skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't think so, because larger mobile operating system share (especially global, where you have to account for the Chinese and Indian markets) doesn't necessarily mean more people will actually be interested in your app, can find your app, or can run your app on their phones. Your potential market is larger, sure, but out of that larger customer pool how many will be able or willing to download and use your app, especially if it's something performance-intensive?

For a lot of people, the smartphone they buy is already fully functional for their needs out of the box. They get an Internet browser, media player, e-mail client, and some other utility/PDA features that are bundled with the OS. A lot of people will add 'service apps' like Facebook and Dropbox to access services they were already using, and then stop there. There is less of an incentive for people to go out and look for apps to make their smartphone more useful, like a 1990s computer purchaser going out and buying Microsoft Office and Quicken for their new otherwise-useless Windows box, and so I would argue that marketshare by itself is less meaningful a metric for comparing mobile and desktop platforms.
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Did you read the original? In context it really does mean something different than it sounds like it means here.
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We (Medidata) have an R&D team in Tokyo and that is always a possibility. Email me: eandersen (at) mdsol (dot) com
Turn on showdead and check his comments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=losethos
Violating the MIT license by stripping the license text, right?
is it possible to use Cache ObjectScript on GTM?
$100/month haha.

Here's a few useful landing pages tools.
http://populr.me - has free domain mapping etc... at first glance, it seems to do everything this page site does.

http://strikingly.com -pretty sweet.
http://jetstrap.com
http://smore.com

Cool tool though.
I'm waiting for fast food to be automated. http://momentummachines.com could be on to something huge.
I'm over 30 and don't have a car. Sure, you don't know me personally, but there's a growing number of environmentally aware people who aren't buying into the car culture.

Hopefully you (and your friends) will be in the minority soon.
They are only equal if the older person changed industry. Else they should have significant experience which is worth its weight in gold. If you have 3 years experience and are 35 and competing against a 21 year old with the same experience, and he will work for half what you do -- he gets the job.

But people with a decade plus experience are not even close to comparable to fresh faced wonders.
One interesting nugget from Superfreakonomics book: whaling industry in the US at the 19th century was fifth largest (think all the insurance industry right now) and employed 1% of the total workforce (think twice the auto industry now). It has almost completely vanished now and yet US economy did not collapse (for the smarties out there - I know about the Great Depression, has nothing to do with it).

I deduce from this that even a huge market shift can be absorbed by a healthy economy and healthy society without too much harm. Now, for the people that get caught in it, it can suck big time, and means must be found to help those of them that can't help themselves (the toll booth lady from the article who has a hobby of buying and selling houses probably is going to be fine anyway), but economically if you say we can't do without some industry or sector, more frequently than not it's just a failure of imagination.
How is std::function implemented?
Exactly - I don't generally support Greenpeace, but there is no doubt they were a victim of state-sponsored terrorism - the state being France. Actually, it's the only terrorist attack we've ever had in New Zealand, and it resulted in a civilian's death.

France threatened to embargo NZ goods within the EU unless we handed back their terrorists. At which point they were released and promoted.
The obvious question would be why? I don't know Caché except what I read on wikipedia, but having worked with plenty of languages over the years it doesn't sound like anything you couldn't easily do in python with 100x readability improvement. I see little reason to go backwards with languages when we (the CS field) have made such awesome improvements over the years. Now, rather than worry about the bs stuff we can focus on algorithms and whether or not an idea is actually useful when working. I build things in Python all the time, throw away most, but the ones that look promising are productized.
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Why not just make a subreddit with a script that automatically posts everything from these RSS feeds?

and then have the domain redirect to it.
Someone needs to invent a word for the job of gluing together horrific data formats and/or scrubbing that data with regex and trying to semantically parse it.

Anyone who hasn't had this job during their programming career is very lucky.

"Poogrokking"?
It's likely that job-sharing would increase. Instead of one unemployed person and one 'full-time' waiter, you'd have two part-time waiters. Waiting being a menial job that's not awesome, but is easy to pick up and easy to manage when it's only a couple of shifts per week. The focus would have shifted from "I must do all this to survive" to "a bit of extra money on top"
This what I said, peasants were forced to work in agriculture. They were not forced to work in factories, quite the opposite, they had been prevented from working in factories or anywhere else.
If there would be no scarcity, who needs socialism? If there would be scarcity, there would be jobs in producing scarce resources and delivering them to whoever wants to consume them.

But if you are not happy with this, I can easily offer you a job creation program. Take two people. One would dig the ditch for 8 hours, the other would come next day and fill up the same ditch. Since you claim "jobs" are something we should pursue, this is a perfect example of jobs that can be created cheaply and abundantly. Of course, these jobs would provide zero value, but if you don't care about loss of value from employing people to do things that can be done with much higher value, then why should you care there? Just tax "the rich" and dig the ditch, and the jobs would be there forever.

Hint: google "broken window fallacy".
The only experience I've had with GT.M is playing with it a little bit on Debian - it's only an apt-get away.

As far as I know, no, apart from the shared ANSI M featureset. They're pretty divergent.
It is an interesting (made up) problem. Older developers exit for hiring paying management roles. At large companies, average developer age is constantly going up.

The market (US) has 2.2% unemployment and every single software company I have ever worked for is CONSTANTLY scouting for people, nonstop, the entire time I have worked there. Keeping standards high is exceptionally challenging... "Good news, this one can do FizzBuzz!"

Age isn't even considered, we just need freaking people and are competing with 5+ other companies to get them. There is a reason we pay recruiters 20k+ per freaking hire.
I could see a huge market for Amazon or Google to step in and provide cloud based Legacy systems for large corporate clients. ReactOS could provide a nice foundation for that.
I was wondering if that was him. Certainly reading about him over the years. I'm not surprised he's living in an RV.
Indeed. Some say the internet will free us; some say it will cage us with ourselves. Mere perspectives - either way, we're turning into little blinking light bulbs, every one of us.
For #2, look at the Brazilian experience. All the social programs were collapsed into "Bolsa Família" (a 2 oposing presidencies work), with huge gains in efficiency and a huge reduction in corruption. The long term response from the government was to create new programs, that don't suffer from that huge reduction in corruption, but it's hard to make excuses for them, instead of just increasing the main one.

For #3, the best way I can see is targeting an income inequality. It income concentrates, increase the BI, if it gets more distributed, reduce it.
> You'd have two classes of citizens: the workers and those who are effectively parasites off the workers

You already have that, it's called workers, and the heirs who don't work and live like parasites off workers. Paris Hilton, the Rockefellers etc. - look at the Forbes 400, the list is chock full of them. Oh wait, they're "job creators", right? I'm supposed to be grateful they are parasites living off my labor.

I am a skilled worker who creates wealth. Part of the wealth I create is sent off to these parasite heirs who have never worked a day in their life. Just like money used to go to kings and whatnot. These parasites have all kind of lackeys to spit out nonsense about why they were born with the right to live high on the hog off of my labor. I'm sure the czars of Russia had people arguing about how God had appointed them head of Russia up until they were put in front of a Bolshevik firing squad.

The parasites are in power now. They live off the labor of workers like me. They're about to start bombing Syria, trying to wipe out the last remnants of the old Nasserite pan-Arab socialism. If you look at history through the centuries though, you realize parasites who are the de jure heads of things, that drift further and further from production, sooner or later get bumped off by those with de facto control over production. It has happened so many times through history it is probably the only historical constant.

So many "entrepreneurs" and whatnot here. A lot of BS artists. You're groveling nothings, begging VCs for the chance to have limited partners expropriate labor value from the workers you want to hire. So turn around, tell me how these limited partners and heirs and parasites who have not had anyone in their family work for generations deserve to expropriate my labor. Tell me how I have an "attitude problem" which might prevent me from "succeeding", although it's pretty transparent to try to give that kind of advice to someone you know absolutely nothing about. Blah blah. Go get on your knees and beg the VC limited partners for money. You people are really a shining vision of the future.
I'm endlessly amused by the irony of a search engine company naming their projects unsearchable words. Many site search engines won't even consider terms less than three characters long.
To quote Harvey Danger: If you're bored then you're boring.
Sometimes, I wish the cell phone was never invented.
Agreed that it's a poor overgeneralization, and often trotted out when it's absolutely incorrect, but it's worth noting that on Windows the existence of Structured Exception Handling in the OS prevented this kind of optimization for a long time. It may yet, in fact, but I've been out of that world for a long time.

This probably extended to things like the xbox as well.
One idea I've casually pondered is if things would be better if you had a card that got a daily, or even hourly top up, instead of the status quo of a monthly top up. Bills would have to be similarly broken up into continuous payment, or some people might not be able to save up enough continuous income to pay them.

I think it at least sounds possible that it could shift people to a more even expenditure rate instead of the rich for a week, starve for three, some people lead.
$7.25/hour, nice!!
Also depends a lot on corporate culture. I was told at a company point blank "stop bringing <problem x> up". So I did (left shortly after).
"[...] C implementation of variational EM for latent Dirichlet allocation [...]"
E.g.: http://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Chomsky_hierarchy.html

About: http://www.cs.princeton.edu/~blei/lda-c/

(No links in submission text: https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc ...)
The Luddites were correct in recognizing that there was a problem to be addressed, but they weren't correct about how to deal with that problem. Halting technological progress and forgoing the economic prosperity it enables will never be the right answer for society as a whole - it's only a selfish and shortsighted response that gets triggered because our current society is unable to put that new prosperity to good use and instead leaves people out in the cold.
Unfortunately win32 API is Windows specific.
CoffeeScript is pretty cool

for i in [1..100]
console.log(['Fizz' if i % 3 is 0] + ['Buzz' if i % 5 is 0] or i)
The real problem here is the working people, chasing the slackers, mocking holidays, praising people with long weeks. Nobody will want this free time if it's stained with stigmata.
There will be the work alcoholic saying "I'm working more than him, I don't want to pay for his free time".
Moreover we work more now than before. So the free time thesis is just a joke, it might me economically feasible, but to sell it to the society will be hard.

The idea that the maximum output of a system is very not often achieved when all of its components are at their individual maximum is already impossible to act on in a company (ie. it might be better to have some slackers), I can't see that happening with money directly involved.
Are you looking for work? Because my company is hiring good MUMPS programmers -- we are nearly always on the lookout for qualified people.

I bring it up, not because I think you're likely to be looking for work, but because I thought the others reading this discussion thread might be interested in the fact that it is difficult to hire qualified MUMPS programmers.

I work at a bank, and our banking system (the system that keeps track of the balances in the accounts) is written in MUMPS -- probably because it dates back to the time when that was the shiny new programming language.
Child pornography doesn't have a bright line, though. I don't think 16/18/21 are particularly different (I.e. societies could choose any of those). There still seems to be debate around the edges of simulated, simulated using real photos of non sexual underage people, self pics to other minors, etc. And IMO the bigger issue of knowing possession vs. it being totally radioactive.
I'm really fond of the idea of Nullable types (where you have to unwrap them by checking if they're null or errors to get the value). I don't think any non-functional language other than Rust has attempted to work this into the way they work yet, but it strikes me as a powerful mechanism that could also allow for deferring error handling to the site most capable of dealing with it.
looking at that scary diagram and thinking "will all yapp apps (yapps?) be as structural as the underlying framework?"
It doesn't give you a very good life. That said, there is still a question of when we should begin heavily subsidizing non-work. I think there's a decent argument to be made that we're not at that point yet.

Also, homelessness in the US is barely related to the question of subsidizing non-work. It's more of a failure on the part of our mental health system. If you talk to a homeless guy in the US, odds are he'll have some pretty noticeable mental issue right from the get-go.
Sad truth. :(
I'm a huge proponent powerful static checking, so I haven't written much code with contracts. My understanding is that they're quite wonderful for dynamic property elaboration, though, so by that fiat I'd say I'm a fan.
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Thanks for your response.

To clarify, when you say RESTful API, do you mean the client-side MVC framework issues API calls to a server which then updates the backend (database?).

I guess this model is client-centric while the typical Rails app is server-centric (MVC logic executes on the server and then serves the relevant HTML/CSS to the client).

Any particular advantages to the client-side framework over the server-side framework?
It wasen't meandering. I think I'd rather be alone than
with someone who's always on the phone, or screen.
Articles like this annoy because the underlying tone is, "Well, you shouldn't have a car."

I don't think that's true: the underlying point is that car owners should pay something closer to the total cost of ownership, rather than baking large parts of the cost of ownership into the larger society.
Really not sure what you're on about here.

First off, trying to use their inclusion of Bootstrap as a negative comes off as elitist nonsense. Second, the file you are discussing is actually 131KB uncompressed and 43KB when gzipped. No issues there.

This sounds to me like a serious case of "I hate this because someone else is making money off of it instead of me".
I don't want to be "that guy", but I was immediately turned off by the grammatically incorrect comma in the call-to-action. There should be no comma after "Say hello".
This is where it gets tricky: as the older worker moves up the value chain, they become more experienced, more specialized, and more "known." This actually makes it more difficult for them to get a job, since it is then more difficult to find a "right fit." Compare to the generic fresh faced new grad: they can go anywhere, and are also unknown quantities, so you just hire them and hope for the best.

Senior hires are more difficult to make than junior hires, and what is worse: someone who is "old" cannot go back to being junior even if they wanted (e.g. career switch) since our minds seem to be biased (right or wrong) into associating age with expertise. They don't even have a chance at working at the 21 yro salary.

There is also a pyramid to worry about: many companies are much fatter at the entry level and this narrows at each level as employees are lost or weeded out. Now, if you are 40, you have to compete further up that pyramid, meaning fewer spots available, meaning...life is much more complicated. It doesn't really make sense though: where do all those extra young programmers go when they are old? Our industry is killing itself through in its thirst for young blood, since it actually discourages people from entering our field.
Can you please re-read what you're replying to? I do not feel that it went through.

I presume from your response that you are OK with:

1. Making fun of mental illness. (I hope that mental illness doesn't have to afflict your family before you realize what's wrong with that.)

2. Making fun of working on an OS. (Still uncool.)

To answer your question, yes, I read his comments.
Would you actually recommend anyone learn MUMPS for any reason besides job reasons?
That's like saying Lance Armstrong took performance drugs, so if you want to bike like Armstrong then drugs is the best way to get there. In fact, for most people drugs would much faster get you into the hospital then into the Olympics. Same with socialism - some rich countries can take a lot of it and still maintain health, but less rich countries would just collapse.
what type of job do you have? something in the medical field?
The C++ standard calls pointers to members... well, pointers to members. I'm not offsetting anything: The compiler is on my behalf. It could create function stubs for all I care, similar to how one might emulate this feature in C#.

#include <iostream>

struct Foo
{
int bar;
};

int main()
{
int (Foo::*null_pointer) = nullptr;
int (Foo::*first_member_pointer) = &Foo::bar;

std::cout << *(std::ptrdiff_t*)&null_pointer << "\n";
std::cout << *(std::ptrdiff_t*)&first_member_pointer << "\n";
}

Running this code after compiling it with VS2012 results in, on my machine:

-1
0
Concision is as short as possible, but still conveys the idea. If you don't get the idea from a piece of code then the code is not concise. It's just short. Concision is a virtue.

Or do you mean there's some value in redundancy? I'd be interested in an example. Even java added the <> to avoid the repeated template parameter,

Foo<Things> x = new Foo<Things>();

becomes

Foo<Things> x = new Foo<>();
The infrastructure around ensuring the Basic Jobs were available is not trivial. Finding tasks to do, providing transport, checking that job-takers were actually doing the requirements, managing staff (including things like providing uniforms) - these things are not small items on a grand scale. Basically you're talking about creating a new tier of low-paid public servants.
If somebody thinks US is unable to attack anybody anywhere, he's been living under a rock for the last 300 years. And that rock was located on Mars.
I presume from your response that you're an arrogant, presumptuous asshole who can't conceive of the possibility that someone disagrees with your characterizations.
Personally, I love your #3. When you put it that way, it is insane that we think it's cruel to kill someone swiftly and painlessly by giving them drugs, but perfectly reasonable to kill someone slowly and painfully over a period of years by gradually denying them the necessities of life.

It boils down to diffusion of responsibility. If you kill someone directly, someone is directly responsible. But if you just let them go out into the world without the means to make a living, everybody is sort of responsible together, meaning no individual is strongly responsible at all.
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I do not want to enter into a discussion about the morality of child porn. However, regardless of you view on that, it is still a form of speech. US legal precedent explicitly allows for the limitations of speech under specific circumstances (such as intent and likelyhood to incite a crime, and malice with a reckless disregard to the truth). What is important to remember is that wheather we are censoring terrorist how-tos, child-porn, or political opponents we are still limiting speach.
For pointing out the utter vapid shallowness of your "compassion"? Guilty as charged, I suppose.
That's a pretty big assumption given the current status of welfare in the US.
LoseThos is a self-admitted schizophrenic who frequently posts racist and religious rants that are extremely diverged from reality. This has nothing to do with low level details of anything, and much more to do with the fact that LoseThos is genuinely mentally ill, yet also wrote a strange, beautiful, functional system.
Federal agents have lately been doing more searches of general-aviation aircraft. Typically on landing, when the filed flight plan had the plane coming from a state where marijuana has been decriminalized.
"variadic macros and bool are just adornment" in The future according to Dennis Ritchie (a 2000 interview) [1]

[1] http://www.itworld.com/lw-12-ritchie?page=0,1
Who could replace us? Why can the task of keeping them at bay not be automated?
>There still seems to be debate around the edges of simulated

Not just the edges. I've seen porn sites self censor obvious fictional porn depicting children, because of concern over hosting child porn.
Some people need to feel America isn't free or else how do you explain why they are not free. It has to because of America or else they are responsible for their own country.