skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It depends... I know that most of what I learn in cooledge is "worthless" - but the paper itself holds some value.

I got an AA in CIS and immediately took the first job within range (I live in farmland, so programming jobs aren't exactly normal within range). The paper got my foot in the door, but now I have provable experience and solid, real references.

I'm still going to school, slowly working towards my BA. I have experience, so why am I getting my BA? Because there are opportunities I've been passed over simply due to AA vs BA/MBA/etc.

The key is to actually think about things and balance what you want and the cost of college. For too many the only goal is paper, without a thought to how that translates into green. Thus you end up with a 100k piece of paper with someone working at McDonalds or Star Bucks.

I'm using accredited classes, at an affordable accredited school - affordable is the important part. I will have my BA with no debt to show and years of experience in the field I've chosen.
Maybe it's not so much about drawing developers to them but trying to keep existing .NET developers from straying?
Wow. Those photos of the comet are just amazing.

I know those photos are real, and I know our understanding of the universe has made them possible, but they still seem like science-fiction magic to me. I'm still looking at them in awe.

Thank you for sharing them.
Yeah, just look at everyone who works for Google. The company is fundamentally about centralizing all of the information in the world. By working for them you support that goal and everything it implies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykzg5X41-_E What blows my mind is that "a million miles away from home" isn't at all far away as far in a space context. (Link goes to cheesy song)
Self advertising by ms... What a surprise!
Well, I would have to disagree with just about everything you wrote...

>The easiest scenario to picture is the one in which a sidearm is merely revealed (rather than brandished or fired) in order to deter an attacker.

Huh? Where do you live where this scenario ever happens? I am 45 and lived in a major city half my life and not really in the best part of town. I have never had the need to reveal a weapon to a would be attacker. If someone is going to mug me their weapon will be already pointed at me and revealing any weapon I have is just going to get me shot. I think maybe you watch to much TV...

>A sufficient distribution of concealed carry permits creates (or at least can create) a sort of herd immunity against certain types of violent crime.

Source? I just looked at murder rates for NY (where I live) with a low concealed carry permits ratio to Texas which has a high concealed carry permits. Gee, Texas has a higher murder rate...

>Volunteer open carry provides an example of how protective force might be delegated in a community without the need for a police force.

Ok, I am not a huge fan of police forces but I am also not a huge fan of more random people walking around with guns. The majority of people are to violent, mentally unstable, to just plain to dumb to be carrying weapons around.

We already try the wild west thing and it didn't work out...
Yep, I tried to find the graph but failed. It would be interesting to see again. I have a professional interest in probability and stochastic processes, so it stuck in my mind.
This doesn't seem like a mobile play at all, honestly.

They're opening the core, and large portions of the web server stack. This points to it being a play for web development, not native mobile.

There are some additional integrations with Xamarin - but Xamarin isn't owned by MS nor is it the key highlight of today's announcements.
Absolutely stunning feat of engineering. My bosses are on the drill team for Philae and were amongst the nervy faces being beamed all over the world. Great example of what European nations can do when politics don't get in the way. ExoMars [1] and Bepi-Colombo [2] are perfect examples of the inverse.

Look forward to the first pictures from the surface. I'm at the Division on Planetary Sciences (DPS) meeting [3] in Tucson at the moment, and there are already incredible results being presented based on data acquired by Rosetta. Stay tuned for a whole lot more!

[1] http://exploration.esa.int/mars/46048-programme-overview

[2] http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/BepiColombo_...

[3] http://aas.org/meetings/dps46
You're way out of line. I dislike Google and Apple right about as much as I dislike Microsoft, the only difference there is that they seem to have a lesser string of convictions behind their names (for now, give them some time).

If you really took the time to go through my posting history you'd see that I'm pretty evenhanded.

Of the big companies I use google where I can't avoid it, don't have a facebook account, there is one apple product in this house (a 2007 issue iMac which I keep running for testing purposes), my phone is an ancient (and indestructible) Nokia and I have an active twitter handle. That's about it.

So no, my M.O. is not exactly to just shit on anything Microsoft, it's just that Microsoft was - and is - worse than most. See: patents, intellectual ventures (you didn't really believe that MS didn't have a hand in that?), subversion of various legal proceedings against MS and even after being convicted using their lobbying power and business muscle to avoid their punishment.

That's probably a record for any tech company, feel free to list examples of worse behavior in the software world if you're aware of any.
http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/11/12/visu...:

>VS Community enables you to develop everything from Windows Forms and WPF and MFC to Windows Phone and Store to Azure and ASP.NET
C# as a language is better than Java, but not as good as Scala.
Do harpoons work on comets? Why yes they do! :-) Love it.
I felt the way you're feeling not too long ago. I'm open to talk to you if you want, shoot me an email ge.espitia@gmail.com.
Nice and clean. I'd love it if when I clicked on HN comments that the list of stories would slide to the left and I'd have the comments to read without leaving this app.

On initially opening, it took 4 tries to load the HN stories. Kept showing me the ! At the bottom, which I thought would let me know what was wrong but instead was a refresh button. Which works, however a mouse over with a simple error message may be great as well.
(Actually I guess I was impatient, it does do a mouse over; Sync Error)

Clean, uncluttered and minimalistic while providing a quo k glance at top articles. Overall I like it :)
"C# is one of the best languages out there for generic enterprise work and app development" - i see you have great tools if cs is soooo good.
IronPython and IronRuby never really had corporate backing - and the few resources devoted to them had been moved away fairly quickly.

Thus their fate today.

The difference, this time, seems to be high-level policy and a complete change of direction of the entire developer division.
Well, I was mentioning a revival of IronRuby because it was totally abandoned. I didn't know the state of IronPython, but last I checked, it was still being developed.

I want both to be available, though.
Counterparty Recreates Ethereum on Bitcoin
Speaking as a guy who (currently) only uses Visual Studio at home for recreational programming, and not at the office, I'm pretty happy about this. The Express editions are OK, but it's nice to have access to extensions, like VisualHG for Mercurial integration. (Yeah, I know I should switch to Git, but I really like Hg.)
http://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-and-xamarin-expand-global-...

"Today we’re excited to take the partnership to the next level, by announcing:

1. Support for Visual Studio 2015 – Today, we released support for the Visual Studio 2015 Preview release, which includes Xamarin templates that make it easier to discover and download Xamarin from within the IDE.

2. Free Xamarin Starter Edition for Visual Studio Users – Today, Microsoft announced a new, free edition to Visual Studio—Visual Studio Community. Visual Studio Community contains support for extensions, which means it will be Xamarin compatible with from day one. We want to help make Visual Studio Community a tool for anyone to create native apps for iOS and Android, so we are announcing our plans to enable our freely available Xamarin Starter Edition to work with Visual Studio Community. We are also doubling the size limit on apps that can be created with Xamarin Starter Edition, so that you can build even more capable apps for free. This will be available in the coming weeks.

3. Special offers for MSDN Subscribers – We’ve worked with Microsoft to create a 20% discount for Visual Studio Premium and Ultimate MSDN subscribers to purchase Xamarin Business or Enterprise Editions, or world-class mobile development training with Xamarin University, available up to 60 days after the Visual Studio Purchase."
You can verify yourself at the source :)

https://github.com/dotnet/corefx/blob/master/LICENSE
I don't know what your question means, especially the "reaching around the HTTP protocol" part, but I'm going to try to answer it anyway.

Mechanize doesn't contain a JS engine, so it can't scrape sites that rely on JS execution. You can't use it, for example, to scrape (or run tests on) content that was loaded via AJAX. The other scrapers in question do include a JS engine, so you can use them to scrape or test pages that load content dynamically.

Because more and more Web sites are implemented as client-side single-page applications (SPAs), the ability to scrape dynamic content is becoming more important.
I am hoping JetBrains folks will port their suite of .Net tools to other platforms. Since the core of these tools is already cross platform (JVM-based), it may happen faster than Microsoft does to Visual Studio.
Introducing Visual Studio’s Emulator for Android
Harpoons did not actually fire - team is looking at options for refiring
Yes, precisely. But this is what we're building these days. It's not gated, it's open to the street, but it's not a public plaza either. There is even something in their agreement with the city that they can't filter people out.
Microsoft .NET source
He's talking about making mobile ecg devices, and you're going to recommend he get into web design? Might as well suggest he become a plumber.
I lived in Golders Green (Zone 3), and going to/from the tube station I always encountered few people. Since most of the sidelane was made up of single-family houses, it´s not so surprising.

Also, I had the ginormous Hampsted Heath park at a 10 minutes walk, parts of which are quite empty all day long.

Unlike many European cities, where the vast majority of buildings are medium/high rise apartments, many boroughs of London have parts more similar to American suburbs.

I certainly miss having a backyard.
Most likely they have headless web browsers running on both the main spacecraft (probably chromium) and the Philae lander. Web sockets enables the lander to communicate to the spacecraft which then sends its signals down to earth using regular HTTP (you don't want to keep an interstellar HTTP connection open). All of it is of course written in JavaScript, more specifically vanilla-JavaScript - which frankly I find weird given that I'd hope they would use a framework such as socket.io - bad engineering if you ask me. The lander obviously uses latest Node.js and npm to update some of its modules which are again sent across the wire using interstellar HTTP.
They're still doing bad stuff today, just on different fronts. That said, I hope they give Google and Apple a run for their money, those are (probably) just as bad.

The last ruling in the SCO case was a mere 4 years ago.
I agree. It really depends. As I mentioned, I feel if you have a goal or vision for what you want, then you can really make the decision. Sounds like you've got your goals set and if college is a part of that, great, that's what I consider success. As Earl Nightingale said, "Success is the progressive realization of a worthy goal or ideal".
I felt the same way. Just remember that it's those other people who are wasting their time in college. It doesn't have to be you. Start pushing yourself now and you'll come out way ahead of your classmates. And make sure to go out of your way to find those few classmates who actually give a shit about learning. I didn't do that and regret it now.

And you're only 3 semesters in. I doubt you're out of CS classes to take. Take the ridiculously hard CS classes that no one else wants to. Take graduate level courses. And enjoy the random classes completely unrelated to your major, you never know when they'll be useful to you. My favorite class in college was an American history class and I was a CS major. Who cares? It was a great class and I feel all the more educated for it. You shouldn't just be there to take CS.
If the support for osx and linux depends on xamarin, the future of .NET on those platforms is very dubious.
> (Link goes to cheesy song)

And I thought for sure it was going to be this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=buqtdpuZxvk
As a side note, since many people here use python, VS has great Python integration: http://pytools.codeplex.com/
London is cheaper to move around by public transport than many other British cities.

A bus or tram journey is £1.45 regardless of distance, but in Manchester a tram journey is over £3, in Birmingham over £2, in Edinburgh £1.50.

London's tickets are also much better integrated -- only a couple of express train services to airports have special fares, and they all have non-express, cheaper alternatives.
aka "Thanks for giving us what we want, but you're so evil that I can't get past the $ in the name Micro$oft."

Stay closed source? People bitch.

Open source the software? People bitch.

Can't win.
It is not hatred, decades more of experience. Throughout the 90's and early 2000's Microsoft abused their monopoly position to the detriment of many. Open source options were much more limited then than now. The only reason Microsoft is changing now is that they have no choice.
~1999 Google?

Edit: Meta: http://www.google.com/custom?q=what+is+google+custom%3F&btnG...
True, but companies change. I was, too, a MS fan turned hater, but I'm willing to give them another chance -- look how far Bill Gates has come. I certainly prefer them over Big Brother Google.

EDIT: In fact, I prefer the old-guard companies like MS and Oracle to Google's and Facebook's new guard. The old guard is easy to figure out: they're out for profit. The new guard is a lot tricker: sure they're out for profit, too, but usually in a roundabout way that involves subterfuge, baiting people with "free" stuff, spying on their customers and their acquaintances, and various propaganda made to convince people they're working in their best interest.
skipping college is probably controversial because you can't make a distinction between doing it because of laziness or because of passion. at the bottom of your heart you know which one it is.

the problem with doing something else is that you will, still, take yourself with you. if high school was crap, now college is crap - it's likely that other thing is going to be crap too.

why don't you do something on the side instead of "smoking and drinking" with people you don't care?
Show HN: Thoth – a real-time Solr monitor and search analysis engine
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Do you not get along with your classmates? Is it possible you are not embracing this experience?

Work your ass off while in college. Sounds like you are not taking any initiative here. Right now I bet you have tons of free time. Use it to better yourself in ALL ways. Exercise. Read. Get out there and meet people.
The article answers many of your questions. For intstance, it announced support for Linux and OSX.

C# and .NET let you dev on OSX, Linux and Windows, then deploy to OSX, iOS, Windows, Windows Store, Windows Phone, Linux and Android. Your only other real option for that kind of portability is C / C++, but. Well, you know, then you're working in C / C++.
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I love how simple and low-tech this solution is. People have been using anchored ropes and cables of various kinds to fasten things together for millennia. People have been using harpoons at sea for whaling for centuries.
Interactive Rosetta mission model
I used licecap, it's extremely awesome. https://github.com/lepht/licecap :]
If you're convinced you can make better use of your time without college, quit! You could see what the market offers for your current skills, then decide. Work your ass off at enjoying yourself too.
This is the best thing I've read all day.
I keep hearing that, as if people are trying to convince themselves. But the fact is that it just doesn't exist out in the wild like its alternatives. What's more, anybody who thinks Microsoft is embracing open source by doing this is kidding themselves. There is only one motivation behind everything Microsoft does, and it isn't bringing open source philosophy to its products. Hint: That philosophy serves to undermine Microsoft's single motivation. I'm sure this comment -- while more thorough and reasonable -- will also be downvoted into oblivion because of the fanboys in here high on their own dreams. Microsoft is not your friend.
Good advice, I may re-shoot the gif later and do that. Thanks! :)
As others have said, gorename does the type-safe renaming... it's relatively new, so it's understandable that you may not have heard of it.

Moving a file doesn't really make any sense in Go. Files are not units of code that you'd move... I presume you mean moving an exported type from one package to another. I don't believe that gorename can do that right now, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to add to gorename.
Using the Cloud to Fight for Net Neutrality
I would suggest http://openhatch.org
I'm sorry, but I have literally no idea how this post follows from the one you replied to?
Microsoft's CVP Soma Somasegar will be answering questions about today's announcements on TechCrunch article -- in comments -- at 2:30pm Eastern today.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-so...
More analysis of @Philae2014 telemetry
indicates harpoons did not fire as 1st thought

Ouch, seems like it didn't land? https://twitter.com/esaoperations/status/532575061543485440

edit - the landing is confirmed, however the harpoons did not fire: https://twitter.com/ESA_Rosetta/status/532579871202238464
Thanks for sharing this here. I'd love to hear your thoughts on my situation.

I started programming in freshman year (2006) of high school and fell in love with it. I've been coding since, but also started getting excited about startups. A year after graduating from high school, I started one with a couple of friends from college. It's the best decision I've made.. I have learned so much in a few years. I am convinced I wouldn't have learned as much by focusing in school.

I've been in school for about 4 years now getting a CS degree. I started taking less classes per semester last year because I was doing bad in them. I had a lack of interest and also spent a lot more time involved in the startup. That hasn't changed. I have 5 classes left to graduate, but my GPA needs to go up by a lot in order to do so.

There is a lot of pressure from my parents to finish school since I'm almost done, but I'm really struggling to do well in my classes since I'm just not into them. It really feels like I'm wasting my time.. getting stressed about my grades.. and I'm not sure what to do.

The obvious solution is to keep going and finish... but it's a constant battle every week to convince myself that this is the best path and to keep going.
I'm really looking for people interested in technology that I can build something interesting with.

I'll take your advice into account though.
I'm stunned that there is a dusty surface that looks like sand. How much gravity does the comet have?
Wobbling on Climate Change
Wouldn't cache line misses dominate? Linear search benefits from prefetch.
If you want to talk about spending priorities, how about the folly of the Iraq war, trident, etc. those cost huge amounts more than this mission? Not everyone has the same priorities as you.

Thank goodness at least some of our money is spent on things which might benefit humanity in the long term, like discovering how the solar system was formed or whether life was formed on earth or elsewhere.
I'm not from Xamarin but their latest blog post sounds positive: http://blog.xamarin.com/microsoft-and-xamarin-expand-global-...
SCO / Linux Controversies
http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2014/Nov-12.html
There was a nice bit about the shuttle's computer systems in the Challenger appendix to Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman, too. As I recall, it was the only part of the shuttle process that Feynman thought was engineered correctly.
I've always heard London to be unfriendly, but when I visited and asked multiple people for directions they were pretty damn accommodating. Maybe I just got lucky, but in the city I previously lived in (Copenhagen) you felt like you were intruding on somebody's day whenever you interrupted them in public.
I bet you a million dollars he uses Xamarin.Forms ;)
Could work on this have started before Steve Ballmer left? Maybe he took my 2007 email to him more seriously that his response let on:

http://jonathanmarkwell.com/2013/08/23/me-and-steve-ballmer-...
I'm just glad to have access to the option Debug / Attach to process, one of the many very useful little features that were annoyingly omitted from the Express version in the past.
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> (Yeah, I know I should switch to Git, but I really like Hg.)

A bit OT but don't apologise for being more proficient in an unpopular/less accepted tool than most are with a popular/more accepted one.

Tired of people shitting on other folk for not using the "flavour of the month" tool.

Less v. Sass, PHP v. the world ... it's not constructive.

No problem in discussing the pros and cons of one tool over the other, and it's still fine to conclude one has as many pros as the other has cons, but it's not ok to bemoan the use of either.
It would honestly be faster to ship it overseas.
Using VS professional 2013. Is this better?
Interesting. It is well known, easier to grasp as you say, can be calculated and the number doesn't change, but it's long enough to allow infinite indexations along the decimal side. Finding the rationale behind the indexations might be a good challenge. Thanks!
A couple of options occur to me:

1. Don't take random classes. My two main regrets from college are not taking more classes in foreign languages, and not taking more math. You may well know more of either at this point than I did, but it can't hurt you to know more. There are other whole fields as well that you might find interest you. If you've done the math, then why not physics or chemistry? If you've done the languages, then a well-chosen history class might be enlightening.

2. You could take a year off, particularly if you can find a programming job that suits you.
Ubuntu. The stability, flexibility, and out-of-the-box functionality have served me well (despite occasional annoyances) for over five years now.
Where are the millions of people killed by Microsoft?
I'm italian. There are two things I would like to point out: I read that the mission cost about 1.6 bilion $, with that money you don't solve much in countries of about 11, 45 and 60 milion people.

Also, speaking for Italy, I don't think we need more money if we're going to waste it. We need to make reforms, stop wasting a LOT of money and so on