skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your data is wrong, sir.

Most trucks cook with gas, and it would be crazy to idle their main engine. If they need power they use a portable generator.

Having just returned from a week in Portland, I can personally vouch for the amazing diversity and quality of the food truck scene and what it's done for the city and people.

Price? All over the map, from $2 tacos to $6 noodle plates. The best part is that you can literally try a different one each day.

Finally, I know that you are not a racist, but that thing you said about parasites invading was pretty fucking racist. Immigrant entrepreneurs should be encouraged, food trucks are an excellent way to do that, and we get to enjoy amazing food. Portland's restaurant scene is thriving as ever, unless it's Subway you feel sorry for. Heck, many of the best restaurants (Pok Pok) started as a food truck.
Are you still in Saskatoon? I'm always interested when I see other usask grads around places like this.
You're half right -- it does represent the worst of Microsoft, but not because of new-for-the-sake-of-new. It represents the worst of Microsoft because it's entirely designed around what Microsoft needs rather than what the user needs.

Windows 8 is the way it is because of two things Microsoft needs:

- Microsoft needs to be relevant in the world of tablets; and

- Microsoft needs the market for traditional PCs to not evaporate.

So they built a product that is focused entirely on reconciling these two needs -- a product that tries, awkwardly, to serve the needs of both kinds of devices. A product that tries to make Windows relevant to tablets while at the same time not making tablets so awesome that people stop buying traditional PCs for them.

The result leaves users cold, because it wasn't designed for them. It was designed to meet Microsoft's corporate strategy imperatives rather than to solve a problem actual users have.

It's the worst of Microsoft because of this classic BigCo thinking -- the thinking that the problems products need to solve are the ones that are worried about in the BigCo's executive suite, rather than those the customers are worrying about out there in the world. It's inward-looking product design, which rarely works.
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Diamond made out of isotopically pure carbon-14. Ring laser gyroscope. Negative-refractive-index metamaterial. A single giant LED. Nanolithography to produce structural coloration.

I've wanted a cool physics ring for quite a while.
> "I don't want to regulate everything under the sun."

The fact that he spells it out so clearly definitely is a great relief. </sarcasm>
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Thanks, had stripped the tracking codes off the mobile link, but it doesn't load right on desktop.
Even in 1998, you couldn't contact their postmaster.
If you read closely, he's only talking about regulating Bitcoin derivatives, not Bitcoin itself: "there is more than a colorable argument to be made that derivative products relating to Bitcoin falls squarely in our jurisdiction."

But yeah, the sarcasm is inappropriate a regulator. But not surprising..
You might want to try setting up a second email address to sign up for services. That's what I do, never checked unless I've just signed up for something. :)

Barring that, you might want to use a different form of your name. Like all my friends call me the short form of my name - so whenever I get the long form I know right away that it's a company.
I suppose that cuts you out of the applicant pool for those positions then.
While I agree that "citation needed" is rampant around here, part of the reason is phrasing. You stated an opinion as a fact. A lot of people roll their eyes at this, but if you expect something to be taken as an opinion -- which is totally reasonable -- then you should phrase it that way.

"I get the impression they never had to work on themselves" doesn't beg a citation. It's clearly an opinion and doesn't imply that it's attempting or intended to be anything else.

It may seem pedantic, but when all people have to go on are the words you put in the form, being clear is important.
When you say something is "the ugly truth", you're presenting it as fact, not opinion. I don't mean to be rude, but the prevailing attitude on HN of "successful people are successful because they got lucky" is poisonous to say the least.
> and I'm left to wonder why they wouldn't leave it as a choice.

Because choice in UI configuration leads to UI diversity and UI diversity leads to the dilution of the UI brand.

They want all machines to look the same.
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Shape of a bottle works very well too :)
You could use a tap handle for beer. Perhaps a tap handle shaped as pizza, even.
If you commonly or conceivably work for a PE who is legally responsible for your work, and you have a path to earning your PE, then sure. That would imply particular education and career paths. Everyone else, no.

Not to be elitist, it would just be nice if the term meant the same thing that it means to other fields. I've never voluntarily called myself a software engineer. Software developer is the better general term IMO.

Texas at one time was going to require some sort of Engineer designation to work in software at all. I disagree with that.
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I'd be curious to know what magic is in tastypie? It's some of the most straightforward python code I've ever read.
I agree that DRM compromises usability. However, I don't think the author meant that DRM would needs to be there in order to help out the quality.
Hi, one of the admins of the Bookup blog here! The title of the article has been "The Creator of the Power Hour Fights the Power" since it was first posted in March. If you hover over the link from our tweet of this article, you'll see from the full URL that the title hasn't changed: https://twitter.com/BookupApp/status/318517936119754752
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Agreed. Maybe I could A/B test a landing page without "IMAP" (just Gmail and service names?)

Currently, looking at the support requests, people who buy it are not quite tech savvy but want to backup their emails from corporate IMAP accounts. Plus, I think the technical barrier is still quite low (select gmail/yahoo, you're done).
yeah, but will likely reboot it into recovery mode so they can remove anything like that from your boot sequence anyway, and if they don't notice it, they will be done by the time it goes out anyway. External monitoring is the best way to notice the node went down.
It looks beautiful. Great work.
Zurmo is quite refreshing!
Yes, too late for Windows 8. I worked at Microsoft, i know something about release cycles and sales cycles and basically, i can spot the BS and back peddling in the MS press releases because i sat in on enough meetings that drafted that nonsense. And actually, if Google Chromebook is a failure, that fact (i have no idea if it is or isn't a failure) does nothing to support your red herring comment. In case you can't follow that, I'll spell it out for you, accepting your alleged claim that a competing OS is failing (in this case, Chromebook) should, in fact, help sell more units of competing offers, including Windows 8. Yet, the Windows 8 numbers are still way, way off. Windows 8 is a complete and total mess on the desktop. Yes, i bought the upgrade (MS alumni discount), installed it, fought it for 2 frustrating weeks, and eventually flattened my drive back to Windows 7. You think i'm jumping to 8.1 anytime soon? Uh, no. I'm a developer and overall power user, so please spare me the "you were using it wrong" comments.

Also, selling 100 million units of Windows 8 is considered a failure at MS.
Just the amount of effort required to put the computer to sleep... ugh.

The instructions are:

1) (Sometimes) when you hover in a corner a menu will popup or press WIN + C.

2) Click settings (in the midst of 4(?) other options)

3) Click the power button.

4) Click the desired state.

Way too many paths in that state diagram for a typical user. For the common tasks, I expect to make two-three transitions with limited, unambiguous, options. Some of my workflow has transitioned to passing four to five states (usually in Metro at this point), back to desktop, to Chrome to locate help, back to the beginning of the state diagram to perform my original task.
Well, the mechanism I suggested for forcing was journals requiring it for publication. People would be obliged to keep a version history of some sort. Careful writers do already, and it's easily automated, so I don't think enforcement would be hard.
There's not much suggesting that there is only one Great Filter. After all, we haven't met anyone else yet, so the likelihood of another filter being in our future is just as real as it is if there was one in our past.

Call it the "two neptune filter", to borrow from the article. :-)
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It seems hard to say goodbye when the thing that is supposedly leaving is going to hang around for another 7+ years.
Widespread facial recognition didn't identify the Boston bombers. So long as he resists the need to post many photos of himself publicly, and avoids social networking sites, he should be relatively safe.
Maybe he just got out of the bed with JPM and DB, or is looking for a job there after he done "doing his service"?

But I think the dismissive tone is kind of moot because the fact that he's even talking about Bitcoin in the context of regulation (aka taking it seriously now) already speaks louder than anything.

Then again people purchase drugs and swap currencies with USD and the financial industry is already a shill floating on the back of CB's that have to keep printing to keep this balloon inflated, so I had laugh at that quote .
The article states that the ring is to be worn on the pinky of the dominant hand.
I don't have my Windows 8 box in front of me, but I believe this can be simplified by simply pressing Alt+F4 at the desktop.
This translation makes more sense.
If this is all true, this is a great story and I want to make a movie out of this.
Also, who cares that Linode got hacked. Facebook/Twitter have more information on you than Linode, and they share it with the Gov. The only thing that I wouldn't want is my data to be lost (if i didn't have any backups)

Just a personal opinion.
The original publication is linked to from here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5667610
redis.io ?
I should know better than to make jokes that align with people's existing fears.

Once we funded someone who reminded me of Zuckerberg, and
even then it was far from the only reason. And the fact that the YC partners have taunted me about it ever since shows that if anything we're probably extra skeptical about Zuckomorphs.

I realize it's possible to be unconsciously influenced by applicants' appearance and manner, but can anyone at this point believe we're not aware of that danger, and simply pick people based on matching some crude archetype? That we could remain that naively incompetent after 16 cycles of picking founders and then watching how they do?
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HP Intros Laptops Running Linux
From the article:

The Iron Ring is worn on the little finger ("pinky") of the working (dominant) hand
To be honest, fugitive is one level below Magit -- but it's still a must-have. On a side note, I think that not having an interface to Git is a show-stopper for a programming-oriented text editor, just like integrated compilation support. I checked TextAdapt lately, and I was surprised it doesn't have it (yet) (unless I'm mistaken).
You can thank Jonas for writing tig: https://github.com/jonas

Atlassian blogged about it.
>I don't get why people are so upset that the start button is gone.

I get it. The Start button is useful. When I first installed Windows 8, it was a little painful to find my way around. Then I realized something... Windows 8 does have a Start button. If I move the mouse to the lower-left of the screen, a button labeled "Start" pops up. I click on it and up pops my pinned applications. Sure, it's called the Windows 8 interface (formerly known as Metro) but when it gets down to it, it's actually a fairly similar methodology to previous Windows versions. If I right-click in a blank area on that list of pinned applications, I get an option to see "All Programs" in addition to the pinned ones.

Basically, after an hour or two of using Windows 8 I became used to the new interface. The only other thing that's important to do is replace the crappy Metro versions of applications with standard Windows versions. The biggest one to replace is the PDF Reader.
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I think that such terminology in the software world has sailed past the point of trying to impose restrictions on it. The whole field is commonly called "computer science", with frequent arguments that it is neither science nor particularly about computers.

Instead of focusing on certifying the people (they can call themselves whatever they want), perhaps we should focus on certifying the product. Not all software is safety critical, and someone who works on flight control systems by day may well work on cheap iPhone entertainment apps by night.

And in fact this is what does happen, in the fields that demand it. Avionics software is verified and certified; the individuals who made it (for the most part) are not.
People (should) only implement things in C/C++ after thoroughly profiling the dynamic language POC and being sure they need the performance that a C implementation affords. So yes, the C implementation is going to sacrifice readability for performance. Of course, there are better and worse ways of accomplishing the same thing.
This is the citation to the underlying research study.

Mark Pagel, Quentin D. Atkinson, Andreea S. Calude, and Andrew Meade. Ultraconserved words point to deep language ancestry across Eurasia. PNAS 2013; published ahead of print May 6, 2013,

doi:10.1073/pnas.1218726110

Abstract link:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/01/1218726110

Link to .PDF full text:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/01/1218726110.full...
It is impossible to add rifling to a plastic barrel that has metal projectiles fired through it at the speed of sound.

These are muskets.
I know before I even get to the interview that I'm perfectly well suited for the company and can do the job - if I wasn't, I wouldn't have applied.

You do realize that just because you think you are perfectly well suited for the job, that doesn't mean that the prospective employer has any way of knowing that or that it's even true, right?

Sure, the company needs to show that they are a place you want to work at, but you should realize that you also need to show the company that you are someone they want to work with.
Sorry but that's a really stupid comment.

You are just saying that C is not clean.
(IMHO) nginx code-base is doing a really good job dealing with micro-optimization.

>code looks like if it uses trillions of mutable state

Actually, that's a very good approach. e.g. : nginx parser get optimized out as a big jump table (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Branch_table)
CS at UCLA gets them :)
Maybe a banana.
Or we could say Bitcoin is religion. It is faith and math combined.
Mmm, I would say it's definitely formatted beautifully. But I agree with the poster above in saying that it's error prone.

I'm a big Nginx fan, but I think it's good by just sheer force of will... if you had like 10 people working on it it would probably fall apart. Something sqlite at least has extensive automated tests, which makes me much more confident about its quality.
I'm so glad the days of image maps are gone!
You can create your own luck, too. Not as big s theirs, but enough to open up good opportunities. Its just a matter of spending some time away from the keyboard, talking with the people who have the keys to the doors. Almost all of the time, a simple please will get them to open up the door for you. Just ask.
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Lyrical prose in and out of code.
Here's to our Moms
Very true, but the less tech-savy crowd does not often use key commands.
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I thought all of the junk goes into gmail's spam folder by default.
Chrome as well. I forget if it has to be enabled in a flag / only on beta builds still, but it does work.
The lack of shadows behind windows is what bugs me the most. My eyes get lost in a sea of square garbage.
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> Despite that issue, we want our videos streamed in high quality and securely

Based on the previous paragraph (about getting Netflix to almost work on Linux), I'm guessing that the "we" here is consumers of video, not producers or distributors. In which case, no, "we" do not give a rat's ass about whether our videos are streamed "securely."

"We" want to watch what we want to watch when we want to watch it. Content producers insisted on "security" and Netflix chose Silverlight as a short-term technical solution to that problem. No one else wanted it. We just tolerated it.
We make the world go round is exactly what the ring is _not_ about. For one, software developers /engineers would be nothing without the computer engineers building the systems the software runs on, and the computer engineers would be nothing without the electrical engineers and device physicists who develop the electrical components from which computers are built... and on and on it goes (turtles the whole way down). Engineering is all about interdisciplinary cooperation, even bridges these days are filled with computer systems for monitoring.

The main idea of the ring is to remind you of your solemn duties as an engineer:

- To put the safety of the public who use systems you engineer first

- To put monetary compensation second to doing quality work (the reason the ring is worn on the pinky finger far away from your gold wedding band - which it will destroy)

- To encourage the next generation of engineers and help them attain mastery

- To encourage those you work with who are not engineers to become technically proficient if they so desire.
We should stop trying to claim every new method is "like the brain". We don't have any clear understanding of how the brain works. One can be inspired by a particular and likely wrong cognitive theory, but one can not say one is building "machines that can process data in much the same way the brain does" truthfully without a deeper, and currently unavailable, understanding of the functioning of the human brain.
lol i think this story can be filmed.
I guess my question would be "Can I use the same parser that GCC uses in my tool?". I am most interested in that aspect of clang.
Thousands of them actually http://irc.netsplit.de/channels/?net=freenode
My gripe with Racket's documentation is that there is no middle ground between tutorials designed to showcase features rather than explain how Racket does and doesn't work and computer generated auto-docs. The tutorials are more geared toward selling the language to beginners, while the rest of the documentation is bereft of illustrative examples and editorial discussion.
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Not sure why this is news now; Microsoft announced this back when Silverlight 5 was first supported back in December of 2011.

http://www.linkedin.com/groups/Microsoft-support-Silverlight...

> it actually says 2021 or the support lifecycle of each of the supported
> browsers, whichever is shorter. When IE 9 is no longer supported you can
> pretty much consider Silverlight unsupported as well.

... though technically there are +'s next to the alternative browsers (Firefox 3.6+, Safari 4+, Chrome 12+) so there's plenty of wiggle room left for interpretation.
So misapplying the term source and saying that one has a degree gives one enough credibility as a scholar to turn a dismissive and colloquial statement into a worthwhile contribution to a discussion about AI?
Does the less tech-savvy crowd often shut down their computers manually? Seems like they'd rather just close their laptop lid and let it do whatever it does.
> Studies have shown that people love to hear their name.

That's not, it seems at the moment, what that study said. It seems to say that areas of the brain responsible for self-representation seem to activate when people hear their own names:

> 3.4. Conclusions

> The findings of this simple paradigm are consistent with the findings in the literature. There is unique brain activation specific to one’s own name in relation to the names of others. In addition, the patterns of activation when hearing one’s own name relative to hearing the names of others are similar to the patterns reported when individuals make judgments about themselves and their personal qualities, and include the regions of the medial frontal cortex and superior temporal cortex near the temporo-parietal junction. These results will enable us to study young children and even infants’ responses to their own names in order to see when self representation first occurs.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1647299/

It may, of course, be true that people like to hear their own names. It seems rare for someone to go bankrupt gambling on how interested in themselves people can be. But just the same...
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I also got a BS in MechE, then got a job as a software engineer, so now my girlfriend wears my ethics ring. I guess we're exempt from programming morally!
I grew up near St. Louis, and if IMO's counts as St. Louis style pizza, I don't care for it one bit.
If the bar for "absolute obedience" is not storming out of the room when asked a dumb question, then yay for absolute obedience.

Someone who really was the superstar candidate who shouldn't be bothered to answer pointless riddles would surely have the communication skills to tactfully change the subject to how they're the best candidate for the job.
duly noted, thanks!
Wow, a schoolbus! I've been wanting to get one for years, just gotta get first place now!

Seriously though, I like the idea of bringing these different types of people together (students, developers, teachers). Too often people think they know how to "fix education" without seeing the perspectives of everyone involved.
It is my opinion that "[citation needed]" can push conversations in a direction that I value, and as such is often a meaningful-to-me interaction.

We can't live in a world where every statement has citations, of course. So in practice, apparently-factual statements often have to stand on the authority of their speaker. As such, it's regrettable when people utter unfounded claims in the language of authority (like "the ugly truth is"). And so it's useful (to me), for people to call out when other people are doing this, in the hopes of eventually raising the conversation. "citation needed" means "This statement is phrased to sound authoritative, but has no evidence, and I think it's wrong, and I'm willing to be persuaded by evidence". I strongly disagree with the claim that it accomplishes nothing but being rude... unless, of course, the recipient (you, in this case) has no interest in discourse.

Why would fearless reason with your unjustified and implausible claim? And why would (s)he downvote your entire comment, just because the last sentence is silly? Upvotes for fearless!
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PulseAudio instantly respawns from this if you have autospawn set to yes (and most distributions do, and it takes some effort to get it working without that).

Typically when I want a quick-and-dirty "kill PulseAudio for real" solution I move /usr/bin/pulseaudio to /usr/bin/pulse-dead, issue pkill pulseaudio, and proceed until I want PA to come back to life, at which time I mv the binary back.