skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Hacker" is a specific term, and I hope this article uses it correctly. It is not a synonym for programmer or problem solver or digital vandal. It refers to someone with a deep curiosity about the mechanisms behind things and a desire to find new ways to use them, amongst other things.

Hackers are not necessarily smarter or more gifted than other programmers in any sense. Hackers might be disorganized or lazy or write clever code for its own sake.

So I hope nobody thinks it is synonymous with ninja or rock star.
Drag and drop music into it and I am all set. I know where my music is and if I don't a quick search finds it.
"“The biggest advantage I have with Microsoft is I don’t have to go to any other vendor for any solution -- I can go to one partner for all of my operating systems, all of my development environment and all of my infrastructure tools,” he said. “Why would I waste time looking at another third-party."

^Interesting viewpoint.
Indeed it doesn't, and the whole basis of this story is very anecdotal and shaky. But that's just it -- it's a story, not a factual report about what's actually happening in the world. A disturbing amount of journalism is storytelling, and the facts are just the raw material from which the story is crafted.

In this case, the story is a retread of a tired old classic: "Kids these days are doing some pretty crazy stuff!"
find two iPhones

start voice listening on both (one Siri, one Google app) at the same time

start talking

see the difference
This involves a longer discussion, and I'm not sure what Tim is thinking along those lines. Suffice to say, Clojure's macros are always going to be the best, but I have pretty high hopes that you can get 95% of the way with sweet.js. :)
And rightfully so!

I would love to see more websites offering a no-frills version for older browsers, mobile browsers, smaller screens, etc.

Once I know that a site provides a specific value to me I really don't care about design and usability anymore.
Announcing Domain Verification for App.net profiles
The problem with Apple is that updates are usually pushed out yearly (with each iOS introduction). With Siri the only new developments/exceptions that have been announced are new language compatibility and minor capability improvements (reservations, ticket buying...).

Now, ¿Does that mean that Siri hasn't evolved at all? Not necessarily. Server-side it might have become more reliable or accurate without Apple promoting it, for example.

Personally I use Siri as a shortcut for some functions that otherwise will require to many taps or navigation. Every day I set up my next day alarm with it "Wake me up at..." and sometimes I set up appointments using it. I might ask her to read me some message if I'm running, too. Some of those things Google Now / Android does not offer in it's current state.

I've never had any reliability problems so for me the service has not improved. Maybe users with thicker accents or that had trouble at the beginning would be able to tell otherwise. This has been the case, for me, with iOS Maps. Not new big banner features since introduction but constant improvements without publicity.

On a side note, another two cents: Siri's buzz didn't have to do with the product itself but with the glimpses of the future it offered. It carried the message that sooner or later our way of interacting with things will be a mix of gestures and voice.

It faced the same problems other speech recognition systems and virtual agents had in the past (including pre-Apple Siri) but the fact that a company that caters to the mass market was ready to give it a push probably caused a significant shift and raised awareness to this technology. Certainly has become a well known feature even by common, non-techie users. My mom or my grandmother knows about it, even if they don't use it. That is a huge step forward, in my opinion. Theres always time to refine and improve.
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In the grand scheme of things, this isn't a very big deal? Actual "space" flight requires many multiples of this speed. And isn't the main goal of Virgin Galactic to ferry tourists into space?
The Case for XMPP - CTOvision
Speaking on using this with multiprocessing. AFAIK Twisted does not work well with multiprocessing – the details are not on top of my head.

So the simple way to make this work on a multi-core machine is to wrap the whole thing (including imports) into a function and spawn a pool of processes BEFORE you import Twisted, initialize the reactor, etc.
I run iStat Menus and have never noticed it cause even the slightest problem? I don't understand the problem?

The only thing that causes my MacBook to run slow is Dropbox when it does its re-indexing. 100% CPU, really? Sigh...
That is a different kind of difficulty. What I am talking about are the deliberate obstacles to law enforcement and other government functions in the United States. There is an easier example than quartering soldiers: search warrants. It is easy for the police to search a home; it is hard for the police to get permission to do so.

The purpose of these obstacles is to make law enforcement difficult in general, so that tyranny is harder to establish. By forcing the police to work hard, we force them to prioritize the laws they will enforce. It would be hard for the government to justify enforcing some oppressive law while letting murderers walk free; it is less difficult to justify ignoring an oppressive law because the police were too busy tracking down murderers.
Knowing the price of Azure that should mean they have roughly pulls out calculator and hits some keys.. 12 customers.
Full screen, slow clashing interface on windows and yes it is bloated. It is also an ecosystem that I would rather not be a part of.

It also installs multiple services even if you don't use the devices they are there for.

Apple tends to make crappy software for windows.
Microsoft's wet dream customer.
In other news; The sky is blue and dogs bark.
It's not "the azure SSL certificate", it's more that there are a great many of them being used internally between many systems.
Congress tries to reset science grants, wants every one to be “groundbreaking”
It doesn't actually have anything to do with the quality of the coder, it has everything to do with the perception.

The hackers that built Facebook would be perceived (by the public / media / whatever) to be better because of the halo that comes with their involvement in creating FB.
The better question is why is there a regex in the first place? If someone wants to set their password to some random chinese characters then why shouldn't they be able to?
I laughed out loud at Microsoft
That's nice.

Can we have the source code for Google Reader too, while we're at it?
Turn off all those extra windows. Go to the classic skin.

You can default it to a less is more interface.
So they only released the Linux ... and now we can have Ubuntu for google glass.

On I side note - it is a sad world when the fact that device is unlocked is news instead of the norm.
I like how wikipedia presents its contents in a usable way on IE5.

This is awesome and most likely a part of their mission to make knowledge as accessible as possible. I have seen old, low-end donated PCs that are rife in elementary education in rural India and I'm sure in other developing countries as well. I am sure that these machines will be able to render wikipedia just fine!
One dumb Twitter app and another that could come in real handy
I wonder if it would be possible to exploit human vanity to reduce piracy amongst those who can afford a game. People do things like buy fancy cars and large houses to signal wealth; perhaps similar forms of social signaling can be incorporated into smaller purchases like videogames to provide a social incentive to purchasing instead of pirating?
Same here. Just want a simple drag and drop play list.
> the next person who actually compensates creators, without exception and at the price they ask for the content they pirate and use will be the first.

I've got quite a few games still in their shrink wrap on my shelf because I've never had to open them to get at their ROM/CD.
I think it makes sense. They have the most incentive for people to stop using their outdated product (it's hard restoring the image of software like IE).
No, it's really not. The premise of G+ is that it predicts what you want to see. There's a massive difference between predicting and knowing.
How The Future Of Google Search Is Leaving iPhone Users Behind
Could definitely be true if revenue from internal customers (Office 365, Hotmail, Xbox etc) is included.
anyone know what app engine sales are? I don't recall ever seeing it mentioned in investor relations stuff makes me wonder why or if/when they will kill it.
Does Psychiatry Need Science?
Let me quote one of your other posts completely out of context: "And I live in NYC"

The other 98% of us in tech do not live there, and most certainly do not have employment opportunities like you describe. Looking at the cost of living there, vs here, I kinda wonder about your claim of the mortgage being 25% of takehome, that doesn't add up unless you're in a really bad part of town or make an amazing amount of money. I live in what is locally about a 90th percentile income house, which in NYC would be what, like 5 million bucks? So that must be quite an income to pay that mortgage.

I will tip my hat in your direction WRT music, there's making a living, and there's making life worth living, so thanks for making music in whatever small way you're doin it.

However you just have to realize that if you don't live in Manhattan or SV that being "into" tech is a heck of a lot more like your music experience than like your tech experience. I've done extremely well and I'm incredibly lucky and/or arrogant depending on how I feel at the time of comment, but I'm well aware than for every one of me there's like 10 equally skilled guys sitting in a call center or pulling cat-5 cable or resetting passwords all day or even worse sitting at home, or working as a bartender or carpenter or truck driver or something. Nothing wrong with being a carpenter, something wrong with having a BSCS and your best offer is framing houses or driving a truck. I was just lucky, unlike the two people I'm talking about.
Poll: Undergraduate Alma Mater
Where did you/will you get your undergraduate degree? (this includes current students)

Pretty self-explanatory question, context https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5628552

NOTE: I do not 100% agree with the US News and World Report rankings, nor do I think that ratings are the only thing that matter, but it is a publicly-available list. Attending a top university does not guarantee you a good education, and you can still excel if you didn't attend one of the top schools.
I attended/am attending one of the top 20 universities according to US News and World Report rankings (http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/national-universities) -- the Ivies and other usual suspects
I attended/am attending one of the top 20 Liberal Arts Colleges (this includes schools like Williams College and Harvey Mudd College) -- AFAICT this and the previous list are disjoint
I attended/am attending one of the top 20 schools for my area of focus that aren't included in the aforementioned lists (for example, computer science rankings http://www.usnews.com/education/worlds-best-universities-rankings/best-universities-computer-science) -- this includes CMU, which apparently didn't crack the top 20.
I attended/am attending a top university in a country other than the United States
I attended/am attending a university that wouldn't necessarily be considered superlative according to most rankings
I do not hold an undergraduate degree and am not currently attending a college or university (Current students should choose one of the other options above)
> the belief that someone can truly produce a magnum opus [...] within [...] a project that driven by a negative taskmaster, is completely ludicrous

There's a difference between a stressful and an honest environment. If you read some of the classics of engineering literature ("Skunk Works", "Dealers of Lightning" etc.), some of the greatest engineering projects ever created were built with managers who were not afraid to tell people they sucked and could do better. I think, in general, to produce a magnum opus most of us do need an external, unbiased mirror of our performance. It's easy to err on the negative side and discourage people; but erring on the positive side (which is far more common these days) is also a betrayal of that person's true potential.
Anyone read the daringfireball post? Seem not.

The POINT of his posting was to call out the moronic pundits for never being satisfied. At first criticizing Apple for not having a lower-priced iPhone and then in the same breath criticizing consumers who purchase the older iPhones because they are lower-priced.

The stupid decisions of consumers to purchase lower-priced phones considering how many years the cost of the phone will be amortized (at least in the prevalent US cellular phone market) had absolutely nothing to do with the article - however true that is.
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I got my first paying b2b client
I know there is a long road ahead of me, but I just got my first paying b2b client, and wanted to share some experiences from it.

I'm the founder of https://www.menutail.com and what the site does is offer online website/menu hosting and menu nutrition analysis.

A couple months back I gave out some of my business cards to a local shaved snow place near me, and he called me last Thursday that he needed some calorie information on some of his products before he gets interviewed by our local TV station on the following Tuesday.

Now keep in mind that the site has two products, calorie labeling, and restaurant website hosting. The calorie labeling is done, but the website hosting portion is not.

With that I spend most of the weekend scrambling to polish up some of the nutrition features, and leave the website hosting features incomplete.

I came in person to show him the site, and a continual problem I am noticing is when I do demos with my mac, most business owners have a really hard time using it with just the navigation and simple things like clicking. A note to myself might be to get a mouse with two buttons, or bring a pc laptop as those seem to be more familiar to most food business owners.

The second thing I realized was that their Internet was super spotty and I had to connect to the even worse AT&T wireless network next door. From that, I learned I need to bring some type of tethering device when doing demos.

Lastly I initially told him we would do some type of trial deal, but after reading much things from the net, I decided to dump all free and trial, and instead do a monthly subscription fee for all services.

For tl;dr
- For a business meeting with clients, consider bringing a pc laptop if they are going to use it for ease of use
- Be sure to have some type of mobile tethering device in case the client's Internet isn't good
Good post. The false color images make me fear that actual space will be disappointing for people to look at.
I see this opinion often on HN. Perhaps it is because a lot of us are somewhat socially awkward developers at heart.

The truth is that eccentric geniuses aren't all that hirable, despite their genius. After all, Steve Jobs got fired. If you can't be relied upon to turn in results, you're a potential liability. It might be better to hire someone with less genius and more predictability.

That's not to say that there are no jobs out there for eccentric geniuses- maybe they just have to be in charge (see Steve Jobs again), or just work by themselves. But I don't think we can argue with hiring managers who don't take on a risk. The distribution of responsibilities means they wouldn't get any of the credit if the employee turned out to be fantastic anyway.
Microsoft Azure Sales Top $1 Billion Challenging Amazon
Sort of....ish....

Have a look what the Far Cry 3 people have created with Blood Dragon. Dont have to buy it, just have a look on youtube.
And marketing is why Apple succeeds - don't forget that.
Let's put it to a poll: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5628769
>If you try to build a dynamical system as the model, things get weird very fast. Even in simple ones you can build as toys, there is a lot of system-internal behavior: there are feedback loops, oscillations, attractors.

They kinda sorta tried this in SimCity 5 and it's at least partially responsible for how broken the simulation is at this point. They ended up having to hack in a bunch of things to keep it stable and it is still producing some bizarre results a couple of months after release.

>But would it be a fun game? Quite possibly not: players really tend not to find complex and chaotic simulations very fun, when the knobs affect the outcome in ways that are too indirect.

It's pretty fun games like Dwarf Fortress. You can essentially trace the downfall of an entire Dwarf Civilization to pet cat dying and setting off a ridiculous chain of events. I think it helps that the expectation coming into that game is, "Losing is fun." so players roll with it.
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Sure, and the programming work he was doing back then required very little prior knowledge. He invented a lot of it as he went, and has been able to scale from day one with the radical increase in complexity.

Try building something like the latest id Tech engine or the Unreal Engine from scratch. Carmack could do it, a 19 year old kid writing his first engine could not.
School of hard knocks
> low probability

Yeah. Not enough people discuss this aspect.

You should compare the number of children who die in school shootings to those who die from other preventable causes like car accidents.
How to win friends & influence people.
A big part of science is the dog and pony show to bring in even more funding down the road. Throw in the public funding of NASA and you see the need to publish these fantastic images - to justify a budget. And it works.
Do you use any particular tools to track approvals to changes, policies etc?
Irony worst looking website out of the list is Microsoft.com
Thank you for the correction.

I tend to pick up fun trivia, but I'm not an expert, and always appreciate when someone corrects mistakes in my understanding.
We just bought the house a year ago, so I have no idea. I know it was on the market for two years and got all new kitchen appliances. The condenser certainly looks new though, and bigger than I'm used to in a single story home, so it's my guess it also saw an upgrade.
Microsoft Azure will not challenge Amazon, but will become huge/larger simply because almost all enterprise companies will only consider Microsoft and IBM products.
You'd think we would learn our lessons about sabotaging our infrastructure and software to enable easy LE wiretap access after the Olympics spying scandal in Athens when somebody discovered this back door and used it to spy on the Prime Minister plus a hundred other dignitaries such as the US Ambassador.

Wonder how this panel's decision will affect projects such as Textsecure and Redphone which were sadly sold to Twitter, and therefore under US jurisdiction to force backdoors into. Same goes for Phil Zimmerman's new service.
Why not open source all the code? What does Google have to gain from closed sourcing even part of Google glass?
I absolutely love the irony there. Then again, I can't really knock them for not making their website work on IE 5 since they don't support that browser any more.
I worked in an environment like this once.

I'll never do it again.

Did it make me a better person? Maybe. Hard to say. I know I made some really long lasting friendships there, but I'm not sure it was net positive, especially for the long-term.
Are Apple iCloud services still hosted with Azure tech? http://apple.slashdot.org/story/11/09/04/0051209/apples-iclo...

Because that alone could be a large portion of that $1B
Worse: it's been more than fourteen years since Gore's original awkward wording, and surely the jokes about it weren't funny for 4+ years.
I just confirmed this with my account, it's truncating at 8 chars.
IE5 had XHR, but didn't have native JSON support and a number of other features. I think it was on ECMA 1 or 2 until IE5.5, which had 3.

I wager no one uses JSON shims anymore. I don't really know what would happen when you try to use JSON in ECMA 1 or 2.
Well ... I do agree that both the standards and best-practices for creating web content have changed, but I'm pretty sure the most recent version of Excel will open a document I created in the '90s. You could argue they have complete control of both the software and the document format in that instance, but the IE browsers never bothered to be standards compliant anyway ("older IE browsers" - I've been pleasantly surprised by IE9 and IE10).
As long as you mean the multiprocessing module, that's correct. Alternatively, you can use the reactor's spawnProcess method for creating processes, or Ampoule if you want a process pool (which is nice because it works remote, too). Perspective Broker and it's object-capability successor, Foolscap, are more full-blown distributed computing tools, but they would work fine for this as well if distributed requests is what you want :)

Of course, all of this mumbo jumbo is probably only required if you can't manage to saturate that network link with a single core :)
I have all of the problems described in the article [1] except for spinning beach balls.

The IOHIDSystem problem is claimed to disappear if you do the sandbox fix, but it did not help in my case.

I don't have SIMBL plugins, I don't have extensions such as FUSE, or otherwise any weird software that could be the culprit.

I don't deny that it's possible that there is something else. But I have spent a lot of time on this already, and not found anything.

[1] http://workstuff.tumblr.com/post/20464780085/something-is-de...
Snooping without a warrant is definitely not needed in most criminal cases I've read about. Seems to me law enforcement will just approach these people in person as informants and sell them fake bombs, or get them to talk about importing drugs or something else illegal and it's game over. No wiretap needed
Hey Google, disrupt the industry and open source the hardware as well.
BitTorrent Sync review: New Sync or File Sharing tool?
Cloud file services like Dropbox become more popular every day. A lot of people use these services as a way to make backups of important files like documents, photos and other kind of files. But Dropbox and other similar solutions use the ‘public cloud’ (online storage) to save your files. BitTorrent Sync will change all this in the near future...
Here is a quick demo of Stanbol-provided Wikipedia annotations and disambiguation in a WYSIWYG editor:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zAMUpd6rb9k&feature=yout...
Lets say I am given a Fireworks .png or a .psd, the first thing I do is open it, flatten the image and open it alongside my browser for easy viewing.

Then I look carefully for each "asset" I require, normally images unique to the page, things I can't easily create with CSS, etc.

After this I grab my lovely grid and start to plan out where each element will fit, crafting the HTML as I go along. I could use some kind of generator but it will never be as good as hand made HTML, it is always clunky and overly complicated.