jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Delphi 2 was my introduction to programming. It was on a pirate CD-ROM together with many other programs - Office, C++ Builder, Visual Studio. Once I discovered it (because of course I'd play with all the programs on the pirate CD), I was amazed.

At the time I didn't know of an easier way to draw windows and buttons and stuff, and have them do what you expect them to do (Visual Basic? Pfft, edgy, tweenage me scoffed at the idea of compiling pseudocode that had to be interpreted at runtime. And don't tell tweenage me about MFC, past me would never have admitted that using the MS foundation classes in C++ was too difficult for my dumb brain. I also didn't "get" C++ so couldn't get on with Borland's C++ builder. But object pascal... object pascal was structured and easy to understand and compiled to machine code in an eyeblink so was therefore superior to everything else!!! Man, what a butt I was...)

First program I wrote and released was a game editor. Someone had reverse engineered a certain video game's file and data structure and documented the offsets and sizes of all the stats of the entities in the game. I used that information and slapped a shitty GUI with comboboxes and dropdown lists and number fields (with no bounds checking I think), together with some very dodgy file read/write code I part copied from some geocities page and part copied from some reference book code, and I made my first game editor. People actually used it! Man, that felt cool.

Man, what a butt I was, I was the very definition of an "I am a programmer" meme.

Later on that information made its way into a UGE module so my program was no longer relevant.

I remember borrowing Delphi reference books from the library and, not having enough computer time, hand writing my code to learn.

Good times. I didn't know Delphi was still in use, I am obviously not in the development line anymore. 26 years! I feel old!
> "The concordance shows the old result was neither a statistical fluke nor the product of some undetected flaw in the experiment, says Chris Polly, a Fermilab physicist and co-spokesperson for the g-2 team. “Because I was a graduate student on the Brookhaven experiment, it was certainly an overwhelming sense of relief for me,” he says."

A committed scientist should worry about having such feelings, even though it is very human. It represents a possible source of non-independence of tests and of scientific bias.
I read your comment already. You talked about part of what the journalist quoted like it was all Stallman said. He went on to say he has some of the characteristics. He described how they affected his life. He discussed a book about subclinical mental disorders by Harvard psychiatry professor John Ratey. He suggested he might have what's called broader autism phenotype now.

The strongest plausible interpretation of what he said is he understood the distinction between clinical and subclinical presentations and the part about rhythm was incidental. It's clear he had some understanding at least. Insisting he must have thought rhythm was a diagnostic criterion and that completely invalidates his understanding is the weakest plausible interpretation at best.
In a capitalistic society where corporations hold as much power or more than governments do in our day to day lives you surely must see how this is a moral principle that must apply to them also. There's life ruining things beyond jail such as being homeless and shunned.
Yeah, nobody set a theme for GTK in that screenshot, and GTK themes tend to look different from the native theme on non-Linux OSes regardless.

But, the trend is towards Electron, which also integrates poorly with the OS -- so, I'm not sure how much looking native matters any more.
Because random mass shootings never occur in Europe or outside of the US...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Norway_attacks
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emsdetten_school_shooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dawson_College_shooting
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunblane_school_massacre
Sharing immutable data between multiple places with no single master owner is a perfectly reasonable thing to do in a program.
The NSA processor—now available commercially!
Worth a mention: In Objective-C with ARC, the compiler treats every pointer to an Obj-C object as a std::shared_ptr or std::unique_ptr (static analysis is used to optimize out unnecessary reference counting), unless it's marked otherwise with keywords such as __weak, __unsafe_unretained, etc.
What's the difference with a mobile peercast ?
Yes, except when the ticking bomb explodes it will upgrade your operating system rather than you know... destroying stuff.

If upgrade/downgrade issues are your primary concerns when purchasing hardware then Apple is probably not the right hardware vendor for your needs.
Dang! Not available in my area! I tried in Portland, OR. I'm super in to this idea.
I've been setting up client side testing with grunt+browserify+karma+jasmine lately. It's pretty freaking powerful. But, none of the usual suspects for mocking http.get requests work well with it (sinon fails to execute in a browserify test environment; nock expects to be running in a node environment with the ClientRequest object available).
Isn't it simply a form of garbage collection? Instead of garbage collecting all the unused objects at random moments, an object is garbage collected as soon as it goes out of scope.

The way I understand it, no garbage collection means you take care of cleaning after yourself, whereas garbage collectors do it for you. It sounds like what he calls resource acquisition.
Yes, Alex is awesome - sincerely. I hate it with jackarses run around spewing crap about people without chatting or getting to know people by spending some time in the community.
I like this idea. Some company that I may or may not work for either does or does not install malware on our computers, extending the boot sequence and something in the network layer that makes it take MINUTES for anything http to be usable, even after the DE is loaded. Would love to add such a script to my login’s boot sequence
The Angry Video Game Nerd's videos about the Wisdom Tree games are too good not to mention here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LkNvQYiM6bw
Why wouldn't an extension be able to parse a link to each tweet? This seems like a trivial concern.
Turing Complete seem to skip the electronic level that NandGame has?
DDG uses the Bing index. If Bing de-lists something, then it disappears from DDG.

Microsoft (and any other big company) has many competing interests other than just being helpful to users.
A home, yeah, not a home in downtown metros. My uncle is a teacher and owns two houses in rural Ohio with his wife, kid, and two dogs. Living the American dream.
How's the Mono / .Net support coming along?
I disagree because the command line is -- in the sense discussed here -- a very bad GUI. Does a computer "work" because double-clicking an icon launches an application or because typing a certain set of magic characters in a shell launches a program?

Follow-up article: I raised my kids flipping switches on a front panel and they love it!
Does WebStorm IDE offer any added value over yeoman/bower/grunt? Or better just to stick to editor like Sublime?

So, if one use WebStorm with yeoman-based workflow, he basically use IDE as editor?

What confuses me, that many good FEDs I met, use WebStorm.
Well, here's a big discussion in the NYT worrying about the value of business degrees specifically: http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate/2011/04/17/why-look-dow...
70 percent of all security bugs are caused by comp.lang.c
yeah, not all of them... I was thinking more like, sulfites, sodium benzoate, nitrites, etc...
One would think, yet Android Java is stuck in a Java 8 subset with cherry picked features from OpenJDK.
Correct me if im wrong. But tinnitus doesnt come and go. Its something you have or you dont, and once you have it, its there and will only get worse as more damage accumulates.

https://www.nidcd.nih.gov/health/tinnitus

I have it, mostly from hunting without ear pro. I dont always notice it, but its always there. Its usually mostly noticeable when im going to bed at night,when scuba diving, or when on a plane and I havent cleared by ears.

OR if/when i have headphones that create a seal in my ear, like the silicon earbuds that create, which is why you can hear yourself chewing/swallowing. Its a main reason i don't wear those types of earphones.

Tinnitus is always there, its permanent. But it just may be noticeable under certain conditions or circumstances.
> Maybe whatever group benefits from the gluten free trend?

People with Coeliac disease mostly... doesn't seem like a very wealthy and well connected bunch though.
Maybe take a look at RTP cameras on a no-Internet network with Shinobi for remote control and monitoring.

https://moeiscool.github.io/Shinobi/
I too can take as input a set of genetic markers and predict educational attainment.

That does not mean that those genes affect my cognitive ability. It may mean they affect my eye color and people are biased against dark eyes, so I can't get into college.
If you’re a liberal, you need no degrees of separation. You read about what Trump said about the Central Park Five decades ago as a privatize citizen, but rarely about Biden’s outreach to the segregationist wing of his party. E.g. eulogizing Robert Byrd a former KKK member. (Back in the 1970s-1990s, Trump was almost certainly to the left of Biden on social issues but you’d never know it.)

Not to say I think Biden should get flack for that. But the guilt by association thing is an especially easy kudgel to wield in an uneven way.
I like Twitter and use it a lot. I do experience the author's "problem one" though. I don't want to connect anyone I know in real life to my Twitter account so I just started tweeting with zero followers, and the results have not been great. I've gained ~30 from a year or two of infrequent tweets and those 30 never interact with me so they may all be bots.

In my experience getting followers is different than getting upvotes on reddit or hackernews. I think it's relatively rare for someone to see a single tweet which they think is so clever or informative that they must follow the tweeter, whereas it's common to upvotes (or like/favorite) such a comment.

The author's examples of accounts he follows "Patrick McKenzie, Zach Weinersmith, John Carmack" aren't famous for their tweets, but for blogging/start up advice, comics, and video games. In other words, if you're a notable famous person you can probably build a following on Twitter more or less as a product of your existing accomplishments.
Those keys already have their own layers in a lot of software. Having to press yet another additional modifier key destroys usability and muscle memory.
Somehow you left out the whole part about actually buying the house.

Maybe your feel good spiel would make sense if price-to-rent ratios weren't the highest but that's not the case. Most of what you pay for here is a bet that values will go up. If it weren't for stupid laws like Prop 13 that only help land speculation this wouldn't be the case.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=04rRbf0cIjc&feature=youtu.be
This is good to hear, and I've felt that a lot of people are underestimating the IoT explosion that is to come. The automotive industry is just finally on the cusp of it. Buy a new high end appliance, and you can probably connect it to a network. Everyone loves "smart home" accessories. I think demand is going to sky rocket.
r/sideproject

r/selfhosted
sell, to cash in some sweet money, then reinvest for future profit.
Ok, let me correct these: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/lawyers-have-fo...

It's true they existed before, but they were used in situations when an underage child arrived to the border. Or child was found with human traffickers. They weren't splitting children from parents for longer than 42h.

Trump was the one that made the cages full, by implementing the zero tolerance policy, separating children with parents and often deporting the parents making it difficult to reunite them.
I've only had bad experiences trying e-readers for programming/math related content. The text is great, but the Kindle does not do a tolerable job mixing in math, images, or programming content. Generally any math equation was displayed as an image, and the Kindle had no concept of how to keep the letters in the image related to the size of the text. Literally some books would have just the letter X take up the whole screen, while others it was literally invisible.
If you must substitute a cultural element in your company for hackers, make sure its designers or artists. You can still pull out a win with these folks. If you sub in bureaucrats or marketers instead, you're done.

Most companies go hackers -> suits, sharks are jumped, people start talking about the good ol' days.

Apple instead chose a path hackers -> designers. (They did take an almost fatal detour sans Jobs through suit territory.) This makes them an outlier of the first order and probably not a very good example for establishing a general case like the essay attempts.

The most that could be said is that a culture of design is a viable substitute for a hacker culture in some instances.
I disagree, steve is defiantly a hacker in the wider sense of the word. Especially since him and the other steve was so much into phone phreaking in there youth.
it actually depends on the phase of the tech in question. apple is capitalising on a period of consolidation of the cool tech that had been created at an astonishing rate. you could say that a lot of innovation was done by hackers, but consolidation of that tech in the market place was done by marketing gurus such as steve jobs. a company which gains its competitive advantage through constant innovation needs a hacker-centric culture. a company which simply consolidates on existing tech does not.
My favorite issue in 1.9.2: "." is no longer included on the $LOAD_PATH.
IIRC it's because it's model designation was CX2600. They didn't use the 2600 designation originally (they called it the Atari VGS or something like that).I think they started using it because like Pong, they planned to release various versions of the system.

Whether the model number was a reference to that is hard to say. It's not like they have much to do with eachother, and Atari had been naming their products with C---- model numbers for years...but it's conceivable that someone said "let's make it model 2600" with 2600hz in mind.
And this is why I'd argue that Python 3 was a big mistake. In exchange for 6 years and counting of freezing and bifurcating the ecosystem, we got a smattering of minor improvements that don't substantially change the developer experience. What could we have had if that effort had instead been focused on things like real performance optimization and native browser support?
Was WebM the best name they could come up with? Seriously?

I have to constantly try to remember what the heck it is when I see it out of context (like this thread title).
#4 could be as innocent as:

/* Returns a bitwise-OR'ed number showing
all the possible places you can save to */
int get_available_save_locations();

[...]

int save_locations = get_available_save_locations();
if (save_locations != SAVELOC_NVRAM) {
goto FATAL_ERROR;
}
All I know is that I visit the midwest and south in the summer and when I walk into any indoor space I almost have to put a coat on.
I'd say that the academic institutions may be paying some of these people to develop Julia.

As far as I know, Andreas Rumpf does not work for MIT or any academic institution if that's what you're implying. It is rather curious that the MIT website has a copy of Nim's documentation.
Well, the likely continued impunity of the practitioners of "enhanced interrogation" means that it's a legal precedent that applies only to evil Nazis.
I am in bay area & do not work remote, but I often think future is all about working remote to avoid commute & pollution. Software Engineering is one such job where we can get things done remotely. Like open source community :)
It's a category error to expect perfection from a statistical system.
Well, it's true, it is included in the default install. After unsuccessfully trying to locate the elusive 'compiler' package at CRAN, I came to the conclusion that the R compiler was an urban legend. Now I realise it was already installed all along from the start and all I had to do is 'library(compiler)'. Silly me.
you might wanna take a look at codekeyboards.com seems like the type you are looking for.
Yeah that's what I meant by "engaging in speculation", but as someone else pointed out, it would be far more rational to stop mining and buy $20 worth of Bitcoin rather than spend $20 mining $10 worth of Bitcoin...
Ahh yes. Argumentum ad verecundiam. Let's bash a guy because he hangs out with someone you dislike instead of refuting his centrals points.

You're total the person I trust to make logical arguments.
Does he at least consider Thorium as a nuclear power source?
Agreed. Student earnings requirements aren't much of a problem for CS/engineering students (who can get paid summer jobs related to their field), but they are difficult for students trying to get into industries where unpaid internships are effectively a requirement. You would think Stanford would have made a change to this as well.
Interesting read... until the phrase "big data".
That is interesting - I think the idea that looms over the whole essay is that we have computers that do logic and can fit those logical operations together, we should be able to give a computer some basic axioms and see what theorems it can construct. Et voila!, there it is. Mention of such a project would have fit the essay well.
There are reasonable examples even on the web.

There was a time when 'the internet' meant AOL to most people. Creating a web site meant GeoCities. For a couple of years, everyone I know had their home page set to Yahoo. MySpace was the hot thing just a couple years ago. Three years ago if you wanted to sell your old laptop, you probably listed it on eBay.
You do have a point there - but this is an app which appeals to almost all medical professionals.

If you look at the top 10 apps in the medical section (or the top 25 for that matter), you'll see that they have been there for months (or years) on end.

My feeling is that the medical section of the app store is fairly different from the games section (where apps have a very limited shelf life).
Anything interesting about it?

(Apart from the fact that it allows decimal numbers like 127.0.0.1 and uses annyoing alert() boxes for error handling.)
It's not the same product. Each has properties the other doesn't and can't have. I would expect a different price between them, and personally I'd value the ebook higher.
If I don't already have the book I would pay more for it in ebook format (provided the conversion is good). It's handier for me.
Sorry I miss clicked and downvoted you instead of upvoting; the interface prevents me from rectifying this error.
I'm thankful for great American people like Sarah Palin. And for our old allies like North Korea, Syria, Iran etc.
Why do you support everything except the PC :)

As someone prepping for interviews, I'd have loved to give this a shot if it was on the web.
I can beat it. Give me about 5 minutes and git filter my commits. Not to take away from the "accomplishment" ( achievement? ) of work, but its easy to create and post date commits to beat this "record".
One can assume that, but that's not what it says. The statement that the editor is free during beta could mean "we haven't figured out whether to sell it after the beta, sell services around it, or develop integration with our other services and keep it free to enhance our overall value proposition."
One more without calc for older browsers:

.container {width: 80%;}
.left {float:left; width: 300px; background: yellow;}
.right {margin-left: 300px; background: red;}
Personally I don't use it for anything server-side, but that doesn't mean it's just for education. I suppose it's an unavoidable misconception given that its most obvious strength is the quality documentation and IDE.

Its built-in image support is much better than anything I've seen in any other language, so I've used it a couple times for writing simulations that need a histogram. It's also much better than Clojure for things that require low memory usage or fast startup time.
Isn't Elon is part of the "Paypal Mafia", with billionaire Peter Thiel as its Don?
I wonder if the Washington Times editorial board even bothered reading the FTC document:

http://www.ftc.gov/opp/workshops/news/jun15/docs/new-staff-d...

There is no question that this is a newsworthy topic. But it is ironic that journalism of such poor quality is being used to defend the current journalistic system.

I think the editorial is a bit of an over-reaction. Consider the following statements from the FTC document-

We note that this draft does not represent final conclusions or recommendations by the Commission or FTC staff; it is solely for purposes of discussion, in particular at FTC roundtable discussions to be held on June 15, 2010, at the National Press Club.

-and-

We anticipate that different participants in the roundtables at which this document will be discussed will criticize some or all proposals, improve others, and add ideas of their own. The purpose of this document is precisely to encourage such additional analyses and brainstorming.
I could see someone go through the 100 SMS very quickly in a "conversation" where the imaginary person has to answer a bunch of short texts like "yes", "and you"

It's not meant to be a discussion service, but fake evidence that you've got a significant other.
IIRC, the last two investors had some sort of deal where if the IPO was priced at under $20, Box paid them some sort of penalty. (Maybe someone here remembers the details better than me.)
I'm sure they watched their backs on the paperwork and that any gain like the one the stock is currently seeing is a win for them.
Few questions. First off, also a Startup Chile alum that was building a service in the travel industry. Congrats on WeHostels.

This technology obviously has use cases outside of tracking luggage, I'm curious if those use cases were included in your YC app and/or if it came up during the interview.

Will the carry on need to be turned off during takeoff and landing?

Do you have an SLA? Like, what if I take it somewhere there isn't cell service?

Are you concerned your luggage will become targeted by criminals expecting valuables?
Where is Figure II?
I don't understand the downvotes. Phillips Screwdrivers are next to useless. Most "crossed" screw heads are Pozidriv, which is superior. Or is this an(other) America/Europe thing?
I don’t agree that the YouTube personalities, despite being given access, didn’t ask the President tough questions. During the interview with Obama, Hank Green (the author) asked the President about several things:

- the feasibility of the ideas he put forth in the SOTU
- the revolving door between industry and government
- his use and alleged overuse of drone strikes
- the long-term foreign policy strategy on North Korea
- the confusing marijuana policy in the US

I think these are all legitimate questions that the President should have to answer for. I think that there could have been follow-up questions asked, but the session didn’t seem like it was intended to be a back and forth. Obama also took a long time in answering each question, which may have been because the complexity of the issues discussed demanded long answers, or just because he wanted to run the clock.

[Edit] First post, formatted bullets.
I too have been similarly lucky - was not able to find a job for 2 1/2 years until I taught myself programming, and the money flows like water as a hard working & smart frontend engineer. In the interim I was living off of military reserve pay and friends' apartments. I focused on long term decision making, and it paid off handsomely, but it did put some strain on friendships - I have compensated them some in return, but I still feel indebted to them.