skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember a letter from some time ago saying that LLVM IR format is private to specific version of LLVM, and is not guaranteed to be compatible with other versions in the future or in the past. Does this announcement mean that is not the case anymore, and LLVM IR is backwards compatible now?
Yes, I didn't mean Apple is going the MS route from a technical point of view, just the timing of their platform independence efforts leads me to believe that it has to do with pressure (or the potential thereof) by Microsoft.
Ok.. i ran vim thousands of times but never gvim.
Darn it. Remind me to never comment on something I don't read properly. So easy to jump to assumptions when just skimming.
Dunno, to promote generators? I'd say people often convert to list for no good reason, so adding friction might discourage that.

Then again, map() and friends are not exactly the recommended way, list comprehensions and generator expressions are usually preferred by the BDFL.
I'm sure if someone like Werner Herzog covered it, it'd be fascinating to watch. There's already hours of source material on YouTube.
If this is really the case, then Apple would forbid the use of Mobile Analytics.

I attended a presentation on this topic at Mobile Portland a while back; all three speakers emphasized that their SDKs were free of charge for app developers. But one of them showed a photo of her employer's data center.

That wasn't just one server - it was thousands of servers. Data centers cost a lot of money to outfit and to operate, yet their service is free to developers.

That analytics must be woth quite a lot of money to someone. After quite a lot of thought I started blocking analytics servers with my hosts file:

127.0.0.1 www.google-analytics.com

that works OK on conventional computers but requires jailbreaking on mobile devices.

It would be helpful were Apple to enable me to opt out of analytics; even better would be to disable it by default.

While I can see the point of mobile analytics during beta testing, for it to be used in production systems without the end-users knowledge is IMHO much the same as cyberstalking.
Pushing the limits of :visited with CSS blend modes
Otoh with MAS you get: hosting, payment processing, easy notification of updates for the users.
As a user I love that when I get the new machine I don't need to go hunting for all the apps I own, looking for the download link again, then looking for the serial numbers/licences. I can just go to App Store app and click "Install".
RancherOS secures $10M Series A for managing Docker container infrastructure
Zend Studio 12 License Key with Crack Free Download
> some 2.8 million per year. Considering this, their annual 12,000 erroneous death declarations amounts to an error rate of less than 1%.

I would say this is very very high ratio.
So Apple is following following the footsteps of IBM, huh?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_i#Instruction_set
Matrix looks very promising. Check them out at matrix.org
OS X El Capitan and iOS 9 Features and Updates That Didn't Make the Keynote
Here's one: http://math.andrej.com/2010/09/27/programming-with-effects-i...
Why do they encrypt code segment? Signature is essential, of course, but encrypting looks unnecessary.
As an user I LOVE App Store. Not being on MAS is a significant minus for the app.
The flow for creating a meet is slick and works really well. I was actually surprised that it found the pub I was suggesting to meet at so quickly and easily. Nice work. A few suggestions:

1. When I can "Invite people to suggest places and times by sharing this url with them" it would be great if there was some kind of pre-populated email that could be send that contained a blurb about the meetup and some info on how they would use the link they have been sent.

2. When I return to the site as someone who has been invited it is not immediately clear if I need to do anything, maybe a big "Yeah, I'll attend" button?

3. Could the meetup page show who has been invited and who is attending?
What exactly are those tables in the center of the clusters?
HN is a bad source to use if you want to see what programming languages are used or not. One can find out perhaps which languages are fashionable or popular with certain types of companies.
> From time to time I take a stab at Android development only to encounter Eclipse. I am similarly going to use Makefiles instead.

I think you should rather search for instructions on how to generate antfile
(it should be somewhere around generating whole project from command line and
should be found in Google's official documentation).

Antfile used to allow to build an APK and to run it under emulator, what
allowed me to write in Vim without running Eclipse whatsoever.
It looks just like this :) http://s289.photobucket.com/user/stranger205/media/battery_s...
If it's just a matter of "merging" couldn't you just merge those branches again? Or do you resolve conflicts on github or some such (something that's never fit my workflow but I can imagine others using it)?
I think $30 for REST client is a bit too much since there are many free alternatives.
... or you could just move to coffeescript and have something even more clay-like than python running everywhere.
I don't understand the big insight that's supposed to be in this article. About every country uses "thank you" in a different way. Like what, they discovered cultural differences?
MS were very inspired, unfortunately by VMS.
Also their website is probably the shittiest e-commerce platform every built with less than 1% of transactions actually become successful.

Is there a source for that percentage? I've found http://www.medianama.com/2011/09/223-irctc-reports-13-2m-tra... that estimates 75% success on the banking side, but presumably that doesn't count failures in UX, validation, etc. I'd be really interested in reading more.
Cool technology... however this:

"He said NRAM offers appealing cost benefits as well. Because of the small size of the carbon nanotubes, it can be easily shrunk, which means NRAM doesn't face the same manufacturing challenges as other forms of memory"

is a pretty ridiculous claim for the next decade or so at least. It should have said: theoretical cost benefits at some point in the distant future. Today NRAM has horrible cost negatives, because you're manufacturing with carbon nanotubes. It doesn't face the same manufacturing challenges as other forms of memory, it faces drastically greater challenges. It's going to take a long time to get this to an economy of scale, such that you can buy a gigabyte of NRAM for a competitive price.
Heh, very much fun!

The problem they faced is that a lot of steep sidewalks have steps cut into them as giveaways. Like Jones St. and Gough St at Washington. There's a few street blocks that hit 30% grade.

I think i recognized a few around UCSF and Potrero Hill.
Only if you're looking for excuses to prefer svn. You can do the exact same thing you would with 'svn revert' with 'git checkout --'.
Yes, it may be only 5 min.

But it tells a lot about the amount of "just 5 min" things they don't know.

I was asked once what load average knows (and I didn't know it). Because my background wasn't in sysadmin.

The fact that you know one fact or doesn't is immaterial, but it's a good proxy.

Your hiring decision should not be based on only that, of course, but let's say it's a pixel in a picture.
Jerry Boutot, CEO of AppDataWorks: How TimeCamp helps me get things done
Type system strength does not correlate with language adoption. Else, nobody would use C, Python, PHP, Javascript, Perl, Ruby ; C++, C#, Java would be outsiders and almost everybody would use Ada, Haskell, OCaml.

I agree with your last sentence, however.
Well, git should not be the default, but that doesn't make it a bad tool. Think about different heads for screw drivers. Just because you have bought a set and there is one you never or seldom use, doesn't mean it's a bad head. The moment someone has a screw which needs that head suddenly all other heads are useless and that's the best head you can have. Right?

(I'm not so sure what the right English word for "head" is, I hope it still makes sense even if I use the wrong one)

Or another example. Cars are a highly specialised tools. Nobody is allowed to use one if they haven't shown that they have learned to use it properly via standardized exams. Maybe if a company uses a lot of git the mistake is that they don't require people to learn it properly first, either by offering courses or by filtering in the hiring process.

And since I've spent month learning it and now can use it even in potentially destructive situations like "git rebase -i" I can tell you that for me it's way more useful than SVN or CVS ever were.
It's their fairplay DRM implementation that is supposed to prevent piracy.
>But once "thank you" is said, most people awkwardly respond with "ah", because there's no phrase in the language for "you're welcome".

In London I've noticed that instead of saying, "you're welcome" people prefer to say "no worries", which is far more casual. I don't know why that phrase started to be used but if I had to give a guess I'd say that it was out of awkwardness because there wasn't a less formal/personal response to use.
Seriously, it's a bit annoying to have so many news related to apple products making it to the front page of HN today.
You missed off "nigh-on" from before "impossible". It's an important qualifier.
No, you really don't need to. But some people just want to put in more effort than others and will try to land a better job.
Any particular reason for using WiFi, instead of relying on better tech (such as ultrasonic, radar etc)? I'm guessing that this is a solved problem in those areas.
If I may extend my own post for a moment, this is a common problem of trying to translate words & phrases directly.

For example, most people know that "Arigato" is Japanese for "Thank you". Except that's really wrong. Arigato is inappropriate in most cases, and "Sumasen" or variations should be used. But if you tried to translate them via the dictionary, you'd be quite confused as arigato comes from "thank" and su(mi)masen from "to finish".

You can't just say "This equals this" when you work in another language or culture. You have to learn the native meaning itself.
Not many of these articles mention that most 3D printers leave the model in a less than perfect state. It is covered in little flaws due to the print process and also covered in scaffolding.

There is a really interesting instructable on how to polish up the resulting epoxy model (this is a model of a horse leg muscle attached to the leg bone): http://www.instructables.com/id/How-to-Polish-Resin/

Many hours needed to sand the model, then apply polish compound and then finally buff with wax.
Ask HN: Best way to have mouth publicity for startup without spending money?
I am co-founder of Rime (https://rime.co). Rime collects your publicly shared photos, videos, blogs, almost everything and puts in to one place that describes you completely. Whilst there are similar apps out there (e.g. HootSuite, Buffer), this is the first time a platform has been created, to bring all contents of users to one platform. Down the line we are looking ourself as Google for social search(content and people).

We have attracted more than 5K users in our platform and around 50 users active everyday. I want your advices to ramp up the user acquisition.
You’re powered by quantum mechanics
.. and if those processes come from different vendors, then you effectively have 100 different admins and one user. This is the prevailing situation on mobile devices, where the priority is protecting the single user from potentially malicious vendors.
Google is just having fun :)
Web Application Architecture from 10,000 Feet, Part 2 – Persistent Data
Injectable technology puts electronics directly into the brain
Not really, a bit further on in the article the founder mentions how they spent most of their time on the tooling to make it compatible with existing manufacturing methods. It should be cheaper than DRAM and slightly more than NAND.
Airtel Spies on You. Coder Who Exposed This Gets Legal Notice from Israel
This can't be stated enough. You can have all the fanciest encryption messenger app you like, but it all comes down to - do you trust Apple?
I've heard Australians say "no worries" (often with a trailing "mate") a lot. I always thought it originated there.
Evil is a very loaded word because the API is being used for the exact purpose it was created: to allow the users of the platform to move their data unimpeded.

This kind of reasoning central point of the copyleft vs. permissive licensing debate: should the goal be

- to maximize the freedom of choice for the end user even if the choice curtails his own freedom?

- or to maximize the freedom of the software / system itself even if that curtails the freedom of choice for the end user?

Whatever the path taken it is naive to expect people and companies to follow the spirit of the license instead of its letter when is more beneficial to them to follow the later. Neither imoral nor evil IMO.
Yeah sadly a lot of books from the former soviet union are still circulating with horrible translations (if any). I can't really give a recommendation either because I read it in german.

And truth to what you say about the glass bead game, the first 200 pages are a torture, but I still cherish it even for the metaphor alone. Do you know of any book that does a better job bringing that across? That'd be very interesting.

+ Edit to my post: Meant to put Finnegan's wake to Joyce, not Ulysses! (even thought that's a pretty decent mindbender in itself)

+ Some I forgot:

- C G Jung - The Red Book (get the readers edition)

- Nobody mentioned McKenna! 'True Hallucinations' for example. Skip everything to do with I Ching and Timewave.

- Illuminatus! trilogy was only mentioned once for some reason (but then horrible to read)

- Toffler - Third Wave

- Gibson - Neuromancer

- Hesse - Demian

- P K Dick - Electric Sheep

- J A West - Serpent in the sky

- R A Wilson - Prometheus Rising

and some awesomely trippy, mindbending 'children's books':

- Preußler - Krabat

- Lindgreen - Brothers Lionheart

- Ende - Momo
Oh wow, I thought it was going to be "unicorn" as in "unicorn startup". What a surprise ;D
I should really do some text analysis and generate an understandability score 😉

But more seriously, isn't that just the fact they are using a different vocabulary?

Edit: Oh dear. I didn't realise Emoji really works on HN
He wasn't saying merci is yes in french, he was saying that it is indeed the french word merci they use in Bulgaria.
That's impossible today.

Are you telling me they're going to be manufacturing millions of units of carbon nanotube RAM at $50 for 8gb in the next five years?

The product they're looking to sell is extremely small amounts of NRAM, at extremely high prices vs DRAM. What you're not going to see is $0.01 per mb of NRAM in the near future.
Wow, never even realized you could save blockers (by digging the ground under their feet away). /me grabs PSP
Your Average Resume Should Stand Out
This is actually an Android openness success story. Even if Android is not as open as it should it still shows how much better it is in this subject.
A bit similar to WiSee that controlling devices with Wifi using your hands, though not counting people
http://wisee.cs.washington.edu/
Navigation vs Search: What to focus on when designing your website
Just avoid HN for a week or so while WWDC is on. It is always like this
> But I think that the "friction from what is in your head to code" probably betrays that you weren't settled in a previous language?

I had the same feeling as the user you're answering to. And I have used quite a bunch of languages I've been quite productive with (C, C++, PHP, Python, Java, Ada), but I've never felt with these languages as little "friction" as with Go.

I mean, that language is so dumb that you don't have to think about the right way to do stuff. It's obvious. Boring, sometimes verbose, but obvious. It doesn't stand in the way between me and the problem.
As lobster_johnson mentioned, Paw is indeed available on the MAS:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/paw-http-rest-client/id58465320...

I'm the founder of Paw, and frankly I like the MAS. It gave Paw a lot of visibility without us taking any financial risk. Otherwise, we would have needed to pay for some kind of advertising when we didn't have the money for it. MAS allowed us to bootstrap and gain users.

Sure, the 30% split for Apple sounds like a lot, and it surely is. That's exacly why we encourage users to get Paw from our website (which uses Stripe for CC processing). Also, website purchases get updates a little faster, as it doesn't rely on Apple's approval (which is IMO the real pain point of the MAS).

Lastly, sandboxing isn't an issue at all for us. And the version distributed through the website is also sandboxed. I personally love sandboxing, as a user first, and as a developer too. Sure, some apps (due to their nature) can't work with sandboxing, and should probably be allowed on the MAS as a special exception (the example I have in mind is the excellent Git Tower).
I suggest to use GNU stow for managing config files and keep your repo in a separate directory.
I don't think you can copyright code in india as abstract concepts are not patentable as per constitution.
If they can take half a day or a day out of their life to show up for an interview then certainly they can take the same time out of their life to write some code instead.
> ("merci" - the French word, yes)

Do you know why?
Yes, I developed got a secret trap maneuver that works from any board position, it's an insta-win or at least a stalemate every single time. Unfortunately my memory of it was hypnotically suppressed in order to keep myself safe from the Mechanics' Institute -- I'd need two of three friends of mine to say certain codewords to unlock it.
Thanking is not used to acknowledge a favor, thanking expresses gratitude. It means your boss appreciates your effort, that he doesn't consider you a robot who does work solely for the money. Maybe he thinks you put a little bit of yourself into the work.
Some of his stories are on the web, http://www.ralafferty.org/works/collections/online-stories/

An overview of his style, http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/aug/13/ra-la...

His most popular collection was Nine Hundred Grandmothers, http://www.ralafferty.org/works/collections/nine-hundred-gra...

Most of his work is out of print or rare, but a search for "Man Who Talled Tales" may help.
National IPv6 launch day in Finland
Can you tell what is current status of extension - is it still supported or packaged app is the way to go nowadays?

Are you planning to go more native with something like Atom's Electron platform?
Apple made an Android app that helps people switch to iOS
5 Bases you need to cover early on for your StartUp
Thanks, I was wondering about whether or not I would need insurance. Do you think it's necessary for providing a proof of concept module for an existing piece of software?
It's surely not easy, but that's still an important task. Hopefully El Capitan will also optimize these.
Assuming you just need a candidate to do grunt level coding.
Great article. I enjoyed the Lemmings games a lot as a kid.

‘Lemmings 3 was a bit crap … more to end our commitment to Psygnosis than actually do a good game,’ admits Dailly.

You gotta give him credit for his honesty. Lemmings was one of many titles that didn't survive the transition to 3D unscathedly. I think it was because a lot of time went into the engine instead of cute handdrawn 2D graphics and map design. Also the 3D camera movements were finicky, while in 2D you could just scroll.
I think the parent meant "Yes, we use the french word 'merci'", not that he thought 'merci' meant 'yes'.
Possibly. I do not claim to have ever driven social media traffic or made a trending hashtag or a viral video or even shared a "top 10 reasons why" article with anyone. However, I do get people asking what devices to buy/what programs to use/how to do stuff quite often.
I think it's mostly because it's so long and somewhat convoluted. "Благодаря" has 4 syllables while "мерси" only has 2. It's similar to saying "thanks" instead of "thank you" but that comparison is lost because the two words in Bulgarian are so different.
Two player lemmings was crazy:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAedz3nWn9E

There was a kind of pixel preciseness with the original lemmings that contributed a lot to this being great, but that somehow seems to have got lost in newer versions..
This is quite presumptuous of them. I find iOS a bit backwards and unintuitive compare to Android, not to mention I find their practices the worst of all evils (and I'm far from being an ideologist).
> Two player lemmings was crazy

Yeah it was great on the Amiga! Not sure if it worked well on other machines where you could not connect more than a mouse, though !
The companies that make medical grade 3D printed parts have the capabilities in house to remove scaffolds and smooth surfaces.
Does this work with evil mode?
Me too, but I don't see this as presumptuous at all. They're trying to make it easy for people who want to migrate from Android. Who can blame them?
French had a large influence on Bulgarian. A lot of bulgarian words are borrowed from French.
Useful trick to finish the more difficult levels with high requirements (in terms of number of lemmings to save)
refines are coming soon into ruby-core (2.2.0 IIRC).
Similar to the cultural difference when Russians do not smile [1].

[1]: http://www.russianlife.com/blog/why-dont-russians-smile/
Interesting, I thought OP actually meant actual DDoS. This just seems like a problem of server configuration, lack of resources. Not accidental DDoS.
For a lot of people, the appeal of Firefox at the time was that it was developed by a company whose primary goal was to improve the internet as public infrastructure.

With the mobile market being dominated by Google, Microsoft and Apple, Firefox OS makes sense in the same way.
“Thank you for coming to my home” actually meant, “It’s time for you to get out of my house.”

Seriously? Find new friends. When I thank people after hosting an event I do mean to thank them for choosing to spend their time with me. I feel like this post is blently dishonest and caricaturing just to tell a nice story.
So is Firefox OS just Android fork? Because if not then this isn't as much "Firefox OS on Android" as it is "Firefox OS like home screen for Android"
In Polish before 90s the French "pardon" was used for casual "I'm sorry" (for example when you bump into someone) as opposed to native (and more intense) "przepraszam" used when you really mean it.

Since 90s (and all the American movies) most people switched to English "sorry" instead of the French "pardon" for casual "I'm sorry". The original "przepraszam" is still mostly used for more meaningful apologies. And "pardon" is still there if you want to sound old-style casual.

And yes, part of it is - "przepraszam" is longer and sounds more "dignified". The thinking goes "if you're really sorry you should work for it".
I wouldn't trust my files on your servers if you can't lock down a directory, http://www.fotofox.io/assets/
That's really good that it's so dumb that you don't need to jump through hoops to think of the way to do it. Clever! Just code and go!
"Android has many problems and is far from perfect, but we have never had to put a wall up to keep our users in, to prevent them from leaving us."
On September 11, 2001 websites like CNN and NYT all went down because people kept reloading them.

Google ended up mirroring them.
Cyber-thieves can reap returns of almost 1,500% when they invest in ransomware
The point on having Swift on other platforms means you can write software for things other than iOS/OSX. It's a fun, modern language that brings A LOT to the table that js/py/rb don't (type checking and the ability to distribute binaries, for starters).
Is it really an amazing thing that you can recycle your Android device for free? I wonder what they do with them..
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