skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have felt the same way for a while now and upon reflection I realized that one purchase in my past had pushed me over the top in my addiction: a laptop in 2006.

I was liberated from my desk to do creative things. Think of all the beautiful places I could take may new laptop and feel the juices flowing. The world was my oyster!

Instead, I just looked at crap on the Internet from all those places. I could sit on the couch and have the Internet. I could sit outside and have the Internet. The laptop led to an iPhone. The iPhone led to the Internet while standing in line. The Internet in the car...

I still flirt with the constant idea of selling that laptop, selling that iPhone and seeing what happens. But alas all I do is flirt; I just bought a new laptop last month.
Interesting. A lot of the "challenges" here: http://zombal.com/scientific-challenges seem like generic questions rather than requests for specific technical work/lab experiments (e.g. "Is dieting an ineffective way to lose weight?")

Is that a design choice? Is there as much overlap as you think between your site and the one mentioned in the original post?
These prices are way out there - 50k for adprofs.com? I am in the ad business and wouldn't pay more than $500 for that.
Looks like you did
Music is just data/content, no program code. You can certainly transfer any client files you got from the normal Minecraft installation to your phone and (unsuccessfully) try to use them.

A program port is more than just moving data.
Bah, financial apps. My current company frequently hires a FoxPro 'expert' to do customization of a horrible financial app. It worries me deeply that there is a company marketing "new" accounting software based on tech this old, and that people buy it.

It doesn't bother too much that we pay the consultant a lot to customize it, because it seems like hell.
Releasing buggy software intentionally (2008)
Open to any suggestions... it's definitely still a work in progress but was done from "scratch".
While I appreciate the Jacques is a long standing and valuable contributor to HN and the startup community, I think posts like this simply encourage domain squatting and we should avoid up-voting them.
Awesome, domain squatting advertising on HN.
A quick sum of reserve prices in the table: $4,921,150.
What Geeks Can Teach Government
But is that much different from now? There are already a couple of reasons why someone would click on an ad without "honest interest".

I, for example, sometimes click on ads from companies I don't like, so that they have to pay for the click. Everytime I see an ad for Microsoft, Oracle or something along those lines I like to click on it to punish them a little for being stupid (in my opinion). I can't be the only one who does that?

I wonder why Anonymous hasn't picked that technique up as an alternative to DDoS. Maybe it's not effective enough, I'm not sure. But in the end I have better things to care about.
Got a link to some diagrams showing what "isometric training on bars and doorframes" means?
lol ouch
I used to work solely on a remote Dev box, using ExpanDrive to edit locally. I would have an ssh session open to run commands/debug/shell.

I've recently starting moving towards local Vagrant instances. I don't like dealing with local library installs on my Mac, and Vagrant makes it stupid easy to repeat my dev setup. It also gives me a good starting point for provisioning servers (using Puppet), thought I haven't fully consolidated the local dev and server Puppet manifests, yet.
I don't know if preprocessor macros are the best way to unit test C. There are fully featured (and free) unit testing suites out there for c/c++, Boost comes immediately to mind. No need to re-invent the wheel, especially not when there is customer money on the line.
Lol. I worked at a startup circa ~2000 and they spent weeks coming up with a website called giftsforgrads.com as a way to impress upon their investors that the engineering team was actually doing something. Care to guess how that worked out?
I think this piece is fluff. According to the original article, the story unfolded a bit differently. A suspicious cop with no 'Aesthetic Values' asked a photographer for his license. This not being Nazi Germany, the photographer was offended and talked back, then later publicly complained. He was not detained as in hauled to a police station, but rather not allowed to leave before the policeman assessed why he was taking photos in a refinery. The cop did his job and the journalist his. No story here, other than the cop trying to be a bully and threaten to use terrorism charges if he feels like it. This is business as usual it seems anyways.

1 After running Wolff's driver's license, Kahn left the scene without ordering Wolff to desist.

2 Legally, a police detention has occurred when "a reasonable individual" in that circumstance would be believe he or she is not free to leave

http://www.lbpost.com/life/greggory/12188
Every addict has to hit rock bottom.
I got my Blade/San Francisco for £75. From time to time there are deals, Argos was selling them on discount, some online retailers were too, Orange had a weekend sale on them a few months ago, and of course the second hand market. But yes you are right, they are closer to £100 than £50.

http://blade.modaco.com/ is a real gem and truly the best place to get all sorts of roms for the phone.
AirBnb acquires another Germany Copy-Cat "Statthotel"
You have eight tags just to write out one menu item ("Guys"). It's usually ul>li>a. That's less than half the code and only three css classes. I won't even address the design.
Fascinating. Does this identical solution represent some as yet undiscovered mathematical Basic Truth?
Disrupting the University Tech Transfer Space
For those unaware, when you bought Minecraft in Alpha you were promised you would get all future versions for free.

Hence you should get this for free if you bought it in Alpha—this image[1] explains it nicely.

[1] http://i.imgur.com/ccckk.png
It's just not how the gaming business works and Mojang would lose money. It's a different game on a different system and probably required a huge effort to optimize code and trim it down to work on a mobile device. They could do a promotion at some point to give discounts but this will never be the norm.
The bit about how browsers parse malformed html is very interesting - a useful lesson for all developers having to deal with the crap that users tend to produce! ;-)
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sho\_hn mentioned the ASE, and I think he's on target. An important thing to remember is that these are Android phones. Unless they're unusually locked down, you can install anything on them through .apk, and the market itself has fewer restrictions. Theoretically, it's just as capable as a computer, albeit with worse input.
I'm curious: what made you discard C++?
Do you think their accounts payable operation froze for four months, too? Didn't think so. Somehow even that big, complicated SAP migration can keep critical business operations going.
Time is not one of the best publications, making this whole post odd. Their content is bad, and their format as you describe is annoying.

Why would we care? Why trust shitty publications to tell me things like what is the best stuff or who is the most important person this year - as if you could even measure it!
Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to justify it in any way. Both sides acted completely against their own self-interests.

Anyone working in a professional setting needs to grow a thick skin and deal with situations like this much, much better. Out of self-interest. However, if a customer mistakes this for a license for consequence-free abuse, and is then shocked when someone on the other end snaps and does something stupid, I fail to conjure up too much sympathy or moral outrage, for either party.
I could only find the german press-release:
http://schwartzpr.de/de/newsroom/pressemeldung.php?we_object...
$4,961,650.00

You missed the wrongly labeled 40K from LIRAMA.COM ;) Because he mentions the list will be updated, this count was made on August 17th 2011, 15:26 CET.
If you bought a house would you expect a smaller replica of your house to be free? No, it requires work to build that house just like the original and therefore costs money.
The demand is expressed not by heavy monetary compensation of new hires, but by retention of low-performing, overpaid employees with extensive domain knowledge but few other marketable skills. It's less visible, but equally expensive.
I import the remote filesystem into Plan 9 and edit it there.

Which might be u9fs via ssh | ftp | drawterm | cpu | sshnet & AoE | import | sshnet & ftp | import /net & AoE | import /net & ftp

The possibilities are numerous
That might actually be an argument that fewer shortcuts would be taken since the consequences would be so dire. Ned is willing to take shortcuts on river water because it's likely that nothing will happen, but if he's smart, he won't make that same statement with sewage.

(Not saying this is any sort of guarantee, just thought it was an interesting thing to consider.)
...now to get suits to pay that much for a COBOL programmer! They probably would rather die.

Maybe by marketing it right - you're a C2D (COBOL to Die) conversion consultant, ready to do the heavy lifting to modernize their obsolete codebase...
I want to get good enough at Vim to just do all my coding in it, but for now using an SFTP bookmark + Gedit in Ubuntu is convenient and feels like I'm editing the files locally. I still have an ssh console open for gitting / grepping etc.

Trying to do the same sort of thing with MacFuse in OSX was an absolute nightmare though (slowwww), but perhaps I was holding it wrong.
+1

I use TRAMP + EMACS for all server side development I do and love it. The only annoyance is the slight delay between hitting Ctrl-X-S and the time it takes to save. Then when I use EMACS on a local machine I'm just amazed at how fast it can save a file :)
The issue here is that this is not a port, it's a completely new mobile code base with a new internal developer behind it. It doesn't benefit directly from any of the work done on the Java version. It might make business sense to give some discounts to existing players, but I think the logistics of that would be difficult.
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Jangan tergiur harga emas murah dan jangan sampai dapat emas palsu.
Seems very easy to use, anyone else got experience with it?
Thanks for your feedback. I do believe however, even if some clicks are just not for "honest interest", the extra exposure would still have a value to the advertiser.

Also many companies do place value on appearing socially responsible.
Since I got an Imac at work, I mount the remote file system over SSHFS and it works quite good.

Before I used ZDE 5.5 for PHP dev. and opened the files remotely via SFTP. It was also not bad, though ZDE 5.5 is really buggy.

What I miss is an editor which supports opening files via SFTP and doing that fast (as ZDE) and is not that buggy (not as ZDE) and supports autocomplete.
> They need someone to write a Cobol to (insert language) compiler.

That can be very difficult, depending on the target language and the Cobol.

More important, the output of said compiler may not be any more maintainable than the Cobol. (Even an accurate translation of assembly language to C can reduce maintainability.)
Looks pretty terrible in Chrome.
No. The best thing to do for Africa is to get hell out of there.
thumbs up! both!
Wouldn't the opposite solution be better? Write a compiler from Cobol to another language? Perhaps C, because C can be called from any other language and can do gotos, etc to emulate legacy control flow and other oddities.

After you have your legacy Cobol code running in a modern environment and the frontend can interface with it, you can start gutting it piece by piece to get rid of the legacy codebase.

I fear that in 50 years, there will be a tremendous need for programmers that can deal with a horrible 1990's language called Java and fucked up non-paradigm called object oriented programming.

I also see this as a problem with the companies who still want to maintain code from decades ago. It will become more expensive day by day. Of course, to a banker, computer programming and it maintenance is nothing but a cost. However, at some point it will become more affordable in the long term to just scrap the old legacy systems.
Just think about all the trouble: Mojang doesn’t use one payment processor, they use two and they would have to find some way to let customers prove to one payment processor that they used the other one.

That’s not all that problematic on their side (though still a lot of work), maybe they could find some sort of (semi-)automatic way to get a discount on the desktop version of Minecraft with a receipt or a code the Android app displays. (I would guess that at the volumes Minecraft sells something like this has to generate a lot of support requests, though.)

The much, much more common case (existing buyers of Minecraft for the desktop buy the mobile edition) is also much harder. I don’t think the Android Market has a built-in mechanism for entering codes to get discounts or something like that. (Maybe it has, I don’t know. I have never heard of something like that, though.) They would have to create a way for buyers to, I don’t know, maybe enter a code the Android app displays on their website to get a discount. That would again be work but at least it’s possible.

But how is Mojang going to get $2, $3 or something like that to the customers? Is there a way to easily do that? I don’t think so and even if the fees would be horrendous.

All of this is work and would also probably be a customer support nightmare.

It’s easier to just have one price point, especially if it is so low anyway. Hardly anyone will buy the mobile edition and not the desktop edition, how would it be worth it to create an additional price point for this tiny minority? It just doesn’t make any business sense.
To have got into this issue there must have been an attitude for a long time to spend the bare minimum on programming and patch things rather than refactor and overhaul.
Hoarding domain names (that you don't intend to use) solely to sell them on for (extortionate) prices is a horrible practice.

If you're not using a name, let it expire.

The world would be a better place if people weren't greedy like this.
HP Pre3 Hits Europe, U.S. Launch “Soon”
It's all to do with the Prouhet-Thue-Morse sequence:

* http://mathworld.wolfram.com/Thue-MorseSequence.html

* http://planetmath.org/encyclopedia/ProuhetThueMorseSequence....

* http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:by1LfKc...

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence
Got a sterling answer by the way. Far more detailed and thoughtful than $2 justified. Some philanthropy involved in the responders makeup I suspect.
It isn't, as far as I can tell.
Really? This kooky theory finds it way to HN from Reddit. Wow. Who would have thought? I’m very disappointed.

The language he uses in a blog post is not relevant. What’s relevant is whether a court would think that “future versions” from the license also includes different games using in some respects the same mechanic, that share some resources but not code. That’s very, very unlikely.

Your first sentence is justified, the second is speculation masked as a factual statement.

(This also reeks of entitlement. Even if Mojang made a mistake when writing their license, asking for all ports to be free is behavior I’m unable to comprehend.)
$3mm of that is ww.com, which is a business in it's own right. So the remaining domains are around $2mm.
Most vacation snapshots have no apparent esthetic value. Virtually all "partying people" have no esthetic value. If this pseudo-law will deter people from taking poorly composed, red-eyed, overly-flash-filled shots of tipsy partiers, I'm all for it.

Talk about your unintended consequence!
This might get you started - http://www.meetup.com/cities/us/sc/columbia/
Where can we see an online version of his project? The end product.
I vote for the custom rsync script, as it's really easy and I get to keep working locally:

http://www.exratione.com/2011/08/use-rsync-scripts-for-painl...
Oh, they already exist. ateras.com, cobol-conversions.com, datatek-net.com, coboltojava.com and on and on.
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Another Facebook/Google Plus Killer, Looks Promosing though
I'm pretty sure he meant 4C - as in 4 C-bills.

Even that price estimate turned out to be optimistic.
Over the years I think I've done all of these. They're all a little painful. Being in Australia means that latency is an issue, I'm sure fast DSL in California is different.

If you're using SSH, an editor and terminal that supports GPM mouse over SSH (eg: iTerm2 on OS X and Vim on the backend) makes life easier.

It's rarely necessary. For Facebook in particular, 95% of the integration happens at the web browser level via signed URLs and/or Flash - Facebook's servers rarely talk directly to your servers or vice versa. Just run a web server locally and put 127.0.0.1 in your hosts file.
Actually, I regularly get in around 6, take a long lunch to hang out with my family and then leave around 4.

I think a couple of things help the culture of this at GitHub - one being that all of the directors keep wildly different hours, which I think is a helpful example. Not only do I generally leave around 4, I try to say 'later guys' to let everyone know that I am. If the bosses at your job are working 8-6 then that tends to trickle down. If they set the example, then everyone else can feel comfortable in doing so as well.
Well done, even June results are above "ramen profitable" where you live—unless it's the capital.
http://techcrunch.com/2011/08/17/hp-pre3-makes-stealthy-entr...

Someone must have changed the title last-minute.
And as for the "domain squatting" accusation... I don't see how that can apply to ww.com since it seems to be up and running at this moment.
How to have a stress free relocation?
HP Pre3 Makes Stealthy Entrance Into The European Market, U.S. To Follow
Google's Business Strategy: Have No Business Strategy
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HP's TouchPad Is Officially A Bomb: Best Buy Wants HP To Take Them Back
Wolfenstein 3D != Castle Wolfenstein

The latter was a game almost 30 years ago on Apple ][ (and other 8 bit machines?).
In MBA school they are taught that you are a cog that can be replaced by a similar one. They have no idea of the weak position they are in. The old COBOL guys have them over a barrel and the system vendors can charge whatever they wish for maintenance.
Yeah you definitely can glean a fair bit from the source, something like selectors is fairly verbose though as it is a parser so often it's far quicker just to Google up the specific thing you need. You can also get a deeper understanding from the source so it does probably balance out.
Three years more life for 15 minutes' exercise a day
Not all problems with trials have been ironed out. Only as of 2004, have some medical journals been requiring pre-registration of clinical trials. Previously, drug manufacturers could pretend null results didn't exist.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Publication_bias
Keyboard Cat is Cool, But Changing Web Video is Cooler
I believe it was part of some sort of deal with Sony Ericsson to get an exclusive for the Xperia Play. Mojang has said that they're working on a both a generic Android version as well as one for iOS.
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either to disintegrate or become a consuming love affair. Once this basic machine instead romantic, the novel does its job, blowing in the ways of well-born and in directions that are not entirely unpredictable.
It doesn't matter if JWZ is entirely correct or not. He is doing a nice public service by providing some guidelines to help folks to introduce utilitarian biking into their lives.

For those that are completely new to biking, his advice is as good as any. Biking is not rocket science, everyone can do it, and it is lots of fun and practical. Many cities are developing bike infrastructure so it makes sense to take advantage of it.

But I will shut up now because I'm lycra-wearing racer-boy bike nerd and JWZ says people should not take my biking advice.
> While our universities are turning out very able graduates, well versed in the sexy new languages of Java, .net and the like

I have been flirting recently with a return home to Scotland (from Berlin) recently, and have found it extremely difficult to find any interesting opportunities on par with what I'm doing right now. The quote above reminds me why I had to leave to stay sane.
Thank you for an outstandingly helpful piece delivered with clearly hard-won clarity of thought, expression and purpose.

The diagrams you created to support the piece are gold.

While the project work done for my business sponsors is confined specifically to iOS, hence the browser version/capability, carrier, UI, and UX problem domains are thereby narrowed, your first principles, conclusions, observations, diagrams, and commentary with prescriptive guidance is superb -

I, and I'm sure many other readers feel the same, owe you a debt of gratitude for what is likely a watershed post and effort at explication, caution, and actionable guidance.

Sublime setup with Joe the Volcano reference!

Looking forward eagerly, and with a good dose of appropriate humility, to your next posts on the subject.

Best,
Adam Cassel
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I try to do "medium" weight lifting 3 times a week at home. It's good, it helps, but I know it could be better. I've been at a plateau for several months now, though. I sometimes feel bad when I miss a workout now.

Also, I keep on looking for a nice standing desk so I don't have to sit all day.
The best punishment is to ignore them. They can afford your click, and worse - they interpret it as approval/reward.
BCVI: http://sshmenu.sourceforge.net/articles/bcvi/

It's like a combination of "I SSH into a server, and work there using VIM/EMACS/etc." and "I use a local VIM/EMACS/MC/etc to open files remotely over SSH/FTP.".

You SSH in and type "vi foo.py" in the remote shell, but the file opens in your local Vim. When you save it's automatically transferred across.
I think that, for a majority of vegetarians, there are religious/philosophical/ethical principles at play. There are just too many Hindus and Buddhists out there for other motivations to catch up.

However, it's far from the only reason someone would stop eating meat. For instance, I eat relatively little meat for an American for a combination of health reasons and personal taste (I have a hard time eating anything with a bone). This isn't a hard rule of mine, but if I have the option to eat tofu at a restaurant instead of chicken, I take the tofu 100% of the time. To distinguish this softer motivation from the religious group, I call myself a "meat reductionist". My wife doesn't feel this way, so at home we eat a bit more meat than I'd like, and when I go out with friends I try not to make a big deal if someone wants pepperoni pizza, for instance. If it's just a personal choice, though, I'm going for veggies.
I've just finished reading Flatland by Edwin Abbott, a really good read in which a Square from Flatland (a 2-D land) gets pulled up into Spaceland (3-D land) and then down into Lineland (1-D land). This is Wolfenstein in Lineland.
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Facebook let you use localhost as the canvas page; no idea if they also let you local network addresses as well. So that's one problem solved :)

For debugging calls such as those received by PayPal, I start by writing a small script that logs the GET or POST request, then write a simple test page that POSTS to the local script that I'm developing.

At any rate, if the only way to test the majority of your code is via a POST, there's something wrong with the way you're writing code; the objects you've created you should be able to test independently, for a start :)