skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You're probably right, but I think I've heard of Rust in public in 2010 and that it was started by Graydon in 2007.
nice!!! this lingo is so clean and user-friendly as compared to objective-c...and reduces the no of lines substantially.
Construct phrases like Yoda, shall I. Unmask this Identity, never you shall.
Relevant Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coastline_paradox
Tabbed browsing: a lousy band-aid over poor browser management
Concurrency will probably be handled using Grand Central Dispatch's[0] queues.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_Central_Dispatch
It seems near impossible to create a service in this space that is both general purpose and also usable enough to get the kind of adoption that a company the size of Apple needs to justify its involvement.

So I'm really eager to see what Apple has come up with, and how it's going to be different from Microsoft HealthVault, Google Health, RunKeeper's HealthGraph, and Samsung's SAMI.
Thanks! I'll give this a try. My data is in mongodb using ruby/rails as a web front. Data structure shouldn't be too hard...its just books, users, bookmarks, and tags/genre. All have unique ids (mongo UUIDs for users, books, and basic integer ids for the tags) and simple associations so I guess it couldn't be too hard to import. I'm thinking an offline system would be fine for some experiments. Not sure I need some real-time recommender integrated...but I'm new to this, so I guess I'm still not sure what I need.
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Interesting, the ransom demands are being made (to look like they come) from a Hotmail address, surely Apple could talk to Microsoft and PayPal about this.
Interesting. Thank you so much for taking the time and effort to explain.
Myspace still exists
Thanks for the response and acknowledging the nature and realities of the situation.

I like that you have a free trial to see the platform without requiring a contract. Other providers let you see a demo account, but actually getting to test a live campaign is always better because you can see the speed and integration with your analytics.

Are you guys still in Mountain View by any chance?
I moved to Tanzania recently (I'm a white western programmer with a remote job).

Some of the hurdles you have to jump over to become a professional programmer here:

- Have access to a computer (several months, sometimes years, of salary). Obviously.

- Have access to reliable power. I have 6+ hours power cuts almost daily here (and I'm in a rich town - not in the bush). Being a western Engineer, I could afford to build my own power backup system, but I'm the exception.

- Have access to the internet. Sure, I can afford broadband here, but at 60$+ a month, it's way out of reach for most people. Mobile is acccessible-ish, but most providers won't let you tether a computer (or charge through the roof for it).

- Read English well enough to understand online material. The corollary being that your family has to be rich enough to afford to send you to school (that is, primary and high-school. I'm not even talking about university here).

- Last but not least, actually learn programming (I met many westerners without any of the previous problems that fail utterly).

Once you pass all these, you still have to find a job, and that's not easy. Basically, some ISPs, some telco jobs, and very few regional things (web agencies etc...).

I hope working from home / remoting will continue to become more widespread - some very good programmers here are looking for jobs, and would love to stay.

Oh, and most of Africa shares timezones with Europe, too.
Wiki for GoShare: TimeSeries DataStore over HTTP and ZeroMQ with levelDB at core
Suggests a project for someone to make a little play app which lets you stand on a beach, aim your phone and discover the next landmass in a given direction.

Or likewise, "looking" down through the Earth. What's on the opposite site of where I'm standing right now (including detailing the oceans and seas).
> I'm not sure what statement you're making here.

The statement I'm making is that you can simply brush off every scientific study by saying "yeah, that's just random chance, don't worry about it". The way that you're looking at this is completely backwards. If the data shows something incredibly unlikely happened, that means we should re-evaluate our assumptions.

> Let me pose the question to you. You are given a fair two-sided coin. You flip the coin 1000 times. 875 of the flips turn up heads. Is the coin biased?

Probably.
Distributed Host Table?
> and there doesn't seem to be a way to define optional method parameters

Did you miss the part about default values?

If you're calling an Objective-C selector with more than one argument, you are indeed using an external parameter name, but external parameters are explicitly not required if you're writing pure Swift.

https://developer.apple.com/library/prerelease/ios/documenta...
The simplest way to start out would be to import from CSV (assuming it's easy to dump users/books/tags from MongoDB to CSV), use that to train the model, then dump the recommendations from the model back to CSV (or using Python code, write them directly to MongoDB). That would give you an offline system with one-time recommendations. You could then run this in batch, on a schedule, to re-train as you get new tags/bookmarks and update the recommendations periodically.
Ask HN: Do you know any Blind Person Who Can Code?
I am genuinely curious if anyone here on HN have ever met blind or visually impaired people who can actually code. I am sure it's far from impossible but I can think of many reasons why the hurdles would be very high - the absence of proper tools, the difficulty to read code through voice, etc... On the other hand, visually impaired people may be strong at abstraction.

So, I'm just looking for examples out there from your own experience, and maybe some suggestions on how to make coding more approachable or enjoyable to people who suffer from such impairments.
I would think that devs would be the most okay with this concept, as they are the only ones that understand what data may or may not actually be transmitted, and the data collection goes towards helping people in the same seat (albeit different projects) as the maker of this product, developers.
Apple is a big, rich corporation. But in that campus there are still human developers.

Radical hypothesis: what if this started as a pet project, got the attention of more employees, then management (with or without convincing from said developers). Management sees the value in the project, and funds it officially. You know, like other big, rich corporations...such as Google.
The /. comments with its tags "Interesting", "Funny", "Insightful", "Informative", "Flamebait" can be very helpful for machine learning purposes.
DDG's traction is quite simple actually:

Bing (and Yahoo), etc are all competing against google at pretty much Google's game. We already know Google will win at Google's game. They make the rules, they hold the keys.

DDG played a different game. It attacked the hacker sphere. It then gave people something they want, privacy. And the quality was good.

Note: Android still does not allow DDG as the search engine, and makes every damn effort to ensure Google is the search engine used. And of course note that DDG, being the only real competitor is magically excluded from relevancy. But no matter, soon, soon.
Can someone tell me what's special about retargeting these days? Its commodity. Implementable in several month as PA showed. Marin must be desperate.
Ho-hum Samsung Z gets an A for chutzpAh
> I did read out a couple aloud in the office and scoffed.
> They're so smug and grandiose

You have to admit there is a little bit of irony in this.
Dell XPS Ultrabook with Kubuntu 14.04 here, without any patches or extra settings. 11W consumption with medium screen brightness, works for ~5 hours with normal browsing (occasional compiling)

Recognizes all monitors and projectors (even the ones Macs fail at) at my work place. The WiFi just works (TM).

You are not using a "Ubuntu laptop". As danford said, just pick a Ubuntu certified machine* and things will just work (TM). And, you will still have more choice than OSX ;)

* http://www.ubuntu.com/certification/desktop/
Obfuscating "Hello world" – Earwig
If you find my comments disrespectful and think I'm implying you have a vendetta, you skimmed them and are disrespecting me by putting words in my mouth. I've simply noticed a trend of most commentary from Rust contributors taking the underdog position and participating in picking apart other (ostensibly) competing languages, and I think you guys should stop doing that.

The last sentence of the comment to which you hint is my thesis. There is no subtext. It's easy to perceive negative opinions as attacks and create an adversary from the person writing the opinion, but it's also a little bit disingenuous. It also, conveniently, creates a platform upon which nobody can disagree with you lest they be hostile and aggressive. You can then exit on the "high ground," as you've done here.

I meant no ill will. Best of luck, I guess.
Rust had been stewing around in Graydon's head for years, but he was never paid to work on it until 2009 (part-time, at that point). And he didn't have any paid employees to help him until 2010 (that would be pcwalton). And as far as I'm concerned, Rust development didn't actually start in earnest until mid-to-late 2011, when the compiler began bootstrapping. And the Rust that we know and love today didn't begin to take shape until 2012, when borrowed references started taking shape.

Personally, I consider the 0.1 release in January 2012 to mark Rust's "birthday". Everything prior to that was just gestation. :)
Yes, that would be great. Unfortunately there is no incentive at all for product managers to have that sort of positive and forward thinking attitude or working relationship with engineering. Instead, 99.9% of product managers have every political incentive to take the approach of 'I have the word manager in my job title therefore I am everyone's boss and they must work to meet my demands' Inexperienced engineers won't challenge this and every other person on the team loves the idea that engineers are their underlings, so that becomes the culture and work environment.
Seriously, what is slow about Mavericks? Your experience sounds psychosomatic: "this is newer, it's probably slower."
What about Hawaii?
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Nice work! Is there any difference between a knowledge base and a wiki?

And while on the topic of wikis, I wanted to plug dokuwiki which is an awesome feature-rich flat file wiki. I've been managing a lot of my writing as .txt files, even the ones with lots of math blocks---thank you MathJax! Also, the docutexit plugin allows me to export as .tex.
It sounds simple but it's not. Take android for example, i thought i could quickly set up a guest/party account without my email and things like that. Creating the account and selecting the allowed apps was very easy, the problems came later.

First, all my system settings wasn't cloned, to the new account i had to re-add things you take for granted like my localized keyboards and stuff like that, can't remember if wifi passwords were included or not. Then comes application settings, many apps are unusable before you configure them properly, even the web browser is unusable in the default state on high dpi devices, you must change the default zoom level. Then it seems some apps actually share state, and in some cases rightfully so, finding out how they share it is a mystery. Some are designed with multi user in mind so you can in fact have a mail app accessible on both accounts without sharing your mails as the system accounts are linked to different mail accounts. Others are the other way around, maybe you want your 10GB music collection to be accessible from every account? Drawing the line of where and what should be shared is very difficult.
Yes, this definitely seems like a mistake on Zazzle's part.

And it's possible the artist may have been acting in good faith, and only wanted designs that actually copy his brand removed, not all designs featuring pi.

Edit: OK, it does seems like the artist is also abusing the system here, judging by his other trademark: http://news.artnet.com/art-world/artist-who-trademarked-pi-s...
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Or you can just draw cones into the screen centered on each vertex and let the z-buffer do the dirty work...

http://blog.alexbeutel.com/332/interactive-voronoi-diagrams-...
And promised converters for any source changes necessary. I expect it'll be similar to the Convert to ARC and Objective-C Literals Menu items in Xcode.
For instance, Hacker News's continuing descent into a babbling echo chamber convinced of it's own superiority is someone else's problem. You can safely ignore this comment.
DuckDuckGo in positive manner
Are you managing your FB ads in house or via agency?

It sounds like in house, which I always highly recommend is best.

However, you might consider reaching out to one of the big FB ad partners like Nanigans. $100k+ account with known ROI, which means you'll ramp quick and advertise long term, will definitely get people drooling at those firms.

Because here's the issue:

While your situation is unfair, and your even allocation idea is great for the most part, it doesn't take into account the size of your competitor's ad budgets.

I'd be willing to bet Zoosk is somewhere in the range of $2M-$10M per year, or more, just on facebook alone. Probably similar amount on Google too.

At that level of spend, the executive level access and ad partner relationships on any advertising platform is a completely different world than yours.

I bet the head of marketing at Zoosk has Sheryl Sandberg's number in their phone and could get her on the line pretty much 24/7 if they REALLY needed too.

You're advocating with a dog whistle, while they have bull horns.

But the big ad platform partners have bull horns too.

And while obviously no one there is calling Sheryl on your behalf, even their regular day to day contacts at facebook are going to be way more influential than yours.

So it may be possible to piggyback off of them to get higher up the ladder.

If they can do that, just run through them until your big enough to have your own bull horn.

If they can't do anything for you because you're too small, you could try reaching out to other niche or regional dating advertisers that got the axe too(pry a ton that are pure desktop still too so even better).

Find ones with only a comfortable level of overlap to you guys and join up to bring all your individual accounts to the first platform that gets you unblocked.

Anyways, sucks and I feel ya, but hopefully some of that is useful.

PS - The 10% even allocation model you outlined is obviously ideal because it lets the market sort it out. But you also have to think about what that market mechanism would do to your business – a slower death. Big players can spend more and afford higher CPIs. They could just take all the oxygen out of the market for others until you die off.
Hey cool!

What part of Tanzania are you from? Moshi here :)
Robot Truck Convoy Tested in Nevada
Holy crap, HTML through pandoc is a great solution. Thank you!
Pirate Bay co-founder Peter Sunde caught after two years on the run
I think you should look up what "indignant" means, then, for the benefit of all of us, demonstrate the anger in my comment that was not put there unconsciously by the reader.
Is there a firefox extension for applying that stylesheet to pages?
Ah, the classics, love THHGTTG. Served me well growing up as an angry teenager. And still serves me well today making me laugh at how ridiculous this entire life, universe and everything really is.
Mark Shuttleworth: white, British descent,

Elon Musk: white, Canadian/British descent,

Chris Pinkham and Benjamin Black (AWS): white,

Emanuel Derman: white,

J. R. R. Tolkien: white, British descent.

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I'm not trying to say anything about race. But many of the examples you pointed out seemed to be of people of non-african descent. I don't think your examples say much about Africans in tech so much as it says something about people in positions of privilege having the opportunity to found companies.

I say this as a one-time white-foreigner living in South Africa, where I spent four years.
Also, attending conferences in "Africa" (such a big and diverse continent lumped together) is completely unpractical except for some edge cases: many flights will go to Europe and back (there is very little internal demand).

The price of such a flight is obviously also a problem.
> This relegates HTTP to nothing more than a transport protocol.

Well maybe because it is a transport protocol, it stands for: Hypertext Transfer Protocol

HTTP is a way to send a message from point A to point B.

If your API is tied to HTTP, then you'll have a hard time reusing the same code for another transport protocol, like websockets.

Sometimes it makes a lot of sense to use HTTP headers codes for error handling, sometimes it just doesn't work, you can't shoehorn HTTP/REST into everything and expect something good to come out of it.
Well let's see.

- The surplus of males in Silicon Valley is a rather well known thing. NYC has the opposite problem.

- CS/Engineering majors also have this problem.

- Many in the tech industry label themselves as having aspergers.

There's a startup trying to take advantage of this problem.

http://blogs.marketwatch.com/themargin/2014/03/07/dating-sta...
Bret Victor's Involvement with Swift
Sorry, but 5 hours on an ultrabook is not competitive. Current Macbook Airs are rated for 12 hours with normal use, and third-party testing has found 10 to be realistic.

demallien is right. Nobody on the Linux side has done this kind of aggressive power engineering for consumer-oriented x86 hardware. Google might, for Chromebooks, but it's not clear how portable that will be to the rest of the ecosystem.
criley2, your comments have started showing up as dead. I guess you can't criticize Apple so vehemently on HN.
Ask HN: Do you 'lose' posts you are reading or have read?
How big of a problem is 'losing' posts? A poll seems too obnoxious but if it's called for I can try it.
Because the CPU has 32k of cache in this case (ARM) so the memcpy was evicting the entire cache several times in the loop as a side effect of doing the work. The actual function of the loop had good cache locality as the data was 6 stack vars totalling about 8k.
This is the alt, the PP icon is http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/icon/pied-piper/
but in a good way.
The key with how Apple will succeed in this space is the partnerships (distribution) with Mayo Clinic, Epic et al. Mayo is a very forward thinking institute and has already partnered with many startups to expose their data in various forms to explore opportunities.

Many hospitals in the bay area run Epic so pushing data to your Epic EHR to help your GP with better decision making is a step in the right direction. The integration between PAMF hospitals that run Epic and how that data easily flows to my GP is already awesome. Sending additional data points should empower my GP to make smarter and better decisions related to my health.

Only last week my GP was wearing Google Glass. The adoption will happen fast. Now is the right time for this sort of tech adoption.

Wonder when Allscripts will come into the game.. hmm...

Nice move Apple! Now make the data flow the other way so it's a truly open EHR system and allow devs to build apps on top of it. Powerful!
Perhaps, if we're arguing word choice, but the broader point is that no megapower wants to play Red Rover for easy access to an ocean if war broke out. Until we develop space-based weapons platforms and/or hypersonic missiles, naval power will remain the key means of projecting power and buffering coastline vulnerability.

As long as naval power remains so important, unquestionable access to nearby bodies of water will be primary objects of power projection.
"How can the word "ethical" ever describe a company that gets all of its money from advertising, the business of deception and manipulation" is not a legitimate point? Are you saying just because it's anti-Google it is vitriol? Did you even read the comments i linked to?
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The FCC Comments Site Might Be Broken, But You Can Still E-Mail
No built in support for concurrency or parallelism :(
Totally agree they needed a term, or at least _I_ would have wanted one myself as the community formed (although I do like "enthusiast").
>The sound glot is onomatopeic too as you have to use your tongue to successfully sound it...
Yes, but the tongue is key to almost all sounds and "poetic"??! To those who primarily know the greek, perhaps, but it's really a gloppy plop of a sound in Amerenglish, in particular. "Polyglossians" would not have been an issue. Plurilinguals. Multiphonauts. Anything but "glot" as it is pronounced in any of my dialects, would give more euphony.

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> but do you think people learn languages best from RosettaStone type products?
No!!!! A thousand times no. Nothing at all like that. That seems mainly to be a Gym membership, as you say. (Benny the Irish polyglot's review is among the least negative ones I can respect). My platform and tools are NOTHING Rosetta-like.

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J'aimerais bien aussi savoir ce que vous voulez dire par "beyond a high school level of proficiency" puisque, eh... I know nothing of that consensus. Nor whether you mean the level non-natives are taught if they learn a foreign language in high school, or the level of language mastery high-schoolers in the US have over US English.
Personally, I go depth first (I want to write/explain/discuss technical things with technical people, and speak the other registers too. I start from production (writing and speaking). And I have tools for both the art and the science. How's your syntax vs your accent and intonation mimicry?

I am on my way to musical fluency in all of the sounds the pulmino-voco-nasal wood/meatwind can produce, as a side project (I am a recently self-identified musician) and am bent to master as many idiolects (mimicry) and dialects and languages as I come across, in multiple different voice characters. I figure it's the right thing to do, since I know of no other people doing so. I am a member of the "polyglot community" but I choose not to use the consensus name. I'm glad you know French. Francophonie is among the words I built "Omniphonic" around. So yeah...

Really, I think everyone should try to be sesquilingual, at least.

I'm an aspiring omniphonist: an omniphonic enthusiast, anyway, building some delicious dogfood to eat for us all.

RE "high-school level"... my minimum comfort level in a new language would be "can explain what you've done and why, and what you've learned doing it so far in life, in twenty minutes, and why that's led to what you're choosing to do/learn now. Then, asking follow-up questions as necessary/interested, can get the same level of detail on those things from the person you're talking with, trying to imagine things as if you'd grown up in their shoes."
The runtime is the the same, so there is no immediate need for it to die, but it will die slowly.

Kids may not remember this but you used to be able to access the Cocoa frameworks with Java...
Dar Es Salaam.
I noticed in your other comment you said you moved to Tanzania recently, how is your Swahili :-)

Let see if you can derive meaning from the following swahili question.

Kati ya nchi zote ulizokuwa na uwezo wa kuhamia,kwanini uliichagua Tanzania?

If the above went over your head,i asked, "of all the countries you could have migrated to,why did you pick Tanzania?"
So? Copying a megabyte is a really expensive thing to do inside a loop, even ignoring caches. (A full speed memcpy would take 40 microseconds, based on a memory bandwidth of 24 GB/s, which is a long time.)