skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I hope not. Is this all we get?

I don't think of what we have as being amazing at all. As a web developer, I'm still spending too much time building brochure-ware. Sure, I build full on apps as well, but many of those apps still aren't very interesting. That's not what keeps me going though, most important to me is the thrill of helping people build their businesses.

As for capabilities, we still don't have enough speed in much of the world. There are still too many people even in the U.S. who can't get fast enough internet to act as replacement for cable T.V.

We haven't yet arrived to the internet of things (we can do this, but it's very early days.)

We don't have interesting devices to connect to the internet. We are still limited to desktop computers, cell phones and tablets. If I want to get any real work done, then it's desktop (or laptop.) I want a freaking screen which can appear anywhere in my house as a hologram, follow my gestures and understand my voice!

There is no way this is the golden age of the internet. But really, what is the internet but a utility? The internet itself isn't interesting, but what we can do with it. Electricity isn't interesting, but rather it's the devices we plug into the wall (or charge up) that's interesting.
Just saw the trailer.

Not sure I can cope with two hours of sandra bullock trying to grab hold of stuff regardless of the physics...
Apple just updated without asking and locked my iPhone
Just minutes ago, my iPhone 5 just updated itself without asking, and it got locked with an "Activation Error: This device is not registered as part of the iPhone developer Program.". I was still using the ios7 beta 3, and it is/was registered. Why and how the hell is apple doing shit like this without any prompt?
It really is rock solid, heres an outline of their testing: http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html
Ask HN: I need advice getting a junior Rails dev job
HI All,

Ive been working with HTML/CSS/Wordpress/Drupal for a few years and have taught myself Rails. I've built 5 demo apps and am now doing the interview process with various companies. I'm new at this and wondering if people actually hire Jr Rails devs with the impression that they will grow and learn, or if Im setting myself up for disappointment. We hear in the media how desperate people are for developers, but I'm still looking for work. Granted, I'm getting technical interviews, but I;m usually not progressing from there. Any advice?
My own private Internet: On deleting all my RSS feeds
The 11 Risks VCs Evaluate
I tried Testflight and didn't like that each user has to register himself without being able to download the beta app.

Once, I used HockeyApp to download a Beta app and it was absolutely straightforward. You should give it a try. The only problem is that it is not a free service.
There was actually some work done over the summer with... DWARF? So that Eclipse can use its debugger on Rust code. I'm on mobile or I'd find you a link.
Apparently it isn't possible to edit my comment, there's only edit link for my previous comment.

It's true that Denmark doesn't have minimal basic income by law, but since most jobs are unionized, the unions have set a basic income. See this translated version of minimum wage on the danish wikipedia [1].

[1] http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=auto&tl=en&js=n&pre...
Even for strict java builds, I've been using 'sbt' (the Scala Build Tool). It really is the successor to gradle, in many regards. Not sure you've tried it as one of your alternatives, but I'd implore you to give it a try.
Not even in space?
Speaking as a C++ programmer, Rust appeals to me a great deal over Nimrod because you can turn off (or just not use) Rust's GC and still have memory-safe code.

I believe you can turn off Nimrods GC as well, but you lose any guarantee of memory safety when you do. Not to mention -- aren't all pointers in Nimrod reference counted? That's going to take a fairly significant performance toll due to cache effects alone.
You can become an expert at netadmin, but not without administering real networks -- have you tried applying for any junior netadmin positions or internships?
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This is cool. One addition: a great place to work out for those who like throwing heavy shit around is Catalyst Athletics in Sunnyvale. http://gym.cathletics.com/ (Disclosure: I work with the monthly journal they put out--but only b/c they're awesome.)
Massive iPhone activation errors
> Should we also have the freedom to hire a contract killer then?

It sounds an awful lot like you're trying to pick an argument that isn't on the table. I haven't endorsed any freedoms in particular, why are you asking me about this?
For some reason seeing a size expressed in bytes makes it seem small. Saying 620 characters sounds much more reasonable.
I love Ruby, but I have to agree with this. Scala is the language I'm slowly moving away from Ruby for. I describe it to people who love Ruby but haven't used Scala as "Ruby with types, that you don't need to know about". It's obviously A LOT more, but I've found using Scala and JRuby in conjunction is an amazing combo.
Appears to affect iOS7 only (personal experience)
This same thing happened to me - I searched Twitter to find a few having the same problem, but not enough for it to be everyone. It makes sense for it to be linked to the developer program for iOS 7 betas, as I'm on one too.
I fail to see the ingenuity, or even any common sense in this. If to "run" the algorithm you are required to have as many stones as the end result (actually quite more if you count those spent on "evil" holes), you might as well spread out on the ground 34 groups of stones with 7 stones in each group and just count them. Or create a 34X7 rectangle and count the stones. So I dare say we differ a lot from the Ethiopian shaman. Reality doesn't always conform to the PC narrative of how all civilizations are equal. Unless you are a sociology major that is.
Here's my upvote - Great Answer!
Whoa. There's a truth stranger than fiction for you. It lures you in by smelling like tasty popcorn but its really a diabolical chemical that kills you if you breath it for too long? Seriously? That sounds like something that kills people in red shirts on funky planets with numbers in the name.
I had the same thought with the title. I've actually had a pretty bad experience T-Mobile's customer service and I felt like an asshole about it. I ordered two prepaid t-mobile sim cards for $2.16, but I was unable to receive it so it got sent back to the sender. I left it alone for several months thinking once it got returned they would promptly send me a refund like Amazon. Nope, that didn't happen. After a month, I emailed them about it, no response. Another month passed by, I called them up and after three transfers I was directed to a guy who said he would process my refund and I should see it on my credit card in the next few days. This guy was a bit irritated that I was calling in regards for $2.16, then again I don't blame him, I felt like an asshole calling about it.

In all honestly, I wasn't trying to be cheap, I was just trying to get to the bottom of why it should take me several months to finally get a refund... this was two bucks, but what if had been two hundred and sixteen instead? Well, long story short. I never saw the refund, so I ended up filing a complaint with my credit card and sure enough, less than a day later, I received several automated emails saying a refund of $0.00 was processed, primarily cause I had already received the money from my credit card company.
Einstein's Brain Hemispheres were Unusually Well-connected, Study Reveals
> Sometimes it takes an outsider to come in and build with no preexisting design or engineering prejudices (or even overt knowledge) to change the world.

Yes, this is probably the main reason why Apple was willing to spend extra time and effort reinventing the wheel rather than hire some experienced smartphone engineers. This decision may have been influenced by the experience of the Lisa project, where the influence of engineers from HP has often been blamed for some of the shortcomings. (Mind you, on the other side of the coin the Macintosh barely survived the conviction that a hard disk or more than 128KiB of RAM were unnecessary, a mistake which seems to have been based in the Apple II background of the Mac people.)

(It's not a uniqutely Apple practise either. In the heyday of Japanese electronics companies, several times a firm made a successful leap into an area which was completely new to them, often into a technology which was still in a very early stage or already had strong players or both. See /We Were Burning/ http://www.amazon.com/We-Were-Burning-Entrepreneurs-Electron... .)
In the trailer, they use sounds in space (explosions, collisions, etc). In the actual movie, these are silent (since you can't hear sound in space).
There are lots of other gyms in the city besides the wretched, filthy 24-hour-fitness syndicate: Club One (slightly more expensive, but better), Crunch Fitness (ditto), World Gym (caters toward meatheads), Fitness SF (formerly Gold's; tends toward gay/female clientele), Sports Club LA (super expensive; incredibly nice), Equinox (also super deluxe/expensive), Bay Club (ditto), Mission Cliffs and Planite Granite (climbing/hippies/hipsters), Planet Fitness (almost as cheap as 24hr; fewer locations but much cleaner), and the YMCA (moderately cheap, clean, functional). There are tons of smaller gyms, as well...mostly expensive crossfit and personal training outfits, but some boutique all-purpose gyms, too.

If you're looking for a gym, do yourself a favor and don't just sign up for a 24-hour fitness membership without looking around. You can do a lot better for not much more money. About the only thing you can say in favor of 24h is that they're cheap and open late.

If you can afford ~$60 a month, you have a lot of options, particularly if you negotiate. The YMCA is a good option in this range, and they don't jerk you around with contracts and high-pressure sales.
Free Fight: Benson Henderson vs Jamie Varner
Excuse my ignorance, but I don't understand why this kind of agreement is necessarily "bad for EU workers and bad for USA workers"?

Can you explain?
The problem with space is that its really really boring and really really quiet, and then, if something goes wrong, you die in 10 seconds. It doesn't make for much of a movie.
Viral marketing is The leading market these days
Great answer!

Recruiters often can't think outside the box. But what about using your network to find suitable work. The project management skills could see you as a team leader - not on technical grounds (which you could quickly make up for) but for your leadership and management skills.

There is no such thing as a "lost decade" it is a decade's worth of experience which has shown you the preferred path for your future.
I upvoted, because I find it funny and the blame is on us, because we don't complain about mad enough.

Apple just goes along with this, like with many other "technical errors", do you sincerly believe that it's technical error that they collect data of every move you do and sync it with itunes, or that they accept nothing but credit cards, or that they update your phone without asking, or even remove an app that you bought? I could find references to each of these claims, but it's not worth it, because you decide.

But don't get me wrong, as much as I was amused by this, I'm that much sorry for you too on the other side. Because you dear Hackerfriend are getting treated like shit [1] by Apple so much that even cartoons start joking about it. The bad thing is that you can't do much about it other than buying into the other "do not evil" Android phone.

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[1] http://www.southparkstudios.com/full-episodes/s15e01-humance...
I am, without any sarcasm, very glad to see the scare quotes around the word "hacker" here. I'm thankful that there's a dawning collective agreement that the term as used in this community ("someone who makes websites or software, generally as a career") has completely devalued its original meaning, which is not without merit, and which is very hard to bind to another term at this point.
I'd have thought HN was above this sort of childishness. What a shame.
And they shouldn't be required to do so. Most foods today are GM in one way or another. It will just become a sign for consumers to stay away from those products when there's really no good reason to do so.
Well I'm sorry if the blame is on me, but I need to have an iPhone since I develop for ios. I also have an Android phone and a WP, if it makes you feel any better.
After 1 minute play: It's a lot simpler, even with RES, better filtering and automatically plays the next hottest song.
Marc Andreessen: It’s still really hard to build startups
Great stuff and all but can I ask why SQL folks make it hard for an application to get simple read access to a SQLite database? Especially, I have an application which wants to use the Firefox places-bookmarks-etc db file. I can copy the file to a different directory and then run a query on it but can't open it in place for reading, for just reading. WTF is the problem with that? Is reading a file a way to corrupt it?
> That's going to take a fairly significant performance toll due to cache effects alone.

It's not so bad because in Nimrod they are non-atomically reference counted and deferred reference counting is used to avoid touching the RC for stack references, at the cost of some minor latency for stack scanning. (Disclaimer: I work on Rust and my Nimrod info is possibly wrong and/or out of date.)
Yeah, they misspelled it.
We've got the Whirley Pop. It's fun to use with the kids. Popcorn tastes great.

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/store/jump/productDetail/...
Correction: to run the algorithm you're required to have at least as many stones as the end result. That's like saying because MAX_INT is set, math on computers is pointless. Any physical process will have a finite upper bound on the size of the result.

I agree that this isn't a remarkably efficient algorithm, but it is novel (it's completely unintuitive to the average reader), and it has a sound basis in mathematics. For the people who employed it, it was an efficient algorithm, or else they wouldn't have continued to use it. Nobody is proposing you're not as smart because you don't do math this way (although frankly, I doubt if you would have derived this by yourself, under the same conditions).

On a side note, I strongly recommend 'Guns, Germs and Steel'. I've been knocked for mentioning it before because it's a pop-sci book, but it explains why cultures 'progressed' at different rates because of largely environmental factors. This might help you overcome your ridiculously defensive bias against African cultures.
The Soviet fake-job thing was really more a failure of central planning; it's not like the Soviets deliberately set out to create fake jobs. The intent is very different, and of course a recipient of basic income would be free (and indeed expected) to have a proper job too.
Embarrassing confusion: Shares in a bankrupt company to increase by 2200 percent
And the last in the list of references in the last page of the PDF is :

Why Everyone (Eventually) Hates (or Leaves) Maven : http://nealford.com/memeagora/2013/01/22/why_everyone_eventu...
The fitness section missed rock climbing! It's a great community that's very popular with young engineers. Mission Cliffs (touchstone gyms) and Planet Granite are the big names and there's endless beautiful real rock around the area to be found too.
See the movie before poking holes in the trailer.
Also, interesting to note how this post went from the front page & top of the ask page, to nowhere to be found instantly.
This sentence is not.
Yeah, but if you buy a house with cash upfront, you don't have to keep paying interest to a bank.

In contrast, if you do the analogous thing with a cell phone plan -- buy the phone upfront -- you still have to pay the implicit "interest" in the higher monthly fee. There's no option to take a lower monthly fee in return for paying upfront.

Some marketers noticed they can make people buy more if they stretch out the phone payment over 18 months and add it to the phone bill -- good!

They denied everyone else the option to save money over the long term -- not good.
My iphone 4s was running the iOS7 betas. The last update was the GM beta and it never asked to update again (apparently 7.0.2 has been out)?

I was listening to a podcast and the audio was still playing when it locked my screen and demanded activation. Trying to activate, it says "can't connect to servers". Connected to itunes, it says "this software is out of date...". Backup, sync, and restore both give "cannot connect to iphone" messages. I'm currently downloading the 7.0.2 firmware on a 1mbit connection (3 hours to go!) and hoping a DFU boot and alt+restore will work.

Last time I run my podcasts on a device that can disable itself.

Edit: Twitter complaints here:

https://twitter.com/search?q=iphone%20activation&src=typd&f=...

Judging by the amount, I don't think it's a few devs having this problem.

Edit2: Booting to DFU or Recovery mode seems to let you start the restore process. Clicking on restore didn't give the same "can't connect to iphone" error, but oddly said it was going to download 6.1.3 for me. Good sign that alt+restore will work.
It can, but it would suck. You need a bigger monitor than a chromebook has for android development. You definitely need at the very least, 2 monitors.

Also, the CPU would be so slow on that thing that eclipse would run like molasses. IntelliJ might be faster but I kind of doubt that too. Of course, you don't need an IDE, but lets face it: most people developing for android are going to use an IDE. Not the sdk tools + vim or emacs. Those really aren't sufficient because you need a visual tool to develop the UI. Yeah, I code it in XML, but you need a preview before pushing to the device because building and deploying an android app can take almost a minute sometimes. Not fast enough to change one XML attribute and test....
Downvote and move on. Conspiracy theorists gonna conspire...
Adobe warns 2.9 million customers of data breach after cyber-attack
Did you read the beta TOS? I'm not an iOS developer, but I'll bet you a dollar there's some vague language in there that allows this. Not defending Apple (well, not too much), but I doubt they updated your stuff illegally. Which also answers your other question - if the device had WiFi or any other sort of data access, you probably gave it permission to do updates over the air when accepting the TOS. Or, maybe it was timebombed, as most commercial beta software is.
My advice for technical interviews as a non-CS major (I am making that assumption) would be:

Don't be afraid to admit what you don't know, but stress that you are a quick learner and that you will constantly be improving.

If they give you a technical question and you are unable to answer, research it later and email them your answer. It shows that you don't give up, and it shows you weren't lying about constantly learning.

If you get a question like implementing a native function without using any native functionality, they are testing your ability to write efficient code. Read up on runtime complexity and even if you can't code it, be able to explain what is inefficient and what you might do to make it better.

Even as a junior dev with little experience if you do those in a technical interview you show potential and you are worth training.

Source: English major working as a software engineer after fumbling through many technical interviews.
Same problems. Please report back if the update was successful.
Thanks for not mentioning the 280. We're trying to keep that a secret.
This article was released before the movie was available for viewing.
Sort of related, the newer WiiFit U coming out Nov 1st will have social features while trying to lose weight with others online http://wiifitu.nintendo.com/

I'm just posting it here because I really[1] like WiiFit and I hope others give it a try, you can truly get a workout from it and lose weight. I hope to make a cool promo vid or something about WiiFit U.

1. http://blog.sanriotown.com/minusworld:hellokitty.com/2011/06...
Try using pragma read_uncommited=1;
For my stuff I use the sqlite3_backup api to "copy" the database into another, or in memory - then read from memory normally.
Hermit crabs socialize to evict their neighbors
Why I Moved Back to the Waterloo Region
TEDxQUT: The mathematics of weight loss by Ruben Meerman
thx just done.
Haha, it's not technically a sabbatical. I'm working as a clerk for a judge for a year. But no Blackberry and plenty of time to write and play with my baby!
The YMCA gyms are also incredibly family friendly - way more so than any other gym we ever found in the Bay Area.
The Wikileaks Party does a good job of summarizing some of the agenda.

http://www.wikileaksparty.org.au/why-australians-should-be-w...
What happens if the disk or kernel lie. At both levels, I can see a potential performance enhancement by buffering changing while transparently acting as if they have actually been committed. My guess would be that hard-drives have explicit instruction(s) than ask for what actually happened; but I have never worked with this type of thing.
Your post illustrates a big part of the problem. There is all of this false equivalence, wherein the proposition is made that both sides are equally at fault. The media is guilty too (at least the outlets that make some attempt at coming off as balanced). They attempt to lay equal blame, even when one side is clearly nuts. When such false equivalence is made, it exonerates abhorrent, harmful behavior and gives cover to those who practice it.

And, that's what's happening here. You are posing as a thoughtful centrist, when in actuality, you are equivocating. No one could look at this objectively and conclude that it's reasonable or healthy behavior for our country. That's what gives you away, contrary to your assertion that I believe you to be "of the opposition" simply because you don't agree with me 100%.

Even more thoughtful, saner Republicans like Pete King are going on record as hating this insane gambit. It is splitting the Republican party itself right in two, and is the source of serious party infighting. So, your assertion that people are merely digging in based on their prior positions is patently false. Likewise, polling shows that something like 70% of those who oppose the ACA don't want the government shutdown over it. So ironically, it is your own willful blindness to these facts and subsequent assumption that I must simply oppose what the Tea Party is doing due to my party affiliation, that further reveals that you are as partisan as they come.

Edit: You're trying to decry partisan politics, when you're just as engaged as anyone. You want to come off as a wise sage who floats above it, when you're really right in the middle. When you walk around assuming that everyone is engaged in partisanship vs. thoughtful politics and branding them accordingly (especially when they disagree with you), then what, exactly, does that make you?

There are valid points to be made against the ACA. I believe that on balance it is a big step in the right direction, but will certainly need to be tweaked. So, when I see sane Republicans discuss it, I respect and hear their opinions. But, this is something else. That's what many Republicans are saying in private--and some publicly--along with much of the nation.

I will be the first to agree--along with 90% of the country--that our politics are dysfunctional. I am also weary of this bipolar system that produces such entrenchment. But, the difference is that while there are extremist fringe elements on both the left and right, those on the right are now actually driving a major political party. Ignoring this very obvious fact that even Republicans acknowledge to their chagrin, does not fix our politics. In fact, it just makes you a tacit endorser of their extremist, partisan behavior and furthers the divide.
LeaseWeb Hacked by Palestinian hackers