skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't dispute what you are saying about the core OS at all. The trouble is that, as far as I can tell, nobody is doing anything with it. In sharp contrast to that you can do tons on unix/linux without a GUI and there are tons of tools out there that you can use from command line.

I guess we agree on the greater point which is that the MS Windows product looks like it has been savagely distorted into something that people like us want to stay as far away from as possible. The fact that these discussions are not about exalting the qualities of W8 is evidence enough.
I think it's simply an old list...if you look modern OS X stack traces, you often see C++ names in various frameworks. Random ones I found in `Console.app` (sadly this is a rather new & stable system):

> TCharStreamCFString::~TCharStreamCFString() + 37 (CoreText) [0x7fff9454b091]

> JSC::BlockAllocator::blockFreeingThreadMain() + 90 (JavaScriptCore) [0x7fff950fad0a]

> CA::Render::Server::server_thread(void) + 403 (QuartzCore) [0x7fff8c6e435b]

> TFSInfo::FetchProperties() + 1274 (DesktopServicesPriv) [0x7fff93a7da20]

> 0x000000010b50afca ld::tool::InputFiles::forEachInitialAtom(ld::File::AtomHandler&) + 410

Same on iOS...

> CoreMotion	0x043d60a2 CLMotionCore::runMotionThread(void) + 1016

I think I even saw a core part of NSAutoreleasePool in there once. I have never read the public Apple source tarballs, but from just seeing stack traces every now and then, it seems as if Apple is very happy with using both Objective C and C++ (the compiler makes this easy of course - e.g. C blocks have support for C++ construction/destruction etc...).
It's cute that ESA tries to claim SpaceX will get more expensive and less reliable as they scale up to (sort of) mass production. Uh, no. If you're going for FUD, at least be plausible.

More likely would be "SpaceX might go out of business if the market softens or they hit serious technical problems, whereas EADS can guilt European governments into funding it indefinitely" (true) or "SpaceX won't customize launchers for unique European requirements" (wtf) or "EADS allows Europeans to maintain employment and skills in critical launch industries in the event ICBMs become necessary" (I really hope this is never the reason...).
Great. Now about Def Leppard...
> What makes you think that you should ever be able to take for free, something that someone else created?

That you have been guiled into believing this is reasonable is a large part of the problem. Let me flip it around:

> What makes you think that you should be able to restrain an idea for your own profit once it has been released?

Both of these are extremist positions. The trick is in finding a middle position that society can agree on.
Perhaps, but I still think that $20 is a little steep. Especially since its just a list - it doesn't do much. $20 definitely is not an impulse buy for me. And you're welcome.
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There is still VIA for producing x86 chips.
We actually do have major systems written in C++ - but nearly all of them are legacy, and most have been deprecated already, while the rest is on the deprecation list. It's mostly Java now. Perl/mason is only used on the front-end.

Oh, and there's at least one critical service written in Erlang =D
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Your whole argument is a straw man though. I don't think anybody is suggesting that the only type of businesses are VC backed businesses.

Starting a high-growth startup is a risky, stressful endeavor. If you want to start a business that is not high-growth that is bootstrapped and grows slow but steady, great! That can result in an awesome financial outcome for you personally. Some people enjoy chasing hyper-growth and the risks that go with it, that doesn't make the OPs post wrong, it just means it applies to a different type of business and a different type of entrepreneur.
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You just invented A/B testing. Congratulations.
Haven't heard of it before actually. Thanks!
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I believe he's saying you didn't gather enough data, which was my first impression.

I have also done this for years (not for titles on HN though -- good one), it's just that isn't enough data to really tell.
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Honest question: Is C++ really worth the complexity over something like C? I'd love to hear people's technology evaluation thought process when choosing C++. To me, C seems far less complicated, while still providing similar levels of performance. I tend to enjoy languages that are small and get out of my way, but if C++ let's me be that much more productive than C, I'd like to make a serious effort to spend more time with C++. What do I gain from C++ that I can't get from C? Is it worth the tradeoff?
I'm glad I got oik.io for Oikoi when I did! I have to wonder just how usable these last 70 domains would be, though.
They produce low-power x86 chips for embedded devices and such, AMD is still the only competition for Intel's high-performance x86 chips.
The segment in which VIA competes seems better served by cheap ARM cores IMHO.
I don't mind ads when I want to buy a product or service and don't know where to look, but otherwise they're just noise that generally slows page loading or makes the readable content scroll up and down (I really hate those ads). I use an ad blocker to make reading web content as easy as reading the newspaper (where I can skip entire pages of ads).

If I like a web site, I'll pay for it. But I'm paying because I like the content, not to remove the ads. It's a thank you, not a ransom payment.
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That was my initial understanding of "endemic"'s meaning as well. However the Oxford English Dictionary does have the following supplementary definition:

Quote:
"2 (of a plant or animal) native or restricted to a certain country or area:
a marsupial endemic to northeastern Australia"

Where interestingly, the OED does use the word "restricted" which means that the word could denote regional exclusivity as the parent interpreted.
Offtopic: Can you please poke me via email or otherwise? I'd love to chat. Your profile on HN has no contact info. Thanks!
Correction: the performance of good applications written in C++ is generally very good. Unfortunately, the language itself is not particularly conducive to writing a lot of software, fast, while maintaining the satisfactory quality level. Especially in today's world.
If you read my comment you'll find out that we did install it on one machine and tried to run it. I am a working professional. I really don't have time to waste trying to get around someone deciding to completely change the interface on one of the tools I use to make a living.

Imagine if tomorrow morning you had a choice to drive two cars:

The first, is a newer version of the car you already own. Everything is cleaner, better, faster, more convenient. They even fixed a few little issues here and there.

The second is this new version of the car you own except that they've moved things all over the place. The steering wheel is in the opposite side. The switches are not labeled. The ignition switch is hidden behind a door and you have to figure out --on your own-- that you need to jump up and down on your seat for that door to open.

Which car will you choose to go to work?
a lot of the praise was incredibly shallow and based purely on aesthetic appearance and not usability.

Not to mention that the press has an interest in having another horse in the race. If it weren't for Win 8, what else would these websites be writing about after their umpteenth "iPad Mini vs Nexus 7" article? Camera reviews?

Especially since several categories of devices are being subsumed by convergence devices (netbooks, music players, flip cams, etc.), I think they're eager for a story.
You also get the 4 and 5 letter word lists, but I thought that the scarcity of 70 might be more of a motivator.

One issue is that many people aren't looking for just any word, they want a specific thing. I wonder if the list should actually cost more and be targeted at domainers?
You should consider finding someone to do your copy, the grammar errors (e.g. "you're" vs "your") on the main site really spoil the style.
Even airlines flights aren't the cost of fuel. It's a promising technology, but it isn't that promising.
>you have to also figure out where the mouse pointer is, and then start the mouse moving in the right direction

Although it can be tricky to know what is actually going on during a "non-deliberative" task, I am fairly sure I start moving the mouse, then my brain's motion-detection circuitry very naturally tells me where the cursor is.

One of the reasons I believe that is that I remember a few times choosing (or noticing that I prefer) to make a vaguely semicircular arc rather than abruptly reversing direction. (If I did what you describe, I would probably not have reversed direction often enough to have such memories. In contrast, if I'm right, then I would've reversed direction half of the times that I had no idea initially where the cursor was relative to the target.)
Lame. Anti-white racism is still racism. Growing up colored in the US, I encounter anti-white racism all the time among my peers, but never once received racism against my skin color from whites.
My impression is that ranking algorithm, as described in the HN FAQ, is too simplistic, and as a result luck is too important factor in many HN submissions.

The more advanced algorithm would be for example to identify a set of HN users that actively up vote stories, and do not only follow links that already have a lot of votes; each new submission could be then injected to the front page of several random users from such set. With such approach, all new stories would have more or less equal exposure and equal chances of being noticed.
Clikable: http://www.merocampus.com

In case anyone don't know: Mero (NP) == My (EN)

Happy to see one more product in Nepal from a fellow HNer. Good luck with it.
I was being careful and said software _like_ Firefox :) From discussions I had with people about Rust it seemed obvious that if it reached maturity then it could be considered for new projects starting from scratch.
Really? I see it more as a framework, similar to any other language's or technology's. To make a bit of a reaching analogy, I don't think HTML is weak just because Twitter's Bootstrap is useful. If you want to roll your own solution every time, have at it. But if you want to have a great starting point, this looks like it could help speed things up.
Great idea!

But,
"Don't get paralized by huge card sites or difficult ordering."
OS X shortcuts are actually shortcuts, except when they're not...

How about Command-Tab? There's only one way to access that functionality. How do you capture a screen in OS X without the secret "shortcut" keys or the command-line? How about ejecting a secondary optical drive? Zooming in and out?
One of them is beg.io and its not even the best one :)
Which is really no different than using GObject and GValue from GLib / Gnome world. (Even using a meta-object GOB compiler :))
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Windows 8: the seven roads not taken.
Why should I be aware of everybody's likes and dislikes? I'm just living my own life and that's it.

Are we going to call meat "animal-sourced food" next? Just to let vegetarians know we're aware of them...
"The majority of cases exposed are plagiarism, the exaggeration of academic credentials and faked research papers, which are endemic in China."

This is not just a China problem. While researching some various programming challeges, I've encountered quite a few "articles", "blogs" and code-sharing sites with content of dubious and plagiarism nature. It pains me that the majority of the bad "authors' seem to be from certain cultures. This hurts the truly talented and honest people from these cultures/countries.
I'd like to see universities take up the challenge of verifying research as part of undergraduate and graduate training. Government and private subsidy of this work would be well worth it.
Legally there's no distinction between the two (and how could you draw a line? HPMoR is in many ways one big advert for the centre for modern rationality).

But yeah, I think the good of unlicensed reuse of characters is worth putting up with the bad.
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What an arrogant attitude. My wife has severe ADHD. You'll note the second part is "hyperactivity", this means she can have extreme focus in environments where I can barely think.
I think the bigger gripe is due to lack of any visible innovation that should go with upgrades. I recall WinXP's selling point was the fastest boot time back then and a shiny interface to go with it. Vista couldn't deliver anything and ultimately people moved over to Win7 because the migration was painless.

With Win8, all you see is a wrapper screen of Apps which they have pulled around Win7 underneath. The Windows key on the keyboard was always around but now it is going to be the one key most-in-use, all because they eliminated the start button (so no need to use your mouse to get going).

If you have seen Joli cloud OS, you can tell that they did the same with Ubuntu a long time ago. They wrapped a Chrome browser over the base desktop OS, making it easy for average user to use Linux. But I don't think Jolicloud captured attention from anywhere. Microsoft on the other hand is a 800 pound gorilla and there is no doubt that in few years, we will all be asking Win7 users to get the hell out of their desktops.
It's not about prescriptivism. It's questioning a rather bizarre word usage in English. If I called you a "frog" you might query why I were using such an odd term. So it goes here.
Modern trash bin contain more and purer materials than a nicely equipped lab a century ago. And humans are as smart and with no less access to information and theory. Still impressive work from the kid.
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Your post make it sound like entrepreneurship is all about money. Especially statements like: "Only quit your day job once you’ve found something that works, and before you know it, you’ll have a good income and a good life with little risk and little stress.".

When you want to build the next big thing, to change the World, etc., not simply to gain some income, building a high growth / high stress startup may be necessary.
So according to Moore's law, he should have seen things get 106528681 times more transistors at Intel!
A good time for him to leave before the downwards trend of Intel becomes more obvious, and people start blaming it on him. I hope he leaves the board of Google, too, because I don't like how he has influenced some of Google's decisions in the past few years, to use Intel chips instead of ARM in their new devices, and every single one of them turned out to be the wrong decision.
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I recently had a problem with Google Checkout. Checkout erroneously shut down my account and stopped site customers from making payments. I complained directly and also filed a complaint with the BBB. A day later they reinstate my account without acknowledging any problem. Then two days later, "completely unrelated" my site listing is not referring anyone from google search down from the hundreds per day, any day, for the last few months. Coincidence?
Here is a screen shot of google analytics, capturing the dramatic fall over three days.
http://imgur.com/JDOwN

A wider view: http://imgur.com/3DWOX

Is there anything I can do?
Almost the whole Objective-C runtime is C++ these days, although really more like C with occasional use of C++ features.
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1) Many people who identify themselves as non-religious celebrate Christmas anyway.

2) Christmas existed in virtually all European cultures before Christianity. Under different titles though.
Can I just say that putting a JIT into a kernel is a really bad idea? That putting /any/ executable code in a trusted environment that isn't utterly static, cryptographically signed, and well armored, is just going to end badly, over and over again?

We have enough trouble with user-space code generation, and with return-oriented-programming. Actual code generation at the driver level seems utterly wrong.
That's a very long time to work for one company! Wish him the best.
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"The upgrade of Ariane 5 - known as Ariane 5 ME"

I have a bad feeling about this…
This is bad. We now have an x86 chip monopoly.
That's very intriguing. I was wondering if it was diminution based on gender but if they're doing it for everyone, that makes it more interesting.
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If you use smart pointers in your code (std::unique_ptr, std::shared_ptr), you will rarely have to call delete. A unique_ptr for example owns an object through a pointer; the pointer is automatically deleted when the unique_ptr goes out of scope. shared_ptr retains shared ownership through reference counting; the pointer is deleted when the reference count reaches zero.
In principle, I agree with you, however I still use an ad-blocker because I got sick of seeing sexually suggestive ads while looking for technical documentation at the office and at home. I would love for sites to be able to support themselves on advertising revenues and I do try to pay for sites that I find useful, but I'm afraid that from my perspectives, sites with poor advertising have ruined it for the rest. I need a way to my job done without bringing up unpredictable crap on the screen.
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I guess this means the end of x86. Many companies still refuse to buy single vendor equipment.
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At least you found the line for cant see when someone's being facetious.
doesn't this guarantee an antitrust suit against intel?
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Just enjoyed reading your thoughts on the topic. A nice change of pace compared to aggressive point, counter-point type of comments I normally see.
> When I got my first smartphone it was not intuitive that such a thing as a long press existed

The average user should never need to long press on iOS. This is why you see so many videos of 90 year olds and babies using iPads, because almost nothing is hidden.

I fear that over time more and more will become that way in order to add functionality, but the level of basic stuff that is hidden on windows 8 is unforgivable.
Clutter is the enemy, simple is the goal
And newcomers can't enter the market because they'd need a patent cross-licensing agreement with Intel, like AMD had. And a newcomer is unlikely to get such an agreement.
And its still counting. I have a friend working in IT in the NHS and they are still spending money hand over fist on transforming digital records. Basically, nobody wants to be accused of putting tax money before accuracy of patient records which essentially means blank cheque and unbounded scope.
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Someone is selling a list of available three, four, and five letter .io domains that are available for $20.

This - https://gist.github.com/4111298 - generates a list of available .io domains of any length (user specified). And, its free.

(I'm away from my computer, so it isn't tested, but I ran it in repl.it).

Edit - this is the seller - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4804627
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Yeah, part of my point was that American train systems are old and awful and noisy. I had the pleasure of riding a smaller Deutsche Bahn commuter train once and the ambient noise had to be in the 50-60 dB range, if not lower.
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Paul - are you really this much of a prick? Were these people partying at 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning? If so, then you have a point. Otherwise, can't you understand that some people like to have fun, like to listen to music, etc? And anyone not like yourself is ordinary???
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OP - I was aghast at your CTR rates when I first read your post. I don't know your marketing/segment but it's certainly worth questioning whether or not you are getting the right keywords to trigger your ads. Your top three ads have a grand total of 28 clicks over > 21,000 impressions. That is misery. There's just no way you are going to be able to be profitable/break-even with AdWords if you can't improve that CTR.

As such, it leads me to question your keyword selection. You need to know "What were the keywords that actually triggered my ad?" This is possibly VERY different from the keywords you entered (particularly if you are using broad match). My guess is you're wildly off the mark in terms of your keyword selection/filter. Adwords expands broad match keywords to the point of unprofitability IME. You have to find out what people are actually searching for that trigger your ad and "trim the fat" by modifying your keywords so that you don't pay for unrelated things.

For example, let's say you have "payment disputes" as a broad match keyword. That is so general that Google is going to auto-expand your keywords to synonyms and "things that Google thinks are like payments, disputes, and payment disputes". So if you used that as a broad match keyword, you might be surprised to find that your ads were served for the following keyword searches:

* Credit repair atlanta

* bankruptcy dispute

* credit card payment was declined

etc, etc, etc - "similar yet different" is not profitable here. I'd suggest you review the actual keywords and work to get that CTR up.
C++ isn't bad by definition, however a large quantity of C++ out there is just _bad_.

Then again most OOP languages get abused pretty badly.
The fact that there is no good, canonical guide for doing this in Python is one of the reasons I moved away from it and toward Ruby. With Ruby I had no problems writing and forking gems using the canonical guide (http://guides.rubygems.org/make-your-own-gem/). With Python, navigating the hell that is packaging is just demoralizing when it comes time to give end users a complicated chunk of code. (Setuptools is truly "a hack on a top of a bad design", not my own words.) I hope for Python's own sake that distribute (http://packages.python.org/distribute/) catches on and people are simply shamed out of using older tools, but since Python already has a problem with getting everyone to migrate code away from old things, I'm not holding my breath.

I'm still not sure how to do certain things "right", e.g., distribute a modified version of somebody else's package with my own package. In Ruby, I can do this with bundler specifying a git repo for my own fork of the gem (and then submit a pull request for the original fork, if it's a patch that's useful upstream).
Yep figured this would be one of the responses :)
I guess he didn't know how much Linus loves C++.
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A nice contribution. However, Site Advisor considers this web site to be a risky site.
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