skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Grrr. Once again, this means nothing to me as a non-iOS/Android user. Not happy to see this trend continuing, are people not building websites any more?

* edit for typo.
Great job on launching. Some notes from first use of the app:

The feed is confusing. It looks too much like Instagram, so it contradicts the idea that this is an app for sharing actions rather than just pictures.

The top activities are plankaday (what's that?), write, sleep, run, and meeting(!). None of those are too interesting. So, I'm not getting a feel for what is this app really good for? Why don't you show more activities rather than just the top 5?

The actions are not very specific, that's probably why they don't seem interesting to me.

I bet you get this a lot, but really, if I'm using Runkeeper or another similar app for my exercise tracking and sharing, why should I use didthis? One possible answer is to push actions to those apps (I haven't tried it if you already do).

The quality of the experience will probably go up dramatically if you choose to focus on a single type of action or community. Everyone keeps repeating this and from recent personal experience, it does seem true.

Social causes seem like a good one to go for, but the problem there is frequency of use. I doubt many people volunteer or donate more than a few days a year. This is the kind of app that people need to use at least once a day or it will die.

I like your deed of the day idea. It might be worth zooming in on. What if your app was totally based around that? Daily deeds?

Finally, you better not steal my contacts! If you do, start working on that apology letter right away.
Love the concept, and they've got an Android app now, I've been waiting months to give this a try
One thing that comes up again and again is understanding significances, errors and such. This stuff is second nature to a good (and honest) physicist coming out of University, even before he becomes a "pro".

In my experience, to a doctor, even a good one, _at first_ it's just an annoying thing they have to do to get published and they don't really understand the significance of significances. (LOL.)

I would argue that this type of sensitivity to understanding data should be important if you're running a country. You can't even say that there are underlings for this, because this data is so important, and the possibility of underlings skewing it for whatever reason so sizable, that I certainly would want to have some understanding and feeling for the data before doing a press conference about it or using it to guide my lawmaking.
Merkel's decision are not so 'inane'. If you look at the German situation (and that's her main job), it is looking pretty good right now.

She is also not only 'somewhat knowledgeable' about nuclear power, she was the responsible minister for several years.

Extending the life span was a political decision - especially moved ahead by her coalition partner - the FDP. Before Fukushima there was a majority of conservatives and liberals against the nuclear exit. This changed with Fukushima.

Merkel often bases her decisions on what is politically possible in Germany. She believes in a politics of small steps which, where the outcome can be verified and one can adapt then. A very scientific approach.
Wait, 'minutes' are a record of what was said by who at the meeting. 'actions' (or 'actionable items' or etc) are "to dos". These need to be highlighted separately from the minutes.

I agree with you that well run meetings are crucial, and that traditional formats can be excellent. I offer gentle caution about bureaucracy - some people are great at setting agenda and forming committees and voting on chairs and so on, but lousy at actually getting any work done.
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http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/os-release.h...
" A 120,000-square-foot private museum to be called the “Google Experience Center”, which filings said would be "to share visionary ideas, and explore new ways of working" with up to 900 guests."

So that's why they walled off half of building 40! They're putting back the big "show off space" from the days of SGI! Who needed all of those little rooms named after programming languages, anyway?

How long did SGI last after it built that space?
The author claims Lipitor is a vitamin, and complains that Lipitor is left out of the market size for vitamins.

Lipitor is of course not a vitamin. It's a statin. Vitamins are determined based on what's essential for an organism. It's a bit tricky since the body's own reserves of some vitamins can last for months, but as I recall, the determination of what's essential included observations of people nourished by IVs (and hence all nutrients could be traced).
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I was thinking of doing just that last weekend. I look forward to start soon and hopefully use some of the infrastructure/ideas of this python implementation.
The goal of an efficient meeting is the rapid discussion of ideas to reach a consensus.

E-mail is dreadful for anything that tends to go off-course (needs to be chaired) or requires rapid discussion with evolving arguments.
Great job, JetBrains! `Going open' (as either OSS or FOSS) seems to be the only logical decision for a programming language. Proprietary programming languages rarely stand the test of time, even when they're awesome.
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Can we have a less inflammatory title in respect for both somebody who had an enormous positive impact on the world and has passed.

the article does not call him 'a drug addict with no honesty or integrity'. That is just poor link bait.

I'm not even a fan of Jobs, but this kind of labeling isn't what HN is about.
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i have no idea how clojure is implemented, but i guess i always assumed that they were implemented as iterators.
Amsterdam or Remote

EnergyTransitionModel.com

Quintel is looking for an experienced developer in one or more: Ruby, Rails, Javascript (jquery, backbone, coffeescript, etc). You follow the 20%/80% rule, prefer to re-use then to program and seemlessly switch from big picture to implementation details.

We answers questions like: "If everybody switched to electric cars, how many solar plants have to be built?". It is used by governments to evaluate strategies dealing with events like peak oil, diminishing gas reserves and new technologies.

Quintel Intelligence is a charming Dutch (grown up) startup, with a central office in the center of Amsterdam. Our engineering-driven team (91% engineers, PhDs etc) get the work done during office hours, so that we can enjoy our evenings, sometimes together with afterwork-beers. The atmosphere goes from professional consultancy to monkey house in no time. The team is pretty international: Dutch (of course), Italian, Swiss, British.

Our codebase has something for everyone. 30% plain Ruby, 30% Javascript (CoffeeScript/Backbone.js), 30% Rails and 10% other code. We have good code, bad code, tested code, untested code. We have DSLs (for our non-programmers), API, fast EC2 instances for calculations.

Some of our products include: http://et-model.com, http://etflex.et-model.com, http://energyfuture.nl/energy-mixer (Dutch)

You are an experienced developer, you think lean and solve problems creatively. You're proactive, fix first, complain later. You live in (ordered by preference): Netherlands, Europe, World.

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Meeting formats vary. The simplest things you need, though are:

1. Metadata -- who was there, start time, end time.

2. What was discussed. Regular reports are typical.

3. What decisions were made.

4. Who will carry out which decisions.

It's common to see 3&4 in one of two formats:

1. Interpolated. "Motion: Jack to install new monitoring package. Moved Jill, Seconded Wei Li. Passed."

2. Appended. A list at the bottom of "action items". The UCC minutes I linked above take this approach, which has the readability advantage.

I offer gentle caution about bureaucracy - some people are great at setting agenda and forming committees and voting on chairs and so on, but lousy at actually getting any work done.

Yes, absolutely. I saw meetings abused during my student politics days. Some really dramatic stuff.
> Why ClojureScript?

No, why is clojurescript a better fit (than clojure, running on Python)
I will provide my personal opinion, although hopefully I don't offend :-)

Scoble is the poster child of "Social media", half-bit hacks who think they're "social media entrepreneurs" subscribe to his views (what he likes and dislikes) and follow/like his profiles on various sites (Facebook, Twitter, Google+) but the majority don't actually care about what he has to say, they just do it to validate their own position. "I'm a social media entrepreneur, I subscribe to Robert Scoble!" so while his numbers are impressive the amount of people who actually care about what he has to say is minimal.

It's the same "phenomena" that affects Techcrunch, take a look at their Twitter, they have 2 MILLION followers and yet when they post a link to a new article they've posted it gets ~500 clicks in a day. People subscribe to Scoble for the same reason they subscribe to Techcrunch: They want to show they are "with it" and are part of what Techcrunch and Scoble represent (modern media) but they don't really care about either of them individually.

Hacker news on the other hand is a community of people who come here to find things, if something is posted to Hacker news and get upvotes it's because people care about that post, it's not because they love hacker news.
Oh, you mean anything-except-hands-ball.

(or, more sarcastically, dive-ball)
I've heard that called 'anchored hashing'. Its recently been used by FreeArc: http://encode.ru/threads/43-FreeArc?p=28237&viewfull=1#p...

How does ddar do it?
Sony developing authenticating power outlets: pay-to-charge on the way?
What I want to see (Or make) is a system that's extensible enough to be made compatible with current package managers simply through extension modules. (Something like VLC levels of customization.) But that has a native package format so that most software providers can expect to find this skeleton-package-manager on the system.

Though I'm not even sure if thats really possible.
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Will gladly swap my Lenovo W500 with anyone who would prefer it to a similar or later gen MBP. I love the hardware, and like using Linux to program but for everything else it's too basic.
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Actually a better path would have been to hack on the ClojureScript compiler that compiles to JavaScript and fork it to compile to Python, most of the core stuff is implemented with ClojureScript primitives (like seq library, collections, atoms, etc.) so there would be substantially less work starting from there.
What's a "meta-language"?
cat /etc/lsb-release
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=11.10
DISTRIB_CODENAME=oneiric
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 11.10"
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lol, I won't steal your contacts, promise!

I'm painfully aware of the points you raise. Sometimes you just have to do a "Damn the torpedoes, full-speed ahead" launch. Timing & stuff.

To answer the other points you raise:

The feed will change totally. Less pictures, more "What did you do?" & "How did you do it?" ... in development, coming in one of the next updates.

The actions will become a lot more specific & self-explanatory in one of the next updates.

Right now the app is focussed too much on repetition (I do this x times per day) & because of that I agree it's kinda boring.

Deed of the day is a pretty fresh idea, we're still iterating on that & yes, it's something I would like to consider.
I think you've missed my point. The assertiveness was valued and only had to be applied to time-keeping and focus.

Evidence that it was valued is that people started behaving differently, meetings ran efficiently and some folks would occasionally thank me.
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What are those LINQ features you're talking about?
I second the "sitting in it." When I bought my chair I got a chair I hadn't even considered previously.

I went with an Embody. I was considering an Aeron and Humanscale but they just didn't jive with me. The Steelcase Leap is what I have at work, and after several weeks of sitting in it I already feel like it's not as comfortable as the Embody (and I had the chance of snagging the Leap at 40% off new).

If you do buy a Herman Miller (any) they run a semi-annual sale of 15% off; one of those sales starts around Thanksgiving. You might be able to get the discount by haggling or otherwise waiting for the sale.
Actually, we did a website before, called "Quantter". We want to be around when people do things, this means away from the computer. This means mobile. Mobile means AppStores. We could have PhoneGapped it, but we chose not to.
Oracle hasn't sued Google over the usage of Java the language. And going with Kotlin or Groovy won't protect you from Oracle.
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I’ve visited Singapore a few times in recent years and been impressed with its
wealth and modernity. I was also quite aware of its world-leading programs in
mathematics education and naturally noted that one of the candidates for
president was Tony Tan, who has a Ph.D. in applied mathematics. Tan won the
very close election and joined the government of Prime Minister Lee Hsien
Loong, who also has a degree in mathematics.

Whoa ho, hold on there nigga. Is you seriously holding up Singapore, of all countries, as a shining example of flawless governance, to be emulated by other nations?

The same Singapore that Amnesty International says has the highest per capita capital punishment rate in the world? The same place that hangs people for drug possession? 133rd out of 175 in Reporters Without Borders "press freedom" index? The country where a quarter of the population is migrant workers, for whom, conviently, labor laws don't apply?

Man, you're right! Sign me up for some Singapore-style government! Sounds great!
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Another, often overlooked point is when things need to be done by.

Also, I got in the habit of putting a table of actions right at the front of the minutes (after the preamble of time/date/attendees etc). It was the first thing people would see on opening the doc.
Yes, it is. When I compare red-green-refactor cycles between Ruby and Clojure, and I've got sub-second turnaround in one and 5+seconds in the other, it's painfully bad.
Ubuntu 11.10 Oneiric:

~$ /etc/os-release
bash: /etc/os-release: No such file or directory
AT&T -> C. Xerox -> Smalltalk...

You arranged a bunch of companies and programming languages which were designed by those companies (or with their support) and said that the motivation for designing those languages was "control". The fact the some of these examples were indeed (at least partially) motivated by "control" doesn't prove that all other examples fall into the same category.

Mozilla wants Rust to have control over their programming language?

Step 1. Invent programming language.

Step 2. Control it.

Step 3. Profit!
The relevant quote from Scoble:

By the way, PR people should take lessons from Denis. He not only drove a few hours to see me in Davos, but he taught me to sled, which was one of the highlights of my trip to the World Economic Forum. Of course no good deed goes unpunished because I beat him down the hill.
As a counterpoint, I find myself thoroughly drained after any meeting that goes for an hour or more. Put me in a two hour meeting first thing in the morning and I'm not going to produce anything useful that day; I'll pretty much be zombified for the rest of the day.

I figure it comes down to extroverts (recharged by interacting with others) vs introverts (drained by interacting with others).
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I think that football has too much value to the American military-industrial complex to go away without a similar sport replacing it. Highschool football is the real ROTC, where students learn to obey orders and sacrifice their bodies for a common goal. In addition to being huge moneymakers, NCAA and NFL are aspirational advertisement for highschool play.
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That's a nifty idea. Mind if I pinch it in future?
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I hate to be the guy mentioning http://jotly.co, but... How does this differ?
I'm painfully aware of the points you raise. Sometimes you just have to do a "Damn the torpedoes, full-speed ahead" launch. Timing & stuff.

Bravo bravo. That's just the right attitude.
Do we have the stats for how many scientists/engineers run for office to begin with?

The central qualification to successfully run for office - straight faced insincerity - might be counter to the training of most scientists/engineers.

The second qualification - enormous personal wealth - is not such a common possession of most scientists, either.
A description of a language in another.
Actually, lithium is a very depletable resource just like oil and coal are. Not in the sense that we use it up for energy, but in the sense that if you want to run all cars on lithium batteries there simply isn't enough easily mine-able lithium in the world. In this sense it is valid to say that we mine batteries. The same story goes for most solar panels.

Comparing the energy density of gasoline with the energy density of a charged battery is obviously also valid.
Yes, when you're in control of the page, it's nice to be able to have different parts of your app ready-to-hand. In our case, that means Documents, Notes, Projects, Accounts, Organizations, and so on...

If your "app" is going to be embedded as a part of someone else's page, then you have to be much more careful. The results cards in the sidebar here are only exposed through a single variable: "eg2012.Card":

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/08/us/politics/minnesota-colo...
Yes, and this too: http://www.jwz.org/doc/cadt.html
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In my experience, to a doctor, even a good one, _at first_ it's just an annoying thing they have to do to get published and they don't really understand the significance of significances.

There is an entire medical discipline that knowingly uses shitty statistics[0]. Then there are the ones who unknowingly use shitty statistics[1]. Absent someone with a qualification that is impossible to get without learning real statistics as a co-author the default when reading medical research should be that the result is either overblown or wrong.

Biologists aren't much better than medical doctors, to my knowledge.

[0]http://lesswrong.com/lw/72f/why_epidemiology_will_not_correc...

[1]http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2010/11/lies-dam...
Debian is quite notably missing from that list.

http://bugs.debian.org/659853

It doesn't have /etc/lsb-release either.

http://bugs.debian.org/444678

Instead the lsb-release program apparently simply outputs the necessary values without using a configuration file.

I'm guessing the debian version of systemd just patches it to handle debian, and not make it autoconfigure each time from a configuration file.
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I get similar pangs of nostalgia.
ha ha. I experienced similar behavior on my own experiment (http://jamescryer.no.de/codesign#open). Is this a question of personal maturity or simply human nature?
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I love how on a Show HN or similar there's always someone trying to inject a javascript alert.
As far as I can tell Debian does not have an /etc/lsb-release file. Rather they have an lsb-release program that outputs the necessary info.
Hello pirko,

you can find my email address in the app (menu/about in first screen) to get in touch with me. With your help, I can try to fix the bug and release.

Android DidThis developer
Kotlin compiles to bytecode - it's no more a meta language than Java itself by that definition.
Good argument, one which I support completely.
Maybe without football, we'd be closer to finally decoupling youth sports from the education system.

Going off track, but by finally are you saying that's a positive thing?

I'm a nerd. I've always been a nerd. I had the absolute minimum mandatory participation in sports during school. That is one of my biggest regrets. Sports have incredible importance in so many ways.
I think there would be something along the lines of would be what's required:

"Disclaimer: [$thisBlog] is an investor in [$company]"

...right underneath the story headline involving a company they were involved with. It would force "journalists" to at least pretend to be somewhat objective.
For one thing, you can't 'rate'
The NHL is a great example. We carried their games as streaming for years (until Akamai purchased the company that was reselling us), allowing you to listen to every single game, everywhere in North America, every game day. It was like NFL's season tickets on DirectTV, but for hockey. Fans love that.

The content owners who realize they can market mass audience content through traditional "channels" while also marketing niche content at a premium through direct "over the top" streaming, and that the niche offering does not cannibalize the mainstream offering, are showing the way. NHL's less popular games, Champs car racing multiple cameras, Tour de France full coverage -- all these offer the die hard fan something more than they can get on TV, so the fans go for both.

We had fun working in the late 90's with the World Wrestling Federation whose shows were popular enough the cable companies wouldn't drop them even if they were made available as streaming. A given PPV was priced the same on cable and on Internet, meaning the only people who bought it from us were the people who couldn't get it on their cable system. The lift was significant and more than paid for production and bandwidth, back when bandwidth cost 100x what it does today.

Over the top can be a massive revenue driver when used to supplement or support your TV offering. Here's hoping more rights holders at least get the idea they can have tiers of content released appropriately.
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I'm pretty sure it's server-side & I set our greybeard on it ;-)