skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Plus ctags isn't really that smart, or you can say the way it is used. For example I have a struct "foo" that has different independent declarations in several files in my source tree. Whenever, I would try to open that tag, list of all tags would show up regardless the files included in the current source files. This is quite irritating.

Another not-so-smart feature is auto completion (in C++ at least) and refactoring.

However I can live with these missing features as once you get used to something like Vim or Emacs, its quite frustrating to work on bloated IDE's.
I'm not sure what to make of Apple only asking for .apple. Do they just not think this is worth getting into (I'd agree with that) OR have they been the most sneaky and used some shells to hide their other applications. I assumed they'd at least want to throw they hat into the ring for .app or .cloud or .book.

I'm also concerned about the gTLDs that are file extensions. I think that could be confusing at best... and a disaster as worst.
If somebody (Google) doesn't want to sell the domain is because they have a good use for it (probably trademark protection). These cases are rare compared to the number of parked domains that only have the "for sale" sign on them. If the squatter would not have taken it then it would've been available for $10, not $10K.
And that only considers accidentally taking them out of context. As the quote from Richelieu goes, "If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him."
Irritatingly, now no longer responding.

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I agree with x1 that you should start with whatever will keep you going. If the command line appeals to you, check out Zed Shaw's "Learn C the Hard Way." It is not at all sans dev tools, but it will have you using sophisticated CLI tools rather than a GUI. I have found it to be a good fit for me personally, and I suspect I'm not alone.
There is no .ay domain.
Ask HN: Solid Mobile Analytics Software?
Looking for a solution that will work on both iOS and Android. What has worked for you?
the python ws benchmark uses gevent with ws4py, it's also asynchronous - do you expect twisted to outperform gevent? why?
How about a guru code that represents all the version/component information of the running instance? One could use such a code to get a delta from a web site or via an admin utility.
Usually its in plain sight ... try something that affects you daily.

For me its paying bills ... it sucks, so now im building something to make it suck less.

When I built my last house I also found things that sucked like components for hanging tvs on the wall. I wanted a junction box that was interchangeable and could work specifically for each tv, so I made that too.

There are probably hundreds of thousands of valuable things no one has executed well on yet, it does not mean no one has tried and just because someone has tried and failed it does not mean it is less valuable either.
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Of course. But one environment scales and the other doesn't. A IDE user who only knows how to modify projects by adding files and clicking checkboxes for optimization settings will do that for the rest of their career. A CLI user who needs to edit makefiles will eventually have a vastly more powerful tool in the shed.
Tons... look at the ASUS Transformer and Slider. Devices like that can't exist in iOS properly.
I wish I could put this comment to the top of the page. How many TLD/ccTLDs are there already? The primary interest being served here would seem to be ICANN's. As a user, I may well register some of these new domains, but I'm kind of looking at it sidewise atm.

What value does it bring? Just more dilution of the already huge namespace for the most part.
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No, it's in black text (or would be, if the server hadn't fallen over -- I really need to go with a static blogging system).
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Thanks! I was just going to do that.
I remember reading this in 1997:

Richard Stallman: The Right to Read

http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html

Then, most of what we already live now was only a science fiction. There were no chips that can prevent you from installing your own kernel. Well they are going to be sold soon, together with Windows 8:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unified_Extensible_Firmware_Int...

"In December 2011, Microsoft released a document about hardware certification of OEM products, Windows Hardware Certification Requirements[57] which confirms that they intend to ban the possibility of installing alternative operating systems on ARM-based devices running Windows 8. The document insists that they will require x86 and x86-64 devices to have the Secure UEFI enabled. They allow for the possibility that a custom secure boot mode could be enabled providing to the user the ability to add signatures. However, they intend that going to custom secure boot mode or disabling secure boot mode on ARM devices will not be compatible with running Windows.[53 "Microsoft confirms UEFI fears, locks down ARM devices - SFLC Blog - Software Freedom Law Center". Softwarefreedom.org. 2012-01-12. Retrieved 2012-03-06."

There's already a hardware in production that will make impossible installing something else on the device, even if you have an access to the debugger -- on the technical level even a step beyond of the Stallman's dystopia of 1997.
The conclusion is that government statistical work should be limited to exclude data that is sensitive. For example, French law prevents the collection and processing of sensitive information on individuals where sensitive is defined as "the person’s racial or ethnic origins,
political, philosophical or religious views, and trade-union membership, health and sexual life"
I am not sure exactly what the problem is. I keep running into bugs, bugs that are so obvious that shows that they make zero testing on the open source release. There is no usable code documentation and they no longer have a forum.

I'm testing adzerk now, its a hosted solution free for 1mil impressions per month. So far so good but time will tell.
"Not sure if possible, but they should have a rule where a single person can only own X domains."

Domains can be owned by companies and other entities. So there would be nothing to prevent someone from forming different entities and owning domains.

And in any case you are talking about a system that is grandfathered. You're not going to re-write the rules for millions of existing domain owners at this point.
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So if I owned example.org, but example.com is used by a squatter -- assuming example is a specific, trademarkable name -- are you saying I could get the .com via UDRP? Have there been cases where this worked?
> To be clear, your phrasing seems to present this as a novel
> approach, though it is not.

Obviously, the idea of a strategy game[a] in a browser is as old as web browsers themselves. I even played a few in the mid-2000s.[b] There's lots of them, written in PHP, and with a fairly static experience.[c] There's a reason, though, that when asked for my inspirations, I'll name desktop games like Civilization II rather than browser games.

The novel thing isn't the idea, it's the opportunity that HTML 5 gives for the execution of the idea. I'm not original. I'm just lucky enough to be at the right place and the right time. My particular execution of the ultimately older-than-computers[1] idea is possible only because of <canvas>.[d]

Digital portable media players existed as far back as 1979 and MP3 players go back to about 1997,[2] but the iPod didn't take off until 2005.[3] It's possible to have the right idea, but years too early and with poor execution.[e]

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[a] Don't just limit it to space. There's plenty of non-space ones, too! There's usually not that big of a difference in how a browser game is played based on the setting.

[b] My observation in footnote a of my previous post that a once-a-day refresh would stress the server is something I experienced in one of the games I played.

[c] Many of them are better than anything Zynga has written, though.

[d] My game was originally going to be a desktop game. That's not very interesting compared to the challenge of doing it in HTML 5 and JavaScript.

[e] The poor execution is often due to being years (or decades) too early.

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[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Board_game

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Media_Player

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ipod_sales_per_quarter.sv...
I'm not sure I agree with you assertion. John Carmack is a notable college dropout who has been working on space travel.

Capital is the only thing holding anyone back from working on those things. The reason you may see more scientists and engineers having access to the necessary capital is because they generally have that extra special drive to focus on that subject matter which excites investors to bring forth the money to make it happen. Someone with the same drive, but without a degree, will probably go just as far – they are a very rare breed though.

Any random person who wants to just start a business, any business, can go to the coffee shop and start working away. They don't need capital from anyone. That is why people working on big problems are few and far between. You have to really want to work on space travel, or whatever, to put forth the extra effort to find the already rare investors.
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> "They were coming at it from this big science, super practical, scalable angle. They were saying, 'We want to get into the multi-billion-dollar meat industry with a plant-based meat.'

show us the science. (anyone who fucking links me to documentaries, and non-cited articles/studies, i'll fucking punch them in the face)
The ATLAS detector on a Smartphone
Everyone,

Thanks for the concern.

we are aware of the situation and have stopped anonymous posting to the site for now so we can at least fac the task of cleanup,we are cleaning it as fast as we can while doing a thousand other things preparing for the re-launch of the site towards the end of this month. It is unfortunate that we will have to eliminate anonymous posting in the future until we find a sustainable way to automate as much of the moderation process as possible.

Sadly, a lot of the spam has been done by registered users with, well, fake accounts, we are eliminating those as well but as you can see from the sheer amount of spam, it would require a full time post just to keep it clean, let alone doing proper moderation of legit comments.

Please know that we do continuously work on the site and although we have limited resources, we are working as hard as we can and the new site functionality will hopefully be evidence of that.

Antonio Acuña
Head of Data.gov.uk
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Close but not quite - it's a fungus ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusarium_venenatum ).

Since fungi have been around for a very, very long time they have a lot of genetic variation - it's not that close to mushrooms, not even the same phylum as the common mushrooms ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agaricus_bisporus ).
My experience with the iPad 3 is kind of the opposite. Initially, I was floored by how great the display looked (for text, especially), but now, I hardly notice it. That being said, I haven't really spent enough time with previous iPads to compare. I strongly prefer reading on the iPad over reading on the crappy monitor I have at home, but the beauty of the text is only part of the reason for that.
As quickly as you can turn your back on Visual Studio. (Sorry, just kidding ... sort of.) Eclipse and NetBeans are a couple IDEs (there are others) that use a module system to build what can appear to be a monolith. Look into OSGi which is an attempt to standardize modularizing GUIs. Of course, I haven't run these tools on 500k lines of C++ just half that of java code. P.S. I used "find . -name \*.java | xargs cat | wc -l" to count the lines of java code. I did not use the IDE for that, giggle.
By your account, you took 5-6 years to learn CouchDB, XMPP and Erlang. That is a very far cry from learning a new programming language every 3 months.
The bulk of your logic makes sense, besides depending on taking "privacy is an inalienable right" as a premise. However, on a practical level...

"Because we're better than that"

In order to fight a war[0] from a "better than that" position, you have to have vastly greater power, enough to compensate for the hobbles you put on yourself to remain "better". Otherwise, whoever fights dirtiest wins. When people are trying to kill us, how do we make up for not listening to them, without letting people die?

[0] In a loose sense. Terrorists try to kill us, and the only way to stop them is with force. A lot of the same principles apply.
Relationship with my commenters always been an issue for me when I've considered Disqus.

I'm sure I'm not the only site owner who requires real names and cultivates community among his commenters.

Having said that, Disqus looks like an excellent solution for the vast majority of sites, where the quality of the comments and sense of community is very low indeed.
Given that the thread pertained to college interns, I thought it would have validated my experience >:(
This has a come up a couple of times, but I'll bring it up specificially:

"... the action they took hurts people. "

Yes and no. So my experience has been with VLC and App in the app store where the question of its 'open sourceness' came up and Apple removed it from the App store. I have it, I got it when it was there, and its still on my iPad, sync after sync, upgrade after upgrade, even from one device to another. It didn't go away and Apple didn't 'forward delete' it from my device. I suppose they could but they did not. Its not clear at all that they have made any move to delete anyone's SfY app either, they removed it and new users can't down load it, and the SfY gals get no revenue because it isn't being sold. So it hurts people who don't yet have it, and it hurts the SfY folks who might need that revenue to pursue their legal case, but it won't 'silence' Maya if here parents back up her iPad AFAICT. None of the articles linked mention that Maya's version of the App is in danger of being deleted, and it shouldn't be. Even if you buy a patent infringing device, the manufacturer can be banned from selling them but they cannot be forced to take yours back and destroy it.
I am surprised that this subject is so hard to grasp. The core of this issue is not about privacy. The core issue is about giving a small group too much power.

Giving one organization too much power in a society is bad for long term health of that society. If you want your children to grow up in a healthy society it's on your shoulders to fight laws that give organizations too much power.

By giving the government unlimited access to our privacy it gives the government great amounts of power.

Historically when an organization (such as a governments, FBI (J. Edgar Hoover), Churches, etc) have been given large amounts of power it has quickly lead to a spiral of corruption and destruction of morality and societal values.

If some one tells you:

"If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear."

Tell them:

"I want you to sign over all of your assets to
a government official of my choice. If you
trust the government, you've got nothing to fear."

The "If you've got nothing to hide, you've got nothing to fear." statement is analogous to a lover, locking a bomb to your neck and telling you "If you don't plan on hurting me, then you have nothing to fear". The desire for this kind of power over some one is clinically insane. The desire to have this kind of power over our citizens by politicians is just as clinically insane. It will destroy our society.
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This is interesting. Having not had to sign many NDAs (thankfully) I'm not sure that's a large enough slice to pay for the development of a cool tool for negotiation. There are lots of people selling boiler-plate NDAs that seem to work for most people, but if you could create a platform for contract negotiations... that sounds like a winner to my non-lawyer ears.
did I miss something or the methodology lacks a warm up step?

What I mean is, I'd expect a first run of 5 mins to warm up the servers, than another one to actually get the data.

Otherwise, while averages will be mostly the same, numbers like the dropped connections _could_ be misleading.
Not if Apple starts selling macs with secure boot permanently enabled. Which I wouldn't be very surprised about.
No, they didn't. Also, these are just applications, not registrations. Nothing is finalized yet.
It's too late for .com but for the new batch they could've done something to at least try to address the problem.
I don't understand the WHOLE 1.5lb complaining.. Since when are men(and ladies) such wimps. If you want a strong machine, be a bit stronger yourself.
However, Emacs still holds on to all the unique ITS key combos, which is why I always hit ^W and wonder why that word didn't get deleted.

There's a public access ITS system over in Sweden, or you can grab an emulator and run it yourself. I recommend trying it just so you can see how Emacs and Info have remained essentially the same (RMS's sad devotion to that ancient religion, etc)
http://contractual.ly/ aims to streamline signing of forms, as well as negotiating contracts. NDAs among them.

I don't see how you would be rich just focusing on NDAs... I lived in Silicon Valley for six years and I think I maybe signed three or four. It's not exactly the next iPod.
"In this much-discussed subject, I'm surprised that two huge points never arise"

Actually those points come up in pretty much every book about privacy. Your first point is heavily discussed in Jeffrey Rosen's book The Unwanted Gaze, and your second point is sort of the point of Bruce Schneier's book Beyond Fear. See also any of Daniel Solove's books.
"If they keep facebook centered on the costumer, the young people dont migrate to cooler spaces and don´t get lost too much trying to monetize, I think they will be around for quite some time. It is also true that right now it is maybe on its peak of popularity and public exposure, and its user numbers will be lower or at least growing more slowly."

I think you've mixed up the product for the customer. The users are NOT their customers.
Why is this free? I'd love to use it, but am worried about the seemingly lack of a sustainable business model (read: if a free service is shutdown, the people using it are boned).

Love the idea, though.
An analogy I always like to use is: would you object to a team visiting your home, searching through all your physical and electronic belongings and then replacing everything exactly as they found it?
It bothers me when people equate the right of privacy (i.e. the right to be let alone) with a perceived right of seclusion (i.e. a perceived right to not be seen/heard/disturbed by others). The disconcerting reality is that privacy is far more encompassing.

Privacy isn't just about freedom from unwanted attention. It's about your right to remain free of unwanted intrusions in your life. Privacy law protects a woman's choice to terminate an unwanted pregnancy, a homosexual male's choice to privately engage in sodomy with the consent of another, and a heterosexual couple's choice concerning the use of contraception for non-procreative sex. Privacy also protects your right to refuse medical attention for yourself and, in some jurisdictions, on behalf of your minor children. It additionally applies to a family's choices in rearing their children: the right to privacy protects a family's choice of religion, meals to eat, whether to participate in religion, etc.

When people claim that they don't mind putatively invidious legislation because they have "nothing to hide," they are doing an enormous disservice to privacy law. They might as well say: "We don't mind the government acting as our (family's) autopilot."
That cost them roughly $57M. Holy crap that seems like a lot of money. On top of that, every one of those applications seems to be from a different LLC (the names are nonsensical and look generated from a small list of words). The additional cost in setting up and managing that many shell companies... crazy.
You believe that text as a universal interface isn't a good design principle because it doesn't reflect how other UIs, built upon completely different principles, behave? Is it not possible that it remains a good principle that WIMP GUIs simply do not adhere to? (Also related, "everything is a file.")
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That is a true and good observation. Much depends on those kinds of people and those kinds of motivations.

But there are also the priests and doctors, from whom we reasonably do not expect to hear "this is all about my interest, what's in it for me?" And likewise there are many enterprises where people are doing them for reasons which do not relate to turning a profit, a category which a great deal of valuable open source development falls into.
I guess I'll stop writing my own kernel. There are other things I want to do in the next 73,000 years.
Readability cancels failed payment system
Haha, no, but it's a start.
How does ctags do when a variable name is repeated in a different scope? I do rather wish for a really good vim type replacement for the editor in NetBeans though. I keep inadvertently entering vim motion commands in my java text - sigh.
"If somebody (Google) doesn't want to sell the domain is because they have a good use for it"

So you are saying that google can have a "good" use for a domain and speculating "probably trademark protection". Actually the domain that I am referring to was from a company that they acquired that was shut down. And no they don't have a good use for it. They told me that. They just don't care. It is of no benefit to the decision maker to sell the domain. He won't get the money. So why not hold on to it in case they have a use in 10 years? (And all the evidence points in that direction). Additionally: In the case of this particular domain they simply don't want what they feel is a potential competitor to get the domain.

"If the squatter would not have taken it then it would've been available for $10"

Absolutely positively the biggest myth out there. Simply not the way any market works. That a domain that you want would be there for you when you want it. Emphasis: You. Not that someone with another idea would have gotten it first and you'd have to convince them to sell.
Yes that was rather my point to the glib "don't eat anything your grandmother wouldn't recognise"!

My dear old grandmother never saw Tiramasu, Sushi or a Lobster (at least on a plate) and wouldn't recognise it as food. However some of the stuff she did eat - urgghhhh !
Thanks!

I also just realized that my second version, which was free, but ad-supported, probably entitled those 300 users to free upgrades forever.

The current version has an unlimited, ad-supported trial, or you can pay $0.99 to get rid of the ads.
Simply setting links as nofollow and using a simple captcha would eliminate most of the problem.
> "cracked" is a bit of a stretch, isn't it?

It's not a stretch of anything because it's not in any way, shape or form a qualifier for the case at hand but an example used in making the case for "gatekeepers" acting without court orders if they believe that is for the best of their keep.
By what mechanism? Capturing and stripping the glucose before it's digested naturally? Seems a bit roundabout since the weight we want to lose (primarily fat) is really just an energy store in the body in the first place.
So why does France work?

By the way, is it really true that France works (or that America works)?
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