skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Way back in the 90's my CRT monitor went out. Money was tight so I had to wait a couple of weeks before I could replace it. I went to a local computer repair shop (as in, actual repair, like replacing blown capacitors on mainboards and such) to see what I could get for cheap, as a stopgap. The guy had an old monochrome CRT he had repaired--the kind with green pixels--probably 6-7 years old at the time. He sold it to me for like 8 bucks. I figured I could at least use bitchx and links on it until I could get a new monitor. After a few hours in front of it, I started feeling really itchy, and the screen had enough static charge to raise the hairs on my forearm if I moved near it. Pretty sure it was shooting cancer directly into my face. Good times!
Good, maybe in future when Europe/US will host winter games they won't participate in "arms race" for most pompous ceremony. And maybe drop pseudo marathon altogether - either you can carry Olympic fire from Greece on foot, without using cars, planes and other interruptions or just don't do it at all.
> I do think it would be interesting to implement a Make -> Ninja compiler; the devil is in extracting all the correct dependencies.

See my other comments for a set of GNU Make scripts I've been using:

https://github.com/alandekok/boilermake

The craziest thing I did was realize that the rules were being evaluated recursively, and calling "info" (i.e. "print) was just as easy as calling "eval".

30 minutes later, I had:

$ make bsd.mak

It would spit out a 6000 line BSD-style Makefile. Just variable declarations (organized and commented!) along with rules.

It's probably not hard to change the framework to spit out ninja files. It's just text.

I'll go soak my head in cold water now.
There is something, I am not sure what, wrong with the 3278 font on Windows.
Notably, the maintainer who is by far the primary author, is an Apple employee.
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Yup. There were some laser enthusiasts that connected their projection systems to MAME and created Laser MAME.

Laser galvo speed is a big factor in making it work effectively but there have been some great demos, like John Knoll (from ILM) playing Atari Star Wars on a theatre screen:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W4REBVgm4Nc
Also, this "If you choose to use a Chrome web browser, an Android smartphone, or if you have recently used services like Google Search or YouTube, your web browser or device may be sending data back to Google that Ello can't control."

As if the whole world would stop googling and procrastinating on YouTube.
All the proposed changes will lead to 5 incompatible PHP versions, 20 stupid workaround hacks and it will break PHPs biggest feature: widespread implementation and compability.
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See response to sibling, shared resources isn't the same thing as "shared hosting". Pedantic I know, but an important distinction within the industry.

Also important to my point because on a DO server you can install python or ruby, it's only on shared or managed servers where picking PHP because it's ubiquitous is valid idea. Shared hosting is often limited to PHP, SaaS and VPS providers are not.
I wonder if the OS X version also has SecureTransport support?
For all sorts of reasons (political, financial) the Olympics should be held in the same location, and that location is Switzerland. Here is a great and heartbreaking editorial from former rower Charles Banks-Altekruse as to why:

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/01/opinion/01altekruse.html
> the Chelyabinsk meteor was a large ferric bolide

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chelyabinsk_meteorite

"Type: Ordinary chondrite LL5" (i.e. stony, not iron)
Reading a bit of history you usually notice how famous painters, and other artists, lived close to each other. The same is true of scientists, I am sure.
I got into a not necessarily unrecoverable but certainly not very nice state just moving things around a little.

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I guess it was hoping for too much that "Redundancies" was a game.
Hey Saluki! Thank you. I'm focused on Laravel right now; i do have some AngularJS experience but it was for a project and it wouldn't correctly work for me on some aspects so i dropped it and went with a Laravel setup which worked much easier than the JS experience. I appreciate the advice it means a lot. I'll surely start listening to that website you mentioned; I'll start learning Ruby as you've mentioned it. :-)

Thank you again!
For me, reading Paul Graham's writings has taken on something of the flavor of a Phillip Roth novel. I'm committing voyeurism, watching the inner life of the protagonist, PG, mature. There's an arc to the narrative.

Around the turn of the millennium, the brashness born of 1990's success transformed his writing from youthfully exuberant technical expertise [2] toward experienced practical advice [3]. In Before the Startup we meet up with PG again just as he walks back into the ring of the public light. His load has shifted, advice must be sage: consistent with the gestures of hands that have firmly held the tiger's tail twice. Yet, despite the years, PG's youthful earnestness remains intact.

Recently, because I've seen ViaWeb and HN trotted out as contemporary examples of successful uses of Lisp in business, I've wondered how much of Beating the Averages describes what really happened and how the older PG would ascribe the success of his first startup.

Was Lisp really the secret sauce? Would it have mattered if PG and Morris ground out updates in Perl? Will there be an immodest greybearded admission that, in hindsight, it really was the people?

Autobiography is not so much an author's way of gaming history, but rather gaming the business of history. And that, the gaming of "the business of x" is the central theme of Before the Startup. What Graham is arguing is that a person can't game their way into running a successful startup. He doesn't deny that a person can successfully game the business of startups...there are people who can sell Yelp for Dogs to investors sufficiently to purchase barker.com.

No longer YC's designated spokesmodel, PG is in the agora pitching eudaemonia, the not-as-seen-on-TV good life, to the youths of the valley. His life's example is not the celebrity brought about by business success. His advice is "stay earnest."

[1] yes.

[2] On Lisp

[3] Beating the Averages
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Works fine for me, is cheap, easily replaceable, comes in a variety of colours.
> Printing 30 mostly irrelevant slides for a handful of people for a meeting is not good use of paper.

If they are irrelevant, yes.

But then again, printouts have their place in presentations as well. I recall Edward Tufte advocating for using handouts - i.e. if your talk features things like graphs, diagrams and data, it's a good idea to collect them into a document that you would then print and distribute throughout the audience. People can then look at the graphs in high resolution and also take notes.

Inspired by this, the last time I did a lecture on fixed timestamps in videogames I took all graphs, diagrams and source code fragments, put them on a single A4 page and printed a copy for each of 60+ people present. From what I could tell afterwards, this was really useful - people could consult examples in their own pace and there were zero complaints about source being unreadable for people in back seats. So the next time I'll be doing a lecture, I'll likely design and print handouts too.

Of course all of this applies to educational presentations, not to marketing ones. There's no point to waste paper on the latter, they're all about invoking emotions anyway.
Writing PHP since 2001. It gets job done & pays bills. No complaints at all. A big thank you to all whoever made it available and improved.
I think you're underestimating the development costs for a commercial Javascript project which offers "huge, peerless, hard to imitate functionality, stable code base, rapid bug-fixing and preferably a paid team working on it.".
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I feel like C++11 was a sea change, but '14 is mostly cleanup and adding things they couldn't quite get into '11, and suspect this to be similar with '17 when it actually gets down to standardization work, not proposals. It would be nice if they start deprecating some of the older syntax.

It remains to be seen how well vendors keep up, but I think that's more a measure of interest than technical limitations. If the modernization of the language reinvigorates its use, they'll resource the compiler teams for it.
I think we have an internal project using that. We also encourage our clients to start new projects with more up to date frameworks like that one.
The circumstances are a bit different: Mr. Pelton is indeed a former U.S. NSA intelligence analyst, but he's in an American prison for selling U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union in the 1980s during the Cold War. The Wikipedia article says he'll be released in November 2015, which is surprising inasmuch as he was given three concurrent life sentences.
so these attacks are not real?
Yeah i've looked into erie and there wasn't much unless i had 3-5 yrs experience. I've actually been turning my depression into a way to help others; i do not want to take medication i was on it for some time but after awhile things wear off and the dosage goes higher... My step-dad (ex) is a doctor whom helps me out. Awesome you guys are hiring would love to maybe apply sometime in life. Thank you so much :)
Hello JSeymourATL i appreciate the suggestion however i'm a deep follower of Burns :) in my room i have some of his charts taped onto my wall to remember how to think clearly. Thank you so much! :)
One really nice thing about the level of C++11 and C++14 (and even C++1z) support in clang and libc++ is that it has let emscripten remain at the forefront of support as well. While emscripten's compiler is a bit older (clang 3.3-based), I just updated the libc++ that emscripten uses to a current version (as of 3 days ago).
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Received & Responded; thank you :)
There was a similar thing somewhere in Russia, I just can't find the link right now....when a scientist spilled some radioactive material, ran out, and then out of fear of prosecution came back to clean it up - died of radiation poisoning shortly after. Anyone remembers which accident was it?
Regardless of your pedantry, I was talking about when it makes sense to start doing something like OpenConnect.
Thank you for the suggestion :-)
2. Starting a new job is a great skill to learn and develop.

This. I can confirm that it's a skill, based on my recent job-hunting experience. Even relatively few hours of training and practice will set you apart from the vast majority of applicants.

Edit: And I can recommend Ramit Sethi's material, in particular. The guy does his experimental research.
I agree with this sentiment. I do print code single-side (easier to work with, especially when you want to see all pages at once), and then use the other side for notes and design later. I keep the old printouts as scratch paper.
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Some of the largest eCommerce sites are built on PHP (Magento). OO PHP is different than scripted PHP. I can write crappy code in Java as well, but that doesn't make it a bad language.
I think the reason the IOC has set themselves up this way is so that it would create a political incident if anyone tried to hinder them in any way. All the IOC wants to do is foster peace and goodwill between nations and help these poor kids realize their dreams! But the lousy [insert country here] are trying to shut us down!

The IOC thinks they're the UN, with diplomatic immunity and semi-royalty status. They wouldn't live up to scrutiny, but no one would challenge them anyway.
As an investor, you'd rather fund Apple, Google, or Facebook than Viaweb.
It's important to note that this paper was published over 25 years ago, the field of A.I. was smaller then. I've read this paper multiple times, and I don't think I ever got the sense that you would need to not sleep to do it all. They spend some time talking about how to determine which are the important things to do, which you can let slide (for instance, on page 3 they say "There’s a whole bunch of journals about AI, and you could spend all your time reading them. Fortunately, only a few are worth looking at." then go on to talk about which ones to look at).
chrisBob,

The convenience of renting for business needs is one of the many reasons why we wanted to start Livyy. We think it would be great for people like you.

The idea (or hope) for the Go Again button was for people to share the survey with someone near them. However, we've found a better solution for this. Thanks! Only one entry will count. :)

We aren't secret cat worshipers, we just liked cats over stars or thumbs. Too mainstream, you know?
celticninja,

Thanks a bunch for the feedback.

We consider business professionals, freelancers and college students our target market.

However, Livyy is very much a convenience based business. Essentially, anyone could find themselves utilizing our service depending on their situation.

As for costs, inventory (MacBooks) and software would represent the bulk of our initial expenses. Followed by a POS system and furnishings for the space. Operating costs would be minimal including the lease amount of our space, insurance, any subscription-based software and marketing.

There is the possibility of offering support via an Apple expert, it isn't concrete just yet.

As opposed to making it the responsibility of the customer, we will perform a reset upon the return of each MacBook.
Hey duiker101,

We can plan to perfection and there is always the possibility of something going wrong. No one plans to drop their MacBook, no one plans on it crashing, but these are things that can happen to anyone. What do you do? To our knowledge, there is no company that allows you to get your hands on a MacBook as fast and simply as Livyy would.
> ISPs already allow businesses to co-locate servers, netflix could have done the same. But it'd have to at least pay colocation fees + bandwidth fees.

You are ignoring the fact it is offering this to save the ISPs money and improve the quality of the service.

Its cheaper for the ISPs to put an openconnect box inside their network in the LA area than it is to pay for more networking equipment.
Again: don't confuse use of available options including gov't funding, with likely failure if gov't funding wasn't available.

The Steves were highly motivated; lack of government funding likely would not have stopped Apple from existing much as we know it now.

Just because a party was involved doesn't make 'em indispensable.
The 'Golden Section' is mystical bullshit.

A 1:1.618 ratio has some geometric properties that are useful in rare situations, but the idea that it is "aesthetically pleasing" is completely unfounded.

Explanation here: http://www.lhup.edu/~dsimanek/pseudo/fibonacc.htm
I bet amateur radio operators said the same thing when TV stations took some of their frequencies away.
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Yes, something straight from our logs:

6 2014-10-02 14:01:28.394: 141002 14:01:28.394 pid=16680 jid=157622 REDACT ERROR fatal error during work: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
7 2014-10-02 14:01:28.394: 141002 14:01:28.394 pid=16680 jid=157622 REDACT WARN Caught SocketError: getaddrinfo: Name or service not known
Interesting. Would you happen to know if there any downsides or upsides to either? To be completely honest, I looked at under which model HighCharts operates and did a similar thing.
There is a temptation to think that programming isn't that hard, that somehow we just need lighter shoes and we'll run a four minute mile. I look forward to a better spreadsheet, but I don't think it will revolutionize programming. Just tackling the spreadsheet though is a big enough, worthy enough, and valuable enough goal, I hope they succeed.

In the continuum of programming tasks, tasks best for spreadsheets are pretty far down the scale. But these tasks are very common and an improved tool could have a very big impact.

After grad school I did real time process control programming for semiconductor manufacturing. Complex machines, which couldn't be slowed down, were programmed in assembly language and had many simultaneously moving parts, all under the control of software. Programming, done in assembly language, was a mess. It was hard, very hard, we had to build all of our own tools, including the operating system that ran on the minicomputer running our software. The mechanical engineers were very talented and built amazing machines, but they thought that the understood the "hardware" so they should be the ones to write the software to run it. Of course, this didn't work out at all. It's easy to believe that programming shouldn't be that hard.

Computation can be intrinsically difficult in ways that new tools don't help. Consider a simple problem like suffling a deck of cards. Having a tool that makes a shuffle easy to code doesn't make it a fair or efficient shuffle. On the otherhand, most students of Computer Science would know the pitfalls of shuffling by the time they got through a couple of years of grad school. One can't expect that even intelligent people will understand that the a fair shuffle has to pick one of the exactly N! possible shuffles with uniform probability and that the following loop doesn't do it (for a number of reasons):

(* Randomly rearrange each card *)
for ctr := 1 to 52 do begin
random_number := random(51)+1;
tmp := card[random_number];
card[random_number] := card[ctr];
card[ctr] := tmp;
end;
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Do you have experienced C++ engineers relocated from other eastern European countries?
THIS. Stop trying to fix what's not (completely) broken.
I really appreciate this practice. It makes it much easier to get up to speed on something new.
Why would I rent a Macbook? Or who is the target market?

What makes renting a Macbook more attractive than renting a Windows, Linux, or Android device?

What kind of rates need to be charged to cover the downtime involved in shipping a Macbook across the US, the cost of the shipping, and the difficulties if it is not returned in working order?

How can a business shipping MacBooks from ATL compete in Los Angeles with a business located at LAX?

How many renters of MacBooks are currently in ATL today?

What problem does this solve and who has it?
That guy's wound a little too tightly.
> the last time I did a lecture on fixed timestamps in videogames I took all graphs, diagrams and source code fragments, put them on a single A4 page and printed a copy for each of 60+ people present

Not that you were looking for my approval, but this is 100% good use of paper in my books. Extra points for putting them nicely together in compact form, that all the relevant information can be seen with a single glimpse :)
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My Grandmother lost her sense of smell at 20 and lived to 85 - Yes, anecdotes are not data but for those concerned, don't sweat it too much.
While I appreciate the sentiment, carrying " Olympic fire from Greece on foot" would be challenging for the Olympics held on land masses non-contiguous with Greece.
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With the Atlassian Tools, there is Crucible which allows you to pull in revisions to be able to compare and diff files and post comments.
Sounds like you never played Red Faction. I love that game but watching people fly around the map, clip through walls and shoot 1000 rockets a second (much to the dismay of my graphics card) wasn't the most pleasant experience.
It's not about the class size, it's about the environment. Amphitheaters suck bad. A normal classroom is much better, and an online class is way better than an amphitheater.
I see what you are saying but "Android One" has already started their marketing so maybe that would seem awkward.
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Seems like every couple if months there is a post justifying a future for php.yet,it seems to do just fine.

It isn't the sexiest language, but a lot of people are making a decent living working with it.
Hi, this sounds really interesting to me but I don't have any financial experience (5 years core Java, 1 year scala - mainly big data companies). Will this be a problem? Thanks, C
seems so

https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/26frm0/am_i_the_only...
> Extra points for putting them nicely together in compact form, that all the relevant information can be seen with a single glimpse :)

Yup. Usability + the fact that I really do hate waste.
I think you may be attributing to me some things which I don't recall having written.
I'm not saying he doesn't deserve to be banned and what not. I'm saying it is stupid and pathetic that he is despised to the core more than a pedophile strangling kittens would be on that site.
"IOC members will be received with a smile on arrival at hotel"

I thought this just descriptive, but (allowing for translation) it's the IOC's own words:

http://whitelines.com/news/norway-withdraws-bid-2022-winter-...
That seems likely to be true if the approach is to build separate features to achieve all of those goals. Looking at the research papers they've cited in this thread, however, I don't think that's where this is heading -- I'd say it looks more like Excel (which is already the current [figuratively, not specifically quantitatively] 80% solution for the first second and third items, and explicitly the thing addressed by the first) built on a better foundation that unites the existing strengths of the dataflow paradigm implicit in spreadsheets with a strong theoretical basis that unites it with relational + temporal data in a way which also greatly reduces the need to escape out to alternative programming models (e.g., in existing Excel, VBA etc.)

Its still a challenge -- getting the UI right especially -- but its not particularly hard to see from the cited research how a tool built on that foundation that could do what they are saying, with the only specialization to the separate goals being UI affordances rather than separate basic functionality.
I think the biggest issue is big cities have most of this infrastructure in place this basically acts as an excuse to do city wide renovations.

The problem is when it's dumped into smaller countries and into small cities where everything is built for no reason.

Expanding a highway or improving subway systems in a major city like London or New York is shit the city governments fight over getting done.

A small city building rail connections and expanding highways, building swathes of luxury condos, etc is destined to collapse the economy. When they have to sell off condos in the Olympic village for $0.10 on the dollar you have a cascade effect down the property market. Why by an ordinary condo when I can get this luxury one no ones buying because everyone who could is now buying in the Olympic village. Why buy a small house on the edge of town when I can buy a nice condo downtown that would've been double my price.

The Olympics are an international event. I don't get why it can't be held internationally. Why do we need soccer in the same country as track and field? Do we have people doing high dive also doing shotput? Is it on a scale we should even care about if we prevent one Olympian?

It would be more manageable, at less risk of failure and would actually benefit the cities its in by not overwhelming the infrastructure.