skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
WinRT was definitely a screw-up, but at this point I don't see it really effecting developers that much. WinRT has pretty much failed as a platform. At this point, is it even worth developer time to deliver an app to that platform?

If you're talking about apps in the windows app store (so-called metro-style apps or whatever the current name is), then you're right that it meant throwing out a lot of code, but it's not true that all existing .NET code was excluded. It took some rejiggering. But once again, that's only if you want to deliver via the app store.
Go for it. It's not like your e-mail address is unique and can't be found in other places. Out of curiosity, if you google it does anything come up? Spam filters work and you aren't stupid if something does get through.
So if I change the font for my e-mails to this I am safe? :D

edit:

also there an article about it:
http://edition.cnn.com/2013/09/30/tech/web/nsa-contractor-su...
Programs that are pointer-heavy tend to be a little slower. There's really not that much 64-bit arithmetic going on in the average application, so the more data per clock cycle only helps in a particular class of apps. Cryptography tends to do significantly better, for that exact reason. You do seem to be conflating code quality with compiler throughput, though. I'll try to clarify in much more detail in a CLR Codegen blog post soon.
I haven't tried the game at hand, but I'll say that the Chipotle ordering app is by far one of the most revolutionary day to day uses of the iPhone, in my admittedly not exciting life. Build a burrito, save the order for future purchases...at any time, just send the order to the nearest Chipotle, and when you get there, you skip the line to pick up your order. Few other consumer apps so impact such a traditional and frequent workflow
Similar situation in Australia - the 4 big banks are enormously profitable and safe. There's a range of smaller banks and building societies though, where you probably have a bit more risk, but a better interest rate on savings.
I ran minix on a 286.

[edit] Quick googling found instructions for installing on an XT with 1M RAM and a single 720k floppy:

http://www.minix3.org/iso.previous/Intel-2.0.3/xt/README

I had a 10MB hard drive, so didn't need to go through such gyrations (though I didn't upgrade to a 2nd MB of ram until later)
True but irrelevant, since it can't be legally prescribed for treatment/maintenance of addiction.
"This emphatically does not mean I think there’s nothing we can do to make the banking system safer; like practically everyone else who writes about economics, I believe in higher capital requirements for banks, better resolution mechanisms for those that fail and more prudential regulation of how they can invest."

(from the end of your article)

Sounds like McCardle would agree with some of the Swedish approach.

"Sweden has taken a lead on regulation, imposed some of the highest capital ratios in the rich world, with minimum levels of core tier-1 capital (the best sort) set at 12% from 2015, compared with a minimum of 7% by 2019 under Basel 3... Sweden’s banks have been earning respectable profits, are able to pay dividends and have seen their share prices soar... Swedish banks are generating among the highest returns on equity among rich-world banks. Number-crunchers at Citigroup reckon that the big Swedish lenders will be generating returns of about 15% over the next few years....Australian and Nordic banks are the most cost-efficient…in the world... Credit-default-swap spreads for Sweden’s big banks, a measure of default risk, are significantly lower than for many of their peers"

Anything without risk is impossible. Including banking. Nobody's really arguing otherwise, just that we could bank with a lot less of it and some states appear to be doing that.
I'm also coming from Chicago.
Wait, you get a free burrito by downloading the app? I don't see that being advertised anywhere on Chipotle's website. If it's true I finally have a reason to play a game.
Cool, but forcing users to buy "points" probably hurts their market target (devs).

Otherwise,seems great. I'm intrested in using it to see how many sites use specific widgets or tracking pixels.

If they add regexps it would be prefect.
Wattpad is the Most Active Social Site You've Never Heard Of
Saving Microsoft
Pretty much, yes. TDD would say that if testing is painful, changing your design to take away that pain will leave you with a better design overall.
Sugary Beverages
> I'd think it would be faster because you're processing more data per clock cycle.

This is only true if you happen to be dealing with integers larger than 32 bits (rarely in most of today's code). The real performance benefit of x64 has more to do with a larger number of general-purpose registers. More registers allow (but don't guarantee) programs to spend less time accessing main memory, thus gaining some speed.
Start practicing to interview and getting your resume/CV in order. Start contacting recruiters; they will take a long time to get you into the system. Be wary of recruiters that ask for doc versions of your resume because it means they will be editing it, though you might not care if you're just trying to get a job. Either grab a .info site to host your resume/CV or just link to LinkedIn in your paper copy. You want some sort of semi-permanent online version of your CV/resume so that when a recruiter finds it years from now in their database, maybe they can see the more recent version without having to contact you as if you were a college grad (since that is the copy of the CV/resume they'd have). Link to your open source project/profile in your resume. Personally I think GitHub is loads better than Google code, but since your stuff is in Google code, you might just link to the project(s) you worked on.

I'm sure you do, but ensure your LinkedIn account (used by recruiters more than anything else) is in top-shape. You may want a Careers 2.0 profile (http://careers.stackoverflow.com/), though it is still pretty limited in scope, jobwise. Subscribe for alerts for relevant searches in http://www.indeed.com/.

Make sure you also have G+, Twitter, FB, etc. cleaned up and looking nice.

The main thing is to start now with all of this. Don't wait 2 months.

Finally the #1 way to find new jobs is networking. Not schmoozing/douchebag-networking, but through friends/family/friends of family. Every job except for my first that I've gotten was through a friend, family member or co-worker.

Also, getting involved actively in local groups that code and not just present is a great idea. Nothing wrong with going to presentations, etc. also http://www.meetup.com/find/ (iOS in Stanford: http://ios-development.meetup.com/cities/us/ca/stanford/?off...), but don't be a cheeseball and try to meet everyone. Just be normal.
> Keep in mind that he criticised javascript for not

No, I didn't criticize JavaScript. I criticized the _choice of JavaScript_ for the task. There's a world of difference there.

> the point he was trying to make is that since javascript wasn't originally designed to deal with hardware, it's not a good fit.

Actually, as I stated that there were a number of factors that pointed to it not being a good fit, and that was just an example of one of them. I'm kind of shocked that a statement like that somehow lead to so much controversy.

> I don't find this to be a compelling argument though.

Cleary.

> It's more of like, a thesis, with no supporting evidence or premises, and the only point being the binary bytes thing, which is pretty debunked.

Yeah, it really, really wasn't a thesis. It was a single point , and not presented as a conclusive point, but as an easily identifiable and understood indicator of a cause for concern.

And I really take issue with the "pretty debunked" characterization. I can't believe you'd say that a feature that over 15 years after it was initially conceived and popularized, after a dozen revisions, nearly a half dozen major revisions, and lord knows how many countless reimplementations, wasn't even consistently implemented on the language's primary platforms, was a byproduct not of the revisions of the core language but rather of another effort to add a specific feature (WebGL), and which you yourself described as being standardized "any year now", is a "standardized" feature of the language.

> There's no other point.

Actually, I made other points. I didn't go in to them in much depth because you seemed unable to accept even the most basic points and didn't offer any counter points (despite me inviting you to).

> There's no other point. No detailed analysis about exactly what it is about javascript that he thinks is unsuitable. Just vague handwaving.

Perhaps I should feel bad about this, given the detailed analysis of precisely what it is about javascript that you think is so suitable. Just a lot of flaming.

> Do you have anything to add which might flesh this out? You do know the difference between an argument and a vague complaint right?

You might want to consider what possible motive I could have at this point for attempting to further explain my point.
try being a full time mom !!!
The two most interesting things about this article to me were unstated.

1. The TPC-H benchmark is measured in price-for-performance ($/QphH, or dollars per queries-per-hour). At 4 seconds for Q6, he's getting ~900 queries per hour. The cost of his rig is probably ~$2k, so he's under $2 per QphH. The top TPC-H scores are around $.10, but <$10 is pretty good for a first go.

2. The standard knock against GPU processing is the time it takes to load GPU memory. GPU processing may be blazing once data is in memory. But there was an MIT paper last year claiming you couldn't load the GPU fast enough to keep up. Evidently, he's keeping up.

With regard to comparing his performance to hadoop/hive - yeah it's apples and oranges, but he's in good company. Hadapt, Hortonworks Stinger, Cloudera Impala, Spark/Shark and others all rate themselves on how many times faster they are than Hive.

And frankly, I don't buy the whole "the point of MR is for huge, horizontally scaling networks" If you factor out Yahoo!, Facebook, Amazon, LinkedIn and a few others, the largest remaining hadoop clusters are all WELL south of 1000 nodes. And most run on homogenous high-end hardware.
Disadvantaged and disconnected in a digital divide
Agreed. For entertainment, see the satirical article "A Simple and Convenient Synthesis of Pseudoephedrine From N-Methylamphetamine" which notes the difficulty of obtaining psudoephedrine from pharmacies and gives a simple chemical synthesis of it from "readily available" meth.

"We expect that the simultaneous trends of restricting
pseudoephedrine sales while N-methylamphetamine becomes
less expensive and of higher purity will make the methods
presented here increasingly attractive."

http://heterodoxy.cc/meowdocs/pseudo/pseudosynth.pdf
Maybe it's just been too long since my last coffee, but I don't understand what's happening here.

Dakwak appears to be a tool wherein people can pay for i18n services on web properties they own, and yet from Kumar's description it's like he's using duolingo.
Maybe a button that adds some ominous music :)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=uCW...
I've had this discussion about a dozen times now. MPTCP is a hack, plain and simple. It does not address the fundamental flaws of TCP, nor does it attempt to use something better suited for the job of, say, streaming media like SCTP.

TCP is broken in today's age. It's still reliant on upstream single path routes that are mainly devised via BGP and OSPF. These two routing protocols are showing age and suck at multi path without significant configuration and tuning.

MPTCP is a great idea if 1) you don't care about session state which is a fundamental to security controls 2) you don't care about QoS being impacted by differing paths 3) you know the network end to end. MPTCP wasn't designed with end consumers in mind.

Think about this. PMTUD doesn't work today because people still don't trust ICMP type 3 code 4. If everyone did the Internet would work much better and buffer bloat wouldn't be as much of a problem (that you likely have no awareness exists).

MPTCP is a hack as Apple has deployed it and it's not going to improve the upstream problem. It will, in fact, make things worse if they open it up beyond Siri. Do something innovative and start solving for TCP, not abusing it even further than it is already.

Our networks are ridiculously inefficient. I for one will not applaud Apple as tone this is just a greedy hack that won't pan out to much beyond what you see today.
Don't forget iPhones are way more expensive here (in EU) than in the US.
I think it is quite insensitive, the way that post has been written. Scattered with so many private messages and needless investigative fluff. I do think it brought to discussion an important topic, but I'm not sure I appreciate the way it did.
Driving up from Tucson, AZ. if anyone wants to ride with me (I'll take I-10 and I-5 on the 17th, leaving early morning). I can't provide accommodations other than the ride, though. I can comfortably fit 3 others in my car.

Email is in my profile.
Basel2 doesn't mean not taking risks. Basel2 means proving to auditors that you have enough money in reserve if you lose on your gamble. It prevents banks saying "all in on red!", then losing all their money, then going "uhm taxpayers pls bail us out now".

And from the article you linked: > "I believe in higher capital requirements for banks." That's exactly what Basel2 is.

I know there is a subset of HN who will kneejerk against any regulations, but I really can't understand why anyone would be against enforcing fiscal responsibility on our core banking systems. Especially given the massive social and taxpayer impact if the banks are irresponsible.

Oh and one last thing... Basel2 is 100% voluntary in Oz. You can choose not to comply, but then you need to hold a higher capital reserve.
Duolingo is one thing, but DakWak let's you see the words on the page. This allows for a spatial sense of the words.

Remember in school when you used to remember where something was on the page? This is the same thing.

It means I can see the actual words on the page and have a higher recall of the instance of the word.
Dear NASA, Happy Birthday To Celebrate, We're Shutting You Down.
Arguably, the fallacy in question could be ad populum. It's the appeal to popularity: "Lots of people do x, therefore x must be good".
A burrito at Chipotle is something upwards of $6 (exact price varies depending on the kind of meat, etc). The drink and chips do not begin to cover it. You only get profit in this scenario is they become repeat customers.
This most likely was not the author's intention, but it reads like an ad. We can pay them money to auto translate our own website. The learning stage appears to come from the manual corrections that come after that, and having a friend "grade" his corrections.

A cheaper approach would be to translate from native to non native language using google (or whatever other free tool you want), and performing the same translation step w/friend to assess your progress.

If I am missing something, please speak up so or modify your blog so that we can make use of your technique.
@kumarski - I just left this comment on your blog, but it might not have posted, so I'll leave it here too:

Hi there -- My name is David and I'm the co-founder and CTO of a company called Nulu. We teach foreign languages in about 5 minutes a day using news content (so it's inherently interesting and engaging). Would love to hear your thoughts on our platform, which is in use today by tens of thousands of people throughout Latin America and the United States to learn English and Spanish, respectively. Shoot me an email when you get a chance!
Christ... reading that made me feel instantly depressed. Sorry that happened to you man.
Never mind. Deleting the GMail app and reinstalling fixed the crashes.
This is the same spot in Google maps (pins), for example if you just type "Quebec" it's hits the same area hundreds of miles from the nearest town.
20%? In a country as business friendly as the USA, only 10% of businesses last over 5 years. India is a rougher business environment so I would assume the rate of success is way below 20% (probably 5%)
If all you need is the indexed values, then most mature RDBMs's supports using covering indexes in queries and satisfying the query entirely from the index.

Since the point of B-tree's is to minimize disk seeks and packing values with the same key close together, the number of disk seeks can often be made just as small as if the collection had been stored in the "owning" record.

Secondly, whether or not it is is an implementation detail. There's nothing inherently preventing RDBMSs from supporting "inlining" of collections from related tables. But in practice most RDBMSs choose to support that exactly through the much more generic optimization of supporting queries using covering indexes...

In other words: It only takes a lot of disk seeks if you use a RDBMS that is lacking in features and/or haven't added the proper indexes.
There are too many legal plants anyway؟
Looks like a great tool if you want to find new service customers. Did a search for some Endeca based variables and found a large number of sites.

Would be interesting if they had an alerting based product for BizDev/Sales people who want to know when new potential customers come online.
Ooops.

The admin panel of dakwak let's you see multiple phrases separated.

This means it is easier to see the accuracy of your translation versus a computer's for whoever your corrector/teacher/mentor might be.
"...but is permitted to keep US communications where it
is not technically possible to remove them..."

That's a pretty big loophole that incents them to design future systems where it isn't "possible" to delete the data, where possible is likely to be interpreted as a gargantuan task or where data that should be deleted is so intertwined with data that isn't that they say they can't delete data without corrupting data they aren't required to delete. Many if not most NoSQL data stores are likely to be argued as impossible to delete because of the denormalization of data. Requiring them to only develop future systems where data is 100% guaranteed deleteable should be a legal requirement. (Fortunately this same requirement would also make indiscriminate dragnet big data analysis prohibitively expensive and slow)
Show HN: UI improvements for Jenkins
You've turned a technical question into a moral one. Don't do that.
Same with Skype, I couldn't log into Skype app. Reinstalling did the trick.
>that can run on any device
>not available for Linux
Yea, that definitely sounds more useful than what the post alludes to. Any chance you can post a screen shot?
If I wanted to see idiotic pun threads/snarky irrelevant comments I would go to reddit. I don't want to be rude but I want HN to be a site for serious discussion on mostly technical topics.
Square Competitor Leaf Scores $20M Investment From Payments Giant Heartland
Or if you bring your family, friends, or co-workers with you.
interestingly, in some corporate places, the inefficiency is so built into the politics that if you tried to automate someone's job away, they might be scared of you! I had a friend who worked at a bank, and in one week, automated the manual process that used to take the "team" months to do (mostly excel manual data entry and cleanup). I was told they were scared of being made redundant...
feel free to message me at engineer (at) kumar (dot) vc .
If you're in the valley, tennis or lunch works best to catch me.
> It is thicker than an Xbox 360 controller at the base where the sides of the controller rest in your palms. The weight is about the same. I didn’t feel as if the controller was too heavy or too light. I did notice the bulk of the controller, but only as a differentiation from the PS3 controller I’ve been playing with recently (GTA5) and the 360 controller I use for PC gaming.

I'm not familiar with the Xbox 360 or PS3 controllers, but from this I think it was the size, not weight, "bulk" referred to. It's the same weight as the Xbox 360.
sure thing. I'm working off my mobile phone right now. Let me post a screenshot later this evening to reveal what I'm talking about.
It's been down since 1999.
Unfortunately there isn't a standard computer science curriculum out there. So one school may focus on pure computer science (i.e. that actual science of computation) and another may be teaching students how to write C# programs.

Software plays such a critical role in today's society that I almost (almost) think computer scientists and software developers need to be licensed like civil engineers, which would then create some standards. Of course there are a lot of reason why this would be a bad idea, but bottom line issue is the lack of consistency between schools.
Extreme Reality SDK gives any iOS game Kinect-like motion control
You don't completely self-insure, instead you get a high deductible play ($5,000 - $15,000) - also called major medical or catastrophic insurance.

That way you insure the vast majority of things, but you are covered for the really insane stuff, plus you get the benefit of the negotiated rates.
That's simply unrealistic. It's a nice theory but if you're the only people using that software, how is it going to be cost effective to take the burden of maintaining it?
isn't it about time for a New Drug to Panic over?

Here you are, a new X/MDMA, just in time for the end of Q3:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/09/28/us-usa-drugs-molly...

More seriously, I had thought that meth was over-blown as a danger
until I saw a business truck advertising:
Mold Specialist / Meth Lab Cleanup
then did a Google search for similar companies,
and got 200K hits. http://biomethdecon.com/

People choosing to use drugs is one thing, but
people exposing their minor children, neighbors,
or subsequent tenants to drug, solvent, and
feedstock residue is quite another.