skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think what makes powershell a bigger feature w/ 2012 is really the new server management stuff. Basically you can go through the normal configuration you would do for the server, and then save out that configuration to a file, and then using powershell you can push out that configuration to multiple servers simultaneously.
As a UI designer, this is an amazing plugin idea. I would use this constantly if I could, but sadly it doesn't seem to work correctly in version CS6.
Beautiful work. This is a great marriage of medium and subject matter.

I particularly liked some of the the interpretations of the wave equation, which were new to me.
More improvements in this area are coming. There are interesting trade-offs between productivity and good sleep, and our next version strikes a better balance.
Is there any reason to keep Java on your browser anymore? I can't remember the last time I needed it.
Agreed. $5k to hack on a personal project for 2 months isn't really a ton of risk. Especially because OP didn't really put any huge requirements on this. It doesn't have to be a gigantic project (well, ideally at least, I'm not sure what he'll end up picking). I'd love to see the whole process documented though.
No, I am referring to the virtual machine defined by the C language.
At first glance, colonizing Mars sounds awesome. But upon reflection, being a debt slave on a desert planet sounds less appealing.
I'm in a similar boat. I've had every iPhone except for the 5 since the first one (Yes i got bit by the 62 day $200 price drop) and I'm very impressed with the speed and quality of the Lumia 920.

My favorite part of the Lumia is the social media integration. It reminds me of what it felt like to switch from Windows to OSX in 2005. But yeah the music experience is lacking, They finally fixed some bugs in their Windows version of iTunes so at least you can still sync songs, but I'm really just waiting for Spotify and Instagram and then I'll be set.
no one is calling anyone anything. peace.. man!

I think all these types of extraneous safety features are just for a specific herd of people who are hyper about this stuff. Yeah, modern hardware can survive those occasional drops, but a lot of us don't like the scratch marks on their devices, I know a lot of people who bought there phone around when I did, and still have it in brand new condition.

there is a specific market in India for cars, Parsi-community owned cars fetch a lot in secondary car market, so the point is this is not just a few hundered guys we are talking about. Manufacturers are exploring that opportunity, so whats the big deal? of course what sells in the wild, is way different than what is showcased at CES, this year or last year.
Google has beat Apple at its own game by patenting everything and anything
From a marketing point of view, yes, all this branding stuff is pretty accurate. I write for a living with varying success rates and we do all this stuff on our business blog.

One constructive criticism I have is that, contrary to what the OP says, people (especially business/admin/management people) love lists. And they love when, in an enumerated list, there are pithy sentences in bold summarizing a given point. People also love sub-headings. It allows readers to quickly scan your article and find specific things they're looking for or look for things that may interest them. Most of these types of people do not actually read long articles either. That whole Keep It Simple Stupid and stuff.

Having said that, and to add a bit of balance, it depends what purpose your blog serves. I have a personal blog which verges on the 'academic portfolio' side of things, and it couldn't be more different. I have zero ads, no SEO, few links, and as few images as possible. I do enough marketing at work that drives me up the wall, however.

My personal blog focuses on content and writing organically. I use categories to organise the content. I never use tags, though I might change this. I try to write on esoteric topics and sometimes touch upon rare or hard-to-find vinyl records. I rarely write on controversial topics, mostly because my 'controversial' opinions would require a longer explanation; I don't have time to write them and people would most likely not read them in their entirety, yet still either feel offended or it would cause them to write an inaccurate, incomplete reply/rebuttal.
> Here's a funnier idea -- offer shipment to Mars as an alternative to the appeals process for death penalty cases. It would save us money, and make for an awesome Nicholas Cage vehicle. This is how you establish a colony, dammit!

Well, it worked for Australia.
Gesture control without a camera. Does it involve hacking a theramin? From the Wikipedia article:

It is named after the westernized-name of its Russian
inventor, Léon Theremin, who patented the device in 1928.
The controlling section usually consists of two metal
antennas which sense the position of the player's hands
and control oscillators for frequency with one hand, and
amplitude (volume) with the other, so it can be played
without being touched.
If it's uninteresting, why come to this post and comment?
I'd happily send Amazon my physical books in exchange for the Kindle versions.
Fortran compilers sometimes produce faster code for a limited subdomain of problems because fortran's language semantics are less restrictive: all arrays are assumed to not alias and the compiler has more freedom to reassociate arithmetic and apply other unsafe arithmetic transformations that are disallowed by C's stricter model.

C compilers let you specify that you want similarly relaxed semantics via compiler flags and language keywords; however, they also allow the programmer to have stricter behavior when necessary, e.g. allowing one to operate on memory that may actually alias and still get correct behavior.
> IN CONCLUSION weapons aren't the problem - weapons in the hands of people with malicious intent are the problem.

This is a flawed argument.

Nuclear weapons don't kill people, people with nuclear weapons kill people.

Ergo, I should be allowed to have a nuclear weapon to defend myself from other people who have nuclear weapons.
You are wrong, at least regarding most of the world. In Europe Android is a very well recognized brand. People ask questions like "recommend me a good android phone" and "do you think it's worth going for a Nexus instead of a Galaxy S". And I'm talking about "normal" users, ones that don't root/flash their devices.
Yes. Though I tend to use PLT Racket these days when the choice of language is not constrained by other factors.
That's all well and good but your #3 here belies what really happened.

If you watch the presentation, the TFTP server attack is a very simple ARP poisoning. Everyone who watched that video did a double take on the two TFTP attacks because they're frankly a little ridiculous.

The IP Phone VLAN might not be an issue if you pwn the phone...

So look, is Cisco FUBARR'd? Not any worse than Avaya, Shoretel or any other phone manufacturer. Ang just happened to pick on Cisco because they're the most popular; every phone vendor has these issues.

In short, yes this exploit is bad, yes you probably need physical access to the device to pull this off, but YES it is quite serious.

Disclosure: I work at a company (2600hz) which does a lot of work on many phones including Cisco devices.
I haven't tested it with CS6. Will do it soon. But isn't this feature already there in CS6?

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family/topics/search...
- Model would probably work best for small, consumer-focused ideas (enterprise sales cycle is too long to know if there's traction after 2 months).

- 50% is too expensive.

- "Co-Founder" role is too much commitment.

- Reduce equity ask, package with a 1 year cliff + vesting schedule, market it to college students as a way to spend your summer.

- Maybe there's a model where an incubator can scale to thousands of companies, instead of dozens.
So why on earth didn't the video show the players using it? Huge missed opportunity there.
This is (at least) the 3rd Velocity startup; BufferBox (S12) recently exited to Google (not a talent acquisition from reliable sources) and Pebble (W11) just announced general production yesterday. Congrats to Thalmic, you're in good company!
I love this idea. I realize there are haters out there.

I'll match this offer as well for anyone who is interested.

Yes, it sounds like a bad deal for some people. But for a lot of people its a great way to:

1. not have to find work for a month,

2. work on something they're passionate about anyways,

3. have an idea of theirs that may not have otherwise seen light of day become a reality.
Yes, that got changed/fixed with c++11. So you can now use >> there.
When you buy a CD from bandcamp, they send you the physical CD but in the meantime give you an immediate link to download high-bitrate digital audio files. I much prefer possessing the audio files to streaming audio from a cloud service, which is subject to the usual legal and contractual foolishness and can be turned off at any time.
Completely agree. I'm a consultant and this is very intriguing. Sure, the money is low and the equity is high, but I have a ton of side projects that never get finished. If this offer was what it took for me to finish something, I'd say 50% of a company and rent money for a month is worth a lot more than an idea that's just languishing.
>We wouldnt have evolved them unless they gave us some evolutionary benefits.

Not necessarily.
It doesn't make this product less worth executing by 37s right? What's wrong about bootstraping your next product by previous one?
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We are not selling data, and we won't. There may be a premium version in the future. Some exciting improvements coming, but you don't have to worry about privacy or spam.
Frustrating that you need to open two browser windows if you want to compare bills side by side, since it reverts to the front side when you flip between new and old.

As the bill itself, I could see myself missing the 5's in the corners. That's standard for pretty much every currency everywhere for a reason. It lets you quickly figure out what you're looking for, even rifling a wallet or when it's folded.

I guess they figure the giant "5!!!" covering half the bill will do the trick, but folded into my money clip, I only get half a number (obscured behind the clip itself) or no number at all, depending on which side I happen to be looking at.

Incidentally, I've been on Euros & Pounds for half a decade now, and I wouldn't be able to tell you what bill is what color, so having a big empty blueish-grey sheet of paper pointing at me wouldn't help either. My only hope in the moneyclip scenario would be to have other denominations side-by-side so I could do a size comparison.
Might there be a way to sample white balance throughout the day to calibrate it using a webcam and a white sheet of paper? I'd probably start using it again if I could avoid fine tuning color temperatures manually.
Madhadron, you make a lot of claims but provide no detail. Also using terms like "virtual machine" with respect to C is plainly ridiculous and a case of bullshit baffles brains.

Turbo Pascal vs C? Really? In its time Turbo Pascal was an amazing piece of software but in the grand scheme of things it is a pimple compared to the whale that is C. Please compare all software written in Turbo Pascal as opposed to C if you have any doubts. The same goes for Smalltalk, Lisp, Algol 60/68. All great products/languages but very niche.

Fortran can be faster than C in some areas but again it is a niche language.

I could go on a lot more but quite frankly I don't think your post merits much more discussion and is borderline trollish.
I presume the same way they discover Basecamp?
It will when a security vulnerability is discovered. Or when it stops working and no one can figure out why.
How in the world as they still keeping him in prison without a charge? Are they using NDAA's indefinite detention clause to justify it? I thought Obama said he would never keep an American in prison indefinitely without a trial. What does indefinite mean to him? 10 years+?
That makes a lot of sense! thanks for the link :-)
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I sent anyway. We never know...
Bail bondsman eh? That explains why he thinks it's okay to a complete fucknut in business interactions.
It's more of a personal preference. When I started writing the blog, the "top 10" was the craze and often offered no details on the topics. Such as "Top 10 ways to speed up your blog! #1 Cache, #2 Plugin administration" without offering explanation as to what caching is (for the non-tech audience) and how to get it working on your blog.

I have a couple of "top 10" articles, and while they do very well (like you said, people love them), I'm not too fond of them.

:) Anyways, I keep up ads to pay for hosting and such. It's not a big expense but it helps to have that covered!
I bet in 99% of cases using such structure is a nonsense overhead, and in 85% the code relaying on it can be written without a single heap allocation.
That's not too bad assuming that only that thread is affected.

I can't think of another way to do it that wouldn't effectively reduce to this anyway.
Just thinking aloud. Is this really ... ?

Dev: Is rock star techie whose disadvantage is lack of motivation
Dev: Builds MVP that Proposer thinks is going to be valuable
Proposer: "Validates" it by showing it around
Proposer: Sells flips MVP for considerably more than $8k

It's not necessarily bad, it's probably symbiotic.

So..

* Do all stars care about 5k?
* If they do, why is short-term motivation of $5k show powerful?
* 50/50 with equal voting rights? Disputes, ahoy. Two people that never worked with each other before.
"C is a weak, statically typed language"

Wouldn't that imply that a variable of one type could be coerced into another type?

I would say C is strong typed...
.. Do you think that 5k he gives is going to be tax-free?
Fair enough. I can see where you are coming from, although even if you found out my real identity (which might be possible if you look carefully enough through my history of comments), you would not find anything that would substantially strengthen the proposition.

I'm no one special... just a techie with some moderate success who wants to help launch some cool new products.
Nah. That's a bad analogy. The film equivalent to BPM is composition (scene switch, montage) speed. Much better to think of 48 fps as going from ~ 40 kHz to 48 kHz sampling rate: instead of fitting more things into a movie, what you film has higher temporal resolution. Net gain, easy to downgrade with a low pass filter... People can even notice the change, which is more than you can say for 48 kHz MP3 to 96 kHz FLAC, for instance.
It was more tongue in cheek than an actual valid idea.

Does make me wonder how easy it would be for them to build the colony into a waystation with fuel refineries and fuel refilling.
I applaud this. It may not be the perfect deal for everyone, but creating options for want-repreneurs is typically a good thing. My only caution would be to vet the would-be investor to ensure that this is someone you want to be in bed with.
Thanks--abeh, shop local with bitmaker!
FORTRAN 77 is far more popular because it took so long for a GNU FORTRAN 9x compiler to appear, and meanwhile there are millions of lines of FORTRAN 77 in enormous libraries.

The problem with the standard library is that it is tiny and its basic types are often ill designed. Certainly it's fairly consistent, and so fairly unsurprising, but that's not the argument.
Yes! This is an annoying new feature... I wonder why they did this!
Good point, I did not know the new deal. I personally never really used the DRM-free songs part of the bundle, I have software that watches my music folder on my hard drive and when a new song comes in it exploits the "analog hole" to strip the DRM from it and drop in a replacement MP3. It's pretty comparable to Spotify, and if you have mostly Windows devices there's not much incentive to look further than Xbox Music. iOS and Android support has been announced but not given a firm date for launch.
umm, why are you looking for a internship out of canada? living out of your home country is expensive, especially when internship doesn't pay that much. Canada is a big country, if you do lack those contacts in the industry, how about visiting some fairs, and see if you can find a internship or even a part-time job nearby?
Problem is when you suppress the error to handle failed connections but didn't anticipate other errors which go unnoticed and make tracking bugs VERY difficult.
This is a great idea. I think people strongly undervalue the step called traction. Getting people to pay for your service.
The Wikipedia editing-needed tag on this article: "This article may require cleanup to meet Wikipedia's quality standards. The specific problem is: poorly written. Please help improve this article if you can."

No kidding. The sources are not good-quality sources by Wikipedia standards

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:RS

for the kind of assertions found in the article. This needs a lot more work in reading reliable secondary sources to be worth discussing here. In general, Wikipedia articles as articles to be submitted for discussion in Hacker News are usually not a good first choice of a submission source--I write this as a Wikipedian.

AFTER EDIT: From another top-level comment in this thread, I see the "quotation"

"Never memorize what you can look up in books." -- Albert Einstein

Are you sure that Albert Einstein really said that? The memory of his life is plagued by falsely attributed "quotations" of sayings Einstein never said. The particular "quotation" you mention is listed as unverified on Wikiquote.

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Albert_Einstein
And when he/she grows up, your phone would be lost forever... in their little hands :)
Surface criticism is off, IMHO. It was never positioned as a laptop replacement, but rather as a tablet that has some add-ons that make its usage easier in some scenarios (hands-free watching videos, video conferencing, text processing). Sure, kickstand is limited as opposed to a laptop latch, but it's there "for free", doesn't add any bulk and doesn't require user to carry an additional stand. Same goes for keyboard. Watch some of The Verge videos where hosts use iPad with a third-party stand and a separate keyboard - I for one would be annoyed having to carry them separately. Surface pieces them together without adding any bulk. Does device have flaws? Sure it does, but the way they solved an issue with getting certain things done isn't one of them.
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Summary of feature requests so far:
- default to a slower transition
- support dimming too
- Add an API
- Sunset is fine, except in the winter

Most of these are on our list but it is all good feedback!
There's http://www.bostonstartupschool.com/ and several if you can make it down to NYC.
> I suspect it's not about transportation costs so much as ecology. The amount of biomass available to animals at the top of the food pyramid is inversely proportional to the height of the pyramid.

Right on. The thing to remember here, is that, as Feynmann says, plants make themselves out of air! < http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1pIYI5JQLE > (If you doubt, go back to your basic biology education and remember the formula for photosynthesis.)

So a Mars colony's farms are basically chemical solar collectors doing two things: 1) providing chemical energy to the colonists (food) and 2) Converting Martian CO2 and water into biomass. If you introduce too many warm blooded animals into the system, a lot of your energy input gets wasted as livestock body heat.

tldr - By going vegetarian at first, the Mars colony accumulates usable biomass faster.
No, most of my experience was with high-level languages like Haskell, Python, and Clojure, with my original interest being more in design than implementation. One of the reasons I'm learning C is to have a better grasp of implementation, and eventually (if needed) be able to competently implement languages.

For most of my time, I focused more on user experience (syntax, type system, workflow) and its effects on development culture. Watching language choices make or break companies made me very opinionated. That said, as I get older, I'm finding it harder to call specific languages "good" or "bad". They all have their niches. Enterprise Java is horrible, but that's not James Gosling's fault.
> So, before writing about the glories of C, please go familiarize yourself with modern FORTRAN, ALGOL 60 and 68, Turbo Pascal's compiler and environment, a good Smalltalk like Squeak or Pharo, and the state of modern pipelines processor architectures.

All true, but how are you going to implement a single project using just the best parts of FORTRAN, ALGOL 60, Turbo Pascal and Smalltalk?
1. Because there is no standard defining that.
2. Because there is no standard defining that.
3. Nothing. Functions in both libraries are prefixed to avoid name clashes.
Add at least Chicago and Portland and don't forget that a growing number of companies in these cities are willing to pay for relocation or hire folks to work remotely.
They come into their own in countries with beaches.

In Thailand, I keep my money roll in the pocket of my board shorts and don't bother trying to stash it anywhere when swimming lest the pineapple lady swipe it from under my flip flops. Paying for lunch later on consists of either trying to dry a bunch of sodden bills in the sun or praising my luck for having a couple (plastic) 50 baht notes that I can give a quick wipe and hand across.
If Europe can't take pride and realize the inherent European nature of all of its monuments, languages and people, maybe you guys shouldn't exist as a union.
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This could stop wars
Ok, this is beautiful. First of all, Hacker News readers are not the target audience.

Looks like a perfectly implemented simple version of the core of basecamp, communication. Priced to match.

Note: only group members can email the group, so it's private.
None of what you said supports your initial claim that the author is ignorant. In fact, even if we pretend that everything you said is true, none of it contradicts the article, or the authors conclusions. Yes, C has lots of areas where other languages are better. And yet, it is still the most practical language to use because of the combination of things that it does well.
> Madhadron, you make a lot of claims but provide no detail. Also using terms like "virtual machine" with respect to C is plainly ridiculous and a case of bullshit baffles brains.

C as a very thin virtual machine is a common conception and not an incorrect one--C runs on many systems with noncontiguous memory segments but presents it as a single contiguous space, for example. The idea of C as a virtual machine is much of the basis of LLVM, and to the best of my knowledge I've never worked on a computer where C represented the underlying hardware without significant abstractions.

If you're going to accuse somebody of trolling, you should know what you're talking about first.
DRBD gives me a block device that's mirrored on 2 or 3 machines. DFS is like a file-level replication system or something. For instance, I can use DRBD as an iSCSI target for instance and then failover SQL Server. Or I can use any other app that requires no possibility of conflicts or uses open files.

AFAIK, Microsoft still has no solution in this case but to introduce a single point of failure via a SAN or other shared storage. I'd love to be wrong.
May want a few pointers to a huge number of tutorials and books:

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Meta-tutorial

http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Tutorials

Unfortunately, the wiki for books is out of date, I would suggest looking at those by Thompson (3rd ed), Hutton, Bird (Pearls of Functional), Hudak: http://haskell.cs.yale.edu/testnewtemplate/

also lots of cheats:

http://qiita.com/items/008c8a3859d432c39823