skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Currently it does not. Indeed this tool is intended for building forms. Displaying a form and getting data from users should be handled in custom code. Nevertheless I also plan to develop a form runner app to show the designed forms to users.
So torrent sites will switch to IPv6. They are already working with specialized providers anyway.
No mention of representation issues? Memory is a big optimisation target these days, and a weak point of languages like Java and OCaml.
You just need some practice and you'll get the hang of it.
sprite-factory also works with guard https://github.com/christopherhein/guard-sprite-factory
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> (1) maintain a first class web browser environment;

The web didn't exist at the time this memo was written. Microsoft only noticed it existed about 6 years after that.

> (2) provide a less sucky window manager;

Less sucky than what? Windows 3? OS/2 v1? Motif WM? twm?

> (3) multi-monitor support;

Mostly nobody had dual-head workstations at that time. Most PCs had 14-inch SVGA screens. 1024x768 8-bit color was a luxury.

> (4) something that handled PDFs nicely;

PDFs didn't exist until 93. Sun had excellent Display PostScript support.

> (5) an adequate non-console email client.

I liked the one in OpenWindows.

> Solaris had a significant technology advantage over NeXT

Sun had faster hardware. NeXT was much nicer to use.

> NeXT were embracing Java and that kind of saved NeXT.

Hardly. NeXT was doomed. Apple's "reverse acquisition" saved NeXT.
Yes, that was poorly-worded. Let me try again.

It's been my experience that some people naturally collect and hoard information -- it's a form of currency to them. It's not a hacker thing, but it does seem more common among really smart folks. We are taught that information is valuable, that education is a necessity for success later in life, and, worst of all, that magic ideas account for most successful businesses. In movies and in literature, over and over again we're shown people who gain and keep advantage because of information they hold. In addition, large parts of the structure of human society over thousands of years has been based on the value of keeping and sharing information. These different factors accumulate.
It seems like Daniel is critiquing the tendency to advise entrepreneurial novices to "dive in" and start something. He seems to me to be saying that the just-do-it advice ignores the fact that entrepreneurship is a skill -- you wouldn't advise somebody who wants to learn to program to start with a complex web app, so why do we advise novices to just start a company, when entrepreneurship is equally as complex?

I find the analogy unconvincing though. Both programming and entrepreneurship are trades-like skills that are improved primarily through practice, true. But programming practice is amenable to small, toy projects done in private, gradually moving to larger, collaborative projects as one's skills improved.

The only way to practice entrepreneurship, on the other hand, is to start a company. You could certainly get some practice at the component skills (OP gives an excellent breakdown of those) - maybe do some recreational haggling at car dealerships? Join Toastmasters? But that's akin to doing scales on the piano - to really develop you have to open the music and give it a go.
I'm 29 right now, and that feels about right for my permanent age. I always felt a little out of place with the pace of life when I was younger, I like having stable relationships and a reasonable balance between career and social life. I like being comfortable with money and being able to travel and do what I want. At the same time, I'm not anxious to have a family and sacrifice so much of my time.
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I usually first try to get the spark back, but to be honest, that doesn't work very often. Because I start a new company for every 'serious' thing, I usually sell off the company which gives me > 1 year of cash to find a new Great Love.
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To: Bobmu, Markz, Steveb, Nathanm, Johnsa
From: Paul Maritz

BobMu = Bob Muglia. Currently SVP of Software at Juniper Networks. As of last summer was President at Microsoft for the Server & Tools Business. At the time he led program management for what would be come Windows NT.

MarkZ = Mark Zbikowski. Key developer on Windows. The "MZ" in the Windows portable executable format header are his initials.

SteveB = Duh.

NathanM = Nathan Myrvold.

Paul Maritz = Now CEO of VMWare.
If you want to learn, get that version control book by Erik Sink. And like other best things in life, it's free (including shipping).
I personally find that I rarely sit down at my desk, except for extremely long coding sessions. Having the ability to easily adjust my stance, wake a walk, flex my knees, and the like makes a huge difference. Your mileage may vary, obviously.
Simple in the sense that it is a small language. There are not a lot of constructs, abstractions, etc. C lets you allocate blocks of memory, and perform operations on those blocks of memory. That's mostly it. In my experience, this very much maps to the problem domain (number crunching).

If you want to do performant number crunching with most other languages, you have to not only grasp the language, but also the underlying virtual machine or compiler. The more layers you pile on top, the harder it becomes to identify bottlenecks.

Sure, you can use fast implementations of common algorithms in a high-level language. But they are often written in C or C++. So, if you want to modify or extend such algorithms (which is likely, or you could just use an off-the-shelf program), you will end up in C-land anyway.
I found that without being able to easily switch between sitting and standing, standing work stations will probably not work for most people. I bought a geek desk and it solves the problem beautifully, but having two separate desks for sitting and standing is a cheaper solution if you have the room for it (or having a very tall stool).
Judging by the difference in his numbers between C and C++ he did not have a slightest clue of what he was doing. I could imagine a slight difference is possible if you use default compiler switches due to exception handling and difference aliasing rules, not 3x as he has.
It may not be what was meant, but it is the correct way in which C is simple. C is simple because, like much of UNIX (especially back in the very beginning), anywhere there was a sharp pointy bit that was difficult to handle in the compiler, it was simply relayed up to the user to handle.

I mean this descriptively, not as a criticism. It is critical to understanding C and UNIX. It is also worth pointing out that while we might all prefer "the perfect compiler that hides all problems", that "letting the pointy bits stick the user but ensuring they can handle it" still beats "a compiler that badly hides the pointy bits, still lets them stick you, and doesn't give you any way to deal with it because the assumption that you couldn't be stuck was built in too deeply".
I really don't mind seeing people say "it's easier to do this and make it run fast in another language" - that's a completely fair argument. It just really annoys me when I see "C can't do this", when it can (and has been able to do so for a long time). It makes the author appear completely ignorant.
I don't get the sprite thing. How is it better for optimization to load every single image of the website right away, and to reload the same picture when the image is modified?
I saw something on the netflix.co.uk page that irked me
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NeXT was based on Objective-C. No Java there.
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Your definition of unreadable must then differ from mine:

http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/dox/QuickRefPage.html
Its not cheaper if you have to retain a lot of people - and Open office is not well liked by ordinary users "its shit" was one comment by a coworker at my last place

And look at any advert for a Govenment IT project its always to many chiefs and not enough experianced devlopers.

IE6 lock in is due to cheap and shoddy work by the "outsourced" developers and a lack of technical nous (incopentance being more blunt) in the specification stage PPI has a lot to answer for.
I had the same reaction when I saw the titles on the site.

Once I signed up and logged in, I could see a lot more titles that looked interesting. Still not a huge selection, but they seem to have done a poor job of promoting the service with the selection visible just on the public site.

The success of the BBC iPlayer indicates a strong demand in the UK for a video streaming service. If they can get enough content deals in place I think they'll do well.
I don't know the first thing about FORTRAN. How does it enforce this?
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Tell me again about how "the market" chose Microsoft as the market leader?
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Very possible since, at this point in time, I'm just looking for the least terrible candidate to get behind. I'm having trouble thus far since all have proved pretty terrible thus far.

Unfortunately that is what it comes down to when I vote... the lesser of the two evils.
I've seen this "change your friends" thing before, when it is perceived that they are holding you back. Is it me, or does this not seem a little callous?

I've worked hard to get where I am now, and I've got a good s/w dev job, and am working towards having my own s/w company etc. And it takes a long time and it's hard but I still do it because I've a clear vision of where I want to be. But my friends aren't like that. Mostly they have jobs that they do only for the money, and aren't driven to put the extra effort in outside of work in order to get where they would prefer to be.

I have quite a few friends (I like to think!), and I'm not friends with them because they further my own selfish ends, I'm friends with them because they're good people to be around, they're funny and witty, and we're pretty much guaranteed a good laugh when we get together. I couldn't imagine deliberately splitting away from them in order to meet more business-minded people.

Surely if you "choose" friends (because making good friends is really as easy as saying, "I'll have you, you, and you") solely for selfish means then you're not being a good friend to anyone. Although I do want to make money and be rich and run my own company, I have no interest in being the next Tim Ferris (author of The 4 Hour Work Week), who I see as being the personification of self-interest.

This is not meant as a criticism, only that I think that we should be careful with the "change your friends" advice. Good friends are as much an investment of your time and energy as anything else.
"The execution sequence of the code at run time is almost unrelated to the sequence of lines in the source code."

Looks some Node.js code I saw last week. Anonymous functions are cool, but some things deserve names.
That has become my acid test for how good an ORM is.

Most fail horribly. I count myself lucky if I come across an ORM in some language that didn't visibly have joins bolted on the side in such a way that they just barely work, usually spending all the design value of the library in the project. (That is, merely by using one of these libraries you've often incurred technical debt on the spot.)
>Social responsibility for a business is to provide goods to the public through voluntary exchange while adhering to the non-aggression principle.

Wouldn't it also be a social responsibility for a business to insure that they protect whatever commons(s) they interact with, like the environment?

I don't think their social responsibility is merely about providing goods, but behaving responsibly in all manners of conduct.
pixeldude,

Incoming pull request, in case you don't see it.

https://github.com/rogerdudler/git-guide/pull/2
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Congress could not care less about "legal" or "illegal" data on the internet. HN seems to buy into the idea that Congress wants everything to be fair. No. they just got done bankrupting this country 30 times over via theft by taking the origional, they care not about fairness. Sopa is about a thumb of smite button for Congress. I for one will refuse to code up this mothership app for them. If you find yourself coding this up, half ass it or make a backdoor for the citizens when it gets abused. Absolute power corrupts and causes cravings for more power. child porn, terrorists, fairness are juse ruses to keep people distracted.
Why not have a desk fixed at standing-height, and a stool / tall chair adjusted so that sitting in it leaves you at the same height as standing?
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Senseless self plug - It's not adjustable, but for between $100-$200 (depending on quality of parts and whether or not you elect to sand/stain/seal) you can build this: http://imperialwicket.com/diy-adjustable-stand-up-desk-for-u... .

It's not quickly adjustable, but with the removal and replacement of some bolts, you can adjust the main desk area from 30" height all the way up to 52". Built into the cost are four additional shelves of various sizes.

My idea was that if I was going to spend close to $200 on it, I wasn't terribly considered about quick adjustments (and I agree with nick_urban that a high stool/chair is perfect if necessary). However, I wanted to be sure that if I needed a non-standing desk in the future, this could be easily altered. I could also easily adjust it to accommodate visiting/alternative users - which is harder with many of the wall-mounted stand-up desks that are out there.
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And I spent quite a bit of my early years as a team lead dragging novice programmers back off the slippery slope of the configuration system. You can tell someone's edging out onto the slippery slope when they extract things out of the source code and into a configuration file. Then they realise they need to expose values from the runtime environment into the configuration file, so you get symbolic values added to the language. From there it's a short slide to implement expression evaluation and conditionals (one usually comes before the other, but they fit together so well that I've never seen someone fail to implement both 'to cover future scenarios').

A lot of configuration systems reach a complexity maximum at this point, where the ability of the implementor (or their memory of the compiler construction class) runs out before their ambition for their configuration language does. Some particularly resourceful individuals press ahead regardless though and find a way out of this sticking point. At this point they will often also separate their configuration system out into a library so that others can gain the benefits of a poorly thought-out programming language being embedded directly into their software. For some companies, the configuration library would be the only reusable component shared between different applications because the guy who wrote it was the one everyone else looked up to.

The other route out of this sticking point came through the trendiness of XML and the availability of general purpose XML parsers. This meant that not knowing how to build a proper parser (with decent error messages and such like) was no longer an obstacle, just as long as you could convince people that writing programs as XML elements was a step forward. XML parsers also turned your configuration file into something similar to an AST (if you made your language look like a serialized AST) so programmers who had never even done the compiler course could stumble across the solution without too much effort.

At least configuration files could be checked into some source control system and managed properly. Don't get me started on storing business rules in relational databases...
I'm curious what led you to that conclusion (about the Gmail incident)?
Copyright law, naturally. It gives a right to the owner of the copyright (or in this case, his/hers representative) to make a claim for the removal of the infringing material.

The law text in finnish: http://www.finlex.fi/fi/laki/ajantasa/1961/19610404?search%5...
track shelving also works, and is adjustable after you install it.
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Not really. Clear text messages on Fb Friend List or G+ Circles are indexed and affects your profile (towards advertizers and others), whereas Neko.io messages are encrypted and truly private. Also, the Neko.io friend list spans across any and all social networks, so you would not need to maintain lists, circles, groups, flocks, etc in various services.
Maybe you can 'just listen'. I'm hard of hearing, please don't presume to speak for me.
+1 on the difficulty of getting in to Spain.

Prior to a year of living and working abroad, my wife and I hired a Spanish immigration lawyer to provide us with visa options (as Americans we can typically only remain in the European Schengen Zone for 90 out of every 180 days). I've got a web development company and all U.S.-based clients, so in theory would have been bringing money into the Spanish economy. The lawyer came back with 3 options for me:

1. Be a student
2. Retire (with proof of savings/income)
3. Be independently wealthy (again with bank account proof)

So we lived in Madrid for our allotted 3 months and then moved on to Buenos Aires, where the visa restrictions are a lot more lax and they have a year-long visa option for foreign business owners had we decided we wanted to stay there.

Anecdotally, the number of American expats in Madrid was minuscule to the number we met in Buenos Aires, and the ones in Spain were there almost always after having been sponsored by large companies.
Mark Zbikowski was one of the devs of DOS 2.0 and 3.0.
You misread the title.
As a intern, my visa was quite straight forward which involved going to German embassy and getting the visa 2 days later. The trickiest part of getting work visa in Germany is to get a ZAV, but that is waived if you are a guest scientist, which also includes students of science coming for research.

I have no idea about Spain, but going to Portugal for similar reason was PITA.
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I spent a little over a year living in Spain, and the article is correct: There is essentially no way as a non-EU citizen to get a visa to live in Spain.

The good news, though, is that they simply don't care if you go live there anyway.

Spain's immigration consciousness is focused entirely to the South. Specifically, they're very interested in stopping the flow of Africans crossing over from Morocco, so woe be to you if you've got dark skin and a lost passport in Algeciras.

But if you're a white guy stepping off the ferry in Bilbao? Good luck finding anybody to even look at your passport. I flew in and out a dozen times, crossed back to England by boat a couple times, and even did a trip down to Morocco along the way. The best I could get from Immigrations was a quick flip-open-and-stamp of the passport, with an occasional pained expression from having to find an empty page to stamp.

My girlfriend is English and I'm American. For the first 3 years we were together neither one of us could stay in the others' country. Without Spain and their lax standards, it would have been hard to find a place where we could live together.
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Thanks, fixed the "double * * y". The i and j not being incremented is actually an error in the original blog post - I'll leave it here for consistency.
I was interested in attending. However from general browsing I get the impression that it's a meetup for teenagers only.

Is there a specific age bracket?
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For the record, you should never be paying someone to tinker with and/or parallelize low-level matrix routines. The numerical linear algebra folks spend their entire careers thinking about this stuff and writing (FOSS) software to wring every last bit of performance out of the hardware. There are specialized suites for multicore, distributed and even GPU setups.
Obviously not. I believe Twitter is the only platform of the 3 that doesn't have a built in option to do this. It seems a bit like reinventing the wheel to me but perhaps that's because I can't see myself using it. I guess the USP is really cross-platform support?
>Simple in the sense that it is a small language. There are not a lot of constructs, abstractions, etc. C lets you allocate blocks of memory, and perform operations on those blocks of memory. That's mostly it.

You forgot "to free those blocks of memory." It's OK. We C programmers often forget this. :)
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Yes you are right I was confused, I thought it was the Taiwan earthquake that caused RAM prices to spike (and it did), but this was earlier. I think the previous RAM spike might have come from the Windows 95 release. A Google search on Japanese earthquakes only displays the one from last year. One chatroom mentions the '93 earthquake.

FWIW, no matter how you cut it California is still an expensive place to do business. All the automation in the world couldn't save that factory. Not for what they were making. Now it's about specialization, automation (in the short term) is still more expensive than millions of chinese factory workers.
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My girlfriend is English and I'm American.

That is precisely why my (Hungarian) wife and I married after six weeks. Twenty-two years ago. Sometimes it's OK to be impulsive.
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I don't get why this is a clever observation in any way. Nothing defines an "age" except the people that happen to be it, so if everyone's "real" behavior is determined by a different permanent age what is left to define the age they actually are?

Cute, I guess, and I know I'm biased towards thinking anything out of Scott Adams' mouth is worth less than the dirt on my shoe due to his proud misogyny, but this reads like an uncomfortable attempt to find an extrinsic reason why he feels alien amongst his peers (and always has, apparently).
I think I was a little misinterpreted
so I am actually wondering why you would even still use a spriting based approach. It seems as if a data-uri based approach would, for all uses I can think of, be more flexible and better, especially if you are using something like compass ( http://compass-style.org/reference/compass/helpers/inline-da... ). for more info:

http://www.nczonline.net/blog/2010/07/06/data-uris-make-css-...

this stack overflow answer brings up 2 possible drawbacks of a data-uri based approach:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/3525961/897583
but it seems like if you are worried about your other css rules being blocked by your data-uri background-images, either put them in a css file that loads after your important rules, or just put them at the bottom of the css file. and it seems like with gzip the increase in size is negligible.
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We don't need backdoors, since it won't work anyway. That's why TPB doesn't run a tracker anymore: they said it was outdated and had been replaced by DHT and peer exchange. You don't even need DNS for that.