skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not true. Plan 9's user space was written in C. Alef came later and was used for only a few programs. The bulk were still in C, including the compiler toolchain. The Alef compiler was written in C too, never in Alef.

In the second edition Plan 9 release, the last one with Alef, these programs were written in Alef: acme, aux/consolefs, aux/depend, httpd, md5sum, page (document viewer), postscript/tcpostio (driver for lp), and ppp.
In my last job I led a dev team made up of 8 women and 1 man (we did internal front-ends). The rest of the programmers in the company, including web, platform, DBA, IT, QA, devices etc. had plenty of excellent women working there.

I don't know why this particular company didn't suffer from gender imbalance in their computer science depts. There was no "affirmative action" directive coming from above; we hired the best human for the job.

It's possible that success breeds success. The more women worked there, the more women were comfortable there. Many programmers had migrated from the business side of the company (which needed to be pretty technical) so that may have been a factor.
Deliver savings and transparency on large capital purchases for government and private-enterprise companies through real-time reverse auctions.
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I'm solving how to aggregate many different input streams of data:

- market data,

- order streams,

-news,

- predictive models,

- pricing models

and push out the appropriate buy and sell orders.

Tonnes of data must be processed as fast and efficiently as possible.
Network of friendly people willing to help stranded motorists nearby.
In my case all the chapters were authored by me, there were no extra chapters added. Maybe the author didn't did his research properly? I'd advise him to take your review comments in consideration and to re-work the foreword after finishing the first drafts for all chapters.
You don't really describe a problem but describe what you are doing?
Grady Booch first published the Booch method around '91. He merged his stuff with a few other guys to make UML and the Unified Process a few years later. The rise of big process in software was fairly fast. The push back you see is more a misunderstanding, they see it as a transition from no process -> process -> no process rather than no process -> too much process -> lighter process.
Hmm, I think I'd rather read a 404 error message than "Amazing person is looking for amazing company to pay them for being amazing"... I really hope a friend can lend a thesaurus and/or a delete key. Put positively, this has room for improvement.
Personally my take is that the proposed abstractions are too low level to be of genuine use as an abstraction layer across cloud providers

Yeah, what vagrant has been able to acomplish so far is an example of this. There are many features that only work on some providers, usually just VirtualBox, and the AWS support is largely limited to controlling instances (vs configuring them).

I think it'll get there eventually, but there's not a lot of motivation/incentive from the established players.
I'm trying to parse my HipChat conversation with our Architect (who did most of the speed improvements) and it looks like going from Python to naive C loop was a 200x improvement (though that's not a direct comparison of course). Going from naive C to dSFMT we went from one particular simulation taking 14:30 down to 2:30 (minutes).
The parser is the only part I've written so far. It took me an evening (Go has yacc).
The focus is on time based tasks right now, my idea is automatically building tasks by finding and extracting times. At launch it'll probably be a case of copy/paste emails in and get tasks added; the obvious next step being adding by forwarding an email. I'd almost be in a position to get a demo working if it weren't for exams :)
I am lazy when it comes to reading feeds. Even with GReader, my inbox used to pile up like crazy. So, I wrote @updt_me[0] get feed updates delivered via DM to my twitter inbox.

These days, I usually read the feed updates as soon as they come in. Since I only get links in the DM, I also end up giving the authors the (mobile) page-views they deserve for their hard work. Win-win. :)

[0]: http://twitter.com/updt_me
What is the problem the user have?
Spaces.

First of all, I like Python-like syntax (Python, Haskell) and tabs mess code very easily.

Tabs are:

1) of a different length in different environments and you can't control all of latter (skype, github, web, terminals, other text editors).

2) an archaic character originally designed for typewriters and re-purposed then into column alignment symbol for terminals (I think that tabs are good for formatting table columns in text mode) and then into indentation symbol for some reason unknown. I think if we want formatting, some more modern tools should be used. Why don't we use vertical tabulation and other weird control symbols from 70s?

2a) not minimalist. I can live without them (whereas I can't give up spaces), so why would I need it? I want plain text to be real plain text, without some formatting options living on their own.

3) my tools (square selection, smart indentation in vim) make work with spaces easy, they type spaces for me. When I'm forced to work with tabs, I also have to make additional explicit checks before every commit to make sure I haven't messed up anything.

4) I can adjust to an existing code style (thus far a style is good and consistent: 2/4/8 spaces is ok for me as far as that style is consistent), I don't have an urge to make it look like my own code every time.

tl;dr: don't try to make the world look as you want with tabs, adjust yourself to spaces!
Facebook monetize their platform by posting ads on yours and your friends timelines, but you get nothing out of it. I am trying to fix this with http://paidso.com where you will be allowed to do paid posts.
Honestly, if 4k video editing is the goal, why the hell is it capped at 64GB of memory. Being able to store more than like a minute of the 4k film in memory would seem useful.

According to http://web.forret.com/tools/video_fps.asp?width=4520&height=... ... which is the "Camera: Red One 2540/60p" preset.
>>I'm very much of the opinion that good code self documents, and excessive use of comments and documentation is a crutch for bad code.

I'm very much of the opinion that you are very much of the wrong opinion.

"Good code self-documents" is a myth. Most programmers have trouble coming back and reading their own code, much less other programmers' codes. Comments and documentation written in spoken language ensure that the code can be understood much more quickly and efficiently and any misunderstandings are prevented.
Personally, as a parent, I have no problems with this filter for single people living alone or with a partner they are comfortable about discussing porn with. It is exactly in family situations I believe this filter is utterly morally wrong.
Interesting, I'll have to take a look at those.

The real reason is that it was just an idea that we came up with and decided to try it. It worked well, so we stuck with it. :)
Two of your apps mention Montessori by name, which makes me wonder how often you are criticized for using her name in vain?

My wife is a Montessori teacher and would flip her shit if a parent ever substituted the real montessori numbers/letters (usually sand paper letters) for an app. Montessori would've surely been incredibly against an app for children young enough to learn anything from sand paper letters.
Thank you both, I wasn't thinking clearly. I was thinking of the sort of "control for" that involves accounting for differences between groups, but totally spaced on the part where you can just "control for" something by ensuring it's the same.
Unless?
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Never miss another movie. Queue a movie and we'll let you know when they're showing.

(UK and US movie services, Cable TV, and movie theaters).

EDIT (Problem): Online movie streaming catalogs aren't great individually due to fragmentation of distribution across a huge amount of services. People tend to miss them. We tie all the services together, so you can be alerted when the movies you want to see are available in movie theaters, online streaming and cable TV.
It's essentially the only way they can make money, unless someone in the future invents a creative new way to monetize social networks.
you describe what your product does, not what the problem is
When did Apple hint at being able to downgrade devices?
Adding a bit of praise for "Programming Perl". (As well as for some of the other books by the fine people you've listed.)

"Programming Perl" is not just (very) informative, it is also engagingly, even entertainingly informative.

(Proof of this is left as an exercise for the reader... ;-)
People don't have much places online to express their opinions and take part in deep discussions.

Interestin: http://interestin.co (provides "follow-up essays" as well)
it s a pitch, not a problem description.

the problem is "people miss movies when they are available"

right?
"The game’s out of print, but ..."

I've seen this for a few of the successful kickstarters, and it always makes me kind of sad; when Kickstarter is working at its best, it, y'know, kick-starts something so that the initial backers are just the first run, and then the product will continue to be available (and possibly the line will expand).

Obviously it's totally within the creator's rights to just use the kickstarter funds to fund a single round of product. But, it makes me sad.
you don't describe the problem in a tweet :)
Thanks for this message. I didn't email Brian directly. Rees from Coinbase reached out to me. He's fixed one of my problems and I'm waiting on the second to be resolved.
USD would keep going for a long time even if the US government disappeared.

Bitcoins do not have value. I've seen two arguments for it, and I'll counter both.

1. 'value because mining, network uses' Bitcoins are not mining, they are a reward for doing it. If nobody wants to trade for bitcoins, they have no more use than yesterday's lotto numbers.

2. 'bitcoins have qualities that make them good for trading' You cannot apply those qualities to anything other than the bitcoins themselves, so they become null in the scenario where nobody actually wants to trade for bitcoins. This is not intrinsic value.

(bitcoin is fiat)
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I had similar experience when I started Perl.

I was used to take a problem of a certain size, sit down and think for a while. Then code C for maybe 3 to 10 days.

When I did a similar problem in Perl, the time to think for a problem of that size was longer than the time to throw a solution at the wall! You could design using code, then refactor/rewrite if it got too bad.

Best of all: So much more fun.
Another reason why Bitcoin (or something like it) does have legitimate benefits...
> We have determined that the information involved in this incident included customer name, credit or debit card number, and the card’s expiration date and CVV (the three-digit security code).

https://corporate.target.com/discover/article/Important-Noti...

CVV/CSC, eh? The whole point of CSC is it should be non-stored and therefore much harder to steal than the CC#, right? Apparently that didn't work. Has CSC accomplished anything other than giving users more random-looking numbers they have to enter in online forms?
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A customer of bitcoin shouldnt have to care if the service you provide is hard. In fact, thats why they come to you in the first place.

Complaining about the complexities does not instill faith that you have a solid grasp on your product. Tell me you dont work at coinbase, please.
Many,

- How to trade more efficiently
- How to deal with the increasingly complex data that must be munged, aggregated and pushed through a decision model
- How to lower commissions
- How to slice up orders so large orders don't move the market and hide strategies so HFT firms don't learn about your flow.

For sell side firms, we allow their buy side clients to trade more.
> The whole horrible waterfall process was an urban legend

Bullshit.

Source: I lived through it in the early and mid 1990s.
Too bad he doesn't explain why libertarianism only works if we are all uniform and frictionless. Perhaps because it's nonsense and libertarianism actually doesn't require that.

It's also too bad emotional rants like this carry such weight. Is the status quo really that great?
Altcoins are useful for allowing people to trade between them, as a form of gambling. There is some value here.

Still, I think Bitcoin provides much more value than any altcoin.
Thank you very much. If you are interested to localise for Russia, let me know.
Android already existed before Google bought it, and at the time it was built mainly as a competitor to Blackberry (before Google bought them). So Google continued on the same path, as they were less interested in "changing the paradigm of mobile UX" than in killing the Real Fragmentation that existed before, with each OEM having its own OS, and unifying them under the open source Android.

There's something to be said about how fast they reacted to iPhone once they saw it, though. I mean how many big companies react as fast the moment they see a disruptive technology and realize its potential for the future? In comparison it took Nokia 4 years after the iPhone, to even admit Symbian was a dead-end, and it also took Microsoft 3 years to come up with something that wasn't just an evolution of Windows Mobile. So kudos to Google for realizing early on the potential of the iPhone-like user interfaces and iPhone-like touchscreen smartphones.
There is no way in which Dollars are a fiat currency that bitcoin is not a fiat currency.

Bitcoin has most of the features of a central bank in that it regulates the amount of money in circulation and has policy limits on who can create money and how. Unfortunately it's policies are fixed at birth and cannot be changed without unanimous consent of those participating in it's accounting system ( unanimous consent being a synonym for nearly impossible ) and the enforcement is done by protocol and public accounting; rather than by the fact that your local "insurance company with an army" will accept it as a valid form of payment.
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I don't know how else to prove this is legitimate. Not that I feel I have to.

Rees from Coinbase reached out to me this morning and we've resolved one of the two issues. I'm still missing bitcoins from my account and will update this when it's resolved.
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I do. I might be biased as my first work experience was using it extensively (and we were quite successful doing it).
So far, it is not rare that I can find mission where people, once the mess cleaned a bit with their current environment and trust established, are willing to give it a try, progressively and in good conditions.
The general feedback I got is quite positive.
How to use Coinbase:

1. Try to use coinbase

2. Contact customer service when that fails.

3. Post to HN when that fails.

4. Still get screwed because they don't know what they are doing at Coinbase.

Got it.
>one of my wife's students had just given us a gift certificate for Sam's Club, and we discovered that the much-maligned Sam's Club is better about returns and about customer service in general than Target

I just want to mention something about Sam's Club here. I've asked for a Sam's Club membership for the past two Christmases, and it's been so helpful. I get boneless, skinless chicken breast for $2/lb there (!), which is about half as much as my local Publixes. Just about everything is absurdly cheap and still the same brand/quality as anywhere else, you just have to buy more of it.

Since shopping at Sam's Club, I eat way healthier than I ever have in my life - I eat a ton of vegetables for instance, just because I like them - and I still manage to hit my high caloric and macronutrient requirements for my diet/training program (which are pretty strict, can be crazy expensive), all for about $5/day.

I can't recommend them enough.
Thanks, I never heard of the Booch method before.

So time wise something like UML and Unified Process actually occurred after XP and Scrum?

That kind of changes the timeline I had in my head about this. I almost feel like making something to figure out all of this.
Fred Brooks advocated most aspects of extreme programming in 1975 (MM-M).
"mission critical"...
It's difficult to learn and practice biblical hebrew without a rabbi or mentor. http://www.hebrewgenius.com/
Right. Just added an edit of the problem and why it's a problem.
Some of the other commenters seem to underestimate the extreme shift, caused by the NSA scandal, in how the US is perceived in some parts of Europe (and I guess Brasil).

NSA surveillance (and hacking!) is pevasive of all that is digital. They even directly attack private individuals in Europe, considering them as worthless pawns. (Don't believe me? Google "Belgacom Hack")

To those of us living in countries that had to struggle to rid themselves of the surveillance state, this _feels_ like enemy action.

So why should people over here perceive a country that has declared them fair game to its large security apparatus be anything other than an enemy?

Do not underestimate the consequences of the NSA actions. The mistrust that is growing right now could undo important parts of the digital globalization.
it s out of topic but it's really cool! congrats
This sort of cements the idea that Android really is a copy of iOS in most ways. Of course they've made some of their own innovations, and there are a few things that work better than on iOS.

I think Steve Jobs was probably justified in his furious reaction to Android.

disclosure: Android user, I dislike many aspects of iOS, namely the restrictive policies of the app store, and the totally broken app sharing UX.
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Question for mgrunin. In your opinion did CoinBase make things right? If not, why? If so then can well just drop this!
Kiva Zip is the new program they've launched recently that lets you make loans directly to borrowers.

https://zip.kiva.org/
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You can do that with a SQL transaction or, heck, paper, and never have to involve your customers with Alpha Black Lotus depository certificates as a transport protocol (!).

My local coffee shop in Ogaki will sell you 11 200 yen vouchers (conveniently equal to one cup of coffee) for 2,000 yen. How precisely does Bitcoin improve this for buyer or seller?
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The overhead ratio is a pretty poor indicator of a charity's effectiveness. http://overheadmyth.com/
The problem with world government, and international frameworks in general, is that people who don't think like you can nonetheless legally bind you. At least to the extent that you mix international frameworks with democracy.

My family emigrated to the U.S. from Bangladesh. It's a place where you see women covered up in the name of Islam, etc, and its getting worse over the last 20 years, not better. I have absolutely zero desire to be part of a democratic community with people who believe these things, and I bet if you're honest with yourself neither do you. But that's what happens when you mix international legal norms with democracy. You oblige yourself to follow the votes of people who have totally different cultural values to yourself.

And this isn't a one-way street either. I imagine most Europeans would prefer not to be part of a democratic community that included Americans and their notably more conservative approach to many issues.
I'm not sure what your point is supposed to be, but I suspect you don't actually have one.

You didn't even give the Mises Institute a chance to educate you. If you listen to their in-depth videos on the fundamental "mechanics" of economics, but find yourself disagreeing with what they say, you're pretty much just refusing to hear anything, or simply not very bright.

They're not "fanatic", they're just explaining how economics works, in very clear terms, and in a way that obviously corresponds to reality (because it's all based on the way humans actually behave).
Meat is expensive to produce. Insect protein is cheaper and more efficient, but insect farming technology is still very basic. http://www.openbugfarm.com
Good for you. Some of us old-timers have lived through pure waterfall, waterfall-inspired, and guilt and shame for not doing waterfall right.
yes, that's the way I would do it, use pictures of people that looks like you, start tagging yourself in such pics, also change your online behavior gradually, create several online alter egos, and try to erase your old online presence, after a while the online information about you should be worthless.
Thanks for looking! I can't argue that 10% is the correct fee - it's more of a starting point.

For that fee we guarantee users are promptly paid (net 10 or less, no excuses), absorb all of the usual transaction fees, host and archive the project workspace, and generate/distribute all 1099 and W9's.
Damn, awesome specs. I also love the subtle unit marker, very cool idea.
The list of resources is pretty comprehensive now.
Hopefully this won't put the rest of the show in jeopardy!
A big +1 here. Microsoft and Palm were quoted in articles at the time saying stuff like "you can't just expect to enter the market and be successful immediately" and "we're not worried, we're the dominant player in the market". Google correctly went "well, shit, that's the new standard - let's catch up".
> 1. Any good interview process should try and see through the interview skills and look more at the job candidate's actual skills that they're being hired for. A company's inability to do so isn't a referendum on the candidate but rather on management. Unless of course the company is hiring the candidate to be interviewed professionally.

This makes sense if the company is desperate to fill the role or needs tons of time. In many company's hiring is a process where false negatives (kicking someone out because of warning signs) is a better safety than a false positive (hiring someone and having them turn out to be crappy / toxic).

Hiring is hard but firing people is even harder. Some companies have the bandwidth to manage people who are underperforming and raise up their general level of performance and some don't have that luxury.

That being said, defining valid false negatives versus ridiculous bias IS HARD. There are things that are bad from a cultural fit perspective, but if you can only say hes a bad cultural fit and not give more details, if not to the candidate then at least to the rest of the hiring team, then you are not doing your job.
$500 video card, huh? After complaining that $500 for the XBone was a little pricey (I bought one anyway), building my own got just a tad less appealing. I will be interested to see how much volume pricing brings down the final price at release.