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There's no rule that says the language/library/framework divide has to lie where contemporary scripting languages put it. In PHP and ColdFusion, HTML is part of the language; in Ruby or Python it's usually relegated to a templating library; in Javascript the DOM is usually a library and it's bad practice to build up HTML strings (in 2015, at least; in 2008 it was good practice to build up HTML strings, because it was orders of magnitude faster than using the DOM). In Matlab or R, statistical and linear-algebra functions are part of the language, while in Python they're a library. In C++, strings, hashtables, and arrays are part of the standard library (or not even that, in early versions), while in Python & Ruby, they're part of the language. In Lisp the language parser is part of the language; in Rust, C++ (under Clang), Python, and Go it's part of the standard library; in many other languages it's not available at all.

There are certain best practices that have emerged for general purpose languages. Imba is not a general purpose language; it's explicitly meant for web programming, and makes sense that it would build common web programming functionality into the language itself.
> It was a major factor, yes, but claiming this purely as an accomplishment of Ruby is silly.

A major factor in popularizing it, as I claimed. Personally, I had never heard of it before DHH's 2006 RailsConf keynote. Could you point me to another web framework that had implemented it before 2006?

> Some of the syntax was influenced by CoffeeScript (nobody doubts that -- in fact, TC39 members have explicitly referenced it on more than one occasion) but the features are neither novel nor unique to Ruby.

Again, CoffeeScript was popularized by the Ruby community, as uptake increased greatly when it became a default in Rails. The syntax was heavily influenced by Ruby, which then found its way into ES.next.

> Front-end build tools

The Rails asset pipeline was actually listed as the inspiration for Brunch, the closest you can get to replicating its functionality in JavaScript. This went a long way towards popularizing the notion.

> I agree that CoffeeScript is the first one that gained major traction in the startup scene
> although most teams seem to have realised that the drawbacks aren't really worth it (not just the transpilation...

Yes, and CoffeeScript first gained traction within Rails. You also seem to be discounting the obvious popularity of ES.next transpilers.

> The Ruby community is very vocal and self-important but it's neither as uniquely innovative nor as much of an influence as its members like to make it out to be. If PHP is the kindergarden of programming languages, Ruby is the angsty teenager complaining about how nobody understands them and writing blog posts about their deep insights gained from flipping through Atlas Shrugged.

This is rude, untrue, and unhelpful. Be civil. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Creating your own foundation is a huge amount of work. I think you would benefit from doing this research, and I'm not going to tell you "don't do it" because it won't be convincing, but I predict that in the end you will not choose to start a foundation.

There's a chapter in Van Lindberg's Intellectual Property and Open Source on this topic. (It ends with a discussion of umbrella foundations like Apache, Eclipse, Software Freedom Conservancy.) Check it out: http://www.amazon.com/Intellectual-Property-Open-Source-Prot...
When was this published?
Yeah, you certainly don't have to feel bad for the victims, but we should all question whether the hackers are producing an overall net positive effect.
An odd thread for Hacker News, critiques of capitalism, poetry and reflection upon the ephemeral nature of things and - more shocking yet - references to La Planete Sauvage.
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This helps so many users around the world trust the e-commerce websites on a whole new level. Hopefully you'll start expanding to more countries soon without limits on bank accounts, particularly Eastern European region.
Hasn't this already been covered on this season of Bojack Horseman?
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> Burnout seems to almost always affect founders whose startups are not doing well...

There doesn't seem to be an obvious causation here. I could totally see either causing the other, or there being a common cause of both. Seems weird to just assume burnout is a result of doing poorly.
IMO, that's almost like saying "Building the app isn't a 'real challenge' because we can contract it out to IBM."

Yeah, you can hire "experts", but it's expensive. Having some basic knowledge of how things work can postpone hiring experts until the company can actually afford it. Want an expert HR person or an expert shipping/receiving guy? That's $150k each per year.

I mentioned this in a post just yesterday. The way YC (and VC in general) encourage companies to scale quickly at all costs increases dependence on VC money because it encourages companies to spend extra money getting things done/ready quickly, when they may not really need to.

HR, billing, marketing, sales, etc. are just as much a part of a company as the product, and "Hire experts to do it" may not be the best advice when starting out.
I wonder if it makes sense to "black-flag" certain instructions in the output, like here the comparison of a value with itself, as instructions that should never be generated and throw an error if that happens?
* internet high five *

Awesome.

I couldn't think of how to phrase the problem. "Short phrases with meanings that don't match the individual words used being parsed as individual words instead of the short phrase" is kind of wordy and a little confusing.
Is that you, Fox Butterfield?
This is distinctly the opposite of what I said. We have hired 30-somethings based on skillsets. We have also hired 30-somethings based on soft skills. We would not hire 30-something "pure developers" based on "potential, potentially outside their skillset" though because it's far cheaper to hire fresh grads, and you just have to assume that someone in their late 30's that's looking to change is just a burnout. It's a tough world.
When this happened to SONY, they went dark immediately and rebuilt from the ground up... Seems to the be the "right" approach, as opposed to business as usual from ALM. You have to wonder if they aren't still infiltrated.
That will be nice update. Thanks.
Chrome considering API keys and auto self-destruct for experimental features
So if I see someone driving while texting, this app wants me to...open the app while I'm driving and leave them a message?

Because lets be honest, I'm not going to remember the license plate info of the guy who just cut me off on the highway when I get to somewhere safe enough to do this.

Not trying to be snarky but this seems limited to parking situations or instances where you are a passenger in order for it to be used safely.
Note that about 40% of those accounts state that they are single.
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Giving a bad guy's background in a fiction novel a similar some similar traits someone you don't like for openly being critical of your work is "so dirty and underhanded"? This feels utterly backward.

If you gave me the option of:

A) Having a person publicly criticize my work saying things such as: "I found a man who has long yearned for intellectual stature beyond the realm of killer dinosaurs and talking monkeys"

B) An author will write a d-bag into one of his novels and say he went to the same college and works in the same field as me.

I find "A" much more appalling.
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> That was their first problem.

Where do you think you are, on reddit?
Is there room for introverts at the top
Ok, that's a possible reason. But shouldn't there be some amount of human intervention for false positives? There wasn't a flamewar brewing in this thread.
Not a lot of credibility to the daily mail; it could be right, but they just outright make shit up sometimes. It's basically a tabloid.
Too long, self-indulgent, rambling and unfocused. Not once does he mention cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) as a treatment though it's the most effective, least toxic, and longest-lasting treatment available. His doctors sound like idiots. One of them literally prescribed private school for him...along with Zoloft. All the doctors at Yale couldn't save this poor boy from himself!

This rich kid has severe anxiety and that is unfortunate. It would have been more interesting to read about his parents.
Is the editable website a feature or what ?
That's ridiculous. We're designed for cities, because we built cities? Ignoring chronic depression, the homeless, bad nutrition, epidemic diseases?

Our brain is good at adapting, sure, but not endlessly. Depression, drug use, crime all point to maladaptation.
Unless I'm misinformed, you're actually wrong. As far as I was told, you can pay into the social welfare system but as you don't qualify for certain benefits the only thing you can do is get a refund of the most recent payments (not all of them, mind you).

So you're of course free to pay into the system, but as you're neither required to pay nor eligible for the benefits, it's mostly a waste of money.

In the case of parental leave, the employer only pays as much as 50%. The rest is paid by the tax payer (or the government agency, rather). Plus, of course, the employer has no say in whether they pay this or not. They're required by law -- thanks to the arm's length principle ("Fremdvergleich") it wouldn't matter whether you as associate ("Gesellschafter") pay for yourself as the employee; at least if you're incorporated, not merely a civil law partnership ("GbR") or DBA ("Kaufmann").

Of course the situation is entirely different when it comes to healthcare: if you're an employee of your own company (i.e. you incorporated, otherwise you are the company) it's considerably more difficult to opt out of healthcare entirely. The healthcare-free entrepreneurs I was talking about are regular DBAs or freelancers and the only reason they don't have healthcare coverage is that they can't afford it (which of course technically means they should actually be insolvent as a business but it's difficult to draw the line between trying to survive as a business over a rough patch and desperately holding on to a sinking ship).

Oh, and another fun excerpt of German law: senior staff (which includes general managers, i.e. you if you incorporate and employ yourself) is exempt from a fair share of labour laws. On the plus side this means you don't have to obey vacation rules for yourself, but I'm sure you can also think of some of the negative implications.
Nice, that's exactly what I'm going for! Part of my philosophy with the app was to make my studying of Japanese as efficient as it could possibly be. I tried to shave out all of the time spent doing tasks that don't contribute to my actual learning, like trying to draw kanji, count strokes, manually type out flashcards, etc.

As for the clippings, those are all user-supplied. For example, I love classic JRPGs, and FFVI is my favorite. If you google around a bit, you can find the script for the Japanese version of FFVI. Import the script into Nihongo, and you can pre-study the words as you play along. You can also filter the flashcards down to just the words that show up more than once, so if you're not ready to study everything, you can just focus on the important words. It also works great if you want to study song lyrics, and I even used it to read Harry Potter in Japanese (thanks J.K. Rowling for putting out DRM-free books!)

Unfortunately, I don't have any plans for Android or the web right now, since this is a solo side-project for me, and I just don't have the time. But I'd love to do it in the future!
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Well, if you believe the hackers' motivation for doing this, I don't think it's about producing an overall net positive effect at all, just righting some perceived wrongs.

The perceived wrongs are not that AshleyMadison enabled married people to cheat on their spouses. What the hackers have said was their motivation is that AshleyMadison has lied to their users about the userbase, which is supposedly 90+% male, most of which have likely not engaged in an affair since most of the accounts they would interact with are supposedly fake. I don't think a net positive effect can come from this.
Contrariwise, implicit creation of local variables is my biggest pet-peeve with languages like Python, so ymmv.
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No, the article is very clear that the ratio at conception is exactly 1:1 (or incredibly close to it).
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You might feel less positively disposed towards a new generation that's super smart but sociopathic, especially if they have a superiority complex over the genetically normal...

In practice, I'd be more worried about well-intentioned mass modifications having more mundane negative consequence, like creating generations whose unusual metabolism means they're very unlikely to become overweight but highly likely to die very painfully in their early forties.
Maybe you are naive, but you are certainly not as naive as the marketing VP who didn't see the need to pay for security, and is today watching in horror as his business is getting hacked to hell.
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A lot of comments seem to be making a horrible comparison between "relentlessly focusing on building a great product and growing" and working long hours. There is no rule that says you must spend 120 waking hours in the office to be relentlessly focused on building a great product and growing the business. In fact, if anything sama is pointing out that people are wasting time with work that does not focus on building a great product or growing.

A member of a YC batch seems to have only a few obligations. There was occasional office hours which help to keep the batch on track with objectives to reach product or growth excellence. They have social events, which are good for learning and more general. They have a few demo type activities which are, again, around product and grown excellence. The rest of the time they work on... product and growth excellence. Do they have to work on things more than 40 hours a week? No. Is there a time clock where they share their hours? No.

Granted they are often out of their normal environment and very excited so they do work more than 40 hours. But that is a choice not a requirement. There are many examples of founders who bring spouses and children and find time during their batch for having great family experiences and good work/life balance.

The issue seems to be when they get home. They no longer spend 40 hours working on growth and product excellence. They work on marketing themselves. They work on raising more money. They work on PR. They lose the product and grown momentum.

We need to stop turning this into a conversation about how "start up founders must give up work/life balance to succeed". No one is suggesting that. What is being suggested is that you take what you learn in a 3 month period and use it after that three month period. Don't work longer, work smarter.

Edit: If the down voters would care to discuss why they object to this opinion, do feel free.
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>it's not as cut and dry as we think

That line sums up the entirety of law. I say it all the time and it should be a saying every potential client should be familiar with...the correct answer to any legal question is always: maybe. If a lawyer tells you anything but, they are selling you on something/telling you what you want to hear/etc...

The bar exam is not necessarily composed of 3 wrong choices and 1 correct answer. A bar exam question is typically comprised of 2 wrong answers and 2 right answers, then it becomes a question of what is the best answer out of 2 correct answers. It is not uncommon either for the bar to ultimately void a question and/or revise the scoring to reflect multiple answers as correct, and this is after countless lawyers vetted these questions...it is not easy.
This is very cool! Next in DNN adventures should be a network trained with lots of videos for animating still pictures!
Thanks! Unfortunately, I don't have any plans for Android right now. This is a solo side-project for me, so I just don't have the time. I'd love to at some point in the future though!
Zapier is really a great product with a cool bunch of smart people behind it. I freelanced consulting for Zapier customers for a while and can tell you there's some companies solving real business problems elegantly besides notifications, like Salesforce to Salesforce and 3rd party APIs
Nordstroms in the US seems to be doing fine using the classic department store setup. I think the difference is they don't sell electronics or home appliances and target upmarket.

IMO, while everyone blames online shopping it's arguably the death of the middle class that's really at fault.
Yeah, it's a good gripe to bring up. I'd love to come up with some indication of "confidence" in the parsing. Or maybe when there are two possible parses, give the user the ability to see both somehow?
Not a great one for a first day with someone you barely know (no movies at all on a first date, I know, I was young!) or maybe it is great if you want to weed out uninteresting people.
There is an older discussion on HN on these topics. Think again what the site really was: probably 95% of visitors were men. That means that maybe 18 from 20 didn't find a "match"? Moreover, somebody mentioned that there were fake female profiles. Reduce the number of successful "matches." Most of the visitors probably didn't do anything. "But they intended!" can somebody say "and that is enough." Well then think again. How many weren't actually in relation but expected to get the "match" easier on the site where potential (not actual!) members aren't prepared to the long-term bind to the "matched" partner. Etc.

Do you still consider all these poor dastards as the big "sinners?" Which percentage of the persons on the lists "deserve" anybody's "wrath"? Do you really want to condemn everyone? Does that match your moral values? You can even ask how many of these hopeful to "do something" actually didn't do anything exactly because they tried to use the given site instead of, like, approach somebody who they knew in the physical world and who would respond, so maybe even the site existence was a "net positive" considering the happened and "intended" number of "immoral" acts?
A couple things:

1. Not all users of the site were married/in a relationship.

2. Signing up for a site like this isn't an admission of wanting to commit adultery.

3. There is/was no email verification, so anyone can sign up using any email address they choose.

4. Not all users of this site were in monogamous relationships i.e. swingers.

I don't condone AM's business model, but there are many details that aren't known that simply having ones email in the database doesn't equate to actually hurting others.
> One beer per hour is overly conservative

But in the context of this argument, "conservative" would actually mean more beers per hour.
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It will be great if browsers do this. And yes, the noscript tag is a valid solution.
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How else would one fight the banality of evil?
Original launch announcement
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Yeah, and there are laws against jaywalking too, what's your point? Half my office did 60+ hour weeks when I worked in Germany. That was the culture, didn't like it? Fine, go somewhere else, but the pay, the kind of work and the career prospects will be worse for it.
You're correct. I'm not a beer drinker, or a social drinker at all, so I'm not well calibrated on what would be typical. So I was certainly not arguing that the conclusion was wrong. Just that the argument the author presented didn't make a very strong case.
Heheh, got it! Yeah, fortunately JMDict is a really mature project, and has got a ton of these kinds of things covered.
Bing 'snapshots on tap'. How does an app scrape info from the screen like that?
Maybe you mean non-minified. You can find it at https://github.com/ivopetkov/responsively-lazy/
Yeah, sorry about that 8-/

Thing is, it really is helpful when asking questions to provide a summary of what you've done, what you've found, and what remains to be answered or updated.

But, you know. Sorry.
Individually attacking and shaming people for actions which simply conflict with your personal worldview is really fucked up.
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Could be that I'm naive as well, but personally, I hope that people will finally get the message Snowden tried to pass and in the process sacrificed his future (and maybe even his life) for: We're about to abandon our privacy.
Is this marketing VP a real person or just a hypothetical scenario? Because it doesn't make any sense to me that a marketing VP would have any decision making power about the need for security.
Technically, the FAA defines a "near mid air collision" as an incident where there was a possibility of collisions with a proximity of less then 500 feet.

Keep in mind that's an airbus A380 is approx. 240 ft. long, 260 ft. wide and 80 ft. tall.

In that context, 500 ft. is actually quite close.
Or you can not maintain your projects and it doesn't matter.
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Yupp, pensioners (especially in the US) are a big problem to plans like this.

Ideally (state) pensions would become obsolete and retirement funds would become an entirely personal issue (as they've largely become in Germany btw -- the tax-funded pensions will at best barely keep you above the poverty line even if you've worked every day since from 18 to 65).

So as far as pensions go you will have to go with an unfair transitional period. You could freeze the pensions and pay them out in proportion to the (now discontinued) contirbutions (which at least in Germany is how it works already) on top of the BI. But for pensioners you pretty much end up allowing them to "double dip" or drawing some arbitrary cut-off line for who will receive BI or only grant BI in proportion to the pensions.

But as you may have noticed I'm not well-versed when it comes to US pension systems. I'm assuming it's similar to ours but considering even healthcare was purely defined by the employment contracts until fairly recently I wouldn't be surprised if it's drastically different.
Re: NOAA, not NASA, but it's because of articles like this:

http://www.realclearpolicy.com/blog/2015/08/20/the_latest_cl...

When confronted with an obviously broken weather station that was reading way too hot, they replaced the faulty sensor — but refused to adjust the bad readings it had already taken. And when dealing with "the pause" in global surface temperatures that is in its 19th year, the agency threw away satellite-sensed sea-surface temperatures, substituting questionable data that showed no pause.