man's?
with a trivial script to setup bindmounts and such, you can easily run a full linux distro on android's kernel, concurrent with the main Android OS. Debian Kit for Android is just one example. gcc, emacs, ghc, whatever you need is an apt-get install away, w/ the Hacker's Keyboard and JackPal's term emulator, you are in as good or better shape than you would be on Maemo or Meego or Tizen..
I don't know if its good or bad for apple but I hate it when articles fail to mention this difference when comparing.
Again, you need to read the book(s) if you want to understand the argument. The Wiki paragraph doesn't actually do a good job explaining much of anything.
Everything is perfect, been using all those for years. The email GUI is crappy though, but personally I never use it. I only send automated emails programatically, or manual emails with Thunderbird.
You've significantly upped the investment cost, which will make the burgers more expensive. Wouldn't it be better to have them be the same (more expensive) price, though a bit slower, and pocket the difference?

To automate everything and have it hot and ready is a really hard challenge. Fries take about four minutes to cook. A burger between one and three. While you can compute an average car order, any given set of cars will order significantly different amounts of food. Get it wrong and you are forcing people to wait (what we are trying to get away from) or wasting food (bumping up costs). This optimization was the thing McDonalds spent the most time optimizing when I worked there years and years and years ago.

On the other hand, I'd be happy with waiting if I could input my order and I knew my order would be correct.
Surely I don't have as much industry coding experience as many people around here, but during and for a while after my undergraduate education I worked a couple different programming positions - mostly web development.

What I saw was stark difference between the environments not from the type of work, but simply the people and the general attitude of the administration. One job was a very small web dev startup and it was a fantastic experience. I worked there for about two and half years, getting more solid in both server and client-side programming. Of course after the first six months, I hit the so-called intellectual wall, but I was lucky enough that I was allowed to work on internal R&D with one of the other programmers. That was probably where I had the most fun at that particular job.

Another job I had, though, was quite similar to what you describe. I was consulting for a company who had a couple of their own programmers who refused to learn anything, just coded like monkeys locked in a cage and the people in charge didn't care because they really couldn't tell the difference.

My suggestion would be that it's not typical to find poeple that dissatisfied in a place like this, where startup job postings are everywhere and we obviously have enough time and energy to keep up with all the posts :D

If you aren't terribly concerned about lots of cash, check out a university and find a startup or two. They are using fast-moving and energetic. Once they get the tech base going, they'll definitely bring in more and you can make sure to keep the vibe going, etc.

If changing jobs isn't possible, I'd say find some user a user group - I hear about a lot in London - and network with them. It can help just to have some facetime with others who share your passions.

Good Luck!
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How do you know which hospital is better? What metrics are you looking for?
That doesn't affect net profit either.
Did Andrew try to sell the data for profit? He took a sample of the output to a journalist at Gawker and notified AT&T [0]. Why would one do that if he wants to sell data? However, what worries me is that in the same article it is mentioned that

Since a member of the group tells us the script was
shared with third-parties prior to AT&T closing the
security hole, it's not known exactly whose hands the
exploit fell into and what those people did with the
names they obtained.

It's pretty hard to know what really happened. I don't understand Auernheimer's actions at all - on one hand he informs AT&T/Gawker and on the other he sends the script to third parties. Even if his intentions were not malicious, Auernheimer acted immaturely. The lengthy blog post he wrote explaining his actions is no longer available and here's a cached version [1]. Some of the points directly contradict with the earlier Gawker article.

The only person to receive the dataset was Gawker
journalist Ryan Tate who responsibly redacted it.

So, does this mean he didn't reveal the dataset but revealed the script?

[0] http://gawker.com/5559346/apples-worst-security-breach-11400...

[1] http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:PChrEDR...
It sort of irks me that people assume that 1) all young people play prodigious amounts of games to the point where an X-Box is some sort of alluring factor, and 2) only young people play games and that gaming is a way to differentiate between ages. I am young, and I would be put off by this sort of thing. If the most appealing part of your company is that you have an X-Box, you're doing it wrong.
Apple achieved record sales and earnings in the first quarter of 2013