skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe "days between processor release and Mac release" would be a useful metric, considering that Intel leaks/announces their release dates months in advance.
The operative word in that quote is "had". As I mentioned, I'm trying to slim down so to speak.
I think you're probably right. Then again, people seem to have a great time at reddit meetups.
Back in the 2.6 era yes, this was the behavior. It was changed because in my opinion it seems the Gnome Developers since around Gnome 3 jumped the shark. People make suggestions, they argue some divine vision of how computers work, and a year later they are still hemorrhaging users and have little adoption because of their iron clad positions.
Am I the only one who finds that email other than beeing much more appropriate to send .. emails is also way more romantic?
The display clause prohibits advertising your party / movement / whatever in the Supreme Court building. It's a specific exemption intended to avoid influencing the impartiality of the group responsible for making determinations about the Constitution, which strikes me as not such a dumb idea.

It is unlawful to parade, stand, or move in processions or assemblages in the Supreme Court Building or grounds, or to display in the Building and grounds a flag, banner, or device designed or adapted to bring into public notice a party, organization, or movement.

There are some genuinely stupid acts of government out there like free speech zones and all the security theatre, or attacking photographers. This is not one of them.

Want something to get mad at the government about today? Congress is currently playing an $85 billion dollar game of chicken.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-250_162-57572068/sequester-its-j...
You know, I was going to post about how stupid the gov't was on this from reading the title.

But he wasn't arrested simply because of his jacket.

He was arrested because his jacket was political in nature, he was asked to take it off or leave, and he refused to leave.

If I asked someone to leave my business and they didn't, I'd have them removed by police too if it became necessary.

For those who think there are free speech rights in a judicial building, try being the one to make repeated outbursts in a courtroom. If nothing else the government is being consistent here.
If any scraping was involved in the production of this site, it was viciously over-engineered. These are static values that only need to be updated manually once after each Apple announcement...

Edit: And before anyone says that everything should be automated, keep in mind that scrapers will break far more often than you'll ever have to update these numbers.
Yet another case of rubber duck debugging FTW.
Feel free to reach out to me for more information about Haskell (or Clojure). I think they're both fantastic languages to learn and I have a lot of experience in each.
Honestly, I know politics isn't allowed on this site, but this is why I'm hoping the States will reject the Keystone XL pipeline. If they do, it kind of gives me some hope that all the toadying up would diminish, if at least slightly.
I don't spend a lot of time on facebook and the time I do spend there I feel I get a lot more value from, or regret a lot less, on average than, say, time spent reading blog comments or reddit/HN or tech pundits or ...

Granted that's not saying much ...
On gazelle my Mac Pro (which is basically identical to the top of the line one you can buy now), gets you about ~$550. In other words, no one should be buying this thing new.
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I keep checking every so often, but searching for "this phrase" or +absolute +requirement is still broken. Even "Verbatim", isn't. If they can't even get simple search right, who would trust them with anything more?
Facebook is the World of Warcraft of social networks.

- Previous competitors were big, but only about 10% of what they've become.

- They struck a nerve somewhere and didn't fill just a niche, they fulfilled what everyone wanted at the same time.

- Made changes to satisfy the masses.

- Made changes to satisfy the bottom line.

- They will (or already have) reach a saturation point where they are losing people at the same clip as they are gaining them.

- They will very, very slowly degrade, being eaten by many competitors but probably not just one.

- Reach a lower equilibrium, nowhere near their peak, where they can continue for a very long and profitable future.

The last one is how WoW is doing right now. I don't know if Facebook has a 'very profitable' future for how big they are, although I do think they will be a portion of their current selves and sustain that for a very long time.

As a side note, I think the reason people are so pessimistic about Facebook's future (and has been discussed on HN before) is that if it was completely abandoned tomorrow, all of it's content is irrelevant. It's not really a blogging platform, it's not really an image archive, all that is there is connections - and even those might not be all that significant.

EDIT: formatting.
Your blog is down.
I think it's a poor metaphor. But I do think Facebook's future is going to more as a platform for connecting third party services. Few users are going to be on just one of these other services, and there's value in creating the best space to share content from disparate services.
attack vectors and techniques are different, but everything else stays the same.

If one can add a <script> tag to arbitrary webpages via a malicious extension,XSS or whatever other method then that's probably as good as/better than root.

You are still not magically immune from buffer overflow, heap overflows or any of the other bread and butter stuff either.
So you sacrifice usability for how pretty you find the IDE's gui?

I don't know what others do, but I actually hide the toolbars in my IDEs (I use several JetBrains products: PyCharm and IntelliJ mostly, PHPStorm and RubyMine to a lesser extent.) PyCharm actually received a facelift recently that I hope finds its way to the other products as well.

All JetBrians products ship with several skins (ctrl+tilde brings up the menu) and I've never found any trouble getting them the way I want. I do find XCode (which is my go-to editor for C and C++ not being an ObjectiveC developer myself) to be a very good looking IDE but personally, I'd never sacrifice function. It's just too important. IMHO, of course.
Is there a script that will generate a mind map from an iOS project's code?
Are there any similar tools that help a new hire learn a complex codebase?
What if the manager chooses the wrong one?
> I built my own because their design, and I mean literally the way they visualize the data, isn't very good. Or rather, it's not as good as it could be.

I love your approach :) it's very helpful!
A lot of that can be ascribed to being in the right place at the right time, however.

Lots more people have access to the internet, or are internet-savvy enough to use social media sites, than twelve years ago, when MySpace was in its prime.

There were no MySpace apps for iPhone or iPad, because the most popular phone at the time was the old Nokia "snake" phone.
I'd envision this tool rendering larger files as larger bubbles on the screen, showing the @properties and delegate methods as lines between the bubbles, ect
I don't think he was joking, but rather implying that people with stiff backs could be more likely to injure themselves.
The Ways of Javascript Inheritance
Hey Hacker News! Lets talk about prototypal inheritance in JS!

What's the best way of doing it from a code reusability standpoint?

What's the best way of doing it from a time to create instance standpoint?

What's the best way of doing it from memory footprint standpoint?

Of the ways I've seen and tried, John's method seems the easiest to use: http://ejohn.org/blog/simple-javascript-inheritance/

But I hate that it has to loop through every property every time you extend a prototype.

Most inheritance patterns I've seen need to have the original prototype cloned or instantiated in order extend a new prototype safely. Is there a way to do it that allows all instances at all levels of the inheritance chain to still share the same common methods in memory where they aren't overridden?

Thanks!
Did it go up to 11?
I think so. In the natural arc of a new medium, social media is now at the point that television hit thirty years ago, when the "big three" networks started losing control to a host of new cable channels.

TV is obviously still around, but it's much more of a bazaar now.
All my Canadian friends are frustrated with Harper. I wonder how did he get elected in the first place? :) From aside, it feels like Canada is being infested with neoliberal policies in disguise under the very leadership of the Prime Minster.

Don't let them spoil "the best part of North America" :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXtVrDPhHBg
I wish it were a more mainstream thing. It's impossible to compromise a statically generated website (discounting webserver/OS level vulnerablities). It's significantly more secure then Wordpress running tons of plugins
No, I do not.

Xcode is also native (although not very pretty), but it is a horrible IDE. I use Sublime for my ObjC coding, although I am forced to use Xcode for some things that ST cannot do, like adding files to a project, editing compilation flags or working with .xib and Core Data .momd files.

It's a compromise. IDEA is too ugly to use, Sublime lacks some features but is great in most areas.
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1) If you read in a literal manner the reports companies file with the SEC, you'd think each and every one of them is going to fail. Know that when companies list all the "threats" they "believe" they face in SEC reports, you have to be aware that it's basically legal-ass-covering, and doesn't really actually reflect internal sentiment. They basically include those so that if they get sued by shareholders they can point to those reports as legal evidence that they informed them of all the risks. Anyone who has read multiple SEC reports will know that this is pretty mundane stuff.

2) The OP's right about the coolness. Facebook is not seen as cool among teens anymore. It's seen as necessary. You are seen as an unusual person if you don't have a Facebook. The same applies to having a cellphone - it's assumed you have one, and it's a surprise if you don't (disclosure: I'm going off personal experience from high school).

But you're right. It's not seen as cool anymore. I think this is a great thing: Coolness brings you users. Necessity bring you the money.

It goes without saying that Blake Ross was being sarcastic about his reason for leaving.
Boston, MA (Full time or single-project contract starting immediately)

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We are looking for a full-stack JavaScript developer, with experience in Node.js, Backbone.js, Socket.IO, and HTML5 video (or some suitable subset, or equivalent experience with similar frameworks). We are creating a web-based interface for a video asset management system, which will allow searching and playing video and adding metadata.

We are ready to hire immediately; we had the previous developer on this project leave unexpectedly, and have an urgent deadline approaching, so we are ready to give a job offer on Monday if you're good. Code samples are strongly recommended when applying.

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In addition, we are always looking for good engineers for our other products. We maintain our own Linux distribution (we are in the process of moving from an RPM based distro to an Ubuntu derivative) which forms the basis for our platform, and write management software in Python using Twisted, work on a variety of open source packages in C, and have application software written in C++. We strongly support open source software, funding and working closely with several projects, as well as having released Lightworks (http://lwks.com/), a professional non-linear video editor, for free (as in beer at the moment, though we plan to release the source code once we've finished the Linux and Mac ports and removed the proprietary codecs that we've licensed from third parties). So if you have experience in digital video, distributed systems, storage, backup, Linux packaging, Python, C, or C++, we would also love to hear from you.

Email resume and code samples (cover letter optional, but at least mention which position you are interested in) to: work(at)editshare.com
What a cynical attitude. Do you think it's justified to give disabled people a bad attitude and poor service just because they're not spending a lot of money on your product?
Maybe, if you are using your desktop PC mainly as an SSH terminal. OTOH there are always going to be tradeoffs between things like weight/battery life and power.

I assume my smartphone would choke if I threw all the stuff I use on my desktop (eclipse,photoshop,VMs,emulators etc) at it. You might be able to make a smartphone that can do this but then it's unlikely to last as long on batteries or be as lightweight as one that couldn't.

Regardless of what computer I'm using , my work is never more than a dropbox sync or git pull away.
Javascript Harmony or Shit Mountain?
The Hacker Fair - Science Fair Meets Job Fair this Sunday, with a party
I missed most of the content on this ... page ? Exhibit ? Installation ? whatever it's called, because it told me to scroll, I did, and I scrolled through a bunch of what looks like empty space and arrived at the end ("and that's how search works"). The user is apparently supposed to stop and watch some animation at certain places, but it's not clear where to stop scrolling.

Perfect example, near the top there's some text about "It's made up of over[........] 30 TRILLION[.........] INDIVIDUAL PAGES[........] and it's constantly growing." But there's nothing to indicate that I should stop somewhere and wait for some more text to show up.

Maybe they should limit how far down you can scroll by setting the height of some element, and only increase it when the animation is finished.

Edit: the key problem here isn't the "scrolling makes things happen" gimmick that's popular lately. the problem is that it starts certain animations or fade-ins some time after I've already skipped past an apparently blank space.
It has nothing to do with the lawsuit. I'll write a more detailed essay about the reasons why one day. Today just isn't the day.
I actually prefer handwritten letters, if I'm being romantic.
The authentication for changing things via the System Preferences system is independent of sudo and "sticks" across reboots.
Where did you read that in typpo's comment? The was clearly no "ought" implied. But it is a fact that people are treated more nicely by salespeople when they're buying something (especially something expensive) than when they're not.
Punching above your weight
2 examples from a former communist country.

- A theater director was putting on a new show about some workers in a factory. In the background he put a wagon wheel. Before the premiere the communist representative came to evaluate the show. It was usual that some random scenes would be adjudicated unacceptable and cut from the show. When discussion started the communist rep asked what the wheel, which was used in agriculture, was doing in a show about factory workers. The director argued that it shows the connection between proletariat and agriculture workers. A vigorous discussion followed at the end of which it was decided that the wheel should be removed. The director ended up being the first ever to not have any scene cut.

- A painter visited France and desperately wanted to bring back some modern art reproductions so that his colleagues, who where not allowed to leave the country, would get a chance to see them. But modern art was forbidden and there would be no way customs would let the reproductions in if they knew what they were. So the painter got also some nude reproductions. The customs people confiscated the nudes as soon as they saw them and let the modern art go through.
That is a great idea. I have figured that there must be a ton of little niche areas for working with structured text like that--just waiting to discover more of them.
I think most of the gains you'd get from that would be orthogonal to the gains you would get from giving the JIT a little more information about allocations.
Then something really strange happened: I stopped caring about the affiliations and really focused on the veracity of their statements.

But it's not just how truthful the statement is, it also covers "why am I considering this statement at all?".

And the answer "because someone I trust has had the same problem, considered the available options, and recommends X" is very different to "because someone who works for X says use X".
I'd guess they don't know. Even on the press release they only refer to it as "a glitch in flash memory" [0].

[0] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/msl/news/msl20130228.html
I'd like to give a shout out to the guys from Paymill (www.paymill.com) - they sponsor the HNLondon events and when Patrick from Stripe turned up a few nights ago they were the ones that asked him to get on stage and give a quick talk, despite the obvious overlap of their products.
You stay on HN because of the points system? Your points are mostly not even visible to others.
It's a nice story but the MSRP of that 160GB MacBook was $1,499.00. So the kids paid $22,485.

So it's comparing Apples with common everyday oranges. (Pun indended)
The same way bush got elected twice (despite all the tech people I hear from in the US hating him): a quiet(ish) massive population of conservatives coexisting uneasily with us. In Canada especially in our rather significant rural areas like the prairie provinces.
Interesting I clicked on this to tell me something magical about Wordpress because all I think of it is the opposite of magical....it is confusing, abstracted and clunky with "workarounds" everywhere that end up painting you into corners too often (IMO)
Does that apply to the Supreme Court not being able to display things or the citizens visiting it wearing clothing with signs?
I wonder how much the "we no longer show all your posts to all your friends" issue is going to hurt Facebook?

I have limited data on this - but I know it's the reason I've stopped bothering to post anything on Facebook. I'll post on Google+, Livejournal or one of many blogs or forums where 100% of my friends can see what I'm saying, thanks, rather than have Facebook decide how my social interactions work and which 15% of my friends it'll show my posts to.

In my experience, when the "Facebook chooses who sees your posts, and it's never everyone" rule is demonstrated to other semi-"normal" Facebook users, they react very negatively.
This is absolutely not true. You must be listed as an Administrator to change system time. If you're an Administrator, then your account is also included in the admin group which means you have full sudo access anyway.
No, but it's what tends to happen. You'll usually get better service just about anywhere if you look like a big spender or if there is PR at stake.
Mockery only functions one way. If a customer mocks a company representative, it's an accusation. If a company representative mocks a customer, it's an acknowledgement.
Facebook can lose 50% of its users and still have more users than basically anything else on the Internet. All they need to do is figure out how to monetize these users consistently, and they will be fine.
What is heartwarming about this other than this person patting themself on the back for being a decent human being?

While it's nice when someone is reasonable and polite but it doesn't magically make up for the other 100 people who acted like I don't have the right to get on the bus.
Eclipse 4.2 SR2 released
> Why the need to express yourself so poorly?

What is poor about this usage of "fucking"? It's an intensifier, appropriately used in this instance. Some people lean on swear words too much, but I don't think this is such a case.
The logic does not prove that something is worth doing, it proves that the one particular argument for something being not worth doing is invalid. "This can lead to hypothetical bad result x" isn't a valid argument by itself, meth is only bad because the badness is sufficiently bad enough, not simply because it is not the healthiest possible choice.

It is a fallacy to assume that if a particular argument is wrong that the opposite of its conclusions must be true. You can easily think everything the blog post says is incorrect and also think hackathons are bad.
They probably meant whether or not I "took" the information from somewhere else. But yeah, actually scraping the information would have been ridiculous. It's all just in a static YAML file.
This looks great and I can see this being useful, but if I just land'ed on the site I would struggle to know what it is about....but you probably have this covered anyway :)
Unique experience..
Thanks for the detailed response.

I was in fact taking it as almost a given that Python lists were backed by arrays under the hood.
Wait...I don't mean to spread false information, so please, anyone, correct me if I am totally off base, and I will even delete my comment, but...

I thought it was pretty much agreed upon that George Bush Jr. won through voting machines that had been tampered with and because voting ended as soon as Bush had the majority vote in Florida, when in reality it was later found out Al Gore had more votes.

Or did I just pull that out of my ass?

Again, if it is false, I'll gladly remove this comment since I was watching it all (i.e., the American gov't) crumble from Canada.

Edit: Or was all that just conspiracy theory?
They've got this thing and it's fucking golden. They're not just giving it up for fucking nothing.
> It can get exhausting keeping up with all of the silly CSS/JS web trends

This is DMR's website. Good job criticizing a dead man on not "keeping up" or writing CSS so that you don't have to customize your default styles.
While they don't have to tell him that the Supreme Court is a first-amendment free zone, that's a point of law that I would bet MOST Americans are unaware of. I certainly was.

If they'd said, "Sir, the law prohibits wearing clothing that advertise things of a political nature in this building. Please take it off or leave," rather than simply telling him to remove it or leave, he might have been more likely to comply.

On the other hand, it seems pretty WTF-worthy that the first amendment be rendered void in a building charged with protecting it.
I'm delighted that mmaping /dev/zero is even allowed, though in retrospect I suppose this shouldn't be surprising.
That was a sweet story. Now let's turn to the comments and hear all of the cynical reasons I should be mad.
Obey

Conform

Consume
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Well, maybe everyone's unawareness of this means the standard is wrong.
HP's 1M LinkedIn followers and Retail Banking
We needed Apple to stumble
I've build REST applications in Java using the Restlet library before, anyone knows some of the advantages of Jersey over Restlet?
You only briefly mentioned PayPal, but I'm genuinely curious; did you look into PayPal Adaptive Preapproved Payments (optionally with the embedded flow as seen here: https://www.x.com/sites/default/files/paypal/imported/lightb...)? If so, why did you decide this was not for you?
Congrats! Pelican is a great software. Use it together with Github-pages and you do not need any hosting space for your blog/site.
Most cables that adapt signals from one format to another are 'active' (that is, contain a microcontroller). c.f.: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Active_cable