skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you expose a piece of mutable data, usually it's wrapped up in an interface that enforces the access and consistence of that piece of data so that you have control rather than let it up to the callers. If you don't want to have the synchronization wrapper, it's ok. Just document it clearly and let the callers deal with it.
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It just seems funny to have an argument between the user having to use the machine's phrasing vs. having to use the phrasing of higher math. Higher math is clearly not the only abstraction. Ergonomics for one person coding or for two people collaborating, on a practical task, seem more important to me.
Probably mostly around security. For instance, when I take the train to get to work and back, I can hop on the second before it leaves. And they don't check anything except for tickets, which doesn't start until after the train is already on the way. It's a bit different than taking a flight, even though there is often more people on the train I take than most flights I've been on.
It's kind of ridiculous to talk about "natural monopolies" when often it is a government-mandated monopoly via cable franchise agreements.

It's also ridiculous to talk about predatory pricing when historically all major telecom infrastructure has been government subsidized.

The major ISPs are all capable of competing in this market (Comcast and Time Warner Cable both have had profits growing at rates many times higher than that of revenues this year. AT&T has as well, but I couldn't find a split for just their ISP numbers), and disruption is exactly what will help them start doing so.
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Look how well that worked out for OMGPOPs CEO who came out in public making horrible statements of some of his employees.

He deserved to be acquired by Pinchs and it showed his true colors.

The day OMGPOP was acquired, I deleted draw something.

I've played games my whole life, computer games are what got me into computers as my career, but I have never played a Zynga game and never will.

I boycott everything the company does as a personal preference.

I don't think all the employees are bad, but anyone who is blatantly working to do Pincus' theft of others' work certainly KNOW they are doing it and that's pretty shitty.
I've always use -R, presumably because it's consistent with other commands like ls, rm, and cp (and consequently get annoyed by tools like scp that only support -r, and zip, that use -R for something else entirely); I wasn't even aware that -r was supported until I saw this.
Everyone on the Enterprise can breath the same air and eaet the same food.

And if something is poison to even just a few of your crew, you forbid it and tell everyone else to eat almonds instead of peanuts. :nerdingout:
I used Concierge to book a helicopter volcano tour in Hawaii. Worked great! Small outfits like Safari Helicopters rarely provide a seamless booking/reminder service -- Concierge is definitely a great value add.
Sigh.

I have downloaded complete plans that were created in 1972 to make an entire .22 caliber single shot pistol by hand using a hacksaw, file and drill press. By my estimation, it can be done in one long day of work by a semi-skilled person. An even simpler pistol can be built in an hour or two. It's just not hard to make a basic gun: when I was 11 years old I used to make toy "guns" from old hollow keys, crushed match heads and nails. They worked, but only had about a 10-foot or so range.

Granted, I planned to build the pistol using a (manual) milling machine, not by hand, but is the government going to outlaw saws and files now?
I see, I don't think there's a difference between domestic/foreign firm when it comes to dumping in EU. I think that you can't operate with loss in order to crush competition. But Google might have it covered with other sources of revenue coming from "free" users.
Yes, I messed that up, sorry. But it's still an impressive feat and I'm still very excited about getting 1Gbit internet!
But isn't this just stating the obvious? being a Developer + learning $cool_skill makes you $positive_adjective.

Well duh. Also, the sun rises in the east.

$cool_skill element_of {marketing, design, negotiation, leadership skills, design, writing ....}

$positive_adjective element_of {dangerous, rockstar, ninja , pirate, extraordinary, one in a million, cool, killer ... }

mix and match and you have a dozen or so catchy titles.

Throw in links to the top books on the topic and links to some blogs, and most importantly an ad for an ebook somewhere in the post. Profit.

Repeat a few dozen times. Landing pages for SEO. Hey you are a guru!

Maybe, I am just feeling too cynical abut such 'how to do a startup' porn. Feel free to ignore me.

OTOH HN generally has good discussions, even when the submission is spammy/low quality.
Exactly. See my post about making guns by hand. As a 12 year old boy I was making gunpowder from drugstore items and launching rockets made from rolled-up newspaper.

This stuff ain't hard to do!!
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For those of us not on BSD:

git ls-files -z | xargs -0 -n1 -E'\n' git blame --date short -wCMcp | perl -pe 's/^.*?\((.*?) +\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2} +\d+\).*/\1/' | sort | uniq -c | sort -rn
It would seem like that is subsidized by the paying users.
Oof, I think you just brought my open-source[0] project to its end! This is quite nice.

[0]: http://github.com/prezjordan/Melopy
Well, I did mean it as an actual question. I didn't know Apple didn't have widgets (or something similar)
and higher margins means more incentive for people to get into the business.
There is a whole hobby community of people who manufacture their own ammunition. You can order everything you need to get started over the internet, with no permits (unless you live in a short list of states like Massachusetts, in which case a firearms permit is needed to purchase ammunition components).

Some people do it to save money, some because they're competitive shooters (who want to hand-optimize their loads), and others are survivalist types who want to be "off-the-grid".
It seems to me that insiders only dumped a fraction of their holdings because that's all they could get away with. If they could have dumped more, they would have.
Somewhat related anecdote in light of 10.8: I never properly upgraded from OS 10.5. I pirated 10.6 and skipped 10.7, partially because I'm a cheap college student and partially because the changes between versions never seemed that dramatic to me.

I had to re-install my OS and thus downgraded from 10.6 to 10.5. All of a sudden, none of my iLife apps are working, plus a host of others, and I can't download Apple ones designed for 10.5. I lose momentum scrolling, and realize that, hey, an upgrade once every three years is a good idea. I wait for 10.8 to come out, so I can buy it like a good, normal consumer, and soon discover I need 10.6 to install it.

So I'm buying two upgrades? Alright...wait, I can't buy 10.6 anymore. 10.8 is the only OS available, and I don't have 10.6 on a disc. So it looks like I'm pirating again.
People have been building guns for hundreds of years with far inferior tools.
From the article:

The U.S. government, including ARPA, NSF, DOE, NASA among others absolutely facilitated, underwrote, and pioneered the development of the Internet. The private sector engaged around 12 years into the program (about 1984-85) and was very much involved in powering the spread of the system. But none of this would have happened without this research support.

I have great faith in the human ability to trench forward and evolve solutions to problems as well as innovate. This also leads to a belief that if person A does not invent or discover something then B, or C, or D eventually will invent or discover that same thing. Proof of this exists across many fields where nearly simultaneous discoveries or developments happened across the globe (powered flight?).

It is clear that the interconnected network of computers that ultimately became the consumer Internet had its roots in a number of government-sponsored programs.

At the same time, interconnected networks of USERS had already existed for quite some time. Examples of this were Compuserve and AOL, the myriad of BBS providers across the world and services like Minitel in France.

It was this existing audience that provided the early adopters that made the Internet take off as a commercial product. Government couldn't have done that.

More to the point: The US Government couldn't have made the Internet a commercial success available in every home and every city of the world. It was entrepreneurial drive across the globe that made this happen. If the US Government had kept control of it all it would have remained at a level and a scale not useful to anyone but a few literally well-connected sites.

So, yes, kudos for letting go. Here's a perfect example of government getting the hell out of the way to see private enterprise take something well beyond anyone's imagination.

I wish they'd do that with a myriad of other areas that government touches that would do far better in private hands.

The Internet is a massive example of why government should not be involved in our activities beyond a very basic level. We can do a far better job.

Getting back to the invention and discovery issue. I have no doubt that the Internet would have been developed privately if the government had not had any involvement whatsoever. It would have been different, or not, but the human drive to innovate and invent coupled with the equally powerful drive to connect, share and explore would have made it happen. It really isn't too far of a stretch to see that BBS systems would have sought to create more efficient and scalable topologies to reach and service more people. And, as computers and technology evolved this would have pushed the need for speed in order to provide media services.
I don't know, I'm not in the economic class that can afford things like that so I wouldn't even consider such a size. With the added distance requirement I don't think I could even fit one on my desk. Is 27" the comfort sweetspot then?
You're going to need more convincing astroturf than that.
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Here's my take:

What do you want to do? What are you passionate about. I understand you've got bills to pay (possibly a family to support), but look at this situation as an opportunity to work on something you'll love doing.

It sounds like (from your description), that you would classify yourself as rather specialized at a set of Java technologies that were related to performing your previous job. You know java, that means you can pick up C# really really quickly. Honestly, you should be able to pick up a lot of other programming languages rather quickly just by the virtue of knowing one. Even if you don't want to invest the time into learning something new to a certain level of comfort, at least get some familiarity with a few others so you can at least talk to them.

I've had the benefit of working at a research lab for the last 8 years, which lets me work on new projects and new technologies constantly. I've also been involved in the hiring process a number of times, so here's what I look for: passion, attitude and willingness to learn.

Regarding your question about personal projects and Github, I think that's absolutely a perfect opportunity to either showcase your abilities, or at least demonstrate some creativity, collaborative development ability, productivity (I got X done in Y days/weeks/months) as well as coding ability. I think anything you can point to and say "I did that" and allow them to critically review it would be a big benefit.

Check out www.indeed.com (if you haven't already) to keep tabs on relevant job openings.
You are right. Performance estimate can be non-intuitive while coding in a lazy evaluation language.
A lot of things were "forbidden" by social pressures. Alcohol was freely available (or maybe a simple security override, I can't remember) but no one drank real alcohol.
Well think about it -- this can only come down to three factors:

1. How good the other party is when it comes to collaboration. Some coders work well with others, and some are lone wolfs.

2. If you have complimentary strengths: One programmer is strong at X and your string at Y.

3. The energy from both programmers makes each party proactive and thus avoid procrastination.

I also think there are the larger questions of if you're using a spec, etc.
It's a great point. I've always shared the same suspicion, but there hasn't been any instance yet, at least in the public eye, where google has abused my personal data.

I think they've just realized for everyone to "move to the cloud", we need internet that makes it possible.
First, figure out which technologies are best to know in your market, then start learning them AND create a small (but quality) public product that will showcase what you can do.

Having public work on your resume makes a big difference and it's what you should lead with. I know how it can be when everything you're paid to produce is used behind closed doors. It makes it really tough to demonstrate your chops.

NotifyWire.com (shutdown, but I can still demo) and PuppyShowdown.com in my portfolio get's me in the door pretty much anywhere I need. It shows you know how to produce a product, it's a conversation piece, it makes everything else on your resume more believable, and it separates you from 99% of other applicants.

Regarding time. Don't waste it on your job search. You need less than 2 hours a day to effectively look for a job (that leaves you 8-10 on re-tooling). Just like it takes very little energy to float in water, when people panic they flail about trying desperately to stay on the surface and then drown.
Macaolope[1]'s going to have a nice week! First Gizmodo's review (saying ML is absolute garbage), now this:

> [..] Let’s review the first paragraph of Anderson’s post:

>>> Apple today proudly announces that if you buy their Mountain Lion OS, it will connect you to many unprotected sites, beyond your control, without your even knowing that you are so connected.

> This simply isn’t true. [..]

BTW, the Time article actually is a rebuttal of the sillt article by Mr. Anderson. The title is a little misleading (though I'm sure it wasn't intended and was merely a side effect of 80-character title limit).

[1]: http://macalope.com/
I think we need to split "startups" from "startups that people will be angry and bitter about". I guess I'm an optimist, but I don't think that sentiments like that arise out of nowhere. There's a kernel of truth to the feeling, engendered by some of the excesses of the current startup environment. That being said, the real challenge is not to paint too broad a brush and lump all startups that you don't "like" with startups that are worthy of this kind of derision.
> People who quite rightly see our drug laws as pointless and ineffective somehow often miss that a gun ban would be no more effective in the United States.

As an outsider, this is one of the most irrational things about American politics to me. Talk about guns, then talk about drugs, and each of the two major parties literally adopts the arguments of the other.

Then again, it's a perfectly rational system from the point of view of extracting maximum donations from supporters, so maybe I'm just looking at it the wrong way. Moderation doesn't sell.
One of the many reasons to hate Apple. I don't understand why supposed geeks can get behind a company that willfully puts draconian protections to keep you from using a computer like a computer. No USB port? No useable FILE SYSTEM? Emailing files is a pathetic hack for a poorly designed device. And "simplicity" is not a saving grace, there is NO REASON to not allow this sort of functionality except to force everyone to use horrible iTunes. People can defend Apple all they want, but no one can give me a valid user-centric reason for those decisions.
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This is incorrect. It is why places like T-Mobile run commercials about caps and why there are tons of articles and blogs and Twitter comments about data caps. A lot of people care.
Since you say you don't have much recent work with J2EE technologies, I would suggest getting a REST lib and learning to develop RESTful services, demand is high for back-end REST developers and you can be spitting out JSON in a day or two and other formats shortly there after. If you have Java experience and can stand up a REST service, you will find something.
Calling anything mandatory about computers in this day and age is laughable at best. Social networking is baked into the operating system for a reason. It's there, you don't have to use it, but you can if you'd like. It's there because we are living in an increasing social-network oriented world. People want to be able to fire off updates to their followers while they are doing something else. It's no big deal really. It's not like your twitter or facebook streams are baked into the operating system. Turning off the integration is as simple as a trip to the system preferences pane. The user group that Apple is designing for isn't the American mobile teen. It's the social media consumer/user. Do you know what's awesome about features that are included in operating systems? They can be turned off while you're at work and then turned on when you're at home.
I understand that as an user/early adopter you dislike it, but the launch page with a signup form is an invaluable tool to gather information about interest for your app for cheap, even before you invest time in the development.
IMO, the free plan is brilliant. They get people to front the money for putting in infrastructure, and as digital distribution of everything continues to grow, they'll probably start to see people transitioning over to the faster connections. $300 + $70/month is a hard sell for a lot of people, but if my parents could ditch Comcast for a one time fee I'm pretty sure they'd do it.
Good value for what you get. I know I've personally spent an entire day with my partners trying to hone those 3 types of pitches that you offer for $45+.

One thing I'd like to see in a more forefront position on the website is actual pitches you've created, even if they are for fake companies.
The simple solution to this is that the server sends a reference time along with the timestamps: when the page loads you calculate the drift from the local time to the reference time, and then adjust local time to server time when you update relative timestamps.
you gave absolutely no reason why you prefer going outside the app store.
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Because they're fundamental UI issues that Microsoft generally won't touch after a general release.
Yes, but the quality of a good 3D printed gun will be better and it's easier to download the blueprints and literally print them rather than understand and build the gun yourself.

I, too, used to stuff firecrackers down a pipe and shoot steel balls (from bearings) when I was a kid - it was fun, what can I say :-)...
Phonetics is most assuredly part of linguistics, unless you redefine linguistics just to mean "syntax" (No linguistics department i'm aware of makes such a distinction).

And yep, there's a whole sub-discipline of psycholinguistics which definitely learns from things like speech pathologies.
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I love the idea, the video, and the design.. but I wish it wasn't geared strictly to iOS, since the title doesn't mention that.
>Besides, if something has passed app store verification then surely Apple are happy that it is not malware?

I'm not so sure. What is their process for verifying that an app is not or does not contain malware? If it's simply to run the software and see what it does then they can really only verify that apps aren't immediately misbehaving. What if the app is set to do its misdeeds after the 100th time it is run, or after being installed for a month? There is really only so much a reviewer can do in order to push an app out within a reasonable time frame.

Sandboxing in a way is just as much protection from liability for Apple as it is protection from malware for its users.
For the developer, now they need to re-sell every single feature of their app. Why would anyone choose that over just bundling them together?
I browsed around the site,

http://fiber.google.com/how/

and although I have friends and relatives who live in the Kansas City metropolitan area, I don't live there myself. So as rollout happens there, I'll be glad to hear from HN participants who live there what's happening in the local Internet access market. Meanwhile, I'll still be dealing with the same SMALL subset of providers who reach my neighborhood as I have for years. Please let us know what you think of Google Fiber when it arrives in your neighborhood, okay?
> Turning off the integration is as simple as a trip to the system preferences pane.

Actually, Turning them on is as easy as sliding a switch! They're off by default. Which makes his argument even weaker.

I don't have a twitter, Facebook, ... account and I'm probably angrier than most about Social integrations in iOS 6 and ML, so I'm not defending Apple. But these "features" are opt-in.
Really?

You might change your mind when you consider that Bell Labs (part of the "Soviet Bureau" you despise) created:

- The transistor
- The laser
- The C language
- The Unix operating system

Other notable discoveries (but not of concern to those who discount anything not Internet-related) are things like the cosmic background radiation, etc. etc. etc.

SO: as much as I hate to defend "the telcos" (wired/wireless/cable) which according to the OP are completely interchangable and not at all distinguishable, they had their good points.

What you're (probably) pissed about is the business model that (most) telcos are forced to follow since deregulation.

Consider this: since deregulation, the cost to deliver bandwidth has dropped so significantly that it's actually CHEAPER to build a "telco" now than it was just 10 years ago. Once you factor in the cost to build out fiber links and light those with equipment, you get more bandwidth today than your earlier competitors got.

Hey, there's still a few dialup providers around. Maybe you think thats a better option?
Because it motivates me to avoid revision control systems that insist on crudding up every directory in my source tree?
Yeah me too. A 2560x1440 S-IPS panel for £200? Never seen one.

TN panels have been down at that price & lower for ages, but not IPS ones.
I just use http://momentjs.com/

Does timeago (with localizations) and more in one tiny library.
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I use both. I've got about 10,000 tracks sorted as Artist - Album/Song.ext in the filesystem. Since I'm a bit of a geek about my music anyway I remember which song is where anyway and if not, there's still find.

In the music player (mpd + ncmpcpp as a client) everything's sorted using tags so I can do all the searches I ever want quickly.

The filesystem way of storing things is merely about redundancy and whenever I want to copy stuff onto an external device. I do not want to use an app to sync stuff onto my smartphone. That's just an extra app for a trivial task. Additionally it provides me with a tad more control. And seriously? I couldn't care less about copying over all MP3s recorded by a band Z in year X belonging to genre Y (or some other sort of query). When I copy music to the phone I'll copy albums and that's what this file structure is absolutely perfect for.
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