skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Java, Python, Ruby, Lua, Haskell.

All names which the programming language is one of the last things a search engine would normally associate, but by sheer number of hits you end up finding stuff. When they were invented these names weren't good either.

The discussion about Go's name is indeed useless.
Except for his bullet about compiler speed, which might be faster than GHC, all of his bullets apply to GHC Haskell too.
I'm not sure about that. I think that serving relevant ads for emails doesn't need to associate the person with the email with the ad. Or does it? I guess when you open an email, they just extract the keywords out of it, and then run a search against their ads index to serve relevant ads. If that's the case, I don't think extracting keywords from email is different from scanning it against malware.

Besides, building an index is just necessary for providing email search. I'm sure outlook mail does that too, if their search is any good. I haven't used it, so I don't know.
Office 2007 is not the latest version, though. There have been two versions since then, 2010 and 2013.
I've been using SkyDrive for a while now, and it generally feels more usable to me. Is there a reason people prefer LibreOffice over that? I haven't used it as much, but it feels like I can't be sure what the document will look like back in Microsoft Office once I'm done editing it.
>> We need to take control of this game. We need to take it back and make it good-- and fast.

I have been thinking along these lines as well but I am unsure on what can be done.

The real problem here is that our profession contains many shy, socially-awkward types, and guys and girls that were bullied when they were school and haven't fully recovered. Many don't understand how status is conveyed or are in complete denial that it exists. If you are the only developer in the room that wishes to be treated with respect, to be autonomous and to (learn to) operate on many levels then it seems like you are really on your own in trying to get these things. Many will continue to eat from the hand that beats them, and won't take the necessary risk to get themselves a better position and to help each other even when one of their team mates decides to make a stand. (I read a lot of your articles and I have to say I have gone DFA before and I will do it again.)

What is really needed is some kind of professional association that fights for our rights. A forward-thinking organisation that has good principles and can't easily be co-opted. Perhaps also a way of accrediting organisations that have great working conditions and a culture of respect. Maybe the only two which hit the list are Valve and Github. But once every cool startup is run like this then larger corporations will have to compete on a cultural level for talent.

I would like for all of us to be able to apply ourselves on a strategic and creative level no matter what our role in a company is.

I wonder who decided that because we implement we should not be allowed to create, design, and think for ourselves? They don't have the right to take this from me, nor do they have the right to take it from you.

The other night I was speaking to a friend who has found herself in a sales position where she is allowed to pitch ideas to clients and see where she can take things. She was happy and felt like she had finally found real freedom. How many of us have been able to grow the network of contacts and future clients required to solve business problems?

We're being held back but we're also holding each other back.

And I now realise you can't solve tribe problems on an individual level.

There has to be a way that we can all work together on this.

Are others interested?
Until someone breaks it that is. Then there will be two independent markets appearing: legitimate and cracked.
I've actually used this, and IE5 was by far the best/fastest browser on Solaris at the time. Seriously an order of magnitude faster than Netscape 4.x. With IE, browsing the web was practical on a 100 MHz SPARC.

IE for UNIX was ported by Mainsoft, now more famous for leaking the Windows NT source code.

It also came bundled with an Outlook Express-like mail client, but I never tried it.
Sequel Pro (OSX) hits version 1.0
There were NT ports to MIPS and PowerPC too.
The .gemrc file is YAML [1], does that even work without "gem:" in front? Mine looks like this:

gem: --no-rdoc --no-ri --both
verbose: true
update_sources: true
sources:
- http://rubygems.org/
backtrace: false
bulk_threshold: 1000
benchmark: false

[1] http://docs.rubygems.org/read/chapter/11
The law was very unclear at the time, so it was hard to say just what would happen.

There was this general consensus on the net (definitely not universal) that you ought to have a legitimate use for the name, so if your name was Bob McDonald you might have a claim to mcdonalds.com. This consensus eventually became mostly encoded into law.
I'm a bit green to the workflow my self, but I agree with you, this doesn't seem to add anything.

Why is having the server doing the merge advantageous to doing the merge locally?
Office is Excel. It trumps consideration of any other suite for many businesses because it facilitates their running. It matters on the sixth floor where the executive offices are.

Data manipulation is a domain in which lean never works and Excel is the opposite of lean. Decades of development in a corporate culture that encourages adding features has made Excel excel.

Trimming math functions doesn't make sense because 10,000 more functions never clutter up the user experience. Excel is a programming environment - an IDE which includes drag and drop, a REPL, and macros (with respect to the data layer). It's syntax is simple [yes, I know it wasn't invented by Microsoft] and it's power significant.

It's really the crown jewel in Microsoft's portfolio. It just works.
Having used nginx on other projects, I'm sure you're right. My blog setup is pretty old and hasn't really needed any improvements.

On newer deployments, I'm still using Apache+mod_wsgi to manage the Django processes (it's a setup that has been reliable for me and that I know how to debug), but I'm sticking an nginx proxy in front as a matter of course. Not for performance reasons, but just to leave myself a hook for handling later changes. I can trivially spin up additional application backend servers and load balance across them, or quickly flick a switch to have nginx cache a particular resource in an emergency.
Not quite. Public companies have a fiduciary responsibility to earn their shareholders money. This Hedge Fund manager is claiming that Apple's large cash reserves are contrary to their fiduciary responsibility, and they need to only keep enough reserves so that normal business can continue, the rest being returned to investors.
Nice effort, but two lines in my shell give me the exact same result, and I can manipulate that to my needs.

Not everything has to be wrapped "as a service".
zOMG you're right re pearl -- I'm kinda shocked at myself right now. In my defense, in German it's "Perle" so not that different...

OK scratch the Perl example. Still standing by my point: it's a "problem" shared by many languages and it's not a problem in the first place.
No, no, I'm all about the discussion. Shit, this is more to test my ideas than to assert any sort of truth.

Maybe another question will get us closer to the root of the issue:

Whose agency are we talking about, the individual's, or the genes'?
There's a crucial difference. Those are longer words. Many search engines either ignore, or outright throw an error on, search terms shorter than 3/4 characters.
This certainly hasn't been the case for Steam's always-on DRM.
> "If false, the rumor is nuts because of just how much of a stretch it is. The developer of a platform that runs a multitude of software unrelated to each other — and software that, on the whole, focuses primarily on offline play — would never create such a barrier to entry."

Does anyone else think the author is being a tad bit naive here?
A link to a post like yours would be the perfect response for emails such as:

"Hi James

Please contact me asap or I can call you ??

I'd like to discuss a PHP contract role your perfect for

Speak soon"
Patent Troll Says It Owns Podcasting; Sues Adam Carolla, HowStuffWorks
Try using the IdeaVIM plugin. To my knowledge, it works with any member of the IDEA family of IDEs. I swear by it at work.
Does that really matter? The always on DRM issue was known long before the game launched. If it was going to have a serious effect on sales of the game, it would have. You can't really argue against "People won't buy it because of DRM" with "Well people aren't playing it anymore!"
Honestly, in this day and age the fact that you have an engineering degree is a sign that you can get your ass off the couch and strive to become something... not really any sign that you have something cooking in your head. Although, if you get through any engineering major curriculum you're likely not an complete idiot.

Engineering is a discipline. It's systematic, rigid, concise and if you fuck up you're liable for your actions. Would you hire someone who claims to be a self-taught electrical engineer, mechanical engineer? No. You know why? Because these people work their asses off to become licensed. Your hiring manager will probably lose people on his team if he hires someone who doesn't even have a single college credit. It's a matter of discipline and respect for your colleagues. In some areas it's regulated and you cannot hire an engineer without a degree.

Would you hire a self-taught software engineer? You can. What's the end result? All too often, your company on front-page news because this person made a rookie security mistake. Is he or she going to be responsible for leaking thousands of sensitive records to public? No. They might get fired, but that's it. Take this same example to medical field where a software bug can kill (and has before i.e. radiation treatments) and all of a sudden you can't even prosecute this "engineer" for murder.
UK Scientists Are Launching a Satellite Powered By... a Google Nexus One?
Indeed. This was my go-to browser on the SPARC pizza boxes in my university's engineering labs
I agree with you. I don't think there's one Java culture anymore. So what I mean by "Java culture" is POJOs, Factories, Maven, and IDE-dependence. Commodity-developer, large-single-program nonsense that corporations invented to compensate for mediocre engineers. Android is bringing a lot of good engineers into Java, and Scala and Clojure are also bringing a lot of good people into that ecosystem.

I think the issue with the enterprise, large-single-program Java world is that there isn't a feedback cycle. Curious, motivated engineers hate that kind of environment because they want to see things actually work. Clojure and Scala have the REPL, but large-program Java development doesn't.
This generic knights theme?

http://kingdoms.lego.com/en-us/default.aspx?icmp=COUSFR33Kin...

And this fancy castle?

http://kingdoms.lego.com/en-us/Products/Default.aspx#7946
We’re going to blow up your boiler: Critical bug threatens hospital systems
Kids app 'translates' grown-up paper into child-friendly articles
Steam doesn't require an internet connection for off-line play.

Admittedly, it can be a little temperamental about it unless you've got it set up just right, but that's its intent nonetheless.
I remember how impressed I was when I used clang's static analyser for the first time. I love it, more than makes up for that headache of switching from GCC on OSX.
Possibly, though I assumed they were just going to get around that by removing the optical drive from the next generation consoles and selling all of the games via xbox live.
Pattern-matching is as real in tech media as it is in Silicon Valley
ahem 8 significant digits to the left of the decimal point
The Perfect Forecast:obsession, cloud seeding, and very powerful storms
Who owns the hashtag? (It isn’t Twitter)
How Amazon Could Save the US Postal Service
The OP's output looked more like rbenv's output though, right? How did you figure that to be debian's message?
The key word there is `power'. Most people who use spreadsheets on a daily basis -- myself included -- are not `power' users; they're just Joes with varying degrees of competency. Using Python expressions in a spreadsheet might bring insane power and flexibility to proceedings, but it's naturally going to limit itself to the small number of people who both know Python and use a spreadsheet regularly. Teaching most people how to make simple formulae in Excel is hard enough; teaching them VLOOKUPs is damn-near impossible; teaching them to use Python is, effectively, impossible.

Any viable alternative to Excel has to overcome ingrained user familiarity, inertia, and be simple enough that your average Joe can use it. It would also need to be demonstrably better than Excel, which might look like crap but has quite a lot of power under the hood. It's the only Microsoft program I'd actually consider `good'.
They have an xml document with their entire catalog, but I have given up trying to parse it.

That thing is massive.
I don't disagree with Byrne's position on Swartz's actions. But Byrne's implicit comparison of the feds to Inspector Javert -- he might have done better to pay more attention to that facet of the case.
Imagine whom the feds might have cut loose to make room for Mr. Swartz -- probably a killer or rapist.
Based on incidents like these and others -- such as Tommy Chong's stretch in the poke for selling paraphenalia -- it's not hard to justify the hypothesis that the state jails hackers and paroles murderers to keep the rest of us in a state of perpetual, dependent fear.
There are two distinct original rumors.
One is that it will require a permanent internet connection.
One is that it will not allow used games to be played.

Some of these articles have combined these two rumors to form a new rumor:

It will require a permanent internet connection to play games.

At least the original reasons given for always on were not DRM related.

The DRM/used game blocking was going to be implemented by one-time-use codes for every game that served no purpose but to activate the game.
Steam at least offers an offline mode. You're not locked out of your games if your cable modem breaks.
And they don't falsely claim to be a static analyser.
It is rather arrogant I think.
Yep, but instead of having a free market of rental stores you have to rent from one company per platform and accept whatever their terms are.
If you have 15 minutes, Cory Doctrow wrote a great short story called Scroogled[1], that presents a possibly scary future and highlights potential risks with email scanning.

It is science fiction but it is interesting to ponder.

[1]http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2007-09-17-n72.html
I'm sure the number of people who continue to play the game is at the forefront of their thoughts at Activision-Blizzard, not the piles of money they're busy counting.
I use a narrow window, then I can scan the page down the middle reading all of the text as I go. Much faster and more convenient.

I also turn off the image to avoid the disruption. For me, reading the mobile version is much to be preferred.
NYC Startup Funeral on Friday (2/8)
Caring on Stolen Time: A Nursing Home Diary
Well believe it or not but some people don't like the idea of targeted ads, which is the result of Google's scanning. Small anecdote, when my 66 year old father found out that a grocery store chain was sending him "personal deals" based on what he had bought using their card he immediately went home and cut it. He thought (and thinks) that no one should be keeping tabs on his buying patterns for commercial purposes, even though he might stand to gain from it. I was kind of suprised by his harsch reaction at first but later I was actually kind of proud of the fact that he cared so much about his personal privacy and integrity. This might seem shocking to the "web generation" but I think it can be a quite healthy and refreshing mindset sometimes.

On a personal note I have taken an interest in Xamarin's stuff lately and since Google is the all-seeing-eye of the web that means I now see Xamarin ads wherever I go (those not caught by adblock that is). Maybe I should care more as well, the more I think of it the less ok it feels.
Yeah, I'm hoping it will save me some time. Now I can just send them this link each time I get a message, and if they bother following the link, doing as I say, and writing back then I know they are at least serious and not just fishing.
FBReader has an decent interface for searching, but you need to know what you are looking for. There's not a good way to browse via the app.
Downloading 16 GB games would pretty much cap out most peoples BW limit.
The Math Behind NUMB3RS
It does come off as a little condescending, but hopefully we can take that to mean that he is really really in love with his current job!
I found a list of English words by frequecy of use in Project Gutenberg texts.

"Basic" is around #9,500.

"Rust" is ~#10,950

"Java" doesn't appear at all (List goes out to 40,000) (Admittedly, somewhat biased by the dated-ness of the material, but it's still not a common one.)

Go is #106, and modern lists based on contemporary sources place it in the top 50 most used English words.
It depends which `world' you're talking about. Every medium+ sized business I've come across utterly refuses to move over the a `cloud' replacement for Word, Excel, &c., mostly due to security concerns. Corporate IT departments are notoriously conservative, corporate policy-makers notoriously paranoid, so any progress toward a `cloud'-based provider will take many, many years to make significant gains.
"But This Internet Had Such Promise"
As long as it works and doesn't create a barrier to play, most people will not care. Most of the past always-on DRM has caused public outcry because it created problems for people to play the game they paid for.

But over time people will just get used to it and accept it much like they go along with almost everything else. I remember a time in the PC gaming world that if a game didn't work once installed then all hell would break out in the company's forums and in the gaming news. These days? Several games that require always-on connections such as MMOs have had outages the first week of release and most have just shrugged their shoulders. That kind of thing is almost expected these days and not many care. Sure, there's a vocal few that complain about it but once the problems are sorted out then people tend to forget they couldn't play their game for the first two or three days after paying for it.

My thought on why this is likely not true is because even today it would be quite a stretch to expect enough of the market to be able to provide an always-on connection. Take the US for instance, how many people who currently have a 360 couldn't get the next console simply because they don't the proper connection to support it?

Plus, why is always-on DRM necessary for consoles when we've heard from the industry for years that the reason they focus on consoles is because piracy is almost non-existent on those platforms?

Is it to prevent used game sales? I understand the thinking since not only do publishers not get a piece of the used game sales transaction but the console manufacturer doesn't get a piece of it either like they do from new games through licensing fees. But they might as well hold up a sign that says, "Hey customers! Please sue us!" Plus Gamestop, and others, would likely get involved since it would hit their bottom line quite severely. It's great for the publishers that somehow they've convinced enough of the courts that a EULA allows them to cancel out people's first sale doctrine rights but if they prevent used game sales on such a scale then I guarantee that people will buy less and rent more. I expect publishers to go after rental companies next.
> It's based on the idea that reading code is a lost cause.

I would argue that it is based on the idea that there's going to be too much code to read it all, and that knowing you need to use something shouldn't automatically entail knowing how to create something.
Online DRM can't always be "cracked", because the "DRM" may in fact be that significant chunks of the game actually live in the cloud. For instance, if the levels can be randomized, that's easy code to put in the cloud. You can't "crack" that; you may be able to re-implement it, but that's a whole new level of effort and skill.
Does Go only support that crazy Plan 9 (amd64) assembler syntax that nobody uses anywhere?
System administration in Prolog (prototype and papers)
Sure, but you will never find a clinician who would base their depression diagnosis based only on behavior reported by a significant other. Especially immediately following a suicide.
Sounds crazy, but here's where I think he got the idea:

"while Apple for now uses Braeburn primarily in its capacity to find legal tax loophole all around the world and avoid paying taxes, there is no denying that with a cash balance that in a two years may be well over $200 billion, applying even a modest amount of leverage would make AAPL the best capitalized bank, mutual fund or asset manager in the world."

"...it is not an investment advisor: it merely manages an ungodly amount of cash for AAPL's millions of shareholders. There is also no SEC filing 13-F filing on Braeburn's holdings. As such, not confied by the limitations of being a "long-only", it is in its full right to hold any assets it feels like, up to and including CDS on housing, puts on Samsung, or Constant Maturity Swaps that pay if the 10 Year collapses. It just doesn't have to report any of them.

Nobody knows: and that's the beauty of Braeburn. It is the world's largest hedge fund that is not really a hedge fund, nobody has heard of, and nobody knows just what assets it holds. Which is precisely what Apple wants."

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2012-09-30/presenting-worlds-b...
Aerosol Defense Project
> Any viable alternative to Excel has to overcome ingrained user familiarity, inertia, and be simple enough that your average Joe can use it.

I agree with what you're saying if you want one program to do all these things, but I'm not sure that's the way to go. Can you imagine any other industry where the same program serves both the "average Joe" and the power user?

One program can't be all things to all people. In the same way we both have iMovie and Final Cut, I think there's room for two types of spreadsheet program. Excel trying to cater to both types of people seems like a folly; it'll never make everyone happy. Why not replace Excel with a web-app on the low end, and make something more powerful that puts scripting front-and-center for people who need it?
Warn your friends! On Facebook!
Gnuplot [http://www.gnuplot.info/] can plot histograms and supports terminal output. In fact here is an example of it being used to show live memory useage on a console [http://filipivianna.blogspot.co.uk/2011/11/plotting-memory-u...].
http://www.gutenberg.org/files/32759/32759-h/32759-h.htm

"This is Good." - Conan
If you are self hosting Wordpress, the w3 Super Cache plugin is solid:
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/w3-total-cache/

My otherwise poorly maintained blog didn't have a problem with a simultaneous HN/Slashdot hit, and I'm not even sure I'm using all the settings correctly. But the basic page cache seems to do what it promises.

Edit: oops, I see the OP is using Super Cache as well but still flopped. Then he is definitely doing someone wrong. My blog is hosted on the cheapest hosting plan that Dreamhost allows.
How is it arrogant to state your minimum requirements up front? To me it shows respect for everyone's time and attention.
It's unfortunate that privacy isn't what the market cares about. I didn't know MS has this sort of policy, but it makes me tons happier with using their services.
I wonder if Apple is looking into acquiring a big player or two. With $137b in cash, they can buy both Facebook and Twitter at current valuations and still have $50b left over.