skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yeah exactly, that's the entire point. Asian DO seem to be be treated differently, that's the premise of the entire discussion. How is that surprising? What's so impossible about that possibility?

That's neither a sentence of mine, nor a logical impossibility. It's a perfectly valid, logically sound scenario, but for some reason you think it's a logically impossible scenario.

Just because you think it's false doesn't make it logically impossible! And here I was arguing with propositional logic as if I'd claimed 2+2=5.
. . . this is a serious question, by the way.

It seems that an answer can be found here: http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-13-383_en.htm. Most of the news is just parroting the least-useful bits of the press release.

Can't say I'm a fan of setting the precedent for content usage. The rest looks fine to me, though.
The same problem here. If I start it docked with the lid closed, it doesn't get past the Ubuntu splash screen and hangs in some weird state where the only possibility is hard power-off. I have to start it with the lid open, then close it after logging into desktop and then manually setup the second external monitor, because although it detects it, it keeps it "disabled". This entirely sucks in 12.10 I hope 13.04 will be better, but I'm little reluctant to upgrade so early after upgrade to 12.10 broke my system.
5 Reasons Startups Are Afraid of Marketing (and shouldn't be)
Poe's law [1] absolutely applies here and is likely why commenters here are so polarized about this article.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
For future reference, is it possible to login to the developer center before the tickets go on sale, so you don't have to login? I didn't think to do that until 9:45 pacific, and by then logging in got a 'we'll be back soon' message.
At 1:01, had ticket, purchase being confirmed and then errored out. Damn.
A more fact-based article: http://7thspace.com/headlines/436581/executive_recruiter_dav....
This sort of Brings back to light Aaron. Can someone please update me on what if any progress has been made to make sure this doesn't happen again?

Has his cause and actions just sort of belly flopped and gone no where or have we seen something meaningful come from the tragic loss?
Thanks. I was putting the editor front and center, but you are right, perhaps the templates themselves can provide more value. I think I'm going to go further than bigger screenshots and let them download sample reports in .pdf generated straight from SSRS using my templates.
Blizzcon also sold out pretty fast. What's the point of this again?
"I have always felt that reviews are ripe for disruption and a bit of an ethics and authority treatment."

I'd be fascinated to see how someone tries to tackle this better. I post reviews there sometime and see people arguing against their algorithm, but their (imperfect) algorithm is working against a social problem, not a technical problem and that's where persons get confused.

"Ethics" is a pretty poor word to use when Yelp is working against the equivalent of or direct SEO-style review spammers. It's hard to tell a real person from a plant.
Yeah, I think under one minute. I was refreshing a couple browsers, in Japan and in US West AWS region. Several seconds after 10AM (2AM here in Tokyo, sigh) the tickets page switched to a Buy Now button.

Pressing Buy Now took me to a developer sign-in dialog (I had logged into the Apple Store and the Dev Center previously, hoping to avoid the sign in step, but it didn't take). I entered my username/password, pressed Log In... loading... "Unable to process your request."

By which time the tickets page had been updated to say Sold Out.
I'll play devil's advocate to this one... you're saying "interactions" are places where ads aren't supposed to be? Isn't any interaction between a business and individuals on Twitter really marketing?
Ask HN: Good iOS Interview Questions
I need some help crafting some better iOS interview questions.

These are the questions I've been asking, but I feel they are too
beginner/intermediate. Need some more advanced questions to find the
top talent.

* Explain what ARC is and how it works?
* Why does your app crash when the device is low on memory?
* What is a retain-cycle and how do you find and fix them?
* What is fast enumeration?
* How many bytes can we send to apple push notification server?
* Describe the flow of push notifications?
* What is the difference between retain & assign?
* Explain the difference between a category and a protocol?
* What is Delegation in iOS?
* Assume that your app is running in the foreground but is currently not
receiving events. In which state it would be in?
* What are some distribution options for iOS apps?
* What's the process for publishing to the App Store?
* What does it mean to call objective-c a messaging language?

I appreciate your feedback!
you probably would have if you were top 3 grossing overall
If you have contacts you definitely get tickets, but they don't always come early.

I think there's some subset reserved for Developer Relations and they give them out at will - I've never noticed a particular strategy with respect to app store placement.
tongue-in-cheek
Other freebie resources:

http://psddd.co/ (pulls posts tagged with "psddd")

http://freethroww.com/ (pulls top posts that are freebies)

http://dribbble.com/tags/freebie (all posts tagged "freebie")
Why I Love WebSockets - CTOvision
Or ads on GMail? Seems like with that definition you can define any sort of advertisement on a communication medium "spam".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(electronic)
Note: "indiscriminately"

I wasn't aware of the emails, I haven't received one and I've been favorited before.
Developer of the #2 music app here, didn't get shit ahead of time (or just now).
So, why should I use Linux rather than Windows, which will run all my software? Expecting everything to work perfectly may be nonsense but I have to assume that your average user is going to follow the least effort path.
Right up until you get a bunch of self-entitled pseudo-fans wailing about blackmail, ransom, and passive-aggressive behavior.

All right, I'm exaggerating a bit, but I've thought about this a bit as I'm self-producing my own cd. I feel like doing something like this would set up something of an adversarial relationship with my fans.
The limitation isn't really the venue. While the sessions are useful they're made available online and the patterns suggested become common practice pretty quickly.

In my experience the value of WWDC is getting to spend time doing Q+A with Apple engineers, and moving to a bigger venue with more competition for engineers reduces the overall value of the conference rather than increasing it.
I still suspect it won't "look right", as there's more to it than just color. The geometric patterns it may cast on the wall, maybe some other "intangible" effects.

I'll have to try one out. It may just be that I'm on the vinyl side in the lighting equivalent of the "vinyl vs CD" debate.
The point of copyright isn't really to keep little Timmy from downloading one or two songs. It's to keep some Korean operation from selling bootleg CDs in the free and clear, or to keep companies like Youtube from capturing all the profit that derives from content by virtue of being the entity closest to the user.
People do need to learn that their actions can have negative outcomes as well as positive.

This is also not something that is just happening to these people. They are taking an active part by deciding to follow someone.

I certainly don't belong to the school of thought that says you should never experience a negative outcome.
You should ask Developer Relations.

Edit: before dzlobin does!
This is dumb. It's merely pointing out pronouns. Should it be he/she everywhere or it? Gender neutral is often 'he'. Should we now say that 'all men are created equal'? Is it splitting hairs yet? Nobody is telling women not to get into tech things. I don't know whether it is general interest or what, but it should not engender such divisive hate.

I think we need more positive role models. Less of this pointless vitriol.
Yes, but that's Amazon's core business. It's not Twitter's core business.
This raises another question, though - why is it more important to do this in high tech than other fields?

Nobel economist Milton Friedman scoffs at the idea of the government stocking a farm system for the likes of Microsoft and Intel. "There is no doubt," he says, "that the [H-1B] program is a benefit to their employers, enabling them to get workers at a lower wage, and to that extent, it is a subsidy."

http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/72848/H_1B_Is_Just_An...

So why subsidize Microsoft and Intel rather than other sectors of the economy? Why specifically attach green cards to graduate STEM degrees? Much of the objection here isn't to liberalized immigration or bringing great people in general, it's about tailoring our immigration system to increase the size of the STEM workforce, when the evidence does not support the notion that there is any shortage.

Also, keep in mind, there are long term dangers to restricting the domestic pipeline of talent into these fields. A sudden and massive increase in the size of a specific sector of the workforce through immigration will increase the pool of good talent in the short term, as the existing domestic workforce will not have had time to adjust to the new and reduced cost/benefit of a graduate degree in engineering. But in the long run, it may simply deter young people from entering the field and displace the existing workforce - not because it's a bad deal, but because talent can find a better deal in an area that is not targeted for increase through visa allocation.

This could leave the US heavily dependent on foreign students. Some people will say "so what? we'll have good engineers, for cheap, and if later we can't recruit as easily, domestic interest will increase." I'm not nearly so optimistic. I think that a healthy pipeline isn't something you can kill off and revive on a dime. When you lose it, it is very difficult to revive.

I want to be clear - I think it would be terribly foolish for the US to close the door to top talent from overseas. A healthy domestic pipeline requires a healthy infusion of talent from overseas as well. However, I think it needs to be carefully balanced As it stands, I don't think that people creating these policies are aware of the potential risks and damage they may be doing to the domestic pipeline, nor do they seem to understand the long term implications of narrowing the domestic pipeline.
Right. I don't see any problem with INITIAL reviews being held in a queue based on the user's participation level. With more participation reviews get unfiltered.

Criticizing Yelp's algorithm is fine, but people don't understand how it actually works, nor do they have the patience to figure it out. Full transparency would be nice, but that would defeat the purpose to having it to screen out the fakers and SEO spammers.
New improvements to Twitter for Mac
certainly, and I didn't intend to minimize it, just to highlight the lack of awareness of the deleterious effects of prostate cancer treatments given the oft cited sense of disfigurement from mastectomies. both are terrible for the patient.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender-neutral_pronoun#Universa...

In most cases for jobs 'they' could be appropriately used.

Also for the record I don't really care. I've seen good and bad women and men programmers. Getting huffy about pronouns just strikes me as someone that is a bit too emotional. Huh, strike a chord? (j/k)
Honestly, I think the question is "when are people going to realise they don't really need to go?". Videos of the talks are being put online, and while access to engineers is great, the majority of people probably wouldn't need/want it anyway.

Same as Google IO, these events have become like popular concerts- people leap on tickets because they know they're going to sell out, not because they've thought through why they'd want them.
Why can't we stop this madness? I don't see how first-come-first-serve here serves developers well at all.

Why don't they let anyone with a credit card join a ticket lottery? Just trying for a ticket could cost say, $10 to discourage people from trying every one of their credit cards. Perhaps to make it more fair, a winner must take their tickets, to discourage gaming.

This goes on for two days. Then the "real" tickets go on sale, the lotto winners get their tickets.

This way if you run to the computer at 10:03 or get out the hospital the next day or just simply forget until dinnertime, you still get a chance.
Using D3 and Meteor to generate SVG
it's possible on my laptop keyboard as the alt/ctrl are right next to the arrow keys, but admittedly it's not a particularly natural or comfortable way to do it
They haven't done the traditional post-session question & answer time in years, so other than the "labs", there is no interaction with the Apple engineers. They could set up a more stringent reservation system for the labs and sell more conference tickets if they wanted.

But, like another poster said, selling out in under 2 minutes makes them look good.
For me bumblebee works, but then the DisplayPort is useless. It would be awesome if bumblebee could automatically detect that the laptop is docked and turned on the external graphics to enable proper functioning of DisplayPort. Or even not automatically, but simpler than uninstalling/installing bumblebee (and fixing the mess it did to config files everytime).
Unfortunately electric current can only be generated using change in magnetic field. So this won't work with a static magnetic field, as is the case in the article.
Another simple explanation, your sight is not as good as it used to be. 10 years is a long time. Just saying.
Google searches predict market moves
Actual title is: New improvements to Twitter for Mac
Put bluntly: this is bullshit. The advance notice was slightly better than last year, but the website was intermittently down for the entire two minutes tickets were on sale.

I was there, trying to buy them at 9:59am, at 10:00:20am the website finally went live, pressed the buy button and was greeted by "unable to process your request."

Seriously, Apple needs to figure this shit out. Whether that means opening up more seats, making tickets more expensive, or even just having a website that doesn't go down on you… something.
A guy in my office was logged in before it went live, but when it came back up the session had been cleared. So my guess would be no.
Very thoughtful and provocative comment. My initial reaction was agreement, but then don't we enjoy belonging to this group of hackers? Although you might argue there are no strong signs shown to the outside world.

(That said, trusting a developer with a bunch of ThinkGeek toys? Hell no.)
I inspected the source and didn't see that file in there? When I removed the "preview" that Facebook tries to generate, it worked, however. There goes my conspiracy theory :\
Are you suggesting that the reason they aren't moving to a new venue is because getting their tickets sold out quickly makes them look good and the attendees feel special? As opposed to countless logistical concerns that come with organizing an event of this magnitude and importance?

I'll give you a moment to let the sheer stupidity of your suggestion sink in.
The problem is still room sizes. You would almost need to mirror the conference in each venue. The Apple engineer area/cafeteria etc. couldn't really hold any more.
You don't have to know how either works to recognise something is wrong with them. My mother, happily, is quite cautious and would go and find someone who understands the machine better. In the computer case, I'd likely be getting a phone call.

The certificate errors are kind of a design failure. Users are so used to clicking through messages they don't really understand, and this is just one more. Even the most alarming certificate errors are usually innocuous, in my experience - someone forgets to renew a certificate, or fails to get a new one for a domain change. That doesn't mean it's OK to ignore them, but we really need systems that don't cry wolf unless there's a really good chance that there's a wolf.
"my bigger problem is that yelp does nothing for reviewer quality"

What do you expect from user-generated content?

"Yelp is a joke to anyone who really cares about food."

It's really not. You take the reviews into aggregate, it's very easy to screen out the idiots and fickle eaters. Don't pay attention to the ratings, pay attention to the depictions in the reviews.
I sincerely doubt anyone would ever have any ulterior motives like that. Is the whole world out to get you?
Yelp, obviously, but 'greedy lying sales guy' is a different class of problem than 'company-wide extortion scheme'.
Klooff, if the pet lovers on HN want to check it out: http://www.klooff.com/
I believe that's true, regarding Developer Relations. I did get into a Tech Talk one year that was sold out through a large media company, thanks to that.

However, that's a tricky road to go down. I have no idea what Apple's criteria is for that, and I know some teams that have worked closely with Apple in the past that never got that treatment.
The point is to take your money to be "the first"... akin to camping outside the apple store?
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how about bandaids.css or kludge.css? Get out of the psychology and name the noun.
"Information can now be replicated at zero cost. Therefore, it has zero monetary value."

This is not as obvious to me as it seems to be to you. Some things have monetary value because of convention. For example, money. These days money is just information, although there is still a little cash in circulation. What if I figure out a way, at "zero cost", to move information around such that your bank thinks that the money in your account is now in my account? The only things stopping me are laws, technical barriers involving cryptographic safeguards, and not being a thief. Why can't society decide, in the interests of fostering creativity, to erect these mechanisms for music, novels, and movies?
Have you considered wheezy.web?
A more charitable reading of "Preference for dismissal over compromise" is that you prefer (and respect) that the powers that be picks either your or the other solution instead of crafting a half-assed compromise that satisfies neither party.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B_31K_MP92hURjZxTkxUTFZnMVk/...

For a more in depth treatment of anti-fragility. Read anti-fragility a couple of times. One of the one most important ideas of our time (IMO). Btw, your intuitive linking of "age degradation" is also pointed out by Taleb albeit in a different manner. His premise is that ideas that have persisted for a long time are anti-fragile. This is because they have been subjected to shocks, to ridicule, to experimentation and these ideas have become better. Age of existence is one of many indicators of anti-fragility.
One of the coolest things about superconductors is "kinetic inductance"[1]. There is no energy in a normal current. As you say, the electrons don't travel all that fast most of the time. They feel a field, accelerate until they bump into something and start all over again. That's resistance; the energy stored by an inductor or capacitor (a current or voltage) is in the magnetic or electric field nearby.

This isn't true for Cooper-pairs in superconductors. They go fast enough that there is true energy stored in their velocity; there's nothing to stop them, they're a superfluid. This is used for certain types of detectors (MKIDs), and means that there is a bit of extra L in superconducting transmission lines, above the geometric inductance.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetic_inductance
In contrast to this, array (or, as Rust calls them, "vector") references do not require the compiler to know that the index is in range before that index is dereferenced. It would presumably be possible to use the type system to ensure that indexes are in range in many cases, and to require explicit tests for cases where the type system cannot be sure — similar to the approach taken for pointers.

Thus, while it is impossible to get a runtime error for a NULL pointer dereference, it is quite possible to get a runtime error for an array bounds error. It is not clear whether this is a deliberate omission, or whether it is something that might be changed later.

I presume that's because the Rust designers didn't want to include a dependent type system. Comments from pcwalton?
You're talking to the guy that wiped the user table of a production database for an online game he was working on: http://edu.mkrecny.com/thoughts/how-i-fired-myself.

The meat of the story starts with this sentence:

> One of the peculiarities of my development environment was that I ran all my code against the production database....
I've actually heard from other business owners also threatened by Yelp salespeople after not accepting their offer to increase ratings. Except, in the cases I've heard, the Yelp salesperson actually implicitly threatened a decrease in ratings if the business did not buy ads.

Regardless of whether these salespeople have the power to do so or not, it's not entirely ethical business practice. And this leads to business owners unaware of the review filtering algorithm who have encountered these shady salespeople to try to find correlation between the two and end up pointing fingers at Yelp.

So I wouldn't say Yelp is free of blame in these situations, they should be more readily firing these salespeople and shouldn't have a culture that encourages their salespeople to act this way.
Great post man, totally agree. People are busy you got to make it easy for them to help you.
I never said that you should use Linux or Windows or Mac OS or iOS or whatever else you come up with.

Use the product you feel is best suited to your task. If that is Windows, use Windows.

Edit: That said, you will likely want someone knowledgeable around when setting up Windows or Mac OS X, too, so I don’t really get your point.
There is no way that will be abused
Honestly I don't know if I'm suspended or not.

I'm certainly not getting a message saying that I am, but I could be hellbanned in some special way.

It definitely makes me question if Twitter is going to be part of my life and the web sites I make in the future though.
"because the accounts favorite a tweet of theirs."

I think this is incorrect. The intended purpose of "Favorites" is to communicate that a living, breathing person (as opposed to an "account," as you describe) saw my tweet, enjoyed it, and liked it enough to Favorite it.

The OP's product fraudulently claims to Twitter users that the customers of this product are engaging in that action.
I think i have seen this before, it came out basically pretty well aligned with the generally accepted racial groups, except there were i believe 2 groups for sub saharan instead of one group of 'blacks'. Has been a few years since i saw the study so dont quote me on it.
They should raise their prices. A lot. So the people who value it the most get tickets.

This is not an ideal solution but it's much better than the current one.
how is that the same?
> His screenshot on your screen will just show you what
> you always see. It's not going to show you what his
> screen displays.

If he has an incorrectly-configured video driver or a program that modifies color temperature (such as f.lux), his screenshot would show it.
any knows fixes for spotify ?
> Google searches predict market moves

Your title doesn't reflect the article's title or its content, and is wrong in any case. No source can reliably "predict" the market's moves. Some sources can be shown to be correlated with the market after the fact, but that's very different -- among other things, it can't be used to guide advance actions like a real prediction would.

My advice -- avoid associating the words "predict" and "market" in anything resembling serious writing.