skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I struggled a lot with this in my business. I would look at and hear about other successful businesses who were getting their employees to put in 18 hour work days, assessing them on every single thing, and asking them to work on vacations, birthdays, and other things.

I would feel like a failure because I couldn't push myself or my employees to work that way. I wanted everyone to have a good time, to work, but also to have fun with their work. It felt like I was doing something wrong.

Today, I've given up on that "18 hour workday" dream. I'm not built like that. I don't care about maximizing efficiency or increasing profitability. I want everyone to be happy, and I've realized that that's anti-thetical to the way businesses usually work across the world.

I don't care. I'm happy. My workers are happy. The clients I have are certainly happy. Others can work their 18 hour days and buy six figure cars they can't drive. I'll stick to my 7-8 hours, read my favorite authors and spend time with friends.
> The Genera Lisp Machines had compilers for C, Ada and Pascal available.

Also Fortran and Prolog. Though added language were expensive. Usually it would also be useful to have a FPU option.

Thus a Lispm with Fortran would cost something like $100000 in the mid 80s. Which makes it possible to use Fortran, but not to an attractive price. ;-) 'Exotic systems' + software ported to exotic systems => expensive or not available. For decade the Symbolics approach was available and expensive, later it moved to 'mostly not available'...
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Its like the monster (Professor Callaghan) from Big Hero 6.
> Smalltalk lives on in Objective-C :)

Not in any way, shape or form. Some of smalltalk's syntax lives in objective-c, but that's it. None of smalltalk's intentions or goals do.
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I can think of two good reasons. One is if they want to offer these for virtual desktop environments (as an alternative to the VMWare on Cisco UCS setups many current IBM mainframe customers run) The other to offer an alternative platform to EC2 where Ubuntu seems to be very common. Both would indicate that they are probably aiming at the desktop/user/development side with this product.
For libraries:

in Perl : there is really one way to do it, use CPAN.

in Python : there's more than one way to do it : pth, eggs, setuptools, pip, wheel, distutils, easy_install,...

http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2012/6/22/hate-hate-hate-everywhere/
> It tried to replace the entire tool-chain instead of playing nicely with existing tools.

Smalltalk predates pretty much all of "the toolchain", the first "real" version of Smalltalk is contemporary to UNIX Version 2. That's the one which added `echo`, and was installed on 10 machines. Smalltalk-72 predates both Emacs and VI ('76), "the toolchain" at the time was qed.
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For me, it was (and still is) terribly hard to find libraries that do what I want. Although Hackage has a large database, it's quite confusing and very hard to figure out how a library actually works.

A few years ago, I tried to parse HTML files for a very small thing that I wanted to do and I just couldn't find or understand whether there's actually something out there that I could use. So, instead, I ended up learning Parsec and writing my own crappy parser...

I really don't think that's what it should be like. And maybe it's just my own fault. If not, there should be thousands out there who start their Haskell journey with such a frustrating experience. There's a deep and dark abyss in which beginners fall after an initial tutorial.

I've never had a similar experience with any other language. The upside, of course, is that Haskell is the most beautiful language I know.
I was expecting something like OwnCloud, a true dropbox clone, which is fairly easy to install on a Pi...

http://projpi.com/diy-home-projects-with-a-raspberry-pi/pi-o...
I like the trestles you can get at IKEA and putting a large table top from IKEA on top of them. The trestles look very DIY / workshop / cave like and you can adjust the height. I'm not so tall so if you are more than 6 ft something you may not find it high enough.

If you don't find any table tops to your liking you can buy solid wood fireproof door blanks at a hardware supply and use that instead. They have serious heft and will last and are relatively cheap.

Having a good high stool to sit on when you don't feel like standing is also useful.
Does it make sense to be more aggressive in predicting by giving the user a second level from which to choose? For example, if he types 'b', then it could offer to type 'black' or 'black hole'.

On the iPad, for example, if I type 'f', I get shown 'for', then if I accept, I always see 'example' and 'instance'.
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I'm a Haskell Windows user (and an Idris developer), and I have little trouble installing most things (except those directly targeted at Linux). That's not because I'm awesome, but because there's a trick to it. The trick is to install msys2 (https://msys2.github.io), and do the installs from there. Set up its libs and include as extra dirs in Cabal's config. When you need some lib or build tool look for it with pacman -Ss and install it. To start with installing make and autoconf helps you over the configure hurdle.

And if you hit Cabal hell now and then, that happens to everybody so it's probably not because you're on Windows, just make a sandbox and see if it works there.
What do you mean by "third party" javascript? Do you mean javascript that isn't hosted on the same domain as the HTML?
Chrome is fine - its the best desktop app I use. It could use fewer resources, though. Also I don't know what are the apps.
> Not in any way, shape or form. Some of smalltalk's syntax lives in objective-c, but that's it. None of smalltalk's intentions or goals do.

So, in some way, shape, or form, then. No need to be so extreme.
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Zotero [0], with browser connector (extension), or alternatively a bookmarklet.
Originally intended as a research tool to manage sources, hence the added benefit of being able to export collections as BibTeX.

[0]: https://www.zotero.org
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It will benefit big businesses and transnationals and probably fuck the rest of us something fierce.

So it does benefit a certain section of the population. They just happen to be the sector that has money to buy politicians.
What do you like most about Linkman compared with the default bookmark manager in your browser?
Improving bookmarks to:

- Search through them better (by indexing their content and subject, autolabeling while allowing custom labels). (As a side-note, star-searching in Firefox is an undiscoverable feature; the new tab page should offer a way to do that.)

- Give a visual organization à la Desktop / iOS app layout. Currently, the new tab page gives the six most common sites, which subconsciously forces me to forget about the seventh most common site I visit.

- Give a neat access to offline webapps. Right now, going to one is inconvenient.

Most of all, include tab freezing by default (to remove the memory, stop the JS, etc. without having to close the tab)
I would argue that "It works on my box" is actually a benefit in some cases, since it exposes the fact that the code doesn't work on all machines and should be altered or changed to fix that. If all of the people in the development team have exactly the same hardware, OS, programs, etc. then that problem could still be present, but because it isn't found it could leak to production code.

If each individual's computing environment has diverged, then there is at least more of a chance of finding such problems before they get to production code.
Yes, customizability and security (including privacy) are my top concerns.

Which is why I first and foremost want my ideal browser to not be owned or beholden to a major corporation that will abuse it for it's own purposes, like Google, Apple or Microsoft.
There's also Gitit, which supports multiple VCSs including git:

https://github.com/jgm/gitit
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Thanks for the tips! I had never thought of using a snapshot as a quick way to return to the state before a panic instead of rebooting. This is genius, I'll definitely use it a lot!
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I've got past this bit and got the deciphered output but am hopelessly stuck on the next bit. Any clues?
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Firefox with Vimperator. It loads pages quickly, I view them, and I can navigate them without touching the mouse. Perfection.
A browser that knows and can retrieve quickly what information from the web I want, or likely require, at that point in time and without any expressed guidance from myself.
My Idris installation instructions: https://github.com/idris-lang/Idris-dev/wiki/Idris-on-Window...

It's an example of pulling down build tools and libs (well, a lib) with msys2.
CPAN was also created after 1993, hence it being 20 years old :p

I don't know when the Debian package format was first created, but dpkg was rewritten in C back in '94[1], so it would predate CPAN. However the real genius of package managers is dependency resolution and the central software repositories - both of which likely came a little while after dpkg. I'd be interested to read more on the history of Debian's package management though - if anyone does find a reference.

[1] https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/dpkg/dpkg.git/plain/main/mai...
SoundCloud got big enough to get a good slice of attention from copyright bullies, that's what happened. It's a pattern you see everywhere. If it's on a small scale, nobody really seems to care, but then the service grows and if it fails to deal with copyright infringement properly, it's going down.
Firefox gives you the option to turn all of that off. I saw this the other day on Hacker News:

https://github.com/dfkt/firefox-tweaks/blob/master/firefox-t...
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No! Lisp reduces the problem to a solvable one. Instead, we need to expand the solution to encompass the problem.
A new community for hearing aid users
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I've done an AmA on Reddit last week that explains a bit where I am coming from: https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3gpuj3/iama_tech_star...
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>It is universally recognized best practice.

It is universally recognized best practice for politicians to decide which industries/businesses in their respective countries should go under and lose out on the deal and which industries in both respective countries should be the winners with as little opposition from the losers as possible.

I'm sure that there are many people all over the political spectrum that think that politicians are abusing their power by essentially deciding without anyone's input, (except for those with the deepest pockets) who should be sacrificed for the economy's sake and who should stand to gain pretty much everything.
Excuses.

Wosign are giving away gratis SHA256 certs valid for up to 3 years, and supporting up to 100 AltNames[0]. They're in all the major trust stores, and cross-signed by Startcom (StartSSL).

I believe free basic wildcard certs will come. Someone will eventually break formation.

> want to support Android Gingerbread clients?

No. Gingerbread is down to <5% of the Android user share and lots of apps already don't support it. XP is arguably more of a problem at 10-12%.

IPv4 exhaustion is still mostly a problem of allocation. Big vendors already have a glut of IPs. Even the budget VPS providers don't seem to care if you spin up a dozen VMs just for the IP space, which isn't much more expensive than the $2/mo many charge for additional IPs.

> Have you actually tried to implement DNSSEC?

Yes, I have. It's one easy command with PowerDNS.

[0] https://buy.wosign.com/free/
Seen a guy with what looked like a DIY version practising on the street...

https://vid.me/5PVq
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I think this is because the abstractions are so abstract. When functionality is glued together with very general combinators and operators there's not really much to grab hold of unless you understand the abstractions.
It's not really hard to memorise a bang, especially if you use it often like !w for wikipedia or !yt for youtube.

Maybe most of them don't benefit a great shortening of the name, but the most common do.

And for the other, like answers.com, !answers is still 8 characters shorter than site:answers.com

You should really try to use bangs for a while, I'm sure you would see the appeal very quickly
I've seen a lot around Oxford Circus, I'm gonna guess tourists or hipsters ;)
Discussions about v2.1:

- What's new in Magit 2.x https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9936095

- Using Emacs and Git with Magit 2.1 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9873237

- Magit 2.1.0, first major release in two and a half years, is out https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9817392
Yes. You could still serve ads from third party domains but these ads wouldn't be able to run javascript. This would be a protection in term of security and privacy. With no cookies or javascript I do not see how a tracking company could track users accross websites. And unless I miss something it would be a more constructive alternative to ad blockers.

[edit] in fact an alternative to blocking third party cookies is to restrict third party cookies to the domain-visited/third-party-domain, such that third parties can still use cookies to track you on the domain visited but that cookie can't track you accross websites.
Actually I think this is the beautiful thing about Perl 5's OOP support.

It was clearly an after thought and a bit of a hack, but it works, and it makes it transparent how everything works. I had been taught Java at university before that, and the whole OOP thing was a bit of a hidden mystery. Perl gave me a far better understanding of OOP.
I believe there is a predictive typing keyboard based off of Tries that is floating around out there for one of the mobile OSes.
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Looks very pretty, but that's a heck of a lot to charge for a weather app. I think i'll stick to the built in weather service on my Mac, or pull out my iPhone and use Weather Line.
> (The story was refiled to correct the name of the server to "Emperor" from "Empire" in paragraph 4 and names of software to "MariaDB" and "PostgreSQL" from "Maria" and "Posture" in paragraph 5)

These are the journalists specialized in IT news for a giant like Reuters?
> Kind of like asking people if they would rather eat healthy or known unhealthy food. And most people will answer healthy --because that is their idealized answer but in reality it's too much work for many people so they eat unhealthy food fully understanding the consequences.

I think you've hit on a good point, and following your analogy, most of us are just too damned lazy or apathetic to get worked up about it (bad food or bad government). It's easier and cheaper to buy and consume unhealthy food, just as it's easier and (mentally) cheaper to just pretend everything is fine with the world the way it is. Sure, we're going to get fat and die of a heart attack at 50, and sure, we're going to steadily lose our privacy and the ability to exercise our rights; but in the here and now, we're living in blissful ignorance and it feels just good enough to not bother changing things. In the back of our mind we know there's a better path, but taking that path requires effort and sacrifice, so we take the path of least resistance.
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I was going to say. How the heck is nesting an anti-pattern? It is SO useful for CSS. It should have been standard years ago. Variables are helpful too.
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I want my browser to work like an IDE.

Tabbing should be separated according to the context.

Bookmarking should be improved.

Instead of a plain web browser the program should work as a knowledge access/management system.
I have asked on Twitter if anyone could sign it for me. For some reason neither of the two people who tried to do so were able to sign it. No idea why. kexts were signed but they kept getting rejected for some reason.
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Yeah, indeed, we got tree-style history and mode-based distraction-free browsing. You can see the project directly at https://github.com/grindhold/rainbow-lollipop

Contributions are very welcome :)
Whistleblower rewards, I would expect. It's not quite deputizing As You Sow as an enforcement agent but it does take a load off the state.
It's a shame, really. SoundCloud used to be good service for independent musicians, and I really liked the social aspects of it and the integration into Ableton. But next thing you know, you read about deals with Warner and 100M funding and whatnot. Let's just hope Bandcamp keeps its focus; it's currently my favourite site for discovering new music.
Good idea. This gave me another one: one could also look at app store ratings!
there's a guy in Highgate that cruises around on one of these with a mohawk and a duster billowing in the wind. He rides his in the road, a good thing too as I've seen him go at around 20mph.
I read that Kent Beck said something like "I always knew one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby."
MS' main thesis is a gradual transition to what it terms "Tesla Mobility, an app-based, on-demand mobility service."

From the article:

Tesla is uniquely positioned, in our view, to solve the biggest flaw in the auto industry, <4% utilization, via an app-based, on-demand mobility service.
That sort of thing wasn't feasible with Smalltalk

Not true.

One effort I saw was a gigantic effort of using Smalltalk in a Very Large Insurance company. One of the tools they developed was one to read Cobol data divisions to get authoritative record formats for Smalltalk to use.
For me, the most Smalltalk-like aspect of it was that I could send any message to any object. This was radically unlike, for example, C++, where I could only call functions on objects when those functions actually existed.

What I'm really saying here is that I disagree with you, and I believe you are incorrect in stating that none of Smalltalk's objectives live on in Objective-C "in any way, shape or form", and that's an example of something from Smalltalk that lives on in Objective-C.
I should show this to my coworker who appears to believe in the "Hollow Earth" theory [1] which states that essentially the Earth is hollow and there're continents and humans frolicking about.

Ah, but according to him... while it's our Earth that is hollow, it's not the Earth in this "space-time". In a different "space-time", the Earth is hollow.

If you're curious, he believes in Falun Gong, of which I've read the first few pages of essentially their "bible" written in 1993 [2]. The first few pages basically says something like... in our past lives we were god-like but we've done bad things so we were demoted to a lower plane, and we kept doing bad things until we've been demoted to the lowest plane: Humans living on Earth. If you become one with Dafa, you can become divine. Two weeks prior, I had read the first ten chapters of the bible (Genesis) and I thought THAT was truly bizarre. But this is on a whole new level! :)

My coworker believes this with all of his heart - I spotted him yelling at the clouds asking for rain so his plants could grow and when it rained 10 seconds later he smiled at me. I'm 90% sure he believes he has the ability to control the weather. <insert "mind blown" gif here>

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hollow_Earth

[2] http://en.falundafa.org/eng/flg_2006.htm
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It's a really pretty looking implementation, but for something so early, i'm surprised it has DoubleClick advertising built in?
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DBD::CSV is a library, which you could use to build a command, but doesn't seem to come with one out of the box. q is just a command, but not a library.

One could use DBI + DBD::CSV + Perl to build something similar to q, but that's a batteries not included solution.
Why does it make a difference? Is there a Smalltalk with JIT-only but no AOT?

But even if, as long as I can't run the binary in Unix, it's pointless.
WinForms is still a great way to write desktop software if you don't need all the features of WPF, I just started a new project with it and have been really productive.
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The data binding in WPF seemed more powerful to me... enabling MVVM approaches, although I'm sure the same is possible in WinForms as well.

Does WinForms still get love in the new versions of the SDK or is it considered done now?
This is incredibly naive. Many second year EE students today will not even know what a vacuum tube is, much less be able to explain how a device using them works.

Even if you're used to looking at discrete transistor circuits (and even that is getting rare these days), a device with tubes can look like magic of the highest order.
Charged with a crime absent evidence of a crime is evidence of corruption. The racism is merely speculation but it's not wild speculation. You shouldn't overlook obvious evidence.
Wait, what's insecure about Chrome password syncing?
You think 2,000 is a lot?. I have over 20,000!
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It's all about enjoying your own company.

I have always seen the ability to endure solitude as one of the primary reasons why some people are successful.

The ability to enjoy your own thoughts, process, reflexions and the self-discipline to stay with them no matter what they are is what build up intuition.
I don't know, I've done both (Silverlight MVVM and Winforms) plenty and I prefer the manual approach. Databinding is cool until you have any sort of complexity in your app, and then it becomes unwieldy quickly.
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You need a developer ID with kext signing ability, not a regular developer ID:

https://www.google.com/search?num=30&q=site%3Adeveloper.appl...
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So I upload a DJ mix and it gets rejected because of "Copyright blah blah". Then I fill out the form and tell them "Guys, it's a DJ mix, not the song you claim it to be". I never received a response. So I guess SoundCloud is no longer for me.
Guessing the number of hours could be difficult, as different people have different workflow.

I don't freelance, but I do bill hourly for consultancy work. I just calculate the number of hours in my calendar I've assigned, and work from that. It takes minutes per month (and I know what I'm doing based on the calendar).

In some cases lawyers bill by the minute. I'm not sure they use a specialized tool, and imagine it's more like an Excel sheet with time of call.

Sounds like an interesting technology, but limited not just to freelancers who use Git, but freelancers who use Git and have a similar workflow you use (and those that have a different workflow could raise hell regarding it not working for them, especially as it's about how much they request to get paid).

I also doubt many billed clients would like to hear their billable time was guessed or estimated.
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