skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Because maintaining and advancing those things takes work. If you work less, you won't be able to afford that Internet subscription and $1000 in hardware to access it, you won't afford the $3.30/gal gas for commuting, you won't afford the iPhone with data plan, etc. Your employer will have to extend deadlines and cancel projects because you (along with everyone else thinking less work is a great idea) just aren't producing 4x your new relaxed hours, and thus tech won't be advancing nearly as fast and may not even keep up with the stresses of growing population. Doctors cut back their hours, and people consequently die in the ER. Lacking the now-deceased cell tower maintenance guy, your cheap cell phone doesn't work any more, and the reduced-hours landline installer for your area is booked for the next 2 years. Wanting to find a clever solution, you realize you can't access Wikipedia for a simple but very relevant factoid, and have to go to a local garage sale to pick up a 20 volume 10 year old encyclopedia - and carry it back, because you can't afford to repair the car.

The Red Queen was right: sometimes you have to run (work) hard just to stay where you are; slow down, and you'll go backwards.
yeah, I kind of agree. I thought it was an interesting approach though, worthy of some discussion.
I also like Eclipse and I'm using it right now with Java 8(Kepler with patch, no problems installing).

I've tried every Java 8 feature in Eclipse and they all worked very well.
It's also the basic definition of narcissistic personality disorder, the inability to see other people as anything else but supporting characters in a scripted life about you.
Very cool. Can you pass arbitrary parameters to the tracker? For instance, could I somehow pass in the user's id, and have that show up on the page? That way if he/she gave me a call and said something went wrong, it'd be easier to pin down.
For the first time in a long time I'm excited to be developing with Microsoft technologies.
I think it is interesting that in French, this notion of a person being successful has no natural translation (although you can say it if you really want to) and it is something I never hear being mentioned.
Because they don't offer content for sale anymore. You can rent it for the same price you used to buy it for though, if you submit to some pretty onerous restrictions, the occasional rootkit, and DRM, and give up any hope of owning what you bought. Is that the radical solution you're referring to?
Apple, Microsoft Join Lobbying Group Opposing Patent Reform
Yep, he's compiled on stage an IOS app with a version of Mono that had Roslyn integration.
How about a special filesystem api for databases?
There are a couple cases of underserved merchants based in the US where Bitcoin would compete with CC in a first world market.

The first is marijuana merchants in CO and WA. Marijuana is legal at the state level but not federally. These merchants have a hard time using the banking and credit card systems and transacting in BTC would help them do e-commerce.

The second is very low denomination transactions (like 10c). It may become profitable for compensate people at scale for doing some very small amount of work. Like giving someone who finds a typo some small amount of compensation. Credit cards are very poor for this.

As for replacing CC, that is a tall order. They are expensive and inefficient, but accepting credit cards does increase top line revenue if a merchant accepts them. If a payment method is going to get adoption it needs to grow revenue (vs. reduce cost) for a merchant if the merchant accepts it.
LMDB was written specifically for multi-threading; all of its shared data structures are cache-line aligned to prevent false sharing. This is also essential to allowing readers to run with no locks.
Oh, SQL itself is fairly easy. For many things, I'm a fan.

However, SQL query construction and result munging is painful.

Consider a UI search screen that has eight potential search parameters that requires a one to many join for the results. The query construction, under something like JDBC, can end up with hundreds of lines of tedious code, like (and this is a condensed example!):

String query = "SELECT a.*, b.* from table1 a inner join table2 b on a.fk_id = b.id where" // shorthand
List whereClauses = []
if (params.region) { whereClauses.add(getRegionWhereClause(params.region)) } //hope this doesn't require another join!)
if (params.country) { whereClauses.add(getCountryWhereClause(params.country)) }
...
if (params.lastParam) { whereClauses.add(getLastParamWhereClause(params.lastParam))}
query += whereClauses.join (" AND ")
...

Each of the params methods are going to have a few lines of code.

def getRegionWhereClause(regionCodeList) { "a.region IN" } //Hope you never want to change the table alias here!

http://use-the-index-luke.com/sql/where-clause/obfuscation/s... shows why using an ISNULL/NVL hackaround for static queries is the wrong answer.

Then you're going to return a list of rows that looks like
| a.1 | a.2 | b.1 | b.2 |
| a.1 | a.2 | b.1' | b.2' |

Where you really want:
| a.1 | a.2 | [[b.1 | b.2] | [b.1' | b.2']]

So you have to go through and munge it. (Can you use something like CONCAT as a hack and groupby? Sure, but that introduces other problems.)

Having a way to pass in optional parameters to a where clause for the DB to strip out (while staying performant) and being able to return a 1 to many as an array would solve many problems, but it doesn't fit the paradigm of SQL.
> Other placebo-controlled studies have shown that ketamine has no effect in treating MDD (see http://journals.psychiatryonline.org/article.aspx?articleid=.... for example), so this is really just a waste of time.

Since when does ketamine==memantine?
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Java 8 works fine for me in Eclipse? Took about 5 minutes to set up by following the instructions found on eclipse.org.
ADT. When I have used Android Studio, I spend too much time working around Android Studio bugs. I haven't tried it in a couple of months--it may have improved since then.
His advice re: paid articles/guides is basically what DigitalOcean is doing at a larger scale, and with great success.
Four years ago. The only product announcement since was the Mac Pro last year, and it was a teaser. This isn't a consumer or device focused event, so big product announcements like that are unlikely, with exceptions being where they influence development. Obviously a bigger iPhone will require new development, but I wouldn't expect a full-fledged unveiling.
For those of us who can't view his LinkedIn account, that still doesn't offer much information; anybody can call themselves a consultant.

Regardless of the details, it's an inspiring story of someone persisting with their dream after facing rejection.
This is potentially very interesting, it's the only open source SQL columnar store I'm aware of. Bonus points for being part of Postgres.

Basically ParAccel (like used by Amazon RedShift) at reasonable cost.
I'm still reading and just looking at the screenshots and I have to say I very much prefer the Tarsnap design not the cheap template one which doesn't really look very trustworthy to me and is probably more suited for an online pharmacy.
Let me break the news for you: Apple is gonna release the next iPhone(s) with iOS 8, which should be in beta 2-3 months before they release it to public. We don't have iOS 8 beta now, which means zero chance of them drop the public release in June.
“If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.” - Henry Ford

Casing user opinion is in my opinion a pretty terrible way to do UX. It's an interactive process not a committee one.

I imagine they ignored all the noise by filtering out all comments about issues they already addressed, then looked at how the ribbon ui went down and ended up a superb success.

I support end users. Most wouldn't go into 'all programs' unless directed. None know that panel as the "start menu" any more since they took the word 'start' off it.

It's just not that big of a deal to skip over every other cool thing in 8 to stick on 7.

Personally I want to see windowed metro apps, the start screen maybe the bottom half height/full width of my display (13" 1080p) and a transparent background.

That would be good I think. The corners are a nice idea although i never really use the left one.

Can we all use this effort to cry for a feature that would actually help like say, native virtual desktops in Windows? Wicked useful.
I seem to remember that being the case with Network Solutions back in the early days.

Gandi seems to hide your handle these days for certain domains if you have whois privacy enabled: my .com/.net names with Gandi don't show the handle, but my .org domains do. My .us domains (which don't allow whois privacy) also show the handle.

Then again, one can easily enable two-factor authentication and it's essentially irrelevant if the handle is known.
I imagine the rushing air can cool a rock pretty rapidly. The increase in terminal velocity will also tend to partially counteract the increased volume:surface-area ratio of larger rocks.
It isn't just about time. If someone knows what you are willing to pay, they can engineer their trades such that you pay exactly that. When the system itself is not paid unless you pay less than you were willing to pay, there is a built in incentive to not reveal that information to potential middlemen.

In that context, trade speed doesn't matter. If arbitrageurs cannot profit by breaking your trade up into two trades with themselves as middleman, it doesn't matter how fast they are.

Aside from that, any system where trades can occur faster than information can enter your eyeball, process in the brain, and shoot down your arm to click a mouse button is one that unfairly disadvantages the unaugmented human participant.
I think it's good to offer a latest release url as well as versioned ones too. We've had serious problems before due to a NewRelic update to their browser monitoring script that broke things for a bit.
As others have said: the distribution of the planes over the Earth (and their speed -- one Yahoo site I ran across suggested they're harder to hit because they're moving fast -- that's also irrelevant, not to mention that pretty much everything on Earth is moving at about 20km/s relative to an asteroid) doesn't matter.

Because meteorites aren't aimed. Odds are they'll land pretty much anywhere on the planet.

I'm not entirely sure this is the case -- because the Earth orbits the Sun, the eastward-facing side should be sweeping through more debris than the west, which means that if you could concentrate your flights on that side, you'd be at higher risk. As it is, most flights tend to operate during daylight hours, with the before-noon flights being at greater risk. More reasons to catch the afternoon flight if you prefer to play things safe, or the morning flight if you feel like making history (or low-grade mysteries of the unknown TV programmes).
It IS cool. My housemate was the engineer behind it. He's cool. Also, a genius.
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Thanks for the link! It looks like the same information is also here:

http://www.dotnetfoundation.org/
Well, I hope he changes the "auto deleted if you don't check your email for 14 days" and just charges my credit card accordingly. Operating on pre-payment is kind of nutty.
How do you "update" your ASK price? They are either front running by buying the shares at $15.00-$15.01, or, if they are their own orders, then they cancel them. It is the same thing.

If someone wants to buy 100,000 shares, and the market says there are 100,000 shares available at $15, the order should complete at $15.
> I feel like having 15-16 year old boys in the program would be very distracting and counterproductive for her.

Well, wouldn't having 15-16 year old girls around be distracting and counterproductive for boys? Also, how do those poor kids manage to learn anything in schools? It must be super difficult for them, having all those other kids of the opposite gender around. Maybe we should bring back the whole separate schools for boys and girls thing.
Coudn't agree more. The current design of tarsnap is much better. It shows that tarsnap is serious about technology and security.
So I guess all we can do now is wait and hope that they get everything sorted out.
Online Time Tracking: Everhour vs. Harvest vs. Toggl
> I don't know why you are being downvoted.

He's being downvoted for making a moronic criticism: what the person feels under the influence of ketamine is obviously irrelevant, of no value for treating depression, this would be just as obvious to the researchers as to him, and so they couldn't possibly have meant that, and indeed, the second sentence of the article says benefits last well beyond the immediate influence.
Samsung MIGHT acquire Shopcloud for $80-$90M
Honestly, he's put so much thought and effort into it already and seems to care a lot about it, I wonder why he doesn't just launch a competing service.

Edit: Whoa, lots of downvotes. I guess it is a bit odd to ask a person who just said "What I Would Do If I Ran Tarsnap" if they have any literal interest in running Tarsnap. Silly me.
Who would have imagined it 5 years ago?
Quickmeme was banned because they were manipulating the voting system. I don't think imgur would or needs to do that.
Imgur Raises $40M From Andreessen Horowitz
Who would have imagined it five months ago?
On the plus side, Barrow County is getting a lot of new stuff. They might have gone off to Bogart to get a job at the new Caterpillar plant, or to the retail development on University Parkway.

It's still not great to be replaced by a robot, but it's not a hopeless situation here like it is in a lot of places.
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May be in the next few years, Microsoft will be one of the biggest players in OpenSource :)
Spotify's New Redesign Is Beautiful and Functional
Everyone on Roslyn is really excited about this and we hope that it serves as a signal that big things are happening in .NET to make the entire platform more open and agile!

P.S. We're the Visual Basic compiler too :)
I never expected them to open source this. Seems like a new era for MS.
Really? Iraq lost 4% (1.45M) of it's population due to the 2003 invasion. What did the Iraqi people get in return for these 500 9/11's?
I think this would be better stated without hostile statements like "It's bullshit." That puts the very people you're trying to convince into a defensive mindset.
Not true - there was an on-stage demo in MonoDevelop on OS X.
Well, yeah, exactly. I doesn't make sense to live technologically as if we're in the 30's, because modern technology is the reason for our productivity.
18 Months of docopt – A Polyglot CLI Option Parser
How about just switching to the best Java IDE on the market: IntelliJ IDEA? Sure, you'll have to pay for it, but you get what you pay for - both ways.
So, I guess I need to look closer than the pixels then:

typedef struct k0{signed char m,a,t;C u;I r;union{G g;H h;I i;J j;E e;F f;S s;struct k0k;struct{J n;G G0[1];};};}K;

Sorry I guess I'm just not seeing the "not much there and actually easy to understand"

Whatever a 'H' is
VoA in Romania was just propaganda giving out false hopes and giving people the illusion that by listening in secret to forbidden radio stations they were somehow fighting the regime.
GNU's Who
As a C# developer who genuinely likes the C# language (although I loathe vast swaths of the .NET framework libs) I'm actually super-excited about this.

C# is a great language, and I hope to see it flourish outside of the MS walled garden. Miguel de Icaza does what he can with Mono, but it can be so much more.
This is the way to do criticism on the internet.
The Overwhelming Evidence That Says Apple Is Working On Something Really Big
They open-sourced a lot of things related to .NET in the recent years. That Roslyn was to join those things doesn't exactly come as a surprise. It's still welcome, though.
Latest NGNIX Web server release supports SPDY protocol
OP: Sorry all. I had hoped to raise awareness and encourage discussion, but I think there's a bigger danger that the way I presented this "experiment" will do more harm than good for the perception of FMT and at home microbiome exploration. I will consider revisiting once I've got my ducks in a row.
Poll: Do you submit bug reports?
I submit bug reports all the time. Whenever I am using software, playing a game, or reading email and something goes wrong I try to track down the support email, but my wife thinks I am crazy. What do you do?
Submit a bug report for every issue I find.
Submit reports only for technical or business software.
Submit reports only for open software.
Ignore them all.
Complain to the internet, but don't tell the developer.
> I got my little sister - almost 15 - to apply for this program. It's important for me that she has a very safe and welcoming environment to get excited about coding - since this will be her introduction to it. I feel like having 15-16 year old boys in the program would be very distracting and counterproductive for her.

All completely reasonable points, and your choices also seem reasonable. But let me ask when, if ever, your sister will be able to leave that sequestered environment and enter the real world. Isn't it our goal to take down these barriers and achieve gender equality?

Gender equality doesn't mean two colonies, one of men and another of women. It means one society composed of men and women. Or am I wrong about that?

> I mostly go to the women who code meetups because I can learn in a safe space that I personally enjoy.

Yes, understood. That's why men go to meetings where only men are present -- same reasoning, same outcome.

> In meetups where there are only women, we get to actually learn and support each other, and it's great. I want the same environment for my sister to learn in.

I know a secret that I'm going to reveal to you -- that works for men too. But it has the unfortunate side effect of making men intolerant of the presence of women. Do you want that outcome for women?

I ask this in all sincerity, without judgment or rancor -- do you want a society in which men and women pay attention only to their own instincts and needs, and make no effort to construct a society composed of both men and women?
Just because (some) recruiters may be "beating down his door" doesn't mean he's qualified for those jobs. Recruiters routinely overfit, just to cram as many resumes and profiles into their hiring funnels as possible. Throw it at the wall, see if it sticks.

Being as 90% of them can't tell the wheat from the chaff to save their skins, they have no other choice, really.
http://www.delawareonline.com/story/opinion/contributors/201...
You can specify the user id and the session id (these are just arbitrary strings you can set to whatever makes sense in your application)

Arbitrary key/values and filtering these values is coming soon as well.
And Roslyn is 100% Apache 2, so he didn't need our assistance or permission to do any of what we demoed (although we were glad to give it!).
Miguel just demo'ed building a C# iOS app using a modified Roslyn-powered C# compiler with Xamarin Studio on OSX.
... as awesome as this is, I'm gonna be That Guy:

No WPF?
Did you read the blog post? They aren't "creating liquidity" they are "selling liquidity." And if you're asserting that nobody needs it you really need to provide an answer for the question:

Then why are people buying it?
I am very skeptical. Although quite stupid, it wouldn't be hard for the other guy to have thrown some kind of junk and get it on camera, then claim it was a meteorite.

I bet nobody ever finds any evidence of said "space rock".
There were lots of other people banging out lots of other OSes. I've worked with many of them (S/360 and successors, VMS, S/400, CPM, among them).

What Unix had going for it wasn't getting started, but getting adopted. For a number of reasons, but among them two key advantages:

• It could be adapted to other architectures. That is, it was portable.

• It could be extended. Most particularly at UC Berkeley and MIT.

The simple-at-the-core bits certainly helped.
I've been using TrackJS for several months (Oct of last year I think) on personal project and I also introduced it into the products that I develop at Pearson VUE. It has been rock solid and extremely helpful. We attempted a home grown version before switching to TrackJS and we are much happier now.
part of the allure of Tarsnap is cperciva's security and engineering expertise. While patio11 is brilliant, that is the one part of the "business" he wouldn't be to compete with.
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To be clear, I'm not trying to cast aspersions. As I've already stated, TextSecure is a great project that I strongly recommend.

I'm trying to have a serious discussion regarding transparency of audits. I feel your reaction is overly aggressive and not genuinely constructive.
Aristotle also has stated that More than 3 hours work per day, equals slavery

Yes, and he was perfectly happy to live comfortably by making use of the products of slaves' work.

and I'm pretty sure Socrates would have argued that If you don't want to work you should not be working.

I'm pretty sure he wouldn't, since he, like Aristotle, was perfectly happy to live comfortably by making use of the products of slaves' work, and as far as I know, he never asked the slaves how they felt about it.
Wow, a "preemptive strike straw man". You don't see that every day. :)
Looks very useful. Some things you can do with it:

Dump system activity to file, so that sysdig can be used to process it later.

* sysdig -w trace.scap

Print process name and connection details for each incoming connection not served by apache.

* sysdig -p "%proc.name %fd.name" "evt.type=accept and proc.name!=httpd"

See the files where apache spends the most
time doing I/O.

* sysdig -c topfiles_time proc.name=httpd

Show the network data that apache exchanged
with 192.168.0.1.

* sysdig -A -c echo_fds fd.sip=192.168.0.1 and proc.name=httpd

Show every time a file is opened under /etc.

* sysdig evt.type=open and fd.name contains /etc
At that moment they already released part of .NET, asp.net and azure.

I think you wanted to say that the "change" was made only thanks to the exit of Ballmer, but I think that's an exaggeration.
Althought strictly speaking I would say that I am comparing Mussolini to the Nazis (@gadders is the one that compared Cuba to Mussolini's Italy), I firmly believe that you can compare anything to anything.

I can compare apples to oranges ("oranges are more acidic and juicier, and apples are crunchier, although both are quite tastey"), I can compare apples to Hitler ("More people have enjoyed apples, and Hitler was a better painter than any apple that I have ever seen, although both are biological organisms") and I can certainly compare any world leader to Hitler and any government to the Nazis.

What I am certainly not doing is equating them. Mussolini's Italy and Nazi Germany were similar in many respects, and dissimilar in many other respects.
If you like Sinatra then check out Nancy.
WPF is more or less owned by the Windows team. This is all stuff under Scott Guthrie's control
Exactly. The last thing you want is your website to look like a WordPress template when your target audience is the paranoid.
It's a compiler. It takes input and produces output. There shouldn't be much in there that has any platform dependency.
I assume you mean Delphi. Other than being now a little bit old school (not surprising for language with roots in Pascal), Delphi was and is an excellent language. Delphi was composed of a language (an ObjectPascal) along with the IDE, application framework, and Visual Component Library (VCL). These conceptual parts were all further developed in C#/Visual Studio, but they were already damn good in Delphi over 20 years ago, ahead of their time.
It's a great time to be a Microsoft dev. They stopped pretending that Windows will win back the lost ground overnight.
Well done guys! I have to try it for sure.