skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a general life rule.

The amount of hobbies I have started at and not enjoyed the first few sessions, then blamed not keeping going on my own persistence rather than admitting either A: it's too hard, or B: I don't actually enjoy it as much as I thought I would (Both of which tie in somewhat, people generally excel at what they enjoy).

The amount of times I used to blame any failed conversation on myself until a friend simply said (something along the lines of) "It takes two to chat". Also applies more generally to relationships, both of which can be hard to manage.

I'm sure there are many more examples, knowing your limits is key to being happy with your achievements.
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I found a better analogy.

"perceived value is value" but you don't want to invest based on perceived value.

You want to invest based on (your understanding of) the factors that SHAPE the perceived value.

Else, you're behind the curve.
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A lot of big charities in the UK employee "clipboard-nazis" near busy shopping areas to get people to sign up and make you feel guilty if you don't. These people normally earn 25 GBP per sign-up (which takes on average 10 months to recover iirc). Other charities spam you with mailings.

Now clearly this works: they are raising more money this way, but the side effect is that people like me refuse to give to a charity that hassles me every time I go to the supermarket, and spams me every time I give them money.
Both paid & free have their place in the world. Not quite sure why the one is being portrayed as evil?

I also don't think its the responsibility/right of the user to fix the business model of the company ("Make them charge you or show you ads.").

To me the "pump and dump" approach is perfectly legit. Just make sure nobody gets hurt. e.g. Allow customer to export their data. Companies aim to make money, not win a papal election.
Here is how to do it in C#. http://diditwith.net/2007/02/12/UsingAutomaticMemoization.as...
Pretty straight forward.
Almost forgot:

Dear HN. Please charge me money or show ads. /s
It's about time we had some decent dev conferences in SA. The only other two worth noting are infosec-related, namely ZACon and ITWeb Security Summit.
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> XHTML was poised to offer

"supposed" would be a better fit than "poised".

> much more than "correctedness"

Not really

> Reliable validation, custom DTDs

correctness.

> extensions

Really debatable, xhtml only added "extensions" in the "XML dialects, RDF!!!" sense, in the effective sense HTML is extended all the time.

> better interoperability

At the cost of interop with the real world. And that better interop was restricted to markup (an issue being much better solved through HTML5 as browsers are moving towards spec-compliant HTML5 parsers), it left the "new" interop issues (CSS, JS, DOM, ...) in place.

And XHTML offered this better interop by... mandating source correctness...

> It just wasn't meant for the general web, where you have a massive number of non-technical authors.

Which, interestingly, is also an issue with Python: it's used a lot in scientific fields and as an extension language (though less so than it used to be), which I'd guess would qualify as "non-technical authors" as they're not computer technicians.
AI future timeline is scary, why would people are so arrogant that we are so sure that we can give all the power to machines and then we can control them all we want?
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What makes Jason angry?

Company blogs that have the company logo linked back to the blog rather than the company.

PHPFog people, do a quick test: from this blog entry, what can you click that gets you to phpfog.com so that the potential new user you've lured to your world can find out more about your thing and potentially become a customer?

- Your logo? No. Goes to the blog
- Anything on the sidebar? No. Also blog stuff
- Your logo in the footer? No. Not even a link
- ANYTHING in the footer? No.
- ANYTHING on the page??? *At All???* No.

So what can we click? Personally, I clicked the back button. Your thing might be interesting enough to give a few seconds of attention, but I'm not about to go typing things in the URL bar just to figure out what it does.
Honestly I don't care who invents quantum teleportation as long as someone does (asap preferably).

When googling a pornstar though, I'm looking for info on that specific person.

Just put them all on wiki & call it a day. Add low search weighting to the un-notable ones if necessary.
True but when you want to suggest to a novice "Why don't you use "X" "
It is unrealistic to expect them to search for X in Google, go to the appropriate link of X's creator, figure out the right page to download it from.

Instead - Go to filehippo search for X in the big search bar at top - download first result - is a much easier workflow. (Trust me on this one - I tech support about 6 relatives)
Sorry, some of that may be good advice, but it just gave me a Jehova's Witness kind of vibe.
"but everyone does it and it's something that's been an accepted way to monitize software development"

No piece of software that I have installed during the past two years has done so, and I sure wouldn't accept it as a way of funding development. I'd rather pay for a product in that case.

Can you give a few examples from your list of "everyone"?
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Correct Link -
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/news/8937943/Indian-go...
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Looks like a stock photo. Has the same amount of "funny" as grannies on motorcycles. Just an opinion or two...
You can't really judge a book solely by the imprint it belongs to or, in the case of "The Pragmatic Programmer", stated. They're all written by different authors so their style and quality will naturally differ.

For what it's worth, it's the same imprint that gave us the pickaxe book (Programming Ruby), so perhaps that ought to be a point in it's favour.
Exactly, that is why, when i saw it with more than 20 votes but not a single comment that i dared to ask, honestly, why were they upvoting; I wanted to know the reasons. As you say, it can be for many different reasons, and I was interested in what the community thought about this.
Sadly, that meant I could be misunderstood, and in fact I was downvoted for just asking, in the first comment on the new, to please know the REASONS the others were upvoting.
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Doesn't quite make sense to me. Probably, they are just storing the hash. Isn't it?
so this was not an hoax? (not just a modified screenshot I mean)
HTC doesn't have a Jesus phone. Apple does, Samsung does, and Motorola is pretending to.
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makes you wonder how 'real' the numbers before that were...

someone starts stuffing the channel, someone else misinterprets as actual sales, presto, a disaster.

is HTC a recognized brand by now? as in customer loyalty? does anyone take HTC's side against say Apple or Samsung in a fanboi fight?
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Sorry about the duplicate comment. I hate when the "noprocrast" setting prevents me from correcting mistakes like that.

If you are a moderator, feel free to delete the other comment (the one without any children).
It's funny, because what came to mind as the platform for apps that would be streamed from HTTP wasn't Chrome, but Mozilla!

After all, that was the promise of remote XUL+JS, which provided the user gave it the permissions, could access the XPCOM components to access the filesystem, run external applications and more.

Nevertheless it didn't caught on.
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No GC, coupled with Guido's ignorant comments about how superior refcounts were.

Wacky three namespace scoping.

Back in those days, Python seemed cleaner than it was.
The Python core developers are not against you. Your case is perfectly valid and understood. The core developers do, however, try to prepare the ground that will make it possible even for projects like yours to eventually make the move. It is hoped that in some time most popular libraries will have Python 3 versions, and many Linux distributions will come with Python 3 pre-installed (Ubuntu is making good steps in this direction). Eventually, a time will come when it will make sense for you to make the switch. We just hope it won't be too long.

All along, Python 2.7 is going to be maintained and bugs are going to be fixed. It is perfectly understood that the 2.x branch is currently by far the more used and deployed, and there's no plans to abandon it in terms of support. It just won't get new features.
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to install it (globally):
> npm install -g jils
A friend of mine recently had some money stolen from his Paypal account. The long and short is that someone was sat outside his house connected to his wireless and were monitoring keystrokes somehow. I don't know the detailed story as they were telling me over a series of months and I lost track.

Paypal would not release where his money had gone or even how to get it back and even went as far as suggesting his parents had stolen it from his account before finally releasing the money back into his account. This went on for months, it was all over a nominal £200 theft.
You have two main pessimisms

- computer vision problems (e.g. plane catches fire, how do you tell how much fire etc.)

- tracking other objects in 3d while in moving in 3d at high speed

The question is - can humans do this? If yes, computers can do it eventually. The only question is how long away is this. What we know from machine learning, is that data is important. If you can gather enough data you can do anything. So really, your problems are a question of data collection. It is not a technically difficult problem. (By the way, one of the problems you have in aerospace is, is that you're control theory heavy rather than pro-ai, which means you end up not being able to solve the difficult problems.)

Also, the eu 80s project ended around early 90s, and the grandle challenge win was only 15 years later, not 30. Had the challenge been tried 5 years earlier, it would have worked. The algorithms and hardware was already sufficient.
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"Startups are gunning" for PayPal? Since when? No one else has gone beyond the US. No one is creating any alternatives for international ecommerce. And how many years has it been that PayPal has had complete domination?

Is it that hard for startups to provide international support?

Until there is a viable alternative, most of the world will be compelled to use PayPal.
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Nowhere in the quoted text it says that they store password. Account recovery page doesn't ask for it. I think they just store the time of last password change.
When you change your Google account password, if you enter one of your previous password you will see a warning like "You can't set a previous password". That's right, impossible to set one of the password your used in the past.

And Facebook does the same. I've already seen "You tried to use an old password. It has been changed a few days ago.".
when python 2 showed up, people kept using 1.5.2 for _years_.
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All they need to do is store the last modified date to provide this behaviour.

If the behaviour is "show message about password change if user tries to log in with old password", then no, it's not enough.
This would work until you meet someone who gives you an insightful idea five minutes after hearing your problem while you've been breaking your head on it for a couple of days. I've lost track of the number of times I've felt like an idiot.
Wasn't it the same with Ruby? It looked much more like Perl[1] in the early days, but with time the language evolved and programmers developed best practices.

[1] http://jimneath.org/2010/01/04/cryptic-ruby-global-variables...
Wishful thinking. PayPal simply does not give a fuck what noise the silicon valley crowd makes. The startups that choose not to do business with PayPal are a drop in the bucket.
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The internet archive does a really good job. Why isn't it possible to establish a payment for good work in the internet? The fact that everything has to be free lead us to the really evil use/abuse of private data by the likes of Google, Facebook etc.

I think we need a good idea to assure payment also for internet services. Lets face it: nothing is free in this world. It sometimes just looks as if.

Donation send for this time. But if someone has a good idea how to finance good services, please speak. (I think, Mozilla might listen too).
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I am certainly not denying that there are issues or saying that his issues don't need to be addressed.

However I'm a big proponent of 'breaking with the past' once in a while, to fix issues that have snuck into the language/library/system, and to clean up the cruft. Yes it will bring some frustrating porting, but the end result will be a cleaner more focused language.
As the owner of a device (HTC Desire) whose manufacturer values useless, uninstallable, abandoned bloatware over OS updates, HTC won't be seeing my money, or the money of anybody who listens to my tech-related advice ever again.
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Not a site for grabbing any software, but for most of the software I (or, for example, my mother in law) would use (outside of dev tools), I go to ninite.com, tick the boxes of what I want and get what is essentially a single installer for everything.

That's my current 'goto' site, at least.
Thank you.
Maybe I'll buy it (:
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HTC are pretty popular in the UK from what I've seen - I've even noticed (non-techy) friends referring to 'HTCs' when they mean 'Androids'.
"""XHTML was poised to offer much more than "correctedness". Reliable validation, custom DTDs, extensions, better interoperability. It just wasn't meant for the general web, where you have a massive number of non-technical authors."""

You just retold the whole of his Python 3 argument in terms of XHTML. P3 was also poised to offer more than "correctedness", and also "wasn't meant for the general real world where you have a massive number of different systems".

"""I don't think this comparison has any place in this discussion."""

Actually it's the perfect analogy.

XHTML -> add correctness, some new features, idealistic, unsuitable for the real world, didn't catch on.

Python 3 -> add correctness, some new features, idealistic, unsuitable for the real world, didn't catch on.
I don't believe Google could do it right. Nope, not with their track record of (automatically) blocking ad publishers' accounts and later stonewalling said publishers. All in the name of click fraud prevention, of course.

I think they realize this and it might be the reason they drag their feet on Google Checkout.
I started using Python in 1997 and found it profoundly mind-expanding since my previous experience with languages was limited to C/C++ and Pascal. But over the years I learned other languages and came to see missed opportunities and outright mistakes in the original design that I don't think a more experienced student of programming language design would have made. Many of the original mistakes have now been corrected but the churn in the language this has required means that it no longer "fits in my head" the way Ruby or C do.
Just to further this sentiment, and perhaps even more worrisome, is how easily a language, even one as well established as Python, might fall out of favor. The fact that JavaScript usage is becoming ubiquitous as a scripting language was an example mitsuhiko was using of the challenges Python faces. Sure, the Python team can't stop that from happening, but they can stop pretending Python 3 is going to work just as soon as everyone gets on board with it. Hint: developers will adopt it when there are good reasons to use it and here the argument is that doing things more correctly (and consequently making life harder) is not a good enough reason when it comes to real world applications (Jinja2, Werkzeug, Flask, etc)
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Also see the famous case of Jeff Atwood losing and recovering the articles from codinghorror.com and blog.stackoverflow.com ...

[1] http://webapps.stackexchange.com/questions/12065/recovering-...

[2] http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/international-backu...
True, though it also requires a belief that the company will honor the contract (and be able to), which is hard to rely on too much with many startups. Due to the desire not to complicate potential exits, startups also tend to be wary of signing service-guarantee contracts that can persist through acquisition; just about any service contract I've seen from a startup includes clauses about it going poof if the company is acquired.

Could be an angle for big companies like IBM and Microsoft's cloud offerings, or at least that's what they're trying to push, with pitches of: come get something reliable from us, with guaranteed service that we'll actually honor and will still honor in 10 years, instead of some startup that might be dead or bought next year.
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I like this attempt better because it works with the arrow keys: https://github.com/nikolaydyankov/lionbars
I submitted this because there is a giant statistical error in the article that is worth noting:

For example, the average age of the first eight presidents at their time of death was 79.8 years - during a time when life expectancy at birth for men was less than 40.
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It may be possible to interpret the quoted text in the manner you specify, but the article's author has clarified in the comments that the notice only appears when an old password is entered.

quoted: "It looks like you've attempted to sign in using an old password." (Specifically: not "an incorrect/wrong/invalid password", but "an old password".)

comment on article: "Not true. The message is only displayed when you enter an old password."
It takes two to make such a contract.
Could someone explain this part?

> Now this all would not be a problem if the bytestring type would still exist on Python 3, but it does not. It was replaced by the byte type which does not behave like a string.

I was under impression that bytes is just an array of bytes and provides pretty much what `str` provided. What big thing is missing from that interface?
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"""This article operates under the very incorrect assumption that paid services never shut down and free services are never carried on by their purchasers."""

No, it operates under the very correct assumption that paid services are MUCH LESS common to shut down.

(I shudder every f&%&^n time someone doesn't understand a generalization, and thinks that a few counter arguments disprove a statistical rule).

"""See Flickr or YouTube or PayPal or Skype or Picnik or Grand Central or Picasa or Siri or mySpace or FriendFeed or FeedBurner or even pinboard's biggest competitor Delicious for examples of the latter."""

He is not saying that "free services are never carried on by their purchasers", he is saying that free services with no monetization model are in most cases not carried on by their purchasers.

Not familiar with all of them, but Flickr, Paypal and Skype, all have ways of making money and paid accounts. And Youtube has ads too (don't know about Picassa).
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Curious. Sometimes people do that sort of thing to avoid copy/pasting, but I wonder if in this case it's a poor man's way of getting syntax highlighting on the web: just screenshot an IDE instead of dealing with a syntax-highlighting-in-HTML tool.
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OK, thanks.

I must add, risking down votes in this thread, that it is fun to see Python people argue the practicality of Python 2 over the idealism/correctness of Python 3.

It is very similar to when Perl people argue that CPAN (better OO with Moose, better infrastructure for modules, etc) outweigh the emphasis on simple syntax in Python 2... :-)
No, I don't think he cared about me personally, but I believe he knew where his bread was buttered.
I have an HTC desire and I'm relatively happy with it overall, what is so special about the Samsung Galaxy that is worth the extra cost?
With the iphone I understand to an extent because it is more of a unique device but apart from minor spec/feature differences android phones seem pretty interchangeable to me.
CentOS haven't even got around to releasing 6.1 yet!
The CentOS 6.0 release was delayed by 242 days(!)

Numbers are here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CentOS#Release_history

Scientific Linux 6.1 on the other hand was released in July.