skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Originally? I got out of grad school and needed a career.

I had previously tried to learn to program and hadn't really gotten anywhere (attention span and lack of determination), so I was already interested. But without the external impetus, I have no idea if I would have ever started.

Now, it's because I'm fascinated by the process (and also because I need to be paid...).
http://sherlybox.com/

I'd say sherlybox is a better deal
>"Try or try not, etc. "
You mean: "Do or do not; there is no try".

You got a Trekkie to fix your Star Wars quote!

Though I definitely agree with the sentiment of what you were trying to say. I don't find myself any less of an idiot than most people around me. It's just that I sat down, self-inspected, and made the necessary improvements. I guess some would say that that sort of thing ultimately does make you less of an "idiot" than others, in that 'introspection' is the thing that separates the two.
haha if it can't host a simple blog.... then can it really scale?? ;)
Acronis, one of best known Russian tech companies, is slowly moving to Estonia:
http://www.investinestonia.com/en/about-estonia/news/article...

There are also quite a few who are moving from Russia to Ukraine.

Also remembered this: http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-05-28/luxoft-to-move-500-...
A slight nit-pick: If the end-user is required to use a third-party hosted service to make the gear work then it's not really open hardware.
a crowd funded approach could work to filter out "bad content".

Same way as here on HN, people could vote (plus or minus) to help rank the content.
Flow XO – Automated sales and marketing workflows for your existing cloud apps
We've created Flow XO so that anyone can build high level sales and marketing workflows on top of their existing cloud apps.

Currently supporting Mailchimp, Insightly, Capsule, Pipedrive, Gmail, Google Calendar.

Takes workflow integration and automation to the next level - what app should we build in next?
Former ActionScript developer here. Can confirm, it was actually pretty great. It's a hell of a lot more of a cleaner language than Javascript, for instance.

Don't forget that most game UIs are still built in ActionScript, and they're just fine.
Fortunately I have a pair of prospects in the works. Hopefully one of them pans out.
Out of interest where did that figure come from for PHP? It seems to contradict the benchmarks I could find for framework routers and PHP extensions.

Ref: https://github.com/c9s/router-benchmark
True, but child-support and the children go overwhelmingly to the mother.
Maybe this one? http://www.halescreative.com/
I code for the thrill and pleasure of the creativity involved. As an add-on, it provides for my family.
I don't think you're going to be happy when somebody uses you to launch a DDOS:

system("ping -c 2 8.8.8.8");

PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=1 ttl=55 time=1.98 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_req=2 ttl=55 time=1.75 ms
I can see two legitimate cases for writing very short, very dense code.

1: Implement an algorithm in a very concise and straightforward, even if not very efficient, way. An example is the classic quicksort in Haskell, which most literally implements the idea of the algorithm:

qsort [] = []
qsort (p:xs) = qsort [ y | y <- xs, y < p ] ++ [p] ++
qsort [ y | y <- xs, y >= p ]

2: Implement an algorithm in a super-efficient, while non-obvious, way. An example is the inverse square root calculation made by famous by John Carmack (http://www.codemaestro.com/reviews/9).

The linked hashtable implementation, to my mind, is neither very elegant nor fiendishly clever, nor even reasonably correct.
systemd does not support static linking due to its use of NSS.

Well, that is a surprise to me. And something of a concern.
This has been done a lot of times. What makes Mammoth Tweets different?
In early computer days a fair fraction of the programmers were women. They migrated from earlier computer jobs such as keypunch operators, switchboard wirers (some early computers had programable switchboards) and mechanical calculator clerks. Until mid 1940s "computer" meant the third category- a person who operated mechanical calculators.
Java to PHP compiler
I've always wanted this for Windows. I wonder how hard it would be to port it.

In a business setting, I often see people's desktops cluttered with files. It'd be nice to give them a virtual folder on the desktop where they can drag and drop files into in to it, with tags.
Well, he is somewhat right. Snooping tech that three-letter-agencies have here is likely to be well beyond anything Russia can possibly have. I've seen some of it in Russia about 15 years back (to my shame, as a student, participated in the development) and even though my code was kinda ok-ish, this was literally child's play ;) You could monitor small percentage of phone calls, but it is a far cry from bulk wiretapping, voice recognition and search/analytics/social-network-analysis that is probably in place here.
Can a higher court overturn that decision?

Because if not, I hereby declare the entire trial a sham, a huge attack on his constitutional rights, an insult to the idea of impartial justice and a return to the Star Chamber.
It is a 50k/year job for many, many programmers.
exactly ...i made a similar comment about making more readable while increasing the lines to 100 and got down voted. folks, any dev can read 100 lines of code...

maybe the downvote is ok - im not grokking the essence of it - but similar bits of code written in perl are notorious jokes.
China is producing 60 new nuclear plants while the U.S. is making 5. Everything in China is happening much faster and on a larger scale. We should recognize this fact and more actively work with them to further develop nuclear energy.

A couple other examples of China's ability:

* This week China opened 32 new high-speed rail stations:
http://rt.com/business/212719-china-opens-high-speed-train/

Their current 10,000 miles of track probably cost them only 3x-5x what the high-speed train in California will cost when it's done.

* A decade ago, they built a 20 mile maglev train for $1.2 billion:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train

* More airports:

"According to the Chinese government’s 12th five-year plan, the total number of airports is set to expand from 175 in 2010 to 230 in 2015."

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/2/fedb9308-8501-11e3-8968-00144...

---

China simply has the ability to move much faster and cheaper than the U.S.
And automate yourself into another one.
I write code because I like solving problems and being intellectually challenged. A past co-worker summed it up best, "I don't want to be promoted, why would I want to manage people? I get to build cool shit, all day, and get paid for it. 8 year old would think my job is awesome."
Because it's my special way of expressing myself.
Amusing to see robpike play with APL,since Go is severely at odds with the APL philosophy.
A quick Google search revealed this page - http://www.halescreative.com/ - I think that's the logo the parent is referring to.
Genuine question: I didn't followed closely this case, and I'm quite surprised to see so much people defending Ulbricht or the Silk Road on behalf of internet freedom. Some people comparing him to kevin mitnick... I mean, ain't we talking about someone who ran a website where you could illegally buy drugs, guns and or even request an assination? Why should we be concerned by his case?
> if he really did order people's murders, wouldn't the prosecution indict him for it?

No, that's a non sequitur.

For example, imagine that the prosecution knows that Alice killed Bob, but only because they were illegally tapping Alice's phone lines and the evidence would get thrown out. Or imagine that Alice is in the mafia, and your only witness, Charlie, suddenly went missing.

> he's some tech kid with really poor judgement

History is littered with people who went from "poor judgement" to "murder". To be clear, I'm not calling Ulbricht a murderer. I'm just not convinced that you know him so well that you know what he will and won't do.
What are the advances in AI and Avionics needed for deep space exploration?
I love the thrill of solving a particular problem with code. I also like being able to create useful things from simply hitting a keyboard for a while.

I think its a great technical field that also rewards creativity. I'm also and hobbyist musician and I feel that the two skills really work well with each other.
The Outlook is a prime example for situation when pure search doesn't help. When I'm looking for some mail 1+ year old I sometimes don't even remember one correct word in it. Then I resort to some kind of tag system - folders, timestamps etc. And some times I don't find it at all.
I got an invite yesterday but it's iOS only for now (no website as well) and I don't have any iOS device.
Although I love that coding is a means of creation, problem solving, and user experience. I feel that my primal reason for wanting to code isn't any of those.

Honestly, I don't even become interested or inspired to solve a problem until I experience it for myself (unless it's a job).

I feel that my interest in coding stems from the fact the I enjoy challenging conventions. I like asking why things are the way they are, and then breaking the rules to better the creation process & product.

The fact that I can learn on my own (as opposed to lectured) is what also drives me to code more. When I finally find something I want to build, I can learn how it's been done in the past, and develop my own opinions on how it should be done.

Also, coding is probably the first thing that I've ever felt I could do with my life.
Public Access to the Argonne Software Mirror to Be Removed on February 1, 2015
Does Brady v. Maryland require disclosing witnesses?
It's a shame, really. I was a big fan of the old Isohunt back in the day.
PulseAudio gives me a better out-of-the-box experience than any other sound system, bar none.
False equivalence watch: what Snowden did was so outside the bounds of established law that he'd face prosecution in virtually any administration in American history. His arguments mitigating the offense might be important at a trial, but we can't know, because he fled the country rather than face that trial. The attention paid to Snowden is not in itself evidence of increased authoritarianism in the US.

When I think of Putin, I don't so much think of things my government says (in fact, Americans don't generally pay that much attention to what the government says; our legislature is skirting single-digit approval ratings).

I think more about news stories about how 4chan-style prank videos of kids having gay porn posters put up on their wall are reported as factual news by Russian state-owned television:

http://www.advocate.com/world/2014/12/06/watch-russian-docum...
“Стратегия МЛМ офлайн”
It's evolved over the years:

Age 9: It's fun

Age 13: It's fun, and my parents won't buy me any games for my C64 so I have to write my own

Age 24: It's fun, and I can automate all this boring repetitive business stuff to get my work done faster so that I can play more Freecell and Tetris.

Age 26: It's fun, and The Internet just happened and suddenly everybody wants to pay me three times what I'm worth to do it. Woohoo!

Age 31: It's fun, and if I do just one day of it for freelance clients each month I can live on this beach indefinitely.

Age 37: It's fun, and if I put up a credit card form on one of my side projects, people seem to be willing to pay me money every month just to use it.

Age 43: It's fun, and I seem to still be doing it even though I could probably pack it in and live off that SaaS income.

There seems to be a common thread there. I suspect I'll still be doing it in another 10 years.
Because it's the only thing I'm good at.
Because he is on trial, which means he has not been found guilty.
I don't know. There always seem to be many alternate compositions of rules that can be used to define the environment while enforcing or altering the rule composition rules.

Rules can define themselves, rules used to regulate the flow of information become information.
FCC Should Track the Application of Fixed Internet Usage – Based Pricing [pdf]
Google has been extremely active in Zürich and Switzerland for 10+ years: http://www.lunchoverip.com/2007/09/inside-google-z.html

Google Panoramio is also based there: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panoramio
Add 2 more characters in f3 (e.g. two empty spaces in the before return). Right now the way it's written it's still below the limit.

That however does not mean you need have to minify your server code.

Please don't base such decisions on some random microbenchmarks that have 0 connection to the code that you are really running in production.

Instead base these decisions on profiling of your actual application.

As I already said below: it is unlikely you get 70% improvement by removing all the comments in your code. For that you need an app that does nothing but a very hot tight loop calling the same small function that does almost nothing too.
The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker.

It's about how death shapes life and human society. Completely changed how I view life and the world around me. Also launched me on a path that's resulted in me successfully combating depression and anxiety (and no, it's not a self-help book). It's a fascinating read.
Shngri – cosmic octave instrument
Many reasons, best presented in list form, in no particular order of significance.

* Enjoyment. I like constructing intangible things inside computers such as data structures, and manipulating them.

* Problem or task solving. I like making tools that do things to take away burden from my and others' lives.

* Self-fulfillment. I like guitar but I'm terrible at it. I like snowboarding but I'm mediocre at that. I love rock climbing but again I'm not remarkable. I'm not very good at lots of things, but I'm pretty good at coding.

* What else is there to do? As someone who has leanings towards existential nihilism, eventually one sees no value in anything. So one might as well do something to pass the time. Writing code ticks that box.
What's the website address?
It seems to me that you're having fun...
the notion of client and server is dependant on the kind of application. For a single player game, an Ipad is both a client and a server.
Not that I'm aware of. AFAIK anyone can submit a patch to OCaml without any hurdles. There is a Consortium that companies can join and they benefit from a different licence. That might be what you're thinking of.

http://ocaml.org/community/support.html#TheCamlConsortiumatI...
My point is that because of stagnation of ILP and cache size, the number of cores will increase anyway, so we'd have to find a way to utilise this resource anyway. Of course, trading single core performance for the number of cores is pointless in most of the desktop use cases.
As a Kickstarter backer too, we've pointed out to you guys for months that your pricing scheme was confusing and didn't make any sense. You haven't cleared it up any since.
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Xchg rax, rax – a x86_64 asm poetry book
Hi

Find us at https://flowxo.com

Please let us know what you think - Any thoughts on what we should build in next?
What about a payment system that would be great
Christmas storm Montreal subway
Reputation? For my use case, I evaluate a torrent based on the number of seeders.

You mentioned that anybody can post a magnet link on any forum. Yes. But where do they get that magnet link from in the first place? I mean, obviously the person who creates the torrent has it. Is that the only way?

You mention DHT. My torrent client does that. Hm, is there a client that I can use to "search" DHT? Failing that, is there a way to dump a list of what hashes/magnet links/torrents my own client is currently hearing about?

Sorry for not just googling this, but there's an awful lot of cargo cult information about torrents out there...
There are plenty of p2p protocols, why complicate the adoption of bitcoin by tying the blockchain to piracy?
The #1 best standard of living metrics are highly flawed. Vienna ranks quite high, but ask people where they want to live and it's not Vienna or Zurich, it's larger cities like Paris/London/New York/Boston/Los Angeles/San Francisco/Tokyo/Hong Kong or it's smaller rural towns. The factors they focus on don't really reflect well on quality of life.
Does it matter? I think most people who download Game of Thrones illegally would not have downloaded it legally (e.g. pay for it) had it not been available for free.

Demand is much larger when a product is free. I doubt HBO is missing out on a large amount of sales. Especially without the amount of free marketing illegal downloading has brought them.
Only if their identities were exculpatory information, right?
I want to try this one.
https://www.lacie.com/ca/products/product.htm?id=10597
I'm praying for this blog to be Wordpress as I've just started a project in angular!!
Funny you brought this up. It's a little different from iDoneThis in that it's about updating your boss, not about storing your "dones". I actually built a team version of this, but that is identical to weDoneThis, and being friends with Walter from iDoneThis, I don't want to just copy their hard work. So offering this for free for now. :-)
That's an obligation of the law, but not of public opinion.
It's a passion.
SeslisohbetReklamTanitim
If you are writing a http router in golang and you aren't using a Trie to do the route lookups, you're probably doing it wrong.

See:
https://gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/2013/12/05/building-a-new-...

http://blog.vulcanproxy.com/trie-based-http-requests-routing...
I originally started because I was fascinated by what could be done with code. Creating things from start to finish is still exciting even after 14 years. After taking on a management role, I still code when I can because I enjoy it.
Nit-pick, but I don't agree with his definitions of complexity.

>>> The second reason software is slow is known as space complexity. This is a measure of how much 'space' or memory a computer needs to run your solution. The more memory required, the slower the solution.

Requiring more memory doesn't make an application slower by default. It simply means it requires more memory to run as expected.

Similarly, when he's talking about run time complexity, he calls it "a measure of how many comparisons a program needs to make to achieve a result". It can be any action, not necessarily a comparison. Be it number of times cycle needs to be executed, number of expensive calls to external service, etc. Number of comparisons to make is commonly used in introductory courses when studying sorting algorithm but doesn't make much sense without a context.
I was lucky enough to review a draft of this amazing book.

Two of my favorite poems:

; 0x1
.loop:
xadd rax,rdx
loop .loop

; 0x13
mov rcx,0x40
.loop:
mov rdx,rax
xor rax,rbx
and rbx,rdx
shl rbx,0x1
loop .loop

From the book's description on https://www.createspace.com/5067642:

xchg rax, rax
Authored by xorpd

About the author: "Performs a bitwise logical exclusive-OR
of the two packed double-precision floating-point values
from the source operand (second operand) and the
destination operand (first operand), and stores the result
in the destination operand. The source operand can be an
XMM register or a 128-bit memory location. The destination
operand is an XMM register."
(Intel(r) 64 and IA-32 Architectures Software Developer's Manual)

; 0x40 assembly riddles
"xchg rax,rax" is a collection of assembly gems and
riddles I found over many years of reversing and writing
assembly code. The book contains 0x40 short assembly
snippets, each built to teach you one concept about
assembly, math or life in general.

Be warned - This book is not for beginners. It doesn't
contain anything besides assembly code, and therefore some
x86_64 assembly knowledge is required.
My wife is way better at cataloging our images than I am, but we use Dropbox for everything.

All images get put into a folder by event and year. We have IFTTT save all Facebook images and Instargram images into Dropbox as well.

For viewing, we use iPhoto mostly.
Being able to go from nothing to something is fun.
Hour of Code goes global to teach programming
Wow, great walk through. The lightweight alternative I started with was a recurring calendar event with a mailto link :-) But I wanted something a little more formal, and it was a fun app to build!
Thats a board statement.

TPB offered a means of verifying uploaders so that people could trust content. The current P2P system is distributed, however the trust isn't. Magnet links need to add a digital signature of the uploader so people can have faith in them.

However having a digital key means there is a private key that can tie an uploader to lots of illegal activity. Uploaders might not want that.
I'm happy if my tax money can help someone in need. However, I'm unhappy if it leads to creation of permanent poverty traps. Have any countries (perhaps in Europe or elsewhere) successfully implemented support systems that are fair both to the needy and to the taxpayers?
I don't really know from a legal aspect as I am not an attorney.

From a digital marketing and branding perspective though, I generally advise our ecommerce and SaaS clients to never utilize a name that might cause confusion regardless of Country of origin for competitors. We have our own offering coming out in Jan 2015 for a SaaS product and we ditched 2 awesome names because we saw others using names either identical or way too similar that could cause confusion. Better to be unique than have confusion, especially if the idea that you and the other guy have are the same industry or problem solution.

One point though, is that since you own the .com domain people will likely hit your site first even when looking for the other guy as it is so common for people to type .com over any other TLD. But, I still don't like using a name that could be confusing.

The web is global as a whole, and so is branding when dealing with SaaS and web properties.
Angular performance has nothing to do with handling a lot of traffic.
Efficiency of the Top Technology Companies
I'm not sure if you're saying that blogs are simple or if you're subtly making a jab at his blog. :P

But i actually think you're on to something.... WILL IT SCALE?! Find out in next weeks episode...
I think you're misunderstanding what entrapment is. What you've described is blackmail.
One of the reasons Space Monkey exists: http://www.infoworld.com/article/2856553/cloud-storage/you-c...
The law doesn't do an especially good job of it either. Perhaps it would be better were we all more observant of the principle than we tend to be; the accused is not always guilty.

Edit: For context, this is what I had in mind: https://medium.com/for-the-love-of-podcast/serials-big-confe...
London airspace closed after computer failure
As much as I'd like to chalk my motivation up to ambition, I'm just as scared as you are. That's what keeps me working on products in my (limited) free time.

We'll make it though.
I like(d) it a lot. Recently I changed job due to an internal company change and I am in a terrible technological situaton. Working with a lot of stuff I don't like with colleagues I don't like. But my passion for coding didn't leave me. I love it and I try to write as much code for myself as possible.