skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yahoo will unveil a new logo next month
I feel that the correct solution to this is approximately the one that now exists: allowing people to control how the navigation screens look, and control for themselves how to access the apps they use.
Thinkpad x220, 8gb RAM, i7, 2xSSD and run ArchLinux on it with Awesome WM, which is a really really great tiling window manager.
At home I plug into a 23in screen, mouse and keyboard, which works really well.
We live in a world doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past. This sounds like an old transcript saying that if you disagree with the government / military you must instantly be a communist. Feels like we are only a step away from public service announcements on how to spot if your child is a terrorist because they spend a lot of time on their computer.
> "Politics, like religion, is a topic where there's no threshold of expertise for expressing an opinion."

I agree that this is how people tend to see it. But it isn't really true. Like JavaScript or auto mechanics or animal husbandry, there is indeed a threshold of expertise for expressing a meaningful opinion.

The value of somebody else's commentary on political issues is pretty much directly proportional to their understanding of the political system and their command of objective facts. This is true even if they subscribe to political ideals diametrically opposed to your own.

Personally speaking, this is why I have been so sad about the political discussion on HN since SOPA and Snowden. I thought it might be one of those rare forums where empirical facts and "evidence-based" thinking prevailed -- but it really hasn't. People still seem mostly trapped in their private little jihads, just like they are in the youtube comments section.

To me that's disappointing because government is something so fundamentally amenable to hacking, and the stakes are so incredibly high. The state of the art is so so sad and primitive, with so much low-hanging fruit. (The state of the art in governance, that is, at least if you accept at face value the objective of representing the interests of the electorate; the state of the art of getting elected is actually incredibly advanced, but rarely publicly talked about in earnest.)
> basically any functions which needs its own local variables / its own stack.

Since cpython's interpreter is stack-based, as long as the function is stack-clean why would it need its own stack?

There is a difficulty with local variables though, especially with inlining conflicts (the inlined locals would need to be munged)
What do you mean when you say that Firefox is "a Java Internet browser"? Firefox wasn't written in Java. Java code only runs in Firefox through the use of the Java plugin, just like any other browser.
Alternate explanation: You might be suffering from GERD (Acid Reflux). It results in recurrent nightmares.
To whom would ownership revert if one didn't pay?

That seems to be the preventing mechanism of "packet switched", unless people have liquid capital to be able to buy and sell large properties.
Yes

Google Now is bordering scary

Here's what happens on Google Now when you travel

1 - Search for a place (this is usually the hotel you're going to)

2 - Get there

3 - Google Now will give a traffic alert "xx minutes until $PLACE" (the place you searched for in n.1 )
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Germany has the "benefit" of having experienced the Gestapo and Stasi so there is knowledge how dangerous omniscient parties are.
The standard Racket environment also includes an implementation of Datalog.

http://docs.racket-lang.org/datalog/
I'd say that will happen for some time after you introduce hardware switches. But it will certainly wear off. I don't see that as a valid reason.
What could possibly be the use of that.
100% to all of these things.

But do you see how the conversation we are having is now about simply the regulations and whether they are really protecting people and not about how there are some incumbents trying to protect their turf?

The two concepts are mixed, often, and should not be.
Definitely interesting. I'd say if we want to actively fight the entropy of the social news mechanic (ie. the feedback loop of popularity winning and slight dumbing down of anything increasing popularity), then perhaps we should glance quickly at an article and then jump back and upvote it based a snap judgement of its technical depth.

Of course we run the risk of upvoting well-dressed crackpot nonsense, but that's probably a lesser risk than becoming reddit.
Really Redwood City:
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EDIT (and environs):

"Although there are excellent tacos to be had all over Redwood City, any first-time pilgrim should focus on "Little Michoacan," the unofficial appellation for all the neighborhoods bounded by Highway 101, El Camino Real, Woodside Road and Willow Road. (It includes the North Fair Oaks neighborhood that lies just outside Redwood City proper.) The area is home to thousands of families with ties to the Mexican state of Michoacan. Thus, the roster of taquerias and other businesses along Middlefield Road reads like a roadmap of the Mexican state's municipalities -- Morelia, Uruapan, Arteaga, Apatzingan."
I some other company starts a Deis based public PaaS, what would your attitude be? Could they get OpDemand's paid support?
Given current affairs, it's bad that this system doesn't inform the user about a new feature being activated on default. It is hidden in the background.
I was reading this post the other day [1] from the Fake Steve Jobs blog about Lotus and IBM. Basically you could pretty much swap IBM or Lotus for Yahoo and the tone of the article would still make sense. Who is that excited about the logo of a company on its last legs?

[1] http://www.fakesteve.net/2008/01/oxymoron-of-week.html
you might want to differentiate between bangladeshi government and a bengali government. ( Though Bangladesh is technically east bengal :). The former is a separate country and the latter a state within india.

Having said that, this is a backward step by the government and will hurt the economy in the long term. It doesn't matter if the bank strayed from its original purpose or not. That's not the point.
>> "Politics, like religion, is a topic where
>> there's no threshold of expertise for expressing
>> an opinion."

> I agree that this is how people tend to see it.
> But it isn't really true. Like JavaScript or auto
> mechanics or animal husbandry, there is indeed a
> threshold of expertise for expressing a *meaningful*
> opinion.

But that's the entire point. Lots and lots of people feel that they have something to say, and they say it, whereas very few actually have a meaningful opinion, and they get drowned out.

Although you say "it isn't really true" you have, in fact, agreed entirely.
It is interesting to note that a lot of feedback discusses employees taking less vacation time. This happens for a variety of reasons which have been highlighted and obviously differs from company to company and how the culture is lead from the top. This would not be my first thought when introducing an unlimited vacation policy. From the employers point of view it would be how do we manage and foster a culture that prevents employees abusing this policy, not how do we make sure employees actually take enough vacation.

One company I know has introduced a bonus for taking a set minimum number of days to try and make sure that their employees are taking a decent amount of holiday each year. So for example if you take 20+ days off in the year you will get a annual bonus of £1000.
The iPad does not have the “Frequent Locations” feature. At least my third gen iPad (with GPS) doesn’t.
Pandora existed before it had an app so I'm not sure it would be out of business. A significant proportion of its business may go through the app but that's not the same thing.

Google is a vastly bigger scale business though so I'm surprised such a small percentage of its profit is attributed to the app. Especially as they are pushing Google Now.

In general, though, I'm not sure the attribution of profits to apps is consistent for multi-platform businesses.
Why not docker? and do u use cgroups etc? in any case, would be great to here about it..
How do you know that it doesn't? I mean it's a developer beta of an unfinished product, isn't it?
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Significant discussion:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6167495
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It was as if millions of geocities sites suddenly cried out in terror and were suddenly silenced.
I think his 'theory' that discussions have more potential to be divisive when they involve our identity is dead on. His advice to 'keep your identity small', follows on from that premise well. Many people let their identity get polluted by what they do for a living to such an extent that they find it very difficult to cope when that is taken from them.

I have always been opinionated - I'm analytical and I enjoy forming opinions. Since moving to Europe, I have learned not to let political opinions become so ingrained that they become part of my identity. I have seen so many things done differently and still done well.

My question is this: Which things are worth being part of my identity? Values I esteem? Relationships I hold dear? Family roles? I think it is fair to say that belief (or disbelief) in God is a foundational human issue. If you are a believer, I think that belief demands something - it necessarily becomes part of your identity. I am a believer, so I don't know if same is true for non-believers.
I haven't seen any forum topic about politics escalate as quickly as one with religious discussions...
How can you trust a hardware switch any more than a software switch? Granted you can take your hardware apart to inspect it, but:

- can you put your laptop together again? (especially tablets)
- will you be able to see the switch innards to ensure it is disconnected?
- who will bother?
So expressing support for Snowden is suggested to be a sign I might be a threat to a country. Way to accelerate the self-censorship (and the subsequent censorship of thought) that this whole surveillance disaster creates.
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'New U.S. spying revelations coming from Snowden leaks' - Greenwald.
Version 17 is the Extended Support Release and still gets security patches. Or, "I had those security holes right where I wanted them! Quit breaking my browser grr!"
Why you shouldn’t store your passwords in Google’s Chrome browser
Announcing LeapMotion TypeScript API: https://github.com/logotype/LeapMotionTS
After owning an Android for a couple of days, it correctly identified my 'home' without me having to enter or setup anything and gave me traffic information on getting home whenever I drove anywhere out.

It also identifies searches for any location (like you said) and offers directions to get there.

When travelling abroad, it identifies your change of location and offers up currency exchange rates and places to visit nearby.

Awesome and scary at the same time.
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The body is a machine, it takes the good and throws away the bad. That's simple enough... but arguing against something that is aiming to be healthy while eating a bigmac and sucking on a coke isn't a convincing argument to me. He might have something.

I wouldn't eat a pure Soylent diet.... but 20% of my diet... maybe?
I hate this type of pointless rhetoric. Politics of fear.
Not that long ago, I found myself in a similar situation as you are. Though I was running my consulting company - I hit the bottom and needed to change, change I did.

Few things I do differently now and has helped me a lot:
1. I focussed on side projects as a way to blow-off steam - this helped me a lot. (Looks like you are already doing it)
2. Spice up your work environment - good audiobooks always help me stay sane on those long coding days. I usually choose some good light-hearted reading rather than the intense novels.
3. I allocated days to work on my side projects during the work-week. ThIs meant I had to get creative around how I schedule my work-work. Eg: Sometimes I had to work long hours (10+) to finish up with my work schedule.
4. Switch off day - usually on Sunday I tend not to do anything work related.
Cool man. Thanks for being civil as I was probably too heated in my response. I'd say that many regulations, like many political policies, sound good in the abstract. But the devil is in the details. It's the execution, not the idea! :) And I think the execution is where city government is lacking, perhaps in part due to poor incentives (i.e. not getting paid in proportion to the extent that the ideal is actually achieved).
People need to start accepting that government != country; such people as such being called as "terrorists" or "communists" or other words that were bandied about as the bogeyman of the time are perceived as threats to the government by those most poised to profit from that government.
A government that no longer represents the people, but corporations and those that benefit by it, will threaten those that question its legitimacy as that is only obvious. The word "terrorist" is only the latest in a long string.

tl;dr government != country.
It's a very clever recruiting strategy. ;-)
Bezos has a halo, but I don't believe in angels.

For journalism to be truth, it must remain independent.
Duplicating the PuTTY binary for each session makes about as much sense as having a separate MS Office installation for each and every Word document.
Use labels to break ifs in JavaScript
I agree. Last minute 3 day vacations is actually OK around my workplace, and we have a limited number of vacation days.

First you ask yourself if you have critical work to do those days. If not, you're good. Otherwise, you may have to get it done sooner. Then you ask your coworker if they're going to be around to cover for you. If they are, cool, you've just scheduled yourself out of office. Set up your OOO notification and update your calendar. If not, check with your manager to make sure it's ok for both of you to be out. Generally this may mean a concession that you have to carry your laptop or phone in case stuff goes down. Congratulations, you've now scheduled your vacation.

The only time our manager really gets involved is during Nov/Dec for the holidays when people run into "use it or lose it", so he'll informally let us carry over to January or so, just so that everyone isn't rushing to take at the same time and leaving us without anyone in the office. The other time is when you want to take multiweek vacations, just so he's aware and can get coverage information.

Even then, half the company is in the same situation so it's normally pretty dead in Dec.
I suspect they've already chosen the new logo, but are showing off the "also-rans" first.
Right, I am not disagreeing with the OP's premise.

I'm more just lamenting the truth of it -- and expressing disappointment that we haven't seen better discourse here on HN (where actually I think the signal to noise on stuff like node vs go, should you ever use rails for anything, etc, is actually pretty good, all things considered...).

Edit/Addition: What I mean to say is, the article isn't wrong, but the people it describes are wrong. Wrong to think that weighing in on a serious topic with essentially zero knowledge is acceptable, and wrong to conflate their politics with their identity. There is a bedrock of objective truth underlying virtually any political discussion, and it is just as stupid to conflate your own individual identity with a political party or TV station as it is to do the same thing with your smartphone OS or web app framework.
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There's a fork named ConsoleZ [1] which is more actively developed. It provides a number of features which goes well with newer versions of Windows.

[1] https://github.com/cbucher/console/wiki/Downloads
Please! A RSS/Adom feed would be great, it will save time visiting the site everyday to check for new and cool stuff :)
Interview setting:

"The business model was not viable."

Which is true, and does not cast its dissolution as primarily over personality issues, which is also probably true since if the everyone had been looking at an actual pile of cash, the vision for the company would have been kicked down the road instead of being everyone's favorite distraction from the fact that there was not a large pile of cash.

Follow up with, "I think we all, really learned a lot," to emphasize it was a group effort.

If its a long term setting, don't be afraid to provide the interviewer with the potentially false impression that you would never do another startup. There are many settings that don't want potential entrepreneurs.

Good luck.
Lovely landing page. Simple and well laid out. For $20, I don't really want to research things too much, but some info on chapter contents, or a sample of style, would be very welcomed.

anyway looking forward to seeing the book !
witches -> communists -> terrorists -> hackers...
And hg-github, a wrapper on top of hg-git I wrote: https://github.com/stephenmcd/hg-github
Respect my authorty!
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My worst nightmare would be managing a 2MLOC inherited from a programmer who used void * as a convenience so it's a little surprising to hear this.
No, it's not a problem. You don't need the definition files if you don't care about getting the supporting static typing on external libs.

It is completely doable to simply let the external libs call to be dynamic and guard your core code with static typing.
Not a mnemonic per se but I have melodies for common code snippets.

"public static void Main(string[] args)", which is the default method signature for the main method in C#, is a hip-hop beat. SQL statements are always metal tunes. Javascript is usually indie pop.
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Sigh This just goes to show what kind of damage people with little knowledge and big egos can do. Ever read about Dunning-Kruger Syndrome folks? Now you are witnessing a typical example in all its pathetism. And all started here in HN.
Mistakes? That's a very charitable view.
One proposed alternative to await (for CoffeeScript) that is more one-to-one with the generated JavaScript: https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/2762
Imagine the arrows are crocodiles.
They always try and eat more.

1 < 2

4 > 1

If they're eating less, they're not happy crocodiles.
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Thanks, none of the coverage I'd seen made the BoA/Countrywide distinction.
> A government that no longer represents the people, but corporations and those that benefit by it, will threaten those that question its legitimacy as that is only obvious.

A government elected with a reasonable majority arguably represents the people who elected them.

Not represents as in "represents their interests", implying that they act on their behalf in their best interest. No, represents as in "they are the image of what those who elected them want". This is the government of people who invented playdates for their children, political corectness and consumer-driven everything. It's in line with their wishes. Government officials don't just spring out from the ground.

Unless we see a mass boycott of the next election that forces both parties to radically change their approach -- a boycott so massive that the legitimacy of the expressed vote is in question -- the elected government will really be one made in the image of its electors and, arguably, government != country will eval to false.