skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Quite literally this is why I love climbing mountains alone, particularly 14ers. Every time I climb one I go through a range of emotions over the 5-7 hours it takes to reach the summit and back.

When I start there is excitement as I see the peak in the distance. Then as I tire comes doubt and the fight with myself about turning around because no one would know, except me of course. The key is to never stop pushing forward. There often comes a point, especially on a new challenging mountain, where all I want to do is turn around. Instead I just focus on the next step in front of me. Step, breath, step, breath,... Then when I finally reach the top, the view is of course beautiful, but the real reward is looking back at the trail I followed and thinking that's impossible yet here I am.
Mozilla Releases OSI-Approved MPLv2
Hmm, you sure NuGet is not cross platform? It's open source, btw, so people have a chance to fix if they do not like. But the NuGet FAQ (http://docs.nuget.org/docs/start-here/nuget-faq) says this:

>Does NuGet support Mono?
>The command-line application (nuget.exe) builds and runs >under Mono and allows you to create packages in Mono.
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(I'm an engineer at Thumbtack.) Thanks for the feedback. I'm sorry to hear you say that you had a difficult time, since usually we hear the exact opposite. Of course, any transaction between two real people always is burdened by the complexities of a real interaction.

If you have specific feedback on what we can do better, we'd love to hear it -- either here or you can email me directly: chris at thumbtack.
That is why it is a Geiger counter. Low count, low threat. High count, high threat. To my knowledge you can't fake a dangerous amount of radiation.
A lot of the items the post author describes as complex you can't do at all in other languages.

"Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible." - Alan Kay

I don't think the blog author gives particularly great examples of simple things that are made complex by the language. He simply gives examples of things that are inherently complex that scala at least makes possible.
Actually, if it's too complicated to do something like just setting up that build and maintaining it for two platforms (development and, possibly, deployment), it's also very likely a lot of people will stick to something which requires less effort.
At this point, I can't even find my own bookmarks in Delicious anymore. Honest, last night I wanted to check out the link I have saved for Twiddla, so I typed "twiddla" into the search bar at delicious.com.

3 results. None of which were Twiddla.

I know it's in there. It had 8000 points last time I checked on the old interface. But searching for a link to the root of a domain by its domain name doesn't appear to be a use case that the new Delicious team thought of.

Of course, it doesn't show up when searching for any of the tagnames that I or anybody else gave it either. It used to float around the top of "whiteboard" and "collaboration". Now those terms return a few "stacks" (something I'd never heard of before), none of which contain any of the things that used to be tagged "whiteboard".

It's amazing that they could have taken something so simple and good and completely ruined it in so short a time. At this point the best I can hope for is that somebody else has an import tool that will suck my stuff out of it so that I can at least view my own saved bookmarks.

Sad.
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I must disagree. A big factor in avoidance of tinkering is the amount of money that goes into a tinkerable machine: once configured, one may not want to risk having to start from scratch because it's one of very few machines that works. BUT... for $25 I can devote an entire computer to one hobby use, screw it up as I see fit, and not worry about whether I'll be able to do bill-paying, read HN, or whatever else. Got a few ideas to kick around? A mere hundred bucks gets four of these little things, and I can keep each devoted to a different project and in varying state of disrepair, and still not worry about whether it will impact more serious tasks.

I'm watching my toddlers learn to play with iOS devices, wanting to let them explore yet concerned that they'll scramble or delete stuff (which they have). Better if I could say "this RPi is yours, go nuts" and guide them from playing Angry Birds (or some such attractor) into writing software, with nary a fuss about my beloved iPad. I started out with home computers being unused for "real" purposes, leaving them available for tinkering; now that they're an integral part of our culture, an accidental fork-bomb or rm -rf /. can really cause problems, and there isn't the money yet to shell out several hundred dollars per kid per tinkering inclination ... but with RPi, gimmie two (one in pink, one in camo green) and let 'em at it.
Why in the hell would you want to do this?
I use Pandoc and find it very helpful.

I create my sermons in Pandoc's extended Markdown format and then side-load them to my Nook. Sometimes it is good to be the geekiest pastor around.

I have also found that Pandoc is still being actively worked on. My version was from last spring and I just found out that a couple of releases had been produced and that now it had a new feature I was wondering about where it can explicitly add a cover image.
This is awesome, but I'd be remiss as the founder of BuzzData to not encourage you to instead park datasets like this on BuzzData.

http://buzzdata.com/

Ideally, both repos would like to each other in an additive capacity. The code on GitHub makes sense to live on GitHub.

I'm happy to help in any way if you're willing to give BuzzData a shot.
Suggest about company switch
Hello everyone<p>I am a bit confused and need your suggestion. I am working in an MNC like TCS, Wipro and Infosys for the past 3 months. Now I have got an offer from a small company that works on Ruby on Rails. In TCS I have worked on COBOL on mainframes in TCS. I know java, C, python and MATLAB and have done projects in all of these during my college days while working for open source communities or for internships.<p>I am interested in taking the new offer. However, when I consulted some seniors, they say that brand name of my current company shall be useful to me in the long run. Also, the current MNC is process intensive while the smaller company[about 40-50 people] which I intend to join does not have processes.<p>I want to switch over for the learning that I can get in that company.<p>Please suggest what I should do.
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Quick tip : After drilling a wall you can clean the dust with vacuum cleaner and fill the hole ( not fully ) with quick drying plaster/cement and stick wall plug[1] in it. With this way you can be able to mount your stuff on almost every wall and the mounting will be stronger. It is useful if you live in a old apartment ( like most of the appartments in Germany... )

[1] : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_plug
Site is unresponsive for me:

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
I saw this link claiming that it was difficult/impossible to use threads in fortran due to surprisingly global variables: http://math.arizona.edu/~swig/documentation/pthreads/#fortra...

Maybe it's wrong, I'm not knowledgeable about Fortran and certainly not horribly invested in this, go ahead and write a world-conquering BLAS library in Fortran if you want.
Which is the chicken and which is the egg? Are they moving out later because they're getting married later, or are they getting married later because they're moving out later?
Hirewolf is a great idea, but I don't know how it's going to capture that I am an apache project committer, or all the code I have in Hudson/Jenkins from my github profile (where none of this activity happens).

Definite room for improvement but I'd hate to be passed over because a potential employer doesn't have a complete picture.
Isn't this pretty much what the GPL was designed to solve? Stallman had to make sure the derivatives were open-source to make GNU going. If he used the MIT license, people wouldn't have felt the need to try and build something that could compete. But because they knew their rights were protected they had a chance against the reigning.
Having politicians who understand the issues you care about is no guarantee that they will work for them. Yes, most of us yearn for a utopia where we're ruled by super-intelligent benevolent overlords. But in the real world, I'll settle for politicians that take popular positions because it's what the voters want. Ryan did the right thing here, regardless of what you think about his understanding of the issue (or about his other politics), and should be commended. We won this little battle. It's a good thing.
It's AGPL licensed? That just upped this company's retarded level to maximum.

I saw they raised 1.7 million USD in funding. Who was so stupid to give them money for this?
I've been enjoying Snip It (http://snip.it/)
You're right, there are certainly cultural barriers to overcome as well, although I just focused on tooling problems in this article.

I agree with your statement about JavaScript. Microsoft was wise to commit resources to making Windows a first-class development environment for Node. There are many compelling reasons for .NET developers to move to that platform.
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I came here to say this. It seems that data URIs in CSS files is inherently more flexible, performs better and is easier to use (many libraries just handle it automatically for you).

I'm not sure about the slightly larger filesize, but it's worth it for the other benefits.
"Tall ergonomic chairs are very expensive."

Do you need an ergonomic chair?

In my experience ergonomic means with a too much bended back shape that will DISTORT(!) your natural spine shape. Unfortunately they use statistic to decide what is the ergonomic "best" shape, the problem is that people backs in the west have gotten less and less straight the same way they are getting more and more overweight.

Instead of buying an expensive chair, in my opinion it is a best investment to buy a good book or take some good posture lessons that teach you how to sit, stand or sleep properly.

Your back could support itself without effort if it is straight.
This strikes me as a bit of a straw man story. Who judges a candidate based only on their education? Experience counts for more than education in any place I've ever worked or interviewed. (At my last interview none of my interviewers noticed that I'm back in school for a Master's degree, despite the fact that it's listed at the top of my education section.) If Bob has open source projects to his credit, he can put them on his CV.
FWIW, the MS world has a lot of hard-core scary-smart coders.

And GAC deployment does not have much to do with clicky stuff. GAC has to with with DLL hell, and you need to jump through some extra hoops to deploy there (ie, http://support.microsoft.com/kb/324168). Or maybe you intended something else in your comment, but I missed it. Is the GAC inferior (since you put the word developers in quotes) because it allows the programmer to find references without searching through folders? Sorry, I just miss the point of the comment.
> I think This is more of a platform gripe ("I hate it that this stuff is unfamiliar to me!") than an actually valid argument

It actually went to great lengths to demonstrate how hard it is to do cross-platform development with .NET. The article describes the problems of having IDEs that rewrite makefiles in incompatible ways.

> The same could be said for someone learning Linux for the first time

Makefiles usually work. You may need to install some library through your package manager or build it yourself, but, then, you are a programmer, not an icon-dragger.

> It boils down to the fact that learning new stuff is hard and inconvenient

While learning new stuff can be hard or inconvenient, it has nothing to do with the problem the article describe. The article describe the problem of not having a clean cross-platform workflow programmers running Visual Studio and Mono Develop can use to seamlessly collaborate on the same codebase, something that's really easy for just about anything else.
Just to be pedantic, you lose static typing. Ruby (and Python, etc.) are strongly, dynamically typed languages.
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webobjects was a rebranding of openstep + some new tools. The last version lived on java.

Some people started with next, branched to wo, survived on it for six or seven years and then migrated back to cocoa/iphone. Similar API through

Not directly in response to you but a couple of others - I was rambling on a diversion, and when doing that need to explain the new point more clearly than I did. Sun seemed to have been well-positioned for building a good developer desktop platform for a window of about fifteen years but seemed to never attempt it. The fact that next bounced their ecosystem off Java while they were building a platform partly demonstrates the strong position Sun had.
> however you lose strong typing

You lose static typing; strong typing is different: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strong_typing
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When I was growing up in the former USSR, we used to sometimes enter the decommissioned parts of a nuclear plant / research station.

One day we found what was a deuterium/water solution ("heavy water") in a storage locker and took several gulps of it to prove something stupid.

Beat that!
Canonical are building an OS for TVs and are talking about building others for tablets and phones.

Who are they going to sell training and support to?
I don't really think many people are going to be wanting to go a training course to operate their TV or smartphone.

How do they intend to make their money using this?
The only way I can think is by making their own hardware or taking a cut from someone elses hardware.

Either that or doing movie purchase / rental which will probably mean DRM.
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I did my break up and I didn't write any letter. I don't think they care, why should I?
I manage my bookmarks locally. Lately I am trying workflowy (though they are not an exact replacement).
Check out Stack Overflow Careers. It allows you to associate your github account so potential employers can see your activity.

http://careers.stackoverflow.com/
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Why not just download Eric Sink's "Version Control by Example" ? http://www.ericsink.com/vcbe/

The book is free or can be purchased and explains both git and Mercurial with similar examples. We use it at our office to get novices up to speed on source control.
It could be that, but I'm out of my depth and operating on old information. He moved down to the snowless south years ago, so he probably missed out on whatever modding came to that world.
> remember some of the stories about how Microsoft blackmailed some hardware vendors to stop shipping devices with Linux and how they sued companies which sell Android based devices.

Sadly, this is not limited to the past. Microsoft is using patent extortion to get a couple bucks for every Android device sold.
Sure, nothing against the Spotify per se. But it's the copyright holders and their lobbying that is behind these laws. If you want to send a message, stop using their services (or buying products) all together.
What the article only touches on, but is even more interesting, is the fact that it's really just a specific case of the general Poisson distribution, a general mathematical result of exponential arrival times of events, of which mortality is but one example:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poisson_distribution

Examples:

The number of soldiers killed by horse-kicks each year in each corps in the Prussian cavalry. This example was made famous by a book of Ladislaus Josephovich Bortkiewicz (1868–1931).
The number of yeast cells used when brewing Guinness beer. This example was made famous by William Sealy Gosset (1876–1937).[7]
The number of phone calls arriving at a call centre per minute.
The number of goals in sports involving two competing teams.
The number of deaths per year in a given age group.
The number of jumps in a stock price in a given time interval.
Under an assumption of homogeneity, the number of times a web server is accessed per minute.
The number of mutations in a given stretch of DNA after a certain amount of radiation.
The proportion of cells that will be infected at a given multiplicity of infection.
I'm sorry for my attitude. There were some other posts that were doing the hypothetical thing and I guess I was having an allergic reaction.

I forget that this site is about startups and not specifically programmers or people with a heavy IT background.

It's my fault and I apologize.
Thanks - I saw the ars article about cyclecomputing, and was researching them.
As far as I remember, mercury isn't the best thing for you, but it's not as bad as people make out. It takes a fair amount of exposure to do anything too terrible. It's the compounds that become very nasty (eg, dimethylmercury).
"Because then you would be forced to sit with your legs dangling"

Most stools let you adjust the height without problems, so you could put your feet on the floor. Some of them you could even attach to the floor, so you could use it as a support.
whoa! great bookmarklet. very useful indeed. how long did this take you to make?
Honest review or thinly veiled PR? In Amy case I never much like the whole "social browser" idea. The ones I've used seem very much like low quality versions of the browser they're built on. Can't browser extensions replicate the functionality of these browsers? I'm wondering why there has to be a "social browser" instead of just an extension as these "social browsers" are pretty much the same as the one their based off of except the extensions are built in with no option to remove them.

Am I alone in disliking social browsers? I'd think that if there were a big market for this sort of thing outside of extensions then the major browser makers would just build them in by default in the first place. But, as always, opinions aren't fact and I could be the odd man out on this.
before reading: emphatically yes.
>It actually went to great lengths to demonstrate how hard it is to do cross-platform development with .NET.

Being cross-platform has nothing to do with being open source. They are totally orthogonal. The article conflates both of them.
And my point is, again, that the same can be said for platforms in the OSS world. Portability is a bitch. It's only gotten easier lately because there are less platforms to support (or how many of us code stuff so it compiles and runs seamlessly in Solaris as well?)

So if the point is to have stuff run both in Windows and Linux, then yeah, portability is a bitch.

As to makefiles usually work, they do indeed, but after potentially a lot of debugging. I've been through that myself. But the point is, .NET project files, they usually work too.

About your last paragraph, I'll just repeat what I said before: The post could have been a how-to, had it been written in the spirit of open source. It was not, though, and so it was more of a complain post.

It's all good, though. Someone will find the article and the how-to part out, which overall is a good thing.
The best strategy is to keep HR and recruiters out of the hiring and decision making process. Problem solved.
Amazing how people who directly link to Neven Mrgan's blog still manage to add vowels to his last name.
For me, it's as much about about changing position over the course of the day as it is standing up. So, I don't count mine as a waste of money.
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Infochimps introduces new Big Data Platform for Enterprises
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Quickbooks cloud or excel.
When I was reading this post I was really expecting it to be a troll after reading decision #1, I figured at the end I'd read that you wanted A,A,A. Now I'm just left reconsidering my own title and forced to agree with other posters that these aren't even decisions you should be involved in, and no one who made those choices should be a project lead.
Been doing it for four years and couldn't agree more with most of this list. Plus, I'll add a couple of these to my repertoire. I'd also add that getting a fair amount of exercise reduces the cabin fever that comes with working from home. And the flexible hours allow you to get to the gym when no one else is there. I've found the biggest problem is not staying focused but being able to turn work off at night and live a somewhat regular life. +1 for Podcasts and maybe add Howard Stern and Sirius to the list :)
It looks like a lot of people have a case of the Mondays today. Seriously, these are about the number of commands I had sketched out when first starting on GIT, which I assume is your audience. I do have to say that I get a little tripped up between trying to use page-down and having to position the page. A full page side-swipe presentation format would work well here.
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One example is Alt+Tab. You used to be able to Alt+Tab between windows inside one virtual desktop. In Unity, that changed. Alt+Tab tabs between applications across all virtual desktops. Alt+` tabs between windows of the same application.

This is super annoying when you know what windows are open in which virtual desktop. I used to be able to switch to a virtual desktop and Alt+Tab quickly. Now, I need to cycle through all open applications and I'm screwed if there's more than one window open of that application. Lot's of wait time. Using the mouse isn't much better.

I've used Ubuntu since 7.10 and have loved it and recommended it up until Unity. Now I'm seriously thinking of switching. I've been hearing a lot about Linux Mint.
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> I love clever touches like this in TV and films.

Me too, "Contagion" movie hired Dr. W. Ian Lipkin who is a specialist in molecular methods for pathogen discovery:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/culturelab/2011/09/contagi...
The most popular seems to be http://pinboard.in/

I use it and highly recommend it.
What has this got to do with open source? Imagine a open source project hosted on Team Foundation Server and the contributors all using Visual Studio. Is that project any less "open source" than other open source projects? Why will that .NET project beget something that is not open source? Doesn't make any sense.

The article should be titled something like "Cross-platform development of .NET is hard". And then go on to talk about how that can be a hurdle for open source development.
Advice on finding Ruby Developers for your Startup
I've put the question to them.

Maybe the price will rebound if demand grows, but this smells more like a permanent/ongoing arrangement and a USP for them.
Or, if you don't want to keep untracked files:

git reset --hard <commit>
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