skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm not arguing that gmail isn't good at what it does. But it is at an inherent (huge) disadvantage of being executed in the browser.

Just some comments. Thunderbird became dramatically better at searching a couple of years(?) ago. I frequently feel limited by search in gmail, I've assumed that there are advanced features lurking around somwhere but the UX is so bad I just don't.

I don't see how storage can be a problem. With gmail you hit the limit at <8 GB, that can hardly be a problem on a workstation. If anything it's an argument against gmail.

But, perhaps the most important one, I don't get why everyone seems to believe it's native or web, never both. Of course you have both... The question is why you'd want such a blunt tool for something as important as mail on your workstation. Yes, browser access is still awesome - that's why you have both.

And when you consider security it's borderline to irresponsible being logged in constantly in the browser and since I value instant notification that alone is a dealbreaker on my WS.

And if you're on a laptop with a bad connection relying on gmail or something similar is a sure way to get a heart attack.
I agree. My first proof point is getting to where I'm moderately productive writing Light Table in itself. That should provide the bare necessities and ensure that I'm focusing on the right things instead of features that happen to seem cool :)
And if someone trustworthy has verified the animal-friendliness, because otherwise sham self-certification by factory farms is sure to predominate.
Some of my best friends are gay!
International Business Machines was named out of spite. Watson was a former employee of National Cash Register.
If I have to hazard a guess, I would say : learning

It is only humans that learn from their experience and pass it on. One generation teaches the next one what it learnt. If you sit still for a while and wonder just how we can make such complex things, its because we are building on the knowledge of those that came before us (I think Newton once said "If I have seen farther than others, it is because I have stood on the shoulder of Giants", which was a reference to Galileo, Kepler etc. all of whose work was important for Newton's own discoveries)
What ur problem with version controll? Its not really about files anymore, git does not care about files.
Could you fix files if you mounted the IDE atop a git repo; directly storing chunks as git objects?
> interconnected intelligence without technology like in Avatar

I have a feeling that the Avatar scenario is no more likely than tall blue-skinned humanoids. Our notion of intelligence pretty much defines it as collection of thought processes that end up manifesting themselves in the development of technology. Dolphins may be extremely intelligent on some scale unknown to us, but we don't observe them building submarines or decoding radio signals, so we don't consider them to be human-level intelligent. Similarly, to them, we may appear as these strange shore-bound small amphibious quadrupeds who carry various strange amulets on their bodies with which they do various strange things, all of them being of completely no use or interest to an average cetacean. I'm probably exaggerating cetacean intelligence a fair bit, but I just wanted to illustrate how closely our definition of intelligence is bound to the availability/use of technology.
Personally i took a little more out of that article.

The idea that in this world we live in today one can be bored when there is so much to do, to learn, to see and to experience.

Brings to mind an Einstein quote:
“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
What i didn't like about Meteor
i'm talking about http://www.meteor.com obviously

why aren't there some conventions about how to structure meteor apps? dumping klocs of js into 1 file and mixing gazillion templates with layout of my app - this all seems very unprofessional, both for organizing app and for framework leaving all of us with "do whatever you want in these 3 files" screencast - there is really nothing more in it.

there are patterns and good practices out there - why wasn't that a bit of a focus from meteor team?

feels like i was left in a sea of a perfect drink just to drown in it..

i'm sure i and most of you will figure it out but this is what my gut feeling was when i first installed meteor

it was enforcement of good app structure, nice conventions and predictable behavior that made rails popular and all of that is missing in meteor right now

did i miss something in documentation?
I don't think it's even a matter of 'well written' as such, just how the language works.

When every code path must end in a return value, writing large functions becomes difficult.
Cool - reducing the amount of fuel needed is great.

That said - it seems Wolfram|Alpha is translating your buddies current result to roundabout 3l/100km (per 100km is the mpg here) and.. We have that. In a car that runs on public roads (VW Lupo in this case), today. Yes, we need to push it further. But I'm not sure how you could call a bare-bone (I guess?) research vehicle interesting and special if it just reaches the efficiency of a street-legal car...
and "a lot of people got screwed" when support for something changed would bother Google why?
What I am saying is that new Google design is not a pathology of a large company, but a result of a single executive decision. Before red primary buttons would have failed testing. Now this testing is simply not done. New way is faster.

An intriguing possibility is that Larry knows they are producing garbage, but thinks it will work out long term, like Android.
Don't any of the ipad ssh clients support local echo?
Exactly... though it really underscored the idea that the tools we use (and the tools that go with those tools) can shape our worldview.

What would have happened if the author took those objections and turned them around, asking instead, what sort of language would need to exist to work ideally with a tool like light table? And, possibly, what sort of problems could more easily be solved if we adapted our language/development model to work with an environment like light table?

There may well be no amazing breakthrough here, just as the OP seems to argue, but it certainly seems as though it could (or should) function as an opportunity to rethink our tools and development methods a bit...

edit:
Also, to the claim that many of the features of light table have been implemented elsewhere already, I'd point out that rarely are good ideas purely new, but successful advances come from sticking many little bits of innovation together in a powerful way
I was more expecting to see the absurd results of shrinking the Earth to the size of a tennis ball (as "what happens") instead of "what else do we have to do to keep scale?"

Not to say that the article wasn't interesting- it certainly was!
I don't even listen to a non-coders pitch these days as they can't do any of the real work.

Jason writes as though he understands the life of a coder. I love that. Perhaps that's the most important aspect of being a non-coder.

I've also noticed that non-technical people tend to care more about MBAs, degrees, and are easily woo'd by the name dropping of past employers. Whereas coders focus more on experience and live examples of work.
i'm dual booting 12.04 and lion on my late 2011 macbook air. very simple. install refit in OSX. you may have to reboot several times or do a complete shutdown before the refit bootloader will show up. then it will be a very familiar install from there. you can use the mac disk utility to partition your drive beforehand. i haven't tried bootcamp, so i can't comment about that.
Apple iPhone 5 Release: How Liquid Metal Accommodate New Features
> Also an ICBM launch is immediately associated with a nuclear attack

You got it. An ICBM would set off early warning alerts about a nuclear attack, prompting a possible counter-attack.
Don't worry about the haters, just keep working.

Having just gone through 9 months of rapid iteration on a product, I've learned so much, both about building good products and about accepting (or not) feedback.

Can't wait to see what Light Table brings to the...um...table.
No it's absolutely fine. Once activated, it's pretty much 100% ok if you move it around.

It used to be an issue in Vista days but no longer - they have relaxed most requirements.
WebGL 3D printed jewelry creator
Echoes of Eternia comes immediately to mind: http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1465600975/echoes-of-ete...
> It's definitely better to be an investor right now than someone trying to hire.

In the previous tech bubble, hiring managers did not compete: the usual way of competing in tight markets is to raise the bid.

I assume that withdrawal from competition will be the same strategy during this bubble, because engineering hiring managers rarely hold the purse strings.
They were both made obsolete by satellites and now drones.
1: We are unique in the galaxy because life is rare.

2: The galaxy is teaming with life, but just like a flower in the amazon rain forest is wondering why there is not life all around it, the flower simply lacks the basic tools necessary to find any evidence whatsoever of the lifeforms all around it.

3: Radio silence is required, as there is a bully in our solar system who sterilizes any life forms found. And as soon as we have the technology to broadcast our location, we will be extinguished by a process designed to keep this galaxy pure.

4: Life is right next to us, inside us, all around us. Just in alternate dimensions which make our galaxy look like a drop of rainwater. We just can't see it.

5: The human race is an experiment by a higher life form, and it's empty because it was designed to be empty. This one planet was seeded, and we are being watched.

6: DNA based life, like a virus, extinguishes all resources it can get it's hands onto, Humans will explode with productivity until we exhaust every resource available to us. We do not understand the word sustainable, even the green weenies acknowledge growth of O(n^n)

7: Humans are a weapon of mass destruction, and we have been planted, as a terrorist would plant a bomb in the other guy's house. We humans will consume every last calorie of energy from this universe. We are a weapon, and our growth is the explosion which will knock out the enemy alien.

8: When species get advanced enough to travel throughout the galaxy, we figure out that this isn't a universe at all, and we hack into the holodeck projectors in the wall and then forget about the useless projection that we call the universe.

9: The suns and phenomenon around us in the universe is an alien life form's abdominal fat, and we are bacteria who is growing inside it. As soon as we start consuming too much, demanding our life is more important than the natural decay of suns, the white blood cells will come to our planet and destroy us.

10: We will find life in other parts of the galaxy, as surly as the homo sapiens on the earth figured out that when you cross the great blue expanse, other strange cultures, much like our own, were growing there.

11: What we understand as the universe, with height width and depth, velocity, time, inertia and such, is a completely incorrect view of the universe. It's the same problem with how the flower sees the universe in terms of it's own life and needs. The flower only knows it's root structure and the properties of the ground, wondering why it doesn't find other flowers in its root structure. The flower simply cannot fathom that the life is actually touching it, around it, and inside it.
I can empathize with the OP, but why go through the hassle of causing a commotion, and making it a Techcrunch story? Just leave amicably - they're NOT forcing you to work. You can get up and leave anytime you want, which is the mature thing to do.
It is a solved problem. At least getting to the airport. Now we just need to make it more affordable.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_Maglev_Train
"...Thiel believes that a CEO should not be paying themselves more than $150,000, even after a Series A investment. Anything above that shows a lack of motivation to the company and to the future success of the company."

Anything above? Really?

This assumes a few things. First that the cost of living is the same for any CEO. A CEO at a startup in NYC or SV has considerably higher cost of living than a CEO located in many other places.

Second, what if the CEO of the startup is older, has 9 children and expenses?

Coming up with an absolute number like "$150k" or whatever doesn't take into account a particular persons circumstances and seems to be biased toward unmarried people or people without children with no other obligations.
FGS I don't ever use the start menu other than to pin my apps to the start bar the first time they are installed so get over it.

Metro is only in your face if you ask for it.

Noise? Remove the damn tiles.

I rather like a Big Mac so I'm probably biased though ;-)
Agreed. It's one of those blog posts that reflects the deep ignorance of the poster. Wish I caught the article before it was too late to flag, and saved the author the embarrassment of being discussed on HN.

I would only invite someone aboard who articulated these feelings if they were very junior and I thought they had potential.

If they were trying to be an investor, game over. Don't need people who think they know more than they do in a position of authority. They inevitably wreck the morale of the entire company, and can literally kill it.
Oh come on, the only thing transparent about this design is the resin. It's an integrated circuit connected to a few passive components. The only way you'll have a chance of understanding it is by reading the datasheet.
And ironically, the name "NameLayer" doesn't give much insight into what kind of business it is...
Benologist: Thanks! Unfortunately this site is just a (more attractive I hope) mirror of HN. Whatever HN allows to hit the front page will hit HN2.

To be clear: I'm not trying to steal HN's audience. I just think the folks at YCombinator have better things to do than to address UI issues and add new functionality. I'm trying to fill that gap with HN2.
Spot on. Also McDonalds just works how you expect it to.
I'm not familiar enough with Clojure to comment.
That is pretty cool. It reminds me on Cloud9 IDE http://c9.io/. But I guess Python Anywhere is a better fit for Python developers. And you guys are beating Cloud9 with the price. I like that :-)
I am not a Python developer, but I will send the link to my Python friends.
Good luck with that.
For years Diesel vehicles looked and smelled much dirtier in the US due to the high sulfur and particulate content of that fuel here. It's going to take some time and effort to rehabilitate their image.
Show HN: Chat Envy - Simple browser based video chat
I decided to build Chat Envy this weekend to get a feel for the OpenTok API.

Chat Envy is a simple web based video chat platform that allows users to quickly setup a chatroom.

What do you think? Would you use it?

Any feedback is appreciated.

http://chatenvy.com
Microsoft Humor Competency Scale
Link: http://chatenvy.com
This is the official site:
http://www.kryoflux.com
Max/MSP, Pure Data, vvvv, QuartzComposer, SuperCollider, ChucK, Processing, openFrameworks, Cinder, and Field are the big names.

But there are many more smaller projects such as Lubyk, Overtone, LuaAV, Faust, Plask, Impromptu and Fluxus.

I also want to plug NoFlo, which is a 'flow-based programming' library for node.js, which integrates with a visual editor.
TZaman: I used an iframe because it was the only way of displaying the content I could think of without resorting to copyright infringement (i.e. doing a CURL query and reproducing the article on the site). If you can suggest a better and more user-friendly way, I'd be happy to consider it.

Thanks a lot for commenting.
You have to create an account to listen.
So it seems this restriction reduces to number of applicable language to around zero. Thus, at least one of his points applies to all other languages. Do you want to hear argumentation for the other points?

It seems we've touched a nerve, which is a bit embarrassing. Clearly, the kinds of things the Light-Table gentleman is talking about are applicable to more than zero languages. I know because I've spent 1.5 decades coding in one. That you'd make such an argument indicates you aren't in command of all the facts, or you're willing to take or build up strawman interpretations.

(One famous gentleman once said, "If you ever get someone upset, you've struck gold!")

That said, "auto-eval," if this means automatic re-evaluation of everything is slick demo stuff. But nimbly being able to edit and save any source code, then being able to fearlessly rewind the stack to an appropriate point and go on as if the change was always there would be appropriate even for very involved and long running code, and is quite real.

Similarly, I know for a fact that everything else in the Light Table video has approximations in real environments.
This is an extremely misleading title. The post is a rather long excerpt from a book. Most of the information it contains is more than 10 years old and will be familiar to anyone who has ever been curious enough to read about the subject. The only relatively recent information concerns production of NDE like phenomena through artificial cerebral stimulation (magnetic or with electrodes). This has also been widely reported online over the past few years.
Unfortunately the "Don't stand so close to me" picture has the wrong size of the Sun -- the width of the football field is around 50 meters, so the Sun in his scale (around 7 meter for Earth the size of a tennis ball) would span only one seventh of the shorter side of the seventh football field in the picture.
A much simpler explanation ;-)

http://images.cryhavok.org/v/Calvin+and+Hobbes+-+Intelligent...

(Calvin & Hobbes: Sometimes I think the surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that none of it has tried to contact us.)
did you look at how the demos are structured? That's what I did. Like with wordplay for example since it's more elaborate than the todo.
I'd contend CEO salaries shouldn't be much above that. If you limit compensation, it may be hard to hire people like Leo Apotheker, Carly Fiorina, Stephen Elop or the RIM guys. OTOH, there are people who can do the job as well as, if not better, than them for a fraction of their cost to the companies they run.
Unfortunately, the author is heavily biased in favor of the soul/spirit explanation, as can be seen by the sudden change of tone when he starts talking about "Materialistic" scientists.
Embracing ignorance is not the right answer to ignorance.

For an example of a genuinely strange resolution to the Fermi paradox, see Paul Almond's "Civilization-level quantum suicide": http://www.paul-almond.com/CivilizationLevelQuantumSuicide.p...
Well... hacker news' design looks 2001-ish. I like it. No clutter.
It would be quite interesting to see them in the browsers of the time. AFAIK there were very big rendering differences you'd be able to see in, say, IE4 on Windows vs Netscape 4 on Mac.
Eric was hired as a CEO much later (in 2001) in order to make VCs feel more confident knowing that the company has some "adult supervision". He wasn't there from the beginning.
I think you slipped a decimal point. 3l/100km is ~78mpg.
I said maybe as I was not sure of the validity of the conclusions - people here on HN are typically pretty good at cutting through the content to find whether or not it is even close to accurate or useful.
Actually the 1$ salary is a well known tax dodge - its a aggressive way of avoiding income tax - everyone will have there own take on what this says about them as an individual.
Most people with kids and mortgages get by on less than 150k. If you really can't make ends meet on 150k you've overextended yourself.
Well, I agree. And that's precisely what incubators like YC are out to solve; the issue of upfront cash flow to fund start ups.

But you can run a software business without knowing how to write a lick of code. I know, because I've done it (okay, I'm not completely inept technically, and I have a keen interest in the industry, but I would never claim to be able to "code").

I think my main point, which I believe to have been re-enforced in this thread, is that programmers often believe they are, bar none, the most important piece of the puzzle. To me, that's arguable.

The auto mechanic is an important part of the car dealership, but he certainly isn't dictating to the owner how to run the business. He can be replaced, as can the programmer. The reality is, most "ideas" only need average abilities, and there are lots of average coders out there. If you're awesome and are doing awesome things code-wise and building amazing products, good for you. You deserve everything you're getting and maybe more. But for my projects, I just need a nice website or a simple app. If you want to flex your muscles to me because you've learned a skill I haven't, I'll pass. Just like you'll pass on a idiotic non-technical founder.

Anyway, this has probably derailed far away from what I and certainly the author intended. Let me just say that it's no accident that most programmers end up working for someone who has never written a line of code.
if you've 9 childrens you're simply irresponsible.

LOOK I NEED THE MONEY I MADE 2 MANY KIDS!

Seriously?

$150K is way more than most people get - and they've a life too.
And they don't get the millions in stock either.
Shen Language - Where to next?
Apparently, Mark has also finished "The Book of Shen" and is working on the publishing aspect now.

https://groups.google.com/group/qilang/browse_thread/thread/902870aa4e9936fb?hl=en
Tell Above, and Ask Below: Hybridizing OO and Functional Design
What's wrong about ranting about it? If it's interesting and useful, people can learn from it and not make the same mistakes? I don't think you should have to leave amicably if you felt like you weren't treated well, otherwise every company can just treat all their employees like shit and nobody would know/care.
In Smalltalk, this isn't a problem. Our Dictionary instances are mutable. Usually, we realize it while continuing the debugging/editing (they happen at the same time) and we either rewind the stack a little further to get a new instance of the dictionary, or we can easily undo the side effect. It usually happens in less than the amount of time you took to read the previous sentence.
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[Leaked]Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez Kissing Pictures
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Self-Segregation Is What's Keeping African Americans Out Of Silicon Valley
Based on their own judgement on what is popular or not, in the "community".
To wit, IDEs encourage complexity and bloat and fat function/methods

I write all my Clojure code in IntelliJ, using a (customised) version of La Clojure. Could you explain to me how this encourages complexity and bloat in my code?
Not the "business" they want to enter, of course. The "business" involves plenty of other elements. Yes, the craft, the art, the essence--that can't live without the code.

But don't call it a business unless you figure out how to get someone to pay.
I would rather have the CEO of a company worried about hyper growth than clipping coupons. $150k is probably enough for someone in their 20s with no kids, but there is no reason why they shouldn't make a little more if they have kids etc.

Even in expensive cities, NYC, SF, giving more than $150k is probably not necessarily.