skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'll add one comment. Went from iPhone to Android (Nexus S 4G) nearly two years ago now. US based. One of the biggest issues I have is around network connectivity. I find that the overall phone's performance is hugely impacted by the quality of the network signal. The phone can't hold the wireless connection like similar Apple devices can and when it's switching between wireless and cell tower the entire experience just seems to go south. Agree Google Play would make it hard to leave now. Getting a notification 22 minutes before your appointment saying "based on traffic you should leave now to be on time" is awesome.

Edit: replace Play with Now
This is something I myself have noticed. Most people just want to live a story; they don't care whether or not it's a success story or a tragedy- either is better than being boring.
Over 3500 counties/parishes in the United States of America...so little time.
I was actually thinking about this today asking myself how often you have to tell yourself who you are until you become that person.

It's a kind of positive feedback loop. Until I started research at university I used to just do enough to pass well. When I started doing research I started enjoying it much more and consequently started working more. I became a hard-working person, both to myself and others. And this in turn led me to work even harder (also when it wasn't so enjoyable).

Same goes for other things like sports, community service, etc...
From memory, I seem to remember that the x64 name originally came from Microsoft. They certainly make good use of it, at least, so Sun/Oracle isn't alone :)

Just to fill in a (the?) missing piece in an otherwise well assembled puzzle ;)
I didn't know horribly-written opinion pieces like this could make it to the top of HN.
Ok, help us out: Given that we have Wrk set to max out at 256 concurrent requests, what would the ideal tuning for php-fpm? A pull request would be ideal, but you can also just tell us. :)
Coping Tutor
I suspect that is a function of pandering to their audience. There is an active readership that wants to believe Bitcoin is an escalation in the "drug war", there is a readership that wants to believe that Bitcoin can remove the influence of financial institutions on government. Articles that pander to their targeted readers get a lot of 'shares' and what ever counts as upvotes for them. This in turn is used by the author to represent their own "value" to the agency where they are providing the page views.

I thought the priceonomics coverage was quite good, but I tend to look at it through an economics lens rather than a particular idealism.
In our experience, the best way to learn how to interview is to talk with hiring managers. The 2nd best way is to pretend you are one.

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Skip to chapter 4.

It's structured our interviews as we grow our team at http://thinkful.com/ as well as work with students to improve their resumes as junior engineers.
On iOS, it's pretty much just fire-and-forget. You do get notified when a device isn't reachable anymore, which usually means the app has been uninstalled (so that's sort of feedback). (I think this also might trigger if the phone is offline for a long time, but I'm not sure.)
Servlets are super fast, this shows that.
Quotes about what it means to be a gamer
Gemini is closed source. The company running these comparisons is the only team that is qualified to test/develop with it.
Don Draper with new sunglasses. They're called Drapers
"you have liberal and conservative economic theories"

We have politicians who have misunderstand and politicise economics. Similar to how evolution is somehow now a liberal theory.

New Keynesian economics is not liberal or conservative. It says, in hyper-simplified form, save (conservative) in good times, and spend (liberal) in bad. Right-wing Central Europe is one of the few in recent memory to have implemented both legs. Politically conservative trade theory, about which there is consensus amongst economists, earned left-wing Paul Krugman his Nobel Prize.

Myth of the Rational Voter [1] explores issues economists have put to rest but the public refuses to accept there is consensus on. Similar to how the masses insist on perceiving "hackers".

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Myth-Rational-Voter-Democracies-Polici...
Zombie VCs
Viral Video Roundup April 5
> I'm a little shocked that the writer used this as evidence of fraud.

To be fair to the writer, that event was fraud by any definition of the word.
I love this about Windows Phone's Live Tiles. I never open my weather app. I hardly ever open the Facebook app. I hardly ever open my stock market app. I just check their Live Tile, and at a glance it tells me exactly what I need to know. It's the biggest thing I miss, by far, when I'm using my Android phone. The information density of Android and iOS doesn't even come close, even with a proper notification center.

I really want Android live tiles. Widgets just aren't comparable.
It isn't just mainstream journalists though. Frankly, I can't remember another topic on HN about which so many low-quality tech blog articles were promoted to the front page.
The Website That Never Was
More likely because the version uses only as many threads as the cpu has cores. Whereas the servlet version for example has 128 thanks to the default resin configuration.
Using jQuery UI to Your Advantage
Where did 'fire' come from? The smell of heat-damaged electronics, with no smoke, nothing visibly wrong, is most certainly not a strong indication of fire.
Googlers turn Sergey Brin's Tesla into a pink batmobile with wings and eyelashes
auto-complete search bar for location is a little too small, using chrome
I don't know. It might be worth a gamble, I'd certainly put it as 'risky'! It's very difficult to say. Bitcoin looks like it'll stay high for a while at least (talk of atms, even), and interest in bitcoin seems to bleed over. Crypto-currencies seem to be getting a lot more mainstream attention, and LiteCoin is the biggest non-bitcoin one, with several advantages.

Personally I'm mining as that seemed like a fairly safe bet, as if everything comes crashing down I still have a computer, and I could afford the cost. At the current prices & difficulty, I'm getting ~$30/day. Sell half and keep half, and then if it shoots up in price I'm quids in, if it goes down then people have still helped buy me a fast computer.

I think it's worth it, but consider it a gamble rather than an investment, and only stick in money that you're willing to lose (not just see drop in value, lose). Set some points at which you'd like to sell, and try and get your stake back. You could win big.

Don't do what some guy on reddit did, which was take 30k in credit cards and loans he couldn't afford and stick it in bitcoin. Granted, it seems like it should have netted him about a quarter of a million, but don't be drawn in by stories like that, people also get rich on the lottery.
Y2K: nothing bad happened after the intervention of computer scientists.

2008 banking crisis: terrible things happened even with (or because of) the intervention of economists.
Gemini conveniently leads the pack all the time. So either OP and his/her colleagues have revolutionized web programming or the benchmark is nothing but a PR piece.
I guess that's one of the big advantages JVM languages have. Using stuff like Spring or Hibernate (like Grails does), you benefit from thousands of person-hours spent on tuning those libraries and you still get native Java performance.

Obviously there's a price you have to pay for all the things Grails built on top of Spring/Hibernate (in the benchmark it looks like Grails' performance = Spring / 2), but in general, it's still faster than just writing everything in Groovy (Ruby, Python, ...).
Beginner's Guide to the Swedish Startup Scene
I'm the exact opposite -- using Facebook for many years and experimenting with many apps has trained me to avoid allowing applications to interact with me out of band.

Back in the day, I was getting harassed about my friend's achievements in Farmville or Mafia Wars on Facebook. More recently, some app my wife installed lets me know every time I'm within a quarter mile of a Target store. The beauty of iOS is that I don't need to deal with a dozen little icons demanding attention like in Windows.

The Windows 8 approach is refreshing, I'm curious to see how it develops.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5499839

ps: i agree that raw jdbc would enhance the performance.
Interesting site. There are parts that left me a little confused. Are they basically building a marketplace + online tools? If so, the text 'Jellifi is looking for event planners, bands, rental services, entertainers, caters, models, photographers, bars, venues, and more' should perhaps be 'Jellifi has a network for local event planners, bands, rental services, entertainers, caters, models, photographers, bars, venues, and more'. The point is that when I see 'Save Time Booking Your Next Event', I wonder 'how' - and was hoping for an answer there.

The other question is, who is going to be paying on the site - event organizers or those getting gigs? (Both is fine, but it is not clear from the site).

As someone who might organize one or two big events a year, I feel like if I pay, I would like to pay per event for help. (I guess I could consider paying throughout the year, but I find it hard to understand a value proposition that would matter in between my events).
Paul Krugman was also skeptical and dismissive of the Internet:

> The growth of the Internet will slow drastically, as the flaw in "Metcalfe's law" -- which states that the number of potential connections in a network is proportional to the square of the number of participants -- becomes apparent: most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet's impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine's.

> As the rate of technological change in computing slows, the number of jobs for IT specialists will decelerate, then actually turn down; ten years from now, the phrase information economy will sound silly.
Startup's 'nomadic engineer' program lets developers work wherever they want
Heroku 2X Dynos in Public Beta
Looks good. Out of curiosity, why didn't she submit this herself? To me, this is as odd as a woman submitting "Show HN: My boyfriend's startup".
Cool, but what I really want is a Go version of GWT that compiles to asm.js (crosses fingers), and of course talks to server side Go rather than Java.
>Your reference of it is another example of the uncritical waving of references that Bossavit talks about in his book.

He says, while uncritically waving a single reference that has no backing evidence. You seriously don't see your hypocrisy here?

>Peopleware isn't a scientific study

Duh? That is why it contains citations, to the studies the authors conducted. You sure did a poor job of reading it if you are actually that ignorant.

>In that discussion, it specifically says that differences in productivity (which were less than 10x) were likely due to workplace factors, not individual productivity.

No, they were 10x. That is precisely what it says. And why do you suggest workplace factors being part of the difference makes the difference not exist? I don't even understand how you can say something that absurd and not realize it.

>There could well be a 10x difference in productivity, but gut feel and testosterone-fueled claims aren't the same as science.

Ok, I'll just take your ignorance-fueled gut feel claim as proof that all the scientific evidence doesn't exist.
I thought the "10k" rule had been discredited.

http://allaboutwork.org/2012/11/21/malcolm-gladwells-10000-h...
The Trouble with SVMs
It is not a better guarantee than previous digital cash systems made. The reason I said Bitcoin was created by amateurs is that the original Bitcoin paper, and many of the subsequent papers, made no mention of the previous work. At the very least, one would have expected a person with experience in this field to have been explicit about the fact that the definition of "security" is being relaxed in a way that permits a polynomial time attack (that is a pretty big deal for cryptographers).

Again, I don't mean to be dismissive of outsiders -- at one time, Diffie and Hellman were outsiders. The question that was asked was what can be concluded about Satoshi's true identity; that he (they?) is not well-educated in cryptography seems like a reasonable conclusion given what he published.
It looks great to me. My main problem is that she asked me to give over my personal information before I can really do anything. I chose "Birthday" (my birthday is coming up) and I wanted to see what kind of suggestions would come up, but the first thing I see is "Give us all your information and create an account", but I don't particularly want to do that just yet. Can't she wait and ask for that at the end, when I presumably do something like hit a "Create This Event" button?
Compare the damage done by each? Computer scientists come out waaaaaaaaaay ahead on that one.
Well, there is silence at one level, and the next level reports a success (lack of spelling error).
ReactOS is to provide an operating system which compatible with Windows
Well, I am the author of the linked piece.

First, I have never owned any bitcoins, nor do I own any now. It is a fascinating and massive experiment, and I am quite happy to remain an observer rather than a participant.

Second, I suspect I know more about economics than you think (more a response to pico303 than to you). Obviously the deflationary argument is one of the strongest. The others are mostly noise, but wow is there a lot of noise.

I do wonder, though... What would happen if someone were to create something like Bitcoin but with, say, crowd-sourced monetary policy instead of a finite supply?
This is a terrible title. It tells me nothing about the product. I expect a title like this in /r/pics but not in HN.
Cool idea. What sort of things is she doing to get it out there and try to start getting people using it, get it known and stuff?
I don't think thats the right graphic - a more reasonable graphic is in the PDF which the article is a copy of.
i won't buy this product, or any other product this man works on in the future.
Banner image doesn't stretch on Chrome + retina display.
http://puu.sh/2upQE
Author here, that's correct, we haven't implemented the WebRTC binding yet. The way grim's communication works, we put REST semantics and protocol over messaging transports. We've already done it over Web Workers' postMessage API, and don't expect any trouble doing the same over WebRTC's DataChannels. In fact, the blog post's content is served by a Worker server which proxies out to a markdown file on the remote host, converts to HTML using https://github.com/chjj/marked, and responds.
I think knowing JSF 1.1 and 2.0 and what is different between them is very important too.
Well made video that articulates an argument well, and has a positive call to action at the end. Very sensitive topic as well, wonder what potential solutions would or could be.
Selectively enforced laws are terrible. They are tools for enforcers to discriminate. Naturally most people aren't bothered. Most people do not attract the eye of Sauron.
You cannot be held legally liable for reading a contract if it is presented to you. If ToS is meant to be a contract, then no. However, minors cannot consent to a contract, so it would fall on their parents to enforce the contract on the minor.

However, if the ToS is meant to be law, then yes. But courts are known to throw out ToS sections that are written in bad faith. Anything like weev and Aaron are far edge cases with big money and names behind them. Hearst and the DoJ would be highly unlikely to pursue even civil action for breaking the ToS.
I can't help but think of Kyle Neath's blog post about this in 2010: http://warpspire.com/posts/url-design/
You mean for showing the logo of someone based on the company name they enter into a URL?
Main call to action seems confused -- text suggests that you're looking for suppliers, button underneath suggests you're looking for buyers. The "event planners" you're looking to supply are probably not enticed by the "Plan Event Free" button. Maybe split it in half to appeal to each?
This is nonsense. "Time for some new ideas, from people who actually grow complex organic systems: animal trainers." "Time for some new ideas, from people who actually keep large masses of people happy: sex workers." "Time for some new ideas, from people who actually clean up others' problems: garbage men." What your argument is missing is that even if top economists aren't great at economics, they might still be better at it than computer scientists. Maybe top economists are bad at economics because economics is hard. Not because only idiots do economics.
If I was homeless through choice or bad luck I would also pick San Francisco due to the climate, the existing homeless community and the state of California being liberal and more generous with support programmes. In other words despite its success SF will only gain homeless.
What traffic from 60 Minutes looks like: http://bjk5.com/post/30813320623/what-traffic-from-60-minute...
That's great about what Keynesian economics says to do. But there haven't been controlled experiments in which thousands of different countries ran economies with different characteristics and parameters. With virtual economies and digital currencies, followed by seasteading, we can finally get that. And something tells me "Keynesianism" (which primarily serves as a bastardized justification for slow wealth seizures via inflation and fast wealth seizures like Cyprus) won't be doing so well when the numbers are toted up.
That would be an exaggeration too. More like K&R C vs ANSI C.
"Economists have written on the mechanics of a Bitcoin-like currency, in essence, a fixed-supply alternative anonymous fiat "currency"."

You need to go back to papers written by F.A Hayek criticizing Keynes in the 30s to get any serious academic discussion of the benefits of a fixed money supply. His critique of Keynes' idea of the "Paradox of Savings" is good, also the later paper he wrote: "The Denationalization of Money", which explores privately issued competing currencies is pretty interesting.
One thing you learn about the press as you have a few experiences as an "insider": they almost never get it right.

Reporters rarely have the time, intelligence, and information to research and write an accurate report on every subject. There is no Bitcoin correspondant for Bloomberg, just an overworked, underpaid English major.
The Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research Plagiarism
The list doesn't seem that accurate. Some of these "VCs" are actually angel groups that don't do Series A, other than follow ons (Webb Investment Network).

Others have started Angel funds (Ron Conway) and no longer invest personally.
I'm not sure why people are so outraged about this.

It was the author's choice, and he came to it after having arguments posed to him that made him rethink the way it came across and how he uses things like, "Explain it to my wife" in every day language. I for one, applaud someone him for being willing and open to criticism which he personally came to the conclusion he was not comfortable with.

No one hacked his site and defaced it and took it down, no one complained to his hosting company...It was his choice, because he apparently cares about how he comes across, and was moved by valid arguments from others.

Things like this that are more subtle are honestly the most important to address. Since people tend to not call other people out on them, they'll go on using latently sexist/racist/homophobic/etc. phrases and language and not understand what impact that makes. Many people, like this author, are really reasonable and it gives them something to think about - especially if you come to them about it in a reasonable way, which I'm assuming some people did.

As for the issue of the person in the dialog, perhaps it could be replaced with something like a kindergartener, generic male buddy, or even make things fun like Plato/Aristotle or what they did in GEB with Achilles/Tortoise.

I really applaud the author for making this change. The article was a bit uncomfortable for me as a woman in tech.

And as a side note: If you think this is an "overreaction" (which I don't think it is), there's way worse stuff out there to be outraged about. I got banned on a (biological) woman's health board for using the word "female" because not everyone identifies as female and apparently I offended some people. It felt like something from the Women's First bookstore sketch in Portlandia :)
Note how we lionize entrepreneurs who intensely pursue a low-probability dream, whether they succeed or fail, while grad students pursuing their own low-probability dream get nothing but scorn.

I disagree with your characterization that grad students are getting scorn. At least in my post, I don't intend to scorn. Maybe a "marked lack of sympathy for a self-made mess" would be what I'm trying to convey. I also disagree that there is a significant commonality between entrepreneurs and grad students because of their probability of success.

I'm just wondering why PhD students are surprised that higher degrees in the humanities aren't the easy gravy train they imagined. It seemed pretty obvious to me 20 years ago. Seems easily researchable 20 years ago. As time has gone by, it has just seemed more and more obvious.

What needs to be changed isn't necessarily grad school, but academic culture - particularly its attitudes towards and adaption to failure

I disagree again. Making it nicer to fail won't help those people. Opening their eyes to the real risk vs reward scenario earlier on would.

Conflating the entrepreneurial and academic communities as far as the understanding of failure doesn't help. Entrepreneurs who fail learn important lessons about what doesn't work and are encouraged to dust themselves off and apply what they've learned. They're still entrepreneurs when they try again.

Academics who fail while working on obscure/useless PhDs should most properly learn to stop being academics.
I've been gaming pretty much my entire life and the Xbox has been my primary console gaming platform since the original one. I currently own two Xbox 360s. I haven't owned a Playstation since the PS1.

I'm 99.9% sure my next console will be PS4. This isn't because of the "always-on" requirement or really any one particular issue in general but lots and lots of little signals that Sony seems to be re-positioning itself to be a platform that wants to delight gamers (see, for example, the focus they had on The Witness and indie games in their product announcement) while Microsoft has been increasingly positioning itself to be a media center first, games second, ads and micro DLC upsells everywhere. I'm pretty sick of paying $50 a year for their online service only to be inundated with ads constantly, being upsold constantly, the system still having no infrastructure for dedicated servers (thus having to play online games off of other Xbox Live user's shitty tethered cellphone connections in some cases), etc.

I'm sure Sony won't be perfect either and I'm really hoping systems like Ouya/Steambox/whatever really catch on in the long run, but I've been extremely disappointed with the Xbox experience lately to the point where I'm actively looking to jump ship in the next generation.