skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
None taken, I only know the little I have read about it in the papers. Though I am not sure how you can increase the money supply by a trillion dollars and not see any inflation. While the coin may never go into circulation it would be on the books and spent as if it was otherwise there would be no point.
One reason for choosing client over server: richness of data that can be queried. Media queries allow you to test for all sorts of features [1] which may be difficult impossible to test on server, e.g. color depth, pixel density etc.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#media1
Taiwan is great. I loved walking around Neihu in Taipei and seeing all the brand names in components right there, plus others you don't know because they make the stuff other companies brand.
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@mcrittenden -- here's some code for integrating YouTube autocomplete into the webapp (feel free to pull the 'suggest' method from the library): http://tikku.com/jquery-jqtube-util#search_example_4
The OS is meant to be on phones targeted at consumers outside the typical smartphone market. It's supposed to be a high quality low-end alternative to iOS/Android, unless I'm forgetting something.
Have you considered combining it with a headless browser, like phantomjs, or with node.js + jsdom (a js based DOM that can run jquery)?
Sorry for having to say this, but read the article. It explains there the predicament of using (or rather, not using) Javascript and/or complex AJAX.
Really nice, I really enjoy the design. I have been thinking of making something semi-similar.
In most cases in the U.S., that would still be considered a crime.

Edit to add: The law is structured this way for a very specific reason--to account for human error. What if I always lock my front door, but this morning I was in a hurry and forgot? Should I give up all rights of private property because of this error? Obviously not, which is why someone walking into my house through my unlocked door would still be a crime (trespassing, at least). If they took anything, it would still be stealing--even though one could argue that if I "really" didn't want anyone to take my stuff, I would have locked my door.

We all know how hard it is to properly write totally secure web services. We read about the failures every day. The question, then, is similar. Should the rights of people and companies be completely dependent on their ability to write invulnerable code? I would submit that that is not a sustain way for the law to operate.

Note that I'm not addressing weev's case specifically, as I'm not familiar enough with the details. Just addressing the general case.
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antlr is great for rapid prototyping and testing of a new language/grammar, and will check whether or not your grammar is LL(1) or LL(*) etc.
This has nothing to do with Windows specifically and everything to do with software developers prioritizing profit over all else.

What does the 'Windows Philosophy' have to do with the decisions Oracle makes about Java anyway? Do you really think Java follows the 'Windows Philosophy'?
Walmart plays the same game that its competition plays, it just plays it better. I am sure that if it were not them, we'd be talking about some other Big Retailer doing these things, some of which are indeed rotten. And there are definitely some concerns to be had for the amount of power that China, specifically, has via its economy. Not being an economic nationalist (and I'm in Canada), I tend to take it case-by-case.
By forcing employers to pay women six months maternity leave, it means that the cost of employing a woman of child-bearing age relative to a man is much higher and hence, all things being equal, the economically rational approach is to discriminate against women in hiring and promotion. This is just one of the many unintended consequences of government interference; the other, of course, is the minimum wage which is a particularly nefarious and wicked concept that results in the unskilled being kept unemployed and economically disadvantaged.
I'm in Taiwan, and they really really really trying to bridge the gap here. Because it's a small country (23million people), the entrepreneurial opportunities are different, and most people are looking towards China instead as a big market for all kinds of things they make.

Having said that, I love being here (physicist at a local research institute), where there are places like Guanghua computer market, basically most electronics imaginable http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guang_Hua_Digital_Plaza

Many of the things are still harder to get (e.g. I'd love to have in country source for the Atmel chips that are used in Arduinos), but loads of things are so cheap and ready to grab.

Just trying to get Taipei Hackerspace off the ground, to bridge the gap between the local opportunities and the vision that is quite often got imported by foreigners here. It's an explosive combination, I really want to help this forward, and see it to succeed. :)

Come visit sometime!
GitHub does cater to that niche: https://enterprise.github.com/

However, it starts at $5000 per year and the main group amongst people I've heard using GitLab has been companies not willing to pay that $5000 (but who otherwise would probably go with GitHub - that is, they're 'satisficing' rather than choosing GitLab as such).
Fairly certain that twitter used scala at some point for message passing (back-end); At one point Foursquare was using scala/lift for their web platform.

I'm not certain if this is still accurate; my information is pretty out of date.
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Awesome! I'll check this out. I've been missing the autocomplete too.
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When I first saw that the Java installer has bundled shitware, I just couldn't believe it. Oracle? As in the global giant megacorp? Why would they need to bundle the Ask.com toolbar with a software platform installer? The whole thing just makes no sense!
Internal politics are one thing but I've yet to hear a story of anyone attempting to overtake Ballmer as CEO when he has Gates' backing. There were stories about the usually tight-lipped Apple and how Forstall was fired while attempting to gather more power within the software division.

The story that comes across to me is of a CEO that knows he's not doing a good enough job transitioning MS into a new era. His insecurity gets the better of him and he fires anyone who is conceived, by the media, of being a potential threat while losing major talent in the process.
This is great. I don't think I would go back to using YouTube's default layout if I could somehow see my subscriptions on the homepage.
This is because several of those huge German conglomerates are privately, often family-owned, with very little or no accountability to the stock market. They can afford to think long term.
Port Dota 2 and I'm deleting Windows from my dual-boot system.
"... art package for an obscure computer -> wrote my own assembler... port LCC... linker..."

Sir, you have one very well-shaved yak there [1]. Excelsior!

In other news, I sometimes see people bemoaning losing the "easy programming" that the era putatively had. I sometimes wonder if time has simply faded the scars of a world in which that's the sort of thing that might realistically happen. The era made some moderately difficult things easy (people mostly seem to miss the ability to slam pixels on the screen), and everything else really, really freaking hard, including many things we'd call easy today.

[1]: http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Y/yak-shaving.html
I have a feeling he means bundling crap with installers. This has been done for a long time on Windows and not so much on Linux or OSX.
Just to tell my experiences on this, I was forced to install the crapware last week. There was no way for me to uncheck or opt out of the checkbox.

I have a machines which I connect to that do not have any mouse connected. I have no problem in navigating systems with a keyboard and can run through installers probably quicker than most people with a mouse can, but when this dialog popped up for me, I was stumped for about 10 minutes. I employed every shortcut in my keyboard-shortcut arsenal and fell short.

I genuinely felt like this was not just some programming mistake (because the "Next" control was already highlighted waiting for me to hit Enter). It is a dark pattern that was purposefully introduced to their installer to make it impossible for users like me to opt-out of their installer.

A consequence of their deception was that they did get a dozen installs from me, but my dislike for Oracle increased tenfold, and in a quiet-protest, I'll make damned sure that I suggest any alternative to an Oracle product when I have reasonable alternatives (Without cutting off my nose to spite my face).
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MS revenues have grown by 45 billion dollars under Ballmer (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ballmer). Without Ballmer .NET would not have existed and the XBox would not exist as it exists today. I have no great love for the guy but I've yet to read a convincing argument for his ouster. Just priggish former executives badmouthing the company that lifted them into the 1%.
RAM isn't a cure all for big data applications and presents its own set of challenges. The largest issue is with traversal and data access latencies simply because of the virtual memory management overhead that is required.

I've run into this problem with our btree search indexes on bare metal (~96GB), some more reading:

https://github.com/johnj/llds
> But unless a potential investor is listing people he plans to intro you to, you shouldn’t be hearing names.

But remember: Anyone that he lists does not work for you. Odds are high that your company will fail, and that person knows where his next meal ticket is coming from.
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I gave those examples as polar extremes. RIAA's initial, extreme, position in 1997 was that you will pay $25 for a CD or $5 for a single (with selection limited by the publisher), period. Time passed, and now you have a broader array of choices (iTunes pay for a perpetual license, the Spotify-style subscription model, etc).

It depends on your point of view. If I paid a sports league millions of dollars for the right to broadcast a game, and you decided that you would take my broadcast and re-broadcast it for free, you are damaging me to the tune of millions of dollars -- dollars that you cannot possibly repay.

Technology is key here, because it lowered the barriers to reproducing content. Printing a pamphlet in 1850 was a big deal -- you needed a printing press and specialized workers. Today, you need 5 minutes and a $50 printer. Same story with vinyl records, or projector film.

At the end of the day, the answer lies somewhere in the middle. If I were King, I'd say that copyright holders are entitled to fair compensation, but in return for that compensation, society is entitled to have things enter the public domain in a reasonable period of time as well.
I've been waiting for this tech for years. The TTS is really not bad. Is this the same product interviewed on This Week In Startups a few weeks ago?
The first world middle class masses, sure.
Here's a TED talk about bad decisions in the design of public spaces, and how to make them better. http://www.ted.com/talks/james_howard_kunstler_dissects_subu...

The public realm in America has two roles: it is the dwelling place of our civilization and our civic life, and it is the physical manifestation of the common good. When you degrade the public realm, you will automatically degrade the quality of your civic life and the character of all the enactments of your public life and communal life that take place there.

Edit: There was some talk here a while ago about roads that were built by developers "for free" and then given to cities for maintenance. Sounds good on paper but results in ridiculous amounts of roads being built... Anyone remember a good link for that?
I'd never noticed this before - cool! Samantha and Tom in the US English section sound particularly good.

The only major problem I seem to perceive is that the transitions between certain words and phones aren't smooth enough and are jarring. It doesn't sound like they're far off but I guess 90% of the work is in the last 10% ;-)
"Oh, thank God, the nightmare is over."

The nightmare for me has been over in the mid-nineties, when I discovered Unix through Linux.

There's no way I'll ever be going back to working on Windows. I'd rather go work as a plumber or a truck driver (not that there's anything wrong with that) then have to work on Windows ever again.

C# / F# might be interesting, but using any Windows as my OS is a big no-no. Never this nightmare again.

And, nearly 20 years later, the great thing is that a lot of devs previously working on Windows are now working on OS X (anybody disputing that trend is a fool).

Major win for Unix with both Linux and OS X. Not to mention all the devices running either iOS or Linux / Android.

The nightmare is over: Windows shall never be the OS powering all these servers and devices out there and hence .Net shall never be the dominant platform.

It's not that .NET has its warts (it does), it's that Windows has its ugly warts and I'll never ever be using that inferior OS ever again and I'll never ever again will be forced to deploy on an Microsoft stack.

In the mid-nineties I considered quitting IT. And Linux saved me. And now OS X. Thanks.
Could you integrate Readability or a similar service? Then the hard work of parsing out the meat of the page would be done for you.
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Great Work! Aside from a few glitches this is fantastic! TTS is surprisingly fine.
Sure: In the "hacker" world it seems that people prefer Haskell (Purely functional, native code) to Scala (OO Hybrid, JVM).

However I'd say that Scala is far more popular for building bussiness/real software than Haskell is (Twitter for example).
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>What's stopping North Korea from making these demands?

That they are an actual country, and not some comic book villain's brotherhood?

I mean, WTF? People in the West really believe those kind of things can be demands or that those kind of BS passes through North Korean people's minds?
and if you want all of your Google Reader feeds read to you ... https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.feedspeakp...
People that rank on the Hare scale of psycopathy are over-represented (relative to prevalence in broader society) in corporate C-suites, controlling for age, gender, race, etc...[0] I am not sure what the representation of MBAs is in the C-suite but I assume it is also fairly high. I do not believe the book examines the representation amongst MBAs specifically, though.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Snakes-Suits-When-Psychopaths-Work/dp/...
Of course Black Ops 2 made way more money than Minecraft, but if you look at ROI, Minecraft is far more impressive. Black Ops 2 may have made over $1 billion in revenue, but it cost about $250 million to make/market. Once you factor in the high cost of retail distribution, you get an ROI of around 300-350%. That's pretty good for a AAA game, but Minecraft cost next to nothing to make. The costs were pretty much just whatever it took to support a couple of developers; no marketing budget or anything. A ballpark estimate is that it took about $300-500k to make Minecraft into the alpha build that made $30 million. They put more money into it since then, but now it's around $85 million in revenue. That's like 8,000-10,000% ROI.

Of course Minecraft's success is an outlier, but it's not unreasonable to replicate a 4:1 ROI with an indie game. Investing a quarter billion dollars to make back $1-2B is such a huge risk. Dropping $100k into a tiny project that could make back $500k-$1M seems much safer.
>You don't get great at HW design by not shipping.

You also don't get sales by shipping a product too early. The Playbook proved this. There are inherent design flaws within RT that has also plagued W8 usability that MS did not give proper consideration of before release.
There are only two options for managers:

"You can either be a shit funnel, or a shit umbrella."

http://www.kevgibbs.com/2011/08/3-suggestions-for-engineerin...

If you do the former then your reports hate you, if you do the latter then they like you but wonder what it is you actually do.... :-)
Funny, I tend to prefer clutter in my peripheral vision since it doesn't provide a single thing to focus on easily (like a clock). The only thing that bothers me is reflective surfaces where the highlights change as my head moves a little.
>they care about the product now

They care about what is on their phone when it is released. I'm pretty sure that's not going to be a version "of a few months back" from now!

Conversely, all the really cheap Android phones on sale here run either 2.2, 2.3, or if you're very lucky, 4.0. And I don't expect those to magically get 4.1.2/4.2 anytime soon.

I get the impression the HN crowd doesn't really know what a low end phone is, let alone they have seen or used one.
imho, the biggest reason for his ouster was that he had no internet strategy - his plan A was buying Yahoo. No innovation, no imagination, no results.
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I am aware of it being in Germany, I'm also aware of the difference in taxes between states.
I used this http://www.parmentier.de/steuer/steuer.htm?wagetax.htm is it wrong?
Good stuff. What's his ultimate goal? Would he be interested in selling it?
I was going to post the exact same thing. Also I enjoyed related books "ReThinking a Lot", and "Streets are for People"
This would kill some smaller companies in the US. You can get away with this in larger corps since there is enough staff to fill in for parents. Even with the modest leave we offer at our campany, it was insane a few years back when we had a large "bump" in the number of new parents. Lost a few non-parent staff that got burned out covering for the parents and the attitude/entitlement wars that ensued. :(
Only when women are overrepresented on every educational metric...
While I think the parent was overplaying it, I do find most of the Java applications on my mac are slow and irritating to run.

Pycharm is an example of one of the apps I am talking about. It just feels like it struggles at times, eventhough I have a fairly new machine.

Java was the first language I learned while going through college but I find the verbosity to be irritating.
Likely because Windows has enjoyed a rather massive installation base, particularly among folks who are not terribly knowledgeable. I'm sure as other platforms become more dominant, we'll see similar shenanigans.
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I think "respective reputations" can be quite subjective. In my circles Haskell is definitely more talked about/used.
He's kept the ship afloat and is good at maximizing profits from MS's traditional businesses. The problem is that Ballmer isn't the person you need in a transitional phase for a company.
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This made me physically sick to read. The sheer scale of this tragedy and the utter depravity of nearly everyone involved makes me weep for humanity. I lost sleep last night as this story haunted me, reminding me that this evil is happening right now, still, to hundreds of thousands more like Shin.

Eric Schmidt owes this man a visit (if he hasn't already). If he can fly halfway around the world to pay his respects to the architects of this abomination, buttressing their hateful regime, then he can use his powers of publicity to call attention to the plight of those like Shin.
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My counterpoint on why I liked it far more than I thought would going in: http://www.jerf.org/iri/post/2906

It is amusing though that pretty much everyone agrees that both movies have deep flaws. The disagreement seems to arise in whether the things the movies do uniquely correctly (or at least differently) make up for it. Not exactly a ringing endorsement no matter how you slice it.
As a foreigner the one thing that strikes me the most as alienating is that in too many places it's the exact same pattern that is applied.

Same roads. Same neighborhoods. Same places with restaurants and shops and a big parking in the middle of the square lot. Same toilets.

It's alienating because it feels "fake" nearly anywhere you go. Nature, in a lot of places, doesn't have its rights (just look at how some states are "divided" by a straight line: terrifying).

Probably one of the worst place for that is Irvine in southern California.

Even if it's not "cookie cutter" everywhere, all the neighborhoods still look identical.

These decisions may look pragmatic but to many foreigners it feels alienating.
Because Windows is not a supported platform? You have to find an unofficial build or build it yourself.
If you ever try any of the modern stuff (django, rails, play, grails, any node.js framework) in depth, j2ee / Spring and java just feels old and ancient. Spring has gotten better over the years, but there's still just too much work and too much unnecessary complexity and cruft with Spring. It's really telling when even Spring's creator jumped ship to work with TypeSafe and jvm7 has huge improvements designed for other languages.

imo C# is an improved java, but C# open source ecosystem is just anemic compared to java.
Web strategy? Like media? Does a technology company need to have a content/media component -- which Yahoo basically is.

Azure is a decent extension to the MS development ecosystem. Xbox and Xbox Live seem to be doing well -- I don't use either. Bing, while not Google, has it's fans.

Where MSFT was late to the game is in their approach to the post-PC era. WinCE/WinMo were "ok" at the time, then the iPhone came along. Win8, Surface, WP8 are all relatively new - do I expect the same success as, say, XP or the like? Not really, but that path is still playing out for them.
Ah good point. Subscriptions should be available at http://toogl.es/#/user/<yourusername>/subscriptions but you're right that it would be nice for them to go on the homepage.
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Most of the account sounds overblown (and specially crafted in the model of 1984, Nazi camps and such).

Any corroboration for this story? Because "escaped" people are known to say anything, especially since it can be very profitable outside their country.

For one, people like and buys survival stories (the harder the better), second, if they are nicely crafted they can serve as diplomatic pressure and propaganda (which is not the sole province of North Korea).

So, any actual evidence, outside what just one man says that we are supposed to take for granted?
It absolutely wasn't a mistake. Most legitimate software makes the descriptive text for a checkbox (the label) a trigger for the checkbox. The Ask Toolbar installer option, however, disables this, forcing you to specifically target the checkbox itself.

It is incredibly scummy, and worse it actually encourages Oracle to create insecure software -- at least in the short term -- because each fix is another spin of the wheel.
Saying Ballmer is responsible for the existence of both .NET and Xbox is like saying Al Gore invented the internet.

There were lots of very smart leaders and engineers involved in the creation of both of those and their contributions far outweigh Ballmer's decision to "green light" those projects back in the late 90s.