skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
FWIW, this code's over a decade old. Presumably if it had any negative performance implications, someone would have noticed by now:

author	kocienda <kocienda@>
Fri, 24 Aug 2001 10:24:45 -0400 (14:24 +0000)

Imported sources from kde-2.2 distribution

http://git.chromium.org/gitweb/?p=external/Webkit.git;a=blob...
Thanks. I understood all of this from the website. Can you be more specific?

> Flattr is for content. Gittip is for people.

> Flattr is optimized for making tippers feel good. Gittip is optimized for making tippees a living.

What is stopping me from using Flattr for myself? Am I stopped from putting a Flattr thing on my own general personal home page? Am I going to get more money from Gittip over Flattr, and why? Rather than telling me what Gittip is aimed at, can you tell me specifically what Gittip is doing better here? Anything tangible?
I saw this in the PMD fb group; it's a cool hack, it would be even better to hook this up to your code repository / bug tracking / CI, etc. :)

facebook story every time someone breaks a build? fuck yeah.
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Yes, and since they claim that nearly 1 out of every 7 people on the planet (900 million users!) are on facebook, I'd take the default position that if any crimes happen they probably failed to report it. :)
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I can sympathize, I feel this way whenever something I've built for a large audience doesn't work. I feel as if I let them down.

With that being said, perhaps you could make it easy for these users to let you know when it doesn't work. Set up multiple easy lines of communication (twitter, sms through google voice, email, etc..). Find a good, free, monitoring service.

Based on what you told us in the article, this service has been cruising without issue for quite some time. That's better uptime than most projects ;-)
As of 3 weeks ago, this is true. I checked mine at 501
Don't know. I grab from official web site, so latest as of a year ago.
Well, the HN effect probably isn't helping either...
FWIW, this animated demo of the comparative sorting efficiencies http://www.sorting-algorithms.com/
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Having toyed with Vim in the past I was never convinced enough to switch. I guess I've never truly seen it 'in action'. I'll have to watch these videos. Thanks for the link.
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Even better would be for them to set up the system in such a way that they couldn't provide this information if they wanted to. They should go as far as moving the actual data to servers that respect human rights and privacy better than the US government does.
> Still running strong after 1,532 days without a code change.

Oddly, I think that's a great definition of "systems software."
I used to do that a lot, but now, I very much try to avoid those for modifying command output - at least for scripts: it can be quite fragile. Usually utilities have options to output exactly what you need instead, or you can get the information another way (another utility, something in /proc, etc).
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I find that very annoying, since it's harder to work out if I should read replies to comments when there are very few of them.
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> I interpreted your reply as more akin to..

That was my reply exactly, except I would've used fewer big words ;) I guess conversation and arguments like this still follow the same rules as formal logic - they're just applied in a fuzzier way.

I generally tend to avoid the less wrong set. While there is some good stuff on there, the bulk of it to me seems to be overwhelmingly arrogant and self-absorbed, which doesn't seem to strike me as likely to pick up any new biases, just regurgitate old ones.
I'm sorry if It sounds like I was straw-manning you. I was replying to the general approach and I guess that is a straw man.

BTW, I often take a similar opinion to the one you iterated. You can probably see in the comment, I'm on the fence. I agree that yelling about ethics is very silly and won't change a system. Changing rules and working with incentives is the way that we, as societies, run by institutions can fix things.

On the other hand the mentality we are cultivating (in ourselves) by thinking this way is nihilistic and (poignantly) silly.

Anyway, if we are examining institutions, the corporation might be one to put under the glass. While corporations are an innovation (in law of all things!) that has created incredible wealth, it's also pathological. At least it generates pathologies in people. It narrows a company (group of people)'s duties to investor profits. That's not normal for humans. Humans are made to balance a wide set of "interests" and understand them intuitively. I don't mean to imply that signing a piece of paper suddenly makes a business pathological but internalizing the implied mentality does. That's happening on a global level.
I was raised trilingual: born in America to a Colombian dad and Lithuanian mom, so I speak English, Spanish, and Lithuanian. My Lithuanian has gotten a bit rusty since my younger days (mostly out of lack of practice--it's not a language you hear every day), but otherwise I'm fine with all three. Though I can't quite put my finger on it, I have no doubt in my mind that being raised with three languages has had a significant positive impact in how I think. And it's only as I've gotten older that I've realized what a gift that was. When I was young everyone would tell me that, but I didn't believe them because it seemed so natural!

If anything, knowing more than one language makes you better appreciate the commonalities of all langauges. For example English and Spanish are heavily rooted in Latin (English mostly in vocabulary), so you see a lot of words inbetween. Likewise Lithuanian also has a surprising amount of vocabulary lifted directly from Latin. Knowing all three and how these seemingly completely disparate languages are in fact related in many ways fills me with wonder.
That would make performance worse, since webkit already uses what looks like standard library quicksort or mergesort, which I'd count at 0 lines of code. (Although they also use an AVL tree for sorting some things, I'm not sure why, or why the AVL tree code lives in the "wtf" source directory. It's all in http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/Source/JavaScriptCore/r... from line 1409 onwards)
I think that downvotes are also disabled for old comments
How about "You Suck At Photoshop", the Webby Award winning tutorial series by Donnie Hoyle.
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Try emailing "info@ycombinator.com" with this suggestion.

From the guidelines:

Please don't post on HN to ask or tell us something (e.g. to ask us questions about Y Combinator, or to ask or complain about moderation). If you want to say something to us, please send it to info@ycombinator.com.

I think the mods frown on this sort of HN meta-discussion; so, don't be surprised if they kill this post.
Because, faced with the fact that C++ makes an octopus by nailing extra legs onto a dog, D decided the right thing to do was to staple-gun them onto a cheetah instead.

D, at the end of the day, is C++ with cleaner syntax. Yes, you've gotten rid of headers and some of the syntactic ambiguities, but things that were mutable are still mutable, templates are still templates, hard-to-solve threading problems are just as hard to solve, etc. Indeed, I'd argue this is one of the reasons why C++ coders generally like D: it's the same damn thing with the most painful dumbth removed.

Rust, on the other hand, focuses on having different semantics from C++, in order to make certain problems much easier to solve. The big one is immutability, which makes code easier to reason about, and vastly simplifies multithreaded code compared to its D or C++ counterparts. But there are other major semantic differences, such as region pointers, the lack of nulls, and more, that really solve the semantic issues that crop up in C++ programs.

I know people who like D, and are highly productive in it, but Rust is solving a very different problem in a very different way.
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Not to completely disagree with your sentiment, but I think there is a large difference between having the resources to execute your own vision as opposed to having to partner with a large group of people and find a common vision. Especially when you start getting down to details. Grand plans are a lot less alluring when you don't get to be the boss. Not that we should let that be an excuse. :)
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These were features that were removed from Apple's apps with the release of Lion. You can understand that people would be upset. Something worked, a specific way, and then when a new release of the OS comes out and the software is updated, suddenly, it has suddenly removed features you'd used in your daily work flow. It's not as if this idea, this concept never existed.

> when other platforms don't even offer it in a single screen?

They do though, and they do it well, so I'm not sure what you're trying to say.
I've noticed that in some circles, people compete not on "What care do you drive?" but "How many languages do your kids speak?"
If it is a problem of intelligent people doing stupid and selfish things then it seems to me that blame on them ought to be antagonistic and personal. Necessarily so.

I pretty much agree with everything you wrote except that your original comment seemed to suggest a view that the finance industry are unwilling conspirators. In my opinion they deserve vilification.
I also normally browse HN zoomed-in and see blurry upvote, but is this really a problem? Does it affect the way you read, vote on and respond to posts?
Of course they are. You learn a language as a first language (L1) until the critical age (well, according to the critical age hypothesis, anyways: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Critical_Age_Hypothesis ).

I was raised in such an environment. Spanish at home, English at school. I did learn Spanish before English, and I remember a time when I couldn't understand English, around age five or six. Now, however, I am bilingual, fully bicultural, I code switch, and it feels like a superpower I only share with relatively few other people (at least for the specific dialects of English and Spanish that I speak). I can adapt to either language and be idiomatic in each, but my most "natural" mode of speech is the one I grew up with: quickly code switching between two very specific dialects of American English and Mexican Spanish, and there are very few people I can do that with.

Actually, multilingualism is far more common than some Angloamericans are usually aware of. The "norm" worldwide, roughly, is for there to be many intertwined languages within a small geographic region, such as in Europe and Asia. America (the whole continent, not just the US) is the odd one out to be such a large expanse with relatively little linguistic variety besides differing dialects, and that's because the only way to impose languages over such vast geographic expanses is by force and conquest. This is what happened in America.
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http://blog.rodneyrehm.de/archives/14-Sorting-Were-Doing-It-... may be of [some] interest here, too.
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> So you get paid in bitcoin, but can't convert it back to your currency, or no one accepts it as payment wouldnt that just make it worthless?

You've just summed up pretty much any currency.
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As a counterpoint to the Strunk and White recommendation, please take a look at this: 50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice[1]. (Note that it doesn't primarily object to the stylistic advice in S&W, which it calls "vapid" but "mostly harmless". The real objections are to the grammatical claims and advice.)

Two books on writing I strongly recommend:

Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose[2], exerpt here[3].

Style: Towards Clarity and Grace - this one has gone through countless versions as the publisher seems to re-release it every academic year. (Make used copies obsolete and raise the price.) I prefer the older, shorter versions to the more recent ones. It was clearer itself when briefer! Anyhow, here's an author search on Amazon - look for older used copies[4]. Edit: Just found this outline of the 6th ed. of the book. A good way to see what he covers in a hurry.[5]

The first is not a standard writing guide; it's a thoughtful analysis of what makes a certain kind of writing clear and persuasive. The second is a more nuts-and-bolts guide to writing. They're both excellent.

[1]: http://chronicle.com/article/50-Years-of-Stupid-Grammar/2549...

[2]: http://classicprose.com/

[3]: http://classicprose.com/csx.html

[4]: http://www.amazon.com/Joseph-M.-Williams/e/B001H6MZ40/ref=nt...

[5]: http://www.oxfordtutorials.com/StyleTenLessons.htm
Very true! In my part of the Netherlands Dutch is the official language, but the much older and local other language is Frisian. What you see often is students talking Frisian to other Frisians and Dutch to non-Frisians even during the same group-conversation. They don't mean to, but can't help themselves. The "other mind" takes over seamlessly. I've seen Non-Frisians kindly ask if they can just talk Dutch only to hear them speak Frisian after about 20 seconds.
While I doubt a javascript-space sorting implementation runs any faster than a C++ implementation could, there are some implementations around, http://millermedeiros.github.com/amd-utils/array.html#sort for example.
>If you are using vim, you should play per vim rules.

This issue is that studies show us vim's rules are wrong: modal editing is a source of confusion and error. I used vi[m] exclusively for 8 years or so and until the very last day I could still make major modal based errors.
How advanced does an AI have to be before you should say 'thank you'?
What's with all the "CSS bad" comments? Who needs CSS to put a Unicode character in a web page? Based on some of the logic I am reading, we'd all be better off displaying every letter of text as GIFs. For a technical crowd, you people have some funny ideas.
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"closed as not constructive by Bobby, Kev♦ 20 mins ago"

This despite 111 upvotes on the question, 249 upvotes on the accepted answer, and 43 upvotes on the HN link (0 mins ago).

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Seriously, what is it that you find to be so objectionable about interesting topics?

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Vs OCaml it has a threading model. Vs D memory safety, less kitchen sink. Vs C++ cleaner, better type system, memory safety. Vs Objective C memory safety, cleaner. Vs vala I don't know anything about vala. Vs go Here is their list of problems with Go from their website:
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Homo economicus is real. Economics is useful and its really important (though imperfect) way f understanding the complex interactions between people all over the world.

The problem is that we are not homo economicus. We are Homo Sapiens. Europeans & Mexicans & Italians and Londoners. Some of us are even Americans. We are also brothers and lovers and criminals and parents.

Homo Economicus is a a description of a certain set of homo sapiens character traits.
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The government has supported weak businesses run by cronies of political leaders since Ancient Greek times, and probably earlier.
>Non-Vim users are novices that are just "not there yet", when it comes to text-editing.

Religious war nonsense. Vim still uses modal editing, which we've known to be a mistake for how many decades now? Sure, vi is better than Notepad. Congratulations.
I didn't notice the problem until you mentioned it. For me it was obvious that it points up/down, but now that you mention it I see that it could point in other directions as well.

I guess the question is: Do users get confused about the arrows?
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> Then we leave it to the states to iron out the details.

Yeah, that specific model doesn't work for Canada. It's a large part of why we left, and a large reason why my son was abused.

Letting the states handle it will be problematic. What happens then, when a state will not support certain procedures, but other states do? Following the Canadian model, your screwed if you live in the wrong state.

Sure, you can move, but then that becomes another issue entirely. You'll have doctors leaving states to move to states that can provide more jobs. Quebec is suffering this, and the left over doctors are overworked, and offer less than stellar service. And yes, you can incentivize staying all you want, and it won't happen. Or you might require they work X years in the state if they accept some funding for schooling, but then they'll leave when they can for better jobs elsewhere.

I'm sorry, but I've had to deal first hand with this model and the specific problems it causes, and I'll fight to prevent it from following me.
Chinese provinces have vast coal mountains they don't use.

This is to fudge the figures so that it looks as though the province is creating electricity.

"Chinese Data Mask Depth of Slowdown, Executives Say": http://www.cnbc.com/id/47929035

http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/06/06/china-coal-pilin...

EDIT: Found direct assertion at CNBC
This wasn't government arranging favors for large, well-connected businesses. It was large, well-connected businesses arranging favors for each other, at the expense of everyone else. What's happening now is the government putting a stop to it.

You may believe that there's some alternative to government regulation that would prevent this sort of thing happening --- but to date, that's what's worked most effectively, and Rand & co. would take it away.
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I've been following Musk since before it was cool (hacker hipsters unite) and I deeply respect everything he's done - he's one of my personal heroes.

But, I am seeing the beginnings of a personality cult by some on HN which I thoroughly dislike and I have seen before with the rise of Steve Jobs and Apple.

I just want to state - let's not start feeling that Musk, and Musk alone did these things. This has been the work of thousands of people over many years (not all at SpaceX/Tesla) with critical aid provided by the much maligned and mocked US government. Musk is great - but let's not make it too personal. Let's celebrate the fact that such a situation can exist in such dark times (depending on your viewpoint :D).

For more details see here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4134729
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It's known as Introsort
Relax. It's just hyperbole.
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> It's hard to believe someone paid good money for this.

True, and the article mentions 15 patents, so the remaining is hidden somewhere in the USPTO database.
There is no plausible objective answer to this question, thus its not for StackOverflow.

If you want to just talk about interesting topics, use a forum (so says the SO masters).
It's not ridiculous, and I'm not hiding.
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yes, a heart and the box with 01f489 look very similar (Firefox on Snow Leopard)
Thanks for those recommendations. I was looking for my next few books to read.
You also can't downvote people that reply to your comments, though you can upvote them.
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You misunderstood a lot of things. Most importantly that replacing a graphic with a unicode char has something to do with CSS :-)
That would be nice, but how many employees would they get that way. Thankfully, companies have ways they signal that they behave this way: if they focus a lot on "company mottos", if they deify their founder[s], if they start using words in a way that seems to be different than the English meaning (e.g. "Family" to mean "coworkers"), etc., etc. Basically if they try any brainwashing techniques and/or the people doing the interview seem to be a bit too "pro" for the company.
I'm glad we inspired you. I love the way you limited your Open Graph actions.

They made an FB group a developer of their app, and didn't approve the actions. Then only people in the group can see the OG actions.
After reading the entire article I noticed it doesn't contain a single link to the actual project. I like your style sir.