skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Martian, Pebble, or the iWatch, who will win?
I never ever had problems with it in C. I actually had a problem with it in another language (might have been a BASIC) where = was contextual, so one could do "a = 10" and then somewhere down the line "if x = 5 then". I used == and couldn't figure out what was wrong for nearly 5 minutes (I think it was recognising (or not) as an unexpected token).

= and == should have different meanings.

I also like how JavaScript has ===, although it is a little superfluous.
Within 10 degrees F for 10 consecutive hours and precipitation to 1/4" in Boston for even money.
Sure, it's not a commercial interest thing, its just about ethics. :)

I'm not going to stand up and tell someone its mean and unethical put some harsh criticism out about a project which is in itself unethically stealing art assets and associating itself with a brand it has nothing to do with.

If you're happy to accept this project and what it's doing, you should equally be happy to accept it's going to get some flack for it. You can't have it both ways (doing this is ok even tho its unethical AND but its unethical to criticise it and that's bad).
I wonder what part of this problem is closely related to drugs; if you decriminalized or legalized drugs, would people going to jail for street gang drug dealing move on to other crime (extortion? gambling? prostitution? robbery?), or would they move on to legal activities? Drugs are uniquely profitable (extortion, robbery, etc. have direct victims who will fight back, and I don't think the desire to gamble illegally is anywhere near as widespread or powerful as the desire to do drugs), so I can't really see criminal activities replacing all of the drug trade.
Related question. Can I use the Quake 3 sounds for debugging purposes in my open source project? Or are they copyrighted and I would be doing something bad by including them in my project's folder.
Ah, I should have been clearer. MIDI to sheet music conversion is trivial. What I want to do is take real audio as input and convert that, which is according to my readings really hard because MIDI and audio formats (FLAC/WAV/MP3 etc) are very different.

There are some tools that I could find but so far none has come up with good conversion from FLAC or MP3.

I'm mainly interested in classical music and that kind of complicates things. As the number of voices in your audio increase, it gets that much harder to export it to MIDI. I've been thinking about emphasising the melody line and exporting that to MIDI but so far nothing :P

Perhaps a different approach would work better.

But thanks a lot for the help :)
Maybe they'll pop out another version in a couple months?
"A keyboard shortcut involves pressing at least two keys" mumbles the voice of the veteran, "those four keys were invented for a reason (try multi-tapping your shortcut, as is common with pgup/pgdown)..."
Don't worry I just figured out the totally bone-headed programming mistake I made at noon today. Time is a good mediator between skill and stress.
Terrible idea. Nowhere does this explain how Apple would profit from such an acquisition.

Apple doesn't know anything about games. They would have to rely on Nintendo to figure that out, but Nintendo is losing lots of money right now so Nintendo doesn't have the answers.

Looking at pure quantitative analysis, Nintendo in a very good quarter might make $4 billion in revenue (mind you that this is not all profits and they are currently not making this). Apple makes over $40 billion in revenue right now. Seems like a lot of risk for both purchase price and company absorption costs for so little impact on Apple's bottom line.
Holy crap - over $60k to get app performance graphs! Wow - that is super expensive!!
Using Silk Road
Agreed! I'm excited to see this functionality making its way into nginx. Any details on when it will be officially released and make its way into repositories?
This is in contrast to the Flynn effect:

The Flynn effect is the substantial and long-sustained
increase in intelligence test scores measured in many
parts of the world from roughly 1930 to the present day

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect
"Life didn't go as well for Draper; 1980 happened and he ceased doing anything interesting. In this new millenium, he has transformed himself into "Johnny D", creepy old guy that you see at raves in California. He's huge on hugs and if you're a cute enough boy, you might even get one of his special "energy transfer" massages! Turn-offs include cigarette smoke and food that requires chewing."

http://www.rotten.com/library/bio/hackers/captain-crunch/
Apple's Secret Social Network
Pre-iPhone, there was a small PDA market, a bigger smartphone market, and a huge cell phone market. PDAs are a precursor to the iPhone, as much as (if not more than) Blackberries and Symbian phones. Both Palm and Microsoft were experimenting with PDAs with phone functionality years before the iPhone (which is why Ballmer was so dismissive of the iPhone at launch). They were so very close.
Thank you for your thoughtful response.
So it seems, there could be a lot more behavioral style questions compare to white-board coding? Does that mean less algorithm and binary tree/sorting related questions?

I've been a programmer all those years and haven't pursued much on managing other people, would that work against me ?
> I've just found their service on hardware to be abysmal for replacement or fix. I had a T430 that I spent over 1 month trying to RMA the box.

I've owned a number of thinkpads (t41p,t61p,x220) and all have been depo repaired under warranty at one time or another. Turn around has NEVER exceeded 4 business days from time of calling the support center. Replacements include the logic board, screen, or just them sending me a replacement hard drive.

As always, YMMV.
>Whilst by the year 2000 the entire mobile phone market was around 700 million.

What was the size of the smartphone market? I'd guess it wasn't that big either, certainly it isn't anywhere near present-day numbers. And yes, I am differentiating between "smartphone" and "cell phone" market. The former was small, the latter was huge.

> Well, it was a very fragmented market focused only on professionals. It was never aimed to consumers (a big mistake).

You could say the same for RIM, who was never that interested in building a consumer phone. Many mistakes were made by all incumbents..
>I think the correct response would have been to copy the other groups site //

Disagree. This presupposes that they will get equal treatment under the law, that doesn't seem likely and I can't really see any external pressure being put on Finland to find in favour of TPB (but very much the other way).

By pressing the current suit they either get money and a PR win or they get a relaxation, via precedent, of copyright laws. Looks to me they win either way.
This article raises an interesting point. In retrospect Apple do already have a social network on their hands, however they would need to spend some serious amount of thought and time getting it to work like one. I'd much prefer they revert back to the vertical list scrolling of apps when on your iPhone and iPad, the horizontal view is atrocious.
My first WP8 app just got approved (Contacts).
As far as I can tell, live coding is not about programming with "live" feedback, it is about programming "live" in front of an audience, or otherwise using programming as a musical instrument. Think performance and not development.

Very confusing, I feel like I'm fighting a losing battle since live coding sounds so similar to live programming, but the terms mean completely different things and arose in different contexts (live programming arose in a pedagogic context, live coding arose in a performance context) at about roughly the same time.
Nice - I used this to search my current city. Someone mooted a #HNMeetup in Brisbane recently [1], to 3 responses - now I know there are 21 people who list it in their profile, which is a bigger potential audience to start discussions with [2].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5205429
[2] Even accounting for people who live here and don't mention it, and those who haven't updated their profile since moving away.
Hey Samuel,

Thanks for the feedback. All of your stuff is definitely on my TODO list but it's about making pragmatic choices early on (it's just a preview right now).

By "feel like a mac app" I basically meant that you'd have a signed .app binary (inside a .dmg that can be dragged to Applications) on a Mac, etc. Normal consumers don't know what Cocca is. I want the app to look the same across platforms...but execute the app like they would expect.

FYI you CAN embed JREs in .app mac bundles, see: http://www.intransitione.com/blog/take-java-to-app-store/ and is what I would eventually do. It works but right now there's a bug in Java 1.7 (related to changes in the Canvas class no longer being heavyweight) that would break the app, and Java 1.7 (first Oracle, not Apple issued Java for mac) is the first version to support this. I actually had to end up backporting the appbundler code to Java 1.6 and then write some objc to launch the (hopefully present) Apple-issued JRE.

I don't mean for this comment to come off as anything other than thankful for your time...but I wanted to answer some of your points so if anyone read this they would understand that I am serious about this project.

Thanks again and if you continue to use the app and have any more feedback please let me know support@moviepileapp.com
Your statement seems meaningless. It's possible to have safe code in any language (even assembly language) as long as "everyone on the team plays by the rules." The question is, how hard are the rules to understand and how obvious are deviations from them? C++ has more rules and less obvious behavior when you deviate from them, so it's strictly less safe than C.

The advantage of C++ was always that it enabled (slightly) more rapid development than C.
>Willie Gary, an attorney who has already chalked up a number of large-sum legal wins...

His attorney's name is Willie? You just can't make this stuff up.
Drugs are the big money maker similar to alcohol during prohibition. Legalization would dramatically reduce the power of gangs and cartels.
It may be difficult but that doesn't mean one gives corporations this sort of strangehold on the industry.

Let's take a close example, rose hybridization. Most new popular rose hybrids are protected under ordinary plant patents. If you want to grow the plant you need a plant patent license to do so and buying a plant at a store gives you this. There need not be an explicit license from anyone but the one who actually makes the clones.

This is a good balance because the plant patent act does not reach sexual reproduction. One does not need a plant patent license to hybridize two other patented varieties (rose hybridization is hard too). This means that the plant patent is very limited in scope. Transgenic patents which cover sexual reproduction however are largely unlimited in scope and therefore very dangerous and it is for this reason that Monsanto should lose unless Congress speaks clearly that such may be patented.
The code is pretty much open (even commented and well organized) and It can fairly easy be changed to SVG to support pretty much every modern browser. Open enough for me.
This level of dismissal could undermine any potential accomplishment.

If you're talking 'innovation' like Marie Curie, then sure. But its willfully disingenuous to say that they weren't -- or aren't -- an innovative company, relative to so many others.
No, I wouldn't. I'd wait for a chance to pass then pass. The situation has happened to me many times, and you know what? I just don't care. I never have to be somewhere so ridiculously fucking fast that anyone who dares slowing me down needs to be screamed at. I think most people forget: your life is not so important that you need to rush everywhere. If someone's about to have a baby or something, a friendly honk to get someone slow out of the way can be useful. The problem is that too many people think what they are doing is soooo important that they need to honk and scream at anything that gets in their way.

Too many people are in a rush to get somewhere they don't want to be. What's the point?
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Ah, I see. That's why GWT would really benefit from asm.js but coffeescript would not: the Java-source already contains the extra type information (that is currently being mostly ignored), whereas Coffeescript is just as dynamic as native JavaScript.

Not sure why I got downvoted for asking though. Oh well! Cheers.
> Note that the Thinkpad X1 does not have Ctrl in the bottom left, instead its the Fn key. On the plus side, the X1 kept Home and End keys up top, with dedicated PageUp/PageDown near the arrow keys.

For the most part, Lenovo's Thinkpads have a BIOS setting that allows you to switch the Fn and Ctrl keys. This has been around for a while now and is still an option on newer Thinkpads (although, I can't confirm that this option exists in the X1).
I certainly agree with your point about the goal and the issue in some companies.

However, having seen Microsoft in action from the inside, any collaborations - most of which are _required_ at gunpoint from top-down - result in a horde of program managers shuttling themselves from building to building "owning" the X->Y relationship, one each per group-pair and arrow direction. It's a win-win for them, as those are a quicker path to promotion than trying to build up internal scope or working with the external market (godforbid <grin>).

Frankly, it's really, really expensive and painful for ~2000 developers on three different teams to each be adding a slew of features with one of those teams building on top of and coordinating the other two. Even with huge amounts of communication, tracking, and the best of intents, until the products at the bottom of the chain settle down, you can't make any progress at the top. And when the top is finally making progress, you actually can put developers in front of APIs (in our case) and then you find out that the stuff at the bottom is totally unusable, but it's too late, because they finally stopped churning and want to ship soon.

I don't claim there's an easy answer, but throwing more people or tools at the coordination problem doesn't (I've seen it tried).
So God Made a Designer Video
I can confirm this. It's also a setting in the Lenovo toolkit (in Windows) if you want on top of the BIOS setting.
> for 99.99% of us,

Really? Most of the time when people say that they mean "for 1 (me) of us,"

Are you sure that isn't what you mean?
So the real WTF here is why Twitter doesn't support TFA, at the very least for verified accounts; and definitely for anyone spending money on promoted tweets or trends.

It's certainly something they could add for select accounts, and it's something I wish they'd add as an option for regular accounts.

Just think, a single text message and a "You are logging in from a new computer/ipaddress/application combo so please enter the code we just sent you". Would have saved considerable embarrassment all around.
The confusion comes from understanding what the target of a link is. Of course, it's not the new file you're creating, it's the source. But if you were copying the file, then the target would be the destination.

Hence the confusion, I guess.

(I don't think I've ever read the ln man page. I learned it by trying it both ways until I learned which way was correct.)
The editor has an opinion. She knows that Broder is full of it, and condemns him in the strongest allowable terms. She can't flog Broder outright (absent some glaring evidence of fraud or something), so she needs to smooth the waters. If there had been an angle to attack Musk with, I think there's a good chance that she'd have wailed on him.
There is nothing about using Roundup that would make one culpable. Roundup Ready mainly means "able to tolerate tons of glyphosphate without dying." Glyphosphate works in use cases apart from Roundup ready crops. I used it to kill poison ivy in my backyard at one point.

Sadly, you and I are not "Roundup Ready" and don't have any mods to our endocrine system to help us cope with eating it and the additives (surfactants) used to bind it to crops.
This is the road a strident anti-patent stance leads you down. You end up arguing that capital intensive R&D companies should vertically integrate and get into the business of selling end-user products, because that's the way to protect R&D investment without patent protection. But is that a good solution (ideology aside)? Doesn't that hinder useful things like specialization and division of labor? Isn't it better for Monsanto to focus on genetics and farmers to focus on farming?
http://resume.linkedinlabs.com/
There's a difference between slander or property damage and murder.
Consumers don't want to think about fluctuating prices. Especially if it means there is a chance they bought too early. They want a price today that's better than the market.

Scenario 1: The Broker

I want to see Swedish House Mafia but don't want to pay more than $400. Inversely, I bought Beyoncé tickets, sobered up, remembered that I hate Beyoncé, and would like to get at least $300. Your give the customer a probability of the ticket being sold. Perhaps also the option of resetting the price if the probability falls below X.

Scenario 2: The Dealer

Consumers buy and sell a small number of tickets. If you bought(sold) tickets when your model said they were likely to go up(down) by a margin in excess of your error you could diversify across multiple event types, venues, artists, and dates. You would be exposed to model (transformed basis) risk and would need to finance inventory.

Scenario 3: The Market Maker

Derivatives! :D The simplest way to "do arbitrage without ever holding the tickets" would be to sell tickets as forwards. To illustrate, let's suppose prices are at $500 and you believe they will fall to $200. You sell a "ticket" at $250 to a customer and receive those funds today. The night before the event you buy the ticket at $200 and deliver it to the customer, pocketing the $50 plus interest as your spread. You're still exposed to model risk, but with the benefit of float, i.e. cash today for a deliverable tomorrow. Bonus: easy shorting.
No, he didn't save the seeds he contractually agreed not to when he made his purchase from Monsanto. The case is about commodity seeds he bought from a grain elevator that happened to include Monsanto seeds. Those seeds were not covered by the original contract, but Monsanto is claiming the right to extend that contract at will.
PDF, always PDF or Word, unless this is for some type of design job.
Because that would cost more?

I don't really know what the benefit of cloud hosting would be in this case.
Sounds interesting... will check this out for python projects
Wow, some of you guys are impressing me with how much you're struggling to suppress your raging homophobia in this thread.

I realize the need for some techies to look down on people who won't assent to their brand of whatever for a chance to climb the ladder of temporary success. Draper's more widely known and admired than most of you will ever be. So I guess you gotta do what you gotta do. (which probably doesn't involve hanging out with Woz)
Autonomous System
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_System_(Internet)
I think you're overestimating. virtualenv works "fine" for some but it has warts when interacting with the scientific toolkit. IPython gets annoying, for example.
No -webkit- specific code in sight and the console shows no error; the worst kind of bug.

Edit: I found it; It is using the event property offSetX instead of a cross-browser property; if the developer or someone else want so fix: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11334452/event-offsetx-in... [Line 151 in diablo.js]
I think you're correct about 'control', but that begs a question:

Why is control that important? It's not control for the sake of generating money, they'd probably make more money, in a bigger industry, if they didn't exert such fine-grained control. Is it that much fun to dictate popular culture, or is something else going on behind the scenes, other than hookers and blow?
I appreciate pg's frankness here.
The desktop equivalent, CU-SeeMe, was working in 1994.
so true. I still see legacy bugs on the Mac version that carried over from the versions PowerPC days. Total disgrace...
Any date/guess on a production release?
Building a dedicated Rails host
> Really? Their tone is entirely wrong in my opinion

That's just how they roll.

> The issue they are facing is certainly a real issue, but they are handling it completely inappropriately.

They've managed to start a huge discussion around Heroku's infrastructure while showing off the broader applications of their own annotation technology. I think they're doing just fine.
Yes, more behavioral, less algorithmic. At least, fewer general algorithmic questions, though maybe expect some that are specific to the employer or your experience.

Regarding the managing thing - not necessarily, though most programmers with your years of experience have managed in some capacity before, you so may be asked why you have not. In my experience, though, a lot of experienced programmers looking for jobs seem to be in the opposite situation - they've been managing for a few years and now are looking to get back into programming.
Comments welcome :)
Will the ext4 inline data be enabled by default? Any idea how older kernels will deal with files inlined by 3.8?
Note that the first comment misses an important point that is clear in the briefs:

He did not go out and deliberately buy 2nd generation roundup ready seeds.
He went out and deliberately bought 2nd generation commodity seeds. Simply because of market penetration, most of the seeds ended up being roundup ready seeds.

He discovered this because he sprayed them with Roundup.

I can't think of a more clear case of patent exhaustion.
They would have to remove patent exhaustion from self-replicating technologies to make this not a clear case.

Note 2 things:

1. On average, the supreme court doesn't take cases to uphold them (there is no point in doing so). There were at least 4 votes of justices who thought it was worth hearing the case.

2. Monsanto has a very simple solution: contracts with farmers.
Ha - I agree that that procedure seems preposterous. I have seen it listed in several forums, and only considered it after several others had reported success. I figured it didn't cost much to empirically give it a go. I present weak evidence that it appears it may have helped for me.

For what its worth, I am doubtful. There did appear to be some subjective improvement in responsiveness, but I didn't benchmark it. It is not the Calculator app in itself that functions as this, I had originally read any stock Apple app would do it.

Software reset does fix this for some, so I don't think that some button state polling problem relating to software is inconceivable. Possible, but unlikely.

More info here - they acknowledge it is likely bs.
http://lifehacker.com/5909709/recalibrate-your-idevice-home-...
3.7.x has been borderline breaking on my laptop for a month now and I'm fairly sure that the issues I've experienced affect a large number of users (excessive heat, low battery life on Sandy/Ivy-Bridge based notebooks). Compiling 3.8 as I'm typing this.
I know open-source is old-hat by now - but damn - look at the man-years of contributions. Linux is a miracle.
Hve you seen Capo?

http://supermegaultragroovy.com/products/Capo/
Javascript for newbies
Introduction and key concepts to learn javascript
As mentioned, the supreme court doesn't really take cases to uphold them.
Granting cert means at least 4 justices wanted to hear the case, presumably to reverse it (it could be that they they really wanted to say something about it, but that seems like it would not really apply in this case).
Monsanto did not expect the supremes to take this case.