skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because when one is making reckless unfounded accusations about motivation and character, there's no reason not to go for the gold.

I mean, I bet these guys only help homeless people because, while they're out on the streets doing that, it's a convenient opportunity for kicking puppies . . .
AT&T gave up its exclusivity contract with Apple for the iPhone, last year. One of the common complaints about the iPhone is that it's tied to AT&T, so it makes sense for Apple to produce a Verizon iPhone.

AT&T pays Apple a lot of money for the exclusivity deal, and that deal is part of the reason that Apple has more cash than they know what to do with.

AT&T dropped the exclusivity for the iPhone because they picked up a new deal with Apple for the iPad, which they are almost certainly also paying a lot of money for.
Is TD Commerce affliated/the same as TD Ameritrade?
I have never met anyone who knows C++. I have also never met a C++ programmer that knew how to program or what OOP was. (Polymorphism? What's that? Tests? What are those?)
Infinite redirect because of long hyphen. Entire entry here: http://www.engineyard.com/blog/2010/
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> Also, hasn't IBM capped the Cell line?

Nope. At least two blades on the lineup. Don't know for how long - GPUs should pack more punch per watt and per dollar.

http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/bladecenter/hardware/servers/i...
The link only uses Euler integration for the diffusion (advection is semi-Lagrangian), and in graphics you never use very much diffusion anyway, because highly diffusive fluids are boring. In fact, when using this particular technique, it's not uncommon to set diffusion to 0, since the multilinear interpolation used in the advection step tends to introduce a fair amount of diffusion.
WinkVid was started as part of SocialDevCamp Chicago's Hackathon, where we built a prototype in 36 hours. We've had a few months to polish it up and we just launched WinkVid today.

We're a team of two bootstrapped guys in Chicago. Would appreciate any comments, suggestions or questions.
It's really hard to be productive with a good back and good ass, but bad hands too. If you were told tomorrow that you could never use a keyboard again, would you be thanking the gods that it wasn't a back or ass problem because now you quality of life won't even skip a beat?
>take breaks regularly

>exercise daily

This.

I actually bought a recumbent exercise bike which sits next to my home office desk. I've mounted a touch screen LCD in place of the "normal" trip computer and it's hooked up to a netbook.

That way, when I feel like my mind is wandering while working, I can take a break and peddle and surf the web/watch something.

It's not lost time that way, just re-purposed.
In my book, 10x. The tone works well for a younger, more naive crowd, but really does push off the rest. Including those whose opinions are respected, and those who could make real contributions (not just technically, either).

The network effect potential lost is the worst part. Really, who wants to quote Stallman? Who mentions his name and gets respect for it?
Seems like a visual display of the timeless recommendations by Seth Godin in The Big Red Fez (http://www.sethgodin.com/fez/).

Although newspapers are dying, this is something any good newspaper designer knows: the eye should immediately go to the most important thing on the page and sequence through the additional items ranked by importance. It doesn't matter if something is first on the page if it isn't the most dominant thing on the page.
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FWIW, X11 has been upgraded to a newer xquartz version, restoring 16-bit accumulation buffers.
>Where does one obtain a standing desk these days?

Lifehacker had a recent article on this, let me dig it up for you.

http://lifehacker.com/5503957/the-file-cabinet-standing-desk
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Oops. Still my point of placing this right at the bottom of the update list is valid. Perhaps more as it's not a major release change.
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Why on earth is he blocking links from Reddit and HN?
Pretty much every multiplayer casual gaming site in existence already works that way. If the flash games made sensible use of the webcam then yes, that would be a new facet.
Sounds like you've just met a lot of bad C++ programmers. Given that most programmers are terrible and there are a LOT of people who claim to be "C++ programmers", I guess that isn't too surprising. People who actually know (sane, modern) C++ are rare.
Musashi has been adapted into a manga ("Vagabond") and a movie trilogy (the "Samurai" trilogy) for the time-challenged.
Worried about hemmorrhoids? You pansies - try a Pilondial Sinus http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilonidal_cyst instead!

Caution: you may want to visit that page with Lynx, rather than a browser which can display images ;)
Wait, what?

EDIT: This comment literally says "usually if you think you know something, you don't." So I guess I shouldn't apply for a job using language FooBar, since by this guy's rule I probably don't actually know FooBar.

How does this make sense?
If they're not worried about their future, they will fail.

Companies like Apple, to use a cliché, are always worried about their future, and so they always innovate to compensate. If Apple wasn't worried, the iPod Touch wouldn't exist yet since nobody else would come up with anything better that required keeping up with.
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I have a different ergonomic chair, but I just wanted to reiterate your point: Seriously! RTFM! It doesn't seem like something you'd have to do for a frickin' chair, but you'll be so glad you did.
Why?

I don't mean to be snarky. I don't actually understand why this is a "mind blowing" release (other than the fact that it was released by Apple).
I'll be upfront in admitting that I loathe C++ just as much the next guy (I can't seem to get away from Lispy languages), but isn't this being a teeny bit ridiculous?
I say this to pretty much everyone with these kinds of questions: It will never be less risky than it is today. You will never have fewer responsibilities than you have today. As you get older, you collect responsibilities and obligations and expenses that can't be dramatically reduced (like children and medical bills). If you are single, don't have kids, don't have a mortgage, you are stupid for avoiding economic risk that presents high opportunity for gain. Now is the only time you have to take on extremely high risk opportunities.

Sure, you can get promotions as you age, and get cost-of-living wage increases, and you can do it all very safely and without ever having taken a chance on being out of work or having to cancel your cable and stop eating out. But, you'll never have another time when it will be less painful to make mistakes.

So, there's no question here. If you don't have responsibilities that prevent you from taking chances, why are you even asking? Get off your ass and make something of yourself. (And if you do have responsibilities, like a wife and kids, you shouldn't be asking us. You should be asking them, because only you and they can make those decisions.)

Don't be a coward. Your scary decisions are nothing compared to the risks our ancestors had to take to make it this far, so do something worthwhile.
[...] Christopher Hansen, a lawyer for the ACLU, [...] said about 20 percent of human genes are patented.

That sounds absurd. Can anyone confirm/deny this?
Haha, that's unfortunate mate. Maybe you can contact me and we can work together on a proper release that works with all the controls.
The History of Sexuality - Michel Foucault
Discipline and Punish - Michel Foucault
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America - Daniel J. Boorstin

These books make you look at society in a much more critical manner. The first two are difficult reads, but none the less good and referenced quite a bit in the humanities.

The Perennial Philosophy - Aldous Huxley

Huxley ties up all the different religious views quite nicely into a core set which is common to all of them. I'd advise reading Huxley and God before reading this though.
Well, that does seem out of the ordinary for a normal website. Then whatever you feel comfortable doing is probably the best thing. Keep it going, make it a read-only archive, sell it, or just delete the whole thing completely. You're probably the only one who can really decide.
Develop a comfortable cushion of savings -- 3 months' salary wouldn't be too bad to start with -- and then try the other job out, if you can.

Have you ever watched people get older?

Some people, as they get older, stay really dynamic. Their minds are sharp, they're active, they "age well". Other people just get old, their minds get dull and narrow, they begin to define themselves in terms of all the things they can't do.

The only difference between the two is that members of the first group go out and challenge themselves all the time, trying new hobbies (or staying active in current ones), working on the house, in the yard, etc. -- even when it's hard.

I think that's probably important for young people, too.

So don't stay too comfortable for too long.
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Tynan replaced one of his RV chairs with an aeron.
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Would such patent make cancer patients have to pay royalties for their illness?
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I agree with the general observation, but it's definitely not the case that C++ is the only language where this happens.
The GNU license requires all forks to also be open source. This means that I won't be able to add open source software to my proprietary application without all of my changes also being given out for free.

The Free Software Foundation also sues companies in court for not complying with their license. This doesn't really sound like anything different than the current copyright system.

I would not want to live in a world where I am forced by law to give out the source to my software.
An Easter egg and "told you so" in a compiler. Love it.
Pictures, much better.
I have three standard "screener" questions: (a) what's a virtual method, (b) why would you want to have a destructor be virtual, and (c) what's a virtual base class.

Most folks (if they have a head on their shoulders) get A, a lot get B, and C befuddles almost everyone. (There are a few situations where you'd want to use a virtual base class. And if someone replies, "Oh yeah! I use those all the time!" they're probably using /other/ parts of the language that are just as unsavory).

Related to the original discussion: I've found the folks who self-rate themselves (on a scale of 1-10) as nines (and one guy was a ten) are generally bozos. This is independent of the language in question.
An oldie but goodie is from Think and Grow Rich:

http://www.amazon.com/Think-Grow-Rich-Napoleon-Hill/dp/04492...

Develop one Definitive Chief Aim. It's a very specific medium to long-term goal (1 - 20 years or so) with a specific deadline. Repeat it to yourself every day. Whatever your mind can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

Don't bother with intermediate goals that you aren't fully passionate about. Spend the time to determine what is truly important to you and focus on that. It worked for Bruce Lee:

My Chief Personal Aim In Life:

I, Bruce Lee, will be the highest paid Oriental superstar in the United States. In return I will give the most exciting performances and render the best of quality in the capacity of an actor. Starting in 1970, I will achieve world fame and from then onward till the end of 1980 I will have in my possession the sum of $10,000,000—then I will live the way I please and achieve inner harmony and happiness.

Bruce Lee
1969

http://www.martialdevelopment.com/blog/think-grow-rich-or-di...

I just read the book last fall so I obviously haven't achieved my goal yet, but I have until December 31st, 2014 to get there.

Also, for another method, Randy Pausch in his Time Management lecture (a really good lecture) said that he always knew what needed to get done that day, that week, and that semester. So that might be a good way to set incremental goals.
If you want to worry about something, worry that data can't be deleted, and advances in data mining (artificial intelligence) will change the laws of privacy forever. Perhaps, in 10 years from now, you'd wish for a remote wipe button.

I'll never wish for something like that. The fact that data can't be deleted is one of the most encouraging developments of current technology.

The kindle is not designed for book burning, even if it might be used for that purpose.

This is incorrect. Figurative book burning is an explicit design goal of the Kindle. Without it, Amazon would have a very difficult time getting major publishers to put their works on the Kindle. Even if your statement was correct, design intentions are irrelevant; the fact that the capability is there is what matters.

I'm not 100% comfortable with the concept of the "remote wipe", but as companies go Amazon has proven itself to be pretty trustworthy.

I'll never be comfortable with the idea that I have to trust a company not to violate my rights. Rights are not a matter of trust, they are inalienable, natural guarantees.

And what's the worst case scenario? Amazon censors/deletes a bunch of books, people scream bloody murder and host some torrents.

Maybe in America. But not in China. And maybe not in America, now that you mention it. Public outcry may seem large from a technical person's perspective, but the average American does not care or know about the implications of remote deletion.

You're also making the faulty assumption that deletion is the only option. Modification is far more dangerous. Did you know that the average Chinese citizen older than 40 has no idea how heavily their search results are being censored? Picture a Grandma sitting in her living room in China with her Kindle. She's reading Animal Farm. Her copy is sufficiently doctored that she thinks it is a novel about farm animals, not a work criticizing the corruption that results from a communist revolution. After she's done Grandma will go to sleep feeling happy, enlightened, and unoppressed by her government, blissfully unaware that she's been duped. Sounds far fetched? If you had asked me in the early 1930s whether a German political party would be able to convince a large portion of the German population that an Aryan race was desirable, I would have said it was far fetched too.

Thanks to encryption and publicly available algorithms people will always be able to communicate against the will of any government, even if the internet itself is compromised. So I don't think we have to worry about DRM and similar technologies. At any point in time we can just say 'No more!' and use something different, so DRM has no power over us.

Not if using encryption or circumventing DRM is illegal. If DRM achieves sufficient market penetration, you wont be able to go about your daily life without it. You barely can as it is.
For the past few months I've been very interested in figuring out how to communicate programming ideas well. My friend Pat put together a great way to show what happens to some Ruby code as it's evaluated, and I put together this plugin to make it easier to do what he did.

In the introduction, which I've linked to, I've tried to explain what the plugin does, how it's useful, and the basics of how to use it. I'd love any feedback on the code or on my attempt to explain it. Thanks!
I do square roots "visually", since that's how my head works. Get the closest square that's less than the number, subtract the difference, and then "visually" spread them out over the two sides. That gets me to within two decimal places usually, which is generally good enough for whatever I'm trying to do in my head.

Also, I do left-to-right math too (or, "most significant first"). I did it that way when I first learned math, and then public schooling spent years teaching me not to do it that way, and finally I got good at it again a few years after graduation.

It's a much better way of handling math. I wish it was taught instead of the silly right-to-left nonsense.
It seems reasonable to me. There's a gray area between "discovery" and "invention", but finding a gene seems more like discovering something new about how gravity works. If a physicist did that, they couldn't get a blanket patent on the very idea of a device that took advantage of that gravitational feature.

Where it does get trickier is that it seems that said physicist might be able to patent a particular kind of new machine that took advantage of their discovery, and analogously, someone might be able to patent a particular kind of chemical or device that uses this gene.
There's nothing I love more than watching middle and upper-middle class people talk knowingly about the homeless; both sides indignantly insisting that the other just doesn't understand it. No judgement, mind you, it's just one of those issues that brings out the opinions in people least qualified to give them.
True, but C++ is a perfect storm for this.

1) There are a lot of nooks and crannies that can bite you in the butt

2) It's cosmetically similar to C and Java so you get a false sense of security (The article points this out).

3) It's popular (same effect for PHP or Java (I took a intro to programming in this language, so I know it!))

4) Due to #1, every decent C++ shop tends to standardize on a subset of the language, with practices that deal with the nooks and crannies of just that subset.
This guy is the EPITOME of a social media douchebag. UGH.
Less than 2% of purchases happens online. 98%, offline
Science 14 October 2005:
Vol. 310. no. 5746, pp. 239 - 240
DOI: 10.1126/science.1120014

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY:
Intellectual Property Landscape of the Human Genome

Kyle Jensen and Fiona Murray

Summary:
The impact of gene patents on downstream research and innovation are unknown, in part because of a lack of empirical data on the extent and nature of gene patenting. In this Policy Forum, the authors show that 20% of human gene DNA sequences are patented and that some genes are patented as many as 20 times. Unsurprisingly, genes associated with health and disease are more patented than the genome at large. The intellectual property rights for some genes can become highly fragmented between many owners, which suggests that downstream innovators may face considerable costs to gain access to gene-oriented technologies.
There are two different definitions of "know" in play. That's all it is.
Maybe you understood me, but what I meant to say was that if you were to watch something on youtube in lieu of going to the movie theater or watching it on TV, you would be not compensating an artist because of youtube's existence.

It's a very optimistic view that people would compensate artists if it was a purely optional choice (not saying that it doesn't happen, but it requires a certain mix of artistic work, artist, and audience to make it happen).

That said, it's not entirely the fault of the audience that they are now receiving works of "art" for free. The fact that technology has progressed to the point where duplication of content has become trivial cannot be ignored (whether or not it's right doesn't really change things). It's partially up to the content creators to seek compensation from the audience in new ways. Youtube, I think, is trying to enable this path, whether or not it's successful has yet to be seen.

By no means do I think that people deserve compensation, but I do think that piracy has had an impact on content creators' livelihood.
> I have never met anyone who knows C++.

Hello jrockway, nice to meet you. :)

> I have also never met a C++ programmer that knew how to program or what OOP was. (Polymorphism? What's that? Tests? What are those?)

If you understand those, there's a decent chance you're a real programmer rather than a language-specific programmer.
Not that I've seen, but again, the concept is algorithmic; nothing precludes it from being implemented in Javascript. The whole idea behind WBC is that you don't trust the implementation environment.
Yeah, that sounds good. I also have some basic Jquery written that deals with transforming the other form controls ie. radio, checkbox and select which I could probably turn into a plugin pretty easily.

I'll shoot you an email over the next few days.
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Are you forced to only buy and use a Kindle? If you don't like the fact that amazon modifies or remotely deletes your books, don't buy it.

How exactly are freedom of the press or speech in danger? The Internet pretty much has stopped any one governing body from taking that right away from anyone. In fact, it's destroying many newspapers.
I hadn't see either of those, but will be checking them out -thanks. Anything to avoid the mouse is good news.
The sheer size of this update gets me. 10.6.2 ran just fine for me, and I haven't noticed a thing since I installed today's update.
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One funny consequence of this effect is that at 20 I listed like 15 programming languages on my resume; at 26 I listed 3.
Reading this from my chair
Maybe the idea is that a competent programmer is also humble.
Note the comment makes no absolute statement. Note the reference to "odds." This is almost the same idea as: "Remember, most people think they're an above average driver. Also remember, half the people are below average drivers."

It's also along the same lines as, "There's always someone better than you."

Also note the use of "really." "Know" is twice accompanied by the adjective "really." I would've thought this would make it clear that I wasn't talking about "a little knowledge." The odds are that a programmer does have "a little knowledge" about [X].

Given that you, despite claiming to be puzzled didn't try to take "odds" or the frequent use of the adjective into account, I wonder if you are apt to catch details like that. Maybe this would make a good interview question for coders?
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It's striking how they don't use an article before the word "iPad". For example, they say "reading on iPad" instead of "reading on the iPad". Are they trying to make it sound alive?
I largely agree with what you say. I don't want to see anyone exploited in the sex-industry, but nor do I believe that making it illegal is a solution.

Making it illegal increases the risks, creates opportunities for criminal concerns -- pimps and gangs -- and ultimately does _not_ stop women from entering into prostitution.

Prohibition is treating the symptoms, but it doesn't directly and pro-actively deal with the problems currently inherent in much of the sex-industry. The solution in my opinion is legalisation, transparency and regulation.

It's magical thinking to think that a simple law can suddenly quash the desire to buy sex and remove the impulse to sell it.

Really though, this law doesn't at all seem concerned with the practical issues of safety, instead this is a moral judgement of the trade and the people involved, something I am extremely suspicious of. The act of buying and selling sex is not immoral. There is no harm involved and assuming all participants are willing, it is not a government's place to judge.

What a terribly, prissy and judgemental point of view!
Great setup! What did you use as your laptop stand?
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The current system encourages companies to use copyrighted material get a foothold in the market. There's no real penalty for having an unknown website full of unauthorized content.