skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The crappy regex solution is much faster than what you suggest, and will work 99.9% of the time. The time you spend doing it the right way will reduce your conversion rate because people will view your site as slow. In this case worse is better.
So the app icons represent apps... and??
That's aligned with what I've seen, too.

For example, I saw a group of seed investors try to identify potential patents in their portfolio companies as a way to increase the scrap value of the firms in the worst-case scenario. But they weren't making go/no-go decisions on the basis of the patents, it was just a slight value-add after a go.

Patents only seem to be of primary importance in a few niches.
Indian education system is designed to create employees, not employers.
Trade/commerce is exclusively reserved to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bania_%28caste%29 for over 3000 years in India.
It doesn't really seems as simple or obvious as you make it seem. The engineering that went into building those wheels with the blades in the middle seems quite impressive and not something that your average joe would be able to design and build.
Absolutely, indentation helps catch this when writing.

When I've seen this happen, it wasn't because of a semicolon added when the code was written. It was someone accidentally adding a semicolon to a line later, without realizing it. Unless they then went to the next line and hit the "fix indentation" key, they didn't catch it.
Minela Dzindo
Easteregg.in - where you go to get your website's easter eggs
Style as in functional, object-oriented, etc. Not tedious bikeshedding about whitespace and brackets.
X2Go: Remote Desktop so Fast it Seems Local
Go out and meet people. Talk about your ideas, and for gods sake, listen for theirs. Share your passion. Don't be afraid of someone else stealing your idea. There is more to an idea then just "implementing" it.

Stop reading all the startup blogs. IMO, that's mostly wasted time. Spend this time doing things you love, step out of your comfort zone and try something new (e.g. hobby).
Maybe you'll find out that your "startup idea" is an interactive online climbing guide.

Source: I'm 23.
There are projects that you want to donate to just to show support for the creative mind for doing the seemingly impossible. This is one of them
There's also the aspect of social pressure to use the platform.

I remember how quickly people stopped using IM and moved their entire online presence to Facebook, including the announcement and discussion of planned events.

As an IM user who never moved, it kinda sucked. :)

I guess you could say the same about the move from ICQ to Windows/MSN Messenger, though.
Because something you do relatively early in the compiler is throw away all of the structure of the source, including flattening nested expressions into a linear IR. Mapping back to line numbers in the debugger is a bit hacky to begin with, and mapping back in an even more fine-grained way would be more complex still.
Photos have too much sentimental value attached to them to think of them as just another 'possession'. They will provide value to you in 10 years, 25 years, and 50 years and can't be easily replaced.
Out of all the names on that list William Morris Endeavor is the most surprising.

The agency model in Hollywood will eventually fade away because middle men don't offer as much utility as they once did when information wasn't so readily available.

It's surprising to see any of the major agencies waking up to this idea and acting on it.

If WME wins the bid we could see some interesting changes in the entertainment industry.

If actors, writers and directors (talent) are only a single step away from creating content in an environment where distribution has very low variable cost then we could see a boom of high quality independent films and shows. Think House of Cards (Netflix US) on a more frequent basis.
I use this convention often for loops:

for (int x = 0; x < width; x++)
for (int y = 0; y < width; y++)
if ((x + y) % 3) {
// ...
}

The semantics are kind of like using a comprehension.
Well I was actually thinking about mutations :)

Let's consider a simplified model, where there are only two different bases (A and G instead of A, T, G, C) and assume that the probabilities of mutations A->G and G->A are the same. Let's consider a single base mutation[1]. No matter what the mutation probability is, and no matter what the initial distribution is, I expect that the population will converge to about 50% A and 50% G. I guess you would agree.

Now if we make this very wrong model a bit less wrong by including the four base types A, T, G, C, we can expect that each allele will be found in about 25% of the population. And that is for single base mutations only. A mutation that depends on the precise value of 5 different bases would be displayed by a much smaller share of the population (1/4^5 = 0.1% I guess).

Of course people don't get born with fully random genomes like that, the vast majority of these mutations would not yield a living embryo. But still, the intuition we can get from this is that without evolutionary pressure, a particular mutation will eventually be found in a fraction of the population that is inversely proportional to the complexity of the mutation (in most cases that would be far from the 50% of my initial intuition).

No idea how close these layman's speculations are from the reality...

[1] Such as the gene that determines the type of ear wax: http://udel.edu/~mcdonald/mythearwax.html
New blog with tutorials on Commodore C64 Assembler Coding
It's a valid observation of what Zen is compared to other Mahayana traditions. A return to the core fundamentals without all the clutter. It doesn't bother me.
I really wish facebook could help me manage the outer reaches of my social sphere—those I contact infrequently, whom I care about, but am not in constant communication. Something that would prod me to send a message or something to an old friend I hadn't remembered to email in the past month or so.
Cultural Competence
If it makes you feel any better this was on the front page of reddit too.
Step 5: Take a break, maybe look into anger management...
There's no evidence that the GitHub list is comprised only of entries where the developer chose the language because they truly enjoyed or liked it.

The only reason that Javascript is at the top is because of the Web's popularity in my opinion. Personally I've seen many, many more people say they enjoy C# and think it's a well-engineered language than I have seen for Javascript.

Then of course we have people who choose languages based on their ideology.
JavaScript === vs == : Does it matter which "equal" operator I use?
Sounds like the Harmattan look. Each app had a flat modern UI with a highlight of color: http://harmattan-dev.nokia.com/docs/ux/pages/Colour.html
If they've already tried the "I can hire an Indian." line, then they've already ended the relationship.

If you want to be cruel, you can point them to places like elance or rentacoder.
Not all debuggers are line-based. Many of LLVM's tools give descriptive errors ("expressive diagnostics").

Here's an example of gcc versus clang (a "frontend" for LLVM):

$ gcc-4.2 -fsyntax-only -Wformat format-strings.c
format-strings.c:91: warning: too few arguments for format
$ clang -fsyntax-only format-strings.c
format-strings.c:91:13: warning: '.*' specified field precision is missing a matching 'int' argument
printf("%.*d");
^

LLVM is does some cool stuff :). Some other nice examples are at http://clang.llvm.org/diagnostics.html.
If I type name@outlok.com instead of name@outlook.com, it says the email is valid - when in fact it is not.
I wonder if there's an efficient mechanism to allow the hubless wheels to tuck up (rotate 90 degrees about the center) when the machine takes flight.

The value could be twofold: the wheels could act as blade guards and the wheel would be outside of the prop's feed and wash airstream, which would probably lead to more desirable flight characteristics.

Maybe something for Revision 2 - as is, this is a cute combination of existing ideas into a cool new machine.
And if you're using a DNS service that doesn't support SSHFP records, you can generate and distribute a base known_hosts file with your favorite configuration management solution.
Because it's an awful product that everyone nonetheless still uses. It's the Windows 95 of our time: popular entirely because it's popular.
Thanks for your answer, much appreciated.
The build process looks quite straightforward to me; it's a hubless wheel (common) with a brushless outrunner (common) screwed into the middle.

The idea is certainly novel as far as I know, though.
The agencies have been awake to this idea for quite a while now. WME and CAA have tentacles everywhere these days.
Evergreen Browsers
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Facebook sheds some light on what it can get out of Parse
As a side note:

if(b->qid.path==a->qid.path)

is interesting. This is not how you compare strings in C. So it is either a bug or dirstat() needs to guarantee that different results pointing to the same file always share the path string.
I've never heard about writing language agnostic code in my life, lol!
This article really resonates with me.

I've come to roughly the same conclusion as the author; namely, that I should focus on figuring out my real motivations and work to fulfill them, rather than blindly follow the "more-money-more-happiness" default route provided for all of us.

I find it interesting that other commenters react so strongly to this article. I think the article is a sobering one, and that the author makes a good point. After thinking about it, if you come to the conclusion that more money _is_ what you need to fulfill your goals, then by all means go ahead. Introspection is never wrong.
From the bio:

signalgenius.com [founder & growing] fourthsegment.com [founded & failed] ryanangilly.com [blog] mypunchbowl.com [employee & still going] messagesling.com [founded & failed]

I'd really like to hear how things ended and if the relationship with the investors remained so positive all the way to the end.
Note that there are valid, probably in-use, e-mail addresses on TLDs, e.g. "username@cx". You may not care enough to support them though.
If you're young and a dancer, New York offers a high number of opportunities because there is a critical mass. Silicon Valley is analogous in regard to software startups. Des Moines may be great for soybean biotech, but that ain't the fellow's business - nor is it a young person's game. Obviously, neither is insurance. Sleeping in a Civic isn't my cup of tea - I'd need at least a Grand Caravan - but that doesn't make it wrong for everyone.

And a young person can wind up living in their car despite playing to expectations and not pursuing their dreams. That and short is just the way life is.
In the case of WME, they are 1/3rd owned by Silver Lake, so some sophistication in this area isn't surprising:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/silver-lake-takes-sta...

I don't know about WME, but CAA also has a small venture arm.
Business development tips for hackers
Thanks, I hadn't thought about it that way. Still disagree with it and all that but at least it makes some amount of sense that they were able to pull it off now.
I imagine the parent has access to a coworking space during the day, and a 24 hour or similar fitness place for showers, bathrooms and exercise.
The thing is that the previous years of invites haven't really had any deeper meaning, going back to 2010 or so. They've just been getting more and more stylish in representing "a lot of apps".

2010: Tube tiled with app icons

2011: Apple logo "window" into space tiled with app icons

2012: Apple logo made up of translucent round rects (stylized app icons) of various colors.

2013: Translucent round rects stacked on top of each other
A first look at Android Studio on IntelliJ
whoever buys Hulu is going to regret when they find out all the content deals goes up in smoke when the company change hands.
> The time you spend doing it the right way will reduce your conversion rate because people will view your site as slow.

During all those new account registrations they're constantly making?

Does this feel slow to you? https://www.emailitin.com/email_validator

> In this case worse is better.

No, it's not. Every time you exclude a valid e-mail address, you lose or annoy a customer for no reason other than your own lack of understanding of the RFCs.

There are a number of steps that can be taken that don't involve broken regexps that filter out valid addresses. Please stop trying to justify doing it completely incorrectly.
It is a social version of AOL; a walled, sanitized, child-proof, alternative internet kept clean and safe by its overseers. I can not think of anything a hacker would hate more outside of App stores on phones and the Great Firewall.
Amazing how old C, and still obscure things always pop up here in HN. I had no idea of such idiom.
I used to use mail@mikeash.com as my primary e-mail address. Enough sites rejected that (due to thinking that "mail" was bogus somehow) that I eventually switched to mike@mikeash.com.
Seems to me like people are returning to instant messaging in the form of mobile messaging like WhatsApp and Kik. I wonder who will come out as the winner in this race.
I think one of the reason it failed in the past was a mixture of corruption and incomplete technology. There just wasn't the tech in place for things to be efficiently planned accurately and efficiently.
I'm getting a 403 error right now. . . ?
The Play Store on Android is designed exactly this way as well. I don't really have any strong opinions on whether it's good or bad design, but it's interesting to see the top mobile OSes start to converge in this direction.
I still prefer this:

if(
b != nil &&
b->qid.type == a->qid.type &&
b->qid.path == a->qid.path &&
b->qid.vers == a->qid.vers &&
b->dev == a->dev &&
b->type == a->type
) {
fprint(2, "cp: %s and %s are the same file\n", an, bn);
ret = 1;
}
Holy cow. This is a big deal.

There is no reason why TV networks need to exist the way they do. Hulu, Netflix and Amazon all produce original content and are perfectly positioned to disrupt them as their distribution volume increases. Even the current distribution channel is being disrupted by Aereo. Hulu is a a huge asset.

If Yahoo gets in this game, they have a massive number of users, photos (flickr), blogposts (tumblr), mail, content... they're rivaling the reach and diversity of Amazon and Google as content owners (though without their respective cash cows of b2c sales and ads).

What's next? Is there some sort of connection that I'm missing between flickr, tumblr, the existing yahoo platform and hulu? Do they buy vimeo from IAC, or buy/merge with IAC? What's the strategy behind all the acquisitions?
DevOps Dave Comic: The DevOps Team
When I worked on Wall Street, it was common to have a "number" in mind -- a level of wealth one wanted to earn, after which one would retire.

By way of contrast, I got out after I'd only worked there about 5 years, with enough savings to support me for only a few more.

Frankly, I wish I'd stuck with it and solved the "earning money" problem for life for once and for all.

I.e., while I'm generally in agreement with this line of discussion, there are also plenty of cases to just work at something not too unpleasant in return for the money it provides one.
Teens spend 30 seconds per minute hating facebook, right after the 30 seconds they spent loving it
Oh god that code is fucking hideous.

If someone who worked with me wrote that I'd talk to them about it and make sure they never did anything like that ever again.

From the terrible argument names to the abuse of the single line if syntax (which should never be used anyway, always use curly braces.)
And what's the alternative for if(A && B){ x(); }else{ y(); }? Seems very easy to shoot yourself in the foot with this approach.
What makes super computers super? Money, that's what
> It's still a good sign of a badly written bulk mail engine, and worth rejecting for.

No, it might be worth scoring the e-mail with a spam filter, but the MTA shouldn't be overzealously throwing away e-mail.
Yahoo has always been a content portal. The strategy? To have a diverse range of offerings in the hopes that everything you use will be be on the Yahoo network. That's been the winning strategy since AOL, but success in the area has proven fleeting.
Likely they were just playing Industrialist by repeating some received wisdom about Indian programmers being a magical outsourcing technique, to which you call their bluff and say, "Nothing, go for it. Wanna race?" and sit there silently.
This line is comparing integers, not strings.

Qid is a structure containing path and vers fields:
path is guaranteed to be unique among all path names cur-
rently on the file server, and vers changes each time the
file is modified. The path is a long long (64 bits, vlong)
and the vers is an unsigned long (32 bits, ulong). Thus, if
two files have the same type, dev, and qid they are the same
file.

http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/stat
Undefined = Default
They tried to buy a majority share from dailymotion from Orange a couple of weeks ago, but it was blocked by the french governement (a big shareholder in Orange).

Yahoo really wants a video service. I guess they want to come back to having a modern set of active services.
We needed proof that a billion dollar company could make an email mistake?
Go get to know real homeless people, we are not talking about homelessness here. Though I think the OP is taking it a bit far, I think it would be fine to do it for a week or something if you opened up a huge opportunity for you.
Yahoo's Biggest Acquisitions
Algol 60 lives on via Lisp.

If you want to use it, Algol 60 an option with Dr. Racket: http://docs.racket-lang.org/algol60/

If you can tolerate a later version, there's Algol 68 Genie: http://jmvdveer.home.xs4all.nl/algol.html
Depending on who you ask, Facebook has been "on the way out" for about 9 years now.
I don't want to stereotype teens since I'm sure there are a lot of mature, insightful teenagers, but do you think most teens place a lot of importance on their data? Do they want to keep and treasure all their selfies and random party pics well into their college years?

16-21 is like a personality black hole for most people. It's a time when you're super self-absorbed and you're living from moment to moment, literally changing every day. If I'm totally alone here then please ignore me, but once in a while I will run into a random picture of me when I was 17 or something and I can't help but think "who the fuck is this person".. and immediately want to bury that particular picture. Pictures with family are a different story, those I treasure immensely. But they are so few and far between, and certainly would not have been considered Facebook-worthy in my teens.
It's high school, it's so easy to become ostracized if you don't do the same as all the other kids in class.
These days, I'd argue that the computing equivalent of the theater person's NYC is simply "the internet".

Sure, maybe silicon valley is slightly better, but it doesn't look like a particularly compelling advantage, certainly not anything close to the divide between doing theater in NYC and doing it in Milwaukee.

On the internet, nobody knows you're a dog, and few people care where your doghouse is.
Thats hideous? I see worse code everyday.
I'm 37 with a family and I care a lot less about this stuff than I did when I was 25. I just feel very differently about my career now than I did 12 years ago.

Am I changing the world, blowing everyone's mind? No. I'm doing work that's pretty fun, working with people I like, and hanging with my family on the weekend.

Happiness is a process not a result. If you want to focus on some perceived injustice in your past, that is of course your right, but let's not pretend it's a universal human condition.

I mean, let's take your worst-case scenario. Broadly speaking, most jobs in the world are substantially worse than a low-level computer programming job.
Show HN: Standalone pooled APNs app written in Golang
Can't Python notice that a list always has the same types and do something special?
Even Disney's offerings, specifically "Tangled", have bumped up the quality under Pixar's leadership.
An agreement to maintain licenses for a few years will be part of the sale, but it does mean that the buyer will have a limited amount of time to make Hulu licenses indispensable to the former owners.
I really hope the changes aren't extreme. I'm not a tech geek and I work in finance in a non-technology role (I'm only on HN for my consumer-level interest in tech, and the conversation here is better than other forums like reddit). I am pretty much the mainstream consumer and I actually like iOS a lot as it is. I hope Apple aren't making changes for the easily bored tech geek/pundit crowd who require change for the sake of change. They're not idiots so I'm confident that whatever changes are made will be well thought out, I'm just a tiny bit concerned because the only people on the web that are vocal about it are the tech geeks.
Apple on pace to double lobbying spending on taxes
LocalJS & Grimwire: A program architecture for the Web
Anyone else read that to themselves in the Walt Mosspuppet voice?
Well, you could

if (one) {
if (two)
if (three)
if (soon) {
stuff
}} else {
else stuff
}

Personally, I think I won't have any trouble reading that, but I have noticed I'm somewhat more tolerant than others in this regard. Though I am more OCD than others in other ways.
Since some might not be aware and since you didn't explicitly state it, Hulu right now is owned by Disney (which owns ABC), Fox, and NBC Universal, which produce a majority of the content on the service.

So while what you said may be true in general, it seems especially likely in this case.
Show HN: use data to find new AppStore ideas (leverage hint API)
If that could scale (and unfortunately my intuition says that it would not), that would be the first reasonable layout for a air/road vehicle that I've seen. Pretty wild.
You would love this:

https://feralbynight.googlecode.com/files/FeralbyNightv3_2_b...
You make a strong point. Yet there's one crucial difference.

In Eliot's time, people didn't have access to a full time series of your professional social status. I'm sure that it sucked for him to work in a bank basement for 8 years, but he never worried that someone would find that out on LinkedIn and he'd be in the basement permanently.

There was a time in which it was much more OK to do low-level work, if only because you could pull a Don Draper and reinvent yourself with a different history.
I can't help but notice these layered colors look like transparent cellophane. Maybe this is the metaphor, app controls, etc, are reflective transparencies layered atop data?
Main U.S. Weather Satellite Fails, GOES-13
The incentive is advertising revenue - teens are a very attractive ad market.
Feedback on restaurant website pivot
Just because there's lots of worse code doesn't make that good.

There's worse songs than "Who Let the Dogs Out" but it's still a really bad song.
It looks awesome ! It's an impressive piece of engineering.

The price tag is a still a bit high for what I would use as a toy, but if you consider the potential "drone" spinoff that's a steal.

The battery life is a bit limited "At the moment flying 11 min / driving up to 18 min, combined performance 15 min. "