skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Are there a lot of sexual innuendos in this video or is this just me?
Ask HN: Best resources for learning about entering the B2B market?
Have been recommended "The Four Steps to the Epiphany" - Steven Gary Blank

Any others?
I don't take it as bashing, I appreciate honest feedback. If everyone only contacted me telling me how great I am or how bad I am neither would help, so I prefer a good mix.

My aim here is for the serious beginner. By that I mean someone starting out who may have tinkered with a language or two but really wants to learn C# in depth. That's why it's so verbose and I try to cover the topics. A hacker who wants to learn the basics should probably go elsewhere.

I'm honest enough with myself to have already thought this through, and I may throw in some quick hacky stuff specific for what someone is searching for, but for the most part I want these to be a very thorough introduction to the language.
I'm listening to the album in question now, the artist has definitely come out of it ok :)
we would like to invite users for beta testing as soon as we have it out.

Watch what we do at http://youtu.be/HTo_D6N-CVI
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Let me just say something

"Microsoft Windows XP Professional x64 Edition released on April 25, 2005"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_XP_Professional_x64_Edi...

7 years.

Go to a store, see what kind of Windows is being shipped, if it's 32 or 64bits.

If there's one version that has to be discontinued that version is the 32-bit version.

Linux as well suffers with lack of 64-bit versions, it seems Mozilla started shipping them the other day (and is not very promoted)

Computers already ship with more than 4GB memory.

Leave 32-bit, it's been enough time already.
This is definitely the best designer's portfolio
Github's infinite-click-pagination pattern (broken)
I've never been convinced that UML works terribly well for modelling software let alone something like legal concepts.
(1)I'm likely going to put in some sort of menu system for this on the side of the articles, I haven't figured out a great way to do it yet.

(2) Yes my target audiences is newbies who want a very thorough introduction. I plan on doing a whole tutorial on variables, my rough draft on types is huge, probably already bigger than this chapter was and I didn't want to crowd it up.

(3) You're dead on about the fluff, I probably should have let this sit a day and came back to it to strip it out. I may even use your suggestions verbatim.

Thanks!
> Linux as well suffers with lack of 64-bit versions,

Only in commercial or prop software
But Microsoft by itself is not a "consumer" brand. Bing is, XBox is, Windows is, Live is, Office is, Microsoft is only the name of the corporation behind those products and people don't use it in daily conversations. "Hey Dad, I want a Microsoft XBox so I can play games with my friends on Microsoft Online Services" -- said no kids ever

Y-Combinator/HackerNews is even less a consumer brand.
Of course, that's only a problem if you are trying to appeal to the mass market, YC/HackerNews isn't, but DuckDuckGo is.
This instantly reminds me of the fictitious windtraps in Dune (mistakenly used as powerplants starting with the second game)

[0]: http://dune.wikia.com/wiki/Windtrap
What about it makes it built for touch? The landing page is full of news about Gaza and viral videos and doesn't say anything about the app.
My target audience is newbies who want a very thorough course on the core language. It's not really intended for people looking for quick hacks to problems. Nothing wrong with that but I'm shooting more for the audience looking for a fairly deep understanding, though I know that target audience is much smaller.
As someone looking to try freelancing in a couple of years (only been programming for about 2 years) it is reassuring to see that you can make a decent amount of money with almost no network.

How do you find freelancing vs ordinary job?
Do you have savings for harder times?
Michael Kirby, formerly of the High Court of Australia, etc etc would seem to agree with you, and he has for some time.

Here's a speech of his touching on this very topic from the '80s.

http://www.michaelkirby.com.au/images/stories/speeches/1980s...
Yea I actually haven't installed express yet because my internet connection was at dialup speeds, I'll be replacing the screenshots, I plan on using express 2010 or possibly one of the 2012 versions for future tutorials. I know not everyone has the cash to fork out for MSDN or (as in my case) a company willing to pay for it.
Ask HN: Are you affected by new Facebook game policies?
Facebook is soon going to enforce a new policies that explicitly disallows games that are not hosted in an iframe on facebook.com to access things like the friend list [1]. This is another major blow to indie developers (after banning adsense ads, forcing everyone to use facebook credits or move to a separate domain etc.). I wonder what course of actions any fellow facebook game developers are taking?

My current plan is to stop using facebook for friend connections and keep my separate database, using facebook only as a publishing platform from now on.

1.https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/2012/09/05/platform-updates--operation-developer-love/
Certainly.

Perhaps I needed a bit more clarification:

"Downloading music that should be paid for, and not paying for it, is wrong if you keep that music for longer than you need to decide whether to buy it or not is wrong. Most people would make an exception for format shifting. EG you own a CD and download a pirate MP3. In theory this needs to be paid for (and is included in law in some areas) but in practice it's not much different to ripping your CD yourself."
I think you've made a good choice with keeping VS out of the picture. Understanding the basics of compiling from the command line is where I start with novices. No point blowing their minds with a gazillion IDE knobs and dials. You could take this further and teach some basic command line debugging :)
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My explanation of the using statement needs some work as another HN member pointed out, and I'll be modifying it. I am starting with CSC so people can get their hands dirty on the core language stuff, I'll be moving into Visual Studio as we start building more advanced stuff.

Also I'm going to fix some indentation issues as well. Thanks for the feedback!
I'm going to add a menu or nav bar for this, you're right it does seem a bit hard to find especially since I've stuffed other articles between them.
One good thing about baking in a date of dissolution is that the organization will not be so concerned about self-preservation that it loses sight of its primary mission.
You always have the right to refuse though and have the courts sort it out, should they choose to pursue a case.
I have not seen any other browser with UI quite like this. Full content screen shots too. Kinda neat. I dunno.
Actually I'm going to be working on Videos to accompany every tutorial but honestly I don't know if I'll stick with it.

The reasons being: (1) I am horrible at editing and producing videos and that time I spend struggling could be time creating more written tutorials and (2) I'm not sure that people will really want / appreciate it yet. Many people (myself included) prefer text. You can't always be in a quiet place or have headphones on to listen, and reading a page at your own pace seems to be easier than video. But I am considering it, I'll do one or two and see what the feedback is for that.
at least over here in Germany it has been ruled that the parents can't be blamed for their children's internet use. If all else fails, blame it on the kids ;-)
To me much of this whole thing boils down to differences between the UK and the US and there respective approaches to equal opportunities and affirmative action.

Similar factors were are play in the reaction to Faruk's .net article and Laura Sanders response.

The US approach to diversity and equal opportunities isn't right for everyone and some people perhaps need to remember that.
Google do offer sort by date but it doesn't work terribly well IME.

You could also do a rough number range search ("100..1000") that might help capture higher value comments but in practice is probably too rough to be useful.
I think that the main suggestion is always "don't make your game depend on facebook because you will regret it".
Thank you everyone for your feedback on this. My reason for going to HN is because it's comprised of experts and people in the field which is not my target audience but can help steer me in the right direction. With your suggestions I'll be changing and adapting as I go, and I'll go back and make past ones better and the end product will be of far higher quality. So I appreciate everyone reading this and responding back, and I'm pretty sure the newer folks using these will to.
Itanium is the future.
When you pay for memory on a monthly basis, economizing on it may be a good idea:

http://journal.dedasys.com/2008/11/24/slicehost-vs-linode
the easiest way is to right click on the location bar, but, I hope unsurprisingly, you'll find the setting for the default search engine in Settings, under "Search".
Sorry, didn't get it.
Freelancing has helped me understand just how much my previous job was paying me that didn't show up on my paycheck. Health insurance, matching 401k contributions, and various miscellaneous other perks are actually quite valuable. So you really have to take these things into account when you set your rates.

The other big difference is that a salaried job means a regular paycheck, no matter how busy you might be in any given month. But there can be a lot of downtime between billable hours freelancing so that's another potential dent in your income.

Personally I prefer to bid a fixed price instead of an hourly rate for a project. This makes it that much more important to consider your initial estimate carefully but it also eliminates a lot of micro-accounting and haggling over how much a single hour is worth.

You also have to be careful not to take on more work than you can handle. Unlike a regular job there's no hard ceiling on how much you can make in a month but it's easy to get in over your head this way.

So far I'm really enjoying the freedom and variety of freelancing but I think a regular job is easier in a lot of ways.
I might be completely wrong, but due to HTTP/1.1 and Pipelining, surely it's quicker to serve [small] static files from the same server as your page, because you don't have the overhead of re-establishing a connection?
Download button on main page of www.opera.com provides x64 version for me if I use browser with Win64 and x64 in user agent

http://www.opera.com/download/get.pl?id=35259&thanks=tru...

It is not experimental.
> I figure that, sometime in the next 10 years, 32-bit OS'es will go the way of 16-bit OS'es.

Yep. I'd prefer in Firefox (and others) abandoned 32-bit windows instead.

Windows Server 2012 does not have a 32-bit version, it's 64 bit only.

Related, why is there a 32 bit build of Windows 8? Does some of the target hardware at the low end of the market need it? I guess the server space has has a higher threshold of minimum hardware than tablets.
I do now! :) I didn't when I started, in fact I owed a considerably chunk of money to my girlfriend and so priority number one was paying her back.

In terms of the lifestyle, I love it. I honest don't feel like I've "worked" in the conventional sense since I've been back.

There are a lot of things you have to deal with which are unexpected. Finishing a project and realising you might not see the people you've worked with again ( especially if they've been great people to work with) is depressing.

There are times when it can also be lonely. I'm fairly lucky in that I'm currently living with my parents and so there's normally someone around.

In the periods between finding work ( where technically you're unemployed ) it is easy to get depressed and wonder whether you're doing the right thing. Having something else to focus on at the same time, be it a side project, or indeed finding more work is a must.

The biggest benefit is the freedom. Yes I might have work to do, but I can ( for most clients ) do it from where ever I want to do it. If I need a break from the parents, no problem I move my office to the girlfriends for a week. If I want a change of scenery, no problem I just pack my laptop up and I'm good to go!

The second benefit is the amount you learn. I now a much greater understanding of business. Tax, VAT, National insurance, invoices, marketing, chasing payments and how companies operate.

Not to mention the technical benefits of freelancing. I've taught myself backbone.js worked with node.js. Played with Symfony, Silex entered ( and come second in ) coding competitions, taught myself some AWS basics. All things I probably wouldn't have had the ability to do if I was working for someone else.

All in all the last six months have definitely been a positive experience in my life!
I used to use mainly Chrome and Firefox, but after moving to Windows 8 (I have to because I write some Windows 8 stuff) 64-bit, Firefox often hangs after opening, hangs after opening tabs, hangs after loading pages, etc.. I switched to using Safari as browser B, and I don't think that is even still official for Windows...
£20k ~ $31k

To save anyone else having to do the math.

Also, yes, your rates are still very low, Mr. Hollis, although I suppose it depends on how many days you worked on billable projects. I would expect to see more like £40k for six months given your CV.
I'm pretty sure the headline is intended to be so over the top "pulling at the heart strings" as to be funny. Of course the fact that it's a cute girl's Winnie the Pooh laptop is irrelevant. I guess Torrentfreak expects their audience to understand that.

At least, they had me laughing out loud.
http://www.opera.com/docs/changelogs/windows/1200/ — Changelog for 12.00 release includes official 64-bit support.
Many people started games in their earlier platform and have developed large user bases. It is still a great channel for distribution, even though every few months facebook is intimidating developers as its finances are getting tighter. However most indie developers seem to have switched to hosting on their own domains. The friend list is probably the last dependency left, and it's now taken away as well.
Well,

aapl < goog == true

Should be false, at least by real market values.

;-)
What do you mean by `weird stage`? Yeah like others said, do the tutorials on the website, then make something of your own.
I agree with your choice. This is definitely the best way to learn.
Upstream vendors can harm small projects
It isn't justice, it's extortion.
So are you seriously saying brands which can be abbreviated aren't adapted as well by consumers as brands which can't be? And do you have anything other than "I said so" to back it up?
I don't think Apple really argued against this one. The financial terms are only disclosed to Samsung's lawyers (who are also HTC's lawyers anyway I think) and aren't to be shown to Samsung.
Depends on the country, but some European countries, like, say, Italy, are horrible from this point of view: to start a real, limited liability company costs thousands of euros before you've earned one cent. And they cost further thousands to manage each year.

In other countries, like the UK, things are far simpler.
Sorry guys - one of the parsing scripts died and didn't get restarted automatically. Normally we would have noticed the problem earlier but we've been away at a conference this past week. The script is back up and the index should be up-to-date within the hour.
> I could care less

I couldn't care less
I think whether the government was involved in 9/11 is irrelevant. Seriously who cares? I don't think the American public even cares. How do I know this? A simple example is the Iraq war. One doesn't need to be a genius to understand the immorality and illegality of that war before it started. After it became fact that the "reasons" for starting the war were complete bullshit, what did the American public do? Nothing, we did absolutely nothing. Patriot act, escalation of the Afghanistan war, drone strikes killing innocent civilians, targeted assassinations of American citizens, indefinite detention, etc. All these actions, and more, by government are just as bad or even worse than 9/11.
>What becomes of existing software patents, for example? Purists may say these are not "property" but massive dollars have been paid for the rights to own them and there will be huge resistance, not to mention constitutional objections, over any idea that these suddenly should be rendered worthless by legislative action.

It is the same problem you have with an transistion. This was studied a lot in economics, specially around the socialist transistion.

One view is this, pay out the benefiters of the old system just so you can get the institutional change. Pull the benefiters to your side.

This could be hard with software patent but it is one way to get to institutional change.
Why not Chrome?
What struck me instantly was the use of Slony. I haven't listened to the whole thing yet but I am interested in their justification. Perhaps they just haven't moved to 9.2 yet.
Wow, just tried that and it is surprisingly fast. Wasn't expecting to notice a difference, but I did. Running on a Windows 8 x64, SSD drive, 1.7GHz i7.
[NSFW] - Maybe people should put that in the title when they post NSFW links?
Embed images/diagrams to Github wiki and issues
The big question is, why won't 64 bit catch on? Too new? I had a 64 bit chip 10 years ago and most of you probably did too. Too expensive?

It's a good question and it probably comes down to programmers and habit. Multi core processing and async/multithreading are finally starting to take hold but optimizing for a 64 bit bus still seems like an afterthought.

I am asking seriously because I don't have a definitive answer, but why is it just not catching on?
Largest? Is Disqus really 'larger' than Instagram?
I do use Chrome. I need a second concurrent browser for various reasons.
Heyoffline.js warns your users when their network becomes unreachable
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Hm, I use waterfox -- and it seems to be a little better updated?

http://www.waterfoxproject.org/
There will be a memory saving but the loss of access to better instructions and the registers would surely cost you some performance overall (may be benchmark and processor dependent)
I agree about the IDE building bad habits. Almost all people I know who started programming in Visual Studio have atrocious formatting habits - they believe code formatting is something they don't need to care about because the IDE will do it automatically for them.
Don't compare the Virtual Size of process. This is not how it works. And yes, running x64 on my Linode/

Also, see the limitations of MongoDB and Go for example, in 32-bit systems, they are very relevant.
Ah, I misunderstood, thanks. I'd recommend Opera!
Recently someone did this to one of my articles and I think they did an excellent job summarizing it, and it got me hooked on reading similar stories. It's a good idea to capture interest and save time
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Third duplicate.
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4815647
You run Firefox on a VPS?
I think it was in 2010 when they gave this talk.
Huh? Actually it's actually the reverse - deep sea creatures that we have discovered so far have a tendancy to be larger than their shallow-sea counterparts.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-sea_gigantism
You do need language skills for the marketing :)
Yes, it would work. "==" is a method like any other, and you're overriding it.

You should download the Scala IDE and play with a feature called the "Worksheet".

See here: https://github.com/scala-ide/scala-worksheet/wiki/Getting-St...
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With JS disabled, help.chartboost.com has no content.
In praise of complaining
Well, as a matter of fact, I would understand 'I could care less' when someone has been taken with something too much and realizes it. Obviously, it seems the OP's meaning was not this...

Yes, its irritating, like not using the apostrophe correctly :-)
"if you keep that music for longer than you need to decide whether to buy it or not"

I never understood how people came up with the caveat about trying before you buy. To me, it always seems to make a mockery of the whole thing even more. DOwnload an album. Listen for a couple of days. Go to the record store. Buy a CD. Throw it in the trash. Keep listening on your ipod guilt free, but still illegally.

Anyway, my point is that a lot of people don't agree that downloading music without paying for it is wrong. You could argue the point but I you can't just dismiss it with a "we can all agree that.."
For comparison, top† graduate software engineers (in London) will be on ~£35k/year.

†Not like "won IOI" top, but I imagine Google/Microsoft/FB etc. has a graduate starting salary around that.
Yup, my pet hate too.
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You can have multiple concurrent Chrome browsers, if you use the multi-user feature, detailed here:

http://support.google.com/chrome/bin/answer.py?hl=en&ans...
Looks like P(K) are closing their public API on December 5th. We at TappingStone are more than happy to help any users looking for alternative prediction APIs - https://www.tappingstone.com - or e-mail help@tappingstone.com with any questions.
Wow.. that's even more sad than I thought.

btw, thanks for scrolling down to see my comment, it was lonely down here :D
No, you are misreading my statement. Please go back and look for the word "unless". Sentence picking algorithms alone will never solve the problem unless a rewriting engine is added.
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Never underestimate human apathy. A super majority of the world does not care for progress, if it means having to change even the most nominal of habits. Not even for sometimes massive benefits. In fact, a great many individuals will become extremely vocal if you try and force something as tiny as "picking one file extension for a file type instead of using two like we have in the past."

The only way things advance are when walls are finally hit. With 16-bit, this was trivial: the limitations were crippling. It'll get there with 32-bit, as applications begin to crash with the ~2GB per process memory limitations on Windows, and PCs continually appear with far more than 8GB of RAM available. But I'd say we are probably 5-10 years off from a point where we could consider deploying a 64-bit only application without losing users.
Or how Hackers was a riot because of how hilariously wrong it got ... well ... everything that matters?

Compared to some TV shows, Hackers is accurate. I give you 2 people typing on the same keyboard to try to fight off a hacker. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qgehH3kEQ
From my experience that's also the very very best graduates. I don't know of anyone who's gone in at that figure.

I was earning just less than £35k two years after graduating with a 2.1 ( not sure what the equivalent is in American university terms ). And at that point was earning considerably more than anyone else I knew who graduated at the same time.
It certainly crossed my mind, but given financial constraints at the moment I didn't think they would jump on the idea. Also, this is a complete side topic for my real research, so I shouldn't even be doing it. It's tweaked some interest now though so they certainly might be more amenable, if nothing for the good PR.
Yeah these figures are really outdated. This one from PyCon 2011 is newer: http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/pycon-2011-scaling-disqus-725...