skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Is that really how Google gauges interest? Raw number of searches? I would think it's more useful to normalize in some way (perhaps by searches across all countries) for the very reason you state.

If so, maybe what's happening is that Baidu doesn't provide very good results for Golang, so a relatively large proportion of Google's small market presence in China are people who jumped to Google just to search for Golang.
That's low for any programming job. My first job out of university was $42k.

Where about are you based?
Those look like they are entertaining for adults, not children.

I too have kids, 6 and almost 3, and recommendations for good science oriented kids books are always welcome.
> perhaps with a small fee attached to discourage auto-renewal.

If it's a small fee, you can be sure that all large companies will enforce their copyrights forever (and Disney even continue to enforce copyrights that should have expired).
Total Commander being that good, an open-source version of it was commissioned - Double Commander:
http://doublecmd.sourceforge.net

It supports Total Commander's large pool of plug-ins, and is multi-platform.
When did Businessweek's website start requesting your browser location when you visit it?
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I'm pretty sure you're wrong about patents, I think that the non-enforcement thing relates to trademarks as well.

Still, I don't disagree, I think an abandonware archive is a good thing. I always loved that Home Of The Underdogs (for example) existed, so I could get hold of old DOS games I used to own in the 80s but have long since lost.
If we don't archive them now do you really think we'll be able to find them in 100+ years when they are no longer copyrighted.

We all know how good corporations are at preserving old software they lost the crypto key to Divx optical disc format (1999) do you really think these will survive until the copyright lapses?

Hell if lawmakers and corporations have their way copyright will be 1000 years soon.
Since Commander Keen is still sold (on Steam), I'd be very careful with that statement.
Wealth is a poor indicator of education. Usually the questions will be how much do the parents earn, rather than where they live or their standard of living. My Dad has a doctorate in physics from a top university, yet he's pretty much given up normal employment and lives a happy sustainable life. Measured by annual income alone, he's probably below the poverty line.
For Windows, I used DISCo Commander for many years, then switched to Total Commander.
Agreed - I'm using this setup and it works really well.
With 3 friends, we chated for a few days and put down what we believed would be the ideal name for company of that type.
After several names and several more exclusions that ended up being similar names with other websites or the website was not available we ended up with a name.

www.fitorganizer.com
The best we could figure out to create my start up.
Although we were a team, on the name, i am the completely alone on this project.
I love Siracusa, but what he's been saying is "well, they're gonna need something or they'll fall behind". Which is a fine bet and was a prescient analysis even in the rounds before. Copland 2010 was his idea in 2005 that they'd essentially have something new and modern by 2010, which they didn't, but they had started evolving Objective-C again and added GC, so they hadn't been completely standing around.

I made a separate bet, saying that "they're working on a new language with these characteristics". For four years, this was an insane idea, they're not going to go all that trouble just to chuck Objective-C, I was mad and should be ignored. This week, that line of dismissal argument changed into "in hindsight, he was only stating the painfully obvious and anyone could have done that", which is nice and weird and a reversal fit for Steve Jobs.

That said, both Siracusa and I completely missed ARC, which is basically probably what made Swift worthwhile.
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I know it's low - and everyone is telling me that "that's how games industry is like". Both me and my girlfriend finished the exact same course at uni, and I got my dream job in games industry, making £18k a year, and she got a job in BT, making £30k a year. It's in the North East of England.
No different from any other sting or undercover operation in principle, except in this case the target/victim was outside the jurisdiction?
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I mean the kind of feedback oriented design MS uses can easily generate a scenario where "Reply All" and CC are considered not mainstream enough to warrant entry to their phone OS.

I agree with your sentiment. It just feels we're dangerously on the edge of "casuals" (to borrow a word) dominating the aim of software design.
Programmers make less in the UK than the US generally, so it's not worth comparing.

Like a senior dev in the UK is about £45k outside of London, which is $76k, much less than the $1xxk you often see bandied about here.

EDIT: I personally think there are two reasons:

1. Cultural - we almost can't imagine paying employees more than managers, regardless of skill levels

2. Demand - We ran out of developers later, the UK hit 'peak developer' a lot later than the US because of the BBC micro and the archimedes in schools meaning there were more people capable of programming available. Developer pay has ramped up fairly rapidly over the last few years
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I was curious how a non-functional version would fare, so I wrote one in Nimrod and it's a lot faster than the functional C++: https://gist.github.com/def-/8187448ea7a5c8da8265

Goats Wolves Lions C++11 Nimrod
17 55 6 0.00 0.00
117 155 106 0.17 0.01
217 255 206 0.75 0.01
317 355 306 2.16 0.01
417 455 406 5.28 0.01
517 555 506 10.75 0.01
617 655 606 19.15 0.02
717 755 706 31.58 0.02
817 855 806 46.52 0.02
917 955 906 67.94 0.02
1017 1055 1006 93.75 0.02
2017 2055 2006 731.42 0.04
Both adults and children. 8+ is a good age (mine are 2, 8, 10) for that one though.

Usborne do a good like of younger books: http://www.usborne.com/catalogue/science.aspx?cat=1&area=S&s...
No points for "based on LLVM" and "opt-in as you please side by side with Objective-C"? (Side by side with Objective-C probably does not require the Obj-C runtime, but it's hard to see how it wouldn't want to use it.)

I did not predict ARC. I'm not a genius, oracle, memory management expert or compiler writer.
Guys, I hate to crash your heroes but it is John Socha [0] who you should really admire :)

He wrote Norton Commander and that Assembly book which was published under Norton's name.

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Socha
So it seems when writing in English for a French audience that using more often "an" would lend "an helping hand" to understanding (by supporting the internal voice)
I thought the article was trying to discredit the pop-nutritionists. To me, the point of all those quotes and anecdotes in the beginning of the article was to show the shallowness of their recommendations.
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Personally I'd only bother with an IDE for Java, Objective-C or C# - then I'd choose IntelliJ, Xcode and Visual Studio respectively.

I'd stick to a text editor otherwise.
One doesn't lose a patent for non-enforcement (though it's possible equitable doctrines like laches could complicate future suits after a period of non-enforcement). However patents do require frequent explicit renewal, like copyright used to: maintenance fees have to be paid at 3.5, 7.5, and 11.5 years after the patent is granted, or it expires early.
Note that in Firefox only a few visual hacks will work nowadays. This means that sites can still change the local style of visited links to fit in with their colour schemes. BUT, you can't trawl someone's history by exploiting :visited any more.

And also note that this will remove all :visited styling, included the usual blue->purple. Just a heads up for people changing this variable because they think their privacy is being invaded.

https://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/03/privacy-related-changes-co...
I loved these (it's a trilogy) when I was a kid: http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1567832.The_Time_and_Spac...
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And the user still has no way of ensuring the safety of the underlying transport. How do I know the form is going to be sent over a secure link after a push the button? Who will get this credit card? It doesn't say anywhere. But the blog post tells me the info is going to be sent to a third party, but that is not explicit in the form. I hate that "security" is all about meaningless icons, not about being transparent to the user.
I got the data in the following paragraph from a talk on the subject at an Outerz0ne or maybe a Phreaknic years ago:

At the time all cable companies were were building up their data network, they were building that network over top of their existing video distribution network. That network was designed [ages prior to this point] to have tiny, tiny, upstream channels for use by system control and maintenance devices, and huge downstream channels to shove 100+ analog TV channels. Because it would have cost a metric shitload to replace all of that hardware, the cable companies were forced to give their data subscribers pretty large downstream links and relatively meager upstream links.[0]

Frankly, the nerds of the day (remember, this is the mid-to-late 1990's) would all have been running home servers, and would have been demanding a symmetric connection so that they would have a substantially cheaper alternative to ISDN.

(Note that nerds that remember those days consider asymmetric home Internet connections to have been more harmful than the Eternal September.)

[0] Note that this property is pretty meaningless in an HFC network where the cable company could run fiber directly to the home, but chooses not to. [See also ATT U-Verse.]
Someone probably should still carve instructions on how to build a Blu-Ray reader into a few traditional stone tablets. Hopefully whoever reads it in 1,000 years won't assume "Laser" is the name of our fertility goddess.
I just have been having trouble with Paul's software, and thought I was being moderated unintentionally. I forgot there's dang now. He seems kind of new to an "old timer" like me :)
This or git clone + open source is pretty critical. I want to recommend this to my company, but I can't rely on the longevity of a fresh-out-the-gate startup for storing crucial enterprise knowledge.
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I rarely down vote, but this is borderline classist. As in "screw the poor and disadvantaged, we should only support those who win, not those who can win."

I really like UT's 7% rule. You have to believe that ability is equally distributed, just not opportunity. But when you get the abled from the disadvantaged high schools, they need more tools to succeed. Frankly, I think the disadvantaged shouldn't be segregated, they should make the advantaged pair up with them for tutoring so both can learn something valuable. Maybe for those that already know how to learn, they shouldn't be graded on learning more but on learning how to help others. Now that would be an eye-opener.

Remember if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate (that's a chemistry joke).
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I found the GPG tools on Mac quite good as well.

But I thought I'd do things the "right" way. Use master/sub keys, linked identities, with masters kept offline... The friction was _immense_, especially managing the identities, mucking with the keyring files, then deleting the master key from the online keyring, and so on.

I still have my off-site db secure, but I don't look forward at all to opening it again. I don't want to remember the precise series of steps involved before everything worked correctly.

How can I solve this? I just want to manage a few identities (personal, as a citizen, work account, "stuff", etc.), some of them trusting each other.

Common sense makes me think I'm way over-complicating. But I was always told that any other way wouldn't really be secure. I though I would just be very pro-active with key revocation and that would eliminate most of the problem...
No, I'm making a judgement that he is inserting himself into the process to extract money, while providing no value, and making the world a worse place.

He is not enabling, he is disabling and profiteering, it's incredibly antisocial.
I really doubt that Adobe allows anyone to distribute older versions of Photoshop (the website has the 3.0 version).

I don't see the reason to promote this website, especially when open source equivalent exists and are often as good as their commercial equivalent(s).
I already have "The Magic Of Reality" by Richard Dawkins: http://www.amazon.de/exec/obidos/ASIN/1451675046/fractality-... .

I think the content would be what I am looking for, but unfortunately the artwork and layout is too overblown, making it hard to read. My kid is 3 - obviously the text would be too complicated anyway, but it would be nice to at least have some nice, clear pictures to talk about.

It has some good ideas, though - for example it shows a stack of photographs of our ancestors, one photograph for every ancestor, and talks about the height of that stack. Nice idea, but horrible graphics imo (artistically good graphics, but not so well suited as illustration).
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Hi,

I am working on a concept which should give caregivers and their relatives a new way to communicate with people with alzheimer's.

That should help with daily task but also improve the link between them.

I am looking for any feedback on this concept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdXpA4DbKtw&list=UUvSEKzH5y8whwPwxa7zcYtA&index=2
The hopeful message is that some people are working hard to change this situation, so that able yet disadvantaged students can break the cycle and get a higher education.
Xiaomi (Show (as in shower) me)

That's how Hugo Barra described it, but listening to the pronunciation of "Xiao", it doesn't sound exactly right - you lose the sound of the 'i'.

Happily, reading it as a Portuguese word sounds exactly like the Chinese seem to pronounce it.
Note that 12 kg is 26.5 pounds, so they are all somewhat related to each other but not exactly.

The number of significant digits on the Castille version is ridiculous compared to the others. Could it be that Castille still uses this unit and therefore have such a specific translation value?
I disagree about health insurance. I think that in the absence of health insurance, health care wouldn't work. Imagine getting in an accident, you're unconscious, you need emergency assistance. If the hospitals weren't reasonably sure you're insured and can pay for the services, they wouldn't be motivated to help you.

Most European countries offer health insurance, and total healthcare costs are much lower (compared to the GDP), so I don't think insurance is the problem (also, AFAIK most countries are bankrupt because of bad bank loans, falling GDP/taxes, and social payments (pensions), not health care costs).

The real problem is that doctors get paid when people are sick, so they are not incentivized to heal them, long-term (without regulation). If doctors were paid when the patients were healthy, you wouldn't have this problem. But I don't know how to implement that.
Tangentially related: Peter Norton didn't write Norton Commander. The original author was John Socha; the only thing NC has in common with Norton is the name and the Peter Norton Computing brand.

As to Midnight Commander: it works well enough for me. The lack of smoothness, such as function keys or ESC not working at all times, is mostly due to the quirks in Unix itself and is no fault of MC per se.
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renamed the account, made a new page, tried to publish:
Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 400 (Bad Request) http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_...
PATCH http://torchpad.com/workspace/wikis/cikplanner/pages/change_... 400 (Bad Request) workspace-ae3672136b7c324f491a92f2d662ce00.js:3
I came up with a mutation-based solution to this. Supply any string and it finds a valid hash in as few edits as possible.

Example: http://bochs.info/img/mutation-20140606-024906.png

One could definitely optimize this to be less destructive and produce more pronounceable results. It's basically two pieces: an engine for suggesting mutations, and a simple algorithm to score and pick mutations. Changes to either half (vowel distribution, ngrams, etc) could result in better strings.

(fyi, this kind of attack is a big reason to use cryptographic hashes: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cryptographic_hash_function)
What you describe is the definition of a natural monopoly. However, the monopoly comes from physical wires, not whatever flows over them. So, the infrastructure should be a public good (most infrastructure, really, not just wires, since it's more efficient and less wasteful to build a single network and keep it in excellent condition than to build multiple networks providing the same service at a lower quality), but whatever flows over it can be provided privately and competitively (also, each ISP would have to build it's own servers/routers, etc.)
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We need to set up a swap system that allows people to gift their friend place to other interested parties.

Do you accept BTC? paying in USD would he a pain for me.
I don't know, I'd much rather have a Moto E for $129 than that phone for $135. Looks seriously chunky and vanilla Android is far nicer.

Will give them a nod on the 720p display though.
There also was Volkov Commander and DOS Controller. The latter is notable for managing to pack all the essential functionality of NC into a self-contained single .COM executable weighing in at less than 50KB.
How does a client actually authenticate a packet coming from the AP versus something else? The only info is a preshared key so it doesn't seem possible to have any true security there.
It's one of my favourite conceptual things about steam - games will never again cease to be available. Not only will I never lose my 'disc', I can still tell people about it in 20 years time and expect it to be purchasable by them.
Developing for the Windows Store in C++ apparently sucks
Norton Desktop, an EGA monitor, and Windows 3.11 had some early magic.
One other thing I would mention - I've been in the situation before where I had to work hard to find a job via agents/adverts etc. One thing I found INVALUABLE was a CRM for tracking adverts I had responded to, agencies, etc etc. I then used this to make sure I followed up with everyone, remembered what I had applied for etc.

This gives a decent free tier of service, but there are others: http://capsulecrm.com/

One handy feature was I could cc: it on my emails to recruiters and it would keep a copy of the email under that contract.
I'm surprised more people are not calling you out on your elitism. How can you fail to grasp that people in disadvantaged situations don't get the support to succeed the way non-disadvantaged students do. Maybe she had a job in high school to help out her single mom and buy a smartphone to participate in her social circles. Kids in the better high school in the same town had brand new cars and phones and time to study and to party.

And you also seem to be saying these disadvantaged kids shouldn't be helped to reach their potential.
Nice work. I can see myself using this once you have https switched on.
Sometimes people need to open old files that are in proprietary formats, so a site like this could be helpful for people in that situation.
Northern UK here. "An' istoric" is very common in informal speech, even in the south but more so in these parts, but I wouldn't expect to see it written that way.
Yikes!

> Forney later commented, "I do not recall having seen more abject pain manifested in any other medical or surgical condition."
This is just a though but how cool would it be if after 20 years of copyright you would be required to pay a small fee that would grow exponentially and is required to be payed every 5 years.

If a corporation values its copyright that much their going to pay if it's not that valuable they won't bother to keep it.

That would certainly eliminate useless renewal.
> the kind of programs you write for the Arduino

There's the rub. I've seen Arduino's be turned into real development environments, with a keyboard and mini-display, and onboard editor for Assembly, to boot! So I don't think the Arduino is 'mini' in any way; maybe the demo's of Arduino you've seen are one thing, but actually the Arduino is a kick-ass machine. Some people treat them like an Atari. :)
I don't agree with the cultural issue - I've certainly been paid more than my manager before, and when I've been in a tech management position I've paid more than my own salary for good candidates. That's never been perceived as unusual.

I'd add a third point there though - better public services (e.g. no healthcare costs) means there's less demand on salaries.

Developer pay is certainly ramping up, especially for good cross-platform folk.
> in this case is best described by Eric Raymond's "Curse of the Gifted" [0]. She's smart, intuitive, and hadn't had any trouble in academia before. When things get really complicated in college, everything collapses, and it takes a lot of effort and support to get back on your feet.

Might as well just call it spoilt brat syndrome. They were never given any challenges and they never sought them out (intellectually anyway, it seems). Then a few obstacles comes along and they collapse, never having had to deal with such things before. Then woe is them for having been lulled into a false sense of security all their life, including their parents.

Grade inflation and overoptimistic parents are probably partly to blame for this. But I have a hard time feeling sorry for these spoilt brats. Oh, so you actually have to work in order to get an A, or even work for a measly B? Life truly is unjust for demanding anything from you.
Nobody said the copyright holders should be allowed to renew indefinitely.
Does this have to do with LTP? I feel like meditation and NMDA antagonists can sometimes mimic the function of a good nap for me.
I'm really surprised that's not the case. Contracting would be great for this sort of thing.
Nothing on the page right now ..
Seems up ..
Nice MVP. I like the idea of using git behind it, that is novel and makes 'owning' the data easy. Could be the killer feature.

Other comments:
- what is with the speckled grey textured background? Oy, are we back in 1997? Terrible!

- if I actually used this, I'd want to brand the page a bit to make it look how I want, I didn't see any template to edit.

- multiple owners and having users there is very cool, as is logging in via github. (and automatically claiming the subdomain off the github user)

Anyways, keep it up, I think there is demand for a reasonably priced wiki for sure.
and here I almost feel guilty for using DiskEdit to hack my game save files. Though I could sit and watch my disk defrag and would run maps just to see where everything was.