skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Spain (where I come from) that's usual except in the most formal environment when a female is involved (male/female and female/female). For example, the first time I meet my (female) boss (or coworker), I'll give a handshake. Once we have a working relationship, is common to cheek-kiss (twice, starting left, just touching the cheeks, and optionally kissing to the air, doing very obviously and simulating loudly the sound is very posh)

If the relationship is close, you can actually kiss the cheek of the other person, but that's optional. If the relationship is very close, you will hug and kiss on the cheek, but just once.

On males, if the relationship is close (family or close friends), you'll get the hug and kiss once, though it depends on people. A "casual" handshake and/or hug it's the common for friends.

All this complicated ritual is called "kissing", so I guess can be difficult to know when to do what for foreign people, but it gets typically done in a very casual way, so most people won't feel very awkward if they try to kiss and get a handshake or otherwise.

Curiously, only a couple of months after I came to Ireland, I met the girlfriend of a coworker, and she introduces herself with a handshake. I shake her hand, and then said: "Oh, I'm too new here, I almost kiss you". Just as the words escaped my mouth I got how weird that sounds (the look on her face was also funny). I didn't talk to her on the rest of the night or try to explain myself. Too embarrassing :-D
(I've talked to her later, so I don't think there's bad feelings involved or anything)
That's not soot, most lines have always been electric. Its a mixture of iron filings, brake linings and human skin. Only the metropolitan, H&C and some of the Circle were steam.
Sorry, I forget that there are teens out there where parents are able to help them buy a car, or remain financially involved once the kid is out the door.
> "I don't class it as a 'lie' to quietly favour crowds flowing in a safe manner over the quickest route"

I do understand your main point but it's by no means the "quickest" route. Following the signs tends to spread people out. Even at busy times, it's still quicker to take the shorter route out, despite the extra crowding. Regular commuters already know this.

This is a good example of the conflict between individuals who want to get between points A and B as quickly as possible and the station that wants manageable flows without crowding.
.NET has a long life ahead of itself in the enterprise, where companies on "the Microsoft stack" typically won't even use 3rd party libraries where there is a Microsoft sanctioned alternative. Until Microsoft comes out with a replacement for things like Windows services and web application development, .NET will be around.

I don't see there being an alternative even on the horizon. Presumably they could create a Node.js type of platform backed by Chakra but there aren't any signs that they are even working on such a thing.

(Also, throwing out .NET would mean throwing out F# which gives them a lot of cred in certain circles).
Does it really "sync" your Dropbox folder though? My understanding is that it mounts the target service as a network volume. This means you need a network connection to the target service in order to access the files stored there.

One of the major benefits of Dropbox is that the files really are sync'd to your local drive. If you're offline, you can still get to the files. Changes are sync'd later when the network becomes available.
Ask HN: Does anyone want to build a programming language reference with me?
I have noticed that there is no structured central hub for referencing programming languages. How to implement certain things in them, what terminology means etc.

Stackoverflow has a lot of this information but not in a structured way and the quality of answers vary widely.

My idea would be to make a central service, which is completely free, which people contribute to (based on guidelines) to make referencing everything that much easier

Any thoughts/help would be greatly appreciated
The problem is Microsoft is into the business of selling software licenses to make their billions. They don't have a billion dollar hardware business like Apple or a billion dollar ad business like Google that allows them to license their software for free/cheap. So if MS start licensing their software for free, they would stop making money (they do have the xbox and a few services but they're not enoough).
Unless they're all jailbreaking their iPhones

A lot of Apple employees (cupertino engineering department people, not retail flees or nongineers) walk around with engineering builds on their phones with less handcuffed lockdown. There are clever builds running around in China factories for device bring-up and testing too, but I haven't seen any of those leaked.

there are no valid reasons to prefer Android or even Windows to iOS

I agree. (yay selective quoting!)

But honestly, Windows Mobile (is that what they call it now? Does it have another eight brand identifiers tacked on?) doesn't have enough install base. Everybody in the Sane World™ has an iOS-first and sometimes iOS-only mobile app approach.

As for Android (which is kinda meaningless. It's like saying "Linux" when you're talking about a Linksys router or the entirety of AWS), the rampant security failures, hacks, crapmalware, and the feeling of "it requires as much attention as maintaining a laptop" by people I know puts it right of the running. Maybe it's perfect for somebody who needs a hobby (a lot of people enjoy riding and maintaining motorcycles on the weekend too), but I need my things to work, work well, keep working, and unobtrusively get out of my way after being used.

All that being said, Apple is dead. Apple has no defense against the awesome creepiness of Google Spyware (Now) and that'll drive the future. They can't fight forever. Apple and Google will have to make up eventually. The only saving grace we have is Google is such crap at marketing things, they called their personal assistant "Now" instead of giving it a name and personality people can relate to. People enjoy thinking "Siri" is an actual person. Google doesn't get that. (Hey Google, I'm available to fix all your shit and complete your instrumentality plans. Give me a call.)
How's about saying "no" to the clueless. I accept that.
Alternatively, they can hire REMOTE senior engineers.

It is really frustrating how companies underestimate the value of remote employment, even in these days.
I think our circles may have different social norms. Being asked wouldn't feel like respect, it would feel even more awkward than asking someone else.

And the idea that this needs a shift towards "consent culture" is just... weird. Maybe some people can't read, or don't feel comfortable trying to read, the signs as to what will work socially, and if they want to set rules that's fine. I don't have any problem with someone who will only shake hands, or who won't have any physical contact at all - hell, if they want to follow your rule of always asking, I'd feel awkward, but if that's what you prefer then whatever, I'm fine with that. But don't assume everyone needs to follow your rule. For the record I've never asked anyone if they want to have sex, that hasn't lead to me raping anyone.
The HTC First being discontinued is a rumor at this point. AT&T hasn't said they're discontinuing it.

Source: http://www.technobuffalo.com/2013/05/13/htc-first-att-offici...
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Same here. In addition, I usually attempt to perform an action that will result in a visible response, like scrolling or selecting text, so that if/when the app does start responding again, I'll see.

I also sometimes move the window or switch to another window to see if it's the app or a bigger problem.
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I find it strange that people are hung up on this remote dependency "issue." It's a convenience for small projects and quick samples. There is absolutely nothing stopping you from checking out a Go package locally and importing it just like any other dependency in any other language.
I don't think $5,000 is a reasonable minimum for a car. Depending on your area you should be able to find something that's reliable for $2,000, even if it's not a Volvo.
A more general complaint is MS's schizophrenic support of .NET.

But, but, but, Silverlight.
I don't know any recent numbers, but it used to be that VS and Windows were symbiotic profit centres, helping each other to generate profits, so I can see the reluctance in going all-free-all-the-time for one of them at the same time as the other is seriously at risk.
Just my opinion, but I don't think you'll find any. Bachelor degrees are usually broad-focus while web development is rather narrow. Your best bet would be to do certifications that contribute credit towards your degree (ex. in South Africa it's called SAQA credits). Good luck!
Some of the things MS pulled the plug on needed it. I can’t vouch for WinRT development but the .NET 4.5 is rock solid and predictable for WinPhone & Win7/8 from my desk. Have you used NuGet yet with over 1100 packages?

Microsoft is a public company that makes software and sells it for a profit, what is wrong with this business model?

All the free open source software you use to make a product, do you then give your product away?
Steve Blank has a series of blog posts you might find interesting, talking about the birth of Silicon Valley as a result of SigInt in a post WW2 era.

http://steveblank.com/secret-history/

I find his blog posts better than the video.
So, people are "on to" the lies. At my local station (Archway), at the bottom of the escalators, there are two paths to the platforms, and they are routed one way to correspond well with the direction of the escalators. Except, people will happily walk into the wrong direction in their quest to one-up the system, often causing other passengers to have to dodge oncoming traffic, even at off-peak times.

But I get it, I measured it out once. One of the tunnels is 12 steps longer than the other.
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Mildly related, and mildly humorous: After the last update to my phone I've started randomly experiencing dips in responsiveness. It might be doing GC or some other heavy tasks, but it remains in low (not zero) responsiveness for several seconds.

Whenever I experience it, I start tapping the back-button furiously, in a quick steady rythm, causing a pileup of tap-events. These will be dispatched in batches, each tap causing a small buzz in the vibrator engine. When the buzzes start happening at an even pace, I am back to having a responsive phone.

The purpose of this behaviour is to know when my phone is usable again, but it kind of evolved from me just wanting to see if I could provoke it or whatever. People are curious things.
"You know your platform has jumped the shark when it comes bundled with a toolbar.", that was such a sad episode.
Oh well, while the Android ecosystem doesn't make a switch, I guess I'll keep using it.
Yeah, breadth of geography. Which I think is super cool. Paul Graham advocates that a startup really shouldn't start outside of Silicon Valley, but that's total crap. Cohen and crowd want to spread their formula to other cities (I think they started in Boulder). When Tech Stars comes to Austin, no doubt it will further re-enforce entrepreneurship in our culture, and it will cause more people to want to start businesses. I think that's awesome. +1 to the breadth strategy for spreading the startup love!
There is a string of interesting articles linked inside. I have laid them out here for quick access.

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/12/08/rise-of-the-robo...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/labour-m...

http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2013/03/labour-m...

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2013/05/robots-artificial-i...

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21572741...
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> Don't you think that the same could be said about pretty much everything?

... Not really. Sure, there are risks involved with most activities, but this is one I found I can actually avoid. I chose to move to a city (NYC) where the vast majority use public transit anyway.
Doesn't some of this depend on the performance needs of your application. Go appears to be faster and use less memory the Erlang in this popular microbenchmark: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/benchmark.php?t...

Go vs Haskell/Erlang has a similar showing in TechEmpower's
Web Framework Benchmarks: http://www.techempower.com/benchmarks/
Microsoft has too many developers and not enough innovation. They encourage a design attitude that everything has to operate like the flight deck of a 747. Their culture has been incestuous so long that any change is terribly unlikely.

There are some really, really sharp guys at Microsoft. Not only does the community deserve better products from such a great company, the developers in many cases have an very unpleasant work experience.

Google is not too far behind. I think they're pushing a lot of the things they are simply to keep momentum building. In another 20 years, unless they start building time machines, it'll catch up to them, too.

Apple is a strange case. They passed the "I wouldn't work for them for a million bucks" point many years ago, but they're just better at slapping a better marketing image on it than the rest of them.

Having said all of that, I like .NET, and I think combining it with Mono makes probably the most full-featured free platform for development anywhere in the world. The effective targeting of the business market by .NET may be waning, but the platform is nowhere near dying off.
Well the issue that I see is that Microsoft has to attract more people to their platforms because their platforms are their "billion dollar" business.

I fail to see a better way of increasing the number of users of their platforms, then to release the entry point for free.
In business situations, stick with the handshake. A hug is just inappropriate. Save those for friends and family.

As for the handshake, go with Ron Swanson's advise: Firm, Dry, 3 seconds.
'Scuze me for ranting, but too often these software project pages make the visitor hunt for the licence. Is this GPL or BSD or proprietary or what? Where's the source?

They're not saying - or it was taking too long for me to find. As a general rule, if there's a big "download" button and they're urging you to try something before they will give up any real info about it (or worse, insetead of), well that strikes me as scammy and I just link away.
In the Netherlands we also use the three cheek kisses, foreigners get used to it quick enough if you ask me :-)
I think the middle ground would be to give away Professional. This would cost them 1.5k or so in license, but would get a lot of people in the door. The fact that I can't easily unit test in an integrated way with Express makes me not use .NET even though C#/F# are better languages than Java.
The black snot is mostly a zone 1 thing, though. I live in zone 5 and commute to zone 2. No black snot for me. Used to live at Marble Arch and work at Holborn, though, and the black snot was constant... Plenty of opportunity to work in London and avoid the most horrible snot / commute issues..
Ars gives the SKIF-DM's designers more credit than they deserve. Gorbechev didn't want a Soviet SDI program and was highly critical of the military's existing research efforts in that direction [1] details at great (and I think facinating length) his efforts to dismantle the Soviet military machine. The -DM launch detailed here was the designers last ditch effort to save the program due to continued failure to produce either a sufficiently powerful chemical laser or a computer system capable of controlling it as the Sary Shagan [2] and Terra 3 [3] installations are ample proof.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/The-Dead-Hand-Untold-Dangerous
/dp/0307387844/

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sary_Shagan

[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terra-3

Disclaimer: at age 20 I was born as these events drew to a close so my knowlege of this subject is restricted to the historical material I've read in incredulity that we stood on the brink for 50 years and came out alive.
I have a license, and my wife has a car, but I don't drive. Haven't, with some exceptions on vacations and long road trips, since about 1998. Having grown up in a rural community where driving was compulsory, I made it a goal, upon moving to a large city to attend University, that I would live close to grocery stores, restaurants, and my workplace so that I could walk and ride my bicycle to work and class. It was a conscious lifestyle choice, and I still adhere to it, 15 years later.

Side benefits are immense. I walk or ride somewhere in the neighborhood of 700 miles each year. Overall, the pedestrian commute energizes me in the morning, and helps me quickly recover and decompress at the end of the day. The money that would otherwise go into a second vehicle, fuel, insurance, and maintenance instead goes toward higher quality food.
The remote package importing is quiet easy to work around and to lock on things. It actually forces you to think about the process and tracking more. But also, dismissing Go solely because if that doesnt do it justice. Same as any language...
Thanks for feedback Josh.

We'll find out today if 9 weeks is enough... Odds are, we've screwed up enough of the app that very few people make it all the way down the funnel to the revenue layer.

With learning as our goal, though, we'll have a super successful day today, vs. continuing to build features that may or may not matter.

I'll definitely do a follow up post :)
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It feels more like their franchising. Find a local incubator/ seed/ VC opportunity with good local roots, and brand a program there for 3 months. It benefits both sides, TS portfolio grows and the local shop gets a big nod of legitimacy from outside their market.

It adds momentum to the local scene, expands their portfolio with minimal costs, and hasn't seemed to drastically water down their image. Or maybe it has - I'm not quite sure... There are many times I would have loved to go through TechStars, but I feel that the key benefit of the program is the networking & 'friction' with other great entrepreneurs & the top VCs, I'm not so sure how it will keep scaling without degrading those key aspects. As in, I imagine it was easy to get the most high profile mentors or VCs to Boulder or NYC once/ twice a year. Now, they're supposed to hit up like 7+ programs? Different demo days...
Security
http://krebsonsecurity.com
http://www.schneier.com
http://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org
http://www.thoughtcrime.org/blog/

Apple
http://www.marco.org
http://daringfireball.net
http://www.mondaynote.com
http://reverse.put.as

Programming
http://blog.barthe.ph
http://herbsutter.com
http://thedailywtf.com
http://www.sealiesoftware.com/blog/
http://mrale.ph

Other
http://torrentfreak.com
http://googleresearch.blogspot.co.uk
Downloaded win version for a 32bit xp system and noticed two bugs,

1. along with the app another window started which was like the menu with a menu item "File" represented by a horizontal line at the very top of my screen, i just right clicked from task bar and closed it, main app still worked.

2. tried to open saved html file with browser (assigned to chrome) but the url was wrong, it was missing the drive letter so nothing showed.

3. after closing page and then choosing another template the app vanishes.

At first glance it is ok, maybe better suited for users without much experience with browser tools and code. However it provides viewing in different screen sizes, code snippets and drag and drop which are helpful.
Sorry for the late reply.

Right now there is a lot of stuff happening to simulate Web Components. Going forward they will become a W3C Standard and we can reduce the complexity. You might want to look at the current Draft https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/webcomponents/raw-file/tip/explainer/...

What’s happening at the moment is that the output for <x-loading></x-loading> is:

<span is="x-loading">
<style>
@-webkit-keyframes x-loading-dot {
0% {
opacity: 1;
}
50% {
opacity: 0;
}
100% {
opacity: 1;
}
}
.x-loading-one {
opacity: 1;
-webkit-animation: x-loading-dot 1.3s infinite;
-webkit-animation-delay: 0.0s;
}
.x-loading-two {
opacity: 1;
-webkit-animation: x-loading-dot 1.3s infinite;
-webkit-animation-delay: 0.2s;
}
.x-loading-three {
opacity: 1;
-webkit-animation: x-loading-dot 1.3s infinite;
-webkit-animation-delay: 0.3s;
}
</style>
<span class="q-x-loading" style="color: rgb(80, 80, 80);">
<span class="x-loading-one">.</span><span class="x-loading-two">.</span><span class="x-loading-three">.</span>
</span>
</span>

If a component like the overlay also contains logic the code will be added to your compiled and minified JavaScript output.

For blossom.io/bee you can find the compiled output here https://www.blossom.io/bee_documentation.html_bootstrap.dart...
These are called city commuter faces. Those mean "I'm happy in my own bubble of consciousness, and I don't want to talk to anybody right now. Especially not with that crazy person who seems to want to laugh."
I thought it was a catchy headline

It is a very catchy headline! I think that's what made me stop and consider why it was so catchy.

The next amazing Time news would be finding out if it's still being created or if it was made all up front. We have to watch for clues to see if it references any current events (not created by Randy himself) that happened after the first Time frame.
I'd have to agree here. There is no difference between Go's way of managing external dependencies, compared to any other language/platform where you use external packages. Whether they are manually downloaded and built, or pulled from some kind of source-control repo. The `go get ...` approach is just a convenience tool you can use /IF/ you want to.

I get the impression that much of the complaints stem from not really understanding what is actually happening. It's a shame really. People taking a first look at Go, and running into these kind of rants will get an entirely incorrect impression of the Go tool chain.
I was on a site buying icons the other day and it occurred to me. There is no way for me to know for sure if this icon I am buying is being sold by the original author.

I've been buying 3D models and going through the same thought process. I pay and follow process to ensure that every i is dotted and t is crossed, but ultimately in the future I might find that I still have copyright issues because intermediary parties weren't honest.

This story, while allowing people to yell about inconsistencies and hypocrisy, is just not interesting unless someone, anyone, knows that they intentionally and knowingly used unlicensed content. When someone downloads a movie through a pirate bay link, they do know what they're doing.
I'll see your anecdotes with my own; I've had nothing but extremely pleasant interactions with the Go community and think it is much less closed-minded and condescending than most.
.Net is not just for desktop, mobile/tablet and xbox. In these areas it definitely has lost some momentum but ASP.Net and Xamarin (not from MS but still .Net) seem to be doing good.
I like Haxe as a Java replacement.
Elegant exact string match using BWT
Perhaps we will start to see posts about people abandoning Postgres and moving back to MongoDB, completing the circle?
Google I/O 2013, dès ce soir en direct sur Winmacsofts.
Actually I had to piece it together from other commentators... My employer sensibly bans youtube videos.

I responded to the comment and the 'lie' title
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I think the implication is not that future AIs -should- have sentience, it's that they -will- have sentience as a byproduct of their advancement. So the issue is how we're going to deal with that byproduct.