skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> people go half-cocked about how CPU progress has stalled which it clearly has not.

Okay, point taken. But how much more improvement is there to be had just from architectural improvements, with no more movement on clock speed?
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Sunlight is a pretty good heat source.
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Goto is fine in self-contained uses, but turns catastrophic on large, enterprise codebases, like inheritance.

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/what-is-spagh...
They aren't emailing them, they are faxing them.
This won't raise the cost since they accept faxes.
Well, it's so interesting that Twitter is so mind changing - maybe I should start using it after all?

But in fact, no, thanks, Facebook is quite enough for now, I guess.
Great pivot. Looking forward to...going Commando!
I agree, I think I was projecting others' comments on you which was unfair. I think "desperate" is probably the right characterization and doesn't really comment on his situation otherwise, sorry.
All I'm trying to say is that I was of your same opinion, but facts do not support that opinion in my experience. Of course I have not done an actual controlled experiment, just some observations and little tests along the years. Yes, they will play with anything, but they still show preferences. Are those purely social? I'm not sure.

That said, I am still of the opinion that it is indeed mainly social, but that it is less social than one thinks it is, before.

I'd love to see some actual science about this, got any?
Coursera offers career services
On the other had, for something like automatic subscription renewals it's fine.
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Hey I'm in the greater Boston area, but contemplating a move very soon. My email is in my profile if you'd like to talk some time. I'm working on a project now (I do consulting) but at the end of the month I'll be looking for more work. Also open to side projects and joint ventures if there is a good fit.
Ranting is a terrible disease, but bitching can be incredibly cathartic. HN is good for ranting, but Twitter and FB are superior for bitching.
The thing with the university of waterloo is the opportunity for where you coop. How many people at UOttawa get jobs with Facebook, google, apple, MS, twitter and various startups in the valley with jobs paying in excess of $30 an hour?

To give you an idea of how popular UW is in the valley, right now apple has 50~ interns, about 35~ of which are from Waterloo, and a couple from BC. The rest are from the states. And this is the case in many of the companies down here.
The idea behind that is probably that a fax or written message is "less anonymous" than an email.
I didn't say that anywhere. Piracy obviously resulted in lost revenue, but that's not what this article is about - it's about bad server software.
True, but if you're looking at those co-op/internship terms, the best you'll get is a J1 because you don't have your post-secondary degree yet.
A few questions/thoughts:

* Why is the "build" target still there?
* Why don't you use `$^` in rules like the one for "bootstrap/js/.js" instead of listing out the files by hand?
A lot of your rules have a wildcard in the target part, which means something like `bootstrap/css/.css: less/.less` actually expands to "bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css: less/bootstrap.less less/responsive.less". THAT expands to:

bootstrap/css/bootstrap.css: less/bootstrap.less less/responsive.less

bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.css: less/bootstrap.less
less/responsive.less

bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css: less/bootstrap.less less/responsive.less

bootstrap/css/bootstrap-responsive.min.css: less/bootstrap.less less/responsive.less

(All of which have identical commands.) This can potentially break under a make -j (parallel make).

Hang on. I'll cook up a pull request.
I think this is awesome in and of itself. I don't care if it turns out to be super cheap and green. $20 just seems entirely unrealistic to me. Half of that cost (at least) would be the tires alone (at least it looks like he's got tires on the outside of the cardboard wheel). But a cardboard bike? Just plain awesome.
That's a frankly silly position to hold.

There's no reason to avoid ST, and in many cases it makes the code clearer and shorter than trying to figure out some pointfree contortionism to reach the same goal.

I'll look at Coq when it has support for binding to C libraries, opening sockets, or doing anything else than a programming language needs to support.
Couldn't you say the same thing about Apple? Almost every one of their apps is bested by some third party app.
Google updates local search experience for US Apple iPad users
Very good presentation, thanks for the link
This is huge for business uptake and could, in a few months, start leading enterprises to specify Android only.

Will open up a lot more opportunities for mobile business app startups too.

Mobile in enterprise is often seen as lagging behind consumer use - but senior execs in my experience are already a lot further ahead on mobile use for stats/monitoring than many probably appreciate - getting broader uptake across an enterprise usually stalls at deployment and user support.
Yes, that's the point. I don't like "mediocre" weather. I want either the dry heat or the storming rain. No permanent middle ground for me, thanks, I'm a man of extremes.
Heroku’s New Add-Ons Marketplace Is A “Program In A Box” For Developers
I closed my Twitter account a few months ago and my thinking and doing has never been clearer. Not to mention, the complete disappearance of anxiety often brought on by social media websites.
Is this new? Because I can't find a corresponding listing in the Copyright Office's list of service provider agents (http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/list/a_agents.html).

The reason I'm wondering is that the Copyright Office does require you to provide an email address for your designated DMCA agent, and I'd like to know how they got around that.

(The requirement for registering an agent, by the way, is 17 U.S.C. 512(c)(2).)
Usually what I do is google specific things that I know Lifehacker is likely to have good content for: "lifehacker + ThingIWantToDo", e.g. "lifehacker + automated media centre" or "lifehacker + hive five vpn".

That throws up the good, older content (sometimes newer/updated content too) without sifting through the crap.
You're counting the months of employment experience, but you're omitting other things like the amount of interview experience (six co-op cycles means six times to get an interview at Google, Facebook, etc.) and opportunities to refine your resume.
Hmmm, I'm not being a dick, but I just want to give you an example - As to why word-processing is really difficult on an iPad. Assume you are a blogger, each platform like tumblr, blogger, etc. has its own Editor. And to make text bold, italic, listed, etc., you need to select the text, which is quite frustrating, if not hard on an iPad. Selecting text is easier with a mouse than say, with your fingers, especially on miniscule text.

Selection is just one example. Talk about dragging images within an editor - Most editors don't support the OnTouch event, but rather just the OnClick event, so there is a huge difference, actually.
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Let's be honest. Adding an SSD to your iMac was never really easy in the first place unless you liked looking at dust behind glass.
First, SRAM caches are still faster than DRAM.

Second, DRAM is made differently from CPUs, and it is difficult to use two different processes on the same silicon.

Third, squeezing 4GB of DRAM onto a single CPU die? How?
A couple good tips that have helped me:

1) Your public speaking will be more polished and compelling if you think of your speech as a story.

2) If you have some vital points to make, draw a picture on a notecard that will remind you of what you need to communicate. It doesn't matter if your picture is simple or complex, it just needs to get the message across to you. Then if you freeze up, you can look down and relax--no awkward pauses as you squint at several lines of notes.
Maybe its just me but isn't it slightly unsavory to after just getting unbanned to immediately make a post about the process of getting unbanned?
Went to Social Engine's site. See a few quotes on the bottom of the home page which seem to imply testimonials, and I see:

"SocialEngine is rapidly evolving as an amazing tool for building and managing communities." - Brad Feld, feld.com

Huh. Now that I know he's involved at some level, but this isn't disclosed with his quote, it makes me question the credibility of the entire site.
Read what s/he said. There is lost ad revenue on a desktop mail client, so the parent is saying that it makes sense for Google to push the user to the web client. This doesn't work on mobile because the user has certain expectations of how mail works on mobile.
I'm still not sure where you read that mutable state is impossible in FP. If you don't mind me quoting, I believe it says:

"In most FP languages, variables are declared immutable by default."

That doesn't sound like a claim that mutable state is impossible. Perhaps we should spend more time reading and less time criticizing...
I've had a twitter account for many years, but I never check it more than once in a given week. I'm sure there have been 6 month spans where I didn't use it at all.
Sorry about the slow reply. The idea is that the buyer has to cooperate with the insurance claim, if their chargeback is to succeed; otherwise Paypal/the CC company would ask why not. If they submit something in writing which is materially false, then they're committing fraud against he insurance issuer, which is in a rather better position to prosecute than I am if a pattern is detected.

For this reason I always use my own photos of the specific item I'm selling on an auction, and do the shipping calculation in advance so the buyer pays - and so that the auction page include the shipping weight. Sometimes this costs me a few $ if the shipping calculator is slightly off (eg I've forgotten to allow for the size/weight of the packaging) and the insurance costs me a few $ as well. But if the buyer ever says the 'item is not as described' then I have a good excuse to claim on the insurance, who will ask for the buyer to submit what was received.
No.
I hate x ways to do y articles (lists).
Hate social media expert-esque posts.
oh, haha. well that makes sense..

seems i've shown my age.. though i definitely read that, my mind seems conditioned to totally ignore the notion of faxing something. not discounting anything here, but just find it kind of funny. given my perception of fax machines, it could very well have said send notice via telegraph.. that aside, i can see how as a technology it stills has practical applications, especially in the legal field where paper records are heavily relied upon.
I was in Hacker School's first batch, batch[0]. It was awesome. I was brought into the idea when my friend Dave Albert reached out to me. I met Dave through the hacker culture in NYC.

There was 6 of us in a small room, all working on things and talking about what inspired us. I had some things I was working on at home and loved the idea of working on them with a bunch of other hackers around. I don't personally like coworking spaces, but I thought the term "school" would mean something quite different, something more compatible with my goal of writing a bunch of open source.

Everyone could use their time however they wanted. The basic premise was to see what happens when you put a bunch of people, who love programming, in a room together. Do they sit there? Do they pull out SICP and get to work? What happens?

I used my time there to work on building Brubeck and I also built the demo projects most people use to learn Brubeck. I learned a ton just discussing the system with the other people there, but I learned the most when I would just listen to what other folks were thinking about. Everyone ended up building a huge amount of stuff and we improved each other's work by sharing it, picking it apart, etc.

We come to HN for a particular reason. We're looking for like-minded folks. The word "Hacker" is significant. It is a beacon for us. Hacker School knows this and takes on the challenge of being another beacon, and they do it well.

I have been a reader of PG's essays for 9 or so years and found the culture of Hacker School to reflect the same ideas. They understand the value of doing things simply because it would be neat. They know what it's like to be let down by a typical education experience. Hacker School is what they're doing about it.

I wholeheartedly recommend anyone with a passion for learning and technology to consider applying. What you learn is up to you and your passions, but Hacker School is the environment you've been looking to lose yourself in. That's why it exists!
There's one here: http://www.copyright.gov/onlinesp/agents/n/news_ycomb.pdf
How many years did it take for you to earn your B.S. with all the constant co-oping?
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Be wary the CECA has been known to give smaller employers sub-optimal advice. You'll want to get someone who understands the process to help you through it. If top students don't understand the benefits of working for your particular organization it's possible that they'll pick a safe job at a Google or Microsoft over you, and you'll get a mediocre student (or worse, none at all) after the first round of matching.
Also, this kind of complexity can actually be measured and tracked, so policies can be enforced.
If you ever get stressed out or unmotivated... Spend some days without technology, your mobile phone, your social networks, even SMS and you'll notice some clarity. Like the old saying goes: Too much of a good thing can be a bad thing.
isn't this basically what Jaron Lanier was getting at in You Are Not a Gadget?
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Can you call up your (father's?) provider and report the phone stolen? Aren't those IMEI's blacklisted? If so, that might make it difficult for the buyer to unload. I guess you could also threaten to do that to said buyer, first, to see if that provokes anything.

Either way, a bummer of a story. I've had my own issues with eBay and rarely check there except for infrequently needed (cheap) odds and ends. I hope it works out.
People in US still use faxes? Funny!
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Definitely visit that link if you're looking to hire Waterloo co-ops. As a Waterloo co-op myself, Jobmine is the most important resource we use to find jobs.
HN isn't driven by a product YC or PG sells. To me, that speaks volumes.

SR (gotta refer to it by an acronym you know) is powered by SE. If it could handle HNish load, that would speak volumes about Social Engine, no?

Obviously there's a commercial interest (even if it doesn't drive decisions, it's still there)
If he wants to be missing, there might not be much you can do. If you know where he lives, you can find someone in the area to knock on his door and check if he's there. In some cases you can also call the non-emergency line of the local police and ask for a "welfare check" where they will drop by and check on the person. If the family suspects something is wrong, they can file a missing persons report with the police.
I'll include part of my comment to that post:

"Are goto’s always bad eventually? Who cares? There’s far bigger problems with gradual change in codebases, let’s think harder about them. My peer reviewers, hold off review until you’ve used what I’ve built and found problems with it. Managers and programmers, wrestle with judgement everyday, the stuff not easily put into rules. Leave the comforting shallows and engage with the abyss."

http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2012/08/15/what-is-spagh...
"you could special-case the 'hasAttribute(name)' method"

Please don't do this never.
Wow. You nailed it. I was wondering just yesterday why I'm commenting so much on this site and others. I thought it was a need for social interaction due to my current isolation, but if that were the case, I'd comment a lot more on Facebook than these anonymous sites, which I don't.

It is rage. That's why I was hooked on an anonymous message board for the last 7 months (for the 3rd time). I quit last month, thankfully, but I did end up just posting more on other sites. I couldn't get away with being as direct on these sites, but it's still an outlet for negativity.

Incidentally, I find the best way to quit a site I'm hooked on is with a vacation (one in which I don't use the internet much, if at all. Try a remote island). I always come back with a new mindset; everything I was heavily into before the trip is suddenly perceived as "old." I just quit cold turkey and don't return at all, and it works. That's how I've quit every site I was hooked on in the past.
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Possibly because the downvoters did not see yummyfajitas' posts as "condescending"; they just saw him pointing out facts that you find inconvenient.

(Note: I was not one of the downvoters; I don't have enough karma to downvote, but even if I did, I would not have downvoted your post. I didn't see yummyfajitas' posts as being condescending, but "condescending" is subjective, so I would have left it to yummyfajitas to respond if he felt so inclined.)
I second the call of bullshit. Though I've only skimmed the paper, I don't see any concrete performance numbers. I only see this:

"The group has written sev- eral million lines of code, including: core libraries (includ- ing collections with polymorphism over element permis- sions and data-parallel operations when safe), a webserver, a high level optimizing compiler, and an MPEG decoder. These and other applications written in the source language are performance-competitive with established implementa- tions on standard benchmarks; we mention this not because our language design is focused on performance, but merely to point out that heavy use of reference immutability, includ- ing removing mutable static/global state, has not come at the cost of performance in the experience of the Microsoft team."
Give some examples as to why.
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An example schedule for an Engineering student is:

Year 1: School, coop, School

Year 2: coop, School, coop

Year 3: School, coop, School

Year 4: coop, School, coop

Year 5: School, school.

4 years and 8 months. Order may vary slightly.
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You hit the nail on the head. "Total lack of coherence" is the best way to describe the vast majority of the large corporate environments I have worked in during my career as a software engineer. All this talk of focusing on "one thing" is just more noise drowned out by the conflicting, in many cases contradictory "one things" the average corporate drone will receive from their many layers of superiors on a regular basis. The one unmistakable conclusion that I have taken from this is that corporations do not scale effectively. Everyone can have their "one thing" when your business is small, but once you reach a critical threshold, everyone's "one thing" doesn't make any sense in the broader context - unless, as you state, the leadership is dictatorial. In which case, good luck retaining the best/brightest/most creative individuals that are lifeblood of any successful business. People are not robots; it takes a nuanced leadership style that understands both the business and the nature of how creative individuals work, to truly be a successful leader. But that's not something you can quote in a four paragraph puff piece blog post.
It's funny, I gave up Reddit for a year for the same reasons. Then I went back, and within three months it was just as bad as before. I closed my account. Now I still let myself read it but I don't comment on anything and mostly it's alright; the rage of seeing someone say something I strongly disagree with is fleeting.

I started commenting here about a year ago, and I've found it a lot better. People respect long-form comments and they are more generous with upvotes than downvotes. On Reddit, it seemed like there was always a lot of trolling, and stupid jokes are voted up a lot over meaningful content. Another plus around here is that after a couple days, people give up on their fight. There's no "mailbox" reminding you that you're having a flamewar somewhere.

I still do sometimes spend way too much time on a comment or a thread though. But it isn't yet anywhere near the kind of problem it was on Reddit. Which is particularly strange because I see most of the people here that were on Reddit and we talk about the same things. I think the community is the reason. On Reddit I was never tempted to bite my tongue. Here I do, and I think it makes me respect people here more than I ever did on Reddit--even though I know many of them are the same people.
What I would really like is a system where I can provide open access to internet and people who connect via my hotspot report the amount of traffic I passed for them to central system and when I'm in need of a connection I can use some other people connections within my credit earned by providing internet connection for other people.
> "be an upper middle class white male whose parents..."

You forgot to mention "born in the USA" which excludes at least as many people as any other thing you've listed.
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I was nervous to leave Facebook but when I did I found leaving Facebook easy and fun -- http://joshuaspodek.com/leaving-facebook-easy-and-fun. I had read others say the biggest surprise about leaving was that you don't miss it. Using it is addictive but not using it doesn't leave any holes in your life.

Leaving Twitter sounds easy and fun too.

When I first started with Friendster I thought it was fun. Facebook seemed fun too. Until the company got creepy and I realized centralized social media companies are locked in an arms race to get as much of your personal data as they could with as little accountability as they can get away with.

So I left to avoid doing business with creepy companies.

But I found life was better without them. Mine anyway.

I hold out hope for Diaspora as non-centralized so you own your data, but I'm not sure how much social media helps my life.
"I always wonder why so many programmers act like we are all just drug dealers or gun runners, immorally making money from software we write. Do you think carpenters feel this way?"

The problem isn't making money. It's the corrupt and user-hostile lengths proprietary developers go to in order secure that income.

If carpenters were installing coin-operated locks in your house, refusing to let you inspect the building materials, suing you when you make unauthorized repairs, and secretly living in your basement to spy on you so you didn't break their rules, hopefully they'd feel a lot worse about how they made their living.
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>Wow, bbc is really hard up for news huh? //

More or Less is a great program that introduces statistics to current affairs topics and listener questions. This was in response to a listener question. It being on the news is the usual BBC thing of using BBC news as an advertising medium for BBC shows.
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