skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think something like the freemium model you mention is the way to go. As others have mentioned in this discussion, the alternatives simply rely on pushing the costs to different sectors (like funding agencies or even, in the worst case scenarios, researchers themselves). I keep waiting for this sort of thing to happen. Perhaps it could even be bundled into some kind of social network that would offer an alternative to academia.edu. It seems that there is a lot of inertia when it comes to scholarly publishing though.
Not heavily, no, and definitely not on Android (at least), where they have some algorithm to reflow the timeline both at random times, and after viewing a specific tweet. Click the back button to continue reading your timeline and they insert 5-20 tweets in between the one you just read and the one you were about to read, or they pop you up to the top of your timeline.

It's truly a bizarre UX, and the only charitable way I can interpret it is that they're using Continuous Delivery, implementing features in a piecemeal fashion, using users as alpha testers, and basically moving slow and breaking things.
How does that differ from installing a web framework, or an application? That doesn't seem like an operating system to me.
> Also, what constitutes a real programmer?

People that aren't afraid of the hard stuff, and don't need software to wipe their ass?

As for software... IntelliJ IDEA (Swing), we use internal pyGTK stuff that runs on Win/Mac/Lin, Wireshark (QT), Mozilla Firefox (XUL ... another brilliant UI markup language which died for no good reason), pgAdmin III (wxWidgets)

On the music plugin side of things there is a lot of VSTs written in JUCE framework, another good cross-platform UI kit which focused on audio software.
But is it a true argument or a false argument? That's what matters.
That's fair. I wonder if users actually care in practice.
the users needs should be prioritized over the "platform" while I agree with the overall message here... I hate hate hate how my MacBook "Pro" regularly hits the 8gb limit.
Very obnoxious
Remember, if you find an article worthy of discussion being flagged or otherwise suppressed, email the mods. They'll take care of it.
IMO it's a chicken and the egg thing, they probably got some quality early users(similar to what Quora did) and those brought in more quality content users, soon enough more people were getting in just because that's where the knowledge exchange for tech people is, even if it's not the best tool for the job itself.
Oh wow, neat. Are you using the JS "api" they use for Twitter.com? Like emulating a browser?
Article is in reference to the original game where they just change the ending.
Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. Do you feel the same way about rich web apps?
when you're facing a whiteboard with an interviewer looking over your shoulder, looking at the clock waiting for you to write a basic function that cracks a complex problem, you can have 20 years of experience in Go, it ain't gonna change much! Just apply and see...
I have read it, but not all of the files are under the "later" clause. Its a small number right now, but it will probably increase. So Oracle cannot do the whole OpenZFS in one swoop.
> I'd like to see a study of what percentage of people think they are in the 1% or soon will be, because I bet it's a lot more than 1%.

How many people live in the Valley?
It is a text chat client. However, it does not display only text. It can also display images and whatever else can be displayed by a web browser, including links and buttons.

You can replicate it with native widgets. Heck, you can draw everything yourself if you want. But why bother, if you already have a perfectly good way to display that sort of content?

The problem is not "lazy developers using Electron". The problem may actually be lazy developers, but not because of Electron alone.
It was "flagged" and quickly vanished from the Hacker News front page.
I never know what is going to happen when I click somewhere. The only thing I know is that it is not going to be what I expect. So I dare not click anywhere...
Yeah, I don't get this "I'll criticize everything that I think mainly men enjoy!" mentality. I couple interviewees with this idea in their mind criticized a company I was working at a couple years ago, and I was left scratching my head.

As a guy, I didn't use the foosball table or the ping pong table all that much. They said it was a "brogrammer" thing, but I don't understand how other people wanting to compete on the table top sports among themselves is a somehow bad sign. If anything, it's good that the members of team that want to can bond over fair competition in something unrelated to job performance.
It shouldn’t take a great deal of imagination or empathy to realise that the pain, shame and the psychological consequences of rape can last a very long time. Self-worth, esteem, confidence, and trust in others can be destroyed resulting in depression, anxiety disorders and other debilitating conditions such as social withdrawal. Depending on the trauma of the experience and the resilience of the individual, it can take years to rebuild their life.
Your needs might be different from mine, but I'm using Gatling for push-to-deploy on a couple of production Elixir apps. It includes the ability to do hot upgrades. Deployment couldn't be much easier than this.

https://github.com/hashrocket/gatling
They should have created an annotation or something saying "this file uses the python3 dialect", made python3 run all python2 code unmodified (the only way to not require both being on $PATH), and halted python2 releases except critical security bugs.
Gee I wonder why he wrote this article

> Co-founder of Ably: Simply better realtime messaging.

oh...
Companies raise money before an exit, never after. Thus you can look at the difference between the share of the companies raising money, and the ones exiting.

It's not very reliable, and it may not generalize well. But it's something.
Well that's not surprising. Google basically ported over Google Now, a mature product; and Google has data. Amazon had some shopping data, and that was it.
I have also seen that sort of behaviour at the high level as a female president and her most immediate female cronies, Given the owner, she would not have climbed up in the company without acting like that.

Whether they were emulating the corresponding male behaviours to get ahead or are just awful human beings is inconsequential, but my vote was for, "Why not both?"

You have to challenge these people for your own mental well being. If it doesn't work out for your career prospects, oh well, at least you remain a content and happy human being.
That is just silly, blaming the instrument rather than implementation. Electron is an excellent instrument, and you can leak memory and abuse CPU in any language.
Running Amazon by government committee, in a couple of years will be requesting a goverment bailout.
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This is a great article, but wow is the timing of its posting unfortunate.
But now everyone has a JS debugger, so everyone is a critic :)
True, so maybe they're also hoping for patents or other ancillary NIH benefit.
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I think you'll find that narcissistic violent temper tantrums are an equal opportunity game in Hollywood. It comes with the territory, due to the "tormented artist" trope having some basis in reality.
Honestly, I didn't know that, but I set it up quite some time ago. And it wasn't that painful. :)
I'm an hour away from finishing the book, and goddamn I cannot get into it at all. It's just a bunch of random stuff happening without much connection. What is the appeal?
This must be highly field-specific then. I published a peer-reviewed paper a couple months ago that came back with around 50 suggested copy edits, as well as a few paragraphs of suggested changes from the journal editor. And then it went through the process again in a lesser form at the page proofs stage. Granted, a lot of those suggested edits were to make it conform to a somewhat arbitrary and tedious house style, but it also caught things that I or the other people I shared the paper with didn't see.
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BigCorps also have stability which "old" people need to support their families, especially when the kids are going to college.
> The only exception is Bill Gates who is trying to make this world a better place.

Bill Gates certainly isn't the first to play the philanthropy card after a ruthless spell in business. There was John Rockefeller before him.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Rockefeller#Legacy
Meeting 150 Venture Capital Investors in just 100 days
The alternative being to store a history of the simulation?
My two cents on the experience I had meeting with Venture Capital Investors!
I would imagine the FreeBSD groups might object because it gives their project an edge over Linux. I can see if it went to a BSD license, but let's be real this is friggin Oracle. They won't do it because there is no actual advantage for them. Grateful developers are about their lowest priority. Maybe if it helped them win a contract that paid a lot of money they'd do it.
If anything, I think you corroborate the article. The crude, unsophisticated caricature of conservatism you've presented is precisely the kind of caricature you are likely to come across at universities. It appears you assume there can be no sophisticated conservative position on the issues you've mentioned and that's precisely the problem. It isn't even a question of whether a student agrees with these other views. It's that students are never exposed to them in the first place.

You might find this article illuminating:
http://edwardfeser.blogspot.com/2009/03/how-some-of-your-pro...
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I get the sense that industry-level change is not as obviously a low-hanging fruit versus government-level change. There's a mechanism operating over the government, but what's the mechanism operating over an industry? A secret cabal of investors?
I always thought correlation was transitive.Isn't it? It is surely reflexive but I might have to go back and study more about those properties.
I've been giving some serious thought about what future work might look like w.r.t drugs. The narrative seems to be that people in creative professions like artists, singers etc as well as people in high stress circumstances like traders need to indulge in hard drugs to keep doing valuable work. I wonder if these drugs are required by these professions, or if its just placebos to fool their brains into being creative. Whatever the real reason might be, if taking drugs becomes normal...
Having done a few years for uncle slam, this doesn't surprise me much. Still, would love to read the regulation justifying the docked pay. HNers seem a pretty well-read bunch, but you might want to read Catch-22 between TED talks.
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Why would people flock from Slack to IRC? IRC is much older, it's probably more like people sticking with IRC and not trying Slack. Which presumably is happening in large numbers.
A fancy degree not being a prerequisite for a job doesn't mean it's a negative indicator - there are plenty of people with fancy degrees(degrees from prestigious colleges) in the tech industry.
Why don't you guys use rambox? It basically loads slack's web interface in the client. And it supports a plethora of instant messaging services. Never had any issue with performance.
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>[0]: (Actually it is stricter now - borderline hilarious as my bank for the last twn years starts asking for my passport because of the KYC rules)
That's an issue, isn't it? Everyone can easily be in violation.

Anyways yes if you are working with the criminals that's one thing. Running a BTC exchange, if you aren't inquiring about the customers funds (you shouldn't, it's none of your business!) then it should be no issue. If you somehow know the BTC was stolen from Mt Gox, then yeah, you're helping with the hack and should be charged for that (not for money laundering, just for whatever the general charge is as a participant to a crime).
The European Physical Journal (EPJ, https://www.epj.org/open-access) has been taking steps towards better Open Access services.
By prioritising the platform, you also prioritise the user. As a macOS user, I am happy with how the average macOS application behaves and looks and feels and I feel like application developers should respect that.

Same for someone writing a UWP application for Windows 10, or an Android app. You don't win by degrading the experience on all of your target platforms because it's "easier", you win by carefully considering the people who actually will be using your software and the circumstances under which your application will run.
I don't think that any of these examples show that Bay Area tech is a meritocracy or inclusive. The truth is the tech community has a culture and almost all the things you mentioned are almost stereotypical parts of it. These all fit within the tech culture:

* Going to burning man

* Going to SXSW

* Working with the LGBT community

* Tattoos / Dyed hair

* Pole dancing

* Wearing Stan Smiths

* Being obsessed with high end coffee

You shouldn't be patting yourself on the back that tech accepts these things. I've seen terrible examples of the community not accepting:

* Those who believe in gun rights

* Those who are strongly religious

* Those who are homeless

* Those who are lower class

* Those who are H-1Bs (Indian outsourcing bias)

* Those who are Republican

* Those who are black

* Those who are old / have grey hair

Being inclusive and meritocratic doesn't mean accepting things that are within your culture. It means accepting those that are outside. I remember a colleague talking about a Dropbox all hands meeting where every one was patting themselves on the backs because the recruiting team had hired many from the LGBT community. He looked at me and said "Why the f* is everyone so happy? We literally have 1 black person in a company of almost 1,000"

Seriously, if you think that having colleagues having dyed hair or going to Burning man is proof that you are meritocratic or inclusive you are in a huge bubble.
For non-Britons, brolly means 'umbrella' [1] - not a vital detail, but a clever piece of branding for an overarching service like theirs.

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umbrella#Etymology
Which industries do you think are MORE meritocratic than tech?

Tech's not perfect, but I think they do it better than most (all?).
I now run Slack in Safari on my Macbook Pro.

In Activity Monitor on macOS there is an "Average Energy Impact" metric. I noticed that Slack had a value of 34. The next highest was Chrome at 23, and that's with 200+ tabs open across multiple accounts and windows.

Safari runs with a tab per Slack team, and it's Avg Energy Impact is 1.
Yes, but that doesn't really change the fact that their money in the bank needs to be considered partially encumbered.
The barriers behind programming
In part it's age. In part, Apple get away with it because they forewarned developers. Swift explicitly intended a "move fast and break things" approach to syntax, naming etc.
Can we discuss the negative externality that cryptominers are throwing off into the world unchecked?
I wonder what I'm doing differently (or if it's my hardware) because I don't notice it consuming much, and it pales compared to resource hogs I run in my day-to-day. Maybe they develop on Macs and runs better on them?

Here's my specs if anyone is curious:
3 yr old MBP
2.3 GHz i7
16 GB RAM
NativeScript!
What correctness guarantees are there for caching?
I've used Ghost for a number of years now, both self-hosted and using their hosted service (for both business and personal uses!). So I suppose I fit the complete matrix of their target user.

I'm pretty excited about this new release - the editor has always been nice but I'm thrilled to see they're investing in improving it, and I'm also unreasonably happy to see a dark theme added.

Mostly, I'm just happy to see that they're working on it and that the changes are directionally correct. It would be easy for them at this point to start making mistakes, but I think they've been fairly good at figuring out what people use Ghost for and responding to their needs accordingly.

The team has also been quite responsive when I've submitted support requests, which is always an extra plus in my book.
Keys and switches work exactly the same way as standard doors, though, so there's nothing really to learn. The only education needed is the notification, which is shown in level 2, that you need a red keycard to open a specific door. The mechanic isn't sufficiently different, though.
Gavin Wood is the designer of solidarity and the founder of Parity.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solidity

http://gavwood.com/
Yes I have, and I have used interfaces which were as rich, or even richer, for decades, without the need of embedding web content.

For instance GTK apps in the earlies 2000s were easily displaying content as rich.
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NativeScript actually looks really cool. It seems mobile only right now though.
>> They told me what they really wanted/needed was a way for a blind person to use AutoCAD

That's a fascinating idea. I wonder how that'd work. Is there an existing interface, that allows a blind person to experience a 3-D object and it's interior? For example, how would a blind person understand a blueprint for the Leaning Tower of Pisa, exterior walkways, interior staircases, etc.
I'm all for Sci-Hub disrupting the dominance of RELX Group (a.k.a. Elsevier) and other for-profit publishers that make such a big profit off the backs of researchers (who write and edit for free) and grant-making organizations (who fund those researchers).

But it's unfortunate that Sci-Hub is also disrupting non-profit scholarly associations that cover their own budgets through journal subscriptions. In these cases, the fact that libraries and readers have to pay for access to an article is somewhat balanced out by the fact that those fees are going to pay for staff, conferences, and the other worthwhile activities of the non-profit associations.
The death of for-profit scientific journal companies will be a beautiful thing for the world. It's really rare to see something that is so purely valueless. This industry is sort of unicornlike - they've managed to extract rents in an area where they add literally zero value. It's truly an amazing thing, and it will be even more amazing to watch it die.
Some instruments are more prone on average to do so than others. Why are most flash games horrible on CPU usage but something made in pygame not nearly as much?
You're right, politics & age are major caveats. As someone who voted for Gary Johnson and laughed when Clinton lost, I definitely feel the lack of inclusion at times.
It's understandable why they do that, but it can put journalists/writers of articles with clickbaity headlines in a tough spot, as they are often forced to defend headlines they never wrote in the first place!
Even without the optimisation - I recall seeing animated gifs on older hardware without a huge cost. What is it doing? It's like when Google Play Music takes 20% of my 4-thread 1-2GHz i5. I'm pretty sure I listened to MP3s on a Pentium 166 without it pegging the CPU completely.

(And Google Play on Android... on a Nexus 5, I'll sometimes wait 5+ seconds for the playlist to open after clicking the icon.)
The other side to the market question is that this tradeoff may be why they're big in the market - because it allowed them to get to market quickly. So they made the trade-off knowingly, and for a reason that makes sense.

The question then becomes, once established, do they improve the app?
How can two things not correlate with each other, but both correlate with a third thing? This seems like saying x=5, y=3, and that there's some variable z which x and y are both equal to?
XUL 2.0? One can dream :/
Only Slack's integrated view of history is acceptable to nontechnical users. Also to technical users like me who don't want to mess around maintaining and talking to bots.

I believe the dismal UX in your suggestion is the reason Slack is popular. By contrast, "it just works" and it works consistently across all communities, making for a compelling product.
I'll take "things that don't need their own domain name" for $500, Alex.
Tech has generally been one of the most inclusive places for people on the aspie/autistic side of the spectrum, but in recent years, it's become far more hostile. The reason for this is tact filters.

http://www.mit.edu/~jcb/tact.html
http://ozarque.livejournal.com/176349.html
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He was a VP and from what I recall reading was making in the high six figures.
What if someone told you that using Swing, QT, and GTK were all bad, rsource-wasting things made for people that "need software to wipe their ass", and that "real programmers" use butterflies? Check this out to better understand the "no true scottsman" fallacy: https://www.xkcd.com/378/

You're just hating on something new and praising some old things, but in the past, those same things were also hated on for the same reasons (e.g. so many people hated on swing and java in general early on for wasting memory; "real programmers don't use Java")

Each electron app spawning up separate instances of chrome is totally wasting memory. Argue about that, instead of "real programmer" bs
And to add my $.02, it was my blue-collar carpenter friend who introduced me to snowboarding when I lived in Connecticut.
I believe that he isn’t qualified to receive his pension till he is 55.

http://blog.futureadvisor.com/nfl-players-must-go-long-on-re...
I'm with you, and I don't even find this particular example that interesting or accurate. You just re-run the same simulation over and over without any control of the initial or boundary conditions.
Not to put too fine a point on it - Chomsky will find a way to illustrate how having beans for lunch will build jingoistic fascism.

Yes, submitting irrationally to power is bad, and so is purely tribal thinking. But as it turns out, human beings are a bit more complex, and many are fine maintaining critical thinking skills while simultaneously having a sports team they identify with.
what database(s) will you use?
Tact Filters
Yeah, I think that's a key question as well.
"In how many other industries can a woman post pole dancing pictures of herself and still have a job?"

So, I'm not at all convinced that this is because of anything inherently virtuous about people in this industry. Rather, I think it's that we're at a point in business cycles and history where tech industry labor is sufficiently in demand that potential employers aren't using extraneous criteria to discard candidates.

While I think it is great that people are being treated well because of this, I also think it's important that people don't become complacent about issues like employment discrimination just because they happen to be doing well right now.
As a file format, sure, it's robust. Garbage-in-garbage-out, though. A directory structure would be just as messy, and harder to use.

And great point on export. Assets like pictures are an example: you'd still need to store them somewhere. (IIRC, GEDCOM format points to a file path of some sort.)

Edit: actually, you can embed multimedia (as a BLOB of some sort) directly into a GEDCOM, but I'd leave the files separate to maintain human readability.
MBP '15, 8GB of RAM:

http://imgur.com/a/9GpeY

I rarely have more than 10 Chrome tabs open. How many Slack teams do you have open? Do you have the latest client?
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