skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In my search for quiet, I often carry a decibel meter around. Amtrak cars, even the quiet cars, have a constant 90 decibel background noise when in motion (measured with a C weighting). It seems like a lot of the train noise is in the low frequencies and the A weighting OSHA uses is the only thing keeping Amtrak out of violation.
For the same reason, I wake up early (0200-0300 or so) because most tech people are likely to work late, so waking up early and doing stuff from 0400-1000 or so is functionally the same as staying up late.
I gave up on hot corners once multitouch gestures were introduced. If you're using a mouse with OS X then you owe it to yourself to try a trackpad. It completely transforms the experience in a way that I wouldn't have thought possible.
You respect them and then they lynch you. When a tolerant culture meets untolerant culture, the former usually backs off even if it's more advanced. Take France as example.

I think we should not be tolerant to people who violate basic human rights. They either behave or we should find a way to catapult them away.
I don't know why part of my comment is in italics, I didn't surround it in asterisks or whatever. Sorry about the implied strenuousness of that part of my comment, it was unintentional.

Anyway, of course they're code organization and maintenance tools. You and I apparently have very different definitions for various phrases such as "real time", "DSL", and "code organization".
It has both: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/pricing/details/#virtual-m...
We tend to cling to aphorisms because they sound nice. OP laid down the facts quite candidly.
I don't know why "being an entrepreneur" is used interchangeably for "attracting venture capital" so much. Solo entrpreneurs might have more difficulties attracting VC, but it's generally much easier for them to sort out their issues in a growing company. How many startups have blown up because some co-founders left / changed their minds / caused conflicts?
Ordinary people can understand

And so is the fundamental problem with quiet people that they're hyper-sensitive, judgemental assholes?
We use AWS (and with great satisfaction) because it provides a full offering. We don't just need a bunch of servers, we also need databases, one or more queues, backup storage, caching and so forth. AWS provides all of these services, offers one (reasonably clear) dashboard for them and makes it insanely easy to get them all running and tied together. As for the Zero Support thing: our experience is that it is quite easy to get support from people at Amazon. I've been emailing extensively with one of their platform architects which was actually a very nice experience.
True silence for long periods of time makes you insane. For a minute or two it's awesome how you start hearing "the sound of silence".
If anybody is wondering this is in response to "a mumbai girl arrested". http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4803350

He is the same guy who published the article "Why I can’t pay tribute to Thackeray"[1] in national news paper The Hindu.

I request OP to edit the title from 'smart judge' to 'former supreme court judge', which makes the HNers know that that articles is worthy of their time and attention.
And also I didn't understand 'Smart Judge'

[1] http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/why-i-cant-pay-tribute...
It's a good thing some people actually shoot for the stars so that they build platforms that enable people like you who don't like to gamble to build small profitable apps living a healthy lifestyle.
If nobody shot for the stars, we would be stuck at the stone age.
In US terms, Judge Rehnquist just wrote to the Washington Post with a letter titled "Fuck You, You Fascists"

Am I reading this wrong?

I would also like some Indian context I may be missing.

Cheers
I listen to bird song, as it makes me think I'm outside in the Summer Time:

http://www.birdsongradio.com
What I don't understand is why you feel like you are supposed to use "Modern UI" apps on your big screen. You are not. Everything you enjoyed to do with Windows 7 is still possible with Windows 8. Just because there is an alternate way to do them does not mean you have to adopt it...
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Actually, A4 has an aspect ratio of one to the square root of two. Your point still stands, as this is even closer to the iPad screen than 2:3.
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Valley-style entrepreneur culture seems to feature quite a generous serving of self-aggrandising ass-hattery. Is it really any wonder the king of Hackernews has a good few scoops on his plate?
The headline should read 'Faked research pervasive in China,' not 'endemic'. The existing headline means that faked research doesn't occur outside of China, which is, of course, completely false. The word 'endemic' is incorrectly used in the headline of the article itself, and occurs in the article, so it is not the fault of the submitter. The editors New Scientist ought to know better.
I don't see the author saying otherwise anywhere.
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Yes, C++ has been and will stay as the language of choice for many major free and commercial apps. It's not very surprising as there exists quite a lot of professionals with skills in C++ and the performance of applications written in C++ is generally very good.
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I think you've spent more time reading social news linkbait than actually using ruby or examining its community at the ground level.

> The whole tone of this article is a good example, actually

Hold on there, don't extrapolate whatever shitty article makes it's way to HN or Reddit as a litmus test for a "community" (btw, putting "community" in quotes is pretty condescending in and of itself). This guy has no standing in the ruby community whatsoever. I don't know if he's a good developer or not, but his article is certainly sensationalistic and defensive and won't earn him any respect from any ruby devs I know.

If you were to judge every PL community by their most defensive blowhards then you wouldn't be a programmer at all, because every community will attract some proportion of ignorant coat-tail riders without the courage to confront the real issues of their ecosystem.

The Ruby community's biggest fault is a higher-than-average adherence to fashion, as annoying as that can be from a stability perspective, it's not an unmitigated failing because it means a genuinely good idea may catch on faster.
>Here in France all train cars are "quiet cars" and most people respect that.

I wish it were true... I took the train last week and was in the same wagon as 4 "rednecks" who ate their lunch while drinking wine, chewing loudly and laughing. The whole wagon could hear what they were talking about. The SNCF employees didn't even care...
I am a regular train user and it is unfortunately pretty frequent occurrence.
I live in an old inner-ring streetcar suburb (sans streetcar, sadly) that's walking distance (about 2 km) from the downtown core. It's not as bad as some of the newer subdivisions I've been to, but it certainly experiences a share of leaf blowers, gas lawn mowers, gas snow blowers, SUVs and pickup trucks roaring down the street (they're much louder than compact cars), and the distant rumble of traffic on a nearby arterial. We had a backyard dinner party this past summer that was interrupted for an hour by a freaking wood chipper in a yard behind us.
I'd be interested to see which subset of C++ each company picked. Google's coding guidelines are always cited, but I can't find many others. MySQL's seem lacking in details. C++ is such a broad spectrum, I bet some of these companies only used simple classes and virtual functions, whereas some used boost.spirit and functors.

https://dev.mysql.com/doc/internals/en/general-development-g...
I think a better comparison would be that you accidentally submersed your computer for several minutes in scalding hot water.
So let's assume these guys are on staff working at market rates for experienced pros in a major metro area. Say salaries of $90k per year (realistically they cost much more and we'll get to that)

They each then make $7500 a month...multiply by 2 (2 guys working for a month) = $15k. 2 Months = $30k.

Either way we're still in Hyundai Accent to Honda Accord range there, and the hourly rate is a bit over $40/hr (or $80/hr for both guys).

So you are right that it can be done for under $100 per hour. But it still costs about a car.

More realistically,

If you estimate it out the right way, benefits and all included, you start to climb up the hourly rate scale very quickly. And the cars you can buy with that money get a hell of a lot nicer.

A good rule of thumb is that you assume skilled experienced labor wants to bring home about $100k. A good conservative estimate of what it costs to employee somebody at $100k is about $200k (benefits, overhead admin expenses, etc.). And if you follow that, we end up with about $100/hr per person pretty quickly.

So do you want a C-class or an E-class?
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Don't really see what the point of the article is. Some entrepreneurs build try to build small/medium, moderately risky businesses, and that's fine. Some try to shoor for the stars, high risk/high return. That's fine too.
Sincerely, from the bottom of my heart: It doesn't matter

I have some familiarity with some of the systems described (and with other systems that use C++). Let me put it this way:

- Large enterprise projects are bad

- Large enterprise projects in C++ are very bad. It's like giving razor blades to a kindergarten group for a whole afternoon. I wish I was kidding

- "Done in C++" is not as important as the capabilities of the platform targeted

C++ is good, and very powerful. And I have a million reasons not to use it unless absolutely necessary.

If you want to use it I'll give you 3 tips:

- Focus on STL and maybe Boost (use it sparringly and wisely! don't overdo it)

- Avoid inheritance hell

- Don't go crazy with Templates, in fact don't even use them (except for what's in STL already)
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"I really doubt a v1 of an app would have much if any "optimization""

It would need to be written to be optimizable.
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IMHO they only push developers to start building Windows Store apps because, well, they need apps in their store. It doesn't mean you should stop building apps for the desktop.
The thorough seeding of the list with defunct examples (BeOS, Mac OS < X) gives off a weird vibe.

There's also the standard halo effect listing. Any sufficiently large company is using a language / methodology / philosophy / technology you've heard about. And they're being namechecked on that language / methodology / philosophy / technology's website.

The classic is Microsoft.

Did you know Microsoft uses Scrum? They do!

Did you know Microsoft uses ISO 9295-424:54 (Humungo Software Dev Standard Written by the SEI, the DoD and a committee of 200 researchers from different Fortune 50 companies)? They do!

(Hint: Microsoft doesn't have a single unified method of development, it's largely up to each section to decide how they do the work)
That'd would work until 6 months from now when there's a Metro app that you desperately need. Don't forget that only Metro apps can be sold in the app store, which provides a lot of infrastructure that many devs will find compelling.

Whether you like it or not, you will likely be using Metro apps on a regular basis in a year or two.
As does mine. When it changes to "Top" it's glaringly obvious, too.

Perhaps the option persists because I use Facebook in a limited way, always through a dedicated device - primarily, through its own virtual machine, occasionally on an old smartphone with no SIM over WiFi, never via my primary browser or active cellphone.

In my case, Facebook's data mining only sees a reflection of my Facebook related activities. It is tempting to share more, but I have better places to subject people to what's on my mind.
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You live in a bubble. Word is legion.

Step in to any law office, for example.
Most of amazon.com systems are written in perl mason. Very few systems use c++, I would say not a single major system at Amazon is written in c++. It definitely should not be included in this list
Well, you said Solaris, not SmartOS.

If you really believe there is more information in SmartOS' wiki than in man pages & other proper documentation available about Linux, I don't think the problem is with the Linux monoculture, but somewhere else.
Is it a problem that the start menu is huge? The traditional start menu has always felt like a huge usability nightmare to me and I'm nothing but glad that it's been replaced.
Not hyperbole: most perfectly weighted comment I've seen on HN so far. Thank you, good sir.
Before the haters flag this like yesterday: read the damn post. There's a reason for the acerbic title, and it has absolutely zero to do with denigration of females.
SmartOS is Solaris. All documentation about Solaris is pertinent to SmartOS.
Presumably not the same as the Brown Note: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brown_note
It just be noted that he is the Chairman of the Press Council of India, currently.
Good point. Most c++ coding standards I've seen are lists of stuff not to use.
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You do know they employ many of Solaris' core developers, right?
I really doubt a v1 of an app would have much if any "optimization", profiling, analytics, or documentation.

I would argue that the majority of the easy apps are done. Anything more complicated than a fart app will require profiling and optimization. It's easy to forget that iOS and Android are embedded systems with a finite amount of resources.
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I agree that the word choice could be improved to reduce sensationalism but technically 'endemic' has two definitions. The first seems to be what the author of the article and especially the interviewee intended.

"adjective Also, en·dem·i·cal.
1. natural to or characteristic of a specific people or place; native; indigenous: endemic folkways; countries where high unemployment is endemic."

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/endemic?s=t
The list seams very old.
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I'm one of two people to explain to Cisco why they should buy Aironet (spelling, Chuck!), instead of Symbol...

largely on the fact that their software was better.
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So, Instapaper + Google docs is a suitable replacement?

That's what I use currently.

Also, I could not find any integration with kindles, except for 'open the website in your kindle'.
After researching a bit on the net I chose C++ Primer 5/e (not C++ Primer Plus). The author uses some of the new features of C++11 in the examples (like constexpr, auto, list initializer etc.) so you get used to a modern C++ style, but for every new feature it tell you what it replaces so you can still maintain "old" code. The book in subdivided in 4 parts, the first part is about the language, the secondo part about the STL, the third part about advanced OOP and the fourth part about advanced stuff.

Also the Kindle edition is really well done.
"Windows" no longer supports multiple windows on the screen.

I don't understand how they can make such a bold claim and get away with it. That is NOT TRUE. A power user who needs multiple windows will quickly understand that using the Desktop is in order, so he can work exactly the way he was on Windows 7.
Last change was xp -> vista I think. When they added the search bar into the start menu.
If the user misses it, it's the developers fault.
It's funny you interpret that as an attack. What do you perceive as hostile in my post? It's just part of the Python philosophy. Whether you consider this a good or a bad thing is up to you. Personally, I consider it an advantage, though I used to think different.

It is true the blog post does not mention Python. However, if you should pick one "opiniated" language in the same niche as Ruby, this is the one most people would pick.
I consider myself a power user (and developer) on Windows 8 and and Windows Server 2012. I don't want (or need) the start menu back.

It became a mess very, very quickly, unless you reordered it every Saturday. Searching in that weird 'I put my application below a name that represents my company', 'I use a cute name for the folder that contains my app' and 'Ah, I just drop the shortcut right into the main start menu' mess was annoying.

Your 'DOS box' example is wrong and you know it - or should as a power user. The name is already chosen in a weird way (DOS? Really?) and you should know that the thing you're talking about doesn't

- search for partial matches in the name

- searches only the %PATH% and current directory

- isn't usable to search for documents, really

- quick: Tell me what you'd type to open the network & sharing window? The printer device list?

No idea what industry you're talking about, but your sample ruined most of your case for me. And as stated before I couldn't even understand the issue before that, since I'm quite happy with my shortcuts here. Win+x, Win+i, Win+., Win+cursorKey, Win+Pause is really all I need or care for.
If it truly were an expedient, I would be able to understand a little better, but based on observations of my neighbors' leaf blowing routines, it is no faster than I am when I'm raking the yard. Even the professional landscapers that swarm the neighborhood take their sweet time. A good rake can push a huge amount of leaves across a yard in no time.
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it has absolutely zero to do with denigration of females.

Kind of annoyed this needs to be pointed out, even though I know exactly why you did it.
What I'm trying to accomplish is this - pieces like 'Entrepreneurshit' perpetuate the myth that starting a business is a risky, stressful endeavour.

When I said 'be careful around VCs like Suster', I didn't actually mean anything about Suster in particular. I'm sure Suster is a great guy, and that he does his best to help entrepreneurs succeed.

You need to be careful with VCs like you need to be careful with casinos. Both enable you to take higher risks than you usually would. Sometimes you'll want high risk, and that's fine, but don't get blinded into thinking that it's the only way.
QuietComfort 15 right? They're a life saver :-)
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He's a former supreme court judge. A bit of a maverick, unfortunately.

Just a few months ago he wanted to bring in all media (electronic, social, print) under the Press council of India ambit.

http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/article3832839.ece

As an Indian, I've tuned myself to ignore his statements completely. This article doesn't belong on HN.
The author updated his title- perhaps we can, too?
You're generalizing too much if you believe that the whole AWS stack is bad.

S3 is very reliable, and I'm not aware of anything as reliable (we're talking eleven nines)/simple/cheap/distributed.

EC2 gives you the ability to manage instances in several continents with a dead simple API, which is unheard of anywhere else at this price.

ELB is very reliable, simple to use, and saves you hours of setup.

My point is that if you really wonder why anyone would want to use AWS, you might not be considering AWS, but only EC2, and in a very non-international way.
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> Don't go crazy with Templates, in fact don't even use them (except for what's in STL already)

What's wrong with templates? This is the most powerful feature of C++ allowing for Generic programming, Polymorphism and metaprogramming. The latter is of course clunky considering C++ syntax, but overall templates are great. And STL is the best thing that happened to the C-like family of the languages.
My saving grace is that I live a mile away from a library that has study rooms and actual encourages quiet in the adult areas. I also wear earplugs and shooter muffs at home to block out the noise from my spouse and pets.
He missed off Windows 8; if I'm not mistaken its written primarily in C++? Also the "native" language for programming against the Windows Runtime SDK is C++, although it can easily be consumed by others like .NET and JS.
It is perfectly fine. However, by saying that 'being an entrepreneur is shitty' Suster makes his audience believe that this is just what it's like to start a business, and you better be prepared for it or leave it altogether. That's wrong, and potentially discouraging to someone who is considering starting a business.

If Suster had written a post about the stress of VC funded startups, I'd have no beef at all.
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Thanks, this is exactly what I was looking for the last few weeks and couldn't find :)
I'm a little skeptical of this whole thing. Obviously, one other thing about bit errors in DNS packets is that they need to not break label compression.
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> The existing headline means that faked research doesn't occur outside of China, which is, of course, completely false.

I was just curious about this. So, I looked up on the definition of 'endemic' and found the following definitions

(of a disease or condition) Regularly found among particular people or in a certain area.

Denoting an area in which a particular disease is regularly found

In my limited understanding, I think 'endemic' means that it is a trait or found regularly in a particular region. It does not mean it is not found outside that region. Right?
> Practically every interaction with them requires you to tell them your

I find it _VERY_ disturbing that government is even asking for such information. Political clime is changing quickly and such catalogs may end easily in wrong hands.

Holocaust was enabled just because of such lists. Birth Records was first thing nazis were after when they invaded new space. Without them they would not recognize Polish, Russian from Jews. For example Kafka: he had Czech name, most of his friends were Germans, was Jewish and spoke fluently all local languages.

I dont care about assurances, they may be void tomorrow. Collecting such information is simply completely unacceptable. Even Russia is more liberal in this.
I wonder how "The Quiet Ones" would handle someone with a disability like Tourettes syndrome or with some sort of medical equipment that made an annoying noise. I'd give anything to watch the moral dilemma play out.
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Is this particularly better on either a traditional start menu or OSX? Finding an application you don't know the name of will always be a difficult thing to do.
No, the whole point is to not to be tied to a single account in Windows.
> The existing headline means that faked research doesn't occur outside of China

It doesn't mean that. It means that it regularly occurs in China. If you want to go with the epidemiological understanding, it would also mean that fraud doesn't need to be imported from outside of China.

Is says absolutely nothing about not-China.
I think people who know the matter would tell you that if you though about what you could get done, then you didn't make it to meditate (the right way).
That said, I'm not able to do it properly, too.