skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Over here in reality, it works pretty much as you say in your first paragraph (sans snark). Did you forget the popular outcry that got SOPA killed? Did you forget all of the positive things that have happened over the past few decades?

Enjoy being a defeatist apathetic loon, I guess.
People skeptical about Windows 8.1 should try one of the new 8-inch tablets ( I tried a Dell Venue 8 Pro). The Modern UI just makes so much sense on it. Very satisfying experience once you spend 5mins getting used to it ..
> 2023: Full-immersion virtual realities .... We’ll be able to send little devices, nanobots, into the brain and capillaries, and they’ll provide additional sensory signals, as if they were coming from your real senses.

Great, a new source for PTSD.
If Microsoft follows their old pattern of consumer OSes, Windows 9 will be fantastic:

* 95: Dud

* 98: Great

* Me: Dud

* XP: Great

* Vista: Dud

* 7: Great

* 8: Dud
Wait, don't generalize.
TBBT portraits geeks as asozial, awkward, not into sports, unable to communicate with women etc.

I got confronted several times with exactly this image of nerd or geek, when meeting people, exactly because of TBBT (as the persons I met stated).

Nothing to do with Comic Con, video games, black frames etc.
If they dont do that they should at least make a list of comprehensive differences between the editions. The page for comparing versions seems to be made by the marketing dept and is mostly fluff. I found out the hard way that professional versions dont support multi monitor RDP and NFS shares. You need to buy enterprise for that. Try finding this out ahead of time using the website.
yeah, i discovered how much space it needed when porting it via emscripten to asm.js
I dropped out of school at 16, all I knew was I was HTML and CSS (and not very well). I managed to get a job with bad pay, crap atmosphere.

I'm now 22 and working for one of the top agencies in Scotland. All my friends are still in university or dead end jobs.

As long as you have passion for what you do, and keep learning new things - you'll progress faster than you believe.
>"To distance itself from the Windows 8 debacle"

I must be a really weird person, since I like Windows 8 a lot and I actually liked Windows Vista (albeit I used the later in the SP1 iteration and with a decent machine)
Yes, I fully agree with that comment.

But, I can easily imagine press in other countries (including in the US) using this kind of arguments in similar circumstances.
Ironically, the only time I really run into this is when reading through bestcomments.

I'm often more interested in interesting discussions rather than the original links and bestcomments is a good way to jump right into these discussions.

It'd be great if bestcomments could me migrated away from the fnid mechanism, but I appreciate this is a side project and this is low priority.
Google stabs Wikipedia in the front
Iraq never had any capabilities to attack the US, you can't compare that to nuclear armed China.
Well, on a hilarious note, I too had this issue with Gmail. In fact my offer letter too went into the spam folder. :|
The difference is that there were plenty of competitors whose commodity products were overtaking even the premium, business-friendly features in BlackBerry gear, just as generic PCs eventually made dedicated high-end workstations obsolete. Right now, the only credible competitor to Windows for a user-facing business PC operating system is OS X, and even then a lot more of the serious business software is better on Windows today so Apple's penetration seems to be mainly laptops for management and sales roles.

There are plenty of ways Microsoft could develop Windows that would play to their existing customer base and their established strengths; I've argued at length in previous posts that Microsoft are the best positioned business in the world to push a "private cloud" trend, for one possible example, and that they could offer genuine benefits to businesses that would justify upgrading their installations. All they have to do is regain the focus they had a few years ago and play the cards they've been dealt to best effect, and as far as desktop Windows goes, I believe that means not rocking the boat trying to be too clever and "consumery", but instead building out the technical strengths under the hood and making them easy and familiar to access.

But if their next desktop OS is another turkey, I suspect their luck will start to run out. It will take them several years to even try a different strategy, and by then I expect at least one major competing platform will have reached enough maturity to take them head on and start stealing away the big business software market. Apple could do it -- they have the technical smarts, the war chest, and the scale to pull it off -- but I don't think they will under their current management team. I suspect a more direct challenge might come from a start-up with a big name backer building something on Linux. While "year of Linux on the desktop" is still a running joke, the likes of Android phones/tablets, Chromebooks, and probably soon Steam Machines show it can work as a non-geek's OS given the right front-end. Looking 3/4/5 years from now, around the time Microsoft's next-but-one generation user OS arrived, a huge amount could have happened in an industry this fast-paced.
>"* Me: Dud, * XP: Great"

Windows 2000 was great and it was between those too.
> Beats time is no more 'digital' than the 24-hour day. It's 10 base which makes it easier for us to calculate, and without time zones, makes it easier to communicate around the world as we become more global.

But 'digital' literally means base-10 (as in, like the digits on your hands), so in what sense is it not digital?
It won't help everyone overcome their addiction, but some people just need a tiny bit of friction to stop reading. The brief moment where you need to click "Next" instead of scrolling can be enough for you to realize you've had enough. I especially like HN's design, where not only is there pagination but the "next" link doesn't take you to the next page it only gives you a page that says "link expired". if you really, really want to keep procrastinate you need to refresh.
It'd be awesome to port pngquant to JS, especially that JS is getting parallelization and SIMD now.

Unfortunately I never got emscripten to work on my machine. Could you give it a try and compile http://pngquant.org/lib?
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Could the author comment on how this system differs from existing network service monitoring solutions? There's a lot of them out there. If it makes it easier, you can add your system to this list: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_network_monitori...
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100% ? Does he really think that people will abandon geothermal and hydroelectric power where they are already freely/easily available?
Was 95 a dud? That's not how I remember it, although it was a huge change from 3.x. You also miss Windows 2000 which was a very good OS though not really sold to consumers.
No. Metro is garbage, and those of us who despise it will wait quite patiently for Windows 9.
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You mean like how Windows 7 was basically a rebranded Vista?
It does not require proprietary nonfree software.
I have been part of the interviewing process at our company for a few years now and it still blows me away how the majority(!) of applicants just flunk a simple FizzBuzz type test. Why in the world are they applying to a programming job if they can't program?

Being able to program (and being able to show that you can) actually does put you ahead of most applicants to your average programming job. It shouldn't, but it does.
Non-code books for programmers? I always recommend How Buildings Learn, by Stewart Brand. It's a well-written and elegant study of the lifecycle of buildings, and holds many lessons for anyone who realizes their software continues to exist and change.

http://amzn.com/B00AFZ3PI4

Brand says the three enemies of a building are time, money, and water. What are the three enemies of a program?
Is it possible to convert that to ruby? Does BWAPI work with ruby?
Map of cultural values across the world
Predicting when the next crash will be is also easy. Once you have hundreds of "experts" doing it, someone will certainly guess correctly.
congratulations! you're a dick
People need to calm down. There is no reason to believe this is malicious.
I don't think I've ever seen the subject of high school brought up in a hiring process at a tech company. I didn't even go to high school. Nobody cares. Diplomas are kindling.
NSA takes care of your data.
I suck at reading.
> If I say something like "I had to catch a 6am flight", that means something to you without knowing what time zone I'm in.

But it's really meaningful only in the sense that it's early morning, so that the same information could be conveyed by saying "I had to catch an early-morning flight." (More precise information than that could always be conveyed: "I had to catch a flight 1 hour before sunrise", or whatever.)
I thought the GPL automatically gives all rights to the code to the FSF.
I don't understand why 100% solar would be a good thing. Sure, it could hypothetically meet our daytime demands, but what about night time? There's only two options there: import power from another time zone where the sun shines, or store the energy during the day.

The first is very lossy: HVDC is the most efficient way to transport bulk electricity, and it loses 3.5% per 1000km. You would need to transport electricity about half the way around the earth of the earth's circumference, or about 20,000km, meaning you would lose about 50% in transit. So this would depend on a drastically more efficient way of transporting power (superconducting power lines?).

The second is not possible with current battery technology.

And that still doesn't answer why this arrangement would be better than a nuclear (base load) + solar (daytime variable load) + natural gas (nighttime/cloudy conditions variable load) mix.
Here's a list of some of his predictions for 2009 along with commentary on whether they came true or not:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexknapp/2012/03/20/ray-kurzwei...
All engineers have a moral responsibility for the work that they do--this is important whether you are making bridges, assaults rifles, or data warehouses.
It's a combination between the Spolskyesque "The hiring pool will always be sucky because it is, definitionally, always going to be heavily weighted with people who have not yet succeeded in getting a job" explanation and "At many firms, actually being able to program your way out of a paper bag is not a prerequisite for being hired as a programmer."

At my old day job, probably half of our system engineers could not program. They generally spent their time producing documentation, gathering requirements, writing emails about requirements that needed more documentation, and occasionally breaking out Eclipse to spend 6 hours trying to add an if statement to one web page by patterning it off of parallel structure in the file they could copy/paste and then random walking through the space of all possible tokens until they found one where the output matched expectations.
This looks quite interesting; thanks for sharing.
I want to second this as a now 32 year old who dropped out of school aged 16 (to work in the fledgling Web design scene, not because I wasn't doing well at school).

Freelancing was easy at first but then the dot com boom hit and things were tough for a few years, but luckily I was living with my parents. Eventually I got heavily into Rails in 2004/2005, built some apps, sold some apps, and eventually did very well for myself, but as fit2rule says, it all comes from working really hard and generally I missed out on 90% of the life that people in their early 20s tend to live (not a huge deal to me as I'm not the partying type anyway).

Things are pretty good now and I've just started to do a degree which I'm finding to be quite enjoyable with the various experiences I have behind me, so.. it can definitely be done, but it's not going to be a walk in the park.
Many of the complaints here can be solved via a good implementation of infinite scrolling.

The URL should auto-update to reflect the current state of the content that has been loaded onto the page (the only exceptions are when the content is highly dynamic and pagination becomes somewhat meaningless over even short time intervals).

Either manual invocation of the scrolling should be necessary (so access to the site footer is not restricted) or else the site footer should be re-designed so it is still accessible (Twitter, for instance, just puts an information box on the left with links that would normally be in the footer).

It is also very important that clicking on a link on the page and then going back should restore the full state of the page, including scrolling position, at least to the greatest extent possible.

Ideally a visual separator should be inserted between different pages of content. This helps the user maintain context of where they are in the content stream.
Are you seriously comparing the version numbers of two completely different applications? That's like saying Apache is twice as good as Nginx because Apache is on version 2.4 and Nginx is only on 1.5.
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I've used to 'options as array' pattern in PHP plenty of times. While it's probably the closest thing to named parameters you can get in that language, it can get kind of ugly and clumsy when you have to validate it.

function something(array $options, $defaults=array('foo'=>1,'bar'=>2)){
...(array_intersect_key or something)...
}

Actual named parameters would work so much better.

And Wordpress 'solves' this in the plugins API by suggesting using extract(), which converts an array into variables. Which is even worse.
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Yes. 1.0 was written in the MS-DOS era, truncates quality to 15-bits, has buggy alpha and uses basic Median Cut algorithm from early 80s.

2.0 is by now a totally different program, with expanded and improved algorithms (with bits of machine learning) and uses 128 bits per pixel precision (SIMD+multicore optimized).
It's an experiment, to see how hard it is to make "everything is an object" work as well as "everything is text" for scripting.
The most important line: "put security ahead of both domestic and international surveillance". That's what it comes down to, we can have communications security or surveillance, not both.
I started out in the web development game with no qualifications and no previous experience. I like to think that I've made a pretty decent job of it. If you want to chat some more then please feel free to email me on gkwelding@gmail.com.
You may find this interesting: http://lesswrong.com/lw/diz/kurzweils_predictions_good_accur...
That was more of a professional/server release, not a consumer release, no? If 2000 is included, you can also include 2008, which was also good.
It is interesting to note that even if I ever manage to create a splash page as awesome as this, HN will still (partly) respond: Meh - choppy.
You should probably keep some proper desiccant on-hand instead... maybe some sillica gel. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiccant
Absolutely, they would be the ideal answer but a lot of times this gets the job done better than just having 10 parameters to your function.
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This is an well-written, wise and considered response. Well done, sir.
Congrats ChargeBee! Will be checking you guys out for my startup's billing needs.
Not too bad. Actions return null though. How about a self-executing function that returns a value? This is useful for assigning values to variables. IIRC it's going to start getting more ugly from here.
The message is meant to be read, but the user behind the alias may not be public.
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Was it done in-house at Sony USA or who produced it, does anyone know?

Quite funny how the use meta keywords like its 2002 … "download movies online, online movies, internet movies, video on demand, movies on demand, tv shows, watch movies online, watch online movies, support, technical, service, repair, fix, USA"
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Disagree with this authors sentiment. I too am a nerd and relate to the caricatures of nerds on the show.

I collect comic books, was obsessive about magic cards, star wars vs star trek, dressed in nerd costumes rather than sexy costumes, and have a mild case of OCD.

I like those things but I still see the humor in pointing out their absurdity on some levels.

Many shows do this -- even the mainstream comedies. They make fun of binge drinking, hookup culture, being stupid, etc.

Penny is made fun of constantly for her poor life choices, lack of degree, poor job, loser bfs, etc. AND the audience laughs at her constantly for it. Quite frankly I am proud that I relate with Sheldon more than Penny.
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It's a splog that has a profanity filter, and a not very good one.
Seems Chennai is slowly becoming a big player in SaaS startups thanks to Zoho. Maybe we should call this people Zoho mafia :)(like paypal mafia)
This isn't what you want to hear, but you need to hear it: in this day and age, if you can't cope with high school, then you will very likely never have a successful career. Bite the bullet and go back to school (or get a GED).
I find it doesn't really do this on the mobile site.
I would recommend either focusing on back-end dev with Ruby or learning iOS or Android development. Those skills are in high demand now and if you're effective, diligent, and have a high standard for build quality, you should have little trouble getting a job that will before long pay well.
You're reading way too far into this. There are no plans whatsoever to close-source or charge for the project (other than the paid hosting plans currently offered). That's plastered all over the kickstarter[0] as well as the website[1].

[0] http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/johnonolan/ghost-just-a-...

[1] https://ghost.org/about/
You got a friend in me. I'm in my early 30's and have no social life due to my responsibilities.

Sometimes all you need is someone to bounce ideas off of to figure out how you want to move forward. I'd be more than happy to be that person for you.

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How do you achieve both short term and long term goals? What kind of feedback loop do you use?
This is a glaring case of rose tinted glasses! Of course you'd want to know you were working on out of date src/document/etc...
Step 1: Find a meetup in your area for startups

Step 2: Begin Networking w/ Attendees

Step 3: Make it known to these people that you're a cheap coder and know Ruby and Javascript

Step 4: Offer to be an intern if you have to
Japan has the fifth highest military spending in the world. That's a lot of money.

Further, military spending for the majority of the world is related to the real threat that they endure. What threats did Japan face? There was no chance of a Chinese invasion, and among the rest of the Asia Pacific countries things are relatively civil. The powder keg of India/Pakistan has nothing to do with Japan.

As a second further, when you start dumping money into the military you generally just create a problem as everyone around you will start doing the same.
I have around 160 friends in my circles on google+ and I'm following 10 communities ...
I see max 1 post. Rest is pictures I uploaded (WHY not share them ... HERE are people you might KNOW ... and "Communities you MIGHT be interested in" ... then the layout is so ridiculous that I can just see 1 or 2 posts on my small laptop screen. Sorry that's not how Facebook and Twitter look like.
I think a lot of Kurzweil's predictions are self-serving. He wants to live forever so bad, that he has:

1. Convinced himself it's possible

2. Convinced himself it's possible in his lifetime

3. Made arrangements to cryogenically freeze himself in the event he dies before it happens

It's just silly. We're nowhere near the ability to live forever and anyone who thinks we are has delusions of grandeur. And you can't freeze yourself to escape this reality. A planet with 7 billion people that live forever and are still actively procreating is likely to quickly have overpopulation issues. Are they really going to be looking to bring people back from the dead?

Sources: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Kurzweil#Health_and_aging
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whoa, whoa! easy with the language there buddy
There is currently an RFC for named parameters in PHP 5.6. The spec looks good and I'm hoping it gets approved.

https://wiki.php.net/rfc/named_params
Oh, the ad—and, it seems, the whole publicity message of Hirai-era Sony—is a painfully obvious Apple me-too. Given the brief to deliver that "we ♥ design, too!" message, I think the ad does a pretty good job with the materials available to it. One obvious difference between Sony and Apple is that the former is and has always been* "busy making everything". By pulling together a bunch of diverse, but fairly classy and desirable items from the Sony catalogue the ad helps to mitigate the "consumer-electronics flea market" impression.

The irony is that while Sony chases the Apple halo, Apple's released a couple of ads recently that are highly defensive underneath the sugar-coating. The "Making a difference. One app at a time." videos http://www.apple.com/ios/videos/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOUfzyAEQHk seem intended as a rebuttal to the "lol Angry Birds" dismissal of the iOS App Store, while "Misunderstood" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nhwhnEe7CjE is a response to the moral panic about smartphone zombies (and to a lesser extent the "iOS is for consuming, not producing" criticism).

* Well, since maybe the '70s at least.
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