skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There are really intelligent people out there who could never pass a calculus class, much less thermodynamics. Do you want them in your program taking up all the time of the teacher, stopping those proficient in math from getting the education they deserve?
Asking people for money before you'll give them the product creates market segmentation that does not naturally exist. There's no such thing as a "natural" pricing structure. I hope we can agree that, in pricing a product, your goal is to offer a fair exchange of value. Since different customers value things differently (for example, a billion-dollar business stands to gain a lot more from a 1% increase in revenue than I do), tiered pricing suits this goal more naturally than flat pricing.
It's reportedly due to the nature of how Kickstarter handles transactions: they don't process payment until after the funding period closes (and only if the project meets or exceeds its goal). Amazon Payments is basically the only payment processor that allows this sort of "delayed" charging from what I understand.
I use two of them and they haven't given me any trouble. Pinboard[1] adds a menu option, which I have positioned next to the address bar. Pinboard Right[2] adds a 'Post Page to Pinboard' link to my right-click menu.

1. Pinboard: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/lclbbneapfiaihigbk...

2. Pinboard Right: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/mpiepoibcfbjicpaic...
Grandpa wears out, yet competes for resources. Kill him off, more for the healthy youngsters. Certainly its selective, at the family/community level, choosing to keep more-efficient members.

I also think, making grandparents less mobile means they are around the campfire teaching the youngsters. It makes sense it would be selected for in a race of communicators.
Ugh, sorry about comments being disabled. No idea how that happened; should be fixed now. I do want to hear feedback, flames and all, so finding that comments were off this whole time was disappointing for me too.

I assure you I didn't stroll through L3. I've been using Scala for half a decade and I'm still learning it.

Your reply is a bit disheartening. I don't know how else to convince you, as a long-time user of your product, that every single one of the issues I listed has been a "real-life" encounter. Dismissing the ends as impossible and thus my path toward discovering this fact as mis-using the language suggests to me that you may be overly fixating on the specific example goal I used; it's only one sample point out of many I could have chosen. That it's impossible to add such a method is not even close to the main point I'm trying to make; it's everything that came before that.

This post was neither a request for more expressive power nor an attempt to sabotage the community. The goal was much more modest: to just get something off my chest and to hopefully nudge the discussion past "is Scala complex." I would further submit that if you think I'm advocating piling in even more features/power, then I've done a woefully inadequate job communicating my thoughts. My current belief is that the solution involves either less power or a simply different set of tools.

As for your proposal, I'm not sure how it solves the problems:

1) You can always restrict yourself to writing in only subsets of the language, but this falls apart as soon as you interact with any code that isn't yours.

2) With all due respect, the idea sounds to me like it's tucking a bunch of features away behind a flag and discouraging users from voicing concerns or thinking critically about these features, which is really all I'm trying to do here.
[2000].

Interesting that they use 8-15 because "nobody likes to be a level 1 or 2". So they're really using 0-7 with an extra bit forced on just to make it look cool. Okay!

"Some companies actually consider it a firing offense to reveal your salary! "

That's broken. It might even be lawyer-bait.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Labor_Relations_Act

and http://www.mwbavl.com/employmentblog/?m=201103

In short, talk about your wages. Talk about your working conditions. The freedom you get is worth it. Break the taboos. They are only there to keep you as a slave.
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See https://us.pycon.org/2012/venue/getting-around/

You should also check http://www.caltrain.com/ if you plan to go to San Francisco.
because Amazon payments allows you to agree to pay at a later date and cancel that for whatever reason, Paypal etc. do not support this (as far as I know). I also assume the reason you can't use the site (as a project creator, anyone can use Kickstarter as a backer) is because of tax issues.
What if young people's much-lauded adaptablilty is simply, they haven't learned Anything yet so accept the 1st model they come across? That makes them appear adaptable, yet are no more adaptable than older members of society.

I think to change anything substantially, you have to wait for a complete turnover - everybody has to die off, before the seeds of change can take root.
The downside to Kickstarter is there is no checking if the project operator ever actually delivers. I've backed multiple projects that have succeeded to have nothing ever happen, no product delivered and no updates, same has happened to a friend, all on different projects, mainly creative ones. It sucks and it really puts me off using the service. A project I backed a few months ago delivered to me last month (Romo) and it was the first to ever deliver, after backing 9 in total since 2010... creative people are unreliable it seems, really put me off ever backing projects that aren't guaranteed in some way.
In GHC the features are much more well-defined and bite-sized. If you ignore them you still have a very complete, usable and impressive language.

[edit s/less well/more well/]
We're going to blog about it which should shed more light on methodology -- TC just linked to the infographic. But yeah this was across the entire Disqus network, ~600 MM monthly UVs and ~60 MM commenters, and I believe "pseudonyms" include proprietary site logins + social media handles besides FB.

The major insight was that pseudonyms yield significantly more quantity and quality on the network. May seem obvious to you but wasn't so for many, including a number of us who've been with Disqus for years. The conventional wisdom was that anonymous comments would rank highest in quantity and FB comments would score highest in quality.
Performance vs. Features — Which is More Important?
Why blog?
dare I say Adobe Air?

I does exist...
As usual, Wikipedia has a good into article about this, if you know where to look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Text_figures
The official extension is quite basic. Here's a screenshot that shows literally every feature: http://i.imgur.com/sMVY5.png

"Save to Pinboard" and "Read later" work exactly like the bookmarklets, and the four items below the divider are just convenient links to different parts of the Pinboard website. "Save tab set" is fairly useful for moving sessions across machines.
Only in social creatures, who routinely share resources at some level. Like families or villages. It doesn't have to outweight anything; its just another pressure at work. So we settle at some mean reproductive interval and some lifespan, that optimizes for all the environmental factors in play.
Really? An expected response from a foreign (uncontrolled) source brought you servers down?

Are you validating responses now, or just assuming they'll never change / always be correct?
That's a fair point; there's no simple way that I know of to do that in any language (though many languages avoid having both constructs), and the general solution is to write parallel sets of methods to operate on the two types of data structures.
Sorry, but you're wrong. 50 dollars in 1950 would be worth $447.81 in 2010, roughly ten times moer. The dolar value of the toy increased roughly 100 times. Therefore, the true value of the toy increased 100/10 = 10 times. The price of gold is irrelevant. All you showed is that gold would have been a better investment.
I prefer a Bialetti - http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0000CF3Q6/ref=as_li_ss_tl?...
If it had already been used as a reactor coolant, or was from some other industrial processes, it could be more radioactive than you would like it to be.

Otherwise, no, unless you get enough of it to saturate your tissues and cause problems due to it being denser than your biochemistry evolved to expect water to be.
> When you finish one thing, a hundred more things are left to do.
Tell me about it! A good skill I've been improving on over time is the ability to say No and cut stuff out :)

As for a future vision, we have a few general plans (some we can't discuss!) but we wanted to also take a break afterwards and see where to go from here.

We want to add some viral features, but its a pretty tough market to advertise in and seek approval as something someone would like to try.

We see this as a game you'd play and laugh at with your partner, but then learn a little something along the way. It's supposed to be playful and ridiculous at times, with an element of seriousness at the end.

It's exhausting marketing :)

Adding social stuff like invite phone contacts, or send messages etc may not fly with our users (I'd be concerned about what an app like this would want with my phonebook!) but its good to think about ideas like that, we may change in the future.

Thanks for the support.
Numb3rs, to me, is a parody of math. You can argue whether it's a disservice to math or not when it's presented as a magical tool obfuscated by senseless jargon and technical term soup, which is what I found Numb3rs to be (and I'm a mathematician). It's sort of like the "zoom in on B3 and enhance" of math.
If anyone is able, would you please explain to me these two questions from the quiz? I’m stumped.

Why does `toSeq` compile, but not `toIndexedSeq`?

Set(1,2,3).toIndexedSeq sortBy (-_)
Set(1,2,3).toSeq sortBy (-_)

Why does `h` compile, but `f` does not?

def add(x: Int, y: Int) = x + y
val f = add(1,_)
val h = add(_,_)
Then it's probably a good thing that no one was making that claim.

You may instead find people claiming that the complexity "isn't a problem" or "can be avoided by convention." I don't fully agree with either of those statements. A "complexity safety switch" (nice term, by the way) helps to alert programmers that more difficult language constructs are at play in a given piece of code. Identifying and advertising the use of problematic-but-useful language features seems like a good compromise between omitting them and allowing people to naively wander into them.
My memory was that WWW was chosen to be hard to pronounce - an academic joke where the acronym had three times as many syllables as its expansion. I can't find any evidence to back that up though, only this, which makes just a fleeting reference to the difficulty of pronunciation:

http://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/FAQ.html#Spelling
Ask HN: What's your favorite music to code to?
I'll start (artist: album):
- Jaga Jazzist: A Living Room Hush (my new fav instrumental group)
- Telefon Tel Aviv: Farenheit Fair Enough
- Between the Buried and Me: Colors, The Great Misdirect (metalllll)
- Omar Rodriguez Lopez: どういたしまして, Xenophanes
- The XX: XX
- Perfume: Complete Best (awesome japanese girl pop)
Systems we use today, designed for a world of the past
Also they're preassembled, for significantly less than the pre-assembled Think-o-matic.

Where did they sell dual MK7 extruders?
I am thinking only of putting (some) definitions of implicit conversions behind a compiler flag. Uses of such conversions would remain unaffected.
Thanks for explaining, I really wish they would roll out worldwide. There are some great things on it I would love to give money to and some projects of my own I'd like to try.
>am aware that lots of developers seem to like the command line, but I can't for the life of me understand why.

I used to think exactly like this. It takes a while to get used to the CLI workflow, you only start to reap its benefits once you've gained a solid understanding of unix and also developed the autonomy to select the right CLI tools (e.g. tmux, zsh, vim, git) which creates synergy at every tier of your development stack.

I have written software on Windows and Linux, and when it comes to most tasks related to software development, GUIs tend to get in the way. GUIs are useful at first because all your options are laid out before you, but the complexity increases since the functionality of the entire system must be abstracted through a visual interface.
that's right.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/8796124/loaderror-on-inst...
I agree. Implicits don't compose transitively (and for good reason), and that makes them complex. That's why I suggested to think about putting implicit conversions behind a compiler switch. They are extremely useful for what they are but not a panacea.
Quick addendum - llambda liked it enough not only to submit it himself, but to circumvent the HN dup detector by changing the trailing "/" to a "?", a trick I've seen him use several times now:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3444649
Even "Tory suggestion" is quite misleading. Something relating to reducing the protection of workers against dismissal was suggested in a report by someone to the Tories.
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Just to clarify, you can back projects from anywhere in the world. I am in England and I can successfully back projects, the only thing you need to be in the US to do is creating projects.
I think this is especially shown in reddit.
The idea that you have no idea who a username is but you know that it is the same person each time... I think this may be the factor that brings actual communication.
Please don't do that. I don't want to go work for some Scala shop or team in the future and find out that I'm limited to L1-only features because of management practice.
Caveat emptor?
The Lib Dems have a reputation for saying whatever people want to hear, and it was suggested before the election that they would turn around when they were in power. I didn't think so so I voted for them, but I've now learned the error of my ways. Clegg's lies about the tuition fees policy is but one example. I doubt the public will be fooled a second time.
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Top five marketing gaffes to avoid in 2012
The point of the graph is that it doesn't matter how or why people die, after a certain age. This is clear from context, though not explicitly stated.
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Food for thought: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negligible_senescence

Not all animals are pre-programmed for an early death. I wonder if curve for these animals looks like the lightening bolt curve?
BTW, this feature is a complete fail -- say I write 3431/5147, and what do I get? 343(1/5)147, so not only still ugly, but also incorrect mathematically.
Not defending Forbes, but the bill was amended to only apply to sites outside US jurisdiction.

"Lamar’s amendments also clarify that sites ending in .com, .org and .net are not covered by the bill. Only foreign sites fall under SOPA’s wrath."

http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2011/12/sopa-watered-down-a...
Yeah I know what you mean. Where the hell is Robocop!? http://detroitneedsrobocop.com/

I usually only contribute 1-5 dollars so I don't think I've ever even noticed if they're follow up since I'm not going to get anything anyway.
How can the messaging be improved? How can it be made more compelling to resonate more with laypeople?

Explain SOPA as (1) censorship and (2) a heavy burden on legitimate business. These are honest ways of describing it in everyday terms, and at least one of those points should resonate with almost any American, whatever their political identity.

Given the time to lay out a clearer case, explain that even if you agree with some of the intentions behind SOPA, it’s unlikely to be effective at stopping piracy. If passed, it would probably have to be at least partly rolled back.

And explain that the kind of highly creative, small-time artists whom people instinctively want to defend are, in general, hurt by draconian IP policy.

I think this is realistic and counteracts the impression that people who object to SOPA are all Professor Frink.
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Facebook app developers targeted by Fbootstrapp
A quick look at their code samples reveals the issue samples - as browsers have not yet standardized the syntax, in order to use this feature you need to use versions of the CSS property names with browser-specific prefixes for example (for Firefox) "-moz-font-feature-settings" instead of just "font-feature settings". For some reason, this demo doesn't include the "-webkit"-prefixed versions - might be they don't exist, might be Microsoft's people just didn't think to.
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The only project I backed "The startup Kids" http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thestartupkids/the-start... has had no update since July last year.

If these uncompleted 'successful' projects continue, it will be a problem for kickstarter. my last experience has definitely prevented me from funding another project.
My concern is not that you'd burn your hand off (I have an induction burner). My concern is that people who cook a lot like to be able to adjust temps by feel and (as someone else pointed out) muscle memory. If you listen to Dave Arnold's "Cooking Issues" podcast (you should! it's really awesome!), you'll learn that pro kitchen chefs have this problem in a lot of places --- high end equipment with digital variable controls, when they just want simple dials and paddle switches.
Perhaps. But I worry those lobbying voices would only in the end represent big money, and not necessarily the small entrepreneurs and creators. I can imagine a future where a powerful tech lobby augments a bill like SOPA to benefit the existing big players, and locks other (small) competitors out.

I don't think we can fight fire with fire.

I do think that the widespread opposition to SOPA has united many. Organizations which represent our common interests and already have widespread support, need to be further supported, the EFF etc.

I would be skeptical of efforts from players to throw lots of money at a new organisation 'in Washington' in the hope that it does the work. Good and effective organizations already exist, they need your activism and they need your funding. :-)
Yes. This is not about some geeks with a minor website, it's about a multi-trillion dollar [1] industry being sabotaged by some old school media companies that can't adapt to the new world. What's more, what they want to do won't even solve their problem.

[1] Ok, I don't know how big the internet industry, but no-one else seems to know either, and worldwide it's probably in that ballpark - and most likely everyone will be affected.
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I'm mostly a groove salad guy.

I mix it up a little sometimes with Beat Blender, or Lush.

Been trying out Suburbs of Goa if it's not confusing "Oh, it sounds foreign and exotic" with the real(er) stuff.
Beware if you plan to buy electronic books from Manning. Unlike O'Reilly and Pragmatic one may only download purchased electronic books from Manning for a short period of time.

http://manning.com/about/ebook_support.html#downloadtime
If I may offer a suggestion, perhaps mention that pseudonyms generally tend to be long-held identities - a lot of people think that pseudonyms are just throw-away identities used to gossip about your employer safely, instead of identities that persist for months, years or even decades. (A lot of people would recognize the handle CmdrTaco, but how many know his real name?)

(p.s. your backyard is awesome)
Read the article carefully. This guy has a point.

Zipfs law applies to software stacks. There is always a leader , the second and third place drops off exponentially. So, in .NET, the leader is obviously MS with its tooling. However, these tools aren't as lightweight for someone who came from Ruby and command line tools. While scripting is possible, one has to patch together the information from various sources.

@jimbobimbo has said that it is possible to script. But it took him weeks. There is no obvious .NET stack (by stack I mean Build, Test, Deploy) that champions lightweight systems.

VS writes tools for software stacks. Not quick dirty scripts. This is the only thing they get paid big $$$ for. However, it is not actually what the customer wants. The customer wants a solid runtime, easy to debug stacks and fast turnaround.

I believe NuGet is a step in the right direction, usable from both Powershell and VS Shell. However, it is going to take another generation before MS starts to understand how to make the rest of their infrastructure scriptable.
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But, how long you live might affect how many children you have.

Think of it this way: if you knew you had a high probability of living to 80, you might decide to have fewer offspring so that you could dedicate your earnings to supporting yourself in your later years (children are very expensive after all).

Regardless of whether this hypothesis is true, clearly the number of years you live likely has some bearing on how many children you might choose to have.
Makes me nostalgic: about 12 years ago I had a consulting contract with SAIC and Americast to write Java code for a prototype set top box: just me doing the Java version, largely copying the work and following in the footsteps of a large engineering team working in C/C++. Don't laugh, set top TV is actually an interesting platform :-)
They have a pie chart, but the elements of chart are all the same size. A sorted list or table view would be more informative.
If you don't have JS disabled like zeeg mentioned, AdBlockPlus is a red flag. Can you try incognito mode with no extensions enabled? If that doesn't fix this reach out to our support team at http://disqus.com/support and we'd be happy to lend a hand.
SOPA Protest on Twitter
Join me & change your Twitter profile picture to protest SOPA.
Adding and/or altering functionality at runtime isn't dangerous. Monkeypatching may be, so avoid that.

Also, an entirely too-little used idiom (blame Rails programmers):

module OverrideSomeMethod
def some_method
…
end
end

s = SomeClass.new
s.extend OverrideSomeMethod
s.some_method
I too think this page is too light on details.

I can see one major bias (albeit inferred) - they consider anyone posting using Facebook to be using a "real name" - and assuming that anyone posting using a "real-like" name outside of Facebook is a pseudonym.

If this is true, they're really only measuring and comparing the quality and quantity of Facebook-identified commenters vs other commenters.
SOPA: AMERICAN-STYLE COMMUNISM AT WORK
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