skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Github mus-identitifies QT translation files as "TypeScript", assigning all commits on some very active QT projects (like Bitcoin) to that language, which massively inflates the typescript usage on metrics like this.
Nice. Make it clickable you're saying of course. Perhaps save the image with clickable URL so you can get it later if you're on the subway or offline for other reason.
I'd argue that it's precisely because of this decades 'gold rush' that a cultural shift has ensued towards nerds being the new cool.

Suggestive evidence of this cultural shift? Have a look at the sitcoms/shows that are airing as of late. For the most part, the nerd/engineer/scientist is almost always highly revered, rarely ever viewed as 'sub-par' in any way.

Contrast this with the 90's, (anecdotally) where nerds were often portrayed as the loser that no one wants to hang out with.

An example that comes to mind, is Fresh Princes Carlton Banks character, to say Sheldon Cooper of the BBT. Very different portrayals, almost symbolic of the nerd image in each respective era.
MayOne, "SuperPAC to End All SuperPACs" Breaks $1 Million
thanks, typo
Still no middle finger. It's like they don't even care.
I wonder where in the EU you live then.

My experience in the Netherlands is that voicemail is often on by default with a at least a 'this is the voicemail of <telnr> leave a message after the beeb' greeting in it.
List of resources to learn ES6
When this has happened to me, I ask for proof that they are from the company concerned, or that they already have my details. So far they've always been happy to do this, although I always have to go first…
Its well done for sure. It does this:

- OCR text
- Translate (you have to tell it the languages to use)
- Take a guess at the font and font color
- Erase the text (just replace with the background color?)
- Display the new text

All of these are solved problems.
Maybe because he is to busy. Or maybe because of a 100 different other reasons. Whatever his excuse, the fact that someone could be to busy to implement some software doesn't mean they can't critique something they don't like, or suggest ideas for things they do.
> Social skills are learned, not innate

They're a combination of both.
Do You Have To Be A Freak To Be A Good Entrepreneur?
With reduced office hours and moving services online, our public libraries have become the primary access to government for undeserved demographics. Our librarians are now also doubling as social workers.

Kind of pisses me off.
80 cols, which is correct. Less seems to be fine when not in a tmux session.

https://asciinema.org/a/9601
At the risk of asking a potentially dumb question, why can they only reimage the machine at head office?
Count is correct, but I did have a flash to my childhood:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language)
pg's crucial insight here is that life gets easier for nerds as rewards are tied to accomplishments rather than mere popularity.

So the more trendy a tech startup is, the more likely it is to fall into this trap.
Unfortunately too many people just give you a blank stare when you mention that 100 years from now we'll be printing up everything we can't augment. We'll also have brain-machine-interfaces that allow one to 'memorize' copyright media. How does the government/society plan to control our memories in the future? Just go with whatever laws the corporations come up with? Are we going to continue to deprive children of software knowledge so that they're dependent on downloading worthless digital copies of closed source code with who knows what coded into it? Thing is once everyone can code, free and open-source digital goods will undoubtedly prevail.
My library sells books every few years. The last time I went to the sale, I scored one of the Feynman lecture series books for under a buck. When I handed it to the librarian with my money, she said "oh my", realizing that this was really not something they should be chucking away. If not for the fact that they charge annoying fines, I would have let them off the hook, but I said "well, you folks put it on the table for sale" and walked away with a fine prize.
"PDFscript" (as I like to call it) is not Turing complete. It's more similar to SVG in terms of capability. From the PDF spec:

"To simplify the processing of content streams, PDF does not include common programming language features such as procedures, variable, and control constructs."
Request it: http://fortawesome.github.io/Font-Awesome/community/#request...
Why the Knights and Merchants remake uses Pascal
hehe ;)
Does anyone else here ever wonder if some of these "new" dinosaurs are really just re-discoveries of known dinosaurs? The article even mentions that the skeletal remains are incomplete. What if a number of these sauropods are really all the same species, albeit at different stages of their life? Is size alone enough to create a new classification? Perhaps growth continued throughout the life of a sauropod, and the largest ones were just the oldest?
Yes because the interwebz is all about the Web.

Like one said, the Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it
yeah, here is the relevant paragraph from the Wikipedia entry:

>The maze is made up of a 16 by 16 grid of cells, each 180 mm square with walls 50 mm high. The mice are completely autonomous robots that must find their way from a predetermined starting position to the central area of the maze unaided. The mouse will need to keep track of where it is, discover walls as it explores, map out the maze and detect when it has reached the goal. Having reached the goal, the mouse will typically perform additional searches of the maze until it has found an optimal route from the start to the center. Once the optimal route has been found, the mouse will run that route in the shortest possible time.

source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micromouse
Raising the minimum price of chips will increase the amount of money given to chip companies which will give them more money to spend creating more jobs.

How does artificially increasing the price of something make the market more likely to clear?
It has been: https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/2402
Seriously? They still haven't got a blog icon?

[0] https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/455
I did a analysis of programming languages using github data before: http://exceedhl.github.io/blog/2013/05/07/programming-langua...
So there may not be much awareness so this, but <strike>Ruby</strike> Rails (as noted below, the annotations or part of rails/rake) has this feature that you can add special annotations # TODO # FIXME # OPTIMIZE comments to you code, and "$ rake notes" to list them. it also allows you to have a custom annotations comments :
For a full description, see : http://rubyquicktips.com/post/385665023/fixme-todo-and-optim...

Better to make a # DOBY annotation and modify the rake task to shame if the date passed. You could also add this metadata to the existing annotations. If you what to automate the shaming, write a guard gem to watch for these annotations.
Well, that's one reason to bring back extinct animals from hundreds of millions of years ago.
Why bother, it'll taste like chicken anyway...
How much of our skills are learned and how much is genetic ability is an old debate ("nature vs. nurture"). I come down quite hevily on the learning side: You can remove half the brain of a person and if you do it slowly or early enough he will grow up into a quite normal human. I mean, even walking is mainly a learnt skill!
Smartwatch Concept with Mechanical Pan, Twist, Tilt, and Click [video]
You can lease fiber. For instance Google leases fiber for their internal google-to-google network.
Agreed. In part 'we' (US) have a cultural mythos that intelligence (or nerdy smartness) and social skills are antithetical to one another. There's also a frequent assumption that social skills are innate.
Sure, some people master social skills more quickly. But nerds and nerd-caregivers need to understand that social skills serve a purpose and can and should be trained. I think of it in game theory terms / cost-benefit analysis - advantages vs. disadvantages of having (no/limited) social skills. [The same stereotypes and problems with implicit bias and nerds are also commonly true with regards to physical fitness.]
Demo of Lucid's advanced C/C++ programming system (1993)
And it's code point is 'f1a8', aka 'fellate'...
Where do you see "hipsters" fitting in to all of this?

There has, obviously, been a huge influx of "hipsters" into the software industry as of late. And I think they're very distinct from "nerds".

I define "nerds" as those with an interest in technology, science, mathematics, and perhaps science fiction. "Hipsters" are different, however, because they have limited interest in such things, but instead focus on design, aesthetics, fashion, trends, "obscurity", social media, and so forth.

Yet there is a lot of overlap in the areas that you mention. Take the lack of social skills, for example. In the case of "nerds", this often seems to be because they just don't relate well to other people. But in the case of "hipsters", it's more about having an inherently obnoxious attitude and personality. Just look at the severe backlash that is common when a large number of "hipsters" migrate into established neighborhoods, for example. Even dealing with them in professional workplace settings is unpleasant.

In terms of physical attractiveness and appearance, we see "hipsters" going out of their way to look as weird and "unique" as they possibly can. They wear clothing that purposefully clashes. They intentionally style their physical in ways that will make them stand out, in the oddest way possible. Even so-called "nerds" can obviously tell that something is out of place with these people's appearances.

The television/movie representation of these people is perhaps the most interesting. We've seen people who are clearly "hipsters" being mislabeled as "nerds" in sitcoms and other media, for example. That Sheldon character from that American sitcom is a good example of this. His social obnoxiousness is far closer to what we typically see from "hipsters" than from "nerds". And the so-called "Reddit culture", for example, may have involved "nerds" at the very beginning, but they were very, very quickly overwhelmed by "hipsters". "Hipsters" have defined Reddit's culture for years now.

It will be interesting to see how the dynamics of this plays out over time. Even if they've co-existed so far, I expect to see more hostility towards "hipsters" from "nerds". As odd as it may sound, I think that "nerds" tend to have more in common with society at large than "hipsters" do. And I think that society at large is starting to strongly see "hipsters" as greater outcasts than "nerds" are.
I wonder if the app store or play store will ever be considered to have control over a significant part though. I imagine Apple would argue nope on the grounds of smaller market share/install base, Google on the grounds of a smaller revenue share.
Growing up, I think the reason I as a nerd was unpopular was:
1) Lack of a sense of style:
I did not give any thought to dressing well until I took a UX design class in Junior year in college. Before then, I thought of it as something utterly frivolous.

2) Lack of common conversation topics:
I wanted to talk about military history and politics and physics. Very few people in elementary and high school were interested in that. So I got very little practice in conversation skills.

3) Not just of social skills, but knowledge of how to learn social skills:
I had been painfully aware since 3rd grade that I lacked "social skills", but I really didn't know what these were or how to learn them. I did read How to Win Friends and Influence People in Jr. High, but it taught me little about how to hold a conversation. Even to this day, I don't actually know how to go about gaining social skills or what those skills actually are. Just one month ago, I learned that there was a skill to conversing so as to make sure everyone present had the context to understand the conversation and wouldn't feel excluded. If I'm now 24 and only just now realized this, what other things have I missed?

Why might nerds in general have the problems I had?
#1 takes money, which kids don't have until starting age 16.
#2 sort of defines nerdiness: if you have this set of interests you're a nerd. If other people have these interests, you're lucky.
#3 is hard because it must be learned by a means that are different from academic knowledge or a fandom's canon. You can't really read things[1] and tinker with things and work through problem sets to figure out. Near as I can tell, you just have to have a lot of social interaction and be very aware and attentive to people as you do so.

[1] There are some books and blogs that are useful:

- How to Win Friends and Influence People (general; a classic)

- What Every Body is Saying (Body language)

- Dr. Nerdlove (dating)

- Cpt. Awkward (dating & other relationships)

- Getting to Yes (negotiation)

- Difficult Conversations (understanding emotional impact of words)
It's very dangerous to assume too much about genetic pre-dispositions - most commonly they are just assumptions & they're dangerous.
Remote Access to Docker with TLS authentication
Right now we're testing out tilt screen controls, but that's a great idea also.
Governments create and enforce laws, so they must be held accountable for them. If the government didn't have such discretionary power, lobbying would not be a thing at all.

I don't blame the big cable companies for doing it, since they'd be at a competitive disadvantage otherwise.

Remember that humans operate companies and governments alike. Except governments use force and companies are subject to it.
Cue Weird Al's "Jurassic Park"
Why is it a phone call and not a text message
Try gandi.net. I've had good experience with .io and gTLD domains with them.

https://www.gandi.net/domain/register
Thanks for the heads up we haven't changed that yet.
I was hoping to find sport icons added on this release. https://github.com/FortAwesome/Font-Awesome/issues/767
Discussions on creating the ATutor API – Community Bonding Period (GSoC 2014)
The Anticipation and the Impact
"- Try to access any popular web site in China like Youtube, facebook, etc. Good luck."

Try to access the internet in China. Good luck! (But Baidu always works)
Running an Akka cluster in an EC2 Autoscaling Group
Linux.fm – Broadcasting the Linux kernel, one source file at a time
South African company Desert Wolf unveils riot control drone
> How does the government/society plan to control our memories in the future?

That's easy. DRM for machine-to-brain interfaces. Who's going to stop that from happening? Mozilla?

The scary part will begin when they'll be able to delete our memories remotely, because we "stole" their media, or perhaps the content owner simply withdrew the license from the distributor, and now you're not allowed to "own" it anymore and keep it inside your brain.

Or think about what happened inside the DoD when the Snowden leaks or the Wikileaks ones came out, and banned all employees from reading the articles about it. If you think that in the future we won't need "computers" anymore, because our brains will act as the computers of today, I could see the government setting up "infrastructure" to ban such leaks from getting accessed by people, or also deleting them remotely.
"How to win friends and influence people" by Dale Carnegie cures all. Self-Esteem and physical exercise for healthy balance. Not so hard to figure out.
At least if you have a recovery email address configured, you can only initiate the process that sends codes to phones via a link sent to the recovery email address.

So being able to intercept codes sent to a phone is not enough: you also need to have control over the recovery email address.
Lines of code changed is confounded by syntactic properties of the languages: For instance, languages that make a lot of use of indentation, like Lisp, will have more changed lines of code but that doesn't necessarily reflect more activity. In Lisp, you often have huge diffs even for minor changes because these minor changes can lead to a change in indentation of many otherwise unaffected lines of code.
This is the bit that you need to pay attention to:

> The GMGPL license in either GNAT Pro runtime or GNAT-FSF runtime permits software that is licensed under a license that is incompatible with the GPL to be linked with the output of Ada standard generic libraries that are supplied with GNAT without breaching the license agreement.

If you use the version of GNAT provided as part of GCC from GNU (which is a year or so behind), or the paid-for version of GNAT from AdaCore, you can distribute your program without distributing the source. If, however, you use the GPLed version of GNAT from AdaCore, your own code has to be distributed under something compatible with the GPL.

The Wikipedia article could do with a cleanup, really.
Still no Ruby or Rails icons. Drupal has one though.
I had 768/128Kbps DSL until last month (when my wife got fed up with poor streaming video quality and called the telco about upgrading). For using my bank, credit card company, and "social networking" sites it was fine. That's not dial up speed, I realize, but it's not 2Mbps, either. Since the upgrade to 7/1Mbps service I have observed that sites I thought were slow on the old service are still slow. My wife says YouTube and Hulu are better. I am pleased that my VPN to home seems better (which I attribute to the increased upload bandwidth).
All four of you are crushed, I'm sure. ;)
Why push that burden on the job creators? If the labour value someone provides is lower than a living wage, why not let them survive on welfare (food + clothing + shelter)

If this isn't happening, I'd think its more important to provide those basic amenities rather than raising the minimum wage.
I don't consider everybody in tech industry a "nerd".

The point of view you represent is interesting though. The whole "being social" -thing is damn hard so wouldn't be surprised that a nerd circle messes it up.
It would be interesting to see if the DTMF tone could be recorded, or if the voicemail system would capture it first and abort the recording. Maybe it depends on which tone is played?

Investigating the extra A, B, C and D DTMF tones may be of use in this scenario, just in case voicemail systems don't recognise them as commands but 2FA callbacks allow them for confirmation.
Github uses linguist to identify the codes programming language and unfortunately it's far from perfect - https://github.com/github/linguist

There are known issues with distinguishing code between certain languages. For eg. There are issues between Perl & Prolog (and sometimes even Puppet). And up to very recently [1] most Rebol code was identified as R :)

[1] That is until this patch was merged in (although the repos language stats only get updated after a new push happens) - https://github.com/github/linguist/pull/1005
A day or two, really? That seems like an awfully long time requirement for what should be a simple change.
Why on earth would you think Big Bang Theory is a positive portrayal of scientists and engineers? The scientists and engineers on that show are portrayed as unfit, socially awkward, overgrown children.

I'll think scientists and engineers are highly revered when films about them start winning Oscars regularly (forget 'Gravity', that fell into the 'cool astronaut' category). In that sense, we've actually come backward since 'A Beautiful Mind', a film about an eccentric mathematician won four Oscars.
The beginning was somewhat trite and demode (understandable given 2003) and I got this same thought.

While I usually hate to skim, I decided at that point to skim a handful of paragraphs, and near the end, he tied the beginning in very well to what he was really trying to say at the finish.
Does Creative Cloud not allow you to save in a format compatible with previous versions of Photoshop?

I ask for open formats from people. Send me something I can work with in my choice of software! Save multiple versions and deliver those just for redundancy. There's no excuse if you're using pro-level software to ever say "well I guess you'll have to buy it to do something with this"
PGs essays ring very true to me, but not this one.

"So if intelligence in itself is not a factor in popularity, why are smart kids so consistently unpopular? The answer, I think, is that they don't really want to be popular."

What about the athlete that wants to dedicate themselves to their craft? The beautiful actress that practices acting and singing all day? They are (usually) effortlessly popular. Not to mention that there are generally some popular kids who are really freakin' smart.

Sociobiology is a big part of this. For zillions of generations, human beings were stack-ranked by specific qualities-- strength, external signals for health/viability, social dominance/leadership, etc. Young kids grow up and start this ritual-- unpredictably, they are probably less sophisticated and more driven by instinct than adults. And they're meaner.

I also wonder if kids latch onto and develop the parts of themselves that they can be good at. Everyone plays soccer for the first time. Some kids excel and get more interested. Others look around, realize that they suck compared to their peers and lose interest. Nerds realize very early that their path to praise and recognition might not be the one that the "tribe" broadly rewards, but it's better than nothing.
It depends on the quality of the codec used by the VM system. Any compression is likely to destroy the code. VoIP protocols usually send DTMF as specific messages for this reason. However I wouldn't be surprised if it worked.
It's maybe a little silly, but there are J2ME implementations you can stick on a candy bar phone.
Are you sure its $HOME? I think it's just the dir you load your session in. I just opened a new tmux session in ~/Dropbox and all new panes open in ~/Dropbox. So do my windows.
Perhaps. I think he was implying that he turned it off manually. I don't think it can shown with custom fonts disabled, as it is an icon set as a custom font.
Only in Brentwood, California ;)
There's a version of GNAT distributed by GNU, about a year behind AdaCore's version, which allows you to use the Ada libraries without your program coming under the GPL.
How Wearable Technology Will Impact Web Design
Man, I wish that would have existed 2 years ago.
Does one really need to keep the whole blockchain to perform basic things like tracking account balance?

I'm not really savvy on the details, but from the overall understanding of how Bitcoin works I believe one should receive data, keep it until consensus is confirmed (blocks had matured for good, so unless the network went into really weird split-brain situation no "valid" branches would grow out from those blocks), then aggregate and throw data away.

Keeping the whole transaction history up to genesis block seems nearly pointless to me.

Not sure whenever bitcoind can do those, though. Seems that it keeps the whole blockchain, at least for seeding purposes.

And, indeed, one would still need a database and running daemon that'd leech data from Bitcoin network. So, no way to have a badge on static HTML site. That's valid use case.
You're correct, I'm going to change it to be disabled by default.
> It should be noted that the free version of said compiler may only be used to produce software released under a GPL compatible license.

No. No. No.

GCC GNAT is under GPL 3 with GCC runtime library exception, the same license as the rest of GCC.

Before GPL 3 it was licensed under GMGPL -- GNAT Modified GPL, which was very similar to the the current license as the "runtime library exception" is intended to unify similar exceptions from several GCC compilers, for example if you're using C++11 on GCC you are bound by the exact same license.

I'm sorry if i'm not as nice as I could be. Every time Ada is mentioned someone chimes in with mythical license woes. You're doing harm by spreading misinformation. This myth needs to die.