skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
OT rant: I can't read these Google machine translations, language is not a collection of words, not even words + syntax, it's full of idioms and collocations and hidden associations and stylistically motivated violations of accepted conventions. Instead of a translator who knows both languages (and cultures) well, the translation is being made by a code that actually knows neither.

What I mean is: translating is very similar to writing or composing, it is technical only on a very superficial level (and I'm not implying codes can't theoretically match Human abilities, but that the current approach is quite limited).
> the ribbon and Metro

When people talk about innovation I think they often mean disruption. The day the iPad came out everyone changed what they were doing (except MS). A light switched flipped and Tablets became something totally different than what they were before. Who has copied ribbon? Lots of people don't even think it's a good idea. Metro is too early to tell.

>or developing the .NET framework and the development of its associated tool chain

You mean a VM... like Java?

>If capacitive touch screen development is seen as a great leap forward by Microsoft's competitors, where does that put Kinect?

You mean that product that MS bought?
Maven is actually pretty sweet and good.

I know people have their own "perspective" when it comes to Maven: some said it's too big, too complicated, yadda-yadda. Some said it's the best tool out there.

The thing here is that you don't need to know Maven that much to use it. Especially if you were to use it with IDEs.

People typically use IDE to generate the absolute minimum Maven pom.xml file initially when they set up the project. From that point onward, if you're using mostly open-source library, the OSL website will give you snippet on how to add the JAR in Maven. All you have to do is to copy paste that snippet and you're done.

People who said that Maven is overly complicated typically tried to learn Maven from Zero to Expert rather than to "just use it".

It didn't take very long for me or many of my co-workers to become familiar and use Maven effectively from not-knowing to "yes, we can have Rails-like project structure/automation , deployment and packaging for multiple environment in place".

Sometime I'd argue that there's no point separating Bundler, Rake, and Gems. You need all 3 of them and that's what Maven does (and more but you don't have to know until you do...)
American Healthcare is Broken
I saw a KDE5 mockup some months ago (Back in January I think).
It looks like this mockup, look:
http://kde-look.org/CONTENT/content-pre1/148657-1.png

Looks very "metro" to me.
I disagree, if it's genuine, why not tell them if the opportunity presents itself.
You are right about the statement in question. I got mixed up, but I think the principal of "same difference" applies :D

He says, "If it [the statement] is proven, then a false statement is proven." (Proven true or false?)

I am not interpreting the statement "this statement cannot be proven" as true, as you do, or false.

What I argue is that one's interpretation has an effect, without which the statement is neither true nor false, but, as I claim, incidental. We can imagine the statement, but what we imagine is not the statement, even if it looks and smells like it.

Thus, the Schrodinger Card trumps the Goedel. The trick here is that I am standing outside of "the system", not permitting myself to enter paradox land. If you so much as look at me, I'll get sucked in.
Regarding your second question, I suggest reading this classic article by Leslie Lamport: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&#...
For once the EU parliament is good for something!
Redis Sentinel TILT mode
Several things aren't clear from your post:

* Do you have a contract?

* Have they agreed how much they owe you?

* Have you asked for the money?

* Have they refused to pay?

It sounds like you're asking now to avoid a problem in the future, but you should make that clear.
I wanted to watch it again and it's gone :(

It's a shame, it was a really different interview.
10 Location Independent Business Ideas
and for every startup company using php, there are 100 shitty local ad agencies knocking out brochure-ware wordpress sites.
For business or other functional writing, I think Google translations are more than adequate most of the time, especially between fairly similar languages (like English and Swedish).
What, you mean Pay-Per-View audiences voting on what the performers do next?
> PHP is used by 77.9% of all the websites (...) PHP must have done something right, no?

My favorite answer to this is "because millions of lemmings cannot be wrong".

PHP is a horrible language. Like FORTRAN and COBOL. Like BASIC.

Let me be clear about this. It is a horrible language.

Having said that, a good programmer can make good programs even in the most horrible (and I'm deliberately excluding the deliberately horrible ones) language. It is possible to write elegant PHP just like it's possible to write concise Java. All it takes is lots of discipline. Something most programmers, sadly, lack.

PHP is immensely popular and its runtime is incredibly easy to deploy. I sometimes have small fights with Apache to enable some WSGI app (I never remember every detail I have to include in the configuration) but PHP is unusually easy to set up. That probably is a good explanation on why it's so popular on cheap hosting - because it's easy to manage. That also makes it a good choice for quick projects such as hotsites. I prefer to do those on Google's App Engine, but this is a question of taste, not of availability. In all fairness, those sites could be developed in ASP/VBScript and I wouldn't regard that as a mortal offense - they'll live for months under a single release lifecycle. Use whatever gets the job done for less. And programmers without discipline usually cost less.

Much like there are millions of lines of COBOL, FORTRAN and BASIC we'll never get rid of, there are millions of lines of PHP that'll keep running for decades. PHP is a fact of life. I won't be using it for any new projects and would question the sanity of anyone willing to start a long life one with it, but each developer must choose which tools they want to spend their lives with.
AFAIK, using 'new' is not a matter of preference. Omitting the keyword leads to different results. Am I missing something?
The problem with this text is that it is very emotional, and I think a lot of the impact gets lost in translation.
As a single dad myself, I'm rooting for the guy. This is a great opportunity and I'm glad Techcrunch is picking up on the story. Hopefully this happens for him.
Can somewhere point me to the part of RFC 2616 that says "The PUT method is already defined to overwrite a resource with a complete new body, and cannot be reused to do partial changes."
> How is Carreon going to be punished?

Not, unless Inman decides to sue.

> It's great that Inman won

Inman did not really "win", he did get intimidated in not withdrawing the money (he took a picture of his own money instead) and Carreon filed a "Notice of Voluntary Dismissal" without prejudice (as the court ended up not being involved) so he could always pick it up again later.

And:

> Ars called Carreon to comment and found him declaring the lawsuit a success. "Mission Accomplished," Carreon announced on the phone with Ars.
Malaria is everywhere. It's got to be awesome.

That PHP is so omni-present is not a good thing. It's an opportunity to disrupt web development. It's a lesson that we still haven't learned.
The long tail. A drop in revenue isn't a sign that your company is dying or dead, it's a sign you're in the final stages of decomposition.
Higgs Boson- is is a basic part of Face Book?
Simplified wrap-around world for game design
This notion of change seems to conflate a lot of ideas. Knowing that something has changed is different than being able to replay the change. And once you have a system that cares so much about time haven't you given away half of the programming advantage of functional programming? Sure, there may be immutability, but you trade that for having to manage state explicitly in immutable objects. That just sounds like a whole new class of "race conditions" (you passed me this state object, but someone else just created that state object with the same identity).
Gof: Design Patterns: eBook $9.99 - InformIT deal of day
Well, Japan's birthrate and rates of marriage are falling, while "dating sims" are popular enough to warrant their own manga and anime series.
Ah I missed that, saved the full thing for later.
I agree with both of you, for technical language a technical approach to machine translation works.
SEEKING WORK.
From Porto, Portugal, E.U.; open for remote, but will possibly relocate

Backend:

* Currently Python/Javascript developer, Django mostly; Google Appengine skills (https://bitbucket.org/zemanel/django-sentry-appengine)

* Past experience with PHP, including some Zend Framework, Propel, ZetaComponents (formerly known as ezComponents)

* Past experience with Java in content management applications: Struts, Hibernate, Jboss Seam. Many beers ago.

* Built a small Node.js/Dojo project for NodeKnockout 2010 which got #10 (http://www.slideshare.net/MyCatStoleMyPPT/tweetirc-presentat...)

Frontend javascript:

* Dojo Toolkit

* JQuery

* virtualenv, pip, Git, Mercurial, SVN

* Experience with managed hosting (Heroku, Gondor)

http://github.com/zemanel
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I personally think the best way to get valuable feedback while not losing prospects (from a PR perspective) is

a) give early releases to people with whom you already have healthy business relationships (because they know you and your motivations, so they'll most likely be forgiving, supportive and offer real feedback)

b) Can't stress this enough: BE HUMBLE ABOUT YOUR RELEASE. In my experience working for web startups so far, I've been amazed by the lack of understanding of the difference between a prototype release (designed to get feedback) and a full-on launch (designed to impress as many people as possible). These are two entirely different things, and confusing the two can really damage your reputation.

If it's early days and you want feedback, I think reaching out by saying as much (with a personal email like "hey there, I've created this thing that I really hope will someday make things easier for people like you" or some such tone) will get you the feedback you're looking for without making a bad or sloppy impression. In fact it may develop some great relationships with people in your target market.

By contrast, releasing early by sending out mass-emails to strangers that make ambitious, aggressive promises your product currently can't deliver on will probably just get you prematurely filtered as spam from people's inboxes.

Having said this, if writing isn't your best strength and you'd like someone to review your email before you send it, feel free to pass it along my way :) I'd be happy to help: momoko[at]copy-cat.co
"If you look at the basic equations of the standard model, as written on my t-shirt." LOL
Glad to see this done with Code School - their stuff is always top notch!
It was probably a logic error—a mistake in a table look up or somesuch—if an account can manage more than one domain name.
Some people think that library consumers shouldn't have to use new. Instead they should call a factory function (which itself calls new).
You can't count on xbox for stability. The gaming industry is a drunken battle royal. Just when someone is getting dominant, Nintendo (wasn't he out already?) comes in from behind and clubs them with a chair.

AD "dominates" only because Windows OS "dominates" and surely Java is still more used than C#?

>The only parts they really suck at are web and phones.

You mean the biggest areas of future growth? That doesn't sound too bad.
I disagree... the highest-value problems are often VERY hard.

Think of things like natural language recognition, predictive analytics, statistical analysis, and so on. Things that seem like magic to the end user, that they've never seen before, are very hard before they're abstracted into something that B/C players can re-use. Woz, for example, worked some magic and packaged a computer circuit board into something that tons of less-talented people could build on. I would not even want to attempt what he did.

Yes, creating a feature like adding a Like button does not take complex thinking, but moving the needle forward significantly often does. I believe this is what Jobs was alluding to.
Not a clue. However every minute spent fixing an issue for a browser with 1% or less usage is a minute not spent making it better for the 99%
I think that could be the cynicism talking.

Perhaps all of the people who now are your friends might no longer be you friends, but your new habit could've brought you new friends who respect you for your candor, even if it is slightly cynical.
There are properly tens of thousands of people alive today who are born only because their parents didn't adequately protect themselves.
That's a good point that I missed. He even talks in the interview about small teams of A players.
War Plan Red: The U.S. vs. Britain
Yep, they're a mass-market company, selling millions of units at sub-$50 prices. The bestselling resources will probably sell a few thousand copies, and most will probably only sell hundreds. It may be more cost-effective for them to focus entirely on the mass-market side, where they've proven they're extremely competent (among the best in their industry), and let others figure out the smaller volume stuff. But, maybe a marketplace would be cool/profitable. They have begun to move in that direction for third party game add-ons, though I think they're all free, so far, there's nothing stopping them from adding them to the store.
I am very curious to know how GSK actually pay $3 billion. Does the CEO and/or board members walk into their bank and request for a transfer? What are the typical security restrictions in place?
And here I was, thinking, why bring up the "single dad" thing. Oh! Must be to make the guy seem more in need of funding - if we donate to his kickstarter project, we'll be helping not just him but his child(ren?). I don't like it.
Even allowing for the increased benefit for emotional sex, the question will quickly become, do I stay home tonight and am certain to get good sex with a hot (but perhaps virtual) chick or do I go out and try to find a real partner?
Are you saying that group-think is definitely unavoidable? If whatever opinion a given community forms cannot be challenged ever, then it's bound to be plagued by affective death spirals[1], evaporative cooling[2], and, well, significant errors in its vision of the world.

I'm not saying your counterpoint is wrong. I'm saying I want it to be wrong. Because if you're right, even LessWrong and RationalWiki are hopeless.

[1]: http://wiki.lesswrong.com/wiki/Affective_death_spiral

[2]: http://lesswrong.com/lw/lr/evaporative_cooling_of_group_beli...
Superman, Batman and worldviews
> Other savvy people realize that the way things are going, making any kind of living at creating information goods is going to be increasingly difficult, so they go do other things.

That's true. When goods are both non-rivalrous and non-excludable, they tend to be underproduced in a market economy. One solution would be for the state to produce such goods (e.g. in the UK, the BBC). Another possible solution would be my proposal for a broadband tax -- http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/01/27/a-broadband-tax-fo...

> See: "that which is not seen"

On the subject of things not seen, how much innovation has the current IP regime destroyed? I can think of several websites that ought to exist, but which don't, due to copyright law.
>I'm also looking forward to replacing my Android tablet(Touhpad on ICS) with a Windows 8 tablet.

Personally, this is what I always figured would happen: Windows in mobile wouldn't kill Apple but rather kill Android. Android is the "cheap" competitor to Apple's luxury. That's the space that MS has traditionally filled. I expect Android to eventually fill the traditional Linux space.

All this assumes that Windows even gets off the ground with W8.
It's experience and a drive to self-improvement. I look at code I wrote even one year ago and wretch at it, itch to clean it up.
Why This Apple Fan is Getting an Android Tablet and Not Another iPad
You have no idea how intense is the desire of women aged 25-35 to have children. It's like a fever. If they have problems, they do all sorts of dangerous therapies in order to get pregnant.
Hooking up a bicycle dynamo to charge your phone is a popular african hack: http://www.ted.com/talks/william_kamkwamba_on_building_a_win...
Actually, it's because the rest of you "scientists" end up publishing bullshit results that you got by chance.

I'm kind of joking - most other scientists don't collect enough data to have to worry about 1 in 10,000 events happening by chance. In medicine, though, I'm not joking at all - those guys publish absolute statistical garbage all the time, I hesitate to even consider it a science because the data dredging is so bad. I can "prove" just about anything if the publication standard is 95% significance...
Appointed by whom?
Psychiatry EHR | Psychiatry software
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Boffins pull off room-temp quantum computing with home-grown gems
Nope, not saying that at all, I was saying that an additional $9 billion on the top 10 might have been prioritized higher. Once again, I am glad they funded the LHC, but my thesis is that government spending needs to be cut to the bone until the deficit and unpaid liabilities are dealt with. Much like we cut spending after WWII.
NASA discovers portals (but don’t book your ticket yet)
The Shard - O Novo Mega-Arranha-Céus no Centro de Londres
Well.. that's mostly true. You can get some pretty interesting results if you return something in a function invoked using new: http://wtfjs.com/2010/11/10/false-advertising
3 Apple Patents Invalidated
How do I install an OS image onto an SD card?
> Kind of an odd article, the writer spends the first part of it trying to come up with compliments, which usually fail.

Personally I thought that part was hilarious. I'm not sure whether it was true or not (due to how naive it made the author seem) but I definitely enjoyed the article more because of it.
Follow The Steps to Make It Better | World To Win
Common Mistakes Made by Startups
Sounds like a big success for Wordpress and PHP to me
Here's an argument in favor of not requiring library consumers to use new by the author of the Raphäel library: http://dmitry.baranovskiy.com/post/something-new
AWS EC2 soon to support multiple IP addresses per instance
I think he's trying to use numbers to illustrate his point, but he's not declaring anything empirical. When asking “Maybe 20%?” the implication is it is at most 20% better, but certainly not 50% and never 100% better.
How about, "I find your wife/daughter/mother really attractive?" Bad things can happen if you tell people what you think.

It's important to be precise when giving public social advice, because the people that could benefit from it the most don't know how to tease out hidden subtleties (that seem obvious to everyone else). If what you really mean is, "nothing bad will happen if you just tell people what you think and have at least roughly average social skills" you should just say the whole thing.
Paying a well deserved compliment is a point in itself - and when it works and makes the recipient smile, that makes me happy.

Little interactions that bring a bit of extra sunshine into the days of both people involved are a wonderful thing.
You mean the long tail? Someone should show you RIM's revenue numbers for the last decade.
This opens up possibility to host several SSL web sites (or services) per one instance.
Pricing to the demand curve
There is a font called Dyslexie which looks like a much subtler Comic Sans and was designed to be more readable for dyslexics.

www.studiostudio.nl/project-dyslexie/
Why You Shouldn't Deploy Clojure on GAE
Isn't it true that strong vision that people have a true emotional response to and believe in can move 100k people (or even more)?

Maybe an expensive "true rebrand" is a way to make a promise to your people and help build trust in your new direction. Also making it so visible and present can help remind people of this direction when they make every day decisions.
I'm the author of the article, and I can see why people got confused. I don't think Max Ogden was implying that it's a bad thing that you have to give up your view point on Wikipedia - and Ward Cunngingham definitely didn't imply that in my conversation with him. I regret that readers thought that. I don't think either Ogden or Cunningham are expecting this to replace Wikipedia, but they are hoping that it will be useful for other wikis.
Bill Gates on Charlie Rose (July 2, 2012)
This link was right on the Python docs homepage.[0]

[0]: http://www.python.org/doc/versions/
And how much more profitable would they be without things like their Entertainment division, Bing, Ad company acquisitions, etc?
That's not developers, that's life. Determination is the top predictor of success in... anything. It would even be a tautological statement if we couldn't look at others and predict determination levels before the success happens.
I'll assume you already did step 0 that Patio11 described, and they haven't paid you and aren't returning your calls.

I've been down this road so I completely empathize with you. I can also say that I have always been paid in the end. My advice is good.

Go to the employer (where the office is) and ask for payment in full. You need to be extremely clear. Do not say please or thank you. Look them square in the eye. Channel Clint Eastwood if it helps.

Do not call in advance. Wait in the lobby if the person who hands you the cheque isn't there or in a meeting. If the secretary says he/she won't be back until Tuesday, return on Tuesday and again demand payment in full.

Be firm and respectful but not polite. If they continue to evade you, call and email them stating that if you are not paid in 24 hours (no longer) that "x" will happen. You decide what "x" is. Usually I promise to report them to the Better Business Bureau and/or take down their website if its on my server. Stuff like that. Never, promise something you won't go through with.

The last step is small claims court. Hopefully it doesn't get to that. I suggest you do this yourself and not consult a lawyer until you really need one.
I would have guessed that they would be more interested in a virtual reality sort of setup, where they overlay the actors/actresses on your parts so you're "part of the action".

Instead they want to use this marvelous piece of technology to replace a hat, a camera and some tape.
Exactly where would the pressure for a bar-competitor to clean up come from? Assuming their income comes from applicants and membership fees, wouldn't they want to let in as many people as the inevitable regulations allow?
The charges being settled are:

1. for promoting off-label use of Paxil and Wellbutrin,

2. holding back data and making unsupported claims regarding its diabetes drug Avandia, and

3. that their sales force used inappropriate tactics to get doctors to prescribe their drugs, including various forms of “high-priced entertainment” and large speaking fees.
Believe in the you who believes in yourself. That's the accurate way of phrasing it.
The financial collapse was caused by highly-leveraged banks relying on complex opaque models to "manage" risk while making loans and purchasing financial assets.

Since neither Vodafone nor Safaricom are engaging in lending, borrowing or betting on assets those risks don't exist. It is more akin to pre-paid credit cards than traditional banking.