skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think the best one that I didn't write was a long back-and-forth argument in a C header file where TRUE was defined as 0 and FALSE as non-zero. The original author of this product apparently had screaming fights about that being THE RIGHT WAY. Of course that surprised a lot of developers over the years and had been "fixed" several times only to be reverted back.
Do you have plans for a 32 bit docker? I would like to try with my django applications but I have to reinstall my Linux because it's only 32 bit.
See, this is really frustrating...

I mentioned this SAME STUFF (specifically the horrible lack of contrast) months ago just to be met with downvotes and handwaving dismissal.

NOW people agree. Better late than never, I guess.
are all of them in 1 cluster?
Valuable Lessons in Starting an Internet Marketing Company
here's the thing though, If google would have released an UI as bad as this (just my oppinion as an iphone user) all the tech press and the hardcore apple fanboys would have trashed it online and offline for months. Who will be the role model from now on for "near perfection", "attention to detail"? Just look at this: http://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2013/09/hon.jpg?... and tell me how you feel about it :)
It can export your mind map as a set of nested lists.
From tunefs(1) on older SunOS

.\" Take this out and a Unix Demon will dog your steps from now until
.\" the time_t's wrap around.
.sp
You can tune a file system, but you can't tune a fish.
Is CBA = cannot be bothered, or "arsed"? This is the first time I see an acronym used as a verb.
I'm the same way. I love Android, and will probably never move back to iOS, but after having seen an actual phone with iOS 7 all my scepticism about the new UI disappeared. It's a very beautiful UI. I was right there though laughing at the ugly icons (which I still think are ugly) thinking iOS 7 was a disaster until I actually looked at a phone and swiped around.

It's weird. The iPhone 5s seems to be without a doubt the overall best phone out there. The low light camera, the processor, all that stuff blows me away, but yet I don't want one. I think the iPhone is like a really fancy and nice race car, that I can do nothing but admire, but all I want is a truck. Android is my truck.
Here's something I recently discovered I had written when revisiting some code. Swallowing exceptions FTW :)

try
{
//some code that frequently dies
}
catch (Exception)
{
// "If he dies, he dies" - Ivan Dragor
}
Also have an 8 yo and I can't think of anyone in my peer group that isn't thinking about their child's college. Of course mine attends a private school, so we may have different demographics. As one of the parents told me, who's managed to send his other two kids to elite schools: if you wait until high school (to start working on the admissions resume), it's too late.
Is that actually relevant? I think a lot of those folks would recall their own memories of doing those things in a fond light, even while they deny it in the present for future generations.
Technically viable possibly, and about as economically viable as all other rail solutions offered so far in the US. Speed isn't the issue with rail, its point A and point B, well that isn't really fair. The number one obstacle to rail has always been politicians who take any well conceived route and demand it go to their hometown.
My point exactly. We love all things Apple, and I want to see those fixed.
The hardware has added a new form of isolation in addition to just memory protection though, that the process alone can't use.
Well, one site allows anonymous posting and practices open banning, while the other practices hellbanning and has the "karma" system which weights a users' posts as a function of their alignment with the norms of the community. They have completely different approaches to curating user identity and controlling conversation which I think are mutually exclusive, though both appear to be effective in their own way.

It would be interesting to see a post or an article comparing and contrasting the different methodologies between the two sites.
Joe Armstrong on Programmer Productivity
I'm sure this is good for many things, but it won't make a great digital oscilloscope. A sample rate of 125Msps is not really high enough for a bandwidth of 50MHz in that context. The low-end Rigol oscilloscopes do 1Gsps.
If you could combine something like this with a deep refactoring of all the library code that an app uses and there isn't a reason why you couldn't run any app this way.
It has a rather obvious "install conduit search powered by bing" checkbox.

Worth noting that uTorrent is doing exactly the same thing now. And for those who will immediately assume the worst, I installed it to grab the humble bundle that I'd just bought, surprised to see that what once was the micro and trustworthy uTorrent was now yet another piece of scumware.

I laughed that it also indicated that it would be auto-updated from thence forth. It is an unfortunate situation that updates in PC software now means "addition of crapware".
Didn't Sun have an experimental MVM about 10 years ago?
The only difference is that WP Metro looks better imho, but flat has real limitations down the road. I can't see how people will adapt their logos/apps/icons to fully comply with the flat trend - i think it's impossible and you'll end up with a messy mishmash of styles.
The Microsoft Word Problem
Docker Now Part Of Red Hat OpenShift
More than that, some people are antisocial and/or sad, yet are very good engineers. So employers and colleagues should be really interested in having those around, especially if they don't want to bother you with non-technical things.
Why smart questions lead to stupid answers
The date publish on the article is wrong? Its also cuts off and trys to get me to pay money?
You can still see them.
Putting crapware in installers and tricking people into installing it is unacceptable. Of course, I can't stop people doing it, but everyone who does it knows they are hurting their users in return for money.

I am easy to connect to my account name.

Happy now? How about you now discuss the issue, rather than ranting about how we shouldn't disagree with people who have more money than us.
Was the culprit found and outed?
She was the nyancat, I am not surprised.
The Staging Server.... Again
Nobody thinks bad things of his/her own children. That includes both startup children and programming language children :-)
Good points.

Can you elaborate on what steps you might take to guard against unknown techniques?
Coq: The world’s best macro assembler
''WARNING! DO NOT REMOVE OR MODIFY THE FOLLOWING COMMENTED LINES!

With no explanation why. But then it is vb6 so who knows, perhaps the comments do make a difference. ;)
This is an infringement on the rights to privacy of a cat.
They would have had time to improve existing apps and work out existing inconsistencies. iOS 6 was far from perfect, and there was plenty of room for improvement without a complete redesign.
Gene testing helps sort out bacterial, viral infections
why is he referring to web terms? Or does it just happen to be common terminology across design?
Awesome novel idea.
Who Writes Linux in 2013?
Do you really have data about the actual Rockstar developers?

That's what we are interested in knowing. Everything else you are writing is speculation and propaganda.
How we got extra few hours a day in the development of Colibri IO
I use a similar system. Very simple.
One permgen to kill them all
Genetics is normally very very data parallel. And often the ideal case for throughput computing. But there are rare times when doing modelling that a lot of chatter is required over interconnects. But even here people normally just get 4-6TB RAM machines instead of having lots of machines.
Enterprises unprepared for the “new normal” of massive software migrations
There is a very good description in this book: "Game Over: How Nintendo Conquered The World" http://www.amazon.com/Game-Over-Nintendo-Conquered-World/dp/...
No, they keyboard and message box are clearly on a layer above the speech bubbles. There is nothing wrong with this behaviour.
Actually Facebook has, and has had for the past few years, a "Download your data" option within the "Account Settings" page. That system collects your posts, messages, friend list, events, photos, and albums into one zip file. The structure isn't terrible (HTML), but it changed fairly often.
For ubuntu, try the ubuntu-restricted-extras [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu-restricted-extras
The new BlackBerry Z30 may be the last BlackBerry
What a Messy Desk Says About You
I love it too and would hate being confined in a closed office, ugh. I'm currently working from home 3 weeks out of 4 because of external reasons, and I'd gladly go back to the office full-time if I could. At home, I manage to stay motivated and productive, but at a constant effort. At the office I just have to immerse myself in the studious atmosphere, and motivation and productivity come without even thinking about it. Sprinkle on top of that some human interaction, and days are much lighter on the soul than they are grinding alone at home.

That being said, I have to say that I enjoy my colleagues very much and that they definitely don't spend their day doing distracting shit in the office. If I really need to focus extra hard (or just want some music), I'll put my headphones on and that's it. If anyone wants to talk to me, I'll see them coming in my peripheral vision a few seconds in advance and take the headphones off so the conversation starts naturally. I don't get disturbed by drive-bys enough to significantly affect my productivity - at least it's definitely not worse than the productivity drop I get by having to self-motivate myself at home.

I enjoyed a lot too my previous job where I shared an office with 3-5 colleagues. As a whole, all my experience at offices and workplaces have been great so far. All the common tales of workplace hell, with assholish managers, backstabbing colleagues and so on are completely incredible to me. I feel very lucky.
I've only been running iOS since it GM'ed ( which wasn't too long ago) but havn't seen some of the stuff shown there. iMessages certainly do that on my 4S. The notification badge on the Applications icon is always on top. I run into the battery low notification every day and it hasn't yet disagreed between values shown at the status versus the 20% and 10% thresholds you get these alerts from.

Are these possibly from an earlier beta ?
We should be able to do digital backups of a brain within the next century. If we can attach robotics directly to the spinal column and regrow dead / damaged neurons with stem cells, we can also put people in a literal brain in a jar robot, which would hopefully have the brain effectively reinforced (or better yet, just be a brain in a jar in a secure vault remote controlling an avatar robot).
The sole reason for Xen etc is that people were too lazy to do microkernels in the first place. It is exactly the same thing as we are seeing in the web browser with all the low level primitives like asm.js and WebGL: the good ideas inevitably start to creep back in (even if in a crap, watered-down form at first) given enough time. In fact, we could easily have proper MMU sandboxing in the browser by now if we were running proper microkernels. Instead we'll pay big performance and complexity overheads to do it in userspace.
Apple Chiefs Discuss Strategy, Market Share, and the New iPhones
With lots of people with huge TVs, with a substantial portion of them capable of 3D, they could stream the movie via Netflix as well.

Digital download is the future. They have chosen to ignore it at their own peril.
On windows I now use Media Player to rip CDs, but in the past I've used CDex. Simple UI, gets the job done without fuss:

http://cdexos.sourceforge.net/
My Startup Job Interview
Valve still sees Linux as the key to PC game success
3D lions, tigers and bears Oh my
I have always feel the old skeuomorphism UI is a pretty good design. It's quite unique and doesn't give me "color panic attack" because it has depth perception... I like Flat UI that are simple and clean, like few of Microsoft design these days. That's why I don't think iOS 7 gets it.

I think Apple is trying to capture low-end market using iPhone 5c (well... China), yet the production is not efficient enough to make it significantly cheaper. It's also a failure because Apple consumers are not that price sensitive. In addition to gold version of iPhone 5s (for the vain), and flat UI I upgraded last night, if their only innovation is finger print scanner, I'm not impressed at all at Apple this year.
I've been using iOS 7 since beta 1. My first reaction was: "wtf are these colors?". Now, after some months using it daily I'm used to it and even started to like it.
The plutonium-238 crisis
Microsoft launches Xbox Music on Web for free
Ah, I posted this almost a month ago https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6282350
Objective-C Guide For Developers: Part 4
Yes, nowadays gcc warns you about assignments in conditionals if you enabled it (e.g. with -Wall). But it probably didn't in 2003.
It expands the first conversation for an email conversation. This change in default settings (Gmail by default expands the latest message) is very painful! I un-installed it after 1 hour of usage...
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I'm with you. I think most of the entries are spot on. They're simple details, but when they add up, consciously or not, they leave a bad taste. I just can't use iOS 7.
Linux development by the numbers: Big and getting bigger
R.I.P Thanks for creating our childhood a thoughtful and amazing paradise.
Can anyone tell me how much did Batman Arkham Asylum, Injustice:Gods among us and Batman Arkham City made?(individually) I am asking this because I feel that DC puts their best creative writers behind games (Paul Dini for instance) instead of movies (forget TDK trilogy, that's Noolan empire). I wonder How much more Man Of Steel would have made if the plot was more cohesive and deeper.
This look really cool! :)

How does it handle that time has passed since the recording of the test?
Don't forget that the advancement of Jony Ive to oversee both software and hardware is still a relatively new development at Apple. All the design changes in iOS 7 have been done in little under a year, following the ousting of Scott Forstall.

Apple are definitely playing catch up on the software design front, but signs are that they're heading in the right direction. iOS 8 and OS X 10.10 will be interesting to watch, to see what the Apple's design team can manage with a little more breathing room in which to work.
At first this gave me paws, the results could have be catastrophic
That what? Why not?
I still have a little "battle fatigue" from writing an RTF converter about 15 years ago.

It went from "Oh, this standard is pretty simple. I'm actually impressed that Microsoft made a reasaonble standard, that's pretty cool" to "OMFG what have you done to my youthful innocence?" -- importing tables was one of those exercises where you put your pride on the shelf and just write the code in front of you.

"Okay, Microsoft. You want me to launch COM now, don't you? Fine. I'm down here in the muck, wallowing hip-deep in the filth, so what's one more flush of someone's toilet of an abstraction to me? I am invincible. Some day I will rise from this hole, ship the steaming mass I had to wrap around your already stinking soul, and know RTF no more."

And I haven't.
I certainly don't know: it could well be people rushing to get their musk on iOS after the Forstall ouster, but
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-08-09/apple-loses-china-s... could have something to do with it too. Maybe after that kind of bad news Apple decided it needed to get its new China-oriented iPhone out quickly to stop the bleeding, at the cost of time to dink alignments and overlaps?
Let me get this straight, NSA is not smart enough without backdoors in an OS
Definiately not the case for league tournaments. In the spring split of EU LCS they wore 3M Peltor ear defenders over small in-ear buds for their actual sound.

More recent tournaments they seem to have integrated ear defenders with headphones with Mic's on. (Previously they had 3 headsets, the ear buds for sound, the defenders then their sponsors headsets around their necks for the mic.)
My wife and I used to joke about this - we would ask each other "Are we grown-ups now?". Even after getting married, we didn't really feel grown-up.
We are both grown-up now - this happened when my first child was born.
This probably differs between cultures (I'm Scottish and my wife is English).
I definitely wasn't grown up at 19, and I was living in London holding down a full-time job in IT, and living in my own flat.
John McCain Op-Ed in Pravda: Russians deserve better than Putin
From what I've read zBase is a fork of Membase. So zBase is a direct competitor to Couchbase which is what Membase became.

One of the main advantage of zBase / Membase / Couchbase compared to many other NoSQL data stores is their strict consistency model (compared to eventual consistency in Riak for example).

This means that with a zBase/Membase/Couchbase cluster, if client A writes a new value to a key in the cluster and client B reads from the same key immediately afterwards, client B is guaranteed to (immediately) see what client A wrote.

While in eventual consistency models, client B might see the old value in that case (could be because the change might not have propagated to all servers in the cluster yet). If client B tried to read again a few minutes later he might then see the new value from A.

Strict consistency is required in a lot of applications such as game servers (which is why Zynga needs it).

For use cases that are more read-heavy, like holding the contents of a news website, eventual consistency is good enough.
"Capitalism" means private ownership of capital. 30% of industrial and service sector assets in China are stated-owned: http://blogs.worldbank.org/eastasiapacific/state-owned-enter.... About 45% of the industrial sector is state-owned, down from 70% in 1999 (still more than two decades after Deng left office, and more than a decade after China's economic boom began). The profit share of the state owned enterprises is even higher: 43% of industrial and business profits in China yield from state owned enterprises: http://thediplomat.com/2013/06/19/reforming-chinas-state-own....

In a purely definitional sense, China is at best a hybrid economy now, and was a primarily communist economy long after its economy started booming.

Even to the extent that China's economy is ostensibly privately owned, the government still exercises tremendous control. For example while the banks are joint stock companies, and thus reflect substantial private ownership of equity, the Chinese government still owns the majority of the shares in many of them giving them tremendous power over those banks.

I don't think China can be fairly called a "capitalist" economy. It's a managed economy where the managers have allowed the free market to allocate resources at the lower levels, while the central government directs broader, longer-term economic objectives.
Inspired by Ruby on Rails, Grails to go beyond Web app dev
U.S. Government asked Linus Torvalds to insert Backdoor Into Linux
In a unit test:

# And what father is there among you, who,
# if his son asks for a slice of bread,
# will offer him a stone?
# or if he asks for a fish,
# will instead of a fish offer him a snake?

my $fish = 'one-fish two-fish red-fish blue-fish';
my $snake = 'oooh! a snake! ooh! snake! ooooooooo!";

(Unit test proceeds to insert both $snake and $fish into a cache object, does a little bit of extra manipulation to recreate the error condition, requests 'fish' back, and -- until the code was fixed -- got the contents of $snake instead.)

That's right. A successful combination of biblical allusion with Dr. Seuss and _Badger Badger Mushroom Mushroom_.
I totally agree,but aren't already gamers psyched about GTA franchise (I am!!)? Yes GTA deserves it.
> Don't you feel a little sad when you vaguely remember those days? I'm only 26 but my memories about those "golden days" are becoming harder and harder to find.

Creating those kinds of moments for your kids is even better than experiencing them as a kid yourself (for me, anyway).
How Facebook plans to make internet.org happen
IOS 7 now blocking third-party Lightning cables
How do they manage that? 1Gsps ADCs are really pricy.
The username is fitting.
What the hell is wrong with users that you won't read the screen before clicking around on buttons!?

I've been dealing with a set of users at work who could easily help themselves and continue on with their work if they would actually, you know, read the dialog boxes I spent tons of time writing to explain to them why the operation they tried was not correct and how to do it correctly. They don't want "wizard" interfaces that take them step-by-step through things, but they clearly can't use form-based interfaces that provide every option at once.

I watch them, it is their job to use this computer to do their work. In every training session I've ran, if I can get them to slow down long enough to even notice that a dialog box displayed, then they easily figure out their next step and continue on. But if I let them go at their own pace, they get confused and don't even recall that a dialog box appeared in the first place.

And it's not just non-techies. Most of the programmers I've worked with don't read the compiler's error messages. All they do is double-click the line to jump to the section of code and then try to figure it out from there, often by random-walking changes to the code until they get something that compiles. "If it compiles, it's correct", apparently. Never mind that they could save themselves a ton of time and confusion to read the error message and realize that you can't call Substring on a float!

If there weren't pertinent information on those screens, in those messages, then the installation could be done automatically. "open, next, next, next" is inferior to "open" as a user experience, but those "next" steps are there because there is important information there.
It's not strange if you consider there were no female programmers on the team. Demographics is a different point all together.
That's the only reason I've ever used headphones.
Why I believe in Adobe and the web (op-ed)
Surely this is constructive. There is nothing there that cannot be acted upon. Any dev could treat these as a collection of bug reports.
Restoring the first web site
"...I think you'll overlook it's obvious flaws..."

Incorrect apostrophe, Aaaaaaargh!
I know that feel. My story is pretty much the same.

The most frustrating part is that Apple fanboys now justify their love for iOS 7 using the exact same arguments they used to dismiss Windows Phone.