skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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This is silly. Not every programmer is or will be a professional programmer.

For example, I am a researcher and I use programming in my research projects. I cannot live without using Visual Studio for C#, RStudio for R, SAS Windows for SAS. I am not will never become a professional programmer. I am totally OK with it, because programming is not my profession and I have countless other stuff to learn. I know there are a lot people like me.

This is not a good advice for beginners. At least not for all beginners.
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Absolutely, usable UI is a must but why not make it gorgeous. It doesn't have to be one or the other.

> ..then it doesn't matter how nice it looks.

In a way, making it usable (done elegantly) is part of "gorgeous" UI. I wouldn't underestimate the power of beautiful visual design. It evokes user's emotions in such a way that makes it memorable. It makes it a great UX all around. I try not to look at it in a separate way as the whole thing (usable and nice visually) is what makes it beautiful.

But in its crude form, I do agree the usability is the most important but I just think visual design is not too far from it.
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I don't have any book recommendations, but I can tell you it is best to utilize a service to manage it for you. There are a lot of little details to know and follow.

Overall it isn't super difficult, but takes time to manage it correctly, and if you cross state lines (e.g. have employees in more than 1 state) it can get more complex. And in states with state income tax it gets more complex still, mostly in the number of filings you have to make. I am by far not an expert in this regards, but I did try and manage it internally for awhile, but by the time you are done managing the payroll process, direct deposits, hourly employees, insurance deductions, reimbursements etc it is so much cheaper to pay for a monthly service.

You might check out blogs from companies like Xero and Freshbooks, Intuit etc and see if they have some details around what you are looking for. Also I think zane benefits blog might have some details too.
I compared the Win32_Products that are installed before and after. Even with all checkboxes unchecked, the installer adds 100+ packages. Unfortunately most of these are not listed in the add/remove programs control panel.
The transitions the author is probably complaining about are menu transitions: Every time you tap on a menu item you get a outward radial animation thing. It looks tacky but, more importantly, adds a half-second delay to every menu interaction.
I will argue that a big difference like that is caused by the environment: looks like is failing to grow skills, motivate and foster collaboration, and if there a few that are truly clueless, failing to proper hire/assign.
> It’s wrong, he told me, because “you can get the illusion if you have only one eye. Simple!”

What?

Binocular vision is used for mid-range (something like 3-6 feet) depth perception. Other visual clues are used for further away objects, like occlusion. His counterargument against the first hypothesis described is invalid.
>why is removing the key separators a good idea? //

I've a suggestion for this one - key separators support a paradigm of key presses, following the [traditional] keyboard metaphor. However with swipe-able keyboards it doesn't really make sense, you only need to approximate the position of the letter during your swipe - no "barriers" helps to enforce that new paradigm. If most people swipe, then it makes sense to move away from representing the keyboard as a layout of switches (a key-board).
The advise that more experienced coders gave me at the time that I didn't listen to, and would probably not listen to even if my older self told me: You're better at this then you think you are, stop selling yourself short.

I think I've spent the first five years of my career drastically underselling myself imagining that everyone else is some epic programmer whose class interfaces spring fully formed from their fingertips when really a large number of the people who "talk the talk" turned out to be just full of a lot of air.
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found this on reddit:

http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/a9mio/lets_compile_a_li...
CyanogenMod! Not only do they include the AOSP email, they built improvements on it as well!
In Appengine web requests often kick of tasks in queues todo the heavy lifting. This makes the response of web requests very fast. However you dont need queues when you need synchronous results, or whenever the task is small.
Why would I want to deploy lighttpd?
Statistics:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_firearm-re...

> And US does not have a monopoly on stupidity

No, it doesn't. That's a universal thing.
Protip: If 80% of your agument is an analogy, it's probably not a very good argument.

I think the opposite is true, IDEs help you find out what is really going on, by showing you (depending on the language) which module is used where and giving you the option to directly navigate to that source. That in turn confronts the beginner with the code and conventions of other (more experienced) coders. So yeah, IDEs rock. Also debugging...
It has almost nothing to do with the breeding conditions. Factory farming techniques are pretty much identical across the globe. The reason is salmonella.

USDA mandates egg washing to combat salmonella. But the washing process also destroys the egg's outer most protective layer, the cuticle. Thus American eggs must be refrigerated, unlike almost everywhere else in the world.

In the UK, all chickens are already vaccinated against salmonella so their eggs don't need to be washed, nor refrigerated. This has a couple of benefits:

1. The cuticle remains intact, thus the egg is naturally protected against contamination during transport and storage.

2. Refrigerated eggs undergo temperature swings during transport, causing moistures to collect, which could lead to harmful bacterial growth.

3. A botched washing job leads to excess moisture and thus bacteria growth, and is worst than no washing job at all.

That's why it's actually illegal for the farm to wash the eggs in the UK.
According to wikipedia, A 4:3 ratio mimics human eyesight visual angle of 155°h x 120°v, that is 4:3.075, almost exactly the same.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aspect_ratio_%28image%29#Pract...
The main value of an MSDN subscription is all the subscriber downloads and the Azure credits you get.

Want to try out or develop against any piece of MS software, just download it from the MSDN portal and off you go. Want to test out provisioning with Azure or fire up a server to test or dev against, just use your Azure credits. You can happily run a couple of small servers with the Azure credits.

If you just want Visual Studio you could always buy it on its own for much less than a subscription.
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Medium usually works pretty well even under HN loads, at least I haven't seen it behave quite like this before, maybe none of the one's I've seen have been quite this image heavy. shrug
Some other interesting artifacts left on the Moon:

Lunar Laser Ranging Experiment arrays [1][2]. These are retro-reflectors that were left during the Apollo program. They are used for laser ranging. This is always good for getting a "deer in the headlights" look from conspiracy theorists when I explain that humans have been studying the distance between the Earth and the Moon with the arrays since 1969 to further our understanding of gravity, along with the knowledge of the Moon's increasing movement away from the Earth. Also, the Soviets deployed retro-reflectors on Lunokhod 1 in 1970 [3] and Lunokhod 2 in 1973 [4].

Fallen Astronaut [5] commemorates astronauts and cosmonauts that died while working on their respective space programs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunar_Laser_Ranging_experiment

[2] http://www.physics.ucsd.edu/~tmurphy/apollo/doc/Bender.pdf

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_1

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lunokhod_2

[5] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallen_Astronaut
Yow...

I was under the impression that all major regex engines used NFAs converted to DFAs lazily, with fallbacks to a slower engine for features that cannot (or cannot practically) be implemented using an NFA (unbounded backtracking, that sort of thing.)

What is the advantage to doing this?
Google is slowly changing GMail to look like their new Inbox product. Instead of making a windfall upgrade, they're starting with small UI changes. Expect more incremental changes until GMail becomes Inbox.
I don't see this illusion. I've never thought that the moon looked bigger when it was close to the horizon. I think my girlfriend thinks I'm saying it to be difficult but I honestly don't see it. Does anyone else have this experience?
As the author of that post says it greatly reduces the login attempts. It has been my experience as well.

An analogy with a house it would be like making a brick wall behind your front door and making a new door on the side of the house.

Sure, it would not change significantly the time for a determined thief wanting your house specifically,.

However moving the door would do wonders against some punk with a bunch of keys who runs around trying them on all neighborhood doors.

You still have to make sure you have a good lock and door.
> The Express versions have one language each.

That was true of most of them through 2010 (though the 2008/2010 Web Developer Express supported, IIRC, at least C# and VB.NET as backend languages.), but not the 2012/2013 versions.

The VS2012/2013 Express Editions are not language specific, but project type specific -- the 2012 editions were "for Web", "for Windows 8" (i.e., Metro/Modern UI), "for Windows Desktop", and "for Windows Phone". 2013 merged "for Windows 8" and "for Windows Phone" into "for Windows".
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>why is the Compose button a floating button taking up space in my Inbox list?? There still exists a toolbar at the top for search and navigation. Why can’t the Compose button be there??

YES! That's where you scroll! Why would they put a button there?

Oh, I know why: because they painted themselves into a corner by thinking every app needs a cutesy circle button floating with a gross drop shadow.
I had an iPhone, switched to Nexus 5. Nexus 5 already produced joy in me, it really is a great phone and as an ex-iPhoner I really think Android is prime time now and almost as good as iOS (my only issue is that some of the built in apps are a bit rubbish and Google Hangouts, the default, sucks as an SMS program).

But I'm getting no joy from Lollipop. Apart from all the interface issues I've hit, it seems fairly bug ridden.Some notification sounds suddenly turned themselves on (GMail), other sounds are really loud. Another example right now the lock screen on mine is showing a picture of a video I cast on BubbleuPNP last night. For absolutely no reason. I can't stop it.

That's totally not cool. I don't want a blurry video still as my lock screen picture. How do I clear it? Is that intentional? Or a bug?
An engineering mindset would outweigh gender.
What should we expect from Android M?
Make sure to watch this awesome documentary about SSBM: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoUHkRwnRH-KTCH3tJ9Wv...
(Beware, it's 4 hours long in total, hehe)
Meh, I haven't found any of this to be a problem. I was a little confused by the new keyboard, but it works just fine, if not a little better than the previous one. Swiping around the letters still works great for composing words.

The behaviour with Chrome and tabs is much better than before, switching through tabs as though they're apps makes a lot of sense, better than switching through apps, then through tabs again, when I just want to see one page...

Overall I find the whole UI to be an improvement in Android 5 versus 4.4. It looks nicer, and everything seems just a little bit better.

But then again, I've never had a problem with things changing, I'm pretty adaptable.
The SDXC card format specifies exFAT as a mandatory feature - a proprietary, patent-encumbered filesystem from Microsoft. This makes it very difficult to legally support these SD cards in Open Source operating systems.

When they stop pulling crap like that, maybe I'll believe in the "new Microsoft".
What we are seeing here is a demonstration of real world fog of war and the evolution of combat, bear with me on a real world application.

In the beginning of a fight / battle / war where both competitors have never seen one another there will be tendencies to favor an approach (character) based on visual appeal or familiarity. This is the selection of a character familiar to the player, look at Mario, Zelda, Luigi and their degradation over time; new users select their favorites but realize as they get better that these are not the best.

Over time, the players / strategists come up with new strategies to handle the predominantly selected players. As new characters are chosen, because the losing character demonstrates a propensity for losing, new strategies are adopted by the new loser.

The rise of certain characters within the game demonstrate users experimenting with them and their adopted strategies working against entrenched strategies.

Things also to consider, as less new players discover the game, the residual data becomes more experienced player-centric as they are the remaining still playing the game.

Ness is a character that may have some secret ability that no one knows about and may be helpful in the future.
That is a good question.. I got 300 Mbps connection for 20€ [Lithuania]. The most expensive connection is ~30€ for this price you get whole 1Gbit connection.

The best way to use it - set-up your personal cloud. Or create a tor exit node / relay. Or host a linux repository mirror. Endless possibilities actually.

If using over WiFi the only downside is that in order to use all this speed you have to use ac capable router and of course - devices. I'd buy a router if I'd have devices which would utilise ac standard.

Although you can always use wired..
Just to add, I think the transitions can also be disabled, but it's somewhat hidden in the developper options. The options are called "Window animation scale", "Transition animation scale" and "Animator duration scale". Putting them all to zero makes all transitions instantaneous.
Thanks for the calendar recommendation. Ugh. Already switch to City Mapper from Google Maps when Google stripped that app. Sad to see the rest of the apps going the same way now.
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It doesn't matter if the press functions with 100% altruism or 100% efficiency. No body comprised of humans ever will. Of course there are capitalistic motives, and making money does often run counter to the public benefit of the press.

But there are many idealistic journalists (look at ProPublica, for many examples) who are doing important work, exposing things that aren't always sexy, but are definitely in the public's interest.
I'm also a fan of "Hammer and Feature": http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C5_dOEyAfk
Private moon plan to send drones to steal those artifacts -- worth it?
Probably some setting you chose. When I first booted up Android 5, it asked me whether or not to display notifications on the lock page (I chose no). It could be that you chose yes and your app (BubbleuPNP) keeps pushing that video to your lock screen...
It is a very interesting answer, thank you.
The common thing these days is to include your CA in your pull request the first time you contribute by adding your own name to a list of contributors as a means of signature, then all future contributions are considered assigned. If that is too much of an annoyance to contribute to a project, then perhaps the contribution isn't that important and won't be missed.

And what does that even mean, "uncomfortable with the GPL"? I have this picture in my head of developers programming with GCC, sweat dripping from their brow, looking over their shoulders for Richard Stallman to come and steal their laptops out from under them. Using GPL software does not have any impact on the work you do. It's only modifying GPL software and distributing those modifications that matters.
It is less permissive than Express was though, isn't it? I was under the impression there were no restrictions on who could use Express. If Express goes away now, some organizations will be shut out of the Community Edition due to its licensing terms and have to pay.
Evolution needs to be guided by need. Right now, changes happen too fast for a feedback loop to be established that validates good changes.

Furthermore, in order for that feedback loop to exist, users need to have a choice. I'm afraid that the new Google Maps is just plain worse, and Google needs to dust off the old code and start iterating on it again. It was a great experiment, but everyone building consumer software seems to be incapable of admitting when their complete rewrite was a step backwards.

When a software team does a complete redesign of a feature or app, they almost become institutionally incapable of admitting that the rewrite was the wrong choice.
They have so much money now, they can heavily invest in anything.
When I help people out with their computers and I run updates (pretty much everyone I go to stay with!) they always complain if there's been a change in the UI at all - "why's that button moved?" "where's my favourites?" "how do I access my inbox now?" "why does it keep popping up that thing?" ...

I'd really like to see some respect for this from people like Firefox - "we won't move any major UI elements or update the default skin more than once every 2 years". Of course the marketing is all about the novelty at the moment - steadfastness doesn't count for much in tech circles it seems. With stable UI you can have a less rapidly changing system for users to comprehend; running updates for security fixes shouldn't mean you have to face a new menu paradigm or new default screen or new tab shape or new whatever every few weeks.

Seriously. I don't enable auto-update on supported users apps for this reason.
Myself, I view it not so much as a cultural clash, but rather an academic one. People sometimes just do not know how to describe the phenomena which perplex, enrage, disturb and perturb them so, and the frustration is such that they result to the vulgar form, which .. after all .. is as you say, a fairly universally understood level of concourse and therefore has its appropriate applicability to the conversation, but naturally - since all language is a system of power and control - with the aforementioned risks of offense. Those who choose to react in offense, and those who choose to see the language being used in light of the subject, may well be the end of the conversation. But, this is a language discussion, no? I myself find SQL elegant, whereas compared to the NoSQL DSL's that shizzle the newschool nizzle, shits fucked yo.
I suspect there are a number of businesses successfully using Express today who are going to have to pay up for MSDN / Professional licenses, assuming Express goes away.
The longest queue is going to be in front of the tightest bottleneck, but not the central bottleneck critical to your application.

If you find you have a bottleneck halfway through the pipe and you make that bottleneck go away, your true real bottleneck down in the wall still remains there, and all your optimizations done above that one will end up just opening the floodgates wider.

Once you've protected that kind of more at-risk core, then it's easier and safer to measure everything that sits above it in the stack, and it puts an upper bound on how much you need to optimize (you stop when you hit your rate limits on the core component).
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Could you give a concrete example? I've personally never found myself wanting to preserve nested options. What additional information does it preserve? I could perhaps see the value if C# had decent pattern matching, I'm not currently convinced it would bring much benefit to the average C# app.
But paypal/ebay is a third party. Something that this system tries to avoid.
250 PCs also covers lots of businesses who have 250 knowledge workers who do not do development, and one or two developers supporting them.
I have some videos here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/zubairq
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Is OSX the only supported operating system?
What sort of data? I can look at data all day, it doesn't mean that I'm interpreting it right. Furthermore, the biggest issues may not show up in the data.

I have a 22-month-old Android phone. Google Maps just keeps getting slower and slower. Now it takes 10-15 seconds to start up. I'd really like to know what percentage of the data Google is using comes from phones released in the past 10 months. (Or phones that haven't even been released yet.)
Thanks for sharing your experience.

However, from my typical centered vantage point, windows near the corners appeared skewed.

Presumably this is the advantage of the new curved screen version¹, though so far it’s considerably more expensive and it looks like at least here in the UK no-one has it available for immediate purchase.

¹ http://www.lg.com/uk/monitors/lg-34UC97
I dislike the term feminist because despite noble intentions it causes a lot of controversy.

could you please call it "computer-engineer-barbie" like the URL suggests?

I realise the irony of me pointing this out.
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A compiler or similar tool doesn't generally affect the license of its output (some of them explicitly disclaim that), just as a text editor doesn't affect the copyright of a novel written in it. The GPL is much more widely popular than the EPL, and now that it contains comparable patent language it is probably a better license to use (when the EPL was first written it was primarily to address patent issues that the GPLv2 didn't cover). I would hope that projects that are using the EPL would now migrate towards the GPL where possible - strong copyleft licenses are inherently impossible to combine, so it's best if the community can standardize on just one.

The MIT license is compatible with almost everything - it's really very minimal, comparable to a 2-clause BSD-style license. There is no problem combining MIT licensed components with EPL licensed components, or with GPLed components. (Of course there is still a problem if you want to combine with both at the same time)
Did you read part 1? https://medium.com/@erikdkennedy/7-rules-for-creating-gorgeo...

From the intro:

I was a UX designer with no UI skills. I love designing UX, but I wasn’t doing it for long before I realized there were a bunch of good reasons to learn how to make an interface look nice:

My portfolio looked like crap, reflecting poorly on my work and thought process
My UX consulting clients would rather buy someone’s skills if their expertise extended to more than just sketching boxes and arrows
Did I want to work for an early-stage startup at some point? Best to be a sweeper

I love designing UX, but I wasn’t doing it for long before I realized there were a bunch of good reasons to learn how to make an interface look nice
There are Linux installation instructions at Github: https://github.com/ferguson/otto

With this warning:

Otto is not yet packaged together as a singular application or installation package for Linux like it is on OSX. Therefore Linux installation is fraught with peril, especially when it comes to getting a correctly compiled version of MPD installed.
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