skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks for taking literally 10 minutes of my time ... pretty badass, am always mesmerized by particles :)
Interesting how such a large proportion of the the surface area and vertical bulk for these units remainbs devoted to plug connections. It's not too fantastic to imagine such a unit composed virtually of nothing but jacks, etc.

I wonder when the shrinkage is going to start catching up on that end. It's pretty silly looking as it is :)
Terrible, awful, no good headline. What the lede actually says: "Cheaper memristors could result from an accidental discovery at University College London."

I didn't bother reading any farther. I'll wait for a better presentation.
Dustin Curtis wrote three articles on this, initially with his disgust for AA's website and some suggestions on fixing it (http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_american_airlines.html).

A designer replied to Dustin about his limitations and the efforts he's made and Dustin decided to post the response (http://www.dustincurtis.com/dear_dustin_curtis.html).

The designer was fired an hour later (http://www.dustincurtis.com/incompetence.html).
An interesting infographic would be to plot the number of applicants and class size for YC over the years. I bet the applications are increasing at an increasing rate, last time they had 50% increase, soon it will be 100%, with all the publicity around YC.

I don't quite buy the scalability argument, in the end there's a natural upper limit on the YC class size and I think they're fast approaching it. There are a very small number of partners and there's only one pg. After that point, say a class size of 100 (~200 people) things will get impersonal and YC will inevitably start to converge to other incubators.

Large class sizes also inflate the alumni network, one of the best aspects (the best?) of YC. Up to a certain size, network utility increases with size; after that there are just too many people with too few hubs to connect them.

I think at the end, they just will have to fix the class size to a certain number, which will then make the acceptance ratios insanely small (currently 2%)
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Also look that the stage (canvas) size for the demo (this used to make a big difference in older versions of the player at least).
I feel like a god creating the universe, really nice effects!
Well such a mistake would it hurt their ability to communicate with the analysts and the markets. They'd have less credibility and would have a harder time explaining anything tricky. They may hear less about what investors do and don't think and what drives the stock's movements.

Over time those communication gaps can lead to more volatility in the stock and perhaps lower levels. That may not matter to Facebook until it needs capital. But it will matter to early investors and employees holding stock they'd like to liquidate. Some of those players may have such returns they don't care, but not all of them are so fortunate and in general it's a missed maximization.

How important all of that is depends on what FB wants to do and be.

More broadly, public markets are an important constituency, if those investors don't trust you that's going to influence your reputation in the media and with the government.
"It can be tricky to take advantage of features in new Android versions (like ICS) while still supporting older versions (like 2.2)."

ummm...what was your argument again?
Note how Motorola and Sony do not pay Microsoft for using Android.

All the other Android vendors license Windows for some other area of their business. These two do not and Microsoft has no leverage to force them. (Yes, I know about Microsoft suing Motorola and Motorola suing Microsoft back).
Is it to save weight, or to save other costs around maintaining blankets and pillows?
First Thunderbolt motherboards announced by Asus and MSI
>> The future of tools isn't in a better Eclipse or Visual Studio, it's in easily created domain specific experiences.

How is that goal different from that of the Eclipse platform (http://www.eclipse.org/platform/overview.php) - a common base where people can develop individual add-ons to suit the domain they're working on? Eclipse platform and LT clearly have different interaction models and technologies, but from the leading quote of the article, the same goal.

Writing Java in Eclipse is, as many have said, a great experience (in the continuum of Java-development experience). But you know what else is pretty good? PyDev (http://pydev.org/) - a Python IDE that's written on the Eclipse platform. It uses the same interaction models and designs as Eclipse for Java, but it's also got a whole bunch of bits that are just targeted at Python development. There's also a tool (the name of which I don't recall) that our DBA uses for all his database management that's written on the Eclipse platform.

I'm all for specific - I use PyCharm every day, which does one thing (Python development) really well. But I think calling out Eclipse like the parent article does is wrong. It too can be a platform for "easily created domain specific experiences"; it's just a different one with a different paradigm.
I'd rather pay more for a high-end Cortex A15-based ChromeBox. Browsing will be very slow on an ARM11 chip, especially if you use it in "desktop mode", which will make it feel even slower compared to using it in a mobile phone. Also, it better have a good GPU, otherwise it won't even support resolutions higher than 800x480 (this one might).

But I do think ChromeOS devices should be somewhere in the $200 price range (or free with contract if you want LTE and plan on using it on the go).
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What rails ghetto hoodlums?

Seriously, every community has a few bad apples, it's totally unfair to judge the whole by the behaviour of a very few. You'd probably object if you heard someone judging an entire ethnic group by the actions of a couple of extremists - how is this any different?

/rails dev frustrated by the seemingly bad image of the community despite 99.99% of it being actually really nice
Excellent library - has lotsa potential!
Most of the IPO purchasers would've shed their shares on Friday and yesterday(volume was crazy on both days) and now the regular joes are left holding the bag. In fact, some of the big sharks have sold off their shares on Friday and went short on the stock, so they're making bank on this.
I feel the opposite.
Expressive lies in the language not in the framework, I think you have a different mindset on that one but I'm not sure what you're trying to achieve.

Spring MVC is on par with Rails VC (let's leave ActiveRecord for another time) or Django TV minus Django ORM.

Testing? Spring has a really good testing library that plays with both straight up Java EE components (Servlet, Portlet, etc). Functional, Integration, Unit-Test, name your game.

Migration? Flyway works nicely and I don't have to spend days to set it up, just less than an hour for multi-year project. Minuscule in terms of effort. It just works.

I'll give you that ActiveRecord is nicer than JPA 2 (but not by a lot). The rest are... indifferent, same stuff, same type, same ol' same ol'.

JAX-RS can spits both XML and JSON easily with no code changes. I don't have to use Sinatra (or node.js) for web-api and deploy it separately from Rails: just deploy JAX-RS project as a separate WAR to the AppServer and I'm done. Done.

I don't need to spin up a different process, write a script to do X,Y,Z, maintain another infrastructure, etc etc.

Regarding your mark about benchmark: then don't start flashing numbers and stuffs if they are toys. If OOB Java is like dog stuff then Python, Ruby are like snail or turtle.

Wait, what am I doing trolling like redditors or slashdotters over mindless debate.

sigh technology has never been the problem, the people are sigh always holds true.
Simple Django email form using class based views
The last line is truly indicative of the echo chamber that is Silicon Valley. Only in the Bay Area do companies without revenues generate valuations of $1B+ with simple hand-waving and conjecture. GitHub charges real money for real services and are thus valued less than someone with a Powerpoint presentation on "proposed revenue models." Quite frankly, it is sad.
The company I work for (which would qualify as an enterprise by any standards) decided to switch over to Django almost 3 years ago, rewriting our existing Java infrastructure on a project-to-project basis. The reasoning was primarily two-fold, we'd begun to have trouble recruiting good new talent interested in working with Spring/Java and we felt that for what we were doing, Java was not the strongest technology choice anymore (not like it was 10 years ago).

Last year, we switched a 55k loc Spring MVC (with JAX-RS for the json api) over to Django (using tastypie for the api side and celery for offline tasks). The result ended up being little over 8k loc of Python. Closing a ticket has gone from taking on average around 5 days to a little over 4 hours. That was the third project we ported over, the others having had similar success. YMMV.
Bret Victor's reach never stops amazing me.
I really want to see a demo of typing or some precise gestures.
That's true, however I think it's a good example of why we need skilled pilots that maintain situational awareness.

The accident reports mentions that the pilots did not have training in high altitude hand flying, and the common belief seemed to be that it wasn't necessary because of automation.
Sweet said analysts at firms that are not underwriting IPOs often change forecasts at such times. However, he said it is unusual for analysts at lead underwriters to make such changes so close to the IPO.

This makes zero sense. Aren't research analysts supposed to be separate from investment bankers? If so why is this odd. MS should not be able to tell its analysts to tone down a report or time it just because...
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So the future is the Unix philosophy.
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The argument seemed to be that this trickiness is minor. You disagree?
What? Anti-lean? Lean isn't about "small teams", it's about no waste. Needing a big team (which it sounds like these guys do) doesn't preclude you from being lean. If you have a big team and you DON'T need it, THEN you're "anti-lean".
That's interesting, but the site isn't being served over IPv6. The IPv6 page is just a redirect to the IPv4 page, so you still can't use it if you're IPv6-only. (And HTTPS connections to https://[2a03:2880:10:1f02:face:b00c::25] fail.)
Analogue synth on Google.jp
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The burden will continue to rest on the middle class until there is no more middle class.
Definitely agree. Contrast anglo culture with the great "foodie" cultures: India, China, France, Italy, etc.

In China I had some of the best meals I ever had for about $2 - boiled rice and a variety of vegetable/meat dishes with assorted flavours. Of course you have to go as a group to make that style of eating worthwhile, but that was hardly a bad thing. If I wanted a late-night lazy meal, I'd get a plate of fried rice or noodles from one of the little diners -- not super healthy, but way better than Big Macs. In Malaysia I eventually stopped grabbing junk food from the 7-11s (which I did for the first few days) and started buying fresh fruit from the street vendors whenever I wanted a snack. I think Anglo culture in particular has a bad relationship to food (which is a shame, as despite the stereotype, we actually had some innovative cuisine in the past).

http://joshuaspodek.com/food-joy-values
Microsoft-stack employees may soon be stuck with this:

https://tfspreview.com/
With regard to A, are we not seeing a major correction with the lackluster performance of Facebook on the public market? People have been "Liking" things on Facebook for some time, and they have not yet cracked that nut...
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Tricky, but not impossible. The same as you would have to learn the API's and general usage patterns of new features, you just have to learn how to use the compatibility package or third party libraries like ActionBarSherlock to take advantage of the most common new features.

That said, I don't fully agree with the OP's argument. Fragmentation is a very real pain in a lot of subtle unexpected areas (mostly UI related).
I'm pretty sure that admitting this will make me uncool, but I like ads.

Not the annoying ones mind you, it your ad interrupts me, you deserve to be punished. My time is precious to me.

However, if your ad just sits there, off to the side or at the top of the page or whatever (or off-web, in a billboard, or poster or display at the store, whatever) I'm ok with it. See, what that does it notify me of the existence of things. Many of those things are actually useful to my life. By keeping me up to date of what exists, I can be far more efficient when it comes time to deal with problems, wants and needs. In the least useful case, I can at least know who does the things I am looking to get done. In the most useful case, I will be aware that there are tools to solve a problem I may have otherwise spent days on (or even given up on solving and worked around). This saves me time and effort. I am OK with that. Seriously, how else would I go about finding something I didn't know existed without tons of effort otherwise -- I probably wouldn't even know to look for it.

I really don't understand the anti-ad people. Oh no! Someone is trying to sell you something... the horror. Oh no, you haven't spent 30s teaching yourself to not be distracted by something shiny, way to waste your human capability to learn.

It regularly turns out on google that the ad links are exactly what I am looking to buy, so I click and give everyone the conversion, because honestly, it doesn't hurt me to do so, and keeps this amazingly useful tool that is "good search" available to me at no additional cost.

Whatever, I'm probably below average intelligence, and am one of the dumb folks that doesn't magically understand every single thing in existence via pure thought, and must be informed instead.
So Android's fragmentation problem isn't that bad for developers if they're used to working on an even worse platform (web developing)? That's a terrible argument. There is always something worse. That doesn't mean Android is any less fragmented.
That would probably be here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18103772 and the HN thread from the other day: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3991411
I'm not sure the "overblown" fragmentation problem is about the developer. I thought it was about the end user.

Sure it's somewhat difficult to develop and test Android applications due to fragmentation, but I see the bigger problem being the end users with Android devices in their hands that can't run apps because their particular device or their new, but ancient build of Android isn't supported.

What Color? is an example of this. It doesn't work on the Galaxy Nexus. Who knows why. The Netflix app was another example, for at least a while.

And who knows if it will ever be supported, because only $x number of people own that device, which is one of hundreds available worldwide at any given time.
You have the order wrong. Gene alteration + reproduction -> evolution, rather than evolution causing gene alteration.
You're right about the rate and general harmlessness of plant evolution, but the gamma ray from outer space is a bit far-fetched. Wikipedia has a nice overview of genetic alteration in plant developmental biology here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_evolutionary_developmenta..., with a more academic discussion of the effect of polyploidy here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22540042

That being said, I think the fear is that scientists potentially have the motive to create dangerous/unhealthy strains of plants - a motive which miRNA and transposons (god-willing) do not have.
Sorry about that. I mispelled it.
it is innovafy with 2 n's.
He means that if you put a little bit of thought into it and follow the SDK guidelines you can support over 90% of the devices out there.

And there are a few tools you can implement to have full backwards compatibility to 2.2, probably even 2.1.

It's not that hard to do at all. I have a lot more trouble supporting IE in web development than I do all the Android versions.
I agree with this and generally I am not against GM crops in theory. I think that:

1. Monocultures are bad. GM crops don't have to be monocultures but they generally are for a number of business reasons that have nothing to do with food production.

2. GM crops cross-pollenate thereby spreading patented genes to non-GM fields. The owners of these non-GM fields are then sued and forced to switch to GM crops.

3. GM crops business models are often built around vendor lock-in. Historically vendor lock-in has been bad for software development and I think we can extrapolate these results to farming.

4. Cross pollination to wild-type is generally disruptive to the environment short term (for example consider what happens when wild plants produce pesticides from a GM gene). The effects are probably no different than introducing an invasive species. Generally people see this as a bad thing (snakes in Hawaii for example) and create laws to prevent it from happening. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invasive_species

5. There is a big difference between point mutations and transgenic plants. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transgene

I think GM crops can be developed, used in a safe manner and provide a great benefit to humanity, but that is not the current state-of-affairs. There are good reasons the EU regulates GM crops as much as they do.
It uses solid state storage and the RAM, graphics system, etc. is bundled into the single System-on-a-chip. Plug in the power then hook it up to keyboard/mouse/monitor and you are up and running.
"I bet the applications are increasing at an increasing rate, last time they had 50% increase, soon it will be 100%, with all the publicity around YC."

I'll take that bet. You're assuming that there is an infinite pool of quality applicants.
> that's gotten worse since I moved to NYC and had money to get delivery effectively every night

Small step to health: Instead of ordering delivery, order from a place at least a half mile away, and walk to pick it up yourself.
Thanks, that's a good idea. We'll try it out!
This is one of the most genius moves ever. Bloat the value of the stock to a point where all the current investors can get out and make their money back on the IPO. Once they have their money back it no longer matters weather the truth comes out that actually hitting numbers like 25% growth for 10 years is almost an impossible feat, especially for a company that isn't diverse.
I think you're missing the point, it's not about wads of cash, it's about dribbles of cash.
Well, that has been the case in France since 1993 (bomb attacks in the Parisian metro).

And that was also the explanation I had been given, so I'd say it's probably true.
Plastic surgery will soon evolve stealth like technology to thwart privacy invading facial recognition applications. This is why aliens all look the same.
Inheritance is a different beast that ... well, let's just say that it may creates and endless debate whether one should or should not have inheritance in the model...

My experience is heavily in Java (JPA2 and Hibernate) and less of Rails (simple/moderate apps). Typically an ORM provides a way to handle custom queries but still help maps the result to the Java object model (which helps a lot vs writing getter/setter :)).

I don't know how people down south in Silicon Valley design their model (especially young scrappy startup) but I have a slightest doubt that they go that far (advanced/complex). It's not like startup start with "analyzing requirements" and move on to "modelling session" :) => they just go ahead and write code.

So in theory, the data model shouldn't be complex enough to warrant edge-case.
Do carriers? The contract I signed with AT&T was pretty onerous.
The code for this is quite readable and well-commented, and seems to be actually really short as well.
I guess the problem some people don't want to realize is that you actually create that situation with this "Why can't you just follow this simple list" attitude.

I agree that everyone should be able to follow that list. And now you have someone with ssh keys and no idea what they are.
I think it's dangerous to mock people that are scared of these things (defined as opaque instructions that install various products and ask you to copy paste commands in a terminal) and afterwards mocking people that potentially DID follow that list, succeeded and now use a system they have no understanding of.

I love git. Git on Windows feels out of place for every Windows only guy I showed it to. Why is that something to argue about - and why does it lead to borderline insulting comments? It's interface is.. different and UIs are bolted on only and it packs a lot of mental dependencies (learn about ssh, different newlines) that aren't really related to your ability to write (Windows) code.

That Github link is perfectly correct and still full of WTF material for people that never left Visual Studio. I work with those, and I have a couple dozen anecdotal evidences available..
Light Table looks amazing. Simply amazing.
I'm slim, tall, and handsome, and I cook my own food, thank you very much :)

Actually, one of the restaurants I truly enjoy is Au Pied De Cochon in Montreal, where it gets way "worse" than butter, lard and salt. Maybe it's a good thing I live across the continent from it :)
No, Steve is saying

... material science, sensors, robotics,
medical devices, life sciences, etc...
VCs whose firms would have looked at these
deals or invested in these sectors, are now
only interested in whether it runs on a
smart phone or tablet.

Paul is saying that founders aren't coming to him with the former sort of startups.
This gives some good color to who's running Business Insider.
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Problem? They're cheap and easy. I imagine you're disappointed because they're not too highly regarded in the tech industry, but honestly you shouldn't expect your personal political beliefs to be held by everybody else.
The most impressive bit of this is that it it keeps under 20% CPU on my Mid-2010 MBP [Chrome 19].

It's hard not to imagine another cyclical shift towards browser centric development, away from rich client apps, when you have Chrome pulling off tricks like this. Things that would've seemed impossible in 2008, the last time everything was moving to the browser.

Give Apple/ARM/Intel/Samsung a few more cycles in mobile [more RAM, if nothing else!] and you might need to reconsider the disadvantages of native apps in favor of all the advantages that centrally hosted applications offer [no Apple fee, no pirating, continuous deployment, cross-platform, etc, etc.].

I long for a vibrant open-source project that builds quality widgets and elements for people to use inside this framework. Let's not pretend jQuery mobile et. al. are anywhere close.
Doesn't work at all for me on Linux with Chrome. This is what happens when I start a drill: http://i.imgur.com/O5C9n.png
Any chance you will open source this app - it would be nice to have a real world example of using Caliburn Micro and ReactiveUI.
exactly. the biggest issue is the suspicion of FB giving more material, informational color on rev. growth to the analyst(s) than to the public.
Seriously, very cool, how easy/difficult was it to create the Pinterest-like layout? Is that HTML 5?