skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I imagine simulation is definitely the route they will go. To be honest, I would be happy with anything outside of just reading and answering questions. I am taking a similar course at my university now, and there is absolutely no lab exercises, simulations, or anything outside of your typical lecture. I've been learning LTspice in my spare time, but I was pretty disappointed that there wasn't something like that already in the curriculum.
They're definitely 30-50% cheaper, but it shows. The ThinkLight instead of backlit keyboard, smaller single-touch trackpad, heavy 9-cell battery that quickly loses its capacity, mediocre screen, heavier weight.. but it still holds its own compared to other laptops in the same price range.
That's covered by other really common coding standards, eg. "put braces and brackets on the same line as the token that comes before them", "don't add linebreaks unless necessary to stay under 80 chars", and "break after binary operators rather than before them".

The point's to minimize the amount of additional complexity that developers have to memorize. The set of rules above is very similar to what you see in pretty much any Algol-derived language; most developers already have it burned into their fingers. The set of rules necessary to code safely without semicolons is very specific to JavaScript, and to a very idiosyncratic style of JS at that.
There are already CSS button generators (for Bootstrap, even) and it's always the same: you get out what you put in. Even the examples these sites use as the buttons you can generate typically look like a lousy lot. And $0.50 would end up being like 80% credit card fees for me. It probably wouldn't work out.
Gumb.io - The world's first Gumroad marketplace.
A typo. But in retrospect, an amusing one.

(Star Wars: Force Unleashed. I'm not a hard-core gamer, so I found the hardest level to be a quite difficult at times until upgrades could be had.)
There was a similar post posted on Friday I think which spoke of the concept of 'Flow'(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_(psychology)) and how to achieve. It also referenced Gladwell's 10000 hours theory.

Does anyone remember what the link was? Please post it here if you do. Thanks :)
Nice, these are exactly the two things I wanted to get my hands on.
I'm far from shocked, in fact, I'd be surprised if the opposite were true.
As a rule humans are catastrophically bad at estimating and ranking risk.

People are afraid of strangers abducting their kids, of air travel, of nuclear power. They aren't generally afraid of cheeseburgers, raising kids who don't exercise, cars, and coal power, but they should be.
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Going rate at the NRC (Nuclear Regulatory Commission) is 250+ $/hour to just review documents which are several hundred thousand pages long.

'One of my key concerns was the effect on the schedules for new license applications – not only do applicants have to pay $273 for every regulator hour, but they have to pay the staff and contractors that they use to apply for permission and answer regulator questions. Longer licensing processes cost more in salaries and other overhead and they push potential revenue out into the future.'

http://atomicinsights.com/2011/12/audit-the-nrc.html
I think it's just a naming fad, along the lines of the [word]r naming fad.
http://lmgtfy.com/?q=sqrt(cos(x))cos(300x)%2Bsqrt(abs(x))-0....
Why is it that people want to get interrupted?
> basically child pornography

Nothing that got banned was "basically child pornography." That's why there is blood in the water.
I think the biggest advice I would lend to you, is get creative. I can't tell you the number of boring white and black resumes I've seen. The tech industry is littered with boring "business type" resumes and cover letters. If you truly want a job with a technology company, research some of the fun technologies out there and use them for your application.

Having a link to a youtube video, a twitter account, github (of what you do know), a cool presentation using sliderocket, etc..

These are the types of things that can set you apart from every other resume that the recruiter is going to find. Finding ways to get acquainted with tech professionals by showing up to meetups they go to. Use LinkedIn as your tool, it is amazing how much information you can find out using the internet!

It's about being proactive and not reactive!
I hope this helps some.
With everything that's been and being added to C#, I'd argue that it keeps getting more and more interesting for experienced developers and further away from novices.

Your typical novice developer is going to have a hell of a time trying to understand any non-trivial C# projects these days with all the function features that have been added - especially with things like PLINQ and TPL.

The utility for experienced developers has increased over the years, it's accessibly to inexperienced developers has, however, decreased.
Reliably Testing Asynchronous UI
My understanding is that Google licensed the FoxIt PDF viewing engine to embed into their Chrome binaries. It probably isn't available in the open-source Chromium.
I'm a little nervous about client-side window decorations. One of the nice things about window-system controlled decorations is that updates in function, policy and style can be done unilaterally. I'm worried that few years after the Wayland transition there will be a cluster of ugly legacy apps that will never be upgraded and don't work right- think xmms, not Google Chrome.
First, I'm not saying that they shouldn't be taking the position they are. In fact, I believe that Reddit should always make the best effort to comport itself to US law in order to protect the site's existence for its users everywhere. However, I am saying that CP is not the only possible legal threat and it is naive to assume that it will continue to be the dominant legal threat going forward.

Contrast, as you seem to want to, with /r/trees. How many posts in /r/trees get taken down due to their questionable legality? How many posts in /r/letstradetorrents (apocryphal) get taken down due to their questionable legality? None and none. The nature of CP on the Internet is unique, and not viewed similarly to anything else on the Internet. Reddit isn't saying "as long as it doesn't represent a plausible legal threat that can be waged against them", they're saying, "as long as it's not CP, and as long as it's manageable through an ad-hoc process."

I agree that it is not yet a problem. Reddit has not yet been taken down by the FBI because of widespread drug trade on r/trees. Nor have they been sued because of torrent links. What I question is how long it will take before these things become issues?

What I'm asking is: what is it about CP that makes it the only possible legal threat that Reddit can face? Reddit is still a maturing community that can evolve in many different ways. Reddit's policy is not about CP specifically, it's about credible legal threat. This is not what they say, but what they mean. If you think otherwise, I invite you to tell me what they will do if a non-CP related legal threat comes along.
There are glaring flaws in their analysis in all five cases, and no solid connection to the sweeping claim they're baiting peoople with.

E.g. 3D printers are awesome, but they have major limitations. Anyone claiming that they have any chance of wiping out the clothing industry in the foreseeable future has no bloody clue about the topic, or how well people would take to wearing 1mm resolution deposited ABS plastic instead of finely-woven textiles.
As an existing user, I find it frustrating to be stuck with the 10 GB given to early adopters while new users are given 25 GB.
I don't think this is what you want to hear, but I prefer the first version (ie, picture2.jpg). While there are a few little copy issues, in general, it tells me what I need to know without feeling intimidating. Your new version felt intimidating - I knew I wanted to read it so I could help you, but I was nervous to get started!

If you'd like to run your copy by anyone, I've been writing for most of my life. And, my girlfriend is a much better writer than I am. Feel free to email me (I'm pretty sure it is on my profile) and we would be glad to give your stuff a read.

Best of luck - this event sounds very cool!!
I tried installing Ubuntu on a MBP my office bought for me. It was a while ago, but the killer for me was that the fans didn't work properly. It would overheat within 5 minutes of use.

I highly recommend a Strata from ZaReason (zareason.com). Unless you're going to be doing a lot of graphics-intensive stuff, definitely go for one with an Intel graphics card, b/c nvidia is a pain on Linux.
JavaScript Jabber: Backbone.js
Is this any different than Ruby or Python (or any other scripting(ish) language)?

Ruby and Python are both good for sysadmin scripting, web frameworks, and big apps. So is Perl.

The fact that use strict exists is hardly a flaw. It's a useful tool, and one that many of us use most of the time. The fact that is doesn't exist for Ruby or Python seems like the flaw.

But if Python did add it, I wouldn't be surprised to see it default to off for a long time because of backwards compatibility, just like Perl.
Not at all. It's quite typical for an industry to choose to regulate itself, when the alternative is statutory regulation imposed by the government.
Apple’s Stock Sets New Closing High of $502.60 (with great infographic)
Remixing Ubuntu for the Enterprise Desktop
While you may have intended your question as a question, that's not the impression it gave. My first reading of it was as a rudely sarcastic dismissal -- "obviously you don't know what you're talking about" -- and I was about to downvote it on grounds of incivility until I noticed that you were the author and realized that was probably not how you intended it to be read.
How is it possible that the Human Race has survived until now, given those facts?
Start using Jekyll ground-up: the absolute minimum to bootstrap a blog
Single page version for those who would prefer to read one large page instead of three split up pages:

http://www.h-online.com/open/features/Wayland-Beyond-X-14320...
I'm apprehensive about the same things. Toolkit cooperation on Linux is bad enough now and I see no indication that any work is being done to even mitigate worsening as these changes give toolkits more control over user experience.

Google Chrome is just as bad if not worse than xmms because it's so loved; I'm a firm believer that user interface improvements should be shared between programs rather than implemented as one-off exceptions to the system setup. If it's a real improvement I'm bound to want it elsewhere, and if not, the loss of consistency isn't worth the small gain for that particular application.
WSU chemist applies Google software to webs of the molecular world
> I have been reading blog posts and emails I wrote 6 years ago. "What a retard I was!"

I think you should consider your life in many ways successful if you say that every year.
Section 7(a)(G)(ii)(IX) would require that crowdfunding intermediaries require "each potential investor to answer questions demonstrating competency in" understanding various types of risks involved in such investments. Should the SEC be required to provide a list of questions which, if answered correctly by potential investors, would provide a safe-haven to the intermediary? If not, should the bill be more specific with regard to the level of competency to be demonstrated?

Sec. 7(a)(G)(ii)(XI) requires intermediaries to carry out a background check on the issuer's principals. What must such a background check consist of in order to satisfy this criteria? How is this information to be used? (kept on file by intermediary? Disclosed to potential investors? Filed with the commission?)
Really good article. I've had so many problems with X... we can only hope.
I'm a blacksmith, as a hobby, and would like to suggest that any interested parties check out the Artist-Blacksmith's Association of North America (ABANA, http://www.abana.org) for a chapter in their state. Many of them have conferences and other events that are open to the public. The California chapter (http://www.calsmith.org) puts on a great show every April or so, and has power hammers.

Also, there is a power hammer workshop in a week or so, in Loomis, near Sacramento, CA. These power hammers are very small compared to the 50, but still incredibly impressive in person.

It's a great hobby, with a great group of people, and I'd recommend checking it out if you're at all interested.
2030 is a long way out.
As far as I know, the multitouch trackpad doesn't have fully-functioning drivers for Windows/Linux. On a 2011 15", I can run Ubuntu fullscreen seamlessly (literally swipe left and right between Mac and Ubuntu, with no cursor capturing or anything). I think it's the best way to get full usage out of your Mac while still using Linux - and you can setup shared folders between Mac and your VM, or SSH from one to the other.

I don't see OSX as being an additional cost like Windows - all Macs come with OSX, and it doesn't have to license it from a separate company, like the Dell and Microsoft relationship. The only cost would be $30 every other year for upgrades, but even those are optional.

A refurb definitely wouldn't be a bad option, I have a refurbed iMac and if it didn't come in a brown box saying "Refurbished" I'd have never known. The only thing I will say is that adding a few hundred bucks to your budget for the 3 year warranty is 100% worth it - something breaks, you just schedule an appointment at the Apple store, and they'll take care of it.
One of my hats is 'system administrator'. I like X a lot more than VNC/RDP. I don't run linux on my desktop and don't really care about performance there.

I'm not looking forward to the day when X is gone. Being able to fire up system-config-* on a remote system is awesome.
Doesn't work? All of the links I've tried are dead.
Kuler - Color Scheme Generator
I thought this was already approved months ago when I first heard about it. I'm glad it's moving forward.
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This guys and gals really do a great job of stepping up to help save our history. Often times they have very little notice making their job incredibly difficult.

If you ever run a service that contains user created data, please be responsible when shutting it down by providing a way to archive it.

Congrats
Of course any good idea can be taken to an extreme, and Spolsky probably is doing that with this one. But my experience is that the majority of startups will be fine. The problem is much more rarely "The engineers are getting away with murder!" and more commonly "I told those engineers everything they were supposed to be doing with no deviations. Why aren't they listening to me?!" Most startup founders (but by no means all) end up being such control freaks that Joel's advice probably won't be dangerous.
Moq is on github
The article is making a prediction about the future and technology normally improves with time. Your example implies that you think we'll be stuck with 1mm resolution and with deposited ABS plastic. I think 3D printers of the not so distant future will finely weave textiles. Amongst other things.
I missed it -- why did Google decide to purge the documents in the first place? That can't be that short on disk space, can they?
i may be out of the loop, but... none of the popular ways of piracy are generally encrypted are they? if all the unencrypted ones were to be shut down, would it be possible to replace them with safe ones?

i mean with public p2p filesharing, you can always "spy" on the sharers. i mean it has the be decryptable for you to download it, right? and youll know who sent it.

and with stuff that hosted somewhere, whether it's some usenet provider or megaupload, you can always shut down the hoster.

people could still pirate by directly sending each other encrypted files, but you'd always have to know someone personally who has what you want. which would make piracy much harder.

why am i wrong? ;)
Now I have another link to help them understand why their management style isn't working they way they think it should.

I have a feeling it will require much, much more than a Spolsky link to get that through their head. But perhaps I'm just cynical.
I've been a lurker for a while. I understand this. When I first made the comment all the other comments were on this "MG is a hypocrite" meme, which I wanted to steer the discussion from to a broader point of "Well you know, theres a lot more blog authors out there who do something pretty similar."

In MG's defense, he himself admitted that he'd done the exact things he talks about in the article.

I probably could have made that first point with a lot less snark. But changing it now probably won't do much good.
What's your take on the use for Haskell in the enterprise for large code bases?
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My biggest pains with .Net C# are:

1) Not runnable properly on Linux (I always have trouble with mono - maybe its just me)

2) Compilation and app restart time etc are annoying when wanting to develop rapidly

LINQ and the syntax of the language, VS etc are all awsome though.
Do Aliens Go Invisible by 'Going Green'?
I don't like it as much as the old look. The "Or get straight to the tech" autoscroll thing really messes with you when you are scrolling / reading.
It isn't hard.

Inhale, exhale
Consume food
*Reproduce occasionally.

most of the stuff kills you after reproductive age, so is pretty much irrelevant to the survival of the species.
Hit men, click whores, and paid apologists: Welcome to the Silicon Cesspool
Envisioning a Post-Campus America
I have heard that most shipping containers, even refrigerated ones, have quite toxic linings that can be difficult and expensive to remove. I can't find a source for this at the moment, but it came up as a problem for shipping container living in a reddit thread a few months ago.
My domain search on LDS lands an error:

http://www.leandomainsearch.com/search?q=shop

Fix the bugs and it'd be great.
I thought the Latin phrase was "post hoc ergo propter hoc". Is "cum hoc..." also used?
Google-Motorola bid approved in EU and US
Political drawbacks.

You are looking to get approval for multiple nuclear reactors instead of just one. Good luck.
If he does not change, then if you can make him leave with estrangement, then I suggest making him leave. Otherwise the business is ruined but the sibling relationship may endure.
How was it obvious?

How was it not? Reddit exploded and started making money hand over fist. Anderson Cooper shined a light on the seedy underbelly for like 5 sec and they gave up the game. The past week's events are just ripples from that and Reddit coming to terms with the only possible decision they could have made.
The weird dot backgrounds makes the font look terrible.
The image in the link sums it up ("...all without writing a single line of code!", which I've heard personally in Microsoft events). It's not that the languages or the framework lack advanced features, it's that Microsoft/MVP's constantly tote the "beginner" features. I find C# to be very fun to code in... so long as you avoid anything that the tool will do (or only the tool can do) for you.
Nuclear reactors are the best source of energy - they just need more research and improvement, and you can't do that without actually building and running some of them on a large scale.

The sun is one huge nuclear reactor, and recreating that wherever we need it is simply awesome. Thorium reactors look promising and if fusion becomes feasible within ~100 years, that would solve a lot of problems...

The so-called "catastrophes" are nothing compared to the lives lost on coal plants and the whole coal power chain. Let's not forget that Hiroshima and Nagasaki are bustling with life, Tokyo is doing just fine with that "deadly radiation" around them (all things considered, of course), and Chernobyl is actually very green (no pun intended - plants and trees are growing nicely, the only ugly stuff laying and rusting around is human-made)...
Would be awesome wouldn't it?

The weird thing is that we have to excise, as a species, this notion that nuclear power's risks are unmanageable. That takes time, and a lot of people dying. Not from nuclear accidents but just dying of old age and with old fashioned ideas and an inability to get past their emotions and back into reasoning about something.

For all its promise, investment in Thorium is a non-issue until we can prove that we can license and build new nuclear plants. Sure Larry or Sergei could fund it but the challenge is in the deployment.

The comment above about how they cost $2B for the Chinese and $7B for the US is indicative of that challenge. That and a liability cap which makes them insurable in the first place. If you're government gets to just say what is going to be true then you only pay the cost of building it, which is much much less.
This is interesting. When I used to work for a major non-profit, they laughed at the fact I said switching to Linux would be pretty cool because licensing fees alone are more expensive compared to the deals that Windows is giving them.

This must be Ubuntu's answer to those speculations.
Oh I have worked with codebases (in large financial institutions and in engineering applications) that are meant to be contiguously maintained for more than a decade. They have been working nicely 16+ years and are easy to maintain with no downtime. Obviously, none of it involves the CLR or .Net. On the other hand, I've also seen seriously big projects ruined by .Net with no handover or documentation. But worst, no accountability. I've also seen a few successful ones but I would expect that culture to deliver continuous quality -- but it surely hasn't.

That's why I am saying that most of these claims people bandy around about enterprise computing are nonsense.
"Finely-woven textiles"---this tells me you know very little about the last 150 years of weaving technology. We no longer have such a thing and have not had since the 20th century. The last looms capable of doing that kind of work hit the scrap heap well more than 20 years ago. Closest thing to it (and that's not all that close) are produced on islands off of the cost of Scotland; heavily subsidized and tightly controlled. Google Draw, Dobbie and Jacquard looms, history of. Yes as a hand weaver you can go out and buy one, but forget about commercial production, that day has been and gone.
I've done ~1b/day on around 6-10 1gb/gogrid instances though admittedly the complexity was lower(ad serving platform) though not just a proxy/static server. When I read this I actually messaged my partner "Imagine what we could do with 1000 servers". I imagine a lot of those servers aren't directly related to serving the site though. The number of support servers required is usually way underestimated.
Highly Sought-After and Difficult to Fill Positions
>If you ever run a service that contains user created data, please be responsible when shutting it down by providing a way to archive it.

I actually find this to be an interesting question. I certainly feel that the Google Groups stuff is likely worth saving. Project histories, answers to obscure technical problems, etc.

But what about something like grouphug.us? Or even Facebook? I've got to imagine there are things put out there in the irresponsibility of youth or the first blushes of adulthood that someone is practically aching to have disappear from the Internet. To have the Internet Archive come in and save it all might be... unfortunate for some.
That map has everything from assault to noise complaints. Open up a few of the SOMA listings, and you'll see that (again, other than around the places I mentioned), that the "events" are mostly petty stuff.

Of course no neighborhood is crime-free, but you're blowing the danger of SOMA entirely out of proportion based on your perceptions of aesthetics.