skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's too expensive to maintain at its current age and generation of technology. Sadly, once they take out the reactor there will be very little left. It follows the previous big E to the scrapyards, but lots of stuff is going to be salvaged just like its predecessor.

Hopefully, the US will get off this kick of naming ships for politicians and move back to the classic names.
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Good points. Parallel code is getting easier to write, e.g. the Go language, thus likely more common. I think web servers alone (serving more users per machine) could drive multi-core advances.
I must say i don't understand why so many people here are so sad that a weapon is destroyed. In my book that's fucking great! I'm even somewhat disgusted.

But when i read the title i was sad as well... until i came across "The aircraft carrier".
Maybe the yanking of the controls? :-/
We should all short Zynga. Zynga has nothing special, no competitive advantage, no intellectual capital, no special sauce to maintain their market share.. and what OTHER social platforms are there for games? Twitter? Google+?

"Oh, our plan is to launch poker in the UK!" Um.. ok, and compete with 10000 other companies that had a decade head start and know all about the online poker business. Good luck with that.
Refinements aren’t all good news: http://blog.headius.com/2012/11/refining-ruby.html
Don’t be so overdramatic. If we were to use modern technology we would likely no greatly increase the amount of waste, if not decrease it.

The costs are already there. The costs are mostly fixed. The marginal costs are minimal. It’s in for 99 pennies, in for a pound.
What Python-based SSGs?
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> I've never thought about the research component. I'll have to think about this and do some research. Do you know if universities make more money from research labs? Don't the professors and students make money if their research has commercial viability?

Most universities take large slices out of research grants. There are some research projects that have been commercially used. However, the process of making something commercially viable is... not easy: Apply for patents, think about designing a product, setting up a company etc. All this stuff takes a ton of time and takes people way out of the stuff they want to do: Research.

> Mentorship is one of those pieces that the universities would innovate with. I totally agree with you on mentorship and I definitely think it comtributes to one's success. As a result, if universities implemented a mentorship program, they would make more money because their students would end up making more money.

It is rather more subtle than that: So very few Professors get into the field wanting to teach and mentor people (I am using the term mentor here more as it should be used between a Professor and an undergrad student who happens to take his class rather than a Professor and a person he is advising). Most of them get into Universities with research as their primary objective and teaching as a requirements. However, in a good school which hires excellent candidates eventually ensures that they also turn out to be excellent mentors. I worry that an organization that is using money as the optimization function will find it very hard to build something as sophisticated, it is easier for them to higher guidance counsellors who sit all day in a room.

> And regarding the business men and lawyers and technology does not pay well, I just had another comment saying the universities would only churn out software engineers. Regardless of that, it's supply and demand anyways that corrects this.

I would find both of these abhorrent: Society is just not about money alone. There are people out there who make way lower on the cost function of money but still have jobs that require learning how to think in a certain manner and that requires going to school.
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Just a reminder that the spec for refinements continues to change radically: http://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/4085

As far as I understand it the current spec is to have "using" be available only to main and only apply in the file scope. IMHO this makes the feature nearly useless.
They should drop the needless extra digits. There is no way that they know my position (or anyone's position) accurately enough to need to report it to a resolution of approximately 100 nanometers.
I just moved to Pelican, and am liking it so far, except for one thing: the lack of mobile support. The theme I'm using, tuxlite, looks great in a browser; but on smartphones, it's squint city. I'd love it if Pelican automagically generated a mobile-friendly version of the site, which could then be used by some Rewrite rules based on the browser.
Perhaps you could introduce some arguments for this opposition instead of just do what you complain about.
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I agree, money isn't the only incentive. Some people (myself included) have a passion for teaching. Money is just an extra motivator.

I don't think its true that they can necessarily make more programming themselves than I can afford to pay them either. Remember, I am not wanting to hire someone full time, but for only a few hours a week. If I have to pay multiple hours of wages for an hour of high quality coaching, that is perfectly fine with me.
what is the application he uses to copy amazon key in the screencast : http://vimeo.com/46999791
Why price elasticity testing is a MUST over the holidays . . .
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Nitpick: OpenMPI is just the name of one implementation of MPI. There are many others. OpenMP is the name of the multithread API that is implemented by compilers.
I've talked to some of the guys at Tutonic.com, and seems like they might be trying to do something similar. I can't tell if they're getting anywhere or have any users, though.
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Japan just built 3 Hyuga class helicopter assault carriers. They're basically smaller carriers equipped with helicopter wings, instead of airplanes. The Hyuga is equipped with anti-submarine warfare helicopters, so it has a defensive mission, but that can change, and they can be used for force projection.
"whom"
Ruby supports this too but it will be removed in the future (3.0). The preview doesn't show a warning but 2.0 will.

Source: https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/6265

Btw, PRI_LL_PREFIX is defined in Ruby's config.h.
The Buzzwords of the Crowd
"You think that you are subsidizing all those shows, when you only want your shows.
But to another household, your shows are the noise that they are subsidizing to be able to watch their shows."

Good. If they want 500 channels of terrible programming, they can pay more for every one of them.
"people are bitching because they'd love to pay what they think GoT is worth, and not what GoT is demonstrably actually worth to HBO."

This is objectively untrue. I would pay what HBO is worth, if available separately.
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It seems that journalists now talk about Microsoft as being a spent force simply because it's become boring to continually recognise their dominant position in the computing industry.
I agree entirely with the idea of rejoicing at a weapon destroyed.

However, something like this represents world history, as well as personal history. Life is more complex and nuanced than "weapons bad," because we live in that world as it is.

I served on the Enterprise in the late seventies, and while I can't say I'm sad, I'm definitely experiencing a nostalgic episode. (I never went to sea on the Enterprise, overhaul in the shipyard only, so I can't tell you anything more interesting than how to lay tile on a metal deck or how to use a needle gun to strip paint.)
You don't play around with old nuclear reactors. This thing needs to be decommissioned responsibly.
I was expecting to read something about what he read, trained, etc. for the interview. "Gamification"? Ridiculous.
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My Raspberry Pi WordPress server survived the front page of Hacker News
The steady decline of Mac quality
Have you noticed that in the fancy new iTunes, the song name does not update when in mini-player mode? How there are no tool-tips? Remember when Macs used to be good? Now they are just another company with no pride in their work. All intent on flash and shoddy workmanship.
ah! whoops, one too many zeros (I used $35K) :P
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That 404s for me.

Edit: Perhaps you mean https://github.com/dkhenry/minestat
Summing up the last graph, Samsung will likely spend roughly $16B in promotions, marketing, and other payola in 2012.

Then again, Samsung is roughly 20% of South Korea's GDP:

http://www.theverge.com/2012/11/30/3709688/samsung-25-years-...
That would explain it for you, but i doubt all those commenters are your ex colleagues ;)
I'm aware that life is complex. But comments like "hey, let's give it to Israel they can re-arm it and have a nice weapon there" make me sick, sorry.
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You don't have to have been somewhere to have nostalgia for it and its associations.

Edit: I agree, better not to give it to anyone.
Not to mention china's new liaoning carrier, which is a relatively recent product of the Soviet Union.
Ironically, I don't think Stackoverflow does this very well.

It's a good article, and the point of researching every wheel ever is a good point well made.

But as a long-time Stackoverflow user, I've been frustrated time and time again by cases where extremely valuable content emerges on StackOverflow, but then the moderators come along and kill it because "it is not the defined purpose of this site."

Now they have the right to define the rules & purpose for their own site. It wouldn't bother me so much if the content they were killing wasn't so fantastic. But I have seen so many deep, excellent, rich blobs of technical content get cut out and cast aside, for the sake of adherence to some superficial guideline.

It seems to be exactly the opposite of "seeing what your users are doing, then helping them do it."
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We're building supercarriers faster than we're getting new presidents. Either we go back to cool names or we'll read about airstrikes conducted by the USS Chester A. Arthur.
I actually looked into this once I found out the same about my Nexus 7. The workarounds all seem annoying at best. I just ended up installing a Windows 7 VM in order to make it less painful.
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Malware Swipes Rocket Data from Japanese space agency
First ever photo of DNA double-helix
As a middle aged man who has spent the last year teaching himself javascript and the prior year teaching himself basic programming concepts using C++ I can contest there is no substitute for developing a deep kinesthetic learning and having a project that drives you. I would really like to read your opinion on what exactly the skills are to "learn new programming languages in minutes or hours rather than days or weeks." Thanks for this post, it was a good read.
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So, "get off my porch" and "when I was your age".

I call bullshit. Your car is probably far safer than the ones produced during the muscle car phase, prior to airbags and good crumple zones. Does this mean anyone who complains that car X kills 50% more people in crashes than car Y is simply wrong, and should suck it up and be glad it doesn't kill three times as many?
Good point. I'm not trying to start an off-topic climate change debate, just trying to step back and look at the problem a little more broadly, but there's at least one big error in my calcs as has been pointed out.
I've benefited from having coding tutors. My path was to pick a project I wanted ti work on, start coding it myself, and then find people who'd be willing to help me figure it out.

The thing that took me a while to understand was that lessons tend to be much more effective when I ask the teacher for help with building a specific feature, including architecture, refactoring, and testing.

Chris Pine's Learning to Program was a very helpful book, too.
good fuck you zynga. My first taste of their shitty ways, was just the other week. lidgren - is the best open networking library available for indie gamers and this fuck, goes and duplicates the code base, re-releasing it on a separate source control site. THEN he mails the group, including the author, asking for permission.

After hearing about this, the author understandably is concerned about splitting the dev hub of his code across multiple sites, and its community, culminating in him saying this is not a good idea.

The stupid fuck, replies saying he already has done it, and matter of factly states it is getting quite popular.

Community hits back, tells him it is detrimental to everyone, and asks him to take it down. Eventually after a few days of building pressure, he does.

I was curious, did a little research. Turns out the dickhead was an important dev from Zynga.

I have omitted names.

Fuck Zynga.
Ah well, they should put it in a museum i guess, not scraping it.

edit: Or make a museum out of it, with the size of the ship :P
edit2: I see, and according to another link, the ship basically will be destroyed by removing the reactor, so there is no way around it...
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I'm just saying, if people can survive thorium lamps, we can probably manage to use modest amounts of thorium in much more controlled circumstances without undue difficulty.
He was also interviewed by Joe Rogan this week

http://youtu.be/5GmwSgCfn38?t=18m46s