skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd like to know what the pros and cons of Opera switching to WebKit instead of Gecko are. Was Gecko ever a possibility?
This comes up every now and then. That code makes perfect sense. You write octal numbers by prefixing them with a zero, the same way you write hexadecimal numbers by prefixing them with a '0x'.

strtol("06", NULL, 8); //6
strtol("08", NULL, 8); //0

Is C bad? Should Kernighan and Ritchie feel bad?
As a heads up (this is a common trap!), your email isn't actually in your profile at the moment.

The email field in your profile isn't public - so you need to put it into the about field as well for others to see it.

I learnt that one the hard way too.
Opera to switch to WebKit rendering engine | Hacker News
I got bored reading the post so started to look around the website. I think the Domains for Sale page (http://www.jacquesmattheij.com/auction-of-domains-for-sale/) only clarifies my initial thoughts on this person.
Steve Jobs tried to cure his (in all likelyhood medically treatable) cancer with herbal medicine, meditation and sing song.

So.. yeah..
I have to agree with this - yes, the limitations are frustrating (talking to a guy with 25 repos.) but I am not in the business of finding cheap ways to deal with a pretty core piece of useful functionality when its barely the cost of my home internet.
Don't know about projects, but here are some future technologies that cannot arrive too soon:

1) Technologies to transform the way we live and work:

* Automatic (Driverless) cars & other autonomous ground vehicles will transform "last mile" logistics, create a million new business opportunities, reduce the monetary and environmental cost of transport.
* Super-Fast internet to enable always-on multi-endpoint video conferencing - so telecommuting becomes easier, and we need to move around less.
* Modern prefab apartment blocks with sufficient space in the home for children to study, combined with planning and land-purchase policies that facilitate their construction near to city centres.

2) Technologies to help ensure food security and peace:

* Hydroponics and Aquaculture to transform our deserts into productive farmland to feed a growing global population.
* Artificial meat, so we do not need to kill to eat the food we want.
* Cheap Nuclear Power for desalination for aquaculture and agriculture.

3) Technologies to help us understand our own limitations and make better decisions.

* Apply our growing understanding of the physiology of behavior and learning to education, decision making and politics.
C++ and Beyond 2012: Herb Sutter - atomic Weapons, 2 of 2
Yes, but they were all using the platform version, which was older. Porting the new features took time.
Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown
I'm very happy to hear that you're doing it. For a very long period, I started to give up hope (and I had never even attempted anything). I would very much like to find some people here. Can you say what you are working on building?
Rickroll's seem a bit tame comparatively.
Microsoft presentation (funny) - circa 2000
no excuse is too broad.

If country X holds me liable under their law for selling goods in country X†, then I am either going to have to pay someone to understand that liability and quantify the expected variable cost, or just guess at it and hope.

If country X is a relatively small market for me those fixed costs amortized over the sales are going to be noticeable even if the risk per sale isn't higher than my home country.

␄

† Are they going to arrest me and keep me in jail when I come to speak at a conference? Are they going to nab me when a connecting flight lands on their soil and put me in jail? Are they going to enter a massive default judgement against me if I don't hire a defense each time someone files a claim? Can they collect those?
In case it isn't clear from the article, these pictures are actually from a number of different buildings. They're all together on the street, so it's still one "office", but only some of the pictures are from the newest building. We've been enjoying the rest for a while now :).
Getting used to all that diverse furniture, I'd knock my shins a fair few times.
And South Americans are actually doing just that. Travel to Florida and shop for prices 50% lower than in Brazil:

"The Sawgrass Mills mall has enough retail space to fill more than 40 football fields. Most notably, Sawgrass attracts destination shoppers from South America."

http://www.marketplace.org/topics/business/next-america/sawg...
It is not as if I was not aware that Pypi module distribution (I am a python programmer) is unsecured and that python is lucky enough to have no scrutiny of the community.

Discussion on Pypi (catalog-sig) are pretty much advancing in the direction of a kombinat (something to complicated to be even appliable).

But I can make sarcasm because nobody will check my claims and will consideer good will and awareness as a good direction.

To be honest, the computer industry is like lemmings building a cliff of uselessly complicated stuff from which we will fall.

May the computer industry please quietly wait my retirement before crumbling down.
that's exactly what I meant by "there are excellent devs out there, find your mission/passion and spend some of your cash on it"
I can see almost exclusively Open Source libraries there, they are listing them because this what MIT/GPL/MPL licenses require.
What does other openings have to do with "world network for dodging taxes"?

Hint: not a lot. Other companies do it with having minimum offices or none at all

Several consultancies will happily open a "paper company" for you in Ireland or wherever you choose. No problem whatsoever

"Talent goes to Mountain View" [citation needed].

There are a lot of talent outside the US (V8 came from Germany, also Zurich, London and Dublin offices have technical openings, Australia, not to forget Belo Horizonte in Brazil) and inside the US (NY comes to mind)

Google's datacenters are spread across the world.
I doubt that they will cut the price to 100,000$. Why 100k$ because that's more than we pay for ALL Atlassian tools taken together. GitHub just does not provide that much value to cost that much.
Adobe does not sell their software this way. They have a sales office in Australia. Source: I worked there.
you can also read what happens when you take it too far
http://www.freeleonardpickard.org/Skinner-Timeline.html
http://www.dallasdancemusic.com/awareness-politics/73509-tee...
http://www.vice.com/read/life-is-a-cosmic-giggle-803-v18n5

of course rumor has it he would take DMT via IV for 8 + hours several times a week. I can only imagine what that would do to someone's mind (hint it wouldn't be pretty)
Non-trivial sexually reproducible organisms could generate unique keys from parents keys!

My understanding is that current detection of unauthorized usage of copying enzymes is limited to "if fits or it doesn't fit".
Free Education: You Get What You Pay For
And way up there on the creepy/cool scale there are viruses that incorporate themselves into the DNA that is passed from generation to generation:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Endogenous_retrovirus
I never worked for the big three , i once did an interview, with my long hair back in the days and refusing to wear a suit, it did not feel like a match ...

There are agencies that specialize in brokering freelance consultants , but it all depends on your CV , so the best thing to do is to fill it with some nice projects like the http://www.hixup.com/ you made ... , if you want to discuss in detail , mail me at HN id@gmail.com
Firefox for Android no longer does this, and hasn't since the "Native Fennec" launch.
How the Snickers Bar Changed Over Time
Yes -- the secret is to maintain a perpetual shortage of conference rooms, which forces teams to use any and all available free space to meet, and ensures that impromptu gatherings take place in the cool shared spaces rather than a boring old conference room.

And if you're visiting from another building (a common occurrence) it's very very frowned upon to camp out in a conference room, so you head over to the cafe or you sit back in a giant "e" in the hallway and you open up your laptop and you get to work.
Parallel.js - A JavaScript Library For Parallel Computing Using Web Workers
I buy the Mass Market Edition books in India. They're printed in much cheaper paper, many times in greyscale. Not the same.
No more ‘Mobile’
I think we just interpreted the original comment differently. I didn't sense any humour in the point being made, only in the flippant final line, and I strongly disagreed with the basic point regardless of anything related that the original article did or didn't mention. If I misunderstood then the poster has my apologies.
Scenario: I want to install rvm

I could download their install script, read it through and then proceed to run it

or,

Since I'm trusting rvm not to do any harm in the first place, I might as well use their handy one-liner and install it in one go. Anything they can do in their one-liner they can do to me when I install rvm anyways.
It's all the fault of Aussies themselves - if they want to fix this, they simply need to ensure (through their lawmakers) that the first sale doctrine applies fairly as intended, and within a week there will be redistributors selling legal boxed Adobe software (imported from US) for decent prices.

It wouldn't be equal to USA prices, since VAT and some markup would apply, but if there is any competition whatsoever, there won't be a markup of $1000 for a single box.
I agree.

We should delete all posts about software astrojoy doesn't like. That's what mods are for.
My first thought was "those people are high" :-)
My personal office has a private bathroom, a flat screen TV, a couch, microwave, fridge, balcony, bar and barstools. I can bring my dog every day. Best of all I sleep in whenever I want and take naps during the day. Did I mention I think working from home is the future?
wow...
doesn't even run CoD...
#ignore
The Big Questions
What I like best about promoting offices like these is not so much the decoration (although personally I like it, especially the library room), but the furthering of the idea that work can be accomplished anywhere -- not just at your desk.

I doubt there's much of a question as to whether the people at Google work hard and get a lot accomplished during their days. So you'd think that if such a productive company could accomplish that in a distributed (distributed meaning people working at places besides their desk) office, so could your more run-of-the-mill companies.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Underhanded_C_Contest

The Underhanded C Contest was a programming contest to turn out code that is malicious, but passes a rigorous inspection, and looks like an honest mistake. The contest rules define a task, and a malicious component. Entries must perform the task in a malicious manner as defined by the contest, and hide the malice.
PHP WebDAV Module: Enabling on Apache and NGINX
Jordan's Cheese Selection for February 13, 2013 (Python modules)
What's with "partly" anyway? More like "entirely", regardless of the muppet conspirancy theory
I have another one: add South America/Brazil to the location filter.
Didn't get past the phone screen, eh?
Wow, how disappointing. And poor title to describe a very bad decision by a human being, not a movement. This has nothing to do with open source, and everything to do with human nature. Someone on the inside of a closed source project with commit rights at a company with a poor review process could just as easily have done this to make some kind of point. Same result.

Furthermore, I can't possibly audit every single line of every open source project I run on my personal machine. Did you review every line of the last distro you installed? A python package installed via pip can just as easily 'rm -r ~' as a bash script can, as can a vim plugin, etc. etc. In the end, it often comes down to trust, and credibility.

What have you done to yours?
Yes. The Tower of Terror. The bad luck eye of the little yellow god. The custard mite episode.

That show was always funny. My first real taste of British humor.
In my experience they've taken a U turn in that area. I won't say they're good yet, but it's obvious they're trying to improve. It's a good market correction, they realized they couldn't just do nothing about their reputation.
... the electronic braille reader industry for the blind. This is a multi-billion a year industry that has stagnated and seen no innovation or development in 30 years.

Yesterday I had run into a discussion about blind programmers, and what technology they use. Rather than using TTS I think I would (were I blind, I'm not) use a braille terminal instead. Out of curiosity (or perhaps procrastination), I starting looking around at those, and they didn't seem much advanced, and very expensive.

I was thinking that instead of having the the braille "display" below the keyboard, I'd really rather have a small wireless version that I can pop in my mouth and read with my tongue. That way I could still touch-type on a regular keyboard. I think that would make me much more productive than constantly having to move my hands back and forth. Maybe use Bluetooth with Serial Port Profile, and then it would be easy to connect it to phones and PCs.
I have always held off buying Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Lightroom for myself, because it is very expensive. One day about 2 years ago, I saw an ad somewhere, that I could buy a bundle of both pieces of software for 800USD (I think it was). Seems fair, I thought and went to buy it online in Adobe's shop. But as a European, I was forced to the store of my country (Denmark) and the price was at least double. I tried buying from the us shop (since no physical delivery was needed), but was rejected for using a Danish credit card.

I still don't own Photoshop and Lightroom and Adobe is out 800 USD.
Hey Kevin,

I never committed to it. I spent time questioning whether this was right for me, wavering between this and that, giving up, almost going back to work at what I was doing before. There have been some very dark days between then and now. I know nothing more about programming now than I did then. Every time I would sit down to start, I became overwhelmed and then didn't do anything. The recurring thought is 'there is just too much to learn'. 'The people getting into Ycombinator are Harvard/etc.. grads, why do I think I can compete'. These are illusions to some degree, but definitely kept me from making a move up to this point.

Thanks for this advice, I'll definitely follow up.
Samurai Jack is perhaps one of the most perfect animated shows of all time. Hyperbole be damned there is something about that show that struck a nerve with me. Some episodes had almost no dialogue. It was just awesome.
Sure, but the kind of 'paper sharing' services such as proposed by the OP have the same problem. Many journals do allow you to share your own article, although I don't know the details by hard nor would I even know where to start looking for the conditions of publishing of my own papers.

Your last two paragraphs illustrate my point, or rather the myopic viewpoint that these 'paper liberators' advocate - nobody outside of the HN crowd I know (and yes, this is limited to a few fields) even cares about this supposed 'stranglehold'. Well everybody grumbles every now and then, but at least nobody cares enough to really push for change, and the things people grumble about (slow editors, idiotic formatting requirements, ...) are mostly not solved by 'open access' journals. Everybody has access to their universities' libraries, or contacts the authors themselves, or has some research assistant dig them up for them. Yes yes the subscriptions cost the universities real money, but come on, much more money is wasted by universities on other trivial stuff. Look, I'm not saying the model is perfect, it's just that (IMO) it's not a big enough problem for actual researchers (as opposed to 'interwebs poasters with strong opinions about things they have little use for') to really matter.
The existence of a gray market should keep the local distributor (and Adobe's region-specific) pricing down though. If it goes too high, then people will favor the gray market.

So yes - local prices may be higher. But not that much higher.

The gray market doesn't depend on contract law, since an unauthorized distributor should be free to buy up inventory however it can (eg. pose as a customer). But this doesn't work with software, and that's the problem.
> The tests give you some kind of standardized quality

No, they don't. It remains nearly impossible to fire a teacher thanks to unions.

Note that I'm not arguing against standardized testing. But in its current form, it leads to kids being taught to memorize and how to take a multiple choice test (and nothing else, thanks to the breadth of the tests), rather than any useful skills. I do, in fact, believe that we'd be better off with no tests than with what we currently have.

Its also worth noting that the only way the tests are used in most states is to punish at a school level. Schools who underperform, inevitably those in poor neighborhoods, lose funding and are occasionally shut down. This actually makes the problem worse - it leads to fewer, less funded schools in exactly the areas that need them most.

Finally, the person who's experience you're drawing from was speaking about elementary schools. Please take my words only in reference to middle and high schools - I don't want to pretend to have knowledge about the situation in elementary schools.
As a blind programmer I would say that I can be every bit as productive as my sited peers with comparable experience levels for back end development although not nearly as productive for user interface work. If you suddenly lost your site I’m not sure how well you could program, the way I use a computer is significantly different from how I understand sited people to use a computer. I also assume the way I generate a mental model varies from most programmers and don’t know whether you could adapt existing mental models for use with our site or would have to start from scratch. If you lost your site you would want to focus on things like basic independent living skills and the ability to use a computer for general internet browsing before you attempted to learn to use screen reading software well enough to continue programming. While you could probably obtain a similar level of efficiency after losing your site it would be a process that would take several years at the least.
You can get an ABN[1] and set up as a sole trader/partnership online completely free if you're an Australian citizen (I'm not sure whether you can if you're foreign).

I paid about $560 to set up my company (a company has an ACN[2] from the ASIC[3] and an ABN and TFN[4] from the ATO[5]) but if you do the paperwork yourself it's cheaper.

1. Australian Business Number
2. Australian Company Number
3. Australian Securities and Investment Commission
4. Tax File Number
5. Australian Tax Office
There's something dangerous in such working conditions. It ends up being the place you spend most of your 24 hour per day allowance. If you are single and friendless this is perfect. If you have a family and friends outside of your work life - that is a shame because you'll see them less and less. There is a price for an in office bar, pool table, free food and amazing decor... hmm...
First request and got the paper already!
My thoughts exactly. Is anyone aware of topics being moved from one stackexchange to another? This would be a fantastic feature, obviously.
Ridiculously misleading graph.
Google, how about using some of those office colors and tones in your web interfaces instead of stark white everywhere? You wouldn't paint your walls all white so why must everything you do in the browser be on a white page?
Here are some useful CPAN module lists:

* MetaCPAN favourites leaderboard - https://metacpan.org/favorite/leaderboard

* Task::Kensho - This is a list of recommended modules for Enlightened Perl development - https://metacpan.org/module/Task::Kensho

* Perl Best Practices CPAN module recommendations (outdated so read the notes) - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?pbp_module_rec...

So starting from ground zero you could do...

$ curl -kL http://install.perlbrew.pl | bash
$ perlbrew install perl-5.16.2
$ perlbrew switch 5.16.2
$ perlbrew install-cpanm
$ cpanm --force TryCatch [1]
$ cpanm Task::Kensho

Above took approx 30 mins to complete on my Mac here and gives you...

- Perlbrew which allows you to have multiple versions of Perl running from your home directory/folder - http://www.perlbrew.pl

- cpanminus (cpanm) integrated with Perlbrew to manage your CPAN modules per Perl version - https://metacpan.org/module/App::cpanminus

- Perl 5.16.2 with the (basic) Task::Kensho modules loaded.

[1] - There is currently a problem with a few tests on TryCatch so forcing this through first meant there were no hiccups with Task::Kensho install.
You will have access to the top 5%. I know one person that is working at Google, two friends are studying at Harvard, one is going to be working at dropbox. Everybody from the same town in Mexico.

There are great private and public schools. For example, The Institute of Technology of Monterrey (ITESM) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monterrey_Institute_of_Technolo...
That's all in the interpretation. I saw nothing passive aggressive about what he said. He just stated his opinions (and what I believe to be many facts too) in a very mater-of-fact way. There's a difference between that and passive aggressive.

As far as Opera goes though, you both have a point. If you really want to drill down into the data then your argument stands but generally speaking, without being oh so concerned and preoccupied with complete and totally accuracy (like we often are on HN and miss the forest for the trees because of) Opera really isn't much to worry about. It's a great browser and all but you can bet that if you're building a new web property you're not going to see a lot of Opera users with 1.6% market share worldwide. Sure, you might get lucky (or unlucky depending on how you see it) and somehow get a swarm of Opera users but I also might win the lottery this week too.
Networked Norms: How Tech Startups and Teen Practices Challenge...
But those perennial papers are usually so widely spread that a simple google search will bring them up, or otherwise somebody in the department will have a copy on their hard disk; so finding it is as simple as asking 'hey who has xyz' on the internal mailing list.

Maybe it's different in mathematics, I don't know, I'm just stating my experiences. Few fields are as long-lasting as mathematics, too, I think; in most fields, only a hand full of papers is still relevant after 20 years.
If nothing else, cyberspace can be delineated economically.

In meatspace, the economic leverage of a traditional business is scarcity and the leverage of traditional parasitic distribution business is distance. The economics of cyberspace can be based on neither of these things, because once a single instance of something is created, it is everywhere without scarcity. Traditional business attemts to create artificial scarcity and distance, but this is madness.
Nothing new here. An article from 2008:
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1048488/adobe-cs4-p...
TLDR; it was cheaper to fly to NYC from London, buy the suite there, then go back, than it was to just buy it in the UK.
Thanks for these resources, never heard of the Rails tutorial, will definitely check it out. What area of the world do you live?