skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's a combination of a number of factors that make this appearance different from will.i.am.

a. As the person above me mentioned, Tupac is dead, but not only that, his death is considered (by some) to be fake, so his "appearance" scratches a very strange itch for some. Had his killer been in the audience, he might've started worrying about having to give a refund.

b. There was little to no fanfare surrounding the event, so when he "took the stage" it was shocking. Imagine how different this would've played out if, for months, we'd been hearing about the hologram performance of Tupac at Coachella? All of the press would've been "Not as lifelike as expected." "Overhyped." Etc.

c. "Cool Factor" -- Coachella is a fairly large event with tons of influencers/connectors & "cool kids", who all ran home and tweeted/blogged about it after it happened...as it happened.

d. 4 Technical Feats for the price of one -- Will.I.Am just taped a performance. The Tupac performance required.

-- a company to digitally recreate him
-- an body actor to perform
-- a company to then map his face onto the actor
-- another voice actor to do the greeting.

This may be the first time that all of these factors lined up at once. You would've heard similar things if the Cirque Du Soleil Michael Jackson show had surprised everyone on the last song with a similar move.
UK, Ireland (really), Netherlands seems to be the best options.
Meteor launch post-mortem, licensing update promised on Friday
Meteor have emailed a post-mortem to their recent launch, promising a further update on Friday regarding their chosen licensing model.
1 + 1 = 6 ? ;)
Meteor Licensing Update promised on Friday
Email sent directly to me from the Meteor mailing list:

[Summary: Huge launch, caught by surprise. Big license announcement FRIDAY.]

A week ago we posted meteor.com to Hacker News. We thought a few hundred people would see it, maybe a thousand if we were lucky. Then, the theory went, with the veil of secrecy lifted, we could start in on the hard part -- convincing anyone to look at what we were doing, or care.

Five minutes after clicking the submit button, it was already clear that we had miscalculated by three orders of magnitude. No, the dashboard wasn't broken, there were 5,000 simultaneous users on the website. (And the single-process Meteor app running the site was doing fine.) We expected a few dozen deploys but got ONE THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED. Vimeo says that 70,000 people watched the screencast. What fraction of all living JavaScript developers is that?

"Makes me want to build things." "Blew my mind." "Is this the future of web development?" (Yes, Alex, it is.) "I think I just saw the future." "crazy voodoo magic" "dark sorcery" "This is completely bananas." "I am falling in love."

Even as I write this, 100 people are active on docs.meteor.com and a new app is getting deployed every three minutes. 150 people are hanging out in IRC, and people are answering each other's questions on Stack Overflow and Quora. It's like a perpetual, international Meteor hackathon.

It's all happening much faster than we thought. It's going to be a wild ride, and I'm so happy that you've decided to ride with us. We have some hard work to do now, though. We have to turn this excitement and energy into a real community, and we have to implement the rest of the roadmap and ship a 1.0.

LICENSING UPDATE

Licensing is the first order of business. Many people sent comments. There were three kinds:

1) People who were frustrated because they wanted to use Meteor for a project, but couldn't tell if it was allowed or how much it would cost.

2) Detailed analyses of legal, strategic, and technological implications of every possible choice we could make. This was AWESOME and was incredibly helpful. Some of the people who wrote in are smarter and better informed than any license attorney I've ever talked to.

3) "You suck, you really screwed this up, you are bad people." These comments weren't as helpful, but we're still glad to have them.

I really apologize to everyone who was frustrated. We thought it was going to be months before anyone was interested enough in Meteor to care about the license. Clearly that was wrong.

Licensing is tricky. We're working hard to fix the problem. ON FRIDAY AFTERNOON, we will announce the options for using Meteor in closed-source, commercial software. I think nearly everyone will be happy with the solution. We'll post the announcement on Hacker News, and we'll also send an email to the list. I hope you'll upvote and redistribute as you find appropriate, because even though there are 6,000 people on this list, that's still only 5% of the uniques we've seen on meteor.com.

See you on Friday :)

-- Geoff, Matt, Nick, David
The problem here is not spending more than we have, but spending it in the wrong things. And now cutting the wrong things. Banks are using the money to keep their balances healthy, not to lend money to productive business.
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I hope it takes off! The front page seems pretty crowded though, have you guys thought about having it take more of a focus on the content instead of recent comments, login, etc. in the center?
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That really is a goosebump-inducing reframing of many recent valuations.
I've never refused to work on stuff I don't like I just charge more for it, usually a percentage.

A multi-million dollar project that can be killed because someone doesn't want to write java interop code is something I want to support, most people mistake me for a programmer, I'm a business guy who knows how to code, what the bossman has in this situation is a win-win situation, his programmer gets to keep writing python, I get to write java interop code for a percentage of the project, and he gets a project finished.
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Can we create a trusted identity service that doesn't rely on centralized highly-trusted nodes? It seems necessary to me that the government or other large associations (/corporations) are the only entities with the resources necessary to secure and maintain decent authentication services. I can't say I'm fond of the idea of maintaining a personal auth server so I can participate in society (and I'm one of our privileged class who can actually contemplate doing such a thing.)
I believe RichTweets is the hosting area for the rich tweets that then get linked via Twitter.

At least that's how I understand it.
Not a surprise. A Facebook insider told me recently that "It's Mark's company." Nothing happens without his approval, and, in fact, he controls it completely. Just look at the blocks of shares he controls as revealed by the S-1.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carrier_sense_multiple_access_w...
No need to feel guilty. The power of making everything a group decision is that, if it works well balance and fairness is a natural result.

I grant you that this is a hard model to scale. Not sure how you'd do it with 1,000 employees. Thankfully I have never worked in the bowels of such monsters.
CircleUp: Crowdfunding for the 1 percent
I agree with some of your points, but your rich-bashing is about as immature and idiotic as racism.
Maybe you're not ready to leave C++, but if you don't have a slightly icky feeling from C++ compared to Haskell, then you've been programming C++ for so long that the weirdness has metabolized.
How do some cultures stay lean while still consuming high amounts of carbs?
You're probably right. But what happens after that?

On one side of the coin, people see that investment in US debt isn't so safe as they thought. Thus, borrowing becomes more expensive for the USA.

On the other side of that coin, America will have mostly escaped the really bad consequences of its behavior. I submit that we will not learn our lesson from it, and won't alter our behavior in any meaningful way.

I see those two things combining in a really vicious cycle.
There are hot deserts and cold deserts. The Gobi has a yearly average temperature of 2.8 °C, with a January average of −26.5 °C and July of 17.5 °C . Red Desert, Wyoming averages -7°C in January.

My relatives in Michigan mentioned that there's a Polar Bear scouting award for camping when it's below 0°F, or -18°C. My own sleeping bag is only rated for -2°C.
>Imagine Facebook or Google controlled the mobile phone market like Apple do.

Verizon and AT&T control the mobile phone market, all the new money tech cos wish they had that kind of government-granted monopoly.
Agreed. I have submitted some Show HN's and they never get upvoted. I see other Show HN's that are just crummy landing pages. I don't get it. I spend a lot of time working on my projects and try to make something at least some people find useful. It's at least more useful than a landing page. But nope.
Typing a six digit number once adds a significant layer of security to a very important account.

Having to type it every 31 days (per browser, per device, per account) adds very little marginal security. In fact, in my case it actively hampers security, because it keeps me from using two-factor altogether.
I've heard from insiders that Microsoft M&A almost always goes through the finance/model/quantitative motions, but sometimes Gates (in the past) and Ballmer just get into a straight bidding war, consequences be damned.
What are your non-tech hobbies and interests?
I'd say: very quickly build an visually attractive, convincing mockup filled with example data (photos etc.). Someone recently posted here such one (it was something what looked like Pinterest but for reviews/recommendations). Then check if ppl are even trying to interact with it, explore etc.
Exactly. My job is programming because it was first my hobby. I have an EE degree.. not a CS degree. I was an Epi Reactor "mechanic" before I realized my passion was software not hardware. It is awesome to get paid to do something I love. But that doesn't mean I should be required to do it only for someone else for all my waking hours. Some times I want to do my own thing.
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C++ and Haskell have some overlap, but mostly cover different domains. Do you use C++ for high-level application programming that has no performance requirements? Conversely, I would not use Haskell for low-level code that has to have very predictable, tight resource use on an embedded device.
Bullshit. I presume Zuckerberg is making these claims to remove the board members -- many of whom also happened to be Istagram investors -- from any suspicion of wrongdoing. But clearly the price jump just prior to Facebook's acquisition lends credence to reports that many of Facebook's board will walk away with boatloads of cash from this deal. They were certainly under pressure to complete this prior to going public next month.
Indeed they do, it's much better to be fortunate.
Log-in cookies are fine, because you can ask for permission as part of sign-up. It seems you should add an extra check box though so the user has said they accept this.

The guidance document is here and is fairly helpful http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/privacy_and_electron...
If he can't do it for the price he says he can go to bankruptcy which would allow him to renegotiate contracts or eliminate unprofitable ones. This option is more appealing to nondiversified businesses. Lockheed really would be irresponsible to offer the same contract. Further lockheed isn't vertically integrated enough to control costs which Musk hints at but doesn't say outright.

I don't think the old government contractor system made long term sense, but it was a great start to space exploration and money "wasted" looks more like invested to me.
Retry after random delay <> jitter. Jitter is the deviation of a signal from its reference source. Retrying after a random delay is standard collision avoidance.
IMO the really big news here is where he'll be working for Etsy- which is to say remotely, on an island in British Columbia. A stunningly beautiful part of the world, and a really interesting outlook on working in the 21st century- a startup hub this is not. Everyone should read the end of his post where he discusses his reasons and plans for Galiano Island.

I'll be interested to see how working remotely like this works out for both him and Etsy, because I wouldn't mind spending a little more time in the Gulf Islands myself one day...
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I'm spanish and I couldn't agree more.
Many scientist and engineers are leaving the country looking for better work conditions.
Also It's really difficult to run a business here.
No future...
3 years of Haskell.. May I ask where do you work? I've been trying to learn Haskell but are afraid that there are no jobs out there for Haskell programmer. Job sites aren't helpful in revealing the Haskell jobs either.
Yeah, don't get me wrong, I strongly dislike the laundry list of civil liberties infringements since 9/11(TSA/Patriot Act/etc) and I'd much rather see them gone altogether.

But I'm a realist. And if a less-expensive politically-feasible step back toward sanity can be achieved, even if it doesn't put is back across the line directly into sanity by itself, I'm all for taking that step.
I live in the Tenerife. Canary Islands are, supposedly, one the top 3 regions with the most consumer debt.

Unemployment here is also higher than in the mainland since there's not much of an economy. There was construction but that bubble burst. There's tourism... and nothing else.

The interesting bit is that you don't really see the effects of the economic crisis, not directly. Most everyone drives nice cars, the parking lot at the mall is full, etc.

You do see indirect effects, though. There are more security guards at the mall and the supermarket within. One of the cafes installed two video cameras. The pharmacy posted a note that stating that no refunds will be offered on medicine or unused prescriptions.

Oh yes, the property prices here are behind the mainland adjustment-wise. Must be due to our awesome weather.
I doubt that. They were going to make "buttloads of cash" anyway when the IPO goes through. I doubt they'd risk something insidery as that to get a few more.
> "the US has a 3rd world life expectancy"

No it doesn't.

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

(Not disagreeing with your overall point.)
I don't think Keynesians advocate "spending more than you have" forever.

As you indicate, Keynes by-the-book does not. He would have us actually save during booms, so that we can pump up the economy in the busts.

However, in practice, those in power who follow Keynes seem to be doing so not because of any belief in the economics, but because it justifies their wish to buy greater power by wielding more money. Thus, they don't follow the invest-when-booming part of the model. The result is that the government spending is at best balanced, and much more often it's in deficit.
> The report says he was afraid of Mr. Systrom reacting negatively had he been approached through lawyers first.

That doesn't make sense. You can certainly reach a tentative deal in person and then have lawyers take care of the details, which doesn't preclude bringing it to the board. In fact, I know this is very common specifically because many lawyers complain that they feel that their jobs are simply to codify agreements that have already been essentially decided before they were even consulted. (To be fair, aside from possibly being insulting to the lawyer, this does make lawyers' lives harder, much the same way that it's always better to go to a lawyer saying 'Here's a document - should I sign it?' as opposed to 'Here's the contract I signed - now please tell me my rights'.)
In practice I'm not sure it makes much difference.

Mostly constitutions, charters of rights and freedoms, or whatever are full of wonderful phrases about mankind. Especially if you get somebody good like Thomas Paine to write it. But it's the courts that decide if abortion is allowed and reject claims that smoking bans go against magna carta.

There are also administrative uses - the constitution sets down how often elections happen and who succeeds who. But if you are a 'nice' country that abides by that constitution then you would also presumably abide by the historical convention that the Queen picks the prime minister with the most seats in the house - even if that isn't written down.

If McArthur had decided to seize Washington in a military coup then a Constitution isn't physically going to stop him (that's what the marine corp is for!)

Similarly in Russia the new democratic constitution stopped Putin serving another term - but it didn't stop him putting a puppet in place.
It wasn't fought for, it was given to us in fear that we'd negotiate something better. Most people rip themselves off by giving up labour for money, it's a poor mans game, especially in software. Very few people become wealthy playing this game.

Coding for salary is for the most part stupid because you're producing a capital good, it's much better to retain a portion of the capital and have the capital produce your cash flow.
Social networks: Are you just spraying people or actually connecting with them?
How about building a couple of simple tools for various markets to test the response?

Something that you can put together in a weekend perhaps.

It really comes down to your type of customers. Who would you be happy talking to all day, what industry do you know the most about?

Then if you hit on a demand or a big community you can consider the full blown SaaS

Find a group first and then learn what they need most.
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Our past was much more forward thinking...

Or sometimes we it seems...
> The only thing I really disagreed with was the notion that 501 developers aren't necessarily good developers.

I don't think I said that. If I implied it, I'm sorry, I should have used more precise language as this is not what I believe.

My comment about writing good code had to do with their manifesto. They obviously go into a lot of the reasons why they want to work 9 to 5 but fail to also commit to doing a solid eight hours of work and producing good code during that time. You can work eight hours and produce absolutely nothing or far less than you could/should.

So, if you are going to work eight hours and code for eight hours --no youtube, no facebook, no HN, no anything outside of what you are supposed to be doing-- then, that might be OK.

In other words, like brick layer lays builds a wall or a Walmart employee attends to the cash register.

If you want flexibility than you are not a 501'er.
Google has datacenters in the UK, so I think that's one fault in your argument. Also, Google sells ads, search services, email, office tools, and other things. Yours and my personal use of the service may cost us nothing, but I'm sure that Google sells millions of dollars worth of services to customers in the UK.
How about incentivised? Months back there was an HN post about a company that gives bonuses to people who take off... I think it was at least 25 days per year to ensure that people understand that taking time off is not a bad thing.
So, reading between the lines, does this mean a) Systrom threw out the $2B number just to say "no, but if you really want it, this is what I'll take" and b) Zuckerberg had no idea Instagram had just closed their latest round and/or had no idea what the valuation was?
Using Node has helped me think more in terms of streams because the APIs afford such thinking. PHP has streams but I never thought to use them, and I haven't really seen it done.

Node Streams really help performance in my application where I am proxying API calls from the browser to the Dropbox API. It's much faster to stream the response from Dropbox through to the client rather than request, wait for entire response, then send.
Don't blame Keynesian economics for the failings of the US politicians, specifically GW Bush.

Other developed countries (Canada[1], Australia[2]) followed Keynesian economics and had budget surpluses during period leading up to 2008.

The US, OTOH had expanding deficits. It is time people stopped blaming "the system", and assigned the blame where it should lay. It is the fault of one administration, and one administration only that the US economy is in the state that it is.

This isn't about progressive vs conservative politics either: Australia & the US both had conservative leaders in this time period, while Canada had a (center left) Liberal government. Only one country ran deficits.

[1] http://www.canadahistory.com/sections/eras/moderncanada/budg...

[2] http://www.budget.gov.au/2007-08/
Excuse my ignorance, but who is this and why is it interesting that he's working for Etsy?
Wow... Just. Wow.
replying to myself as I seem to be at the top, just found this http://civicuk.com/cookie-law/configuration and thought it looked quite nice, via the reddit thread at http://www.reddit.com/r/web_design/comments/sfxvo/anyone_got...
"Spain was running budget surpluses and had a considerably lower debt to GDP ratio than Germany."

http://www.cepr.net/index.php/blogs/beat-the-press/spain-did...
I've just started having a play with Haskell which I got interested in after working through the seven languages in seven weeks book.

I've not really seen much smugness in the Haskell community. Though there are some proper clever people talking about stuff I don't understand, I don't feel they've done it in a patronizing way (or at least its been to subtle for me to pick up on!) That's my experience anyhow. I realize that the plural of anecdote is not data.

I'm actually more interested in the second part of the article where the author talks about claims of productivity gains from functional programming being exaggerated. I am curious if folk on here can point to counterexamples to the study quoted.

My strong suspicion is that there is much more likely to be a large variance in the productivity of programmers than in the productiveness of a particular language or way of programming.
The standard way these things are done is that company A contracts company B to deliver product X for $Y. If company B then spends $Z > $Y delivering product X, company B simply loses money.
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Did you actually mention any of these disadvantages? Most often I see the attitude you describe when someone says "I tried haskell/lisp/ocaml/scala/clojure but it isn't practical". And that's it. No explanation of what their problems were, just "nope, it obviously can't be used for anything practical and you must be crazy if you think you can use such a language". After seeing that kind of nonsense enough, it can be easy for somebody to fall into the trap of assuming you didn't really try it either if you don't bring up some specific problems.
They are likely to be more useful when using Clojure as a serialisation syntax for data (much like how JSON is used with JavaScript), rather than when used directly in source code.

I assume that these extensible literals will be ported to the JavaScript and .NET implementations of Clojure, making it easier to work with rich data types without having to pepper your code with calls to date parsing functions, etc.

Having an intuitive, idiomatic concept of 'data' at the heart of your code is an important aspect of Clojure.

In comparison, I find it hard to the answer the question, "How is data represented in Java?" Which is why I find doing things like data transformation to be far easier in Clojure than in Java.
Original: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3856515