skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
VB.net isn't going anywhere. I just had two semesters of it, it's still taught in schools and it's still used. Although I would argue that C# is just better at least one of my teachers disagrees with me.
Cat's get far more blame than is really warranted. In order to get it from a cat, you need to first have the cat get infected by eating an infected mouse, then during a roughly two week period where it is shedding the parasite in its feces, you need to eat the cat's feces. If either your cat does not have access to mice to eat, or you don't eat your cat's feces, then you are fine.
Programmers seem to as a matter of principle be vehemently opposed to the notion of cost / benefit being at least as important as "technical correctness" or whatever you want to call it. If its cheap, sustainable, and satisfies user requirements, that should be enough, should it not?
Give me a product I believe in and a team that I respect and enjoy working with. After that everything else doesn't matter much to me. Because, with the right team and project it doesn't even feel like a job anymore.

When work starts feeling like work, that's when I start looking for a change. That's why I've always been drawn to start ups. It's usually a small group of talented and smart people looking to make a dent in the world.
Apple Pay a threat to Bitcoin?
The third person pronoun is definitely gendered (and different, as another commenter said). It is also gendered in the third person plural (ils / elles)

There is a neutral pronoun, but it mostly is used in the same way we'd use the first person plural in English. Or to express the same thing as the 'One' in 'One can ___'.

French also has an inflection on the verbs, nouns and adjectives that are grammatical gender markers.
"This is a major leap forward in the NSA's ability to exploit Facebook using FISA and FAA authorities" - NSA

"...by exploiting inherent weaknesses in Facebook's security model." - GCHQ

http://hbpub.vo.llnwd.net/o16/video/olmk/holt/greenwald/NoPl...

That's Facebook. The Yahoo and Google stuff has been very widely reported and are direct from Greenwald and the Snowden leaks. Other links (in particular the PKH link) contain other information.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/nsa-in...
No, but still a useful skill when communicating in English.
A massive strategic error on Microsoft's part. They're now stuck on the wrong side of what Joes Spolsky called I think fire and motion.

They still own the desktop, yet they ignore it.
Nice, I also came across a great collection of quotes from startup school collected on this blog: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup

PG: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/50-quotes-from-pau...

Sam Altman: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/47-quotes-from-sam...

Peter Thiel: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/32-quotes-from-pet...
I'm not sure as no system is 100% secure. It's only a matter of how high you want to set the bar, but this bar is very low imho.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8443427
It seems to be working now. For those who are on linux/chrome, use the 'user agent switcher' and change it to either IE9 or Firefox15, it will then switch it to flash player.
Microsoft has some of the most amazing products and many terrific engineers.

Unfortunately, it is also has some extremely negative associations, most of which have been earned and even, perhaps, proven.

* unfair and sometimes illegal business practices

* sabotage of innovative technologies when they conflict with Microsoft's monopolies

* eugenics

* empire

* surveillance state (Skype/NSA)
I'm surprised so many languages seem to have been forgotten.

In particular, there are two dots in Spain and one in France, which means that a few are missing (Occitan, Portuguese and Breton are missing).

EDIT: The map linked in the article refers to papers as source, so it's not '57% of all languages' but '57% of all languages for which such a study exists'
36, running my first company as CEO. First time not 100% tech focused. I only code dashboards.
My alma mater needs those. It's not cars, but the bikers on campus are downright vicious and will run you down if you happen to be in their way when crossing the street.

That town also had a problem downtown of people that would cross the street without looking, and glaring at people driving cars. Pretty much the people posting in this thread lol.
Is there something like this for Python, other than iPython notebooks?

edit: just found a couple if anyone is interested (https://github.com/AndreasHeger/CGATReport, http://mpastell.com/pweave/, https://github.com/stdbrouw/python-literate)
Anathem was really good, probably the last good book Stephenson's written. Reamde was awful.

Daniel Suarez is top of my list to replace Stephenson. His books aren't great literature, and not as great as Stephenson when he was at his best but they are good page turners for near future tech.

Daemon, Freedom, Kill Decision, Influx.

http://www.amazon.com/Influx-Daniel-Suarez-ebook/dp/B00DMCPO...
Distributing something under GPLv2 (or for that matter the BSD license) allows the licensee to make an unlimited number of copies. You can't comply with the GPLv2 without authorizing an unlimited number of copies. Licensing an unlimited number of copies while only paying for a patent license for one is just begging for a lawsuit by the patent holder, your customers, or both.

It also has the strong potential to make your partners and customers Displeased. It seems very strange to have such a strong desire to be able to do something which seems like such a bad idea.

And, all of the other people distributing the GPL software will be in the same boat, so the sensible thing to do in any event is to get together with them and buy or challenge the patent. Or modify the software so that it doesn't infringe.
I think we all are and that's the reason why we're here...
While lots of people mention the connection between cats and toxoplasmosis, it's actually more likely for you to get it from eating undercooked meat than from your cats. It comes out in their feces, and you would need to eat the feces to get infected; so while it can happen if you clean the litter box and don't wash your hands afterwards, it's not all that likely.

It is also carried by chickens and pigs, so if you eat undercooked pork or chicken, that could be a risk factor.
On rescanning the thread, you probably right about the first bit.

And we are definitely reacting to each others' notions of how bothered one ought to be by his behaviour.

'Broken moral compass' may be a little harsh but I think you are perhaps swayed too far by the display of resourcefulness and the 'virtualness' and triviality of the setting. I'd see it differently if he were a 14 year old kid, figuring out how the world works. But he's an adult (with a spouse and a mortgage) who more or less tried to extort the developers of the mmorpg into giving him a job. This seems like sufficient information to conclude that he has rather poor ethical judgement or at least, a great deal of ethical obliviousness.

It reminds me a bit of a part of 'Reflections on Trusting Trust' that is rarely cited or recalled - open it up when you have a chance and re-read the last three paragraphs of the last section 'Moral'.
Thanks for sharing this! Really appreciate.
(Feels like I'm in college and forgot to take notes during the class ;) )
contributions to the FOSS community are worth very little if strangled by licensing that will hinder their future free use.

I'd much rather have a slower adoption rate than a project that is botched legally (and irreparably) down the line.
> My second major concern is that I think spreadsheets and spreadsheet programming would benefit from stronger typing. You seem to not be addressing that? As as an example from your video are people's children not people too?

I'd be really interested in knowing the story there as well. If there's any documentation on the whys or why nots, or any videos/presentations, I'd be interested in seeing them.
Not always. Polish Sci-Fi writer Stanisław Lem wrote novel titled "Golem XIV", which describes quite the opposite: military AI turned philosopher.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golem_XIV
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The Amazon review by "A reader from Upper Volta, Uzbekistan" is priceless.
Why do I have to? Why does everything have to be spoon fed?

Some of the most valuable learning I have done has been through researching topics out of my own interest, sometimes spurred by and idea or a couple of words I came across somewhere. You learn very little by being spoon fed. I am not here to spoon feed anyone.

If someone wants to refute what I said, take the time to go ascertain whether or not my point is valid. Googling is pretty easy. Until you (plural you) have done that, don't spew off a bunch of irrelevant nonsense that makes you (plural) look like a fool.

The punch line here is very simple: If you ready my original comment, there's NOTHING whatsoever on there that is false. Yet it was attacked mercilessly and down-voted to hell and back. And so was nearly every single comment I had to make after that to defend myself and my position.

Shooting the messenger is a sport around here.

And then someone really smart came along and he/she decided to take a few moments to actually and see if I was full of shit or not. And a link was posted. And, guess what, it corroborated absolutely everything I said about the transition from 55 to 65.

Yet nobody apologizes and the barrage of down-votes and attacks continues because, well, the kids just don't want to be wrong. Well, fuck you all. Grow up and go learn something.

HN sucks at this.

It is ruled by what I perceive to be a petulant mob of post-adolescents who just got free from Mommy and Daddy and now have to be right all the time in the face of reality. And don't get me started about the manure-filled ideas they soaked-up in college and took to be true without any thought, consideration or validation with reality at all.

Important? Not really. HN is mostly a waste of time as a participant exactly because of this mob of post-diaper members who make discussing anything just about impossible. The sport is to find holes in your comments and savagely attack them with comments, down votes or both. It's a true mob of bully's.

I've been pretty busy lately and have mostly ignored HN for probably months (don't really have a clue how long). I've picked up reading an article here and there from a quick browse of the first page but no discussions of any substance in a while. Frankly, not sure why I got into this thread. I'm on vacation, that must be why. And I actually regret it. I hate dealing with ignorant, entitled, petulant 20-somethings. And that's what HN is full of.

I'll phase myself back into read-only mode. I'll let the morons own the castle.

Of course this comment will be met with the usual dosage of savage come-backs and down votes. Have fun kids, whatever floats your boat.
An iPad filled with apps weighs more than one with nothing installed
From my own perspective, I don't want to limit my career choices to the MSFT (enterprise) ghetto. At least with ASP.NET MVC you're at least using a paradigm that's common outside the enterprise-verse, and translates into being able to learn and pick up other stuff. As for web forms, unless you want to be limited to a niche, they don't seem that great for career advancement.
I agree, copyright and proper attribution will be a big deal here. Does the photo set change on any timely basis?
I know from personal experience how nasty raw PHP templating can be, in a sprawling codebase where no one ever considered that simply echoing variables that came from the database or from request variables might be a bad idea.

It makes even a simple framework more complicated but people use frameworks to not have to be bothered about that sort of thing.

You may want to take a look at this before proceeding: https://www.owasp.org/index.php/PHP_Security_Cheat_Sheet
>imagine you work for a big company and you can't use a lot great open source tools at your job

that's Big Company's fault. As an employee you'd take your complaint to them.

The license is not "deliberately crafted to scare and challenge IP lawyers", it's designed to avoid the shitty tactics that some tech companys' have been using the past few years to make their primary profits : mass IP buyups and subsequent lawsuits towards all of the other members of the industry.
I deploy a couple things via Nix package manger to non-NixOS systems, and I manage my own system configs, etc. within Nix. My "external configuration management system" is pared down to a small script that symlinks everything in a directory into another directory (such as /etc/init).

One thing missing from Nix is ability to store passwords and the like in the nix store, and from what I understand this applies to NixOS as well as using Nix outside NixOS. For example, every file in the nix store is world readable.

https://github.com/NixOS/nix/issues/8
Marketing isn't just advertising. The last chart illustrates the massive difference in marketing spend between Apple and Samsung.

http://www.asymco.com/2013/04/02/the-cost-of-selling-galaxie...
No NFL player would ever want to have an "alert in their helmet" if they're about to get hit. That sounds horrible and panic-inducing more than anything else. The NFL needs to follow other leagues, like the NHL, and simply ban dangerous hits to the head and blindsided hits altogether. There's a lot of resistance, but it's slowly making a difference.

Enforcing knee braces, putting weight limits for linemen and making an exception for marijuana will also never work IMO. Also, players have access to very strong pain killers via team doctors, they don't need marijuana for pain.
I am always amazed of the tenacity of factual information from past generations to survive. Even though Philip reigned in a historical age, the substrate which carried the stories to future generations has always been quite fragile. Writing is truly the most magical of our inventions, surpassing any others (until at least our AI descendant overlords arrive :) )
I could not have said it better.

As someone who is older and with a lot more life experience I am often not aligned with HN 20-something culture. I have experienced the flaming oil on my head and other atrocities of mob rule here.

Unlike you, I am not sure this will ever change. To this day I can post comments yet cannot start threads due to a ban from probably three or four years ago that I am absolutely convinced had to do with moderator's political views being opposite mine. I imaging a petulant "I'll show him. Click" event.

Mobs win online because cowards are able to self-identify as part of the "culture" and participate in isolation. They easily derive enjoyment out of, to use your wonderfully descriptive image, standing atop the castle. In real life these people would sit there and hardly participate in face to face conversations.

Anonymity empowers a certain type. I have not seen this kind of thing happen in, for example, LinkedIn, and, within my limited experience, Facebook. I have given full day seminars to groups of hundreds of people at a time in many parts of the world, maybe even a couple of thousand in one occasion. People are polite in person. People are different in person. People spew out less hatred and nonsense in person because they are always afraid of the consequences and they have something to lose. Not here. Not online. And definitely not on HN.
I cringed most of the way through Atlas Shrugged when I first read it. Having encountered more than my share of bureaucrats , inept big corporations and NGO's since, I can say she did have some valid points. The world is full of people who survive by sucking the blood out of the doers.

It is nuts putting it on a sci-fi list, its more a political screed.
Cats use the litterbox and then lick their paws, as well as the rest of their body. If you pet your cat and then absent-mindedly eat something (like I've done all too often, unfortunately), you may become infected.

Throwaway for obvious reasons, but this would actually explain a lot. Oh god...
Any chance you recall the name of the Lafferty story, or other details about it? He wrote ~200.
I've been learning to use org-babel to accomplish similar things recently - http://orgmode.org/worg/org-contrib/babel/languages/ob-doc-g...

My workflow is crude, but org-babel lets me capture the process of selecting elements from a raw dump of json to csv with a block of shell script (invoking jq), post-processing the output with a block of python and then passing the results into blocks of gnuplot to generate graphs. I believe org-babel has support for R among many other languages, so you can include snippets of nearly anything in your report generating pipeline. It is pretty nifty!
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Persona is also defunct:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364465

http://identity.mozilla.com/post/78873831485/transitioning-p...
that's how Apple works. They don't make mistakes, they remedy mistakes that others have caused--loudly--while hinting at someone else owning responsibility for the issue.

Sort of like the 'You're holding it wrong" response to iPhone reception back a few years ago.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/mobile/06/25/iphone.problems.re...
One of the other things that more finely-grained monitoring can do is to help let you know if/when your appliances might need service before they completely break. Like if the load in your refrigerator suddenly spikes because the compressor's going out, you can call a tech out to take a look at it before you come home to a house full of spoiled milk. Or for your air conditioner, you may want to schedule to get the ducts cleaned because there's a clog somewhere. There are quite a few little things that this sort of monitoring can help you with and save you money.
Just another reason that I'm glad I gave up watching football. The injuries took the enjoyment out of the game for me. I get nauseous when I see a hit that gives someone a concussion.

Maybe it's my own sports injuries that contribute to my difficulty watching the game now. Whenever someone's leg gets the wrong way I remember the feeling I felt when my arm got bent the wrong way.

The NFL feels like pro wrestling to me now. All the cheering the league does for the military and knowing that the league is a not for profit and doesn't pay taxes to support the troops makes me sick. The domestic violence and corresponding punishment over the last couple years also makes me sick. One day my entire commute home was sports talk guys reading off players that didn't get punished for strangling children, knocking out wives, etc. Then I open up the paper and it's football players rapes someone and doesn't get investigated. High school football players sexual torture freshmen. Ugh.
You let the cat outside, and changed its litter-box.
Maybe that will be helped by maintaining millions of records about feces, doctor's visits, prescriptions, OTC supplement/medicine use, diet, genetics, etc. Insert "big data" buzzwords.

Still, it leaves the question of whether it's actually possible, worth it and will be embraced by enough people to work. I'm skeptical.
It is difficult to build a product when you and the co-founder have not met in person ever. That said, how would I know given that I have never worked in such a situation? I am willing to give you the benefit of doubt that this works well for you and your product.

IMO, if getting into YC is a very important goal, you simply need to workaround this and do whatever it takes to get into YC. Which includes getting another founder probably.

If YC is just a nice to have, I would say just go on and build your awesome product. Re-apply next season (if they reject) and show then what you have already accomplished with a remote co-founder.
"The original Emacs did not have Lisp in it. The lower level language, the non-interpreted language — was PDP-10 Assembler. The interpreter we wrote in that actually wasn't written for Emacs, it was written for TECO. It was our text editor, and was an extremely ugly programming language, as ugly as could possibly be. The reason was that it wasn't designed to be a programming language, it was designed to be an editor and command language. There were commands like ‘5l’, meaning ‘move five lines’, or ‘i’ and then a string and then an ESC to insert that string. You would type a string that was a series of commands, which was called a command string. You would end it with ESC ESC, and it would get executed."

Funny this makes it sound like the emacs predecessor was closer to vim in editing style then modern emacs
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It shouldn't really. Your immune system evolved in an environment where it expected to be under constant barrage from foreign organisms, in the absence of those many modern people suffer from diseases of the immune system where it misbehaves because it doesn't have enough to do.

"Most infected cats will shed oocysts only once in their lifetimes, for a period of about one to two weeks."

Your question is best addressed to your physician. If you spend too much time reading about diseases, you'll spend all of your time needlessly worrying about them.
It's a compelling argument. Imminent danger allows cops to search and seize without a warrant and every cop can find a reason and won't be prosecuted for basically doing his job, right now. That's the status quo but nobody argues privacy in these case. And it would be grotesk, if cops only patrolled the streets while most crime happens insides without voluntary inclusion of law enforcement. Now they could come to your home instead at least to follow protocol and let you witness the search. On the other hand, data is much more like information than property, so it should be protected by the right to remain silent? Edit: And I say should without any moral connotation.
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I've dealt with IBS symptoms for 17 years. I would love to try one of these pills. Digestive maladies can really hamper a person's life. The digestive system is poorly understood, and there aren't a lot of effective treatment options for IBS & IBDs like Crohn's & Ulcerative Colitis. The treatments which are effective for IBD are often invasive or can have serious side effects.
It seems like we could refine the fecal matter further until we get down to the active ingredient(s). Penicillin is made from mold, but we don't get repulsed by that, since it's so processed and pure.
"Most infected cats will shed oocysts only once in their lifetimes, for a period of about one to two weeks."
I don't like the reasoning in the author's argument at all. He is begging the question: it is "bullshittery because it is bullshit." By assuming the command line as not an intellectually rich environment, he creates an intellectually impoverished and frustrating experience for his students.

The command line is far from that. It is an incredibly standardized environment, elegant compared with "black box" gui-driven cluttered all-in-one solutions (looking at you Stata) for programming or doing data science. It encourages code that "does one thing well" and which produces input/output streams in an unencumbered, plain text format.

These ideas may not be interesting for the development of new search algorithms, but they are incredibly interesting for the developing of a new search engine, for example, or a new word processor (as interfaces between human and machine). Using the command line well develops into the daily discipline of economy, simplicity, and common sense. If command line is bullshit, what does he think is not?
You're the one who purports to know the future - worrying about what you think Facebook might do with your data, instead of what they actually do with it.