skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've seen the claim that "programming languages are just tools for telling computers what to do" quit often, and I think it really misses the mark to the detriment of whoever believes it.

Programming languages are "just" tools for expressing ideas. Ideas that a computer can then run. A programming language really is a language and it ultimately affects what you can easily say, how you say it and even how you think about problems. Put another way: semantics are important.

Of course, if you only know one language well and you believe it's just a way to direct your computer, you won't realize this.
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Without joining a mining pool or broadcasting the transaction, wouldn't it be incredibly difficult to have a chance to successfully beat all the others and mine the block yourself?

Or is the assumption that anyone who is able to solve the puzzle will also be able to mine any and all blocks instantly?

And why couldn't you re-steal the award back again?
I can't believe that the article doesn't contain the slightest mention of any of the numerous disasters that took place under Ballmer's leadership. The writer makes it sound like Ballmer's only fault was that he was only a little too slow to change the company. In reality Microsoft lost billions due to tactical business errors like the Surface, Xbox hardware failures, Windows Phone, and the Zune.
Microsoft's new high-tech headquarters for the fight against cybercrime
For those interested: https://www.youtube.com/feather_beta
Purchased, thanks.
So far I've watched 11 minutes and haven't really learned anything about startups or programming
To be fair, you cannot design a useful grid system where the HTML is void of layout info. I mean, sure you can do something like this:

<div class="features>
<div class="feature">...</div>
<div class="feature">...</div>
<div class="feature">...</div>
</div>

But the problem with the above is that you can't easily distinguish between the three features. They are all the same, unless you do some type of "first feature is 2x the size". So you end up with code like this instead:

<div class="features>
<div class="feature feature-primary">...</div>
<div class="feature feature-two-images feature-narrow">...</div>
<div class="feature feature-last-no-thumbnail feature-small hide-on-mobile">...</div>
</div>

There isn't really anything semantic about the added stuff (except maybe the feature-primary class). You end up trading off between custom class names for every use case (ephemeral-photographic-feature) with all types of custom rules, or you end up saying "screw it, I'll just have semi-semantic markup that directly affects layout".

I am also starting to think that at some point semantic markup starts benefiting search engines much more than anyone else. After all the average user with credit card in hand has no idea if the credit card field has a class of "FormFieldCCNum__1" or "credit-card". The developer does, and that's who these tools should be optimized for.
Is anyone actually shipping anything performing in the sub $6/GH/s range? Seems like everyone claiming that has failed to ship. Then again by the time these guys do ship something it may not matter much given the amount of hashing power coming online in the next 90 days (assuming knc, hashfast and others actually hit their targets).
Now all that's missing is comments - how about this?

https://github.com/saibotd/embeddit
wish i would have met you 2:30 ago ;(
...which is of zero importance to the primary users of Go, i.e., Google, as they have a unified code base.

But nobody prevents the Gccgo people from implementing their implementation differently. (It's just that for Google, this is really not a pressing issue.)
Why I believe Bitcoin price will reach $300 very soon (Oct 17th)
One of the problems I have with formal education is that nobody has ever considered how to motivate students. As you say, most subjects really are a function of time and effort. Even with serious roadblocks, a good tutor should be able to teach you if you spend the time. The only place where you can't teach someone is where there are discoveries to be made.
Retain Your Walls
Another heavy rain has fallen. You make your way around the house to the driveway. Strewn across it is the same dirt, leaves and stone mess you have after every storm. What can you do about it? You need to call a retaining wall contractor. Calling a Colorado fencing contractor will soon put your mind at rest. These specialists can design a crib wall as high as 32’ feet tall or a small retaining wall if that’s what’s needed. With a retaining wall contractor, your concerns will be taken care of and the mess will be out of your driveway permanently.
The thought of the CEO of Ford taking over Microsoft just seems crazy to me.

I'm sure he's a competent manager, as Balmer seemed to be, but is he a tech visionary?
It depends on your perspective. If you're one of Microsoft's shareholders (the perspective the WSJ may be writing for), market capitalization is not directly relevant.

If Jane owns 100 shares of ABCD that most recently traded at $10 apiece, and then the issuer issues 1,000 new shares to its employees but the shares continue to trade at the same price, the market capitalization has increased but Jane's stake hasn't changed in value.

Shareholders do care about price return and dividends. They might also care about total return, subject to some reinvestment strategy and tax regime.

Market cap is also problematic because it can't be calculated in real time. Reporting companies generally only publish a share count once a quarter. They publish two numbers: the gross count of shares outstanding on a particular day (which doesn't count in-the-money options and other live claims on a company's equity) and the fully-diluted share count averaged over the quarter (without publishing the strike price distribution of the options).

Neither one is exactly what you'd need to calculate an implied whole-company market valuation anyway, so in general any attempt to measure market cap is necessarily going to get an uncertain, out-of-date, imperfect metric. (A useful one, don't get me wrong! But not what principally matters to the shareholders.)
Same here; I used to be a huge fan of D but then C++11 came along and solved most of my problems (and some that I didn't know D had).
maybe too much focus on the market opp in the spp and not the problem you are solving?
That's 1800s.. a factor of 10 more!
Both this and Youtube's own Feather beta seem to lack support for playlists. I like playlists for listening to music at work, for example Brad Neely's "America, Now" videos (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OPQrXUpvkuc&list=PLD8217FD2EE...). Also useful for watching web series like Marble Hornets. I love a simpler experience, but I think content creators will want playlists.
Thanks for the link. That's actually a pretty good enumeration of my issues with the current system in the US. I don't think I'd go so far as to say eliminate all prisons, the sorts of prisons we have today are not the sort that we should be using.
> Governments can't do anything well because they are bureaucratic nightmares.

And what's the difference between a government and a large corporation? "No government can do anything well" is lazy thinking.
we generally have never look at market opp. SoundBrush started of as a fun project that ended up helping people create music that otherwise couldn't
Fortunately not everyone of us is in the US so this does not apply to every reader of HN.
3 apps that keep you organized
While it's not explicitly mentioned on the page, the Chromecast icon is visible in the screenshot, so apparently there's parity there with the Android app, which is nice. Google Music's web version strangely doesn't support Chromecast, leaving iOS people with no way of using Chromecast at all.
I once lost a license key for a major enterprise system. It had to get a demo up and running ASAP. Luckily, it was an ASP.Net app. I was able to use .NET Reflector, find a code rewriting plugin, and I blanked out the function that did the cert check (always made it return true) and I was able to login.
StatusPage.io looking for remote dev/CTO
Fairly simple

- We're profitable, didn't raise a bunch of money. We're more of a "37 Signals" company than a "Snapchat" company.

- We're building a remote team, and are looking for our first dev hire to eventually become our CTO

- We have some of the best customers, many you've heard of, and they're great to work with (read: no support tickets)

- We're trying to make downtime as awesome as it can be, because our customers can't seem to get away from it

Full time salary + benefits available to the right candidate, will start as contractor for 4-8 weeks full time before coming on permanently.

Send whatever information you think we'll appreciate to hn@statuspage.io, and we'll get back to you.
My question is what's next for Steve? Being Bill's bulldog has been pretty much a lifelong career for him. In his place I don't know that I'd be happy anywhere else; I might decide to enjoy the huge sacks of cash money I'd made and spend more time with my kids.
where can I comment ?

just kidding, great job
Of all the reasons offered for it I only ever really saw one as legitimate(ish): making it easier for robots to parse your site, whether it's google bot or screen readers for the visually impaired.

I think it was a reaction to monolithic, single file, hundreds of divs web development styles(way before my time).

I find it much more useful to just use some sort of templating and split my html files into small chunks. At which point it doesn't matter if you code them in divs with decimal code classes, it's still pretty easy to deal with.
Oh, there's a lot more to it than that. "Trendy and flashy" really is not a factor.

Reddit didn't get a lot of press attention because -- among other things -- the people behind it were not easy to find and talk with. (They still aren't.) If as a journalist I can't connect with you to, say, fact check something I'm writing, your chances of being covered are much lower.

Plus, when Reddit was on the upswing, there were a _lot_ of competing sites that were trying to be "Digg for [niche]," such as DZone as "digg for developers" and dotnetkicks as "digg for the .net people so we can be even more granular," and agileblend and so on. Not to mention older sharing sites like delicious (which is, um, still around?). So initially it seemed like "yet another link sharing site," and one that was far more confusing even to us tech press geeks.
generalized readability/printfriendly .. pretty nice.

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The price scales inversely to difficulty which is roughly doubling every month. Anything shipping right now is probably worth $10-12/GH/s. December delivery pricing is around $6/GH/s, January is around $3/GH/s, etc.
For me yes, Win7 + MobaXterm which totally rocks, so much so I paid for it. Worth the punt just for the X support i.e. PyCharm running on remote server with UI on my Win7 desktop.
recent post on using tmux on cygwin inside a mintty https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6737795
The story about Daily Deals is that although Local Daily Deals such as Groupon and Living Social went through boom and bust the Online Daily Deals such as Woot, Tanga and Zulily did very well before Groupon and continue to do so. That is why Local Daily Deals businesses have expanded into that market with Groupon Goods and LivingSocial Shop.

I do have some data to back that up with Deal Drop (www.getdealdrop.com) which pre-dates Groupon and Tech Drop which I released yesterday (www.getdealdrop.com/blog/tech-drop-android).
quanta is 60 3.5" hdds in 4u (compared with 45 for backblaze)
I can understand the confusion. Best to think of it like this, "Harp" is a static web server with built in preprocessing. "Harp Platform" is a service for running Harp apps in production.

- "Command line" - happens to be the way you access the web server.

- "Generating static assets" is just a feature of the web server.

- "Dropbox integration" is just a feature of the platform.

Hope that helps clear things up.
But then you find yourself up against their network effects and more often than not, it goes absolutely nowhere. If you just want a nicer YouTube, step 1 is at least experimenting within the confines of the existing one. Otherwise you'd need to worry about all of the infrastructure and accepting video uploads, encoding, etc. Unless you're on a crusade against Google/YouTube, this is absolutely the sane way of starting out.
A list of Ripple resources
It sounds like you missed the footnote:

> This is not to say that all programming languages are equivalent, that they are equally good at all tasks, or that it isn't worth learning more than one programming language. Just that all good programmers have a deep understanding of at least one language.
I tried MariaDB about a year ago and it had the same problem. It's possible it's been fixed since. I personally prefer the Percona fork of MySQL, which has some performance tweaks yet is basically a 100% drop-in replacement.
Dude, that's a very one sided article. It looks like he was pushed.
Awesome is soo lame
I agree with your post, but I think you only address half of the issue: the other half is the incorrect coupling. In terms of maintainability it does not make sense to have a bunch of random things with a class of "narrow" because then you can't predictably change the "narrow" class. It's really hard though, and I don't see a clear answer using CSS without some kind of OO addon (less, sass etc.)
> It's easier, and more valid, to ignore laws at the high end of the abstract-o-sphere.

This is an interesting proposition... I hadn't really considered the relationship between validity and abstraction in the context of law. What's your reasoning behind it? Has this been written about?
I'm sure that all those people who were screwed by the stack ranking system will be really upset.
They do make it tricky to monetize, though. IIRC, you're not allowed to accept payments or show your own ads alongside the videos.
Being employee #30 of Microsoft allowed Steve to enjoy his wealth from day 1. Oh, and working 30+ years helps.
The G+ comments seem to indicate that they're using the browser's event handling in some way.

Plus the browser runtime still gives you things even if you're going the pure-GL UI route: networking, a JSON parser, a database (Local Storage), cookies and session management, a (arguably awful) security model... how is the browser "dead weight"?
I have at least a dozen in the past 6 months from Taxi/limos in various US states and Canadian provinces, and a couple from road diners.
"Steve was a phenomenal leader who racked up profits and market share in the commercial business, but the new CEO must innovate in areas Steve missed—phone, tablet, Internet services, even wearables."

Why does MS insist it has to be everywhere there's any money to be made? Apple is happy being a phone/tablet company, Google is the Internet gig, but MS has to have a finger in every pie, right?
I don't have a youtube account so this site is a good way to watch youtube videos with content restrictions.
Is this really an important issue?
Got you covered. http://huzzaz.com/search
Empires come, and empires go.
Retirement I imagine, he's absurdly rich. Maybe he'll join Bill and start giving some of that money away.
Kind of off-topic, but I've been wondering whether one could use big data processing and machine learning to implement better decompilers. I feel like it could theoretically be possible to get an output much better than any of the current decompilers by taking a bunch of open source projects, compiling them with different compilers using different settings and then using this as training data. But it's debatable whether having better decompilers is something really worth sinking all this effort into.
Facebook Amends Privacy Policies
Many countries have pretty aggressive anti-hacking laws. The UK, for instance, has a very similar piece of legislation that in theory makes URL manipulation illegal.
Modern CMake with Qt and Boost
My favorite technique for working the room: "So, what do you do ... for fun."

I find that talking about what people do for fun is much more interesting than what they do for work. And if the person is interesting, it might come back around to work anyway.

My favorite technique for exiting a conversation is the old chestnut of "I need to refill my drink." Easy peasy.
Also, since it attempts to show how much the values of the shares change, it should be adjusted with the dividends paid out during that time.
I agree, it's not necessarily the right OSI layer we should be trying to secure.

Unfortunately, NSA sabotaged IPv6 goal of "encrypting everything by default":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPsec#Alleged_NSA_interference

Specifically,

"IPsec was originally required in IPv6 before RFC 6434 made it only a recommendation"
Doesn't the no cloning theorem mean that you cannot back up a qubit regardless of how stable it is?
This is unreasonable. YT isn't going to disappear. Did myspace? No.

The fact that YT provides an API is plenty to reface it. You should view this website as another from of protest. Which of there have been plenty of protests in recent.

It's not wrong, just a different one.
I recently started using Google Sketch-up as I've been learning woodworking. Its not the first time I used a CAD or 3D modelling application. I went to high school in a blue collar town, and the local industry bought a bunch of CNC machines for the school. As part of that we learned how to use Auto CAD. I also used lightwave 3D, and 3D studio max (through less than legal means...)

but these latest programs are really making the process dead simple. I'm excited to see the stuff people make with these applications as they become easier to use, and more prevalent.
This is deeply misleading. You are being flexible, by not trying to think to ahard about what you eat.

The most commmon definition of vegan is "produced without the inflicting suffering on animals". Some dairy/egg/meat free diets use "vegan" as label of convenience. (No one's allergies literally fall along the boundary of "all animal products are unhealthy for me")

Many sugar varieties are not vegan (bone char).

Many beers and wines are not vegan (Isinglass from fish).

Many bagels aren't vegan (L-cysteine from feathers).

Palm oil is not vegan (orangutan habitat destruction).

"Not difficult to be vegan" makes an arbitrary set of simplifying assumptions, namely "Is there a piece of an animal obviously visible in my food). It's not that different from having an occasional piece of cheese.
Hah, yeah, Sydney's climate is nicer, that's the problem. I feel like colder climates are better for sitting at a desk working a lot. Also, many people find humidity stifles thought and productivity, and I have to agree.

Maybe it's just that Melbourne reminds me a lot more of the SF Bay Area while Sydney reminds me of LA.

Perth would be interesting if you could network amongst the rich mining types there. Could be a nice alternative source of funding. But I'm not sure how much software talent there would be there.
President Obama's message to #SFBatKid
for an example of doing this with tar instead of zip check out https://npmjs.org/package/dir-tar-stream
FWIW, Ars' follow-up review of the PS4 talks about how there's still loading indicators in the main menu UI's, which should not happen IMO when you're essentially talking about icons and you have 8GB of RAM to work with.

http://arstechnica.com/gaming/2013/11/playstation-4-hardware...
I've heard this far to many times :( Thanks for being a user when you can think of the name though!
Lots of companies already do this.

AWS provides CloudFormation templates that setup whole environments in one (or so) clicks.
Bitnami and others provide pre-built, operational Wordpress and other stuff. There's a ton of stuff available.
I actively traded stocks for a period. I can say that any gains you make represent work like any other, except you can lose all your money. If you do not want to focus on trading, do not trade. It can be a horrible way to live.

Warren Buffett's #1 rule is: Do not lose money. #2: Never forget rule number one.

What you really learn is that the amount of risk you should take on actually is a lot less than you think it is. Too much volatility will kill your returns (Kelly Criterion).

Second is that you shouldn't make an investment unless you just about have domain level knowledge. You need an edge. Over-trading increases volatility, which is bad because you lose more than you gain just by laws of percentages.

If I could tell my younger self what to do, I'd tell him to just sit tight. Hold the money and don't worry. You don't need to invest it all. At some point there will be a market crash and it will be a no-brainer to buy. Buy then and hold for long term. And you can hold because you have a cash cushion, and a price that makes financial sense no matter what (like a good dividend or rent percentage to invested capital).
I guess because they always have, it's the position they are most comfortable in. A company where everybody uses Windows desktops and Windows tablets and phones is much more likely to buy Office and Windows servers because of the whole vertical integration. Once you start letting non MS technology through the door you start to lose that and people will look more closely at non MS solutions in other areas.
I have had the pleasure of seeing Alan Mulally give a couple of talks on leadership, and I can say that he is one of the most inspiring leaders I have ever seen (good video below of a talk he gave). Not because he drives people, but because he empowers them. Microsoft is a company with over 100,000 FTEs and honestly I don't think you need a great tech visionary leading as much as you need someone at the top to empower the tech visionaries running their products, and get out of their way.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIwz1KlKXP4
Honestly I thought that was a better-than-average Colbert interview. Sometimes his gags and non sequiturs completely derail the topic but this one stayed pretty focused and Alexis did a good job of getting his message across.
The economy thrives because of the increased competition..
This is only true if you go to restaurants that serve dairy-heavy cuisines.

Go to any normal Chinese or Vietnamese or Thai restaurants and it's pretty hard to not find vegan foods on the menu. Mock duck, Buddha's delight, wood ear salad, stir fried soybeans and fermented cabbage, red cooked tofu and mushroom, braised seitan in soy sauce, eggplant in black bean sauce, bok choy in garlic sauce, etc etc -- these are all just normal dishes that are also vegan. The restaurant wouldn't even have to make any special accommodations for you.
I'd imagine being a Microsoft alumni, regardless of the details of exit, means many hiring managers would at least take a look at your resume.
>You know full well what "Anonymous" is, and attempting to attribute everything bad that's ever happened on the internet to every defendant that ever gets grouped in with "Anonymous" is ridiculous.

How is that different than working for the Gambinos? Anonymous members were part of an "ongoing criminal enterprise", and anybody who didn't realize what that means is too stupid to be out roaming the streets.
"Yes, of course you should know the details of my diet based on one jargon word that means different things to different people but which I use to declare my deep-seated yet hastily-constructed beliefs."
In a way, this speaks to the concept of journalism in an echo chamber and being fooled by randomness. Ultimately, people (including journalists) are bad at prediction. The "accessible" founders that get noticed first get the press' attention. Next to market companies get labeled as [First mover] for [niche].

"Accessibility" has a lot to do with one's connections with journalists and perhaps location to some extent. It seems like a broken model is being used to determine what is newsworthy in tech.
Isn't this how everyone utilizing a pre-processor uses it?