skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It is unnatural that kids are segregated by age into "peer groups" - in school and outside school (like at lessons). What's evolutionarily normal is to have children who are surrounded by, and interact mostly, with adults, in a group where many of the people are your family. The adults bring you up to their level. The kids keep you at your current (their) level.

No wonder kids today are more and more emotionally & intellectually stunted. None of them are "the dumbest guy in the room" - because they interact almost exclusively with other kids their exact same age.

30 kids and 1 teacher… the 1 teacher is not enough of an influence to make the kids feel ashamed of being so immature.

I, for one, have thought it was clear from history that "teens" are made. I grew up with lots of responsibility and it was clear to me, even as a 10-year-old, how different that made me from the kids I went to school with. The having of the responsibility wasn't what made me different, but it obviously made me think and behave differently too.

IMO the only reason that upper middle class kids today -- who are the ones always studied -- don't develop the part of the brain that connects cause & effect, & prevents risk-taking, is because they are never allowed to have enough power to fuck up.

How can you learn that stupidity leads to crisis if you're never allowed to make your own decisions?

The brain is plastic, it changes based on what you learn. A child kept away from speech until he's 4 years old will be unable to learn to speak normally. A teenager kept away from responsibility & work of value will grow up to be...

But the "scientists" who do these studies make pronouncements about their studies, but they never say "Sheltered white upper-class kids with two parents have the following traits..." they say "Kids have the following traits..."
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On Facebook, 'you' are the product. I like to use their website, but all of the integration is not necessary and frankly annoying.

I will continue to use Facebook, and continue to block their integration with other websites. Maybe if I am compensated by Facebook for being their 'product' I will change my ways. Until then, I win.
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Yes this is double standard that is eu.
I am Bulgarian and have business that makes web based solutions from 2004.I can assure you that we have many qualified programmers. Vmware has a big local offiice, from years sap has one to, we have Bulgarian sucsess in software business to - Telerik and Vray. The point is that bureaucrats are ignorant and don't make anything accept pr using taxpayer money. Wish you luck with 50k agenda.
And there's precisely one vendor in charge of the defaults and capabilities of those.
Not any EU citizen http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2300890
But still miles behind the competition. Their improvements have been tiny and often incomplete. The discrepancies are far too great to be passed off as "we just need a little time to catch up". Microsoft aren't a bit player here. I'll judge them by the same standards I judge myself or anybody else; IE is a sad excuse for a browser, and IE9 will be just as bad as the rest.
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It's amazing how the internet allows people and companies to tap into different markets, almost seamlessly, making the "indirect competitors" from Porter's five forces, truly the ones with the most potential to attack a business.
"For all intents and purposes" sort of already implies something along the lines of "ignoring the obvious differences, etc" in the same way that 30 year olds and 50 year olds are both adults despite the age difference.
Because if they find out you're lying (or, indeed, suspect you're lying) and deny you entry, you'll forevermore have trouble getting in to the UK.

Place I worked at during the late 90's had the UK immigration folks turn up and tell a US citizen on a tourist visa to get out of the country. He was working illegally on a tourist visa while he was waiting for his work visa to be approved. Suffice to say the work visa never got approved after that.
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Your company must be based in Luxembourg, so you must have an authorization to create a company in Luxembourg which is sometimes hard to get. But they are trying to improve things there.

You will get the help only once and it will only match the investment you invest into your company as well. So if invest 0€ into your company, you will also get 0€.
Out of 1000 respondents:

> 70% of programmers today are Windows based, 16% use Ubuntu/CentOS or other Linux, and 14% use Mac OS

Is this a skewed survey towards Microsoft orientated people, or is this the normal for the developer industry? (hard to say when you are in a bubble/niche of web startups)
I heard that some people also use Google, Yahoo, MS Live and other services besides Facebook.
Can someone compare this to the "disable 3rd-party cookies" approach?
I'm lucky to run a system that is small enough that an entire deploy consists of around 2 seconds of downtime for the server to restart and start the new instance of the application.

We deploy new versions side by side and then then the webserver points at the new application on restart.

Only time it takes any longer is when there are sweeping database changes(schedule the downtime, inspect snapshots incase of issues, etc.)
They state in the last paragraph that Ubuntu+CentOS+Other Linux OS market share in the survey was 16% which puts it ahead of OSX but they chose to separate Other Linux out in the chart so visually it doesn't seem as significant.

Maybe I'm used to always reading Linux market share at 1% so I want to see that big circle even if it is from a non-representational group.
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I think you're onto something. Google won't "win at social" by setting up something that looks like Facebook and being a "better Facebook." And neither will anybody else, most likely. But they can "win at social" by simply continuing to link their various services together more and more and more, and gradually introducing more "social" features.

When you look at what Google have with GMail, Google Calendar, Reader, Buzz, Docs, and their other properties, they have a great foundation to build useful "social" stuff. But remember, "social" doesn't necessarily mean "just like Facebook" (or Twitter, or whoever.)

And I still think that a few fairly minor (IMO) tweaks to Buzz would make it an awesome product that could gain a lot more traction.
> You're making it out to be a victim of some kind and it's not.

I'm not. I'm just surprised about how quickly the opinions seem to change. I made up my mind once facebook was basically allowing third-party websites I accidentally visit to post stuff in my name ("like"-buttons) and decided to stop using facebook right then. No need to rationalize or post articles.

It's just amazing how the pendulum swung back and forth over the last two years between an overall positive mood and an overall negative one.
bookmarking to try this out when I get home tonight, XBMC support would be a welcome addition.

Does this have the ability to use the kinect mic already? Or will I need to plug in a regular mic?
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Fortunately, Ulrich Drepper doesn't work on the kernel. Otherwise we would all have to pay money to open bug reports[1]

His preferred solution is to use the highly portable

*((char *) mempcpy (dst, src, n)) = '\0';

make of that what you will…

[1] http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=4980
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It's just sales copy, relax. It wasn't written for you.
ardit33, there is NO PROOF whatsoever that these cognitive differences are a result of age and not experience. The brain is plastic; it's shaped directly by experiences.

If you never speak to a child from birth to 4 years old, it will be unable to learn to speak. That part of the brain will simply have not developed. There's no reason to believe that this is not true of all the other skills you mention.

If you had started doing that "supervisory" role 3 years earlier, you would have been great at it by 16. Similarly, most people start doing that sort of thing at 22, so at 22 they are where you were at 16, meaning they were 6 years behind.
Maybe I don't have enough perspective. I'm only 23, and maybe I will think that I'm dramatically different when I'm 40. Right now, it just doesn't seem like it. Then again, most teenagers think the same way about being 23 (me included).
It would be a slippery slope to stop detecting government trojans.
This is an article about past paradigm shifts and their properties in general, not about whether or not tablets are actually another such paradigm shift, isn’t it?
That's because it was conspicuously missing as an answer from our respondents.
Um. You know Google is not the only free e-mail provider, right?

Anonymity and privacy are like punk rock. People have been saying it's dead since its inception, but look around and you'll find it all over the place.
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A fascinating read.

HgInit.com is the site that got me to Mercurial. I now use it for all my personnal projects. Unintended side-effect though: pains with working with SVN at my day job became more obvious.
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I was taught that Thursdays are best for deployment because you got Friday to fix stupid things, and then weekend to fix the terrible things. By Monday all is working anyways.

And best of all, Friday people are generally happy (it is last day of the week), respectively on Monday expect grumpy users.
I should have said "encourage" instead of "enable". And it's not a knee jerk reaction, I've been anti flash for years. I used to make my money exclusively as a flash designer/developer. And of course I'm not implying what you suggest.
This is probably skewed. We did our best to make sure we were getting a wide swath of respondents by also running the survey on StackOverflow, but even there, our choice of which tags to advertise the survey with probably biased the results. I'd take the OS distribution not as an indication of who in general developers for which OS, but rather just as information on which percentage of respondents were on which OS. I.e., it tells you about the survey, not about developers in general.
I know there are a lot of incubators starting up now, but there aren't so many on the east coast. I wrote in more detail about the vision of this project and why we're doing it in this Google Doc, if anyone is interested in starting something in their own city:

https://docs.google.com/Doc?docid=0AdPdQktVsPezZGp0bW1jNF8xN...
Don't forget Fossil
The real reason is that Apple wants to nudge new iUsers towards providing a credit card when being forced to create a iTunes account for activating a iDevice, so that it can have it on file.

That's why the process to create an account without providing payment info is made intentionally difficult without jumping through hoops. It is as simple as that.
"We asked subscribers to our developer newsletter (788 respondents) and professional developers via StackOverflow (169 respondents)."

With all due respect to the FogCreek team, I'm not sure these numbers could be considered a representation of the development community in general. FogCreek makes Kiln, which according to Joel's (FogCreek CEO) blog is "a web-based version control and code review system based on Mercurial and tightly integrated with FogBugz." I know Joel's writing has broad appeal (I know I'm a fan), but it would stand to reason that there would be a disproportionately high number of Hg users in these results, would it not?
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Accounting programs already employ such directed, weighted hypergraphs. They are just not storing pretty pictures, but the incidence matrix.

The programmers probably don't think of their tables as an incidence matrix though, and end up coding lots of special cases, instead of re-using general graph algorithms.
Very aware! I believe our products are around the same age, and we happened to go one direction and they went another, however our paths are getting ready to converge (As we will be creating a similar offering.)

Not sure on the naming issues or trademarks, but it's definitely one of my concerns. Thanks for the refresher, I should look into it.
Creating a disk image using something like Norton Ghost might be a viable option that offers a [somewhat] manageable degree of portability.
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>No such lower bound has been asserted here in terms of compressing your work, just the idea that you can drop 24 hours off the end of the week with no loss of productivity. Clearly 24 hours is arbitrary, why isn't Thursday a half day?

No such lower bound is defined, but one need not be. The OP is merely stating that the lower bound is 32 hours or less. He's not dropping 24 hours off, merely 8 (or 9, that par is unclear).

As another commentor points out, the lower bound on compression algorithms varies by input. This is likely true here, too.
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I'd imagine this pattern would depend on locality. For example, I live in CT and went to school in RI. I chose to live at home to save taking out additional loans for room and board, but I wasn't really separated from campus life, or even college towns for that matter (My parents lived by an art school and a state college).

However, were I do to the same in an area with fewer educational institutions per sq. mile, I may not have had that experience.
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What do they use in-house?
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Richard Feynman was fond of giving the following advice on how to be a genius. You have to keep a dozen of your favorite problems constantly present in your mind, although by and large they will lay in a dormant state. Every time you hear or read a new trick or a new result, test it against each of your twelve problems to see whether it helps. Every once in a while there will be a hit, and people will say, “How did he do it? He must be a genius!”
Worked for three different (non-startup) companies in the last 2 years, never left Windows XP. I'm thinking it's normal for the developer industry.

I asked why at my first job interview. Stated reason was that as our end users use XP (standard at their company), we should use XP. Makes sense.

I guess the cost of mac vs pc explains why macs aren't more popular in regular companies.

As for Linux, well, I think it's just about it being easier to buy PCs with windows than with Linux preinstalled.
If the survey was done properly, then 'other' consists of lots of different things and bzr is just a small chunk of it not worth dealing with separately.

If the survey was done badly, with an 'other' option with no way to write in what you use, then potentially all of the 'other' block could be bzr. It would just be left out by the survey writer not having heard of it.
The article said: "We asked subscribers to our developer newsletter (788 respondents) and professional developers via StackOverflow (169 respondents)"

I imagine that the FogCreek developer newsletter is going to skew reasonably heavily toward Windows developers.
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And if you insist upon making anonymous or pseudonymous comments, you're a troll.
I made this tool for my personal use in last few days. I think many of you will also find it useful. Specially StackOverflow, blekko or such exotic search engine users.
To my knowledge, this is actually the second such fund being made available since late last year. I guess the first one was oversubscribed, which (I hope at least) augurs well. If you're in Ireland and you didn't hear about the first round or this round, they were certainly advertised in the Sunday Business Post newspaper (and I assume others), as well as online. Announcements appear to generally be posted here http://bestconnected.enterprise-ireland.com/

I have no association aside from being an interested observer, FWIW.
Probably? I'm welcome to be schooled here. 90% of the time, we can roll back instantly, because there were no database changes. 5% of the time, we can roll back with slightly more pain, because the database migrations were reversible. In this case, the database migration was not reversible. If we'd noticed immediately, we could still have just activated snapshots, but we didn't notice until 20 hours later. What do others do in this situation?
But it's not skilled users using it? Nor is it an informed public using it. Even if those two ingredients did come together, Flash itself would still be a resource hungry, unstable dog.
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Thanks. Totally no need to go through an article to find it, but whatever. The in-browser 3D fractal exploration is so awesome it's practically offensive.
Um, so, avoid burnout by not doing your job. It's cool that Jacques had that option and all, but how does that really help the vast majority of developers who don't? I'm burned out right now, but quitting my job isn't much of an option either.
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Do you think that a Bulgarian or a Romanian cares about these figures if he/she can't work in Ireland and thus can not apply to this program?
Even though the color scheme makes me want to tear my own eyes out, the tips are worth reading.

I'm seriously tempted simply to duplicate them here for readability ...
I'm not so sure. All but one of the Bazaar users I know uses it only because Canonical and/or GNU* require it.

* Emacs uses Bazaar for "branding" reasons IIRC.
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It is possible to make a pure-ASCII executable. http://mirror.href.com/thestarman/asm/eicar/eicarcom.html
Amen. Whenever I read a joel-on-software or FogCreek blog post, I feel like I'm being exposed to a clever advertisement, where the clever factor decreases linearly over time. This isn't the first time I've seen appeal-to-authority arguments, bad statistics, or other dubious rhetoric there.
Tell HN: We have had our 100 thousandth bookmark and wanted to tell you about it
We created an online bookmarking site over a year ago - favilous.com. We had never released a website before and after 4 months of hard graft we released to the world!

We posted on HN to begin with and got a mixed response, however we got some great comments on how we could improve the site. Whilst this was going on a few blogs covered us - Venturebeat, Killerstartups, thenextweb and we began to slowly grow traffic.

What was exciting for us was that people from all corners of the Earth were using the site! To us novices this was really cool!

Whilst this was going on we posted more and more articles on HN to try and find out what people wanted from bookmarking. We emailed our userbase to try and find out what they liked and more importantly what they didn't like about our (their) site. We then collated all this info and set about improving the site. Given that we launched on HN, we wanted to share with you what Favilous looks like now.

We have:

Added an import facility from Delicious

Amended the community page and done it in such a way that we can now keep on top of spam.

Completely overhauled the homepage so as more people understand the site and sign up and share useful sites with you.

Stripped back some of the functionality as some felt it was too complicated - therefore menu's are cleaner, options are simpler and instructions are better explained. We hope it is now a more straightforward bookmarking tool.

Added a tag based view so that users who are more familiar to Delicious will now be able to use Favilous in a Delicious type way.

Sharpened up the panels and uploaded more background images for you to choose from.

Given users the option to choose a different theme this means you do not have to have a background image at all and this improves performance significantly.

In the interests of building a sustainable product, we are currently finalising a list of paid features which we believe our community will value. Having conducted our own research we will be looking to implement Bookmarking of RSS Feeds, Archiving and Search of web content, plus some features which are unique to us. You guys helped us get to this position and so we come to you again - what you would most like to see from Favilous (or just a bookmarking site in general).

Thanks for all the help in getting us this far!

Steve
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Agreed. And $3 to "rent" a movie online for 48 hours is outrageous. Netflix killed this idea before it happened.
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"Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge."

Thank goodness for ignorance! Goes right along the lines of "if I wasn't naive enough to know what I was getting myself into then I would have never started."

Another quote...

Later studies go on to cite a survey that found that 94% of professors ranked their performance as "above average" when compared to their colleagues.3 It does not take a degree in mathematics to notice a problem with that figure. Speaking of statistical impossibilities, multiple studies have determined that the vast majority of us "average people" consider ourselves to be well "above average."4

That's good, not only do I suck, but the majority of the people around me suck also.

I suppose this means that the majority of people are confident that they are highly skilled and perhaps as a result don't work terribly hard to improve those skills. Work harder at improvement then you can likely make some great progress relative to your peers.
We got exactly four responses for Bazaar and one for Fossil out of nearly a thousand. They are just tiny in comparison to the rest.
Wait, what?

You have large numbers of paying customers to whom you're delivering a mission-critical system (source control isn't exactly optional), and your releases involve neither automated production monitoring/continuous deployment nor formal release procedures?

I think your problem is more than just weekend deployments!

My full comments here: http://swombat.com/2011/3/8/fog-creek-dont-do-cowboy-deploym...
Yeah, I'd love to see a list of companies rated by "computer people".
Anyone trying to beat facebook should read that quote every day.

I've printed it out and posted it on my desktop monitor with a trollface picture next to it.
The 2.3 branch is a testing branch (that was alpha before 2.3.11, now is beta after 2.3.11).

What we will see is 2.4 (general/public release). And it won't really be stable / product-ready until about 6 months after: 2.4.8.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/new_features_2_4.html

http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.3/developer/new_api_2_4.html

The MPM for Windows is really great, it takes full advantage of the threaded nature of processes on Windows ... You can spin up 100s of threads in 1 process without much of an impact and have each thread do 1 connection (with a low 1 or 2 seconds keepalive to keep the client).

I'm mostly interested in Apache on Windows and have toyed around with the idea of including v2.3 in my WAMP distribution ( http://www.devside.net/server/webdeveloper ) in the experimental branch, with also some MySQL replacements such as MariaDB and Drizzle.
I'm not so sure about that. Apple rents HD movies for up to 5.99$ or 48 hrs, I'm sure people buy them.