skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's quite a bit of confusion in this article... Maybe the author "gets" it, but (s)he sure doesn't explain it well.

The way I see it: there are two kinds of entities here: variables, and objects these variables reference/point to. If a variable is mutable, it can be made to reference a different object. If it is immutable, it will always reference the same object, the one it initially references. If an object is mutable, its properties/contents can be changed (e.g. adding to an array). If it is immutable, it will always remain the same as it was when it was initialized.
I agree, and it's the same for all the engineering courses I have done. I could explain almost all of the concepts for a lot of my courses with hardly any study, but 90% of the exams I do are (essentially) just solving problems, and being prepared for that often takes a lot of practice in my experience.
So maybe capitalism is very sub-optimal with respect to encouraging software progress? Microsoft's incentive is evidently not to contribute to open standards.

I guess capitalism with respect to software can only happen by software IP protection being enforced. If we could freely ripoff directX and incorporate any advances it made into openGL, then Microsoft would effectively be contributing to openGL, and the industry as a whole would benefit.

I think it would mean the end of software-only companies. Could Apple still make a profit if all of it's software free/libre? Do nvidia or AMD make money directly from software?

I'm not advocating either way.
That poor guy. But I appreciate the reminder to double-check any rm command.
Would you really want to stop them? Would you really want to pour your time and energy into stopping them?

Why would you do that when there are more dangerous things happening, such as companies not securing their websites and databases or governments that are trying to lock down the internets?

I'm more worried about governments having LulzSec's capabilities than LulzSec.
We could like, stop submitting/up-arrowing a link to HN every time Lulzsec hacks some place -- which seems to be multiple times daily at this point.
I've played around with it and bought Alexandrescu's book. It's an elegant language and in theory easier than C++ to work with (faster compilation times, better error messages, more concise and expressive syntax). But the tooling and library support is not too good. There is also a fractured community over the move from D 1.0 to 2.0, which broke compatibility. I really do hope it becomes mainstream though - it addresses in a straight-forward way many C++ headaches that you have to be a C++ expert and/or contortionist (such as Alexandrescu) to solve. It really just needs a killer app or library to drive adoption.
"It has been often said that the science is settled on the issue of CO2 and climate. Let me put this claim to rest with a simple one-letter proof that it is false.

The letter is s, the one that changes model into models. If the science were settled, there would be precisely one model, and it would be in agreement with measurements.

Alternatively, one may ask which one of the twenty-some models settled the science so that all the rest could be discarded along with the research funds that have kept those models alive.

We can take this further. Not a single climate model predicted the current cooling phase. If the science were settled, the model (singular) would have predicted it."

http://www.stephankinsella.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/10/Ha...
I've seen papers where the author seemed to do a respectable job of benchmarking and usually CUDA came out 10% to (rarely) 40% faster. Still not enough of a gain to prompt me to marry a hardware-vendor-specific language.

I think people like CUDA because Nvidia puts a serious effort into their development tools and Marketing. That's not meaningless.
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I know - two item selection with slider is not natural, but I wanted to keep one style. Don't know what is better - one style or a more natural widget.
It leads to financial ruin for welfare states? Then how is it that Sweden is one of the countries that accepts most immigrants per capita in Europe, but still has a good economy, and still have opened up policies even further during the last decade?
It may not need another killer. You get iPhone and after that you're bored and want to try another one.. same analogy..
Well it may seem a bit arbitrary to those who grew up in the U.S. but were born elsewhere (or even to those who were born in the U.S. but grew up culturally isolated).
I tried about a 100 password/login pairs and none worked. Perhaps they've all been changed, or maybe this list is fake.
Task Manager API: A framework to manage scheduling kernels across devices

This makes me wonder... how useful is the GPU for kernel development?
Why an old browser for Hacker News, where fully 70% of the submissions are live demos of new technology, which require the latest version of a modern browser to use? It's like entering your Prius in a rally race.
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You could be right, maybe I am "overcoming" my shyness.
We pay proportional taxes on the % of income that comes from other states. For example, if 80% of our revenue comes from Illinois and 20% from Michigan--we only pay taxes on the 20% from Michigan.

"Doing business" (as far as our accountant is concerned) is having billable clients in those states--generating revenue. We've had employees in 3 states (MI, IL and FL) and the only concern is making sure you are meeting that states payroll tax and withholding policies.

On a related note: Some states have different workers comp laws. We we're not required to carry workers comp in Illinois, but did need it in Michigan (and we also had to insure our Illinois employee, because she was now working for a company that was based in Michigan).

It's a confusing mess sometimes--seek help from accounts and lawyers and don't be afraid to call the state and just ask.
I wonder if this is true of each company's management style too - I don't know anyone in Google or Facebook personally but it does seem to me that Google values engineer autonomy more than any other company (and that is one reason for its huge success, trusting its engineers).
I don't know, but in my experience, almost all HPC (scientific computing, seismic imaging, etc) work is done in linux environments. So what gives?
From Muslims To Medicare, Republicans Are Selling Fear Again
I hear you on that one -- my engineering degree trained me to like 90-degree angles and consistency =p
Not sure of a way to keep it consistent and make it natural...there must be a UI pattern somewhere!?!? My go to would be to browse jQuery UI and YUI Widgets...ha
It would be handy if there was a volume limit: three posts per day, or one, or one a week.
Dear HN:

Please try out editing code in a separate window. It's really cool! We hotswap your code changes live into the document - no more swapping windows, recoding, then saving / refreshing. See the "code" tab on the demo for more info.

Code changes also sync up with the debugging tool. Why not check this out too - if you add a css style, it will appear in code. And if you alter a css style in code, it will update the debugging tool.
They're profitable?
TV pitchman Don Lapre accused of bilking 220,000 out of $52M
A grand jury has indicted a Phoenix-based TV pitchman accused of running a nationwide scheme to sell essentially worthless Internet-based businesses to more than 200,000 people.
uhm, css3please.com uses flash code; not bookmarked, sorry :)
aside from the fact most of us will need to have a resume again, +1 for this idea.
NH property taxes aren't significantly higher than they would be for similar homes in similar towns in MA.

And yes, if you work in MA and live in NH, you pay MA income tax. Also, if you live in MA and work in NH, you pay MA income tax.
"trying to figure out the exam answers in advance using previous exams"

What is wrong with this? My university provides the last six years worth of final exams for every subject, and sometimes the lecturers give you worked solutions for one or two of them. We will often work in groups to come up with solutions so we can practice with them and make sure we've got methods right.

The questions on the exam you take are often completely new (or altered versions of past questions, depending on the lecturer), so it's not cheating at all. But old exams are great practice to make sure you know enough of the formulas and equations to be able to solve the type of questions you will be asked.
A double edge knife/sword?
"Give me your tired, your poor,/
Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,/
The wretched refuse of your teeming shore."

While I don't grant your premise (that open borders in a welfare state lead to financial ruin), I think the US has a special consideration in that it was founded not on a race, ethnicity, or culture, but an ideology of self-evident truths. And immigrants.
I think it's a great question coming from a 15 year old. That's a kid who wants to know and do everything. He'll go places.
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I knew someone who, in the days of Windows 3.1, managed to accidentally invoke "format c:" from inside Microsoft Word - I was in the same room as them when they did it and heard the cries for help. What they couldn't do was explain to me what they had done to accompish such a feat.
What if Rails isn't for beginners anymore?
Thank you, that's essentially what I thought, but you did a much better job of explaining it.
One of the points of Tobin's writeup is the rampant copying/reposting of job descriptions by unscrupulous staffing firms.
Had a related idea a while back, not sure of enforceability of copyright laws: 0) Charge for service that: 1) Takes a job description that is 'creative' enough or unique 2) registers copyright 3) includes verified link that denotes the posting is locked and unauthorized reproduction will be pursued with threat of copyright infringement lawsuit 4) Profit? Not sure if this is a real enough pain for employers to be a standalone product. Maybe an add-on to existing job boards as a differentiator.
Agreed @ the understatement.

I'm not sold on this being one gigantic government conspiracy. I wouldn't doubt the existence of this being one giant social engineering tactic, but something in the back of my head tells me otherwise. I stand by the belief however that this group is just further enabling the US and other nations to take actions against internet freedom by their tactics against it.
Soccer World Cup DDoS Blackmailer Jailed in Germany
And not a single reference to Programming Language Pragmatics.
As I'm looking to do this sort of comparison right now, this is a timely find for me.

I like the way the basic mode works and gets straight to the point.

A few points that occur to me, but they're all just cosmetic things.....
The slider for linux/windows could be a radio control, it would be more fitting for the options.

You can't tell what you're choosing with the CPU power slider, I'd put marker on the slider such as .25 .5 1 2 etc and label that as '* 1 Xeon E5520 etc'

Why are the bandwidth and subscription hidden in accordions? If it's just to keep the results table from being pushed too low you could recapture that space by removing the text from the dark blue gradient area, the second line is fairly redundant info and the "Cloud Computing Comparison Engine" could happily sit above the top menu almost flush with the top of the page.

When you expand the details for an item in the results list it's very difficult to read. As it is in an expanded element you can afford to get some extra white space in there. Pop a bit more of a margin round the tables, and add a bit of css so the column widths are the same for each result row, which will make it easier to compare details of results.
This is a profoundly short-sighted and ignorant position for many reasons.

1. You will give far more publicity to LulzSec than they are already getting by acknowledging them as such a severe concern you've pulled your engineers off other more valuable tasks to enact draconian and totally meaningless interdiction efforts

2. It won't actually shut them up. LulzSec is an example the ultimate asymmetrical enemy. They have fewer numbers, fewer financial resources and less technology, but have a mastery of the terrain. You don't defeat a guerrilla by pretending they don't exist. You do not attack them where they are strongest.

3. You're not actually achieveing anything here. Twitter isn't exposing itself to legal vulnerability here, and you certainly wouldn't shut up LulzSec for even a split second by just taking away their Twitter account.

I mean, honestly, have you thought this through at all? Have you paid attention to anything in the last 20 years? This kind of short-sighted feel-good finger-in-the-dyke measure is exactly why we're all sitting here screaming into the wind about copyright and piracy. What a shame that there are so many people who think this is the way to handle serious issues on the Internet.
> No it's not.

Well, yes it is, by definition.

Paraphrased from Wikipedia: Anti-intellectualism is a mistrust of intellect, and the derision of science as impractical. Gut feelings are emotional reactions, generally regarded as not modulated by conscious thought, and as a reflection of intuition rather than rationality.

That seems pretty clear to me, so I will gladly call this advice to follow the gut anti-intellectual.

Furthermore, I think it's to be actively opposed in the public sphere. Politics in general is all about the gut feeling, and favouring non-rational solutions to complex issues is simply dangerous, especially far-reaching ones like this one. If that is 'ranting' to you, then so be it.

Lastly, I am not disagreeing with his opinions (I agree with several of them, though that's not relevant), I am disagreeing with the 'go with gut feeling' stance.

Just in case you were not trolling...
these lackluster IPOs can truly be put on the backs of their financial partners

timing matters. the investment banks are taking companies public in a new downturn in the markets that could last a while. they should have gone public a year ago, when markets still had plenty of easy upwards momentum

what happened to pandora? greece. sorry, macro still matters. people get scared by big stories, they put their money in treasuries
The guy who put up the sign correctly assumed that the lazy people he targeted would (irrationally) react by paying more attention. Which was the desired effect. Recognizing (and exploiting) irrationality in others may be a bit mean, but its definitely not irrational by itself.

Now, there may be a simpler explanation: people see the angry note, think "Oops, someone cares about this crap", and change their behaviour just to be nice. Or maybe they just didn't really know how they were supposed to handle the trash, and the note made them less ignorant.

Personally, I suspect all three effects played a part.
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Is it too late to learn to think/write code?
I an 32 years old. Have been a design professional [Architectural Design] for 10 odd years now.
I have been lethargically trying to develop a web application for a while now.
I have realized over time that the same lead-by-example leadership that I have been able to demonstrate for multi-million dollar real estate and built-environment projects... is not applicable for the world of machine-language... since I am green on even the basic parameters and constraints in question.
My [much younger] technology savvy friends tell me - "There is a _time_ for everything" - effectively calling me out to be an over-the-hill humbug.

I think of this as baloney. So my question to HN is in two parts:
1.Are you _ever_ too old to learn to write code?
2. If not, where do I start?

[Warning: People with answers to #2 might frequently be asked stupid questions by me in the future]
Some of them are here
http://twitterex.com
http://reduce.li
http://twitexplode.com

And am building a facebook application:
http://namesucker.com

One pattern in all these, I lose interest and they fizzle out. So, if i could pose a question here, how do you keep yourself motivated?
In the US, physician Janette Sherman MD and epidemiologist Joseph Mangano published an essay shedding light on a 35 per cent spike in infant mortality in northwest cities that occurred after the Fukushima meltdown, and may well be the result of fallout from the stricken nuclear plant.

The eight cities included in the report are San Jose, Berkeley, San Francisco, Sacramento, Santa Cruz, Portland, Seattle, and Boise, and the time frame of the report included the ten weeks immediately following the disaster.

I don't know why anyone should take this article seriously. Here's the thing about radiation: We can measure it directly. And scientists have certainly been able to measure radioactivity here in the U.S. that must be a consequence of Fukushima. But here's the thing: those radioactive effects -- here in the U.S. -- are very, very small.
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TL;DR: Author had a deadline to meet so he wrote about how nobody, himself included, knows whether or not Facebook will be big and awesome forever. Attached a catchy title for the pageviews that his performance will be judged by.
Agreed. The ascetic approach to features is what keeps me using it, even though there are other services with 20x as many features. Very simple, very useful.
Okay, that is not the pool of radiance I played as a kid.
COBOL on COGS
Where are you seeing Flash? I have Click2Flash turned on and I'm not seeing any annoying boxes with the word Flash in the middle.
I missed putting in an "Ask HN:" on my post. Sorry
> There is a fact that no one wants to acknowledge: In timeframes of under 20 or so years there are NO energy technologies that are clean. None. For timeframes longer than 20 there is exactly one: Nuclear. There is nothing else.

I'm skeptical of this figure, but it's not particularly relevant. The issue is whether directing energy towards renewable energy production has a better environmental impact vs directing that same amount of energy towards fossil fuel energy production.

Total evaluations of the costs (in dollars, to the environment, etc.) are extremely important in comparing energy production methods, but your 20 year figure is fairly meaningless on its own.
It was only deleting /usr, which doesn't contain home directories or config files.

I suppose that /usr does store a good chunk of what the Windows directory has in it though.
$ rm -rf /

rm: it is dangerous to operate recursively on `/'

rm: use --no-preserve-root to override this failsafe
"Mr. Bobman offers a potential solution: Have the telecommuting employee resign, form a C or S corporation and invoice the ex-employer for work. But he warns that the former employer would have to pay the former employee more to cover new expenses and lost benefits. And, although it would be a challenge, states could still make a case for taxing the former employer."

It starts with full-time employees and ends with anyone you pay...

Similar to how sales tax started with the location of your company and is now the location of your servers ( in several states ).
This is a good thing

One of the lessons people seem to have forgotten from the first bubble is that the opening day "pop" is a manufactured scam by the ibanks so that their insider/selected clients can flip some shares for quick buck. You don't want a pop, a pop is bad.

An IPO'd stock actually trading at its priced value a day later is a sign that the banking advisers actually did their job right in pricing it.
Great stuff! One small nitpick in Chrome 12: Go to Outline, enter values, see what happens. Select "Outset" or "Double" in the dropdown list, and if you move the cursor back to the dropdown, most times you'll hit one of the browser version graphics, sparking off the version display effect. Tiny issue really :)

Other than that minor issue, I really like this!
You didn't address the central point of my comment or offer any reasons as to why the proposed solution would not work.

And it's interesting you asked if we should censor Craigslist, Ebay, and Usenet because NONE of those sites/networks receive any meaningful traffic here.

It would even be easy to imagine ebay and craigslist being blacklisted.
I think they meant http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GPGPU#Kernels
My friend just got a job at Intel. During his interview, he tells me, they were more interested in his side projects then what he did at his previous job.
There is an implicit assumption here: that your day-to-day work does not consume all of your programming cycles. As a graduate student this was true, and now as a researcher in industry it is still true. The most interesting thing I'm working on now, the thing that is most likely to make the biggest impact is my work.
Thanks for the feedback. I see what you mean. We plan to improve the design soon. Cheers.
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From an economic perspective, open borders are highly desirable. But you're right that they're not really compatible with welfare programs. I don't know if it's ever been tried, but one solution would be an "open borders, but non-citizens aren't eligible for welfare until they've been here for, asy, 10 years" policy.
I can only assume that what the author really meant is zero advertising. Most of what is described falls under marketing.
In my spare time I let my subconsciousness work through the problems that my conscious-self couldn't figure out. I find music, entertainment, social activities, and natural surroundings the best way to enable this process.
The quick onslaught of the "it couldn't possibly be a meltdown" message in the mainstream media and the "MIT professor says" emails/webpages, etc all smacked of a propaganda campaign to me. All the while the fuel rods were sitting in a puddle at the bottom of the reactor... and probably leaking through into the ground.

Of course, it's more likely that it was a lot of people not willing to believe the scope of the catastrophe than a conspiracy to suppress information, but the forcefulness of the response was striking.

I heard a great (and probably apocryphal) anecdote on the radio a few weeks after -- "After three mile island, the Russians came to the US, performed a detailed analysis, and concluded 'we can't have a three mile island'. Instead, they had a Chernobyl. The Japanese went to Russia, did an analysis, and said 'we can't possibly have a Chernobyl', and instead had their own meltdown. Now we're hearing how modern reactors couldn't possibly have a meltdown like any of three so far."
Thanks for your support, rdl!!