skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I think people assume that Apple will set the standard on a quality watch".

It seems to be a bit of a self fulfilling prophecy. None of the iPhone tech was new, but once Apple released it people started paying attention to touchscreen smartphones.

Likewise for their tablet.
Basically it’s a trading of commitments: Each person says to the other, “I want to avoid the awful risk of being painfully dumped for someone else, so I will make a commitment to you to not leave as long as you do your part even if someone else that might be better comes along.”

From Dante to this.

"Progress"
Apple to Cease Development of Aperture, Transition Users to Photos for OS X
One of the most stupid things I have ever read on this side of the screen
It wouldn't be very helpful, the algorithm and the problem are very specific to Thumbtack.

That being said, we plan to extract and free common code as we use Go for more projects. We love free / open source software!
We know Apple is producing larger phones. There is zero mystery about that. It is entirely relevant that the same pundits who now have a lot to say about wearables also got larger smartphones entirely wrong.

And no, the mini is not relevant, as a core facet of the Note was that it was a large smartphone, not a small tablet.

However I didn't "dismiss" anything. I pointed out that there is a perspective bias in how one sees things. Samsung, for instance, came out with the Gear before the iWatch was even more than a murmur. But now, not unexpectedly, everyone else is somehow reacting to Apple.
It depends on the hackathon. This one is open ended but a lot of them have themes. Basically you show up and start working and then at the end there's usually a judging/demo process. Sometimes you'll want to join a team which can be prearranged or you just hover around until you find a like-minded group.
If you are not capable of affording at least a cheap-almost-free ssl cert in order to protect your site's users, and given your site actually requires SSL (such as secure account login, transactions, etc) you probably should not be running the site.

SSL certs can be found for $1.99 per year sometimes from companies (that's cheaper than it costs to run your server). Sure they are not the "name brand" ssl certs like from Verisign that cost $300 a year -- but to a browser, SSL is SSL (so long as the browser recognizes the trust chain).

If your country prohibits SSL's use -- then you really should consider not hosting your site from within your country.

Security is not a joke.
It's really frustrating to try to take a photo from a web app. Before Firefox OS, Android didn't even let web pages interact with the phone's dialer, which is like the #1 feature of a phone. Firefox OS is a platform for developing web APIs that can interact with all the phone parts. After standardization, these APIs could be implemented by any phone's web browser, like Chrome on Android or even IE on Windows Phone.
Check out http://www.likealocalguide.com/tallinn and drop by our startup co-working space http://hub.garage48.org/ if you want to meet tech people.
The SDK is shipped with a standalone version of the VM which can do I/O (via the 'dart:io' package). You can use it to write command line applications and web servers. Basically, it's like Node right off the bat.

I/O performance increased drastically with 1.3. The performance is tracked over here:

https://www.dartlang.org/performance/io/

1.4 added experimental support for ServerSocket references, which allow you to share a socket across isolates (~"workers"):

https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/forum/#!topic/misc/...
There's no theme for YC Hacks. We're leaving it open. You can build whatever you want.
>great musicians such as Beethoven, Mozart and Bach [were] held in the same high esteem as figures like Picasso, Michelangelo and Van Gogh

The irony being that the Wu-Tang Clan probably earned more money than all those artists combined.
The same way you have always done, with online accounts. There is no problem to solve here.
Matthias Felleisen, one of the co-authors of 'How to Design Programs', contends that Racket is a gentler, kinder introduction to computer science and programming for high schoolers (actually, for beginners in general).

There's less emphasis on syntax (since Scheme is so minimal), and more on concepts - which cover all the mainstream paradigms. In addition, starting with functional programming demonstrably better complements and reinforces learning in other subjects such as Math.

The 'standard' text is HtDP (http://www.htdp.org/); it's being used in high schools as well as colleges. A second, revised edition of HtDP is in development (http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/matthias/HtDP2e/). There's also 'Picturing Programs', by Stephen Bloch (http://picturingprograms.com/), an alternative to HtDP, perhaps more suitable for high schoolers.

(Incidentally, DrRacket is an excellent IDE, with all 'batteries included'!)

Conversely, his colleague Shriram Krishnamurthi has carried out extensive research into learning, and is now of the opinion that Racket is actually too minimal syntactically! Hence the development of a new (and rather cool) teaching language called Pyret (http://www.pyret.org/). (It's been discussed in thrilling detail on HN in the past.)

Lastly, it was found that beginners who started with Scheme actually did better when continuing later to Java than others who began with Java. There are some rather blunt testimonials (from students) that reinforce this point...

'Matthias Felleisen often teaches a programming languages course, and reports that near the end of the semester, students (particularly the stronger ones) ask why they didn't learn Scheme first, before Java. At least one top student disagreed:

Make sure you always teach assignment and bad programming first. They must go through hell before they are allowed to program in heaven.'

(A lot more here: http://home.adelphi.edu/sbloch/class/pbd/testimonials/)
There is The State of the Art about the time the Culture comes to visit Earth - there is a decent BBC Radio 4 version on YouTube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRl9D_agLbU

NB The Culture has the opposite of the Star Trek Federation's Prime Directive - they justify to themselves the hedonistic paradise that 99% of their population (biologicals and machines) live in through the interference of their Contact and Special Circumstances sections in the affairs of "lesser" civilisations.
"you're going to hire a bunch of folks who will do that job to your script on the telephone all day, every day"

Cracking this particular market without a super motivated and nicely paid phone force is really difficult. SMB are hard to get on the phone and to pitch. Over the long term of course. Anything short term is possible. I've been in this market and even purchased a company that did this where the previous owner moved out of town [1] and specifically said "you can't do this type of selling remote you have to be physically in their face".

Others have done this of course but iirc they tended to be well funded and able to lose a ton of money gaining sales. (Groupon).

[1] My point being he wouldn't have sold the company if it could be operated remote and that had in fact been tried by previous owners. (This was advertising to reiterate in a printed publication).
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Thanks for the help - I will keep in touch with you.

My team is a small group (3-5 devs). We have kicked around going freelance separately and as a group.

Atlanta is big in the payments industry correct? I previously worked for First Data / with a unit that was driving 50K ATMS at one point and issuing cards for 120 banks. I was on the issuing side.
Cool! thanks for the reply!

It does seem scholarly and also quite interesting.
What is your take on swift? Do you think dart can borrow some ideas from swift? Most of it is just syntax sugar, but it is very pleasant to look and work with.
But aren't we talking about squashing those commits? You're not going to lose anything by skipping commits between PRs instead of squashing everything between PRs into one commit, you can only narrow it down more.

> you can create a script that tests for the thing you are looking for.

Yes, which you can tell to skip anything that doesn't compile/pass tests. Return 125 from your script and it'll be skipped.

> Non-building commit = more manual bughunting.

But you can just do a loop of "make || git skip" and skip everything that doesn't commit, surely. Or if you're using a script, just return 125 for things you want to skip.
If that is of serious concern, then consider a different mobile device if the iPhone 5S cannot provide you with sufficient protection from a forced search such as that.
This is still true
When you can use some one else's ID then the system fails, and just wait you will be able to steal some ones online identity.
I'm probably going to be a minority voice here but I think there are a couple opportunities/risks ... since you're curating properties around each campus AND selling ads to local businesses, I think there's a pretty good opportunity to franchise the "feet-on-the-ground". You might be able to charge for the franchises, but even if you can't, you can still pay straight commissions as a percentage of the income from each campus area. If the franchisee gets 50% of the ad revenue and is in charge of driving traffic to your site, the 50% you keep would need to cover your server costs and the founders living expenses.

As an aside, I'm near Penn State and I'm not sure whether this would work here. Most of the properties that will rent to students at all are managed by property management companies and the students tend to find those companies first (there's a lot of local advertising). First year students are required to live on campus, but they tend to start visiting the "apartment stores" during their second semester. Do the three campuses you're currently servicing operate in a similar way? Maybe the current crop of tech-savvy students look to the Internet first since they've had it from birth?

In any case, great to hear you're making money and good luck!
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Wow, that's a much better article. The following quote in particular rings true (and is the opposite of the claim from the "marriage" article):

"The Clueless are the ones who lack the competence to circulate freely through the economy (unlike Sociopaths and Losers), and build up a perverse sense of loyalty to the firm, even when events make it abundantly clear that the firm is not loyal to them. To sustain themselves, they must be capable of fashioning elaborate delusions based on idealized notions of the firm — the perfectly pathological entities we mentioned. Unless squeezed out by forces they cannot resist, they hang on as long as possible, long after both Sociopaths and Losers have left"

I've seen former coworkers build these delusions, even when the ship was sinking and what was left of management was clearly mistreating them.
Apple never does simple/advanced mode UIs
Or even Google Closure JavaScript.
Sweetch announces Freetch to answer City threatening shut down
Don't underestimate the Wu. "The Wu is too slammin for these Cold Killin labels."
You do know TLS and SSL can be on the same server?

In fact, if you are on a modern browser, look at the SSL cert HN is using -- it should show you are using TLS 1.2. -- so no users "suffer".

Some SSL certs have become bloated in price (without good reason), such as the VeriSign certs, etc. No SSL cert should cost $300 a year... that's absurd. However, they can't be free... someone has to pay for the infrastructure that not only signs certs, but provides the trust backbone that SSL rides on.
This model of employment exists. In Japan we call them "salarymen", in America "tenured professors" or "civil servants" or (in much of the country) "tenured schoolteachers." The model heavily distorts expectations about work (for those in the model and out of it), life, culture, etc. It is not an accident that your workplace will frequently be involved in the decision of who you actually, not metaphorically, marry.

If your life experience does not include enough warning flags for the potential negative consequences of this model on the firm, on its non-"married" workers, on its "married" workers, on its workers' families, on its customers, and on the wider society, flag me down two weeks from now and I will go into them at substantial length.
In the US it's very easy to live your entire life without a passport.

At any given time less than half of Americans have valid passports.
I'd commit. However an easier model to attract more people is percentage of income (annually or monthly).

I seen people work with headhunters before, giving up 1 months salary as the commission to land a job they want and in the end it seems like a win/win situation. Both people are happy.
"Message passing" probably is common due to Objective-C having been inspired by Smalltalk.
I assumed that the latest w/w is 1.4, whereas the m/m includes earlier weeks that aren't as good, eg. 1.1 x 1.1 x 1.2 x 1.4 ~= 2.03
The Pitchforks Are Coming
Coral Cache (*.nyud.net) is down
A list of recent links on HN using that:

https://hn.algolia.io/#!/all/sort_by_date/prefix/0/nyud.net
At first, I thought, "Oh good, another classified site" but then I looked at your site. Loved the UX. Nice work. One thing that seemed a bit "meh" was the name.

Good luck!
Exactly, if our going to allow all of the hackable information to be stored online by your government so you can shave 20mins from a yearly task then your a fuc*g idiot.
So why would they want to be exclusive? Mostly because they want their significant other to be committed and not leave them whenever the significant other has a better option.

Uh, no. Monogamy is rooted in, basically, the following issues:

1) Germ control. You can get deadly diseases by sleeping around casually.

2) Sex leads to babies and human babies do best with two parents. It is a big burden and our species is designed to do the two parent thing.

3) It takes 15-20 hours a week to build and maintain real intimacy. There simply isn't enough time in the week to have lots of different genuinely intimate lovers. The math suggests that most people can sustain no more than two genuinely intimate sexual relationships.
I tried it once and it was pretty horrible, the folder structure on disk didn't stay in sync with the aperture library. Moving or renaming photos or folders in one stop didn't update the other spot, so when you thought you had organized stuff physically, only the aperture library links updated or vice versa.
First of all.. congrats! It's always exciting to see something you've created grow and start to gain traction.

Second of all, please take all of the advice that you see here with a grain of salt. I think most of the ideas that people have shared are really good things to keep in mind for consumer-oriented SaaS platforms in general, however, IMHO the university / college student listings market is a completely different beast.

Speaking as someone who co-founded the largest student classifieds system (at our peak 4-5 years ago we had over a million students using our system at over 400 universities nationwide), I can tell you that a lot of the business modeling that people do for consumer software service businesses are not necessarily compatible with the market that you are in.

I couldn't help but notice from your site that you're in San Diego -- I'm actually in SD as well, and if you're up to chatting more, I'd be more than happy to meet up. From my HN profile you can link to my website -- the very bottom of the "With Whom" section talks about the startup I helped to co-found, and the "Where" section provides contact information if you want to get in touch with me further.

Best of luck!
No worries :) Sure I can list off a few more things:

- The videos under the bar seem to have consistently low resolution thumbnails, maybe try making them a bit smaller (to a resolution where they are meant to be in)?

- Many of the tweets aren't in English so they don't mean much to me, maybe detect languages and remove ones that aren't my native language / translate them?

- Just generally I prefer text over images or video for anything news related, and right now it seems like an overflow of images. e.g., Pinterest is almost all pictures but their 'main' content literally is whatever is in the picture (usually), whereas your 'main' content is the news, so I want to be able to just glance at a page for a news item and know without having to interact much further what is going on, similar to reddit.com/r/news.

- Also some other minor UI things that I noticed, the magnifying glass just seems strange, I guess it is a way to signal that this isn't a normal tweet but something I'm meant to pick out and observe further, but I might try doing that in a different way because it is just unconventional.

- It would be great to have a "score", like how many people have upvoted, how many confirmed and what their reference was, how many refuted and why; some level of discussion to go with it, etc.
+1 In the modern Apple era their applications, particularly the consumer or pro-sumer oriented ones, have tended to (1) not live up to their demos (2) and get constantly redesigned and yanked around. What made using a Mac a joy was the culture of quality espoused by third-party software vendors.
Using Injection for XCode gives you live coding close to a Smalltalk system. So you live code on your actual app, super nice for tuning core image filters, or any thing where small iterations are needed between compiles. I literally save hours in a day by not needing a "recompile, relaunch, find my context, repeat" loop.
Question for the hackathon organizers: Do you want attendees to come in with a completely new concept that they haven't worked on before? And, if it's okay to have worked on it previously, how far along is "too far along" for this hackathon? Thanks!
I thought VC performance wasn't publicly released.
Android KeyStore Service Stack Buffer Overflow
But it does allow for programmers to add their own ideas. I have a traits implementation where I can inject entire behaviours in a line of code. I am not sure if this could be done in Swift (haven't had time to research properly).
Show HN: Balanced Payments Client for Go
The NSA just posted its first full transparency report
Which doesn't help in the case I was discussing, namely when you want a generic array. As in: generic. Not specific.

You end up having to use a collection, which ends up with an order of magnitude more memory usage than an array in the case where you want to store characters. (char is the worst case. But all primitives are pretty bad in that regard.)
Does renting an apartment require an ID? I don't think it's illegal if you don't! What's wrong with cash in hand every month?
Under what circumstances does it print different values? I just tried your code locally with clang on OS X, and I get `2 2` at all optimization levels.

If the compiler is indeed allowed to assume that the pointer passed to realloc() becomes invalid, then I would expect it to actually optimize out that entire if-check, under the assumption that the `*p` is undefined behavior, and therefore that `p == q` must never be true.

Getting different values for the print if you move the assignments inside the if statement suggests to me that a) it's assuming the pointers don't alias, and therefore b) that it assumes it doesn't have to read the values back out of the pointer when printing them but can just reuse the values it knows it wrote to the pointer. But if it assumes the pointers don't alias, then I would think it would assume that means `p == q` can't be true.
The process of being an artist and a writer: "Old Masters and Young Geniuses"
gmail lets you create tasks on emails. Any reason you don't use that instead?
Does Bitcoin Foreshadow a Decentralized World?
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Well said, HillObeans. I would like to ask permission to quote you in my forthcoming book, Darwin's Knickers (or maybe I'll call it, Knickers to Darwin - I haven't really decided yet [see one of my earlier posts on this deliberation]). I could really learn from you. I have a lot of respect for ID people, as well as for creationists. At least they have taken the trouble to learn and understand the science they're commenting on. Unlike most others.
It's certainly the case that conflicts will be difficult to resolve if one or both parties are not reasonable!

Your comment also touches on something else, however, in terms of how you and your roommate discussed issues, and relates back to an earlier point about internal/external issues.

It's easy not to care when, well, you don't care---when you haven't invested yourself mentally, emotionally, and physically in a relationship and hence do not really expect or require reciprocity to indicate that your investment was not in vain and that your relationship will endure. In other words, it's hard not to care when you really do care---about the other person, about how the other person treats you, about the relationship.

As a side point, there's a big difference between not dreading coming home and looking forward to coming home. The latter is an uncommon way to describe just a rooming situation, but should be the case with people in a relationship.

Your point stands, of course, about words and particularly actions being powerful!
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Unless you're living on hitting people up for spare change - or being paid under the table in cash - There is very little you can do. Cash a check? Open a bank account? Buy a car? Maybe you can buy it, but the registration, insurance and the license to drive the thing already require a state issued ID.
> Any performance improvements seen by your users won't apply to those using any other browser.

It will be still about as fast as regular JavaScript.
I don't see anywhere that this is exploitable in the wild, given that most things LZ4 is used for use smaller block sizes than this.

http://fastcompression.blogspot.com/2014/06/debunking-lz4-20...
My country has had national IDs for close to a century, and they make life a lot easier for databases and programming

Strange, from my perspective, this seems like a negative result.
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Based on your username I'm guessing the country is Sweden. Which corporate conglomerate and which system are you referring to? Telia e-legitimation? BankID?
Do pros really want to store their photos "in the cloud"? I'm just an amateur and have ~500GB of photos. Uploading that much is almost impossible over a normal asymmetric home internet connection, and I imagine professional photographers must have multi-terabytes of data easily.
This article is terrible.

>Some companies today and many companies of yesteryear had a different relationship with their team members: that of the husband / wife level of commitment.

The relationship was more like parent & child than that of husband & wife. That's what it was with the 1950s automotive companies and Japanese corporations decades ago. The common adjective when discussing those companies was "paternalistic" and not "spousal".

The author should research the rigid labor situation in France and see how it's handicapping their economic growth. They don't have the political will to push through labor reforms and their young workers face 25% unemployment rates.

A husband+wife employment model in America would weaken instead of strengthen its economic power.
2 is pretty key. The parent(s) are the anchor for the family unit. Examining marriage outside the context of family is a big conceptual mistake.
After all, Boston Market wasn't that long ago.
RAW conversion is provided by MacOS if they wanted to go that way. They could easily position themselves as product to handle those cases when the new Photos app isn't enough. This probably won't suffice for a professional workflow, but it might capture a significant portion of the enthusiast market.