skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally just sort of figured it out by doing BDD on a few small projects to get a feel for how things go. I'm not 100% "driven" now, but overall, it's pretty high. I tend to do Cucumber tests more than straight up unit testing, as I find them more valuble personally...

Doing is the best way to learn most things in the software world.
There's going to be a problem getting the phase right. You'll want to generate AC, but it won't be at the right frequency, and even if it is at the right frequency, it won't be in phase. These aren't impossible to solve, but it will make the units heavy and complex.
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My point was that the correlation between SAT and IQ is not perfect; I said nothing about its usefulness for college admissions.

You also imply that there is a single 'motivation' scale. There isn't. I am highly motivated at my startup and many other things. I'm highly unmotivated at answering the same math problem for the third time with different numbers.
"Philosophy 120a
November 4, 1987
Professor Fischer"

Apparently, he was writing it for a class: his class.
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GE CEO Jeff Immelt on how to renew America
I feel like a troll even suggesting that this isn't an amazing accomplishment, but did anybody else do a double-take when they read:

"For the Aster measurements, local elevation was mapped with each point just 30m apart. "

That's an impressive number of points for the entire earth's surface, it just doesn't strike me as being particularly remarkable in 2009, and I'm surprised that it is the _most complete_ terrain map.

I suspect I'm revealing my supreme ignorance of the state of GIS here, but I'd be interested in hearing what other people's thoughts are.
There is a divide and conquer strategy, that will come in advanced bithacks article.

I agree 1-5 are basic. That's why I say at #6 "Now it finally gets more interesting!!! Bit hacks #1 - #5 were kind of boring to be honest." I included them for completeness.

Here is method for counting one bits:

int one_bits(unsigned int x) {
x = x - ((x >> 1) & 0x55555555);
x = (x & 0x33333333) + ((x >> 2) & 0x33333333);
x = (x + (x >> 4)) & 0x0F0F0F0F;
x = x + (x >> 8);
x = x + (x >> 16);
return x & 0x0000003F;
}
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Indirection? Misdirection.
This essay appears to be pointing out a problem with many, if not the majority, of philosophies and ideologies: oversimplification.

Objectivism states that if all humans were to pursue their own self-actualization at all times, the world would automatically become a better place. Socialism states that if every man contributed his best and received what he needed, again, the world would become a better place. Neither is possible in the real world.

Economic hardship, social need, and lack of opportunity prevent many in the world from coming close to achieving objectivist self-actualization, and the greed and selfishness fundamental to human nature preclude many people from working for the benefit of others. Further, other elements of human nature, such as altruism and empathy, mean that there will always be many people working for the benefit of others rather than themselves. But, social and economic status often prevent these people from doing so, and require that they work for themselves, even if not achieving self-actualization in the process.

Essentially, the reality is that these philosophies are interesting to think about, but should not be used to govern the real world. The real world will always need a mix of capitalism and socialism, selfishness and altruism, love for oneself and love for others. It's never as simple as people like Rand or Marx make it out to be.
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There is a good point in this paragraph: in an attention/information economy, the act of selection has both a primary and secondary economic value. The primary economic value is satisfying the consumer's desire for information, the secondary is satisfying the information-providers desire for information about the consumer. Although the secondary economic value of a single click is almost infinitesimal, the number of collectors is relatively small.
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"The power industry is slow to adopt change for a reason, that being a conventional power plant may have a lifespan of over 50 years."

There's also the slight issue that the system seems to work acceptably well, and if you change it, you risk jeopardizing that. Conservatism is a rather rational, effective strategy for systems that require high reliability.

Also, adding more production sites is less of a risk than changing the transmission system. If a newfangled power plant doesn't work, there are other sources of power to draw from. Worst-case scenario is a power shortage. If you fuck with the transmission system, you risk creating new types of faults, in addition to needing to replace or recalibrate your substation equipment along the line. And if the transmission system goes down for an appreciable period of time, you get unplanned, uncontrolled, uncontrollable blackouts. And then the CEO has to try to explain why exactly he crashed the power grid by installing some type of hippie-shit wind turbines to the transmission lines.

I'm not saying it's a bad idea or that it can't be done. I'm saying it'll be a hard sell, the same way digital protective relays were a hard sell when they were invented in the 80's.
Than how do we get UIDs to contribute to OSS?
Who the hell goes out without any form of ID? Irresponsible.
It is exactly the same with chrome. I used to love it until it ended up being a dog in performance. I honestly thought it was because I started using the dev builds - slow debug logging?

BUT, I clear everything but saved passwords every month or so. It goes back to being snappy right away. You don't get those results even with a new install as it doesn't delete old data.

I think the chrome team must have known this. In the clear history dialog it lets you clear only "last week", month, etc which is perfect. I wish they would automate that though.
1)Korea 2) I have yet to meet a cd-rom in this century that didn't just work with linux, no matter what it declared.

After naming an asian company, then stating some vaguely related nonsense about talking inanimate objects, I will now imply there is some sort of link to your sex life: you are impotent.

Despite your pretense of cleverness, I did in fact see what you did there. You pretended that my ad-hominem attack, which trivializes his judgement based on my disbelief of the existence and his subsequent buying of some obscure hardware invalidates his sweeping generalization about an entire industry (an argument silly on its own since driver problems are a universal issue), is somehow the same type of ad-hominem attack as stating random unrelated facts and listing the implications of poor reasoning, reductio-ad-absurdum. Well sir, you are wrong, my blatantly ad-hominem attack (which is pretty absurd in itself) is not the same as your poor attempt at using a witty question to counter it.

Edit: the above run-on sentence is intentionally confusing and absurd.
It uses the video tag as default, but also provides a Flash fallback for when it's not available. This means it works in all the browsers.
An Objective-J port: http://github.com/boucher/tdparsekit
It's 16 in belgium, where I used to live. Oh, and how is this in hacker news? Seriously, I need someone to tell me why - honest question. Really.
Well, I don't believe that morality has anything to do with whether you enjoy what you do. I don't think I completely understand how I perceive morality, though, so I wouldn't want to get in an argument about it.

So perhaps we are on the same page. I don't think that the pursuit of self-sacrifice is inherently noble (or useful), but I don't think that the pursuit of self-actualization is inherently noble (or useful) either. I think that we should be enacting policies and laws encouraging people to act for the overall good of society, which often, but not always, will correlate with their own purely selfish aims. I think that it's possible to do that in a way that creates a better world than what we would find when everyone acts in their own interest alone.
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We are valuers; just because our lifetimes are finite does not mean that what we value vanishes when we die--there are children, friends, institutions, even a broader affection for the best of mankind in general, and love of justice and principle, that extend well beyond your own grave.
People in free countries and celebrities, usually.
Pandora hasn't worked in Canada for at least a couple of years, so I wonder if this is even a new development.
It's hard to know for sure... it's all conjecture and hypothesis at this point... If you have specific objections to the data, I'd love to hear them... You are right that the generalization doesn't apply specifically to all categories.. but it does seem to apply in general and provides a great starting point for further discussion and analysis, IMO.
I wouldn't necessarily discard the trick altogether. However, I'd say that based on my experiences/intuitions, it only works for short posts, and you have to clarify the point of the post by the time you get to the second paragraph. The trick was simply not the right thing for such a long article.

Packaging really matters where blog posts are concerned... the hook needs to be crafted well for each article, or people won't bite.

I'd take scott's advice and just repost... many people will probably read it then, since the subject is relevant.
The case in which it breaks is when a and b are the same variable, not when they have the same value.
I thought it was an interesting article. If you want to skip the long read, a better summary would be "you can save a lot of code and hassle by writing a few smart functional tests instead of a ton of unit tests."

I continue to assert that most unit tests are the same type of drudge work that good programmers try to avoid in other scenarios (data entry, text editing, email templates, deploy scripts, etc).
There's plenty of very expensive software - for example some of the really high end engineering packages I've used, for things like 3D modelling and fluid simulation, can sell for upwards of $5K per _seat_. But again, the value this software adds to the business has to be much more than its cost. A big company will easily spend $500K on software to manage construction materials if it means that it reduces their material wastage on a $1b project from 5% to 2%.

I'm sure other people here can provide plenty of other examples.
When I'm dead, how will my loved ones break my password?
Why is your "deduction and imagination" time a fixed quantity? The thrust of the argument in favor of learning through books rather than the internet is that you will spend an equal amount of external problem solving time, but more internal problem solving time as part of the information gathering process.
To anyone still paying attention to this thread: I'm taking back any implication that encouraging this is a good idea or that it would turn out well, after observation of all the idiotic ham-handed DDoS attacks presently being perpetrated upon Iran.
There's more to death than just getting old, and expecting to buy one's way out of it with technology is a bit over-optimistic. You don't have to accept it passively, but nor is it fundamentally awful.

One might question, for example, the overall value of medical enhancements which lead to gerontocracy, and the subsequent economic and political disadvantage to the generation that comes along afterwards, a problem that the developed world is beginning to experience.
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He meant if they are the same variable, not the same value. (E.g., you pass pointers to your function.)

int swap(int * a, int * b)
{
(*a)^=(*b);
(*b)^=(*a);
(*a)^=(*b);
}
int x = 15;
int *y = &x;
int *z = &x;

swap(y,z); //Now *y == 0
We also associate off-color humor with Digg/Reddit trolling, and with people who like to hear the sound of their own voice.

So another requirement is that humorous antics improve the signal to noise ratio.
Here's hoping that unladen-swallow succeeds as well.
Personally, I enjoyed most this comment from the bottom of that article:

So let's get this straight; you don't trust your wife, you think your daughter will grow up to be a nut job, and you're worried that your close friends will turn against you.
Man, I'd just hand it all over now. It sounds like you have nothing to live for anyway.

Maybe this should be a unit test for whether you are ready to marry somebody. If you can't bring yourself to trust them with your password - and trust them not to use it - you have commitment issues. :-)
this may be a dumb question, but is it usable on iPhone?
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It certainly requires a strong inner drive, but we don't always choose our drives. Some artists are wise and talented enough to also operate a business career, but the Van Goghs of this world don't always get to enjoy the fruits of their labors.

Mind you, I know some rich people that are so money obsessed they don't enjoy the fruits of their labors either...I'm thinking of one guy who collects fast cars but can rarely tear himself away from the office in order to drive them.
Another online course that starts with the basics:
http://math.ucsd.edu/~ebender/DiscreteText1/
Inspiring talk on programming by creator of CouchDB
Oh, it was discussed quite a bit.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=583025
Here is a real question. Why could they not use a simple single : for namespaces? It would be able to parse that just fine. And it would actually look clean/nice.
I also liked his "liberation" speech. "I never have to worry about being mugged for my laptop". Actually, they're just as likely to mug you. They just won't get your data. Even then, all they have to do is beat you over the head with a hammer until you give them the password... and even then, all they have to do is put in a LiveCD to format your hard drive and they have a new computer. Not so liberating...
Already posted 2 days ago:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=677381

It got 63 comments, so it might be worth reading it there.
I'd heard 300K not 200K. And if you're married it is total joint income. It's automatic
There is no organization or form to fill out (at least in the abstract).

You either do or don't meet the criteria.

In a funding round, you will likely be required (a) to fill out an Investor Questionnaire or (b) make formal representations and warranties that you meet one or the other of the two criteria for individuals.
frossie - You nailed it. Pointing out the huge variation of paid vs free characteristics among App Store categories is something we try to convey in the article. The generalizations apply to apps on average, and are not proven in this report. Look for upcoming posts as we reinforce our case with much deeper analysis.
Many people have played with removing the GIL over the years in python. The issue is not that it's impossible, but rather that it's impractical and slows down the single threaded case significantly. This article did not go into details about how C extensions manage the changes, or whether they're compatible at all. It also doesn't talk about performance penalties that may be incurred by synchronizing data structures. Until we have hard data on that, this can't be called a success.

That being said, the article didn't go into any detail at all. Perhaps these questions have been answered already. Either way, this is promising step for MacRuby.
put it high on that list. Definately worth reading
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The new IE8 commercials are very ... odd.
Either one's individual income over $200K in each of the two most recent years

or joint income with that person's spouse in excess of $300,000 in each of those years

plus a reasonable expectation of the same income level in the current year.
One of the really great things about software development is that reality, rather than a committee, gets the final word. I think that unit testing is a great idea, in theory and in practice, but I do think that the unit testing may get to the point where some practitioners who are not careful will spend far longer to complete a project with no discernible improvement in stability or maintainability than someone who uses unit testing more judiciously. I have used the end-to-end automated functional test approach before, and it did enable me to find problems pretty quickly. However, I would have died a slow and painful mental death without unit tests in some of the tricker sections of my code.

That said, yeah, "unit testing is a waste of time" is link-bait-ish.
(to imitate sibling poster @roc)

I'd rather reduce the overhead of gathering information, so I can think about the actual problem rather than think about where I'm going to acquire the information.
Absolutely love what he says about unions and how they were more focused on their people than getting the job done. There are some times when covering your own ass is just not the right think to do.
This seems to ignore the fulfillment of the work. There's always more money to be made if you're willing to be miserable.
It is unfortunate that the knife skills photos show poor (an potentially dangerous) grips.

The shots of breaking down the onion are much better technique.
read the book. He almost tries to discourage people from attempting it - and certainly points out the pitfalls.
As Francisco d'Anconia would say, 'check your premises.' Your argument is predicated on the assumption that there are billions of people on earth not capable of living the life they imagine. Exactly Rand's point is that this assumption of yours is not the case, and that, in fact, these people choose not to live the life they imagine, either because they refuse to work hard enough for it (they're lazy), they consciously decide to loot the efforts of others by force (they steal), or they simply don't have the ability to do so (they're incompetent). In all cases Rand's argument is that these people should not be entitled to any of the productive efforts of those who produce.

I agree with the original commenter that the essay completely misses Rand's point. Rand does not ignore the complexities of social systems set up to repress and down-trod the disadvantaged. Such social systems are precisely the product of the looters who attempt to destroy productivity and creativity, not the result of a self-actualized group who achieves their collective self-actualization at the expense of others. The essayist's example of Genovese's murder and the conclusion he draws from it is a complete oversimplification. A selfish person would help a fellow human in distress for any number of reasons: to stop an injustice they see as unconscionable, for a reward, so that they could live with themselves afterwards, etc. 'Selfish' does not mean that one does not help others; it simply means that if one helps others it is for their own purposes, not because of charity or pity.

I've thought many times, though, that Rand conveniently ignores (insofar as I've read) the case of those who truly can't care for themselves: the sick, the insane, and perhaps the crippled as well. But it should be noted that when asked, Rand categorized herself as a novelist who developed a philosophy for the sake of writing her novels, not a philosopher who wrote novels.
I can only hope that the article was written by one of Professor Fischer's students, rather than the professor himself :)
Is that a MOS 6502 in the image of the article? I want that chip.
I've changed the title on the post and added an Update to the top of it. I'd rather not resubmit to hacker news since I think it's taken up enough attention already. Thanks to you both for the suggestions.
Interesting, this seems to be the result of this post on BoingBoing: http://boingboing.net/2009/05/27/what-will-happen-to.html

I liked Jacob Appelbaum's reply best: http://boingboing.net/2009/05/27/what-will-happen-to.html#co...
Not agreeing or disagreeing with OP, but ramen profitibility sucks if your life sucks...
The psychologists seem quite certain of their "g" factor, so I assume it exists, but I doubt anyone has ever argued that an intelligence test didn't have statistical errors.

Just consider how differently teenagers mature and how that might affect their learning. Lots of them do sports instead of reading. A friend of mine never studied in school because she had an unknown eye problem; new glasses at 30 and she could read effortlessly. Some are depressed or suffer unknowingly from a disease. Etc.

Edit: As noted, I should have written "any researcher in the subject" instead of "anyone" in the first sentence. :-)
I'll still be driving my piece of shit Civic after I make my first million.
Or, if applicable, take the subway/tram/train/bus/bike.
Your entire comment is predicated on him being concerned about losing the laptop. Clearly he isn't. Clearly he's only concerned about losing the data. After all, a laptop can be replaced.

With that point of view your comment becomes rather less relevant.
I wouldn't go as far as flagging every codinghorror post...I would limit it just the ones that are related to actual programming code/coding paradigms...which is admittedly almost all of them.
So thats why I can't code today. I'm taking a nap.
I've always wondered about this, and one of the ideas I've been playing with my head is the distributing the keys between a few people, and if something were to happen, they can combine them to unlock my secret (all the keys must be present)

SECRET xor KEY_A xor KEY_B xor KEY_C xor KEY_D = PUBLIC

This is kind of lame, but the same principle...
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Ty for that!
Your point is valid -- Amazon does enable third-party sellers onto the platform that don't utilize Amazon's shipping infrastructure (FBA, which is a recent development). But online retailers can easily leverage FBA to become as competitive with Amazon in terms of shipping perks.
they were in the Luftwaffe and a part of the war machine of Nazi Germany
I have used VMWare Fusion for a couple of years now and have no complaints whatsoever. It's stable and not noticeably slower than using Boot Camp. USB pass-through and networking just work. You can even launch a Windows program directly from Finder. My one gripe--slow access times for the host-client file sharing interface--was fixed with 2.0.

I have never used any other VMWare product, or Virtual Box, but I thought I would add my $.02 since my experience seems to differ from most others here.
Interesting, but then if one person loses it, you're out of luck.
That would work if self actualisation would be brought by money. But it's not, it's something which is much more encouraged by individual freedom then by any kind of welfare, however indirect. There are cases where abject poverty stops one from living the life he wants - but abject poverty is something completely eradicated in western countries (yes, including the homeless).

I am not completely against taxation btw (I support the idea of free healthcare, for example). But when it comes to getting to live "for yourself", taxes and welfare don't matter. Attitude does.
Interesting analysis of a problem that I don't have. Either I'm not nearly as paranoid as I should be, or I just don't feel like anything of value that I will be handing over to my heirs (whoever they turn out to be) will be digital in form. They'll get a chunk of cash and a bunch of computers with open source software on it.