skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's interesting how Microsoft is starting to feel like the lesser evil compared to Google. I wonder how many good services/companies have been killed by Google offering an inferior service for free, only to abandon the service later on.
Maybe people learn to apreciate talent and quality more with age? Combine that less time to find new music, and the case is closed.

And alright, people that wasn't that musicalical to start with probably just can't be bothered. Given whats on radio I guess that's perhaps the most common case.
Dern kids and their "Romantic" claptrap. If Jean-Baptiste Lully was good enough for the French court, it's good enough for me.
#1 is very hard. D is the only language I know of that's reasonable about this, and even then, it's not everything.

#2 is something we care about, and want to have the option to do in the future.
Has the call from C to Rust also zero overhead?
> Missy Elliott was big your college years.

Not really visibly so for someone who was 41 and had the normal timetable getting through college; she didn't start to become a big name until the late 1990s, first as a songwriter/producer and later as a solo artist. Someone who is 41 and graduated from college at 22 would have graduated before her solo debut, and in the same year as the Aaliyah album for which here work as a songwriter/producer/feature artist was credited with first bringing her into the public awareness.
I think they are referring to this http://blog.skylight.io/bending-the-curve-writing-safe-fast-... in the blogpost
There's a side effect to the downscaling of all content in that all content feels the same.

Guild Wars 2 has public world events, where large numbers of players (50+) team up against a boss or a mob of enemies. Almost all bosses are HP sponges, so it gets repetitive very very easily. (ArenaNet attempted to make more complex areas, which mostly just added grind.)

In terms of world exploration, Guild Wars 2 has a few unique ideas there with Vistas (get to a certain point of the map and get a nice view) or Jumping Puzzles (platforming challenges), the latter of which I am not a fan due to the wonky controls.

The core issue why I don't play GW2 anymore is that it gets pretty samey. They did add episodic content for free which is pretty nice, except the plot was completely incomprehensible.
P99 rocks! (just sayin')
Slight correction: the dungeon finder isn't a new thing, it was added in Wrath, though later than the heirlooms.
C9D9 Episode 15 Recap – Consistent Deployments Across Dev, Test and Prod
I was recently working with a university department (I'm a business). They developed this interesting software in Haskell. Their developer quit job for something better, it took months looking for a replacement but still nobody wanted to pick up this code. That project just ended up being rewritten in Java so we could get on with development.

That's life folks. Some people just need to build products and get them to market for paying salaries and supporting their family. If you ask me what is bad about Haskell, it is the difficulty in finding developers and difficulty on making other developers to work with apps written in Haskell.

I don't program in Haskell, I have people doing the programming side (don't get me wrong, I wrote 100k LOC in Java over the 12 months) and if I ask other developers around here to learn Haskell, it is difficult to get any enthusiasm.
OTOH people who don't have kids might not drift away from their single life habits the way people with kids have to once the little ones are there. They have a lot more time/freedom to continue going to concerts, bars, parties, etc., all of which have the potential to expose them to newer music. Even if children expose their parents to new music, it takes awhile for kids to start discovering their own music, so there's a ~13 year gap where parents are spending a significant amount of time raising kids that can't show them anything new.
Doesn't the latest C++ standard more or less include C99?
You could always roll your own:
http://tshannon.bitbucket.org/freehold/
That's a great writeup, thanks!

Would you mind putting some contact info here (or in your profile - email address you provide for registration is not shown publicly)?
Does it even matter? Google apps through Chrome are as good as native apps on Linux anyway. What am I missing by using Drive through Chrome?
(There's a Drive thingy in (Linux-based) Chrome OS, though I think it's not a synced local folder like the Dropbox client, more of a VFS with a local cache. As a different angle on Drive clients, wonder if there's anything in that that could be adapted or open sourced.)
They have some weird nuances too. We had an issue where a crazy person added a newborn child, which meant that they "owned" the record.
I think this gets to the core of the problem. The API is out there and open, yet no one (or at least not many people) have decided to try and make a nice GUI client for Linux. Perhaps it's not a problem with Google but more a problem with publishing desktop/GUI software for Linux still being a complete pain in 2015. There's a fantastic talk from Dirk Hohndel last year about how much pain he's gone through creating and publishing a dive logging GUI application for Linux: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ON0A1dsQOV0 If someone like Dirk, who has access to no less than Linus Torvalds himself, has so much trouble creating a modern GUI app on Linux today then how much luck will anyone else have?
In October of this year, new rules will come into effect that basically require all cards and terminals to use chips

How does this affect Square and similar peripheral readers for mobile devices? Will users of those now be liable for fraud?
So many JS libraries these days, I can barely smell which ones are real anymore
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I have codes for:

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[ ] a free .CLUB

[ ] a free .WEBSITE

[ ] 85% off a .PRESS

If someone wants one, reply to this comment with your contact info.

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> They don't use the mechanic of more and better gear as a reward, so content doesn't get obsoleted by that.

Interesting. What do they use instead?

Most games use either gear or something akin to gear (like ships in Eve).
i suspect there is more to do with music discovery becoming more accessible today than it was 20 years ago. Nowadays you have online streaming of seemingly unlimited sources (soundcloud, spotify, pandora, etc). The only large-scale access to music before the internet was based on retailer shelfspace, popularity and public broadcast.

I suspect this is the cause of the more-or-less flat line around 33 years old. Most people older than that dont have familiarity with these new streams of music discovery which are now available. I suppose we'll see in 10 years, if that line moves out quite a bit?
Evolution of software development teams
What's notable about two of those cases is that they're about frustrating the power of the electorate. The value of the SCOTUS to Conservatives is that it provides the ultimate bulwark against the power of the vote, which - in a fully franchised system - would banish contemporary Conservatism from national politics completely. If our warped electoral system finally crumbles under a liberal court, it will take a lot more that a restoration of a Conservative majority to reimpose it.

It's not overstating the case to say that losing the next Presidential election will mark the Conservative movement's final chapter. This is the movement that started with Barry Goldwater, came to fruition under Reagan, began to wobble badly when Gingrich became Speaker of the House, and shit the bed completely under Bush. Since then, we've been living in an interregnum. The old order is damaged beyond all repair, but still had enough residual strength and momentum to keep its replacement from solidifying. But if they lose the Court - which they are sure to do if Dems win the White House in 2016, the electoral reforms that will be the death of them have a clear path to victory.

Reduced to total political impotence, the bubble of lunacy, fear, hate, and anger that keeps platforms like Fox News in business will finally deflate. Remnants will exist, to be sure, but they'll be limited to control of a shrinking number of economically backwards red states, and even that won't last for more than a generation. Whatever is left after that will be taken about as seriously as the Westboro Baptist Church or the KKK.
I was going to ask why that is as it seems counterintuitive at first glance. Instead, I Googled it and found the following (excellent) answer at StackOverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5797014/why-do-browsers-m...

I'm just provided the link here in case anyone else was wondering the same thing.
What happens if the double_input Rust function is declared extern but not no_mangle? When would you want a mangled extern Rust function?
You put too much emphasis on technology. Its true that technologies like amplification, multi track recording, and synthesizers, made new types of music possible. But shifts can occur without corresponding advancements in technology. The rise of alternative music in the 90s, for instance, can't be explained by technology.
We're working on automating scheduling for healthcare systems. Medical administration costs are huge in the US, and only growing. Smart tech is one way to keep them in check. We've also found that it has a profound impact on people's work life- no one likes spending 120 hours in excel to make a schedule.

https://reschedulemed.com
http://www.hypem.com is a great way to stay on top of what's "trendy". Quality can be hit or miss, but it is a great way to stay in the loop.
Edit:

Our goal is to compete based on offering a superior product rather than to disparage competing services.
Semi-related topic, NPR put a podcast up earlier today talking about simplicity vs. complexity in pop songs (4:29): http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2015/04/24/401925095/all-s...
I know that obsessing about money can alter the physical shape of your brain, I guess this is the next obvious step.
From a guy with your moniker, I'm sure to get unbiased and fair perspectives about Google.
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Or how about just anyone hoping for upgradability from a freaking watch?
If you omit the `#[no_mangle]` definition then the compiler will end up emitting a mangled symbol (e.g. one with a long hash at the end that's hard to guess).

Many C APIs take a callback function pointer, which in rust has the type `extern fn()`, and this is the primary use case for an `extern` function defined in Rust which doesn't have `#[no_mangle]` on it.
I find myself hitting the view source button to read (mangled) text in JS source way too often.

Or worse, unmangled text in JS source. Or text that's set to display:none until the JS gets to it.

If you're going to compile things clientside (looking at you, markdown), at least put the raw text in something the browser can display before the JS compiles it.
I have such fond memories of World of Warcraft when it was in private beta, public beta, launch, and then up to the first expansion.

It sounds strange but some of my dearest friends and fondest memories of being a teenager was via World of Warcraft.
Would raising the minimum wage reduce turnover too?
I'd bet that the majority of engineers at Google use OS X.
On your main screen, make the example editable. It would be nice to be able to just enter into the green box to see how it works rather than have to click through the "Get Started"

Also, your instructions makes it seem like the example is editable:

SUPER EASY TO USE
1. Paste your source data in the white box on the left.

2. Type in the green box on the right how you would like the first line of your data to look.

3. Transformy will look at your example and transform every line from your source data into the same format.
> at any age, people with children (inferred from listening habits) listen to a smaller amounts of currently-popular music than the average listener of that age.

Wait, did you just use listening habits to infer a non-listening habit variable and then correlate that inferred variable back with listening habits? Because it sounds like when you unpack that, what it really sounds like you found is that "people who listen to a higher ratio of (particular not-incredibly-popular-subset-of-music) to (overall music that they listen to) listen to proportionally less (incredibly popular music)." Which would seem to be an obvious conclusion whether the subset of not-incredibly-popular music is one that you assume correlates to having children or not.
+1 for the insync app. Google could have a Google Drive for Linux offering overnight by simply buying them.
> (for a woman... because men's natural enjoyment of sex throws off my following analogy)

Pro tip: If your analogy needs a disclaimer that perpetuates gender stereotypes for it to work, then its probably sexist.
I played WoW for a few years, from vanilla to the level 80 cap days (pugging Naxx was an interesting experience).

I used to love wandering around the world, finding hidden spots, and exploring the different pieces of Azeroth.

Now I'm older and feel way too guilty devoting that amount of time to a game.

Incidentally, one of the main pleasures of Minecraft (for me) was the same exploration.
It didn't work. See Rich Geldreich's blog, http://richg42.blogspot.com/. People still try and optimize for looking good vs their coworkers on other teams vs simply doing the best work possible.

Examples, http://richg42.blogspot.com/2015/01/open-office-spaces-and-c..., http://richg42.blogspot.com/2015/01/microsofts-digs.html
> Personally I find the new stuff coming from people's bedroom the best in what electronic I've seen.

Yes, I do not disagree. What I am talking about is mainstream music that has matured. For example, Trance music was exciting when it came from bedroom studios in the 90s. You could hear individuality. Nowadays it does sound very same-y because, for instance, every one uses the same presets.

So what I meant was: The kind of music that has been founded by the first generation of bedroom musicians is boring by now.

If I were to go out on a limb, you could perhaps arguee that the artists you've named certainly rely on bedroom technology but also have something new: access to huge online networks. For example, progress in electronic music would have been slower if there were no youtube tutorials or soundcloud to find like-mindeded musicians etc.
I haven't used Visual Studio to compile C in a long long time, but does it support compiling files as C files as well? For example:

char ptr = malloc(10); // this is not valid C++

vs

char ptr = (char *)malloc(10); // This is usually required for Visual C++ (or was).
If spotify et al helped people discover more diverse music, you should see popularity in teenage listening habits decline, since teens would get exposure to more diverse artists.
It does indeed! Due to Rust's lack of a garbage collector or runtime altogether, when C calls into Rust there is no overhead. In the example in the blog post [1] you can see that the Rust function has no extra syntactic burden, and the compiler also will not add any form of conversion one way or another. The C code then just emits a direct call to the symbol, so everything is totally free!

[1]: http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/24/Rust-Once-Run-Everywher...
IIRC, the turbo issue was the usual one around heat stress, and a turbo timer went a long way towards easing that.
Of note with the 90 level boost, you get one for free when you purchase the expansion, which makes it easy for returning players to skip the content! (I ended up taking my 80 Death Knight through to 90 the hard way so I could see Cata/MoP content)
Tesla and Energy Storage: The Race to Power the Future
I had a similar experience in doing telephone screenings a few years ago. On paper, the candidate looked a lot like me. But in the phone screen actually had trouble with some very softball questions. We usually asked about SQL, ASP.Net and JavaScript... if the candidate did well in any one of the three, they moved on to the next stage.

I was absolutely amazed at the number of people with a decade or more of web development with ASP/ASP.Net SQL and JavaScript that didn't get past that first stage (about 1 in 4). It actually made me very upset that was the state of the hiring process for technical roles.

I can't imagine what it's like for Google, given that they tend to ask for more conceptual understanding of common algorithms, which I know for a fact I'd fail at because I simply don't work in constructs that low level, and it's been years since I've read much on them. I do have an understanding of how to distribute work, and connect complex solutions together to a relatively fine grained detail... but being well rounded with a good high-level vision isn't what companies like Google and Microsoft tend to screen for (I have gone through the interview process for MS a few times, but never with Google).
Indeed :-)

If you really want to be pedantic, there are electrons moving in there so it is solid state but it has moving parts :-)
Fixed-point combinator and the Y combinator
GW1 was amazing for that. Vanilla had you spend some time to level up to 20 (max), and you felt like an adventurer by the time you maxed out.

The next expansions however speeded up the leveling process. You start level 1, do some story mission that kickstart your adventurer into the real world and you are level 20 by the time you finish the prolog (i.e. you start on an island, and by the time you get to the main continent you are max level).

Then, you can play where you want, with who you want. Only your gear and your skills matter.

GW1 was an amazing game. As much as I like GW2, I wish they had kept more gameplay mechanics from the previous game.
Interesting data. I just disagree with the interpretation. It could be that teens are just new to the whole concept of music, of course they go to the first thing they hear about which is the currently popular stuff. Because by definition it's played in the main stream. That quickly (as the data showed) changes once they start to think about what they actually like.

It's like, if you were new to programming you don't dive into some obscure lisp dialect to start off. You probably go with what is currently the most popular thing, the thing you were most likely to hear about first.

Then as you age, you start being more adventurous and thinking for yourself about what you like. There is so much music out there, it isn't a one dimensional slider of bad to good. So with all that diversity, if people are exploring and making up their own minds, by necessity it won't be "popular" music.
Good question. Looks like the answer is, yes, you will be liable just like anybody else, and just like other providers, Square will start providing chip readers. They have a page about it here:

https://squareup.com/emv

Interestingly, it looks like this may be the end of the model where the reader is so cheap they can give it away for free, as they list it for $29.
Interesting using gloves for an analogy.

I've gotten so use to using 1's and 0's.
Looks like an attempt to introduce some measure of scientific rigor to the design-by-committee paradigm, with a new programming language as its goal. Interesting, it could lead to some good ideas.

I'll wager that it won't be possible to assess many of the choices involved in a completely objective way, since the participants in each study will have prejudices and familiarities which will bias the results. Because of the science-oriented positioning, my guess is this language will be somewhat like Python (not that that is a bad thing).
Ledger and Coinkite Smart-Cards with Multi-Signature for Even More Security
Completely agree. I started playing two days after TBC came out IIRC, and stopped shortly after I hit the level cap in WotLK.
Dropbox is also available for Android, and I believe iOS as well.
This is still here (others are gone for me). Wonder how he's able to do all these edits and still get approved?
This is basically a crowd-sourced programming language with fact-checking (by experimentation, on proposals before they are added).

A reductive explanation, yes, but I don't think it's inaccurate, based on what I could find on their site. Would love to be corrected if there's some large part I missed.

As far as actually constructive criticism, I'd really love it if this was the first thing I saw on quorumlang's homepage.
It's not the same. That is your straw-man, not mine.
I interpret the article to be referring to parents of young children (e.g. identifying parent listeners via kid/nursery music). These parents may well be curating their non-kid music listening for their children.

That's what I did. When our kids were born, I wanted them to hear historically-significant popular music, not just the currently popular dreck. Think Motown or 80's Michael Jackson, not {fill in the blank with anything popular this minute}.
God that was painful :-). I lost a lot of time in WoW, perhaps it was an escape, but I spent hours learning the various nooks and crannies, leveling up over 3 dozen characters of various types to the max level. I had people I never met that I felt were good friends, shared battles and triumphs and failures. Laughed at the sometimes incredibly subtle in game humor, and sometimes not so subtle. Collected odd recipes to cook, outfits to wear, and trophies and achievements. I loved having the 'two ring' which was one better than the One Ring.

But as others point out, the 'traditional' way to build an MMO is 'learn skills by levelling up / start playing at max level' The game set a number of challenges for 'max level' characters which depended on gear, group composition, and various strategies to overcome the game mechanics. That is where it failed for me.

In WoW while leveling you often needed to join up with groups to run through a local dungeon together. It was fun when you had a good group, annoying when you had children in the group. There were too many ways for 10 - 12 yr old boys to grief people.

In an effort to increase its appeal, Blizzard changed it again and again. Skill changes, techniques, complexity was removed, buffs and nerfs to various skills. Lots of change and slowly less and less appeal. All of the components were there to make it better (arenas were a great testing ground for devs to evaluate PvP changes).

I stopped playing when Mists shipped. It was just too stupid at that point and the similarity to kung-fu panda to stark. Oddly, if you could provide servers that stopped at one of the expansions (Wrath or maybe even Cataclysm) I would still be spending money with Blizzard, but now not so much.

I look at it periodically and see the makings of a durable world/gaming simulation environment. I hope someone picks up the challenge.
here's Square's FAQ page for the liability shift. the short answer seems to be yes, starting in october if you're using square you're liable for any fraud.

https://squareup.com/townsquare/emv/
This might be true but I imagine at least some of their employees use Linux and would like to use drive from Linux.
I would strongly suggest having a paragraph, right on the home page, explaining what an "evidence-oriented" language is and how it differs from conventional languages.

In other words, consider looking at your home page through the eye of someone who knows NOTHING about what you are doing.