skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Could you explain what's wrong with that answer? I found it to be spot on, but then again maybe I'm 'clueless' as well.
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4 hours old article, 4 comments before this one. Every one with a complaint.

I guess Microsoft can't even give away free training materials without criticism.
Almost two years ago the "The Pulse of Spain" was made, based on the same idea (disclaimer: the designers of this are also designers for our product (and dear friends)).

It's in Spanish, unfortunately. You have to click on the tiles to activate them and they'll start pulsating. If you have Flash, there'll be sound.

The link is:

http://img.actibva.com/pulso2/
Note the prominence of the Invite button on each. On Twitter it's in bright red in the header, Facebook also in the header and for Tumblr it's right below the profile.
Well I was thinking about Python when I wrote my comment :)

One of the problems with Python is that they almost encouraged writing code in 2 and porting it to 3. Also: Python 3 is almost a complete different language.

It would be the same when PHP6 would use a + as string concatenation. Such changes would turn it into a complete different language.
It's easier to just use one of the many other better languages.
It's entirely possible it's not the right course of action, but it's reflex. Now that it's known terrorists view aircraft as weapons, even taking control of the aircraft is a deadly threat.

The weapons usually used to control an aircraft are the threat of bombs. A fake bomb is just as effective as a real bomb, and vastly easier to bring onboard, so it seems rational to presume any bomb threat is fake. To a first approximation, hijacker in a plane aisle is a problem of running at him and tackling, which is about the easiest possible thing to do.
The data files have been available for years. The problem is they are poorly structured and also incomplete. It's impossible to create links sometimes between genre data and movie data as the genre data is linked to a title, and not an IMDB (unique) ID.
Butterflies, I imagine
A counter statement: Putting the CSS in the head
Have you tried other operating systems?
Somehow it gives me the (obviously mistaken) impressions that people have sex in North Dakota in the time it takes the gif to blink and that people in Phoenix put condoms on but aren't then having sex but are perhaps doing something with those new shoes.

Looks like there's scope for a startup or two around vibrators with the size of that market.
That's one of the thing that surprises me: how does StackOverflow keep quality answers since people who are knowledgeable enough don't need to be there on the first place.
Yeah, how do you do that? I saved the gif and opened it in apple preview which show the frames but not the frame rate. Photoshop perhaps?
It's very unlikely that page went live on apple.com as an error. I would imagine Apple control their public web presence very carefully. This will have the fan boys in an absolute tizzy if true. Perhaps he's just stepping down from a senior exec position?
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What I find more shocking is that the EU number is even lower than that. I would very much like to see this divided up by EU countries because I seriously don't understand what is going on here.

This is what I would personally expect from a survey here in Germany: Answers shaped by "worst-case" assumptions and disdain towards nuclear power, genetic engineering and possibly some misinformation regarding vaccinations and homeopathy. With the "Is all radioactivity man-made" question, for instance, I would expect sub-par performance of my fellow countrymen.

But the Earth moving around the sun??? I mean even if somebody were to get all their information from watching television over here, they would know _that_.
I am not a Wikipedia rules lawyer, but my understanding is that Wikipedia forbids original research. So even if you contact McCaleb and get the true answer from him, Wired's statement still stands because your research isn't admissible.

The question has come up before in historical articles where someones secondary source is directly contradicted by some editor with direct access to the archive files.
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I'm struck by the PSR J1748-2446ad...

How can something with twice the mass of the sun spin a thousand times a second. An equator speed of 24% light speed...

The Universe is so strange...
What's that paper about? I only see squares

edit: I could read it using chrome.
I... think it's kinda weird, yelling for 'anti trust regulation' when you're blocking ads / denying people their income.
In that case it can still be beneficial to post the question and answer it yourself. Especially if it benefits other developers as well.
I thought BCC was aimed at teachers? Various implementations of bingo are commonly used as teaching aids, test review games, etc.

Though I agree I'm amazed at its success. It's one of those ideas I'd have dismissed as "you could never make money doing that."
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When learning a new and difficult topic I do this a lot. For the topics I have difficulties with it takes 20 minutes to build a workable test case, and perhaps a lot more than 20 lines of code alone.

It's not always that however. Most recently I spent 4 hours debugging socket.io disconnecting before I remembered nefarious DPI/crawling done by the house ISP https://nodpi.org/2010/08/07/talktalk-becomes-stalkstalk/
This is true 90% of the time.

From there, some libraries like ezpublish will cause all sort of problems with xdebug depending on where you put the breakpoint (it might be due to the number of recursive call or stack depth), and you'd really want to enable or disable debugging case by case, from your IDE ideally.

Then debugging on a non dev server means installing a new package, configuring it and disable it afterwards just in case it has ill adverse effects.

Then some eclipse pdt versions were stuck when using xdebug on some configs.

Overall it works, but in practice, there's not enough cases IMO where step by step debugging is valuable enough to bother dealing with the not so exceptional weird things.
"sell a quarter million [dollars] of software [over 7 years], allow you to quit your day job, and fund your software business"

Glad for you that your product has given you that freedom, but I don't think there are many devs who would be comfortable quitting a day job for circa $35K gross ARR...

Edit to say: I see from the link elsewhere that you publish your numbers (kudos), and that gross mean ARR for the last 4 years is $51K, which is a passive income I wouldn't say no to! Doesn't change my position on quitting the day job however.
You're right I suppose. I think as someone who's not a webdev I just have trouble imagining the productivity benefits of something like Rails or Node.js. I assumed that nowadays there'd be frameworks in statically typed languages with type inferences that were almost as productive as Node and Rails, and hence could provide both fast development speed and efficient executables.
DDG is like Google on the early days. When the founders gave interviews where they started with a blank page, the logo and the textbox, nothing more.

The page is simpler and with less cruft. There are minimal unobtrusive ads. There is a dark mode. These are other reasons other than privacy to choose DDG.
Hopefully, PHP.net community won't go this route. The C-like syntax and the more or less stable code base (compatibility) are the main advantages over Python, Ruby, Go.
As far as I'm concerned, displaying animated GIFs is a bug not a feature (its use here notwithstanding), and I'd report it as one if I thought the Chrome team would take bug reports from the likes of me, so if your viewer doesn't have that bug, be happy!
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I haven't programmed ARM myself and there are different ARMs, but as far as I understand (inspired by post from cnvogel), on most CPU's even non-ARM ones, you need to use intrinsics like these which exist on ARM:

Memory barrier instructions:

http://infocenter.arm.com/help/topic/com.arm.doc.faqs/ka1404...

GCC example:

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/6751605/data-memory-barri...

As far as I understand, volatile doesn't give you the needed "barrier" semantics (what is not allowed to happen before or after, on the deep hardware level) if the code with "volatile" works, it can be just an accident.
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With this new system in place, MtGox should be able to resume withdrawals
soon. At the beginning we will do so at a moderated pace and with new daily/
monthly limits in place to prevent any problems with the new system and to take
into account current market conditions.

The copywriter in me notes that this is a curious way to phrase "Don't worry; we actually have your money."
- why is the sky blue?

- why do birds sing in the morning?

here's why from G-O-D itself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XpnKHJAok8
THe list of choices you can vote to move to is based on where questions are migrated most of the time. Moderators can still move the question wherever they want, just flag for attention and give a custom message to that effect.
This is good news. I hope that everyone using Gox should now be able to withdraw and move to any of the other exchanges with more reliable track record.
They are not even complaints, just a mild general annoyance with the whole Microsoft thing, happens often on HN. Nothing wrong with it, except:

Since I happened to have subscribed to some of MS's tech stack, I would find it interesting to read about specific problem with MS tech. For example, RoR's security and performance issues are discussed in great detail here, may I assume that Microsoft MVC 5 (as a direct competitor to RoR) is scalable, secure and well designed?
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the original part is not the 'process per number' part but the mathematical properties on how numbers are filtered
Another example of this is the popularity of Linux (marketing) over OpenBSD (quality).
Correct, but if I write the upsert in that way - I actually understand what I'm doing... :)

If this is standard upsert query in your app, you should turn it into a procedure and parameterize, catch exceptions anyway.

Or you could mess around with transaction isolation.
Does it really matter whether there was a running MtG trading site with actual trades? I think it's established that that guy wanted to make a magic the gathering online exchange, then discovered bitcoins, and started MtGox, before selling it to the current owners. He may or may have not facilitated trading playing cards on that domain, a subdomain, or somewhere else - it doesn't really matter. The fact is that the MtG online exchange idea was put online first - so you can say MtGox started as an MtG trading site. Whether the site was actually open to the public, or a closed beta, or just on some guy's laptop is just a detail.

Funny how self-referential (no pun intended) Wikipedia has become. Instead of just changing "was a site for trading MtG cards" to "was a planned site for trading MtG cards", or the more ambigous and certainly true "the original idea was a MtG trading site", they spawn endless threads on the discussion page.
Some of us remember learning to program before SO existed. Hell, when I started to learn to program the WWW was still pretty new, and still looked on as something of a fad. You had to read books, and man pages to figure anything out.
What one person calls free online courses, others call marketing material

These are both. Not just one, nor just the other

The knowledge obtained in most of them is not easily transferable to other technology stack.

that is questionable at least. For example for programming laguages they teach both the language and the tools. The language is easily transferable. Well it's not even a transfer, it's just the language [1]. And the tools might be pretty similar depending on which stask you transfer to.

[1] apart from possible minor differences of course, like in the C++ compiler. Not sure if there is a difference for things like JavaScript?
I'm not sure this has much to do with either quality or marketing. It's about stealing credit and whims of the internet in making things popular.
You perhaps imagine that when Twitter was created the developers sat down and said "should we write this in Rails or in Java?" I very much doubt a conversation anything like that took place. I'm almost 100% certain the developers used the tool they knew best and never considered any other alternatives. Quite possibly they had little or no experience with alternatives.

I work with both a RoR code base and a Scala code base. There is no difference in productivity that I can tell between the two. I think it is a out-dated assumption to believe that dynamic languages like Ruby or Python are more productive than modern statically typed languages. The only cost is one of learning; many more people know Ruby than Scala. This is an artifact of history (i.e. Ruby is 10+ years older than Scala; crappy CS educations that only teach Java).
A case for the infinite free trial.
As someone who learned to program on a machine with five kilobytes of RAM, and later had to put a fair bit of effort into unlearning some of the resulting habits:

Yes, that kind of efficiency (in terms of machine resources) and inefficiency (in terms of human resources) is effectively obsolete for general-purpose programming. What of that? If your heart's desire is to work in a context where machine resources are scarce, just work in an area like high-performance technical computing where that's still true. We do not, and never will, have any shortage of jobs where you always need more computing power.
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Raymond Chen has a pretty practical guide to lock-free algorithms on his blog.

http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Search/en-US?query=Lock-fre...
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What was wrong with indextank?
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Is it some sort of affiliate link? (?mtag=XXXXXXXX part)
I use ABP + Ghostery and most Google ads do not qualify as unobtrusive (I don't use FB). I can't recall having seen a Google ad since installing ABP probably not too long after the new policy (I installed Ghostery a few months later IIRC). E.g. the ads at the top of searches are gone, which is great for me since I use redshift and can never tell where the ads stop and the results begin when it is shifting (it is also nice to not need to scroll down to see actual results, although the re-search as text is entered into the search box thing annoyed me enough that I switched to DDG). For people who installed ABP after the option was added it is well documented.

I think ABP came up with a good list that actually indicates when ads have minimal negative impact. Does following those rules actually harm independent content creation? Before installing ad blocking it was not at all infequent for me to not look at websites at all because the ads were too obnoxious. OTOH, when I find an article valuable I usually look around more at what the site has to offer and would at least see the less obtrusive ads at that point even if I missed them earlier.
I'm too lazy to look it up right now, but I think you can continue to build on the road, BUT if they put a settlement at the end of your road you can't continue to build.

E.g. if [x] is your settlement, [o] is an opponent's and = is a road:

[x]==[0]= <-- you can build another road here
[x]==[0] <-- you can't build another road
On the Mac, GraphicConverter[0] has been my go-to app for this kind of random graphic stuff since the mid-90's (wow, it's a 22 year old app now!). "Movie Information" in the windows menu says there's a 300 second period on the Old Faithful GIF.

[0] http://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/
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Awesome. Make it a chrome plugin that shows in every new tab perhaps?
I no longer need Stack Overflow, but I was in Stack Overflow 4 hours ago :-)
http://stackoverflow.com/users/288570
My bet is that they're just launching a leadership structure with a flatter design.
That is an implementation problem. The behavior is still incorrect. MySQL manages to do this correctly, so it's clearly not impossible. I can't come up with any other conclusion except that transaction isolation in pg is fundamentally broken when I see this type of case show up.
I'd love to know where he's getting the data for these.
I like Ghostery so far, but the Self-Destructing Cookies add-on looks excellent, thanks :). I just wish that it (and Ghostery) would not make obnoxious and useless notifications by default. Easy enough to change, though...
The use of the sound is very interesting, since it seems to allow to create loops.
His ignorance was as remarkable as his knowledge. Of contemporary literature, philosophy and politics he appeared to know next to nothing. Upon my quoting Thomas Carlyle, he inquired in the naivest way who he might be and what he had done. My surprise reached a climax, however, when I found incidentally that he was ignorant of the Copernican Theory and of the composition of the Solar System. That any civilized human being in this nineteenth century should not be aware that the earth travelled round the sun appeared to be to me such an extraordinary fact that I could hardly realize it.

"You appear to be astonished," he said, smiling at my expression of surprise. "Now that I do know it I shall do my best to forget it."

"To forget it!"

"You see," he explained, "I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose. A fool takes in all the lumber of every sort that he comes across, so that the knowledge which might be useful to him gets crowded out, or at best is jumbled up with a lot of other things so that he has a difficulty in laying his hands upon it. Now the skilful workman is very careful indeed as to what he takes into his brain-attic. He will have nothing but the tools which may help him in doing his work, but of these he has a large assortment, and all in the most perfect order. It is a mistake to think that that little room has elastic walls and can distend to any extent. Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"But the Solar System!" I protested.

"What the deuce is it to me?" he interrupted impatiently; "you say that we go round the sun. If we went round the moon it would not make a pennyworth of difference to me or to my work."
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I'm highly skeptical of the results in this poll.
I'm going to go ahead and disagree with you completely. Apple didn't find a critical mass of blackberry users (the leading smart phone at time of iPhone introduction) and market something better to them. It just made a smart phone and marketed it to everyone. When it made the iPod back in the day, it didn't find a critical mass of people using hard drive based players already. It created one for everyone.

In more formal terms, if you are trying to steal someone else's customer you have to do something on day 1 (first sale) that is more than 100% as good.

But if you are marketing to different customers, you are acting like a reseller of your competition, with the difference that you don't actually have to buy it from them, but can make it at cost.

It's far better to be in the second situation. I don't think the right strategy is to take on entrenched competition head-on. It's better to create a new market.
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Nice try, http://www.huntshire.com/projects/Details/20030/judge-emotio...

It's like you already have >20000 challenges...

But http://www.huntshire.com/projects/Details/20001/judge-emotio... gives an error ;)

Good luck though, could be an interesting approach in getting marketing by popular people (Twitter, blog, ...)
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Seems decent enough to me.
If I can park a non-tech staffer on an Excel course for an hour instead of having to hold his/hers hand and explain how a spreadsheet works I call that a win.
the migration from v4 to v5 went ok, considering there was a large blog campaign against end-of-lifing php v4 (I remember Matt Mullenweg, amongst many other bloggers and hosting companies, had the badge in their blog sidebars) and there was a lot of resistance to it.

The big thing with PHPv5 was not just having to migrate code, but even at the time v4 was no longer supported and v5 had been out for years in benchmarks v4 was still 20-30% faster then v5.

v5 to v6 could be a similarly smaller scale migration. The number of backwards incompatible changes in 4 to 5 wasn't long:

http://www.php.net/manual/en/migration5.incompatible.php

Slashdot thread from the time with some details on the resistance:

http://beta.slashdot.org/story/87591

Migrating from v3 to v4 was also a backwards incompatible leap:

http://www.physnet.uni-hamburg.de/physnet/php/migration4.htm...

So the PHP project has pulled it off twice already, perhaps they don't get enough credit for that.
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>but the real power of the forum lies in the cases where your problem is original and you have to summon the community to give you a hand.

Every time I have had an original problem, much of SO's value was similar to a stuffed animal that I could explain my problem to, with an occasional tip of something I should look into.

I personally get much more value out of SO by passively reading other peoples' questions/answers. I think that is the real power of the service.
I'm not sure why this unattributed. The passage is from A Study in Scarlet, by Arthur Conan Doyle.