skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are basic some things that make using open tools not work very well... the following 3 seem to bubble up and stop making lots of unix dev + python tools not work:

No fork

No ansi in terminal

Seperate Select for files and Sockets on Windows..

Fix those and I bet loads of the open source tools would start working, making Windows much more attractive to X platform devs.
Haha - beat me to it!
Sure, you are right to some extent wrt Avengers, but his hands are still tied by Marvel - there are other people in charge of "big picture", so he can't do anything he wants there.
Ah, you weren't using floating-point. That makes things substantially easier.

W.r.t. floating-point, good luck. See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9430958
I used to think this way, but I've seen suits that did in fact turn out to be "what could the law firm possibly have been thinking?" baseless. For instance, that guy who claimed to be entitled to own half of Facebook.
If work was non-stop fun, they wouldn't have to pay you to do it.

If your work is your whole life, then I would suggest moving somewhere where you are happier. If you work just as a means to live, then suck it up (assuming it's not completely toxic). It's work, not fun.
The point being made is at the bottom - progressive enhancement. If at least the html makes it across the wire, a progressively enhanced website will still "work": you can still read content, click links, submit forms

http://jakearchibald.com/2013/progressive-enhancement-still-...
I've been involved in several projects with SQL Server on Windows and Java on Linux. The reason for choosing SQL Server is because that is the tool(+ Oracle) most DB administrators are familiar with.

If I could, I would choose PostgreSQL every time. But my clients do not have a person who is willing to learn to use Linux and PostgreSQL. Even fancy things like ultra fast backups with ZFS snapshots and PostgreSQL doesn't sell.

Anyway, working with SQL Server is fine, it's solid DB. But Microsoft should really invest time in a proper CLI tool that work on Linux.
Can't help but feel that if it were a similar prank pulled by Apple on Android, the comments wouldn't be half as forgiving.
I simply can't believe that they are "working on getting it removed".

If it was a problem they didn't want the whole world to know about, it would've been removed the second they were made aware of the issue.
Why India still a good option for call center services?
PayPal Wants to Integrate Password with Human Body
And in the same area... https://goo.gl/maps/5t9br
Resolve consumer complaints
I don't think so. Map Maker is mostly moderated by the community, so Google might not have had any doing in this. Could have been one guy with multiple accounts doing legitimate edits for a long time just so he can do this once.
Are you sure it's a counterpoint? The concluding "Principles of democratic structuring" are very much a recipe for implementing structurelessness effectively. The final words:

> When these principles are applied, they insure that whatever structures are developed by different movement groups will be controlled by and responsible to the group. The group of people in positions of authority will be diffuse, flexible, open, and temporary. They will not be in such an easy position to institutionalize their power because ultimate decisions will be made by the group at large. The group will have the power to determine who shall exercise authority within it.
A kind of mountweazel
WPF vNext and NuGet
dont be evil.
In what way could this be construed as trolling? If OP had linked to some fake google maps imitation (https://maps.google.fake.com), I could see your point - but this is live on the real Google Maps. I would argue that it is interesting, regardless of how it got there.
Also Brussels has the Manneken Pis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manneken_Pis
Well, it could be a dick.
So, the primary function that makes Clone Zone worthwile to non-programmers is missing in Developer Tools?
Looks more like it is large new building project and the streets haven't been named yet.
Now if just TWC had the same plans everywhere. Where I live, $40 would get you a 15Mbps plan. $70 gets you their top of the line 50Mbps plan. You can't go higher without switching out of residential plans, and then you start paying a lot more.
The original example does actually properly deal with exceptions.
Its bigger then li's it about an overall approach. In this use case, yes maybe its an overkill but in some cases its not and allows for quite a bit of flexibility to use the same styles across multiple element types.

I guess it's come about from trying to be more semantic within the documents.

Declaring Headings with classes is a good example as well.

h1,
.h1{
font-size:20px;
}

h2,
.h2{
font-size:18px;
}

etc... This allows you to apply <h1> styles to <h3> or even <p>'s while still keeping the content semantically correct and designers happy.

Another few other common ones are

strong,
.strong{
font-weight:600;
}

small,
.small{
text-size:10px;
}

The same can go with .collection, somebody may want to use the styles on something thats not a list for example <div>'s.

It also does not really go against inheritance, themes like .collection-alt can still work.

Sometimes its an overkill and I don't always do it, but in some cases (heavily responsive sites) it has worked really well. Its also easier to work in a team with one approach, rather then just doing it for headings etc why not take the principle/standard across all styles.
"The mall of district", "eiffel tower", "statue of liberty".

Either they have something akin to Las Vegas in Pakistan, either there is someting very weird with this data.
I think the crux of the problem lies in the sheer number of students who attend college today; as the author points out:

"It is true that only about 5 percent of the British population attended university in my own student days, ... [today] that figure has risen to around 50 percent..."

The reality is that teaching critical thinking doesn't scale nicely, because it requires an intimate dialogue; the process of rigorously critiquing ideas is a two-way street. In today's institutions, where professors lecture to classes of
200+ students, this simply isn't possible.

In the article, the author claims universities have abandoned their roles as centres of critical thinking due to capitalistic forces. While I think this is true, I also believe that our collective attitude towards university shares the blame. Unfortunately, college is seen as the only legitimate path to success after high school.

If students had more opportunities to explore their interests, instead of being funnelled into university, perhaps universities could re-establish themselves as institutions where critical discussion takes place.
That bad? Yow.
A service's customer data must persist somewhere. "On the cloud" is a marketing abstraction to fool customers into a false sense of integrity.

Just remember that most cloud services do not do backups, do not have a disaster recovery / BIA plan, do not use ECC memory in network, compute and storage systems. Users must take personal responsibility for ensuring their private data is safe, because wishing is not a winning strategy.
I was being sarcastic about the view of many that Google and other commercial maps must be better just because they are commercial. OSM is not without its own share of vandalism, but it is rare and usually hidden somewhere.
It's a Little Ridiculous, but Light-Hearted: "What's Your Computer Name?" [Quiz]
I think the point of this is more against requiring some JS to load and work in order to do things which do not require JS in the first place, like displaying some static text or laying out the page.

It also highlights the importance of progressive enhancement.
This makes me sad because I care about apple, and wish android cared about apple too.
Hiring a development team to build a new FOSS app
I've just about secured funding to underwrite the development of a new application to be released under the GPLv3. I have no idea who to talk to about doing the actual development work, though. Is it hard to find software developers who will write F/OSS for hire? Are there established, respected groups who do this kind of work routinely? Any suggestions or guidance appreciated.
An app to start a poke war in the office space. Love it!
wow, well i guess no one is actually reviewing at that zoom level?
See this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9432629

The web is no longer a collection of text content with links and forms. Many, is not most, web apps cannot be represented using html alone as progressive enhancement suggests. The core functionality just isn't there.
I am one of the "luddites". While it's becoming impossible now with all of that JS Overload, I would love to be able to go to a website with JS disabled, and read the text explaining why I should spend more time on the website and trust the website enough to enable JS or some other unnecessary (in the context of content consumption) plugin.
Why would you expect every random employee to have the necessary access to expedite such a change?

It's 5 AM in Mountain View, they probably have to get someone out of bed. Also, I imagine they would like to figure out where it came from, which may or may not complicate the removal, who knows.
+1. Saw this earlier, thought "looks good, I should use it for a project", then read license and went "hahahahhaha no chance, not using a normal/standard licence is way too high risk for me, no matter the project".
It's really cool. They use flexbox in some places! I don't understand why bootstap hasn't do that yet.
More typically, "Show" is whatever you want it to look like in the repl and "Read" doesn't get used. It's still useful for Show to be essentially Haskell syntax though so you can copy and paste into the repl.
Why do people single out drones? It's not like it would be different if there were a pilot in the thing. I guess it's just good old FUD.
I have very mixed feelings about this. It would be a poor decision to not have very strong defensive capabilities and offensive capability also to deter adversaries.

But (but!) my country (USA) has been beating the drums of war too loudly for decades and under Bush and Obama the situation in my opinion has gotten worse. I believe that the security interests of the USA are well served by paying closer attention to relationships with other countries and this does not include bullying. Moving military bases and capabilities up to Russia's borders is the most recent activity that concerns me.

This may be too simple of an explanation but is probably mostly true anyway: there is just too much money to be made in the war industry and it warps our news coverage and geopolitical strategies.
Ask HN: What are the sites which you visit regularly?
For example I lurk upon reddit, hacker news, quora, and productHunt.
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Owning Our Responsibility as Web Designers
For software engineers at least, I think the Google interview process would naturally select younger people. You need to have a pretty good grip on algorithms / ability to do programming competition like problems and in my experience at least you're not frequently practicing a lot of the required knowledge in real world software dev roles. You get rusty. By comparison, this is fresh in the minds of people just out of university. Also, I think younger people are more open to doing the required prep. I've heard many an older developers complain that they think their time is better spent learning / doing other things (which have more immediate real-world benefit).

I also don't think Google should consider changing an interview process that is working for them on the grounds that it may be indirectly penalizing older people.

note: I'm an older software dev about to go through the Google interview process.
It might be time to nationalize every bank that received a "bailout" from taxpayers. Too Big To Fail means Too Big To Exist. Where's Teddy Roosevelt when you need him.
The http.HandlerFunc wrapper technique in #golang
Because, a peeing apple? It's not anthropomorphic enough, it's just silly.
> that just can't be done in the browser without JS.

And that's fine. I don't think any one should complain when you open a webapp and it requires you to have JS enabled. The problem is that when I go to a website with JS disabled, I often don't get any messages, but blank or simply broken pages.
I've personally found it very easy to handle "exceptions" in Haskell. Partial answers feel "bad" in Haskell because all the core functionality is clean enough to not need them, but on the other hand that makes for some of the best tools around for dealing with partiality.
And this is why major software companies are actually American. Most European software companies are terrible places, where "coding" people are considered as the lowest class. I don't want to generalize, there are incredible startups and small companies out there, but hey, no European Google or Facebook.

And strangely enough, "managers" who used to be good in their 20's and who have been only producing powerpoint-esque bullshit for the last 15 years are not very valuable assets, despite being overpaid, resulting in poor quality products.
>>Or is it that recent generations are entitled to some better fate than previous ones?

We should all be striving to make our children's lives & the world they'll inherit better than our own.
As a Windows/VMWare/Exchange/Cisco admin, this is all completely foreign to me. Does this indirectly make a case for paying a vendor real money to manage their product properly? All vendors we work with provide installers that handle installing any dependencies. Updates are a few clicks. Occasionally we run into a vendor who provides installation/upgrade instructions, that involve manually copying files and hand editing config files. We replace those vendors. Error-prone people should not be doing manual file copying/editing or dependency checking, tasks that computers are dozens or orders of magnitude more competent at. This is B2B stuff where businesses should manage their product or risk getting sued out of business. The current environment seems to be that using free or opensource products is "free, with purchase of a team of consultants". Why not just pay the money to a vendor to provide, and support, a real product? It seems backwards to call this a sad state of sysadmin. This is like Boeing providing its leftover parts and a 9000 page manual on 747 assembly, and people complaining about the "sad state of mechanics". That's backwards. Buy a 747 from Boeing if that's what you need.
IIRC, the stack was mostly proprietary commercial software. It was expensive to get started unless you use the dev edition, even then you need Window.

For me, the web development was too magic, way more so than RoR. I got an acquaintance that only do .Net. And he harps about how .Net got Razor and data base represented as object unlike open source. When I pointed out that Razor was just a template engine and that database thing is just ORM which many other MVC frameworks have he just didn't get it. He didn't get it's a template engine nor does he understand that it's an ORM. Magic! I also tried some .Net dev, and it's very magic in term of abstraction. The VisualStudio IDE is amazing and C# seems like a much better language than Java. But the ecosystem isn't as rich, Apache such an awesome organization but Oracle is very pushy.

The downsize for me is big, ecosystem. Most of the open source projects play very well together, C# is a newbie, I rather wait for it to mature within the open source space (including books and tutorials).
Google has a lot of settlement free peering, so the bandwidth itself is going to be close to free, although the infrastructure to support it would not be. They also don't have to worry about being present in as many peering locations as most networks of comparable capacity, as their services aren't that latency sensitive, which also helps reduce their infrastructure costs.
A classic on the UNIX filesystem would be Chapter 4, INTERNAL REPRESENTATION OF FILES, from: Maurice Bach, Design of the UNIX operating system, 1986. It's quite short, about 25 pages.

I believe there is an online version available.
If there were a pilot in a plane flying over Yemen or Pakistan bombing people, the outrage would be far worse. I don't see a difference, but many people seem to. Either way, we shouldn't be doing it.
Handjob Ally has nothing on some of the mediaeval English streets: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gropecunt_Lane
This is awesome!

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=3530699443

> "Employery is the Facebook of employers"

http://tiffzhang.com/startup/index.html?s=1039985957

> Turn your economies into cash!
What about: -offering some "free-to-use" domains, than to wait some time, and if somebody got success with "his/her" website, selling the domain to his/her for _much_$ ;)
While the point may be true, it's like don't drive a car because people do die in car accidents.
The post is misleading as most of the cards present rare edge cases where JS doesn't work. Show percentages as well.

Yes JS may not work 0.1% of the time. So let's fix it once all the higher priority issues are fixed.
Didn't they receive the bailout in form of an investment by the government, effectively nationalizing parts of them?
The three zombie death sounds are on this page http://www.wolfensteingoodies.com/archives/olddoom/music.htm
> some (anecdotal) lady who sued McDonald and won millions by burning her mouth with fresh coffee because it was... wait for it... hot.

There are lots of frivolous law suits out there. If you look into this one you will find that it was a legitimate case, and it wasn't her mouth that got burned. Your argument will be more valuable if it is based on facts.
Or Fanta. ;)
There's not a lot of detail about the actual case. But to me based on what's there, it sounds like a recruiter reached out and told him "you would be a great candidate to come work at Google", which is kind of what recruiters always say.

Then he got sent to someone else (someone technical?) for a phone screen, and they decided he wasn't a great fit. It's possible his experience just wasn't really what they were looking for, and that wasn't evident from his resume.

I'm not trying to defend Google. As a 40+ year old programmer, I'm concerned about age discrimination, too. The article just doesn't make a very compelling case to me, I guess.
Next time you bite an apple, think you could be sued.
Maybe he thought apple was scrapping his data not google.
If an image fails to load, the browser draws a little box with some alternate text describing that box. If the CSS doesn't load, your text and content is displayed in a weird font without the grid layout you were using, but if you wrote your HTML semantically (using <h1> instead of <div class="title"> etc.), the browser can still show most of your content, and you can still move around on the page.

If the JavaScript fails to load and you were using it to significantly alter the content on your page, for example loading a news article asynchronously, the entire page fails to load.

I don't mean to pick on this app in particular (I actually think it's really cool and I plan on using it and learning from it), but take a look at what happens to http://hswolff.github.io/hn-ng2/ when you switch off JavaScript--it's completely unusable. Now try switching off JavaScript on Hacker News--all the links and comments are still there.
I never took them as such, but could be!
Fanboyism aside, Apple does have a more serious image, so a similar prank would seem more like an attack than a playful jab.
Developer's Guide to Enterprise: Mobile App Support at the End of the Universe
Stop assuming crap about people. Not everyone retires (and at all different ages) and not everyone gets pregnant and its pretty insulting to assume a candidate's life choices and make future judgements about them. Are you also going to avoid hiring young males because they are more likely to get murdered or get into a car accident? Or people in their 20s because they are likely to switch jobs? It's not even pragmatic, its just projecting your stereotypical judgements on others.

By the way, the fix was to make it illegal.
Honestly I do not understand that you really would not understand. So here is a typical example of why developpers do build on top of proprietary platforms: startup creating hardware which gets interest almost exclusively from the industry where due to all kind of reasons a common proprietary platform, Windows, is used. Hardware came first and then at one point early on they have to decide what toolset/frameworks will be used for lowlevel and toplevel applications. But really there is not a lot of choice at all: either do what the others do and develop for Windows and as such assure customers will come in, interoperability with other hardware is easy and so on. Or do 'the right thing' and go open source which has the benefit of open source but that is about it. Good luck finding customers willing to embrace your product and use it in their production lines if it runs on some, to them, alien platform of which they couldn't care less what license it has and if there is no straightforward way to make it work together with the hardware they currently own. So basically you are choosing between keeping your startup alive and well and making an income, or bakruptcy.
If it was not for the need to have a fallback for IE9 I would be using flexbox as standard, its a great feature with deals with so many of the common page layout issues, including vertical align.

Bootstrap is quite web focused still so I guess it will come when support for IE9 is not expected.

Though if you are doing an mobile/tablet only solution I would probably use flexbox only now. As long as you keep to the 2012 spec, you should be ok.

http://caniuse.com/#feat=flexbox

Bring on the death of IE9!!
Well, Google doesn't have office only in MV.
Crowdfunding is now an unholy hybrid of retail, investment, and risk
The biggest issue with electric bicycles for me is the fear of getting it stolen. My current, mid-expensive bike is stressing me like hell whenever I leave it out in the city for more than an hour, despite a big padlock. An electric bike would be a more visible target and I don't think I could ever actually leave it alone in good conscience.

Am I just paranoid or is this a real issue?
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NAT and Single Packet Authorization
I most commonly see them on cars with aftermarket modifications (tuning cars), which is in line with your speed limit/police hatred connection.