skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The reason the quality of arguments at HN is relatively high, is primarily the software behind the HN scores system.

This observation drastically undervalues the fact that this is a business space and part of the business model for Y Combinator, so for some people, participation here is significant to their career and potentially worth millions of dollars. It cuts way back on the assholery. Plus, since it is part of a business model, the forum owners work pretty hard on the social piece. There is, no doubt, still room for improvement but my experience has been that forums that are part of a business model are generally dramatically better than those run for free by idealists who frequently get really crabby about being underappreciated, the forum turning into too much work, etc.
"The biggest thing, the thing that bothered me the most is I felt like my intelligence was greatly devalued,” she wrote. ”I am a smart woman. I have a master’s from Berkeley in philosophy. My brain is very abstract, though, the exact opposite of so many men in tech who have very concrete/literal brains."

Hmmm...
I agree on (3) that such a community should mostly be restricted to things not thought of over breakfast. If it comes in the form of a submitted link to a blog post, on the other hand, that should be fair game even if the blog post author just "thought of it over breakfast."
I run Win7 + VS2013 development environments in VMWare Fusion on my 17" MBP (4 core 2.4GHz i7, 16GB RAM and SSD). Running two at the same time is just a bit too slow for comfort, but one runs perfectly fine.

A good SSD is a big improvement, especially when compiling.
Thanks. I'm actually working on a programming game, light-bot style. I don't have any specific math idea right now, but I'd love to make another one.
The money quote, for me:

Sodomy, he argued, was not just harmless but evidently pleasurable to its participants. The mere fact that the custom was abhorrent to the majority of the community no more justified the persecution of sodomites than it did the killing of Jews, heretics, smokers, or people who ate oysters – "to destroy a man there should certainly be some better reason than mere dislike to his Taste, let that dislike be ever so strong".

It's a shame that Jeremy Bentham's name is nowadays more associated with Lost than the utilitarianism he pioneered. An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation is a good intro to his general line of thinking: http://oll.libertyfund.org/titles/278
> So the difficulty is that the brain has to translate spelling into sounds first, which is a great barrier to overcome.

It doesn't look like it's meant to be used to copy written text, but to take notes that have already been spoken, which is exactly the opposite to what you're describing - When I speak and you take notes, you essentially turn sounds into spelling.
Bog standard printing at your local store.

Seems it is easier and cheaper nowadays to buy a printer than replace an ink cartridge. Looking at £50 a time. I just don't print enough to warrant it.

None of the supermarkets / high street stores do bog standard A4 printing for a few pence.

I've found a print shop that will do it, at a cost, but the quality is far too good for simple stuff, hence the price.

My 'right this moment' problem.
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I was referring to sending a crate to HK, and then having everything trans-shipped from there because shipping from HK appears to be far cheaper than Japan (which I believe has the highest postage rates in the world). There should be no duties as they're goods-in-transit.
There's also a python 2.7 backport of asyncio that works perfectly fine for me.

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/trollius
I believe they announced this integration at Google I/O. When you get an office document as an attachment, you no longer have to download it or import it into Docs. You would be able to open, edit, and save it in the same office format right from Docs/Sheets/Slides.
Really? Lectures given a mere 30 years ago are now irrelevant? You make me feel old.
By "sex-negative," do you mean "negative about gender" or "negative about sexuality" or even "negative about the act of intercourse?"

I can't begin to generalize about my technology peers because they are such a diverse group and because intercourse, sexuality and gender don't affect our professional interactions. From my perspective, it's just that these things are not relevant to the part of our lives that intersect, not that we're negative about them.
Technically, it wouldn't be SimCity. I am just wondering if a decision tree could be incorporated into a simulation style game like SimCity (or some other Sim) and, if so, how would that look, code-wise? (for example)
> In one surviving letter to a friend, he joked that his rereading of the Bible had finally revealed that the sin for which God had punished the inhabitants of Sodom and Gomorrah was not in fact buggery, but the taking of snuff. He and his secretary had consequently taken a solemn oath to hide their snuff-pouches and nevermore to indulge "that anti-Christian and really unnatural practice" in front of one another. Meanwhile, they were now both happily free to enjoy "the liberty of taking in the churchyard or in the market place, or in any more or less public or retired spot with Man, Woman or Beast, the amusement till now supposed to be so unrighteous, but now discovered to be a matter of indifference".

This got a snicker from me. I guess sex jokes really do never get old.
Linked to from "How Emoji Get Lost In Translation" (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/06/27/emoji-meaning_n_553...)
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It’s like an insurance policy. You are not expected to crash your car every month, but you nevertheless have to pay the prime and it covers up to a certain amount. And if you don’t crash. you can’t carry the amount to the next month.
Chimps like listening to music with a different beat
Well its Wikipedia. What do you expect. And as for me, it's purely an anecdote. I think it depends on where you are and who you know.

Citation needed.
There wasn't a 1.5, so you're probably thinking 1.1 or 2.0. As far as I know it's been pretty good with backwards compatibility though. I used to do a lot of.net coding, and the only time I've seen compatibility issues upgrading was with beta versions (and even then, I only saw a small handful).
I'd just like to say thanks for your blog, I find the approach you take very appealing and I especially like the primers.
New site is responsive for mobile, so you should be seeing the new version!

This new release allows for custom chart types, using the same core API, so hopefully we'll see some community led new chart type extensions soon!
Excel gives non-programmers a Swiss Army Knife for dealing with numbers and/or lists. It's not as math as Mathmatica or Mathcad, it's not as databasey as SQL but for most people it's more than enough. It's enough for most people most of the time.

Need to build a massive batch script to delete a load of specific files? You can use Excel and "concatenate" to build your batch file.

Need to make a contacts list for your grandma, with clickable hyperlinks for Skype? Excel has you covered.

Need to work out the expected electricity bill from the meter reading and the tariff listed on the website, then work out how much each person in the household should contribute? Excel will do just fine.

Stock list? Piece of piss.

You can even make a pie chart that looks like Pacman.

While it's often not the best tool for the job, it's often the most flexible tool that's easy to use that will get the job done. I've just taught an 86-year-old lady how to use spreadsheets, covering basic formulas, advanced filtering and searching etc. It's intuitive and provides a good return for the learning curve.
> The ability of the human body to express truth through the sexual union of married couples is acclaimed. The moral wrongness of using artificial means to manipulate such a significant aspect of the created body is explained.

Please take a moment to reflect how much damage this type of thinking has done in the world.

This book isn't just useless and misguided, it's positively evil.
How to Create a Cloud Strategy That Fails Big
This should include a "did they leave their users in the rain" column, ala http://ourincrediblejourney.tumblr.com/
By posting on a forum, I'm looking for unbiased advice from people who have actually used a company's services, not a sales pitch. If it resulted in being stalked by people trying to sell me something, I'd find it to be creepy and invasive.
I'd advise against Pitmans, unless you plan to take it very seriously. Pitmans is one of the more complicated forms of shorthand, and relies on differentiating between hard and gentle lines.

I found Teeline, for instance, much easier to get going with.
The interesting thing is that I value data about me higher than what Facebook's (and other) advertisers are willing to pay. But my will to keep that data out of their hands is just considered an externality by them.

The sad thing IMHO is that the onus is on me, to try to be anonymous.
Can you share some numbers?
e.g. approximate unique visitors and revenues per month per page.
I think it is beautifully written but perhaps it deserves a trigger warning and NSFW warning. The subject matter is a woman's rape and, basically, how she psychologically prepared herself to face her assailant in court -- not once, but twice (the first trial resulted in a hung jury). I apologize for not thinking to do that yesterday when I posted it. I am still figuring out how to do this posting-articles-on-HN thing.
#28, Justin.tv, needs an addendum:

Most of the team(including Justin himself) now is working on Twitch.tv, a games streaming platform that is doing extremely well and is under rumor to be bought by Google for $1b, though that deal might have gone away considering it was leaked extremely early.
Concurrency is the New Memory Management
The HTML5 appcache is the New Bootloader
I agree it's not a good system, but the argument is not nearly the slam-dunk you seem to think it is. You can re-cast socialism in similarly distasteful terms: you have no choice but to participate in the system whether or not you agree with the rules. That can result in a substantial minority of people being forced to participate in a system with which they vehemently disagree. Under a libertarian regime, in order to get left out in the cold you have to have alienated everyone -- including those people who think no one deserves to get left out in the cold. And if you manage to alienate them, the argument goes, you probably deserve to get left out in the cold.
Probably because of your types clients, in bigger companies windows can be used heavily.
They were irrelevant even 30 years ago. Unfortunately their impact isn't.
"Sodom's real crime was _____" is considerably less funny when you realize a rape gang surrounded Lot's house in the Biblical story. That's not the sort of thing I'm inclined to brush off with a joke.
It is semi-monthly. Though I think monthly would be sufficient. It might be something to poll the customer base about (Moar candy or moar frequency?)

Hopefully with volume, better manufacturer/distributor relationships, maybe lower-cost fulfillment offshore and changing of shipping method/frequency, they can lower the price or increase the quantities.

One positive for this entrepreneur is that people already associate "Japan" with "expensive", so the sticker shock isn't really unexpected.
"...the exact opposite of so many men in tech..."

Sounds like a sexist generalism to me. Maybe she should meet more of us. And while we're flirting with anecdote, perhaps I can take samples from within the population of my little town out in the sticks and demonstrate the same lack of abstract thinking in the women here.
For Spotify, there is also Artem Gordinsky's fabulous Spotifree:

https://github.com/ArtemGordinsky/SpotiFree

http://spotifree.gordinskiy.com/

DISCLAIMER: This has nothing to do with command-line anything, it's just a useful project I discovered and wanted to share.
Ignorance is the only reason I can think of.

I recall reading that reddit originally didn't hash them because Steve Huffman liked having his password emailed to him when he forgot, but I'm having trouble finding a source for that. It was one of his own comments on reddit I believe.
China sends dissidents on free holidays
There's also an extra DNS request on each page
A similarly cold calculation I recently did was to compare my lifetime productivity to the aggregate value of all my blood products. As a regular plasma donor, it wasn't until age 27 that my total labor output had finally surpassed my use as spare parts, and that was because of a relatively high salary.

That calculation doesn't yet include the expected value of my harvested organs should I die, and while it's harder to put a price on organs than blood (which is sold to hospitals) it's reasonable to presume they're extremely expensive.

Morbid as it is, this perhaps shouldn't be too surprising in a world where there are individuals earning 1000 times as much as others. If it were possible to directly trade lifespan, a 1000x earner could double his lifespan by shaving 1% off 100 people, compensate them with 2x their lifetime earnings, and still have 800 times as much as the typical person left over.
Being outdated is about content, not publication date.
Thanks for the update. No doubt I didn't give a full bio for every company. I'll add the first bit.
> If you make the same request twice, the horn should honk twice.

Exactly. That means this request is not idempotent, so PUT shouldn't be used. Of GET, PUT, POST and DELETE, only POST is not supposed to be idempotent, so it would be the preferred method to use for this request.
So you're saying you want this incredibly long post to be even longer? :)
With all the international travel and global trade of this day and age, it amazes me how difficult it is to get a decent espresso in the US, even in major cities.

Beer OTOH has been completely revolutionised in recent years.
reliance on debuggers is a wierd strange concept. Debuggers are utterly incapable in multithreaded environments. Just write damn unit tests and simulations!
So the only argument remaining, is IE?
Url changed from http://mashable.com/2014/06/26/recycle-smartphone-startup-de... because the current article seems a little more substantive.
I wonder how long did the author was using .NET since "bad" points were very weak.

Also, it seems that author isn't really interested in what's happening and what MS already done to improve .NET. Like integrating Git with MS, async, open-sourcing C# source code, moving away from IIS to OWIN, K runtime, SqlDb as file.

And also, if you don't like that Visual Studio is heavy you are free to use Vim with custom run parameters that will compile your code. However part of why C# is so good actually is Visual Studio.

As for "Windows devs are typically only good at Windows and get lost very quickly outside of their comfort zones". This is just plain wrong. It depends on person. You are not your IDE, you are not your programming language, you are not your OS.
It's a visualization of different data though, counting the number of users making a change each day.

I see what you are saying about being more interested in a visualization that tried to account for some regional variances (and it's a fair point about Mercator distorting things), but I guess the thing people are taking issue with is the statement that it would be better, when it would probably be different enough to not even invite comparison.

(What I mean with that last bit is that "here's the nodes" maps simply and directly back to the database, whereas any normalization is going to involve picking some basis for the normalization and figuring out how to apply that basis and so on.)
and assets for which no pricing model yet exists: Ms Morone is still figuring out how to price “services” she currently gives away for free, such as compassion.

I honest to god am trying to figure out real answers to questions along those lines. I think it is a big part of why women make less than men: Everyone values our emotional intelligence but then expects us to give it away free, out of the goodness of our hearts, like mom's modeled after "The Giving Tree."
Yeah it's a ridiculous meme.
I would agree with that. A feature we're working on adding is conversation tracking, which would let you monitor conversations even after you've posted your "copy-paste" business pitch. That way, you can continue the conversation more than a flat advertisement would. Also, I would imagine most large companies would have social media employees that intricately manage the company's online presence. This would add to their arsenal.
Ask HN: are you working on a commercial project with no sales ever?
Curious to know how many people are working on projects that intended to make money but have never made a single dollar.
I guess they could try to Coase it out, but I have a feeling people would not like that either. :)

"Dear Mr Bjelkeman-Pettersson, we have accumulated a quite interesting collection of data about you. It sure would be a shame if this information would leak to any irresponsible third parties. However, for a small annual fee we are willing to implement a stringent privacy policy..."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7958723
Interactive mode for tooltips. That's great news, very excited about that!
If you ever have kids, you might be glad to be able to take a day off to care for a sick kid or take them to the doctor.

If you ever catch a nasty case of the flu or are in a car accident, you could easily be out for more than a couple of days. Being healthy isn't a guarantee that something bad won't happen to you.

Sick days are also designed to protect employees who are not sick by keeping sick people out of the office where they could infect others. To make this effective, the company needs to provide enough sick days to cover the illness of an average person, not just the healthiest person. So you're actually benefiting from other employees having more sick days than you yourself could use. (There also needs to be a corporate culture where people are not discouraged from using sick days because there's "too much work to do".)
I'm turning a side-side-project into one (which itself was part of a side-project turned commercial project). Oldest project (SP) has seen money, current SSP has not, but it's nearing launch.
Haskell Is Useless – Simon Peyton Jones (2011)
They were from the leader of one of the largest religions of the world–which still represents roughly 17% of the world population. I'd say they are still relevant and part of what Numberwang refers to as a "modern view of the world".

BTW, I'm not saying I agree with the content of those lectures. Only that dismissing them because you think the modern world doesn't hold those views is silly. And, yes, I'm aware that more recent pontiffs have expressed different views.
Recent Charles Stross novel, Neptune's Brood, had a similar concept: you are born/created with 'instantiation debt' which you spend the first years of your life working to pay off.
Zarel as in the guy who makes the pokemon online battle simulator? I love your project!
If your server is using a software renderer like llvmpipe because you don't want to install some offloading GPU hardware, you are losing money - you will rapidly pay more in electricity on wasted core cycles and scaling issues because of huge load doing 100x slower software rendering than buying budget GPUs to do the work.
The lambda approach is slower because a function call always has some overhead. In lower-level C-like languages the overhead is usually lighter than in interpreted languages such as Python. In this case, reduce will have to call the lambda everytime, which is a few more instructions for the processor and some checking by the interpreter. Then the lambda will compute the sum, and then return to the caller. It's not a lot of time, but it's certainly faster than knowing what you need to do at the call site.

As srean pointed out, however, it's not all black and white like I described. He raises some good points like what the Python interpreter does when it needs to look up the type of the variable, etc etc.

I come across those kinds of "it's obvious" things all the time, too, especially in the world of more functional and powerful languages. When people write Ruby or Lisp (I'm learning them ATM) some solutions are simply obvious to them, when I would've done the complete opposite. I got used to this and simply accepted that these will become obvious to me one day, when I grok the concepts. And when I really don't understand something that is "obvious", I ask, and people are very happy to explain it to me. I've never once encountered a condescending reaction. So no need to get upset because of it. We're all used to doing different things and different things are obvious to us. Doesn't mean that anyone is arrogant or something, it's simply that people usually look at the world through their own eyes :)
gnumeric is excellent. ive seen far to many people trying to use a spreadsheet like a general document processor. just use a spreadsheet for what it's good at doing: operating on columns (or rows) of numbers!
Opening keyboard on tap in ionic framework
Your argument only works when you have large lazy incumbents that the patent system created in the first place. In a world without laws that say you own ideas, these large lazy incumbents don't exist.
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.NET has always had a relatively easy asynchronous model. The async/await keywords made it a whole lot easier but BeginXXX/EndXXX were not that bad, although if you are truly IO bound burning a few extra CPU cycles is not that important.
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"Why do we develop this way?"

I think that's the central question in this post. And for me, "because you have to in .NET" is not the answer.

I have no problems not using TFS, not creating database-centric applications, not using ReSharper.
This study really makes me feel vindicated for unfollowing all of my friends along with every brand on facebook. I could've been part of the study but I'd never know, since the only way I see my friends' posts is to visit their pages directly where I can see them all unfiltered. I've been doing this for the past six months and it has dramatically improved the way I interact with the site. I can still get party invites and keep in touch with people, but I'm immune to the groupthink.
It wasn't that software rendering was "fast enough", it was that we didn't have hardware acceleration, so game developers had to use what they could get away with.

There is a reason than every console since the PS1 has a rendering coprocessor. And why all your phones have them, and why every CPU vendor is shipping APUs now.

Yea, you could make a significantly better looking software rendered quake today with 10x the triangles and texture resolution. But that game would still run 1000x faster on a GPU priced the same as the cpu doing the software rendering.
> If Python 3 is so wonderful, why are the Python 3 developers still using Python 2 in their toolchain? It's because it would reportedly take 1 man year to port Mercurial to Python 3.

Why would that have anything to do with it? We didn't write it and don't have any input into Mercurial, and it works fine for what it's used for right now. It's a source control tool, not a library we use in any way.

If we did the subversion switch today, it'd be to git, which again has nothing to do with Python versions (obviously).