skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Apple is learning that a record sales and established leadership in your market can still cause your stock to drop 40% over a quarter...So now they are working with hedge fund managers and wall street analysts to offer some complicated trading package. Now Wall street can take credit for AAPL's revival in the markets.
Yes.

This wasn't clear.

>I wonder if the use of Ubuntu font really makes any difference to their users //

What I meant was I wondered if using Ubuntu had any negative effect. Personally I think it adds to the site but then I've Ubuntu font installed.
Not necessarily an article but the video series produced by Kevin Rose, http://foundation.kr/, are pretty insightful into the more human elements of some of the people you may have heard of.
Sure, but it's cheaper to settle than to go to court. Even if it cost me $70 for the domain, I'd happily let it go for $5,000.
> since they're not tied to just one DCVS.

Just for the record, neither is GitHub. :) We've supported Subversion for almost three years now.
Sometimes you just want to quickly edit (not analyze) a large file.
Actually he is quite right and MongoDB is a disaster when it comes to data reliability. The fact that some facts are hard to accept as true and cause feelings to be hurt doesn't change their validity. Not every piece of software is good just because a lot of people use it.
I don't read it as hatred at all.

If you read the Mongo rebuttal it seems as though they willfully misconstrued the points he made in his original post.

Mongo was broken by default in 2.0, that's why they changed the default behavior in subsequent versions. The author even went out of his way to talk about the changed behavior in his first post.

I don't know, this is the first critique of Mongo I've seen that really attacks Mongo stability and I'm eager to see how Mongo responds. The author is correct that Jason's (from Mongo) response left a lot to be desired.

Yes the author appears to dislike Mongo, but if his reasons are correct and his points are valid, discounting his opinion due to word choice seems unnecessary.
With Chrome on Desktop I get blank content where something should be
> I am really enjoying Netflix's House Of Cards as its an exploration of this phenomenon.

Thanks for pointing that out, I will definitely take a look now....love Kevin Spacey.
I guess in the end it depends on what you want to get out of hacker news.

I can see your point, I think its just another clever implementation of what's out...
I would have paid for an everyblock subscription. Sad to see NBC News shut it down.
Everyone needs public speaking skills. If only we could just deal with ourselves and no one else. But the reality of life is that you have to interact with others, usually in a public setting. Publick speaking is not just about giving a speech. I took some toastmasters classes (http://http://www.toastmasters.org/) and it really teaches you how to be an effective leader.
No it's not. The conscious decision to refuse to cooperate with an unjust law is the source of honour.
Facebook's Graph Search: Kiss Your Privacy Goodbye
Surface Pro versus MacBook Air: Who's being dishonest with storage space?
Please notice that I put the word political in quotation marks. Due to his unwillingness to genuinely discuss it, even privately, I have no idea what it is. Most likely, neither do you.

Also, please stop bugging me. You have a track record of hounding me. You have done nothing at all to prove that aren't merely looking for new ways to harrass me.

Thanks.
Wozniak has been a constant naysayer since the original iPhone came out.
Gift cards aren't credit cards. The docs say "a general purpose library for building credit card forms", not "a general purpose library for building payment forms".
He was right on this occasion. I always wait to criticize other people's methods until an occasion when they're actually wrong.
The reason multiple views don't work is that a board is a collective document. Everyone will learn to look at the most common view because they want to know what the average user is seeing.

I took me a while to figure this out but since the design and presentation of a board, a board should have none, zero, alternate views. Instead, a board needs good defaults.
It was a bit snarky, but the points he made were based in fact not opinion. I personally like and use mongo, but I don't pretend it's perfect.
Apple is far more efficient than companies like Google or Microsoft when it comes to reasearch. In the last 15 years, they have produced the iPod, iPhone, iPad, radically different computer designs, OS X, Final Cut, and quite a few other products.

Over the same period, google has produced PageRank. Microsoft has produced nothing innovative.

Apple pays less of its revenue in R&D, but that's because its revenue is so big.
The History of "Hello World"
International Thinktank hiring for Open Source Web Developer (Drupal)
https://www.google.com/search?q=carranza+derogatis+site:ever... might work a little better...
If there were one of these in San Francisco, would people go?

I would, but I'm wondering how much demand (and willingness to help) there is.
Elon Musk may be right about his simple solution for Boeing
How does LO not look nice? What exactly is ugly about it? I used MS Office as well, I certainly don't find it beautiful.
I think LO looks nice enough and is good enough and luckily
I'm not alone believing this.

It has been many years since I stopped installing pirated MS Office suites on friends' computers and used OpenOffice and now LibreOffice instead. No complaints so far.
Quantum physics and consciousness
I just came across this website. It seems pretty new, only a couple 5-minute tutorial videos, 2 30-minute podcasts, and some blog posts. I watched the videos and listened to the podcasts, and so far it seems pretty promising (at least to me).
Advantages Of Liquid Rocket Propellants
Ask HN: 3 NL tech guys in SF, meetup?
Subject:Ask HN: 3 NL tech guys in SF, meetup?

Hi, we're 3 guys from The Netherlands visiting the USA, we're now in Bay Area/SF (with an RV, see http://3guys1rv.com/ for our latest pictures ).

Is anyone interesting to meetup with one (or more) of us?

Remy (31): hardware developer for Plugwise (Dutch startup in smart energy and sensor networks)

Martin (32): freelance hardware developer and industrial design engineer. Worked on projects for various Silicon Valley hardware startups.

Me/Benjamin (28): independent software developer/hacker, phone: mainly Android, web: mainly security & some HTML5/JS, prog: mainly C#/PHP, always learning, currently working on a web app with my brother to easily sign documents (we know the already existing solutions)

We're always willing to share ideas & give (free) advise!
Sure. I mean, it's hard to argue that "The Matrix" wasn't inspired by computer games (Syndicate comes to mind). But that's not what Valve is talking about doing. Presumably they are going to make an action movie with a (talking?) Gordon Freeman as the action hero. Bleh.
That reminds me of HP. I grew up using their awesome technical products (RPN represent!) and now I get sad every time I see them in the news.

Have any pointers on the switch from engineering-driven to whatever they are now? I'd love to read more.
The readme shows a `$.fn.formatCardNumber()` function, so I'd guess they left whether to manipulate the user input up to you.
Of all the things they've banned. Laptop batteries make more sense than any other.
"If I accept it, it will set a precedent for what our time and skills are worth"

You said it. Knowing what you have told us so far, I would say No Deal. Once you set a precedent, it is very hard to go back and tell the client "Hey I took that shitty pay because I love the project. I have been with you for a while now. Can you now give me what I am worth". Most likely, client will say No.
It may not be enough, but GitHub does provide free private repos for students -- https://github.com/edu
Microsoft has produced nothing innovative.

The Kinect was pretty cool.
US Cancels Regular Drone Strikes on Saturdays
My experience is a bit different. After working as a software engineer and suddenly (yes, it was sudden) realizing that I could afford most of the things I had ever wanted, I just didn't want them any more.

I don't find that I want more expensive things, instead I just lost interest in most material objects. Being able to lend/give (I never expected the loan would be repaid) a friend of a friend $3,000 to avoid foreclosure gave me infinitely more satisfaction than anything I could have spent that money on.

Even now, years later, it still amazes me that I simply don't want stuff I don't need. Well, for the most part, anyway :-)
Why Python's Lambda is Broken and Can't be Fixed
I don't know if everyone but me knew about Codepen before but I've found more impressive the fact that I can change any aspect of the work instantly than the animation itself.
Which is what Facebook's Marketplace already emails me about; friends' and friends of friends' listings. Adding it to Pages whose primary intents are not sales seems like a great way to get unwanted spam.
Either that, or he runs the only other engineering company of similar scale using similar batteries under similar conditions.
You and me both! I love the idea of Uber, but I can never seem to justify paying the insane extra expense when I can easily take the alternatives for much cheaper.

Then again, I guess I'm not super rich.
Every steam game I own requires the steam client to be running while I am playing the game, the games become bricked if I remove steam so this is DRM. I can go into offline mode for most games, but the client must always be there.

Installing the game requires both the steam client and a connection, this is authorizing the install and is DRM.
If it's a fundamental design aspect such as the size and spacing of cells in a battery I don't think detailed schematics are necessary. If I saw a sketch of a car design which called for the fuel tank to be an open top 5 gallon plastic bucket sitting in the passenger's seat with a hose going into it I wouldn't need any additional or more finely grained details to be able to definitively say that it's an inherently unsafe system. If I saw a sketch of a bridge with a 50 meter gap in the bridge deck I shouldn't think to myself "oh, maybe it's just for hovercars, or maybe they've invented something revolutionary" I should think "that's a fundamentally broken bridge design". Sometimes the finer details of a design matter, and sometimes there's no possible way for them to correct for a fundamental design error.

Unless Boeing's subcontractors have made ground breaking advances in the design of lithium-ion cells then these criticisms are enormously well founded. And as we've seen those subcontractors have not, in fact, found a magical escape from the fundamental problems of thermal runaway and chain-reaction in lithium-ion cells.
This is the reason why I don't like doing any client side validation of card data (beyond the basic check for empty fields).

I would much rather incur a 2-3sec browser roundtrip by posting raw payment details to my bank/gateway and allowing them to do the validation (they're presumably much better at it than I am).

Doing client side validation is too error prone, and considering that accepting card data is done so rarely, the (minimal) performance gain of JS validation isn't worth the risk of rejecting good data by accident.
That really solves it then, who needs testing, FAA, NTSB and other alphabet agencies!

Maybe you should tweet to Boeing's CEO, let them run to CVS or Radio Shack to buy a few US made batteries and call it a day.
We recently have been having to work around an issue that, on top of all the other issues we've had means we're moving away from mongo entirely. The current issue is that a mapreduce on a cluster into a sharded collection will, at some point, start silently not writing 30% of the data into the sharded collection. And from that point onward, roughly the same amount of data is lost any time it goes to that collection. We have to watch for it and create an entirely new sharded collection to mapreduce into, then everything works fine for a while until that one starts not getting some data. When we create a new collection, we just pick a new name, copy all the previous data over, update the MRs to point to that collection and hit go. I would be able to understand data loss caused by certain durability settings from a client, but on mapreduce results?
That being said, you'd be amazed at how many ruby gems are required to run the average nuclear reactor.
> Panic and recover are non-idiomatic;

Exactly (and probably for a reason)

> In the Go standard library source code, "panic" has pretty much the role 'assert(!"error message")' has in C.

Well, there's no real way to recover after such an assert (the C stdlib is undefined when you catch the SIGABRT, the stack is not guaranteed to be big enough to do anything, most I/O is not guaranteed to work, etc. -- really, very few uses for catching a SIGABRT). There is a way in Go, even if it is far less capable than your average "except .." clause in C++.

> The reality is that Go does not have exceptions the way Python does.

True. Some of us (e.g. me) think that's a big advantage. (I'm not implying you disagree - I don't know what your opinion is)
My personal view on the subject is that for a developer these skills are not overly important and there are a lot of job related things I would prioritize learning over public speaking.

If I'm hired to work on solely the technical side of things, just about the only time I'll ever need to speak in a public setting is if i decide to speak at a conference, which is a normally a decision not a job requirement. If I am an entrepreneur then this is a different story however as public speaking is an absolute must have skill.

I'm not saying that it's not a good skill for people to have in general, but as a developer alone I don't think it is relevant enough for me to choose learning over something technical or design.
Just bring it to the genius bar.
well this is part of a series for Lifehacker -- they've had some other interesting ones in the past (including the Editor of the MIT Tech Review.)
I have an idea for a SaaS app, but I'm putting it on hold to launch a niche site. Hopefully, it leaves me better prepared to tackle the "big idea".
You can read more about it on my blog @
http://www.evanlemke.com

What do you think about this approach?
My favorite part: If you execute a hadouken followed by a shoryuken or jump, the fireball moves up and down as Ken goes up and down.

That would make for some awesome shenanigans if Ken had an opponent.

edit: Kneel+walk also provide some interesting turtling possibilities too.
Animate png sprites with css3 animations
is this still going to be going on? nearly a foot of snow is being predicted for nyc tomorrow night.
Php-o: metaprogramming PHP to give it a saner API
You fly all the time on planes that you can't service.
Kera Releases Step by Step Walkthroughs!
It's funny, but the most "tunnel" like part of HL2, which is arguably the boat journey out of the city, also had some of the most interesting side missions. Even though it was basically one long race down a river, you had to periodically get out and "do stuff" to clear the way, and that branching out helped give the world the illusion of a lot of depth.

I loved HL2 because of it's size, and varied gameplay, and it's humor and intelligence. But, to get back to the original point of this thread, I don't want a movie made out of it! Well, maybe if it has Milla Jovovich in it.
"how it works, how we designed it, or how we built it" is pretty much inclusive of every possibility and doesn't rule anything out. In other words, useless.
Omer Kilic on Erlang, Using the Actor Model for Embedded Systems
A culture of lies and laziness
I have an hp48 emulator on my phone, I use it all the time these days.
I think you misunderstand me. The existing cash pile would remain untouched and therefore would not be subject to any taxes. The preferred shares would earn dividends from Apple which would be paid out from free cash flow. It's a tax efficient way to deliver shareholder value without taking the tax hit like they would if done in the traditional way of a regular dividend or buybacks.

This is just one method of course, another way is to issue debt in the US and use that to repurchase shares/pay dividends. The board will determine what the best way to go about it is, as there are pros and cons to both.
Acne Rosacea Breakthrough
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Although doctors have approved medicines that may have positive results on users, there is no accurate answer to point victims to the right direction since it’s hard to tell what medicine will cause a side effect on the patient and what wouldn’t. For this reason, facedoctor.com has realized that the thought of completely preventing and curing acne is almost unworthy mentioning. This is why it has brought its aid to assist patients who have been victims of acne and likewise, tried other curative means without success.
Maybe it's a West Coast thing...I've worked jobs in Los Angeles and now the valley and company cell phones in lieu of desk phones is the new standard I think. That, and Facebook video chat/Google chat/Skype...
I wouldn't call it hate. He's clearly very frustrated that he carefully worded his points, only to receive responses to points he didn't make.

We've all had those co-workers who come to us with tough to debug problems that we correctly diagnose for them and lay out for them, only to have them gloss over the details and claim the issue we found isn't an issue at all. Their inability to follow the details was the root of their inability to debug the problem. In the case of the blog post, the guy who diagnosed the issue is the one coming to the person with the bug, but this blog post is the same old your-inattention-to-subtle-detail-always-makes-you-come-to-me-I've-always-been-right-in-the-past-so-just-try-my-suggested-fix-before-arguing argument, but happening out in public on the Interwebs.
If a public company does not pay dividends, what is the motivation for an investor to buy their stock? As far as I can see, an investor can only make money by selling to a "greater fool" or waiting in anticipation that the company will pay a dividend.
Found the actual joke in Asimov's The Jokester at http://www.ippt.gov.pl/~vkoval/fantasy.html:

"Johnson," he said, "came home unexpectedly from a business trip to find his wife in the arms of his best friend. He staggered back and said, 'Max! I'm married to the lady so I have to. But why you?'"
Yes. Everyone needs at least some. Just like everyone needs at least basic math and basic reading as a minimum.
You are running a computer that is more than six years old and complaining that you can't use an app that came out today?
It still doesn't (but should): https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights#url=h...
That's great, but evoking the inclined plane sets a totally different context for the meaning of "fundamental" than does an organizer.
CIA and Samsung Have Similar Taste in Cutting-Edge Tech
"purl", surely?
Now that Steve is gone they no longer know what to do with their money. The current management rather then reinvesting the money in the company will simply squander it away by giving it back to stock holders. I'm sure that in a couple of years, when Apple actually starts needing this money, everybody will realize how stupid it was to give away their war chest.

Really, that the current CEO could not think of anything better than to give money back to the stock holders tells me that Apple is now doomed. The guy has no imagination. This move is so typical for a numbers guy. Steve would never have done that. At least not to this extent.

Right now Apple is simply running on inertia but once the momentum is over I expect the entire company will collapse.
Why Functional Languages
"you're paying Elsevier for lending you the weight of their brands, because it's beneficial to you to do so. What's wrong with that?"

1. Academic publishers do nothing to contribute to the strength of these "brands;" the reviewers and editors voluntarily do so. Nobody says, "Springer publishes that journal, so it must be a good one!"

2. Publish-or-perish is extreme destructive to research. Researchers frequently avoid difficult problems because such problems make it hard to publish at the expected rate. The existence of the academic publishing system, combined with the focus on journal names rather than research quality, creates and encourages the publish-or-perish system. The overall effect is detrimental to everyone, including researchers who are forced to shy away from the problems they set out to address in order to meet the demand to publish papers.

"Hell, even tech companies pay for brands. They don't recruit at Berkeley and Stanford just to get a look at peoples' github repositories."

Unlike academic publishers, Berkeley and Stanford actively maintain a level of quality that companies who recruit there expect. At the very least, those schools pay the faculty who make their curricula valuable to students; there is an expectation that by completing the requirements for a degree at such schools, students have proved their merit.

Academic publishers do nothing to maintain the quality of scientific journals; they contribute only their name, and are able to do so only because their businesses receive special, privileged protection by the government (copyrights and trademarks). The "value" of these "brands" is artificial, created by a system of laws that is grossly outdated and which no longer serves its purpose (at least as far as scientific research is concerned). We once needed academic publishers to facilitate the communication of scientific results; times have changed, we now have a better way for scientists to communicate, and all that remains is to incentivize its use (much like we incentivized the academic publishing business with copyright law).

"Signaling, filtering, vetting, vouching are intrinsic to human society"

I fail to see how this is relevant to a discussion about academic publishers, as academic publishers do not do any of the above. Again, review is generally done by volunteers, and editing is frequently voluntary.

"There is nothing coercive about what Elsevier is doing"

Academic publishers coerce researchers into assigning copyrights, and then use those assignments to extract money from those researchers later if they try to reproduce their articles elsewhere. It is coercive because researchers are expected to publish papers in the journals that academic publishers control, and so the researchers must choose between their careers and the demand for a copyright assignment. Not all coercion involves threats of death or imprisonment; threatening a person's livelihood is coercive.
BTW Today I (Benjamin) can be found at some App World events.