skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the Economist might be one of the exceptions, where they are prone to less hit and run activity and have a more participatory readership of regulars. Compare that with any news or magazine site that you might click on right this very moment that is linked via Drudgereport, which I think is far more common.
To put that in perspective, 128 bytes is an x64 program's stack's red zone. :D
I'd go for the smaller one because of physics. It has a smaller moment of inertia, and so less force is required to pull out an adequate length of paper.

When I attempt to pull out a proper amount to cover my fat programmer's butt there is a significant breakage problem with large rolls.
I've not because I don't actually have any projects in this space - my partner (Violet Blue) does and I help her with the technical side of her sites and as someone with a media/tech background I find a lot of it quite interesting.
Perspectives obviously vary by market and circumstance. In mine I'm fine with renting. I tend to stick around the 1700/mo range in NYC. For that, I don't have to own a car or the maintenance and depreciation associated with it. I still pay transit, but it is significantly less than the cost I paid in Ohio to drive 40-60 miles to work.

My income mirrors my actual worth. I've seen people shortchanged because companies know that person is chained to a mortgage. I'm not paying maintenance, insurance, or front loaded interest on a home. (Tax deductible not that impressive)

After rent is subtracted from my net pay I still have enough to turn around and invest in a diverse array of investment options. A home is a savings account with a maintenance fee. Viewing it as anything else IMHO is wishful thinking. An apartment is that same service fee condensed. Remember, in my situation both the house and a car have costs I don't have to worry about.

Having freed myself of those problems I have much more spare time, more investment options, and flexibility. I'm perfectly ok with not having a lawn, neighbors degrading property values, or surprise expenses. To other people those negatives are perfectly acceptable, they cite the lack of space, public transit, and neighbors as negatives. I don't mind any of them.
Awesome, thanks!

I live in Taipei where the transport company holds back similar data for bus and subway. It's a bureaucratic nightmare and also public/private confusion just like in this post.
"our judgement of what's good or bad in general shouldn't really be a matter of taste and preference. Are we an engineering discipline or what?"

You know what. It's a funny thing, but as I was typing my response to your original post, I actually said this exact same thing to myself, and I started to think. It would be incredible if there was some non-emotional, non-touchy-feely way to get at the value of one language vs another. But then programming language choice just seems to be an inherently "feel" based decision...

"We should clean up the table from the psychological aspects of the matter and look at what's left: that's how powerful and how clever a language can be in the hands of a good developer."

This is one of the things that I thought of, but then there are so many demonstrations of people using all kinds of programming languages to do things that are incredibly clever and powerful.

Sometimes I like to just go through open source projects written in programming languages I am not extremely familiar with. I just want to get a taste of some of the myriad of programming styles and techniques that are out there. The different ways of looking at the same problem.

Even if I disagree with the method used, it is always eye-opening to see other ways of doing things - even some that may be vastly different from anything that I have ever seen before (my first time looking at Haskell comes to mind). I like to understand how and why different developers choose the routes that they choose.

I don't know, but to me it seems that, in a way, it is good that there is no emotionless method for rating languages. To declare one language as being definitively better than all others seems to me that it would be a tremendous loss. There is some value, I think, in having a diversity of "good" languages just for its own sake.

As to the simplicity of a language, well, to some people simplicity in a programming language is a beautiful thing, but then, the problem is that what constitutes simple is also a thing that varies from developer to developer. Perhaps the diversity of languages is a natural development from the diversity of programmers?

I think about Ruby. You know, when Matz describes why he created the language, he says that he wanted to create something that felt fun to develop in - fun for him. The fact that other people just happened to like Ruby was an unintended side effect.

I think that most people create a programming language with a similar type of outlook. They, either purposefully or subconsciously, try to build it to achieve a certain "feel". Perhaps it is this "feel" that makes a good developer powerful and clever with a language.

"for reasons I don't understand very well, a simple \"Hello world\" application written for JVM can take seconds to load and execute."

Heh heh, I have no comments on that.
Offtopic I know, but this comment is exactly the type where seeing points on comments would be really useful. As it stands, I won't click this link because I have no idea if it's worth it, or worse some kind of scam.
Of course, outages didn't happen back when everyone had to manage their own dedicated server.
Short curly hair styles
The short curly hairstyles are always chic, funny and stylish. Most of the people love to sport short curly hairstyle because it is very easy to carry and maintain.
> don't destroy the stocks because you may need them to recreate the vaccine.

It's worth noting that the US has a gigantic stockpile of smallpox vaccine already - and they're actually increasing the size of the stockpile because of worries about bioterrorism (in 2010 20 million doses of an updated and safer vaccine were added to the stockpile[1]). The vaccine is made with cowpox, so smallpox samples are not required for its production.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-05-25-smallpox25_ST...
Can you be more specific?

I have a counter example (assuming I've understood you):

/* C /

int foo () {
FILE x = fopen("bar");
return 0;
}

/* C++ */
int foo () {
ifstream in("bar");
return 0;
}
The speed, size and dependability of programming languages
Interestingly, in my travels I can only recall coming across that system once, it was at a hotel in Germany and I was quite young, somethiong like 12-15 years old.

Now days I recycle at home purely for the environment, but I don't think I cared much back then - whereas, with a vending machine that paid out when you returned a glass bottle, young me was very pleased to be able to do that, to help pay for the next bottle.
Why? What is broken about email? It pops up instantly with imap, it's available to everyone and is very standardized.

facebook, twitter and linkedin are poor copies or niche tools. email is simple and flexible. You can write love letters or close serious business deals with it.

email, is here to stay because it is the simplest most flexible tool.
> if you require a sign-up, nobody is going to bother.

Nobody is going to bother to hit-and-run, but people who read the same site over and over again and find themselves wanting to respond regularly will bother. I think that is a very good thing. If people are using persistent usernames, you also increase user-to-user connections.

Combine that with even rudimentary voting and downvote-based visibility and you've got, if not a 90% solution, at least a 75% solution.
The technology to do this has been around for some time if you want to. However, this is the first time I recall seeing anyone advocate it for normal usage, and I have never encountered a pro-grade font that is typeset this way by default. Why would you want to remove potentially significant ordering information from punctuation, particularly when multiple punctuation marks in close proximity tend to be confusing enough already?
If your purchase of the game is tied to a Steam account, that should work. You'd have to make a new Steam account to avoid these penalties... probably actually a bigger hassle than it sounds, since which account you're logged in as determines which games you can make a snap-decision to play.
If you'd rather use a native client with loads of features, including blocking people and keywords, give YoruFukurou a try https://sites.google.com/site/yorufukurou/home-en
What I've read lately about porn sites suggests that the days of easy money are gone

What has disappeared are the "gallery sites" that were easy to make - often by hand - or using basic CMS's like wordpress.

Most of the people who say it is over are the "old skool" industry folks who hate the Tube sites because they represent a level of technical expertise that they cannot match (but most HN'ers can)

What is happening is real technology is disrupting the space and those without skills are getting pushed out.

People are still paying for porn, and content sites need to find the distribution and new leads.

I know this because my partner has a lot of projects in this space. I also know many people - from owners of some of the biggest content houses here in SF thru to engineers who work on startups and supplement their income at night through this kinds of projects.

It's actually more common then you think, most people just don't want to put their names to it.
This article should be "why C++ is vastly superior to C for multiplying and adding 3 matrices if you're not a very good C programmer".
I like Facebook's approach to comments (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/reference/plugins/comme...).

Pros:

- Most people are already signed-on in Fb, no friction to start commenting.

- There is a hierarchy of posts, similar to HN, reddit, etc

- Not anonymous.

Cons:

- Who owns the data? Probably Facebook.
perhaps, I'm forgetting something, but these solutions seem overly complicated.

I just have this in my .vimrc, and pasting (with formatting), is as simple as copying text, going to vim and hitting 'p' in command mode.

for middle-click (system) clipboard:
:set clipboard=unnamed
for ctrl-c (X11) clipboard:
:set clipboard=unnamedplus

couple caveats:
* +xterm_clipboard
* 'unnamedplus' is only for >= 7.3.74

see here for more info http://vim.wikia.com/wiki/Accessing_the_system_clipboard

note: I used unnamedplus for a bit, but found it to be much less desirable than using the unnamed middle-click buffer...YMMV
c and d are considered equal, you have overridden the boolean operators, what the code is actually calling on your if statement is:

c.bool() == d.bool()

In this case both will return true since they are non-zero, and thus the statement would be

1 == 1

Which is true; the compiler did exactly as you told it to do.
Content is licensable. If you join affiliate programs you get sample content to use for free, too.

Don't get into user-generated - too many legal and ethical issues.
I don't see small pox as being unique. If we get rid of it, we need to get rid of everything else. I think we still keep ebola, for example. Frankly, there is simply no way of knowing the future (though I agree, there's no way of ensuring security of samples into the future, either). We worry about destruction of rainforests, because we have no idea what cures and solutions we might find in the undiscovered life within that could be lost forever. Likewise, we simply don't know what today's "horror of horrors" could find beneficial use, some day.

In the event that we are invaded by aliens, I would count the success of unleashing small pox on them as being much greater than Jeff Goldblum infecting them with a virus from his macbook. :P

When it comes down to it, though, I don't think there's a right answer. We just have to make an educated judgement call. Maybe the kind of judgement call where we respond to things like "but if we torture people, we can find terrorists!" with "but that's not the kind of people we are". Maybe we really do need to be the kind of people who say we're not willing to risk exposing innocent people to this for some future that we are only guessing about. Or maybe it's enough to simply map the genome and keep the data on it archived, while dumping the actual real deal.
The Arduino project gets a core memory accessory
In C, 0 evaluates to false.
There are a few defensive home owners in this thread who seem to be missing the point:

The main problem is that the general public sees renting as throwing money away, and that owning a home is unconditionally "better".

I'll make the assumption that this community has higher-than-average financial literacy, and hence there are people who have made the right decision with respect to rent/buy. However, I don't think this is true in general, and often times the rent/buy choice is much, MUCH closer than people assume.
Levy interviewed Chan et al for his book. Not speculation.
Had a similar experience--I went to a normal-ish high school, but my dad made sure I learned (at some points forcibly) how yo not make a complete idiot of myself around electronics, cars, carpentry, plumbing, etc.

Knew there was a reason I liked you, sanj. :p
Ask HN: US/Canadian companies?
A while back I read a blog post by a founder discussing how his company is structured. He's based in Québec (Montreal, I think), but set up the country in such a way that he could easily take on US-based investors. There's a Canadian company that employs the team, but the IP is all owned by a parent company registered in Delaware.

Does this ring a bell for anyone? I don't remember the name of the blogger or the company. Or do you have any other resources that discuss this kind of thing? I'm a dual US/Canadian citizen starting a company in Vancouver, and trying to navigate the legal minefield that results.
IPad enables legally blind woman to see kids faces for first time in 30 years
The argument for renting presupposes low inflation for the time you live there, which is, at this point, an absolutely crazy assumption. If you have a 30 year fixed mortgage in times of high inflation, after a decade or so your payment is virtually negligible.

I remember a neighbor making his last mortgage payment in the mid 80s. $25.
Only if your time has no value.
How are people solving the problem now? What's the market size of these solutions?
The argument is to have local servers as failover (or cloud servers as failover). It's not either/or.
It would be nice if comments from e.g. Hacker News were overlaid on the page you were visiting. A browser plugin could show you comments from multiple communities. That way you discover the comments even if you find the link another way, and it would be easier to open a bunch of tabs without remembering to open the comments too, etc. People wouldn't need to add comments to pages themselves.
I thought this was posted for it's comic value, but then I read the comments.

This is a critique of a therapy repeatedly proven empirically superior in it's efficacy to other non-pharmacological approaches. And, amazingly, it's a critique coming from what seems to be a Jungian nobody from Reno.

I say this as a huge advocate, and student of, Jung, Freud, Adler and the rest. But come on, if something helps people who can't leave the house, hold a job, or drive a car function again, without 10 years of 5 session a week therapy, how can you ethically justify attacking it this way.

CBT attempts to change negative thoughts and maladaptive behavior by addressing thoughts and behavior. Jungian therapy attempts to help people integrate elements of their psyche carried over from previous lives, an inherited collective psyche (yes Jung was a Nazi).
One pretty much has to assume that your property is going to need a repainting/recarpeting/other repairs when the tenants move out and price accordingly. Most renters (not all mind you) will do all sorts of bad things to your property. Taking that into account is important when renting out.
It should be the default understanding that what someone says and writes is their opinion.

Not having that as the default is how we ended up with the terrible popular style "in my opinion it could be argued that for some people it is mostly better if they XYZ, where possible (consult your doctor)".

NB, when I say it's a terrible style, that's my opinion, not a universal truth or peer reviewed fact cited in a published journal.

See?
Relevant:http://www.khanacademy.org/video/renting-vs--buying-a-home?p...
Using -j with C++ builds will always still be significantly slower than using -j with C builds.

Also, I believe the rule of thumb for the -j argument tends to be 2 times your number of cores. A surprising amount of build time is often spent on disk I/O, so you see worthwhile gains for quite a while running more jobs than cores.
What would be most useful for me is to mute someone for a set period of time.

If someone is off on a long series of tweets I don't care about, it would be nice to mute them for an hour or two until they're done.

Or if someone is tweeting from a conference and I don't care about it, I could mute them for a couple of days.

These are scenarios where I definitely don't want to unfollow, but I'd also like to not read dozens of uninteresting tweets.
This is an argument for not putting all your stuff on the same provider, cloud just makes it sound fancy it's equally applicable to your own servers.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.

A preposition is a word you should never end a sentence with.
Microsoft is weak on social network, and Skype could be a first step to fixing that.

Skype offers a great foundation for social because the contacts it contains are often better ones than Facebook offers.

By adding to components to what already has an entrenched base, Microsoft can leap forward without trying to "break into" the established market.
Referencing Zillow is the first indication you have no clue about the real estate market.

Two examples: The house I live in has a carriage house behind it. It's zoned as a rental, has a kitchen, bathroom, bedroom and about 800 sq ft of studio type space with about a 15 ft ceiling. Does this information appear on my Zillow page? Nope. Zillow has no way to enter that type of information and its valuation is missing this very crucial bit of info.

Secondly, where I used to live (in the mountains above Boulder), there was a house for sale next door. It was on one acre and was a modified single wide trailer. Zillow said it was worth $350,000. They said the property I was living on next to it (5 acres, a main house twice the size of our neighbor and a detached cabin) was worth $420,000. Seemed way off to me. Well, the house next door went for sale and sold for $149,000.

After that, I don't trust Zillow at all. They have a lot of work to do before someone could take any statistics they provide seriously.
I have always wondered how the housing/renting market would be if mortgages were not tax deductible (or rents were also tax deductible).
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Awful examples. Running your own server for this wouldn't have to mean learning to code your own firmware for their hardware, it wouldn't even have to mean being tech-savvy enough to install something like apache.

Lockitron could chose to release their hardware with that already done, so it plugs into the router and is ready to go. In that case, there are no benefits of the cloud, and the downside that it adds an extra possible point of failure. An example that would fit your comment, but not your theory, better is "you probably don't run your own router control panel web server". How many routers want you to control them through their manufacturer's remote servers, rather than just having an HTTP server built in? And is that in some way as time-consuming as grinding your own flour or making your own furniture?

Sure, as it stands right now, you might not be able to buy a Lockitron device and run it yourself quite as easily as using their servers. But this chain of comments isn't discussing "which choice should buyers make", it's "is their use of buzz words justified when they say 'main advantage [...] is that everything is in the cloud'", and frankly I don't think that's an advantage over a system where all devices run their own servers.
Just want go say that hot pads is one of my favorite websites. I get on it when I'm bored and just look at random places to live all the time.

You [or your group] do an outstanding job. Thank you for it.
All good points. You have to figure in costs of use when renting. As it turns out in my locale, you can reduce your taxes when renting under the assumption that renters are beating your place up and thus reducing the property value.

I'm fortunate enough to live in an area where finding renters will never be a problem should I end up that route, but you make an excellent point about that.

Also, eviction periods are not too bad in most parts of the U.S., you can write terms into the lease that also help short fuse eviction on non-payment if many places.

The biggest concern I have above all others is just managing the renters. There are services you can hire to handle all that and maintenance, but they consume some not insignificant part of the rent as payment.
C assumes that you know the contracts that calling a function implies. fopen()'s contract requires you to close the file after you are done with it.
It has nothing to do with anonymity. It has everything to do with the content on which people comment. For example, political articles are bound to bring in opposing viewpoints. And if you allow anyone to comment, you're bound to bring in a lot of people.

I'm convinced if you want to keep the level of discourse up, you can have a (mostly) homogeneous group of commenters and a large scale site or a small group of heterogeneous commenters, but you cannot have both scale and heterogeneity.

By charging your users to comment, you're probably going to reduce scale.
Thanks for the good response in turn....

I think a very core issue when discussing this is the fact that the majority of people aren't buying a home - they are mortgaging it. Borrowing money, and the additional costs that entails, have become the accepted norm for people to purchase a house. I do realize this is realistically the only way many people may be able to ever "own" a house - but if you spend the rest of your life paying it off, do you ever really own it for practical purposes?

The primary issue for me is that, in current society (talking us/ca here) - paying a financial institution an arm and a leg for the privilege of having them lend you enough money to "buy" a home as the standard way of doing this is the root of the problem - change our financial habits as a society to reduce this need in a few generations and things will change.
Steve Ballmer met President Ilves today after buying Skype
Great concept - the more available approaches the better. It also works fairly well for Something Awful.

My problem with the site is that my intuitive malware/scam heuristics would get a false positive on the site, if you hadn't vouched for it here on Hacker News. If you changed the design, it might help a little, but you obviously still need to figure out the market for the service.

On the positive side, companies are starting to realize that they aren't handling comment systems very well.