skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you really think profiling is so horrifyingly bad in Julia with ProfileView? Imho, I cannot see what Matlab offers on top of that, but that may just be me.
They've had the mupad notebook (http://www.mathworks.com/help/symbolic/mupad.html) ever since they replaced the backend of symbolic math toolbox from maple to mupad, around 2008 or 2009. But I don't think it's too popular with Matlab users, there's a certain simplicity to just having a plot come up in a new standalone window that can actually be surprisingly hard to accomplish cross platform. Often have to pick your poison of depending on Tk, Gtk, Qt, Electron, or running in a browser (which still doesn't feel right to a lot of people, and for the non-Python languages supported by jupyter the Python server backend is a non-trivial dependency that can be messy to deal with).
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Facebook tweaks its ‘Real names’ policy and reminds us how scary it actually is
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That comment reeks of sour grapes.
May I message you ?
(Zulip committer here) Definitely agree that user onboarding could use some work, feel free to send feedback.

hn-username @zulip.org , or https://groups.google.com/group/zulip-devel
I agree, but this is only true as long as you stick with numerical applications, which is kind of the point of Julia.

It is currently more of a domain specific language, kind of like Matlab, because it's not really optimized for other things and has no libraries in the other domains.

On the other hand, I implemented a prototype neural network in it, and it went very smoothly. Will have to eventually rewrite it in Python though.
Beijing's Air Is So Bad, the Sale of Bottled Canadian Mountain Air Is Soaring
How I was able to take-over any United Airlines Account
We actually have tools to do all of that -- high-availability / fault tolerance / load balancing, entirely transparent to users, admins, and apps -- which we use to run Sandstorm Oasis, our paid managed hosting service. We are working on productizing these tools to sell to "enterprise" customers.

For individual users and small companies, single-machine Sandstorm is pretty reliable, but it's true we don't automate kernel updates yet (which will require scheduling reboots for off-hours). We'll add that eventually.

(Sorry for all the vaporware.)
Reminds me of a time in France when someone at a customer site complained they were locked out of their laptop - his Win NT4 laptop had a QWERTY keyboard but he put his password in french using the keyboard switcher in the OS. Back then Windows didn't allow you to change keyboard type at the login screen - it kept what you were using when you logged off...
I am not sure why companies are so paranoid about false positives. Apart from the the lack of evidence that being extra picky is helpful, you can always fire if the candidate does not meet your standards. Be crystal clear about what you expect and cut if it is not met.
The article brings up the important point on Yahoo's acquisitions. For the billions it spent, it got barely anything in return. The real canary in the coal mine was Summly. Mayer paid 30M for an app that licensed its core machine learning (which is why she bought the app in the first place). Unsure how anyone could have expected Tumblr to be a smart acquisition at that price.
Same as with Twitter; remember Meerkat and firehose access as examples.
You can use Parse an Firebase to store sensitive data by applying client side encryption. Of course one of the biggest problem is: how do you query that data since it's encrypted. But lately, there are some start-ups that aim to make encryption searchable. See ZeroDB, CryptDB, IQrypt.- the last one is designed to be used for Parse and Firebase: http://iqrypt.com/docs/Home/
I'm guessing you've looked into http://www.telescopeapp.org/ ?

If not, I'd really recommend you do so and also learn some Meteor.js. It's great for beginners.
Hmm. Not really related, but now that it seems to be fixed - I discovered that using an equals sign in your name was enough to be "locked out" of Airbnb - it wrecked the cookie & every page would return 403. No bug bounty though haha. Guess it wasn't enough of an "attack vector" to try and convince someone to change their name.
Exists != built.
Doesn't it just mean that the launch platform space is ripe fo disruption?
I have to say, after inheriting a code base from Max(@mxcl), its sad that anyone would reject him. Hes pretty much the guy that gave me the first sane introduction to cacoa programming. - That being said, I was rejected from a company because I hadn't used binutil in python. - I find I can pass any interview with a confident low voice more consistently than by showing my technical expertise. - People are interested in how well you assimilate into the culture of the workplace. Sometimes, that workplace culture needs to evoluve to include a more eclectic dev-background, or they risk alienating talented people. Alas, sometimes that evolution is not nessicary or its just to early for the company. - I've seen this happen to good devs and I've been on the receiving end of it. - Hiring isn't fun; you have to find someone who understands who you are. Inheriting trust is a lot faster then building trust and I find most companies don't have the time (sometimes ability ) to build that trust.
My number one problem with producthunt, keeping in mind that I still love producthunt for the amount of traffic and customers it got us, is that you can't say anything negative in the comments.

Even if it relates to bad science, bad product, etc....

It's all very 'kumbaya' positive, which is fine.

That being said, I think ProductHunt will be sufficiently difficult to replicate.
Am I right that flagging this post is misuse of flagging?
Many Linux installers suffered for years the situation that you would enter you password in the setup process with a different keymap than the one you got once the system then loaded, e.g. y-z were mismatched cause I was using QWERTZ instead of QWERTY. I think I saw something similar lately with on of the OSX'es.
Yes. We grew massively because of ProductHunt.

Venture: LinkTexting.com
I'm very much more on the data analysis side of things and decidedly not a web developer, but I still regularly get told "great work, can you display the data on a cool website?" In fact if I was hiring a new data analysis colleague I would very much prefer one who knew javascript for this very reason.
Most recruiters are terrible. The other day I was asked to fill a form (skills, work experience, personal details, the whole thing - in great detail) before the recruiter would even tell me the name of the company he is trying to hire for. I knew arguing with him is futile, so I didn't. Job search in general is a depressing experience, even when it is easy. Good recruiters are extremely rare :(

My funniest experience with a recruiter - he called me up and tried to recruit me to the same company I was working for at the time.
While you are right that it's very similar to IRC etc you are completely missing the fundamental reason Slack et al are popular: user experience, especially for non-technical people.

Not everyone grew up on IRC with bouncers, irssi on a remote server, and their own server where they could upload attachments to in a single keystroke.

Now it's true that there are new alternatives for non-technical people such as IRCCloud, but (a) it costs money for individuals (b) it's frankly not as good, UX-wise. Hence not as popular.
We were looking at a company communication channel to replace Yammer and Google Chat a while back, and briefly played with Slack. In the end trading in one cloud service for another seemed unwise.

Because we already used self-hosted GitLab when they announced the inclusion of MatterMost (FOSS self-hosted alternative to Slack) we simply activated that and have been quite satisfied with it.
The motivating factor for using Julia in a lot of cases is: what do you do when the problem you're trying to solve hasn't been exactly solved already by someone else's C extension? Can an average person (scientist, grad student, etc) who knows the math behind the problem they're trying to solve, but doesn't want to jump through hoops of awkward extension compilation (where you have to know not only the high level language and the low level language, but also how to use the interface layer API's that sit between them), write a high-performance implementation from scratch without it taking too much time or effort? If libraries do exist, do they work in parallel? And the standout features of the language like multiple dispatch and metaprogramming also allow some new, very natural ways of approaching a lot of problems in technical computing.
JSX/createElement is not just syntax sugar though. It avoids the whole step of parsing the template. Because JSX is JS code, you can pass native JS values to it including callbacks. Whereas anything you could pass to mustache-style templates will be stringified.

So for example in case of parsed templates, to pass a callback to onClick you'd need to define a convention on how you're going to locate the callback by a given string (since you can't pass the function itself, you need to pass some "name" of that function). Whatever logic that will be, the result will not feel like React anymore because you're back to typical framework-specific template magic instead of using plain JS.
If you can figure out the actual studies from those sites, please provide links to them or their abstracts, at least.

Otherwise, all that is being provided are two websites pushing books, and their failure to even give usable locators to the claimed studies in text footnotes on the pages (if not clickable links) is suspicious.
I really dislike when sites / products claim 'The easiest way...' or 'The best way...'. Its a statement that immediately makes me question the product, if something really is 'the best' as in 'the be all and end all' of something, I don't think it'll ever claim to be such.
It does have that character. Press Option-Shift-8.
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Also, the npm ecosystem.

The early js-on-the-server systems had miserable ecosystems.
We are sufficiently far away from creating machines that humans would consider to have consciousness that it's not really a problem so far. Eventually we'll probably have to think about robot rights, but I guess we still have a few decades until they're sufficiently advanced. But judging from how we treat, eg. great apes, who are so very similar to us, I wouldn't want to be a robot capable of suffering.
Emergence in Holographic Scenarios for Gravity
Regarding #3, there are efforts in China to prevent "character amnesia" http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2473
Apple Open Secret Production Laboratory in Taiwan
How come nobody has ever heard the term "extreme poverty" as a sensible metric before? Even forgetting the fact that defining extreme poverty as an absolute number is completely meaningless, they had to change the metric numerous times to show a positive result.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/2014/08/exposing-gr...

Also a country is awarded money if it displays good metrics even if they don't make any sense.
https://books.google.gr/books?id=rH5UCAAAQBAJ&pg=PT178&lpg=P...
I got bit by this problem before. I wrote a one liner to avoid generating passwords where the keyboard might be an issue [1].

1. http://www.tillett.info/2013/05/29/letters-to-avoid-in-creat...
What on earth are you talking about? The MGS series was a big money maker for Konami.

Hint: You don't get to make 5 major console games (+Ground Zeroes), 4 portable games (2 Acid series, POOPS :D, and Peace Walker) if the games didn't make money.

Konami decided to go make pachinko games, that's fine. But in the process they fucked over Kojima, and screwed lots of fans over in MGSV.
A trustworthy company is always one "being acquired by Oracle" away from becoming an untrustworthy, belligerent rent-seeker. Any dependency on another company for your own business must be considered a risk to be managed.
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From what I understand Konami always made their money back and then some. I could be wrong here.
No diacritics in Latin, either!
I'm not sure he was being 100% serious.
Sigh, scrolling to the bottom of this page added 10 entries to my chrome browser history.
Facebook testing changes to strict ‘real name’ policy
> it never was a commercial success for Konami.

AFAIK MGS2 WAS a commercial success ( > 6.000.000 copies sold in 2001 ), if it wasn't the case the Konami would have ditched that franchise a long time ago. It's true that both MGS4 and MGS5 went over budget, but MGS5 prologue was sold separately and had a moderate commercial success.

No what happened is that Konami decided Patchinko machines and Mobile Games with micro-transactions were more profitable than developping AAA Games(and they are in Japan) so they "fired" Kojima and its team earlier this year, making them unable to finish the game as they wanted.
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We are trying to make so at Actor (https://actor.im).
When in Tokyo I love that department stores have whole floors for pens and papers (and stickers and ribbons and gift wrapping and note books..). I miss this culture in Germany.
>..if he had indeed been dead for more than 24 hours, the active ingredients in both Tylenol and alcohol would have metabolized out of his body

This doesn't sound right. Wouldn't metabolism cease at death?
There are a few which actually wake up at 3 and 4 am for leisure; I wonder what they're doing.
I know. But PHP took off because they were mixing code and HTML, not despite of it. Same same, but different, I guess.
>The rest is history. Let's hope Sony will be able to shoulder H.K's future venture with more success.

Hoping for an eventual arrangement like they have with Polyphony Digital and GT.
"statins-for-cholesterol is a hugely profitable business pushed hard for decades by BigPharma"

The vast majority of statin scripts are generics, and quite cheap. "Big Pharma" now lacks a profit motive there.
Obligatory Spaceballs reference:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiabeNR_q0U
People hate Dart, written by Google, for same reason: it is better to stick to single language, for better ecosystem, than to fragment it.
I, personally, just ignoring Dart, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, etc. Life is short.
A peek inside Yahoo’s multimillion-dollar Great Gatsby-themed holiday party
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10736330 points to the Bloomberg article which has slightly more info
Perhaps you could first identify your presumed mechanism of action that converts dietary cholesterol into LDL.
THANK YOU. This is why slack is winning. They took many of the concepts of what makes irc great abd put a much better user experience on top.

Why is that so hard for people to understand?

This happens over and over again.

- Google wasn't the first search engine.
- Facebook wasn't the first social network.
- Microsoft didn't build the first operating system.

They all just did it in a way that appealed to mass amounts of users.
> Why write a slow clunky old email when a Slack message will do?

Because email is threaded conversations, while slack is not. I can write 5 different emails and respond to each thread individually, but I can't do that in slack: I can write 5 messages, but my peer(s) can't answer each one individually - they can just write 5 messages and I have to figure out what they respond to.

Email has the added benefit of working nicely when you're on a connection that's not always available (mobile, traveling, etc.) I can write the message and have it sent later, download all messages and read (and answer) them without a connection. Slack (and other chat applications) just falls flat on it's face when the connection drops from time to time.

Now, all of that might be properties that you don't need because you're never traveling and always on the same schedule, so that you're able to answer questions in real time - but don't assume that's true for everyone.
Jwz has some strong opinions about screensaver/screenlocker design:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2014/04/the-awful-thing-about-getti...

I'd say he's right.
I definitely witter a new IT bubble
I understand why slack is popular, I use it. But Slack's success is it's UI, and that is not dependent on a centralized close protocol.

We could have a rich ecosystem of competing chat clients over a distributed messaging bus, it's just that there's no economic viability in it.

If SMTP were re-invented today, it would never be open and federated.
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> Why can't voters be provided with a random vote ID

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Vote_buying

"bring me an ID which shows you voted for X and I'll give you $5"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_fraud#Intimidation

"bring me an idea showing you voted for X or you're fired"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter-verified_paper_audit_tra...
is the correct-est solution I'm aware of.
I doubt you've used them for decades but yeah, they last long for £6. Usually the handle will break though (I've gone through 3 of them in the last decade although they're quite sturdy). The wok itself is still perfect (but then again, for £10 at most I can get a new one, and I can't be bothered with fixing the handle.
I always have a MP3 player with me and i couldnt agree more.
Consciousness and understanding are human created symbolism. Talking about it seriously is a waste of time.

I could be an empty shell imitating a human perfectly, all other humans would buy my lack of consciousness, and nothing would be different, from their perspective I exist, from mine, I don't have mine.

How does one know that I really understand something? Maybe I can answer all the questions to convince them?
Most of my "knowledge" on this matter comes from physical copies of NewScientist and similar (my bathroom reading), rather than papers directly or something I've got readily bookmarked online. I'll see if I can find that particular issue when I get home, if I can I'll extract the references and pass them on.
So what? Atlassian has a thriving marketplace of extensions for their products and small developers make money out of it. Slack is not a social media site, it's a collaboration tool that is trying to build a platform for the enterprise.

This is an "apples and battleships" comparison.
Gentrification is a scientific term which became very popular. I think it's important to discuss counterarguments, if only to make the term 'gentrification' clearer to a wider audience.

Finally I think the authors last point is important and overlooked in most online discussions of this 12 month old article: Gentrification has become a middle-class fear and does not help to address the problems of the poor. A discussion about rent subsidies would.
There probably is. But that market is probably sufficiently satiated with foreign pens, and not large enough to warrant domestic production.
I write a whole bunch of my own libraries under MIT. I'd rather just use, or create, a different library than pay for a proprietary license. You said people who feel that way are cheapskates: the name calling is unnecessary, and it's wrong: I just expect other OSS authors to license their work on the same terms as most of us do.
So if I build something on top of this that actually turns out to be popular and turns a good profit, what is to protect me from Slack then building it in the core product that cutting me out or shutting me down?

Not much I guess. Twitpic anyone? [1].

1. https://blog.twitpic.com/2014/09/twitpic-is-shutting-down/
The person in the room performing the lookup is a red-herring and can be replaced by suitable algorithm, e.g. a convnet - which could learn the lookup task.

Consciousness resides in the minds that created the lookup tables: they were constructed by conscious beings to map queries to meaningful responses.

The lookup tables are the very sophisticated part of Searle's Chinese Room.

The recent emergent semantic vector algebra discovered in human languages by Mikolov's word2vec [Mikolov et al] demonstrate that some of the computational power of language is inherent in the language ( but only meaningfully interpretable by
a conscious listener.

Meaning requires Consciousness but language is unexpectedly sophisticated and contains a semantic vector space which can answer simple queries ("What is the Capital of...") and analogise ("King is to What as Man is to Woman") algebraicly. [Mikolov et al]

This inherent semantic vector space is discoverable by context encoding large corpii.

Language is a very sophisticated and ancient tool that allows some reasoning to be performed by simple algebraic transformations inherent to the language.

-

[Mikolov et al] :
Efficient Estimation of Word Representations in Vector Space
Mikolov, Chen, Corrado, & Dean
http://arxiv.org/abs/1301.3781

& https://code.google.com/p/word2vec/
Yup! Also, would you really want to work with person A? I wouldn't, no matter how talented. Our scarcity mindset as employees has us asking for any job sometimes, no matter how awful the fit...
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You definetly work in PR. You have the quality of taking something trivial and describing it as if it is a big deal.
Not sure about ballpoint pens, but I bought a fine Montblanc Starwalker fountain pen clone* for $3, including international delivery from China.

*BAOER 79 Starwalker
http://www.aliexpress.com/item-img/Baoer-79-Black-Crystal-Ca...
Thank goodness for Creationism, if it didn't exist as a prominent example of the USA's embarrassing pockets of highly organised anti-science propaganda then it would be much easier for people to believe the conspiracy theories that suggest climate change is an elaborate hoax.
> $scope.apply anyone?

_.defer(scope.apply...

...re typescript, i feel like if i'm gonna use a not-script of some sort, it might as well be clojurescript or something else that's like a really-srsly-not-js rather than js-but-prettier (coffee) or js-plus-a-paradigm-grab-bag (my totally uninformed take on type)
Mixing of logic and presentation is bad for application, but so don't use <font> tag in your code, because it will be hard for _designer_ to change appearance of hardcoded page.

React mixes logic and structure, which causes no harm, because both are written and maintained by same developer.
Botkit is a toolkit for making bot applications
Hiring bad people is signaling to your existing, well functioning team, that you care about the bottom line more than their experience & happiness. It drives good people away, because firing bad apples is way harder than it should be...
That's exactly the point I was making (that is, not agreeing with the "built a cult of personality" part someone said at the top of this thread but pointing out that it exists anyway and the consequences are the same either way)
I buy them at the store called Muji, I didn't use it as a brand name. I'm not sure how they outsource production, but I wouldn't be surprised if the factories are running German or Swiss machines to do it. Or it could be only final assembly happens in China while the cores are made in Europe, but I doubt they would go through that much trouble. China's problem has always been machines and factory tooling, which is still dominated by Germany even if they are primarily used in China.

Other things to buy at Muji: towels, sheets, and spoons...it definitely beats ikea in quality.
I believe that's a ligature not a diacritic [1]

[1] apologies, it appears to be the last pedantic Wednesday before Christmas