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THe decisions aren't there unless if you seek them. You're not going to be prompted to change your keyboard if you didn't install a new one, for example...
Possibly easy to confuse with http://kapeli.com/dash. I understand this is completely different, but both fall within the category 'programming'. I'm not a Mac user but I'm aware of the older 'Dash'. (Incidentally, is there a similar offering for Linux? Other than installing the offline documentation for each lib, obviously!)
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Nginx Raises $10M Series B Round Led By NEA
Big round for Nginx to establish a presence in San Francisco (was based out of Moscow). The open source web server is the most popular web server among top sites, and Nginx Plus has been launched with enterprise support. NEA led the round with participation from angels such as Aaron Levie (Box).
You've also got formally proved knowledge vs gut level guess.

There exists formally proved knowledge that pretty much the ideal liquid coolant for your internal combustion engine is 50:50 ethylene glycol and water. If all that formal knowledge is lost it'll make future progress difficult, but at least gut knowledge that it works would save a lot of time bootstrapping.

This is the origin during warfare of stealing the oppositions machinery and reverse engineering it. If it was faster and easier to work from first principles, the winners of wars would tend to do that instead of reverse engineering.
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That is exactly it. We're all here to discuss the same thing and as a result you begin to see traits of an echo chamber within the comments. It's unavoidable really.

What I think HN's biggest problem is story repetition, which can lead to the echo chamber being enlarged. It's not a problem today, but when Snowden's news began to hit HN for days on end, it would have been nice to combine the discussion for all the news stories in order to avoid having other stories drowned out. I am certain that other important news stories were drowned out when the front page was effectively 100% Snowden.

This isn't to say that Snowden's story wasn't important (it was and still is), but similar stories from other sources should be able to keep it at the top instead of having multiple discussions on the same topic coming about.
Nice detective work
Those kinds of stories get attention if they're about a YC company and disappeared otherwise.
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I've upvoted every one of your posts in this thread because (other than the gay part), this sounds exactly like my experience.
See, this is why every other OS lets users create shortcuts beyond the One Icon To Rule Them All for a given app. In Android there's that drawer full of widgets you can stick on the home screen, in WinPhone many apps let you "pin to the home screen" on various icons within the app, and obviously desktop OSes have supported that feature since time immemorial.

iOS stands alone with its demand that the home screen must be a canonical list of the installed programs and nothing else.
I get the message that Carey was trying to convey but I disagree strongly. I went to MIT in the 1990's. One kid in our dorm killed himself. A group of friends and I had to convince another student to not kill herself. The problem has been so endemic that the Boston Glove wrote a series of articles about it. From what I can tell, similar "elite" universities have their own suicide problems.

A lot of this stems from the fact that these freshmen students are 15-18 year-old kids who are facing a really competitive atmosphere, mot to mention being away from home on an extended basis, for the first time. They attend with the hopes and wishes of family, friends and teachers back home and they are fully aware of the financial sacrifices that it took to get them to college. When they get that first 'C' or even a 'D' or 'F' it's very easy to look on yourself as a failure - and suicide looks like an easy way out for some.

These students don't think they deserve to be there, where the opposite is true. That's why these universities try to drill in the positive message. As WA wrote, the real world will make itself known in due time, laying a guilt trip on kids as soon as they arrive is not the way to go. At graduation, sure tell them to give back. But as incoming freshmen, the priority should be helping them succeed.
Big media companies forced into a folder that hides their app from users aren't very keen on Newsstand either.
Have you used Android? It's really not that annoying.

It's actually one of the best things Android has over iPhones right now.
Here is a direct link to the blog post for future visitors: http://founderdating.com/your-career-is-a-mess/
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The article is very developer centric. I shared what I’m looking for as a consumer. As a consumer, I don’t really care whether developing for Newsstand is inconvenient for some small shops. I have quit paying for digital magazines that didn’t switch to Newsstand.

I do have to say that people like indies like Glenn Fleischman and Dave Eggers use Newsstand brilliantly, so it’s by no means only an option for the likes of Condé Nast.
Yeah, that was the one benefit of Newsstand - and it didn't work properly for rolling news organisations.
Well, according to the article you just have to build a computer into the wall and let him/her work it all out on their own ;)
Another analogy:

relativity theory (goal-oriented - macro solutions) vs quantum theory (system/process-oriented - micro solutions)
In other words, a place focused on particular subjects (technology, programming, science) collects people with similar life experiences, interests, worldviews, etc.
Those who are so foolish as to boycott a programming language, because their politics may not be entirely simpatico with those of its inventor, need no reminding; those not so foolish don't care.
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I've gotten into several interesting discussions on these topics, only to have them rapidly drop from the front page and/or be killed. In general, I think this should be seen as a much bigger issue than it is on HN.

I generally take the view that if everyone is complaining, then the middle ground is being struck. The classic example is the BBC - the BNP (British National Party, nasty fascists) often claim the BBC has a "left wing bias", which makes activists on the centre left laugh out loud, given how much right-wing bias we detect in programmes like the flagship "today" on R4 in the mornings.

So, unless both sides are complaining (me and you, the OP and the flaggers, PG, tokenadult and stiff,) something is wrong. :)
It's also in the FAQ and the guidelines if you read hard enough, but some of the subtleties of the questions are not explained there (probably because they were fluid for a while).
"Most people I know use other, free apps to transfer files to/from the device and to listen/watch audio/video."

Perhaps, but I'm willing to bet Apple funnels a significant amount of music sales by having an easy, visible route to purchase legal music. It's not like anyone is forced to use the iTunes Music Store, but can you really expect them not to promote it in their OS?
Um, what?

Opening them up, I'm greeted with my collection of music, and my collection of videos (respectively). I see a store icon in the corner of the screen.

Just because Apple has decided to allow users to purchase music on the devices and has tied it into the apps themselves does not mean that the apps are not, at their core, file storage apps.
The short and easy answer is no, never.

Core Data is just not a good technology. People on the other side of this debate will say that there's an appropriate time for everything, but nothing makes sense for everything, so you have to choose based on your needs. This is half true. It misses the fact that some things are just plain bad and are never better than the alternatives in any situation, and IMO Core Data is in this category.

There are several fundamental problems with it.

First, the API is awful. If you want decent model objects in memory you either have to do a bunch of manual work, or use a third-party tool like mogenerator. Even then, the result is a massive soup of mutable objects with no intelligence. The structure of the API encourages passing the entire context around everywhere, which basically turns all of these objects into global variables. Look no further than popular Core Data wrapper APIs to see how bad this can get. For example, ObjectiveRecord[1] adds class methods for looking up objects using a predicate. Modularity? Separation of concerns? Perish the thought.

Second, it ties your on-disk representation to your in-memory representation way too strongly, and this makes it more difficult to choose appropriate structures for either one, and more difficult to make changes to either one.

Third, it locks you into the technology something fierce. Core Data is so different from everything else that once you build your model layer on it, you're just about stuck there forever. You can move away, but it's a ton of work that reaches into every corner of your app. Other solutions, like serializing to a property list or SQLite, simply require a translation layer that you can switch out more or less at will.

Fourth, it's unbelievably slow. Literally unbelievable, as in I tell people about it and they don't believe me. It's too slow for a large number of records. It's fast enough for a very small number of records, but at that level it provides no advantage over using property lists and just loading everything into memory. At the large scale, you don't want to load everything into memory so you need a better scheme, but then you need something like SQLite so you can avoid the slowness and gain more control. Core Data is really only workable when your quantity of data is in a happy medium, which exists roughly within the range of 1097 to 1143 records. (Warning: previous numbers made up.) Since you can almost never guarantee that your data will live in that happy medium and not exceed it, Core Data is a bad choice.

I understand why its proponents advocate for it. It's shiny. Apple pushes it hard, and people tend to like what Apple tells them to like. It gives the illusion of making things easy. It does make certain simple things easy. The problem is that making easy things easier is not a virtue. Making difficult things easier is what counts, and Core Data fails at that.

[1] https://github.com/mneorr/ObjectiveRecord
Oh boy was that a good read. Thank you!
Reasoned disagreement is obviously easier to deal with than emotional attacks, but topics that incite emotional responses are arguably the most important ones to keep visible - they expose the most contentious points of disagreement in a community. It's certainly true that these angry discussions contain little of value in themselves, but the fact that they exist is valuable. A better compromise would be to limit further comments once a discussion has become overly vitriolic, not to disappear the story that sparked the anger.
Ah but difficulty increases, I think diffeqs was much worse than 2nd semester of calc. Or circuit analysis class was much worse than 2nd month of "ohms law" class. But the dropping out stopped after the first month of the filter classes. I'd expect it to smoothly decline as difficulty smoothly increases.
Are you seriously comparing Music and video apps to crapware during the PC era? and you claimed to have lived in that era?

They are more like Windows Media Player. Not particularly powerful, but used by many people, and many customers find them useful.
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Wow it's awesome, comparing to the most of the C code that I saw it's beautiful. I like the long method names, because I can actually understand what they are doing.
It wasn't a factory, but there was a lawsuit over the Wal-Mart where the employees were locked inside while stocking habitually, only for someone to have a medical emergency.

You're right that there are better protections in the USA. But day-to-day conditions are not so great--there's nothing particularly abnormal about 15-hour shifts, or people who would lose their jobs for refusing them.
I originally started making this for myself, as I was trying to eat better but was too lazy to add up the calories/fat/protein/carbs in everything I was planning on cooking for myself for the week, especially since I didn't know at first where those levels should even be. The only other app I found (eatthismuch.com) that focuses on hitting specific targets left something to be desired in the way of UX and recipe quality at the time (they're constantly improving, though), so I decided to make my own.

Of course I'd love any feedback and am happy to answer any questions about how the app works.
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> If you don't call the patients who do that without any coverage "free riders", I'm not sure what to say.

Surely some people walk in the door without coverage and then - here's a shock - pay their bill later. You know, with actual money. Possibly after a bit of negotiation, but still...
Does anyone else find this incredibly ironic?
My current system is a plain text file that I can open with one tap on my phone's home screen. I started keeping track of the people I met after reading How to Win Friends and Influence People.

This might be a step up, thanks!
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Strange--I have been using Newsblur since GReader closed, and am impressed at how fast it is. There were a couple of brief periods when it was sluggish, but he's done a good job of clearing bottlenecks as they have come up.

FWIW, I have about 400 feeds and about 1000 articles a day, so I am using it fairly hard.
Feedly, build newsfeeds using Cassandra and Redis
4chan. Anonymous (well, you can use a trip, but you'll be mocked for it). No downvotes. Very limited moderation, and what there is has a lot of transparency.

There's, inevitably, a lot of low-level trolling, but you also get some amazingly original insights.
Granted, I read it at an older age than its intended audience, but I found EG to be tedious Objectivism-lite. There's little of what I look for in literature or life - humor, surprise, adventure, character evolution. The chosen one (a tedious sci-fi trope without a bit of invention) mostly has it all figured out from page 1, and the book turns into a painful slog as he nears the finish line laden with the all consuming importance of his task.

If only all of us had outside authorities telling us what's important and we just had to focus with laserlike intensity on those preordained goals. As it turns out, determining our own values and participating with other people with their own independent values and agendas is a pretty significant part of the journey for most of the interesting and/or great people I've read about.

I mean, it's funny that liking Ender's Game is such a nerd cliche when the paths of actual tech luminaries (Jobs and Gates) are so much more winding and free-spirited (and therefore interesting to me at least).
While this is true, the problem is that the sweet spot for Core Data is quite small. Given the framework description, it’s quite easy to go with Core Data when some of its many drawbacks mean you really shouldn’t.
Communities with good moderation, yes. Something Awful and certain subreddits for example.
Apple already has my information. If I subscribe to a print magazine, that makes one more company that knows my personal information and credit card information, and they are (unlike Apple) infamous for selling that information to marketing firms. If I subscribe to that same magazine via Newsstand, the publisher gets none of that information from Apple and my information is still as safe as if I hadn’t signed up for the magazine.
As a consumer, you shouldn't care about whether they use Newsstand, you should care about whether they provide the functionality you want. All of the functionality you want can be provided without Newsstand, so why do you insist on Newsstand?
TIL: people can downvote on HN?
HN is privately run by pg. He's allowed to set the rules whichever way he wants.

Just because the author wants it to be run a certain way doesn't mean that it should. If he doesn't like how it's done and thinks that issues that he believes are important should be discussed, he should make his own news aggregator site, instead of trying to hijack an already-established site for his own agenda.

If the majority start disagreeing with the curation of HN articles, then they will leave to other places, like reddit. And frankly, I'm not sure that pg even cares if this happens, he didn't start HN to increase his popularity or his influence.
But it is public, all I have to do is be the first one to say that I sent them the money.
"The Market for Martyrs" (Iannaccone 2003)
This is really an egregious pattern. Two examples below.

One is an npr story. You can flag these stories all you want, but they still influence how the wider population views programmers and the field. Wouldn't it be interesting to discuss that here?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6374508
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6360328
The end result is the same though, HN conceals any controversial subjects, even ones that are important to the vitality of our industry.
I tend to agree with the premise of the article, but found this line from a self described "big government" type, funny:

We have always been at war with Eastasia.
I meant more in the straightforward sense that no one explicitly told us that.

I don't think we came anywhere close to a 1/3rd dropout rate in the classes I took, but then I was LS&A rather than Engineering.
> liberalish

Compared to what? Maynardville?
Here in the UK Bitcoins fall under "Capital Gains". That means no tax is due until you sell them for cash (IANAL but this my understanding). So price fluctuations don't matter, when you chose to sell you pay capital gains.
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"Flamewar" is such a Paul Graham term that doesn't really help with dealing with the problem.

I'd rather use the reddit terminology of "controversial discussions" where people are coming from very different places.

I think the problems with Hacker News has more to do with a failure to account for those situations over the echo chamber discussions where everyone is in (borderline-insufferable) agreement.
This font will be great to use in headlines. Will this font be available in Google Fonts [1]? Because Google hosts many fonts under SIL Open Font License .

[1] http://www.google.com/fonts
The point is we are close to loosing the system because of the abuses though. The SSDI fund is predicted to be the first to run out of money which is projected to be only a few years away at the current rate.
I don't find any of those convincing. Looks like they went looking for connections and ignored all the differences. Including a genocide in a book doesn't make it about Hitler. You might just as well say it's about the Armenian genocide, or the Native American one.
What HN should do is add a feature where readers can upvote stories so they can have their say about what is on the front page. This would address OP's concerns.

</sarcasm>
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I laughed at this too, as a few years back at a startup program (hard to describe, not quite hackathon, really idea lab) I spent a weekend working on the exact same idea as Grouper (3 on 3 dates). We didn't keep going as the founder lost interest when some advisors told him online dating was over (in the disruption sense).
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So he went to the SJW echo chamber of LJ/DW.
Adding a photo of business card to go with it plus a small note?

At the moment I scribble on his/her business card why a person I meet is important and send a follow up later based on that info.
I've got the same problem, the app I built http://Big.first.name/
I have never quite understood the mythos surrounding Ender's Game. I read it as an adult, and the overarching theme that stood out to me was abuse. Abusing children in general and exposing one child in particular to more abuse because they might be a solution to an otherwise "unsolvable" problem?

It just struck me as ridiculous.
LW discussion: http://lesswrong.com/r/discussion/lw/itb/interesting_critiqu...

Tim Gowers says (https://plus.google.com/103530621949492999968/posts/CDyRd4sQ...) "He's caused a lot of controversy with some of what he writes: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/oct/11/genetics-tea...
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I think there is an important reason why people keep starting dating sites, and a good one. One of the things you should always have when starting a company is a way to make money (no matter how far in the future, speculative, or whatever, there should be some possibility of making money). What is something that humans have shown a willingness to pay for since the dawn of time?
Uh no. You can criticize HN while also claiming pg has the right to do what he wants. Oh look, the article does just that:

"Hacker News is a privately run site and nobody's under any obligation to change how they choose to run it. But the focus on avoiding conflict to such an extent that controversial stories receive less exposure than ones that fit people's existing beliefs doesn't enhance our community. "
I more mean that it deviates from the normal southern views. It votes blue more often than not, is quite "metropolitan" and getting more so. Sure Williamson and Rutherford are about as crazy right wing as it gets with that many people around but Davidson is much different. Most of the inane things coming out of the state gov't aren't introduced by Nashville/Davidson reps, heck silly most legislation seems to be because of Stacey Campfield.
Not a surprise, China already has the leading exchange in terms of volume, BTCChina.
Disagree.

You wouldn't say "Wow you invented a lovely picture of a house" to your kid would you. They drew a picture. Just like a programmer writes a program.
I agree with most of what the post says -- entrepreneurs today rarely have a "clean" linear history, and that's actually pretty cool.

I disagree with one point:

At Bloomberg Beta, we have backed founders who we know have jobs other than the startup we are investing in — and that’s fine. So long as we share an understanding of how much time they are devoting, and have transparency into all their other roles so we know there are no conflicts, we think having multiple interests is healthy.

Yes, multiple interests is indeed healthy. But I really don't think founding a company should be a part-time endeavor. Maybe a side project is, and if you're backing a side-project as just that, fine. But starting a _company_ -- a real business -- takes an absurd amount of focus and attention and shouldn't be a side dish. I sense there's a reason YC doesn't like to back founders who haven't fully committed themselves to the venture.

Or...?

Edit: To clarify, I'm referring not to running a personal side project or hobby business. Many folks can and should do that sort of thing in their spare time. I'm talking about founding a company - and taking investment - and building a team. That's where real focus and sole dedication is needed.
This is just a natural consequence of Hacker News not being a free market. The state controls of the karma system practically guarantee inefficiency in the free exchange of ideas. We need to stop subsidizing mediocrity.