skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I know neither.

I'd skip Objective-C and learn Swift to actually make a thing.

If you want general language knowledge, a really hairy production language and toolset isn't the place to look. You'll be fighting with lots of incidental stuff along the way.

Learning different kinds of languages will help you learn more languages.
Go live in small town America.
From the business' point of view, why would I keep paying the same salary for 25% less work? That's insane.
While some of the commentary is not from himself or Anne, some of it was.

I believe the quoted experience was not Alex Shulgin's though.
I'm not an anthropologist, but I have a hard time believing that different peoples have significantly different conceptions of time. Americans are a lot heavier than other peoples, but nobody suggests they have a different concept of mass.

They're really talking about culture - mutual rules for deciding when a thing will occur, and when it has ended. Or dominant metaphors for time. A lot of these are dependent on material conditions; what is locally scarce?

In a place where gasoline and vehicles are scarce and people operate on thin margins, people expect long voyages to be infrequent, and the bus is not going to leave unless there are enough passengers. Otherwise the bus driver can't buy dinner that evening.

In a place where human labor is cheap, materials are expensive, and enforcement of contracts is sketchy, keeping people waiting while you assess their character may be preferable to making a hasty commitment.

Maybe not every difference is explainable this way but I think a lot of them are.

If alien anthropologists arrived, they might look at our space programs and conclude that we had a different conception of time. There's a strange obsession with the exact moment of launch, and time is measured as starting from a negative number up to that point. Time can be, and often is, started and stopped relative to that moment. Launches may have a published, scheduled time, but everyone expects it to be deferred until consensus is achieved that conditions are right. We are also careful that each launch be carefully timed to use an auspicious window, dependent on the planets around us and other cyclical conditions.

The alien anthropologist, ignorant of how his powerful ship even works, notes that he takes off whenever he wants to and just goes in a straight line to wherever he likes. He attributes the humans' odd practices to their different conception of time.
First off, two of their "studies" simply compared the hamburger icon to different types of icons, but the functionality remained the same (slide out). Only one looked at changing the navigation entirely.

Second, this is not so much a reflection of fly-out/slide-out navigations as it is a reflection of the fact that on mobile you just have less screen real estate period. Nowhere in that article is there a real reckoning with that fact.

I've yet to be convinced that fly-out/slide-out/hamburger navigations are worse than the alternative when you have lots of items to display. Either way you're not going to be displaying something, and whatever is not immediately visible will receive reduced engagement. If your home page/screen is full of navigation items, something else will be hidden instead.

Not to mention the article provides solution for cases that have many navigation items - something that is very common.
To expand on the non-syntax, perl has an incredible amount of language-level features, which may appear very weird to people who have only seen it from afar.

For example, perl formats[0] are language-level support for generating formatted text reports and charts, which is basically a whole sublanguage (much like perl regexen).

[0] http://perldoc.perl.org/perlform.html
And it isn't an American truth that businesses really need to accomplish things to survive and thrive, it's the nature of the Universe we live in, where we must work for our sustenance, however distasteful you may find that.

It's neither an American truth nor the nature of the Universe, it's a story. Older than America (not the continent nor the people in it, but the idea), to be sure, but not that old. The necessity of work, indeed the celebration of it, is obviously interesting to discuss in the age of automation.
Smashing The Stack For Fun And Profit (1996)
"(assuming I wasn't marketing to Americans; of course, this may imply qualified investors anyway)"

I can afford to fly to Scotland, and I am nowhere near a qualified investor...
You continue to cite this study in several comments here. It's true, that under the assumptions of the paper, a 10 percent increase of the minimum wage increases operating costs by about 1 to 2 percent. However, the paper assumes that this increase only affects a small number of workers by a small amount (1/3 of the workers have their wages increased by 5%). A 100 percent increase in wages will affect almost everyone working in the restaurant industry (not just the 1/3 of workers the paper assumes). And it will affect them by a large amount, not 5%. Thus, the results of the paper don't simply scale linearly with the size of the increase in the minimum wage. Under simple assumptions (of the kind made by the paper cited) I calculate that costs to restaurants will rise by over 30%. It could end up more or it could end up less, the paper didn't provide a distribution of wages in the restaurant industry which would more accurately answer this question.

In any case, you should realize that this is a major increase in costs to restaurants, not just 1 or 2 percent.

The numbers I've seen for profit margins in restaurants range from 2 to about 3 percent. Since 1/3 of costs in restaurants come from labor, a 30% increase in labor costs will mean that restaurants will have a negative profit margin of around 7 or 8 percent after the new minimum wage goes into effect.

This means that eventually there will likely be less workers, higher prices for food, and less restaurants.
The problem with India is that even highly educated, otherwise rational people put their thinking mind aside and give in to superstition.

Consider Dr. Radhakrishnan, the head of ISRO (Indian space research org.) - Before every rocket that ISRO launches, he visits Tirupati, a holy site in India to pray for its success. Now, I realize this is far cry from people drinking sewage water, but if the head of the Indian space program is this superstitious, what can you say about the rest of the country?
:-)

I used to work for Madge. Why were you running without MAUs?
In my experience how late you were for a meeting was a proxy for your status in the company. The longer you kept others waiting for you, the higher your status.

I've seen this play out in social groups, too.
The competition would also have to deal with an increased minimum wage.
Any up-to-date C# developer already knows Swift.
What about buying the $1.99 at Namecheap and renewing it with other Certificate bought on other site? Anyone know if that would be possible?
The difference between Northern cultures and Southern cultures is more fundamental. In Northern cultures, the people have a relationship to the rules. In Southern cultures, people have a relationship to other people. So using time as an example, people in Northern cultures value strict adherence to the clock as proper, while people in Northern cultures view person to person relationships as more valuable than adherence to strict time keeping.
Because of the obvious barriers to entry to reach a point where you are exploiting workers? Or because some people probably would prefer not to exploit others for profit?

Your point would make some sense if all owners of companies bootstrapped them from startups, when in reality they were likely just someone who was otherwise wealthy and became owners once it was already a successful company when the original owners already cashed out (or passed on, depending on the age of the company).
Ed Snowden is our Sanal Edamaruku. Sanal is blowing the whistle on more traditional superstition, Snowden is revealing that our beliefs in the "goodness" of government - particularly in the realm of self-restraint and general respect for our citizens - are also superstitions. And in the same way, large chunks of America are calling for his death, too.

The lesson? It's remarkable how angry and violent people get when their beliefs are challenged - and this anger and violence seems proportional to the ignorance of those beliefs. It makes one yearn for the day when superstition is ended once and for all, and people can live in the real world according to the best evidence of their senses.
Perhaps those of us living in suburbs like it? :)

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=78c...
http://theaviationist.com/2014/03/01/google-project-loon/
This was bound to happen eventually, especially given the indication of insider trading the day before SD was bought out.[0]

[0]http://sinistercyb.org/wp/2013/07/satoshi-dice-sale/
Your rant is misplaced. Every country in the world would claim jurisdiction over people trying to sell things in their country.
That is the entire point I"m making. You cannot go to the store and buy a Linux-based desktop nor laptop. Companies (and most home users) don't want anything to do with Windows 8, but are being forced off XP. This is the ideal opportunity to capitalize on such a market and make Linux Desktop's common-place.

Out of all the Linux vendor's and distro's, Canonical is the closest at achieving common-place... yet, they have stopped short at such a critical time.

Of course tablets are popular, so are phones. Both markets are more fierce than desktops due to massively low price-points and some companies (looking at you google) willing to sell their tablets at a loss.

Companies spend $3-10K on server hardware, not the OS. When you buy big-iron servers, it's actually very common-place to get a Linux OS already installed, or no OS so you can install your preferred distro. Server Software (the OS) support contracts absolutely make money... but so does desktop software support contracts.

Your assertion that desktop industry is not worth focusing on is not true. Tablets and phones are getting more popular, but desktops and laptops are not going anywhere anytime soon.
Ask HN: How will certain startups survive after WWDC announcements? 
After seeing WWDC yesterday, I felt truly sorry for companies that have been working on cloud storage, healthtech and hometech because now they have all been one-upped by Apple and soon it's developer community.

So, my question is: How do you think startups affected by Apple's announcements react and evolve in the coming months? How will the tech community compete with a giant like Apple when the user experience will eventually cover mind, body, home, work, and car?
It's a little complicated. The idea is that one uses this Leech lattice to define a 24-dimensional space, and we throw in little quantum strings that live on that space. These strings are inspired by (but not exactly the same as) the strings we know from standard 'string theory'.

The quantum field theory is then the one living on the worldsheet of the strings, it is the one that describes their embedding in this peculiar space. The monster group turns out to be a symmetry group of this field theory.

This is all conjecturally related to quantum gravity (according to Witten's paper) through the so-called AdS/CFT correspondence which states that field theories are sometimes equivalent to theories of quantum gravity. It has its problems and it remains to be seen if it is really true. (AdS/CFT is fine in itself, the trouble of the conjecture is whether it holds in this particular example.)

A word of warning based on previous experience: this is highly technical stuff and what is mentioned here are just words. Please don't think you can make contributions to this field without seriously studying the equations.
I agree it looks pretty but it took me 40 minutes to complete all ten levels. Thats not very good value for money.
If there is a problem of awareness inside China due to censorship, then large numbers of websites around the world posting something commemorating Tienanmen Square on each anniversary -- if only a standardized graphic linking to more information -- could make a difference.

Usually, actions such as signing an online petition or posing a graphic mean little, but it could help solve this specific problem.

The participating websites wouldn't have to post much information; they only need to prompt people to ask questions and find answers. If the Chinese government blocked all the websites posting the commemoration, it would attract more attention and legitimize the issue's importance (otherwise why would the government make such an effort).

(It would be interesting to see which companies and people with business in China would participate.)
Unfortunately, Android 2.3 phones are still sold on big quantities, and don't support SNI.

Maybe you can just ignore them, or maybe you can't. Anyway, it's not a no-brainer.
I recently donned my foil hat and became convinced that safrole (the major component of sassafras oil) was banned as a food additive for being a carcinogen because of MDMA.

The study determining carcinogenicity, which would ban the substance automatically due to a 1960 FDA rule, occurred in 1977. The substance itself was not found to be carcinogenic, but two metabolites--found in rodents but not humans--were.

Shulgin began research on MDMA in 1976.

Foil hat is the best psychoactive drug.
"hamburger menu" refers to a menu which pops out when you click on the 'menu' icon, which looks a bit like a stylised hamburger. => ☰
I thought Blink was trying to Implement the DOM in JS?

So it would have less C++ code but more JS.
Arithmetic Expressions in Swift
For any prime number p:
p^2 - 1 = (p+1)(p-1)
That's true for every number, including for example 3.4, PI, and 3+5i
A Company Just Appointed an Algorithm to its Board
I experienced similar issues this weekend while trying to register a new domain. Once logged in, my immediate impression was that I should click the "Domains" dropdown from the white navbar to manage my domains. The actual links I need are hidden behind the expanded menu, it would be nice highlight these options better since they're the primary use case for logged in users.

The only other issue I've noticed is a large disconnect between the new aesthetic of the landing page (which I quite enjoy) and the yet-unchanged UI of the dashboard.
This is a misleading title. Brian builds Supercomputer Models, not Supercomputers. It would be like if I had a model of a Ferrari I put together at home and wrote an article about how I built sports cars in my spare time.

Yes, these are awesome, full-featured models, but the differences between this and a supercomputer, which costs tens of millions of dollars, requires high-density power and cooling, features multi-dimensional, low-diameter networks, and contains hundreds of thousands to millions of compute cores is... quite vast.
A hamburger menu is a single menu button (with horizontal lines on it) that folds out into a (much to) big list of menu items.
i find the treemap graphs under "Priorities and revealed preferences" very difficult to parse. there are a lot of the same files in there with different colors. pretty poor viz choice IMO.
I’m not sure if there’s a better book out there for UI design in general, but The Elements of Typographic Style[1] was the typography bible.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/Elements-Typographic-Style-Robert-Brin...
I tried to use StartSSL to secure a small non-profit website which happened to (totally separately) process donations through PayPal, and I was unable to get them to comprehend that PayPal provides its own security and their certificate would not be involved in any monetary transactions. They insisted they couldn't authorize a certificate for an organization that dealt with money in any way, which, as far as I know, disqualifies essentially every organization ever.

So yeah, $0/year, but definitely not "no bullshit."
2k+ Github stars in less than 24h? OMG
I hate meetings. A co-worker and I play a game whenever we are in charge of a meeting- see if we can end it early. It's amazing when an hour long meeting can be finished in 20 minutes. Unfortunately, there are a few people that like to drag the meeting out (unprepared, asking unrelated questions, making people wait for XYZ event that could be sent as an email later).
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This is really cool stuff. Reminds me of a stripped down version of notch's live coding sessions for Ludum Dare.

Any reason you chose LaTeX as your content dev language and publishing over something a little "easier" like DocBook XML and Publican (which uses LaTeX as an intermediate build language to create PDFs)? Is it required, what you're used to, or purity of notation?
Really? Thanks, will definitely be trying this.
"a fully featured development IDE"

What kind of static analysis and automatic refactoring features does it provide?
What about standing up to bad people in their own country?
If everyone flees from the crooks, kleptocrats and nuts, then the crooks, kleptocrats and nuts win. Somebody has to stand up to them someday.
One key difference is that anyone in America can get on a computer and read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Los_Angeles_riots, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kent_State_shootings, or http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_American....

In fact, I wonder if there's some sort of perverse lesson here in the fact that this information is freely available in the US and yet still few people know about it.
No wonder so many small-town Americans flee to cities.
Spammer to pay damages after court victory
WOW Internet is routing customer's non-routable addresses
WideOpenWest (http://www.wowway.com/) is the 13th largest ISP in the US, so you would think they know what they're doing. However, I have discovered that they are routing non-routable IP ranges - 192.168, 172.16-30 and 10 - between all their customers.

After running several IP scans, it would seem that it is possible to see the entire WOW network - media servers, routers, media catchers, phones, etc. They are on private IP numbers, but they are visible to all customers of WOW.

Most home routers have a default 0.0.0.0 gateway to send all traffic to the upstream, and the upstream is supposed to be smart enough to drop all non-routable traffic. Not so much in this case.

In fact, WOW themselves admit to the problem and that it has been an issue for over a year.

This sort of massive, long-lasting security hole in a large-scale ISP needs to be dealt with immediately, so I am bringing it to the Internet as a whole's attention.
The developer web pages are on public URLs that don't have any developer authentication or headers that say they are non-public information. It would be quite ironic if registered developers were under an NDA but the public was not.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
Thank you :) I was after some reason why one could possibly think this to be opt-in rather than opt-out, but it appears that there truly is none.
You can get versions with external memory.
That's exactly what I was looking for, thanks!
Would you ? Have you ?
> I care about what I eat

Then you can't avoid learning to estimate portions. And once you do that, the way most standard food logging apps, web or mobile, work should generally work (there is room for improvement in friction, in some cases, but not in the particular area of making the app guess more.) There's no shorter cut from which meaningful results can be gathered. And its not that hard.

> On calorie counting apps, the serving sizes are almost always useless.

They aren't "useless", they do require you to understand portions. They replace manually logging and tallying what is logged, not actually recognizing what it is you are eating.

> This burger is measured in ounces -- is that before or after cooking?

Pre-cooked. Its the generally-accepted standard (most logging systems I've seen expressly indicate this, though some don't).

> I think if you're neurotic or otherwise obsessed with tracking your calories super seriously, then maybe you're right. But in my experience, most of my friends who start using calorie counting apps stop using calorie counting apps, because it's so much damned work to track everything they eat all day long.

Calorie counting apps aren't useful, though, if the user isn't visually making meaningful estimates (and, yes, they'll generally be estimates if you aren't preparing it yourself) of quantitative portion sizes and specific included elements beyond "1 to 5" ratings of healthiness -- because of the very kinds of variability that you yourself point to. Calorie counting apps can facilitate the process of tracking, but they can't replace the recognition and quantification of what you are eating part (which, yes, is initially the hard part of food tracking -- but its also the part that gets easy with experience.)

There's some pretty simple rules of thumb for visually estimating portion sizes, etc., that can be helpful if you aren't eating a predefined menu item that is already in the apps database, and its possible that UX could be improved by facilitating access to guidance on those when logging such items. But that's different than the model you propose, which has serious GIGO problems.

> I'm advocating a smarter system. I'm guessing, which is more work than I want to do. Do the guessing for me. Do the work for me.

Sorry, you're the one who has the sensory input from which to make a meaningful estimate. Its obviously not impossible for a machine to do this, given the right sensors and the right application of them to the food, but its not going to save you any work on a smartphone platform.

> I'm happy to say "I think it was 1.5 servings and relatively healthy

Yes, but that's not meaningful input from which any useful information can be gained. Unless you have a well-calibrated consistent definition of a serving -- in which case, you can just as well say how many ounces, etc., it was.
Being religious is not superstition. The serenity prayer nicely puts things in perspective - there are many things beyond human control that can cause failure - if going to Tirupathi gets him in the zone all the power to him.
What, if anything, have we learned from C++? [video]
Looks like Instagram is trying to be more like VSCO?
Fine, but if you read the article he's fleeing blasphemy laws. Small town America won't arrest me for saying that Kreskin is bullshit or that I'm not religious. I never understood why there's this hysterical knee-jerk reaction to every criticism of any country with 'but its just as bad in the US.' No, its not.
Well, rather than being killed dead, he got a nice writeup by the BBC, which is read by quite a few of his countrymen. I'd say he's taken a wiser path.
Mostly indisputable. :-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope
The US decided they could prosecute BNC because the transactions, completely legal where BNC was doing business, we're in US dollars. It took a $10 billion fine to finally get France to push back.
"Oh thank you Namecheap for giving us even cheaper pay-for-insecurity certificates!"

Kinda sad. We deserve a better internet than this. Use the blockchain for free and actually secure certificates:

https://github.com/okTurtles/dnschain
So is this actually a lot easier to use than Objective-C?
A single 16 core Parallella can run with just passive cooling. It takes next to no cooling to bring both the ARM and Epiphany chips down to near room temperature.
This doesn't work particularly well for fields not using LaTeX as their document creation tool.
But it gets better soon: 24x2 + 1 = 49 and that is prime, isn't it? :-)