skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Both are from a linguistic perspective obviously correct since 'native' speakers use both pronunciations.

Linguistics isn't prescriptive in that way, you cannot use it to say that a minority is pronouncing something wrong.
yes and c stdlib style naming is mainly considered legacy these days and multi word "variable and function [in] all lowercase, with no underscores" is frowned upon.
A hollow voice said "plugh"
I decided to stop worrying and love the Unity some time between 12.04 and 12.10, and I've gotten quite used to it. I use the Radiance theme, which is brighter and cleaner looking than the default Ambiance theme. (And I have my minimize/maximize/close buttons on the right side - some habits die hard.)

I tried Mint but found it clunky and unstable. For a while I used Ubuntu with the gnome-classic desktop, but it got harder to make it work with everything else, which kept changing. I also tried Cinnamon but found it extremely unstable - my desktop would crash routinely.

Unity is pretty good and keeps getting better. My other main request would be to make the icons smaller - the smallest default size is 24px.

In unrelated news, I was happy to discover after upgrading to 13.04 that my phone, a Galaxy S3 running Android 4.1.1, now auto-mounts into the filesystem via MTP. (It occurs to me that my gratitude for something as basic as plugging a device into USB and having it Just Work may be a warning sign of Stockholm Syndrome. Yet it also occurs to me that I haven't paid a penny for Ubuntu since I first installed version 8.04, so I think on balance that my gratitude is well-placed.)
I literally meant none of JavaScript's flaws from the "WAT" talk.

Anyhow, JavaScript doesn't have any kind of generics or types. Do you really prefer that?
Except food is already so cheap in America that there is no incentive to eat bugs. The raw fish example doesn't work because raw fish is a delicacy.
Actually very unattractive for a hosted service. I won't spend time on something that may disappear without warning or start charging $1000 per month per server CPU.
> Xing is allegedly pronounced "crossing", but I say "ksing".

Got any info on this? I've heard this only several times (i.e. rarely). Always from people who are used to the "crossing" signs, but never from anybody else.
I used to use Google Reader as a podcast repository for listening to podcasts on Android (at the beginning with Google Listen then, after Google retired it, with BeyondPod/Podkicker).
Is any of these services integrated with a mobile Android podcast reader?
Is "git" katakanized? 「ギット」かも?
Ask HN: How many people on HN use tumblr?
Paul Graham said something about making things that hackers could use first is a good way to start
Is this a buzzword-laden way to describe a serializable hash table? [I'm asking seriously]
(For a language being compared to SQL, saying its Turing Complete may be applicable.

Or maybe not: http://stackoverflow.com/a/7580013/15721 ;) )
Using http://www.newsbeuter.org/, a terminal-based RSS reader. "The Mutt of RSS Feed Readers", as they call it.

Everything in lists, next-next-next and hit 'O' to actually open an item. Rip through all those feeds fast.
>> Also, it would be awesome if one of you would actually look at my git repositories before the interview and, you know, actually read my code. No, looking at a "repository summary" doesn't count.

actually, this I find is the biggest annoyance of all. Every company I've interviewed with over the last few years has said "show us your github".....so far, not one has actually looked at it. It's kind of like walking into an interview with a company that has a web-presence and saying "so, what line of business are you in?".
I'm in the "jif" crowd. This means that I always want to pronounce "git" as in "Github" with a soft g, which is wrong.
Xbox 360’s Kinect causes trouble for users during next-gen livestream reveal
A good advice I got when delegating, was to accept the result of the task given if it was >80% of how you would have done it yourself and acceptable, without picking at the differences. That way the delegatee would feel ownership and responsibility to the result and gain confidence for future tasks.
Web Designers Should Focus More On Typography
The software is KDE (Akonadi), Thunderbird (Lightning), and a few small utilities. It seems probable, though not guaranteed that Lightning will keep working. But I don't want to bed the farm on that, I doubt KDE will be supported, and I'd really rather just use a calendar that faithfully implements the standard instead of whitelisting the standard for certain clients.

In terms of XMPP, I checked yesterday. After updating the Android Talk app to Hangouts, all of my XMPP contacts disappeared.

In terms of email, using Google Apps on a custom domain would avoid lockin and actually not be a bad choice, at least for now. I went with Fastmail anyway, and I think it's just a better service.
I would say it's worth learning a new language if that language will achieve whatever goal(s) you have for your startup.
Ain't just paying with your information though, is it?

You're also volunteering your interactions with other people, their conversations with you and whatnot.

They may not be so spendthrift with their privacy.
because of "jif", I thought that "gift" is pronounced as "jift" (that was not so long ago :)
Doesn't this also mean that everything is sandboxed in terms of security?
The former of course. Because Linus is a git :)

Though my French boss goes for the latter, but with a very soft J. In fact, he pronounces it like 'Gîte'

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gîte for the pronunciation guide.
Google’s new conversational search feature is live in latest Chrome.
Problem is, A players want to work pretty much anywhere else but where the vast majority of software gets developed. How are all the banks and insurance companies going to keep their IT systems ticking over if they only hire A players who would rather be working for Google, Valve, Basho, etc.?
What is the most amazing photo you have ever taken?
I think GIF came before JPEG.
Lawyer Websites - How Having A better Design Can Convert Visitors into clients
Reminds me of a quote I heard recently about Gene Simmons on a radio show (via Jim Wendler).

The radio host was a woman that hated him, hated his attitude towards women and himself. She said to Gene, "I bet you are the kind of guy that walks into a room and thinks every woman wants him."

Gene responded, "Well, if I didn’t think that, no one would."

So yeah, I try and think it :-)
It's quite the opposite. Congress makes laws to protect corporations. (i.e. Hollywood, TeleCos, Insurance, Health Care, etc...). It's not people championing and cheering companies for their business practices. I think you're confusing it with the way people might support companies by buying their products or services. But here's the trick question. When no company is truly good and your government, essentially wrote the book on the shareholders dilemma; who is really at fought?

Sounds like the government crying over milk they spilled.
It clearly states on the license page that its two clause BSD. Its only custom extensions and custom dev work done by the architect that requires payment. Perfectly fair and still open source.
Thanks! Here's the specific section on backbone from page 11:

Backbone.js is a great example of an abstraction pushed
too far. While we initially liked the ease of wire-up, in
practice it suffers from the same issues as all such databound frameworks from WebForms to client/server tools. We
find that it blurs the framework and model too much, forcing
either bad architectural decisions or elaborate framework
hackery in order to preserve sanity.
No winner yet, but cut the list down to 3.

Feedly:
PRO: imports GR including which posts you already read.
PRO: GR imported posts contains all history (even from blog feeds that are now defunct)
CON: slows down browser considerably
CON: UI has too much whitespace
CON: UI is slow (browsing with j/k takes ages)

CommaFeed & InoReader & OldReader
PRO: uses as much screen estate as possible
PRO: very fast UI
CON: GR import misses the read/unread markers
CON: GR import incomplete (so now defunct feeds do not appear)

One of the reasons I want to have the defunct feeds, is that it contains the old blog of a friend that passed away.
Yeah, Feedly developers, if you are reading this. Don't inject an image into every page I visit. Uninstalled.

I've gone with Newsblur now.
I think the problem is the whole "til death do us part" line. I saw a stand-up comedian the other night who compared marriage to a mobile phone contract. You know, as soon as you buy that new shiny phone, there'll immediately be a newer, shinier model available! At least with a mobile phone contract, you get to choose a new one in 2 years.

I'm the wrong person to comment on this as I've been in a relationship for 16 years now with no marriage in sight. We're happy, we're committed, we require no symbolic ceremony in order to stay happy and committed.

personally, I think that the public perception of marriage is finally swinging around to the reality that over 50% of marriages in western society fail (that's the term used by those that are married, I'd prefer something simpler like "end"), and in a time frame shorter than the relationship I'm currently in.
I skipped over that because there are actually pretty straightforward choices in Play Store. I switched to BeyondPod, but I'm hearing good things about AntennaPod.
I don't understand this

main(argc, argv)
int argv[]; {

Is that still valid today?
Yes, the IPA is bound to future owners of the patents. (It would be trivial to get around if it wasn't).

And to clarify: the goal of the IPA isn't to make Twitter or any one company some blessed repository of patents. The goal is for many companies to adopt the IPA as a promise between them and their engineers.
Do you say 'mie·elf' too?
Why have there been so many medium.com links on HN lately? Is this marketing or just a natural result of medium's growth?
> QT should be pronounced "cute", but I say "queue-tee".

I think we would say "queue-tee" if it was QT instead of Qt. To me, "cute" makes more sense for "Qt".
stuff like this can happen if you're not careful w/ preprocessor macros too.

#define one a;b;

if (statement)
one;
I'm in India now and keep getting "No Internet connection" as well.
these nine videos are fantastic
http://www.dimensions-math.org/Dim_tour_E.htm

here's a whirlwind tour
http://www.amazon.com/Concepts-Modern-Mathematics-Ian-Stewar...
Spaces before parens doesn't matter too much, but with respect to spaces before commas all relativism goes straight out the window: putting a space before a comma is objectively better practice.
There was a very interesting documentary by Stefan Gates on this very subject a month ago on BBC4.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p01599yk
I believe there's also an allocated % of accidental bug material that is allowed in food by the FDA because it can't always be avoided. If you've ever had ketchup, you've most certainly had a little bit of additional protein in there with it :)
On the contrary, I'm happy with that.
I'd rather they try to be profitable from the beginning than do the whole get users then figure out monetization model. I want a stable long term rss reader, not a service that tries to get acquired.
>[JavaScript's] implementors and community have been quite unwilling to fix these issues [...]

You can't really fix things. It would break the web. You can only add stuff on top.

>JavaScript's scoping and variable hoisting are unnecessarily broken [...]

It will get a bit better with ES6's `let` keyword. Annoyingly, that keyword was introduced with Firefox 2.0 (October 24, 2006) but you still can't use it.

Even Node.js needs a switch.
Looks cool. Not sure what i would use it for, though. Whats the use case you had in mind?
XNA was out dated and there are a lot of better options out there norm I used XNA for 2+ years but it wasn't worth keeping around any more. Plus, considering I just reinstalled 4.0 refresh last night, it does still work.
You can also script it!
Everyone makes mistakes - you probably won't be able to make up too well with this guy in particular since negative reactions are very hard to shake. However, there are luckily tons more people and good work is good work, so keep it up!

I signed up on your site.
vulgar (adj.)
late 14c., "common, ordinary," from Latin vulgaris "of or pertaining to the common people, common, vulgar," from vulgus "the common people, multitude, crowd, throng," from PIE root *wel- "to crowd, throng" (cf. Sanskrit vargah "division, group," Greek eilein "to press, throng," Middle Breton gwal'ch "abundance," Welsh gwala "sufficiency, enough"). Meaning "coarse, low, ill-bred" is first recorded 1640s, probably from earlier use (with reference to people) with meaning "belonging to the ordinary class" (1530).

http://etymonline.com/index.php?term=vulgar&allowed_in_f...
Why You Should Shut Up and Listen Well
Life Stinks

The Producers (new one, I haven't watched original)

Pan's Labyrinth - talks about serious issues but adds a fairy tale to shield audience

You Don't Mess with the Zohan - Adam Sandler movie, more silly than usual, but also takes on Middle East conflict with a positive (perhaps American) spin.

Fight Club ... deals with boredom of your average no-direction man, and how he finds a way to occupy himself.

(M) The Vanishing - from 80's not the American version (didn't see American version) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0096163/combined

Overall I like silly movies, I'd list 5 Adam Sandler movies, and add 'The Animal' to them, and watch them any day of the week.
I don't mean don't marry, the average person wants to bond, it's in our nature, and bonding can be great.

But if someone is trying to change who you are at a fundamental level, you should walk away. There's no such thing as "the only one for me," much as one side of a couple might try to condition the other side into thinking. As natural bonders, there are unlimited potential mates.

Enjoy your heart, but listen to your gut.
LevelDB is similarly self-contained, and client/server API-less and is extremely fast. Though it has a large advantage of speed, the databases are not one files.
Most of these locations in Tunisia are very easy to find. You ask a tour guide and they will take you there in a 4x4. When you get there some locals will arrive to sell you stuff.

http://blog.jgc.org/2011/01/visit-to-mos-espa-on-tatooine.ht...
Without knowing who this is, I can't say. I know I've only done one terrible thing as a designer, which was with a really friendly dude, I was 15 at the time and just fucked up horribly. I'm pretty sure this is the incident as I've had few other big hiccups.
Jokes That Every Mathematician Finds Absolutely Hilarious
Microsoft's mistake was trying to force the metro screen on desktop users, which is blindingly stupid.

Windows 8 in desktop mode on a desktop machine is a great operating system, better than Windows 7 (which was already pretty good.)
There is a quote I have no attribution for, but I recall seeing it a long time ago, long before 2650x1440 displays were economical: "The desktop metaphor works better when your screen is the size of a desk."

Handsets don't need a desktop metaphor. Tablets don't need a desktop metaphor. So the question is, do you make an operating system for devices that do not need and should not have a desktop metaphor, or do you try to stuff a mature operating system imbued with the desktop metaphor into a tablet?

The inappropriateness of the Modern/Metro UI in Windows 8 goes deeper than the user experience. Modern/Metro UI apps are severely limited in their ability to communicate with other apps. They are over-sandboxed and crippled compared to both Windows desktop apps and Android apps. And yet, Modern/Metro UI is the only way to implement a satisfactory touch UI in Windows 8.

The result is a mess of hardware that enables touch, with dubious ergonomics and software that is limited but touch-appropriate or powerful but bad at touch.
Odd that they don't like gotos. That's going to make cleanup code pretty ugly.
LevelDB holds neither a read performance advantage in any scenerio over common alternatives (LSM reads fundamentally require extra work by design), or a write performance advantage for anything but very short benchmark-friendly bursts. In the meantime its worst-case performance characteristics are orders of magnitude worse than just about any alternative.

(Keep clicking "more" in my comment history for detail)
JX9 was what got me too. "Based on JSON..." didn't prepare me for the code samples. I can't think of a reason to invent a new language (that has to be learnt) as opposed to JavaScript or Lua.
I cannot wait to skype and watch tv, at the same time!
There is a great project by Daniel Kehoe, that I used for http://makerops.com:

https://github.com/RailsApps/rails-prelaunch-signup

This, along with a 5-10$ bootstrap theme and heroku, makes it very easy, and it integrates with mailchimp.
I've never heard about any web application that can just "scale" without some growing pains. Sure it's possible to pay for some elastic IAAS or PAAS, but that really does not solve any scaling problems. You still use as much resources per user. To increase the effectivity of the application, one has to either grow it over time or built right from the start. To get it right from the start can be a huge sub-optimization if you miss something and must do it over anyways. That is why most start "quick and dirty".
I read the whole article. So the answer to the title question is no? Kinda confused on what the ultimate point is. Stay simple and clean no matter what toys you're using?
Not really SQLite's fault, but Android automatically deletes corrupt SQLite files

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=10127

and SQLite can corrupt databases (for sure back in 2010, with some discussion on whether or not this is still an issue)

http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8427

Combined, this means the db file gets damaged (usually manually repairable) so the Android OS just deletes it.
It really surprises you that names based on cute misspellings that are effectively unpronouncable when taken at face value get pronounced differently by different people?

If Syosev wanted people to pronounce it "engine x", he should have called it "engine x".
We're re-releasing Nuesbyte today, personally I think its amazing alternative. :)

http://nuesbyte.com
I don't believe a single thing in this article. From start to finish it lists 'cool sounding' but mindless engineering or software choices. A virtual machine to run games so you can do two things at once? Moving rendering tasks to 'cloud tasks' on the GPU?

I'll believe it in a couple of years when someone finds jtag headers on the board.
Do you really think that they will start some approval process? I think they will licence this stuff to some company that already has such approval. Other way they can probably order ready mix based on their recipe in some company. I don't think they will mix it by hand in kitchen.
Google Drive releases application state syncer for Android SDK
How'd you fuck up?
Thanks dude. In this case it's likely my fault but your kind words mean a lot. Hope you enjoy Analog!
I posted the blog post for this a few days ago - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5728238

However unfortunately it didn't get any traction either :(
Github uses similar editor in their comments textarea. Very cool.
Yes, I saw that. But that was from the vice president of scientific and regulatory affairs for the Council of for Responsible Nutrition, which is a vitamin industry trade group.

The article ended with a conclusion from the study's author:

Dr. Neuhouser said she realizes that many people who are devoted vitamin users will be skeptical of the finding that they are receiving no benefit from a daily multivitamin.

“I don’t want to disparage people who take multivitamins — it’s their choice as a consumer,” Dr. Neuhouser said. “What we’re presenting is the science showing it’s neither beneficial nor harmful. If they want to choose to spend their dollars elsewhere this might be a good place to do so. Perhaps they can buy more fruits and vegetables.”

My take-away from these studies is that unless you have a vitamin deficiency, taking multivitamins does nothing. And if you have a specific vitamin deficiency, then you may be better off just taking supplementation of that vitamin; a general multivitamin will only help because it happens to contain what you are deficient in.
Wholeheartedly agree. Personally I like the Metro start screen (not the metro apps), but if they had just made it boot to desktop and leave the start button as a startscreen launcher, I think that the reaction would have been more positive.
Hey there,

I just want to say I interviewed at the Googleplex in June 2012 and it was an amazing experience. When I got the "rejection"(5 days later, which is standard in my experince), I didn't feel bummed or angry - I felt that I was defeated fairly in a challenging game of chess with people better than me. The programming questions I got weren't out-of-bonds ridiculous like I'm always hearing about.
While the process took nearly 6hrs that day, it wasn't just for the sake of it. I had real discussions about real-world problems and I enjoyed it greatly. Those 6hrs flew by. Everyone should go through Google's interview process at least once; it will reveal limits that you didn't know you had.
I'm a better person, career-wise, because of that experience. Also, I'm sure I was able to get the awesome job I have now only because I was still charged-up from Google-interview-preparing a few weeks before.

P.S., I'm sure I was close. I got a lot of smiles, nods, "yup, correct" and organic conversation that didn't seem rehearsed and they seemed happy to talk about so I suspect I did better than they expected but just... not... quite there yet... compared to some other candidates.
Its a clean, simple, fast, html reader, more info:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5750405
Oh man, thank you for this thread, I had heard only good things about the new play bar, and was going to purchase one this week...I guess not now.
Isn't there a plethora of these types of sites already? I think you'll need to come up with some kind of extra angle if you want people to sign up.
My understanding is that this does not kill the app, merely removes it from the list.
Writing with pleasure and keep focusing on writing. You can define your preferred color scheme and more...
A few weeks ago there was a discussion between developers and designers here becasue of an article 'Designing Open Source'. Discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5550522

Basic idea was designers want to give back to the community but can't find any (good) projects. They could do 'drive-by-design' or put in more time and see the project grow. This site could help. But reputation is everything and I'd like to see a bit more up front. A bit more of the guy who made it would be nice. Kind of makes my Spidey sens go off as empty as it is right now...
I'm also using theooldreader, but find that updates are sometimes slow and it seems to miss some stuff, so I've been using an install of tinytinyrss as well
I am totally up for eating insects. I've had them before in Korea. I wish there were a place to get them in the US.
"torvalds seems to speak only one programming language: C. Maybe it's about time to branch out a bit."

Epic.
> the Finnish language does not have an equivalent for the word "please" so it's sometimes really hard to be courteous and polite for a finn.

Gee. Even though there is not a separate "politeness word" in Finnish (or in many other languages), this does not mean that Finnish does not have ways to express several levels of politeness.

It's only hard to be polite for a Finn who does not know English very well. And it's equally hard for an English-speaking person to be polite in Finnish, if that person doesn't know Finnish very well.
You should probably make this into a webapp if you want to get the HN crowd interested in it.