skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He just told you; to assist the IDE, things like automated refactoring, something Ruby still doesn't have to any reasonable degree. Type systems don't have to be perfect to be damn useful, if you like type systems.
Sliced bread is old news. What's cool now is TOFU and POP.
I don't see why this was posted. C2DM has been around for awhile.
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H1B friendly.
Steve Blank on Why Governments Don't Get Startups
is that the same as Haskell's concatMap?

concatMap :: (a -> [b]) -> [a] -> [b]

There are some more general versions that may be a closer comparison:

concatMap :: Foldable t => (a -> [b]) -> t a -> [b]
> We know that Chrome has proprietary parts, so pointing it out is pedantic and distracting, not informative.

I honestly don't see how it is pedantic or distracting. But I am glad we agree on the facts.

> Rather than complain, we give Google credit for the 99% of Chrome's code that is open source.

That supports my point, I think. I am being modded down in part because people want to praise Google for that 99%, just as you said now. However, that 99% - which is well and good - does not change that Google erred here (and elsewhere) about calling Chrome open source.

You are overlooking that because you like Google overall. But you don't need to always support or always berate Google. You should support it when it does good - which it often does - and berate it when it does bad - which it did right here.
Of course, I believe those are intended to be good-humored feelers for company culture more than specific requirements.
Heroku to Offer Full Support for Scala
Even though they look like ripoffs with their tiny payments Spotify and other subscription models have a few advantages for the artist over download models. For a start the artist gets paid even if the listener is just trying the track, hates it and never listens again.

The main advantage though is the open ended payment model. The OP should compare the 20 year revenue for each track. I listen to some tracks from 1996 every week and spent the period 1996-2001 listening to them multiple times a day. I'm not unusual (just getting old! :)
> How silly would it be if we bragged this way about other things? "I've been talking since I was 2!"

Actually not silly at all if the language is something your job requires, like a second language.

Experience matters. A lot.
I've had good experiences with Copilot.
https://www.copilot.com/
Indeed, yet MANY seem to be ignorant of it. Facebook, Twitter, Google Voice, TweetDeck and many others that would benefit from the easy push notifications and the lessened battery use seem unwilling to implement it. Google Voice is the stunner in my opinion.
That isn't strong evidence either way (I am sure for example that closed source browsers have separate modules for various closed source things). The question is whether the reset of the code is identical or not to Chromium. I suggested one way before to get a clear answer, but to my knowledge there is simply no way to know.
Given the similar specs on HTC Sensation (shipping 1.2 Ghz not 1.5) which sells for $550 unsubsidized leads us to some possible conclusions:

(1) Xiaomi is going with razor thin margins on this first model to establish their name.

(2) $310 price unlocked won't apply for most of the people reading this.

(3) time to short higher margin android handset shops like HTC as commoditization hits with a vengeance.

(4) Conversely high end component makers look to win out as low margin phones explode everywhere and vendors bid for high end chips, screens and batteries.
.. You mean ~$3.8 billion http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/09/01/google_buys_tax_brea...
It sounds like Scala is hard because it's got too many paradigms and inconsistencies, and Haskell is hard because it's got very few paradigms and is very consistent. (That's not sarcastic; when a language has many ways to accomplish a thing it is easier to find at least one of them.)
Consider for a moment this alternate viewpoint. What if submitting a song to <insert music distribution service> was kinda like submitting a blog to <insert blog service>. You don't get paid for blogging, but if you produce enough good content, you can create an audience and then sell them other things later on. Smart bloggers give out their content for free, then charge for premium services and products like consulting, books, podcasts, screencasts, merch, etc. Seems like the same model could be applied to independent artists as well. Then the questions become, which platform can you use to stay connected with your fans? Which platform will allow you to upsell other services for which you can make real money on? Which platform allows you to publish your content effortlessly to a potentially limitless audience?
Did you even watch the video demo? sounds like you are just running wild with your predetermined judgments.
I tried to phrase my third clause carefully. That would be hiring employees not "smart" enough to realize what's going on. (In hindsight, that's a leading term, but I can't edit it now.)
You're doing that thing where you challenge the character and motives of people who disagree with you. It's irritating.
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- PHP/Python/Django

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- program/project/product manager and marketing positions as well

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Starting RSpec/Cucumber/Spork/Watchr test environment with a single command
Setting up the necessary processes to run your test environment can be tedious to do by hand each time. Here is my solution to this.
In the companies I have worked at, there were always a bunch of 45+ programmers who were quite good at it. Most of them seem to have started only in their early 20s. (Anecdotal of course)
It's a thoughtful post. It seems to me that iOS was successful in no small part because the available hardware was sufficiently powerful to drive a compelling experience (with some of the compromises). It couldn't have happened (much) earlier.

I would be happy to find that hardware is now sufficiently powerful to drive a product as ambitious as Windows 8, that compromises none of the power of a traditional computing experience.

In a broader sense, I hope that hardware is or will soon become sufficiently powerful to enable products that leverage higher levels of abstraction in order to experiment more, and fill more niches in the computing spectrum, to allow more radical departures from dominant computing paradigms.

Stuff like this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2921398

I'm afraid that the future role and mode of computing are becoming more and more narrowly defined, and that definition revolves primarily around consumption, instead of creation and connection.
Maybe your definition of usable is a bit different than mine, but we've done two maps of DC:

http://tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox#!/map/dc-bright
http://tiles.mapbox.com/mapbox#!/map/dc-nightvision

The first is 17MB, the second is 57MB. One could probably get to sidewalk-level without cracking 1GB here. Where did hundreds of gigabytes come from?

That said - we'd like to start doing rendering on-client, and it would be great - the question is how to slice and dice data so that the data itself isn't gigantic and rendering it isn't slow.
I agree. Fewer moving parts and nothing to replace. Sounds like good engineering to me. I have looked around a lot at various options and nobody is really making what I want: a large, simple, workbench-like standing desk with lever hand adjustment (no electrical motors or power needed) with an additional fine adjustment so you can elevate the surface of the desk precisely.
Hotfile Ordered To Share User Data With The MPAA
I agree. the "Iran Forged ...." heading is a bit much. No one really has any idea if this was state sponsored/encouraged or not. One cannot discount the single self motivated actor in this case. In fairness, the article does mention the presumption. I would be happier if they just said someone from within Iran.
I'm not feeling joint problems now; I'm concerned about ones later in life.

See also: http://healthland.time.com/2011/04/13/the-dangers-of-sitting...
So what you're saying is that you lack the basis to claim Chrome, the browser and not the components that ship next to it, is closed source.
That looks like it would be painful on the neck after a couple of hours.

Id recommend getting a monitor and keeping it at eye level.
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...and us not-so-great bloggers? like non-hit bands?
Burnout can ripple into other areas of your life if it's severe enough.

Put another way, I wouldn't be surprised if extreme burnout naturally progressed to mild depression.
Getting an exception error
Tables Are No Domain Objects Part 1
No, he couldn't just say that, otherwise he wouldn't be able to list cool sounding intro to computation terms.
Absolutely right. I don't remember what age I started programming. I'm 34 now and I started by typing in BASIC programs from Byte magazine when I was in elementary school.

I was an awful programmer until I started doing it professionally. It was only then that I deliberately worked at improving at it.

Now I'm in college but if I had gone after high school my only advantage would have been a familiarity with the tools and syntax.
He uses his iPad for reading and video and not content creation, huh? Must have been too busy sending The Memo to read it.
I'm sure I have seen ads in the form of polls on Facebook.
I am confused why you brought class into this discussion, but I mentioned garbage men because it's a stereotypical dumb job. Not much critical thinking involved in emptying trash bins into trucks. If you want to claim IQ isn't tied to being a garbage man I applaud you. You saw my point.

>Further, you seem to have assumed that I am advocating some sort of segregation based upon intelligence.

If you are showing dumb people a different set of content then smart people you have segregated them. I don't see how you are claiming otherwise. Perhaps you should expand on how putting them in two different areas of the same website is not segregation.

On to a concrete example. What does intelligence matter when a story like NASA's Mars Rover Opportunity Begins Study of Martian Crater[1]? Can you please score that story on the IQ scale? 100 IQ? 90? 125? Should only those with science degrees be allowed to comment? Perhaps only those with Ph.D's?

Will you segregate all religious discussion to people with low IQ and atheists kept away? After all, there is a negative correlation with IQ and religiosity.

>Your maligning of my statements is offensive.

Your assumption that dumb people only have dumb interests is offensive.

>Additionally, you have done nothing whatsoever to show that intelligence and personality quizzes won't lead to better personalized content.

I only claimed your assumption that IQ correlates with interests was invalid. Personality tests is closer to something I could agree with.

>Instead, you have merely been highly judgmental and attacked me based upon your own (apparent) prejudices.

I am not the one suggesting we put dullards in a virtual cellar because they aren't smart enough to care about a new HIV vaccine or space travel, which we put the smart people in the master suite but block ESPNs because smart people shouldn't be exposed to sports.

You suggested that content be associated with IQ. but have not put forth any explanation towards what such a result might look like.

1 http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/mer/news/mer20110901.html
Maybe he's using one of those DisplayLink USB video adapters?
>>it takes a label or label-like organization to sell records

with the new digital distribution methods and physical media almost on the decline, record labels hardly 'sell records' any more. They just do a huge marketing push for the artist.

If indie musicians can figure out a way to market themselves, they really wouldnt need a record label.
And what are we supposed to do with the 22% that didn't listen when we warned them years ago?
People who aren't used to Scala complain that it's ugly, but I find that language beauty has a lot to do with familiarity. Ocaml and Haskell seemed ugly (to me) at one time, and now I love those languages. Lisp and its parentheses? You get used to it after 2 weeks, but some people hate it at first. The sign of an aesthetically defective language is that it stays ugly even after you get a hang of it.

Scala may be The Compromise That We Have To Make. In the functional programming (i.e. good languages) community, we're so passionate about languages that we become factional, divided between Ocaml and Haskell and Clojure and Erlang and F#. What comes out of this is that we divide ourselves up into 1-2% silos and end up having to use Java, because people who don't care about PL got behind a small set of languages a long time ago.

I don't know Scala very well and may end up eating my words here, but I think it (or F#) may be the language we need to Get Behind, at least for now.

Scala is statically typed and can take advantage of the JVM libraries. It actually has a shot at becoming a major production language in professional software.

Also, what strong, static typing does to bad developers (spits them out brutally) is an asset to the software world. It makes sense for talented engineers, it accelerates the learning process of the talented-but-inexperienced ones, and it fires the incapable ones so you don't have to.
I'm going around the world and want to meet as many startups as possible. Help
For the price of one iTunes album purchase you'll save 'em the trouble of persuading enough people to listen to their tracks 200 times.
Mike Siwek Lawyer MI Explained
Doodle or Die - our "bizarrely addictive" Node Knockout game
Germany's obsession with "If children see dead people, we'll be back to 1933!" is getting a bit old. It was even weirder before the draft was quasi-abolished this year…

"No, Heinz, laser tag will turn you into a killer! Now please turn your head and cough, so we can see whether you're able to join the Bundeswehr…"
Amazon has had these for a long time. They are just the normal door desk with longer legs.

They are no frills. Just a door, with 4 (4inx4in?) wooden legs attached. I loved the look of them when I was there this summer.
Chrome plugins are too limited, but could this functionality be implemented via a Firefox extension?
I've been a longtime fan and customer of Airbnb. I'm very excited about the subletting feature.

Although the prices are high right now, I'm sure they will come down as the market balances out.

I'll probably book a room for a month and report back with my experiences.
I'm happy to answer any questions about the game or using Node.
The Earbits guys (frighteningly prolific bloggers) wrote about Spotify recently:

http://blog.earbits.com/online_radio/spotify-replaces-piracy...

"The service may do a good job fighting illegal file sharing but it also does a great job of eliminating any motivation to buy an album that you can listen to through the service."

In Europe Spotify's been available for a while. I was in on the beta when their catalog was a lot more restricted, and it was already impressive. With the majors on board, it's hard to see the freight train stopping.

How can one reconcile how wonderful it is for consumers with the payment statements that make us musicians cringe? I think of it as all-you-can-eat iTunes for very little per month; the recent competitors/alternatives pale in comparison.

They deserve a lot of credit for building a workable model that makes iTunes look like a rip off (I hate that software).

But they further dilute the value of recorded music, which is a huge paradigm change for the music industry that will ruin the viability of many musicians.

Perhaps we can re-educate the public to value music again by taking a pledge to pay for it, à la pg-patents? Something tells me this new, 'recorded music ~ free' paradigm is here to stay.
Amazon offers California jobs if it drops tax
It will be interesting to see if this effort is successful or not. I have always considered subletting to be a buyers market, which is probably why you had trouble subletting your place. I know a few people who were easily able to get sublets at below market rates on craigslist, which means airbnb's craigslist premium might not be worth much.

Although the recent dramatic increases in rent prices might put some pressure on sublet demand (at least in the bay area).
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I don't understand the problem. State machines always seemed like a reasonable choice to a stateful system making transitions between states.

It's possible to build some gorgeous state machine networks with lambda functions and dictionaries.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but haven't you also attacked TOFU POP as being worse than the CA system? If I understand correctly, it was a limited form of TOFU POP that caught this attack. (And it seems like TOFU POP MONK would fix the remaining weaknesses of TOFU POP.)
Markup and CSS are not code, they are tools to do design on the web, they are just not clicky-clicky. By not using them you are just drawing pretty pictures if you don't fully grok the limitations of the tool that will, in the end, actually be used to design the site.

Designers for the web who don't understand how to at the very least manipulate and tweak markup and CSS are at least somewhat fooling themselves and the people they work for/with. This is ok as long as you accept this in the end and begin to make the effort to learn something new that will improve your ability to design for the web. Bitching about professionalism won't change this fact.
I wanted to get a standing desk. Does anyone have experience with one of those desks in hospitals that are used to serve meals to patients ? That would be a solid piece of furniture for me.

Edit : I mean something like this : http://www.amazon.com/Invacare-Over-Bed-Table/dp/B000QA0EHI/...
As Inigo Montoya once said: "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means."

This is nothing but a compromise. Sinofsky is not a dumb guy, so I wonder why he's lying...
I (re)launched AwwApp (http://awwapp.com), a collaborative web whiteboard: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2886353

(the original launch was this spring, w/o whiteboard sharing and plugin features, this was basically a rewrite).
Take away their right to vote? It's for their own good!

More seriously, though, I'd love to talk to anybody who's changed their mind on this front, one way or the other. If you actually believe that giving up your own rights is a good price to maybe protect against rare events, what can make you change your mind? Related question: how many people changed their mind because they used to think "I have nothing to hide; I'm not doing anything wrong" and are now considered to be "doing something wrong"?
The landscape of online advertising (WARNING - it's not pretty)
Michael Arrington launching venture fund
> 2.5 centimeters long and 0.7 centimeters wide

An improvement on the 8mm x 2mm meat reported on just a few months ago:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/05/23/110523fa_fact_...

But still, where is "6 months" coming from? A vague "year" figure is given by Mark Post (with the caveat that funding is needed), but that doesn't even bring into consideration the process of getting the meat out of the lab and into the grocery store.