skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I don't think it requires some great intellect to get it

yeah, exactly, it doesn't. which makes lisp elitism very awkward.

> LISP syntax is objectively much more simple

things can be too simple, to the point where it is counter productive and harmful. example - why do you need all these weird symbols to represent numbers 1234567890? seems like 1 does the job just fine. unary arithmetic is trivial - just stitch numbers together and you have addition, just repeat them X times and you have multiplication. no need for weird shenanigans with symbols changing because of trivial operations.

> Clojures awkward smashing together of javascriptish syntax

i genuinely think you have difficulty letting go of your biases. all clojure did was designate two more kinds of parens to mean something useful in a language. it's a tradeoff between being pure lisp and being easier to grasp while still remaining lisp. but i can see now, tradeoffs are hard to understand for elitists/purists.

i wonder if every time when you buy a keyboard/laptop you're ripping off those damn [] and {}. because your arguments are unreasonable enough to think that might actually be true.
Does #3 mean that you also have the _superpower_ to translate business/non-technical stuff to technical people ?

Also, take a look at AWS Lambda/{Azure,Google}CloudFunctions and Zappa. I guess this "serverless"/lambda/cloud function frameworks are here to stay and it's not easy to figure out how make it work properly.
While this is a good analysis of the strengths and weaknesses or various energy sources, I think solar price will continue to drop and storage will improve, so that solar will eventually beat even gas. But it's true that gas, because of its adaptability, is the best supplement to fill up the gaps in solar and wind.
We call this the OpenOffice syndrome
Not sure why the parent was down voted. Various things work for different people and I follow something similar. I keep a mantra of sorts going on in my head throughout the day where I tell myself to not be weak and give in to procrastination (I'm on a lunch break right now). This actually does push me harder during the hours which I've set aside for productive time. That way I feel zero guilt when indulging in HN and YouTube after my work hours.
Okay, so here are my likes for the people discussed in the article:

Botwin+=10

Levick+=100

Kersting-=1000 (With the attitude that he harbors towards his clients that guy seems completely unfit for his job!)
Having lived through the birth (and death) of HotDog / Dreamweaver / Frontpage etc. my biggest concern here is "HTML soup".

My next biggest concern is that these tools don't really teach people much about how the web works and also that marketer-types tend to over-use these tools with their new-found 'skills' and build over-bloated sites.

HTML is easy.
That's good too.
To clarify: I'm not against managing (downloading) dependencies. I just want
two separate steps: [download things] and [compile things].

This separation allows to build the project off-line, which is not an uncommon
scenario. There are environments that have the direct internet access
prohibited e.g. by a company policy. There are environments that have it
difficult (e.g. are behind a proxy). There are distribution package builders
(RPM, DEB), which have a policy of only working on local sources.

And then there is build reproducibility. If external network is involved,
the whole reproducibility idea goes out of the window. Remember the left-pad
farce? Part of the cause was idiotic split to microdependencies, but part was
that everybody used external network for their build process.
Democrats used to hold the Republican party's stances and the Republican party used to hold the Democrat's. Saying that something was invented by Democrats is essentially saying it was invented by people who would agree with today's Republicans.

http://factmyth.com/factoids/democrats-and-republicans-switc...

http://www.livescience.com/34241-democratic-republican-parti...

https://www.quora.com/Is-it-true-that-Democrats-used-to-be-t...
I downloaded the demo today (have yet to buy the full game, but will likely give it a shot) and was very impressed. I didn't realize the internet connectivity was a requirement, which is a minor bummer, but I was gratified to find a small, focused game whose first three levels hinted at the challenges that may (or may not, again just a demo player) be hidden within.

I'm curious to find out how conversion from Pokemon Go -> Pokemon Sun/Moon games and Mario Run -> Mario Switch plays out, because both mobile games have succeeded at getting me more interested in investing time and money into their big-brother console relatives.
With regards to Mozilla, see https://connected.mozilla.org/

Mozilla is working on IoT products and an IoT platform based on the Web of Things.
Totally.

A few people making a lot of noise.

Any suggestion this had a material impact on githubs business is pure speculation.
If you are wondering what this is all about:

What is CryptoParty?

Interested parties with computers, devices, and the willingness to learn how to use the most basic crypto programs and the fundamental concepts of their operation! CryptoParties are free to attend, public and commercially non-aligned.

CryptoParty is a decentralized, global initiative to introduce basic cryptography tools - such as the Tor anonymity network, public key encryption (PGP/GPG), and OTR (Off The Record messaging) - to the general public.
To be fair, smaller providers are incredibly numerous in virtually every country. For obvious money reasons, they can't compete on price and available spec against the big three, but support tends to be the money maker for smaller companies, as knowledgable and accessible support technicians is a pretty valuable selling point for these companies. The business I work for provides software/service for thousands of these providers, and I see them all over the place in Europe, Russia, China, and so on. Have not seen it as much in the US, but my support focus is mainly Europe, so it might just be I don't get to see it.
Woke up, read the e-mail, literally opened HN in order to make the fuss.

I'm really sad about this. They're removing one of their best features - and for me, one of the most useful.
> While I am not saying scientists will stumble upon immortality tomorrow, a serious increase in lifespan may happen relatively soon.

We have been hearing that for a while though, when do you think "soon" will be ?
>Just curious, is a Go string a C string inside (rune array + nil) or a proper class array?

I can't imagine how you would even implement a string as anything other than a rune array.

Even a Pascal string is just the string length followed by characters.
The options you named all use google analytics

They even let you add your own analytics key
Hard dependencies to JS
Hello,

It is a private repository because it is still in beta.

You need to request an access through this form:

https://goo.gl/G2bBZQ

Très cordialement / Best Regards,
Hire Web Developers – LogicSpice
The user-facing build process for Gecko doesn't change as a result of this (or as a result of most build changes). It's pretty straightforward: mach bootstrap to fetch dependencies, mach build to build. Takes a while but that's not something that complicates the contributor experience; the build time is just annoying.
> Is that really a life you would want to lead?

Absolutely, if the alternative was not existing at all. Unless I'm being eternally tortured for some reason.
If a person in a house with a working thermostat is comfortable in a room that is at 21 degrees, then they should, obviously, keep their thermostat at 21 degrees. They don't need to touch the dial; the default is sensible for them, and most humans.

If a person in a house with a broken thermostat is comfortable in a room that is at 21 degrees, however, they might have to set their thermostat to 25 degrees to make the room 21 degrees—because when their thermostat is set to 21, the room ends up 17 degrees.

That is the point of stimulants, and most other such neuro-active drugs: they move the dial on your (complex, multi-dimensional) neurochemical thermostat.

If you don't have a chemical imbalance—if you're neurotypical—you shouldn't "move the dial"; you'd just be moving it out of the comfortable human reference range.

If you have a chemical imbalance, then your "thermostat" is mis-calibrated, and so its default dial position is out of the comfortable human reference range. You definitely do want to "move the dial"—to move it into that range.

The point of stimulants is like the point of glasses: to shift everything by precisely the right amount so that they cancel out the problem, leaving you "normal." A person who has ADHD and is on the right dose of the right drug, shouldn't be able to be differentiated from a neurotypical person. If they can be, then, by definition, they're not on the right dose of the right drug—just like someone who still can't read the letters in the optometrist's office obviously has not yet found the correct diopter rating for their eyes.
What is Keep-Alive and How to Enable it on different servers
I work in marketing, "creative" is used for pretty much any kind of ad/marketing product while in the production process. No negative about it. It's like "hed" or "lede" in the journalism world.
Any platform can and will be "politicized." Mediums that allow unbridled communication between humans are always political to a varying degree. "Politics" is really just a word for structured disagreement, it happens and is happening everywhere.

And just to be clear, "prove they're not leaving" is not a great argument. I mean I guess they might be? But $66m dollars is a lot of money. They'd have to lose over a million paying customers to lose that much from people switching away. This is a simple calculation that returns a boolean, there are either a significant number of paying customers leaving such that it impacts on the scale of millions of dollars (and we're talking about a product that is $7/month for individuals here, that's a lot of $7 subs) or there aren't.

What do you think the ballpark is for paying customers irritated enough by that thread's existence that they leave the service altogether? I honestly don't know, I wouldn't know where to begin quantifying.
At a minimum, we need a viable cloud service that's not headquartered in the United States.
React-MD – React components built with Sass
Federated merge requests (pull requests) is something we've been wanting to do for a long time [0]. Maybe 2017 is the year to do it.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-ce/issues/4013
Cisco's networking hardware is still top of the line (albeit expensive). But yes you're right, other than their networking hardware they don't do all that much.
Personally, I want "I" in IoT to stand for Intranet.
My favourite analogy, that I can't believe doesn't come up more often in these discussions:

Having a degree of ADHD is like having a degree of nearsightedness. Yes, almost everybody has some. And you know what that translates to? Almost everybody wearing glasses. It's "normal" to be nearsighted... and it's just as "normal" to wear glasses to correct it.

Imagine if people with a small amount of nearsightedness were expected to just struggle through their life without glasses. Wouldn't that be weird?
That's not as big an issue when there are network effects -- look at Craigslist. Plus, what killer feature is bitbucket going to add at this point to make everyone want to switch? They're practically the same product. All the major innovation happened years ago.
Again, do you have evidence that this is actually happening? All I see is a lot of hay made over an issue that the project itself resolved (as well it should have been) from which point it launches into conspiracy theories about what's going to happen now that Coraline is in their employ. She was hired in February, a good 10 months ago. Has anything else happened as you suggest it would to cause concern in this vein since then, or is this all just speculation?
Well, there are projects like this - https://sandstorm.io/ - which make it easier to host things on your own hardware (or on cloud providers, but still...)
Paper writing service
yeah, gitlab _is_ slow. Given that they are (unlike github) actually making money I don't understand why they wont just throw more servers at the problem (or put some devs on fixing their backend).
i didn't even know cisco had a cloud.

i wouldn't say amazon claimed another victim but rather cisco failed at advertising its services.

granted it'd been difficult, amazon already has a massive platform to advertise itself.
Everything you say also goes for Drive... Not sure what you mean?
At least with Twitter it's hopefully a wake up call for a lot of people about relying on centralized infrastructure.

Then again, Snapchat.
And the pattern of overselling A.I. continues. What we have accomplished in this generation is pretty good pattern recognition. Nice, but limited in its usefulness to obvious applications, like translation and image and audio classification. Go and Chess games are rule-constrained enough to be reducible to patterns, so it works for them too, giving a false impression of 'general AI'.

What's worse is that this approach seems to be a dead end, in the sense that it is only useful for pattern recognition, which can substitute for decision making only for extremely simple processes (absent a quantum leap in a range of technologies), and even then those kinds of applications are notoriously difficult to develop and maintain.

I look forward to the enormous benefits we will get from machine learning, as we are already seeing, but again, overselling it won't do us any good.
RediSQL – A Redis module that provides a functional SQL database
Not yet, but you just gave me a good idea for future development!
I'm active on Tumblr. The trouble is it's owned by Yahoo, doesn't make a lot of money (if it's even in the black) and has resisted all attempts to monetise it. (Advertisers seem to want something like a blogging Pinterest, not extended political ranting.)

At this point there's the ArchiveTeam and that's about it, so we actually have something to point at when we're talking about what a great website that sure was back then.
It's a pity. CISCO has great engineering skill - it's lousy exec play that caused the problem.
> nobody

citation needed
Research: Why Americans Are So Impressed by Busyness
Dis you miss the part where they hired the professional victim to help spread her politics?
Trying to establish an equivalence between a man and a political system seems a _touch_ cult-of-personality-like don't you think?

I think there are plenty of defensible arguments one can give to say that Edward Snowden is not a traitor, but pearl-clutching hyperbolics leave me completely unconvinced.
Goriak: Go Language Driver for Riak KV
The internet was designed to be a fault-tolerant network that can automatically cope with outages by rerouting traffic around them. That's all. There's nothing to say who should own or operate the system implied in the design.
That is true but the risk of backdoored updates by state actors is a reasonable price to pay for security fixes to avoid every device being a node on a script kiddie enormous bothnet, or a WiFi ingress point, IMO. If the software is broken and not updated, a state actor can hack it anyway.
Github is too good to fail IMHO: if they raise a bit their prices, all their paying costumers will still stay and their money problems will mitigate.

By the other hand, Atom is clearly a long term loser and they should let it go. Their contribution to the text editing world was terrific but now they should focus where they are the best.
Turing Fuel – Power Smartphones for 5 Days with Hydrogen Fuel Cells
Where is she spreading her politics through GitHub?
I was wondering if this is the same software which was announced years ago and it was still in beta or it's a new software that's in beta. I've found I've personally added the record to Homebrew Cask in 2013 - https://github.com/caskroom/homebrew-cask/commit/429e430a622...
Bjork (I think) said that electronic music has no soul cause no one bothered to put one in it. As a long time listener of mainly electronic music, I agree. Among the various genres and artists of electro music there is a ratio of computer/human input to each piece. I find the pieces were the human input is minimal, boring and dry. In a way the human in these sorts of music is the necessary ghost in the machine that makes the piece worth its salt.

I would be very impressed if a fully computer synthesized piece would actually strike a cord in humans. I'm not talking about brutal bam-bam-bam techno pieces that evoke no emotions whatsoever.
You can't transport power that far without massive transmission losses. Communications cables use repeaters and fiber optics, so they don't have nearly the same problem.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_power_transmission#...
what does it include? issues, wiki, comments?
Traditionally, the oversupply due to keeping coal and nuclear running at their optimum is available at night, when the demand is lower.

Many locations, like yours, already account for this by charging lower prices at night to incentivize people to shift their load to these times e.g. putting the dishwasher on a timer so it runs overnight. Many pumped hydro stations store energy at this time too, often they were built specifically to pair with nuclear stations to better map a steady supply to a variable demand.

In areas that are ideal for solar, and roll out solar heavily, they may end up in the opposite situation, with the supply and demand mismatch reversed and so try to push usage to the middle of the day by dropping the prices then. Since most usage is during the day due to air-con load and the fact that people sleep at night, this may mean lower prices overall.

Once you add the internet into the equation, rather than the blunt instrument of a block of hours at a lower charge you can do things like have specific plugs for electric cars or an irrigation pump on a farm that can respond on a second by second basis to over or undersupply of electricity by using more or less in exchange for a cheaper rate. This is called "demand response" and while it happens already with big industrial users, it's getting cheaper and easier for it to be used by more and more users. One neat product that already exists is an internet connected car charger that checks the carbon content of the grid and charges your car overnight only when the wind energy is a big part of the mix.
Yes, this is disappointing. My Internet here is very flaky and it takes the joy out of playing this game somewhat.
I think teaching LISP (Clojure) is an excellent option to demonstrate how easily you can solves complex problems by chopping up the problem to simple idempotent functions. Teaching students to use a complex OOP language with lots of gotchas and tricks is much harder in my opinion. Focusing on the concepts of data structures, recursion, time complexity is great for most newcomers to software.
That's effectively an alternative implementation of exceptions.
And all those idiots who started converting Lync to "Skype for business" as well. In addition of the nowadays really quirky working Skype, I have bunch of Lync/Skype for business apps installed as well and they are even more horrible and PITA than the Skype.
This is because your interpretation of 'day' is of being a subcomponent of a 24 hour period (which probably also includes 'evening' and 'night').

The definition Amazon and every other company offering 'next day delivery' is that 'next day' means 'the next day'. As in the day after you buy the thing. It's a much more reasonable interpretation of the term because it's not open to colloquial misunderstandings (in your interpretation there could be day, evening, dusk, night, etc.). Is 5pm day? Is 6pm day?
How to avoid early mortgage payment hassles?
Rogue One is a different kind of Star Wars movie, and that’s a good thing
Buy All in One Brute/Checker
That gives me some really strong existential heebie jeebies. I mean, what then even is our value? Why exist at all, at that point? I don't know about other people, but I get my sense of purpose in believing that we're the captains of this Spaceship Earth, and that we're making progress towards something significant. I don't know what that something is, but I have a vague idea, and at the very least we seem to be the best that we've got. I don't know. Maybe I'm thinking about all of this wrong. God, why am I so damn confused all the time? Fuck.
Seems like it.
It's not an isolated incident, there was also the code of conduct that makes it clear where GitHub is heading, and that is getting coding mixed up with politics.
I think that hip-hop (bar abstract hip hop) is mainly about the lyrics.
Picture this maths
Thanks for sharing but unfortunately when I try to access it I just get prompted to create a new project. Maybe Google doesn't like people sharing their own projects.
A smart and nice Twitter client on terminal written in Python
If its written in python all they have to do is `import soul` ;)
Matching Firefox in functionality is quite an undertaking, so for the short to mid term, the former is far more likely to be successful.

That said, I think Servo has a bright future ahead as well, even before the long term. For example, matching the functionality of embedded rendering engines for hybrid apps is far more likely, and Servo has its speed as a major advantage over the competition. And who knows, it might make it into Firefox for Android :)
That we can't make things perfect is no reason not to make things better.

And ultimately it should be possible to enforce that all resources are managed, because ultimately all resource interfaces have to be provided by the language runtime. To a certain extent enforcing user-defined invariants is always a matter of taste, but at the same time a language that makes it easy makes people a lot better at it.
some are: access to media frameworks, there are more android app devs and resources out there compared to whatever linux GUI framework you might use.
"thanks" to the "feature" my simple screenshot sharing tool will stop working

https://github.com/glensc/dropbox-watch

i.e now to achive the same goal need to mess with apis, etc
I love your description of the game, and felt the same way. But what interests me more, as an occasional Nintendo system-owner, is that this game provides a nostalgic, but limited on-ramp to full-fledged console or mobile games. If this game does its job, I suspect it will remind folks of Mario and their fond memories of their first platforming experience, and draw them to purchase a 3DS, Wii U, or (more likely) Switch. I'm kind of thumb-upping Nintendo for not releasing previous games on iOS because this approach mines nostalgia while providing a better baseline for gameplay amongst folks willing to seek out a solid mobile/TV experience.
Thanks for keeping GoboLinux going. What is the date on that blog post?
I work for a big corp working on openstack, given the rate of companies dropping openstack makes me think I should look to move on
With more bullshit like the diversity hiring spree theyre going on. But the internal politics doesn't worry me as much of the fact that they hired a professional bully that can influence who is allowed to use GitHub.
> the comfort of using something more productive

This is reaching levels of absurdity nowadays. I mean, Android / Android Studio and "productive", compared on how you work with ESP8266? With NodeMCU, all you need is simple Lua, few console commands and a text editor. We're replacing that with a huge cow Android Studio is, shit ton more of commands and complexity need to operate it, and what?

Now each new toaster, instead of shipping an uC, will ship a whole PC inside? :/.