skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it was sort of a perfect storm of a couple things. General dislike of mandates, especially from the DoD.

It's Pascal like syntax. In the 80's there was a very real Pascal vs. C war, literally based upon "BEGIN" and "END" being too verbose compared to "{" and "}" argued by guys with 300bps modems and crap like that. Pascal got an unfair bad rap. Ada looks an awful lot like it though.

Then C, especially old school C can almost be converted into assembly by YACC without a real compiler. While it's very hard to make a good or great C compiler, it's not hard to just make a C compiler. Ada came with a much larger library and then, if I'm not mistaken, there was a certification process to make sure your Ada was really "Ada" and that was fairly pricey.

It's worth a look if you're doing some kinds of green field development, the GNU Ada compiler is pretty good. I think there was a plan for like an eclipse plugin too.
You never checked that, because the system is too opaque to check.

Another anecdote: I have three credit cards that I use for various things (recurring payments, real-life purchases, online purchases) and I pay them in full every month. I have a very high credit score. The credit card issuers are making plenty of money off of me; they get 4% of everything I buy.

(Why do I use credit cards? One, convenience. Two, it's an abstraction layer over my own money. If someone mistakenly charges my credit card, they've stolen the bank's money, which the bank will really want to get back. If someone mistakenly debits my checking account, well, so much for paying rent this month...)
Not at all. I work in software engineering and project management and was the anti-fanboy for years. What changed my mind was actually giving the Macbook a thorough test drive. I have all SSDs on all my PCs at home, and the Apple still bests them easily. The Retina display is more than just high-resolution, its crisp and clear like nothing I have seen before. Doing web development work, its definitely a great thing to have.

As for the cooling system the laptop is dead quiet and the sound is far, far better than the "Beats" audio in any of my new PCs. My late 2011 model HP DV6t quad (Sandy Bridge) sounds like a jet taking off at higher workloads, the trackpad drivers are garbage, and the "full HD" anti-glare screen (which I paid extra for) looks like absolute crap compared to the MacBook's Retina display. Its the little things that Apple pays attention to that matter whereas the "traditional" PC makers are content pushing out mass produced mediocre machines.

Like I said, I have multiple PCs at home and have been working with Windows and Linux my entire career in enterprise software engineering.
> Contrary to the portrayal of mental health professionals in the piece, these people are intelligent well-meaning individuals who are severely over-burdened and undervalued (A masters-level social worker starts out making $12/hr). Combined with the absurdity of state laws and general ignorance in most communities, it's a wonder that anyone gets treated at all.

As far as I can see the article only mentions the actions of the social workers. It makes no mention of their intelligence or (lack of) well-meaning. (As an aside: "I only meant well" is an extremely effective shield against criticism and anyone who uses it should be distrusted. Also, even a truly well-meaning individual can do a lot of harm.)

In what way are social workers undervalued? Apparently they can't get anything done due to the laws. How would they get more done if we paid them more?
"A startup is jumping off a cliff and figuring out how to build a plane on your way down."

Suicide, then?
All those grocery store loyalty programs...they are already spying on you. And since the data is there, it's a nice asset to sell quietly to somebody else who could make use of it, like insurance companies. It's not a stretch because the data has been collected for years and nobody cares.
How can i promote ParentalFlux.com ? Google Ads ?
The NodeJS weakness that's too obvious to say
I think OSM will gain even more momentum as new open source tools to trace arieal satellite imagery before more abundant. IMHO, the future belongs to a curated crowd source content.
Yes, I know there are areas/countries which are poorly mapped in Google Maps (as your example of Srajevo clearly shows). But generally I've found OSM much worse than Google Maps.

Regarding Dublin - your link has missing POI info, don't know why. Here's a screenshot directly from google maps page: http://cl.ly/1H2r0X2I1U2O3F0j0X2U
Are you taking into account tax/VAT on the logged-in vs incognito views?
Easy solution. I simply deleted my LinkedIn account. :-)

Not sure how that would have affected existing sessions.
From Bedrooms to Billions: UK gaming industry in the Thatcher era
TSA says it's working to improve poor reputation
Alright, seeing a Jeremy Clarkson quote in a macbook review link is unexpected.

Actually though he's a good analogue to Jobs in some ways. I'm thinking back to his review of the Ford GT where he trashed it entirely, and ended up buying one. I don't always agree with Clarkson, but he is normally up front with his biases.
I agree, if we stick to "most new features", which I think was the unstated meaning.

However, I like my iphone 4 post-keynote as much as I did pre-keynote. Which is to say, quite a lot.
For heaven's sake, atleast put an intro to your site in your homepage.

There are zillions of social networking sites on the net. Last thing a person would want to do is, join another social networking site.

Yes, you might have put in some amount of work in this. But that is not enough reason for me to trust my data with you. You are asking too much info without giving me anything special in return.
My personal details are precious to me. I am not here to give them to you for free so you can monetise it using ads. What do you offer in return?

Think!!!
Funny enough I just tested it out - it seems to be using a different type of serif font, or it's just smaller.

Either way, I can adjust it (and I'm kinda dumb to not have noticed it before) so there goes the differentiation I guess?
Yep! It's actually an available book regardless, and the price didn't seem to change for either one regardless of logged in or logged out.

Just two different publishers with the same book. A tad frustrating, but oh well.
You're conflating 2 unrelated issues here. It's not okay for the United States government to request (secretly) for a private enterprise to engage in acts that are detrimental to an individual or business because the United States is unable to do anything themselves within the law, however I don't see how the action taken against Wikileaks has any relevance to the action taken against this business. What indication is there that the US requested this?
Actually, yes you can, as long as your Mac supports multiple external displays.

The only thing you can't do is plug a mini-displayport adapter directly into a Thunderbolt display. But, strangly, you can chain, say, a hard drive to a Thunderbolt display, and then plug the mini-displayport adapter into the hard drive, and that will work.

http://www.macworld.com/article/1162365/first_look_apple_thu...
I would buy it with cash too ;-)
If you really want to differentiate yourselves, allow users to post their decks on THEIR web pages instead of forcing users to your site. THIS would be a value many would pay for.

One other thing. I asked my tech-not-so-savvy wife to watch it, and her issue was the frame that said "this deck took 4 days...".

"FOUR DAYS!!!" she cried... forget it. Perhaps you should frame that "frame" better. How long does a deck take to make from start to finish? What's the tech level required?

Ideally, a deck should be able to be made from scratch in minutes.
Windows 7 sold 600 million copies. There's your motivation to create Windows 8 apps.

Edit: plus, if you're already on a .NET codebase, you can target all of those platforms with minimal fuss (and more).
GAE is for "big boy" apps not projects for hobbyists. The pricing reflects that.
I'm fairly certain that LinkedIn has little or no regard for user privacy and security. Why do I say this? Even as early as 2007, I noticed that LinkedIn displayed 3 rotating links to people I might be 'interested' in connecting with. And among names of people I knew well, one or two names repeatedly popped up that were vaguely familiar, but they were neither friends nor friends of friends (as far as I knew). Then it dawned on me -- one of those vaguely familiar names is a person living halfway around the world whom I've never met except for the email inquiry he made to a mailing list and his followup to my response. The only way LinkedIn (or any real person) could think that we had any sort of affinity is if they read that singular email thread in my email. Yes, my email+password combo for LinkedIn was my email+password combo for my email.

So LinkedIn was snooping in my email, for which they would needed to have saved my password in plaintext (or equivalent) somewhere.

If I needed further proof, after my changing my email addr that I used to login to LinkedIn, I stopped getting those invasive people suggestions. I then googled (again, back in 2007) about LinkedIn and snooping in people's email accounts, and an interview with the CEO had a brief mention of it, where the CEO flatly denied any sort of privacy breach.

I think we need to supersede the commentary of LinkedIn's incompetent handling of security and privacy (which they spectacularly proved already) with the idea that not only do they not give a flip, but they want to keep it that way for their own maximum benefit.
How good can a 99€ Android 4 tablet be?
It's hard to tell if the author's explanation is reasonable, because he doesn't explain what part the code was found on, who found it, what other markings might be on that or other parts, etc. I wonder why he doesn't tell us any of these things? Seems like basic journalism.
This is a limitation of Apple's Thunderbolt display, not Thunderbolt itself.

Thunderbolt is designed to allow displayport at the end of a chain. For some reason, Apple chose not to support connecting a displayport adapter directly to a Thunderbolt display, but you can put a daisy-chained device in-between your Thunderbolt display and your displayport display, and it will work.
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Thanks, the server is slowly recovering again. :-) Mirko.
Video game consoles are possibly the worst, as it is extremely important that one's fourteenth birthday present be the correct one.

Meanwhile, phones are relatively cheap and disposable, so I agree the holy war is a mystery to me to. Perhaps its the same 14 year olds as with the consoles.
15 minutes is ridiculously fun, and about average.

My "450" sized quadcopter (4x 10" rotors) gets about 13-15 minutes with about 150g payload on top of the 3.3Ah 3S battery. I carry a GoPro Hero HD camera sans waterproof case combined with a video transmitter and 15 minutes of first-person flying can be quite rewarding and almost tiring at times, especially in exciting environments (between trees, etc.).

I'd strongly recommend picking up a MultiWii board and a cheap transmitter and parts from HobbyKing and trying it out - learning to fly isn't too difficult since they stabilize themselves, and starting out will cost less than $500.

Watch out though - it's addictive!
Sure, but there are two types of game developers: those using high-performance Win32 native code game engines and everyone else. Everyone else is mostly using Java or Flash or something specific to iOS or Android.

So Microsoft has shut out the Win32 native code developers from the WP7 and mobile platforms by more or less requiring all apps be developed according to Metro specifications.

All the other developers will need to be given a reason to rewrite their app for managed code (i.e. C#) for Metro. The only real reason for professionals to undertake such a task is potential revenue, which isn't there until the users materialize.
Hear hear. It's a dismissive and flippant assertion of the kind made by a people who deservedly feel guilty. The "chemical castration" was an option created by people who were clearly willing to do worse. No doubt the behavior of the Cambridge Five created a climate justifying suspicion by "the type so inclined".
>so if you wanted to test in Safari you had to have a Mac.

There has been a Windows port of Safari for awhile so that point isn't correct unless you meant that you couldn't test Safari/Mac unless you had a Mac.
Total BS Craig... You should be REWARDING innovation, not joining the cadre of douchebag trolls that try to kill it.
Do we know yet whether OpenGL ES is going to be supported on Windows Phone 8 or only DirectX?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hU0_tGHlR7g

All of the RCExplorer videos are awesome, and they're shot with a very low-tech drone (a tricopter with only roll/yaw rate stabilization - just piezo gyros and no attitude stabilization at all).
Then open an API and let OTHERS do it at their expense...
Why is it not fair for an insurance company to charge you a higher premium if you are leading a lifestyle that statistically makes you more likely to have health problems?
Improving Security in the Latest C Programming Language Standard
Perhaps a better term would be "personally identifiable." As opposed to aggregated data.
I really did interpret it in the same way as aheilbut initially (i.e., I initially thought that the author was just whining). However, I realized I was probably missing something, so I decided to ask. Fortunately for me, you came along and explained it!

I don't think that aheilbut was necessarily closed to the issue. If I had to guess, he was probably just distracted by the presentation, like I was.
Double blogspam: three-paragraph summary of a five-paragraph summary of a six-paragraph Economist article.
In the 1980s and 1990s, consumer-tech religious wars were a little easier to understand. Back then, there were only two camps: Apple and Microsoft.

As an Amiga user I feel a bit different.
Why are beginners "trudging through thick sticker bushes while it’s cold and raining with another 5,000 feet of elevation to gain and a pack that's 20 pounds too heavy all after not eating enough this morning and sleeping in a ditch for two hours"? I think the author needs to "lighten the fuck up" and realize that for people that aren't professional rock climbers (is there such a thing?), recreational activities are supposed to be fun. You can climb rocks perfectly well after waking up after eight hours of sleep in your bed, having a good breakfast. I'd start with that.

There are some intrinsic things that can hurt about rock climbing. The exertion is obvious. But the shoes are not exactly comfy for long periods of time, and the rocks do take their toll on your fingers. That you probably need to harden up for. But all this self-inflicted bad planning is completely unnecessary.

This post sounds mostly like insecurity on the part of the author to me. If he really enjoys torturing himself, shouldn't he be out doing that instead of telling us all how bad-fucking-ass he is? My response is an eye-roll.
> My late 2011 model HP DV6t quad sounds like a jet taking off at higher workloads, the trackpad drivers are garbage, and the "full HD" screen looks like crap compared to the MacBook.

Sigh, I hate these arguments. You're comparing a laptop with (currently) a starting price of $899 to a laptop with a starting price of $2199. Do you really expect similar quality?

Anecdote time: My 2009 HP Elitebook is extremely quiet under regular workload, has a trackpad I've yet to have a single problem with, and a great screen that rivals the latest non-retina MacBook Pro.
I love that he has PR man hovering nearby at all times. So authentic.
GfxCardStatus: view which GPU is in use at a glance, switch on-demand
That is exactly the kind of insinuation that evidence rules are designed to protect against (in my layman's understanding of the law). From Federal Rules of Evidence, rule 404 (http://www.law.cornell.edu/rules/fre/rule_404)

"Evidence of a person’s character or character trait is not admissible to prove that on a particular occasion the person acted in accordance with the character or trait."
And every single one of those apps that developers have made for Windows 7 are not "Metro" and not eligible for the Microsoft App Store or to run on mobile devices. Only a few of them are even dotnet. The rest will require a near complete rewrite.
> In the early days it was very easy to clock up huge amounts of bitcoins.

It was also very very easy to just lose huge amounts of bitcoins, too. Unless mined coins have moved at some point, the odds are pretty good - especially by now - that the owner has just lost or forgot about them.
This little hack takes a picture every hour (webcam and screenshot) and gives visualization of your online work habits: http://wanderingstan.com/lifeslice
...iOS is the first platform where I've ever seen my mother seem in control and empowered by her computing experience.

Absolutely. I experienced that with my father and wife. Ubuntu and iOS empowered them to not be afraid to try something new with the computer/device. When people are not afraid of "breaking windows" a wonderful thing happens: they use the device as a tool of empowerment rather than a tool to get some task done.

After five years those interaction models and expectations are seared in to a large number of people and it is going to take an absolutely incredible product to make her move to another platform.

That is why I said that Microsoft keeps iterating better products. I'm sure hey are about to hit it big. What will make people like your mother or my wife change back to Windows is the integration with the other Microsoft products. The majority of professions (my wife is a teacher) are tied down to MS. Giving them a phone that will integrate with that will just make the others look like Linux looks o someone who has always worked with Windows: foreign.

I do not see Windows-ish or Microsoft-esque software to be an asset in the mobile field for the great bulk of consumers. It is not a desirable experience, just a now-familiar one.

The bulk of consumers would pick something familiar over something new (or even better). They know Microsoft through Windows. They will pick Windows if given a trendy and functional phone that will inegrate wih their life (and not the other way around).
Paypal's listed justification has nothing to do with the risk of doing business with the VPN; no previous problems were mentioned.
Insurance theoretically spreads risk and operates on laws of large numbers -- in other words, the company is betting that if 500,000 people buy this policy, statistically it will only pay out on a relatively small number of them, thus covering operating expenses and turning a profit. But, for health insurance,* it tends to not really work that way. You don't get 500,000 completely random people buying the policy. People are more likely to buy the policy if they have reason to believe they will need/profit from it. So insurance companies try to account for that reality. I think it is a fundamentally broken system.

* Car insurance, which is basically required across the U.S., seems to work a little closer to the way it is "supposed to".
Maybe it's just early days, but most of the time when I've tried OSM the sought address was shown in the wrong location, sometimes by blocks.
Could you give me a concrete example of how the data is already being sold?
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even the ipad uses sub-pixel rendering for its fonts

No, it doesn't. No iOS devices use sub-pixel rendering, ever.
Unless you mistake it for normal anti-aliasing, which is done on pixel level.

I have less than perfect eyesight. I hold my iPad about 16" away normally. No, I cannot distinguish pixels on the Retina iPad at all. Practically I don't care what is true "retina". For the majority of people, Apple's definition of "retina" is good enough.
There's no information that it will be. Considering that native code isn't allowed it's unlikely that any form of OpenGL will be allowed either.

Unless Microsoft sees how many app developers they've lost with this policy and has a change of heart.
Given the tumbler behavior, that seems pretty plausible.
Thanks for taking the trouble to come over here and correct me.

Monkeybagel was great. I laughed pretty hard at it when it came out.
First time i think, "what is it used for?"
Then i think, "it gonna be fun!"
Then i think this hack could inspire me to do something cool for git.

Are there any more "unusual" git hack?
Everybody has their moments, myself included. Even the "public" types
who always try to carefully word everything have their moments.

I agree with you about how the presentation of differing views is what
keeps things interesting, but the ability to realize a discussion has
gone off the rails and ought to be dropped (rather than a
"clarification" that makes the situation worse), is often in short
supply.

Pre-web Usenet (1980's and early 90's) along with open mailing lists and
BBS's were interesting and a lot can be learned from the interactions.
Initially, there was a barrier to entry, namely it took some technical
skill just to connect and participate, so there was a degree of self
selection happening. As things progressed, the barrier to entry
decreased (the earliest being university students gaining access), and
discussions changed accordingly. The ever receding barrier to entry to
text communication enabling the masses (for the most part) to take part
in discussions has continued to change the nature of discussions. The
only people left out of discussions these days are the poor, since
having a computer and connection really are privileges of the
comparatively wealthier people/nations on the planet.

Like yourself, I've been watching the gradual changes for decades, and I
think they are just fascinating. As always, we've got to take the good
with the bad, and not all of the changes are good, but it does remain
interesting.

I don't interact much with others, so possibly, I'm too indifferent, but
over time I've learned how my own opinion isn't particularly important,
and I can live happily without voicing it. Like your strategy of just
grinning in silence, I'm perfectly content without "winning" a
confrontational disagreement. The tougher question is, would discussions
still be interesting if there were more people like you and me around?
The people who quickly say, "this is going all wrong, let's drop it and
move on." --As you mentioned, part of the "fun" of Usenet was watching
others have it out.

From the stuff I've read of his over the last decade, PG has put a whole
lot of thought into the matter of discussions, and has done his best to
formulate HN so the discussions here are beneficial. In spite of the
growth in popularity of this site, it still mostly works as intended.
Though I've also thought about it for a long time, I've come to the
conclusion that I may not be smart enough to design a "better" forum.

As much as I hate to admit it, a "better" forum might be a whole lot
less entertaining.
iOS 6 may be a big part of this. They might have preferred to reduce prices to other customers before but if they offered it to everyone they would have had to offer it to Apple who may have been the majority of their maps revenue and it was also a mechanism to add cost to Android's key competition.

Now Apple are leaving anyway the difference that the price cut makes will be smaller (in absolute terms) and it will not harm Android either.
What about FastSpring, Saasy, ShareIT? I think they work in most countries