skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
After seeing so many negative comments primarily focusing on the syntax and verbosity of the language, I felt compelled to create an account to try and get some understanding of why this is.

The way I understand it, a terse syntax is useful in getting something working quickly. However, this is not necessarily the best code when it comes to performance or maintenance. Adding "boilerplate" code not only makes the compiler/interpreter more efficient, it also makes the job of the maintainer much easier. Personally, it takes me less time to figure out what a particular piece of code is doing if the datatypes of variables and return values of functions are obvious.

Dart seems to understand this well and so makes typing optional which is useful for prototyping but then also allows you to refactor and explicitly include types to gain performance and improve maintenance for production code. Am I missing something? If not this sounds pretty exciting to me.
How would you describe the fit of the people to the following ideologies: libertarian, anarcho-capitalist, left-anarchist, socialist?
Safari 5.1 on Snow Leopard, no crashes here.
Thank you for the positive feedback.

And I'll try to tone my next post better so it comes across as eager rather than shameless.

Yours truly,
Aleksey
Hilarious, using forensics tools to recover snooping and forensics tools.
Cool! Is there anything I can look at to see how async I/O will work? Does all the async support depend on gevent monkey patching (as requests/async.py would suggest)?
I just started working on a similar library for Ruby:

https://github.com/tarcieri/http
No, but I will (and do) limit my social media activity without it.

And it has nothing to do with advertising. I like that companies know what to show me. I do not like that facebook seems intent on telling everyone I know (and presumably many I don't) what I am doing all the time. Open is not the default for me.

Aggregating likes, interests, and behaviors is not the same as saying "Damon is looking at an article about how bad the Colorado Buffaloes football team is at 12:30 PM". The former actually helps me (at least that's my personal take - others may disagree). The latter does not, and could conceivably harm me.
Its been a long while since I took psychology in college. What he was describing sounded fairly common to me as an adult.

"Joseph Newman, the head of the psychology department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison estimates that up to 1 percent of the general population in the United States can be described as psychopathic(1). This means that there are among us, roughly 3 million psychopaths."

If this is true, psychopaths should be concentrated heavily in certain careers such as sales.
Spree Raises $1.5 Million For Open Source eCommerce Platform
"Requests is an ISC Licensed HTTP library, written in Python, for human beings.

Most existing Python modules for sending HTTP requests are extremely verbose and cumbersome. Python’s builtin urllib2 module provides most of the HTTP capabilities you should need, but the api is thoroughly broken. It requires an enormous amount of work (even method overrides) to perform the simplest of tasks."
There are too many ideas to consider them all. Source is a valid filter.
The funniest thing about today's plutocrats is that they fail to see that they are setting the economy up for an implosion in which they will be the greatest losers.
How could he possibly say that ... I've never lied ;)
Well put. While Krugman occasionally makes interesting points, his style is abhorrent. I'd have more respect for him if he'd written about the protests the first day they were happening and hadn't tried to frame it as a partisan issue with his usual cast of good guys and bad guys.
I love this API, and it looks like the dev version is getting even better. r.iter_content is exactly what I needed! :D
I stand corrected :) I certainly don't want to start a "which is better" argument, just trying to give an example of something interesting in PSh
I'm super familiar with type arrays (I helped port GwtQuake which was one of the first apps to ever use them in large measure), but type arrays are an add-on API that doesn't change language semantics. Something that would change language semantics would be to offer early-bound namespaces. Early-binding would increase performance while simplifying VM implementation and make tooling easier.
The true cost of commuting is actually the stress that piles on you, bit by bit.. it can contribute to divorce, physical disease, high blood pressure, loneliness, etc. Just ask anyone that has to ride their car into NYC traffic, or even take the crowded subways on a daily basis.
Bad habits I observed at a very big company:

* I don't know [insert new technology here], I'd rather stick with [insert thing I know well here]

* That isn't my problem

* Is there a ticket for that?

* Can you file a ticket for that?

* I've hit my 40 hours

* But it's always been done this way.

* We need to schedule a meeting

* [20 people in one meeting]

* [20 people in one meeting every day for a month]

* [More time in meetings than programming]

* We can't use that open framework, who will support it?

* We need this to be on [X] hardware platform because that's what ops has available

* What does the vendor say / Has architecture reviewed and approved this technology? (this may have a useful point somewhere, but I have seen arch. approval mainly be a function of who took the arch team out to a nice restaurant or went golfing with them.)

* We can't use [insert appropriate thing to use] because it's too hard. We should use [simpler thing] because our devs can understand it better.

I know this list reads almost a stereotype of big dev at this point, but I personally saw all of these. I could probably come up with a few dozen more given a few hours of cringing.
I just tried it out. It's not a site-specific browser at all, it's a normal web browser with a few nice interface ideas in it. Raven is using the WebKit/Safari engine, and shares its data repositories (such as cookies, history, offline data).

Between the misuse of software jargon, the buzzword overflow, the overall site design, and the potential for abuse I'm having a difficult time trusting this thing with my data.
I understand your argument. Maybe it is a mistake but it just didn't feel like the right thing to do at this present moment.

I have a feeling that once I'm in the valley I won't want to leave.
It seems to be working quite well for new media companies on the internet.

But I can't argue very strongly against your point as it was a complaint of mine before I dumped cable.

Although if cable would give me access to all their content (tv, movies, sports, premium channels) for one affordable flat fee I would go for it.
It would appear so. Based off of testimonials and briefly looking at the API I'd say this is primarily aimed at a simple API + fewer "gotchas"

E.g., urllib/urllib2 both support urlopen(url, [data])
if `data` is supplied the request is executed as a POST, if not it is executed as a GET.

Issuing a GET w/ a querystring requires mutating the `url` and omitting `data`. This surprised me at first, and probably a number of others
Exactly why I'm leaving as soon as I can secure a residency permit in my country of choice.

I'm pretty sure this counts as "the path of least short-term resistance."
Considering that in most parts of the world you don't even get 5GB "unlimited" traffic, considering that real world bandwidth is still ways away from 14Mbit/s and finally considering that even with high bandwidth, latency still is really, really bad, I don't understand this discussion at all.

Even if you somehow reached those 14M consistently, latency would still make sure that surfing felt much slower than over landlines. And the very low data transfer limits will make sure that stuff not as dependent on latency (like video with big buffers) still won't be practical.

For me, the mobile web got kinda usable with 3G phones and since then, I've never seen any practical improvement.

So at least here in Switzerland, this discussion is pointless and it's different features that will make people want (or not - we'll see) to upgrade their phones
Well stated. Let's be honest, the sytems is certainly rigged. The banking sector and the government are absolutely destructive as they exist. I'd like to know who is claiming that "closing tax loopholes" and "endorsing the Volker rule" is socialist. Oh, it was a "number of financial barrons". Right.The way Krugman pulls "facts" and "stats" from his ass is unreal. This dude would get kicked out of college writing crap like this.

Why do we assume that "rich people" are all wall street people? Does everyone that makes over $200K a year work on Wall Street? I, frankly, am offended that people like my neighbor (who owns a local chain of muffler shops, and works his ass off) is representative of a Wall Street "financial barrron". Sure, he makes probably a few hundred K a year, but did he earn it? Hell yes he earned it. The comparison is obsurd.

The way people like Krugman use one unrelated issue to argue for another...is offensive. Elizabeth Warren is not trying to punish Wall Street, she is trying to punish the rich. There is a big difference. Krugman, you sir are a useful idiot.
Unfortunately they didn't litigate the non-compete in court. That it existed was sufficient to get the new employer to fire them.

Generally if you look at the litigation history of non-competes you get a better sense of what is and is not enforceable in various jurisdictions. Had the game studio asked their in house counsel if the non-compete was likely to prevail in litigation, my intutition is that they would have said that it would not.

In the referenced game tester example the fact that the previous employer laid off the employee would work in the affected employee's favor in any jury trial.

To be clear, I know that non-compete agreements are effective at preventing people from working at competitors, but before you write yourself off because you've signed one check the case history in your area to see if they were upheld in court.
Thanks for the microphone warning. Was just about to try it out until I read that.
Other than the serial killer thing and lets face it the army spends good money finding 100% sane people willing to kill lots of people, I just don't get what the big deal about psychopathy is. Most people want to feel loved or whatever the cues are for that emotion and lets face it, there is no way to "know" whether someone "loves" you. All you see are outward displays which are highly mediated by the culture in which the display occurs. Also, you're going to need people at the top with the emotional capacity to know that it's better for the group to fire 1,000 people today, rather than shut the whole concern down in 6 months.

Aren't most people just failed social actors who are rather poor at picking the signs in which to display their emotional communication? Psychopathy actually makes me think far more of vulcans than ted bundy.
Rhodes aquired by Motorola Solutions (MSI), launches RhoElements
It's really the height of irony.

If there's one guiding principle that Americans should believe in, it's that we're all Americans, and that America is all of us. There's really nothing more un-American than calling someone who lives here un-American.

But of course ya can't say that.
I think the "Not So Fast" section was my favorite part of the article. You rarely see these reminders that science is a work in progress in popular science reporting. Particularly with regards to medicine, too often I see too much hype over the results of a single unrepeated study.
This is a great idea. With optional typing + V8 this could be really fast. Google can leverage its strengths while opening up a language that lots of people already know to additional server side use.
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With a single developer, yes. With five or six it's still doable to all meet the customer and talk about your issues directly.

Beyond that you start acting as interfaces already because not enough people can come to the meeting, etc, so you become like mini-PMs anyways. Might as well get someone who can actually manage (track) and do it right...

I think it does help though, for you to know all your doctors/developers, but I don't think you need to manage them day-to-day because a lot of tasks are pretty straight forward and/or can be easily delegated.
Possible winner of Carmack 100kft Micro Prize?
Is this a winner of the $10 000 prize.

It was $5 000, then others upped it to $10 000
http://www.armadilloaerospace.com/n.x/Armadillo/Home/News?news_id=376
For me the biggest part was having a place to change. I commuted rain/snow/shine for almost 2 years straight in Chicago, but I was only able to make it happen because I had a gym membership in the building. Some places around here are (supposedly, so I hear) getting better about having more of a locker room style bathroom to allow for people who ride to work and not be a sweaty mess when they get there.
You could try influads.com , their ads are great and the network is pretty solid and targeted. Not cheap, though
>>I'm fairly convinced that distance field raytracing is the way to go for terrain rendering - one poly and some extra overhead in the fragment shader

Could you elaborate a bit more on this technique. Can you use this technique in 3D games when playing real time? I had the impression that all 3D games used meshes for the terrain, do you know of a popular 3D game that uses this technique you mentioned?
Finally, do you happen to know a link to a good introduction/tutorial? Thanks!
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I'm not sure who "everyone" is... Since housing prices had dropped more than 8% a few times over the last 80 years, anyone who thought there was zero probability of it happening again was clearly a moron.

As for the tinfoil hat crowd, I guess John Paulson, Steve Eisman, Michael Burry, Charles Ledley and James Mai weren't believed by the mainstream, but a lot of people saw what was coming. Those guys were just a few of the ones who were lucky enough to time it just right. There were many, many more who simply bet that the crash would come a few months earlier than it did.
I work from home, but I still "commute" to get a fresh breakfast every morning - by scooter. It is such a joy to ride a scooter in London traffic that I deliberately go to much farther shops just to extend the amount of time I'm zooming past the traffic...

Quite frugal on fuel (I get about 70 MPG, but I ride a fast 300cc scooter and don't have a light throttle hand), and I can do most regular maintenance (oil & filter mostly) myself.
Medical Insurance For The Unemployed
Yes, I would like to read a post about it.. also would like to know how you manage to get 28K in private beta if you are willing to share that secret haha
Identity Theft More Profitable Than Car Theft
What's a 100% of nothing re: retention. No offense, but it sounds as though networking paid dividends, not what you had built... at all.
Are these numbers from worldwide pre-orders? I might be wrong but I thought that this was their biggest launch (different countries same date).

Even if that's the case, the significantly higher (~66%) orders is something that people in Apple can take a bow for. Well done.
The candela is based on Watts, but weighted to adjust for human perception. While the "standard human eye" could be considered a physical artifact, we use experimentally determined photopic (in bright light) and scotopic (in low light) response curves, which are supposedly fixed.

It isn't quite as fixed as some measurements since the average human's vision could continue to evolve and change the curve, or because we could find out that we measured it wrong, but it's not dependent on a single physical sample like the kilogram.
Some of the stuff /she/ talks about seem to be "how a badly written program might behave." This is utterly uninteresting.

Q: "What does this buggy program print."

A: (hits first person with a stick)

"Right!"
Congratulations, Andrey. Good job
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"For each of these miles, you waste about 6 minutes in the round trip..."

This little line here has a huge effect on the computation, because it assumes you are only traveling at 20 mph on your commute. So all this only applies if you are in a heavy traffic area or commuting to a city center.
You've touched on a need I've often felt as well. Frankly, I enjoy debating politics and would enjoy doing it here on HN if it weren't for the fact that I've mostly internalized a !politics filter, which there seems have fairly strong consensus.

Still, a forum for political debate that's both open and inhabited mostly by the reasonable and well-informed... I don't know if it's possible, but I'd like to see it.

*Edit: as for the why, I'd argue that most non-tech editorials shouldn't be here, period. Krugman's in particular -- even though I often agree with him -- because he's partisan and something of a lightning rod for the right.
Did you go as a spectator? Or where you actively involved? What do are/were you trying to accomplish, and how successful do you think you were? will you attend more of these events?
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I always hear it as "reverting from something back to something else", but I'm not a dictionary.
Then again, I should have chosen a more gripping title, anyway :). "Netflix: Qwikster is history!", "Netflix admits: We don't know what we're doing"
The current Dart buzz shows merely two things:
(1) There is a need for better languages to program web apps.
(2) Google marketing power is impressing.

But, technically what Dart introduces is nowhere new. Have a look for instance at Opa (http://opalang.org) which is open source and already does more than Dart. If you take out the marketing bulls... that it is going to replace JavaScript, when it now just compiles into JS as many other do.
Absolutely my favourite recent development in the Python world. I won't be mistaken if I say that many of us have built half-arse versions of this on top of urllib(2) multiple times in the past. :-)

The support for keep-alive is particularly welcome, huge kudos to the author.

Question to users of other languages: do equivalents exist for PHP, Perl, C# or Java? Ruby folks rave about restclient, but is there anything else?
Making Django's signals asynchronous with Celery
Who are the 99%
There are a lot of problems with driving too: parking, traffic jams, cost, etc, but you are conditioned to take those for granted.

As a full-time bicycle commuter I have to say that your complaints are more minor inconveniences than serious problems. Do I have to shower after biking 9 miles to work? No, a change of clothes is sufficient. Am I limited to where I can go to lunch? Not compared to my colleagues who mostly walk to lunch, I can easily cover a mile radius of restaurants, and I can do it faster than anyone who opts to drive because of traffic and parking.

Granted if you have to ride open highway or wear a suit to your job, then the downsides become much stronger, but I naturally factor those into my living choices. I would never live in a distant suburb or work an an extremely isolated office park.

The point of all this is simply that I don't view bicycle commuting as some big sacrifice that I make for abstract reasons. I save money and I am more productive at work.
The problem with the assumption that common people are inferior is that you will actually find proof that they are. It's a vicious cycle of self prophecy.

If we treat people as they are, we make them worse. If we treat people as they ought to be, we help them become what they are capable of becoming. Johann Wolfgang vonGoethe [1749 - 1832]
I agree with all of your points. Maybe the figure was greater than 8% for the price drop -- there is some percentage that represents the worst case that was typically considered in all the contracts.

I realize many foresaw the crisis. My main point is that we had a government program to keep housing prices high/rising, which led to much of the perception that the risk of a housing price drop was low. When considering who is to blame, we should blame our government at least as much as the financial executives.
Funny? I find it utterly bizarre.

The people who owe $300,000 on a house they never should have bought? They're going to be left with no debt and a house to live under. The people with $700m in net worth are going to lose everything they can't fit in their pockets; their houses are all going to get looted and razed the night of the collapse.

So why the hell is the guy with debt working hard to prop up the system, and the guy with investments doesn't seem to care what happens to it?
And Hall.com does what exactly.

I've danced from your blog to your twitter and over to your fb and back, Then over to your .com which sends me back to your twitter, which says that if I read your blog, I can tweet a hall pass, for what? Okay so then I googled Hall.com and still nothing.

And herein we talk about how much the domain costs, and what your start-up experience is like (newsflash -- more creative control -- thanks) And still there's no word on hall.com.

Yet we have page after page of startup advice about being able to pitch our concept in an ice storm on a sinking ship, while the band plays and the Hotsy Totsies wink. Three Words -- Netflix for Comics. Done.

But still these pages fill with little teases here and there about the brilliant work that is being done, without actually saying what it is exactly.

So, dear sir, back to you -- in three or four words --

Hall is ..... in real life only better.
Hall is ..... the new new coke.
Hall is ..... Qwikster with a c.
Hall is ...... kids in the.
Hall is ...... Heuristic ALgorithmic Laboratory
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RhoElements product link:

http://www.motorola.com/Business/US-EN/Business+Product+and+...
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"100% sane people willing to kill lots of people"

How is such a thing logically possible?
What's the other half of this? Some config file that maps "W3C/DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict/EN" to a local copy of the DTD?
There was a significant study which found higher rates of psychopathy (judged using standard psychometric scales devised by Hare et al) in high-level corporate environments than among violent criminals in prison.

I don't expect you to believe me on this one, so I am furiously trying to find a reference... Hopefully I'll be back to edit with a link.

EDIT: There is of course this book, written by the aforementioned Dr Hare, but still can't seem to find a paper. I remember seeing it in a recent BBC documentary on the subject, which interviewed him directly, which isn't exactly helpful.

http://books.google.com/books?id=xfIEVtzj52YC

EDIT: AHA! Here it is: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bsl.925/pdf

"In this study, we had a unique opportunity to examine psychopathy and its correlates in a sample of 203 corporate professionals selected by their companies to participate in management development programs. The correlates included demographic and status variables, as well as in-house 360° assessments and performance ratings. The prevalence of psychopathic traits—as measured by the Psychopathy Checklist—Revised (PCL-R) and a Psychopathy Checklist: Screening Version (PCL: SV) “equivalent”—was higher than that found in community samples. The results of confirmatory factor analysis (CFA) and structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that the underlying latent structure of psychopathy in our corporate sample was consistent with that model found in community and offender studies. Psychopathy was positively associated with in-house ratings of charisma/presentation style (creativity, good strategic thinking and communication skills) but negatively associated with ratings of responsibility/performance (being a team player, management skills, and overall accomplishments)"

Looks like I misremembered the bit about a higher rate than in prisons, instead it is rather a significantly higher rate than in society at large.