skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This was the only one I disagreed with. Everyone said GCC was it forever, yet here we are ushering in an age of llvm/clang/etc. SVN was decidedly dethroned by git (and also mercurial). I think you can cherry-pick places where monocultures have developed but history shows that those are the places that get disrupted.
No, it's how one competes at the highest levels. To believe otherwise is naive.

It's why it's better to be a millionaire than a billionaire, in many respects.
CapEx going forward is $10B vs. $8B in the past. That doesn't account for all of it (lower margin due to the mini is part of it) but apple is a manufacturing machine and spends a lot of money in early product cycles to get supply brought on line.

This impacts GM in the short term, with profitability increasing over several quarters.
So the important question is what's the appropriate punishment... if this was his motives (assuming it's accurate)?

The illegality of Aarons actions is debatable, but the sentencing and lawyering by the DoJ has been seen as inappropriate and over-zealous by almost all spectators.
Quora is great, but in my mind, it was the next Wikipedia-like site that is focused on Q&A, rather than a Facebook-like site that is focused on Q&A.

The fact that they have to monetize hurts their user experience because they push features such as requiring you to sign to view answers.
>You could make the back room potentially a lot smaller if it was all in a machine.

You might not want to, though. You might want to keep the redundant infrastructure around in case the automation breaks down and you need somebody to flip burgers in the interim, after all, the jobs you're replacing aren't terribly skilled.
It's because it makes you sound like a clock watcher.

There's also the hours vs productivity issue. Managers STILL would rather you were less productive but in the office for more hours. Even though it makes no sense.

With a salary it's often implied that you'll be there until the job is done and 9-5 is a minimum. So to negotiate hours is like saying "can I do less work for the same money?"

I always find myself happier in a job where I can negotiate my hourly rate and my weeks work can fluctuate.

I fought really hard at my last contract to get a 35 hour week over 4 days. It lasted a while and then they said they needed me to be there 5 days - still 35 hours though. They gained nothing except to distrupt my work/life balance.

It really gets me how some people come in super early but then spend their day actively avoiding work.

In my shorter working week I fixed more issues, took more calls, worked through every job role in the department, built a productivity system to actually prove what we were achieving and presented 2 ideas to save the company £200k every year (they're implementing them now)

Yet those that punch the clock and rack up the hours are preferred!
I have no issue with his personality being judged in the court of public opinion but I must ask if you really think he deserves this case being brought against him?

Like the man or not, it's pretty easy for any technically savvy individual to see your information was leaked by AT&T, not this guy. He just pointed out what was going on. And this is hardly an "exploit" so much as stumbling across a glaring bug that he did report to a news organization, not leverage for profit.

Does this really deserve a sentence that will effectively ruin a mans life (beyond the damage that has allegedly already been done)? Have you so much as stopped doing business with AT&T?

I think the public has some responsibility to demand the justice system be fair for all individuals without bias, not just the ones we like. It's probably also worth asking what is being done about companies, like AT&T in this case, that are carelessly releasing said private information to the public while we are actively prosecuting people who stumble across it.
"Really don't get all the Quora hate on HN."

I'm not sure what's hard to get exactly. How would you like it if Google forced you to sign in to search and then one day told the whole world what you were searching for? Yes they backtracked on the latter but it's fucking ridiculous that it would have even went live in the first place. It makes me never want to sign in to Quora again. And since you can't even browse the site effectively without signing in, the whole thing is useless.
Though I haven't used it myself, Dragonbox got a lot of attention some time ago.

See, for example, this Wired article:
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2012/06/dragonbox/all/

Here's an earlier HN discussion:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4105397
I was going to question whether Mexico is a third world country but I did some googling and yeah, I guess that's an okay assessment. But I think the term "developing country" would be more appropriate.

I think Mexico can be more easily grouped with the BRIC countries, rather than, say, Kenya and Cambodia.

I guess the only point I really want to make is that naming and labeling is a difficult problem, even outside of computer science.
Although I would never do this myself, if the keys themselves are encrypted with a password and then uploaded, it's not nearly as bad.
The western democracies are in a position to be in a post scarcity world if we choose to be. There is no reason that everyone cannot have the basics of food, shelter, health, and security. We also do not need perpetual 20% unemployment. One important dividend could be increased leisure time. We went from 60 hour workweeks to 40 hours, so why not 30 hour workweeks or 6 weeks of vacation per year. We are mot yet at the point where we can automate tasks that require mobility and some level of skill, such as a UPS delivery person.

I think we are also at the point where we as individuals dont need a barrage of new physical things every year. We can still make significant progress with new virtual products and more efficient and durable physical goods.
Sorry, are you saying no one on HN shops at Walmart or that there is a more successful store?
Not everything needs statistics to ring a bell.

I've seen two grandfathers of mine on which absurd medical care was given: one was seriously ill and maintained as a living mummy for months (he did look as bad as people who were rescued from extermination camp at the end of WWII) and another who, while in coma, had a leg cut off although everyone knew he wouldn't wake up. Who the heck wants to wake up with only one leg when one know you'll die in the next few hours / days of terrible cancers that spread throughout the whole body?

It's precisely what this article is talking about because it's really what's going on.

People dying in an environment they're not familiar with, experienced things they never experienced during their whole life: broken ribs due to overzealous CPR, one leg cut off, tubes everywhere.

I've had a girlfriend who was a doctor and the sheer number of crazy situation like this she was describing were insane.

Believe me: this is very real and you probably don't want the statistics.

Because the probability that you will notice, the day your day has come, that you're missing one leg while feeling your ribs being broken is very far from zero.
As wind turbines get bigger, the loads on the blades, and therefore their weight, goes up exponentially.

is that true? i would have expected it to be some fixed power, like length^3. exponential means (technically) that it goes as k^length. maybe here it just means "quickly"?
Tom Chiarella on the Happiness of Aaron Swartz
Apple on the way to being Sony
I think the author is being a little uncharitable to MS. While he's correct that the whole company isn't going OSS any time soon, there's a decent number of projects that are "fully" OSS (as in they take contribs) and even more where the source is available.

So they're not just making sure OSS works with their products. In a lot of situations (esp in dev tools) they are actively promoting and releasing OSS.
The blog layout didn't have to exactly copy the default Wordpress layout. But the ease of use is awesome in terms of selecting topics to write about, showing the count of people following that topic. Quora would be a much more frequented place with blogs being visible without signing up.
Ivy and Maven repository without the insanity of the POM files... it works and stays out of your way.
Maybe the problem is that we think we're supposed to be serious. Writing code is fun, or at least it should be whenever possible.
I don't see how any of these things are "never admitted".

I'm not quite sure what the first point is even trying to say beyond "some people don't like Ubuntu" or "Ubuntu is going down the route of profit for Canonical" (both of which aren't somehow magically incompatible with the goals of free software or are somehow being suppressed by the free software movement).

The rest are quite freely admitted and openly discussed by free software and open source people, even if some people don't necessarily agree.

On the sexism front, that's widely discussed (and, well, dismissed too, sadly).

Microsoft? Sure, the loud-and-proud anti-Mono crowd make their feelings heard. But I think most people pretty much know that Microsoft are changing their tune on open source, especially around developer facing stuff (F#, IronRuby, numerous other things like that have been open sourced; .NET developer conferences have had talks from people talking about things they like and use in competing free software projects like Postgres).
>Except for thief, lottery, inheritance, marriage, or trickery, money is made when you've created value for others.

Creating value for others [1] or creating wealth?

1: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent_seeking
Not a single self-made woman makes the top 100

Ever consider orthogonal strategies?
Despite the quarter being a week shorter, YoY growth on the iPhone and iPad unit sales was around %30.

So, even if that's what Wall Street expected it seems ... off... to be down so much.

I think the reality is, some people expected %50 growth, and Wall Street doesn't like the fact that the margins are smaller.

The margins being smaller, however, goes hand in hand with what it takes to produce the massive growth... and the margins will improve.

Which is why markets aren't perfectly efficient... and people have an opportunity to profit from this kind of nonsense.
Is it really? Asif Zardari, the president of Pakistan, is estimated to have $1.8 billions. There was a recent uproar in India about some people storing billions in foreign banks etc.

Point is: if you redirect money from where it was intended to be, you can make a lot of money. Especially in 3rd world countries where systems to keep this behavior in check are too weak or non-existent.

(I don't know how Mr.Slim made his money though; I'm commenting more on the surprise for billionaire's from 3rd world countries)
Poll: Does Playing Video Games Affect Your Sleep?
Yes! We call it Historical Analytics. We're waiting till the next release to enable the visualizations, but you can start collecting data now by enabling it.
PostgreSQL concurrency performance dramatically improved
> maybe grails is the right answer

The poster probably means gradle. I am not pointing this out to be pedantic, but because it's not a given that every reader will know their way around the universe of build tools.
I said it was indirect.

The point is actually that it's not presentational at all. Time is far, far more complicated than your link implies; just read the comments in the HN thread: they're full of explanations for why it's oversimplifying.

Also, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time_standard

The essential problem comes down to the assumption that "a second" is a well-defined unit of measurement. The Wikipedia article sums it up nicely.

For applications like the vast majority of customer-facing web stuff? We rarely care about anything more precise than a minute, if that. It makes sense to isolate stuff into the presentation layer here, since the backend generally deals in milliseconds for logging anyways. But you can't generalize "customer-facing web stuff" into "anything a general purpose programming language might be used for": some of those things really care about the exactness of time and a specific time standard.
I have been working at a newspaper for the past 8 years (I'm 27). At first I loved my job, it was all new to me. I started off as a graphic artist building print ads for local businesses, I then moved departments to IT/WEB where I've been for the past 5 years. My job description has been butchered over and over due to people being laid off.

I now build web ads (banners), maintain 5 newspaper sites, provide tech support to 3 offices, book online ads, run Advertiser Reports, run page view reports, move furniture, work on door locks, etc...

I have grown to hate my job. No one in my office can program other than myself, which sucks. I have no one to bounce ideas off of, too busy for side projects. The pay is shit, the people are nice. The publisher is clueless and is not held accountable by our parent company, but then again the newspaper industry as a whole is clueless.

My skills have not improved much, but I've learned a little bit of everything. Some people take the phrase "Jack of all trades, master of none" as a compliment, I'm starting to take it as an insult. I am OK at a lot of stuff, but not great at anything.

I've tried getting out but my location does not help me much.

I would love to have job satisfaction and not have to worry about money so much.

Find a job that you love.
Youth expelled after finding security flaw receives job, scholarship offers
Metro 2033 is most likely in good hands. The parent company that bought them owns Deep Silver, who published one of the great games of the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series[1], which I think Metro pulls from. Random fun fact, but the first S.T.A.L.K.E.R. game was also published by THQ. Probably why THQ were so interested in Metro 2033, which came shortly after.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S.T.A.L.K.E.R._%28series%29
I think the idea is that developers who are also gamers are probably going to fit a certain company culture.

Personally, I like working with other developers who like games and good beer. I haven't had great experiences with the type who lock themselves in their offices and don't come to happy hour.
I wonder how new this policy is. I've had http://www.readwritehack.com registered with Namecheap since 2008.
i like lout for general (non-mathematical) work.

http://www.qtrac.eu/lout.html
I've seen retina displays (in the store, anyway) and couldn't really tell the difference. But maybe I'm just old. Size and weight and amount of disk/memory all matter to me but screens have already been "good enough" for years.
The power differential is everything. By not addressing this in your comments, your opinion comes off as very light-weight and people are probably reacting to that.

Two relationship partners have roughly equal power, or failing that at least not a 100x or more disparity. This makes it a terrible analogy. The whole point of labour laws is to address this disparity.
Yeah, I'll be working in Center City and it seems like there are some nice places to live. What do you think about the area around Penn?
Typical. You blame the person who discovered the hole instead of the incompetent developers and negligent company that made millions from cutting corners.

Actually, if anyone needs to go to jail over it, it's the management team that didn't care to implement any security. After all, no hacking was done, just simple URL editing. If that's a crime, leaving the server open that way is a far bigger one.
A price/earnings ratio of 10 is fairly common for blue chip stocks. It certainly isn't priced for growth, so presumably investors think that Apple's earnings have a risk of plateauing. Given how high Apple's earnings are, there's certainly an argument to be made that they can't go much higher without another big hit.

Keep in mind that earnings != cash. If you look at their full SEC filing, their net increase in cash was $5.4 billion. Some of that money will be directed towards future R+D, some toward a dividend, and some will stay in the bank or used for acquisitions.

Companies with a healthy balance sheet and a lot of cash, like Apple, will either pay a dividend or buyback shares long before the book value of the company (cash + other assets - debt) is greater than their market cap. The market cap is more likely to be close to the book value for a struggling company, in which case the company is at risk for a private buyout + liquidation.
I snickered at this part: "Two previous cases involving Isaac's videos have resulted in mistrials. One trial ended because of publicity regarding the judge, who was found to have posted sexually-explicit material to a publicly accessible personal website."
Unscientific poll being conducted for a 6th grader's very scienctific science project.
New Game from the Creators of Spirited Away
It's worth pointing out the while NameCheap is a accredited registrar, they register all customer domains via eNom. You'll be subject to Demand Media's (eNom's parent company) whims and policies.
I've worked on two build systems (and used many more). The conclusion I have arrived at is you don't want a declarative-only system (like Ant). They can be convenient but as your needs grow more complex they start becoming a hindrance.

Instead, you want general purpose language that builds the build dag using the build system as a library. This gets you control and customisability for free, and you can still get reuse through code libraries.
some type of criminal trespass

When you send packets to an internet-connected device, and that device sends some packets back to you, that is not "trespass". You haven't "gone" anywhere, and you certainly didn't cross any "property lines". Much in the way that the copyright mafia wants to redefine "piracy" from "murder and plunder on the high seas" to "listening to a friend's MP3", numerous other bad people will be thrilled when the public accepts "SYN,SYN-ACK,ACK" as a new meaning of "trespass".
I am still intrigued as to what happened because it has ramifications. Did Gawker report something which did not happen? OR Did Andrew indeed play mischief?

Off topic -

> He is correct that the end result of disclosure is shades of gray - not black and white, as we've seen recently with the student in Montreal who was suspended.

Well, the Montreal youth seems to be offered a job from the same part time company which led to his expulsion [0]. I kind of predicted this on HN 2 days back [1]. :-D

[0] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5106329

[1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090108
Stop talking about your startup idea
Did you try livechat? I'd be curious if it was "potato" or "hacker" that was blacklisted.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chi_(letter)
Apple Shares Plunge 10 Percent After-Hours on Earnings Per Share Decline
Apparently, he's been offerred a job from Skytech!

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090108
I'm actually quite pleased with that, Sega seems like a good home for Relic. They seem to do ok with The Creative Assembly (Total War games). Homeworld 3 please :)
I recommend you split your app into two. You can make the main download with the harmless permissions, and then a secondary download with all the extra gunk.

A good example of this is Elixir 2 which has various add-ons. There are several ways of doing it depending on how deep you need the integration to be. And it provides a way to add optional future functionality.
In a free market, whenever it is financially rational to insure someone, it would happen.

Which is why healthcare-as-insurance is so perverse.

So, someone probably couldn't get insurace that covers their preexisting condition (which wouldn't be fair to the insurer), but they could get coverage for other things.

Would you perhaps like to volunteer at a hospital some time? Maybe you could explain objectivist principles to parents with children born with 'pre-existing conditions' like spina bifida or taysach's syndrome? Explain that they'll have to deal with a child's debilitating illness without financial aid? Maybe you could read Atlas Shrugged during storytime at a children's cancer ward? You could explain to all of those little 'Takers' how unfair their treatment is to their parent's insurance companies?
My bet is that Red Faction comes along with Volition.
Hah, fantastic!

I just did a search on my name and found a litle project I had never heard of that was based of a little thing I did.

Kind of ego boosting and nice to know that some things you do are actually found useful by people.
And with a paperclip antenna, it's leaking harmonics all over the place, not just at 450MHz or 100MHz, or whatever.
until we get swamped. few days or a week probably.
While this is excellent, most of my search likely just revolves around particular repositories. So while I'm addressing issues or writing comments, I can make searches like `branch:feature/foobar OrderModel` or `file:app/config.yml` and the like returning blazingly fast results.

Is GitHub working on something similar? Or am I the only one who'd want search for this purpose?
How America's Top Colleges Reflect the Country's Racial Evolution
#6 and #7 on the list are the Koch brothers. Under the categories "inherited" or "self-made" Bloomberg lists them as "self-made". Only 29 of the 100 are listed as having inherited their wealth. Ibn Saud's grandson, Alwaleed Al Saud is #16 and is also listed by Bloomberg as self-made. I guess even if you're the grandson of the guy your country is named after, you can still be listed as self-made by Bloomberg. Happy to see these self-made guys pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and became billionaires.
It is probably as simple as Google beat expectations while Apple missed expectations, these expectations being priced into the share price before the announcement. The share prices are now just correcting based on the actual results.
So long THQ.

I hope SEGA will make good use of my favorite games.
Show HN: Caderno - A minimal notepad for Android
Not a prob! :) These were single people with a limited budget. I do have a Bidsketch customer that almost falls into this category (and I helped find a dev), but I didn't include him since he runs a small SEO shop where he's used to outsourcing and had tens of thousands to help him fund the development. Dane Maxwell, which Nathan mentions and doesn't have dev experience, also took the outsourcing approach in building his $40k+/month web app. Though he had a few years experience trying to bootstrap other apps before he was successful to that level.
That's awfully strange. If you were wanting to do anything clandestine you would think to use the most unoffensive domain possible, not advertise that you are now going to do something untoward to your visitors.
Quantum entanglement allows information rate to exceed Shannon 0-error capacity
"the rationale"

Joe Bull thinks maybe Apple will have a super blowout beat $60 bln quarter the way last xmas quarter beat estimates by a mile. If so the stock will go north of $600 fast, maybe push $700. Didn't happen so he sells.
I'm not sure this is quite as true as we think it is. Long before the internet we had physical newsletters and pamphlets and fliers with their own slants, and we had newspapers with agendas of their own and no particular standard of ethics, &c, &c. I'm not sure "headline makes me click it when I see it on Google" is a worse pressure than "headline makes me buy a paper when child selling papers on the corner shouts it".

That said, there's unquestionably room for improvement.

I do expect that bubbles have got less regional.