skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I attended GT a long time ago (early 90's), so I might be out of date, but I wouldn't go far as to call it "culture". I kid, I kid! :-)

It's a notoriously demanding program. I hope they can adapt their "Take a look at the people to your left and right. One of you will not make it to graduation." scare speech/boast to the online format.
And that would be bad how? I should ask where you got all your information on the Tea Party since it seems like there is more than one smear job going.
> I was under the impression that this is an Apple culture thing? It's alleged that if you wear a competitor's brand on Nike Campus, you'll be politely asked to leave (or forced to buy a new pair of shoes while they burn yours). what is Apple's culture's take on this?

At just about every company there is some level of expectation that you'll use the company's products and not the competitors. It's true that there is a line some where between expecting employees to "back the company" and expecting a cultist devotion to everything they do.

However, not using products that you yourself work on is really bizarre. That's the type of thing that happens in enterprises where you work on projects you are assigned to, not ones you have an interest in. I wouldn't think that's how it works at Facebook.
Why? I looked at the graph and whipped out the calculator and VMT has not "stagnated" as they say so much as dropped about 3% or so from peak.

Then look at my commute. Scroll down to "employment" (If this doesn't work simply pull the employment graph for a decade or so for your MSA from the BLS website)

http://data.bls.gov/timeseries/LAUMT55333405?data_tool=XGtab...

How many people are sharing the highway with me going to and from work? Well, about 3% fewer than peak. My commute times do resemble this in that I can get home a little faster now than when I was younger.

Less jobs to drive to seems to explain 100% of the delta in VMT, very superficially. I'm sure it depends on which area you gather data from, blah blah, but it does mostly seem to be employment stats. There exists a political axe to grind WRT encouraging urban living / mass transit / changing attitudes toward car ownership, but censoring factual data and manufacturing confusion to help grind the axe is simply unethical.
RAID and replication are good for protecting against hardware failure, but hardware failure actually accounts for only a handful of the reasons you want a backup. RAID, replication, and backups are all solutions to problems. Once you look at the problems instead of the solutions, your answer becomes clear.

Often, the need for a backup arises from the need to go "back in time". RAID and replication offer no solution for this. Ok, so depending upon your replication setup, it may offer some help, but the steps required to go back in time usually involve starting from a recent backup, and using files involved in the replication to "replay" recent changes to get you back to the moment in the past you wish to return to.
I LOVE Foundation. One of the big bonuses is SASS (not that LESS is awful, mind you.) Speaking of buttons, have you played with this project:

http://jaredhardy.com/sassy-buttons/

Or do you know other button projects or style elements that can more easily be combined into Foundation? I'm always on the hunt for this kind of thing because, frankly, my design abilities are on par with a 3-yr old.
A few weeks back I spent a weekend playing around with .NET and Visual Studio, I was very surprised by how pleasant the language (C#) and the IDE was to use. Also, I went into it with virtually no C# experience (only Java), and I pretty much picked it up immediately, I'm sure there are many differences but I was able to figure out the syntax immediately.

I found the IDE really nice, and the debugging tools really powerful...Also desktop app creation felt super easy. I probably won't use C# for prime time since I develop almost exclusively for Linux, but it's always nice to peek over the fence :)
Also, posts error without Postgres version, operating system, or any other relevant details which could help the community diagnose the issue quicker.

https://twitter.com/samuelfine/status/334499315949133825
Didn't seem to work for me: when I tried to move the nodes the whole diagram shifted rigidly.
I'd be worried if I were the president too, if perceived threats are dealt with a few months later.
Ripple is run by Jed McCaleb, founder of Mt.Gox, and Chris Larsen, founder of Prosper.com.
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ICFP Contest 2013: Aug 8th to Aug 11th. MS Research is organizing?
I have reached the conclusion that this is a deeper issue that in this particular instance manifests itself as sexism.

Why treat the symptoms, let's fix the problem eh?
No sympathy is deserved when they're aware of the situation and pointing fingers instead of correcting the problem to meet the same high standards they demand of others. At this point the authors of the materials infringed deserve some compensation from Canipre.
Study: Crowdfunders think like VCs--only they're less biased
That's a rather strong definition of reasonably safe. I will certainly push back on traction control, in situations where it impacts safety more than handling, a teenager will generally have the flexibility to just stay off the road (which is even safer).

ABS is a little more in the middle, but a safe driving mentality will provide a lot more safety than ABS, so I probably wouldn't look at it as make or break for a teenager car.

All cars have reasonably strong frames. Safer modern vehicles generally gain some of that safety by crumpling, which they do by being weaker than their predecessors. A Model T would bounce off a tree at moderate speed...
I thought Labor was ~ Social Democrat? Maybe shocking to right wing crazies, but hardly _Socialist_ in a modern use of the language?

(But OK, even I know that Labor have changed a lot over the last 50-60 years.)
Don't forget the desktop sector, which isn't entirely dead yet. Pretty much everything is better than MFC, and with Delphi going nowhere (for obvious reasons), a lot of people writing relatively small custom software apps transitioned to .NET, either with C# or VB. Don't think that will change that much with WinRT. (JavaScript seems mostly an angle to get some web developers to do small Metro apps)
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This is by design :) When you click node, diagram should be positioned to the center of the screen. When you move it with mouse, it should move as expected.
I love how you're framing people as "huggers" or "non-huggers". Similar to the good old "technical" and "non-technical".
I think this is what's going on with Facebook.

They've had so much success in such little time. The Facebook platform managed to get an IPO and is now scrambling to justify its business model. To please shareholders, and partners, they have to "do something". So...they did. They made a mod that does Facebook without clicking on the Facebook icon.

To me, its lame. Then again, I've never created a multi-billion dollar company before. Come to think of it, I've never created a multi-dollar company either. I'm not privy on how to spin a product so that someone is willing to back me with money.

Facebook is an interesting company. To me (and I'm sure to most users) Facebook is just a fancy address book. Yes, it has applications running on and against it, but for the most part its a wall of text and pics to view bits of information.

As for me, I just don't understand what Facebook home is. I understand what it's trying to accomplish. That part is easy and self explanatory. But, what is it really? From what I've seen so far, its just a way to use Facebook without having to "tap" the Facebook icon to ... use Facebook.

That part is very disconcerting to me. Not because, its "Facebook all the time". But, that Facebook really doesn't know what else to do to leverage what its got. It seems like the engineers there are being paid to polish up Facebook over and over again.

Sure, it has a new search feature that they can claim to stock holders and business partners that its even easier to pin point the data needed. Other than that, I have no clue what Facebook will become.

Now, this is just the views of a man on the outside looking in. Facebook does have problems, but I wouldn't mind having those problems right now. You can say all you want about Mark, but he did create something that most people couldn't. And at a very young age. Many would dream to be in a situation where you have changed the world, made billions and still figure out what you want to be when you grow up.

Sorry for the long rant...Wait, no I'm not :p
This is dumb, you're not meant to use it to go 5 minutes up the road.
QFT. It will stay on the enterprise market for years to come. In fact, that's where I see MS going. Sort of the path CA has taken with mid/main frames.

MS has to come to the conclusion that it is not a consumer tend setter any longer. Consumers only use Windows because it came on their PC. And as more and more of the consumer market goes mobile, Windows becomes irrelevant. And (sadly for MS) they were too late to the mobile market so their devices (phone and tablet) are going nowhere. I got a friend who works at Best Buy who told me no one is buying the Windows phones. And few are buying the tablet. It's IOS and Android all the way.

MS should focus all it's eggs on enterprise. Plenty of cash to be made in that market.
It better not, C# with .NET is I think one of the best programming languages out there.
"but abolishing patents/copyright completely would just cause massive depression"

That's a strange brew of alarmism. What commerce would actually stop if copyright and patent terms were, say, returned to the original Copyright Act terms?
Interesting. I'm also doing an EOL degree from NC State (but an MCS). I'm nearly halfway through. I agree on the deadline thing. A couple weeks ago I asked for an extension due to family medical issues (never done this before) and the professor was very accommodating.

The biggest pain has been exam proctoring. It seems to all be done by hand (exams being emailed/faxed back and forth) and I've experienced every point of failure in the system. And strangely the professors always refuse to tell us when the exam windows are... haven't figure that one out yet.
If they do that, they kill the commercial viability of alternatives, which among other things has anti-trust implications.
Well at least they have replaced the accident that was the old thameslink station at St Pancras.
I guess all that MS software such as office and sharepoint which many a business has deeply integrated into their day to day life, and also extended by using .Net to automate or improve it for their particular needs will be really disappointed that .Net is dying.

I'd imagine they will have a clean and easy migration planned in the next 3 years.
You want to do JavaScript on the desktop? No. Go learn Python and Haskell.
A more general complaint is MS's schizophrenic support of .NET

How so? Microsoft has been completely behind .NET for a decade now. Early on, some .NET advocates demanded that Microsoft only back .NET, with complete ferocity (e.g. that Win32 would become a second class citizen), but that was silly to begin with and is unnecessary.

Various technologies that might have used .NET have come and gone, but Microsoft has been completely behind .NET.
Presumable because that's where the jobs are... (it's a barren wasteland on the startup front here in the south)
> Huh? Why do you think it is appropriate for the US government to be regulating the behavior of a foreign bank in a foreign country?

That's quite the straw man you've set up. I don't believe I ever once said anything like that.

I do think it is appropriate for the US to regulate the operations of a foreign bank within their boarders. If the multinational bank violated US law, the multinational bank and its US subsidiaries should lose their ability to continue to conduct business in the US. You know, like what DHS is doing to Mt Gox now, which was the whole point of this thread in the first place.
He used a Thinkpad running OpenStep for years.
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While I agree that the C# language is wonderful and some of the .NET framework is very well designed, I think most of the .NET 'Enterprise' SDK's and API's are terribly, horribly overengineered and complicated. SharePoint, Dynamics CRM come to mind. I wish this part of .NET would die, but I am not convinced it will go away anytime soon.
It encourages package creators to simply maintain a master branch instead of creating stable releases, and this can turn into a huge headache down the line.

Let's take a recent scenario: the YAML vulnerability in Rails. What if a similar vulnerability is found in a widely-used Go project? Well, you can move to HEAD, but you have no idea what else changed in the meantime. It's impossible to know how your application may break. Or you can try to merge just the security patch, which may not be trivial.
I am really sorry to criticize but:

My eyes are not good and I find that infographic impossible to read.

Something about the red rectangles and the contrast and alignment makes it impossible for me to focus on the text.

Would it be better just to have a Visio-esque flowchart with directed arrows ?
You are right. License info are missing. We'll fix it. Pingendo in not planned to be released as open-source. It's available in free download during the beta period. A commercial version will follow. The download contains xulrunner and pingendo binaries.
Thank you.
Implying there was not a space arms race?

But there was. It wasn't a classic arms race with actual vehicles parading down the street, but money was spent, research was done.

Two things we have as a result are adaptive optics, and the anti-ballistic missile defense systems now coming on line.
As I said in another comment: it's like they pushed the filter, got rebuffed, so they went fishing for loopholes in other laws.
>>So, what are the problems you are trying to solve? And why can Go solve them better than, Java, Erlang, C++, Scala, or any other language?

Compared to X, Go has Y:

Java: Less verbose, faster builds, native code (no JVM needed), cleaner OO, structural typing, better memory usage, structural typing, more convenient concurrency

Erlang: Better performance, better memory use, cleaner syntax, easier to train people on/hire for, statically typed

C++: Type and memory safety, much simpler syntax, better build times, large standard library, structural typing, garbage collection, easy and safe concurrency

etc, etc
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I've gotten a bit cautious around booking.com job ads. Do they have such a high turnover, or is it just that they're hiring so many people?
Sure it'll last. Until they have children.
I always wonder if it's a better strategy for Microsoft to introduce the Windows AppStore in Windows 7 first and grow the eco-system there, just like what Apple did MacAppStore to Lion, heck, even 10.6.6 (Snow Leopard) has access to it.

Oh, well, perhaps the higher-ups in MSFT need to have a clue first.
I didn't say anything about performance, and that's because I don't think performance has much to do with it. If Go used asynchronous mailboxes, its performance at most would be ever so slightly worse, it would still be much better than Erlang, and Go's performance loss would probably entirely disappear in microbenchmarks anyhow.

Indeed, that's one of my frustrations with Go, one of the big reasons I chose to leave it alone. The ways in which it is much less safe to use concurrently than Erlang or Haskell aren't performance related, they're related to the choice of primitives. (In particular, I can't see how to build an OTP equivalent for Go. This is a big problem for me, since I was looking at it to replace Erlang, but I'm not ripping out something that has demonstrated how bullet-proof it is to replace it with something more fragile like Go, when performance is not my problem.)

To be clear, I'm just talking about the concurrency primitives, and I do not believe that Go's concurrency primitives are better than Haskell or Erlang's, full stop. That does not mean Go is not a better language for some tasks, and I further believe Go's concurrency primitives are a step up over most current "conventional" languages, equally full stop. For one thing, to program in Erlang or Haskell requires programming in Erlang or Haskell, which is why I mentioned the fact that Go is still an Algol-esque language. That's a legitimate advantage. I've paid the price of learning the alternate paradigms, but I would generally recommend Go to a larger corporate deployment before I'd recommend trying to convince a couple dozen people to learn Erlang. So much... whining.
TL;DR: do you expect to make more than your student loan interest investing? If not, then paying off your student loans has a guaranteed rate of return equal to your student loan interest.

Same goes for any loan.
Enterprise standardized on Java and won't change anytime soon (i.e. in the next century or so). Seriously, COBOL is still well and alive at many places. Consumer market is on Objective-C (iOS) or Java (Android). Games are written (mostly) in C++ (and this will stay this way to enable cross-console portability). OSS uses any number of languages that have an openly developed compiler (c, c++, python, ruby, JS, go, you name it), but most certainly not .net. So, who is left? There are isolated silos here and there, but it's really a niche language and there are no use cases that will change this.
> Inherent hatred for Microsoft and anything it does, even if it is good. I think is pretty sad since I see this attitude from people that should be objective from a technical standpoint, licensing can’t always be an issue.

Actually, yes it can. I think Microsoft (especially Microsoft Research) is amazing and have been one of the most innovative companies of the last 30 years. But I'm not gonna pay them for the right to use a language. I'm also not going to lock myself into a system which requires me to pay them for other things as well (Windows Server, SQLServer, etc). I know there is Mono, but it is not the same. Its a shame, cause F# is one of the coolest languages out there right now.
Your argumentation is pathetic and typical of many Europeans. Americans are stupid. That's the beginning, middle and end of your idea about the country and your only argument in the discussion.

You are the one who should learn more about Iran or Russia. You are the one naive like a child who thinks everybody's nice, while they are playing you. It was the same with Hitler (who some of you still claim was a great leader). It was the same with Stalin (who many of you still love in Europe). It's the same with Iran now. Seeing world in white & black only isn't good, but going deep into color spectrum so much that you don't see obvious is not too smart neither. Especially given your history of ignorance in the face of threats.

EDIT: "argument" instead of "voice" from here: "country and your only argument"
This would have been a good Kaggle competition. Would have gotten more bang for their buck for sure
The Imaginative Programmer (Slides)
Like Facebook but for Record Collectors
On Macs, randomly moving application windows when an app hangs often helps when beachballs pop up.
Since you've been away from .NET for a while, you may have missed nuget[1], which makes it super easy to incorporate open source .NET libs into your projects directly from visual studio.

[1]: http://nuget.org/
Why is this limited to about 50% of the actual space in my browser?
I agree - Silverlight was obviously a tactical response to the threat of Flash. When Flash went into (steep) decline, there was no reason to keep Silverlight around. Both of us called this one correctly.

WCF, on the other hand, is doing really well and is a decent approach to a framework around enterprise communications. But I admit that more often than not, I'm hand-coding my proxies to avoid code-bloat from generated DTOs (I'd rather use a reference to a shared DLL so the compiler alerts me to breaking changes)
Disagree. I live in a low cost of living area and the cheapest car sold by the local Carmax is $8K. Yes I know carmax isn't the cheapest place and they don't sell the dumpiest cars, but not by a factor of 4x...

Cash for clunkers really screwed over the lower and lower-middle classes WRT transportation.

As a side question, the $8K special is a '07 with 112K miles... Doesn't that imply a continuous equivalent average velocity since manufacture of something like three miles per hour, 24x7x365? That's crazy, almost like passenger jet aircraft that spend most of their life in the air. Now thats some owner who is not abandoning the car owner lifestyle or whatever. The math seems to estimate out to around seventy or eighty mile per day commute, maybe. Wowsers.
It's great to see a reputable organization finding use for Tor and online anonymity. Innovative, advantage gaining move in a not so innovative industry.
Yes, I'm quite aware of this. Not to be rude or anything, but it is kinda obvious if you've thought at all finite computational systems.
Why back in the day? It should still work just as effectively.
Why Internal Dogfooding Matters So Much
Haskell on the desktop? You should have stopped with Go.
I guess what I'm saying is that I do the professional networking stuff already. I'm at a point in my career where I do not need to get a referral from a professor or fellow student to get a job I'm interested in; I already have appropriate contacts in the relevant fields. I'm mainly talking about career path. I'm a Sr. Engineer/Project Manager now, but if I want to grow into a Principal engineering role or management I need an MS to speed things up. There are two ways to grow a career path; experience and education. I can wait twenty years until I naturally move up to that role, or I can get an MS (and other certifications) to prove my upward mobility and shave a few years off that.

So, as far as working together in teams, and real-world interactions, I have those in spades. I don't need that anymore. Were I to get an MS right after a BS, it'd be a different story. But 15 years in industry gives you that. I need the education itself: horizon expansion and prestige of the school name. That's it. And as far as information that comes from other people, I work around other engineers and people I already contact when I have issues. I estimate that there's not much in an MS non-thesis program that will truly challenge me at this point. Not in an arrogant way, just that industry experience does this for people.

GT may not yet be at the forefront of DL, but they're working closely with Udacity, which is. I will expect a quality program.
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FYI, "Strongbox" is a fork for the open source project that Aaron coded, which is called "DeadDrop"...it was down because Github pages was recently down, but back up now: http://deaddrop.github.io/

The repo contains this thorough Threat Model/theory guide:
https://github.com/deaddrop/DeadDropDocs/blob/master/THREAT_...
Oh. The site says you can "arrange" the diagram. I don't interpret "arrange" to mean shift position without changing the ... arrangement.
When I go through London I love being able to wait for a train to come along with an empty carriage. I laughed out loud last month when the first train that pulled into the station was packed and miserable people squashed themselves in even more so much so the door couldn't close properly because had they waited literally 45 seconds they would have been able to get onto the next train that was so empty it had half the seats available. Passing through London without time constraints is fantastic.
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That may not be the best thing to do. http://youarenotsosmart.com/2010/08/11/catharsis/