skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It will be interesting to see how this works out, and how many resources are put behind it. If it does allow developers to choose to work on Linux/Mac for .NET development, it will put a lot of pressure on Windows to create a great product.
Python Implementations of Word Sense Disambiguation (WSD) Technologies
Speculation: these SSD dimms will require more power and more cooling than the ordinary dimms.
I am afraid sir, that comparing the system take over to the 'forms of an octopus' is most unfair to our dear Cephalopod friends.

I encourage you all to please use the more appropriate comparison : Cthulhu / Cthulhud

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Cthulhu%27d
Hey, I'm from Ankara, Turkey also, and went through same stuff more or less. For me, improving myself constantly and building things from start to fininh, even the smallest ones, helped me immensely to overcome the difficulties that you mentioned.

There are only a few things in the world that can compare with the excitement and fulfilment of building products, and watching people use it to improve their themselves, to have fun, to learn.

Send me an email if you want to talk over some tea.(adress in profile), We have some exciting things coming up for tech scene in Ankara!
Microsoft's .NET on GitHub
Try this:
http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/visual-studio-com...
This seems nearly tautological to me. Without knowing how to make a vastly superior product, and without knowing how to tell whether a product is vastly superior before testing it in the crucible of the market, this conveys no information.
"we need to be able to retrain people without demanding four years of full-time education and massive student loans."

The destruction of the middle class is a different, although related, issue and note that its always downward class migration not upward. Very few lower class jobs require a degree, so no need for schooling when the jobs go away and the former employees permanently class migrate downward. A more realistic life skill would be learning how to be happy "making coffee" than getting a degree for a job that doesn't exist and never will again.

Cultural engineering to convince people that you're more than your job, or that you should work to live instead of live to work, will eliminate more revolutionary strife than any drone or spy program.
Must be watched with this on repeat: https://soundcloud.com/fauzkhan/hanszimmerinterstellardayone...
I'm not so sure, I kind of feel like this is them following Embrace Extend Extinguish, except they realized they moved to step 3 too soon so they're going back to step 2 or 1. I do not have faith that they won't try step 3 again later.
Miguel de Icaza's post:

http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html
It's funny how Nadella has moved the needle more for developers in 9 months than Ballmer did in the last decade or so, and all that without running around like a madman too. Pretty good. I'll never switch back to MS for what they've done in the past but it is nice to see them try hard to become a nicer player in the software eco-system.

Google and Apple need some other party to keep them sharp, it might as well be MS.
According to Scott Hanselman they are also open sourcing their new RyuJIT and even the GC. Incredible!

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/AnnouncingNET2015NETasOpenSour...

or

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http://...
"There is really no market for someone that is kinda smart, but lacks the follow-through / ability to execute"

This.
Must be watched while listening to this on repeat: https://soundcloud.com/fauzkhan/hanszimmerinterstellardayone...
TypeScript 1.3 announced
Somewhat of an aside, but:

If you're a self-directed learner passionate about a subject nothing about a classroom holds you back. [1] It sets a minimum pace for acquiring new information, it sets a minimum domain of concepts and to some degree it will influence the order of the first few concepts you'll have to tackle, if you concede to only tackle the subject when the class begins.

I'm endlessly bemused by the repeated assertions of self-identified "passionate", "self-directed" learners that an organized class is some sort of jail cell from which their (self-identified) considerable curiosity and talents cannot break free.

If you are actually passionate, if you are actually self-directed, it may put a crimp in your process for about a week or two until you're so far ahead of the syllabus that keeping up with the topics as-covered in class is no more an obstacle than setting your learning aside to cook or do laundry.

Sure, it can still be an annoying distraction. But it's not a particularly notable one. It's certainly not a pen or a leash.

[1] Slower learners can certainly be harmed by classroom schedules. But one would expect the self-directed and passionate ones would have recognized their predicament long before they entered college and thus realized they need to tackle subjects before they sign up for credit-hours.
I doubt the idea (at this point) is to "RUN" Visual Studio on iPad/Android...

My money is on the App Creation naively in VS 2015 - via Xamarin or similar plugins - instead of having to rely on tools like Eclipse or IdeaU.

I think I'd lose my mind if I could develop apps in Visual Studio and C# instead of having to use Java and pay $1000/year for Xamarin.
Landed!!! Awesome :-)
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Landed !
OmniSharp – Cross platform .NET development
To be fair thats pretty much exactly what xamarin have done for ios, android and mac.
I would be in disbelief 5 years ago. Its a new microsoft
"For all other usage scenarios: In non-enterprise organizations, up to 5 users can use Visual Studio Community. In enterprise organizations (meaning those with >250 PCs or > $1MM in annual revenue), no use is permitted beyond the open source, academic research, and classroom learning environment scenarios described above."
Microsoft Appeals to Developers, Developers, Developers – Linux.com
First of all, this is one of those where differences within categories are much greater than those between categories. I'd rather work at a principled Python shop than a sloppy Scala shop. If you use nulls and go overboard with inheritance, Scala becomes unmaintainable as well. I've never seen sloppy Haskell, but quality of people matters more than the language itself and that's probably largely because the Haskell community is small and elite.

That said, for me, it's about flow. (The IDE flamewar gets into the same territory. I just don't like the flow-breaker that is having to use the mouse, when coding.) Writing unit tests can be a flow-breaker. On the other hand, ripping through source code to chase down a NullPointerException (or similar error, like a "List.head []") is annoying at best and extremely disruptive when the error/failure distance is high, as it often can be in dynamic languages. I find, on average, that development is more flowful in statically-typed languages, and even if the development top speed is slower, I think that's made up by the low frequency of flow breakage.

That said, Java's version of "static typing" is abysmal and, in a typical corporate shop, you're never going to get into flow in the first place so it doesn't much matter.
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This is such a bitter sweet announcement for me! I had just made up my mind to stop language hopping and settle/focus on Python and Go for backend development. But now C#, my first love, has come back to whisper sweet nothings in my ear!

Still this is great news and kudos to Microsoft for taking this bold step in the right direction.
Microsoft Corporation and its affiliates (“Microsoft”) promise not to assert any .NET Patents against you for making, using, selling, offering for sale, importing, or distributing Covered Code, as part of either a .NET Runtime or as part of any application designed to run on a .NET Runtime.

If you file, maintain, or voluntarily participate in any claim in a lawsuit alleging direct or contributory patent infringement by any Covered Code, or inducement of patent infringement by any Covered Code, then your rights under this promise will automatically terminate.

This promise is not an assurance that (i) any .NET Patents are valid or enforceable, or (ii) Covered Code does not infringe patents or other intellectual property rights of any third party. No rights except those expressly stated in this promise are granted, waived, or received by Microsoft, whether by implication, exhaustion, estoppel, or otherwise. This is a personal promise directly from Microsoft to you, and you agree as a condition of benefiting from it that no Microsoft rights are received from suppliers, distributors, or otherwise from any other person in connection with this promise.

From https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/PATENTS.TXT
Microsoft makes a patent promise:
https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/PATENTS.TXT
Still great news, even without a port of VS to OSX or linux.
Personally I'm perfectly fine with using a windows PC as my development station, as long as I can create cross platform .NET code.

Extensions enabled on the community edition is great news for people who can integrate awesome tools like resharper
Nope but Microsoft is making it work on other platforms. From the opening line:

> and expanding .NET to run on the Linux and Mac OS platforms.

http://news.microsoft.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-ope...
I do wonder what this means for the mono project
Nice theory... but they went the opposite direction with Nokia.

I don't think they'd have any issue purchasing Xamarin and importing/re-branding.
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The init system is not vulnerable. The local dns caching daemon that you can optionally install and that shares the name and maybe some code with the init system is vulnerable.

It's like saying "package dnsmasq.deb is vulnerable, so sysv-init.deb is now vulnerable, they share an extension"
Touchdown! My new address: 67P
Last I looked FreeBSD used rc.conf but it's years ago.

I don't see FreeBSD's init trying to absorb most of the userland system utilities.

Whether or not it is in one repository isn't really the issue at hand here. It is that a bunch of desktop related stuff is worming its way into the systems to the point where you'll be running a whole slew of new, buggy and sloppy code on your servers if you're not very careful just so that the systemd folks get to scratch their NIH itches.
We call it picking up pennies off a train track.
And in some fields (like computer science) they don't even do the typesetting - the authors themselves do that with Latex.
They make a really nice product, and they managed to succeed as a new company in an old and hidebound industry. Further, it's an industry that most of us spend a lot of money on, that often dissatisfies us, and Tesla is making a good attempt to fight some of the core areas of dissatisfaction. This makes it really interesting to a lot of people, rationally.
One can only hope jetbrains will offer a cheaper personal license for Resharper now that it can be used on the community edition as well
*When it compiles to CMOV intructions.
Reasons not to do a startup:

- you don't have a product idea or technical mastery of any area

- you're an introvert and don't have a social network

- you don't have money

So I would recommend that you get a job anywhere you can and gain some experience and contacts that way. Or switch your area of study to something you're passionate about. BTW it's normal to try out a lot of technologies at a shallow level, most people only gain mastery while someone else is paying them to do it.
From Hanselman's post:

"ASP.NET 5 will include a web server for Mac and Linux called kestrel built on libuv."
Keeping It Simple and Making It Pretty with Munkee
Relevant to your comment:

"I guess this is only written for other San Franciscans? I couldn't make much sense of it and got bored pretty fast."
Too little, too late. At the end of the day, you're still being forced to pay a company to use their shitty software. Once you lose developers, you lose the race.
Philae has landed
Live coverage here http://news.yahoo.com/video/abc-news-plus-special-report-220000361.html

Thanks @brianpgordon - Check out this gif of the orbital maneuvers required for Rosetta to reach its destination: https://i.imgur.com/TUkKuhf.gif

Live twitter feed of ESA https://twitter.com/esaoperations

It looks like @Philae2014 made a fairly gentle touch down on #67P based on amount of landing gear damping #CometLanding
Somehow reminds me of the Microsoft/Novell agreement, will wait to see how it turns out...
Bandcamp to help musicians launch their own subscription services
IamA Registered Child Sex Offender, AMA
Yep, and check out System.Console for some horrors in the mono runtime.
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Now, with a patent promise amd a MIT license, any chance that android could build on .Net going forward?

That would take more than a few non public meetings betweenn G and MS I guess but possibly better than having to tiptoe around Oracle in the long run?
iRedMail is pretty nice for helping you get a mail server set up easily with sane defaults: http://www.iredmail.org/features.html
This cache link gives me a 404 :( and the actual link is not working as well.
Ah got it, the IDE is the benchmark or litmus test of the cross platform compatibility.
Honestly, you seem like you would be better of getting a job in tech right now. Start your company in a few years when you have more experience within the industry. Try & get a junior dev job. Learn HTML, CSS & JS if you don't know these already. Put together a portfolio of your projects (doesn't have to be actual client work, you can just build small things). Make sure you have a Github profile you can share.

Have you considered Berlin? There is a strong startup community there & it's much cheaper than England.
I recently stopped going to college (a few months ago). I've been thinking about the decision for around two years now and it was the best decision I've ever made. I have never been as productive and generally happy as I have after leaving classes.

What I agree most with the article is that college is not the correct decision for those who already know what they want to do or have a specific goal in mind. Attending classes for me felt like a waste of time simply because they did not push me towards my goal. It felt like I was lying to myself every day by going to class just to let society know that "I am going to college, I am doing the right thing". Once I completely (and I mean 1000%) stop giving a s#!t about what anyone else thought or said (including my family), I found myself to be happier, more confident, more motivated, more everything.

Now, everyone still tries to convince me that I should go back. That I never know what the future holds. Honestly, most of my friends who go their degree have jobs that require little of what they actually learned. Not only are they getting paid borderline a minimum wage but they are being routined to death. I'd say 80% are not happy in their day to day which is crazy. I really feel like if things were to get bad, I am perfectly employable without a degree. My projects and experience have taught me 1000x more than I ever learned in a classroom. Actually, I can say that 90%+ of what I know is through my own reading, my own project, my own initiative, my own everything.

My conclusion on the whole debate of college is that if you know what you want, go out there and get it. Just like there is a cost opportunity of not going to college, there is also cost opportunity to GOING. Think about it deeply and do as your intuition dictates.

Notes:

- I was majoring in business (marketing). I believe, at least in my case, this and many of the liberal arts majors are best learned by doing. If you really have a passion for it, grab some books and practice it. Whatever it may be. As for other studies like medicine, biology etc (the sciences) I've seen it is best to go and study it. My brother is doing medicine and I really don't see how it would be possible for him to not go to college and be able to do brain surgery.

- I love this phrase from the article and to me it is an issue I feel strongly about. Times have changed, we should too.

"The idea of college education is deeply ingrained in our culture. People seem to go down the college route almost impulsively and the correctness of this path is, for most, unquestionable."

People who have accepted the fact that I dropped out, that see why the decision for me was correct, that are proud of the work and value I am producing, will still try to convince me to go back. I don't blame anyone for this, I think we were all brought up since babies to believe that college is the way to go. I just feel we need to question this belief a lot more.
- Great article!
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It will improve because of proper support for dot net in IOS and Android. They will evolve but I think they are well positioned.
Also relevant, an article from earlier this year: http://www.bibbase.org/network/publication/poss-altmeyer-tho...
> the same executable, same as Java

I couldn't care less about binary compatibility. As a developer, I'd rather have 100% (or 99.99%) source code compatibility. I don't mind setting up different downloads or running different builds, as long as I can do it from a single codebase that doesn't have thousands of #ifdef WINDOWS equivalents.
I can't say I have ever heard of a male conference or affirmative action ever being suggested to solve the gender distribution in the therapists profession. No one is creating male-only therapists schools. No feminist politician is dedicating budgets in order to fix it.

Yes, people do think its a problem, but the efforts to counter that problem is not even close as with women in technical fields. It easier to just put the blame on men, claiming that they do not want to do those jobs.
At the moment .NET is making great inroads into all mobile platforms (mainly due to Xamarin's iOS and Android platforms).
The one area where Microsoft needs to push more i son the server side: to be able to develop ASP.NET apps and push them to Linux servers. You can do it now but not as smooth and stable as it should be.
When this happens, then the circle is complete: you can write both client and server code in C#/F# from within Visual Studio.

Quite a powerful combo at that point!
Oops, I wasted my 20s learning to juggle, kayak, climb, mountain bike, travelling, speaking Spanish. Drinking and having fun. It was probably worth it!

I'm planning to waste my late 30s having fun with my wife and child. I program and learn when I can!
Nokia is a totally different case, so doesn't invalidate his theory.

Nokia sells to consumers, so there wasn't the problem (as his theory suggests) of corporate clients not wanting to have business with MS.

Not saying that his theory is correct, just that it's different case to Nokia.
I was describing how we as a culture live, not necessarily how I live.

Nor how I live, so where is this mythical "culture" we're all so beholden to? Culture is just the actions and beliefs of a group of people. Historically humans have tended to be pleasant with people in their own group and remarkably unpleasant to "others". Usually this is because they don't understand anyone outside their own group, because they've never explicitly tried to understand them.

So yes, reaching out to others, learning from them, preventing the next world war, preventing the next oppression of a group because they are seen as somehow different from those in power, yes, that is a Good Thing.
Microsoft Open Sources .NET and Mono
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Philae landing confirmed—receiving data—"harpoon fired and rewound".
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I've run a bunch of side projects in the past and I always had problems with people signing up with fake email accounts for what ever reason. Then you send them a welcome email, it bounces, this happens many times and you find yourself with a bad reputation or low sender score.

I built this quick app last weekend and I've started using it for one of my projects. There are other services like this but I need it to be cheap, really cheap.

Appreciate any feedback on this or interest to try it out in production.
I think it depends on how in demand the jobs are. Where I'm at, having no education section on my resume is no barrier. In my late 40s now, moving to a lower-demand state in a few years. Will see if you're right.

A buddy of mine in Chicago who has been working on getting his degree for decades. It does seem more important there.
Philae has landed
I like the concept, I've just never had the patience to go through the entire on-boarding procedure for any of them.
Experience matters much more than degree in the web dev/ops field. The tricky issue with foregoing college is you have to get experience first, and without experience you likely won't get a corporate position. Networking, open source activity, volunteering, freelancing, and personal projects can help to get that first foot in the door. A year of real experience is more important than 4 years of college, imho.

With the right networking and projects in the high school years, you can have a position waiting on you and then have 4 years experience under your belt before you'd have graduated college. For some people, this will make more sense (and cents) than the college route.

There's a lot of people with college degrees waiting tables, but very few people with software or operations experience have a hard time finding work, regardless of their college education status.
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Microsoft's focus on this release is the server.

Mono plans on contributing to the effort our cross platform changes to Mono, to make .NET work great on Unix.

Details here:
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html
Touchdown: https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/532565327721545728
Problems:

1. Solved problem. Contribute to something else.

2. Its another tentacle hanging off systemd. Some of us pay for our software (RHEL) so we'd in turn like to have some say in what we have to manage rather than prescriptive software development. We don't really get to choose to not use it because of the incestuous nature of the Linux ecosystem at the moment (I.e. Freedesktop/gnome/systemd).

3. Systemd is a buggy piece of crap. As are several of the "stable" bits of systemd I have encountered in RHEL7. I have quite a bit of experience with systemd and i really don't want it consuming any more things badly. Its been a complete pain in the arse to be honest. An init system has never been a problem until now. Its totally unreliable and incredibly difficult to debug.

4. Some of us get shit done, not use the ecosystem as a playground for egos and quote frankly incompetent twattery. This stuff can go on in the sidelines and mature independently, not knotted into the next "stable" drop because everything has suddenly been tangled with it.

Its a complete fuck up at all levels and I haven't even started on the technical marvels of introducing something with the complexity of COM into a process model that requires reliability.

This is not how to do software.
Apparently the .NET runtime and Mono will merge:

https://twitter.com/shanselman/status/532558786486370304
What's the current state of the Node ecosystem? I've heard a lot lately about some possible fork occurring, some issues with Joyent/Strongloop's involvement, npm being a full startup now (which is kinda horrifying), and a bunch of other stuff that seems to end up as FUD.

What the hell is actually going on?

EDIT:

Also, in the README the links to agendas and minutes seem to be broken. :(
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