skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The author of this article seems to be confusing "changing the world" with helping people. UNICEF and similar organizations are great at helping people, but they really aren't meant to change the world. They just make the existing one a little less terrible for those who are worst off. I can't imagine a compelling argument saying that digging wells or tree planting has changed the world more that Facebook or Google over the last 15 years. Whether those changes have been for the best is open to discussion, but the fact that many startups have in fact changed the world in significant ways is hard to dispute.
The video has a fatal flaw. You can't read the text. Please maximize the terminal window, and use a larger font. Otherwise, nice idea.
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I use LaTeX because:

+ I care about design, typesetting and typography

+ it's FOSS

+ it's cross-platform

+ it doesn't cost me an arm compared to the alternative

+ it's unbelievably lightweight (e.g MacTeX basic) compared to the alternative

+ it allows for code factorization

+ it's text-based which means:

- drivable form the shell

- automatable from makefiles

- editable in vim

- can be generated with e.g erb or jinja2

- naturally handled by git/hg

i.e it's composable in a unix workflow

TeX has its warts and a steep learning curve, but there's a slight difference between obsolete technology and mature technology. Especially when there's no replacement.
I can't speak for any of the core Django team, but as a user of Django I am glad that they took their time with this one. IMO github 'won' the social coding and source hosting battle a while ago, but I am glad that the Django team don't immediately jump to the new hot thing. There are a lot of things to consider with such a move, and moving too quickly would be a disservice to Django users.

Having said that, I am very glad they have moved. I think the previous Trac/SVN setup had more friction in terms of submitting, reviewing and accepting commits. Hopefully github will make this process more fluid.
Yes, and that book would be a wonderful example in a class on polemic because any relationship to the truth is incidental to its purpose. It ignores the modern science of psychometrics and the vast majority of the material it deals with predates the 60s. Outside of the areas where Gould was an expert ([snail] paleontology) I would actively avoid reading anything by him. If its valuable, someone else would have picked it up, but if it's directly from Gould it could be a rehash of something someone else said better more than a decade earlier that he never cited.[0] Please note that in that case I'm assuming incompetent literature review, not plagiarism. But we also have what looks like another example of politically motivated incompetence or fraud[1]. For specific criticism of Mismeasure of Man look here[2]. For criticism of Gould's general importance as an evolutionary theorist, I quite like this

I am not sure how well this is known. I have tried, in preparation for this talk, to read some evolutionary economics, and was particularly curious about what biologists people reference. What I encountered were quite a few references to Stephen Jay Gould, hardly any to other evolutionary theorists. Now it is not very hard to find out, if you spend a little while reading in evolution, that Gould is the John Kenneth Galbraith of his subject. That is, he is a wonderful writer who is bevolved by literary intellectuals and lionized by the media because he does not use algebra or difficult jargon. Unfortunately, it appears that he avoids these sins not because he has transcended his colleagues but because he does does not seem to understand what they have to say; and his own descriptions of what the field is about - not just the answers, but even the questions - are consistently misleading. His impressive literary and historical erudition makes his work seem profound to most readers, but informed readers eventually conclude that there's no there there. (And yes, there is some resentment of his fame: in the field the unjustly famous theory of "punctuated equilibrium", in which Gould and Niles Eldredge asserted that evolution proceeds not steadily but in short bursts of rapid change, is known as "evolution by jerks").[3]

[0]http://lesswrong.com/lw/kv/beware_of_stephen_j_gould/

[1]http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/gould-morton-revis...

[2]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mismeasure_of_Man#Criticism...

[3]http://www.pkarchive.org/theory/evolute.html
Why isn't the last line in shells dedicated only to the prompt? The commands' output could scroll in the remaining lines.
Because most people assume night follows day.
Blender becomes more and more impressive with each release. The lack of Ngons was, especially for architects using the software, always a bit of an annoyance. Now with BMesh, it should be a lot easier to create solid models.
Sidenote, the featureset, UI, and Python-API of blender are so impressive that we decided to write the level-editor for our upcoming (non 3D) game as a blender plugin instead of going all the way and writing our own editor. This saved us a tremendous amount of time, and the editor is really good.
Read in what context I said that gmail search is inferior to thunderbird for search. But yes, how do you, without googling it up, search for a message in gmail from address x, sometime in the year of 2010, where the subject began with y and the content contained z.

Counter-culture? Few would argue that native apps doesn't have advantages over browser apps. The best you could say about a browser app is that it is "good enough". But obviously they suffer greatly from being in the browser just because all workstation operating systems are centered around native apps and not apps within the browser.

Which means that I can click on my mail-application in the taskbar/whatever but whereas in a browser I have to navigate through all my browser windows to find the one with mail in it, which doesn't even have to be in it's own window but hidden somewhere with lots of other tabs.

Again, I never said that my machine is more secure than googles data center servers. But any native application has security advantages over something run in the browser (and potentially drawbacks as well, but the inherent issue with being logged in on a web app doesn't exist in a native application).
XeTeX is a TeX engine. You'd still be using LaTeX (or more precisely, XeLaTeX) on top of it.
This is not good for productivity! I've just spent the last hour with my hands in the air.
Deprecated technology? It would seem you don't know what you're talking about.
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> I care about design, typesetting and typography

Sorry, but design, typesetting and typography done in html is far superior. Why limit to paper only? Last time I checked, most typography features are implemented in firefox/chrome.
Html is the replacement. You limit yourself with static information on paper using Tex. Tex falls into the category of pdf, doc, docx, odt to me. Deprecated, because we do not put things on paper today, but we put things on the internet.
As an example: We created Opera Mini targeting the Java ME-capable phones that were available in 2004.

The flagship device of the Java ME platform at the time was the Sony Ericsson K700, with its 176x220 screen and relatively speaking amazing Java performance, enabled by its quite talented developers in Lund, Sweden. (A bunch of the same people are now working in leading roles on their Android-based devices, as I understand it.)

But Sony Ericsson never really captured much market share outside of the nordics (and Russia. And The Arab countries). Everywhere else was sort of Nokia country.

So we also ran decently on the Nokia 3510i with its 96x65 pixel display. And with much worse performance (but still with an amazing improvement over the built-in browser).

...

Anyway, these days Opera Mini has 170M+ monthly active users and we have a quite nice browsing experience on Android (with opengl es hardware acceleration) and iOS.

Pretty neat for something that started at like a 60 kB download.
Funny.. I think I saw the exact keyboard, already in production / for sale on something like akihabaranews
It is a technology with the primary result being a printed product. The primary result should be a dynamic document, with optional export to @media print.
Tell me then where I can get a 2008 netbook:

with gps, microphones and telephone.

with accelerometers, gyroscopes, compass and cameras.

a reliable solid state memory so I can use it on the go(jumping or waving it while moving).

10 hours of battery.

made in Aluminium and not cheap plastic.

Scratch resistant 2048-by-1536 resolution screen.

Please tell me because I always wanted this, unfortunately I bought a netbook on 2008 that have none of the above.
What culture of obscurity, exactly?
Misleading title, I've flagged this.

This is an offical branch of Django on git, this github branch has been around for a while. The offical Django development is still on svn.
Since I got my Macbook Air 11", I have regularly called it an iPad Pro. "Why not just get an iPad," people ask. Well, this is my travel system for hacking.
Did you consider using Inkscape as a non-3D game editor?
They added official support for test accounts five years ago.

https://developers.facebook.com/blog/post/35/
That sort of formalises something I have wondered about for a while. With a normal PC, both screen and keyboard are where they need to be for comfortable use of both. Putting both together in a touch screen is, IMHO, often too uncomfortable for prolonged use.
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"As for the ones that have gotten to that sort of scale, it is open for debate whether they've changed the world at all, and, if they have, whether they've done so in a way that is meaningful or has improved the circumstances of mankind."

This sums up my problem with the whole 'change the world with your startup' philosophy. What does 'change the world' even mean? It is a fluffy, nebulous term - the startup thinker's equivalent of 'increasing synergy by leveraging strategic partnerships'. If you like that flavour of Kool Aid, great, drink up!

Github has changed the world by making it easier to find and share interesting code. Balsamiq has changed the world by making it easier to create mockups. I want to change the world by making it easier to run your own game server [0].

None of these things will go down in history as revolutionary, life-changing ideas at a global scale. But they can improve the lives of a subset of humanity, while letting their owners solve interesting problems and (hopefully) earn a living at the same time. That, to me, is a good enough reason to do a startup.

0 - shameless plug: http://www.cloudfrag.com
A very cogent article. Having had my own experiences of startups this is the best takeaway:

"innate driving force that is intrinsically tied to doing the startup."

This applies to all types of startup, not just software/tech.
Not sure what this is about. But the game engine is Darkplaces. Xonotic is just a game that uses it.

What code are you referring to?
A bit, but we used blender before, so we already knew the ins and outs of it's interface, and we're using Macs and I don't like running apps in X. It's kinda sad that there's still no production native Inkscape. I know that people were working on that years ago, but somehow it never went anywhere (or I'm not smart enough to find it).
Is Inkscape also easily extendable?
Actually any US company can self-certify under the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and be eligible to store data from the EU.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyuuqsGoXys
USA is only the "greatest Superpower in World History" if you look at the power of its army.

But that is the kind of minds that rule the country.
People with enough free time to be reading "new" on HN...
The problem is that, yes from first principals, a biased test is not a true "measurement of intelligence test", however loads of tests that people have been calling "IQ tests", or are found in books called "Big Book of IQ Tests" or "Test your IQ" are biased. So the term has changed, and includes all these biased tests. If you, as a employer tried to do IQ tests, you would probably find it quite hard to find one that you could be sure wasn't biased.
> Japanese computer systems are often not using Unicode but are based on other encodings like shift-jis.

That's true but doesn't really answer GP's question. Shift-jis is an encoding for one of the JIS X character sets. Unicode includes all the characters defined in JIS.

http://unicode.org/faq/han_cjk.html#8

Though if we enter into details it gets a bit messy due to the complications due to different simplifications occured in (mainland) China and Japan, questions about different glyphs for the "same" character, etc.
learned something new!

I loved both the games.
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I presume part of the reasoning is due to high IQ tests being too unreliable, and potentially full of people with borderline autistic personalities.

"No IQs above 125" is not the same as "No IQs above 90".
The Ruby thing is probably due to the fact that EUC and Shift-JIS were then (and to some extent still are) the prevalent encodings. It's not so much about character sets, after all Unicode includes every kanji defined in ISO-2022. Please see my other comment in this thread.
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You should do a startup because it's what you're meant to do, because you can't think of anything else you'd rather do, because you are driven to solve tough problems, and/or you're passionate about the problem you're trying to solve.

That's the part of the post I agree with.

I say if you want to do it to change the world, go work for an international non-governmental organization or UNICEF. What you do will actually have a greater chance of changing the world through those organizations.

Maybe you should plant trees or study migratory patterns of marine life or dig wells in Africa.

These are the parts that I don't agree with, and they come up a ton in these conversations. How is working at UNICEF more world changing than doing a start-up that solves tough problems? Same goes for the other examples. What the author describes in the top paragraph I quoted has the potential to be significantly more world changing for the subset of people who are facing that same tough problem.

To me, Libin's general thought was to be driven by the right reasons, and it's in line with what this author says. A large amount of responses to Libin's talk picked on his wording, but in the end the responses are saying the exact same thing, but without the exact phrasing of "change the world", as that is seemingly reserved for projects involved solely with charity, Africa and cancer.
It looks official: https://code.djangoproject.com/

"Django uses Git (git) for managing its code."
Shame there isn't a SPDY test site I can find. spdytest.com, by the way, does not run over SPDY. It's a plain HTTP/HTTPS site.
"GitHub migration done!"
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/django-de...
The fascinating question is: why is Javascript fast? I suppose it is because of the competition between the browsers. Yay for competition!
Looks very nice... bought a Fitbit just now just to be able to try it out :/
Sounds like they are discriminating against people based on sexual orientation. (e.g. a homosexual man who is a big fan of sports might want to wear that at a gay pride parade). I presume this is USA, in which case ye need to make some proper equality law, if it's EU, then sue em.
Working for a charity will NOT change the world, since charity places are already oversubscribed. There's an interesting Oxford-based thinktank that works on the most effective forms of making a difference called 80,000 Hours. They're quite a good read, I'll leave the link here.

http://80000hours.org/
And this is why your fake account should be used only for testing. You don't want to block things for your company.
Exposing OData Endpoints using the ASP.Net MVC Web API
Ask HN: Are you upgrading to Adobe CS6 or Creative Cloud?
Creative Suite 6 is coming out in just a bit over a week, and seems to have more positive buzz than most recent Adobe updates. Have you preordered an upgrade, or will you be upgrading? Or will you be using the new subscription Creative Cloud? Curious what the HN community things about it.
That's great to hear, I've always wondered about using API for custom editors. Are there any particular packages or Python files in the distribution that you'd recommend reading through as get a good introduction to the necessary parts of the API?
Well what if someone is trans gendered? What about a trans women who hasn't changed her birth cert, but has gotten a sex reassignment surgery (i.e. has a vagina now, no testicles) and has been taking female hormones for years? What should they put down? They are probably more likely to have female medical problems than male.
Agreed, Inkscape UX on Mac is really bad. The Windows version is much better in comparison. In my opinion, FWIW, a custom UI toolkit like Blender uses gives a much better UX cross platform and presumably a lot less maintenance too.
You could also already buy a full case that transform your iPad 2 into a MacBook Pro for $88 :

http://www.thefancy.com/sales/2273/ipad-notebookcase
I got the precise opposite impression. The keyboard is first and foremost a tool for creation, for writing in the medium of prose, code or in other textual mediums. When simply consuming content on the iPad I never find myself in want of a keyboard, even when I'm doing light typing—note taking, editing documents, and so on—the iPad's keyboard works handily. The only times when I've found myself wanting a keyboard is when typing for extended periods of time on the iPad, when I'm actually creating.

If you want better speakers for your iPad, bluetooth speakers like the Jambox work fine, if you want to do light typing, the iPad keyboard is fine, but when you want to get serious about writing on the iPad and creating content, that's when you should start considering a keyboard and I'd like to think that's why people are funding this project.
I've found that I don't think about languages that way. I think of things more like "I want to achieve goal X; what are the interesting or frustrating aspects with respect to that goal?"

For example, someone asked me once about the warts in Python. I started thinking about complaints I've heard others say, like Python 2.x's "print >>fileobj" syntax. I understand the reasons for and against it, but I nearly only use print statements for debugging, so it's not one that I want to bring up. Or there's the lack of block syntax, which Smalltalk/Ruby developers love, but Python has different ways to handle most of the underlying requirements.

So there I'm thinking about the different aspect of Python, trying to figure out which ones I want to bring up, but I hadn't fully considered the other issues with the language, in order to figure out which is the most relevant, but then, I don't know how to rank the relevancy because the question was structured without any rank preference.

Now if you had asked "... when used for systems programming ..." or "... as a programming language for scientists ..." or "... compared with Perl ..." then I would find it much easier to give the thoughtful answer you're looking for.

I had the same problem a couple of years back at our monthly Python meetings. We did a code refactoring exercise: given code, make it better. I had a really tough time because I couldn't figure out what "better" meant. The exercise code worked, although it mixed business logic, database interface, and presentation into a single file. But without an idea of the direction the code was supposed to go for the future, I couldn't figure out why anyone would want to modify working code.
This is just a normal American reaction when we find out that other parts of the world do things differently than we do. In a purely defensive measure, we say that it is "obscure." For example, A4 paper is ubiquitous in the world. Except North America. Try to buy A4 paper, ask for A4 compatible accessories, etc. will draw only blank stares. There is no difference between a "cv" and a "resume." The terms are synonyms.

Now back to the post....

Two issues: lots of places ask for Word-format. This is because (at least some of them) are machine-reading the documents. This leads to the second point: if your cv does not contain the keywords in the job description, it will not be kicked out of the slush pile. So you have to write each cv/resume particularly for each job. If they take pdf's; fine, otherwise, it's a little bit easier to make a quick change in Word than to make a change in your favorite editor and then compile.

Oh and should you compile for A4 or letter? Article or scarticle? Isn't there a Dutch artikel class?
Urrgh. This came through on my feed earlier today, and I left a comment on it. While javascript is fast (and can be used for many things), the real issue with using it for stats is the lack of libraries. More specifically, as far as I know it cannot interface with Fortran. That's a death knell for any statistical programming language, as it means no LAPACK, and no-one (sane) is going to rewrite all of those linear algebra libraries. So regardless of how fast it is, its not going to make it as a stats language.

That being said, it does make it easier to develop statistically aware web-apps (a particular interest of mine), so that's definitely good.
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I would argue for a discounting rate similar to the one economists use.
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I prefer it more underground... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbBvTEnhrBM

That said, based on what you've linked, have you checked out the DATAMIX podcasts by Designer Drugs? I loves 'em.

http://soundcloud.com/designerdrugsmusic/sets/datamix-mixtap...

#12 is a good place to start. And #04.
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This is an oldish dual-core AMD box with 2GB RAM and low load.
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A cheaper, already available brydge competitor. (iPad = MacBook Pro)
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The approach is good, but the time given is too short. Compare with how long XP was kept alive alongside Vista.
:( You guys put us to 300MB/s
i also keep my resume in latex:

http://github.com/cies/resume
His table shows js is 40x slower on matrix multiplication.
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I can't find it right now, but some time ago I've read in a darcs vs git comparison that depending on orders of patches git can sometimes yield two different results. Perhaps in future correctness in huge procjects will be an issue.