skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Like I said, the interviewer who asked me to convert recursion to iteration, who knew something about it beyond "Dirty!", was a great guy with whom I had a great time. The fact that my quite-sufficient-in-his-opinion algorithmic skills ended up not being what his company actually needed doesn't change that it was a wonderful interview.
Windows Server 2012 UI & RDP Rant
The "Linus doesn't scale" bit is an old (2002) issue that was solved when they switched development process.

It looks like they just took negative things about Linux/GPL and thrown them together. There's no meat.
You merely illustrate my point. Too vague to be enforcable.

Vague on an international stage, maybe. But a national court (which is the only thing relevant), it might not be considered vague.
If the app isn't super complex yet, just sever the relationship with the outsourcing shop and rewrite it.

The "Do not rewrite, you'll kill yourself" advice only applies when the code has history. Legacy code has actual users that expect it to work a certain way, and has been tweaked over the years to cover cases that you aren't thinking about when you first start a project.

Your code isn't that. Your code is a prototype that you should feel fine about throwing away.
The Coming KDE — An Interview with Aaron Seigo
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Frontier was fine, a good Elite sequel. Even First Encounters was okay after extensive patching. And the problems with First Encounters at launch were apparently down to deadline issues with the publisher, just the kind of thing that a Kickstarter launch ought to avoid.
"I mean there has to be at least 100 million people in the world with the surname Wang so the odds that we are the same person are pretty slim!"

Except this seems to ignore that P(comment about Sam Wang | I am Sam Wang) is much higher than P(comment about Sam Wang | I am not Sam Wang) :-)
This could have been interesting, but with a sample size of 395, I'm afraid the numbers are very unreliable.
I've only met Numair once, but he's repeatedly seen patterns in the world that don't come to fruition for several years.

He's well ahead of his time; a visionary.

Really cool to see he's writing again!
IPsec/L2TP VPN on Ubuntu 12.10 with OpenSwan, xl2tpd and ppp
This is insane. I dont know who takes decisions in Gnome but has to be fired immediately. Gnome 2 was a nice and fast DE, it ran anywhere, it was great. They made so many bad decisions with Gnome 3, stopped caring for the user long ago and now they code only from themselves.
you could A|B Test with non-alcoholic drinks. maybe you just like a fancy beverage
Tech journalism in 2012 :

- Find some quotes (preferably rants) from random sources, vaguely related to your subject

- Add vague historical references

- Choose a provocative title

- Post on aggregators

- Collect comments and go back to step 1
Another Reason to Avoid #includes in Headers
Same thing here when connecting from the Netherlands, also sites with google includes (fonts, api etc) are loading slow.
Very cool he's going off to do such things. I only hope he'll meet the right people that allow him to achieve even more, people that he would have met at, say, MIT.
Yeah, you have to create an account by entering your email address and a password. That's all. I don't think there is an association between the account and device - the account is just where your settings get stored.

I agree that the requirement to be online to use the config program is silly, but most of the conspiracy theories, talk of DRM, and vilification of the company that are flying round seem a bit overblown.
Kinect Patent: CONTENT DISTRIBUTION REGULATION BY VIEWING USER
This whole thread is ridiculous. So I'm going to contribute something productive, and give a plug for a sensible JSON replacement, edn: https://github.com/edn-format/edn
Windows Development in C++, COM API clients
I, for one, am interested in his creating a fusion reactor at 14. I suppose from a regulatory perspective it's easier than fission, because the materials are safer and there's no risk of a runaway reaction (we wish). But while I've heard accounts of fission in garages and such, I'd never heard of anyone doing fusion. Ostensibly because of the exotic materials and energy required.

This piece is pretty fluffy, does anyone have something more technical about his first reactor design?
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Had trouble in US (near Sandy damage) until I dumped my DNS cache and reopened browsers.
Comment 13 on http://igurublog.wordpress.com/2012/11/05/gnome-et-al-rottin... suggests Red Hat is doing Embrace, Extend and Extinguish ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend_and_extinguish ).
He's not only bright but incredibly articulate.
In the United States, it's perfectly valid to submit an unmarked ballot.
I'm still trying to figure out why so many Dan Shipper articles get submitted here, and why they always end up near the top.

They always come across as nothing but self-promotion thinly veiled under buzzwords related to software development, rarely with any real substance.

From what I can tell, he hasn't really done anything notable. He's a college student who has apparently been involved with some relatively unknown startups, and otherwise does some pretty typical and unremarkable software development.

It just seems like he's usually trying to make a big deal out of stuff that's pretty inconsequential, while continually dropping his name or that of some startup he's involved with.
Being a wunderkind has probably afforded him more opportunities for networking than the average postdoc. He may be resented over his age or education, but he's already differentiated himself, even outside his field. I feel like a lab he's associated with could do very well funding-wise.
Great artists steal - A summary of recent computing history
Might be attention deficit disorder - self-medication with alcohol is pretty common for people with undiagnosed ADD. Since you have no trouble at work, it sounds like you work better in a structured environment. If you try specifically blocking out a period of time (say 7-9 pm) to work only on your project and not do anything else at all (turn off cellphone, close email/facebook/so on), you may be able to get yourself to work in the same way that you do at your job.

Just make sure that you end EXACTLY when you planned to end, as though you were at a job. Don't be a victim of Parkinson's Law.
I was part of the decision. I'm not sure if you get the concept of volunteers. My influence and decision abilities is not based on "company ideas" as you seem to think.

Meaning: I wasn't hired, I cannot be fired.
Perhaps we are talking at cross purposes. I'm not saying "every little helps", more like "ALL little helps". Saving 5% of my ketchup doesn't help me save 5% of my carbon emissions. Saving 5% of the ketchup, 3% of the mayonnaise, 10% of the plastic bags, 7% of the car fuel etc. etc. does help.

I could probably meet my individual targets by simply taking a big action like scrapping my car. But I'm not going to do it (for various reasons), and most people won't either. I'm much more likely to meet them by skimming a small amount of the top of a lot of other things than changing my lifestyle significantly in one or two areas.

Big change is needed, but it can come from a few big things or many little things. I disagree with the sources that you cite only in so far as I think, given the society we live in, the little things route is much more likely to succeed, particular in the consumer arena.

I think we both agree that just a little bit of a little bit isn't going to help.
Thanks for the advice. Yeah we're severing the outsourcing relationship from this week onwards. The plan is to hire an in house dev team and I just want to make the right decision about the way forward.

I wouldn't say that the code is a prototype but it sure is an MVP. There are tons of issues with it and one thing about refactoring that scares me is that we may not necessarily hit all the buggy corners of it and may end up with some corrupt data.
> Offline storage. Page caching. It does exist.

But unfortunately it doesn't always work. Point in case: Google Maps offline mode on tablet sometimes doesn't work, because every now and then Google Maps app needs to contact Internet for something, and won't let you use it off-line until it connects and gets what it wants. Not fun if you're in the middle of nowhere at that moment.
Teensy 3.0 looks awesome. Do you know anything similar with a radio?
On Kayak getting acquired by Priceline
Doesn't load for me from Amsterdam. Maybe I can get some work done for a change?
Maybe we don't have to blame him for anything, but we can still have the opinion that he's a childish asshole.
I believe the general consensus is that "evil" is subjective. See the abortion argument above. "Evil" can be spun many different ways.

It's "evil" to use automation software because it eliminates jobs of hard working Americans. etc etc
Rewrite it, I have been in situations like this before and I wonder why I did not rewrite it.
Annual Income And Happiness: The ’75000 USD’ Tipping Point
Creating the Web Service II - Introduction to jQuery UI - Part 24
I'd imagine this will expand, as Facebook Zero has (same idea, but free Facebook access instead).
Dumb decisions like becoming a medical doctor? This isn't a matter of what decision someone's wife made. You just like blaming the victim by default and forcing them to defend themselves before your imagined seat of justice.
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The author also seem to forget that there are advocates of the MIT license who would never use GPL software because of its viral nature. Does that mean Richard Stallman is 'harmful to software'? Criticize the license, but don't name-call the author who has made major positive contributions to the field.
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There is a large difference here:

* The GPL is pushing an agenda in their licence, and attempts to clearly state your legal obligations.

* Crockford, on the other hand, is trying to crack a joke in a legal document. As the author states, this is dangerous to people who don't understand the legal ramifications of using this. From what I can see, the author is venting their frustration that Crockford appears to be treating the whole affair like a big joke, and I can totally understand that.
Thick on rebellion against the system, thin on science.

Auto-didactic nuclear physicist? OK, not entirely impossible, but pardon my skepticism, I need more details. Did any of his inventions went in production? What kind of fusion reaction we're talking about?
That's great, unless he needs to drive to get to work in order to get a paycheck and keep his head above water for another week. Do people really not understand that there are people who do not have the luxury of a risk-free life?
I am, yeah.
It is worrying how many comments a bad article can attract merely telling people how bad the article is. Presumably comment count is used as a measure of quality, even if the comments are negative?
Mr Hess has commented on the Debian tradition that the first CD image of the CD installer set is able to install a complete functional desktop. See

http://joeyh.name/blog/entry/debian-cd_work_at_DebCamp/

The implication is that I draw from this is that the XFCE as default suggestion was related to getting the first iso size below 700Mb.
I don't. We need cheaper internet access, not subsidized content by providers.
I'll never forget the first time I try Phoenix 0.1, all the way to Firefox 1.0, and still continue using it now with version 18 (Aurora).
The problem is that not getting a university degree still makes you far more likely to end up poor. So people are still making the "rational" investment, which is to take a 40% chance of a good job over a 10% chance (numbers pulled from my ass, but you get the point).
That's why large corporations have hordes of lawyers to help with such things. There is no such thing as accidentally using code under a certain license and there are procedures in place to handle that.

It's no different with using commercial code that was licensed to you, anyway. You still have to adhere to the licensing terms and if you don't they can sue you.
quite cool to finally see 'advanced' typographical possibilities in css, can save so much time and nerves. And they lead to a better web-typo which is still often way too underrated
Might that not be because your body views 6pm as drinky-time?
Microsoft's "Skype In The Workspace." It's Like A Video-Based Quora
Show HN: I shipped: WOPR - Game of Life in a synthesier
This is the very first side project I've ever finished on my own, let alone shipped, and that makes this a very big moment for me.

WOPR (an early build looked a bit like the computer in War Games) began as a simple Game of Life implementation and it turned into something much bigger. Along the way I got interested in synthesis programming and DSP, so I decided to combine the two and create a virtual analog synthesizer for the iPad. There are a few of these out there but this is the only one I've found that deviates a little bit from the classic synth architectures of the past.

WOPR uses the Game of Life to modulate (ie control) the synth's parameters. Rather than twiddling the various knobs directly, you can link them to zones on the Life grid and have the number of living cells decide the parameter's value. The 16x16 wrapping Life grid is unusual in two respects: it's size is very small for a Life implementation, and it has an 'immortality' feature used to fix cells in place. This leads to some very interesting repeating patterns which are excellent for rhythmic modulation. Other than that there are a few interesting things: the synth architecture is dynamic, with the signal flow being linked to parameters which themselves can be modulated. This can lead to some pretty wild and rapidly-changing sounds. The synth itself is also pretty powerful, with 6 note polyphony, full stereo and two oscillators per note. The matrix window which links parameters to the Game of Life grid is also a great way to build custom control panels for performance.

There are more details at:

http://www.omnivoresoft.com

and on the store:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wopr/id570489741?ls=1&mt=8

It works on iPad 2 or new iPad. I haven't tried it on an iPad 1 but it's close to limits on the 2 so I doubt it'd work well.

Thanks for reading!
I doubt that traffic makes up for the majority of their cost, but I assume that traffic is easier to measure than CPU time or RAM usage.
Android For Your Mom
The first time I used tabbed browsing was using Opera waaaaay too many years ago. :)
"A group of people wearing safety goggles so they can pour ketchup out of a bottle."

They look to me like they are in a lab and its generally a really good idea to stick to safety rules in materials labs.
Life imitates Art..
This is the real life Sheldon Cooper :)
There's opensource Obj-C compilers by both GNU and LLVM/Clang available for windows and linux, so it doesn't have to be hosted on apple hardware afaik, but when you start using library frameworks, that I'm not sure about.
Ignorance is, in fact, the traditional defense against responsibility. And yes, sufficient ignorance absolves.
Modafinil does.

http://www.gizmag.com/go/3574/
Clickables: http://www.omnivoresoft.com

and

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/wopr/id570489741?ls=1&mt...
Seems like a real, major user requested a clarification / amendment to their software license in order to use the software. Crockford granted such a clarification / amendment. I don't see the problem here.

Software is written and licensed by people, and is susceptible to their quirks and foibles.
I don't know why people focus so much on "default" desktop environments. No desktop is more supported than another one, as long as there is a package (and a maintainer! come join us, all hands are welcome) for it. This commit is from tasksel's git repository, which is used when you decide to install "tasks" from the debian installer.

Choosing to install a particular desktop environment when you want a "graphical environment" is only a matter of convenience : proposing GNOME from a CD install is getting harder because of the size of new versions. Several ideas were proposed : changing the default DE in tasksel, changing the compression scheme for .debs (using LZMA instead of bzip2), or even dropping CD installations IIRC (keeping just CD and USB netinstalls, and DVD installations).
Almost all debt I've seen was generated by either medical problems or going to university.

And I say this as someone with no debt whatsoever and a reasonable income each month that I live within. You are talking nonsense.
Question: Why do laptops now ship with Windows 8?
I'm looking for a pc after years with a mac. My dad has a windows 7 laptop which is good and supports all the programs I use (*Eclipse, Net Beans, Photoshop ect). But as I look around I see all the new laptops have Windows 8. But my understanding is windows 8 is mobile software made for netbooks, tablets, phones, ect and won't be able to support the programs I use. Why is shipping on laptops? Is this where we are heading?

This is getting super confusing. That's like buying a dell laptop with android. I can't run my programs on android. I am doing development, git, eclipse, netbeans, PS3, ect.

I'm really getting confused - is there something I'm missing?

Is windows 8 for laptops different than windows 8 for tablets,netbooks,and phones?

Because there is no way android can support the programs I need so I don't see how windows 8 could?
Barium shortage leads to cancellation and delays in some medical tests
Didn't think of that. When I was a kid people did think I have some form of behavioral problems, but when I got into programming from an early age then it all disappeared so I don't think it's ADD.

But thanks for the timing advice. I'll have to try that.
Conventional narratives about Darwinian competition among OS's in the run up to Black Tuesday always fail to mention the "Neanderthal" in the room - Lisp machines. Conceived before the Win-Tel revolution allowed plebeians to compute and developed in the military industrial culture of secrets around Boston, Lisp machines contained the "evils" which caused Stallman to act.
> Civil liberties and free speech are supposed to be the cornerstone of American democracy and yada yada, but people suddenly feel extremely threatened when people want to exercise them.

Notice the government doesn't get their panties in a bunch over the Westboro church, or Tea Party townhalls, but turn your attention towards the plutocrats and suddenly there's riot police in the street. The fact that the government feels threatened lends credence to their critique.
It has nothing to do with what I think, it has to do with the way the phrase is typically used, and the reaction it gets: In normal usage, it's mild.

This is true of many religious words used in this manner ... they've pretty much lost any bite they once had. E.g. "God! <complain complain>" is similar: 75 years ago maybe you'd have had people up in arms over that, but these days nobody will even notice.
Well, try updating it for the present.
If I may ask, what is it that drives you to volunteer to work on a project that has so much negativity surrounding it these days?

I've found GNOME 3 to be a very interesting case study. Here we have what was once a very successful project that has gone through a very rough patch lately.

Many existing users aren't happy with what it has become, and although changes are happening, they only seem to be provoking more and more negativity. I can't recall any GNOME 3-related news where the sentiment was positive. At best, it's a sense of "well, things aren't getting any worse!" And while I don't have any numbers, I gather that GNOME 3 isn't really attracting all that many new users, either.

The future doesn't exactly look bright. Based on the comments here regarding this decision, for example, it clearly isn't what the user community wants. There seems to be much more excitement and positivity around projects like MATE and Cinnamon, which basically go against what the GNOME team is doing.

I don't mean to be insulting, but I have a very difficult time understanding why anyone would still want to be publicly associated with the GNOME project these days.
The contributions from ego-driven testosterone-filled spoiled brats are significant.

Indeed, I would go further and say that the fruits of Open Source are in significant part the result of young men trying to impress and outdo each other in mental contests and show each other who's smarter (aka whose organ is bigger). This kind of competition is driven by testosterone.

And we all benefit as a result.
I don't think so, well not conciously anyway. I don't drink often. Perhaps I'll get a bottle of gin once ever 2-3 months. I've just noticed my personal projects would get a boost during the wet season.
Very vague indeed. Back when I was in college (the 80s) at least one of our physics professors had a home brew particle accelerator -- which will let you do fusion very inefficiently.

I suspect we are talking about some device that can do fusion very inefficiently and can measure the energy output relative to input rather than in any way being a stepping stone to a workable design (e.g. a spark generator probably qualifies).
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You're making a lot of assumptions here. Perhaps they're founded, and perhaps they're not -- but either way, you seem to be using these folks' work as an effigy for a broader complaint with the food industry, or with the FDA. The industry may be shady, and the government does allow a lot of frightening substances into our food without adequate testing. But let's not burn some enterprising young kids for those mistakes.

Now, there are a lot of things we don't know about LiquiGlide. Maybe it's just a carbon-polymer matrix that keeps the ketchup flowing by mechanical action, and not by chemical action? Whatever it is, I would imagine that anyone designing such a substance would realize that ketchup is fairly acidic; therefore, LiquiGlide would need to be chemically inert when positioned next to an acid. I am not an organic chemist, but I imagine these guys had one, or consulted with one, or at any rate, know a lot more about the subject than I do. So if this stuff's occurring to me, no doubt it occurred to them.

To be fair, that doesn't mean the substance is safe. In fact, I'd probably share your skepticism about consuming ketchup from a bottle made with any nonstick coating, as the history of nonstick coatings is riddled with unsafe chemicals. That being said, I consider these kids and their work to be innocent until proven guilty.

Finally, if you don't want artificial ingredients in your food, then don't eat Heinz ketchup in the first place. :) Complaining about chemical additives to what is basically a sauce of chemical additives is a little like saying that you want your deep fried ice cream to be low-fat. Very little of what's in a bottle of Heinz ketchup even came from a tomato in the first place.
Is this the follow up to "Computer Generated Math Paper makes it into Peer Reviewed Journal"? http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4676837

The whole article contradicts itself. Just start with the title: "The GPL self-destruct mechanism" vs. "This is why Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer has been declared the licence "viral"." A spreading virus that does harm by... killing itself?
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I am a big chocolate milk fan. But I don't get the same feeling. In fact I usually feel the need to get up and eat after drinking water/juice/milk though.