skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It does indeed seem curious. Look at the performance over time recenty[1], and I can't see why the stock is so volatile. And then you read things like this[2].

The only thing I can think of.. is that there is a block of investors that are selling off to avoid possible capital gains tax increases (fiscal cliff, etc) next year. I think this is also why Apple execs have been selling stock too. I think after the tax season is over, the stock is going to pop again.

[1]: https://www.google.com/finance?q=aapl&sa=N&tab=fe
[2]: http://bgr.com/2012/11/19/apples-stock-analysis-insanely-und...
I was working on the same lines, and managed to bump it up to a score of 106:

#define P printf(
main(n){(n%3?0:P"Fizz"))+(n%5?0:P"Buzz"))?:P"%d",n);P"\n");n>99?:main(n+1);}
Yeah. This is cool and all, but it's kind of like modifying your cigarette lighter to carry passengers.
Did you try to run them on Cluster Compute instances within a Placement Group?
The problem with this argument is that guns would do little to counteract an oppressive government. What about the airplanes, the navy, the artillery that our military possess? Guns are hardly a "final check against the formation of a potentially oppressive regime."
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Why Simplicity is BS.
Regarding the Hunter S. Thompson anecdote:

I've heard this story many times over the years and was always found it amusing but was skeptical that it did HST any good. I mean, what use is it to blindly just copy something letter by letter?

I did Nanowrimo on a whim this year and it was a lot of fun (I doubt I'm actually any good at it, though). In doing it I found myself going to Gatsby and a Hemingway book (The Sun Also Rises) for examples of clear, direct prose. I thought back to this Thompson anecdote and thought to myself that if I ever wanted to really pursue writing, a straight copy of one of those books would help my prose ten fold.

So I agree with this article. Type out the code you're borrowing from, don't copy and paste. Also, tchlock23 is right in that you also need to start some small projects from scratch and suffer through them with minimal help.
It's also worth pointing out that in Iraq, for example, the insurgents did not have very much popular support and yet still made things tough for the most powerful conventional army in history. In fact, it was the erosion of that small amount of popular support that turned things around, as much as it was the increased troop levels in the surge before the US finally completely pulled out.
My father was a alcoholic too. I hated him too and haven't seen him for years. Never wanted to have kids becaue I always think I'm not good enough.

Now I have a kid and even I'm doing better then my father I feel bad because I think I could do better. Because I want my own life and take care of him. Don't know if I balance it right....

Anyway your yought can make you strong or break you... You never know...
I wish I could donate more than 50...
So the answer isn't no? They did find two of the Higgs Bosons?
Agreed. List functions stringifying everything in sight is really inefficient and error-prone, and definitely one of the things that I dislike about Tcl.

For most purposes I've used it, the convenience of the language outweighs its problems, but I've thought about rewriting some of Tcl to fix the minor annoyances like these.
>
1. Open up the platform, or
2. Go down the same road that they went down in the 80s/90s, handing the bulk of the business over to an open platform.
>

You gave two options at a crossroads as a result of a maps fiasco, both options end up with the "open" solution winning. My reading comprehension is fine, your arguments are faulty.
Yes, if you are out of contract fit those phones.
There exists a third possible answer: We don't know yet.
Why hypothesize?: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-20723910.

_At least _ two seriously wounded.

"Guns don't kill people..."
I love how these articles totally ignore dates. A June 5s launch would mean the 5 has about 80% of the time to sell as the top iPhone compared to the 4s. I wouldn't be surprised if they don't sell as many of the 5.

There may be something to be said for the new iPhone having no new must-have features, but that's not unique to Apple.
you can get rid of the !() if you reverse the ?:

#define d printf(
main(i){i<101?(i%3?0:d"Fizz"))|(i%5?0:d"Buzz"))?d"\n"):d"%d\n",i),main(i+1):0;}
I love it. For decades, my flame war offensives against the evil crusaders of Emacs have stalled out against their Maginot Line of "But Emacs can be your mail client too!" This is like a Blitzkrieg of flame war glory. PARIS PREPARE TO BE MINE!!!
Basically how I learned to code as a kid: type out the programs from Byte/Compute magazines. I eventually found books on BASIC in the library and typed out the examples from those. Then I'd modify them to add my name in there or make the dot jump a little higher. Eventually I was writing my own programs.

I assume it's some sort of "kinesis" style loop in the brain that is at work when you do this. "Hands-on," learning is a very useful tool.
You bring up a point that is interesting to me. Why does it matter to our own humility if there exist people that are better/smarter/abler than we are?

It does matter to me, but I feel it shouldn't. Woe to me if I am ever the best at anything, I'm sure I'd be a paragon of intolerance for my lessers.

And yet, some of the smartest people I know, people who very well know their own ability, are the among the kindest people I know.

On the flipside, I know some "less gifted" people that are equally as kind.
I think this could be valuable for little known startups that have a hard time being seen and will take any decent talent they can get, but for any startup that is sought after, why would I want a candidate that doesn't want to work for my startup specifically? Someone who is open to applying to 170+ startups at once is not someone I want on my team. To produce a great culture, you want to be every single candidates' first choice, not their second or third choice.
I'm genuinely interested—is this the consensus opinion of most of the developed world outside of the US?

I'm a US citizen, and generally consider myself liberal and progressive. I favor much stricter gun control laws. But I'm not sure I do favor complete disarmament of the citizenship. I do believe that the knowledge—not the use—of citizen's arms does provide a reminder to the government in times of crisis.

But am I simply experiencing large cultural bias? Is there any research on this? Any evidence I can look to? I'm very curious.
I wish them luck in their endeavor. My impression is another aggregator of proprietary web services isn't a need people have. Perhaps I am wrong. Others have tried this, albeit possibly not with the file manager angle, and it doesn't work out. I fear it is even more difficult today than it used to be as most web services do not want to be aggregated and fight against it. Nevertheless, this is a YC company and I hope they succeed.
Linode has been working very well for our company as we roll out lots of servers all around the globe. We find the service pretty robust. Only wish they increased the bandwidth quota more.
I think it's a nurture vs nature question. Maybe it makes you strong and hard person who makes it in life. Life is though if you have setbacks to deal with. If you are golden spooned maybe by the first setback you crumble...
> Computers are logical and deal in absolutes

A classic anti-technology strawman. It is like saying "Computers only use numbers, you can't do graphics or text with them".

At the very lowest level computers are entirely logical, but you can program one to deal with uncertainties and probabilities.

In fact that argument isn't quite relevant, unless you are arguing against the computers making the policy decisions, which I think was never under consideration.

Computers/technology can certainly be a strong tool to assist gun control.

One idea completely off the top of my head would be to data-mine as much info as possible about past shooting/shooters and then use this to help guide granting (or not) of gun licenses. With Bayesian this-and-that, the computer could give a number "estimated 0.000001% chance of serial killing" and refer the application to the appropriate person (e.g. a detailed analysis for people "at risk" (large probability), or a quicker check for "safer" people).
What is the point of your reply?

"Spread bad news about a company, buy the stock at a lower price, wait for the Quarterly earnings, watch the stock price sky rocket."

buy low, sell high. what is so difficult to understand?
Well, I do see someone suggesting that spoons and guns are functionally equivalent, and that if we regulate guns we must regulate spoons.

But you are right, no reason to resort to this.
This is highly amusing to me because my solution was almost exactly identical (and the same number of keystrokes:

print(($_%3?"":"Fizz").($_%5?"":"Buzz")or$_,"\n")for 1..100

sadly, though it says they're running perl 5.14, it wouldn't work with 'say' which would have shaved off 7 characters.

edit: Guess what? The code above does not work. It's what I typed into my buffer, and then fixed it on the console to use || instead of or. Oh operator precedence!
> It's not The Best Language(tm), but it really ties the room together.

Haha, very well put. A lot of the time, I just want something that lets me tinker interactively with C/++ code (changing variables, calling methods, etc) to make sure it's doing what I want without having to recompile, dive into the debugger, or write a custom command interface. Plus, some things are just far less painful to write in Tcl--namely, anything to do with strings.
Yes, this is because the experts don't feel threatened by noobs. They know they are actually experts, so they don't need to stoop to the level of picking on noobs to make them selves feel like experts. It's the "nervous middle classes" that feel a need to pick on noobs to reassure themselves.

PG wrote an article that describes this same phenomenon vis-a-vis nerds and popular kids in school:

If I remember correctly, the most popular kids don't persecute nerds; they don't need to stoop to such things. Most of the persecution comes from kids lower down, the nervous middle classes.

http://www.paulgraham.com/nerds.html
"Have scientists found the source of immortality?" "Have scientists invented flying shoes?" Just because it's a scientific article does not mean it's any less applicable.

The headline could easily have been "New data shows possibility of" or "New theory suggests" or countless others.
Wow, claimed 90% thermodynamic efficiency!
> history of gun control being used to enable racism and genocide

Reference? (Genuine question.)
This remains to be seen. I just signed the lease on Monday for the space and we are doing cleaning and some minimal construction right now.

I live in Helena, Montana. We have a very small startup/tech community here, but we do have a lot of people who telecommute or freelance for out-of-state clients. Ideally, we'll get a mixture of these people. I think the diversity is what's really important.

Outside of Helena, in Bozeman and Missoula, there is a much larger startup community that's really starting to take off. I try to drive down for meetups a few times a month and participate in as many things as possible.

So far, the initial response has been overwhelmingly positive. Rent is really cheap (my father-in-law owns the building, that helps) and I'm not trying to make a living off of the coworking space itself. It won't take many members to get the space self-sustaining and I'm confident that we can get there quickly even with the small population.

Our website just went live yesterday. http://theshophelena.com
Yes, it is impolite to use this day today to argue the point, one way or the other.

The author is free to argue his point, today, or preferably on some later day. And if he means it, he can argue it relentlessly and effectively and try to get results.

Or he can sell magazines today.

EDIT: s/papers/magazines/
Wikipedia says this is possible with a more complex theory. Are we going with the simplest theory due to Occam's razor?

The Minimal Standard Model as described above contains the simplest possible model for the Higgs mechanism with just one Higgs field. However, it also is possible to have an extended Higgs sector with additional doublets or triplets. The non-minimal Higgs sector favoured by theory are the two-Higgs-doublet models (2HDM), which predict the existence of a quintet of scalar particles: two CP-even neutral Higgs bosons h0 and H0, a CP-odd neutral Higgs boson A0, and two charged Higgs particles H±.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Higgs_boson#Alternative_models
I think any conversation is better then no conversation be it a joke or not. The comment actually brought out some really great points on the issue.
Except for the lack of distractions, I don't like it. Same with working with people, in reverse.

I work as both a programmer and a glass artist, and similar conclusions apply. Working in group environments is inspiring, informative, invigorating and synergistic, but brings up all sorts of problems one doesn't encounter in solitude. I'm trying to find the right balance.
> While nearly two-thirds of companies (60 percent)report they have corporate policies in place that prohibit such actions, respondents say there are no real deterrents for purchasing cloud services by stealth. In fact, 29 percent report there are no ramifications whatsoever and another 48 percent say it is little more than a warning.

If it's such a big deal that employees are using Dropbox in the office, employ some of those Orwellian tactics bigcorps are so good at: block them. Block them and their entire CDN. Shut off access to Facebook, Google Drive and Box while you're at it. Make them use only corporate e-mail. Is being denied access (at work) to a service they purchased not ramification enough?

Shall we draw and quarter them instead? You're not powerless, you're just myopic.

I'd wager that if a corporation has a problem with employees using Dropbox, they've got problems with a lot of other stuff - so why not stamp it all out at once? Or, work with it! Embrace the growing cloud culture. Buy Dropbox for Teams, or Github Enterprise, or what have you. Clearly, your employees want it.

Or, disband the thought and grow up.

EDIT: Comment below generated while the site was not responding to requests.

> 503 Service Unavailable

It appears the "Shadow IT" has won this round.
excellent, missed that. :)
Hmmm. Is this from signing up on web or iPhone app?
sellouts
No, they're strawmen. Extreme positions that a very small percentage of people support - so you can knock them down and look like a reasonable figure as long as you don't support the extreme.

Look at example 2.5 here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man#Structure

By reducing the argument to one extreme vs. another extreme, these are strawmen arguments... very few support either extreme, so the commenter can then knock down the arguments and look reasonable saying pretty much anything.
I'm not trying to be rude, but they weren't "details", they were the difference between "secure" (which is the service you sell) and "insecure".
Hardly. It's a simple equation that has been independently discovered for as long as we've had algebra.
He does something more important than donating money, because you can't do what he does you can donate money.
Ugh, I made the mistake of scrolling into the comments. As much as I love my tech, it's horrifying to see the ignorant vitriol which people spew out of personal allegiance to brands.
Your examples are ridiculous. The answer to the question is not "No". The question has no answer right now other than "maybe, we'll see". Not everything is so black and white.

Yes, there are other possibilities for the headline. No, the silly law about internet headlines does not extend to articles with real information about real science where real questions are posed and currently unanswered.
"On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting."
You know what, this guy makes a good point to consider as well. http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4922853
You might try Nagelfar, an extensible syntax checker: http://nagelfar.berlios.de/

Nagelfar can easily find these types of errors, plus you should be able to define syntax for your own commands (as in your previous comment.)

tclsh nagelfar.tcl engtech.tcl
Checking file engtech.tcl
Line 1: E Wrong number of arguments (5) to "proc"
Argument 4 at line 2
Argument 5 at line 2

Comments are warty in Tcl, you would be better off to understand Tcl's syntax conventions, rather than assuming comments work like other languages. See item #10 at: http://wiki.tcl.tk/10259
This may seem tangential, but I swear it's not. We live in a country (US) where growth and progress is measured primarily in GDP. Poverty is measured economically. People's happiness is blithely assumed to be some kind of function of their economic well-being, especially because that can be measured.

There are alternative ideas like "Gross National Happiness" that attempt to measure what could arguably be called the end, as opposed the means (economic). This is generally presented as an alternative goal, to raise the "GNH" of a country. And it's certainly a valid one.

But what if, even more importantly, it's not the gross "national happiness", but rather its distribution?

The perpetrator in this horrible tragedy was clearly horribly unhappy, and almost certainly with severe mental problems. But this isn't a private concern, because in cases like this it becomes a national problem.

When are we going to stop concentrating so much on economic progress and GDP, and start considering how our society and institutions provide for people at the bottom rung of the "happiness" ladder? When are we going to move mental health from a "side issue" about "sick people" that "doesn't concern me", to a central national priority?

There's so much work to be done, and it's barely even a blip in the conversation.
> "Have scientists found the source of immortality?" "Have scientists invented flying shoes?"

If the scientists in question did not have evidence to suggest those things, then those articles would not be scientific articles.

If they did, then citing Betterridge's Law would be misplaced.
Shootings will go on
Pretty sure he's being sarcastic.
That's what we do with Claveo (http://www.claveo.com), but we use PKI instead of rolling codes so it's a lot more secure.
The W and Z bosons are basically the same, except one is charged and the other neutral. And due to that they have different masses.

So it's certainly possible the same thing could be happening here.
Yes, I find it useful to stand up for others.

This applies to any project. If one sees others being mistreated, one should vote with one's feet and leave. The defense of "but they're treating me fine" is the height of hypocrisy.

Stupidity is an aesthetic judgement. We all run into people it's too hard to help, people we might call stupid under our breath. When this happens to me I move on in silence, rather than turn my aesthetic judgement into generalizations that sully the forum (mailing list, irc channel, etc.) for everyone.
> This doesn't seem like an activity that's rampant in the community in any fashion. I personally only recall it happening once, ever, and I've been a contributor to open source projects for almost ten years.

If a lot of other people are talking about the negative consequences of something you personally haven't experienced, generalizing outwards from your own experiences to conclude that something a lot of other people have experienced doesn't exist is a pretty wrongheaded way to approach life.

Maybe you've just been lucky.
No clue why people thought these were heavily photoshopped... Most of the photos I had seen of these rooms the photographer had used a flash, I preferred how the natural lighting looked. It added to the eeriness of the place I think.
Facts about guns and mass shootings in the United States
Of course everyone is freshly aware of the neutrino fiasco, so this anomaly will probably be handled with extra skepticism and timidity. Without more data we can only make conjectures based on Occam's razor, etc.
My wife's favorite new app.
Wait what? Who in the world is using a computer today that isn't constantly interacting with people on Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, uh.. Hacker News, even..

I mean, you're doing it right now.

Today's web is an insanely social place. Compare with computers in 1985, yeah, you might have a point about social isolation. But today? Absolutely not, no way.
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This is just the exact opposite of what one should do ... Companies, all companies, a fortiori startups, hate when the see such a mass application file. This a a totally crazy advice. Companies need the applicant to know about them, applicant need to know about the company he is applying for. Guy, you want to drag us to a rotten world.
Transparent speaker
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The Ruby Rogues podcast had an episode devoted to starter projects recently:

http://rubyrogues.com/070-rr-what-is-a-good-starter-project/
In your circles they may have been "just about no understanding", but in my circles there was.

For the record, the standard database interface that Perl uses, DBI, was first released as early alpha on Oct 12, 1994. Its solution to SQL injection is bind parameters. As far as I can tell, that first release had support for bind parameters, but I don't have that version's documentation for that feature.

The first release of the first real database driver was 24th Feb 1995. (Again, early alpha, you couldn't actually fetch data.) From the comments in the change log, bind variables were always a priority, and finally arrived for DBD::Oracle on 22 Aug 1995. From that point on if you used Perl and connected using DBI in the way recommended by the documentation, you were protected from SQL injection attacks.
Thank you. Now I now have a list of politicians that may potentially value individual liberty.
The neutrino fiasco was very unfortunate since by all accounts the scientists involved went public with some seriously stressed skepticism. That heads rolled because outsiders ignored the skepticism is rather distressing.
> If even 1 in 20 or fewer teachers at a school were people who were responsible and trained and carried guns for self-defense then these sorts of attacks would be far less common. Because the attacks would be ended sooner by armed citizens acting in defense. And because then schools and other places would no longer be defenseless.

I call BS on this. In such a situation there's a lot of confusion and panic about what is exactly happening. It's not like everyone knows how many shooters there are and how they look like. Someone pulling out a gun can easily mistaken to be an attacher and could be attacked himself by someone else trying to be good samaritan while himself being mistook for an attacker by the original good samaritan resulting in chaos. This is not like the movies where everyone knows who the bad and good guys are.