skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OK, I did misread it. It's still not a good analogy, though, because if you made a physical copy of a DVD and smashed it and gave the pieces to random people, they would be useless. Even if a large number of people were doing the same thing, it would be very hard to reassemble the pieces.

With bittorrent, the pieces are all carefully constructed so that they will be easy to put back together, and everyone doing it is "smashing" their DVD the same way, so you can put together pieces from different people.
Totally agree, and even before Firefox gets any sort of strong tab isolation, I would love a readout that provides any sort of vague 'blame' for CPU/memory usage to individual tabs.

As FF runs for a long time with many tabs, I get longer and longer pauses doing simple tasks -- scrolling, switching tabs, popping the right-context menu, setting focus into a field, etc. Sometimes, this sluggishness seems linked to (and fixable by closing) a few tabs of the most Javascript-heavy sites (those with many ad inserts, background status polling, etc.). I'd hoped FF4 would help but it's just about as bad as 3.X. Generally restarting, even with the exact same tab set, helps (for a while).

Separate but similar, sometimes I'm doing nothing and no tab is visibly busy but Firefox is reported as using 50-100% (out of 200%) CPU time. Give me any proxy for tab activity (object allocations, timer callbacks, method-dispatching, whatever) and I can probably kill the miscreants.
The more divided a society becomes in terms of wealth, the more reluctant the wealthy become to spend money on common needs. The rich don’t need to rely on government for parks or education or medical care or personal security—they can buy all these things for themselves. In the process, they become more distant from ordinary people, losing whatever empathy they may once have had. They also worry about strong government—one that could use its powers to adjust the balance, take some of their wealth, and invest it for the common good. The top 1 percent may complain about the kind of government we have in America, but in truth they like it just fine: too gridlocked to re-distribute, too divided to do anything but lower taxes.

Not only is this paragraph entirely unsubstantiated in the essay, but I doubt that it's even true. Perhaps the author could have interviewed people in this top 1% or cited polling data or something. Instead they went with caricature.
NCBE like a Place Like National Conference of Bar Examiners.
Just i don't know why he want to write

(FLRSE PRSE ONDE 71 NCBE)
(CDNSE PRSE ONS*E 74 NCBE)
(PR+SE PRSE ONREDE 75 NCBE)

Just the thing i don't know want the mean of the number...
Just like he want to calculate some thing...
I don't know...@@
yes.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/04/08/apples-iphone-lockdown-ap...
you want to lag the article just because you disagree with it?
mturmon hasn't (so far), but a friend just passed me the link to this thread. Thanks nonetheless.

I'll fix it in a few minutes.
Yes, I hadn't thought of that! Thanks for the suggestion.
Sad reading: "That's why the Xbox, which was meant to conquer the living room, never had a digital video recorder in it -- that function was reserved for Windows Media Center. That's why Microsoft scrapped a plan to move Office to the Web (called NetDocs) way back in 2000"
Top 1% in income is, hmm, $500kish? I hate to break it to you, but that isn't a CEO of a Fortune 500 company (that would imply the had 99 employees apiece, right?) or a hedge fund owner. That's like a couple dozen people who post to HN, or someone with a successful medical practice, or a well-rewarded peon who has leverage in an industry made of money. (A quant, for example.)

$500k is a lot of money, but it isn't "senators are at your beck and call, own houses in six countries" money.

[Edit to add: guesstimate based on misremembered data. Real number closer to 400k.]
McAfee screwed our site over the same way with siteadvisor. It took 2 months and us harassing their support team almost daily to get it resolved. Also hurt revenue. I'd love to participate in a class action lawsuit.
Work on Core now, Core later and Core last. That's all. Ps, if you find firefly too big, try Dragonfly. It's here http://www.opera.com/dragonfly/
The key thing with any system is to make sure you move the bar to the left/right of the screen. Almost every screen has stacks of horizontal real estate but never enough vertical.

And by doing that -- the win7 icons don't bother me in the slightest.
Strangely enough it takes very little money, nor energy to produce nuclear power. It's very simple at its core. Have a look at the first research reactors and you'll find that you need basically no technology to produce reactors that produce useful amounts of energy.

On the other hand solar power, especially photovoltaics is stupidly complex. Photovoltaics requires semiconductor processes, arguably one of the most complex things ever reliably harnessed by man to create.

Saying that you want to power your computer from a solar cell seems green, until you think of all the energy that went into building that solar cell. All the waste materials, the toxic waste produced in fabrication, the pollution, etc. Then it seems decidedly less green then, say, plugging it in to the wall socket.
250k of household income puts you at the 98.3 percentile, so any two married valley engineers probably qualify, and they probably can't afford a house.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Household_income_in_the_United_...
BTW, I got the string "Hello Worldp" from the first program, using the same compiler configuration. I had to use std=c99 to get it to compile (the variable in the for loop).
It seems this guy is basically just describing the markets and calling traits problems. Obviously you need to invest in a company before its popular for it to be a good investment. A company with a fully stable profit won't even take your investment most of the time. "Mining" is just the process of investment! However, I do not think this is the point. The important point I think he's getting at is not that the markets are evil, but that founders shouldn't be investors. If you start a company, you should be interested in BUILDING A COMPANY, not selling a big company and making a boatload. Obviously, people want to make money, but for some reason the misconception that the cash in hand for a crappy company is worth more than the cash in stock for a great and growing company. And even further, the founder interested in building a great company is more likely to reach that amount of money faster, just because they are invested in making a good company, and will make efficient and secure progress toward his or her vision with every day of work. Great companies start with people who want the company to succeed and investors who wan to make a buck, not the other way around.
I am starting a newsletter about UX
Not so much bungled as got bitten by a change in behavior. Amusingly, “Return Values” still states the old behavior, to which standard the program is correct.

I'll fix the program.

By the way, the zip archives include a Makefile with correct compiler configuration (namely -std=c99). I tried downloading them after seeing this thread and it didn't work; I've re-uploaded them and now they download correctly, Makefiles and all. No more having to run the compiler by hand.
Hey - why the downvote? I know it sounds silly, but I genuinely believe that is a significant part of the general popular view of nuclear power plants, silly or not.
At first glance, it seems this guy is basically just describing the markets and calling traits problems. Obviously you need to invest in a company before its popular for it to be a good investment. A company with a fully stable profit won't even take your investment most of the time. "Mining" is just the process of investment! However, I do not think this is the point. The important point I think he's getting at is not that the markets are evil, but that founders shouldn't be investors. If you start a company, you should be interested in BUILDING A COMPANY, not selling a big company and making a boatload. Obviously, people want to make money, but for some reason the misconception that the cash in hand for a crappy company is worth more than the cash in stock for a great and growing company. Great companies start with people who want the company to succeed and investors who wan to make a buck, not the other way around.
Internet Protocol versions that don't work with 95% of servers on the Internet, and programming languages that are still niche 50+ years later... sometimes you just have to relax and let it flow

Progress requires hard work and perseverance. This is like saying that the Wright brothers shouldn't have tried to build an airplane, because people have been trying to fly for as long as human civilization but never managed to. Maybe it was time to relax and let it slide...

Being pragmatic is good, and I agree that not everything can (or needs to be) 'pure' and 'perfect'. Some things are OK as they are now. But I'm happy there are people striving to make things better.
We now use puts instead of printf. puts does not try to insert any values into the string, and it supplies the terminating newline (the \n you saw before) for us.

I don't see how "does not try to insert any values into the string" and "supplies the terminating newline" are not contradictory.
By the way, the destroyed nuclear plant, just like the BP disaster, had avoided government regulation via apathy and corruption in the monitoring process.

So regardless of the supposed engineered safety of any of these extreme measures, once you take out the oversight that is planned into these studies/reports, everything goes out the window.

Everyone needs to state in their claims what will happen when everything fails because no-one bothered to follow up and do what they were supposed to.
And I hope all this criticism isn't too down-heartening... at least from my part (though I strongly believe it is the same for others too) it's intended as friendly and genuine constructive criticism.
When confronted with disagreement, claiming your assertion seems to be "Something you can't say" is incredibly weak. The article does not address any of the counterarguments raised in http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2377109, but merely restates the assertion. It would be "something you can't say" if all the counterarguments were grasping at straws, showing that people are unwilling or incapable of understanding or accepting the assertion.

It's the same argument every crackpot invokes to explain disagreement. It is the very last line of defense that everyone can invoke, independent of what the other has argued. It's basically equivalent to "I'm right; you just don't understand". But the article hasn't even tried to refute any of the counterarguments and is in no position to make such claims.
Does this beta contain anything of Wayland? I know they said a year is probably more realistic, but I'm just curious if the Unity in this release is running on X11 or Wayland. http://www.markshuttleworth.com/archives/551
It writes the whole string as passed, without inserting anything into it, and then writes the newline.
The only significant thing missing from Objective-C itself is garbage collection, I think (which completely changes the game on Mac OS X). Blocks work, of course, and besides that, Objective-C doesn't actually add that much to C (that's sort of the point).

The Cocoa APIs are, of course, fairly incomplete. From a quick Google search, they don't seem to have finished Core Data, and I'd imagine things like Core Animation are quite a ways off. Then, there's the integration problem. People that are likely to develop with an alternative implementation of Cocoa are likely to be "Mac people", that is, user interface evangelists (Lion's iCal design aside). GNUStep apps don't fit in with Gnome, or KDE, or, well, any desktop environment that a large group of people care about.

As a person (admittedly, I'm just a student) that has developed both in Cocoa and GTK+, I've found convincing myself to work on my GTK+ projects to be a chore. To put it only somewhat mildly, Cocoa is probably the best framework I've ever used. Want something to smoothly slide to the left? You can do that, in one line of code. Want to pull down some data from the web and parse the XML response, all in a background thread? That's easily achievable with Cocoa, and you don't even have to think about the threading issues. It just happens.

GTK+ et. al. are, of course, open source projects. They're created by volunteer developers (let's leave Red Hat out of this, for convenience). In the end, though, does it matter to developers? Cocoa is fun. GTK+ has mostly directed me into hours of reading C API documentation while I'm writing code in languages that are not C.

I'm not really sure where I intended to go with this - it has little to do with the original post, which I think is an incredibly impressive piece of work, solving a task that make my API and UI concerns seem like minor squabbles.
X11. Wayland is supposed to be there for 11.10 at the earliest. Wayland is available in a PPA right now, though.
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Unity in 11.04 is a different beast than the thing in 10.10 netbook. Unity11.04 is rewritten as a Compiz plugin for performance reasons. Unity10.10 was based on Mutter/Clutter and suffered poor performance b/c of that (among other reasons).

Anyone who used Unity in 10.10 should give 11.04 a new and fair shot since they are 100% different things.
At first glance, it seems this guy is basically just describing the markets and calling traits problems. Obviously you need to invest in a company before its popular for it to be a good investment. A company with a fully stable profit won't even take your investment most of the time. "Mining" is just the process of investment! However, I do not think this is the point. The important point is not that "mining" and the markets are evil, but that founders shouldn't be investors. If you start a company, you should be interested in BUILDING A COMPANY, not selling a big company and making a boatload. Obviously, people want to make money, but for some reason the misconception that the cash in hand for a crappy company is worth more than the cash in stock for a great and growing company. Great companies start with people who want the company to succeed and investors who want to make a buck, not the other way around.
Those figures are from 2005. Does anyone have more recent numbers? (a quick Google search doesn't turn up anything in the same format. Going to bed now, I'll search again in the morning).
Ebert's Glossary of Movie Terms - see Impregnable Fortress Impregnated
If we tried to pour the collective total of human stupidity (artificial or otherwise) into a single program, it would exceed the capacities of all the storage devices ever made, past, present, and future. :-)

Honestly, if I were writing this today, I'd make the “worst” example less bad. What you see here is way too fantastic. 2011 Me would make it realistically bad—the sort of thing a new or just plain apathetic programmer might write. I wonder, though, how much it would differ from the canonical one-liner.
Maybe Unity will finally drive me to start using a tiling window manager, like XMonad.
I think the best kind of example would be one where the problems weren't at all obvious, yet were rather fatal.
Only if both stdout and stderr are unwritable. If stdout is unwritable but stderr is writable, then writing to stderr should work.

If they're both not writable, or stderr is writable but writing fails anyway, there's nothing we can do about it anyway, but that does not make it any less proper to try.
The menu bar at top is not a wasted space. It serves as a Global Menu for applications.
Encrypt a file so that only a SSL site's private key can decrypt
RIMs sales are still rising and Apple's market share growth, which has been flat for about a year, translates into somewhere between 50 and 100% sales growth. Meanwhile Android sales are up 800-1200% so yes, it's mostly about who's getting the new entrants to the smartphone market.
Can you define what an AMA is?
This is a good time to reflect again upon PG's essay 'Mind the Gap' - http://paulgraham.com/gap.html
Dash, with its shortcuts, is useful. Now, you can search for new applications without opening Software Center.
A more precise title would be "Of the 0.1% By the 0.1% and For the 0.1%" but perhaps that would be too wonkish for vanity fair. It's an opinion piece for a general audience not an academic journal article.
Uh, you started a debate, then got mad at people for responding in like manner. I don't understand. Go back and reread your post, it was both confrontational and of low technical quality.
While I agree with your second point (although I put my taskbar/dock on the side, I have it autohide) and following paragraph, I'm not sure about the first one.

The topbar in Unity contains the menu for the currently focused window (and, in the future, hopefully the currently focused application). This vertical space had to be used anyways - the clock and some sort of notification area are essentially mandatory.

As a person who primarily uses Mac OS X, I think that the menus are the best use for the vertical space that those items provide. I can use Cmd+tab or Exposé for switching applications, so a list of the currently open windows isn't particularly relevant. By moving the menubar to a single spot, if anything we save space.

That sidebar is truly awful though.
Stating that air travel is safer then cars doesn't mean that I wish myself to be strapped upon an early glider and hurled off a cliff.

The fact that one such glider still exists and is apparently in use has no bearing to the current state of the art of aeroplane design. Similarly that one old, outdated and utterly inferior reactor can fail when provoked says nothing of the current state of the art of reactor design.
Everything we humans do is inherently unsafe. Using the phrase "fundamental force of nature" as though it has a sort of supernatural power behind it isn't going to change that. Gravity and inertia are also fundamental elements of nature, which kill far more people than radiation. Do we refer to automobiles as "fundamental force of nature containment technology"?

The main problem with radiation is that it's invisible and poorly understood by the public, and has been overused in movies as a fear device. Why are people seemingly more afraid of radiation maybe killing a few people than a tsunami killing many thousands? Consider if Fukushima had been a nerve gas plant, which may not have as stringent of regulations as nuclear power.
I think "do first, ask for forgiveness later" may apply generally to any institution/community where the authority are people who wants the institution to function in the spirit it was setup rather than based solely on the rules that were implemented to govern it.
If the IRS was run in that spirit, then such abnormal cases can be dealt with by 'taxing' the person for IRS wasting resources to deal with it but not the rather astronomical figure of tens of thousands of dollars.
The weirdest part, looking at it five years later, is that the page shows usage of and talks about puts, while the “Best Possible” code in the zip archive uses fputs. Unless anyone can think of a reason not to use puts, I'll change the zipped “Best” example over to use it after I get it both working and failing properly.
It lacks in analysis because it's an opinion piece for a general audience, hence the use of anecdotes. Its not an academic article. No offense, but your articles often use anecdotes to make a point.

For example, you write:
"As anyone who has worked for the government knows, the important thing is not to make the right choices, but to make choices that can be justified later if they fail."

What evidence do you have of this? What about agencies like DARPA? Your statement could also apply to employees of large corporations.

You are doing the same thing that Joe Stigliz did in the article (without his academic ethos)
I find it interesting, but you're probably right to flag it.
Not at all. I always welcome constructive criticism; any opportunity to improve myself, I much appreciate. For my part, any criticism I offer, including the linked article itself, I likewise intend to be constructive.
Maybe so. Perhaps one example fault would be testing the result of fputs against 0 rather than EOF…
Excellent Rails & Django Comparison
I'd much prefer sites to have the confirmation requirement.

Personally with a fairly generic gmail address I see way too many random un-asked for messages with no opt-in confirmation.

And 10 lines of Perl? Lousy coder :P
Come now, there's no need to get personal.
It's a reddit thing (ask me anything).
As the author of http://sleepyti.me, I am flattered :)
Disclosure: I run Ruby Weekly and JavaScript Weekly.

First, good luck. Second, improve that page double quick! :-) It's an uphill battle getting people to trust you with their email address and so you need to do at least the minimum to look reputable. My approach - which converts like gangbusters - is to include a screenshot preview of the newsletter. If you look up my sites above, you'll see what I mean. I get a conversion rate of 70-80%. Yet while your newsletter may be awesome, I'm hesitant to sign up because it just doesn't smell right yet.
Link to video mentioned above http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv3a4LXi_qc
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Atari did not waste any time mourning its departed cousin...
The stories of Google, Facebook, and Twitter show that VC has values. We want more investments to start-ups, rather than the opposite. Let the market decide itself: the money will flow where the value is, eventually. I think success is hard either way: faming or mining, it is better than not trying.
What you fail to understand is that everything is unsafe, there's a risk attached to all forms of power generation, nothing is 100% safe.

You are handwaving when it comes to the dangers of coal power, and screaming at the top of your lungs when it comes to nuclear power, despite the fact that coal power kills people every year, despite the fact that coal power plants actually emit radioactive particles in the air, and nuclear plants normally don't.

The point is that most forms of power generation we have, today, is less safe and causes more environmental impact than nuclear power. And yet you are upset about nuclear power? You are not being rational, you are sensationalist.
alias work='sudo ln -sf /etc/hosts.work /etc/hosts'
alias play='sudo ln -sf /etc/hosts.play /etc/hosts'
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Are you suggesting sites should allow duplicate usernames and allow you to log in with that username and one of the correct passwords associated with it?
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Many modern reactor designs (Thorium LFTR's being the most prominent) are actually designed to help mitigate the problem of current waste by burning it as fuel. So if its waste that you are worried about, it seems sensible to support limited construction of modern reactors to address this problem.