skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It felt very appropriate with all the Dart announcement:

In this The greater the probability a random string is a valid program, the harder it is to report errors well.

and

Type-checking depends on redundancy

Even though I am generally wary of static typing[1]

[1] https://metaphysicaldeveloper.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/the-i...
Funny. I drive from Ft Collins, to the same Broomfield he's talking about (yay Colorado).

I love my 50 minute commute. I use it to listen to podcasts and music. It gives me time to unwind and think. And most importantly, it came along with a raise that more than makes up for the monetary costs of driving.

I'd love a mass transit or car pooling solution, but I haven't run across a viable one yet.

Anyway, I really like my commute. Although, we'll see how it goes in the winter as roads get gross sometimes.
Yes, it downloads when you visit the download page, not just by pressing the button.
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Steroids is recommended by health professionals.
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Show HN: Geo Messages for Chrome
I would be surprised if it wasn't the carriers that started that particular obfuscation.
With Five Years of Budget Stagnation, Aging Hardware Becomes Top Pain Point
> "there is no way to "know" whether someone "loves" you. All you see are outward displays which are highly mediated by the culture in which the display occurs."

Wow. I can't think of a way to rebut this without diving into personal accusations... but it seems that you've missed out on a lot in life.
I was expecting something more innovative.

All it is is a javascript like language with classes, interfaces, optional types, and some extra built in data structures. A new runtime, biggest obstacle being adoption, just for that seems a bit much.
How is this different than http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LinkExchange?
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The comp.lang.c FAQ http://c-faq.com/ is an obvious one.
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The problems with long commutes all revolve around home ownership.

People want big houses on big yards. Most can't afford that close to work, which means they make the economic choice to trade the commute time for that "dream".

That's fine but the problem is that government subsidizes that dream to a ridiculous degree. Urban sprawl has a huge cost in infrastructure, largely borne by the taxpayer.

Low-density urban sprawl largely also makes public transport uneconomic (public transport works best in high density cities and countries).

Lastly, home ownership decreases the flexibility of the labour market. People are less able and less inclined to pick up and move to find work opting instead for lower-paid employment or no employment at all.
Some days I wish my average speed was 20mph on my commute. My commute is ~17 miles and it sometimes takes an hour or more.
A pirate.
I'm actually only concerned about the speech-to-text accuracy. It's the foundation on top of which all this AI stuff is built. If it's not better than Google's, the AI fancy pants stuff is just going to be another layer of complexity that will screw things up.
You're off base. Vulcans aren't psychopathic precisely because they care about the whole group-- which, if you actually think about it, makes them more empathic than most humans who only care about the people who are right around them.

A psychopath would pretend to care about the group, if that's what helped them out the most personally. They would also kill the group if that's what helped them out the most personally. I mean nuke the world if it sets me up for life, cuz hey, why should I care?

That's the last person you want as a leader.
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Well, the bottom of this press release (http://mediacentre.o2.co.uk/Press-Releases/O2-first-to-switc...) has the following claim:

"O2’s UK 3G (HSPA+ 900 / 2100 MHz) network currently provides voice and high speed data services of up to 14.4Mbps (21Mbps in the coming months) to over 84% of the UK population"
If you read further down that thread another pr guy calls this guy out as being almost entirely wrong. The reason fire the lack of focus story is that... Drum roll... At best a journalist can say that there are many viewpoints. How would you report that story objectively?

Obviously opinion pieces are going to take that and run with it based on their own agenda, but the essence of the argument is correct -even though it is the kind of thing that can kill a protest. This is a problem OWS, et al will have to fix.

To their credit, it seems occupy boston formed a committee to ratify some resolutions.

To their credit, it seems at least occupy boston formed a committee to ratify resolutions
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It's already there for many unsuspecting users. You have to root your iPhone to begin to investigate what might be spying, let alone stopping it, and Apple is doing their best to make the phone unrootable. Soon it won't be (practically) possible.

And not just Apple, they're just one of the first with effective lock-in, and market-share.

Soon having programming/debugging tools could be ample evidence of intent to criminally (the only way) access a computing device.
Are you implying soldiers are not sane?
Thanks. I also appreciate watching long presentations in an app such as VLC because I can then watch it at 1.2x or 1.5x speed to save time. After getting used to it a normal speed presentation seems to plod on forever.
It totally misses the point of SSB, first it shares its data with Safari (cookies, history, etc) and somehow wants to become the web on training wheels.

Filling web forms? Sign up? This problems are trying to be addressed by SSO using providers like Twitter, Facebook or some new kid in town with OAuth/OpenID/YouNewHipsterProtocol.

The idea of having a Site Specific Browser was to have a independent "browser" just to go to X site and be encapsulated from crashes or oddities from plugins from your main browser. It may also have some nice OS specific eye candy or features like system wide shortcuts.

Not becoming the web on training wheels.
As a related point, podcasts (tech podcasts specifically) have made my driving commutes more bearable. Sure, I can't do actual work while driving, but I no longer feel like I'm wasting my time. The result is less stress. Now when my trips are quick sometimes I'm annoyed I didn't get to hear more of the show!
Sure, but would you really care whether someone knew off the top of their head that %zu is the escape sequence for size_t? Some of the stuff she shows off is pretty arcane, though pieces of it are actually useful.

Understanding the memory model and execution model is a big plus, because it lets you write correct and efficient code (and if you are using C you care about correctness and efficiency). Recalling arcana about the C99 standard is just overkill and asking someone to pull stuff like that out of a hat in an interview is asking too much IMO.
Minor correction: it's not that we "had" a government program... we "have":

FHA is still handing out 3.5% down loans to people with 580 FICO scores. It's like 2008 never even happened. People actually sued about this last year: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12...
Thoughts on Spotify
Knowing that culture mediates action does not prevent you from enjoying it. You cannot understand human behavior without understanding the often artificial nature of outward displays.

I think in fact it is you that have missed out on a lot in life if you do not understand that when he says there is no way to "know" whether someone "loves" you, he is referring to the fact that he chooses to believe so anyway.
I thought the article brought up points worth discussing, but surely you're being disingenuous when you imply that it wasn't partisan??

FDR praise...complaints on "Republican politicians"...Cantor criticism...Obama the victim...

you could write a bayesian classifier to determine how a columnist votes :P
As long as the administration takes a hands-off approach to their industry, the 'plutocrats' on Wall Street prefer to vote and donate Democrat, often for cultural reasons. Just like many other monied people here in New York. It's not a big Republican town.

Many recipients of the financial bailouts OWS is protesting have traditionally been big Democratic donors. Both Bush and Obama passed financial industry bailouts - this isn't a partisan issue.

Krugman knows this, and has chosen to highlight just the Republicans' responsibility and their crude attempts to rile up their base ('this is class war!') instead of the Democrats' responsibility and their attempts, largely through paid union staffers, to transform the protests into a pro-Democratic movement. (Who can blame them for trying? I think the Republicans came out ahead by co-opting the Tea Party, nominating goofs like Christine O'Donnell and Sharron Angle excepted.)

That's why this is a partisan piece. It's not what Krugman said, it's what he chose to omit.
I didn't understand anything the site said, but I liked the pretty pictures a lot so I downloaded it. I think this could be appealing for highly visual guys like me. Maybe replacing all that copy with a nice video will be a good idea.

I didn't quite get why there are "apps" and why they need to be installed. Why are these more than just regular bookmarks?

That needs a better explanation.
It's DUMB to make ANY of your build dependent on an external system. Build 101 crap.
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Sanity does not include one specific moral system. For humans, it also does not include being bug-free given some morality,

What would make you think so?
I was there mainly as a spectator, but did get on the mic for about a minute to share a few thoughts. My main goal was to converse with people on a individual level.

My personal goal is to wake people up to the brokenness of our political system and to inspire everyone to change it together. This is only a start but I'm very optimistic.

I will definitely attend more events, but more importantly, I plan on talking to people I know and care about to understand what they think and to help them see why I believe this is so important.
Sure, Wall Street serves a purpose in allocating capital. So do personal injury lawyers. That's not why people are mad at them. Read the New York Times. The outrage is largely directed at activities that don't pass the "smell test." Traders losing billion dollar bets with pension fund money, private equity firms loading up healthy companies with debt than cashing out, the insidious relationship between Wall Street and the Treasury/Fed. If Wall Street stuck to underwriting IPOs and providing business loans and other unobjectionable activities, it wouldn't raise peoples' ire. But if they stuck to unobjectionable activities, their revenues would also be cut by more than half and profits by even more than that.

An interesting statistic is that Google's is more profitable than Goldman Sachs by almost every metric. They have higher revenues per employee, higher profits per employee, higher profits per unit of equity, etc. Nobody is demonstrating in Amphitheatre Parkway about how Google is ruining the country. Because people are smarter than you give them credit for.
That only applies to warnings in conjunction with optimisations though, just turning optimisations on (as shown in the example slide) won't necessarily pick up uninitialised variables. For example, if I compile the example given in the slides with -O, -O1, -O2 or -O3 with gcc, I don't get an error/warning, but I do if I use -Wall.

Also, you can use -Wuninitialized without optimisations and it picks up the problem, at least in my version of gcc (4.5.2).
With all due respect to the awesome work Mozilla is doing, I'm not seeing in your response anything about mobile-native-jshtml5 platform. Funny enough, Microsoft is currently promoting jshtml5 as a platform harder than Mozilla is, and given their platform unification message, that ought to include the mobile/tablet space as well.

Edit. I'll have to retract the above. BootToGecko is the mobile platform from Mozilla. It would be awesome to market it harder as such.
Seattle proper -> MSFT campus?

That commute is the main reason I've never entertained any thought of joining MSFT. The choices are to live in comically stereotypical suburbia, or to suffer that commute daily.

Amazon is hiring...
This is false. It's a preference you can toggle in the Security settings.
Technical Overview : Dart : Structured web programming
Quite true. Arguably though, the programs are part of the overall short/medium term "solution" for the crash. Yet nobody seems concerned that the same thing could happen again.
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It's hard to say. There were definitely representatives from every part of that spectrum. I think the important thing to grasp is that this movement transcends ideologies. The main commonality is that people believe the system is broken and want to break the stranglehold of monied interests over the government.
It's unreleased, and therefore completely undocumented at the moment. But here's the API: https://github.com/kennethreitz/requests/issues/98
Mostly, I just want to say amongst people I respect:

Once the Dart VM is living in a browser, I will look at learning it. Until then, it has all the downsides of node.js + Coffeescript without the upside of an existing community.

Put actual Dart in the browser, with JS compilation as a fallback, and now I'm willing to spend time on it.
If Solaris was ever successful on that scale the masses wouldn't recognize it was Unix either. The masses just don't care about geeky stuff like that, for better and for worse.
The article is pretty light on details but I can see the analogy being drawn between home-built computers and home-built rockets. Doesn't all technology eventually become commonplace? We lament the state of education, but look at the expanded amount of information that must be learned. What an amazing machine.
Future proofing CS knowledge
I'm a computer science student. Programming and IT change very fast, and constant learning is required to keep up.

However, I'm wondering about how a programmer would try to "future-proof" his CS knowledge. Is it more important to learn the math, algorithms, and logic instead of focusing primarily on languages?

What are the trends you guys see in computer science right now? What knowledge will still be valuable in the future, 30-50 years from now?
Intrigued and a little scared.
Twitter will start wrapping all URLs in t.co regardless of length.
I agree that technology has eased the psychological pain (if not the financial impact) - between podcasting, audio books, streaming music, voice journalling and calling friends, my drive is something I look forward to.
http://wwwcg.in.tum.de/Research/Publications/TerrainRayCasti... Claims ~30fps @1080p on an Nvida 260GT (that's a reasonable gamer card today)

Seems like a more formal reinvention of this guy's "Quadtree Displacement Mapping"
http://www.drobot.org/
You would be better to check out drobot's slides first. More descriptive, less formal.
I've often thought of the political cost -- frustrated drivers stuck in traffic listening to Rush Limbaugh.
In at least some European countries 4G is everywhere.
Finally, an easy way to make POST requests from Python
In the FAQ it says that support for keep-alive is on the way.

I do have a half-baked implementation on urllib2 that I hate. This is really cool.
Looks like Python got something similar to Perl's LWP https://metacpan.org/module/LWP
If you're being sensible and using -Wall with gcc, it will pick up the %zu thing anyway:

sizeof-test.c: In function ‘main’:
sizeof-test.c:5:3: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but argument 2 has type ‘long unsigned int’

Compilers have warnings so that you don't have to remember archaic bits of C. :)
Kicking this "web" thing along
On a Ycombinator <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2975608">comment</a> about <a href="http://www.dartlang.org/">Dart</a> (a new web programming language by Google) someone wrote "I'm really hoping that we're coming to the end of the era where we use server-side languages to generate static HTML, and I hope we're closer to the end of the creation of new languages to do that."

I totally agree. I've spent the last year musing about how we'll be mailing entire VM states to each other in the future, the same way that people mail saved-games and Word documents today.

Since I started web programming in 2009, I've found the whole client-server architecture to be bunk (made worse by cumbersomely evolved W3 "standards" like HTML and CSS). Perhaps in the future, web servers and clients won't be written on different stacks that talk to each other like a wet market - perhaps they'll just share a common "virtual application" model, with a share "virtual addressing space" and pass messages back and forth about the state of the app in real time.

I guess node.js enthusiasts see something like this coming up, and contemporary implementations are simply the server-client-integrated frameworks like Google Web Toolkit.

Oh well. Anyone else sick of the web, and think it needs reinventing?
Absolutely a fair point - and another big part of why they "occupy wall street" movement doesn't speak with one voice.

Did you check out the new yorker article I mentioned about ("what good is wall street"). Even an article like this, which takes a very dim view of wall street, notes the vital role that banking (and, yes, wall street itself) plays in a modern economy. "Moving money from where it is to where it is needed", is unbelievably important and good work, even if it is transactional in nature. A system that can get money from savings accounts and turn it into capital for businesses is spectacular.

The problem (well, according to the article) is that this core, economically useful activity is not the main function of walk street anymore (one academic cited in the article estimates that if the financial sector were limited to the useful activities, it would be one-third to one-half of its current size).
The other day I found a website called sociopathworld.com, their FAQ is a great read:

http://www.sociopathworld.com/p/frequently-asked-questions.h...
Cool and useful!
The thing is that Krugman isn't framing the protests or the current economic crisis in traditional partisan terms. His columns and blog posts for at least 6 months now have continually heaped blame on Obama, Congressional Republicans, and European officials from a variety of countries and parties for not following Keynes advice and heeding the lessons we learned during the Great Depression.
We use Tumblr for group/team posting in our day to day blog.
(http://d2d.semicolondev.com)

Tumblr is better when bunch of guys want to maintain a single/quick/intuitive (as you said) blog.
Ahem.

New Coke was a known bad transition. Why would I say that? All you need do is to look on a Coke can ingredients list from before New Coke and after New Coke. There will be one change:

High Fructose Corn Syrup.

Or if you wish to try the classic formula, try the Mexican version of Coca Cola. They still use the old formula using cane sugar. There is also a Kosher version of Coca Cola that uses the older recipe.
In my eyes, this is the biggest cost of commuting, especially you're driving. It used to take my wife anywhere from 1-3 hours on her return trip (depending on rain, snow, traffic, people looking at flashing lights, etc. - it is Chicago after all).

She doesn't do that anymore. Now she drives 10 minutes maximum each. The less stress is very noticeable, both for her and me.
I might not get the joke. Do you mean this ironically?

There sure is reason to have different programming languages, and it's called specialization (see: necessary engineering compromises).

My first comment says: two objects having the same generic functionality, does not mean that one and the same object can implement their specific (non generic) functionalities.

My second comment says: the same thing, basically.
Chuck, sorry if we caused any frustration. We had not updated our followers in some time and wanted to send out an update. We have 28k+ people in line and several have emailed asking for a status update. We'll be answer your question very soon and opening the doors to HALL.com. Thanks
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I live in Kirkland and work at Amazon.
The day android is as polished as iOS is is the day I switch.

You ... and everybody else! That rather undermines your defense of the S2.
When you feel loved is it not the neurons in your own brain generating that feeling? That was my point.

You may also want to consider the evolutionary pressure to love certain people in your family.

Do you think it's mere coincidence that massive amounts of oxytocin are necessarily for lactation, giving birth, released after birth, released after orgasm, and that this drug also just happens to create loving emotional bonds?

Seems that evolution is also manipulating our romances and the loves of our lives. On the other hand it's probably good for society that we're chemically manipulated in this fashion. My point is not that 99% of these feelings aren't "real" my point is more of a skeptical nature in that it becomes impossible to figure out how much is "real" and how much is chemical or other mechanisms of signalling.
Cancelled streaming due to the split, not price hike.

Since 90% of what I actually want to watch is only available via dvd, streaming was more of a convenient addon than the core product. That I was going to lose the integration between streaming & dvd made streaming pointless.
Absolutely. For this reason, they said: "Working software over comprehensive documentation" in Agile manifesto. However, you cannot develop a product without knowing your requirements. You have some kind of requirements or features spec in any methodology.
Keep-alive has first-class support in the soon-to-be-released version!
I don't know about GWT, but in my experience closure compiler does not produce different output for different browsers (though it does strip dead code).
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Deciding who are the Most Beautiful South Actresses is quite hard to do since there are a lot of pretty and gorgeous actresses in South film industry. They have given us so much joy and entertainment over the years by acting in Tamil, Telugu, Malayalam and Kannada films.
Great idea !!!
The concept of tapatalk, but expanded to any kind of website.
Does it work whit every CMS ?
MS is a bit late to the "virtualized" Linux support, but MS does have such a large Hyper-V Windows market, that it could still take off in the Linux market. read a briefed article on this topic here http://www.hypervhd.com/lounge-off-topic-f9/microsoft-to-hoo...
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Just to be clear for those that don't know, folklore.org isn't a product of Woz - it's from Andy Hertzfeld.
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Actually, none of us are. And that's what makes this so hard.
Yes, I agree very much with your insightful analysis. I'll add that the PR firms of the caliber they hire work out the positions in focus groups and through polling so they know in advance of a campaign what sort of propaganda approach works. Through working with industrial psychologists on staff they also know the most effective ways to present their position. It's a very professional and evidence based approach to swaying public opinion to the side of your clients.