skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You can see this a lot at GDC.

There are lots of people carrying Macs, but since the games industry is strongly Windows focused, those Macs are actually running Windows on them.
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People that still use a PDP-11 I imagine.
The real question is can we afford it. Public pensions are not fully funded while the employee is working. In many cases there won't be enough people paying their benefits in the future so taxes will need to be increased or benefits cut.
I don't think the article was trotting out $80K/year as the shock figure. That was supposed to be the $2 million number. (It's also in the headline.)
I will spend many hours on that site, thanks.
Having been raised in a single parent home with a government employed mother, I know first hand that it is extremely difficult to raise a family on a government salary. Like another commenter said, these plans also are paid for from the government paycheck in part by the workers, reducing their current salary. Often, these government workers are also raising families and putting their kids through school. Without such a pension plan, this would not be possible and many (especially single parent) families of government working households would be stuck to a threshold close to the poverty line. The reality is that just because over the course of 30-some-odd years of hard work they accumulate enough pension to live a middle-class life style, does not make them millionaires, especially when you take into account healthcare deductions, the cost of living, their childrens' education, and any mortgage/car payments. The least we can do is support the people that protect, educate, and serve our communities. It is not necessary to bring light to their supposedly vast troves of wealth (sarcasm) when there are plenty of millionaires and billionaires who acquire their wealth through questionable means.

(Also I don't approve of the fact that comments on the article itself are disabled, sidenote.)
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umm its a statement based on my observation and not a fact... I can only make an assumption on what goes around me. If you want to believe that iPad is the tablet that replaces the enterprise workload and would replace the desktops in the corporate world, then by all means be my guest to that illusion. However don't go around expecting everyone to buy into it. I think you want to live within that "fact" so its a pointless to make an argument.
> Should you get paid near $80k a year for the next 26 years when you are not working?

Yes. Why not? Because that offends your sensibilities about work? Because you feel that people should work until they're 65~70 to retire, if they ever manage to? Right now a number of school teachers are working until their late 60s to make a pittance upon retirement, trading down from houses to mobile homes to even make their retirement manageable. Do you feel these people aren't as worthy as others making obscene amounts of money as they essentially raise the nation's children for them?

Your entire supposition either buys into the myth that there isn't enough to go around or worse, that you simply believe because we treat the majority of our labor pool like shit that anyone daring not to is in the wrong.
> I just don't get how OSX is so popular with a developers.

OS X and iOS users also need software that someone has to write.
Because I have a data center full of nodes for when I need horsepower and a big fancy desktop with multiple monitors and a desk and a chair and a keyboard for when I need do serious development. What I want out of a laptop is a great form factor, solid battery life, a good keyboard, a large trackpad, a web browser and a real terminal. I own a 13-inch MacBook Air, it cost $1000 brand new, so no I didn't pay any premium for what I got. If you disagree please link equivalent specced hardware with a fully aluminum unibody case, high quality backlit keyboard, large trackpad with multitouch that has equivalent weight, screen size, and battery life. It does not break more often than it should, in fact it has never broken at all. The screen is not overly shiny and it fits my code just fine. But hey, you're already convinced otherwise so why bother.
Indeed I misinterpreted your remarks on Sunday about the origin of Elm. I now understand that while you had an independent inspiration about time-varying values, your design of Elm was strongly influenced by FRP papers. I really do like your work (and you personally). Such good taste in design is rare, in my experience.

I'm sorry that I missed the deleted remarks that touched off this discussion, though I can try addressing the two snippets you shared. As for "making things up as I went along", it's not a phrase I would use. Besides, I value creativity in the highest esteem. About "didn't know anything about FRP when I made Elm", I did think you'd had your key ideas on your own, and retrospectively related them to the FRP literature. Now I understand that the FRP influence was more substantive than I knew.

I've posted a correction on that ReactiveCocoa page (https://github.com/ReactiveCocoa/ReactiveCocoa/pull/1344#iss...): "Correction. I misinterpreted some recent remarks by Evan Czaplicki (@evancz) about the origin of Elm. While his initial idea was independent (to his credit), the design of Elm itself was indeed influenced by the FRP literature. I'm glad you kept the Elm references. I'll apologize to Evan." I also posted (terser) correction to a reply I made on Twitter (https://twitter.com/conal/status/469005649645281280): "I mistook @czaplic's remarks on #elmlang origin. Independent inspiration; design quite influenced by FRP lit. Sincere apologies, Evan! :(". If I see my misinformation spreading, I'll do my best to correct it.

Again, my sincere apologies, Evan! Regards, - Conal
First of all try to get information of that company. As much as you can. Try to get information about the market and competitors.

You also need to refresh your networking knowledge. Osi model, layers, protocols, ...
Which tend to break the whole OS every now and then.
Forbes is just now reporting on the obvious: $2 million in pension benefits per retiree is becoming increasingly unaffordable for many cities. (Also because municipal workers in some states can switch jobs to a nearby city and get a second pension, that can jump to $4 million per person.)

In the San Francisco bay area we have this nearby example:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405274870362530...
"The study also found that lavish pay and benefit packages were a root cause of the city's problems. In Vallejo compensation packages for police captains top $300,000 a year and average $171,000 a year for firefighters. Regular public employees in the city can retire at age 55 with 81% of their final year's pay guaranteed. Police and fire officials can retire at age 50 with a pension that pays them 90% of their final year's salary every year for life and the lives of their spouses."

And another example in California, where residents may be required to pay more in taxes (it's already the highest-taxed state) because of political mismanagement and ballooning pension benefits:

http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230481500...
"Yet government pension costs are soaring as the bills that politicians postponed during the hard economic times come due. No less than Warren Buffett warned this week that "local and state financial problems are accelerating, in large part because public entities promised pensions they couldn't afford." .. Calpers also voted last month to dun state taxpayers for an additional $1.2 billion a year. And lo, the state Legislative Analyst's Office says that California State Teachers' Retirement System (Calstrs) says it needs $5.3 billion to $5.7 billion more annually by 2020 to pay down its $71 billion shortfall. That's more than California spends on the University of California and Cal State colleges."
I just think we shouldn't be bankrupting the state and cities to pay for these pensions.
There are a bunch of these subdomains that somehow get a high ranking:

clearwebstats.com
pandastats.net
cubestat.com
allwebsitestats.com

(all in the top 10 results for one particular domain)
I sympathize with the general direction of the criticism ("defined benefits pensions are much, much more valuable -- and expensive -- than people typically give them credit for"), but $2 million is strictly superior to a $80k annuity, even if one's assumption is 4% annualized post-inflation returns or, more pessimistically, a 4% safe draw-down rate. Cash doesn't expire when you expire, pensions (mostly) do.

The fair cash value of the pension is closer to $1 million. (Please accept this as a handwavy approximation as I'm on a train -- you can probably find any number of calculators on the Internet which would give you a more exact calculation.)
Since I won't see this again I thought I'd mention it - just becareful you might be violating a patent by displaying the resulting webpage of a link as an image. And I agree with the rest, this isn't the place for that.
Pebble and Metawatch have been doing this for a while.
I have been using GUI based OS since the Amiga. And IDEs since Turbo products on MS-DOS.

One of my hobbies on GNU/Linux systems, since the early days (1994) was to get GUI tooling for my work.

Most of them taken from the more mature UNIX systems, back then.

For me the CLI is only for quick and dirty operations file operations, or calling build tools. 90% of my time I live on the GUI.
Kent Beck said the exact opposite, the this particular task cannot easily tested, because you don't know what the input will be.
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Thanks mostly confirming what I suspected. I did think we would be able to use the spectrum more efficiently over time with better, more precise measurements but my guess is that will scale to its own limits a lot faster than a hard line will.
I'd heard of Varian but didn't know much about them. It turns out that Bitsavers has some Varian-related docs: http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/varian/
Except for my years at CERN and a small startup on my early career days, all the companies I worked for used Windows systems.

If we had to target UNIX systems, the development was done via XWindows or telnet/ssh to common build servers.
There also exists a culture in California of systematically looting the pension system via "spiking", where everyone knows the formula of the pension weights the last year's pay most heavily, and engages in a game of "I'll scratch your back and someone will scratch mine in N years" whereby people are allowed sudden bumps in seniority / job title / overtime hours months before retirement, to no legitimate governmental purpose, with the sole objective of increasing their pension's value. There are a variety of reforms designed to address this, from speedbumps like "OK, we'll use the average of the last 3 years" to making spiking outright illegal. The common argument against illegalizing spiking is, I kid you not, that spiking is so ingrained in the cultural mores and expectations of California public servants that to deny spiking for new retirees would be grievously unfair to them when compared to Of-Course-I-Spiked-Everyone-Does retirees.
And what happens when you have to ssh into headless remote Linux servers all day? And for editing scripts and administrative tasks on said servers?
Forbes has been reporting on looming pension problems for munis for the last 15 years at least, and that's just what I can remember back to.
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And Microsoft "earned a reputation" of the "privacy-friendly" company than they goes behind our backs to weaken their own crypto systems to make data collection easier by the NSA/FBI from their services. At least Google/Schmidt was pretty honest about their intentions regarding privacy. Microsoft is just selling us out.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/13/nsa-docs-detail-efforts-to-...

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/jul/11/microsoft-nsa-c...

Also Google has always tried to be at the forefront of securing their services, such as adopting wide encryption and PFS early on.

I'm not defending Google, and I'm going to quit Gmail as soon as a good end-to-end encryption e-mail services comes around, but of the two, I definitely see Microsoft as the worse one in terms of privacy.
A major Hong Kong Bank even listed IE as a required browser you needed to use to access your account. Insane.
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We had this discussion in our office recently - I'm a fan of using the Internet to add more powerful functionality but for a product to really be adapted at scale the Internet connection still needs to add value without requiring the user to interact for more than a few seconds periodically - if at all. I think the IOT category will allow products to better integrate into people's lives but also give power users more control and value.
So was everyone else involved with the bill. That explanation is insufficient.
Same here. I was even a strong Linux advocate at my University and did subscribe to Linux Format for around 10 years.

Somehow, the GNU/Linux desktop seems to always miss something in these 20 years of GNU/Linux, whereas Mac OS X and Windows are closer to the whole Amiga experience to GUI focused guys like myself.
If Microsoft still had their shares, they'd be worth $21.86 billion, a hell of a return for the initial outlay of $150 million.

That is a hell of a return, but I suspect that Microsoft are one of the few organisations capable of taking $150m and turning it in to more than $21b (especially around the time they owned those shares). A single successful product in a new market could have done that. $150m in cash represents a huge opportunity to a business; far more than a block of shares in a rival. And don't forget that Microsoft were supposed to be stopping Apple being that successful. They failed, but that doesn't mean they'd have been better off not trying. Hindsight is a beautiful thing.
We can afford it if the people in charge of the pensions would put the money away when they're supposed to aka NOW.

Instead, everybody treated pension funds like piggy banks, looted them, and now want to run away with the money with the "Oh they're so greedy."
Why not? Because the math doesn't work out in the end. Never has, never will. You can't raise taxes high enough to make it all work, and you can't force people to stay in those munis and pay the taxes. It's a utopian government fantasy that is collapsing and taking municipal well-being down with it.
Weird. Can you tell me which ones? That seems unusual.
You mean like the command line on Lisp machines, such as this example from Symbolics Genera? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4-YnLpLgtk

The command line is contextually intelligent and presents interactive graphics and text. Not a simulation of a teletype on a simulation of a character terminal.
Holy heck that's awesome! I didn't know about that, just sent it around the office and everyone is stoked. Thanks so much for linking it!
For my case, windows runs vagrant pretty well, so i have no problems developing web apps on windows as i have used vagrant on OSX before anyway.
Prezto is lighter, faster and simpler than omz, I'm a huge fan

https://github.com/sorin-ionescu/prezto
Ugh. The example given here, the electric imp, is everything that's wrong with how people want to commoditize the Internet of Things. Had the "as a service" product been optional, I'd have already purchased a half dozen of them for various projects I'm working on. However, because it can only use the integrated wifi to connect to their servers, there's no way to build devices that will work in situations where internet access is spotty and/or latency management is crucial. Internet of Things is neat, and fascinating, but articles like this may very well smother it in its crib. Dependency on a central server is the one way to ensure that it stays just a geek toy.
Clearly I suggested they be banished to the poor houses so that the ghosts of rich monocle wearing robbery barons could fling quarters at them and watch the teachers scramble.
We need popular services to adopt end-to-end encryption, so it's "transparent" to the user and doesn't need to worry about it. Imagine if Gmail adopted the DarkMail protocol by default (or even as an obvious "turn on encryption" option), and Hangouts, Facebook Chat and Whatsapp would adopt Axolotl or OTR. That would be huge for privacy.
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It's not exactly a terminal, but I like the IPython Notebook for pretty much those reasons. I think you could quite easily build something like a sortable ls output as a reusable component.

http://ipython.org/notebook.html
I consider irresponsible and unwise NOT to document something that is going to change.

In particular, when I change something I need to know the interface with detail, the input and the output and EXACTLY what the black box is expected to do, special cases included.

I just cant tell you how much time I have wasted in my life because the original programmer FORGOT the interface, or its details.(Hey, I made this 6 month ago, Do you expect me to remember the details?)

I couldn't care less about the blackbox if we are going to change it, but its behavior needs to be documented.
If you want to get into the background of Mystery House - not how to play it but more the background of how it was made and fits into the larger context of interactive fiction - then you should read Jimmy Maher's description at http://www.filfre.net/2011/10/mystery-house-part-1/ along with part 2. Those are part of a very long and enjoyable description of the evolution of interactive fiction, the developers, and the computer systems.

However, the only description of the choice in using "On-Line" is a conjecture in http://www.filfre.net/2011/10/ken-and-roberta/ :

> Specifically, he wanted to bring FORTRAN, as it happens the implementation language of the original Adventure (not that Ken likely knew this or cared), to the little Apple II. With that purpose in mind, he registered a company of his own, choosing to call it On-Line Systems, a name fairly typical of the vaguely futuristic, vaguely compound, but essentially meaningless names (Microsoft, anyone?) that were so common in the era.
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Same here. There's an encoding issue with the video around 3 minutes in and the audio is off badly for the remainder of the video. I had to load the stream in VLC and offset the audio to somewhere around 2500ms using the keyboard shortcut (just keep hitting G until it matches up).
Termkit ( http://acko.net/blog/on-termkit/ ) is similar to what you described, but it's discontinued if I remember correctly.
This seems obvious but sources should only be valid if they predate the claim.
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One of the things that I consider a must from a programmer:

1.She should learn to draw if she does not already.

2.She should learn to do a podcast if she does not already.

Basic documentation is very easy to do, you just talk in a podcast explaining what you have done, like the forensic doctor in a police TV series with a sound recorder.

So easy, now you add some handrawings and presto!

Now if you need to do something more serious with a specific part of the code, the exposed part, you just listen to yourself and spend some time reworking it in paper.

People do surprise how much they forget over long periods of time.
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I still see my reply when I'm logged in, I noticed it disappeared from public view after I tried to edit it...

[edit] I had included the features-link again and this reply was hidden.

[edit2] Still hidden... HN doesn't like me
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I feel like there are actually quite a few things that many people know are "also known as", but nobody actually knows them as that. I've often read that chickpeas are also known as garbanzo beans, but I've never actually heard or read anyone calling them that (obviously in Spanish they're called garbanzos, but I mean English speakers speaking/writing in English). Similarly, do people really call a herd of boar a singularity, or do they just know that it's "called" a singularity.
X-Windows/VNC sessions. I only do ssh if no other option is available.
If I did not know what sport meant, and looked it up and saw "diversion of field", I'd still have no idea what it meant. I'd think maybe sport had something to do with electromagnetism.
I have always used traintimes.org.uk because of the excellent approach the developer took regarding urls:
If I want to know the next trains from Leeds to York I can simply go to the address "traintimes.org.uk/Leeds/York".

The homepage suggests the data is obtained "by screenscraping the information on the official [National Rail Enquiries] site", perhaps bypassing the Darwin Database?
Don't want to use JS or transpilers.
No, the intention is to quickly start something without distracting from the main screen. There is no sane reason to go fullscreen here, if i have Writer open and want to start a calculator or MSN or whatever other app.
I needed a few trials until i found where to shut down that stupid OS (and eventually installed the classic menu).

Interestingly i have a touchscreen laptop but on my main OS (Linux) i went the complete opposite direction lately, with a much more keyboard-driven setup, no fancy animations.
Basically a distraction-free work machine, and not the colorful, animation-loaded distraction "beast" Windows has become.
I see a lot of people like me in this thread: We like Apple and Mac but certain aspects are less than ideal in our setting.

For me I have found elementary os (linux based) to be a good step closer to perfect for me. ("Normal" alt-tab, menus follows windows (if they exist at all), etc.) All while being fast on less than stellar hardware and pleasing to my eyes.

(For people who love Mac: Don't even try. I can almost assure you'll find some color nuance, alignment issue etc. I'm serious: You guys see stuff like this, I can't even see all the colors.)
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Thanks, missed the snark.
I accidently upvoted you and now I have NP idea how to remove it.

It depends on what you do. A secretary will make far less than the chief of police but they both happen to be government workers....how is that not obvious..?
These are excellent points, and I have passed them along to my colleagues. There's something that a lot of these essays and tutorials about Erlang kind of gloss over that I'd like to see, though:

Ok, I let it crash. Now what? So many of them seem to stop here and think that everything is great. It isn't: if I have some kind of long-running program, like, say, a web site, I should probably do more than just happily let everything crash as the error propagates its way up the call chain (no, it doesn't do that immediately, but as each thing starts and fails again enough times, it does propagate). For instance, displaying something human readable on a UI, or sending email or something other than logging a difficult to read Erlang error.

More examples of what real world programs do after the crash, please!
As much as I feel sorry for this guy, can't look past his racist rants :(
That doesn't make it affordable.

That just makes it unaffordable much earlier - which is useful granted, but doesn't actually solve the problem.
Of course it's great. I wish everyone could make that much money. Unfortunately, if they're making more, someone else is making less, as their salaries are paid by taxation. And taxation hurts the poor more than the rich. You see where I'm going with this?