skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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The bundled app now is Grapher, which isn't a part of this legend.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YwWMrDbvpzE&feature=share
Unless part of his agreements with Zenimax required him to provide all necessary assistance and documentation so that they can patent his work, which many agreements do...
> old, outdated info out there

I'd love it if the JDK had a "learner mode" that disabled interned string literals. Then newbies experimenting with `assert(str1 == str2)` wouldn't leap to false conclusions.
Why do people seem to think "opinionated" is a virtue these days?
http://firstround.com/article/An-Inside-Look-at-Facebooks-Me...

One female speaker, a bunch-load of men in the audience. Maybe if female attended more events, there would be more females working.

Maybe if more females did engineering, there would be more females to choose from. How many females in Engineering careers ?

I hate talking with smart people who completely dismiss statistics and only stress on one point.

Come on, most of you on Hacker News did something tech related, in college, etc. How many girls were there in your Microelectronics class ? OS class ?

From all your programmer friends, how many girls are there ?

I mean, it can drive a man insane talking to a wall.
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I agree that the uniform distribution is fishy. I could object to the binomial assumption too; it seems kind of question-begging. My point was just that the thesis "your vote doesn't matter" is not at all self-evident.
Let me play devil's advocate here:

So what? Apart from an ideological view on "privacy is good mmkay", how exactly does it hinder your life if Google knows that you are pregnant, or that if Facebook knows that you are planning up a party for a friend? Or that if company X knows you are anticipating movie Y?

What concrete things do I gain from opting out? What do I lose? How does it actually affect my life?

Edit: It's weird to receive downvotes for this as I'd assume a comment like this exactly contributes to the discussion about the topic at hand.
I have a touchscreen laptop but almost never use the feature. On Xubuntu it seems to work without any issues though.

I suspect it's just a fad because the tech is cheap (my laptop was < $400). I think the movement is unnatural. I'd rather see companies focus on innovation in the trackpad.
> Mobile non-Android Java is deader than dead.

Lots of embedded devices make use of J2ME, e.g. cars, manufacturing, electricity monitoring...
Ha, you just gotta smoke the right stuff. Sometimes that paranoia is what makes it interesting; reveals the contours of your mind. You get a sense of your personality you never had before.
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I have always been very interested in learning x86 (or _64) assembly. Is there a proper guide I can follow say over the summer?
They have rankings and tracker lists and stuff that you can use, I'm not sure if the data is bundled with it initially or if you have to download it from them.
As far as I know, gift card stores like Gyft.com don't require personal information and you can pay with BTC. For example, in the case of the author, she would buy a Target gift card with BTC, then check out at the register with her smartphone.

The limit is $200 per gift card, so it's not very low for normal use. I do this with Amazon and it's pretty easy.
The technology of the internet sure has come a long way!
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Just go live off the grid in a self sufficient cabin in the woods, arraigning ownership of the land through a series of shell companies, DUH!
If you target only KitKat and don't mind missing some of the Java 7 new APIs.
Ada is *awesome*: recent security flaws could have not happened there
Oprah Chai Cartoon
Looks like they got the cert deployed, although the process isn't directed to https yet. I hand-added https to the URL for the payment collection page and had no issues.
Basically, anywhere with people; they're the source of the inspiration. Riding BART or any public transit typically would have the same effect. Take a purposeless bus ride while high for the people.
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> A user of the entertainment, social networking and news website Reddit, RandomDKguy, posted a screenshot of American tanks invading an area of Copenhagen, complete with a number of Stars and Stripes flying, under the title ‘Americans are going amok in the Denmark map in Minecraft’.

Gosh, wouldn't it be great if it were possible to connect this article to that picture? Maybe we could call that technology 'linking.'
Carmack be quaking with rage at those heretics as they try to spell doom for Oculus.
Wikipedia article on dependency injection, section titled "Advantages", _first_ bullet: "The result is more independent clients that are easier to unit test in isolation using stubs or mock objects that simulate other objects not under test."

Would you like to try again?
I'm concerned about why they are posting to THEIR own server to begin with. Even if they were using SSL, it seems like some kind of misuse of stripe.js
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I wonder if rather than focusing on completely opting out, if the author had tried a deliberate confusion strategy in addition to minimizing her digital footprint would she have been "more" successful?
(I recognize the difficulty in measuring "successful" outcomes with this metric).

One of the "dirty" secrets of Big data is that for the Analytics to work is that the data has to be "prepped".
How about deliberately using different names, genders, etc etc in social media, stores (first abbreviation, maiden name etc).

Once the data trail gets muddy enough, you cannot track anything.

Hmmm Might even be an "app" idea in this :)
An excellent use case for Bitcoin. We need anonymous payments.
Its clear these companies can not continue to justify their valuations with their current performance. To a degree, Facebook is also doing this with Paper. If you can demonstrate you can build monetizable user bases its more valuable than simply having a big user base to monetize. As we continue to map social networks these technology companies will have to move along with them lest they fall into dis-repair.
Staying completely off the Internet goes quite a ways toward that goal.

But I'm pretty sure it's hard to conduct business on the Internet (with any of the major public companies, such as Amazon) and be anonymous in today's world.
If somebody has a single bitcoin they can't sell, there is nothing else they can do with it. Therefore, the bitcoin itself has zero intrinsic value.

The value of the idea of the blockchain is not relevant to the value of an individual bitcoin, just as the value of the patents behind autonomous mining trucks (these really exist) has no bearing on the price of an ounce of gold.
> Is campaign finance really responsible for the woes of the middle and lower class, or is it technology (and other factors that make Americans of average skill more fungible)?

If you're looking for but-for causation then they're obviously both responsible, as is the capitalist economic model, world geography and natural resource distribution, biological evolution, etc. Which is why that isn't an interesting question.

The better question is, would fixing campaign finance improve the situation? Which it probably would. For example, there is no rational reason why we shouldn't spend less on defense and more on non-fossil energy research grants, but the campaign finance related reasons are so obvious they don't even need to be described.

> What causes that Congressman to vote against raising taxes? The money that was spent, or the message that was communicated with that money?

The flaw in this logic is it assumes that ability to contribute meaningful amounts to a friendly politician correlates strongly with the objective merit of the politician's policy positions.
In what way is Java a "dynamic language" ?
WASD for increasing speed and turning pages :)
http://artiklur.com/Shortcuts for the full list of keybindings
Agreed. Bitcoin provides anonymity and people that use it for political or convenience reasons are sometimes looked at suspiciously. But, if I go into Walmart and pay for $150 in groceries in cash, no biggie.

Services like SpiderOak that include anonymity as a feature to a small extent do a disservice so the otherwise laudable principle of "can't I be anonymous sometimes without being a criminal?" Maybe zero-knowledge features would be looked upon less suspiciously if they were just included as a feature, without being advertised as a feature? Well, I think you get my gist?
I've read E.T. Jaynes. Also good, but way less approachable (or affordable, which matters for recommendations and for their relevance to the public). They scratch different itches for different audiences, even if their "enemy" is the same.
> the ability to find your way in a codebase

It's a tradeoff between two different kinds of clarity. Yes, it's harder to see the "whole wiring" without better tools...

But it makes small, encapsulated classes much easier to reason about and develop! You can focus on assuring: "My `Foo` can interact with a supplied `Bar`" rather than dealing with all sorts of crap about what implementation of `Bar` it gets or how that `Bar` instance is configured.
Falcon 9 (not heavy) has a first stage and a second stage. The first stage consists of one kerosene tank, one oxygen tank and nine engines. This is also called a core.

Falcon 9 heavy (no crossfeed) has a first stage and a second stage. But the first stage consists of 3 cores that run in parallel. All three cores start and stop at the same time. So 27 engines start at the pad.

Falcon 9 heavy with crossfeed has sort of two or three stages, depending how you count. Outwards it looks very similar to the no-crossfeed Falcon 9 heavy. The topmost stage is similar to the two already mentioned configurations. The three cores look pretty similar. All three cores start at the pad (27 engines running), but the propellant for the center core's engines is taken from the outer cores' tanks. This means the outer cores run out of propellants quite quickly. They can then be discarded in flight, and the center core starts using propellants from its own tanks. Now it can fly without the dead mass of the outer cores and as a result the rocket can carry a bigger payload.

Why start the core engine at the pad, and not make it a real second stage that starts up only higher? Because then you get more thrust, the engines are not dead weight during early flight.

Some rockets like Titan IV had a somewhat similar parallel configuration but they did not start their center engine except at high altitude.
A lot of the articles I link to at the end should be helpful. I'm torn; the compiler manuals have so much useful info in them, but they suck when it comes to learning assembly for the first time. Maybe someone else has a good book that they would recommend? Maybe this [0] but with some of the updates in mind.

[0] http://www.amazon.com/Professional-Assembly-Language-Richard...
They just can't resist the pile of money that Facebook paid for Oculus. Getting a slice of that might be more profitable than writing new software, unfortunately. Goodwill be damned.
He made a ton of money off of the first two apps. Enough to pay for his families housing and the education of himself and his sister. But I agree, the app market isn't too reliable for making money. I see much more opportunity for building your resume using the app market instead
Maybe it's news because the Kindle price is discounted?

I don't know the book, but anyone interested in financial modeling in Python should check out https://datanitro.com/ and their Excel API https://voyager.datanitro.com/. Definitely a big improvement over Visual Basic macros.
You know what, this is a wonderful age we live in. A 13 year old kid can make money off iOS apps, at 17 they can make serious money.

When I was a kid the best I could do was have opensource stuff out there used by thousands of people. Personal gratification was high, but my wallet never got anything out of that, there just weren't any decent distribution channels for non-free stuff. And this was less than ten years ago.

Kudos to the kid!
A new version of RegEx101 has been released, feedback much appreciated
There is a great "opportunity cost" for a kid, or maybe that's not the right expression, of leaving one school and going to another.

For me, I moved and changed schools my senior year of high school. I was happy to do it. I had lots of friends at my old high school, my parents bought a business that was located an hour from our residence, and they pitched the idea of buying a house and moving.

I was in a private school, Catholic, but professed atheist so not very popular with my religion teacher, among other religious teachers, and it was causing my overall GPA to suffer when I had long been a Straight-A student. I switched to a public school more local to the business, graduated third in my class (better than my previous rank in about equal class size), and wound up being able to go to RIT (Rochester, NY) on a decent set of scholarships, with lots of help from my parents.

But more importantly I had just recently gotten really good at making friends, and recognized that taking a year to make some new friends before going off to college was going to be good practice for later.

Anyway, there was no end to the line of people ready to tell me how good it was of me to go along with the idea in my last year of high school, and to not throw tantrums or put up a zillion roadblocks, tell my parents they were ruining my social life by making me change schools, or feeling any of the thousand other ways that a teenage kid can feel gravely slighted by their parents or family when they need to move or make some other major change for some reason, when they are just trying to go on living their lives and do what's best.

A lot of my friends would not have been nearly so happy to move and change schools, I'll admit that. I mentioned enough things that went well, so it's also easy to recognize that any of those things could have turned out differently.
Nice recommendation. Someone mentioned it as well on proggit: http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/24gpqp/lets_wri...
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Linux-based K-9 doppelganger
Interesting. I found Black Swan wholly superior to Fooled by Randomness. I read The Black Swan first, so maybe that explains it as I found the two very similar.
I don't get the story that pregnant women are such a valuable demographic that marketers would spend so much money trying to give them coupons.
You suggestion makes complete sense. It would be a boon for public github projects, but still something that folks probably wouldn't pay for. Unfortunately, outside of your scenario I still don't see the value, ie. the setup time it takes for a new employee to setup their dev. environment is a tiny fraction of the time that they'll be spending working on the project.
A lot of the commenters seem to have missed this recent submission: Stanford study finds walking improves creativity (stanford.edu) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7669818
Apologies, I totally forgot to mention it works for England only.
I follow Grail and now Truffle development since the days of the Maxime VM.

Looking forward to the day the reference JVM becomes a meta-circular one.
yes I was referring to that, thank you.
Most of them still live by roads, though.
Maybe he'll get so fed up with make that he'll write his own that everyone can just switch to instead of all the crud we have.
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> What concrete things do I gain from opting out?

But why is privacy not enough? Why should I have to convince anyone else that privacy is important? If they don't care, then they don't have to be private themselves, but don't force it on other people.

If you want an actual reason, then just look through the history books about how governments were using private information against their citizens (WW2 being the best example).

"Oh, you look forward to watching V for Vendetta? New stats show that 90% of violent anarchists have watched that movie. Please come with us, citizen."
NASA's New Spacesuit Design Looks Like Something From 'Tron'
For those who bemoaned the Facebook acquisition, now you can be reassured that papa Facebook has deep enough pockets to make the patent troll go away.
I think that's the interception way of AOP? Unity IoC in c# also does this.

The IoC container will return transparent proxy(Not the original object), which then calls the underlying method(after doing the AOP behaviour).
Of course there will be pain involved with giving up Google or Facebook. There's a reason millions of people use them. By choosing not to use them, you are saying I value my privacy more than the convenience I gain from using things like Google, Facebook, or even credit cards.

What I've found is many people like to complain about a lack of privacy, but are willing to make no real sacrifices to get more of it.

I don't see the "lie" involved with saying "If you don't like it, don't use it". It seems more dishonest to advocate that there is a path towards retaining privacy that still allows people to use services that intrinsically involve the person turning over information about themselves to a company.
Easy there :) I'm 31 and love those as well.
I wrote a lot of J2ME stuff a few years ago and you're spot on. I spent two weeks doing Java 8 bits with NetBeans which was really nice and spent the last two evenings writing my first Android app and what a complete mess it is. Plus the Android tooling is horrible to get working reliably - most problems being solved by "restart eclipse".

Late edit: perhaps Oracle should make a phone ;)
Buying giftcards with cash is effectively the same deal. Why would anybody shop at a store where the operator states they might arbitrarily call the police on you?
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I'm still trying to get my head around Facebook unbundling. Why is Messaging a separate app? Why is Paper separate and not just improvements to the main Facebook app?
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Especially since Google hasn't updated its Java language much lately. I think the solution for Google is to deprecate Java and start using Go. That would solve more than one problem for them.