skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Granted.

To be 100% honest, I'm not sure why a programming language REPL needs to have full data visualization. I may not fully get the idea of REPLs, but it would seem to me that that would be the responsibility of a layer above it to manage data presentation; sophisticated data I would consider to require a domain-specific viewer anyway.
What is actually more offensive to me is the tracking. Ads, I can choose to ignore them. But I don't like the idea of being tracked, and having my every move online watched under a microscope in the name of selling me a targeted product. That's why I make every effort to block ads and scripts.

However, I don't think it's fair to say that "HN members defend them" since (as of this comment), there is a 2:1 ratio of blockers vs. non-blockers. OTOH, this survey doesn't distinguish users who block ads AND use them on their own sites.
No, it's very different from that. It's more along the lines of demonstrating a drug that cures cancer, but refusing to tell anyone its chemical composition or how to make it.
Schmidt predicts developers will prioritize Android over iOS in 6 months
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No worries. Can't have thin skin on the interwebz :D
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I'm just going to leave this here:

https://github.com/ServiceStack

Because there's a lot of C# in there as well :)

- Web Service Framework (+ many Example/Starter Projects)
- Json Jsv Csv Text Serailizers (+ Benchmarks)
- Redis Client
- Redis Web Services + Redis Admin UI
- Orm
- Logging Framework
- Caching API with Memcached, Redis, InMemory & FileSystem providers
Java bytecode is what we mean when we say 'compile'. AOT is 'ahead of time' with regard to clojure, since it compiles to bytecode at run-time normally.
> (not trying to bash Perl, but it's hardly the most relevant language to web development today)

What on earth does that /mean/? What would make a language relevant? Would it be a huge community writing and releasing code every day? (http://search.cpan.org/recent) Would it be lots of conferences? (http://lanyrd.com/topics/perl/past/) Would it be sexy startups using it? (http://duckduckgo.com/, http://selectablemedia.com/)

So...?
Pay for The Economist? From the articles I have the expertise to judge, they're occasionally insightful and always seem to have at least a tenuous grasp on issue at hand. Which is in sharp contrast to the reporting in other general news sources, which is often hilariously wrong. Only publishing once a week leave a lot more time for fact checking.
First employee hired at a startup. Paid for my options before leaving the company. Six months later the company was acquihired by Google. Three months after that I was given paperwork informing me that those shares are now worth exactly $0.00/each. Founders made out well enough from the deal to pick up high-end luxury sports cars though, which is the important part of an exit, right?
ID thieves steal tax returns
Awesome, thanks!

Any ETA on those changes?
Reference please. If you're adding smartphones getting sold, I doubt it. It's not even close.

In Q2 2011 the numbers of PCs sold was ~ 85 million [1]. The growth rate over Q2 2010 is predicted to be only 2.3 %

For the same Q2 2011 - 428.7 million mobile devices have been sold, out of which 107 million were smartphones [2]. More interesting however is the growth rate of smartphones sales since Q2 2010: 74%

Now, the total number of Windows computers is bigger than all smartphones combined. However, Windows XP still has over 30% market share and Vista has over 10%. That's pretty bad for Microsoft. PCs aren't selling like they used to and users aren't upgrading much.

If Microsoft relies on tablet sales for increasing the numbers of devices with Windows 8, well you can probably count the millions of iPads sold on one hand (correction: according to Wikipedia since April 2010 that's 39.85 million - pretty good, however a small number compared to smartphones). You can also make a case that Microsoft will do deals with hardware makers, however there are good reasons why Android is so far unsuccessful on tablets and I'm not seeing Microsoft doing a better job.

[1] http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1744216

[2] http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=1764714
Great post with useful info, but there's a bit more (if you pardon the
pun) one can add to it:

Eight bits in a byte is a "de facto" standard so it is a "typically"
safe assumption on most modern hardware, but the actual definition of
how many bits are in a byte is hardware (and situation) dependent. There
is no definitive or formal standard that defines how many bits are in a
byte. The range is often between 7 to 12 bits per byte, but I think
some really ancient systems (1940's - 1950's) were below 7 bits per byte.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte
It is. There is no room in my toolbox for sluggish and cumbersome tools.
Creating classes at runtime in .NET
I'm not very up on microeconomics, but isn't behavioral economics a hot field currently? Or are they still seen as outside the mainstream?
Trine 2 - SKIDROW
Case Study: When Should A Rising Star Make Her Pregnancy Public?
Yes, porting to Python 3 is more cumbersome than it should be. Yes, some of the decisions (like crippling the byte types, or implicitly changing behavior based on environment variables) turn out to be bad decisions, but it still sounds like there's already some work towards fixing these. As more and more people gets to work with Python 3, that seems normal to me. As we know, "There are only two kinds of programming languages: those people always bitch about and those nobody uses." It seems to me that Python 3 has started to get its healthy dose of bashing, and that's a good thing.

As for my anectodal experience with 2to3: I've recently been working on porting rpclib to Python 3. After skimming the diffs it produced for a simple `2to3 src/rpclib` call, I chose to ignore most of the transformations it applies.

Replacing commas in except statements by the "as" keyword or adding parentheses where missing work just fine. But wrapping every call to dict.keys() inside a list() call? That's bold.

Once 2to3 is tamed[1], I think the code it generates can be maintained. Certainly beats having to get the current exception from sys.exc_info.

[1]: https://github.com/plq/rpclib/blob/master/2to3.sh
Proud non-profit hacker.
I think the whole PC thing came about as a result of White Guilt and White Priviledge. We shouldn't be watering down our holiday. We just happen to have a country dominated by white Christians and it becomes a big deal. If the majority here were Jewish I bet that Jewish celebrations would get more attention. All in all though, Christmas in the US is more of a cultural sensation nowadays rather than a religious celebration even among many Christians. It's more about trees, lights, Santa, presents, good will, etc. than Christ being born. That's another good reason to do away with Happy Holidays because if Christmas is cultural like Columbus Day or Thanksgiving then everyone is invited to participate and in fact they are. Really, the only thing linking Christmas to religion these days, at least in the US, is the "Christ" part of the name. It's become just another holiday that can be given religious significance but that's optional. Like Thanksgiving. That's a cultural celebration but many religions have tried to make it part of their religion (specifically Umitarian and some Catholic Christians) but that doesn't mean it really is a religious deal.
exactly!

You take almost as much risk and work just as many hours as when you work for yourself. Except you own very little in equity (as a developer, usually less than 10%) and you have no control over what happens with the company (usually when VC takes over, they will be trying to make an ROI asap at the expense of any long-term plans).
Right now the only plans I can share are those announced for expanding into Europe, but we're dedicated to bringing Twilio to developers worldwide.
Graphene spun into meter-long threads, tied in knots
my logic was that my job exists because of the porn industry; I know it doesn't match entirely.
Are we going to see a lot more of this kind of thing with floods in Thailand causing shortages in traditional drives?

I'm surprised, after the Japanese Sumitomo Resin Factory Fire[1], that a single point of failure still exists in the computer hardware supply chain.

[1] (http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0EKF/is_n1971_v39/ai_...)
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If it's a science "experiment", his strategy would have to be revealed so you can reproduce it. Names of people participating in drug trials is not required to reproduce an experiment. In principal this makes it different from not publishing the names of people who participated in drug trials.

All he has "proven" is that a certain subset of people can be conned into typing something into at terminal. I don't get the significance. For all I know, he's choosing his target.
I have friends who love startups but would never start one. It's not for everyone.
http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/#technotes/tn2239/_in...
The end of the article, the post confirms that Google stores a hash of the password. Very misleading from the title of the article.
While law enforcement has some potentially excludable components, for the most part it seems non-excludable: stopping crimes and criminals protects everyone. Exclusion mostly seems possible geographically, and we already effectively do that at the borders of states and countries. On top of that, unlike education, law enforcement does not have a blindingly obvious solution for how to run it privately. (While I understand that solutions exist for how to "privatize" law enforcement, any attempt to privatize the use of force has huge difficulties and dangerous pitfalls.)
Or even worse exercise your options when the company goes public but do not sell the stock. Watch the stock plummet to less than a dollar. Now you have a big tax liability and no way to pay it off!
Good UX in the Wild: Dropbox's attention to detail on their download page
I remember seeing an online store that offered me and my FB friends gifts based on our FB wall info. I was surprised to see quite a few gifts that were right up my alley, so to speak. So that is an option.
Maybe you should let us know what the startup was, as well as the people behind it, so we can avoid working with them.
The Daily Show uses SnapStream to search for its archived TV clips
Bing? What happened, did some malware install a Bing toolbar on your computer or something? :)
The darker colored roof perhaps suggests photovoltaic arrays rather than a high albedo roof as depicted in the original rendering.
I really value being able to see a real time diff vs. the latest version under source control, and to hover over the sidebar gutter to show me the previous code.

Check in / check out isn't too valuable, but having add/delete automatically ripple through to source control is nice.
Agreed, there should be a 'I'm writing of $3,000 a year" option. I had a lot of room to cover gains by that for a while.

But its an area where tax law has changed a bit so its useful to check with your accountant to see if you can write off gains on current stock against previously realized losses. That way you get to keep more of the money from selling the current stock. Exercises are still regular income (grrrrr!) but gains on like investments (stock for stock) are generally offsetable. Check with your accountant.
On the other hand, more and more offices at Apple are in lockdown areas (where the badge that gives you access to the building does not necessarily give you access). It's going to be interesting to see how these two forces interact with each other. Cafeterias and common areas have been exempt from the lockdown trend, but I'm not sure if this is sufficient in the long term to guarantee enough "unplanned interactions".
Traffic results from appearing on ABC's Shark Tank show
They really missed an opportunity to test out this season's hottest phrase: "Hey, baby Jesus, you wanna do pilates?"
A Lesson in Empathy
No, the longer the reporter has to make the story the better a job they'll do. So TV reporting, which is produced continuously, tends to be the works, followed by daily newspapers, followed by weekly magazines.
I don't really like that argument. Even granting that you should consider the possibility that you are a simulation running in the box (you might believe that this is all but certain), I'm not sure you have reason to let the AI out. Consider:

Case 1: You are a simulation running in the box.

Then your decision whether or not to release the AI has no impact, and whether or not you (and copies) will be tortured is out of your hands.

Case 2: You are the "real" you, outside the box.

Reduces to the same scenario but without remarks after "the AI adds. . . ." This may still not be trivial, but I suspect a cost-benefit calculation might show that unboxing the AI would have consequences worse than the torture of a million boxed copies. (If not, is the box even relevant? -- simply creating the AI unleashes so much evil on the world that it doesn't matter whether you unbox it.)

(Is there a refinement of the scenario where you can be a simulation but still believe your choice has an impact on your punishment? Probably. For example each copy could get 500 years of torture for its own choice, plus 500 years if the real you does not unbox the AI. This refinement would force us to deal more directly with the AI's threat.)
That is different than the fragile bytecode problem scala appears to have though. Go's issue is that the API's are changing fast so source code has to be modified frequently.

Scala's issue seems to be that even when the API's haven't changed and there is no need for a sourcecode change a compiler change could break you.

Frankly go's problem seems more manageable.
Wait... Isn't scottgu running/going to run the Azure Platform?

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/microsoft-reorg-scott-gu...
How many American Presidents do you know from the Renaissance period? How many quantum physicists do you know from Medieval Europe? They obviously will never stand the test of time!

Your conclusion is perfectly fine for the reasons that dredmorbius says, but that wasn't what he was disputing. He was disputing that your specific argument was so obviously faulty that it is just absurd.
I think it's a win for MS for many of the reasons that @Haacked lists on this blog post.

IMO MS is too much driven by profits and control to realize expanding the .NET OSS community will be a NET win for their .NET platform and surrounding tooling / aspirations.
Glad to see more companies jumping into the receiving email market. In my experience, it's been incredibly difficult to set up a website that can actually respond properly to emails, though Lamson has helped a lot.
It's difficult to enter the world of telecom IVR, the barrier of entry is very high, and to do anything at a large scale requires a large up-front investment.

Twilio makes telecom IVR as simple as writing a web application, and they're very affordable with no up-front costs.

I've written custom emergency notification systems, call-in contests, intelligent call forwarding systems (you could replicate Google Voice). Any phone app you can think of can be constructed.
No, the solution to complaining about Ubuntu is to use another distro. Everyone knows Ubuntu breaks things all the time, yet everyone still gets up in arms every time. Stop complaining, switch to something that's stable.
I did a test on my website for adblocking. I'll write it up soon, but among the general population, about 30% of people seem to use adblock of some kind
Download.com Response to Nmap Offer Bundling
Mine actually went down (about $25-$50/month per year). Kind of like getting a raise, when it comes time to re-sign your rental agreement, you can tell them you have been looking around and want a decrease in rent.

If you always pay on time, they will do it. The almost guaranteed income for them is worth it.
Do you know where your data center dollars go? Most companies don't
Typically gofix just works, well that is my experience of running gofix three times over the six last months. The release notes document when the language has changed and when gofix can help you migrate, and sometimes it can't help and it is documented.

Additionally, go exposes the complete AST for the language and a pretty printer as libraries, so you can write your own fixes if you don't trust gofix.
Western ND (where Williston ND is) is not "totally flat", it has the badlands. How about show that actual town when talking about it instead of stock buffalo footage? Its like every Native American story shows a Pow-Wow instead of the community the story took place in.
Facebook For Android Gets An Overhaul, Now Looks Just As Good As Its iPhone App
The only one that really matters is the "use real numbers"
So you understand my point. Why use Ubuntu if you're just using it so you can complain about it? The idea being, Ubuntu being broken is no new thing. If you're still surprised by it, maybe it's not the distro for you. Rather than complain, use the freedom that Linux provides and move to a distro that is more compatible with your use. There are many out there that are not in the habit of breaking things, but Ubuntu is not one of them.
Yeah, but if a client wants something custom you're stuck either modifying an existing plugin, or creating a new one, and creating Wordpress plugins is a godawful mess.
I ask my interviewers, some classic behavioral questions like what is you proudest accomplishment or what is the most difficult aspect of the job. While it seems ironic, but you would get a lot of insight into their work as well as insight if this job is right for you.
I either tolerate the ads to support the site, or avoid the site altogether because they have too many ads that I get annoyed. Weather.com is the only exception I have to these rules. I use an ad blocker because their animated ads are just too annoying.
When the company was wound down, the VCs got back a significant amount (I think it was somewhere between 1x and 2x original investment, closer to 1x). The employees who had stock or options got zero.
Windows isn't even Microsoft's biggest moneymaker at the moment, much less its only one. MS didn't go out of business when Vista or ME were released, and I don't think anywhere close to 50% of users upgraded to either of those platforms.

Also, people are buying iPads in droves. Other tablet sales are pretty anemic. And Metro looks nothing like the iPad, or even any of the iPad's closest competitors, so I don't know how you can conclude that "people like the interface" when people aren't using the interface.
Maybe so, but issues like this are common in Ubuntu-land. Some people like that. Some don't. They're well-known for releasing new features that are broken and poorly documented. Usually they are fixed in the next release. This happens all the time, and complaining about it every time just gets old.
Amen to that. Am I Christian? Am I atheist or agnostic? It doesn't matter. We're talking about conversions here and the likely reasons behind them. Let people believe whatever they want. This isn't the place for self-important masturbation in the comments. To be clear, I am agreeing with AmazingBytecode's sentiments here. I totally got your sarcasm and loved it.
After entering the tag in the search box (or pick it from the auto-complete) I intuitively press enter to add it to the filter, but that doesn't do anything. Maybe that's the way it's supposed to work, but it'd be nice if hitting enter worked too.
I don't know if "no moving parts" makes it more or less impressive. Imagining a head float on a layer of air that's 0.0125 um thick, with electro magnetic heads always impresses me.
It's only the surgeon's fault if they don't deliver what they promise. If the patient is informed of the possible outcomes and their chances, then the patient is the one taking the risk. At least, that's how it should work.

If you sell food called "Peanut Butter OR Poison" then you can't be blamed if some people get sick, but if it's called "Peanut Butter" and it's something else, heads need to roll. If they didn't, then we would go hungry, or at least the smart people would.

As a cannon safety inspector, you are taking personal responsibility every time you tick "yes, this cannon is safe". If not enough people are willing to do that, others will assume part of the risk, for a price. And if nobody wants to do that, then nobody gets to play with cannons.

When a stray cannonball blows a hole in someone's house, somebody is going to suffer no matter what, and it shouldn't be the home owner.

Yes, risks are often worth taking. But we need to make sure that the person choosing to take the risk is the one who suffers the consequences. Then they can decide if it's worth it to them.
Wow...I have a whole new appreciation for how unbelievably lucky I got. Never even worked in Silicon Valley and had multiple exits that were, judging from this poll data, quite anomalous. Even when I was the employee.

When I started out I had no clue about exits or options or any of it. It was just another number on my offer letter. I took the job because I wanted to learn and do some fun graphics programming. It really is a Christmas miracle that I was able to do that and not even live in San Fran.

Based on my experience, I would say a good number of the votes you see represent pure, dumb, luck. Without question my votes do. Maybe some people were able to steer themselves to those exits, but for many, I'm betting they just got lucky as well.

This data is really only showing you the likelihood of getting lucky. It is better than anywhere else in the economy. But it is not something that you should plan on. I think that is the "take-away" as the business guys would say.
Your "unedited words": "That stunt should never have happened where it did."

It happened on a military firing range, in the presence of experts. Demanding more is requiring of them essentially perfect foresight. This is equivalent to requiring them to guarantee accidents are impossible.

I do disagree that it "should never have happened where it did", because I reject the notion that causality can be reversed like that. They performed the experiment in a reasonable location for what they knew at the time.
debt != equity. see also bankruptcy discharge.
I would say most people are easily offended. By anything.

It's not ironic, it's unfortunate.
I'd prefer to be the better person here rather than defame them publicly. If anyone would like more information or to discuss this privately, however, my email is in my profile.
Scumbag Debian making Unix not work right since the 90s.

I can't tell you how many straightforward Unix configuration things -- network interfaces, resolv.conf, initscripts, etc. just plain can't be edited on a Debian or Ubuntu system except through Debian-specific tools because if you do, the Debian-spoecific tools will clobber your changes and/or other Debian-specific things won't work right.

This is why I use Arch. It's like everything I could want out of a Linux: the simplicity of Slackware, the completeness of Debian (if not quite as huge as Debian without the AUR), the rolling release schedule of Gentoo.
Yes, because examining the old source code allows you to predict its behaviour, including the rewriting of source code. If line 42 says "never rewrite lines 42 or 43" and line 43 says "never kill humans" you would be more likely to let it out of the box than if line 42 said "rewrite whatever you want" and line 43 said "do whatever is necessary to achieve world domination."
You could but shouldn't. Because Christmas is a huge cultural deal in addition to a religious celebration, saying Merry Christmas to a non Christian would be far better than saying Happy Hanukkah to someone with a Jewish sounding last name and getting it wrong.