skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, aside from clang + boost + mac monstrosity [there is always something wrong with boost + clang + mac], I haven't seen any persistent problems with clang itself.

It's just that configure+build on mac is often a time sink... You try a default ./configure - it picks up legacy gcc4.2. Fail. You try forcing it to clang - there is something wrong with the switches/defines/gcc exts/etc. Easy to fix. But still sinks time :(
Are you replying to yourself below? flatline responds to flatline3. Suspicious.

That said, I hate ageism. Always have. However, as I get older, I find it more annoying that 22 year olds think they are "old." I'm 35 and Know I'm not old so 13 years my junior as old is just silly. Certainly 22 year olds can be mature. Old... no.
That's only solved part of the year if you're too far North. Also, you may need to wear less clothing and stay out longer than you'd expect.
Something I didn't understand at 18 (that I do at 35) is that your 'enemies' may be dealing with things you simply cannot understand.

If a coworker is belligerent to an 18 year old, they are assholes. To a 35 year old (at least to me), the first thing I think of is that I have no idea what their home life is like.

People endure crazy life experiences. I am working with them on a problem that results in revenue for both of us. Just because we're making money, doesn't mean that they're dealing with problems of personal identity, cancer, financial ruin, etc.

Age matters, kid. It fucking sucks. It's cool that you're punk rock about this. But you will achieve more & achieve faster when you realize that age really does matter.

(p.s.- age is not a way to measure wisdom, but it is a wisdom indicator)
Go look at the Haskell code dons has written and come back and confirm or cancel your claim. Hint: dons studies Core to get the great performance his code achieves.

People like dons can do amazing work in Haskell. There at 10x or 100x as many people who can't (not without at least a PhD's worth of study at least), but could be productive in Go on a large array of projects they need to do.

/Studied haskell, hung out on #haskell, thinks its awesome, made me a better java programmer, but always gets blocked on showstoppers due to not knowing the incantations and deep type theory needed to structure a program for high performance and debug space leaks.
Ubuntu Mono for me.

I'm eagerly awaiting the release of Source Sans Pro Mono [1] though.

1: http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/2012/08/source-sans-pro....
this has been done by a company called Advanced Computer Research in the 1990s - it has been proven to be working very well, so well that it was taken off the market (with force / criminal means). Officially the company was sold to an US conglomerate and immediately all products were taken off the market.

It was - in difference to the snake oil antivirus software sold commercially otherwise since then - also able to protect against unknown threats by creating a security focused virtual machine inside the PC and a sandbox around applications. This was the first VM available for PCs (1995)

The only links still visible that I could quickly find are:
http://www.securityfocus.com/tools/803
http://web.archive.org/web/19990117023714/http://www.acrmain...
"Speaking by phone from an undisclosed location....he intended his film to be a provocative political statement condemning the religion"

http://www.haaretz.com/news/middle-east/israeli-filmmaker-in...
> Are you replying to yourself below? flatline responds to flatline3. Suspicious.

No. Caused me to raise my eyebrows too.
Additionally, the effects of the anonymity that mobs naturally provide even without the influence of leadership should not be ignored.

I love anonymity, I really do. I think the ability to have it is vital in any free society. Even so, I cannot deny that it has its downsides, and lowering social inhibitions is one of the more serious ones.
>> If I spend twice as much at McDonalds, I'm spending less money somewhere else.

> But if that doubling in money spent is solely due to wage increases on the service side, then those people are going to spend it somewhere else, probably somewhere locally.

Just like the other folks who were going to get the money that you want to divert to McDonalds.

> Minimum wage is not a tax, it is a regulated minimum on cost of labour, primarily to protect against people being taken advantage of when they are desperate.

If I want to buy a gallon of vodka, I'm required to pay money that I wouldn't pay otherwise - we call that a tax. How is requiring someone to pay more for an hour of labor any different? (In both cases, the argument is made that the money goes for a good cause....)

>> If you really believe that the minimum wage has almost no negative effects, why not raise it to $100.

> There's fairly obvious reasons for not trying to raise the minimum wage above the average wage.

The minimum wage can't be higher than the average wage....

The stated "minimum wage increases have no effect" argument doesn't have any dependency on the level/amount of the minimum wage.

Feel free to provide an argument that does.

> Personally I doubt that you really believe the tripe you are coming out with.

Hmm. I thought that the relevant question was whether I was correct or not.

Is this really a "Tinkerbelle" issue?
"Functional programming" is 10% of what makes Haskell difficult. The intricacies of laziness and existential types and opimizing higher order functions are more the problem.
Actually, that would probably be pretty boring--the two languages overlap considerably. I worked at an OCaml company this summer; coming from Haskell, I picked the basics up immediately and only took a bit more time to learn some of the more advanced features (e.g. OCaml functors).

I had some discussions about OCaml vs Haskell and, honestly, nobody could come up with a particularly strong case in either direction. (That said, we didn't do anything using multiple cores where Haskell has a bit of an advantage, I believe.) It always came down as "well, Haskell is awesome, but we're already using OCaml and it's pretty awesome too, and maybe easier to learn".

Much more interesting would be Haskell/OCaml vs everybody else, but that gets played out all the time anyhow :P.
While this is true, using imo.im is probably significantly easier than setting up your own XMPP client on your own box that will send push notifications to your phone and achieves the same thing.
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Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think what they're getting at is that they're expecting an evolution in malware because of this. i.e. your typical "stupid"/mass malware will slowly grow obsolete, maybe even drop off the map and be replaced with more intelligent forms of the same thing, using concepts from that of Flame or better.

So should malware authors all figure out what Flame (or other more advanced malware) is doing, and how to do it themselves, eventually current day AV _will_ be useless.

No?
Yeah it's definitely a good idea to inform yourself before popping a bunch of pills.

But, examining your diet is not going to help you make an informed decision in this particular instance. For example, you could have a gene that causes D malabsorption, or a specific type of gut bacteria that breaks down D3.

If you are serious about it, then a quick blood test is the best way to know. [1]

More importantly Vitamin D is tricky, because it has risks on BOTH side of the equation.

Deficiency can be very serious as well. Human biases tend towards non-action when confused or overwhelmed with information.

If anyone is interested in my data that has helped me, my blood tests are available on Google Docs[2] as well my 23andme partial genome[3]

[1] http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/analytes/vitamin-d/t...

[2] https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Ap5VmOaeqt6JdEx...

[3] http://bit.ly/UURj6y
Once you drop IE8, from an app dev perspective, you're in "modern browser" territory across the board.

It's amazing how limiting IE6-8 have been, and continue to be, to the growth of apps on the web.

That said, we're building a brand new app and even we support IE6-8! We just do it with a completely separate, basic UI, that we also use for accessibility requirements.
If dons were concerned about this post hurting anyone's reputation, he would have a Herculean effort to clean up a decade's worth of similar and more scathing commentary.
a man of my generation sees a little of the Larry Ellison swagger about Elon Musk. I hope he does more.
This is really interesting -- thanks for sharing. It seems to me that you could probably have nginx running on a regular box and then CloudFront as a caching CDN to avoid the S3 update delay.
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Show HN: Portfolio builder for mobile app freelancers
A few months ago we did a Show HN post if bare bones portfolio creator for mobile developers. We got a lot of awesome feedback from the community and have done our best to implement most of it.

What do you think?
In some orgs it is actually relatively easy for a PM to get a MacBook Air, for instance. You don't even need a bulletproof justification. Although with the new crop of ultrabooks, the MacBook Air is no longer so unique, so it may be more difficult.
Adding to that high voltage more than anything is the benefit of AC.

The weight of the conductor is a big problem for long runs of power lines so if you double the AC voltage the weight of the conductor can decrease by 25%. DC over 1500 V isn't really possible/efficient (some limit of generators) but AC can be many hundreds of thousands of volts.

It appears some of my electronics training is sinking in, I put it to good use!
"you probably shouldn't have bought a Mac "in the first place" "
Especially if its to run it headless as mentioned in the latest post...
You're right about a lot here. Gaining wisdom with age is not guaranteed, and it's not a monotonic progression. Your comment about drug addiction is insightful.

But neither of those invalidate the original point -- that you can have age without wisdom, but not wisdom without age.
Current antivirus solutions can detect Flame, Duqu, Stuxnet, et al, they just need to know about them and/or what they do. That's the problem with blacklisting.

It's probably more helpful to think of these classes of malware as being "obscure" or "wide-spread" than "smart" or "stupid" (I apologize for my previous analogy.) "Advanced persistent threats" don't really exist on a higher plane than common, boring malware (although these have included some impressive payloads), they're just tailored toward something specific in most cases.

I think it's a logical impossibility that all malware should suddenly become as obscure as these were. The payload can certainly be shuffled around, but nothing stops AV from recognizing and stopping whatever mechanism decrypts and runs them. That doesn't, in any way, make AV a panacea--but that's the way it's always been.
It's not true though that quality investors shy away from high valuations. The difference between a high and low valuation for a given startup might be 3x at most, whereas the kind of startup they're hoping to fund could return 300x.

The enormous multiples generated by successful startups mean there is no "value investing" in the startup business. There are no successful investors who systematically seek out underpriced startups. The successful investors are simply the ones that pick the winners, regardless of price.
Like others have already pointed out, the experience of one person in a 100k+ employee company is not broadly applicable. Many employees have iPhones, yes, but many also have Windows Phones as well. I agree with you that since there is really no mandate to use MS products, it is a good sign if employees do use them, since it can signal that they truly are better than the competition.
IE10 will run on Windows 7.

http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/04/micros...

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/29/html5-for-appl...
I think that perhaps giving any name raised expectations all on its own. Anthropomorphizing what is essentially Google Voice on a stick makes it seem much closer to general AI than it is.

There might also be something to do with traditional gender roles--secretaries are usually cast as women, so perhaps that also raises expectations. However, I really don't know enough about gender issues to give any real insight. (Not that that ever stops me, but...)
Feels like they aren't taking window.devicePixelRatio into account so that they end up with a legitimately retina-sized canvas... My canvases were always blurry like this until I took dpr into account.
If "condemning" a religion is "hate speech", then a substantial portion of the commentary on liberal, skeptic, and atheist sites would qualify.
And here I thought this was going to be about how programmers can't get dates...
> [I learned XHTML and CSS in High School]

Wow. A WC3 specification has never made me feel so old.
Actually the interesting thing about that quote is that it's self refuting. It couldn't be too crowded if nobody goes there. The quote in the article is similarly self-refuting. If a startup has a high valuation, that means investors were willing to pay it.
That's also the beauty of it. You get to start with a beginners mind.
That sounds like you would have chosen differently if you had to choose now. Is that so?
Ahh, another one.

I appreciate the lesson and understand that wisdom also comes with age. I don't dismiss that - in fact I realize and acknowledge that. That's why people have mentors, people with decades of life experience to learn from.

"Learn to distinguish between people who treat you well because they respect you, and people who treat you well because you're running half their business for an intern-salary."

Perhaps that is something you did not learn in your youth, but you should know that does not mean that those of similar youth age don't realize that. Personally, this was a point I exploited when I ran my business. Having interns that were years older than me doing work for me. Quite "amusing", as you point out, now that I think back...

Nevertheless, I think your advice is true. Lots of people out to take advantage of young people. This is not new, though and anyone with the level of experience in business having done work previously in youth years would know this.

The pattern that I've noticed is most people will speak similar to you. Those that don't and truly appreciate it were once young entrepreneurs themselves and experienced their levels of 'success' so they understand it. Though perhaps I just choose to surround myself with mentors of that particular quality.
Sheeprolling - the new Rickrolling video.
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I always thought that mushrooms were a good source of vitamin D, ends up it a slightly different form and isn't a suitable source. Thanks for the heads up!
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google is run by jews, nuff said.
30,000req/minute is 500qps. That's... just not a lot for a large service.
"I'm very pro free speech, but...."

Let's expand on your thought process a bit....how about we just suppress all video that criticizes Islamic sensibilities just on the anniversary of 9/11? Well and maybe through Ramadan too. Just temporarily of course. Until "they" settle down and we get our security stuff straightened out.

Yeah, that's what the framers of the Constitution thought when the wrote the FIRST Amendment.
vim, emacs, textmate?
Wow... What a convenient change.
http://www.shoebuy.com/gym-shorts.htm
moral and respect towards other religions. jews is backing google, i've said enuf.
Woah, thank for the explanation. You're right, and that makes sense. However I'm of the "anything is possible" mindset, so I do still have to wonder if signature matching is nearing its end. Though I admit, given what you've just clarified, it seems unlikely.

I guess we'll have to wait and see!
Pretty much if you live in a northern part of the northern hemisphere (above 49 degrees latitude) you need a vitamin D supplement.

I recall reading about a researcher in Boston (I think) who said after about mid October you could be sprawled buck naked on a rooftop all day and not get enough vitamin D from (brief winter) sun exposure.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/story/2008/05/16/f-health-vita...
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My bad. I'm 25 now, does that help? Haha
Ten Thousand Hours.
We don't want drivers, we just want complete and accurate specs.
More from Andy Rubin: http://officialandroid.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-benefits-imp...
If you ask nicely, AT&T will upgrade every year -- they have for me. They'll tell you about the "early upgrade fee" ($250), so just ask them what your current early termination fee is -- it'll be less (that's why they raised it last year).

So you pay the ETF and switch to Verizon. If you got the 4S last year, you're looking at $215 right now for an ETF vs $250 for the "early upgrade fee". Chances are, they want to retain you as a customer, so they'll waive the upgrade fee.

I certainly don't feel bad for AT&T, my average monthly bill is $130, so I'm paying them ~$1600 in monthlies per year plus the annual $200 (& change!) upgrade fee. So I don't think it's unreasonable to get a new $650 iPhone each year for the $2K I'm paying (which as you say probably only costs them $350).

I just wish they'd formalize this into a "Apple fanboi" plan so I don't have to threaten to cancel, argue with managers etc to get that shiny new phone on release day!

Full disclosure: I do sell the previous phone via eBay, so I guess I'm at least making the $200 upgrade fee back.
And what was the verdict?
UK resident to be sentenced for "Offensive Facebook Message"
Automated database failover is absolutely mandatory for HA environments (as in, there is no way to run a 5 9s system without it) but, poorly done, results in actually reducing your uptime (which is a separate concept from HA).

I've been in a couple of environment in which developers have successfully rolled out automated database failover, and, my takeaway, is that's it usually not worth the cost - and with very, very few exceptions, most organizations can take the downtime of several minutes to do manual failover.

In general, when rolling out these operational environment, they are only ready when you've found, and demonstrated 10-12 failure cases, and come up with workarounds.

In other words - if you can't demonstrate how your environment will fail, then it's not ready for an HA deployment.
Schumpeter should be required reading.
How riled up will they be when they see the White House-approved full length feature film of the killing of Bin Laden? Will same principles apply?
No, I meant that Google would be within their rights as a private company (who is doing business in Egypt, etc.) to pause a video for a few days. The government wouldn't be the one compelling this.

The government not restricting free speech doesn't mean private companies are compelled to rebroadcast, republish, and distribute anything.
That is one of the reasons why I set up my workstation on my deck when I am working from home and the weather is nice.
But for the love of $DEITY, please wear adequate sun protection. At the very least that means a hat and sunscreen, but you probably want to be using long sleeved clothing and sunglasses if you're outside for an extended period of time.

Vitamin D deficiency is bad, but skin cancer is worse.
Musk's reality distortion field puts Jobs' to shame.

He said he's going to send people to Mars in 15 years. Here is one question. How often do you get a chance to launch a rocket to Mars? (Hint: it's not often). How many opportunities to send test missions and support gear will there be in the next 15 years? How long will it take to build all that stuff? A year? Two years? More? You just lost another mission.

Have they figured out how to get food there? Have they figured out how to breathe there? Have they even designed the vehicle or even the thermal system (for one example out of many) required to keep a human at a survivable temperature for the trip? Have they done anything to solve the incredibly difficult problems that we face in this area? The results here are not 'fucking great', they're non-existant.

And the claim of a VTOL supersonic jet that is a breakthrough in efficiency over traditional jets? Where are the results? There are none. zero. It's fantasy.

The results have been great for Paypal, impressive for Tesla, and SpaceX has proven a great contribution to the existing aerospace industry. Great for Musk - he has accomplished much and history will remember him as an influential industrialist and visionary. But BS is BS, no matter who spews it.

EDIT: This thread has gotten lots of downvotes, but not one substantive comment on what Musk has done that would indicate that these stories are anything but puffery aimed at gaining publicity for his much more mundane (but still rather impressive) efforts. When is the first Mars launch again? What will be the payload? Tick tock - that deadline will be here before you know it. The time has past for vision - the timetable Musk has outlined requires action now. Action that is conspicuously absent.
Well, I wouldn't say it's really hard to OD if one is not paying attention, although it's probably a very uncommon occurrence compared to deficiency rates. I have seen products with 50k IU available OTC and on the web, intended to be taken weekly.

One could see a scenario where this ends up getting consumed daily by mistake, and nutritionists would consider 50 000IU way to much in this case. (unless you have a specific condition, or post-op etc ad have been medicated in terms of therapy).
So they force Linux developers to become more clever about interfacing with hardware and pulling whatever they can out of the chips.

I'm sure that'll make Microsoft stronger in the future.
Nice head fake into correct use of "inciteful".
>Unlike military counterparts like automatic M-16’s, rifles like those from Bushmaster don’t spray bullets with one trigger pull. But, with gas-powered mechanisms, semiautomatics can fire rapid follow-up shots as fast as the trigger can be squeezed. They are often called “black guns” because of their color. The police tied a Bushmaster XM15 rifle to shootings in the Washington sniper case in 2002.

Has nothing to do with the article, but they just can't resist.
I agree that you gain what can be called "wisdom" in many areas: you start to see things you've seen before, and you're prepared to act appropriately.

However, I don't know how much that matters. I'm 24, and when I was 17-18, I was KILLING IT as a band manager and show promoter. I sold $80,000 worth of tickets in 3 years for my own bands, and for anyone that's wondering: getting shows at good venues is borderline impossible, getting people to pay to see them another miracle.

I've done things since that people may call "more significant" but they weren't. That was the hardest thing I've ever done and my most significant accomplishment. And I couldn't do it again if I started today.
Try to find cases in the literature; you'll find cases of people taking orders of magnitude more than that for a month. But nothing serious from anyone taking 50k IUs/day, let alone per week.
In fairness to Visa and Paypal...

The government was a good deal more serious about the WikiLeaks thing. This is a one off film... WikiLeaks was going to keep releasing the 'news' for as long as it existed. The nature of that threat merited more robust action.

The US Government, Google, Visa and Paypal are no worse than any of the world's other governments or corporations. Little better... I grant you that... but no worse.
So your code has no bugs? That's a first.
It's the NY Times. Actually the opposition of the "smart" people like NY Times, leftists in general, etc. to firearms makes it an even better investment opportunity; less competition.
Or do a complementary business. Something SpaceX et al. could need.