skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> there is no technical reason why the latest iPhone SDK cannot run on Snow Leopard.

How exactly you know that?! Maybe new SDKs (that are compiled to run on x86 for iOS Simulator) use ARC exclusively which doesn't work properly on Snow Leopard. It makes sense to do so now that ARC's been out for a couple years...
Why not both? It's not exactly hard to submit something to two different websites.
Thanks for the link, it was refreshing to read it!

I guess by 'modern approaches' you mean (and the faq suggests) that making everything public and highly visible. The idea behind the "publish it as book" is that it makes it public, but not that highly visible. I guess it depends on the business requirements.

Btw. it was not clear from the site how much it costs. Is it entirely free?
The Mac download would ideally be a dmg and not a .zip.
That's pretty handy. In Chrome ctrl+b and ctrl+i bold and italics the text respectively. If I can get bullets that could be a nice replacement for the text editor I currently use for notes.
I think the fine print is that short of a small list of exceptions US nationals are legally entitled to a passport. It's all symbolic anyway, given the broad economic dependence on the ability to anonymously cross US borders.
None of them will bring substantial traffic, users or virality (but HN brings you slightly more, if you are doing good ~20-30K visits while TC hits you ~5-10K).

If you are raising money or raised already and prepare the next round being on TC is a must. Not only once, better several times. Consider also Mashable, maybe not the same brand but you will get much more traffic and virality than with TC.

Regarding hiring devs HN is of course better.

To get on HN on the front page is much easier than with TC.
The valid point is "it's worth it to me," not "lots of other things with less value cost as much or more and I willingly pay for those, too."

If you tell me a Ford Taurus costs $40,000, justifying that by telling you I spent $100,000 on a broken bike doesn't make the former a good deal.

The way I see it, $70 on its own is meaningless. A lot of people are taken aback because it feels like $70 for an advanced text editor. And in many ways, it is that with some IDE flair built-in.

I own a license and honestly still find myself in Notepad++ for a bunch of things. As a professional programmer, I have come to the conclusion that for my purposes it's overpriced. Your mileage ... well, it should vary.
And stay offline.
Thanks for this nice trick. I have Emacs bound to ctrl-alt-E so can pop that up whenever I need a scratch pad (Linux, obviously), but this is just cool. I've bookmarked it.
The Umwelt Principle
To me that reads as "-40 degrees Celsius" since in Celsius 0 degrees is exactly where water freezes.
I have been curious for a while about how ST 2|3 is architected. I know it uses C++ but how does it work so well as cross-platform application. Does that stem from being built in C++? What UI framework does it use?
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I guess they mean -40 °C (coincidently -40 °F) not +40 °F (4.4 °C).
When you cross the line from the integers to the ten times smaller values (step 1) you move from the finite universe to the "approximate" one, unless the staring number ended with 0 or 5 and you divided with the exact constant 10 (even multiplying with .1 is not for all inputs the same as dividing with 10 because "exactly .1" doesn't exist in base 2 FP -- as another commenter said it's not the math you know from the school -- look at the bits). Once you are in the approximate world (it's in fact exact for itself but from your starting position not what you had or you think you have) you can exactly follow when you get the expected result and when you get what you haven't expected, but the real cause is always that in the step 1 you've lost an infinite(!) number of bits. If you don't want to worry, just don't do divisions with 10. Divide with 8 or 16 or 32...
I can't edit any more, but I thought it might be helpful to others if I add this:

I'm not really disagreeing with you either: I agree that the conclusion of the paper is mostly obvious, but it's valuable because it is important to show that beta is overshadowing alpha significantly in hedge funds. I could be wrong, but I would be surprised to see top hedge fund managers claiming that their results come from beta, not alpha. If they did, it would be harder to justify the amount they are paid during periods of good performance.

I also do think that some manager skill exists in all areas of the market to a limited and varied extent. But, I suspect that even the hedge fund managers who do "provide alpha" capture most of it with their fees, leaving their clients with market returns or worse.
"You start riding, and the world disappears. It's magic, and you unleash it with your right hand."

http://florin.myip.org/blog/engines-joy
It's been a lot of fun working on this both technically (Backbone.js, Flask, Mongo) and by working on a product that genuinely makes people happier & more productive in their jobs.

I'm happy to answer any questions.
iPhone/iPad please!
Now I just need some javascript to listen for Ctrl+S and save it as a text file in ~/Documents/scratchpads. Time to get crackin'
What you post on HN matters a great deal: when we had a general start-up related article hit the front page we got traffic but few leads (like in OP's example).

But when we launched an interesting feature and hit the front page -- with the story's title obviously aimed at our target market of app publishers -- we got massive amount of leads as well.
I think he realizes, it's just a game he doesn't want to play, and he's willing to cut a publisher a share to avoid it.
Nifty trick. To build on this, if you use chrome, add it as a search engine with a special keyword so you can type in your URL bar something like "note + <ENTER> + <TAB>" then you're in typing mode.
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Imagine if the language handled async code for you. So you could call an async function and it "returned" a value. But it still uses the event loop.

See http://taskjs.org/ for how it could work in ES6.
PressureNET 3.0: Android barometer data now livestreamed to scientists
I interpreted his post as "While I am now 60, I can't retire yet as I have 3 young children, but I can't support myself from blogging - since that market crashed - therefor I am going to write a book"

It is the other post that goes into the blog ad rates falling: http://www.cringely.com/2012/11/02/ad-networks-are-killing-t...
The article immediately dives into what promises actually are, and you've done excellently at summarizing possible benefits from the examples listed.

I would advise most strongly against this exercise in extrapolation: it is not a productive tasks to introduce a new technology via use cases without establishing some grounds for what the technology's role is. You've attempted to define, after reading, what that role is, and that to me bespeaks a horrible exercise that will draw bad results, and it speaks to a poor likely fruitless introduction for people who don't already know.

The net is this: a promise is a value you have, can pass around, can chain more promisary stages of computation on to, or combine with other promises that describes something of the future. You have a symbol for the future that you can continue to operate on. That is the value of promises: it's just an object. There are no other JS constructs we have for a first-class future: the promise is the sum of taking as much away from asynchronous as we can, for boiling the asynchronous future down into a mundane, primitive value. It's surpassing notability is that a promise is just an object, unlike everything else we have for reasoning about the future.

In callback style, one has to know ahead of time what one is doing in the future and have a function fully specified to deal with that. I see promises are fairly close to event style programming using only .once handlers, but the libraries for promises also focus on tasks like combining promises (Q.all, Q.allResolved) and there is chainability and error handling inbuilt: these sum to making Promises far easier to use in practice than I have events.
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I write for a startup and have been on HN front page a few times, most visits from HN in a day was around 1300 for an article about Facebooks Social Graph: http://www.applieddatalabs.com/content/how-facebooks-graph-s...

This article misses an important benifit of getting large amounts of traffic: Google starts to recognize you through author rank and links as a qualified source of information.

Ever since my articles have been on HN, search traffic has steadily grown. This could be because of something else, but the common connection is large amounts of traffic from you guys.
Ask HN: How are coping with Twitter API 1.1?
With version 1 soon to be deprecated, have you updated your apps? What are you doing for search?
At least in node, you usually pass errors all the way back up the call chain. With normal callback style error handling, you have to put "if (err) return cb(err)" after each async call. It's crazy.

With promises, you can attach an error handler once. If you think of errors as only unexpected conditions, you can have a single error handler for each set of operations and not have to worry about checking at each step.
If you want to hop in a boat and motor away, no one will stop you. But if you leave this country, you probably want to go into another country (the world is about out of wilderness), and what are you going to do when you get there, without a passport?
I think that the new interface is cleaner and more usable.

Tipically when i search images i don't care about the sites that have them.

If i do happen to want to get some context there is a button that says "Visit page".

If as a webmaster you don't want to "provide free content for a billion-dollar multinational"

add the following lines to your robots.txt:

User-agent: Googlebot-Image
Disallow: /
I suspect I might be old fashioned but I'd take actual leads and conversions over paying 20 cents each for random hits any day. By such a measure, it seems TC won hands down. But as several other people are saying, both would be better ;-)
I don't see it - the Surface Pro is a x86 machine (i.e., it runs almost all of your favorite old apps), with a laptop-class spec sheet, a real digitizer (for creative types), and what is for all intents and purposes a desktop OS. You can even plug your printer, mice, and pretty much any USB device into it, just like you do on your laptop.

The Surface Pro is in actuality closer to a laptop than what comes to mind when we think of tablets.

The iPad has doubled its storage size - good news to many with lots of content no doubt, but I don't see how it gets it closer to the "laptop in all but form factor" ideal of the Surface.
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Given that the two links pointed to completely different pages it's hard to draw any conclusion. It's well known that landing page has a significant impact on conversion, so even if the same audience from TC was split across both links (front page vs blog article) the conversion would likely be significantly different.

It also varies highly depending on the time of day and business of both. Hit either on a busy news day and you'll get wiped out. The time of day also has a huge impact on whether the audience is primarily European / East Cost (US) / West Coast (US) which depending on the nature of your startup can make a huge difference.

While the article makes interesting reading I wouldn't recommend trying to apply the findings to your own startup.
I think they've meant -40 C.
TN visa cannot be used to start the immigration process. You have to convert to H1B or L1 visa, etc.
1 °C = 1.8 °F (Not really correct because this actually means a temperature difference of...)
Apt username. ;)
Free movement across borders is fundamentally incompatible with the other civic guarantees like anonymity and social welfare insurance. It's like the CAP theorem for humanity.
@Author: More important question you should ask is How to get in the front page of HN? I never completely got the mystery behind it, can anyone jump in and explain?
Your HN post[0] led to a blog post: http://www.learndot.com/findings/how-to-name-your-startup/

Your TechCrunch post[1] led directly to your homepage.

With that in mind, we can't trust these numbers at all.

[0]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4779410

[1]: http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/13/learndot-launches-its-learn...
Another nitpick: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Misleading_graphs#Truncated_gra...

Especially "Conversions by source".
TechCrunch will get you money. HN will get you respect and/or advice.
Ask HN: Any interest in a CakePHP book?
I've recently read about several people who have been successful in selling their ebooks. Following successful entrepreneur's advice, I'm looking for a topic I know well enough and that has a big enough target audience. I arrived at the idea of making a CakePHP book.

When I was learning CakePHP myself, I suffered because all the available books were old and the framework has changed sufficiently to make them useless as a learning tool. I've found the following pros and cons:

PROS:

- PHP remains one of the most used languages for the web, and CakePHP is one of the most popular PHP frameworks.

- All existing books are really outdated.

- It's a topic I know well, and know common questions people will have when learning it.

CONS:

- Ruby, Python, etc are hipper and probably what more people want to learn.

Would you as a developer be interested in a CakePHP ebook? Any feedback regarding the idea?

Thanks
The last 'first contact' with a group of Australian Aboriginals was made in 1984.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/victoria/lost-tribe-happy-i...

I had heard a version of that story where the brother who returned to the traditional life was believed to still be out roaming the desert, and if they saw smoke in the distance they knew it to be him but they'd stay away and leave him be.

That version of the story also had someone explained the terror of seeing a motor vehicle for the first time, followed by (relatively) fat people coming out - believed to be cannibals (how else could you get so fat?) - and their first sighting of a white man. That's quite a lot to take in over a few minutes.
True. It is getting better.
Its not surprising to see that TC visitors are more engaged - after all, for you to get to the company from TC you need to click on the article, 'parse' the text and only then click on the right link. many times, simply reading about the company is enough for you to decide not to visit.

Therefore in your calculations, I think you are undervaluing the $ value of TC awareness, since many people that dont visit your site DO read/glimpse over the article/title and are aware of your existance.
Tiered storage was available if you wanted it, it just has its own issues that don't necessarily make it better.

It's not going to be faster than caching[1] and suffers from a lot of potential data loss scenarios.

Yes, you get your 32 or 64 gig of SSD back, but who cares?

Tiered storage is used in enterprise environments to maximize the use of expensive fast storage, or insanely cheap very slow storage. Like say, really really high end PCI express based cards, or really cheap but high latency tape drives.
However, this makes a lot less sense in a consumer environment where consumer SSD prices are dropping 50% year over year.

http://camelcamelcamel.com/OCZ-Technology-Vertex-2-5-Inch-VT...

They also make a lot less sense with only two tiers anyway.

So, to review,

1. Unlike the original claim, "fusion drives" are not new technology, or pioneering (since, as you point out, it's been available in enterprise storage systems for quite a while)

2. It's not clear it's actually better than the caching system others use.

3. It's not clear it makes financial sense.

[1] On the read side, you could use the same algorithm for deciding to move to cache as oyu do in tiered storage, and get identical performance.
On the write side, you can use the SSD as a data journal and perform writes as fast as you can write to SSD. In a tiered storage model, all storage usually starts out on the "normal" tier, so writes will be slower, reads may be faster.

If they use some weirder model (like data journaling to ssd), then it becomes equivalent to cache (in both time and space usage, not just time) , not "better".
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This is really exciting and representative of the great work funded by the Knight foundation.

I have to hope that this will be so good that it will lead politicians into not lying in public speeches, though I wonder about the long-term impact such things will have on society.
The bar looks nice :) . The site itself (threebar.net) took a long time to load.

Nitpick/question: Is "Try for free" good copy, or is "Try it free" better?

The titles feel a bit "lost" on the yellow ribbon ("What is it", "Pricing").

Also, I "feel" something missing next or above the one, two, and three options. Maybe icons/images or something.

I'm not a designer, those are just my first impressions.

About the service itself, it's not something I want, but I'm probably not your target audience.
I don't understand this argument. If you use external monitor, keyboard and mouse, then the fact that it is a macbook air or a dell with os x pried in it no longer matters.
IIRC the hedge funds take the usual 2 and 20 (though Renaissance Technologies apparently takes 5 and 36 now), then fund of funds takes 1 and 10 on top of that.
Counter Strike and a Tournament Script
I've experienced the same thing, off of 1,300 visits for an off topic article we got about 7 leads. When we posted something clearly targeting our market our conversion rate jumped to around 10%
Beautiful...what other nifty things can you do except for making the element 'contenteditabe' ?
That day will come the day we can install and run XCode at the same time we create an Excel Macro, all in an iPad.
You misunderstand, we use these passwords for client website logins for the admin accounts prior to the client changing them, as per the PayPal account, etc, that is taken care of by the Boss, IE, I don't have a clue what they are. Most likely his Gmail password.
Honestly, I'm kind of one off from the startup scene. I have quite a fews friends and acquaintances involved in it, but I've always worked for small to lower mid size stable companies or firms designed to stay small.

But that said, my somewhat outside opinion is that things are going well and getting better. There are some good hotspots of startup activity with hypepotamous (http://www.hypepotamus.com), Atlanta Tech Village (http://atlantatechvillage.com/), Flashpoint and a couple other accelerators.

Combined with the human and other resources from Georgia Tech, other colleges, and I think its a good place to be.
Is your team made up exclusively of superheroes?
What comes after hipsters?
40-50 million UPnP-enabled Devices Vulnerable to Attack
In unrelated news coderwall.com really needs good syntax highlighting. Is called CODERwall for God's sake.
Yeah this is nifty. For the lazy:

Name: note

Keyword: note

URL: data:text/html, <textarea style="font-size: 1em; width: 100%; height: 100%; border: none; outline: none" autofocus /> %s

Of course, you could change the style of the URL. That's just what I defaulted to.
What are long term threats of plastic in our seas?
Depends where you go. Not all taiga is the way you describe (though there's certainly areas like that).

[source - lived in southern taiga for several years].
> There's NO way to get to the hard drive

http://imgur.com/FeAkoYs
Promises are fine, but I much prefer C#'s await. The last example using await:

try {
await Parse.User.logIn("user", "pass");
var results = await query.find();
await results[0].save(new { key = value });
} catch (Exception e) {
// Some error handling
}

// the object was saved

Does anything exist to do this in JavaScript? Can CoffeeScript emulate it? C# does it entirely in the compiler, I believe.
Using Google+ for technical discussions
Hi Friends - Author of the website and the training. Happy to answer any questions...
In the Apple ecosystem, "modding" includes adding drives and is not recommended
Thanks. I also lack a workshop and machinist training, and these days the time. I've got an extra room and no longer have a roommate so I could make use of it as a workshop now. Just need tools and a project, old desk will be my workbench.
I love the idea of putting some skin in the game when posting/voting/etc.
I love to hear a story of successful American immigration. Thanks for sharing!
Been there done that.
https://github.com/kbob/car-stuff/issues
Many of these Brazilian tribes have had some contact with loggers/miners/etc, just no formal government contact.

Perhaps more interesting is the case of the Sentinelese, who live on islands in the bay of bengal, and may have had literally no spoken contact with outsiders in hundreds of years:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinelese_people
There are, of course, a lot of startups already based in NYC- especially if you are media based, it pays to be here. I imagine this program is targeting them, rather than anyone further out.
Wow, that list of problematic Apple products doesn't even include the buggiest, unrecoverable-crashiest, worst-interface-with-a-bullet Apple product I have ever had the misfortune to be forced to use: Final Cut Pro X. With near-zero documentation and essentially required additional-cost "options" like Compressor. The reviews and feedback on this thing are absolutely dismal.

Of course, you could use iMovie. Which has a posterization bug so big you can drive a truck though it, making it of little value for HD. Still unfixed after at least three years. http://www.aibal.com/imovie-banding-posterization/
My master's wasn't worth it
BladeRF - USB 3.0 Software Defined Radio
I'd be willing to bet everything I have it won't. In fact I'd offer the same for any "XXX will destroy Earth" bet. Let me know if you're interested :-)
Seamless Git interop with Hg and Bzr
Mozilla to disable all Plug-ins by default in Firefox, except latest Flash
I'd to love to get this on Zapier, what can I do to help move things forward?
FizzBuzz is dead. Long live FizzBuzz.
A really simple way to obtain very high quality per bit per second, given prior knowledge of the nature of the material (film or not, grainy or not, cartoon or not, etc) and the type of output desired (AVCHD, Blu-Ray, etc) is to install MeGUI, then pick one of the community-built encoding profiles for x264.

Choosing the right profile for the job is absolutely crucial. The combinations of x264 parameters can be pretty arcane, and they sometimes change from one x264 version to another. There's a pretty active community on forum.doom9.org maintaining collections of profiles for MeGUI, some of those are excellent.

E.g., it is totally within the realm of possibility to put two hours of 1080p content on a single-layer DVD (4.4GB), in a format compatible with any Blu-Ray player out there (AVCHD, a subset of the Blu-Ray standard that accepts DVD as the storage layer), while keeping video quality at a very high level - basically indistinguishable from commercial Blu-Ray discs. But using a good encoding profile, feeding the appropriate parameters to x264, is the single most important factor in achieving that goal.
Android here!!! :)
I was going more on a regular meal portion than an analysis of calorie content, fat, salt, additives and such.

FWIW a medium bowl of noodles is 2MJ (according to WolframAlpha; tea tonight, but we had pork left-overs in ours +0.5MJ [or so, not on WA]), Big Mac is listed as 2.2MJ + 1.3MJ for fries.

So that's only 40% more calories.

Big Mac and fries is ~£3.50 in the UK.

Our food was about 35p per portion plus the pork which I'd say was 75p + cooking and cleanup costs [40p?].

On that basis we'll say £1.50 vs £3.50 for 40% more calories as a gross estimate.

So I'm not sure but ...