skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a nicely written tribute, but there are two generalisations that I feel are worth pointing out.

Many parts of Linux kernel are really, really nice C code. Sadly, in my experience most C code is not especially nice. I don't know how this extends to the football metaphor, but certainly I wish most of the C code I have encountered (not to mention written) in my career to date was one tenth as neat.

On balance, I'd say there are other languages (Erlang, Python) where I've personally found the median quality, and level of expression, to be substantially higher (for the random subset of code I've read and my own standards, clearly YMMV.)

The other generalisation is "other languages". Which "other languages" are they? What other projects (despite the Linux kernel) are they reading, and in what contexts?

You can find beautiful or precise code is almost any language if you try hard enough. You can find ugly or obfusticated code in nearly every language without barely trying at all.
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>http://sharescribe.wordpress.com

1. Get rid of the "Just another WordPress.com site" in the upper right hand corner. Pimp out your blog. Make the website look like you are serious.
2.Learn how to install wordpress directly on your website.It turns off people from your skills if it looks like you cannot even use the quick install most hosting companies provide.
3.It looks like you made just that one post there. Why? Starting a blog just to have a blog is not worth the time. Just use a separate page on the webpage and link to that. Format it the same way that the main page is. Keep visually consistent.
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The false assumption you're making is that an average Chilean can generate better ROI than a bunch of selected, high-tech startups.

If that were true, Paul Graham would be giving out handred dollar bills to random people instead of investing in startups that he personally vetted.
Yes indeed. The DOCTYPE is important here. A Transitional DOCTYPE will not render vertical-align correctly, it renders all declarations as vertical-align:top. That is why i have chosen <!DOCTYPE html> which renders vertical-align correctly and also validates target="_blank" on <a>nchor nodes.
It will mostly get users off IE8. Users of older versions of IE who still haven't upgraded to IE8 (2 years old!) simply can't or don't want to upgrade.

Also, most IE users run Windows XP. IE9 will never be available for Windows XP, so those users are stuck (unless they switch to a third party browser or buy a new computer).
Wait... so then libstdc++ isn't written in C++? Or is "core" different from "base"?
Excellent. Perfect example of how to use now js. A few lines of code and it's a collaborative system...
Yes, you can generate machine code yourself, but then you have to write machine code ...

I'm suggesting a JIT compiler as a built-in language feature so that you could write code in a high-level language and have machine code generated that was specialized based on the program's dynamic state.

It could be done as a library, but it would benefit from language integration so that you wouldn't have to write the code as strings or ASTs.
The false assumption you're making is that the ambition of the program is to replicate the success of Silicon Valley or that anything short of that is not worthwhile.

Chile wins if this program generates positive ROI on the investment, even if it generates only 1% of success of Silicon Valley.

Economic stimulation, if done properly, works. I find it amazing that a government initiative makes so much sense and is executed, as far as I can tell, so well, so big props to Chilean government for doing that.
Not sure why, but I found this headline hilarious.
When I'm asked my Myers-Briggs type, for some reason I always think of Glengarry Glen Ross:

"Fuck you, that's my Myers-Briggs type".
Sure enough, now that I'm home I see I've been throttled to slow DSL speeds (I pay for a 50 mbit cable connection). Go Canada!
//https://gist.github.com/870150

(function(max){
new Array(max + 1).join(' ').replace(/\s/g, function(c, i){
console.log(i + 1);
})
})(1000)
you've completely left off mobile analytics!

i'm not sure startup analytics are so different than larger company analytics (i work for a large ecommerce site doing analytics).

might just be my opinion, sitecatalyst can be overly complicated/difficult to implement but it really does have some unique strengths also. it is also one of the more expensive tools though.
That was my first reaction, but it looks like these guys know what they're talking about and have a feasible plan for getting something useful made. That's a far cry from working code, but it is reason for cautious hope.
I'm curious if someone can elaborate more on this. Is C++ in general that much more time-consuming to compile than C code? Or is it just an issue with gcc vs g++? Or is this issue unique to Groff?
Pew: Only 1 in 100 Americans pay for local news apps
This sounds almost like a tautology or a "no true Scotsman" argument. If "insecure" <=> "condescending" by definition or "well, if he's bad mannered he can't be really secure", there's not much to argue.
Tim is right but it's important to understand how.

Unlike the shift from hardware to software the meaning of adjacent has changed

What's adjacent to software?

Well other software.

So it's not that software become commeditized but what we currently use it for do.

There are still many many things we can't even imagine using software for that we will some day.

So perhaps it really is the ideas and the vision that matters most of all at the end of the day.
How a handful of geeks defied the USSR
Certainly content based but not QA like Answers.com. And yeah I am familiar with All Top but it's not quite the same. What I envision is a single page for each news story that is a consolidation of all of the best content on that one story.

So tweets, links to articles, photos, videos, political cartoons, wikipedia links, etc.
What if you're not a registered voter but US citizen wishing to support this issue by bringing in front of your congressmen through this timely and relatively easy form if slacktivism?
Hmm, tldrpower.com is available.

How are you checking for name availability? Every option I've looked at either wants to charge me money, or has a TOS that's hostile to scripting.
For anyone whose interested, its available as a free kindle download.
It's a manipulative take on this that tries to appeal to (irrational) emotion and not rational analysis.

We pay taxes and that's not going to change.

This money goes to government which then allocates in various ways to provide services to people of the country.

Part of this money can be thought of as an investment i.e. government spends money (e.g. on infrastructure like building roads) in hopes that this will generate more economic activity which will enrich the country as a whole.

The only important question is: is this program a better investment that others?

That is hard to tell, but at least to me it appears to be a great one. The cost (on the scale that governments operate) is puny and potential upside (companies that keep operating in Chile, hire Chilean people, pay Chilean taxes) huge.
I guess MS felt that phones were more like portable computers and not like niche devices like the XBox.

Unlikely they will make an XPhone, because that would fragment WP7 games into those that support hardware input vs. those that don't, and making software that does both usually results in suboptimal results.
Error immediately after sending txt; methinks it's possibly from not paying the bills owed to Twilio?

Free Msg: Receiver 894546 unable to receive message - Message Blocking is active

Sent from T-mobile if that matters
If Microsoft were truly committed to moving people off of IE6, they would have a modern solution specifically for XP users. They screwed it up, they fix it.

3rd party developers target older OS versions all the time; Microsoft should be in a great position to support XP. And even if they don't want to, they should still have an official stance that encourages the use of some modern browser, even if it means they have to suck it up and recommend Firefox for XP users. Better still, issue a service pack for XP that installs Firefox automatically; then IT groups can be sure that a modern browser is on all their machines, and internal apps can finally target the modern browser and require its use.
Not if I passed him on the street, but if he joined my company, I'd Google him. I've probably searched for every person I know. Takes five seconds and on occassion yields something really interesting.
Hey TPiddy - Yes, I did. I couldn't cover everything. I might do mobile as a separate post.
Pictures from Japan - Earthquake and Tsunami Aftermath
Hey Mnutt - that's really cool of you to reply. It's a really impressive piece of technology.
When I scroll down a little and try to highlight a domain name, as soon as I click on the white-space, it scrolls to the top.
All I am trying to do is highlight:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBDPYnNryJE&hd=1

Great tool. I like its results more than impossibilit...
This is of course what Apple (and any other company) _should_ have done in such a situation, but they sure deserve some recognition for actually doing it.
The average Chilean would spend his money as he pleased, which would go to businesses that are satisfying a real demand, rather than something a bureaucrat guesses might fulfill a demand.
I believe the only startup we've funded with no hacker founders was Auctomatic, founded by Harjeet and Kulveer Taggar. But they had technical backgrounds so we felt confident they could learn to program. As it turned out they got hackers another way, by merging with a startup that we had just accepted, whose founders were two programmers.
My father-in-law works in Tokyo, but lives in Kamakura.
He wrote us a long email about his journey home.
Because trains were not running, the only option was to walk the 60+ kilometers home. All along the way, he saw people finding places to sleep in bars, stores, even 7-11s. All of them were full, so he could only keep on walking.
Eventually, he found a bar that had room for him to come and sleep on the floor, so that he could continue his journey home in the morning.
There was no food on the shelves of any store, so people had to share what they had with each other.

Allowing people to sleep in the Apple stores must have been incredibly important to the staff. God knows how they might have fared otherwise.
It's no harder than "build a faddy social network thing that's slightly better than MySpace", or "build a slightly better search engine than AltaVista" to other untrained eyes, I guess.
1) can't you switch to a term (Alt+F1) login and use something like alsamixer to mute and then log in. Obviously not great usability but may be a workaround?

2) KDE lets you choose to have apps always open on the same virtual desktop, or as you say you can switch to a desktop and set an app opening and switch back and it opens in the other desktop.
I've never been to Chile, and I don't think my company is technically a startup anymore (otherwise I'd apply), but I highly encourage anyone who's even remotely considering this to apply.

The cash isn't the important part, in my mind; it's the experience of living in a very different culture and part of the world for a year, with more or less a full safety net. The amount of entrepreneurial good that could be done for the world if Americans--with their can-do spirit and work ethic--were more aware of the people outside their borders would be staggering. And I'm not saying that in a derogatory way, just that with a country as big as the States, it's often hard for Silicon Valley to give some thought to the business-solvable problems people have in New York, let alone Tierra del Fuego.
IxxP - varies from day to day and what version of the test I'm taking.
Agree! Far better than the cluster-f*ck that C++ has become.
The Chilean government is actively facilitating the growth of private venture markets by reducing taxes on venture gains to a point far below those in the United States. Part of the point of this program is attracting high growth businesses into an environment where local financial networks can invest at their own risk and connect with networks outside Chile.

If you believe in markets you should realize the Chilean government is doing something innovative and pro-entrepreneur at very low initial cost and likely negative cost in aggregate. I'd put it in the same boat as the matching funds programs run by Hong Kong and Singapore, with the major difference that the individual sums invested are much smaller and there is less bureaucracy involved.
"L'État, c'est moi"
What version of Chrome are you using? And what OS are you on?

Thanks for the video, that makes debugging much easier.
Agree. I want to say companies that do this should be the rule, not the exception.

I remember when the floods hit Mumbai few years ago, restaurants across the city stayed opened through the night feeding folks, in many cases for free.
More importantly, when will iFixit have their teardown?
Load testing geo-spacial queries in iPhone/Android apps
Why exactly should their product be less deserving of copyright, protection and revenue than the websites/apps/iphone games/whatever everyone here makes, copyrights, and is trying to profit from?
Funny how every comments from the link are "Wow awesome APPLE is amazing", talking about the company as a whole when it's only a single store story. Yes, what this they made is great, even though it's what every other store should have made in their situation. Just felt like pointing that fun fact out.
What surprises me most is the immediate reactions of the senior managers.

I wonder if that's brilliant sense or even better, part of an 'Apple culture' I'm not familiar with.
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Thanks for this, just reminded me I need to set DEBUG = False
The part about camping out in the Apple Store reminded me of "When Sysadmins Ruled the Earth" by Cory Doctorow.

http://baens-universe.com/articles/when_sysadmins_ruled_the_...
Microsoft is trying to kill BOTH IE 6 and XP. Encouraging modern browsers on XP would work against kiling XP.
I hate being "that guy" but I find it very sad that we've reached a point where we're expected to praise companies just for being staffed by humans capable of basic empathy in an unimaginably horrific crisis.

It is nice that they did this and all but is it really especially noteworthy?

Give me an update when Steve Jobs donates a little bit of his money to the relief effort, (or, really, ANYTHING...) until then I don't really see what this has to do with Apple as a whole.
Be sure it is worth it.

Smart developers can smell an arbitrary deadline a mile away. The need for extra effort need to be tied to something more tangible than the Gregorian calendar and/or an executive's bonus.

Stimulate a culture of ownership.

Interest your developers in the competition. Your competition are fools and trolls. Certainly we can do better. Regularly checkpoint against the competition.

Consider developer-suggested features. Developers will put in the extra effort if they are playing out their own ideas, and are motivating each other.

Consider the following scenarios: Manager: "I need you to work this weekend to get xyz done by mmddyy."

Or, Developer: "Dude, I am going to hackathon on xyz at the coffeehouse on Saturday. Caffeinated mints are on me."
This story made me feel good.
I think it's just being a human being that's in a position to help another human being.

Good people are good people, regardless of who they work for.
Twilio isn't available in the UK, but using Tropo this could easily be someone's weekend project: http://blog.tropo.com/2010/10/20/free-tropo-development-now-...
He mentions that his free wifi was the only way to get access to the outside world. I don't know about Softbank (the only provider with iPhones in Japan), but my 3G with Docomo was not disrupted at any point during the crisis. Making calls was difficult or (usually) impossible, but network access was always there. This is in Tokyo.
It's also an example of how it can be a liability to depend on another self-interested corporate entity for your entire business platform. I've been reading some of the comments on the forums from sellers talking about a significant drop in sales.

But Etsy is in part successful due to the success of its sellers and their unique offerings, making it a more symbiotic relationship. Merchants aren't helpless and can put pressure on Etsy to be more open about changes, and ensure that the privacy of their customers is always a first consideration.
"Squirt! Say it! Say it!"
I couldn't read the answer but since I send application hope that there is someone who start company and that wasn't technical,since my colleague and I also aren't technical.
No exercise, unless it was somehow included in "Work." Of course, the three hours before work in the morning would leave time for half an hour of exercise.
>Trim the fat, like firefox did to mozilla, just the essentials. No openoffice, gimp, etc

You can easily trim away apps you don't want though can't you. I've found that popcon-largest-unused was helpful when doing that.

If it's a slim initial install I gather you can install the basics, command line only, and then use apt (I prefer aptitude) to add in all the parts you actually want.
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This is great--I've already bought 2 good domains for a project that I've been trying to rename for months. Thanks!
I think we're really talking about two different issues.

I'm not even talking about doing something as silly as charging a client money for something you barely know how to do. That's just deceptive business practice and people should be lambasted for it. Misrepresenting your capabilities is reprehensible.

What I'm talking about and what I think the OP was talking about is the negative attitude we have towards our fellow geeks. We discourage people from learning or trying their own ideas out. I think that's pretty sad. Even if they are re-inventing the wheel; let them try, man. Maybe they will end up with a better wheel. Or a special kind of wheel. You never know if you just tell them that it's already been done and they couldn't possibly build a better one anyway.

So while I agree that some sort of safeguard against malicious business practices would be useful to the industry as a whole, I don't think it has anything to do with supporting a negative attitude towards our fellow geeks. Everyone has started somewhere and it's better to foster and encourage learning and experimentation than to institutionalize the practice of programming.
At a certain karma level, you can add a 'poll' question with votable alternates. Much less messy than creating comments-as-answers.

This has also been polled before enough to answer the question in general terms for the readership-that-chooses-to-answer:

http://searchyc.com/submissions/briggs+types
Ah okay so it's not exactly the silver bullet for electricity costs, I saw that the uranium price had doubled in the past year or 2, might have something to do with it. For comparison here in Melbourne Australia we are at about 20cents per kwh, with a grid based mostly on coal fired power plants. That has jumped a great deal in recent years though, I was paying 17 a couple of years ago and just before that when I was living at home I think it was under 15.
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Unfortunately not even this works for many/most regular (read: non geek) folks:

"Why prove to a man he is wrong? Is that going to make him like you? Why not let him save face? He didn't ask for your opinion. He didn't want it. Why argue with him? You can't win an argument, because if you lose, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it. Why? You will feel fine. But what about him? You have made him feel inferior, you hurt his pride, insult his intelligence, his judgement, and his self-respect, and he'll resent your triumph. That will make him strike back, but it will never make him want to change his mind. A man convinced against his will is of the same opinion still." - Dale Carnegie, 1936

Sigh.. sometime I feel I'm of a different species from people that take almost everything personally.
It's funny: I managed to put off uploading my photos to Flickr for so long that I out-delayed Flickr itself. Procrastination for the win, I guess.

Where will my photos end up? Dropbox, perhaps. Dropbox really is a great startup: My local data is backed up online and vice versa. If they vanished tomorrow I'd lose nothing. Would barely even have to think.

Maybe someone should value-add some more Flickr features to Dropbox.
Bon Jovi's comments make much more sense if you replace the word "kill" with "change." iTunes and others have changed the music industry and they're not done yet. The experiences he had are gone, but there are new ones enabled by technology. The music industry is exactly as doomed as it was when you could record and musician's voice on tape, when live shows were suddenly not the only way to hear a song.

Thanks for all the music, Jon. It'll be my time to whine like an old fogey when kids are subvocalizing a tune and Pandora makes a new radio station to match that song.
This is just basic human decency and I am sure Apple is not the only company doing this. I don't think it's a good time for some guy from Silicon Valley to praise some entity from Silicon Valley for doing great things. Reminds me of Twitter getting all the praise for revolutions while people were dying. Let's praise them when they spend some of their billions on earthquake relief.
Not sure that has to do with copyright. The music industry served primarily as a distribution platform for years, though the entire time it was convincing itself it was a filter and an artist itself. It thought its profits were based on its ability to churn out hits, when in fact its profits were based on its ability to churn out SOMETHING to a lot of people. Now that distribution is no longer a challenge, it's a lot harder for Bon Jovi to compete (and a lot less likely that he will be interpreted as a signal amongst the noise).

I question that the music industry will go away. It will just change. As I said before, it is and remains primarily a distribution platform not a content filter, and there will always be distribution challenges that artists do not want to (or know how to) solve.

Also, the musicians who existed long before copyright that you speak of often needed to be sponsored by nobility just to eat. I'm not sure that's a better system.
iPad 2 Beats Out MacBook Pros In iMovie Speed Tests
http://pdos.csail.mit.edu/tickc/
That's just stupid. It implies that none of these startups will pay back a single penny in taxes. You might as well argue that the Chilean state shouldn't pay for education or roads or whatever.

If even one of these startups is really successful, it will pay for the programme on its own.
Also depends on where in SF / Bay Area you live. For example, my rent in San Leandro (45min BART ride into SF city) is half of what it was in SF Mission.
True, but it seems to have been unanimous and immediate at Apple. Good people are good people, but it seems like quite a few of them work for Apple.
I wonder if this would happen in the US too, or if it has something to do with Japanese culture?
I suppose I could see your point if he had made the argument that it didn't deserve the same copyright software and apps get, except he didn't. AFAICT he simply said music will survive and perhaps implied copyright will likely change significantly in the coming decades.
Ask HN: Three questions for your users
What are three general questions you would ask your product users after you've just launched? What do you most want to know about users/potential users at this critical time?
On the other hand, there's a skewed ratio of outrage to praise.

Some people like to hear about the good things from a horrific crisis. You're not expected to praise the companies. Whatever gave you that perception?
Are these non-existing?