skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems as though I've seen a variation on this, in which questions are pulled from tweets to a particular hashtag. I'm not sure where or when this was, but it seemed to work pretty well, or at least better than this index card thing would.
People are already blogging mostly in Swift rather than Objective C, which was created in the mid 1980's.

http://www.h4labs.com/dev/ios/swift.html

Apple is doing a good job of updating ObjC but Swift already has the momentum. Apple has made it clear that they want Swift:

http://ericasadun.com/2015/04/14/swift-in-case-you-didnt-thi...

You can choose to ignore their subtle messages (e.g. use Autolayout, Size Classes) but at some point in the not too distant future, you'll likely regret not starting with Swift earlier.
That doesn't really explain the history of why. I think that's the most interesting part of the answer.
Do we have enough notable cases of either sort to run a comparison? Companies are on average more likely to promote themselves than individuals, so it's not unlikely that an impartial algorithm would rate their notability higher more often than the reverse.

As for what such an algorithm might look like, I suppose it would not be dissimilar to search: determining whether e.g. "lush" is more likely to be associated with Mr. Lush or Lush Cosmetics, and making reassignments when the benefit seems particularly large.

Though if Google does use such an algorithm, it might not be wise for either Mr. Lush or Lush Cosmetics to bank on holding this custom YouTube URL, since someday an even more notable entity for the keyword might appear.
This is a great idea - is there any reason why there isn't a generally accepted coding equivalent of a CPA or a CMT or any of the other very successful professional certification programs out there? Does the field move too quickly? Is there too much dispersion in talent (or perceived dispersion) by programmers themselves to make it worth turning them into "certified programmers"?
Might have meant GTA IV, which was a terrible PC port.
How Machine Vision Solved One of the Great Mysteries of Surrealist Art
An Hour with Safari Content Blocker in iOS 9
That's because Slack is slow. There are even more lightweight open source Slack alternatives described here: http://browsingthenet.blogspot.com/2015/05/slack-is-so-slow-...
Try the Office 2016 Beta for OSX. Its going to be a launch day first class citizen of the Office family, and is a complete UI/UX rewrite to match what Windows does now.

I'm using it, it's ahead of the non-Beta Office that Office 365 currently ships for Windows.
I totally agree. I don't like the term "working hard", it doesn't mean anything. I'd rather use "efficiency". If you work 70 hours but you do as much as someone working 20 hours, I don't consider that you are working hard.
About the low wages for startup employees with high equity; I don't find it right as if you want to attract great workers, you need to offer them something now and not only something which might come possible in the future. Even if you have very high hopes to become a successful startup, this is never 100% sure. Startups have to look forward but people tend to look at present.
We already have safety nets - automatic stabilizers, means tested welfare etc.

I say start supplementing them all with a basic income financed by an automation tax. The more automation, the more companies benefiting from it are taxed. They still get to keep 60% of the savings from automation but the other 40% would be taxed, say. The key is redistributing it to EVERYONE. At first it would be very small but it would be help cushion demand shocks in the economy.

We just need this wealth redistribution scheme in place. Have a formula. And on a related note I would have the nation be run by polling, not democracy. Representative democracy is super corrupt and political drama is wasteful. Direct democracy is bad because those who bother to vote can get one over on those who don't. Instead, the government should do randomized polling of the population and report the results, which would be verifiable by independent polling organizations. In fact we could just have publicly accountable polling organizations which make all their results available publicly. Several of these polling organizations would be enough basis for the government bureacrats (eventually replaced by mostly computers) to take the opinion of the public in various issues and just implement them.

How much redistribution should we have? Do polling every year. How much carbon tax? Polling etc. That is a real participatory democracy without the stupid waste of time going to a polling booth. If you want me to vote, GIVE ME AN APP as an option. If it's secure enough for my finances in a bank it's secure enough for my vote in an election. But better yet just do the work for us and POLL the public on what they want.

If you say represenative democracy is able to accomplish more and polls would just vascillate wildly between different positions, then I think you're too married to the current ideology. You can still have the executive branch take a firm direction every few years, or months. That and everything else can be changeable by polls instead of a legislative branch. Polls are better than referendums.

One legitimate fear is that polls can be falsified. That's why we need many independent organizations doing the pollin. Better than one organization doing the vote.
I agree totally. I almost fell over laughing recently when I saw a new headline about Dropbox and business customers.

It might have changed, but the one thing that summed up how useless it is for business is that you can't effectively run it on a server.
Definitely worth taking a look at the hybrid solution from Egnyte. Can leverage cloud and on-prem for scaling, performance, etc.
I remember opening a bug report for this quite a few months back. No reply (nor marked as dupe), but glad to see it getting implemented.
You pay a one-time fee, you typically get a license to use that software on One Computer.

The benefit of subscriptions is that they typically are more generous with allowing you to use their services on multiple devices (perhaps not simultaneously).

I would say it's similar to saying "I bought Star Wars on VHS, therefor I should get he HD version for free"
We also gave up on Dropbox and went to Google with the unlimited apps plan. It seemed easier, solved the problems, and reduced by one the number of systems we needed to understand. $120 per year per employee is easier to deal with, if it includes all the other Google Apps integration.
A lot of the IPCC lead authors are paid by NGO's (like Greenpeace) with a vested interest in climate alarmism. Do we discount their work too?

Climate science covers a lot of different areas, everything from economics, through hard chemistry and fluid dynamics, to pure statistics. No one person can be an expert on all of this, and no one qualification will make anyone competent in all of them. Experts from related disciplines are perfectly qualified to speak on "their" areas of climate science.
The Emotional Co-Founder
Apple to protect user data from misuse in ios9
I kind of disagree Facebook is a good force. I have noticed that I am getting really heavily tracked and re-targeted on their service now. I don't like using it any more. Your literally giving a mega corporation all your most private information. They have paired up publicly with Acxiom and many other data brokers which mine your credit card data and associate it with your facebook profile. It makes you wonder what they do in private. They definitely need a good security team to keep their secrets secret. Congrats on the role.
Of all the comments so far on this, this is maybe the coolest. You can really see how Office on OSX has shaped up (if you follow the beta; identical Windows and OSX support on launch day instead of OSX getting it 2 years later like it's been for the past decade), but I'm surprised Android also shares a significant amount of the code base.

It cuts down on bugs, and also makes sure the bugs that are on the desktop are also the same ones on my phone (principal of least surprise at work).
I personally don't think that dropbox supporting Linux make them successful. I would love to see the percentage of Dropbox users using Linux (I guess it's very low). Dropbox is successful because they had great PR and marketing strategy. However, if they want to stay the leader they need to make huge improvements especially for company cloud storage. If you have a company of 20 or more people, the costs of Dropbox are ridiculous.
They also note that the majority of smells (as defined by their static analysis suite) are introduced when adding new features or enhancing existing ones, which is a bit different from the usual "maintenance creates smells" adage. Less than 20% of what they defined as smells were introduced by bug fixes, something I think of more when I think of "maintenance." I'm still a bit skeptical of the methods, but an interesting read.
With my low-end computer (previously mid-range), I've found that even with driver updates and patches, launch performance in games never improves by more than a few FPS. Now, to my knowledge, the problem with Knight is that it runs poorly and is capped to 30. If the pattern continues and Rocksteady can't reliably get it up to 60 (a 2x gain!!), then what happens? The game remains suspended forever?

(In other news, I was really hoping to maybe eke by playing Knight at low/30fps on my Macbook w/discrete Nvidia graphics, but I guess that's not going to happen.)
I've been in agency recruiting for almost 20 years, and I've never told a candidate what question to expect. I might say there is a whiteboard exercise, or years ago mentioned if a client asked Fermi problems, but never a specific question.

The biggest problem with contingency recruiting is when the recruiter feels that the size of the fee > the value of a recruiter's reputation. This issue caused me enough angst that I created my own business model that eliminates these incentives to cheat.

I personally have never considered asking about the specific questions/answers for my clients' interviews. I may be in the minority on that.
All that computing power going to waste. IF only there's a way to harness that power, maybe for folding@home or bitcoin mining...
It's pretty free. Hacker News loves the corrections. All good.

I founded and ran a good part of an A-round startup for a while.

I'm aware what stock does to equity, but it has minimal value to employees if it's not going to be a thing, and for a startup watching burn rate, it's pretty freaking free.

Are you going to give it all up and waste the option pool? Of course not. To me, I'd rather have employees with a good chunk of the equity because they were all doing a good chunk of the work, but I also want to see them treated well in stock. And you know your thing might not work out. Being stingy to employees with stock doesn't feel right.

I don't believe in founders hording stock when everybody working for them built a good chunk of what they sell. They should keep a decent chunk, but sharing stock well is basic ethics and costs nothing on the burn rate. It's the same reason I don't believe CEO's should make 50x of what an employee makes in a given year.

Stock is pretty cheap to give away in a startup. It's not cheap in a private company. I do especially object when it's used in lieu of market-rate compensation on the hope of future gain, with "we're giving you lots of stock" and then expecting the long hours and then it doesn't pay off for folks.
We still have people planning to "port" software anymore? I thought we all learned how to design things cross-platform by now. This isn't 1995.
It frustrates me that the comments here on articles like these consistently devolve into nothing more than a list of anecdotes for or against. I'd appreciate more reaction and comments on the actual article content instead.
I've had success implementing context managers with page object models when testing with selenium. All page objects assume the same base page (e.g. the home page of the web app) and will return the browser to that page upon exiting the with block. It works really well.
Ask HN: How do I break into executive leadership team ?
I have 8 yrs of experience in software development. I will be 30 in 4 months. So far I have gained experience in leading teams, coding - python and java, databases - db2, oracle, netezza
Aws stack - pig, hadoop, hive , impala, spark and little bit of TEZ.
I would say I am strong technically, identifying business problem and deconstructing technical implementation. I am someone who loves doing things than endless arguments about implementation.

I work for one of largest software company out there. Our startup was acquired last year. Chances lf me joining executive leadership team with company of 9k employees are very low.

Unfortunately, i am new to san francisco and my social circle is extremely limited at the moment ( only 1 or 2 friends at the moment )

So how can i join executive leadership team given this situation? I appreciate if you can provide any tips.
We have some suggestions for setting up tablets at the bottom of this page https://robinpowered.com/room-display

Some customers have been 3D printing their own mounts, which is pretty awesome.
Someone uncovered a Steam ID that suggests the PC developer Iron Galaxy only received the game 2 months ago: https://steamdb.info/sub/45433/
When an option vests today with a fair market value from four years ago, the company has "literally created income" for the employee. But for whatever reason, this isn't a taxable event. I was inquiring as to the reason for this difference in treatment.

Options at the money are also incredibly valuable, and even more so when they're for a startup (hence their usage in compensation). It's instructive to look at the prices for at-the-money options on, say, GOOG 1--2 years out to see how much they're worth on the open market (easily 10% of the current stock price).
I think I have about 40GB of free storage with DB as a result of working there referral system. However, a friend bought some Android based phone, came with DB pre-installed, and he has something like 500GB or free storage. They were doing some promotion.

I think one of the main issues with DB is that it is too little space and too much cost to add more. Considering what they pay for bandwidth, any paid plan really should be unlimited.
This is so reductive. If you want to talk about Rice's record as Secretary of State, lets talk about reality and leave the glib political posturing for campaign speeches.

* She almost definitely did not advise anyone to spend 1.7 trillion dollars on anything. Did she know how costly the war would be? Should she have known?

* "Obviously shaky" is easy to say in hindsight. What did she know when? What should she have known?

* Did she even advise the President to go to war? We don't know what she said behind closed doors. SecState works at the pleasure of the President-- it is entirely possible she opposed the war personally and in private counsel, but played the good soldier in public.

* If she did personally oppose the war to your satisfaction, was it wrong of her to play the good soldier, regardless of the circumstances? I tend to think so. But was it so wrong that she should be blacklisted from public life?

Life is messy.
> leopard print sofa

You mean that sofa-shaped leopard?
The Android version is inferior to the Microsoft PC version .... so if you pay a one-time fee for the HD version, the SD version should definitely be free
That forum must be really heavily moderated/censored. Based on eg the Battle.net forums I'd have expected to see much angrier posts.
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That would be nice. And maybe companies owned by high karma count HN users (cough cough)
Australian metal detector company counts cost of Chinese hacking
I emailed you a few hours ago. I'm in NY, but happy to share ideas.
The corresponding announcement on Steam has what you're looking for: http://steamcommunity.com/games/208650/announcements/detail/...
I was in mobile and I found no way to close that modal.
No problem with nipples - Flickr allows full nudity as long as you mark them correctly for search purposes. Nobody said you should keep the only copy of everything you have on Flickr.

https://help.yahoo.com/kb/flickr/safety-levels-flickr-sln110...

Safe - Content suitable for a global, public audience.

Moderate - If you're not sure whether your content is suitable for a global, public audience, but you don't think that it needs to be restricted.

Restricted - This is content you probably wouldn't show to your mother, and definitely shouldn't be seen by kids.

Guide - Bare breasts and bottoms are "moderate," but full frontal nudity is "restricted."
Ask HN: Open source OCR library?
Does anyone have a recommendation for a good character recognition library? I'm trying to pull text out of images. I tried ocrad.js but haven't had much success with it.
Games make more extensive use of the hardware (and hardware specific libraries) than your typical CRUD application.

A layer of abstraction above the different libraries can help, but often at the cost of a performance hit that you don't want in games.

Different input mechanisms (mouse and keyboard vs gamepad) need different input schemes to be fun.

Console games are usually played sitting on a couch in front of a TV. Sitting at a desk with a computer monitor much closer can also make a difference in what UIs (eg game HUDs) work well.

I have no clue what was involved in porting the Batman game, but your blanket statement about porting as a solved problem doesn't cut it.

An interesting example of a well-done port from PC to iPad is the game FTL. They changed the interface to feel native on the iPad. Recompiling the code was probably the least of their worries.
On the front page 3 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9755742
Open Hybrid – Internet of Things Meets Augmented Reality
If it's a small company, you might want to give them money up front to help them keep afloat. Steam has early-acces games for that reason.

(It's better than pre-order, since you get to play the unfinished game earlier, if you want to. If you choose early-access but wait for the official release before you run it, it's exactly the same as pre-order.)
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They are using a modified version of Unreal Engine 3. (Much like X-COM, and its upcoming sequel.)

So this is less of a port, and more of a deployment to a platform that widely varies in terms of performance. And this is much easier to do when your graphics aren't so "next gen".
https://code.google.com/p/tesseract-ocr/ is pretty good
Telegram is the company that ignores proven crypto standards, rolls their own crypto without any verification or audit, then offers a $200k bounty to "break" their crypto by requiring developers to work with an arm tied behind their back by reducing the types of attacks that could be made in the real world.

Seems MTProto is the same as its always been

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6931457

http://www.cryptofails.com/post/70546720222/telegrams-crypta...
Got to laugh to see the parent post. Written by Alex Stamos. And downvoted.
It's a bit of a stretch to call this "decentralised" when it still relies on software running on a "master" server (your bot.)

Second, if it is indeed fully anonymous, won't it just become a haven for trolls?
In the meantime, the Wikipedia article has a pretty interesting history of the language:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/APL_(programming_language)

I got into APL for a while at Caltech in 1969, a year after I started programming. After the more verbose languages I'd learned (BASIC, Algol 60, and a couple of assemblers), it was fun to see how much could be done with so little code.

We had one of the IBM 2741 Selectric terminals with the APL keyboard and typeball, which made editing code a lot easier!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_2741#/media/File:IBM2741.J...
I like the idea, but I don't think the UI design is really all that great.

For example the upvote button is massive, and I couldn't easily find the comment button at all.

Basically, it made me scared to even look at the site... like, "where am I?"
"We're the only decentralized democratic social aggregator website"

I feel like this is not true.
Ummm no. You're late to the game. Also, you're not established. If anyone has a claim to this, it's Voat. (Despite their difficulties)
I wish there is a global movement to define Broadband by 2020. Anything with a connection speed below 10Mbps shouldn't be called broadband so we can actively get rid of ADSL tech. We move to either VDSL2, G.Fast, or any other FTTx technology.

We still have far too many companies around the world selling so called Broadband servcies at redicously low speed. Unwilling to invest and upgrade. Property Market or Management office not willing to let them in unless some money to bribe.

With such movement we can finally say, does this property have broadband? Hence a effect on the value of such property.
Let's look at what happened to Voat.

After people claimed Reddit was censoring users by banning /r/fatpeoplehate, the more unsavory users flocked to Voat, a blatant Reddit clone.

As you would expect, said unsavory people posted unsavory content. Said unsavory content, while free and uncensored, was not legal, and that causes problems: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3avyem/voat_...

Said issues caused their PayPal account to become frozen: http://www.reddit.com/r/SubredditDrama/comments/3augr0/drama...

No, "decentralized" does not magically make you immune to law and punishment.
That's it, I'm learning APL once I've figured out cl.
Those geeks you taunted in high school will now demand revenge and this will get worse before it gets better.
because Facebook paid more. why else does anybody ever leave anywhere?

all i can say is that in very happy. while he did a little real good at yahoo, he was mostly doing two things: promoting his name and adopting everything in sight based on cool factor without regard for hard facts.

life for people that actually know things was hell. life for the frivolous i-just-read-about-some-cool-thing-on-hn was paradise and full of bonuses.
And some people just don't have appreciation for business which value quality, culture, ethics and respect for employees. They are busy with their own arrogance.
They usually give away free DLCs when you preorder.
Also worth mentioning Amazon Prime Photos here, even though it requires a Prime membership.
No, it's a huge difference.

I'm willing to trust this one, specific company with my data because I know their privacy policy and their practices. Handing that data off to arbitrary other companies for a buck is another matter entirely, I wouldn't be comfortable with that; that's what "selling your data" means, that phrase has a specific meaning, and claiming that's what Google does is a misrepresentation.

What you're saying is that if I tell my friend Sean a secret in confidence, it's all the same whether or not he proceeds to share it with all his friends. In my mind, and in most people's minds, it isn't.
quite slow
Any word on when that's gonna launch?

My mac users are freaking out because we just switched from gApps to Exchange (I know, don't even) and Outlook 2011 is a joke compared to what my windows peeps are getting. (not to mention the fact that I have to create a second set of instructions just for them)
EVERYONE is going solar.
Doesn't liberal in Europe mean socially and economically liberal. (And the Americans had to invent libertarian to mean essentially the same thing?)
* [1] http://www.npr.org/2014/10/29/359365276/on-superstorm-sandy-...
Grey text is hard to read - needs contrast overall. Finding links and controls by random clicking and trial and error also isn't pleasant. mystery meat navigation.
How mosquitos deal with getting hit by raindrops
Popular Third-Party Applications Can Have Vulnerabilities Too