skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"In Forth, the ideal size of a procedure is about a line, and procedures that take more than three arguments are considered a "code smell" that suggests a different factoring might be more appropriate."

That might be the ideal, but if you take a look at real-world Forth code, most of it is much longer than the ideal.

There are a couple of other things that help readability in Forth. One is thorough commenting, and the other is the use of intermediate variables.

Unfortunately, real-world Forth code often doesn't have much of either -- intermediate variables are often frowned upon as being "un-Forthish", and thorough commenting results in a program that is so verbose that (except for the embedded domain) you might as well have written your code in a more conventional language in the first place.
Ask HN: Zero-cost startups for ordinary Americans?
Something of a different challenge for HNers. I have a friend ("from the Internet," so to speak) who is in a difficult situation. She's highly literate and intelligent, although advanced math is out of the question for her. Lives in upstate New York with her mother, who is also unemployed, and somewhat physically disabled; they're both short on income. She has a two-year degree that doesn't reflect her abilities, and little work experience to put on her resume. To top it off, she suffers from celiac disease, as well as anxiety issues, that prevented her from reaching her full potential for the first half of her twenties.

I don't think finishing a four-year degree is in the cards right now, and there's little seed money she could raise. I'm told that there are few jobs in the area, and enough demand for the ones that do open up that her background excludes her. What kind of steps can she take to improve her standard of living in the short-term while raising her prospects in the long term?

So far I've thought of some obvious things, like:
1) Cooking local gluten-free products, to be sold at farmers' markets and the like -- perhaps with some of the proceeds going to research

2) Using freelancer sites like Odesk to try and find writing-related work

I'd appreciate HN's thoughts on the plausibility of these and other ideas. As an engineer, I don't really know what it's like to be in this kind of situation.
Right. And when there was a monkey image of Obmama's wife, it was taken down within a week. It just goes to show you who is in bed with the government.
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I guess you could say that then you never have to qualify the column name in the query (as they're unique across the system). It's a pretty crummy reason to do it though.

More likely it's just that someone decided that was how they were going to do it one day and it stuck.

I worked on a system where all tables were prefixed with "tbl_" - even when they were often views and not tables at all....
I think you are reading too much into this.

I didn't see any romanticization of military production - just a fascinating description of a very interesting piece of engineering. The article specifically mentioned that the press is used to create parts for commercial aircraft as well.
> One of my worst fears is that we might see the current military campaigns surrounding Iran and the area around it develop into another "great" war.

I am a supporter of American world domination through preferably peaceful means, and think that criticism of social Darwinism was mostly misdirected, but your fears are not at all unfounded. Back in the 19th century, Bismarck famously said, "One day the great European War will come out of some damned foolish thing in the Balkans" -- we all know what happened next.
I guess that Leo's post resonated with me because I find that the sharing of what I've learned so far helps me learn it better - and sometimes, there are people who are in the same boat as you before you came to some realization.

That is to say, sometimes I get stuck on something that should probably be easy - and when I find the crux, the thing that got me unstuck, sharing that is beneficial to people who are stuck in the same way. We all think and learn differently, so if there's just one other person out there who thinks the same way as me and might find things easier with the same realization I had...well, I think it's worth it.
Click on the left or right sides inside the section holding the text. Took me awhile to figure it out too.
>You feel betrayed when a site like reddit says that child porn is bad

No, I feel betrayed when reddit, a community that grew because it did not limit expression that was within the law, bans "suggestive or sexual content featuring minors", which is way, way broader than child porn - an umbrella so broad that it even covers news stories about sexual abuse.

>but I'd be willing to bet everything that you have a facebook account which sells you, your likeness and your personal data and you couldn't give a shit when they alter their privacy policies.

I do have a facebook account, and the fact that I do give a shit about its privacy policies is why I basically use it when there's no other way to get in touch with someone. This is, of course, utterly irrelevant. Why are you even bringing it up?
The problem is that most businesses take time and marketing to make any kind of profit.

What about buying and selling stuff on craigslist?
At least that fact that it was refurbished and continues to be used means that when the time comes (and it will), the US will have the equipment it needs to produce most of that infrastructure itself.
> This type of romanticization of military production is obscene.

If you study history even on a superficial basis, you'll find that violence only breaks out in asymmetric situations. In other words, only when one side is thoroughly convinced it can kick the other's ass.

The best way to prevent war is through trade. The second best is to make sure both sides engage in "obscene" military production and are evenly matched. Weapons are merely tools. If deployed intelligently, they can be used to mitigate any violent impulses and keep the peace.
"The fact that you can understand this is terrifying; please don't kill us."
I love the pictures in that article. The views of Metsa machine tools creating Metsa machine tools has a real "self replication" feel. Put iron into an engineering shop and out pops a copy of the engineering shop.

Does the Metsa company still exist?
Some engadget reader sent the content of the file with a screenshot. Maybe a hacker's computer not necessarily the hacker's computer. Just to be clear.
I think the right attitude is to have enough humility to ask questions, not to assume enough expertise to give answers.
SMPlayer can search opensubtitles too, it's a GUI frontend to MPlayer which can play every media you throw at it. My other favourite feature in SMPlayer is that it resumes video playback from the position you closed it.
Two things:

1. They're not at all powerless to prevent it.

2. I don't see the attack here. The idea of a man masturbating over an image taken from an underage girl's facebook may give you the willies, but it doesn't actually hurt anyone.
The store isn't actually run by microsoft, but rather Quasar Media. It tarnishes Microsoft's name, but it isn't their fault.

http://www.theverge.com/2012/2/12/2793459/microsoft-store-in...
I'd love to have a chance to see it in action. Many of us here work as engineers. Few of us are likely to be building something like this, a machine that will be able to serve its purpose relatively unmodified for over a century.
Absolutely! The author was very thorough with the change process, which is great, but downtime during ALTER should absolutely be broached as well.

A staging system with a db server provisioned similarly to production lets you "smoke test" the migrations and deploy before you take down prod -- but especially with MySQL, that happily blocks all reads during an ALTER, you should really watch out for any table ~> 1M rows (or if they're wide, even fewer than that).
clued up government agencies don't need to jump through such hoops. they get to warrantlessly wiretap everyone and then get a pass.
I didn't call the Mission safe - please don't be putting words in my mouth. Neither the Mission nor SOMA are good neighborhoods crime-wise, but I'd much rather walk the streets of the Mission if given only one of two choices.

The map bears itself out: http://www.trulia.com/crime/San_Francisco,CA,SoMa/

Somewhat crime-related but non-violent - besides the BART stops general hygiene in the Mission is not bad, whereas most of the main thoroughfares of west SOMA consistent reek of shit and piss.

> "Meanwhile, in the last year there have been multiple assaults, robberies and a few rapes in the part of Mission"

... and there haven't been in SOMA?

In any case, this is all pedantics. San Francisco is overall a crime-ridden city where its monied residents waffle between pretending crime doesn't exist, and mocking people who are concerned about it.
Thanks for looking at this in detail.

If you are right that the price could increase 10 fold without us noticing than the cartel is a brilliant idea since it will get them just under 5 times the amount they would get now.
I would really like to see that. Unfortunately I don't think we have a neighborhood blacksmith. Do you know of any videos on youtube?
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There's one simple reason why Clojure is getting so much momentum: Java.

If it weren't for it sitting on the JVM and having access to all those Java libraries, Clojure would have been dead in the water.
How do you think it will gentrify?

There is already plenty of "legitimate" foot traffic there in the daytime from all the government and government-affiliated offices. That doesn't seem to have helped.

The homeless and addicts congregate there because of a combination of housing policy and placement of social services. As long as those remain, I'm not sure if all the startups of the Bay could displace them.

Note: I'm not advocating removing housing/services for the homeless, but rather that forcibly moving a bunch of startups there will just mean you'll add a lot of startups into the mix of sketchiness. It won't get rid of the sketchiness.
Right, weapons are tools for peace. Of course they are. How ignorant of me.

This type of thinking and other similar viewpoints indicate a strong likelihood of another world war. Realistically, it has probably already started in a way.

Does anyone own a nuclear-proof bomb shelter? Seriously, I am looking for a place to hide.
Ask HN: How to find a reseller for startup?
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Virtually none of the crucial citations on that source seem very reputable; just lots of links to pop-psychology sources, and links to the authors' own books. Very sketchy.
I did this with my logo a while back, going through bunches of fonts... that being said the font selection here is kinda sparse...

Second might be a good one to have a column view of the word(s) in the different faces where you could do a side-by-side comparison and select candidates to look at in larger detail.
one might argue that by not protecting the user's personal data by default, when how to protect such information is quite well known, the vendor and market maker is clearly the liable party
The Mesta Machine Company is now part of WHEMCO - specifically, what used to be Mesta is now WHEMCO Steel Castings Inc.

http://www.whemco.com/whemco_steel_castings.aspx

There's a bit of company history at http://todengine.websitetoolbox.com/post/Mesta-Machine-Compa... .
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> - User experience : DDG is much cleaner than Google.

Well there's still Google's mobile version around to feast your eyes on.
Currently I'm using this to search fast and clean:

<http://www.google.com/pda/search?q=%s&ie=utf-8&oe=ut...;

A big hosts file, privoxy, and Opera's Adblock & Ghostery plugin take care of the rest.
If you use google chrome you can do a faster search by using the omnibox. For example if you want to find a youtube video type youtube.com into the omnibox and then hit 'Tab' then enter the search terms of the video you are looking for and it will automatically point you to the results page of youtube. This works for almost any site that google can find a search box for (wikipedia, ebay, amazon, hacker news, airbnb, etc.) You can also customize this in the settings of chrome if it doesn't find a site you are looking for.
Maybe. But there's a certain amount of risk in two sides pointing loaded guns at each others' heads.

Let's hope trade succeeds.
Since you need an SA account to view this thread, here is a mirror:

http://bit.ly/xUMAup
You are right. Even today "He who tells story best" wins.
There was nothing illegal on them. All of them were very careful to make sure of that.
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So I've worked in an ASP.net environment and I generally hated it, but ...

The overall framework had a lot of features and examples abounded (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff648341.aspx)[2005]. It's very difficult to imagine a company <<skirting around>> the many ASP.net examples in order to store passwords in plaintext. It's astounding to see that Microsoft itself did so... Seems that it says that examples don't actually abound or that the system is so complex that not even Microsoft could understand it.

More likely, Microsoft hired a low-cost contractor to build/manage their Indian site and suffered. Another sign that MS has lost touch.

EDIT: another commenter writes "The store isn't actually run by microsoft, but rather Quasar Media.", so Microsoft outsourced their site...
My father also seems to believe in psychics and that kind of stuff, and i always tried to convince him that it was a scam, but he said that surprisingly many things predicted did happen.

Until one day i realized that maybe one important function of psychics is to provide some kind of hope or give more confidence about the future, especially for people who are not passing trough good times, the problem for me is that i am too skeptical and can't fall into that delusion.
I think you're reading into this what you want to read into this rather than what is actually there. Sure, this is being used to build JSF's, but really it is a romanticization of American production-- an antidote to the "nothing is made here" nonsense that has become popular these days.

Meanwhile, I'm confused why you're so quick to start what will only be an incendiary political discussion that has nothing to do with the article at all. There are probably better forums than HN to post essays about U.S. military and foreign policy.
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I find people with an agenda will do their best to warp anything remotely related to fit & promote said agenda. Man in uniform saved a kitten from a tree? Clearly pro-Iraq war propaganda. Etc.
Was it the Microsoft store or not? If it was an MS store, then it's their fault. The store was branded with the MS brand in order to convey to consumers that the store could be trusted. That Microsoft contracted hosting/development out to a crappy firm is Microsoft's fault not the consumer-who-trusted-their-brand's fault. Users trusted that an Microsoft-branded domain would be kind. Fail.
Who is hiring? (Intern Edition)
I'm sure plenty of HN readers are excellent college students and looking for an exiting position at a small startup and while there are some good resources out there, I thinkthis would be a good opportunity to connect startups and interested interns. I for myself had the great opportunity to work at Apture this past summer and I am looking for a similar experience this semester. I know a lot of us get lured into Google/Amazon etc. with the big bucks (in the end we are all just poor college students), but I'm sure smaller startups can just be as competitive.
Piggy backing off paulhauggis:
How to Make It on Craigslist: http://blog.priceonomics.com/post/16529584021/how-to-make-it...
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3515294
What's this now?
A podcast by Python open-source developer Daniel Greenfeld and Clojure/Ruby open-source developer Andrew Cholakian. Very interesting to hear the differing viewpoints and see where they converge.
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>My father also seems to believe in psychics and that kind of stuff

... totally wishing that you'd read my comment before replying ...
“The Chinese are very good at covering their tracks,” said Scott Aken, a former F.B.I. agent who specialized in counterintelligence and computer intrusion. “In most cases, companies don’t realize they’ve been burned until years later when a foreign competitor puts out their very same product — only they’re making it 30 percent cheaper.”

Isn't cheaper stuff better for consumers in the long run? Besides, how do companies know that their foreign competitors didn't legitimately reverse engineer and/or independently reinvent the product in question, especially if the product comes out years later?
Would you argue this for your desktop or laptop as well? For any breach due to you installing an application from someone who abused your trust to read your files and upload them, that your OS vendor (Microsoft, Apple, your Linux distro, or whatnot) is the liable party?
Apologies. I downvoted you when I was attempting to upvote. I wish I could reverse this.
What do you say to an alien?

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"Nothing to do with the article at all" -- read the last three paragraphs of the article.

I anticipate that there will be many more similar articles and pieces in the coming months and people will suggest that the war was a blessing in disguise because it was the "only thing" that could bring American manufacturing back to life.
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I can relate to the decision Reddit made. Moderating the content on a forum is alot of work and it's frustrating. Eliminating the grey area is probably the safest move (on a legal stand point) although it will create many angry users that feel entitled. Expect mass bannings because users love to rebel then afterwards the inevitable "well you removed this but allow that" arguments.
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It's to take up the rest of the space in the 3D render.

In seriousness, it is an interesting idea by some designers who presumably either didn't understand or didn't care why their imagined implementation was silly or wouldn't work.
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I just switched my search box over to DDG after Google changed something and now the results are clicktrackers instead of actual URLs. They'd done this before but I'd been able to opt out of it by changing my User-agent string.

Wish me luck.
I don't believe Brad Feld has an official role with TechStars besides being a mentor (of which there are dozens). He also wrote a book with TechStars founder David Cohen. His main position is with The Foundry Group. Just FYI. http://www.techstars.com/program/mentors/bfeld/
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I was under the impression that most prolonged conflicts prior to the 20th century involved well-matched opponents: Greek city states, Rome versus Carthage (except possibly the third Carthaginian war), the Three Kingdoms period in China, and practically all of European history post 1648. Then in the twentieth century alone we start with WWI and WWII (the German military did not view the war against the Soviet Union as winnable), and end up with a great number of proxy wars in the mid-East and Asia.

The trade argument is strange considering that the world economy was more tightly integrated in 1914 than it is today. It is probably correct that nuclear weapons exert something of a stabilizing force, although it is disconcerting that the nash equilibrium for games of mutual-assured destruction requires random detonation by both parties in order to demonstrate irrationality and establish deterrence.
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No. See http://members.shaw.ca/jazzace/ace/hoop/rulediff.html for a variety of rule differences. See http://www.raptorsforum.com/f/f6/differences-between-nba-eur... for some more thoughts.
Very neat, but I'd be more worried that the next generation of materials manufacturing - carbon fiber and nanotube looms and autoclaves - will be completely China based.
The kerning needs work. Having a typeface is not the same as having a properly set type.
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A fascinating read.

In Warfighting, the USMC doctrinal manual, there is a discussion of war as a process of seeking out and exploiting weaknesses in the enemy's system.

This press strikes me as such a weakness: it is the only one of its kind in the US, a pretty clear industrial chokepoint. And there are lots of such chokepoints. German military production was stunted during WW2 by the bombing of ball-bearing factories.
What's the favorite color of the entity communicating with us?

This may seem silly, but there are a lot of interesting implications to the answer.

Does the alien have a concept of color? We learn about biology. If we know about their star and habitable zone, we can surmise a lot about not just them but their environment.

We learn something about their aesthetics. Maybe we can't understand them or they are relatable to us.

The point is, ask a question which can provide lots of other info.
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I used DDG for a few weeks and I'm glad I did because I'd forgotten just how good Google is. A few things that DDG made clear was:
1) How useful personalized search actually is. I like that my search engine knows what city I live in so when Googling the name of a restaurant I don't have to include it (that I don't live in an American city might emphasize this).
2) How much speed and responsiveness matter in web design (not to mention autocomplete). Searching google is a much, much smoother experience.

DDG is really good at returning a good result for a really general search term like "C++". However, for me at least, that is an extreme edge case.