skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a bunch of older guys at my place. It's in finance that can afford to provide 6-figure salaries with high 5 figure or 6-figure bonuses year after year in perpetuity along with the regular slew of standard benefits such as health insurance, 401k, etc.

TBH, I think most of tbe older devs that stay in software have gone down the management route. The 2 top guys are managers, but they provide architecture guidance and vision for our next generation platforms. The CIO, CEO, business unit president is also ex-dev. What is left are a handful of "youngish" 30-45 ish developers of which the older group that is probably going to stick around with their golden handcuffs until they retire.
Works on Ubuntu for me.
> If any American English native speaker has time on their hands, I'd be grateful if you can tell me the differences between my writings (you can click on my username for more samples) and those of an educated native American English speaker.

> So, dear native speakers, which is more appropriate in my use in the GP comment? writings or writing? :-)

Definitely "writing". An author might refer to books that he wrote as "writings", but it would sound odd (or even pretentious) for anyone to refer to their posts on HN that way. Besides, you're not really asking about your previous posts, but about your ability to write English in general. So it's your "writing" (in general) rather than your "writings" (the particular posts you've made here).
Probably not possible.

The languages you mention - HTML / CSS / Javascript are client languages; the reason most CMS's use PHP (or other) and some database is because they reside on the server which in turn modifies the page on the server, not the client. A client can't edit the server without server side code to interpret the request.

You could probably use Javascript, edit the page and store a copy locally, but only you'd see the changes; no one else.
Looks good, thanks for making it free!
It's not exactly the same, but TrueDungeon has a similar premise of "a small group of people attempts to figure out puzzles together to get through something".
German here. It felt _really_ weird when my American boss asked me whether I have a doubt. Yes, most people in his team are from India.
Startup allows you to get a list of your competitors' customers
Fan Harvest http://fanharvest.com/ allows you to plug in your competitors' facebook page names and gives you a list of their most engaging customers. You can use this data to advertise on Facebook to only these people. This is the best kind of targeting Facebook ads. The results are phenomenal with about 10% CTR.
It's a pain to install BLAS and the numpy family on a box you don't have root on so I definitely see value in the VM approach. Does being in a VM degrade the performance to the point where this is mainly a teaching tool or is it comparable to a native install?
That's a nice coincidence! (I can imagine that all these names can be confusing.) The Data Science Toolkit focuses on lots of interesting APIs. This blog post [1] provides a brief comparison.

[1] http://jeroenjanssens.com/2013/12/07/lean-mean-data-science-...
"If workers are so desperate that they can't not work" - did you really put an "if" there? :D i presume you come from privileged background?

"then putting them out of a job by making it illegal to work for low wages is especially cruel." - assuming they will all lose work. which they will not. not even a large minority will. despite the libertarian scaremongering, companies always somehow find the money to keep the workers, and their business running. go figure.

as for the other claim, do you have proof of this? in any case, it is ingrateful to draw such conclusions, due to large cultural and economic differences between these countries, and (the part which annoys me personally the most) the ever varying methodology of determining the unemployment rate.

P.S. No reference to the market dynamics? I believe it nicely explains where the extra money to cover for the minimum wage hike is going to come from, and why the hike will not result in a proportionate loss in jobs. I will take your silence as a sign of agreement ;)
too late to edit, that should have been 'literate programming' of course. Serves me right for writing when I'm not fully awake yet.
From FreeDNS news page[1]:

"2012-03-29 18:20:33, 2 years ago: Free accounts not accessed at least once every 6 months will be considered dormant and unloaded from memory."

What does "dormant" mean here? Do they delete your DNS records? It might not be as draconian as what DynDNS was doing, but certainly a barrier you should consider.

[1]: http://freedns.afraid.org/news/
When you put it that way, I guess I agree.
My implementation above complies, but I can send you binaries if you need them. Be forewarned that I neglected to implement atmosphere. Here's a screenshot http://i.imgur.com/7LJocjS.jpg
Content Curation is King.
Looks very tempting, but how do you make money?
Website that gives you stats about your life so far
Vote which causes of conflict are most common on your team?
There are many reasons of bad conflict within a team or between teams. Conflict tends to throw a team off of its focus, getting it away from its goals and objectives. As team collaboration is one of the primary focuses of Agile, so Scrum Masters, team members need to intervene to resolve conflicts, to help teams move from conflict to constructive disagreement as a catapult to high performance.
A web inpsector – JSInspector
Synchronize DOMContent, Console(logs) and Errors from remote browser. For remote debugging.
Picturing Programs: an Introduction to Computer Programming (2010)
I think more seriously

https://www.gittip.com/noirin/

has stuff on her profile that directly deprecates her husband. I don't anything about this case, but I'd say in general it makes me uncomfortable that somebody is bringing up a personal conflict on a platform like this.
Version 0.9.13 of the dependently-typed functional language Idris released
I moved to Canada from Romania as a child and I don't think it was much of a win.

In exchange for more economic opportunity, I grew up with no family (other than mom and dad) which I think has stunted my personal growth a lot. Other people seem to care a lot about their families and getting married and having children but all of those things are really foreign to me.

Actually I'm not even sure about the economic opportunity bit; I saw loads of Romanian college students as interns at my last SV internship.

I'm not poor but I think being selfish and alone might be worse.
Microsoft won't "Bring back Classic Visual Basic"
Considering Stalin's swift elimination of all his political rivals, it's reasonable to assume not everybody shared his political vision.
The problem is, there's still not a really good composable text editing system. I can drop any number of HTML WYSIWYG editors into a web page in five lines of code, but it's really hard to do that with anything but SciTE for code editors, and SciTE is pretty dreadful.

If this existed, we could start building on that widget and have a decent, extensible text editor from the outset, then build on that.
Brad Fitzpatrick talks about it as a "data dump truck". You put everything you have into it, and it takes it when you want it to go.

What's cool is that you can abstract where it's stored... want to use S3? Point your data there. Google Drive? Point your data there. Instead of the user interface and middleware of syncing and storing being directly tied to a storage backend (a la Dropbox, Google Drive), Camlistore allows you to separate it.

At least that's how I think of it... I might be wrong. :)
Apple Delivers Location-Based App Suggestions On Your Lock Screen In iOS 8
How to use Tumblr to your advantage in business?
+1 i'd like to see the source :)
Introducing the Modern WebKit API – allowing apps to use Nitro
The paid license is for commercial products. But that's still confusing.

Raneto may be used in commercial projects with the one-time purchase of a commercial license.
A stable three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetal Cd3As2
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So Swift is the new big thing, you might need to Connect to iTunes using it then
What I find fascinating is that I feel a strong desire to respond to your statement, write out a long comment (which I've done and posted earlier on in this thread) explaining how I disagree, only to realize that it's really hard to get anywhere when our disagreement is so fundamental and complex.

I stopped to think where we disagree fundamentally, and I think it boils down to this:

Our technological, social, and economic developments, I believe, have led to crazy increases in wealth and comfort, and I suppose happiness too, at least in the West, but arguably even globally. I think we more or less agree on that.

I think we are also in agreement in many ways we're better off than we have been in the past.

We are somewhat less in agreement over the cause of this, and I suppose that could be a worthwhile conversation. I'm inclined to believe capitalism played some role in this, but that, from a 'social evolutionary' perspective, it's become, or turning into a malignant growth. I'd say technological developments play a much bigger role, and perhaps capitalism was just a mechanism that 'worked' to enable this. But I'm by no means certain of that, and it seems to me that there's no way to get anywhere on this subject other than sustained conversation where we move down to our most basic 'axioms' step by step.

Where I am more certain, and where I suspect we agree least, is whether the status quo is 'good enough' and by extension worth defending or 'fighting'.

I think it's not worth defending too much, primarily because I strongly believe that should be no reason whatsoever for us to be working as much and as hard as we do now. The 'general' increase in wealth and comfort pales in comparison to what would be possible if we had a fairer system in place, and I believe it is absolutely worth the effort to take a shot at creating such a fairer system. I think we've learned at least something from the past, and that we won't attempt to just implement a full totalitarian redistribution scheme.

And even if there's a significant risk of our efforts turning into another 'failed utopia', merely the rising social instability and the (I'd say) well-proven disastrous ecological developments are reason enough for me to take that risk rather than making some small incremental changes to our current system.

However, that would be outside of the confines of the discussion in this thread, and that's quite frustrating.

I guess what I'm saying is that without considering these more fundamental disagreements, our collective discussions in this thread are bound to frustrate and not really significantly 'shape' or change our views.

That said, I enjoy reading your views and I mostly just felt like writing this; it's not something 'aimed' at you in particular!
The enterprise software revenue model shift from Subscriptions to Transactions
This is awesome. You should update the FAQ page:

"Currently iOS does not offer support in browsers for services like appear.in. We are working on exploring how we can make appear.in available for iOS. To be the first to be notified when it is available, you can sign up here (http://eepurl.com/N8Bez)."
There was another good post on here I saw recently on how we're using bad dictionaries, http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary

For example the better (while old) Websters Revised only has these two entries for "writings":

3. A book; any written composition; a pamphlet; as the writings of Addison.
...
5. Writings, plu. conveyances of lands; deeds; or any official papers.

It specifically mentions that writings are more formal and pretty spot on for how we use the word.

TLDR; use this http://machaut.uchicago.edu/websters 1913 websters dictionary rather than the newer, while correct, dictionaries that don't capture vernacual. It's a shame a state of our dictionaries.
Well spotted, thanks :-)
MySQL (InnoDB) clustered and non-clustered indexes
What open source dictionaries are being used by these scrabble programs? (I know I could bing (or DDG) the answer but would like to hear from an "insider" if possible.)
This sounds like what git-annex does today, except with a front-end. How is it different from this understanding?

git-annex stores things content addressed, gives me different views into the data (tags, etc), and supports different back-ends (S3, remote rsync, local filesystem, external disks, etc). Isn't this exactly what is described here?
I think it's restricted to the baseband, but I'm not an expert. Fun fact: SIM cards actually have a flag which tells the handset to display a warning to the user if they are using an unencrypted connection. Basically no commercial SIM cards have this flag enabled.

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xKihq1fClQg
Im currently working on a start-up and can relate to this.
The truth always hurts and people worry that their dreams will be dashed or the need to correct things early on which is most times, tremendous hard work (But it becomes crazy amount of effort if the change is much later on).

I targeted a low price, sales-free model, until i realized cost is not the key issue, getting feedback is! Hearing what people want and need is crucial! Its the reason why small firms are more nimble, simply because they move fast and are able to change rapidly from the feedbacks they received. Also important is that through talking, I noticed many times, people not only like to share painful experiences, they kind of impart their "ideal state" solution to you which can be incredibly helpful from a different perspective standpoint as well as a imaginative point.

In fact, I would rather spend more time talking to people in person (which I am doing now) than to rub shoulders and network.
Its like delayed gratification. Have incredible amount of pain upfront so there will be less (much less) hiccups later on in development.
Great feedback, thanks! Starting to process it here ...

I've ticketed "Building Gittip is confusing as a first impression"

https://github.com/gittip/building.gittip.com/issues/63
Go error handling
Take a look at http://openpgpjs.org/ OpenPGP JavaScript Implementation.
Emigration is super tough, especially on kids. But growing up with just your mom and dad is actually not that rare. I have a super large family but almost 0 contact with them.

What stops you from moving back to Romania?
I once asked michkap on the now-dead blog about a new version of Classic VB based on VBA 7 (used in Office 2010 and later). BTW, I wonder why LongLong isn't in 32-bit VBA 7.
It's time: bring Dart to Android
I know that, and you know that, but do they? In my experience, no. And also, does the SEC know that? Possibly not. There's a lot of laws about this stuff where if you screw it up, people can go to actual prison.
The obvious comparison that jumps to mind would be the word "mankind" in our (theoretically) post-sexist society.
Maybe they don't care about your email(they have plenty of data) as long nobody else can use it for ads ?
Primary source: http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
I believe you have to enable a bit to _disable_ the warning (eg, it should be there as default). On my own network with my own sim cards, I've yet to find a modern handset that actually alerts me, though :(
For now, I guess it's just surviving by being a subsidiary of the giant Telenor Group.
This seems to be a copy-and-paste of [1], which is dated December 2012.

I'm not sure why anyone would think that resurrecting VB6 is a good idea. If com is the reason then VB.net does com interop just fine. But really its way past time to move on.

[1] http://visualstudio.uservoice.com/forums/121579-visual-studi...
> They were also completely unable to imagine that "Qi of air" could be oxigen, and "Qi of rice" could be glucose, and that both of them get transported by blood vessels to preserve life of tissues across the body. Which from our point of view is a remarkable thing to have been figured out 3 thousand years ago.

Wow. I have a new-found respect for acupuncture.

Its interesting that a lot of ancient knowledge is very similar to modern knowledge, they just have different abstract layers. Herbs are sometimes frowned upon as medicine, because people fail to appreciate that our ancestors managed to identify them as a source of some modern organic drug.
Is there really a market for "Classic VB" in 2014? I mean, hell, I have fond memories of it (and learned DirectX using it, shudder) from when I was young, but I honestly can't see any use-case for it these days that isn't suited better by other languages, runtimes, and tools.
Show HN: My Weekend Project, Random Last Statements by Executed Offenders
Limitlesslane: A new way of managing all of your Internet passwords
Android Bootstrap - Android library of fundamental components
Library providing implementations of fundamental android components.

Built for Android Studio and Gradle.

Android Bootstrap includes a full working implementation of Fragments, Fragment Pager, ActionBar via AppCompat, Navigation Drawer, ViewPagerIndicator, http-request, GSON, Robotium for integration testing, API Consumption with an API on Parse.com and much more.
Then you're narrowing your hiring pool. Hiring is hard. Hiring really good people is really hard. Removing the requirement of "has 10 years of $LANGUAGE" is pretty awesome. It means we can hire someone because they're GOOD, not because their last job chose the same language we're using.
Okay, I've also added +1s for you to:

"revamp homepage" https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1074

"sign up with email"
https://github.com/gittip/www.gittip.com/issues/1052

We're working on bringing disciplines besides programming into the mix. The challenge for us is that we run everything open source, which is a cross-cultural experience for most marketers, sales people, and product designers. I talk about this in the post.

If you are or know any folks with relevant skills that want to try out open source, by all means send them our way! :-)
You don't have to do that, I read your other comment about 'Bob' being a common placeholder. Therefore I decided to gooooooooooooooooooooooooogle it [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_and_Bob
I hope that sample screen shot is not supposed to suck me in, is it? Honestly I took one look at that screen and closed the tab.

Is this particular editor suited to a specific language or set of languages?
Swift code compiles and runs on 10.5 and up. Tested it myself.
http://www.reddit.com/r/swift was actually made 6 months ago.
Because what we apparently aren't making clear is that "Building Gittip" is a subsite for people building Gittip. It's not intended to be a starting point for people coming to Gittip for the first time as a potential user. The first impression should either be the homepage or a specific profile page (if you find us through a link from someone you know, which is how most people find us).
Hey sorry about that.. its fixed now, can you refresh and try again
Open source doesn't fix this issue.

The GP doesn't understand what gittip is for, what the overall direction is supposed to be or could be, and so can't reasonably submit a pull request to fix that confusion.
Does it really matter if a language is open source or not? Surely the most important thing is a versioned language specification?
I also got Singaporean and New Zealand as well as the three native languages (albeit in different ordering) while being a German native speaker. I’d claim it to be mere chance that these are somehow related to standard German sentence structuring, especially the use of the passive in the first few questions.
5 Doomsday Theories About the Universe
Getting the modules and making the tree is easy. Making the code work is hard.

Yes, sometimes this will work... but if A passes an object from v1 into B and B passes that object into v1.1... that can blow up. If v1 and v1.1 both use any global resources, that can blow up.

It doesn't sound like node addresses those problems at all, which are the only ones that are actually difficult.
:-)

You, too!
The #1 guess for me was Norweigian, while English was #2. I've spent all my life in the American South.
I find this article the least interesting one I've read so far, so if you find the ideas interesting, be sure to check out some of his other writing.
To allay your fears about the 75%: that's what code review is for. Lots of eyes make the problematic code go away. :)

I'd be more than happy to help de-spaghetti the code if it was available.
As a non-target-market neutral observer I have a comment on this point. What it lacks in directly relevant meaning, the name makes up for in memorability. The sound/rhyme/rhythm, simple length, inference (devs/money) are all well thought out enough to encourage further investigation.

It's true that tipping culture varies widely around the world, but if visitors are aware of how tipping culture works in the States then the name's function is fulfilled.

Many tips can indeed add up to a living in many places, even in the States, and making a reference to tipping culture can also reflect the humble requirements of OSS developers who have by definition not opted to work on OSS projects for the money.

Seems sensible enough from that point of view.
Again, that is just one (partial) mechanism by which the comment I was responding fails to capture what is really going on in practice. The details aren't important, it was just one example.
Great to see some competition to the official (and slightly unloved) implementation, especially since you're working on accelerated binary protocol, which the official implementation lacks (at least last I checked!). One thing I'd suggest, though:

> Can import thrift file as normal py modules. The sdk code is generated on the fly.

This kind of thing immediately puts me off using the module. Messing with process-global state just for the sake of convenience really isn't worth the risk, if your intention is to develop serious software, where lives and livelihoods might at some point depend on its reliability. As "import this" puts it, "special cases aren't special enough to break the rules."

Would rather see the module import hook stuff removed, or at least easily disabled. (e.g. have you tried to see how it works in combination with something like py2exe? I suspect it will break)
Developing SWAT:Global Strike Team (2010)
Our curve was exponential throughout 2013 and into 2014. We doubled three times, about every four or five months. We started to flatten out the past few months as we try to gather a full-time team. Because here's the thing: any other company that doubled three times in a year would go withdraw $2M from the angel network ATM and just flat-out hire a team. We've got a company structure and culture that most angels aren't ready for. E.g.:

https://twitter.com/Jason/status/468570235390271489

I call this "double-bootstrapping" in the post.
MH370 search: Low-frequency underwater noise detected off India's southern tip
Scripting languages are good for achieving low line count results.
> $40k per year is quite close to minimum wage in California.

This didn't sound right, so I checked it for you:

Full-time minimum wage in California is officially about to increase to $14k.

Based on a 30-hour work week (ref: wikipedia definition of full-time) at $9ph (as of July 1, 2014).
Stargazer Nation – Planet Earth – 4 Billion Years in the Making
As usual, everything interesting happens on the baseband processor. It would be trivial to detect that an IMSI catcher is used, even when it has support for encryption (unlikely given the age of the Stingray system and the need to communicate back with the mobile provider).

But alas, all the baseband processors are propietary software designed by companies that will happily compromise your privacy.