skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't understand how the challenge to Apple is supposed to work.

Isn't this equivalent to, say, Wal-Mart deciding not to stock your widgets anymore because they're going to manufacture a competing widget? It sucks, sure, but it also seems like it's within their rights to do so.

Is Apple in the clear or are they running afoul of the law somewhere?
Hmm in git you also rebase so a pull-request will merge cleanly when it would otherwise have conflicts. How does hg manage that?
Man Gets First Prosthetic Hand That Can Feel
Journal of Public Health Study Show Legalizing Medical Marijuana Stops Suicides
Look, I'm really glad that you're excited for docker, but name dropping companies running the risk of exposing their machines does not magically invalidate the specific examples I gave. In fact I've really no idea what purpose your reply was hoping to serve.

In the default configuration (and according to all docs I've seen), regardless of some imagined rosy future, today docker is a wrapper around Linux containers, and Linux containers today are a very poor general purpose security solution, especially for the kind of person who needs to ask the question in the first place (see also: the comment I was originally replying to)
The Boost.Units[1] library takes this even further, allowing you to do things like divide a length by a time quantity and get a velocity, again with compile-time type checking.

[1]: http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_55_0/doc/html/boost_units.ht...
We're a bit stealth right now, but it's in the construction space.
I do wonder if something like this exists, now. I'm familiar with the Dyson ring and sphere, but I never thought of a torus. Even though after the sphere, it seems the most plausible 'mode.'
When I connect my surface to two 1080p monitors, and an 8-port USB hub, I don't even remember that I'm using a Surface, unless I need to do a resource-intensive task.
Wonder if anyone has access to those texts from John Norton he refers to?
Awesome! Too bad jokes category does not have a lot of content, pity.
Three I'm familiar with, all recommended:

'Gates', Stephen Manes [1]

'Show Stopper!: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft', G.P. Zachary [2]

'Microsoft in the Mirror', Karin Carter [3]

But I agree with the parent that 'Programmers At Work' is a great book.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Gates-Microsofts-Reinvented-Industry-H...

[2] http://www.amazon.com/Show-Stopper-Breakneck-Generation-Micr...

[3] http://www.amazon.com/Microsoft-Mirror-Nineteen-Insiders-Exp...
There are three ways to handle a resource.

You can allow it to be owned.

You can regulate its use, which is how the San Francisco Bay is managed.

Or you can do neither, which is how the San Francisco Bay used to be managed. Back when it was being filled in to create private property.

The last is clearly not good. One of the other options must be used or you can say good bye to a finite resource.

The Soviets employed the second option for everything, so that clearly doesn't work globally.

You mention national parks. There was a time when these parks were government owned but companies were allowed to extract resources for a song. In fact, that's still going on. So government ownership doesn't prevent crony capitalism.

As far as getting things for a song, again that is crony capitalism, which is totally a product of how we elect our leaders. That is a separate problem that won't be fixed by preventing private ownership of a resource.

You may still ruin a resource that you own, but if you paid a fair price for it, you are destroying your own net worth in the process. When people loot an owned or regulated resource, they suffer no such direct loss.
I thought the same thing - I think its a limitation of the digitization of the original image.
Yeah you definitely misinterpreted that
Pretty neat!

FYI: I just noticed your time calculations aren't working. Search for "item.time_str" on your indexes.
You're being tricked. The saving are artificial.

They clearly normally overcharge for two day shipping. Just because it says it costs 15 bucks to send the widget, doesn't mean they pay $15 when you ship it with Prime.

Most people that opt for faster shipping and are willing to fork over money are people that need something urgently and are willing to pay extra. Amazon obviously exploits that.

While it's true that they don't seem to care too much about profits, it's naiive to think they have a program where they just throw money away for the sake of an increase in volume. There is no long term way to "cash out" and turn that volume into money. Once you drop the incentives or raise the prices your customers simply leave to the next cheap online retailer.
Imagine Online Gambling, Oculus Rift, Bitcoin, and a Darknet marketplace w/research chems, with some sort of chat or forum feature, all combined into one giant meltingpot.
Nginx can be used as a caching proxy:

https://coderwall.com/p/rlguog
I wonder how much of this is a direct result of the destruction of Twitter's once vibrant app ecosystem. We have seen platforms that do this, time and time again, sputter and die. Platforms, such as iOS, who embrace developers thrive and grow to nice levels.
I realize that I'm an outlier but I support prefixing as a possible solution to this sort of thing; but that's even more out of favor with the CSS WG than what's being proposed (AFAICT).

Looking forward to timely www-style feedback, it's much appreciated.
> Nobody would say that say, advanced mathematics is broken because the layman doesn't get it.

We do make math more tractable and accessible over time with various reformulations and new abstractions and conceptual tools, though. You're probably using arabic numerals when you do arithmetic, and there are good reasons for that.

(Though heaven knows, if I'm likely to run across an abacist anywhere in this sort of discussion, it's probably here. :)
If a gay woman had been ranting about all "The GUYS" and how awful it was that they are in the clubs and bars of SOMA would you have felt the same way?

Genuinely not implying that you wouldn't have, but I think it's worth considering. Not having heard what was said it's hard to offer much in the way of an opinion.
Thanks, glad people appreciate that. (I feel occasional pangs of regret that literally the first thing under my salutation is the permission reminder, but it always struck me as the right call. I used to put an unsubscribe link in the first sentence, too, but people told me it was way too easy to hit on an iPhone accidentally, so now I think the boilerplate says something like "Scroll way to the bottom and one click will take care of it.")
Well, it is only now that bitcoin is getting more widespread recognition and traction in traditional media.
The fallacy is that global fish production is related to the quantity of fish in the ocean. That number won't drop until after its too late.
To take this even further, look at OCaml's strong, inferred typing.
A) Bitcoin is not as big as you think, yet. 120K downloads is not that bad.

B) Since Apple is so hostile towards Bitcoin, many people have switched to better alternatives and simply don't care about Apple's private North Korea with an insane leader.
Photo-sharing site Facebook...
Mine started failing a few months outside the replacement period (3 years). I was due for a new work laptop, so I just replaced the machine.
I've been playing with CP/M recently (on an emulator). It strikes me that Microsoft had a very clear vision at this early stage: it was to port all of the popular (to businesses) large computer languages to micros. Hence we have not only BASIC, but very complete implementations of Fortran and COBOL for 8080/Z-80. I wonder if there is a quote from Bill Gates about this?
Meet The Man Who Hacked Jeopardy
I saw a provocative question on Twitter this afternoon:

"What exactly does Twitter need 2300 employees for?"
To take this to the current state of the art, look at Haskell, Agda, and Idris. Latter two being dependently typed.

Steps for learning Haskell:

https://gist.github.com/bitemyapp/8739525
I think what really happens is that programmer/software engineer profession have become a lot more accessible to the mass. Back in billg days when he started programming, I would bet less than 1000 kids around the country had access to a computer. In 1986, the total number of programmers would've surely been less than 10,000 and most of them worked for MS, IBM, DEC, etc. In the current time, half of SF are software engineers and entrepreneurs :) I guess my point is there are still a lot of people who work on the hard core stuff like Linux/Windows kernels where every byte counts, or JVM/LLVM where data structures/algorithms are rewritten over and over to get a bit more performance. I would say the number of programmers who have to care about the optimizing system resources may be even more than back then, it's just that there are a lot more application developers these days.
Nitpick: Not all monopolies are bad (utilities, transportation, etc.)

The term you're thinking of is conglomerate, because Google has at least one competitor in every one of it's markets, which isn't a monopoly.
Stock based compensation still costs investors money. They are effectively using investors' money to pay their employees, and that should and always will be priced into the stock.

With its 18% decline in after hours trading today, Twitter's market cap is still $36.63 billion. Even if you analyze it based on the shell-game of adjusted EBITDA, and assume that it will stay at $45 million/quarter, you come out with a P/E ratio of 165.

Twitter is not Facebook. Their growth trajectory isn't remotely close. Personally, I am staying away. I don't want to party like it's 1999.
How to Start Your Own Blog
Nitpick: legally a monopoly doesn't require zero competitors.
Which is why it drives me nuts when people refer to the Raspberry Pi as "open hardware". You can't get even close to the datasheet without an NDA.
Interesting. What about more complex units, e.g. acceleration - m/s^2?
This is kind of a big deal, if this becomes a trend...
Indeed; that's what I do for everything local that less than, say, $750, and it's remarkably worry free. No privacy issues either, no one has any idea exactly what I buy locally.
This is a big advance for mapping and open data on GitHub!

Last year I was working with Boston and Cambridge to open their mapping data, and in addition to GitHub I was encouraging them to use GeoGit (geogit.org). Some of our projects (bike lanes added each year, buildings changed between 2010 and 2013 datasets & missing on OpenStreetMap, permits added each day) could now be shown in GitHub.

I don't think this is the end of GeoGit though... feature-by-feature changes and filtering available in GeoGit are important for 3rd-party databases to keep in sync with an authoritative dataset.
Kick Ass Quotes from Dave McClure
> Are you sure you're ordering from Amazon, and not some two-bit vendor that isn't Prime eligible?

As I mentioned, I was talking about the free shipping, not the Prime shipping, which is $79/year.
F# has similar also: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/F_Sharp_Programming/Units_of_Me...
ZFS cannot legally be distributed with the Linux kernel and BTRFS already is supported in-kernel so would presumably be easier to support...
This is interesting. But it's not quite sync with the News on the first page. What do you sort by? If it works well, I'd like to use it.
See http://journal.darkskyapp.com/2012/kickstarting-part-1/. Essentially, it might be easiest to just buy copies of the app as gifts for each backer, but there are some caveats to consider.
The problem lay in that some see it as a way to exploit the labor of others.

The real value is in setting it up so that crowdsourcing benefits both parties involved - i.e. CAPTCHAs for human verification and textual image analysis.
Looks awful on mobile would be great if you could make it responsive.
If you look at the bottom of Dehnadi's page (http://www.eis.mdx.ac.uk/research/PhDArea/saeed/), there are links to the test script, answer sheet, marking guide etc.
This is super useful!

I have been forcing myself off HN lately. One thing that I miss the most due to this is the SHOW:HNs of really cool products and hacks that hit the front page. This gives me a great month-to-month access to those great stories at one place.

Bookmarked!
Waiting for the NSA to submit a pull request with some sort of "back door" function.
You're incorrect -- this is an example of the rule, not an exception.

Apple will not let Fandango (or anyone) sell a real-world item through IAP. That is why PayPal is acceptable. It's clearly stated in the app guidelines that IAP must be for virtual / digital items only.

I worked on an app that let you buy drinks at bars. In-app purchase was clearly out, so we integrated PayPal and Stripe. Apple allowed that and it's been in the store, with periodic updates and their reviews, for years.
A lot of people(airbnb comes to mind) doing these now, cool to see one from GitHub.

I don't know if there is a bug with the globe but that seemed pretty weak to me-- not enough data and random points get highlighted. Anyone else find it a little lacking-- kind of like a silly "let's include a d3 globe just cause we can"?
Has a social network at twitter's scale ever been able to undo a growth plateau? In this business you live and die by organic growth.

I have so many problems with the twitter product I don't even know where to begin. I am working on writing my own UI to twitter to look more like facebook. At its essence, I long for a twitter that:

* makes it easier to follow and indulge in conversations(facebook does this)

* filters out noise, such as retweets or same links showing up 5 times from 5 different people

* remove the 140 char limit; we've moved away from 140 chars with sms for a reason and it is time for twitter to do the same
I am planning to open source it in several months.
(Our codes have not been well-commented and well-structured yet...

Our implementation and algorithm detail is followings.

Its categorizing process is written in Python.

Using nltk, it makes corpus with TFIDF model from HN topics and comments.
And it generates classifiers from this corpus with SVM algorithm using scipy and numpy.

FYI, its web interface is written in Clojure and ClojureScript.
I wouldn't be surprised if a few GitHubbers dropped by Huntsville sometime this summer. Watch the blog.
Amputee Successfully Feels Prosthetic Grip Strength Via Arm Electrodes
Should http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7183076 be categorized as Web Technology then?
This wasn't even a market carve-up. It was a proposal for IBM to single-source from Intel and Microsoft. That's perfectly legal for a new product that's starting out with 0% market share.

It was legal for Microsoft to single-source the CPU for the Surface from Nvidia. And it would have been similarly legal for IBM to single-source the OS for the PC from Microsoft.

What's more, Microsoft had 0% share of the OS market -- thus, no market power. And it had already agreed to produce BASIC for the IBM PC -- thus, no tying. Ipso facto, Microsoft could not possibly have been guilty of an antitrust violation in 1980 for offering to single-source DOS to IBM.

Only the Register could come up with such an illogical conclusion like that. But then, the Register is so virulently anti-Microsoft that they could probably criticize Altair BASIC on antitrust grounds.
It would be useful to have a category for startups. I find that's the content I most look for here.
More people are infected by this parasite than are connected to the internet
Same data as this?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6838081
"* Twitter one of Internet sector's most highly valued stocks (Adds analysts' comments, share action, earnings details)"

Methinks they forgot to finish that bit
Twitter enters bear market
Tagging of links (mostly hn), without the NLP.
http://gcdc2013-hackerio.appspot.com/
If you read the article, you should know the primary concern is not the profits or revenues but rather the decline in product engagement/growth. What is your response to that? Your comment doesn't even make a single mention of the #1 reason to be very concerned about twitter.
Meh. Vandalism against infrastructure doesn't necessarily mean terrorism. A previous infrastructure attack against AT&T in San Jose seemed to correlate with difficult labor negotiations, and the investigation stopped once a new union contract was signed. Just sayin'.
You made the point. Although it was not that explicit, from IE destroyed Netscape, I can see the other intentions. Fortunately, Linux, Apple, Android survives. MS tried to play monopoly which hampered the competition. The same for Google now. Maybe once you are no.1, you will be like that, but it's near eye sighted.
Why should I be angry? My credit card has been comprimised twice in my life and both times my credit card company contacted me immediately (before I even noticed) and refunded all fraudelent transactions immediately. I didn't have to do anything.

Credit card companies should be pissed at themselves for making it this easy.
Nothing changed my worldview as much as this paper did, which I only saw a couple years ago. Less you think I'm some easily impressed fad chasing newb, I've been programming professionally for 13+ years

http://ttic.uchicago.edu/~dreyer/course/papers/wadler.pdf
Yes. I will support responsive design in the near future.
1. Shadow DOM scopes down what CSS selectors can match, so deep structures can hide elements from expensive CSS rules.

2. Custom Elements promote a declarative approach to development, as opposed to having JS render everything.

3. XHTML was not the same as Shadow DOM/Custom Elements. XHTML allowed produce custom DSL variants of XHTML, but you still ended up having to implement them in native code as trying to polyfill SVG for example would be horrendously inefficient.

4. The weakness of the web is the lack of composeability due to lack of encapsulation. Shit leaks, and leaks all over the page. Some third party JS widget can be completely fucked up by CSS in your page and vice versa.

A further weakness is precisely the move to presentation style markup. Modern web apps are using the document almost as if it were a PostScript environment, and frankly, that sucks. We are seeing an explosion of "single page apps" that store their data in private data silos, and fetch them via XHRs, rendering into a div-soup.

The strength of the web was publishing information in a form that a URL represented the knowledge. Now the URL merely represents a <script> tag that then fires off network requires to download data and display after the fact. Search engines have had to deal with this new world by making crawlers effectively execute URLs. I find this to be a sad state of effects, because whether you agree or not, the effect is to diminish the transparency of information.

You give me an HTML page, and I can discover lots of content in the static DOM itself, and I can trace links from that document to other sources of information. You give me a SinglePageApp div-soup app that fetches most of its content via XHR? I can't do jack with that until I execute it. The URL-as-resource has become URL-as-executable-code.

IMHO, the Web needs less Javascript, not more.
A lot of the time once you have a good understanding of some of some more mature practices it doesn't take any longer to do the 'right' thing.
Mathematically proving correct is possible if you have a formal mathematical definition to prove against. So what you're doing is translating the problem from one language to another. This is not the same at all as programming to solve user's problems where the only formal definition is the program itself. The most we can do in this respect is proving the correctness of small parts of ours programs with tests, i guess.
AFAI can tell they're not making a legal claim, they're asking for consumer pressure.
As well as all the antibiotics that are pumped into the feed to keep the fish "healthy"
Russian Federation Anti-Gay Laws: An Analysis and Deconstruction. [scribd]
Twitter Debuts Data Grant Program for Researchers
I never liked these fully levered positions. I prefer to just plunk down the $380 for the puts, maintaining the upside exposure, and cap the downside to $380.
Thank you very much, I'll have a look at those 3. Completely agree about the parent book, it does seem very interesting. Although potentially only available in the UK as an import.
Hooray, once again it's the generic boilerplate executive or product manager who gets the big bucks, while the PROGRAMMERS are stuck toiling away.

Thank god for people like John Carmack and Linus Torvalds, great programmers who are recognised as leaders and given the respect that this profession so badly needs.
Why are HN comments becoming so much more like comments on crappy tech blogs and reddit?
As someone who has moved between continents a little bit too much, a $40 digital no-DRM version would be an instant buy. A $20 dead-tree version is a no-sale.
Zuck says he hasn't coded since 2006
Sprig – Dinner on Demand
Why don't you google it? http://www.google.com/about/company/facts/management/

Yes.
Seems like they're shooting themselves in the foot, creating a bigger incentive to scan the book and promoting the distribution of unofficial digital version of their book and not getting a dime for those.

Now, not only they made themselves look bad, show they misunderstand the digital world but they will also pass on a whole market.
Ask HN: My career has been fixing bugs for years. What now?
It seems like since 2009 I've done nothing bug fix bugs, really. not my bugs, either. Now I officially work in sustaining engineering but I'm not really good at it. I kind of hate it.

I've been trying to build stuff on my own in C/C++ (my day-to-day language, and I don't do it well). I don't think I'm getting any better at development. Things that are obvious to everyone else usually is unknown to me. I wish I could just 'get better' like some of you will inevitably say but how?! I write my own stuff without direction or any real results. I'm very frustrated!!! I don't know what to do! Any mention from me about a new feature or product idea is ALways shot down. They don't want to hear from me.

I think I've made a serious error with my career because it seems like I can't get hired anywhere else (I need to interview more, I think, though I can't tell) and none of the development organizations in my company really respect me.

Am I done?
I speak Japanese and 形 is just a normal word to me. I don't see it as militant at all. In fact, I find it offensive that someone is so culturally self-centered and solipsistic as to demand changes to language using a perfectly neutral word simply because they can't see past cultural/language differences. I guarantee you that if you brought up this issue with a Japanese person (from Japan), they'd have no idea what you're talking about - literally.

Stop demanding the whole world adjusts to you and your solipsistic ways and try to be more tolerant of cultural differences and diversity. If I was the creator of the website, I'd probably have told the OP to fuck off because I don't want shit-stirrers and culturally insensitive people on my website.
If you want Twitter to be more like Facebook, why not just use Facebook?

I agree that I'd like for it to be easier to dive into a conversation. It's a lot better than it was years ago, but I still struggle with the UI for that sometimes.

As for the 140 char limit, I think that should never change. Removing that would remove the entire essence of Twitter and turn it into endless drivel.