skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I hate Eclipse so much and for me that's enough to make the switch. Now I don't need a 12-core machine with 64 gigs of RAM to develop an Android app. Yay!
I don't find many people who share my view on this, but I think this is a good move and that they should hold their frame. I think the logo is simple and memorable, and it transcends language limitations. The genitalia jokes will persist for a while, but eventually it will probably just mean "Airbnb."

I also like the Belong Anywhere idea. I think it's a nice touch of branding, I think it helps them to self-select a certain kind of host and a certain kind of traveller, and that can make all the difference. I'm eager to see how they grow and develop as a cultural force in the world.
I like the pyramid idea for one other reason, none of the tower ideas are feasible outside of a vacuum. How much stress is applied to the brick from even a slight wind? Torque to the structure at varying heights because of the wind?
You need a bit of money to travel to Tokyo on a whim, as detailed in one of his screenshotted chats.
Yes Eclipse can be a PIA sometimes but when you are using it for 8 years it's haaaard to change!
That's about what I meant.

If you write a story, let us know.
Could someone recommend a good physical Bitcoin maker for gift purpse?
I want to buy some for gift.
Agreed! I think it's super important to avoid getting burned out, but I really wanted to highlight the importance of getting to new rungs, though, before you stop for so long that you slip back down.

Where do you personally find the optimums of productivity? For me it's all about having enough projects going that when I get tired of one, I can switch to another and feel fresh about it.
In what languages?
Obviously location is important but I am writing C++ on multiple platforms in the UK and $200k is far away.
Zotero is the Open Source choice. The best feature is keeping a BibTeX file with all your bibliography updated.
> I'd be curious to see if there's a relationship between 'ugly hack' in code commits and the languages being used

Perl is not in their list.

Either everything we do is an ugly hack, or everything we do is simple and elegant. :)
I have no idea why this is on the front page.
The AirBnB logo is far more triangular, if that makes sense. The lines coming down from the top towards the bottom left/right are very straight (EDIT: essentially it's a fancy "A" with very rigid lines), whereas the fash.io/n logo is just a regular (EDIT: rounded and very much not straight-lined) heart...

Yeah, I get it, you see a similar logo and think "ahh they copied ours", but at the end of the day, what do you expect with a single line, minimal logo? There's only so many ways a single line can loop around...
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It seems they missed mentioning Ray Kurzweil, the AI master who's a Director of Engineering at Google.
Good points here. Only many other limitations apply when building an actual tower, so you would probably need a lot of engineering to design a tower even remotely close to that height that can be built before it collapses. If that kind of thing was so easy the carbon nano-tubes fiber cable for the space elevator would be a reality and we would be sending packages to the ISS at almost no cost. But if you take a look at the ideas for the project, you'll find the amazing problems they are trying to solve just to be able to say: Ok, we can do it. Let's build it! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_elevator
Look for dirty hacks; still... C way ahead the rest.

Interesting that "ugly" places PHP over Javascript, but "dirty" is the other way around.

I wonder what does it mean. The comments and the "ugly" or "dirty" qualifiers are just part of the perception of the person writing the comment, and they're contributing to spread that perception to others.

What qualifies as "ugly", "dirty" and "clever", or even as "hack", may be quite different depending on the language and the community behind it.
BUT THEY COPIED UZ AND WE WANT OUR AIRBNB CASH MONEY!
Y WONT TEH INTERNET TAKE US SERIOUSLY?!?!?!

:-((((((((
even better - http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/#community_edition
> the UI and language makes it somewhat unclear what do do with it all.

That's quite an understatement.

The other aspect, is the lack of transparency Google has when making policy and product changes. Like suddenly trying to change app reviews and youtube comments from a pseudonymous to a real-name activity. Without any confidence in their service and policy stewardship, it's hard to trust them not to change this stuff randomly too.
That was my thinking too, that being said, i would be much further in my sportive efforts if i would have taken the slow and steady approach. sure you can burn yourself out for three months, take a break and repeat the cycle, that is, if you don't loose interest because of overtraining, and get distracted with other stuff. better 15 minutes a day a whole life than 3 or more hours a day for who knows how long.
400k results for C, the next one is 40k for PHP
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Accessibility is an issue. Technology that was military-grade only 1 decade ago (UAV's, powerful model rockets which can be converted to guided missiles) is available for anyone to buy online today.

With great buying power comes great responsibiliy.
Can you elaborate on the build system?
I would think the left bar would remain accurate. C lets you shoot yourself and people do it. PHP is terrible for a lot of well documented reasons. Javascript is being used for things it originally never envisioned.

The hyped dynamic languages sort of surprise me, with their modern APIs. I'm guessing most of that is poor framework programing.

Finally, Java's numbers? lol. Its a brave new world. If this was 8 years ago in ejb v1.2 Java world have taken the crown.
I'd argue that unprovoked violence is also an indicator of emotional immaturity (or other emotional problems), but bullies are a small minority of all males. Females who can't control their emotional reactions to external stimuli, on the other hand, are virtually all of them.
I don't want to get too deeply into it but PTSD is one hell of a disease and destroys families.
Proper love is not so easily sublimated, nor is proper sex
I paid $200 for the ultimate edition and couldn't be happier. Totally worth it.
>No, the most capable students should be homeschooled if you have the opportunity

I disagree. Your mileage may vary, but i was homeschooled and the end of elementary and beginning of jr high. It was absolutely devastating to me socially. Socialization is honestly the most valuable thing i learned in high school.

I honestly don't think that you can learn that many adults are horrible people without high school, and at least in high school there is limited damage that can be done, say, economically (of course there is always, on rare occurrences, and god forbid, potentially fatal emotional harm).

I sadly think that it may be that the younger these kids learn about society, the better. Humans are evolutionary beings, we have innate desires and drives, many of which are extremely anti-social. The sooner we learn that the better in my opinion.
Another fun search on GitHub - looking for the code paradox i.e. this should "never happen".

https://github.com/search?l=c&p=7&q=never+happen&ref=searchr...
Yeah, I don't think "ugly hack" or any other variants is frequent in bash script comments.
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I read this from top to bottom and really have no idea what the message of this article is about. It has the word 'sex' in it so it must be interesting, right?
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Looks like Ruby doesn't have ugly hacks.
had been using Eclipse for a while and recently switched to Android Studio. I can't say it feels very different but what makes things hard for me is the android emulator used in both of them. Too slow and so much lagging. Android studio or eclipse.. i don't care, just fix the godamn emulator.
They can always open a new company and hire only those they want from the existing one, can't they?
Being asked "What makes you so sure you're not in the Matrix?" by Vint Cerf would be the closest I could ever get to a 'spiritual moment'.
It did slightly annoy me that they say "they were impressed at the consistency of Lego manufacture" and then go on to tell us the average. What's the variance?!
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A JIT is inherently unsafe, since you're creating (nearly) arbitrary code, so, IMO, the largest benefit Rust can give to a JIT is possibly making it easier to write correct code, since memory safety of the code generator is somewhat orthogonal to memory safety of the generated code.

(NB. it isn't necessarily the case that Rust makes writing correct code easier, but features like ADTs and pattern matching seem like they would be useful for such things.)
The quote, "Look to Japan to see the start of this growing trend: over 25 percent of young men and 45 percent of young woman say they are no longer interested in sex," is spurious[^1]. It is based on a shallow survey [^2] of a few Japanese men and woman who were put on the spot in a conservative culture.

[^1]: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/oct/20/young-people-ja...
[^2]: http://www.ipss.go.jp/site-ad/index_english/Survey-e.asp
The biggest concern for me actually is that in making this move, amazon is putting itself in direct competition with libraries' ebook/audiobook lending services. Many of those even use the kindle network!

Will amazon continue to allow books to reach those services as soon after release? Do they have the power to stop it in the first place? I think it will be interesting to see how the company, which it is clear has a lot of leverage in the book publishing community, handles competing with a free alternative.
I've been following this topic for quite some time. Probably because I always wanted to be an EE/HPC engineer, but never was. When you listen to what guys from IBM, Intel, Applied Materials etc. have to say, then it seems that 5nm will probably be the last silicon based process. III-V (Boron, Nitrogen group) type of materials will then be next, with most likely candidate being GaAs (Gallium arsenide) which is already being used in niche productions.

What is more interesting than semiconductor base used is lithography process. Deep UV (immersion, using refraction of medium such as water) lithography currently used is showing its limits for ever smaller features. So, they came up with Extreme UV lithography which uses mirrors to project features onto surface, because at that short wavelength everything is opaque. Applied materials has a machine with EUVL apparently (there is one on their site and a nice video with description) as well as ASML (their machine reportedly costs $88 million).

There is a probability that with new semiconductor base (group III-V) there will be a reset back to 22nm or similar and a race down to bottom once again. We'll see.
Don't link to line numbers in GitHub
Maybe they just buy IBM Research instead?

http://www.research.ibm.com/
"If there was a small jump around the ten year point they'd probably see people willing to stop there instead of holding out 8-10 more years."

Or if there was less of a jump at 20.
Haha:

https://www.dropbox.com/s/j7rwshax2e9zwln/Screenshot%202014-...

Not even PHP can come within a factor of 5 of C when it comes to ugly hacks.

EDIT: And its not exactly like there is a bias at work: http://goo.gl/ZezFiP
I have no idea either.

All I clicked on was that survey about Japan not liking sex because I've seen it across the internet in the last few days.

The survey reports a sample size of about 9000, which only encapsulates a few thousand in the younger brackets.

Out of 120 million people I don't find that sample set really indicative of the sex life of Japanese people. Let alone taking account into how easily fallible surveys are, especially when asking about peoples sex lives.
Stop wasting money on user acquisition
Simple question: does "ugly hack" mean "a quick fix before relase" ?
I love the term 'ugly hack'. It's a very short way of saying 'a solution for a problem that assumes too much of the current context in which this component is called, and is guaranteed to break when the context changes'. It also implies 'this is intended to be temporary because I don't feel like doing the proper solution at this moment' which is accompanied with the intent 'we should fix this later' although most people who write it also have the wisdom that that almost never happens.

All of this is expressed in just two words :)
I love this one - someone made Java annotation for ugly hacks: https://github.com/benpage26/libxron/blob/016dd953a54eacada2...
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In relation to Google, though, I've read that the current workforce is somewhere between 20-35% composed of contractors. That seems like a reasonable way to A) avoid certain types of costs, and B) reduce or delay the onset of the type of corporate malaise you describe. What do you think?
Single product pros & cons, ratings, suggested builds for the component. Build guidelines, build performance index and power consumption, realtime best builds. Localized and multi currency. User friendly and beautifully designed, browsable with any device. And much more...
As you probably are an expert user you most likely don't care about any of all those features because you already know what do you need and where to find it.
As a matter of fact, I'm sure you also don't care that Facebook is localized in 97 languages, but trust me, a few people around the world do.
I know missing features like advanced filtering might be frustrating for those who need them right now, but we're working hard trying to please everybody's needs and provide a better service!
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Does this sound like an insincere story to anyone else? At the risk of appearing combative: "Ninja Pizza Girl" — the thematic concept by itself seems like an exploit of the industry.

Also interesting: "Run Fatty Run"[1] is in clear contradiction of the creator's message in his latest game.

[1] http://www.disparitygames.com/?page_id=148
Bleh, task it to a designer direct, don't spec it out to a load of half-arsed incompetents.

There's a lot more to logo and brand design than just putting together a pretty picture. Most competent and capable designers would have nothing to do with such contests, unless there's some alternate reasoning (it's simply fun / it's for charity / etc)

Put it this way — how many decent brands do you know of that have come out of this selection format?

http://www.nospec.com/
Hi, the developer here..
pknoa! is a very simple way to keep track of everything. It uses natural language processing, to help you store, quantify and organise information.

All you have to do is remember the pknoa! syntax:

unit action time

So, when you type something like:

30min meeting with Peter Smith 15 June 10:30pm

pknoa! breaks it down and quantifies it for you.
All your entries, with the same name (in this case, ‘meeting with Peter Smith’), are grouped together, enabling pknoa! to generate amazing statistics.
pknoa! also has other cool features, such as tags (allowing the grouping of two or more activities, to create new views) and sharing (allowing invited users to see, in real time, what you are up to).

We hope you enjoy it as much as we do
But is it because C programmers make more ugly hacks or that C programmers are more likely to know when they are making an ugly hack?
Pretty interesting/amusing to see the language breakdown of various words (with big grains of salt):

https://github.com/search?q=beautiful&type=Code

https://github.com/search?q=ugly&type=Code

https://github.com/search?q=lol&type=Code

https://github.com/search?q=wtf&type=Code
From what I can tell the article suggests that technology will A) increase our ability to have sex safely and B) decrease our desire to do so.
I can't believe I'm about to do this, but this is a situation where Michael O'Church hit the nail on the head.

https://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/07/13/how-the-othe...

The reason engineers and other tech staff will lose their jobs is because 1) politics above them, 2) lack of adequate technical understanding amongst mgmt to recognize how to usefully allocate technical staff, and 3) lack of political capital amongst the technical staff themselves.
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It has a lot of random statements to try and justify the article as interesting. I'd like to see reasons why STDs will be eliminated besides 'because bioengineering' and then he links to an article about HIV 'cure'.
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To clarify, Ray is a director, not the director. Google has many engineering directors.
Looks like a faster and much more pleasant way to get a quick overview compared to its web counterpart. The same goes for Google's iOS app for AdSense[1], which is pretty similar UI-wise.

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/google-adsense/id680739529?m...
according to https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viquip%C3%A8dia:La_taverna/Nov... it uses (the FOSS RBMT system) http://www.apertium.org/ for Catalan-Spanish :)
Wonder if the charting is native and if so if google might open source it
And Apple is forcing all other browsers to use its JS engine on iOS - so when Safara/its JS engine falls, they all fall.
"Don't Link that Line Number!" -> "Don't use unstable references if you need stable ones"
I'm surprised you mention camlp4 as an advantage over F#. It is being removed from the official distribution due to the problems that it causes[1], to be replaced with extension points[2].

We use camlp4 a bit at Red Lizard Software and we are eagerly looking to move to extension points as soon as they are released.

[1]: https://blogs.janestreet.com/ocaml-4-02-everything-else/
[2]: https://blogs.janestreet.com/extension-points-or-how-ocaml-i...
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Minimum Effective Dose << liking the genericity of it
To badly paraphrase Star Wars, "your confidence in your friends is your greatest weakness". Pdf sucks, it's little more than a glorified 2d graphics api that happens to be used mostly for content that should be represented as text. Except that there are dozens of ways to make stuff look like text, but without the advantages.
So, HN's hate-child PHP is funnier, more beautiful, less ugly and less confusing than sexy JavaScript. Although Python rules them all.
"only a few thousand"?

Since when is a few thousand not enough to get significant results from a survey?
You can only be on a H1B for 6 years (3 years renewed twice). After that, its either greencard or go home for a few years, and everyone I know has been able to get greencards even if the "process" is kind of tough.

However, I cannot get a greencard in the country of my residence (where I have many coworkers with USA greencards, ironically enough), so I think it is not very fair.
"It would seem from the above that men prefer quantity to quality but the reality is somewhat different."

http://www.chrisharding.net/wetherobots/comics/x2008-01-07-M...
they have a fiduciary responsibility to return their
profits to shareholders and not employees

As evidenced by the fact that executive pay is extremely low, and constantly falling :)
I remember seeing an elisp equivalent used to write ftp clients in emacs. Can't find it again, but anyway, I never got to see the original expect.
Maybe some ducklings too?

https://github.com/search?q=ugly+duck&type=Code&ref=searchre...
We took your advice and corrected both the contrast and the images. Many thanks for your inputs.
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Such a thorough peek behind the curtains of his design decisions. And he definitely fueled my passion for travel and active lifestyle.
To be fair, PHP has a well-known problem of a lot of people not being able to properly judge the quality of the code they write ;) [1]

[1] Of course I don't mean you, my dear PHP writing comment reader.
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The shots are beautiful, totally worth it. I also forget how great Beijing can be in clean air.
Sounds like a cult to me...

Or quarians, to be honest.
I used to use expect to automate a bunch of business reports and system functions. I switched to a python work-alike called pexpect that I still use and love. It feels a little hacky but it works and saves a huge amount of time over the course of a year.
Have been using the Android version for quite a while and I love it. It's such an intuitive and well done app.
How your landing page looks with javascript turned off: http://picpaste.com/pics/pknoa-nojs.1405592840.png

Note, no scroll-bar, content sitting on top of itself, no way to navigate around the page without javascript.

Therefore - no thanks.
Dealing with hair loss
Python seems to get a leg-up on the beauty stakes thanks to the popularity of the BeautifulSoup library :)
It usually means that something out of your control is acting strange and you don't know or can't properly fix it, but you have found a weird workaround that should probably not even work, or an very contrived way to achieve the result.

As one obviously only writes extremely elegant code, it is important to notify the programmer coming after that you were forced to write it this way.
Hi thanks for the feedback.
But the application itself would be virtually impossible to use without javascript.
Either way thanks for the feedback.
Amusingly, a lot of Python's hits appear to be hacking the import logic.

[0]: https://github.com/search?l=python&q=ugly+hack&ref=cmdform&t...
I have been waiting for this for quite a long time. Before this new app is released, I was using SimplyStats which is simple but easy-to-use.
This is true for some PDFs but not for academic ones produced by PDFLaTeX.
They're just broken anchor links – intended to take you to the section headings further down the page, I think.
Ask HN: How do you use Parse.com? what about performances and scalability?
Hi all,

I currently bootstraping a new project (a mobile app) witch will require me to handle a basic user profile, some categories for each profile and a advanced search based on these categories/criteria and the user location.

I also want to track the usage of the app, and probably be able to send some emails to inactive users.

To be able to launch an MVP quickly I'm thinking about using Parse.com but I don't see much feedback from project who might use it.

Does anyone have some experience to share?

Thanks a lot!

Thibaut
My personal experience with US high school as an exchange student is that there was a much higher pressure on being "cool" and "popular", than back home, to a great detrimental effect on the social environment. Students were being unfriendly and mean to each other for no other apparent reason than to climb the social ladder. It also seemed like it was a goal to be disgusting - with indoor spitting, food-fights and generally gross behavior. Not only kids, but also weak teachers were bullied. Reciprocally, some teachers bullied weak students to an extent I consider clearly unprofessional. And god forbid if you were gay or something (this was in the mid-nineties, so a while back now).

How refreshening it was to return to my native high school after that year! Although it had is problem too, at least the norm among student was to be nice to each other. Being "cool" was certainly a thing, but students generally weren't obsessed about it. I am generally nostalgic about my high school days, except the year in the US.

This is just my personal anecdote, and is of course ludicrous to say that "bullying doesn't exist in Europe", but I cannot help but wondering whether my experience fit into a pattern. Watching American teenage dramas, it's just too uncannily like what I observed myself.
depends on how representative the sample is? But yeah, a few thousand _might_ be good enough if you are able to pick sufficiently randomly - but still from each representative class!