skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Magnetrons are rated for thousands of hours of operating time, and the degradation is gradual. Unless you use your microwave oven to the exclusion of all other heating sources, a 40 year old oven should still be doing alright if it was well built to begin with. It's only industrial uses that have to worry, and even so the amortized cost is tiny. (I've seen an estimate of $1/hour for a 100kW industrial heating magnetron with a rating of 8000 hours, which is quite a bit smaller than the operating cost.)
I'd probably add Scala, too.

Syntactically it's a bit different, but from a modularity POV it is much closer to ML than Swift, Rust or Hack.
I agree with others that your site's main mistake is to impose a "register wall" to discourage engagement. The fix is for you to "show, don't tell" visitors what your site does.

But, even if you just want to use registrations to gauge interest, a lot of your content is unclear or just strange. Some examples:

* "Get Notifications" - Of what? You never say.

* "The cleanest way to browse movies" - Is browsing movies dirty? Or, are you saying your users browse dirty movies?

* "Never miss a movie again!" - How do you miss a movie and how does the site prevent that?

* "Your girl or kid wants..." - Flippant, gender- and age-biased language that dismissively "shelves" your family's tastes

* Why are numerical ratings or "silly averges" (typo) less useful than your site's binary good/bad ratings? No matter where you put the good/bad cut-off, you will either include borderline movies as "good" or bury almost-good movies in the "bad" category.
There's nothing at all dumb about this question! And the answer is most definitely "yes."

As a shareholder you should have an understanding of how many shares are authorized (i.e., how many units of measure the company has been divided in to) and how many of those shares are issued (i.e., how many units of measure have been given out and are no longer up for grabs).

The reason it's done this way and not via simple percentage (which I agree is WAY easier to understand) is a matter of practicality; as new shareholders come on board it would be prohibitively difficult to go back to all existing shareholders and modify their percentage.
I wonder if we'll see more 'resurrections' of good ideas that were acquired and killed simply due to bad business rather than bad ideas. Is there a list of companies/ideas somewhere that went down the acquisition path only to be killed ?
From Java7, I thought both Oracle jdk and OpenJDK were almost the same. Does Oracle still offer an edge over performance?
The value of static typing is more and more apparent. Recently I've played with ocaml and F# and it felt great compared to Java or C++.
> Modularity is something which Haskell people simply do not take seriously

Plus, the build/module/packaging/dependency resolution story, even when doing all the recommended best practices involving sandboxing Cabal and leveraging Nix are just plain embarrassing.

There are so many smart Haskell people. I don't understand how any of them could consider this clusterf*ck to be remotely acceptable.
TL;DR: Cisco's solution to binary plugins in Firefox is a "binary module" downloaded from Cisco.

Snippets from the text:

"One big barrier remains: users can’t collaborate directly from their web browser without downloading cumbersome plugins" ... one of the major stumbling blocks in adoption of this technology is a common codec for real-time video ... Cisco ... providing ... a binary module that can be downloaded ... today’s latest release of Firefox, which will automatically download and use Cisco’s OpenH264 binary module ... The topic of a standardized codec will once again be addressed by the IETF in its November meeting. It is our hope that announcements like the one today will ... pave the way for a decision."

A decision that requires an open source web browser to download a binary module from a third party?

Another option would be to use the free and open source video codec that's already in every WebRTC-enabled browser, without any binary modules.
> Trying to do any sort of open-source development without a library sandbox, in any language, is madness.

Really?

Even Java people have been perfectly fine without it. Sandboxing is just a hack around Cabal/GHC not having any workable version support.
I wasn't a particularly great soccer player in middle school and highschool (some players on the club team ended up playing D3 soccer at small colleges), but the academies really didn't exist in America 20 years ago when I started playing as a kid.

Things are much different now many of the clubs in MLS, NASL, and USL have their own academies where the players are coached by professional coaches or pro players at starting very young ages. One local example is: http://www.capitalarearailhawks.com/

The model is much different, though. Generally the goal with most of these academies is to make a college team.
I'm not sure if you have any invites left, but if you do, here is a link to the support page that has directions on sharing an invite:

https://support.google.com/inbox/answer/6067582?p=invite_req...

Once you get Inbox, you'll have invites to send to your friends. Here's how to send an invite:

1. Open Inbox.
2. In the bottom right, go to the Create button .
3. Choose Invite to Inbox .

If you could do that for me, I would be grateful! (banderon1 "at" gmail "dot" com)
Aren't Java and C++ statically-typed as well?
History of USAF X-Plane Program
> That's true, but the market prices that kind of risk, and the market cares a lot about substitutes, and the typical developer taking basis points for their participation is eminently replaceable by other developers.

If all you're hiring with your first employees are replaceable people, you're doing it wrong and will probably fail. Those people not only have to work long hours, they have to work them well. It's like the APM curve at the beginning of a RTS. You never make up those time and behind-ness just piles up.
Not sure if this is advertising for the film or an actual discovery.
I don't disagree with the tone of your post at all, but I had one comment:

I'm not sure the series 7 is a good representation of the industry. Unless muni bonds excite you, that exam is questionable in value except in the areas where they stress suitability of investments for clients. (I like that the exam focuses on clients a lot; I think it actually helps with developing a customer-centric mindset.)
I've met more than a few women who majored in computer science and were then diversity-hired into corporate positions involving programming, with no skills or aptitude for it beyond sophomore-level class projects. They tend to get shuffled around to less technical positions eventually.
Yes please! I don't need more features right now. Remove all the stuff that's useless 99% of the time. Like, do I really need to have the "password generator" option available at all times in the menu? Why does it take like 1 search and 3 clicks for me to look up a password? Why is the android app so clunky? Why do you tell me over and over and over again I have duplicate passwords? I KNOW! I'm sure there's more.

Lastpass is an excellent tool. The back end seems rock solid, but my god the UX is terrible. The latest update made it look better, but kind of made the UX worse.
Any semi-serious guitarist knows vacuum tubes are alive and well.
He explained: the difference between minor league baseball and NCAA football is the fanbase and tradition the schools bring. A putative Ann Arbor Wolves minor league football team would not have a stadium that dwarfs all NFL stadia.
The MTU is specified in the SAP protocol. Which is even more strange; a mixed binary and ASCII system, rife with the IETFs poorly conceived SHOULD and MAY clauses, which serve no purpose other than to cause interop issues. Anyways, perhaps networks in 1999 didn't know how to handle IP fragmentation. SIP made the MTU issue worse, requiring switching to TCP on-the-fly when a message exceeded their arbitrary MTU. I'm saying perhaps these considerations are why SDP has such strange choices in formatting.

In context of WebRTP, SDP provides no benefits. Might as well used a JSON representation of the media negotiation, requiring no additional parser. Things are already ambiguous and poorly handled when using SDP in the real world. I think it must be something about "simple" permissive protocols that encourage implementation issues.
Use ML to change how the world conducts business – Mattermark is hiring
I can write around 4000 characters / 7000 words according to Skritter and am pretty OK reading a newspaper. 10,000 characters is much more than you need.
Hacking Celery task in Python-Flask
C++ and Java are statically typed. If you're referring to dynamic polymorphism, then yes, it can be a pain in the ass.
Don't forget Pinterest, already in my biased opinion a better search/discovery engine than Google for a growing number of categories.
There are far too many of them to be intentional
There is actually a python module that does something like that. It goes to the extreme to keep the program running no matter the error you make, arithmetic error are replaced with random results, missing functions skipped, exceptions silently swallowed etc etc. It is obviously a joke but they could benefit greatly from this feature ;)
When I was at NCSU a college soccer player was on the roster in my "Learn Proofs for Math Majors" (MA225) course. He and a tutored showed up intermittently to the class. After some measurable time after the drop date he stopped showing up. I've always wondered if they let him drop it really late after the drop date or something shady was going on. Probably a late drop since it was soccer and not Football/Basketball. =)
There are some very interesting stories in the history of vacuum tubes. One is the 416A planar triode for the Bell Labs TD-2 microwave relay network: http://long-lines.net/tech-equip/index.html (I like especially the story of the terrorist attack on the microwave relay station by the "American Republican Army")

Another is John Pierce on Klystrons and TWTs:
http://www.smecc.org/john_r__pierce____electron_tubes.htm
You won't get bored at Google because you can spend ten years doing rigid tooled maintenance work on finished products?

That's not a very convincing argument.
I love articles like this. They display long-term focus and a patient, multi-disciplined investigation into how to complete a project (in this case, some light mechanical engineering, materials science, and machine technology). I've been planning out a project and will need to make some large-ish 3D parts out of a translucent plastic (part of a larger audiovisual installation), and until now I'd been uncertain about how to proceed. I'm shedding tears of joy reading through this brave soul's explorations into DIY resin casting.

Something that struck me about this article -- and something which I see regularly around CNC hobbyists -- is the unfamiliarity with basic machining calculations, a problem that usually results in chipped parts and broken tools. I didn't even know about machining fundamentals like chipload/chip per tooth (CPT), inches per minute (IPM), and correct RPMs for different materials until fairly recently. Additionally, "climb" versus "conventional" milling refers to how the bearings are loaded -- you almost always want "conventional" unless you're on a nice CNC machine. Why isn't there more information crossover into the hobbyist world?

Anyways, kudos to the OP for throwing this out there, and thank you Zalewski; I'll be methodically absorbing pretty much everything linked to in this essay. :-)
That would be hideously bad
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

This page (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...) doesn't exist though interestingly enough
Ruby has a linters, but this sort of problem is hard to solve with a linter in a dynamically typed language. It's even harder in a Rails environment since Rails adds many methods to your classes at run time.
Sure, eventually you get an equilibrium. Because nobody else wants to be a landlord you can charge so much that it's worth the aggravation. I wonder how many of these new units would be needed if people were more willing to rent out unoccupied units.

The problem isn't as acute for big companies. If you have 1000 renters you have a staff to deal with problem tenants. You have lawyers on retainer. You expect some number of tenants won't be paying rent at a given time, so you charge everyone else enough that you still make money.

The people who get screwed are the duplex and fourplex owners who wanted to use rental income to supplement their retirement.
Really, downvoting? Care to explain?

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1689647?hl=en

https://support.google.com/a/answer/1638152?hl=en
IRS Pub 526 on Charitable Contributions, Page 2:

Not Deductible As Charitable Contributions:
Cost of raffle, bingo, or lottery tickets
Dues, fees, or bills paid to ...
Tuition
Value of your time or services
*Value of blood given to a blood bank*

It's amazing how many details the IRS pubs cover. I like your proposal though.
There are plenty of people willing to take that bet at odds (this evening) of 2.8:1 . The buy-in price (right now, after-hours) is $545.
Sounds like you'll make out ok, but feel it could've worked out better...

After proving your value as an early engineering hire, what about approaching the Founders to re-up the equity on a regular basis? Awesome first quarter 2012? Company revenue up 100x? Profit through the roof? Ok... how about that equity re-up? :-)

Nothing should restrict irreplaceable engineers or engineers who just create tons of $$$ value from getting increased equity post-hire. I'm sure there are some great techniques for this, and this can definitely become a norm in our industry. (My friends on Wall Street have this down to an art form...) As companies grow out, individual engineer performance is usually under-appreciated so there is less leverage.

I'm surprised you didn't walk away with co-founder (10%+) level equity. You built nearly everything... all the hard/nasty bits like supporting multiple api versions across diff platforms and also building/maintaining new features that drove new customer adoption. From an engineering perspective it was pretty awesome to see the value creation, so it's a bummer to hear that after sticking it out you won't get rewarded for that early value creation.

Definitely think it'd be appropriate to show up one day after acquisition and ask for a rather large boat. Or 2. :-)
Rice is one of the few foods that's particularly bad to leave out at room temperature due to B. Cereus causing Fried Rice Syndrome: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bacillus_cereus
> There are no semi pro football teams.

Yes, there are.

True, they aren't a good way to get into the NFL, because the NFL prefer to recruit from college teams.

But the question then shouldn't be "why are college athletes expected to meet the academic sstandards that go with being in college" but "why do major professional sports teams in certain sports prefer to recruit from colleges rather than lesser professional leagues in the same sport"?
What reason do we have to believe anything an NSA Official says?
Did Windows Mobile help Microsoft capitalize on the Mobile revolution? A too early product doesn't always help you capture the value of coming wave.
Anyone know how much Upcoming was originally acquired for?
clickable: http://www.voodooalerts.com/is-my-site-broken
I use Rubymine, which visually indicates when a variable is unused or doesn't exist.

It has tons of other features that save you time and hassle.
> So what will happen when you misspell ActiveSupprt's Hash#with_indifferent_access?

Turned down the too-obvious ironic opportunity and went for somewhere else in the sentence.
That is just beyond ridiculous. A small room you can't even sleep in (mentions excessive noise SEVERAL times) for almost $40,000/yr pre-tax all-in. Why people move there is beyond me...
The same thing can be achieved, in a maybe nicer way, with http://www.words4chrome.com/, a Chrome extension that does public comments in any page ans has already a lot of users.
Time and time again, after being frustrated with Lastpass's UX i think of how much nicer 1Password looks. I really miss that app. It's hard for me to suggest LastPass to people who aren't comfortable. I've heard people from 1Password talk about there design work. On those days of frustration, I wonder if LastPass a real UX team.
This article doesn't have anything to do with Australia except that it is aggregated on an Australian tech news site. Is there something that I'm missing?
... until you start trying to make your app testable.

(I say this as a developer of primarily statically typed languages.)
Totally - I know plenty of Chinese people with equally busy lives who learn exceptional English because they have no choice. they often experience awful teachers, poor learning methods, and still manage it. I don't want to spit on Marks achievement, but I'd love a bit of realism - we should expect this standard, not wet our pants because one ridiculously rich guy can say "I like big fast trains" :)
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Fingerprints Are Usernames, Not Passwords (2013)
Wow what a story!i was an avid upcoming user in London back in 2007 and inspired my own startup back then.. Insane to learn now it was a side project! The first refusal idea should be part of a startup code or guidelines that all adhere to..
I've been pairing with ruby / rails developers since 2010 and coming from statically typed languages, it's unbelievable how much time gets spent playing "guess the method name". Even in rich IDEs like RubyMine, the utter lack of context in any given file in rails leaves programmers typing their best guess of a method name, running the tests, rinse, repeat.

This solution, while creative and laudable, solves a problem that shouldn't exist. It should either be solved by IDE/tooling in a dynamically typed language or by the compiler in a statically typed language. Stop guessing and let your tools do the hard work of remembering method names for you.
I would very much like to see whatever sources you have for a "public domain software movement" that predates the Free Software movement. I have looked through books, interviews and online searches back when I tried to improve the wikipedia article on the subject. What I could find was basically RMS statements and bill gates.

As such, in the early days people did not think software was copyrightable, or patentable for that matter. It wasn't really until 1980 when United States Congress added the definition of "computer program" to 17 U.S.C. § 101 and amended 17 U.S.C. § 117 to allow the owner of the program to make another copy or adaptation for use on a computer.

This is the exact same year RMS has his problem with the proprietary laser printer, and 3 years before GNU was started as a result. While it is theoretical possible that a "public domain software movement" around that time, I have not seen any evidence that such movement was created. Before 1980, copyright status of software was such a greyzone of legal theory that I seriously doubt a movement was created in contrast to proprietary software that did not exist.
If you're listing topology as "less meaningful", I'm guessing you haven't spent much time studying topics in physics that have been developed since the 1970s or so. Topology turns out to be a pretty big deal.
Why so soon? It doesn't give people much time to read, think, ponder.
> Distributed systems? You'll learn more about them at Google than anywhere else. They were first with solutions to distributed consensus and they'll likely be first with whatever new need develops simply because their scale will ensure that they hit problems before almost anyone else.

What percentage of Googler's actually built that (certainly impressive) system, vs just use it? If you go work at some other company, is that knowledge of how to use Google's tech going to be portable, or are they going to want someone with a couple years experience using Storm/Spark/whatever?
I find the 'Peak <x>' meme somewhat tired but the point that everyone guns for the monopoly and is a valid one. I've noted over the years that Google's CPC has been falling steadily, and the amount they have been spending on paid distribution has been growing even faster. But mostly that means that they are no longer the 'new thing' and now are the 'old thing' where 'stream advertising' is the 'new thing' now. And while they really pushed hard on making G+ their stream I don't think it has been as successful as they would have liked.

I've also noticed that search hasn't been about finding every web page for a long time now, now it is a service that is part of some app or other environment, and it isn't unique. The article's point about Amazon doing more product searches, I can believe it based on experience that nearly always a search on Google gives an amazon link that I seem to invariably click on, if only to read the reviews. So why not search on Amazon first?

In my opinion, it is only a matter of time before Google tries to monetize the non-commerce queries. Once the RPMs on Bing, Yahoo, and Google Ad feeds are all about the same the underlying crawling and indexing search infrastructure will become a drag on profits. That will be an interesting time for me.
Context sensitive auto-complete is a godsend.
I would also like to mention FreeCad - an open source parametric 3d modeler.

http://www.freecadweb.org/

Cubify Design, although not open source, is one of the cheaper 3d cad tools which also supports parametric modeling.

http://cubify.com/Products/Design
> On the other hand, Mandarin grammar is pretty simple. No conjugations, no genders, just slightly different word order from what you're used to

That's interesting to me as this week I stumbled into Afrikaans, which likewise lacks genders and conjugations and only apepars to have two tenses ( present and perfect ).

Which makes me wonder why other languages have evolved to such levels of complexity, since it seems entirely possible to conduct the affairs of a state without have a distinction between 'I eat' and 'he eats'.
Did 'K&R' mean anything to you?
Well, TWTs are just one member of a family of vacuum tubes that can do things solid state devices can't. There are also IOTs, klystrons, and BWOs, and their cousins from the gyrotron side of the family. There's a lot of territory for solid-state devices to conquer before vacuum tubes are obsolete, and solid-state devices can't even operate in most of those regions, let alone outperform vacuum tubes.
I am afraid you got (1) backward. If google search fell off the face of earth, bing will more than enough compensate it. However if facebook disappeared it'll be a lot more work establishing all the friend connections and migrating the entire network and content off to a different one. And no myspace did not even come close to the scale and depth of facebook.
For those who are interested, I'm pretty sure this is what you're referring to https://github.com/ajalt/fuckitpy. It's worth looking into for the documentation alone.
Growth Manager at Unbabel here. Yep, it's pretty straightforward. Just a couple tags and a few minutes to wait for our translator community to pick up the text and you're good to go. Customer satisfaction for translated tickets is consistent with satisfaction for tickets where two native speakers are communicating. Pretty cool stuff, imo. But I'm biased ;)