skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interestingly I've heard similar sentiments from Ember developers, mainly that it is much more 'opinionated' than Angular.

In my experience with Angular there is a pretty clear logic on how to structure code. I suppose that logic is not enforced so there is nothing to stop developers from just cramming all code into index.thml. Being a dev manager I've adopted feature structure [0] and it has worked quite well across all our apps.

Furthermore there is pretty clear distinction on what kind of logic should be included in controller vs service vs factory vs module. This has made writing unit tests a breeze in my experience.

I'd be curious to hear what Ember constructs exist that helped you so much.

[0] http://www.johnpapa.net/angular-growth-structure/
Also a cool way for a spammer to verify if somebody is receiving those mails.
Fuck patents.

Edit: But, thank you for the information.
Yes, backwards compatability with C makes this a hard problem, but this is exactly what affine typing fixes: assignment is a shallow copy, but the old copy becomes inaccessible.
State of mobile development: Deep linking, containerization, and IoT
Sure, it's always a concern. Just because we make something doesn't mean that we should use it. So you've already got that ethical dilemma covered on the basis of usage, if not invention.

On the other hand, if you don't develop technology, you'll never know if it will be used for good, and you'll never see the advantages if it is. And failing to develop something does nothing to prevent someone else from developing it later. If something is possible, you want to be the one making it possible, not the one cowering in fear while someone else forges on ahead.
Internet of Things (IoT) platforms make way for IoT apps
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Open source creates government opportunities for software engineers
Shouldn't the title be Java Astrodynamics Toolkit, not Aerodynamics?
It's a bit of both and neither at the same time.

Some quotes were taken out of context:
"when you come to a fork in the road take it" - both forks lead to his house.

He never graduated high school which created interesting dialog and attributed to some of his quotes.

Regardless, he played for 17 years in the majors, and managed several more. He went to the championship something like 75% of the time. He was a good player, said interesting things, and had high baseball IQ.

You can observe a lot by watching a guy like that.
The state of iOS and Android and what it means for mobile developers
This seems like a poor fit for VR motion simulation - actual movement through space is generally unnecessary, you just need to gimbal the platform to simulate accelerations. Actual linear acceleration is of limited value in simulation because you can't maintain that acceleration indefinitely - you run out of room and have to apply an opposite acceleration, which can conflict with the simulation needs.

On the other hand this looks more useful for something like movie making, to throw actors around in front of a greenscreen.
"Despite lower carbon dioxide emissions, diesel cars may promote more global warming than gasoline cars."

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/02/jacobsonJGR1023.html
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What entrepreneurial CEOs can learn from the software technology
Forest wildness or ocean beach to work more prodictivly? Give a try
Depends on your interpretation of the word globally. I took it to mean 'everywhere' or 'pertaining to the whole world' like 'global variable'.
The left side being evil and related to the Devil is pretty embedded in Christianity.
I don't see it taking off.

I think, and hope, someone will make a better product that's not owned by VCs.
I see how that advice benefits your company. But it doesn't benefit me, much. I'd prefer to err on the side of pushing that button too much.
Where is this focus about Angular 2 sucking?
The author is in fact happy about Angular 2 being a re-write. Read the section under Problem 6, where he calls the proposed complete re-write of Angular courageous and laudable.

Now he says this is a problem for Angular 1.x because there's no carry-over of knowledge into 2.x, but that's in no-one saying Angular 2 sucks like you are suggesting.
The article mentions that particulate is in a classification that is known to cause cancer, however, the article admits that "IARC isn’t in the business of telling us how potent something is in causing cancer – only whether it does so or not."

The amount needs to be identified, because it could be similar to the radiation levels in bananas... There is some, but it may not be enough to be deadly.
If your company forces me to sign in before I can unsubscribe, it's not a respectable company and I want to hurt it- desperately.
I threw this document together quick trying to break down the "unit" (per week) price of each coding school mentioned in the article.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1wKfEzO860nn_2AuKx5fD...

The main issue I found is that some schools include other services in the tuition, like career services, housing, etc. Where others are simply just the course.
I just write filters that sent directly to spam or delete. I've been doing it for years.
As a New York, I hate the Red Sox but can return the admiration for Ted Williams. Healthy competition doesn't have to stop admiration.
A friend related a story on Facebook this morning: this friend was at a baseball camp in Houston when Berra was coaching there and Berra came to coach the kids one day. His advice to my friend "you can't hit and think at the same time". 9 words to summarize the importance of developing an intuition.

Coincidentally on Sunday I was trying to figure out a word for "yogiism" - "malapropism" comes close but it's not it. I was googling around and ran into a story about Berra. Apparently at age 16 Berra tried out for the St. Louis Cardinals and Branch Rickey (legendary coach of the Cards) told him that he'd never make it in baseball.

There's a scholarship at Columbia in his name that he established because he regretted that he dropped out of school in 8th grade and never completed his formal education.

Link possibly paywalled, but here goes: http://www.wsj.com/articles/yogi-berras-best-yogi-ism-was-a-...
I am currently shopping for a car and now need to keep in mind which brands/models are affected by this fiasco as another factor in my shopping.

Here in Ireland motor tax is based on CO2 emissions

I can see some very very unhappy VW drivers in this country in coming months if their tax suddenly jumps by an order of magnitude due to this avoidance scheme putting these cars into the high emission bands

I do wonder how Revenue will handle this, not only some people might find themselves with a more polluting car but a larger and unexpected tax bill will impact peoples pockets directly.
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80k would be fairly bearable if you live walking distance/didn't have a car, and paid $2k rent.
What project management / issue / ticket managent tool do you use?
I am researching some alternatives to trac for my team. What project / ticket / issue apps do you use and why do you like or dislike it.

We are a team of 15 looking for something which is easy to use and track work loads.
How is that a problem? Questions are good. Defining "clean" blood better is a good thing, preferred to plain ignorance about certain things because they look scary. I am all for more information and questions.
I had the same problems getting testing done (sidenote: I want to explode when a medical institution won't provide a test like this to me, even if I'm paying cash, without a doctor's order).

I skipped the testing and paid the vaccine fee out of pocket (I'm a 32 year old male), and was provided the vaccine at Planned Parenthood.
I do not mind central planing. I like Soviet culture far more than Hollywood and CocaCola. I even can see myself a soviet soldier ready to defend homeland.

I just do not want to bring a Red Flag to evey corner of the world on a bayonet of my rifle. And that's it. Even if I bring free cookies and right to privacy with it.

There is no "socialism in one dedicated country". Socialism needs whole planet. Lenin said that pretty clear.
The independence of Cataluña: how it might impact the Spanish startup ecosystem
I purchased a commercial motion simulator as part of research for a vr tech we're working on and while you can immediately see the potential, it's not quite there yet.

Some resources to share

If you buy a simulator - offsetting to the chair with the rift is a work in progress https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=7933 - and not currently supported in the Oculus SDK. I can't find the thread but Oculus has said that's a "future tech" goal.

Excellent thread on currently available options / configurations - https://forums.oculus.com/viewtopic.php?t=1673

A great resource with a community of enthusiasts that have tried nearly every sim on the market (racing specific, but still the best) is here - http://www.isrtv.com/forums/
Anything in America in the last 200 years or so?
6 Tips on How to Lose Weight Without Killing Yourself in the Gym
I don't think metalua is compatible with LuaJIT. Or has this changed?
A Recipe for a Frictionless Mobile Checkout
to be honest, you only want to patent something quickly it is obvious. Otherwise, you will do much better keep it as trade secrets.
you're right, that was not the best way to put it. I just saw this which seemed like focusing on negative w/out noting that all his complaints will be addressed.

Not convinced yet? Well, what if we were to tell you that the next major version of Angular will take a scorched earth approach to the existing structure that means it will have zero retro-compatibility with what exists today?
Congrats for completing a decade and for your achievements !!
>also unlocked phones and computers when compelled by a court order.

Do you have any links for this?
AWS: DynamoDB Increased Error Rates (again)
We started seeing API errors and timeouts around 6 am Pacific. They've been going on for over 3 hours now.

Here's what AWS has reported about the event (http://status.aws.amazon.com/).

6:33 AM PDT
We are investigating increased error rates for API requests in the US-EAST-1 Region.

7:25 AM PDT
We continue to investigate the increased latency and errors for the DynamoDB metadata service. The team is rolling out the remaining mitigations that have been developed to mitigate the errors we encountered earlier this week.

9:26 AM PDT
Message: We continue to actively work on deploying mitigations to address the increased latencies and error rates for API requests. We have seen improvements in both request latencies and error rates.
Hi Pierre ! Still following the project. Good luck :D
Seb656 : GPG key is based on Linux encryption. Your key will be on the MIT server.
I would imagine at the level of management complexity, liability, and brand awareness of VW, which details get reported to whom becomes very important. He may have been technically unaware of cheating, for instance, but may have been aware of a "test optimizer".

This is about taking a fall. It's up to the courts (I assume, American, not German) to establish how much he is actually at fault. But the idea that they sold 11M vehicles with hardware cheating the emissions test makes his claim fairly absurd. That kind of decision has got to be made at a high level, even if it's just choosing different budgets without looking closely.
http://status.aws.amazon.com/

Currently, as of 11:32am central time, Cloudwatch, EC2, Autoscaling, DynamoDB, and Elastic Beanstalk are all experiencing issues.
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Spark vs. Druid Benchmarks
Like: Fogbugz (small-ish team), Trello (small team)

Don't like: Jira, Whiteboard (like.. literally a whiteboard)

Want to try: Zenhub
> These guys have absolutely zero awareness of sensitive privacy issues.

Just because they don't care, doesn't mean they don't understand.

I suspect they are fully aware but money beats morality every time.

> I can think of no reasonable response but to abandon Lenovo products entirely.

I'm with you there, but I doubt enough people with buying power are concious about the issue for it to make much difference and most of those that are concious of it either will forget soon enough. I've not knowingly bought a product with Sony written on it since the rootkit incident in 2005, and that doesn't seem to have done them much harm!
This is a classic case of correlation vs. causation.

iOS 9 users are apparently more likely to use IPv6, but there is nothing in the article or in the original blog post that supports the claim from the headline that iOS 9 "drives IPv6 uptake". A more likely explanation is that IPv6 is primarily used by tech savvy people, who are also more likely to upgrade quickly to the newest version.
The entire article is written to be humorous, but that's doesn't mean he doesn't have a point here. Namely, this mindless pursuit of space is hilariously culture-deaf because in the end, if all these miracles somehow come to pass, we'll just bring our stupid problems with us to our colonies. In a few generations we'll have homeless people on Mars and a tech bubble exploding there as well.

If we can't fix these problems locally, how do we expect to fix them remotely?
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Towards computing with proteins (2006) [pdf]
You have to wonder if the copyright would have been allowed to be invalidated if it wasn't due to expire next year anyway.
I used Rust for a while. _Now_ I don't use it because I discovered other languages that work better for my current applications.
Curious how this is different, or what the advantage is to use this, than using something like the Yoast bit.ly plugin?
When you should use a hybrid approach to web development
> And what are a nontrivial portion of the HN comments doing? Complaining that he was unfair to Elon freaking Musk!!

Only if "nontrivial" means "two out of a freakin' lot". Also complains are perfectly warranted. While 'idlewords has (as usual) a lot of good points in his text, that Musk quote was straight dishonest.
Patches on the skin can analyse sweat and monitor glucose
5 Things the Stoics Can Teach You About Software
While I may disagree with the author about blocking ads, I'm disappointed that so often we choose personal convenience/enjoyment over ethical concern (even when situations have great cost to others). I think it's a legitimate argument that you should quit Youtube if you aren't willing to be bombarded with ads.

For instance few would quit smoking weed even though a huge portion of it is supplied by cartels (who enact horrific violence). Same for eating meat, polluting, etc. These are just my pet examples (and can be debated) but the principle is there. Most are unwilling to go beyond buying something slightly different much less make any (even temporary) sacrifice.

I would love to see more willing to give up something they enjoy because it's hurting others.
It's really easy to miss the indicator "i". I've been doing this for 4 years and it still doesn't catch my eye when scanning the page.
It does not matter if the OS spies people by itself, of if the company installs extra software to do that. So I guess you can remove that one company from your list too.
True, but that's a low- to no-value lede; you're not very likely to sell to someone that's actively trying to avoid you.
Ask HN: I bought a big phone, mistake, yes/no?
I have one of those huge phones on the way, thought I've never get one but the temptation to have a larger viewing screen was too great. Are these things still in or on their way out?
> - Microsoft is trying to do continuous development so wanted analytics related to how people are using their software (so they know what to focus on).

If this is true, why are the same analytics and telemetry slowly being back ported to Windows 7/8 where no continuous development is happening?
This sort of reminds me of the Silo series of books by Hugh Howey. If you have not read the books and like scifi ... obligatory spoiler alert...

One of the themes in the book is the impending terrorist doom that could unfold by using nanotechnology to target certain demographics (ie genocide). I think nanobots reading human DNA would be fairly hard but nanobots recognizing biomemes might not be. That is using biomemes might be easier than DNA fingerprinting for nanobots. I could be completely wrong on my assumptions not to mention I have no background in bio or nano tech.
The Pope just called out Washington
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(and not just "secure" as in security, but also "secure" as in fixed-interface)
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It did. And you pay good money to carry one on your person.

Ever wonder why what comes out of Silicon Valley seems to augment the Military surveillance effort?

"The Secret History of Silicon Valley":
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTC_RxWN_xo
I got a used one from a friend. I just needed it to compile my work really. I tried Xarmarin and Unity. Seems to work fine.
This is mostly about NOX, not CO2.
I liked this article's start but its finish went in a very different direction. Denmark has a ton of things right about it and it's an amazing place - but mostly due to social conditions that don't exist elsewhere in the world.

Denmark was almost entirely homogeneous until the 1990s and is slowly becoming less so - but in a very racially charged way. Their fastest growing political party, the Danish People's Party, is heavily anti-immigration and anti-non-danish folks. It's also has an incredibly well educated population due to decisions made 50+ years ago that would take a massive effort and timescale to implement in the US - even if it would work.

Also the definition of rich in Denmark is equivalent to lower-middle class in the US (with healthcare added). Homes are smaller, cars are fewer, people spend more of their take home salary on food and other basics... The main difference being it is less costly to screw up in Denmark.

Things are overwhelmingly getting better for everyone and even the poorest in America... http://www.ritholtz.com/blog/2015/09/were-living-through-the...

...and the value of improving computers, technology, biology, space travel on a universal time scale is huge on a utilitarian scale. Things have never improved so quickly in so many ways.

Finally - "be the change you wish to see" applies here more than ever. No one is stopping individuals from donating large swaths of their money to causes - in fact almost all of those donations come out of taxable income. Targeting individuals to do great things rather than vague policy points may be a better option when policy has overwhelmingly worked in most areas.
India can surpass US and China as Uber's biggest market
Previously: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10263682
The main programmer here.
For the technically curious, the ingredients of the image processing are OpenCV and CNNs(Convolutional neural nets).

On design aspects, we wrote a short post here: http://blog.taglev.com/design-philosophy-behind-taglev/
I gave $10 to every presidential candidate
A junior dev once thought it would be funny to quietly slip this into some code right before a release not realizing it had changed in lollipop. He was lucky I happened to have Goat Simulator installed and caught it.

if (!userManager.isUserAGoat()) {
... Super important business logic ...
}
That is not all.

In Germany there are rumors going around, that not alone VW did cheat at those emission tests and not only at those tests. And the rumors are around for a long time now.

It is a well known fact, that in the EU, the emission tests used in the EU are absolute ridiculous (not only the NOX-tests -- all of them). They are totally artificial, so that they have nothing to do with normal car usage. But they are still used. The reason is, that particularly the German government are blocking all initiatives to change them. This does suggest, that they know about the cheating or at least where influenced from the big car industry. The German car industry is very influential in Germany.

Also it is a well known fact, that the gap between the official fuel usage figures and the fuel usage experienced in real world situation is growing and growing for many (maybe most) car brands. I would say, this is the same thing, because those numbers are determined by tests operated by the manufacturers -- and they are also artificial test situations like the emission tests. Officially, the fuel usage of new cars was reduced very much, but some say, that the real numbers have maybe even growing instead.

All this is known for years, if not decades.

Because of the the German government, the EU still takes a blind eye on this.
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The CO2 amount should remain the same—the issue is with other pollutants that cause smog. The only reason that CO2 might go up is if the fix involves increasing fuel consumption. However, you might not even need the fix in Ireland, as many European countries (as I understand it) have laxer smog requirements to begin with.

Regardless, though, I wouldn't buy a VW product right now, wherever I lived.
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy shows a higher-quality internet is possible
I wholeheartedly support the approach of "get them to build something".

It also works really well for sysadmins: give them a subtly-broken system, get them to fix it documenting their thinking along the way.
One of my biggest frustrations with the people working to improve politics (Lessig is probably most famous among tech crowd) is that their constant refrain of how "rigged" the system is, turns out to be highly counterproductive. Instead of mobilizing people to action, it instead sends most people--like you--into apathetic despair.

Why? Because it's easy to be apathetic. This is not a knock on you personally, it's a statement on the human condition. Most people just don't feel like they have the free bandwidth (time, money, energy) to take on a big ideological fight, particularly if they think they can't win anyway.

But the truth is that the last 100 years of history is chock full of amazing stories of victories in just such fights.

I'm most familiar with U.S. history so I'll just highlight a few:

- 100 years takes us back to the beginning of the modern labor movement. Viciously opposed by well-funded industry and government forces, it nevertheless succeeded in massively shifting social norms and installing numerous laws and regulations to protect workers. It is still a strong force today.

- 60 years takes us back to the births of the modern civil rights and environmental movements. Like labor, they were out funded by huge margins, but still changed the world through shifting social norms and numerous laws and regulations. Both are still powerful movements today.

- We only need to look back about 30 years to see the birth of the modern LGBT movement, whose victories are in our headlines today. That movement will undoubtedly continue to be a powerful force in American society for decades to come, at least.

Now take a look at those timelines... 30 years is the most recent. The tobacco victories were on a similar timeline. Nothing comes quick and easy when we're talking about moving the opinions and laws of an entire nation. But is the fight winnable? YES! The evidence says it is.