skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Note: I only skimmed over the article. I've also thought about this subject, and about the reasons we haven't solved world hunger, aren't living on the moon, don't have people on Mars, aren't able to live for 200+ years and haven't reached the singularity. The one thing which retards technology, society and humanity as a whole is fear. Out of fear come politics, laws, armies, governments and wars. Fear is the thing that makes us want to solve all of our problems at once with as little thought as possible. It's what makes us "dumb lazy", which I define as short-terms laziness, as opposed to "smart lazy" which is doing a little more now in exchange for much less later. In other words, the bottleneck is the fear in each and every one of us. Once we get past this stage (either through genetic modification, technological augments, drugs, sheer willpower or a combination of the above), we will be living in a post-singularity world.
I'm not a fan of CoffeScript, it fixes the wrong problems. It's not the syntax that's the REAL issue, it's the fragmentation, lack of module system, etc.
Warm and cold are relative terms.
A lot of big tech companies acquire startups and then leave them to stagnate. Google seems better than most at acquire startups and propelling them to huge success.
I have the Sony TV and in general have no problems with either the price or the remote/keyboard. I have been displeased with the state of the SW, and the lack of bug fixes. I anxiously await 3.1 and a more modern version of Chrome.
Not true if you mean that their syntaxes are compatible, they are quite different.
when i said 'my linux keychains' i meant ssh-agent and firefox's password repository. neither can have their passwords changed without putting in the password again; the credentials are merely stored in memory.

(so if you could get past the screensaver you could in theory extract the creds from memory, but i don't know of a tool to do this and doing it by hand could be time consuming)
He actually states becoming an expert in Scala in 3 weeks should not be expected, not learning Scala.
I really like my google tv but it could be so, so much better. I see huge potential as long as Google doesn't lose interest in it, but that may be asking too much.
Network Security: The Threats You Don’t See
>The amount sold was over 500000 BTC

Source? I hope you're not quoting the guy from the "I'm the one who bought them" forum thread who accidentally add all numbers including dates to determine how many BTC were traded. He was almost instantly debunked.
OFF TOPIC (slightly)!

"...partner Marc Andreessen (the founder of Netscape and author of the first commercial web browser on the Internet)..."

Just to be correct: The founder of Netscape was Jim Clark. He hired Marc as first (or one of the first) employees. Marc did not write Netscape himself. It was the effort of a large team.

Don't distort reality!

Whoever did not read Jim Clarks book about Netscape (Netscape time): drop whats in your hand, buy it and read. You will have a good time!
Truth be told, I've never been much interested in the concept of "uploading" consciousness. I find the concept of physical longevity (a la, Aubrey De Grey's research) to be more practical, achievable and desirable.
I will, but I was first looking for some feedback on scenarios, see how far I can take this before explaining how it's done. Think of it as a double-blind experiment: if I told you today how it's computed, you would object to it, without trying it out. If you first try it and think it gives decent results, then you'll be more open to discuss the internals.
> How about just keeping the wild polar bears alive?

What makes you think that they're not doing well?

Currently, some populations are increasing while others are decreasing - the overall trend is slightly up. The latter is a bit of a change - we've had times when the trend was down.
Japanese scientists turn sewage into edible "feces steak"
"This item is not compatible with your device".

Seeing as the Galaxy S is one of the most popular phone I start to see how he gets less Android sales than on iPhone...
And why would this "legal system" not apply to BTC transactions? It is the same as paying someone in cash. The kind of currency used for payments has nothing to do with whether to punish fraudsters and cheats or not.
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Certainly the advice has been don't use it for a very long time. At least since the 90s when I learned Perl. However it wasn't actually deprecated until last year (Perl 5.12). There were a sequence of steps leading up to full deprecation which you can read about in the link I provided above. Maybe some people were actually using it?!?
this might be the principle how it works
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voith_Schneider_Propeller
Well, yes, but it comes with all the overhead of being a (partly) flawed language. Having a bytecode that allows, for instance, optional static and dynamic types would be much more direct than relying on type inference or separate native APIs (as are being introduced). Of course we have javascript now, so pragmatically languages should be compiled to it if we want them, but if there were to be an additional web bytecode, there would be many areas for improvement in terms of performance and safety.
Bitcoin is a currency platform - John Robb
Energy, Transparency, and Sanity
AdBlock, FlashGot, NoScript, IE Tab, Tab Mix Plus, SkipScreen- all of these make the web more convenient or secure. The Chrome equivalents of these are quite frequently underpowered.
HTML is a markup language, rather than a Turing Complete programming language, so there's a lot of redundancy in a HTML file that could be avoided in a programming language.

You can get around this in Enlive and other HTML-based templating methods by taking a hybrid approach. The layout HTML is written by a designer, but all the tedious repeatable elements are written by programmers in helper functions, or factored out into dozens of smaller templates.

I'm not sure I like this approach, as it (a) glues together several different methods for generating HTML, (b) encourages people to write the HTML around the page design, rather than treating HTML as purely semantic markup.

I admit to being something of a purist when it comes to HTML. I'd prefer to keep the style and design of the page out of my HTML as much as possible; idiomatic HTML should be semantic markup, whilst the design of the page should be defined in CSS.
Coincidentally, today is the first day I'm seriously looking into Scala, and I think his points serve well to temper one's approach to language.

I think Scala is an admirable and ambitious effort to allow oo + func programming on the JVM. I also got the impression that the type system is "good enough" for most DRY efforts. But then, my background in this area is virtually non-existent.

Depending on what sources you learn from, you don't need to learn all the intimidating language features in the beginning itself. I am currently working through [1] - well written, but slightly outdated. [2] is where I got oriented initially.

It's also great that they do well to come within striking distance of Java in performance (this is not my impression of Clojure). Another super cool approach seems to be that of Mirah (no special runtime, Ruby-like syntax).

[1]: http://www.codecommit.com/blog/scala/roundup-scala-for-java-...
[2]: http://grahamhackingscala.blogspot.com/2010/12/guide-to-lear...
MtGox could effectively "create" BTC by simply selling more than they actually had. This would of course only work as long as people were actually withdrawing less than MtGox had available to them. Until you attempt to withdraw the BTC from the exchange, you wouldn't necessarily actually know that they in fact exist.
Python has a compiler step - source files (.py) are compiled into bytecode (.pyc) files. It just happens transparently. Doesn't make the language less dynamic IMHO.
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And they didn't release an f# express, you have to install shell and then install the f# runtime on top of that, instead of just one simple install the way c# and vb.net is. It isn't the end of the world but seems stupid if they want to increase adoption of the language.
Sorry for the spelling mistake. I meant there and not their.
This can happen, when English is your third language (grown up in Afghanistan, living in Germany) and you don't use English every day.

Why it is not possible to edit this post/question?

Thanks also for your replies.
I didn't implement rounding in the first version for a very simple reason: in the case of 3 equal founders, the answer should be 33.33/33.33/33.33. So rounding to the nearest 5 or 10 is wrong. If anyone has a quick algorithm that will provide "smart rounding" following fractions, I'm interested. Otherwise, I'll figure it out.
I use numerous extensions in Chrome and it's awesome because they're always synced across all my Chrome instances on other machines. Now if there was a way to sync browsing history...
Chinese debt ceiling invasion
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That backdoor I mentioned? Yep, that's the government.

Forgot to mention the GPS too...
It's already happening to some extent with real people. There was an article that passed through here a while back that had interviews with ex-419 scammers. One of them was making a living by pretending to be the online girlfriend of some guy. He talked about it in much the same way. He would give him advive, cheer him up, etc. He was essentially 'farming' the guy for money. But this means that he had to deliver real value to the guy to keep stringing him along.
Indeed, if people would keep the money inside the exchange all the time, they would be able to artificially create more bitcoins in their system without being noticed.

In case all people would try to take all their money out, the exchange would be left with a deficit of money, practically not being able to return it to their users.

In anyway, it would be risky for an exchange to create more money than they actually have. For users, it would be best to keep as little money for as little time possible in exchanges, thats the whole point of bitcoin.
That's my beef with them too. I prefer text emails, since I do a lot of my email reading on the CLI. It's true, and annoying, that a fair amount don't include multipart/alternative sections. For me it's not a huge problem as I have plugins that will extract the text from the HTML and present the text only, but it's not exactly a great reader experience.

Much much worse, however, are all of the people/companies that include multipart/alternative sections, but do it completely wrong: "This is an HTML-email. Your client lacks HTML support. Please visit [url here] to view this email" or even worse "This is an HTML-email. Your client lacks HTML support. Please upgrade your software".

I come across these almost daily, and it bugs the hell out of me. Unless it is something very important (bill, sign-up email, etc.) I simply ignore these emails, and they never get read. (Yes, it really is out of spite. I'll ignore them when reading email in a web client or on my phone later. They simply lost their chance)

I don't really like HTML mail, but I can live with it. I see the reason why it exists (great for advertisement). However, if you use HTML email, do include multipart/alternative section for non-HTML clients, and include the same information there, non of this "your client can't handle HTML, you loose crap".
http://www.josephcornellbox.com/boxes.htm
Meanwhile, folks still get arrested for videoing police in the US.
Anybots uses it to control all its robots.
Even more so on Firefox, whatever the platform -- the password store isn't even password-protected by default.
This seems like a solution looking for a problem. There is a whole class of code smell around using exceptions to direct logic flow. The only thing this does that can't be done with if statements and delegates is lower the importance of exceptions from "definitely an error" to "maybe an error, maybe normal behavior". Maybe there are less contrived examples that better show off what this feature could do, but it still smells fishy to me.

Edit: I realize that Java doesn't have delegates, but I would say that's a point against Java, not a point in favor of this method.
The web has forgotten something
Not crazy at all, especially if is a VM that can host multiple languages. Hm... What would be even more interesting is a VM that can be configured form the server.

1. User opens a page with scripts in LanguageX. The page links to some kind of VM configuration file.
2. Browser loads that file, which enables it to parse LanguageX. Browser caches that file.
3. From now on, the browser can execute scripts in LanguageX.

Although, this particular idea might be the case when too much flexibility would lead to issues in the long run.
The Internet is used to control the military's: "logistics to command and control systems, weapons systems and targeting systems"

I know Steve read all the top secret manuals when he worked for a military contractor, but is this true? Specifically the part about weapons systems? Doesn't the military have a proprietary satellite communication system for that stuff?
I was going to say the same thing. I've been using Scala as a "better Java" for a while now, and the argument that Scala is too complex is kind of baffling.

Take your Java code, remove almost all the type info, and add some nice syntactic sugar for singletons. That's beginner Scala, and it's already worth using. The rest of the language is just gravy.
But offline is kind of what Google is pushing against with Chrome OS, so seems that would be contrary to their goals.
Your imagination is too... terrestrial ;)
Exactly what I wanted to post. There is a lot of totally unsubstantiated and downright incorrect stuff in this.

Very surprising coming from a SciFi person - most people who write SciFi (Scientific themed) tend to perform exhaustive research into existing science. Disappointing...
Loopt Tries a Groupon in Reverse
> Logic bombs planted on those systems will delete all the backups once they’re brought on-line. All of it gone. Forever.

Almost had me convinced until this line.
How to Leverage the Social Media as a Small Business
What do you mean by "apps that installed in the browser instead"? Instead of what? Instead of being web-apps?
More on filter bubbles and Duckduckgo
Hulu is not up for sale, Yahoo may have made an unsolicited offer. Hulu also does not have long term content deals (which are their only real asset). Right now Hulu is mostly owned by the content owners which is why it gets content at all, if Google bought it a lot of the quality content they currently have would very likely go away.

I do know that there are a bunch of people playing with the Kinect controller for navigating TV but I think you'll see this with a future Xbox rev first. Microsoft has TV platforms in the past (Media Center and traditional cable style guides etc). I think its much more likely to see this type of innovation come from MS in the Xbox, since they can do a lot of this with software and already have millions of boxes already hooked up in peoples living rooms.
After a week of starting, no sign of progress
Electronic Device Augments Brain Memory
It'd be nice to be able to play with the weighting.
Poll: Have you moved from JavaScript to CoffeeScript?
Question asked over here:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2683302

Not sure why it wasn't an actual poll - maybe they don't have enough karma. Anyway, here is an actual poll. Feel free to comment as to reasons or other possibilities.
I don't use either
No, I still use Java Script and not CoffeeScript
Yes, I've moved from JavaScript to CoffeeScript
I use CoffeeScript and have barely used JavaScript
I now use both JavaScript and CoffeeScript
Nope. I like my parens, braces and keywords thanks.
I've created an actual poll for you:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2683372
Testing is dead — a Continuous Integration story for business people.
JavaScript Leadership Changes After 16 Years
+1 Hilarious!
See Fantom - http://fantom.org/

And it has same performance as Java
Nizo for iPhone
I think its perfect. It calculated what I had long thought was a fair split based on what I have done in the past.

One thing that would be interesting would be to add incentivized milestones: "this person is critical to getting MVP/first customer/launch/funding"
CoffeeScript doesn't do much to fix the bad bits -- it's still JavaScript, after all -- but it does make the good bits way more fun.
Unrelated but related: can the same thing be done for businesses wanting to run Groupons to see how much to give.
NC 'clean energy' firms jump by 700 to 1,800 in less than year
Do you want to change individual weighting for the questions, or rather specify at the beginning something like "this startup is in the B2B space, therefore sales will be the major challenge", or "R&D will be critical", etc... I don't see how you could weight questions, but you could weight high-level sectors. Does that make sense?
i agree, the biggest fix of coffeescript is not the syntax ( i never saw the JS syntax as the issue), the biggest fix / benefit of CS is:

Everything is an Expression (at least, as much as possible)

a lot of the hassles with JS just disappear with this "small" change (if applied extensivly)
All three of those "major schools" are just different stages of the same theory. Accelerating change leads to the intelligence explosion which leads to the event horizon (the actual singularity).
Yes a VM would be nice. Or LLVM + native client, "portable native client", Google is (was?) working on this in Chromium.
One of the suggestions in the article is that other EU countries are beginning to climb on board. If that is the case then with any luck at all, the ridiculous 1870 limit due to instance copyright problems may erode and eventually disappear. Should that happen it is even conceivable that a similar effect might return to or shores to accomplish the same thing. The future 'net' should include the totality of all national libraries available or what's a net for?
Personally I think that companies with 3 equal founders need to get 30 each with 10 reserved for initial funding/employees/others.
I think you're replying to the wrong person, I just translated the Chinese. I agree with you, and think the Chinese quote doesn't speak to the power issue.
Not cool the way you got to the front page. Imagine if everyone did the same.
Scala runs on the JVM, which is owned and encumbered by Oracle. So... why should we care?
I am one of those people that didnt want a box or a keyboard, Google TV integrated into the TV nicely worked as the solution.

Pretty much every normal person who sees it in action, pause live tv, bring up wikipedia to look something up to answer a question, or pull up youtube to listen to the original of a song before listening to it on The Voice, pull up a Brian Wilson interview during a Giants game commercial -- all without changing context, just with this same little remote, to a person they have all said "I want this".

But the SW just hasn't been fully baked as of yet, it crashes, it halts, it ignores inputs, and the UI is confusing for first time users. All of its problems and issues are primarily SW related. At least for the TV, the paradigm and design are very correct, I think, and quite powerful.
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RE "The Internet Might Kill Us All"

Good read, good points, reasonable possibilities... but a bit hyperbolic.

Looking on the bright side...

Scenarios depicted could end in massive death and destruction...

But wouldn't kill us all.

Not much consolation, but at least leaves some hope for a later and better iteration...

Though it might take another few thousand years to get back to facing the problem again.
I found this a pretty interesting and useful way to look at this.

One additional factor I would love to see: situations where one person is coming on a "late" cofounder (e.g. a basic product has already been made, e.g. with outsourced Eastern European developers, and there is some minor traction).
Chrome's ative code plugin NaCl lets you do this - there is a Tcl implementation using it so far, but no reason why there should not be others.
Luckily, in Scala there's a JavaConversions package that allows you to cast back and forth from Maps, Lists, Sets, etc, to whatever Scala type you want.

http://www.scala-lang.org/api/current/scala/collection/JavaC...
Embedly (YC W10) acquires oohembed.com domain.
Ben's argument is a bit odd, because you can't predict the end of the bubble.

If you say 10 years, people start pulling out 9.5 years in. But, knowing that, smarter people will pull out 9 years in, hoping to beat out the people pulling out 9.5 years in. Then...well, you get it. Game theory. And that's how bubbles become unraveled.
> For this particular type of application, the tradeoffs are different from typical internet use?

Absolutely. The value of any one packet is fairly low, you can interpolate the player's path, hell, maybe no one else was looking at him at the time. But with TCP, you basically stop the world for a couple roundtrips to make sure you have that packet, so all the packets you received after the original drop and before the retransmission are no longer useful, and you have to drop them too.

It's also worth noting that TCP does /not/ have a uniformly high latency, it does the sawtooth thing. In other words, if Level3 decides they're going to shovel a bunch of your ISP's traffic into the bitbucket for a second, your packets have been dropped, the server is going to wait until it has a complete set of packets, and your TCP implementation has decided to throttle the number of packets you can send to catch up.
Apps using browser as runtime environment, they may or may not be web-apps itself. See XULRunner. And http://pencil.evolus.vn for example.
Loopt Turns The Daily Deals Game On Its Head With U-Deals
YOU'RE ONLY 19.

That is still early. You still have 15 years before you reach my age. Nearly double you're current lifetime.
Everything Is a Remix
Yeah this is a Google Chrome specific feature. Chrome records your voice, uploads an mp3 to a Google server and returns the text. It is about the least efficient way to accomplish the task. Ridiculous really. Our operating systems (even Windows95) have had speech features forever, but it's implemented in a very clunky way. Instead there should be a standardized speech-to-text input, or JavaScript API where I can use my operating system's built-in speech features.
A bit off topic rant on the Eckel's article linked in the post.

1. I wish people stopped saying "static language that feels like dynamic". This is just a marketing slogan. Type inference is not a substitute to dynamic typing.

2. I know that coming up with a good, plausible code examples is difficult but it's not an excuse to give bad examples. House has-a Bedroom; House not is-a Bedroom.

3. > Scala has the best of both worlds: true multiprocessor parallelism and a powerful functional programming model

This sounds as if usually multiprocessor parallelism and functional programming are mutually exclusive and Scala finally managed to have the best of both worlds.

4. > v.foreach(println)

... eh, isn't this just passing a named function as a parameter?
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Probably. I think part of his point is that these days it's very hard to have networks completely isolated from the internet. If there is only one host connected to both the internet (or a network that connects to it) and that proprietary network, it can act as gateway when compromised and unleash mayhem.
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Really fantastic!!! An easy way to get these things done!!!