skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh, see I guess I was thinking Unreal 3

The Unreal 3 demo was an entirely different thing. Asm.js is a dramatic rethinking of JavaScript that tosses much of the language, and adds hacked typing metadata, to essentially act as a proxy for C. The single benefit that it brings over just going with C is that existing browsers can limpingly run it in crippled mode.

You're right

And then you boringly completely misrepresent my argument. You should tell the kids to get off your lawn, as you're busy trying to pretend everything is a nail because all you know is your hammer.
There are multiple factors here.

This data comes from users who _play_ Unity games. Whether they pay for them isn't known, but they definitely play games. That alone can be a desirable thing as you noted (network effects etc.).

It also might be that due to various reasons people there tend to not "buy" software (like OS), but are fine with subscriptions (MMOs are _huge_ in Korea) or IAPs.
> http://cautery.blogspot.com/2010/09/concise-perl.html

This illustrates the use of Perl in quick one-liners and helps understand why Perl isn't suitable for writing maintainable code. I've seen far too many cases of (and done it myself too often) assumptions like "there's no other tags ending in 'nk'" and "I can parse this XML/HTML content with simple regexps" in the quick & dirty code that is typical Perl (it works, let's use it...). This is where much of the productivity gains and "fun" comes from in the short term and where all the maintainability problems come from in the long term.

Evangelists will preach "modern Perl", good style and Moose to you, but these are half-baked, tacked-on solutions, they aren't fun and the overhead destroys the perceived advantages over other languages while not alleviating the massive disadvantages Perl has (performance, dynamic typing, lack of proper threading support...) over modern languages for medium to large size projects.

So, use if for one-off jobs and one-liners but don't get sucked into it for anything that intends to grow into a few 100 lines or more.

Disclaimer: I've used mostly Perl for ~15 years now and built a company with assorted technical debt, so this is biased on my personal hindsight. YMMV.
Colleges will most certainly welcome re-applications (transfers or post-gap-years), but the window is generally small, as elite colleges are a young-person's institution.
Not to discredit Altucher, but I'd be willing to bet the fact the title starts with "10 reasons..." helped to some degree.

Incidentally, I find hard to take seriously an article that enumerates things these days; too many blogs are doing this for the sake of getting page views (which works, but the resulting quality is often questionable, I'm looking at you Business Insider and Mashable)
Marketting for developers, how to even begin.
I have been a software and web developer for a few years now. I get my fix just by writing code. When I work on my project I become a feature freak; therefore it takes me a ling time to ship any product. And when I ship my product I almost naturally move on to the next project just so I can write code again.

But here is the deal, projects don't just survive in their own. Marketing is a very important phase and I know so because even with the little marketing I do It gives me more traffic and exposure.

I want the marketing expert of hacker news to help me and my fellow programmers. How do you market, how do you plan, how. Please pretend you are talking to someone who has no experience.
I did find: https://github.com/xmonad/osxmonad

Xmonad for tiling OS X windows.
Vermont has quite an obsession with food and local stuff. In Burlington I went to a food place where mostly every ingredient was local, and the waitress not see the irony of that in a MEXICAN restaurant...
Sure it's possible, and that's probably what will happen with the first few quantum computers. =D
What you are describing are hidden variables [1]. Instead of depending on the weather condition both parties could just agree on a secret flag waving schedule you will never be able to observe. Experimental tests have shown that the Bell Inequality [2] is violated and this rules out the class of local hidden variable theories. As far as I know non-local hidden variable theories are still possible.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hidden_variable_theory

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bells_theorem
since a master craftsman finds essential value in their art, it's okay on a moral level for them not to be rewarded in the form of food and shelter

it cannot be true that this is what you think the story is about
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Welp, time to sell.
You can make it create paragraphs and headings by adding a button for the formatBlock command to your toolbar. Google for execCommand, all those things are supported out of the box.
For new code, I would rather use Julia.
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I believe that would be labeled a hidden-variable theory, which have apparently been mathematically eliminated from consideration.
When can we expect a Windows port?
"No compiler is good enough to do what the good libraries do."

That's nonsense. And if you take a look, say, at NumPy, which uses heavily tuned BLAS/LAPACK code, and Numexpr, which uses the "compile the snippet and run it" approach, you'll see why. Libraries won't save your performance if you can't optimize across procedure and module boundaries.
Apple should build something like RaspberryPi running OS X
There are two separate markets in music. If you want to be in the top 40, it's just a result of dumb luck. If you want a stable, sustaining career, it's pure hard work. For every Justin Bieber, there are dozens of artists and bands who are touring year after year, making a decent living without any real media interest.
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On that note, consider showing the prices in USD or GBP as appropriate. App store price tier prices, not exchange rate prices.
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Err, "GCC does this optimization, because strlen is a "built-in function:"

No.
I wrote the optimization pass that does this (GVN PRE with SCC based value numbering).

It does it to any pure/const function. Const ones no matter what, and pure ones if it can prove the global memory state does not otherwise change between calls in a way that impacts that pure call (IE there are times it can prove the calls that happen in between don't matter, and will still do the elimination).
You don't usually have to mark the functions const/pure if they are visible to GCC, it does interprocedural analysis to prove they are pure/const and mark them for you.

It will even do it through function pointers if the value numbering or alias analysis can prove what they point to, or that they don't change in between the calls.

double cos (double) __attribute__ ((const));
double sin (double) __attribute__ ((const));
double f(double a)
{
double b;
double c,d;
double (*fp) (double) __attribute__ ((const));
/* Partially redundant call */
if (a < 2.0)
{
fp = sin;
c = fp (a);
}
else
{
c = 1.0;
fp = cos;
}
d = fp (a);
return d + c;
}

In this example, it will eliminate the unconditional fp(a) call at the end by reusing the value of c in the first if block, and storing the result of calling cos(a) in the else block.
IE:

double cos (double) __attribute__ ((const));
double sin (double) __attribute__ ((const));
double f(double a)
{
double b;
double c,d;
double (*fp) (double) __attribute__ ((const));
/* Partially redundant call */
if (a < 2.0)
{
fp = sin;
c = fp (a);
temp = c
}
else
{
c = 1.0;
fp = cos;
temp = cos(a)
}
d = temp;
return d + c;
}

(attribute pure is ignored on function pointers, so you can't just s/const/pure/ and expect it to work)

Loop code hoisting is actually a special case of this partial redundancy elimination.

double sin (double) __attribute__ ((const));
double f (double a)
{
int i;
double c, d;
double (*fp) (double) __attribute__ ((const));
fp = sin;
for (i = 0; i < 50; i++)
{
c = fp (a);
}
d = fp (a);
return d + c;
}

The call to fp(a) in the loop will be hoisted above the loop through redundancy elimination, the call d = fp(a) will be eliminated in favor of that hoisted value.

Basically, the optimization is a lot more powerful than he describes.
D.E. Shaw current is one of the leaders (if not the leader) in molecular dynamics (i.e., studying the motion of the specific atoms in a molecule, or watching the dynamics of a chemical reaction), and it's a really hard problem. Roughly speaking, you have to calculate a constant (but also fairly large) number of operations to calculate the configuration of the molecule(s) for every _femtosecond_ of time. It would be great to see things happen at a tens of microseconds, but that is a LOT of computation.

This is useful becaue it would mean that we could see exactly how reactions take place and perhaps even engineer interesting chemical/biological phenomena. Certain processes in your body depend on proteins moving certain substances or reacting in certain ways, and if we can simulate all that with a computer, we can start to build chemical/biological tools for, for example, fighting certain diseases
This comes backwards. Probably more people with Windows XP used something from Unity from the first time.
I still live in hope we'll find a way to use it for communication. A system where you had to use a slower-then-light synchronization signal to maintain the entangled state, but didn't actually transmit information over non-entangled bands, would fundamentally revolutionize communication none-the-less.

Being able to send data across the Pacific at essentially the speed of light, which was uninterceptable, would still be a massive breakthrough. Work on "weak" measurements of superpostioned systems interests me to that end (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weak_measurement)
Correct, that is not what I think the story is about. That is what I think your comment is about. Am I wrong?
5KB is amazing. I thought that this would be a great replacement for bootstrap-wysihtml5 until i saw IE missing from your browsers list.

Btw, for the drag and drop inserting of images. You should probably check the url of the image and if it is from local file storage then upload it to the server and insert the resulting link back. That would be a cool feature to have in a editor.
Buyers keep entering the market. Mt. Gox is so inefficient at "approving" new users that it may actually be slowing down the crazy growth. Last I heard, there were over 9,000 people waiting to be approved on Mt. Gox.
On front page of HN for a whole day from the original source:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5503354
> At this point you’ve put in the time. There you go. There’s no way around that.

Interesting how the internet is changing this rule. Bo Burnham [1] became a famous YouTube comedian at the age of 16. When he started touring, his shows immediately sold out and he got a deal with MTV for a TV show. Apparently this annoyed some comedians because he didn't pay his dues [2].

[1] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obIGsb-IZMo

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bo_Burnham#Uphill
I have to agree with the GP here. Haskell is actually an exceptionally simple, easy language to work with, once you get the basic concepts down. I have occasionally suffered some confusion in Haskell because of poorly documented third-party libraries, but the language itself is a joy.
well, sorry I didn't catch it.
lolz internet
Still implying hidden local variables - i.e. "the card was always the 3 of clubs".

Thusfar that isn't the case - so it does seem to be spooky action at a distance. It's not just an inability to perform a suitable measurement beforehand.
For the record, this is also true for every quantum computer in existence. What is clear though, is that quantum computers have already solved problems in fewer steps than classical computers.

And to be fair, it's going to take a while to beat current computers. We've had decades to get them faster and faster, and we will need some time because we can perform low level operations nearly as fast and get enough qubits to get to sizes of problems that classical computers have issues with
Do you mean apple TV?
On my tablet I love it, I have a ThinkPad Tablet 2 and from my extensive tablet usage(starting with an HP TC1100 running XP, iPad and various Android tablets) I think it is by far the best tablet OS to get work done on, from their being no hassle to connect to printers, full USB peripheral support, compatibility with old x86 apps, quick gestures, and the metro/desktop multitasking is great. Plus I think IE10 is the best tablet web browser I've ever used, I wouldn't touch IE on the desktop, Firefox with all my extensions is my only home.

On my desktop I initially would use the metro stuff here and there but after few a few months the novelty has worn off and I very rarely venture into the metro stuff. When used that way Windows 8 is just Windows 7+. I think one of the greatest things about Windows 8, is the promise of Windows Blue, Microsoft's commitment to pushing out major upgrades.

In summary, on a tablet Windows 8 is excellent, on a desktop it's at times between ok to pretty good.

Edit: here is a screenshot from my tablet of some of the printers that I've connected to in my travels http://i.minus.com/it1xr6gbOnAFx.png
Edit contacts feature missing :(
Exactly my thoughts, this could work really well if implemented properly.
I can almost guarantee they will buy this version.
Is it strange that I'm worried why the fuck they have these stats in the first place? I don't remember being asked whether I'd like my data submitted or not upon playing games powered by Unity. Do they also have my IMEI, phone contacts, emails and twitter accounts?
Can you explain the one-time pad application a bit more? It seems to me that if Alice and Bob can share a bunch of entangled qbits, they could just as easily share a classical one-time pad. What am I missing?
Aha thanks for the insight, I'll know what to suggest now when reporting this to site owners.
The main limitation atm is that it looks like a very experimental project, nowhere near production-quality.
Only local hidden variables has been eliminated (as opposed to nonlocal), and even local hidden variables can logically exist with some tortured reasoning.
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This is great to see! Of course, this stuff isn't easy to jump into, but I recommend checking out some of the free online courses for something good. Coursera once had a quantum computer course (!) taught by a pretty famous guy in the field! It didn't have quantum mechanics as a prerequisite, either!
Shocker, I need start up money for business (human services winner) :)
I want to obtain start up money for a business in NY. NYS is changing from state run facilities for people with disabilities, to private facilities. They plan to do this in 2015. The kicker is, the private agencies are already turning people away due to lack of space in 2013. I want to create my business to partner up with one of these non-profits and create assisted living facilities on a 90 acre spot in Oneida, NY (it used to be an old golf course). I'm envisioning multiple unit housing facilities within close proximity to each other. Even if Medicaid funding wasn't involved (which it will be as this is the norm for folks with disabilities), the rental units alone could bring in well over $100,000 per month (and that's just renting 100 units or so). I hope to use the entire section of land, and have many different types of facilities on it (i.e. swim therapy at onsite pools, exercise area for Occupational and Physical therapy needs, onsite Psychologists, onsite nursing facilities, etc.).
Please tell me what the irony is. I can see how it might superficially seem ironic if one didn't understand the reasons why people might want to buy locally-sourced food, but surely you appreciate that "food prepared in the style of some other place" and "food that was grown locally" are in no way exclusive.
I'm wondering, did you utilize helpers such as Perl::Tidy and Perl::Critic? I imagine they may be able to help, possibly by standardizing the style enough (with Perl::Critic, which is configurable) that the problem is reduced to something you get with peer languages.

To be clear, I don't know whether this is true, but I'm extremely interested in people results.
Sorry for the lousy bug report, I hate when it happens to me. Neither drag n drop nor clicking on the "insert image" button displayed the image on the textbox. Tried both jpg and png. Works in Chrome and Firefox.

Yes, I know it should only take a few lines of code, but it's something I usually take for granted in a wysiwyg editor.
Do you have similar reaction when games do analytics (99% of them do)? Or when websites ping google analytics?

"do they also have my IMEI,contacts,..." - no we don't. We don't have your actual hardware stats either; all we have is "this quarter, this many Android 4.1s" and "that quarter, that many Tegra 3s".

The games can turn off hardware stats reporting if they wish to.
This looks really slick, but it's a bit unfortunate that this was implemented in a way that's tied to the CPython API specifically, given that there are Python-VM-neutral methods of low-level interop available (ctypes, CFFI, etc.). My general sense (and certainly my own experience) has been that many people doing speed-sensitive Python work are already running on PyPy now, and that writing lower-level extensions has become a way to squeeze out an extra level of performance beyond that, so having to go back to CPython to take advantage of this infrastructure would be kind of a bummer, and almost definitely a non-starter in my projects, which leaves me stuck with C.
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You might not be being facetious, but you have clearly already decided that python/ruby have better libraries for whatever definition of "better" you're using.

Personally, I'd avoid PHP as a first language because it's, well, kind of an abomination of a language even if the community have done some awesome things with it.

As for perl/python/ruby? I usually suggest to people that they should write at least some code in each of the three; you end up as a better programmer as a result and besides, it's fun :)
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How 9GAG ironically solved the watermark problem.
Hope it works out for you - this is purely anecdotal, but anyone I know who's owned an Acer laptop (n = ~6) has had it break on them within a year and a half or so.
a and b are real numbers, namely the radius of two balls. They forgot to define B_a, but typically
B_a(x) := {y in X : d(x, y) < a}
where (X,d) is the metric space.

I agree with you though, I don't think it's option (a)
The "There's more than one way to do it" sucks for trying to teach Perl too. You can't just teach one way; you need to teach every way, so that students can understand what they're seeing in the wild. This makes it take three times as long to explain the basics of Perl, simply because there are, essentially, three times as many basics.
One of the games do not require login: Leap Day. http://leapdaygame.com

(Disclaimer: I worked on that game)
I'm happy he went indy. His company seems to be doing well. http://spryfox.com/

I've seen both Triple Town and Steam Birds featured on the App Store. I think both were in the top 10 at one point or another.
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I assume you live in SF/bay area because you seem unaware of what rent prices are in other large cities. Just take a look at two searches on craigslist:

Apartments in SF: http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sfc/apa/

Apartments in NYC: http://newyork.craigslist.org/aap/

Rent is clearly much higher in San Francisco. And for much, much les desirable neighborhoods. There are numerous neighborhoods in New York (the village, LES, Upper East or West Sides, Brooklyn Heights, Astoria, Green Point, LI City, Gramercy, a thousand more) where one could feasibly find a small but cheap studio or 1br for around 2k/month. This is close to 1k cheaper than the nicest neighborhoods in SF.

And all of this analysis ignores the fact that the nicest neighborhoods in NY are vastly better than SF. Better grocery stores. Nobody owns a car; you'd be a fool to spend money on one. Cleaner neighborhoods where people don't urinate in the street. A much larger selection of restaurants and shops.

I suspect San Francisco's residents are either aware of the many shortcomings, or have just never lived in a big city and thus assume that all big cities are expensive and lacking, when it's clearly not the case.

(I compare to NYC because I know that city best, but I'm confident Seattle, Boston, Austin, Denver, and many others are probably fine places to live as well, and at less than half the cost of SF.)
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I wish he had acknowledged the role of good luck. Clearly, he worked hard to get where he is, but how many other comics have done the same?

(I don't know much about the comedy business, though...maybe there just aren't many people who put in as much time as Louis C.K.)
All I said was the greater community shouldn't celebrate it.

Yes, the community should celebrate it - passing along the story that should yield some empathy in others regarding the feeling of being violated when your property is stolen; propagating the meme that thievery is wrong and that thieves often get caught.

Making excuses for thieves or decreasing the perceived impact of their behavior or the consequences to them only enables them.

Being the victim of theft is extraordinarily violating, and making it any easier for perpetrators of that violation is deplorable.
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Jimmy "I'm not the greatest guitar player" Hendrix.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gwLQAuHJv8
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I think it depends on what "take risks" means. Not all risk is equal, and you can't fully assess risk without looking at an individual's personal situation. The bad news is that measuring risk accurately can be difficult. People overestimate potential returns, and underestimate potential losses. They also often ignore opportunity cost, and fail to use realistic time frames. So I think it's hard to make a blanket statement that it's a "safe" time for a whole group of people to take on risk.

The author of this post is the perfect example of this. He thinks he's mitigating the risk of joining startups that are likely to fail by living in San Francisco, where there's a solid job market. Yet he's living in an area with a very high cost of living and apparently not saving any money, so the risk he's taking on is almost certainly a lot higher than the risk he perceives.
Why in gods name would anyone want to use MtGox? Their verification requirements are ridiculous (they dont accept watermarked passport scan), why in gods name would anyone upload good document scans to what is essentially the money laundering arm of the Japanese Yakuza!

Aint the whole point of bitcoin is that one doesnt have to use centralised systems like Paypal who love to freeze your accounts, MtGox do the same now, they freeze an account until you "verify" which might take months if ever all while your bitcoins are sitting in their account
> My general sense (and certainly my own experience) has been that many people doing speed-sensitive Python work are already running on PyPy now

Depends, an other category drops down to Cython (which in many cases of low type dynamism consists of just running Python code through Cython).
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