skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
All his comments are homeless-guy rants with some twists--such as, whenever he starts a paragraph with "God says..." the rest is a word list with stochastic length and content; definitely generated by a script.
I'd always wonder if I'd seen enough tits.
> If you compile recent clang, it supports range based for loops.

Thanks for the tip, will update my copy and try it out this weekend! :D
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That, plus the fact that they refused to do same optimizations to Java as they did to C++ for some reason.
Also, the bias of somebody who would like to pass along pithy nuggets of wisdom from her work with the dying.
Is this any more relevant than the top 5 things that people say when they get fired?

People say that they want lots of things but what matters is what they're willing to actually do.
Yeah. Shenanigans. Flagged.

This HN poster has a single post to HN. This one. Posted an hour ago.

This is a post to a Tumblr with a single post. This one. Posted an hour ago.

This is ripped off, word-for-word, from the original at inspirationandchai.com. It's linked, yes, but there's absolutely no reason for this Tumblr to exist, and the fact that this HN poster has no submission history besides this one suggests this is some kind of Googlejuicing.

It's a nice story and all, but this is the wrong way to go about getting it on HN, if it even belongs here to begin with (which, probably, it doesn't).
it's interesting the way they measure language popularity by number of commits to the major code forges. It's a way to separate the living & breathing languages that are actually being chosen for new projects from the living-dead languages.
I would think more on the lines of a cross between Dashboard widgets and full-screen apps.
My guess is they had to release WP7 when they did, and IE9 was not ready to ship on it, so the Silverlight was a stopgap. I think the HTML5 people have won the arguments in much of Microsoft, and Silverlight will be deprecated gradually on WP.
Suing a customer = Priceless!

I predict Streisand Effect in 5..4..3..2..1..
Nice. I particularly like how he claims it isn't a problem, and so everyone else is just 'nattering on' about it.

The best way to allay fears is to issue a royal edict. I mean, surely it's not a problem if the king commands it not to be?
They probably realized that Google would see through their scheme during due diligence. The investment banks that IPO'ed them, on the other hand, only made a big commission...
Keep in mind those HTML/JS apps will probably have hooks into .NET libraries installed on the system. And I bet that HTML will still be compatible with ActiveX.
>4. I wish I had stayed in touch with my friends.

You could say Facebook is fulfilling the top 4 of people life regrets.
I wonder what the average generation is of these people. I would expect most to be Baby Boomers, which would make sense for a lot of these regrets as their lives were shaped by a time when most had to start working in their early teens and to not show their emotions, at least for the men. It would be interesting to compare to a later generations dying regrets.
Is she also missing out the regret of people who said, "I wish I had worked harder and made more of my life?"
That's great advice for anyone! I've seen it recommended by many to people wanting to get involved in OSS projects and build a name for themselves.

I rarely watch videos, especially interviews, and I skimmed the summary, but based on the article's title it's a subset of my "consume less, create more" philosophy. Sadly, it's still more philosophy than practice.
I can only imagine the turf wars raging right now about this apparent dichotomy between classic and tiled. I assume my friends there are not having a very happy day.
A different stream at http://sputnik.tv2.dk/live/?top#event-820
I sometimes wonder: Of those people who said they'd work less/be happier/live truer etc how would they feel if they really did get to redo their lives with that ethos? Would they regret different things? Would they wished they'd worked even less, or perhaps work more?
It's amazing that you had conversations with Mr. Zuckerberg, a future multi-billionaire, about his Facebook idea all the way back in late 2003, early 2004.

Edit: Reading the other comment, it seems Mr. Greenspan has a settlement agreement not to discuss certain details about Mr. Zuckerberg or Facebook. Anyone have a link to the story behind all this? The idea of discussing Facebook with its founder from before its inception is just... Wow.
"Health brings a freedom very few realise, until they no longer have it."

Take it from an old guy, pay attention to this. I've buried both inlaws and my father since late January this year. When you lose your health, you also lose the little things in life from a very real perspective. You can't hang with your friends any more. Your free time evaporates because of all of the doctor visits. You may need help getting there. Also, the idea of spontaneous activity becomes a memory, because you have to plan yours around medication and appointments. And, of course, that affects the plans of those who love you (although they will deny it).
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They changed gears because it turned out that passive reporting of giant fact dumps did not garner attention nor have significant impact on the world. As soon as they began taking on the role of curation or reporting on top of their cache of data, that's when things really took off (according to Assange).
Thx for that. Java and scala-specifically, it's a pretty high-dimension space. Background:

http://www.elis.ugent.be/JavaStats

http://www.bestinclass.dk/index.clj/2010/02/benchmarking-jvm...

http://isthisclojure.blogspot.com/2011/02/benchmark-clojurej...

https://docs.google.com/present/view?id=0AS8emH3-FLt3ZGRtbWJ...

Examples of benchmarks gone awry:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6146182/why-is-my-scala-c...

http://groups.google.com/group/scala-language/browse_thread/...
> "And it seems like they're not willing to get rid of any of that for the new world of web/mobile apps"

They did it pretty handily with WP7 development.

And Win8-on-ARM obviates the legacy issue anyway. There's going to be a clean-slate development approach put forth as the recommended way to develop for 8. There's no way around that.

It'll almost certainly look a lot like current Windows development (likely just a new iteration of Silverlight and .Net). And just as certainly, legacy apps will stick around in a sort of "XP Mode" for x86 Win8, but they're going to be phased out.

If MS isn't talking yet, it's probably just because they have a new slew of buzzwords and marketing to finish drafting before they introduce it.
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Lightswitch is Silverlight wrapped in a good practice framework, just like Wavemaker generates code on Spring.

I had a play with Lightswitch and I liked it. It is like MS Access. I'm surprised they positioned this at the developers rather than power users though. Perhaps there is a wall between the tools division and the Office division.

On the topic of loyalty, platform companies are like the Mafioso. Loyalty or the lack of it cuts both ways. MS tech is not the easiest to learn. The reason MS got away with it for years is because Sun was even worse.
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The point is that there are wonderful parts of life other than cottages on lakes, and while you're working harder for those 10 years you are to some extent missing out on those parts of life, because there are only 24 hours in a day.

While you're focusing on that one month at the cottage, those people on their death beds are reflecting on the other 11.
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>http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2011...

More reading on this
What if the Times and Twitter merged?
I think you've nailed it.
Well, they certainly went from 'obscure curiosity' to 'house-hold name and infamy.'
Game of Thrones....One helluva of a book
And health can pretty much only be taken care of by working hard. I bet the people who could afford a palliative nurse at home sure as hell would regret it more if they couldn't afford her because they worked less.
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Also the pithy wisdom of people who can wish all they want without consequences. Say anything, especially if it sounds profound.

Perhaps the author figured out that most folks think of the same pseudo-profound things when they're dying. I'd kind of like to hear the list of unique thoughts.
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I love the claim that there has never been any controversial theories in biology or physics, that turned out to be wrong, or at least the wrong path. But I digress.

The author is only partially correct. The debate isn't whether inflation/deflation is good or bad. They are both, depending on where you sit. In some situations inflation is good (when you have a fixed interest rate and a pile of debt to pay off) and some times it's bad (when you have a pile of cash sitting in an account). It's the same for deflation.

I think the argument from Quora was that if you're trying to make Bitcoin a universal currency, you'll have a tough time obtaining "reach" when everyone knows there will be deflation. In other words, you know the currency you own will be able to buy more goods in the future (as it becomes relatively more scarce). So, you don't spend it.

Of course, it looks like the post explains that they just don't care. It's a technological experiment. And that's also fine.
In the average case for large datasets. Quicksort is O(n^2) worst-case (choosing the worst pivots possible), and Bubblesort is O(n) in the best case (e.g. an already-sorted array).

The C++ Bubblesort will have better worst-case and best-case performance, but worse average-case performance, for large inputs.

But this is all irrelevant, because in Python, you'll be using Timsort[1], which I'm pretty sure is implemented in C anyway. In C++, you'll be using std::sort unless you have a template allergy. If you use the Gnu stuff, that will be Introsort[2]; if MSVC, Quicksort.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timsort
[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Introsort
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What's with the floating platform? The footage looks like it's from a Bond movie.
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I have a friend who recently tried to purchase an iPad for a contest her work was going to put on during an event this summer. Apparently the Apple store rep had to deny the sale, giving pretty much the same reasons in this article. She pushed back a bit and pretty much found out that if they really wanted to get an iPad, it would still be possible; it basically ended up being a "just don't mention what you're using it for" and they couldn't really block the purchase.
Or http://anonymouse.org/cgi-bin/anon-www.cgi/http://thepirateb....
What was the deal with that laser? What could they possibly be aiming at?
This paper served as a great introduction to Go programming for me. I've been trying to work through my own basic program in Go for the past few weeks and their overview of the language features used cleared up a lot of loose ends for me.
This cool poster caused me a headache before I read 20% of it.
>Irritating, painful, expensive? Choose your favorite word to describe your experience as a Sony customer, I guess.

Disruptive. I've been going paperless( in regards to money )since 2008, this was a flat out disruption on my day to day life.

>This is hardly the first time Sony's customers have been screwed by Sony's customer-hostile policies, so I don't expect it, but I certainly do hope for it.

Sony's abysmal history is public knowledge, that still had little choice in the limited choice I had with buying a gaming system.

>When I'm caught and sentenced? For schadenfreude, or do you think I'm behind this attack?
Kudos for missing that hyperbole.

By all means keep downvoting me. How many of you disagreeing with my point about the extremity of these methods were effected by any this? That's what I thought.
They haven't sued him instead they've threatened him with legal action to get him to take down web content. The web content includes personal contact details for Vodafone staff. So that's reasonable

It looks like Vodafone isn't providing the promised service but I guess the consumer protection goverment agency in India is a bit ?ineffective?. So that's a bit rubbish.

Not really much of a story here.
This is an old article (2009), which the PHP team has responded to:

"With regards to the new article posted at [URL], all of the advice in it is completely incorrect. We at the PHP team would like to offer some thoughts aimed at debunking these claims, which the author has clearly not verified. "

http://groups.google.com/group/make-the-web-faster/browse_th...

Previous discussion:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=676856
Full text: http://forums.macrumors.com/showpost.php?p=12674933&post...
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From their site: http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/launchsite.php

We launch from sea in Denmark, east of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. We like the idea of launching (and landing) on water. If we are able to control this environment we are basically able to launch our rockets from anywhere in the world to any height.

The basic problem that keeps most amateur rocketry projects from reaching high altitude is that of a suitable launch site. Northern Europe is very densely populated, and there are no areas like the Black Rock Desert. Even if we did have deserts here, the regulatory regime of private, amateur spaceflight is Terra Incognito to authorities.

However it has been discovered that outside the national territorial waters - typically 12 nautical miles off the coast - things gets a lot simpler from a legal perspective. In the practical world the open sea also offers a lot of interesting features to us.

Few landmasses on the planet is as empty as the open sea - and as easy to monitor. This makes the whole issue of range safety relatively simple compared to the conditions on land. Most space ports are found on a coastline for the same reason. Finally - operating out of Copenhagen, Denmark - the logistic challenge of launching rockets from Sahara or some place in the Artic is much larger than sailing a couple of hundred nautical miles out to sea.

As a result, in 2009, we decided to commit Copenhagen Suborbitals to sea launch.
I don't know if people would believe Sony at this point. Their integrity is kind of shot...
You mean the floating platform attached to a submarine?

http://www.copenhagensuborbitals.com/

I hope someone has told the Russians:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norwegian_rocket_incident
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This is a nice idea.

We build a lot of mobile apps, and we use a combination of the Django admin, and django-tastypie. This gets a JSON API up and running with authentication in very short order, but a product in this space would be very welcome, especially as it allows the data model to be built with a GUI. Our programmers spend a lot of time on model development and being able to delegate that to less technical staff would be a big benefit.

White-label would obviously be a very strong requirement.
It's not trolling, look at the excellent answers that I received, including yours.
For the record, I didn't invest any money in Groupon.

Groupon asked me to be on their board of directors. Compensation for that position was paid in options. That's why I have options/stock in Groupon, not because of an investment.

As far as angel investing goes, I have not made any angel investments to date. The only private company I've ever invested in is my own company, 37signals. That's not to say I wouldn't invest in another private company, I just haven't so far.
1. Most of this advice contradicts itself.
2. The 6th regret should be 'I wish I didn't have to resort to stealing other people's content to get to the top of HN'
I only spent an hour straightening out his use of Go. Had I know he was going to publish it externally as "Go Pro" I would have tried to turn it into a real Go program, and perhaps even optimize it somewhat. Overall I think the Java and C++ code got the most attention from language experts. Ah well.
As a Drupal developer, I'm well aware of the enormous sample bias inherent in this study: Drupal folks don't commit PHP to code forges because they commit it to Drupal.org, which built its own code forge back in the mid-2000s and has a community culture that strongly encourages its use.

Similarly, Wordpress runs a plugin repository where the Wordpress folks probably keep most of their code.

Meanwhile, this study also doesn't count CPAN as a code forge, so pitchfork-wielding Perl programmers will be arriving on this thread in 3...2...1 seconds to make this argument again, only in a much stronger form. Only a fraction of PHP programming involves Drupal or Wordpress, but my impression is that nearly everything that gets done in Perl is eligible for CPAN, which has been around longer than any of Github, SourceForge, Google Code or CodePlex.
"Nefario" argues that governments love inflation. That is not the case. There's no such thing as the government. The U.S. Fed generally likes having just a little bit of inflation. Anyone who remembers the 1992 U.S. presidential campaign quite possibly remembers GHW Bush's irritation at Greenspan for doing too much to fight inflation at the expense of job creation.

Central banks are independent for this very reason: GHW Bush wanted to turn on the printing presses and inflate the economy's way out of the recession, while the Fed wanted to preserve the value of the dollar.

I don't think anyone's going to claim that the system is anywhere near perfect, especially given the events of the last few years, but I have no idea how anyone can run through some simple thought experiments and not come to the conclusion that a finite currency pool is lunacy.
I think the point here is that nobody knows. That may sound like a dismissive and superficial stance to take... but it happens to be the most honest out there.

There is a key aspect of knowing something in terms of a rigorous scientific understanding that is forgotten so often in conversations about it that it just drives me insane. In any experiment with a control, all your other variables have to be fixed...

... or you don't know shit.

Now apply this to the bitcoin debate. Let's take it for granted that deflation in a debt, fiat, gold based currency system is a bad... bad thing. We're going to grant it for the sake of argument.

Well - you still don't know crapola about whether or not deflation in a bitcoin based currency system is bad. For there are key differences in each case. Once you move from any of these to bitcoin, certain variables flip.

In a debt based currency system, deflation amounts to the actual destruction of available cash in the system. That's the chief reason why deflation is so bad for our economies. If you get to the point where we're at now where the system can't soak up any more debt, then your deflation becomes a real problem since you no longer have any means to create the inflation you need to stimulate growth.

But deflation in bitcoin does NOT entail cash destruction. For that is fixed by the algo. So here is a key difference. And it's just one of many I could mention for this case.

In a fiat based currency system - where a government prints the money (as opposed to having a central bank buy government debt) - any deflation can be offset easily because printing more money is not limited to debt saturation. Bitcoin is just not comparable to this kind of system for this reason. We need to compare it to systems where deflation is a real possibility.

Maybe it's closest to a gold backed system? Maybe. But there are flipped variables here too. Gold is not infinitely divisible. It can't be exchanged with any degree of ease like bitcoin can... etc...

Now of course, a little bit of a priori speculation is all well and good, and a necessary part of hypothesis formulation. But for heaven's sake stop getting into these discussions under the pretext of actually knowing anything.

The article is essentially right. We don't know. Run the experiment... wait and see.

Oh but of course, we have governments that will shut it down before the experiment has had a chance to yield results...
Good luck going with that to Indian courts... Usually they are more partial to consumers and probably blast Vodafone for trying to curtail freedom of expression etc...
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I can tell you that it's not just those on their death bed who face these regrets, but the families surrounding them as well. My own experiences have taught me that my real moments of happiness come from enjoying my family time. Work provides some satisfaction: those little victories nailing a project, or scoring a big contract, but it only lasts until the next one. A job well done on a project hardly can compare the moments you capture with your spouse or your children.
I think from some of the comments, it could be that you just haven't reach the point in your life that this difference becomes apparent. I would have never guessed before having children that I could be so happy -- they are just entirely different emotions. I suspect a lot of folks under hospice care are old enough to recognize this difference, and regret spending their early years trying to earn their way to happiness, and missed their childrens youth.
I think our generations, especially with the work-from-home movements, will be different though. We get to both raise our children and work just as hard -- it's no longer a choice to be made.
Do I ultimately care? No. Lots of other things to focus on.
Avoid writing naive setters and getters

And let clients manipulate the class properties directly. After all encapsulation is overrated. Best use only global variables.

Don't copy variables for no reason

Forget about the distinction between input and output variables and about readability. Those are overrated too.

The advice in this article is either trivial or wrong.
"Go Pro" is unfortunately a very misleading name. I just spent an hour cleaning up his use of Go. Nobody made any attempt to actually turn this code into a well-written Go program. I did not realize that he was going to publish it externally.
Most of these people would have defined benefit plans, so they get the same monthly stipend whether they live to 66 or 99.

For people on defined contribution plans, they can get a Life Annuity.
> The use of the algorithm is mostly orthogonal to the language being used.

I don't find that to be true. I use more sophisticated algorithms in "higher level" languages because I can implement them in about the same time it takes me to implement less sophisticated algorithms in "lower level" languages.

> Personally, I often do an initial write of a program first in Python and rewrite in C/C++ if necessary. Usually, the first unoptimized C++ implementation is 10-100x faster than an optimized Python implementation.

Yes, but the c/c++ rewrite gets to take advantage of what you learned in the python AND you only do the c rewrite when you need the speed and are willing to pay the time penalty to get it. (There's some extra cost to the c version otherwise you'd always do c and never do python.)