skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Despite all the music out there, people continue to gravitate towards the big record label stars. Nobody is competing by producing something people like as much as Rihanna, except cheaper.

You seem to be under the impression that people determined her art to be of greater value and thus a higher demand for it was created than all of Rihanna's competitors. That is only very slightly true. Demand for Rihanna's music is created mostly by record companies' aggressively promoting it and advertising it in various venues, not because people decided with no outside influence that her music is better than the competitors'. Rihanna won because her record company is better at salesmanship than her competitors. Now her popularity is soaring in a bandwagon effect, as is typical of popstars or really any popular phenomenon.

Your point that music should not be free because of its marginal cost of production being zero is an interesting one -- just as there isn't an expectation for the iPhone price to be $200, it does indeed make sense that music shouldn't be free. But, with all the talk about capitalism being a faulty economic system these days, a particular recipient of rage -- and rightfully so, in my opinion -- is that entity which charges bad prices [1] for its goods. Now, you might be wondering why it's music which gets all this drama about people objecting to its costs, and not the banking sector or something. That's because it's a thing that's close to people -- everyone listens to music, and naturally everyone wonders why it costs so much when the means of its distribution are effectively zero.

Personally I think we as a society need to first think deeply about corporations that operate essentially on a rentiering model of monetization (the recent wave of 'sharing startups' are a prime example) and then we should worry about what is a good model of music distribution. But hey, record companies are basically rentiering companies as well.

[1]: Bad as in socially or morally irresponsible. If some company finds a cure for cancer -- and that cure, it turns out requires only $2 to make for every pill, it would not be ethical to charge an exorbitant price like $20,000 for it, no matter how much the research costs were (people dying is a bigger concern than people not getting paid). This is obviously an extreme example, but you get the point.
Drupal has been moving towards Mongo, IIRC.
I do not believe you read my post...
All Windows 8 Ultrabooks Will Have Touch Screen Displays
With a layout like that, I bet you can't go back. The shift keys are in such a very odd position, with Alt, a rarely used key, sitting in the prime spot.

"Ergonomic" keyboards tend to be trouble for anyone who's not a strict home-row typer. I cross over the middle a lot, like for "keyboard" the Y is for left hand. Maybe it's more like a piano thing, where you're sort of hitting chords, pairs of letters in sequence ("e", "y"), hands moving into position to prepare, versus regimented typing. That giant gulf in the middle prevents all that.
This seems like it might be based on the assumption that OP is in SF. What about a place like, say, Chicago? Is $100/hr still below market rate for iOS devs there?

If so, well, I'll happily make you an iOS app for $120/hr. Wow. In fact, this is more than "Wow." Either patio11 lives in an alternate world, or I've completely missed the fact that devs have become that valuable outside of SF. I mean, we're talking about someone who hasn't even graduated uni yet. Nothing against undergrads at all -- they're some of the most productive devs -- it's just that the world tends to pay more for grads.

Another question: how should one "find businesses which require apps"? Door to door?

EDIT: The more I think about this, the more absurd this advice sounds. Patrick, would you give a more thorough overview of the steps necessary to accomplish what you're suggesting, from the point of view of someone with zero experience except with the technical and artistic aspects of delivering a product? (I.e. no experience with the social aspects of landing a gig like this.) >$100/hr is roughly nine times what a college student working fulltime can expect to get at an average job, so what you're suggesting is no small feat, especially for an undergrad. What kind of social tricks are involved to pull this off?
It's just the turn of the wheel. Should Ghost succeed, odds are quite good that in about seven years, you'll be reading about how old and crufty Ghost is, held back by it's aging Node.js platform, and how some new hotness or other is coming along to give you just blogging (or whatever).

To a first approximation, every web project starts life as a "clean, simple X without all that cruft". It is the destiny of most projects to follow that with A: failure or B: becoming the next pile of sludge to inspire a "clean, simple X".
> There is a way to get a perfect estimate - and that is to build it and see how long it takes.

The concept of a "perfect estimate" is tautological, isn't it? Estimates are by their definition uncertain statements.
I think with most Apple products and Apple "fan boys", they try hard to justify Apple's overpriced new products, which usually have features that are way behind other phones.

Every year a new phone is released, which has marginal improvements over the previous ones. But you know what? People will still buy it and Apple knows that very well.
It is the naive observation that is far too common. The A7 is about ARMv8, which is an evolutionary step over ARMv7. The 4GB thing is the least relevant aspect of it right now.
I largely agree with the article, but also agree with your conclusions.

>Instead, the "competition" is by delivering Rihanna for free by infringing copyrights.

This is a problem for Rihanna and a Maserati problem once a musician become famous, but the author states this article does not apply to "the majors or rock stars."

The challenge faced by the indies is as old as the music industry, they have merely been exacerbated by technology. Even before the decline of music sales, the main challenge for an indie musician was discovery. I think we have a confirmation bias about the past. There have always been unsuccessful musicians, but we forget they existed. Starving artist is not a new cliche.

Have people rejected indie music or is there something else behind superstar popularity? Conventional thinking is that free music makes it easier to get discovered (but harder to monetize, once discovered) because it cost nothing for consumers to try new music. It turns out that there is so much content/competition out there now (because music cost less to produce + free distribution), consumers have choice overload. This makes it harder for people to try indie music.

Music is cultural, so what is popular follows the same power-law dynamics as social networks (in fact, it is driven by social networks). Hence, what's popular becomes more popular.

Agree that the fact that the product has a zero marginal cost does not mean people are unwilling to pay. The entire software industry is built upon a business model of building a product with high production costs and zero marginal cost.
Everything that's wrong with the TechTarget DevOps quiz
In case you or someone else is still looking, CVC4 [1] is a competitive open source alternative to Z3 or Yices.

[1] http://cvc4.cs.nyu.edu/
There's a possibility that a developer acted in bad faith, for the sake of love, money, or fear. I have no reason to think that this has happened, but since it is possible, and the code is open, we can check.
I've found that since WordPress switched to the current sidebar navigation over the old one (the four main headings, of which Write was first, iirc) it's a pain to write blog posts.

I'm also not a fan of the large number of additional options available for posts. I'd rather have zero options, just write text and hit post. I understand why it has all of the options, but I'm partial to simpler systems that do one thing really well, as opposed to big systems (like WP) that do lots of things acceptably.
Okay, let's think this through carefully:

A country, using nuclear weapons, destroys a major American city, taking millions of American lives in the process.

America still has at least ten other major cities spread across several time zones, along with the world's largest economy, which supports the world's most conventionally lethal military, which has over a thousand bases around the world. In spite of the attack, the country - in which three hundred million are still alive and kicking - remains very powerful and very rich. Only now, it's very, very angry.

In this scenario, would you consider America to be (a) Unlikely to retaliate (b) Likely to retaliate in some limited way after long, anguished deliberation (c) Likely to retaliate swiftly, but on a strictly limited basis, or (d) Likely to firebomb whoever did it back to the stone age with extreme prejudice and absolutely zero hesitation or regret?

Given that the obvious answer is D, how - exactly - is the nuclear weapon used in the attack an "equalizer"?

Remember, that term is most commonly used in relation to handguns, which allow a smaller, weaker person to cripple or kill a much larger, stronger assailant. Key factor: cripple or kill, not "diminish only slightly while making volcanically furious."

This, by the way, was a point made by Machiavelli. He strongly advised Princes against attacking others unless they planned to do so with such intensity that they could be sure that their opponents (and the sons of their opponents) would NEVER recover. "Nothing is more dangerous" he cautioned "than a lightly wounded enemy."

In other words, destroying a city - even a major one - won't do. If you want to attack America and survive, you really do need to take down the entire economy. And it that's your goal, you should skip nuclear engineering altogether and just get a job on Wall Street.
I'll be excited about an iPhone as soon as I am able to sideload an app, install a white/blacklist. I'd be quite excited if I were also allowed to run arbitrary apps in the background (listening to sockets even when not VoIP), and add arbitrary interactive views to the Notification Center.

A plastic colored body does not appeal to me in the least.
I would have agreed with you some years back. But now I am not sure anymore. Promises of freedom and democracy and having a say are well good, but they are rather abstract when someone is about to go bankrupt because they found out they have cancer and they have been laid off. Or they are hungry.

I think over and over there are examples (China, ex Soviet Union, various other dictatorships) where people would accept a warm bed, safety, being able to work, get healthcare with sever restrictions to speech and travel vs having the freedom for speech, travel, but not having the minimum basic necessities.

There aren't too many recent cases were people oppressed politically were able to win the majority and overthrow the government and turn it into a democracy when there is otherwise enough stability economic, social to start with.

Americans I feel (and I would know, I live here too now) have swallowed quite a bit of propaganda and they will tell you long stories about how Democracy is just the best, capitalism is the best etc etc. I used to think that too, but I am not so sure anymore. Maybe that is why a lot of wars are sold to the American people "we are bringing Democracy" and "Freedom". That has a good local appeal. Internationally maybe others read that in the same category as North Korea telling its people they live on Paradise on Earth.
This is more of a fanboy ejaculatism than anything else. Why is this even on the frontpage?
There's a lot of talk about scalable code floating around, but it's rare to see anything as scalable as this code. Do you want more precision in your pi approximation? Then you literally scale the code up. There's few people who can truly claim to have written scalable code like that.
"an ease to writing that makes it pleasant to compose text formatted for the web...Compared to WordPress’s bulky editor and aging PHP code base, the difference is striking."

I don't know anything about WordPress's bulky editor, but how does the code base have any relevance to front end usability?
I recently had a couple of skype interviews with a well-known startup. First one went fine and I got good feedback but during the second one I was asked to share my screen & work on an IDE of my choice. That being something new, I didn't feel comfortable coding and though I did answer, the interviewer felt I was a bit (iffy) - I had written a conditional check & then changed it later. Interviews can get pretty hectic and it is way easier to say no to someone you don't even look at.
Without examining or-tools too much, I think it's solving a totally different problem. The Z3 guideis a good way to learn more (http://rise4fun.com/z3/tutorial)
At least they can create their own companies in the US. I am currently a freelance frontend engineer who needs to scale to hire people but I can't start my own company in France. I have to do it with a French associate who must be the president. I have the chance of doing it with my best friend.

By the way, they refused to renew my papers because I dropped out of school to be the CTO in a startup who made it to a notorious national journal.
I write both C and C++ on a regular basis. The set of idioms used in C is radically different from what you'd find in C++ (even though a lot of C code is valid C++). When I first started working on C projects written professionally (after quite a bit of experience with C++), I was seriously thrown off by things like reinterpreting structs to treat the first element as a parent structure (essentially emulating inheritance in pure C code).
I find it really difficult to care about the iPhone when a wonderful fully-unlocked Nexus 4 can be acquired for $199.
The iPhone has many features that best android phones, and I'll give you the most significant in my eyes. My iPhone gets OS updates when the newest version is released. This is not true of the vast vast majority of android phones.
this could easily be automated to make sure you don't miss a day if you keep a commit buffer offline
Amazing stuff. One quibble; There's a XXXXX in the middle of the South Pacific, midway between Australia and Chile. Whatever it is supposed to be, it's way too big.
Apple isn't talking about ARMv8 though, they are talking about 64 bit.
Chart stars are ubiquitous in old media (which more people still understand than new media) and they are pre-selected by the commercial music process to be tolerable to a broad base. I think the main costs of switching away from chart stars are informational. To a lesser extent, the cost of learning new technology. To a greater, the cost of finding anything of interest.

Those costs shouldn't be underestimated. Finding gold amidst dross (even for subjective values of gold) is a Bayesian evidential process costing nonzero thermodynamic work. In other words, it is never going to be a free lunch. And right now it is very expensive. The charts are reliably more likely to carry something you'll tolerate, even if there are things out there, undiscovered, that you'd properly enjoy.

So fair enough, for now, the charts continue. But this is an informational cost, and if one thing has become clear of late it's that premising your industry on obscurity is a mug's game. Youtube and friends are indeed pouring machine learning technology into uniting you with your own personal chart; I expect a crossover moment will happen sometime in the next ten years after which you will be able to rely on getting better hits off a taste-learning algorithm than off the radio. And then we will really see if the masses want Rihanna.
It might be true that the A7 is a significant upgrade, but Apple chose to highlight the 64-bit nature of the chip which to my point isn't too exciting today.
There are markets in this world where governments cannot reach. There are also planned markets, and everything in between.

Economics is as much theory as it is observation. Much like other sciences, for example, math and physics.
Reproducing Vim help as a fully cross-referenced PDF
Small animals perceive time slower than larger animals
Why do people revel in broadcasting their ignorance and shallowness?
Exploiting Lua 5.1 on 32-bit Windows
I've heard it suggested that as OSX is now 64bit only, running the iPhone on a 64bit CPU will allow a more unified codebase, which the end user will appreciate in the abstract form of fewer bugs and faster release times.
The OpenBSD guys are usually pretty good at security, but does CVS have the integrity verification of more modern RCS?

Since OpenSSH is probably responsible for more data than GPG, (the importance of that data aside) I think you're spot on.
...at the cost of (usually) doubling the amount of memory it takes to store all of your pointers.
nitpick : please use a more contrasting color combo.

edit : You know what--keep the poor contrast, that way no one can read it.

"He previously posted on 4chan, a popular internet forum often used for trading child pornography,"

I'm all for condemning racist and paedophiles, but what a load of garbage that the author chose to explain 4chan that way.
Don't you miss the convenience of multi finger gestures on the touchpad?

I haven't got used to the trackpoint but that's because I tend to use the touchpad more. I guess I should disable the touchpad completely and force myself to learn/adapt to the trackpoint.

I think a split keyboard with mechanical keys, without a number pad, and with a trackpoint (on both sides so lefties are happy) would make for a great keyboard.
I'd also recommend - if you're an interviewee normally, try to join an interview at your current job (if possible). I was quite anxious about being interviewed some time ago. Being on the other side of the table once changed everything however. The amount of preparation, ideas, planning, time needed to interview someone is just crazy if you want to do it properly. And you're still left with: what if I didn't ask the right questions, what impression I left on them, are they going to be a good fit or was their behaviour just an act for today, etc.

Now I know that the people of the other side are either just as anxious to do everything right as I am, or they just don't care much. One way or another, I'm just not able to get nervous about an interview anymore. The best ones turn into pleasant chats about tech anyway.
This is where statically typed code bases really shine IMHO. I've seen >10 year old Java code bases that are maintainable because of all the automated re-factoring that can be done to clean up naming inconsistencies and deprecate various mistakes. With dynamic languages cruft and little mistakes just keep building up till people give up trying to maintain it and want to start over.
But how do you prove your identity?
why isn't he forthright? i'd would have thought brand was pretty much the living definition of "direct and outspoken".

[edit: for non-english speakers, the construction "at least he's X if not Y" means (coloquially, after writing that i see it could be taken as first order logic) X is true and Y is false]
Fast and formally verified C implementation of Base64
I think being excited for colored enclosures is Gruberian fanboyism.

But I will say buying an overpriced iPhone is 1. kind of a status symbol, and that 2. for most people it is safer to have an iPhone because they don't know (and don't care to deal with) policing every single Android app's permission settings. So it's not like Apple's making a fool out of them (even though I see it that way and you seem to also).
Yep, I just tested with a simple txt file and the changes were not versioned. New modifications were made permanently without ability to go back to a prior version of the text file. It does support versioning for office docs as you stated though.
You could start by quickly browsing through the huge list of papers that cite Z3 [1].

Microsoft uses Z3 extensively for bug finding for all sort of products, notably through the SAGE tool. There is a great write up on its impact. [2]

From that paper:

"Finding all these bugs has saved millions of dollars to Microsoft, as well as to the world in time and energy, by avoiding expensive security patches to more than 1 billion PCs. The software running on your PC has been affected by SAGE.
Since 2008, SAGE has been running 24/7 on an average of 100-plus machines/cores automatically fuzzing hundreds of applications in Microsoft security testing labs. This is more than 300 machine- years and the largest computational usage ever for any SMT (Satisfiability Modulo Theories) solver, with more than 1 billion constraints processed to date.
SAGE is so effective at finding bugs that, for the first time, we faced “bug triage” issues with dynamic test generation."

[1] http://scholar.google.com/scholar?cites=4828743947843773221&...

[2] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2094081
Check out dokuwiki. It's PHP, but it's good.

data/pages/folder/file.txt --> site.com/folder/file

publishing means to sync your localhost data/pages with the one on your web server
Obd2 tool
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So much new found respect for Russell Brand, that was hilarious.
I really like the way my Thinkpad feels. Give it a try somewhere; Lenovo is known for having great keyboards on laptops.
The people behind Ghost didn't think that Wordpress is fine. So they set off to create something better and a bunch of other people also thought the idea would be better so they supported them. That all seems good to me.

What's even better, you might agree, is that they are not stopping anybody else from setting off to create something more complicated than blogs and crud apps.
He is. I think you and parent are on the same team.
They are talking about improving the processor, and ARMv8 is a (or rather the) 64-bit ARM instruction set. Should Apple have instead talked about registers and wider SIMD, better double floating point, etc? 64-bit is just shorthand for that.
> I disable the flash on every piece of camera equipment I own. In my book, there is never a scenario where it is okay to use a flash, if it is too dark to take the photo, then don’t take it.

I think the fact that you (and I) don't trust current camera flashes to make photos worth keeping is actually an argument that it's a problem worth fixing. It remains to be seen how successful the 5S flash will be, but I think it's cool they're trying. I'm also glad Apple made the sensor elements larger rather than cramming in more mega pixels. Normally that's a concern of the geeky DSLR consumers, and point & shooters suffer with noisy low-light performance and more pixels than they need.
Please point me in the direction to a cost-comparative (to the iPhone) Android device to an iPhone that has not received updates.

At least Android devices give you the option to upgrade. I've been forced into iOS upgrades on devices we use in the enterprise that have been made obsolete because of new bloat we didn't need (nor can we downgrade).
Congratulations, you are not the target market! You may now choose from the many available models of android and windows phones instead of making impotent comments on social networks. :)