skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I like the saying "the future is not evenly distributed".

October 2000: My digital camera was $500, not $5500. I used to carry it all over the place. Not everyone relies on pockets!

November 2000: I did a 4800 bps dialup call over an analog cell connection to get a map going in a pinch while parked in a rental car far from home. The hardest part was figuring out where I was so as to have a meaningful "start" address for mapquest. That involved getting lucky and finding a storefront with a number visible, then looking at a yellow pages site for all of the locations of that store in the town I was in to see which one matched. That gave me a street name and now I had a starting address.

(Newark, DE, you are on my list of miserable places to navigate at night.)

Normal people would never do the 4800 bps PPP craziness with images disabled, but a $500 camera from CompUSA (remember them?) isn't that special.
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The article reminds me of this blog: http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/paleofuture/. Although lately it's featuring too many articles about the Jetsons.
Interesting concept, especially with the recent changes Google has made to GMail/Apps. The biggest benefit/downside that jumps out at me is the complexity required to run an email system this way - Cassandra clusters, LDAP, external MTAs, and web severs all need to be managed. Obviously every email system requires these components to run, but most full-blown systems handle the relationships between components on their own.

TL;DR - Looks great for large businesses or maybe as a platform for a startup, but not as a hobbyist project.
I think it's probably marginally better than linking the Expect site proper, since it provides decent context.
good for java
HTC One's 4MP camera is better than most phone cameras
If you are running some simple web services in a cloud environment, it is generally cheaper to run them on a Linux system

afaik there's not so much difference between a vps/virtual machine running Windows Server or Linux. I.e. for a cloud provider I'm using there's a difference of 5euro on a low level machine (30 euro) and same price for a more powerful machine (110euro for a 4 vcpu 8gb ram 50gb disk)
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There won't be a 1.8.8, it was already discussed and shot down. 1.8.7 is already a transitional release.

Also, given the adoption of 1.9 in the Ruby world, there is also no point.
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Worth also knowing that the Go team has made significant improvements in crypto speed:

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=eb2c99e6ec17db2...

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=e7304334527349c...

https://code.google.com/p/go/source/detail?r=e5620fd3ba5fb1d...

Fast approaching OpenSSL speeds.

Also, the integration of the network poller into the main scheduler is likely to make a big difference to Go programs that make heavy use of the network.
Order of installation on new macs:
Quicksilver. Brew. Tmux. JewelryBox.

Lazy package maintainers have created the perfect atmosphere for a project like rvm to be an essential part of life.
Even the search engine, cited as an example of something that must be implemented to be useful, is something that was once done manually.

In the movie, Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, Spencer Tracy's character calls his secretary and asks her to check out his prospective son-in-law. Today, we would just ask Siri to do it.
Where do you find all these experts? Please don't be a recruiting firm in disguise.
> Everyone doing hiring thinks they are the smart exception and everyone else is stupid.

I apologize if I came off sounding like this. It certainly wasn't my intention. I just wanted to suggest partnering with and moving these types of discussion into the forums where they'd be helpful--those sources used by persons involved in and responsible for hiring decisions.

I didn't mean to imply this was HR-dept-specific, or that small startups did not have the problem. I was just using that as shorthand for 'professionals who are responsible for hiring'. Maybe there are enough of them reading HN, but I'd also bet they rely on mgmt/hiring advice from other channels, as well.
you use the /usr/bin/script program to record a transcript of a session. no term emulators that i know of provide this kind of feature natively though.
In defense of premise 1: if the team members in the room are unaware of the fact that one of them is under performing, it's not a team. You have an entirely different kind of problem.

In defense of premise 2: that's pretty much the whole premise of the article, if people do bring it up then whatever problem you may have, team members not holding each other accountable isn't one of them.

But this really, really annoys me (and not just me, it's one of the thing I keep hearing from people find it hard to work with us geeks): "a better way of handling the situation other than saying it out loud in front of everyone".

For fuck sake, it's not like you're outing someones sexual preference for pink ponies in front of their parents and loved ones!

It's about the work, the stuff you're getting paid to do, and it's not even a criticism, it's an observation, nobody is blaming anybody.
I was thinking the exact same thing, I'd love to test it out, but for the moment (it might change in the future, I'm being hopeful) it's a tad too complex to setup for even a test ... I will keep an eye on the project though!
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Some of the best developers I have worked with weren't Computer Science or Software Engineering graduates, but had Engineering or Electronics degrees. However, some companies wouldn't hire them because their degrees didn't fit their definition of correct.

All the points made about years of service not equaling ability are absolutely proven, yet ignored by many - I'd rather work with someone who can break problems down, ask the right questions and think logically - as opposed to someone who can force a program to work because they know the syntax. Some of this is how candidates are interviewed too - technical screenings alone rarely find someone who is good at software development.

Writing a syntactically correct program quickly, is the not the same as writing a good piece of software.
JSON is just a streamable as XML, if not more so.

Customers demanding JSONp is not a good reason to not use JSON.

So having dismissed your two points, I think it's safe to say XML does not have any huge advantage over JSON. Certainly minor advantages, though those are of mixed value and often disadvantages.
another diy cellphone. http://wiki.openmoko.org/
But is it really a $30,000,000 problem?
> Time yes, Money no. Developers may charge money to produce software, however there are lots of software projects out there that were written by developers who worked for free.

If the software was developed on company time, it maps to the developer's salary per hour times the amount of hours taken to develop it.

> Are you kidding me? Google has some of the most well respected engineers in computational history working full time on Go.

The same can be said for Wave, Reader and many other projects.
So this will be the end of remarketing? IMO remarketing is the best thing that has happened to advertisement online. It's a win-win-win situation for visitors, advertisers and publishers.
With two we make <$20 a month, with another we make >$300 a month.
The more successful one is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/soundbox-for-youtube/id44466...
I'm very much interested in knowing how you've managed to run C/C++ etc in a sandboxed environment. Would you be interested to share the details ?
I have a laptop and I use the multimedia keys.
Asp.Net Empty Web Application is the base project for an IIS hosted... asp.net app. It just contains the bare minimum web.config and project settings to get started. Though there are too many project references imho. All asp.net projects are based off this.

Asp.Net Web Forms Application is the original, and now derided, web framework. Consider it deprecated.

Asp.Net MVC Web Application is comparable to Rails / Django and the current version is 4.

The alternative to MS's MVC framework is FubuMVC [0] and is well respected.

Another alternative and is far more lightweight is NancyFX [1], .net's equivalent to ruby's sinatra [2].

[0] http://mvc.fubu-project.org/

[1] http://nancyfx.org/

[2] http://www.sinatrarb.com/
Yes : gotham (gaming desktop), krypton(macbook air) and apothecary (thinkpad x201s with fedora) are my current machines.

My current ipod is called odin, the earlier one was igor, and there was a shuffle called skippy which I lost.

Also my debian VPS is called arachnid, because it runs a crawler.
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Personally, I hate the fact that parents interfere a lot in their children life. And I think that parents role is limited to teach their kids the right and the wrong, not to spur and help them a lot in their studies. Because, when parents are too careful for their children career, that's mean that they are afraid if their children doesn't succeed, they won't enjoy a better life conditions, they will get tired... Gradually, children will be scared of the destiny and this is not good. It's not good to begin a life with a scared personality!
Are you using default garbage collector, or switched to SGen?
http://www.mono-project.com/Generational_GC

You may have memory usage problems http://stackoverflow.com/a/8766427/55209
Chess and 18th Century artificial intelligence
If the rip-off company is hot-linking images or CSS files then it gives keen.io an excellent opportunity to mess with them. Keen.io just has to copy the files to a new folder, update their HTML - then start having fun with the old images.
Very nice. It's good to see nimrod support!
Take a pen and paper, go around the neighbourhood to your friends, families, local shops asking for a small cash contribution.
Ask HN: What kind of backend services currently not enough presented on market?
In other words, which kind of backend services will be grow in next 5 years?

I mean services which can be used as platform, or as part of product for building diffrent kinds of new web/mobile appications/services.

Examples of things like that:

http://quickblox.com/

http://aboutecho.com/

http://www.kinvey.com/developer/features

http://corp.vivox.com/gaming-solutions/download-c3.html

http://www.exitgames.com/

http://apsalar.com/

https://vostopia.com/developer/

http://www.twilio.com/

http://www.stackmob.com/

http://www.demonware.net/

If you don't know answer, please fell free to write about interesting backend services that you know.
Ask HN: How to purchase a .hu domain name without Hungarian citizenship?
The owner of a .hu (Hungary) domain name has agreed to sell and transfer. The registrar of that domain sent me some forms I need to complete and one of them requires me to prove my Hungarian citizenship. Unfortunately, I am only a United States citizen. Is there any way around this without obtaining citizenship? I really want this domain, please advise!
That probably gave me the most instant "wow" feeling any web page has ever given me. That's _really_ impressive!
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I'm really not a big fan of the technical/nontechnical distinction. Here's a better idea: Be a useful co-founder. In your example, it would appear that our subject is not skilled, so the first thing they need to do is develop an edge that will allow them to be of use to a company.

http://techcrunch.com/2013/02/08/thoughts-from-a-former-busi...

I don't usually come across helpful posts on TC, but this one caught my eye. Basically, if you look like the stereotypical idea guy/gal, you need to put the startup dreams aside for a bit, work at an established company, gain some experience, and, here it comes, develop skills.

Now, I'd argue this guy (the TC guy) is spreading himself a bit too thin, but the idea of being the utility player on the team is pretty good. When combined with your work experience, you might be an attractive candidate. Go a step beyond that by following OP's advice and, you know, actually build something.

It doesn't need to be a home run, but it should speak for itself, and when you have something, anything really, that speaks for itself, you're in pretty good shape.
What is marketing automation
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hmm. email is one of the things that scales extremely good (see dovecot's directors for a sophisticated but simple way). i don't know why you will need such a big hammer.
I think the fair comparison though is the mainstream then vs the mainstream now. No doubt there were early adopters ahead of the curve (although the article was framing the person as one of these)
It could be. A substantial amount of time and effort is required to even start to answer that question.
Why do people make such a fuss about changes in something that is free? In this case the changes did not apply to pre-existing free set-ups - just new ones.

You are entitled to complain about contract changes when you are a party to that contract - and there is an exchange of money (or some similar negotiable item).

Some people's sense of entitlement astonishes me.
Mind telling us what provider are you using? It's hard to find a Windows VPS provider at decent prices.
Adding cursor swipe to the Firefox OS keyboard
I am curious to know why you chose insta+ name for your product? I mean there are quite a few launches on HN with insta + appendwhateverservicename kind of name lately.

One back of the mind thought that comes is choosing such a name really "smarts" or it boils down to some sort of wishful thinking?

My take for instance here, is that this launch has probably helped me to remember Instagram only better. Not the service in question. But that could be just me. What do you think?
The universities have to focus on something else that provides value. If the author thinks that courses and diplomas are University's only valuable assets ... than yes, they are screwed. But I don't think that and I am actually full of hope that something awesome will come out of this.
And apart from a little arcane syntax, you absolutely don't have to learn any real Haskell to configure xmonad.
I'm excited for this release.

I'm not sure if I understand what "method values" are though
Actually what these guys don't mention is that the Raspberry Pi is plugged into a relatively huge USRP, because that kind of blows their whole "Look how tiny it is" PR out of the water.
I would suggest the ADH8066 GSM module instead, which also includes a SIM socket on the back, and makes things a lot easier. And it's cheaper too.

Edit: And you can easily use it for data.
Not really. Imagine if HTML was implemented as JSON. Consider a hyperlink:

{ 'a' :
{
'attributes' : { 'href' : 'http://www.google.com/' },
'val' : 'Google Search Engine'
}
}

That's insanity when compared to an XML format:

<a href="http://www.google.com/">Google Search Engine</a>

XML is actually a great hypermedia format. It just got a bad wrap with SOAP, WSDL, etc.
When I see random people dying of bacterial infections in this day and age I can't help but feel like the misuse/overuse of antibiotics has us sliding backwards in medical progress and we will continue to lose great minds to this irresponsibility.
So I can't tell easily (mea culpa, I'm new to Go) but were the crypto speedups also timing-attack-safe?
Yes, I wondered about that. Is it just that the function

func (w *Writer, int n) {
}

is actually a method, like:

func (w *Writer) Anon(int n) {
}
An alternative: https://compilr.com/
> We say hire for talent as though talent is self explanatory. I don't think it is.

Absolutely true. A sibling comment[1] mentions an approach that is a bit closer to what I'm getting at. I personally hate trivia-ish questions when I've been interviewed and have attempted to eschew them when I've interviewed/hired. I try to focus more on questions that give me an insight into how a person thinks. So, I tend to refrain from asking definitional questions, and instead, opt for questions that can't be answered with a parroted statement of "X is like Y for Z."

> But could you define talent?

Heh. That's so subjective, isn't it?

I try to gauge talent in programmers by listening to how people reason through problems. Generally speaking, I look for the ability to confidently walk through how they'd approach identifying and resolving a bug in a software package they know nothing about (say, because they've just been brought into a product team with a 2-yr-old codebase), or how they'd tackle architecting a complicated data-heavy backend, or what kind of pitfalls they'd be mindful of in defining UI/X for a mobile application, etc.

I am wary of developers who start talking about programming languages and frameworks as solutions to higher-level, abstract concerns. That is, given the problem of integrating systems X and Y, hearing Ruby, Python, Django, or Lift as part of the solution before it's appropriate to discuss a stack. I'm also very circumspect when new developers join a team and advocate for technology/language/framework X to solve problem Y, when X is the thing they used for n years before joining the team.

I also try to tease out a person's decision-making abilities. This has been a much more difficult talent to assess. I've seen a lot of inability to assess a problem and summarily decide how to appropriately move forward--that is, the kind of person who gets too bogged down in talking through a problem, and is unable to make a decision on how to actually get started solving it. I've found a team is highly unproductive when there isn't at least one person who is able to codify the team's thoughts on a problem into a pragmatic approach to get work done--especially when they lack management figures who know enough to help make informed decisions.

> If you are the kind of person who hires for X years of experience you probably aren't the kind of person who feels confident identifying talent outside of a solid definition.

Certainly. Which is why I suggested a better approach is to focus efforts on those who are in hiring positions (be they HR professionals or otherwise) who could use the help and input of someone who is able to confidently identify talent.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5441632
Came here to post this. The article promotes the dangerous idea that people should be free to blame Ted in a meeting. This is dangerous because we don't know Ted, we don't know the other people, we don't know the CEO and we don't know how they'll all react.

I've worked with people who see saving face as the most important thing and apportioning blame to them in public was the worst possible thing you could do.

Making it about the problems Ted's having rather than Ted helps people focus on an inclusive solution rather than making people worry about being attacked.

Of course if Ted's genuinely not pulling his weight or is out of his depth, then it's absolutely right to talk to him in private about this and absolutely wrong to air this in a meeting in front of others. At the end of the day as employers we should seek to help our staff get the very most out of what they do in the most positive working environment possible. Anything else makes for unhappy and unproductive staff.
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One dead already, another might die soon too :)
Is it the rails framework that interests you, or Ruby's syntax?

If it's the former I'd check out other Rails-like frameworks for Java. If it's the latter, then make the change to RoR.
That's incredible. I used to do a lot of work with Apophysis and I think I've been reinspired to start up again.

What's more incredible is that it runs on my rather outdated machine. I'm so used to these Javascript-HTML5 canvas projects to cause my computer to eat dirt, but this was as smooth as I could possibly have expected.
One would expect that all of that wording means they licensed technology from SRI (likely heavily patented). So a curious badger might wonder if SRI is owned partly by his family or their friends. It seems highly unlikely that some kid with an idea for a news app would be able to license at any affordable rate patented technology that is "creating billions of dollars of marketplace value", or afford a work contract for original R&D.

That then makes me wonder what Yahoo gets out of the deal if indeed the algorithm behind the application is mostly patented, especially at such an overpriced valuation. Or if SRI did the R&D and what's being left out here is that his family/friends paid tens of millions for the research to build the algorithm, then this barely covers the cost? And if they did the R&D, then one wonders what this kid has really done (did he build the rest himself, or hire engineers?)

Personally, this feels like Yahoo buying a story about how it's acquiring "big, successful, talent." It's hard to understand at all what's going on here.
> In Go 1.1, an integer division by constant zero is not a legal program, so it is a compile-time error

How often do be people accidentally divide by a constant 0? I personally use that to simulate runtime errors all the time in python. It's shorter than writing "raise Exception()".
No, it means that it is now possible to use methods as first-class values as well, just like functions: http://tip.golang.org/ref/spec#Method_values
Arista reduces real-time Hadoop latancy by 80%
I'm interested in tracking Go as a replacement for Erlang. Some things that should probably happen:

* GC works on 32 bit systems.

* Scheduler improvements so that things are a bit more robust ( http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=543 )

* A fairly solid library implementing supervision trees or something like it.

* Probably some other things, but those strike me as the big ones. The important thing is for the system to be able to run for months at a time.

I think they'll get there eventually. Maybe not 100%, but 'good enough' sooner or later.
Nice, looks like a similar port I did a few months back. Based on the one made in processing :)
The distant future.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mvrva8NoMLM
I guess this is better than his parents forcing him to follow in one of their footsteps, they invest tens of thousands in him and he walks away with around $30mil, good investment if you ask me.
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Where do you live and where did you look for jobs?
I would suggest contacting support at iwantmyname.com
I'm not sure if they handle .hu domains, but they do
handle most ccTLD's, so if there's a way to do it,
they'd know.

https://iwantmyname.com/

BIAS: I'm a just a customer of iwantmyname.com for the
last two+ years.
The proof of work is proportional to the length of the message, so it is computationally difficult to send such long messages.
It is not about free plan changes, it is about "notification". And they did change on paid plans as well with the new request limits.
I don't know.

You are on HN so it's a good guess its productive. You know enough to know PhP and w3schools indicates there is more to learn and so I would guess you are on the right path

As for everything else - I don't know till I read your code
I wouldn't call the copy-mode "crippled subset of the real thing".

With tmux's copy-mode, you can even select text without touching your mouse, using e.g. vim-like movements. Which is amazing feature.

The fact, that the copy-mode doesn't jump back down with every change on stdout is also very nice feature.

If you want to work with standard linux clipboard, you still can - just hold shift and select like in almost any linux TUI application.