skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perl:

for (1 .. 100) print "Hello World! $_\n";

Ruby:

100.times { |i| puts "Hello World #{i}" }
A patent?! He's a witch! BURN HIM!
I hate IE6 as much as the next guy, but not everyone has the option to switch: http://blog.digg.com/?p=878
Using your rationale, then Bernie Madoff should not be in prison, either.

I agree this person should not go to the prison, but I think your classification is too simple. Madoff hurt people - not physically, but financially. And the harm he caused was more devastating than if he had administered a physical beating.
Please expand on this if you want to be view as anything but a troll. Making inflammatory comments like this is not a way t convince people that your way of thinking is right. On the contrary, it's much more likely to close people's minds to anything you have to say.

As a counter-point, think about what the 'conservative' members of Congress would say if the public were to demand that they take a reduction in pay and benefits (members of Congress have the best health/retirement benefits of anyone in this country). From my point of view, they would probably play themselves up as victims of some sort of 'liberal conspiracy' rather than debating the motion on its merits.
Fun use of Twilio! I'm trying to keep up with fastest963 on the leaderboard but this is tough
I'd like to see all this technology, knowledge, and power put to use to feed, clothe, and house every person on the planet. There's no non-political reason we can't do this, but our current cultures won't allow for it.

I'd like to be able to pursue my passions and hobbies without having to waste the vast majority of my life in a day job just to survive. Life is to goddamned short for this madness.
To sum up: "If crushing resistance doesn't require blood, what's to stop an epidemic of resistance-crushing?"

Nothing.

Already, there's nothing. Resistance has been crushed. On some other thread, they're about to lock a guy in a cage for an eighth of his natural life span - for circumventing video game copy protection. All we can do is fucking blog about it. It's crushed, and there's nothing we can do about it, and robots will just make it a little more crushed.
FWIW: anyone who paid attention in HS chemistry should be able to make a rocket propelled thermite grenade, homemade napalm, nitroglycerin, etc... in their kitchen. Chemistry + a .50 cal should take care of everything except the jet... hmmm...
Fat chance they'd let a programmer or systems designer anywhere near that place with a reporter :)
Apple claims jailbroken phones can crash transmission towers
I have heard (though I have not seen the hard statistics) that the savings rate in china averages 1/3rd of take home pay. This more than any "analysis" made me think that china will make good on its economic aspirations. for god's sake even some PROFESSIONAL ECONOMISTS in America think that consumption improves an economy rather than deferred consumption and investment.
Interesting. I didn't expect Netflix to have a "fun" atmosphere like Zappos or anything, but it's funny to hear about a trendy web company with little, if any, character.

I wonder why the employees are required to wear the red Netflix t-shirts. It's not like they need to look presentable for customers or anything...
Yes, it really turned out to be more challenging than I anticipated. I'll be surprised if anyone can score 5 or more on the insane level. It was really fun learning about DTMF tones, though.
Hey, it's not as crazy as it sounds... DHS popped him so he was probably using the profits from modding to fund terrorism.

Don't question the government! They know better.
I'm not defending their approach, only pointing it out.
We do not own property.

Only our masters may actually own property.

"The "you don't own your computer" paradigm is not merely wrong. It is violently, disastrously wrong, and the consequences of this error are likely to be felt for generations to come, unless steps are taken to prevent it."

"Ethics for Programmers: Primum non Nocere"

http://glyf.livejournal.com/46589.html
afaik, they try not to store popular items. otoh they do the opposite for the long tail titles. probably from ny times article, they also have changed their package format (both material and shape) 10 times or more.
I've heard that IE6 is prevalent within the federal government.
This is the biggest example I've seen of the network of YC alumni organizing to do something. YC itself didn't organize this or even know about it.

I've been looking forward to seeing what this type of network can do that a traditionally hierarchically structured organization can't.
As a former Vi user, I can kinda grok not liking arrow keys.

(_My_ arrow keys are the ones on the numeric keypad -- I almost never use Numlock. This is a hold-over from my first computer: An IBM PCjr that had arrow keys in a diamond layout instead of that hateful inverted-T layout that cramps one's thumb.)
I think it's because everyone here understands that this not the place for /b/ style comments. We are actively trying to keep HN enlightening and articulate.

That's not to say that jackass comments don't have their place.
eh, not really. most webapps visible today spent more than 5 months in development, and usually had a small team of developers. This is just 1 guy doing it for 5 months. LinkedIn didn't get any growth in it's first 5 months, and delicious spent a year before seeing much growth, so 5 months is nothing for a webapp.
At my school, between an intro class that did C and a class where we programmed microcontrollers in assembly, pointers and bit-twiddling were already pretty well established by the time we get to OS classes.
I'm guessing most of the remaining IE6 installs are inside corporations and government departments and are necessary to run legacy internal web applications.
from the comments:

You do realize that a large portion of people that are using IE6 are at work where they have NO control over the browser...

i hear this every time the ie6 argument comes up, and yet, i've never heard from someone that actually works in one of these IT departments that can vouch for this.

who are these unsympathetic robots who, while ironically working in an IT department, are so out of touch with technology that they fail to understand their users are stuck using insecure, out-of-date software that is now increasingly being blocked? are these users still using 500mhz machines with windows 98, too?
If anybody is interested in delving deeper into this, I would recommend that they read two of Jane Jacobs's books: The Economy of Cities and Cities and the Wealth of Nations.
Persistent data structures are a lot slower then mutable ones, so this was no surprise.

I wonder how clojure would have done with the new transients syntax (http://clojure.org/transients).
Not really. Pirated games are largely downloaded from the Internet.
Fake Rocks, Salami Commanders, and Just Enough to Start
How do your comments, profile, etc. make the book better?

My remarks were for more discussion about the book and its contents, and how you portrayed the book poorly in your comment with respect to appearing legitimate by a) the whole 'secret' thing when you could have said 'hard work and perseverance'; and b) the source link of the book.

Using your own reputation as a proof of usefulness is not what I am here for, or many others. You must provide proof, in some form.

[edit] The commentator 'il' had exactly the reply I was looking for, with all the information that could help convince me.
because of custom modifications? ;P
Not even the US military subject itself to the stupidity that is IE6.
Fishing could actually be a good thing. He has plenty of time, but doesn't have enough food. Fishing trades time for food. Seems like a good deal.
Keep this in mind before you take that photo in the first place!
These unsympathetic robots are all the people that are using Windows 2000. I've seen people in firms that refuse to update their version of windows. They all seem to hate this and don't expect much of a browsing experience from these machines anyway...
The general populous of HN has a slightly skewed view of how quickly and violently the lives of many Americans has changed. I am from Detroit and have seen thousands of people, including my parents, rise to middle class as an unskilled laborer. Those jobs are gone, and should have been 25 years ago. This recession has finally pushed them over the edge and it leaves many people behind.

It is tough to criticize a man whose way of life, however perverse, vaporised in a matter of a few years. It existed for so long and lulled many people into believing it was real. Now they are paying for it.
IBM's "supported" browser is still only IE6 last time I checked which was about a year ago...
True... but not by choice since some government agencies are still using Windows 2000 (which doesn't support IE7+). Some might say a move to FF would be beneficial, but the overhead of having to manage and secure FF is far greater when they can just stay on IE6.
Quoting (near the end): "The Free Market f...d us in the last year..."

At this point, I stopped listening.

The Market that f...d anyone in the last year is anything but Free. It is becoming difficult to be generous to those who claim some level of insight in this space, who then mistake rampant Mercantilism (the incestuous relationship between the all-powerful State, and the businesses that they choose to allow to own various industries), and the Free Market. Such an oversight implies either ignorance, or willful rejection of fact.

In a truly Free Market, the concept "Too Big To Fail" (for example), is impossible -- there is a natural exponential limit to the economies of scale, related to the introduction of multiple layers of management, which must introduce incompetency into the management structure of such large corporate entities. Anyone who has worked in a truly large enterprise understands this. Thus, their size is limited, and smaller, more agile and efficient competitors come into the Free Market and "eat their lunch".

Of course, when Government creates laws that allow only a specific Cabal (eg. the Federal Reserve Act), or Scale of enterprise (eg. Sarbanes Oxley) to exist, you get Too Big To Fail, the Federal Reserve inflating wealth away toward the Banksters, Government Motors (vs. Tesla, et. al), etc.

That some Truly Enlightened group needs to "clean up" the neighbourhood is somewhat frightening; what happens should I resist being "cleaned up" to their satisfaction? What if I wish to invent and sell something that undermines the influence of the Truly Enlighted cleaner-uppers? How far are they willing to go to ensure I stay "cleaned up"?

As always, maximum socialism (or fascism) requires maximum force.

The deformed child of these failed ideologies being birthed today in America; fascialism?, where the all powerful state both grants Mercantilist writs to select businesses (eg. via the various Czars), AND decrees who lives and dies, and who else pays for it (Obamacare, and massive taxation and wealth-destruction via Inflation) will ultimately require this maximum force, in order to enforce the levels of loss of freedom required to implement and fund these disgusting policies.
I wont be surprised if thats their savings rate - savings rate is similarly pretty high in india and several other asian countries as well.

however, the advent of capitalism and 'opening the economy' has seen some recent dwindling of the savings rates.
My money's on tptacek.
About marginal cost, it's not obvious to me that postage both ways plus sorting is more expensive than bandwidth plus royalties. Given that postage gets more expensive and bandwidth gets cheaper, streaming should be cheaper at some point if it isn't already.
Owning a guns doubles your chances of getting killed by one, so it only really augments your perception of safety.
so is the refusal coming from the IT person or the end-user?

perhaps instead of all these silly campaigns to try to force users to upgrade, they should make a simple questionnaire that asks the user why they are still using ie6, and then publish the results. i have a feeling the leading reason will not be "because some jerk in IT won't let me".
Methinks he's got a good case to be made under DMCA exemptions for interoperability. While the programs are not independently created, running a lawfully archived copy of a game you have the right to use is a valid use of mod-chipping, and this interoperability is needed in order to use that lawful copy.

By the way why is the wired author calling this "jailbreaking" - it's modchipping, completely different from "jailbreaking".. in fact, he even used an iPhone as his graphic... o_O The two are completely unrelated.
IE6 No More
Entrepreneur Jacqui Rosshandler Markets Kissable Breath
in fact 2 of your comments to this thread were the ones that resonated the most -- coincidence ?
IE6 is still very prevalent in the American school system (don't know about elsewhere). We used to sell a web product to schools and you wouldn't believe the number of districts using IE6 for "compatibility" with their network software or because they don't consider upgrading a priority.
See the digg survey link below (or here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=742057)
Renter's insurance covers the unlikely event that someone breaks into my apartment and steals everything I own. And I don't even need to hide anything inside shit-stained underwear.
Thank you all for you posts. I want to make it clear that I'm not making any absolute statement about anything. I just wanted to share my experience.

I know that I did a poor job of market research from the onset and that there's a long list of things I should have/should not have done to make this work. I do appreciate your opinions.
I was raised in Austria, and German was our home language. More than full immersion, it trained me to have an accent.

That said, the best (not really fastest, persay) way to learn language is between the sheets. You learn SO much better when you're intimate and motivated.

Which is how I learned French while living in Canada.
Free Kevin Mitnick? Figures. I already shelled out a months worth of pay for one last year.
I know from extremely unpleasant experience that many large Canadian government organizations are still using IE6+XP. Further, I know of at least one large health region still on IE6+XP.

Change takes a while in these monolithic bureaucracies; especially when they have to ensure that any upgrades to software have no negative effects to any other software installed on the system (a lot of which can be equal parts shoddy and proprietary).

As an aside, I've been working with a large government client for 2.5 years now, and I still haven't been able to get their IT dept. to add Flash to their image to support the streaming video site they paid my company to build (hooray for Windows Media Player).
From my comment on VB:
"That's exactly the idea. Even if a bunch of the remaining IE 6 users are corporate, hopefully a few of them will become aware of the fact that their browser is almost 9 years old and start putting pressure on IT to upgrade."

The more prompts that are posted across the web, the more pressure the IT department will be getting to get their ass in gear and upgrade their decade old computer systems.
The problem is internal legacy applications that only work in IE6. If they upgrade browsers the apps break, so in order to support these apps they keep IE 6. The question for them is 'do we spend time and money to update all of our applications to upgrade a browser, or just leave things the way they are for now?'
You mean how he killed his project/website? People love to slut the word startup around.
The U.S. State Department, however, does.
Then again, so is beer and lotto tickets, but he might not be exaggerating when he says that's the last thing keeping him sane.

Indeed. There have been times when I spent my last $10 on chips, dip, and soda, just for the temporary mood boost.
They're people who work in firms that have intranet applications that were written specifically for IE6. Its cheaper to keep the browser than update some very badly written software.
Right. The real issue is that some consoles cannot play these downloaded games without mod chips, which the guy imported and resold. The DMCA makes it illegal to "disseminate" devices that circumvent copy-protection, which gets Customs involved.
I agree that there's little value in giving advice on how to fail, but that's not what I did here. I only described what I have done so far. I was very careful about not making this post prescriptive in any way. It's descriptive only.
Our perspective is that the more people that are prompted about their outdated browsing experience, the more pressure the IT department will be getting to get their ass in gear and upgrade their decade old computer systems. You can bet that if the volume of complaints triples, it will start to become a major priority -- especially if the complaints are coming from the top.
Sorry, that's not an excuse. IE 8 comes with a "compatibility mode" feature where any site can choose to use the IE 6 rendering engine by setting headers or meta tags appropriately.
That is a common precept of the human experience above the poverty line, too.
Before he lost his job they were middle class. He made $53,000 dollars a year in Northern Indiana. I make considerably less with a wife and kid with one on the way, in a more expensive part of Indiana. I don't even live pay check to pay check.

To say we are the middle class condemning the middle class is false. He was the middle class himself.
I applaud everyone who participates in this for having the gumption to add some inertia to the situation. It's ok to give the plebs some incentive to user better, safer technologies. And furthermore, three cheers for the realization that small, progressive companies can use consumer impact to positively change the greater technological environment and accelerate the pace of widespread adoption. Booya!
I am currently working at one of the largest beverage corporations of the world, and not only they continue to use IE6 but also they methodically inspect every Windows OS update, even if its a security patch, it can be months until they decide to update the network with such patches and updates.
Oh, IS THAT ALL? Talk about living on the bare essentials! America isn't suffering from a recession, it's suffering from a populace that has no sense of responsibility or reality who just so happened to need a recession to point out their inability to live smartly.

The way this article is written, it sounds like a work of satire.
I'm currently an intern at a large biotech company which employs over 25,000 people world-wide and all the machines come with IE6.

I'm an intern at their headquarters in a section of the IT department that doesn't deal with maintaining the software on the computers. However, there was one larger meeting where I remember someone asking about upgrading IE, and the response was something like, "Uhh, I've been pretty busy, I'll get around to it eventually." Everyone just laughed and I could tell it was a kind of ongoing joke. I think the general attitude is that no one here really cares enough to go through the work of upgrading everyone. I don't think they get many complaints, and their job isn't in jeopardy, so they just sit on it until something or someone really big makes them act.
Slab Allocators, as described by Bonwick (http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.29.4...) if I'm allocating lots of same-size objects. Other than that, I mainly stick to the system malloc(), or something specifically optimized for the task at hand.
That's easy to say...
One of my co-founders has been a public school teacher for the last 20 years or so. She says that the school system's primary function is to give America's least competent individuals a way to stay in the middle class.
Same reply here as below:
"Sorry, that's not an excuse. IE 8 comes with a "compatibility mode" feature where any site can choose to use the IE 6 rendering engine by setting headers or meta tags appropriately."
What's the point? Am I going to win any of these items, or earn a discount? Or is this the internet equivalent of window shopping? Seems like a complete waste of time to me. Sorry :-/

edit: it's the window-shopping that I don't get. The implementation of the idea looks great, I just fail to understand why anyone would engage in this activity to begin with.
Not so odd, really. Building the whole loop requires a fair amount of integration and trust between the search engine and the advertiser, which is often easier said than done.

Didn't Google have a CPA beta last year for AdSense? It's interesting that they're coming up with a new product there now.
>When you're close to the poverty line

A year ago, the man alone was making $53K! Let's presume the woman contributed at least another $25K. That's a well above-average household income in America.
I don't agree that the higher level symbolic reasoning is necessarily harder, nor that the lower level is simply engineering. The problems at the low-level are still very tough, and require scientific (and not just hacky- or engineering-) approaches.

As for the "single domain" issue, this was a big red herring in old-style AI (before the so-called AI winter) -- basically, it turns out that the different branches of what used to be called AI (e.g., vision, machine learning, NLP, speech, etc.) have to use quite different techniques.

"General" AI systems such as logic, game players (and yes, I know it's not just about games), etc., can be used in various domains, but in general they're not very applicable to most real-world problems in the different domains.

For example, I work in computer vision, and while we certainly use a lot of probabilistic analysis that can be broadly applicable to other domains, a lot of the progress in recent years has been using techniques that aren't really transferable (e.g., SIFT or SLAM).
seems like this thing would be pretty easy to automate (aka cheating). Fire up an asterisk box and have it record, decipher, and play back the tones!
Again, same reply:
"That's not an excuse. IE 8 comes with a "compatibility mode" feature where any site can choose to use the IE 6 rendering engine by setting headers or meta tags appropriately."
I can corroborate that from my experience as a native-born Russian. Americans do spend an awful lot of time planning and thinking - and, at least, hypothesising - about the future.

In Eastern European culture, people really do "live for today" far, far more.

It is my impression that is true of many other non-Angloamerican societies as well.
Thank you for noticing that although I have not enjoyed any monetary success, I have learned a ton about business and product development.

Because of this product venture, I'm currently working on something much more promising because of the lessons I learned on this one.
You are talking about replacing a large number of unskilled labor positions with a small number of skilled positions. I do not see this as avoidable (nor do I believe it should be avoided) but this process is not quick nor is it painless.
That's what we figure -- the more complaints coming through the door, the more pressure will be put on the IT department to upgrade.
A good start, but why stop at 6?
Try it! I'd love to see that work. I thought about doing it myself for unit testing.
JPA-based JUnit Test Best Practices
This is a bit of an odd question, but it has been bothering me for a few months now. I have built a JPA-based web application using Wicket + Hibernate (built with Maven), and want to test the DAO layer directly. I created a specific src/test/resources/META-INF/persistence.xml file that I used for testing, but have been running into conflicts with WTP and the like. To get around these issues, I created a separate test project where the unit tests live. Is there a better way to manage unit tests for a JPA project without having duels between persistence files?
KDE 4.3.0 (Caizen) released
That was an excuse until fairly recently. IE8 is pretty new to the scene, and hopefully this feature will allow corporations to upgrade.