skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe it would require a little less energy, if instead of generating our own neutrinos, we modulated the neutrinos that go throught the Earth from sun - no nuclear reactor required, "just" a huge fast moving lead block :)

EDIT: also - what happens, when neutrino passes event horizon? Because maybe we could modulate neutrinos stream using very small black holes :)
After my roommates pre-ordering it for my Christmas gift back in _2010_, glad to see this thing is finally launching.
When your email client wants to be able to post as you on your Facebook wall, that's never a good thing.
Can you provide some reasoning for why this is necessarily the case?
If we're talking drip coffee, the cheapest I've seen is about $1 at Dunkin Donuts.
Translation: being supportive of Israel, his country of origin, is unfortunate?

And what does this have to do with his merits as a computer scientist, which is the main subject under discussion.
All Doctors treating the average american say to eat better, exercise more, and get more sleep. The only difference is when people don't do these things they still get better with "Western medicine" vs. blaming the patent.
Going through Adwords support is like going through a black hole - here's an idea: create a new domain name, and use a credit card with a different name, and see what happens. I think they might even have banned your domain entirely.
Neither do I... and I think people will disagree on this. Programmers like being able to make strict rules for stuff, but I think that this is one of those "you know it when you see it" moments.

And to make it more complicated - I don't necessarily think that it is up to the person to decide. Unfortunately, to some degree, the public gets a say.
If we're compiling to bytecode there is no need to minify.
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"At the foot of the end wall of the big barn, where the Seven Commandments were written, there lay a ladder broken in two pieces. Squealer, temporarily stunned, was sprawling beside it, and near at hand there lay a lantern, a paint-brush, and an overturned pot of white paint."
Please note the person who works 8 hours a day sincerely is getting what he is supposed to get.

Also the person who works for 8 hrs + x hrs is getting what he is supposed to get.

If you are saying despite working for ( 8 + x ) hrs he must not get anything extra or he and the guy who works for 8 hrs must both get the same, defeats the very laws of karma.

Besides, The 8 hrs guy has a problem only if gets into comparisons with the ( 8 + x ) hours guy.

The expectation that one must get paid the same but do little work compared to somebody else generally makes a classic case when the individual blames others for merely being lucky for the comparative success.
The bug in this post is thinking that if you have someone willing to contribute feature X to an open source project, they were also available to contribute feature Y.

Open source patches are all itch-scratchings. For Scala macros, it's a researcher at EPFL, I believe. I don't think you could write a thesis about fixing bugs in the IDE. So this contributor was not available to submit IDE bugfixes; they _were_ available to submit macros.

It's the same for other contributors. Someone building an app on Scala may be available to submit a fix for some scalability issue they are hitting in production; they will not be available to work on macros, or on IDE bugfixes.

Open source projects get the fixes they get. You can't act like the priorities are set by some central product manager.

So I think it's just not correct to argue that "the priorities are wrong, why are they doing this instead of that, etc." - everyone is doing what matters to them.
Some people _are_ working on IDE bugfixes, other people are working on macros. People can do what they want.
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It depends on what is meant by "failure" and by "acceptance".

I guess some people need simplistic slogans/mantras to get motivated. At one start-up I worked in, the founder frequently ended his emails with the phrase "Failure is NOT an option!" Well, obviously, it was "an option" because that is exactly what happened to the start-up (if you define "failure" as no longer existing). On the other hand, everyone had a great time, learned a lot, and are or will use the experience of "the failure" to succeed in another context in the future.

I generally don't have a problem with such slogans-- whatever floats your boat is fine for me. But for heaven's sake, please don't put it on a T-shirt and expect your employees to wear it proudly, it is embarrassing to folks who take a pragmatic point of view.
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I flagged your post, and since you're relatively new here, I figured I should explain why. Simply, no good discussion will happen based on your comment. It will devolve into a political discussion, which while important, is not relevant to the purpose of this site. I specifically flagged your post instead of downvoting it so that the entire discussion about the award and his contributions are not derailed.
Someone was scanning for a crazy backdoor, using this: /?dgd=1. Try searching for /?dgd=1 or "/?dgd=1" (with or without verbatim on).

You are going to get results about:

dgd-1
dgd 1
d g d 1
dgd#1
dgd (1
I disagree. I think they understand it perfectly well. They just don't like it.
As I understand, the free Precheck program is invite-only for frequent fliers, but you can sneak into Precheck if you're a Global Entry program member, which you can apply for online for $100.

> To qualify, frequent fliers must meet undisclosed TSA criteria and get invited in by the airlines. There is also a backdoor in. Approved travelers who are in the U.S. Customs and Border Protection's "Global Entry" program can transfer into Precheck using their Global Entry number.
No, he told the story of coming up with Ruby in 1993 during a Dreamforce conference presumably in 2011/2.
>"I think reporting about _why is fair game, _why was a public figure. I think hunting down the man who created _why is intrusive and is at the level of a paparazzo, invading the privacy of a person who from the outset was clear about separating the two."

Sorry, but I find that rediculous. If Brian Warner kills someone, or James Osterburg overdoses that is not appropriate for public news because they did it under their private personas? Or can Brittney Spears claim that she has two different personas that both just happen to be named "Brittney Spears"?

Frankly, as I see it, once you develop a reputation based on name in a wider community you are now a public figure regardless under which persona you'd like to hide.
Not really. HTML would remain HTML. We're talking about JavaScript, and that is already minified (and sometimes obfuscated) beyond recognisability for a human.

I'd be curious to hear what kind of optimisations become unavailable.
I agree. Good thing he's okay.
This article reminded me of this J.J. Abrams' talk at TED - http://www.ted.com/talks/j_j_abrams_mystery_box.html
So this game loaded up, and here are my thoughts: (thanks for the promo code)

1.) I like the idea of a game to check Twitter. I didnt like the idea at first, but only hitting star tiles to show tweets is pretty interesting.

2.) Movements are very fluid. The slow-down effect when a Tweet shows up is just great.

3.) Have you considered as levels advance, to incorporate multiple retro-styled games? Maybe asteroids after 5 levels, etc? Of course this would require a great deal more development, but done in the same style - it would give significant reason to play the game to the end (and keep discovering hidden games)

4.) The bit graphics are done quite a bit now, and overdone in some cases. Yours are good, but I think they could be sharpened up a bit, especially for a retina display. Pixels are great, but there is a healthy blend of using colors that pop with pixel graphics (see League of Evil).

Overall, awesome job.
Interesting way of having a twitter feed.

I understand that the concept is around collecting all the tweets.

Just my thoughts:

- The tweet block can be an avatar image of the person who tweeted

- If the tweet has a photo, maybe the background of the play area can change to that
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"Online Only" sucks. No LAN and no mods make me a sad boy.
Thank you for responding. Now that I reflect on it, I guess it’s a little like sales. There are some salespeople whose persistence crosses deep into “intrusive” territory, and others who are polite to the point of deference, and every variation in between.

Unless you’re at one end or the other, there will always be many people who agree with your choice and some number of people who disagree with your choice. If we look, we can probably find people who wish you would have done an ‘ambush interview' with a video camera.

This time, I happen to be one of the people who didn’t agree. The next time I read an article of yours, I might be one of the ones who agrees or even wishes you were more forceful.

But I did like the article and thank you for writing it. Also, thanks again for your polite reply.
> 4. no endless variants of latte, mocha and what have you

That sounds awesome. I can't even count the number of times I've waited for some goofball's complex six-word drink to be made so I can give the cashier $2 and get a cup in return. (Most places around here sell you the cup and you pour your own coffee from a vacuum pot.)
A couple of seconds is too long. I run a small test suite in a couple of microsecs every time I save a file, and save my file at every change. When a task is done I run all the tests.
I always imagine that if it is data-driven I won't be able to control the looks exactly, and then maybe writing my own graph with Raphael is easier. Anyone can comment on how you control how you display stuff?
>Your repeated emails and messages left for him obviously informed him. We’ll have to agree to disagree about what constitutes responsible journalism with respect to “trying to interview him.”

Journalists are used to having to do real legwork for fact checking and interviewing. Hell, I'm willing to bet that on a daily basis more hoops have to be jumped through to finally contact someone who is ready and willing to be interviewed.

As far as "obviously informed him", obvious to whom? Someone who doesn't know if their messages have gotten through to the guy or are waiting in an inbox somewhere only to be read after the writer's deadline? You know what would have made it obvious? Relaying back a simple "no comment" message to acknowledge that contact had been made. Otherwise the reporter doesn't really know.
Then you must agree that the workers at my local restaurant, where water is available for free, are infinitely more efficient than the workers at fuji bottled water plant.
I am super excited for this, but a little disappointed that Blizzard apparently doesn't understand exchange rates.

The Australian dollar is currently worth (marginally) more than the US Dollar, and yet the game costs an extra $20 here. I don't understand how this is justifiable.
The terrorists were not the jokers. Jokers are supposed to destroy everything without restraint, these guys were trying to defend (the best defense is a good offense) themselves from an empire. The irony is that the defectors (terrorists) are an offshoot of the original defectors (military-industrial complex).

So who are the jokers in this picture? The socially excluded psychopaths and sociopaths who sit in prison. I think that the proportion of real jokers (completely destructive agents) is extremely small and their effect is vastly overstated. I think that in real life, significant jokers tend to be forces of nature like hurricanes and tsunamis, not people.
This is the best answer I have heard so far.

So as long as you are happy with whatever you do, you are the happiest man in the universe.

And I have no problems with this.

I have problems with people who stop other people from working hard, just because they don't want to.
I find it highly likely that _why is still among us.
But that's exactly what most software patents are, they don't really patent how to do something but cover the outcome or the concept.

For instance, if someone invents a machine that takes a chunk of wood and makes a toy piano out of it can get a patent on the device. But someone else can invent a completely different, or even possibly slightly different, device that creates a similar toy piano and not infringe on the patent. But if it worked like software patents then it would be illegal for anyone to build little toy pianos, regardless of how, that are similar to the first patent on the concept.

As an example, Apple has a patent on slide-to-unlock on a predetermined path. This means that no one can create a slide-to-unlock on their system even it has completely different code, graphics, design, etc, if the thing slides to unlock on a path. Apple owns the "concept" of sliding something along a predefined path for the purpose of unlocking a device.

Even worse, I'm not sure such patents even say how it's done. It's like having a patent on a box with a button that pops out cupcakes when said button is pressed and declaring that no one ever again shall make a box that pops out cupcakes. Without ever having to bother to explain how said box works.
Yes, the ownership and pride aspect is probably a big part of it. I'd guess you can see the same thing with craftsmen.

Regardless though, something feels very wrong about working very hard on something that can provide a huge monetary gain for your superiors, with the very real risk that you might not get anything in return. I operate (and have always operated, due to the horror stories I've heard) the same way you seem to do now: Do nothing but what's expected of you for the company, and only do more than what you're paid for if you've got leverage to actually be compensated for the real effort that you put in.

Computer people are, by and large, way too weak in exerting their rights. Whenever I hear a story of a nerd getting screwed over in a negotiation or liquidity event, I think of a small, weak kid getting his lunch money taken by a bully and not having any power to do anything about it. We're grownups and we have a lot of tools at our disposal to push back against injustices like these. It's like Nassim Nicholas Taleb said - sometimes you just need to sue someone. It's a matter of respect.
Testing is like jumping in cool water, one find so many reason to not do it beforewards, but one is so happy to have done it afterwards...
We don't need another language in the browser. We need a VM in the browser. As in byte codes. That way ANY language can be used. JS gets compiled down to a VM and then that is run in most implementations of JS. Why can't we just target that VM directly and use our own tools and compilers instead of being forced to compile it to javascript?
This is true provided you have to master the instrument. Not when you compose music. They are two different things.

Typing is not the same as programing. I learned to type real fast long back. But I'm still learning the art of programming.
Starbucks was doing this long before there were Apple stores.
Not only is this highway robbery, but it also reveals the fundamental unsoundness of the TSA's airport screening philosophy.

Essentially, this program sends the following message: that a metal detector and commonsense analysis are sufficient for security purposes. If they didn't truly believe that, they wouldn't be offering it as an option. Clearly it's considered viable, and that fact alone negates the supposed necessity or benefit of the bodyscanners, the shoe-and-belt removal, the "enhanced" patdowns, and so forth.

The fundamental problem with the TSA's approach is that it's inherently reactionary and unstrategic. Terrorists try X, so let's design a countermeasure for X and subject everyone to it. Hey, now terrorists have tried Y instead of X. Let's build for Y! Terrorists are now trying Z, instead of X or Y? Crap, how'd they think of that? Better restrict Z, too. And on and on the game goes, with no rational end in sight.

Of course, the TSA counterargument here would be "...but 9/11 happened with the old system in place!!!11!" True. But, as we've seen, 9/11 was not a failure of screening technology. It was an analytical and personnel failure. If we're going to invest as heavily as we are in the TSA, then let's invest in selecting, training, and paying better people.
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Also, if we could just modulate the entire Sun, we'd have a very effective cross-galactic communication device.
Flush a toilet and cool Google’s data center
Oh, they're fiendish indeed. They're offering the game for free if you sign up for a year of WoW. That's just mean.

I managed to abstain from that, but I did pre-buy and pre-load the game. I was just so excited they had Mac support (which, last I'd heard, was sort of up in the air I thought).
Macros are useful in Scala. Mostly not for application developers, but for library or framework developers. It enables you to do things while keeping the typesafety nature that makes Scala so great.

In Play, we have generated code for forms validation and json serialization. This enables the compiler to see code that can't work, while a more dynamic approach would lead to an exception at runtime.
I figured most folks knew that Google doesn't support arbitrary punctuation/strings. Do any search engines? I tried bing and duckduckgo and got nothing.

Don't get me wrong, I'm sure the quality folks would love to be able to support searching the web for arbitrary strings... but that's not something any search engine can provide right now, is it? It's orders of magnitude harder than current web search offerings.
There are tons of developers jobs in U.K., companies always seem to be on the look out.
Related: http://deltacloud.apache.org/
Knowing when to work, when and how to rest is the key.

Besides you can train your biological cycle to do wonders.
wouldn't that be an easy prior art win?
I wasn't meant to be something you sign, but that smells like an idea in its incubation period ... a website where you could go & sign the "Gentleman's agreement". Hmmm ...
Quite the opposite. With D3 you control the structure of the DOM (hence data-driven documents) directly. Data-driven refers to the declarative method in which you generate or update the document from data, not the end result. Unlike Raphaël and other graphics libraries that introduce new forms of visual representation, with D3 you use SVG, CSS and HTML.
It has a "checked mode" and an unchecked mode, but they recommend the checks be disabled in production. The unchecked mode is actually called "production mode" in a lot of their documentation, including the language spec. (See the section on "types".)
Not like we should
No, they understand perfectly.
I appreciate having the Paypal option. Many big retailers have it. That way, I don't have to fetch my wallet, just simply do the Paypal login and the deal is sealed.
This kind of thing happens all the time in the scientific instrument market as well. In some cases it's justified - many instruments/sensors have near endless customization options. But much of the time I've been asked to call for a quote even for simple things like industrial sensors. I can understand not having an exact price, but it seems like in this day and age it's shooting yourself in the foot not to have some kind of ball park price listed online. I know I personally just go to another supplier's website if at all possible rather than filling out a quote request form or calling...
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Very interesting article, quite honest and straightforward.

I'd like to see counterpoints to this experience, if possible.
on FF and Chrome nightly (and possibly others), click-holding the wheel and dragging is pretty broken or doesn't work at all. it's cool but not very usable, IMO.
Does anyone else find the deletion of the infosuicide Wikipedia entry linked to in the article as deliciously ironic as I do? Which is a bit sad, because I'd never heard the term before, even though I have been online long enough to participate in my own infosuicide from time to time.
I prefer to custom build deb packages (on Ubuntu myself) using a project called brew2deb:

https://github.com/tmm1/brew2deb

It provides a DSL for describing how to build and package something, including patching, and already has a nginx formula:

https://github.com/tmm1/brew2deb/blob/master/packages/nginx/...

Will likely be adding in this patch today...
There's a tremendous amount of pressure to becoming well-known. Musicians self destruct under it. Movie stars' private lives blow up. I can totally understand how a super talented but sensitive dude might want to maintain a pseudonym to deflect this pressure.

While I still wish he were around (in a public sense), because he was a big part of why I jumped into the Ruby community, I don't agree with hunting him down. Ultimately he's a typical human being with some big talents and shortcomings.

_why, if you're out there, thanks. Wish I could buy you a beer.
That's a great pricing model!
Yes this is true, and you would be definitely helping a lot of people.

One of my long term goals is contribute to a open source community.
> My estimate is that 98% of all programming everywhere is as algorithmically trivial as calculating a weighted modulo 11 checksum - probably more so - and it acquires its bugginess from accidental complexity due to poor factoring, and from conflicts at interfaces.

I think it depends a lot on your field.

If you're working in a field that is mostly databases and UI code, with a typical schema and most user interaction done via forms and maybe the occasional dashboard-type graphic, then 98% might even be conservative.

On the other hand, if you're doing some serious data munging within your code, 98% could be off by an order of magnitude. That work might be number crunching in the core of a mathematical modelling application, more advanced UI such as parsing a written language or rendering a complex visualisation, other I/O with non-trivial data processing like encryption, compression or multimedia encoding, and no doubt many other fields too.

Generalising from one person's individual experience is always dangerous in programming. I've noticed that developers who come from the DB/business apps world often underestimate how many other programming fields there are. Meanwhile, programmers who delight in mathematical intricacies and low-level hackery often forget that most widely-used practical applications, at least outside of embedded code, are basically a database with some sort of UI on top. And no, the irony that I have just generalised from my own personal experience is not lost on me. :-)

This can lead to awkward situations where practical problems that are faced all the time by one group are casually dismissed by another group as a situation you should never be in that is obviously due to some sort of bad design or newbie programmer error. I'm pretty sure a lot of the more-heat-than-light discussions that surround controversial processes like TDD ultimately come down to people with very different backgrounds making very different assumptions.
If you're rich, you get a better car too. Not really the same thing.

You don't have a constitutional right to fly on an airplane.

You ARE supposed to be protected from unreasonable searches though. If $100 means that you no longer need to be frisked/scanned, when then that kinda proves that those are unreasonable searches, they certainly are unnecessary.
From: http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/CScopeAndEmacs

ascope is an improvement over xcscope that runs all queries through a single cscope process, instead of starting a new process and reloading the database for each query. It was made by Staton Sun as a merge between xscope and another single-process interface, bscope