skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Disneyland can be a more pleasant town experience than a real American main street. But not everyone can afford to live in Disneyland, and not everyone likes the controlled environment.

BTW, Gruber's article claims Apple makes most of their stuff, but as far as I can tell, they only make the CPU. Everything else is licensed ip: camera modules/sensors, GPU (PowerVR), etc.
Agreed. A lot of it has to do how government contracts for IT support. Contracts quickly get out of date. The contractors are also all trying to lock themselves in.

It's common for the contractor to own all the IT equipment and just lease it to the government. What happens when it's time to change contracts and every single computer, phone, printer has to be replaced. There is no possibility for competitive bidding in the wake of that.
I think you're right about using the web as an interop protocol. I want to see that future (or that present, more evenly distributed).

But I believe the browser is NOT the ideal gatekeeper. The ideal gatekeeper for your contacts is, surprisingly enough, an app designed to manage contacts. And as long as the inerop protocols are respected, switching from one contacts app to another will never be a problem.
He's not employed by MS. He left a few years back.
I'm assuming the model doesn't make any residuals from something like this. Kind of too bad, though I guess having your face everywhere is at least good for getting more work.
Can you name one of these studios?
whats "old"? they're pushing 20 years now. that feels pretty ancient in internet time :)
Wow, it definitely can be her:)
Maybe also not a priority. Unless there's some compliance regulations, why save emails forecer?
Here you go[1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7891557
At least people might honestly believe Lerner and the IRS lost 2 years of email. That level of incompetence is expected of bureaucrats, and it's harder to prove misconduct than if you hid communications through an alias like Lisa Jackson at the EPA did.
Her name is Ariane:

http://asianstockphotogirl.tumblr.com/

http://www.glamour.com/fashion/blogs/dressed/2013/10/the-mos...

https://www.facebook.com/notes/ariane-the-overexposed-stock-...

She and her partner/photographer have made an entire business of travelling and taking photographs for stock sale. Not a bad way to write off your trips. Ariane's ambiguous ethnicity (She's French Canadian and Chinese) has made her look easy to adapt to many ad campaigns.
I don't think that's the case as they are allowing Can I Stream It? to stay up which is specifically for seeing what streaming services (including Amazon) offer particular titles.
The NSA will have a copy. Ask them.
I am glad my site moved away [1] from their API to TMDB. Just in time.

[1] http://fllix.com
Part of the problem with discussions about phone battery life is that the available websites don't do a very good job of testing it. My anecdotal experience with carrying an iPhone 5 for years, then a Lumia for about a year, then a Nexus 5 for about six months is that the Nexus 5 is by far the worst at dealing with marginal signal conditions, like my train commute from DE to PA. I've never seen this sort of thing formally tested anywhere.
Apparently not. But they're also not bothering to archive email data at the server.

Maybe it's the time I've spent in corporate environments, but losing data due to shitty IT management seems very plausible to me.
Is this girl a Getty/iStockPhoto girl, or Shutterstock? Somewhere else? Both?
Ugh, that sounds like a dystopian future to me. It reminds me of Sony's attempts at roping people into their media ecosystem during the 80s and 90s.
We need to get everyone who calls for war to go fight them... you know.. for the economy.
No they just ignore the lower end of the market that makes 0 money and leaves everyone else fighting over the scraps.

There is a reason Dell bought Quest for billions of dollars. It is not because they see a bright future for the consumer pc market.
Yeah so in today's dollars the Iraq War cost more than World War 1, so says the Congressional Research Service:
http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/natsec/RS22926.pdf
What is the basis of this statement? The economists I've read say that the US gov't didn't do enough in the 1930s (I'm not sure how much Congress and how much Roosevelt are to blame), as they lacked the political will to spend as much as was needed.
Here's the equivalent in Polish ads.

https://www.facebook.com/twarz.polskiej.reklamy

http://tinyurl.com/pfs3etx
> Every major language has Regex support, often built-in

That's a very bold statement. My most commonly used languages (Haskell, Rust, Go, C, and C++) do not have regex support built in. I don't think any of them even have regex support in their standard library.

>I'd assume that a large percentage of programs employs Regexes somewhere

I think that would be incorrect. I've never used a regex in a production program. In fact, the only time I ever use regexes is when I'm scraping data or doing searches, and that certainly doesn't account for "a large percentage of programs".

A large percentage of programs also use URL fetching, but that's not a good reason to make URL fetching part of the core language.
/insight

Excellent way of putting it !

I think apple is going for the word "seamless-experience" here [1].

I do think microsoft has a word too, which they always strive for, and I hope it continues -- "backwards-compatible".

I must be honest, I find compatibility-breaking painful as a developer and as a user.

[1] I know, hyphenation is a cheap hack :)
Really well done, beautiful and useful site. Out of curiosity, how long did this take you to build? What stack are you using?

A couple of things I noticed:

1. After updating a search, the back button doesn't work the way I would expect it to. If I choose to look at a property and then back out it takes me to the pre-updated search whereas I would expect it to take me back to my search with filters in tact. If I don't look at a property and press the back button it takes me out of search altogether where I would expect it to take me to the pre-filtered search.

2. On the search results page, the stars confuse me. I don't know what they represent.

3. It would be nice to be able to see hotels that score below 60 (perhaps as a filter option). Budget conscious shoppers might find they are lacking options otherwise in certain cities. Sometimes you're just looking for the best of the cheapest, even if it's not a 60+ hotel.

4. From the blog page, I think the TripExpert logo should take you to the main TripExpert home page, not the TripExpert blog home page. I see the Visit TripExpert link but considering that is (probably) the primary action you're probably hoping for, I think it shouldn't be hidden in the nav like that.

5. I was also initially confused when I added a filter and the search results didn't automatically update. I think that's become such a standard UX that you might want to adopt it too.

Overall though, this is really impressive. Great job. I think you have a wonderfully bright future ahead of you.

EDIT: Added 4th suggestion

EDIT 2: Added 5th suggestion
> The unspoken assumption in this theory is that growth is good. What about peace and love? Isn't that good too?

Does one preclude the other? Generally, economic resources are necessary, but not sufficient, for happiness. We still need growth because we do not yet generate enough resources either worldwide or in the U.S., to meet people's needs.

If you question whether that's true about the U.S., consider health care; we can't afford to provide all that people need.

> I wonder what Orwell would have thought about this.

I'm not sure what Orwell has to do with it. Have I been trolled?
Can't Remember to Forget You fan made clothing commercial
Your history omits an earlier chapter, which was the period during which Google introduced NaCl to the world.

http://research.google.com/pubs/archive/34913.pdf (2009)

http://blog.chromium.org/2010/05/sneak-peek-at-native-client... (2010)

No mention of PNaCL anywhere. Eventually they did change their public messaging away from x86 sandbox and towards PNaCl, though not before causing lots of external confusion and fear. And even then, with the time it took to get PNaCl released, some of the external confusion persisted.

The earlier poster does indeed seem to have misunderstood the history, but it's easy to see where such misunderstanding may come from.
I've got to say that hasn't been my experience at all with online forums. Many times, I get insightful feedback or review of a post to the point where I needn't read the original. Maybe places like Reddit, etc. really bring out more personal experience since the topics and community are so varied, but there was a poll here not too long ago about how accurate the opinions are here. That's objective data showing you that the anecdotes are as right as you're going to get. It's a fact.
Requests might but that's irrelevant. Requests is built on top of urllib3 which is built on top of httplib which does use a plain dict. Also the relevant RFC says order is irrelevant.
The argument seems a bit too nuanced if there is such a thing.

"The Lack of Major Wars May Be Hurting Economic Growth"
"This view does not claim that fighting wars improves economies"

How can both of these things be true?
Samsung dropped the ball with their smart TVs. Smart Hub is atrocious when it could've been an awesome experience for developers that let the Plex's of the world really shine. Instead we have horrible EPGs, sluggish interfaces and no flexibility or hackability.
"That girl again!", my girlfriend keep saying that to me for more than a year.

We live in Brazil and she works with marketing on startups. She personally used her photos in her jobs until she could recognize her everywhere. At least once a month she point her to me on a new ad.
I think you're spot on with your premise (not so sure about your conclusion), and I've certainly heard this sentiment before:

"Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure."

-Joseph Heller (author of Catch 22)
My point exactly. Skype is a big P2P network using proprietary schemes for just about everything. They don't seem eager to interoperate with open standards in the slightest.
Her husband will probably feel like he is always looking at a commercial :P
This is the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard, I am not even going to read this article.
I'm not trying to play the scotsman's game. Though, I can confess that that is the direction I am somewhat steering this. Not my main goal. My aim is more against the claims of the parent post. Note that there is a big difference between static tooling and statically typed languages. I have high regard for the both. And I've seen more evidence of the former in older, less statically typed, languages than I have the latter.

So, part of my point is I haven't ever "heard" what language those systems are written in, period. It isn't that I have heard they are in dynamic or static languages. I flat out never hear. If they are in a static language, then this should be an easy debate for you. Merely give me some evidence and we are done.

I do know that the older languaged programs I have seen are typically not in what one would call a statically typed language. There is plenty of static tooling on them, but to pretend that there is statically "typed" tooling around any software that ran something such as the space program feels like it is reaching. Heavily.

So, to your silly question. I'd pick the one that has the better track record and has been proven with more tests. I don't care if they are dynamic tests, statically typed assertions, statically analyzed assertions on a dynamically typed codebase, whatever. There are too many tools to care. Because I can hazard a guess that all of the things that have irradiated me in my years have not been by the strongest statically typed languages out there. :)
Reminds me of Gary Bernhardt's selecta [1].

[1] https://github.com/garybernhardt/selecta
Try dedicating your life to music its freakin brutal. Write some songs and go sing em in a public forum, thats some serious vulnerability. Not saying its tougher than being a founder, but no way the opposite is true. Anyway my point is that these days many people who are attracted to being founders tend to be shocked by the costs because they don't have the natural temperament to sharply veer from the path of established norms. Many don't believe in something greater than themselves or money which would allow them to suffer the pain as a cost of doing business. This is a given in the arts. Its like the marines, pain is part of the practice.
That's ridiculous. The problem going into the Great Depression was the monetary policy, which was tightened when it needed to be loosened. The problem going through the great depression, what made it really great, was the New Deal -- not today's political footballs like social security, but the radical restructuring of the American economy in a borderline Soviet wave of regimentation and anticompetitive cronyism. We don't think about this much today because it was mostly disassembled, but every so often you hear some story where the government wants to take farmers' raisins for a pittance of compensation (and the crop is at risk of spoiling). Or milk-price boards. Those are just the last lingering vestiges of the system at work, a system run with a mindset that they could drag the nation into prosperity again by burning crops in the time of famine (to support prices don't you know).

No I don't have a well-sourced essay for you. Go do some real Depression research. Look up work by multiple economists.
Non-founders are like "oh just sell to google," so no, they don't understand :/
I definitely saw this one too:)
I believe http://7cupsoftea.com may be what you're looking for.
"Currently, Apollo is developed internally at Facebook. No firm claims were made during the talk that it will be opensourced. It was mentioned as a possibility after internal development settles down." from http://java.dzone.com/articles/facebook-announces-apollo-qco...
One important point of the article is that war is good for innovation. In war, people unite around common goals, and are willing to sacrifice in a way that is impossible in peacetime.
Netflix and Amazon have a different failure mode where they deliver lower picture quality in order to maintain faster-than-real-time delivery. In the case of Amazon, when this happens you get an email within a day refunding the difference between the HD and SD quality stream, if you paid for the HD one. A very good experience.
/shoddy

Lack of Discipline.

Lack of Honesty.

Lack of Charity.
Why not Ships, at that point (of the Banksian sort)?
Since when does Foxconn not make anything for anybody else?

This article reads a bit too much like PR+. A main point is trying to argue that Apple is genius at framing "conversations" to manage how their brand is emotionally considered. It does this by applying similar techniques like throwing the "Apple does their own CPUs!" and their stack is so unique, but that's not true enough and pervasive across all products, subsystems, etc.

The battery is another place where story has nuance to it, but we sure aren't going to get any of that here.

Crap. I've been post-baited.
Republican logic: Demand the strictest most penny pinching policies from the IRS while you are defunding them[1]. Complain when said defunding affects one of your pet issues because they can't afford a central server and store every email on local machines [2].

This is the same sort of stupidity that we see on parade every time they fight tooth and nail to get some borderline unconstitutional religious law passed only to the the fastest about face imaginable when they find out that "religion" doesn't main "only my religion" in law.

[1] http://www.taxpayeradvocate.irs.gov/2012-Annual-Report/irs-f...

[2] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=3217839...
HN readers, what do you think are Facebook's motivations for announcing Apollo at this point?
Well, speaking to the point of duality, I think Rx solves the problems it sets out to solve very nicely, and I would not say it has "design mistakes".

It certainly seems possible to use Rx primitives to build more functionality, yes.

Though everyone will have to build this themselves (if, of course, they even need it), and they'll probably all build it differently, where other lib's have this concept baked in (i.e. Pipes).

IMHO, libraries shouldn't try to do everything anyway, and to that end, Rx does it's thing and does it well (unix philosophy), as it's based on these mathematical abstractions.
Most corporations have policies requiring emails be deleted after 3-12 months. I'd be more surprised if you told me they had backups from 3 years ago.
(and the statement on linkedin isn't "no recruiters pls" it's more like "I am happily employed")

I have no idea if they're good at recruiting, I just don't want another job.

Right now. Ten years is a long time, though. There's also a good chance you'll be a completely different person in five. And since your employer has no loyalty to you whatsoever, you may be looking for a new job in even less time.

There's no possible downside in letting recruiters email you.
I honestly couldn't find a complaint with the Nexus 5. It's a stunning, fluid device. The only leg up in my eyes for the iPhone is the better app curation, but as someone who uses mostly web apps and Hangouts that's not a big demerit to me.
Then you would probably try to piece together your tax liability through indirect methods, completely analogous to what they did here to recover the emails. What did you expect they'd do?

Say, if you claimed $1000 in charitable donations but lost the receipts and got audited, you'd probably be able to go to the organization you donated to get their records. If they couldn't produce them, you'd probably have the deduction disallowed and have to pay back taxes + interest.

If you're going to try to glibly score points, chose a better example.
Can confirm, cmder is great, it makes console use on Windows bearable.
Thanks for the feedback! Very glad to hear that you like the site so much. I agree with a lot of your suggestions, and some of them (like the filters automatically updating) we're going to be implementing soon. To answer your questions, it took about 9 months to build the site (RoR), although the majority of that time was spent developing a back-end that we use to manage all of the hotel and review data.
I'd guess that the engineers who are building it think it's cool and want to talk about it. Facebook seems to be generally open about their internal systems, presumably because they don't see it as their competitive advantage (unlike, say, Google).
It's a bummer that we now live in an economy that is so inured to government spending that the very idea that war improves the economy would even occur to people.
Thanks for the positive feedback! Yes, we're building an API that will let other travel sites pull our scores, rankings and review extracts. If you or anyone you know might want to make use of it, tell them to get in touch! And, yes, we're considering other verticals.
The Koch brothers remark was not meant to apply to you personally, but this is the third time you've mentioned it so I reckon you considered it a personal attack. It wasn't meant as one.
What about peace and love? Isn't that good too?

Sure, and wealthy societies tend to be much more peaceful.
Netflix was my first introduction to webscraping back around 2004 (with Perl and WWW::Mechanize) because they didn't see the need for an API. They've never done anything more than pay lip service to it since they finally caved in and made one. Guess it's back to doing that, or using an alternative like TheMovieDB [1], which has a nice API.

[1] http://www.themoviedb.org/
1) plural of anecdote is not data
2) that VC was probably looking for an excuse to pull out, would have pulled out anyway for some other bullshit reason
For anyone talking about receiving too much LinkedIn spam it was revealed to me on HN that they actually have a do not contact list. I sent them an email listing off my email addresses a little while ago and they've honoured it.

https://help.linkedin.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/426/
There's a loosely defined sub genre of incremental games if you enjoy A Dark Room:

http://www.reddit.com/r/incremental_games
She's also on the front page of Team Viewer. She's on the trucks that deliver our break room snacks at work. And I've seen her on bulletin board ads at school when my wife and I lived on campus several years back. I see her everywhere!
I just hate that I can't charge my phone in my co-workers car because uses an iPhone. Vertical integration is great and all, but having horrible experiences with outside things isn't.
Fighting wars doesn't help the economy, but preparing for (potential) wars can. Not that I agree with this argument, but that is the thesis of the article.
amen. Glad you put this out there.
Actually we are worse for it. No one focuses on cooperating on standards that could provide better experiences anyone. How often do you meet an engineer that has contributed to an IETF RFC or a W3C specification, and implementations of that specification.

If anything, Apple has popularized the tragedy of the commons, giving everyone a false prophet to worship: walled gardens are the way to make seemless experiences.

The only reason walled gardens provide seemless experiences is because everyone trying to make their own walled garden fragments things further.

I know of know experience more seemless than Internet Protocol. RSS and XMPP were also pretty seemless for the user.

A vision of the world where walled gardens are viewed as the only path to a seemless experience produces a vicious cycle leading to a dystopian self fulfilling prophecy.
Do you know of a resource for learning the basics CRDTs that doesn't require a PHD?
If legs evolved for walking why are they so useful for swimming?

There is a set of genes that encodes for the behavior of walking or allows us to learn it and a whole other host of adaptations from our vestibular system to the angle at which our neck connects to our skull that taken together as a whole are adaptations for walking.

Each on its own has many, many other uses that have nothing to do with walking and provide benefits that have nothing to do with walking. So no, legs didn't evolve for anything. But in combination with a lot of other adaptations they make walking easier than would be the case without them.
Can we just call a fanboy a fanboy? He'll always frame discussions of Apple in a positive way. Occasionally, he'll have an interesting insight into the Apple ecosystem, but I had to stop reading since far too often he's making little trollish jabs at everyone else.

I also still disagree with this article. This year was a surprising high note in the amount of stuff that came together assuming it all holds up well after you get past the marketing they're good at. We'll have to wait and see if this is a continuing trend for them or we just got lucky this year. I would love to see it continue.
One might attribute this to the willingness to abolish patents in wartime, like the American aeroplane industry was forced to do during the first world war.¹ Since the state is the one concerned with fighting the war, and the state is the only actor effectively able to abolish patents (since the state is the one granting them in the first place), it is not odd that war is the only thing which can effect this change.

It has been argued that patents, as a whole, is a retardant to innovation. These historical facts seems to bear this argument out.

1) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wright_brothers_patent_war