skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Very disappointing. I'm sure the internal stories of the UI/UX designers and product managers will start coming out soon. I suspect that management had a checkbox for "knowledge of dark patterns" on the job description.

Re: the investors. I wanted to give Josh Hannah of Matrix the benefit of the doubt - many investors have little interest in much besides the revenue and user growth. Unfortunately he decided to speak out about the situation and show he was not only completely aware of this bullshit, but fully supports it.
I couldn't tell at the beginning whether this was a spoof or not, lol but nope, it's a genuine training video...lol.

It makes you think of all those movies where the protagonist, with no experience suddenly leaps into action and pilots the plane to safety.

Question for pilots - if you learn one plane, can you pick them all up? Or are they all vastly different?
Ark is people search and works on a pull model right? I have to look up the person I want to know about.

Refresh figures out who I'm meeting from my calendar events and then pushes the interesting information to me.
It's too bad @shit_hn_says on Twitter has apparently shut down.
Apple monetizing apps is ancillary to their monetizing of hardware. The real accomplishment is how Apple has managed to dominate market share while competing against a gamut of OEMs with a free OS and much lower price points. Apple may not be the leader in market share going into a refresh of iPads, but that's a temporary problem and not a reflection of the trend.
Yes, played entire Portal/Portal2 on it. It was fine. Maybe you should be railing at game developers that port to the Mac but then don’t update their acceleration curves to fit the platform. That’s the problem, when games are developed on Windows with the Windows mouse curve and then never adjusted on the Mac port.
I'm so tired of the horse race analogies. Competition in business is more like an elaborate multi decade gymnastics competition than a horse race. Both Google and Apple are doing a great job executing their different business models. It's like two gymnasts doing very different routine and ending up with close or tied scores even though their points on individual things may greatly differ.
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The example was "whitespace" but the point was "trivial subsequent change"
Maybe. It's still a lot easier to get an existing Android app to run on a Kindle than it is to get it to run on an iPad.

It seems like kind of a moot point anyway. The Kindle has less than 5% market share. Even if you take it out, what really changes?
It seems rather silly to report sales numbers in a market where nobody reports sales numbers. For an actual measurable statistic, we should look at usage numbers. And in that race, iOS tablets are far far ahead of android tablets.
Tagged pointers have been in use since late 60s in most garbage collected languages of the day.
could not get php to work for them short of rewriting the core (HPHP )

I've heard this argument before, but it's important to realize that Facebook was able to use standard PHP up until the point when they had roughly 500 million users. Unless your site has a half billion users you can't compare your use case to Facebook's.
They've added static typing, return types for functions, and a few other things. I believe the premise of the talk is that it's still possible to use everything else available in PHP (traits, generators, namespaces, etc.)
"If so, this might be a situation where an under-served market allowed an agile opponent to bust into a market firmly held by a single dominant incumbent!"

This is silly. The reason Android sells more tablets, globally, is the same reason Android sells many more phones: Apple doesn't compete in the bottom of the market.

Apple makes tablets that sell for $329 to $929. If you limited yourself to that market you'd find that Apple sells the overwhelming majority of such tablets.

If OTOH you limited your comparison to "tablets under $300" (an actual "hot link" at Amazon) you'll find that zero of these tablets are from Apple and hence Apple's market share for this part of the tablet market is a (perhaps shocking) 0%. You'd find a few windows and linux tablets but mostly 95%+ Android tablets (including forks).

This does not mean Apple has been outfoxed by a more agile opponent. Apple presumably could ship a lower quality tablet at every price point from $50 to $250 with their eyes closed.
I don't follow your analogy at all.

Also, yes, I imagine you can run anything at all on the Steam machines.
particularly another poorly-documented, monolithic, over-marketed JS app framework
Right. I suppose I took it for granted that brains are big ol' drug factories and assumed everyone was on the same page. The point is the MAOI isn't a used as neurotransmitter, but to affect the metabolism of monoamine transmitters—now matter how they got there.
Anybody know when 64-bit arm processors might be released as a blade or mini-server to work with?
So that's a "no".

You challenged the idea that a DoD project is indeed defense-related by citing (but not really) an obscure book that maybe says some scientists involved with NIF really believe it's for energy production. Forgive me if I'm not convinced.
Oh FFS, not the bullshit again; it's a month old article at that.
There was a fascinating BBC Radio documentary on numbers stations called 'Tracking the Lincolnshire Poacher'. It's worth a listen, if just to hear the creepy otherworldliness of the station audio.

I'm not going to link to any particular source but a quick google search should do it.
Idk about you guys but I love PHP. After using new technology for Web Development PHP makes me feel nostalgic. I really enjoy PHP's ease of learning for Web Development. It's easy to understand Databases and Server-side programming using PHP than it is using Ruby on Rails, IMO It feels like magic using Ruby on Rails.
Minor tangent but Apple did release a specific number of ipod touches when they hit the 100 million mark last year.
I think I wasn't clear. I like to be able to see completely experimental entirely thrown-away approaches in branches like you suggest, but I also like to see the little hints of partial experiments that a "dirty" history shows. My point is that on projects with focused teams where everybody is or should be an expert, literally the more history I can access, the better. Things like "did somebody already try and fail to refactor this class? What was there approach? Can I actually do better, or am I just headed down the same rabbit hole?" are invaluable to me, and the best way to answer those questions is to see "dirty" remnants of things people have tried and un-tried in the history. History can be forensics, and in forensics you don't want things to be "clean".
Separately, politicians speak to multiple ideologies and represent multiple constituencies, and pointing to the actions of a politician as clearly establishing the views of a particular ideology (unless that ideology is defined in reference to the politician - "Maoism" or whatnot) is likely to steer you wrong.
Looks to be a useful tool. My only beef is that I can barely read the low-contrast text on white background.
>SQL Injection is something every web application should do. This is a completely separate issue from CSRF (cross site request forgery), but they conflate the two as if they're one.

It sounds like they're describing a web application firewall that detects and blocks both of those things together. (I assume the application itself is also secured to their knowledge against these separately.)
That might work...but does it work in practice (i.e. do you have an example where this is being used?).

I've found that most IDEs support two kinds of compilers: the compiler used to generate code and find type errors, and a "presentation" compiler to provide interactive feedback that is error tolerant and can run in incomplete contexts. Java works this way, Scala worked this way (at least when I was working on the plugin), C# has a lot of infrastructure separate from the compiler to support its use in Visual Studio. A lot of work goes into this infrastructure beyond "writing a decent compiler," and emacs very simple language-aware interface didn't seem to support it very well (when I looked ~8 years ago).
Overtakes in number. Wow that's really so impressive.
And now show me how much people spend money on there.
Indeed, there's something to be said about shared-nothing. Lua takes the cake in that since it can be so easily fit into so many nooks and crannies.
Ask HN Designers: Why the trend of low-contrast site design?
Howdy HN! I'm not a designer, but have a question for designers or others more informed than me.

Is there a trend towards using low-contrast text and graphics on blogs among designers?

Here is an example from a link submitted to HN yesterday: http://blog.olgabotvinnik.com/post/58941062205/prettyplotlib-painlessly-create-beautiful-matplotlib

This blog post seems representative of this trend I've seen.

I find this hard to read on monitors and tablets, personally.

Three questions:

1. What would be the design justification for choosing light text on white background?

2. Is this an up-and-coming trend others are noticing?

3. Is this a good idea for some reason I'm missing?
They're making three sorts of changes:
1) removing/restricting the footguns in the language
2) adding interesting features taken from other languages (typing, traits, etc).
3) creating a new VM with better performance.

As far as I can tell, only 3 is obviously something that only affects whether you can use the language once you have a certain number of users. The first two are really about changing the language.
Was it SmoothMouse[0]? We likely have different needs but I've been pretty satisfied since installing it, especially for my trackball.

[0]: http://smoothmouse.com/
It's a good idea that caused a world of hurt in the 24 bit to 32 bit transition. There were some macs that didn't have 32 bit clean roms, because they doing things with the pointers that would never have to reference more than 4 megs of ram.

Interesting that Apple now has the coordination and control to make it a non nightmare thing now.
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Before this turns into a recanting of the points in the "PHP is a double-clawed hammer" post again, I would like to remind people that PHP still has a place in the business world that nno other language has stepped up to fill.

http://blog.samuellevy.com/post/41-php-is-the-right-tool-for...

Please stop complaining about how horrible PHP is if you don't use it or have. intentions to replace it.
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Ooh, yes. While PHP's docs sometimes promose horrible worst practices, they are more detailed and fleshed out than Python's.
It's Google Ads. We aren't entirely in control of what ads you get (we hope to move to our own ad system in the future, but we aren't big enough).

By the way, I pushed some updates today, including one that makes ads more obviously ads. Tell me what you think, and a good weekend to you, too!
They didn't want fragmentation of the iPad apps. Having it 8" instead of 7" makes the regular iPad optimized apps look better. Reducing the size to 7" levels would have some usability issues.
It warms my heart to see hints that the tide might be turning on patent trolls. While this precise effort might not yield results, it's comforting to see that this has gained attention from the body whose job it is to address these sorts of abuses.
HA.

Yes, but hey if someone's got the evidence to support it, it wouldn't hurt anyone to see it.
Going to bed but I hope some of the other nerdy OS guys chime in. I suspect they feel the same.

What would be interesting is not a post about how GNU is going to do what has already been done but instead how they are going to do something that hasn't been done.

In one dimension, free vs paid, GNU has won and won big. That's not quite right. Open source has won and won big. Not fair to let the FSF get all the credit (believe me I can go on and on about that).

But in another dimension, innovation, building something the world has not yet seen? Hmm. I'd be very impressed to see that announcement from the FSF. That would be awesome.
Of course not, all the code and data that go into the processor needs to go through the processor cache first.

My OP comment has an example of a JVM that doesn't read jar files as you mentioned, while executing native code stored in a JIT cache present in the hard disk, between invocations.

Google is your friend if you look for the respective documentation. Or, who knows, you could even download it and play around with it.

I'm out, please turn the lights off on the way out.
Abstract classes in Python are kinda bolted on
http://docs.python.org/2/library/abc.html

They're native to PHP http://php.net/manual/en/language.oop5.abstract.php
Maybe I should have expressed myself more clearly: The comment I replied to seemed to indicate that PHP must be bad since Facebook had a need to change it. My point was that, given the fact that Facebook has way more users than other sites and mostly serves non-cacheable pages, their needs are different than the needs of 99.9999% of other sites in the world, so the fact that they were forced to change PHP doesn't say anything about PHP's quality as a language.
Based on screenshots, it seems like it, but it's been a few years, so if it hasn't been around that long, then no.
Video of the talk is not up yet, and it's a little cryptic with just the slides. But one of the points I was trying to make is that PHP actually makes you more likely to be successful than a lot of its competition. The lolsy stuff on "The Case Against PHP" slides is all you ever hear because ... well, because they fit on slides. They're immediately, obviously weird. But these problems are shallow. There are deeper properties of the language and its interaction with the environment that overcome those problems, and then some.

Also, it's a little obscure for languages like PHP where we're unused to making architecture/implementation distinctions, but if HHVM is good then PHP is good. It runs the same core language as php.net. To the extent we don't, it's likely to be a bug these days. I think HHVM is a better implementation of that language than php.net, but I am biased, and that isn't the point of the talk. We're also chipping away at running other popular programs, extensions and all: http://www.hhvm.com/blog/?p=875

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8 is sane here. The + operator adds numbers. It converts the string to a number implicitly in the process. it takes "0x4zz5" and tries to parse as much as possible. Since "z" is not a valid hexadecimal digit, it stops at z, and reads it as 0x4.

Of course, it is better to manually convert.
Notice that the post I was originally responding to was questioning why this information was useful. The answer is that some people rely on data in preference to speculative assumptions.

>These numbers are kind of useless when Apple is weeks away from refreshing their iPad line-up.

These numbers are the latest numbers. If you think they'll turn around then you can feel vindicated if they do, but for now the facts are the facts.
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I actually feel the same way about "classic" ASP. Yeah, it wasn't pretty. But for simple CRUD pages of the day, it was damn simple and you didn't need ninjas or rockstars to get stuff done.
This is good stuff and I can totally relate to this based on our experience at https://starthq.com so far - we've been alternating between game changers and show stoppers, while trying to keep distractions to a minimum.

Another thing I want to add is the idea of the one key metric. In our case at the moment it's the weekly growth rate of active users. Every iteration we do, whether it's a game changer or show stopper, aims impact that metric.
I just want to say ^:)^ to steam
Really? I use Linux distributions since 1995 and IBM was shortly thereafter already supporting it.
(Also, TWiR: http://cmr.github.io/blog/categories/this-week-in-rust/)
I use APL daily because our production codebase is based on it and we are (thankfully) phasing it out. Imo, it's a giant calculator and has no place in production code
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How about we just not buy products with a microphone or accelerometer that doesn't also have a hard cutout switch?
> You'll see Apple back in the lead in market share after that

So, at least we've come a long way from "There's not a tablet market, there's an iPad market".

I think one of the more useful measures of where we are at could be "the types of comments used by Apple fans to justify why Apple is still leading" metric.
These statistics are hard to square with the fact that I've observed a total of two Android tablets in the wild.
I couldn't agree more.

Having worked with clients that publish thousands of articles of content per month the best solution for the job at the end of the day is still WordPress. Have a client that needs an online store? Magento (both of which are built in PHP).

Development shops don't have time to custom build CMS's and eCommerce solution because their clients don't give a shit what language or framework their site is built in.

Show me a CMS built in ruby, python or javascript that comes anywhere near WordPress and I'll gladly switch. Unfortunately it just doesn't exist. Like you said, PHP has its place and until something better comes along stop complaining.
>>and I agree with you that the iOS experience is better than the Android one, although I don't think it's an objective truth

Of course it is.

http://www.extremetech.com/computing/167040-iphone-5-vs-gala...
I'm sorry, but that BI reference is an absolute joke.

You think Apple underestimated the appeal of 7-inch tablets? Is that so? Do you really believe that people are saying "Man, this 7-inch is so much better than a 7.9-inch" They're probably not. If consumers are buying other tablets it's likely due to price.

In addition, the report itself said that “The 7.9-inch iPad mini represented about 60% of total iPad shipments and 49% of iPad-related device revenues in the quarter.” That should tell you that the mini IS more popular than the larger iPad.

I really have to call you out on the "specs were disappointing and offered questionable value" point you made. I, myself own an iPad mini. In fact, I sold my larger iPad and solely use the mini now. I can't tell you how many friends pick up my mini and say "oh my God, I want this." Not a single one of them have said "How much RAM does this have?" or "What's the resolution of the screen?" Those are both things that I don't believe the general consumer care about. They want it to "just work" and the iPad mini does that very well.

Finally, the report doesn't go into detail as to what they define as an Android tablet. Is it a cheap $79 dollar Walmart tablet (http://www.walmart.com/ip/Nextbook-7-Tablet-with-8GB-Memory-...)? Is it Kindle Fire's, Nooks, and Nexus 7's? It's likely that they're considering all of them and to that I would say that not all tablets are created equal. In fact, just like the smartphone market, there's enough evidence out there that suggests that nearly 50% of "Android smartphones" are actually shitty phones running Android, nearly incapable of accessing apps and can barely access the internet.

The point of all this is to say that that "report" is pretty deceiving and doesn't paint the whole picture. I dunno about you but I almost never see anyone using a tablet other than an iPad. I see more e-ink Kindles than I see true Android tablets.
I think you're supposed to have moved on to "But nobody uses their Android tablet, they are all sitting in closets" line.
I learned C on a PC/XT running QNX. It was that small.
I have no problems deploying a django app with gunicorn. It's a simple command line statement, and deployment is always an intricate thing, unless you don't have to worry about ssl certs and secrets and keys, and managing access, admin pages, etc etc.
You're not alone! The most upvoted answer on Quora did this too. http://www.quora.com/Procrastination/How-do-I-get-over-my-ba...

Credit to the author, he wrote an (equally well received) apology after he was corrected in this.
Wow. Apu Fuck-knuckles is so incompetent that he deserves to be taken for a ride by every intel agency in the world. (Typewriter sounds are more easily surveilled and decoded into letters than a well-shielded computer. A given typewriter is trivially traceable to a particular office and even individual. Typing paper is somewhat easy to trace. Typewriters requires use of photocopiers, which are a centralized easily-surveilled point of weakness. And going outdoors is what you do when you are so horrifically out of touch and worthless that you have never seen a parabolic microphone on a football pitch. Somewhere an NSA field agent just had a spygasm.)
Wow. Good Feedback again. I guess we narrowed our target to students for a couple of reasons. First, we pleased a lot of students with this there are a set of services we could offer specifically to students. We just felt that narrowing the market would help us focus better.

But, your absolutely right. Replace class and we have something that applies to everyone.
If you had a bad day this should brighten it
very very funny
The flood of lower end devices always made this a matter of when. What matters to developers is what to develop for first, and that will remain iOS for a myriad of reasons. Apple will be leading in this one measure once they release new iPads. In other important measures that developers consider, like how much iPads are used compared to the rest, it's not even close.
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If you have time, please continue.
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You should take a strong look at http://github.com/airbnb/rendr . I'm sure non-backbone adapters would be appreciated.
Congratulations!

When will we be able to compile Rust using a standard LLVM instalation, instead of compiling LLVM with it?

My poor netbook takes almost 3 hours to compile it. :(
They're the latest numbers but still useless for any developer to make an assumption based on. Market share will obviously drop off going into the new refresh cycle. It's happened every time.
No, in the real world adversaries have been perfecting (i.e., 'training') these techniques for longer than most of us have been alive.

http://www.nsa.gov/public_info/_files/cryptologic_spectrum/t...
Ah! Cool, didn't remember that. Do you know any other examples? I couldn't think of any, but it's very possible that my memory is somewhat spotty in that regard (but the general paatern of what Apple does and doesn't release is nevertheless clear.)
That's my understanding as well, but the salient point is MAOIs work indirectly by increasing the effectiveness of some neurotransmitters—including dopamine, which nicotine increases the level of.
Ah. How are they gonna transmit data? What a temporary solution to a permanent problem, using a technology that must have been cracked a century ago. Btw why would you go outside to discuss private matters? Wow. Now instead of playing into one agency's hand, play into all world's. Especially, now that everybody knows India discusses private matters in gardens. Horrific.

India should totally adopt lavabit.

Incompetent and embarrassing bit: They use yahoo address for one of the consulates in Iran: http://www.indianembassy-tehran.ir/consulates_iran.php
sounds like one can be tracked even without GPS, just by integrating accelerometer data and even one fixed point of reference may be not necessary as the pattern of movements can, in many cases, be uniquely aligned with the pattern of streets/etc...
I like this guy.

P.S. I wanted to write a more elaborate comment, but it all boils down to the sentence above.