skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, the irony. A harmful programming language critique from a blog titled, "Armed and Dangerous: Sex, software, politics, and firearms..." Seriously, every time I run into more of this guy's stuff it solidifies my view that he's a tool.

If you want proper C++ schlaging, here it is, done right:

C++ Frequently Questioned Answers: http://yosefk.com/c++fqa/

We now returned to your regularly scheduled uninformed language rants.
First Person Flys Solo Across The English Channel Using A Single Jet-Propelled Wing
I knew this would send the Al Gorites into a rage. How dare he question the environmentalist religion.

Science is not consensus.
To an extent. I've seen comments on HN actively killed by the editors. (To see 'em, turn on "showdead".)

So it's probably worth it to delete content that would repel the type of clientele you'd like to attract.
An interesting study in bias from so called free thinkers. You can think freely as long as it agrees with the consensus.

(I'm referring to how this was voted down.)
A valid point. A similar approach can be taken for solar and wind. Use excess energy to pump water into a higher reservoir which can be released during overcast/still periods.

The only difference I can see being that with tidal you know exactly when the next burst of energy will come and how large it will be.
I just have to say... I love my credit union.
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The kind of board of directors who know what the rest of the market is paying? If you want a certain caliber of employee of any kind, you have to lure them with at least what they'd get elsewhere. It only seems out of joint because the dollar amounts are higher than in (e.g.,) software, but it's the same principle.
/me wonders if this is a good time to start analyzing bank stocks to find a good buy...
It's true. I dropped out of high school to join the gamedev industry, and the company didn't seem to mind.
My first love
http://isbn.nu/9780070260016
The shareholders are not making these decisions (directly), the Board of Directors is. And who is on the BOD? Why other CEOs who expect their actions to be reciprocated. This is [logrolling](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logrolling).

The talk about short term profit taking being driven by the market is BS as well. If a company were to take actions that would depress its earning in the short term for the sake of (demonstrable) long term growth and profits, the smart segment of the market would recognize that and respond favorably.

One partial solution: outlaw stock options in publicly traded companies. Use cash bonuses and have the usual Employee Stock Purchase Plan that provides a 15% discount on investing in the company.
Very bad.
Stay away from Stock Markets.
Is posting a flamebaity story just to immediately disagree with it really a good idea?
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> libraries like STL and Boost being available.

I suspect most of the distaste for C++ is a hang-over from another era. People had some exposure to MFC programming or old compilers with horrible STL support and that formed the popular impression of C++. Modern C++, especially with boost, is a very good language.
The Ultimate addEvent(..) function
Can anybody say math?
Don't know if you're still monitoring this, but making me sign up for a new service in order to provide feedback on the site is unacceptable. I'm sure it saved you time not having to write feedback handling code, but I think this is a total loss.
GW picked a great leader: Dick Cheney
Great work!
One more thing I think is necessary, you should clearly mention in the about page that you are feeding from Yahoo search result as well. It is fair to the user and to Yahoo.
> Things like gender status and dating information can be communicated in profiles, by those who want them, and ignored by those who don’t, eliminating the motivation for talking about it in a thread

Are we talking about free software projects or dating projects?
I guess non-hackernews is hacker news...(Maroon linked to this in his post as one of his favorite pieces of 'nonhackernews')
Spectacular yacht Maltese Falcon due in bay
I do consider C++ a bad language. The syntax is a MESS, it's quite lacking on the OO front, and the language/STL misses some quite important components (e.g. concurrency, networking). And having an actual ABI would help too.

However, it's still generally my language of choice, and not only because it's the language I know most. It has the flexibility of C while providing some OO capabilities and the STL. And there is the widespread availability too (although that's not really C++'s honour but GCC's).

One could also argue that C++ software is easier to deploy, as it needs no VMs or interpreters, but it's quite a moot point because every moderately sized application will have 3rd party dependencies to provide everything the STL is lacking.

Also, the RAII idiom is perhaps my favorite pattern, and I'm yet to see a language that has RAII support as strong as C++ has. (Although I do plan to have further investigations about Python 3k/2.5's 'with' statement, it seems to be a good contender) I rely heavily on RAII while coding/desinging, this makes coding in Java very sour for me. And Ruby's block idiom, while it's really lovely and comes very handy in many cases, it ain't no RAII.

Like it or not, while it's slowly fading away, C++ will still be around for a while. I don't really see KDE rewritten in any other language any time soon.
Is it already installable in Firefox? Last time I tried, it said that Silverlight is installed, but it wasn't actually.
http://arclanguage.org/item?id=3426
Honestly, this is horrible. It's actually the kind of stuff that I find pushes women out of open source projects a lot of the time. "You're different. You need special help." Women, like men, like being respected for their work. Singling them out and treating them like they're some kind of different species, usually exacerbated by unwanted sexual attention, seems to be the major annoyance.

A rant of mine from a few years ago, called "Human Interface Guidelines":

http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/1051

(Note that the "full ack" comment in there is from KDE e.V.'s former president, Eva Brucherseifer.)

Edit: Sidenote, these things also tend to ignore the more fundamental issue: most OSS contributors are computer scientists. There are less women studying computer science. If you want to figure out how to get more women in OSS, you have to take a step back and figure out how to get more women in CS.
I was disappointed that most of it is Powerpoint, dead links, and blank pages.
US Nobel laureates: vote Obama
That's just a wierd, wierd place.
While this topic tends to attract ridiculous, poorly thought out articles, this one is the worst I've seen so far. From the article:

"Everybody has a browser, but women may have less control over what equipment and software they use, especially as beginners"

"Artificial distinctions like “Turing-completeness” are a silly way to divide the world"

And my absolute favorite:

"Emphasize community process over manufacturing products"

Turn a a software project into a social event. That's sure to attract women. It won't create software, but at least women will be involved.
Unfortunately, yes. I just spent the last few evenings steam cleaning my carpets because my dog has a very sensitive digestive system...
Larry Page blasts white space FUD on capitol hill
I've heard this argument a lot and it seems like a solvable problem:

Put the money in a 5 years escrowed account. If the changes that you made were sound and the company continues to succeed, you get it. Otherwise, you forfeit.
The shareholders are choosing where they put their money.

Shareholders could choose to buy stock based on how the CEO is paid but few do.
Ask HN: Business Plan Resources
Hello,

We have started a B2B company that delivers simplified environmental information to manufacturers across Canada. To obtain certain grants, we require a business plan. I have put something together, but would like to see a template. Does anyone know where I might find Web App business plans online?

Thank You HN Readers.
And if other banks look like they'll fold, expect the government to throw more money at the problem than just FDIC insurance dough. A GOVERNMENT CANNOT CONTROL THE FREE MARKET. IT WILL ALWAYS FAIL. It's like a drunk trying to stay on the road who overcompensates for every mistake until he zooms into a ditch.

Bad lenders and dim-witted/confused borrowers screw one another? Then dilute the dollar. "Borrow" a trillion fucking dollars that you don't have to sedate the market. Oh, that one will work great. I say, just let it be, before this thing spirals out of control. That $700B would do plenty to alleviate poverty for anyone who is, in fact, financially ruined by failing lenders.

We'll let the entrenched poor rot for decades, but bail out the rich in a week. I'm outright disgusted.

What can be done? I heard there was a small protest in NYC yesterday, maybe we'll have one in DC.
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Remember the bratz? They're odd-looking multiethnic dolls with big eyes and skimpy clothes - or they're, like, the coolest things ever. Now you can dress up your favorite bratz dolls online for free, give them haircut and dress them anyhow you like. All you find in this site, gotta check this out.
What does Republican have to do with it?

Look at who gets the money from Wall Street. Why? Big biz loves regulation that it can control. (When buying and selling is regulated, regulators are the first thing that will be bought and sold.)

FWIW, Sen Clinton does very well but Sen Obama is clearly at the top of the class. In three years, he got more from Fannie and Freddie than Clinton did in 8 and almost as much as Kerry did in 20. The highest 20 year total is Dodd, but Obama would have passed him by the end of his full term as Senator.

Meanwhile, Barney Frank is still out there arguing that we should be giving mortages to folks who can't pay them.
What browser is that? I can't post a screenshot while at work, but it looks different for me in firefox on windows.
I truly hope so. I have $15k to wade through this thing, so I doubt I can last very many years. Luckily I don't have to travel much, so the rising cost of fuel doesn't affect my burn rate terribly. Health insurance is a different story though.
Anyone know exactly how the FDIC thing works?

Supposing my bank goes under (which I sure as hell hope it won't, cuz it's Bank of America), I'm guessing it'll take some time for them to get their act together and I might not be able to access money in the short term. Is this correct? Or can they swing into action immediately to keep the money coming out of the ATMs?

In that case it might make sense to have stashes of cash in multiple banks, just in case (and hell, a thousand bucks under your pillow).
Wow, this really is awful.

Half my team is women. They're also both parents, brilliant, brutally honest, and a joy to work with.

I've "found" that if you treat women -- like all humans -- with respect and loyalty you're pretty much done.

But what really annoys me is the fact that people think "It matters when you have kids, it really does." only applies to women. If you're a guy with kids and having kids doesn't matter, then I think you should find a different hobby than pretending to be a father. Golf perhaps.

I've found that parents, regardless of gender, require additional flexibility in their schedule. You could argue that this is self-serving because I'm parent, but it is also true.
"Fusion Man" makes historic Channel flight
Geothermal is like hydropower, economically speaking, but requires unusual geology. Basically the only place it can work on a large scale is in Iceland, home of a full third of the world’s active volcanoes.

There's at least one startup working on this:

http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/altarock-breaks-new-g...

Apparently, with advances in drilling technology, and developing the tech to fracture hot dry rock could greatly expand the range of possible geothermal sites.
Why Twitter Needs to Do More
Crucially bad. Let's not keep adding to our national debt and instead save the $700b. We'll be hurting for awhile, but at least it will be over afterwards. We'll be able to move on with our lives at that point.

A bailout will just postpone the inevitable and cause long-term pain.
Maintaining Browser Specific CSS
The article explains the difference between vomiting and regurgitation. In general, vomiting is active and requires coordination of many muscles. Regurgitation is passive.
How does this compare to Firebug's similar feature?
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I originally wrote more, but thought better of it. All the things I listed, I heard when I was also in HS, but they meant nothing until I actually had to deal with it. Advice is tricky business. So here's two for the immediate future.

Date girls and get use to rejection - Things don't 'just happen' for guys (assuming you are one), so get out there and make some magic happen. Keep in mind that girls (and guys) sometimes have no idea what they want, and it's not always you. I use to think this was a natural thing, but like most anything else, it just takes practice. The skills you learn here you'll find applicable to a lot of situations where you'll have to deal with others.

Cultivate a sense of curiosity - For that, I refer to you Bill Watterson of Calvin and Hobbes
http://home3.inet.tele.dk/stadil/spe_kc.htm
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Can These Startups Beat Paypal?
the Tamper Data add-on is quite similar but also allows you to interrupt/drop requests and change header values and POST parameters on the fly.
Social Media ABC's - M is for Meme
you liyin sucker
ChucK is pretty awesome if you're into audio programming. The syntax is infinitely cleaner than CSound or SuperCollider and I find writing real code more effective than trying to do visual programming with MAX and friends. I love the model for time advancement in multiple "shreds".

The only sad thing is that it's not really managed to make the leap to a community project. It's still mostly a Princeton Sound Lab / Ge Wang (previously there, now at Stanford) project and I'm uncertain, well, sadly, skeptical, that it will ever really fully mature. It's still got some rough edges and there's not been very little progress on it in the year and a half that I've been using it. The couple of times I've submitted patches they've been ignored.

I've written a bunch of useful boilerplate classes and a preprocessor for it to allow includes, if anyone's interested. (These have also been posted to the chuck-users list.)
Download Life After Death - ER
“Life After Death” takes place after an event that has left several people injured in an ambulance explosion - in particular, Pratt. The timeline of this episode seems to cover at least several days
No iTunes wouldn't disagree; they don't sell the music to the users, they sell the users to the music. iTunes has a ridiculous amount of users as it's freeware, but anyone with an iPod has it installed on their computer thus it was easier for iTunes to sell music as they had users before they had the music and their dealing with the record companies would have been along the lines of "yeah we have like 200 million users, what do you want them for?"
Download Greys Anatomy Season 5 Premiere Dream a Little Dream of Me
Many of our readers have been expressed the opinion - in response to this week’s thought-provoking Grey’s Anatomy spoilers - that the scene first hinted at in the now-infamous promo takes place in a dream, or in Meredith’s imagination.
High energy density is indeed key for mobile applications. This is why Diesels are so popular. 45% efficiency is 1/2 that of 90%, but the fuel is very energy dense and the fuel tank is compact. In addition, the storage and transfer technologies are simple, low-tech, and cheap.

The key is that not everyone needs that kind of power. Most of the people here in Texas running around in work trucks would be just fine with one of those little euro coupe utility vehicles that's as small as a compact car. It's only in a minority of cases where you need the heavy hauling capability of even an F-150.
I just started using Diigo last week. Is this somehow better?
Yay for feature bloat! Social features aren't always the end game. Its relatively refreshing that people on twitter aren't begging me to join their group or add my tweet to their group...
That's because Chase is not desperate for cash.
Much of the reason that RAII is such a big deal for C++ is that C++ doesn't help manage resources. The fact that one can free in destructors and that destructors are called automatically in some circumstances is important only if you need to free. That's simply not an issue for many languages.

Yes, there are other resources to manage. Python's with and Common Lisp's unwind-protect are both good for open file handles and the like. unwind-protect is better than with and with is better than constructor/destructor because constructor/destructor and to a lesser extent with require too many contortions to use.
Is it just me, or is it bizarre that Apple couldn't find a way to make this happen?
Debunking the Google Maps Censorship Myth
depends on perspective. dick has been great for GW's self interest, I'm not so sure about how great he's been for the country though
That's because they pumped up inflation by like 15000% it wasn't the depression that caused the problem, it was the idea that making more money would help. The government isn't dumb enough to do that with inflation, the Bank of England has been stalling inflation for the last couple of years to ensure this doesn't happen and the federal institutions in the US are doing the exact same thing.
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In most recessions/depressions you are more likely to see deflation instead of inflation. This is driven by a drop in demand. The Federal Reserve has been increasing the money supply lately (printing) which by itself would be inflationary, but that action has been more than balanced out by reductions in credit. If customers can't get credit to buy things then demand drops and prices fall.
It depends on how much time you're willing to invest in it.
And THAT's why there are no women in free software projects!
Firefox 3 on OSX

btw I did change the header color to the one HN has (#ff6600) to show how similar it is...
Cool, didn't know about that, thanks!
Sorry, just spotted this is Safari fun only - but then I tested it in Chrome and it's OK there - but someone beat me to that.
Yeah the exception to the rule is "... unless you get bought by someone who can afford to lose more money than you"
Now I'm confused. Are you talking about RMS or ESR?
Are you sure this episode happened during WW2 and not rather during the hyper inflation from 1921 to 1922?

edit: I've talked with somebody born in Germany in 1931. According to him there was no visible inflation during the war. Prices were dictated by the government. But money was basically worthless because people additionally needed government issued vouchers in order to be allowed to buy stuff and they got these only for what the government regarded as people's basic needs.
Alan Kay... I saw him speak in college and I had to spend a semester working in Squeak.

I have a love/hate relationship with him. He's a great speaker, got some awesome quotes, but... every speech he gives revolves around the same concepts and he ALWAYS uses the example of drawing a car, drawing a steering wheel, and connecting them. Sure it's a good example but I mean, doing it for 10+ years as the example of the power of Squeak?
... why reduce debt? Nothing is better for devaluing your debt as inflation. It makes it worthless. The question is whether there will be a significant inflation at all. I doubt it, since lot of assets were burned recently in the market drop so there is actually missing liquidity. US could easily face the problem of deflation rather then inflation in the near future.
A well balanced portfolio of your investments is the best what you can do in long term. It is hard (if impossible) to time the markets. A well balanced portfolio generally means: 60% equity, 30% bonds, 10% alternatives (including gold).
I love the SA forums. Once the members join together on a project it usually culminates in something awesome. I had such a blast playing in the EVE corporation.
Things like this are why I'm glad I'm an SA member. They do some pretty stunning things with their time.
My father, uncle, and grandmother were refugees during the Korean war. They were strafed by a plane, and a piece of shrapnel hit my grandma in the middle of her thigh. Fortunately, she had sewn a hidden pouch in her clothing, and the shrapnel was stopped by the big wad of cash she had there, thanks to wartime inflation.

(My mom was also a refugee, but she has an entirely different set of stories. My mom's side of the family is actually from North Korea.)
LOL, funny I lost karma for saying that.. :)
I thought the "Ask YC: How bad is the economy?" thread was pretty good, but I don't think we need a play-by-play update on every piece of economic news.

For the next year or so I'm going to just wake up every day and assume there's some bad economic news which I won't bother to read. When the news starts getting good again, I'll pay attention.
No, a few rich people lost a lot of money and are looking for a helping hand by the US gov. but these company's are a small fraction of the US economy. In the end it's not vary important what the rich do as depressions are mostly about how the middle class react when things start to get bad.
The Blank Slate (TED, Steven Pinker): innate ideas, the fine arts, and parenting.
He's saying (and I tend to agree) that RMS is the useful kind of nutjob/wacko, while ESR is not.
You are talking about the hyperinflation of the 30s, which stopped well before the war started, before the National Socialists even. There were price controls and scarcity during the war, but no wheelbarrows of cash.
It's not exactly "trading" to keep something like 15% of your savings in physical gold, GLD ETF, or everbank CDs (gold backed interest earning certificates).
Any time you hear that it is time to invest!

As painful as the current situation is for some, it certainly is a better buying opportunity than a few months ago.
No, it does not make sense to stash a thousand bucks under your pillow.
We're just delaying the inevitable. Superchargers and turbo's have been in use and refined for a long time. Superchargers rely on horsepower at the crank to power them so to make power you need some power in the first place. Turbos now have variable veins making them less lag prone.

However electric motors produce all the torque at 0 rpm and remains constant to the end. Once we find a suitable battery source I don't see why the IC engine wouldn't be retired to museums and enthusiast garages. But I could be wrong.
I'm in college right now (freshman), and every instinct in me is telling me to figure out how to get out and DO something. It's tough, because I love the college atmosphere. I just am tired of being in classes, doing really basic stuff, when I have ideas that could change things.

Has anybody else had that sort of dilemma in their life?
If you work in an IE world, Fiddler is a nice tool.
And the great thing about that is, it might be an even better buying opportunity a few months from now! =)
I agree with your sentiment, however I note that the element of "intense experience in a play pen where highly skilled people correct your every move and thoughts guiding you toward a greater understanding" is very, very institution, department, and professor-dependent.