skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I implemented a fairly sophisticated system for navigating directories based on pushd and popd. I also set up a system based on CDPATH to hop quickly to directories I go to frequently. I fell out of the habit of using them once my usage patterns changed, though, and, since I gave "cd -" a new meaning, sometimes it confuses me. It's hard to come up with an interface that's intuitive enough to be future-proof.
I came to the city of Barcelona without having friends. Being Latin I had no trouble socializing with Europeans, the trick is don't give a about trying. I made friends quickly and still making friends until today (11 and a half years have passed).

The main tactic I've took was to make friends with people from work. This introduced me to the social circle of several people, especially second tier, friends of my coworkers. This had good crop of friends but not enough nor quality.

The second tactic I've took was dating women. Every woman I met in person I was proposing stuff, to do things, practically, this was my shameless attitude and gave many fruits, especially because Europeans love the active attitude to the passive one. Dating out with girls I met more friendly people, but the bad thing was that leaving the girl i was losing also mostly of their friends.

The third tactic was going to conferences and meetups small issues where I met people who liked the same thing to me, basically, is where most friends did and where I had more sexual adventures too :). Basically, after meetups I invited everyone to party at my flat, or dinner, the usual stuff europeans do.

After 11 years I can not complain, I feel supported by my friends.

What I learned is: learn more languages to speak the the most possible people and be open, relaxed and careless. Life came a bit easier this way. I don't know if this can apply perfectly at USA but in Europe isn't so easy as in Latinamerica.
You're referring to legacy MUMPS code. It's possible to write it more expressively (why do you think the examples on Wikipedia are like that?) People don't usually capture that nuance, sadly because many people don't care.

Yes, it's a bear to sift through poorly written MUMPS code. Yes, the language gives you more than enough rope to hang yourself. However, it's also possible to write code legibly and take advantage of abstractions that MUMPS provides (chiefly persistent arrays -- which are now ACID).

https://robtweed.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/making-mumps-accep...
About 10 years ago or more I read about a "vocal font" project. Where singers voices were samples and a vocal font of sorts was created which would be used to compose music digitally in the sound of any artist. From what I recall it was in development and they were far along. About once a year I try a google search but I have never been able to track it down again.
If you take out the battery why are you using this pouch?

Again, this pouch is useless.
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> if it was valuable enough to other people to be considered a "service to society," then she could be getting paid for it.

Why do you assume she couldn't be getting paid for it? Maybe she's just not charging.
Good work Tom, Yehuda, and team. I had very difficult time recommending Ember during the transition phase (mostly because the router was impossibly difficult to understand). I wanted to like it so bad, and now I finally think I can. I'm going to reboot the project I was working on and give Ember 1.0 a shot.
Hardware certainly has the concept of a bit, otherwise it couldn't have bit operations, it doesn't have a data type that's a bit though, but it neither has structs or in some cases long longs or pointers.

bool helps statically analyzers better as well.
The app wouldn't accept a password, just a time and location to unlock. I'm not sure if that's better, but it technically sidesteps that issue.
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I'm somewhat late to the party, but I spent some time playing with procedural colour picking using space-filling curves (the Hilbert curve in particular). I describe the basic technique here:

http://corte.si/posts/code/hilbert/portrait/index.html

And you can see what this looks like when used to visualize sorting algorithms at large scale here:

http://corte.si/posts/code/sortvis-fruitsalad/index.html

And here:

http://sortvis.org/

I've also published an Open Source project that might be useful to anyone who wants to play with these ideas:

https://github.com/cortesi/scurve

There are some limitations to the process as described - most obviously the fact that I'm using the RGB color space which is not the best match for human color perception. RGB is convenient because it is a regular cube and therefore easy to map onto the Hilbert curve, but with a little work the process could be generalized.
Great example to illustrate that the whole discussion is somewhat pointless.

Although it really seems likely that there are too few female villains in movies, skewing people's perception of women.
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I hang out a lot more with people now when you have constant access to a computer. If a situation is boring you can always pick up your phone until something interesting happens.
...which was ruled by the Communist Party of the Soviet Union.

My knowledge of Soviet history is incomplete, but surely you're not suggesting that the USSR didn't claim to implement communism.
Lately I've been giving J a shot, and if Q is anything like it (IIRC Q comes from K and K is a parent of J via APL) it definitely is...
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Don't forget about a significant chance of dying or losing limb from any simple cut.
ok, but what on earth do you do? Your site is just as details free as your post
Exactly, I've been lately trying to connect with new people. But almost everyone everywhere seems to be really preoccupied. Usually with whatsapp, kikchat or facebook. So even if they're there, they are not approachable or mentally present at all.

Disclaimer. I'm just the person who's doing exactly the same (except with different apps) when ever I have even shortest moment of waiting time. Usually reading HN or other tech stuff or books.
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Well, thats interesting. I was working out of the wikipedia page not the github with more content.

I see the last column is for constant numerics and zero = 10000, interesting. I bet making a deposit or withdrawl of more than 10000 at a time takes some interesting code (or more likely, the UI hardcodes only 4 spaces)

Per the writeup, I imagine having 7 programmers on staff helped figure out what to do.
I'll second the above with a link to dlwicksell's node.js binding to M and the Intersystems version (Rob Tweed discussed the open source version by dlwicksell in the presentation):

https://github.com/dlwicksell/nodem

The Intersystems version:
http://docs.intersystems.com/cache20122/csp/docbook/DocBook....

There could be some very interesting things done with this, using M as a NoSQL DB with javascript jquery-style abstractions for interacting with the DB.
It's free to park on the street in most of NYC. And, with alternate side of the street rules, spaces open up every couple of days. You just need to be there when the street-sweeper goes by so you can grab one.
I don't think he/she was going for that effect. The Amsterdam canals are all nice and red in this image. And not just the district famous for that color.
> Is there something particularly gendered about these roles that requires a man to play them?

Here's an example: a movie about the Irish mob in Boston. Is there something particularly Irish about being an Irish mobster in Boston that these roles are required to be depicted as Irish? Or should the authors be obliged to include black, Asian and Latino actors (and actresses) to play them?
Illustrating why Google Glass is such a bad idea. In recording their lives people are forgetting to live it. Viva life!
I thought they solved that problem with XP Mode - which is licensed with the same key as your Windows 7 or 8...
I am absolutely suggesting that. It's revisionist to claim otherwise. They implemented socialism with the aim of eventually bringing about communism, in line with historical materialism and dialectical materialism. But you need a few generations of socialism (and possibly Permanent Revolution rather than Comminusm in One Country, which was the big feud between Stalin and Trotsky, for example) before you could possibly transition to communism.
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Turns out the preprocessor is actually an organically grown pseudo language (as opposed to a properly designed language feature) inside C, which later got standardized through an incredibly complex set of rules and definitions.

This can be used to explain much of C. :)
I haven't played an ios game that has come anywhere near the quality or fun of a Nintendo game, and the lack of physical controls is the primary reason for that. I absolutely do not want Nintendo to develop phone games. It will take resources away from them making actual good games, and dilute and weaken their brand. This advice sounds like it's coming from a person who does not play or does not understand nintendo games.
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I've come across this problem a lot of times.
1.My non less techy/friends/small business owners etc suggest me to build a site/app which they think would be a great use. The thing is their are already a ton of free and paid solution just a google search away.

2.Professionals who do not know the good tools for their use on web(imagine meeting a front end Dev who has never heard of codepen.io etc)

Whenever I show them something that they could use they are just so thankful.

So I've always felt that their is a huge gap. The app devs can benefit from this untapped market. But problem is how to solve this problem. Building a search engine will engine will not help since these folks never bothered to google it in first place. So what could be the solution? Suggestions?
There are too many raw edges on a Nokia 301, probably related to new features (which are not many). One can google for them. To me the most annoying is that panorama mode fails to save the photo ~20% of the time on a large and mostly empty SD card. 39 days standby is a lie. Mine barely manages a week of standby on 2G only. Earlier versions of this platform are more robust and seemingly less power hungry. I wish I had bought a 2-3 year old one.
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bool a = someInt & 0x02;

is perfectly fine in C99. 0 converts to false, non-zero converts to 1 when assigning to a _Bool.

What's not fine is people creating their own compatibility booleans where they define true as 1, as that would indeed break(rather odd..) code such as

bool a = someInt & 0x02;
if (a == true)

If the bool above is not the C99 _Bool, but just a typedef to another integer type, you end up with if(0x02 == 1) evaluating to false.
There were questions a day or so ago about running Docker on Windows.

Would it be possible to build a react OS based system that supported running Win32/64 based applications in an isolated environment on Windows or POSIX?

For instance, running a CSRSS and all child processes with a binary Registry.
There's no real need to speculate about the lives of medieval peasants when similar comparisons could probably be made with many parts of the developing world today, in villages where most people - earning just above subsistence - spend most of the time doing very little, even when there are obvious minor home improvements they could be undertaking given sufficient motivation. As there's nothing they know of that they can do to earn more income or improve their social status in their current environment, they do spend a large proportion of their time watching TV, or playing board games, or snoozing in the shade. The leisure time is real, but so is the lack of real earning opportunity and the certainty of dying - probably prematurely - as poor as the day they were born. And if all their kids survive to adulthood, there'll be even less work to do but perhaps not enough land or other means of earning sustenance to go around...

The number of people willingly leaving those peaceful villages to work in appalling conditions for a couple of extra dollars a day in arguably futile pursuit of prosperity definitely outnumbers those moving in the opposite direction.
It's pretty easy to fabricate a story to support whatever position you want:

You get laid off and along comes unconditional basic income. Your $20K is covering your basic expenses pretty well, but you're bored out of your skull (you sold the TV after you were laid off). Rob says he's getting the band back together and after a while you guys think you're starting to sound pretty good.

A year later your boss calls and offers you your job back. He wants to pay your $6K, you negotiate part time for $4K so you still have time to devote to the band. Your boss agrees since he can just hire another person or two for less than your old salary.

With your extra money you pay for time in a recording studio and new instruments. Your band becomes wildly successful and you quit your job since royalties are now making you wealthy beyond your wildest dreams. And so you rise above your entry level beginnings and tell people stories of how you've achieved the American Dream until you die.
I bought an ex-rental unit since they tend to be cheaper and built more sturdy in a lot of ways to handle constant use by people who might not treat them the best.

Sadly we weren't able to live in it as long as we'd hoped due to having to relocate back to Canada for a family illness during the winter but while we had it things worked fine.

One of the harder things I found though is the feeling of never really being clean. We had a shower in it and showered everyday, we cleaned the inside regularly but still you always felt a bit grungy compared to living in a house/apartment.
Web Components. Yes! They even knocked off views off the guides.
hey sunil, you've just received an email yesterday :)
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Your points are inconsistent with each other: first you claim that no one's pattern of consumption will be affected, but then you move to claiming that the prices of basic goods will change. Those two things cannot both be true: which would you like me to address?

Overall, your main flaw is that you're considering the economy an entirely static thing. But as the demand for basic goods increases, it creates new business opportunities for both incumbents and potential entrants into the market. Capital seeks out profits, and relatively more capital would flow into the provision of basic goods. That's what prevents the basic income from dissipating into worthlessness.
Twenty years ago I read a book on strategy. The author's thesis was that large-scale warfare were going to be a thing of the past, because defensive weaponry was so much cheaper than offensive weapons. A tank can be taken out of service with a guided rocket a 1/50 of its price, same thing for an aircraft.

I think what we are seeing here is a revolution in warfare, like it happened in World War I, when the introduction of the tank brought movement back onto the battlefield.
Do you actually imagine that wealthy people are like Scrooge McDuck with a vaults full of cash in the basement, just sitting there, "doing nothing"?
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I get about 10mpg with mine(30' with an E450 chassis).

Not so much young people but Australia has "Grey Nomads" who tend to be retired people that spend their time travelling around the country living in their RVs full time.
The Cortex-M3 and M4 ARMs are Mostly Harvard; just pored through the datasheets to make sure. The first half a gig of address space has a separate bus for code and data, and then has yet another bus for all the memory space above that. They're weird little chips.
Out of interest, were you working for EMIS by any chance?
I had the joy of having to work with MUMPS systems for which the source was not available, so the first step was to find (and complete, as it was not complete) a decompiler. Fun times!
I think you may be a good fit with these guys. Not sure how far Eindhoven is from Amsterdam but worth a try:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6310501
Chicago, IL -- Python/PostgreSQL/Linux

Prometheus Research (http://prometheusresearch.com) is hiring a software engineer proficient in Python to help automate our software delivery, assist in data processing pipelines, and help improve our open source RexDB (http://rexdb.org) platform. Interest in HTSQL (http://htsql.org), Ansible, Docker/LXCs is a plus.

Ideally you are in Chicago, or New Haven, CT; however, Telecommute is available for the right person who is dedicated to improving medical research practice and tools.
All formes of BI are paid for with a tax, if your making say ~50k the money that tax equals the amount you receive from BI. But if your making 200k you end up receiving far less from BI than you pay in taxes even if there depositing money into your account every month.

PS: Of note BI is assumed to replace social security so someone making 50-80k may effectively pay significantly less in taxes prior to retirement but receive far fewer benefits in retirement.
It's a difficult topic, but I can't help thinking that many 20th and current troubles have their roots in idealists wanting to westernize their societies after seeing the western (and/or soviet) prosperity. So far the attempts seem to have pretty poor success rate. Of course there are no easy answers here. But spreading the gospel of western lifestyle seems to be as likely to incite revolutions and bloodshed as it is likely to pacify.
> Most of the crime movies I like are based on real events.

Tell you what. Provide some examples so that I can actually work through one and explain how it could have been adequately feminist without detracting from your entertainment. It would be helpful if it has a Wikipedia article detailing the original real life inspiration, since I don't know anything about this subject.

> Do you really suggest that authors should be obliged to cast at least 50% of roles as females even when it does not reflect the reality being portrayed?

Nope. As long as any females present in the movie are portrayed with equal realism, it's fine. This is virtually never the case. I recently read a 2009 feminist critique of The Wire which noted that despite Snoop and Kima, females were depicted fairly poorly overall. I love The Wire. But they were right.

One of the biggest hurdles with feminism in entertainment is that the problem isn't with particular movies. It's that the crushingly overwhelming majority of the movies are sexist. So you find that no one is willing to be the first person to decide to not be sexist, because you're breaking the mold. It wouldn't be terrible if only, say, 20% of movies were sexist. But the percentage is closer to 90, 95.

Just like video games are only for boys, so of course they're all male fantasies. Or comic books are only for boys, so of course they're all male fantasies.
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Smart American kids my age had C64s and Apple IIs. We all entered 6502 machine code into DATA statements in BASIC programs.

Yeah, but (similarly to the 'environment' that is the subject of the post) those DATA statements contained the output of some sort of tool. Nobody wrote machine code this way.
There was also a steady increase in labor effecency and total agriculture output which reduced the demand for agricultural workers.
I never understood h1b slave labor. I had personal experience seeing just how hard corporations will work foreigners, and casually fire them if they daren't.
The only time I was talking with a girl to do something more that was my mistake
Hey,

First: Everyone feels awkward at that age. That's why they're the "awkward teenage years"

Second: A lot can change in a year. I have countless stories of people going from feeling like they'll be alone forever to a girlfriend that loves them and a good tech job a year later. The stories I have involve people of all ages too, because a lot can change in a year.

Third: Be open. Try new restaurants and see new movies. Join new clubs outside of programming (e.g., Chess, Go, mobile design, biking, whatever) This is important because it helps when striking up conversation when doing the next part.

Fourth: Grow your social networks. You don't have to be best friends with everyone (and shouldn't!) but having a bigger network does make things easier. With stuff from #3, you have higher odds of getting along with people.

Fifth: I'm not that old, so lots of people in this thread will have better advice than me, but you'd be surprised how far you'll get with just those four items. I was.
Because there are so many female heroes.
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No apologies are necessary. It's hard to detect sentiment over teletype, I usually assume something close to the worst case myself.

To answer you WRT "Marx's ideals of classless economics" or what my idea of that is[1], In my opinion BI falls pretty far short of "Marx's ideals of classless economics"

[1] As steveklabnik has astutely pointed out, and I will readily admit that my notions of Marx and communism are colored by my Reagan era childhood's definition of communism. I wouldn't trust my own or anyone else's definition until I've done a bit more reading.
Now there's an interesting argument! If I understand you correctly, your argument is that BI would effectively improve our net economic efficiency (in addition to individual quality-of-life for the poorest) by eliminating waste (in time, money, red tape, etc) from the slew of bureaucratic programs we currently have? That's an extremely interesting point, and one I hadn't considered. BI as a dollar-for-dollar alternative to current entitlement programs sounds very attractive.

I hadn't considered the >100% tax rate on the impoverished, either. I wasn't even aware that this happens - it sounds absolutely horrific, and should be abolished posthaste if it's anything like you describe. Can you point me at some reading material on that sort of thing?

As for the $40k-and-above folks, I definitely think that it could encourage exploration by people with little to lose, but I don't think it would significantly affect people with mortgages and families - quitting your job to pursue a dream that fails still means losing your house and not being able to consistently feed your kids even on $10k BI. I definitely think it would help a certain set of people, and I would love to see entrepreneurship encouraged and facilitated; my concern is that it would do so by disproportionately penalizing existing entrepreneurs, by front-loading the majority of the cost for such a system onto them, and making them bear the brunt of the penalty for it if it fails.
Incidentally, I'd really like you to read this in case you haven't:

http://www.socialjusticeleague.net/2011/09/how-to-be-a-fan-o...
Do you really think it's funny?
I don't.
It was an entry level teaching job and 2 of the people at the interview apologised after the interview. Call is arse covering maybe, but my wife believed that the others in the room were angry at the question being asked. It was 100% the situation that was being thought of when the law was written. She would have written to the human rights commission about the situation if it wouldn't have immediately tarred her as a trouble maker early in her career. And so the situation is allowed to continue.
Point ceded pending further self-education!
I was specifically addressing employed job seekers. I would assume that unemployed job seekers would have no preference over what day it's posted on.