skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Look for the post on the mailing list beginning with "I think that one's called "Perl". " That's where the real meat of his argument seems to be.

> Unfortunately I've conflated saying Yes to features vs. saying yes to users. Saying yes to features is clearly a way to get a kitchen sink a la C++ or Perl.

I didn't see any instances of him insulting people, though he was hostile in the same way he accused the clojure community of being hostile. But the points he made seemed sound to me. Saying "no" to users can seem hostile to the person you're saying no to. You need users, or you die. So say yes and survive.
A rare interview with the mathematician who cracked Wall Street
It exists with K&R parameters:

void foo(a,b,c)
long_type_name a,b,c;
{
...
}
Google Owns Your Ass Data
It's just a ride http://youtu.be/KgzQuE1pR1w
They pre-heat the tires as that will naturally happen during a race and the compounds are formulated for racing temperatures.

Modern climbing shoe rubber is another example of amazing friction. As Charles Cole (Five Ten founder) explained to me, you need both maliability and high shear strength so the "plugs" of the rubber that extend into the depressions in the surface do not tear off.
Technical answer without looking would be that either they're sending the data as an octet stream or Chrome is interpreting it as such. Works for me, go figure.
Imo 2008 is probably not the best comparison. What I believe is happening now is the China crash is the catalyst of a regional Asian/emerging market crisis on a parallel with 1997. Note this was 18 years ago, and this not coincidentally is the average length of land price cycles. These divide roughly into 3-5 year depressions, then an upswing of just over 14 years usually punctuated around year 7 by a mid cycle recession and then an exponential ponzi period leading up to the crash.
What is significant is that despite globalization broadly Asia and the West still seem to have separate land cycles. Weak as the recovery in the West has been, it is unlikely the Asian crisis will have a significant enough effect outside of the stock markets, indeed it is cities like London and New York that will attract much of the capital flight from the region. The time period for the Western cycle is likely to be 2019 mid cycle, 2026 crash.
I would also look at Australia and Canada however, as their markets did not correct after 2008 due in part to links to China so as well as being they may have become linked to the Asian cycle. And areas such as San Francisco which popped in the dot com boom are already in the 'it's different this time' denial phase so it may well be this region will not survive the mid cycle.
Dude - just no! Stop making me rent desktop tools which ought to be just there after I pay for them. I will not be upgrading PyCharm and PHPStorm annual after this. It will happily stay in the old version. Even though my cost of $49 that I paid last year is still the same in this pricing model, but instead of that price being the norm, it is qualified with a double asterix.- as in for existing users.

So new users are getting shafted an extra 30 bones on top of what I pay. So in solidarity with new users, thanks but no thanks. Pretty bogus if you ask me.
Thank you for the insight. I have noticed they have a habit of making big announcements very early and even if they end up being late a lot of the time, they continue this practice. So it must be worth it.
Currently working at UIUC at a relatively new startup and yes there is a good community building here. There is lots of agricultural innovation going on here and having giants like John deere, adm, ABinBev as well as tech companies like said yahoo hadoop analytics group. Cool to see some UIUC research park love here on hacker news. Can't wait to get up and go back to work at the research park where I will be hacking on python all day!
I thought that github met his exact prediction. They took an open source product (git), hosted it as a webapp, and got people to pay for it (github enterprise).
Macro systems are becoming increasingly popular (e.g. Rust and Sweet.js), but arguably neither of those languages is homoiconic in the Lisp sense (though see also Dave Herman's "Homoiconicity isn't the point" http://calculist.org/blog/2012/04/17/homoiconicity-isnt-the-... ).
I think that's the point the parent comment is making. That Yegge made two other predictions that were not even close to right.
Syria's Climate Conflict
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Love this animated gif where the guy touches his helmet on the ground around a corner on the track... http://www.gifbin.com/bin/072011/1311056598_biker_touches_gr...
Good lord, who taught these guys to draw schematics?
So the US being the largest consumer of market for bottled water proves that certain people's tastes are so damaged that they can't tell the difference between tobacco and marijuana smoke?

How does that follow and what the hell are you smoking?
But you get the ability to sync with your bookmarks, passwords, etc on platforms that run the real Firefox web browser because they don't lock you in to a single rendering engine like Windows, Mac OS, Linux, Android, etc.
Fizsh – a user friendly front end to zsh
Exactly what I was looking for: the great UX of Fish without giving up bash history and aliases.

Works great installed via Homebrew.

https://github.com/zsh-users/fizsh
Thanks for the warning :)

I'd appreciate whatever links you can share. And I would be glad to credit you.
It would have been insane to open up Hacker News and read "Cloaking device has been invented"...what are we, Romulans?
It's not skepticism when you ignore evidence.
Copied from Reddit FYI.

As the second author of the paper, I have to say "Wrong Guess", :), we didn't try the other 18. The story is as follows. We had this idea in early March as a reasoning component of our bigger (and cool) neural system. In early May my student intern (the first author) decided to implement it, but he said "why don't we try this on a couple of hard bAbi tasks on which Memory Net failed？", and then we are here. That said, I don't mean Neural Reasoner can easily solve them without any model tweaking, considering some of them are formulated slightly differently from the two we tried . But more importantly, it was never our goal to nail an artificial data set.
Setting focus to a control inside a usercontrol in WPF
> 4) Java's "market share" on the JVM will drop below 50% by 2010. Definitely hasn't hit 50%. However, Scala has really tremendous adoption

Yeah, not really [1].

[1] http://www.indeed.com/jobtrends?q=scala%2C+java&l=
Show HN: Git Town, a high-level command-line interface for Git
I bought a Dell U2515H recently. Not "retina" but really close enough. Everything looks so damn crisp it might as well be for the price. The extra inch (its 25") really makes a difference too.

http://accessories.dell.com/sna/productdetail.aspx?c=us&l=en...
Very cool. Do you have any commonly requested use cases?
My main issue with Redux is that it is incredibly verbose compared the alternatives.

Also one single state is great for simple-moderately complex apps but it gets horrible for ones not build from scratch to work with that dynamic.

Something like Alt I find to be the best of both worlds tbh.
rvagg, in a comment on cited issue:

FYI this isn't holding up release ("A .bat file is holding up the whole thing!"—hackernews), it should be completed by recent commits to core, I'm leaving this open as a reminder to confirm that it's working as expected in the 4.0 RC builds.
Without proper tools in an environment I can't think in with someone literally breathing down my neck (or on the other side of the phone line). Yeah, I am upset because I can't think in those conditions and neither can most people.
He would go in at 2am, 4am, etc and put up hundreds of shots. They changed the locks. He would wedge open service doors, etc. Risk was burnout or injury from sheer repetition.

They might've underestimated the sort of character he is. There are some great stories out there about his training habits, the Lakers scouting him as a rookie pre-draft, etc. Contentious character, but hard to deny his focus.

There is one great story of him calling in a trainer to work with him after midnight. They take a break, the trainer understanding they were done for now and going home. Trainer came back in the morning for team training and made smalltalk with Kobe about hopefully he had had a good rest after their workout. Kobe was confused. He'd been there all night training and hadn't gone home.
Let's stop with the Silicon Valley comparisons
It could be that poor software development is at least a factor in the biggest cyber threat.

Problem is a lot of people get into programming and take beginner courses in various languages without learning how to debug or do security checks or quality control.

When I worked in the late 1990s, I was hired because I could fix bad code and make it work better. I knew how to do quality control checks, how to validate inputs to strip out SQL code and HTML code that is used for injections, how to check anything submitted by the user before processing it to make sure the data length wasn't over the limit to cause a buffer overflow, etc.

Things changed and I became a dinosaur. There was no need for programmers like me anymore, they hired them young right out of high school or college dropouts and my two degrees didn't matter anymore. I developed a mental illness and ended up on disability, but I still try to keep up with things.

Management always went for cheaper labor, be it via offshoring work, hiring H1B Visa workers, or hiring dropouts who can work for less. Cheaper labor didn't always mean quality work. Shortening deadlines on developers means they take shortcuts to get stuff done and write sloppy code just to meet deadlines.

My style of programming was out because it took too much time to finish. Managers wanted products out to market sooner so they could get a jump on the competition. As a result the code was not tested enough to find the security holes in it.

The web apps I wrote in 1997-2001 were almost bulletproof, I had developed a method in writing secure and quality code. They used ASP 3.0 and server side VBScript, but the whole technology changed to ASP.Net and C# instead. At least on the Microsoft shops.

Poor management can be a factor in insecure programs if the managers shorten deadlines and don't hire people to debug and check the security and quality of the code.
Animateplus, Stripe's CSS and SVG animation library
Could be true. I'm more familiar with racecar suspension than motorcycle suspension and the high end systems are pretty damn impressive.
I believe you have misunderstood the grand-parent post.

the agreement is that you can use the software infinitely with the version that was available on the last day of the subscription term.

Is true for the old licensing model, but not the new model.

As far as I can tell (but JetBrains' attempts to spin this are making it hard to find a definitive statement) if you stop paying your monthly fee, you have to stop using the IDE.
Thanks to this book, I actually received college credit for playing SimCity. (Or actually for writing a paper about the simulator, which was a cinch because the way to 'beat' the game was to build an elitist suburb.)
Top Down Vertical Slice Integration
hey, this answer was really interesting! I was actually making a (poor) joke about the quixotic idea of requiring a desktop program to be just fine with malloc failing, no biggie. your answer is much more interesting.
> I had high hopes for Clojure for a while, but they're fairly user-hostile, even if they think (and loudly assert) that they aren't.

I'm curious as to what this means. In what way is clojure hostile? Is there some reason I should avoid it?
One of the basic tenets of TeX and LaTeX is stability, Maths has a very long shelf life! You can TeX Knuth's papers from 30 years ago and they will still produce the same output. If I were to spend 3-5 years on writing a PhD Thesis the investment in learning LaTeX is minimal compared to the rest of the effort. With a new extended markdown markup, you will still need to learn a new syntax and LaTeX markup for example if you wanted to include TikZ code.

TeX and friends has adapted over the years through external tooling, without changes to the core, for example moving from postscript to pdf, the new engines XeLaTeX and LuaTeX. Madoko is just a preprocessor for LaTeX. If you had to finally do some changes to the LaTeX code it produces it will be very difficult as this LaTeX code is not very clean.
Having said this though Madoko and similar projects are great for the LaTeX community, as an entry point to newcomers and to occassional users. It is a great Project especially as is written in Koka in itself a beautiful Project.
OK but where's the statistical testing to verify it?

For microelectronics there are better ways for true digital random number generators, e.g. http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.99....
"Going to bed early" as in, substantially earlier than the day before?

There are a lot of cues that change when you get tired, but the body's internal rhythms should be expected to work on roughly a 24h cycle, and resist attempts to disrupt any cycle that's been followed for the last few days. It seems to work towards sufficiency of sleep about as strongly as it works towards regularity.

And we've engineered a week in which we're expected to 'sleep in', two days out of seven.
Personal attacks are not allowed on Hacker News. We ban accounts for this.
KATARA: Reliable Data Cleaning with Knowledge Bases and Crowdsourcing [pdf]
with babel you can use the latest js everywhere.
Unfortunately, https://blockchain.info/ is bad idea for anything last year or so - under any non-zero level of [bitcon network] load it tends to show wrong values and stuff. Also, using hosted solutions for own wallet is not that great idea as you could think it is - site owner could ban your account, inject evil javascript etc.
https://electrum.org/ is descent choice as a wallet.
MultiBit HD (https://multibit.org/) is possible alternative (not reached 1.0 so far)
For example, use Hooks api to

* create sports app using our real time data for games results and matches NFL, NBA, MLB, Soccer etc.

* monitor you brand mentions on Twitter and send notifications to Slack

* send notifications to your team in Slack when your app has a new review on the app store

A lot more, we hope to discover more use cases we have not though of when people start to build things...
JetBrains admit as much in a comment on their blog:

> On the other hand, we think we’ll be able to concentrate on quality more than trying to impress users with new features so they buy upgrades. Our products are more than feature-full and we believe the quality is something that can always be improved.

Translation: We've run out of things that we think you'll actually want to pay for, so we've decided to force you to pay instead.
Religious beliefs center around sacrifice of 'earthy' norms to satisfy an ideal moral logic. That way of thinking doesn't stop when you leave the halls of worship. It leads to self-righteousness that is ultimately destructive in the world around you. Humility is not often slung from fiery pulpits, except that it is perverted for ensuring the dominance of that leader's place in moral authority.

Scientific altruism places faith in innovation. It can allow us to ignore reality, assuming someone else will fix things.

We should aspire to be scientists in our own lives. Not accepting conclusions at face value and working to improve understanding for people beyond ourselves.
I recently changed my website's donation page to a Stripe-powered system, and their API was a pleasure to work with. Having worked with horrible payment processors throughout my webdev career, I kept waiting for the other shoe to drop--but it's been a couple of months now, and so far it's still just the one shoe.
Can you really separate those things? They relate directly to technical aspects of the implementation that are somewhat out of their control on iOS.

They could deliver FireFox today and Apple could change the rendering engine tomorrow and violate those principles and the FireFox team would have no control over it, other than to withdraw the app from the app store.
Also it should be pointed out that that dude got a ban (not a hellban or slowban, a real ban) from this forum for a gender-based insult

It wasn't. It was the word "queynte", and he's said equally or more vicious things about men. Dan G interpreted it as "cunt" as a pretext for banning someone who has, for years, opposed YC's economic interest of spreading bad information about the startup career.

He may be extreme in his focus on justice but he's not a sexist.
> It could be that I'm on Windows

It is. NPM is a joy to use on Mac or Unix.
It's just a compressor, it doesn't provide any decompression support.
It's a feel good story but the path do a drug is anything but linear like this portrays. The vast majority of compounds, even when there is a molecule targeting it; fail in Phase I, II, or III trials; or fail to improve upon existing therapies. The truth is, there are about ~5K genes in yeast, and about ~8K yeast geneticists. A lot of stuff that works in the lab doesn't work on actual people or the drug has side effects due to lack of specificity. Selection bias will make a bunch of them look like they're ahead of the curve. A bit like star mutual fund managers.
As someone new to schematics, my question is -- how would you improve it? Genuinely curious...
You guys appear to have a whole posse of accounts promoting your stuff in dubious ways on HN. I'm not sure exactly where the line is between normal sharing of information and abuse, but wherever it is, you're on the wrong side.

HN threads are for conversations, not commercials. There's nothing wrong with linking to one's own work when it comes up naturally in a genuine conversation. Abusing conversation for promotional purposes, though, is another matter. When accounts do that repeatedly, we ban them as well as the site they're promoting.
Sure you can, unless you're shuffling a perfectly ordered deck. OP was deleted so there may be some context missing?
I see meaning (and really consciousness itself) existing in a similar way that software exists in relationship to hardware. There is little meaning in the physical hardware itself, none really that we can experience directly as humans. Nevertheless, the running software contains a lot of meaning, even if it's fleeting and that information is stored in different places by different physical parts. I think this is akin to the miracle of the emergence of meaning you describe. In that way, I think meaning is about as much fiction as software, which is to say it's both real and imagined (or abstracted if you will).
Stripe's API docs are absolutely gorgeous, also, for what it's worth:

https://stripe.com/docs/api#charges
I'm in Bloomington/Normal and concur. It's a great place to live.
To build on your thoughts I would say that narratives are the glue that bind and distinguish our societies and give meaning to the the individuals within those societies. They are largely synonymous with religious, political and economic ideologies.

It's interesting today, in a world more connected than ever, to see how these narratives rub up against each other. It is clear that not all narratives have equal value. Older and more static narratives in particular aren't doing so great.

How would we evaluate a narrative? One way is by it's practical effects on peoples' lives and the levels of health and suffering it actively promotes, for both its adherents and opponents.

Another way is by the narrative's approximation to absolute reality. Thanks to the scientific method and its tools we are creeping closer to achieving an objective understanding of reality (although we are unlikely to ever reach one).

It seems obvious (at least to me) that understanding reality better will allow us to create better narratives and therefore enable us to think and act better. In other words, basing our actions on a narrative that is as true as possible would likely lead to better practical effects.

Of course measuring the positive or negative value of a narrative's effects is somewhat subjective, and what is 'better' for one person might not be for another, or even for the same person later on. For instance, when people use relatively poor narratives to give meaning to their suffering it might be some comfort to them (and therefore seem positive) but ultimately will lead to action that causes more suffering.

TL;DR: A better existence is achievable if we do not just accept whatever narratives are thrust upon us but instead actively refine and change them based on their practical results and to more closely approximate reality.
This is not really accurate. Arrow functions shipped in Chrome on Tuesday (Sep 1) with Chrome 45 (V8 4.5).
I fly out of Bloomington regularly. It's a decent airport, but sometimes it's easier/cheaper to take the train to Chicago.
Very cool idea? Do you have a demo or write up about how it works? also would like to know how one can use it.
I had the impression that they are intentionally rolling it out by region (the title and link mention that they're starting in New Zealand—unless that's a version name for Firefox?), so I assumed that the link went to a download page if you were in the correct region. If I haven't completely misunderstood, then maybe a New Zealander can comment.
The ~5 years between AMD's release of the Athlon 64 and Intel's Nehalem were truly AMD's glory days on the server. We had two clusters, one with pairs of 2.2 GHz Opteron 248 CPUs in its compute nodes and another with pairs of 3.4 GHz "Nocona" Xeons in its compute nodes. The Opteron nodes completely wiped the floor with the Xeon nodes in everything we threw at them, despite the Xeons enjoying a >50% clock speed advantage and a newer manufacturing process (90 nm vs. 130 nm).

Intel's "Core 2" CPUs scrapped the Pentium 4's NetBurst architecture in favor of an evolution of the Pentium M architecture (which was, in turn, an evolution of the Pentium III architecture), and Intel was competitive with AMD on the desktop again. Nehalem brought on-die memory controllers and QPI (Intel's HyperTransport-alike) in late 2008, which made Intel the performance champion on multi-socket servers. AMD's Bulldozer architecture was dead on arrival in 2011, and AMD never recovered from that.

Maybe AMD will pull a rabbit out of their hat with Zen...
You probably shouldn't trust this unless you can validate the randomness of the output with tests like Diehard or others http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/ST/toolkit/rng/batteries_stats_t...
The post's headline should tell us what it is.