skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And then you want to access a hidden folder, which on Windows or Linux you could just go to the address bar and type in the name. On OS X, I have yet to figure out how.

That's assuming it saw my network computers in the first place, of course. If I try to get to them too soon after booting, they simply never appear.
One or two games have been based on Adobe AIR, development of which which has been abandoned on Linux, but they will run, if poorly.
Pretty awesome. Correct me if I'm wrong but I'm fairly certain this won't work in Windows 7 - 64 Bit as 16-bit COM applications are no longer supported. I've tried to go back and get my simple COM programs from Assembly class at college to work but no luck. It was just really simple to do a very basic program using simple DOS function calls. Anyone know a simple way to do basic assembly programming in 64 Bit windows OSs? I tried was unsuccessful in getting a linker working.
Ask HN: What are your thoughts on creating popular software?
How do you create popular software projects, either open source projects or actual software products like Android applications that people really use?

I am sure there are a lot of developers that read ycombinator and reddit and have development experience but for whatever reason haven't created a popular software tool by themselves. Maybe they aren't motivated enough to do so? Or maybe they don't want to.

I am always playing around with various technology but I have never known what drives the motivation or skill to create something with thousands or millions of users. For example, Minecraft is a great example of a lone project where the developer took it to the next level?

What are your thoughts on this? Is it focusing on one particular project for months or years? And not getting distracted with something else?
Wouldn't requiring inputting your email address and then pressing an ubsubscribe button work? That way when the forwarded user tries to unsubscribe, they know they aren't subscribed.
Cmd-Space "Terminal" and bam, it's Unix.
We actually have much the same functionality. We can dynamically route/rate-limit requests on a per-marketplace (or anything else, really) basis, using Nginx's Lua integration capabilities. We may end up writing another post on this, if there's any interest from the community.
Patrick Smacchia, developer of NDepend, has provided coderbits with two full licenses for NDepend v4 to be given away to two lucky coderbits users (worth 299 EUR each).

NDepend is a Visual Studio tool for managing complex .NET code to achieve high Code Quality. NDepend provides a vast range of features like dependency graphs, LINQ code rules, code metrics, and code diff facilities.
Not on all Android devices.

The Kindle Fire HD, for example, only supports the Amazon App Store and bare ipa installation.
As if the shell was the problem! It wasn't and isn't.
The fragmentation that matters happens at a lower level, e.g. library versioning, the centralized software repositories, etc. Which is great on the server. But terrible on the desktop.
Good idea, but I feel that this places a burden on the subscribed user that wishes to unsubscribe.
Very cool... I'm going to keep using this!
Oh.

When you commented on the HN parody, I though you were funny (why criticise a copycat for being accurate?). But it appears you're just dumping copypasta.

Don't, please. This isn't the place for it. Emailing the author will get results, spamming HN won't.
Got ya, I was applying to financial firms for a NY position. 100% of them wanted 3.5 GPA from an Ivy league school.

Seriously?

I applied anyway and got some responses.
President Hugo Chávez has died
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> My first encounter of this was the stupid filesystem abstraction iPhoto decided to enforce upon me. After removing iPhoto, it was bearable.

This makes no sense. iPhoto stores your photos in a directory structure on your system. This directory is like any other. If you want to extract the photos from them you can. You can also just right-click on your photos from within iPhoto and extract them.

> After removing iPhoto, it was bearable.

What was bearable? Why didn't you try and fix the problem? I've been using iPhoto for almost 10 years, across ~6 different machines, and have never had any issues with it.
Works on me!

http://urlsearch.commoncrawl.org/?q=com.pbm.www%2F~lindahl

So there's a bug there, but not all the time for ~.
You have brought up a great point—why on earth is there no true quality alternative to iTunes out there? Are we Mac users that complacent?
Honestly, I just like having them email me when I've unsubscribed. That way, if somebody else does it, I know because I receive a notification.

If I'm unsubscribing from a spammy newsletter, I don't mind them sending exactly one "unsubscribe confirmation" email immediately that I can then have in my records later on in case I forget whether or not (or when) I unsubscribed.
Question, was he a dictator or a socialist? Was his country an OK model for socialism?
I've been collecting albums in a playlist, sharing because I don't see any of them here: http://open.spotify.com/user/1216782004/playlist/7Me4IwfD6FV...

I've been adding much more quickly than curating, so probably lots of stuff that's not a good fit; at any rate, a few of my favorites so far:

1. Apparat - The Devil's Walk
2. Washed Out - Within and Without
3. Little People - Mickey Mouse Operation
4. Phutureprimitive - Kinetik
He has not been actively involved in what you call "his project" for more than a decade.
Classes and objects don't have this issue because there is no underlying formal definition for them. They're also less general. Most descriptions of basic OOP ideas are on the same level as "side effects might happen here"; there's just nobody to correct them and nothing to correct them against.

Don't get me started about pointers. They're at least as difficult to grasp for most beginners than monads ever were. Hell, people have days of trouble just with references as in Java!

Functions do have this issue, and most of what different languages call "functions" aren't. It's just that unlike monads, functions have entered the common mind and people talking about them informally far outnumber those interested in correctness. And many people have plenty of problems with things like higher-order functions.
I think parent was more surprised by the idea that one would want a C-to-Lisp compiler, given that Lisp is more pleasant to write than C and C is usually more performant.
Can't you just use airplay instead? (yes I use it quite often)
Show HN: Share your side projects 
This is a thread for posting anything cool or interesting you've done lately. I always love seeing what the HN community is up to!
>As a matter of fact, there is very likely someone who made a similar choice like you, only his time line was shifted forward a few years.

Oh yeah, that guy worked for me for a short period of time. He got a better job (first at hostgator, then at some fairly well-known generic-sounding consulting house) very shortly afterwards. He mostly just needed /something/ to put on the resume so people didn't give him shit about the empty years.

But yea, random chance is absolutely huge, and I got lucky.

>His outcomes would be remarkably worse than yours. Not only would he have never gone to college, he would also have an non-competitive start in a tough environment.

College isn't one of those 'once in a lifetime' chances; I mean, unless you have parents or something that are willing to pay for it out of high school but not willing to pay for it a few years later, you /can/ go back a few years later. I think it's pretty destructive that the choice is presented to 17 year olds as "go to college now, or suffer forever because you did not!"

Really, if I had to do my life over with what I know now? I would have spent much of the .com crash trying to go to college. I dono if I would have done very well, but I was much better equipped then than I was right out of high school. (well, that, or staying at MAPS. I don't know if I could have handled it, but if I could have, I would have been a thousand times better off than I was hiding out where I did.)

I mean, my main takaway there? even authority figures that genuinely care about and want to do right by you often give bad advice. Your life gets vastly better once you gain self-determinism.
The answer to every OS X gripe: "oh, I just replaced that (Apple software) with this (paid software)."
I have some interesting thoughts about the Hacker News meta.
Thats because you are used to your environment.
A bit of both, and no.
I'm not implying that companies I've worked for have made me pay for trips or anything like that. I'm just saying that to act like companies sponsoring employee getaways is not a "normal thing", its a pretty cool, rare thing. Unless of course we are only talking about venture backed tech startups, and then yes, this approaches normalcy.
No. I used a MacBook Pro (2007ish model) for about 2.5 years. It was a miserable machine, where nothing ever "just worked" [1]. If I'd ever needed to use it more seriously than for occasional VPN access for ssh / a web browser, I'd have ditched it within months rather than wait for it to die of natural causes.

[1] It'd crash if an external monitor was connected after the machine had been asleep since the last reboot. WiFI
connectivity was fabulously bad. There would be multi-minute black screen+beachball hangs when logging in after waking
from sleep. The encrypted filesystem was a constant source of file corruption, though I only lost my home directory once. The DVD drive would vibrate like hell and make an absolutely sickening crunching noise for the first half a minute of a disc being inserted.

Even the industrial design was just ridiculous, like the gently pulsating LED light that was an order of magnitude too bright. So bright that it was literally not possible for me to fall asleep in the same room with the laptop without covering it up.

I'm not the target market of OS X either, but could probably had tolerated it if the basics really had just worked.
As long as it's possible to work around this, it's OK. I have far too many 'academic conference' emails (no longer an academic, so I don't want them) where it's hard to unsubscribe because I'm getting the email from a chain of forwarded address (many of which I can't actually send mail from anymore).
The non-existent theme engine is, IMHO, one of the greatest features of OSX. I'm quite happy Apple chooses to enforce their minimalist aesthetic on the world.
I dunno, even on here it gets less press than Python, Ruby or even Go. It's just since most people already know imperative programming well, the Python/Ruby/Go articles that get upvoted tend to be a bit more advanced.

Will you stop using Python? Or would you not learn Python?
This is about Japan in general as well. Specifically it's in Okinawa where people supposedly do live an unusually long time, with the rest of the country more unspectacular. I would like to see whether this is true in Okinawa as well.
Why Can’t Johnny Write? Don’t Blame Social Media
Hey guys, we've got an emacs user over here.
Why? What differences are there between the two? Also, Finder has Quick View, something Windows sorely lacks and is highly useful, as well as the integrated Spotlight search.
I worked at a big company with a large warehousing infrastructure, and developed mobile apps to help them work their inventory: cycle-counting, checkin/checkout, etc. They were primarily using barcoding (Motorolla MC9090's, just like the WalMart scanners), because our RFID tags were generally unreliable for most inventory applications.

RFID/NFC just never made it that big in the inventory space.

Programmable "Actions" seem much cooler and bring out the imaginative hacker in me, just like ifttt. But, I'm lacking vision here. Does anyone have a link to a kick-ass example of someone using TagStand?
It's sometimes not intuitive that some directories on Mac look like packages.

Sometimes you just need to right-click View Package Contents to access the directory, and I'm sure that tiny fence solves many many support headaches for 99% of users.
Do you mean a fax machine?
This is ridiculous. The reason that things "didn't just work" in this case is surely that the OS was fiddled with to the extent that the kernel was recompiled more than once every 3 weeks.

It is hardly valid to compare that to a bog standard release of an OS.

If you are reading this and for some reason have not tried Linux, this experience is not remotely representative.

The laptop I am typing this on (Thinkpad, Ubuntu) - sleep works, audio works, camera works, wifi just works, 3g JUST WORKS, printers just work - better than in Windows, DisplayPort just works, USB devices just work - and I have been running and upgrading the OS for several years.
In the US, there are no legal standards in “free-range” egg production.
Cmd-shift-G in finder. (In an open file dialog, typing '~' or '/' will also bring up the same 'go to folder' dialog.)
No - email on iOS is a piece of shit. It regularly drops connections to exchange, mail bombs people when sending a message and IMAP is unreliable as hell as well. Not only that, it starts to lag unbearably after a few days (up to iOS 6). I send and receive a LOT of email - it just can't handle it well.

Yes in contrast of iOS. That reputation is bullshit. Regular crashes of Mail, Safari as in multiple times daily. I've had the device freeze at least 2-3 times a week as well. In the year I've been using Windows Phone, IE mobile has crashed twice and the device hasn't failed once (Lumia 710).

Won't play mp3s - this is rife. The ID3 parser on iOS devices is a piece of shit: http://www.google.com/#q=iphone+wont+play+mp3s This has been known for literally YEARS and plagues all apple devices from iPod, to touch to iPhone to Mac.

Nokia Drive - do you even know what this is? It's not a Skydrive/DropBox clone. It's a fully blown 100% FREE offline turn by turn satellite navigation and mapping platform akin to your average satnav. It's pretty amazing and is a deal breaker for iOS:

http://vr-zone.com/articles/nokia-lumia-smartphones-get-maps...

Regarding Apple and Google native maps, see above again.

iOS's ActiveSync is a piece of shit. It doesn't work properly, duplicates my emails, mailbombs people etc. Now whoever's fault this is I don't know (it may be Microsoft?) but I'm not concerned about this - it just doesn't work properly.
It's a giant hassle to get a purchase order approved for software at many large companies.
I don't know, my dinner table explanation of monads has always been that they are DSLs. Even the Gentle Introduction offers this viewpoint (it develops a DSL in Haskell, as a monad, for writing resourceful computations, that is, computations which consume some user-definable resource at each step and automatically suspend upon consumption of all available resources).

After all, one of the philosophies of software development is that you're essentially building up your application as a layer of languages, each of which uses the constructs of the language beneath it as its own primitives, until at the highest level you have what is nothing more or less than a language built from the ground up to express the actions of your application in the simplest terms.

You can write a lot of Haskell software without ever delving much more into monads than what I just wrote. It's really that easy. Monad transformers also tend to scare people, but that is silly. A monad transformer just takes the DSL that you've already made with your current monad and it adds in new language features and functionality for you automatically. That's all.
A Brand New Shipment
Wow. Only 58 years old too. Too young! He's fighting for justice and democracy in heaven now.
That sounds like a good argument for Humble Bundle to have a convenient way for purchasers to go back and make a second donation after purchase.
You mean, "identifier not found"... ?
Probably doesn't matter too much. I go to bars and read books. I'm sure going to a bar and ordering a coffee is less conspicuous and accepted. In fact last year I contracted an eye disease and was on all sorts of medication. I was out at bars drinking teas while my friends were drinking alcohol. Doing slightly off standard stuff like that tends to draw attention and people spark up conversations with you.

I'm sure the main point is go when the staff have some downtime and the business is a social business. I can't remember where it was but I've gone to a cafe for a tea and ended up playing backgammon with some old guys. Many countries seem to have a strong cafe culture where old men sit around playing board games (Middle East and Central America; chess and backgammon).

Best of luck. If you find it hard to socialise now I am sure after travelling for a while you will be much more comfortable with it.
If anyone else was confused like me:

This is the "The Humble Bundle with Android" 5

not "The Hundle Bundle" with "Android 5"
JIT isn't funny.
The thing to keep in mind with Apple is that they sell huge volumes, so even a low defect rate will result in thousands of unhappy customers. And generally speaking, folks with complaints are much more likely to post them online.
If you know the difference between a package and a directory then you should probably know enough to right click.

That's pretty minor.
Man, this is going to get _uglier_.

(I'm from Venezuela)
I don't know what that means. I'm typing this on a Mint desktop and almost every app I could ever want is available through Software Manager or apt-get. I've also released a cross-platform utility that's packaged for Debian, Ubuntu, Mint, FreeBSD, and Homebrew without any modifications to the utility itself.

Linux is the one place I've never been concerned with library versioning, poor centralized software repos, etc. Am I missing something?
Duplicate Keys in JSON
Alternatively, using `hi! link SignColumn LineNr` will ensure that styling the user has applied to the more commonly used line numbering column will match the sign column used by vim-gitgutter.
Finally found it here

http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/sayings.html
Type cmd-shift-g in Finder or just type a forward slash in an open or save dialog to bring up a path entry window, much like the old GTK file dialog.
To connect to a SMB system, use cmd-g and type smb://server/share

Many months of Mac frustration taught me these things.
you might prefer ocaml (i do) - it has a lot of the functional power of haskell, but is comfortably multi-paradigm, and in particular pushes neither purity nor laziness upon you. also, the ocaml community has been considerably revitalised in the last year or so, so now is a good time to get into it
Ask HN: How to sell a framework if there are free alternatives?
The company in which I work has a very good OR Mapping framework which significantly reduces the time to write all DAO, DTO etc. What is more it automatically makes changes in code when you change your data model. You simply don't have to waste your time on refactoring. It has very friendly API, good documentation, full support etc. The product was used in many e-commerce platforms which we developed world-wide. It's tested, trusty and in my opinion far easier to use and maintain than Hibernate or iBatis. This is why my company wants to make it available to other programmers - unfortunatelly not for free. As you probably think it's not a stunner. This is why I wonder if there really is no place for such product? How would you try to sell something like thIS? What are your expectations from a product which has many free alternatives?
As it should be—they've had time to work on the issues and should be competitive by now.

Yes this is it. But I wasn't getting that with OSX. In '06, it was pretty good compared to say Windows XP but since '08 it's been declining rapidly into whack-a-mole problems.

OSX is a bastardised version of UNIX under the hood which is "even worse than HP-UX when you haven't paid for the compilers" to deal with I found. Getting a reliable toolchain up that worked properly was a PITA.
>You can do this in one dimension at a time at present //

In FF dev tools?
Command + Shift + G might be what you're looking for, as a kind of replacement for address bar.
Data compression proxy for Chrome for Android (beta)
A Look at Hugo Chavez's Life
I beg to differ. I used Redhat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian, and now Ubuntu and I have been happily using Ubuntu for a long time now. Unity is great. I barely need to do any configuration with it, everything just works. Under the hood it's still good ol' old-school Linux.

I have tried Mint on 2 other computers for all the talk about Mint being the next great Distro, I find it to be far less stable than Ubuntu. I have also started only using Ubuntu's LTS releases with a handful of PPAs to get more recent packages. Helps with stability a lot.
I honestly prefer vim fugitive's diff function, as it splits with highlighted lines.
Well, the article says they've only drawn up blueprints of how the technology could work so far. I hope they start actually developing this soon though.
They must've changed it at some point and I only found outdated information, sorry. As wmf points out the total fees are actually 2.69% once you take into account the 0.99% fee for the payment gateway part.
Having kept both ducks and chickens myself, the ducks were a noisy undifferentiated mass of (delicious) hassle. The chickens were fascinating and all had distinct personalities; they were vicious to bugs and occasionally each other, but always friendly with people.

Go figure.
What could a developer possibly need to do which can't be done from Emacs?

ducks
Interesting. I honestly would never have thought this type of erratic ambient noise would be a productivity boon.

I like to get in the zone, which is trickier when having to worry about the world around me. I don't consider myself paranoid, but I guess I subconsciously maintain spatial awareness when out in public.

Maybe I'm just not well acclimated to working in public spaces, but I find a lot of the background activity distracting (like the dishes, for instance).
Yes, this is the opposite of permadeath.
It does exist, although it's not an app launcher (yet), just a store and chat client.

http://store.steampowered.com/mobile
Best Buy ends flexible work program for its corporate employees
Offended artists/authors have quite some courage comparing themselves with Hitler.
TSA to allow some small knives in carry-on luggage
I had nearly the opposite experience. In ~2007, after the birth of my first child I had very little time. So I thought to myself "I don't have time to keep up with maintaining a Linux desktop" and I bought a nice iMac, and moved from Linux to Mac.

The experience I had was that everything that was a royal PITA on nix at the time (web browsing, audio, skype, video, photo management, suspend/resume, printing) "just worked" on the Mac. Hurray!

But the problem I had was that the unixy stuff stuff I needed to do my job (X11 across multiple monitors, emacs, serial console control, local command-line tools, etc) did not just work, and was more a PITA to maintain on MacOSX than the flashy stuff was to maintain on nix. The final straw was when I upgraded to Leopard, and multiple monitor support in X11 was totally hosed.

In the end, I wound up giving the iMac to my in-laws, building another whitebox for 1/2 the price of the iMac, and I have been happy ever after.
You could presumably run it in DOSBox.
Ok, I may have misread something, but I was going off of this[1], which was posted elsewhere. I could have sworn that a comment from one of the Wayland devs claimed that Nvidia, AMD, Valve were on-board (at least tentatively) with Wayland, but I can't find that post now.

[1] https://plus.google.com/100409717163242445476/posts/jDq6BAgd...
you should have checked github first. I'm using dotfiles that allows me to hjkl by tea-bagging, which requires less precision than my "stylus". Its called "dotmynuts," and its really active - 400 pull requests in the last 10 minutes.