skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anecdotally, my phone's been ending the day at 30-40% on iOS7 when I usually ended at 10-20% on iOS6. I'm guessing I had a particular app that Apple's now handling differently.
The only evidence of irresponsibility presented in the article is the fact he chose and continues to pursue a low paying career with the full knowledge of the costs involved.

My example of a bar tab wasn't an argument on him, but rather an identification of a common behavior of men in big cities that one could, by way of illustration, trim to help establish financial security.
If it doesn't sell tens of millions it doesn't make a big impact on Apple's bottom line. It might have some other effects like incubating tech that will make it into other products, but then those products become the new important products.

I guess that in the maybe category then :) (I haven't used one myself).
>There are
plenty of reality TV shows about this
sort of thing too.

Despite my general aversion to the genre a reality show about someone fixing other people's businesses sounds interesting to me. If it isn't staged you can probably gain something from watching it and looking for common trends.
Why? If you're in contract, you still have to pay for your plan during the entire contract. Even if you switch networks, they are still making enough money to recoup their subsidy cost. Effectively it just becomes a loan (with truly awful rates).
>>And also, btw, it's mostly within the Mountain View office complex.
I know that, my main point is that they aren't part of the Google that most people see.

>>Also, you seem a little confused about X. X is a tiny fraction of engineers, and as such it's not clear what it has to do with "bringing in top engineers".
I'm also aware of this. Being a tiny fraction of engineers shouldn't preclude it from bringing in top engineers, correct? Top engineers are a tiny fraction of engineers in the total population, so this seems like a good sign to me.

>>if Sergey is engaged in anything other than his (awesome!) blue-sky projects in X, he puts a lot of work into hiding it
Again, I don't think this is necessarily a bad thing. I don't disagree that Google is no longer the engineering paradise company-wide that it used to be. However, you worry about not having engineers on money making projects. I disagree that the X lab is not a money making project. They don't have revenue goals and targets in the way that most places would, but I can't imagine something better for Google's long term bottom line than things like Project Loon being successful, or becoming the first mover in the self-driving car world.

>>For one thing, most of the complaining about the (relative) decline in engineer-centric culture at Google has happened since, oh, about six months after Larry returned to the CEO position.
You may be right about this. I don't totally know. I do know that Eric Schmidt doesn't have Larry's credibility as an engineer, and this original thread was about Schmidt's destruction of engineering culture, not Larry's. For all the worry about the reduction in 20% time and all the stuff that Google does that drives me nuts (G+, shutting down Reader - that one still hurts), they still have the X lab working on moon shots being driven by a founder. Come to think of it, the X lab may have replaced 20% time as Google's innovation lab (not saying I agree with that, there is a place for innovation and improvements in non-moonshots too, this is just a thought I had as I wrote this out).
At what rate do people screw up addresses on regular mailing envelopes?
I tried Snap CI (http://snap-ci.com) for that and it works great if you deploy to heroku.
Allow to create a list before register is a great a idea, thanks!

I think you are right about the fonts also.

thanks for the comments
"Free for open source" means that they are offering their product for free (eg, without cost) to projects that are open source.

They are not publishing their own source.

If you're running a small, open source project, this seems like an easy way to manage deployments. Kudos to them for a free plan.
I like the cleaner UI design and new fontset a lot. However, the background blur is distracting and counterproductive for the overall clean look. Maybe they just tried to much to top / set themselves apart from the Metro UI somehow?
How does removing a helpful reminder allow me to work faster. IMO having this "visual clarity" on something that won't be used much other than the initial setup reduces speed. I'm not going to be adding new cards everyday. So only having the '+' causes me to pause and think, "What will this plus do again?"
I've had a similar experience with my iPhone 5 as well. It was significantly worse during the beginning of the beta builds, however now it seems to be better than iOS6 (for me).

I'm guessing it's something similar to you – a wonky app draining my battery that is handled better on 7.
The final version of a contract is certainly PDF, but during negotiations, people must be able to make and track edits. Git has these features covered, but I just can't imagine sending a Markdown contract draft file marked "FOR DISCUSSION ONLY, NOT INTENDED AS A BINDING CONTRACT" to a typical counterparty.

I guess that your WYSIWYG editor might do the trick — it depends on the extent to which your counterparties rely on MS Office tools.
Out of curiosity, I tried to log in with my Google account and then got this when I was sent back to https://upsource.jetbrains.com:

Cannot get icons from server.
You do not have permission to access the requested resource
On Google+ he just updated the employment status :) https://plus.google.com/112218872649456413744/about
Might it be be that a constant loop of activity is not a good model for battery performance in actual use ?

I've heard someone suggest that perhaps background sync actually might help battery life in some situations since it is done in batches. this would mean that users are spending less time looking at a power hungry screen that's just showing a loading spinner, assuming that some of this saved time is spent not using the phone at all, there might be a gain.

edit: To expand, although I am unfamiliar with everything that could be/has been done to maximize battery life:

Is it possible that "tweaks" are made in ways that are more relevant to actual usage patterns? (And perhaps ways that sacrifice battery life in the for speed in other areas, in the hopes of maintaining the baseline or improving battery life overall while still improving perceived performance)

What might these kind of changes be?

I'm not trying to be an apologist, genuinely curious about how what sort of optimizations might be made, and trying to make sense of the difference between what Ars is seeing and the anecdotal evidence.
I have no first hand information about overall rates, but there are dead letter offices, teams of people dedicated to finding the right destination for ill-addressed items, and I personally get snail-mail delivered to me, despite having errors in the address.

There is a resilience in snail-mail that has no equivalent in email.
Is it illegal to 'trick' the NSA? If they branded me a terrorist even if I wasn't one - would I have due process?

I'm sure they deal with false positives all the time, it's not as if anyone who types "terrorist jihad pressure cooker bomb death to america" into a form is suddenly going to
are you actually arguing for security by obscurity?
It smells like 2005 nokia to me.
Fascinating. I'd love to see some sort of visual indication of how "flame-y" a thread is (besides just using it as an input on total hotness calculation.) In fact, could HN be alternately sorted by "least flame-y posts today", bypassing hotness? Would that, perhaps, bring all the objective how-to articles up, and push the editorials down?
I'd kindly thank you to stop generalizing "Liberal America" as well as conflating them with Democrats.
United, starting next year, has also added a minimum dollar amount to their status levels. Based on a quick perusal, it doesn't appear as if the dollar levels should affect most people who are buying tickets at more or less "normal" rates but it's a further protection against people gaming the system in any way.
I'm going to agree, as a Sr Database Architect, that once you have these skills and some experience under your belt you will never want for jobs.

There is one huge caveat. Sometimes it is so boring that I often daydream of attempting trephination on myself.
I don't think Siri falied, but disapointed. Apple hyped it up so much you would believe it could do anything, and work flawlessly. Instead it works halfway reasonably in a few soecific situations.
Or they claim to have one opinion in front of one audience, and a different opinion in front of another.

Or they claimed one thing to get elected, and then "changed their mind" post-election.
Best vs. Easiest Tool For The Job, or Why I Dislike Microsoft
Or they could get done with "one size to suit them all" and offer more screen sizes. People hands vary wildly in size, no one would make gloves in only one, but somehow Apple seems to think for a phone it's OK.
I work with a guy who obsesses over air miles. This year he took his family to Europe for free (including hotels). So it is still doable, but it takes a lot of work. He has about 20 credit cards and is constantly cancelling and applying for new cards. I would argue that my coworker is probably spending way too much time and if you take into account opportunity costs it probably isn't worth it for him. But I suppose if he enjoys it and sees it as a hobby, why not?
Introducing Trello Gold
The Flavor Connection [Interactive]
Wow. I din't know it actually existed.
What's stranger about it than using the male pronoun?
7 Habits of Highly Effective Media Queries
Good point here and I'd have to agree with you. Sure, the unpaid route isn't ideal, but then again neither is an internship in general. The whole point of an internship is to gain experience/see if you're a fit for working at the company full-time. Now, in the tech world, I fully understand unpaid internships at brand new companies with absolutely no money. What I don't understand is unpaid internships at PayPal. That's where I draw the line. But yes, when it comes to either working for free or doing nothing, most (rational) students will choose to work for free.
Great idea, plus with beautiful, idiot simple tools like medium.com its so easy to write a blog today.
As one of the original directors of MHacks, I can't wait to see what they pull off this time. Really looks like they are going big this weekend.
how can you ignore that the 5C costs as much as the 5 when it's essentially the same but with plastic instead of metal casing?

In what way — or by whom — has this been ignored?
What about sending them a welcome email that gives them the opportunity to verify.
I find this funny. IOS 7 is the same as IOS 6 except for a few re-arrangements of features and a new look. I feel like Mugato from Zoolander.. Am I taking crazy pills? Their all the same! Ios 6, 7.. iphone c.. s.. it's really the same thing with tiny changes. And everyone is reviewing them like they are new phones or new OS.
Before & After iOS 7: How Your Favorite Apps Are Changing
That would be pretty nifty, a NoSQL store backed by the delay-line memory[1] of IRC.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delay_line_memory
A clean room reimplementation of Dtrace is on my list of ideal computing wants that will probably never happen.

Also on the list is everyone targeting the same hypervisor for device drivers (such as Xen) so that hardware support is excellent for all operating systems and all devices.

I would really, really like a clean room reimplementation of Hexray's IDA pro so that I can use it on OS and architecture, an LLVM front end for Plan 9/Inferno OS, a clean room reimplementation of ZFS, GNUstep to have at least a 1:1 implementation of Cocoa so that no matter the OS and architecture one can target that GUI kit and we have inter-application reuse of functionality through scripts like we have for CLI apps, and a clean room reimplementation of AutoCAD and Candence's Orcad.

And as someone who uses a CAS or equivalent environment a lot, I would really appreciate if an ecosytem such as julia, ipython, or octave would reach and exceed Mathematica and Matlab in ease of use, degree of combination and semantics possibilities, and power as well as efficacy.

I really would like to be able to use Plan 9/Inferno OS all the time but developer tools are not comparable to any BSD or Linux ecosystem and there is not a good GUI toolkit available (I would like GNUstep here is why I want the implementation to succeed).

People who can reverse engineer software and hardware is a very small population compared to the res of the dev population though and they are very likely to end up in a lawsuit if they try.
The Man Who Introduced Microsoft to Open Source Leaves For HP
I haven't thought about this deeply, I'm thinking out loud...

What are the energy cost implications of this? Okay, I drive my car to work, and it sits there until I go home. If it was part of a fleet, it would leave my work parking lot, go to some other part of town (empty, using energy), and so on. Okay, we can also save energy by ride sharing, but I speculate that it wouldn't take much to make that really unappealing. In reality, we don't just go from home to work and back; we stop at the grocery, drop the kids off at school, and so on.

We already have fleets of automatic cars - they are called taxis. Their neural net is wet, is all. So as a first approximation I'd say taxi fleets are a pretty good proxy for energy use and cost. Sure, the driver needs to be paid, but we can model that.
You must miss out on a lot of the internet.
Javascript Emulator Running Linux
But they are, successfully. So clearly there's a market there!
You can do this quite easily with Tasker[0]. At home, you could use the presence of your home wifi network as the indicator that the lock should be disabled, while in your car you could use a passive NFC tag (about 50¢).

0: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=net.dinglisch....
Yes, I thought about it. The DOM manipulation and the hardware emulation is separated. Unfortunately with the implementation of worker threads it became more complicated to run this code in headless v8.
Very good to know, thanks. But I did say 'github' and not 'git'. A lot of the important parts of what makes github so nice to use aren't supported in the standard git protocols. Issue tracking (which icebraining mentioned), search/browse/other discoverable features and the social elements, to name a few.
I like the hacker mentality of interpretation
Agile Companies Go P.O.P. (People, Organisation & Process) [video]
It's required for the digital versions. You're even forced to fill in all the address information.
Or, you know, the Android guys put it out early, when it wasn't early, usable, or fast enough yet, just to seem "innovative", and Apple put it when it's confident that it (as much as possible) "it just works".

You know, there were lots of mp3 players before the iPod too. If you wanted a bulky, crappily assembled gadget with a frustrating UI (and FM radio!).
Verifying an address this way is called "double-opt-in". It's the most effective way to ensure the people you're sending mail to actually want to get mail from you.

If you don't do this, you'll have a lot more people marking your mail as spam, increasing your abuse score, and making it more likely that your legitimate mail will get filtered.

Source: http://mailchimp.com/resources/guides/how-to-avoid-spam-filt...
>>This, like most pieces on Medium, is just an extended platitude.

I agree that this is most of what I find on Medium. I'm always surprised that things like this end up on the front page, although I guess people debate their value and that drives it up. However, I think this is a feature of Medium, not a bug. I use Medium. I don't promote anything I write on it, or really even revisit it that much. I use it mostly as a pretty, easy to use, journaling tool. I often find that writing out my thoughts leads me to interesting conclusions (really what PG talks about in The Age of the Essay [1]). Medium lets me do that easily, for free, and in a way that looks very good (kind of like a free PostHaven). Also, although it's not something I have been good about yet, I like the idea of revisiting posts and making notes with their system and reengaging with my thoughts. Maybe some day I will use it as a drafting tool, or use it to share my thoughts with people I respect and let them interact with it in an interesting way.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/essay.html
That would be the decent thing to do, but Congress has explicitly blocked that. Under no circumstances can a detainee be transported to the United States.
An uninsured physician assistant learns first hand the cost of care
That's very strange. Can you contact me offline and I can put you in touch with the team? hadi at jetbrains.
Sentence could have been made gender neutral pretty easily:

> Imagine your first day at a new job, and the programmer next to you straps themselves into a replica of an F-16 cockpit to get their work done.

I do feel that using a gender does make it read better though.

You may just be falling for confirmation bias. Anyone out there want to take a random sampling of these types of sentences and see if there actually is a gender bias?
I have been reading through this book, as each chapter is separate to all the others. It is, overall, a quality work, but some chapters definitely stand above others. On the downside, there is little cohesion between the chapters and, while some themes run throughout the course of the book, do not expect some clear takeaway at the end.
Solidworks is a great 3d modeller software. It's a pleasure to do most things in, and gets out of the way when you want it to.

The only modeller I like more for certain operations is OpenSCAD, but that's because I can understand the math operations in printed pieces in complex curves.

The one program I want to see die a firey death in source-code hell is ProEngineer, now called Creo(sote). It is patently user-unfriendly, and requires so much PITA setup to even do things like regular polygons. "Oh, you want to fillet? You better do it in the right order, or the last fillet _WILL_ fail!"
Over-the-top epidemic??? Pretty silly exaggeration. In a male-dominated industry, you'll never be accused of gender bias as a male if you use feminine subjects in your sentences. So if we say "he" all the time, we're gender-biased, and if we say "she" all the time, it's an epidemic?
... and Apple gets the vast majority of the profit, which is why these companies are actually making devices.
I think it might be stretching it a bit to say that one lesser used exception makes the whole system copy/reference system confusing. There is also the upside that if you know what you are doing you can extract significant improvements in performance by being able to specify which passing method is used; a fair number of newer languages offer you no such option.
But not, I assume, type inference? So you'll end up writing the types in the code all the time.
Are they still using those Russian rocket engines?
Ask HN: What happened to feed autodiscovery links? Is the concept/practice dead?
I was just reading some of PG's articles and realized he doesn't have a proper feed, let alone auto-discovery links in <head> section. The feed for the 'essays' section is just a compilation of title and links to the essays - nothing else, especially pubDate.

I've seen this trend come up time and again in the recent past. It is almost as if no one wants to associate themselves/their blogs with RSS/Atom/XML feeds anymore. Make no mistake, they'll still publish a feed but they won't make it all that easy to discover by automated means.

What happened? Did I miss a memo or something?
The point was that these techniques that people are decrying as just applying to super idealized cases in N=4 SUSY produced real computationally and experimentally testable results in real lower dimensional systems. However, no one is going to be putting out excited press releases about thermodynamic Bethe Ansaetze.
I'm doing this right now - evaluating Angular vs Ember, then picking one to focus on learning well.

> probably the bigger ones, like Angular or Ember), and which are more suited to lightweight apps that will also run nicely in mobile or other embedded devices (hint: probably the smaller ones, like Backbone

Is it inadvisable to use Angular/Ember for mobile? I hadn't heard this before.
Backbeam.io offers an easy way to create backends
Isn't the article a duplicate of another site that made it to the frontpage yesterday? (Sorry can't remember the name of the site. I think it was a tumblr post)
WSJ | Chobani Gets Lesson in Power of Social Media
Depending on the definition this is courage actually.
As per The Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary:
"Courage: mental or moral strength to venture, persevere, and withstand danger, fear, or difficulty"

So the author it seems is a courageous person.
Not feeling fear/danger/difficulty is not courage. It does not imply the ability to handle these feelings.
So if the author is faking anything then that's fearlessness.

Enough nitpicking, great post!
People want to be on the winning team.
> Some people (very cleverly) did the math, and ordered ridiculous numbers of dollar coins on their airline-affiliated credit cards. When the dollar coins would arrive, the buyers would take them back to their bank, depositing the money in their account.

Effectively, this works around the usual restrictions on using credit cards for cash advances. Even if you just had a standard cash-back credit card (1-2% on purchases), you could make a huge reward without actually spending any money, and on top of that you'd be able to get a month's worth of cash advance up to your credit limit; you could make a significant amount on the float that way.

However, most credit cards have fine print that explicitly excludes the direct purchase of negotiable financial instruments, so they'd have every right to cancel the rewards and charge a cash-advance fee if they found out.
Do you know of a good review paper?
All videos from Malmö are posted in company blog http://blog.jetbrains.com/blog/2013/09/12/jetbrains-day-fooc...
Honestly, get a job. What has taught me most about programming is having new problems to solve that required new skills, techniques and tools. The best way to "fund" your development is to find someone who will pay you to solve their problems.

I started out of school doin front-end, then the next project I started with frontend and then had to learn Django. Job after that was all Django/frontend. Then, Django to Rails. Now im doing Node/Go/hardware/etc. Each job paid me to learn new languages, adopt new techniques and find better ways to solve problems.

I'd hop on Craigslist or one of the millions of freelance sites and contact a few potential jobs that you think you can pull off but would require you to learn a bit. It may seem a bit haphazard compared to a more academic approach but it will be more of a realistic growth curve compared to the realities of the freelance world.

Also, side projects are a great way to experiment.

Think of it as "job driven development".
Don't worry, the UK Government's planning to fix that problem by abolishing the European Court of Human Rights, so that prisoners are no longer able to challenge this treatment.
As far as I know, it's being hosted in the Big House box seats - which will be absolutely fantastic!
iPhones have existed for more than six years with largely the same UI style. While it may be mostly a reskin, iOS 7 is a dramatic departure from the circa-2007 style.

Ars is known to every major release of iOS and OS X in this fashion, just as Anandtech reviews the new hardware in great detail.
So are you saying that if I work for myself I'm gonna have more time available? Also, I'll be able to work only on what I want? hmmmm
Work great*.