skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
EVE online was released more than 10 years ago and is still going strong (and growing). I wonder where they would fall in line.
Agreed. There is always a limit when it comes to going low level. Yes it probably is an overkill to understand how a db parses an actual SQL but helpful to understand how an ORM converts to a SQL query. This is again contextual. If you are writing your own database, then may be you do want to understand the parsing. But for web dev, may be not.
People are going to call the app by Facebook "Facebook Paper" because "Paper" is simply too generic. 53's drawing app name is not strong either. Their iOS app is not called "Paper", but "Paper by FiftyThree". Their icon is not of paper, but of a napkin style rendering of "53". For all intents, the drawing simulation brand name is "FiftyThree". There was a brief moment in history when people thought "I wonder if 53 was acquired". That time has passed, and no one will mistake them from now on.

"Facebook Paper" is an alternative interface to Facebook.

"Paper by FiftyThree" is a drawing application.

Other than that they are both software, there's little room for confusion. 53 can get upset and write a blog post about it, but there is no substantive damage done. They'll probably sell more of their own product because of this.
It's like Flipboard with Facebook notifications/posting as well. Read your timeline/other content (if you want, but they're totally separated which is great), get and respond to notifications, post statuses/content. What else do you do on Facebook?
The generic name seems to have worked out well for Apple though, hasn't it?
I admire FiftyThree but this ship has sailed. Unless FiftyThree is willing to lawyer up, I can't imagine anything changing.
This:

jordi@Iris:~$ git help push | wc -l
544
jordi@Iris:~$ hg help push | wc -l
50
Right, it's simplified Facebook. Facebook with all the extra bits removed. The hardback book reduced to the paperback...
"At least there they are not going to be harassed by mall cops ..."

Ask the parents of those teens. I got harassed at the local mall as a quiet, well dressed biz-casual, heavily spending yuppie in my 20s by mall cops, I was speechless at the time, needless to say I'll never go there again, and I am not planning on letting my kids go there either.

They went to great effort to prevent young people from spending money at the mall. It took awhile, but young people are now not spending money at the mall. I'm not seeing much of a problem. When it closes we can build a nice condo there. If they could just hurry up and close, so we could get on with progress...
Super duper high levels of abstraction are okay for beginners only because they don't know any better, and they are comfortable not knowing because they are beginners. It's fun to think that completionists exist, fun like believing in the tooth fairy or the little rat. Have you honestly finished auditing the linux kernel yet? w3schools punts nowadays and suggests using youtube for cross browser video support. High level software has some real downsides, but don't forget to switch from grunt to gulp.
Maybe they'll release it as Facebook Paper...
But to be honest, if there's a genuine app already bearing that name, they're better off going with something else...
Pictures or drawings? I don't know anyone who uses Paper for all their pictures. Maybe it's an image editor now?
@1) Is it? [0] seems to indicate that it is usually about twice as slow as C and sometimes fares much worse. Of course, that article is over a year old by now so maybe there are improvements, but if I can get a 2x performance gain ‘just’ by writing in C/C++, I will certainly do so.

[0] http://justindomke.wordpress.com/2012/09/17/julia-matlab-and...
Repost, don't know the original author:

I agree, I can't keep up, I just finished learning backbone.js and now I've
found out on HN that it's old news, and I should use ember.js, cross that, it
has opinions, I should use Meteor, no, AngularJS, no, Tower.js (on node.js),
and for html templates I need handlebars, no mustache, wait, DoT.js is better,
hang on, why do I need an HTML parser inside the browser? isn't that what the
browser for? so no HTML templates? ok, DOM snippets, fine, Web Components you
say? W3C are in the game too? you mean write REGULAR JavaScript like the Google
guys? yuck, oh, I just should write it with CofeeScript and it will look ok,
not Coffee? Coco? LiveScript? DART? GWT? ok, let me just go back to Ruby on
Rails, oh it doesn't scale? Grails? Groovy? Roo? too "Springy?" ok, what about
node.js? doesn't scale either?? but I can write client side, server side and
mongodb side code in the same language? (but does it have to be JavaScript?)
ok, what about PHP, you say it's not really thread safe? they lie?? ok, let me
go back to server coding, it's still Java right? no? Lisp? oh it's called
Clojure? well, it has a Bridge / protocol buffers / thrift implementation so we
can be language agnostic, so we can support our Haskell developers. Or just go
with Scala/Lift/Play it's the BEST framework (Foresquare use it, so it has to
be good). of course we won't do SOAP and will use only JSON RESTful services
cause it's only for banks and Walmart, and god forbid to use a SQL database it
will never scale

I've had it, I'm going to outsource this project... they will probably use a
wordpress template and copy paste jQuery to get me the same exact result
without the headache and in <del>half</del>quarter the price
DIY SEO: Local Runs on Canadian Citations, eh
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Sweet, sounds good. I look forward to seeing this. Or maybe contributing to it :)
I'm a big fan of Paper from 53 (not the most feature-filled drawing tool, but definitely the most pleasant to use) and respect that they wrote a polite request about this and tried to use this as a marketing opportunity rather than threatening legal action or citing some bizarre trademark argument where they claim to have the right to force others not to use a word. 53 comes across pretty well here thus far IMO.
It just doesn't make any sense. And people often pay such high costs in the pursuit of acceptance that I wish that more people would just stop, think about what they're doing, and realize how ridiculous it is. They don't need to worry so much about it. They don't need to spend so much time thinking about it.

It just seems like you would have so much more time and energy to spend on other things when you stop thinking like an animal.
If King can trademark the word Candy then I'm sure Paper would be allowed.
DATA IS POWER
Exactly. It's a single generic word.
Yes that is correct. Not a drop-in replacement. You can't go from a traditional RDBMS and magically turn it into a distributed database. Some constraints need to be loosened. ActorDB tries to loose as little as possible to turn it into a distributed database and still have a rich query model (without being memory only or just key/value).
Except that's not the argument.
We found an 'agency' that was really one guy with awesome connections to designers, trade show staff (so we ended up at least 'Bronze' sponsors to every show with almost no outlay), where to spend money on presence, and a really good sense of ability when it came to young talent.

He projected costs on a monthly basis, and we had the ability to say whether we were OK with the amount or whether we needed him to find lower-cost options.

We were pretty well capitalized (my co-founder and I are old :-)) but we paid between $8k and $25k/month, most of the high-end occurring when we were hitting competitive trade shows for premium placement. Even then, he was smart about finding spaces that were on an arterial aisle leading to refreshments and surrounded either by totally JV firms or large constructs that had a history of understaffing (so we would catch their overflow).

Edit: Just to reinforce my original comment, if we had a tool that could help this guy be superman and trim our costs even further, we would be all over it.
The Facebook > Facebook

Paper > The Paper

fixed ;)
Makers of Paper Ask Facebook to Change Its New App Name
I enjoyed the article. Your connection your looking for is with Stephen Cole Kleene who also a student of Church just like Turing.
As a rule, candidates will only be considered if they can relocate. Relocation expenses are covered, though.

(And yes, we know getting people to move to LA is a handicap for us...)
One counterargument is that in natural language, we tend to talk about numbers 2 to 12 and not the interval 2 <= x < 13. The argument for the latter versus the former is probably Dijkstra's weakest: the claim is merely that this makes the empty range "unnatural." The former convention implies one-based indexing for the same reason that the the latter implies zero-based indexing.

In Julia, the natural numbers 2, 3, ..., 12 are expressed as 2:12 and the empty range starting at 2 is expressed as 2:1.
Thanks for this good and thorough answer. And sorry again I derailed your main point.
SmartDraw is also kind enough to include spyware/malware with their installation.
Yeah, it will be pretty ridiculous if FiftyThree manages to enforce some kind of IP over the use of the word "paper" as a name for a product... Trademarking common English words, anyone?
> The idea that understanding the biological/physiological basis of behavior is part of psychology has been part of the field since the 19th century.

Yes, but as an unrealized goal. William James stated that it was an unrealized goal in the late 19th century, and the director of the NIMH mentioned the same issue a few months ago as he ruled that the DSM would no longer be accepted as the basis for scientific research proposals, for the simple reason that it has no scientific content:

http://www.nimh.nih.gov/about/director/2013/transforming-dia...

>> ... clinical treatment can't go anywhere without knowing causes, which the DSM -- and psychiatry and psychology -- don't address.

> This is simply false: psychology and psychiatry do address causes, and even the DSM does in some cases.

Tell that to the NIMH, which has ruled against use of the DSM for the best of reasons -- the claim is false. A quote from the above link:

"The goal of this new manual, as with all previous editions, is to provide a common language for describing psychopathology. While DSM has been described as a “Bible” for the field, it is, at best, a dictionary, creating a set of labels and defining each. The strength of each of the editions of DSM has been “reliability” – each edition has ensured that clinicians use the same terms in the same ways. The weakness is its lack of validity."

"Unlike our definitions of ischemic heart disease, lymphoma, or AIDS, the DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure. In the rest of medicine, this would be equivalent to creating diagnostic systems based on the nature of chest pain or the quality of fever. Indeed, symptom-based diagnosis, once common in other areas of medicine, has been largely replaced in the past half century as we have understood that symptoms alone rarely indicate the best choice of treatment."

So tell me -- which word didn't you understand?
Most important two paragraphs in this article:

>> “Probably the most important thing a teenage boy has is his smartphone,” said Richard Jaffe, an analyst at Stifel Nicolaus. “Second, is probably his sneakers. Third, maybe, we get to his jeans.”

>> What may trump all of those, Mr. Jaffe said, are gaming systems, especially over the last few months, because Xbox and PlayStation both released new game consoles in 2013. That may have taken a bite out of what teenagers had to spend on clothes.
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Ask HN: Will you still subscribe to Amazon Prime if they hike the price by $40?
2 day shipping is great, but their streaming service trails behind Netflix in offerings. So, is it worth $119/year?
Maybe a URL or few? The text reads like an Infowars.com post on 9/11.

Edit: http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/526942
Abercrombie is for 19-21 years, so it doesn't even matter in the long run.
In Persona, the Identity Provider is not involved in each login, it just signs a temporary certificate which can be re-used by the browser, so as long as the downtime is under a few hours, the user shouldn't have much of a problem.
The problem is that recruiters are not "opt in". I'm sure many of the people who voted "multiple times a day" would like to be contacted less, and some of the people who wrote, "never" would actually like a bit more outside attention.

We built Mighty Spring (https://www.mightyspring.com) to help developers overcome these recruiter-related problems.

Our goal is to provide the positive services offered by recruiters (market awareness, matched job opportunities, passive job search) through a web app that you manage on your own time (avoiding the cold calls and spammy emails).

We do this through a layer of anonymity for you, the candidate, so that you can engage with the market as much or as little as you like.

We're in private beta, but will expedite invites to the HN crowd. Email is in my profile if you have any questions.
Well, sure. But "being lonely" doesn't make any objective sense either- yet it is still very much an emotion that many people feel.

I'm not sure of the value in examining human behaviour while also dismissing the motivators of that behaviour as being silly.
Yeah, I mean it's not the worst, it's just not like, "MUST DEFEND THIS AWESOME NAME" level IMO.
On the other hand, FiftyThree have chosen a very common English word for their product name. You can't call dibs on a word like "paper", and this was a risk they should have taken into account. Either choose a proper (and trademarkable) name, or choose a common word and expect such consequences. You can't have it both ways, and I think even considering Facebook's Paper, FiftyThree have probably made the right tradeoff. Whining about it now just makes them look bad.
Pfft. What a silly request. This is an entirely different application.

Should we expect an upcoming blog post from 53 complaining that Crayola has released a new product entitled "Pencil"?

If you want to protect your name, use a protectable name. If you're going to use an entirely generic name then deal with it... wait hang on... Dunder Mifflin just called... they want their name back too.

Cool company, great products, daft blog post.
I only get them once in a blue moon, but when I do, they are hilarious. Once, in response to my Linked-In: "So, I see you currently work at [name of my law firm, LLP]. Do you have any experience with Ruby on Rails?" I'm big on never looking a gift horse in the mouth, but I couldn't help but giggle at that one.
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Oh, certainly, I meant "just" as in "just the client-side part of the protocol".
30 years later? Sure, but I think they would have done well with any brand name.

I really like 53's Paper app, but I wouldn't like it any less if it were called Doodlepad, DrawPaper etc.
What does your mother have to do with it? This is much more relevant to a young programmer setting out on what may well become their career. Telling them to use Wordpress is like telling them to fuck off because you don't want to waste time helping them learn.
Roughly how many models and controllers are in the app?
You would still have to roll your own offline geocoder.
From my experience with OSM and Oracle's Spatial Geocoder, getting accurate driving directions can be a very 'interesting' process.
I will design a photo gallery of your chosen pictures for $5
V2V technology does not involve exchanging or recording
personal information or tracking vehicle movements. The
information sent between vehicles does not identify those
vehicles, but merely contains basic safety data.

Ha ha, bullshit. How would you even design a wireless network without MAC/IMEI-like addresses?
Not sure I get what you mean. The 'Edit' function on openstreetmap.org lest me add exactly this kind of information. So they do provide it, or not?
for once, you get proper reverse search, which is not available in mysql (last time I checked, which has now been a while TBH).
What about something like "Square?" That's about as generic as it gets, yet is there any question as to what someone is referring to when they are talking about "Square" in the context of an app?
Word of mouth.

Also, there might be a few heuristics you can use to determine the crud-ness of an employer, but they're not necessarily bulletproof.

Example: if an employer uses Clojure/Haskell currently I'd surmise they're not a complete victim of industry's hype cycle. Whereas if the job ad requested node.js ninjas, not so much. I'd guess it'd be easier to introduce node.js in the former, rather than a functional lang at the latter. But this isn't some amazing inferential leap, really. The subtext of the job post is critical.
> If you don't understand the core, you will never be able to become a great developer.

The presumption here is that everyone wants to be a great developer; this mostly isn't true, most developers simply want to complete a task and care only about how quickly they can do it.
"Some record company executives"? Thrift Shop was produced under the label Macklemore LLC, i.e. bankrolled by Macklemore himself. That was one of the reasons it was an interesting track. An indy label hitting the #1 spot on the charts.
Good luck with that. As a pilot school alumni, I can safely say that the Bernoulli principle, and more importantly how it applies to an open system like an aircraft wing, is pretty fuzzy for most of my former classmates (I know because I was tutoring them on flight physics).

Understanding the cause and effect between your interactions with the flight stick and throttle is one thing, understanding the physics behind it is another entirely.
I got my current position through a recruiter, and I was really impressed. Dropped him an email on a Saturday morning letting him know I was looking for a new position, and by the afternoon he'd come back with four potential employers who he figured were a good fit, and followed through with the interviews. Also negotiated salary, which was great.

On the other hand, I've had some really bad experiences, especially from the employer's perspective. Loads of totally unsuitable candidates, lies about their experience (like the one with "10 years of Rails experience")… I think that you probably need to build up a relationship with a good recruiter, and I'm not convinced there are many of them.
This is GNU/Linux/Ubuntu disambiguation and customer support problem.

There needs to be separate organizations to package and distribute this data and make apps for it. (A web map project will have different needs than an offline phone navigation app. OSM shouldn't try to gain/maintain domain expertise in everything.)
Why should a site about American slavery cover something other than American slavery? Would you go onto a website about the New England Patriots and ask why there wasn't any coverage of the New York Giants, or onto a site about mountaintop removal mining asking why there wasn't more coverage about clearcutting? Do you go onto Kurdish sites and ask why they aren't covering the Armenian genocide?

Why should the African-American experience be minimized so as to not be considered a distinct experience from other differing experiences that have been labeled as "slavery"?

edit: This is not a rhetorical question.
The thing that motivates people to buy expensive clothes is exactly the same as the thing that's motivating you to write these comments.

People don't really want to fit in with others, they want to fit in with themselves. For some people that involves being the kind of person that buys expensive clothes. For you, that involves being the kind of person that doesn't buy expensive clothes. There is no difference, except that your thing is not externally visible, so you have to tell us about it. And you get to keep all that disposable income I guess.

You're also avoiding the identity equivalent of running your whole business on a 3rd party API, which is what people who base themselves on brands are doing. So you're probably ahead. But not really any different.
> the fact that some record company executives put millions of dollars behind the track

That's not a fact, it's flat out wrong.
Copy/paste error there. It should be three, separate positions: Android, iOS, or PHP.
And 'facebook' is original? FB's legal team has a hernia anytime someone on the web uses face or book, perhaps they should take their own advice?

If it continues it might be funny for 53 to release Paper Facebook.
It would help, but it still wouldn't be clear if the version you're holding is the one that was copyrighted.

It would also be basically impossible for anything more intensive than text.
Its exactly like Flipboard to me. I'm a heavy user of Flipboard and already the baby duck syndrome is making me hate Paper.
After the King controversy and the resulting 'candy jam', does that mean someone will now start a 'paper jam'?
If Square whines about someone else using the name, I will say the same thing. It's a tradeoff, and they've made their choice.
Your startup mentor has to be better than Steve Blank’s book
If it's supposed to be different from Medium, why does it imitate the look and feel of Medium?
"We reached out to Facebook about the confusion their app was creating, and they apologized for not contacting us sooner."

Yep , And to add more salt to wounds, I hate such diplomatic "Oh Shit! Did you guys existed too ? We just did not know answers".
What happens when your email account gets compromised and the attacker uses the "forgot my password" feature on each site?

If you say you use multiple email accounts, then you can also use multiple Persona accounts. In fact, support for multiple accounts is part of the plan.
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I, for one, do not think Facebook should change the name because these guys do not own the word "Paper." It would have been different if their app was called FiftyPapers and Facebook used the same name.
There are a few plotting libraries for Julia; I'm not sure how robust they are though. http://julialang.org/downloads/
> Where is this "use" part of which you speak

Maybe you don't want to use the old repl, there there is something else going on there and you don't want to mess it up. Maybe I want to show someone an example, or try something out quickly.

I use and spawn ipython windows all the time. Sometimes I have 4 open at the same time.

> Aggressive JIT languages are historically slow at startup.

Explaining the reason for the slow start-up doesn't make the slow startups faster.
You are bold and confident (on the internet, at least), qualities often associated with leadership, which can give the impression that you are the one in charge.