skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Without DRM" should be in the title here. It's the critical part of the experiment.

I'm curious to see what happens, hope he gives an update of some kind.
Count your blessings. Nautilus, a Linux file manager, does not have open-on-hover.
$ sort --version
sort (GNU coreutils) 8.14

For what it's worth, this gets me the same results under LANG=C and LANG=en_US.utf8
Snap! That's a good idea. :)
If you want a job in software development - do software development. There is no substitute for coding. I interviewed with Google a little while ago and the first thing they asked me was "How many hours do you code a day?". That set the tone for the rest of the interview. CLRS has some very useful information and by all means, every developer should know it, but using that theory in practice is what makes the knowledge stick. You find out more idiosyncrasies and sticking points when you actually build something. If you don't know where to start, fork a project from github and contribute to it.
I download around 2-3 torrents a week normally using public trackers and this site says "Hi. We have no records on you.". Another note, I use peerblock while downloading not really because I believe in the protection but because its interesting to see the names of organizations which care what i'm doing. Perhaps its actually doing something.
I think you're reading into my comment, I was merely stating why UPS and FedEX don't deliver mail and why comparisons between them and USPS are difficult to do. Though for completeness there have been people who've competed with USPS in the past, Lysander Spooner is a notable one.
Check you haven't got the Speed Limit on; then make sure the slow torrent is set to ignore any speed limits; then check how many peers it can share with (default is 60); then check ports are okay.
That's definitely a possibility, but it's difficult to provide social services without having some sort of control over "immigration", which states and municipalities don't have. With no control over movements, a city offering particularly generous benefits will just get a lot of unemployed people moving there solely to get the benefits (a typical adverse selection problem). Countries mitigate this by having immigration screens that try to filter out people who are only moving there to collect welfare.

A possibility is to phase in benefits based on how long people have lived in a place (e.g. you get 10% of the max Pittsburgh city benefits for each year you've lived in Pittsburgh), but that would put a damper on labor mobility within the US, since people who moved around a lot would always end up with poor benefits (sort of like the old problem with non-portable pensions). And in any case the Supreme Court struck down Alaska's attempt to do that, so it isn't currently an option: http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/zobel.h...

If anything, I'd be more interested in going in the other direction in order to enhance intra-US mobility; it'd be nice if I didn't have to change health insurance just because I moved to a different state or got a new job, giving me the freedom to decouple my healthcare choices from other lifestyle choices.
I believe that's part of the motivation behind bounties: if I've invested a lot of time and accumulated karma, I can spend that karma to improve the quality/speed of answering my question.

Re: TwoToReal. It's an interesting idea, although it seems like it adds burden to the answerer. One quality I like of SO is that it encourages people to ask better questions (keep concise, provide relevant details, etc), but in a system where I'd be getting real-time help I might become lazier about posting my question. "I have a problem with node.js" rather than "I'm getting this output when trying to use node in this way".
> If you think this is true you don't know unicode enough.

Yes, well, that is sort of a given for any statement about unicode (including this one).
usenet & ssl + nzbmatrix = no more problems.
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Private trackers are a lot more difficult. I bet it would raise some eyebrows if a user on a private tracker were to suddenly announce all torrents. On public trackers they can just use multiple IPs, on DHT they are trackers themselves and don't even need to ask others, but on private trackers their crawler will have a hard time getting many accounts to hide its activity.
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Wow, first criticism I've ever heard of GEB.

Finally got off my ass and purchased Pattern Language. (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0195019199, right?)
Freshbooks

Unfuddle

Evernote

Skype

Skitch (before it joined Evernote)

S3 & Linode (but that's hosting)
DrRacket's REPL supports image literals. The racket language also includes functions for manipulating these. Take a look at this program: http://img13.imageshack.us/img13/6493/drracket.jpg

In the "Definitions" pane at the top, we define three variables, bruce-lee, energy-blast, and terrible-accident. In the "Interations" pane at the bottom (here's the REPL), we compose them together.
My read is that without id's, having broken-out calories like the GGP's is a broken data model and/or API. The API should be returning a sum of the calories for a particular order, which supports GP's "RPC" argument. Either that, or returning ingredient ids with their calories counts.
No, the author doesn't have that backwards. He makes this very point: "This folklore arises, in part, because it is possible to be arbitrarily more productive than the worst." And goes into it at length in the linked piece: http://www.sdtimes.com/content/article.aspx?ArticleID=31698&...
WPF, (the modern way to create .NET windows client UIs) and Silverlight/Windows Phone 7 development is done using XAML at the minute so those developers would have the best head start. Note, it was probably Visual Studio 2011 you saw, 2010 has been out for a while.
Thought the site said Russian.
Remote employment for veteran developers
I am a seasoned developer (~18 years experience) with a lot of experience in complex server-side applications. I've created elastic computing infrastructures, scalable MMO game servers and NoSQL engines before those became into standard jargon. I do not have experience in web (only a little) and mobile (at all).

I am significantly better at what I do than 99% of the developers I worked with or managed, directly or indirectly; I have only worked at startups my entire life, as such, I found myself also taking technical/UX product roles and doing a great job there as well.

I am looking for an interesting challenges.

My problem: I live in Israel and I choose to keep living here rather than ship myself and my SO to the west coast. I imagine quite a few other people find themselves in a similar situation.

My question: does your company look for a technical remote person to join, either as part of a team or as individual contributor?
> healthcare could be a lot less expensive, but since much of that expense comes from govt involvement

Citation please.

(In other words, you're wrong. And you know it.)
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I suggest you include more screenshots of the game in the iPhone App Store. That way people will get more of an impression of what the game is like. Currently, there's only one screen shot.
You should be a fly on the wall of a hiring meeting, or work in a startup whose office is open-plan.
Sounds like a great way to break the ice with that pretty girl you've been eyeing. If their hostname has their name, you can even play the psychic ;-)
Once you understand the basics of HTML and CSS syntax, I recommend reading the CSS box model specification. It will tell you exactly how layout is supposed to work, and you will be able to understand the various tutorials as derivatives of that model. The CSS spec is a good read in general for learning the styling features.

Other good resources include A List Apart for tutorials and Peter Paul Koch's web site for discussions of cross-browser interoperability.
That's a totally valid point, gbelote. Nevertheless, there will always be questions where you don't know you to frame a question - even after having searched around for a while.

E.g.: if you are new to Linux and X doesn't start - how could you ask if you are new to the whole field? A bit of guidance by an expert could help in 5min. And then, sometimes it is just like the xkcd strip at http://www.twotoreal.com/site/about/

I view it as a last resort - after SO/Quora/etc. could not help.
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Any project is a series of unfinished problems.

If you have something on your mind, write it down - but don't actually finish the work.
> you can even play the psychic ;-)

Or the creep.
Once resorting breaks, anything that gets upvoted can get stuck on the frontpage.
Some people might, and this is making it clear that they can't fulfill that request.
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Humbled.

If only quotes came with an artistic interpretation license...

Psst, thank you for Caterwaul. Its amazing things like these which make me feel insignificant!
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There are several operational benefits to fresh graduates from the perspective of the hiring organization:

- What little experience they have is effectively all relevant to the job and hence easier to justify paying for. If a neophyte can do 80% of a veteran's work for 50% of the pay, it's a tempting tradeoff. A software veteran's second decade of experience may not be worth the increased sticker price if you're asking them to perform low- and mid-level tasks.

- They are less likely to have personal entanglements (kids, family, medical).

- They are an easily appraised and substituted commodity: standard salary scales apply.

- They are less likely to know their market value and hence less likely to negotiate for increased compensation or time off.
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His "please don't torrent" request alone, is worth the $5:

To those who might wish to "torrent" this video: look, I don't really get the whole "torrent" thing. I don't know enough about it to judge either way. But I'd just like you to consider this: I made this video extremely easy to use against well-informed advice. I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to do it this way anyway, because I want it to be easy for people to watch and enjoy this video in any way they want without "corporate" restrictions.

Please bear in mind that I am not a company or a corporation. I'm just some guy. I paid for the production and posting of this video with my own money. I would like to be able to post more material to the fans in this way, which makes it cheaper for the buyer and more pleasant for me. So, please help me keep this being a good idea. I can't stop you from torrenting; all I can do is politely ask you to pay your five little dollars, enjoy the video, and let other people find it in the same way.

Sincerely,
Louis C.K.
From what I can see on my Macbook Pro, yes, there is. One of the hostnames (the one that connected after the original) is automatically changed (in my experience it either appends a number to your current hostname or it completely changes your hostname, to something based on the network).

PS: I'm guessing here that the iOS behaviour when it comes to hostnames is similar to Lion's.
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I have answered most of your question here already: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3337682

Nvidia driver quality continues to be subpar on Linux, yet I have zero issues with Catalyst. And even if Catalyst had a problem, as I described in the above URL, AMD is shelling a lot of money out to make the FOSS driver their one and only driver which already is shaping up to be a lot better than Catalyst.

I just don't see a point in doing business with a company that is clearly trying to lock me in with closed source vendor specific APIs if they have no interest in supporting me after the sale of the hardware.

In addition, their OpenCL implementation (which is shared across both Windows and Linux) seems to run code much slower than it should, which I suspect (but have no way of proving) they are doing it to make CUDA look better. The same code ran on AMD hardware has zero issues, and the equivalent code in CUDA runs about as fast as I think it should.

And also, re: Catalyst vs FOSS, in about 2 years the Mesa/Gallium OpenCL stack should be finished, so not only will I be able to quit using Catalyst altogether, Nvidia users will be able to make the better use of their hardware and ditch the broken drivers Nvidia keeps forcing on people.

Now, who knows, maybe Nvidia will change tactics and quit screwing over customers and developers, and release the programming manuals for their hardware so FOSS can develop a better driver faster... I just don't see it _ever_ happening.

Even if AMD hardware had a higher total cost of ownership, the fact AMD actually cares about me as a Linux customer is why for the past 5 video cards I've owned they have gotten my business.

re: Your programming experience, 2004 predates AMD taking over ATI. Driver quality pre-AMD was worse than Nvidia was at the time, but it has greatly changed. AMD has vastly increased the quality of the Windows driver, and the original Linux driver was thrown out in exchange for one that shares almost all the code with the Windows one (day and night kind of change in quality).

AMD didnt finalize their purchase of ATI until 2006, and it wasn't until 2007 or 2008 that driver quality started taking off.

As a statement of driver quality, people who use my software regularly report 30+ day uptimes using Catalyst on Linux. If it was so buggy and unstable, this would probably be impossible.
His description of why he did it:

To those who might wish to "torrent" this video: look, I don't really get the whole "torrent" thing. I don't know enough about it to judge either way. But I'd just like you to consider this: I made this video extremely easy to use against well-informed advice. I was told that it would be easier to torrent the way I made it, but I chose to do it this way anyway, because I want it to be easy for people to watch and enjoy this video in any way they want without "corporate" restrictions.

Please bear in mind that I am not a company or a corporation. I'm just some guy. I paid for the production and posting of this video with my own money. I would like to be able to post more material to the fans in this way, which makes it cheaper for the buyer and more pleasant for me. So, please help me keep this being a good idea. I can't stop you from torrenting; all I can do is politely ask you to pay your five little dollars, enjoy the video, and let other people find it in the same way.

Sincerely,
Louis C.K.
"the Smithsonian's curator of worms"

That's a thing? It reminds me of this video from the onion: http://www.theonion.com/video/expert-on-anteaters-wasted-ent...
I think the best way to create a steady flow of remote work is to identify an open source project with commercial backing and get involved in the community.
I guess that in any kind of game you have a system to sort out the worst players. Going after your theory, there are sure plenty of 1/100000 out there, but they never get in a major development project.

Another point: there are also superstar surgeons and lawyers. I think the author wanted to point that software development is not different from other professions.

Also his cost curve may be more accurate for a devops scenario than for classic product dev. Late changes/fixes induct lots of additional management cost to the technical issues, discussions with client etc. Not to say that you can't debug on a convenient environment but have sometime to reproduce it based on logs.
I am downloading now. I'm glad he is willing to experiment here; this is what the entertainment industry as a whole really needs.
As long as the connections are direct. If even a small part of Torrent users would use something like OneSwarm, it would provide enough plausible deniability to make this data automatically useless.
If you can find a url about AMP, I'd like to see it. Google seems to think it doesn't exist.

It almost sounds like AMD's project that turns Java bytecode into GPU-able code (although it is limited to what you can do normally, such as no allocation of memory/no object construction, only certain type primitives, and it should be largely branchless/loopless).

See: http://developer.amd.com/zones/java/aparapi/Pages/default.as...
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That's the one. I hope you enjoy thumbing through it.

The first thing from that book that caught my attention was his point about rooms feeling more alive when they have light coming in on two different sides. I've noticed that, or the lack of it, in just about every room ever since.

Hofstadter? It's always the same grad-students-drinking-beer mentality: hey man, this thing is totally like that other thing. The connections seem profound, but are not, because they don't have deep roots in anything. The real tell is that nothing of great value ever comes out of this way of doing business (I mean this style, not H's work specifically). It's an intellectual sugar rush.

But again, perhaps I am unfair.
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Some of the lowest-cost options are offered through Freelancers Union:

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I bought it! supporting the non DRM, content producer/distributor model.
I mean, there was the whole thing about the novo7 going for 99$ yesterday. It feels like it's only going to be a short time before 99$ tablet opportunities are everywhere.
I bought this purely to support him for being brave enough to release it DRM-free. Currently watching it and trying not to snort my drink over my laptop due to laughing too much.

Excellent way to discover a new comic I'd say.
Would you pay for an idea?
It would be nice to ask as a poll, but would you pay a nominal fee for an idea? The general consensus is that ideas are cheap but execution is expensive.

Let's say there's a website that has many ideas posted to the public. Would you pay $20 to take a good idea down from that site? Would you perhaps pay a little to browse through ideas made by potential users of that idea for inspiration?
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https://github.com/jordow/FaxJs
Completely unidirectional reactive "MVC" framework on github.

(It seems there's an overwhelming consensus forming around issues like this - which FaxJs addresses at the core.)
$2k/mo seems expensive even for comprehensive plans imho unless you have some conditions that bump it up. We're relatively healthy, two small boys, and opted for catastrophic/HSA option. Then we put the savings from the premiums into the HSA. I've found even with the routine visits for the kids and whatnot we still pay less than we would going with comprehensive. And worse comes to worse our total out of pocket is the same regardless. Point being, if you don't see the doc much, HSA makes sense. One nice thing is that our provider pays 100% of flu shots and routine health checkups which is all I use it for anyway.

That said... if you're starting a family... pregnancy (and RX) are usually (ever?) covered. So you might not have a choice.

As a small business, if it's just you and your wife (and your dependents) you can deduct the premiums though...
Engineer spent workdays at movies, bars, and Air Force paid for it
If you have access to Netflix streaming, his show Louie [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Louie/70179977] and one of his older stand-up specials "Chewed Up" [http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Louis_C.K._Chewed_Up/70108...] are available.
I wonder how much he makes after bandwidth + paypal fees, he limits it to 2 streams and 2 downloads but the file is still 1.2 gig so not a small one..
It changes the name of the device that I see in iTunes in addition to hostname, isn't it?
What do you mean? I'm quoting their statement, and regardless it's irrelevant towards their ability to delete user data that they actually possess.
That Prolog is slow and has a complicated performance model is the common wisdom, but both are completely wrong. For a better view of speed, you should look at my Ph.D. dissertation of 1990. It explains how to write a Prolog compiler whose run-time code efficiency rivals that of good C compilers. The two main ideas are global dataflow analysis and direct compilation to native code (no WAM bytecode). For a better view of the performance model, you should read Richard O'Keefe's book from 1990, The Craft of Prolog, which explains very well how to write beautiful and efficient Prolog code.
Oh, you're right - thanks! I'll correct it.
I don't give Google the benefit of the doubt like so many here. Why is that so hard to understand?

Apparently it is, and this is pointless. I get it, hate Apple, love Google, we're warming back up to Microsoft and uncomfortable with Facebook.
The end of the conclusion really doesn't relate to the article. It starts with "Let's face it: Metro will be a success.", but they he talks about how he has no plans to develop for it.... which is not success in my opinion. Three days of them showing you everything (probably with free food too and access to devs) and it isn't impressive enough for you to make an app what makes you think other devs in mass numbers will develop for it?
That's a good point. I was thinking about it as a direct replacement of SO, but like you said it doesn't have to be. Good luck!
And I can buy it from any country, as long as I have a paypal account. Neat.
For certain definitions of "good" ideas, maybe.
I think the myth comes from this: developer productivities fall on some bell-curvish distribution, but the peak of that distribution is maybe half a standard deviation from zero productivity point, with many developers adding negative value and many being only slightly positive.

Then when you start considering people a standard deviation above the mean, they're easily 10x (or infinitely) better than a significant number of programmers.
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Thanks, I understand. I was just curious to know. Didn't suggest that.
Add that to the list of how awesome this guy is.
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