skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We're discussing SSDs, which has everything to do with high performance, and almost nothing with storage.
The problem is the measure of "performance". Some companies including Google do it via a central committee, but that has it's own problems.
Assessing the Effectiveness of Antivirus Solutions [pdf]
"Manage them in their own pace" entails accepting exchange rate risk, at least until their inputs are priced in bitcoin. Their core business is mixing drinks, not currency speculation, so it makes perfect sense that they don't want to hold bitcoin.

From the bar's point of view this is really no different to a Canadian coming in to the bar and buying a drink with their Canadian credit card - in that case, the customer is debited a $CAD amount by their bank (plus a currency conversion fee) and the bar receives $USD in their account.
There's only only place where you can (or could) get the greatest phone, laptops, tablets etc: the Apple store. They had huge margins and great demand so they acted as they didn't want to nickle and dime their customers.

Now let me see where else I can buy some decent clothes, dishes and sheets...
My favorite part about the imperial system is that a pint of butter weighs a pound. 16oz of butter is 16 fluid oz. A pint is a pound, the world round!
Crippled in hardware - there's no +5V line so even when you patch that code you need to use a Y cable.
Isn't Walmart basically today's version of JCPenny and Sears?
If this is happening those ad networks should be banned. Incentivizing a user to download an app is against app stores TOS.
Universities in the US don't teach languages in general. At my school, you get 1 semester of Java and that's it. The next class people take that uses something else is compilers, and that uses C. You're just expected to know it.

The usual justification is "we're not a vocational college" which I think is kind of bullshit.
XKCD: Time
no fractional option?

I tried 'mining', got to 0.00003 and realized it would take 3 years to earn a single coin. Not even worth the energy its consuming.
Kevin Rose paid someone a fixed amount to write Digg, and then paid other people salaries to continue writing it. Writing code is not the most important part of most businesses, excluding the few which are built on an emerging technology.

Facebook, Amazon, HackerNews, Reddit, Wikipedia, Twitter, none of these would be hard services to get to 1.0 for any halfway decent programmer. But somebody had to know what to build, they had to believe in it, and they had to work for it, to learn from their mistaks and flush out the vision. And most of these people probably paid somebody else to write most of the code.
5 Reasons Your Employer Brand Is Not Delivering Results
Your joke maker is not working. Ever.
I'd add an elif (or else if, depending on if your language can handle that shorthand) checking the total number of X+Y, as well as if X>Y, with a statement that says "Don't be afraid to fail."

But that's just me.
EA's Reponse To Being Named 'The Worst Company in America'
Yep. Say what you will about Apple products, but it's no coincidence that professional audio applications are so much more prevalent on Apple products. Core Audio is a fantastic base for developers to work with.
I wonder if any people who have voted 'no' could explain and justify why not.
Andymoe is right. All this means is that if you use Core Data, you'll just have to write your own data syncing. You would have to do the same in order to sync sqlite.

If you want to be able to share code/general architecture between iOS and Android codebases, it would be better to go with sqlite.
I'm sorry for the soon to be ex employees, but I hate all these App Store fakers. Good riddance to spammy apps like this.
What about groceries? Sorting them, buying them, keeping track of current stock?
http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...
The way I understand: Google has entered in private agreements and as a private company it can remove even a video celebrating your mom's bday, for reason or no reason.

>> The problem for McKelzey now is that he's picked up a strike in YouTube's two-strike system. According to the site's Terms of Service, YouTube can terminate an account if its found to be in violation of site rules more than once.

Does that take Adsense, Adwords, GooglePlay, G+ and everything with it? If so, that's scary.
If he hasn't already, get him to do a write-up on that. I'd sure be interested, and I'm sure many others would be as well.
I contest that GNU Mailman, the Eclipse Foundation, Firebase, the Born This Way Foundation, and Discourse are hardly "minor, at best." Not to mention extensive dogfooding within Mozilla itself.

Less flippantly, these things take time. While the initiative has been public for some time, it's only been in beta for roughly 6 months. It would be irresponsible for many organizations to jump on board this early, and taking that as a sign of failure is disingenuous.
It's already been done: http://www.cnet.com/8301-13553_1-10009797-32.html

Like you said, it's the folding that's hard.
Budget VM has really good plans if you need disk space. A warning though, the support sucks. I used the 2GB plan for while, it has okay performance but for $10 bucks it was perfect for the analysis I had to do.

http://www.budgetvm.com/linux-vps.php
Jetstrap reminds me of Divshot - another great interface builder: http://www.divshot.com

Great job! Glad to see some startups out there trying to make it easier to create :)
This is nit-picky, but the huge vertical padding on the homepage is quite bothersome to me. I can fit just about one feature per page on my monitor. Something more condensed would look a lot better I think.
Github now supports STL file viewing
What would X+Y represent?? And "Don't be afraid to fail" would be a nice add-on for sure!
The founder (then 15 yrs old) was basically dishonest, annoying, ridiculous ... etc. More here: http://gizmodo.com/5830076/how-i-made-a-15+year+old-app-deve...
One of the big articles in the field is by K. Anders Ericsson and Neil Charness. It is titled "Expert Performance - Its Structure and Acquisition." You can find a copy at:

http://stuff.mit.edu/afs/athena.mit.edu/course/6/6.055/readi...

Alternately, you could read "Deliberate Practice and Acquisition of Expert Performance: An overview". It is also by Ericsson and you can find a copy here:

http://www.cogsci.rpi.edu/~vekslv/classes/cogeng2010/lecture...
Dude. Spamming the history is not cool. I made the mistake of viewing the site on a snapdragon s4 phone: it was extremely laggy, and I had to press the back button more than a dozen times before I got back to HN.

I guess I'll have to wait till I get back home before I can actually look at your site, but seriously, you should do something about mobile accessibility asap.
We negotiate salaries independently for each person based on their skills, experience, and competing offers.

We employ six male engineers, one female engineer and one female designer. All the men scored higher on their skills, experience and had higher competing offers, so they got higher salaries.

I don't see any problem in that.

If I paid them less because of their sex, that would be a problem.
Tip: Don't focus on learning programming. Focus on learning to find and solve tough problems.

Once you go that direction you will learn things along the way. 10 years or 5 or 20 don't even matter then. Because you will be achieving the end result of why you should even be learning programming.
Doors. I would have doors open themselves, either because my phone is near the deer and my keys are nearby, or an implanted RFID chip. Or anything. Just a way for doors to open quickly and silently, to just the right amount. Not too much, not to little (it would depend on the situation).
BTW, piaw has several blog articles about problems with performance review committees:
http://piaw.blogspot.ca/2010/04/promotion-systems.html
For the record, I agree. I saw this petition and it was so ridiculous, I had to post it.
A doctor or dentist can't just move without taking a hit to their salary until they re-establish themselves and their practice in a new market. When you move as a doctor or dentist you are essentially leaving all your current customers behind and starting again from scratch.
Java equivalent to Python's zip() - StackOverflow
The house itself. I would have the house be like S.A.R.A.H in Eureka. Or something similar.
I have to say that it's (mostly) the carrier's fault.

I have the same issue sometimes with Airtel India, and I'm pretty sure this notification was turned off 2 years. [edit or maybe i just had a good data connection then]

Also, this issue is not consistent. I'm guessing what happens is: carrier sends usage alert when you "turn off" data + bad connection that keeps dropping => many notifications even though you never turned off data.

There are a few apps that convert USSD alerts to notifications - try these - but it would be nice if this was a built-in feature.
Someone else posted that farther down. The problem is that the capacity is so low. People want capacities that are to the tune of 5.0 cf for a washer and 8.0-9.0 cf for a dryer.

The model in that article is only 2.44 cf. That is to be expected though, seeing as I don't know of anyone else making a similar device, but we still need to improve before sales would make it worth manufacturing in mass.
I rarely quote gawker but they have a good write up about the whole fiasco:

http://gawker.com/5992733/how-to-become-a-teen-millionaire-b...

Basically, Nick was really pushy when he was young. I personally think all of us were, at some point, an immature or annoying teenager so his behaviour is probably not that out of the ordinary for someone his age. Hopefully he is more mature now.
Angry Birds To Be Used As New Turing Test
It´s a strategic investment to make people invested in Summly happy.
http://summly.com/about.html

Their will be follow ups and some of them might lean towards Yahoo on the next acquisition.
+1 AppGratis is in violation of the TOS and are rightfully upset, but I think they were banned for good reasons.

I care more about the health of the app store ecosystem than one company. They claim to promote great free apps but in reality is spamming all their users with paid promotions to the highest bidder.
Wait, is your take on this that their attitude is not good?

We got one quarter of C++, then everything else was "you are all grownups, use whatever the hell you want so long as it works on [cs cluster]". Most people continued to use C++ of course. It was not until an intro to languages course (preceding a few compilers courses, if you elected to take them) that course material again included learning a new language (scheme).

This, aside from the initial obnoxious first quarter, seems like the absolute proper way to run a CS department. A bunch of courses teaching different languages, as I would expect from some sort of "vocational college", is absolutely not what I was paying for.
Obligatory Warren Buffet quote: "I've said many times that when a management with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."
So you are talking about giving the house a full personality? That's a fairly interesting idea and I'm not sure if it's an active area of research.

It seems like giving the house a personality would require a huge advance in natural language processing. I don't think it would be a practical idea until a machine is built that can pass the Turing test with flying colors.

It will happen in the future, for sure. The question is when.
Yup Macy's is a pretty good option for decently priced suits, socks, etc.
Anyone using http://todotxt.com/?
It's likely that if it is patented, it's filed under an anodyne name like "A system and method for indexing data".
There's already a github for 3D models, it's called Sketchfab (http://sketchfab.com) and it rocks.
No you don't understand this is different - do a kickstarter promted by a viral video and we will get at least 10% of the market, and then Google and Facebook will fight to acquihire us!

Who wants to be my technical co-founder?
You get 3 strikes and each strike expires after six months.

http://support.google.com/youtube/bin/answer.py?hl=en&an...
Is there no scheme for shorting an asset over arbitrary timescales whose maximum possible loss is capped?
Replacing passwords with pass-thoughts
You're right. Khovanova is the original author of the point, and Schneier added nothing there, so the Schneier link is blogspam.

http://ycombinator.com/newswelcome.html
The Asynchronous Hacker Handbook
Air compression is a valid solution here, if I am understanding what you're asking for. The trick would be developing a silencer for the compression tank similar to that of a firearm.

Check this out:

http://youtu.be/otYAm6OXnH8
Yep, just like uploading the entire contacts list. Everyone did it until they got caught.
Just in case anyone ends up here, the book I was thinking of turns out to be the rather obscure novel "Intruder" by Charbonneau from 1979.

More info on the book: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/louis-charbonneau...
> "Manage them in their own pace" entails accepting exchange rate risk, at least until their inputs are priced in bitcoin.

That's exactly my point. Dollars are viewed (and are) way more stable and less risky at present. For real bitcoin economy to expand though, this needs to change, so more and more bitcoins are used for direct transactions, rather than for such instantaneous conversion.
I'm not sure if you've been keeping up with what "web-based" means, but given HTML5 cache manifests and storage APIs (localStorage, IndexedDB, etc.), web applications are perfectly capable of "sharing only its data, not the application itself, with all data stored locally after the work session ends."

You can basically think of a web application, these days, as a native app that just happens to "update" to the newest server-provided version whenever you start it up, if you're online at the time.
His only recurse might be to sue both Youtube and Universal seeking a declaratory judgement the work doesn't infringe copyright under the fair use doctrine, injunction to have it reinstated and another injunction forbidding both Youtube and Universal from ever removing it again subject to a massive fine/day.

A good lawyer could even get slander of title up there against Universal for claiming copyright on a video which they clearly don't own, in which case he could get a nice paycheck out of the lawsuit. They could also stick some RICO act in there.

The question is whether suing would be worth the trouble, maybe the EFF would be open to pursue such case to set case law and make an example of them to the rest of the copyright mafia.
I understand you don't want to trust DO for anything production, yet. But several companies are already using them in production mode. JSFiddle, NewsBlur,AudioBox are the ones that I can remember.
How is that even possible? 256GB SSDs just came down to less than a dollar per gig. I'm sure flash chips are priced separately but even 64 gb USB 3.0 flash cards can't be had for less than $40, it seems.
My thoughts exactly. The 17MM was a 'cheap' way to save face for big-name investors and "celebrities" who'd been duped. Circle-jerk money.

"Angel Investors and Advisors include; Ashton Kutcher, Betaworks, Brian Chesky, Hosain Rahman, Jessica Powell, Joanna Shields, Josh Kushner, Mark Pincus, Matt Mullenweg, Seb Bishop, Shakil Khan, Spencer Hyman, Stephen Fry, Troy Carter, Vivi Nevo, Yoko Ono and many more. We are also working closely with News Corporation on the summarization of their content."

Edit: actually, reading all of the comments on this page, I think my explanation is less likely than the "summly may have had a special license, and SRI couldn't be sold unless summly was acquired as well" (without resulting in lawsuits or sub-licensing deals) and/or "a nice way to pay more for SRI via the backdoor" (artificially increasing the value of the summly stock they held -> more $$ for SRI).

Do we know how much stock SRI owned of the company? Perhaps they provided services in exchange for summly shares? Wouldn't be the first time.
>This isn't unique to DigitalOcean and is fundamental to the way Xen works

Digital Ocean uses KVM, not Xen, per https://www.digitalocean.com/faq so I'm not sure why they would need to pin the kernel.
Don’t Write Alone
Boeing Bills Its Massive Hydrogen-Powered Drone as a Flying Cell Tower
Haven't the bond yields, and hence prices, been flat? If so, why did anyone loose money?
>>the carrier's fault

As I said the behaviour is present in other operators too. I've asked a friends on Idea and Vodafone too(with Android). I just called a friend(before writing this comment) and he confirms that he is not facing this issue on Idea+iPhone5(he faced the issue on Nexus S with Airtel and then Idea too).

I had asked a friend with a Lumia and on Airtel and he said he doesn't have to do this.

>>carrier sends usage alert when you "turn off" data + bad connection that keeps..

No, it sends whenever there's 3G transaction and the usage period ends. I've observed that when I am using browser, I usually get the alert after I close the browser.

Airtel technical team(I was told they were the tech team) also confirmed that it is based upon usage and usually many apps/features rely for background syncing/net-access solely upon 3G/data so that is what makes the number of pop-ups too much. They also confirmed that it happens even when the phone is continuously on WiFi(I concur).

>>There are a few apps that convert USSD

Tried. Actually the most famous one is developed by an Indian guy(makes me think he was a victim himself). Didn't work.

Planning to root it. Google will push probably the last upgrade with 5.0(if at all). Will see if there's any ROM that handles it.
Not using any other h* tags seems like crazy advice. I could definitely believe that search engines haven't become privy to the multiple h1 tags that HTML5 proposes, but I assume that will come with time too. Since the idea for multiple h1's makes lots of semantic sense for components, I'm going to keep using them. Keeping track of heading levels inside components is hard/impossible.
Do you think something changed when somebody with an @google.com username involved? Or when the issue is serious enough?

https://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=18565
I don't agree with the Java hate (why not teach kids to use Java? it's rather condescending if you think they can't learn it), but I will say: having learned to program on my own, I found it both easy and rewarding (lots of immediate, rapid growth and feedback) learning with Python for a few weeks before getting into Java. For some people, and maybe kids are NOT this group (but the group exists), the initial syntax barrier for the complete novice is much more intimidating in Java than it is in Python (or Ruby). I mean, arguably even C has an easier-to-grok-for-the-total-noob 'Hello, World!' than Java...

[insert examples of runnable 'Hello, World!' and 'Hello, <name>!' programs in Python v Ruby v Java here]
Electronic Arts named the worst company in America – again
Very nice that they did 301 redirects for all the thousands of URLs out there on their old CMS.

Example:
curl -I http://www.rogerebert.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/2010031...

HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
Cache-Control: no-cache
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8
Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2013 03:54:00 GMT
Location: http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/great-movie-the-big-lebowski-1998
Server: nginx/1.2.7

Much nicer URLs, now.

I had just posted his list of the 364 “Great Movies” on my site a few days ago: http://sivers.org/ebert2

Nice to know it looks like his great essays will stick around forever.
I don't have
Except that YouTube is under no obligation to host his video and is free to remove it for any or no reason, so it couldn't be forced to reinstate the video.
Zynga Launches Online Gambling in the UK
I'm going to take a screenshot of your comment and show it to my family everytime they tell me:

"You do this computer programmer stuff. I keep hearing they're making millions in "the valley", why don't you make an app?"
I walk by the midtown Manhattan Macy's every day on the way to work...it's not terribly tempting to go in, as all the prices are generally more expensive across the board than finding the individual brand stores online or in person. However, I am always surprised by how much stuff there is...I mean, in an existential sense. Yes, I'm always aware of the variety of consumer-targeted items through the internet, but it's something else to see it in person. Everytime I go into that midtown Macy's, I find myself just wandering all the way up to the eighth floor. Maybe that's why I don't go very often...
Looks great mobile. I like this.
EA COO reply is quite epic, but definitely has its points
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5523060
I don't know if breaking a contract or EULA is strictly illegal.
Yet Chrome is massively successful.

I've seen non-techie people use Chrome, none of them remembered how and why. My guess is that tried to download something else and it as bundled, or clicked on an advert when using Google. That might explain a large part of success. Chrome is pretty good, but then so is Firefox and (even) IE10.

One thing that Google does better than anyone else (period) is build networks.

Even if I assume that as true (surely many will contest it) somehow I suspect that that's not why we don't have 100mbs or GB service countrywide
I don't know, who are Yahoo's prospective customers? Search advertisers, right? They need goodwill with small business owners, whether those businesspersons are technically inclined or not. I'm sure they reached many of that type with this announcement. What niche do you think Yahoo needs for a customer base but has totally failed to contact?
"Gigabit Wi-Fi" could be a standard feature in 2013's Mac lineup.
Nice,

But I've checked nearly everything thing out. Online kanban boards, Trello, Asana, Org-Mode you name it...

Its extremely hard to beat the flexibility of a diary and pencil/pen. You can doodle, scratch, draw, record, take notes, maintain time, review history, write a lesson, work out problems... The list is endless... You can do all this in a easy extremely distraction less tool. And to be frank maintaining a diary gives me a great deal of discipline in fighting procrastination. Diaries also are great progress indicators.

Most successful people I know maintain diaries. Diaries and Pens are here to stay.
I've been working through stuff on Treehouse trying to learn Ruby/Rails and thought the content was ok if not a little shallow. Are there better programs/methods that stand out?
Normal calls work fine, of course. Zero problems is a pretty high bar. Audio manipulation that 3rd party apps require doesn't seem to be exposed by the device.
Lawn care.

What a huge hassle.
Doesn't take into account the magnitude of successes or failures