skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Right, those are usually called JIT compilers, not interpreters.
Looks rather neat, the bad thing is, that some kind of "inline" or "Medium-style" editing is not possible, as it seams (at least no example shows something like that).

I think, in some cases, text-input boxes are just looking awful.
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Similar thing happened to me last week. My phone's battery was at 3% and before requesting taxi, Uber wanted me to update their app.

I just switched to Lyft at that time.
I've programmed in Python before, it's a good language, very broad library ecosystem, and yes it's a good first language as well, but if you're already familiar with imperative-style programming from Python you are not going to struggle with C, I am confident you could learn it quickly. If you've put off learning C because it's too 'hardcore' or some nonsense then try it out, you may be surprised to learn you like it.
If there was secret sauce, everyone would be using it and the secret sauce would change.
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Are you counting the ones where the patient, e.g., my wife, wakes up in the middle of surgery and tries to get off the table?
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Here's a previous discussion on Quill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7716376 and a recent discussion on Trix, another rich text editor: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10410879

The most comprehensive/updated list of editors I know of is here: https://github.com/cheeaun/mooeditable/wiki/Javascript-WYSIW...

(It doesn't do much to compare/evaluate the options, but it's pretty up-to-date/comprehensive, which is a start)
So consequently there would be a lot of startup failures as well...
One more interesting scenario that can result could be if there will be an investor fatigue as well similar to the customer fatigue of investing their time & money in these startups...?
As this could potentially make finding initial capital harder for startup teams which could potentially be solving similar problems with better execution strategy but in the same market...
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Why? Just because android is not optimal for coding you can't say it's primarily for cumpsomption.

Android is just as much for communications and learning. Quite decent for writing also with a bt keyboard.
Just noticing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10428508 is a 3-day old submission from the same user, and had modest attention.
Are you sure that all these corporate subsidies are that bad? Do you have information of breakdown of the target of subsidies by companies?

For example, Tesla receive about 5b$ of government subsidies. http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-hy-musk-subsidies-2015... This, I think, is investment which really worth it, it's the most innovative automotive company in the world, and it would be impossible without this.
some content is loaded over HTTP rather than HTTPS so thas why it might display a blank page for some people who have HTTPS forced
On mobile the visuals are quite nice. :)
Also, the sum $4000 sounds too round for me, especially taking into account, that other numbers provided doesn't contain so many zeroes in them.
> Those items (cheese, wine) are not covered by copyright, as they have no literary or artistic value themselves.

They should be. Cheese appearance doesn't happen by itself, it takes actual work to achieve and cheese makers strive to make the cheese look good. It isn't under copyright because the shape is also utilitarian and utilitarian items aren't under copyright (see: clothes), but there is fundamentally no difference between the way a piece of Brie looks and the way a game character looks.
Based on the relatively small number of billionaires/rich people in the world, that's a compromise I'm willing to make. If the rich want to house the poor they can do so through a charitable foundation.

Furthermore, as has been pointed out already, we could make it so that only properties that sit within a predetermined land mass size would be exempt from tax.
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I have a feeling they probably do.

I hadn't updated in a week or two, just out of laziness to not check for updates everyday. So it's possible I had missed more than one update that caused the issue.
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Ironically, this sounds like a customer experience that's way worse than anything described in the article. Especially since this is hardly advertised to users.
Yes. Mostly soundtracks from some awesome movies I can relate to. Also anime soundtracks are quite awesome. Sometimes the memory connection to some of those great moments from movies/anime/tv series help get me into the zone and give a bit of adrenaline to do get shit done fast.
DARPA's budget is about $3B this year alone.

Compared to $10 billion in R&D for Microsoft and Intel and $8 billion for Google: http://fortune.com/2014/11/17/top-10-research-development/
I tutor my little brother-in-law sometimes (he's 9), and I like to deprogram him from public school testing culture as much as possible. I tell him that when he's with me and he doesn't know the answer, don't guess. Just say, "I don't know." And I test him, too. I ask him questions he can't possibly know the answer to, or questions that have no right answer, just to hear him say, "I don't know." And then I congratulate him for being honest. I do this because I know that public school encourages him to do the exact opposite. At least when I was in school, they never want you to leave a question blank. They always tell you to guess. If you guess, and get the answer wrong, you get partial credit (IIRC, 25%), but if you leave it blank, you get no credit. Why they do this, I have no idea. Maybe they feel like if the child guesses, they have a 25% chance of getting the right answer, so that means the school has a 25% chance of getting the federal money, so therefore the child should get 25% credit for at least filling in the bubble. Makes sense in kind of a bizarre way. But in the real world, there is no 25% credit for guessing.
You don't think they took those factors into account? They did. Did you even read the article? They didn't ask people outright "Are you a racist?" They tricked people by asking them other indirect questions. Like, "Would you mind if <insert race/nationality> lived next door to you?" Those kinds of questions get to heart of the matter. And they didn't just ask Japan those questions, they asked every country on Earth the same questions.
Yeah I agree, not withstanding that the people you meet in school can be a very big part of you networking afterwards. Much easier to get a new job if the place you're applying for has an employee who can vouch that you didnt let him down during that team project.
The good software engineering practives of yesterday are for old people. Young people are just smarter. They move fast and break stuff. Makin' omelettes, man. Shhhyeah.
Perfectly timed post ;)
I feel stupid maybe, but can pouch/couch sync anything other than an entire database? The lack of granularity there always turned me off.
Uber is not a software company. The only code they hack is the legal code.
Why? `?-` indicates that it's a query, it should not define anything.
Actually I opened the source: http://www.commondreams.org/views/2013/09/23/add-it-average-...

Here're their largest points:

1. $1268 - for overpriced medications

2. $1231 - for revenue loss from tax havens

3. $870 - for corporate tax subsidies

All of them are very questionable.
"If you've ran a business for 6 years and no one inside can run it, that's not very good."

"based on not having a strong understanding of the market/ unit economics from the get-go"

Dude, not strong understanding of market etc and other reasons given are not correlated to not having a person on the inside after 6 years who can run it...it probably means staff havn't been involved enough...

I guess that's part of a problem of bootstrapping, everything has to be pyramid structure even with only 6 employees? Never thought about that.
In the early 70s, we had some level of SAT preparation including the pre-SATs (forget what they were called). However, my impression is that standardized testing prep has certainly increased--as has the level of competition to get into top schools.

One of the problems with de-emphasizing standard tests for college admissions is that they do a pretty good job at predicting college success (assuming that's your goal). Unfortunately the things you'd probably like to emphasize more (like interviews or other qualitative factors) seem to have pretty bad predictive value for just about anything.

(And this is hardly unique to college admissions; cue any of the discussions here about hiring processes.)
It's not necessarily race. How about a bad rating for getting a ride to an undesirable part of town? Or one where the driver can't find another rider?

At least in 2014, it sounds like Uber has no way to verify racism isn't happening: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/jul/28/are-ubers-...
no, they're just wasting money foolishly and then gawping about like goldfish when they have no money left for things that matter. so maybe it's stupid to complain, but that doesn't make it smart to facilitate.
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Theory needs to be verified :-)
Yep! I've used it at work on OSX for a variety of JavaScript, Clojure and ClojureScript projects for the past year and a half. There's some additional configuration that helps be more productive as with any new editor. Once I got that out of the way, it's been easy to work with. My LightTable configuration is at https://github.com/cldwalker/ltfiles

Disclaimer: I'm a Light Table maintainer
Because Glacier adjusts the price exactly to the size of the data stored, Google Drive is by price steps.
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Given, there is a corrupting influence of undeserved money on people ...

Something similar would be interesting to know (but I guess, will never be researched):

How corrupting is the influence of state-money poured into many industries of western nations, because those states want to support their own big industries (like military industry, energy, ...) and are lobbied into doing so ... the result: Money goes on and on into the same corporations, but small companies get nothing.
A lot of the comments so far seem to be missing the point.

This appears to be simply saying that version numbers are misleading; what is important is not what version number is being used, but what contracts that version number corresponds to.

That is, it's more useful to say "This release adheres to standard A, B and C, and no longer supports D", and talk about interoperability that way, than it is to say "Version X requires talking to version (X-1) or later".

To borrow from a comment another made, I don't care what version my browser is, I -do- care if it supports Websockets or not (and what version, and what it sends across the connection, etc). This article is saying to describe your releases, and what changed in them, in those terms. As a client user of your software, I really don't care about what changes you make under the hood, -unless- they break the contracts I am dependent on. Version numbers obscure what changes matter to me, vs what ones don't, and are thus insufficient. They can, however, be helpful shorthand, if you document accordingly.
It would be interesting to see who are the most successful submitters, that is the users with the highest ratio of submitted posts which have reached the front-page vs overall submitted posts.
Ask HN: What's the best way to experience “Silicon Valley” environment/culture?
Motivation:
- I have lived in Bangalore (India) for last 4 years, and been to lots of tech, startup & product conferences, meetups, etc. One common phrase I have heard often is how things go down in "The Valley". Many lines from established folks have started with "Back in the valley...", and so on to arouse enough curiosity as to what sort of holy land is this place?
- I had the opportunity to visit SF for 5 days for Elasticon in March'15, did meet a few interesting people but frankly couldn't really find much magic of the promised land... :/
- I am planning to do a personal trip again now for a week or two to just spend time to explore "The Valley" & see for myself what is it all about... Hence looking for suggestions on how to best utilize time to experience the magic that is apparently much more dense here than most other places in the world, and then plan the trip accordingly.

Brief personal background:
- 27 years old right now. Masters in Economics (Minor in CS ...unofficial), then 2 years as data science guy/analyst at large bank, then career shift with 2 years as full-stack developer at a "Valley"-funded startup. Now trying to solve a problem in fintech space starting with India.

Thanks!
I've been using this on a project recently. I've had to modify its source to make it work in a Shadow DOM environment and it's been slow-going. The future is hard. :)
TL;DR for the article:

When designing a programming language, one should be judicious about "strangeness", because users can tolerate only so much of it. We can think of this in terms of a "strangeness budget."

Feedback for the writer: you should state up front that this article is about language design (as opposed to using languages). Then with that context you should immediately define what you mean by strangeness budget. In the first paragraph, if possible.

Without these, it's a frustrating read because on the inevitable first skim, the reader comes across a lot of false clues that make it look like the topic is learning a language or building something with a language.

It's super confusing. The whole meaning becomes clear on a careful close read, but that shouldn't be required for your point.

Anyone who reads my TL;DR above is now polluted and won't see the problems I saw with the article. :-)
I've never heard of a guessing reward before. I've heard of guessing penalties, though. Back when I took the AP exams, there was a penalty (negative points awarded) for guessing, whereas leaving a multiple-choice question blank was worth 0 points. (This stopped being the case in 2011.)
Dupe of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10444548
> I haven’t really talked about it much in that time, ... my assumption is most people would find the day-to-day details of my life to be as dull as dishwater.

> But it’s also in part because I’m a coward. Depression (and mental illness overall) still carries a stigma.

Nah, not a coward, he's just naturally cautious. No one has the obligation to reveal anything about their personal lives. Not everyone who suffers from something has to be a campaigner, or an example, or a resource.

Good for him that he feels free enough to talk about it. Like many things, the more people talk about it, the less ignorant prejudice there will be.

I was suicidally depressed, for a long time. Miserable life. I got treated, and now the "me" that was oppressed by this condition has been allowed to come to the fore. Same person, different world.

If you think you're depressed, talk to your doctor and get treatment. That treatment will vary; depression is a very large blanket term.
Did you read the article?

‘‘It’s always possible,’’ Bowden told me. ‘‘But given the sheer number of people I talked to from different parts of government, for a lie to have been that carefully orchestrated and sustained to me gets into faked-moon-landing territory.’’ Other reporters have been less generous still. ‘‘What’s true in the story isn’t new, and what’s new in the story isn’t true,’’ said Peter Bergen of CNN, who wrote his own best-selling account of the hunting and killing of bin Laden, ‘‘Manhunt.’’

... Filkins, who covered Afghanistan and Pakistan for The Times before moving to The New Yorker, spent about a week running the tip by sources inside the Pakistani government and military with little success. ‘‘It wasn’t even that I was getting angry denials,’’ Filkins told me. ‘‘I was getting blank stares.’’
> And even if you buy that silly study

I love how the study doesn't agree with your preconceptions so it must be "silly". The study was done by 2 Swedish researchers at a university, not by some online poll. It's backed up by academic rigor. That's about as hard science as it gets.
Fracking is not the same thing as injection wells.
Thanks for the explanation. That still leaves the question why he left his wife in Syria, and not in Turkey or Lebanon?
yes, what the world needs now is more and more people who care about marketing their brand. this might as well be called "a guide to shitting in the well: how to poison the HN community so you can go viral"
Studies have long shown a link between depression and AD, and some of the newest (last couple years) seem to be showing that depression may actually be causing and accelerating AD as opposed to just being a comorbidity.

In the same vein we have IBS, a condition which can sometimes be treated with antidepressants.

Fascinating stuff.
Kudos for having an electrical safety page. But is not complete. Some of these installations appear to be both fire and shock hazards.
1. even for flame-rated PC and ABS, the RTI is typically under 50C, so any long-term exposure to LED heat is a fire hazard.
2. unless the power supply is Class II construction, the indicated wiring does not provide a reliable ground bond. GFI will not always help, as it depends on which version of the NEC for the building wiring. Best to choose a p/s certified IAW UL8750 (will bear the mark of an NRTL and a reference number) that is rated for Class II ops (will have the double insulation logo). If Class I construction required, never use wire nuts for ground lead connections - use terminals and double-crimped connectors.
3. The power supply should be rated for end-use; that is, is should not be a 'component power supply'. UL refers to end-use stuff as 'Listed', and components as 'recognized'. There are other terms for other materials and eauipment, and the terms vary depending on the NRTL that issued the certification (CSA, TUVR, MET, UL, etc).
4. wiring 'styles' (UL has a exhaustive database for this stuff) should be rated for the temperatures the insulation is exposed to, and be rated for the voltage and current that would be present during a fault condition. Recommend style 1015 wiring or better. Most residential PVC wiring probably not suitable for all uses described on these pages.
5. EMI - most of the dimmiable units have poor EMC due to both conduction and radiated emissions. And the demonstrated wiring will probably exacerbate these emissions. Some power supplies that are rated as 'components' depend on the end-use installation to meet radiated limits (47CFR15 subpart B).
Let's not make it unnecessarily complicated. Basic income is a good idea on its own, but mix it with land use taxation and you get into all sorts of problems. For example, how do handle a rented block of flats, would your land usage tax/income vary depending on how many tenants were currently renting in that block of flats?

Tax exemption for primary residences (under a certain size) + basic income is a far more flexible arrangement, and you lose none of the benefits of determining basic income on land use.
Nitpick: the $4.9 billion figure is for Tesla, SpaceX, and SolarCity combined.
Unfortunately, this could be as much Apple's fault as Uber's.
I think marketeers have already found out. Maybe I'm just being jaded and/or my interests have evolved, but seems like more and more techno-nonsense hits the front page in recent months than years ago.
You can't even just buy Adobe Creative Suite anymore, you must subscribe, and even then it's Adobe CC not a versioned CS3, CS6, or w/e so they can get away with peddling mediocrity for years without the proof of innovation a version-based system requires. Similar deal with Microsoft, I pay them whatever a month for Office 365 because I couldn't figure out how to just buy the office suite. The other day I saw that Office 2016 is out, great, since I'm subscribing that should be pushed to me, right? I spent several minutes attempting to understand when and how I would receive 2016 and then just gave up. Not a very consumer friendly environment, at least for consumers who are trying to be good and pay for their software.
what if in the distant future they could do away with most of their datacenter with a solution like this (improved of course), imaging the savings... maybe this is their first step into looking into it.
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I am a programmer, I also like to play games, and make them.

I own a ASUS gaming laptop, and I got astonished by how badly newer games run, even games with graphics that are like of 20 years ago (example: I really like business simulation games, some use isometric graphics with some extremely low poly and untextured models for the walls and floors and some objects, like plants and tables) run slow on my machine.

Even some 2D games run badly, Axiom Verge had several slowdowns on my machine, Luftrausers is virtually unplayable (when there is heavy firefighting on the screen, the game starts to lag severely, things start to teleport around the screen), Wasteland 2 runs like crap and bugs out like crazy (transparent walls, grass growing on random places, people disappearing).

Even games from legendary companies in the technical sense are not doing well, for example I tried to run the new Wolfenstein game on my machine, even at the lowest settings possible the thing go at 3 FPS.

Meanwhile I can play emulated Wii games (Xenoblade for example) with 60 FPS, Stalker series (that in my opinion have amazing graphics) I could even place some mods to make it prettier without losing too much FPS, games using Source engine can confortably run with all the bells and whistles, and so on...

But try to play a new game, even a 2D one, say, Pillars of Eternity. The thing manages to lag for no reason.

I noticed one reason for this is the abuse of Garbage Collectors, many of the games I had problems with has Garbage Collectors, and I see the memory swinging all over the place (a particularly bad one: Kerbal Space Program, it loads everything on launch, then unloads things, then load again as needed, when I launch it, it hits 3gb of memory, then as I use it slowly decrease, then it starts increasing again for no reason, I assume due to memory leaks, and crashes), I even started to play games with the windows task manager on the second monitor, with apps ordered by memory use, this way I know when they will run out of memory and crash (thus I can save first).

And then, there are the devs attitude toward optimization, I finished two days ago some ARM NEON code for my iPhone project (I am doing some freelance iOS coding now), I decided to discuss it on IRC, and some devs got pissed off, they tried to convince me that Apple native APIs were better, and that I was doing my design all wrong, and that instead of using a single ASM function that do all the operations I need inside a single loop, I should have used a collection of Apple APIs that would involve 4 different objects layered to the same thing...

When I explained that my original code (that was using OpenCV), was too slow according to the profiler (it was using 60% of the CPU time), they replied that I was "optmizing the wrong place".

Also when I mention I plan to make it work on iPod 5 and iPhone 4, people counter-argue that I should just ignore those and make it run on iPhone 6 only, because that is the proper solution for not having enough CPU (instead of getting the CPU manual and doing decent code).