skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm seeing a lot of negativity here that I don't understand. The post seemed fairly well-reasoned and reasonable; the objections seem to assume that the content of the objection should be obvious. It's not obvious to me---C++ is not a superset of C, and hasn't been for some time now, although there remains a lot of overlap and cross-pollination. So why shouldn't a C++ compiler decide to just be a C++ compiler?
I think to get a good experience with Unity you have to try it on dedicated hardware. I initially tried it on VirtualBox (I don't know how well 3D is supported in VMWare, but GPU support isn't great on VirtualBox for me) and it was a terrible experience. But installing it on a separate partition, the experience was much more fluid, and enjoyable. There are some frustrating aspects, but overall, I think it's an innovative project. They have definitely done some things that Windows or OS X could imitate (and are imitating).
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That would probably violate the terms of the broadband ISP service contract. No doubt people do this all the time and get away with it, but that doesn't mean the big guys wouldn't go ahead and enforce it in situations where it really matters.
Valid strategy does not ensure success.
I like forums and community discussion, I just don't like the forum software widely used. phpBB and similar are a colossal step backward from what we had before (USENET).

HN is better software than any forum-type software I've seen, but isn't used anywhere else.

Reddit might be the second best, but despite trying many times, I really can't get into it, even with subreddits.
OK I meant when it started
Well, they do have a method, it's just that the method is "defraud suckers who think they can make millions in their spare time".
Lying on SEC filings should get you imprisoned.

This costs me a lot of money, and I don't want to give free money to people just because they are dishonest. Ban the guy from being the CEO or a board member of a publicly traded company for 10 years. Inexpensive and an appropriate punishment for the crime.

Let's reserve prison for people that absolutely cannot integrate with normal society.
I had the same problem as #6 too (Heroku forcing you to install psycopg2 even though you're using a different database). The reason for this is because Heroku post-deploy script reads the DATABASE_URL config variable (which defaults to Heroku's Postgres shared database) and inserts it automatically to your Django database settings.

If you want to use a different database and not want to be forced to install pyscopg2, what you have to do is change that DATABASE_URL variable to something that corresponds to your database, and Heroku will act accordingly.
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I think this is bullshit. Google search of "is the game called world of tanks?" only pulls up this one page. If it was some kind of viral spam campaign, more people would be discussing it in forums.

It's not spam. It's a misdirected email.

Either way, actual spammers should never be praised. If it was legitimately spam, then I wouldn't be impressed.

From the web site contact page of the original article, the author has email address "ericzliu on gmail". I can see how that could easily receive a mistyped email.
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Or, the head of admissions at MIT:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-04-26-mit-admiss...

No question she was good at her job, but it's a real problem when you're in charge of any kind of hiring to ask your applicants to be honest if you're not honest yourself.
But neither GCC nor Clang support Microsoft's debug symbols as far as I'm aware. If you're writing libraries for Win32, your users are likely using Visual Studio and they're going to get unhelpful stack traces without those debug symbol files.
Given how long this has been a problem, it would be interesting to look back through access logs to find attempts to use this.
That's hilariously shitty.

Although to be honest I doubt it's going to affect anyone as I reckon 99%+ are on mod_php.
SlideShare + LinkedIn = More Value for Professionals
anybody understood what rubymotion offers over the standard macruby?
edit: got it, static compile and no gc
Thanks. I look forward to checking out your project.
Here is a video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=653Ger80ros

It is absolutely astounding for 1987. I guess that out of an SGI IRIS nothing could achieve anything similar back then.
Freezing liquids help to predict properties of prime numbers
This article seems like pointless MPAA-baiting. We already knew they didn't like P2P and anything that enables it.
I just became aware of the CalTech course. I will likely check it out, although I will stay with the Stanford course for the time being.
Mille, i.e. Latin for a thousand. Thus MM = 1000 x 1000 = 1,000,000.

I rarely see MM used to denote a million outside the financial world. I have never seen a job, for example listing remuneration as "circa 120M" meaning 120,000
Your site is too wide. Fix that before you show it to any users.
On second thought, I will recommend a book called "The Tipping Point", which is not about going viral per se but does analyze what amounts to the same idea for a variety of phenomenon.

Best of luck.

Edit: linky to online summary: http://www.wikisummaries.org/The_Tipping_Point
It's not MPAA-baiting. It's HN-baiting, and TechDirt are getting very good at it.
Maybe not of the birthmark on your ass, but photos alone (without accompanying identifiers) are not protected as PII under US law.
... in a decade. Hopefully.
They are going to conform to a standard. The C++11 standard. Conforming to the later C standards and the C++11 standard would be incompatible goals.
Huh. I'd used that method of passing in parameters, mistakenly thinking it was the correct way to get a query string.

Then I asked on SO and found out I was doing things horribly, horribly wrong.
On (not) having heros in life
Easy picasa viewer
I made this picasa viewer for my parents and grandparents who was having difficulty navigating to different picasa albums between family members.
I believe double majors do not functionally require as much due to a greater chance of being able to double-count a class. Also, a double major typically means you get one diploma that lists your two majors. A double degree means that you get two physically separate diplomas. This may matter to someone.

Of course, I may be compeletely wrong with respect to the OP's university.
Another nail in the 'dry Mars' hypothesis. Fascinating stuff of course, it will get really interesting when Curiosity gets there. Looking forward to that!
Sure, few things are purchased simply to possess them. The difference is murky, yes. Mulling over it, the line seems to fall somewhere between luxury 'upgrades' to things you already have, vs. inexpensive tools that enable things you couldn't do before.
maybe the article is a stealth ad for world of tanks :)
For starters,

1. Diggnation was the flagship and highest rated show for much of rev3's life.

2. All of the founders were full-time employees of Digg when they were working on Rev3. In fact, at least one of them has publicly stated that Rev3 would not exist if it hadn't been for the digg salaries.
Given his penchant for patent trolling I would have figured him for a law degree.
Good point. Is it possible or probable that under IPv6, we could each have a "static IP for life"? Not that I'd necessarily want that...
Close. Lots of other companies were also hiring pretty high tier talent as well, and had intense focus. Google's success came down to effectively executing across typically disparate disciplines. You have hard core research level CS eggheads, you have top tier software engineers, and you have state of the art data center operations. In a typical organization these groups have competing interests, they fight amongst themselves and in the end some sort of compromise is reached that allows everyone to grudgingly get along.

At google these three groups worked hand in hand and complemented each other's work. The eggheads came up with page rank, the coders figured out how to make pagerank scale through massive paralellism via sharding and mapreduce, and the data center folks figured out how to make sharding cheap and fast through commodity pc based servers and massive amounts of automation for management. In the end everyone was working at the top of their game to help everyone else. The result was that google was able to deliver better results (pagerank) faster (mapreduce) and cheaper (automated commodity hardware datacenters) than the competition.

There were lots of other fine details that led to google's success, but in the end those core factors are what allowed them to deliver a better search experience to users (better/faster) and to be more competitive in the marketplace (lower cost per search means more profit even with lower per search ad revenue).

No one else in search was pushing on all the right pressure points the way google was, and the rest is history.
Congrats to team SlideShare. Good product!

Wondering whats the goal of LinkedIn for this acquisition? It is not a people acquisition. And SlideShare is already integrated with LinkedIn's platform. So I'm curious!
UK's Serious Organised Crime Agency's website taken offline after DDoS attack
You can drop the colon. I'm not even sure if it would work with the colon.
I don't know what the cash/stock split was, but it's worth mentioning the LinkedIn's IPO raised $352M* so buying SlideShare was just under 34% of all the money they raised.

* http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-05-18/linkedin-raises-352...
All you'll be doing then is turning him into a high-priced industry consultant or public speaker. Not that prison always prevents that (See: Michael Milken) but it at least puts the brakes on it for a few years.
My understanding of Xserve was that it was less "server space" and more back-office. I know the back office runs on servers, but server-space makes me think of racks of machines in a big server room or data center. I always felt Xserve was just targeting small offices (design companies and the like) that were already apple shops, rather than serious "grown up" servers.
45% cash, 55% stock according to LinkedIn press release: http://press.linkedin.com/node/1191
Yes, that's what I came here to post...

That actually happens sometimes. Someone used my email when registering for an online store, and now I get mail receipts for everything he buys. The thing is there's no way I can contact him. I tried contacting the store, but they didn't do anything about it either, so I just created a mail filter and got on with life.

I guess the real lesson in my case is: always validate your user's email address by sending it a confirmation link (by t he way, I think people using giant regexps to validate mail are missing the point). I see the point in letting the user log in right away (as soon as an email address and password are provided), but I think there still should be a confirmation email and the system should not send any email to unconfirmed addresses.
Follow your intuition, look at the data, fail often
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so, we need a mac for this. right?
You're not clearing any misconceptions, you're making them. It would take a lot of research and work to discover what a "good district" is, while in western Europe you can just send your kids to school and not worry about it. Lots of states don't have any good districts at all.

Healthcare paid for by the company is the stupidest thing ever. The company is trying to save money and having them pay for health care means (a) you have little or no choice of what provider they choose and (b) you cannot be without a job ever due to the insane exposure that would put you and your family under and keeping the insurance plan you had with your employer will usually be prohibitively expensive.

Many employers just give you "catastrophic" coverage which will leave you with something like a $10k deductible (I'm serious) and if you do manage to go over that expect to take the company to court for not paying. Anecdotal but I only know two people who tested this (I'm one of them) and in both cases the insurance companies refused to pay. I sued them to get my bills paid. The other guy wasn't so lucky. Shame, he would have retired by 40 if it weren't for a surprise illness.

You can't "always" take non paid vacation. In many companies if you do that make sure you take all your stuff with you and polish your resume before you leave.

2x the salary? Not where I live. I'm above all but a Facebook/Google salary (but those are within view) and I don't know what 3/4 the social benefits you're talking about are. The US has worse roads, hostile public services (e.g. DMV, police, etc.), a horrible health care system and poor worker protections (compared to Europe). Could you break down your social benefits because I literally cannot imagine what you could possibly mean with this.
Maybe it isn't a problem, but actually something that makes her good at her job? I'd trust a long-time liar to recognize other liars better than an honest person, any day.
Or you could view it as an enabler to get support for PHP and/or Ruby. No Light Table, no possibility for support ;).
You might want to see the article I linked to below. There's probably a little more going on than that, especially whether or not they can get Google to join their "six strikes" plan.

Note that Google is one of the few companies which might actually be plotting to roll out a nationwide ISP sometime soon. Sure, they might have other plans, but owning an ISP could give them important leverage, especially when ISP/content owners are considering ways to use their ISPs to favor their other lines of business.
Most definitely true, but do you believe we are currently at the forefront of scientific exploration as we have been for the past few decades? I believe a shift has occurred, we are still the 800 pound gorilla but in 50 years, that may be a different picture. That's what I care about, the fact that our lead is waning and we're not doing much about.

If we were truly still leading the way, the supercollider we had plans for that was 3 times as powerful as the LHC would've been funded, in the 70-80's. I can't argue that point effectively though because I have read that project was plagued with issues and most likely wouldn't have been an effective use of funds, but we could've focused on fixing those issues or finding a scaled back project instead of letting it die, and leaving it to the EU.
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How soon do you think, before Google's fiber begins to get accidentally severed in shared conduit spaces?
Just fine the equivalent of their combined earnings(salary, bonus, and any stock options) for the years that they lied on SEC forms. The people don't have to spend money in taxes imprisoning them, and it provides enough deterrence to just not do it.
From the corporation's point of view, it would pay as an investment in deterrence. Companies fight money-losing legal battles all the time because they don't want to open the floodgates to thousands of others doing the same thing.
I can assure you that our problem isn't that we don't know how to redirect users to the correct URL :)
Background of Lotus chief under fire
As an xmonad user the single window mode is a godsend.
You may be right in general, but I remember they made a big deal about large server clusters and big-iron, bioinformatics stuff for a while.
WePay, Driven by Social Sharing, Raises $10M
Not really, I think these authors are just idiots trying to gain readership.
Whatever you think of HUD, Unity, Ubuntu TV, Ubuntu on Android you have to admire someone pursuing a vision.
Makes you wonder about the evolutionary pressures at the top of the corporate food chain, doesn't it?
cocos2d is writen in Objective-C so in principle it should be compatible with RubyMotion. Not so sure about the ARC integration (last time I've checked cocos2d was only "ARC compatible"). I've seen some work arounds using a cocos2d as a static library (no ARC enabled) linked with a main Objective-C application that uses ARC. It should work ... but I can't give you a final answer.
If you want objective c syntax and behaviour surely you'd just use objective c?
Exactly, it's the lie that's bad. If he had not added on CS most likely he still would have gotten the job. I would bet he was just keeping up a lie he started earlier in his career.
It seems like a strategic acquisition. LinkedIn looks poised to be expanding more into business operations/communications, especially given their previous acquisition of CardMunch. I can definitely see them trying to position themselves as an indispensable communication tool for industry and business professionals.
I'm not convinced that horrifically fugly scraper site knows anything about "web design" - other than how to steal content
You always were one of my favorite students.
Those complex entity structures are usually done for tax or accounting purposes rather than to evade liability, although that can sometimes be an added benefit.
Outdoor Fitness Equipment is Generating Electricity
JVM bytecode parsing monad
Stranger things have happened, but I'm not sure a golden parachute would deploy if he's indicted by the SEC.
Anyone know why FB isn't doing something like Google's OpenIPO for their IPO?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenIPO
That's because the distro developers think they stink. Have a search around mailing lists on marc.info and you will see.

Ubuntu represents a very politicised and marketed view of what Linux should look like. You should expect nothing more from Shuttleworth. Everyone else is much more conservative and wants to find a consensus rather than forcing a viewpoint on the world.

Forcing a viewpoint worked for Apple with OSX and iOS and will work for Microsoft with Metro but it won't cut it in a highly divided market with no foot in the door.

Would they add value?

For technical users, when we have an advanced web browser and a terminal at hand, there is no need for the rest of the stuff. It gets in the way.

For business users, they care about consistency. Canonical never delivered that and shows no sign of it.

For end users, the market is owned by Apple, Microsoft and Google.

There is pretty much no place for Unity.
Does anyone have an example site to see this in action?
That is what I was thinking. Clearly the email isn't really spam or a lot of people would have received it. But the blog entry is getting hits, and that is getting the name of the game out. So next step would be to see if Eric was working as a viral marketing consultant :-)
The "dry Mars" hypothesis has been dead for decades. At this point we have about as much evidence for water on Mars as we have for water on Earth.

The media is always keen on every new "omg, there was once water on Mars" discovery, but we've moved on to trying to figure out the details; where, when, how much, where did it go?
Kazaa tried to do that. IIRC, so did Grokster, Morpheus, Limewire, BearShare and other P2P services. Look at how it turned out for them...
Joy of an internal speaker
I have great difficulty with the idea of hiring someone who says they will under no conditions work more than 40 hours a week. That won't work in a situation where we are all working together as a team to achieve something worthy of achieving. I don't hire people by the hour; I hire them to accomplish things.

TL;DR If you want to punch out when the clock strikes 5, get a job in Detroit.
How would supporting both C++ and C standards be incompatible ? Every other major C/C++ compiler can do it (intel, clang, gcc, sun studio, etc…). Implementing most of the C99 features is ridiculously easy compared to C++11 (C-compatible complex numbers, C99 semantics for inline, etc…).

The sheer amount of code that can be compiled on every platform but VS because of this is very significant, especially open source ones. I have a hard time buying the resource reason to be honest.
> That's a bit like saying, "Remove the concept of putting on running shoes and warming up and only require that I run a marathon and I'm FAR quicker."

It's not at all like saying that. Feel free to keep your words out of my mouth :)

> ...is insignificant compared to the time it takes to learn Cocoa.

I see you've changed from using the word "easy" to the word "learn." That's a step in the right direction :)

Though, we are not comparing the time it takes to learn Cocoa vs. Objective-C. That was NOT the crux of my comment. Again, you're missing the point (you seem to be very talented at this).

The comparison is with Ruby ;)
> If he's lying about this, how are shareholders supposed to trust the rest of the SEC filings he signs off on as CEO?

I'm not sure how I feel about statements like this. On the one hand, yes, you probably do not want such a brazen liar leading your company. But on the other hand, we as a society tend to believe in a dangerously inaccurate theory of character. Namely, that people are either inherently moral or they aren't. Liars or truth-tellers. Good or evil.

In reality, life isn't so simple. Studies have shown that when people are faced with moral dilemmas, situational factors play a larger role than "character". Obviously we all know people who are relatively upstanding. But when it comes down to it, it's not that difficult to put them into a situation where they'll be willing to lie, cheat, or steal. You just need the right combination environmental factors, and they don't even have to be that extreme. It's basic stuff like incentives (which in the CEO world includes million dollar bonuses), chances of getting caught, harshness of punishment, etc.

Long-story short, if we really care about improving behavior, we should stop looking for signals of "trustworthiness". Instead, we should just assume that everyone is capable of lying, whether they've been caught lying before or not. And we should engineer a system that removes incentives for cheating + makes it more difficult to do so.