skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hey xamarin guys, i know you visit this site. Can you call my boss and convince him to use your product for me :D

we got a growing staff with an expertise in C#, and he's decided to have one of his guys write each new mobile app in java or objective c, despite the fact that no one else has experience in these languages.

but most of all, i know i'm one day going to have to look at the code base for one of these apps, and I dread it.
They would have in the past. These days they do allow a variety of mechanisms that let not-exactly-native apps run in iOS.
[] You didn't include the name of the company that is hiring, but I pasted your job description into Google and found the company and position in ten seconds. And no, I'm not interested in working for them, especially since they just laid off 2,000 people.
> Okay, vaccines can harm people. It's a fact, get over it

It's also a known fact Andrew Wakefield’s 1998 research paper, that tried to discredit the MMR vaccine by linking it to other complications is fraudulent and wrong.

That research paper was nothing more than a work of fiction.

The problem is, decades on 'vaccine victims' still quote Andrew Wakefield’s research paper as a reason to not vaccinate.

Those are the 'vaccine victims' he was referring to and they are alive and well, working hard to bring back the iron lung hospital wards of the 1950s with their stupidity and ignorance.

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/goldenage/wonder/Archive/Images/Ir...

http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/01/what-ame...
Hi Vorporeal,

May I contact you with a Google question? I've encountered a technical problem which I would like to report, but I am having trouble finding an appropriate communication channel. The technical problem itself is interfering with my ability to use the typical channels.

If you are willing to help point me in the redirect direction, then please contact me via the info in my profile. (I was hoping to contact you privately, but your profile is blank.)

I won't harass you, and I don't expect support from you personally - I'm just hoping you might be able to point me in the right direction, in terms of how to report the tech problem.

Thank you!
Love this site - I've used his stuff for several bike mods.
Wow, I actually just implemented this same thing (but using D3/Rickshaw[1]). If only this had come out a week ago.

[1] http://code.shutterstock.com/rickshaw/
If we let small semantic changes like this in, it would be too onerous to upgrade, and so nobody would upgrade. Go users should not have to read and understand all these tiny changes, look through their code to see if anything breaks, and finally make the correct fix.

It's just not tenable, and we know this from experience (before Go 1 we introduced breaking changes with each stable release).

FWIW, this is the first time we've encountered this bug, and it's been part of Go since it was released. Hardly worth breaking people's code for.
Looks interesting, thanks! Questions: for funnels- are you guys planning to make it so I can query on historical data and get the results right away? Flurry is pretty annoying- you have to set up the funnel, and you only get results from that point forward, it doesn't apply to data you've collected in the past.
I Tried Android. Now Give Me Back My iPhone
Ideally the SDK would auto-pull from the phone anything it could, such as device type, OS, language/locale settings. You wouldn't be able to know actual demographic information on the person, of course [ :) or at least I don't know of any APIs that exist for that ].
With $2 worth of components, Dock Port lets laptops connect four 1080p monitors
Very cool. I wonder how stable its adsorption properties are over time, though. Any of you chem specialists know?
Tive seen their ads on YouTube constantly
New Tool Lets Anyone Trojanize Android Apps
That's really interesting. Does it taste bad? I can see why Smirnoff Ice has such a bad rep in the US (it's just a vodka premix in Australia - so it tastes like vodka and lemonade).
It's not REALLY an alternative, as it uses Bing's technology
Create iOS application easily with RubyMotion iOS development essentials
"We almost always try to exit a room through the same door we entered."

That was foreshadowed by this and I don't think it's so much altruism as it is routine.
> however you are allowed anonymity by virtue of being in a crowd.

That's not true at all. Anonymity is the state of personally identifiable information being unknown. That's exactly what your license plate is, and it's displayed on the back (and front sometimes) of your car. You have never been anonymous while driving.
Some implementations of IEnumerable do have a Count property on them. He's specifically talking about the Count() extension method. Since this extension method applies to all IEnumerable<T> implementations, there may or may not be an optimized way of accessing the count, and this method would need to know about them. The code looks a little something like this (decompiled from the .NET framework, so the variable names are probably not true to what they're actually named in the real source)

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/7c2c65268feafa66fb02
They still have to pay the sailors. The Cutty Sark had a capacity of 1,700 tons and a minimum complement of 28 [1]. By contrast Emma Maersk can carry 154,000 with only 13 Sailors [2]. The fuel savings are probably not worth ~200 times higher labor costs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cutty_Sark

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emma_M%C3%A6rsk
I don't think it's true that money doesn't work as a motivation for non-menial tasks, if that were the case then there would be no incentive for tech companies to offer developers anything over a sustenance wage since they would show up to work for free.

Open source software is an interesting example, but I think it mostly supports my case.

If you look at the projects out there, you can divide them into roughly 3 camps.

1) Projects that have a lot of paid developers working for companies or organisations that pay wages to their developers. So stuff like Android , V8 and Ubuntu would fall into this camp.

2) Projects that people were not necessarily paid to develop , but were developed mostly as a biproduct of something that they were or as a way to do that thing more effectively. "Scratch an itch" software effectively. I guess something like RoR would fall into this category.

3) Pure passion projects that were developed for fun. This is the only group that is purely intrinsically motivated.

The thing with projects that fall into camp #3 is that they tend to be stuff that the developer themselves found useful or interesting rather than something that necessarily serves society at large, though the two may sometimes intersect there is no guarantee.

If you don't make peoples incomes at least somewhat dependant upon the software they develop you will see far more camp #3 projects than camps #1 or #2.
I think both are early versions of a really cool future. I actually have a rift (but not glass) I definitely can see an amazing future with an advanced version of it.. but if i was to judge its merits based only on this initial version. It has some ways to go yet.

But even rift, the real value comes outside gaming. I'm waiting for some time to clear on my schedule, but I really want to play more with virtual reality field trips for schools.
Since none of the comments here are outright positive, let me be the first to say 'holy shit, dat Make Way! modal transition!'

I love open source.
Congrats guys! Solid second round. The product concept is great.
John Dvorak: The Death of Windows
I am not sure if you mean the list of fiction podcasts, or small business ones. Either way, they all have my hearty recommendations!
Apple has also made the decision to forego the Bandcamp/Beatport feature of multiple media download types, making everything AAC for simplicity. A fisherman using the same strategy for different kettles of fish, so to speak. And it seems to have worked out pretty well for them so far.
For hands-free video recording, check out my product Epiphany Eyewear. http://epiphanyeyewear.com

We have better camera optics, longer recording time, and equal resolution, compared to Glass.
> some googlers said the opposite

this makes it a team dependent thing. The other thing is politics, "oh, we are behind schedule, yet that one guy doing his 20%..." combined with stack rankings is a downward spiral.

Now, if you can assert yourself and back up your assertions, then many other places will enable you to do what you want if it's directly related to the success of the business.
New 3D Brain Map 50 Times More Detailed Than Previous Maps
For a lot of us on hacker news, we're very fortunate, and can lead very comfortable lives doing non-stressful, mentally rewarding work. You've found something you want; go for it.
Does it?

http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/02/01/police-routinely-sup...
"SS is like heroin. You never quit, you just stop for a while."
Completely false.

Your license plate is the equivalent of a online pseudonym linked to a database. Common users aren't able to browse this database, however if someone's keeping a tally of the appearances of said license plate (the equivalent of a search engine), then they can infer a whole lot of information that goes beyond the scope of the purpose of license plates. That is the real problem here. You are anonymous in the crowd or should be as far as other ordinary people are concerned and that's clearly not what's happening.

Incidentally, you should stop using the same username for everything.
(Or Everything That's Wrong With a PC person)

I found this article from John Dvorak is hilarious - while reading it on my phone in an app. I used to read him a lot while young when PC mag is still in print version. But in this article John even denies Android as a computing platform:

"All it can do is run rudimentary programs (apps) and open a browser. This is a platform?"

Really?
You know, the funny thing about commercial real estate is that there's no one right way to do it and the right way to do it is often a matter of gut marketing feel. Sure there's a triple-net lease McDonalds but everything else is pretty subjective.
Count() is an extension method for IEnumerable<T>. This means that Count() is a static method which takes an single argument of type IEnumerable<T> and ostensibly only depends on members defined by IEnumerable<T> to work (but manojlds points out that this isn't really the case). C# provides syntactic sugar to make calling a static extension method look like calling an instance method.

If you wanted to implement your own "Count" you would implement ICollection<T> which the IEnumerable<T> extension method would call into.
I simply love mono, and find that C# is an amazing language, but I also find that mono's project on github is a bit of a mess, and I really hope this motivates them to clean it up, and provide better documentation on the internals.
I don't think you understand how Undo Send works. You don't have to wait when you send an email, as soon as you click send you are free to do whatever else you want.
WizzyWig - Update your website. Code-free.
This never gets old :)
This is great! I will be making intranet dashboard for work and this will definitely help. :)
Would you tax people based on the number of hours they worked? What about people who are not paid hourly, which would increase drastically unless you outlawed it.

Then you have to define what counts as "work", does reading HN count towards your daily allowance since it is tangentially related to your work? What about reading documentation? Or is it only the hours you are typing code into an editor?

All options seem undesirable when you take them to their logical conclusions.
Black legged ticks are the principle vector for lyme on the west coast. I learned first hand that you can find them on Mt. Tam.
Only the last scroll example on the right, for me.
Hakim you the man. An other great swedish developer delivers.
Taliban's Letter To Malala
>after putting in the energy to research that guy's content a year back?

this statement and your whole post is just brain fart - i.e. outlandish conclusion made without knowing any facts or even basic understanding of context.

The HN community response to Aaron's cry for help was spearheaded by the above mentioned top-voted comment and was basically a prudish guilty verdict from a jury of his peers. It has prominent place in the history and is known outside of this echo-chamber, so no need for the "research".
I'm a user of OpenShift, and to be honest, it sounds like they are doing exactly what Flynn wants to do (but without Docker). They have cartridges, both official and community made, but they can also be bypassed and customized, as far as I can tell.
Great work, swapping out my existing glue code in favor of this presently.
No user's manual or documentation.

Hmm - sounds familiar.

Like God and real life?
Replied to you with details :)
Yeah thats bs salesman talk just to get the conversation started. Doesn't take a genius to talk around that.
Saw this @ launch hackathon. They worked way smarter than everyone else and built a great product. They're OG
Heh, even the longest possibly WEP key can be broken in a few minutes with consumer hardware. At least ISPs in Australia use WPA as standard.
I have a very DOM-heavy admin built in both jQuery, React, and Angular that uses the Django-style multi-select boxes (left panel has available options, right panel has selected options).

Toggling options is instant in jQuery (explicit DOM manipulation)' ~50ms delayed in React (Fake DOM diff calculation), and Angular is ~500ms (dirty-check and re-render).

Anyway, I find it interesting how it goes to show that different tools work best for different jobs. React seems to strike a nice balance between JavaScript and Angular Directives that makes complex, dynamic templating much easier.
Demon Souls sold 1.7 million games, Dark Souls sold 2.4 million games, which puts it in the Top100 for its year:

http://www.vgchartz.com/yearly/2011/Global/

These games are surprisingly mass-market.
IMO despite some replies this thread isn't useful overall, and that's the problem.

Most of your short comment is good vs. bad judgement (nature is great, gene selection and cloning are evil). It provoked guard-of-terra's reply, which states the obvious—yes, nature isn't ‘great’ (neither is it ‘evil’, it simply is), and gene selection can be useful—wouldn't we all like to be able to ‘fix bugs’ in humans. I was compelled to reply to it for some reason, but regret that now.

FWIW, I didn't downvote or upvote your comment, and only now have noticed that it's greyed.
Since I miss eve wormholes so much I thought I'd entertain myself with some reminiscing. Heres goes.

I was amongst the first people to take up living full time in a worm hole in eve. We got stranded, and while getting ourselves out we stumbled onto some corps in the middle of a war dec and stole a tower off a freighter pilot that exploded right in front of one of my corp mates, who stole in and docked up, waiting for the cool down timer (or so the tale goes, he showed up with a small serpentis tower so no reason to doubt him). It was like an act of god to set up a base and we spent almost every day over two years in wormholes hunting other players, raiding, laying traps, and generally just being the unseen death of hundreds of players.

There where days when between 5 of us we would get 20-30 kills in a few hours, especially if we got a Jita opening. One weekend we managed to two down two towers between about 7 of us (by controlling the collapse of wormholes so reinforcements couldn't be brought in by our targets, effectively stranding the targets) just using Battleships, took forever but was heaps of fun.

I would describe living in a worm hole more like hunting than anything else, spending heaps of time trying to create a bait scenario, then releasing the trap. Nothing funnier than having the a covert ops ship accidentally bump into few retreivers, decloak, and watching them scramble in panic before we can drop on them. As must people are aligned to warp, when that happens you only have the time it takes to warp a barge to get the drop down.

We eventually got our comeuppance though. Lost something like 20 billion worth of ships, probably about 8 capital ships atleast, as well as a tonne of T3 stuff, one of the players came online outside of our normal hours with a bunch of mates... and just stole everything. Left us unable to defend against the C6, 20 strong cap fleet came in, towers fell within a fortnight, ordered out by the new occupants, and we I went back into 'normal space' and hated the game.

Within a two month most of our core group quit. I went back to boost some indy guys I was helping from within teh hole, and sent my main character to join up with a null sec group. A few months later I lost totally interest, and quit.

I still miss the wormhole days TBH, the amount of laughter, emotions, hours sitting around trying to release a trap talking on vent. I feel like signing back up now, but I know it wont be the same.
That's impressive, I didn't know they had sold so well.

What I meant by 'not mass market' was more the developers' reckoning of the game's appeal. In practice, a lot of people imported the game from Japan to play it in the US because they didn't even think it would get released here! Then, when it came out, IIRC sales dramatically outpaced the publisher's expectations and they had to rush to make and distribute more copies.
the wig logo animation is nice, but you need to cancel the animation queue because if I moveover for a few times the wig goes crazy.
This is what amazes me about our country:

We can get riled up over being told by mainstream media that we are being watched despite whistle blowers telling us so for years, incited by the same media to riot over an incident that happens every day untelevised, and not bat an eyelash when our own citizens are assassinated for the world to see by our government.

"Today, nobody cares… but tomorrow, they will…"
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Unfortunately, most 'enterprise' grade software out there is horribly designed, has a terrible UI and is very hard to use

I believe you have just identified a product niche. Quick hackers, lets get on it!
Congrats to the Xamarin crew, this is well-deserved. They've been cranking out some really useful products and doing a good job of building products that layer nicely on top of the free Mono stack instead of gutting useful features out of it to try and sell them to you.
That's the best bit--these were cigs for boy scouts. Always be prepared, I suppose.
What do you mean by 'cave'?

Of course, Bitcoin-paying customers are currently rare. But it solves some cross-border problems, and I've met a number of software developers who prefer Bitcoin-paying work, and know of a number of projects that pay in Bitcoin.
Have you heard of http://republicwireless.com/? Might accomplish what you're looking for.
Nicholas Felton on Design’s Data-Driven Future
The construction of any political spectrum depends upon the time period over which you define it. The political poles of the last six months are a lot closer than the political poles generated from data collected over the last six decades.

Me, I've been reading a lot of Mencius Moldbug lately, so my political ideas are going to be fairly abnormal. Discussing politics with me is going to be like discussing colors of a painting with a gentleman on DMT.
It seems you havent really read the wikipedia article which clearly states "Zhukov liked it and asked for its color to resemble vodka so that he would not be seen drinking Coca-Cola in public"

Thats the only reason why i brought ip up..okay the Wikipedia entry might be inaccurate, but am i to judge that ?
Best thing is, no matter how many years I live past my age now (20) I'll still never live a day without learning something new. Today it was `termios` tomorrow who knows. It's a life of adventure and discovery.
I dig bootstrap but hate when sites use that blue focus on text fields.
These guys slogged through an incredibly grueling task - porting the entire .NET Framework and C# language - through some really hard times. I'm glad to see that it's paying off for them!
Middle clicking on a link brings it up in a separate tab.

If your mouse does not have a middle click button, buy one. It is a godsend.

If not, re-map one of your mouse buttons to be a Button-3. I often remap the forward button to Button 3. How often would you want to go forward to a page after you've gone back?
Their customers are device makers, not small time developers or end users. They just don't want to disclose the information to people without various agreements (and hard sales leads) in place.
19 here, largely ignorant
Super-Black Nanotechnology Breakthrough
Watch and your questions shall be answered.

http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Idiocracy/70028899?locale=...
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This thread is a joke, right?
Ok, you may be the expert at this, and whilst the article may not match your experience and contain some inaccuracies, I don't think there's any real need to be yelling "total BS and hyperbole" and "Total bullshit". Pretty sure you can disagree in a more constructive manner.
Yes, it is nearly unusable for me now and it is getting worse. I've thought a lot about it and I believe the problem is related to the requirement of getting new users. Back when Gmail was 'new' it had to be like Eudora or another standalone mail program (or Netscape Communicator if you remember that far back) in order to convert people. It did a good job, but 'new' people, people who have never used a standalone email client think it is 'clunky' and 'ugly.' To get those people it had to be more like IM or facebook A big square to type in, and then trying desperately to pick the right person to send to. Things we oldsters did all the time like maintain multiple email identities was 'cruft', people who called each other 'bro' and 'totalph33r' were the target demographic for the 'new' users. And to some extent all those people who really don't know of what email really is but they use it anyway.

Computer users, which is to say people who use computation devices for arbitrary tasks, and invent new uses on the fly, are not the majority demographic anymore. We are a 'specialty group.'
Everything is smooth and looks great in Chromium, but the whole page is sluggish in Firefox (on linux at least, and usually firefox on windows is worse).

This has been generally true in my experience playing with CSS animations. Are there any tricks to optimize stuff like this in Firefox, or is it just an area where Chromium is still way far ahead in performance?
Chickens love to eat ticks.
Thats really slick. What kind of charting library are you using?
Is it just me or is this kinda blurry?

Pretty dope though, that from top=>tilt fall was pretty exciting
I had to build it from scratch for the level of polish and functionality I wanted.
Puzzle: All numbers repeated thrice except one in an array
Google Maps erases Scottish island
By the way, I recently discovered that you could use it in Ubuntu since 2012 (12.04).

Just `apt-get install zram-config` and reboot, voilá.

I'm using it both on my laptop and desktop at work with 4Gb physical RAM. I have PyCharm and lots of tabs open in Chrome and it has to reach around ~2gb of compressed swap before it hits the disk. It doesn't even seem to slow down the machine in any noticeable way.

A truly nice, little hidden gem.
Here are my notes/bookmarks, as promised:

http://developer.here.com/
http://developer.here.com/javascript_api
Docs/examples: http://developer.here.com/javascript_api_explorer
API: http://developer.here.com/maps_js
Daily limits: http://developer.here.com/faqs#l&t
Huh? OSX comes with a screen capture app - Grab.
Are there any possible realistic solutions to the trusted hardware issue?