skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because from the client downloads assets and we are more used to thinking about what happens from the client's pov.

Alternatively, it could be for the same reason people usually say they're going "up" to a big city, regardless of the direction of travel. The server is the hub and all the clients are down from it. This possibly dates back to when towns/fortifications were usually located on hills.
Isn't software development already kind of gamified? It's full of little bursts of dopamines and adrenaline -- from that first little "Hello World" to finally tracking down a bug, to seeing your code in production. Its addictive and it already comes with distinct achievements.
Right , I get that static typing can be an advantage but how is the functional paradigm an advantage in this case?

Or is it more than you just want to use something statically typed that isn't Java?
Because the client DOWNloads stuff, presumably. To me it makes perfect sense, servers send stuff 'down' to clients, regardless of a stack figure where stuff is arranged otherwise. Those two are orthogonal.
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I believe windows live mail works this way as well.
We're a little over 40 people right now, a little less than half that in engineering/data operations.
Apple did not take any special action to support GPL in the app store.

You do not need to take any special action with any operating system to get it to support the GPL. What Apple have done is done special action (lots of EULA/contracts/etc.) that explicitly disallow the GPL.

The reason (I think) Apple are explicitly disallowing the GPL is because it would be incompatible with the DRM type systems that Apple use. It's more a case of 'If Apple distribute GPL software on their App Store, they might have to give away the DRM keys and allow anyone to run any programme on their iPhone'. That situation is something Apple don't want.

GPL programmes are still allowed on OSX obviously, and I think some of Microsoft's mobile and/or app store thingie explicitly ban GPL as well.
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I think the fact that they do a week devoted to reducing technical debt is just as awesome as the WOW week (and giving the innovation time right after code improvement is probably the best way to do things.)

I'd be concerned, though, that having an "innovation week" only once every 2 months might slow down whatever momentum you were building on a project. I know I'd want to keep plugging on my 12.5% project after hours in between the chances the company gave to work on it. Which might be exactly what they're hoping for, I suppose.
>"Well, I should be able to keep the OS and applications completely segregated from each other."

That's what VM's are for.

Upgrade your hardware, upgrade your OS, install and configure the VM, copy some files, and you're running the legacy OS and application again.
If you're storing your stuff in a crack house and the cops close it down and take all the stuff, you're probably not getting it back.

Edit: Even if your stuff is legal.
True, but its a lot harder to remember once you have a few variations.
Not all the NOPs are the same
That's funny, I'm a 35 year old techie looking to partner with a health care professional on a startup.. If you want to bounce ideas back and forth, contact me at the email in my profile -- I'd definitely be interested in a chat with you.

Also, about programming -- I do think it's a worthy thing for you to learn. If you have some spare time, you can start working your way through the free lessons here: http://learncodethehardway.org/

I personally think that Ruby is a great language to start with, but Python is good too.

As for your expectation of it taking 5 years to reach a skill-level required to be competent in these technologies, well, I don't think it will take you that much time. However, the fact that you are even thinking this way puts you far ahead of most people who are trying to learn to program fast. I'm impressed by your attitude of taking a long-term view of things. As a programmer, I talk to a lot of people who have the mindset of "I have this great idea, I just need to find a techie to build it in a few days," and I can tell from your question that that's not you, which I find very refreshing.

Anyway good luck!
There's a free tier, but it's not a free service :

> 5 GB of Amazon S3 standard storage, 20,000 Get Requests, and 2,000 Put Requests*

http://aws.amazon.com/free/
This makes my day.
This isn't true if you're a paying customer (Google Apps for Business). G+ is an opt-in service.
Am I the only person who would never consider uploading important stuff to a site mostly full of warez and bootleg videos and whatnot? That is run by a known crook?
Well yes in reality there's 5 companies, just like there's about 7 or 8 iPhones, but when you put them all together next to the wide variety of companies that exist they all look kind of similar so I prefer to think of them as just one company. And that one company is outselling Apple in smartphones! It's amazing really.
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That's a valid concern. We hire motivated folks who often work on side-projects whether they're work-related or not (a lot of open source contributors, etc).

In our experience it's worked out well, the higher levels of energy and passion seem to make up for the time we spend - and produce some exciting features/products to boot.
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They should add this for the base OS.
Seriously, they should make it possible for people to debug their OSes and provide them with rewards and financial rewards as well.

At least this way some old bugs would actually go away.
How much do Apple employees earn?
"So as long as there are some operations based in U.S., they can get to all these folks?"

If there are extradition agreements, sure.
Girls like modern technology. Like telephones and apps. It isn't rocket science.
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"literal dinosaurs" hahaha. Sorry, this is amusing me.
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I made a calculator game based off of skyrim using the programming feature built in to all TI-84 model calcs. And i wanted to show it off; so here I am. Here's a link file for the program and pic files: http://www.mediafire.com/?vzz7umpobp1qc Pease keep all comments free of trolling, thanks. Enjoy!" (By no9sniper)
(I don't know much about iOS development, so will take your word that this is the standard licence that software on the AppStore goes to the customer under)

There are numerous parts of that licence that are incompatible with the GPL and other Free Software/Open Source licences:

e.g.:

This license does not allow You to use the Licensed Application on any iPod touch or iPhone that You do not own or control, and You may not distribute or make the Licensed Application available over a network where it could be used by multiple devices at the same time. You may not rent, lease, lend, sell, redistribute or sublicense the Licensed Application.

If $COMPANY (e.g. Canonical gives me a Linux kernel) gives me a piece of GPL software, I am allowed to install that on numerous devices, I am allowed to sell that software myself and keep all the money myself, I am allowed to install that software on my friend's computer. All of these actions are prohibited by that Apple Licence, and hence in order for Apple to give/sell me a GPL programme they would have to change that.

Apple have chosen to get around this situation by not giving me any GPL licenced software.
Equally APIs are backwards compatible, behaviour is defined, bugs are fixed, performance is improved and software becomes more compatible with other software.
I think it stinks. But...

Give it to your wife/husband for free.

Wife sells it for whatever and however she wants. Apple have no comeback.
I studied finance/economics in college and spent 5 years in banking. Eighteen months ago I quit my job and picked up a few computer science courses and simultaneously taught myself python/django. I now have a fully built web application with beta users. In 18 months you can be in a radically different place and if you combine your domain experience with the ability to code up your ideas, you'll achieve a unique position that will give you a leg up. You'll enjoy a product that more closely fits your vision, plus you'll get there faster since you'll be cutting out a lot of communication overhead. While your competitors are trying to bridge the business/technical divide, you'll be a straight up execution machine.
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Downvote me if you feel like it, but...

Whatever you want to say, please just say it:

http://raganwald.posterous.com/youre-probably-going-to-downv...
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LOLcats have replaced good old-fashioned parody. I eat this stuff up!
I highly doubt it. The 3GS is available only on AT&T, whereas the 4 and 4S are available on several US carriers.
I'm sorry, I know nothing about your context, but if I was asking someone about renting luxury cars for, say, a special week-end with a Chinese client and his "cousin", I would appreciate someone coming the next day with a eye-dropping limo and all the details: a chauffeur, a filled minibar, etc. , all for a reasonable price. While, if the first thing I was hearing about was problems with insurance, I would not be so fully amazed...
Merlin Mann once explained it like this: "A geek is somebody who can fix your computer. A nerd is somebody who could fix your computer, but first has a need to talk to you about fixing your computer for a good while."

I prefer "nerd".
Yah, maybe just add links at bottom: LYAH, Applicative Functor wiki page. Or maybe mention one syntax feature, IO's and do-blocks, and say "return" and "<-" just kick things into and out of IO's, loosely speaking. Just don't say IO's are like burritos ;-}

You could also say, for anybody that's looked at lisps, *ML, F#, scala, erlang, the syntax isn't too bad, and for anybody that knows rails, they'll recognize the same REST'y MVC layers/abstractions. I gather the target audience is folks using dynamically typed languages.
I agree that the practice of "just answer the freaking question" is a good policy and not only for communication with C-level suits, but when answering a question from anyone.

However, sometimes the question itself makes it very clear that person asking it has missed the clue-bus and is operating under a deep misunderstanding of the situation.

Those situations require the courage reframe the discussion and NOT answer the question.
I think the crack house analogy is wrong. What if instead of a crack house, you stored your goods in an apartment complex where some people used their apartments for illegal activities? Police wouldn't be justified in entering or seizing apartments that they didn't have probable cause for.
Depending on where you are, but: OVH is known to offer dedicated servers with very generous bandwidth allotments for very little money. E.g. their Dutch budget brand http://www.isgenoeg.nl offers a basic server with 5TB, then 10Mbps bandwidth for EUR 15/month, and their UK http://www.kimsufi.co.uk/ is similar.

(No personal experience, offer seems valid for nationals only, WebHostingTalk suggests there's little support, OVH apparently change their upstream providers all the time to get the best possible deals - you get a lot of bandwidth but latency varies from day to day. Seems acceptable for a simple file server.)
Craigslist vs Thumbtack
I have an account on both sites. And personally, I think Thumbtack is the better one among the two. It’s easier to navigate and it’s easier to get the information that I want.

What do you think?
To be sure, they'll try using the http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overton_window to pass something with a similar effect.

"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure." - Thomas Jefferson
> If, as the CDC suggests in a new report, binge drinking leads to violence, spread of sexually transmitted diseases, unwanted pregnancy, and risky behavior, then why am I doing just fine?

Because these studies never apply to 100% of the subjects.
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I always liked:

Your supposed to design a 4 lane bridge for a new interstate, you say sure that takes 6 months where do you want it?. After 3 months they decide where they want it and expect the design in 3 more months. You say, that's not going to happen I might be able to pull 5 months though.

So, assuming you know where it's going to be you start pulling in some overtime and get to work. After another month they say, we need a 6 lane bridge, after another they want to add a train. And 2 weeks before the deadline they decide on a tunnel. SO, you end up submitting a 6 lane bridge design that can't handle trains.

Which is why software is always late, and you don't hand them what they want.
For a full run down take a looky here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3487808

From the indictment you can see some serious amounts of cash flying around.
I really wish I had the karma to downvote this. Idiocracy was a funny story, but it's hardly a documentary. Every time someone brings it up seriously, I die a little bit inside.
IBM couldn't get out of their own way where OS/2 was concerned.
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Yes, you do (sometimes) have to take special action to support the GPL. For example, Ruby recently changed its license to allow the bundling of readline 6 with MRI. This was a distribution problem as well.

Show me the places where Apple EULA "explicitly" disallows the GPL (and not just includes things that are incompatible with the GPL). There certainly is GPLed Software in the app store, even with a notice included (see Battle of Wesnoth). If it was explicitly forbidden, that would not happen.

My interpretation is that Apple just doesn't care. The want Apple-signed code on their devices and if your license doesn't allow signed code, they won't help you. This by itself is sad and I would very much hope for that to be different, but not "explicitly disallowing".
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Why is it an issue when you want to pull upstream? If you do it, the temp commit will live aside from all the csets pulled from upstream. If you want to resume work on it later, then just update to it. If you want to resume work on it while effectively "merging" its changes with recent upstream changes, then simply rebase the temp commit: hg rebase -s tempcommit -d new-head-pulled-from-upstream. (rebase is a built-in extension.) That's the workflow policy I implemented and it works well. It is also easy to keep track of temp commits: running hg incoming/outgoing will show which changesets are present/absent in one repo compared to whatever other repo you use as a reference.
http://www.bgr.com/2011/09/22/ubs-iphones-89-retention-rate-...
Fair point. I didn't see it that way, but yes, I promise never to use it again.

(Heh, promises over the Internet, you rarely see those. I intend to keep mine, though.)
You are all right!

I think that a lot of older people DO very much continue to keep up with all social and technological changes.

But the main point, that older generations are both socially and technologically conservative is not controversial.

I think that, despite many exceptions, this is a universal human truth.
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I have read a number of papers and heard various opinions on this. The way I think about this is as follows:

A person with $300mm in the bank gets only a small gain in utility for every additional dollar they get to possess. (This is also the assumption the paper must make.

Assuming that is true (I don't know if it is for sure)
1) the wealthy individual will continue with ambitious persuit of more wealth without any concern for utility.
2) the tax rate wont matter until they feel like the government is spitting them.

Assuming those 2 things are true also (again I don't know for sure) the answer that needs to be answered is:

Who is more efficient at allocating capital for the good of all society?

My opinion: some individuals will be terrible at this, but on average they will be better than elected officials who's skill set is having maximum influence rather than maximum ability to allocate capital.
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Speaking as someone who's worked in 3 different healthcare software companies (2 large Co's and 1 startup), you'll be far ahead of your competition in the healthcare space if you know how to code.

Healthcare is full of Product Managers and CxO's who have never written code and I think it's one of the things that holds the industry back from adopting newer technologies, streamlining processes, and attracting talent.

The challenges you mentioned (EMRs, HIPAA) require a lot less understanding of coding and more understanding of how data is structured. Suffice to say if you can read a spreadsheet, you can understand (with a little mental ninjitsu) how a HIPPA or EMR is structured.

If I were a Healthcare product manager with CEO aspirations, I would learn the following:

* SQL (real SQL, not drag and drop queries in Access)

* Ruby or Python (High level and easy first languages rules)

* Java or C# (because the industry speaks these almost exclusively)

* HTML/CSS/Javascript (Healthcare didn't jump into the web with both feet like many industries, so you can learn these last).
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> There are not millions of iPhone faithful. Those have to be a tiny minority.

Your statements don't make sense. There can easily be millions of iPhone faithful and those millions can also be a tiny minority. How many iPhone users are there in the world? I don't know, but could it be on the order of 100 million? I think so (especially with the knowledge that there are a few hundred thousand purchases every day, it stands to reason that there could be close to 100 million iPhone users worldwide - please correct me if you have better figures).

With those estimates, a 1% tiny minority represents a 1-million-strong iPhone faithful group.
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I would group those people in with creators who think that copyright means they'll earn more money. That is, people who are swayed by arguments appealing to the "common sense" that "artists should make money off their work" without specific evidence in support of their views.

Since copyright can be used to prevent content creation (for example, cover performances, sequel novels written by other people or derivative works) it isn't at all obvious that copyright leads to more content. The internet has led to more music and better music being made, according to the recent study I saw comparing radio play of new music over time. Webcomics make most of their money selling books of comics available for free on the web. For most of human history we functioned under a deliver-first, pay-later or -indirectly method of exchange; the internet has allowed this model to scale almost without limit for goods with zero marginal cost.
I disagree with his assessment that it's fair for some founders to take cash now and others to receive only IOUs payable later.

The second group face not only a time value of money problem, but they're also accepting the risk of default (which is fairly likely in startups). They deserve substantial additional compensation for their willingness to leave capital in the company during early growth. One potentially fair way to do this would be to give them convertible notes with the same terms as whatever your first external angels get.

After all, leaving $100,000 in the startup's bank account has the same net effect as drawing the salary, then investing $100,000 in the startup.
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I am not a fan of this move. It makes me feel like I did when Microsoft starting including Internet Explorer in Windows, but instead of forced middleware bundling, we have forced service bundling.
The server hard drives contain illegal and legal data and they are not separately owned/occupied like buildings are. The alleged criminals own all the hard drives. Cops aren't going to weed through all of that data and then figure out who owns the legal data and then make an effort to contact and return it to them... there's no way they can do that.
I'll just note that there have been several past, rather active HN threads on this topic, for those interested in having a look.

I'll toss in my quick and nutritious suggestion: Microwave a sweet potato. Don't forget to poke it a few times with a knife to vent steam pressure. Slice in half and top with a little brown sugar and cinnamon, or whatever else strikes your fancy (e.g. maple syrup, butter, etc.).
Absolutely, it would preserve the original B.

You can easily switch your working directory to one of them: hg update B or B'

You can easily throw away the one you don't want to keep: hg strip B or B'
The Firefox addon RequestPolicy will protect you from this.
> If this sounds new-agey, well, perhaps it is.

Actually, it sounds like a heuristic for path cost in AI search.
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Probably not, alas.

Obviously we need user-supplied achievements in plugin packs :-)
Pretty sure a Social Gaming plugin is part of TextMate 2 also.
The scales involved make that problematic. Apple fanbois don’t make or break Apple’s holiday business, they are inconsequential to their smartphone business given its scale.
I personally think Georgia is a good font for websites.
If you're looking for an Erlang web framework check out Chicago Boss. Brand new tutorial and everything:

http://www.chicagoboss.org/

Of course, the project still needs some performance work, as highlighted in this post:

http://labs.evolope.com/post/16054431816/a-comparison-of-web...

So CB is a long way from its theoretical maximum (largely because I haven't done any performance engineering on it yet).

"Performance", by the way, depends largely on the task at hand. For complex template rendering/delivery, Erlang will probably beat anything out there because of Erlang's intelligent use of immutable data and I/O lists. Most other languages do a "memcpy" for every chunk of the template as it's being built into a final string. Erlang, on the other hand, keeps around pointers to the separate pieces of memory and then does a scattered write (writev) when it's time to send the result to the client.