skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but it's a 4 years old machine, I do not know about you, but I do expect that a Workstation will be supported for 5 years at least, maybe this got lost in the world in which a guy buys a iPhone every year, back them Apple had no iOS devices, it was the Mac and iPod (which was a fairly simple environment), so I disagree that it was so simple to predict about that 4 years in the future you would be unable to upgrade to a new version, Apple did not said back them that you would be unable to run the a new version of the OS in 3 and a half years.
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Computers. You know, the ones with keyboards and mice.
Netbooks and notebooks.
Your skills section looks like it was made for matching keywords. What does it mean to know SMS? That's another thing: too many acronyms! RUP, WTT, ASI. Nobody's going to know what those are. (Side note: I was about to call you on Windows 8 experience, until I noticed your most recent job. ;)

Don't list the tools that you used; list your responsibilities and anything you did that demonstrates your skills.
It just looks like a web browser. I thought Chrome OS was going to be a nice user interface which had websites appear like native apps. Instead, it's just a web browser. Not impressed at all. I expected more.
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Yeah, you won't see a lot of applications that benefit from these optimizations immediately because if there were any that would mean that they had been written before there was any device capable of running them.
I got an Oxford Computer Publishing FORTH compiler for my Commodore 64.

A great language, though I only tried to write a text adventure in it!
There are many rape cases in the world. You don't put a person on interpol's list of this. He should be put on trial but putting him Interpol's wanted list. Not fair.
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Forth is among the languages that every developer should learn, even if they never use it in a production environment. It will definitely make you think a little differently. It's as if lisp and assembly language had a child.

On another note, it is REALLY easy to write completely incomprehensible spaghetti code in Forth. You really have to be disciplined or you'll end up with a lot of "write-once" code.
If your startup lives in NYC, you can avoid poverty quite easily on $50k/year. NJ is about 20-30 min away. Rent is lower, food is cheaper, and you don't need to pay 2-3% of your income to MTA ticket booth agents taking home more money than you do [1].

Where you live is a choice, and living in Manhattan is choosing luxury.

[1] Or assorted other overpaid NYC workers.
It's also a bit community service on Jeremy's (and his supporters/partners) part. He seems committed to putting on a free conference and just makes it happen... and it works!
I doubt Apple would limit their internal technology to the configurations they offer on the market.

They're free to run OS X Server on non-Apple hardware, even if buyers aren't supposed to, and wouldn't have any trouble getting OS support. They could use off-the-shelf commodity-priced rack hardware, or they could do like Google and have custom rack PCs made to spec. Or they could virtualize OS X.

And they're free to run WebObjects on non-Apple hardware. (Actually, I think anyone can do that, because it's Java.)
If MakeMoney() was a higher order function, I'm talking about the combination of lower functions that it involves, as opposed to whatever activity MakeMoney itself could be nested within.
> There reaches a point where threads are much less free than events.

Why?

> Newer concurrency systems will handle thousands or millions of lightweight processes without firing up large numbers of native threads, and there's a reason for that design decision.

I would say that is based on the historically accurate but currently false notion that OS threads are expensive to start up or keep idle.
I think you're looking for the term "hellban:"
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I missed a previous Disney-located programming conference because of a conflict... But I only found out about that one by accident.

Does anyone know if there's a good list of Orlando-area programming conferences that is kept up to date?
I think this is brilliant... but only if engineered correctly. Why carry around two devices: personal and work? If you have the need for a work phone with remote wipe, you'd be stuck carrying around two different phones. I'd much rather have one physical device, but then a second virtual phone built-in with a different number, address book, and possibly apps. Battery life/CPU/memory usage should be the same as any smart phone. There are no moving parts in a phone, so you wouldn't have a problem with life or overheating.

I think that you're thinking about this in the wrong way... this is a first step towards a good goal: minimizing the stuff you have to carry in your pocket. Your personal phone would be the primary phone. But then a managed "work" phone would be the virtual one. Your company would be in complete control over the virtual phone, but you could still have your personal email, apps, etc...

This also could solve the problem of the employee who wants an iPhone, but their company has standardized on BlackBerries.
You are still misunderstanding the difference between accuracy versus precision, and overestimating the level of accuracy that any dive computer is capable of providing. Depth fluctuations are just one factor in determining gas loading. Sure a computer can sample depth every second and integrate that over time, but so what? There are so many other variables and unknowns that the margin of error is huge; you're missing the forest for the trees. The profile that a dive computer will generate for you is still fundamentally suboptimal (i.e. inaccurate) in multiple ways. I am not a particularly skilled or experienced diver, yet I learned how to do this stuff with just a little practice; anyone who cares to try can do the same. I'm not "getting away" with anything.

Look, I understand that technically-minded people want to believe that there is a "right" answer and that problems can be automated away. But the reality is that no one fully understands how decompression works and the mathematical models are fundamentally not accurate enough to be useful in the midst of a dive. Better to accept a certain level of uncertainty rather than believe a falsehood. Free your mind.
Peter Drucker in "Management: Tasks, Responsibilities, and Pratices" offers the following definition of business and its' key functions:

"Because the purpose of business is to create and keep a customer, the business enterprise has two--and only two--basic functions: marketing and innovation. Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs. Marketing is the distinguishing, unique function of the business."

If you accept his logic, which I do, then to be in business is to be in the marketing and innovation business.
To be absolutely honest I'm not 100% sure what you're asking! We use SagePay for most of our payments (but also Worldpay for others) and they are both good. Not sure if they provide everything that you need though.

In terms of offshore companies, there are various ways around what you want, but you need to take good legal and accountancy advice in terms of where to incorporate and how you achieve it. It is possible though.
I used it in replacement of Google Docs, instead of alongside it. Of course sometimes I had Google Docs I needed to reference, so i'd link them or embed them, but for the most part I did my writing of documents directly into Wave. I work very openly with a team of people, so I liked this due to Waves "better" (in my opinion) methods of collaborative writing. Being able to play-back their edits and changes, etc.

My family are generally pretty geeky, and a few already got invites by applying early. I was also one of the lucky ones who was given a fair few invites (I guess by jumping on board so early?) so I used them for family as my work-mates already had applied themselves. I found that even my non-geeky family picked it up quite quickly. My technically-illiterate brother ("Will my CD work in the 'CD ROM' drive? It doesn't say ROM on my CD") managed to do all the basics, including editing posts, but of course anything beyond adding a post, replying to a post, or editing a post got a bit tricky, and replies would end up all over the place (that WAS a huge issue, getting replies to land in just the right place).

I was pretty much speechless when I found out Google wasn't doing the Gmail thing, and letting us instantly invite anyone we wanted in real-time. Having to send invites, then wait days for them to be activated, meant I spent a LOT of time talking to myself in Blips, just to play with it.

I still stand by Wave being revolutionary, just launched really badly and dropped way too soon. Google has left a lot worse projects linger around for a lot longer.

Wave needs to be a tab in Gmail, like Buzz is. It needs to be "available" to anyone who has a Google account (via invites is fine, to limit it to people who really want to use it at first, but make the invites instant). People need time to get used to it, it's the way humans are with change.
Thank you, I'll try to get it fixed. Appreciate your help.
Don't know anything about the OP but this one is an April Fool's Joke:

http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/forum/forum_comments/2961...
>McCarthy was somewhat right in that the administration, secret services and universities were riddled with Communists.

What sort of evidence do you have for this assertion? As I recall, McCarthy's "evidence" was a bunch of baseless accusations made by others who were themselves accused of being Communists. The accused were promised leniency if they would only point out others who were either Communists, or Communist-sympathizers. As one can imagine, this led to a lot of innocent people being accused simply for being associated with another accused person.
If the toilet or sinks in my restaurant don't work, the customer will hold me responsible. It a light is burned out or a chair is broken they will hold me responsible. I am still not in the plumbing, electricity, or furniture business.
Having done just this in the last few months, just a few (short) words of advice:

#1. Network like crazy. Some people think networking is a bad word. Who cares about them. What you're really trying to do is build real relationships and a name for yourself amongst people that you care about - in this case, the startup community. NYC is not as great as Silicon Valley for recruiting technical people. Not saying the community isn't strong, it's just not as deep. Consider moving here to SV. If you decide to stay in NYC, go to all the events you can find like Meetups, visit coworking/hacker spaces, etc. You say that your own personal network is tapped out - but have you asked everyone know to plug you into THEIR network? If you have 100 friends, and they have 100 friends...you get the point

#2. Demonstrate real commitment. Ideally, you'll already have a track record of building successful products. If not, at least you'll have a working prototype. If not, at least you'll have some thorough mocks and a clearly thought through biz plan. Doesn't matter if all that changes in 3 months, but the very fact that you have one demonstrates commitment and tenacity. Everyone appreciates that - particularly people you're trying to convince to join your team. Get started today

#3. If the above 2 fail, consider joining an existing startup or company in your vertical to build domain expertise and a broad set of contacts (basically, #1 and #2). If you really believe in your idea, you can still work on it on nights/weekends (never a great idea but if all else fails...) Many successful entrepreneurs got their first start at an existing startup that way (think ex-PayPal, ex-Google)

I don't know enough about your situation but those are my initial thoughts.
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We're very aware that we will be breaking interoperability with forks when we change the protocol, and there is a little bit of a worry that people won't keep their forks up to date and the protocol will fragment. I am optimistic that that won't happen, largely because the Diaspora product is the only part of the system actually visible to the outside world at the moment, and that gives us a pretty good way to draw a bright line between products that interoperate and products that don't.

I don't think that the UI polling/refresh question affects the inter-server protocol. Your seed is not your browser, and it's seed-seed communication that's the part of the protocol that matters in the long run.

Scaling is the pressure we're feeling most right now, and we're talking about how to deal with the issue of a distributed cluster with a coherent namespace. There are some interesting things about the Dynamo pattern that might be really useful to make this work. But without a running system with load and users and remote pods to connect to, it's very hard to figure out what you want.

I think that were at the point where the protocol needs something of a refactor, and I will probably make a post about it on the Diaspora-dev google group soon. Maybe we'll get some good feedback and design help!
Do 100% of people deserve positive feedback?

I'm not against positive feedback or denying that it has positive benefits to employees, but the cynic in me just hears whining.
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Wikileaks and Power: An essay on technology and Ethics
The accommodations will, of course, be provided by the Ministry of Love.
Something that took me a long time to find out about was going into settings and turning on show dead. Surprising what you can find.
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Going the other way: what small changes in languages can we make to make them much more optimize-able while at the same time keeping (most of) the expressiveness?
THIS WHOLE THREAD IS RIDICULOUS!
As mentioned previously, I unfortunately don't have the time to elaborate now, look for that blog post I mentioned within the next week or so to answer your question.
I spent a lot of my time on Wave spreading the word to colleagues and friends, and had a lot of them using it daily as well. I even had my work (large government agency) considering a dedicated Wave server after telling them it will be possible one day, and showing them how it worked (they were VERY impressed).

I think Google really needed to give it more time, and at least give it SOME time while open to everyone to try. Giving it to select people, who can send invites but then wait days for them to be activated, then shutting it down due to it "not being used enough", was ridiculous.

As for the "Use it for what?" thing, I kept hearing that a lot, but every single person I showed it to, from other IT workers to my technically illiterate brother, all got hooked once they started using it to organise their lives.
Chrome OS and Android represent two visions of computing
Originally this puzzle was with 12 gold coins and three weighings...
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No worries. I got the 1986 edition for $5 and liked it so much I got the newer for $80. Learning Prolog changed the way I think as much as learning Lisp or C.
My guess is that Walmart is more concerned about finding a cheap way to deal with its parking-lot crime problem, for which it has taken a lot of flak, than it is with national security. Finding a way to encourage vigilance on the part of customers while deflecting attention from the real threat (robbery, assault) seems as clever as it is cynical.
Cool feature, but it probably won't get much use. My mental image of the average IE user does not include configuring their browser, much less finding a good blacklist. This will probably be used mostly in corporate set ups, using a blacklist that the IT department maintains itself.

I think the largest possible impact of this feature is that other browser vendors may start offering it, possibly with a pre-populated blacklist. On the other hand, I can't really see Chrome blocking Double Click or Google Analytics.
Matt_Cutts is the web spam expert there; I doubt he's in any position to comment on Chrome OS.
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Thanks for this. LessAccounting doesn't let me enter loans from what I can see, and their software was fairly buggy. Kept getting weird errors, and I never heard back from my support email...

I didn't have much look with Quickbooks online either. It was at least a year ago when I tried it, but it said I had to use IE on Windows. They didn't support mac. Seriously... in a browser, it said buy a PC. lol
The problem, in my experience, is that people will never hesitate to give you negative feedback if your performance is in any way mediocre, whereas doing good things is often rewarded by a deafening silence.
50k is easily survivable in SV as long as you don't have a spouse and kids to support. I'm really having trouble understanding how you need more. Are you doing all your shopping at Whole Foods or something? Eating out 2 times a day? Where does all that money go?
"yesterday's Prolog post"

Link for those of us not following HN 24/7?
I have really bit my tongue since the beginning of diaspora - I think really they are simply victims of their own success. If they had a normal amount of publicity, or if they had gotten the 10 they asked for instead of 200 I think they'd be much better off. Much hungrier, scrappier. Less expectations to live up to. Way less people looking over their shoulder as they learn to code and manage a project. It's got to be a bitch to learn to dance on live TV as well.

I am not saying they are doing a bad job. Just that it's a very hard job to do. Most rock stars of today that built the next big thing had the luxury of not having to show anyone the code. And I'd say 90% of the time, that code is fucked, at least in parts. That's pretty recoverable - your product isn't the code it's the service or executable. Many opensource projects are similar - they can be hacky at first because no one even knows they exist - as they get traction they can fix things as they become issues.

But now with the whole internet breathing down their necks, celebrity status and a bunch of money burning a hole in their pockets they have no such luxuries at all.

I am inclined to agree though that they should really consider closing back up and rebooting both the design philosophy and the code base after folding a few key contributors into the core team.

Not that I'm right or that I know what I'm talking about, but just my opinion.
That argument is often made for JITs, but I have never seen a real world example where extra runtime knowledge that JITs have is used that couldn't be done better by a static compiler, except in the cases where runtime code loading is used.
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An intresting book review of 'Super Sad True Love Story'.
Could you be a bit more specific about what you were expecting? Did you think they could make it magically shoehorn web apps into a desktop metaphor? What more does it need than just a web browser, given that the whole point of Chrome OS is to be just a web browser?
Well, that's good! and make things easy!
http://kitcat-kittycat.blogspot.com/2010/12/naughty-cat-bori...
Please consider getting a partner in the United States to both print and distribute these here as well.

I'd love to order, but the UK postage costs will slowly get outrageous.
How nineties.
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Also, the language itself is pleasant and straightforward. If you know other modern programming languages, Lua shouldn't be too surprising.
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As a side note, if you're learning Clojure and you're interested in statistical computing, you might want to look at Incanter as well (http://incanter.org/ and https://github.com/liebke/incanter).
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It'd be really nice if karma could be earned on comments from autokilled users, and eventually undo that. The permaban seems excessive in maybe about half the users I see.
Accusing NYT of bad citizenship (Lieberman) is similar to accusing people of unAmerican activities (McCarthy).

Calling on companies to withdraw services from Wikileaks (Lieberman) is similar to calling on advertisers to withdraw support from Time magazine (McCarthy).

Overwrought, fear-mongering rhetoric (Lieberman) is similar to overwrought, fear-mongering rhetoric (McCarthy).
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That's great. All portable devices should come with robust encryption that is easy to enable (or that is turned on by default).

More and more people are carrying more and more of their life around in digital form. It shouldn't be left unencrypted.
Is anyone still using this in a production environment? I don't think I've ever seen a language like this one before.
What the speaker said went along the lines of "after awhile the engineers settled on 48." It seemed like there wasn't a clear reason behind it, although my lack of chem knowledge could be why.
I ordered some Modafinil/Provigil from http://www.biogenesis-antiaging.com recently. It took it about 2 weeks to reach Australia. The package contained a note "was opened by customs for inspection" but the pills were left intact so I guess it is not quite so illegal here.

I haven't tried it yet, I'm waiting for the time when I'll have a full day completely free, so I can not yet comment on quality. The box looks authentic as far as I can tell.
Seconded, since I'm in the area as well...
It's backwards because, if this trend continues, every publisher is going to be supporting x different versions of y different platforms. iOS 2,3,4 + android 1,2 + chrome + mozilla ... etc.

Standard web development has it's own support problem (browser discrepancies). But that pales in comparison to what supporting all of these store platforms would be like.
It looks like a 'search' key actually. Look closely at the fourth screenshot. Not sure if I'm right, though.
This is frightening. The biggest threat to the United States is the actions of the United States. Who the hell thought that this was a good idea? In what way does this curb terrorism? It is far more likely to encourage and enhance false positives, unwarranted fear, stereotyping, etc.

This is a triple threat: it wastes money, instills a culture of fear and mistrust and makes yet another step toward the erosion of freedoms and the destruction of personal privacy.
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I don't think that says it uses a tracing compiler (naturally the terms are vague in this field, so I'm not certain). Their architecture looks much more like HotSpot than TraceMonkey.
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Just for those that are interested in lear how to implement a forth compiler or even just a compiler, this [1] is a step by step tutorial on how forth is implemented. The tutorial is a extremely well commented code file that you can run.

[1] http://www.annexia.org/_file/jonesforth.s.txt
I REALLY think you're on to something with the sign up of potential customers. I know that every time I think about launching a new product, I do the same thing. Throw up a fake beta landing page for people to sign up. Run some Google/FB ads to draw in traffic. Based on the response, I can judge the quality of the idea, and get feedback from people.

If this was automated for me, all I had to do was write the copy for the idea, I would be in love.
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