skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
REPLs are great way to teach kids about coding. For me:

Applesoft BASIC (Apple ][e) -> Level I BASIC on TRS-80 -> FutureBASIC (Mac 68k)

Those are the BASICs I learned before moving on to Java, C#, then JavaScript.

FutureBASIC was really ahead of its time. You could drop into assembly, make direct system calls, didn't need line numbers, it supported proper functions, and it was event-based and somewhat asynchronous. For ~$300 it was a pretty big deal for Mac users at the time. I think MPW was still several thousand dollars and open source compilers were largely unavailable.
Any particular feature you would like, that is missing?
maybe the starkest differences between a male and a female are not color or clothes. but, that IS the way many think.

OK, I'll bite, seeing as you're going down that route.

If I want to represent the differences between a male and a female (for that matter, what are they?) I can't easily put millenia of ingrained and imposed cultural norms into a small desktop icon, nor could I even summarise the last 100 years of inclusive gender thinking (and even reducing that by omitting anything controversial, because, y'know, we don't want to alienate users).

On the other hand I could simply represent the differences between a male and a female by creating an icon that shows the differences that nobody can disagree with on any basis: the genitals.

Personally, I think the icon shows "people" in a nicely minimal and inclusive way. I'm sure it's obvious to most (even people who might get offended by the blatant use of stereotypes) that it's meant to convey males and females, rather than family (parent and child), couples (two people holding hands), just men or women (as it could be if two gender-neutral people were there), or even something more confusingly abstract (two or more smiley faces). If you can think up an alternative that's neither confusing nor offensive to any minority (as in the linked case), while remaining attractive and minimal enough to work as an icon, I think the industry will rapidly adopt it out of self-preservation as much as anything else.
What do you propose ? A penis and a vagina on the doors[0] ? And now we offended the trans-genders ...

Millions of girls have their clitoris cut (don't know the technical term in English sorry), countless women are beaten by abusive men, but you choose to waste people's time because girls are associated with skirts and pink ...

As a man I'm fed up with this really small but hyper vocal minority of pseudo-feminists that tries to witch hunt people for arbitrary reasons.

Of course it's easier to taunt people on the internet than to go in Africa to see what you can do about women condition.

And what gets me even more is that my comment will be more justification for you to feel "persecuted".

[0] you can't write "men" and "women" as illiterate or foreigners won't understand
I don't want a beautiful browser, I want a functional browser - I generally want to focus on the site I'm visiting, not the gorgeous UI.

The fun part now is wondering how long Classic Theme Restorer will be maintained. I give it 2 versions before it falls by the wayside.
Yes, we made extra sure this add-on got updated. Lots of TST users at Mozilla :)
Or stop caring (that's what I do).
It's not just the homeless that are hungry. There are kids where the lunch they get in school is their primary source of food for the day. There are people working minimum wage jobs that have little money left over for food after they pay the rent, utilities, etc.
Just use quotes then. Actually, it seems that $_POST is a little bit more common ;)

https://github.com/search?q=%22exec%28%24_POST%22&type=Code

vs.

https://github.com/search?q=%22exec%28%24_GET%22&type=Code
Some of the UI ideas are borrowed from Chrome. I like the UI.
Want To Introduce Fewer Bugs? Test Through These Five Cases.
Thanks. I hadn't seen rpush and it looks great.
San Diego Society of Women Engineers: Exploring Technology event on Saturday
Is fruit gezond of maakt het ons dik? | Leef Nu Gezonder
Some news organizations have funding models that don't rely, or don't rely heavily, on advertising. I rather prefer that.
EmacsNYC presentations from April: "IRC with ERC" and "Intro to Emacs Lisp"
If I remember right, this is an (optional) potential setting on the UI roadmap.
The worst is "Tell your boss that the way you're doing it is wrong and you should use an ORM"
> Also, wouldn't the wear work out to be roughly equal if you alternate socks roughly equally?

My guess is that this is a poisson process, so there would be a tail of (a few) socks which are randomly worn more than others?
firebug fits the bill nicely. not sure why it's not merged.
You kind of make it sound as if Apple invented maximized windows... :-)
For hard problems, you can take advantage of (and should embrace) the mind's wild variability by consciously outlining what you know about the problem until you hit a pause in the stream of consciousness, letting your subconscious work it over for a while as you put your conscious mind into a different context, and returning to it every so often to see if you've realized anything new. For me this is sometimes highly productive. And it's not always something glaringly apparent that will be presented to you. Often something up the hierarchy has changed but your conscious representation is left with a bunch of dangling pointers. So it's good to revisit the roots of the problem and reconstruct the problem from there outwards.

A good way to get better at it is to deliberately engage in this active context switching. You will pick up on what sorts of frequencies and how far away from the original problem you should context switch as you get more experience with doing this as deliberately as possible.
Yes it's probably a tiny minority who buy it through off campus drug dealers and friends. Such as there are drug dealing trends, they will happen across MA, New England and the general area and will happen regardless of bitcoin experiments at MIT. I'm rolling my eyes at this notion of a single purpose black market, hidden in the depths of the halls of MIT, the ire of faculty and administrators alike. It's such a silly idea. Might make a great young adult novel plot though.
Speaking of things that don't benefit the user, Chrome is proprietary software (dare I say spyware) that sends your keystrokes to Google. I think Firefox's frequent UI changes pale in comparison.
I've read the technical docs for bitcoin, but something I still don't comprehend. With a distributed network like Bitcoin, how does the initial network get started? How do the first 2 or 4 or 12 nodes of a network find one another?
Why Are We So Conflicted About Manhood in the Modern Age?
I had this happen a few years ago, though in a slightly different fashion. The same "model" of sock was around, but the design changed once (width of stripes) and the material/construction quality changed several times. So despite having had ~15 pairs of the "same" socks, I still had to match because otherwise they would feel different on my feet. That's obviously not an issue in the grand scheme of things, but it bothered me :)
I have not downloaded it, so forgive me if it is there and I don't see it. Still no omnibar? Why a separated dedicated search field?
One example I know of is OData[1]. The URI structure is standardized, all query operators are standardized, and the media type is JSON based on Atom. They also have one of the nicest batch request support I've seen (using multipart/mixed content type).

Needless to say, OData is a standard pushed by Microsoft, so the ecosystem for libraries is is mostly .NET, although they provide a JavaScript library as well (datajs).

[1] http://www.odata.org/
Removed most of these. Sorry about that.
From A Meta-Analysis of 90 Experiments on the Anomalous Anticipation of Random Future Events [1]:

> [...] a meta-analysis of 90 experiments from 33 laboratories in 14 different countries which yielded an overall positive effect in excess of 6 sigma with an effect size (Hedges’ g) of 0.09, combined z = 6.33, p = 1.2 × 10-10. A Bayesian analysis yielded a Bayes Factor of 7.4 × 10-9, greatly exceeding the criterion value of 100 for "decisive evidence" in favor of the experimental hypothesis (Jeffries, 1961). [...] The number of potentially unretrieved experiments averaging a null effect that would be required to reduce the overall effect size to a trivial value was conservatively calculated to be 520. An analysis of p values across experiments implies that the results were not a product of "p-hacking," [...].

[1] http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2423692
Am I the only one who's not comfortable with the fact that the "whatsnew"[1] page can activate my browsers menu with Javascript?

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/sv-SE/firefox/29.0/whatsnew/?oldvers...
Now You Can Help Save the Environment by Watching a Bunch of Porn
As others have said, it all depends on what you define "success" as. Clearly the OP has done things that fulfill him.

Although the OP makes no mention of it, when I've talked with friends & family about "success" and all that, following dreams is great. One big thing to keep in mind is that the future is also uncertain. Retirement is the biggest thing that comes to mind. I have many friends who have foregone saving for retirement in order to follow their dreams, no matter how "irrational" that may be (I use quotes because that might not be the right term).

20, 30, 40 years down the road, who is going to be paying for retirement? It's great that "you" have memories of doing great things! But the bills have to be paid. Is it going to be your friends, who worked those boring, monotonous jobs? Will their 401k accounts be taxed so that they have to pay for your retirement? Will mine?

What about kids? I have family members who did follow their dreams to do whatever it is they want to do, and then start having kids. Without a solid job, boring or not, someone has to pay for the kids. Either it's charity from family, or it's the government via taxes.

Anyways, that's some things that I think about when these topics come up.
Chrome didn't invent tabs on top of the address bar. As far as I know Opera did, which had them in version 7 from as far back as 2003.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Opera_7.02.png
Tinitell: a smart phone for kids
Tinitell: A wristphone for kids
One of points of the article is that if you write a+b then compiler is free to assume that no overflow happens. If the compiler was sufficiently smart then if you wrote

if(checked_addr(a,b,rp)) {
//something 1
} else {
//something 2
}

then compiler is free to assume no overflow happens and replace code with:

checked_add(a,b,rp);
//something 2
I also like them to keep myself familiar with languages I'm not currently using for real work. I find that syntax slips out of my head very quickly, but that even writing fizzbuzz keeps it from falling away.
We are great programmers But, no one knows it
Square Now Lets Merchants Collect Payments Offline and In Advance For Order Pickup
What exactly is the difference? Looking at this Wikipedia article, it looks like PPC is the descendant to the Power ISA. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_Instruction_Set_Arch...

EDIT: Digging a little more gave me the answer:
"The POWERn family of processors were developed in the late 1980s and are still in active development nearly 25 years later. In the beginning, they utilized the POWER instruction set architecture (ISA), but that evolved into PowerPC in later generations and then to Power Architecture. Today, only the naming scheme remains the same; modern POWER processors do not use the POWER ISA."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_POWER_microprocessors
If anyone here hasn't read the comments on this as well, go read Eliezer Yudkowsky's comment on meta-analysis:

http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/28/the-control-group-is-ou...
seems like a mock up app
yep no problem. I still don't understand why it's not included by default in firefox though.
This is just one anecdote but on my (currently) somewhat slow computer at work, the new Firefox is noticeably faster. This is under Windows.

Additionally, I am not sure about the new UI yet, but I probably wouldn't care about the changes after I get used to them.
What menu? I don't see any of that.
We sell. Branding is a short cut to remind people to whom we are selling, the reasons, the story, the emotions of our product or service.

Consistency of branding in the digital age should be trivial. Starting a brand from scratch always was and always will be a vast undertaking.

If I have any advice, its to run away from brand consultants and get the founders to a therapist - the best brand for a start up is the raw honest and open drivers behind the founders. That may not be an attractive brand, but it will always be a genuine one.

As for A/B tests - they are great to find out which form of your story people respond best to, but again are not a way to discover your own personal story.

Mine? Still looking :-)
I see a significance in that Herbalife, Groupon, and LikeAlittle seem to be selling sales vs. other businesses using salesmanship as a medium. It's a fine line, but a distinct one nonetheless.

Does anyone have examples of similar businesses to the aforementioned? Curious how much of a trend this actually is.
It's such a shame people have allowed carriers to get away with this. Yes, this is all on the people, because they are the ones that should be outraged when carriers want to charge them twice for the same data, simply because you decided to use that data with another device. Common sense says you should be allowed to use that data however you want. But the carriers got away with it, and now it's status quo.

What the carriers are doing is like your electricity provider telling you that you can only use that specific amount of electricity with certain appliances, but if you want to use it with others, you have to pay extra. It's insane, and I'm starting to believe more and more that declaring carriers and ISP's as utilities is the right way to go to have strong net neutrality in US.

The Internet is every bit as important as electricity in today's modern world. It's about time we start treating it like that.
I learned the hard way about not having a true competitive advantage and buying market share. I had a pizza shop good food( won awards for the pizza), cheap price because I subsidized it. lot's of customers that loved the food. Ran out a bunch of competitors... great business plan working like a charm... little ceasers comes in...no worries...sales drop..last thing I can do is raise prices to recoup investment...now sales eventually recovered(2 years after I sold it same product crew etc.)... lessons learned... people buy products for lots of reasons quality is just one iddn't loss any customers just a little business from each...in little ceasers case it was about convenience.
Fullscreen, not maximized

But yeah, apple is far away from having invented it
The status bar temporarily appears when hovering over a URL, so at least that's still there.
realloc() - delete all and buy new ones.
Hmm, I think the separators between tabs in the new tab bar are too subtle, and overall it is too dark. The curved appearance of the selected tab also seems out of place.

edit: also, transparent elements with text on them? Noo! Maybe I am just sensitive.. I don't have the best eyesight, and I don't have the best monitors. In any case, I am thankful for Classic Theme Restorer, which someone mentioned elsewhere in this thread.
Read this one, not my drivel.
Stories from people like you - who decided to take the risk, start a business and succeed - really motivates me to move forward. I'm currently working with my friend on a project in my free time while having a full-time day job and yes, sometimes I question if it's worth it. It's been half a year now, we're very close but man, am I tired - and I know it won't end when we'll be able to work full time on it. Yet, at the same time, I am happy as never - I absolutely love working on my own, to me it's pure mental freedom.

I hope one day I'll be able to be at your position and say "I run my own business" :)
Thanks for the pointer. Never used Unreal Engine but just watched some of their Blueprint demos. Pretty cool stuff!
A maximized window still shows all of the chrome, as well as system menus. Full-screen apps (not that Apple invented them) hide the window chrome as well as the various system menus.
Another user posted a link to CloudHarmony for speed testing: http://cloudharmony.com/speedtest/run?services_CDN=&services...
Excuse my ignorance, but I've read all the comments and I still don't quite understand what this is good for.

I get that GPUs are a bad fit for many problems, but how fast can this thing be if it has no local cache? Will this really be faster than a high-powered Xeon, or will it just consume less energy per operation? Is it a teaching tool? A tech demo? Something that makes Erlang/Haskell magically run much faster?
They started following the Chrome screwed-up-statusbar a long time ago. It's like noone in the webdev space knows the basic usability adage, "Don't use popups!". The Chrome-style hover-status thing is a popup. Statusbars are correct.
Rails, rails. rails. Everything is about Rails. David is a good guy, but I'm starting to wonder if he's ever built a moderately complex system, involving integrations, message queues, several data stores, a handful of third-party libraries and APIs and deployed on more than 3 machines.

TDD is a tool to manage complexity. It's an advice, not a recipe. Like any technology - it isn't a substitute for thinking.
Customization in the new Firefox
A tool to convert BASIC to C seems more niche than 'nice'. I mean, I'm not normally one to criticise other peoples choice of languages, but I can't think of many occasions when I'd find such a tool useful. And if I was forced to recommend a simple language with C-like performance, I certainly wouldn't suggest BASIC even with this converter. But each to their own I guess.
Yes, but how can you tether your tablet/PC to the VPN connection established on your phone?
OS X's full screen apps aren't maximzed windows. If I put Sublime into full screen mode, there's no window, no menu bar. It's a text editor taking up the entire screen.

If I were to maximize Sublime on Windows, Linux, or OS X (green button), you still have the chrome from the windowing system and the OS's menu bars.

Also, the parent comment makes no claim Apple invented anything, he/she is just drawing a comparison people would be familiar with. Frankly, it's more than a little annoying to me that you have to distract from the topic to make completely non-constructive dig at a company you seem to dislike and completely miss the point of the comparison in doing so.
Google's Self-Driving Car Already Drives Better Than You Do
> it's like the problem with public bathroom signs. and false choices. why not instead use the letters "M" "F" "U". Male, Female, Unisex.

The symbols, while not independent of knowledge of gender stereotypes, are language independent and widely and immediately recognizable. Words aren't, but at least are unambiguous if you know the language. Letters are the worst option, as they are the least likely to be understood.
What does it take to add new countries (for example Canada)?
Privacy; it avoids sending your URLs to the search engine. As usual, there are addons to change that behavior, if you so which.
I did like it when firefox shrank the space used at the top of the screen. That was my main reason for switching to chrome (I had a netbook and vertical screen space was valuable), and by the time I became frustrated with chrome and google, Mozilla had improved Firefox in a similar manner and I was able to switch back. I agree with you now though... These UI changes seem like a step back. At best, they are simply arbitrary.
The best way to look at yourself is not as a PHP developer, but as a software developer. You can be a 'king' of software development, regardless of the shifting landscape of tools available to you. As a master of software development you must keep up to date on the best tools for the job.
Except fullscreen apps are actually a bit more than maximised windows: They remove both the top of the title bar and other operating system bars, leaving just the control interfaces, and content. For example, chrome would just have the tabs, address bar, and content, without operating system bars, and without the program titlebar.
I don't think any page can do that. Probably something built into the browser specifically for this page, identified by the domain or something.
Additional countries will come fast, thanks !
With an omnibar everything you type in your url bar gets sent to the search provider. Lots of people don't like that (I'm personally okay with it, so I use Chrome).
Citation Given: http://www.extremetech.com/computing/181102-ibm-power8-openp...

Power8 has 230GB/s of bandwidth to ram compared to a Xeon's 85GB/s. That's nearly triple (270.5%) a XEON's I/O speed.
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CASIO Basic for me.

Solving physics problems while my colleagues were still writing the problem.
How Etsy Has Quietly Become A Booming Electronics Marketplace
Sorry I'm posting this here. Don't know how to start a new thread.

What Potential Security issues are present in the RUST system, and what recommendations would you give to deal with them?
There's already a reddit for startup jobs its called reddit.com/r/startups
I do wonder a bit about the pollen service. Seems to have it's positives and negatives.
There is also the distinct possibility that they would use both. The best hardware for processing search queries is not necessarily the best hardware for hosting map tiles, etc.
I don't think King.com and SurveyMonkey are startups. What's stopping this from just turning into another job board? Once the recruiters catch wind of this it will be filled with junk.
It seems the icon itself relates to the difficult of accurately conveying information through small symbols. Do I think this company should have chose a better icon? Yes, but the core shapes and colors are designed to reduce doubt as much as possible. Search "gender symbol" for the closest "non-sexist" alternative, but even that would cause confusion amongst some. Just as a fork and knife is a standard symbol on maps for a reastraunt, (even ones where you use your hands or chopsticks), the symbols become their meaning, not their appearence (see Egyptian hieroglyphs). One has become a symbol for male, the other for female, and their differences need to be significant enough to distinguish between them. It really depends on the intent of whoever chose the icon. -from mobile, so apologies for any errors
I echo his sentiment. Integration testing, especially when you have a JS frontend, makes much more sense. I never saw the point of controller tests and making sure a controller assigns variable @widgets with [widget] and all that nonsense. An integration test will identify all those problems and then some.
I so much agree with you. O hate the interface changes.
I suspect my disagreements with DHHs last couple of blog posts have more to do with what each of us has seen in the wild than with any actual disagreement in principle.

For instance, in my experience I more frequently encounter places that have way fewer tests than necessary and there is no consideration about how to verify requirements at all.

Further in my experience, the GUI and database layers are the least interesting parts of the systems I work with. They truly are parts that can and do get swapped out with some regularity.

I suppose if I worked mostly on systems where they were in essence gui's on top of databases with little logic in the middle, I wouldn't want to isolate those concerns either. It would be more trouble than it is worth.

For instance, when I write small unixy command line utilities I very rarely test anything in unit tests. What would be the point? I can easily define the entirety of the specification in example tests that utilize the utility as a black box. I still do it first though...