skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's not quite so black-and-white. I think the main point is here:

Hard to find paid apps (We suspect Google would rather just have everything be free since they default most views in the catalog to free apps, or top downloaded apps which means free apps. The option to show paid apps is buried in a submenu.)

How many users do you think ever saw that sub-menu, much less clicked on it? Yes, Google would rather have apps be free. So would Apple. Why? Because smart companies try to commoditize their products' complements [1].

This really really sucks for people whose business model is "make money selling an Android app", but personally, I think that's a really crappy model to begin with, be it on Android, on the iPhone, or on desktops. Just make your app free and find another way to make money.

1. http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/StrategyLetterV.html
"My comment above was referring more to Java, which is generally considered to be the apex of potential performance for Clojure, but which would completely incapable of something like this."

Ok, No arguments then, if the expressiveness, succinctness and malleability of java vs Clojure were the point of comparison. Factor vs Clojure would be a dead heat I imagine.

The original article makes the statement

" That's 4x faster than the optimized Factor code, and more than 10x faster than Java."

I was saying this comparison is not only meaningless but misleading. The statements should be something like

"The Clojure code (which compiles to the GPU) is 4x faster than the optimized Factor code (which compiles to the CPU) , and more than 10x faster than Java(which compiles to the CPU). GPUs and CPUs make different speed tradeoffs so the above is meaningless btw "

For language speed comparisons to be (somewhat) meaningful, they should have a common baseline environment. If each language compiles to a different type of chip (GPU vs CPU in this case) there is no valid "comparison".
I can't wait for the new X25-M. Recently threw a 160GB X25-M (first gen) in a datamining database server to replace a 6x15k SCSI RAID 10 array, and it was 2.5x faster. One disk faster than six.
I took her meritocratic stance seriously until I heard her defend inherited wealth, which is ridiculously inconsistent.
it's not a hobby since I don't buy the stuff on my own?

In everyday speech, it's a hobby, but not in the definition that the author uses as a heuristic for "good salespeople".
ha ha ;-) Can't believe someone feel for it :)
I always met far more interesting people...

But what about people with whom you're likely to close a sale?
MyTV/x does not work with Snow Leopard because Eskape Labs is not issuing any update after 10.4
VMware version 1 is not compatible with Snow Leopard. I lost data.
I reinstalled Tiger and I lost everything on iTunes.
For me, Snow Leopard is a sad experience.
Ouch. Sorry to kick a dead horse, but I'm not sure what exactly EBay was thinking when they bought it... solving fraud by letting people talk to each other? Really? I suppose it's something which might have seemed good in a meeting of people none of whom cared much about thinking it through.
When I signed up for diving it was my first really expensive hobby. The instructor said to just buy the fins, mask, suit, and belt. Instead of an octopus get a diving computer and never buy tanks unless you live close to where you dive. I agree with you up to a point but there are logistical problems with your argument. Some of the best diving places are only available by flight. I'd rather spend the money diving than on shipping tanks across the country.

Also, a good dive shop has fairly new equipment for rent. If they are good at what they do then it will show in the quality of the equipment and staff.

Now that I have kids I still consider it a hobby. But one I only get to do once a year. I've added a few more expensive hobbies to my list since exiting my broke college student phase: International travel, photography, and wine.

BTW, every good salesman I've met has expensive hobbies and a rich spouse :-)
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It's not unusual for partner companies to accommodate each other, specially when their interests are so overlapped as Adobe's and Apple's are. You say re-factoring and I say it makes perfect business sense for Apple to make sure Adobe's stuff works first and foremost; CS showcases the Apple platform better than any other app suite I can think of, not only that, but it also pushes sale of Apple products like crack. Adobe's bloated stuff sells macs, plain and simple; it's one of the main anchors that keeps the creative and media industries on Apple (though they could have CS on Win32 as well.)
wasn't it designed to be low overheads? eg: the P2P system for bandwidth, over having to pay their own server infrastructure.
Gattaca - a favorite of mine. A future made by hacking the human genome creates a society that the protagonist hacks with pure will.
It is poorly edited, but full of excellent content. The author should release it to a wiki so that some enthusiasts can clean up the typos and other formatting issues.

I keep referring back to it. I think it would be good to read in parallel with a business partner.
It didn't work. Mozilla 3.0.11 here.
I think its the answers, more than the questions, are what makes Hacker News.
People, at least try to come up with a descriptive headline. This one is about as informative as "LOL WTF".
Didn't work for me either: Konqueror 3.0.3 on KDE 3.0.3.

There are advantages to using a seriously, seriously old browser for browsing.
If you are interested in democratic and effective companies this is a great story. I wish more companies had a culture like Semco. Strong leadership should never go out the door, but autocracy should.
What's the real deal with 64-bit computing in Snow Leopard?
And the island of the day before
I don't know about that, it depends on the build tree I guess. Our IDE build tree (which includes compiler, RTL and lots of other stuff) writes about 600M of intermediate files, 1G of executables / debugger symbol files / map files etc., and reads probably several G worth of source. A rebuild (clean and build) currently runs in about 13 minutes on my 10K drive, but I'm fairly sure it could be cut down with faster I/O.
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A refreshing lack of NIH among Googlers should not be considered scandalous, though I suppose it might be slightly surprising.
> I've been hitting refresh compulsively for the last few days, reloading the URL where it would be.

Wow, I'm glad to learn I wasn't the only guy doing that.
Reading the same thing at the moment. But right after reading The Fountain Head, which I like way more. Maybe because than these ideas were all fresh and new for me. But now it is just too romantic. I can understand why she takes this idealistic approach, but it is just that it doesn't read that good in this great length. I am at the point where she discovers Atlantis and they think they live in the old US.
WTF, is it normal practice for tech startups to hire their /architects/ to help run the company? I mean, is this really such a great thing?
To be perfectly honest, your niche is something you perhaps don't want it to be : porn. There is a market, there are customers, and it is where recommendations would be highly valued.

Furthermore, users are willing to rate, there is a lot of tagging going on, the tags are quite detailed, and the benefit from being able to recommend specific items for specific tastes that are not widely found, means that these 'niche' users are easy to monetize.

Your service is perhaps a bit vague at the moment - when you spin off a section that does targeted porn recommendations, you're going to become instant millionares.
Check out his previous OSX reviews as well, they're glorious:

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2000/10/macos-x-beta.ar...

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2001/04/macos-x.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2001/10/macosx-10-1.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2002/09/macosx-10-2.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2003/11/macosx-10-3.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2005/04/macosx-10-4.ars

http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2007/10/mac-os-x-10-5.a...
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Pride an Prejudice, until 4 in the morning last night. I'm sleepy now at work :)
From what I remember at the time, eBay had a ton of cash and was being pushed to make acquisitions. The whole idea of using it as part of their auctions was ludicrous. Their either don't understand their customer base or were purely talking BS.
After several hours of researching SSD options, I recently bought a Corsair P128 from Amazon. Firmware version was VBM18C1Q (which supports background garbage collection as the article points out).

Price is currently identical on both Amazon and NewEgg ($330.99), but NewEgg has tons of user reviews. Affiliate-free links:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductReview.aspx?Item=N82E16...

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B002CI41US/
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Perhaps, but not if you're trying to push out an update to existing frustrated users. Also, I've got a feeling that once Apple saw what happened Thing Would Not Go Well.

Just kind of a sad story all around, I guess.
> The best solution I've seen is a Maybe Monad.

More generally an option type. Maybe being a monad has other advantages (lifting for instance, though being a monad isn't actually required: C# 3.0 lifts operations into Nullable when you're e.g. adding two Nullable<int> [aka int?] values) but is not a requirement for a "nullable" living in the types.

> The problem is that unless your language has support baked in (a la Haskell) the syntax has way too much overhead.

Not really. The problem is more around the way your generics work: Putting Nothing in a Maybe Int is nice, putting a new Nothing<Int>() in a Maybe<Int> isn't as much.

And if anything, I think having overhead in pushing null values in the system is a good thing: it avoids people running to it right off the bat, and may make them pause and think about better solutions (a command-type pattern, a Null/SpecialCase object, …)
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> Is he really suggesting to replace all attempts to dereference null with no-ops? Weird.

It is. Some languages work that way though, Objective-C for instance: `nil` is a "message sink", any message can be sent to `nil` without generating any error, it simply returns nil.
> They do know lisp which has much better ways of dealing with nil.

Lisp being mostly a class of dynamically-typed languages, their solution to the issue doesn't really apply to Java. For statically typed languages, the solution adopted by the ML family (as well as haskell) is far superior: encode the notion of "optional" values in an abstract type.
Upvote for iPython, it quickened my learning of the language 10 fold. That and slime.vim is a match made in heaven!
Part of the drivers for eBay was that Skype was at the time (apparently) responsible for something like 90% of paypal signups (especially outside of established markets like the US).

I think they were worried that if Skype had been purchased by Google, and they switched to using Google Checkout rather than paypal, that they would have lost a lot of market share.
Ha! I'm the only one apparently reading Melville! I'm reading Omoo, his second book. I finished Typee last week and Omoo is the semi-sequel.
thanks everyone for your comments. JimmyL, you make some very valid points and this is a route I'm taking hesitantly. I should have made it clear in my original post why I need to restrict signups in this way. I'm making a trading platform for users to buy & sell collectible items from a certain niche. Without limiting new accounts, there's little to stop someone creating multiple accounts and engaging in fake transactions in order to bump up their feedback, especially during the beta because I won't be charging any fees.
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'Very'? I couldn't be so generous: it is a conspiracy theory, self-admittedly:

> "Anyone interested in the truth will be shocked by the way American social engineers have systematically gone about destroying the intellect of millions of American children for the purpose of leading the American people into a socialist
world government controlled by behavioral and social scientists."
But how much code do you have to write to check your parameters for null references?
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Apple supplies pre-release OSX builds to partners and provides some level of developer support. I'd be more than surprised if Adobe weren't (first-tier) members of that programme. On the other hand, being slow to support new platforms sounds right up Adobe's street.
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I think that particular artist has just invented 'vanity advertising', an ad that is only visible to yourself.

Way to go if someone overbid him on those keywords to make it read 'No, Peter Dyreborg is the vainest guy in the world' ;)
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> I don't think supporting a lot of form factors and "price points" (i.e. hardware capability) is necessarily a recipe for success.

It worked for Nokia.
Agreed. The flaw in program logic is that there is no object. Very often, it makes no sense to not pass an object somewhere where an object should be passed. Having null pointers makes it easy to live with this logic bug, when it should never have happened in the first place.
From what I can tell, JOGL is preferable in at least one situation: Applets. Since the code is signed by Sun, it's a lot less hassle to run it in a browser than if you had to get hold of signatures yourself. Might be something worth bearing in mind.
genetic screening of children

Out of curiousity, where are you? In most of Europe, eugenics is deeply taboo.
christ this is what i left reddit for
What about side effects though? Consider this:

obj1 = new SomeClass()
obj2 = null
obj2.do(obj1.doWithSideEffects())

So obj2.do being a no-op should mean that obj1.doWithSideEffects is never called. Or should it?
Yes, in Europe, Netherlands.

I know it is taboo, but ignoring the possibility that it will happen anyway also seems to be taboo. We're edging slowly in that direction.

The drive for this stuff to happen is there, maybe they'll do it illegally, rich people only, maybe it will be 'special cases only' at first but somehow I expect it to creep in under the radar.

Personally I think it is a bad development, I'm not sure if google books results work but here is one to a book called 'backdoor to eugenics':

http://books.google.com/books?id=48t9i33bMqMC&dq=backdoo...

And that's not even beginning to address the potential consequences of meddling with machinery that you do not fully understand.
One-click deployment does not mean developers should be releasing code to customers straight out of their build directories.
To calculate something like "60% heart failure chance" right after birth doesn't seem to possible to me. Too much depends on environment, bad luck and habits. That "60%" would have a deviation of 50 or something and be nearly useless. That said the basic idea will certainly come true. Some things are at least partly genetic and medicine will probably be able to test this at some point. In vitro fertilization is probably where it's used first.
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Agile doesn't mean releasing an application is testing an application. Your users aren't your testers.

I'm sorry, when I read this rant I read someone who didn't do his homework in the first place.
There are alternatives to the Android Market:

http://www.mymarket.cc/

Try it out, see what you think ..
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The problem with Objective C is, after they have this wonderful message-eating nil, they added this NSNull that brings the problem back. And since it's a superset of C, you get NULL for free too.
It would be more impressive (and more useful) if it used the topic title from HN as the link text.
It's called. The do() isn't.
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Nope, I went to abbey national (it's called santander now I think) and I get free business banking for life.

I'm not recommending them, just saying it is possible. All you need is a few forms of ID.
"Only the man who does not need it, is fit to inherit wealth--the man who would make his own fortune no matter where he started. If an heir is equal to his money, it serves him; if not, it destroys him." - I think she's still basing it on merit. While I disagree with some of what she says, and she says a lot, she does a decent job of staying consistent.
Nope. Java was strongly influenced by languages where this was already a solved problem: http://cs.gmu.edu/~sean/stuff/java-objc.html
+1 on ZAMM, very interesting book...do you plan on moving on to Lila, the "sequel"? I've read that very few have a full understanding of the point of the second book...I never got around to reading it after the first...
It worked for an extremely long time.

It's causing them problems now, but it's the basis for their successes.

So overall it was the right thing to do. (Despite, me, and every programmer who hears about it, cringing at the idea.)

For way, way more on the topic: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/APIWar.html and for the gritty specifics of many of the hacks: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/
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Interesting! Can you elaborate a little bit on the usage pattern and how you measured the speedup, please?
Am I the only one a bit unnerved by the easiness with which women bullshit?
I don't think you understand what NSNull actually is. It's designed to behave as an empty placeholder object in collections that don't allow nil, nothing more.

C's NULL isn't an issue either, nil == NULL == 0, and isn't encountered in any of the contexts described by the article.
"Do the math" as in hey, Microsoft is just in it for the marketshare? I don't think they pretend anything else - and I still think this kind of marketing is alright.
"Starting a startup is like science in that you have to follow the truth wherever it leads. In the rest of the world, people don't start things till they're sure what they want to do, and once started they tend continue on their initial path even if it's mistaken."
I admit I don't know much about Japan's politics, but isn't an old bureaucracy made up of professionals better then pure political leadership? In my country (Romania) we have the other extreme: every public institution has political leadership, changed every 4 years, up to high-schools. No only the managers tend to be less prepared, but if you add a bit of corruption, of which we have in large supply, you end with effectively a market for buying/selling these position.

I'm not saying this is the case in other democracies, of course, but I do have a healthy respect for a bureaucracy which discourages promotions based on political reasons.
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What on earth are they doing with windows '95 in 2009 ?
I heartily applaud and encourage Apple to spend their manpower on reviewing apps that are either new to the store or are updated with notable new features.

If Joe Stump is so concerned about the good name of his app being ruined by 1-star reviews then why doesn't he remove it from sale using the control panel on iTunes Connect? Or add some comments to the app information? Instead he seems quite content to continue charging money for it.

Frankly I find his attitude distasteful. He seems most upset that his Apple connections didn't lead to him receiving a "get out of jail free card" after he failed to learn his lesson about the value of QA.
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. The Innovator's Dilemma
. Ayn Rand++
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The comment on the page says:

> BigLinuxGuy says:
> Might have wanted to had the title mention that
> these were web tutorials. I work almost exclusively
> with enterprise architectures, and none of these are
> really applicable to my profession.

I'd go further. For me, they were a waste of time completely.

Please, some truth in advertising helps your cause. If you get fewer readers, at least they'll be the ones who will care.

I remember when my parents were running their business, times were tight, and my father proposed reducing the terms on the invoices. Those on 90 days be reduced to 60 days, those on 60 days reduced to 30 days, those on 30 days reduced to 7, and those on 7 reduced to COD. My mother was panicking. "We'll lose customers!" she said.

"Yes," replied my father, "But they are the customers who are costing us money. That's a net profit."

Similarly, be honest in your title and you may lose some readers, but they'll be the ones who will get annoyed at reading something that's irrelevant to them. Some of them may be rather vocal about it.
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It should.

[obj1 doWithSideEffects]

will be evaluated before

[obj2 do]

because Obj-C is eager, so the runtime doesn't know (or care) about obj2 when it considers the evaluation of the inner expression.

To get the behavior you want, you need to use blocks (which incidentally were introduced in 10.6) and write something along the lines of:

[obj2 do: ^{ [obj1 doWithSideEffects] }]

In this case, if obj2 do: doesn't explicitly evaluate the block, obj1 doWithSideEffects won't be evaluated.
Last three books I read were;
Atlas Shrugged,
Code Complete,
The Mythical Man Month,

The three books I'm currently reading;
flex and bison,
Mastering Algorithms in C
Expert C programming,

The next three books on the "to read" stack are;
Cyptonomicom,
The definitive guide to GCC,
Managing projects with GNU make,

Did anyone else find "Code Complete" to be a bit repetitive, in places a bit redundant, and sometimes repetitive?
I think the "pragmatic programmer" was a better read, and I could not put down "programming pearls"
That's it. And everyone can register and upload code. Some tests from the CPAN servers are regulary runned against your code and you get notified by email, but that's all about it really. Darwin selection ;-).
I was actually just driving around Vegas the other day noticing and pointing to a friend just the ridiculous amount of "for lease" signs one sees.
Opera 10 released.
Another fix would be if the exact ending time would not be published. Just something like "This auctions ends in the next 20 minutes".
Good luck with Elementary Particles. It's was too depressing for me. "The Possibility of an Island" gets better though, with a nice sci-fi underline.