skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps there won't really be a Next Big Language. One thing that's become clear to me in the last few years since 2007 is that it's a hell of a lot easier to make an awesome programming language now than it was then. LLVM, CLR, Mono, JVM (specifically how it's changed to allow for dynamics and now it's changing to allow for traits and so on): all of these things let mere mortals make potentially awesome programming languages and immediately workable for production environments. All in a tiny fraction of the time that it would have taken a few years ago. The explosion of seriously awesome languages onto the scene in the last few years is evidence.

Will there ever again be a single language that captures as much of the mindshare as any of the other big languages have in they heyday? C, C++, Java, even Visual Basic occupied a huge fraction of the developer community at their peak. Some of those may be rising still in eyeball hours per month, but definitely not rising in terms of total fraction of all programmer hours being spent.

Perhaps the future is really more about consolidation for virtual machines and compiler middleware, and proliferation of end user languages? Different strokes for different folks?

Today it's not unusual at all for a larger system to use a a mixture of Scala, Java, and Python, plus some Erlang via RabbitMQ or eJabberd or CouchDB, not to mention pulling in data sources from REST or RPC type sources. Do we see that kind of mixed bag of choices getting smaller in the future, or larger?

Maybe the future is diverging on technology choices at the end points, where applications are written, and converging under the covers, where the applications are compiled and executed.
As a Brit I understand it in terms of the noun, not verb. "Food with us" is just as understandable as "Eat with us", though.
It's the eternal salary-data conundrum.

Any salary data that is not supplied anonymously will be an incomplete data set for privacy reasons, and will have title and salary inflation.

Any salary data that is supplied anonymously wil be full of both title and salary inflation, and will still be an incomplete data set.

The end result either way is that the datasets can be seriously flawed.
Tried to install twice, failed both times.
Agreed, it's definitely hypocritical of Google.

The whole "don't be evil" ideal has a two big caveats these days:
1) as long as it doesn't interfere with profits
2) or google's corporate interests.
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I'm not sure. I'll have to see what the users demand. First step: bring the app to other cities.
But don't forget the many millions of business critical spreadsheets powered by VBA...
Could this be anything but a precursor to trying to filter out of the main search results?
I think the more someone looks at Dribbble, the more their work shows they've been viewing Dribbble too often. Sure, there are trends, and then there is good design, and the line is blurry in most. But, a lot of stuff on Dribbble is the same texture, pattern, noise, over and over. In short, I think looking outside of the web for inspiration can help designers not rehash the same design techniques over and over.
In dialects that support fexprs such as Kernel, PicoLisp and Eight, you get something almost like first-class macros. Macros (or fexprs, rather) are then even more powerful, because they can be passed around as arguments to functions or even to other fexprs.

A key tradeoff is that they must be expanded at run-time, and in doing so they incur a performance penalty that doesn't exist with compile-time macros.
Heh, less than half a year since they started the service in Japan.

Are they going to acquire a company specialized in real estate search to replace it?
I wonder if they're doing this to avoid having someone making a claim that they're inducing people to commit copyright infringement?

That's the only sense I can make out of this.
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This is such a great idea for Young Professionals. Let me know if you'd like some introductions in the Santa Barbara area. Lots of wealthy, lonely types :)
After 4 steady years of working out of coffee shops, I'm currently opening a coworking space in Evanston, IL.

http://coworkingevanston.com/

http://desktimeapp.com/spaces/92-coworking-evanston

We "officially" open on Monday, but we are already functionally open and a group of us have been working out of the space for about a month. The picture above only shows one small section. It has open shared spaces, a small lounge, a collection of private offices and meeting space. If you are a north Chicagoan, stop by!

Coffee shops are great, I really love working out of them and we have some awesome ones in the area, but I needed a change. IMO, coworking spaces can do a good job of having the positive atmosphere of a coffee shop while also being conducive to actually getting work done and they make it easier to connect with people working on similar things. It's also a great way to crowdsource an awesome office for people who otherwise would be working in more isolated environments.
Is your problem not knowing what it is you want to create (or, what an "updated" version of that design would be), or do you not have the skill set to develop what it is you want to create? Or both?
I agree. An About page would really help understand what the product is, and why you've made it.
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Of course it is. I'm saying that maybe the guy investing his time hacking the long run would be more gratified giving his all in the 10k or half marathon. What about that (innocuous?) piece of advice unnerves you so much?
I would love to see some pictures of what you're describing.
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Have you installed both protocol buffers and the fast-python-pb module? Feel free to email me: robbyw@(the-company-mentioned-in-the-title).com
I'm sure that if the gambling industry think that this idea is useful and feasible, there is a system using such database already installed on their casinos.
I like your idea of moving around every so often, keeps things fresh. I'm going to try this out more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peripatetic_school
In the lab, at school, for the ~30 hours immediately before a project is due. I know my time management skills are non-existent, but I actually quite enjoy coding non-stop for over a day. I usually bring my coffee maker and a bunch of fruit and have at 'er.
Hmm. When "Other" is the highest result (at the time of my posting this), this clearly needs better categories.
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it's interesting that you say this because Nemerle, another language on the .NET platform implemented LINQ into the language using Macros.
By completely, I mean there's no suggestions whatsoever, and I said "until you type the entire word".
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I'm assuming this is "meet with/talk to hopefuls" kind of work?
Within a short period of time, all the major browsers will match IE9. The least common denominator is about to take a big leap forward.
Sometimes I have my doubt on how current facial recognition technology gonna perform on tens of millions samples. Admittedly, we have become quite good at the scale of tens of thousands real-world data (see Labeled Face in Wild project), but how reliable it really is on large scale? My friend circle (everyone I have met in life for a small period of time) probably only consists of few thousands people, but I can remember many people who are distantly related have very similar faces. My main concern is, the facial variations between people may not be as large as we have imagined once we are on tens of millions scale.

Here is an idea to validate my concern:

1. Crawl over all photos on Facebook and run a frontal-face detector with it;

2. Use current state-of-art methods (attribute based method or hybrid methods) to get several pairs of similar faces (highest score ones) of different people;

3. Use the same method as in step 2 to get several pairs of similar faces of same person with roughly the same score as in the step 2;

4. Have human volunteers to blindly judge which pairs of person are in fact the same one given only a small region of picture (e.g. face should occupy 20% of the total area);

5. Check the result in step 4 with ground truth data;
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I was at the recent madhackerhaus event and it was pretty cool. Looking forward to this event!
I split my time between a local coffee shop and at home. I simply can't sit at the house all day so on days that I don't go to the gym around lunch I instead hit the coffee shop.

There's a small group of older guys who work from the coffee shop and it's nice to have a little chit chat with them during the day. Found out today one of the guys is retired and worked at Bell Labs back in the hey day. Turns out he knows Kernighan and Ritchie and was around when those guys were hacking away to make C and working on Unix. Amazing the people that one can randomly meet.
If you typed "bingo card creator" into Google, two of the first ten suggestions were "bingo card creator torrent" and "bingo card creator serial". I have a screenshot on my blog somewhere... here we go.

http://www.kalzumeus.com/2009/09/05/desktop-aps-versus-web-a...

Direct link: http://www.bingocardcreator.com/blog-images/piracy-is-dying....

It is more than mildly annoying to have a modern day Clippy looking over one's users' brand searches and saying "It looks like you're looking for software... have you considered stealing it instead?"
The demo videos are under the "Learn" tab.

Here is one that shows you how to build comic book apps with no coding, http://www.spritedeck.com/learn/comic.html

And here is one that shows all the fundamental features, http://www.spritedeck.com/learn/

Better docs are coming soon :)
Google's Founding Philosophy: Ten things we know to be true
a) Sometimes the music is really bad/and or loud. People noise doesn't bother me.

b) Yes. This is why I am constantly checking out new places. Luckily I live in a place with lots of options.

c) Generally don't notice due to b). And I work from home too, so I'm not there 9-5.
“The perfect search engine,” says co–founder Larry Page, “would understand exactly what you mean and give back exactly what you want.”
There is also template haskell. Nemerle is another non-homoiconic language with powerful metaprogramming abilities using hygienic macros. It really is quite impressive what those guys are doing. And it is such a contrast (not all inferior IMHO) to the lisp way. A dual approach maybe.
Near the bottom of the page you have "Sounds interesting?" which should be "Sound interesting?"
This issue isn't limited to entrepreneurship; there's a dearth of women who study computer science in school.
It was extremely slow on my 8 core xeon Mac pro with ten gigs of ram. I got to see a little of the ui up close and it wasn't pretty to me at all. Maybe the whole package will look good together, but the individual components didn't look too sharp
I'm with rumpelstiltskin on this. Being persuaded to not eat somewhere after getting there (maybe you made a reservation, even) and then having to make the decision to leave and find another restaurant is a total pain in the ass. Especially during, say, dinner time when the whole area is trying to eat as well. Maybe you went way out of your way to get to that restaurant. Maybe you told your date where you were going and she got all excited about it, now you're stuck eating there -- health code violations or not.

That said, I think the idea of this service is totally cool. It just needs the ability to check before getting to a restaurant. That will complete the service IMO.
I hear you. I'm working on it. :)
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Reading the title, I was really excited thinking this was going to be a Boondock-Saints-esque vigilante justice mission against patent trolls. Needless to say, I was sorely disappointed after clicking through.
a) Only when it's super loud. I have headphones and like some background noise.

b) I work at home 2-3 days/week and the coffee shop the other days. Sometimes I'll hit a different coffee shop, but not usually.

c) It's a local shop and the owner has no problem with me or the other regulars that come in. I always buy a coffee and depending on the time a breakfast or lunch burrito (also home made by another local business - super tasty). I also helped her fix a computer problem the other day. There is something a lot different about going to a locally owned shop versus something like a sbux.
I guess better wording would have been:

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I work in Brooklyn.
hehe..
That seems like the exception in the US though.

It's the exception for banks, but credit unions are generally good to their customers. The few dealings I've had with BofA for example left me wondering why anyone would ever deal with them. At my credit union the people are friendly and when I used to go to a branch they actually knew me.
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I work in two separate office for most of my time (in Sunnivale and Mountain View), primarily at home during weekend, and in some coffee shop when I am in San Francisco or in other places.
I think the word "censorship" is being abused here.
But how can not returning search suggestions that the user in all probability actually wants be in their corporate interest? How could this do anything but detract from the #1 value Google has: the quality of their search?

What miniscule gain in the reduction of uTorrent users or the temporary appeasement of RIAA/MPAA demands could this possibly be worth the debasing of their brand image?
And they'll help you do cool things like changing your vanity URL or setting up an account so you can pay via invoice instead of credit card.
The OP is correct; the subject in this case is the concept/product, a singular noun.
sendmeastory.com is also great. It picks up a strory a week from longform.org and send it to you (or your Kindle/Instapaper).
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Wow. That's a pretty dodgy thing to do to a fellow developer.
Hacker Dojo, down in Mountain View, is a nifty hackerspace down started by a few friends of mine. There are always clever people congregating there.
What's your deal? requinot59's argument was informative, actually. I appreciate his contribution to this discussion. Your remarks are rude and don't add any value to this discussion. If anyone here is trolling it's you.
Singles meet and exchange their Kindles to know each other... or just use the lending feature?
Nice work. I've always liked built-in storage and workspaces. It just seems like a cleaner more organized look than stand alone furniture. And all the better that you could design it to your exact specifications.
If it's such a hard problem (as many commenters have pointed out), maybe FindPeopleWhoLookLikeMe.com would be a nice pivot in the mean time.
Perhaps the Tech industry needs women more than women need the Tech industry.
Defense company, designing complex things out of exotic materials that survive big explosions. Don't really want to be more specific than that.

I used to work for Bug Labs during college, but actually graduated as a mechanical engineer and went into that industry for at least the time being.
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That has nothing to do with the language and everything to do with the developers. What if the same developers used Common Lisp or Smalltalk or Haskell?

Gut feeling says they'd be even more productive. Terrifyingly so, in fact. The sad fact is, though, that we'll never be able to conclusively prove a statement like that.
I work at home in a non-distinct office. I wish that I had my own office some where in the house but the place just isn't big enough to accommodate that scenario.

I am going to try to arrange for this in my next move, though. I find that I have a much easier time concentrating when I can "separate" myself from the rest of the house with the option of wandering about the house with a laptop when I see fit.
I'm a student. I pretty much work wherever I happen to be, but I prefer coffee shops and the such (or empty classrooms).
Excellent job. I'll be right over with my laptop. :)
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There are several flaws inherent in trying to scale things by having the computer gather all your data from people.

Solving them almost invariably requires more people, but some can be avoided if you're more careful about what you measure and how you measure it (i.e. making sure you know what the hell is actually going on, rather than staring at spreadsheets of disembodied numbers removed from any context).

* The "best performing" systems are those with the fewest problems, right? But you can get rid of problems in two ways: by solving them, and by making it difficult or impossible for people to complain.

* You only hear about problems from the people who complain. Remove their ability to complain (or make it hard for them to reach anyone) and you'll never know about the problems. The tie-in with my first point should be obvious.

* A broken complaints system that allows few complaints will "perform better" than any other systems (in terms of having fewer trouble reports that get through) and will get selected for, unless you have people who know what the hell is going on.

* When you make people select their problems from a list, you won't get anything not on the list. Sure, maybe you have an "other" field, but sometimes people will just select one of the options even if it's the wrong one. In that vein, your default selection should be some kind of "unknown/other" because unless people make a choice, you can't assume that they intentionally selected anything.

I could go on and on, sadly, because I have a lot of experience seeing this sort of thing go on, even though I've done my best to prevent certain industrial QC processes from feeding total and utter garbage data to managers who see the production floor only when giving tours to prospective customers.
At home, in a distinct office, with a nice automatic espresso machine upstairs, so it's kind of like being in a coffee shop, only much cheaper and less distracting.
I've been thinking lately about building a white board web app. I can think of a number of benefits that this would offer, but I have also been wondering if not having the mental separation that you pointed out would overshadow all the possible benefits.
That would be even more awesome if you were programming.
Good suggestion. I used to do something similar when I had a rolling white board. I be sure to keep it away from my desk as I was planning/designing and would then wheel it back over to my work area when it was implementation time and/or I needed reminders.

Though, I typically solve my most complex problems by leaving the computer and talking a walk around the block. That doesn't work out so well in these cold South Carolina winters, though. I need to get back out to CA.
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I doubt that. From what I know Chrome has no skinning support. The only thing extensions can do is to add button/icon next to/into address bar. So unless Google decides otherwise something like this won't be possible.
Very smart strategy, considering this:

Just today I've heard a theory, that when you walk around brain is more able to try new ways of thinking and solving problems, because the 'motion center' in the brain is doing what it's supposed to do: handling one's movements. On the contrary when we are not moving, this center can often
overwhelm the thought process with already established habits, which makes trying new things harder.

I thing it works - even in offices many people start walking in circles when they have an important decision to make.

Funny, in my language the word meaning 'reflexively', 'instinctively' is in a form which can be literally translated 'out of the movement', which quite fits this theory.

I didn't look for the scientific background, but I know from the context of how I've heard this, that it was taught at the univ on a psychology specialization.
As a frequent visitor to the islands (my dad lives there), how do you keep from going completely stir-crazy? I've thought about moving out there and then flying to SF occasionally for networking and stuff but I just think I would go nuts.
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I've also voiced this frustration with Google. I have software which helps middle school kids learn to organize and write essays. I get lumped in with essay farms (thus, requiring review) every fucking time I change one little thing in my ads.

I told someone at Google the following (I actually got someone to answer the damn phone- a number that showed up in Google search results for Google's phone number): I shop at a grocery store that allows me to take a hand-held upc scanner and scan and pay for my own groceries on my honor. Occasionallly there is a spot-check: my checkout/payment interaction will halt and someone will come over and scan n items in my bags (0<n<U) and then let me proceed (not sure what happens if they find something I didn't scan in my bags). The longer I shop there without incident, the less frequent my spot-checks seem to be.

This is great for all involved. Why can't Google do the same thing? They've reviewed every ad, and after 3 years they've never had a issue. Seems like they should give me the benefit of the doubt and let the ads run (and check on them if they feel the need). I've proved myself and never had an ad rejected.

This bothers me so much that I really hate doing business with Google. I've made it a priority to make Google obsolete in my next launch. Well, except that they own everything else on the web, too...
Their answer: Dropbox did less --- and it was easier for users to get started because there was less to figure out. (Also: dropbox had a Mac client; it turns out that this is critical for getting press these days, since the reporters all have Macs.)

It seems "don't make me think" also applies off the web...
I have a complete, insulated, properly built outdoor office at the end of my garden. It was built because I had to give up my indoor office due to my daughter being born.

End result? I now work in a tiny corner of the living room because I like being in the house and not walking up and down the garden in the cold. Oops.
Don't be evil?

"Being less bad is not being good." - William McDonough in Cradle to Cradle.
Sounds a lot like Mirah http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirah_(programming_language)

Honestly i don't know, nor does it matter. The language doesn't matter until the kill app gets built with it. Once that happens switch, i switched to Ruby in July 2004, because Rails was released.