skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes absolutely the von Neumann architecture gave rise to the dominant means of computation - formulas and algorithms translated into imperative programs yoked to instruction pointers and addressable memory.

But there is that step of translation. Perhaps we became so fluent that we stopped noticing we were doing it, and perhaps even to start thinking imperatively. But it's not "natural".

Look at computing polynomials by differences (giving rise to the idea of the difference engine): better described as an iterated procedure than an imperative program.

Or "constuctive": Construct an ellipse naturally by the pins and string method. Bisect an angle naturally using straight-edge and compass.
Couldn't you use just an extra query string parameter when you want to force a refresh? Like, ?v=12312312353. It's a little hackish I'll grant you, but so is caching HTTP in LocalStorage.
I remember the last lunar missions. We all thought that man would be going back to the moon within a few years or so.

Not the way it worked out.
I don't know, sometimes I misspell maintenance on purpose out of spite for the English language.
Ask HN: Popularity of .io TDL
I've seen a lot of tech companies / sites using .io TDL. My question is, how popular do you see this domain becoming? Since no one outside of tech has heard of the domain, is it viable to use right now for the masses? I find it better than .co, just not sure how people outside tech would react to seeing it on print material. I feel like on print I'd have to add the http:// just to ensure they realize it's a domain.

Thoughts?
The mere fact that so many software developers don't see the big issue here is exactly the big issue.
Really, if you’re going to commemorate it, cite a more authoritative source.

http://www.theonion.com/articles/july-21-1969,10515/
> from a single IPv4 and a single IPv6

Actually only from a single IPv4 (cache.ovh.net). The IPv6 address is the equivalent IPv4 mapped to IPv6 (::ffff: prefix).
If you write an article about TDD, make sure it is correct
Yes, __Thank You!__

I've been spending hours at a time looking for it, spamming here was a last resort. (Throwing "Postgres" in my searches was what was fouling them—turns out it was just spawned by Heroku's Postgres team...)
I was introduced to OVH when they had a promotion where they gave 100 kimsufi servers away (free for a year). I was really impressed with the prices that they were selling real hardware at (and still do).

However, I have grown a great distaste to them in the last few years, namely because of this behaviour and it's implications; when I buy a dedicated server that I am going to manage myself it would be nice to at least have the option to install a clean distribution and not have to go the extra mile of bootstraping.
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RIP Sylvia
I can't believe there is so much negativity. I'm usually the guy who has something negative to say about everything, and end up in these threads where other people ask, "why so negative?"

But this? This political action is literally what killed SOPA; that's not me talking, that's straight from Dodd's mouth. Now they've developed an easy call-to-action for future, similar bills? It's genius. Politicians thrive on the historical forgetfulness of the public. It was a matter of weeks before another bill similar to SOPA was in the works. The politicians will adjust their strategy and count on less political action the "next-time-around". I hope this can prevent it.

Who cares if it's about cats and comics? That's the theme of a generation and internet culture. And (combined with their high unemployment and lower expectations of future standard of living) this generation is going to be a political force. Bank on it.
?- A = 10, B = 20, A = B.

false.

Her intuition checks out in my REPL.

Seriously though, I'm surprised no-one has mentioned Prolog yet. It's the closest popular language to honest-to-goodness mathematics, to the point that some Prologs can solve linear equations that are written exactly as a system of equations.
I watched it in Overland Park, Kansas, with awe. Several years later, I watched another moon landing in a room full of high-school classmates who were more interested in the sunflower seeds they were chewing.
Why Cloud Apps Are Cutting Edge For Small Business — Round up
Check some of the pyparsing examples.
Android 4.1 Jelly Bean OTA Update now available for Nexus S devices
Men have boobs too, and some men have big boobs (often referred to as moobs). This just shows that people can get angry at any and everything. Sexist? Only if you want it to be.
Now there's a limit to draw too. I don't approve of some of the blatant sexism going on in our field, but this is a little too much don't you think?

If I tell someone I like boobs, should I issue a formal apology too? Should Microsoft issue a public apology to their cafeteria workers for using 0xBAADF00D? OpenSolaris for 0xDEFEC8ED?*

They're hex strings ffs. Can we stop pretending we're so prude and perfect, call out the real offensive stuff and not fret over this kind of irrelevance?

*(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexspeak)
I will.

I don't give a shit about someone's grammar if they're good at what they do.
You've created a false dichotomy. There are things in between "another useless social app" and "cure cancer".

Also, the law of supply and demand is not the kind of law you are obliged to follow under penalty of jail time. When Google got started, nobody was demanding a better search engine. But it turns out that the world really needed one, so now they have a $200 billion company.

There could be things like that just waiting to be built. But if the VCs are all pursuing the next quick-flip bubble BS, we may never know.
I think that ain't no fiar!
It's amazing how many times I see the word "devloper". Maybe having to type "e" twice so close together is what causes the typo..?
thanks for the clarification. in practice, sure, we're all looking in our pg_stat_activity for "open in transaction" in general as something that shouldn't be hanging around.
I saw her current net worth being evaluated at $300,000,000. I doubt this moves has anything to do with money, but she would not want to be seen as a cheap hire either.
The 90s are unfortunately long gone but the one good thing about this is that we could finally just NOT give ESR and his populism any more attention...
Valve & Intel Work On Open-Source GPU Drivers
Now, Truss and I disagree on what it means to have "zero tolerance." She thinks that people who mix up their itses "deserve to be struck by lightning, hacked up on the spot and buried in an unmarked grave," while I just think they deserve to be passed over for a job — even if they are otherwise qualified for the position.

Putting comma inside quotation like the above could make grammar nazis happy, but when your newly hired programmer treats all algebraic operations as commutative, it will do no good to your company. Code is not a prose, and coders are not writers.
> If the answer is "yes" to both of these then I would assume that the people who pass the test are English majors with minors in Linguistics ;-)

I don't know. I am not a native speaker, and am not an English major, but the answer is "yes" to both of them.

Am I understanding you correctly that you are saying people can't make out active and passive between "I wrote a letter", "A letter was written by me"?

"Who" and "whom" is a bit tricky, but I follow the rule about "who -> he"(who broke the vase? he did), "whom -> him"(whom do you trust? him). There might be edge cases I am unaware of.
What it they are foreigners?
Three tiling window managers compared - xmonad, dwm, and i3
Thanks for the feedback. We completely understand your concerns and thats why we bring up the privacy point in the video.
The point you miss is that we dont want to connect you to the people you know. Why? because you already know these people. We want to connect you to new and interesting people that like to talk anbout the same things you do. Hence "email, IRC, lists, usenet, forums, IM etc." aren't sufficient. Mainly because they focus on people that you know and also because (when talking to people you dont know) you arent having a conversation you are reading posts.
We are not out to steal your data (says the faceless founder).We analyse the conversations so we can build a profile about the content you enjoy and what you like to talk about. We then use this data to provide you with new content and connect you to people you would like to chat to.
None of you chat logs are saved and all of the data we pull from the conversations is anonymised against your account name. We do offer data back to the content provider but this is done by demographics and is never pinned to specific users.
Man with Van Chingford
Yes, technical writers are required to use proper grammar. Why is that controversial? I do find it ironic that his prose has commas in places where most people would not put a comma, and his placement is probably correct, but still somewhat less readable.
Bulawayo based startup rocks Zim football scene
Footballzone provides in depth content of Zimbabwean football
You're right. I didn't mean to imply that PostgreSQL didn't have much mindshare, it's obviously very popular and for good reason. MySQL is simply much more popular than that.

I've been able to look at PostgreSQL a few times over the years, and your right that the friendliness is getting better.

It's a very impressive system.
Is Instagram really worth $1 Billion? Honestly we don't know. I would say no, but I'm wrong on a lot of things. I'm also right on a lot of things. Who really knows?

As far as Facebook is concerned (well Mark is concerned) it is. But it begs the question of "Why?".

* Surely Facebook has all the users in the world. Getting a few more million really isn't that substantial.
* And even getting more users is a good thing, I'm fairly certain that 90% of those users are already on Facebook. So what are they really gaining?
* The technology behind Instragram isn't remarkable. From what I've read, they are a picture app with filters. Yes, those effects are pretty cool, but I find it hard to believe that a group of people that are able to build the social juggernaut that is Facebook couldn't set aside 10 guys to create filters and effects already built into Facebook.

Now perhaps its something else. Mark probably realized that they system was already in place through Instagram that all that was needed was to purchase them and slap a big ol' Facebook sticker on the cover. Done... Next task... I really don't know.

I believe that Mark is allowed to do whatever. Afterall, he did invent Facebook. A potential money-making powerhouse. We are essentially the outsiders looking in. We haven't built a multibillion dollar company, so we can't really dictate that this is a bad move or not. Its working so far for Facebook (yes the stocks are not as great as they wanted, but hey at least they are out there playing the game).

All I know is, its not my money, so it doesn't affect me. I would've just built the thing myself. But then again, I'm not the billionaire 28 year old. I'm just the 28 year old trying to start my own company.
Why not?

A friend of mine was an English major who went on to do programming for several startups. He's still a programmer.

It's an incredibly fitting path, especially for him. He's a stickler for detail and writes beautiful code.
Thanks for the heads up. Our login in system has just crapped its pants for some reason (hasn't happened before) and we are fixing it currently. Thanks for the feedback.
Actually, I think it does:

"You'll be all by yourself on our website/webapp. A designer will deal with the CSS, but all the rest is up to you"
Along these lines, let me ask advice from HN.

I am buying a home in need of some repairs, and my real estate agent recommended a contractor whom he has personally used a lot. The contractor inspected the home and prepared a competitively priced five-figure estimate.

From his estimate: "These conditions, if left to deteriate [sic] further, will make the building unsafe. ... The following recommended work is described by catagory [sic]: ... All leaks, disfunctional [sic] faucets & fixtures will be repaired or replaced."

It goes on. I'm shocked a professional would write something like this, especially since it is a MS Word document and so all the misspelled words are conveniently underlined in red.

But my real estate agent thinks I'm making a big deal out of nothing. Anyone have thoughts, experience, opinions, advice?
Does anyone know how we got such high quality (live?) video of astronauts walking on the moon, but recent moon missions like LCROSS [1] didn't even have video AFAIK?

[1] http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/LCROSS/main/prelim_water_r...
In my view the ability to structure communications is important. I don't think that's the same as being a grammar nazi. For example if you have a zero tolerance policy for it's vs its, or for commas making things confusing, the framers of the US Constitution would fail the test. Not only is 'it's' is used as a possessive but try to parse this:

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States."

Yet I doubt we would doubt the authors' intelligence, creativity, and professionalism.

The simple fact is that grammar mistakes and grammar of non-standard dialects is one thing, but an inability to structure an email or other communication is a much bigger deal. You can't fault the guy who learned English as a second language, whose native language has no gendered pronouns and gets confused all the time, and the same goes for non-standard English dialects like AAVE.

So that's where I'd draw the line.
It's next!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2HzHSeV9v8
I can blame them a little.

People who are chasing currently hot things are missing the chance to invest in the next hot thing. VCs have a sweet deal: they get fat salaries, have nice offices, and have plenty of support staff. If anybody can afford to play the long game, it's them.

The only reason things are flipping for $1bn is that they are worth that to a much bigger company. Instead of going after the quick $1 billion company, I'd rather see them going for the "slow" $60 billion company (Facebook) or $200 billion company (Google).
Some advice - just because you happen to like perfect grammar, don't enforce your preference on others. Some of the best devs I've ever worked with have poor grammar, but it has never stopped them from making huge contributions to the team.
That's the only reason you've found so far? That's pretty good.

They have much worse things in place:- their anti-dos measures make it near impossible to put anything of value on their without a LOT of work. For example, once they detect a DoS (just 50 Mbps was enough but it varies) they will take down your server (not just its IP) for 4-12 hours at a time.

With that said, there are some great things about OVH: they drive down the costs and make everything quite efficient (e.g., hardware prices, support costs) but then seem to just forget that they need to reduce the costs for the customer as well (their anti-dos measures being an example of how they increase the cost).
Could you expand a bit on this? I've read his Cathedral and Bazaar book, and quite enjoyed it. I didn't realize there was a whole context that I should be aware of.
I know that Whole Foods employs these kinds of tactics all the time. As an anecdote, a few weeks ago I went there to buy some sunflowers for my girlfriend and was happy to see them marked at "2 for $10." When I went to pay, the cashier said, "Ah, so the price of these went up!" I asked her what she meant, thinking it odd since they were on supposedly on sale. She told me they were $4 the previous week, must've been they were getting popular.

So what they did was mask the price hike with the veneer of a promotion, which is equal parts clever and cruel. Here are a couple of photos of other pricing tricks they've played:

1) http://cl.ly/image/102k133G2L3B
2) http://cl.ly/image/3a1q002M1G05
Saving the google search for people who don't know what an oxford comma is.

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

"Portugal, Spain, and France" (Oxford comma)
"Portugal, Spain and France" (Not Oxford comma)
I think this is what you're looking for:
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms365414.aspx
I doubt there was any sexist intent (regardless of perception). The fact is that there are a limited number of intelligible strings that can be made out of 8 hex chars and this is one of them that brought a smile to somebody's face. If we seriously consider that guy to be some sort of misogynist, then should we also consider OxDEADBEEF to be a radical vegan statement?
We _are_ all Rousseauists now, aren't we? There have been cultures in which the women of the ruling class handed off their offspring to nannies and for that matter wet nurses very early on.

(Upper 50s, one child now in 20s. Yes, it's a lot of work.)
I can understand and appreciate these ideas in some ways, but as others have pointed out, what the author describes seems to be related to more serious emotional issues surrounding confidence and self esteem.

Nothing particularly wrong with the sentiment and logic involved, it just seems a bit too 'one-size-fits-all' for an issue that possibly runs a lot deeper than one might think.
Would you rather miss hiring a good candidate? or hire a bad one? Easier to recover from the former mistake than the latter.
How is a VPN more secure than SSH?
Plumbr 1.1 - We Now Find PermGen Leaks
I have a response from OVH:

We are aware of this and are currently investigating it. Our initial thoughts were that it was indeed a compromise but after further review it seems that this is actually a bug with Debian and certain versions of RedHat.

We've tested it with different keys and have suffered the same results. I'll let you know if anything changes and we'll be announcing this shortly.

Thank you in any case, but rest assured it's not a serious issue.
How Changing Java Package Names Transformed my System Architecture
> But my real estate agent thinks I'm making a big deal out of nothing. Anyone have thoughts, experience, opinions, advice?

If you (trust|know|have worked with) your real estate agent, and he is vouching for the bag grammar and spelling guy, how does the bad grammar and spelling matter?
Dude, I so want to go there, apply, and write at the bottom of the page:

"No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that Office who shall not have attained to the Age of thirty five Years, and been fourteen Years a Resident within the United States." -- And that's the law of the land. Please try to parse that until your head explodes.

Edit: I think I would add to that "Also, in your opinion does this mean that once you have been in the country for 14 years you are no longer eligible to be President?"
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First-to-file != prior art. It just means if there is a dispute between two parties A and B, A invented the technique first but B filed it first, the law now states that B owns the patent.

This does not mean that I can now go and claim that using electricity to create logical meaning thus creating a computing machine is patentable (even if nobody patented it before)
I think it's more phonetic in nature. That isn't a mistake you will see often in India. We say all letters loud and clear:)
Poor grammar (i wuld leik to apply 4 jorb) is an acceptable thing to use when rejecting a candidate.

With that said, I have no interest in a writing career and I'm getting tired of reading about all these new and creative ways to take interviews as far from the subject matter as possible.

And finally, anyone who considers their experience set the baseline of which everyone should aspire to isn't someone I would be interested in working for. You're a professional writer. Good for you. I'm not. How about we take your ego out of this process and actually talk about something related to the position.
There's sometimes a huge mismatch between what the employer is asking, and his needs.

For example, at my current job we're asking for an expert in HTML5, JQuery, CSS2.1, CSS3, JavaScript, Ajax, Mobile Web Development, Mobile Web Performance, Cross-Browser, Cross-Platform Development; debugging tools (Firebug or equivalent), DOM, Internationalization, Localization, Apache.

The truth is, we have one of the ugliest websites, on an awful CMS, and our webpages are on ASP (not .NET, plain old ASP circa 1999) with VBScript hosted on IIS 5.

What such a rockstar web developer will be doing here beats me (the company does pay way above average wages locally, but such a developer can work for the US).

We've already wasted somebody who was a decent web programmer (he's doing mailing lists for the Marketing department), I guess that the selected applicant will end up doing ASP pages (maybe they'll let him migrate portions of the website very slowly).
2976579765 is just the decimal representation for 0xB16B00B5. I wouldn't call this a change.
Goddamnit, I don't know what's sexist and what isn't any more. What if the message was 0xB1GD1CK (okay, there's no K in hex). Should men be offended?
No, people pretty much have exactly the same sort of attitude: "I have nothing to hide so this doesn't concern me". Just wait and see.
I don't believe that somebody has to go through an entire process to question it's effects.

I agree that encouragement from a third party is beneficial to self confidence, but this article suggests that self-encouragement in the form of spoken word (rather than thought) would be helpful in gaining self confidence. Now if this works for some people I am happy for them, but I personally wouldn't put much trust in their self confidence.

Now I know that people's mileage vary with their personalities but I found that my biggest leap in self confidence was when I began to assess myself like I would any other. I look at whatever shortcomings I may have, such as motivation for example and try to look for a solution to the problem.

Otherwise I can imagine that it is much like curing the symptoms rather than the issue itself, people may use these techniques to gain self confidence but when somebody's self confidence outstrips their abilities I'd consider that to be just as bad.

Everyone's ridiculously different and I think we could all agree that no one approach would work for everybody. Before trying to convince myself that I can do something however, I'd be looking for the reasons why I think I can't and start working to rectify them.
It seems to be an SSH bug http://linuxfr.org/nodes/94898/comments/1369391

If there is a "from" filter on a key in case of failure this message appear even if the key don't match.
Right, that was one thing I thought of. Is he testing just for actual grammar rules like verb conjugation and such, or is he also including superficial style rules like "avoid the passive" or typographic things like how many spaces after a period?
Nothing on my logs. FreeBSD.