skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"I've worked in both low-level systems programming languages like C as well as some high-level scripting languages like Python. What further details would you like to know?" ~= "I've worked with COM-PU-TERS. I type using a KEY-BOARD. What further details would you like to know?"

Another annoying geek habit is assuming everyone else is a drooling imbecile.
Apple already has a RAID implementation. It's software based but the performance is just as good as the hostRAID. It also has the benefit of being swappable to any other Mac system unlike hostRAID which is chipset dependent.
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The main benefit of this as I see it - moving between windows (in the emacs sense of the word) - can be got by installing windmove.el ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WindMove ). Once you've got it it's hard to go without (actually the author of this piece used windmove too!). Another indespensible tool is winner-mode ( http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WinnerMode ) which remembers emacs window layouts and allows you to "undo" window changes.
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As Jeff Bezos likes to say: Frugality breeds innovation.

The availability of money changes how you go about doing business, but not your chances of success. In my experience Seattle entrepreneurs are much more focussed on building a serious business, while Valley entrepreneurs are focussed on building the most awesome toys in the world (we'll make money eventually, right?). Consequently, valley companies have fanboys, while Seattle companies have fancorps. Both can make a lot of money. On the short run I would put my money in San Francisco since the boys can be very excited. On the long run I would put my money in Seattle since the corps won't lose interest over time.
Yeah, but you could always try and buy a used textbook from a student, and pay $50 instead of the original $230, no?

Of course that would be hard. You'd have to find a student which is selling, and then seeing if the book is well preserved.

That's one of the values of having a store. They pay you less because its easy to sell for them. Just the same, you could try and find a student that wants to buy your used book for more money. That's hard tho, and the store knows that, and charges accordingly.

I agree it sucks tho, specially for students who are usually short on money, but its an open market. It's a somewhat similar situation with used games in Madrid.
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We are working on a web-application for business use. We are trying to make it very very simple as part of the the target group probably thinks that email is kind of complicated stuff.

We now have an internal discussion on how to design the menu. Some would like to have a traditional dropdown menu while others prefer the two-row approach (see http://tixclub.de/ or http://www.madvertise.de/ for examples)

Is there any evidence on which style users prefer? What is your personal experience?

Many thanks!
> Put enough time and polish into something, and it's going to be good regardless of what language you choose.

I don't think the evidence supports that claim. Witness the select() API or any number of other issues in the modern libc which have gone unaddressed for so many years. Then look at how libraries are occasionally rewritten better in a matter of months. It should be possible to develop software in new languages that compels the user compared to what they already have access to, else why develop a new language?

When you say millions of users, I think I'm not communicating well. When I say "products," I mean products where the programming language is actually relevant: libraries and frameworks. You don't need millions of users to be considered a huge success in that market.

So I guess my continued question is, have you written any libraries that got serious traction because they were much better than an alternative written in C? Because if you read him charitably, that's what the comment we're discussing was really asking for. You replied with a laundry list of projects and nothing actually relevant.

> more and more of the code is safe Javascript instead of raw C++

I'd be interested to see the extent to which this is actually true. Do you have a plot of the linguistic composition of the program over the years? Or at least some links to news articles to back up your claim?

> Of the software packages that I use on a daily basis, very few are pure C. (xmms2 is. That's all.)

I take it you don't use an operating system? Or do you mean to say that by including a little bit of non-C code, something significant has changed in the overall composition of the software you use?

> and see if C is still the most popular. That is a more reliable indicator of the state of the art.

I disagree that language popularity in new projects is a reliable indicator of anything except what language is popular at a given time.
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Not while Yahoo! actively collaborate with the Mainland Chinese Government to imprison Hong Kong citizens without even the courtesy of a warrant request - I could not look my grandchildren in the eye - I call them out as collaborators and frankly they should be shot or at least interned without trial - Yahoo are dead to me.
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I wonder what unique part of the tablet can be used to identify the source. I've heard that Apple sometimes provides altered information to track leaks.
Perhaps the spacing of the bolts.
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Good point, thanks for reminding me of the distinction.
It's exacerbated by the fact that once a new edition comes out (which can happen every few years) the old versions have much less worth for new students. So you could buy a $50 copy of an old version from an old student, but if it's different enough from the new version then it may be more hassle than its worth (page numbers not matching up, exercises being different etc.).
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When it was launched, the PS3 could be a nice general-purpose computer. If Sony decided to reinvent the NEWS workstation series with a usable OS (Linux, BSD, a port of OpenSolaris, AIX, whatever) on top of Cell BEs with expandable RAM, a decent GPU and non-subsidized prices, I would have used it. Heck... I would buy one even today. I would help port software to it.

Now it's just a gaming platform.
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This is where I live. I am a small business or two. I have been building my own CNC machines. I manufacture a niche product.

The comments on this article are mostly regurgitated economist speak, efficiency figures prominently. The fact of the matter is, efficiency means one group gets as much of the pie as possible.

There are lots of people and they all need to earn a living. Big business strives for efficiency and they lay people off, because they are efficient. You however are unemployed.

Small businesses are only going to grow in number and the amazing thing about this phase that we are in is that sophisticated tools are becoming widely available. That means that small businesses will be able to produce more and more sophisticated products, creating more jobs as a result of this terrible inefficiency.

The future looks like this: Commodities and niche products.
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What has not been mentioned at all: how C++ webapps will spell the end of XSS and SQL injection as hackers refocus on the much more interesing but almost-forgotten buffer overflow vulnerabilities.

Oh joy!
Maybe. People have been thinking (wishing?) that the makeup would change, but that people believe Linux is close in usability to Windows or Mac is actually a barrier to that happening. And there's the whole "this probably doesn't work economically-speaking" thing.

> people don't say 'what's that' anymore, they say 'cool ubuntu, how is it?'

You and I must know different people. ;)

I know that it's the dream that Linux will one day be predominant, but I've been hearing about how Ubuntu is going to change the landscape since 2006 when I started using it and it hasn't happened yet, nor is there any strong evidence that a trend is starting.
Your experience with Python and Haskell has most likely made you a far better C++ programmer than you were before.
If this guy is really running his web server on an Acer Aspire One 512, as he says at http://stevehanov.ca/blog/index.php?id=71 C++ sounds like an excellent choice.
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Read also: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=363723
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He does have a point about efficiency, or about delivering a single app ... but you also get those advantages with a Java, or a .NET, or even an Erlang or Haskell app which are reasonably efficient ... and still, you won't have to deal with segfaults.

Also, if you want extreme scalability, like being able to serve 10000 requests/sec on a single server ... sorry, but raw performance doesn't cut it ... see this article for instance ... http://www.kegel.com/c10k.html.

Not to mention that the most usual bottleneck is the database (how many apps can you build that doesn't use one?). So even if you build the fastest web server in the world, if you're using a RDBMS you're going to end up with 100 reqs/sec, unless you're sharding or caching that data.

The bottom line is ... if you want extreme scalability, I don't think C++ is going to cut it, and you're going to invest a whole lot more in optimizations that are already done in more mature web frameworks.

Well, unless you have Google's resources and skill.
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I think it is great that people are paid to work on Linux.
I think a bigger problem is that they didn't separate the posting accounts from the admin accounts. Otherwise, the only damage that could have been incurred is to mess with posts.
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You might find this interesting:
http://groups.google.com/group/rec.arts.sf.fandom/msg/1e5a95...

It's a report from a speech therapist who attended a Science-Fiction convention on the way that fannish speech is different to "normal" speech.
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Oh yes you have. Basel regulations are one of the top drivers of architecture initiatives in the finance industry.

Talking about aesthetics, Information Architecture, from the data model to business objects model (or what the users call the fields in an user interface), even the the names you give to the applications are a big aesthetic exercise.

An aesthetic exercise where you your audience is the business side, and you need to appeal to their comprehension.
The map in the background?

(not sure if I'm joking or not...)
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perhaps of interest:
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/20001112.html
http://www.useit.com/alertbox/mega-dropdown-menus.html
I got the idea for this when I was in a rural farming community in South Africa. The farmers traded all sorts of stuff using the local bulletin board and word of mouth rather than Craigslist. They knew about Craigslist but it did not cover their area effectively. Google maps is the centerpiece of the UI so that the users can select and search any area of the globe in a fine grained way.
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I'm using Opera on 64 bit Linux. Despite my non-standard setup the site is beautiful and slick. I worked out how to use it instantly. Its very impressive.
Nice idea. However, staring on the emptiness of a map when you enter, is not such a good idea though. Suggestions:

- use geolocation to get visitors id and show a map that
is closer to his area.
- if there are no ads in that region town etc, show a prompt or
two to entice the visitor to do something. Use some mock-ads in
the side margins rather than just *place an ad to promote your
location or service to your local customers*

Can you post a sample of an area where their 100's of ads to see how would that appeal visually?
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My screenshot of the TechCrunch hack : http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_xwIjC_HaTC4/S1_f4Z46kUI/AAAAAAAAAA...

I was trying to view TechCrunch's "TechCrunch Hacked" article... but it was hacked.
Yes sir, yessir, yezzir. Exactly what I'm trying to say. :D

(Caution ahead: unnecessary detour...in the form of a light rant)

Correlation is so, so often mistaken for causation. And unlike most logical fallacies, 'correlation vs. causation' seems to know no borders whatsoever. That fact is really very striking to me.

Ad hominem attacks, for example, are extremely prevalent in political discussion, especially on political talk shows, but you'd rarely see one in such forums as medical journals, formal debates, et al.

But 'correlation vs. causation' fallacies seem, to me at least, to be pervasive throughout nearly every-- if not all-- forums of discussion. Sure, it's worse in some areas than it is in others, but it's everywhere. Personally, I'm most annoyed when I see it in magazine and newspaper articles (especially frequent in those on medical studies and surveys and whatnot), not because journalists/writers should be more aware of this fallacy than the rest of the population but because these places are supposed to be our most reliable, most verifiable sources of information available. And they're not just supposed to be, they claim to be as well.

99.237% of the time, I'm a very laid-back guy. 0.763% of the time, I'm reading an article titled "Eating mashed potatoes and gravy causes CANCER?" or some similar nonsense. (Intentionally ridiculous example chosen. Everybody knows mashed potatoes and gravy have no capacity for evil, none whatsoever.)
Google maps might be overkill here. Not many people know what it is.
It seems that they are missing a leader (or benevolent dictator)..

There are also two similar projects about graphics cards:
"The Open Graphics Project" ( http://wiki.opengraphics.org/tiki-index.php ) which aims to build a "modern" graphics card, but unfortunately things are a bit too costly for people who might be interested :S
As an outsider, quick look shows that this project has stalled :S

And an alternative called "Project VGA" ( http://wacco.mveas.com/ ) that aims to develop a simple and low cost card. But also no news about progress for a year now.. :S
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This is a very basic app to help you converse with people you work with or loosely know but never know what to talk about. I'm interested in hearing your thoughts, any feature requests, any issues etc

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Thanks for the thoughtful feedback. This link is loaded with about 37K listings scraped from recovery.org.

http://beta.townflier.com:8000/
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You probably want to make registration email-free or better, require no registration so people can take a look at it easily.

Also, Comic Sans?
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>* This list doesn't account for international sales, which probably attributes for a smaller overall percentage of 3D ticket sales.*

Why? Everybody I know here in Taipei who saw it saw it in 3D. Is 3D exceptionally popular in the US or something?
I am a Linux user and I routinely choose Yahoo search over Google search. The primary reason for me to switch was that Google insists on sending me to their German variant of search results.

At the moment it has become quite convenient: if I want to search in English (most of the time), I use Yahoo, if I need German results, I just switch to Google with the said two clicks in "Chrome".
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yeh i need to add persistent login, the reg literally takes 5 seconds. email validation hasn't even been addded

regarding the comic sans, i wanted to go for the simple and light hearted look, maybe i missed it :/
Hey - this is global! I just placed a note at my address in Santiago, Chile :o) Neat. I wonder if there's some way of switching language depending on the map shown? (everything on the site appears in English for me, but then I think I have my browser configured that way anyway - although Google generally switches to Spanish despite that).
The epilogue of the story is that General Butt Naked adds them on Facebook.

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This is a personal pet peeve of mine because I have simply never understood the point of comparing movie profits not adjusted for inflation. 1 billion in profit is not 1 billion in profit, that's the whole point. People seem to occasionally mention adjusting for inflation like its some obscure comparison, but in reality these numbers are otherwise just 100% meaningless. Its like saying "This movie made more rupees than that movie made dollars!" OK, but who knows what that means if you don't know the relative values?

If tomorrow we had hyper-inflation and a bus ticket cost 1 million dollars, would anyone still be impressed by a billion dollars in profit? Would the mediocre comedies netting trillions at the box office be given the title of "most profitable movie" of all time?

A dollar in 1977 had the buying power of somewhere between 3 to 4 dollars now. $1/3 billion profit in 1977 dollars is a significantly smaller number.
> (although of course TVs/misc. entertainment devices didn't exist, which compete against movies.)

Actually I think this is the most relevant point. People used to go to the cinema a lot more before TV. Also movies didn't 'go to DVD' so I'm guessing that the most popular ones could run for years and years.
This is possible in Vim as well :D, check out ->
http://amix.dk/blog/post/19403#Hacking-without-distractions

Regarding the moving between windows it can be done with following maps in Vim:

map <C-j> <C-W>j
map <C-k> <C-W>k
map <C-h> <C-W>h
map <C-l> <C-W>l
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http://www.paulgraham.com/onlisptext.html

From the text:

"This is identical to the printed version, except that nine diagrams are missing. If you see a blank figure, that's what happened. These unfortunately seem to be lost."
You need a browse interface - I hate it when sites force me to search for something (in this case, I have to type in my location) before I can get a feel for the kind of content on the site. As it was, I tried a couple of searches and couldn't find any content.

Even a simple 'five most recently added items' on the homepage would help here, but ideally you'd show a few examples of locations that you know have content.
you're forgetting that sony was taking a loss on each PS3 sale when it first came out. they make it up on game licenses so they absolutely did NOT want to be selling to people who would buy few games.
In true geek form, of all the posts to which I wanted to reply, I couldn't resist pointing out that "queues" could technically be correct in this context, as in message queuing in a conversation.
Yes definitely global but currently only in english. The back end is designed to support other languages so we hope to get that at some point.
So, what is great, modern C++ code to read?
Lying in bed, trying not to barf or soil myself == good thinking time...
I realized that:

1) The human body is a leaky abstraction.

2) Infants are the original cargo cultists.

Thoughts?
I think the interesting thing about this rumor mill is that so many people are wondering WHY they would buy the Apple Tablet. The answer is of course: Content! Games, movies, newspapers, magazines, books, and of course, apps.

Sure, you can use your netbook to consume all of this content as well, but not (yet) with a one-click "buy now" experience. Just look at Amazons success with the Kindle, and this conclusion is obvious.

Previous attempts like the UMPC was trying to take one use case (desktop computing) and shoehorning it into another form factor. Apple will most likely be trying to expand the iPhone experience to a bigger device. They will have a much higher probability of success with this move.
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Couple of good London startups I know from friends :

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Property search engine, which is doing really well, profitable and spreading base across Europe. Started by ex-Yahoo people.

http://www.mendeley.com/
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1. Make that "109.237% of the time." I always go 110%. What's that, you say? Mathematically impossible? I used to think so too. Then one day I slept for 26.4 hours.

2. In completely unrelated web surfing occurring in totally different tabs on the opposite side of my Firefox window, I was searching thesaurus.com for a contextually superior synonym of 'saying'/'phrase'. Plenty to choose from, of course. I was thinking of going with 'aphorism' for a moment, so I switched from thesaurus to dictionary to make certain it correctly fit my context.

Look for yourself: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/aphorism

Infuriating how pervasive its usage is. Infuriating.