skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think "I can single handedly kill all the bad guys with poor aim" is more easily recognized as fiction than "I get to fuck all the girls because that's what studs like me do".

Not sure what else to say other than: Huh?

That doesn't remotely make sense to me. We are talking about kids, not about mental retards in the medical sense, are we?

As a culture, we generally criticize real life violence. The message is fairly clear (ok in fiction, not ok in reality). However, sex is celebrated in real life, meaning it's a lot less black and white deciding what's ok.

Again: Huh?

When reading such arguments I can only wonder what kind of kids the author is around, and whether he has lost all memory of his own youth (sorry, not meant as personal attack).

Obviously a minor below a certain age should not be exposed to either. However, by the teen years, when boys commonly gain access to both and consume large quantities of both, most seem to handle it really well.

Making an artificial distinction there just doesn't make sense to me.

If a kid develops behavioral patterns based on "because that's what studs like me do" (either in a sexual or a violent way) then that kid has deeper problems entirely unrelated to the kind of content that he prefers.
Brandon Bloom here. Glad you liked my post, Jeff!

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A dog dressed as a rabbit
When you are sad or bored, you should see any funny picture like this and I am sure it will make you smile.
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Is it easy to bog down the client with the extra processing?

Sure, if you're not careful; but that's the case w/any language or layer of an application stack. I'd consider becoming familiar w/JavaScript a greater concern though. Learn to avoid JavaScript's foot guns, and use tools like Speed Tracer to help profile your JavaScript.

If it matters, my time tracking and invoicing product uses heavy client side processing, to the point where some of its reports never touch the server. We're seeing response times in the low ten's of milliseconds when relying on JS-only generated reports.
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Depending on how you want to define "open source", they've been doing it for a long time. They often make the source available to look at, but don't permit the creation of derivative works.

That said, one of my the nicer things about developing in .NET is that the library source is so accessible. I can easily step into library code from the debugger if I need to. If I haven't already downloaded the source code for that component then the IDE will automatically grab it for me before stepping in. So for my purposes (just wanting to figure out WTF is happening under the hood), the source code generally feels much more accessible on Microsoft's platform than it does on more orthodox open source ones.
US Supreme Court to revisit "first-sale" copyright doctrine
I think these concerns are vastly overstated, TBQH. The great majority of people seem to have no such issue with their accounts disappearing.

It's one of those exceedingly rare but potentially catastrophic things, kind of like a nuclear reactor meltdown or being struck by lightning.
Wouldn't it be easier to just hire a voice actor or impersonator?
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> In particular, what do you do when you don't have extremely in-demand skills, and cannot readily take the gamble on being back in the market for a new job?
Well, calling 911 uses a line which may in some cases (when the emergency response system is overloaded) prevent someone who is or may become injured from receiving assistance, so in a way you could say Siri is just obeying the first law ;)
Is there a chance we'll know the acquisition price?
In terms of the business side of this, I think many people are missing the potential Google has with integrating this into Google Apps. A very, very large number of businesses use Google Apps for email/calendar.The whole enterprise cloud storage market is very crowded right now, and Google would have a huge advantage in terms of having that initial foot in the door.
Proposed EU law would have hit Google with nearly $1 billion in fines
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The ability to be more productive via automation is a stronger force than the macro-stagnation of the US/Global economy.
I can't write __block without grinding my teeth.
I'm guessing, due to Paul G's awesome track record, that 50% of YC startups will get A rounds (I pulled that number out of the air, someone fact check me).

Not accurate. Out of ~45 companies in the W11 batch I think 4-8 have raised A rounds. There's still time for others, but I don't think there's any way that number will approach 20+.
At least in NYC I believe the startup is expected to pay both sides' legal fees, usually with a cap.
Wow, absolutely love the Paparazzi concept. Have you got more ideas like these?
Thanks! It was mystifying me
why not put a raid file system between the free offerings.

you get a larger total size

faster transfers (ha, like my 6Mbit DSL cares =(

and.... redundancy, which solves the 'everyone scared of the cloud' problem.
Reading the source gives you the confidence to tackle bigger projects. Once you realize what a complete and utter hack job most of the projects you use are it gives you the confidence to just build your own hackjob, or take their project and fix it.

For me the biggest one was an FTP library, all it did was figure out when the server stopped sending data for a particular command and then run a Regex over it, populate an array of objects and return them.

Unread source is like a David Copperfield trick, it's magic, once you read the source and know how it's done the magic is lost and you understand what is really going on behind the hand waving.
I didn't downvote you, thanks for the reply :)
If you look at the distribution of exists/mergers/sales, it is infinitely easier to grow and sell a company for $20-$50m than it is for $100m+. The number of potential buyers rapidly diminishes, once you get into 9 figures, deals get more complex, take longer to execute, and have a higher chance of failing.

Over the past 18 months, I've seen four of my friends "cash in". Most of these guys were at it for 7-10 years before the exit, and all but one of these was a sub-$30m deal.

In order to justify these "NEW" valuations, entrepreneurs & investors have to hold out for VERY high value exits, which will dramatically reduce the chances of success and statistically extend the exit time for the angels and entrepreneurs by over a decade.

For most entrepreneurs who are on their first business, $5m or $10m is a life changing amount of money - by declining exits at prices that could achieve that outcome, they are forced to keep rolling the dice, over and over again, hoping that growth continues, a new competitor doesn't emerge, someone doesn't undercut their pricing, and everything is going at 110%.

It doesn't seem to make sense on the surface of it.
I remember long and fruitless, yet highly enjoyable, arguments with a friend on this one: if we have a constitution but it's not written down anywhere how do we know what it says? If we do know what it says then it can be written down.

If it can't be written down how could it enter as a factor in any legal proceedings?

Worth the paper it's not written on IMO.

A: "You can't do that it flouts the UK constitution"
B: "Oh right, what's the constitution say?"
A: "Well, I can't tell you that ..."
Nobody reads other people's code for fun.

Not true for me. I /love/ reading code from great engineers. I've learned a lot doing so.
I get obsessed with what I'm working on and have to force myself to stop and go home. I leave work and I'm still thinking about what I've left.
Develop Map/Reduce with reduced assumptions
Have you considered running your apps on AppHarbor? That way, you wouldn't have to worry about servers at all. We also have many of the services you use as add-ons: https://appharbor.com/addons
Or at least offer something in between $0 and $100/yr, like 10 GB for $20/yr and 20 GB for $40/yr (same price per GB as the 50 GB plan).
Slightly related, I'm looking for a MVC Node.js framework, that is, one that runs on the server. Does anyobody know one?

Edit: Just got this one from another post on the front-page https://github.com/mde/geddy.
I dunno, last time I talked to a guy at Techland he said it's 8 hours a day unless it's close to release. They have to play games for an hour too.
If you add significant white space while keeping the prefix notation, it kinda looks like python.

https://gist.github.com/2401588
> 6 Paparazzi - Start with a lousy camera, have to take
photos which are graded for score. Get better lenses
and access to better hiding places as level ups.
(This is like a FPS, but with no guns, and with
the enemy on a pre-determined route and with strict
time limits for each level)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pok%C3%A9mon_Snap

Your "tree in the field" idea sounds like something Peter Molyneux might promise ;).
Oh, I see that (Was that an edit?) In that case, you are in a world of shit. You'd the sub in the relationship and you'd either get used to it, or work your ass off after-hours to get skills and experience that make you more marketable. Nothing magic to that equation; plenty of people do it. It's hard, but better than overworking at a sweatshop
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You get my vote, not because I think that is a good idea at all, but I agree that is about the most hilarious thing. Thats got to be Googles end game.
Off topic, I know, but the local library often has a lot of good ebooks + audio books which are mp3 or on CD which you can rip... You probably could get an account with the library where your job is, too, if the rural one is too low-scale.
OMG...Finally arrived,
Perhaps it is not another 20% project that they don't care....
I see this kind of sentiment all the time from people outside the game development industry. Every single time a new graphics card is launched, a new console, a new engine, whatever.

Do people really think that it's a matter of CPU time goes in and intelligence comes out?

People seem to think that if we were not spending so much time on graphics, that we would have amazing AI by now, but it's simply not the case.

The reason we use simple state based AI's for the most part comes down to controllability.

In order to actually design a fun gameplay experience you need to have ways to tweak the AI to behave in the way that the player will find fun. You want to be able to ask "Why did that character not throw a grenade in this situation?", be able to find the answer, and tweak it.

The techniques that come out of AI research don't expose parameters in this form, and so are essentially useless for real game AI.

Probably the biggest CPU use from AI today are perception checks, like can entity X see entity Y from it's location. Checks like these tend to cross cut into engine code and just feed into the very simple state based AI.
Checking out what the competition is doing causes self-imposed filter bubble
When I embark on a new project, I've noticed that if I spend a lot of time checking out what the competition is doing beforehand, my projects end up looking a lot like theirs. When I push forward on projects without doing much research ahead of time, those projects tend to be more creative and original -- not necessarily better, just ending up with a wider spectrum of results from awesome to awful. My results for well-researched projects tend to be middle-of-the-road.
I also toyed with my own Lisp[1] a few weeks ago, after being inspired by Peter Norvig's Lispy[2].
It's an interpreter though, and written in C++. I mixed together features from different languages (eager/lazy evaluation, call-by-value/reference, macros). It was very instructive and a lot of fun!

[1] https://github.com/apresta/lime

[2] http://norvig.com/lispy.html
True, everyone has something to hide. My point was that if the manager/company interviewing me want's me to show them everything by asking for my login/pwd's they should be willing to provide me with the same out of mutual respect when I ask. If they are willing to ask me to provide that personal detail yet are not willing to reciprocate (on both the managerial and company level) , what does that tell me about the value they place on their employees? Our relationship is already getting off to a poor start.

I'm all with you when you suggest that people stop working for unethical/abusive companies. One way to figure out how much they value their employees is during the interview process when you have the chance to ask them smart questions. Employment is a two way street and the more tools employees have to make it an equal give/take relationship the better for all.
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Backblaze works well, too. I never buy anything from Apple, is Match more elegant than Amazon's Cloud Player / Drive?
Running .NET is even simpler if you just use AppHarbor, no need to configure, update and maintain servers at all.
Makes sense, there's no one answer to my question, because there are so many variables involved. So, it will take trying them out and of course it will depend on my needs. It may even make sense to do server side on some parts of the site and client side on others. I like the idea of being less constrained to my backend technology, which is what attracts me to JS MVC. I also like how concise Backbone.js is, it doesn't seem to try to do too much.
Because you don't want to be the asshole that did not put enough hour, and did drive the project in a wall. Not that it was going anywhere else...
Here's a great video of Salman Khan explaining that segment of the teacher dashboard at TED. It's a great perspective on learning and (in the context of the topic I wrote about) failure.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v...
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Asked myself the same question. 95% of the "article" is a quote from Sheryl Sandberg's interview.
"the fucking Games"

That has a great ring to it. Perhaps everyone wishing to refer to the games without being sued should adopt it.
Yes, it's just business. I agree that you shouldn't ascribe the emotion of "love" to Microsoft, or any large corporation. But in the same vein, I don't think it's fair to equate them with a "junky giving free dope samples to kids".
Universal patterns for color identification and consensus
Long term, I think having a solid grounding in (to continue your example) real world compiler infrastructure and the ability to fix bugs in your tool chain is going to "help" you an awful lot more than getting whatever instantaneous problem you have fixed.

I mean, sure: for everyone there are some problems that are so obscure as to be near-impossible. But if you go through life always deferring those solutions (by calling tech support, or giving up, or playing voodoo games until the problem goes away), that set of problems will never shrink. You'll end your career, broadly, just as incompetently as you started it.

If, on the other hand, you make a practice of always digging for bugs, even across library boundaries into "other people's" code, you'll find over time that things like compiler bugs stop looking so scary.
This has been noted before. I have seen a couple proposals to add significant whitespace to Scheme which I can't remember the details for offhand, and I believe was also the basis for the Pliant language's syntax.
Sorry, I didn't mean to attack him personally but tried to point out the reasons that I suspect behind this kind of lazy arguing.

These "belly-opinions" are very widespread, a more verbose description would have been: "I can't give exact reasons for my opinion but it feels like that's what my parents|peer-group|church|society|... would agree with".

I felt that the verbose version would have been even less polite.. but oh well.
edit: It appears I was simply misinformed or working with old information. I had been told at one point in time that Win8 would absolutely not receive dropbox functionality via SkyDrive. This article implies differently.
Out of curiosity, how does the process of publicizing acquisition prices tend to work? Is a price shared only when it's seen as a positive signal for one of the companies?
If a project's success is hinging on its developers' willingness to lose valuable personal time for it, those companies better start coughing up equity.
I think most people are in the same boat with you. When you are young you tend to push close up to the stage or jump into the thick of things, maybe because you like mosh pits.

When you get older it's all about going to hear how well the band performs live and enjoy a tasty adult beverage. Most entertainment venues I visit now I end up standing toward the back.
If you have multiple google accounts, do they suspend them as well? If you link them in your gmail I'd imagine it's easy to auto-detect. But this could be a way to be sure your files are safe on one account when other service activity inadvertently suspends your account.
I think headline should read "... to work 9-5 schedule", no?
last one I've seen was at least 5 years ago and even then it wasn't a big deal
Interesting that all of these points apply equally to Exec (a ycombinator startup), but everybody had nothing but praise for them.
Of course, once everyone does that, that just puts pressure on our jobs. Even for things that seem a mile away--a maid or a gas station attendant--as they move into something white collar, that puts pressure on existing lower-level white collar workers, who in turn respond by doing the same thing.

For any suggestion that fixing something socially is equivalent to fixing it for an individual, you've got to ask yourself: what happens when everyone does it? Otherwise it's just a pleasant-sounding nostrum.
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Have you considered AppHarbor as a faster-turnaround alternative to Azure? https://appharbor.com/
Do you know a good method of going about this? Thunderbird's backup utility (syncing to Gmail, downloading, then saving the thunderbird app data locally) is broken. Each backup / restore via TBird lost another ~350 emails.
"Frighteningly Ambitious" has become the new "A Modest Proposal."

Originality is a rare and ephemeral fruit.
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I'm glad you enjoyed it. Took several weeks to program and render. Getting the atmosphere for Venus and Mars to be so close to photo-realistic was tricky.

I wasn't happy with the way I phrased that line. The dates represent the time at which two planets are at their periapsis (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apsis). This significantly reduces the time to travel between two planets. For the gas giants, this happens once every 172 years (http://tinyurl.com/d6r3rnn).

This is first shown at 3:15 when the date flips from 2153-02-27 to 2154-06-16, which marks the closest date that Mars and Jupiter approach each other. Voyager spacecraft were launched to take advantage of this relatively short distance.

The video is a small part of a longer video I had envisioned to excite kids about space exploration:

https://github.com/thangalin/flyby/wiki/_pages
The average commute is 2.5 hours/week (about 30 minutes/day, both ways).

http://www.bls.gov/news.release/atus.t01.htm

(Compute "Working and work related activities" - "Working", but that's actually an overestimate, since there are more work related activities than travel.)
I leave at 4pm.. but I get in at 7am. Generally I get a good 3-4 hours of quiet work done before everyone else shows up.
Ritz, 4k coder. But you probably knew that already.

Is it true what you said in the other thread, all the Dutch sceners are unemployed? :) Something in the drinking water at Bizarre, perhaps? :)

My releases: http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=343
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=291
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=332
http://pouet.net/prod.php?which=333 (You might need one of those DOSbox tools to get sound or to run at all though. They were targeted at Win98/2k, Meuk completely stopped working with XP)
Maybe Kickstarter would be the next step for you. You'll need a nice designer and maybe even a video. But if you get traction you can go about recruiting the necessary parts to make this a reality.
didn't everyone store passwords in plaintext at some point of their career? your argument is pretty weak and didn't invalidate their claims that .NET is just as good as open source Linux stack when it comes to scalability.
I think an ambition programming language idea would be a general purpose language that actually did math correctly without kludges. Even with large number support, math in most major languages is incorrect by default.

Text should not be considered different data types either, nor have different ways of referencing it that don't convey anything but language specific ideas.

Programming languages should also understand multiple human languages and be able to translate between them without problems.

Programming languages in sort should be human languages.
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This all makes sense if one starts from the presumption that the seller has actually done something wrong.

In any other circumstance, this is actually a middleman marketplace exercising termination powers without so much as an explanation.

Nobody's saying that's wrong. If you read carefully, what poster actually said was "diversity, because otherwise you are at risk of sudden shut-off."

Speaking as someone who had something like this happen with their Google AdWords account a decade ago, I must be clear: observing that Amazon is competing with Nordstrom does not make it less frustrating for someone who has not done anything wrong, cannot get an explanation, and has lost a significant revenue stream.

For me, the worst part of it wasn't the loss. The worst part of it was then - and remains now - being completely clueless about what actually happened.

Please consider being more sympathetic. This guy just took a hard cross to the jaw, and from his viewpoint, is encouraging people in a productive and respectful way not to put all their eggs into a single basket, using his own experience as a case example.
You're welcome, and just as a point of interest, I do know you didn't downvote me, because you can't downvote replies to your own submissions.
Yeah, agreed.

Writing good source code despite not liking to read source is about as likely as writing a great novel despite not liking books.

And like reading books, it only became enjoyable when you reach a level of fluency. Sadly lots of developers never get there, and so they go through convolutions to avoid reading code.
Atwood wrote: "The idea that you'd settle down in a deep leather chair with your smoking jacket and a snifter of brandy for a fine evening of reading through someone else's code is absurd."

Not so absurd, really. Reading well-written source code is a great way to learn the finer points of the art of programming; it's not just for fixing bugs. In fact, entire books have been published that consist of annotated source code, the most famous probably being Lions' Commentary on Unix and Knuth's "TeX: The Program".
Hm, how is that generally valuable to know? Maybe in certain use cases but for us that would just be noise.