skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like some wages were probably incorrectly labeled as monthly rather than yearly, so that's why those are 12x what they should be
That day may still never come. Seems like a rumor at this point, and consider the source-- Phoronix is well known in the Linux press for hyping rumors.
"Forums are the dark matter of the web, the B-movies of the Internet. But they matter,"

I totally agree with Jeff and do welcome any innovation in this space but it's hard to imagine more efficient comment/forum systems than the Reddit/HN style (I like even more the Reddit style since it offers more features and hides irrelevant or long discussions in a better way). I'm not much a fan of the linear, non-nested, old-fashioned but wide-spread bulletin boards style which Discourse follows.
That is interesting. Personally I didn't find framing the original problem as monoid enlightening at all, but that's what I thought the author was getting at.
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As someone who uses Rubymind all day I have to agree with the speed issues. However, there are some optimizations that can easily be made to make it less painful. Removing big files (like log files) from the project index is one thing. Removing unwanted plugins and turn off some inspections is another. I wish Rubymine had a wizard that walks new users through those optimizations.
I jumped in to RubyMine during the End of the World sale in December, and I haven't looked back. It's a really great IDE, and definitely worth having over a vanilla editor.
Since this is HN you shouldmprobably provide some counternargument, since I agree with you, here's two: 2% is a massive overestimation of desktop Linux market share, Microsoft doesn't want to fragment the existing diminishing desktop computing base, and would probably spend more effort working ona touch/voice version of Office because it would see better returns.
I agreed. Harry can't talk about a Monoid with that non well-defined function. He deserved to be fired :D

(As I pointed out in my comment: http://www.jasq.org/2/post/2013/01/the-mathematician-the-mon...)
Here are some images of an early version. Basically it's two webcam-grade cameras and 3 IR LEDs. http://monleap.fr/537-kit-developpement-leap-motion-photos/ That's pretty much it. It makes me wonder why people are getting so excited about this ...
One more thing Calc is better than Excel: It doesn't screw with your Microsoft Windows 7 windows. Multiwindow in Excel is just broken. Is Excel 2013 any better there?

Anyway, I agree with everything else you said, it matches exactly my experiences with Calc.

That being said I'd prefer Apple to push their iWorks applications over better OOffice - their technological basis is by far the best - the outcome of each click and each edit is completely predictable, the whole rendering engine works consistantly across all three products, so do hotkeys. They're just lacking a lot of sugar on top like the features you mention.
Have you considered Vim? :)
I don't think it's quite as bad as you make out / think.

As Geoff said, in the upcoming release, it'll be trivial for a meteor package to wrap a npm package and integrate it into the 'walled garden'. If and when a client side package manager appears that everyone is using, I'm sure they'll do the same.

So, I'd expect a situation to arise which is much like that of rails + gems; a ruby library that is not completely tied to rails is usually published as a stand-alone gem, with a X-rails gem which does the railties stuff.

Perhaps it's not as clean as it could be, but I think it's unavoidable when you consider some of meteor's design decisions (synchronous APIs being the biggest one) -- debating these is of course a separate issue.
is 1151 an unusually large packet? Because otherwise how are these NICs not getting inoculated as soon as they're online?
I'm a big fan of reinventing forums. The current software used for forums is terrible and this fixes many of the issues with them. Looks like he has even thought about SEO as the underlying links on the infinite scroll pages will work for crawlers.
Or more likely, doesn't like to do their laundry as often and dark shirts hide stains better.
We got a basic demo online (w/o API keys for 3rd party auth, and there's some broken stuff): http://discourse.a.pogoapp.com/

We'd like to ultimately contribute back some 12factor-esque code (e.g. ENV vars instead of YAML for config, Procfile to define processes). It was interesting reading the comments on the Metafilter thread about how the app seems promising but difficult to host compared to shared hosting+PHP: http://www.metafilter.com/124658/Not-phpBB
I don't think that "closed source / commercial alternatives" (IE in the browser case) have done any better on the bug side than the open source ones.

So the received wisdom would have us believe. The thing is, my bug trackers objectively say different.

In the past 12 months, I have seen exactly one serious bug in IE (where I define "serious" to mean that user-visible functionality in at least one web app I've worked on does not work properly, even though the same functionality worked in earlier versions of the same browser and/or works in multiple other browsers). That one may have been IE's fault or it may have been a problem with a Java update, since the bad behaviour was at the interface between JS and Java and both had recently had updates when we started to see the problem.

In contrast, I have seen serious bugs in Chrome in every web app I work on, ranging from another Java integration issue through to messing up HTML5 video. Several of those bugs still haven't been fixed several update cycles later. Statistically, across all the projects I'm working on -- which since I'm doing various freelance work and running multiple businesses have little in common except for all being web apps -- it is clear that Chrome is by far the flakiest browser at the moment.

Firefox is actually faring slightly better lately, though as a Firefox user rather than a developer they still keep making usability screw-ups. I get that there have been a couple of critical security issues with Java recently, but since Firefox itself patches at least a handful of critical issues every release cycle I think the "Don't use this, run away, it's scary!" treatment is frankly rather childish. And as of version 18, Firefox frequently seems to corrupt the display of text areas like the one I'm typing this in.

I don't like to be negative about software since nothing's really perfect in this business, but I do point the finger squarely at the advocates of six-weekly releases on this one. The quality of Chrome has never been that great and it's always suffered from "UI rearranging itself at random" syndrome because of the silent updates. However, the quality of Firefox has nose-dived since the move to a rapid release cycle; I'd estimate we're seeing 4-5x as many minor issues in Firefox across all the projects I work on since that happened, plus a couple of howlers like the plug-in screw-up in the first so-called long term support release.
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Welcome to a prettier online discussion. I don't intend to be an active contributor, but so long as the content is indexed by the search engines, then I am sure I'll benefit as an active consumer (much like I have with Stack Overflow).

From my perspective, Discourse is a polished forum; analogous to Stack Overflow in the Answers World (many of the other Answers sites are ugly, ad-filled, and closed to the public). So I welcome this, and look forward to seeing the resulting discussions in my search query listings...
Google Refine (now Open Refine) [1] is something that is also useful for data analysis and munging.

[1]: http://code.google.com/p/google-refine/
No nesting. Is this 2004?

How are you supposed to follow a conversation more than two posts deep? This is PHPBB with more javascript.
That wasn't a good upgrade, but at least the option was there. The phone came with 2.0, received 3.0, 4.0, 4.1, and 4.2. Every one of those was available day one.

Most android manufacturers aren't releasing updates, or they're months behind. WP updates were often stalled months by carriers/manufacturers, and phones bought last year can't get WP8.
Interesting. May I ask you for a few estimates?

How much preparation did you put into your templates approximately?

How long does it take you to do a quick one-off?

How long for a professional looking presentation for public speaking?
Gabe please Half-Life 2: EP3!!!
The people who switch to linux will do it regardless of office being available. Why not make $200 off of them?
Response from the freelancer:

Matt,

Thank you for alerting us of this situation. We have not been contacted by the client since the dispute was settled some 3 weeks ago, so all of this comes as a complete surprise.

We worked with this client for over 2 months. As is the standard practice, development initially took place on one of our test servers. Once the plugin was complete the client tested and approved the work, then gave us permission to integrate on his site. Integration was met with a number of conflicts due to previous customizations on the client's site. These are outlined in the PM history for the project. We then moved back to our test server to attempt integration (using the client's site backbone). After tireless work weeding through the conflicts we were able to achieve a workable solution. The client then tested and approved the work done, even saying "it's very close". A few days later the dispute was filed and we have not heard from the client since its resolution.

The hacking is an absurd and unfair allegation. The client has posted the same work/project on multiple sites since the dispute resolution, and very well could have done so prior to hiring us. It's very possible that any number of "coders/developers" out there have access to the client's site. A company can't achieve 406 perfect reviews over the course of many years of work without being supremely professional and conscientious.

We hope this gives you a clearer understanding of the background to the situation.

Cheers,
Nova Studios
Productivity software is still a big part of Microsoft's future (not to mention it was always their soul). Windows is a lot less so. They're beginning to figure that out.

Windows is now merely 1/3 of their income stream. I say merely to reference how far that has come down over the last decade from the peak.

In my opinion... ten years from now, if Microsoft is still relevant, Windows will be 15% or less of their income. There was a Microsoft long before there was a Windows, and I'd be inclined to bet there will be a Microsoft long after Windows matters.
Agreed. The price in Australia of upgrading from Win7 Pro to Win8 Pro as of now is AU$399 (approx US$420).

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-AU/windows/buy

ouch... the price for US customers is US$199 (AU$189). Don't know what's happening there - its one of the worst price differentials I've ever seen.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/buy
I'll begin with the standard disclaimer that I'm a bit out of touch with the Perl community (but that won't stop me from commenting). Technically, this has been done before with the abandonment of ECMAScript 4 in favor of skipping from ECMAScript 3 to ECMAScript 5.
I'll say I was very impressed that they're going to update those tablets. That was an excellent show of good will. So many manufacturers would have released a new tablet (even if it was only cosmetic differences) and told their existing customers "Thanks for your last purchase, here is the new hotness, buy again."
Yes, multi window finally works as it should in Excel 2013. That alone was a reason for me to update the second it was released.
Office coming to Linux? What? Really?! open article... "This rumor stems from a source in Brussels, Belgium, who spoke to Phoronix’s Michael Larabel at FOSDEM" , "oh , right then" close tab

I guess we can expect this by 2030
I've never really liked nested conversations, personally.
You could argue the Resident Evil movies are successful. They've made 5 of them, and most of them have made a ton of money worldwide...

Honestly though, I think video game movies right now are like Comic Book movies were 20 years ago. Back then, they all were terrible until someone came along and made one (with an appropriate budget) that took the material seriously, and now it's a massive profit engine.

I think there are many video game based stories worthy of movies, it just takes someone to do it right.
Keep getting Internal Server Error.

But I know it's legit, I found my own old salary :P
Not to mention the page is so wide that it's completely unreadable. By the time I get done digesting the views or or activity, I've already completely forgotten the headline.
Basically you're playing a lottery on any of these sites. You can't trust even dozen of reviews.

I've hired once one of the top 25 devs on Freelancer.com and he went 3x beyond deadline and I wasn't super happy about his solution either. It was just ok. The reason - he was over stretched with many many projects at the same time.

I've had just a slightly better experience on Odesk because you pay hourly and can cut off the freelancer at any time.

My lessons learned:

1.It's hard to find a real top talent on any of these sites even if you're ready to pay the top price.

2. The only way to verify if the freelancer is able to deliver on your project is to give him one two small trial projects.

3. If you're into real important project do your due diligence or better hire HR on the same site who can do this for you professionally.

P.S. yes there are some fantastic freelancers both on Freelancer.com and Odesk if you look harder.
The author mentions that he was Harry in another comment, so a little of both
Real math majors are also some of the last people I'd ask about programming--if they care about it at all, it's just as a means to an end.

If a math major was interested in programming itself, in the meaning of programs or in neat abstractions for programming, they'd be in theoretical CS instead.

Do real math majors find the category theory in physics pretty dumb too?
Poes law?
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Looks like something Blizzard didn't want to release yet. Reading the source code, the comment block at the top says:
### [REMINDER] REMOVE THIS COMMENT BLOCK BEFORE CODE DEPLOYMENT!
### [REMINDER] POSSIBLE EXPOSURE OF SENSITIVE INFORMATION!
I find it very interesting that location IS so important for a service that can be entirely locationless.
I'm surprised they're not promoting it more, it seems like an obvious win for they keyboard loving crowd.

Too bad it may be delayed until mid year.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/02/blackberry-q10-may-be...
Do these salaries refer to base salaries (not including stocks, bonuses, etc.)?
So the ultimate point is the futility of spending any time optimizing a solution to a problem that at most requires 2 seconds to run.
Lifehacker had a similar question and some of their suggestions might be useful for you.

http://lifehacker.com/5967154/what-should-i-do-now-that-goog...
> Data from research firm Canalys shows Apple's PC shipments rose to 27 million units — 23 million iPads and 4 million Macs

In what universe is an iPad a PC?
Nuuton makes this obsolete due to being able to hold conversations (with nesting) about a given topic or website without actually having to be on it. Plus it eases search for information inside those same topics by indexing each post as an independent entity. Good try, though. Nuuton launches in March.
A linear forum compared to a nested forum is like cutting off part of your brain. You have to expend brain power sorting out multiple conversations occurring in the same sequence. The quoting mechanism is an attempt to unbreak the linear forum, but it's a kludge. Linear forums are a cacophony of conversations intermixed.

Deep conversations die early on linear forums because they are too hard to follow. You will find more posts responding to the OP and fewer posts responding to each other. Linear forums are built for announcements or Q&A, not conversations.
2 private repositories are awesome!
Even if you don't need LaTeX, you should consider it anyhow: even if its a little awkward and clunky, it does separate content from presentation and the results tend to look really good.

You could also check out something like Pandoc, which would let you write the actual content in markdown and then export it to LaTeX (or HTML).
Strange. I am in AU and I upgraded from Win7 - Win8 last year and I only paid ~$30. Maybe that was a short term deal?
Hi craigkerstiens, first, thanks for making this. If you're open to feedback, although I'm sure a lot of effort went into the current mouseover-driven interface, I would just share that I'd strongly prefer a simple list of results in addition to the graph.
I have six IBM 2U servers in my home rack (36U). They're really well-designed and the noise level is not too bad even in the room with the rack, but there is also a 1U SuperMicro server in that rack with two Tesla cards and it is so loud as to be quite annoying anywhere in the house. I keep it turned off unless I'm specifically working on it, which isn't how I'd like it to be. The lesson I learned is that bigger servers (4U would be even better) have bigger fans and run more quietly. Also IBM servers aren't as loud as Dell and Dell servers are quieter than SuperMicro. I'm thinking the next addition might be a cluster of Raspberry Pis.
If you mean in setting up a company, try legalzoom.com
You don't always control the opportunities. But you can sure show up where they serve them.
Mine may not apply to yours.

In presentation to clients, I write reports/presentations per scenario/campaign. I use your bog standard Initializr+Bootstrap, the visualizations have been previsualized on ggplot, and then translated into d3 where it makes sense.

How long does it take? 2 - 5 days per report/preso. Like I said, it mayn't apply to everyone. I have the luxury of time.

I don't usually do the presentation (can't recall when I did one). Speaking in public (even to normal people on a non presenter basis) terrifies me
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The article already has a picture and it is a bit different than that.

Even with machines where you have to put the water in you don't have to do it for every cup, most likely people either put water when they put in beans, because that's what they are used to, or perhaps when the machine isn't working properly and they are trying to get it going again.
First impression after spending some time on try.discourse.org --- it's very messy.

The mess that online forums have been, seemingly since forever, should be reduced, not continued with snazzier implementation.
> console.error("Did you forget to run `make decrypt_conf`?");

> console.error("You need to run `make decrypt_conf` to update it.");

Couldn't you just make the decrypt_conf target depend on the encrypted configuration file and make the standard build command depend on the decrypted file? This way it would get enforced with every 'make'.

In case you don't use Makefiles for building at all (because you only use script languages for example) I don't get why you use a Makefile instead of just two shell scripts.
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Because I'm CS student I already get Windows for free through dreamspark, but I don't think I get MS Office. I'm assuming MS is making a big chunk of their profit from all the college freshmen buying Office every year. In my public speech class I gave a presentation about why people should use FOSS. When I mentioned Libre Office in the presentation, and how it could open and write .docx people's mouths dropped. Multiple people including my professor asked about Libre Office after the presentation.

I think Microsoft may generally be worried about the future of Office, or they're hubristic about it.
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If you're using powerpoint as your diagraming tool, you might be doing something wrong. Try Dia, it's open source and free.
After having used OpenOffice for years, I finally decided I hate it. Maybe it's just OpenOffice for Mac, but Writer produces output that is just ugly. It's not wrong, just devoid of whatever it is that makes text look decent. I assume the kerning is bad.

I talked with a friend who found OpenOffice on her own when her computer at work didn't of MS Office, and found it highly unsuitable. In addition to ugly output, she needed document revisions which Writer apparently doesn't support. Even worse, opening MS Office documents resulted in strange, minor things happening. (No surprise there, but it doesn't really encourage people to stay with the product) Interestingly, she said the same thing I thought when I first saw OpenOffice back when it was StarOffice: instead of producing a better Office, they tried to copy MS Office and failed.
Thanks for sharing your story.

> Tom was a PHP/JS programmer. He worked on rapidly prototyped web-apps and didn't give a rat's ass about efficiency.

Although I'm happy you quit and did not get fired, know this now does pull some of the poetry out of the above line, which I had previous read as some sort of backhanded a compliment given the other (fictionalized) ending.

Perhaps I'm being overly-sensitive but Harry comes off as really looking down your nose at "good enough". For example, there certainly seems no love lost on you and Tom fictionalizing (?) the character as Dick's "secretary."
Please try the Episodes as well. I also thought HL2 to be weaker than its predecessor, but the Episodes blow everything out of the water IMO.
There was an upgrade for $39 deal, but it expired on the 31st of January.
where do you draw the line? Today it's infeasible for po-dunk-town, Montana, tomorrow it's anywhere more than 5 miles from the nearest city. Yes that's hyperbole, but it illustrates the point that what's infeasible is relative to the time. I'm sure the pony express wasn't exactly feasible, but it was still necessary.

"Why is it my responsibility to subsidize people who choose to live in places that are challenged in more than one way?"

What can be more selfish - the fact that you only care about the situation you're in, or the fact that you'd leave others out to dry because you feel like you're paying for something you wouldn't do. Those who live in po-dunk-town, Montana are part of the US just as you are, and frankly deserve to have their mail delivered as well.
Ahh finally I can have peace of mind. Thanks for that hint.
The first time I ran:

time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
hello world

real	0m0.221s
user	0m0.005s
sys	0m0.006s

subsequent times:

time ruby -e "puts 'hello world'"
hello world

real	0m0.008s
user	0m0.005s
sys	0m0.003s

So, I guess he ran ruby first followed by topaz and ended up with those results
I think, as a general rule, people overestimate the value of their own skillsets/contributions and underestimate the skillsets/contributions of others. It is probably a Jedi mind trick to make ourselves feel more important/smarter/what have you. Luckily the free market for labor mostly exists (ignoring possibly shady deals between certain large tech companies) and people feeling undervalued can test that theory by shopping their skillset around. I think more people feel undervalued/underappreciated than pursue the "shopping around" angle. There are lots of reasons/excuses as to why, but protecting one's ego probably has a role, acknowledged or not.
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