skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the value proposition of making (most) web apps/sites real-time. Sure, it makes sense for a chat app or a stock ticker, but blogging? A news site? E-commerce?

Maybe it's important that eBay is "real time" in the last 5 minutes of an auction, but the rest of the time, the vast majority of the content is relatively static. A seller might update the description of a listing a couple times over a two week auction, for example. And while it sounds great to immediately update my search results when a new listing goes live, in reality, I already have 40 pages of results to look through, and that listing that just went live 5 seconds ago probably isn't much more relevant than any of the others I'm sifting through.

I'm not opposed to client-heavy apps where it makes sense. When done well, it can create a really responsive user experience. Gmail is great at this; I have no desire for it to be "real time" -- not any more than it already is.

Do we really believe that one day cnn.com will be "real-time", with article updates and errata popping up inline as we read?
Definitely just use whatever CRM with which you feel the most comfortable. I've been comfortable with a variety from the traditional ACT/Sage and Goldmine to the robust SugarCRM.

You can also setup a powerful set of google docs/forms to achieve the exact same thing of course.

That said, always bare in mind how, where, and with who you are storing your data. All it takes is 1 unscrupulous or 1 completely insecure/socially engineer-able individual to make life bad.
jQuery v1.7.1 as far as I can tell

http://js.nyt.com/js2/build/sitewide/sitewide.js
Professors.
info@ycombinator.com I think - gets you through to a shared mailbox and someone will reply

However your comments seem fine from where I'm standing - possibly someone mistook 0 points for banned/dead?

And yes - loving seeing parts of London I know so well.
History Does Not Repeat Itself, But It Rhymes
That's how they got Bin Laden's hideout confirmation. By running a fake vaccination campaign to get his children inoculated and collect and match the DNA to confirm his presence. Unfortunate side-effect
Swept off Mid-Market, S.F.'s homeless cluster nearby
Darn, and I was so hoping this was not a fake video - but that test result cannot be right :-)
Have you read "Development: Infancy Through Adolescence"?
the place just looks so empty - Whitehall has no traffic in it. it's incredible
Same, another Google product I've never heard of. When I read the headline I assumed it was some PaaS for Scheme. Guess I'll have to make due with Racket on Yandex cloud.
http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/13/12/27/208249/power-los...
Exactly. That's why some of the rural areas (Alaska, Dakotas) look so bad and some of the bigger urban areas (New York) don't.
You didn't buy it, but the book is full of bullshit?

Did you at least read it?
Wish I could upvote this again. codva is absolutely right, you need to be smart about your targets and close potential for each one. Segmenting the list now into "high-priority" and "my-email-marketing-list" will help you be much more productive and will lead to better close rates.
Interesting free alternative to Jetstrap. For Mac/Win/Lin
I mean that going through the education system is not enough alone to guarantee success, but this is implied by the use of the word "ticket."

A phrase that makes it clear there's no entitlement would be "opportunity to reach the middle class" when this is more like "pay money and you'll get there just like everyone else."
This map should be filtered or adjusted for universities/students somehow. If you zoom in on my city (San Luis Obispo, CA), you'd think 30% of the entire city lived below the poverty line. This isn't true (our median home price is approaching $600K) so I can only imagine it's skewed by Cal Poly students.

I'm no expert in statistics but the picture this map paints is misleading IMO.
Fantastic news. The chances of humanity actually managing to get its shit together and make it past this century just ticked up a tiny tiny amount.
LOL@ the CSS...
font-family: 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, sans-serif;
I don't know how it would be surprising that we could be dumber than the ancients at something. How about the dark ages? A good chunk of Europe lost touch with the accomplishments of the Roman empire. It took a long time to recover and it would not surprise me if some good ideas were never picked up again.

Or even take today's technology. We are in many ways coasting on the accomplishments of prior generations and very likely some of these would be difficult to recreate from scratch. I recall some rhetorical question: say we wanted to do it tomorrow, how much would it cost us in R&D to once again figure out how to get to the moon? Or, since most of us know tech, I can put it this way: how many folks on HN talking about js or ruby know how to write a kernel, or design a CPU, from scratch?
Four color theorem
Maybe it's strange for them to see something that is both functional and highly practical?

PS: once Roslyn get's finally released, Java will never catch up again.
Why is the risk of Scheme so high? Is it financial risk, or risk of people doing things together instead of using G+?
> Do you guys have any scientific evidence to support this kind of claim, i.e. learn to code improves your thinking ability in general?

If you're actually interested in this, Papert's book Mindstorms, which is cited in the post, lists many reasons why this might be the case. The most obvious are that computers interpret everything literally, so when you express your ideas you're forced to do so in a way that totally lacks ambiguity.

He also talks about how in a classroom setting, students are usually trained to react to "wrong answers" by wincing, moving on, and forgetting it happened, whereas in programming it's obvious that no one ever gets things right on the first try--debugging is necessary for programming, and debugging teaches students to think in terms of "how can this be improved" rather than the right/wrong of traditional schoolwork.

There's tons more in the book, but most of it can be summed up in that programming teaches meta-cognition and forces you to consider questions of epistemology.
So, I thought the post above me asked a different question, related to printing out vectors in general :)
Possibly they didn't mean to, but asking gdb to "p v[0]" is a function call execution of operator[]. As mentioned in the grandparent, this should work fine on a live process, but is harder on a not live one.

It's possible the parent meant "why can't GDB make v[0] do an inspection directly on the structure". The simple answer is: "It can't possibly know what the function call does". So you'd have to teach it, specifically, that std::vector is special, or provide a mechanism to override the native calls with python scripting (IE be able to say "here is a replacement for T &operator[int] on std::vector that is in python, and works without a live process").

GDB actually does real overload resolution (it has to, otherwise in some 'simple' cases, it'd have to ask you 100 questions about what functions you are trying to call), making that strategy more complicated.

If your only mechanism for reproduction is a core dump, yes this is a pain in the ass. But this shouldn't be true, even remotely, since you always have things like gdbserver/etc.
Unfortunate side-effect

May be unfortunate, but it's also highly predictable. "Solving" one problem to create a much larger (longer-lasting) one has been a cornerstone of our foreign policy.
I agree about the suit. Necktie won't live much longer I guess.
If you can distribute source Cocoapods is an excellent alternative to static libs.

And if you have to distribute static libs Cocapods again makes it much easier.
Congrats on the 40k leads, that's an impressive number given your estimated ACV. Maybe you could share a few secrets with us as to how you've managed to generate so many.

Depending on the source and your definition of warm lead you have lots of options. I caution you, as a salesperson myself, not to just throw them all into a CRM willy nilly. Doing so will be information overload and can potentially make things harder on yourself. Excel is the fastest/lightest (non-techincal) UI for viewing and manipulating that size of data.

Your best bet is to come up with some qualification criteria and, as someone already suggested above, try to filter it down to 2k of the best (highest value) leads. From here, I'd work out an approach strategy (read the book: Predictable Revenue) and get working.

Using conservative numbers, 2k leads per month will keep very busy and your pipeline full.

Happy selling.
People aren't doing any vilifying? Have you not been witness to the absolute carnage that has ensued for Paul Graham since being misquoted? Are we actually communicating on the same website right now?

My opinions are tantamount to a manager saying 'You want to learn to code? I may not know how to code, but I will provide you a helping hand and resources to help you learn.' I see nothing even remotely contentious about this.

You claim that you are uninterested in the academic side of this topic and yet you debate a random person on the semantics of a word on HN and post links to academic research on the topic. Could you be any more disingenuous?

Speaking of being disingenuous, you completely misconstrued what I said in regards to your world view - here's exactly what I wrote:

"I'm surprised you haven't even bothered to read the original writing that frames the world view you've accepted as fact."

I never made a claim that 'frames can be factual', or anything of the sort. A few comments ago you made the assertion that:

"White privilege by the way, isn't a theory. It's a fact."

I think where we've gotten to is actually you, a white guy with no apparent intelligence have nothing better to do with your life than try (and fail, miserably) at imparting your world view on someone. Congratulations, keep at that.
That is pretty much Maslow's pyramid.
I was helped tremendously in my early coding days by the section in Code Complete on naming things.

The book is about the tiny details of coding. Getting the small things right, as in any sport or profession, gives you the tools to get the big things right.

But if you are in a section that bores you, skip around a bit!
While you certainly can pay that in parts of London, you wouldn't there. I'd expect more like £1200 or $2000.
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Ask HN: When should you launch your prototype App?
I am trying to get users to beta test my app, Hashtag for Emails (www.sharemoto.io).

There is a lot of features/fixes to be made such as:
1. Currently, emails are stored in my database and server, so I have access. The central storage allow for ease of sharing content between users. In the future, emails would be stored in the users' devices, and pass along to one another.

2. Right now, user friction include hashtagged emails must also be CC or send to x@sharemoto.io, for the central hub to receive a copy. In the future, with user permission, I can scan their Inbox for collect all hashtagged emails without author user remembering to CC a copy to my server, much like Tripit's itinerary scan.

3. Re-do UI designs. (new mockups www.garyyauchan.com/sharepoint-for-emails#gallery-311-2)

4. Fix various bugs

However should I make all these changes before launching and getting beta users? Should I just ask more of my friends to test it first? Or should I launch soon to collect usage and patterns - really confirming validity - while (or before) working on these above issues in parallel? Would I receive lower App rating if these issues are not fix, and those having problem re-launch the new version?
Personal banking apps leak info through phone
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No, it cites a different Tyee article :) <http://bit.ly/1idMZgQ>, as well as a couple of other Techdirt posts.
ZFS would help to handle some of the failure types of SSDs. I doubt that it can help in the case of a multiple disk failures due to a power failure.

As for the original report, if you rely on your storage devices to survive a power outage you should be testing them strongly for this feature. It is a feature that is easy to get wrong and when it fails on you it is quite nearly the end of the world as this is a correlated failure of multiple devices at the same time with no time for any rebuild operation.

I've seen different devices even of high end caliber that had flaws in their power-hold circuitry. If you rely on it, test it. The same is true for HDDs too. If you rely on your UPS to hold you for the power outage, be sure to test that one too. And test all of these also as they age, the age affects the ability to hold power in both battery and capacitors.
I do not think it is a book you are supposed to read from start to end. It is more a book you randomly open when you feel bored or tired, read part of random length and then close.

Kind of book equivalent of opening facebook/news for 5 minutes and then going back to work. Except that you learn little bit each 5-10 minutes long session.
Am I the only one who can't read this because it requires some kind of login?
Assuming that there really do still existing technical constraints, these aren't insurmountable problems. They're not even difficult problems. Apple has more than enough cash on hand to spend the engineering time necessary to solve them and still have money left over for a campus Beer Bash.

Note that on Mac OS X when using code signing, including when distributing via the Mac App Store, dynamic libraries are supported.
The average speed in London is much the same as it was with horse drawn carriages 100 years ago.
1. No debt is fairly expensive in this world. Either you need a nontrivial income or a fairly high threshold for ascetic living.

2. Full stomach/quenched thirst is trivial if you don't mind tap water and simple starches, but once you add (depending on your taste) a complement of steak, quinoa, fresh fruits, beer and/or wine - then you run into a little money.

3. Warm place to sleep - anywhere near work? public transport? "good" schools (however you define that)? Gets expensive quick.

3bis. Meaningful intimate loving relationships are easier to maintain if you have at least one weekend day off (i.e. don't have to work 2 or more jobs) and have at least a little cash to go out on the town at least once in a while.

4. Sense that I am valuable - to me, this has always been difficult without a modestly good set of clothes, shoes and a haircut. Others don't feel that way (but less than you'd think). But maintaining a personal sense of one's value is at least somewhat correlated with others' sense of ones' value. And others' sense of one's value is never completely monetarily free.

5-6. Freedom to indulge curiosities and spiritual life - on a low income, you'd better be single and childless. And even then, it's a challenge.

I very much doubt the average person could fulfill those goals to any degree of satisfaction on less than 50k as a single person in a major metro area, not a ton less in the boondocks, and not much less than double that with a partner or spouse.
Its just a bit OCD inducing how they had to solve problems of their own creation for a long time instead of "doing it right from the start"

That's a really, really silly thing to get annoyed about, and flies straight in the face of lean, agile and MVP. I'd wager that if Twitter had "done it right from the start" then they wouldn't be around at all today.
I'm guessing Observable, Scan, FirstAsync and Subscribe are all from the Rx reactive/observable framework? I haven't seen them before.
This game looks really interesting.
It reminds me a board game I invented when I was a child, based on the Star Wars 1th death stars attack. There was similarities, like the non-symmetric start positions : empire tie-fighters were divided in four groups and rebels x-wings and y-wings where grouped altogether in the center with Luke Skywalker as the king who had to go on a special square. But there was a lot of complications (different speeds for different type of star-fighters, automatic turrets which shoot only on the rebels, the attacks were based on a dice probability depending on the type of star-fighters, and a lot more...). The whole thing was so complicated that nobody wanted to play more than once with me...

Simplest games are often the bests.

But I don't care, I still believe my "Death Star Attack" was one of my best (yeah, I have invented tens of board games that nobody wanted to play with me :) )
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One common best practice is http://nvie.com/posts/a-successful-git-branching-model/
You can use http://danielkummer.github.io/git-flow-cheatsheet/ also to help branch handling.
That's what I'm wondering too. There isn't even a release date
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I think the book has some good points, but it was basically common sense and the whole book could have been resumed in a blog post.
He used an algorithmic model (using factors like hits over lifetime) to predict the shutdowns. It wasn't that he decided on the ordering.
The findings in this article match the findings of "Analysis of SSD Reliability during power outages" that we discussed 2 weeks ago:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6973179

http://lkcl.net/reports/ssd_analysis.html
Agreed, same story near UCLA
Apple doesn't want small developers on iOS. I thought this was clear 5 years ago. Every thing they've done in both the market, the UI, and the OS makes it difficult for small developers to get a leg up and for new technologies to be adopted. To Apple, integrating 3rd party libraries is not a concern of there's, that's for the professionals to try to get to work, then use as a competitive barrier, thus increasing the quality of the top apps in the market, the only apps that matter.
these days usd 1-3k/month is what most working professional people pay in rent in a major city.
This is the result of one of the biggest vaccination drives ever. Great work by India's central governement, various state governements, WHO, UNICEF, Rotary International and various other NGOs and volunteers.
How was colour achieved back then? Has anyone on HN tried similar experiments?

I miss using b&w film with a deep red filter to get dark skies. I need to learn photo manipulation to get a similar effect
I'm not sure if your comment trivializes or validates mine. But in any event, I am very much a student of the school of hard knocks. Everything I mentioned above are my conclusions derived from over a decade of failures, successes, & self reflection.
I have done the same and come to the same conclusion.
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The flaw in this argument is that although the power of the machines is making advances appear faster to make humans less important, the power of humans to use the advances for no good is increasing at the same rate. Thus Google knows when you are going on a trip but someone hacks Target for millions of credit cards in a way no one notices for weeks. Technology is a two edged sword.
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My religion? what the hell?
According to the paper (page 13), they only look at incomes between the 10th and 90th percentiles. That's why they cut off at $128,000 for US residents.

With that said, I do think it'd be interesting to see a graph that continues past the 90th percentile.

The paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w18992?utm_campaign=ntw&utm_mediu...
+1, cocoapods is really great and solves 99% of the issues.

EDIT: Issues I had with integrating third party libs into projects as dependencies in the past, not issues in regards to the blog post.
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You are misled to believe that mathematics has simple parts and not simple parts, and that simple parts are easier to "discover" than the complex parts.

In fact, the simple parts are usually the most difficult to discover. Why? Precisely because it takes extreme genius to give simple answers to mathematical questions. Over time complicated proofs and definitions get simplified and clarified (such it was with calculus, set theory, logic, group theory, and countless other topics).

So there's no precedent to believe that current mathematics won't be simplified in the future (unless, of course, you believe that all mathematics is complicated; but then you seem to be trying to make an objective point about complexity, so we'll ignore that possibility).
Elance, Odesk and alikes are infested with middlemen posing as an actual developers who are re-hiring poor developers from inidia, pakistan and alike countries in a hit-n-run fashion for pennies.

The marketplace is craving for quality local (north american only) freelance service providers powered by strong job platform service.

Many enterprises are slowly realizing that outsourcing is what-you-pay-is-what-you-get business and it's a prime time to negotiate services with local quality talents.
What makes you think your methodology was a good one for finding the unadvertised jobs ?

Plenty of unadvertised jobs will go through networks, word-of-mouth and personal recommendation - obviously cold-calling wouldn't give you good results in such cases.

Generally it's estimated that roughly 40% [for 2009-2010] of jobs are unadvertised, and that's calculated using US BLS data (http://www.bls.gov/news.release/jolts.htm) comparing number of job openings companies state they have versus actual hiring numbers.

While there might be variation between countries, I doubt that there's significant difference between the UK and the US.
Do you have an example of an integer copyrighted as an integer?
I don't think it is. Those poor students affect the environment and life in that region just like everybody else.
You can also make the large Google screenshot smaller if you use the Image Zoom plugin (or know how to change it using Firebug or the default dev tools). I believe that is what's causing the layout to freak out.
Wouldn't that require the pc-relative address to fit into this immediate scheme?
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I'm not claiming it wasn't intentional. I'm saying that generation X either played along or didn't do anything about it.
Same here Firefox 26.0 Ubuntu 12.04.

This is why I have Evernote Clearly installed: http://evernote.com/clearly/