skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Until they change, and your code breaks, and you have to go figure out why. The point of not (silently) using defaults is that as long as you're explicit with your arguments, you won't get surprised by changing defaults. Of course, you might get surprised by any number of other changes, but you can at least reduce your failure surface area a little bit :-)
How did you learn and change?
I agree, this typed enum in C++11 made a MachO manipulation library much nicer.
The brown note
This wasn't even a market carve-up.

Having heard Wharton's story directly from him, I can assure you that was being proposed as told by Wharton was in fact a three-way market carve-up.

• IBM would get business.

• Intel would get embedded devices (Wharton's own work was largely on an embedded controller that's used in automobiles, more units of it have been created than there are humans on Earth).

• Microsoft would get the hobbyist market ("home computing").

Your ad hominem on The Register (El Rag as I like to call it) doesn't address the fact that the source of the story is in fact John Wharton, and he has IIRC publicly discussed it elsewhere. I've got my own beefs with the Register (its irrational opposition to anthropogenic global warming comes to mind). And while long critical of Microsoft, that stance seems to have softened markedly in recent years. The stance of the site is pretty aggressively confrontational -- it's not "biting the hand that feeds IT" for nothing.
Are they still engineering focused, in the same vein as Google for example? Stories I read points to them being overheavy with middle management bureacracy.
It seems more likely that subduction would happen at the inner equator, and spreading systems at the outer. This is addressed briefly in the article- when plates move around the torus, they must compress to fit into the smaller diameter of the inner equator, and stretch out when moving towards the larger outer equator.
Guess how many salespeople Google has.
Steve Ballmer Laughs at iPhone (2007)
Isn't that just news.ycombinator.com?
The only place HN really accepts attempts at humor (or unfounded speculation, for that matter) are as tossed-off epilogues to more substantive and serious commentary. Picture an HN comment as an (extremely short) journal article: you have to summarize your data and experimental method first--and then, optionally, can state some conclusions.
Hashtags aren't just twitter. Every service has hashtag plumbing now.
Pay with cash when that option is available.
It's a design that's iterated over many decades, and it hasn't always been easy for them; the payment network is huge.

Plus, if you think security is bad now, remember that before this we were writing checks for most transactions.
At least with credit cards I can discover fraud usually the same day it occurs, and they are far more convenient that checks ever were -- as someone who has used both, I'm not all that bothered by the current state of the system.
Also take a look at ZeroVM: http://zerovm.org/
He actually wasn't 100% correct. If you get the omnibus "Heavy Planet" edition (including a sequel novel "Starlight" and some short stories), it is explained in an appendix that Hal Clement's estimation of the gravitational field was somewhat off, resulting in erroneous values for the maximum field strength at the poles.

Still, Hal Clement did a bang-up good job, and the error (or correction there of) doesn't negatively affect the story at all.
Bringing Ad Block into the core also sounds like a violation of the browser abstraction to me. A browser is supposed to show me what I give it. Specifying and implementing policies about what content is "good" or "bad" and should be treated specially seems logically separate to me.
Too bad this isn't a site to find jokes - and yet more and more people want it to be like reddit.
Any recommendations for web programming in Haskell?
Or perhaps The Onion takes shots at everyone and people are just more likely to notice the stuff that offends them?

Drew Carrey told a story about how he got hate mail from people after his sitcom had a punch line involving Polish people. He also received a lot of angry letters about a joke involving mental health. The first group was very offended about the Polish joke and was incredulous that his show was allowed on the air. The second group was also highly offended and similarly baffled by his success. The interesting part is that the first group never complained about off-color jokes about mental health, and the second didn't seem to notice the Polish jokes. Each group only noticed the stuff that touched on their personal biases and ignored the rest.
I've felt that there are students who are just incapable of making relatively simple mental models of the concepts that we discuss.

Just because this seems to be the case, I would only ask that you don't let this become a limiting belief that you project on your "incapable" students.

I only say so because I know I've taken various courses over the years (HS or college) where that sort of analogous big-picture communication you're talking about didn't really click for a few months or even years. When one is overwhelmed - or at least feeling overwhelmed - with the volume of new fundamental concepts to be grasped, it's akin to having 1,000 jigsaw pieces dumped on your coffee table. Oh and by the way, we're going to apply time pressure and grade you on your ability to figure out the big picture.

In that case, learning can turn into a fear-based "tread water because I'm drowning" activity where rote memorization is the fallback tool to get the learner to shore alive. The outcome is no longer the joy of understanding and meditating on those analogies/models to get the fundamentals to click, but trying to avoid death (err, a failing grade).

It wasn't until I revisited those certain topics later without the time-sensitive pressure of exams/grades that the broader models for understanding would "click" and all those rotely memorized fundamentals would fall into place - which is an indescribable joy.

So while your incapable students may not seem to grasp the big picture now, it's likely you are still making a difference by implanting those fundamentals which will snap together later on in life.
Static type checking is a double-ledger bookkeeping of "what I am/have is what you are/want." Erlang and Haskell have the most interesting approaches to typing: optional and extensible respectively.
Humans.lol, the opposite of robots.txt, at SeatGeek.com
This counts as reducing human environmental impact (on Earth, at least), but I was asking specifically about ideas for reducing human population levels by a lot.
to be more specific, a funicular. A cable car would take energy to counteract the lift on one side; a funicular would be very nicely counterbalanced.
Thanks for the spirited reply, Zaid, but I never said I disagree with any of these points. I'm responding specifically to the ridiculous notion that profit could not possibly be in the future of a post-IPO Twitter, not this stuff about whether Twitter is actually in trouble. If you want to take issue with my position you should probably respond to something I actually said. It is less productive to pretend I am debating a different set of issues and then complain when I don't address these other issues.

(I also don't appreciate your assertion that I didn't read an article from which I cited specific factual statements. Obviously I did. This is all particularly annoying, since you seem to believe something that I think is mostly true, and not on something which I concretely disagree; it makes it seem like you're hunting for a disagreement and not conducting this conversation in good faith.)
No, that's revisionist history. IE 3 was a better browser than Netscape at the time, and IE 5 was much better than Netscape 4. CSS support, for example.
Really? That's the last point of three. I gave more weight to this one:

"Creating and proofing each ebook format is not a trivial effort. It involves reformatting every code sample to work on every ebook reader, accounting for differences in screen contrast, accessibility testing, and proofreading the text and code samples several times on each device. Instead of spending our time struggling with reformatting, we're choosing to focus on improving the technical material."
>The delivery took 9 days. This never happens on Amazon.

I ordered something on Amazon Prime on 24 Jan. It shipped† on the 26th, but still hasn't arrived. 12 days and counting.

†http://wwwapps.ups.com/WebTracking/processInputRequest?sort_...
Well, it doesn't have to be a severe bottleneck in order for faster storage to be an advantage. If you've got two laptops with the same CPU and amount and speed of RAM, but one has a 30% faster SSD, then the latter will do a better job of keeping the CPU fully loaded.
If you have an existing database you can use: https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman
It is built with Python/Flask. The way it works is that it maps your Db and allows you to query it through the URL. You could modify this to include authentication and security. Or you could add a middle layer between the two to take care of that.
INTERVIEWER: What do you consider your greatest achievement ever in programming?

I thought for sure it was going to be DONKEY.BAS:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kymzTlqi1SY
Why Haskell is Awesome
I thought Google's ranking algorithm was PageRank.
Again you're reinforcing my point on education by comparing Facebook to Twitter. You can't compare the two just because they are both "social networks". They are two completely separate tools with separate purposes and more importantly separate users. Facebook has larger numbers because their user pool is larger and probably always will be. Grandmas look at pictures of grandchildren, high school friends keep in touch, that one guy you're friends with posts obnoxious religious or political rants. There is no barrier to entry, it's the worlds large public bulletin board and that's okay. These people aren't concerned about consuming aggregate information rapidly. When Facebook people come to twitter looking for Facebook they get disappointed. You don't hear Facebook users bitching about Pinterest needing to change because people expect a different experience from Pinterest. If more users coming to twitter from other networks better understood the platform they would be way less likely to be left scratching their head. Like I said, this is a problem that twitter needs to solve, but in the mean time if you enjoy Facebook and find twitter unusable then it's probably not the tool for you.
Something about eggs and baskets.
New Business Models
Thanks. I will fix it shortly.
10 practical startup quotes to live by
The answer is we don't, at least willingly. We should be optimistic rather than pessimistic.

The other answer is to get rich, which lowers birthrates faster than anything else. Beats a modest proposal.
Computers can't write sales copy or do a great in-person pitch yet.
Bionic hand allows patient to 'feel'
Lol. Also +1 re mechanical twerk
Dear Azure
I follow the twoscoopspress twitter account and they're talking about going to printers in Australia. I think they are trying to make it happen, its in their FAQ...
The lisp example is actually exactly what I'm looking for!
I would make the argument that purely functional programming languages have already seen success and are seeing more as time goes on.
Explain how Susan is "generic"? Do you think Google would have had its success sellings ads (or whatever) to make more programmers into millionaires than any other company has done, if someone else had been in her place?
If it had no business model and no revenues at all, I would assume that the valuation might be higher, since it's far easier to sell on expectations, rather than real cashflow, which would somehow limit the speculator's unbound speculations.
That would be awesome. I'm originally from Huntsville but in Birmingham right now - I might try to organize some sort of unofficial deal here. There's a surprising amount of hackers and makers here from what I've seen around the internet and talks with my coworkers (just moved to bham).
Sheryl Sandberg is crying all the way to the bank as well, I assume.
Almost mimics my usual day to a t.
"We’re no longer in the days where every program is super well crafted. "

Wow. This statement is epic in the context of Microsoft today. Seems like everything they put out is feature rich but overly complicated.
Alternative workflow for AngularJS development
Because of the lack of fast and reliable s3 clients out there, I built https://github.com/rlmcpherson/s3gof3r, that can do over 1 Gbps with ease, both multipart uploads and parallelized downloads. The killer feature, though, is streaming that enables things like gof3r get -b <bucket> -k <key> | tar -x to extract directories tarred directories or any other streaming application. It also provides end-to-end md5 integrity checking. For objects over a few GB, I haven't found anything matching in speed or reliability.
I highly recommend taking a look at the Happstack Tutorial. There's both a Lite version [1] and a full Crash-Course [2].

[1] http://happstack.com/page/view-page-slug/9/happstack-lite
[2] http://happstack.com/docs/crashcourse/index.html
Timeline views were down nearly 7%, suggesting users were refreshing their feeds less often.

(1) Twitter makes most of its revenues from timeline views

(2) Timeline views are declining

(3) When a recently IPO'd company's biggest money making product is on the decline in terms of usage, that is hardly a rosy picture.
Visitors to Sochi Olympics will be instantly hacked
It's open-er than say, the UDOO or Cubieboard. One of the things that the Pi has is an extremely large and active community - this helps with things like reverse engineering efforts.
Learn Haskell first. When you've gotten your head at least partially around it then the latter two become much more approachable. Programming in a dependently typed language is not simple if you're not used to the algebraic methods they're based on. That said, Idris seems to be aiming to be much more "practical" than Agda.

Also, all that said, once you start getting to the point where you're really getting comfortable with Haskell types you absolutely should learn Agda or Idris since they do advanced types far better than Haskell does. Many confusing Haskellisms become obvious in the light of Agda/Idris.
Was blockchain willing to give Apple it's 30% cut of purchases? Wonder if that would have made a difference.
That's true, also I was too harsh.
I'm pretty sure he's talking RSX11, VMS, and VAXELN. I believe when Gates says "Everybody who wrote the PDP operating system influenced me" the everybody he's talking about is Dave Cutler and friends.

You know, the people he hired to write Windows NT.
But if Walmart decides not to stock your item, there's still Target or somewhere else for a customer to go to to get it. But if Apple bans your app, the entire iOS userbase will never see it.
Only Pub talking. But since I consider all of you friends there is no harm in it.

It's simple.

People will die. In Billions. By famine, diseases and war.

I think this is a inevitable future for our race.

Nature made us too god at modifying it for it's own sake. The planet will survive. Maybe not with us but life will.

We are just to stupid and "NOW aligned" to do anything else as a species. That's my opinion anyway.
Is it just me or are the answers to the first five questions wrong on the answer key?
can you point me to a site that breaks Chrome's zooming? It rarely fails for me, and I use it quite a bit. Maybe I can figure out what's going wrong.
Who's settling? Awareness is much more achievable for far less effort and has exponential effects in how many people can affect the issue.

Always take half-measure, if cost-benefit or your own priorities indicate it's worthwhile, and don't hide behind canned responses to justify irrationality.
Radiaciones en la comida
Should the Master Protocol do Scripting? | Mastercoin
"Choice is, in many ways, oversold. Literally."

This is briliant!!!
Don't learn how to paint, learn how to create art. How is one without the other?
If Wal-Mart were the only store allowed in your city. And the Mayor worked for Wal-Mart.
Google goes to war on 'fraudulent' YouTube video views
Silicon Valley has a dress code
Thanks. hnstream is really cool.

You're right. I have limited frequency of crawling due to HN's access thresholds.

hnstream will help me. I will try it.
None of the web developers I've interviewed in the States was able to implement a sorting algorithm of their choice. The one developer who got close to accomplishing this used min() on array_slice() in PHP.
Okay, for reals this time:

> What if there's some condition where the barge needs to be evacuated

Whatever a cruise ship or airplane does.

> Also, let's say you have 1000 engineers living and working there; where are you going to get all that network bandwidth?

Undersea cable, attached to a buoy. Or yeah, wireless. Have a local copy of as much as possible to allow development with a minimum of ship-to-shore packet transmission.

> Finally, families?

They live there too. Just like Star Trek.
The invoice has an item number, but their "specifications" page is not accessible anymore for the article in question.
I can't help but agree. What made twitter so interesting and fun initially was how it was so easy to integrate with everything. It became a widely used messaging/information platform for apps to take advantage of while also allowing other devs to build their own spin on what a Twitter app should look and feel like.

I really think Twitter could have been better off by selling developer access to the pipes. Charge by the user or by the api call. Some way to still encourage the 3rd party platforms while also seeing some monetary benefit from it.
I recently interviewed with one of the "big 10" tech companies and was asked to do similarly; I was given 4 pages instead of 30. I felt like it was a good and useful exercise.
So they better change their entire branding!
Given that ActiveX was something that by design wouldn't have worked on non-Windows machines (since it was, if I remember correctly, pretty tightly tied into COM/services stuff) - I'm pretty sure it being open source wouldn't have changed anything.
That's true, which is why I was careful to say in its original form :) Since the original attack was on cookies (request headers). To my knowledge, no other SPDY server defaults response header compression to off. But yeah, if your application does pass secrets in response headers, you should be careful.
They posted over 3 billion dollars in shipping losses in 2012 and are currently saying they will likely increase the cost of prime soon. Perhaps if you haven't used prime you may not realize how much many prime subscribers use it, I'm not being tricked. Looking over the past few years of my amazon orders, I average 50-100 orders per year. I know they have good shipping rates, but I doubt it's less than $2/package for at min 2day.
Ah, I think I know what you're talking about. Was this where their games like "Motocross Madness" were available for trial or purchase? I see the convenience of a nice searchable, organized app store but the decision to bifurcate Windows 8 into two completely separate desktop environments and then hide all the useful controls off of the screen (in corners) seems completely asinine. There's probably keyboard shortcuts that make navigation easier but there needs to be a good GUI for those users who are used to using their PC that way.
I'm going to save this article to Pocket and read it later; it looks interesting though!
Sure, it is certainly debatable that "rosy" was the right choice of words here (it probably was a bit bombastic). But unless your plan is to claim that it is impossible to be optimistic about this situation (which is more or less the position I have taken issue with), then I'm not interested in having this discussion.

I'm open to the possibility is wrong; I'm not open to the idea that this debate about the semantics of "rosy" is the most interesting thing to be said here.

Sorry if this is a bit blunt.
How I Learned to Stop Procrastinating, and Love Letting Go
The entire site is inaccessible to me as I don't have Flash installed. Haven't tested it in Shumway yet.
What is missing the rest of the program that could be using temperature hundreds of times scattered throughout the calculations and UI. A small type hierarchy provides type safety for all that other code and is certainly less prone to errors than well named variables and simple conversion functions.

The example is bit too trivial as the hierarchy doesn't provide much value. I would assume the base class would actually provide some useful functionality that isn't in this example or it could be eliminated entirely.
I'm gonna need to see some better sources for this claim. I mean, it's not unbelievable but it's lacking in technical detail.
Probably each song or song fragment requires a video, hence "ton of videos".
Your work-life balance hangs in these four quadrants – Quartz
Blockchain.info (not blockchain, that's a term for part of the Bitcoin protocol) is a web wallet rather than a purchasing service. I doubt anybody would use something like that, especially in the "trustless" model Blockchain.info advertises itself to use.
In 2002 there was still significant leverage being applied by MS to OEMs. There were a lot of interesting OSes at the time that were squashed because they couldn't get any installation footprint - http://slashdot.org/story/02/02/19/2226257/be-sues-microsoft...
An archive for those without a Facebook account — http://archive.is/f5d58
Breathtaking is the 2014 beautiful.
Motorcycle Racing Crash**Warning Graphic**
>Tigers and snakes generally don't make racist/sexist/gayist remarks. Anyway, humans are far more dangerous...

No, they bite your face off instead. It'd almost be better if the snake said something racist and moved along lol. You know what humans do? They make mistakes, and are often reasonable and have the possibility of changing. Pull the guy aside, he's not a snake.
Tech Industry Flexes Muscle in California Race
First Mathematical Model of a Gift Economy  – The Physics arXiv Blog
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Costco Amex card works.
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