skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I made an iPhone app to show Stanford how much I would love to attend
I'm pretty big into developing iPhone apps, it's something I really enjoy doing. So I thought I could possibly use those skills to make something neat to show Stanford to make myself stand out and show how much I would love to go there. B/c it takes time before Apple accepts/denies an app, I decided to just make a video and post it on my blog. Feel free to check it out.

I sent an email to Stanford admissions and I plan on showing it to the alumni who's interviewing me this Saturday(good/bad idea?). Is there anything else I can do to make sure it gets shown to the people reading my application, or is there nothing much that I can do?

http://www.hellostanford.alexgreene.me
Consider how many LinkedIn users are active. Probably fewer than 25%. I'm guessing the top 10% are the people who use LinkedIn a few times per month (like I do).

People who use LinkedIn actively will get way more views since they will be adding connections and viewing other people's pages more (LinkedIn emails people your contact info if you view their page).

At first, being top 5% made me feel popular. But considering the pool includes users who created an account 3 years ago and haven't touched it since, I'm not so sure.
Social media is a fact of life for social movements
Show HN: Watch your favourite TV show opening themes
You have to pay for failed authorization attempts
> isn't limited to hiding their identities or living in another country

Cause, you know, it's so hard to sign up for an account on a website in another country over the Internet. A good point you got there. Sounds nothing like FUD.

> provide automated tools to get their TV shows through alternate means, but the moment you do that, you limit options for the product you're trying to build

This is one area where there is a clear advantage to releasing on Android over iOS.
Actually, before the modern programming languages (say pre-1990 for simplicity), "perl" was just as common a word as "java" (though falling), and at one point "miranda" was substantially more so. "pearl" is only around 100x more common than "perl". "basic" is certainly FAR more common than any of the above, including "pearl".

http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=java%2Cperl%2Cm...

I'll assume you've never knitted.
Ask HN: Do Hackers want Communication Skills?
I want to judge the demand developers have for learning communication skills.

I believe developers could greatly benefit from learning how to effectively communicate to non-technical people, as from my experience, the archetypal coder tends to struggle with such circumstances. Yet, in today's world, these skills are necessary in order to climb the corporate ladder. Not only do I believe these skills are necessary for developers, but also for entrepreneurs who need to be able to market and sell themselves and their services.

I understand that there are many people who teach communication skills to a general audience, but I feel like this specific group needs to be addressed in accordance with their situation and unique needs. I believe this is how I can provide the most value to this community, but want to verify that this community would even be interested in such a skill set.

So my question: If I was to create a site that helped technical people with public speaking, overcoming oratorical obstacles, and communicating with non-technical people effectively, would you want it? Would you use it? Is this a real pain point that needs to be solved for a lot of people?

Please let me know your thoughts on this; any input at all is appreciated.
If management did not came with this the investors could "force" Apple to do as they please in an assembly as is their right, they can also vote to oust the CEO, Steve Jobs or any John Doe, if they wish, they are owners of the company after all and they're there for the money not generally for any love for the company.
I've seen ISPs that use 10.x.x.x addresses internally, so a tracepath from the local network would show an intermediate router with a 10.x.x.x address.
"Be about something more than just Star Trek."

I happily consider myself a lifelong stereotypical geek but my wife is not. While she accepts and loves me for who I am, I need to have more in my life than just math and Internet spaceships and hacking or we wouldn't relate to each other well.

Hopefully his friend really does have more going on in his life than carefully-organized Star Trek VHS tapes for the sole reason that only having one dimension to his life means he's missing out on a lot.
I was one of those kids back in the days of Runescape. I don't think reporters grasp what the term "coding skills" means.
"As our new CEO, Eric [Schmidt] wanted to control costs and to lay down the law his first day in Dodge. And I also wasn't surprised that Larry and Sergey hadn't bothered telling him our marketing group wasn't like others he might have worked with, or, if they had, that he hadn't believed them.

We nodded our heads and interjected, where we could, muttering amens and hosannas when he let us. He seemed to hear some of it. When we let him know that Google t-shirts were our biggest expense, he smiled approvingly.

'That's fine keep doing that. If someone likes our product enough to want to wear our brand, we should do everything we can to make it possible. And it's great for staff morale to have everyone decked out in the company logo.' He would soon be signing off on expenditures for preshrunk cotton in the seven-figure range...

'Why don't we have Google t-shirts for women?' Sergey demanded of me after a female visitor left the office with our standard extra-large men's t-shirt. He was as upset as I'd ever seen him. When a woman in France chastised him about American companies and their enormously oversized t-shirts that no French woman would wear, he insisted that we address the problem once and for all. I ordered women's shirts - more than I thought we could ever give away - but we couldn't keep them in stock. I didn't understand why they were so popular, given our limited female staff, until my cousin thanked me for the one I had sent her and added, 'They're quite see-through. Was that intentional?'

-"I'm Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee 59", Douglas Edwards, p221-222
I don't know why a programmer would limit them self with static data tools when d3 and processing provide beautiful, dynamic, and interactive solutions with a similar learning curve. The only difference is you can use the JavaScript chops you pick up learning d3 in any front end work you do.
Here's the perfect example for one of my suggestions: I just went to the pogdesign/cat site and saw there's an Under the Dome series coming up, but not for another 4 months. Can't add it to followshows yet though to get reminded about it closer to its air date.
forums.
Yeah, I also need more information before I sign up. There isn't anything that tells me about the sources of the shows, the genre/region of shows, the availability of shows I care about, etc.

I would suggest a "How it works?" section or something.
> I did downvote him because I felt like blatantly admitting to downloading TV shows with no further comments on the site in question didn't really help the discussion at all.

Because, you know, comparative functionality of media is never of any use -- especially if it's to the "free/not-exactly-legal" part of the Internet.
Developers and Entrepreneurs: A Tale of Two Mindsets
You're commenting on the now deleted original post I comment on, right? Because I think modals a great and perfectly valid for a lot of things.
Do you really need to categorize and dismiss all scientists that way? It certainly doesn't jive with my experiences, which only means that there's variance in the population.
Libcurl remote code execution
That's actually quite interesting! Thanks for the link, it's always very awesome to hear speeches by the people "behind the magic."

Also, I thought this quote on the page you linked was pretty humorous: "[HD Moore] is the Chief Architect of Metasploit, a popular video game designed to simulate network attacks against a fictitious globally connected network dubbed “the internet”.
Right, because UAC assumes someone who is logged in as an admin is supposed to be. I configure sudo like this on some of my dev machines, easier and I don't care about them (usually just VMs).

Why not just restrict the execution policy? I don't really know PS thta well, but doesn't that stop arbitrary (or any) scripts?
Here I note that while JRuby and IronRuby ported parse.y, CPython, Jython, and IronPython use totally different parsing (CPython rolls its own parser generator, Jython uses ANTLR, IronPython does handwritten recursive descent parsing) but are still comatible with each other.
This will be interesting...
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Agreed, on both counts. I used to wear pretty much only white Ts and only as undershirts, but lately I've been collecting more and more graphic (but not too noticeable) Ts that work well under a collared shirt.

And if just rolling up the sleeves isn't enough for a manual labor situation, you can have a stylish undergarment!
This conversation is extremely shortsighted. Activism isn't about individual acts, it's about ==knowing== the end result is far too valuable f
Certainly, but the OSes that people typically encounter are, so they expect that because it's what they see.
Yeah, I have no issues with Core Data. It's also not so complex, IMO. I'm going to have to do a migration to iCloud document for existing users with my next release, though.
people use R for much more than data visualization, doing regressions, fitting SVMs, decisions trees, GARCH and ARMA time series models, isn't really trivial in javascript.

also ggplot, while more limited is way easier and faster than d3 for doing the specific things that ggplot is good at. But for statistics, that's usually what you want
Also, to follow up, I stumbled onto http://followshows.com/popular and that helped me understand the service better
How to Better Understand the Flu - Science Behind H_N_
My PHP Book Just Hit #1 At Amazon - Grab It Free
Sorry, I don't think what you wrote makes any sense.

He's comparing "any decent php web framework" to Python or Ruby, because neither of those languages are used without frameworks to develop web-apps?
Just do it. As soon as you start thinking you need to "judge the demand" before executing an idea, you never will.
You are a developer? Is jschuur another developer working with you?
My problem with a T-Shirt is that I will never wear it.

Yet at the same time, I can't think of anything quite as universal to use for showing an achievement or membership.

I guess if worse comes to worse I can enchant it.[0]

[0]: http://nethackwiki.com/wiki/shirt
Hewlett-Packard Joins Push to Limit Use of Student Labor in China
I came here to post this. I just found the email I received back when I was single, specifically on 10/12/11, and this is what it looked like: http://cl.ly/image/2A2N41383T38

This was clearly an ego boost, though not something you tweet about or post on Facebook (the taboo of online dating + sounding like a major douche).

OkCupid has been doing stuff like this with data for a really long time and they deserve some credit as well.
It is very strange. I love the AA women's cuts, but they are way smaller than most women's clothing sizes. It's really awkward to give them out because I have to tell people that they're going to need a bigger size.
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Kandan - an open Source alternative to HipChat
> For comparisons of a string column with a number, MySQL cannot use an index on the column to look up the value quickly. If str_col is an indexed string column, the index cannot be used when performing the lookup in the following statement:

> SELECT * FROM tbl_name WHERE str_col=1;

add index please
Someone needs to learn about Lisp dialects and homoiconicity IMHO.

Paul Graham's essay: "Beating the average" may be a good starting point for you.
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Yes and sign me up for beta.
Fitocracy had this earlier.

I poked around a bit. When you include Facebook's JS, it calls on a PHP file which (inter alia) returns a <meta> tag with a redirection instruction taking you to the broken page.
I'm in the top 1%, can I feel special ;)

P.S. Looks like at least two versions were sent out, one with 5% and another with 1% that I got. Were there other?

From a marketing standpoint it worked, since now people are talking about it.
Build the site; it may not make you e-famous, or a millionaire, but I'm sure it would help someone.

It is a pain point for many people, not just in the hacker scene.
In Australia it's definitely just Lego
WinRT is actually kind of neat: they've taken what were before .NET-only APIs (like WPF), wrapped them in some sort of reference counting technology, and made these APIs callable from C++ code in a fairly easy ways. Reference counting does seem like its displacing garbage collection a bit, but that was true for iOS also. C# interoperates transparently.

I'm a MS researcher but I don't speak for Microsoft. That being said, I'm a big fan of SharpDX and MonoGame for my personal projects. They work well enough that I have avoided going native. Ya, I'm still a bit miffed that this isn't supported out of the box, but in practice its easy to work around.
I'm saying that on the same news, one person interpreted it as a buy signal and one person interpreted it as a sell signal.
That site enters directly into Radar the internal bug tracking system where ALL bugs are triaged. It is very much used.

And I my suggestion for your issue (which I have seen in the past but definitely isn't consistent) is to try restarting Xcode and getting rid of preferences.
I think a 10% email was sent out too, if I can believe one of my friends.
To all those suffering from Core Data + iCloud syncing: we built Simperium (YC S10) to solve this problem. The iOS/OSX and JavaScript libraries are open source, with the backend to follow (or you can use the hosted service). The site is at http://simperium.com and the repos are at http://github.com/Simperium

We were recently acquired by Automattic, and we're now putting more resources into the project (for example to make it work on Android as well). If cost for the hosted service is a concern for you, you can get in touch and we'll work something out (info@simperium.com).
Have you ever tried some of the competing brands - the quality is terrible!
My kids enjoy both!
I agree with a lot of you about PHP being quite great for the applicable job. I just tend to feel the hn community can be pretty biased at times. Either way, I appreciate the input. Lots of great points made, particularly:

"You can make a masterpiece in any programming language."

and

"Keep your eye on new things but don't forget that professional programmers -- those who get paid for programming -- shouldn't hobble themselves by insisting on only using their favorite language or tools."

I actually enjoy javascript better than PHP even though it tends to be more tedious.
I just found out about the site today. I thought about a site like this a while back, but wasn't able to build it myself, so I'm happy to see someone implement it in such an elegant interface.

Enough about me though. This thread is an opportunity for Dan and his co-creators to get feedback on what they've built.
Finding a Technical Co-Founder – Part 1
jschuur is not involved with the site, no. I am one of the owners though, yes.
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If you send me enough good pull requests then I might do that!
Do you mean pay money for each auth attempt?? I've never heard of such a charge. Maybe time for a new gateway/bank?
To be honest, I found the entire coursera course on programming for data analytics to be in the same vein. So much time was spent explaining what each optional parameter to a function did that I skipped at least 50% of each lecture.
Sure Lerdford is smarter than most hackers. But I you compare him with Guido, Larry, Goslin, etc is not match.And I think it shows in the language.
The greater purpose isn't to be disobedient or revolt against the system; it's progress-- or in Aaron's case to build a semantic web (3.0). We're so quick to credit him for web 2.0 without realizing that many rules had to be broken to get here. Books were scanned, CD's were ripped, the system was pissed. The web will always be disruptive to the past; progressing it is not easy nor always legal; but it is right.
That was probably the proximate quote, but interestingly this has been a fairly common metaphor. Catullus is the oldest use I'm aware of, but I have no doubt it is older.

http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Catullus_22
Im marking this as spam.
You forgot the Macbook.
> Macbook Air is a full-blown computer (I run several VMs on mine), while Surface is a freaking tablet.

You are wrong. The Surface Pro, which is what we're talking about here, is a full-blown computer just like the MBA. It can run VMs as well. Or any other software you can run on a windows laptop.
Python by far...
> My PHP Book Just Hit #1 At Amazon

PHP Programming For Affiliate Marketers best seller in . . . "Kindle Store > Kindle eBooks > Nonfiction > Computers & Internet > Programming > PHP Category"

Well you can't blame a guy for trying I guess.
Simply letting the author know.
Currently, it's the only free PHP Kindle book:
http://www.amazon.com/Best-Sellers-Kindle-Store-PHP-Computer...

But can't complain about free books, I guess.
When I checked earlier today there were 20+ free php books...not sure why Amazon is only showing mine now...
It's #2 in the overall programming category and #1 in php...shrugs neat.
A free book about coding at Hackernews is spam?
But Microsoft won't own the entire desktop market forever. If anything Linux is going to dominate that on the low-mid-range when Android and Chrome OS are merged and Ubuntu on the high end for workstations and gamers.
Hey, I'll take it!
I've never worked with iCloud, so I'm curious: why do devs say that Dropbox is so much better than iCloud? From what I've seen, both work similarly in that they abstract out the cloud as part of the file system. Wouldn't you still have to resolve conflicts and do all that other dirty stuff if you use Dropbox?

Edit: potatolicious has a pretty great explanation. It looks like it's mostly CoreData issues. But for those cases, Dropbox wouldn't do any better, right?
I don't have cable, so I will be watching it at a friends house. I just need an email telling me it will be on soon so I can invite myself over ahead of time ;)
Ahh, maybe it's the demo page that doesn't support them then? They came up as an error for me.
Come on. Not about suppressing your hobby, it's about not being identified solely with it.

That's the stuff you pull out after you get married. Then it eventually ends up in a small closet about 5 years later. Ultimately, it ends up being what you have around you as you get old again. Life's funny that way.
I think trying to cast stones at JavaScript from PHP land is foolishness, but I agree with your assessment of the PHP string function situation. This project seems to produce PHP code that is an order of magnitude uglier than ordinary PHP. (No mean feat.)

Why not simply implement a nice string class wrapped around ordinary strings with consistently parameterized chainable methods? The resulting code would be cleaner and more idiomatic (in a good sense). I don't think the "win" from doing this is worth the bother (unless maybe UTF8 support were managed as well).
Take two magazines. Use a plasma cutter and then weld them together.

See: http://www.defensereview.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/High...

Another option is to get a redi-mag. Essentially it holds two magazines right next to each other and switches between them if one jams.

See: http://www.redi-mag.com

Limits on guns don't really stop anyone who is slightly determined.
Seems to be dead, not an update in over two months.
Jquery is a reference for designing a clean API and I suspect (this library aside) many php coders would have liked if php 6 move this way. But php core dev are waaay too conservative.
This outage goes to show that a lot of people who have implemented Facebook Connect are doing it wrong. If the only way people can login to your website or application is via Facebook then you deserve every bit of downtime you get (cynical, but true). You should never solely rely third party service at any time, regardless of how big to fail they appear to be. Always allow a user to login more ways than one.
The new skill endorsements are hilariously pointless - back when I had it enabled I didn't see a single person endorse me for skills they actually know about, but plenty of people were using it pointlessly. People I know but haven't worked directly with in those areas. I remember I had a meeting a month ago with two people I'd never met before, a day later we were connections, a day later they both endorsed me for a bunch of stuff from "PR" to "events management" - how did they even think they could justify clicking those things for me?

However LinkedIn is still pretty good at letting you get what you want out of it. I've not yet spoken to anyone who doesn't share my/your view of "these skill endorsements are hilariously dumb", and consequently we've disabled them - no longer are they seen on my profile, nor do I get emails about people endorsing me.

Number of profile views isn't meaningful, but who viewed your profile can be - I'm one of the ones dropping $500/yr on my account, I'd say 60% of my reasoning is for the InMails, 20% is seeing exactly who viewed my profile, 20% is that whether it's logical or not, people who don't know you do look at the little premium badge on your profile and think very slightly differently of you.
I think it's more that he's been surprisingly honest about Apple at times when most people expect someone in his position to be an uncritical fanboy.

I'm always impressed when Woz criticizes Apple or praises one of its competitors.

It makes me more likely to listen to him.
A few resources that might speed the learning curve

Survival guide

http://www.win-vector.com/blog/2009/09/survive-r/

Tutorials

http://www.statmethods.net/index.html

http://heather.cs.ucdavis.edu/~matloff/r.old.html

http://www.twotorials.com/

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/R_Programming

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Paradis-rdebuts_en.pdf

Docs

http://cran.r-project.org/manuals.html

StackOverflow

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/r?sort=votes&p...

Cheat sheeets

http://cran.r-project.org/doc/contrib/Short-refcard.pdf

http://bit.ly/VHPA3G

R Journal
http://journal.r-project.org/

R News (predecessor to R Journal)
http://cran.r-project.org/doc/Rnews/

Rseek search engine
http://rseek.org/

R could use something like the Python ecosystem intro, explaining where to find stuff, not sure if any of the tutorials are as canonical as for instance Dive Into Python or Learn Python The Hard Way.
Reddit: If the Quran is digitally deleted does that mean it has been desecrated?
want to be popular? Be good looking.
ah, didn't see that.
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I was thinking of writing an iPad app that does a "synced" viewing of a video for two geographically separated people. The movies would play at very close to the same time, and pausing one app would pause the other. It would be for people in long distance relationships.
Or even better, Apple now lets you boot from the web using the built-in firmware for recovery...

See internet recovery: http://www.apple.com/osx/recovery/
Show HN: Check whether IP address is assigned by KRNIC
Cracking AES-256 DMGs
would git like architecture been any good for this?
yeah I used KIM-1 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KIM-1 , fun :-)
Illegally Uploaded Movies Crop Up Again on YouTube
What causes the overhead? Is there a way to get the sugar without the calories?
Harmony – a controllerless js library