skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
$ sudo perl cloc-1.55.pl --unicode doom3.gpl/
2014 text files.
1907 unique files.
476 files ignored.

http://cloc.sourceforge.net v 1.55 T=40.0 s (36.6 files/s, 22123.3 lines/s)
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Bourne Shell 36 4529 5476 33717
m4 10 1079 232 9025
HTML 55 391 76 4142
Objective C++ 6 709 654 2605
Perl 10 523 411 2380
yacc 1 95 97 912
Python 10 108 182 895
Objective C 1 145 20 768
make 22 160 253 579
DOS Batch 5 0 0 61
Teamcenter def 4 3 0 51
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No. “This source release does not contain any game data, the game data is still covered by the original EULA and must be obeyed as usual.”

You should be able to play a total conversion that does not rely on the original game’s assets, however.
How to discover your new favorite band
Competitive analysis of the current music discovery space.
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The late 1800s and early 1990s were crony capitalism, encouraged by a corrupt court system and naive immigrants who bought into the political machines. A fully free market actively discourages monopolies by removing all barriers for competition, and encouraging disruptive startups.
Long time effects like better anger control could be explained by age related endocrine changes.

Short time effects like "staying focused" could or could not be explained by that. I think I have just too little data to explain them at all. All I can do is to speculate.

So I begin speculating.

Let's say that by meditation you try to calm your mind. You lower your stress hormone, cortisol. By doing that you elevate your testosterone level.

http://www.ehow.com/about_5162836_effects-cortisol-testoster...

Does that mechanics explain meditation effects?

Myself, I prefer to walk a forty minutes or longer to boost my mind next day and to lift (pretty heavy - 160+ kg) weights for testosterone.

Both activities are scientifically proven to help mind. Aerobic exercise provides brain boosting: http://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=aerobic+exe... Weight lifting increases self control: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/health/research/26exer.htm...

I think I should write a presentation about all that.
Question 1: Why did you run cloc as root?

Question 2: Why does Doom 3 involve 33,717 lines of bash? That's a lot of bash. I realise it's used heavily for build scripts, but thirty three thousand lines seems excessive.
Are you referring to chatattr +a log? The problem with these files is that they can't be renamed:

# mv log log.old
mv: cannot move `log' to `log.old': Operation not permitted
The Netflix nightmare continues
It seems that there is significant interest in what you are offering. How do you plan on selecting the six students (apprentices)?

I think the real value in what you are proposing is in the pathway to a job. In fact, I would like to possibly take you up on this offer. I've done some Ruby, Python, and server admin stuff, but not enough to make me "employable" by my standards.

I'm currently in grad school, and I would be taking a semester off (which I am fine with) if I took your offer. When more details become available please contact me. My information is in my profile.
I don't know about you guys but one of the cheapest optimizations you can do is making sure your database and application server are "close" to each other.

Does a cloud database service make sense? Maybe. Databases have gotten easier and easier to setup. In addition they are quite optimized in terms of processing power. I'm not sure I want to give up control my database just yet.
fta: During the course of four experiments, Kappes and Oettingen demonstrated that conjuring positive fantasies of success drains the energy out of ambition.

Completely overstated. What they actually demonstrated is that on their set of selected people, conjuring positive fantasies of success drains the energy out of ambition.

There are many types of people, and many different modes of ambition and motivation. I wouldn't think this is rocket science, but perhaps it's an opportunity for me to apply for big funding.
"I've grown to see it as a kind of hack genre..."

Be careful with the word "hack" in this case, though; it means something very different in the literary world than it does in the tech world! :)

But I agree with you. Generally speaking, the best fantasy and sci-fi writing can raise and tackle real-world issues in very bold ways -- ways that, in almost any other genre, would be considered too ballsy, or too crazy, or too preachy to address.
Has it been confirmed whether or not the iPhone uses this? Since Jobs never let the carriers touch the base OS, I'm assuming it does not.
I'm not much of a self help guru, but positive visualization was often taught to me in sports growing up. In these cases, it would seem the lower blood pressure and heart rate would enhance focus and improve coordination. What matters is how well you perform in actuality.

In neither sports nor work, nobody celebrates visualizing success over actual success, people celebrate tangible accomplishments. However if you're not motivated to achieve certain goals in the first place, positive visualization obviously won't change that, it only gives you that warm fuzzy feeling this article describes.
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This is the same sort of thinking that is trying to add a registry to linux as a replacement for /etc
4.75 degrees of seperation between any two people on earth
How could the fee be 99%? Doesn't that imply that anyone who takes the short is damn sure that the stock will be worth $0?
For what it is worth, the equivalent Scala code is

trait Pong[T] {}

class Ping[T] extends Pong[Pong[X forSome { type X >: Ping[Ping[T]]}]] {
def Ping() {
val Ping : Pong[X forSome { type X >: Ping[Long]}] = new Ping[Long]();
}
}

which produces the errors

Test.scala:3: error: illegal cyclic reference involving class Ping
class Ping[T] extends Pong[Pong[X forSome { type X >: Ping[Ping[T]]}]] {
^
Test.scala:5: error: type mismatch;
found : Ping[Long]
required: Pong[X forSome { type X >: Ping[Long] }]
Note: Long <: X forSome { type X >: Ping[Long] }, but trait Pong is invariant in type T.
You may wish to define T as +T instead. (SLS 4.5)
val Ping : Pong[X forSome { type X >: Ping[Long]}] = new Ping[Long]();
IIRC the source for most of the physics engine has been available for years with the SDK. I think it only including rigid body dynamics and the constraint solver though, no collision code, so it's nice to have that part of it.
In the long term they do need to be beneficial to the businesses that do it, otherwise they'll die in a few years from word of mouth.

Who writes the copy is an issue, though just someone writing that would be cheap compared to chasing tons of businesses looking for work and talking to them all.
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It's the future, representing a convergence between Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) and the microprocessor.

Gate arrays are vast arrays of logic gates, which can be wired together in almost arbitrary patterns by a sea of "fuses", typically controlled by state stored in on-board SRAM. They are real time and blindingly fast due to their massive parallelism, achieving supercomputer type speeds when applied to the right type of problem and programmed well. They are more difficult to program than a microprocessor. One way of looking at an FPGA is as an array of tens of millions of very simple computing engines.

Over the years, the number of transistors on an FPGA has been rocketing up. Generally these transistors have been put to use by providing more and more simple logic blocks. We are now to the point where we have almost more gates than we know what to do with, and the chip is being dominated by interconnects. This has seen a move towards including a limited number of elaborate hard wired blocks, such as CPUs and multipliers, in addition to the array of logic.

The logical evolution is to stop providing more blocks, but make each block more complex as transistor counts go up. Eventually we will see arrays of tens of millions of microprocessors, rather than tens of millions of logic blocks. There will be no distinction between a multicore CPU and FPGA.

It's worth noting that the first Xilinx FPGAs, thirty years ago, provided arrays of around 144 logic blocks, similar to the processor count in this chip. Extrapolate 30 years and we will have an array of 10 million microprocessors.
Too bad most software patents belong to either giant companies using them as a strategic hammer or patent trolls, then.
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Curl doesn't support JavaScript. Neither does wget.

If I'm on a netbook, tablet, or phone, your JavaScript will chew my battery. I don't want that.

I don't trust you. Don't take it personally; I don't trust most websites. I haven't signed your key, and you haven't signed mine. I am not okay with letting you execute code on my machine.

Your JavaScript sucks. Again, don't take it personally; it's a tricky and frustrating language with lots of pitfalls. However, you messed up, and now your script is busy-looping or eating bandwidth with endless AJAX. I'm blacklisting your script until you fix it.

These are just off the top of my head, BTW.

Edit: Spelling.
This may come off as ignorant, because I don't know tons about economics or capitalist history, but is the U.S. capable of surviving a removal of the barriers? Given the size and political influence of our corporations? And flexing my ignorance again, is there a real world example of success for fully free market functioning?

Genuinely interested, but I don't know if I'm expressing myself properly, so don't eviscerate me ;)
Please, if you're able to make the call, do not require JavaScript in the browser. Fall back gracefully and make the UI work without any JS.
AT&T hackers warned of vulnerability, now proven right
Updated. Sorry about that!
IPhone with NFC feature soon . Android Market vs. App Store .
Some of the industries greatest advances have began as a solution in search of a problem, such as the microprocessor (which its inventor, Intel, didn't think much of compared with memory chips where the real money was). Most fail of course.

If someone can make many-core, in this form, do something useful that can't be done elsewhere (unlike DSP and GPUs, which are already many-core), it will fundamentally upend computing.
Is it really possible to pick up RoR in 8 weeks to be useful to a company?

How is what you're offering any different than this site:
http://teamtreehouse.com/

Super honest question, I'm fairly new to the web dev world.
I dislike how basic functionality like this is completely broken, yet ads are being served. You can see where the priorities are. :(
nice idea but poor implementation.

by the way, it would be good if users categorized by programming languages.
CLB = configurable logic blocks
I hope that, after the pruning process, some more 'random, rhizomatic' growth is allowed. You can't always tell what's going to be valuable ahead of time. And sometimes interesting connections happen when smart people are allowed to work on important projects.
I did notice.

I don't think you're claiming that open source software is always better.

I do think you're claiming that overall open source software is systematically better in some way than proprietary software, obviously not in every instance and subject to noise and variance. Feel free to correct me if you not making any such claim.

I'm asking for evidence because you stated catgorically that evidence exists but I have personally never come across it.

What is the evidence you referred to in your original comment?
Why Chance Encounters Work
Failed Execution. Take it down and fix it up. Do at least some testing before launching.

The biggest failure is that wrong information is showing up for peoples username. Thing is, if the username does not yet exist in your data set, then query it before showing someone else's profile.

Popularity does not show how good software developer is, we are not celebrities, some of us are not even bloggers. Some of us do not actively participate on open source, even if we have few repositories in Github. Though we still might be looking for work.
Any gambling types fancy a little wager? Which will come first, a stable JVM port of doom 3, or a stable build of Textmate 2? The only problem is, I really can't think which side I'd come down on.

NOTE: For those primed to accuse me of hating: this is as much a compliment to certain hackers and their fixated attitude towards porting iD code dumps, as it is a snide reference to textmate2's status as vaporware.
Wondering if it ciuld emulate an Apple Ii in real time and, within it, run GraFORTH.
The most interesting "bug" ever
I'm guessing that they will shortly as it seems like it is a big market hole to plug. I'd bet that since the lowest priced dedicated DB for a heroku app is $200, they've just moved that functionality over.

There's probably some complexity in getting shared cheaper DBs available that we don't know about.
I've been doing rails work in the Twin Cities for 5 years. If either of you are interested in something locally let me know.
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Essentially a cyclic reference between an interface and a class exploited with generics.
you're right :/ truly sorry for misunderstanding. got carried away.
Non-terminating compilation in Common Lisp:

(defmacro get-stuck (x)
(labels ((infinite () (infinite)))
(infinite) x))
(get-stuck 3)
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Nope, but I would doubt that it could produce as much sunlight as if there were no roof.

Even if the system were 100% efficient, if we assume that the rays from the sun are roughly parallel, you'd need as much solar dish area as the square footage of the park to pipe the same amount of light into it.

The closest thing I could find to a product is this [1] and at $8000 for a 4-foot dish, you're looking at a lot of money to harvest enough light to grow trees.

The whole idea reeks of gaga-green engineers/architects that don't understand how hard it is to grow plants; I don't think they're considering how you need to hit the tree from all angles with the light, otherwise parts of it will die. Also, lots of larger plants depend on the tracking motion of the sun to grow normally. Think about the last time you saw an indoor tree that looked like it was growing nicely: it almost certainly had a glass roof over it, because they really need that all that light to survive.

[1] http://pesn.com/2005/07/27/9600139_Fiber_Optics_Bring_Sun_In...
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However, if you set the symbol locking depth larger (-Yrecursion n) you'll also get a stack overflow as well. So it isn't necessarily that Scala has an algorithmically better approach to subtyping. The symbol locking algorithm is more of a catchall...
Buddhism is still a non-rational belief system entailing ritual, community, and moral teachings.
Why Jobs chose Isaacson
Get off your high horse. Being American doesn't automatically make your code better. As a "foreigner", I recently had to deal indirectly with American developers (to integrate our product with theirs at the request of the client). They charge 100K USD for something that only needs 2 man days, didn't code to the specifications (set by themselves), and took forever to fix any problem on their end.

Bad developers exist everywhere.
Got my response and access code today. Got my UPS tracking# in about 1 hour.
This ad hominem kind of scrawl is inappropriate for HN.
Nothing Google had done in 1999 would qualify them to dominate internet search or scalability either. This is a fallacy. Asserting that the only people who can productively solve a problem are those who have dedicated their careers to it is just plain wrong. It flies in the face of almost every success story, ever.

That said, clearly they didn't solve this problem. If they were making serious progress, they wouldn't have killed it.
Correction: I've been lax in my terminology with logic gates and cells. Current big FPGAs contain around 2 million "logic cells", which typically represent between 1 and 10 logic gates each, depending on device programming.
One of the first fantasy authors that I really got sucked into, though I don't remember reading of much of hers later.

But man when I was young but the dragon riders series was the first one which really gave me that escapism I was looking for as a kid. Those, the Belgariad by Eddings - and (of all things) the Tin Tin series. Ah fond memories.

Now its more China Mieville, John Courtenay Grimwood and even sometimes that Stross fellow.
Well if you're going to let a minor inconvenience like geo-restricted service access prick your plans maybe it's not for you.
It's a threshold filter. If you can create and maintain a project that's actually useful to people, you are definitely not a bozo. (NB: if you haven't done so, it doesn't mean you're a bozo; the implication only goes one way).

It's a better filter than "attended a super-elite university".
It's more a legal thing which you will see with any commercially released codebase. The iD hackers have to jump through innumerable hoops with their publishers' legal department to get this code out to us at all, so it kinda sounds ungrateful to moan about the licenses.

Also, different parts of the code are covered by many different licenses and the copyright on them belongs to many different people, so it is important to be very explicit about everything.

When it's an OSS project owned and operated by a small group of people, there's little motivation to worry about this stuff. Also when you choose a license like the MIT one which basically says "I really don't give a fuck what you do unless you sue me," you have a lot less incentive to plaster it over everything, because you're one step away from being in the public domain anyway.

When you're releasing the doom3 code, things are very different.
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No clue about question 1 but 32,607 of those lines are all part of curl which seems to be distributed with the source code.
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This is one of the things that frustrates me to no end. We have the data, we have the information, we can see it taking place, but nothing seems to be happening to fix it.

The people in charge feel so removed, like they're operating in a different world where the people can be shut up if they're ignored long enough. We've been Ferberized by our own government.

“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.”
― Frank Zappa
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This HN title is inaccurate. There's no evidence that Microsoft or Apple actually supported SOPA. Merely an industry association of which they are members, supported it. This association removed its support.

A more appropriate title would be "Business Software Alliance withdraws support for SOPA."

I'm pretty sure most people on HN who know what SOPA is, know who the BSA is, and if not they'd learn it from reading the article.

I don't think its fair to imply that Microsoft or Apple (or any of the other BSA members) supported SOPA, as it seems likely the BSA was engaging in knee jerk support and didn't consult its membership.

I, personally, think the BSA should strongly opposes SOPA because it doesn't represent the interest of its member companies in the long run. But the title given here is just unfair.
If the US were to attempt to remove the barriers to entry, it would have to be very carefully with a scalpel and not destroy them all in one blow with a hammer. One approach which would help curb corporate power would be to start removing the civil liability limits on many sectors. To use the oil industry as an example, the reason BP got off so lightly after causing damage to nearly all industries reliant on the gulf coast was that there was a $75M cap on civil damages, where without that cap, BP easily could have gone out of business after being sued under Tort law.

The United States in it's early days was a decent example of a near-free market functioning, as there was no central bank and minimal regulation on business.

Also, I'm glad to see you're interested in learning more. Economic theory is a very nuanced subject, with many differing opinions, studies and models. One that I wish I knew much better.
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For question 2: It is essentially the configure script of the included curl library.

$ wc -l neo/curl/configure
31052 neo/curl/configure
EDIT: Deleted my GP post to stem conflict.

What I meant (probably poorly phrased) is that for readability for personal study (like gcv was asking about), I think it's worth stripping huge license preambles from source files. There's obviously good legal reason for them being present to start with.
I guess the question that gets immediately raised in my mind is: what the heck were these companies doing supporting the damned thing in the first place?

It's like the rats scattering when the light turns on. Is all of corporate America happy to support these egregious pieces of legislation as long as the public doesn't find out?

That last part was mostly rhetorical... mostly.
I really hate reality tv, probably similar to most other HN'ers, but I must admit I really like watching Dragon's Den (I think its called Shark Tank in the US). I think a show about startups could go along a similar format (but over a longer period, not just the pitch) and be interesting to watch for me as well as for a lay audience (which you'd have to ensure if you wanted the show to have any success).
In either case, your app should be written as a service which can be access by many different "clients" if necessary. Then you can go all hog wild with a WebGL version of your app, and someone else (an intern) can come in later and write a Web 1.0 version of the client-side.
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Don't pitch the value of your product with "We have a very high tech algorithm" until it works. Invoking the "secret sauce" when your basic functionality doesn't work is amateur-hour stuff, and degrades the benefit of the doubt that people otherwise give a new product.

This project feels like it's about halfway to MVP. This is more akin to a tech demo.

All that said, equating inbound connections with programmer ability is an inherently flawed metric for measuring how hireable a person is.
99% is an the annualized rate. There have been a few stocks with > 100% borrow rate. It implies most of the shorters don't expect to hold for a year (or don't realize the costs.)
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I'm not saying you're wrong, but why then was the "Business Software Alliance" supporting SOPA in the first place? I don't think "knee-jerk support" covers it. There's a political reason there, surely.

If MS/Apple/whoever didn't like it, why weren't they publicly saying so?