skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
To be fair, wasted space was a point many people were making. But it's not the only consideration to make.

Anyway, most C++ compilers will turn the following:

obj.method(arg);

Into:

method(&obj, arg);

Conceptually, if not literally. One of the design principles of C++, as stated by Stroustrup, is that you don't pay for what you don't use. So if your classes have no virtual functions and are not a part of an inheritance hierarchy, they should be just plain ol' data. C++ compilers will generate different implementations for different kinds of classes. When virtual members are involved, a C++ object is usually more than just plain ol' data.

But, even in such objects, consider:

class Circle: public Shape {
virtual void draw();
Point coords;
};

In this case, a Circle object will probably not be just POD because it will need to resolve draw() at runtime. But, a Point object will live somewhere in a Circle object - not just a pointer to a Point object. If you wanted that, then you would say:

class Circle: public Shape {
virtual void draw();
Point* coords;
};

And, of course, you would be responsible for managing the dynamic memory for the coords member.
G-Star has hired the No. 1 ranked chess player in the world to model its clothes
2011 SXSW Interactive Sessions have been announced
OK, So this is totally juvenile, but the way "them forrest" and "admin skins" line up on the page, I saw it as "foreskin". It wasn't immediately apparent either, I just wondered why the word foreskin was floating around in my head, then I noticed it...

Seems like a cool site, but that whole association may put some people in the wrong frame of mind... word placement changes may fix that.
Right, all I was saying is that the majority of the _income tax_ you pay goes to military spending. I'm not counting FICA, as nobody is discussing raising or lower those taxes.
I've had a deep interest in science, math, and technology since I was a tiny child. I nursed that interest by reading scifi/fantasy novels, old issues of various sci/tech magazines (Scientific American, National Geographic, Popular Science), the occasional text-book now and then, and especially Carl Sagan's Cosmos. I developed a strong attachment to programmable graphic calculators and later the family computer (an IBM PS/1 with 1meg of RAM, a 286 processor, and a 30meg harddrive) during high school. I had a huge collection of various programming projects, games, experiments, genetic algorithms, etc. But I didn't consider myself a "real" programmer.

In high-school I displayed an unnatural ease with mathematics, which lead directly toward attaining a bachelor's degree in the subject before I had the slightest clue what to do with it. Meanwhile, my interest in computers and programming had grown considerably, I pursued an additional bachelor's degree with a double major in Chemistry and Computer Science. It wasn't until I got my first job, while still going to school, that I realized how deeply software engineering was in my blood, and I haven't looked back since.
In no part of the article I see a reference to eating 100% red meat.

I think that the meat has to be split 50/50 between red meat and fish, or to be more precise, the fat from meat has to be at least 50% Omega-3, as the latest studies indicate.

100% red meat is bad. So is gluten.
My brother bought a ZX Spectrum when I was about 8. A couple of years later he let me keep it. I entered code listings from magazines, but never did any real programming myself. Later on (at 16-17) I got an Atari STE. I used GFA Basic to create some simple wireframe 3D cubes and similar simple programs. At about the same time my father got a Compaq 386 laptop, on which I used TurboPascal to create a music database with the worst bubblesort implementation ever devised. I have been programming professionally for 12 years now.
You still have to shave your neck to avoid looking like a slob.
Most (or all) cynics start out as dewy-eyed optimists.
I'm not even sure I _could_ agree or disagree. I know nothing about the restaurant business, and I don't really care to. It was still a very engaging article.
That's an equally terrible excuse. At the very least, you have to plan for the possibility that your health will force you into retirement. As you move into your 50s, your risk of catastrophic illness shoots upwards.

That's not to say that there aren't a lot of hale, hearty 60 year old women in the world. It's just that one can no longer count on good health. It's important to realize this ahead of time. (In this case, this woman and her husband are really in pretty good shape. Sure, she's not working, but at least she is still capable of working!)
> a joke about sex (even if a little brutal) is not sexual harassment.

That's an issue of quantity and quality, not of the thing per se. Enough jokes about sex aimed at the same person and it could easily be sexual harassment.
Screencast: Introduction to JaxScript, a new JavaScript library
You're probably not going to tell me more about these tools, although I would be very curious to learn how they work.

All I have is anecdotal evidence- I know several people who are making their living spamming Craigslist and outsourcing their ReCaptcha solving. Since they can make $XX per post, paying pennies for captcha is a tiny expense.
I don't condone this behavior, but be aware- it happens more than you think.

Anyway, probably best to take the discussion to email if you want more...perspective from the other side.
> Zynga does not make Zwinky, Mindspark Interactive Network does.

But they need distribution, and they got that through Pincus - See: "I did every horrible thing in the book just to get revenues" : http://techcrunch.com/2009/11/06/zynga-scamville-mark-pinkus...

> Product (red) is a great example where buying a $150 iPod nets a whopping $10 for The Global Fund.

You really can not compare the two. The BOM and cost of production on an iPod is probably $120. The incremental cost of a Farmville credit is thousands of a cent.
In the time it took him to write his rant, he could have clicked the checkbox to make all of his old content available for free again.

When you use a free service, you have to expect them to need to make money somehow--and that means you should expect them to try changing the mix of what is free and what is paid now and then, and changing defaults. Accordingly, you should expect that on occasion you might have to change settings in order to get the thing to work the way you like.
You can develop your database to collect it for you or preferably use mailchimp email form to collect emails.
>edit: While I think at it, opening schools for general public sound more and more better idea.

Not sure if this was supposed to be a joke about the public school system or not... If it was, the public school system, unfortunately, comes to an abrupt end when you graduate from high school. You can continue learning if you want, but you have to pay huge amounts of money to do so.

What I'm advocating here is effectively an expansion of libraries into sortof-schools for both kids and adults that want to do stuff beyond what is being offered in their classes.
It's really simple: forced fun isn't.
I don't know how prevalent this practice is exactly, but I have it on good authority that sites like decaptcher.com are making a mint selling this service.
Checkout my Palo Alto viewing party using my company's event creation service: http://poig.com/pings/4c9798d0d4ac14411c00001f/

I'll be at Arastradero Preserve in the Palo Alto Hills tonight around 11PM with a telescope and some buddies. Exit off Page Mill from 280 and head west towards the hills. Take a RIGHT on Arastradero and drive up about a mile and take a right into the parking lot.

WE WILL HAVE A LIMITED SUPPLY OF SIMPLER TIMES BEER
And of course it is completely overcast here :(
I was going to start learning and using Catalyst soon. Why should I learn Mojolicious instead? Why shouldn't I?
Nice, who said top-posting was more intuitive ?
I love the image conjured up by the term "baby cluster". Just don't think about what's sticking the babies together.
The Tech Behind the New Twitter.com
A geek speaks about women in engineering
Is there a good iPhone app that uses both the GPS and the Compass to do star finding and identification?
Disagree. By that logic, when you pull up Hacker News' front page it should download "grayarrow.gif" 30 times - once each for each story it appears next to.
> workers form a noisy conga line and single out one of their colleagues for praise. The praisee then has to wear a silly hat for a week.

Where can one who is postpubescent go for a decent day's work nowadays?
I'd really like to hear the thoughts of anyone who has put SproutCore to significant use.
Surely the rich guy isn't saving by stashing the money under his mattress....

Perhaps Krugman is simplifying for those of us who don't have degrees in economics, but he's suggested multiple times that rich people who "save" their money somehow take that capital out of circulation.
This was the process used by the Microsoft Research project ASSIRA (http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/redmond/projects/asir...) which used images of kittens and puppies put up for adoption as a constant fresh source of input data.

This was later, awesomely riffed on by HotCaptcha (http://valleywag.gawker.com/246656/a-face-only-a-bot-could-l...) which pulled HotOrNot data and asked you to select the 3 hot women out of 9. Sadly, the site is down now but I remember trying it and it was remarkably useful and a hell of a lot more fun than word captchas.
I'm using Planets, apparently it has 3 mil downloads and it's free
You're right, it's still active. I just remember it having terrible performance 4-5 years ago and interest in it being less than stellar.
Sure, being the best in class and getting a well paid job and doing what you enjoy doing or might not but the money is worth it is an alternative. Indeed for many is the only options. People might however simply try and inform others that there is another option. Do you feel angry about this or that, or annoyed, or feel rage within yourself that someone higher said it must be so, or punished you for speaking what you know and he knows to be right?

Well, you do not have to put up with that. You do not have to sell your labour. Indeed, you do not have to have an authority. You can work for yourself instead. Those shiny grades, well, you can get the entire potential out of them yourself, rather than give someone else a cut, the prestige, you can gain it if you are so smart.

Basically, there are two people in this world. Actors and Spectators. The former creates his world, the latter partakes in the former's world. One has to choose and both choices are fine.
Scribd's HTML5 was about having crawlable (read: show up in Google) content.

Nothing wrong with that, btw.
I like that it has the capability to be an email queue build in, by supporting SMTP/SSL. Worth installing just for that, since that's the first thing lots of websites want a message queue for.
Ask HN: What JavaScript Library Did Google Use to Build Mobile GMail 
I had a look at the source code and couldn't any evidence for one of the know libs. Is it GWT with some touch extension?
Up-voting, not for the skepticism (which is easy), but for providing evidence that the skepticism might be wrong. Thanks for the interesting article.
I fell in love for the first time in 2nd grade, with an Apple ][e. I was born in 1983. I was let out of the classroom into the hallway to use the arithmetic practice software on the computer, but turned on the computer without the floppy disk in it, and got the ] prompt.

I tried typing some things into it, but all I got back was "SYNTAX ERROR". (Wow! Another word with an X in it!) Someone (probably my bio-dad) told me that that was a programming interface. I forget how, but I found out that there were three books on programming in the school library, one each for PASCAL, LOGO and BASIC. Through trial and error, I discovered that the commands in the BASIC book gave me responses other than "SYNTAX ERROR".

I had a lot of fun on that. Eventually, I convinced my mother to buy the family a computer, and she got a Tandy RLX 1000. I think I first played with GW-BASIC on there. It was cool.

Then I found QBASIC, and was frustrated that my program didn't start when I typed RUN, and kept restarting itself after I finally got it to start.

Later played around with VB for DOS, then Win16. Win95-and then jumped to Perl on Linux, because all my friends were using Linux. (No joke; I started with Red Hat 5.2, but switched to Debian potato, because my friends could only answer questions about Debian.)

Fun times. And yes, I was very, very lonely as a kid.
Do dumbbells now have vanity sizing?
The practice of cramming ads into captchas will only serve to increase the number of ads per page. Nothing more.

The video is well made but the message is insulting.
But he copies and improves, so much that the end product is barely comparable to the original. It's like saying a Ferrari is a descendant of the black T-Ford. Sure, but it proves nothing.
Not exactly what you asked, but you can use Erbix.com which supports the CommonJS standard and is based on the RingoJS engine.
I meant to suggest a strict superset of their current system- keep uploading easy and free, and the reader or publisher can pay for access after the "free" period. Scribd seems to have had a pretty large hook in this guy- I'm sure he's not the only one.
i never said more dangerous nor intended it.

it's not a very good rootkit by itself, certainly, as typically rootkits will monkey with the kernel to hide processes and network sockets.

it's interesting because it's probably the simplest rootkit method i can think of (next to setuid binaries). it's less obvious than a setuid. it's not something that anyone sane would use by itself because like i said--it doesn't hide you.
I asked this a few days ago. See replies.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1692675
To suggest that taxation equals help for those less fortunate and is therefore a moral obligation is a non-sequitur, particularly in this age of bailouts of banks and car companies.

Even if it wasn't, no moral obligation is being satisfied when such "help" is forcibly extracted.

Further, it can be convincingly argued that such forcible extraction and wasteful reallocation of wealth reduces many people's capacity and willingness to voluntarily help those less fortunate.
I'm really surprised, because my experience is completely different. I haven't seen csh shell script in years and I've never used it as my login shell. In fact on my current system I don't even have csh installed.

I'm a Linux person who started to use it around the middle of 90s. What's your background? I guess csh is still popular in commercial variants of Unix.

PS. Fortunately Mac OS X doesn't ship with tcsh as the default login shell anymore.
Yeah, I get lots of people saying that. All I can say is, I was there, I could see it, my brothers and sisters could see it.

We used a telescope to spot, then when the moon was at its furthest distance, with the naked eye, could see a separate blip.

Lived on a farm in Iowa, nobody for miles, no lights to mess things up.
Arty Hacks: Art by Jose Rivas
I don't buy it ... on my iPhone I only have apps that have been approved prior to this change of policy, and the battery is piss-poor already.

Having owned multiple lower-end Nokias + I currently also have one E71 + one N97 ... I kind of assumed the iPhone's battery can last for 2 days or even 3 if I'm only using it for phone calls.

Phones like the iPhone / Motorola Droid ... are too powerful for their own good. If I touch it in any way other than making simple phone calls, or if I'm activating 3G, it lasts less than 24 hours. When playing with it, then it doesn't last more than 3 hours.

So sorry, but I don't buy that Flash works wonderfully well, quite the contrary ... but as I said before, it's better to just let customers decide for themselves and good devs can probably create good apps even with Flash, and banning alternative frameworks makes no sens.

The other argument was that it's better for apps to use native UI elements, instead of dropping to a common denominator. Personally I get annoyed when an iPhone app doesn't have standard behavior when interacting with it, and it's a lot more annoying than on a desktop because of the small screen real-estate ... so that demo of the Flash app that ran without changes on iPhone / Android wasn't very flattering.
I'd rather be making $65k working for myself, on my own terms, than 90k as a .NET developer. I think.
I'm tired of seeing these articles about Diaspora, predicting failure, by people who then go on to say, "Why didn't they use CouchDB!?" implying that their 27 second look at the problem somehow empowers them to make a technology choice, and in this case, one that is clearly dubious. Anyway, I've flagged this thing--it adds 0, or perhaps negative, real information to the debate about Diaspora.
I'm interested in seing the code/config used to benchark Celery. The default settings are not at all optimized for processing lots of small jobs, and you could easily tweak it to get a 100x speed up for that use case, e.g.:

CELERYD_PREFETCH_MULTIPLIER = 0
CELERY_DISABLE_RATE_LIMITS = True

Also, channels are not re-used unless you explicitly pass the Publisher, so e.g.

publisher = task.get_publisher()
for i in xrange(1000):
task.apply_async(args=(i, ), publisher=publisher)
publisher.close()

is known to be a massive speed-up for sending tasks in batch (it seems the creation of channels is very expensive in pyamqplib).
My Development Environment, Part 1: GNU Screen
def the right decision...you have a ton of value in the domain alone...so you'll always have the option to sell no matter what.

meanwhile, you can try getting it a bit more modern, get a few more paying customers, and like you said...when it comes time to sell it again, you'll be able to ask for a higher price.
(1) Being payed is not equivalent with being productive

There is a whole lot of work being done by the so called unemployed which really needs to be done but for which no-one is going to pay them. If anything open source should have proven is that while there is a lot of valuable work to be done, no-one is willing to pay for it being done, especially not in the startup phase when it's not even clear what you are working on. Fundamental work is often overlooked because it only becomes clear how to make it profitable after it is made.

Many people are payed while they are totally unproductive, while many of the most productive people are not payed any more, often even a lot less, then the unproductive people. Crap often sells better then quality work.

(2) Full employment is an illusion

There will never be 100% employment, more and more people will find themselves unable to find employment. Currently there is no safety net for the self-employed.

(3) An unconditional basic income is about basic freedom and what this means in the 21th century.

With an unconditional basic income we take worrying about survival of the table. Survival is something that should not be a worry in the civilized world. A basic income is a general safety net for any mishap, misfortune and plain bad luck than could happen to anyone.

(4) An unconditional basic income is about human dignity.

Giving people options that they don't have today: The freedom to quite an unhealthy, low paying, dead-end job and to look for something worth doing. Even if this is something like developing open source software, or some other creative endeavor.In the end more value is created even if no-one was told to do it.
I feel like this is exactly how Apple responded to the whole iPhone 4 antenna problem: by not really mentioning it, acting as if there were no big issues, and then silently providing a fix. There seems to be a pattern here.
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Closure.

http://www.rustybrick.com/google-releases-tools-that-made-gm...
I just want to say that I'm psyched to be a new member of the SproutCore community. It's a lot stronger than it looked from the outside, and two of the most exciting features in the 1.4 announcement (GreenHouse and SCXIB) are community projects through and through.

I also can't wait to start rolling out the documentation work we've been working on. If there's one thing we need, it's better documentation, and getting some full-time OSS love is really going to make the difference.
I can't argue with Zynga's products being improved versions of their competitors' - I have never used (and have consistently blocked) them. I was questioning the "I don't fucking want innovation. You're not smarter than your competitor. Just copy what they do and do it until you get their numbers" thing, which is plain ugly.
Look at the 3rd item on the page. I tend to believe the postal weight, which says those dumbbells are 18.4kg, only 92% of the weight they're supposed to be, which seems like a bit much, even if I account for sloppy tolerances.

That leaves me thinking that dumbbells may have vanity sizing like pants do.
What kind of use are you thinking about using SproutCore for?
I think he means Windows Phone 7

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/dfhyw/microsoft...
Here's a case where I want to look at what you've posted, and I can't because you want me to login via Facebook first.

Anyway, have a great time, and I hope the vis is terrific.
I know! I'm going to have to do some tinkering to make the links public
The Obligatory WePay “Company Culture” Blog Post: Part 2
ZeroMQ for AMQP users
Here's the link to the google map:

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&...
I saw that Economist article. Have to say - those British guys seem like squares. =) My understanding is that Zappos put "fun" and "weird" into their culture because everyone already felt that way. And the example they cite from Mad Men (drinking at work, having affairs) is way more disruptive/unproductive than a 30 second phone call.
Installed... Thanks
Card rewards consumers for buying locally
Nokia's new MeeGo guru takes whack at Apple, Motorola
If Alanis Morissette were writing "Ironic" today, would this have made it into the song?
Let's stay away from talk of intelligence and genetic traits. This is about wealth inequality. And there is plenty bad when there is wealth inequality in a country, see examples of extremes of this in South America. An eroded middle class results in less democracy, more corruption, and social unrest. But I guess if you're rich enough, you can wall yourself off, hire an army, and ignore this. And in fact many extremely rich people in third world countries do exactly this.