skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> .. support is terrible on the Android side. Really terrible.

Buy a Windows Phone, then.
Likewise on my Moto G running 4.4.4.

65Mb app

22Mb data

= 87Mb total

Cache is recorded separately, currently at 205Mb. I wonder if it is a question of how the figures are being displayed in different versions of Android.
The underlying problem is still there, fixing a few of the worst cases in the standard library is helpful but only up to a point. (E.g. anyone with a custom function that does something in a similar vein needs to remember to do the same.)
Is this relevant to my point, which is that there is a known pattern of behavior that may apply in this case? I'm not seeing why the relative proportion of people is relevant.

Also, he gave a pretty clear description of what qualified as a dysfunctional family, so I think your "whatever that means" is unnecessarily snotty. Start with the bit about, "an environment where fighting, abusive or drug/alcohol related behavior is the norm" and go on from there.
Both the JVM and the CLR are regularly beaten by C/C++, despite claims that they are "as fast". What gives?

In my view the whole problem comes down to whether or not you are using an idiomatic approach or not. In idiomatic C#/Java you use a lot of heap allocations, garbage collection, you may be using dynamic dispatch and so on.

If you write a C# program that uses stack allocation only (no classes, only structs and primitives), no inheritance/polymorphism, no exceptions, you should find that the CLR stands up pretty well to a C++ program.
Sadly, what you have done then is essentially code in a very small subset of C#, OR you have achieved something that is so hard and so prone to foot-shooting you could just as well have used C++ to begin with.

To reverse the argument: if you use C++ with loads of garbage collected objects etc. you will end up with performance similar to a java/C# program. But in idiomatic C++, you usually don't.
While I can appreciate the work to do the web site, the news of hackers made in Berlin sounds like very restrictive and poor of contents.

I came from italy, where with other guys, we have built hackingintalia.com(fork of lamernews) for italians hacker.
In Italy the culture of hackers often have not a global point of view, maybe for language issue and other reasons.

But for Germans as many Anglo Saxon, the English is not a real Problem, so it looks like "yet another news hub" with no something of much valuable than HackerNews
Recent (CM11?) versions of the Cyanogenmod browser are actually based on Chromium.
> cash is king [...] there is absolutely no uncertainty at all

2009 was only 5 years ago. Money markets nearly crashed, banks went bankrupt, the Fed printed enormous amounts of money, and BTC was invented. With $2.5 billion on the table, I'd first hire a team of lawyers and accountants, and maybe some lobbyists too... then I'd let MS know how I want to receive the rest of the money.
Ask HN: What's the funniest thing you've done with code?
Well, I've been quite free in the last 24 hrs, and will be for the next 24. So, I'm thinking of pranks through programs [mmmmuuuuuuuaaahhhhhaahha...].

Give me some pranks!
Wow ! I think it is great to see the comments on this thread. Thanks jwillgoesfast for asking this question.

I have actually been working on building a Product/Market Fit (Customer Dev) as Service product for the last 12 months and before that I had been advising (mostly on shaping up ideas to get the product definition right) / helping out two new startup teams every month, for about 7 years now. This happened primarily because I enjoy meeting startups and because I was part of a large alumni network which would reach out.

The key assumption for the P/M-F service is whether something like this can be scalable and work in a self-serve mode (i.e. where I am not in the room)

So I have kept iterating on the framework, took inputs from the founders I had advised in the past. My key question to them was "How did I help you even though I was not really a expert in the marketing you were targeting?"

I also conducted lean canvas workshops with startups in US and India (and across sectors including one 7-year old pharma company trying to launch a product) till I could start standardizing (so that it could then be coded into software) the P/M-F process and build a self-serve tool. The tool has now taken the shape of an "intelligent" software which asks startup founders questions and assigns them tasks to do.

There is a lot of complexity in the tool. And it needs to be much more intelligent as well. We have explored using machine learning at the backend, but so far the intelligence is based more on a decision tree structure, rather than any machine learning.

Currently in private alpha, testing with some startups and an accelerator, and will release this soon for others, hopefully by end of this month.

http://www.uberstarter.com
Agile Localization: Myth or Reality?
Has your son discovered KSP[1] yet? It's got a great modding community, and would, IMHO, suit a keen 14yo perfectly. It suits a keen 37yo perfectly as well :-)

[1] http://kerbalspaceprogram.com/
You would be surprised at how many germans refuse to read/write english. They get everything dubbed on TV since ages and almost all games comes out with a german version. But this berlin hacker news is only accepting english submissions so it's a moot point anyway. Just ignore me :-)
We build our own communities, worship our own heroes and immerse ourselves in our own society; instead of the immersing in the actual society we live in.

Everyone does that. There's no "actual society" besides the one composed of smaller groups immersed in their own reality.
Comparing Clojure Testing Libraries
In 4.4, WebView is backed by Chromium.
Working hard was a core value of the programmer culture? When?
Well, unless you consider China "Asia". I might.
Root Samsung Galaxy Note with Odin Download
"Hey, where'd this U2 album come from???"

Of course Apple can "silently slipstream applications onto a user's iPhone". Whether they'd risk getting caught doing it (even for non-all-powerful law enforcement agencies) without a court order or for anything less indefensable than a kiddie porn investigation is less clear. (And whether the NSA would even need Apples help to do it themselves is questionable - I suspect whoever owns the baseband has as much access as you'd even need, so now you're relying on AT&T/Comcast/Verizon/TMobile to put protecting your privacy above keeping the corporation on-side with powerful government agencies...)
I really don't see the point. Tried a couple of HN spin offs and I always end up here, long live HN.
Mechanisms of evil
Agreed, and I'd add that I wouldn't really say Jobs founded Pixar. Pixar was a Lucasfilm spinoff with an existing team and product when Jobs got involved as an investor and board chairman.
Don't try to kill your apps
Is there an alternative source for this? I have to create an account at ft.com
Cloud Software Company OnApp buys SolusVM
If you're interested in a remote cofounder, then I might be up for the challenge :-)
Is there support for matrices?

Neither

\begin{bmatrix}
a & b \\
c & d
\end{bmatrix}

nor

\begin{array}{ccc}
a & b & c \\
d & e & f \\
g & h & i
\end{array}

works.
I noticed no youtube videos are showing up in my facebook feed (only facebook's 'natively' uploaded videos, and a lot of silly ones at that). The above article sheds some light on what is driving this change. I think it's a bad sign for the open web and for what's left of Facebook as a content discovery platform for content creators.
I have a better sense of your frustration now and I suggest you learn to live with it or let it go. There isn't a "true programmer". If there is, I have no idea what it means.

"that you work hard" is not a core value of my culture. Couldn't have been removed, never was. I'm all about the Slack. My Slack comes from midnight hotfixes, finding and fixing that bug, adding a useful feature with as little effort as possible, learning something that'll make me better at something I care about, using what I know to help a friend (coworker?) in need.
I was a NeXT developer from 0.9 through the acquisition, and I can testify that NeXT was a commercial failure. Many great ideas, and it did well enough in some tiny commercial niches like finance. But if Apple hadn't fucked up its own OS development so thoroughly that they had to buy a replacement, NeXT would have either been out of business or a modest maker of OO development tools.

Even without NeXT, Apple could well have brought back Jobs as CEO. I'd say that everything subsequent to Jobs returning to Apple was Jobs's success, not NeXT's.
He has followed it with several noteworthy projects.

People confuse popularity with merit. Things become extremely popular because of chance network effects. Humans are herd animals. You get a big hit if you are lucky enough to start a stampede. (Or if you spend a lot of energy carefully engineering a stampede).

Not getting a stampede doesn't mean you didn't make something amazing.

He did build something new and successful with 0x10c. That demo is amazing. Its a 3d shooter with an awesome laser gun and a _full 80s computer emulated inside of it_. And an abstraction for virtual peripherals, a virtual monitor, and a virtual 3d vector display. Its fucking awesome.

Did he make $100 million selling that? No. Does that mean it isn't awesome? No it absolutely does not. For starters, it was never for sale.

Here is a song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBAtAM7vtgc that is an absolutely horrible parody of itself (intentionally, for comedic effect (we hope)) that was in the top five of the charts for its category. It sold quite a lot of downloads, purchases and products. Incredibly popular. Complete crap.

Judging the merit of something on the basis of how excited the herd gets is completely wrong.
Attended the Chicago Lean Startup Challenge this summer. They push teams to do experiments to determine if their guess/business idea is solving a real need of a customer segment. This 8 week program has saved a lot of companies from building the wrong product and addressing the wrong problem. Watch some of the videos on BuiltinChicago.org to hear how the interview process lead to a major pivot and the start of a company. Summary: Don't built it unless you have done considerable customer interviews and determined A. you are addressing a morphine problem not an aspirin problem and B. The customer base will pay for your solution. Then you build and A/B test. :)
Off-Canvas Menu Effects
If he even cared a tiny bit about his kids, then he would treat their mother with respect.
I thought the OP was rating himself 9 on a scale of 1-17!
This is no joke, we use to get German TV here in The Netherlands. I always found it amusing to watch the A-Team dubbed in German.
The use of 'his' here is pretty suspicious. The original story says 'the' kids. We don't know whether they're her kids from another relationship, kids they had together, or his kids from a previous relationship. They could be adopted.

But NATURALLY, they're his kids because it was unspecified and you identify with the father, and because them being his kids makes her a bitch. Now it's internally consistent!
The middle ages were a period of great turmoil in Europe, so even if there were scientific, literary or artistic advances they could easily have been destroyed. We only know what we know from stuff that has survived the turmoil and the following thousand or so years.

Also, I'm very surprised the quora article did not even mention the plague and the effect it had in those days.
Let's take this to the extreme: If you are threat to the NSA, you'd use an iPhone to send a message because Tim Cook said it's encrypted?

YES - NO - I DON'T KNOW

ps. Let's wait for Apple to do a better job at keeping private naked pictures people make for fun using an iPhone and we'll talk iMessage encryption later.
>no soft buttons, and the hard buttons aren't lit

Sounds like a massive plus to me. I hate onscreen buttons; a phone that has them has about the same negative added from that as it has from not having an SD card. Sometimes I play games, or use a terminal, and don't want to have my hand accidentally brush a button to close it.

The display is a bit small (Samsung Galaxy size is perfect; anything below is too small and above gets unwieldy) and the cpu/memory a bit weak, but I guess it's good to know in case Samsung ever stop making good phones.
Yes but you are talking about TV, games and so on.
I'm sure that hackers have much propension to read/write English, than common people.
For now this folder consists of opensource libraries (lwjgl).
Hopefully the tooling will take off once the language stabilizes. Using a "newish" language is a total exercise in frustration when you are a spoiled kid who expects an IDE to come with your language configured, and a nice big play button for running your first program.

For a language to take off, it badly needs a very good (ideally "official") development experience, such as a custom eclipse impl, or a very good IntelliJ plugin. When a dev experience comes with batteries included it lowers the treshold substantially from just "use whatever text editor you like and compile on command line, here is a readme".
"we don't have a key, at this moment". Come on, Apple is still able to get your messages. Next time when you set up your iPhone, and if the messages are downloaded to your new device, you know they have access as well.
Life Hacks for Sweaty Hands (Hyperhidrosis)
(I think shin_lao was actually talking along the same lines, saying that even the hyper-optimised JVM often isn't as good as a good C++ program.)
The time you enjoy wasting is not wasted time.
-- Bertrand Russell
If it's as high as 20% I'm all wrong, sorry. Was not able to find any hard-data (paper) though.
Aren't there entire websites devoted to this?
First Meta CEO was 'determined to end her life': State Coroner
What I meant is, "better or equal to current Go code using the current version of polymorphism (which is `interface {}`)".

AFAIK it's not possible to write generic Go code without `interface {}` (or, alternatively, duplicating the code for each type).
Stalking and harassment, on the other hand, will surely be greatly in his favour if he ever has to go to court to get custody or visitation rights. Or if she decides to make a complaint about him.
I posted this elsewhere on the thread, but in case you missed it, you might find that this project breathes new life into that old device. http://www.whited00r.com/features?lang=en
Because love is the only way forward. And I don't say that out of altruism. Hatred will consume and embitter a person.

There are people who have suffered far greater injustices than being bullied in school and were resilient enough to maintain a generally positive disposition that serves them well. There are also privileged individuals who never faced anything most people would consider a real problem and yet are extremely cynical and bitter at the world as they see it.

Setting all judgement aside, what is the better way to live solely for oneself?
There's an entire branch of computer science devoted to studying creativity and computation. Google Prof Geraint Wiggins for some examples.

His ideas about this are a bit more thoughtful and insightful than 'exploring a finite ideaspace.'
Even in the comments everything is US oriented.

Example: "2 years are now a long support cycle for phones as most people get carrier upgrades every 2 years anyway" (from the Android Browser vuln thread.
This is only valid in the US because most people in Europe, Africa, Asia, India, etc. buy their phones seperate from their contract, so there is no "automatic" upgrade.

Another example was in the Popcorn-Time threads the "Who needs this if you have Netflix?" – Netflix doesn't even exist in most countries, and where it does exist, they only have like a dozen series, nowhere near the US version, so it provides no benefit. Hell, here where I live even DVD rental is still used, even Amazon provides DVD rental here.

Most of the people in the comments assume that everyone is in the US and a Hacker-News without that would be great.
You think it's reasonable that he should continue at the helm of Mojang and retain control of Minecraft IP until what exactly? 10 years pass and the brand (which Minecraft has become) finally fades in popularity?

So he can release it as open source, to make good on what? Some "About" page he wrote fucking 4 years ago when Minecraft was nothing but a PC indie sleeper hit?

Get real.
Whited00r: iOS Community Custom Firmware
I am not trying to split up the community. HN is global and this is good. BHN is local and also focused on showing local startups. That being said it can't obviously have every hour 200 new submissions. It is more about sharing your experience in Berlin and getting to know the Berlin startup scene. I honestly think that submissions will stay on the front page for ~1 week and this is also how it was calculated.

I was not counting for BHN to be on the front page so I am trying now to fix all the small things that pop up.

Edit: As I mention in te FAQ this is an experiment and if people continue to contribute I will try to push it into a direction that makes it valuable for everyone interested in Berlin.
Even if you could set your own keys, there's no guarantee their infrastructure doesn't leak them to NSA. And considering Snowden's revelations, it's more likely than not.
Would the police deal with this kind of kidnapping?
> signs of unhealthy obsession

Most people here probably have an unhealthy obsession with computers and they're going much further in life than people with no hobbies who spend their spare time watching TV
This whole concept reminds me very much of a character in an Iain M Banks novel (I forget which) whereby this character had--historically--shown an incredible knack for predicting/analysing future events, but there was always doubt whether they were just a statistical anomaly (given enough people, someone has to get it right all the time--until, suddenly, they don't) or a real effect. Interesting idea. Presumably they try and control for this.
erm. "with every mention of 'encryption' comes the issue of 'key management'? " ?

and possibly a subset of 'key management', 'key exchange'..?
If Minecraft is worth 2.5 billion, how much is Dwarf Fortress (an all around superior game) worth?
Does one live solely for oneself?
How can academics use this software without being exasperated that the name "Wolfram" is constantly shoved into their face?

Especially since the guy only wrote a fraction of the "Wolfram System" (A NEW KIND OF SYSTEM!!!).
With Instant Gratification, who is minding the future?
Show HN: PHP and Audio.js playlist generator
The only reason I'd like to see it "succeed" is that whole tokenization thing that keeps all credit card data private. That's a huge advantage over anything else in my opinion, and if it succeeds, others like Google will have to replicate it.

I know Google wallet creates a virtual credit number, but that remains "permanent", so in terms of tracking, it's not that much different than using the real credit number. It protects you against theft, but not tracking.

Now that I know this kind of tokenization is possible (and more importantly acceptable by the financial industry) even if I'm not going to be in the Apple ecosystem, I'm not going to use anything else that doesn't use the same method.
Does that mean its just a ROT13 cipher? I mean its technically encrypted, but also doesn't need a key...
A 16-Year Old Invents Device That Converts Breath to Speech
Before you say it, I agree this isn't very technical at all, it essentially just lists files and relies on the fantastic Audio.js to do the heavy lifting, but it is convenient.

You could use it to stream some self-hosted music to yourself and your friends.
It is actually more likely the rasterizer interpolated between values before running the fragment shader.
This could be caused by the input mesh having an unexpected topology or some odd form of multisampling.
Quote: "But ultimately one might expect the same basic finding as always: that forecasting events is basically impossible. Wrong. To connoisseurs of the frailties of futurology, the results of the Good Judgment Project are quite astonishing. Forecasting is possible, and some people – call them “superforecasters”– can predict geopolitical events with an accuracy far outstripping chance. The superforecasters have been able to sustain and even improve their performance."

This is such perfect nonsense. The described program collects forecasts, forecasts that can be expected to be half right and half wrong for binary questions, throws out those that by chance were wrong, and preserves those that by chance were right.

In the next round, using only subjects that were right already, the same procedure is used -- throw out the bad forecasts, preserve the good ones. Each experimental cycle eliminates 1/2 the participants. After 8 repetitions, 1/256th of the original participants remain, all with perfect records. These are the "superforcecasters" the article describes. A computer could do as well, with an equal amount of logic -- none at all.

There is a financial scam called "Miracle Man" that uses the same scheme. It seems very convincing until you think about it:

http://arachnoid.com/equities_myths/index.html#Miracle_Man

If this were't the most absurd kind of pseudoscience, if real forecasting ability were being modeled, it could be tested using a prospective model (the gold standard for real science) instead of the useless retrospective design presently being used.

The authors of this study need to learn statistics, probability, the undermining influence of confirmation bias, the importance of the null hypothesis in result analysis, and a bit of common sense wouldn't hurt.
Sounds like a someone fighting with a form of cargo cultism.

There are people who live and breath technical pursuits and were either born or raised to enjoy/tolerate things and happened to turn out with the outcomes that others think they wish they had. The irony is that people who find the life of bathing in their work - likely don't have or care much about the trappings that come from becoming hyper successful due to their moderately unique self. SEE NOTCH.

Notch is a timely example of someone who gets so much out of plumbing the depths of programming that he is not going to be writing the sad article about how he sold his start-up and feels bittered about it and learned a bunch of lessons, etc.

For most people (which means it's normal), people are not wired to enjoy the process enough to be like the OP thinks he's supposed to be. He's internalized the idea that this is how you get the outcomes he thinks he wants. I'm thinking there's paradoxes everywhere.

If you:
are fortunate enough to love the tasks dearly and not care what project/role you are on
are fortunate enough to love the project/role you are working on despite the tasks
are fortunate enough to love the project/role and your daily tasks

Then you'll likely not worry about if you do or don't need/want breaks. No self-hate there. You love what you do.

So, if you aren't feeling your "self" because you think you are broken, maybe believing that by pretending you're on the path to your desired outcomes - that your success plane will descend from the sky and bring you "the good times." That's the cargo cult.

You need to understand you and what motivates you. You need to understand what you are capable of and how that places you where you are today. You need to learn what you really care about, then remember where/who you are and where you want to be. Forget the judgement of others - be your own worst critic. You'll do fine. Hate yourself for failing yourself, not for failing others.
He actually probably never said that specific line. But he did write an essay called "In Praise Of Idleness": http://www.zpub.com/notes/idle.html
Passion Lost, or playing GTA in my PJs instead of killing it