skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"No, it's not, but the current situation smacks of systemic job loss rather than cyclical job loss."

Sounds like we're back in the 80's - 'the Japanese are taking our jobs! The robots did it!' and then we went into the 20 most prosperous years humankind has ever known. I hear people cry left and right that today's job loss is systemic, but I hardly see any factual arguments to support that position. Jobs were cut over the last two years, this quarter profits are back up, and if those improved profits repeat themselves for a few quarters the confidence will come back and more people will be hired. A regular business cycle, even if the nature of the drivers is changing.

Now I'm not saying it doesn't suck for those without a job, and I'm sure some people have it really rough, but come on like Jacques says - today's poor (in the West) live lives 10 times better than the kings of 500 years ago. I'm sure that's no consolation for a welfare mom who has to put her children to bed some nights crying because they're hungry, but overall, these are still great times to live in. Let's keep some perspective, put problems in the right context and fix the comparatively small deficiencies rather than cry wolf, pack cans of beans and ammo and head for the mountains.
Bloated as because CSS frameworks are, essentially, based on CSS and works at mercy of the browser; true “frameworks” like Compass are pre-compiled and comes without presentational classes, therefore less bloat. On the other hand, front-end work is dirty by nature, and I’d argue that a beautiful page with bloated code is better than a not-working page with very clean code.
So you're assuming that PHP will create a mess that is expensive to maintain? Fallacy detected. :)
If the scroll feature works, wouldn't that indicate that multitouch is enabled and functional? Am I misreading it?

If it is the case, I probably will pick up a magic mouse for my Ubuntu box.

-edit-
The scroll function only requires one finger to move on the mouse; my mistake.

The target site is so ad-ridden and information-poor that I'm compelled to link to the original site.

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9667180

The scroll action works fine. It appears that Maverick includes changes to XOrg that allow multitouch (which was the reason none of those features worked for previous Ubuntu versions).

TL/DR: Zoom/Multitouch may work. Scrolling definitely does. The normal mouse functions have always worked.
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FWIW, and I realize not everyone likes it, but Gentoo goes a long way towards making Linux package management more like BSD ports (AFAICT; haven't used *BSD much). I really like that Gentoo encourages me to build my own (lean) kernel and allows me to pick what configure flags each package gets (instead of giving me packages that include everything out there, like in the .deb distributions).
Thank you both (brc and nos) for the insightful and thoughtful comments.
How is this new but merely evolutional?

You know, as soon as you're willing pass 64-bit values around, packing different values into a long long isn't really packing anymore. There are so many bits that you can easily "waste" a few of them for tags. The downside is that you most often really just need only a handful of bits and it looks like Jaegermonkey lavishly uses 32 bits for tagging of 32-bit pointers.

Of course, thinking optimistically, the new approach is better if you can at least carry some satellite information in the 32 tag bits, like object origination/permission/context data, or some length/offsets for (sub)strings. Also, locality is probably better, heap allocation is eliminated, and for 64-bit registers and moves this is a natural fit.

But I would have liked to see those 61-bit integers for the same amount of money.
"Speak for yourself."

I did: "I think" "I associate" "I look" "I clicked" "I'm not"
For me old and ancient buildings provide the soul of our cities - providing a tangible connection with the many generations of our ancestors.

Of course, it helps that I live in a beautiful and old city (though hardly ancient compared to some) - as I write this I can look up at a castle perched on the plug of an extinct volcano, parts nearly a thousand years old, and think that this is really rather a nice place to live and work.

I suggest you walk the streets of Rome or Istanbul, sit in the center of an Egyptian pyramid or wonder at the stone houses of Skara Brae and then consider what the value of "old buildings" are.
I'd say that getting out of web development for a few days, weeks, even months is not such a big deal. Being a rapid learner is a re-requisite for getting anywhere in a cutting edge field. So as long as your learning ability follows a Malthusian growth model you'll be just fine spacing out for a few months. Heck, you may come back with a different perspective on things.
Maybe I wasn't clear. What side effects? Poisonous? All people have said so far is "Lithium is bad", which isn't very informative.

By the way, what are you on now?
But is it correct? I mean, AAPL is priced sky-high along with Google, and it apparently last paid out any dividends 15 years ago (http://finance.yahoo.com/q/ks?s=AAPL). What on earth dividends are people expecting in the future to push the share so high, especially considering that Apple has said nothing whatsoever about any planned dividends? (And at 9B in profit according to Wikipedia, it certainly could if it wanted to.)
This representation reminded me a lot of the one used in Gwydion Dylan. That also used a two-word representation - mostly, if the compiler could statically infer the type it'd leave off the tag - with one word for the type tag and one word for the value.

IIRC, they ran into some very serious problems with threading. If you use a two-word representation, you can't atomically set a value - there's always the chance that the thread will be pre-empted in between setting the value and the tag and some other thread will be able to run. This of course is disaster, because you'll get a value interpreted as a type that it's not.

I wonder how Mozilla plans to handle this. Is their JS engine inherently single-threaded only? Fine-grained locking seems impractical, because you'd need locks around every assignment. Would they do something like Python's GIL?

What's the reason behind this representation anyway? It was an interesting experiment when Gwydion did it, but I don't really see the practical benefit.
> Everything in the world has a U-shaped value curve.

On this point, a good thing to do is to keep some of the ubiquitous everyday things when you want to throw them away. Especially outdated technology like, say, old mobile phones. In 50 years they will become a rarity.
"Maybe that's the problem at Microsoft: they think they can solve problems by throwing lots of people at them."

Does the author provide anything to support this claim? and seriously, I wonder why every pro-apple author couldn't resist the urge to belittle other companies. No company is "perfect".
I think it's relative. Anybody who claims to be an expert is selling you something.

It's not a black and white thing; there are varying levels of expertise. The more people there are that think you're an expert, the more of an expert you are.
Here's one recent link (far from the only long-form article I've read; reminds me of some of the articles I read before the tech and housing bubbles burst):

http://www.city-journal.org/2010/20_2_municipal-bonds.html
That's really cool. A city with a castle on a volcano? Which city is that?
During the depression people lived in shacks made of cardboard, did have any money for clothing or even toilet paper and where in many cases starving.

And you are telling me we are in a depression now?
A tiny bit of WWII was fought on US soil:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleutian_Islands_Campaign

You're correct though, for all intents and purposes.
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Any program code written today that solves an NP-hard problem without exploiting special properties of the input data will take exponential time. If we discover a smart way to do NP-hard problems in polynomial time, we'll have a better solution for the problem, but the old program code will stay the same.

You could write a program that runs in polynomial time, but be unable to prove that it does. Then, later, you could find a proof that the program runs in polynomial time. In fact, if P=NP, you can write such a program right now:

for each string s in the enumeration of all strings {
if (s = p + q where
(p is a program and
q is a proof that p solves 3SAT in polynomial time)) {
run p on the input;
return;
}
}

Also, you could interleave the execution of this program with one that solves 3SAT in exponential time. Then you'll have a program that works in any case, and that solves 3SAT in polynomial time if P = NP.
I've always thought that software is a young man's game, whereas law is an old man's game.

This is because when new legislation is introduced, the first thing that any discussion of it does is to consider what the law was 200 years ago. New laws are mostly tweaks on existing laws (including case law), and will be interpreted as such by the courts. Even entirely new laws are interpreted in terms of existing laws. Of course, there are some new laws and new cases to keep up to date with.

But compare this with programming, where most successful practitioners didn't have or need any idea of previous languages or approaches. Which is probably one of the reasons that software is reinvented every decade or so. Law is not.
Hey,

I created a list in Listiki http://listiki.com/best-startup-books-to-read-before-startin... with most of these titles where they can be kept in one place and be voted upon and ranked.

Dimitris
A jchrisa pointed out, you can't get more granular than per-database read restriction using just CouchDB.

However, you can put the database behind a proxy and use lists and shows (that get passed the user info) to restrict the read access.
Assembly Language, I guess.
Well, not really. While the official releases are quite conservative you can follow CURRENT, which is (as the name suggests) the current development tree. It is all out in the open and if you want something which has not been officially released you can get yourself a copy of the source tree, build yourself a new world ("make world") and you have a current FreeBSD (I cannot speak for the other BSD variants here, but I think the process is similar) with all warts and all the new shiny developments. Oh - and all the bugs.
That's a very good idea. I recently downloaded the free and open source cousin of supermemo, pnemosyne.
http://www.mnemosyne-proj.org/
I think it's more a fact of describing the life of upper class people. The poor characters are not so well painted too. But they live (or want to live) in the upper class world, in the book. We have only flash of the world of the "poor".

The narrator, also, is from a bourgeois family (Nick graduated from Yale).

So maybe it was just a novel describing a world. A World fading away.
UofReddit seems very interesting. Will check it out.
Piracy isn't cool: Another "industry" under threat.
Hmm, after you put it that way, you are right of course.
I think you just broke my Reality Distortion Field!
You know, it'd be more convincing if you can come up with reproducible benchmarks to backup your claims. According to This guy's data: http://www.codexon.com/posts/debunking-the-erlang-and-haskel... Haskell is even slower than python (which is not known for its speed) for implementing simple servers.

Haskell code that performs close (within an order of magnitude in terms of run time and space) to its C/C++ equivalent typically is also close in code length (and often less readable!) and often unsafe as well (requires explicit unboxing etc.)
by Apple to create a viscous circle where developers bind themselves to iPhone

I think you mean a vicious cycle. Or a virtuous one depending on how you perceive Apple.
Commercial property is much more sensitive to cyclical downturns than family housing. 10 or 15 year leases are mostly in either downtown, prime location property (with very limited supply) or in new developments, where you only get them once. After that you're left to the market.

As usual, I think diversification if best for a stable portfolio. Mix various types of property, in various locations with various target markets, and then real estate is very sensible investment option.
I suppose you don't.

By the time you know a shitload in details and depth of some subject, you also know another shitload of related things that you know you do not know yet, so you still keep considering yourself a half-newbie. And because you're interested in things you don't know, you rarely talk about the subject with people who know less than you, which distorts your field of vision.

Indirectly, perhaps you could consider it a sign of an "expert" to have been so alienated from what is generally considered normal that people label you as a geek.

But then again, you can never declare yourself an expert or you're just selling to be something you aren't.
A Thread Across the Ocean
Networks and AI topics
I'm final yr engineering student , looking for a good project which includes both networks and AI .Have 4G networks in mind , but no detail problem statement .
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"Sure, but the consequences will be different."

Well I guess that with that reply you missed the whole point of the comment...
Just because something can be done doesn't necessarily mean it has to be done.
Anyone who really chafes with the UI model of OS X probably wouldn't apply to work in Software at Apple, and even if one did you'd probably get rejected for other reasons.

If you're chafing on command-tab, try hitting its complement command-backtick

As for tools, you can use whatever you think is best for the job, it's just that for anything that touches the GUI the best tool is going to be Obj-C/Cocoa. In other places, the HN mindset comes out to play pretty hardcore:

The process sandboxing engine introduced in 10.5 is an embedded LISP
Their CalDAV and Wiki Server implementations are in Python with Twisted
They once shipped a desktop app written in Rails. Really.
The iTMS backend is all Java, and at least formerly used WebObjects heavily
For a while they had a bunch of GUI Java apps written with their Java/Cocoa bridge
They've let motivated employees write Obj-C bridges for Perl, Python, and Ruby (x2)
The guy that wrote two Ruby bridges is now doing a native Ruby implementation
They've got at least 3 independent javascript frameworks shipping with webapps
It is truly worth reading both letters (linked from the article, but: http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20100803-wiki-L... and http://graphics8.nytimes.com/packages/pdf/us/20100803-wiki-L... )---it shows how easily a scary-sounding lawyer letter can be written with... less than strong support from the law it quotes. IANAL and can't say for sure that Wikimedia's argument is sound, but I sure salute them for their, ah, "politely feisty response".
The benefit of having a manager (whether they be full time or part time) is to have a central figure with vision on where to take the current project.

It is easy to have people that move in and out of management roles for different projects, but each project will benefit from having a single person with the vision to take the project from a collective of individual workers to a deliverable product within an acceptable time frame, of an acceptable scope, at an acceptable performance level and for an acceptable price.
Best passage of the letter from Wikimedia to the FBI:

«In your letter, you assert that an image of an FBI seal included in a Wikipedia article is “problematic” because “it facilitates both deliberate and unwitting violations” of 18 U.S.C. 701. I hope you will agree that the adjective “problematic,” even if it were truly applicable here, is not semantically identical to “unlawful.”»

Exactly. Just because the FBI doesn't like it doesn't make it illegal.
Personally, I'm not at all motivated by money so long as I can pay the bills and have some modest standard of living. If I had been interested in accumulating money I would have taken a quite different career path.
Then a headline á "The Remote App Was Made by One Guy" would serve the article better than the sensationalist one defining all of Apple after this one project.
Amazon, Apple accused of anti-competitive e-book pricing
What's the story here? That they're Macs? I don't even think this is the first school to do that, but for damn sure they're not the first school to require computers, even notebooks or specifically tablets, often a particular brand and model selected by the school.
Android smartphone shipments jumps to 886%
my startup is similar to socialcast, yammer, but my approach is different. I want to add more features and and some other socialnetworking stuff.
There are counter-arguments, of course:

* Those who download pirated charts would never had paid for them anyway

* Having seen a pirated chart, the downloader has effectively had the designer "advertised" to them, making it more likely they will buy from them in the future

etc.

The parallels with software (and music) are clear, but there are differences too. It's not clear to me that anything can be done, and the current trend in the field is that small designers are giving up and not making their work public at all. The entire field is losing variety, and just the mainstream, made for the lowest common factor designs are seeing the light of day.

That can't be good for a creative industry.
At least it's lower volume.
And maybe also do a self study regimen, using open courseware and social learning (http://opencs.wikidot.com)?
I'm not referring to "free as in beer", but for freedom of choice. I want to be able to install & use apps (for which I paid) without carrier or platform vendor meddling. I don't want to root the phone, don't want to unlock the sim, don't want to be able to use only those apps that are approved by unseen/unknown authority. "Spam" apps as you call them are not a problem, as they are not in "pc land" unless you install everything you come across.
Philadelphia & Boston are probably the most "old-world" looking major cities in the US.

Montreal in Canada is also worth taking a look at.
Good to great - Jim Collins
I must confess, you have an astonishingly good idea there.
“Straddling” bus–a cheaper, greener and faster alternative to commute
While this doesn't add much in the way of new approaches to old pro-piracy arguments, this point did make me think: "people consider that pop stars make so much money they won’t miss the few pounds from file-sharers"

From a macro economic perspective, can the economy of a society be improved once everything that can be shared for free (or negligible cost) is done so? Could, would or should open-source gamers create Starcraft 2?
It usually also means that the people in the war room are only working on that problem, and that they are working extremely long hours.
True. I know we had issues where I am (Brisbane, Australia) when fluoride was introduced. There was a lot of trial and error in ensuring the right amount made it into the water supply (not too little or too much), although the errors made (that we found out about at least) were all well within 'safe' levels.
Run away but punish them when doing so. Tell them you are very excited to join them but negotiate a later start date. 2 days before your start day drop and e-mail and say you'll need another week or something. And on the day you are supposed to start tell them you had a better offer and you'll not be taking their job. Waste their time as much as you can and leave them out in the cold. They are out to exploit inexperienced people, give them a taste of their own medicine.
I used Vim exclusively in the past, and as an exercise in curiosity and experimentation with Lisp' I dabbled with Emacs. Somehow, during the process of learning emacs, I gradually abandoned Vim and am using Emacs almost exclusively now (throw in odd IDE like VS and Eclipse here and there). I hadn't even realized I switched Vim for Emacs, it just happened.

I can't say I am more productive or anything with it. Probably the thing that took me away into it is that real process of learning Emacs is not actually learning any given set of commands (well, that happens too, of course), but it's more about starting to customize your own Emacs.

During that customization process, Emacs grew into something I'd use if I were to build one myself - and, to an extent, I built one myself by customizing it. So, it's like a bio-suit, it's an amorphous mass that grows around to fit you almost perfectly as you tap into it's powers.
And the Plan9 compilers, the OpenSD team wanted to lose GCC and were considering the plan9 toolchain.

Turning Plan 9 from open source into Free had plenty of teething troubles, getting the lawyers from Bell-Labs then Lucent then Lucent-Alcatel into the idea took years. Originally Plan 9 was paid for software with full source included. Then from v.3 it was a free download but with its own license which included a "if you make modifications you must send your changes back to Lucent".

Then it was lobbied for change and to comply with US munitions law Lucent included the export restrictions proviso OpenBSD's Theo so eloquently argues against :

http://groups.google.com/group/comp.os.plan9/browse_thread/t...

Ironically the compiler suite became available under GPL / MIT via Vita-Nuova who bought the rights to Inferno.

Licensing helped keep Plan9 away from developers at exactly the same time GNU/Linux and OSS exploded on to the scene in much the same way early adopters got interested in GNU/Linux it during the BSD / AT&T lawsuit.

How our computing landscape would be different if we all valued freedom.
Is this really that surprising? It doesn't seem that complicated a project. Big companies surely don't have a team for every little project.

Wasn't the Facebook app written by one guy. Also TweetDeck was originally by one guy. Wasn't Reddit built by 4 people and Posterous basically by 2 or 3 people? And all for those apps the same people did all the business and marketing too.
No - that's someone who markets themselves to be an expert. Of course, they might be an expert but I haven't noticed much correlation between claiming expertise (or being paid huge amounts of money) and actual expertise.
Meat based diets made us smarter
One thing that a lot of people don't appreciate about lawyers is that they will almost always try to push people beyond what the law is capable of compelling a person to do.

A typical letter from a lawyer will mix in numerous requests (which have no legal basis and are merely things which would be nice for the client) amongst legitimate legal complaints. It is not any lawyer's job (except one you have hired) to precisely define which behaviors of yours they think violate the law. Thus, lawyers use the law as a lever to facilitate much greater benefit to their clients (to the detriment of whomever their client has targetted). This is a major factor why lawyers get paid so much.
Thanks a lot for sharing so accurately.
Now all I want to so is get rid of my ArchLinux and give FreeBSD a shot :).
I assume you mean `git push origin :featureBranch`? Deletes a branch pointer on a remote repo. No data is lost, it just takes a little effort to dig it back up if you don't know what SHA the branch was at.
I guess they aren't allowed to export weapons.
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